Mexicans are mestizo

[A.W.K.14.88]

Mexico's relationships with the rest of the world are also quite
complex. The arrival and conquest of the Spaniards left the country
searching for an identity - as a result of extensive inbreeding with
the Spanish (the vast majority of Mexicans are mestizo, that is,
mixed
blood), they lost their native heritage, but similarly are not like
their European conquerors. Although a smaller proportion of the
population, African ancestry is greatly hidden/suppressed and
underreported.

n Mexico and Peru, mestizo has also come to be used as a cultural
label. In a cultural context, people are considered indígena
(Amerindian) if they live following their traditional ways of life
(clothing, customs and indigenous languages), otherwise they are also
deemed mestizo, or what in Central America would be called a ladino,
not directly related to the ladino people of Europe. Additionally in
the Mexican case, most of the Afro-Mexican minority would also simply
identify as mestizo by virtue of their cultural traits, rather than
as
black, mulatto or zambo by their ancestry. These cultural
implications
of "mestizo" can result in an overcount of the population - in the
Mexican case, as high as 80% according to some sources - which would
otherwise be mestizo on a racial level.