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Puerto Rico has a culture rich in diverse ethnicity. What are the three main original ethnic groups that make up Puerto Rico's population? (Be specific)

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White ( mostly Spanish ) -- 80.5 %

There are 2,825,100 white Puerto Ricans and they self-identified themselves as ones, which makes 80.5 % of the whole number of people who live there. There are many people from France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and more who immigrated there. People from US and Netherlands have been moving to Puerto Rico in the last century.

African American -- 12.4%

As Spanish people needed slaves back in the days, so the Crown authorized them to import them from Africa. The African American people, against their will, were forced to migrate. Up to this day, there are many African Americans left in Puerto Rico and.

Amerindian ( Taíno ) -- 0.4 %

They are indigenous people of the Caribbean islands. They used to live in Cuba, Dominican Republic and Haiti. As well as Jamaica, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, etc. They were the first people of New World. They used to speak Taino and Arawakan language. There are still Taino people and they still live in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominicana and some of the islands in the US. The research says that there appx. only 4 million of them left on Earth.

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