@kevcvs57 said
Well thats my point they are mixed heritage, there are very few mono ethnic areas of Europe or the Americas for that matter. There has been far too much cross border migration and invasion over the millennia in Europe from at least the Bronze Age and to at least WWII. The European invasion of the North and South American continent’s was catastrophic for the indigenous popul ...[text shortened]... e decimation of its indigenous peoples and cultures happened quickly enough to be seen in real time.
Mixed ancestry does not take away a person's heritage! I'm sure the Welsh have plenty of English blood in them and vice versa.
Indigenous Irish are those with Gaelic culture. These are not different categories.
https://aisdc.org/news%2Fblog/f/tribes-in-ireland-culture-of-irelands-first-people
After briefly talking about the first people and inhabited sites of Ireland, we will talk about the indigenous culture of Ireland, the Celtic Tribes.
The European invasion of the North and South American continent’s was catastrophic for the indigenous populations and cultures.
The Spanish invasions were temporarily catastrophic but by mixing bloodlines to improve genetic resistance to Old World diseases combined with the improved nutrition provided by adding wheat, beef, pork, chicken, rice, Asian spices etc which the Spanish brought eventually brought those population numbers back up.
Now the ANGLO invasions were accompanied by mass slaughter and replacement of the indigenous people but the Spanish ones were characterized by conquest and dominance, not extermination like what happened in the USA. This is why uncontrollable numbers of brown people are constantly pressing on the southern border of the USA while the indigenous people FROM the land now called the USA have been nearly wiped out and are demographically insignificant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Mexico#:~:text=At%20the%20time%20of%20Spanish,again%20over%20500%20years%20later.
At the time of Spanish conquest in the late 15th century, the indigenous population of Mexico has been estimated at about 25 million, and has therefore only reached this figure again over 500 years later.[8] These modern figures however are language based, making numbers under reported, as it discounts Indigenous people who can only speak Spanish. Due to the extreme success of "mestizaje" nationalism in the post-revolutionary period in the early 20th century, the major period of political consolidation in Mexico, Indigenous people often report themselves as mestizo