I would argue you have that backwards. For the most part the Spanish/Portuguese didn't absorb the natives, the natives absorbed them. Hence why we have Hispanics now. There are still very white Hispanics that are basically European, but not a lot of them.
In the US, Native Americans are an endangered species by the numbers, and they keep declining year after year. The ones that got off the rez were actually absorbed into the white population. Native Americans have been completely neutralized since the end of the 19th century.
I would argue you have that backwards. For the most part the Spanish/Portuguese didn't absorb the natives, the natives absorbed them. Hence why we have Hispanics now. There are still very white Hispanics that are basically European, but not a lot of them.
In the US, Native Americans are an endangered species by the numbers, and they keep declining year after year. The ones that got off the rez were actually absorbed into the white population. Native Americans have been completely neutralized since the end of the 19th century.