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Racism in Chile encompasses all types of racial and ethnic discrimination by groups of people of that country toward people from other countries or from the same one. Its origins date back to -- similarly to other countries in Latin America -- colonialism in the 16th century, specifically during the establishment of the Spanish empire and the processes of extermination, enslavement, and erasure of the indigenous peoples of the area.

In Chile, predominantly the mapuche people, those of mixed race identities, other South Americans like Peruvian, Bolivian, and Colombian immigrants, Black people, people of African descent, and Muslims have been victims of racism and ethnic discrimination. In addition, there exist various levels of social discrimination such as cultural, economic, age discrimination, ethnic, geographic, sexual, and discrimination of gender identity.

In academic spheres, researchers have begun to study racism in Chile in more depth only as of 2010. Before then, it had been a little investigated theme.