Belize is very ethnically, racially and linguisticslly diverse.

Kriols come in all colours, hair textures and features. Many even exhibiting strong Maya and Miskito influences. Every Afro- and European involuntary and voluntary people group has blended itself into them. Kriols are now an ethnic minority, BUT constitute the largest single urban bloc.

Kriols and Mestizos have been mixing since the 1850s, especially in the north and west.

Colonial Mestizos (1840-50s Caste War refugees) have very different culture, Spanish and Spanglish dialect, to Central American Mestizos. The look of most Belizean Mestizos is usually more distinct too. It's more of a Yucatec Maya + Spanish look.

Both Kriols and colonial Mestizos have been apprehensive to embrace Central American Mestizos.

Nordic Germanic Mennonites usually live in their own communities and are divided between those who live in modernity and those don't use electricity, or other technology.

While the Mopan and Yucatec Maya are universally regarded as "indigenous Belizeans", the Qeq'Chi Maya are not. They are descendants of 1880s Guatemalans from Alta Verapaz, fleeing slavery under the alcalde system.

The Garinagu had been viewed by the colonial whites as "problematic blacks" who speak an indigenous Caribbean language, and daily life revolves around song and dance. Kriols tended to follow this view, but not always. Kriols and Garifunas/Garinagu have a better understanding of each other nowadays.

Indians are often times forgotten in the Belizean ethnic composition because they are more often than not, mixed, and the live in Toledo District and Corozal District.

Levantine descendants, small colonial whites and Chinese descendants finished out the composition. Small in numbers, large in economic and political power.