Are European and African descended people considered indigenous to Europe and Africa, respectively? (native, find)

[City Data Guy]

European descended people outside Europe number almost half a billion, and African descended people outside Africa number almost 200 million. I'm wondering about whether or not these two groups are considered indigenous to their respective continents after living in North and South America (as well as the Caribbean, Australia, and New Zealand) for the past 250-500 years. Of course whites and blacks are not indigenous to the Americas or Oceania considering there are native populations that have been there for thousands of years before them.

One would think European descendants and African descendants are still technically indigenous to their respective continents, but consider this: Europeans of various ethnic groups often intermixed among one another in North and South America, which created a huge contemporary white population of around 450 million that are largely mixed with two or three European ethnic groups; some even have five or more ancestries. I'm one of them since I'm a mix of Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and French. And heck, if I did a DNA test, I'd probably find even more ancestries in my lineage.

A portion of the white populations on these two continents also have some African ancestry from past miscegenation between Europeans and Africans. The same applies to the African descended populations; many of them have varying amounts of European ancestry. To top it off, several present day whites and blacks have Native American admixture as a result of indigenous peoples intermixing with European settlers and runaway and freed African slaves.

Because the present day white and black populations outside Europe and Africa are so mixed, is it still possible to consider them indigenous to Europe and Africa respectively on a genealogical basis?

[prospectheightsresident]

Yes, but with the caveat that you mentioned regarding mixing that makes it difficult to pinpoint exactly where you are indigenous to (note, the same is true for people of African ancestry, and perhaps even more so given that, at least in the US, African Americans have been found to have, on average, between 15-20% European ancestry).