mestizomɛˈsti zoʊ
mestizo
English Definitions:
mestizo, ladino (noun)
a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
mestizo (Noun)
A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
Mestizo
Mestizo is a term traditionally used in Spain, and the Spanish-speaking Latin America to mean a person whose ancestors were both European and American Indians only. The term was used as a racial category in the Casta system that was in use during the Spanish empire's control of their American colonies. During the colonial period, mestizos quickly became the majority group in much of what is today the Spanish-speaking parts of Latin America, and when the colonies started achieving independence from Spain, the mestizo group often became dominant. In some Latin American countries, such as Mexico, the concept of the "mestizo" became central to the formation of a new independent identity that was neither wholly Spanish nor wholly indigenous and the word mestizo acquired its current double meaning of mixed cultural heritage and descent. In colonial Venezuela, Pardo was more commonly used instead of Mestizo. Pardo means being mixed without specifying which admixture; it was used to describe anyone born in the Americas whose ancestry was a mixture of European, South American Indian, and Negro. In the Spanish Colonial Casta system Mestizos, who formed the majority, had fewer rights than the minority elite European born persons called "Peninsulares", and the minority white colonial born whites "Criollo", but more rights than the now minority "Indios",Pardo, Negro and Mulatto populations.
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