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Definitions of mestizo in various dictionaries:
noun - a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
noun - a person of mixed ancestry
MESTIZO - Mestizo (; Spanish: [mestio]) is a term traditionally used in Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines that originally referred a person of combined...
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| In old Mexico a criollo was of European descent & this was a person of mixed European & native blood |
| From an old Spanish word for "mixed", it's a person of European & Native American ancestry |
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| A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry. |
| (in Latin America) a person of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and American Indian parentage. |
| a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) |
| (in Latin America) a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent. |
| a person from Latin America who is part European, especially Spanish, and part American Indian |
| a person from Latin America who is part European and part American Indian |
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Mestizo (; Spanish: [mestio]) is a term traditionally used in Spain, Latin America, and the Philippines that originally referred a person of combined Caucasoid and Native American descent, regardless of where the person was born. The term was used as an ethnic/racial category in the casta system that was in use during the Spanish Empire's control of their American and Asian colonies. Nowadays though, particularly in Latin America, Mestizo has become more of a cultural term, with culturally mainstream Latin Americans regarded or termed as Mestizos regardless of their actual ancestry, and with the term "Indian" being reserved exclusively for people who have maintained a separate indigenous ethnic identity, language, tribal affiliation, etc. Consequently, today, the vast majority of Spanish speaking Latin Americans are regarded as Mestizos. * The term mestizaje taking as its root mestizo or "mixed" is the Spanish word for miscegenation, the general process of mixing ancestries. * To avoid c |