The term mestizo means mixed in Spanish, and is generally used throughout Latin America to describe people of mixed ancestry with a white European and an indigenous background.
Jul 10, 2015
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Mestizo, any person of mixed blood. In Central and South America it denotes a person of combined Indian and European extraction. In some countries—e.g., ...
The meaning of MESTIZO is a person of mixed blood; specifically : a person of mixed European and Indigenous American ancestry.
It was originally used by Spanish Conquistadors to keep their mixed children - those had with indigenous women - from full rights in the new Americas.
In Mexico, the term mestizo (lit. "mixed") is used to refer to an identity of those of mixed European (mainly Spanish) and Indigenous Mexican descent.
Mestizo is at the core of Mexican Spanish and is used in Mexico and by Mexicans far more than in any other national community, but it has other meanings, as ...