Mestizo is a Spanish and Portuguese (Mestiço) term that was used in the Spanish Empire and Portuguese Empire to refer to Latin people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry in the Americas.
It is also used, somewhat incorrectly, in some parts of Asia-Pacific to refer to people of mixed European and other indigenous ancestry.
The term is mostly used specifically for those people of the particular racial mixture of European and American Indian w...
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Mestizo is a Spanish and Portuguese (Mestiço) term that was used in the Spanish Empire and Portuguese Empire to refer to Latin people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry in the Americas.
It is also used, somewhat incorrectly, in some parts of Asia-Pacific to refer to people of mixed European and other indigenous ancestry.
The term is mostly used specifically for those people of the particular racial mixture of European and American Indian who inhabit and comprise much of the population of Latin America.
The word mestizo originated from the Romance / Latin word mixticius, meaning mixed. In the Portuguese and French languages, the words caboclo and métis were also used in the Portuguese and French Empires to identify individuals of mixed European and Native ancestry.
Under the casta system of Spanish America and Spain, the term originally applied to the children resulting from the union of one European and one Amerindian parent or the children of two mestizo parents. During this...
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