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Its not stratified where the blacks massacred the coloreds.

2006-07-30 22:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

After the Spanish gained dominance in the 1500's, they imposed a caste system:

European
Indio (native population)
African (slave)

After slavery, the stratification pattern broadened slightly:

European (Spanish)
Creole (legitimate offspring of Spanish father and Indian mother, married by a priest)
Mestizo (illegitimate offspring of Spanish father and Indian mother)
Indio (native)
Black or Black Mestizo (African or "mixed-blood" African/Indio)

Today, some places like Barbados have almost exclusively black permanent residents, and the run the gamet from professors at the University of the West Indies to business people to low-paid, poorly-educated laborers.

The Yucatan once drew a strict line between La Gente de Vestido (people who claimed pure Spanish ancestry and wore European-style clothes) and Mestizo (people who were Indio or of mixed ancestry and wore white cotton shirt and white cotton pants). Today, the difference is not as distinct, but those who claim pure European heritage still act as if they are of a higher class than everyone else.

2006-07-31 05:09:00 · answer #2 · answered by Goethe 4 · 0 0

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