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Question

1. What is the date of the original Día de la Raza?
2. What does Día de la Raza mean in English?
3. What does mestizo mean?
4. Columbus was Italian. Why do the Spanish celebrate this date in history?
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Answer 1

1. October 12, 1492.

2. Columbus Day

3. Mestizo (Portuguese, Mestiço; French, Métis: from Late Latin mixticius, from Latin mixtus, past participle of miscere, "to mix") is a term of Spanish origin used to designate the people of mixed European and indigenous non-European ancestry.

4. They are commemorating the first encounters of Europe and Native Americans.