What is a Mestizo?

Question

I was watching a documentary about these indigenous groups of people in Mexico. These people descended from the Mayans. When they approached some people on a street in Mexico; they called them Mestizos. Does anyone know what this means?

Answer 1

A mestizo is how in Latin America people of mixed ancestry are called. It is most used to call people of white-amerindian ancestry, but can be used to any people of mixed ancestry. That's what the people in your country see as the "Hispanic race". Here in Latin America there is no "hispanic race" or "latino race", we call people what they are: white, mestizo, black, indian, asian, etc. In most Latin American countries the majority (but not all) of the populations is of mixed ancestry. Interacial marriage is not a new thing in Latin America.

Answer 2

When the Conquistadores landed in Mexico,some made love instead of war. The Mestizo is the product of the love between a Spainiard and an Indian.

Answer 3

A Mestizo is a person of mixed Native American Indian and Caucasian descent

Answer 4

Mestizo..is a descent of Indigenous and Spanish
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Answer 5

Mestizos are the people resulting from the blending of European, Indian, and African traditions in Latin America. At different places and times, they have also been called ladinos or cholos.

Answer 6

Yes,

A mestizo is a person who is a mix between Native(indiginous to the americas) and White(European).

Most Mexicans are Mestizos.

But there are also many Whites.

Answer 7

It refers to someone of mixed Spanish and Amerinidan (indigenous people) descent.

Answer 8

a person of racially mixed ancestry, esp., in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European, usually Spanish or Portuguese, ancestry, or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign ancestry.

Answer 9

EXACTLY 1/2 Latin American and 1/2 Spaniard.

Answer 10

The son from parents of different races