mestizo in English

noun
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(in Latin America) a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.
But they allowed justified resentment at past treatment by the mestizo (mixed race Spanish speaking) section of the masses to divert them from pushing forward the struggle against the common enemy.
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "mestizo" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "mestizo", or refer to the context using the word "mestizo" in the English Dictionary.

1. I am a mestizo, a cholo.

2. Ethnic Composition: Caucasian- 85%, Mestizo , Indian and other- 15%.

3. Finally his cultural identity has developed as the mixing"mestizo"cultural identity.

4. Ethnic Composition: Mestizo (Spanish-Guarani)- 95%, Amerindian and white- 5%.

5. The mestizo lost his footing, and Trent heard him slide, swearing.

6. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits.

7. But the mestizo was a gangster and his prime loyalty would be to himself.

8. The mestizo fell to his knees, but he still held the knife.

9. The information should be useful for most of the Latin American Mestizo population, too, he said.

10. Descendants of indigenous and Spanish unions are considered the mestizo ("mixed race") portion of the Peruvian population.

11. Creoles who live near the coast of ANGOLA trace their origin to mestizo, Brazilian, and African ancestors

12. Initially, in and around New Mexico, Comanches took captives as they warred on Apaches, Pueblo Indians, other indigenous peoples, and Spanish and mestizo colonists.

13. White people (includes mestizo) make up 94%, 3% are black people, 1% are Amerindians, and 1% are Chinese.

14. So mestizo culture - reluctant to let go of tradition - created its own deity to host the yearly handout.

15. Approximately 10% of that population is made up of indigenous peoples, while another 70% are of mestizo or mixed race heritage.

16. Since inception, Amandina's mission has been to revive Mestizo traditions from a contemporary point of view, thus showing the world the impeccable

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18. First, the traditional power elite who have a detached attitude towards the sufferings of the masses, similar to the mestizo hacienderos of other former Spanish colonies in Latin America.

19. Many terms exist for people of various multiracial backgrounds, including multiracial, Biracial, multiethnic, polyethnic, Métis, Creole, Muwallad, mulatto, Colored, Dougla, half-caste, mestizo, Melungeon, quadroon, sambo/zambo, Eurasian, hapa, hāfu, Garifuna, pardo and Guran.

20. Ayahuasca is an Amazonian plant medicine that has been used for centuries, possibly thousands of years, by indigenous and more recently mestizo ayahuasca shaman across the upper Amazon throughout Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil

21. The graphic illustrations he produced for the "Broadsheets," the tabloids of the day, distributed on the streets of Mexico City became icons of Revolutionary Mexico, portraying murder, suicides, robberies, and disasters endured by the citizens, especially the Mestizo, of Mexico City.

22. When Hidalgo's mestizo-indigenous army attacked Guanajuato and Valladolid, they placed "the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which was the insignia of their enterprise, on sticks or on reeds painted different colors" and "they all wore a print of the Virgin on their hats."

23. In this one small area, only half as big as Great Britain, you will find Amazon rain forests, snow capped Andean peaks, Pacific coastline and the Galapagos islands. At the same time, the country boasts a cultural variety to rival any of its neighbours, which stems from its high proportion of Indian, Mestizo and Afro-American people.