User:Chicaneo/Mestiço (Brazil)
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NOTE TO OTHER EDITORS: Regarding this draft article: Mestiço (Brazil). The information below was removed from the Mestizo article because it doesn't belong there & deserves its own article. I will continue to remove information regarding the Portugese word Mestiço from the Mestizo article and place it here. All are welcome to work on the draft Mestiço (Brazil) article, as I do not own it. Chicaneo (talk) 14:02, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
In Brazil, the word mestiço is used to describe individuals born from any mixture of different ethnicities.[citation needed] Individuals that fit the specific case of having Portuguese and Amerindian parents are commonly known as caboclo or, more commonly in the past, mameluco.[citation needed] Individuals of European and African ancestry are described as mulato. Cafuzos (known as zambo in the English language) are the production of Amerindian and African ancestors.[citation needed] The Mixed Race Day (June 27) is a official date in States of Amazonas, Paraíba and Roraima.[citation needed]
In the Portuguese and French languages, the words Mestiço, caboclo and métis were also used in the Portuguese and French Empires to identify individuals of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry.[citation needed]
Sri Lanka
[edit]Mestiços are known collectively as Burghers and are the descendents of mixed Sri Lankan and Portuguese/Dutch/British colonists, Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese language and Dutch Creole are still spoken on the island.[citation needed]
Indonesia
[edit]In the former colony of the Dutch East Indies the majority of officially registered European citizens (Dutch: burgers) were in fact partly native Indonesian.[citation needed] Up to the 18th century they were also referred to as "Mestizo" (Dutch: Mestiezen).[1] Currently this group is more commonly known as Indos and after the diaspora from Indonesia mostly live in the Netherlands, where they are the largest ethnic minority.[citation needed] Most family names in this Eurasian community are Dutch, with only a smaller number of surviving older Portuguese Mestizo family names such as Simao and De Fretes. [citation needed]
Brazil
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- In Brazil, the word mestiço is used to describe individuals born from any mixture of different ethnicities.[citation needed] Individuals that fit the specific case of having Portuguese and Amerindian parents are commonly known as caboclo or, more commonly in the past, mameluco.[citation needed] Individuals of European and African ancestry are described as mulato. Cafuzos (known as zambo in the English language) are the production of Amerindian and African ancestors.[citation needed] The Mixed Race Day (June 27) is a official date in States of Amazonas, Paraíba and Roraima.[citation needed]