Mestizo
Mestizo is a term of Spanish origin describing peoples of mixed race background. In Hispanic America[?], the term originally referred to the children of one European and one American Indian parent. Later the term became common for all people of mixed European and indigenous ancestry in the Spanish American colonies. Mestizos officially make up the majority of the population in Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, and Chile, and are significant in most other Hispanic American countries, with the possible exception of Cuba and Dominican Republic. Many Americans of Hispanic and Latino origin identify themselves as mestizos as well, particularly those who also identify as Chicano.In the Philippines, the term refers to people of mixed Malay and Chinese or Spanish descent. However, colloquially, the term mestizo (sometimes mestiso; mestiza for females) refers to a person of mixed ancestry (not just Spanish or Chinese) and who has a light skin color.
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moon, and summons Beelzebub to her sabbaths, nevertheless trembles
witch, even the horrid Canidia of Horace, or the more dreadful Erichtho
the other modes of the supernatural, they have entered into more
modern ages than in the classical age of Paganism. Look at prophecies,
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account, that a brother poet, on reading the passage, mistook it, (from
maliciously, for a description of the house-dog. Now, this little
sovereign, with a petrific mace, she lapsed into an old toothless
thousand years. The last person who attempted to stir her up with a
snarls against Christianity, was Aurelian, in a moment of public panic.
be kicked nor coaxed into vitality.] On the other hand, look at France.
a national infirmity of the English to be prophecy-ridden. Perhaps
assuredly not in the next century. There had been with us British, from
monkish local prophets for every part of the island; but latterly
in Cheshire, who uttered his dark oracles sometimes with a merely
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