Sentence examples for mestizo from inspiring English sources
The word 'mestizo' is correct and usable in written English
It is a term commonly used to describe a person of mixed racial or ethnic heritage, typically of European and Native American ancestry. Example: He proudly embraced his mestizo identity, celebrating both his Spanish and indigenous roots.
noun
A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
A typical Venezuelan mestizo, of African, indigenous and European descent, he was born in poverty (though not in the "mud hut" of the title of a hagiography) in Barinas, a remote state in the llanos, the tropical lowlands of the Orinoco basin.
But he is a typical product of Peru's provincial middle class: he is mestizo (of mixed race), speaks no Indian language and went to a private school.
They accuse the president of stirring up racial conflict in a country where many people have been happy enough to define themselves as mestizo (of mixed race).The opposition has had the upper hand for much of the past few months.
In a fresh election last month, Mr Chavez won a new term and his supporters gained a big majority in a new congress.A charismatic mestizo, Mr Chavez is revered by Venezuela's poor majority with almost religious devotion, but is mistrusted by the country's private businessmen and much of what remains of its middle class.Yet he remains something of an enigma.
That conflicts with what an insider calls the government's "spontaneous tendency towards totalitarianism .Behind the autonomy question lies Bolivia's regional divide, between the poor, mainly Andean Indian, highlands in the west and the four departments of the predominantly mestizo (mixed race), more prosperous east and north.
If Dr Florez is right about the prehistory, SIGMA's findings will also be relevant to other countries in the region with large mestizo populations descended from indigenous peoples.
Indeed, names such as Gokongwei (a long form of the Chinese name Go) are uncommon at tables seating Ayalas, Roxas, Ortigas or Sorianos the mestizo-Spanish dynasties that make up Filipino high society.
Mexico traditionally has been divided between the Spanish-mestizo north and the Indian-mestizo south, corresponding roughly to the pre-Columbian boundary that separated the highly developed indigenous civilizations of the Mesa Central and the south from the less agriculturally dependent groups to the north.
The most prominent and representative groups are the central highland mestizos and the coastal mestizo-mulatto mixed culture; both increasingly find their identities linked with the cities and urban cultures of Quito and Guayaquil, respectively.
Most Indian villages have a church (often the original mission structure), a school, government buildings used for courts or meetinghouses, and small mestizo-operated stores as well as a few houses owned by Indians who spend most of the year at their ranches.
He says his government heralds the end of 500 years of oppression of Bolivians of indigenous descent by whites and (mixed-race) mestizos, and of Bolivia itself by rapacious foreign powers.
