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Etymology

The literal meaning of the word is "lineage", "breed" or "race", which also gave rise to the term "caste".^{[citation needed]} The term lineage can refer to several things. ... A breed is a domesticated subspecies or infrasubspecies of an animal. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

The castes

Castes were used to identify classes of people with specific racial or ethnic heritage. Each caste had its own set of privileges or restrictions, with the general descending order of precedence being:

• Peninsulares - persons of Spanish or Portuguese descent born in Spain or Portugal (i.e. from the Iberian Peninsula which led to the name). They were considered so much higher than other castas that many women went back to Spain or Portugal to give birth.^{[citation needed]} They held important jobs in the government, the army, and the Catholic Church, and usually did not live permanently in Latin America. This system was intended to perpetuate the ties of the governing elite to the Spanish and Portuguese crowns.
• Criollos - People of Spanish descent but born in Latin America. Many criollos owned mines, ranches, or haciendas and were very wealthy. They occasionally had government jobs, but they were not respected by the peninsulares. The 19th century independentists were mainly criollos rejecting European supremacy.
• Castizos - Persons with one mestizo parent and one criollo parent. The children of a castizo and a criollo were classified as criollo.^{[citation needed]}
• Mestizos - Persons with one peninsular parent and one indio parent.
• Cholos - Persons with one indio parent and one mestizo parent.
• Mulatos - Persons of mixed peninsular and negro descent. They were sometimes made into slaves.
• Indios - Mexican Indians. They were frequently made slaves.
• Zambos - Persons who were mixed indio and negro.
• Negros - Blacks. They were treated the worst and frequently made slaves.

In contrast with the "one drop rule", a white with less than one eighth of Amerindian ancestry was considered white.^{[citation needed]} However, even people with one sixteenth Black ancestry was still either a torna atrás in New Spain or a requinterón in Peru. The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ... Hacienda is a Spanish word describing a vast ranch, common in the Pampa. ... Cholo is an English- and Spanish-language word which, broadly, is applied to persons of mixed Amerindian and Spanish ancestry. ... Mayas at San Juan Chamula, Chiapas Mexico has defined itself, in the second article of its constitution, as a pluricultural nation, in recognition of the diverse ethnic groups that constitute it. ... A representation of Zambos in Pintura de Castas during the Latin American colonial period. ... Look up black in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The one-drop theory (or one-drop rule) is the colloquial term for the standard, found throughout the USA, that holds that a person with even one drop of non-white ancestry should be classified as colored, especially for the purposes of laws forbidding inter-racial marriage. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...

Eventually the system became too complex, and only the main mixes were taken into account.^{[citation needed]} A series of pictures called pinturas de castas showed more than a hundred castes.

Modern-day caste persistence

While the system was set aside as the Spanish colonies got their independence, it left profound scars in modern Latin American societies. In México up until the present day, Mexicans reject the idea of racism but are highly aware of the skin color, associating it with social status. As a result, most role models in TV and media are white. This article needs cleanup. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Pintura de castas

"De español e india, produce mestizo" (Of a Spanish man and an Amerindian woman, a Mestizo is produced). Representation of Mestizos during the Latin American colonial period. ...

"De negro y española, sale mulato" (Of a Negro man and a Spanish woman, a Mulatto is obtained). Representation of mulattos during the Latin American colonial period (http://www. ...

"De mestizo e india, sale coiote" (From Mestizo man and Amerindian woman, begotten a Coyote). Coyote is a Mexican synonym for Cholo. Image File history File links of a Mestizo and an Amerindian, begotten a Coyote. ... Binomial name Canis latrans Say, 1823 The coyote (Canis latrans, meaning barking dog) also prairie wolf [2]) is a member of the Canidae (dog) family and a relative of the domestic dog. ...

"De negro e india, sale lobo" (Of a black and an Amerindian, produces a Lobo). Lobo is a Mexican synonym for "Zambo." Representation of Zambos during the Latin American colonial period. ... A representation of Zambos in Pintura de Castas during the Latin American colonial period. ...

References

Racial Classifications in Latin America.