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In Spanish oriundo means native or inhabitant, but this term was also used in Spain to refer to a series of athletes, born in Latin America, whose ancestors were Spanish emigrants. In Italian culture , an oriundo is someone who is living in a country other than the one of his origins (i.e. being of Italian descent and residing outside of Italy ).
José Manuel Rodriguez Delgado, Spanish-born American psychologist and university professor, noted for research into mind control through electrical brain stimulation; José Rodrigues Miguéis, Portuguese translator and writer, self-exiled in the United States, became translator and editor for Reader's Digest
Spanish father and Albina mother, torna atrás child.Miguel Cabrera, 1763 Mexico. Torna atrás (Spanish pronunciation: [toɾnaˈtɾas]) or tornatrás is a term used in 18th century Casta paintings to portray a mestizo or mixed-race person who showed phenotypic characteristics of only one of the "original races", such as European or Amerindian ancestry. [1]
Spanish provincial surname concentrations: percentage of population born with the ten most-common surnames for each province (source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística 2006) Girls are often named María, [21] honouring the Virgin Mary, by appending either a shrine, place, or religious-concept suffix-name to María. In daily life, such women ...
Cholo (Spanish pronunciation:) is a loosely defined Spanish term that has had various meanings. Its origin is a somewhat derogatory term for people of mixed-blood heritage in the Spanish Empire in Latin America and its successor states as part of castas, the informal ranking of society by heritage.
Nonetheless it is fairly certain that the Mexican name "Guadalupe", as a title for the Virgin Mary, does in fact derive from the Spanish place-name, probably by some association of the Virgin with the cultus of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Extremadura, which would have been strong at the time of the Spanish Conquista of Mexico, and which claimed its ...
Spaniards born in the colonies of the New World that today comprises the Hispanic America are called criollos (individuals of full Spanish descent born in the New World). Higher offices in Spanish America and the Spanish Philippines were held by peninsulares.
Historically, don was used to address members of the nobility, e.g. hidalgos, as well as members of the secular clergy.The treatment gradually came to be reserved for persons of the blood royal, e.g. Don John of Austria, and those of such acknowledged high or ancient aristocratic birth as to be noble de Juro e Herdade, that is, "by right and heredity" rather than by the king's grace.