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In some societies people can be sensitive to gradations of skin tone, which may be due to miscegenation or to albinism and which can affect power and prestige. In 1930s Harlem slang, such gradations were described by a tonescale of "high yaller (yellow), yaller, high brown, vaseline brown, seal brown, low brown, dark brown". [33]
In the Philippines, which historically had almost no contact with the Atlantic slave trade, the Spanish-derived term negro (feminine negra) is still commonly used to refer to black people, as well as to people with dark-colored skin (both native and foreign). As in Spanish usage, it has no negative connotations when referring to black people ...
(U.S.) racial slur that gained popularity in early 2006. It denotes a person with dark skin. Derka Derka (U.S.) person or terrorist of Middle Eastern descent. Term originates from the movie Team America: World Police, in which the Middle Eastern terrorists constantly speak in exaggerated gibberish based around the phrase 'Derka Derka' Desert nigger
The word Negrito, the Spanish diminutive of negro, is used to mean "little black person."This usage was coined by 16th-century Spanish missionaries operating in the Philippines, and was borrowed by other European travellers and colonialists across Austronesia to label various peoples perceived as sharing relatively small physical stature and dark skin. [1]
In a case that came before the Mexican Inquisition, a woman publicly identified as a mulatta was described by a Spanish priest, Diego Xaimes Ricardo Villavicencio, as "a white mulata with curly hair, because she is the daughter of a dark-skinned mulata and a Spaniard, and for her manner of dress she has flannel petticoats and a native blouse ...
Terms used to denote them vary. White and mestizos in the Costa Chica call them "morenos" (meaning dark-skinned) and the Indigenous call them "negros" (meaning black). A survey done in the region determined that the Afro-Mexicans in this region themselves preferred the term "negro", although some prefer "moreno" and a number still use "mestizo".
In the Philippines, the term mestizo was used to refer to a person with mixed native and either Spanish or Chinese ancestry during the Spanish colonial period (1565–1898). It was a legal classification and played an important part in the colonial taxation system as well as social status.
The category of "indígena" (indigenous) is a modern term in Spanish America for those termed Indios ("Indians") in the colonial era. They can be defined narrowly according to linguistic criteria including only persons that speak one of Mexico's 62 indigenous languages , this is the categorization used by the National Mexican Institute of ...