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  2. Casta - Wikipedia

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    Las castas.Casta painting showing 16 racial groupings. Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148×104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico Casta (Spanish:) is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.

  3. Caste - Wikipedia

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    The other castes were similarly further sub-classified by 19th-century and early-20th-century ethnographers based on numerous criteria ranging from profession, endogamy or exogamy or polygamy, and a host of other factors in a manner similar to castas in Spanish colonies such as Mexico, and caste system studies in British colonies such as India ...

  4. Castizo - Wikipedia

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    The child of a Spaniard (right) and a mestiza (middle) is a castiza. By Miguel Cabrera. (1763) Castizo [a] (fem. Castiza) was a racial category used in 18th-century Spanish America to refer to people who were three-quarters Spanish by descent and one-quarter Amerindian.

  5. Caste Discrimination Exists in the U.S., Too—But a ... - AOL

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    In late January, California State University added caste to its non-discrimination policy. University of California, Davis, Colby College, Colorado College, the Claremont colleges, and Carleton ...

  6. Caste doesn't just exist in India or in Hinduism – it is ...

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    Nuns from a group of Dalit Christians, or India's lowest caste who converted to Christianity, protest in New Delhi. AP Photo/Gurinder OsanThe California State University system, America’s ...

  7. Mestizo - Wikipedia

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    Predominantly Roman Catholic; religious minorities including Protestants and syncretism with Indigenous beliefs exist Mestizo ( / m ɛ ˈ s t iː z oʊ , m ɪ ˈ -/ mest- EE -zoh, mist- , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Spanish: [mesˈtiθo] or [mesˈtiso] ; fem. mestiza , literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and non-European ancestry in the ...

  8. Caste discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Homophily based on caste, i.e., tendency to associate with the people of the same caste, was reported by 21% of the respondents; 24% said that they did not know the caste of the people they associated with. The remainder said that they associate with some or most people of their caste (23% and 31% respectively).

  9. Untouchability - Wikipedia

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    Due to many caste-based discriminations in Nepal, the government of Nepal legally abolished the caste-system and criminalized any caste-based discrimination, including "untouchability," in 1963. [8] Untouchability has been outlawed in India, Nepal and Pakistan. However, "untouchability" has not been legally defined.