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The American historian Muriel Nazzari in 2001 noted that the "pardo" category has absorbed those persons of Indigenous American descent in the records of São Paulo: "This paper seeks to demonstrate that, though many Indians and mestizos did migrate, those who remained in São Paulo came to be classified as pardos." [7]
When Puerto Rico became a possession of the United States as a consequence of the Spanish–American War, its population—almost entirely of Spanish and mixed Afro-Caribbean/Spanish (mulatto and mestizo) descent—retained its inherited Spanish language as a mother tongue, in co-existence with the American-imposed English as co-official.
Hymn tune descants are counter-melodies, generally at a higher pitch than the main melody. Typically they are sung in the final or penultimate verse of a hymn. [9]Although the English Hymnal of 1906 did not include descants, this influential hymnal, whose music editor was Ralph Vaughan Williams, served as a source of tunes for which the earliest known hymn tune descants were published.
from mestizo "racially mixed" < latin mixticius "mixed" or "mongrel", in Spanish, refers to a person of mixed European and Native American descent. mojito dim. formed from "mojado" (wet or dripping) probably referring to the mint leaves in the well known Cuban drink mole also from Spanish as Guacamole, from Nahuatl molle or molli ("sauce") Montana
DeSoto, Texas (named so for Thomas Hernando DeSoto Stewart, a doctor of Spanish partially descent dedicated to the community) Diaz, Arkansas (possibly after the Spanish word "dias", which means day, or spanish surname Díaz) Delray, Michigan (after Molino del Rey, location of a Mexican–American War battle)
The Zobel de Ayala family are of Spanish and German descent. A Spanish Filipino is any citizen or resident of the Philippines who is of Spanish ancestral origin. Filipinos of Spanish descent trace part of their ancestry to Spain directly or via Mexico, which ruled the country for the Spanish crown for 200 years from Mexico City.
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The terms cholos, cholas, and cholitas are used as informal slang terms in parts of the US to refer to people of Peruvian, Bolivian, Mexican, etc. descent, who usually are low-income and "tough", and may wear stereotypical clothes. This is usually used to refer to people who are born in different places. [2]