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Given that in viceregal Spanish America there was never a closed system based on birth rights, where the birth rate and, therefore, wealth, created a "caste system" difficult to penetrate; but, rather, the statute of Limpieza de sangre (a concept of religious root and not biological or racial) was given, in which the Indian and the mestizo, as ...
The Three Races or Equality before the Law, c. 1859, Francisco Laso, Peru De español é india, produce mestizo "from Spanish man and Indian woman comes mestizo."(Pintura de castas, c. 1780), unknown author, Mexico De negro é india sale lobo "from black man and Indian woman comes 'wolf' ()."
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The caste system in Sri Lanka is a division of society into strata, [38] influenced by the textbook jāti system found in India. Ancient Sri Lankan texts such as the Pujavaliya, Sadharmaratnavaliya and Yogaratnakaraya and inscriptional evidence show that the above hierarchy prevailed throughout the feudal period.
The "birth of the racial caste system" started in Hispaniola, argues "Stateless" documentary filmmaker Michèle Stephenson, and endures in its recent laws.
Gente de razón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxente ðe raˈθon], "people of reason" or "rational people") is a Spanish term used in colonial Spanish America and modern Hispanic America to refer to people who were culturally Hispanicized. It was a social distinction that existed alongside the racial categories of the sistema de castas.
The Ladino people are a mix of Mestizo or Hispanicized peoples [56] in Latin America, principally in Central America. The demonym Ladino is a Spanish word that derives from Latino . Ladino is an exonym dating to the colonial era to refer to those Spanish-speakers who were not colonial elites ( Peninsulares and Criollos ), or Indigenous peoples.
The term's use to describe a caste is first recorded in a Peruvian book published in 1609 and 1616, the Comentarios Reales de los Incas by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. He writes (in Spanish) "The child of a Black male and an Indian female, or of an Indian male and Black female, they call mulato and mulata. The children of these they call cholos.