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Half-breed, a derogatory term for a person of mixed race; Half-Breed, a 1973 album by Cher "Half-Breed" (song), the title track "Half-Breed" (short story), a science fiction story by Isaac Asimov; Halfbreed, a 1968 album by the Keef Hartley Band; Half Breed, a 1913 Swedish film; The Half-Breed, directed by Allan Dwan and starring Douglas Fairbanks
The Porrúa Dictionary defines cholo, as used in the Americas, as a civilized Native American or a half-breed or mestizo of a European father and Native American mother. The word has historically been used along the borderland as a derogatory term to mean lower class Mexican migrants, and in the rest of Latin America to mean an acculturating ...
Thus the term could apply to mulattos, mestizos, zambos, a bunch of others... Gringo300 05:51, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC) . Isn't half blood mixed race and half-breed means from an offspring with parents of different species but same genus like a zebra and horse=zorse —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.83.182.12 15:38, 22 September 2007 (UTC) []
The definitions and usage of the terms "Métis", "Metis", and "métis" (lowercase) have at times been controversial and contentious; however, there are also legal definitions. [9] Descendants of English or Scottish and Indigenous were in some cases also historically called "half-breeds" or "country born".
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
The terms multiracial people refer to people who are of multiple races, [1] and the terms multi-ethnic people refer to people who are of more than one ethnicities. [2] [3] A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for multiracial people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, occasionally bi-ethnic, biracial, mixed-race, Métis, Muwallad, [4] Melezi ...
The word caste is borrowed from the Portuguese or Spanish word casta, meaning race. Terms such as half-caste, caste, quarter-caste and mix-breed were used by colonial officials in the British Empire during their classification of indigenous populations, and in Australia used during the Australian government's pursuit of a policy of assimilation ...
The side that held the upper hand in numbers and popular support were the Half-Breeds, led by Senator James Blaine of Maine. The Half-Breeds supported civil service reform and often blocked legislation and political appointments put forth by their main congressional opponents, the Stalwarts, led by Roscoe Conkling of New York.