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Who are the mestizo?​

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This is a Spanish term used for people of mixed race - Spanish and Indigenous American.

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Mestizo was the term used by the Spanish Empire for people descended from a white father and mother and an Amerindian father or mother. In the colonial caste system the mestizos had a diminished social status, as it shows that they were prevented from having the rights and freedoms that the peninsular and Creole possessed.

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