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Great post, thanks! You use 'Mestizo' once, and then 'mezito' several times. Is this slang, a repeated typo, or a term of the art? Google doesn't find much f
by nkurz 11y ago
Great post, thanks! You use 'Mestizo' once, and then 'mezito' several times. Is this slang, a repeated typo, or a term of the art? Google doesn't find much for it.
- barry-cotter 11y agoMestizo means mixed Amerind European ancestry, exactly like mulatto means mixed African European ancestry. They're both from colonial Spanish racial categories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestizo
- nkurz 11y agoMy phrasing was unclear. I'm familiar with "Mestizo" --- it's "mezito" that I'm wondering about. Urban Dictionary suggests that "mezito" is just a typo, but the author uses it consistently and perhaps separately than Mestizo. Deep in the search results are occasional other people who appear to be using it intentionally: https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t53845/ https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t53845/ I'm wondering if like "cholo" it has particular connotation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholo Incidentally, I was recently fascinated to learn that some consider "cholo" to come from Nahuatl: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cholo http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Cholo
- shanacarp 11y agorepeated typo/spelling things like they are sounded to my ear rather than how wikipedia tells me to spell things :)