User:Chicaneo/Mestiço (Brazil)

NOTE TO OTHER EDITORS: Regarding this draft article: Mestiço (Brazil). The information below was removed from the Mestizo article because it doesn't belong there & deserves its own article. I will continue to remove information regarding the Portugese word Mestiço from the Mestizo article and place it here. All are welcome to work on the draft Mestiço (Brazil) article, as I do not own it. Chicaneo (talk) 14:02, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

In Brazil, the word mestiço is used to describe individuals born from any mixture of different ethnicities.[citation needed] Individuals that fit the specific case of having Portuguese and Amerindian parents are commonly known as caboclo or, more commonly in the past, mameluco.[citation needed] Individuals of European and African ancestry are described as mulato. Cafuzos (known as zambo in the English language) are the production of Amerindian and African ancestors.[citation needed] The Mixed Race Day (June 27) is a official date in States of Amazonas, Paraíba and Roraima.[citation needed]

In the Portuguese and French languages, the words Mestiço, caboclo and métis were also used in the Portuguese and French Empires to identify individuals of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry.

Sri Lanka
Mestiços are known collectively as Burghers and are the descendents of mixed Sri Lankan and Portuguese/Dutch/British colonists, Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese language and Dutch Creole are still spoken on the island.

Indonesia
In the former colony of the Dutch East Indies the majority of officially registered European citizens (Dutch: burgers) were in fact partly native Indonesian. Up to the 18th century they were also referred to as "Mestizo" (Dutch: Mestiezen). Currently this group is more commonly known as Indos and after the diaspora from Indonesia mostly live in the Netherlands, where they are the largest ethnic minority. Most family names in this Eurasian community are Dutch, with only a smaller number of surviving older Portuguese Mestizo family names such as Simao and De Fretes.

Brazil
-   - In Brazil, the word mestiço is used to describe individuals born from any mixture of different ethnicities. Individuals that fit the specific case of having Portuguese and Amerindian parents are commonly known as caboclo or, more commonly in the past, mameluco. Individuals of European and African ancestry are described as mulato. Cafuzos (known as zambo in the English language) are the production of Amerindian and African ancestors. The Mixed Race Day (June 27) is a official date in States of Amazonas, Paraíba and Roraima.