Tags: Ethnic Group.
Mestizo (/mɛˈstizoʊ/; Peninsular Spanish: [mesˈtiθo] Latin American Spanish: [mesˈtiso]) is a term traditionally used in Spain and Spanish-speaking America to mean a person of combined European and Native American descent. The term was used as a racial category in the Casta system that was in use during the Spanish empire’s control of their American colonies.To avoid confusion with the original usage of the term mestizo mixed-race people started to be referred collectively as castas.
