USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term mestizo means mixed in Spanish, and is generally used throughout Latin America to describe people of mixed ancestry with a white European and an indigenous background.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term was used as an ethnic/racial category for mixed-race castas that evolved during the Spanish Empire. Although, broadly speaking, mestizo means someone of mixed European/Indigenous heritage, the term did not have a fixed meaning in the colonial period.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mestizo is a term historically used in Spain and Hispanic America, including Hispaniola. It originally referred to a person of combined European and Indigenous American descent, regardless of where the person was born. The term was an ethnic/racial category for mixed-race castas that evolved during the Spanish Empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Currently, the Chinese mestizos are the most populous subgroup; they have been very influential in the creation of Filipino nationalism. The Spanish mestizos are of a smaller population, but they remain a very socially significant and prestigious minority.

Detailed explanation-5: -Those persons of mixed race-Indian and Spaniard-known as mestizos, were one of the most rapidly growing groups in frontier society. Bearing Spanish names but a culture that was a mixture of Indian and Spanish, they became the backbone of the Spanish empire in the Americas.