Mestizos in a sentence

The combined number of all types of white mestizos or Eurasians is 3.6%, according to a genetic study by Stanford University.

However, I do not disavow my ancestors; they were lowly mestizos, Spanish citizens, tough men living in harsh times.

The day we accept ourselves and love ourselves will be a good day for us Mestizos.

Before 1959, education was largely off limits to blacks and mestizos and they were shut out of universities and jobs that involved interacting with customers.

After independence, most mestizos had native fathers and European or mestizo mothers.

Amerindians make up a small population in the Rural North-West region, with Mestizos making up 6% of the Population.

At the beginning, many mestizos of the Andean region were offspring of Amerindian mothers and Spanish fathers.

By the 1980s, Sierra Indians—or Indians in the process of switching their ethnic identity to that of mestizos—lived on Costa plantations, in Quito, Guayaquil, and other cities, and in colonization areas in the Oriente and the Costa.

Indians formed the bulk of the Sierra rural populace, although mestizos filled this role in the areas with few Indians.

In the 1980s, Indians and mestizos represented the bulk of the population, with each group accounting for roughly 40 percent of total population.

Many existing landowners expanded their holdings at peasant expense, and some upwardly mobile ranch owners, often mestizos, acquired land.

Mestizos and the Native Americans were often forced to pay unfair taxes to the Spanish government (although all subjects paid taxes) and were punished harshly for disobeying their laws.

Mestizos and whites mainly reside in the western region of the country.

Mestizos had a much lower position and were looked down upon by both the Spaniards and the creoles, who held the racist belief that people of pure European background were superior to everyone else.

Mestizos include artisans and small tradesmen that have played a major part in the urban expansion of recent decades.

Mestizos main The Mestizo culture are people of mixed Spanish and Maya descent.

Mestizos (mixed Amerindian and white) make up about 69% of the population, and whites 17%.

The destruction of their crops by mestizos laying claim to indigenous lands, the rapid exposure to diseases to which Indians lacked immunity, and the extreme social disorganization all contributed to increased mortality and decreased birth rates.

The Indians of the Sierra are separated from whites and mestizos by a castelike gulf.

The opening up of these lands also allowed many whites and mestizos (often called Ladinos in Chiapas) to encroach on what had been exclusively indigenous communities in the state.