Examples of mestizo in the following topics:
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- As a classifier, indigenous identity was constructed by the dominant European and Mestizo majority and imposed upon indigenous people as a pejorative.
- Because "Mestizos" are also people with varying amounts of European ancestry, the differentiation between "mestizos" and "blancos" is often based on socio-cultural rather than biological boundaries.
- Intermixing eventually produced a Mestizo group that would become the nation's demographic majority by the time of Independence.
- The term "mestizo" is not widely used in Mexican society today, and it has been dropped as a category in population censuses.
- Most people who would be defined as mestizos in the sociological literature would probably self-identify simply as Mexicans.
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- These ideals or principles were to glorify the Mexican Revolution and the identity of Mexico as a mestizo nation, with the indigenous promoted as well as the Spanish.