What races are in the world, they know almost everything:Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid. But Creoles, mestizos, mulattos - these names of people belonging to mixed race between races, often cause confusion in the ordinary man in the street. Not everyone can immediately and precisely say who is who, especially since there are ambiguous interpretations in scientific interpretations. In this article we will try to answer this rather difficult question and finally figure out who is who.
Creoles
Originally, the Creoles are descendants of the colonizers.Territories of America, North and South. The Portuguese, the Spaniards, and less often the French entered into marriages with the local Indian population. Creoles are children from these marriages, as well as all their subsequent offspring. In different historical times, the Creole population of the continents had a great influence on various events, including in terms of gaining independence from the colonists.
In brazil
In this country, Creoles are the descendants of blacks.slaves and the local population. With the advent of blacks in the Americas (they were brought here by Europeans), marriages with slaves became frequent as well. By the way, the recent head of Venezuela, Chavez, also had a similar Afro-Indian origin. Another such offspring is called the word "Sambo".
In alaska
Here, Creoles is the name of descendants from mixedties of Russians and representatives of the peoples of the north: Aleuts, Eskimos, and Indians. As a kind of name - Sakhalar. These are descendants of Russian and Yakuts. So the son of the famous Russian pioneer Semyon Dezhnev, Lyubim Dezhnev, was born in Sahalyar (or Creole in the general sense), as his father was married to the Yakut Abyakayade.
Mulattoes and Creoles
But a child born of a mixed marriagerepresentatives of the Negroid and Caucasoid races, called mulatto. Metis, Creole and mulatto are quite different in appearance, so it is quite difficult to confuse. For example, the current American president is a mulatto, because he was born from a marriage of a Kenyan and a white American woman. Often mulatto called those whose blood is divided in half. The origin of the word has two versions: Arabic and Spanish. So in Spain they called animal hybrids (for example, a cross between a donkey and a mare).
In turn, those with 1/4 Negro blood were called Quarterons, 1/8 - Octorons. One of the most famous quarterns is Alexandre Dumas.
Metis
But the notion of mestizo seems to be the mostoverall. In modern society, so-called descendants from any mixed marriages (including mulattos and Creoles) are called. The word itself originates from the French root of the words “mixed”, “mix” and goes back to the Latin root. But in some countries and areas, there are still more local definitions of the term. In America, for example, mestizos are descendants of Caucasians and Indians. In Asia, this is the name of the descendants of the Mongoloids and Europeans. In Brazil, the children of the Portuguese and Tupi (Mamelukos) Indians.
Melangena
So in America descendants of three races are called:Negroid, Caucasoid, Amerikanoid (in North and South America). The origin of the term is from the French word "blend" ("melange"). At the moment there are more than 200 cultural groups of melangens.
