Multiracial people
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Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races. Many terms exist for people of various multiracial backgrounds. While some of the terms used in the past are considered insulting and offensive, there are many socially acceptable modern terms that multiracial people identify with. These include mixed-race (or simply "mixed"), biracial, multiracial, multiethnic, polyethnic, half, half-and-half, métis, creole, mestizo, mulatto, melungeon, criollo, chindian, dougla, quadroon, zambo, eurasian, hāfu, and pardo.
Individuals of multiracial backgrounds make up a significant portion of the population in many parts of the world. In North America, studies have found that the multiracial population is continuing to grow. Because of a decline in racism, multiracial people no longer feel the need to hide their heritage. In many countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, mixed-race people make up the majority of the population. Other countries where multiracial people make up a sizable portion of the population are the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Brazil, the Netherlands, Spain, parts of Africa and Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, and Fiji.
Ethnic groups
The following is a list of ethnic divisions that may contain a mixture of two or more racial groups.
African-American origin
- African Americans
- Black Indians in the United States
- Black Seminoles
- Caboclo
- Choctaw freedwomen (see also: Cherokee freedmen controversy)
- Cholo
- Garifuna people
- Maroon (people)
- Miskito Sambu
- Quadroon
- Zambo
African-Asian origin
- Afro-Arab
- Afro-Iranian
- Afro-Asian mostly native to the Americas and Africa
- Cafres
- Dougla
- Malagasy people
- Multiracial American
- Seychellois Creole people
- Mauritian Creole people
- Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)
African-European origin
- African Americans
- Afro-Dominican
- Atlantic Creole
- Baster
- Creoles of color
- Dominican people
- Griqua people
- Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)
- Multiracial American
- Pardo
- Rhineland Bastard
American-European origin
- Chicano
- Half-breed
- Mestee
- Métis
- Métis people (Canada)
- Métis people (United States)
- Mestizo
- Multiracial American (USA)
Asian origin
- Afro-Asians native to Asia
- Sri Lankan Moors
Arab-Bantu/Nilotic origin
Asian-European or Eurasian origin
- Anglo-Burmese people
- Anglo-Indian
- Burgher people
- Eurasian
- Filipino mestizo
- Finno-Ugric peoples
- Goans (see Luso-Indian)
- Hāfu
- Hapa
- Hui people
- Indo people
- Kristang people
- Luso-Indian
- Macanese people
- Mestiços (Sri Lanka)
- Mixed (United Kingdom ethnicity category)
- Multiracial American
- Romani people
- Tajiks of Xinjiang
- Tatars
- Turkmen people
- Uyghur people
- Uzbeks
African-American-Asian-European origin
- Atlantic Creole
- Black-Dutch
- Brass Ankles
- Brazilians
- Casta
- Coloured
- Chestnut Ridge people
- Demographics of Trinidad and Tobago
- People of the Dominican Republic
- Louisiana Creole people
- Lumbee
- Marabou
- Melungeon
- Mixed-blood
- Mulatto
- Multiracial American
- Puerto Rican people
- Redbone (ethnicity)
- We-Sorts
Other types
See also
- Amalgamation (history)
- Ethnic group
- Interracial marriage
- Half-caste
- List of people of African American and Native American admixture
- Melting pot
- Miscegenation
- Mixed Race Day
- Race (human classification)
- Race and genetics
- Multiethnic society
- One-drop rule
- Origins of Tutsi and Hutu
- Passing (racial identity)
- Plaçage
- Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact hypotheses
- Race and society
- Race traitor
- William Loren Katz
See also
- tropes: melting pot, tragic mulatto