Example sentences for: mestizos

How can you use “mestizos” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Translated as “the people,” it is recognized as meaning all mixed-race Spanish and Indian people, known as mestizos.

  • The affiliation with Aztlán also reaffirms the Chicanos’ identity as mestizos (people of mixed ancestry), as members of the indigenous population of the New World.

  • His children were the first mestizos — the people of mixed Indian and Spanish blood who now make up 55 percent of the Mexican population.

  • The indigenous population of Mexico was segregated and not racially mixed, and the mestizos were more closely aligned with the Indians than with the upper classes.

  • The Spanish mission padres recognized this labor and conscripted mestizos (mixed-race people), Indians, and Mexicans to take care of the cattle.


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