Half-caste (or half-cast) is a term used to describe people of mixed race or ethnicity in the United Kingdom and some other countries, but is commonly considered to be inappropriate in the United States. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[1] Caste comes from the Latin castus, meaning pure, and the derivative Portuguese and Spanish casta, meaning race. The term originates from the Indian caste-system, where a person of 'lesser' or half-caste would be deemed to be of a 'lower class'. While the origins of the term are derogatory, its usage has evolved to give it the more objective meaning described above.

Half caste is a term used in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking parts of the world. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An example is a child of brown African and white European parentage. The term mulatto (from Spanish "Mulato") has also been used for this particular mixture. Mulatto is a term used to describe a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person whose Ancestry is a mixture of black and white Both terms are considered impolite and potentially offensive in the U. S. , as the words have been used pejoratively in the past to ostracize and isolate the offspring of such unions. For example, "children of the plantation" (the children of African-American slaves and their European-American masters in the U.S. Southern states) were not accepted as heirs, and in most cases, the relationship was never acknowledged, and "half-caste" conveyed the deliberate exclusion. "Children of the plantation" was a Euphemism used in the 19th-century United States to identify the offspring of black slave women by their white The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive

See also

• Caste
• Half Caste (poem)
• Mestee
• Métis
• Mestizo
• Quadroon

References

Castes are Hereditary systems of occupation, Endogamy, social culture, Social class, and Political power. Half Caste is a poem by John Agard, a Caribbean writer written in a combination of standard English and Caribbean and creole forms which challenges the reader to A Métis is a person born to parents who belong to different groups defined by visible physical differences regarded as racial or the descendant of such persons Mestizo is a Spanish term that was coined during the Spanish Empire to refer to people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry in Latin Quadroon, octoroon and more rarely quintroon were historically racial categories of Hypodescent used in Latin America and parts of the 19th

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