A conquistador is a person who is out to conquer new territory. The most famous conquistador was the Spanish adventurer, Hernando Cortes, who subdued the mighty Aztec Empire of Mexico. The word comes, not surprisingly, from the Spanish verb conquistar, “to conquer.”

conquistador in British English (kɒnˈkwɪstəˌdɔː , Spanish konkistaˈðor) nounWord forms: plural -dors or -dores (Spanish -ˈðores) an adventurer or conqueror, esp one of the Spanish conquerors of the New World in the 16th century.

Alternative Titles: mestiza, mestizos. Mestizo, plural mestizos, feminine mestiza, any person of mixed blood. In Central and South America it denotes a person of combined Indian and European extraction.

Mestizo cooking is similar but distinctly different than Mexican food. Mestizo villages often have a large communal kitchen where tasty treats are made such as tortillas, tacos, and tamales. Mestizos are also renowned for their textile work and handicrafts that feature simple yet elegant floral designs.

When the Spanish began to colonize Latin America, they created a social class system for regulating their newly conquered territories. They used a racial system to rank people in the New World. The mestizo population were the next highest social class. These were the children of Spanish and Native Americans.

Overall, the term “Mestizo” is no longer in wide use in contemporary Mexican society, with its use being limited to social and cultural studies when referring to the non-indigenous part of the Mexican population.

Brazil. In Brazil: Ethnic groups. … two-fifths of the total are mulattoes (mulatos; people of mixed African and European ancestry) and mestizos (mestiços, or caboclos; people of mixed European and Indian ancestry).

Harnizo (har-NEE-so) is a Spanish term for a person who is around 2/3 Caucasian and 1/3 Indigenous ancestry.

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Many terms exist for people of various multiracial backgrounds, including mixed-race, biracial, multiethnic, polyethnic, Métis, Creole, Muwallad, mulatto, Coloured, Dougla, half-caste, mestizo, Melungeon, quadroon, cafuzo/zambo, Eurasian, hapa, hāfu, Garifuna, pardo and Guran.

The lowdown: 677,000 people in the UK define themselves as “mixed” Mixed-race people account for 1.2% of the total population. 14% of the ethnic minority population are mixed race.

This produced our baseline estimate that 3.7% of American adults are mixed race, defined as selecting two or more races (defined as: white, black, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander; Hispanic and “some other race” are not included as races).

Mixed is an ethnicity category that has been used by the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics since the 1991 Census. Colloquially it refers to British citizens or residents whose parents are of two or more different races or ethnic backgrounds.

In 2010, Jaywick was assessed as the most deprived area in England. In September 2015, it was again named as the most deprived, according to the indices of deprivation based on several factors including: poverty, crime, education and skill levels, unemployment and housing, after being assessed in 2012–13.

Islam is now the second largest religion in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with results from the United Kingdom 2011 Census giving the UK Muslim population in 2011 as 2,516,000, 4.4% of the total population, while more recent Office of National Statistics sources have it in 2018 as 3,372,966 …

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According to The Guardian, about 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year and most of them are women.