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- noun Plural form of
mestiza .
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Examples
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People like Jessica or JLo are pretty much a mix of different things and it is called mestizas and mulatas.
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During the years of the conquest and colonization, the people of Mexico (New Spain in those times) began to mix races, resulting in the creation of a new group – the mestizas, who had an identity conflict because they were not Spaniards, but they were not exactly like the indigenous either.
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During the years of the conquest and colonization, the people of Mexico (New Spain in those times) began to mix races, resulting in the creation of a new group – the mestizas, who had an identity conflict because they were not Spaniards, but they were not exactly like the indigenous either.
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During the years of the conquest and colonization, the people of Mexico (New Spain in those times) began to mix races, resulting in the creation of a new group – the mestizas, who had an identity conflict because they were not Spaniards, but they were not exactly like the indigenous either.
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During the years of the conquest and colonization, the people of Mexico (New Spain in those times) began to mix races, resulting in the creation of a new group – the mestizas, who had an identity conflict because they were not Spaniards, but they were not exactly like the indigenous either.
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During the years of the conquest and colonization, the people of Mexico (New Spain in those times) began to mix races, resulting in the creation of a new group – the mestizas, who had an identity conflict because they were not Spaniards, but they were not exactly like the indigenous either.
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During the years of the conquest and colonization, the people of Mexico (New Spain in those times) began to mix races, resulting in the creation of a new group – the mestizas, who had an identity conflict because they were not Spaniards, but they were not exactly like the indigenous either.
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During the years of the conquest and colonization, the people of Mexico (New Spain in those times) began to mix races, resulting in the creation of a new group – the mestizas, who had an identity conflict because they were not Spaniards, but they were not exactly like the indigenous either.
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Potenciana was founded in this city at your Majesty's command, in order to maintain in it poor girls, both Spaniards and mestizas, who being reared there in a safe retreat and under good teaching might leave it virtuous, and as such be sought as wives.
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Consequently, the majority of women there are mestizas.
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