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**popandopulus** · 04-17-2011, 04:50 AM

'Mestizo' countries were never subject to Jim Crow-style jurisdiction like the United States. Even during the colonial period, racial caste distinctions were already blurry anwyway, one-droppism would have proved impractical. A person with 1/8th documented non-European ancestry was considered a 'criollo', both socially and legally. I'm guessing the inverse would have been true as well for a person of overwhelmingly indigenous or African ancestry.

04-17-2011, 04:50 AM	#4
popandopulus Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	'Mestizo' countries were never subject to Jim Crow-style jurisdiction like the United States. Even during the colonial period, racial caste distinctions were already blurry anwyway, one-droppism would have proved impractical. A person with 1/8th documented non-European ancestry was considered a 'criollo', both socially and legally. I'm guessing the inverse would have been true as well for a person of overwhelmingly indigenous or African ancestry.
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