Half-caste is a term for a category of people of mixed race or ethnicity. It is derived from the term caste, which comes from the Latin castus, meaning pure, and the derivative Portuguese and Spanish casta, meaning race. Terms such as half-caste, caste, quarter-caste and mix-breed were widely used by ethnographers throughout the British Empire to try to classify "the natives", and in Australia used during the pursuit of a policy of assimilation. In Latin America, the equivalent term for half-castes was Cholo and Zambo.
About Halfcast
Weekly series with episodes featuring comedic cultural commentary about a variety of topics.
Achievement of Halfcast
The debut episode of the podcast was a conversation about the BBC1's documentary about the murder of Mark Duggan.
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Race (human classification) - A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society. The term was first used to refer to speakers of a common language and then to denote national affiliations.. Caste - Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution.. Miscegenation - Miscegenation is a term for the interbreeding of people considered to be members of different races. Anonymous authors invented the word in an 1863 fraudulent political pamphlet, indicating that miscegenation meant interracial marriage and interracial sexual relations, particularly between".... Caste.. Multiracial affairs.. Ethnic and religious slurs.
