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Crossing

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Crossing  (CROSSING)


Individuals are sometimes distinguished by their colour1, which is used loosely to refer to the apparent pigmentation of the skin. In some countries a distinction is drawn between white persons2 and coloured persons3, sometimes called non-whites3. Crossing4 between races of different colours is sometimes referred to as miscegenation4. A person who is the issue of such a union is said to be of mixed blood5 or may be called a half-caste5 or a half-breed5 —though the latter terms are sometimes used in a pejorative sense.

  • 3. It should be noted that in South Africa the term coloured is used to refer to the population which is neither of European extraction nor of pure Bantu race, but is the result of miscegenation. In the United States of America any non-white person is called colored.
  • 5. The issue of a white and a negro is called a mulatto. In Spanish America the issue of a person of European extraction and an American Indian is called a mestizo and the issue of a person of European extraction and an Asian is sometimes referred to as an Eurasian.


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