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This is a list of terms for multiraciality used worldwide for people of various types, kinds and degrees of multiracial backgrounds. Many of these may be considered offensive slurs.
General
Generally considered inoffensive
- Biracial
- of mixed ancestry
- Mixed race
- Multiracial
- Multiethnic
- Polygeneric — Neologism from Greek, poly-, (many) and genera (races)
Generally considered offensive
- Bastard
- Half-blood
- Half-breed
- Half-caste
- Half-Chat (Northern Ireland Colloquialism for people of white and black origins)
- Hybrid
- Cross
- Crossbreed
- Coyote
- Mongrel
- Mule
- Mutt
Non-English language
- Ahí te estás — Spanish for "Stay there"
- Ai no ko — Japanese for "child of unlike things put together"
- Albarazado —
- Cambujo —
- Con lai — Vietnamese for "half-breed"
- Daburu — (ダブル) Japanese for the English word "double", a term used to describe the mix of two races/cultures/ethinicities/nationalities as a positive influence rather than a negative one yet does not embrace multiple elements; many times used in preference to the alternative Japanese term "haafu"
- Dougla — used in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago for any mixed race, but typically African and Indian (Asian Indian)
- Gado Gado — used in Indonesia and Malaysia for "mixed"; literally "mixed vegetable salad with peanut sauce")
- Haafu — used in Japan and the United States for "half", often meaning half-Japanese
- Hapa — Hawaiian for "half Hawaiian" or "half Asian, half Caucasian"
- Honhyeol — Korean for "mixed blood"
- Hun xue — Mandarin for "mixed blood"
- Konketsuji — Japanese for "mixed blood child"
- Luk kreung — Thai term used for children of mixed racial heritage, literally means "half-child"
- Mischling — German for "mixed person"
- No te entiendo — Spanish for "I don't understand you"
- Tente en el aire — Spanish for "Stay in the air"
- Rojak or Rujak — Singlish English for "mixed vegetable/fruit salad"
- Torna atrás — Spanish for "turn around"
- Salto atrás — Spanish for "* jump backwards"
Part African, African-American, or black
- Eurafrican — African and European ancestry
- Cafuzo — used in Brazil for black and Amerindian
- Chino — used in Latin America for Zambo and black
- Dougla — used in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago for any mixed race, but typically African and Indian (Asian Indian)
- Lobo — used in Latin America for black and Amerindian; synonym for Zambo
- Morisco — used in Latin America for Caucasian and Mulatto. (Christianized in Spain as Moors)
- Mulatto or simply Eurafrican — African and European ancestry
- Goffal — African and European ancestry
- Octoroon — offspring of a quadroon and a European parent or offspring of two octoroons
- Pardo — used in Brazil for black and white
- Pointee — used in Kenya for African and Caucasian or other
- Quadroon — one quarter African or black, generally three quarters European or white
- Quintroon (also sextroon)— offspring of an octoroon and a European parent
- Zambo — Spanish for Latin Americans of mixed African and Amerindian descent
- Zebra — for black and white
Neologisms
- Blackiental-used in Canada to describe people with both black and Oriental ancestry
- Blackinese — used in the United States for black and Japanese or Chinese
- Blasian — used in the United States for black and Asian
- Blatino — used in the United States for black and Latino
- Blalifornian - used in the United States for black and Californian
- Cablinasian — used in the United States for Causcasian/Black/American Indian/Asian; this term was invented by American pro golfer Tiger Woods to describe his own particular racial and ethnic heritage
- Halfrican — for half-African or half-African-American
Historical
- Under the Caste System of Colonial Latin America, very detailed vocabulary and charts of the various racial mixes (Castas) are depicted in the "Pintura de Castas", which were developed marking the proportions of White, Black and Amerindian blood of an individual.
Part Asian
- Amerasian — used in the United States and Philippines for a child of an American military serviceman and an Asian women
- Anglo-Asian — used in the United Kingdom for English and Asian
- Anglo-Burmese - used in Burma and wherever this community settled, for this Eurasian community of mixed Burmese and European descent.
- Anglo-Indian — used in India and in the United Kingdom for English and Indian
- Bui doi — Vietnamese, literally "dust of the earth," for the children of American military servicemen (usually Caucasian) and Vietnamese women
- Chewish — used to describe those who are part Jewish and Chinese.
- Chindian — used in Malaysia, Singapore, India and Hong Kong for Chinese and Indian
- Dougla — used in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago for any mixed race, but typically African and Indian (Asian Indian)
- Eurasian — used in the United States, Europe, and Singapore for European descent and (usually) East or SE Asian
- Haafu — used in Japan and the United States for "half", often meaning half-Japanese
- Hapa — Hawaiian for "half Hawaiian" or "half Asian, half Caucasian"
- Indo — used in the Netherlands and Indonesia for European descent and Asian; synonymous with Eurasian
- Indo-European — used in India, Europe, and Indonesia for European descent and Indian or Indonesian
- Lai Mỹ — used in Vietnam for "American mix"
- Luk kreung — used in Thailand, literally "half children," for Thai and white
- Malaynese — used in Malaysia for Malay and Chinese or Japanese
- Mestiço - used in Brazil for European and Japanese descent
- Mestiso — used in the Philippines for Filipino and Spanish, Chinese, American, Japanese, or other
- Peranakan — used for Indonesian Chinese
- Serani — Malay for European descent and Asian; synonymous with Eurasian
Neologisms
- Blackinese — used in the United States for black and Chinese
- Blasian — used in the United States for black and Asian
- Cablinasian — used in the United States for Causcasian/Black/American Indian/Asian; this term was invented by American pro golfer Tiger Woods to describe his own particular racial and ethnic heritage
- Coolie — used in Jamaica for Black and Asian Indian
- Blaxican — used in the United States for Black and Mexican
Part Pacific Islander
- Afatasi — Samoan for half Samoan (or more generally, half Polynesian) and half other (usually white)
- Hapa — Hawaiian for "half Hawaiian" or "half Asian, half Caucasian"
Part Native American, Amerindian, First Nations, Latino, Hispanic, or Indigenous to the Americas
- Métis — used in Canada for First Nations and European descent
- Caboclo — used in Brazil for white and Amerindian
- Cafuzo — used in Brazil for black and Amerindian
- Castizo — used in Latin America for white and Mestizo
- Chino — used in Latin America for Zambo and black
- Kablunângajuit — used in Canada for European descent and Inuit
- Lobo — used in Latin America for black and Amerindian; synonym for Zambo
- Mestizo/Mestiço/Métis — used in Latin America for Caucasian and Amerindian
- Zambo — Spanish for Latin Americans of mixed African and Amerindian descent
Historical
- Under the Caste System of Colonial Latin America, very detailed vocabulary and charts of the various racial mixes (Castas) are depicted in the "Pintura de Castas", which were developed marking the proportions of White, Black and Amerindian blood of an individual.
Part Caucasian, white, or European
- Afatasi — Samoan for half Samoan (or more generally, half Polynesian) and half other (usually white)
- Amerasian — used in the United States and Philippines for a child of an American military serviceman and an Asian women
- Anglo-Asian — used in the United Kingdom for English and Asian
- Anglo-Indian — used in the United Kingdom for English and Indian
- Bui doi — Vietnamese, literally "dust of the earth," for the children of American military servicemen (usually Caucasian) and Vietnamese women
- Caboclo — used in Brazil for white and Amerindian
- Castizo — used in Latin America for white and Mestizo
- Cookies and Cream - slang term
- Indo — used in the Netherlands and Indonesia for European descent and Asian; synonymous with Eurasian
- Indo-European — used in India, Europe, and Indonesia for European descent and Indian or Indonesian
- Kablunângajuit — used in Canada for European descent and Inuit
- Luk kreung — used in Thailand, literally "half children," for Thai and white
- Mestizo/Mestiço/Métis — used in Latin America for Caucasian and Amerindian
- Morisco — used in Latin America for Caucasian and Mulatto. (Christianized in Spain as Moors)
- Mulatto or simply Eurafrican — African and European ancestry
- Octoroon — offspring of a quadroon and a European parent
- Pardo — used in Brazil for black and white
- Pointee — used in Kenya for African and Caucasian or other
- Quadroon — one quarter African or black, generally three quarters European or white
- Quintroon — offspring of an octoroon and a European parent
- Serani — Malay for European descent and Asian; synonymous with Eurasian
- Zebra — for black and white
Neologisms
- Cablinasian — used in the United States for Caucasian/Black/American Indian/Asian; this term was invented by American pro golfer Tiger Woods to describe his own particular racial and ethnic heritage
Historical
- Under the Caste System of Colonial Latin America, very detailed vocabulary and charts of the various racial mixes (Castas) are depicted in the "Pintura de Castas", which were developed marking the proportions of White, Black and Amerindian blood of an individual.
Genetic isolate
A genetic isolate is a group that has maintained, to some degree, a distinct ethnic identity, though is not necessarily isolated in a geographic or cultural sense.
- Melungeon — Eastern United States populations of mixed European, African, and Native American ancestry
- Coloureds — in the South African and Namibian context, refers to a rather heterogenous group of people of mixed Khoisan, white European, Malay, Malagasy, Black (Bantu), and South Indian ancestry, especially in the Western Cape
- Griqua — a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial Coloured people
- Goffals — in the Zimbabwean context, refers to a rather heterogenous group of people of mixed Ndebele/Shona with white European that arrived during the years of settlement in the 1800`s.
Unsorted
See also
"List of terms for multiraciality"