Question for the Non-Americans

[The Larch]

Does mora/moro mean Moor or black?

It normally means moor, but in that context it seems to mean black.

And how the hell does a 1/4 moro + full blooded Spaniard = "Chino?" 

No idea, ask a XVIIth century colonial spaniard. 

[Viking]

In Icelandic? No indiginous words for mixed race people.

Edit: though we did follow a "one drop rule" kind of thing. In one case where a french ship was shipwrecked in my home village the crew settled and married into the locals, they were just called french, until, one day we didn't call them anything special.

[Sheilbh]

Not in English.

[viper37]

Does your language have any terms to describe mixed-race people?  I'm looking for equivalents of metis in French.

Does your language have any terms to describe mixed-race people?  I'm looking for equivalents of metis in French.

mulâtre for someone of mixed black and white parents.  Don't know if it applies to 2nd generation offspring.  Not awhere of any words for other ethnic groups but there might be.

Edit: other than metis, of course.

[Zanza]

For example, does German have a specific word for someone who is half German and half Turkish?

Not specifically for that.

The word "Deutschtürke" designates a German with Turkish ancestors, but not necessarily half-half, could also be two Turkish parents. In census we have a category called "Migrationshintergrund", which basically means that you or at least one of your parents migrated to Germany after 1949. But that also catches ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe.

[Norgy]

I seem to recall people from Haugesund being called "Arabs" here. Lots of shipwrecked Portuguese and Spaniards around those parts. There's no doubt that parts of the coast has had more contact and more exchange of genes with the rest of Europe than say the inbred area where I hail from.

An anecdote that's most likely not true is that one of the big merchants who'd made his money on the lumber trade brought back a black young man as a servant. Since no-one had seen a black person, he was thrown into the fireplace at the first opportunity.

[grumbler]

In Icelandic? No indiginous words for mixed race people.

Edit: though we did follow a "one drop rule" kind of thing. In one case where a french ship was shipwrecked in my home village the crew settled and married into the locals, they were just called french, until, one day we didn't call them anything special.

How many days passed before you stopped calling them French?

[Ed Anger]

I seem to recall people from Haugesund being called "Arabs" here. Lots of shipwrecked Portuguese and Spaniards around those parts. There's no doubt that parts of the coast has had more contact and more exchange of genes with the rest of Europe than say the inbred area where I hail from.

An anecdote that's most likely not true is that one of the big merchants who'd made his money on the lumber trade brought back a black young man as a servant. Since no-one had seen a black person, he was thrown into the fireplace at the first opportunity.

Ugh, eggplants washing on shore.

*crosses Norway off tourist list*

[Viking]

In Icelandic? No indiginous words for mixed race people.

Edit: though we did follow a "one drop rule" kind of thing. In one case where a french ship was shipwrecked in my home village the crew settled and married into the locals, they were just called french, until, one day we didn't call them anything special.

How many days passed before you stopped calling them French?

at least 36500 days

[The Larch]

I seem to recall people from Haugesund being called "Arabs" here. Lots of shipwrecked Portuguese and Spaniards around those parts. There's no doubt that parts of the coast has had more contact and more exchange of genes with the rest of Europe than say the inbred area where I hail from.

An anecdote that's most likely not true is that one of the big merchants who'd made his money on the lumber trade brought back a black young man as a servant. Since no-one had seen a black person, he was thrown into the fireplace at the first opportunity.

Ugh, eggplants washing on shore.

*crosses Norway off tourist list*

Eggplants have historically washed ashore all over the world.

[grumbler]

In Icelandic? No indiginous words for mixed race people.

Edit: though we did follow a "one drop rule" kind of thing. In one case where a french ship was shipwrecked in my home village the crew settled and married into the locals, they were just called french, until, one day we didn't call them anything special.

How many days passed before you stopped calling them French?

at least 36500 days

Wow! You are old!

[Josquius]

In Japan they just say haafu.

[Viking]

Wow! You are old!

Coming from methusaleh here that is a compliment

[grumbler]

Wow! You are old!

Coming from methusaleh here that is a compliment

I'm not the one who claims he has changed his name-calling over the course of at least "36500 days." 

In fact, I have made no claims about great age at all.

[The Larch]

In Japan they just say haafu.

True story: There's a village in Andalucía where a small Japanese community settled in the XVIIth century following a Japanese embasy to the Spanish and other European courts. They were all given "Japón" as a surname, and there are a few hundred people still carrying it nowadays.