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Started by Admiral Yi, June 07, 2014, 04:13:23 PM

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Admiral Yi

June 07, 2014, 04:13:23 PM
Does your language have any terms to describe mixed-race people?  I'm looking for equivalents of metis in French.

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

Norgy

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June 07, 2014, 04:50:22 PM
Not really. Just mixed black-white, which is "mulatt". As in mulatto.

Half Filipino, half Norwegian doesn't have a name, despite becoming a bit common.
Well, I am sure there are some nasty terms, but none that I know. I am, however, known as a "potato" by the Pakistani yoooof.

Eddie Teach

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June 07, 2014, 04:51:30 PM
Brown on the outside, white on the inside?  :huh:
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Maladict

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June 07, 2014, 04:59:57 PM
Halfbloed in Dutch.

Ideologue

#4
June 07, 2014, 05:01:19 PM
I got halfbloed once.  Really frustrating.
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The Brain

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June 07, 2014, 05:16:34 PM Last Edit: June 07, 2014, 05:19:28 PM by The Brain
None that is used with any frequency. "Mulatt" for mixed black/white is known but never used. In normal conversation you would describe a person as "half-Korean" etc.

Edit: Possibly because the big divide in Sweden isn't between races but between Swedes and immigrants. For instance there are quite a few Swedes who are adopted from Asia or Africa.
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The Larch

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June 07, 2014, 05:25:13 PM Last Edit: June 07, 2014, 05:27:33 PM by The Larch
Mestizo.

Edit: And from back in the day...

11B4V

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June 07, 2014, 05:27:31 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 07, 2014, 04:13:23 PM
For example, does German have a specific word for someone who is half German and half Turkish?

Untermensch, duh.  :lol:
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#8
June 07, 2014, 05:38:12 PM
In italian, meticcio or mulatto. almost unused today.
Being us usually the giving end of migration fluxes, it seems more common for people at the receiving end of migrations to give names like these.

Oh and Larch, I love that picture.

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Norgy

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June 07, 2014, 05:42:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 07, 2014, 04:51:30 PM
Brown on the outside, white on the inside?  :huh:

More a quip about Norwegian food than anything else.

The generation before me eats pasta with boiled potatos.

celedhring

#10
June 07, 2014, 06:18:31 PM
In Catalan "xarnego" used to mean that, but it evolved into meaning "Spanish immigrant" in the XXth century.

mongers

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June 07, 2014, 06:28:23 PM
British.
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Barrister

#12
June 07, 2014, 06:47:06 PM
No special word. :)
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#13
June 07, 2014, 06:59:38 PM
Quote from: Barrister on June 07, 2014, 06:47:06 PM
No special word. :)

Non-Americans. If you live in North or South America, technically you're an American or "New Worlder".

Admiral Yi

#14
June 07, 2014, 07:55:52 PM
Does mora/moro mean Moor or black?

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