sentences:  In Spain and Portugal, after the 15th century, there was controversy over the sincerity of Iberian Judeo-Catholics who converted under pain of being expelled from the Peninsula.In Spain and Portugal, descendants of Arabs, Moors, and Jews ("moriscos" and "marranos"), were, for a period of time banned from certain guilds, positions in the clergy and particularly from emigrating to Latin America ("limpieza de sangre").This early discrimination system was weaker in Latin America due to the social status that Sub-Saharan African slaves had, much below that of New Christians from the Old World, a contributing factor to the absorption of these elements in the developing culturally pluralistic societies of the New World.