What is Mestizo?
{{Merge|Mestizos in the United States}} {{italic title}} {{For|the Portuguese term|Mestiço}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Mestizo | native_name = | native_name_lang = Spanish | image = [[File: Castas 01mestiza max.jpg |200px]] | caption = A [[casta]] painting of a Spanish man and an Indigenous woman with a Mestizo child | regions = [[Latin America]], [[United States]], [[Spain]], [[Philippines]], [[Micronesia]] | langs = {{hlist|[[Spanish language|Spanish]] (mainly), [[Indigenous languages of the Americas]], and [[Austronesian languages]]}} | rels = Predominantly [[Roman Catholic]]; religious minorities include [[Protestants]] and [[syncretism]] with [[Native American religion|Indigenous beliefs]] | related = <!-- RELATED PEOPLE IS NOT A SEE ALSO SECTION OR A SECTION FOR SIMILAR MIXED GROUPS--> [[Spaniards]] <br /> [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas]] <br /> [[Métis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0240.xml |title=Mestizos - Atlantic History |publisher=Oxford Bibliographies |date= |accessdate=2022-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://jesuitonlinebibliography.bc.edu/catalog/3655 |title=Métis, Mestizo, and Mixed-Blood - Jesuit Online Bibliography |publisher=Jesuitonlinebibliography.bc.edu |date= |accessdate=2022-05-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0099597 |title=Race and nation building : a comparison of Canadian Métis and Mexican Mestizos - UBC Library Open Collections |year=2001 |publisher=Open.library.ubc.ca |doi=10.14288/1.0099597 |accessdate=2022-05-01|last1=Hill |first1=Samantha }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229453907 |title=Métis, Mestizo, and Mixed‐Blood &#124; Request PDF |date= |accessdate=2022-05-01}}</ref> }} [[File:Mestizo.jpg|thumb|An image from colonial South America shows that mestizos are the children of Spanish people and In