This is a list of terms used worldwide for various types, kinds and degrees of multiracial background. Note many of these are offensive.

Many of these refer to specific mixed-race combinations only, and are not general terms for 'mixed race': for example Métis refers to a specific ethnic group of First Nation-European ancestry.

• ahí te estás
• Ainoco
• albarazado
• Amerasian
• bastard
• biracial
• Blasian(or Afro-Asian) AKA "blackinese"
• Cablinasian
• Caboclo
• cafuzo (Brazil)
• calpamulato
• cambujo
• castizo
• chamiso
• Chino (in Spanish America)
• cholo
• coloured
• coyote
• cross
• crossbreed
• cuadralbo
• Dougla
• Eurasian (or Euroasiatic)
• galfarro
• Griqua
• half-blood
• half-breed
• half-caste
• Hapas
• hybrid
• Indo (in The Netherlands and Indonesia for Eurasian)
• jíbaro (or gíbaro). Originally it was the Spanish name of the South American tribe Shuar.
• Kablunângajuit (in Canada, people of mixed European and Inuit ancestry)
• Luk kreung (in Thailand)
• mameluco (Brazil)
• mestizo (in Philippines, Mestiso or Tisoy).
• Métis
• Mischling
• mixed race
• mongrel
• Morisco (in Spanish America)
• mulatto/mulattress
• mule
• multiracial
• no te entiendo
• Pardo
• Peranakan
• octoroon
• outcross
• quadroon
• quintroon
• Salto atrás
• Tente en el aire
• torna atrás
• tresalbo
• Zambaigo
• zambo (or Sambo)
• zebra

In Spanish America, very detailed vocabulary and charts (castas depicted in pintura de castas ) were developed marking the proportions of White, Negro and Amerindian blood of an individual.

See also

• List of ethnic slurs

External link

• Names for Mixedblokes