Word: grandeza
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...ancestry might have been invented to demonstrate the remark of the Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado: Mestizaje es grandeza (Mixture is greatness). Lam's father was Chinese, his mother the daughter of a slave from the Congo. (Spain did not abandon slavery in its Caribbean colonies until 1886.) He grew up hearing African languages spoken all around him, and his godmother was a priestess of a Santeria cult, a hybrid form of Christianity and African worship...
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