Word: mestizos
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Still, Elizondo struggled with the church's paternal attitude toward Mexican Americans and vowed to go beyond simply elevating cultural traditions in church services. He wanted to develop a theology within the context of the living faith of his childhood neighbors, a faith that spoke of the mestizo experience--the mixture of Spanish and Indian blood common to people born of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Why, he pondered, was there such emphasis in the Gospels on Jesus' origins in Galilee, a land little mentioned in the Old Testament? It came to him that Jesus was essentially a mestizo, raised...
...Toledo, who is of indigenous Indian heritage, may also have an advantage in his own rags-to-riches story. Some 45 percent of Peru's 25 million people are Indian, and a further 37 percent are of Mestizo (mixed) heritage. "Peru's politics have traditionally pitched a white oligarchy against the indigenous and Mestizo masses," says McGirk. "But Fujimori wasn't a member of the traditional elite, either. In the end, it may be a combination of Toledo's impoverished background and the fact that he's a respected economist that gives voters hope that he'll be able...