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half-caste
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half-caste
Offensive a person having parents of different races, esp the offspring of a European and an Indian


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We must give Italians a feeling of race so that they don't create half-castes, so that they don't spoil what is beautiful about us.
15) Nancy Leo recalled that Chief Protector Gale used to come to their Turkey Creek area, far out in the east, to pick up children (probably in about 1915): Our mothers used to paint us with charcoal, but when we swam in the river our colour would come back and they would know we were half-castes.
Rather the Colonial Office favoured a "formula which would make the legal status of native half-castes depend in effect upon the standards and manner of their life" and suggested that this policy should be adopted uniformly by the governments of all the East African colonies.
 
 
 
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