Timeline for Was race really unimportant in the 1660's?
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| Sep 4, 2020 at 20:29 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 21, 2018 at 5:13 | comment | added | Luaan | @Mark In fact, I'd say it's a pretty common name. Both the Greeks and Romans used "barbar" ("They can't talk properly, they just say 'bar bar bar...'"). When the Slavs entered Europe, everyone who wasn't intelligible was "Nemec" ("Mute"), which survives as a name for Germans to this day in many Slavic languages. In fact, "Slav" itself stands for word or speech, so it already means "people I can understand". I'd expect you'd find such examples any time two large distinct cultures meet, though it might be relatively rare for such names to survive for many centuries. | |
| May 20, 2018 at 19:45 | comment | added | Mark | @Obie2.0, looking further into it, only #1 and #4 from that painting were legally recognized racial categories. #2, #3, and #5 would be generally recognized socially (although #5 would more often be described as some variation of "Cuarterón"), while the rest are basically the artist hurling insults at the idea of mixed-race combinations with African ancestry (the terms he's using are not associated with specific combinations of ancestors). | |
| May 20, 2018 at 17:34 | comment | added | Obie 2.0 | @Mark - If you're correct, it's both: a joke that also serves as an insult. | |
| May 20, 2018 at 11:15 | history | edited | xDaizu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 19, 2018 at 20:05 | comment | added | Mark | I'm not sure if "Noteentiendo" is an insult, or a joke. If I'm reading that chart correctly, it requires twelve generations of mixed Spanish, Moorish, African, and Native American ancestry, combined in a very specific way. | |
| May 19, 2018 at 15:46 | comment | added | quetzalcoatl | btw, If "Noteentiendo" resembles the language of the categorized person, it could be into an intended insult, but a caste name formed as an onomatopeia of what the listener could commonly hear from them.. Fun fact - In Poland, Germany is called "Niemcy" (that's an official word). Etymologists consider an possibility that it came from "Niemy" which means "unable to speak" | |
| May 19, 2018 at 15:46 | comment | added | quetzalcoatl | typo: Idontundertandyou => under(s)tand | |
| May 18, 2018 at 12:59 | comment | added | xDaizu | @CGCampbell Wow! I've read quite a bit of history (both in english and spanish) and never noticed that english historians didn't use roman numbers for centuries. Feel free to suggest an edit with whatever format most people feel confortable with. Worst case scenario, you always have Rocky's algorithm! ;) | |
| May 18, 2018 at 12:42 | comment | added | Furlevent | @CGCampbell Whenever you write about a century in french, you almost always use Latin dates. I assume it's the same in spanish. That's interesting, I didn't know it was different in english ! :) | |
| May 18, 2018 at 11:48 | comment | added | CGCampbell | Thankfully, I can parse Latin dates, but I would imagine many can not. Any good reason you've used them? | |
| S May 18, 2018 at 3:15 | history | suggested | Malady | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
English Wikipedia link, on that Spanish topic.
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| May 17, 2018 at 15:16 | history | answered | xDaizu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |