{"id":24544,"date":"2012-07-28T23:33:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T23:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24544"},"modified":"2012-07-30T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:41:52","slug":"the-semantics-of-mestizo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24544","title":{"rendered":"The semantics of &#8216;mestizo&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/267061\/lifestyle\/culture\/the-semantics-of-mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">The semantics of &#8216;mestizo&#8217;<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">GMA News Online<\/a><br \/>\n2012-07-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Lago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s your mix?\u201d clothing brand Bayo asked Filipina women in its heavily-lampooned ad campaign from last month.<\/p>\n<p>The ad drew criticism for excluding 100-percent Filipinos, and glorifying the \u201c50-precent Filipina\u201d instead, thereby feeding the beauty industry&#8217;s obsession with so-called mestizas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But as it turns out, all Filipinos are mestizos of a sort\u2014and it comes down to matter of semantics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the word \u201cmestizo\u201d has long suffered from widespread misuse, at least according to cultural anthropologist Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsa-ateneo.net\/personnel\/fernando-zialcita-phd\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Zialcita<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To most Filipinos, \u201cmestizo\u201d refers to fellow Pinoys who are fairer-skinned than others, usually those who are descended from American or European parents or grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>But in a lecture at the Instituto Cervantes Tuesday, Zialcita said that the original meaning of the word \u201cmestizo\u201d has nothing to do with skin color&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/267061\/lifestyle\/culture\/the-semantics-of-mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semantics of &#8216;mestizo&#8217; GMA News Online 2012-07-12 Amanda Lago \u201cWhat\u2019s your mix?\u201d clothing brand Bayo asked Filipina women in its heavily-lampooned ad campaign from last month. The ad drew criticism for excluding 100-percent Filipinos, and glorifying the \u201c50-precent Filipina\u201d instead, thereby feeding the beauty industry&#8217;s obsession with so-called mestizas. But as it turns out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,8],"tags":[11425,11423,11424,1799],"class_list":["post-24544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","tag-amanda-lago","tag-fernando-zialcita","tag-gma-news-online","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}