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Half-caste is a term for a category of people of mixed race or ethnicity.〔() Memidex/WordNet〕 It is derived from the term ''caste'', which comes from the Latin ''castus'', meaning pure, and the derivative Portuguese and Spanish ''casta'', meaning race, and is generally considered offensive but not always (such as in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands). ''Half-caste''—along with terms such as ''caste'', ''quarter-caste'', "mix-breed" and others—were widely used by ethnographers in British colonies in attempts to classify natives. In Latin America, the equivalent term for half-castes was ''Cholo'' and ''Zambo''. ==Australia== In Australia, the term ''half-caste'' was widely used in the 19th- and early-20th-century British commonwealth laws to refer to the offspring of White colonists and the Aboriginal natives of the continent. For example, the Aborigines Protection Act of 1886 mentioned half-castes habitually associating with or living with an Aboriginal;〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Museum Victoria, Australia )〕 while the Aborigines Amendments between 1934 to 1937 refers to it in various terms, including as a person with less than quadroon blood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Creative Spirits NGO )〕 Later literature, such as by Tindale, refers to it in terms of half, quadroon, octoroon and other hybrids. The term ''half-caste'' was not merely a term of legal convenience. It became a term of common cultural discourse and appeared even in religious records. For example, John Harper notes from records of Woolmington Christian mission that half-castes and anyone with any aborigine connection were considered '' 'degraded as to divine things, almost on a level with a brute, in a state of moral unfitness for heaven'. ''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Notes on a mission station at Batemans Bay, Woolmington )〕 The term was immortalized in the Half-Caste Act, whereby the Australian government could seize such children and forcibly remove them from their parents in order to, in theory, provide them with better homes than those afforded typical Aborigines where they can grow up to work as domestic servants, and for social engineering.〔〔 The removed children are known as Stolen Generations. Other British commonwealth Acts on half-castes and Aborigines enacted between 1909 and 1943, were also in theory called Welfare Acts, in statutes passed deprived these people of basic civil, political and economic rights and made it illegal to enter public places such as pubs and government institutions, marry or meet relatives.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Half-caste」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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