These non-English terms for " race-mixing " are not considered as offensive as " miscegenation ", although they have historically been tied to the caste system ( Casta ) that was established during the colonial era in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

The term was used as a racial category in the Casta system that was in use during the Spanish empire's control of their American colonies ; it was used to describe those who had one European-born parent and one who was a member of an indigenous American population in some countries, while it was used to refer to people of European, African and Indigenous admixture in others like Venezuela.

Casta became the focus of a controversy when, after being selected to be Marianne, newspapers in Britain and France reported that she had relocated to London where taxes on high earners are lower.

Casta began to take up with a man with whom she had had a relationship shortly before marrying Bécquer, something that was later blamed on Bécquer ’ s trips and lack of attention by Casta ’ s acquaintances.

Casta and Gustavo had three children: Gregorio Gustavo Adolfo, Jorge, and Emilio Eusebio.

" Her choices were: Symphony No. 41 ( Mozart ), " Casta Diva " from Norma ( Bellini ), " Ode to Joy " ( Beethoven ), Die Walküre ( Wagner ), Liebestod ( Wagner ), " L ' amour est un oiseau rebelle " from Carmen ( Bizet ), " A Whiter Shade Of Pale " ( Procol Harum ) and " Polonaise ", Op.

Casta is an Iberian word ( existing in Spanish, Portuguese and other Iberian languages since the Middle Ages ), meaning " lineage ", " breed " or " race.

In 1999, Casta was ranked first in a national survey ordered by the French Mayors Association to decide who should be the new model for the bust of Marianne, an allegorical symbol of the French Republic, which stands inside every French town hall.

Over the years, the models and celebrities who have appeared in it include Sienna Miller, Naomi Campbell, Valeria Mazza, Eva Riccobono, Malgosia Bela, Gisele Bündchen, Emanuela de Paula, Sonny Freeman Drane, Kate Moss, Cindy Crawford, Selma Blair, Lauren Bush, Elsa Benitez, Laetitia Casta, Rachael Leigh Cook, Milla Jovovich, Doutzen Kroes, Heidi Klum, Sophia Loren, Penélope Cruz, Brittany Murphy, Amy Smart, Julia Stiles, Karolina Kurkova, Caroline Trentini, Raica Oliveira, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Bridget Moynahan, Shannyn Sossamon, Mena Suvari, Monet Mazur, Aurelie Claudel, Fernanda Tavares, Isabeli Fontana, Frankie Rayder, Angela Lindvall, Hilary Swank, Lakshmi Menon, Yamila Díaz, Anja Rubik and Natasha Poly.

The well-known Casta paintings in Mexico and, to some extent, Peru, were illustrations of the different classifications.

These terms were rarely used in legal documents and existed mostly in the New Spanish phenomenon of Casta paintings ( pinturas de castas ), which showed possible mixtures down to several generations.

Laetitia Marie Laure Casta ( born 11 May 1978 ) is a French actress and model.

Casta was born in Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France.

* Laetitia Casta, supermodel, was born there in 1978

For Christmas 2011, Peter Lindbergh shot True Love, the very thought of Casta at the summit of Manhattan and between the snowy lions of marble of the New York Public Library for Tiffany & Co.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films Gainsbourg ( A Heroic Life ), Face and Blue Bicycle, as well as the play Ondine at the theatre Antoine.

Her father, Dominique Casta, is from Corsica.

After her unexpected registration by Jeeby, Casta was elected Miss Lumio 93.

Casta has been the L ' Oréal Paris brand ambassador since 1998.

Casta has appeared on over 100 magazine covers including Victoria's Secret catalogs, ELLE magazine, and Vogue magazine.

Casta was one of the company's signature Victoria ' Secret Angels from 1998 to 2000.

For her first movie, Casta has made forays into the blockbuster Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar directed by Claude Zidi, a live-action film of the comic book Asterix created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo in which Obelix, portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, plays a love interest for Falbala.

Casta appeared in Les Âmes Fortes, a dramatic film directed by Raùl Ruiz.

Casta served as a jury member at the 69th Venice International Film Festival in 2012.

On 6 April 2008, Casta demonstrated in a White March of nonviolent protestation to ask for the immediate release of Ingrid Betancourt, presidential candidate kidnapped since 2002 by the FARC.

The French minister of the interior spoke about Casta at the radio ; comparing the advantages of living in France with regard to the drawbacks of London after political opponents used Casta's relocation to London as an opportunity to criticise the government.

On 19 October 2001, Casta gave birth to her daughter, Sahteene.

Casta is engaged to Italian actor Stefano Accorsi.

However, the term continued to be applied to notable models such as Laetitia Casta, Eva Herzigová, Carla Bruni, Tatiana Sorokko ,, Yasmin Le Bon, Shalom Harlow, Nadja Auermann, Helena Christensen, Patricia Velásquez, Adriana Karembeu, and Milla Jovovich.

" Casta diva " was one of the most familiar arias of the nineteenth century.

Apart from the distinction of peninsulares from criollos, the castas system distinguished also mestizos ( of mixed Spanish and Amerindian ancestry ), mulatos ( of mixed Spanish and black ancestry ), indios, zambos ( mixed Amerindian and black ancestry ) and finally blacks.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

a typical cantonment in the North had twelve hundred buildings, an electric-sewer-water system, and twenty-five miles of roads.

Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.

Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.

A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

We had entertained exaggerated ideas about our victory automatically establishing our system throughout the world.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

International law had to fit the conditions of Europe, and nothing that could not fit this system, or the interests of the great European nations collectively, could possibly emerge as law in any meaningful sense.

Essentially this imposed two conditions: First, international law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political system in which a number of states were competitive, suspicious, and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; ;

second, it had to be compatible with the value system that they shared.

On the one hand, the major European nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty, independence, formal equality -- thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience.

Manchester then had two competing power companies until 1904, when the Manchester Light and Power Company purchased the transmission system of the Vail Company.

They had ruined the radar warning system with their window, they had made themselves invisible above their flares.

Rain of near cloudburst proportions had fallen for three full days and it was still raining on the morning of Friday, November 4, 1927, when officials of the Post Office Department's Railway Mail Service realized that their distribution system for Vermont had been almost totally destroyed overnight.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

He denounced secession as anarchy, and explained that majority rule had to be balanced by constitutional restraints in the American system.

Even Plato had difficulties with logic ; although he had a reasonable conception of a deductive system, he could never actually construct one and relied instead on his dialectic.

In third grade, Warhol had chorea, the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness.

This has been taken by some archaeologists, such as Stephen Lekson ( 1999 ), as evidence of the continuing reach of the Chaco Canyon elite system, which had seemingly collapsed around a century before.

Their beliefs and behavior are difficult to decipher from physical materials, and their languages remain unknown as they had no known writing system.