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mixed origins

mixed origins adjective: having mixed racial, ethnic, or national parentage or ancestry. This term was promoted as an alternative to “mixed race” in a 1994 resolution of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, in part because of its correlation to mid-twentieth-century British laws using the phrase “race or ethnic or national origins”, but did not see wide use outside of the UK anthropology field.

Adjective

mixed origins (comparative more mixed origins, superlative most mixed origins)

  1. (UK) Having mixed racial, ethnic, or national parentage or ancestry. This term was promoted as an alternative to “mixed race” in a 1994 resolution of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, in part because of its correlation to mid-twentieth-century British laws using the phrase “race or ethnic or national origins”, but did not see wide use outside of the UK anthropology field.

Forms of mixed origins

comparativemore mixed origins
superlativemost mixed origins

Questions about mixed origins

What does mixed origins mean?
Mixed origins means having mixed racial, ethnic, or national parentage or ancestry. This term was promoted as an alternative to “mixed race” in a 1994 resolution of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, in part because of its correlation to mid-twentieth-century British laws using the phrase “race or ethnic or national origins”, but did not see wide use outside of the UK anthropology field.
What part of speech is mixed origins?
Mixed origins is an adjective.

Words near mixed origins in the dictionary

  1. mixed mutation
  2. mixed mutations
  3. mixed number
  4. mixed numbers
  5. mixed nuts
  6. mixed origins
  7. mixed oxide
  8. mixed oxides
  9. mixed parentage
  10. mixed perspective
  11. mixed picture

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