Editing Half-caste (section)

===South Africa===
[[File:Mestizo.jpg|thumb|In the 19th century, paintings of half-caste people were in demand and eagerly traded in Europe. Above painting shows [[Mestizo]] with caption.]]
Sociological literature on South Africa, including the pre-colonial, colonial and [[apartheid]] eras, refers to half-caste as anyone born from admixing of White and people of color. An alternate, less common term, for half-caste was ''Mestizzo'' (conceptually similar to [[Mestizo]] in Latin American colonies).<ref name=berghe>{{cite book|title=South Africa: A Study in Conflict|author=Pierre van den Berghe|publisher=University of California Press|year=1967|pages=[https://archive.org/details/southafricastudy00vand/page/13 13–25]|isbn=978-0520012943|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/southafricastudy00vand/page/13}}</ref>

''[[Griqua people|Griqua]]'' (Afrikaans: ''Griekwa'') is another term for half-caste people from intermixing in South Africa and [[Namibia]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The imperial factor in South Africa in the nineteenth century: Towards a reassessment|journal=The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |volume=3| issue=1|year=1974|doi=10.1080/03086537408582423| author=Atmore & Marks| pages=105–139}}</ref>

People of mixed descent, the half-caste, were considered inferior and slaves by birth in the 19th-century hierarchically arranged, closed colonial social stratification system of South Africa. This was the case even if the father or mother of half-caste person was a European.<ref name=berghe/><ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Percival|title=An account of the Cape of Good Hope|publisher=Baldwin|year=1804|isbn=978-0217773904|url=https://archive.org/stream/anaccountcapego00percgoog#page/n4/mode/2up}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=O.F. Mentzel|title=A description of the African Cape of Good Hope - 1787 (See volume II; also see other Mentzel records and books|year=1944|publisher=The Van Riebeeck Society|url=http://www.vanriebeecksociety.co.za/catalogue.htm}}</ref>

Also, during the apartheid eras, [[Indian South Africans|Indians]] were treated as the [[upper middle class]] that was virtually superior to half-caste [[Coloureds]].{{cn|date=September 2023}}