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mixed origins

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

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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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK

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