Talk:Zambo

message: Is there no connection to the term (considered racist) "Sambo", as used in the United States to refer to a stereotyped image of black people?  ("little black Sambo")
: Answering my own question:
zambo
	
  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Zambo  \Zam"bo\,  n.;  pl  {Zambos}.  [See  {Sambo}.] 
  The  child  of  a  mulatto  and  a  negro;  also  the  child  of  an 
  Indian  and  a  negro;  colloquially  or  humorously,  a  negro;  a 
  sambo.
*This term is for many, synonymous with the offensive term "sambo". Comments on including commentary to the effect that, despite the cute historical etymology, in contemporary usage the term may be regarded as equivalent to "negro" or "coloured"? RealityCheck 17:42, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Distinguishing "zambo" from "sambo"

message: Weren't the products of Amerindian/negro unions actually called wolves?  If you look at the painting in the main entry, the word used to describe the baby is lobo, which seems to mean wolf in spanish?  169.232.228.149 (talk) 02:11, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zambo or wolf? 

message: Where is the evidence that Chavez applies this term to himself or that a majority of Spanish speaking Venezuelan's do likewise? -- Rydra Wong (talk) 03:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hugo Chavez? Zambo? 

message: I have made significant changes to this article and welcome comments or criticisms either here or on my talk page.  I eliminated most references to mixed indigenous-African groups that have not been historically described as "zambos" since this group is fairly specifically confined to the Spanish speaking parts of America.  It seems logical that someone might create a separate page for such mixed race people that would link to this page, that is the logical architecture to handle this toppic, rather than include non-Spanish speaking groups such as the Portuguese cafuzos or other groups with other names.Beepsie (talk) 21:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Revision

message: Delete. Zambo and its derivatives Sambo etc are African in origin from the African surname Samba or Sambo and Sambou/Zambo.  They are African surnames meaning one who gives comfort or comfort giver.  They have nothing to do with mixed people and the word certainly does not originate from Spain or Portugal.  86.176.170.210 (talk) 21:42, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've declined your speedy request as this article is not nonsense in the Wikipedia defined sense. If you have evidence for your view, please discuss it here on the talk page and cite your sources. Peridon (talk) 21:57, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a content issue, and out of my field. Over to the editors of the article for comment... Peridon (talk) 13:44, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zambo has nothing to do with mixed people 

message: I attempted to edit out an image, only to discover it was "protected" (which seems to be contrary to Wikipedia's philosophy, but...). The painting entitled "Black man and mulatta produce a Zambo" is either mis-titled or else the entire body of the article is wrong about the meaning of the word 'Zambo'. A mulatta, by definition (see the Merriam Webster on-line dictionary or, for that matter, the Wikipedia entry), a woman of half black/half white ancestry. A black man and a mulatta will produce a child with three-fourths African ancestry and one fourth Caucasian-- and with no Indian blood at all. Thus, if the article is correct, the caption is wrong, and vice versa.  If she were mestizo, it would arguably be a different story, although even then the child wouldn't be 50% African and 50% Indian, but rather 50% African, 25% white, and 25% Indian.
Granted, the "one drop" theory seems to point to white blood as being exceedingly weak (which the racists never seemed to get), but I don't think that a mestiza, let alone a mulatta, could be legitimately described as an Indian.ConegoFCZ (talk) 01:45, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image should be removed