@kaylatheshow: The term for black Americans has changed over time and so has who was actually considered black. In the Greatest Showman, zendaya’s character was treated as black but technically she would have operated a bit differently under the laws at the time. #tiktokfantasymoviecontest
Is "mulatto" considered a racist/inappropriate word nowadays?
2026-10-06 17:17:26
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Karmito :
Mullato is still a word for mixed people in Portuguese
2026-10-06 15:40:55
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♡ Halo ♡ :
i never even realized that her "odd" thing was that she was black. i thought it was the pink hair 💔
2026-10-06 20:22:57
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Milena :
nul, as I kid I didnt realize they couldn't be together cause zenday is black. I just went with "oh, she's a circus lady and he's rich"
2026-10-06 16:33:23
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SillylittleGuy :
Quadroon is an insane label
2026-10-06 16:31:54
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𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔞 🏴🇮🇪 :
I love your content it’s so educating + interesting
2026-10-06 15:12:50
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Michael :
you should 100% do a video on why the term for black people has changed so much. that would be a really cool linguistic & history lesson.
2026-10-06 21:56:28
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freya :
wow! people are complicated with all these labels, why not just accept each other???
2026-10-06 17:32:03
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Eloico :
I’m Spanish and I didn’t know the word’s origin. I won’t be using the word anymore, it’s very normalized here so I didn’t think too much of it
2026-10-06 15:25:06
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NalinDu :
the labelling is insane
2026-10-06 18:27:16
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Max Anthony :
Oh that’s interesting, I have a name for myself now I’m an Octaroon.
2026-10-07 01:27:25
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Kayla :
The people making that one drop rule bs would have heart attacks seeing the DNA ancestry charts where everyone has at least 0.01% or something
2026-10-06 18:03:11
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Meg H :
Wait this explains SO much of America’s mindset on “blackness” for us non Americans. Thank you for explaining it so well
2026-10-06 21:03:39
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Choff :
Crazy for all these bs rules when people could’ve just been considered people
2026-10-06 21:25:55
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Tiger J Perkins :
this is why we have to stop saying everyone is blk😩
2026-10-06 20:56:15
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Ran2dy :
That’s because the 13 colonies is different than Spanish territory, which is different in French territory. They all had their own laws and their versions of reclassification.
2026-10-06 19:12:01
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cannedwombat :
The Casta system in the Colonial Spanish Americas was intense in all of its levels and categories of all the different permutations of mixed race people.
2026-10-06 22:47:09
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"Mad"moiselle Isabel :
it's "funny" because it's fully based on the believe genes would be given further by the parents split evenly 50/50, which is nowadays known to be entirely untrue
2026-10-06 22:49:10
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claudysummer :
There is another theory for the origin of 'mulatto', 'mulato' in Spanish coming from Arabic 'muwallad' for kids of one Muslim parent and another from a different faith. In Spanish it was translated as 'muladí' and it is believed 'mulato' could 've also come from there.
2026-10-06 16:17:13
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Black☆Star :
having a word for the type of black doesn't change that mixed people were viewed as black back then. we also have a word for it now... mixed. still viewed as black.
2026-10-06 17:05:02
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ryanbrown612 :
Makes sense cause Zendaya barely considers herself black
2026-10-06 15:09:38
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Frog.plasters :
what if my mum is 1/8 white and my dad is white? I cant do maths but id be like 5/8 white and 3/8 black? idk
2026-10-06 15:16:30
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ShanKitty :
This is so interesting! We don’t learn this in school even when we are doing the trade or civil rights! I suppose I would’ve been a mulato then 😭😭😭
2026-10-06 15:10:55
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Dragonfly_Girl :
Very interesting. Thank you for educating us.
2026-10-06 16:40:30
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Ⓐ✊꧁𖤐🦌🥀🎙️strid➵er🎙️🥀🦌𖤐꧂ :
it would have been interesting if they put this history in the movie
2026-10-06 16:26:00
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