What is "mulatto skin"?

My friend is black we were at work when a guy came in he asked her did she have any asian in her because she had funny looking eyes.She replied no and he told her she was gorgeous but she looked like she had asian in her and insisted someone deep in her family was asian but didn't tell her.She has been asked if she was half hispanic and native american one of my friends say it's cause she has that "mulatto skin" i don't know what that is she isn't beyonce's color she is a tiny bit lighter than halle berry but has reddish hair she looks black to me.

What is "mulatto skin"?
In this case, I think your friend is just referring to her definition of what the skin of a mixed-race person should look like.
Reply:It means part white and part black.
Reply:Mulatto are those who are half black/half white.
Reply:Mulatto is just a light skinned black person.
Reply:mulatto is just 2 races.
Reply:It is bi-racial. partialy black and something else light colored.
Reply:Mulatto is the term called for people that have a mixed colored skin. Like black and white mix, mexican and white, mexican and asian and so on.
Reply:1 : the first-generation offspring of a black person and a white person


2 : a person of mixed white and black ancestry
Reply:She could have West Indies in her background like I do. There were irish people sent there to be slaves and they were mixed with the people there.





That was VERY rude of the guy who kept insisting things about your friend, someone he didn't even know.





Mulatto skin is a mix of black and white skin. Comes from the french and spanish down in New Orleans.
Reply:It means she is part white and part black. The reddish hair most likely comes from her white side.
Reply:Mulatto means offspring of one black parent and one white parent.
Reply:The term "mulatto" is used to describe a person of both Caucasian and African descent, or having one parent that is white, and another parent that is black.


It comes from early history, during the expansion of Europe into other countries. As Europeans and Africans (usually as slaves) became integrated into a more mixed society, there was a rise in the mulatto class.





Your friend is probably described as having "mulatto skin" because she does not look 100% African, just like how the mulatto people are half black, and half white.
Reply:It comes from mulus in Latin. It was were we got the word mule as well which is half donkey half horse. But mulato means some one who is half white half black, or describeing someone that has light brown skin.
Reply:Mullato is a term for someone of mixed white and black Blood.


Mestizo is someone of mixed Spanish and Native American blood.
Reply:Part Black and part white or Part Black and Part some other race. It means light skin color for blacks which means that they are half black and half another race.

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