When Worlds Collide | sistema de castas | PBS

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, premiering on Monday, September 27, 2010, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on PBS, with host Rubén Martínez, presents a groundbreaking portrayal of what happened after Columbus, as the 'Old World' began to encounter the 'New World.' In this preview clip, Martínez describes how Spain creates a 'New World' caste system in the 16th century to preserve its power, wealth and identity.

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• Caste System
• Spanish conquest
• Rubén Martínez
• PBS
• Latin American History
• free slaves
• conquistadors
• New World
• Spanish
• African Ancestry
• Mestizos

[solariis187]

@NKVism1 Down with Eugenics!

[sesaw7]

So I am a Castizo??? LOL

[NKVism1]

The caste system is a vital part of any aristocracy. I certainly reccomend one for Europe today, with a good 600-800 yrs. of eugenics, positive and negative, in an organic and integral social model. The motley consumer retard herds of today would be better off in such an order, everyone has a place, knows it, and CONTRIBUTES, rather than scrambles for tokens or popularity in a world where "rat-race" has replaced both caste and race. A new nobility is needed, on a planet of only a few million...

[98bigbutt]

@Akibatai00,Race=divide and conquer.

[98bigbutt]

This is a great historical documentary,because they show in depth of colonial Latin America than ever before.

[11vered]

The caste system was an ignorant system and still effects indigenous people till this day.

[METEK101]

I am not a "Mestizo" I am still indigenous

and if I have any Spanish blood is because they raped and pillaged our

people... The power of naming huh?

[Osuitea]

@topeson

Truth must be told.

[Osuitea]

It is interesting how one part of society manages it populations or constituants like they are god but then mother nature has a way of leveling that type of thinking out.

[thruthem]

LOL Figures.