The Formation of Multicultural Societies

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The Formation of Multicultural Societies

• By Maira, Paige, Victoria

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

• Cabeza De Vaca was a Spanish nobleman who joined
  the expedition of some 300 explorers who went
  from Hispaniola to investigate Florida in 1527
• They often found themselves at the mercy of the
  native inhabitants.
• Most members of the expedition perished due to
  the lack of food supply and the harsh climates.
• Cabeza De Vaca a group of survivors built small
  boats to make there way across the Gulf Of Mexico
  to New Spain.
• Cabeza De Vaca was shipwrecked and washed up on
  the shore of Galveston, Texas where they soon
  became captives of the native inhabitants. For
  the next 8 years Cabeza de Vaca 3 survivors
  lived in many different societies as slaves
  sometimes as physicians, until 1536 when they
  found there way back to Mexico.

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Mestizo Society

• Mestizo (mixed)
• All European territories became multicultural
  societies where peoples of varied ancestry lived
  together under European or Euro-American
  dominance
• About 85 of Spanish migrants were men
• Spanish Portuguese migrants entered into
  relationships with native women, due to that the
  Mestizo society increased.
• Spanish migrants married along themselves
  re-created a European-style society in less
  settled places Spanish men married native women
  which gave an increase to the Mestizo Society.

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The Social Hierarchy

• Peninsulares (those who came from the Iberian
  peninsula) These were the people who stood at the
  top of the Hierarchy.
• Criollos or creoles fallow. These are individuals
  that are born in the Americas of Iberian parents.

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North American Societies

• Women were numerous among the French and
  especially the English migrants then the Spanish
  and the Portuguese communities.
• Settlers mostly married women within their own
  group while French fur traders associated with
  the native women and metis (French equivalent for
  mestizo)
• Later on they thought of African slaves as being
  inferior beings. This lead to racism.
• Yet some people still interacted with American
  and African people.
• English settlers strongly discouraged interacting
  with individuals with different ancestry or mixed
  offspring