Multiracial people
People of multiple races
Summary
The term multiracial people refers to people who are of two or more races, while the term multi-ethnic people refers to people who are of more than one ethnicity. A variety of terms are or have been used for multiracial or multi-ethnic people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, bi-ethnic (occasion), biracial, mixed-race, and more specific terms. A number of older terms are now considered offensive, such as half-breed and half-caste, in addition to those that were initially coined for pejorative use.
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A term cannot be declared obsolete if it is still used and understood, nor merely because you don't like it. There is no academy of English as there is in France for the French language, hence there is no governing authority who can declare an English word or phrase "obsolete." If there are academicians in some field of study who consider it obsolete, then so state.
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