Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Afrikaner, Amerasian, Baster, Bui doi, Burgher people, Cape Coloureds, Eurasians in Singapore, Eurasian (mixed ancestry), Filipino mestizo, Griqua people, Indo people, Kristang people, Luk khrueng, Luso-Indian, Mulatto, Oorlam people, Pardo, Portuguese Burghers. Excerpt: The word Eurasian refers to people of mixed Asian and European ancestry. It was originally coined in nineteenth-century British India to refer to Anglo-Indians of mixed British and Indian descent. The term has seen some use in anthropological literature from the 1960s. Contact and mixture between Indo-European (Europe and South Asia) and Asian peoples (Primarily Central Asia) has a long history dating back at least several thousands of years to the spread of the Indo-Europeans from the Caucasus area into Central and Northern Asia. It has continued with various migrations, heading both east and west. The most noticeable of these were the Huns, Mongols, Avars and Turks moving and settling as far west as Central Europe; and the Greeks, Tocharians and Russians moving east into Central Asia, and eventually even Manchuria. The Xiongnu and Gokturks which ruled from Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Northeast Asia were of mixed race hybrid of Mongoloid/Caucasoid people that resembles Eurasians in racial type. The Eurasian Avars were group of sixth-century nomadic warriors that came from Northern Central Asia. Anthropological research has revealed few skeletons with Mongoloid-type features, although there was continuing cultural influence from the Eurasian nomadic steppe. The early Avar anthropological material was said to be almost exclusively Europoid in the 7th century according to Pal Liptak, while grave-goods indicated Middle and Central Asian parallels. However, cemeteries dated for the 8th century contained Mongoloid elements among others. He...