Caboclo (English spelling)

Japanese: カボクロ（英語表記）caboclo

In modern Brazil, it mainly refers to lower-class, ignorant country folk. The word comes from the Tupi word caá-bóc (meaning "those who come out of the forest"), and originally did not mean people of mixed race. In the past, it referred to Indians themselves, and especially to Indians who had come into contact with white society, been enslaved, and adapted to Christianity, and eventually came to mean indigenous whites and mixed race whites and Indians. Although originally a derogatory term, it is also used as a term to represent Brazilian national character in the climate of growing nationalism.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

現代のブラジルで，おもに下層の，無知な田舎者を指す。トゥピ語のcaá‐bóc(〈森から出て来た者〉の意)から出た言葉で，もともと混血者の意味はない。古くはインディオ自体や，特に白人社会に接触し，奴隷化され，キリスト教になじんだインディオを指し，やがては白人の土着した者や白人とインディオの混血者をも意味するようになった。元来軽蔑の意があるが，ナショナリズムが強まる風潮の中でブラジル国民性を代表させる語にも用いられる。

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