The names of the new generations: Garcilaso's 1609 lexicon of criollo, mestizo, mulato and cholo

One chapter of the Comentarios Reales defines the words colonial Spanish America invented for its own children, and it was written by one of the people the words named. It gives criollo an African origin, cholo a Caribbean one, says mestizo was imposed by the first Spanish fathers and taken as an insult in the Indies, and answers that with a sentence its author put in print about himself: he calls himself mestizo openly and is honoured by it.