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Topic : Is this an accurate way to negatively describe a mix-breed race? so i have a scene where a bunch of people are arguing about their race "don't act all high and mighty you snobby Evian - selfpublishingguru.com

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so i have a scene where a bunch of people are arguing about their race

"don't act all high and mighty you snobby Evian prick" Yatsurobo yelled slamming his hands on the table.
"and you should refrain from acting like a baboon. know your place in society Tengu" Byakuya calmly said putting his cup back down, still refusing to make eye contact
"know my place! since when did the Evian dictate that? the Tengu mastered our Wind Magic long before you pointy eared shits learned you could like fires with any magic"
as Yatsuboro and Byakuya continued to bicker Kaisei leaned back in her chair turning to Zhuli "it's great being Human huh?" she laughed
"and just how is it great?" Byakuya asked "Evian, Tengu, Undine, Dranov, Nekolum, even bits and pieces of the Dark races like Lillan and Succubi are mixed in your ancestry. a bastard race that would gladly leap at the opportunity to add Yuko and ARC:: to your already populated bloodlines and sully theirs."
"and it's because we are a mix of many races that we don't act all superior. we can't fanatically hate another race because we are ourselves apart of it." Kaisei smiled "instead we'd likely kill you because we plan don't like you as a person"

Now i'm not entirely sure bastard race first popped into my head (maybe it sounded cool) but when i think on it a bastard is someone born out of wedlock and while there may be some people who are bastards it would be inaccurate to call an entire race a bastard race because of mix bloodlines. but it's entirely possible i'm overthinking this.
so is using the term "bastard race" an accurate way to negatively describe a mix-breed race?

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Accurate or not (whatever "accurate" might mean here), it's a perfectly good word to put into the mouth of a fantasy character in a made-up world with made-up races. Your characters get to use words in metaphorical ways. The way you've used it, the term comes across as a metaphor that characterizes both the race and the speaker. It works perfectly well.

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Bastard:


archaic derogatory
a person born of parents not married to each other.
synonyms: illegitimate child, child born out of wedlock
informal
an unpleasant or despicable person.
"he lied to me, the bastard!"
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While your phrasing doesn't follow the strict definition of bastard, consider that some mixed race couples in more prejudicial societies can ONLY have children outside of marriage. That's why, in what's answer, you can see that it meant that in South Africa. In the United States, in the deep South, decades ago, it was also used colloquially in this manner. Back when there was slavery in the 1800s every mixed race kid was considered a bastard, because that's what they were. White men would often already be married when they had those kids out of wedlock, off of their slaves.

Mixed race=bastard here in the US, in certain regions for many years, though that is changing/has changed...Also, I think, until about 1960 it was actually illegal for blacks and whites to marry at all, so any child of mixed heritage was considered this. I believe Alabama finally repealed the last law forbidding it in like 1999 or 2000. (Even though on a Federal level it was legal.)

So, my answer to you is this: does this fit culturally in your world? Are all half-breeds considered tainted, or as the result of a forbidden union? If so, this can fit your world. It's all about context.

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