In the United States there were all sorts of names for those breakdowns depending on “racial” mixture. And then, “colored” became the catchall. I read someplace yesterday, that it’s natural for humans to categorize. Race, however, is not natural. It was invented. Then, race became the category that people use to categorize. Of course, it justifies oppression easily. At one point in US history, there were different levels of whiteness depending on what part of Europe they came from.