Question

The satirical pamphlet Knocking Our Own Ting criticized celebrations of a battle in this country because it promoted division between this country’s mestizo and Kriol populations. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country formerly known as British Honduras, the only modern-day Central American country with English as an official language.
ANSWER: Belize [accept Belizean Creoles; reject “Honduras”]
[10h] Knocking Our Own Ting criticizes celebrations of a 1798 battle named after a saint with this name. The author of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa was killed in a car bombing in a capital city named for a person with this name.
ANSWER: George [accept Georgetown or King George III or Saint George or Battle of St. George’s Caye or St. George's Caye Day] (The historian is Walter Rodney.)
[10m] Many refugees settled in British Honduras during a late 19th-century Mayan revolt named for this concept, which also names a system in colonial Spanish America that officially categorized mestizo and mulatto individuals.
ANSWER: caste [or casta; accept casta system or Caste War of Yucatán or ba'atabil kichkelem Yúum]
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Berkeley BStanford L1010020
Stanford ABerkeley C1001020
Berkeley AStanford M10101030