Main message

• The poem comments on the use of the term ‘half-caste’ to refer to people who have mixed backgrounds. The poet refers to different situations where things are mixed together in a positive way.
• Conflict is using the term “half-caste” to describe mixed race people- racial prejudice.

  Uses humour and ridicule to mock the term “half-caste” and racial prejudice. Protest poem about the way mixed race people are viewed and highlights serious social problem that is racism.