Brazil Race Relations?

Question

How will these races be treated in Brazil?

Whites

Mulatto's

Mestizo's

Dark Skinned Blacks

Medium/Lighter Skinned Blacks

Native Americans

Are there a lot of Discrimination in Brazil, which one of the above listed races will experience a lot of Discrimination?

Answer 1

I'm BRAZILIAN

I don't speak english, i speak portuguese, i understand a little English

Excuse me if a word is wrong

I'm mulatto's

there is much discrimination in brazil yes

I already went discriminate

and I know what I feel

People are more down the black (Mulatto's)

Answer 2

there is little to none racism. this isnt america. ppl here are mixed and dont got an attitude.

Answer 3

Brazil is very unique. A lot more tolerant about the racial differences than most of the countries. I mean, there´s still prejudice, and some degree of discrimination, but no segregation. People with mixed blood won´t feel it most of the time. People whose skin is very dark can experience prejudice, specially from the police. The color of the skin is the only thing that matters in our culture. If someone is clearly African descendant, but with light skin, that person is usually considered white in Brazil.

Actually we are all mixed blood. Very few Brazilians are 100% white or 100% black.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Brazil has very little overt racial discrimination.  In fact the mixing of the races is encouraged and has been for a long time in Brazil.  On the surface it seems like things are one big happy multi ethnic family however if you look at statistics you see that there is huge evidence of discrimination.  the lighter skinned the population is the hight renda per capita.  Also the darker skinned the higher the change of police brutality.  I grew up in Brazil and was always treated respectfully by all, however a friend of mine from the same church was beaten and run over by the police.  He is a lot darker then I am.

Answer 6

Saci is right.

Let´s remember History.

Portuguese brought negroes from Africa to become slave.

When they were released , Italians were encouraged to work in Brazil My great grandparents were one of these.

The negroes then , left the farms to go to the city where they lived in ghettos (called favelas) in a subhuman way.

Until President Getúlio Vargas (1930-1954 with a breef pause) there were not retirement. I don´t even think how they could have survived to this. Of course, negroes were prejudiced and they are a big part of poor people.

But Brazil never had apartheid, racism here is punished with jail without fiance.Racism here is silent.

Racists never realized that life is very short and preety soon the collor of the skin will disapear, how stupid they are! Hitler had a terrible end (why? because he was a racist).

Answer 7

It's a mistake say that in Brazil there are not racial discrimination. In fact the discrimination is not too strong that in USA or other countries. Here the discrimination is discret, but exist. The principal face of the discrimination in Brazil are showed in the jobs interviews. In some places the people considered "black" or "mulatto" are reproved on the selection, and only take the worst and bad payed jobs.

Recently the president made a serie of laws to force the universities and some companies, in special the TV companies, to contract and admit more afrodescendents. But this laws are inefficients and demagogue, and are to please the voters and the international community.

In Brazil evebody have Black, Indian and European bloody running in the veins. But the majority of the people say this only in the discourse And don't feel this. Too much people think that the better people are who have more white bloody...

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