Brazil’s Supreme Court confirms university quota system for Afro-descendents

Friday, May 18th 2012 - 04:10 UTC

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Brazil’s Supreme Court voted unanimously to permit a quota system that would favour Afro-descendants in entering universities, ending an eight-year legal battle. Read full article

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Sullivan
This is stupid. all (public) Federal Universities should be wide open for all Brasilians who qualify to be there. Actually they already are. Private Universities does not have to play this stupid game.

-Brazil has the largest black population in the world outside of Africa.

Old story of history. Yeah Brasil had, but majority mixed with other ethnic groups. That is fact. Look it up in IBGE.

-More than half of Brazil’s population of 191 million people is black.

Not true at all. Where Mercopress get info from? copy paste from stupid americans who know nothing of my country? Brasil has over 200 million people. Majority are white and mixed people and have no problems. Brasil is multi cultural. Pure black people is today small like pure asian people and Brasil indian.

There is racism, but not big like in USA.
May 18th, 2012 - 05:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Idlehands
Quotas don't create an equitable solution - they just compound discrimination. The solution is to implement laws that ensure all candidates are selected on merit only - thoughout the entire education system.
May 18th, 2012 - 08:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ljordao
“More than half of Brazil’s population of 191 million people is black.” I second Sullivan's words. This would be true only if we adopted the one-drop rule, which is an American rather than a Brazilian criterion. This decision is a colossal step backwards.
May 18th, 2012 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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