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UN research panel says 'institutionalized racism' persists in Brazil
Institutionalized racism persists in Brazil despite government efforts to tackle the issue, according to members of a United Nations panel examining conditions among black Brazilians in five cities. However Brazilian blacks ``still suffer from structural, institutional and interpersonal racism.'' Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“Afro-Brazilians represent more than half of the Brazilian population”
Dec 16th, 2013 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bull. It's amazing how “experts/UN Clowns” keep repeating this nonsense. The facts are, Brazilians of MIXED ( A: Afro mix with white, B: white mix with native american, C: native american mix with black, D white mix with asian, and very small minority up north asian mix with native american and asian mix with afro) decendants.
Those idiots at the UN enjoy this “divide and conquer” by using the “RACE” nonsense and tried something similar (Race issues) in Holland to ban Saint Nicholos (Sinterklaas) and his black slave helpers ( Zwarte pieten)...which is according to them “RACISM”.
I agree with Fido.
Dec 18th, 2013 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0The one thing that struck me powerfully when I first went to live in North East Brasil was how mixed and integrated was the whole population.
My partner herself is a genetic complex of his A, B and C (#1), and she is totally unexceptional - except, of course, in her beauty.
There's a good mixture of people in Espirito Santo too where I live.
Dec 18th, 2013 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My missus is also tidy like....
Bitch, please. Only in the late second reign of Dom Pedro II Portuguese became spoken in the whole Brazil. The whtes were simply more prepared than the mixed race, the social gaps of colour have nothing to do with racists intitutions. That's pretty much the case in the whole Latam.
Dec 20th, 2013 - 03:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0AAAAAAND: there is an indication that the majority of the slaves were already free when the Lei Áurea came. Previous laws and social programs of Dom Pedro II set a lot of slaves free.
Fido and Geoff are right, Brazilians are very mixed. I'd just like to point that the white-wash process has nothing to with it since the europeans immigrants of those times went to empty parts, like South. Interbreeding was a totally natural process.
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