About 60 % of the Brazilian population (185 millions) is regarded as black but the majority of them live in deep-rooted poverty and misery. Brazil gives the impression of being the country of multiculturalism and hybridity from the outside but institutional racism is the norm rather than the exception in this South American Giant.
The number of blacks who have attended university studies or have had successful carriers are not more than the number of our fingers. You have all sorts of mixture in Brazil in terms of the human race. It is indeed a mosaic of different cultures and races. Yet blacks are not well represented neither in parliament nor in government. There were two black ministers once upon a time: Edson Arantes Do Nascimento Pele as a sports minister and Gilberto Gil as a minister of culture......OBRIGAdO :-)
The poorest of the poor, the most vulnerable of all and the most endangered group are blacks. The structures of Slavery and Colonialism are still kept in tact. There are thousands of Brazilian tourists here in Argentina but I have only seen three blacks out of all these Brazilians.
When I ask those white Brazilians who are staying at my hostel....why there are no black Brazilian tourists?....They would say....the blacks are poor and barely live but survive and
"they do not want to change their fate...". I was of course shocked by their answer and tried to shed some historical facts and lights but to no avail.
The middle and upper class white Brazilians do not seem to understand that they are part and parcel of the problem and they are the ones to be blamed for the situation. President Lula was once a poor man who worked as a shoe-shine boy but has not done what he promised during his presidential compaign...to eradicate poverty.
Some things have improved but institutional and structural racism exists and Brazil is the most racist country on the planet earth right now.
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"they do not want to change their fate..." is a juvenil and incompetent explanation of social and economic exclusion.
Keep on teaching! (Even though statistics on racism are always hard to deliver. It can be interpreted as a subjective feeling and therefore is hard to state, as we all know. However, as long as the feeling is spread and experienced racism exists, if not in numbers well still in unstatistic immense volumes.)
Sorry but this post is nonsense!
I am Brazilian, sociologist and i can guarantee Brazil isnt the most racist country on earth!
I currently live in UK and believe me, its much worst in here!!!
In Brazil people love the ones from abroad and really wanna know about their culture, unlike ANY european country.
What happens in Brazil is more a kind of social discrimination than race itself, and this also depends on which social class u are part of. If u are low class or just not a snobish pretentious person, i guarantee everyone u meet will be absolutely friendly with u independent on ur colour, race, etc. And if u are rich and posy, im sure the ones on the same "level" wont mind ur colour or race either as what matters is MONEY.
Thank you for saying the truth because a lot of people hide this . Racism in Brazil is very strong it is real. From a Brazilian
Any brazillian that denies that brazil is a racist country is racist. Latin America as a whole us backward ass as can be. A cast system, really? Just moronic! And the Catholic church perpetuates this racist nonsense. I say the US and world boycott them, like we did South Africa. Oh, and fyi, white skin is recessive/inferrior.
Brazil, South Africa and USA have a lot in common. USA and South Africa have made real political progress but not Brazil. How come? I know political liberation without economic liberation is not a complete liberty or freedom. This is the whiteman´s world and we people of colour are just demanding socio-economic justice, equal rights and opportunities, to be treated with respect and dignity. Are these demands really too much to ask for? I rest my case.
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