On Apr 19, 2012 3:30 AM, "ss" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 Apr 2012 9:33:10 pm Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > > When the world thinks of Brazil it rarely thinks of those with African > > or Native American blood lines, which seems to help. > > Would you be able to qualify this statement? > > The generalization "the world" is probably errroneous here. As far as my > knowledge goes a large part of the world think of Pele when they think of > Brazil. > > Are you generalizing "the world" as in "west==world", or US==world" > > The world is biggish.
My experience differs from his. In my experience most people think of Brazilians as "brown" people - some beautiful exotic hybrid, but definitively non-white. Brazil is a fascinating model in how race may become an obsolete concept in practice. -- Charles
