On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Charles Haynes <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > Brazil is definitely more racially integrated than most countries that > have a similar mix, like say the US. However one only has to watch > Brazilian cinema, or visit the college campuses and favelas to see > that race, opportunity and income have a rather unhealthy correlation.
I'm in a cafeteria that is inside a top business school in Brazil right now. If I were to take a picture of the people I'm seeing right now, you'd think I'm in Europe. There was an interesting article from the economist a couple of weeks ago about that: http://www.economist.com/node/21543494 I think that article got it right. Brazilians are, in general, less racist in the specific issue of not having hatred against black people or other minorities, but there are much less opportunities for them, so that is not such an advantage in the end. Andre
