How did brazil and the rest of LATAM come to have such a warped perception of race?this woman does not know she is brown
she's 15
>>18452503so? this is about her not knowing shes brownshe's 15 years old not 1.5
It's comparative, think of how the English always used to call the Irish black or swarthy or whatever. If you've never met a real black (or in this case white) person, the closest people known to it are referred to as that colour.
>>18452501Early modern Portugal only had a population of about a million people and their colonies were largely not settler colonies. They couldn't afford to be a small ruling class lording over the indigenous and mixed masses nor were they colonists sticking together and displacing the locals, so they gave white status to anyone with light enough skin, hence for the average Brazilian being white just means having light skin
>>18452501American education claims another victim…>this woman does not know she is brownWhat gave you that impression?She’s asking if she’s a parda (triracial mix between European, Amerindian and African blood) and based on her distinct lack of African features I’m going to say no, she’s just a garden variety mestiza but in all likelihood she’s fully aware that she’s brown.Latin America in fact has a rather nuanced conception of race, certainly far better than the insanely idiotic idea behind the one drop rule (if you have even one drop of African blood that makes you fully 100% African).
>>18452501>How did brazil and the rest of LATAM come to have such a warped perception of raceBecause Spaniards were the desirable upper class for centuries. Which is hilarious when you realize that most of the ruling class became mestizo in the 1700s and many actual Spaniards made up the lower class because they arrived as poor migrants while the nobility was full of conquistador half-breeds. To this day the only guy with verifiable lineage going back to those people is the amerindian af looking great great great great great great grandnephew of Montezuma.
>>18452501I have come to understand that they believe you're a nigger if you're poor, which is the racial theory the ruling class of the US holds to be true as well.
>>18452690What percentage African are you joao
>>18452501THE CONFUSED ONE IS YOU.IN IBEROAMERICA, THERE IS NO COLORIST ETHNOSOCIAL SYSTEM, LIKE THERE IS IN ANGLOAMERICA, AND THERE NEVER WAS.IN IBEROAMERICA, THERE WAS A SYSTEM OF QUALITIES WHICH WAS MORE COMPLEX THAN A MERE LABELING OF SKIN COLOURS.
>>18452949>IBEROAMERICANobody calls it that here, mexichango.
>>18452953THAT IS ITS NAME, CRETIN.
>>18452953>Nobody calls it that here"Here" where? This term is very common in Australia.
>>18452501I've had a Hispanic say to me verbatim their mom is "freakishly white" and it's the most brown mexican woman ever
>>18452690Nobody in Brazil calls themselves a mestizo. It's not a major racial classification here and when it is used it is more often than not used as a general term for any mixed race person rather than a particular mixture. "Pardo" is also literally the opposite of a word used exclusively for somebody who has that specific mix you speak of. In reality, it's a loose term that basically encapsulates everybody who's clearly not white or black but also doesn't identify themselves as indigenous or with any of the european and Asian ethnicities that migrated here in the 19th and 20th centuries. I.e it is basically just the brazilian equivalent to the english term "brown", which means that she is indeed asking if she's brown or not.t.brazilian
>>18452501You'd be calling this 100% WASP man brown if his name was João and he was Brazilian.
this is nuts
