Similarities Between Brazil And Brazil

Although race is not an actual biological factor that sets human beings apart, it is highly rooted in cultures all around the world. This representation can be clearly seen throughout the media, in our day by day social interactions and even within our own families. Interestingly enough, race is constructed in different ways depending on the country, but yet there are striking similarities between them. Brazil has a very complex and fluid constructed race. As one of the largest multiracial countries in the West, thanks to the African Slave Trade introduced by the Portuguese colonists, its color-based color racial classification is very diverse. They have more than 10 different terms to describe skin color, because there has been a lot of
Which in both cases, left the original people from the country (the indigenous people and the Malay), at the bottom of these racial hierarchies. Both countries also tie race and socioeconomic status very closely together, where the distribution of power and money is highly unequally split between the people, where in Brazil most of the rich population are whites, in Malaysia it’s the Chinese and Indian populations that hold higher positions in the local
According to a lot of people, the more indigenous you look, the poorer and more uneducated you are. It’s also very interesting because Mexicans don’t believe that they are racists, but it’s more of an economic discrimination that happens within the country, and that I think we are all guilty off in some way. I know people who don’t believe there are black people in the country, or that are at least black Mexicans because they never see them, so to them they don’t exist. Living outside of the Mexico and having lived in four different countries, I always get the same comment of “You don’t look Mexican”, when I tell them that I am from Mexico, as if they were telling me that I was already more superior to those who have a more indigenous look. Which I think is based on the stereotypical portrayal of Mexicans in the media, as this type of comments are not only from American, but also European and Asia people