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Summary: Racial Democracy
The idea of Brazil seeing itself as a racial democracy is one of the main arguments lead by opponents of affirmative action. This idea of racial democracy has made it “impossible” for Brazilian intellects to tell different groups apart (Santos 2006). To identify a group in Brazilian society as getting the short end of the stick would mean to agree that there is indeed a group that is being underserved and neglected. Further, because “nonwhite” Brazilians do not occupy the upper levels of society we are left to conclude that those positions are filled by white Brazilians, this is a fact which cannot be debated even by those very people who say there is no race problem in Brazil (Santos 2006). If the notion of racial democracy disappeared Brazil
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