Where we live at (Salvador, Brazil) Everyone refers to themselves as "Negro" no matter how light or dark skinned they are. Your online research, something you heard on the street, or seen on TV about Brazil is not good enough. This is what it really is!
Now this isn't really the 1st time blacks outnumber whites in Brazil. It's just a reflection in growing pride and self acceptance in the people.
For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil.
Brazilians are no longer reluctant to admit being black or ‘pardo,’ experts said.
By Taylor Barnes
Special to the Miami Herald
RIO DE JANEIRO -- In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of color or are simply more often darker skinned , depending on how you read the much-debated new analysis of the census here.
A recently released 2010 survey showed that Brazil became for the first time a “majority minority” nation, meaning less than half the population now identifies as white.
Every minority racial group – officially, “black,” “pardo” (mixed), “yellow” and “indigenous” – grew in absolute numbers since 2000. “White” was the only group that shrank in both absolute numbers and percentage, becoming 48 percent of the population from 53 percent 10 years ago.
Experts say the shift reflects a growing comfort in not calling oneself white in order to prosper in Brazil and underscores the growing influence of
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Every minority racial group – officially, “black,” “pardo” (mixed), “yellow” and “indigenous” – grew in absolute numbers since 2000. “White” was the only group that shrank in both absolute numbers and percentage, becoming 48 percent of the population from 53 percent 10 years ago.
Experts say the shift reflects a growing comfort in not calling oneself white in order to prosper in Brazil and underscores the growing influence of
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