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Expats Find Brazil's Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality
Damn...
Most people in Brazil tell him there isn't a racism problem, and he says that's the root of the issue: People aren't addressing it.
The worry for him is how the race question in Brazil will affect his daughter. A woman who was photographing his then-newborn told him that he needed to modify her features.
"Well you can fix her nose, you know — you just pinch it. If you just pinch her nose every day and just keep pinching it, she won't have that wide nose," he recounts her telling him.
The woman from London says the racism in Brazil has started to affect her kids, too.
"My 3-year-old has started to come home from school, and he's started to rub my arms and my skin," she says. "He'd say, 'Mummy, I'm trying to get the brown off.' "
Damn...