Why are all the Brazilian Olympic teams so caccafied?

[superunknown23]

There's rampant discrimination against Afro-Brazilians. Just turn on the TV (o globo) and it looks like a Norwegian channel. You'd never guess that Brazil is majority non-white. Blacks are at the bottom.

Not to mention Brazil's all-cac government.

 

[hashmander]

There's rampant discrimination against Afro-Brazilians. Just turn on the TV (o globo) and it looks like a Norwegian channel. You'd never guess that Brazil is majority non-white. Blacks are at the bottom.

Not to mention Brazil's all-cac government.

yup and as a result it makes the black population more c00nish because they see that and think the only way forward is to breed out their blackness. but the few that do the fight to hold on to their blackness/color are some real ones. so anderson silva

 

[NSSVO]

They are taught to not be black. Some black female won their national contest, but after hate mail they took her off. Neymar dismissed racism, and kind alluded to why would he concerned by it since he isn't black.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

THE COUNTRY IS ONLY 7% BLACK

its more than 7% black


Dark-Skinned Or Black? How Afro-Brazilians Are Forging A Collective Identity

If you want to get a sense of how complex racial identity is in Brazil, you should meet sisters Francine and Fernanda Gravina. Both have the same mother and father. Francine, 28, is blond with green eyes and white skin. She wouldn't look out of place in Iceland. But Fernanda, 23, has milk chocolate skin with coffee colored eyes and hair. Francine describes herself as white, whereas Fernanda says she's morena, or brown-skinned.

"We'd always get questions like, 'How can you be so dark skinned and she's so fair?'" Fernanda says. In fact, the sisters have German, Italian, African and indigenous ancestry. But in Brazil, Fernanda explains, people describe themselves by color, not race, since nearly everyone here is mixed.

All of that is to say, collecting demographic information in Brazil has been really tricky. The latest census, taken in 2010, found for the first time that Brazil has the most people of African descent outside Africa. No, this doesn't mean that Afro-Brazilian population suddenly, dramatically increased. Rather, the new figures reflect changing attitudes about race and skin color in Brazil.

"There is a totally different system here than in the U.S., where one drop of black blood makes you black independent of appearance," Petruccelli says. In Brazil, it's about how you'd like to classify yourself, and how others see you. The problem, he says, is that Afro-Brazilians have no sense of collective identity, which makes it difficult to address the very real problem of racism and racial inequality in the country.

But lately, that's starting to change, and the black pride movement in Brazil is growing. On a recent morning at the beach in Rio de Janeiro, a march celebrating black women in Brazil started with with dancing and singing. One of the demonstrators, Jurema Werneck, who works at Criolla, an advocacy group for black women, says the goal of the march is to show that Brazil is a black nation, largely populated black and African Brazilians. "We need to fight racism and not to hide it," Werneck says.


She's been participating in the black pride movement for over 15 years. And it seems to be working, she says, because the number of people self identifying as pardo or preto surged in the latest census.

And more importantly, lawmakers are beginning to pay more attention to issues of inequality. Brazil now has an affirmative action program for higher education. Before the program launched, only seven percent of Afro-Brazilians went to college. Now it's about 15 percent, and the numbers are growing.

Werneck says the black pride movement is also lobbying to change the next census in 2020 to include the word black. Pardo and preto, she says, are euphemisms. Afro-Brazilians should take a cue from African-Americans, she says, and broadcast to society that they're black and proud.

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As the IBGE itself acknowledges, these categories are disputed, and most of the population dislike it and do not identify with them.[49]:1 Most Brazilians see "Indígena" as a cultural rather than racial term, and don't describe as such if they are part of the mainstream Brazilian culture; many Brazilians would prefer to self-describe as "morenos" (used in the sense of "tanned" or "brunettes");[50] some Black and parda people, more identified with the Brazilian Black movement, would prefer to self-describe as "Negro" as an inclusive category containing pardos and pretos;[49]:2 and if allowed to choose any classification, Brazilians will give almost 200 different answers.[49]:4

According to the American scholar Edward Telles,[51] in Brazil there are three different systems related to "racial classification" along the White-Black continuum.[52]:80–81 The first is the Census System, which distinguishes three categories: "branco" (White), "pardo", and "preto" (Black).[52]:81 The second is the popular system that uses many different categories, including the ambiguous term "moreno"[52]:82 ("tanned", "brunette", or "with an olive complexion").[53] The third is the Black movement system that distinguishes only two categories, summing up "pardos" and "pretos" as "negros".[52]: More recently, the term "afrodescendente" has been brought into use.[54]

Race and ethnicity in Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They do not have a one drop rule.

They'd been mixing 200 years prior to U.S slavery, in other words, imagine how mixed black americans (whom are already mixed) will look 200 years from now. People like Anderson Silva and Peele have discovered they have 20% european ancestry, look it up.

The U.S is the only country that goes by the one drop rule, in other words, we're the backward ones, not the other way around.

The soccer team might look white to us, but note the curly hair in the majority of them....their whites are extremely mixed too. We are used to going by phenotype but thats a very hard thing to do when it comes to brazil. I've been there twice and I'd see a girl with blonde hair, only to see her grandpa come scoop her up and he's black. Im lookin like

number 11, 14, 5,8 all probably have black in them for all we know.

if anything, USA is the progressive outlook on race while those outside the united states have caste systems that basically say, the whiter you are the better so you end up getting people who are "black" looking who are racist against darker blacks because they think they aren't black.