umdoistressilvaquatro
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There are some peculiarities in brazilian racism because miscegenation was always very intense. The majority of the brazilian population have at least some roots in Africa, but you still get higher in the social order the whiter you are. The result is a form of racism that is generally more nuanced than american racism, with its past of racist laws, racist civil war, openly racist politicians, etc. We dont have many white supremacist groups (even in it's concealled forms, like "heritage" groups, groups analogous to the American Legion, mormons, etc). Racism here is more automatic than intelectualized. We have intense cultural integration coexisting with social exclusion, where white people enjoy hearing black rhythms while being completely oblivious to the fact there's only white people at their party. We don't have black communities in the sense of a separate culture, altough we do have ghettos (even more than USA). When affirmative action were first proposed in Brazil, many whites protested saying that would "install racism in this country for the very first time since slavery ended".Would you happen to know how gay men of different races interact in Brazil? It's a large country so maybe there are differences in certain areas but maybe things stay the same overall. I went to São Paulo for a quick work trip and thought that the white guys there acted the same as US whites.
In the south, where I live, the majority of the population descend from european immigrants, we almost had no slave trade, so we don't have the intense miscegenation that is typical in the rest of Brazil. Whites are proud of their european heritage, and southerners are thought to be more industrious, more spirituous and more beautiful than the rest of brazilians. Many in the south (and some in the southeast) believe we are basically the backbone of our country and our greatest plight is maintaining the lazy northeast (where the majority of the population is black) with Bolsa Familia - our version of food stamps. Many southerners hope for secession. People are generally oblivious to the racist innuendo in the south X northeast controversies, but we can say that in the south racism is more overt. In many aspects, the south's racism is closer to american racism.
As in anywhere else in the white world, blacks are thought to have bigger cocks and to be more masculine and bruttish (in an quasi-animalistic way). One peculiarity is that we ordinarily refer to a black guy as "negão" (meaning big black). Brazilian gay guys, as in USA, rarely are primarily attracted to black guys, and in those cases almost always in this fetishized way.