Brazil / South America and Ethnicity/Race

[RallyCola]

its funny how these things happen...my sister in law is dating a guy and he friend-ed me on FB. I know he is 7/8 brazilian and 1/8 syrian but there is alot of anti-latino rhetoric and "pro-white" for lack of a better term on his FB page. I don't see a white guy when I look at him but it is clear to me that he considers himself so. With that, I did a little wikipedia searching as well as other sites and now I am very confused.

Can someone (hopefully Nikka will chime in to) enlighten me on what race and ethnicity the sample of girls are below because from what i read, definitions appear to differ from the conventional american definitions

http://www.shemax.com/tour/images/models/laisa_lins_img1.jpg laisa lins
http://mobile.shemalemodelstube.com/images/pornstars/big-375.jpg camilla jolie

http://ehgt.org/t/50/83/5083a8e3407cd21173d6901e78790c6131447c99-248095-683-1024-jpg_l.jpg ana paula samadhi
http://images.nudereviews.com/data/media/image/medium/t/thaylaandrade.jpg thayla andrade
http://www.bonecabrasil.com.br/Michelli-Cerqueira/acompanhante-travesti-Michelli-Cerqueira.jpg michelli cerqueira
http://i40.fastpic.ru/big/2012/0726/10/896aca650dc57bf8d2e193947ea06610.jpg ariadny oliver

[bluesoul]

i know there are huge foreign communities living in brasil; especially italian, german and japanese. even when most of their kids are born and raised there, they still consider themselves european (or asian) depending on where their parents originated from. the indigenous people of brasil are very few.

one of my friends was born and raised in sao paulo, but if you asked her where she is from, she'll answer italy. she's herself has never been to italy, neither can she speak a lick of italian

[GroobySteven]

Brazil/Brasil is a country NOT a race. It's made up of different races.
Stop labelling.

[RallyCola]

Brazil/Brasil is a country NOT a race. It's made up of different races.
Stop labelling.

i realize that but case in point, you feature some girls on black tgirls that i don't think of as black...they are just dark skinned brazilians. that's why i asked about races and ethnicity in brazil because it seems just as mixed as the US, but not as well defined as the US.

[GroobySteven]

i realize that but case in point, you feature some girls on black tgirls that i don't think of as black...they are just dark skinned brazilians. that's why i asked about races and ethnicity in brazil because it seems just as mixed as the US, but not as well defined as the US.

I don't think it's as much as what you or I might think of as black ... it's whether they think of themselves as black (no, I'm not talking about Vanilla Ice). A lot of Brazilians have a mix of Latin in Black which gives them those more unusual features that I think you're referring to.

[danthepoetman]

The concept of “races” was developed during the colonialist era mainly to justify a hierarchy that would in turn justify exploitation by Europeans of the resources found everywhere in the world. It doesn’t correspond to anything positive or factual in reality. You don’t find anywhere in the Ancient texts any reference to races, only to physical or physiological characteristics, appearance, etc., and never in a denigrating way. For what we know, some of the Ancients we describe ourselves as “Caucasians” might sometimes not even have been. Differences in appearances, in skin pigment for instance, or hair, or facial features are the product of a combination of the climate in which the ancestors of the subject has lived in, nutrition and sexual selection…
Brazil is indeed a country which was populated by people from numerous origins, was already inhabited by natives, and in which there was a great deal of inter-ethnicity. With the result of those magnificent individuals we see today.

[Merkurie]

Ethnicity, paternity laws, race and the role of skin color and social structure and religion are historically different in Latin America and Anglo America.

Basically the cultures and histories are very different, so ethnic combinations are far more common in Latin America than they have been in Anglo America. So the people will not fit into the same categories that Americans are used to.