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Brazil is complex...if you are going for a vist, you will have a great time unless you go out of your way to act like an American tourist looking to be ripped off. It is a very diverse country ethnically, just like the US.
One of my Portuguese professors told us that us that, in Brazil, there are literally hundreds of expressions designed to describe different skin colors - and that the epitome of beauty in Brazil would be a dark-skinned woman with blue eyes. So, at a certain level, the country very much embraces its multi-racial identity.
But the other poster was talking about institutionalized racism, and he or she was surely right. The whites traditionally have owned most of the land and had most of the wealth, and there are few black senior politicians or business leaders compared to the US. Historically, the gap in income distribution in the country between the poor and the wealthy has been very large, although this has narrowed under Lula's government with subsidies to poorer families.
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