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Brazil is a melting pot or, an ethnic "fruit salad"...the rest of the sentence is for your own conclusion dude
I've heard mosaic, melting pot, but not fruit salad. I've heard salad bowl, but never fruit salad. The tasty part, well, I will have to make my own conclusion to what that means
brazil black population is bigger than american this is fact. i u counted pardos in america like they do in brazil the us black population would be 2/3 smaller. and even some blacks would be considered white if u count like brazil does. genetically as a whole brazil is blacker than americans. the number of whites in the usa dwarfs blacks and once u move out of the south and midatlantic areas adjacent to the south like maryland or urban areas in northeast of midwest it becomes obvious.
"Black" is defined differently in each country. As someone else noted, there are people in the States who are considered black who would not be in Brazil. I'm one of those people. If one uses the American standard then Brazil trumps the U.S. by far. Even if one uses the more restrictive Brazilian standard there would still be more blacks there than here.
Plus, historically speaking, the majority of slaves coming out of Sub-Saharan Africa ended up in South America. Only a very small percentage ended up in the U.S.
I've heard mosaic, melting pot, but not fruit salad. I've heard salad bowl, but never fruit salad. The tasty part, well, I will have to make my own conclusion to what that means
Black = anyone with a drop of African blood in their body ........... Blacks sums up the people who are descendents of all groups created by the Diaspora
Therefore Brazil by far and that's part of the reason it's deemed one of the most beautiful places in the world.
In the US, the Black population did not mix with Whites as often as Brazilians. There was some intermixing going on between Master and slave, but very little mix marriages and cohabitation. There was some creolization going on in some US states such as in Louisiana, whose descendants develop a culture and identity separate from the Black majority. However, the Dred Scott case killed any hope of a mixed or mulatto society. This is when the one-drop rule began to apply and be put into practice. Therefore, groups such as Creoles of Color and Black Indians as well as West Indians and Black Africans were all classified as black despite having a separate identity and origin. The only exception to the rule today is if you are Black Hispanic. On the census they are still classified as Black, but for what ever reason, they are placed in the Hispanic category and not Black/African American. Nowadays mix people aren't even forced to identify as Black on the census, but are forced to do so by society.
Brazil on the other hand was racially mixed from the beginning. Majority of Portuguese settlers Portugal's many colonies were men. Therefore, they the only women who were available to them were the natives. That's why there's also such a large Mestizo (White and Native American) population in Brazil. However, since so many slaves from Africa entered Brazil the predominantly White male population was becoming outnumber. Thus, miscegenation increased tenfold between Black women and White Males. As a result, it created a fairly large mulatto class that also served as the buffer between the wealthy White elite and the Black slaves. In Brazil today, although the Blacks there look no different from African Americans, many of them don't identity as Black. Therefore, the only people to identify with their Blackness are either afrocentric or features are mostly African.
In Brazil, a lot of people who would be considered "black" in the United States don't identify themselves as such. I remember reading somewhere that Brazil does have the largest number of people of African origin in the Western Hemisphere.
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