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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Mixing Races
Message-ID: <969@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 00:34:13 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.969
Posted: Tue Dec 10 00:34:13 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Dec-85 00:43:22 EST
References: <7800848@inmet.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: It's true about Brazil

In article <7800848@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
> I wonder if many agree with me that the permanent  way  to  bury
>the  problem  of  racism is through racial intermarriage. Brazil,
>compared to the USA, is  an  interesting  example.  It  abolished
>slavery 25 years after US did; its black population was relative-
>ly greater; yet - compared to USA - it has had a history  of  ra-
>cial  harmony.

I can attest to that. I lived in Sa~o Paulo for 2.5 years,
and it wasn't until I returned to Toronto (at age 12) that
I realized I'd become rather oblivious to colour while there.
I was startled when I first noticed a black person on a bus
in Toronto - not startled at the person, but startled that I
"noticed" it, since I'd never noticed it in Brazil.  I concluded
at the time that the reason must be because almost everyone there
is some shade in between white and black. (On top of that, the
whites are all heavily tanned from the sun :-)

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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