LuccaCardoso1 said:
Brazil and the United States are not as different as you might think. Brazil also has a lot of different states, 27 to be exact. And is a larger country than the mainland US. Yes, racism varies, but the cultural basis is basically the same. I've heard people from California, Washington, New York, Florida and Texas use the terms "black neighborhoods" and "black culture". That's what I'm saying. About the USA becoming a warfaring country, that actually might be the case, I didn't think of that possibility. But still, that would only explain racism against Asian people. I don't exactly know what your point is with that last line, but that is true to Brazil too.
I mean, the origin of the racism is clear to me. People were extremely racist in the times when slavery was permitted by law. My question is why both countries went in so opposite directions. While the US seemed to keep the division, Brazil gave birth to new ethnicities and incorporated the pre-existing ones as one unified country. For me, it only seems fair that the wars the US has been involved on would actually unite people from different ethnicities in favor of one common purpose, but it didn't seem to work that well. |
I don't know anything about Brazil other than easy stats.
The richness comment is just an example of how different USA is to Brazil. Brazilians aren't USA rich, no country is until China catches up but even then.
Brazil may be bigger than mainland USA, but USA has more population and more geographical differences. Brazil is mostly eastern urban with rainforest areas. While USA has west and eastern urban and things like rural midwest, mountainous, tropical-esque florida, snowy north etc.
Civil Rights in USA wasn't until 1960s with blatant racism. People still live from those times. (Idk about Brazil)
USA is/has been ~80% white, Brazil is properly mixed.
