White, yellow, brown, black, red, green, doesn't matter very much in a country that have all of them, everywhere. They actually have 134 differt colors among them, so it's not exactly easy to find friends if you only want those with the exact same color as you. Brazil is a very big and diverse country that has collected people from all around the world. And even though they have had african slaves and portuguese rulers it's very hard to see any kind of racism between the Brazilian people. I've actually never met a more open nation of people. They actually likes the different colors and the variation. But of course it's not always like this, always perfect and nobody is being racial, but in general, it's not a big problem. Brazil actually has a different kind of racism; money! They are a country with grate economical irregularities. It is in other words, the country of contrasts. When you
walk down a street in São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, is it not unusual to pass mansions and up scaled buildings, right before passing a neighborhood of crumbling houses made of clay blocks. The people living in their small unfinished houses in the hills can just look out the window and see right into a luxury house. Dubai and Haiti side by side in the same field of view. This deffenetly comes with grate social racism. The majority of the people that have a lot of money, looks down on the people that have less. The girls looks for the boys' wallet rather than the person himself. The family often dislikes and refuses marrige with a poor. They are afraid that Often they even notice it between friends.I talked with a Brazilian friend and he told me that he just went to a friends house. All the way to the house, all the girls talked about how little they liked the guy they were going to. They arrived to this big mansion with beautiful cars, pool and all the stuff you could wish for. So then the girls got a different sound. The guy they had talked so much bad about, just became the coolest, nicest guy in the world and all of them wanted to be his friend.
It's awful and it doesn't exactly help the poor. I think this is one of the things the people stuggle with in Brazil, but as the wealth in the country rises, the problem actually becomes smaller.
