Theme: Governance

YOU WILL ABSOLUTELY DEVELOP A RACIAL CASTE SYSTEM IN ANY DIVERSE POLITY

THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF BRAZIL

WHITES

47.73% of Brazilans or 91 million are White. White Brazilians are defined as people who are solely or mostly descended from European immigrants

15% of Brazilians or 31 million citizens are of Italian extraction, the largest number outside of Italy itself.

The descendants of European immigrants, particularly the Germans, Italians, Austrians, Swiss, Poles, Ukrainians, French, Dutch, Lithuanians, Scandinavians, Russians, Hungarians, Finns and Luxembourgers are mainly concentrated in the southern part of the country, in the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, and the most populous, São Paulo; these states have a wide majority of citizens of European descent. São Paulo alone has the largest population in absolute numbers with 30 million whites. In the rest of the country, part of the white population is of colonial Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish and French settler stock, especially in the Northeast. In the mid-southern states of Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul and in the Federal District, the number of whites (European and Levantine phenotype) revolves around 50% of the population, being somewhat equal to the absolute number of Afro-Brazilians, East Asians and mixed race Brazilians, i.e., Caboclos or Mestizo/Castizo, Mulattoes, Eurasians and Gypsies altogether.

THE BROWNS

The Pardos (“Browns”) make up 43.13% or 82.3 million people of Brazil’s population. Although, according to DNA resources, most Brazilians possess some degree of mixed-race ancestry, less than 45% of the country’s population classified themselves as being part of this group due to phenotype.

The Pardos can be a mixture of Europeans, Levantine Arabs, Crypto-Jews or Anusim, Blacks, Amerindians, Gypsies and Asians. Brazil does not have a category for multiracial people, but a Pardo (brown) one, which may include caboclos, mulatos, cafuzos (local ethnonyms for people of noticeable mixed White and Amerindian, Black and White, and Amerindian and Black descent, i.e., mestizos, mulattoes and zambos, respectively), the multiracial result of their intermixing (despite most of White and Black Brazilians possessing some degree of race-mixing, since brownness in Brazil is a matter of phenotype) and assimilated, westernized indigenous people.

ROMA

The pardo category in Brazil also includes 800 thousand gypsies or Roma people, most of them coming from Portugal but also different countries in Eastern Europe and the Baltics.

JEWS

Jews in Brazil are a small but sizable population,[25][26] and they include mostly Ashkenazi Jews (who also arrived with the post-colonial contingent of European migration),[27] a smaller proportion of Sephardi Jews (mostly Eastern Sephardim arrived with the contingent of post-colonial immigrants from Syria and Lebanon, but also North African Sephardim from Morocco settled in the Amazon, and Western Sephardim arrived with the Dutch), and to a much lesser extent Mizrahi Jews. Overall, the small but sizable Brazilian Jewish community is concentrated especially in São Paulo,[28] Rio de Janeiro[29] and Porto Alegre,[30] and they are accounted for without Brazilian descendants of Portuguese “New Christians” (ethnic Sephardic Jews forced to convert to Christianity and arrived with the ethnic Portuguese during the colonial period),[27] which if included would inflate the Jewish origin population in Brazil considerably. By themselves, Brazilian descendants of Portuguese “New Christians” are estimated to account for a figure anywhere between hundreds of thousands to several million.