https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrazilThe world's largest romance speaking nation and the fifth largest state in the world in both population and size. The only state in South America that was ever an independent monarchy and perhaps the state, more so than the United States, whose history can be best explained through the lens of slavery and exploitation. Despite this, it has a very different attitude to race than the US, with mixed marriages normal and the census recording dozens of different skin tones to describe each mixed group (which isn't to say there is racism). The immigration history of Brazil has led to a darker northeast with West Africans, American Indians, and Sephardic Jews among the main ancestry groups. The South of the country is much whiter - and more developed - a product of an openly racist immigration plan following the abolition of slavery in 1889 which wanted to 'whiten' the nation, with reams of Italians, Germans, Eastern Europeans and, of course, Portuguese entering the nation
en masse. This included Japanese, of which Brazil has largest number of people of said descent of any country in the world (outside Japan o/c). Funnily enough, this sort of worked and Germans and Japanese are among the wealthiest groups in the country today - German is spoken by about 2 million still in Brazil and there are districts in the south where it is an official language. This policy was initiated during the heyday of positivism in Latin America - an ideology which had a great impact on Brazil - and gave the nation its motto "Order and Progress" (as shown on the flag). The interior of Amazon contains some of the world's last uncontacted tribes and many groups which have been of interest to Anthropologist such as, notoriously, the Yamamamo.
Below is a map of Brazil from its official institute of Geography (IGBE) showing the percentage of black (
pretos) and mixed-race (
pardos) peoples by district
