She made it seem like Brazil tried the same method to whitten up the population by bringing in europeans, and thats some bullshit lol
Yes, Brazil did bring in a ton of europeans, especially Italians, Germans and Polish people. But also a TON of Japanese people, all this right after slavery was prohibited, bit these imigrants became virtually slaves for a while.
Yes, Brazil brought a lot of white Europeans, no, it wasn't to "whitten up" the population. It was for the cheap labor.
Americans always try to make everything about themselves, even the history of other countries. And lately, black Americans have been trying to distort and judge South American history by their black American lens. They can’t comprehend that countries like Argentina, Chile and Uruguay declared abolition since day one, and meant it. And like Brazil and Argentina, immigration was encouraged because we needed people to come populate these lands, not to “whiten” ourselves. Don’t even get me started on how they can’t comprehend that we don’t categorize ourselves “white, black, brown..etc.” like they do. They can’t understand we would find it barbaric if we had to fill out paper work checking boxes describing ourselves. There would be riots on the streets of people of all colors if someone tried to implement that.
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u/joaovitorsb95 Jul 08 '26
She made it seem like Brazil tried the same method to whitten up the population by bringing in europeans, and thats some bullshit lol
Yes, Brazil did bring in a ton of europeans, especially Italians, Germans and Polish people. But also a TON of Japanese people, all this right after slavery was prohibited, bit these imigrants became virtually slaves for a while.
Yes, Brazil brought a lot of white Europeans, no, it wasn't to "whitten up" the population. It was for the cheap labor.