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The illiteracy rate among White people over 5 years old was 5.9%; among Blacks, 14.4%, and among "Pardos" (Multiracial), 13%. The 2010 IBGE Census shows that Whites also dominate higher education in Brazil, considering the age group between 15 and 24 years old, 31.1% of the White population attended university.
Most Brazilians of visibly mixed racial origins self-identify as pardos. . [ 1 ] According to the 2022 census, "pardos" make up 92.1 million people or 45.3% of Brazil's population. [ 2 ] According to some DNA researches, Brazilians predominantly possess some degree of mixed-race ancestry, though less than half of the country's population ...
The term " pardo " is more commonly used to refer to mixed-race Brazilians, individuals with varied racial ancestries. The other categories are: branco ("white"), preto ("black"), amarelo ("yellow", meaning East Asians) and indígena ("indigene" or "indigenous person", meaning Native Americans). The term is still popular in Brazil.
Mestizo (/ mɛˈstiːzoʊ, mɪˈ -/ mest-EE-zoh, mist-, [1][2] Spanish: [mesˈtiθo] or [mesˈtiso]; fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European, Indigenous non-European ancestry & African blood in the former Spanish Empire. [3][4] In certain regions such as Latin America, it may also refer to people who are culturally ...
Blanqueamiento, or whitening, is a social, political, and economic practice used to "improve" the race (mejorar la raza) towards whiteness. [6] The term blanqueamiento is rooted in Latin America and is used more or less synonymous with racial whitening. However, blanqueamiento can be considered in both the symbolic and biological sense [7 ...
In 2002, Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) was made the official language of the Brazilian deaf community. The Brazilian Sign Language also has official status at the federal level. [13] On December 9, 2010, the National Inventory of Linguistic Diversity was created, [14] which will analyze proposals for revitalizing minority languages in the ...
Being Brazilian is a civic phenomenon, rather than an ethnic one. As a result, the degree to which Brazilian citizens identify with their ancestral roots varies significantly depending on the individual, the region of the country, and the specific ethnic origins in question. Most often, however, the idea of ethnicity as it is understood in the ...
t. e. The culture of Brazil has been shaped by the amalgamation of diverse indigenous cultures, and the cultural fusion that took place among Indigenous communities, Portuguese colonists, and Africans, primarily during the Brazilian colonial period. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil received a significant number of immigrants ...