Brazilians and Ethnicity: POC or White?
thereâs this post from another brazilian girl who says basically the same, but I wanted to give my opinion.
Weâre latinos even when we donât use that word a lot here to describe our people (and north americans usually donât get why mostly of us donât say âweâre latinosâ), but that fact donât make all brazilian people be POCs. For an example,Camila Mendes is overused for characters non-white, but I have big breaking news: sheâs white. Iâve made one research and even having parents from Brazil, she has portuguese and italian background (people think thereâs another one, but while we donât know we say only white for her). And we canât deny, she really has italian features. âBut sheâs tanâ Ariana Grande is tan too and completely white (and with italian background too).
Talking about myself: Iâm brazilian, but my ethnicity is: portuguese, spanish, unknown black, italian and with high probability of being ashkenazi jew or native too, that part I have to do a DNA exam to confirm. I am mixed, but I donât consider myself POC or use the brazilian government benefits for pocs (native and black) because my skin tone is olive almost white, iâm mostly white. I have scholarship given by the federal government program called ProUni, but only cause I have no financial condition to pay for my college, i didnât used my father or my maternal grandfather as an argument to stole the scholarship from a truly people of color, iâve got it totally legally based on my financial conditions.Â
Where I want to get: itâs hard to cast brazilians accordingly because of our big diversity given by our past, but brazilian is a nationality, you can be full or half brazilian if youâre born or not here, but youâre not a poc for it. Iâm full brazilian, iâve BORN here, but i am mixed race. Donât cast white brazilian people as poc characters (like Chay Suede, with most probably white ethnic background, as your poc guy), youâre unconsciously whitewashing them. Â
If you did that before reading this, all is forgiven. You didnât knew it and is really confusing most time, myself as brazilian already used a white brazilian actress as poc only because sheâs from here, but I learned. I can give you a list of PoC brazilians, just ask for it.Â
And, I know that our tv channels are unconscious about ethnicities and really disrespectful on their soap operas, but I ask for forgiveness, theyâre starting to learn.
Hope this can help u!


















