The country of Brazil has a vast amount of different ways for classifying race. One way is the Census system which is split into only two groups “branco” which means whites and “pardo” meaning black. Unlike the census system the popular system uses many different describing colors for the skin. The popular system has been known to use 135 to 500 different race-color terms. The black movement system embracing black heritage. Unlike the other racial classifications the black movement system is based on genotype rather than phenotype. Different from the United States, Brazil is using skin color as just a descriptive word and neglected to understand that there is something meaningful about color. The black movement system is based off of putting
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Brazil has two different beauty types “white” beauty which can be described as thin with no hips, butt, or breast and Silocondes which are women with big breast and butt. White models are seen on almost every magazine in Brazil. The ideal body come from the media, the thought that Brazil is not being European enough, and the fact that the Brazilian people look at surgeons as “healers”. Surgeons are fulfilling requests for people saying they want different racial traits. For example, people are wanting “brown” bodies but “whitish” features like hair and facial features. The ethnography went into detail about how people are less concerned with skin color and more concerned with “white” features. For instance “sexy” Brazilian blonde is a black women with white hair. This is not the American version of a blonde, it is not “really white” because she is black. Another example that Pretty Modern has shown that surgeons are marking down racial traits as medical defects in one instance the ethnography states that a doctor marked down the “Correction of the Negroid nose” in the box labeled preoperative diagnosis. What is happening is the medicalization and disease-modification of race or racial incongruities. This is a problem because people are racializing body types and it is known that anyone can have these body types and bodily features are not because of race but rather the person's genetic makeup. When people say they want a European nose or an African Bottom they are racializing body types which is factually incorrect. “Magnificent miscegenation” is a key symbol of modern identity in
Brazil has two different beauty types “white” beauty which can be described as thin with no hips, butt, or breast and Silocondes which are women with big breast and butt. White models are seen on almost every magazine in Brazil. The ideal body come from the media, the thought that Brazil is not being European enough, and the fact that the Brazilian people look at surgeons as “healers”. Surgeons are fulfilling requests for people saying they want different racial traits. For example, people are wanting “brown” bodies but “whitish” features like hair and facial features. The ethnography went into detail about how people are less concerned with skin color and more concerned with “white” features. For instance “sexy” Brazilian blonde is a black women with white hair. This is not the American version of a blonde, it is not “really white” because she is black. Another example that Pretty Modern has shown that surgeons are marking down racial traits as medical defects in one instance the ethnography states that a doctor marked down the “Correction of the Negroid nose” in the box labeled preoperative diagnosis. What is happening is the medicalization and disease-modification of race or racial incongruities. This is a problem because people are racializing body types and it is known that anyone can have these body types and bodily features are not because of race but rather the person's genetic makeup. When people say they want a European nose or an African Bottom they are racializing body types which is factually incorrect. “Magnificent miscegenation” is a key symbol of modern identity in