Prejudice And Racism In Brazil

Gates. I think, makes reasonable efforts to get Americans to think about how other societies consider race, thus opening their minds to the fact that there isn’t “a” type of racism, and get a better comparative understanding of race in the world. Gates looks at how Brazil’s past demonstrates the strong influences of African cultures to Brazil even while it faces very real racial problems today. Unfortunately, I don’t think he goes far enough.
His documentary emphasized very real social topics that many people in Brazil ignore and push to the side, as a consequence Brazil is lagging behind on many levels. Racism is a thriving in Brazil and it always has been. The abundance of mixed race people is a farce to confuse the Brazilian population that black, white, yellow, and brown races live in harmony, when in reality that is untrue. Most Brazilians who experience racism know this. You can have mixed races of people everywhere, but if there is no social nor economic freedom, then a racial issue exists. If Brazil has to have a law that makes racism a crime, well, that speaks for itself. …show more content…
After nearly an hour of examining the good and bad in racial identity, we are left wondering at what is exactly happening in Brazil as far as criminal treatment and the levels and frequency at which it occurs. Gates concludes in what I think is a highly-optimistic opinion that seems to congratulate Brazil over the U.S. in dealing with racial issues without having overturned a single rock. Fighting racism is never that simple, and where racism exists so do ugly developments. Perhaps this is the core of the problem. In spite of scrutinizing the ways that the myth of racial democracy has masked very real problems facing Brazilians, Gates concluding dismissal leaves the viewer with more questions than