Posted on 09/26/2017 9:12:54 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
Race in Latin America is confusing to many Americans, who generally can’t see beyond black and white. Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores and their families from Europe have always formed a kind of local aristocracy. Their descendants were called criollos, and were considered somewhat lower in status than Iberians or other Europeans born abroad. The descendants of single European men who married native indio women formed the core of “the people,” who were subservient.
The possible combinations of different grades of European, Amerindian, and African led to a dizzying proliferation of types, all of which were named and classified according to a racial casta system. A mestizo is the historical name for a half criollo/half indio, a zambo for a half black/half indio. But these are only the better-known terms. Dozens of words for the possible combinations have existed, each with its own role, status, and class associations. There were even pictorial guides.
http://takimag.com/article/looking_southward_costin_alamariu/print#ixzz4tnmBfs3y
Rio de Janeiro has always had slums, but the favelas popularized by movies like City of God and Elite Squad mushroomed in size in the mid–20th century. Local politicians and nabobs were in search of the famous $2-per-day wage favored by oligarchs worldwide, so they imported a population that would work twelve hours a day in the hot sun for next to no pay from Brazil’s poor northeastern provinces. In one move, Rio’s oligarchs achieved both a decline in their labor costs and the political elimination of their traditional competitor, the middle class. The remaining rich Brazilians attained a life of freedom and luxury that is difficult for Americans to imagine.
...In the late 1980s one such politician, Rio de Janeiro mayor Leonel Brizola, went so far as to forbid Brazilian police from making incursions into the favelas. In other words, he carried out Obama’s, Eric Holder’s, and the Democrats’ plans to neuter police in order to cater to his new base of voters. This resulted, predictably, in lawlessness and brutality that exceeded even that found in post-Bush Iraq. The degradation of public life and hygiene mostly wiped out what was left of the middle class.
It’s easy to understand why the Bush family pushes guacamole recipes and mass immigration when doing so means their descendants will live like their elite counterparts south of the border. Why does Mark Zuckerberg spend nights on his website arguing with your grandmother for the rights of DACA “dreamers”? Is he motivated by compassion, or by the prospect of an American serf class he could profitably exploit? California was formerly the worldwide picture of health and wealth. Today its middle class is mostly gone and it has South American levels of wealth disparity. Its dams and infrastructure are crumbling while public funds are diverted to services for illegals instead.
Zuckerberg and other oligarchs have an interest in lowering Americans’ wages. merican politicians have a similar interest in using the same cheap labor pool for political support and, ultimately, for more power.
When I think of the racial makeup of Mexico, I see it as European (spanish) and indians (in the US the latter would be called “native americans”)
Most of the illegals I’ve seen look to be indians, while many of the ones I’ve done business with are european (Spanish descent).
This is one of the many reasons why the La Raza agenda of "Latino" or "Hispanic" solidarity is such nonsense. What does an upper-middle class Cuban of Spanish descent have in common culturally (or ethnically) with someone of primarily American Indian descent who ran across the US-Mexican border? Sure they both speak Spanish, just as both Americans and people in Jamaica speak English.
I don’t give a crap about anybody’s race.
> > > The possible combinations of different grades of European, Amerindian, and African led to a dizzying proliferation of types, all of which are seen by Democrats as potential Fellow Travelers (votes!!!)
You may not give a crap, but Latin American societies care very much, and that has both political and cultural implications for us.
*SOB* that is the most hateful thing I have ever heard! *SOB*
As someone who lived in Latin America and Married and spawned with one
It’s a canard that Latinos are not racial aware
More so than here to be honest
Why read an article that insults me in the first sentence?
This article is also correct to say that most Marxist revolutions (Zapatistas, Chavismo, etc) in Central and South America are as much driven by race as by class and ideology (i.e. the Indians and blacks wanting a slice of the Spaniards' pie), at least to the extent that the two aren't more or less equivalent there.
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Brizola was a Marxist and the favelas were his strongest base
PDT
In battle with PMDB
Brizola was like a cat with many lives surviving the military junta decades
PDT ....FAR LEFT PARTYNOF WORKERS OR LABOR
PMDB ...easily Democratic Movement Party more or less
Use to be the big two parties but there are others now
Brazil is what we will look like in our future
More African and indigenous
More violent
More income disparity
Less civilized ....very divided
Brazil is sort of north south divide too but the south there is the whitest part and most right wing in a liberal nation
Only way right wins again in Brazil is a coup
Otherwise best you can hope for is moderate
Unless a war with someone stokes nationalism....unlikely
It’s a mess
But it has its attributes
My Rio wife and her family strictly forbade mingling with blacks
That's certainly what the elites want - crush the uppity middle class with its interfering notions of a Constitutional Republic, and replace them with a slum underclass that either gives you votes in exchange for handouts or provides unskilled and semi-skilled labor for pennies.
The progressives like slums. The inner cities are the new plantations, their urban policies are The New
Slavery, and they are the overlords. Massa.
They don’t even believe that the people there are actually human. Not even 3/5.
“Most of the illegals I’ve seen look to be indians, while many of the ones I’ve done business with are european (Spanish descent).”
Just take a gander at the babes on Univision or Telemundo!
ust take a gander at the babes on Univision or Telemundo!
Thanks for the info; I just put “Elite Squad” in my Netflix queue!
I was told none of the women on Mexican telenovelas are actually Mexican.
They are primarily Colombian and Venezualian.
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