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MOST of Brasil does not have a color line......because 95% of all Brasileiro’s are mulatto and a mixture of native indian, black and European.

BUT, there is a hard color line in the top levels of business and government, where only Europeans (mostly Portuguese, Italians and Germans) rule - and that like is harder than anywhere in the USA.

I have yet to meet a Brasileiro who knows this (I used to spend a lot of time there all over the country and was fluent enough that they thought I was Brazillian), but there is a reason for most Brazillian’s being mulatto.

The Portuguese enslaved the native indians and killed most of them. They then began importing blacks from Africa as slaves. Brazil imported 5 times as many blacks as America did. And they too were killed by horrible slavery.

The king of Portugal and the Pope were horrified at this, and got together to come up with an idea to stop the killing.

They came up with an incredible idea: to pay a huge amount of money to Europeans in Brasil who would intermarry with the indians and blacks. To a large extent it worked, and the result is nation that is a mulatto people of mixed races...this is why Brazillians are different from all other South American peoples, who are mostly native indian in blood.

I studied the history of Brasil before I went there ......