THE miscegenation or miscegenation it consists of a mixture of races, peoples and different ethnicities. In Brazil, there is a very large plurality in relation to the mixture of peoples, of people who are not descendants of a single origin.
So much so that, mixed race people tend to have characteristics. of each of the races from which they descend. An example might be someone with. European and African ancestry, or with European and indigenous ancestry.
In the United States of America alone, more than 6.1 million. people declared themselves multiracial in the 2001 census.
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The term miscegenation can refer to a multiethnic society, with a high degree of heterogeneity. cultural and wide variety of human types, however, not necessarily, a high degree of miscegenation among the ethnicities.
Examples of multiracial societies:
Countries like China, Russia, Argentina and India have diversity. social and multiethnic, but they are not exactly multiracial, because the interaction. between different races is much less evident.
One of the terms used in Brazil that indicates this. Racial diversity is the term “brown”, which is widely accepted by the Institute. Brazilian Geography and Statistics (IBGE). In Mozambique, mestizos are. also called mixed.
In the past, terminology was used to specify a. mix of races:
A peculiar fact is that there seems to be no terminology. to define someone who is descended from whites, Indians and blacks. simultaneously. Miscegenation is mainly responsible for the mixture, making Brazil so diverse in terms of races.
Miscegenation, in the crudest explanation of the word, is crossbreeding. of different human races. This process receives other nomenclatures such as mestizaje. or fusion. The mestizo is the individual who is born to parents of different races, that is, who have different genetic constitutions.
Therefore, miscegenation is:
Simply put: the union of large color groups. into which the human species is subdivided, and which are popularly known as. races.
Indigenous ancestors in Brazil were characterized by. diversity. The Portuguese, on the other hand, came from a process of miscegenation of many. centuries, from varied ancestors. The result was the racial contribution of the. Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Jews, Arabs, Visigoths, Moors, Celts and slaves. Africans.
Our ancestors, with more than 15 generations from the 16th century to. XVIII, formed the genetic constitution of the Brazilian population. The main. characteristics of Brazilians come from the mixture between Africans, Portuguese and Indians. This mixture gave rise to three fundamental types of. mestizos, as already explained:
Let's talk a little about our ancestors:
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous people already belonged to Brazilian lands. since before the discovery of Brazil. The main groups are:
At the time when the indigenous people lived peacefully in the region, its population was almost 2 million people.
the african peoples
Black slaves from Africa underwent migration. involuntary, where they were captured and brought to Brazil. That happened. mainly between the 16th and 19th centuries. At that time millions of landed. African blacks, who came as slaves to work in the cultivation of the. sugar cane and coffee.
European immigrants. and asians
The Portuguese were the first immigrants to arrive at. Brazil. After this period, disembarked Italians, Spaniards, Germans and. Japanese. These represented more than eighty percent of the total population.
Many immigrants landed on the ground. Brazilian, mainly in the first half of the 20th century. Many of them were. Europeans, but there were also Asians, where we can highlight the Japanese, Syrians and Lebanese.
In other words, Brazilian genetics is mixed by several. ethnicities. An individual who is born from miscegenation is called a mestizo. ethnic.
Unfortunately, in the mid-19th century a concept emerged. catastrophic that the Aryan race was superior to the rest. According to biologist Danilo. Vicensotto, from the University of São Paulo (USP), “The Aryan race would supposedly be the 'purest' lineage of beings. human, consisting only of tall, strong, clear and intelligent individuals representing. thus, according to arbitrary criteria, a race. superior to the others”, says the biologist.
Aryan is a word that derives from arya ("noble", em. Sanskrit) and served to name a people of little-known origin. Different. from what people think, “Aryans are not a race, but a group. linguistic, better known as Indo-European”, says the historian Robert. Rozett from the Yad Vashem library in Israel.
From time to time someone would rise from the ashes defending the. concept that the human race had a pure lineage that was superior to them. too much. For example, in the mid-19th century, the French diplomat and writer. Count de Gobineau proposed the concept of “Aryan race”, defending a. superiority of whites over blacks, yellows and Semites.
But the most terrible example in history, which left one. blood trail in its passage through the world, was that of Nazi Germany. Led by Adolf Hitler, the Nazi army murdered thousands of people. that he considered of the "inferior race". Among them, the elderly, children and. physically handicapped.
Hitler's hatred was not only aimed at races, but also at. specific groups of people. Among the major groups of people who don't. deserved to live, according to Hitler, were:
Nowadays, the concept of pure breed has happily fallen into disrepute, after all, the long process of miscegenation since the foundation of the foundations of the earth has unleashed such a mixture of races that there is no racially human group. pure.
See too: Armageddon.
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