Let me save you sometime, and tell you that you should all be focused on greater issues. Racism exists in Brazil as it does everywhere else. But the reality is that everyone is so mixed, so in love with the nature of being Brazilian that at the end of the day, they forget all about it in the first place. Is that unfortunate? Yes, to a point. Racism is a big deal, but 130 something classifications is like one of those outlandish laws about throwing pickles in Kentucky, or something like that.

Coming from a Brazilian person who was born AND raised there, this issue is being inflated way over what it really comes down to. I don't know if anyone who commented is Brazilian and frankly the responses are all so simliar and all so much like a run on sentence that I couldn't get past the first sentences. First let me remind you all that this was 1976!!!! Do you know how much has happened since and how much the generation has evolved? I understand the humor in 130 something classifications 125 of which haven't been used, probably EVER. I am thankful for my opportunity to escape the violence and poverty that every third world country has but why does every "First World" citizen have to pretend like they actually care about racism in Brazil? Does it make them (even me sometimes) feel like they're making a difference?