So... yeah, as a Brazilian, there is a few things I want to say. Firstly, by my father's family, I'm grand grandson of an african prince, taken as a slave, and a native indian, also taken as a slave. So my grandmother was cafuza, of indian and black mixed race, but as dark skinned as she could be. And then she married an Italian's son. So, my father have brown skin, as also do all of my uncles and aunts, and some of my cousins (but not all). I'm what you could call white, so is my brother, but even then, we are very far from ”North American" white, and more like mediterranean white (olive or golden skinned, but still white). As you can see, over here, it's complicated. There were almost 400 years of slavery, from 1530 to 1888, mostly from the african continent. Also, our portuguese colonists were very, very, for the lack of a better word, lascivous. So, there is 400 years of slavery, and 500 (as it continues today) years of miscigenation. And, that's the thing: there is very, very little ”black" people in Brazil. As there is very, very little ”white" people in Brazil. We're almost all of mixed race in some form or another. And, as a brazilian, I rather have a whiter Brazilian playing a Brazilian, then a brown-skinned mexican playing a Brazilian.
