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  1. The Brazilian baseball and softball teams have an...

    The Brazilian baseball and softball teams have an overrepresentation of Asian Brazilians. It used to be bigger, non-Asian Brazilians are playing more baseball recently, but look at these teams that...
  2. Go to Ukraine, Poland, Latvia or Lithuania....

    Go to Ukraine, Poland, Latvia or Lithuania. Showing a hammer and sickle symbol can get you in jail.
  3. Poll: Yes, where most of the population lives. Not the...

    Yes, where most of the population lives. Not the desert or the jungles, but the east and southeast of the country.
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  4. Poll: It was not widespread, but the Portuguese did...

    It was not widespread, but the Portuguese did bring black slaves to these Asian trade outposts, mostly as servants.

    The "black samurai" people were talking so much about was an African slave the...
  5. Poll: How productive farming is depends on lots of...

    How productive farming is depends on lots of factors, no only if a country is tropical or temperate.

    Brazil became a farming superpower only in the 1970s. The problem with Brazil is tropical soil,...
  6. Poll: While the Amazonian chiefdoms were numerous, you...

    While the Amazonian chiefdoms were numerous, you can't dismiss North American native cultures like that. The Anasazi left very impressive villages carved in the stone and the Missisipi Valley Culture...
  7. Poll: Brazil had horrible soil for agriculture until...

    Brazil had horrible soil for agriculture until the 1970s, when genetic engineering and chemichal fertilizers helped settle the cerrado (savannah). The Brazilian natives staple food was composed of...
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    This pattern doesn't hold in São Paulo. In the...

    This pattern doesn't hold in São Paulo.

    In the 2008 and 2012 city elections you can see a clear pattern of who votes leftist (PT) and who votes righist (DEM or PSDB):
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  9. Muitas cidades do Norte do Brasil mudaram de nome...

    Muitas cidades do Norte do Brasil mudaram de nome devido ao Marquês de Pombal, e em especial seu irmão, que era governador do Grão Pará naquela época.

    Não sei se vocês sabem, mas no Brasil se...
  10. Owners of private property have the right to ban...

    Owners of private property have the right to ban someone from using it. So if Alex Jones is so angry, let him create his own social media. Or his own website and upload his videos/audios there so...
  11. Does Kalmykya count as "white christian land"?

    Does Kalmykya count as "white christian land"?
  12. Because it's the one free entertainment people...

    Because it's the one free entertainment people had in the past. You had (and still have) to pay a ticket to see a movie, whereas TV is free. Also, Brazilian produced telenovelas are easier for the...
  13. Interesting. Culture in one place doesn't...

    Interesting. Culture in one place doesn't translate to another place. So the fact that women are more pro-refugee in the US or Europe doesn't mean the same will happen in South Korea.
  14. Not to pick a side on this idiotic argument, but...

    Not to pick a side on this idiotic argument, but it must be said these are numbers from 2014 or 2013. Rio's economy is heavily reliant on oil, it has been so for the last years. The oil bust of 2015...
  15. So East Asians went from "white" in Marco Polo...

    So East Asians went from "white" in Marco Polo and earliest missionary's writings, to "dark" or "brown" in Linnaeus first ten editions of human classification, to "yellow" with Blumenbach. Possibly...
  16. Becoming Yellow: a short history of racial thinking

    Does anybody has this book by Michael Keevak?



    https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9451.html

    free sample:

    http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/i9451.pdf
  17. Korea is the anti-USA. USA has weak neighbors it...

    Korea is the anti-USA. USA has weak neighbors it doesn't have to worry about (Mexico, Canada). Korea has strong neighbors it always has to worry about (China, Japan).
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    Poll: Moreno in some parts of the country can have a...

    Moreno in some parts of the country can have a very broad meaning. Basically anyone who is dark-haired could be a moreno. I think "wog" would be the closest translation, since wog encompasses people...
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    Brazil's immigrants are assimilated fine. The...

    Brazil's immigrants are assimilated fine. The problem lies with how society was structured before immigration happened. The country was basically a huge slave plantation in 1800, and after slavery...
  20. Brazil worse than the Third Reich? I'll admit...

    Brazil worse than the Third Reich? I'll admit that Brazil has racism problems, but this goes too far.

    The "whitening" plan was something that happened between 1870 and 1930, and it was already...
  21. Don't know about other countries, but in Brazil...

    Don't know about other countries, but in Brazil there's this mentality of free-for-all or anything goes regarding making fun of other people. And this is expected from all races. So what is expected...
  22. I thought they'd riot if they had lost the...

    I thought they'd riot if they had lost the qualification. But they won it. What were they angry about?
  23. Lol, blackapino. I like that term.

    Lol, blackapino. I like that term.
  24. I think we'd need someone who actually lived in...

    I think we'd need someone who actually lived in both countries to say what the differences are. I'm not one of them (lived only in Brazil, didn't face much racism, so can't complain, but that's just...
  25. Is the guy in the OP going to go under surgery to...

    Is the guy in the OP going to go under surgery to make himself look more filipino? Or at least try to get a tan, like the woman I posted who posed as Afro-American? He can't pass for filipino if he...
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