Only in Latin America....large crowd of white Uruguayans gather to worship a Yoruba goddess

[Annie999]

Sounds cool. It must have originated from Brazil. I actually learned some Yoruba phrases by an Iberian looking Half Puerto Rican/Half Venezuelan guy from Florida tambien.

Would you say the minority of blacks in in Uruguay are fairly integrated with the white population or are they segregated into "favelas" or slums?

Like in every other in Latin American country blacks or mixed are mostly segregated, there are exceptions though. There are also poor white people.

[skain]

I dont know what 5 de mayo is, but its deffinitely not like Mardi Grass (where people get drunk and party for days). This is just one afternoon/night where umbandists pay tribute to their sea god, building weird stuff as offerings. That is so weird and mesmerizing that it became a public attraction, and we go to watch and “be part” of that as expectators. Its a once per year thing with amusing purpose.

The umbandists that practice the religion and offerings for real are a vast minority and they are mostly uruguayan-brazilians or at least have brazilian roots.

Afro-Uruguayans are mostly descendants of slaves who fled from Brazil to Uruguay in colonial times in search of freedom. and the majority descends from slaves coming from Angola, not Yoruba

[Erronkari]

Afro-Uruguayans are mostly descendants of slaves who fled from Brazil to Uruguay in colonial times in search of freedom. and the majority descends from slaves coming from Angola, not Yoruba

Some of them, but not all of them.
The whole River Plate area also recived an important amount of slaves during the colonial period.
And a lot of them were taken also in the coast of Nigeria (were yourubas are from), Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea and finally Senegal.

[skain]

Some of them, but not all of them.
The whole River Plate area also recived an important amount of slaves during the colonial period.
And a lot of them were taken also in the coast of Nigeria (were yourubas are from), Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea and finally Senegal.

the majority of the slaves in the Rio grande do sul, were from Angola, and many of them went to Uruguay

[Erronkari]

the majority of the slaves in the Rio grande do sul, were from Angola, and many of them went to Uruguay

It's ok, but all this area recived an important amount of slaves.
And they came from many places in Africa.

[Annie999]

I dont know the origin of blacks around here, but I do know most blacks in Uruguay have brazilian roots (regardless of their original place in Africa).

[CertifiedCracker]

Literally been doing shit like this in the South for years. What do you think voodoo is? Cajuns have their traditions, Creoles have theirs, etc. All the loas are black.