Lighter than average White Brazilians:

[luc2112]

Silva is the most common surname in Brazil. Probably many Brazilians with this surname do not even have portuguese ancestry.

Yes, but at the beginning of colonization. These blacks and Amerindians baptized with a Portuguese surname mix with mestizos and mulattos

[Tutankhamun]

Silva is the most common surname in Brazil. Probably many Brazilians with this surname do not even have portuguese ancestry.

I would say this is true for blacks, because it was common for slaves to have the surname of their owners, or at the time of baptism where slaves received the surname of the priest who baptized them, but recent genetic studies say that Brazilian blacks are on average 30-40% Europeans, so I can't say that Brazilian blacks ''doesn't have Portuguese ancestry''

[Latinus]

I would say this is true for blacks, because it was common for slaves to have the surname of their owners, or at the time of baptism where slaves received the surname of the priest who baptized them, but recent genetic studies say that Brazilian blacks are on average 30-40% Europeans, so I can't say that Brazilian blacks ''doesn't have Portuguese ancestry''

90-95% of Brazilians have some degree of Portuguese ancestry. The exceptions are a tiny minority of non-assimilated Amerindians, rare fully black individuals, and some people fully descendant of post-colonial non-Iberian European immigration, or fully Lebanese/Nipo-Brazilians, also a minority.

[Latinus]

José Asunción Silva. from Bogotá

Is his Portuguese ancestry colonial?

[Comealongwithme]

They are lighter than Luso lol makes him like a Yemeni next to these people. I doubt they are even Portuguese, the thread should be titled Germanics in Brazil instead.

[Latinus]

They are lighter than Luso lol makes him like a Yemeni next to these people. I doubt they are even Portuguese, the thread should be titled Germanics in Brazil instead.

They aren't Portuguese, but Brazilians...

And they display lot's of diferent Euro ancestries, not just Portuguese. But in many of them, yes, only Portuguese ancestry comprises their European stock...

[El_Jibaro]

They aren't Portuguese, but Brazilians...

And they display lot's of diferent Euro ancestries, not just Portuguese. But in many of them, yes, only Portuguese ancestry comprises their European stock...

How common are "Euromutts" in Brazil?

[Latinus]

How common are "Euromutts" in Brazil?

Very common, but more in Centre-South. But also very common to only have Portuguese imput.

[Comealongwithme]

They aren't Portuguese, but Brazilians...

And they display lot's of diferent Euro ancestries, not just Portuguese. But in many of them, yes, only Portuguese ancestry comprises their European stock...

These are Germanic people in Brazil, They are as "Brazilian" as Germanics in Mexico.

[El_Jibaro]

Very common, but more in Centre-South. But also very common to only have Portuguese imput.

Interesting. One of your compatriots on this forum, Rafael Passoni, fits that "Euromutt" bill anyhow.

I read once that Minas Gerais is strongly colonial, because it was a hotspot of Portuguese migration after the discovery of gold in the 18th century.