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I've been fascinated by Brazil's approach to the racial divide in their country, particularly in the end of the 19th century. Essentially, while most other countries of European origin pursued some policy of segregation in order to maintain the racial order, the Brazilians took the scientific racism of the time and went the other way: make everyone white, by encouraging intermarriage.

It certainly turns the racism of the time on its head, without abandoning it entirely. Could other countries have embraced a similar idea? Could the US?
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