Talk:Demographics of Brazil
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[edit] Health
"...Brazil's most problematic disease is AIDS."
I live in Brazil, and this is certainly not true. According to the Brazilian Health Ministry, circulatory diseases are the main cause of death in Rio de Janeiro, followed by cancer and accidents and violence.
http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/presidencia/noticias/29092003estatisticasecxxhtml.shtm
It should be confirmed, but I'm quite positive that this reflects the situation in the whole country.
- Also, tuberculosis and hansen´s disease (leprosy) have a much higher incidence in Brazil than AIDS.
[edit] Old Cleanup Archive
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- Taken from the old Cleanup entry:
- Demographics of Brazil - Demographic breakdown is shown twice, the languages section is somewhat messy. - Straczynski
[edit] Race
Shouldn't this article cover stuff from Race#Race_in_Brazil? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 23:40, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
- On the famous Brazilians pictures, someone has a racial agenda on portraying their country's racial composition. Where's Pele? He's a great Brazilian. Football/Soccer player. Oh, because he's black? Come on, add his picture. I mean most white Brazilians and black Brazilians have the same ancestry, but have different skin colors. To paste his photo (available in his article) won't hurt the country's image or the pictures project. 63.3.14.1 13:52, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Just curious
What makes guys like cafu and rinaldiho considered black in brazil but guys like rinaldo considered multiracial?
- Race definition is much more difficult than this article seems to imply. It is not true that "White Brazilians are all people who descend from White immigrants." (which would be the opposite of the "one drop" policy from the United States). Most of the people considered black have some european ascendancy, and, by definition, everyone of the pardos also do (pardos are the mixed type). I've said this on the Brazil article, and repeat it here. Those girls are not representative of the Brazilian population, not even the white population. To give an idea, Ronaldo himself does not consider him to be multiracial, but white, and that is what his birth certificate states. The section "Race in Brazil or the "Race" article seems to be a lot more accurate on these issues.
[edit] Nothing on the Cherokee in Brazil
The Cherokee are native Americans from North America, but their long exposure and contact with western culture (Anglo-American) changed the tribe to an agricultural society modeled on the white European neighbors (the US). In the late 19th century, due to pressure by American policy with Native Americans, there was a small migration of Cherokees and Choctaws into Brazil, most of them settled in the São Paulo area. I never knew what became of their descendants, might had blended in and lost their heritage over time in South America or were treated simply as "NorteAmericanos". I've heard at least 40,000 Brazilians may qualify to join the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, but the tribal board may look at it carefully to examine the "lost tribe" of other Cherokees said to lived in Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela. 63.3.14.1 13:57, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Multiracial" Brazilians
This sections seem like original research.
First of most sights I have seen and books I have read, refer to the "Multiracial" (in this context) Brazilians as Mulatto. These two terms are not synonymous, and should not be used in that sense.
Also, the section states that Brazil has adopted a U.S. version of the One Drop Rule. Now if I am mistaken, I thought it was the reverse of the U.S. one drop rule (meaning a little "white" doesn't make you black) and that social status was also an important factor in race labeling. Someone please comment so this section can be fixed. Shakam 00:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
