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" That's double the population of Argentina already". You're mixing relative and absolute numbers to make your point. Brazil has 4 times the population of Arge

• dguaraglia 12y ago
  Right, but adding both 'white' and 'brown' numbers (their terminology, not mine) you still get ~170 million people, which is ~85% of the population being 'somewhat white'. That's roughly the same relative number as Argentina. The difference is the distribution on the 'white scale' if you will. Brazil has a higher influence of fairer-skinned Europeans (vast majority Portuguese, but with substantial German/Polish/Scandinavian) compared to Argentina (mostly Italian/Spanish, with tiny pockets of German, Swiss and British here and there.) tl; dr: the chances of meeting a 'fair skinned' (defined as "European descendant) person are roughly the same in Argentina and Brazil. The chances of that person being blonde and have very fair skin are higher in Brazil. (p.s. from my own anecdata: I consider myself to be smack in the middle of the darkness scale for Argentina, not too fair, not too dark. When I first moved to the South of Brazil I was surprised by how much I stood out in a group for being 'tan'.)