As Brazilians vary occording to which region of the country. I'll post pictures of Brazilians from the North, Northeast, Southeast, and Southern part of the country.
North Brazil
Northeast Brazil
Central-West Brazil
Southeast Brazil
South Brazil
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Yes these two countries come first to mind as having a similar range/distribution of phenotypes as found in brazil. Amerindian, african and european components in every kind of imaginable mix but also appearing on their own. I believe especially venezuela experienced a similar 19th century migration of europeans and levantines like Brazil. But probably more demographical impact in (southern) brazil plus also more varied (incl. eastern and central europeans + japanese!) in brazil.
Maybe amerindian influence is more pronounced in Colombia and also including the andid variety which is absent in Brazil. Brazil is probably the most african influenced country over all but i'm wondering if maybe proportionally Colombia might have more SSA looking types. Venezuela could maybe be the country which hosts the most balanced triracially mixed people.
In addition to Venezuela and Colombia to capture uniquely New World pheno range i also voted for Portugal and Cape Verde, obviously they would only provide partial/secondary overlap for brazilian population. But still representing important segments, usually a minority overall but especially the portuguese omnipresent in all brazilian states while the capeverdean overlap is mostly present in the colonial heartland states (Bahia, Pernambuco, Maranhao, Rio, Sao Paulo)
Regionally IMO it goes something like this:
North Brazil: mestizo majority, white,cafuzo/zambo and triracial minorities, overlaps with Colombia/Venezuela
Northeast Brazil: triracial/mulatto/mestizo majority, white,black, cafuzo/zambo minorities overlaps mainly with Colombia/Venezuela and Capeverde in selected places
Centralwest Brazil: mestizo/triracial majority; white,black/mulatto minorities
overlaps with Colombia/Venezuela mainly but also with Paraguay
Southeastbrazil: white majority; triracial, mulato black,mestizo minorities, overlaps with Colombia/venezuela but also with Cuba and PR
South Brazil: white majority; mestizo/triracial/mulato minorities, overlaps with Argentina/Uruguay mainly and also Portugal.
That's a good breakdown. BTW I've never traveled to Venezuela but they don't look as triethnic as people make them out to be, I say this because of the diaspora Venezuelans I see in Miami. I think since Venzuela's capital is in the Caribbean, all Venezuelans get pegged as triethnic looking. I know Venezuela has an Andean and Plains region like Colombia and those types are probably just Euro/Indigenous admixed. Remember African admixture is concentrated in the low lands, and Venezuela also has highland areas.
For South Brazil, I wonder if it overlaps with the whitest areas of the Colombian Paisa region since those were isolated Europeans and their descendants for centuries.
Since you've been to Brazil, have you seen a place where most people look like this? :
Do you think Bahia is more admixed than the Colombian Pacific coast? Most people in the Pacific coast are that dark/SSA.
Low lands would be the most densley populated area of the country though right? I'm not saying btw that triracials would be a majority in venezuela just that proportionally they might have more of them than either colombia or brazil. The african ancestry seems to be more diluted than in colombia plus venezuela would have more amerindian ancestry over all than brazil.
Are those diaspora venezuelans you're seeing from different parts of the country?
I think migrant communities can often misrepresent the range present in the homecountry because of regionaly concentrated chain migration and also often being socially skewed.
Is Northern Brazil with Amerindians and South American mestizos, Northeast with Cape Verde, and the rest of the country with various European regions?
I don't think so, capeverdeanlike variety is only part of widerranging northeastern brazilian diversity, and does not per se provide the most frequent sort of phenotypes. African ancestry varies a lot per state and also depends on either coastal or interior location.
According to census of 2009 (to be taken with grain of salt as always) this is the racial composition for the region as a whole:
Pardo: 62,7%
White: 28,8%
Black: 8,1%
Amerindian/asian: 0,3%
As you can see the white segment is a minority but still a significant part of population, this is in contrast with CV demographics where "pure" whites are very few. Blacks are only 8,1% which would be about 20% in CV. Majority in both CV and NE Brazil is the mixed segment. However it's crucial to note that the term pardo also includes peope of partially mixed amerindian ancestry!Mestizo's/caboclos, zambo/cafuzo's and triracials are also counted as pardo, not only mulatto's/griffes.
If you can read portuguese this wiki quote is quite informative. From my own visits to Ceara/Pernambuco/Bahia/Piaui and Maranhao I can confirm what is being said: amerindian influence is strongest in states like Ceara and Piaui and also interior of most other states; mestizo types predominate and mulato/black types are not commonly seen, african ancestry being mostly reflected in triracial people.
Bahia,Pernambuco and Maranhao have strongest african influence, but from these three it's really only Bahia, in particular the coastal region surrounding Salvador that seems to have a majority of mulato/griffe/black types but still not in the same measure as CV, all the other ones have in addition many triracials and cafuzo's/zamba's (esp. Maranhao) besides people with no visible african ancestry (mestizo's and whites). When in Salvador de Bahia i didn't feel i was surrounded by CV's despite encountering many familiar looking people, different african origins (mostly Benin/Nigeria and Angola for Bahia vs. Senegambia/Guinea for CV) and pervasive amerindian influence in most afrodescendants is what makes the difference for similar segments between Bahia and CV.
The second part of the quote is also very intriguing btw. It mentions that supposedly 19% of NE brazilians seem to have northern euro (Dutch!) ancestry going by their paternal haplogroup.
Colombians and Venezuelans for the Pardos (Triracials, Mulatos, and Mestizos). Argentineans, Uruguayans, Portuguese, Italians, and Germans for the Whites.
The dark skin/SSA ones do but, there are major differences because in Bahia, it's obvious they're 2nd largest component or 1st largest component depending on the individual is the Euro. In the Colombian Pacific coast the 2nd largest component is the Indigenous. The Colombian Pacific coast has a lot of Amerind ancestry and that's something that lacks in Bahia. I'd say the predominant Afro folks overlap but I am not seeing much AfroAmerind types in Bahia like I do in the Colombian Pacific coast.
The Northeast of Brazil varies a lot, if I am not mistaken the pics of the Northeast posted are mostly from Bahia and are closer to reality there, which is very different in some other parts of the Northeast.
Juazeiro do Norte is a center of religious pilgrimage in Brazil, mostly involving Brazilian pilgrims from all over the Northeast of Brazil. Around 2,5 million people visit Juazeiro each year.
A video of it with pilgrims:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3w54...ayer_embedded#
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juazeiro_do_Norte
http://blog.jangadeiroonline.com.br/...eiro-do-norte/
I'd say Brazil is unique, since it has a large variation. As a whole, it is closer to Latin American countries, especially those with higher African input, like the Hispanic Caribbean countries and Colombia or Venezuela. But overall, there is too much variance (on this way it is significantly different from Puerto Rico, Cuba or the Dominican Republic, or other Latin American places). And non Iberian European immigrants (Germans and Italians mostly, but also Poles and others) as well as people from elsewhere, like Near Easterners and East Asians, have had a relatively significant impact, so it isn't mostly Iberian with African and Native American like some other Latin American countries. In some regions, as well as some individuals from all over the country, the Native American ancestry can be important, so it varies a lot. Bahia and some other states have significant African input. The Southeast of Brazil received the largest share of European immigrants, in absolute numbers, but Southern Brazil is more European in terms of relative numbers (% of the total population).
I think that Puerto Rico looks like Brazil, by miscegenation, Cuba also, but Brazil has its peculiarities
Northeast
Bahia
Ceará
Cangaceiros, Northeastern Brazilian bandidos, all the way from Pernambuco to Ceará (Northeast of Brazil):
The last - still alive - Cangaceiros
Cangaceiro Candeeiro
Cangaceiro Arlindo
Pics of Anamara, a famous police woman from Bahia, she became a celebrity after she went to our version of Big Brother. She was expelled from the police, and she also posed nude for Playboy:
Pics of football supporter crowds from Bahia:
I posted pics from Salvador, the capital of Bahia. Salvador is hailed as the most African influenced major city of Brazil. It isn't like Haiti or Nigeria however:
The genetic composition of Salvador:
49,2% African
36,3% European
14,5% Native American
http://web2.sbg.org.br/congress/sbg2...2008/23959.pdf
Mulher rendeira, "rendeira woman", a symbol of Ceará (poor women from Ceará known for their skills in manufactaring clothes):
The genetic composition of Salvador:
49,2% African
36,3% European
14,5% Native American
http://web2.sbg.org.br/congress/sbg2...2008/23959.pdf
Mulher rendeira, "rendeira woman", a symbol of Ceará (poor women from Ceará known for their skills in manufactaring clothes):
Pics of the members of the local municipal assembly of Maracanaú (local legislative assembly), a town in the interior of Ceará.
http://www.camaramaracanau.ce.gov.br/?pag=vereadores
http://www.camaramaracanau.ce.gov.br/?pag=vereadores
Maranhão, another Northeastern Brazilian state. Located at the Northeast region, it began to be colonized by the XVII century. Native American and Iberian influences dominated until the cottom boom, when large numbers of Africans (mostly West Africans) were imported. My former girlfriend comes from this region (deep interior of Maranhão), and I have always had an interest in it.
A genetic study found the composition of São Luís, the capital, to be:
42% European
39% Native American
19% African
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?scri...72005000100004
The interior of Maranhão would have a similar composition I guess, no major differences, the bulk of the population used to live in farms in the interior and visit the main towns only on special occasions.
Pics from the interior of Maranhão
Miss Maranhão 2005
Miss Maranhão 2008
Miss Maranhão 2004
Miss Maranhão 2006
Miss Maranhão 2010
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Other pics
Exist large amount of Japanese descent in Brazil .Mostly found in the states of São Paulo,Paraná and Minas Gerais.
Immigrants
Descendants
Some cafuzo (=zambo) looking people from Bahia imo. Also among the few remaining Native American tribes of Bahia as well as Quilombola's there's often some cafuzo types.
There are actually continental Africans I have seen of this type
Caboclos
A caboclo (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈboklu]; from Tupi kaa'boc, "deriving from the white") or caboco is a person of a mixed Brazilian Indian and European ancestry. In Brazil, a caboclo is a specific type of mestiço as is the mulato, a person of a mixed Afro-Brazilian and European ancestry.
The term caboclo (which in Candomblé is usually pronounced without the l, as caboco) is said to come from the Tupi word kari'boka, meaning 'deriving from the white'. Thus its primary meaning is mestizo, 'a person of an Indian and European descent.' But it may also be used to refer to any Brazilian Indian."[1] The term Indian should not be confused with people originating from South Asia.
There was a wave of caboclos created during the time of rubber soldiers, when young, primarily white Brazilian men were taken from North-Eastern Brazil and brought into the Amazonian interior to harvest rubber. The men were never granted permission to leave, and thus married locally.
Interestingly, the traditional caboclo populations in the Amazon region of Brazil are noted as voracious eaters of the açaí palm fruit. In a study, açaí palm was described as the most important plant species because the fruit makes up such a major component of diet (up to 42% of the total food intake by weight) and is economically valuable in the region (Murrieta et al., 1999).
The "Day of the Caboclo" (Dia do Caboclo), on June 24, is an official date of the State of Amazonas.
The term caboco is also used as an alternate term for the Orishas of the Candomblé religion. The caboclo is also an Orisha.
For multiculturalistic anthropology, the term "caboclo" has been criticized[by whom?] as too vague and prejudgmental for scientific use.
A caboclo (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈboklu]; from Tupi kaa'boc, "deriving from the white") or caboco is a person of a mixed Brazilian Indian and European ancestry. In Brazil, a caboclo is a specific type of mestiço as is the mulato, a person of a mixed Afro-Brazilian and European ancestry.
The term caboclo (which in Candomblé is usually pronounced without the l, as caboco) is said to come from the Tupi word kari'boka, meaning 'deriving from the white'. Thus its primary meaning is mestizo, 'a person of an Indian and European descent.' But it may also be used to refer to any Brazilian Indian."[1] The term Indian should not be confused with people originating from South Asia.
There was a wave of caboclos created during the time of rubber soldiers, when young, primarily white Brazilian men were taken from North-Eastern Brazil and brought into the Amazonian interior to harvest rubber. The men were never granted permission to leave, and thus married locally.
Interestingly, the traditional caboclo populations in the Amazon region of Brazil are noted as voracious eaters of the açaí palm fruit. In a study, açaí palm was described as the most important plant species because the fruit makes up such a major component of diet (up to 42% of the total food intake by weight) and is economically valuable in the region (Murrieta et al., 1999).
The "Day of the Caboclo" (Dia do Caboclo), on June 24, is an official date of the State of Amazonas.
The term caboco is also used as an alternate term for the Orishas of the Candomblé religion. The caboclo is also an Orisha.
For multiculturalistic anthropology, the term "caboclo" has been criticized[by whom?] as too vague and prejudgmental for scientific use.
Whites are present in the entire territory of Brazil, although the main concentrations are found in the South and Southeastern parts of the Brazil
Afro-Brazilians
According to a 2000 survey held in Rio de Janeiro, the entire self-reported preta population reported to have African ancestry. 86% of the self-reported "pardo" and 38% of the self-reported White population reported to have African ancestors. It is notable that 14% of the Pardos (brown) from Rio de Janeiro said they have no African ancestors. This percentage may be even higher in Northern Brazil, where there was a greater ethnic contribution from Amerindian populations.
Racial classifications in Brazil are based on skin color and on other physical characteristics such as facial features, hair texture, etc.This is a poor indication of ancestry, because only a few genes are responsible for someone's skin color: a person who is considered White may have more African ancestry than a person who is considered Black, and vice-versa
Bahia became the port of arrival for many slaves, and the center of Afro-Brazilian culture. In fact, most Bahia Brazilians are Afro-Brazilians. As of the late 1990s, Afro-Brazilians lived throughout the country. Many live in the major cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Racial classifications in Brazil are based on skin color and on other physical characteristics such as facial features, hair texture, etc.This is a poor indication of ancestry, because only a few genes are responsible for someone's skin color: a person who is considered White may have more African ancestry than a person who is considered Black, and vice-versa
Bahia became the port of arrival for many slaves, and the center of Afro-Brazilian culture. In fact, most Bahia Brazilians are Afro-Brazilians. As of the late 1990s, Afro-Brazilians lived throughout the country. Many live in the major cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Pardo(mulatto,triracial ou quadraracial)Brazilians
Police pics from Goiás, Central West Brazil:
Venda Nova do Imigrante, in Espírito Santo (Southeast Brazil).
The Ribeirinho (typical population of Northern Brazil who live along the rivers):
Police pics from Pará, a large state in Northern Brazil.
(Source: forumbiodiversity.com)
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