There is undeniably still a lot of controversy concerning interracial marriage and mixed races, but as many people feel uncomfortable admitting to their 'inner racist,' it doesn't get talked about much. Marie Claire has a nice, succinct article on multi-ethnicity, and for those who feel the merging of two groups is something odd-looking, consider this:
When he proclaimed the importance of racial miscegenation to Brazil in the 1930s, the celebrated Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre could scarcely have imagined that he was hailing the future supermodel capital of the world.
“The most obvious thing is the mixture of races that we have here,” says top São Paulo fashion photographer Marcio Neves—who works extensively with “new faces”—of why Brazil seems to produce so many models.
As Freyre noted in his landmark work Casa-Grande & Senzala (Big House and Slave Quarters), racial mixing has always been part of the fabric of Brazilian life. From indigenous Indian to African slave descendents, to German, Japanese, Arab, and Portuguese immigrants, the diversity of Brazil’s gene pool has clearly influenced the country’s prodigious production of beautiful people, and never more so than now.
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