What do you know about Brazil?
Although a few minor alterations occurred, racial discrimination has always been present in Brazil. Citizens were always categorized into levels in society being viewed with extreme prejudice according to their status. Ever since colonization, Brazilians were divided into hierarchies that strictly shackled people to their positions. The whites were often blessed with fortunes and high status; they were often elites, their flourishing business and trades giving them wealth and elevated power in society. As colonists, when they had first invaded Brazil, they conquered it by stripping Indigenous people off their culture and using them as slaves. With Africa, their next target, they imported their conquered African slaves to Brazil to extract the tropical goods with little to no payment in exchange for their exhausting labours. Women of the rich and poor were also racialized, favouring the whites to a higher and noble status than the poor. After abolition, substandard Africans and people of colour were forced to survive in shabby areas of the city, poverty-stricken and their lives dominated by the upper classes that lived in the luxuries part of the country. Today, the governing classes still seem ignorant and show racism towards the races of colour. Racial discrimination had always revolved in Brazil, it occurred during African and Indigenous slavery, between women, and even through upper and lower classes segregation in cities.