Outcomes (Things demanded at college) Racism in Brazil

The following essay was a demand of the discipline I took last semester. In the discipline, students were supposed to analyse short stories and express their opinions. This essay was based on one short story in which the theme was racism, especifically racism in Brazil.

In a country with such a big extension in territory as Brazil, with different people and very diverse cultural aspects, it would be wise to think of plurality as a way of bringing people together. Unfortunately, that is not what is happening once, nowadays, there are cases of people being mistreated and oppressed because of their skin color, gender and sexuality. Some rights that were supposed to guarantee these people’s citizenship are not respected.

            Racism has been an issue of such controversy, not only in Brazil but around the world. In the case of Brazil, which population was originated by miscegenation of Black-Indian-Portuguese people, it is revolting to imagine how some groups create their racist discourse. Allied to this, there is a racism-culture that has been passed throughout generations which corroborates with many cases of people being killed, murdered, denied of their rights, oppressed and humiliated. The problems is that people try to ignore this, however, racism is so enclosed in society that, for some, it is considered “natural”.

            How can this be considered natural? In work, most of black people gain 36% less than the “non-black community” (according to Dieese – Departamento Intersindical de Estatística e Estudos Socioeconômicos); regarding violence, according to Brazil Government’s diagnosis presented at CONJUVE – Conselho Nacional de Juventude, in 2010, 70,6% of homicide victims are black. Surveys have demonstrated how, in this case, black community suffers with the government omission.

            All this considered, there is also the problem of identity in which many groups – women, black, gay and so on – are not accepted by most people of society. Thus, omission of governors has given the fact that they actually do not care about it, which makes people try to “hide” their personality. Some people from these minority groups are forced to deny what society, religion and morality consider “not standard” enclosing these groups to “pass” as something they are not.

           These are issues that must be discussed and given attention, it is necessary to take some steps to avoid and decrease racism in Brazil and around the globe. Education and appreciation of culture are the first measures to be taken in order to overcome this issue that ravage our country.