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Posted by Easy on Sat May 30 19:03:58 2009, in response to Re: What's Sonia Sotomayor's racial background?, posted by LuchAAA on Sat May 30 18:58:39 2009. It says that says 49% consider themselves white. If you keep reading:Descendants of colonial settlers Brazil's racial base are its colonial settlers (Amerindians, Portuguese and Africans): * At least 50% of the Brazilian paternal ancestry is of Portuguese origin.[19] * 86% of Brazilians have over 10% of their genes coming from Africans.[20] * Over 60 million Brazilians have some Amerindian ancestry.[21] |
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