South Africa and Brazil (24)

I believe that South Africa, Brazil and the US all have very unique qualities when it comes to race and its past.  For South Africa the Apartheid was a cruel system that was set up by the white Boer farmers but it wasn't as harsh as the American slave system in the US south.  In Brazil however you have the European immigrants with the Portuguese on top of the ethnic hierarchy then you throw in the Indigenous people and the African slaves and  have tons of intermarriage you get Brazil.  Brazil has a somewhat different approach when it comes to racism.  They have a system called Hypo-descent, which is that if you have a mixed ethnicity then you take that of the lower ethnic class and that is what group in which you belong.  I believe the US slave system in the South is harsher then both of the systems in South Africa and Brazil.