ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 57: Premarital Sex, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation
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Has fewer exclusionary categories than u. s. or japan. Brazilian description of human diversity is more detailed, fluid, and flexible than most other cultures. Bases categorization on phenotype (thousands of detectable physical differences including skin, hair and eye colour; hair shape etc. ) Poverty and skin colour correlated = class status affects racial status. Someone who is poor and light skinned is seen as having darker skin ( money whitens ) Permits individuals to change their race classification. Difference in treatment of mixed populations in u. s. and brazil is historically based. English men, women and families were preponderance of colonizers in the u. s. Portuguese settlers of brazil were mainly men; many married women of indigenous population and recognized offspring as heirs. Both groups had sex with their slave populations, but brazilians often freed their progeny. Cultural variation in how sexuality is viewed, practiced, and controlled. Sexual orientation: biological and psychological makeup of an individual.
