Brazilian Potpourri: Today is Mixed Race Day in Brazil, in honor of the day in 2004 when 27 mestico ("mixed race") representatives were elected to a conference on racial equality. Brazil has always been much more casual about what was once known as "miscegenation," and today about 40 percent of Brazilians are multiracial, typically some mixture of Indian, white and black.

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