According to the Census, they totaled 91,, people and made up The first two ancestries figure over 30 million people and the following two around 20 million people. While the fifth and sixth revolve around 6 million people and the last four figure over a million.
The white Brazilian population is spread throughout the national territory, but its highest percentage is found in the three southernmost states, where The states with the highest percentage of white citizens are: Santa Catarina Other states with significant rates are: Rio de Janeiro The Brazilian concept of "white race" might be somewhat different from the concept of "white race" in other countries since race is seen in a spectrum, with different races being perceived as assorted series of continua, but the same concepts can be found in other New World countries or former European colonies like Australia.
In general, the test results showed that European ancestry is far more important than those students had thought it would be. The degree of miscegenation in Brazil varies according to region, being particularly high in the Northeast region, the first to receive large European waves during the colonial period; Brazil was originally colonised only by a few families of Portuguese settlers in the first decades of the 16th century, with some French families included; instead there were many mostly Portuguese individual male adventurers, who tended to reproduce with Amerindian females at first and later with African females, even though the Crown had sent female orphans under royal custody during the colonial period to marry Portuguese male settlers; with noblemen marrying the ones whose fathers had died serving abroad in the military especially in Asian colonies.
However, social prejudice connected to certain details in the physical appearance of individual is widespread. Those details are related to the concept of "cor". This concept, unlike the English notion of "race", captures the continuous aspects of phenotypes.
Thus, it seems there is no racial descent rule operational in Brazil; it is even possible for two siblings to belong to completely diverse "racial" categories. These slashes were later totaled in the category "pardo". In practice this means answers such as "pardo", "moreno", "mulato", "caboclo", etc.
