"We wish to affirm, and truly with considerable pride, our condition as a multi-racial society and that we have great satisfaction in being able to enjoy the privilege of having distinct races [raças distintas] and distinct cultural traditions also. In these days, such diversity makes for the wealth of a country" (my emphasis). These words were not pronounced by the president of South Africa, nor even by a multicultural zealot in Great Britain or the United States. Rather they were spoken on Brazil’s Independence Day in 1995 by the recently elected president, sociologist Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
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