University rainbow in Brazil

University rainbow in Brazil The blacks, mestizos emerged from popular class will benefit from priority access to federal universities in Brazil. After thirteen years of debate, the Senate finally voted in a law promulgated on 29 August by President Dilma Rousseff, reserving half the seats to students who have their secondary education in the schools policies. In the interior of this quota, a quota entry will be reserved for blacks, mestizos and Indians, in proportion to the composition of the population of each state. 32 of the 59 federal universities, where access is made through an exam, have already adopted social and ethnic quota systems, but a very limited way. The president wants to encourage the democratization of higher education in a country where inequality reigns. A legacy of the slavery period ie 13% of blacks and mestizos from 15 to 24 years who study compared with 31% of whites. According to the census of 2010, Brazil has about 43.1% of mixed race and 7.6% of blacks. The Indians represent 0.4% of the 190 million inhabitants. Although the contemporary world loves a lot of Brazil especially for its football, music, tourism, landscape, beaches, women, climate, freedom and hospitality of its people, but it is not all that glitters is not gold. Up to now there is a large racial discrimination in this gigantic country. Yet the only one to come to a place of great importance was the only King Pelé became minister of sport. From the rest of the blacks are valued only in football, singing and dancing, the greatest Brazilian musicians are almost all blacks or mestizos: Jorge Ben Jor - Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gill ... The Brazil was the last of the American continent to abolish the slavery in 1888, but also what brought more Africans: 5.5 million who were deported by the sixteenth and the eighteenth century to 1850 and is 40% of the total. Posted by Slimane MELAB.