Let's talk about Brazil, shall we
The definition of a morena in Brazil is different than a brunnette say in the USA or Europe. Go to a brunnete in the USA or Europe and call them a morena, but please have your head in a swivel because you are going to get be*tchslapped, big time for being so ignorant.
In Brazil there are so many levels of skin tones and mixtures that a lot of combinations are construed unique with a unique way of identifying the tones. Look at the results of a study done in Brazil and you will see how these people classify themselves:
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Again, going back to what I've learned and studied in Brazil a morena is exacly what I described previously. I am talking stricly about Brazil specifically and Latin America in general. Do not go to an Anglo-saxon country, find a brunnette and call her a "morena". You will get what you deserve (Any one up to getting their arses kicked in?) for such a declaration.
[QUOTE=Prosal;1240142]You confuse morena and mulata, which is weird for a "specialist". Morenos are considered "claro" as mulatos are considered "escuro". A morena is a brunette, period.[/QUOTE]
If it is silly, my friend
Please go to Canada, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, heck and by extension, any oriental country like Japan, Korea, the USA, you know, places where the women have been somewhat educated. Go ahead, and try calling all these these brunnetes, women with dark hair "Morenas", explain it to them if they don't understand and watch their reaction. Again, for those of you living in a basement, pretending to have experienced life outside of their immediate neighborhood and catching the bus because you can't afford to purchase your own transportation, please don't enlighten us grown ass men.
If that is your opinion, fine. You have provided no information to this board, ever and on your 4th post you are down to name calling. Yeah, it might be a silly declaration in your opinion, but at least I'm basing my information on what I've learned while traveling and discussing facts with people doing research with Master's degrees and Ph. D's while doing some research myself.
As I stated previously, I am stating not what I think, but what Brazilians themselves use to identify themselves. Period. If you don't believe me, go BUY a plane ticket to Brazil and ask people tasked to do the classifications like I have. Go to their Census people and go to their government offices; please, please, go ahead and ask. Also, do a little historical research before asking some of your questions before going out there and insulting them. I have a feeling that reading might not be a pursuit of yours either, it might be "silly".
[QUOTE=OfficeMatt;1240363]A woman in an 'Anglo Saxon" country would not know what "morena" means unless she speaks Portuguese. If she did know, she would shrug and move along. What a silly declaration.[/QUOTE]