Editing Miscegenation (section)

===Brazil===
{{See also|Race in Brazil}}
[[File:Redenção.jpg|thumb|upright|''A Redenção de Cam'' (''[[Ham's Redemption]]''), [[Modesto Brocos]], 1895, [[Museu Nacional de Belas Artes]]. The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their [[quadroon]] child, hence three generations of [[hypergamy]] through [[racial whitening]].]]
In the 2022 census, 92.1 million people or 45.3% of Brazil's population identified themselves as "pardos", meaning brown or mixed race.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://g1.globo.com/economia/censo/noticia/2023/12/22/censo-2022-cor-ou-raca.ghtml | title=Censo 2022: Pela 1ª vez, Brasil se declara mais pardo que branco; populações preta e indígena também crescem | date=22 December 2023 | access-date=22 December 2023 | archive-date=22 December 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231222234415/https://g1.globo.com/google/amp/economia/censo/noticia/2023/12/22/censo-2022-cor-ou-raca.ghtml | url-status=live }}</ref> According to some [[DNA]] researches, Brazilians predominantly possess some degree of mixed-race ancestry, though less than half of the country's population classified themselves as "pardos" in the census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nacaomestica.org|title=Nação Mestiça - Movimento Pardo-Mestiço Brasileiro|accessdate=27 June 2016}}</ref> [[Multiracial]] Brazilians live in all regions of [[Brazil]], they are mainly people of mixed European, African, East Asian (mostly Japanese) and [[Amerindian]] ancestry.

Interracial marriages constituted 22.6% of all marriages in 2000. 15.7% of blacks, 24.4% of whites and 27.6% of ''[[Pardo]]s'' (mixed-race/brown) married someone whose race was different from their own.<ref>Escóssia, F. (23 October 2000) [http://scil.stanford.edu/research/learningcareers/capstones/brian/documents/brazil02.pdf "Casamento reflete discriminação racial."] ''[[Folha de S.Paulo]].''</ref>