Prejudice in Brazil         The dictionary defines prejudice as narrow-mindedness. It also defines it as assimilation, absorption or digestion. The story of Gaspar Pereira Reboucas and Rita Brasilia dos Santos is very interesting and is a testament of how important race and education is in not only Brazil, but the world in general. Their struggles would only become a motivating tool in their advancement into the White World.         Reboucas and dos Santos are typical of many …showed first 75 words of 985 total…

…showed last 75 words of 985 total…upbringing of their children, especially Gaspar. Education was the key that lifted Antonio to a higher status. Although education brought status and fame it brought the worst out of Antonio. It made him lose sense of who he was and where he came from and it ultimately corrupted him. Spitzer was right when he said, " It demanded their active acceptance of the dominant elite's standards and values, and their identification with it's ideological prescriptions." P 119