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> RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Sônia Guajajara will head up a new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, with a mandate to oversee policies ranging from land demarcation to health care.

> After the official announcement of her appointment and 15 others in the capital of Brasilia Thursday, several Indigenous organizations, among them the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon, congratulated her in social media for the nomination.

> An organization of officials who work in Indigenous affairs also congratulated the future minister and the Indigenous social movement in general for the nomination.

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That's pretty damn cool.

Interesting

As long as they’re the most qualified, I don’t think race should ever preface any of these headlines

Well, who understands the issues of native people better than native people?

There's such an abyss between the current and the next government.

What is essentially a kakistocracy, will soon be replaced by a functioning, near-meritocratic government.

I thank every single Brazilian citizen who contributed for this outcome. The light at the end of the tunnel is so very close now.

A lot of competent women too. Love to see it 🥺😭🥰

You'd think a native would be among the most qualified to run the Ministry of Native Peoples, no? Regardless, it's a stupid argument anyway. People of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds bring different life experiences that are important to make sure the government is able to do what is best for everyone in the country, and you're also implying there's no one qualified for the position within an entire race.

In key positions/areas nonetheless! Sports, Environment, Development, Culture, Banco do Brasil...

Chapeau, really.

It's also a stupid argument, because almost nobody is chosen on merit alone. Just go through all the white people in the Trump administration (and almost all other administrations). Did their race not play a role?

Well, neither 'indigenous' nor 'woman' are part of any race. So, this headline passes your preferential needs in this instance.

Good for Brazil.

That’s true

Yeah an indigenous person is obviously the best fit for this role. No, I’m not implying that there’s no one qualified in any given race. I just think there is too much emphasis on it generally

You're welcome.

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And many would disagree with that.. You don't fix centuries of systemic inequality based on race or gender sexual choice etc.. By saying we're all super equal now.. Now humans will just get what they deserve by the work they do..

It’s important. It tells indigenous kids that they can aspire to such things, and it breaks stereotypes about Indigenous people for the mainstream population.

Visibility of these things isn’t racist: it’s important because the status quo is one of race-based disadvantage.

Why do I only see comments like this when it’s not a caucasian man?

TIL the word kakistocracy. Thank you

Now rich countries might consider paying Brazil to preserve and grow its rainforests.

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This word is so apt for the previous Malaysian government.

People least affected by racism hate being reminded racism exists

'Indigenous' is an ethnic background, that is specifically what is colloqually refered to as "race" if (and only if) you are not a racist.

For actual old-school racists who adhere to the long disproven "race theory", 'indigenous to brazil' is not a race.

Well, you can hold that understanding regardless of how correct or incorrect it is. And to imply someone is 'old school racist' because someone says a word is not indicative of a single race, is a bit outside of the comment I made.

Indigenous peoples are defined as a place-based ethnic culture wherein the people have not migrated from their homeland.

For instance, for indigenous peoples in island nations across the south east asian archipelago, are they all different 'races'? Since they're broadly distributed, wouldn't we need to distinguish them by distinct races? We don't. Not outside of context anyways. Sure, people incorrectly use 'indigenous' as a minority racial classification in areas where there are a large group of what a nation may consider it's indigenous peoples. But, if I happen to be an indigenous person from Africa and the classification is for something like a job application, there's not a checkbox for 'indigenous to what region' because they assume Native America/American Indian since it's the primary 'indigenous' ethnic group (not racial group) we take into account in the US. And that is different in each nation depending on it's people because indigenous is a location and ethnic/cultural based word, not race.

It would be pretty hard pressed to argue that. How about in Africa with the hundreds of indigenous tribes? Are they different races now too? They all come from distinct areas on the continent and often are isolated to the point that interaction with one-another may never have occurred. Indigenous doesn't mean race, even if you want it to. It's location and culture based, it definitely has correlation with a racial groups, but it isn't the same definition. At least, this is my understanding. Not really a specialty of mine, I just thought it was a somewhat funny/snarky reply not really intended to spark a debate or even discredit the other commenter's comment.

Because when it's a caucasian man their race and gender aren't prominently splashed across the headlines?

Lol, Lula's ministers are far from meritocratic, it's mostly political nominations.

> For instance, for indigenous peoples in island nations across the south east asian archipelago, are they all different 'races'?

If they developed cultural differences, yes. The biological concept of 'race' really isn't applicable to humans, so the modern understanding is that a distinct cultural heritage can suffice to be considered a distinct ethnicity.

The situation in Africa is pretty much the same: there are hundreds of different 'indigenous' ethnicites. 'Indigenous' obviously isn't an ethnicity but it describes one without naming it. There is also a history of ethnic violence between those groups going on to this day.

Ok. Care to point to nominated people who are not qualified for the job ?

Edit : To those who find annoying asking a redditor to back his statement : Grow up.

Jobs for all the kaki lol

yes, the son of Renan Calheiros for example.

I'll give you that one...

However, it would appear that the road network in Alagoas has improved significantly during his term as governor.

This is not true at all. Most of Lula's ministers are political appointees. To be clear: I voted for Lula, and having ministers by chosen by politics is fairly common here, and important to make sure that Lula can govern with support from Congress. But let's not pretend like all ministers are there because of merit. Haddad, Alckmin, Renan Filho, Tebet and the ministers from União Brasil for example... they are there because of politics. Not because they are the best choices

Also Haddad, Alckmin, Tebet... like, virtually all ministers in important positions are appointees. Which, to be fair, is ok. Virtually any president needs support from Congress. But don't pretend like most of Lula's future ministers aren't there because of politics.

Ah, I see. You don't actually understand the differences between a race, culture, or ethnicity. Jere is a light overview:

1. Race is ONLY applicable to humans. It's just a social classification, not actually a scientific designation in any way shape or form.
2. Culture is a collective set of a group of people's customs, arts, achievements, traditions, etc.
3. Ethnicity is a quality of belonging to a group who share a culture.

Again, none of these are the same as being indigenous, even though there is a lot of cross over since indigenous peoples (in a specific area) usually are of one race, may share a common culture (or set of cultures), and arguably may be of the same ethnic group.

Luciana Santos - science and technology - career politician condemned for administrative dishonest, but she's from PCdoB.

Geraldo Alckmin - he might've been better in other positions.

Tebet - planning - Carter politician being paid for the support in the second roun

Renan filho??? - transport - come on

Jader filho - Cities - it's even hard to find something about him other than his filliantion to MDB

Juscelino Filho - communication - never even hold a secretary position in his career, but hey Lula need some pull with centrão ( btw this guy's voted for Filma impeachment and against Temer's investigation)

Daniela do Waguinho - tourism - a very short political carreta, she as secretary of something completely unrelated to tourism for a year though.

> they are there because of politics. Not because they are the best choices

And I never said they were the best choices. Meritocracy isn't about nominating the crème de la crème from each area. It's about choice based on achievement and ability.

Of course politics play a role. But what is about to happen is far, pretty fucking far from what Bolsonaro did to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Family, Education and Environment, just to name a few.

Haddad actually has a Master's Degree in Economics, so he's not that far away from his position.

Brazilians need to help themselves too in fairness, outside funding can only do so much... Money is a limited resource.

It needs 'protection' in the short term, but it needs education, and jobs in the long term. People clearly turn to illegal logging as its their only source of income, if other jobs can be created and tourism prioritised for the rainforest then we'll see permanent change.

Obrigado Lula!

I agree that his ministers are WAY better than Bolsonaro's ministers. However, they are not the best possible choices, and some of them are outright bad. Let's not pretend like Lula has only chosen the best. Haddad for example is a terrible name for the economics minister, and he was only chosen because Lula and the Worker's Party wants him as a successor. Most economists didn't like him being chosen at all (personally, I think Haddad should've been education minister)

Isn’t the CIA just going to try and run a coup like always when a global south country leans left

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I’d say it depends. If there are two people with similar qualifications, the Native Person would obviously be the more qualified due to their personal experience. But a non-native could be more qualified than an individual native person.

In the USA a good example of a bad choice was Ben Carson for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. A disproportionate number of people in government housing are minorities and Ben Carson lived in government housing as a child and is a minority.

But Ben Carson was a surgeon. And not at all qualified to be in his position. He did a very middling job. Not terrible but obviously a better person could have been chosen. It was very obvious that his appointment was done because Trump wanted to throw Carson a bone for his support.

Actually, in Canada, the equivalent role is generally not filled by an indigenous person. Why? Because it wouldn’t be fair to have a First Nations person negotiate against their own people on behalf of the crown. It would put them an untenable conflict of interest.

Brazil soon gonna be a South American powerhouse.

LMAO what a joke! Lula was imprisoned for corruption and his lefty ideology has never worked and is specially damaging in 3rd world countries like Brazil. Americans are clueless about foreign politics

You might want to delete this. I'm as Brazilian as they come and I know pretty well what I'm talking about.

Did you even bother to check my username?

And hopefully stay that way for a long time.

Time for Indigenous to take control over the rest of the America's.

I’m an American, so I won’t pretend to understand the political system in Brazil very well but I wanted to see if he was a downvote karma whore or if he had any penchant for going off about Lula or bad mouthing the US and I’m not sure if he even is Brazilian himself. He posts very frequently in Chilean and Peruvian subreddits, and comments in Spanish and not Portuguese. Funny that he judges Americans for not knowing Brazilian politics when he isn’t even Brazilian himself and also apparently doesn’t know.

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lol if you are brazilian and voted for that corrupt commie, your iq must be sub 70. Have you seen the other countries with the same socialist model. Complete failure, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia... use your brain makakito

Describe Lulas socialist model and tell me how it will work, considering it has been a complete failure in south america. I have all of those downvotes from lefties like u.

I can’t tell you since as I stated in the comment I do not know Brazilian politics and as such did not comment on any of it. I said based on you accusing another Brazilian of being an American, and uninformed, I wanted to see if you were farming downvotes, and was left with what I described above. I’m not saying you’re not Brazilian, as you could be of the 4% of Spanish speaking Brazilians, what I was saying was you were quick to accuse another Brazilian of being “clueless” about their own politics and it seemed likely you were the foreigner making false claims about another’s political system. If I’m wrong then I apologize, if not then you know already.

Yeah, right... I don't know if you've learned about the economic growth and socioeconomic development Brazil enjoyed during the two presidential terms of Luis Inacio... I'm fairly certain you didn't, and likely don't care.

In any case, you should go out, make some friends, get a companion and do something more productive. Being unkind online won't get you anywhere.