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Is there an ideology of "whitening" that determines social mobility in Latin American societies, one that encourages non-whites to embrace white culture and intermarry with white or white-looking people to be generally accepted by society? If so, where did this ideology of "whitening" come from?

by /u/Smash_all_States in /r/AskHistorians

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