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Brazilian censuses do not use a "[[multiracial]]" category. Instead, the censuses use [[skin colour]] categories. Most Brazilians of visibly mixed racial origins self-identify as [[Pardo Brazilians|pardos]]. However, many [[White Brazilians]] have distant non-white ancestry, while the group known as pardos likely contains non-mixed acculturated Amerindians. According to the 2010 census, "pardos" make up 82.277 million people
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> This is not seen as any kind of misclassification, since the census categories are not and do not intend to be, based on ancestry, but rather on skin colour.
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==White/Amerindian==
Most of the first colonists from Portugal who arrived in Brazil were [[Single
In Brazil, people of White/Indian ancestry are historically known as [[caboclo]]s or [[mameluco]]s. They predominated in many regions of Brazil. One example are the [[Bandeirantes]] (Brazilian colonial [[Reconnaissance|scout]]s who took part in the [[Bandeiras]], exploration expeditions) who operated out of [[São Paulo]], home base for the most famous bandeirantes.
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According to some{{Who|date=April 2010}} historians, Portuguese settlers in Brazil used to prefer to marry Portuguese-born females. If not possible, the second option were Brazilian-born females of recent Portuguese background. The third option were Brazilian-born women of distant Portuguese ancestry. However, the number of White females in Brazil was very low during the Colonial period, causing a large number of interracial relationships in the country.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trentu.ca/admin/publications/psr/sample/1012.pdf|title=Search - Trent University :: Peterborough • Durham, Ontario, Canada - Trent University|accessdate=27 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320031858/http://www.trentu.ca/admin/publications/psr/sample/1012.pdf|archive-date=20 March 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
White/Black relationships in Brazil started as early as the first Africans were brought as [[
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