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Brown (racial classification)
Brown
or
Brown people
is a
racial
and
ethnic
classification. Like
black people
and
white people
, it is a
metaphor for race
based on
human skin colour
. In
racialist
anthropology, the colour brown and the term
brown people
was used to describe a series of hypothesized racial groups that included various populations from
North Africa
, the
Horn of Africa
,
Western Asia
,
South Asia
,
Southeast Asia
,
North America
, and
South America
. In Brazil, brown people is a cognate term for
pardo
.
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