Who is considered white in Brazil

Are North Africans (Morroco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya) considered white in Brazil? Nobody is considered “white” or “black” in Brazil based on nationality or even ancestry alone. They’re considered to be whatever they look like. Unlike the US, color or race in Brazil refers primarily to appearance rather than descent. For example, white persons in Brazil may have black ancestors while in the US, a tradition of hypodescent defines whites as persons with no black precursors (Harris 1964) So a North African who looks like this would definitely be considered white in Brazil:

While a North African who looks like this would definitely not:

For people in between these two extremes, it would depend on who you ask, but Brazilians don’t typically think too much about these things. This woman for instance would probably be described by most people as “morena” which just means she’s tanned and has black hair and has no racial or ethnic connotation:

I'm an International Student from Brazil, where I'm considered white because of my skin color. The thing is: my family is mostly Mixed (Parda) and Afro Brazilian, so I have some physical traits of that side. I don't consider (nor do I think White Americans would) myself as white, internationally speaking. When I check the "White" box, I'm asked: "Which best describes your White background? Europe, Middle East, Other"; as a White Brazilian I am of European descent (because of colonization), but I don't identify as such because I have zero contact with that side of my heritage. While race in Brazil is definitely an issue, it doesn’t work like it does in the US where it’s central to how people consciously relate to each other and everyone’s classified as something, either by themselves or others. In Brazil it’s much more nuanced and complicated and in most contexts people tend to describe each other based on physical characteristics without a clear necessary link to ancestry and ethnicity. Of course, the more “black”, “white” or “Asian” someone looks, the more likely it is for them to be described as such. But for the majority of the population who’s somewhere in between, it’s usually more based on physical characteristics than race in the American sense. Which of course doesn’t mean there’s no racism. There is. But it’s also not exactly like it is in the states and is a different, even more complicated subject.