The peculiar conceit that the remedy to racism involves discriminating against certain citizens in favor of others grew in the United States in the 1960s, but has metastasized globally. Brazil, which is generally regarded as the most racially intermarried society on earth, has embraced the concept of late, and offers a case study in the absurdity of such politics.

Meet the da Cunha  twins - Alex and Alan Teixeira, who are genetically identical twins, born of a single fertilized egg split in two.

The university actually has a commission that determines race on the basis of photographs of the candidates, using phenotypes including hair, skin colour and facial features.

 His father, William Blaine Richardson Jr. (died in 1972), of New England Yankee and Mexican descent, was an American Citibank executive^[6][7] who grew up in Boston, Massachusetts^[6] and lived and worked in Mexico City.^[7] His mother, María Luisa López-Collada Márquez^[7] is the Mexican daughter of a Spanish father from Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain and a Mexican mother^{[6][8][9][10]} and was his father'ssecretary.^[7][9] Richardson's father was born in Nicaragua.^[7] Just before Richardson was born, his father sent his mother to California to give birth because, as Richardson explained, "My father had a complex about not having been born in the United States.