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6/17/2025, 9:24:29 PM
Greatest Russian poet: Pushkin, 1/8 black.
Greatest Portuguese prose writer: Antônio Vieira, apparently 1/16 black.
Most popular French novelist: Dumas, 1/4 black. His son was a famous writer too.
Thomas Mann too was mixed-race. His mother was a Brazilian castiza.
Considering the very small number of blacks and Amerindians in Europe, their descendants were disproportionally represented in the arts, it seems.
I think it has nothing to do with biology, and more with the fact that those who are slightly different tend to adapt themselves well to the surrounding culture, but not fully, and thus feel a stronger desire to "assert themselves". It may also be that their status as "different" means that they feel freer to experiment with more things in their writings, or that it just naturally makes them more different from their contemporaries. Mann said his Brazilian blood was a very important influence in his writing.
Greatest Portuguese prose writer: Antônio Vieira, apparently 1/16 black.
Most popular French novelist: Dumas, 1/4 black. His son was a famous writer too.
Thomas Mann too was mixed-race. His mother was a Brazilian castiza.
Considering the very small number of blacks and Amerindians in Europe, their descendants were disproportionally represented in the arts, it seems.
I think it has nothing to do with biology, and more with the fact that those who are slightly different tend to adapt themselves well to the surrounding culture, but not fully, and thus feel a stronger desire to "assert themselves". It may also be that their status as "different" means that they feel freer to experiment with more things in their writings, or that it just naturally makes them more different from their contemporaries. Mann said his Brazilian blood was a very important influence in his writing.
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