True; but Brasilians have so many terms and classifications about race that it's not something people in North America always understand, and they use terms that many African-Americans would find racist like Mulatto, canela (cinnamon), amarela (yellow), or chocolate to describe peoples' race, heritage, or skin color.

Something a lot of Americans do not realise about Brasil is that they have the largest Japanese population outside of Japan and the Japanese people in Brasil have assimilated and done very well.