Thanks Edna

Thanks for setting me strait, I often criticise people who see Obama as being only Black whilst ignoring the fact that his mom was White and he was raised by a white Grandmother, so in that sense you saved me from being a Hypocrite due to my ignorance. Fingers crossed Lula will not only bring in some legislation to stop discrimination but also economic policies that will bridge that racial devide. Thank god for left wing politicians, they don't allways get it right but when they do its a beauty.

Who cares?

When I say 'who cares?', I mean what exactly is modeling teaching these impressionable young women and children? Beauty matters more than anything else and so does one's ability to....um....walk. This must be the Twilight Zone because if this is what matters, we're off course by a million miles. As far as quotas, they should be designated for economic class not race, if we're talking about the Brazilian education system. Modeling should be abolished all together.

Lula is not white & must bee good lookking to get a job

I am sorry Deng but Lula ours hero is not white, he is a mix of races that in Portuguese we call mulato even his skin is fair he still have curly hair and a mix of races figure very clear for us Brazilian in his face. Same law discrimination laws is definitely what we need in Brazil, specially related to jobs advertising when for the most ordinary jobs the emphasis: to apply 'must have good appearance' meaning good looking and usually does not include the ones with dark skin, sad isn't???

Oh for Fudge Sake!

I just watched people in India...suffering and now we are talking catwalk models! Does it really matter what we look like.... what matters is.......we can feed our kids, give them clean water, an education and food in their belly. Oh Please priorities!

Agree, but.

As a Brazilian I should say, yes it is true. Not only in cat-walking but also on television and general media we see more white people than native, mulato, asian or black people. Brazilian beauty magazines make us feel we live in Sweden. This is what the market dictates unfortunately. Talking about cat-walking I am wondering what is the percentage of tall-skinny woman and man in the world compared to non model looking ones.

Agree with Jeff

When you think of Brazilian Women you think of Dark Skinned women with curves to die for, buts its probably a relfection of the wealth sharing and not what is considered as Bonita by the general population, White brazilian women have more $$, from a marketing prospective it makes sense to target them but it is leading to the discrimination of black models, I think thats Giovana Vitola message. Maybe some anti discrimination laws could be passed by our leftist hero Lula who happens to be white.

Strange

Strange that a Latin country are not promoting what they are known for, beautiful dark hair and beautiful dark skin.