The extinction of the Brazilian according to count Gobineau

Abstract

Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, the Count Gobineau, came to Brazil in 1869 on a diplomatic mission. He was a man of letters with vast production, but his best-known work is the Essaisurl’inégalitédes races humaines– The inequality of human races, which sought to understand the cause of rise and fall of all great civilization. He concluded that ethnic issue was the spring propulsion for history. For him the reason of the collapse of great civilization was the mixing of races. Considering that, Brazilians could not expect a good prognosis of Gobineau who believed that this people would be extinct in less than two hundred years.