[1][2][clarification needed] Brazil is an example of a country with a history of European slavery of black Africans somewhat analogous to that of the United States of America.
In Brazil, by contrast, people of mixed race who were fair-skinned or were educated and of higher economic classes were accepted into the elite.
On the contrary, it was a well-recognized (and tacitly condoned) process by which a few mixed bloods (almost invariably light mulattoes) had risen to the top of the social and political hierarchy.Hyperdescent is the rule in the rest of Latin America as well.
This is also apparent in the United States, where the practice of hypodescent is the rule among the non-Hispanic population contrasting with hyperdescent among Hispanics.
Modern Icelanders are considered to be a Scandinavian people ethnically, although many of the founding generations were Irish, Scottish, or English women.