Word: assimilados
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...only 200 Africans in high school; Mozambique boasts just 50, and has produced only one college graduate, a young African who went to Lisbon University on the proceeds of a lucky lottery ticket. For indigenas, this paucity of educational opportunity hardly eases the path toward the precious status of assimilado, which promises total equality with the whites for those who can speak Portuguese fluently and adopt European modes of life (i.e., live in a house instead of a hut, eat with a knife and fork instead of the fingers...