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Interracial marriage is not so uncommon. Probably the absence of same-race women played a role, but Portuguese were also well known to marry local wives in Africa, while British and French people usually didn't
The fact that Portuguese and Spaniards have a multirracial origin (arab, celtic, roman, goth) might also have some influence.
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