, the poet Mário Saa stressed that the 'influence of black blood in Portugal, is in many people, [...] the halfbreeds dominate in Portugal by population element more than in any other nation in Europe, with increased bulge and reduction of the brain index'. This very popularized value judgment served to feed the fundamental principles of racism, presenting Africans as a teratology: the mulattos would be inscribed in the framework of the monstrosities capable of macular effect on the human species, because despite having a white father or mother, they reflected the African structural inferiority.