Thursday, July 14, 2011
What should I get a 16 year old girl from brazil?
What should I get a 16 year old girl from brazil?
a foreign exchange student is going to be staying at our house and i want to get her something for when she comes. she's 16 and from brazil. any ideas?
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1 :
A dictionary/phrasebook, if she's still learning English ^^ Other than that, if you mean a gift maybe something like a bracelet or necklace?
2 :
all girls love purses, jewelry, a really pretty bookmark with beads and things like from bookstores. Best wishes.
3 :
First of all: Brazilians just prefer to be well treated instead of receiving gifts. Brazilians hate stereotypes. So, it's good to know something more about her country before her travel to the USA. (1) DON'T CALL HER "LATINA". Brazilians are very, very different of Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans and others. Our language and habits are different. But, may be worst if you or some of your friends call her hispanic. Our ethnic background is different : brazilians may be jewishes, arabs, japaneses, russians, ukranians, polishes, germans, dutches, frenchs, greeks, italians, portuguese, africans and a few of us are really descendant of spaniards. Brazilians are brazilians and this is not an ethnicity or a race, but a nationality. You can check her family names (middle and last name) and you see her ethnic origins. But, is this important??; (2) If you are white and her skin is like of other persons you call whites, in USA don't let your friends show two two weights and two measures: call her white, also. None of your white friends would like arriving in Norway and hear: "well, you don't look sufficient "white" for us, then, you think you are white but you are not". I say this because I see many people from USA calling dark skninners/brown any people from brazil if looks not like a Santa Claus or his daughter or son, as if everybody in the USA looked like Bill Clinton. I see how many people from your country treat as white persons like that couple of actors in the new adventures of Superman, Britney, Joe Mantegna and other with brown hair and eyes. They was born in the USA, then they are whites, but if he was born in Mexico, Argentina or Brazil, they would be latinos and brown with dark skin. Even brazilians with gold/blonde hair and blue or green eyes are called brown if they are tanned and this is pure non sense. If she is pardoe or mulatta (a black with less dark skin), don't call her white. But, if white like italians, greeks, turkishes and iranians (Yes, they are whites. Are they blacks, aborigins or "chinas"?), don't say "Are you considered white in Brazil? Here, we call you brown!". I'm just saying DON'T GIVE HER A RACE OR ETHINICITY BASED IN MISCONCEPTIONS OR PRECONCEPTS!!; (3) If you want to please her, let her to use a computer (if she don't take a own notebook) and pass many hours in Orkut. It's similar to MySpace and a mania for brazilians; (4) Understand and Respect the differences. For example: (4.1) most brazilians lives in hot regions. So, we take bath more than two or three times a day. Due this, all habits envolving higiene are more excessive than for people from North. More times washing the hands, more times brushing the theens, more minutes taking a bath. It's cultural: if is summer, it's time for wasting water; (4.2) Brazilian girls kiss any person when introduced to him/her; (4.3) Brazilian girls are easer to make friends. They talks with any person independent if he/she is ugly, poor or idiot. The World is not divided in "Winners" and "loosers", for us, brazilians. So, don't try changing her mind, with well accepted concepts in the USA, please; (4.4) Brazilian girls talk with no stop, sometimes. Be patient, please; (4.5) Brazilian girls don't see a problem for wearing a very small bikini. This means not they are immoral or "easy for sex". To look beatiful or sexy is a virtue forbrazilian women, not a sin for them; (5) Well. Some brazilian girls may be idiots... You say "I think you looks like a Zebra" and they say "I agree. Everybody say this everytime". You say "You country is miserable and we sustain you" and they say "I know. I came here to USA because this". BUT...many others are very, very strong in her points of view. So, beware the girl you will live with her. See if she is of these with no personality or that with strong personality, before to contradize her in a SERIOUS (not makeup, dress, or any other foolish like these) question; (6) Treat her as if she was from the USA, but, knowing that she is not. She's brazilian. She probably will treat you as she was a friend of you since ten years ago.This may be a little bit strage for you since you don't know her, but try to take this easy; (7) Try to watch some videos about Brazil and brazilians. Meet some brazilians in Orkut and this will help you to understand her easily; (8) PLEASE: Don't confuse Brazil with any other nation or our culture with another culture. Brazil and brazilians are very different that foreign persons may thinks in terms of all: music, habits, financial situation, places and landscapes, etc. My advise is: try to see with your own eyes what is the true BRAZIL! Follow my suggestions, and she will be stay very happy in your home. Try to make the things in the "american way" to receive people from Brazil and may be a total disaster. I have posted some of my other answers about Brazil. I think it will be very helpful for you (knowing more about my country and ou
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