Friday, September 7, 2012
What do you think of Brazil?
What do you think of Brazil?
What do you think of Brazil? I'm a Canadian exchange student in Santa Catarina, Brazil, and my friends are always asking me what American's and Canadians think of Brazil, in general. That they live in the Amazon? They have no running water or electricity? In general, what do you think of Brazil
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1 :
for some reason whenever i hear the word brazil i always think of black chicks with huge butts...
2 :
That it is the world's largest contiguous stretch of INHABITABLE terrain, as all its rivals have huge tracts of torrid desert or frozen tundra, and that, being so large, you can find in it whatever you are looking for, from São Paulo state with an area, population, standard of living and GDP, equivalent to Spain, to Piaui with all the wretched poverty of Bangladesh. Want the wild west of the 1880s, go to Imperatriz in Maranhão, want the finest Baroque architecture in the New World go to Salvador for the 16th century variety or Ouro Preto for the 18th century style. And if Salvador is almost the New World's oldest city, BrasÃlia is still its most recent and modern. Want tropical rain forest, go to parts of Amazonia (while it is still there). Want apple orchards on land high enough to have snow every winter, go to Santa Catarina around Lajes. Want the world's largest waterfalls, visit Foz de Iguaçu. And there is a similar variety of inhabitants, among whom I like particularly the Paulistanos, remembering being in a long line for a taxi outside the Bienal when four young men jumped the queue. The crowd was about to lynch them when someone explained, "São latinoamericanos," by which he meant Argentines or possibly Paraguayans. Given this explanation with its assumption that one could hardly expect civilised behaviour from such people, the situation was immediately defused and we continued waiting peacefully for other taxis to arrive (which with admirable rapidity, they did).
3 :
Your friends, like many Brazilians, are very self-conscious about how Brazil is perceived in North America. They've been brainwashed into thinking that all Americans are ignorant about Brazil, that we think the capitol is Buenos Aires, that we think monkeys run around in the streets of São Paulo. Tell them that Americans know that Brazil is a major influence in the world--a modern, emerging, exciting economy. We know that Brazil exports cars and airplanes. We know that Brazilians speak Portuguese. And we are watching them with enthusiasm, waiting for the next big thing that Brazil and Brazilians will do in the world. Please try to encourage them to see us as worldly people, not gringos.
4 :
Well! I suppose that this question was to non-Brazilians. Anyway, it's normal to think this way about Brazil to foreign people. It's not their fault, but maybe their masters. C'mon! If I didn't have running water, I'd be sick and I couldn't talk to anyone here, which it shows that I've got eletricity. They think we live in 1500; hahaha. That's funny because they just wonder abou what they see on movies. It's not because the biggest part of Amazon is in Brazil that there are monkeys, Amerindians etc., on the streets. By the way, even in Manaus, which is in Amazon, is bigger than too many other cities which is too far from the coast.
5 :
I"m Brazilian, so for me is a big city. You will go to know different people because the Brazil has many different city. I live in São Paulo and here the people work a lot of. But here we are different city. I traveled for Amazon, Fortaleza and Recife, but Fortaleza is BEAUTIFUL in Rio de Janeiro, has violence. So, travel for Fernando de Noronha, Amazon, Santa Catarina, Fortaleza, the Brazil is very big and please come back for here, you 'll go to like. (please: sorry because I' m leaning englih yet)
6 :
Nobody like Brazilians. Europeans and North-Americans just like of Samba and the beautiful women. Lá fora somos só lixos. Quem vem pra cá só quer saber de farrear e pegar as mulheres daqui.
7 :
we are flavor
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