09-06-2016, 06:39 AM
(09-05-2016, 07:42 PM)izzy Wrote:(09-05-2016, 06:39 PM)Adriano Neres Rodrigues Wrote: You are right... Brazil and USA are not so different in many aspects...
Way off topic, but, as the true ugly American I know nothing about Brazil...but I was sniffing around the Internet...I am curious as to how accurate you believe this web page to be?
https://www.quora.com/What-facts-about-B...-to-Brazil
and I shall read the links you posted.
It is always a pleasure conversing with you...
NanaKorobiYaOki...
Izod
Hi izzy...
The info Tiago de Jesus posted in the link is basically correct, but incomplete. The problem is that Brazil is big country if you consider the size of its territory. It is also a big country if you consider the size of its population. And it is also a big country if you consider the variety of cultural influences we received during our history.
My point is: If you learn something about Brazil, never forget that you will probably be learning a small part of it. That is exactly what happened with the info in the link you posted.
I imagine, for example, that if I go to USA and talk to someone from New York city I will talk to someone with a specific world view. If I talk with someone from Texas I will talk with someone with another world view. Am I right?
I know that in California you have beaches. I also know you have areas in USA that is almost desert. Am I right? Probably people dress and act some way differently in those places. The same happens in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is a city with beach while Porto Alegre is cold and Manaus is a city in the middle of the Amazon forest.
I imagine that in USA you have a general national culture but you also have specific regional culture based in specific elements of each state and each city. Am I correct? I think I can’t consider Hawaii music as a representation of the USA music. Right? The same goes to Brazil. We have carnival that is exported as Brazilian culture. But we have regional elements that is specific to each city like “funk carioca” (it is a type of music) in Rio de Janeiro for example. We have Axe and other music type specific to the northeast region of the country.