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as the history of music in Brazil, are usually glossed over. This would be why most Americans can only name the Samba and the Bossa Nova when asked about Brazilian music. Brazil is an extremely diverse place, with ethnicities ranging from the people of European origin, people who are African or of mixed race, and the Native Americans. Brazilian music, much like music in other places across the globe, is the fusion of music from varying cultures. Often, the Native American tribes would create…

Multicultural and multiethnic society has been the cornerstone of the Brazilian people since early 20th century. Brazil is best known throughout the world for Carnival. The Friday to the Tuesday before the beginning of lent is when Carnival occurs. The celebration and festivities express during Carnival is a simple expression of Brazil’s rich history, diverse people and customs, systematic government, and political system that immerses itself in world affairs and events that add to the lure…

am Brazilian. There is no in between. No middle ground. I’m not a cookie cutter fit. People always have to identify each other with their nationally and ethnicity. I have been asked more times that I want to admit, “What are you” in the rudest, ignorant tone, yet at times it was out of pure innocence and lacked any intentional malice. They just needed a category to place me in and they were irritated when they couldn’t identify a category to place me in. I just always tell them I’m Brazilian,…

much more. Firstly, the sport soccer is a major part of Brazilian culture, being the most popular sport played and over 10,000 Brazilians play all over the world. Impressively, Brazil has had many successes when it comes to soccer. They have a national football team who qualified for the World Cup competitions every year and as of 2016 the team won the gold medal in the Rio Olympics. The language spoken in this country is mostly Portuguese, and hence ,it’s the most widely used language for…

life. The painting shows the first mass celebrated in Brazilian soil and the event was documented by the Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha. Pero Vaz de Caminha, the clerk of Pedro Alvares Cabral, recorded his first impressions on the uncovered land in a 27 pages long document. A Primeira Missa no Brasil appears many times in Brazilian History books when we are at school learning about the colonization of our country. In the painting, we see the Portuguese trying to show the Indigenous (Tupiniquins)…

Due to newly found land, the Portuguese who settled needed labor to work the large estates and mines in the new colony. Slavery had a huge impact on Brazil. The country had the largest slave population in the world, which was substantially larger than the United States. Slavery affected both the economy and the ethnic makeup of the Brazilian population. The large number of African slaves that were imported, profoundly affected the ethnic…

largest economies worldwide. Brazil has been known to be an agrarian country, but the land is more than geographically diverse. Brazil is one of the only countries in Latin America that does not speak Spanish primarily, due to the influence of Portuguese colonization. The people in this land are not only divided by location, mostly north and south, but also by decent and class. The division began with King Dom Joao of Portugal separating the colony into 15 territories. Because of this, class…

black heritage in Latin America. By 1518, King Charles I of Spain authorized the slave trade because of the high demand for cheap labor that sprouted from the Spanish New World. The Spanish imported slaves to Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. The Portuguese by the 1530s were already importing slaves to Brazil. Through the Transatlantic Slave Trade, roughly around 12 million Africans were sent to the Americas. In result, many countries in the Americas have some of the largest African diasporas…

Two Ingredients. One name. Just like me, feijao e arroz is a simple Brazilian dish that consists of only two things, beans and rice. I am also made of only two ingredients, my ethnicities include Japanese from my dad, and Brazilian from my mom. Living in a multicultural household my family has merged two completely different cultures into one, so to speak. Everything down to our values, traditions, and language is a direct reflection of my cultural identity. Our family values is a combination…

Catholicism has been the main religion of Brazil since the 19th century. Catholic faith was brought to Brazil by missionaries wanting to help free the slaves from slavery. According to Brazil Religion, "90% of the Brazilian population subscribe to some religious ideal, making it more religiously inclined than any other South American country. Only 1% of the population doesn't believe in a God." There is also more Catholics in Brazil than any other place in the world…