Roles Of Globalization In Brazil

Brazil is the largest country in South America and the eight largest in the world. As the largest nation in South America it has deterred itself from the wave of globalization into becoming an economic and diplomatic power house (Cassas-Zamora 2010). According to Cassas-Zamora (2010), Brazil has refined their middle class by opening up their economy and controlling inflation while at the same time applying social programs in their efforts to entirely reduce poverty. But even though in recent years Brazil has turned globalization into something bigger and better in their country, things weren’t always this way. Globalization has brought both positives and negatives into this nation. Globalization has affected Brazilians’ economy, environment, …show more content…
As of 2010, in the previous years there had been two-hundred murders, and more than one hundred fifty suicides, more than one hundred children died due to malnutrition according to the CIMI (Indigenous Missionary Council) (Moreira 2010). According to Moreira the Guanarí are located along the coast of Brazil but have lost a lot of their territory to agricultural farmers. Over the last fifty years these indigenous people have put all of their efforts towards recovering their land that was slowly lost at the hand of white landowners (Moreira 2010). These landowners have since then built homes, planted crops which of course is needed for survival. The problem with the new landowners coming into the country was their demand that the natives leave the land (Moreira 2010). These people have been known to live here since the Europeans first sailed to South American five-hundred years ago and now they are being forced to leave their land for the production of agriculture. The treatment of this indigenous population is one of Brazil’s biggest human rights issues facing the country. There is also still a huge educational gap in Brazil. Although the Brazil has done a great job at created a middle class in such a short time period, this educational gap has a lot to do with the poverty in the country and the fact that there are a lot of indigenous people spread all throughout the country. A lot of the responsibility for the education gap has to do with having low quality teachers, about fifty percent of school funding goes to paying the mention of retired teachers rather than it being actually spent within the schools. In her term as president, Dilma has the opportunity to completely transform schools in Brazil (Buarque 2011). In order to do this she would have to elevate two-hundred thousand schools in Brazil. Her plan is to do this through