Brazil

motivator behind many of the events in today’s world. If we were to examine ethics as a whole it would be a project that would cover volumes, even a complete summary of the ethics of Brazil is much too complicated to delve into deeply without hundreds of pages. By looking at the…

By the 19th century, coffee became the most exported product from Brazil along with sugar cane, which is why today Brazil is considered the largest coffee-producing nation in the world. The transatlantic slave trade was extremely related to the cultivation of coffee; as more coffee plantations were created, more slaves came to work the land. Initially the cultivation of coffee concentrated in Rio de Janeiro, and later expanded in the whole Paraiba do Sul River Valley, which has territory in Sao…

side; with the improvisation, the thing which makes the Brazilian game so beautiful to watch, comes a disregard of tactics, of system. Again this is rooted in the origins of the game in Brazil and its development in a country plagued by racial and social inequality. According to Brazilian myth, soccer was brought to Brazil by the son of an English father and a Brazilian mother. Sent to England for school, Charles Miller came back with a different type of education. Legend has him debarking in…

Brazil Our nation has been working hard into preserving and improving the standards of competitiveness with nations as powerful as United States, China, Greece and Japan for example. Social issues as eliminating urban slums or shantytowns (favelas in Portuguese) and ensuring access to adequate housing became one of the main problematic concern at Rio de Janeiro. Brazil with an area of 8,515,770 sq/km, represents the fifth biggest country of the world. Known for the most enigmatic forest of the…

The Africans that arrived to Brazil where faced with two choices: either they refused to accept their fate and refused to try or else they integrated themselves into a new society of slavery (Mattoso 92). In Brazil, rural and urban slaves were not organized in the same way, and contrasting forms of obedience in the fields, cities, and mines. Jobs awaited them in agriculture in the northeastern and east-central Brazil that were large-scale productions of sugar cane. In the interior regions,…

France and Brazil in a secular perspective. Well, to start off Brazil and France is completely different, France is a secular country which basically means that you cannot practice your religion in public and you need to keep it in private when practicing your religion. In Brazil is completely the opposite of secularism, you can practice your religion anywhere in Brazil and they have opened mosques in Brazil when Muslim people start populating and they respect every single religion. Which Brazil…

As drug and arms trafficking are intertwined with each other it is expected that the increased amount of drugs flowing through the country would in turn increase the violence. “In Brazil, 4 men die per each woman, on average, but between the ages of 15 and 29, 8 men die per each woman. In some poorer municipalities of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, this rate reaches the amazing figure of 15 men per each woman” (Zaluar…

This week I had the opportunity to read the article titled, Business Etiquette in Brazil by Christina Hamlett. I selected this particular article because I believe that when conducting business with foreign countries, it is crucial to educate yourself on their particular type of lifestyle, so you can remain respectful and polite to their foreign customs. The first step in global business operations is to monitor the environment and decide if you can conduct successful business practices or not.…

Brazil has a diverse culture which can be experience through their food, dance, sports and 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…

people of power expressed their concern regarding the Brazilian racial heterogeneity. Praising the United States on their racial control and international portrayal as a “Nordic society,” (Levine 21) in 1935 Ambassador Oswaldo Aranha wrote that “‘a Brazil of white men…nothing of other races’” (Levine 21) was needed in order to strengthen the Brazilian character abroad. Aranha often also urged Getulio Vargas to consider racial factors before selecting diplomats and other governmental personnel.…