Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... considered by cariocas to be industrious to the point of boredom . Mineiros , those from Minas Gerais , are considered suspicious and wily , while baianos , residents of Bahia , are thought to be stupid , at least in the South . It is ...
... considered a less than ideal destination because of the notion that the tropics were an enervating environment , immigrants did arrive in large numbers , because Brazil was still considered a place of some opportunity . Although the ...
... considered a country with a literary culture much grander than such a tiny country should possess . Students of the Luso - Brazilian literary tradition are fond of pointing out that many of the important names in these literatures would ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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