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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... immigrants in an attempt to whiten the population , in keeping with the racist theories in vogue at the time . Since the waves of European immigrants began coming in the early nine- teenth century , the population of Brazil has become ...
... immigrants means that the continued importation of African slaves made the population largely black and mulatto for almost two centuries - in 1818 the population of Brazil was 60 % black . The waves of immigrants which came in the ...
... immigrants a year . Although Brazil was not considered attractive because of its reputation as a country of enervating tropical climate , numer- ous entrepreneurs convinced immigrants to come . Eventually , the govern- ment got into the ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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