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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... person who spoke the language but was still not a Brazilian . Another minor difficulty in dealing with anything as complicated as a national culture is the fact that it is practically impossible to discuss a single facet of the society ...
... persons born in one class are destined to remain in that class indefinitely . Traditional Class Structure In Brazil's ... person of power becomes a compadre , or godfa- ther . A peasant who convinced a powerful patrão to be his child's ...
... person who can intervene . In addition , jeitinho works when the individual trying to overcome the difficulty establishes a connec- tion , a personal relationship , between himself and that right person . Jeitinho is not considered ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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