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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... soccer borders on religious belief , it has won the World Cup soccer championship five times ( no other country has won more than three times ) . Logic would demand that any country of such superlatives also house some major ...
... SOCCER When the pope visited Brazil in 1994 he drew a crowd of 300,000 in Rio . But in 2002 , when the Brazilian soccer team returned after making Brazil the only country to have won the World Cup five times , the turnout was 500,000 ...
... soccer clubs are similar to the intense rivalries between samba schools , and soccer games , like carnival celebrations , are wild , loud , emotional events where paper cups , food , and beer go flying through the air to the syncopated ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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