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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... society is far from achieving the ideal of a “ racial democracy , " the term itself ringing somewhat false in a society so pervaded by inequalities , and it is also short of the truth to attribute what visible prejudice there is to ...
... society in which the upper classes are the whitest and the lower classes are the darkest . This is not an absolute rule - Brazil has no caste system . But neither is it an open system like that of the United States , in which social ...
... society , and although the crops were changing , the economics were not . It was still an agrarian society , with a minuscule planter class earning the bulk of the money and a mass of landless peasants and slaves providing the labor ...
Contents
Print Media and Broadcasting | 95 |
Cinema | 117 |
Literature | 131 |
Copyright | |
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