It is a little complicated to describe deeply what is culture in Brazil. I have decided to write about this issue on this topic just because even for me, as a brazilian citizen, it is kind of fun.
First i could say that in Brazil, as many people think, the spoken language is portuguese and not spanish, despite the country be sorrounded by spanish spoken countries.
Well, what is culture in a country formed by a miscegenation of europeans, africans, asians and also native indians? There is in fact, a sense of culture that, Brazil is a country of all. The majority of foreigners obviously know SAMBA or CARNAVAL (CARNIVAL), however there is rather more than these things.
If you go to northern and northeast parts of Brazil, you will find African and native indians influences, in the southern and southeast parts, europeans ans asians in a deeply way. All of them contributed to enrich Brazil's - typical foods, religion, clothes, hair styles and the language accent.
To complement, i would say that in relation to the language, brazilian portuguese differs from Portugal portuguese in the sense of brazilian portuguese suffered hard influences by native-indians languages.
Bytheway, big problems in Brazil are related to drug dealers (since they are concentrated in really big and close-neated slums - mainly in Rio and after in some regions of Sao Paulo), and the inaccessability to a qualified education at public schools. For this reason, there is such visible unevennes among those who can afford private schools and those who can not afford them, when they apply for entrance examinations in Universities, for example.
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Thanks! I have never been to Brazil. It sounds like a very multicultural society. Many Japanese like to think of themselves as being homogeneous so in that way I think Brazil and Japan must be very different.
ResponderExcluirOther students in our class are interested in talking about drugs so I'm glad that you wrote about the drug problem in Brazil.