IntroIntroduction Brazil is an influential democracy although the country continues to confront serious human rights challenges. The Amnesty International in its annual report from 2013 claims that grave human rights abuses against rural workers, communities citizens and indigenous people remain high. They are Brazilian cultural heritage as well as important part of the famous melting pot. Brazilian indigenous people have made substantial and pervasive contributions to the world's medicine with
The Guarani is an indigenous group living in the eastern lowland area of South America, with a population of about 80,000. It is believed that the Guaranis originated in the area of the Amazon River, then started to move south and inland (www.hollowear.com). They now reside in Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil and their language is spoken by nearly 4 million people. (www.bartleby.com). There currently are three main sub-divisions of the Guarani tribes. Those are the Mbya, the AvaGuarani, and
The Okapi (Okapi johnstoni) is a mammal that inhabits the dense Ituri Rainforest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the national symbol of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the only known living relative to the giraffe. Unlike its ancestors of the savanna, the Okapi does not have long neck due to its adaptions of their environment. The Okapi’s coat consists of a dark brown to auburn color over body and zebra like stripes covering the fore and hind legs. Like the giraffe, the Okapi
Linguistic imperialism in Latin America started with the ‘discovery’ and the occupation of the New World by the European powers. Spanish and Portuguese language were imposed on the local populations and therefore many indigenous languages vanished. This essay will especially focus on Brazil and the linguistic imperialism of Portuguese in that country. Although many former European colonies, including Portugal, have gained political independence, there is still a kind of cultural colonisation present.
very evident example of a mixed culture in Brazil that have resulted from slavery in the colony is that of the quilombolas. Quilombolas are descendants of escaped slaves over the last few centuries in northern Brazil who founded their own settlements and began a separate, secluded life of their own in villages in the Amazon River basin, called quilombos. Secluding themselves from the rest of northern Brazil over multiple centuries allowed these people to produce a very interesting outcome in terms
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Latin America. The ships from the Spanish and Portuguese kingdoms often only two to three friars or priests. With the discovery of the indigenous populations in Latin America, that need for conversion rose since the souls of the indigenous needed saving. The Spanish kingdoms recognized the indigenous people as tabula rasas, blank slates. This perception of the indigenous was held to justify spreading Christianity. In Latin America, the colonizers and priests held on to their own agenda for the colonies
society, ranging from the individual’s occupational status and income to social mobility and perception. 1. Income disparity -In Brazil, black and brown men earn only 40-50% of the income of white men. In the US, black and brown men earn 75% of the income of white men -Whites in Brazil are 5 times more likely to be in top income bracket as compared to the blacks and the brown people VS whites in the US are only 2 times more likely to be in top income structure are compared to a black or brown person -average
Indigenous People Indigenous people are those that are native to an area. Throughout the world, there are many groups or tribes of people that have been taken over by the Europeans in their early conquests throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by immigrating groups of individuals, and by greedy corporate businesses trying to take their land. The people indigenous to Australia, Brazil and South America, and Hawaii are currently fighting for their rights as people: the rights to own
a great deal of opposition going on in Brazil because this project violates human rights of the locals and indigenous communities that reside there. Due to the fact that it is still under construction, the full extents of the impacts have not been measured. However, there are general impacts of dam constructions in Brazil that can give us a better picture of what other potential affects it will have socially, economically or
Adam Smith an 18th century economist and philosopher once remarked, “ The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations”. Over 1.3 billion people today live on a dollar a day or less, yet due to its interconnectedness, multidimensionality, and wide ranging relativity, the condition of poverty remains nearly indefinable (Birdsall & Londoño,1997, p. 32). For the sake of this paper, poverty will defined as: A situation in which the level of living of an individual, family, or group is
Explorers from the European countries were some ways in contact with indigenous people in the Americas even before the start of Atlantic slave trade. The Portuguese Empire involvement in Latin America and especially Brazil was started when Pope Alexander VI came up with Demarcation Line in 1493, which divided land of West Indies and North America into east and west and the Portuguese were handed the east side and the west was given to the Spanish which is known as the Treaty of Tordesillas. As the
As a nation, Brazil has a long and eventful history, involving both its post-colonial status as an ex-member of the Portuguese imperial regime and the long term history of its pre-colonial indigenous tribes. Borrowing from information provided by Boris Fausto, a professor at the University of Sao Paulo in his book A Concise History of Brazil, it is clear that Brazil is a country confused in its post-colonial identity. While colonialism brought massive wealth and prosperity to a nation that is rich
The country of Brazil occupies nearly half of the South American continent with an estimated population of, 3 million square miles. Within Brazil lies the world's largest rainforest, the Amazon rainforest.Gold mining, the extraction of gold in a desired place, is very prevalent in the Amazon forest. The article “Blood Gold” sheds light on the illegal mining being carried out in the Amazon forest and how it negatively impacts the indigenous people of the land. Illegal mining is seen as somewhat profitable
United States fits the description of such a term is simply because its colonization was fairly recent, and it was therefore an immigration destination for people from many nations. In other words, a melting pot is classified by diversity, and thus, countries other than the United States with young histories fit the description as well. Brazil perhaps fits this explanation of a melting pot the best because it is extremely diverse. It might not be obvious, but Brazilian culture is a conglomeration
The Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa) The Brazil Nut is the fruit of a tree that grows mostly wild in rainforests. Castanheiro do Para, which is the Brazilian name given to this tree, is found in many Amazonian states of Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela and Ecudor. It is most pervalent in the Brazilian states of Marahao, Mato Grosso, Acre, Para, Rondonia, and the Amazonas. The tree is enormous, Frequently attaining the height of 160 feet or more. The fruit is a large spherical woody capsule or
cutting down, clearing away or burning trees or forests. Particularly tropical rainforests are the most waning type of forests because of its location in developing countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, India, central African countries and Brazil. Deforestation rate in those regions is high enough to worry about, because of large economic potential of forest areas. As the result of causes such as agriculture land expansion, logging for timber, fire blazing and settling infrastructure there
Spanish colonization of the Americas is commonly recognized as a process between Spaniards and the indigenous people. Irrefutably, the arrival of Spanish conquistadors had an eminently profound impact on the indigenous people of the New World. In order to understand the societal changes in Latin America, it is crucial to have an awareness of the motivation to conquest. Was there anything in particular that initiated the need to conquest? Differing perspectives offer distinctive explanations as to
Brazilian economy. Tourism is becoming a major industry in Brazil, it welcomed over six million international tourists during the year of 2014, and the two of the most visited destinations in the country are the capital, Rio de Janeiro by 19.2% of tourists and São Paulo by 38.6%, and a lot of these tourists come from Argentina and the United States. (Brazil statistic, 2016). The line graph shows the arrival of tourist in Brazil according to index mundi, over the past 18 years, this indicate
Controversy About Belo Monte Dam Last few decades have witnessed the booming construction of dams all over the world, leading to prosperous economic growth because dams give people with flood control, hydrological power, waste management, recreation and river navigation. However, what makes human sad is that some severe environmental and social problems induced by constructing dams cannot be ignored. Belo Monte Dam, the fourth largest dam in the world, is a good example of “controversial dam”