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THE NATION
Brazil is one of the most democratic nations in the whole World. People has a lot of individual rights. Brazilian laws are one of the most civilized and complete in the World. Elections are totally free and votation is electronic since 1994.
Brazil has it own SPACE PROGRAMM, and advanced researches in some of the most complex fields of the science like Clonning, GENOMA, nanotechnology and astrophisics, for example.
You can find a lot of Universities with concept 7 (the best) in Doctoral programs in Sciences, Human Sciences and Management. Brazilian executives has solid professional formation. Most has a MBA.
Every studant at public schools has text/exercise books for free and now, every children is receiving a cheap laptop while teachers has notebooks, both for free.
ECONOMY
Brazil is actualy the 8th largest economy in the World, with a GDP of 2 trillion Dollars/year.
Brazilian economy is independant, because we export less than 10% of all. So, Brazilians sustain more than 90% of the economy.
Many people imagine Brazil as a poor nation where miserable persons cultivate bananas in the Amazon forest, but, this is a ridicule stereotype and a stupid misconception.
Brazil became the "number one" in soy bean, cattle, cofee, and one of the largest producers of other vegetal agro products, and export a large number of items with high technology: Executive jets, automobiles, yachts, electronics are some products made in Brazil and sold to nations in the 5 continents.
Brazilian currency is Real, some 2 Dollars. The minimum wage is 9,500 Reais/year and there's no limit for top sallaries.
Rich are 5% of total population. 61% of Brazilians are middle class/high class and 34% belong to the poor class.
ETHNICITIES
Many people around the World has misconceptions about Ethnias in Brazil. It's funny, but, many people who don't know, at least, what language is spoken in Brazil, makes statements about races of Brazilans "most Brazilians are mulattos", "Brazilians are all mixed", "there's no pure races in Brazil because it is the most multiracial nation", "most Brazilians are..." most are..."etc.
These wrong concepts are learned at schools aroun the World due to the ignorance and lack of interest from the part of educators.
Brazil is a nation of immigrants. More than 25 nations from Europe and other 25 from the rest of the World colonized Brazil since 1500.
Now, besides the largest black population outside Africa with more than 40 million of descendants, Brazil is:
* The largest Portuguese nation (more than 32 million of descendants);
* The largest Italian nation outiside Italy (more than 25 million of descendants):
* The Second largest German population outiside Germany (more than 18 million of descendants);
* The largest Arab nation outside Middle East (15 million of descendants);
* One of the largest Jewish populations in the whole World;
* A large Spaniard population (15 milion of descendants);
* The largest Japanese population outside Japan (almost 2 million of descendants);
* A large Slavic population (more than 5 million of descendants from Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Croatia, Czech Republic, Lithuania and some East European nations);
* A expressive Armenian colony;
* One of the largest Dutch populations in the World (about 3.5 million of descendants); and,
* More than 250,000 descendants of immigrants from England, Ireland and United States.
Yes. Brazil is very diverse. The pot of the World, but, this doesn't means that everybody is mixed!
I'm sure that many foreigners confuses tan with naturally dark skin, but , even foreigners get brown skin in Brazil due to the high temperatures and high levels of UV radiation.
(Btw, i didn't write this, "AllAboutBrazil" wrote this on his profile, i hope he doesn't mine me borrowing it!, Btw don't forgot to subscribe to him, and add him as a friend ;], if you can't see him on my profile for any reason, here is the link that goes onto his page,
http://www.youtube.com/user/AllAboutBrazil)
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Hometown
Sao Paulo
Country
Brazil
Occupation
Student
