Real Brazilian Portuguese & Culture
BRAZILIAN WORLD RECORDS How are Brazilians represented in the Guinness Book of World Records? Well, besides all of the soccer-related records that Brazilians have set… (I don’t really need to mention that Brazil is the country with the most World Cup titles, né?) But apparently Brazilians have set world records in other categories. Here is a [...]
WHO IS NEYMAR? If you follow Brazilian soccer, you’ve definitely heard of Neymar, one of Brazil’s rising stars. Like most Brazilian soccer stars, he is known only by his first name, but Neymar’s actual full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Junior. He’s only twenty years old, but he’s already been approached by several European teams, [...]
Fast Company magazine just published their annual list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies – among them, two Brazilian groups, biological control experts Bug Agentes Biológicos (33rd position) and social media marketing maven Boo-box (43th position). The magazine also published their list of Brazilian innovative corporations, here followed by Fast Company’s comments: 1 - Bug Agentes Biológicos [...]
LinkedIn, the professional networking website, recently opened an office in Brazil to expand its business there. Brazil is LinkedIn’s fourth-largest market with 6 million users. Reuters Brasil wrote about the office inauguration in São Paulo: Além da subsidiária, também foi anunciada a nomeação do seu diretor-geral, Osvaldo Barbosa de Oliveira, que saiu da Microsoft -onde atuava como gerente-geral [...]
As Europe and United States stumble, Brazil has found its feet. Evidence of that is a surging middle class that is using its newfound wealth to reach for something more: luxury. Once a country associated with the slums known as favelas, Brazil is on its way to becoming a new engine of growth for [...]
WORLD CUP BRAZIL DATES AND TICKETS A few weeks ago FIFA announced the soccer schedule for the World Cup 2014. The world cup will commence June 12th 2014 in Sao Paulo, and will host the final on July 13th 2014 in Rio de Janeiro. Tickets are already on sale as of November 2011, so make sure to plan ahead to get the best deals. Click [...]
Harper’s Bazaar Brazil Launches Its First Issue Harper’s Bazaar Brazil launches its first issue this week…and who else would be on the cover? …none other than Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen. The cover photo was shot by Terry Richardson.
Brazilian Halloween Instead of pumpkins and brooms, there will be pipes and red pants in Brazil this Halloween, (well, at least in the city of São Luiz do Paraitinga). That’s because on October 31st, this Brazilian city will celebrate the day of Saci, “O dia do Saci.” (Remember that article I wrote about frightening Brazilian [...]
“i wanna see if my game and your game can come together, in brazil” Snoop Dogg has made a series of videos on youtube to promote his South American Tour. He will perform in Sao Paulo on November 12, 2011.
“Peixe Urbano” – Brazil’s Answer To Online Daily Deals Peixe Urbano, a Rio-based Groupon clone, is doing very nicely indeed by tailoring its service precisely to a brazilian audience and offering daily deals to brazil’s nearly 70 million Internet users. Brazil has its own version of Groupon, but Peixe Urbano (which means “urban fish” in portuguese) came onto [...]
New Monkey Species Discovered in the Amazon Wow, a lot of new species from Brazil have been in the news recently. Here’s an article from Guardian about the discovery of a new type of titi monkey, found in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil. Monkey belonging to the Callicebus genus found in Mato Grosso on [...]
Amateur Botanists in Brazil Discover a Flower That Plants Its Own Seeds This is very cool….One more awesome thing that someone discovered in Bahia. Via ScienceDaily… A new plant species that buries its seeds – the first in its family – was discovered in the Atlantic forest of Bahia, Brazil, by an international team of [...]
The Rise Of Netflix-Like Services For Online Movie Streaming In Brazil It seems that Netflix, which was unleashed this month in Brazil, is facing some trouble adapting to the prehistoric nature of Brazil’s Broadband internet. The last time I checked, the internet in my family’s house Brazil was still dial-up, they can’t even use the [...]
Map Compares Brazilian States To Countries The map below presents country equivalents for every state in Brazil in terms of GDP (gross domestic product), GDP per person and population. It throws up some curiosities: who knew that Alagoas, a state in the north-east that is currently more famous for its murder rate than for its magnificent [...]
Facebook Overtakes Orkut in Brazil Is this the beginning of the end for Orkut in Brazil?… …Looks like it. I closed my Orkut account about a year and a half ago because I was finding that all of my Brazilian friends were flooding to set up facebook accounts, making it unnecessary for me to use [...]
The Culture of Plastic Surgery Among Rio’s Lower Classes A ‘Necessary Vanity’ Alexander Edmonds, an anthropologist studied the culture of plastic surgery among Rio’s lower classes and found a desire for both equity and self-esteem: I first met Ester through her former employer, a successful plastic surgeon, for whom she’d worked as his personal cook. [...]
The New Senna Documentary Premiers TODAY In The US! Like most Americans will remember where they were when they first heard about the tragedies of 9-11, any Brazilian will remember where he or she was when they heard the news of Ayrton Senna’s death. This wonderful documentary, based on the amazing life of Brazilian F1 [...]
Welcome To Brazil: A Brazilian’s Critique of The Issues Surrounding The Upcoming World Cup in Brazil It’s not really news anymore that Brazil is setting an example for how to not organize a World Cup, with its endemic corruption, and both social and structural problems that could turn out to be really embarrassing when it [...]
Increased Tourism In Rio’s “Pacified” Favelas: Encouraged by The Brazilian Government, But Is it Ultimately Fair to Inhabitants? The traditional conception of a favela is being subverted in Rio. Every day, dozens of tourists are led through some of Rio’s most dangerous slums to witness the conditions of the favela. In the wake of U.S. President [...]
“The way you buy art for your home, a Brazilian woman buys jewelry for her outfit.” true, oh so true… They call it Ginga. Technically a sweeping move in the Brazilian martial art dance of Capoeira, it also describes that “certain something” that Brazilian women ooze as they move through space. It’s a self-confident, independent, [...]
