Ask a Brazilian skeptic

[The Grand Nudger]

Pantanal looks nice.

Those gators gave me pause, but apparently, if they're really Yacare Caimans, they're probably fairly benign, at least by the admittedly low standards of crocodilians.

They taste fantastic...and that land is sooooo flat........plus, they tell you about the climate year round. You know, they;re more afraid of you than (shut up mom!) ........

[Rev. Rye]

I live in a city (well in the suburbs of a city) built on a prairie that even Wikipedia calls almost Euclidian in its flatness. A flat land is nothing special to me. It's not Kansas, but nothing special.

[The Grand Nudger]

Trade ya, my whole property is 45deg slopes.  I;ve had to terrace this shit like it's inland china. Plus...I havent found a single tasty ass gator since I moved here!

[Brian37]

I'm from São Paulo city.

A plane crashed into the mountains under the Bush Jr administration, a Secret Service came into the Oval Office and the agent whispered in his ear, "A plan full of Brazilians crashed."

Bush Jr paused for a second and asked, "How many are in a Brazilian?"

Be sure to barbecue kittens, record your professional football match without their permission and rip the tags off of your mattress.

[Pat Mustard]

A Brazilian that can't do keepie uppies? That's a big sign of the apocalypse, people!

PS I'm more of a Didactylos man myself.

[pocaracas]

Welcome aboard, DL!
Our other Brazilian is CL... hmmm, I see a pattern... I guess I wasn't around for AL and BL...

How do you feel about Portugal?

My grandparents on my dad's side came from there, so I have a special connection to it.  It's a shame but most Brazilians don't know anything about it besides old stereotypes. They may even have a hard time understanding accents from other countries where Portuguese is spoken as an official language, since our media only broadcasts national and American stuff. On the other hand, Portuguese people and Lusophone Africans (Angolans, Cape Verdeans etc.) are exposed to Brazilian media and know more about it in general.

True...
Do you say 6 - seis... or 6 - meia?

I'm Brazilian too! (From Rio)

Moved to the United States when I was 7 years old.

Just like Morena Baccarin. Can you speak Portuguese as well as she does?

Wow!
I didn't know that about Morena... And I've been a fan since Firefly.

[Edwardo Piet]

I see that you replied but don't see your post. Don't be concerned, my guess is spam filter, happens sometimes with new members. The mods will catch it.

Busy trying to catch a rogue muslim.

Back soon!

Wait, you mean there's a such thing as an un-rogue muslim?

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PS I'm more of a Didactylos man myself.

Parmenides and Epicurus here. If we're talking of the ancient Greeks.

[Pat Mustard]

Busy trying to catch a rogue muslim.

Back soon!

Wait, you mean there's a such thing as an un-rogue muslim?

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PS I'm more of a Didactylos man myself.

Parmenides and Epicurus here. If we're talking of the ancient Greeks.

Ancient Ephebians are better.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Do Brazilian chicks like anal as much as the internet would have us believe?

Boru

[Catholic_Lady]

If you want to watch some movies that aren't set in Rio de Janeiro, look up São Paulo, Sociedade Anônima, The Man Who Copied and The Year My Parents Went on Vacation.  For one set in Rio that isn't about their favelas, see Wolf at the Door.

And Year My Parents Went on Vacation is the only one I have at my local library. The first two don't even seem to have been given any meaningful level of US exposure, and Wolf at the Door was shockingly hard to find info on because it was overshadowed by a crappy Mansonsploitation film from America. I suppose it's kind of inevitable; the films that get picked up by American distributors tend to be the ones that fit the sort of view Americans have of them already.

It's a phoenomenon that's hindered my enjoyment of modern German cinema because the only German films that get play in these parts are those dealing largely with the authoritarian legacy that's hindered them until 1945 (1989 for the East.) Films set in the more comfortable modern era, like Knockin on Heaven's Door, which seems to be an amazing comedy, may be given a brief theatrical release, but no DVD or even a VHS release.

For what it's worth, I have a copy of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet, one of the most famous books from Brazil hereabouts, coming in the mail (any day now), but given the "factless autobiography" nature of it, I'm not sure I'll learn a lot from that.

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I'm Brazilian too! (From Rio)

Moved to the United States when I was 7 years old.

So, with my learning about the origins of J a c k, now we have two semi-secret lovely Latinas on the forum? Or were your parents just white folks who happened to live in Brazil for a time and then left? Given the nature of the different colonization of Brazil and the rest of Latin America, do Brazilians even count as Latin? From what I've learned about the complicated nature of race in Brazil, can Anglo ideas of race even apply to Brazil and hope to make sense?

My parents and entire family are from South America, though some of us moved up to the US in the 90's.

As for the white comment, most Brazilians ARE Caucasian, descended mostly from the Portuguese. Brazilian is a nationality, not a race lol. But yes, we count as Latin since Brazil is part of Latin America.