Ask a Brazilian skeptic

[The Valkyrie]

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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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.

Does Trump know about you...?

[Rev. Rye]

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.

Just wanted to make sure; given that Brazil was colonized by Portugal and not Spain like the rest of Latin America, I guessed there would be some divide (especially since when I took a Latin American history course, the teacher just stopped talking about Brazil once he mentioned that, once Spain and Portugal took over the Americas, they split off everything past a certain longitude and what was east of it became Brazil). Then again, maybe that could have been because it's full of so much intrigue that he couldn't fit all the countries in.

And on that note, I should figure out that I just remembered that Ferdinand Pessoa, author of the Book of Disquiet is not actually from Brazil, but Portugal, so I fucked that up too.

[pocaracas]

Hehe... Not Ferdinand, but Fernando Pessoa. Portuguese poet with a few pseudonyms.

And that longitudinal divide between Portugal and Spain was called treaty of Tordesillas and it came into effect in 1494, before South America was discovered in 1500.
We're taught at school that the Portuguese were basically interested in reaching India by going around Africa, by sea... While the Spanish would get to go through the "West Indies".

[Rev. Rye]

Fucking autocorrect...

[ignoramus]

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.

But you're not Latino?

I iz confus!

[smithassignment1]

I don't believe in this. All are human and we should respect them.

[brewer]

I don't believe in this. All are human and we should respect them.

This is what we get from a "professional content writer"?