Brazil Q&A

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FUCK this was supposed to be posted eight hours ago, but since I'm done I'm doing this.

Manaus happens to be in the very middle of the Amazon Forest. I won't speak for them, but it's not the most accessible of locations and, despite the deforestation going on, it's still very much a 'tropical paradise' - insects, trees, few roads that are of good quality [due to the rains and all].

I'm sure things are 'better' nowadays, and it does have a 'Zona Franca' where commerce is good, but every other region is more accessible to a degree.

And speaking of regions... Brasil is separated in five different 'regions', based on their location, weather and economic position, which allow us to gauge just how unbalanced things are. We have the North, where Manaus is, best-known for the Amazon forest, being right close to Colombia and Venezuela, being the largest area in mass, and being harder to bring progress to because of all the trees. The Northeast is where the 'good beaches' are, the point where Cabral hit land [and thought this was an island, much like how Columbus thought the Caribbean was India], and a near desert due to deforestation and all. It's also the 'stereotypical' source of our immigration problem, sadly. The French and Dutch tried to colonize this area, not wholly successfully, before Portugal finally decided to give a crap.

The Southeast [which is in the middle of the nation] is where the money is most concentrated. That's the Rio-São Paulo-Minas axis, which includes our previous capital and the sources of our presidents during the Old Republic [yes we had one of those], as well as most of the gold we don't have anymore. It's probably the most developed area in the nation because it has all of the money. The South is very close to Argentina and Uruguay, nearly seceded once [as far as making itself relevant]. And finally, there's the Middle-West, which is close to Paraguay, has the Pantanal [a big-ass swamp that doesn't smell nearly as bad as you'd think], the current capital, and is the second-closest thing we have to the pits or where Judas lost his boots or whatever you call it. Surprisingly developed, but still very much lame.

The aforementioned capitals, Florianópolis [Floriano City] and Porto Alegre [Happy Port], are in the South. There's also Curitiba, which is a poor man's São Paulo.
 
Doesn't Brazil have a statute of limitations on murder? You said something about a person being able to kill someone, flee capture for 5 years, and then getting away with it. I also recall that you mentioned something about a politician that shot a rival multiple times in a restaurant and was never prosecuted. There was also a mention that stealing a can of beans in Brazil can get one six years in prison.

(This stuff was brought up in the Nick Bate thread, but it had to be deleted because off topic)

By the way, how do you pronounce "huehuehue"? In Spanish, it'd be pronounced something like "weh weh weh".
 
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Doesn't Brazil have a statute of limitations on murder? You said something about a person being able to kill someone, flee capture for 5 years, and then getting away with it. I also recall that you mentioned something about a politician that shot a rival multiple times in a restaurant and was never prosecuted. There was also a mention that stealing a can of beans in Brazil can get one six years in prison.
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The law doesn't support this completely, but that's in part due to a ton of things that can happen in the meantime. For instance, according to the Law, a murderer who's escaped arrest after 48 hours will start a criminal investigation regarding this case if he's ever caught for whatever reason; however, during this investigation, it's very possible for the police to become unable to pin the crime on him.

Politicians have an unfortunate amount of leeway, especially in the Northeast. There's a pseudomafia composed by a bunch of 'coronéis' [colonels; not necessarily patented, somewhat closer to the Wild West sheriffs but not really] who basically use their clout and money to ensure the sheeple will keep them in power. One of our previous candidates to the presidency, daughter to a certain ex-president, basically lost her chance due to this [currently ran away to the US to escape our biggest fraud investigation yet]; meanwhile, there's a family called Magalhães who's kept their hand in the pot over Bahia [they even have a freaking Wikipedia subgroup].

And that's just going to lead into further politics talk, so to sum it all up, there's a freaking movement to get rid of the president going on right now. We're really suck at the moment.
 
I'm going to keep asking questions to keep this thread alive because I like learning about different cultures! :heart-full: Fun fact: I once tried to half-assedly learn Portuguese by myself in high school. I still somewhat understand written Portuguese, since it's similar to the Spanish I know. Com = con = with, o = el = the (male), español = espanhol = Spanish...

Speaking of which, is it true that Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish speakers, while Spanish speakers can't understand Portuguese speakers?
 
If you guys want to visit,please PLEASE,take a portuguese language class.
Brazilians will use your lack of understanding to take advantage of the "gringos".
One tv crew pretended they were US tourists and compared the prices of water sold by street vendors; brazilians paid 1 dollar while tourists paid around 5 dollars.
Yes,also thiefs and kidnappers can fool you.
This happens a lot on tourist cities like rio de janeiro,salvador,etc.
 
Mourning Dove said:
I'm going to keep asking questions to keep this thread alive because I like learning about different cultures! :heart-full: Fun fact: I once tried to half-assedly learn Portuguese by myself in high school. I still somewhat understand written Portuguese, since it's similar to the Spanish I know. Com = con = with, o = el = the (male), español = espanhol = Spanish...

Speaking of which, is it true that Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish speakers, while Spanish speakers can't understand Portuguese speakers?
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Sadly,to me i understand ancient latin better than spanish *sigh*.
A lot of brazilians dont understand spanish.
We use portunhol instead(explained in page 2).
 
Mourning Dove said:
I'm going to keep asking questions to keep this thread alive because I like learning about different cultures! :heart-full: Fun fact: I once tried to half-assedly learn Portuguese by myself in high school. I still somewhat understand written Portuguese, since it's similar to the Spanish I know. Com = con = with, o = el = the (male), español = espanhol = Spanish...

Speaking of which, is it true that Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish speakers, while Spanish speakers can't understand Portuguese speakers?
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It depends a lot on the words used. A few of them are false cognates - similar in writing, but not in meaning [for instance, we have a show here called "Zorra Total", which translates to "Total Whore" in at least one Spanish language]. Also, certain words are literally the same but their genders change ["alma" is either male or female depending on language].

That said, one must understand that Portuguese is a further evolution to Spanish; because Portugal is situated at the very end of Spain, by the time the Romans conquered it and imposed Latin on us, most of the roots are derived from the Spanish conquest. So while it certainly has its own origin, the very basics are very close to the Spanish language.

Also, now perhaps would be a good time to talk comics, if anyone's interested...
 
Oh that's what they call it.

No, it's not exactly cheaper, but it is more efficient. Because of that, we have prices for each at, say, 3,500 and 2.100 or so, which are rearranged as necessary. Still, ethanol is better because it pollutes less, so when possible we try to stock up on that.

...that said, most cars nowadays run on petroleum or flex fuel.
 
It depends on whether we're talking scary in appearance or scary in threat.

Piranhas certainly are scary, in that a single pack will, in fact, eat an entire cow very fast and, if you put your leg in there, it's not coming back out, but they're also dumb enough that you can sacrifice one cow to let the rest of the pack go through. Of course, you don't want to go in the water if you can, because candirus live there. I don't think I need to describe THAT.

The Amazon is home to the sucuri, one of the biggest anacondas around, and they are very much the type to wrap around you and break your bones easily. Anteaters are strong enough to bearhug you to death. And there's silkworm moths that are extremely deadly, too [we call them taturanas].
 
Why did they let so many Italians into SP? :ween:
 
Okay, history lesson.

Brasil was one of the last countries to outright outlaw slavery [though it was through some underhanded and shady means], but we still had a ton of farms that needed cheap labor.

So the government helped the land owners by getting immigrants from everywhere. And by that I mean EVERYWHERE. Brasil's got like the second highest amount of Japanese folk [descended from their immigrants], as well as plenty of Germans and Italian descendants [living in the South and Southeast], while the Northeast has more of a Dutch influence because, again, the Dutch.

And partially as thanks for us letting them live here, even before then, the Italians tried to secede and join forces with Uruguay. Now that was a pain in the neck.
 
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