AGENDA

• Basic information

• Regions of Brazil

• Remarkable Brazilians

• Cultural Behavior

• Problems

• Future

• Largest country in South America • Area: 8.5 million km2

• Capital: Brasília

• Language: Portuguese. Colonized by Portugal

• Federal Republic

• 2010: Dilma Rousseff

• Population: over 190 million people (5.6x the Canadian population)

• Currency: real (R$)

• Positivist theme• Each star means a state (27 states)• Colors’ meaning: green and yellow colors representing the Braganza-Habsburg dynasty

Food: indian influence. Tacaca, açai, pato no tucupi e maniçoba

Amazon rainforest:biodiversity

Carimbó: typical dance

Culture: frevo, maracatu, bumba meu boi

Food: carne de sol, farofa, acarajé

Beaches: Costa dos Corais, Abrolhos, Jericoacoara

Salvador was the first Brazilian capital

Brasília: Brazil's national capital

Food: arroz com pequi, sopa paraguaia, arroz carreteiro

Culture: Carvalhada e Procissão do Fogaréu

Pantanal mato-grossense: largest swampy plain area in the world

RJ: Christ the Redeemer

Food: feijoada (every Wednesday and Sunday in São Paulo)

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil: 11 million residents

MG: São Francisco river

SÃO PAULO

• Japaneses in São Paulo: 1.4 and 1.5 million people of Japanese descent in Brazil

• São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro: hold the largest carnival parades in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO:

• Bossa Nova:upscale beachside neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro

• Samba's origins in favelas of Rio

• Bossa Nova: love, the beach, and beautiful women - bohemian life

• Samba: Brazilians' daily struggles, a music genre popular among the working class.

• International popularity: Garota de Ipanema

Italian and German immigration

Snow

Food: barbecue

SANTA CATARINA

• Oktoberfest:one of the world's largest outside Germany.

• Celebrate German traditions - music, parade, typical food and...beer!

RIO GRANDE DO SUL

• Gramado Film Festival: is an international film festival held annually in the city of Gramado

• Kikito: awards’ name

TARSILA DO AMARAL

• 1922 Modernist Artist: changed the conservative artistic establishment in Brazil

• Was part of Grupo dos Cinco

MIGUEL NICOLELIS

• Brazilian scientist

• Named by Scientific American Magazine one of the 20 most important scientists in the world today

• Reading monkey thought: research in which a monkey controlled a robotic arm just thinking about it

KAKÁ

• He plays in Spain – Real Madrid

RONALDO

• Played for Barcelona (spanish football club), played in Corinthians (brazilian football club). Now he is retired (2011)

RONALDINHO GAÚCHO

• Played for the Italian team Milan and nowadays plays in Flamengo (brazilian team)

PELÉ

• One of the greatest football players of all time. THE KING PELÉ

• Began playing for Santos at 15

• Scored 1281 goals in 1363 games    

• Brazilians: optimistic people

• Like parties, social events. Business meeting usually is a lunch, a coffee or another social event. Offices meetings happen too in some cases     

• Like to touch, hug, kiss the cheek

• Personal space: close     

• BIRD report: 53,6 ranking from 0 to 100. In 2008 the country raised to 58,5

• Drug trafficking - big issue. Fights between drug dealers in favelas. Crimes, murders, robberies    

• One of the most unequal distributions of income in the world

• 26% (2008)  of people living below the poverty line

• Between 2003 and 2008, around 21 million people left their poverty status in Brazil

• More than 30 million people (equivalent to half of the French population) have risen to classes ABC in five years.

• 2016: Olympic Games

• Olympic challenge would be as a relevant incentive in the margin for Brazil and Rio de Janeiro city to focus on the achievement of tangible and more permanent improvements

• 2014: World Cup

• Won 5 times this competition

• Contributes to improve the country’s condition: investments