Comments by "truth-uncensored2" (@truth-uncensored2426) on "Jubilee"
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@josevitor1759 No, I know quite well what a hispanic is, and Brazil is not a Latino country, we share very little in cultural terms with countries surrounding us, actually the culture of Brazil is closer in it's structure to US than to Colombia or Venezuela for instance, the vision that Latin Americans are very similar to each other, all hot blooded and with extravagant parties and such is a stereotype created to lump together all the "brown" people that are not anglo-saxon whites.
Each south american country has it's own individuality, they cannot be lumped together, just like Australia is different from New Zealand despite having some similarities. Brazil is probably the least "Latino" country of the Americas. As I said even our Carnival which is considered very "latino" because of it's colors and intensity is very different than the Festivals in Mexico or even Colombia, or Bolivia, our traditions are different. For instance most of the Latino countries despite their "passionate" nature are more conservative if compared to Brazil, you'll not see women with bare breasts showing in their festivals or Carnivals, this only happens in Brazil, as I said before Brazil in general is more "liberal" and cosmopolitan, we have a different culture.
Also, despite having an important contribution from the african culture, Brazil also has a strong european footprint especially in the states of Southeast and South of Brazil. Brazil has one the largest diasporas in the world of italians, germans, spaniards, poles, french, ukrainians, libanese, japanese, etc. The culture of this parts of Brazil which are more european and cosmopolitan has very little to do with countries like Peru, Bolivia, or even Mexico, which are countries with a mixed indigenous population and influenced heavily by indigenous culture, even the modern cities of Mexico are different than the modern cities of Brazil.
And I don't say this in an offensive way, I'm not trying to say brazilians are better, we're just different, just like Koreans are different from the Japanese for instance.
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@louigamon8325 This is why our culture is not "Latino", the concept that better describe Brazil is a actually closer to the "melting pot" culture that exists in the US, we're unique among our neighbors, we're different. Actually when you say that "Latinos" are similar and share the same culture you're actually just reinforcing stereotypes created by anglo-saxon whites about a population that they see as not white, you're actually reinforcing a racist generalizing view about South Americans.
Have you ever wondered why there's no such racialized term for Europeans? Probably because they're more respected, everyone understands that there's differences between Germany and France, for instance, even thought they share some cultural aspects. But for South American countries it appears that we don't deserve that same treatment and all the countries are lumped together as a single cultural and racial block called "Latinos", which doesn't make any sense, I think even Germany has much more in common with Poland, than Brazil with Colombia or Argentina for instance, but people don't lump Germany and Poland together.
In resume, Brazil is not a "Latino" country, not in the way most people understand the meaning of this word.
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@louigamon8325 No, I don't used the "naked women carnival" trope, I don't made any judgement about this on my comment, I just said it's different than what our neighbors do. No, we are not Latinos, at least not in the way the majority of people think a Latino is.
You're wrong about the european influence in Brazil my friend, this influence is not only present in the South but in all the country even in the Northeast and North, but it's much more pronounced in the Southeast and South. You said that the North of Brazil has a lot of indigenous culture, ok, this is true, but now tell me another country of the so called "Latin America" that has the same huge variation in culture types like Brazil, maybe Colombia or Venezuela, I doubt very much. There are cities in Brazil where most people literally speak German or Italian dialects almost instinct in Europe, and at same time there's isolated tribes in Amazon which are still uncontacted, what other country has that much variation in culture in the Americas besides the US?
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