Brazil Trip Objectives
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Identify the reasons why and how slavery evolved in Brazil.
Describe the role of slaves in the early Brazilian economy. Why did Portugal feel it needed slaves?
Discuss the African cultures and customs that remain entrenched in Northeastern Brazilian society
today. Capoeira and Candomble’ or Macumba are vocabulary words from this question.
Who is Carmen Miranda and why is she wearing a fruit basket on her head?
Who does Brazil play in the World Cup and when? (token soccer question)
What is the Brazilian currency? How has its value changed in relation to the dollar? How does
this change in value benefit Brazil? How does it harm Brazil? How does it benefit America?
How does it harm America?
Explain Paraty’s significance to the gold trade and to the coffee trade.
Who is The Girl from Ipanema?
Brazil has been in the news for its looming energy independence. What is its newfound fuel
source? Why are they considered preferable to American sources? How does Brazil’s energy use
compare to the United States?
Briefly describe Brazil’s income distribution. How does it compare to the rest of the world?
How does protecting and preserving the Amazon benefit you?
What is curare? What is it used for? What substance does it resemble that occurs naturally in the
human body?
How did the Amazon get its name?
When did the Portuguese arrive and why did they stay?
What role did Brazilwood play in colonization and what replaced it?
What spurred the importation of slaves? Where were they from?
How did the Brazil become Catholic? How has Catholicism changed?
What is a syncretic religion?
What role did gold play in Brazilian history?
What role did Napoleon play in Brazilian history?
How did coffee come to Brazil?
Describe the boom and crash of rubber. What evidence remains of it?
Why would somebody make a movie called “The Boys from Brazil”?
Why did Socrates take his shirt off at the end of futbol games?
How did the Comondo Vermelho come into existence and what does it do today?
What role did rapper Gabriel o Pensador play in presidential politics?
Why are soap operas so popular in Brazil?
Where do the rich and poor come together?
Why is land distribution an issue in Brazil?
Briefly describe Brazil’s population – how large, how is it distributed, what is the racial makeup?
How are women represented in Brazil’s workforce?
How have AIDs and sterilization impacted birth rates?
What is samba and what is it a mixture of?
Who was Sister Dorothy Stang? Chico Mendes?
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favela
Luis Inacio (Lula) da Silva
Pedro Alvares Cabral
Pelourinho and Salvador
Senzala
Quilimbo and Zumbi
Capoeira
Bandeirantes
Tirandentes
Dom Jao VI
Fazenda
Estrada Real
Princesa Isabel and Lei
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Fio dental
Gilberto Gil
Roberto Marinho
Guarana’
Ayahuasca
Walter Salles
Fernando Meirelles
Bossa Nova
Oscar Miemeyer
Oscar Schmidt
Gisele Bundchen
Pele
Caetano Veloso
Getulio Vargas