Like the site for foreigners in Brazil, www.gringoes.com, which I chanced across yesterday. As usual it gives a few interesting outsider insights into Brazilian culture:
1. Brazil is very bureaucratic, and hierarchical society.
2. Brazil is very people-centred in business.
3. You need to speak the language.
But then it’s also what you as a person bring to Brazil – your own personal ‘jinga’. Hey, I’ve got the Brazilian sociology of Paulo Friere on my side so that also helps to understand a few tough facts of life. But if I go to live there I might just pay a gringo who has learned the language to teach me first. But then again why not use a real Brazilian tutuor!?
Category Archives: Brazil
Roots & Samba podcast
Another in the podcast series from DJ Gilles Peterson in Brazil. While these are available free from Brahma to save you the time and trouble here’s the one on Roots and Samba. It’s an wma around 30mb so it takes a while to download – enojy!
The download function from the site doesn’t work at present, so I had to open in Windows Media Play and save from there. I did contact Brahma’s new Belgium owners to point this out, but no reply not surprisingly. However, it’s odd that the blog which supports the podcasts starts and stops after only a few entries, go figure!