...The English colonies promoted liberties and rights as well as slavery and racism. During the revolution, a Constitution was written that contradicted promises of liberties and rights preventing slavery until the Civil War. During the seventeenth century in North America, at the same time that slavery and racism were being engraved in society for Africans, colonies were creating charters to promote and protect the rights of Englishmen. These rights included life, liberty, and property, which were very important to Englishmen as they were denied these basic rights in the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta provided certain important rights such as the ones mentioned before only to nobles. This contradiction saw to the U.S. adopting a Constitution that protected institutionalized slavery. Slaves wanted to know where they fit into all these protections. This essay aims to highlight the protection of rights for Englishmen at a time when African slaves were being denied those same rights. The Portuguese were the first people to go along the coast of Africa from Europe where they encountered more people of darker skin. However, these were Muslims who were literate and numerate. The English on the other hand were horrified when they saw the color black. To them, the ideal woman had blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin, hence pure and good. To be black on the other hand meant to be evil, vile, disgusting and satanic. Winthrop Jordan, the author of the book “White Over Black”, introduced...
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...The myths of “racial democracy,” the “the melting pot,” and “salad bowl” theories. The myths of “racial democracy,” the “melting pot,” and “Salad bowl” theories This paper will examine the theories of the “melting pot” and “salad bowl” and also look at “racial democracy” in Brazil. Secondly, this paper will look at cultural assimilation using these theories. Finally it will look at the myths of these theories and how they have affected the American and world societies. Have Americans really reached either the “melting pot” or “salad bowl” theories of cultural assimilation? Is Brazil really a “racial democracy” or is this also a myth and how does this differ with America? The United States of America is one of the most culturally diverse nations on earth. In 2009, Michael C. Lemay states, “the United States of America is arguably the most ethnically and racially diverse nation on earth”. Who is an American, I am using the term Americans to be defined as individuals who were native born, naturalized citizens, and individuals who consider themselves Americans from the United States of America. Generally speaking most Americans grow up, in ethnically homogeneous communities (Putnam, 2007) vice the differing theories of “melting pot” or “salad bowl.” While Americans live and work in communities that are ethnically and culturally diverse the issues of intolerance and prejudice against various ethnic and racial backgrounds has been a plague throughout...
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...and all over the world. The Columbian Exchange, the birth of Global Economy, religion, racism and the slave trade are all things that represent continuity and change in Europe during this...
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...Is Brazil a racial paradise? This was a hard question for me to answer because there were parts of Brazil that were racist and parts that weren’t. There were places that looed poor and that is where some African’s lived and there were places that looked wealthy where some African’s lived. The film had said Brazil is diverse; a hybrid country. As soon as hearing that, there was no way Brazil is a racial paradise. There were 75 African descents making Brazil the second largest African population. Professor Gates goes around asking people he meets what color would they describe his skin. It was interesting that it seemed as if some people were hesitant to answer the color black, but there were a lot of people describing his skin color as they would use the colors of the rainbow. African slaves were brought to Brazil by the Portuguese, and they brought everything them. Their culture, religion, God, etc. Knowing that this country holds the second largest African population, right away you would you think that everyone here is black, and there is no racism. What was weird to me was European immigrants were brought to Brazil to outnumber explaining it to be a hybrid country. Brazil was the last country to embellish slavery, yet they declare themselves as a racial democracy. They say that they are a racial democracy but Africans that live there in Brazil believe that it is all a lie. When Gates went into the hair salon a hair dresser was talking about how some black women have a low...
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...Global Business Cultural Analysis: Brazil Liberty University BUSI 604 Abstract This research paper analyzes the effect of Globalization on the country of Brazil, and how its economy compares to other South American countries and the world. This review will provide factual evidence of the integration of the Brazilian products internationally, and how its economy has evolved to compete in the international markets. A Comparative summary of evidence will be provided in this analysis between the business culture of Brazil, North American, Central America, the Caribbean, and other South American countries economic framework. The framework of the origins of Brazil, and to the progression of the nation into one of the top economies; will be discussed in this assignment. A small glimpse of the picturesque country will be provided in the form of pictures, to give the reader a greater ability to visualize this country and its inhabitance. The major elements and dimension of culture is reviewed, and these dimensions are; what the major elements and dimensions of culture are in this region; how these elements and dimensions are integrated by the locals conducting business in this region; how these cultures and dimensions compare with U.S. cultures and business; and what the implications are for U.S. businesses that wish to conduct business in that region. This paper will review some of the desires of Brazil’s government to be one of the world’s leading...
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...Google’s Okrut In Brazil The social networking phenomenon went international when Google’s social networking site, Orkut, reached vast popularity in Latin America, especially Brazil. Though Google’s popularity created new and unexpected opportunities for the company internationally, there was a darker side to their rise to fame. There were claims that Orkut was being used for Internet trafficking, pedophilia, and child pornography. Advertisers began to retract their advertisements when they heard that they were appearing next to illegal content on Google’s site. Google’s general director in Brazil was facing charges for refusing to hand over Orkut’s user data to the police. Google was losing the balancing act of satisfying the combined interests of their users, advertisers, and authorities, while ensuring they maintained consistent revenues. There were numerous issues that influenced the illegal activities performed on Orkut, as well as its failure. The most basic underlying issue that Google ignored was Brazil’s societal problems. Brazil has the highest levels of socio-economic inequality, which contributes to the statistic that more than 80% of Brazilians are concentrated in urban areas. In these urban areas, called favelas, there is a surplus of crime, which results in numerous armed conflicts between police and drug gangs. Additionally, Brazil is plagued with police and prison violence, torture, and extra-judicial killings. Ethnic tensions and a wide gap socioeconomic...
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...Race: The Cultural and Political Power of an Illusion in Latin America Race has been the most arguable and controversial subject in Latin American history. Since 16th century it has created a great deal of prejudice among Latin American people, it has been referred, as biological characteristics later modified to a social statue such are education, wealth and language. It has been under a heavy influence of cultural and political power where people were classified from their biological characteristics to their wealth. Through the time race has become the main tool for state creation and regulation. Race has become a status, which has structured and organized the nation but the term “race” has never itself been stable. In today’s Latin America modern theory of “race” has meaning of a political power, status and regulation, it’s a states way of monitoring and controlling of the heterogeneous nation. Race gradually has become a political cultural and economic power for Latin American state. In this paper I will argue about the idea that race in Latin America gradually has became just an illusion, a tool by which people were controlled structured and manipulated. Various articles will be presented to support and illustrate the transformation of the word “race “ and its cultural and political influence on Latin America. I will talk about the colonial to republic period idea of “race “ In Latin America and how the meaning of the word was manipulated. I will discuss the colonial...
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...understand how the concept of ethnicity has been constructed in Latin America it is important to start with some historic background. The formation of what will be known as “Hispanic Identity” started centuries ago when Portuguese and Spanish colonists arrived to the South America and started to oppress, enslave and exploit populations that had lived there for eons (Wade, 2003). In addition numerous African slaves have been brought in, especially in places like Caribbean and Brazil where today the significant part of the population is black (Ferreira da Silva, 1998). Because of the melting pot relationships a significant portion of populations got mixed and were called “mestizos”. This mixing occurred between ingenious populations, Europeans and of course African slaves (Wade, 2003). This mixing created a very interesting phenomenon when it comes to Latin America namely the fact that ethnic and racial composition of many countries is extremely diverse and not homogenous at all especially in places like Brazil, Chile, Mexico and others. However at some point even this has changed as the new approach was to define populations based on the culture rather than on ethnicity (De la Cadena, 2000). This was taking place first in Peru in regard to the ingenious populations. Another argument was that it was not very helpful to use racial/ethnic model of the US when talking about Hispanic identity mainly because it is so diverse and could not easily fit into the conventional definition...
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...| 2015 | | | [Cultural Analysis - brazil] | MKT 6003 RESEARCH PAPER | Abstract I currently lead a team called Pontonet as part of my responsibilities as Sr. Strategic Customer Manager who is based in Brazil. When I began my job in August I was quickly introduced and held meetings with my manager and a co-worker. I noticed very quickly that our abrasive American ways of communicating was not effective by listening in on conference calls with the three of us. I noticed as well that there was a seemingly deep sense that creating a more relation type of Management/Vendor management style was would make for a clearer and cleaner method than the alternative. I learned in haste that my report Jurandir at Pontonet began to surpass expectations quickly in comparison to other vendors in a surprisingly quick time frame. This paper shall also attempt to analyze the business and social culture of Brazil from an American point of view. In addition my purpose is to help achieve the most success when participating in a leadership activity with Pontonet. By having a better grasp of the cultural norms I believe that it will greater help me to have an advantage as a leader for this 3rd party management role I have accepted as part of my responsibilities. It is my understanding through research that Brazil’s business culture is much more stringent than the United States. In this paper it will be my intent to provide analysis and review the current business culture and...
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...REVIEW MATERIALS: Conceptual considerations: Discuss paradoxes and four orientations with which John Chasteen characterizes the changing foci of U.S. thinking on Latin America from the early 20th century to the present. •Racial/Cultural and Environmental Determinism: An image by Americans which suggested that Latin Americans are “Hot-Blooded Latins” with too much “non-white” blood, and do not have the self discipline needed in order to make a more democratic, stable society. There were Catholics, lacking a protestant work ethic. Americans also pictured Latin Americans to be lazy individuals. •Modernization Theory: Once the previous idea was settled, it came to the reality that the Latin American countries had to go through modernization, such as the United States, and their feeble network on which their society rested upon was that being criticized. •Dependency Theory: Students were sure that these two previous explanations were merely methods to blame the victims of abuse. They believed that Latin American economies stood in a dependent position relative to the world’s industrial powers. Therefore other nations took their overpowering stand, and forestalled Latin America’s industrialization. “Economic dependency” is why the nation did not follow the path it was supposed to follow. •Social Constructionism: The way race, gender, class, and national identities are “constructed” in people’s minds. Discuss Michel Rolph Trouillot’s theory of historical narratives ...
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...Brazil was colonized by the Portuguese and later by other countries around the globe in search of power. During the 16th century, it went through the process of colonization, on April 1500 by a Portuguese diplomat on their way to India for goods. Brazil first colonizers were the Native Indians in the country, at first the Indians and Portuguese worked together during harvest but later on the Portuguese decided to enslave them. Since the enslavement of Indians did not work out they turned to the African slave trade for their workforce. For the next two centuries after the discovery of Brazil, it had to deal periodically with foreign powers on the hunt for Brazil’s resources. Such countries as England, France, and Spain sought out to fight the...
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...Cultural Aspects of Doing Business in Brazil When doing business in global environment, being aware of impact of cultural differences is one of the keys to international business success. Since cultural differences will affect you and your business success directly. Accordingly, knowing the cultural differences between target country where to startup business and home country is a significance factor to sustain the business. Here are some facts about Brazilian Cultures’ components. Brazil’s official name is Federative Republic of Brazil but even its citizens do not prefer using whole name. According to last research the population is roughly 200 million and estimated to be growing at about 1.6 percent per year. Young population has a significance share over population. Since 62% of Brazilians are under 29 years of age. Brazil has six climatic regions: tropical rainforest, tropical wet and dry, tropical monsoon, hot semiarid, humid subtropical and subtropical highland. Although most of Brazil lies in the tropics, more than 60 percent of the populations live in areas which are cooled either by altitude, sea winds or polar fronts. While the coastal cities of Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Salvador can get extremely hot, plateau cities such as São Paulo, Brasília and Belo Horizonte have mild climates, and the southern cities of Porto Alegre and Curitiba have mild winters. It is extremely important to know for foreign businessman because climate is as important as culture. For example...
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...Holly D Brunk MGM316-1202B-03 Individual Project Phase 4 June 18, 2012 Intercultural Change Rio de Janeiro In Brazil, there are many cultural differences than in America where the corporate headquarters of the construction firm is. The Brazilians are fun loving people no matter what part of the country you visit. In Rio de Janeiro, were the Skyscraper is to be located, it is particularly true. To this culture, life is a party. In greeting it is common to receive a hand shake and a kiss on the cheek. An important part of this is that a woman shaking a man’s hand – she offers her hand first, in no way is the man to offer a hand shake to the woman. The primary language of the land is Portuguese, although some regions of the country also speak Spanish. Portuguese is one of the most difficult languages in the world, it is important to have a translator present when in that country. A translator form Brazil is preferred but not mandated. Greetings in Brazil are informal and meetings there are also. Personal meetings are a must when doing business with Brazil as the people do not like to do business only in an electronic nature. That is not to say once the meet and great is done, they will not maintain the future communications that way. Major decisions however, need to be done in a face to face meeting. That country gives a peaceful and pleasant experience with no racism as it is greatly integrated with centuries of culture. This may be why the corporation has chosen to build the...
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...people worldwide. In this article, I will talk about the wonderful influences and contributions of African Americans to make Latin America what it is today. It is clear that Latin America would not be what it is today without the contributions of Africans. Literature is heavily influenced by African American and can be seen in my famous writtings.Relatos Africanamericanos is a great book that gives extensive information about the contributions of Africans. The Boy King was forced to go to Brazil, but helped freedmen and creates unity and respect among other Africans. Assistant and also worked at the same veneration of Our Sonora del Rosario. (93) cases in Cuba many blacks were forced to become communist to even publish their books and had to spend a lot to get publicity. These stories written by African Americans represent many cultures tradition. They also talk about an important issue in the world, racism. One of my favorite stories is 'The African Granny' this story exposes how racism played a role. In this story, the grandmother is accused of murder at the age of 93. It was sad that even with a good lawyer, the grandmother was sentenced to life. It was his duty guardarsesus secret of what really killed the surgeon and showed great loyalty african americas. The dances are still famous worldwide by the influences of African and are widely known. It is in 'Party Ocun in Miami,'' he says...
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...African Americans were not human so they were born to be slaves. Come to find out, racism did not exist in the early years of slavery, but was created much later. In the 17th century Blacks in Virginia had more rights than Blacks in the Jim Crow South during the 20th century. In the 17th century blacks were able to bear arms, own land, and own their own servants and slaves. Frances Payne bought his freedom by earning money to buy three white servants to replace his own work. Alex Taylor of “The Roots of Racism” quotes Historian Eric Williams “here then, is the origin of Negro slavery. The reason was economic, not racial; it had to do not with the color of the laborer, but the cheapness of the labor… This was not a theory, it was a practical conclusion.” It was not just whites that had slaves. They very first slave owner in America was a black tobacco farmer named Anthony...
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