Brazilian society Brazilian society Interestingly enough some of these minority languages recently have obtained local co-official status — e.g. Nheengatu, Tukano, and Baniwa in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas (2003). ...more on Wikipedia about "Demographics of Brazil"
A favela is a Brazilian shantytown or slum, primarily on the hills of Rio de Janeiro. The term comes from a species of plants that often grows on the hillsides of Rio de Janeiro, where freed slaves first established a community of squatters in the 1890s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Favela"
The Brazilian Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra MST), commonly known in English as the Landless Workers' Movement, is the largest social movement in Latin America with more than a 1.5 million members. The MST was inspired in its inception in the mid-1980s by liberation theology. It is an ideologically eclectic rural movement striving to achieve land reform in Brazil. In May of 2005, more than twelve thousand MST activists marched hundreds of miles over two weeks to Brasília, Brazil's capital, to bring national attention to the government's slow pace of land reform. ...more on Wikipedia about "Landless Workers' Movement"
Portuguese-Brazilian ( Portuguese: luso-brasileiro) is a Portuguese-born person with Brazilian citizenship or a Brazilian-born person of Portuguese ancestry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Portuguese-Brazilian"
* Dia dos Namorados is celebrated on June 12 as the Brazilian equivalent of St. Valentine's Day. On this day, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, exchange gifts (lingerie, chocolates, and more), cards and usually a flower bouquet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Public holidays in Brazil"
Raposa Serra do Sol is a Brazilian Native American reservation that was approved early in 2005 and will become an official reservation in the next few months. The tribe that will mostly represent the reserve are Macuxi tribesmen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Raposa Serra Do Sol"
The União dos Escoteiros do Brasil (UEB, Union of Scouts of Brazil) is the national Scouting organization in Brazil. Scouting in Brazil was founded in 1910 and was among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922. The União dos Escoteiros do Brasil has 59,039 members as of 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "União dos Escoteiros do Brasil" Made by http://www.shortopedia.com.
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