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Brazilian music
Samba is a musical genre, from where a kind of dance, from African roots in Brazil and had emerged as the national pace for excellence. Considered one of the main cultural events popular Brazilian, samba became a symbol of national identity. Among its original features, is a form where the dance is accompanied by small melodic phrases and refrains from creating anonymous, foundations of samba de roda Recôncavo born and brought in the second half of the nineteenth century, the city of Rio de Janeiro by blacks who migrated from Bahia and settled in the then capital of the Empire. The Bahian samba de roda, which in 2005 became a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, was one of the bases for the samba.
Brazilian Beliefs
Brazil is a country religiously diverse, with the trend of mobility among religions and religious intolerance has been created even the National Day to Fight Religious Intolerance (January 21) by means of Law No. 11,635 of December 27 2007, signed by President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, which was a recognition of their state of existence of the problem. The Brazilian population is predominantly Christian (89%), and mostly Catholic. Legacy of Portuguese colonization, Catholicism was the official state religion until the Republican Constitution of 1891, which established the secular state.
The labor-slave labor, mainly coming from Africa, brought their own religious practices, which survived the oppression of the colonizers, giving rise to the african-Brazilian religions.
Brazilian Culture
Brazilian culture is a great set of cultures, which synthesize the diverse ethnicities that make up the Brazilian people. Therefore, there is a homogeneous Brazilian culture, but a cultural mosaic of different strands that form, together, the culture of Brazil. It is clear that after more than three centuries of Portuguese colonization, the culture of Brazil is largely rural, root Lusitanian. It is precisely this cultural heritage that makes up the unit lusa Brazil: are different ethnicities, but all speak the same language (Portuguese), and almost all are Christian, with a large predominance of Catholics. This linguistic equality and religious diversity is a rare event for a huge country like Brazil. The trend of the customs of different people is when they relate so closely, build hybrid expressions, ie, their cultures are mixed, resulting in new expressions of popular demonstration.
As human groups influence each other, we can say that folklore is not a static science, dead. Rather, it is dynamic, as well as researching the past, must be alert to change in this.
Futebol
There are some sports that ended up being raised in Brazil.
Most of them are derived from traditional soccer, considered a national sport.
Football (English association football or simply football) is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each and a referee who takes care of the correct application of standards. It is considered the most popular sport in the world, since around 270 million people participate in their various competitions. It is played on a rectangular grass field, with a goal in each side of the field. The goal is to move a ball across the field to put it into the opponent goal, an action that is called goal (European Portuguese) or goal (Brazilian Portuguese). The team that scores the most goals at the end of the game is the winner.
Capoeira
Capoeira has been a source of great controversy among scholars of its history, particularly as regards the period between his appearance - presumably in the seventeenth century, when slaves were the first movements of escape and rebellion - and the nineteenth century, when they appear The first reliable records, with detailed descriptions of their practice.
Caipirinha The caipirinha is a Brazilian drinks best known internationally. It is made with rum, lime not peeled (also known elsewhere as acid lime green), sugar and ice. In Brazil, is served in most bars and restaurants.
Caipirinhas are usually prepared for a cup at a time, as their ingredients have irregular amounts and do not blend perfectly, which complicates making a good division.
Feijoada
The cuisine of Brazil is the result of a blend of European ingredients, and other peoples, Indians and Africans . Many of the techniques of preparation and ingredients are of Indian origin, having been adapted by the slaves and the Portuguese. These were adaptations of their dishes by substituting ingredients that were missing with the locals. The feijoada, a typical dish of the country, is one example . The slaves brought to Brazil from the end of the sixteenth century, amounted to national culinary elements like the oil-for-palm and couscous. The waves of immigrants reach the country between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, coming in large numbers from Europe, brought some novelties to the national menu and simultaneously strengthened the consumption of various ingredients.
