Video 1 Transcript
When you visit Brazil, you may think that peoples are a mixture of the entire world, because of our colors and our look. And you can also think this is cool, but it isn't. This mixture of colors, mostly of them, come from centuries of abuse and slavery of African and native peoples. Brazil was one of the last countries to abolish slavery, so this grew a lot. We now as a nation still don't understand exactly how to feel and deal with it, so it is a problem right now. So keep that in mind when you visit us and see things like favela, quilombo.
Video 2 Transcript
I think the most interesting fact about Brazil is that it was, up until kind of recently, I think in the 80s, it was run by a military dictatorship, and only in about the mid or early 80s did they turn over to kind of a republican-style government like we have here in the United States. So if you talk to older Brazilians, some of them think, oh yeah, we should go back to when the military were in the place because it made more sense, everything was orderly, and it's just kind of interesting to see the divide from the people who lived under the military regime who think, oh yeah, it wasn't so bad, even though people got rounded up, people got killed occasionally, and then the younger people who only remember, you know, who only read about the regime through history books and, you know, they think, oh, it was so awful. It's just kind of interesting seeing the generational divide of people who live through it and people who have only heard stories about it. I thought that was interesting, at least when I was in Brazil.
Video 3 Transcript
Sao Paulo used to be the capital of Brazil but they moved the capital to Brasilia and so now it's more focused there and Sao Paulo is just kind of like your big urban city. It's the equivalent of like New York in DC, you know.
