She is so annoying and mediocre.
Even her smile is forced and artificial.
Although a Brazilian she tries to becomes a kind of caricature of "Latina" (or Hispanic woman).
It's a shame that some Brazilians, when go to US, nullify themselves and try to become a stereotype that never matched the reality of Brazil.
With Rodrigo Santoro she forms a pair of ridiculous little creatures, imitators of Latinos.
Shameful.
Exsqueze me, aren't Brazilians latins?
Aren't your ancestors, Portuguese?
Aren't they Latins as well?
Isn't Portuguese in the list with the Latin tongues of the world?
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1. Wanting to believe that Brazil is "Latin-american" only because the Portuguese is a language that comes from Latin is a quite simpleton reasoning.
It's subduing the reality to a cliché, sublimating the reality for a label.
It would be like someone believe that Brazil and the United States are similar just because someone can say they are "Americans", since both are in the American continent.
2. Portugueses are not "Latins". They are Portugueses. They have their own culture - by the way, very different from the Spain culture.
Portuguese are Latins.
Spaniards are Latins.
Romanians are Latins.
They all come from the same group, same ancestry = Latins.
Stop it with your ignorance.
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I will not waste my time with you. Perhaps you are a Latino or an American who knows nothing about Brazil except false stereotypes. Below a text from another Brazilian I got on Google that is quite enlightening:
No, it's not the same thing. Brazilians are not Latinos, unlike the stereotyped fantasy that Americans and some Europeans - particularly the British - spread for decades.
Brazilians are visually different from Latinos. Brazil is the result of Portugal + African coast + original tropical Amerindians. This intense racial mixture did another people and another culture, very different from what you see in the Latin world. Latinos neighbors of Brazil in South America, for example, are basically a mix of Spanish and Indians from the Andes.
If you mix 20 people side by side - 10 Brazilians and 10 different Latins (like 2 Bolivians, 2 Argentines, 2 Peruvians, 2 Mexicans and 2 Ecuadorians) - you will easily distinguish the Brazilians out from Latinos, only by the appearance or the body expression.
Maybe just a few Puerto Ricans and Paraguayans (the latter due to some influence of Brazilians in their country) can pass as Brazilians. And so only if they not open their mouths. Because when they talk they are denounced as Latinos - they can not speak Portuguese well even after years of practice. It's because Portuguese and Spanish are a bit similar only in the writing, phonetically they are very different. Portuguese is a language much richer, including phonetically (no offense but is the reality).
I claim because it is a disrespect to see Brazilians being "dressed" in whom they are not. It's as if they wanted to prohibit the Brazilians to be ... Brazilians.
We are neither better nor worse than Latinos but Brazilians are Brazilians and never seen or felt themselves as "Latins" or "Latin-americans." It is a matter of to respect the identity of each culture and people. Only the mentally colonized Brazilians accept this cultural cross-dressing.
I see what you mean.
But considering the fact that I'm Romanian, I see myself as a "half-brother" of you, a Brazilian,as you are a "half-brother" of a Portuguese and that Portuguese is a half brother of a Spaniard.
Either way you put it , Portugal came from Spain. Their background was similar to our Republic of Moldavia, they speak a Rusified Romanian, but they are still Romanians, to the core. No matter how much Russian spunk was spilled in the mix.
So you might not see yourself as a Latino, that's understandable ,but Aztec, Inca blood aside, you are as Latin as me, my friend.
If we compare our DNA structure , WE BOTH come from the same ROMAN STOCK !
So that makes us kindred, either you like it or not ! :)
Peace!
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I see what you mean.
But considering the fact that I'm Romanian, I see myself as a "half-brother" of you, a Brazilian,as you are a "half-brother" of a Portuguese and that Portuguese is a half brother of a Spaniard.
Either way you put it , Portugal came from Spain. Their background was similar to our Republic of Moldavia, they speak a Rusified Romanian, but they are still Romanians, to the core. No matter how much Russian spunk was spilled in the mix.
So you might not see yourself as a Latino, that's understandable ,but Aztec, Inca blood aside, you are as Latin as me, my friend.
If we compare our DNA structure , WE BOTH come from the same ROMAN STOCK !
So that makes us kindred, either you like it or not ! :)
Peace!
Brazilians don't have Inca or Aztec blood, that's Peruvians and Mexicans. Most of us Brazilians have African blood in us. A minority of us have indigenous admixture in our gene pool.
Where the fock were the Inca/Aztec Empires ?
Correct me if I'm not mistaking, but they were smack in the middle of Southern America where guess what? Brazil is now situated.
You have more Native Inca blood in you.
African slaves came AFTER the Portguese + Spanish.
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No, the Inca were in what is present day Peru. Aztec weren't even in South America...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_civilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec