Brazil's Population and Culture

The culture of Brazil is one of the worlds most diverse cultures because it’s a melting pot of nationalities. There’s a lot of European people as well as African people because they were brought over to be slaves. The European people brought over many ideas and belief systems which has now shaped Brazil as a whole.

 

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Brazil has a population of around 190 million people half as which are white. The black and white mixed makes up about 40% of the population and only 10% are completely black. 80% of this population follows the Roman Catholic faith thanks to the European settlers. The official language of Brazil is Portuguese because of the settlements during the 16th, 17th, and 18th century.

Family is a huge part of Brazilian culture, families are usually large and very close with their extended family. Families with help out their relatives whenever anything is needed, they are a close knit society. When men meet one another they shake hands, as for the women they kiss them on both cheeks.

Brazilian foods are usually very nutritious and are a lot different from American food. For breakfast they usually have coffee, milk, bread, and fruit. On occasion cheese and ham. For lunch they usually go out to a nice restaurant and get served a wide variety of veggies and meat. Dinner is more relaxed in Brazil, they usually just have coffee bread, cheese, and cold cuts .

Brazil has public and private schools, the private expensive and the public are free. Elementary school is from six to 14 year old's and High school is from 15to 17 year old's. School systems in Brazil are not the best, they are unsanitary and they don’t have very good teachers. The number of students who complete high school is not a lot, and only one third of the students make it too sixth grade. Brazil has good health care that if needed is funded by the government.

The national sport of Brazil is soccer. Also, basketball and volleyball are very popular.