Brazzil I wonder if the outcome from the conviction of Colonel Ubiratan Guimarães, responsible
for the Carandiru penitentiary massacre will be one of positive change as far as impunity
in Brazil is concerned. First, although he got 632 years, the law stipulates that no one
can serve more than 30. Second, the culprit appealed the conviction, and the court let him
out into the streets for a new trial. Has anything changed in the country of the Mickey
Mouse justice system? Of course, not! The whole thing was just a mere façade. The
cheering crowds are fools to believe it was different this time. God help the people of
Brazil... I really hope your (usually great) magazine did not pay for this babble "In
Defense of Brazil". I don't understand how the editors of your magazine could even
print such garbage. If any of the opinions in this article are accurate how does Mr.
Mizewski explain the various economic situations in countries like, Poland, Portugal,
India, Japan, Venezuala, Trinidad, China, Canada (shouldn't they be equal to the USA),
Columbia, Nigeria etc? Luck, chance, genetic differences? Resources + Social Structure =
prosperity. Response to Bevon Benjamin (or is it Benjamin Bevon?): Thank you for your opinion. I wasn't writing about Poland, Portugal, India, Japan,
Venezuala, Trinidad, China, Canada, Columbia or Nigeria. I was writing about Brazil. The
present state of every nation must be considered, among other things, in the light of its
own resources and own history. No two of the nations you mention have identical resources
and history. Brazil does not have the same resources and history as the United States; and
therefore shouldn't be held accountable for not appearing to be the United States. Brazil
is Brazil" PS - You misspelled Venezuela. I really enjoyed the article "Down in Black Bahia" published in the June
issue of your magazine. The author really used some good comparisons with Detroit and made
some good observations about race relations. I now certainly have to visit Bahia soon. Excellent article on Bahia. I have subscribed to this magazine for several years now. I
am also Black American man with interest in knowing the culture of Brazil. As a young
child in grade school for some reason I always had a fascination with Brazil. I have been
to Salvador, Rio, and São Paulo. Your article is very factual. I want to commend you for
this work. Muito obrigada pelos artigos sagazes e fortes, especialmente aqueles sobre racismo e
'corismo' da Bahia. Your articles are so probing and thoughtful—and have been for so
long. It's hard to believe this was begun as a one-genius operation! As a regular traveler
to and profound lover of Brazil, it's such a pleasure to dive off into your insightful
perspectives ranging the spectrum from grounded terra concerns to metaphysics—all
with the cultural flavor of the expansive country of Brazil. I think of it as a continent!
Lovingly, PS. Please enter my online subscription if possible. I suffer from long-term Lyme Disease, and for a short while was given Doxycycline that
came from Brazil. It was potent stuff (judging from the herxheimer I got from it),
supposedly because it is made by a method no longer used in the U.S., which makes for a
broader spectrum antibiotic. The American variety is said to be too "pure", and
much less effective against Lyme. My doctor, very big in the movement to treat long-term Lyme with long-term antibiotic
therapy (there are hundreds of thousands of Americans with long-term Lyme, not officially
recognized), and she would like to find out about "Brazilian" Doxycycline.
Please help me, I am really sick. It’s OK to feel the way you do. It’s sort of like in the United States
theEnglish language (which is what Americans speak) is being bastardized and destroyed on
a daily basis by people that lack the proper education. The same applies to Brazil.
Portuguese is what Brazilians speak. Unfortunately the language has been demolished and
raped through the years to the point where you try to proclaim the language your own. Brazilians speak Portuguese. Canadians French, USA English etc. I as a Portuguese male
do not deny Brazilians of their identity. In fact am insulted when someone thinks
Brazilians are Portuguese. We are from two totally different continents. Brazilians are
Brazilians and Portuguese are Portuguese. Many people know that there are those few
differences in the tongues, but cannot deny the fact that it is the same language. The
Portuguese colonized and educated. If not for us Brazilians would not speak Portuguese.
This isn't a war of numbers. These are pure historic facts. Years ago (late 1950's or the '60's), I read a review of a book by a Brazilian woman
writer whose name I cannot remember. She was born in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and her
first book sold well, so she was able to move to a more affluent part of the city. In her
new location, she learned that some people celebrated "Father's Day," which led
her to remark something like "What an absurd day!" Who was that writer and what
was the name of her book? I read with interest the article in Brazzil titled "When More is Less". This
article was of particular interest to me since my area of concentration for my MBA degree
was International Business. Wage rates are one of the ways in which economists classify
countries. It's no surprise that developed countries such as the U.S. and Japan have high
wage rates. You will find that the developing and underdeveloped countries have lower
wages. This puts countries such as Brazil in a Catch-22 situation. A higher minimum wage would
definitely help to raise the standard of living and it would be a good start on closing
the gap with wealthier countries. However, higher wages would make Brazil less competitive
when it comes to attracting labor-intensive industries. During my last trip to Brazil I
did meet a secretary in Rio that somehow was surviving on the $70 per month minimum wage.
I had to get here to translate the amount three times before I could believe it that it
was so low! I have been reading your magazine for a while now and wondered if you could answer a
question. I am presently researching possible teaching opportunities in Brazil. Would you
know if there is a great demand for native English speakers to teach English in Brazil?
Thank you! I think one point was only slightly addressed in the US vs. Brazil article, which is
vital to a complete understanding of historical differences between the US and Brazil. It
was mentioned that the US was founded by people who primarily wanted to have land and
farms to just sustain themselves. This was true for the most part, as was true that 99
percent of our ancestors were racist to some degree. One thing you should mention, if you write about this again, is the fact that Brazil
was founded mainly by "opportunistic" people who came to reap the resources it
offered (wood & minerals). The US was mainly founded by what we might think of today
as right-wing religious zealots who were avoiding persecution in their own lands. They
came to the US with the idea of staying forever, rebuilding the society which they
probably missed very much. Unfortunately, this was not always the case in Latin America, where trips there were
financed by governments that wanted spoils and riches brought back to them. Many Latin
American countries have been riddled with corruption since their inception due to
complacent attitudes towards efficiency in government as well as control over internal
bribes and corruption. Although I feel much like you do—I practiced being an ex-patriot myself when I
lived most of 1999 in Porto Alegre—I feel pretty sure that our ability to have faith
in our government is due in no small part to our fight for independence (even though it
was essentially over monetary gain & taxes, which our founding fathers would be
turning over in their graves if they found out what kinds of taxes we have now). There is
an overall feeling that the US Government was and continues to be based
("loosely" is an operative word here) upon an honor system where our US
politicians receive positive feedback when they "police" one another. Our system
of checks and balances has proved to work well, in that it does not allow one arm of
government to outdo the other without first looking at who's done what. Not paying your
taxes, bribing officials and/or finding "ways" to do things in the US is
generally considered taboo and unethical. My experience in Brazil has shown me that avoiding taxes, bribing officials and finding
jeitinhos to do stuff (like get a residential area re-zoned so you can build an
office building there, or paying a local official to "look the other way") is
quite common in Brazil. In fact, from what I saw in Brazil, there really is no underlying
thought that "I'm doing a bad thing by cheating on my taxes" or "bribing is
wrong, I won't do it". On the contrary, when faced with a situation, such as being
stopped by the police, you are simply thought of as "smart" or
"clever" if you can talk your way out with $10 or if you get lots of money back
from taxes by cheating the government. It's kind of a game people play there, it really
isn't a big deal to Brazilians. People in Brazil have learned, over many, many years, to not rely upon the government,
due to its corruption. I believe that this corruption can be traced back to the roots of
the founding of the country. The fact that there was never a true "fight" for
independence, I think, was a detriment to Brazil and has resulted in diminished national
pride. Of the hundreds of Brazilians I've met, know and have relationships with (my wife
is Brazilian from Rio Grande do Sul), nobody seems "patriotic" about Brazil, and
will usually laugh at the concept of singing their national anthem, if they even know it. If Brazil is going to shed it's stigmatism of being corrupt and full of problems, I
believe there needs to be a stronger movement from the people to make this happen. The
leaders of Brazil need to be more seated in honorable behavior so they can gain the trust
of the country. The controlling powers in the US fought inside US boundaries 3-4 times in
less than 100 years to maintain the nature of the country. Although underlying reasons
were due primarily to monetary reasons, the fact that people actually died to
create what Americans have is something that does not fade away fast. People tend to take
something more seriously when others have given their lives for it, this just isn't the
case in Brazil or most Latin countries, barring Cuba, which seems to be doing quite well
on its own. Myself, I plan on retiring in Brazil; I've found the "protestant" and
"virtuous" nature of our country has created a double-edge sword. We have
incredibly high suicide rates, soaring violence, no appreciation of the word
"vacation", no sense of humor and no ability to trust others since we all have
too much to lose in the way of material possessions. We have monetary security, but no way
of enjoying it. If we could have the American security mixed with the Brazilian attitude, then it truly
would be a perfect world ;) Until that happens (which I don't see occurring since
one always cancels out the other), we will have to continue jumping from one country to
the other, admiring how "green" the grass is on the other side. Great article! I'm glad you wrote it... Dear Mark Eberhart, You say that "you should mention that Brazil was founded mainly by
"opportunistic" people who came to reap the resources it offered". For
sure. That was more or less the point of noting that the model of land apportionment was
the 'captaincy'. It mirrored the feudal patterns of Europe where the Lords of the land
profited from resources extracted with the labor of peasants who might have been thought
of as indentured servants. But when you say that "The US was mainly founded by what
we might think of today as right-wing religious zealots who were avoiding persecution in
their own lands" I might argue that it was settled by many such people, but was only
later founded by conservative capitalists whose forefathers may have arrived here after
fleeing religious persecution. I don't have the figures before me but I doubt that many of our actual founding fathers
fled persecution in Europe. It’s altogether true that they intended to stay here (a
good point) and sought to emulate European society (another good observation). But
probably far fewer of them than you might imagine were thinking of the Magna Carta and far
more were probably thinking of the Monarchy. A wonderful History Channel special this past weekend noted that the American
Revolution was as much a 'civil' war as a revolutionary war; and that the number of Tories
("royalists") in the colonies was probably approximately as great as the number
of committed republicans. Benjamin Franklin's own son was a royalist and the two never
reconciled following the Revolution. I agree with you that different factors carried
greater weight in Latin America. Those factors seem to correlate most strongly to the
existence of direct ties to European monarchies that called the shots and proscribed the
transfer of that wealth from their colonies to the royal coffers. I thought that was
somewhat implied in my article but, again, I appreciate the observation. You say that "Many Latin American countries have been riddled with
corruption". Yes, but I want to respond to this statement to dispel the myth that it
derives from the natural evolution of Latin American society. And I would like to refute
the idea that North America has somehow remained largely immune to this socio-political
virus. This characteristic was once far more rampant in North American society than almost
anyone seems to recall. We in the United States are generally poor students of history;
which means that our 'national memory' leaves much to be desired. Before 'trust busting' legislation broke up the great monopolies, America's robber
barons (the Carnegies, the Rockefellers, the Morgans and so on) displayed as much
disregard for the legal rights of common citizens and acted with as much venal impunity as
did their Latin American counterparts. And, in a later era. corruption on a political
level was once as rampant in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami as it is today in
São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro or Salvador da Bahia. Organized crime in those days literally
"owned" those political administrations and, Elliot Ness notwithstanding, that
didn't end with the 'untouchables'. The only difference I can see between ACM in Salvador
and the late Mayor Richard J. Daly (Daley?) Sr. of Chicago is that the latter is no longer
with us. Labor Unions were once a bastion of corruption in the United States and political
influence peddling seems to be coming back into vogue. Without question, corruption has
been reasonably controlled throughout most of the United States over the last half century
or so. This cannot be said to have been the case throughout Latin America for most of that
same period. Why the difference? There are two factors. The long unbroken tradition of
rule by freely elected government representing the will of the people in the United States
has allowed the US Judiciary to serve its intended role in North American society. Court
decisions supporting legislative and other initiatives have been largely responsible for
thwarting carpetbaggers, robber barons, corporate greed, organized crime and more
straightforward political corruption. By contrast, the rule of freely elected government has been too frequently interrupted
in Latin America. But that issue needs to be examined more closely. How often has the will
of Latin American peoples been undermined or diverted by military coups in which the
United States has been an active subversive agent-participant? I directly refuted the myth
of Banana Republics in a September 2000 issue of Brazzil titled "Banana
Republic No More". I pointed out that CIA success in destabilizing the Arbenz government of Guatemala in
the early 1950s, and orchestrating the installation of a more cooperative military regime,
led to a pattern of such interventions in subsequent years. So no atmosphere allowing for
the protective actions of a judiciary that would discourage the existence, consolidation
and spread of corruption existed (for the most part) in Latin America but the US bears a
significant responsibility for that. The theme of my article was that good and bad fortune, circumstance, the availability
or lack of natural resources, the nature of those resources and other factors have been
woven into threads of history. And, from that, to assert that those threads of history are
far more responsible for any current differences between Brazil and the United States than
are lightly disguised racist perceptions that we North Americans are somehow superior to
Latin Americans. I applaud your challenges to my thesis because you offer me the
opportunity to address your perceptions, thereby (hopefully) improving my communication. You say "I feel pretty sure that our ability to have faith in our government is
due in no small part to our fight for independence. There is an overall feeling that the
US Government was and continues to be based…upon an honor system…" I agree
completely. And I agree that "People in Brazil have learned…to not rely upon the
government". But I'm confident that the underlying factors are more complex than you
had realized. And I hope I've been able to reveal the reasons why I feel that way. I'm
most grateful for your thoughtful and enthusiastic response and, most especially, for your
sincere and thoughtful consideration of the material you read in Brazzil. I tell
people that Brazzil has a great constituency and you're a perfect example of that.
Keep reading, keep writing, and thank you again. Most sincerely, As I have been studying Brazilian culture for 18 months now, the idea of miscegenation
has been one of particular interest to me. In my two trips to Bahia (Salvador and
Ilhéus), I paid special attention to what people perceived to be miscegenation. In the
eyes of an African-American, there wasn't that much mixing. What I saw was dark-skinned
blacks with light-skinned blacks (though some Brasileiros thought these Negroes
with pele clara were actually white), dark-skinned blacks with other dark-skinned
blacks and light-skinned blacks with other light-skinned blacks. Many people are under the impression that miscegenation in Brazil is so widespread. By
American standards maybe, but statistics actually prove that the mixing isn't as
widespread as it may appear! In my research I have discovered that 80 percent of all
Brazilians marry people within their own race. What Brazilians may perceive as a mixed
couple may not necessarily be a TRUE mixed couple. 83 percent of whites marry whites, 72
percent of pardos (i.e., light-skinned and not so light-skinned blacks) marry pardos
and 60 percent of pretos marry other pretos. The reason I have italicized the names of the races is because, as we know, there are
many blacks who refer to themselves as white and many pardos who are actually just
black. I know this to be true because most of the blacks that I met in Bahia told me that
on their birth certificates they were listed as pardos. This was true of blacks of
light skin and also blacks with very dark skin. In this sense, the question would be
"who is preto and who is pardo"? CRAZY!! Anyway, I have included a few articles that provide details of this study. One is an
interview with activist /teacher Joel Rufino and the other features statistics from
Brazilian marriages according to the last census. I am awaiting the results of the new
2000 census as I have read that it will not be ready until 2002. Anyway, I thought this
study might make a good article in a future issue of Brazzil. Keep the news coming... I am an intern at the Belleayre Music Festival in High Mount, NY. I am writing because
we have several concerts this season and one of them is a Brazilian Jazz Band. I was
wondering if you have any publicity materials you can include this information in. The
following is more detailed information on us and our concert. A red-hot evening of Brazilian-flavored jazz is sure to raise the temperature under the
Big White Tent during the "Jazz and Jobim" show starring Romero Lubambo with
Trio Da Paz and special guests Cesar Camargo Mariano, Brazil's leading pianist, arranger
and composer, and Herbie Mann, one of the art form's groundbreaking flutists. Date: Saturday, August 18th at 8 pm. For more information please call (800) 942-6904 or visit our website at
www.belleayremusic.org I read with great interest Philip Mizewski's article in the June issue comparing Brazil
and the US. I have to disagree with his stance that Brazilian blacks contributed more to
their society than US blacks. Perhaps he should elaborate on this in a future article. I
am only aware of contributions from black Brazilians in areas of sports, samba and
cooking. In the US Dr. Charles Drew performed the first open-heart surgery. Several US
blacks have been space travel pioneers. Roosevelt's Rough Riders owe many of their
victories to black cavalry units. Black explorer Matthew Hensen was first to the north
pole. Both Edison and Bell had black assistants working on their telephone and light bulb
inventions. It's doubtful that the US would be the superpower that it has become without the
contributions of its black citizens over the last few centuries. Need further proof? Just
look at the contributions that US blacks make when it comes to Olympic medals for the US!
And we know the US always gets the most medals! Right? Brian, I very much appreciate your observations on the contributions of blacks in the
US to North American society! The role of blacks in the North American Revolutionary and
Civil Wars, for example, is almost unknown by most people. A member of the famed WWII
black air squadron (that never lost a single bomber they were escorting) lives in my
community. The first US woman millionaire, Madame CJ Walker, was black. She established
her business and began to generate her fortune in my community. George Washington Carver
was a world-renowned black inventor. The contributions of individual blacks, or in some
cases small groups of blacks, to society in the United States are everything you suggest
and more. In my article I was addressing the influence of African culture (through Brazilian
blacks) on Brazilian culture. Your references to the contributions of North American
blacks to US society are, as I've indicated, "everything you suggest and more".
But those contributions were not tied to African culture. And culture is painted with a
broad brush and largely fails to account for what individual have done. I would like to
review with you the excerpts from my article that prompted your e-mail (which, by the way,
I am very grateful for): "…slave owners in the United States were much more determined to eliminate
native African culture and religious practices.... African slaves and their descendants in
Brazil were far more successful in preserving traditional practices brought with them...
Consequently, they've made substantially greater contributions to Brazilian society than
African slaves and their descendents in North America were able to make. There exists
then, in Brazil, a foundation for personal pride based on known heritage that has been
denied African Americans". African cultural influences in the United States, including African religious
influences, were effectively extinguished by North American slave holding society before
they could be realized. African religious practice is still, with very few exceptions,
altogether absent. There is no parallel between the environment of tolerance for African
culture and religion that existed in Brazil from 1500 to 1900 and the effective denial of
any opportunity to establish African cultural and religious practice in North America
throughout the same period. US African-American cultural influence is a recent phenomena when taken in historical
perspective. It really only emerged in the 1900s, and became well established through the
contributions of Blacks in music and film. Since the 1960s African-American contributions
in athletic endeavors have become just as significant although individual instances could
have been pointed to before that time. But Blacks (as an existing extension of African
culture) in Brazil contributed to the development and evolution of Brazilian culture from
the time of their first arrival on Brazilian soil. So from the 1500s Africans in Brazil were exhibiting African cultural practices and
religious observances that were never permitted here. At times those practices were more
or less discouraged or camouflaged ("whitened") in Brazil, but they were never
effectively suppressed. For that reason, no one has ever been able to think of Brazilian
culture without feeling the influence that African rhythms, African fashions and African
foods have had on the development of that culture. And the magnitude of impact from that
influence is cumulative. African Brazilians today have inherited 5 centuries of pride in
African cultural influences that were never denied. I most sincerely appreciate your letter because my article was not intended to diminish
the contributions of blacks in the United States to North American society. Rather only to
point out that centuries of African influence in Brazil carry significantly more cultural
weight, leading to an enhanced sense of ethnic pride. By writing you have provided me an
opportunity to clarify that very important point. Thank you, and keep reading and writing! I am not sure why Brazzil was sent to me. It is strange because I did once live
in Brazil (in the early seventies when Medici et al. were in power). But I have never been
back & to my knowledge have never inquired about Brazil. Why do you spell Brazil with
two z's ? I used to live in Santos. At that time Brazil was experiencing "the
Brazilian miracle" and there was amazing confidence all around. "O Brasil merece
o nosso amor" (Brazil deserves our love.) Well, thank you for sending me the
articles. I read and enjoyed them. Brazil like California is being taken by those that control the big money. Best way to
bring the masses to their knees is water and power. Separate and conquer is their
philosophy. All of the states in America are waiting for their turn to black out. 1984 is
at hand. George Orwell. Then the world. I think it’s great to see students getting involved in government issues as they
are here in America and all over the world. Hey, the world belongs to the young kids, not
those old school greedy and stiff-neck ancients who want to control our love given bodies
and souls that belong to us and the creator of the universe. How can I find dear ones that were my buddies on the Internet from São Paulo, Brazil?
Are the blackouts and the Internet cost affecting the public there? Haven't heard from
them in a month. Also looking for an investor to open up a cyber café here in Indio
California. Email me at sirknightrider@webtv.net
I am so happy to find a publication like this. I am not Brazilian, but I spent four
months living there, in Ceará and in Salvador, BA. I fell in love. I'm excited to see if Brazzil
magazine can "matar a saudade" that I feel for my second home. Obrigada!
Sangue americano, alma baiana. Our Website is a Caribbean information based site and having visited your magazine
Website, we seek your permission to link your magazine from within our suite so as to
inform and satisfy our visitors with your information. We invite you to visit
www.1-caribbean.com Hi, I'm from New York in the United States and would like to know if you know if there
will be a Terra Nostra 2? I am completely obsessed with this novela! It's
incredible! If there will be a Terra Nostra 2, will it be shown in the United States?
Please give me any information about Terra Nostra 2, it will be appreciated! The articles about the blacks in Brazil are interesting. I very much respect Brazilians
for the fair treatment that was given to African throughout history. Brazil is a great
country. Always continue to handle yourselves in a peaceful manner. I just recently set up a site with loads of useful info on Brazil in English. It's
called www.gringoes.com as is mostly geared towards foreigners living in Brazil or those
outside Brazil who would like to visit here. I would like to suggest exchanging links. Let
me know what you think. I am contacting you on behalf of the 'Lupo & Agnello Editori', an Italian
publishing company that is consistently investing on the web. So far, some 20 sites have
been successfully launched by us, with a constantly increasing average of hits per week,
currently resting on the 80 000 units per site, with peaks overcoming the 200 000 units
per week. Whilst about half of these sites are associated to cultural, sportive or traditional
events (like, for instance, Christmas) we are about to launch our main sites. One of this
is entirely dedicated to Italian food and wine, with about 3000 recipes available to the
final user. All these recipes are matched to an Italian wine. We are also about to set up a web site dedicated to world food, so to complement our
Italian gastronomic site. This is why I am contacting you. After having been browsing your
site, and having found 6 recipes from Brazil and introductory text, I would like to ask
your permission to place them on the section of our site dedicated to this country. Would
this be the case, an acknowledgement note and a link to your site will be placed at the
bottom of each and every recipe you would allow us to host. Should you accept, please forward me a fax number (inclusive of international code) to
where I can send a contract with which you will give us a non exclusive permission to do
what outlined above. This will be properly signed from our part as you will receive it. I help represent STOMP in San Francisco. This is the first permanent company of STOMP
outside of New York. I thought perhaps you might be interested in profiling one of the
members of the company, Paolo dos Santos. Paolo is from Brazil, where he studied dance,
percussion, and capoeira. He began playing percussion under the direction of José
Ricardo of Balé Folclórico da Bahia and has played with such groups as Levada do Pelô
and Chiclete com Banana. STOMP is a very carefully choreographed dance percussion show, but within the
choreography, individual performers are expected to improvise and contribute rhythms from
their background and culture. Paolo is able to use his Brazilian percussion and capoeira
training in the show, representing the South American beat of STOMP. I am a 23 year old student currently living in Utah. I once lived in Brazil for two
years while I was serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I
have often thought of going back with my wife to teach English for a year or so. If you
have any information you might be able to send me it would be greatly appreciated. The
city I mostly stayed in was Curitiba in the state of Paraná. If there are any job
openings in or near that area, maybe you could let me know ASAP. Recently I encountered in your Letters session a subscriber interested in opening a
restaurant in Seattle area, would you please put me in contact with her.I am already in
the business and feel this to be a matching made in heaven. Your website is fantastic,
Wonderful work and great coverage. Keep it up. Thanks. I am a counselor at Sonoma State University. This year’s theme for our middle
school academic academy is Discovering Brazil. On July 31st we are having our closing
ceremony and would like some entertainment from Brazil. We are located one hour north of
San Francisco and Berkeley in California. I need some contacts so that the students will
have a closing ceremony with a Brazilian bang. Please help us. Kindly e-mail me information regarding teaching English in Brazil. I have years of
experience teaching ESL in several other countries. Will arrive in Tabatinga, Brazil, 10
July. Available for interviews thereafter. Saudações, staff da revista Brazzil! Gostaria de pedir uma ajuda de vocês a
respeito de um produtor musical brasileiro chamado Mario Caldato Jr. que trabalha em Los
Angeles. Ele tem um estúdio chamado MCJ Sound e já fez trabalhos para muitos músicos
brasileiros, o ultimo deles com uma banda do Rio, o Planet Hemp (A Invasão do Sagaz Homem
Fumaça) e já fez também trabalhos com bandas famosas dos Estados Unidos como os Beastie
Boys (Check Your Head). Já procurei em revistas especializadas e não encontrei nenhuma
informação como endereço, telefone ou e-mail que me fizesse entrar em contato com ele.
Fico desde já agradecido pela atenção dispensada! Existe vários programas na emissora Globo que sao úteis, como o Jornal Nacional e
outros, mas eu acho que seria mais um ponto se a emissora abrisse espaço para o gospel.
Eu gostaria de ver um (a) cantor (a) evangélico apresentar um programa evangélico na
Globo, pelo fato de que a Globo já faz parte da família brasileira e pelo fato de que
todos nós presisamos de Deus Eu adoro sua revista, mas não entendo porque vocês deixam que aqueles posts sobre
a Xuxa infestem o forum. Tá certo que ela é brasileira, mas fora isso é totalmente
off-topic. Por favor, coloquem um moderador naquele forum ou pelo menos umas regras sobre
o que é aceitável ou não. Esses lunáticos fãs da Xuxa estão transformando o que
poderia ser um ótimo lugar para discutir, por exemplo, os artigos da revista, em um ponto
de encontro para o seu fã clube. Eu acho que a revista Brazzil é muito útil para os brasileiros que vivem nos
Estados Unidos, por isso acho que deveria ser escrita tambem em português.Vocês nao
acham que devem mudar a qualidade do papel da revista também? Bonjour. Pourrais je trouver le livre de José de Alencar Iracema en Français?
Si oui, où? Merci de me répondre. Can't you
find Brazzil at your Brazilian consulate?
July-August 2001
Letters
The More It Changes
Arsênio Fornaro
Newark, New Jersey
Nonsense
Bevon Benjamin
Via Internet
The Author Responds
Philip Mizewski
Bahia Bound
Brian C
Via Internet
Let’s Hear it for Bahia
Larry Winters
Via Internet
Brazilian Plunge
Ceja Mejias Ciaran
Via Internet
Help, Someone
John E. Helbok
jehelbok@optonline.net
Portuguese Is Not Brazilian
Bruno Valente
Via Internet
That Was Carolina
Maria de Jesus
RJT
Via Internet
Trying to Survive
Brian Coffee
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
English Taught Here
Sabrina Oosman
Via Internet
Just a Little Love
Mark Eberhart
Via Internet
Mizewski Answers:
Philip Mizewski
Black or White?
MrMarques
Via Internet
Jobim Night
Meaghann
High Mount, New York
Black Role
Brian C
Via Internet
An Answer from Mizewski
Philip Mizewski
Oddly Good
Nancy Calabrez
Via Internet
Lost and Found
Gil
Indio, California
Dual Citizenship
Lauren (Laura) Gill
University of Richmond, Maryland
Caribbean Touch
Ulric Hewitt
Toronto, Canada
info@1-caribbean.com
Yes & Yes
Heidy
Via Internet
Be Peace Be with You
Sunflower9923513@aol.com
Gringos Go Here
Kieran
Brazil, Via Internet
Food for Talk
Mariela Valente
roma01@lupoagnello.com
Stomping in California
Shawn Ferreyra
Burlingame, California
Ready to Teach
John Ivie
iviejohn@hotmail.com
Heaven Didn’t Wait
Ren Souza
rsouza@networld.com
Fun Fest
Ivona
Sonoma, California
ESL Anyone?
Vincent Sarino
vincentsarino@yahoo.com
Just Looking
Marcos Correia de Melo
correiagralha@hotmail.com
Free Advice
Freddie Cory
Via Internet
Unloved Blonde
Patrícia
Via Internet
Going Bilingual
Rita Norman
Newbury Park, CA
RSVP
Joelle Ascione
Don't ask us why, ask the consulate.
