Being Brazilian
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a BBC Podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use |
| 0:05.0 | at BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Julia Carnero, born in Brazil, brought up in Rio de Janeiro. |
| 0:25.1 | In this BBC World Service series, being Brazilian, |
| 0:29.0 | I'm going to explore an unpicked Brazilian identity |
| 0:32.0 | and share with you some of what my fellow Brazilians think, feel and dream of. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm heading on a journey to meet all kinds of people across Brazil |
| 0:42.0 | from Salvador in the Northeast to Porto Alegre in the South |
| 0:46.0 | to try to get to the heart and soul of what it means to be Brazilian. |
| 0:59.0 | These are verses from Cordello Literature, |
| 1:02.0 | a popular art and storytelling in Brazil's Northeast, |
| 1:05.0 | combining poetry, music and humor. |
| 1:08.0 | Antonio Barreto is a Cordello writer and a teacher. |
| 1:12.0 | He lives in the city of Salvador, but is proud of his rural origins, |
| 1:16.0 | which he keeps alive through his work, one way of being Brazilian. |
| 1:25.0 | Being Brazilian is difficult to define, |
| 1:27.0 | but we are not that different from other people around the world. |
| 1:30.0 | A Brazilian doesn't just like football. |
| 1:33.0 | We also enjoy art and culture. |
| 1:35.0 | And, of course, since childhood, what's always been close to our hearts |
| 1:39.0 | is our relationships with our families. |
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