[Amour Fou]

A friend of mine sent me a link to a Youtube video on Brazil... I found it very beautiful and thought of sharing it with you guys.

I miss home!!

[Mrs. Chocolate]

Esse vídeo não tem negros e índios. Tá ótimo.

[Vacancier Permanent]

Nice video Amour!
Chocolatinha, that's true and very sad indeed.

But boy do I miss Brasil!

[Roosh]

Nice video but I don't recall many of these scenes when I lived in Brazil.

Talk about whitewash.

[Amour Fou]

(12-09-2011 05:59 AM)Mrs. Chocolate Wrote:  

Esse vídeo não tem negros e índios. Tá ótimo.

touché!

That video popped up when I was feeling a bit homesick, didn't even realise that.

It is a sad fact that the native population in Brazil is completely non-existent in the main metropolis. I think that might be somewhat different in other South American countries...

[Mr.GM]

I guess this is more "real" Brazil! O Rio continua Lindo!(But Rio stills beautiful!)
hehe (2:40 the action starts )

[Locksmith]

Guys, we're falling here on dangerous, automatic and dogmatic "Politically Correct" terrain IMO. Be careful.

Look closer: the video tries to play the card of "self-identification" i.e. the Western tourist seeing himself/herself in Brazil. Corporate people are extracted from a boring meeting in NY and are catapulted to a Brazilian vacation context. The main characters are clearly foregneirs in several scenes. Even if you don't like the video, think of its purpose and target audience.

There are about 700 thousand people who call themselves indians in Brazil, a country with a population of almost 200 million inhabitants. Except for awful Peruvian flute bands, I haven't seen any stereotyped indians at the beach in Rio or in the main tourist attractions.

If we were to keep ethnic quotas, one could for instance think about the 22 million Brazilians of Arab descent. Brazil is far from perfect, but this is the the sort of discussion that IMO will never be constructive. Let's be proud to be mixed! Note: the "blacks" in Rio have 52% of european genes on average. Google the DNA research results if race is such a big issue for you.

Let's get together and mix up all the genes!

[Hencredible Casanova]

(12-09-2011 12:07 AM)Amour Fou Wrote:  

A friend of mine sent me a link to a Youtube video on Brazil... I found it very beautiful and thought of sharing it with you guys.

I miss home!!

Haha. Guess they're taking note of the success of those ads from Colombia's Tourism Board. This is not the Brazil I know.

[MiXX]

(12-09-2011 05:59 AM)Mrs. Chocolate Wrote:  

Esse vídeo não tem negros e índios. Tá ótimo.

RsRSRSRS....funny!!


Mixx

[Mrs. Chocolate]

@Locksmith: Yes, race is such a big thing for me. Is not about DNA, but a video that is not Brazil. Even a beautiful Brazil could be showed in a better view, IMO. The edition is not that great, although the shooting is amazing. The brazilian mixed society as you called in your answer is not there. The variety of cultures from North and Northeast is not there. Just a bunch of forests (beautiful forests) and a foreigner visiting everything BY THEMSELVES. There is no contact with any person...
The storytelling is poor.
Why am I saying that? Who am I to say such things? I am a post production professional, or if you prefer, a video editor.

[Locksmith]

(12-10-2011 01:47 PM)Mrs. Chocolate Wrote:  

@Locksmith: Yes, race is such a big thing for me. Is not about DNA, but a video that is not Brazil. Even a beautiful Brazil could be showed in a better view, IMO. The edition is not that great, although the shooting is amazing. The brazilian mixed society as you called in your answer is not there. The variety of cultures from North and Northeast is not there. Just a bunch of forests (beautiful forests) and a foreigner visiting everything BY THEMSELVES. There is no contact with any person...
The storytelling is poor.
Why am I saying that? Who am I to say such things? I am a post production professional, or if you prefer, a video editor.

I could agree with you on one point: promoting tourism could be greatly improved. Brazil gets what, 5 or 6 million tourists a year, whereas a country like Spain gets up to 40 million foreign visitors a year. The contexts and continents are obviously different, but still.... I hope you will help make a difference!