Probably indonesia 🇮🇩 OR the nordic countries region for example it's interesting to me that leftist finland would have a high gun ownership rate or that all of these countries are city states except for Sweden 🇸🇪 which is the only one with real geographic diversity in it's population distribution. It'll be interesting to learn how these countries evolved from the viking age and got to where they are today.
Please do Argentina next. It's 5 regions (Patagonia, Cuyo, Pampas, Northeast, Northwest) are so diverse and is such an underestimated country in terms of landscape and geography.
@@creely123 The portuguese on their own coudn't do much, they needed the "help" of some african "friends" and the wisdom of the native americans that they asked "very gently" about the region and it's recources.
@@frp3337 Yes, it is very different. Brazil is the United States of South America do to its large and diverse population with 1 single dominant language to unify it all.
I agree, but unfortunately most of the data is incorrect. It was made from good intent I am sure, but you sld have checked with a Brazilian person before make the vídeo though..
As a Brazilian, quick notes: 1. Placing Rio de Janeiro into the "Greater São Paulo" region will get you killed down here hehehe 2. The waves of Germans, Italians, Poles and Japanese immigrants that separate the cultural trait of the North from that of the South/Southeast came MUCH later, as the country was modernizing (independence, industrialization, ...) from around the 1850's..., so the Portuguese presence was never "not there" since the 1500's 3. Curiosity: the central area of Brazil (Planalto Central) was actually barren until recently, when modern agricultural techniques of adding potassium (or nitrogen?) and lime, and GMO soybeans transformed it 4. Not sure I'd agree with central part of Brazil being considered more relevant than the Northeast... that tends to be the view from people from São Paulo, kinda like people from NY and LA talk about "fly-over states", y'know? Apart from that, a very fair assessment! If you're interested in Brazilian geopolitics, would love to chat - I have a more progressive/liberal view of things, but find your takes very rich and informative
The regional map shown in 0:38 is the legally correct one. Although your goal was to make the subdivision based on cultural differences, our legal system specifies those specific regions. Although the regions are not specifically written in the Constitution, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statiatics (IBGE) is responsible for the census and for adjusting the regional layout according to culture, nature and economy.
A bit of modern myth believed by many Brazilians is that the Sul was barren until the Germans, Italians, and other later migrants arrived there. The original Brazilian gaúcho was of Portuguese origin. The frontiersman fighting skirmishes against the Argentinean gauchos to defend the southern border. These Portuguese included a lot of migrants from the Portuguese Atlantic islands, giving the original local culture a distinctive flavor, even among the larger Portuguese cultural hegemon of the rest of the colony.
São Paulo dweller here. My skin is made of concrete and i breath heavy smoke. I love money and taking 3 hours on public transportation between home and work.
To be honest, this idea of separatism between states isn't something discussed in reality, apart from edgy teenagers/adults. Moreover, no state can certainly distance itself from others without losing prominence, because Brazil's potential is collective, and everyone knows that (except for small groups on the internet)... Perhaps one day Brazil will distance itself from external pressure, and then industrialization will get stronger.
Furthermore, if a civil war were to occur (which would be the only way separation could happen) and a state became a nation, that nation would just become another Uruguay or Paraguay, places without much relevance.
Brasil é uma potência imperialista que se aproveita dos seus vizinhos e da população, prometem essa industrialização desde da epoca do império e nunca chegou brasil é como leviathan só existe para sugar a sua população
@@luiz_henriqve I think that only extremists in the South talk about separatism today. I say that because i'm born and live in the South (Rio Grande do Sul)
@@helintonmello1687 Exactly! And these people's view is opportunistic and pragmatic, as they not only want to separate but also want to take with them states like: São Paulo, Paraná, and both Mato Grossos. São Paulo, because it is industrialized, Paraná and both Matos Grossos because of the strong agronomy and livestock.
Never place Rio and São Paulo on the same category or subdivision while hinting that one controls the other. Those 2 fight for dominance on every occasion, the region was agreed on to be called southeast precisely because of those 2 and Minas fighting over it
Rio só tem um pib maior que minas por causa do petróleo, aquela região toda parou de ser importante quando Brasília foi criada, minas e sp controlam o brasil desde que o império acabou e o RJ só ta la no meio
As a Brazilian from Minas Gerais, the only thing that i can add to the video is that i would not divide my state in this way The northern part of Minas Gerais can go to Northeast, the Triângulo region can go to Goiás and the south to São Paulo, but definitely the rest of the state is not similar to São Paulo and Rio, we kinda have our own thing in the middle, specially in the capital Belo Horizonte, and also many historical villages like Ouro Preto wich i am really sure that don't belong to the same region of Rio de Janeiro
Being not Brazilian, guy missed some important nuances about the country. Definetly Minas Gerais has their own thing going on, and it's culturally very strong. It is not just a copy of São Paulo or Rio. There's this whole mineiro culture going on, on cuisine, poetry, music, in the small historical towns...
@@gabrielmoreno9455 He put São Paulo and Rio in the same sack. He's unaware of reality. It looks like he watched a tiktok about Brasil and tried to make a video out of it.
I think the point is that we are not just talking about culture, he is taking into account several sociological aspects, and this region in question is very marked by industrialization and globalization
@@zuarbrincar769 Well yes, by definition imperialism. It was from São Paulo that the expeditions for Brazil's interior (Center-West region) came from, consequently they were the ones to leave their marks on the region, hence the historic, cultural and linguistic (accent in this case) similarities with São Paulo. Mato Grosso do Sul in its entirety is indistinguishable from countryside São Paulo, those are almost twin states. Then we have portions of northern Paraná, southern Mato Grosso, southern Minas Gerais and southern Goiás. That's basically the where all Sertanejo singers come from 😅
@@zuarbrincar769 True, there's some, though I wouldn't call it strong. Gaucho culture in Brazil is strong in southern Rio Grande do Sul, above that... glimpses.
@@zuarbrincar769 more of a region with common cultural background. If you take an old map of Brazil (really old, like XVIII century), you'll see that all that region was called "São Paulo". It was the land colonized by the Bandeirantes, the Caipira culture.
@@Elix111 Yes, we translate the name, they don't. That's the easy way. They could call Rio de Janeiro "January's River" and have no issue in saying it, but that's not the case. Point is, when one has to pronounce names in different languages they will have their native language phonetics with them, and harping on it is as common as it is useless.
About linguists, here in Brazil there was a large number of people who talked german, Italian and Japanese prior to ww2, mostly around the south and southeast regions, however during ww2 it was prohibited to speak and teach any other language besides Portuguese, this of course didn't include private schools, but it affected the children of many migrants who couldn't learn their parents languages anymore.
Basically all of them talked German and Italian. Either partly like at home only or fully. From what I know only German and Italian was prohibited, not all languages except for Portuguese. But the focus was more so on the German part. The government even illegalized all sorts of clubs of Germans (Italians too?) or they had to change crests that showcase a connection to Germany/Germanness and change rules to also allow non-Germans and speak Portuguese only + non-ethnical conduct of the club generally speaking. But that already started to gradually happen prior to ww2 (in which Brazil didn’t even participate until like 1944) in an attempt make all Brazilians the same/mixed. That part of Brazilian history is really interesting and intriguing to me.
@@中文学习者 Improvável, com a industrialização e expansão da comunicação em massa no século XX, o mais provável era que essas línguas morressem naturalmente ou se tornassem pidgin com a língua portuguesa, mas de uso extremamente regional.
@@ElementalAer União Europeia funciona bem. Acredito que haveria sim, o aprendizado da lingua portuguesa para negocios com o resto do brasil ou quem sabe o italiano? Ja que a força motora industrial é de SP. Sou do sul, e tenho certeza, que as pessoas daqui iriam preferir falar a lingua materna de seus antepassados.
@@alexandrecaboski Isso ocorreu também na Europa. Olhe para a França, que conseguiu quase matar suas línguas irmãs no território, ou Itália, que com a unificação forçou uma única variante como língua "italiana". Como havia dito, é improvável que em um país unificado, mais de uma língua exista e as outras se mantenham em uso.
10:00 I am an ethnically German Brazilian living in the southernmost state and I can confirm, the secessionist movement here isn't too serious today as it was in the past. Also, as a German person, I don't like seeing my country being split. 💀☠
São Paulo: Mostly right as far as I can know. Just remember the interior is very different than the coast. Maranhão: This name is of a single state which is very different from the rest of the country. A more accurate name would be "Bahia region", as this region is largely an extension of bahian culture. South: Very right. Central Brazil: Very right. Also this region is as sparse as the MidWest US. Amazon: Very right. The last comment is true. Brazil is mostly São Paulo and Central region and both enough to make the country function.
Extensão da cultura baiana? Nada a ver irmão, Alagoas e Paraíba se assemelham muito a Pernambuco (Alagoas era parte de Pernambuco, inclusive), Ceará, Maranhão e Piauí tem semelhanças entre si mas são completamente diferentes da Bahia. Extension of bahian culture? I don't think so. Alagoas and Paraíba are very similar to Pernambuco (Alagoas was even part of Pernambuco), Ceará, Maranhão and Piauí have similarities between themselves but are completely different from Bahia. Edit: forgot to add translation
@@wavewatcher_ são Paulo is not the central city of the region, the southeast region has two centers Rio and são Paulo , you do not call the boswash region of the greater New York, you mame the cities that marks the bounds
Curitiba where I am from had a large Polish and Ukrainian population, there I was called "Polaco" the racial slur from immigrants from that region, and they say I look like Andry Shevchenko, I live in the US and people think I am Russian, I am a little mixed with Brazilian (Portugueses) and Venezuelan(Spanish Criollo) too.
I wouldn't say "polaco" is a racial slur, it's just a different version of the word "polish". Portuguese people still use "polaco" instead of "polonês", but I dunno, could be wrong and "polaco" really became a slur
@@diegoyanesholtz212 i am aware, but as somebody already mentioned, in portuguese it is almost interchangeable and not used with negative connotations. the looking down on other whites who aren’t the same as the colonisers you descend from was really only common in north america as they were consistently the majority. in latin america it was and is still quite the opposite: it is celebratory to be non-portuguese (or spanish) european, as you are seen as more white. it’s not like in the us where they didn’t see italians or irish as white. in latin anerica levantines arabs, north africans, jews and turks easily merge into the white population. whereas in the us or canada with the exception of white jews, no matter how white you are, if you’re an arab, turk, berber or whatever, you will be seen as non-white.
Make no mistake - in the South, the vast majority supports secession. Only "edgy teenagers" (from other regions) will say otherwise, because it hurts their childish feelings that Southerners want away from them. Exactly the opposite of what they say here in the comments. The currently largest separatist movement in the southern region ("O Sul é o meu País") held two huge informal referendums in 2016 and 2017, separatists won around 96% of the vote.
@@GabrielCastro-l8p 96% of over 600,000 people. Google "half million southern brazilians want out" (That was the Washington Post headline, they covered the Referendum).
Good video, but I think you could've mentioned the true Gaucho populations and the povos das missoes; whites and mestizos from the south that share a lot in common with Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay in culture and lifestyle.
@@MonsieurDean It's astonishing that our countries hold multiple cultures so alien to each other yet they are so similar and united by a common American/Brazilian identity :)
@@MonsieurDean Also I'm from Acre, the most West state of Brazil, and similar to Texas, we had our on republic founded by brazilian immigrants that settled the at the time Bolivian territory to develop and explore the rubber trees of the region :). Which, the British smuggled millions of rubber tree seeds into Asia, kickstarting the rubber production there
I've read that there is a population of Southerners, descendants of people who left the American (USA) south at the end of the US civil war (The War of Northern Aggression).
The brazilian interior/midwest today is highly productive due to mechanized agriculture, you said brazil could be summarized as the southeast and this midwest, but don't forget the midwest is very productive today because it was settled by southern farmers who carried their knowledge and capital there, and the region only became viable for agriculture when fertilizers became available. Before that, most of brazil's agriculture production (for internal consumption) was in the south, while a chunk of what brazil produced for export (coffee plantations) was in são paulo Also, the way brazil works is that the states send their profit to brazil's capital city and then the federal governement redistributes this money back to the states to make "equity", the least productive states get more and more productive ones get less, and the states in the south and southeast operate on a net negative, they pay more money to the federal government than they get back, while the states in the northeast mostly receive a lot more funding than they provide. All three states in the south pay more than 50 billion in tributes to the federal government and receive about 10 billion back, a net negative of more than 40 billion São paulo is the worst offender though, of course, paying about 500 billion and getting back less than 50 billion
that is correct (brazil is more communist than europeans / americans could possibly imagine) but São Paulo is not the worst off, because the country's internal arrangement actually benefits them... every major company (including foreign companies like amazon) must have their main office in São Paulo, the central government (brasilia) arranges things so as to make every other state depend on them. Brazil is what the US and Europe are becoming.
Já acho muito chato que em qualquer video que fale do Brasil 80% ou mais dos comentarios são de brasileiros! Desculpem, mas eu tambem sou brasileiro!!!
Italian, German etc came much later to than Portuguese. Immigrants should adapt to the local culture anyways, having pockets of the country speaking different foreign languages wouldn't be good
@@Forlfir Why? Having a cultural diversity is bad? These immigrants founded entire cities and shared their culture until Vargas prohibited them because of the war. And they would probably use their native language at home and portuguese in general, like in Italy.
@@fuzekkjThe immigrants had mixed loyalties. Loyalty to the nation was a priority. The language policy allowed them to integrate into the greater Brazilian identity
@@joao.fenix1473If the axis had made a better proposal to Vargas than the US did, he wouldn't care a damn about which language or which country immigrants have loyalty to, this was just a dictator's political move.
@@fuzekkj if it can be a threat to national unity yes it is bad, which it was since there were many of them in the same areas. We are not talking about native languages of the territory but foreigners who were welcomed by a new country, they adapt or go back home. I'm telling you this as someone with Italian origins who lives in Italy. Italy is one of the most divided countries of the major ones here in Europe specially because of the strong regional identities due to the different languages/dialects spoken and the fact that it was unified much later than France for example. Brazil is a melting pot but even a melting pot needs to have a common denominator.
Great video! It's good to know that there are people out there who are interested in learning more about our country. The only issue i would like to point out is: why would you get a map of Brazil in which everything is written in Spanish (0:38)? One of the most important things people from other countries should know about Brazil is that we do not speak Spanish here, and it's very annoying when people try to speak Spanish with us. I'm sure it was not your intention, and it certainly does not compromise the video, but I couldn't help noticing it. With that being said, thanks for your hard work. We appreciate that!
@@joaopedro-t4h7x We make jokes by calling the Portuguese stupid. But... apparently Mexicans, Colombians and Argentines make the same kind of jokes with Spanish people.
You've made log in just to point out two things: 1) the letter H is a strange one in portuguese, depending on where it's placed in a word, and which letters it's coupled with, it can either have no sound whatsoever (homem isn't pronounced like "romem", but "omem"), or having an "i" aditive sound (Maranhão isn't "Maranrao", but "Maraniau"). Oh, yeah, the "~" accent... It... Changes how to pronounce the vowels, we can even joke that there's not 5 vowels in portuguese, but 6 or 7: A to U, plus Ão and Õe, which sound respectively like a "A" or "O" spoken as if you're with a cold, plus "O" or "E". Maranhão is quite the portuguese unique word, since it uses both the "H" changing sound, and an letter with ~. Sure the spanish speaker have some similar words, but I don't know if they have "nh", "lh" phonenms. 2) thus we fall under the second point: hearing "Ba-ria" in place of "Ba-ia" for Bahia is funny as fuck. Since H has no sound in that structure. The reason for the name being as such as some historical bearing, I guess, and I reckon that at some point, the letter H did change a few more phonenms. But not anymore. Cheers, m8.
Also, Rio De Janeiro is pronounce "Hee-oh Je Juh-neiro", Sao Paulo is pronounced "ˈsɐ̃w̃ ˈpaw.lu", Cerrado is pronounced "Seh-had-o", Caatinga is pronounced "Ca-ching-a", Pantanal is pronounced "Pan-tan-now", Belém is pronounced "beˈlẽɪ̯̃"(the M at the end there is not pronounced), and even Brazil is pronounced "Braz-zew".
I am really enjoying these videos breaking down countries by their cultural regions. And, as a Brazilian myself, I think you did a pretty good job overall describing my country.
I think it would have been worth mentioning the Dutch influence in the northeast region of the country, especially in Recife, where their influence was tremendous.
@@jit085blond people in the Northeast are mostly descendent of Portuguese people (who are sometimes blond), not the dutch, which left almost no trace whatsoever
@@marcomartins3563 Não sei no resto da região, mas em recife é visível a influência deles na arquitetura e cultura da região, Maurício de Nassau ergueu a cidade para se tornar uma das grandes metrópoles do país no futuro, apesar de realmente não tiveram tanta influência etnicamente, já que os holandeses raramente mandavam colonos para cá
Northeastern brazilians with light hair complexions are largely decendand of northern portuguese settlers who arrived in the late colonial period, not the dutch as its sometimes implied.
I live in the southern region of Brazil, it is a region with a strong cultural aspect (just like Texas) and has a great influence of European culture (mainly Germans and Italians), unlike the image that most people have of Brazil, here it tends to snow every year.
I have some appointments : I. The "greater São Paulo" is a problematic name haha. As many have already mentioned, São Paulo and Rio have very distinct cultures. I think you could have divided it in 3 sub regions and called the macroregion something like " The Coffee belt" or just "Southeast". The 3 subregions would be "Rio" , "São Paulo" and "Minas Gerais". II. Maranhão is incorrectly assigned. The northeast region subdivisions should be "Zona da Mata" ( forest zone) and "Sertão"- where you find the caatinga biome. III. The southeast region were in the Portuguese side of the Tordesillas treaty aswell, but the mountainous geography meant it was more difficult to settle there. IV. You nailed it with Planalto Central. The best name possible. V. In the northern region, a better subdivision would be , "Manaus" and "Pará - Maranhão". It is funny because despite the State of Maranhão is attributed to the Northeast region, its capital , São Luiz, have more cultural and economic affinity to the Northern region.
It's hilarious how in a short time this video attracted the typical redditor who will repeat the same words like "separatism is something for edgy teenagers". The NPC meme continues to prove true.
Because it is. The Southern Separatists could hardly put up fight against their own Police Forces, even less against the already very anemic and underfunded Federal Military. And again, their country would ultimately be an insignificant (and corrupt) Republic, like most of South America. And that is if it were even a proper Republic, instead of them returning to their early 19th century Oligarchy style of ruling, which would be most likely. They depend more on the rest of the country, than the country depends of them, than their pride and racism allows them to admit.
Don't worry if this political discourse is predominant and serious about the most developed regions, due to the internal corruption of the Brazilian state, the loss to drug trafficking and the deficient infrastructure will offer the separation of these regions when the fatal crises of the current century arrive, see, demographic crisis.
the amazon regions biggest cities are Manaus and Belém. Manaus has one of the biggest industrial areas of the nation, with many international companies settling there thanks to a "tax heaven" zone called, in portuguese: Zona Franca de Manaus, kinda like : the industrial zone of manaus. There, many of the nations electronics and cars are made! great video!
As a Brazilian, you considered my region South, and I gotta say something, our winters are cold but the summer is super hot and we aren't as europe influenced, more japanese influenced. I'm from the south of Mato Grosso do Sul state
@@RK-cj4oc Despite what a lot of people say here, not much, its mainly just edgy teenagers who want an indepedent country. the vast majority couldnt care less, All Brazilian regions are also very depedent on each other economically, so no politician seriously support either.
@@RK-cj4oc Considerably separate, though not enough for any significant independence impetus in the population. It's not dissimilar from, say, Texas. In Brazil some states, and here a whole region, see themselves as separate but, ultimately, that amounts to nothing. We are all too inert for anything significant to change. The biggest movements of independence are not known even by most people in their own state/region.
0:53 hi Brazilian here. There are other divisions that you didn't show like the" complexos regionais" or the "quatro Brasil" that also try to divide Brasil in various parts.
In northern Sul Paraná, is more Slavic, in southern Sul, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul is German and Italian, there is German and Italian in Paraná too.
@@CauaDacruzCavalcante Verdade, aqui tem bastante descedente de Italiano, as vezes impressiona o quão forte eles influenciaram e se assimilaram na sociedade
You can't put São Paulo and Rio together, they are very different ... São paulo is the best state and is the most richest city of Brazil ( and of South America ) but that's not the reason why you can't put this states together, they have a Rivalry ( and the bolacha vs biscoito war , this is a war just based in how each state call cookie , and Bolacha is the right answer ) i think the only state that can be put together with São paulo is Paraná, because Paraná was part of são paulo until the separation , and são paulo in 70's was part of the south region
Ah yes, the Amazon, my favorite cultural region. Where tribal people practice their daily ritual of packing and shipping convenience items for the elites of Brazil.
@@skrigrillo teu cu, acordava de madrugada pra cuidar da roça com meu pai, esse seu rabo criado a base de ovomaltino que nem deve ter visto um mato na vida kkkkkk
YES!!! THIS!!!!! That's what i noticed while studying brazil! We feel like different countries bundle together (Heck, even Salvador Bahia feels SO different from Pernambuco, where i live) but that still have a national identity and easily share stuff with each other even though, from what i see, there isnt strong contact between regions. Totally different than usa where everything is segregated and they fight hard to keep that way.
As a Paulistan, I disagree, while we are indeed far from culturally identical, it depends very much. São Paulo Santos region is still pretty much like Rio de Janeiro
@@ethandouro4334also, which state is culturally identical? None, this video is relies on generalizing so that it can make cultural groups, I'm from Rio and São Paulo doesn't feel that different to me, it's much more of a cultural shock to go north.
Nah, instead of parana with sp, sp should be considered south, cuz of the culture, manerisms and history (same immigration and stuff) (Paranaense falando aq, mas so do norte do parana, ou seja, culturalmente caipira e falando poRRRta kkkkkkk)
As a American made map I think it gets really good, but that are some points to endorse: 1 - the western Amazonian subregion has scarce population in almost all its territory, but in the middle we have Manaus, a huge free trade port and industrial area with a population of 2 million people. 2 - the central region has a high GDP per capita compared with the north and northwest thanks to its huge mineral and agricultural production and its big cities and mid cities as Brasilia, Goiania or Rondonopolis are well developed and has good public and private services. 3- the “São Paulo region” would be better named as Brazilian backbone, as it has other cities with high national influence, as Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte (I don’t understand if you put it in central or São Paulo region, but i think it would be better put it in the second one), and even Campinas).
Most of the time you pronuonced portuguese words pretty well for an american And as someone from Rio de Janeiro, calling the southeast region the "gteater São Paulo region" would piss off most of us here, as we have quite a few cultural diferences, even in accent And there is one more developed city in the north, that is the region around the city of Manaus, you can clearly see it on the night satelite images of Brasil But besides that and some other small mistakes that people have already said in the comments it's an excelleny video and I love to see Brasil mentioned
For a 10 minute vídeo you did a hell of a job. I’ll try to complement your good work with further details. And the best advise for someone interested in understanding the different cultures of Brazil is: pay attention to DIALECTS. Although almost perfectly inteligible between them, they reflect quite well the different origins of its speakers. Starting from the south: this region could be divided in three distinct cultures: 1. Gaúchos: they correspond roughly to the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with a few patches in Santa Catarina. Strong spanish, german and italian influences. Those influences are so strong that local dialects from german (Hunsrückisch) and italian (Talian), are spoken to this day in a few towns. Although separatism is not a strong issue in the whole country yet, with some weak movements trying to get traction because of the country’s raising political polarisation, is the region more strongly associated with separatism. The longest separatist conflict in Brazil’s history was fought there and the influence of the Farrapos’ War is culturally important. A lot of similarities also with the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay. 2. Sulistas: a mixture of gaúcho, paulista and portuguese influences, occupying Paraná, Santa Catarina, and small fractions of Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo. 3. Manezinhos: People from Santa Catarina island (where most of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina’s capital, is located) and nearby coastal áreas. Very heavy influences from the portuguese islands of Azores and Madeira, combined with tiny german and caiçara (Santos and São Vicente in the coast of São Paulo) influences. The name “manezinho” means “little Mané”, being “Mané” a affectionate nickname for the very common portuguese male name Manoel. The southeast is the region from where Brazil expanded the most, with cultural projections to most of the country. The bandeirantes, explorers who hailed from the southeast, were influential to the formation of a distinct identity. 4. Caipiras: hailing from inner São Paulo, northern half of Paraná, inner Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, most of Mato Grosso and part of Tocantins. The caipira culture is a fusion of portuguese and native Tupi influence, with a very distinct dialect. At the geographic limits of Minas Gerais, the Northeast and Brasília, a variety of the caipira (the Sertanejo) exists. A direct heir of the bandeirante movement, the caipira identity suffered constant attacks from the economically dominant centers of the country, being associated with rusticism, laziness, ignorance and indolence. The archetype of the caipira became one of a simpleton, rural, dirty and lazy man, way different from the powerful Bandeirantes. The caipiras are historical victims of an unspoken, massive prejudice. The caipira dialect is very well known and preserved mostly on music. Caipira and sertanejo music are massively popular throughout the country and a certain “cowboy” identity is being internalized by the caipiras. 5. Paulistanos: the people of the São Paulo metropolis, nearby cities and parts of the coast near to São Paulo. Once a heavily italianized region, it now receives influences from other ethnicities (arabs, japanese, spanish) and from northeastern Brazil because of migratory waves. This is the economic powerhouse of the country. The paulistano dialect is quite recognizable in some forms of media. 6. Cariocas: the people from the Rio de Janeiro metropolis. Because of Rio’s fame, beauty, tourism, and midiatic influence (Brazil’s most powerful media group is from Rio), the carioca became known abroad as a stereotype of the brazilian as a whole. The carioca identity was consolidated with the transference of the portuguese royal family to Rio while fleeing from the Napoleonic invasion. The sudden infusion of portuguese and african slave influences molded an instantly recognizable culture, accent and way of life. If the paulistano became a symbol of hard work, toughness and seriousness, the carioca became a symbol of sympathy, trickery and a relaxed mentality. The people from the state of Rio, but not from the city of Rio itself, is called Fluminense, with similar characteristics 7. Mineiros: the people from the capital of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte) and the historic mining cities. Heavy influence from the portuguese Minho region and some influence from caipiras at western Minas and baianos in the north. Also a quite distinct accent and arguably the best food in the country. In the northeast we have: 8. Baianos: the most africanized people in the country, with massive african influences in the dialect, religion, gastronomy, ethnicity and culture. Probably the most distinct, idiosyncratic culture in Brazil. They roughly occupy the northeastern state of Bahia. Capoeira and candomblé are symbols of Bahia and the baiano dialect is also very recognizable. 9. Nordestinos: the people from the northeastern region of Brazil. A blend of african, portuguese and native cultures, with a very distinct literature (cordel), craftsmanship, music and dance. Unfortunately one of the most empoverished regions of the country. And in the north: 10. Amazônicos (or nortistas): the people of the Amazon rainforest, preserving lots of indigenous influence. As the video points there are some local differences between the major cities of Belém and Manaus (this one deeper into the Amazon, but the culture is mostly similar through the biggest and less populated region of Brazil. The indian language of nheengatu is still spoken in some towns at the extreme north. There are also some Transitional cultures, like the southern amazonic (between amazonic and sertanejo) and the pantaneiro (in the region of Pantanal), and also local cultures in the northeast (like the recifenses from Pernambuco’s capital, Recife) and the people from the coast of Ceará and Maranhão. There are also the capixabas in the state of Espírito Santo, a blend of fluminenses, baianos and mineiros, with some local diferences. But, roughly, these are the main cultures of an incredibly diverse country. As a caipira myself, I marvel with the history of the south, with the traditions of São Paulo, with the food of Minas Gerais, with the samba from Rio and São Paulo, with the rythms of Bahia, with the writings from the northeast and with the beauty of the rainforest, the Pantanal and our beaches. Brazil is a complex, but wonderful country.
Sul region and southeast are the most important regions besides southeast and center west, southeast is the 1st contribuitor for brazil economy,2nd is sul, 3rd is northeast and 4th is center west, so sul and southeast are carrying brazil and not southeast and center west.
I noticed that you divided Paraná in half, which makes sense. After all, the north of the state is closer to São Paulo both physically and culturally, and the south is closer to the south, hehe. But, in your opinion, where would you place Curitiba, the state capital? In your video, it wasn't very clear which part it would be in. Great video BTW, very accurate. And don't mind the "São Paulo vs Rio de Janeiro grr grrr" comments, for the rest of Brazil they are the same thing, we just differentiate them by their funny accent.
9:52 for your knowledge, in the top 5 of the biggest cities in Brazil two are from the northeast: Fortaleza and Salvador. There is even a study that shows that the northeast would work very well by itself in case the country breaks up (which is very far from happening). Much of the Brazilian exportation goods comes from the northeast. This is a misconception, you probably heard that from someone from the south region or São Paulo. There is a lot of xenophobia towards the northeast and the north coming from them, we can notice it very well in every election year. And speaking of it, the northeast was historically a backwater region because we had a lot of leaders that didn’t care about its advancement while a lot was invested in the south-southeast-center west, the area where the government is located, but now we have and there are investments going on to make the northeast grow. Terribly inaccurate, old-fashioned and offensive misconception.
Biggest does not mean wealthiest. And I would love tho see this study of yours, if possible of course, because the only source that I could find was a Quora question from 2018... Of the top 10 Brazilian states that export the most, only 3 are in the north/northeast, with the one that exports the most, Pará, being only the fifth (info from Fazcomex), the fact that the 3 largest ports in Brazil are located in São Paulo, Paraná and Rio de Janeiro, respectively, speaks for itself. Looking into IBGE information from 2022, the northeast is only third in GDP (PIB), losing to, basically, São Paulo and then the south region. Bring concrete information based on and from reliable sources instead of babbling random information and accusing content creators of misconception, because I bet this gringo studied much more to make this video than you did to write this comment
@@kr4fttI don't understand why people can't acknowledge that the northeast is poor and not very significant, its not because of that we'll consider them inferior
AEEEEEEEEE, FINALMENTE VAI BRAZIL good video man edit: 2:39, even if you said north and south, I'd say western and eastern southwest, western southwest is paulista/paulistano and eastern southwest is more carioca/fluminense with western southwest being described as it was in this video and east with more influence with afro-brazilians and mostly portuguese, having fewer influence of non-portuguese migrants in eastern southwest than in western southwest
10:00, The separatist movement is very marginalized and few taken seriously, only racist teenagers on the internet propagate this discourse of southern superiority, separatism is considered a crime in Brazil
Minor nitpick, but I'm a bit surprised you haven't mentioned the city of Manaus in the Amazon region, considering it's known for its industrial parks Great to see this kind of content putting our culture out there
"Greater São Paulo" and including Rio is like making a "Greater NY" and including California. It is not because São Paulo and Rio are relatively close geographically that they are similar, there is absolutely NOTHING similar between the two States / Cities. Climate, geography, population, migration, history, accent, demography, urbanism... Absolutely nothing is alike. Bad work. Dislike 👎
I would redo your video and properly name your regions. As a Brazilian, I think you’re information can be misleading as people that have no clue about Brazil would wrongly learn names. Here is more correct naming: São Paulo region: South East Maranhão region: North East Amazon region: North Planalto region: Central West or Mid West South region: South (got this one right)
Pretty good video, but some corrections: 1. Never ever put a great São Paulo as a region, this will get you punched. 2. São Paulo can be described as the economic capital, but Rio de Janeiro is one of the most important cities in Brazil, being the former capital and housing almost all media companies in Brazil. 3. Yes the cerrado region is very agriculture, but it's also the region that houses the Capital and many of Brazil military bases. It also connects many of the regions and is an important point of regional integration. 4. Nature and preservation are such important topics in Brazil that's not fare to mention how many of the non development is caused by preservation. Many comunities in the north region are completely against developing the region bc it'll cause exploration and deforestation. This is such an important topic that even in the center region the agriculture expansion is immensely criticized bc it causes harm. It such an important thing that energy development in the country is extremely difficult bc of it. 5. The north west region is one of the most important regions in Brazil. Being the firts colonized and even today housing many of the most important harbors in the country. It's heavy on the petroleum exploration and having big part of the Brazilian exportation contribution. For me, the biggest contribution of this region is cultural. Many of the biggest autors, musicians, journalist, and even politicians came from this region. It's such important region that it's votes decided almost every election in Brazilian history. 6. There's a very large native community in all regions in Brazil. The biggest reservation, the Xingu is at Mato Grosso region. The South region also has a very important native population. This is the cause of big dispute and only recently the supreme Court decided on a very important decision regarding this conflict. Hope this helps, loved the video. Brazilians feel free to add to this!
Vc ta errado sobre a construção racial da população brasileira, esqueceu dos indígenas nessa parte da equação e nem todos os mestiços/ pardos tem sangue afro, muitos apenas tem sangue indígena e branco, ou sao tri- racial. .
That was a very accurate and succinct description of our pátria amada! Surely, in a 10 minute video , no one could cover every aspect of such a large and diverse country. Good job! You should definitely do Argentina next. Our beloved eternal rivals!
In addition to my previous comment about the accuracy of one of the maps used it’s interesting to mention that this map is not static. The last update occurred when the state of Goiás (in the Midwest) was divided into two states (Goiás and Tocantins), with the Tocantins state (which was previously northern Goiás) being allocated to the northern region due to its economical and physical characteristics. There are currently some studies considering moving the Northeastern state of Maranhão to the Northern region due to its natural characteristics as well.
The biggest question is...which country do we do next?
Probably indonesia 🇮🇩 OR the nordic countries region for example it's interesting to me that leftist finland would have a high gun ownership rate or that all of these countries are city states except for Sweden 🇸🇪 which is the only one with real geographic diversity in it's population distribution. It'll be interesting to learn how these countries evolved from the viking age and got to where they are today.
I'm thinking of Argentina or Mexico
Please do Argentina next. It's 5 regions (Patagonia, Cuyo, Pampas, Northeast, Northwest) are so diverse and is such an underestimated country in terms of landscape and geography.
Our neighbors 🇦🇷
Mexico, Cananda, or the England/the UK.
Brazil is the country of all time
When is the part 2 to the Brazil video? ❤
Brought to you by Portugal.
Truly
@@creely123 The portuguese on their own coudn't do much, they needed the "help" of some african "friends" and the wisdom of the native americans that they asked "very gently" about the region and it's recources.
@@BoseibertPortugal allied with native tribes and African kingdoms against other European powers and other African kingdoms and native tribes
Come to Brazil, before Brazil comes to you 🇧🇷
Wouldn't that be Portugal?
Why bro@@creely123
@@frp3337 Because Portugal visited Brazil in the 1490s and ever since Brazil has not been the same.
@@creely123 Brazil is very different from Portugal
@@frp3337 Yes, it is very different. Brazil is the United States of South America do to its large and diverse population with 1 single dominant language to unify it all.
As a writer, videos like these make for great worldbuilding inspiration. There's so many differences in places we view as a homogeneous single region.
Hey, I’m glad I was able to help :)
I agree, but unfortunately most of the data is incorrect. It was made from good intent I am sure, but you sld have checked with a Brazilian person before make the vídeo though..
@@digitandoshshualike what is wrong?
@efxnews4776 If you read the other comments, you´ll get a picture.
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As a Brazilian, quick notes:
1. Placing Rio de Janeiro into the "Greater São Paulo" region will get you killed down here hehehe
2. The waves of Germans, Italians, Poles and Japanese immigrants that separate the cultural trait of the North from that of the South/Southeast came MUCH later, as the country was modernizing (independence, industrialization, ...) from around the 1850's..., so the Portuguese presence was never "not there" since the 1500's
3. Curiosity: the central area of Brazil (Planalto Central) was actually barren until recently, when modern agricultural techniques of adding potassium (or nitrogen?) and lime, and GMO soybeans transformed it
4. Not sure I'd agree with central part of Brazil being considered more relevant than the Northeast... that tends to be the view from people from São Paulo, kinda like people from NY and LA talk about "fly-over states", y'know?
Apart from that, a very fair assessment!
If you're interested in Brazilian geopolitics, would love to chat - I have a more progressive/liberal view of things, but find your takes very rich and informative
Meaning... Your point of view is irrelevant and full of jealous.
@@ocavaleiro177 says the one who's not even bralizilian
The thing about São Paulo is true though. So is Rio with petrol production.
@@frp3337 oh. I am. The kind that you would not endure 30 s.
@@ocavaleiro177 idk what you mean by that
The regional map shown in 0:38 is the legally correct one. Although your goal was to make the subdivision based on cultural differences, our legal system specifies those specific regions. Although the regions are not specifically written in the Constitution, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statiatics (IBGE) is responsible for the census and for adjusting the regional layout according to culture, nature and economy.
As a brazilian, yes, that map is very official.
Espírito Santo is misspelled
@@joaorrsyes, he used a map written in Spanish, not Portuguese. However the regional division is accurate.
@@ubiratamuniz oh that’s true mb
And IBGE has been doing such a good job that they are now changing how they calculate HDI and GDP to pretend things are getting better.
A bit of modern myth believed by many Brazilians is that the Sul was barren until the Germans, Italians, and other later migrants arrived there. The original Brazilian gaúcho was of Portuguese origin. The frontiersman fighting skirmishes against the Argentinean gauchos to defend the southern border. These Portuguese included a lot of migrants from the Portuguese Atlantic islands, giving the original local culture a distinctive flavor, even among the larger Portuguese cultural hegemon of the rest of the colony.
This myth that the origins of the south are exclusive to Germany/Italy and not Portugal is more southern propaganda than anything else.🥴
Até onde eu saiba, o gaúcho original era majoritariamente descendente de espanhóis, traço que se observa no RS ainda hoje.
The Gaucho was a portuguese or Castilian speaking mestiço before Germanic and italic migration
The funniest part is how many of them complain about land that was given by the government to them lmao.
Açorianos!
UA-cam: memtions Brazil
Brazilians (ALL of them): I feel a disturbance in the Force.
so true 😂
As a brazilian, it's so true
São Paulo dweller here. My skin is made of concrete and i breath heavy smoke. I love money and taking 3 hours on public transportation between home and work.
and speaks "meu" and "ceêloko" all the time
Factz
@@danielbruceagra9022 I like to imagine if "meu" was also in english, like: "so Man I went to the store and it was closed _mine!!"_
@@danielbruceagra9022como outro são paulistansista, posso confirmar que eu tenho câncer de pulmão desde que eu nasci, ajuda
@@Menezarianacho que tá mais pra "my"
To be honest, this idea of separatism between states isn't something discussed in reality, apart from edgy teenagers/adults. Moreover, no state can certainly distance itself from others without losing prominence, because Brazil's potential is collective, and everyone knows that (except for small groups on the internet)...
Perhaps one day Brazil will distance itself from external pressure, and then industrialization will get stronger.
Furthermore, if a civil war were to occur (which would be the only way separation could happen) and a state became a nation, that nation would just become another Uruguay or Paraguay, places without much relevance.
Brasil é uma potência imperialista que se aproveita dos seus vizinhos e da população, prometem essa industrialização desde da epoca do império e nunca chegou brasil é como leviathan só existe para sugar a sua população
@@luiz_henriqve I think that only extremists in the South talk about separatism today. I say that because i'm born and live in the South (Rio Grande do Sul)
@@helintonmello1687 Exactly! And these people's view is opportunistic and pragmatic, as they not only want to separate but also want to take with them states like: São Paulo, Paraná, and both Mato Grossos.
São Paulo, because it is industrialized, Paraná and both Matos Grossos because of the strong agronomy and livestock.
I was born and live in Mato Grosso do Sul, a recent state that emerged from a separation, so I believe I have some authority to speak on the matter 😸
Sad to see Minas Gerais disappear, it's one of the most culturally and historically important regions of Brazil 🥲
Ser meio nordeste e meio sudeste e estar perto de São Paulo e Rio dá nisso
Having a parasitic and unfriendly capital means this. The rest of the state wants nothing to do with Belo Horizonte.
É o melhor estado em questão de cultura.
Eu sou de São Paulo e eu concordo
Minas Gerais é linda
Monsieur Z has just been awarded the title of honorary Brazilian
🫡
*Congratulations Monzieur, you are now going to Brasil, and do NOT resist*
We are going to build a wall and make the Americans pay for it.
@@MonsieurDeanYou should do Europe next ...
the worst title a man can get
Never place Rio and São Paulo on the same category or subdivision while hinting that one controls the other.
Those 2 fight for dominance on every occasion, the region was agreed on to be called southeast precisely because of those 2 and Minas fighting over it
*Southeast
Rio só tem um pib maior que minas por causa do petróleo, aquela região toda parou de ser importante quando Brasília foi criada, minas e sp controlam o brasil desde que o império acabou e o RJ só ta la no meio
Rio is a downfall on every aspect, culture, financial etc.
While Rio and São Paulo fight for dominance, Minas is just standing there chilling out while actually dominating the country.
@@VVdeRibas good joke.
As a Brazilian from Minas Gerais, the only thing that i can add to the video is that i would not divide my state in this way
The northern part of Minas Gerais can go to Northeast, the Triângulo region can go to Goiás and the south to São Paulo, but definitely the rest of the state is not similar to São Paulo and Rio, we kinda have our own thing in the middle, specially in the capital Belo Horizonte, and also many historical villages like Ouro Preto wich i am really sure that don't belong to the same region of Rio de Janeiro
Being not Brazilian, guy missed some important nuances about the country. Definetly Minas Gerais has their own thing going on, and it's culturally very strong. It is not just a copy of São Paulo or Rio. There's this whole mineiro culture going on, on cuisine, poetry, music, in the small historical towns...
@@gabrielmoreno9455 He put São Paulo and Rio in the same sack. He's unaware of reality. It looks like he watched a tiktok about Brasil and tried to make a video out of it.
I think the point is that we are not just talking about culture, he is taking into account several sociological aspects, and this region in question is very marked by industrialization and globalization
@@andresantvi what’s reality?? São Paulo copying New York City but failed miserably?
Então... você nos conjurou!
(So... you summoned us!)
Collecting countries like Pokémon
@@MonsieurDean I was here before the summoning
Looks like the Z cinematic universe is on a Brazil kick recently.
9:50 These two regions together are almost the same as the cultural, historical and somewhat linguistic region called "Paulistânia".
I think Paulistânia is more of São Paulo's imperialism than anything
@@zuarbrincar769 Well yes, by definition imperialism. It was from São Paulo that the expeditions for Brazil's interior (Center-West region) came from, consequently they were the ones to leave their marks on the region, hence the historic, cultural and linguistic (accent in this case) similarities with São Paulo.
Mato Grosso do Sul in its entirety is indistinguishable from countryside São Paulo, those are almost twin states. Then we have portions of northern Paraná, southern Mato Grosso, southern Minas Gerais and southern Goiás.
That's basically the where all Sertanejo singers come from 😅
@@VinnieMF I wouldn't say it's totally indistinguishable, MS also has a strong substratum of Gaucho culture 🥴
@@zuarbrincar769 True, there's some, though I wouldn't call it strong. Gaucho culture in Brazil is strong in southern Rio Grande do Sul, above that... glimpses.
@@zuarbrincar769 more of a region with common cultural background. If you take an old map of Brazil (really old, like XVIII century), you'll see that all that region was called "São Paulo". It was the land colonized by the Bandeirantes, the Caipira culture.
“Reeyo day juhnaroh” 😭
Heey, cut him some slack. Brazilians say "niU iÓrki" all the time 😂
@@VinnieMFbut it is true
@@VinnieMFWe say Nova Iorque, it's diferent, no one says New York here because we speak portuguese
@@Elix111 Yes, we translate the name, they don't. That's the easy way. They could call Rio de Janeiro "January's River" and have no issue in saying it, but that's not the case.
Point is, when one has to pronounce names in different languages they will have their native language phonetics with them, and harping on it is as common as it is useless.
@@VinnieMFpeeky neeky 😎
About linguists, here in Brazil there was a large number of people who talked german, Italian and Japanese prior to ww2, mostly around the south and southeast regions, however during ww2 it was prohibited to speak and teach any other language besides Portuguese, this of course didn't include private schools, but it affected the children of many migrants who couldn't learn their parents languages anymore.
Isso foi meio paia, Brasil poderia ser quadrilingual.
Basically all of them talked German and Italian. Either partly like at home only or fully. From what I know only German and Italian was prohibited, not all languages except for Portuguese. But the focus was more so on the German part. The government even illegalized all sorts of clubs of Germans (Italians too?) or they had to change crests that showcase a connection to Germany/Germanness and change rules to also allow non-Germans and speak Portuguese only + non-ethnical conduct of the club generally speaking. But that already started to gradually happen prior to ww2 (in which Brazil didn’t even participate until like 1944) in an attempt make all Brazilians the same/mixed. That part of Brazilian history is really interesting and intriguing to me.
@@中文学习者 Improvável, com a industrialização e expansão da comunicação em massa no século XX, o mais provável era que essas línguas morressem naturalmente ou se tornassem pidgin com a língua portuguesa, mas de uso extremamente regional.
@@ElementalAer União Europeia funciona bem. Acredito que haveria sim, o aprendizado da lingua portuguesa para negocios com o resto do brasil ou quem sabe o italiano? Ja que a força motora industrial é de SP. Sou do sul, e tenho certeza, que as pessoas daqui iriam preferir falar a lingua materna de seus antepassados.
@@alexandrecaboski Isso ocorreu também na Europa. Olhe para a França, que conseguiu quase matar suas línguas irmãs no território, ou Itália, que com a unificação forçou uma única variante como língua "italiana". Como havia dito, é improvável que em um país unificado, mais de uma língua exista e as outras se mantenham em uso.
4:53 Your "caatinga" pronunciation is very good, which makes funnier the pronunciation commentary that follow it
he pronounced as ''catinga'' that means bad smell
@@WilliamSantos-cv8rr We, Brazilians, do this all the time, those 2 are almost the same. the only phonetic difference is the elongated "a" sound.
@@thalesvinicius2571 not in my region, Sertão da Bahia.
He even pronounced the famous "dry T" of the eastern subregion
@@WilliamSantos-cv8rr justo
10:00 I am an ethnically German Brazilian living in the southernmost state and I can confirm, the secessionist movement here isn't too serious today as it was in the past.
Also, as a German person, I don't like seeing my country being split. 💀☠
Sim tbm sou de etnia alemã sou do Paraná é odeio essa porra de movimento separatista
'german' you wish pablo.
"german" hahahahhaahha
@@zizo-lmao I said I am ethnically German. What is so funny?
@@helintonmello1687 seu nome é helinton caralho
Amazing video, the best non-doc english explanation i ever found about brazilian geography! Won a subscribe.
São Paulo: Mostly right as far as I can know. Just remember the interior is very different than the coast.
Maranhão: This name is of a single state which is very different from the rest of the country. A more accurate name would be "Bahia region", as this region is largely an extension of bahian culture.
South: Very right.
Central Brazil: Very right. Also this region is as sparse as the MidWest US.
Amazon: Very right.
The last comment is true. Brazil is mostly São Paulo and Central region and both enough to make the country function.
Extensão da cultura baiana? Nada a ver irmão, Alagoas e Paraíba se assemelham muito a Pernambuco (Alagoas era parte de Pernambuco, inclusive), Ceará, Maranhão e Piauí tem semelhanças entre si mas são completamente diferentes da Bahia.
Extension of bahian culture? I don't think so. Alagoas and Paraíba are very similar to Pernambuco (Alagoas was even part of Pernambuco), Ceará, Maranhão and Piauí have similarities between themselves but are completely different from Bahia.
Edit: forgot to add translation
É você não estudou história o estado do Maranhão e o estado do brazil
Would only disagree with Maranhão. The video was off there and this comment as well.
@@VinnieMF How so?
São Paulo is half divided state
I am coming to Brazil.
I believe Trump once said something similar.
@@MonsieurDean
"Im gonna come"
@@Daniel_Ben_Avraham "do not come"
"Rio-Sampa", "Coffee Valey" or (north paraiba valley" are better names that you could called the " Great São Paulo Region"
And where the heck is Minas Gerais? 😂😂😂
Nope, great Sao Paulo region makes it easier for people to understand the central city of the area and how it impact neighbor areas
@@wavewatcher_ são Paulo is not the central city of the region, the southeast region has two centers Rio and são Paulo , you do not call the boswash region of the greater New York, you mame the cities that marks the bounds
Curitiba where I am from had a large Polish and Ukrainian population, there I was called "Polaco" the racial slur from immigrants from that region, and they say I look like Andry Shevchenko, I live in the US and people think I am Russian, I am a little mixed with Brazilian (Portugueses) and Venezuelan(Spanish Criollo) too.
I wouldn't say "polaco" is a racial slur, it's just a different version of the word "polish". Portuguese people still use "polaco" instead of "polonês", but I dunno, could be wrong and "polaco" really became a slur
polish is not a race so idk how that would be a racial slur… plus that word is used as synonym for polish not necessarily in pejorative way
@@notyourdaddy2148 is not polish, that is Polonês, Polaco is Polack.
@@diegoyanesholtz212 i am aware, but as somebody already mentioned, in portuguese it is almost interchangeable and not used with negative connotations. the looking down on other whites who aren’t the same as the colonisers you descend from was really only common in north america as they were consistently the majority. in latin america it was and is still quite the opposite: it is celebratory to be non-portuguese (or spanish) european, as you are seen as more white. it’s not like in the us where they didn’t see italians or irish as white. in latin anerica levantines arabs, north africans, jews and turks easily merge into the white population. whereas in the us or canada with the exception of white jews, no matter how white you are, if you’re an arab, turk, berber or whatever, you will be seen as non-white.
@@notyourdaddy2148 Brasil is a little different is culturally acceptable to throw racial slur
YES! been waiting For this! Suggestion: please do Colombia next. I'm from there 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴
VIVA GRAN COLOMBIA VIVA BOLIVAR 🇨🇴
Ooh, a colombian video would be nice
Make no mistake - in the South, the vast majority supports secession. Only "edgy teenagers" (from other regions) will say otherwise, because it hurts their childish feelings that Southerners want away from them. Exactly the opposite of what they say here in the comments. The currently largest separatist movement in the southern region ("O Sul é o meu País") held two huge informal referendums in 2016 and 2017, separatists won around 96% of the vote.
96% of 50 people. It's even ridiculous lol
@@GabrielCastro-l8p 96% of over 600,000 people. Google "half million southern brazilians want out" (That was the Washington Post headline, they covered the Referendum).
Really good video, you made a good research
As a person from Rio de Janeiro, Rio and São Paulo being one place is a crime to both states, we basically hate each other and fight over everything.
I'm from SP, but I don't hate Rio
@@zuarbrincar769 most of us do
@@Nightfoxy25Animations We don't hate Rio, I just wouldn't go there. Land of scammers.
Os macacos escrevendo em inglês
That was kinda an accurate analysis, well done.
Monolingual societies are good, actually. Do not allow people to not assimilate, unironically.
That could be one of the reasons why Brazil is so mixed.
I really love this video! You absolutely nailed it and I'd like to see more with different countries! Maybe italy next time?
Possibly!
Cê não é brasileiro ne?
Good video, but I think you could've mentioned the true Gaucho populations and the povos das missoes; whites and mestizos from the south that share a lot in common with Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay in culture and lifestyle.
'whites' you wish jungle boy
Love your content z! Thanks For this. Hearth please ❤❤❤❤
you actually pronounced caatinga quite acurately. thanks for the video. BRAZIL MENTIONED
Im brazilian myself and ive been to all regions besides the south and its teally like youre travelling through other countrys sometimes lol
I feel the same traveling through different regions of the US sometimes! Everything west of the Mississippi feels a little alien.
@@MonsieurDean It's astonishing that our countries hold multiple cultures so alien to each other yet they are so similar and united by a common American/Brazilian identity :)
@@MonsieurDean Also I'm from Acre, the most West state of Brazil, and similar to Texas, we had our on republic founded by brazilian immigrants that settled the at the time Bolivian territory to develop and explore the rubber trees of the region :). Which, the British smuggled millions of rubber tree seeds into Asia, kickstarting the rubber production there
I've read that there is a population of Southerners, descendants of people who left the American (USA) south at the end of the US civil war (The War of Northern Aggression).
It's true, they founded the town of Americana in são Paulo state, it's kinda of a nice place by local standards.
Great video!
The brazilian interior/midwest today is highly productive due to mechanized agriculture, you said brazil could be summarized as the southeast and this midwest, but don't forget the midwest is very productive today because it was settled by southern farmers who carried their knowledge and capital there, and the region only became viable for agriculture when fertilizers became available. Before that, most of brazil's agriculture production (for internal consumption) was in the south, while a chunk of what brazil produced for export (coffee plantations) was in são paulo
Also, the way brazil works is that the states send their profit to brazil's capital city and then the federal governement redistributes this money back to the states to make "equity", the least productive states get more and more productive ones get less, and the states in the south and southeast operate on a net negative, they pay more money to the federal government than they get back, while the states in the northeast mostly receive a lot more funding than they provide. All three states in the south pay more than 50 billion in tributes to the federal government and receive about 10 billion back, a net negative of more than 40 billion
São paulo is the worst offender though, of course, paying about 500 billion and getting back less than 50 billion
that is correct (brazil is more communist than europeans / americans could possibly imagine) but São Paulo is not the worst off, because the country's internal arrangement actually benefits them... every major company (including foreign companies like amazon) must have their main office in São Paulo, the central government (brasilia) arranges things so as to make every other state depend on them. Brazil is what the US and Europe are becoming.
Old Brazilian paintings fascinate me, even tho i see them since first grade
Which paintings are you referring to?
@@zuarbrincar769 all of them, they look so cool idk why but ye
@@Elix111 Oh, thanks for liking 🥰
As a brazilian, this is a very good summary of our culture.
Thank you, pal! I try :)
You gotta be kidding me 😂😂😂. I doubt you are really a Brazilian.
Caralho cê não sabe porra nenhuma de geografia então.
@@digitandoshshua Fala não vei o cara errou tudo que tentou falar 😂
Já acho muito chato que em qualquer video que fale do Brasil 80% ou mais dos comentarios são de brasileiros!
Desculpem, mas eu tambem sou brasileiro!!!
Concordo kkk tipo assiste mas não precisa comentar sempre
Hahaha deixa o brasileiro ser feliz de estar sendo descoberto pelo mundo
0:22 You can thank that language homogeneity to our dictator Getúlio Vargas, who went after any other language spoken in Brazil.
Italian, German etc came much later to than Portuguese. Immigrants should adapt to the local culture anyways, having pockets of the country speaking different foreign languages wouldn't be good
@@Forlfir Why? Having a cultural diversity is bad? These immigrants founded entire cities and shared their culture until Vargas prohibited them because of the war.
And they would probably use their native language at home and portuguese in general, like in Italy.
@@fuzekkjThe immigrants had mixed loyalties. Loyalty to the nation was a priority. The language policy allowed them to integrate into the greater Brazilian identity
@@joao.fenix1473If the axis had made a better proposal to Vargas than the US did, he wouldn't care a damn about which language or which country immigrants have loyalty to, this was just a dictator's political move.
@@fuzekkj if it can be a threat to national unity yes it is bad, which it was since there were many of them in the same areas. We are not talking about native languages of the territory but foreigners who were welcomed by a new country, they adapt or go back home. I'm telling you this as someone with Italian origins who lives in Italy.
Italy is one of the most divided countries of the major ones here in Europe specially because of the strong regional identities due to the different languages/dialects spoken and the fact that it was unified much later than France for example.
Brazil is a melting pot but even a melting pot needs to have a common denominator.
Wow Mounsieur Z talking about my contry! I thought that was imposible
9:15 fun fact: the lone star in Brazilian Flag, located above the white strip, represents this region - the state of Pará.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great video! It's good to know that there are people out there who are interested in learning more about our country. The only issue i would like to point out is: why would you get a map of Brazil in which everything is written in Spanish (0:38)? One of the most important things people from other countries should know about Brazil is that we do not speak Spanish here, and it's very annoying when people try to speak Spanish with us. I'm sure it was not your intention, and it certainly does not compromise the video, but I couldn't help noticing it. With that being said, thanks for your hard work. We appreciate that!
They're like the us, but instead of germanic they're latin
(Talking linguistically)
we also make fun of our colonizers the same way US does
@@joaopedro-t4h7x
We make jokes by calling the Portuguese stupid.
But... apparently Mexicans, Colombians and Argentines make the same kind of jokes with Spanish people.
@@youngkingyoungking1481at least uk didn't make your country poor
Kinda true except for the Germanic portion of Brazil being much more influential, established, older and numerous than the Latin bits of the US.
As a fellow Brazilian, excellent analysis!
You've made log in just to point out two things:
1) the letter H is a strange one in portuguese, depending on where it's placed in a word, and which letters it's coupled with, it can either have no sound whatsoever (homem isn't pronounced like "romem", but "omem"), or having an "i" aditive sound (Maranhão isn't "Maranrao", but "Maraniau"). Oh, yeah, the "~" accent... It... Changes how to pronounce the vowels, we can even joke that there's not 5 vowels in portuguese, but 6 or 7: A to U, plus Ão and Õe, which sound respectively like a "A" or "O" spoken as if you're with a cold, plus "O" or "E". Maranhão is quite the portuguese unique word, since it uses both the "H" changing sound, and an letter with ~. Sure the spanish speaker have some similar words, but I don't know if they have "nh", "lh" phonenms.
2) thus we fall under the second point: hearing "Ba-ria" in place of "Ba-ia" for Bahia is funny as fuck. Since H has no sound in that structure. The reason for the name being as such as some historical bearing, I guess, and I reckon that at some point, the letter H did change a few more phonenms. But not anymore.
Cheers, m8.
Also, Rio De Janeiro is pronounce "Hee-oh Je Juh-neiro", Sao Paulo is pronounced "ˈsɐ̃w̃ ˈpaw.lu", Cerrado is pronounced "Seh-had-o", Caatinga is pronounced "Ca-ching-a", Pantanal is pronounced "Pan-tan-now", Belém is pronounced "beˈlẽɪ̯̃"(the M at the end there is not pronounced), and even Brazil is pronounced "Braz-zew".
I am really enjoying these videos breaking down countries by their cultural regions. And, as a Brazilian myself, I think you did a pretty good job overall describing my country.
Thanks!
I think it would have been worth mentioning the Dutch influence in the northeast region of the country, especially in Recife, where their influence was tremendous.
sertão nordestino tem muita gente loira, so fui descobrir depois de velho isso.
It's almost null tbh.
@@jit085blond people in the Northeast are mostly descendent of Portuguese people (who are sometimes blond), not the dutch, which left almost no trace whatsoever
@@marcomartins3563 Não sei no resto da região, mas em recife é visível a influência deles na arquitetura e cultura da região, Maurício de Nassau ergueu a cidade para se tornar uma das grandes metrópoles do país no futuro, apesar de realmente não tiveram tanta influência etnicamente, já que os holandeses raramente mandavam colonos para cá
Northeastern brazilians with light hair complexions are largely decendand of northern portuguese settlers who arrived in the late colonial period, not the dutch as its sometimes implied.
I love your regionalisation and the way you spell the states names
I live in the southern region of Brazil, it is a region with a strong cultural aspect (just like Texas) and has a great influence of European culture (mainly Germans and Italians), unlike the image that most people have of Brazil, here it tends to snow every year.
Funny enough, Texas also had a wave of German settlement.
@@Scar-p1yDefinitely not, Italians came en masse to the south, I myself am of Italian descent. You people from São Paulo can stay with the Japanese.
@@Scar-p1y No, I was born in São Paulo and now I live in Santa Catarina, there are more italians here than São Paulo.
@@Madokaexe Really? I thought SP was majority Italians.
Yeah it snows every year in Snowland, Gramado 😂😂 neve de verdade!!
4:52 your pronunciation of "caatinga" was almost spot on, in fact it was the best up to that point in the video
I have some appointments :
I. The "greater São Paulo" is a problematic name haha. As many have already mentioned, São Paulo and Rio have very distinct cultures. I think you could have divided it in 3 sub regions and called the macroregion something like " The Coffee belt" or just "Southeast". The 3 subregions would be "Rio" , "São Paulo" and "Minas Gerais".
II. Maranhão is incorrectly assigned. The northeast region subdivisions should be "Zona da Mata" ( forest zone) and "Sertão"- where you find the caatinga biome.
III. The southeast region were in the Portuguese side of the Tordesillas treaty aswell, but the mountainous geography meant it was more difficult to settle there.
IV. You nailed it with Planalto Central. The best name possible.
V. In the northern region, a better subdivision would be , "Manaus" and "Pará - Maranhão". It is funny because despite the State of Maranhão is attributed to the Northeast region, its capital , São Luiz, have more cultural and economic affinity to the Northern region.
Another thing, Brazilian history, geography and culture is a huge rabbit hole.
*Grão-Pará*
what a great content!
It's hilarious how in a short time this video attracted the typical redditor who will repeat the same words like "separatism is something for edgy teenagers".
The NPC meme continues to prove true.
Because it is. The Southern Separatists could hardly put up fight against their own Police Forces, even less against the already very anemic and underfunded Federal Military.
And again, their country would ultimately be an insignificant (and corrupt) Republic, like most of South America. And that is if it were even a proper Republic, instead of them returning to their early 19th century Oligarchy style of ruling, which would be most likely.
They depend more on the rest of the country, than the country depends of them, than their pride and racism allows them to admit.
Don't worry if this political discourse is predominant and serious about the most developed regions, due to the internal corruption of the Brazilian state, the loss to drug trafficking and the deficient infrastructure will offer the separation of these regions when the fatal crises of the current century arrive, see, demographic crisis.
Great Video👍🇧🇷
the amazon regions biggest cities are Manaus and Belém. Manaus has one of the biggest industrial areas of the nation, with many international companies settling there thanks to a "tax heaven" zone called, in portuguese: Zona Franca de Manaus, kinda like : the industrial zone of manaus. There, many of the nations electronics and cars are made! great video!
Not cars, but motorcycles.
Zona franca de manaus is a scam ☠☠☠
As a Brazilian, you considered my region South, and I gotta say something, our winters are cold but the summer is super hot and we aren't as europe influenced, more japanese influenced.
I'm from the south of Mato Grosso do Sul state
If Sul were to become a country it would be a Uruguay that speaks Portuguese. I am a southerner.
Uruguay was the lucky one.
How seperate do people from there see themselves compared to the rest of Brazil?
@@RK-cj4ocvery, and they don't like it.
@@RK-cj4oc Despite what a lot of people say here, not much, its mainly just edgy teenagers who want an indepedent country. the vast majority couldnt care less, All Brazilian regions are also very depedent on each other economically, so no politician seriously support either.
@@RK-cj4oc Considerably separate, though not enough for any significant independence impetus in the population. It's not dissimilar from, say, Texas.
In Brazil some states, and here a whole region, see themselves as separate but, ultimately, that amounts to nothing. We are all too inert for anything significant to change.
The biggest movements of independence are not known even by most people in their own state/region.
Greetings from south Brazil
0:53 hi Brazilian here.
There are other divisions that you didn't show like the" complexos regionais" or the "quatro Brasil" that also try to divide Brasil in various parts.
hello from southern Brazil
In northern Sul Paraná, is more Slavic, in southern Sul, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul is German and Italian, there is German and Italian in Paraná too.
Yeah, a lot of Polish/Russian communities in Parana, also indigenous groups.
@@Madokaexe Ukrainian too,
São Paulo is kinda Italian
@@CauaDacruzCavalcante Verdade, aqui tem bastante descedente de Italiano, as vezes impressiona o quão forte eles influenciaram e se assimilaram na sociedade
Nice vídeo
Brazil is perfect example of a multicultural mixed utopia 😂😭
Absolutely. Completely dysfunctional society; make no mistake - Southerners WANT secession.
Brazil has been the country of the future since the 70s.
And it will be so forever. Zero chance of success
You can't put São Paulo and Rio together, they are very different ... São paulo is the best state and is the most richest city of Brazil ( and of South America ) but that's not the reason why you can't put this states together, they have a Rivalry ( and the bolacha vs biscoito war , this is a war just based in how each state call cookie , and Bolacha is the right answer ) i think the only state that can be put together with São paulo is Paraná, because Paraná was part of são paulo until the separation , and são paulo in 70's was part of the south region
9:37 manaus is another relatively big city, its actually bigger than belem by population
Ah yes, the Amazon, my favorite cultural region. Where tribal people practice their daily ritual of packing and shipping convenience items for the elites of Brazil.
🤣
This is funnier when you consider Amazon has 12 distribution centers in the country, and none are in the North region.
thanks for making a video on brazil 💚💛
Long live the south of Brazil
Nuh uh. Long live Brazil
Curiosidade rápida: O pessoal do sul faz piada de gente que pensa assim
@@darkdiamond1844 Quase certeza que você nem é do sul, e se é, é piá de prédio de cidade grande
@@skrigrillo teu cu, acordava de madrugada pra cuidar da roça com meu pai, esse seu rabo criado a base de ovomaltino que nem deve ter visto um mato na vida kkkkkk
@@matheusexpedito4577 the south should secede
YES!!! THIS!!!!! That's what i noticed while studying brazil! We feel like different countries bundle together (Heck, even Salvador Bahia feels SO different from Pernambuco, where i live) but that still have a national identity and easily share stuff with each other even though, from what i see, there isnt strong contact between regions. Totally different than usa where everything is segregated and they fight hard to keep that way.
As a Brazilian and a Paulistan I think Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo can't be in the same cultural region but São Paulo and Paraná are together.
As a Paulistan, I disagree, while we are indeed far from culturally identical, it depends very much. São Paulo Santos region is still pretty much like Rio de Janeiro
Nooooo, Paraná is together with Rio Grande do Sul 😂😂😂
@@ethandouro4334also, which state is culturally identical? None, this video is relies on generalizing so that it can make cultural groups, I'm from Rio and São Paulo doesn't feel that different to me, it's much more of a cultural shock to go north.
@@bluester7177 It's more regarding accents, practices and even how one react to life
Nah, instead of parana with sp, sp should be considered south, cuz of the culture, manerisms and history (same immigration and stuff)
(Paranaense falando aq, mas so do norte do parana, ou seja, culturalmente caipira e falando poRRRta kkkkkkk)
As a American made map I think it gets really good, but that are some points to endorse:
1 - the western Amazonian subregion has scarce population in almost all its territory, but in the middle we have Manaus, a huge free trade port and industrial area with a population of 2 million people.
2 - the central region has a high GDP per capita compared with the north and northwest thanks to its huge mineral and agricultural production and its big cities and mid cities as Brasilia, Goiania or Rondonopolis are well developed and has good public and private services.
3- the “São Paulo region” would be better named as Brazilian backbone, as it has other cities with high national influence, as Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte (I don’t understand if you put it in central or São Paulo region, but i think it would be better put it in the second one), and even Campinas).
Most of the time you pronuonced portuguese words pretty well for an american
And as someone from Rio de Janeiro, calling the southeast region the "gteater São Paulo region" would piss off most of us here, as we have quite a few cultural diferences, even in accent
And there is one more developed city in the north, that is the region around the city of Manaus, you can clearly see it on the night satelite images of Brasil
But besides that and some other small mistakes that people have already said in the comments it's an excelleny video and I love to see Brasil mentioned
For a 10 minute vídeo you did a hell of a job. I’ll try to complement your good work with further details. And the best advise for someone interested in understanding the different cultures of Brazil is: pay attention to DIALECTS. Although almost perfectly inteligible between them, they reflect quite well the different origins of its speakers.
Starting from the south: this region could be divided in three distinct cultures:
1. Gaúchos: they correspond roughly to the state of Rio Grande do Sul, with a few patches in Santa Catarina. Strong spanish, german and italian influences. Those influences are so strong that local dialects from german (Hunsrückisch) and italian (Talian), are spoken to this day in a few towns. Although separatism is not a strong issue in the whole country yet, with some weak movements trying to get traction because of the country’s raising political polarisation, is the region more strongly associated with separatism. The longest separatist conflict in Brazil’s history was fought there and the influence of the Farrapos’ War is culturally important. A lot of similarities also with the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay.
2. Sulistas: a mixture of gaúcho, paulista and portuguese influences, occupying Paraná, Santa Catarina, and small fractions of Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo.
3. Manezinhos: People from Santa Catarina island (where most of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina’s capital, is located) and nearby coastal áreas. Very heavy influences from the portuguese islands of Azores and Madeira, combined with tiny german and caiçara (Santos and São Vicente in the coast of São Paulo) influences. The name “manezinho” means “little Mané”, being “Mané” a affectionate nickname for the very common portuguese male name Manoel.
The southeast is the region from where Brazil expanded the most, with cultural projections to most of the country. The bandeirantes, explorers who hailed from the southeast, were influential to the formation of a distinct identity.
4. Caipiras: hailing from inner São Paulo, northern half of Paraná, inner Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, most of Mato Grosso and part of Tocantins. The caipira culture is a fusion of portuguese and native Tupi influence, with a very distinct dialect. At the geographic limits of Minas Gerais, the Northeast and Brasília, a variety of the caipira (the Sertanejo) exists. A direct heir of the bandeirante movement, the caipira identity suffered constant attacks from the economically dominant centers of the country, being associated with rusticism, laziness, ignorance and indolence. The archetype of the caipira became one of a simpleton, rural, dirty and lazy man, way different from the powerful Bandeirantes. The caipiras are historical victims of an unspoken, massive prejudice. The caipira dialect is very well known and preserved mostly on music. Caipira and sertanejo music are massively popular throughout the country and a certain “cowboy” identity is being internalized by the caipiras.
5. Paulistanos: the people of the São Paulo metropolis, nearby cities and parts of the coast near to São Paulo. Once a heavily italianized region, it now receives influences from other ethnicities (arabs, japanese, spanish) and from northeastern Brazil because of migratory waves. This is the economic powerhouse of the country. The paulistano dialect is quite recognizable in some forms of media.
6. Cariocas: the people from the Rio de Janeiro metropolis. Because of Rio’s fame, beauty, tourism, and midiatic influence (Brazil’s most powerful media group is from Rio), the carioca became known abroad as a stereotype of the brazilian as a whole. The carioca identity was consolidated with the transference of the portuguese royal family to Rio while fleeing from the Napoleonic invasion. The sudden infusion of portuguese and african slave influences molded an instantly recognizable culture, accent and way of life. If the paulistano became a symbol of hard work, toughness and seriousness, the carioca became a symbol of sympathy, trickery and a relaxed mentality. The people from the state of Rio, but not from the city of Rio itself, is called Fluminense, with similar characteristics
7. Mineiros: the people from the capital of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte) and the historic mining cities. Heavy influence from the portuguese Minho region and some influence from caipiras at western Minas and baianos in the north. Also a quite distinct accent and arguably the best food in the country.
In the northeast we have:
8. Baianos: the most africanized people in the country, with massive african influences in the dialect, religion, gastronomy, ethnicity and culture. Probably the most distinct, idiosyncratic culture in Brazil. They roughly occupy the northeastern state of Bahia. Capoeira and candomblé are symbols of Bahia and the baiano dialect is also very recognizable.
9. Nordestinos: the people from the northeastern region of Brazil. A blend of african, portuguese and native cultures, with a very distinct literature (cordel), craftsmanship, music and dance. Unfortunately one of the most empoverished regions of the country.
And in the north:
10. Amazônicos (or nortistas): the people of the Amazon rainforest, preserving lots of indigenous influence. As the video points there are some local differences between the major cities of Belém and Manaus (this one deeper into the Amazon, but the culture is mostly similar through the biggest and less populated region of Brazil. The indian language of nheengatu is still spoken in some towns at the extreme north.
There are also some Transitional cultures, like the southern amazonic (between amazonic and sertanejo) and the pantaneiro (in the region of Pantanal), and also local cultures in the northeast (like the recifenses from Pernambuco’s capital, Recife) and the people from the coast of Ceará and Maranhão. There are also the capixabas in the state of Espírito Santo, a blend of fluminenses, baianos and mineiros, with some local diferences. But, roughly, these are the main cultures of an incredibly diverse country. As a caipira myself, I marvel with the history of the south, with the traditions of São Paulo, with the food of Minas Gerais, with the samba from Rio and São Paulo, with the rythms of Bahia, with the writings from the northeast and with the beauty of the rainforest, the Pantanal and our beaches. Brazil is a complex, but wonderful country.
Sul region and southeast are the most important regions besides southeast and center west, southeast is the 1st contribuitor for brazil economy,2nd is sul, 3rd is northeast and 4th is center west, so sul and southeast are carrying brazil and not southeast and center west.
Just Porto Alegre and Curitiba metro areas are far more important than the whole central region
@thormallet yeah if you don't count Brasilia.
I noticed that you divided Paraná in half, which makes sense. After all, the north of the state is closer to São Paulo both physically and culturally, and the south is closer to the south, hehe. But, in your opinion, where would you place Curitiba, the state capital? In your video, it wasn't very clear which part it would be in. Great video BTW, very accurate. And don't mind the "São Paulo vs Rio de Janeiro grr grrr" comments, for the rest of Brazil they are the same thing, we just differentiate them by their funny accent.
9:52 for your knowledge, in the top 5 of the biggest cities in Brazil two are from the northeast: Fortaleza and Salvador. There is even a study that shows that the northeast would work very well by itself in case the country breaks up (which is very far from happening). Much of the Brazilian exportation goods comes from the northeast. This is a misconception, you probably heard that from someone from the south region or São Paulo. There is a lot of xenophobia towards the northeast and the north coming from them, we can notice it very well in every election year. And speaking of it, the northeast was historically a backwater region because we had a lot of leaders that didn’t care about its advancement while a lot was invested in the south-southeast-center west, the area where the government is located, but now we have and there are investments going on to make the northeast grow.
Terribly inaccurate, old-fashioned and offensive misconception.
Biggest does not mean wealthiest. And I would love tho see this study of yours, if possible of course, because the only source that I could find was a Quora question from 2018... Of the top 10 Brazilian states that export the most, only 3 are in the north/northeast, with the one that exports the most, Pará, being only the fifth (info from Fazcomex), the fact that the 3 largest ports in Brazil are located in São Paulo, Paraná and Rio de Janeiro, respectively, speaks for itself. Looking into IBGE information from 2022, the northeast is only third in GDP (PIB), losing to, basically, São Paulo and then the south region. Bring concrete information based on and from reliable sources instead of babbling random information and accusing content creators of misconception, because I bet this gringo studied much more to make this video than you did to write this comment
@@kr4fttI don't understand why people can't acknowledge that the northeast is poor and not very significant, its not because of that we'll consider them inferior
@@liquidificadoroficial3975 Brazilians are denialists. Most have the mind of a 5 year old.
Parabens pelo video sejam bem vindos aqui 🇧🇷 no brasil
AEEEEEEEEE, FINALMENTE VAI BRAZIL
good video man
edit: 2:39, even if you said north and south, I'd say western and eastern southwest, western southwest is paulista/paulistano and eastern southwest is more carioca/fluminense with western southwest being described as it was in this video and east with more influence with afro-brazilians and mostly portuguese, having fewer influence of non-portuguese migrants in eastern southwest than in western southwest
this as an carioca myself, also, paulistanos and cariocas are quite the rivals in lots of things
The betas cariocas always get mogged by the alpha paulistas LESSS GOOO
@@loukanosdegaliza4134
>Carioca beta
>Paulista alpha
Are you on crack?
@@loukanosdegaliza4134
>carioca beta
>paulista alpha
what are you on? just stop
@@danielbruceagra9022 foi mal
As a Braziliam, great video, no correction to add.
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10:00, The separatist movement is very marginalized and few taken seriously, only racist teenagers on the internet propagate this discourse of southern superiority, separatism is considered a crime in Brazil
Auto determinação dos povos é supremacia agora KKKKK
Minor nitpick, but I'm a bit surprised you haven't mentioned the city of Manaus in the Amazon region, considering it's known for its industrial parks
Great to see this kind of content putting our culture out there
"Greater São Paulo" and including Rio is like making a "Greater NY" and including California. It is not because São Paulo and Rio are relatively close geographically that they are similar, there is absolutely NOTHING similar between the two States / Cities. Climate, geography, population, migration, history, accent, demography, urbanism... Absolutely nothing is alike. Bad work. Dislike 👎
I would redo your video and properly name your regions. As a Brazilian, I think you’re information can be misleading as people that have no clue about Brazil would wrongly learn names.
Here is more correct naming:
São Paulo region: South East
Maranhão region: North East
Amazon region: North
Planalto region: Central West or Mid West
South region: South (got this one right)
5 is definitely the best cultural region
>banned from SPVA award 🏅
true, gaúchos keep winning 😎😎😎🤠🤠🤠🧉🧉🇮🇹🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇦🇺🇾🇧🇷🇦🇷🐎🐎🐎🐎🎸🗣️🗣️🗣️
No
We, southerners, are hated for no *reason at all*.
@@中文学习者 wdym?, nobody hates us as far as i know
Pretty good video, but some corrections:
1. Never ever put a great São Paulo as a region, this will get you punched.
2. São Paulo can be described as the economic capital, but Rio de Janeiro is one of the most important cities in Brazil, being the former capital and housing almost all media companies in Brazil.
3. Yes the cerrado region is very agriculture, but it's also the region that houses the Capital and many of Brazil military bases. It also connects many of the regions and is an important point of regional integration.
4. Nature and preservation are such important topics in Brazil that's not fare to mention how many of the non development is caused by preservation. Many comunities in the north region are completely against developing the region bc it'll cause exploration and deforestation. This is such an important topic that even in the center region the agriculture expansion is immensely criticized bc it causes harm. It such an important thing that energy development in the country is extremely difficult bc of it.
5. The north west region is one of the most important regions in Brazil. Being the firts colonized and even today housing many of the most important harbors in the country. It's heavy on the petroleum exploration and having big part of the Brazilian exportation contribution. For me, the biggest contribution of this region is cultural. Many of the biggest autors, musicians, journalist, and even politicians came from this region. It's such important region that it's votes decided almost every election in Brazilian history.
6. There's a very large native community in all regions in Brazil. The biggest reservation, the Xingu is at Mato Grosso region. The South region also has a very important native population. This is the cause of big dispute and only recently the supreme Court decided on a very important decision regarding this conflict.
Hope this helps, loved the video.
Brazilians feel free to add to this!
As a geography teacher from Brazil, I give you an A+
@@brunomonteiro3295 🤣
Você não é professor de geografia nem fudendo
Vc ta errado sobre a construção racial da população brasileira, esqueceu dos indígenas nessa parte da equação e nem todos os mestiços/ pardos tem sangue afro, muitos apenas tem sangue indígena e branco, ou sao tri- racial.
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That was a very accurate and succinct description of our pátria amada! Surely, in a 10 minute video , no one could cover every aspect of such a large and diverse country. Good job! You should definitely do Argentina next. Our beloved eternal rivals!
A GENTE VAI SAIR NO MÃO
BRAZIL NUMBER 1 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🇧🇷🗣️🔥🐫
CAMPEÃO DO MUNDO
MAIOR DA AMÉRICA DO SUL
4:51 Its funny how you mentioned your pronunciation on one of the times you pronunciated the name more accurately
Fui criado na campanha
Em rancho de barro e capim
Por isso é que eu canto assim
Pra relembrar meu passado🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥💯💯
In addition to my previous comment about the accuracy of one of the maps used it’s interesting to mention that this map is not static. The last update occurred when the state of Goiás (in the Midwest) was divided into two states (Goiás and Tocantins), with the Tocantins state (which was previously northern Goiás) being allocated to the northern region due to its economical and physical characteristics. There are currently some studies considering moving the Northeastern state of Maranhão to the Northern region due to its natural characteristics as well.