Teacher Reacts To "Geography Now - Brazil" [EPIC]

My name is Michael! I teach geography, history, religion, social science and physical education. Way too many subjects if you ask me... I don't claim to be an expert in any of these subjects.
Although I am pretty awesome at PE!
Instagram: / michaelsodstrm
Original video: • Geography Now! Brazil
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[@rafaelito6239]

It is perhaps curious to know that Brazil has a larger community of Lebanese and Syrian descendants than the population of their countries of origin. as well as Ukrainians and Italians who have many descendants. The Japanese community is really big here. especially in the city where I live, which was founded by the English, bought by the Dutch and built by the Japanese. it's an interesting mix.

[@claratackla3953]

Yes! The last Tacklas came from Syria and we are all (except some people from the family who immigrated to Portugal and the USA) 😅

[@dragstan]

O Brasil também tem a maior população Japonesa fora do Japão.

[@ryukjoga]

I'm from Lebanese descendence 🙂

[@gabrielborghi5346]

Aqui em Londrina, PR a comunidade japonesa é absurdamente grande.

[@fred3324]

mano, ja vi que tu é brasileiro. nao tem descendentes temso UM ESTADO a aprte de imigração italina em 1874 começou a imigração iteliana apra trabalahr no brasil pro 14 anos foi o embate do oeste paulsita com o vale da paraiba e como italiano trabalahva quase de graça e nao era escravo, isso ACABOu com o acfezal do vale e um dos pialres do imperio brasileiro. a imigraçaõ foi de ducatos da italia INTEIROS após a unificação italiana tantoq eu uma grande região de SAO PAULO pricnipalmente o oeste apulsita tem grande sreferencias italianas, inclusind o PALESTRA ITALIA/Palmeiras. assim como em 1908 após a mudança de imperador teve uam forte imigração japonesa para o brasil e em 1917 uma forte imigração ALEMÃ

[@raptor_gamer2247]

bem é um video sobre brasil e como brasileiro q eu sou estou aqui pra marcar presença

[@qiizo1813]

eu n entendi porra nenhuma mas to aq tbm marcando presença

[@cromo5641]

Bostileiro médio

[@gabrielcarvalho8481]

@@qiizo1813 somos 2

[@heanedelgado9370]

Yess🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@morganadinizguida3252]

Ainda bem q tu tá aqui tbm, achava q eu era a única brasileira que fica vendo vídeo falando coisa sobre Brasil que eu já sei de có....... Marcando presença kkkkkkk

[@brunoks6951]

The germans and italians came to Brazil WAY before ww2. They were colonials that came escaping poverty in europe 2 centuries ago.

[@C0lon0]

A part of my family came here before the German Empire was founded, direct from the Holy Roman Empire.

[@arthurioscavieromatoseferr9936]

Mas muitos vieram durante e após a Segunda Guerra tbm

[@PauloSilva-yi2mi]

@@arthurioscavieromatoseferr9936, menos de 1% dos alemães e descendentes vieram nessa época, isso são números e não achismo.

[@valdirbruxeljunior]

@@arthurioscavieromatoseferr9936 dá uma olhada nesses numeros na Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Brazilians#Immigration dos 250 mil alemaes que imigraram para o Brasil, somente 10% imigraram APOS e DURANTE a 2a Guerra.

[@arthurioscavieromatoseferr9936]

@@valdirbruxeljunior Tem razão, 10% de 1940 em diante e 30% no período entre guerras

[@anabeatrizsantos4187]

existem alemães no Brasil desde antes da segunda guerra, inclusive uma enorme população de pomeranos kkkkkkk mas é verdade oq vc disse, por exemplo, Josef Mengele fugiu da Alemanha e viveu até sua morte no Brasil sem ninguém saber, justamente pq no Brasil já tinha uma forte imigração de alemães

[@farmaquim]

Creio eu q ele estava se referindo à atual onde de imigração de alemães pro Paraguai pq eles ñ querem vacinar e têm preconceito com muçulmanos.

[@FelipeFloripaa]

cara mas eu acho que a historia real é pior ainda que a segunda guerra, maioria dos imigrantes trazidos pro brasil foram politicas eugenistas...

[@Edgar2023ES]

O pai da minha avó chegou no Brasil em 1857.

[@anabeatrizsantos4187]

@@Edgar2023ES pois é

[@arthurioscavieromatoseferr9936]

Mengele morreu tomando banho de praia em SP kkkkkkk

[@MarcioNSantos]

I really don't understand many foreigners when they talk about Brazil. 1 - Assuming it's always hot. Part of Brazil (south) is not in tropical climate. There are places that even snow during winter, especially is higher areas. 2 - I don't understand the expression "rain forest" used to any kind of jungle even where there nare not so much rain. There are many different biomas in Brazi, the most part of deferostation and plantations for example are in "cerrado", that looks much more like a savanna than a forest. 3 - In Brazil there are a lot of soya plantation to export, not palms for palm oil. 4 - Geography now video forgets the "caatinga" bioma, it's a big part of the northeast. It 's really dry, looks like those Arizona deserts in the USA, but with not so much rocks and much more cactus.

[@deborawa]

also forgets the pampa region and I dont remember if it mentions pantanal

[@chaltier]

Pará produces a lot of palm oil tho, something like 80 to 90% of Brazil's total production

[@claratackla3953]

Cara, o bioma da amazônia é um "rain forest" e é chamado assim porque é uma floresta úmida, que chove muito (em português, "floresta tropical"). Concordo que tá errado dizer que só tem floresta tropical, mas eles não falaram isso... 😅

[@Pixelarter]

@@chaltier Yes, but Brazil is not a big exporter of palm oil. What he mentions about forest being destroyed for palm oil production is related to Indonesia, not Brazil.

[@fesouzasan]

@@Pixelarter Yep. The rainforest is being destroyed here for cattle ranching and soybean production, not palm oil.

[@julianaevapreisdasilva9300]

It is so hard to find a non-brazilian or a "non-explorer" to understand so much about things like palm oil. Thank you for your video, love from Brazil.

[@Perusseli]

Ele foi o PRIMEIRO gringo que ouvi falando sobre isso e sobre não é como uma culpa somente dos brasileiros. Infelizmente, nações imperialistas vêm aqui e fazem o que bem querem. E, depois disso, jogam a culpa para cima da gente.

[@elmapauladossantosgoncalve9307]

Me desculpa..mas, o Brasil não produz óleo de palma em escala pra desmatamento e tem toda uma legislação e burocracia, o famoso azeite de dendê ! As terras são desmatadas sim ,mas, pra retirar madeira, carimbo ilegal e a pecuária... muito bovino

[@boscardin10]

By the way: the significant German immigration to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, was in the 19 century. Before the war.

[@lucasvasconcelos5705]

Brings me joy to see that many of videos that talk about Brazil there are a lot of brazilians on it because it means that more and more brazilians are learning english and having access to english content

[@MarianaSouza101]

As a brazilian, I have to watch every video that non-brazilians make about Brazil.

[@luizfelipetr]

É um esporte ver como somos vistos lá fora kkkk

[@gabrielleao7406]

Hey there, mate! I'm Brazilian and I am also a History Teacher. It would be a pleasure to talk to you about this conflicted yet beautiful country. Cheers!

[@speakportuguesepls8416]

will you be very left tendentious while talking about it

[@JViictor]

@@speakportuguesepls8416 aidento

[@gusvsconcelos]

@@speakportuguesepls8416 traduzindo: você vai falar a verdade ou vai passar aquele pano gostoso pra defender os interesses da direita reacionária? 😅

[@Clara-sj2qh]

Omg, your english and grammar are so perfect, it makes sense the fact that you're a history teacher! Eu entendo, sei falar e escrever inglês, porém meu vocabulário é um pouco limitado porque eu não estudo palavras novas e minha pontuação (tanto no português quanto no inglês) é muito deficitária também, porque eu não leio praticamente nenhum livro nem escrevo redações pra praticar. Você como professor de história (uma pessoa que deve ler e escrever muito) teria alguma dica de uma forma prática de como eu poderia decorar palavras em inglês para melhorar o meu vocabulário, porque meu problema é na hora de escrever pq às vezes eu não sei como se escreve ela e nem como se pronuncia direito, o significado eu sempre sei.

[@Segregacionista]

@Antperson uhh, TOMIST EDUCATION....

[@guilhermenunes3044]

Queridos amigos brasileiros, em todos os vídeos que falam sobre o Brasil tem outros brasileiros nos comentários, em resumo, não precisa começar a frase dizendo "me, as a Brazilian". Não precisa, nós somos uma praga kkkkkkk, estamos em todos os lugares. Abraços!

[@Malam_NightYoru]

A gente brota igual filhote de rato saindo da tocakkkkkkk

[@guilhermenunes3044]

@@Malam_NightYoru kkkkkkkk

[@camilacardoso4213]

You should watch the video “don’t go to Brazil” As a geography teacher you will love it! And I’m a historian from Brazil if you wanna know more about the history, would be a pleasure to talk to you about it.

[@tevelisao_br]

GOD DAMN! We found a gringo that KNOWS that brasilians are NOT the ONLY ONES deforesting amazon, and that acknoledges that foreign interests are also a key factor here!!

[@LucasHenrique-fu9ok]

Yes,but he critized some points that not have sense,It seems that in he's view the country dont respect the indigenous people like his country for example,western propaganda

[@stingrbor2687]

Hej, nice reaction! The cookie part is not as big as it appears to be in this video. I´m far from being a specialist, but I don´t agree with the Amazon topic as it was covered by Geography Now and I was happy to see you pointing that out. The current exploitation of Amazonian wood for our own development it´s not a thing or not quite true, since wood is not so used in our homes in Brazil. Most of the houses are made of brick and masonry and the furniture manufactured nowadays for the masses is made of pressed cardboard, the floors are made of a kind of porcelain, etc. So much of the hardwood goes out through illegal trade. It´s necessary to see who buys the wood from Brazil and if the wood purchased comes from a reliable source. There are countries that have an environmentally friendly speech but turn a hypocritical blind eye to this, it´s even the other way around. We sell it because there are those who buy it (I am not advocating that we should keep doing it, obviously). It´s like drug trafficking, but with wood. In a wood case, it would be easier to be stopped. Tougher international laws/agreements would be needed to monitor and intercept these trafficked materials and apply harsh punishments to the people involved in buying illegal wood. About Palm Oil: I no longer buy products (chocolate etc) that have palm oil in its composition: Kit Kat, etc. Since forests go down, they use those areas to keep cattle, we are a big meat exporter which is also a cultural problem (worldwide) because people are not vegetarians or don´t stop eating A LOT of meat. A curiosity that involves Brazil and Sweden: Queen Silvia has Brazilian/Portuguese roots. There are claims that she descends from a noble Portuguese pioneer (pathfinder, settler) named João Ramalho.

[@C0lon0]

Actually you only can find some languages in Brazil, that became extinct in their native region, like me, in my region, we speak a bit of german and a lot of Pomeranian, that became extinct in the pomeranian region. Also Brazil is the country with most lebanese people than Lebanon and a lot of countries have Brazil being the favorite destination of imigration.

[@armadoelibertario9238]

Man, gets me everytime the fact that every video on KZbin that slightly mentions Brazil receives a ton of views. Just check out this guy's views history lol. Brazilians just love to watch videos about their own country 😄

[@julianasilva6946]

Most people living in favelas are normal honest people just living their lives, working, studying etc. Some favelas have a better infrastructure than others, with their own schools, bank agencies, restaurants, all types of shops etc, but in general they have worse infrastructure than other parts of the city. Some gangs and grug dealers hide in favelas because it's harder for police to catch them, this is where the violence in favelas comes from. When there is conflict between police and drug dealers in favelas innocent people often get hurt too.

[@josehigor3672]

You were very on point on the deforestation argument. Ps: root for us on this year's world cup, it's been 20 years since we won it, we kinda need it haha

[@lcsgabriel987]

SIM! Essa mentira que é contada pelo agro de que o povo ganha com desmatamento, enquanto na vdd eles importam quase tudo, sem falar na mineração que tb só alimenta grandes burgueses. O povo brasileiro tem seu território devastado sem nenhum retorno positivo

[@r4f213]

@@lcsgabriel987 bom se vc for acionista vc ganha kkkkkk, basta ser.

[@WillianPSouza-vy4if]

​@@lcsgabriel987 não esqueça, Fazendas na Europa e nos EUA é florestas no Brasil. Você deve achar lindo pagar caro alimentos enquanto os europeus americanos chineses pagam baratinho.

[@msc2127]

Yup, except from what i know its more to make pastures for cattle rather than palm oil. I wouldnt say palm oil is insignificant... but its size really would be comparable to a drop in the ocean. its all just probably european politics thou?

[@lucas9269]

There are quite a few mistakes on this geography now video and it's somewhat dated, that political sections it's completely different now. You pronounced "Rio de Janeiro" perfectly, and the majority of deforested land is used for cattle and soy, if you live in the south of the the country it's not that hot and it snows in some places.

[@glauco6958]

And the population is now 214 million.

[@camillepaiva2693]

o vídeo do geography now é de seis anos atras, então bastante coisa mudou, e se eu não me engano antes eles faziam esses vídeos com um tempo "específico" entao talvez por isso não tenha ficado tão detalhado mas quem sabe né, e se eu n me engano eles fizeram um outro vídeo sobre o Brasil.

[@caiofabio4989]

Mas o cara é da Suécia, para ele dentro de uma geladeira é calor

[@StefaniRd]

pior que faz um calor do caralho no sul também, um calor úmido horroroso :/

[@duatt3042]

@@StefaniRd ??

[@perfilgenerico8717]

13:18 Most german immigrants came in on the 19th century and suffered with prosecution from the state when we joined the allies, a lot of communities were forced to stop talking on their ancestors tongue And yes, i know the meme, don't worry, was just sharing the information

[@deborawa]

I was about to comment the same thing. My ancestors came to Brazil after years escaping wars in France and Germany

[@janainatakagui4142]

You as a professor of geography, history, social sciences Brazil is a full plate to research and learn about the development of societies, our geography, climate, history, the coming of many peoples and how everything developed brings a lot of material to analyze. Our culture is a mixture of many things, we have many different dance rhythms, music, food, accents, religions and customs in every corner of the country, all together and mixed.

[@gisdecera]

7:20 I am SO GLAD you pointed this out!!! the problem here isn't that "there isn't enough food", we actually have plenty!!! the problem is in it's distribution AND there have been many cases where farmers (land owners, idk what to properly call them) will actually burn perfectly good food after a harvest just so they can sell it at a higher price. I've seen other reactions to this "geography now" vid and it pisses me off sm, some other guy was like "uh thats fair" (and claimed to be a historian, idk you have to be a little bit more informed than that mate.) anyways, sorry for the rant but this is such an important issue and the og video just casually putting out misleading info just makes me mad, im really glad and reliefed you corrected it!!! also I didn't know about the palm oil thing, glad I'm also learning!! thank you again for the video and insights!! love from a Brazilian viewer

[@gisdecera]

may I add that most of the food we, Brazilians consume come from "agricultura familiar" that roughly means small farm business, usually run by families. This is my translation from a text I got from Estadão (known newspaper in Brazil) about agricultura familiar: "Family farming (Agricultura Familiar) is responsible for 77% of agricultural establishments in Brazil, according to the last Agricultural Census, carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE in PT/ BIGS in ENG). This practice employs 10 million people, which corresponds to 67% of the workforce engaged in agricultural activities. In Brazil, the IBGE Agricultural Census indicates that family farming is the economic base of 90% of Brazilian municipalities with up to 20 thousand inhabitants, with a diversified production of grains, animal and vegetable proteins, fruits and vegetables." So no, those big ass farm lands and deforestation are NOT for the Brazilian population's consumption. source: summitagro.estadao.com.br/noticias-do-campo/o-que-e-agricultura-familiar-e-qual-e-a-sua-importancia/#:~:text=A%20agricultura%20familiar%20%C3%A9%20respons%C3%A1vel,trabalho%20ocupada%20em%20atividades%20agropecu%C3%A1rias.

[@jackmatheus]

After a war where slaves and poor soldiers were promised houses after the win government didn’t delivered. The people was then forced to improvise the houses onto the hills and mountains. That’s how favelas came to be in few words. They then became a place where low income ppl (of course the backstory is a huge factor into that) live. The Government never came to provide the services it does in the actual cities, drug dealers took the opportunity made by this power vacuum to set in the favelas… This are just a few lines about it, there’s a lot more complexity involved…

[@EduardoTKull]

Today, Brasil has the largest population of Pomeranians in the world. Brasil has 2 or 3 cities in the south speaking a dead dialect from the Veneto, lost in Italy.

[@The_Ancient_Guardian]

A history lesson for YOU, most Germans in Brazil arrived Between 1850 and 1871. ;)

[@davilima6890]

10:37 yes, you can drink; you can even fish in some ponds, yes there are fish in them, they are small, but you can...

[@jackmatheus]

What you said about the deforestation is spot on

[@PauloSilva-yi2mi]

Mentira, tinha que ser um idiota com cara de soyboy pra falar essa besteira, baba ovo de gringo !

[@kaka_5002]

I’m an Brazilian! Loved your corrections about the Amazônia, as you said exportation takes a big part in deforestation. Anyways, congrats on the video! Come to Brazil sometime, I’m sure you’ll love it!

[@CabralNick]

7:30 You are as right as it can be!! Even the richest Brazilians don't use wood to build their houses and wooden furniture is rarely from the Amazon, as we have in the southeast of Brazil defined areas of trees cultivated for commercial purposes, using non-risk of extinction types of trees. And the latest investigations from our Federal Police, in the last 20 years, state that all those woods are exported primarily to Europe and some of them to the States. So, even though the current president of Brazil did not make any effort to deal with the deforestation of the Amazon, which is happening for more than 20 years, the latest presidents all stated that there are other nations involved, the so-called "free world" especially! (That's one of the reasons why Brazil grew closer to other nations that aren't puppets from the West; BRICS) And every student in Brazil knows that the Amazon soil is terrible to cultivate, as it would be a loss of money to chop some trees down and waste seeds on it... So that's a horrible analysis, and it comes from the inside UE, specifically France, that fears losing the profit from the soy market if Brazil establishes business with the UE, as it cannot compete against Brazil when it comes to agribusiness.

13:34 - there was no war in this case. there was a treaty created by "Barão do Rio Branco" that set the frontiers between Brazil an Bolivia.

btw Rio Branco is the capital of Acre.

[@nexuspolaris9000]

The water in the Lençois Maranhenses aren't drinkable. They are saline/brackish water.

[@alexmickaelichen9741]

Não é verdade, é água da chuva e é potável sim.

[@carlosferreira9873]

You were spot on in your deforestation analysis, congratulations on your research.

[@emanoeleigreja9872]

I'm from Amazon region and about deforestation is not how people talk. The main responsible for deforestation are large foreign companies, mainly from Norway, Canada, China, Japan, France and the United States. Our country's agriculture is developed and is not responsible for deforestation. I myself was born in a CompanyTown, a city created by a large foreign project-Hydro (from Norway and Japan). I am very sad to see that people are unaware of the reality of the Amazon and do not know that it is foreign companies that deforest the forest.Another big problem we have here is the illegal trafficking of flora and fauna, it is very common for foreign scientists to come through NGOs to explore the region and patent many products derived from plants from the Amazon, especially the Japanese, Chinese and North Americans. Honestly, I didn't like the video! The information is not true! The channel creator should know more before posting a video like this

[@Ricardonto]

E tem o contrabando de fósseis tbm

[@pauloweise]

finally a comment on the shit the guy talks about deforestation. a hug from Brazil

[@meucantogames6952]

As a geography teacher, I assume he knows July means winter in Brazil, and in some places that means frozen temperatures

[@eduardagraciano]

Pra um sueco eu duvido que algum dia faça frio aqui. hahaha

[@PrimusTool]

At 13m19s you mentioned "there are a lot of Germans in Brazil". Actually this has a very nice reason, and its dated back to 1820. Immigration was fomented by the Portuguese to populate those southern areas which had a "similar" climate to the German's (some Germans referred to the Mata Atlantica as the Swartz Wald. They even called bananas something like sweet wurst-like fruits). Some post 1945 migration occurred in fact (of the sort you are thinking) because of the relative ease to blend in and disappear. I really dislike when people infer Germans of the south of Brazil are related to war criminals. This has to stop.

[@toni.-steiner.]

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[@EulerCosta]

Thanks for the video! About the FAVELAS: 1. It is not "all bad" because they are just big areas where really poor people live (sounds very bad, I know), BUT MOST of the people there are hard working people. That is a way for the low salary workers live somewhat near their work place. 2. The real problem about the favelas is that they are usually controlled by drug dealers and the police usually goes there shooting everyone at random. Many kids going to school and many other innocent people end up getting shot by police or by the crossfire of this absurd and useless war on drugs, where the "soldiers" are usually black and poor people (police and dealers) while the "generals" are super rich white guys living in luxury areas, safe from the bullets and from the law, because they simply pay the police, district Attorneys and even judges not to be investigated or prosecuted for their crimes. Many are politicians, even. So I say we have a big problem here, and the solution would be the legalization of all drugs, but there is absolutely NO WILLING to change that, simply because the super rich criminals/politicians will not allow anyone to kill their golden goose.

[@stpaley]

thank you for explaining well enough that someone like me who is an estadounidense could understand, but then again i am aware some places here in the US are similar

[@meuyoutube3106]

One of many misconceptions about Brazil rain forest is that the world is worried about the forest itself when actually the world has interest in whats lay underneath... phosphate, gold, titanium, nickel, silver, aluminum, gas and many, many others.

[@mottahead6464]

It is true that most Brazilians actually seem not to really care about deforestation. I do believe that the main reason behind it is the fact that most Brazilians actually live very far away from the Amazon Rain Forest. There's also the fact that Brazilians seem tired of complaining and not being heard or not having their complaints even acknowledged by the Brazilian authorities (so.... why bother, right?).... which is , yes, a sad way of seeing things.

[@rafaelbaldini1818]

13:20 I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 and my grandmother' parents ran away from Germany during World War 2, and settled in the state of Santa Catarina in the South. My name is Rafael Baldini Blanck Castro (italian, german and portuguese surname) Yes there are lot of stories behind this immigration of europeans

[@pedrohenriquesanchez6352]

It's the first time i watch a reaction of this geography now video that the youtuber actually knows whats happening in the brazilian deforestation. Congrats man, you know what you talking about

[@brunoborgs]

Sorry Brazil is not a big palm oil producer, our problem with deforestation is due cattle and soy production.

[@Caduzao.]

Nice video and react about my country, about the Germans here, it was pretty much a century before the war with a high immigration of workers to supply the end of slavery. We even keep the Pommerish and Hunsrück dialects intact in some areas (where only German is spoken), 1800s dialects that are rare even in Germany itself, and in general the people there are quite friendly. But yes, there are a lot of dark things coming from the south. And it is "Biscoito", not "Bolacha" hahahahaha

[@patriciaguedes7834]

Yes! Biscoito os The rigth!

[@helen-hv2fh]

that's true, but after WW2 a large proportion of germans came to south america (majority in brazil n argentina). it's no wonder there's so many nazis here in SA. mengele died drowned in bertioga...

[@Pixelarter]

@@helen-hv2fh Less than 1% of Brazilian germanic immigrants were fled Nazis. The bulk of germanic immigration to Brazil happened before Germany even existed as a nation. Most Nazis fled to Argentina after the war.

[@helen-hv2fh]

@@Pixelarter no, the first germans came at the end of the imperial period (XIX century), germany was already a nation. we can't say that argentina has more when brazil is much bigger in size and population. in both countries many nazis were found, it wasn't counted how many each country received for obvious reasons. that being said, is no need to deny bc is a fact, it has information.

[@Pixelarter]

@@helen-hv2fh Germany became a nation-state with the unification in 1871. Brazil started receiving significant numbers of germanic immigrants since 1824. My own family arrived in Brazil in 1847. It's estimated that around 1500 ~ 2000 Nazis fled to Brazil, while from 1824 to 1969 around 250,000 germanic people emigrated to Brazil in total. That means that only 0.6% to 0.8% of germanic immigrants in Brazil where fugitive Nazis. Chile is estimated to have received between 500 and 1,000 Nazis. Previous estimates put Argentina at more than 5,000. However a recent discovered document found in an old storage space in Buenos Aires has a list of at least 12,000 Nazis who fled to Argentina. So there's no doubt that Argentina received the most fugitive Nazis.

[@matxp6085]

Fun fact: build Brasília was so expensive that we dont know how much we are owing for it and paying a "for ever debt"

[@silviapinho4277]

I visited the Amazon several years ago and I LOVED it! If you are really interested then I highly recommend it. It is really out of our comfort zone so you should keep an open mind and above all, always use your common sense and trust your primal instinct. Other than that, it will make an unforgettable trip! Nice reaction, by the way!

[@Rasfa]

Exactly. Deforestation is mostly for export but mostly soybeans, corn and cattle.

[@rafaelsantos-nl9jd]

ok little story lesson, previosu to WW2 brazil used to have the biggest german population outside germany, most migrated to Brazil in the 1800, and a second group migrated after WW1. one of the reasons why some Nazi escape to Brazil and Argentina ws because the region was already filled with Germans, so was extremely easy to hide, is the old "the best place to hide a tree is the forest", but curious enough after WW2 Brazil lost the position of second biggest german population to the US, that by the end of WW2 get a lot of germans

[@rayssacampos2100]

You would love to come to Brazil and visit any part... it’s amazing. I promise... the food is amazing. Our culture is so diversified... there’re so many other things that you would only learn if you visit Brazil

[@anapassos9037]

Tinha q ser americano mesmo pra falar de basquete antes de vôlei hahaha Brasil é um dos países mais fortes em vôlei, com competições nacional reconhecida internacionalmente.

[@egoist_chan]

I'm a fan of Belgium national team in terms of football, loving their attacking football.

[@rockonileva]

it feels like brazil in your appartment? We just came out a week with max temperatures of 10ºC here in Curitiba, and there was snow this week in Santa Catarina...

[@TherezaCristinalb]

I think it's great that there is increasing interest in Brazil. Usually Brazilian people get mad when people from other countries talk about them, using the stereotypes, but the truth is that we do the same with other countries. Anyway, I cannot say too much about a favela, because I avoid it. It's dangerous, but I also know that there are beautiful, good and hardworking people and great things happening in there. We just have to look for it really well. I think that maybe you should ask exactly what you want to know. Maybe there's somebody here to help you. And I really liked the video. There were things I didn't know about my own country! 🤣

[@EduardoTKull]

3:28 The neighborhood I was born was known as German's land until the 20's of the last century. After that, the name changed to Spanishs land, this people coming to escape from the Hunger and the flu.

[@edualves2477]

You just got a brazilian friend!!!!!! love the videos

[@2kool4myskool]

Funny how people say they want to visit the Amazon but in reality it's like going to the moon, as soon as you step into space youre dead. It's the same with the Amazon, piranhas, poison frogs, anacondas, bugs as big as your hand, deadly spiders, caimans, ferocious ants,suffocating heat and exotic natives ready to spear you. Having said all that Brazil is still an incredible place to visit.

[@ElGnomistico]

Nowadays it's become pretty painful to hear Brazil being called "good friends with everyone". Good times, those were...

[@luanmichel1100]

0:37 I wonder how you felt when germany destroyed brazil back in 2014

[@mppalves]

Palm oil production is not the driver of deforestation un Brazil. It is soybeans and cattle ranches.

[@carolinafd]

Regarding the comment about deforestation, some areas are narural reserves or indigenous reserves that are not bought, worst, they are invaded! I really hope my country solve this problem and respect our folks! ❤🌱

[@debora9101]

Own I love when foreings talk about my beautiful country 🇧🇷💚💛 Lençóis maranhenses is in my state , it's a really paradise 😌

[@diogoeler4564]

Já é bom ver alguém de outro país falando do Brasil 👍

[@gustavinus]

Some people have no idea on how big Brazil is... It is bigger than the continental US (remove Alaska) And we have some small part of dry/hot desert, but most of the country is very habitable

[@Dumartins]

The thing with favelas is a complex scenario that originated which we now call "communities", favela is a commonly used term, but usually when you say bad stuff about it, "community" (comunidade in portuguese) is a more friendly therm. In Brazil, historically, most of the communities originated the same way, the cities weren't built for all the people, they were built for the rich, so, the workers and poor people were segregated to the surroundings of this urban centers. Differently of the rich's cities, this communities weren't planed and in most cases lack the most basic things to human life, like basic services, like potable water, garbage collection, public illumination, electric energy and so on. This places were forgotten by the state which led a vacuum of power that was fulfilled by organized crime. Not all people of the communities are bandits, in fact, most of them are not criminals, just regular workers that not have a better place to live. Organized crime brought these basic public services for the communities, yes, in Brazil, criminals have more social conscience than our politicians. And an interesting thing happened, inside the communities, there's no crime, the organized crime doesn't allow. In Brazil there are to major types of scenarios, huge communities, like the São Saulo communities, that grow over the years, completely separated of the rich regions and scenarios, like the Rio de Janeiro ones, with have huge high end apartment complexes side by side with the communities. But, like in the rest of the world, all this situations are the picture of social inequality.

[@pedrosalvino3433]

The races/ethnicity graphics changes a little bit. 42.7% of Brazilians declared themselves as white, 46.8% as "pardo", 9.4% as black and 1.1% as "yellow" (asian) or indigenous. A lot of black people with lighter skin identify as "pardo" or others terms that expresses the miscegenation, but if you look is definitely black. There a bunch of people that really doesn't fit into any specific race, but I don't think "pardo" is the right term, because it denotes a third race between black and white and this is not the reality. These mixed people will also surffer racism in Brasil depends on where they are. That said, I prefer the terms: mestiço (that means mestizo/mixed-race), racially ambiguous, non-white in the racial limbo of the miscegenation process.

[@coronga_vayrus]

13:24 reasons: after the 1st and 2nd world wars, brazil opened its ports to immigrants and refugees from both wars. There are people who talk and create theories that some leaders of the 3 reich took refuge in the south of Brazil, but it is just a theory, since in the south there are many people of Germanic/Italian origin.

[@coronga_vayrus]

and a lot of these people at the time of WW2 still spoke their native languages! my grandparents during the 2nd world war (I'm from south Brazil) had to learn to speak Portuguese, because they were from a small town with 40 thousand inhabitants, and most were Italians and Germans, who hardly spoke Portuguese!! And the government later... let's say it didn't really like people who spoke German during the end of the 2nd world war.

[@neuroniorevolto]

бразильский флаг не представляет собой зеленый лес, но цвета представляют собой португальскую корону, которая когда-то была колонией Бразилии.

[@rebecateles3806]

"it feels like Brazil in my apartment, it's so damn hot" enquanto isso eu tô toda enrolada e com frio - e no nordeste! 👍

[@acaciobiu7102]

The fight between Argentines and Brazilians goes far beyond football and what bothers the most is that Argentina is one of the most racist countries in the world, if not the most, given our diversity it is not uncommon to find Brazilians who have gone through very bad situations when visiting Los Brothers. Actually in Brazil there is a veiled civil war in the favelas, the war on drugs, which may seem banal considering that most countries have but here it is fought with heavy breast-feeding like .50 and tanks and everything in the middle of one of the areas with the greatest population density. And yes, the German concentration in the south of the country really largely comes from Nazi Germany (fugitives), and yes it is not uncommon despite being highly reprimanded (often to the point) to find Nazis in Brazil, mainly in Santa Catarina, but there is no because being afraid is really a very small part of the population.

[@acaciobiu7102]

and deforestation in Brazil largely comes from the "grabbing" of land for cow farming, and it is an extremely serious problem as the current president encourages burning and deforestation, and areas the size of Switzerland are basically destroyed per year, if not most. The complicated thing is that there is no way to prevent it, since these farmers have small guerrillas that kill without thinking twice whoever gets in their way and since the immensity of the Amazon is basically impossible to go against, and we also have the other "grileiros" who deforest for mining , also widely supported by the president.

[@MuriKakari]

Geography Now has stated that once they hit the end of the alphabet they're going to redo at least A-B videos, I think C too.

[@IvanPauletti]

13:18 True story. Did you know that Mengele died in Bertioga, a coastal city in Brazil? This is such a story, and very frustrating one too

[@vidal9747]

We in Brazil have a huge problem with the capitanias hereditárias, that were big portions of land that could not be bought and even today we have a problem of large propriety belonging to companies that plant Soy and export it to China, the US, EU, etc. We subsist most on familiar agriculture, that uses a fraction of the land that those large companies use. Those companies frequently use illicit means to get even more territory from indigenous people and protected amazon territory. Saying that we need to expand our agricultural area is harmful disinformation. Furthermore, those large companies are unregulated by the government and export much more than they should. That way we are having a huge problem with inflation (I wish we had only 9% in a year). Basically those companies are selling to foreigners food produced in Brazil because the government does not tax then enough and the percentage of starving Brazilians is just growing. Our current government is one of the most disastrous government in our history, and out president is a criminal. Brazil faces complex matters involving international interests (2016 USA espionage and possible(not confirmed) nuclear energy sabotage) and saying that the money from the rain-forest is being used for our development is plainly lying.

[@davissae]

Your decor doesn’t break any Scandinavian stereotypes 😂

[@oguiarcanjo]

I was starting to write something about favelas but it need so much extra content beforehand to be fair and complete that I just gave up. Nevertheless, you were spot on about germans coming to Brazil during the 1940s. We joke that the south got most of those (and they did, in a way), but Mengele (the doctor from auschwitz) died in a costal city in São Paulo. His skull is used in our biggest medical university as a studying prop, being handled by countless black, pardo, jewish and lgbt students for decades, now.

[@Allumeth]

Favelas was mainly improvised homes that people build on mountains near big city centers due to inflation of home prices on the regular zoned places. the sheer size of the favelas gone to a certain degree that entires cities are in there with small business and 3-4 floor appartments. Most are not regulated zones from the government but also there is no other way to keep working in the big city centers and afford the housing prices there. Most people love living there like it because it seams like an enclosed community with almost a self regulation controled by the people and the community leaders (usualy militia). Favelas are cool to visit and all, but be mindfull of where you go, be respectful and humble. Brazilians in general hate cocky people

[@reiisandre]

Anytime you want to visit the Amazon just come along. A lot of differences in terms os climate, hydrograph, vegetation and culture that will drive you crazy. As geographer I recommend.

[@Jolgeable]

The background music actually sounds more Caribbean than Brazilian. XD Which is very common in American videos, they look for some Latin music with African heritage, so they take some music from the Caribbean, which is closer to the United States, and it's the part of Latin America they know better. Although Brazilian music shares similar African roots, music in these two regions developed separately over the centuries, which is why they are so different.

[@carolinafd]

The favelas originated by the beginning of the XX century after the state failed to pay some soldiers what they were entitled to receive after the Canudos War (internal conflict). Most Brazilians do not live in favelas, despite the stereotype. Some are quite touristic and it can be expensive (Videgal) to rent a place in those. They also range from very poor to relatively urbanized (that is, with some infrastructure). You can find these difference even inside the same favela (for example, Rocinha is very urbanised close to the main entrance) They exist mostly in big cities, where people go to find job opportunities. They usually have their own law, you will never be robbed inside a favela, but you have to know exactly where you can go there and have permission from the local gangs to be there.

[@gabriellafnuabfuwb9357]

The state of Rio Grande do Sul Was an independent country between 1835-1845 during the farroupilha revolution

[@hegthebrave9424]

Na hora que ele falou do Rio de Janeiro ele complicou com o “De janeiro” falando que era top “Jay Janeiro” e Rio ele falou as duas vezes errado kkkkkk

[@joaopcoutinho]

I don’t live in a favela, but I’ve visited friends a few times. Favelas are people aglomarations in cities. It’s usually an area in which the occupation started during the 60s or 70s when the great migration from the country to the cities happened in Brazil. Because of that they are incredibly densely populated. They were first stablished informally in areas of hard access, such as in the outskirts of the cities or mountains. What happened was that since they were not planned and the government didn’t provide modern urban practices, many of them still don’t have access to sewers, clean water, or free flow ventilation. Nowadays most of them have access to internet and electricity. Another facet of it is that some of them (but not all) are controlled by the drug mafia or militia. It’s a tough truth of Brazil, but these are generally more violent than the rich parts of the city. What I can say is that most of the people who live there are forced to live among a lack of safety and lack of treated sewage but are incredibly hard working people.

[@moaojarcos]

Here in Brazil, no one looks like no one. I got black, white and indigenous blood, so I have straight hair, clear eye, large and pointy nose, full lips, thin chin and light brown/red skin where the sun touch, and white skin on hidden places.

[@gemstonesparkle7915]

13:20, actually, 'that reason' you speak about is more in Argentina, I think. Brazilian colonies are mostly from 19th to early 20th century.

[@mordedordelapis]

"Can sue me?" Best part of the video! 🤣🤣🤣

[@bravalloy]

Peters projections helps to see how big a country or continent is. Brazil is bigger than contiguous US. Brazil deforest to export: soybean, hardwood, meat and gold. Mata Atlantica is almost non-existant today. Cerrado is being heavily deforested for soybean and meat.

[@diegocasamayorpinheiro6146]

Actually, all of Europe could fit twice over inside Brazil’s boarders. It’s the 5th largest country in the world.

[@leonardocaldeira3947]

Speaking about the issue of Brazilian land, the "cadeia ou cordilheira do espinhaço" was not mentioned. It is a sister mountain range to the Chilean Andes that goes from the state of Minas Gerais to Bahia and has a length of 1000 kilometers, they are places with a great occurrence of waterfalls and beautiful landscapes. I am "mineiro" (born in Minas Gerais), and I'm surprised that they almost always don't give space to our culture. Brazil is continental, and most of its states are much larger than many European countries, and in each state we have a completely different culture.

[@EduardoTKull]

The Germans arrived in Brasil much before Hitler or even the WW I. When the WW II started and the persecjtion started by the Vargas government, many families went to the south, went to Argentina or changed the name. REMEMBER: we had concentration camps for Germans and Japaneses. My family was one of the few who kept the name in the city.

[@mikaelalbers7878]

Technicaly you can drink the water, it is rain water. Alot of it pretty still and people swim in it so not sure if it is great to drink. And it is technicaly not a desser cause it is a bit to humid, but it is kind of the easiest way to decribe it. Swedish summer is the best time to visit it. Also they shoot some of the Avengers movies herr to creat the look of another planet

[@Calabresa022]

The argument used by the government to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia (which was built from nothing to serve specifically as the capital) was indeed to "centralize and democratize" its access from all states. The main actual reason is that Rio de Janeiro is a very populous coastal city and if/when the people decided to revolt, it would be very easy to surround the governmental palace and overthrow the government (or at the very least exile them from the capital). So they decided to build a city from scratch in the middle of nowhere so that the government would be safe against popular revolt (with the advantage of not being able to be bombarded by enemy ships). It was also very overpriced, because civil industry was (and still is) very corrupt, we have a saying here that "for every 10 trucks of concrete that left for Brasilia, only 1 arrived", because the other 9 being were actually non-existant and the money ended up in politicians pockets. So the politicians not only protected themselves against the people by moving to the middle of the country where there were barely any people living, they also got rich off building Brasilia due to corruption of the civil industry.

[@wislythium]

You comment on the germans in South America, they went mostly to Argentina. Brazilian German descent are mostly from the first war and earlier period. (And I say "mostly" because I could never say "all").

[@cfpc1]

Os brasileiros com certeza passaram por aqui. Abraço.

[@malthusalbertodepaula371]

Area continental dos Estados Unidos, dos 48 estados e DC, de terra emersa: 7.652.653 km2; Brasil, terra emersa: 8.516.000 km2.

[@Mr.Vini2204]

Calling lençóis maranhenses a flooded desert technically wrong, since what makes a desert is the lack of precipitation, and you have rain there. Brazil has no deserts, the closest it gets to having one is with the caatinga, which is a semi-arid biome, meaning that it has a very low ammount of rain during the year, but not low enough to be consiered a desert. Lençóis maranhenses is a dunes biome, and yes, the water there is fresh, they're mostly rain water that gets stored in between the dunes, and they're actually pretty clean. Since there's not a lot of wildlife and vegetation around them, there's not a lot of organic material in the water to contaminate it, and since there's no vegetation, the water gets direct sunlight the entire day, making it not suitable for most microorganisms

[@leonardo4425]

Great vídeo, met lot of ppl from a lot of countries around the world, and when i say im brazilian, they start to talk about Favela, Funk and Soccer, as thats our entire culture, which is completly wrong. This vídeo may help ppl to learn more about us and our amazing country!

[@rafaelrapaki]

7:30 every time I look at a reaction video, I discover something that doesn't exist in Brazil and people believe that it is true. For a Brazilian company to buy land and do something on that land, it needs to go through a rigorous environmental process. Currently, there is not even a foreign commodity company. All commodity companies are Brazilian, state-owned or private.

[@lurocharadialistadarmorj]

This video is old and is a little bit outdated. The Brazilian friend zone came back to the old friends. since 2019.

[@rodrigoferlauto713]

In south Brazil have a lot of germany and italian people, in Brazil have 25 million italian people

[@ViniciusMonteiro685]

Best way of getting in touch with Brazilians is by making a video about Brazil. And we'll probably correct any misconceptions eagerly (I, personally, find the pronunciation of "bolacha" in the video very annoying, it's not "bolatchia", but "bolasha" and with that, you know what's my side on that dispute). On a serious note, I was very happy to see somebody very well informed, more so than a lot of us. And because the country is too big (for its own sake), it's easy to meet a Brazilian that has no idea of the way other Brazilians live. Our country has a whole "multiverse" of realities, contrasts, accents, and complexities that every time somebody tries to make a video about Brazil, there will always be someone saying that something isn't totally accurate. Awesome video!

[@milico2935]

Favelas are kind of our culture breeding hotspots, a bit like compton was for the US in the 80s and 90s. A lot of ugly, ugly things happen there, both by the government and the community, besides a very high rate of gang activity. But besides that, as I mentioned, a lot of culture is being developed amidst their struggle, like carioca funk, the brazilian rap and trap scene and others. Not all is bad in favelas, but people there really face a lot of hardship from all sides of society, including the governments, and it's important for us to not forget about it. But besides that, great video, you had some pretty pointed commentary that usually is hard to find in discussions outside Brasil. Keep up the good work brother 😁