Brazilian Society & Culture
(1) Diversity
. Brazil is a mixture of races and ethnicities, resulting in rich diversity.
. Many original Portuguese settlers married native women, which created a new race, called 'mestizos'.
. 'Mulattoes' are descendents of the Portuguese and African slaves.
. Slavery was abolished in 1888, creating over time a further blurring of racial lines.
. Unlike man
Political democracy inevitably contains the system of social inequality.
However democracy in detail contains the participation of majority in which the disadvantaged have real voice in society.
Hence democracy is possible only if there exists an institutional separation between the realm of politics and system of inequality.
Real Democracy only if based on overall distribution of power
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inequity in presidential elections, with larger states selecting fewer electors per capita than smaller states.
House and state legislative districts are not static. In order to comply with the dictum of equal population representation, they must be remade every decade.
Gerrymandering : Apportionment of voters in districts in such a way as to give unfair advantage to one political party. Ex
Edith Maude Eaton (1865-1914)
Wrote under the pseudonym Sui Sin Far- asserted Chinese heritage
Mixed ethnicity- prejudice
Ambiguity regarding her cultural identity
Wanted to encourage mutual understanding and respect between the American and Asian community
Significance of the author
The first Asian American author to write about the life of Chinese immigrants in the US
Had
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 27 October 1945, known popularly as Lula, served as the 35th President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011.
A founding member of the Workers' Party (PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores), he ran for President three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as President on 1 January 2003. In the