ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What can we learn form Brazil? Why should we listen to insights from a country where politics is an messed up as it is in the United States and Europe?
Indigenous and afro-Brazilian thinkers can offer new insights about why people all over the planet have come to hate each other so much... and centuries of conflict and living with difference can give new perspectives about how to encounter and life with people who are different from us.
In this bonus introduction, the host of Learning form Brazil explains the origin of this podcast and the research that gives it depth and breadth.
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This circle, expressed in thought, story, and cultural practice, offers one Brazilian — and particularly afro-Brazilian — way to think outside of the logic of opposition and polarization. This strength of identity can come from the center of gravity in a spinning dancer, a cultural circle, the conn…
Art, ritual, and play are the most common motivations to come together in Brazil, and the drive to make beauty gives both meaning and purpose to estar juntos — being together. Think, for instance, of the immense investment of time, money, and energy required to prepare the performance of a samba sc…
Conflict is inevitable. We live in a world of diverse interests, ideas, and perspectives. An unequal world, and unjust world. If you try to resolve a conflict, you’re saying that it is, somehow, false. That the situation where we live should be one of harmony and balance, if people could just see i…
In the United States and Europe, identity construction based on opposition is often called “tribal,” with little self consciousness of the racist implication of the word. In Brazil, one is more likely to hear a phrase like, “the eternal Fla-Flu of politics,” referring to Flamengo and Fluminense, tw…
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