To understand the Brazilians

Brazil is a country with great territorial and cultural diversity. For this reason, you need to understand some aspects to get a view on your people. In the first place, the diversities, colonization, formation of the national state and its influences can explain to a certain extent the character of the Brazilian. But the discussion is long, complex and over the years several thinkers have tried to explain what the Brazilian is, in any case, is not a simple exercise, a plausible explanation can be made through a determined cut of reality, could say, using a Weberian category, the ideal type as Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda did perfectly in his studies on the "homem cordial" (cordial man in English), succeeded in explaining the main aspect of our culture. There are several other studies in the most diverse aspects. At the moment we will make a brief analysis on one of these aspects: the Brazilian passions. Yes, the Brazilian is a passionate people, it is as if we live inside a football field in an eternal game, at all times supporting one side or the another and in a passionate way.

The daily life of the Brazilian is full of passions and this you can see in gestures, spoken expressions and here we have three categories that perhaps may be the most important to understand what I mean. In this case we are talking about football, religion and politics. A few years ago, there was a controversial issue in the city of São Paulo about taxi drivers because the city council instructed these drivers when they were with their clients not to talk about some aspects such as football and politics not to cause problems, instruction was controversial at that time, but the city council was working precisely on the main issue of conflicts in the daily routine of Brazilians.

The Brazilian is really passionate, the discussions are difficult sometimes on a simple football game, the involvement is deep and there is a lot of fanaticism. It is notorious on Mondays or Thursdays that people go out with their football team shirts on the streets and it is easy for anyone to identify which team has won the last game. In some cities it is very dangerous to walk around the city wearing your team's t-shirt, there have even been murders of people because they are simply wearing the shirts of the opposing team. In cities like Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre, where there is a great polarization around only two teams, the problem may be bigger.
In politics and religion the same happens, of course, obeying the proportions due, but the political and religious polarization in Brazil and the latent social tensions when they rebel, show the outcry of feelings. The discussion is beyond simple disagreements, the dispute is as a football game, society is divided between the twisted two teams in a championship final.