USA and Brazil, a tale of of two American powers.

[Thetruth]

Brazil may not have either the number or the range of immigrants the US has, but still you have the most Portuguese, Italians, Lebanese, Japanese and Bolivians outside their respective countries of origin, as well as the most Blacks anywhere outside Africa (at least once you include Pardos and Mulattoes, at any rate).

I think most Bolivians diaspora live in Chile or Argentina not Brazil but okay lol

I think that’s a bit of an exaggeration

[Thetruth]

In the 2000s when Brasil's economy was doing extremely good and in its way to become a world superpower, I got the impression the Americans here were starting to see the country and its people as the Latino version of the them. It seemed they considered the nation and everything about it really cool and comparable to Estados Unidos to certain point. At that time Brazil was also the main fashion model powerhouse in the planet btw. They still are but nothing compared to that decade. Maybe unrelated but i's retarded how the American media often portrayed Giselle Bundchen as "German-Brazilian" instead of "Brazilian". Giselle herself had to clarify that she was just Brazilian plenty of times because of this.

A lot of Americans also have this impression that in the future America will have dealt away with racism and will be mixed race country like Brazil.

[AdrianV]

A lot of Americans also have this impression that in the future America will have dealt away with racism and will be mixed race country like Brazil.

There really isn't much of it, mostly created by the media. But mixed race just creates more jealousy especially with darker black women who want to be light skinned.

[luc2112]

Brazil and USA in some points are comparable in others are different.

USA is of temperate climate with more fertile lands, with more but oil and coal. Received more European immigrants, which indicates that they would develop earlier. Usa has more similar history to Argentina than Brazil.

Nowadays with modern agriculture and seeds it can be said that Brazil is an agricultural power. Brazil despite its similar size to the US, half of the territory is rainforest.


Afro-americans: 22% euro the majority and black and some mulattos. Brazil SSA mulattos or browns are 50% EUR, 40% SSA and 10% NAM.

[Tooting Carmen]

Brazil is roughly the size of the 48 contiguous States but with only two-thirds of the population.

[AdrianV]

Brazil is roughly the size of the 48 contiguous States but with only two-thirds of the population.

Similar. The 2 largest countries of the Americas.

[Tooting Carmen]

Similar. The 2 largest countries of the Americas.

I'd wager that much of Brazil away from the coast is barely if at all more densely-populated than Australia.

[luc2112]

The single opportunity of Brazil to become a power is that other powers fail and reach the brazilian level or under.

what would this level be?

wood, superproductive agricultural lands, beaches-jungles-deserts to develop a big touristic industry, iron, oil, a low demographical density...)

No

It has one of the highest criminality rates in the world, that are even high for the Latin American context, but at difference with Colombia or Mexico that can justify it due to the drug traffic (that at least creates richness) or Venezuela due to the criminal government, it seems to do not exist a rational explanation to the criminality rates of Brazil.

over 10% unemployment, consumption and internal drug trafficking.

If in the common conversations Brazil is mentioned as an example of a bad administrated country, it is said with right. It´s probably one, after Cuba, Argentina and Venezuela and these cases are explained by political reasons, of the worst administrated countries

No

in Latin America (that´s saying much), the one that exploits worst its potential possibilities.

Is 8° richest country in the world

[AdrianV]

I'd wager that much of Brazil away from the coast is barely if at all more densely-populated than Australia.

Avoiding cannibal natives with blow darts is a good idea.

[luc2112]

I'd wager that much of Brazil away from the coast is barely if at all more densely-populated than Australia.

North and central-west regions have low density. The rest is populated in the interior.