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Published: 2012-11-12 02:47:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 5803; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 7
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A little fanart of Scandinavia and the World, a webcomic by . I always wondered how she would portray Brazil. Then, I wondered which Brazilian stereotype she would pick.I know that most of the world sees Brazilian women like the ones naked (with body paint) that appears in Carnaval videos, but the truth is that the average Brazilian woman is less... curvy and likes to get their hair straight and blond. The average Brazilian woman also likes to flirt with Nordic guys, so, Denmark would be in heaven here (note that "to flirt" doesn't mean "to prostitute"). So, I went with a beautiful woman who likes parties, beer and flirts. She's passionate, independent and manages to look pretty even if she's working in a butchery. (Yes, there are many geek women in Brazil, and many, many, many women that don't fit in that stereotype - like myself - but hey, stereotypes works like that.)
For Brother Brazil (it seems like Humon established that the main Brazil character is female, because no one calls her "Sister Brazil"), well, most foreigns get it right: he is a party-loving football-crazy nice guy. He may not be very punctual or organized, but he makes up for that being creative and flexible.
...Yeah, I overthought that. Well.
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Denmark and Brazil? I don't know, she thinks he is adorable, but I don't know if it would work in the long term. Too opposite in terms of personality, save for the love of beer. xD
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Well two opposites attract don't they? Lol! Anyway good drawing and realistic personifications of Brazil. I think one day I'm going to draw my grandma's country which is Haiti. That will be interesting! XD
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Do it! Haiti seems to be a very interesting place.
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Todo mundo acha que a gente fica se pintando o ano inteiro... que horror.
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O Brasil não deveria ser miscigenado? E cabelo loiro?
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Geralmente não possuímos cabelos crespos, e pintados de loiro? Você acha que a melhor representação do Brasil no Escandinava and the world são os funkeiros?
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Mas ele É miscigenado. Tanto o Irmão Brasil quanto a Brasil estão no meio do caminho entre os brancos (como o Dinamarca ali) e o negro (como a Brasil-globeleza).
A Brasil tem cabelo loiro e liso porque muitas mulheres brasileiras alisam e tingem de loiro, mas os homens raramente fazem isso. É por isso que o Irmão Brasil tem o cabelo preto e crespo, mesmo.
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Eita, eu sou um brasileiro bem diferente. x)
Eu adoro os webcomics da Humon sobre os países escandinavos e essa sua adaptação ficou bem legal.
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Valeu! A Humon influencia bastante a minha arte, adoro o estilo dela.
Pra falar a verdade, a maioria das pessoas não é um estereótipo ambulante do seu país, então, tá tudo OK. xD
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Acho que a Mana Brasil devia ter mais bunda e menos peito
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Bom, ela só tá aparecendo da cintura pra cima. Também imagino ela mais curvilínea. Quanto aos seios, só uma palavra: silicone. O Brasil é o país que mais usa. xD
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Thanks very much! ^^
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You;re welcome. I also faved it.
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Awesome X3 Hilarious in many ways! 
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Thanks. It was soooo fun drawing him. xD
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Thanks! I don't know if I will draw anytime soon, but I do have a few ideas. xD
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Very nice. I love the look on Denmark's face in this, lol. Looks like his poor little Danish heart just melted into a puddle at his feet.
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Thanks. I think he fantasized too much about Brazil before actually knowing her. xD
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No problem at all. 
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O.o I have never run to that female Brazilian stereotype.
But as you are Brazilian, I would be curious, do you prefer move along friends or alone? And as a female, do you wave your hip while walking in general?
I mean, sister was there for year and she told that people tend to move in herds - one or two knows where they are going and everyone else just moves along. And when she asked a local map so she could search places by her own, her friends had look at her like she would gone insane. Turned out that even finding local map was near-impossible task because nobody-ever-need-any.
When her host-sister came here for visit, another near-impossible task emerged - she was near-unable to walk on snow or ice. My sister made hypothesis that reason why Finn girls normally doesn't wave their hips while walking. Waving hip from side to side might be seen as attractive but it will also alter one's balancing point each step and on slippery or unstable surface it quickly result falling down.
Oh, and because we tend to travel without herd, I was trying to teach her to read map and navigate with it. It was so silly, although I felt bit bad for her when we point of desperation. It took us half a hour to find kiosk that was in next block few minutes away, and she couldn't had find it without some extra tips. One man actually stopped and offered guiding for us. You can just image his hilarious grin when we twenty minutes later arrived that near-by kiosk he happened to be still within.
What comes to that Brother Brazil, can't help but smile. I mean, option to study football in university? You really must love football a lot...
Anyhow, this was great comic and I thank you for that. ^^ And you can draw those SatW character far better than I can hope. Any interest to help me few strips? I have some ideas but I really lack skill to execute those ideas.
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I saw that female stereotype in so many places. OK, not exactly naked, but almost. xD
The hips thing probably is more common in women wearing high heels (and BY GOD, women here are obsessed with heels, it's hard for me to find a plain shoe to wear that is not a sneaker), and/or some regions, like Rio. Here where I live, women walk mostly in the regular way. I would probably slip on ice, but it's because I'm terribly clumsy. xD
The "herd" thing is something I think you will see in every... uh... young county you visit. Almost-universal literacy is something relatively recent here. When people wanted to go somewhere, they needed to ask someone for directions and remember it right to get where they want. We - as a country - didn't have that much time to learn how to use maps before Google Maps appeared with its Street View funcionality. Besides, Sao Paulo and Rio are the bigger cities here and they sell maps in newsstands. Smaller cities don't need that because you will always know someone who knows how to get wherever you want to, so you can just ask. xD
Another thing is that we here do put a lot of value in social interation. Brazilians prefer to go out with other people whenever it's possible. Going out alone is something that feels a little sad inside us. That, coupled with the fact that "planning" is not our speciality, leads to the "herds" your sister saw. xD
Football, as far as I know, is a specialization of P.E. It's one of our main exportation products, we have to know that very well. xD Geek Brazilian boys tend to be annoyed with the football stereotype, but come on. I swear to you, if the world starts to end in a Wednesday night or a Sunday afternoon, the news will break in Brazil just after the end of the football matches. Almost half the population won't care before that. xD
I'm happy you liked the comic. I can draw your ideas only in December, because just now I'm studying for a very important admission test and closed my requests (for the record, that comic I posted is some months old, I just forgot to post then ^^"). If you don't mind, we can talk in December, when the requests open again.
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....wait... she was naked? Although, if that would be true, things could be quite interesting. Wearing clothing makes nakedness something... unnatural, so it would have been interesting if there would have been large-scale society without double-standards for clothing. I guess we are somewhere there thanks to sauna-culture of ours (nakedness isn't mystified thus holds no curiosity either) but that apply mostly those who used to bath with others, habit that has been fading especially in cities.
Dunno about high-heels. At least our Brazilian quest had solid winter boots. Then again, if people at your location walks 'normally', I doubt that hip-waving walking style is automatically learned. Kids learns lots of things just mimicking.
Asking direction isn't what I had on my mind - I was more thinking that people are just following someone who knows, without even paying attention where they go because relying guide's guidance. Of course, with mixture of social element, that is probably result, not original plan - not paying attention for directions gives you time to focus on socializing.
Can't say Finland wouldn't be that... old country either. We even had our pagan beliefs alive still in 19th century because 'Finland' was mostly isolated villages between forests and before mid-19th century nobody really cared as long as ruling faction just got their taxes or drafts.
Heh. I guess the fact we tend to keep our solitude is why we prefer maps instead other people. Plus, population focusing within cities is actually pretty late phenomena, which increases importance of maps even more - when you have nobody but trees for everywhere around you, ability read maps become pretty useful (GPSs are useful too but may rub out of battery),
I can just image. If someone would suggest any sport to be seriously taught in University - apart of gym-teacher's studies, they are, after all, supposed to know how to teach those skills for kids - (s)he would be laugh off. Sports are _just_ for hobbies, maybe profession for some talented diehards (who are obliviously paid too much for doing nothing useful) but getting diplomas that would make them count equally educated as lawyers, doctors or scientists? Heh. Gym lessons at school aren't supported because those would be way to product top competitors but because it is only formal method to ensure that all kids gets at least some physical exercise. There is quite a gap between ambitiousness of these two school systems.
I personally prefer avoid sports unless partaking it personally. Sport just seems to get so twisted when people stop moving themselves and just focus on how well others perform - especially when most watchers aren't trying to even learn from what they see, just follow. Physical activity that turns people completely passive is just... wrong.
But if football could delay end of the world, that would be pretty cool. Then again, I recall it wouldn't be first ball-sport played somewhere around there which purpose was, eventually, prevent end of the world. Can't recall was it Aztec or Maya game but involved throwing ball through the hole... o.-
I would be really grateful if you would help with those strips. I have no hurry with those though, as most ideas had been around for a year at least. Bit puzzled though. I didn't know you have normal practice to take requests in first place but I guess that was lucky caoincande then. Haven't requested pictures before so this is sorta new for me. ^^
And I wish you best of luck for your very important admission test. I hope all goes like planned. Or even better. ^^
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(Yeah, she's naked. If you didn't know that some Brazilian dancers on Carnaval videos are basically naked with some glitter plastered on them, now you know: [link] )
Actually, people got their diplomas for being Physical Education teachers or physioterapists. The football is just some especialization you can have if you want to work for a professional team, or something like that. I was just joking on the "exportation" part. We don't train boys to be better players at school, it's just the old "give those kids a ball and let they sweat". It's the big football teams that treat football seriously and have many high skilled professionals to aid their players.
I take requests every time I hit some achievement in DA, like posting 50 comic strips, as well in the kiriban format. I take requests too when I like the idea someone gives me, but most times I just email the person the request instead of posting here, like I did with some Fantasy strips a friend asked me some time ago. Like I said, you can talk to me in December, and we can make an arrangement. ^^
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And I thought I had replied to this post ages ago... but it seems it had been buried in dust of time.
Sounds bit boring... then again, today encountered some photos from Finnish version of Carneval and I was completely stunned how awesome arounrish-looking suits they were wearing. First thought was just like 'I want that helmet!' so maybe it just me who is interested more about costumes than naked skin (but honestly, everyone has guite good portion of that so what makes it so special?).
I have already completely forgot what I was ever asking but it hardle matters anymore. I hope you have managed to got plenty of kiribans, though. ^^ And have had fun time out there. ^^
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Well, many people in Carnival do put a lot of effort into their costumes. They are really beautiful. It's just that the naked ladies get more attention from the media, for some reason. xD
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Their focus is horrible off. Putting efford to clothing is far higher than getting those off although really skilled bodypaint might take long time but in that case, you won't look 'naked' at first place.
Hmm. Makes me wonder... Can heavily tattooned person truly be naked at all as (s)he is wearing decoration all the time.
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Nice, particularly the bit where "how they actually are" is how I see them, well except that I suspect that (sister) Brazil is obsessed with beach volleyball as well.
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Not beach volleyball, mainly because most of Brazil's population doesn't live in beaches and/or doesn't play beach volleyball, but she does like regular volleyball. Her true obsession is soap operas. xD There's no fight like a Brazilian man and a Brazilian woman fighting over a remote control when football and soap operas are airing at the same time. xD
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Seriously; we rarely see your regular volleyball teams, but your seem to be about World 1 to 10 inclusive with your beach volleyball pairs.
As for the fight over the remote, it's pretty much the same here in Scotland (well except that I don't care about football).
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The regular-volleyball Brazilian men team is nine times champion in the World League and is known as the "Dream Team" of FIVB. The women team is just a little less awesome, and yet it have eight World Grand Prix, being the second best team in the world.
Actually, most of our beach volleyball stars are regular volleyball stars (usually, the best volleyball players of the country), that decide to do something different and go to the sand, just to earn some more bucks. I think that the world know better our beach volleyball because it's broadcasted more. You know, girls in swimsuits and all. 
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that was funny I love the Brother Brazil part
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Thanks.
Brazil is a country the size of a continent and we have many local stereotypes for men and women, so it was hard to pick a stereotype that fit (more or less) all the country. xD
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I think Brother Brazil was right on.
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