Today I learned that Brazil is larger than the contiguous United States>contiguous USA: 7 825 267 km2>Brazil: 8 547 404 km2
>>221195727Brazil used to be small. But Spaniards are the most oncompetent people on Earth and Portuguese took a lot of the former Spanish territories to form Brazil.
>>221195835we had a friendly relationship with our neighbors and with Spain for almost all of that time, and it was the Brazilians themselves (the bandeirantes) who expanded the territory.
Most of it is steaming useless jungle only good for wars between ooga booga tribes and illegal gold mining operations
>>221196001100% of our land is arableit's you who has useless mountains and deserts
>>221195952Can any Brazilian monkeyblood inform me why it's called Brazil? What's the motif of the Brazilian flag? And what is the founding doctrine of Brazil? What are they working towards?
>>221196001Much of your territory is deserts and mountains, what are you talking about?
>brazil thread #37 on the 'log>a bunch of retarded repliesholy shit just fucking kill yourself at this point
>>221196055it was a name of a tree that portguese liked to export for dyesi dont think it even exists anymore
>>221196125What?
>>221196055It's named after BrazilwoodThe motif is from positivism, a dead ideology from France
>>221196055portuguese sailors searched for a long time for a mythical island called Hy-Brazil (which even appeared on maps of the time). so the name wasn't unknown for them.the most accepted theory is that the name comes from a tree called "pau-brasil," which produces a red pigment that resembles "brasa" (embers).>>221196131the tree exists and it's even ornamental (there's one planted at the club I go to)
>>221196162every time i see the brazilian flag i burst out laughingbecause whenever i think of brasil the first two things i think of are 'order and progress' kek
>>221195727>contiguous united statesit’s bullshit that alaska is never included in these size comparisons because with alaska we mog everyone except canada and russia
>>221196193>order and progressYou can't be serious, our motto is Truth alone triumphs, and I can barely conceal my disdain every time I see it printed on literally everything
>>221196032>>221196104Only about 7% of Brazil is arable compared to 17% of the continental US
>>221196055>why it's called BrazilBecause of Brazilwood. Brazil wood is named like that because it's red like ember (Brasa), Brazil was full of Brazilwood and the land in much of Brazil is also ember-like red because it's rich in Iron.>What's the motif of the Brazilian flag?It's an adaptation of the former imperial flag with the royalty simbols replaced by the the perception of an armillary sphere depicting the sky over Rio de Janeiro on November 15, 1889, when the Republic was proclaimed.>And what is the founding doctrine of Brazil?Positivism, originally. >What are they working towards?We don't know for sure, just trying to make a living.
>>221196055>What are they working towardsmonkey communism
>>221195727If Brazil big thenWhy is it so poor???????
>>221196217It's not a competition, I'm just showing something interesting
>>221196307it's actually from Hy-Brazilhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)
>>221195835Spain didn't care for the jungle land. Portugal didn't take anything from Spain, it was just a mutual trade of lands and Portugal kept expanding deeper until borders were formed.
>>221196336brazil isn't poor. our sky has more stars,our meadows have more flowers, our forests have more life, our life has more love.
>>221196357You really like that theory huhIt makes far less sense than it coming from Brazilwood, considering that the place was known mostly for this wood, and that you are called Brasileiro instead of Brazilian
>order and progressmore like communism and bunda
>>221196336Full of Brazilians
>>221196353everything in life is a competition
>>221196400the portuguese spent centuries searching for that island, and you think they simply forgot about it when the named a new country in the atlantic?
>>221196435To americans maybe because your culture is obsessed with the idea of winners and losers. The most common insult in america is being called a loser. And that's good because produce people obsessed with hyperachieving, but bad because you antagonize everyone who you perceive as an slight threat, that's explain much of the american sucess as a world power and also its agressive foreign policy
>>221196575As long as you keep hosting Miss Bum Bum Brazil will have its place under the sun
>>221196575our culture simply reflects the most fundamental reality there is: winners survive and reproduce, losers die and their bloodlines die with them
>>221196622>winners survive and reproduce, losers die and their bloodlines die with themit's literally the opposite, it's losers who reproduce and the successful "winners" who die alone.
>>221196476well then surely you can show me mentions of this island in the 16th century, and maybe you can come up with an explanation for why it was only named Brazil after it was given other names, or why you are called Brazilers instead of BraziliansCompared to the theory of brazilwood, your theory is very weak. I think this is just wish believe on your part because you find this origin too vulgar and mundane
>>221196749>The etymology of the names Brasil and Hy-Brasil is uncertain, but the Italian geographer Paolo Revelli [it] (1937) was sure it was related to the wood dye brazil. Medieval Latin brasile was the term for a dye that enjoyed great popularity as a trading commodity in the twelfth century throughout Western Europe. It has been speculated that the widespread appearance of the name served as a locational marker for sources of the dye, primarily for sailors from the Republic of Genoa where most of the maps originate.[5] The name of the country Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil) is also connected with the brazilwood dye.[6] It has been argued that the Irish island cannot be connected with tropical brazilwood, which cannot grow so far north, but this argument can be countered by the fact that "brazil" dye itself can be obtained from other trees that do grow in Europeit all share a common origin
>>221196749His theory could be true, people searched for El Dorado in the Congo, in Central America, South America, Sumatra and even India
>>221196622Are you a winner amreki?
>>221196822couldbut gets mogged by the obvious theory of brazilwoodI'm still waiting for an explanation for the name change and the demonym
Brazil really ought to be a global superpower. How did they fuck up so badly?
>>221195952>bandeirantesFell for the glowie psyop award
>>221197497they have the dumbest constitution known to manit's the kind of thing that happens when you let mobs draft your constitution
