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Slave labor was the driving force behind the growth of the sugar economy in Brazil, and sugar was the colony's main export product, from 1600 to 1650. Gold and diamond deposits were discovered in Brazil from 1690 onwards, which generated an increase in the importation of slaves, to supply labor in mining.
Electronic music in Brazil started in the 1980s, when the genre of music was getting popular in the world. The first event involving the genre of music in Brazil was in 1988 in São Paulo, with DJ Mau Mau. In the 1990s, the genre was getting bigger in Brazil and world, some of the most famous disk jockeys were DJ Marky and DJ Patife.
The Brazilian diaspora is the migration of Brazilians to other countries, a mostly recent phenomenon that has been driven mainly by economic recession and hyperinflation that afflicted Brazil in the 1980s and early 1990s, and since 2014, by the political and economic crisis that culminated in the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, as well as the ...
Social media in Brazil is the use of social networking applications in this South American nation. This is due to economic growth and the increasing availability of computers and smartphones. Brazil is the world's second-largest user of Twitter (at 41.2 million tweeters), and the largest market for YouTube outside the United States. [130]
Brazil's navy once operated some of the most powerful warships in the world with the two Minas Geraes-class dreadnoughts, sparking a naval arms race between Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. [237] Today, it is a green water force and has a group of specialized elite in retaking ships and naval facilities, GRUMEC , unit specially trained to protect ...
A Brazilian festival in March 2009, Golborne Road, Notting Hill. The vibrant emerging Brazilian community in the capital has in a short time been influential in shaping the face of London and its residents. [1] The culture and music of Brazil has had a significant impact in the UK, most evidently as previously stated in London. [1]
Please, come to Brazil, [1] [2] or simply Come to Brazil, is a phrase commonly posted by Brazilian people on celebrity pages on social media, inviting them to come to the South American country. The frequency with which the phrase is posted and the positive response from some international artists to the Brazilian audience behavior made it a meme .
The term Post-rock is already well used in Brazil. Some magazines in the English language in the beginning of the 2000s deemed some worldwide genres like electronic rock (using this term on the 2000s music) and new rave having some Brazilian bands not only as the exponents but builders of these movements. 2015 was the first year in history that ...