Brazil Culture

ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

JANUARY 2007

.INDEX

Preface……………………………………………………………………………3
List of Tables……………………………………………………………………. 3

I. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………….4

II.CULTURAL PATTERNS OF BRAZIL…………………………………….
A. Social Institutions……………………………………………………….
1. Historical………………………………………………………………5
2. Geographical…………………………………………………………. 7
3. Demographical……………………………………………………….. 8
4. Political……………………………………………………………….. 10
5. Economic………………………………………………………………13
6. Religious……………………………………………………………….20
7. Linguistic………………………………………………………………20
8. Educational……………………………………………………………23
9. Aesthetic……………………………………………………………….24
      B. Organizational Culture………………………………………………….
1. Work Values, Traditions, Norms and Expectations…………………31
2. Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Patterns……………………37


  IV.USEFUL INFORMATIONS…………………….. ………………………..41

V.SOURCES ……………………………………………………………………..42


PREFACE
In this term paper, which is about Brazil? We try to explain Social Institutions, Traditions, Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Patterns, some useful informations of Brazil.

According to our research Brazil is a lively country.
It has a large acculturation of other ethnic groups. The country’s tourism well developed, has beautiful beaches, and famous carnivals. Lots of tourists choose Brazil to have fun. Therefore tourism has an important and large placement in country’s economy.
          The Brazilians are friendly and helpful people. While we were doing this research we enjoyed very much. We hope you will enjoy and learn useful information about Brazil. We hope you will work with Brazilians and those informations will be very useful for you.
Brazilian economy is developing from day to day and it performs very effective economical programs. In recent years Brazilian economy has trade surplus and in 2006 Brazil paid all debts to IMF. With those economic developments Brazil will start to be a very...