A identidade nacional brasileira

Abstract

A presentamos a seguir os principais temas e articulações de um trabalho em andamento sobre a identidade nacional brasileira:

Brazilianness: a Look at the Multiple Faces of the Brazilian National Identity

“…The stereotypes can be negative or positive (Niss, 1996), created from cognitive and affective aspects that influence assessments about the country and its products (Challatas, Kramer & Takada, 2008). We note that the liberal view is pointed out since DaMatta (2001), Holanda (1971), and Debrun (1990) on their talk about carnival and freedom. Srour (1994) explains his view about "jeitinho", a characteristic that also shows freedom on bending rules and norms.…”

“…It represents a situation of confrontation and is rarely used clearly (Tanure, 2005). In Brazil, a political form of conciliation is predominant, not defined by mutual tolerance, but by a sort of forced co-optation, from the weakest to the strongest (Debrun, 1990). According to Caldas (2006), the singular way of addressing issues can be exemplified by the Brazilian way -social practice that aims at finding a way to bend the rules and solve conflicts.…”

Povo <i>versus</i> bloco de poder: elementos para análise dialógica da identidade nacional

“…As Debrun (1990) observed, the cooptation of the "strongest ones" in the way of ethnic conciliation hides hierarchies and dominant values. However, it is in times of social turbulence, such as in the giant's awakening, that this silence is broken, exposing such dissymmetry under the neoliberal aegis of the political and economic efficiency.…”

“…The introduction of the work, written by Michel Debrun (1990), shows an overview of the studies on the Brazilian identity held since the end of the 19 th century. This panorama, highly fragmented, exposed the different angles of the problem of national identity before economic pressures and policies 6.…”

“…This panorama, highly fragmented, exposed the different angles of the problem of national identity before economic pressures and policies 6. Essay coordinated by Marilena Chauí (Debrun, 1990 There are those who purely and simply exclude the existence of a Brazilian national identity […] Others, however, think that the complaint of the lack of national identity is insufficient. Because there is no denying that the discourse of the Nation -whether existing as discourse about the Nation, for the Nation or of the Nation itself -is flourishing in particular in the press.…”