Myself and my Germans friends

I was born Brazilian, I am Brazilian, and I will die Brazilian, all other things on me can change, except my origin, and I am proud of that.

Brazilians are a quite mix of people, we are Tupi Indians, Portugueses (Portuguese people is also a wide mix), Africans, and recently (100 years ago) Germans, Italians, Polish, Ukrainians, Japanese, Lebanese and other minorities but not less important.

Sometimes I start talk about my family and ancestors and a novel comes to my mind, would be called “The all People Saga”.Brazil is a melting pot, and if you read my article about the street markets in São Paulo you already know that.

What makes Brazil unique is not why we  had received this entire different people, but the ability on mix and merge all together, as I explained before, mainly because of the Tupi tradition on giving a daughter to the enemy to enhance the peace. Europeans where much stronger than Tupis, they had no option, surrender and giving daughters to forge peace. The colonization started on married, sons are sons, no matter what, and a very different civilization surged from this Tupi tradition, a civilization called Brazil.

Last February I went to Germany for a couple of meetings. Was carnival in Cologne, I couldn’t believe. Being Brazilian I always had an impression about Germans being a cold people, very serious, an opposite to my benchmark, the happy Brazilian people.

If I think well, I should not have this preconception; in Brazil we have many Germany cities, like Blumenau, and people there is funny and happy, but I always thought this was because even in Brazil, Germans have adopted some tropical happiness. I was completely wrong!

Parts of my family come from Austria, my mother is blond and has blue eyes, and my father had Spanish origin , never mind, every time I watch myself in the mirror, I see a Tupi Indian, nobody may see that, but that is there. My daughter is having her first boyfriend, an American boy, at this point I had no option other then surrender and giving her to the enemy, do you know what I mean? I see my self as an old Tupi, the history always repeats itself.

Spending the carnival in Germany opened an entire new world of concepts on me, this people what I believe so serious is as funny as Brazilians and very happy looking. I made a bunch of new friends, had lots of beers, and delicious unique sausage. What a great time!

Back home, I am talking about Chicago, because I was born Brazilian, as you already know, but now I am an American (is that too confuse? LOL), I was thinking I may review all concept I have about Countries and cultures, I have not conclusions yet, I may never have, but the soup is boiling, there are so many different ingredients on that and I am unsure about how it’s going to taste, but when my ideas come out, I may have my novel done.