The Between Brazil And The United States

In many ways, Brazil resembles the United States. Occupying over 3,287,000 square mile covers, Brazil encompasses over half the land mass of South America in the same way that the United States dominates the North American continent. It is comprised of 26 states and a federal district. The government is styled like the United States as a federal republic with three branches; executive, legislative and judicial. The executive branch is led by an elected President and Vice president, who appoint cabinet ministers that run various government agencies, a legislative branch which is split into two; the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, and the judicial branch which has three tribunals; the Supreme Federal tribunal, the Superior Tribunal of Justice and Regional Federal Tribunals. With a population of 202 million people (2014), it is fifth most populous nation in the world compared to the US, which is ranked third according to the World Factbook (2015). While there is an indigenous population, the majority of Brazilians are of European and African descent. Besides the Portuguese, who originally established the country, the population also includes large numbers of German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish immigrants. With its many different ethnicities, Brazilians practice many different religions but over 70% of the population is identified as Roman Catholic making Brazil the largest Roman Catholic country in the world. Thought Brazil and the United States may share many physical and demographic characteristics; the history of Brazil has helped to shape the culture in ways different than in the United States.

Inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years, Brazil was discovered by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cab...

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... orientation toward forming groups, acting in groups and rewarding in groups. In Brazil, there two groups of unions, company unions which represent companies that are in the same industry and worker unions which represent employees. As a result employee union contracts are made with the company unions instead of individual companies. In addition, Brazilian law grants that all employees receive an annual bonus of one month’s salary or décimo tercier salario. (Kelm and Risner, 2007, p. 74) So when responding to the phrase, “Everybody is allowed to work individually and individual credit can be received,” Trompenaars & Hampen-Turner (2012, p. 70), found that only 49% of Brazilians agreed versus 72% of Americans. Overall, Brazilians tend to favor communitarianism over individualism due as seen in how they organize themselves in their work life and in their private life.