Thursday, November 20, 2014

Black Awareness Day

Black Awareness Day is celebrated each year on November 20 in Brazil as a day "to celebrate a regained awareness by the black community about their great worth and contribution to the country".
Members of the organization "Black Movement" (the largest of its kind in the country) organize educational and fun events involving mainly children of African descent. Their focus during these events is to dissolve the perception of Africans' inferiority in society. Other "hot topics" in the black community during the Day of Black Awareness are the assimilation of African-Brazilian laborers with Caucasian-Brazilian and other laborers, ethnic identity, and black pride.
Black Awareness Day has been celebrated since the 1960s and has only amplified its events in the last few years. Black Awareness Day used to be celebrated on 13 May (the date of abolition of slavery in Brazil). However, Afro-Brazilians asked to change it to 20 of November to honor Zumbi's death.


Thursday, October 30, 2014

Outback


Outback é uma área grande e árida da Austrália, mas também pode ser utilizado para designar qualquer outra terras que fique fora das principais áreas urbanas. Outback significa tudo que está para trás, do interior, e é um termo oriundo do inglês.
Outback é considerado qualquer região que não está no litoral ou perto de grandes cidades. Outback são regiões no interior, em áreas rurais, áreas desérticas e etc. Na Austrália, o Outback engloba 2/3 de todo o território australiano.
Outback é também o nome de um restaurante internacional chamado Outback Steakhouse, que possui restaurantes em mais de 22 países como Brasil e Estados Unidos. Os pratos principais do Outback são as carnes com tempero australiano, chamado de steaks.