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The 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A was the 61st season of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the top level of professional football in Brazil, and the 14th edition in a double round-robin since its establishment in 2003. The season began on 13 May 2017 and ended on 3 December 2017.
A Série A do Campeonato Brasileiro de Futebol de 2017 foi a 62.ª edição da principal divisão do futebol brasileiro. A disputa teve o mesmo regulamento dos anos anteriores, quando foi implementado o sistema de pontos corridos. Não houve pausa durante a Copa das Confederações de 2017 que foi realizada entre 17 de junho e 2 de julho na ...
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Demographics of Brazil. Brazil had an official resident population of 203 million in 2022, according to IBGE. [4] . Brazil is the seventh most populous country in the world, and the second most populous in the Americas and Western Hemisphere .
- 10.96 births/1,000 population (2022 est.)
- 0.52% (2022 est.)
- 6.81 deaths/1,000 population (2022 est.)
- 203.062.512 (2022 census)
In 2017, the Supreme Court requested the investigation of 71 Brazilian lawmakers and nine ministers of President Michel Temer's cabinet who were allegedly linked to the Petrobras corruption scandal. President Temer himself was also accused of corruption.
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In 2020, the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimated the number of Brazilian Americans to be 1,775,000, 0.53% of the US population at the time. However, the 2019 United States Census Bureau American Community Survey estimated that there were 499,272 Americans who would report Brazilian ancestry. This discrepancy can be attributed to the Ame...
People from Brazil (from historical João Pessoa and Recife, under Dutch control in Northeast Brazil - Paraíba and Pernambuco states) are recorded among the Refugees and Settlers that arrived in New Netherland in what is now New York City in the 17th century among the Dutch West India Company settlers. The first arrivals of Brazilian emigres were fo...
Brazilians obtained the highest number of lawful permanent residence status between 2000 and 2009 and many were eligible to naturalize. During that time, 115,404 Brazilians received permanent status and from 2010 through 2016, already 80,741 persons had received theirs. Still, it seems as if many received status, but if you compare to the total for...
Education
The 2000 U.S. census showed that 34.5 percent of Brazilians in the U.S. had completed four or more years of college. There’s a difference between female and male attainment. While 34.7% of men obtained a bachelor’s degree or higher, 45.2% of women obtained one. while the corresponding number for the general U.S. population is only 24.4 percent.However, although effectively many Brazilian immigrants in the United States are university educated, most of these immigrants fail to get well-qualifi...
Religion
Although the majority of Brazilian Americans are Roman Catholic, there also significant numbers of Protestants (Mainline, Evangelical, Pentecostalism, Non-denominational Protestantism etc.), LDS, Orthodox, Irreligious people (including atheists and agnostics), followed by minorities such as Spiritists, Buddhists, Jews and Muslims. As with wider Brazilian culture, there is set of beliefs related through syncretism that might be described as part of a Spiritualism–Animism continuum, that includ...
Politics
Brazilian American voters heavily support the Democratic Party. A majority of Brazilian Americans voted for the Democratic presidential candidates in the 2016 and 2020 elections by 78 and 71 percent, respectively.
Brazilians began immigrating to the United States in large and increasing numbers in the 1980s as a result of worsening economic conditions in Brazil at that time. However, many of the Brazilians who have emigrated to the United States since this decade have been undocumented. More women have immigrated to the United States from Brazil than men, wi...
Voting Brazilian Americans and Brazilians abroad heavily favored the opposition's Aecio Neves and his pro-business center to center-right Brazilian Social Democracy Party in Brazil's 2014 general election.Aecio Neves and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, or PSDB, were narrowly defeated in the 2014 runoff. Brazilian Americans represent a large s...
Arts
1. Andrew Matarazzo, actor 2. Barbie Ferreira, actress 3. Bebel Gilberto, singer 4. Bill Handel, radio personality 5. Blondfire, pop music band 6. Bruno Campos, actor 7. Camila Mendes, actress 8. Camilla Belle, actress 9. Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro, Percussionist 10. Fabrizio Moretti, musician 11. Marcelo Coelho, designer 12. Gustavo Assis-Brasil, musician, composer, author 13. Jair Oliveira, singer, musician, musical producer and songwriter 14. Jared Gomes, rapper and vocalist from Hed PE 15...
Sports
1. Rafael dos Anjos, mixed martial artist 2. Rafael Araujo-Lopes, American football player 3. Bob Burnquist, professional skateboarder 4. Mackenzie Dern, mixed martial artist 5. Benny Feilhaber(born 1985), soccer player 6. Gil de Ferran, race car driver and team owner 7. Pietro Fittipaldi, Formula One driver 8. Yan Gomes, baseball player 9. Nenê Hilário, basketball player 10. Ryan Hollweg, hockey player 11. Louise Lieberman(born 1977), soccer coach and former player 12. Dhiego Lima, mixed mar...
Academics
1. Ana Maria Carvalho, PhD., professor of linguistics at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona 2. Lin Chao, PhD., professor of ecology at the University of California, San Diego 3. Flavia Colgan, political strategist 4. Marcelo Gleiser, PhD., physicist and astronomer. Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College 5. Ben Goertzel, PhD., former professor of Computer Sciences at the University of New Mexico, researc...
Jefferson, Alphine W. "Brazilian Americans." in Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2014), pp. 343–355. onlineJouët-Pastré, Clémence, and Leticia J. Braga. Becoming Brazuca: Brazilian Immigration to the United States(Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2008).Margolis, Maxine L. Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City(1994).Piscitelli, Adriana. “Looking for New Worlds: Brazilian Women as International Migrants.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society33#4 (2008): 784–93.Desde 1937, o Campeonato Brasileiro já consagrou 17 clubes diferentes como campeão brasileiro: Palmeiras (12 vezes); Santos (8 vezes); Corinthians e Flamengo (7 vezes); São Paulo (6 vezes); Cruzeiro, Fluminense e Vasco da Gama (4 vezes cada); Atlético Mineiro e Internacional (3 vezes); Bahia, Botafogo e Grêmio (2 vezes cada); Athletico Paranaens...
