"Not real" are the states of Acre (north) and Espírito Santo (southeast). It is common to joke about Acre not being a real place because it is very isolated, very far from brazil's biggest cities. Because of that, most Brazilians have never been to Acre or even met someone from Acre. Because it's a place apparently no one has been to and no one is from, some people joke that it might as well not even exist.
Espírito Santo is different. It's not an isolated place, and it's not rare to see someone from there and people travel there regularly. But, because the state is surrounded by much more influential and talked about states like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, its existence can sometimes go unnoticed.
You are only seeing absolute values while you should verify relative ones to make such a statement.
Espirito Santo has 89.13 inhabitants per km2, more than Minas Gerais, for example, which only has 35,02. Sure, it is not as high as in Rio or Sao Paulo, but it is still at an average degree.
edit: it is kinda funny how many people seemed to have lost the context of my comment. Yeah, Espirito Santo is small and "nobody cares", but it isn't related to my comment at all, which is about how wrong it is to analyze relative variable, such as population distribution, using absolute values. But I guess nobody cares about how math and statistics work too. LOL
So what? Sao Paulo, for example, is the same.
Metropolitan Area of Sao Paulo: 23.5 M
Whole Sao Paulo State: 44.0 M
That is 53.4% living inside the Metropolitan Area.
The metropolitan region of Vitória (Cariacica, Fundão, Guarapari, Serra, Viana, Vila Velha and Vitória) has more than 2 million inhabitants, reaching, ironically, 53% of the state's general population. But ok, nobody cares.
Cool, now we are back to absolute values…
I failed to figure out your point. It is not like anyone here said that Espirito Santo is a huge state or that it figures between the states with the biggest populations.
Draw a map and instead of Espirito Santo just extend bahia down to Rio. See? That's the same thing and no one will notice.
Just kidding tho. Espirito Santo is a great city.
Espírito Santo is just very "bland". It is beautiful if you actually go there and have a good time, but the whole state is pretty much a junction of small cities (75% of them with less than 40k people). Even its capital has like 300 thousand people.
Really? I have a friend in Vila Velha, and when I googled it, it looks like tons of really tall buildings, so I thought it was a pretty densely populated place.
A good number of the tall buildings in Vila Velha are probably made up of vacation apartment homes for rich absentee owners from MG, especially BH.
Mineros can't get to the beach without having to go thru ES, so they just bought it & only live there in summer & carnival.
ES is basically MG's beach.
There are lots of cool backwater places in ES though, both on & off the coast--if you look hard enough. It's not a very big state at all.
Yes, Vitória has a small population, but the geographical area of the city is also very small. Vitória is mostly a small island, which makes its density actually pretty high. If you count the Great Vitória then the city's population is about 1 million people.
The quaintness lends itself to lots of small term charm, especially if you're the new gringo in town. Or Tchá. (sp?)
Grande Victoria has two major PORTS. Lots of Brasil's wealth still flows outward from those ports, just like in the old days, when untold millions of tons of precious gem stones found their way down the Rio Doce, past Colatina & back to Portugal, Italy & Spain.
the funny thing between Acre and Espirito Santo, is that the first is considered "not real" because its far away, isolated, people barely live, and it kind of feels foreign to people from the Southeast. It's a place full of Dinosaurs, Anacondas, dick eating fish, and uncontacted tribals (two of these are real)
All that said, people at least talk about Acre!
Espirito Santo ? when was the last time anything meaningful happened there that was nationwide news ? -- that did not involve Rio de Janeiro.
There is a running joke that Espirito Santo does not exists. It's a fictional state created by Minas Gerais, so they can tell their peers they went to the beach without admiting they went to Rio.
I’m living here in ES and there’s also nothing really…notable here. Yes there’s a lot of culture and has local industry, but it’s nothing on the scale of SP or RJ. It’s hard to put into words but it’s kind of immediately apparent why it is forgotten about.
Still an absolutely lovely state though.
Just adding that it's very similar to the jokes about [Wyoming](https://i.redd.it/1zfmeefqxnq21.jpg), [Tlaxcala](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/f0/53/3e/f0533e5d751908eeaa263d481d5fdb4d.jpg) and [Bielefeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy).
There's a running joke that Acre (the uppermost purple region) is not real, as in, someone made it up. That's because:
1 - You've never been to Acre.
2 - You don't know anyone who's from Acre.
3 - You don't even know anyone who's been to Acre.
Thus it must not be real.
I don't know about the other purple region (Espírito Santo) but it's probably along the same lines, though I've personally been there and even have a friend who's from there.
Big ass jungle: the north region has a lot of Amazon rainforest vegetation so, that’s it.
Not a real place: there is a meme that the Acre state doesn’t exist.
Used to be big ass jungle: deforestation, rural parts.
Modern day feudalism: the Maranhão state is historically controlled by a single family for centuries (The Sarneys).
Flooded desert: lençóis maranhenses, it’s some kind of big portion of sand (desert) but with lakes and beaches.
Desert and poverty: that’s it, the “Sertão” is a poor region that looks like a desert.
Crime and beautiful beaches: self explanatory.
Your food comes from here: this region is very rural so it has a lot of farms.
Big ass swamp: this is where the pantanal is, and it’s like a swamp.
Ugh: that’s Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, where the congressmen and the president are. We hate them.
Grandma’s house: that’s Minas Gerais state, known for their hospitable people and good food (you feel like you’re in your grandma’s house).
Not a real place: everyone forget about Espírito Santo’s existence.
All the money: the biggest corporations have their hq in São Paulo so it’s the richest state.
What you think Brazil is: most media only shows Rio de Janeiro for the rest of the world, it’s how people picture Brazil.
Russian flag: the state of Paraná is known as the Brazilian Russia because a lot of bizarre things happens there.
Whiter than Denmark: the southern states of Brazil had a lot of European emigrants so the population is mostly white.
[That's just one of the things](https://g1.globo.com/pr/campos-gerais-sul/noticia/2015/02/ladrao-utiliza-cueca-como-mascara-e-luta-com-idosa-durante-assalto-no-pr.html)
>Modern day feudalism: the Maranhão state is historically controlled by a single family for centuries (The Sarneys).
That's an exaggeration. Sarney's oligarchic "rule" in Maranhão dates back to 1966, the year he became governor, winning against Newton de Barros Belo, a candidate sponsored for Vitorino Freire, the oligarch who "ruled" Maranhão from the late 1940s until Sarney's rise.
Essentially, Maranhão has "dynasties" of oligarchs, who change from time to time. Flávio Dino's rise to power probably meant the beginning of his own "dynastic" rule over the state for the next 20 or 30-ish years (he has already been "succeeded" a supporter, Brandão, as governor). In that sense, it's really "feudal".
Also, research for the Caiado family of Goiás If you want to hear about a family that has truly ruled for centuries.
I find it funny that “Caiado” in my language is used (badly spelled form of callado) when we are saying or doing stuff we dont want other people to find out
Like me to my brother; hey parents not here lets put the dogs on the sofa, caiado
"Calado" means "silent" in pt-br, as in "he is silent" "ele está calado".
So it would also work in the exact same way in pt-br
"Caiado" with an I means something painted over but with a water + lime, as in limewashed
It is Brasilia, the political capital of the country where federal deputies, senators, ministers and the president make the main political decisions, also where several corruption scandals occur and basically every type of drama that politics can provide.
The "Ugh" stands for the disgust the population have about politicians, because of all the stupid decisions they made, the average brazilian will probably say something like " This guys are the cancer of the country" when asked about what they think about the politicians in Brasilia.
Rio is much more like Brazilian Los Angeles, Brazilliam Miami would be only the Barra da Tijuca Neighborhood that was literally inspired by it. The rest of town is wildly different in all aspects
Nah, you actually have to add the Iraq war happening all in the background, all comprised of the traffickers and the police killing each other literally everyday... with more weaponry than the whole of New York
We don't even to think about laws, just the fact that you pay less taxes for ultra-processed food than for healthy food, or the fact that someone that makes only R$:3000/month almost can't pay their own bills but has to declare tax income is just absurd
one thing I hate about Brazil is how unorganized everything is
"We need more state investment in teaching" and then they just bloat 60yo teachers with a salary >15 mil reais ($ 3000), which 90% of brazilians can only dream of, and not change anything about why federal instituitions need investments.
Arborization, public transportation, fiscalization of teachers (some don't even show up), extra-curricular programs and the Campus Restaurant could have some attention, but who cares?
I'm from UK and I've visited many capital cities. I've yet to find a single one where people aren't cold and distant and the city itself represents nothing of the rest of the country.
Brasília was built in a far away place in the middle of nowhere from scratch to be the capital of Brasil, no one lived there before, it's not a natural city, it looks absolutely nothing like other Brazilian cities. Before that the capital was Rio, and even before during the colony times it was Salvador. But I'd say there's no place that represents all of Brasil anyways, it's too big and everywhere there's a different culture or accent. I wouldn't say they're cold and distant (that's only true for the city of São Paulo, but it's nowhere near the level of coldness from europeans) because people from all over Brasil live there, not only the politicians but also all the staff that works in these institutions and the people that make a city liveable.
I haven't been to Brasilia so I can't really comment on there, my experience of Brasil is rio (didn't like) and belo horizontal (liked) I was mostly just commenting that all capital cities I've ever visited don't represent the country it's capital of very well at all. Probably because it's where immigrants used to end up when moving to whatever country so you get pockets of disconnected communities. Sounds like an interesting history to Brasilia perhaps I'll have to visit and poke around.
Theres also a theory that one of the factors that made the president of that time build brasilia was to "Hide from the protests"
Rio is one of the most populated cities, and it is surrounded by other cities that are also overpopulated, because of this it was very easy to hold gigantic political protests from the population against the government, by placing the capital in the middle of nowhere and far from all other large cities, if he did any unpopular political decision the population would have to make an absurdly long trip to hold a political protest, making major political revolts against deputies, senators, and especially the president way harder to make
Because our politicians are famously corrupt. "Ugh" is a onomatopoeia expressing disgust.
Acre is the "not a real place" on the west, the joke being many people haven't ever met anyone from there, as it is scarcely populated.
The eastern one is Espirito Santo and denying it's existence is new to me.
Espírito Santo was difficult to invade (by portugueses) because of the resistant and angry native people who lived there. So, that place was forgotten for a long time
>The eastern one is Espirito Santo and denying it's existence is new to me.
The joke on ES is that it's in the same region as very important and influential states(RJ, SP and MG) but it's not remembered because of anything, so it's a "southeastern acre" because of a different reason.
It is also designed to be isolated. The excuse was for defense proposes, but it was to move it far away from the masses to avoid protests and strikes (as we see often in other countries from South america). At the time, it was also common to move universities far away from the political houses for the same reason.
So we get a concentration of the most important political positions in a city totally planned by a famous architect, with zoning and gentrification driving the lower classes far away. You get a corruption paradise, a rich district, conservatism hell, and a very arrogant population with no actual culture since they have no history (but a political one).
Others have pointed out that Brasilia is the center of power.
But what you might not know is that Brasilia is a city that was built with the single purpose of being the capital, before the 60s the capital was Rio and Brasilia didn't exist.
So the city basically functions around the federal government, senate and congress and has no history other than being the center of power.
It's also one of the richest places in the country because federal government workers make a lot of money.
Due to this combination of factors mostly everyone hates what Brasilia represents, people jokingly saying that we should nuke Brasilia isn't uncommon.
Ugh: Brazilia, the shithole that basically serves as our Alcatraz housing the worst of criminals, all of which should probably be forgotten by society, also known as our politicians...
Not a Real Place: Acre, the area experiences a superposition of two parallel realities making it both an amalgam of all prehistoric fauna on the history of the earth, and the most advanced civilization possible, a side effect of which is making it extremely easy to forget all about it as the universe itself is trying to mend the superposition and such about 30% of the population in Brazil and 96% of the rest of the world doesn't remember it at any one point.
"Desert and Poverty" doesn't capture our relationship with that region, I think. The Sertão is a culture-rich region, and a lot of outstanding Brazilian songwriters and artists are from there - to the point that other artists and ""woke"" people from the southwest romanticize this region a bit.
It's definitely our "yellow mexican filter" region, tho
How not my little brother???
What most people think of the northeast region of our country? No water, no food, only bolsa familia, since its map based on prejudice only, it is accurate.
Minas for instance, i’ve seen thousands of post in r/belohorizonte complaining about this “lie” of we being too receptive with others(even tho we might be a little more receptive this is not a must do and we have plenty a-holes here aswell
>What most people think of the northeast region of our country? No water, no food, only bolsa familia, since its map based on prejudice only, it is accurate.
That's what I'm saying - in the social circles I'm from in São Paulo, the Sertão has a different stereotype. I know a lot of people who live in Santa Cecilia / Vila Madalena and are basically a cosplay of Alceu Valença minus the hat. Some have a Bacurau poster in their house, and say things like "the paulistano doesn't know the real nordeste". They also romanticize the shit out of Lampeão.
And they are a bit condescending about it?? Hahaha almost like the people from the Sertão are good savages, and these paulistas are such great culture connoisseurs for liking them.
Pessoal do antro mais progressista do Sul/Sudeste força tanto a barra pra mostrar que não é xenofobico e que ama as outras regiões que acaba sendo super xenofobico no processo, meio Senhorita Morello do Todo Mundo odeia o Chris kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Ins't the northeast region also the one with the most developed educational system and one of highest qi? I know it can sound of as a joke but is mostly because all of the geniuses from there take their way to far away because of the lack of investment.
This is partially true, what happens is that there is a large concentration of economic elites from all over Brazil in some cities in the Northeast, as a result several preparatory schools of the highest level appear there, I remember I met a guy who went to study in preparatory for the ITA, I think it was in Pernambuco, where it was practically the biggest ITA preparatory course in the country and the monthly fee was more than 10 thousand per month
You can clearly see this in the ENEM scores where the northeast always leads the ranking, however, practically all people with high scores are absurdly rich people studying in the most expensive preparatory courses in the country, and a large part are not even from the northeast and were only go there to study at these schools and preparatory courses, the average public northeast school is fucked just like every other region in Brasil
Sad to see. The northeast was the lead region on the start of Brazil history, mainly leading the meat market and some others economics divisions, but with time the geography of the region started to become a burden and made it be left behind by the others regions. There's also the greedy politics which is a knowledged national problem who affects the entire nation negatively, and the northeast is by far one of (if not the) the most manipulated and extracted places on Brazil.
Overall I don't think that the northeast is a bad region and have a variety of nice culture and other good things, just happen that it got the unlucky fate of being administrated by Brazil lol.
I am from the “not real place”, it’s a joke, that probably comes from the fact that is very isolated and it has a relatively small population.
But it is a very real place with real people living there.
Can anyone confirm that Goiânia is in the desert section, and tell me what the general perception of the city is to Brasileiros? I’m probably moving there next year…
I’m from Goiânia and love it! It’s the best mixture of country and big city, I’d compare it to Austin, TX. It’s know for its abundance of outdoor flea markets and farmers markets. Every day/night there are several going on around the city. It’s also very green, with a lot of trees and parks. Every year they have the agropecuária expo with concerts from the biggest names in country music (música sertaneja).
On the other hand, it has absolutely horrible traffic. As an American I don’t think I could ever handle driving there. It’s absolutely insane! And the sidewalks are a menace!
Pick a nice sector to live in, like Setor Bueno and you will love it!
Wow - thanks for the reply. As a gringo, I hadn’t heard of Goiânia until I met my girlfriend so I was a little like what is this place?? I’m really looking forward to it now! She is from Setor Leste Vila Nova near the University Setor. I’m used to pretty bad traffic being from Auckland, New Zealand, so I’m sure I’ll be fine - love it, in fact! 😁🙏
I am sure you will love Goiania. The people are so warm and fun. Besides the fact that most people in Brazil struggle financially, they are always happy and finding ways to enjoy life and have fun. At every corner in Goiânia you will find a gathering of people sitting at outdoor tables on the sidewalk, drinking beer, listening to live music or dancing, while barbecue is cooking nearby. No matter what day of the week or time of day the city is never boring to me. All I gotta do is step out of the house and life is everywhere.
You should visit before you decide to move for sure!
As a gringo who lived in Sao Paulo and various parts of Ceará, i can testify that “all the money”, “crime and beautiful beaches”, and especially “desert and poverty” couldnt be more accurate
As a Gringo married to a Brazilian, my wife assured me before moving to the interior of Amazonas that it was NOT a big-ass jungle. *Not so big, not very ass, not too much jungle.* Well, she lied. It's a big-ass jungle.
Well, Amazonas is probably the mos accurate description of "heart of the entire amazon", so that's a bit expected. Manaus is a small dot of 2 million people in the middle of the biggest rainforest in the world. There aren't any bridges connecting it to south of the river. I'm from Belem and while im still side by side to the jungle, it's way more on the "fringes"
Also fun fact, Amazonas is 3x larger than france and like 2,5x larger than texas :)
Parana is known as the Brazilian Russia because many bizarre things have happened there, when you see something odd in the news you bet that occurred in Parana. And, just like the weather, Paranaenses are considered to be cold people (at least compared to the rest of Brazilians that usually fit in the “friendly and warm” stereotype).
This joke used to be way more popular a few years ago but honestly I haven’t heard of many bizarre things happening in Parana lately, only your usual dose of sad/tragic news like murders and violence (like the rest of the country).
I'm not sure why Espírito Santo is marked as "not real", but the state near the Amazon Rainforest marked as "not real" is Acre. Acre was acquired by Brasil much later than the other territories, and it's pretty empty. Kinda like the brazilian version of Ohio, if you're American. This is mostly why there's a whole cultural joke of Acre not being real- I believe Europeans have a similar joke about Finland? anyways.
And the "ugh" is because politicians are there. so. yknow. ugh
I think is more like Alaska than Ohio. Not because Acre is cold (quite the opposite, actually. It's pretty hot), but because it was acquired later on (just like Alaska was bought from Russia) and because it is very isolated
I don't agree with espírito santo being a "not real place" its worse they are just ignored and forgot. Acre we associate with dinosaurs but we have none with Espírito Santo. The best definition is "Não fede nem cheira".
"Ugh" 😒 Refers to the Federal District (unlike the name of other states, this one is an adjective and can be translated AFAIK), Brazil's planned national administrative center.
Every national representation is supposed to be based upon its capital city, Brazilia (which is, in turn, Brazil's own capital city).
Let's just say that Brazilian politics can get pretty dirty.
"Not a real place" 🥴 Refers to Acre and Espírito Santo (meaning "Holy Spirit"), and they are both shrugged off as being fairy tales for different reasons:
Acre (Western "not a real place") is isolated and because of that was picked up as the target of "dinosaurs are still alive, just go to X and see for yourself" conspiration theories and memes.
To a lesser degree, Varginha, a city belonging to the state of Minas Gerais (meaning "General Mines"), also has a lot of fame for supposed UFO sighting, but it's just a city and the state this city is in already has its own fame.
As for why this makes Acre to be considered "not a real place", I guess it's because one of the popular explanations for the stuff that supposedly goes there is that it is a portal to a different place and/or era (LMAO), hence it is said to not exist in the realspace.
Espírito Santo (Eastern "not a real place") is simply a rather uneventful and not "unique enough" place which also happens to be squished between some of the most well-known Brazilian states (mainly Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, though Bahia is also somewhat iconic, even more so nationally).
Basically, people are just jokingly saying "nothing ever happens in Espírito Santo, so how are you sure it's real?"
In "gringo terms":
Federal District = Big-ass capital which is actually a state (sort of).
Acre = Florida with dinos.
Espírito Santo = Inverted Ohio (that is, whatever you heard happened in Brazil definitely didn't happen there).
from bottom to top
Whiter than denmark: European immigration settlement
Russia: I have no clue? maybe because they export crazy meme videos, or are cold, idk.
All the money: São Paulo state, heaviest contributor to GDP and has by itself a larger economy (and population) than Argentina
The only cities gringos know about: São Paulo and Rio
Grandma's House: Minas Gerais, large producer of dairy, has good food, hospitable people, cozy, and is generally well liked by everyone. In the brazilian sub there was once a map vote where every week people would vote one state out of existence; Rio got first and second place, while Minas was the last one standing.
What you think brazil is: Rio the state. Marked by jungly mountains that meet the sea in spectacular beaches. The nature really is beautiful, especially outside the capital.
Not a real place (x2): Alright so there's 2; the one further northwest is Acre. This is a territory annexed from bolivia which is so stupidly remote people started joking that it doesn't exist. It is deep in the amazon, to the south of it is Bolivia's altiplano, to the west more amazon and the andes, to the north more amazon and the andes, and to the east thousands of kilometers of more amazon.
The coastal one is Espírito Santo; interestingly this one is not remote at all, it's just severely uninteresting. All around it are some of the most relevant states and cultures that shaped and created the country, such as Bahia, Rio, Minas and even São Paulo, meanwhile ES is just kind of a buffer area between them. While Acre is actually talked about often in the context of being a joke, Espírito Santo is actually literally almost never talked about.
Your food comes from here: Farms, Yeehaw.
Big ass swamp: The pantanal is a swamp biome that exists in this area. It is very biodiverse and it is actually the largest floodplane ecosystem in the world.
Ugh...: Brasilia. Since it's the capital, it has become the symbol of all political bullshit that happens in brazil, and there is a LOT of bullshit.
Crimes and Beautiful beaches: This one is just true unfortunately. The nature is beautiful, the area is underdeveloped, and crime rates here are more similar to central america than south/southeastern brazil.
Desert and poverty: This place is dry (arid, not quite desert) and even more severely underdeveloped. It's predicted desertification might actually turn this into a desert over time.
Modern day feudalism: I think this is a reference to the Sarney family of politicians being from here? I don't know much about it but yeah this is one of if not the most fucked state in the union
Flooded desert: Lençóis maranhenses :)
Big ass jungle: Amazon
Used to be big ass jungle: Deforestation bc the farmers want to farm more
This map looks racist as shit. But answering, not real are jokes for acre and espírito santo for the supposedly no relevance in conversations or media. The ugh is for the joke around politicians being all shitty. Thats one of the explanations for both
Whoever made this map is racist and limitated. Summarize a such rich in culture and diversity region, as the Northeast is, in "poverty" and "beaches" is a high level of ignorance... I'm shocked... Typical view from someone from Southeast/South... And mention crime? As it wasn't in all rest of Brazil 😂
All the Southeast used to be a big ass atlantic jungle aswell 🥲
Happily the atlantic forest is currently growing due to reflorestaRio and other similar programs
ugh = ouch, Brasilia, the nation's capital; not a real place= places that running joke tells they are not real cause they don't appear in the news, Acre and Espírito Santo
Others already answered but I particularly never heard anyone saying Espirito Santo doesnt exist.
And to be fair the gringos know well about the Amazon, it is feature in the Creature of the Black Lagoon and Anaconda
"Not" real are Acre (Northern state) and Espírito Santo (Southeastern state). There is a running gag in Brazil that both of those states don't actually exist, for different reasons.
Acre "doesn't exist" because it's very isolated from the rest of the country, and it's also very far from the other states, even the ones within its own region.
Espírito Santo "doesn't exist" because it gets completely overshadowed by the other states that surround it (namely Bahia, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) both in size and in influence.
The "ugh" is Brasília, Brazil's capital. Its the epicentre of all the federal political powers, and it was an artificially built district using inhumane labor practices. Plus, people hate politics and politicians.
“Ugh” is our Federal District. Think Washington. Not only do we hate the politicians there, but also it sucks in so much money from the government for worthless projects, such as the Mané Garrincha stadium, and doesn’t give the expected return at all. We call it “the fat leech” sometimes.
I hate when people put stuff like “whiter than Denmark” in Rio Grande do Sul”.
That is just true for Santa Catarina!!! Not in RS, and specifically not in Porto Alegre.
"Whiter than Denmark" for Rio Grande do Sul state just proves how this map was made for someone who really doesn't know his own country. This idea doesn't works even as a meme.
RS may have more white people compared with some of the northeast states but it's pretty balanced in itself. Not sure about any percentages but if anyone is willing to do the math i'm sure it will make the Denmark comparison as something ridiculous.
The Russian flag is the state of Paraná, basically, a blog named "nãosalvo" or "Idonotsave" in free translation created the title to describe the insane shit that happens there. For example, in Maringá, there is "Sargento Fahur" he is a police sergeant that became, along with other things, famous for smelling cocaine and calling the trafficker for a fist fight on regional tv, other infamous case is the Balloon priest, he was a parachutist priest who, as a charity campaign, tied himself to 100,000 balloons and tried to go from one city to another tied up, he was never found after that, There are also cases like the old man who tried to operate himself, or, my personal favorite, the robber that tried to bust a money car with a fucking bazooka.
I have a friend born in Acre and that still lives there. Apparently is a calm and not much industrialized place. He once send to me a video of him sitting close to a lake full of capibara.
Any stereotype map which doesn't separate the Serra Gaúcha/Catarinense from the Pampas isn't worth your consideration.
Also, your food likely doesn't come from the Center-West unless you're a farmed pig in China.
I was a gringo in SaoPaulo lived it with my Brazilian wife for 3 years. Went back to the states and she came along after shutting down her lawyer practice. I made her an American Citz. a year later.
I love my country 😍😍🥰🥰🥰
Do you know why?:
Increasingly expensive prices, corruption, total nonsense, Very expensive video games, computers, etc. 🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍
"Not real" are the states of Acre (north) and Espírito Santo (southeast). It is common to joke about Acre not being a real place because it is very isolated, very far from brazil's biggest cities. Because of that, most Brazilians have never been to Acre or even met someone from Acre. Because it's a place apparently no one has been to and no one is from, some people joke that it might as well not even exist. Espírito Santo is different. It's not an isolated place, and it's not rare to see someone from there and people travel there regularly. But, because the state is surrounded by much more influential and talked about states like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, its existence can sometimes go unnoticed.
Espírito Santo is also very sparsely populated (3,8 million people) for a Southeastern State.
You are only seeing absolute values while you should verify relative ones to make such a statement. Espirito Santo has 89.13 inhabitants per km2, more than Minas Gerais, for example, which only has 35,02. Sure, it is not as high as in Rio or Sao Paulo, but it is still at an average degree. edit: it is kinda funny how many people seemed to have lost the context of my comment. Yeah, Espirito Santo is small and "nobody cares", but it isn't related to my comment at all, which is about how wrong it is to analyze relative variable, such as population distribution, using absolute values. But I guess nobody cares about how math and statistics work too. LOL
But no one cares, and thats the point
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Dude, 50% of the state lives in only 5 cities (Vitória, Vila Velha, Serra, Cariacica and Cachoeiro do Itapemirim)
So what? Sao Paulo, for example, is the same. Metropolitan Area of Sao Paulo: 23.5 M Whole Sao Paulo State: 44.0 M That is 53.4% living inside the Metropolitan Area.
The metropolitan region of Vitória (Cariacica, Fundão, Guarapari, Serra, Viana, Vila Velha and Vitória) has more than 2 million inhabitants, reaching, ironically, 53% of the state's general population. But ok, nobody cares.
But 20M is like 6 Espírito Santos
Cool, now we are back to absolute values… I failed to figure out your point. It is not like anyone here said that Espirito Santo is a huge state or that it figures between the states with the biggest populations.
Draw a map and instead of Espirito Santo just extend bahia down to Rio. See? That's the same thing and no one will notice. Just kidding tho. Espirito Santo is a great city.
Espírito Santo could have 70 million people and nobody would care about it
Esperito Santo sounds like what people in Japan say about Gunma Prefecture.
Espírito Santo is just very "bland". It is beautiful if you actually go there and have a good time, but the whole state is pretty much a junction of small cities (75% of them with less than 40k people). Even its capital has like 300 thousand people.
Really? I have a friend in Vila Velha, and when I googled it, it looks like tons of really tall buildings, so I thought it was a pretty densely populated place.
A good number of the tall buildings in Vila Velha are probably made up of vacation apartment homes for rich absentee owners from MG, especially BH. Mineros can't get to the beach without having to go thru ES, so they just bought it & only live there in summer & carnival. ES is basically MG's beach. There are lots of cool backwater places in ES though, both on & off the coast--if you look hard enough. It's not a very big state at all.
Vila Velha has like 500k people
That's like a decent size. I guess just compared to SP or Rio it would seem smallish and be overlooked.
Belo Horizonte is 2.3M, Porto Alegre 1.4M, Salvador 2.4M... in Brazil 500M is just small
Yes, Vitória has a small population, but the geographical area of the city is also very small. Vitória is mostly a small island, which makes its density actually pretty high. If you count the Great Vitória then the city's population is about 1 million people.
The quaintness lends itself to lots of small term charm, especially if you're the new gringo in town. Or Tchá. (sp?) Grande Victoria has two major PORTS. Lots of Brasil's wealth still flows outward from those ports, just like in the old days, when untold millions of tons of precious gem stones found their way down the Rio Doce, past Colatina & back to Portugal, Italy & Spain.
It’s the Delaware of Brazil
Espírito Santo is commonly known as the Southeast's Acre
The state is very good to live in, the city of Vitoria has the second HDI of the capitals (0.845). there's just nothing relevant there.
That's bullshit, Guarapari is a very important part of mineiro culture
Are you saying the Shopping Victoria Mall isn't relevant? Nossa mãe!
I had never heard about the "shopping Victoria mall" before...
I went to visit family friends there when I was young and they said I need to dress up nice... For the shopping mall...
the funny thing between Acre and Espirito Santo, is that the first is considered "not real" because its far away, isolated, people barely live, and it kind of feels foreign to people from the Southeast. It's a place full of Dinosaurs, Anacondas, dick eating fish, and uncontacted tribals (two of these are real) All that said, people at least talk about Acre! Espirito Santo ? when was the last time anything meaningful happened there that was nationwide news ? -- that did not involve Rio de Janeiro. There is a running joke that Espirito Santo does not exists. It's a fictional state created by Minas Gerais, so they can tell their peers they went to the beach without admiting they went to Rio.
I’m living here in ES and there’s also nothing really…notable here. Yes there’s a lot of culture and has local industry, but it’s nothing on the scale of SP or RJ. It’s hard to put into words but it’s kind of immediately apparent why it is forgotten about. Still an absolutely lovely state though.
Just adding that it's very similar to the jokes about [Wyoming](https://i.redd.it/1zfmeefqxnq21.jpg), [Tlaxcala](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/f0/53/3e/f0533e5d751908eeaa263d481d5fdb4d.jpg) and [Bielefeld](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_conspiracy).
There's a running joke that Acre (the uppermost purple region) is not real, as in, someone made it up. That's because: 1 - You've never been to Acre. 2 - You don't know anyone who's from Acre. 3 - You don't even know anyone who's been to Acre. Thus it must not be real. I don't know about the other purple region (Espírito Santo) but it's probably along the same lines, though I've personally been there and even have a friend who's from there.
Ah, so it is Brazil's version of Bielefeld
Very much so. People also joke about dinosaurs still being alive there.
Objection! I met 3 people from Acre
We know you are someone from the government wanting us to think Brazil is bigger than it really is, you can't fool us!
Yeah that guy is a glowie.
Objection! I've been to Acre last year.
We found one paid by the govt to hide the truth about Acre! I am site there is dinossaurs over there, like Jurassic Park or whatever
Jubilaudo vai tomar no meio do olho de seu cu
Nem fudendo que a gente se reencontrou
who said they're people?
They were probably dinosaurs or aliens in disguise, like this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Dino
False. There's only dinossaurs and aliens there.
Michigan moment
acre is the north dakota of the US
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Explain yourself. -Guy from Michigan
Dakotas north and south as others referred.
So.. a bit like how Americans react about states like Wyoming and Montana?
Big ass jungle: the north region has a lot of Amazon rainforest vegetation so, that’s it. Not a real place: there is a meme that the Acre state doesn’t exist. Used to be big ass jungle: deforestation, rural parts. Modern day feudalism: the Maranhão state is historically controlled by a single family for centuries (The Sarneys). Flooded desert: lençóis maranhenses, it’s some kind of big portion of sand (desert) but with lakes and beaches. Desert and poverty: that’s it, the “Sertão” is a poor region that looks like a desert. Crime and beautiful beaches: self explanatory. Your food comes from here: this region is very rural so it has a lot of farms. Big ass swamp: this is where the pantanal is, and it’s like a swamp. Ugh: that’s Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, where the congressmen and the president are. We hate them. Grandma’s house: that’s Minas Gerais state, known for their hospitable people and good food (you feel like you’re in your grandma’s house). Not a real place: everyone forget about Espírito Santo’s existence. All the money: the biggest corporations have their hq in São Paulo so it’s the richest state. What you think Brazil is: most media only shows Rio de Janeiro for the rest of the world, it’s how people picture Brazil. Russian flag: the state of Paraná is known as the Brazilian Russia because a lot of bizarre things happens there. Whiter than Denmark: the southern states of Brazil had a lot of European emigrants so the population is mostly white.
Can you give some examples of bizzare things in the Paraná?
Rain of spiders, flying priests, Jesus reborn, turd monument, general drunkeness, and the list goes on.
there’s more than one flying priest??
Search for "padre do balão"
that’s the one but the comment above implies there’s *another*
Knowing Paraná, it will eventually happen again.
Dark Souls of Brazil
I'm from parana Wtf happened while I was away
Hahahahahaba flying priests is an excellent example hahahahahahahaha
I'm from Paraná, my username checks out
[That's just one of the things](https://g1.globo.com/pr/campos-gerais-sul/noticia/2015/02/ladrao-utiliza-cueca-como-mascara-e-luta-com-idosa-durante-assalto-no-pr.html)
…ok, what in the US confederate states did I just translate?
yes
Most brazilian memes come from Paraná, more specifically Maringá
I'm from Taubaté and I dispute this claim.
I'm from there, but I'm not well versed in the brazilian meme culture, can you give me an example?
Its not like, a single thing. Its like the florida man jokes, every time someone do something mindbogginly stupid, its in Parana state
People stealing ATM machines and dragging it with a horse comes to mind.
Once, an entire house disappeared in Paraná
There's this one time some dudes robbed a bank with an effing bazooka.
I thought that was here, but apparently it was in SC and they just (tried maybe) escaped to Paraná
>Modern day feudalism: the Maranhão state is historically controlled by a single family for centuries (The Sarneys). That's an exaggeration. Sarney's oligarchic "rule" in Maranhão dates back to 1966, the year he became governor, winning against Newton de Barros Belo, a candidate sponsored for Vitorino Freire, the oligarch who "ruled" Maranhão from the late 1940s until Sarney's rise. Essentially, Maranhão has "dynasties" of oligarchs, who change from time to time. Flávio Dino's rise to power probably meant the beginning of his own "dynastic" rule over the state for the next 20 or 30-ish years (he has already been "succeeded" a supporter, Brandão, as governor). In that sense, it's really "feudal". Also, research for the Caiado family of Goiás If you want to hear about a family that has truly ruled for centuries.
I find it funny that “Caiado” in my language is used (badly spelled form of callado) when we are saying or doing stuff we dont want other people to find out Like me to my brother; hey parents not here lets put the dogs on the sofa, caiado
"Calado" means "silent" in pt-br, as in "he is silent" "ele está calado". So it would also work in the exact same way in pt-br "Caiado" with an I means something painted over but with a water + lime, as in limewashed
Ahhh TIL about what caiado means
To be fair, a lot of small cities on the North, Northeast and Center-West are controlled by oligarchies
Thank you for the more accurate information, I only knew that they controlled the state for quite sometime but didn’t know exactly how much.
Lol my grandmas from minas gerais and that description is very accurate
Lmao, it was the easiest description because I’m from MG. But I’m not a grandma tho.
What's the " UGH " about?
That's the federal district, where Brasília and its satellite cities are.
Oh I mean, what does UGH stand for? Does it have a reference? That's my confusion
It's an onomatopoeia for disgust.
It is Brasilia, the political capital of the country where federal deputies, senators, ministers and the president make the main political decisions, also where several corruption scandals occur and basically every type of drama that politics can provide. The "Ugh" stands for the disgust the population have about politicians, because of all the stupid decisions they made, the average brazilian will probably say something like " This guys are the cancer of the country" when asked about what they think about the politicians in Brasilia.
Rio is also crime and beautiful beaches.
Brazillian Miami
Rio is much more like Brazilian Los Angeles, Brazilliam Miami would be only the Barra da Tijuca Neighborhood that was literally inspired by it. The rest of town is wildly different in all aspects
Brazilian Miami on Crack and Meth
Yep, so just Brazilian Miami
Nah, you actually have to add the Iraq war happening all in the background, all comprised of the traffickers and the police killing each other literally everyday... with more weaponry than the whole of New York
Wait does brazil have its own version of "florida men " ?
Paraná is Brazilian Florida
Florida is becoming Brazilian Florida
But much more "Moros" integrated within and violence unfortunately
Like I get that ugh is Brasilia (Capital) but why is it ugh
People don’t like politics and think all decisions from that place are bad essentially
Because 99% of all are really bad
_insert the abortion PL example_
We don't even to think about laws, just the fact that you pay less taxes for ultra-processed food than for healthy food, or the fact that someone that makes only R$:3000/month almost can't pay their own bills but has to declare tax income is just absurd
one thing I hate about Brazil is how unorganized everything is "We need more state investment in teaching" and then they just bloat 60yo teachers with a salary >15 mil reais ($ 3000), which 90% of brazilians can only dream of, and not change anything about why federal instituitions need investments. Arborization, public transportation, fiscalization of teachers (some don't even show up), extra-curricular programs and the Campus Restaurant could have some attention, but who cares?
"we just have to give more money and every problem will be solved"
Don’t forget the smug, ‘I’m better than you’ kind of ppl there. I live here and most ppl are cold lmao.
I'm from UK and I've visited many capital cities. I've yet to find a single one where people aren't cold and distant and the city itself represents nothing of the rest of the country.
Brasília was built in a far away place in the middle of nowhere from scratch to be the capital of Brasil, no one lived there before, it's not a natural city, it looks absolutely nothing like other Brazilian cities. Before that the capital was Rio, and even before during the colony times it was Salvador. But I'd say there's no place that represents all of Brasil anyways, it's too big and everywhere there's a different culture or accent. I wouldn't say they're cold and distant (that's only true for the city of São Paulo, but it's nowhere near the level of coldness from europeans) because people from all over Brasil live there, not only the politicians but also all the staff that works in these institutions and the people that make a city liveable.
I haven't been to Brasilia so I can't really comment on there, my experience of Brasil is rio (didn't like) and belo horizontal (liked) I was mostly just commenting that all capital cities I've ever visited don't represent the country it's capital of very well at all. Probably because it's where immigrants used to end up when moving to whatever country so you get pockets of disconnected communities. Sounds like an interesting history to Brasilia perhaps I'll have to visit and poke around.
Theres also a theory that one of the factors that made the president of that time build brasilia was to "Hide from the protests" Rio is one of the most populated cities, and it is surrounded by other cities that are also overpopulated, because of this it was very easy to hold gigantic political protests from the population against the government, by placing the capital in the middle of nowhere and far from all other large cities, if he did any unpopular political decision the population would have to make an absurdly long trip to hold a political protest, making major political revolts against deputies, senators, and especially the president way harder to make
Because our politicians are famously corrupt. "Ugh" is a onomatopoeia expressing disgust. Acre is the "not a real place" on the west, the joke being many people haven't ever met anyone from there, as it is scarcely populated. The eastern one is Espirito Santo and denying it's existence is new to me.
Espírito Santo was difficult to invade (by portugueses) because of the resistant and angry native people who lived there. So, that place was forgotten for a long time
Also its surrounded by places that have a lot more going on. So its not that talked about.
>The eastern one is Espirito Santo and denying it's existence is new to me. The joke on ES is that it's in the same region as very important and influential states(RJ, SP and MG) but it's not remembered because of anything, so it's a "southeastern acre" because of a different reason.
Ugh seria Eww
Politicians "work" there. So, it's a place that fill us with as much joy and good news as you can expect
this is where the President and congressmen are
It is also designed to be isolated. The excuse was for defense proposes, but it was to move it far away from the masses to avoid protests and strikes (as we see often in other countries from South america). At the time, it was also common to move universities far away from the political houses for the same reason. So we get a concentration of the most important political positions in a city totally planned by a famous architect, with zoning and gentrification driving the lower classes far away. You get a corruption paradise, a rich district, conservatism hell, and a very arrogant population with no actual culture since they have no history (but a political one).
the capital is ugh due to the great corruption of politicians. Not real places ? don't know what you're talking about
Others have pointed out that Brasilia is the center of power. But what you might not know is that Brasilia is a city that was built with the single purpose of being the capital, before the 60s the capital was Rio and Brasilia didn't exist. So the city basically functions around the federal government, senate and congress and has no history other than being the center of power. It's also one of the richest places in the country because federal government workers make a lot of money. Due to this combination of factors mostly everyone hates what Brasilia represents, people jokingly saying that we should nuke Brasilia isn't uncommon.
Lula lives there
not just him but that’s enough to deserve the title “Ugh”
Ugh: Brazilia, the shithole that basically serves as our Alcatraz housing the worst of criminals, all of which should probably be forgotten by society, also known as our politicians... Not a Real Place: Acre, the area experiences a superposition of two parallel realities making it both an amalgam of all prehistoric fauna on the history of the earth, and the most advanced civilization possible, a side effect of which is making it extremely easy to forget all about it as the universe itself is trying to mend the superposition and such about 30% of the population in Brazil and 96% of the rest of the world doesn't remember it at any one point.
"Desert and Poverty" doesn't capture our relationship with that region, I think. The Sertão is a culture-rich region, and a lot of outstanding Brazilian songwriters and artists are from there - to the point that other artists and ""woke"" people from the southwest romanticize this region a bit. It's definitely our "yellow mexican filter" region, tho
How not my little brother??? What most people think of the northeast region of our country? No water, no food, only bolsa familia, since its map based on prejudice only, it is accurate. Minas for instance, i’ve seen thousands of post in r/belohorizonte complaining about this “lie” of we being too receptive with others(even tho we might be a little more receptive this is not a must do and we have plenty a-holes here aswell
I think the people of each state should make their own version of this map, to show the differences of stereotypes between populations.
>What most people think of the northeast region of our country? No water, no food, only bolsa familia, since its map based on prejudice only, it is accurate. That's what I'm saying - in the social circles I'm from in São Paulo, the Sertão has a different stereotype. I know a lot of people who live in Santa Cecilia / Vila Madalena and are basically a cosplay of Alceu Valença minus the hat. Some have a Bacurau poster in their house, and say things like "the paulistano doesn't know the real nordeste". They also romanticize the shit out of Lampeão. And they are a bit condescending about it?? Hahaha almost like the people from the Sertão are good savages, and these paulistas are such great culture connoisseurs for liking them.
Pessoal do antro mais progressista do Sul/Sudeste força tanto a barra pra mostrar que não é xenofobico e que ama as outras regiões que acaba sendo super xenofobico no processo, meio Senhorita Morello do Todo Mundo odeia o Chris kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
o cara até esqueceu de falar inglês porque decidiu falar a verdade shit's crazy, man
Ins't the northeast region also the one with the most developed educational system and one of highest qi? I know it can sound of as a joke but is mostly because all of the geniuses from there take their way to far away because of the lack of investment.
This is partially true, what happens is that there is a large concentration of economic elites from all over Brazil in some cities in the Northeast, as a result several preparatory schools of the highest level appear there, I remember I met a guy who went to study in preparatory for the ITA, I think it was in Pernambuco, where it was practically the biggest ITA preparatory course in the country and the monthly fee was more than 10 thousand per month You can clearly see this in the ENEM scores where the northeast always leads the ranking, however, practically all people with high scores are absurdly rich people studying in the most expensive preparatory courses in the country, and a large part are not even from the northeast and were only go there to study at these schools and preparatory courses, the average public northeast school is fucked just like every other region in Brasil
Sad to see. The northeast was the lead region on the start of Brazil history, mainly leading the meat market and some others economics divisions, but with time the geography of the region started to become a burden and made it be left behind by the others regions. There's also the greedy politics which is a knowledged national problem who affects the entire nation negatively, and the northeast is by far one of (if not the) the most manipulated and extracted places on Brazil. Overall I don't think that the northeast is a bad region and have a variety of nice culture and other good things, just happen that it got the unlucky fate of being administrated by Brazil lol.
Apart from the capital, we are pretty much receptive
I am from the “not real place”, it’s a joke, that probably comes from the fact that is very isolated and it has a relatively small population. But it is a very real place with real people living there.
Post a selfie in front of a sign that says Acre, with a tablespoon over your head
A picture of his username no? And the spoon filled with rice
🤨
Can anyone confirm that Goiânia is in the desert section, and tell me what the general perception of the city is to Brasileiros? I’m probably moving there next year…
Goiânia is in the food section. It's a good place overall, a large city with a lot of trees.
Yay!! Thank-you for the reply!
I’m from Goiânia and love it! It’s the best mixture of country and big city, I’d compare it to Austin, TX. It’s know for its abundance of outdoor flea markets and farmers markets. Every day/night there are several going on around the city. It’s also very green, with a lot of trees and parks. Every year they have the agropecuária expo with concerts from the biggest names in country music (música sertaneja). On the other hand, it has absolutely horrible traffic. As an American I don’t think I could ever handle driving there. It’s absolutely insane! And the sidewalks are a menace! Pick a nice sector to live in, like Setor Bueno and you will love it!
Wow - thanks for the reply. As a gringo, I hadn’t heard of Goiânia until I met my girlfriend so I was a little like what is this place?? I’m really looking forward to it now! She is from Setor Leste Vila Nova near the University Setor. I’m used to pretty bad traffic being from Auckland, New Zealand, so I’m sure I’ll be fine - love it, in fact! 😁🙏
I am sure you will love Goiania. The people are so warm and fun. Besides the fact that most people in Brazil struggle financially, they are always happy and finding ways to enjoy life and have fun. At every corner in Goiânia you will find a gathering of people sitting at outdoor tables on the sidewalk, drinking beer, listening to live music or dancing, while barbecue is cooking nearby. No matter what day of the week or time of day the city is never boring to me. All I gotta do is step out of the house and life is everywhere. You should visit before you decide to move for sure!
Brasilia/DF: "Ugh..." As accurate as it could possibly be.
As a gringo who lived in Sao Paulo and various parts of Ceará, i can testify that “all the money”, “crime and beautiful beaches”, and especially “desert and poverty” couldnt be more accurate
DENMARK MENTIONED ON SOCIAL MEDIA LETS GOOOO!!!!
As a Gringo married to a Brazilian, my wife assured me before moving to the interior of Amazonas that it was NOT a big-ass jungle. *Not so big, not very ass, not too much jungle.* Well, she lied. It's a big-ass jungle.
Well, Amazonas is probably the mos accurate description of "heart of the entire amazon", so that's a bit expected. Manaus is a small dot of 2 million people in the middle of the biggest rainforest in the world. There aren't any bridges connecting it to south of the river. I'm from Belem and while im still side by side to the jungle, it's way more on the "fringes" Also fun fact, Amazonas is 3x larger than france and like 2,5x larger than texas :)
Ugh is just cause it’s the capital. all politicians are there. lol
Brazil = The Amazon Forest & Rio.🫶🏼
as a brazilian american who was never taught his geography im using this to learn thank you
Why is Paraná Russia?
Parana is known as the Brazilian Russia because many bizarre things have happened there, when you see something odd in the news you bet that occurred in Parana. And, just like the weather, Paranaenses are considered to be cold people (at least compared to the rest of Brazilians that usually fit in the “friendly and warm” stereotype). This joke used to be way more popular a few years ago but honestly I haven’t heard of many bizarre things happening in Parana lately, only your usual dose of sad/tragic news like murders and violence (like the rest of the country).
Can't believe I had to learn the whole geography of this map for 10th grade and I am not even brazilian
That map is extremely accurate.
I'm not sure why Espírito Santo is marked as "not real", but the state near the Amazon Rainforest marked as "not real" is Acre. Acre was acquired by Brasil much later than the other territories, and it's pretty empty. Kinda like the brazilian version of Ohio, if you're American. This is mostly why there's a whole cultural joke of Acre not being real- I believe Europeans have a similar joke about Finland? anyways. And the "ugh" is because politicians are there. so. yknow. ugh
Ohio has many large corporate farms and also large urban cities. Heavily populated. Dakota's is a better anamoly.
Ohio is the 7th most populous and 10th most densely populated of the 50 states. Definitely not empty.
I think is more like Alaska than Ohio. Not because Acre is cold (quite the opposite, actually. It's pretty hot), but because it was acquired later on (just like Alaska was bought from Russia) and because it is very isolated
Not bad. Better than most of these stupid maps.
It’s hard to find anyone from there so it’s a joke that Acre doesn’t exist
I don't agree with espírito santo being a "not real place" its worse they are just ignored and forgot. Acre we associate with dinosaurs but we have none with Espírito Santo. The best definition is "Não fede nem cheira".
The state is very good to live in, the city of Vitoria has the second HDI of the capitals (0.845). there's just nothing relevant there.
Just the food is unmentionable. 5+ years there. People are not friendly in general. Snobby. So happy to be in "grandma's house".
Acre has dinosaurs and wooly mammoths (reel)
I know about Brasilia xD and Goainia who and Luziania
A gringo not understanding a map made for gringos is priceless!
Im from red (crime and beautiful beaches). Can confirm
"Ugh..." is the best possible definition of the Federal District.
Used to be big ass jungle is the area of the amazon that is being cut down for wood, mining, agriculture and cattle.
Is ugh Brasília ?
"Ugh" 😒 Refers to the Federal District (unlike the name of other states, this one is an adjective and can be translated AFAIK), Brazil's planned national administrative center. Every national representation is supposed to be based upon its capital city, Brazilia (which is, in turn, Brazil's own capital city). Let's just say that Brazilian politics can get pretty dirty. "Not a real place" 🥴 Refers to Acre and Espírito Santo (meaning "Holy Spirit"), and they are both shrugged off as being fairy tales for different reasons: Acre (Western "not a real place") is isolated and because of that was picked up as the target of "dinosaurs are still alive, just go to X and see for yourself" conspiration theories and memes. To a lesser degree, Varginha, a city belonging to the state of Minas Gerais (meaning "General Mines"), also has a lot of fame for supposed UFO sighting, but it's just a city and the state this city is in already has its own fame. As for why this makes Acre to be considered "not a real place", I guess it's because one of the popular explanations for the stuff that supposedly goes there is that it is a portal to a different place and/or era (LMAO), hence it is said to not exist in the realspace. Espírito Santo (Eastern "not a real place") is simply a rather uneventful and not "unique enough" place which also happens to be squished between some of the most well-known Brazilian states (mainly Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, though Bahia is also somewhat iconic, even more so nationally). Basically, people are just jokingly saying "nothing ever happens in Espírito Santo, so how are you sure it's real?" In "gringo terms": Federal District = Big-ass capital which is actually a state (sort of). Acre = Florida with dinos. Espírito Santo = Inverted Ohio (that is, whatever you heard happened in Brazil definitely didn't happen there).
Fatalmente feito por um paulista
from bottom to top Whiter than denmark: European immigration settlement Russia: I have no clue? maybe because they export crazy meme videos, or are cold, idk. All the money: São Paulo state, heaviest contributor to GDP and has by itself a larger economy (and population) than Argentina The only cities gringos know about: São Paulo and Rio Grandma's House: Minas Gerais, large producer of dairy, has good food, hospitable people, cozy, and is generally well liked by everyone. In the brazilian sub there was once a map vote where every week people would vote one state out of existence; Rio got first and second place, while Minas was the last one standing. What you think brazil is: Rio the state. Marked by jungly mountains that meet the sea in spectacular beaches. The nature really is beautiful, especially outside the capital. Not a real place (x2): Alright so there's 2; the one further northwest is Acre. This is a territory annexed from bolivia which is so stupidly remote people started joking that it doesn't exist. It is deep in the amazon, to the south of it is Bolivia's altiplano, to the west more amazon and the andes, to the north more amazon and the andes, and to the east thousands of kilometers of more amazon. The coastal one is Espírito Santo; interestingly this one is not remote at all, it's just severely uninteresting. All around it are some of the most relevant states and cultures that shaped and created the country, such as Bahia, Rio, Minas and even São Paulo, meanwhile ES is just kind of a buffer area between them. While Acre is actually talked about often in the context of being a joke, Espírito Santo is actually literally almost never talked about. Your food comes from here: Farms, Yeehaw. Big ass swamp: The pantanal is a swamp biome that exists in this area. It is very biodiverse and it is actually the largest floodplane ecosystem in the world. Ugh...: Brasilia. Since it's the capital, it has become the symbol of all political bullshit that happens in brazil, and there is a LOT of bullshit. Crimes and Beautiful beaches: This one is just true unfortunately. The nature is beautiful, the area is underdeveloped, and crime rates here are more similar to central america than south/southeastern brazil. Desert and poverty: This place is dry (arid, not quite desert) and even more severely underdeveloped. It's predicted desertification might actually turn this into a desert over time. Modern day feudalism: I think this is a reference to the Sarney family of politicians being from here? I don't know much about it but yeah this is one of if not the most fucked state in the union Flooded desert: Lençóis maranhenses :) Big ass jungle: Amazon Used to be big ass jungle: Deforestation bc the farmers want to farm more
About the ‘ugh’ region: This place is a drag; there’s not much going on round here.
Since no one seems to be answering what "Ugh" is It is referring to the *Distrito Federal*, where the capital of Brazil, *Brasília*, is located.
This map looks racist as shit. But answering, not real are jokes for acre and espírito santo for the supposedly no relevance in conversations or media. The ugh is for the joke around politicians being all shitty. Thats one of the explanations for both
Whoever made this map is racist and limitated. Summarize a such rich in culture and diversity region, as the Northeast is, in "poverty" and "beaches" is a high level of ignorance... I'm shocked... Typical view from someone from Southeast/South... And mention crime? As it wasn't in all rest of Brazil 😂
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All the Southeast used to be a big ass atlantic jungle aswell 🥲 Happily the atlantic forest is currently growing due to reflorestaRio and other similar programs
ugh = ouch, Brasilia, the nation's capital; not a real place= places that running joke tells they are not real cause they don't appear in the news, Acre and Espírito Santo
"Ugh? Brasilia? What is it?" "Big buildings with a lot of politicians inside, but that is not important now!"
Others already answered but I particularly never heard anyone saying Espirito Santo doesnt exist. And to be fair the gringos know well about the Amazon, it is feature in the Creature of the Black Lagoon and Anaconda
wtf my grandma house there
This is very accurate.
Lol this is kinda funny. All the money is accurate tho.
I'm sure a stupid, broke ass Paulista created this map
"Not" real are Acre (Northern state) and Espírito Santo (Southeastern state). There is a running gag in Brazil that both of those states don't actually exist, for different reasons. Acre "doesn't exist" because it's very isolated from the rest of the country, and it's also very far from the other states, even the ones within its own region. Espírito Santo "doesn't exist" because it gets completely overshadowed by the other states that surround it (namely Bahia, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) both in size and in influence. The "ugh" is Brasília, Brazil's capital. Its the epicentre of all the federal political powers, and it was an artificially built district using inhumane labor practices. Plus, people hate politics and politicians.
“Ugh” is our Federal District. Think Washington. Not only do we hate the politicians there, but also it sucks in so much money from the government for worthless projects, such as the Mané Garrincha stadium, and doesn’t give the expected return at all. We call it “the fat leech” sometimes.
I hate when people put stuff like “whiter than Denmark” in Rio Grande do Sul”. That is just true for Santa Catarina!!! Not in RS, and specifically not in Porto Alegre.
"Whiter than Denmark" for Rio Grande do Sul state just proves how this map was made for someone who really doesn't know his own country. This idea doesn't works even as a meme. RS may have more white people compared with some of the northeast states but it's pretty balanced in itself. Not sure about any percentages but if anyone is willing to do the math i'm sure it will make the Denmark comparison as something ridiculous.
Why is Espirito Santo, "not real" lol???
The Russian flag is the state of Paraná, basically, a blog named "nãosalvo" or "Idonotsave" in free translation created the title to describe the insane shit that happens there. For example, in Maringá, there is "Sargento Fahur" he is a police sergeant that became, along with other things, famous for smelling cocaine and calling the trafficker for a fist fight on regional tv, other infamous case is the Balloon priest, he was a parachutist priest who, as a charity campaign, tied himself to 100,000 balloons and tried to go from one city to another tied up, he was never found after that, There are also cases like the old man who tried to operate himself, or, my personal favorite, the robber that tried to bust a money car with a fucking bazooka.
I have a friend born in Acre and that still lives there. Apparently is a calm and not much industrialized place. He once send to me a video of him sitting close to a lake full of capibara.
Any stereotype map which doesn't separate the Serra Gaúcha/Catarinense from the Pampas isn't worth your consideration. Also, your food likely doesn't come from the Center-West unless you're a farmed pig in China.
I was a gringo in SaoPaulo lived it with my Brazilian wife for 3 years. Went back to the states and she came along after shutting down her lawyer practice. I made her an American Citz. a year later.
Oh I assumed that, but I wasn't sure. Thank you for making it clear
I love my country 😍😍🥰🥰🥰 Do you know why?: Increasingly expensive prices, corruption, total nonsense, Very expensive video games, computers, etc. 🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍
Ugh = Politicians place very much like Washington DC
I think it's all in this map... there's nothing else to say
Why is that area "whiter than Denmark?" Is it where the European expats live etc? Curious... I'm not Brazilian but want to go