Word: feijoada
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...After three weeks in Brazil, I have found that appropriation and contradiction often typify Brazilian society and culture. Like feijoada, the concoction of meats enveloped in beans with which Brazilians so identify, Brazilian culture consumes many foreign and extraneous elements and makes them its own. Sometimes the mix is inconsistent, and there are some unlikely amalgamations. Here, the first and third worlds are often on the same block: in some parts of the skyline, chic apartment buildings seem to ascend out of seas of squat favelas, the urban slums that dot the urban landscape. Though oft-publicized violent crime...
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