Message-ID: <9504301725.AA14296@cr-df.rnp.br> Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 14:25:04 EST From: Companheiros das Americas <mailto:poa-bsb@CR-DF.RNP.BR> Subject: transcultural pollination To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
Dear Friends
Every one working with social development knows the importance
of the cultural issues always involved. To better perceive the cultural
constraints that could jeopardize the social development, the
developer should be able to see them from a transcultural point-of-
view. I am sure that many visions I have about Brazilian culture
were possible because the experiences I have had and still have
with other cultures (from other places and from other times).
Many of you, for the same reasons, would like to be more in touch
with Brazilian culture. To these, we are preparing an informational
kit with two sets of experiences: the artistic-musical and the
socio-cultural.
The artistic set includes the best of Brazilian music (in midi files,
tapes, songbooks, lyrics in Portuguese and in English, chords for
easy playing, cultural comments about them and their authors, etc.
The socio-cultural set is centred upon a list of selected articles from
the main newspapers and magazines. Not as an usual clipping
service, but with a more critical and cultural approach, showing the
hiden aspects and the way - many times superficial way (to say the
less) - used by the media to analyse the main problems lived by the
population (a way that avoids the population to understand their
troubles and overcome them.)
To those interested in such an interactive transcultural pollination,
please, tell us, and we will send more informations.
We would like to know about centres of Brazilian and Portuguese
studies and people interested in deepen their quite first-hand
experience with Brazilian culture, music, politics, economics,
environment, and social development.
P.S. - Since young, we, here in Brazil, are introduced to the
American culture, through movies, songs,clothes, soft drinks,
fast-foods, technologies and also by ideological and economic
links. And by your books, too (but just some people who can
read them). Maybe also you would enjoy learning more about
Brazilian culture, and we both become more productive in our
efforts to develop our societies.
Thanks, Joaquim.