Everything That Makes Bruna Marquezine Proud to Be Brazilian

Hi, I'm Bruna Marquezine,

and I'm gonna show you everything

that makes me really proud to be Brazilian.

We're gonna eat some food,

I'm gonna teach you some slang

and some of the best places to visit.

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When you go to Rio, there's a lot of yummy food

that you have to try.

So we have Aipim.

It's really, really yummy.

It's like, how can I say this?

[food crunching]

[Bruna chuckles]

Just give me a second. [laughs]

Like, so good.

This is fried cassava.

It's similar to yuca.

It's under the same umbrella. [laughs]

Churrasco is the Brazilian barbecue.

So, if you go to a churrascaria,

then you can have this as a starter.

If you say, I want some mandioca or aipim frito,

that's what they're gonna give you,

and you're gonna love it, for sure.

This is coxinha. [bell dings]

Basically, it's filled with chicken,

shredded chicken and catupiry,

or queijo som,

it's a Brazilian type of cheese.

I think it would be similar to cream cheese, but better.

I'm sorry. [laughs]

Okay, so I'm gonna do this for y'all.

So this is what it looks like inside.

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I know after walking around in Rio,

you should order a coxinha

and have it with guarana, the Brazilian soda, perfect.

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Mmm.

[Bruna moans]

Ooh.

I'm sorry, I'm just so,

you don't understand how happy I am, Jesus.

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Mm, if you go to a kid's party,

you're gonna have coxinha

and a bunch of salgadinho, that's how I call it.

So there's the meat one,

there's the risole,

the empadas,

they're similar to empanadas,

or it doesn't have to be a kid's party.

I'm lying, if you go to one of my parties,

you're gonna find coxinha and if you go to Brazil,

you need to try a caipirinha.

The OG is made with lemons

and cachaca.

I wanna say it's like a rum, a Brazilian rum.

It's made of sugarcane.

Let's see.

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That's good.

[crew laughs]

That's actually good, not super strong, not super sweet.

That's great.

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For me, the best caipirinha vibe

is during a feijoada.

Feijoada is like this really typical,

it's not only a dish,

it's a ritual that involves a lot of beans, rice,

pork, and there's couve, which is kale,

but it's prepared in a Brazilian way.

You can go to a place to have a feijoada

or like a friend will invite you.

So if you go to Brazil, talk to me, I'll invite you

to a feijoada at my place.

It involves samba and a lot of music.

So it really feels like a ritual and it's a Sunday

or Saturday type of thing.

I'm really surprised that LA has really good Brazilian food

and I'm happy for you.

I'm really happy for you, I am.

[Crew] Amazing, let's move on to the next section.

No, we're not.

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[Crew] Agua?

[Bruna moans] [bright music]

No, I have my caipirinha.

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[Bruna laughs]

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When I'm inviting people to Brazil,

I'm like There's a lot to see!

So I'll try to show you some of my favorite places to go.

So I'm from Rio,

right here,

but we're gonna talk about Rio later.

One of my favorite places to go to is Bahia.

[Bruna] Bahia, everything about it, it's magical.

It has a lot of African influence.

So the food is different, the culture is different,

the music is different.

New Year's, they're like a big thing for Brazilians,

we like to wear white, it's a big ritual,

and New Year's in Bahia,

it's a lot of fun.

[Bruna] Carnaval in Bahia is amazing.

You should definitely go to Bahia and Rio.

Completely different type of parties.

It's all Carnaval, but it's really different.

Sao Paulo, a lot of people go to Sao Paulo.

It's like one of the most famous states in Brazil,

I would say Sao Paulo, it's like the New York of Brazil,

while Rio is the LA of Brazil.

I hope Brazilians don't come after me after saying this.

If you go to Brazil, please just spend a year,

move to Brazil.

What are you doing, if you're not living in Brazil?

I think most of the stuff that we're gonna talk about,

it's in the city of Rio.

So Rio is a beautiful city.

There's this place called Pedra da Gavea.

I don't love hiking,

but if you do like to, if you like hiking,

you should definitely go to Pedra da Gavea

and you'll get a beautiful view

of the city when you get there.

Copacabana Beach, you've heard singers singing about it,

singing about Ipanema Beach.

Almost like it's all one beach right next to each other.

So we have Leblon, Ipanema, Copacabana.

That's the right pronunciation by the way.

It's Copacabana.

How do you guys say it?

Copacabana. Copacabana.

Copacabana, okay, I'll accept Copacabana or Ipanema,

but it's Copacabana,

Ipanema.

So when you're trying to find a friend

that is at the beach, he's gonna ask like,

What poste you're next to.

Basically, there are sections

and there's a number for every section.

So you're gonna be like,

I'm next to the poste nine,

the poste nove, poste quatro.

So it's easier to find your friends.

The place I'm living at right now,

it's close to like a gay section and I love it.

It's always a lot of fun.

I have friends that only go

to a certain poste.

I like the food, I like the type of people, I like the vibe.

And one thing that is really different from LA,

we have a lot of food at the beach.

Not only food, like you can buy almost everything

at the beach.

I'd never heard of a person

that didn't feel welcomed in Brazil.

We really offer like our best,

but, also it's not that hard to get on our bad side.

One thing you should not do is mention

how dangerous you think it is.

I feel like every place in the world is, it's different,

and it has like the bad part and the good part.

It's a safe, really amazing country

and you're definitely gonna have a great time.

Just go with an open heart and you'll be fine.

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If you're planning on spending some time

in Brazil or in Rio,

you're gonna hear certain expressions

you are not gonna understand.

They're gonna make no sense.

Like this one,

mao de vaca.

Mao is hand, vaca is cow.

Cow's hand, it's for a stingy person, so.

And I guess it's because vacas,

they don't have hands.

So their hands are like, they're closed,

so they don't let go of the money.

So this is the regular A, right?

And if you add a til on top of it,

it gives you the ma sounds. Make sense?

Mao, without it it would be mou

with it it's mao.

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Pisar na bola:

to step on the ball.

It means like when you do something wrong.

I'm sorry guys, pisar na bola.

Like I, yeah, I was not supposed to do this.

I really think it's related to soccer,

because we're so obsessed with soccer

that it's like,

Oh, my gosh, you stepped on the ball, you idiot.

Arrasou, arrasou,

hmm.

How do I translate arrasou?

Arrasou, it's like, You nailed it. You did it, girl.

Arrasou, but arrasar?

What is the definition of arrasar in Portuguese?

I don't know. We'll have to Google it.

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If you wanna get to know more about Brazil,

it's important to know the people

that made Brazilian culture so incredible.

So, I'm gonna introduce you to a few icons.

Let's start with Anitta.

Anitta is a Brazilian singer,

number one on Spotify, blah blah blah, all that.

She sings pop music

and a lot of Brazilian funk.

Brazilian funk, it's different than just funk that you,

Brazilian funk is like twerk music.

It's party music.

You're gonna go out and you're gonna shake your ass

and Anitta is the queen of that.

In Brazil, like Anitta is one icon

and her butt, it's another, yeah.

And she's also one of my friends that I'm really proud of

and it's really great to see her accomplishing great things

inside and outside of the country.

And also, don't even come like with the excuse,

Oh, but I don't speak Portuguese.

She sings in Portuguese,

in Spanish and English.

So, you have no excuse.

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Come on, don't disappoint me.

This is Gisele Bundchen.

That's how we say her name, okay?

That's how her mom,

probably says her name.

Nicest human being involved with so many like good causes,

like NGOs.

She's really vocal about everything she believes,

probably you've seen her

in the Victoria's Secret fashion shows

and on the cover of every single magazine.

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Okay, this is Brazilian royalty, okay?

This is Tais Araujo, one of my favorite actors.

She is married to also one of our greatest actors,

Lazaro Ramos.

I would say they're like Beyonce and Jay-Z.

I grew up doing what Tais does

and did for years.

I did my first soap opera when I was seven.

[child speaks in Portuguese]

[adult speaks in Portuguese]

Soap operas are huge in Brazil

and I think I did like 13, 14, soap operas.

And yeah, Tais was always an inspiration.

We used to work at the same company

that is the biggest TV channel in Brazil

that is called TV Globo.

I'm so glad that I got the opportunity to know her.

I just gotta say that this lady right here,

this is our Meryl Streep,

so just do yourself a favor and Google Fernanda Montenegro,

one of the greatest actors in the entire world,

Oscar nominee.

Just that, 'cause I could talk for hours about her.

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Thank you so much for watching.

I hope you had as much fun as I did

and I hope to see you soon in Brazil.

[smacks lips]

Bye. [lively music]