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in Brazil, the first world in the Third World exist side by side. Brazil is highly industrialized in some areas and absolutely medieval and others. It is wealthy and miserable. Sheikh Ipanema and mud and stick hut, Hi tech engineer and Stone Age Indian computers and bananas. As a common joke goes, If there were no Brazil, someone would have to invent one. Another argument for Brazil's singularity is that nowhere else on Earth, two different races, cultures and religions coexist is peacefully as they do there. That is partly because intermarriage has been common in Brazil for centuries, creating a truly mixed society. Most everyone has ancestors from two or three continents. There is prejudice among Brazilians more on this later, but it is rare to encounter overt racial or religious hatred of the kind that is common in many other countries. Ah good example of Brazilian tolerance can be seen in the commercial district in downtown Rio called Sahara. They're Brazilians of Jewish, Lebanese and Syrian descent. All go to the same bars at the end of the day for a beer, a chat and, on Fridays, a little samba. Brazil has been a really melting pot for centuries. Not a mixed salad like the United States, as such a person in Brazil of Lebanese or Yoruba or Japanese ancestry usually identifies himself or herself first and foremost as Brazilian.