‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city
BY KARLA MENDES ON 12 APRIL 2021
During a presentation for Indigenous People’s Week, celebrated in April in Brazil, at his son’s elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, the first thing sociologist José Carlos Matos Pereira did was to show a photo of several individuals and ask the children, “What do you think, are they Indigenous?” The children immediately answered in unison: “No.” He asked why, and they responded, “They are not naked; they do not have a bow and arrow and they are not in the forest; so, they are not Indigenous.”
The episode, centering on a picture of Indigenous people from the city of Altamira in the Amazonian state of Pará, is just a snapshot of the reality faced by Indigenous people living in urban areas throughout Brazil. “This marks a perception since a child as one thinks of Indigenous people [as being] outside the city and in conditions of, shall we say, ‘natural,’” Pereira, a researcher at the Social Movements Memory Program, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), told Mongabay.
“The Indigenous hunt, fish, live in the forest, have their way of life, their rituals. But he also comes to the city … And when he comes, he brings with him a way of life.”
In fact, contrary to popular belief, Indigenous people are scattered all over Brazil and not just in the Amazon Rainforest and remote rural areas. More than a third of Brazil’s Indigenous population, or about 315,000 individuals, live in urban areas, according to the country’s latest census.
Considering the sentences ““What do you think, are they Indigenous?” and “He asked why”, choose the correct answer.
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(Fonte: Texto adaptado. (Disponível em: https://www.readersdigest.ca/health/healthy-living/old-time-home-remedies/. Acesso em: 1 nov. 2022)
Assinale a alternativa que traduz corretamente o seguinte fragmento do Texto:
“Researchers have produced hundreds of studies in the past five years about the effectiveness of home remedies, but not all the old-time solutions really help”
Read Text to answer question
Old-time home remedies
Researchers have produced hundreds of studies in the past five years about the effectiveness of home remedies, but not all the old-time solutions really help. That’s why this list focuses on treatments with evidence to back them up. Remember that even natural cures can interact with medications. If you take pills regularly or have a chronic health condition, check with your doctor before trying these home remedies.
Buttermilk for age spots - skip the expensive creams, there are plenty of home remedies that do the job just as well! Buttermilk, a rich by-product of butter, contains lactic acid and ascorbic acid. One study showed that this combination lightened age spots more effectively than lactic acid alone. Apply to the spots with a cotton ball, then rinse with water after 20 minutes.
Vitamin C for allergies - although Vitamin C is one of the most popular home remedies for the common cold, it turns out to be an effective natural antihistamine as well. In one study, 74 per cent of the subjects who received a vitamin C nasal spray reported that their noses were less stuffy, compared with 24 per cent of the patients who took a placebo. The study’s authors recommend getting two grams per day from food and/or supplements
(Fonte: Texto adaptado. (Disponível em: https://www.readersdigest.ca/health/healthy-living/old-time-home-remedies/. Acesso em: 1 nov. 2022)
Considerando o último parágrafo do Texto, assinale a alternativa que indica corretamente o tempo verbal predominante nos verbos destacados:
“In one study, 74 per cent of the subjects who received a vitamin C nasal spray reported that their noses were less stuffy, compared with 24 per cent of the patients who took a placebo”.
Read Text to answer question
Old-time home remedies
Researchers have produced hundreds of studies in the past five years about the effectiveness of home remedies, but not all the old-time solutions really help. That’s why this list focuses on treatments with evidence to back them up. Remember that even natural cures can interact with medications. If you take pills regularly or have a chronic health condition, check with your doctor before trying these home remedies.
Buttermilk for age spots - skip the expensive creams, there are plenty of home remedies that do the job just as well! Buttermilk, a rich by-product of butter, contains lactic acid and ascorbic acid. One study showed that this combination lightened age spots more effectively than lactic acid alone. Apply to the spots with a cotton ball, then rinse with water after 20 minutes.
Vitamin C for allergies - although Vitamin C is one of the most popular home remedies for the common cold, it turns out to be an effective natural antihistamine as well. In one study, 74 per cent of the subjects who received a vitamin C nasal spray reported that their noses were less stuffy, compared with 24 per cent of the patients who took a placebo. The study’s authors recommend getting two grams per day from food and/or supplements
(Fonte: Texto adaptado. (Disponível em: https://www.readersdigest.ca/health/healthy-living/old-time-home-remedies/. Acesso em: 1 nov. 2022)
Analise as frases abaixo e assinale a alternativa que responda à qual tipo textual elas pertencem.
(1) His last smile to me wasn’t a sunset. It was an eclipse, the last eclipse, noon dying away to darkness where there would be no dawn.
(2) The old man was bent into a capital C, his head leaning so far forward that his beard nearly touched his knobby knees.
(3) The painting was a field of flowers, blues and yellows atop deep green stems that seemed to call the viewer in to play.
‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city
BY KARLA MENDES ON 12 APRIL 2021
During a presentation for Indigenous People’s Week, celebrated in April in Brazil, at his son’s elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, the first thing sociologist José Carlos Matos Pereira did was to show a photo of several individuals and ask the children, “What do you think, are they Indigenous?” The children immediately answered in unison: “No.” He asked why, and they responded, “They are not naked; they do not have a bow and arrow and they are not in the forest; so, they are not Indigenous.”
The episode, centering on a picture of Indigenous people from the city of Altamira in the Amazonian state of Pará, is just a snapshot of the reality faced by Indigenous people living in urban areas throughout Brazil. “This marks a perception since a child as one thinks of Indigenous people [as being] outside the city and in conditions of, shall we say, ‘natural,’” Pereira, a researcher at the Social Movements Memory Program, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), told Mongabay.
“The Indigenous hunt, fish, live in the forest, have their way of life, their rituals. But he also comes to the city … And when he comes, he brings with him a way of life.”
In fact, contrary to popular belief, Indigenous people are scattered all over Brazil and not just in the Amazon Rainforest and remote rural areas. More than a third of Brazil’s Indigenous population, or about 315,000 individuals, live in urban areas, according to the country’s latest census.
According to the text, it is correct to affirm: