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The Brazilian Government celebrated the 500 anniversary of the founding of Brazil. The celebration was controversial, with the indigenous Indian population, such as the protests of the Pataxo tribe. This 23 page paper looks at why there was controversy examining the issues that created the controversy. This includes an examination of the way in which the indigenous people have been treated over the centuries, including genocide, mistreatment and denial of civil rights. The discussion also looks at influences that were present at the time of the celebration. The bibliography cites 22 sources.
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22nd 2000 Brazil started the official celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil. It was in the year 1500 the Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral arrived in
Brazil at the land of the Tupinikim Indians (Maxwell, 2000; Watson et al, 2000). The event which is being celebrated by the Brazilian government and many of the people of
the country is not being universally welcomed. When Brazil was discovered, it was not an unpopulated area providing a blank canvas on which the Portuguese could create a new society,
it was a land already populated with millions of people and hundreds of tribes (Lupiya, 1999). 1.1 Background It is the history of events since the founding that creates
the controversy, with different perspectives on the finding of the country leading to different inebriations of the event; leading to both the wide scale celebration and wide scale resistance (Watson
et al, 2000). Many of the indigenous communities claimed the celebrations were insensitive, stating the discovery of their land by the Portuguese resulted a significant and ongoing worsening of their
condition since that date, including genocide of the native population (Lupiya, 1999). There were calls by the native Indians to cancel the celebrations, for example, the calls made by the
organization Comissao Indigena 500 Anos actively opposing the celebrations (Lupiya, 1999). It may be argued that the celebration was a time when there was the potential to heal some of
the social rifts which had resulted in a high level of discrimination which had occurred ever since the Cabral landed (Lupiya, 1999). However, instead of healing, it may be argued
as serving to highlight the inequalities and inequity that is a direct result of the many centuries of racial discrimination, with a failure on the part of the government to
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