Julia Bonzanini '22 RGLP Reflection: "Expanding Notions of My Brazilian Identity"
Surprisingly, the experience that took me the most out of my comfort zone was the Capoeira workshop. As someone who was born and grew up in Brazil, it would make sense that I would be comfortable in engaging in such a major aspect of Brazilian culture. However, because of the vast extension of the country, the culture and environment that I’ve grown up in was very different from that in which Fuá grew up in. I’d only ever seen Capoeira from a distance, or on TV, and the only thing i was familiar with during the workshop was the language.
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