Post 4: Brazilian Carnival
My favorite festivity is the Carnival in Brazil. The Carnival is celebrated in Brazil every year, 46 days before the “Easter festival” and celebrate for a weeklong to receive spring. Carnival festivities in Brazil date back to 1723 with the Portuguese immigrants from Madeira and Cabo Verde .People went out onto the streets with buckets of water and threw mud and food, which often ended up in street brawls and riots. The concepts kept changing throughout the 1800s with more organized parades like the great societies where the Emperor joined in the celebrations with a group of aristocrats that paraded in masks with luxurious costumes and music. Nowadays in the carnival it features more than 100 block parades, many of which are supported by the students and staff of the city's samba schools. Rio's Carnival is heavily influenced by the favelas, the poorest neighborhoods in the city. Favelas residents are often members of local samba schools and participate extensively in group...