[LINK] "Angola, Brazil: A culture shock divide"

[rfmcdonald]

Brazil's emergence as one of the famed BRIC powers, coinciding as it does with the massive oil-driven economic boom in a similarly Lusophone Angola that lies on just the other side of the South Atlantic Ocean, has seen Brazil emerge as one of Angola's major trading partners as described in Mario do Queiroz's article "Portuguese - the Common Language of Trade". This economic engagement doesn't mean, as Paula Góes points out in her Global Voices Online links post "Angola, Brazil: A culture shock divide", that there aren't more than a few misunderstandings along the way, as a Brazilian's blog post from Angola and an Angolan's from Brazil illustrate.