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Zé Carioca to celebrate Brazil

A great way to celebrate that I’m back home to Brazil is to publish a great video! Disney was important in most of peoples childhood, and Pato Donald is the most known “duck” in the world. One thing that was, and still is, great about the old animations from Disney is the capacity to entertain both children and adults.

I just love the introduction with all the colors and how the brush happily paints the scenario. Another thing that calls my attentions is how they somehow tell children that drinking is a bad think, and how the brush makes samba out of cachaça!

In 1942 Walt Disney Studios came with a new character that introduced and popularized the samba and some of the Brazilian culture around the world. It represented the “carioca” that is who is from Rio de Janeiro. He was first introduced in the movie “Alô Amigos” (Saludo Amigos) where he interacts with Donald Duck and occasionally with Carmen Miranda, another Brazilian Symbol around the World.

It is said that it was created by Walt Disney itself when staying at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. He was so impressed by Rio and the Samba that he decided to give a present both to Rio and to the Brazilian people. This present was José Carioca, more known as Zé Carioca. It’s said that after listening so many parrot jokes in the street, so having an talking parrot would be a nice way to represent the Brazilian happiness.

The reason Walt Disney was in visit to Brazil was that after the Second World War the US had an Agenda that intended to get closer with the countries in Latin America to fight the communism. This initiative was called the “Good Neighbor Policy”
Info extratect from the José Carioca Wikipedia page.

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