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Q. What is the average brazilian teenager like?

i'm writing a report on the youth in rio but any info regarding brazilian teens will suffice =) it would also be cool if anyone could specifically tell me what they do for fun, what type of music do they listen to, how do they feel about school, at what age do they marry, and is teenage pregnancy an issue?

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Q. Exchange student from brazil, hints on how to make her feel more welcome?

hi, i will be hosting a 17 year old from the very south of brazil for a school year. i'd like to know things about what kinds of things we can do with her for evenings and weekends that brazilian teens enjoy. also, are there any cultural things i should know about like certain ways of celebrating holidays, special meals or parties, etc? i'm going to send her a box with newspapers from our city and a few american magazines, what is something else useful for before she gets here? any tips at all would be helpful, we want this to be as fun for her as possible. thank you!! thanks everyone so far for great answers :) i'm going to keep this q open as long as possible because every bit of advice helps!

"In brazil it's let's say fashionable for teenagers to go to dance parties on..."

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Q. Dang...americans and brasilian teens? do they match together? read here, my story so far?

so, ive been hanging out with this girl, i was recently introduced to her, her sister is 21, she is 15..same grade as me. very cute, very funny, and beautiful. however, i am in brasil, she is brasilian, i am american. i speak portugues fluently since my family is also brazilians.. now to the point...i catch her staring at me when i dont speak, she turns away whenever i do it, she smiles to me often when i dont talk to her, i know this because when ever i come across her in the halls, she smiles...but hey, brasilians are friendly, so these displays means nothing..i dont want to get too attached to someone and find out they dont have the same feelings as me, right? last night i returned home from a b-day party, at 2:00 am in the morning..its was fun and great..her friend offered me to sit next to her, cause he was sitting next to her and was "tired of sitting down"..eventually, he had to sit back down so he took her place and they told her to move to the other cough, she didnt even stay there for 5 minutes and grabbed a chair and sat next to me. occasionally, she always asks me many questions as "why are you here in brasil" or "do you miss it there in ameirca" but when i went to take a picture, a group picture. i went next to her but she moved to the other side of the group..farthest from me..so i guess this means i am in the friend zone..right? she does not act or look like a hoe player or a manipulative girl, shes simple and funny..and i am attracted to her and i want to get to know her better.. my friends say she is a perfect choice for me to date, and i am considering it, but i dont want to jum to quick conclusions just yet. what do you think? help me and give me some advice.

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Q. How did you get into your current martial art?

just wondering if anyone wants to share a story of how they started in their martial art. from my experience many of these stories, particularly from the vets go beyond, "i saw an ad in the pennysaver and thought it looked cool!!!1!!!!!1!!1!" anyway if you have a funny, interesting, or good story about how you started with your current martial art please share :) mine is kind of long, but i'll start: i did many martial arts in my life starting with boxing when i was like 5ish then kenpo a couple years later. boxing i stuck with on and off, but didn't really get serious about until my teens. with kenpo and all the traditional martial arts i did i could never really stay content. i loved the culture and spirituality underlying the instruction and found it fascinating, but i loved the sparring more than anything.. i have just always enjoyed fighting for fun. no, i'm not violent, and hate drama, but i like testing myself against another person and trying to come out on top in the purest form of competition between 2 individuals. anyway i found most of my tma schools didn't do enough sparring for me, and it was also obvious that when we sparred i had a massive advantage over everyone from my boxing, but i truly tried not to take advantage of it and hinder my training in a given art... though i found myself discontent training in dojo where no one could challenge me in a sparring session, so i bounced around a lot until i started ninjutsu which introduced me to submission grappling for the first time. i loved wrestling as a kid, but didn't pursue it in high school like i should have. but submission grappling was a new way of looking at it where the match wasn't over when my back hit the mat, and i was being challenged again. my wrestling still gave me an advantage over most of the people there, but some of the black belts would tap me regularly, and i thought it was awesome, and i became obsessed. i asked my sensei where else i could go on days the dojo doesn't do sparring and grappling to get more live training in, and he sent me to a few differe japanese jujutsu dojo that specialized in grappling. there i was learning even more, but i still felt ninjutsu was the art for me. after about a year of obsessive grappling training there was only one person in all the schools i bounced between that could still handle me, so i drove over an hour everyday after work and college to go train at his dojo. this is around when i started posting online for the first time to. anyway these two seemingly arrogant dykes from ga were very active in the myspace martial arts groups, but they were simultaneously intelligent and experienced martial artists. anyway they were both new mma fighters, and they stated that no martial art has effective grappling except for mma styles like bjj, sambo, judo, etc. i of course confidently stated that they were wrong, and ninjutsu and jjj are at least as good. i had done 1 underground mma fight at this point and won, so i was confident in my pov. they returned telling me i had no clue what i was talking about, and probably never rolled with a jiu-jitsu black belt. i replied stating that i train with several japanese jujutsu black belts and hold my own with all of them through my ninjutsu grappling training... in fact i was submitting them. i actually developed a bit of a reputation on the local tma scene as a great grappler. they told me that they were talking about brazilian jiu-jitsu, and i should stfu because i didn't know what i was tlaking about. then they said i should go to a bjj academy and roll with a blue belt. then come back and tell them i do effective grappling. i took the challenge readily and found a few bjj academies, and got owned repeatedly in each. i basically learned what real grappling is and completely proved them right, and felt like a mislead ass that wasted a lot of time. i then immediately enrolled in bjj and became a lifelong dedicated student. so basically some internet pissy internet lesbians challenged me into trying bjj, and it soon took over my life. weird, but true hopefully someone else here has a funnier one. lone butcher- did you ever try to steal his "katana sword"? btw during the online argument with the dykes i was naive enough to think that "brazilian jiu-jitsu" was just jujutsu in brazil, and people just hyped it up because they live in the jungle or something, lol. i avidly researched and studied eastern arts, but never really read too much about brazilian ones except capoeira. after this whole ordeal i studied real bjj history and rented every every ufc starting with number 1, and that filled in a lot of gaps

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Q. To shave or not to shave?

in nearly every teen/fashion magazine, people are talking about brazilian waxes, and shaving and etc. i personally have recently gotten a brazilian wax, and not only is it more comfortable, but its more fun. (especially if your one of those women who likes thongs) i want to know if there's something unhealthy or abnormal about this because some friends told me its alot easier to get infected.so....?

"And there is wet shaving with shaving cream..."