Same Sex Relationships In Brazil

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Politics and economics played an important role of creating gay communities in both Brazil and South Africa. However, there are differences between these two cultures that show how gay communities adapt to changes. Before the introduction of Western ideas, Brazil and South Africa had their own definition of homosexuality. As Western ideas begin to spread through the media and internet, their ideas are incorporated with Western ideas. This creates an identity system that is not fully Westernized, but a hybrid of both the original and new. Brazil was under a dictatorship before the 1984 which did not allow same sex marriage. After the fall of dictatorship and rise of democracy, the people had a voice in the government system which allowed more freedom for same sex relationships. The development of gay communities in
Apartheid is the separation of races. The Europeans that settled in South Africa forced the Africans to live in small areas with limited resources. The men had to work in the mines to make money for the family. This created a community of men in the mines, which promoted same sex relationships. Many of these relationships were formed between the mine workers and the European bosses. The relationship provided extra money for the worker and the worker uses this money for his wife and family back in the town. The same sex relationships developed in these mines were driven by the economic purposes and after the fall of the apartheid, many of these relationships died out. The same sex relationship in Brazil was mostly based on the fall of democracy and the freedom that the citizen received. The motivation for these relationship was just the sexual drive that the people had. In South Africa, gay communities formed due to an opposite event. Males were forced to work in the mines and their reason for developing these relationships is due to the money they could