Why Rio de Janeiro Isn't the Capital of Brazil 

Does modern Turkey count? People in the European part of Turkey have their capital in Ankara.

@@marioprisciandaro871 turkey isn’t a European state tho, it’s middle eastern

@@wonderbread7327 It depends on your definition of a European state. Turkey has land in Europe. From the beginning of the Ottoman Empire it had a significant portion of its land in Europe. For most of it's history, its capital was Istanbul, which is in Europe. Most of turkey is not in Europe and in the Middle East, but then what makes the Portuguese empire a European state if most of its land was in the Americas? Is it that its leaders were European? that it was culturally European? If you bring culture into it then there's the question of what counts as "European Culture." You could say Turks are a non-european ethnic group, but what about the Turks that have been living in Europe for generations?

@@marioprisciandaro871 the Portuguese empire was a European state because Portugal had the power and “the empire” was just its colonies. Turkey is not European culturally or ethnically. It practices a non Western religion and fought Europeans for centuries. Just because there are Turks in Europe that doesn’t make Turks European. Just how South African whites are not African.

@@wonderbread7327 I don't think you can draw a clean line between European and non-Europeaness when it comes to Turkey. Religion separates it from most of Europe but religion doesn't define what is European. There are Muslim Slavs and Albanians who are definitely European. There is no cleanly defined European culture. European as a geographical descriptor includes European Turkey. Therefore Turks in Europe are European at least in the geographical sense. Whites in Africa aren't African in the racial sense, but are certainly African in some sense since we call them White Africans. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Africans_of_European_ancestry)

Hola 🤭

@@anarghyasumanth8590 Im not a Brazilian. F

I like to think that have quite the dialect, "Portunhol", it's like a very poor spanish mixed with a very poor portuguese. It is impossible to avoid contact with the Hermanos so we have to get our ways, right?

It pains me as well. If a gringo speaks Spanish to me, I'll reply in English.

We don’t like when people say we speak Spanish, because we don’t. But we don’t mind when we realize that one is speaking Spanish to us because one doesn’t speak Portuguese. We are warm and welcoming people.

Fun fact: Poland is not located in EITHER of the Earth's poles.

@Daniel Marinho João Pessoa was also called Parahyba up untill the 1940's. The town currentlt known as Goiás Velho was once the capital of the state of Goiás, while Ouro Preto, once known as Vila Rica das Minas Geraes, was the former capital of Minas.

@@iaw7406 :OOOO NO WAY

@@iaw7406 Poland means Land of the Poles. Poles in this case meaning the native ethic group also "pole" in Polish means "field". So it means Land of the Field.

@Daniel Marinho alot of the countys in Ireland have a town or city in them with the same name.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Brazil

Sim

@William Santos according to the latest numbers Brasilia is slightly bigger than Salvador, as far as city proper population goes. City proper: Brasília: 3.055.149 - 3rd Salvador: 2.886.698 - 4th

As far as I know, Porto Alegre metro has over 4 million people

​@@rogeriopenna9014 Yes, it does. Here's the list of the top 5 metro areas in Brazil: 1st - São Paulo - 21,734,682 2nd - Rio de Janeiro - 12,763,459 3rd - Belo Horizonte - 5,961,895 4th - Brasília - 4,627,771 5th - Porto Alegre - 4,340,733 Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Brazil

As a Brazilian I can confirm

We are the confusion 😎

Brazil

O motivo foi pra deixar a politica longe do povo, pra ter menos pressão na porta deles. ta em portugues porque eu sei que todo mundo aqui é brasileiro a maioria pelo menos

@@Miguel-nn4hj so traduzindo pra se algum gringo ler the politicians pushed the population away so as not to put pressure on them

A few corrections: The constitution of the second republic was actually promulgated in 1934. 1930 was the Vargas led coup and the country spent the next period technically without a Constitution, leading to the 1932 Sao Paulo constitutional revolt. Also, the second republic actually ended in 1937, when Cargas granted his new Constitution.

Só Plano piloto é assim, Brasília é normal

Isso não é um fato, Brasília foi construída pra ser uma + cruz. Mas como não existe terreno reto, foi preciso curvar um -- eixo pra acompanhar a descida que a água fazia naquele território. Por isso a maioria diz que parece um pássaro ou um avião, mas não era a ideia inicial

e o 14-Bis

@@Umbatata8 Brasília é o plano piloto, o entorno é o distrito federal

I was told it was build in the shape of a dragonfly

Thank you! I always wondered about this!

It's more because the Bandeirantes didn't give a fuck and would just go venture inland after indians for enslaving and precious stones and gold anyway, and neither were the Spanish interested in colonizing the region.

and rio is pronounced like hio

Yes

@L'Ephebe93 oh my these chinese phonetics were great 😂😂😂😂

Brasilia's star is also incorrectly located

Look I am portuguese and ik it's pronounced hiu jee jaanaeru

Verdade

Nss sim akakka

Espero que ele não pense que nós falamos espanhol

@@Catchorror italiano

Verdade

That's true!

in southern Brazil it's pronounced like in spanish

"Rio" is literally river

@@igoralmeida9136I'm Gaúcho living in Santa Catarina and have never seen anyone pronounce it with the weak R and O sound at the end as in Spanish. Everyone says "RRÍU" (R forte como em "chuRRasco" e som de U no final).

Im from brazil but... this sounds weird

"Dje" Janeiro would be the pronunciation of people from Rio, I think

@@Joao-de9gl “Dji”, just like basically all of southeastern Brazil ...

@@eduardocury6179 even Minas? Oh

DE janeiro is said by portuguese from Portugal people

@@eduardocury6179 north of Brazil as well

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Hello

Do belgium, its politics makes amerika look like a cake walk, its a huge piece of cr*p. Oh, and waffles

You could do a video like that for most American states who have their capitals located in random small towns. Why is the capital of Illinois not Chicago? Why is the capital of Florida not Miami? Why is the capital of California not LA nor San Francisco? More importantly why did they even name the state New York if New York is not its capital????

You could make moving capitals into a series by doing Canberra next

Yes it is! I'll never forget the time I had living there, such a awesome place 😃

Bah yeet ah

@@rafafr9 bah ree a

@@GUERREIRO4610 Ba hue ah

BA ÍH A!

Beíah

Mas a vegetação do cerrado não é esparsa, como as savanas e não densa como a Amazônia?

@@Jonathan-qc3wk não sei de onde voce é mas por aqui ninguém usa cerrado

@@Jonathan-qc3wk sou também skskd

@@leolucas1980 Ninguém mais usa "cerrar" com esse sentido no dia a dia.

Em Portugal usa-se bastante encerrar. Cerrar existe mas ninguém diz

@@vascomarinho encerrar tem no Brasil também

the President that built Brazilia (for his own pharaonic larping mind you) believed cars were the future of transportation and therefore made the city for cars

@@pedrolmlkzk He wasnt wrong tho

@@v1n1c1u55anto5 he was, cars are objectively shit

Cê ficou só no Plano Piloto ou rodou as outras regiões admnistrativas?

@@pedrolmlkzk then you are wrong. Just mind big cities problems for not having good infrastructure for cars and other transportation. Problems that Brasília will not have as bad as Rio or São Paulo.

We U.S. residents ought to give up and call it River of January. :)

@@brianarbenz7206 I wouldn't blame ya, we do translate foreign city names to Portuguese: Nova Iorque, Londres

@@teacoffee42 Imagine saying "vô" and "vó", gringos will be screaming with fear.

Túlio Faustino pagando de gringouw kakakakaka

As a Brazilian it’s not that hard

@@LuisFelipe-jb1bq obviously? You’re Brazilian? lmao

That's actually easier to say tbh. Well maybe harder if you don't know how "lha" or "lho" words are supposed to sound

Que eu saiba o Lúcio Costa não pensou no desenho de um avião mas sim de uma cruz... a galera é que depois decidiu que ia ser um avião porque acharam parecido kkkk

Sério? Nunca soube disso rsrsrs

@@pedromendesrbd Exato. O plano original era pra ser uma cruz (com um dos nomes cotados da capital sendo Santa Cruz), mas ele encurvou um dos eixos pra caber o lago paranoá

Na verdade isso de ser o 14 Bis é mentira. Tem mais a ver com misticismo pagão egípcio e o destino manifesto do Brasil como nação no futuro do que com o 14 Bis.

@@arthurbeloni6475 caraca, tem um bairro no rio chamado Santa Cruz, conhecidencia?

Qual vai ser o próximo mapa de Brasília? O update vai ser louco kkkkkk

É tipo "hiu de Janeiro" "hiu dji Janeiro" ou "hiu di janero"

Heew g janeyru

As a Brazilian I pronounce it like this Hiu de janeiro

Não seria uma tradução fiel, portugueses costumavam chamar qualquer corpo de água de rio Uma tradução melhor seria January Bay

p sure thats what they meant think how us cities work and how they are car centric

Why?

@@alt1f4 winds carry minerals from the Sahara to the Amazon

@William Santos Not exactly. God made everything as it is so jokes on you.

Very funny.

and europe would be a big wasteland

There's a Delhi proper.

New Delhi is essentially the administrative district built by the Brits during colonial rule, there's an "old Delhi" right next to it as well, with the monuments and the crowds and the noise and everything. So while not a proper Analogy, New Delhi can be said to be similar to the District of Columbia in "Delhi", the Greater DC metropolitan area. Just, "Old Delhi" wasn't planned, and there's now an even greater metro area around Delhi as the nearby cities of Gurgaon and Noida grow more and more connected with it. Pakistan.....well, it was Karachi in the beginning, but, since it was on the coast(not very strategically desirable for the Pakistan government IIRC) and far away from the centre of population of the nation(whose population was concentrated in Punjab Province). It's been a while, but as per my shoddy memory, the Capital was shifted to the central Punjabi city of Rawalpindi, which had....some military importance as well, I think? Later, in order to build a "true" capital, the city of Islamabad was built adjacent to the already existing city of Rawalpindi

When I learned of the city of "New Delhi", my first guess was that the old Delhi was located somewhere in England.

@@sohopedeco lmao 😂 makes sense tho, the new world has a lot of New "Insert Cities"....

**New York flashbacks**

mais só tem brasileiros comentando em inglês corrigindo algumas informações erradas sobre o vídeo🤣🤣🤣🤣

ele disse q a gente fala espanhol 😬

@@amaralbp3748 Sério? Que vagabundo!

@@amaralbp3748 nao disse, ele disse que isso é um erro de algumas pessoas, vai aprender inglês vai

@@giuliano5847 para de acreditar nesse mentiroso

NOSSO, não seu, se for gringo vai te lasca.

Sim! Eu não sei de onde ele tirou esse "je"

@@i05vlog porque em ingles o “je” é o mesmo som que “g”

Lol, it is.

True!

pff brasília is a disaster of urban planning, even the metro they have there is absolutely awful. what went through their minds that made them think "yeah let's make a metro service that only serves half of the city and ignore the other half?" there are a lot of good videos on the subject that dissect the complete mess that is brasília

Good luck trying to say “Facebook” as only two syllables lol gudji naitchy

@@danidejaneiro8378 ace-book

It’s mosty english speakers bcz like for french speakers it’s not that hard and also for other portuguese speaking countries they can say it

@@shadman8227 lets agree to disagree, I m unaware of your background btu, spanish, german, italian, french, english, let alone chinese, japonese... The [ão] present at the end of words like explosion, inflacion, has paralels but has no equals

And now Petrópolis is just a small town in the countryside pf Rio de Janeiro state that lives off of historic tourism.

@@sohopedeco actually Petrópolis have a good economy, it has not only tourism

just so you know, Marquis of Pombal was the same guy that made Rio the Capital in 1763

Of course this idea existed, debates of this type take place in all countries, Russia, Germany, South Africa, even Argentina, which also considered moving its capital from Buenos Aires to the interior of Patagonia during the period of its military dictatorship. The fact is that the this idea was never taken seriously, José Bonifacio was openly an elitist averse to the people. Pedro II on the other hand always rejected the idea, as he himself was born in Rio, the change of the capital was NEVER mentioned by a speech from the throne. The brasilia's cornerstone was only laid there after the empire fell, and guess what? By the elitists who had taken power after getting revolted over the abolition of slavery. Eitists from the interior who used slave labor and were already angry at the central elite for considering its abolition, it is obvious that these people hated Rio and everything it represented. But even so, the change of the capital was only actually carried out during the military dictatorship, because it would be much easier to command Brazil away from the people in an authoritarian reality, so much that the Argentine dictators curiously had the same idea, they just didn't actually come up with this madness because they knew that Buenos Aires would be completely destroyed and would suffer a lot from it, Rio on the other hand was just dumped out with no ceremony and today we have the results, with a weak state and drug dealers and militia fighting to fill the power vacuum left by the federal government. The military marched to Rio to carry out the coup, not to Brasilia. This heroic narrative of "brasilia as potential capital" of Brazil needs to be told as what it is: always suggested and cherished by slave-owning elitists and averse to contact with the people.

@@diajle1710 Chill, dude. Brasilia was build befor the military dictatorship took hold.

I love u

Já tinha planos pra construção de Brasília desde a independência, a própria região foi demarcada por um projeto do Império... Sobre golpes na historia do Brasil: teve o golpe do D. pedro I pra impor a constituição de 1824, teve alguns golpes durante a regência, teve o golpe da maioridade pra por o D. Pedro II no poder, teve o golpe de 1889, teve as 2 revoltas das armadas juntamente com o golpe do floriano peixoto pra se manter no poder, teve o estado de sítio de Artur Bernardes, teve o golpe de 1930 seguido do estado novo em 1937 do getulio vargas que caiu em outro golpe em 1945 e ainda teve o contragolpe do general Lott antes da eleição de JK. A construção de Brasília não foi golpe, muito menos o segundo e a decadência do Rio foi pq a ditadura militar tava mais preocupado em perseguir estudante comunista do que impedir o surgimento do trafico de drogas que começou a criar raizes nos anos 70/80 e tbm pq depois disso carioca não soube votar desde que teve redemocratização...

Aqui na região falam mais Riô de Janero

Can I do it with my Vietnamese accent?

@@buukute I think so

Australia yes. Brazil... No.

@@2pedroandrade O petróleo brasileiro não lá essas coisas não

@@pedrowerthjeong1470 Mas o que petróleo tem a ver? O comentário é sobre aa maior parte do Brasil ser completamente vazia ou desolada.

Su culo 🤣🤣🤣

Not really

*traded with Bolivia

Finalmente achei BR 😁

na real é difícil achar alguém falando BEM do Brasil kkkkkkkkkkkk

só tem brasileiros comentando em inglês, corrigindo informações algumas erradas do vídeo. 🤣🤣🤣 já rir tanto lendo os comentários, os gringos não se importam com a geografia do brasil.

Na verdade, o formato é uma cruz. Mas teve que ser adaptado pelo relevo e ficou com o formato de avião.

Não era para ser uma cruz? Não sei, cada lugar que eu leio, fala uma coisa... já vi até gente dizendo que era para ser uma borboleta kkkkkkkkkk. Mas, bom trabalho esfregando na cara dos gringos que o avião foi inventado por um brasileiro! Irmãos Wright não são nada perto de Santos Dumont!

Yeah, Americans think South America is straight down from North America

@@LuisFelipe-jb1bq I thought they were better than this.

I don't judge them. Rio is still the cultural capital of Brazi, and the legit Brasília is around 60 years old and was founded to take the political power out of people's hand, that's a fact!

And egypt

Canberra, Australia's soulless capiral. Is another object lesson in the pitfalls of urban design by architect and committee.

I hope they dont. Our government is extremely corrupt ever since the empire ended. And it gets worse by the minute.

Kkkkkkk real mano

Imagina que bosta seria,políticos e traficantes andando juntos,aí estaríamos ferrados de vez

@@mllnth demorei pra entender kkkkk

Já virou meme na gringa. Se quiser ser famoso é só mencionar o Brasil 😕😕😕

@@gui-rf3ob kkkkk os caras usa meu post pra conversar como se fosso discord

This is true in almost every language. It’s really weird hearing a foreigner try and pronounce it the way natives do. Just use your version or get it completely correct

Maybe someday

And also, that’s just how it’s said in English. No need to change it.

Não sabe doq ta falando. A Maioria dos brasileiros falam "dji". Tudo é sotaque do rio pqp, tem partes em q falam "de" mas a maioria da população fala "dji" não é porra nenhuma de sotaque carioca nem paulista

@@rogerio7546 e vc leu o que eu disse? Eu falei que "de" não tá errado (que é o que ele fala no vídeo), não importa se é maioria ou não, pode ser "de" e pode ser "dji" tbm. Falei do sotaque do Rio justamente pra deixar claro que as pessoas do estado que ele está falando sobre vão falar "dji", mas que não é errado falar da outra maneira. E se vc quer dizer que os sotaques de Rio e São Paulo n têm mais influência e aparecem mais na mídia aí é vc que não sabe o que tá falando. É só ir atrás e perceber isso. São os sotaques tratados como "normais" ou "corretos" por muita gente. Um exemplo é só ver que não é incomum pessoas dessas cidades dizerem que "não tem sotaque", o que é ridículo.

Sou do Rio e acho que apenas as pessoas do município do Rio falam assim. Do outro lado da "poça", a pronúncia é "de" mesmo.

@@rogerio7546 Rapaz se alguém fala aquele "dji" carregado todo mundo aqui sabe que é de fora

true, i can hear someone say "de", is not the sound of my dialogue but it is valid. The American R makes me uncomfortable, but it still compares to using the spanish R/J, it causes me physical pain.

oxi o baguio ta escrito DE obvio que é correto falar DE, se vc inventa coisa nova ai já é problema seu kkkkk

@@futurehofer1564 90% da população fala dji irmão, n sou eu inventando não

Poucos kkkkkkkkkk

Poucos kkkkkkkkkk

Ninguém liga

Olha eu sou americano acho errado isso, tipo qual e a dificuldade das pessoas entenderem qui Portugal também faz parte do Brasil, tipo e só o 5 maior país do mundo e tem gente qui acha qui fica na America do Sul, logicamente qui o Brasil fica na Europa só aumentou o continente quase o dobro, mas assim eu sou gringo eu sei de geografia amo o Brasil eles falando italiano e tão lindo :)

@@alguemporai1499 Brazil don't speak italian, and "qui" is "que" not "qui"

Ele não falou isso mano

@@alguemporai1499 Eu pensava que tivessem mais conhecimento de geografia.

@@f.b.i8703 eu sei minha geografia de outro mundo (literalmente) você sabia qui pela posição do planeta o Brasil fica no norte ? Tipo o Brasil fica no norte mas tem pessoas qui não aceitam tipo *SÓ* 422,5 milhões de pessoas pouquinho.

Ta mais pra Dje Janeiro

I pronounce it as Rio de Janeiro

"dje"

Ou Dji

é q eu realmente n conheço nenhum sotaque q fale dje, e sim de dji ou di

Idk, Rio still was home to A LOT of brazilian companies, it was still the second larges city in the country after all, with lots of big infrastructure projects still being made in the later half of the 20th century. The city is certainly in overall decadence since the 60s, and it certainly started with the moving of the capital, but i think it is a very complicated issue that also relates to the deindustrialization of brazil (and the southwestern big cities specifically) in the 90s and 2000s.

Rio is also experiencing a lot of financial trouble recently, and favellas have grown massively since it stopped being the capital

@@pedrolmlkzk well, the favelas happened all across the country, including the new capital brasilia

@@rafafr9 yeah, but the sittuation in Rio is way worse than in other metropolises in Brazil

@@pedrolmlkzk Well kinda, in per capita cases of murder there are worse cities, even other capitals.

Isso que dá votar em nacional desenvolvementista. Só gasta dinheiro público para fazer merda

@@spessato Ah n fode Se não fossem os presidentes desenvolvimentistas o Brasil estaria ainda mais pobre e atrasado. Fizeram merda mas foram um dos melhores pais dessa porra.

@@youtub-fj8mu kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk onde o estado e enchado burocrático reina o atraso fato.

LA would be so random as a capital, New York or Philadelphia would make more sense

@@itzpro5951 It was Sarcasm.

@@itzpro5951 rio isnt even the largest city, its more like one of the main tourists hotspots, Rio is more like Miami i would say, the largest city of Brazil and economic centre is São Paulo, and it would be more comparable to New york than Rio

I've never seen anyone speak German in Brazil in my life, I've even seen Mandarin and some other Asian languages

@@Z.A.G.O maybe you’ve never gone to Nova Petrópolis-RS or Blumenau-SC