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I've been travelling the world
for the past 25 years.

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I've met so many people
in so many countries

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that everyone thinks of me as
the man who's been everywhere.

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But in all these years, there's been
one big gap in my passport.

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Nothing less than the fifth largest
country on Earth.

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A country blessed with a melting pot
of peoples

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and an abundance of resources.

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A country that's risen
almost out of nowhere

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to become a 21st-century superpower.

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It's the host of the next World Cup

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and the next Olympic Games.

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It's a country whose time has come.

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How can I say I've seen the world
when I haven't seen Brazil?

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OK, waterfall, we defy you!

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We defy you!

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In this episode, I'll be meeting
a lot of people I feel I've met
before,

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in an epic landscape,
both natural and man-made.

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For this is southern Brazil,

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where European and Asian immigrants

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have created a very different
culture from the rest
of the country.

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And it can still spring
plenty of surprises.

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I don't know what I'm doing
to the ecological balance here,
but there you go!

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CHUCKLES

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Well, I'm on the last leg
of my Brazilian journey.

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We're sailing down the coast
from Rio.

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Behind me is Brazil's
other rainforest,

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the Mata Atlantica,
the Atlantic rainforest.

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We're approaching a town which was
once one of the most prosperous
in the whole of Brazil.

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It's called Parati, where the gold
came out and slaves went in.

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300 years ago, Parati lay
at the end of the Camino d'Oro,

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the Gold Trail, which led through
the mountains

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to the goldmines of the interior.

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It was a road built by slaves
for other slaves

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to carry the gold, which,
for 100 years

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made this little town
fabulously wealthy.

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But pirates made a habit of robbing
the galleons that set sail
from Parati.

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The gold trade moved north, and the
town fell into a steady decline

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which left it largely untouched
by the modern world.

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A living embodiment of the colonial
period can be found here

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in the shape of Prince John
De Orleans e Briganza,

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a staunch republican who's heir to
the Brazilian throne.

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I think people would be
quite interested to know

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that there was, there is still
a royal line in Brazil,

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which you represent.

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It's a very interesting story, yes.

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Peter the First, my great-great
grandfather,

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he was married to Leopoldina
Habsburg from Austria.

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Napoleon was married with her
sister, Marie-Louise. OK.

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Napoleon was the brother-in-law.
Yes.

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'Brother-in-law or not, the
Portuguese court fled Napoleon's
invading troops

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'for the safety of Brazil.

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'Their arrival, in Don John's
opinion,

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'laid the foundations
of today's nation state.'

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A very interesting thing. Brazil,
before their arrival, was a colony.

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After their arrival in 1808,
Brazil turned into a nation.

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From one moment to the other, the
founding of many institutions,

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cultural, scientific, and political
institutions.

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Is she one of the princesses? Yes.

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Princess Isabel. Beautiful. She
signed the law giving total freedom
to slaves in 1888.

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She's your great...
Great-grandmother. Yes.
Grandmother of my father.

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The gold that lay on the other side
of the mountains may have run out,

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but it's been replaced by something
else the rest of the world buys
from Brazil.

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A half-hour flight from Parati,

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brings me to one of Brazil's great
success stories.

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Well, it was until I took
the controls!

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I'm in the simulator at Embraer,
a Brazilian aircraft builder

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which turns out 200 planes a year.

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From being almost bankrupt
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it's now the third largest
manufacturer of commercial planes

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in the world.

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Some people still think of Brazil

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as being too laid-back and relaxed

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for the competitive world
of modern industry.

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Embraer, with its smart management,
technical expertise

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and skilled 17,000-strong workforce
is the perfect riposte.

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This is a company snapping at
the heels of Boeing and Airbus.

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And they've found a job for me
in the paint shop

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with Felipe Galvan.

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For me, this colour blue
is difficult to paint.

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Is it? Why? Because the blue is
very dark. Like a mirror. Yeah.

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When I paint it's difficult to pass,
the speed.

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I need to very, very specifically...
You have to be very careful

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otherwise, yeah.

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It's enough? These are
my fashionable shoes!

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These are Paul Smith of London.

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Paul, if you're watching,
look what they're doing!

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Redesigning your shoes!
The shoes Nike.

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Nike. Nike?! Made in Brazil!
Made in Brazil! No, no, no.

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Now we're ready to paint.
What colour?

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The colour is dark blue. Oh, no.
It's a difficult one. You told me.
Yes.

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That's a lovely colour.
It's sort of azure blue.

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Very, very blue.

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OK? Wow. Yeah. Ready to paint.

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Paint your shoes, no? Yeah, good.

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Get off!

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Right, so this goes on.
Put your mask.

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Wow!

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Space man time!

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Your hair, it's blue!

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'Felipe, having finally got over
his obsession with my shoes,

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'turns his attentions
to a bigger game.

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'The tail fin of a Kazakhstan
airliner.'

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Two fingers here? All right.

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Press! Press! Press!

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Yes? Let's go again. Right.

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OK. That's it.

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Now we need to wait ten minutes

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until the surface has got cold.

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You must be hungry. What time did
you have breakfast?

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4.00am. 4.00am? 4.00am.

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4.30am. Yeah. And lunch now.
And another breakfast 2.00pm. Ah.

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So you have three meals a day
by 2.00pm?

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What food do you like?
What's your favourite? Meat.

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Barbecure. "Barbecure"? Barbecue!
Oh, yeah.

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Brazilians love barbecue.
Yeah. Yeah.

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Now pasta!

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Always pasta.

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Do you have a surprise?

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Surprise pea.

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What? Surprise pea. Surprise pea?

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There. It's good.

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'Felipe was so keen to get a job
at Embraer

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'that he left his own engagement
party to make the interview.

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'He's never looked back.'

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The first time I entered
the building, the paint shop,

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I saw many guys painter there.

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And I stood just looking. It was
amazing painting. "Whoosh!"

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Yeah. And I told myself,
"I want to be one of them."

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And I have friends,
other friends there,

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and they helped me
to get the job here.

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Does it pay well?
Yeah. Pays very well.

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What sort of...

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Today, I earn more or less 3,500
reals a month. 3,500 reals a month.

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That's about £1,500. I'm just trying
to think, a month. Not bad. Not bad.

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So how did it change your life?
Everything.

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Like what? Because this job I bought
my apartment, my house. Everything
that I have today.

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And I have a good car, a good life.
I have a good life.

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Yeah. I buy everything. I have Xbox.

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I buy my Xbox. Everything. Yeah.

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What would you like to do? Would you
like to go up from painting

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to some other thing?
To administration?

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No, I don't think about this.
I like to be a painter.

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That's enough for me. You're happy
doing what you're doing. Yeah.

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I stop with what I have now.

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'He's an enviable combination
of hard work and happiness.

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'Embraer's speciality is short-haul
commercial jets.

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'One of their regular customers
is Dutch carrier KLM.

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They've taken 21 Cityhoppers

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and are today taking delivery of
their 22nd.

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It's an important moment marked by
a very silly ceremony...

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..involving the Brazilian seller,
the Dutch buyer and me!

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You wear the clogs? OK, yes.

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Good for flying!

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OK. There we go.

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I hope they fit. They look a little
big for me. Oh, they're very snug!

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Is it just one?

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There we go.

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Thank you very much.
That's very kind of you.

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What is next is we have Dutch fish.
What you call eels.

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It's smoked eel. When it's smoked,
we call it "paling".

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Paling. Oh, I never knew that.
Very similar to your name.

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People ask where my name comes from.

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I've never heard it coming from
smoked eel!

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So that's something useful.

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I like eel. You should try it. OK.

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Just try it. Thank you very much.

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I'll be the first to try it.
A bit of "paling".

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It's really good.

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It might seem a bit whacky, but this
is a very important part of
the whole delivery process.

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Because they're here, the KLM
people, to do final checks

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and then in a week's time, they'll
have to write the big cheque

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to pay for the plane.

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So that's why everyone's very happy
and jolly,

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but underneath it all, there's a lot
of money hanging on this cloggy,
palingy moment!

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Can I have one more? Of course!

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I like this paling.

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For some reason.
I don't like all paling.

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'Taisse is the woman from Embraer
who's been cashing in those big
KLM cheques

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'for the past few years.'

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You've obviously got a good
relationship with KLM.

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Does anybody else provide
smoked eels and...

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No, no. Not really.

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But I must confess, in the
beginning, we were expecting
something more serious,

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more cool.

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Then, when they come, they come with
smiling faces and very open-minded
talking to us,

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doing this kind of exchange culture
thing.

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So it surprised us a lot.

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GREETING

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How do you feel when it all goes
through?

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Do you feel proud of what's being
done here?

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Totally, yes. Totally.

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To see the airplane going back home
with the customer very satisfied,

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it's part of us. We are proud of it,

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we are proud of our product
and we represent Brazil.

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This is for us. It's crazy.

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Crazy it may be, but as another
40-million-worth of airliner
takes to the sky,

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one Brazilian company is getting it
exactly right.

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A few minutes' flying time
from Embraer,

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the vast megalopolis of Sao Paulo,
largest city in the southern
hemisphere,

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rises like a man-made forest.

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40 million people,
one in five Brazilians,

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live in Sao Paulo
and its surrounding state.

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This is the economic and financial
heart of Brazil,

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and it's already full
to overflowing.

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The very rich Paulistas have grown
so impatient with the crush
and the congestion

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that they no longer live
on the ground

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but in the skies above.

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Sao Paulo is the helicopter capital
of the world.

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It's not surprising that it's also
the traffic jam capital
of the world.

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One of them recently reckoned to be
nearly 200 miles long!

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So here in the city, there are 400
helicopters making 300 journeys
a day.

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The rich and successful go from
building to building

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to make meetings without ever having
to touch the ground.

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I'm going with one of those people
today. In the helicopter
with Wilson Quintella,

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king of Brazilian garbage!

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Wilson Quintella can look down on
Sao Paulo with some satisfaction.

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Last year, his waste management
company, Estre Ambiantal,

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made a £400 million turnover

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from everything that Sao Paulo
throws away.

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Wilson, like many
multi-millionaires,

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travels his empire by air.

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Today, he's flying me to one of
his biggest landfill sites,

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just outside Sao Paulo.

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"Waste is just the beginning"
is the company slogan.

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As far as Wilson's concerned,

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every rubbish tip has a silver
lining.

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So you're in the right business.
Garbage is big business. Yes.

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It's growing a lot.

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We... Brazil brought about 40
million people who was in poverty.

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40 million people who were poor
are now consumers?

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It's making 40,000 tonnes per day.

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That's the waste of a city
like Sao Paolo.

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Wilson, this is not just about
collecting people's garbage.

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This is business, isn't it?
Oh, yeah. It's big money.

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Yeah. Well, big money, I don't
mean... I don't know.

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Not big money. Your profits last
year were good. It is good, yeah.

237
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And it's growing all over the world.

238
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But I believe the most interesting
thing is that we can do
an environment business

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joined with an economical business.

240
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We can get money from the recycle.

241
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I believe that is what will change
completely this market for now
on work.

242
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Maybe one day we are going to pay
to the garbage.

243
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For instance, like cans, like paper,
all these have a market.

244
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Nowadays, China imports more plastic
coming from the recycling business

245
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than the total consumption of
Brazil, in terms of plastic.

246
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Recycling used to be confined to
poor people scavenging rubbish tips.

247
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Wilson acknowledges
their contribution

248
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by offering them a safe and secure
role in his business.

249
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In Brazil, this market is booming

250
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because we are having
economic growth

251
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and besides that we have a new law

252
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that obliges to finish with dumping

253
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and obliges at least to recycle
20% of the total waste.

254
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It's going to be a revolution
in Brazil,

255
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as we have a huge opportunity
for companies like ours.

256
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Not to make money, but to do
something good for society.

257
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And make a profit. And make
some money. Come on.

258
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The scavengers who eke a living
from rubbish dumps

259
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have recently received the ultimate
accolade.

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To become characters in one of
Brazil's hugely popular soap operas.

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Avenida Brasil.

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THEY SPEAK PORTUGUESE

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One of the stars of Avenida Brazil
is Carolina Ferraz,

264
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a much-admired actress with over
20 soaps under her belt.

265
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She's the perfect person to show me
round the make-believe world

266
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where the stories are filmed

267
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and to explain just how they do it.

268
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And here, if you look, you have all
the outside cities.

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They built the scenario outside.

270
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Each soap opera has its own.

271
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So we go there and shoot.

272
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Shall we get out and have a look?

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DIRECTS IN PORTUGUESE

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So what's actually happening now
in this part of the story?

275
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They are shooting the soap opera,
telenovela, called Avenida Brasil.

276
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Which is the one I'm shooting now
as well.

277
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And this is the neighbourhood,
the outside set.

278
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We have the poor neighbourhood.
Everything that happens, happens
here.

279
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This is the poor neighbourhood?
They don't know we're shooting.

280
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Everything is happening.
Everyone's acting. We're acting,
they're acting.

281
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It's very realistic, actually.

282
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A lot of extras,

283
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a lot of camera shooting
at different angles.

284
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If you think about it, we shoot
something like 30 scenes per day.

285
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30 scenes a day. So it's like
shooting a whole movie a week.

286
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What sort of character do you play?

287
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I play part of the comic part
of the soap opera.

288
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I play a very rich woman who is
going to lose everything.

289
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I'm going to become poor and I'm
going to come and live here.

290
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Doesn't sound very comic! It's in
the comic way. It's not tragic.

291
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No. I'm going to come here

292
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and I'm going to make lots of
confusion with all the characters.

293
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It's going to be fun!

294
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IN PORTUGUESE

295
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There's something about soap operas.

296
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I see them on television sets all
over Brazil. Tell me how popular
they are.

297
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It's like our Hollywood.
People love it.

298
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People truly don't go out of their
houses because they want to stay
and watch the soap operas.

299
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And because we don't have a soap
opera that goes on for ten years,

300
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our soap operas they go on for
something like six to eight months,
maximum eight months.

301
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So everybody knows that it's going
to end.

302
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,320
So everybody wants to follow it to
know what is going to happen
and how it's going to finish.

303
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Who is going to marry who
in the end.

304
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This is... You say everybody. What
size of audience does that mean?

305
00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:37,040
It's huge. It's something like
72 million people watching you
every night.

306
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It's amazing. It's crazy, isn't it?

307
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Is it like people working out their
own dreams through you?

308
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Or is it more real life?

309
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They sort of have
a social obligation.

310
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They always bring different issues,
topic issues, that people
as a society should discuss.

311
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Because it's so popular.

312
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And we are in such a poor country.

313
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So we use this,
because it's very popular,

314
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to debate different issues.

315
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,280
Setting a part of Avenida Brasil
in the rubbish dump

316
00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:18,120
has given a voice to a previously
marginalised under-class.

317
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:25,840
This is what is new in Brazil.

318
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:29,640
They're starting to have these kind
of characters coming out

319
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,520
and they're speaking to society.

320
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:37,000
This is what is fresh now. It's
so... Previously, no-one would have
bothered about them or listened.

321
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,240
They wouldn't have space
to come out.

322
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,120
That's not about people paying
attention to them,

323
00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:45,680
they didn't just have the chance
to come out.

324
00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,560
And you think this is because Brazil
itself is more confident
and prosperous

325
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so they don't feel threatened by
people at the bottom of the pile?

326
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:56,640
Now people have more real chances.

327
00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,440
Increasingly, the voices that are
being heard in Brazil

328
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,240
are the voices from the shanty town,

329
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:07,000
none louder than that of Criolo.

330
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,640
Criolo is a rapper, poet
and composer.

331
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,160
His poems are eloquent
but enigmatic,

332
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,880
delivering a message that has struck
a chord

333
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,960
with a generation who have grown up
at the bottom of the pile.

334
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,920
Carolina is an admirer,
and has taken me to meet him.

335
00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,760
When you were growing up
and what you saw around,

336
00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:34,360
did it make you angry in any way,
the way people were treated?

337
00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:37,840
The way people lived? Did it make
you angry with the system?

338
00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,320
TRANSLATOR: 'We can't feel how hot
the pot of soup is

339
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,760
'if we are the vegetables
inside the soup.

340
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:50,080
'Our system here has been broken
for 80 years

341
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,760
'and we are the ones paying for
the super-glue to keep the thing
together.'

342
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:59,360
The economy is going well
at the moment. It seems to be going
well for Brazil.

343
00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:02,280
Do they notice any change
as a result of that?

344
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:13,840
'The detail seems to be in the word
he used before - "seems"
to be going well.'

345
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,840
Yeah.

346
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,280
'Anyway, we have to think that this
situation

347
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,480
'has to last for at least 50 years,

348
00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,160
'otherwise I don't know.

349
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,920
'To think that five or ten years
would change a single leaf
under this tree.'

350
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,560
His bleak views might be
uncomfortable for many Brazilians.

351
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:40,120
But the man himself doesn't behave
like a prophet of doom.

352
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:48,640
Criolo remains engagingly loyal
to the streets where he grew up.

353
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,400
Streets where poverty is endemic,

354
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,200
but where the compensations,
like the music that nurtured him,

355
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,320
still raise the spirits.

356
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,000
On the other side of Sao Paulo

357
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,720
are the affluent streets which cater
for the burgeoning new middle class.

358
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,880
Someone who did more than most
to set this tide in motion

359
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,640
is the man credited with turning
the Brazilian economy round

360
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,320
in the 1990s.

361
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,640
He's former president
Fernando Henrique Cardoso,

362
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,960
known to all as FHC.

363
00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,200
I talked to him about his home city.

364
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:52,400
Being in Sao Paulo, I'm aware of
the importance of immigration
to this city. Yes.

365
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,400
I suppose people saw Brazil then
as like America?

366
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,400
It was a dream for them.

367
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,480
This is a kind of America.
In our minds, we are European.

368
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:08,120
We consider ourselves as kind of
a part of Europe.

369
00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:09,840
This is senseless,
because we are not!

370
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,240
But then the feeling was much more
European.

371
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:19,880
And I used to say in our culture,
we are much more Americans
than Europeans.

372
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,720
This is a new nation. Migration.

373
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,400
Blacks in Brazil like in America.

374
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,800
The true melting pot is not US,
it's Brazil.

375
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:33,080
Yes. Yes. Because in the US,
they live together.

376
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,440
But they don't integrate each other.
No.

377
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:41,080
In Brazil, it's much easier to be
part of the similar confusion
of things.

378
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:47,000
Yes. It's how you live with
the other is more relaxing here.
No doubts.

379
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,080
What FHC calls
"living with the other"

380
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,200
is something that characterises the
cosmopolitan streets of Sao Paulo.

381
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,000
One of the largest of the many
groups of immigrants

382
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,720
to have found their fortune here
are the Japanese.

383
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,040
Here we are, the Sao Paulo Shimbun.

384
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,160
Something for every community.

385
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,040
Sao Paulo is a city of immigrants.

386
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,240
It's the sixth biggest city
in the world, the largest city
in the southern hemisphere

387
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,240
and it's made up of people from
all other parts of the world.

388
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,360
In the country alone, there's
1.5 million Japanese in Brazil.

389
00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,680
And see, they have their own papers,
for which I must now pay.

390
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,320
Hello. Hola!

391
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,800
RELIGIOUS CHANTING

392
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,760
In the Liberdade district,
which is the heart of the Japanese
Brazilian community,

393
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:56,160
they're celebrating the start of
Hanamatsuri, the traditional
Japanese Flower Festival.

394
00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:00,440
The priest is blessing one of the
tiniest Buddhas I've ever seen!

395
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,720
The participants are mainly
businessmen of a certain age.

396
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,760
But one of the younger onlookers
is Jun Takake.

397
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,000
Why did they come to Brazil,
your grandparents?

398
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,920
Because they were fortunate to work
with agriculture here.

399
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:15,280
Oh, in agriculture. Yes.

400
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,680
They started to work in the farms
to make money

401
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,560
to come back to Japan and to buy
a farm and start to...

402
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:25,760
But most of them, they keep here.

403
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,360
And they're still now here,
and that's why I'm here! Yeah.

404
00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:32,320
My grandparents, they said,
"No, Brazil is good.

405
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,040
"I want to keep stay here,
not go back to Japan."

406
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:43,200
Is there any problem with Japanese
inter-marrying with other
immigrant groups or other races?

407
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,240
No, not now. In the beginning, yes.

408
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,720
But now we have a lot of these
mixtures and cultures.

409
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:55,280
A lot of Brazilian Japanese marry
with Brazilian girls.

410
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,480
And Italians or Russians or Germans.

411
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,240
No, it's not a problem.

412
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,040
Because we are in Brazil.
I'm born in Brazil.

413
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,520
So I'm Brazilian Japanese.

414
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,880
Jun, like millions of other
immigrants,

415
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:20,000
has been willingly sucked in
to the collective identity

416
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,480
of the country he now calls home.

417
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:28,760
In some areas of life, non-Brazilian
stereotypes are very much alive
and well.

418
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,960
Supermodels, for instance,
like Gisele Bundchen,

419
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:33,760
tend to the Teutonic.

420
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,800
Bundchen has made a fortune from not
looking particularly Brazilian.

421
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,720
And, unsurprisingly,

422
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,760
she's become a model
for all potential models.

423
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,520
Her brand of tall, long-legged
elegance

424
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,920
is drawn largely from an area
some way from Sao Paulo.

425
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,800
500 miles south,
in the city of Blumenau,

426
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,480
white European immigrants
predominate.

427
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,920
Here, where the buildings
are half-timbered

428
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,480
and the beer drunk in steins,

429
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:07,760
is a fertile recruiting ground for
some of the most sought-after models
in the world.

430
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,880
One of them, a second-generation
German, local girl Priscila
Falaster,

431
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,360
is already well-established on
the fashion runways of the world.

432
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:23,280
Is it a big ambition of girls
in Brazil to be a model?

433
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,480
Like Gisele Bundchen,
or someone like that?

434
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,200
Is it something that girls
want to be? Yes.

435
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,440
Everybody wants so much
to be a model here.

436
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,360
Maybe because we have
Gisele Bundchen

437
00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,800
and the girls say, "Oh, my God,
I want this life."

438
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:45,080
Do you feel quite proud of what
you've done, you know,

439
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,600
for you're here in Blumenau?

440
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,280
Yes. Do you feel quite good?
You've done... I am so proud.

441
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,120
I am so proud because I love here.

442
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,360
When I have been German,

443
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:02,520
I'm so happy because my grandfather
is from there.

444
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:04,800
And here I am so proud

445
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,040
because it's one beautiful city.

446
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,000
And they have culture,
do you understand?

447
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,320
And they have German's buildings.

448
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,400
Yeah. I love. I love here.

449
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,080
I think I know what she means

450
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,080
as I see everywhere around me

451
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,880
a world I'd never expected to find
in the land of sun, sea and samba.

452
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,880
I've now reached the deep south
of Brazil,

453
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,680
over 3,000 miles from where
I started

454
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,960
just up by the Venezuelan border.

455
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,840
And the immigrants who've settled
this part of Brazil are very
different.

456
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,560
SPEAKS GERMAN

457
00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,200
My preconceptions of Brazil need
some readjusting

458
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,240
as I find myself drawn ever more
deeply into a different place

459
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,760
and a different time.

460
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,040
In the small town of Pomoroj,

461
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,160
90% of the inhabitants not only
speak German,

462
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,040
but speak it with a 19th-century
Pomeranian dialect.

463
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,600
And funny hats are obligatory.

464
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,960
Like so many immigrants, the Germans
of Pomeroj stick to their old ways

465
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,080
with a fervour that the homeland
rarely equals.

466
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,040
Complete with whoops, yells,
accordions,

467
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,400
and dances that Health and Safety
would have banned years ago!

468
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:02,320
Drinking a lot of beer helps if
you're wielding an axe right next to
your foot!

469
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,760
I've been enlisted to help
Ingo Pens,

470
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,600
who sells ice-cold Pilsner from a
motorcycle side-car.

471
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,760
Ingo sees my potential
as a travelling barman.

472
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,760
Ooh, what a creamy top that is.

473
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,080
OK?

474
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,760
Tip it up a little, dear.
That's it. There we go.

475
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,440
Hi. Hi, yes, now you'll want a lot.
You're hot.

476
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,080
You're hot. Heit.

477
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,800
Strong beer. There.

478
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,240
Oops.

479
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,120
Prost. Beifall. Very good.
To the team. To the team!

480
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,560
Then, just when I thought I could
get quietly pissed...

481
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,000
Oh! Thank you!

482
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,160
Ah, well, here we go.

483
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,120
Ah.

484
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:55,120
OK. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right,
I've got that bit.

485
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,400
After some initial embarrassment,
I get into the swing of it

486
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,120
and soon we're a fully-fledged
dancing unit.

487
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:34,840
Thank you!

488
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,000
But you can only have so much fun.

489
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,200
And now it's time to get back
on the road with Ingo.

490
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,960
At a leisurely pace, he takes me
on his beer bike

491
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,200
to visit one of the oldest immigrant
families in the area.

492
00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:50,200
Hannah Laura has invited me
to join her

493
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,400
and some of her 14 brothers
and sisters and their children

494
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,640
for a traditional Pomeranian
Sunday lunch.

495
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,440
SPEAKS GERMAN

496
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,640
Yeah.

497
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:04,920
Stir well.

498
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,040
What she's making now is
a traditional Pomeranian stuffing

499
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,960
which was brought over
from Germany...

500
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,520
..to have with the duck.

501
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:19,120
You've got to have a strong arm
to do that.

502
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,480
In it goes.

503
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,240
PRAYS IN GERMAN

504
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,600
So how do you feel, Hannah Laura?

505
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,800
Do you feel German first

506
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,880
and Brazilian second

507
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:02,640
or do you feel Brazilian
but German as well?

508
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,880
TRANSLATION: I feel German first.

509
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,400
In most of Brazil,
the immigrant people,

510
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:12,880
whether they've come from Italy
or Spain or Portugal,

511
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,480
they all become Brazilian.

512
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:20,160
But here, you remain very German.

513
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,760
You're very strongly attached
to your German identity.

514
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,480
Why is that different from all
the other immigrants in Brazil?

515
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,240
'I think it's maybe because our
forefathers left us the culture

516
00:34:37,240 --> 00:34:38,800
'and the customs.

517
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,640
'And every family from Germany

518
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,440
'wants to make sure it continues,

519
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,440
'wants to make sure we pass it on to
our children and grandchildren

520
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,120
'so it doesn't die out.'

521
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,720
They call this the European Valley,

522
00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:58,920
largely settled by Germans
like Hannah Laura

523
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,000
who don't seem in any hurry
to assimilate.

524
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,480
My evening with Ingo is hardly
going to break the mould.

525
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:06,720
He's taking me to a bierkeller!

526
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,080
The band is led by a man called
Michael Lochner,

527
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,680
who, for once, is not
Brazilian German.

528
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,000
He's actually German German!

529
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,520
He came here for a beer festival,
met a local girl and stayed.

530
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,480
His band is quintessentially
Brazilian,

531
00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:40,640
and they don't take it all
too seriously.

532
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,320
One of their biggest hits is called
White Sausage Samba.

533
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:49,560
So you're really dealing with
a quite difficult fusion

534
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,960
of Brazilian and German
and Portuguese and German.

535
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,000
It's quite challenging.

536
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,760
It's very complicated.
And with the music as well.

537
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,640
You've got brass band
and you've got guitar.

538
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,920
You're playing samba and you're
playing oom-pah-pah!

539
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,520
We recorded about 15 CDs. OK.

540
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,360
Up until today, our record company

541
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:18,600
don't know where to put them -
German, Brazilian, rocking.

542
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:23,160
What place in the record store
will we put this record?

543
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,960
It's complicated.
Folk? I don't know!

544
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,680
'He's not the only one
who's confused.

545
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,200
'After a few beers, Michael looks
distinctly like a woman!'

546
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,840
So the German and Brazilian senses
of humour

547
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:49,600
can appreciate the same thing?

548
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,120
Or not?

549
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,280
I think it's different!

550
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,040
What's the German... All right,
we know the German sense of humour.

551
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:00,560
It's nice and good. They love Monty
Python so it must be great.

552
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,920
But Brazilian sense of humour?
How different is that?

553
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,320
What do they laugh at?

554
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,880
It's... It's... For me,
it's a little bit superficial.

555
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,640
Is it? Yes?

556
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,520
I think Brazil, it's a country for
many immigrating countries -

557
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,080
Italians, Germans, Portuguese,

558
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:19,720
Spanish, all.

559
00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:21,600
This is... It's complicated.

560
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,600
Yes. To mix this mixture,

561
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,640
to understand the same kind
of humour.

562
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,840
The surprises of southern Brazil
keep on coming.

563
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,880
Like this wonderful railway train.

564
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,400
Brazil's railway heyday
was 100 years ago

565
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,520
and it's rare to find a train
that still carries passengers.

566
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,080
We're running on a freight line

567
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,240
cut through the Mata Atlantica.

568
00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:04,840
The scenery is spectacular

569
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,280
and we few lucky passengers

570
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,240
are thoroughly spoiled.

571
00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:14,760
I'm sharing my champagne with
a serious young Brazilian
called Marcelo.

572
00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:20,040
It's a good way to see the forest,
isn't it? Yes.

573
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,440
Because there are no roads here,
only the railway.

574
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,400
It gives us this chance to see it.
It's beautiful.

575
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,000
Yes, it's so beautiful.
And it's amazing

576
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:34,280
because 12% of the bio-diversity
of the world is right here.

577
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,000
12% of the bio-diversity
of the world. Yes.

578
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,320
You see all this, the forest,

579
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,880
and it makes you feel
quite spiritual, in a way.

580
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,920
You know, about how this came to be.
Why is it so beautiful, all that.

581
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,840
Do you have a religious belief?
Are you a Catholic?

582
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,080
No, I'm a spiritualist.

583
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,000
I believe in spiritualism. Right.

584
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,760
Yeah. I believe in that.

585
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,640
And I believe too, that the forest
is a big soul.

586
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:07,080
It provide us our energy, our light.

587
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:10,240
Everything that we need comes from
the forests.

588
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:15,760
Do many people, young Brazilians
like you, feel the same thing?

589
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,560
Yes, it's amazing because
many people feel like me.

590
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,760
Many people now is feeling
this important thing.

591
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,920
The nature, human people,
the animals,

592
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:27,720
everything is connected.

593
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:31,560
We can change, we need to change
this world.

594
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,520
We are part of everything.

595
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,440
What is your...

596
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,160
This is from Maori culture.

597
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,480
Maori? Maori culture.

598
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:46,920
I pass one week Dreaming
with the Maori people.

599
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,120
Dreaming? Dreaming. Oh, yes,
doing the Dream culture.

600
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,280
And the Maori people, one man,

601
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,640
with tattoo,

602
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,680
is teaching me to carve.

603
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,760
Oh, right. I never did that before.

604
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,320
Of course, I've seen that in...
This is the first job that I made.

605
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,120
And when I give for the person,
like this,

606
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,760
and have a pray. OK.

607
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,840
I have a pray and desire everything.
This is for you, Michael.

608
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,120
This is for you. You're gonna use
this to protect.

609
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,280
To protect your family,
to protect your body,

610
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,160
your mind, your spirits.

611
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,320
This is a gift for you right now.

612
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:29,120
OK. Receive my love, the universe
love. OK?

613
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,000
Do you know you can feel?

614
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,720
This is for you.

615
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,280
Thank you. This is yours.

616
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,320
This is mine? This is for you.

617
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,240
This is for you.

618
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,520
That's... I'm very touched.

619
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,160
Very touched.

620
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,680
Thank you. This is a gift for you,
my friend.

621
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,600
Michael. My old new friend.

622
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,040
Thank you. You are welcome.

623
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:59,880
My encounter with Marcelo is typical
of many I've had on my way
through Brazil.

624
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:04,360
There's a sense of openness
and un-self-consciousness
about people here.

625
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,520
If they like you, they'll tell you.

626
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,720
There's nothing better than a breath
of Brazilian fresh air

627
00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:12,160
to blow the dust off British
reserve.

628
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,760
I can't leave Brazil without
reminding myself once again

629
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:29,360
of the size, scale and beauty
of its rarely visited interior.

630
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:32,080
I'm flying 500 miles to the west

631
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,320
where the central plateau
drops away.

632
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:39,000
Below lies a very different vista
of lagoon and forest.

633
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,200
It's the largest wetland
in the world.

634
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,040
They call it the Pantanal

635
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,320
and the transport is traditional.

636
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:50,000
Take the camera off
for the undignified bit!

637
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,560
So, in like that. Hold it there.

638
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,120
Very good.

639
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,400
OK? Good.

640
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,320
This is about the speed I like!

641
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:05,800
Thank you, Alex. Thanks.

642
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,760
'Alex and my fellow horsemen
are the Brazilian counterpart

643
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,920
'of the Gauchos in Argentina,

644
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:22,440
'and here, as there, their life is
inextricably linked to the movement
of cattle.

645
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,960
'The young cattle are particularly
vulnerable to predators,

646
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,760
'as I'm to find out.'

647
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,320
You're going to be looked at.

648
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,480
'This calf has been attacked
and needs to be treated.

649
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,800
'One of the team keeps the mother
at bay

650
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,440
'whilst Alex supplies
some modern medicine.'

651
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,640
He has been attacked by a jaguar.

652
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,360
Oh, really? What damage
has been done?

653
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,720
Been attacked. Yes, attacked.
You see it has bitten his neck. OK.

654
00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:07,880
He's lucky because the mom
is really courage.

655
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,120
The mother would have attacked
the jaguar? Yes. Defending him.

656
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,480
I'm going to leave him.

657
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,440
So you were just able to put some
antiseptic on? Yeah.

658
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,240
Antiseptic. If it's too big,

659
00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:32,040
we get some dry shit.

660
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,080
Dry shit? And put it in.
Really? Yeah.

661
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,360
And that helps heal the wound? Yeah.

662
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:39,960
You don't often see that.

663
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,600
Calf attacked by jaguar.

664
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:45,200
Anyway, better go. Calves to save,
work to be done.

665
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,080
Come on, camera.

666
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,200
They respect the old ways here.

667
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:56,400
Even down to the mighty curved horn
that's carried to summon the cattle.

668
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:21,760
There's a peace and serenity
here in the Pantanal

669
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,400
that's like nectar after the crowded
cities of the coast.

670
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,400
The cattle ranch, or fazenda,
where I'm staying,

671
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,720
has been run by the Rondon family
for nearly 100 years.

672
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:37,240
Pollyanna Rondon, the naturalist
among the family,

673
00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:40,280
tells me about the reality of living
in a wetland.

674
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:44,600
The water will reach
about 1.5 metres high.

675
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,240
Really? So where we are here,

676
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:50,680
it would be up to about there. Yes.
In the wet season.

677
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,160
We would never do walking here!

678
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,120
Just the top of my hat would be
sticking out!

679
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:58,600
They are ducks. Yes.

680
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:04,680
Over there, those big... Are they
the jab... Jabiru. Jabiru stork.

681
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,360
Yes. They're the big...
There's a couple of Jabiru stork.

682
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:12,160
They are dating already. Are they?
They are.

683
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:15,280
They are normally in couples.
They live together.

684
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,200
And over there we also have some
aigrettes.

685
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,080
Yes. And we also have some ibis,
over there.

686
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,920
Yes. We call quiticaca
in Portuguese.

687
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,800
The names in Portuguese are related
to the sound they produce.

688
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,760
This bird makes something like,
"Quiticaca! Quiticaca!"

689
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,120
Right.

690
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,320
I know the pentivi? That's a bird,
isn't it? Yes.

691
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,160
How does it go?

692
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,960
Pentivi! Pentivi! Pentivi! Yeah.

693
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,200
'Lunch with Pollyanna
and her father-in-law

694
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,320
'is a simple affair of two pigs
and a half a calf.'

695
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:11,640
Just to get an idea of the scale,
the Pantanal is big, isn't it?

696
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:16,320
It's an enormous area. They say
we are the size of Holland
and Belgium together.

697
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:17,880
Holland and Belgium?

698
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,960
Belgium's always dragged in
as a country to measure size by!

699
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,360
Holland AND Belgium!
That's a tricky one!

700
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:28,840
'Guillerme Rondon is a descendant of
the great Brazilian explorer,

701
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,800
'Colonel Candido Rondon,

702
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:34,240
'the first man to map and settle
the Pantanal.'

703
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:37,800
This idea of Brazilian -
what is Brazilian and all that.

704
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:42,240
Being a Pantanero, is something
which is more important than being
a Brazilian?

705
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:44,840
Or is it... You answer this!

706
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,560
SHE TRANSLATES

707
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,120
Yes.

708
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,400
Yes. Yes, because it's...

709
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,120
SPEAKS PORTUGUESE

710
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:58,720
It comes from the soul.
Comes from the soul.

711
00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:00,880
Yes, something you feel. Yes.

712
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:06,720
PORTUGUESE

713
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:10,440
I see this. Like Espacion who was
serving the meat for us.

714
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,720
He's proud of being a Pantanal man.

715
00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:15,560
Much more he would say that
than a Brazilian.

716
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,640
Of course he's happy
to be a Brazilian,

717
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,560
but he would say,
"I am a Pantanal man."

718
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,480
And be proud of it. Yes.

719
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,520
'To see more of this unique wetland,

720
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,400
'I take to the river in the company
of another proud Pantanal man,

721
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,160
'my guide, John.

722
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:41,840
'Pollyanna joked that they don't
have big game here,

723
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:43,440
'only small game.

724
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:46,240
'But there's some impressively
ferocious life on the riverbank.'

725
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,400
So tell me, John, it's a...

726
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,280
The spectacled or Paraguayan caiman.

727
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,240
Yeah. It reaches a maximum
of three metres.

728
00:47:56,240 --> 00:48:01,520
Yeah. They rest in the day and hunt
at night.

729
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,280
What does it hunt?

730
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:07,600
It hunts mainly fish. Yeah.

731
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,640
Up to frogs and baby capybara

732
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,160
it can swallow whole.

733
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,400
They rest there with their mouth
open, do they?

734
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,160
Ah, he's moved now.

735
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,040
Opening the mouth is for innards
and metabolism.

736
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:27,320
Ah. Regulating the function
of the ambience. OK.

737
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,240
Sorry. Sorry!

738
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,520
Now here's something else I've never
seen on safari before.

739
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:45,200
A capybara.

740
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,720
It's the largest rodent
in the world.

741
00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:50,760
Seems oddly embarrassed
about the fact!

742
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,160
Tell me about the capybara.

743
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:59,560
The capybara is the biggest rodent
of the world.

744
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:07,160
That is the male which reaches about
65 to 70 kilograms.

745
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,840
Do they live on land
or in the water?

746
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,120
They spend some time on the land
and in the water.

747
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,120
They're easy prey for puma
and jaguar.

748
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,120
And jaguar, right.

749
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,640
And you said caiman can also eat
them.

750
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,280
The caimans eat the baby ones.
Eat the babies, yes.

751
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,560
It can swallow whole. Right.

752
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:30,120
Their self-defence is to jump in the
water if it's scared of something.

753
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:31,400
OK.

754
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:42,960
As the day wears on, John finds
a spot for some quiet fishing.

755
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,680
It's what he's trying to catch
that worries me slightly.

756
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:50,160
You're catching piranha?
Catching piranha, yes.

757
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:51,560
Let it go down.

758
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,080
Like this.

759
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:54,760
Short and fast. OK.

760
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,400
OK? Yep.

761
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,880
'I'm not a natural fisherman.

762
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:02,040
'But the thought that I might bring
to the surface

763
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,000
'something that could strip the
flesh from my bones in seconds

764
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:07,480
'makes me more than usually
nervous.'

765
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,360
Yes, that's good.

766
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,880
Work the fish. Work the fish
as well, please.

767
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,800
Oh. Escaped it.

768
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:21,640
John's refusal to let me give up
strengthens my determination.

769
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:23,520
This is my Moby Dick moment.

770
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,480
It's him or me!

771
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,320
Ahh! Almost. Almost!

772
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,360
I can feel it eating.

773
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,240
I can feel it nibbling.

774
00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:38,560
If you have a long bite,
just pull it up strong.

775
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,520
Pull up, not... Wait, wait!

776
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:42,720
Ooh! Wa-hey!

777
00:50:42,720 --> 00:50:44,840
This has become dangerous!

778
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,080
Well, we got one!

779
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:52,840
'OK, I nearly took John's eye out,

780
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,080
'but at least I've seen a piranha.

781
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,160
'And where there's one,
there must be others.'

782
00:50:58,040 --> 00:50:59,320
OK.

783
00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:01,280
Then, quite suddenly,

784
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:02,960
the struggle is over.

785
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,280
May I help you? Yep.

786
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,560
So hold like this.

787
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,160
OK. You can take it off.

788
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,920
Take it off and hold like this.
Yes, John.

789
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,280
Sorry, old mate.
Nothing against you personally.

790
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,560
This kind is a... Is this a...

791
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,360
Yellow piranha.
This kind is a cannibal.

792
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,600
This kind is a cannibal piranha?

793
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:29,120
Hmm.

794
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,280
So it obviously thought this was
another piranha.

795
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,000
Ooh, very sharp teeth.

796
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,040
Very sharp. Don't want to get
near those. Yeah.

797
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,120
Let's have a look at it.

798
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,360
His teeth are worth a look.

799
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,200
Just introduce him to the viewers.

800
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:50,920
So he's a cannibal piranha

801
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:52,600
and that's the old teeth, yes.

802
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,320
That's pretty nasty.

803
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:58,040
There are some accidents here
because this fish is very slippery.

804
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:03,920
Slippery. It could suddenly...
People do not hold
and escape the hand and bite.

805
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,040
I'm not going to hold it.
No, absolutely not.

806
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,040
Are you going to make some sashimi
with it?

807
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,640
Here now? Now? It would be nice now.
OK.

808
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,480
Lovely here.

809
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,360
Freshest sashimi you'll ever get!

810
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,200
This is John's party-piece.

811
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,840
Five minutes ago,
it was swimming around,

812
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,920
merrily looking for another...

813
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:28,400
Another piranha to eat.

814
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,520
Then disaster struck.

815
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,280
Palin, after 12 false attempts,

816
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,600
snatched the little beast
from the water

817
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,880
and now it's sashimi time.

818
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,080
Just throw that to the caiman. Wow.

819
00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:53,640
OK.

820
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,280
Caiman!

821
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,120
Here you are, caiman.

822
00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,360
I don't know what I'm doing to
the ecological balance,

823
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:02,800
but there you go.

824
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,440
A beautiful sky, isn't it?

825
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,160
Fantastic clouds.

826
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,840
This place is so quiet.
It is, isn't it?

827
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:35,840
After you've spent a few days
in Sao Paulo...

828
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,080
anywhere is quiet!

829
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,080
Here we go.

830
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,200
Here we go, a bit of
piranha sashimi.

831
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,520
Mmm!

832
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,240
It's good. Very good.

833
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:01,360
Piranha sashimi at sunset.

834
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:06,720
Thank you, Brazil.

835
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,000
It's our last day here,

836
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:35,600
and as dusk turns to night,

837
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:39,280
Guillerme serenades us with his own
songs of the Pantanal.

838
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,720
I'll be sad to leave the good
company and immense restfulness
of this place.

839
00:54:49,720 --> 00:54:53,440
But another more epic wetland
beckons.

840
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,160
The Iguazu Falls

841
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,600
is the biggest waterfall system
in the world

842
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,120
and perhaps the most sublime
of Brazil's natural wonders.

843
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:11,240
There couldn't be a more memorable
place for me to end my journey.

844
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:17,240
This is where the borders of Brazil
touch the borders of Argentina
and Paraguay.

845
00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:22,200
All three countries share
responsibility for protecting
the National Park

846
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,080
that surrounds the falls.

847
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,720
Biologist Marina Da Silva

848
00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:31,040
came here from Sao Paulo to work on
the Brazilian side.

849
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:34,640
She has to keep close contact with
her neighbours.

850
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:38,160
Over there, that's Argentine, is it?
Yes. That's the Argentine side.

851
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:39,600
Brazil over there. Yeah.

852
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,520
How do they all get on, Argentine,
Paraguay and Brazil?

853
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:46,320
Is it OK? Quite interesting,
you know?

854
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:52,200
We have a very good relationship
among these three countries.

855
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,360
Anything you shouldn't talk about
to them?

856
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:57,120
About soccer!

857
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:01,680
We are completely...
Oh, dear. Deadly rivals! Yeah.

858
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,320
Don't talk about the World Cup! No.

859
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:07,400
It's impossible.

860
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:14,160
Are you optimistic for the future of
the protection of the environment?

861
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,920
Do you think things are going to be
different in the next 10 to 15
years?

862
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:19,680
I think so.

863
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,040
I prefer to believe.

864
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:28,720
Because things are better than seven
years when I arrived here.

865
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:31,960
So I have good reasons to believe.

866
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:35,640
People, the children, are different.

867
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:38,240
They think different about them.

868
00:56:38,240 --> 00:56:42,200
The young people are more interested
in the environment.

869
00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:46,960
They don't like the behaviour
of the parents, for example.

870
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:52,280
Right. The wrong behaviour about
poaching, for example.

871
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:56,440
So I really believe that things here
will be better. Yeah.

872
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:01,720
'Marina's view of what lies ahead
is encouraging.

873
00:57:01,720 --> 00:57:05,200
'She sees her country not just as
a superpower,

874
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:09,080
'but a superpower with a social
and environmental conscience.

875
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,800
'They'll face challenges, but with
a new set of priorities.'

876
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,840
OK, waterfall, we defy you!

877
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:24,840
We defy you!

878
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:32,680
The Iguazu Falls seem to symbolise
just how much Brazil has
of everything.

879
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,760
How this bounty will be used
by the next generation

880
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,880
will have repercussions
far beyond its borders.

881
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:48,160
Well, I've come to the end of
my Brazilian journey,

882
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,720
from the border with Venezuela
in the north,

883
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,320
to the border with Argentina here
in the south.

884
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,640
And from what I've seen and heard,

885
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:57,960
it only confirms
my initial impressions

886
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:01,560
that Brazil is going to be a very
powerful force for the future.

887
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,000
And I think they know it, too.

888
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:05,640
There's a sense of optimism,

889
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,120
a feeling that it's a good time
to be Brazilian.

890
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,360
There are many problems here,

891
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:13,920
but there's also a remarkable sense
of tolerance and harmony

892
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:15,920
and simple enjoyment of life.

893
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:19,800
Not bad qualities
for a potential super-power!

894
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,040
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