I helped out with a zine program at the library and got to make one, too 
Since I get asked if I speak Spanish regularly when people find out I’m Brazilian… and since I’ve even had people argue with me about what language I speak and what my ethnicity is…
I used it as inspiration for a zine
Full of cool facts! Plenty of Americans don’t even know that Mexico part of North America, so I can only imagine how many Americans and Canadians might not know these things.
Very cool!!!
Very cool and informative zine!
Great googly moogly! Your awesome project is Featured this week!
Yay
It doesn’t help that some high school Spanish language classes (at least in the midwest where I grew up) literally make students straight up memorize South American countries and capitals. 
(And I think a lot of them just gloss right over the existence of central American nations at all.)
I feel like memorizing the countries in South America in a Spanish class wouldn’t be so much of a problem if they also taught about the countries that are not Spanish-speaking there. It’s such a missed opportunity to do some cross-curricular activities with history and geography, along with language learning.
With regards to Central America, there are differences of opinion on how the world is divided into continents, but by most geographers’ accounts, Central America is actually part of North America. People tend to think of North America as Canada and the US (and sometimes they remember Mexico), but North America technically contains 23 countries, including what most people think of as North America, Central America, as well as several islands off the coast of these.
My personal opinion is that the whole thing, from Canada down to Chile, should just be “America.” After all, the definition of a continent is a connected land mass… but I’m not a geographer, so don’t listen to me, lol!
I saw an interesting YouTube video recentely about this topic. Here’s the link for anyone who’s interested: How Many Continents are There?
I love this! Twenty years ago we hosted Brazilian exchange students for a few days through FFA, a student youth organization. FFA chapters around Indiana took turns hosting the boys, so they were able to have all kinds of experiences over a few weeks. We took the boys to Indianapolis and ignorantly suggested Mexican food. They boys said no way. They were soooo tired of Mexican food, explained that it is nothing like Brazilian food, and asked to eat at an Italian restaurant instead. The boys also said they were craving Brazilian beans and rice, so the next day, they taught me how to make it to their liking. They were fantastic kids, and I learned so much from them. The boy who was the least fluent in English stayed at our house. We struggled to communicate but really connected over Christian music and ended up trading CDs. He was such a cool kid. 
That sounds like such a fun experience!
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Mexican food is spicy!!! 
At least any I’ve ever tried, lol!
Do you remember what city the boys were from? Because if they were from São Paulo, asking to get Italian makes a lot of sense. A lot of people don’t know this, but my hometown, São Paulo, has a huge Italian influence. As a matter of fact, my great-grandparents’ on Mom’s side came from Calabria. I grew up eating Italian at my mom’s house and Lebanese food at my paternal grandparents’ house. (my folks are divorced). Sao Paulo also has a huge Lebanese and Japanese influence as well.
Anyway, I’m babbling. Yes, beans and rice is a huge thing in Brazil; we eat it pretty much with every lunch and dinner.
I don’t eat beans as often as I used to, but rice is still a regular staple at my house—and one of the few foods my son will eat freely—if I make it the Brazilian way
Oh, I wish i could remember where they were from! They were definitely from a rural, agricultural area. However, they acted like Italian was normal Brazilian food, so they very well might have been from the São Paulo region.
