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Published: January 15th 2015
Well, it is pretty hard to get this blog updated all the time when travelling to all these wonderful places. And Carla is keeping me busy as hell with her planed approach to sightseeing. It looks like I need a holiday from the backpacking soon. And Porto Alegre was not different with the added bonus that Carla was born and has lived in POA for a long time, so she knew the place pretty well and I w...
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Sebastian Vera
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Football.
There's an interesting fact about the rivalry between Gremio and Internacional. Gremio was founded by European inmigrants and was the first team of the city (the southern part of Brazil has the biggest white population in all South America, even more than Argentina or Uruguay, according to what the statistics say). The thing is that when the people who were not descendants of Europeans wanted to join Gremio, they were rejected because they were...let's say...brown or black skinned, so they began with their own football club, Internacional. Of course, nowadays, there are whites who are fans of Internacional and viceversa, and you can see that a lot, but there's still a rivalry based on race, that can be noticed in chants or posters. Ah, football. Cheers mate.