Brazilian Eye Contact

          Brazil is a large country and has many costumes. People are different in different regions of Brazil and have different costumes. I chose a particular costume to write about - it's the eye contact. When someone talks with another person, this person needs to look in the eye to show that this person is honest. If you serve some person you don't look directly in the eye and the eyes are the soul's door.

          In Brazil, when you talk with someone you need to have eye contact to show that you are honest. If you look to another place, people think that you're lying and you don't care about what the other person is talking to you and if you look in the eye you show you're a confident and stronger person.

          If you serve someone you don't look directly in the eye. If you work as a maid, waiter or in the others services considered subordinated, normally there isn't eye contact, because in Brazil there is a lot of prejudice against poor people, the most of the time these people are associate as thieves.

          Eye contact is the soul's door. Many people say when you look into someone's eyes, you look inside this person. You can see this person's feeling or fear. You see the truth about this person. In Brazil, many people are superstitious and judge someone when look in someone's eyes.

          Eye contact is a Brazilian custom. When someone talks with another person, this person needs to look in the eye to show that this person is honest, if you serve some person you don't look directly in the eyes and the eyes is the soul's door. When you have a conversation with a Brazilian person try to look into the person's eyes and you show you're good person.

Maria Ely