pride in celebrating holidays that hold meaning. One of their biggest festivals celebrated is the Carnival, a four-day extravaganza marked by parades of costumed dancers and musicians, formal balls, street dancing, and musical contests, a truly national party during which Brazilians briefly forget what they call the "hard realities of life." Carnival is symbolic of the national ethos because it plays many of the dualities in Brazilian life: wealth and poverty, African and European, female and male (Rank, 2013). Soccer is also a great escape for the people of Brazil. Their professional soccer team holds five FIFA World Cups Champion Titles and continues to dominate in the sport.
             Demographics and Culture - Argentina
             Argentina is also a country in Latin America, but has not experienced as much growth and development economically or socially as Brazil. "Argentina's transformation to constitutional democracy and a sound market economy with social safeguards remains stuck" (BTI, 2012). How
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