“We are sufficiently conscious of this dimension or quality of Brazil as a melting pot, as a culture and a nation that is being subjected to an amalgamating process. More than just a mixing process, it is an amalgamation where the fragments, the parts in collision, really interact profoundly. They become another thing after the contact.” CultureNationsProcessQualityConsciousContactDimensionsPotFragmentsMeltingBrazilMixingCollisionMelting PotAmalgamation Author:Gilberto Gil
“Sponsors, corporate endowments, and the heritage of the big fortunes would take care of financing cultural projects when American society was homogeneous. Now it's too complex, it's a mix. Different cultures in collision. I think it starts to be necessary to have a government institution to deal with cultural affairs.” ThinkingDifferentBigsGovernmentCareCultureDealsProjectsInstitutionsFortuneComplexesAffairTake CareCorporateHeritageDifferent CulturesCollisionFinancingAmerican SocietySponsorsEndowmentHomogeneous Author:Gilberto Gil
“I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that we all tend to understand a little more the needs for harmonizing the process and integrating races and cultures and producing multiculturalism and different melting-pot situations. That affects global things, tolerating the Arab, the African, the Eastern civilizations, getting rid of this hegemonic dominance by the West. That's all comprehensive now in terms both of understanding and approaching the whole planet.” ThinkingNeedsLittlesDifferentWholeCultureProcessUnderstandingTermRaceConsciousnessSituationProducePlanetsCivilizationElementsWestTensionPotEasternMulticulturalismComprehensiveMeltingFractionsIntegratingDominanceMelting Pot Author:Gilberto Gil
