What can we learn form Brazil? Why should we listen to insights from a country where politics is an messed up as it is in the United States and Europe?

Indigenous and afro-Brazilian thinkers can offer new insights about why people all over the planet have come to hate each other so much... and centuries of conflict and living with difference can give new perspectives about how to encounter and life with people who are different from us.

In this bonus introduction, the host of Learning form Brazil explains the origin of this podcast and the research that gives it depth and bredth,