Tuesday, June 3, 2014

tues., 3 june, 2014: brazilian hypocratic oaths, xix.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE:  Trubufu   

‡)   Lit.ugly & fat black woman...  =  Afro-Brazilian obstetric patient   [Not usually considered particularly racist in Brazil,  where a vast majority, 70—75%,  of the population is mulatto...  the operative insults here are ugly & fat”... ]

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