Naitze Teng

About Naitze Teng

Naitze Teng was born and raised in Brazil where she attended American and British schools in Salvador and São Paulo until she was 17. Teng graduated from the University of Southern California as a Renaissance Scholar with a B.S. in Business Administration.  She worked in promotions while in LA, and became especially good at getting 12-year-olds to buy bad music.  At the end of 2005 she moved back to Salvador where she is currently putting her B.S. to good use as an office manager at a plastic factory. And it is from here, now, that Teng observes Brazil and the rest of the world, and tells her PopMatters’ readers how pop culture appears from her point of view; a view with a particular take on things.  Call it Brazil, with a ‘Z’.

Columns

Salvador’s One-Note Music Scene

By Naitze Teng

In Brazil's third-largest city, thanks to the curse of Carnival, there is only one sound to be found. [1 November 2006]

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So-Called Liberty, Justice and Peace, per the PCC, in São Paulo

By Naitze Teng

The PCC has generated an urban war to fight for better conditions for their members in prison -- and the people of São Paulo live imprisoned within their city. [26 September 2006]

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An Axe to the Hexa

By Naitze Teng

Fan expectations of Brazilian players are fierce. At their hotel in Germany, the Brazilian team was booed by a number of fans who had traveled there for World Cup -- and more were waiting at home. [8 August 2006]

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Social Climbers

By Naitze Teng

Orkut, an extremely popular, Brazilian-dominated social networking site, is so prevelant that some consider it a source of national pride. Others, who have simply had enough of it, are driven to commit Orkuticídio: Orkut suicide. [29 June 2006]

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