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Brazil, the largest country in South America, is bordered by all South American countries except Chile and Ecuador. Brazilians are not a homogeneous group given the diversity of the size and topography of the country, as well as individuality and the variant characteristics of the culture as described in Chap. 1.
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Purnell, L.D., Fenkl, E.A. (2019). People of Brazilian Heritage. In: Handbook for Culturally Competent Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21946-8_9
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