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by justtopost 2823 days ago
'Brazilian' has other meanings you may be unaware of... namely it being the name for a bikini wax. Almost nude women is beyond expected in this case. Just another example of how complex these things are linguistic and cuturally.
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I would recommend checking out the google image search for "Brazilian wax" to see what comes up for that. It's not a bunch of hot models in bikinis.
I would recommend looking into why people do Brazilian waxing, and particularly how it relates to bikinis.
I'm not suggesting that models are an illegitimate way of representing the word "Brazilian." There's normal Brazilian people, Brazilian monuments, maybe the flag, the relatively "clinical" pictures that come up with "Brazilian wax", and of course models. The fact that all of the results for "Brazilian" are only in one of those categories shows a bias that I find amusing.