I am much disappoint. Looking it up, I find that Brazil has four songs: the national anthem, the anthem of the republic, the flag anthem, and the anthem of independence. None of them mention boobs, and one of them does mention blood.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_National_Anthem#Lyrics
Em teu seio, ó liberdade
That’s not boobs. Every translation that I found had it as “bosom” in English, referring to the chest area. I mean, maybe some people have liberty in their tiddies, but that seems unusual.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/portuguese-english/seio has breast as the first translation.
Also, even in English, “bosom” is generally taken to be the polite way to say breast 99% of the time even if it /can/ mean the chest area. I think you’re just being contrarian.
‘bosom’ is unisex tho, men have chests too, but not boobies
Freedom is a feminine word in Portuguese. We sing about being in freedom’s tit. Stop twisting our anthem.
Ok, try complimenting a man on his bosom and see how he reacts.
Freedom is a feminine word in Portuguese. We sing about being in freedom’s tit. Stop twisting our anthem.
I have never heard the word bosom refer to anything but boobs. Its like a polite term for titties.
The translation is wrong. I don’t know where that anthem comes but in french, sein means core. In its “sein” means at its core, deeply rooted
“Seio” in Portuguese means “breast” and is used to refer to boobs.
Sein also means breast in french
I won’t take that rage bait
It’s true though Source: Am french
Says the guy from lemmy.world to the guy on the french instance
At least in the case of the Brazilian one, it’d be more closer to “bosom” than “boob”.
And this is how I learned there were 4 verses to the star spangled banner https://www.lyricsondemand.com/n/nationalanthemlyrics/usanationalanthemlyrics.html
Yeah its pretty fucked up.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave
The fuck?
This verse is referring to the british, not menial laborers or chattel slaves. “Hirelings” was (is?) an insulting term to describe a mercenary, and the implication is that they are either brigands who are only in it for a pittance wage, rubes who do it because of a loyalty to the monarchy and/or impressed soldiers of the british (a practice with many parallels to chattel slavery, for what that’s worth). A modern version might call them “sheep” with a similar implication.
And it’s important to add, one of the cassi belli for the war of 1812 was the british impressment of sailors on American vessels, including American citizens.
Well, except Britain promised freedom to slaves that fought for their cause, so I still assume it means slaves in the literal sense.
Kinda fucked the US didn’t do the same given the whole fight for freedom bit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_the_Revolutionary_War
The song was written about the war of 1812, not the revolutionary war.
As the wikipedia article points out, during the revolutionary war most of the black Patriots were recruited from the north already as free men of color and were at the time lionized for their actions (albeit in predictably racist terms) - and abolition would take over the north quite quickly afterwards (most having some form of abolition well before 1800). The first continental congress also banned the import of slaves in 1774 (though abolitionists cheered it at the time and rightly so, it should be said that this was primairly a method of applying economic pressure to the british), and would set up the civil war by doing so.
