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The country of Brazil is marked by multiple diversities of races, values, practices, and different living conditions. Each of them shape the life of each of the habitants despite the negativity that affects the Brazilians such as racism, sexism, homophobia, and class prejudice. Brazilian families value their relationship between each other the family members and generations.

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The base of the values of the Brazilian families come from religion. In Brazil, the leading religion is the Catholicism even though there are other religions. However, families are starting to be more independent, professional success, and individual success. For example, families with high economic status have the ability to provide their children a high quality of education, and put them in extracurricular activities. In contrast, families with a low economic and education status are worried that their children will not learn the values such as being honest, respectful, and obedient making them to use coercive educational practices. The quality of family relationships can be impacted by limitations of economic resources, healthcare, quality education, living conditions, and the increase of violence.

Religion and Education
The religion in a country creates a connection with the population in where they influence in people's perception which is defined as what one knows, believes, thinks and does. In Brazil, Catholicism have been a influence on political and educational issues since the colonization.

Religious education in Brazil seems to promote values and principles to the citizens because the church use education to pass on their beliefs. The Catholic influence leads teachers and schools to bias religious classes for a Catholicism class. Furthermore, Brazil has some Catholic-based holidays as a result in how influential is the Catholicism. However, even though the dominant religion in Brazil is the Catholicism, there has been a decrease of Catholics over the last three decades. The religion that has been growing since the 1970's are the Pentecostal churches who also has been attacking the Afro-Brazilian religions.