Avoid openly criticizing someone’s family, appearance, or social status, and don’t assume everyone is comfortable with blunt confrontation; Brazilians often prefer tact, warmth, and indirectness in sensitive situations. It is also taboo to make racist, classist, or homophobic jokes, and in many settings you should avoid treating the country’s religious mix—especially
Candomblé and other Afro-Brazilian traditions—as a curiosity or something to mock.