Here's a personal one:
Pombal
Not only for his terrible philosophy(the infame "Pombal's wager") but also for ordering portuguese to be the only legal language in the brazilian territory and the suppression of the natives.
Thanks to him among some other people we got the extermination of the newborn brazilian culture as the tupi-guarani tribes were persecuted rather than integrated and priests who tried to protect them also got killed off.
That also estabilished the wonderful precedent of the law suppressing if not outright banishing non-portuguese languages from people that came here either as a result of slavery or immigration. As afro-americans, germans, italians and the asian communities in Brazil can tell ya.
Had he..I dunno, died? Brazil would be EVEN MORE diverse with a larger surviving jesuit-native community much like that of Paraguay influencing the developement of the brazilian culture & language while foreign communities in the country would suffer much less discrimination in the following periods and make a much larger cultural impact as their forms of expressions arent being actively repressed by the government.
Guy pretty much aborted a thriving new culture and I'll never forgive him for that.
Pombal
Not only for his terrible philosophy(the infame "Pombal's wager") but also for ordering portuguese to be the only legal language in the brazilian territory and the suppression of the natives.
Thanks to him among some other people we got the extermination of the newborn brazilian culture as the tupi-guarani tribes were persecuted rather than integrated and priests who tried to protect them also got killed off.
That also estabilished the wonderful precedent of the law suppressing if not outright banishing non-portuguese languages from people that came here either as a result of slavery or immigration. As afro-americans, germans, italians and the asian communities in Brazil can tell ya.
Had he..I dunno, died? Brazil would be EVEN MORE diverse with a larger surviving jesuit-native community much like that of Paraguay influencing the developement of the brazilian culture & language while foreign communities in the country would suffer much less discrimination in the following periods and make a much larger cultural impact as their forms of expressions arent being actively repressed by the government.
Guy pretty much aborted a thriving new culture and I'll never forgive him for that.