"Immortalized in the arcade game Street Fighter (and it's sequels), Blanka proved to be one of the most powerful and versatile fighters a player could choose. He was also from Brazil.
For an entire generation of bright-eyed youths, Blanka stood as the sole cultural representation of the Brazilian people. A country of shirtless, green-skinned, bioelectrical beasts - truly this was a paradise...or a hell on earth. Zangief may have had the piledriver, Dhalsim may have had obscenely long arms and legs, and Chun Li had that cheap-ass fast kick, but they paled in comparison to Blanka's merciless scalp chewing technique.
Even Blanka's "home stage," set in Brazil, was nothing short of bizarro. Another Blanka fan writes:
"Blanka's official stats mark him as hailing from The Jungle, Brazil. Cute. If any of you readers out there from foreign nations wonder why North Americans are afraid to travel overseas, here's your answer. The only things I have to gauge Brazil on are Blanka, cocaine, and monkeys in suspenders."
Unfortunately, it seems that the large majority of Brazilians are in fact not brutish, bipedally challenged green man-beasts. This group is out to set the record straight for that entire generation raised on video games deluded into thinking every Brazilian is like Blanka."
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Don't worry, when they get older, their image of Brazil will be replaced by among other things, easy, scantily-clad tanned women available and plentiful for gringos.
Blanka was tight, even before my obsession with Brazil, Blanka was my favorite character. They don't make games like that anymore, nor consoles like that.
If one thinks about it, blanka is a ghetto spelling of 'white' although its female considering it ends in 'a'. What if Blanka was a female. A wild Amazonian?
Well, I always thought he hailed from Manaus in which case the background could fit...depending on what part. Anyways, saying he is from The Jungle, Brazil doesn't say much...isn't all of Brazil a jungle?
Jungle? Yeah, last time I checked. And full of easy, scantily-clad, gringo hungry women. I happen to walk around like an electric man beast half the time, ahhhh papei, fazer o que.
I had never heard of this thing until I read this post. Video game culture I am not.
Neither am I, but once upon a time, about 15 years ago...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Blanka! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Blanka may not have been but what about Eddy Gordo?
He was the first exposure to Capoeira for a lot of people.
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