Less than a week left how do you guys feel?
Anyone on GAF living where the chaos will take place?
Are you talking about the World Cup? If so, it is not in less than a week.
Thank God I live far away from the chaos.
Less than a week left how do you guys feel?
Anyone on GAF living where the chaos will take place?
Less than a week left how do you guys feel?
Anyone on GAF living where the chaos will take place?
...maybe I shall get some time off anyway when brazil plays =P
I love how I'll be kicked home from work at 12:00~12:30 when the games all start at 16~17h.
I tried to figure out why so earl-aye, but I quickly gave up and just dealt with it.
What the fuck is this "Mutt Complex" you Brazilians speak of? Can someone explain it thoroughly please rather than linking to a page in Portuguese?
What the fuck is this "Mutt Complex" you Brazilians speak of? Can someone explain it thoroughly please rather than linking to a page in Portuguese?
What the fuck is this "Mutt Complex" you Brazilians speak of? Can someone explain it thoroughly please rather than linking to a page in Portuguese?
http://www.brazilmax.com/columnist.cfm/idcolumn/80The inferiority complex, the mutt complex to which Nelson Rodrigues referred so often, is cultivated by our elites, those who get the fattest slices of the Gross National Product, the best opportunities for work and education, those whose job it is to converse with other countries - our politicians, diplomats, industrialists, bankers, artists, intellectuals...These, who live in contact with the "outside world blush with shame every time that they are identified as Brazilians and are treated like second-class citizens. These folks - in principle the only ones exempt from the stain of the original sin of poverty - feel the most anguish when they perceive that this does not guarantee them an automatic pass to enter the Paradise of the First World.
"It's something from the First World!" The members of our mongrel elite say this with such pleasure, such envy, such tantalizing torture every time they see something clean, nice, organized, decent, fair, well-made, something that is as it should be. And with such despair they see that they are civilized enough to know what is "good, but not civilized enough to share fully in it - because they bear in their genes a DNA which is mulato, mestizo, third-world.
Perhaps this explains the death wish which possesses this elite, an elite which is ready to sink Brazil even if it has to drown together.
I wonder what that is due to? Maybe it's because looking at Brasil as a whole it should be a major G8 country, yet it isn't due to corruption and a multitude of other factors.
There are a lot of factors to that, but what you said is a pretty big reason. A big problem is that the Brazilian culture, in general, doesn't favor quality or a work well done, but more a way to do things the easy way, even if it is not a very honest way to do that.
Of course, that's not exclusive to Brazil, but it is a bit stronger here than on other places I visited. Not everyone is like that, but you ARE kinda "trained" since you are younger to act that way, because a lot of people here act that way and that's the way to "get things done" here.
Nowdays, I see some people are forcing themselves to not act that way, and I think that's a good start.
It goes deeper than that. The answer is in the begining of our history. In the United States, for example, the brits went there to build a new home, while in Brazil the portuguese came to explore. Nobody wanted to live here in the beggining, but they needed people here. So they sent the worst kind of people, took people out of jail, and sent them to Brazil.
The problem with this is that the same thing happened to Australia yet it contains the highest quality of life amongst almost anywhere in the world.
Anyway I find it odd that Brazilians are embarrassed by their country. I think it's fascinating. I really want to visit their one day. As an American it seems like one of the few countries with history, culture, and diversity that matches my own.
I was referring to is "the white people here are very lazy and apathetic because their ancestors were prisoners.Australia's colonization didn't have much slave trade, did it? Also I always thought the continent was mostly empty except for some small tribes.
America is different, people, even in the continent itself, really underestimate just how big were the native empires, and how many africans were brought as slaves. The history here is a lot more violent and terrifying. The kind of history that has repercusions even now, 500 years later. Australia on the other hand is basically an England outpost, the queen is in their bills, the british flag in their flag
What's wrong with living in Brasil? It can't be as bad as Venezuela (pretty much the only Latin American country where I am familiar with daily life).For me, Brazil is a great place for tourism, especially because there are many places full with untouched nature that are beautiful. The problem is actually living here.
Very interesting. However there is one bone for me to pick with your argument.
The problem with this is that the same thing happened to Australia yet it contains the highest quality of life amongst almost anywhere in the world.
What's wrong with living in Brasil? It can't be as bad as Venezuela (pretty much the only Latin American country where I am familiar with daily life).
So I just watched this. http://youtu.be/1SqubC7jIH4
Man it's weird how Latin American blacks don't like to identify as "black".
Nearly half of Brazilians identify as white. But I agree that latin americans don't like white or black. You can have Cameron Diaz and Zoe Salada identify as "hispanic" and nobody would bat an eye.It's the same reason few identify as "white".
As those DNA tests showed at the end, latinamericans can be only certain of one thing, we aren't 100% anything.
A cyberluta!
Até cair!
Medabots.
Shizuka acertou, mas aí vai o contexto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kLNBBaGTVs#t=17
E bem-vindo/a Shizuka!
Look, we have our own topic. Prazer em conhecê-los, espero poder contribuir de alguma forma com BrazilGAF.