- Brazilians are a solidary people.
That’s a lie. Brazilians are simpletons. They elected a guy to the
most important position of the State who doesn’t have schooling nor
preparation to even be a public street cleaner, only because he has had a
hard life. They pay 40% of their wages in taxes and to still assist the
poor in place of having the government find a solution to poverty. They
accept that human rights NGO’s keep giving guesses about how we should
treat our problems of criminality. That they do not protest each time
the government buys mattresses for prisoners who burned theirs on
purpose, isn’t a trait of a solidary people. It’s a trait of a stupid
people.
- Brazilians are a happy people.
That’s a lie. Brazilians are ridiculous. To make light of the filth
that we see on a daily basis is the same thing as taking a punch in the
face and then laugh about it. To listen to José Simão make a joke in
regards to a massacre that lasted four days in São Paulo, is the same
thing as telling a joke at your father’s funeral. Brazilians have a
serious problem. When a scandal happens, instead of protesting and
finding resolutions as a citizen, they laugh it off.
- Brazilians are a working people.
That’s a lie. Brazilians are as lazy as it gets. Brazilians try to
fool themselves, pretending that the politicians which hold public
office in Brazil magically landed there from Mars, when in reality, they
are a representative of the people themselves. Brazilians, at the same
time that they become disgraced upon seeing a deputy receiving 20
thousand dollars per month, for working 3 days and scratching their
balls the rest of the week, also feel envy. They know that deep down, if
they were in the deputy’s place, they would do the same thing. A people
that agree to receive 90 dollars monthly from government assistance for
not doing anything, much less taking advantage of this to improve their
lives (a reality of the vast majority of beneficiaries of the Bolsa
Família program), can’t be anything but lazy.
- Brazilians are an honest people.
That’s a lie. They were; today, it’s a much needed quality. If you
were to offer 50 euros to a European policeman for him not to write you
up, you’d probably get nailed. Not for fear of being caught, but because
he knows it to be wrong to accept a bribe. The Brazilian, at the same
time that he’s disgraced by government corruption, secretly thinks about
what he would do if he got in such a pickle, when in reality bribing a
policeman would come as an option.
- Ninety percent of slum dwellers are honest and hard-working people.
That’s a lie. They were in the past. Historically, the slums started
in the hills of the city of Rio de Janeiro when the blacks and mulattos
returned from the Paraguayan War to settle there. At that time, those
who lived there were honest people, who had no other living options and
didn’t accept criminality. Today the reality is different. Many fathers
dream that their son would be accepted as a drug-runner to earn some
good money. If the majority of the slum was honest, they would have
already kicked out the bandits, who could retaliate by killing a few
people, but never millions of them. Aside from this, they could
cooperate with the police in the identification of the criminals,
stopping them from setting up shop in their slums.
- Brazil is a democratic country.
That’s a lie. In a democratic country, the will of the people is the law.
The majority of the people think that a good criminal is a dead one, but
they also succumb to a noisy few that hurry to say that a criminal who
died in the crossfire was coldly executed. In a country where everyone
has rights but no one has obligations, there doesn’t exist democracy,
only anarchy. In a country where the majority blindly succumb to the
noisy few, there isn’t democracy, only an imperfect hypocrite. If we
take away the idea of political correctness, we would see that we live
in a feudal society: a king that retains the central power (the
President and his military police), followed by the dukes, counts,
archdukes and feudal men (ministers, senators, deputies, mayors and the
town council). All of them sustained by the people that pay taxes with
one possible end, to pay for the privileges of such power. And still we
are obligated to vote. This is democracy? Think about it!
- The Brazilian way.
The famous Brazilian way of exchanging favors in my opinion, is one
of the biggest reasons for the chaos that we have in Brazilian politics.
Brazilians think of themselves as sly and very smart. They steal their
neighbor’s cable television and think they’re laying it all on the line.
On a different day, the cashier at the bakery mistakenly gives back 6
dollars extra, and wouldn’t you know it, silently he sneaks away as
happy as if he had won the lottery…sly bastards, they forget that they
pay the highest interest tax on the planet and the return is zero. Zero
health, zero jobs, zero education, but then again, who really cares? In
the end we are five-time World Cup champions, right? What an
accomplishment.
- Brazil is the country of the future.
Man, my grandparents used to say that in 1950. A lot of times I start to
imagine how they would be revolted and ashamed if they were
still alive today. They escaped this particular shame…Brazil, the
country of the future?! The future is here and we already had one
of the worst tax growths in the world.
- God is Brazilian.
Wow, this one I won’t even comment on…
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