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Dianko on 16 September 2008
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paulatreides25 said:
jkimball said:
FilaBrasileiro said:
amp316 said:
The pricing is high. Third world means that they don't have things like shoes or electricity.

 

That's the most retarded shit I've ever heard.

In the mid 50's when the term was first used, that is pretty close to what it meant. The overall wealth of the world has improved, so that even third world countries now have shoes and electricity but it wasn't that long ago when they did not.

Brazil was never really part of that group, it was industrializing when much poorer countries (think Chad, Afghanistan) were still working on getting electricity.  Today Brazil is the B in BRIC - a group of emerging countries with huge potentail: Brazil, Russia,India, China. Of those four only China has a stable political climate, so it is has basically taken over. So much potential in Brazil wasted... 

 

Yeah, now the poor are far more richier, just look in wikipedia for Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, or look in google for images of Mexico city, monterrey, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago and you will see

 

 

It's not that they're poor, it's the distribution of the wealth. Brazil and Mexico, for example, are the 8th and 12th largest economies in the world. They are not poor at all overall as countries, but the distribution of wealth is ridiculously bad for the poor and the smaller middle classes. Buenos Aires is a world class city, very modern, but at night there isn't a trash can or bin that someone isn't going to town on. I saw horse-drawn carts going through San Telmo with their trash loot.

It's really too bad, if the governments weren't so horrible, Latin America would occupy a much more influential place in the world. I see Latin America overall being one the largest growth areas economically over the next few decades, there so much potential there. Hopefully they don't succumb to foreign influences. I know the US was fucking it up with our influences for a long time, but when I read about the deals Peru is making with China over minerals, I get a little worried that the same thing is going to happen again.