Brazil is imploding, soon it will be a Argentina.

[zehh25]

invetedlotus123 said:

zehh25 said:

Just read some older posts and people from almost all coutries that commented here said almost the same thing. So, saying bad things about your home country is not an exclusivity from Brazil.

I also would like to add that it is very offensive the way that some people here refer to Venezuela and Argentina. We, Latin Americans, really need to improve somethings, like the respect for each other. This just shows that our problems with politicians start with ourselves. If we can't show respect for the other, why would we expect the politicians to do so? They are people like all of us, they (literally) reflect our choices and values.

Well, tell this to the press here, it is really common people using Argentina and Venezuela as countries that failed really bad. And really, I don't know where u from, maybe even Brazilian, but either way, Brazilians don't see theirselves as Latin American. We had a different formation and were colonized by Portugal while the rest were explored by Spain. And really, mainly in bigger cities like sao Paulo and Brasilia, people like to believe they are equal with us citizens and Europeans, they don't even want anything with poorer regions. 

I think the press is awful many times. They just show the info they are interested and use their power to manipulate people to make them agree with what they want (not a conspiration theory, I'd say it happens everywhere, just in diferent levels). Also, it is up to you to agree with the way that the press talks about other countries or not. If they talk this way, it doesn't make me think it is less disrespectful.

About being Brazilian, I'm from Uberaba, Minas Gerais. Not sure if you know, but you may know Uberlandia, which is about 100km from here. Uberaba is a city with almost 400.000 inhabitants and it is at Triangulo Mineiro, a region that is under a stronger influence from Sao Paulo than Belo Horizonte.

You wrote about people believing they are equal to US and Europeans citzens, it just shows me that another problem from Latin Americans is a lack of cultural identity. We have no reason to want to be like North Americans or Europeans, we should be proud of the people that once lived here and had way better sense of humanity than we do now. We can get to a high standard in terms of life quality without having to copy other nations. In the end, we share much more cultural similarities with our neighboors than we do with Portugal, and the same is true about them and Spain.