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Nuvendil on 08 August 2016
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DonFerrari said:
Nuvendil said:

Excuse me?  Brazil's murder (intentional homicide) rate is around 24.6, the US is around 4.0 to 4.5 (varries slightly by study).  Property crime is also much higher.  I have no quarrel with Brazil or Brazilians, but don't white wash your country or dismissively disrespect mine just to shore up your national pride.  Also, don't look at the sensationalist media and social media for impressions on what the US is like, do research :P

Take your own advice... a big portion of the homicide rate is between rival gangs and don't exactly reflect how safe or unsafe the country or city is as a hole... don't buy what your own media is telling about brazil.

My media doesn't report much on Brazil very often and if it has lately, I don't watch it much because it's, as I said, sensationalist to a ludicrous degree, especially right now (election year).  I did some research and the overwhelming evidence is that the overall crime rates in Brazil are far, far higher than the US and most of Europe.  

However, you can't sit there with a straight face and tell me ALL the tens of thousands of murders above the ammount committed in the US is due to gangs?  Also, if we factor out street gang violence crime in the US goes down as well by a bit.  And my point was not that Brazil is a cesspool that doesn't deserve the olympics, I am kinda neutral on that whole discussion since security of the Olympic area will be far higher than normal for any country.  It was that his statement was patently, incontrovertibly false, an excessive whitewashing of Brazil and mud flinging at the US and EU.

 

Edit:  I am also not saying the US is the perfect and glorious Eagleland to which all should aspire.  We have our issues as well.  I only ask we all live in reality, not nationalist fiction.