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The USA is relatively safe and definitely wealthy when even inside the USA 'Brazil zones' where mostly black and latin gangs carry out warfare - most of those people would never spend a night in a 'Favela' in that kind of poverty. Shit, you gotta boil your fuckin water, no ESPN and who the fuck doesn't have one pair of new nikes at least?
but my understanding is that you go back far enough to the earlier days of the 'New World' and Brazil (and much of South America) was assumed to be the next big thing. So much so that one documentary says its why you see magnificent (but now crumbling) cathedrals in what are surprisingly shitty places. Its because the church itself also invested in the massive architecture and 'infrastructure' for the coming superpowers that would be Brazil, Mexico, and nope.
Do this:
You can only choose one country and you must live and work and raise your family there for the rest of your life. (so not just hold a passport). Nope, you are exiled to one country but the good news is you are a full citizen with all rights, opportunities, freedom of movement.
Brazil or USA?
Without even a microsecond of thought its obviously the USA. Its not even a debate or discussion in your mind. You'd even choose it if you knew you'd have to start out in Harlem or Detroit and work your way up. In a heartbeat without a doubt the USA is your choice.
[–] wolfsktaag 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
brazil has 2 or 4 major and very different racial groups (depending on how classify natives/mixes). the lighter skinned, more european folks are the ones that made people think brazil would be the US of south america. the darker skinned folks make it like africa
whichever have the most surviving babies will determine the future
[–] Zardoz [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
One of the documentaries touched on this and the angle was: Brazils white people (more euro/caucasians) are the most depressed people in Brazil. More anxiety, clinical depression, therapists, 'prozac' types of antidepressant prescriptions. Vs The relative happiness factor of the 'mixed race' Brazilians. Even boasting up more successful mixed football champions.
I wasn't sure what to make of this though. While white people tend to be a big problem with being depressed it also occured to me that maybe the richer, wealthier (on average) europeanish Brazilians are also the ones trying to work in modern 1st worldish jobs with stress, responsibility trying not to get robbed by motorbike banditos every week and maybe feeling responsible for the country and their societies.
Maybe, and Im just 'guessing out loud' but maybe the reason the poorer black/native types had less psychology appointments or could bother reporting 'depression' on some forms is because (it seemed to me) they got up at about noon wearing the same tshirts and flip-flop sandals they slept in to gossip and goof around until it was time to party hard at the local drinking sidewalk where they will probably get in an exciting shootout.
So granted this - yes, poor unemployed partypeople do have that advantage of less likely to be getting SSRI prescriptions and filling out 'how depressed are you' surveys. Even if they are literate. Just my guess.
[–] wolfsktaag 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
pigs are happy in shit, other animals not so much. euros tend to be happy in lands that they built, less happy in lands of theirs other animals invaded, and then one day explode and genocide everyone who isnt euro that inhabits their land
[–] ServiceStud 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm guessing the lack of a solid middle class. But it looks like others have more thoughts on the topic so I'll defer.
[–] hyperoperation 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Government corruption in many of the countries in South/Central America is absurd. People bitch about the US government but they make ours look saintly. Parts of Brazil remind me of the Fallout game series.
[–] drakesdoom 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I blame the weather. Warm living is easy living, no reason to work with others.
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[–] escapefromredditbay 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
(sprays v/worldnews repellent)