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[–] wolfsktaag 0 points 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

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[–] Zardoz [S] 0 points 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.

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[–] wolfsktaag 0 points 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