Seriously, I'm not making a sarcastic Anti-Brazil insult question. I have nothing against Brazil. I've never been to Brazil but I did meet Brazilians abroad and while many of them were more affluent students they never quite explained it or even had much of an opinion (possibly being upper class they are isolated from it).
By "It" I mean the perception. Brazil joins China and Syria as having their own 'shocking crime video' channels and websites. The Perception is that Brazil is a crime-ridden fuckup country with nothing but monkey riots, bandits, poor 3rd worlders seem to be everywhere.
I made a point of watching about a dozen documentaries on Brazil. Nearly every one of them covered crime, corruption, hedonism, ghettos, shantytowns, insane gangland violence, 'santoria' and every crazy fucking transvestite, street urchins and robbery pickpockets and over and over the 'rising economy' that never happens and just collapses again into a shitty half-ass economy.
And this is all especially baffling since the documentaries and Brazilians tell me 100+ years ago Brazil was actually expected to be 'The USA' of South America. Or even the USA of the Americas - THE big new world advanced superpower. Then 50 years ago again was predicted to be THE next big rising giant star of South America! Then as little as 15 years ago - again people said Brazil is FINALLY going to rise as the new modern 1st world leader and ... I just see 100 shitty shootouts and machete battles with sandal-wearing druggies in what looks like filthy decaying old shithole streets.
Again, this perception MAY BE TOTALLY UNJUSTIFIED but I'm asking any Brazilians or those who know Brazil well to please try and explain WTF is going on?
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[–] 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