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Re: For all those outthere wanting to hear something about brazil

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Originally Posted by PureviL
That all just sounds awfull

Guessing from your perspective in this summary, you are probably upper class or upper middle class? How do the people around you think about this? Is there much apathy or hate towards poor people?
Middle class it is, and my peers are mostly saddened that this ever came to pass. There is really a silent war, because the polarization between poors and rich people who have ties with workers party X middle and upper classes is growing to the point there cant be ammends.

Example:

The south/east of the country is mostly made up of germans, italians and other european people that came in the late 1800´s with much more technology than the rest of the country. Many of the leading industries in brazil are in this region, and the average income is considerably higher than any other region, due to hard work and autoctonous resources, since the central government never payed much attention, due to low fertility rates ( so no votes). Now it is even worse, because companies are being outright extorted (in the form of taxes)so they can use the money to Bolsa familia, and "help" people in the north/east, the poorest region.

That poverty wont reduce, because the money is poorly used/stolen and the south wont be able to catch up with other countries where resources are better employed. Hence south hates lula and the north loves it. in the last presidential election where lula won, the polarization was made absolutely clear. As a vendetta for the south not voting for him, there is not a single big project by the federal government in the south, but there are lots in other regions. Unfortunantely these projects sit confortably on the laps (meaning huge farms, industries etc etc) of influential politicians, and none to the benefit of the poor. Of course, if there were no poors, who would vote for him?


So it is pretty much clear that we are being crucified, and everyone knows it, much like the purge of the "intelectuals" (meaning being able to read) by the khmer rouge.


There´s much more hate from poors in relation to the rich, fuelled and fanned by the government, which blames rich people for them being poor, which adds up to the refered polarization. Hence all this violence people hear about brazil
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