TOPIC: If you had to describe Brazil to someone who knew nothing about it, what would you say? Interpret this question as lightly or seriously as you'd like. You can include anything from travel tips to your opinions about social and political issues, and everything in between.
Robinson
No, I don’t see monkeys on trees
very often, only at the Zoo. No, I’m not going to work wearing only my
underwear. Yes, we have electricity. Yes, I have an iPhone. No, politics sucks
everywhere. Yes, we are the third world, or at least we used to be. Yes, I live
in the South but it’s not a paradise. No, we don’t have the best bus system,
it’s only a theory.
Ok, I
exaggerated a little bit (or not, who knows?!), but I still hear these kinds of
astonishments, or people who can’t believe that I have never been to the Amazon
forest, as if we were neighbors. Whenever a foreigner asks me about my country,
I say if you like Carnival, come to Brazil in February and of course, to Rio de
Janeiro or even Salvador. If you like nature, go to Bonito – MS, if you miss
cold weather, try to visit Rio Grande do Sul during the winter. My country
still needs to learn a lot, regarding its political, health and education
systems. We are so unequal, having rich getting richer and poor getting poorer,
and it’s not changing at all. On the other hand, we have natural landscapes,
people here are so welcoming and according to lots of people who already
travelled abroad, our food is the best.
Maybe I’m
not the right person to talk about my own country, because I often think that I
was born in the wrong country, sometimes I feel I don’t belong here. Don’t ask
me to explain why, I just feel it. Yet, I still recognize that I’m privileged by
living in a country without hurricanes and tsunamis, where people try to make a
living every day, without giving up. Still, you can come and visit my country
and I assure you won’t regret it, just go to the right places as you would in
any country you visit. And make the most of it.
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