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As a Brazilian national I wholehearted agree with this. It is very easy for a develop world country reporter to inform the world on our seemingly barbarous-like ways.

As in the case of Brazil, this has been a problem for generations, like our authorities do not live in Brazil or only come for the world cup and carnaval.

The picture is much dire, its part of the culture, we are raised to think this way. Someone applies for a job in the police not because they seek order but because they know the corruption behind it can put their family in a better spot.

You can find examples of this in any 'developing' country.




It is not a developing country though, it pioneered space travel, invented TOKAMAKs, underwater electric-arc welding and self-balancing binary trees.

If anything, it's on the way downhill into late 1800s, at least culturally.




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