My girlfriend and I are both living in Argentina and we are considering to put It is difficult even for someone foreign marrying a Brazilian. that the marriage announcement needed to be published in both Olinda and Recife.
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I actually felt they were hostile, something I never expected when planning to go there. Is it because Lissette and I are a mixed raced couple? Read this post by a fellow blogger. We took a boat cruise where almost all the tourists were Brazilian most tourists we saw were either Brazilians touring their own country or Argentinians. Maybe our experience would be different if we returned tomorrow. But this was our experience and I think its important to tell it as it is. Like This Article? Pin it! Looking to book flights, hotels, tours, or rent a car? One must not generalize a Country the size of a continent based on merely 2 weeks in one city, of one region.
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From food, to culture, behavior and language. The whole point of traveling is to experience how other people live, somewhat like an anthropological research. You travel to learn, expand your mind. Finding issues with everything, and projecting that you were personally attacked, is not a mindset to have been travelling.
If you want to go on a vacation where people smile at you and treat you like the all-mighty tourist, you go to a resort or a cruise. A third world country, riddled with poverty and corruption, is not a place to expect people being ready to leave aside their reality just to so you can enjoy your trip. These are real people, with their own life. But what I find troubling is just the generalization applied here, and the stereotyping. Unfortunately there is a real confusion between Americans and Canadians, as if they were they were very very similar countries, and Rio is a well know place where any kind of service provider will treat a tourist as a person that you can charge high fees for a bad service.
Also, it is good to mention that Brazil is a big country. Your article is very very important. About Americans and I know it has nothing to do with you , I would say that the opinions are mixed. Many tourists in Brazil, when talking to a friendly woman, have a bad behavior of hitting this woman too fast, without any previous conversation.
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I find your post very interesting because it differs from the usually overly enthusiastic opinions and matches the negative experiences of people I met in real life. My doctor in particular had a terrible time in Rio when she went there for charity work. She would never go back and she found people to be weirdly aggressive. Replying to Anna: Anna, as someone who is a native from Rio Grande myself, I feel the obligation to tell you this.
The ones who get away with murder become aggressive adults.
The ones who are abused from all directions are traumatized for life and can end up becoming aggressive assholes themselves for not knowing how to process trauma correctly. The woman is no saint in this either, since there must be two in order to dance. This is part of the culture and it is widely accepted everywhere. You will start to notice that many of the abused and mistreated kids are the ones who were following all the rules and behaving properly, these are the ones who are turned into scapegoats to all the other siblings.
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Well, I was supposed to talk about my homestate Rio Grande… the short version of the story is this: they were already aggressive enough before. Homelessness been rising, you see less and less white people on the streets, companies closing doors, garbage thrown on the streets, the streets stink like piss. The island of Floripa in the neighbor state might be more worthy of an extended visit of 10 days, the north of the island is its own independent region isolated from the rest.
You will face many of the annoyances there as well but at least the weather is nice not too hot and the landscaped are nice. The sewer is still dumped into the ocean regardless of the city you choose to visit. Fucking brilliant. Wow… Ive never read such a negative comment of a country before! There must be still good people, i hope the good people stay safe there!
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Breaks my heart that countries get destroyed due to corruption! From my experience most Brazilians are good and live ordinary lives. This is profoundly embarassing. I had to deal with NONE of this on any of my visits abroad. After I moved to another state more to the north, this sentiment is even more prevalent here, since whites are not majority of population. Gang mentality is real. I never visited Colombia, but I felt amazing when I visited Mexico for 6 months straight, I felt free there and I felt welcomed despite not speaking the local language all that good.
So my overall conclusion about the whole thing is: if you want to visit a place that is beautiful geographically, that has lots of beaches and that also has polite friendly people and costs cheap, stay with Mexico. Oh, and very important as well: Brazil has insane amounts of bureaucracy for everything that you want to do, daily life here can only be compared to China in that regard, everything will be difficult.
These people are not business savvy at all, and they will blame foreigners for their incompetence. In Mexico you are pretty much left to do whatever you want with zero interference. Instead of taking this as example, it seems to me these dumb countries down south are heading in the opposite direction.
After all, these are the economic partners they are choosing to align with. Thank you for your various comments Diego. But thank you for your thoughts. Mexico on the other hand is a country I know well. My mother lives in Mexico and I try to visit her every year. I love Mexico. The people are friendly, helpful, and patient when foreigners attempt to speak Spanish even if not perfect. And it IS good value. I am proud to say I have many friends all over the continent, and love latin culture in general. I can categorically say that you, and most of the negative comments concerning Brazil, are spot on!!
Brazil is dangerous, extremely racist and misogynist, and the men are absolutely taught from a young age to be hyper-aggressive.
I second the comments about both Columbia and Mexico…both just lovely places with warm people and great food which Brazil also lacks. Incidentally, the most beautiful latin woman I have ever seen were in Venezuela! China has lots of problems from the authoritarian government, but business acumen is certainly not one of them. Anyway improving education, invest in infra and promoting local industries will do the trick usually. I love the food, the beaches, and especially the people, who I think tend to be much more outgoing and intimate and mush less superficial than Americans.
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If Brazil could just try to help with shortening the wealth gap and bettering education system, a lot of our problems could be solved. But these problems are things all developing countries face. In fact, for a developing country, Brazil is doing quite well with corruption, crime, and the economy. Other countries are much worse. But despite all this, Brazil is not a nightmarish wasteland of savages as this commenter stated. It is a pretty cool place.
My uncle, for example, always wore a fanny pack when out and about. But the beaches are amazing. There are always street vendors selling churros or ice cream or popcorn or pastels.
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The art fair is amazing too. I do not have anything to say about your point, except for the Italian bit: Italy has been conquered and ruled by different countries throughout the centuries, and Italians are probably among the most mixed societies in Europe.