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In Russia the chairmen are interested in kickbacks which they won't get with OSS. Also, it seems that the situation with education in general is still better t

by timka 4y ago

In Russia the chairmen are interested in kickbacks which they won't get with OSS. Also, it seems that the situation with education in general is still better that in Brazil at least in some regards. In 2014 I worked in São Paulo and had a difficult time communicating with a taxi driver. I was trying to ask him to at least write the amount of money we have to pay for the ride on a slip of paper. Later a colleague explained that illiterate drivers are quite common. In general Brazil felt mostly like home to me. Maybe Brazil is a version of Russia where homeless people don't freeze to death in the winter :)

aflag 4y ago
It surprises me that you met an illiterate driver, maybe in the 80s/90s. But literacy rates in Brazil are around 99% nowadays and taxi drivers, specially in São Paulo would know how to read and write. However, speaking English is not that common in Brazil. It's a big country and far away from the US and Europe. The neighbouring countries all speak spanish, which is mutually ineligible with Portuguese. So, there's little pressure for people to actually learn English, unless they want to study/work abroad.