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BRICS is not a real thing. It's just an acronym someone made up, like FAANG. There are no BRICS summits. These countries even have border disputes with each oth
by amadeuspagel 3y ago
BRICS is not a real thing. It's just an acronym someone made up, like FAANG. There are no BRICS summits. These countries even have border disputes with each other.
- dragonwriter 3y agoThere have been annual BRIC/BRICS summits since 2009 (South Africa didn’t become part of it until 2011.) BRIC or the BRICs referring to the other four members is an older term, but it has since become something of a superficially, at least, real thing, largely because it being perceived to be real serves (different, for each member) the propaganda interests of the members.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoYeah, I've just read the wikipedia article[1] and it appears a lot "realler" then I thought. Headquarters, even. Bullshitting is the best way to learn. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
- arroz 3y agoIt’s mostly a propaganda thing to make China (and recently Russia) look bigger I am not sure how India and Brazil benefit from it