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> Brazil is basically the world's soy farm To reduce a culture and country like this comes off as bigotry In example, Brazil has the #3 airplane producer in t

> Brazil is basically the world's soy farm To reduce a culture and country like this comes off as bigotry In example, Brazil has the #3 airplane producer in the world Or consider why the US is doing all it can to prevent their payment system from becoming widely used? I was intentional about putting the perspective in the future over today as the poles of the world are evolving

owebmaster 3mo ago
OP is one of many Brazilians that hates Brazil, which ironically is the reason why the country historically can't grow to its full potential
- verdverm 3mo ago
  s/bigotry/fatalism/ ? (in the same sense of colloquial usage with Russians)
- Der_Einzige 3mo ago
  A lot of AI researchers were just in Brazil due to ICLR. A number of them got robbed in broad daylight in this supposedly nice part of Rio. I think the assesment of Brazil is accurate.
  - matheusmoreira 3mo ago
    Not accurate, since it doesn't explain the normalized violence you observed. I was trying to be nice. This thread is more like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731174
matheusmoreira 3mo ago
It's my culture and my country. All of the small miracles you listed happened in spite of the culture, not because of it. It's also not a coincidence that both are deeply linked to the most successful brazilian enterprise: the brazilian government. I'm trying to avoid getting too deep in these Brazil tangents so I'm gonna leave it at that. Anyone who cares enough to know what I think about the subject can just look up my comment history.
- verdverm 3mo ago
  thank you for sharing your lived experience Timothy Snyder, in On Tyranny, has a chapter about staying in touch with friends from other countries, and while we are not friends, this thread is in that spirit and I have learned things from you, so thank you!

owebmaster 3mo ago

OP is one of many Brazilians that hates Brazil, which ironically is the reason why the country historically can't grow to its full potential

verdverm 3mo ago
s/bigotry/fatalism/ ? (in the same sense of colloquial usage with Russians)
Der_Einzige 3mo ago
A lot of AI researchers were just in Brazil due to ICLR. A number of them got robbed in broad daylight in this supposedly nice part of Rio. I think the assesment of Brazil is accurate.
- matheusmoreira 3mo ago
  Not accurate, since it doesn't explain the normalized violence you observed. I was trying to be nice. This thread is more like it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731174 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731174

matheusmoreira 3mo ago

It's my culture and my country. All of the small miracles you listed happened in spite of the culture, not because of it. It's also not a coincidence that both are deeply linked to the most successful brazilian enterprise: the brazilian government. I'm trying to avoid getting too deep in these Brazil tangents so I'm gonna leave it at that. Anyone who cares enough to know what I think about the subject can just look up my comment history.

verdverm 3mo ago
thank you for sharing your lived experience Timothy Snyder, in On Tyranny, has a chapter about staying in touch with friends from other countries, and while we are not friends, this thread is in that spirit and I have learned things from you, so thank you!