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> The state including officials and parties is corrupt, This is true. But the rest of your comment is simply hyperbolic. Brazil isn't a "semi-failed state". I

• madez 11y ago
  The public schools are famously bad, even Feynman noted that many years ago [1]. And while the public universities are better, it is very hard to get a place. This leads to a poorly educated public and an educated elite. The income inequality in Brazil is huge [2]. While the elite earns more money than they would in comparable positions in Germany, everybody else earns way less. And they don't feel bad for it, not an in inch. Since I live here I suffered several power outages, the internet connection is unreliable, the roads are in bad state, and what I said about the chlorine in the water is not a hyperbole. I brought some of the tap water to Germany and did admittingly unscientific but nevertheless tests and other people agreed too, that the tap water here has a lot of clorine. I meant what I said literally. In Brazil there are regions where the state has no records of who lives there. In that sense, the government has not sovereign control over its whole territory. I'd also like to point to the favelas. Brazilian society advances (more or less) simply because the poor people in Brazil have good hearts. Brazil is like a colony where the colonial power moved from an external government to the very own government. You have a small well-educated elite with money which lives in 24/7/365 guarded places, and you have the rest. Of course, what I said is not in general true. There are exceptions. However, what I said explains the general picture of life in Brazil/São Paulo. I think people outside of Brazil should be shown this, and not the marketed tourism-paradise. [1] http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education.html http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Brazil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_Brazil