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Magister
Guest
Are you really aware of how your country and its people have been portraited around the world? Probably your country, your city, your state, your fellows are been presented in a quite wrong way by the media or at least in a very distorted perspective and you don't even know it!
Let me give you an exemple. I live in Brazil and I've been informed by friends abroad what kind of news the media around the globe has sold about this country. Well, the findings are shocking! The way media shows the country make the foreigners see us in an odd and very distorted perpective.
The only city known is Rio de Janeiro with its violence and its war against crime. The Amazon Forest covers the entire country and we live in the jungle. Portuguese and Spanish are almost the same language, the most of the population is black, carnival happens in the whole country, people are always in the beach holding parties and they do not work!
A Brazilian will state: what the fuck is that? Whereas a foreigner maybe say: Is this not true?
The reason? The media! I mean any media of any country! They just want more money and are willing to do almost everything to keep people from everywhere drooling in front of TV buying their produts and ideas! So many people are away from the reality and real facts about many themes because "the truth" presented is madly distorted!
Well, Rio de Janeiro is just one city of Brazil. There is crime there but mostly in the surounding region, I mean in poor and far districts. Many artists, politicians and famous people live in Rio and they are not killed by drug dealers. Like USA, Brazil is divided by states. Each state has a particular culture and its way of life. My city has nothing to do with Rio, for exemple. Here the violence index is very low and the weather is not sunny and hot.
Only 3% of the population live in the state where the Amazon is located. The ethnical group depends on the region. In the states of the south for exemple more than 90% is white. Acording to statistics 49.4% of the population self-declared White, 42.3% self-declared Multiracial and 7.4% self-declared Black. We speak Portuguese that is similar to Spanish in some extention, but it's not comprehensible without translation in the most of cases. Carnival is the party of the poor and in many regions it doesn't take place. All the famous groups of carnival came from favelas (poor districts). Those paredes you watch on TV happens only in two cities: Rio and São Paulo. The country today has 190 million people, the forests have been devastated and most of people live in cities with a few green areas surrounding them. They see the Amazon Forest just by documentaries like any stranger. If they wanna see animals they have to go to the zoo.
I asked some american friends that were living here in my city if Brazil was like they thought. They answered it's completely different and they were not facing any problem of adaptation, except for the language. They were a little pissed off and at the same time amazed with the view people had about their country. Many people think the americans have lunch and dinner in Mc Donalds, at least 50% of the population is black because of the deal of blacks seen in the movies, most of people are wealthy and live in the lust buying too many useless stuff, they love wars and invasion of countries, nobody cares about enviroment issues, they hate any culture that is not theirs.
Are those statements true? Of course not! Any well informed person knows that the american people have nothing to do with some stupid politicians who gave the order to invade Iraq and many citizens were against the conflict. But one more time the media plays a negative role and say that an entire nation is guilty for something decided by a few powerful men.
The media can make wars, make politicians, make singers, actors,etc or put them donw out of thin air just by money. That is my tip: you are an intelligent person and you can find out things by your own. Before believe, think, reseach and then conclude. The reality sold on Tv is not true. It's manipulated to satisfy the bank account of a few.
Today I know many things that I found out by myself, talking to real people, visiting regions, asking for information from who really knows the theme.
A simple exemple? I saw a brazilian reporter who lived in Iran and he said: "I walked in many cities of that country and I didn't see any evil person, I saw just a different way to live" When he said he were Brazilian people asked him about soccer and then invited him to have lunch with them. He got together with many people and had no problems at all.
I just gave a very few exemples. I know it's the tip of the iceberg! But today we are luky to have others paths to find information and TV begins to loose power gradually. I hope the minds keep changing everywhere in the world!
Before trust, distrust!
Good bye my friends and sorry for my bad English!
Let me give you an exemple. I live in Brazil and I've been informed by friends abroad what kind of news the media around the globe has sold about this country. Well, the findings are shocking! The way media shows the country make the foreigners see us in an odd and very distorted perpective.
The only city known is Rio de Janeiro with its violence and its war against crime. The Amazon Forest covers the entire country and we live in the jungle. Portuguese and Spanish are almost the same language, the most of the population is black, carnival happens in the whole country, people are always in the beach holding parties and they do not work!
A Brazilian will state: what the fuck is that? Whereas a foreigner maybe say: Is this not true?
The reason? The media! I mean any media of any country! They just want more money and are willing to do almost everything to keep people from everywhere drooling in front of TV buying their produts and ideas! So many people are away from the reality and real facts about many themes because "the truth" presented is madly distorted!
Well, Rio de Janeiro is just one city of Brazil. There is crime there but mostly in the surounding region, I mean in poor and far districts. Many artists, politicians and famous people live in Rio and they are not killed by drug dealers. Like USA, Brazil is divided by states. Each state has a particular culture and its way of life. My city has nothing to do with Rio, for exemple. Here the violence index is very low and the weather is not sunny and hot.
Only 3% of the population live in the state where the Amazon is located. The ethnical group depends on the region. In the states of the south for exemple more than 90% is white. Acording to statistics 49.4% of the population self-declared White, 42.3% self-declared Multiracial and 7.4% self-declared Black. We speak Portuguese that is similar to Spanish in some extention, but it's not comprehensible without translation in the most of cases. Carnival is the party of the poor and in many regions it doesn't take place. All the famous groups of carnival came from favelas (poor districts). Those paredes you watch on TV happens only in two cities: Rio and São Paulo. The country today has 190 million people, the forests have been devastated and most of people live in cities with a few green areas surrounding them. They see the Amazon Forest just by documentaries like any stranger. If they wanna see animals they have to go to the zoo.
I asked some american friends that were living here in my city if Brazil was like they thought. They answered it's completely different and they were not facing any problem of adaptation, except for the language. They were a little pissed off and at the same time amazed with the view people had about their country. Many people think the americans have lunch and dinner in Mc Donalds, at least 50% of the population is black because of the deal of blacks seen in the movies, most of people are wealthy and live in the lust buying too many useless stuff, they love wars and invasion of countries, nobody cares about enviroment issues, they hate any culture that is not theirs.
Are those statements true? Of course not! Any well informed person knows that the american people have nothing to do with some stupid politicians who gave the order to invade Iraq and many citizens were against the conflict. But one more time the media plays a negative role and say that an entire nation is guilty for something decided by a few powerful men.
The media can make wars, make politicians, make singers, actors,etc or put them donw out of thin air just by money. That is my tip: you are an intelligent person and you can find out things by your own. Before believe, think, reseach and then conclude. The reality sold on Tv is not true. It's manipulated to satisfy the bank account of a few.
Today I know many things that I found out by myself, talking to real people, visiting regions, asking for information from who really knows the theme.
A simple exemple? I saw a brazilian reporter who lived in Iran and he said: "I walked in many cities of that country and I didn't see any evil person, I saw just a different way to live" When he said he were Brazilian people asked him about soccer and then invited him to have lunch with them. He got together with many people and had no problems at all.
I just gave a very few exemples. I know it's the tip of the iceberg! But today we are luky to have others paths to find information and TV begins to loose power gradually. I hope the minds keep changing everywhere in the world!
Before trust, distrust!
Good bye my friends and sorry for my bad English!