In reply to your post:
Look, no one said anything about liking docile poor
people. It was just a friendly discussion about the
cultural differences between Brazil and the rest of Latin
America. The Cariocas of Rio, rich AND poor tend to have a sunnier
outlook on life generally. I think it's a way of coping.
Dan McIvor
Rio
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>This is all a bit more than I can handle. You say there is violence, but
>not anger-what an interesting proposition. I find implicit in this
>discussion the notion that anger, or "darkness of spirit" and "edginess"
>as you refer to it, is an
>undesirable quality. It reminds me of a good old Texan radio commentator
>I heard once who was talking about a Japanese woman he met in Hawaii who
>lost most of her family in World War II but was not "angry." He found this
>much to his liking. I imagine because it soothed his American guilt.
>Well-founded anger can be empowering, besides the fact that anger-like
>joy-is simply a part of life. Maybe it is the case that you find it more
>aggreable to have docile poor people.
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>Julie Coronado
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