This is how Augustin de Saint-Hilaire, French botanist and traveler, described Brazilians in 1820:
"What seems certain is that everything took place in an orderly fashion, without the shedding of a single drop of blood. This people carry out revolutions with a wisdom that I never tire of admiring, though its causes are easily understood. Brazilians are naturally cold, slow, and not very passionate; since I have been in this country, I have not yet met a single person who displayed any enthusiasm. Even the children have surprised me with their grave and reflective demeanor—they are men in miniature. With this character and accustomed to blind submission, this people must naturally continue to maintain respect for authority, even when revolting against it."
The hypersocial, extroverted, loud, obnoxious, criminally-inclined Brazilians people think of because of the media and the internet are a tiny subset of specifically Cariocas (people from Rio de Janeiro) and university students.
To think all Brazilians are like this is to say "Americans wear large gold chains and play basketball all day" without asking "which Americans?"
Poverty never stopped children from playing. This shoe doll, made in around 1905 in London, was crafted from a worn-out man's shoe heel, fabric scraps, and an old black sock for hair. It is now preserved in the Museum of Childhood.
when someone asks me to go out and i say yes without thinking about my crippling savings account because time is meant to be wasted with friends and money is meant to be spent and the world is meant to be experienced and life is meant to be lived
Ever since I was a little girl I always knew I wanted to play the role of Wife Who Aggressively Lotions Her Body While Having A Conversation With Her Husband At Bedtime
@10HSUN6HMOON this is so true my Saturn is in the 12h every time I do bunch of drugs it’s another mind blowing experience. experiencing levels of existing that were never experienced before