A BBC publicou em seu site uma ótima matéria sobre o nosso problema de auto-estima continental.
Destaque para alguns trechos afiados:
I put that to some Brazilian friends. Some readily admitted what I had come to suspect: that the bravado and bluster mask was something close to a national inferiority complex.
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She recalled that the government here recently launched a publicity drive to boost the nation’s self-esteem. The slogan is: “The best of Brazil is the Brazilian people.”
Another Brazilian friend described this country as a hormonally-challenged adolescent in the global family of nations - beset by growing pains and prickly when offered advice.
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Could it be that the Brazilians have the most swaggering inferiority complex in the world? The next time I’m asked “Do you like Brazil?”, I will reply unequivocally: “Yes, it’s a great country. But you shouldn’t need me , or any other foreigner to tell you so.”
Recomendo a leitura integral do texto. Vale a pena a reflexão.
