[owebmaster]

OP is one of many Brazilians that hates Brazil, which ironically is the reason why the country historically can't grow to its full potential

[Der_Einzige]

A lot of AI researchers were just in Brazil due to ICLR. A number of them got robbed in broad daylight in this supposedly nice part of Rio. I think the assesment of Brazil is accurate.

[matheusmoreira]

Not accurate, since it doesn't explain the normalized violence you observed. I was trying to be nice.

This thread is more like it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731174

[verdverm]

s/bigotry/fatalism/ ? (in the same sense of colloquial usage with Russians)