You simply cannot go and spend public funds on the stadiums when there are a lot more infrastructural priorities. When you don't have adequate healthcare, when your roads and airports are barely sufficient for a big country like Brazil to function at optimum level, etc... these kind of investments need to be halted and I can understand the fury and dismay of Brazilians.
But again here this is what I don't get. South Africa is, IMO, even more f'ed up than Brazil. Brazil has been an economic darling of South America in the past decade under Lula, despite it's massive infrastructure problems. South Africa, on the other hand, still has criminals and corrupt thugs running the country. There are millions of people living in the townships, which are segregated slums that aren't even allowed to integrate with the nearby cities. Half the city populations seem to be working in private security when they are employed at all. The rest are scamming to make a living where they can.
So what makes the Brazilian psychology feel that they live in a much worse, much less invested hell hole than South Africa? Why must they insist on acting like these issues never occurred anywhere else in the world before where a WC was staged?
Geez... I'd like to think you're more intelligent than that. So what you're saying is that just because Africa didn't protest about them living in the worst conditions imaginable it's NOT OK for Brazilians to protest about some of their people to happen to live in the same exact conditions?
And sabotage it's international reputation? This made my heart stop for a minute. Seems your time spent in Africa taught you absolutely nothing.
I'm not even gonna waste my time with such ignorance and naivety.
My ignorance is in trying to understand what is it about the Brazilian psychology that thinks it's more exceptional than, say, a nation like South Africa. What is it that makes people want to inflict self-destructive harm upon themselves on a global stage to essentially tell the world not just that they shouldn't come to their WC -- which is petty on the big scheme of money and events anyway -- but that it's a country that essentially wants to discourage outside investment and create the impression that they're bloody well too fucked up to be relevant on the international stage.
If Brazil actually cared about improving their economic conditions, who cares about the football. But they should care about the international attention brought in around the football that tells the rest of the world how much they should float their debt, how much they should trust trade and commercial contracts with the nation, how much stability they think the world's commercial engines feel Brazil is worth investing in. Because everyone is going to see that.
That's the retarded thing, and I honestly can't wrap my head around it. It's like a mass hysteria event where people want to cut their noses off to spite their faces. It's a little like the riots that ripped about the own neighborhoods of people in Detroit, and the city has been a collapsed failure ever since.
Even saying "don't come to the WC" is telling tourists they are uninvited and should turn their backs on the country.
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