18 abril 2008

I said to myself


I was recently dining in a restaurant in S. Paulo when the chief waiter approached me and asked if I was liking the food. I answered affirmatively and took the opportunity to tell him a lot of good things about Brazil.

He listened to me attentively. When I finished my long list of features I considered great about Brazil and the Brazilian people, he said.

"Sim, é um país muito bom. Os políticos é que são muito corruptos".

"Shit!", I said to myself. "These guys are even worse than their former colonizers. The first thing they do before a foreigner is to badmouth their own people - and the bad guys are always the other guys".

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