What an idiot. Does he understand why nicknames came to the fore in Brazillian football? Did he bother to find out? Clearly not. Pathetic. My experience of working in Brazil, it's actually a lot less third world than a lot of snooty cnts think.
I don't know the guy, but I got the impression from reading the blog that he lives in Brazil, and his wife is possibly Brazilian. I didn't think he was being snooty, and I don't think he implied that Brazil is third world - it just seemed like he was commenting on cultural differences between here and there. I found it interesting.
Yeah that was a good read, didn't come across as snooty or condescending IMO. I donth think he was conducting an investigation into the origins of Brazilian nomeculture, just looking at their application in a short piece. eNow wish I had a cool sounding Brazilian nickname though
What an idiot. Does he understand why nicknames came to the fore in Brazillian football? Did he bother to find out? Clearly not. Pathetic. My experience of working in Brazil, it's actually a lot less third world than a lot of snooty cnts think.
I think it's because of the highly visible contrast between rich and poor, and films like City of God that people have that impression Morts. I don't think it is necessarily them being snooty.
I don't know the guy, but I got the impression from reading the blog that he lives in Brazil, and his wife is possibly Brazilian. I didn't think he was being snooty, and I don't think he implied that Brazil is third world - it just seemed like he was commenting on cultural differences between here and there. I found it interesting.
Yep he's a working class bloke from Blackpool who has lived there years and is married to a Brazilian.
Good read, written by someone obviously living & socialising out there. Think Morts has taken it the wrong way, but he also seems to have experience of the country & some more background on the nickname phenomena. Would be nice if he could add to the piece...I'd certainly be interested.
In a multi-racial, multi-cultural society where racism was truly not an issue people would refer to each other by colour all of the time - like hair colour or style. The fact we are not comfortable with race or colour as a descriptor is evidence that we believe we have a problem not of maturity.
That said, I'd bet that there is more real, impact full discrimination in Brazilian society than there is here.
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Always found it funny they are basically in the stands going "pass to the duck!" etc.
About as far from snooty as you can get.
Brazilians make nicknames sound much cooler.
That said, I'd bet that there is more real, impact full discrimination in Brazilian society than there is here.