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Everybody around here (I am in São Paulo right now) is very unhappy about Robin Williams' little joke on how Rio got the Olympic Games instead of Chicago. Check out the joke here:
I mean, of course it was a stupid joke, but to go so far as to report it in several news programs as the headline and try to sue the artist for making a joke, that's a little bit too much. Especially for a people like us who LOVE to make jokes about everybody in the whole world.
Last year, when the Olympic games were happening in China, Jon and I were in Brazil to attend my sister's wedding. One day, when we were having some "quality" time watching TV (that's a good joke), we saw, for Jon's stupefaction (I'm already used to the absurdities in Brazilian TV), a little doll representing a Chinese person.
The doll was named Ni Hao and was an olympic hit around here - especially among children. I mean, what are we teaching our kids? That it is OK to make fun of how other people look like, just because they are different from ourselves. And even that is not true, since we have a whole bunch of Asian immigrants here who compose the miscegenation in Brazil.
But no, we are not racists... and no, we don't have prostitution or drugs traffic. God forbid someone make a joke about it. God is Brazilian, did you know that?
I mean, of course it was a stupid joke, but to go so far as to report it in several news programs as the headline and try to sue the artist for making a joke, that's a little bit too much. Especially for a people like us who LOVE to make jokes about everybody in the whole world.
Last year, when the Olympic games were happening in China, Jon and I were in Brazil to attend my sister's wedding. One day, when we were having some "quality" time watching TV (that's a good joke), we saw, for Jon's stupefaction (I'm already used to the absurdities in Brazilian TV), a little doll representing a Chinese person.
The doll was named Ni Hao and was an olympic hit around here - especially among children. I mean, what are we teaching our kids? That it is OK to make fun of how other people look like, just because they are different from ourselves. And even that is not true, since we have a whole bunch of Asian immigrants here who compose the miscegenation in Brazil.
But no, we are not racists... and no, we don't have prostitution or drugs traffic. God forbid someone make a joke about it. God is Brazilian, did you know that?
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