My Brazilian Slogans

After skyping with my brother who actually does work in Marketing, I decided that I should probably join him. You see, one day while walking down the streets of Copacabana, the perfect slogan for the country just popped right into my head:

Brazil: 

Even the white guys are hot.

It's true. Then I started trying to think of others.

 Brazil:

The only thing more beautiful than the nature is the language.

 
But then the sarcasm set in...

 Brazil:

Bureaucracy at its longest and most obnoxious.

(Everything from visa processes and grocery stores to the tiniest little shops...you name it.) 

and...

Brazil:

They don't know that it's just soccer.

I mean it. People here are serious when they say it's like a religion to them. It looks exactly that way from the outside. People grow up in a family rooting for this team or that and nothing is more important to them than their team winning. All logic and rationality seem to go out the window and the term "petty argument" takes on a whole new meaning.

It's an actual problem in some marriages because the husband and wife root for different teams; soccer causes serious fights and sometimes even death here. Religion and soccer. In my mind, those are not big enough reasons for people to abandon logic, to fight, or to die. But I'm sure people will continue to do so for both so I'm just gonna let it go.


Anyway, that was my dip into "marketing" (though I'd only really recommend the first one) and I'm done now. Back to my usual focus on linguistics, traveling, teaching, psychology, social justice and hippie-lifestyles!