I genuinely don't recognise this Brazil that has so offended so many. I've never visited a more racially integrated country than Brazil*. Until the rise of the evangelical churches the national religion was essentially Catholicism mixed with African paganism. Brazil has had a racially mixed football team way before any European team did.
(*It's by no means perfect and the upper echelons of society tend to be white but there is nowhere in Europe or North America in which at the level of the working classes and lower middle classes there is genuine colour blindness.)
Anyway, you can all hold your deep seated prejudice against the place and its footballers, and enjoy your days of gloating.
(*It's by no means perfect and the upper echelons of society tend to be white but there is nowhere in Europe or North America in which at the level of the working classes and lower middle classes there is genuine colour blindness.)
Anyway, you can all hold your deep seated prejudice against the place and its footballers, and enjoy your days of gloating.
Comment