Comment Re:Can you please explain "third world"? (Score 1) 211
I live in Brazil, and have lived in the US for one year in a very poor state (Mississippi).
I do believe you are right about "understanding and supportive of the poor". However poor people in Brazil do not have anything even close to what anyone in the US would call appropriate conditions for living. No health support, financial/social security aid, adequate sanitary conditions or even access to education.
And yes, "Whether the extremely poor live better in Brazil or in the US is very questionable"... but it is surely harder to survive in Brazil being extremely poor.
I do believe you are right about "understanding and supportive of the poor". However poor people in Brazil do not have anything even close to what anyone in the US would call appropriate conditions for living. No health support, financial/social security aid, adequate sanitary conditions or even access to education.
And yes, "Whether the extremely poor live better in Brazil or in the US is very questionable"... but it is surely harder to survive in Brazil being extremely poor.
