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I'd rather visit Colombia. Brazil, for me, seems vastly overrated. I don't think Brazil, outside of Brasilia, Sao Paolo, and Rio, is as liberal and open as Americans make it out to be. I just don't see that at all. It's like Europeans thinking the US is party central and have only spent time in New York, Miami Beach, or L.A. Crime wise I might get away with being safe on account of that every Latin American friend I' ve had says I look like a light-medium tanned Mexican plus not speaking a single word of Portuguese puts me in a vulnerable position. I only know ola, não, sim and ladrão
Not true at all.
Floripa, poa, curtiba, etc are very progressive and open minded.
I'd rather visit Colombia. Brazil, for me, seems vastly overrated. I don't think Brazil, outside of Brasilia, Sao Paolo, and Rio, is as liberal and open as Americans make it out to be. I just don't see that at all. It's like Europeans thinking the US is party central and have only spent time in New York, Miami Beach, or L.A. Crime wise I might get away with being safe on account of that every Latin American friend I' ve had says I look like a light-medium tanned Mexican plus not speaking a single word of Portuguese puts me in a vulnerable position. I only know ola, não, sim and ladrão
What about an African American with a dark brown chocolate complexion?
Colombia would be the obvious choice for me ;
- pretty violent but not worse than Brazil (south of Brazil excepted)
- I speak Spanish, not Portuguese
- I don't like Brazilian music (too "soft"), I do like Colombian music very much
- for all its gigantic size, Brazil seems to have a less varied countryside than Colombia, which is an Andean, an Amazonian a Pacific and a Caribbean country
- I don't like the fact that in Brazil there is nowadays no political alternative to the Left, doesn't seem very democratic to me, all the more because nonetheless it's one of the countries with the most unequality between rich and poor in Latin America
- Brazilian food ? blah....feijoada is not that great to my tastes (beans beans and more beans)
- Most of the country let's face it (Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Sertao), is a flat, stifling hot plateau...
I love Colombia, it is one of my favorite countries in the world, even though it is the only country I was ever robbed in and there were a couple of towns I definitely felt uncomfortable in -- Mompos and La Plata. (No, wait, I was robbed in India, too. And Zambia, but that was just small change from my hotel room.) Brazil is pretty nice too, but I'm voting for Colombia.
I want to get to know both. I've already been to Colombia several times.
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