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Especially a video from a Showtime erotic drama series from Playboy Entertainment.
[QUOTE My Brazil, from the perspective of a visiting businessman, is a world of offices and highrises and bad traffic and good coffee, along with glimpses of Favelas and warnings about not leaving my hotel at night. But they do have beautiful women.
Let's see if I can unpack that for you. Firstly, I didn't say it was representative of Brazil. I said "Why I Love Brazil - It's Exotic." Consider, that was 20 years ago when I was a young man of 50.
Memorandum of Clarification (MOC) in business-speak: It was 20 years ago that the Red Shoes Diaries video was made. It was almost 50 years ago I lived in Itacare.
Brazil is just Brazil- a country with tall people, short people, dark people, white people, nice people, a-holes, great music, horrible music, good food, bad food.
Its like all other countries and like all other people.
Brazil is just Brazil- a country with tall people, short people, dark people, white people, nice people, a-holes, great music, horrible music, good food, bad food.
Its like all other countries and like all other people.
So its a waste of time to travel, that's tired.
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
To me exotic is where I live, in Namibia. Here I feel like I am in another world with the desert and the tribes living in the middle of the desert, elephants on the wilderness, zebras crossing the roads. that is exotic to me
I also lived in Switzerland, and they were exotic to my colombian eyes, with their blonde hair, and their green mountains and glaciers, with pristine lakes with cristal clear water and chocolate and cheese.
but Brazil is very normal to me, I don't find them exotic at all, maybe because a lot of the things they do that people think it's exotic we do in Colombia as well
beaches, warm weather, tropical jungles, good looking women in tiny bikinis etc.
but if you come from the USA and you're used to American lifestyle with the religious prudish attitude and the big suburbias with pretty green lawns and big skyscrapers and giant cars with fancy shopping malls and friendly people smiling then aplace like brazil will seem exotic.
I am Colombian maybe that influences my view of Brazil, to me exotic is Namibia where I live, or Switzerland in Europe I lived there, but Brazil is very normal to me, I don't find them exotic at all, maybe because a lot of the things they do that people think it's exotic we do in Colombia as well
beaches, warm weather, tropical jungles, good looking women in tiny bikinis etc.
I noted, while living in Brazil, where we in the U.S.A would have calendars with tropical beach scenes, lush jungle and coconut palms, Brazilians might have calendars featuring tulips in Holland or views of the Alps.
All things considered, there is very little difference between Cartagena and many Brazilian coastal cities.
Maybe because I lived in areas of Quimbanda and Macumba practices it struct me as exotic. I have to admit, my beautiful exotic girlfriend from Salvador Bahia became a university professor and certainly doesn't look very exotic now
Maybe exotic, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
I would have loved to have seen your eerie Skeleton Coast.
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
I never said anything about not traveling. IMO the more you travel, the more you realize how similar people are.
I guess something might be exotic when it is far away, different, unknown. You see a place through utopian eyes. But once you see the good, the bad, the ugly, the place becomes more normalized.
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
You do bring up a great point. For people who say things like "all countries are the same" then what's the point of traveling to different countries?
You love Brazil because you think the babes are hot and you think it's easy to get laid.... youre just afraid to admit it.
I had a premonition you’d read this post, which I guess makes me a clairvoyant too. I'm 70 years old, a life long musician and probably still have more snatch under my fingernails than you'll get in a lifetime.
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