On May 24, 2:48*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
On May 24, 11:44*am, John Smith wrote:





On 5/24/2011 11:32 AM, bpnjensen wrote:

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Mexico does have a problem - a very serious one - with political
corruption, as do many Latin American nations. *Their history is rife
with corrupt events that make ours look paltry by comparison. *With
this crap going on and the needs of the electorate ignored, can you
blame them for wanting to leave? *I have a co-worker of Brazilian
ancestry, a great person and proud American BTW, who left because she
was sick of the Brazilian corruption.

Bruce

Yeah, but in reality, what happens is, they attempt to leave the
problems, not realizing they are part of them, this results in them
transporting the problems to a new area ...

You see the above on a smaller scale when people leave the city to
escape the problems and go to the smaller towns. *They end up enacting
the same ordinances, rules, laws, actions, styles, mindsets, etc. which
caused all the problems in the first place! *Soon, the place they left
is no different that the place they are ...

Regards,
JS

Well, speaking only for my Brazilian co-worker - she's a great asset
to her community, which is not Brazilian but American. *I don't think
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I always wondered- why did all the former Latin American Spanish
Colonies broke up into separate countries , while Brazil (formerly
Portuguese ) is still intact ?