Stephanie Ong
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Given that I am an Ex-Pat and DO live in Alagoas, the Northeast, the butt of the country as it were, I think I can answer you.

Brazil does NOT have a society that is designed to be places of equality, opportunity, and fairness.

Yes, Brazil has SUS, a version of public health care, it is just not efficient, as a single sonogram test can take a year to get. IF it were deployed properly, there would be less of a problem. However it is NEW. It was not established in 1948. The newness of all the current programs, topped with the corruption of the rich, and the ideology of the poor are the big factors.

Brazil had a dictatorship, one supported by the US government in 1964. (My grandfather was on the USS Forrestal at the time). The problem is that many Brazilians are content with existing and not true freedom.

Brazil is HIGHLY religious, which perpetuates poverty in it’s teaching, and and Anti-Abortion, which perpetuates poverty as poverty generally breeds poverty — odds of getting out of poverty are low when combined with lack of proper nutrition, education, and continued religious indoctrination. The religious nature of the country keeps the people content in existing/a heartbeat/life and not striving to live.

I’m sure in time, if the social programs are allowed to improve and flourish and the people move away from the life is enough and actually start to desire to LIVE or die trying, THEN the country will follow Europe and not the US.