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Your countrymen are just playing catch-up, on top of what the European colonialists did for centuries.

And not just "settlers" and miners acting on their own - but acting on the direct behalf of, and and funded by their local governments:

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/revealing-the-history-of-ge...

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They're catching up to where Europe was 200 years ago? Kind of insulting to Brazilians, don't you think?

I actually meant it more in this vein: "Given that the current descent into barbarbarism -- enacted by an outlier minority of their population, in one tiny corner of their country -- is still but a tiny fraction of what the Europeans, Arabs and their local proxies did, and much more as a popular and broadly-supported effort across pretty much the entire globe, across literally tens of generations, from about 500 until about 50 years ago -- as a people and a culture they aren't looking so bad."

Barbaric and shameful though it is.

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