Sunday, November 08, 2009

What the hell is going on here?

My vast reading audience...what things come to your mind when you see the word "Brazilian?" Something sexy, yes?

Some kinds of jazz?

The bossa nova, perhaps?

The Braga women;
(BebĂȘ, vocĂȘ pode conduzir meu carro.)



enough supermodels to make a calendar for every day in the year, and...


...never have to repeat?

Kirsty MacColl's (bless her) final album?

And er, uh...y'know?





Those are the things I think of. Plus of course, Gilliam's Brazil, but that's not really connected to the country.

What I don't think of is a country where a 20-year-old woman can be driven from her school because she was wearing a mini-dress. With a line of students chanting "whore" at her. And yet...

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