And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Haha! Yep, I see what you did there. I'm always amused (or annoyed, depending on my mood) by persons who have some fantasy of Brazil as a land of homogeneously brown people where "there is NO racism!" Idiots. They make a bigger deal about skin color (with attendant assumptions about social class) than we do in these United States.
As the discerning readers of this blog know, the further south you go in Brazil, the whiter it gets. Ms Dicker comes from the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, where it's overwhelmingly European.
Her name is promising.
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ReplyDeleteI detect some Celtic stock here. Appears to be one of thousands Irlando-brasileiros.
DeleteHaha! Yep, I see what you did there. I'm always amused (or annoyed, depending on my mood) by persons who have some fantasy of Brazil as a land of homogeneously brown people where "there is NO racism!" Idiots. They make a bigger deal about skin color (with attendant assumptions about social class) than we do in these United States.
DeleteAs the discerning readers of this blog know, the further south you go in Brazil, the whiter it gets. Ms Dicker comes from the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, where it's overwhelmingly European.
i imagine the long tresses streaming back in the airflow as she glides by me on her broomstick
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