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Brazilians and the Amazon

  
   

The blame game is not constructive!

  
I've seen many Brazilians say about the Belo Monte issue that we non-Brazilians should fix our own back yard and not interfere with Brazil. This is the old blame game it's main pretext is like "You're doing it too so I can do it too, nah nah nah nah nah". Yes, kind of childish, isn't it, which is why I chose to add the picture of the little girl on the left. As far as I know however Planet Earth is only ONE eco system and every harm being done will therefore effect us all. Of course our own back yard is also important but that is in no way going to excuse
  Brazil in any way. This issue is not about criticism and ego's, it's about Earth!
   

None of us ever mentioned any "noble savage"

  
Some Brazilians unprovokingly stated that "the noble savage doesn't exist." Do we really need telling then? The so-called "noble savage" is an old fashioned and completely outdated idea that no intelligent person will still adhere to in this day and age. The english writer Charles Dickens once wrote a short essay called "The Noble Savage" which was intensely racist, so you can rest assure dear Brazilians, that no one standing up for Indians will even like the term "noble savage" in the first place. Natives are just people who, like anyone else, can do good and bad things. Nobody is romanticizing them here but we simply are stating that they have a right to their existence like everybody else and if that right is somehow taken away, that that is a grave violation of human rights.

Charles Dickens

(1812 - 1870)

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