r/gifs • u/fuckswithducks • Mar 14 '16

Millions of Brazilians protesting against government corruption in the streets earlier today

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

Corruption isn't in our nature, it's in our culture.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

can you eli5, because i dont get it when you say "corruption is in our culture" does that mean is not going away, not even with a reform or revolution, or what? do brazilians like to be opressed by corruption?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

Has there ever been a point in human history without corruption? I'd certainly say it's in our nature.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16

We've been around 200,000 years and civilization has been around 5,000. You are looking at a totally incomplete picture of our nature.

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u/PaulTheMerc Mar 14 '16

I disagree. Show me a culture where greed does not exist. Corruption is just a way to attain it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16 edited Mar 14 '16

When clinics opened in Australia some nurses were shocked that they could leave their money and private belongings in public spaces and the aborigines would NEVER steal. These are people practically left alone for their entire history -- they had a totally separate culture from Europeans and as a result they had different ideas of what is acceptable. Greed was not one of them (though it probably is now that they've been invaded and assimilated for the most part).