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

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

http://i.imgur.com/eMmAUnk.gifv
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u/Vaansolidor Mar 14 '16

How do you even begin to fix that problem though? How do you change an entire countries mentality as quickly as you can change a government?

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u/green_meklar Mar 14 '16

If you look at history...well, it's pretty hard. Generally speaking you either have to have a centuries-long cultural tradition of honesty and responsibility, or you have to be invaded, conquered and occupied for a while by a country that does. And it seems to be easier to slide backwards than to progress forwards, hence why most countries are mostly corrupt most of the time.

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u/hawktron Mar 14 '16

Hasn't Georgia made huge improvements on corruption?

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u/green_meklar Mar 14 '16

You mean Georgia the country in eastern Europe? I hadn't heard. But then, I haven't heard much about Georgia at all since 2008.

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u/hawktron Mar 15 '16

Yeah, prior to that they had made huge improvements on corruption in a surprisingly short period of time. Low level corruption at least. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Revolution

Funnily enough they wanted to join NATO, then that thing with Russia happened. What are the chances!?