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The photographs give us the degree of difference between the two localities
posted by
adventurer02
on September 18, 2015 at 11:55 PM
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Ay benzinha
that is most interesting.
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on September 22, 2004 at 4:40 AM
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Padrecito, there is a famous Brasilian CARNAVAL song which says,
Alegria de pobre e' fazer nenem, televisao de pobre e' janela, e' janela de tren....
Poor peoples' happiness is making babies, television of poor people is the window, the window of a train....
The poor people in the 'favelas' (slums) used to write all of their own songs to dance to in their samba schools and were so real, in the old days.....and we all sang them, millions of voices together for four days and nights. Each slum has its own samba school, but now they all have corporate sponsors and famous people leading the parades, not authentic and not gutsy anymore....not real, nor of the people, the poor.
posted by
benzinha
on September 22, 2004 at 1:13 AM
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Friar, that relationship pops up every now and then. Of course, the cardinal sins obstruct the spread of poor-happy relationships.
posted by
mariantonia
on September 10, 2004 at 3:14 PM
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Mariantonia
Gallup should make a new study. There seems to be some kind of relationship between happiness and being poor.
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on September 10, 2004 at 8:33 AM
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Sorry for the typo - huts.
posted by
mariantonia
on September 9, 2004 at 3:04 PM
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Friar, they don't look as bad as those cardboard houses where huta are erected using cardboard only. Once, I joined a mail program supporting poor kids from Philippines. A boy wrote to me describing his cardboard house. I've seen this type of house in other parts of the world too. It amazes me that the people are happy. They are blessed. Like what is preached in The Beatitudes.
posted by
mariantonia
on September 9, 2004 at 3:03 PM
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