Japanese Brazilian here: In the US I noticed that Asian man are not considered handsome or manly. Here in Brazil we're considered normal I guess. Not better, not worse than others.
2:20 São Paulo is not "immigrant friendly" that implies there are people there who are not immigrants... the whole city is made of random people from random places.
The "stereotypical" person from São Paulo is literally a mixed person who is half Japanese descendent and half Italian descendent lmao, not to mention a huge ammount of the people who live here were born in the countryside or even other states entirely
“Not super developed compared to US”… I’m from Europe. São Paulo is exactly like a US city. Rich and modern as anywhere in Europe in parts, way poorer than Europe in other parts. Which is exactly what a city in the US looks to a European.
São Paulo concentrates 25% of homeless people across the country, not the state of São Paulo, just the capital! There are certainly more homeless people in São Paulo than Rio de Janeiro. What changes is that in SP there are large agglomerations of homeless people at certain points, the Government tries to prevent these people from spreading, especially in the noblest areas of the capital. This may have been your perception because the government of Rio de Janeiro is less competent in hiding its incompetence. And yes, NY have more homeless people than SP.
Pretty insightful. It may depend on how it’s measured such as absolute number, per capita, per sq mile, but as you said it could just be concentrated in some area which may affect perceptions of how many there are
@@bunny_talks Also, nice video. Travel here more often. I recommend the northeast part of the country, it has a smaller infrastructure than the southeast but the places are much more beautiful and the beaches are cleaner. Searching for "Lençois Maranhenses" is insane. th-cam.com/video/XDUcPQEg8aQ/w-d-xo.html
@@bunny_talks I'm from Rio and I think a lot of the homeless people there actually have a home somewhere far away, but they don't have jobs so they go to downtown or more busy parts of the city to ask for money. But I've been to São Paulo in December and was completely baffled by the amount of people actually living in tents on the street, it was crazy.
Já saiu várias matérias falando sobre moradores de rua crescendo no sul e sudeste, após investigações foi constatado que vários prefeitos de esquerda do nordeste (principalmente petistas) estão mandando caravanas de mendigos pra todo sudeste e o sul, principalmente SP pq é o estado que a esquerda mais tenta destru1r e sempre foi assim.
The tinder thing - I can confirm with you that's true as a Chinese Australian down in Brazil. My matches were lit af over there, and the quality of which were better than what I got in Australia and the United States. Have a feeling it's because there's no negative stereotypes of Asians in Brazil (as Japanese, Korean and Chinese Brazilians seem to be doing fine in dating), unlike that of the USA.
It's not a negative but particularly in Anglo Celtic countries financial status and racial preferences tend to be higher up on the list for the average white / women.
@@bunny_talks Be careful using Tinder. People are kidnapped daily (golpe de Tinder, golpe de amor) and forced to transfer all of their money. Some are killed. Dating apps are a no-go in SP. Many foreigners have had it happen in the last few months.
there definetely is - i went to a high school in Sao Paulo that was at least half Asian and most of them had no dating experience, but pardos (mixed) and whites in general had
We don’t call Brazilians with Japanese descend Japanese as we don’t call Italian decends Italians. We are a very integrated culture. We are all Brazilians!!
@@au1k é meio que verdade, mas a comunidade Japonesa é meio que a exceção, tanto que por aqui é comum as pessoas chamarem pessoas com etnia Asiática de Japa.
@@au1k eu acho que isso é por causa da concentração de descendentes de japoneses em GRANDE maioria em São Paulo, do estado em que eu sou, mal tem descendentes japoneses muito menos asiáticos no geral, então qualquer um vira japa
Summary of this video: "Wow, they have water in Brazil, even though they are a second world country. Wow, they have streets in Brazil, even though they are a second world country." Bro is literally the average american
I think you confused the smell of Rio: sea air is not piss. People running after a green card? Please, as they say in Brazil, US could be a nice place but it isn't "the last cookie in the package"
Dependendo do lugar, tem lugares no rio que cheiram a xixi realmente, principalmente aquela região do centro/lapa, uma coisa q eu tenho a dizer e q já morei em salvador q era conhecida por ser assim, e tb no rio que está sendo conhecida por isso tb. E q isso é questão de gestão, cabe a prefeitura cuidar disso…
This idea of a "green card" doesn't make sense. Brazilians are much more free and enjoy casual sex, and women should be free to do what they want sexually. On Tinder, people are looking for sex, not marriage.
@@renanrodriguesmezzomo6827 I think he is the one who should explain his own words... I think... I don't know. Maybe he should check up with you first? Maybe ask for your permision? 🤔
@@RockLucena i think this little discurssion wouldnt have happened if you had paid attention to what the interrogation point on my comment meant, the one looking for an uncalled and unecessary fight is you, if thats what you are accusing me of.
we are more open that's why your tinder go crazy. We love meeting people, and Brazil have more japanese people than US, so we dont have negative stereotypes of asian like in US.
@@1525boy the same, since we're a mixed and tropical country it's not uncommon to find brown skinned asians. Basically if you don't point out you're foreigner we will think you're Brazilian.
US always thinking about superiority.. 😂 Tiring... Brazilian People are lively something unique compared to other countries in the world. Besides homeless people and drug addicted people are some big problems in US. Sao Paulo is fifth in the World’s Largest Cities by Population Ranking in 2024. I'm proud of Sao Paulo, as a Japanese Brazilian, I love Sao Paulo! 🇧🇷
There's a Korean female model that has a kind of famous TH-cam channel here in Brazil, I do believe she really likes here and people here love her videos If you're curious the her channel is Coreana Soyeon
As a brazilian, i can say that we just like foreigners in general. That's cause is kind of fun to meet a foreigner, but in cities like Rio where there are a lot of foreigners people don't care that much.
"second world" refers to communist countries, such as the USSR. This whole terminology comes from the cold war era. First world being the developed "free west", second world being the communists, third world being anyone that didn't fit the first two, seen as places to be controlled by them. That way of addressing countries was technically ditched, in an attempt to remove the political bias inherent in the way people thought of countries. But it seems most US people are not aware of any of this, just like so much else.
São Paulo has a massive, highly efficient public transport system covering the whole city - which is much bigger than any US city. Nowhere in the US is nearly as developed as São Paulo in that sense.
Huh? New York says Hello. It's way way bigger. Metro on new york is almost 4x bigger than SP, in a way way smaller city, covering waaaay more areas. Not comparable at all.
Ok so I've been using tinder in Salvador Brazil, mocking my location and I get wayyyy more matches. I think it's because brazilian women are generally curious about gringos and why they are in brazil. Dating culture is also very different in Brazil than in the US, brazilian people move wayyy faster. Also for asian guys, they are a bonus because a lot of brazilian girls are into kpop or k-dramas. As far as cost in brazil yes its generally quite cheaper if you get paid in dollars. But not as cheap as some other latam countries like colombia. Food in big cities is expensive, too expensive for the average brazilian. Not sure how the average brazilian survives.
@@jonatasmendonca2079 I never said Salvador was the best. I only picked it because it was the city I've been to before. There are thousands of cities in Brazil, most will be good to get matches for gringos/as
@@mrnarason don't care about him, salvador is a good place to match on tinder, he says that because people here in the south tend to think they are european and better than other states.
Regarding the cities, smells, and food: those are your experiences and opinions, and they’re valid. However, I believe you misunderstood Brazil in your Tinder discussion. Not many people here are focused on obtaining a green card. Contrary to some Americans’ beliefs, not everyone in LATAM is eager to move to the US or sees it as superior. Most of us have family, jobs, homes, and friends in Brazil, and we don’t intend to leave. You need a visa to be here, not us. While we may not be treated as well abroad as we treat foreigners here, that doesn’t make you special. People use Tinder daily and often meet strangers, regardless of whether we’re thin or you’re a foreigner. Those theories don’t hold up. Don’t mistake our kindness, openness, and curiosity for submissiveness, ulterior motives, or envy. That’s just a LATAM stereotype.
IT'S NOT PISS, IT'S MARESIA 😂 THE SMELL OF THE OCEAN. In Rio and at other beaches in Brazil the smell of the ocean is very proeminent. In Rio, the hole city is surrounded by the beach, of course it will smell like beach. And if you're thinking WHY AT THE BEACH you didnt smell the same thing: ITS BECAUSE OF THE WIND DIRECTION. Imagine that the wind brings the ocean smell into the city and there are buildings and other stuff that concentrate that. I've lived in Rio for 5 years. Piss smell is something I never heard before from anyone about Rio 😂
As to homelessness, I think that was just an impression. The US fares worse than Brazil in this regard, both in the whole country and in the cities you specifically mentioned (about 7k homeless people in Rio, 24k in São Paulo, and over 60k in NYC), although it is difficult to gauge with accuracy. And New York is smaller than São Paulo, so it has more homeless people per capita too. With regard to dating, I can say Brazilians are very welcoming of foreigners, which may have played a role in your experience; unfortunately this holds true mostly for foreigners from the so-called developed countries. Pricewise, you have been to two very expensive cities for Brazilian standards. I am from Brasília, the capital city, and find restaurant prices in São Paulo a complete rip-off. Finally, cheap services and low minimum wage probably have to do with our slavery past and the resulting income inequality we are yet to overcome.
I don't know where you're getting your information from, but to say that homelessness is more rampant in the US than in Brazil is crazy lol... It's just not true, any way you slice it.
@@salami7677 Googling the data shows that the states are more homeless. and even if it is a larger country, this number of residents should be less precisely because it is a 1st world country. Brazil is from the 3rd world and has much less.
@@salami7677 Man the city of Los Angeles only have almost 3x the population of homeless people of the city of São Paulo and this city is the biggest in population of the continent, wtf are you on.We are talking about 2023 US not the 50s things are going so bad there that you refuse to face real data. The richest state of the US is also the numbers 1 in poor people, that is saying something right.14% of employees of big groceries stores in America are homeless that just don't happen not even 5% in south America, if you have a job here you still have a shittty house just do a little research
I'm from Rio. I just think your point of view is influenced by a lot of things. You said your friend is from São Paulo, of course he/she took you to the best places. In my case, I've never seen too much homeless people as in São Paulo city center, nothing compared to Rio city center. Not to mention "cracolândia". Another thing, sterotypical view: going to Rio (for the beaches). It's very shallow to talk about a big city just about 2 or 3 urban beaches. Of course that they are usually crowded, a lot of people live there, and that are also a lot of tourists. It's like saying that Times Square in New York should be a calm touristic attraction. Rio has much better beaches if you want only natural beauty. Rio has much more important historical places as well, since it has the capital of Brazil for centuries, it was also the capital of the Portuguese Empire. Cultural wise, Rio has a long history of creating a lot of music style, it's basically the cultural and media capital of Brazil. The history of São Paulo is much more related to get rich and big based on agriculture and later industries and services got there seaching for money. I'm not saying the it's not super important, but it's only about money. Of course that with a lot of people (seraching for money), from different places, São Paulo culture, culture and history came as well. São Paulo is super important for Brazil, I have nothing against it. About Rio: Saying that a whole big city smells bad is physically impossible, maybe on the bus you were affected by some illness that temporarily changed your sense of smell. Or maybe you just went to the worst places of the city.
Carioca bairrista, but Rio is a country separated of Brazil, the State most diferent of Brazil, more than Rio Grande do Sul maybe, culture of Brazil is much more similiar to São Paulo than with Rio, Brazil is a major agrarian country, Rio is an ex-capital with rich people living around favelas that think that the States of Brazil cares even about a decadent culturally city periferical...
@@luanlopes9415 Não é questão de bairrismo, só quis fazer um contraponto com o que foi dito no vídeo. Se ele falasse sobre qualquer cidade daquele jeito, apoiaria quem a defendesse, porque na minha opinião ele falou sem nenhum argumento lógico. Parece apenas puro preconceito.
I'm pretty sure he smelled maresia (I have no idea how to say maresia in english) and the was like "yea its probably piss" which it isnt because Leblon DEFINETELY doesnt smell like piss and felt uncomfortable. Since his friend is from São Paulo and many people from São Paulo have no idea how maresia smells like he just agreed. And the first place he visited in Rio was the Rio Novo Bus Station and that place in specific has a bigger ratio of homelessness and there really can smell like piss, he assumed it is everywhere because he had a terrible first impression.
I cant go on with your video since you keep referring Brazil to the second world country. Its interesting cuz as a fellow Asian you must have been through racism against Asian to some extent and you propagate this obsolete colonial mindset. People think they are cultured based on how many stamps or stickers on their passport, but apparently they are not, including you.
Not a random crypto guy saying people should be able to choose minimun wage, man, people wouldn't pay anything to maids, here in brazil they already dont receive much and people still dont pay all their rights, without the government guaranteeing that the minimum wage is X, people would just pay less and exploit even more workers who are already exploited. The rest of the video was good.
The whole thing about SP having more japanese people (and asians in general) is all because of immigration. In the beggining of the 1900's, lots of japanese people came to Brazil looking for work at the coffee farms, and they sort of spread all over the state, and some of them went to the south of the country as well. That's also why the Liberdade neighborhood exists, which, if you didn't know already, means Freedom, and it became sort of a symbol for the japanese community :)
mas, se não me engano, o nome do bairro tem a ver com o passado escravocrata do que com a imigração do leste asiático. ali era onde eram enforcados ou libertos es cravos, por isso a igreja dos aflitos na rua dos aflitos pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capela_dos_Aflitos
Loved your video, it was so honest! Usually, people who visit Brazil share only good things on the internet to gain attention and Brazilian fans. I've never been to Rio or São Paulo, but the reason Rio has more homeless people definitely isn't because how many jobs are offered in there. It is because Rio has a long history of trying to “erase” poor and black people from the map, with the local government taking them out from their houses to make the city “prettier for tourists”. Of course, it made everything worse. The favelas (unsafe self-made housing) emerged, and more people became homeless. In general, Brazilian biggest cities vary in quantity of homeless people, cities like Porto Alegre, one of the richest outside Rio-SP, has a lot of them also. Goiânia, even tho being poorer and the exact same size, has way less people sleeping in the streets. In the end, it all comes down to how the cities were founded and their history (Goiânia was a planned city and Porto Alegre wasn't). Also, the thing about the buses are so true. Sometimes I felt taking and airplane was a much worse experience than taking a bus, TBH. It happens because there are not many options to transportation in the country: it is either taking airplanes or buses. There are almost no trains in Brazil because the government wanted to promote creations of car factories with the industrialization, in mid 20th century - and no one changed it since then.
You are wrong about RJ and SP. There is an absurdly higher number of homeless people in São Paulo. The difference in the size of the two cities is enormous and the concentration of poor people in the noble areas of Rio is great while, in SP, the poorest were thrown away from the central zone. São Paulo has a much stricter historical hygienist policy than Rio de Janeiro. This is so evident there that we see phenomena such as Alphaville and the formation of the Higienópolis neighborhood.
@@lucas-prado o centro de São Paulo é onde mais tem moradores de rua em São Paulo, Alphaville nem fica na cidade de São Paulo, eu trabalhei em Higienópolis por volta de 2015 e não tem mesmo moradores de rua lá, mas quase não tem gente andando na rua lá, o que mais tem na verdade é pessoa passeando com os cachorros dos ricos e bem pertinho de lá tem a praça da república e a paulista que é bem mais movimentada e tem um monte de morador de rua, o que faz mais sentido (eu acho) que em Higienópolis. Não faço ideia sobre o que o Heitor flw sobre o Rio mas sobre São Paulo o que vc disse não fez sentido pra mim.
O que eu falei sobre Alphaville e Higienopolis foi sobre a política higienista histórica de SP que formou esse condomínio que em SP teve aderência em larguíssima escala e o bairro (Higienopolis) que foi construído literalmente para separar ricos de pobres. Não falei de moradores de rua neles. 😉
Só não esqueça de dizer que muitos dos mendigos de SP foram trazidos do nordeste, mtos prefeitos do nordeste estão mandando caravanas de mendigos e mandando pra SP de forma cr1m1n0s4. Saiu matérias falando sobre isso, mas quase ninguém comenta sobre pq é a esquerda que faz isso.
The US seems to be at the top of the fat charts. But Brazil isn’t far behind. It’s a typical new world country - excess in consumption. Brazil, Mexico, the US, Canada, etc all have huge issues with diabetes, high sugar intact and general health issues around a middle class culture of over consumption
(Asian person here) I went to Rio over 15 years ago and there was definitely some homeless people, but I would not have guessed that there would be more than New York. There were parts of Rio that definitely reminded me of New York (also parts of Naples). And the urine smell must be a new thing. I don't think it was like that when I went. Even in the favelas. I found Brazilian women to be beautiful, both slim and thicc, but one thing I noticed was the popularity of plastic surgery and I wasn't crazy about that look. As an Asian person, Brazilians were very warm towards me. The only race-related funny thing that happened to me was a bunch of kids chasing me around and laughing at me because it was the first time they'd ever seen an Asian person. And yeah some people thought I was from Liberdade (neighborhood where Japanese people live in SP). I can speak a bit of Brazilian Portuguese so that probably helped a bit. Thanks for sharing. I have only been to Rio and would love to visit other parts of Brazil one day.
Dude, a LOT of things you said came out as just weird. I don't know if you meant em or not, or you're just too young to have a proper worldview, but you had just an odd way of putting things that just comes out as almost disrespecful. And I'm not even talking about the "fatphobic" stuff. First of all I don't think you'd be robbed through Tinder. Not any more than you would in USA at least and RELAX: We don't want your kidneys. We are not interested in your kidneys. That being said, minnimal wage exists not at the same level of "going to the bathroom". It's less the government demanding you of doing something and more of the government preventing someone of exploiting the desperation of the poor. I guess you can't see that maybe because you've been living protected in a bubble of privilege, but there are poverty and desperation in the world that could (AND WAS FOR A LONG TIME) being exploited by some greedy people. (And that's not exclusive of Brazil. I'm talking about USA as well FYI)
@@BiemexBmXBG And I'm not even talking about the "pee smell in Rio everywhere". I don't live in Rio but I've been there several times throughout the years and I've never ever feel nothing even kind of close (let alone everywhere). But let's give him the benefit of the doubt: - Dude visited during the carnival: But they clean aftarwards. EVERYDAY! -No! That year for some reason they didn't clean anything: Never seen that, but just wait for the next day and everything is spotless -NO! For some reason the exact time that guy came by, the government and public agencies DON'T WORK (never happened) But EVEN SO:... It's NOT "everywhere"
and also the minimum wage in Brasil is bigger than in the US, the problem is that americans usually make more than minimum (because it is so low it is impossible to live with that) and in Brazil a lot of people dont even make minimum wage, usually the domestic workers he mentioned just wanted to add that
You actually compare Brazils price of things using usd dollars. It doesn't work that way when you live in another country, you need to compare the local currency price considering that the salary it's also in local currency. SP is definitely not cheap... you might think like this because you earn in dollars, but of you were to move and work here you would realize it's expensive city. Also, the difference between BRL and dollar has increased a lot in the last 10 years... but it did not use to that different. Also, I think seeing Brazil as a third world country is not correct, Brazil is an emerging country and in lot of ways are better than the US when it comes to life quality. Labour is definitely not cheap and having a personal chef means the person is extremely rich here. I also thought it a bit weird like people asked you about how girls look here, this wouldn't be acceptable in my group of friends.... also about dating apps, people here use a lot for hookups, but although they use a lot, it's not easy to make it anymore than 1x date. I can't tell much about Rio, I haven't visited it on the last 10 years or so, but it did not use to smell like piss. I like that you pointed out the differences with honesty, I been in a lot of countries and I actually realized a lot of things are better here. Also, about weight, is more about the type of food we eat here maybe..
I am american so i always compare in USD. My friend in brazil who i stayed with has been commenting that BRL has 'gone to shit' in recent years which is why USD is really good. He works for a foreign company where he gets paid in USD then converts it, so we normally use it to compare using that. and yes about the personal chef person, he is very rich in brazilian standards, but in the US his salary would be 'slightly above average' salary, but it highlights the large wage and labor differences between brazil and the US. as for teh whole emerging vs developing country thing. When I was in business school in early 2010s, we used to study the BRIC nations as the emerging countries in the future. Brazil russia india china. SInce then, brazil has definitely fallen behind all those countries in economic development.
@@bunny_talks I get where you are coming from. I understand that it makes sense for you and your friend to compare to dollar, but your friend is definitely an exception situation. I work for an american multinational and I know a lot of people who do the same and we earn a good salary, but not converting from USD. But the average brasilian earn and live in BRL. The difference between USD and BRL is only relavant to us if we travel abroad mostly. An ok place in São Paulo nowadays is 2x the minimum wage salary and a lot of population dont earn it, even if have a good university degree. About having a maid, its not rare as it is in the US, but you also have to be upperclass to have it. Middle class is not able to afford it now a days. I honestly dont think we are that far from orther emerging countries. Life quality here is not what I would call a third world country quality. We have a decent public health care and the best universities are the public ones. We have been in economic and political crisis and that affected a lot the currency exchange. Im not trying to picking a fight, we just have different opinions.
In São Paulo I met my YiQuan ShiFu Paulo Yong (his name now). And it was WONDERFUL!!! He has been like a father to me for almost 20 years. Distance will never change that.
Eu nao sei como esse video veio parar nas minhas sugestões, mas ele é tipo um acidente de carro horroroso que nao dá pra parar de olhar. Meu deus, quanta fala preconceituosa. Pelo menos ele foi justo e ofendeu todo mundo igual, mulheres, pessoas gordas, latinas... a mentalidade media do americano é de (uma falsa) superioridade mesmo. Ps: rio de janeiro feio???
Those comfortable busses are the intercity travel busses. The ones we use in our everyday lives to get around inside a city are a lot less comfortable, as you might imagine. And really really packed. And what's that about the $90 meal? Holy crap, that's an expensive place you've been to. If you really want cheap meals, you can find places for much cheaper. There used to be a place here that would serve you a whole meal for like $0.20
3:19 "labor is so cheap..." brother, it is not. I mean, it is if you're looking through the lens of hte wealthiest people in the country (which kinda says a lot about your privilege). Most workers are "unionized" as you say in the US, but the main difference is that we have federally guaranteed benefits, such as 13º monthly wage (twice a year we get paid an extra half monthly wage), federally guaranteed retirement fund, guaranteed transportation "vouchers" if you live more than 1 kilometer (aprox 0.62 miles) away from the company, federally guaranteed minimum wage, tax breaks (if you're under 2 minimum wages monthly salary), etc. And most benefits are paid by the company Keeping a worker is expensive, but Brazil is also a country with a very intensive social inequity. While the rich are very rich, the poor are very poor. We also are having a wave of "PJtismo" (similar to contracting) where people don't get those federally guaranteed benefits. As a comparison, I'm going to lay down numbers. 90% of Brazillian workers earn less than R$ 3,500.00(1), and minumium wage in 2014 is R$ 1,412.00. As you can see, from those numbers alone, labor is not cheap. You're just privileged enough to think so, and privileged enough to be with a family that lives like that. (1)www.reddit.com/r/brasil/comments/1dqpi85/90_da_população_brasileira_ganha_menos_de_r_3_mil/#:~:text=O%20Decreto%20Legislativo%20172%2F2022,1º%20de%20fevereiro%20de%202025.&text=90%25%20dos%20Brasileiros%20ganha%20até,*13%3D%2039mil%20POR%20ANO. economia.uol.com.br/noticias/bbc/2021/12/13/calculadora-de-renda-90-brasileiros-ganham-menos-de-r-35-mil-confira-sua-posicao-lista.htm vocesa.abril.com.br/dinheiro/90-da-populacao-brasileira-ganha-menos-de-r-3-mil-por-mes-veja-o-grafico observatorio3setor.org.br/realidade-90-dos-brasileiros-ganham-menos-que-r-3-mil/ (data might be slightly outdated (from 2019 as I can see)) Reasearch before you post, your generalization sickens me. No wonder people thing americans are caught up on their ego. Be better
USA is a country with lot of issues . Its first world only in a few things . Much of the " developing " world is better in so many things . Americans with the right attitude realise it while travelling . I have travelled to 8 countries including europe and in some developing countries in asia are amazing in many things . Europe is better than USA and some developing countries are great too . Of course crime in many parts of brasil is so bad etc etc . Thanks for your video
1st world = all developed capitalists countries; 2nd world = all socialist countries; 3rd world all underdeveloped capitalist countries. São Paulo city is twice the size of New York.
I loved Brazil. People seemed friendlier, healthier, etc. than anything I experienced in the US. Hope you get to see some of the other cities too. I also went twice to Curitiba.
For me, personally, the US shouldn't even be considered a 1st world country. There's a lot of poverty there and let's not even discuss the health system and etc.
it still scores high in democracy, monetary freedom, security of investment, quality of life and earnings. saying it's not 1st world is, despite its problems, laughable
You never said anything ridiculously offensive, but you sound sorta condescending. Just giving off a weird vibe, very American in the way you describe your experience...
Your experience being treated differently as a person of East Asian ancestry wearing a mask in Brazil highlights how a person might be treated better in certain aspects if they venture out to different countries altogether. Like you said, New York is supposedly an "immigrant friendly" city, but you still might catch some anti-mask or anti-Asian sentiment just for looking the way you do. Loosely relating to this point, I know that some Black Americans say they feel safer in Mexico or even Sub-Saharan Africa because they feel less that they're going to get negatively treated solely because of their race. I think all this shows that if a person lives in an English speaking country (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) then they should give other countries a chance and see what they like and dislike, because it could very well bring them a certain level of satisfaction.
Very true, and recently i've watched some black americans vlogging in Brazil, specially in Northeast region and they tell they feel so welcoming and belonging. As a brazilian is very heartwarming to see these reactions.
I think your tinder behaved like that because you have nice features and mostly because you're a foreigner. We Brazilian are mad curious about foreigners. We love having them around, feeding them and watching them react to Brasil. We just love gringos.
I live in São Paulo, you can go to the Beaches that are in our state, there are Bus or if you have a car it take 2 hours to 4 Depending on how far you want to go. They are cleaner than rio de janeiro. My grandad lives in one and is nice to walk there (I don't like to swim). But the if you leave the city of Rio there are also great places there with cleaner beaches and historical places (that we also have Here)
Minimum wage is supposedly what a person needs to live with dignity. You can pay more than that, but to pay less would be inhuman. It's not about forcing you to do something, it's about respecting the other person by the very least (as minimum wage should be way higher).
OMG did not know you had this channel and I'm happy to find it! I used to play a lot of TFT for a few seasons and found out about you, then stopped playing 2 seasons ago since I'm graduating in a few months and just not able to play online competitive games as much. Really liked your videos but didn't have a reason to watch, enjoy your talking just interesting to hear a perspective on something. Hope you are doing well
@@bunny_talks I liked the video, put the "urine smell" part was weird to me. I am from São Paulo, have been to Rio many times and lived in NYC for 2 years. All those places have this kind of smell in bar/nightclub areas, but that's it. The other parts of the city (especially residential areas) are fine.
Born and raised in Northern Brazil. Spent 5 weeks on business in São Paulo in Nov/Dec 2023, and I am sad to say thst the homelessness in São Paulo only got worse. So much petty crime, vulgarity, violence, and rampant drug abuse going on in downtown São Paulo and immediate surroundings.
People ask foreigner males about dating because women here are curious and they tend to like foreigners. But most men do have some trouble when go flirting. They missunderstand some signals or the get scared of how fast and direct to the point some women are
Interesting... i heard from literally every person that came to Rio from São Paulo that the smell is waaay worse in SP. Im from Rio and grew up here all my life and i really dont feel like it smells bad nearly as much as u made it sound like. Be it in From Pedra de Guaratiba till copacabana, ofc there will be smelly places but they are very specific/poor areas and not at all the norm in my experience
Rio de Janeiro is also known as "Hell de Janeiro" by some Brazilians. Many people also go to Rio for the bitchs, but I must say that your trip to Rio was not a complete experience, you were not mugged on the streets.
Plenty of examples of American food: start with the hamburger and hot dogs found all across the nation; BBQ in the South, New England clam chowder, fine cuisine in Nappa Valley and Bay Area, CA with famous for food pairings with wine...American ethnic (Chinese, Italian, French...) foods taste better than the native recipes because of better quality and lower cost.
Googling the data shows that the states are more homeless. and even if it is a larger country, this number of residents should be less precisely because it is a 1st world country. Brazil is from the 3rd world and has much less.
If Brazil is the third world, there is no first world outside of Europe. Brazil is a mix of the very rich, a middle class like anywhere in Western Europe, and then real poverty we don’t have in Europe anymore. So it’s like the US.
It is weird to hear this man telling about his mask reprimending in NYC, rare but recurring, this did not happen not only in Brazil but in the rest of the world outside US. Shameful and backward.
1:05 You mean Brazilians of Japanese descent, right? I’ve met Japanese Brazilians/Peruvians, and they’re totally different from Japanese Americans, and absolutely nothing like native Japanese citizens.
And I mean that as something interesting and cool to see. The Japanese Brazilians/Peruvians I met had a warmth and body language that was uniquely South American. For some dumb reason, I thought they would be similar to US citizens of Japanese descent-far from it, and it was refreshing and enlightening to experience.
no way, japanese people in Brazil generally pick japanese partners and they came here fairly recently, so all of my japanese friends in brazil are actually 100% percent japanese and haven't mixed with other etnicities. I think I know of only two guys which were sons of asian + other nationality.
Let's see. If they lower the minimum wage in Brasil, what bargains we foreigners would gain! Hey! Why don't we bring back slavery?!! That would make it even cheaper for us foreigners to live there! We could ALL have maids then!! Wait! That was done already.. wasn't it....
The reason you got all those matches is because you are a "gringo" (you are an American and much like in Japan we find foreigners from English countries to be exciting). I would also say that some Brazilian girls have a thing for Japanese guys. But, yeah, some of them were probably interested in that greencard.
Rio it was far better in the past. Unfortunately we lost a lot of economic growth and opportunities in the past decades, besides bad mayors and governors. About the smell, maybe you’re right, we probably don’t notice anymore 😂 But I’m glad you enjoyed came to Brazil. If you have the chance, try to check other places besides the capitals. Some are amazing!!!
Everyone has preferences. Honestly, I don’t get why someone would call you fatphobic. I see people that are mostly attracted for blondies or brunettes and that’s not that big of a issue as long as you treat everyone well regardless of their weight, eye color, hair colour, whatever you may be attracted to. Just because you’re not attracted to someone doesn’t mean you find them ugly.
Interesting to see an outside opinion of my home, I am brazilian and italian, have been in italy, USA, Canada, New Zealand, japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile... I will tell you this, there is absolutely no food like brazilian food, I love Italian, Japanese, Thai, Indian food... all those are great, but will never top brazilian food, for sure. Most Brazilians never went out of the country, because of that there is a certain admiration for foreign ppl. Rio is a shit place, there are a ton of better places to go, I particularly love buzios, or great places in northeast, like joao pessoa... São paulo is a great place to work, I live here, it's the greatest place to earn money, but it's very expensive in brazilian standards... so the food that it's half the price compared to US it's probably 1/4 of the price in the countryside.
I like your video! Very honest! One note though, is that I don’t think converting our wages to dollars is helpful. If a minimum wage in the US is like, 5x the minimum wage in Brazil, it should be noted that every single thing you buy in the US is 5x more expensive as well. So, to a Brazilian, having a 1500 reais wage would be similar to an American having a 1500 dollars wage. What may be a factor here to everybody have a “maid” of some sort is basically culture: it’s considered normal and expected, so instead of being viewed as a luxury, people treat it as an expected expense, just like paying for your electricity bill.
Still haven't been... would love to go. Nobody said Rio & even Leblon smelled like urine LOL. But I guess parts of NYC, LA & SF all smell like pee nowadays....
Haha yeah I’m from nyc and even tho parts here smell bad. It smelled way worse in rio for sure even compared to nyc and it is almost everywhere even in nice areas
I guess you haven’t been to Los Angeles then. I literally see human feces on the sidewalk on a daily basis and on top of that the metro here has human waste which I’ve never seen in Brazil.
I’m from São Paulo, lived in Rio and in America too. I’m with you. I agree with almost everything you said and I understand thinking about the green card. That’s real. Yes, famous areas of Rio do smell like piss, sadly.
Rio sidewalks and parks haven't been kept up very well and homelessness has become more apparent in the last decade or so. You have all the right to not have enjoyed Rio, but to say that the city smells bad in general is hyperbole.
Japanese Brazilian here:
In the US I noticed that Asian man are not considered handsome or manly. Here in Brazil we're considered normal I guess. Not better, not worse than others.
No one is worse because we are all 5 times world cup winners
Personaly, i'm also Brazilian, but white, i have met quite a few (white) women who think Asian men are very attractive
@@esequieltrindade9244 melhor resposta possivel kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
you're brazilian, not japanese brazilian
@@Caracalla84 i'm both.
Brazilian and japanese-brazilian.
As there are african-brazilians, aka black brazilians.
2:20 São Paulo is not "immigrant friendly" that implies there are people there who are not immigrants... the whole city is made of random people from random places.
From a few census in the past approximately 30% of Sao Paulo residents are people whose families and past generations are also from Sao Paulo.
@@ioritenshi Wow, so less than 1/3, I thought it would be half or something
The "stereotypical" person from São Paulo is literally a mixed person who is half Japanese descendent and half Italian descendent lmao, not to mention a huge ammount of the people who live here were born in the countryside or even other states entirely
Exactly we are made from a lot of people who were not from here, a lot of people are mixed, hard to see someone who isn't... So yeah
“Not super developed compared to US”…
I’m from Europe. São Paulo is exactly like a US city. Rich and modern as anywhere in Europe in parts, way poorer than Europe in other parts. Which is exactly what a city in the US looks to a European.
Their subway has a lot of rats, its way more modern than ours that don't have many rats as them.
@JorgeXY , are you talking about São Paulo? Because São Paulo subways are very clean, most of the time haha
"ck PALMEIRAS" I'm from Europe???? wtf bro
@@johnbtt they’re my missus’s team in São Paulo
@@ckpalmeiras1318 ok
São Paulo concentrates 25% of homeless people across the country, not the state of São Paulo, just the capital! There are certainly more homeless people in São Paulo than Rio de Janeiro. What changes is that in SP there are large agglomerations of homeless people at certain points, the Government tries to prevent these people from spreading, especially in the noblest areas of the capital. This may have been your perception because the government of Rio de Janeiro is less competent in hiding its incompetence. And yes, NY have more homeless people than SP.
Pretty insightful. It may depend on how it’s measured such as absolute number, per capita, per sq mile, but as you said it could just be concentrated in some area which may affect perceptions of how many there are
@@bunny_talks Also, nice video. Travel here more often. I recommend the northeast part of the country, it has a smaller infrastructure than the southeast but the places are much more beautiful and the beaches are cleaner. Searching for "Lençois Maranhenses" is insane. th-cam.com/video/XDUcPQEg8aQ/w-d-xo.html
@@bunny_talks I'm from Rio and I think a lot of the homeless people there actually have a home somewhere far away, but they don't have jobs so they go to downtown or more busy parts of the city to ask for money. But I've been to São Paulo in December and was completely baffled by the amount of people actually living in tents on the street, it was crazy.
Já saiu várias matérias falando sobre moradores de rua crescendo no sul e sudeste, após investigações foi constatado que vários prefeitos de esquerda do nordeste (principalmente petistas) estão mandando caravanas de mendigos pra todo sudeste e o sul, principalmente SP pq é o estado que a esquerda mais tenta destru1r e sempre foi assim.
The tinder thing - I can confirm with you that's true as a Chinese Australian down in Brazil. My matches were lit af over there, and the quality of which were better than what I got in Australia and the United States.
Have a feeling it's because there's no negative stereotypes of Asians in Brazil (as Japanese, Korean and Chinese Brazilians seem to be doing fine in dating), unlike that of the USA.
Yeah it’s weird how it happened in both sp and Rio. In sp there’s lots of Japanese, but rio had 0 Asian people
It's not a negative but particularly in Anglo Celtic countries financial status and racial preferences tend to be higher up on the list for the average white / women.
@@bunny_talks Parana have a lot of japanese as well is not only SP. Rio is because we have a lot of indigenous people who are similar to asians looks.
@@bunny_talks Be careful using Tinder. People are kidnapped daily (golpe de Tinder, golpe de amor) and forced to transfer all of their money. Some are killed. Dating apps are a no-go in SP. Many foreigners have had it happen in the last few months.
there definetely is - i went to a high school in Sao Paulo that was at least half Asian and most of them had no dating experience, but pardos (mixed) and whites in general had
We don’t call Brazilians with Japanese descend Japanese as we don’t call Italian decends Italians. We are a very integrated culture. We are all Brazilians!!
As a Japanese-Brazilian, I must disagree with that
@@au1kLMAO
@@au1k é meio que verdade, mas a comunidade Japonesa é meio que a exceção, tanto que por aqui é comum as pessoas chamarem pessoas com etnia Asiática de Japa.
@@au1k eu acho que isso é por causa da concentração de descendentes de japoneses em GRANDE maioria em São Paulo, do estado em que eu sou, mal tem descendentes japoneses muito menos asiáticos no geral, então qualquer um vira japa
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Summary of this video: "Wow, they have water in Brazil, even though they are a second world country. Wow, they have streets in Brazil, even though they are a second world country."
Bro is literally the average american
I’m a half-japanese Brazilian and I would never call myself “japanese”; I’m Brazilian. Japanese from Japan also don’t see us as japanese.
Interessante
I think you confused the smell of Rio: sea air is not piss. People running after a green card? Please, as they say in Brazil, US could be a nice place but it isn't "the last cookie in the package"
Mermao o rio é nojento mesmo, infelizmente.
Dependendo do lugar, tem lugares no rio que cheiram a xixi realmente, principalmente aquela região do centro/lapa, uma coisa q eu tenho a dizer e q já morei em salvador q era conhecida por ser assim, e tb no rio que está sendo conhecida por isso tb. E q isso é questão de gestão, cabe a prefeitura cuidar disso…
Rio does smell like pee.
Rio é assim msm
Yeah sea air is much different from pee, one can clearly tell the difference
I studied Computer Science at USP and HALF OF MY CLASSMATES were Asian.
This idea of a "green card" doesn't make sense. Brazilians are much more free and enjoy casual sex, and women should be free to do what they want sexually. On Tinder, people are looking for sex, not marriage.
As our passports were not one of the most expensive on the illegal market 😂
To all my Asian brothers from other mothers, go where you are appreciated, not tolerated! Get your passports! 🛫✈️
Any tips where to go?
0:38 wait, the fact that we dont chop down every single tree inside our cities mean they are not much developed?
The entire Internet condensed in one coment, people.
@@RockLucena clarify to us then, what did he mean by that comment and that photo?
@@renanrodriguesmezzomo6827 I think he is the one who should explain his own words... I think... I don't know. Maybe he should check up with you first? Maybe ask for your permision? 🤔
@@RockLucena i think this little discurssion wouldnt have happened if you had paid attention to what the interrogation point on my comment meant, the one looking for an uncalled and unecessary fight is you, if thats what you are accusing me of.
@@renanrodriguesmezzomo6827 I'm not looking for a fight. I just wanted to point out that you're acting like an ass.
we are more open that's why your tinder go crazy. We love meeting people, and Brazil have more japanese people than US, so we dont have negative stereotypes of asian like in US.
What about brown skinned people of South Asian descent, how would they be treated?
@@1525boy the same, since we're a mixed and tropical country it's not uncommon to find brown skinned asians.
Basically if you don't point out you're foreigner we will think you're Brazilian.
@@jotamodesto 👍🏼👌🏼
@@jotamodesto Brazil is one of the most mixed countries. No one will notice you're a foreigner, except by the way you dress
@@1525boy they would blend in cause many africans, indigenous and European mixed together look Indian
US always thinking about superiority.. 😂 Tiring... Brazilian People are lively something unique compared to other countries in the world. Besides homeless people and drug addicted people are some big problems in US. Sao Paulo is fifth in the World’s Largest Cities by Population Ranking in 2024. I'm proud of Sao Paulo, as a Japanese Brazilian, I love Sao Paulo! 🇧🇷
👏 somos super animados e não temos o preconceito que as outras pessoas do mundo tem.
As a Korean-American who has always wanted to visit Brazil, this was interesting. Thank you.
There's a Korean female model that has a kind of famous TH-cam channel here in Brazil, I do believe she really likes here and people here love her videos
If you're curious the her channel is Coreana Soyeon
As a brazilian, i can say that we just like foreigners in general. That's cause is kind of fun to meet a foreigner, but in cities like Rio where there are a lot of foreigners people don't care that much.
Please, come to Brazil!
"second world" refers to communist countries, such as the USSR. This whole terminology comes from the cold war era. First world being the developed "free west", second world being the communists, third world being anyone that didn't fit the first two, seen as places to be controlled by them. That way of addressing countries was technically ditched, in an attempt to remove the political bias inherent in the way people thought of countries. But it seems most US people are not aware of any of this, just like so much else.
São Paulo has a massive, highly efficient public transport system covering the whole city - which is much bigger than any US city. Nowhere in the US is nearly as developed as São Paulo in that sense.
Huh? New York says Hello. It's way way bigger. Metro on new york is almost 4x bigger than SP, in a way way smaller city, covering waaaay more areas. Not comparable at all.
@@Rorther I am including the whole public transport system, not only the subway.
@@RortherBut what is the quality of the metro in NY? I haven't been in NY but everyone talks about how filthy it is and how unsafe it feels
@@AnabethS2Logan that was my experience!
@@Rorther sao paulo is the biggest city in america mate , ny is not even third, thats lima.
It's not weird that you got welcomed, it's weird that you normalized being set aside and discarded for certain social interactions.😅
Ok so I've been using tinder in Salvador Brazil, mocking my location and I get wayyyy more matches. I think it's because brazilian women are generally curious about gringos and why they are in brazil. Dating culture is also very different in Brazil than in the US, brazilian people move wayyy faster. Also for asian guys, they are a bonus because a lot of brazilian girls are into kpop or k-dramas.
As far as cost in brazil yes its generally quite cheaper if you get paid in dollars. But not as cheap as some other latam countries like colombia. Food in big cities is expensive, too expensive for the average brazilian. Not sure how the average brazilian survives.
@@jonatasmendonca2079 I never said Salvador was the best. I only picked it because it was the city I've been to before. There are thousands of cities in Brazil, most will be good to get matches for gringos/as
@@mrnarason don't care about him, salvador is a good place to match on tinder, he says that because people here in the south tend to think they are european and better than other states.
@@jonatasmendonca2079 you're not European sweetheart
@@jonatasmendonca2079 pq n?
@@guisas123 Neither you!!!
Sao Paulo is actually the biggest city in americas. Even bigger than any US city.
Regarding the cities, smells, and food: those are your experiences and opinions, and they’re valid. However, I believe you misunderstood Brazil in your Tinder discussion.
Not many people here are focused on obtaining a green card. Contrary to some Americans’ beliefs, not everyone in LATAM is eager to move to the US or sees it as superior. Most of us have family, jobs, homes, and friends in Brazil, and we don’t intend to leave. You need a visa to be here, not us.
While we may not be treated as well abroad as we treat foreigners here, that doesn’t make you special. People use Tinder daily and often meet strangers, regardless of whether we’re thin or you’re a foreigner. Those theories don’t hold up.
Don’t mistake our kindness, openness, and curiosity for submissiveness, ulterior motives, or envy. That’s just a LATAM stereotype.
Exato ! Falou tudo 👏
Who talks about "second world" countries these days? That term is so archaic.
And a bit biased I’d say.
It is archaic but still represents the idea well, São Paulo state is not 3° word but for sure not 1° word
I hear a lot, they also teach it in most schools (brazil)
He's american, you can't expect him to be smart..
Sou brasileira, estudei em varias escolas públicas e nunca ouvi nenhum professor falar segundo mundo 😅😂
IT'S NOT PISS, IT'S MARESIA 😂 THE SMELL OF THE OCEAN. In Rio and at other beaches in Brazil the smell of the ocean is very proeminent. In Rio, the hole city is surrounded by the beach, of course it will smell like beach. And if you're thinking WHY AT THE BEACH you didnt smell the same thing: ITS BECAUSE OF THE WIND DIRECTION. Imagine that the wind brings the ocean smell into the city and there are buildings and other stuff that concentrate that.
I've lived in Rio for 5 years. Piss smell is something I never heard before from anyone about Rio 😂
As to homelessness, I think that was just an impression. The US fares worse than Brazil in this regard, both in the whole country and in the cities you specifically mentioned (about 7k homeless people in Rio, 24k in São Paulo, and over 60k in NYC), although it is difficult to gauge with accuracy. And New York is smaller than São Paulo, so it has more homeless people per capita too. With regard to dating, I can say Brazilians are very welcoming of foreigners, which may have played a role in your experience; unfortunately this holds true mostly for foreigners from the so-called developed countries. Pricewise, you have been to two very expensive cities for Brazilian standards. I am from Brasília, the capital city, and find restaurant prices in São Paulo a complete rip-off. Finally, cheap services and low minimum wage probably have to do with our slavery past and the resulting income inequality we are yet to overcome.
I don't know where you're getting your information from, but to say that homelessness is more rampant in the US than in Brazil is crazy lol... It's just not true, any way you slice it.
@@salami7677 Googling the data shows that the states are more homeless.
and even if it is a larger country, this number of residents should be less precisely because it is a 1st world country. Brazil is from the 3rd world and has much less.
Homeless in the US >>>> proper job in Brazil (minimum monthly wage)
- Facts
@@ninjapurpura1 which should make you think, they have better wages, and still can't pay for a home
@@salami7677 Man the city of Los Angeles only have almost 3x the population of homeless people of the city of São Paulo and this city is the biggest in population of the continent, wtf are you on.We are talking about 2023 US not the 50s things are going so bad there that you refuse to face real data. The richest state of the US is also the numbers 1 in poor people, that is saying something right.14% of employees of big groceries stores in America are homeless that just don't happen not even 5% in south America, if you have a job here you still have a shittty house just do a little research
Chinese community its also growing a lot in brazil, already about 300,000 chinese brazilians, korean brazilians are about 50.000
Why chinese, koreans like to live in Brazil
@@pinoyRN67 as far as i know most of them come to brazil as merchants of various types of products
@@pinoyRN67 Merchants or Immigrants
@@pinoyRN67 Japanese 2.000.000 , tem 2 milhões de japonêses no Brasil vieram antes da 1 guerra mundial e depois da 2 guerra mundial.
Are brazilian women open to Korean and Japanese men?
American living in Brazil. São Paulo's metro is better than any of the metros in the US. Way better.
I'm from Rio. I just think your point of view is influenced by a lot of things. You said your friend is from São Paulo, of course he/she took you to the best places. In my case, I've never seen too much homeless people as in São Paulo city center, nothing compared to Rio city center. Not to mention "cracolândia". Another thing, sterotypical view: going to Rio (for the beaches). It's very shallow to talk about a big city just about 2 or 3 urban beaches. Of course that they are usually crowded, a lot of people live there, and that are also a lot of tourists. It's like saying that Times Square in New York should be a calm touristic attraction. Rio has much better beaches if you want only natural beauty. Rio has much more important historical places as well, since it has the capital of Brazil for centuries, it was also the capital of the Portuguese Empire. Cultural wise, Rio has a long history of creating a lot of music style, it's basically the cultural and media capital of Brazil. The history of São Paulo is much more related to get rich and big based on agriculture and later industries and services got there seaching for money. I'm not saying the it's not super important, but it's only about money. Of course that with a lot of people (seraching for money), from different places, São Paulo culture, culture and history came as well. São Paulo is super important for Brazil, I have nothing against it.
About Rio: Saying that a whole big city smells bad is physically impossible, maybe on the bus you were affected by some illness that temporarily changed your sense of smell. Or maybe you just went to the worst places of the city.
Carioca bairrista, but Rio is a country separated of Brazil, the State most diferent of Brazil, more than Rio Grande do Sul maybe, culture of Brazil is much more similiar to São Paulo than with Rio, Brazil is a major agrarian country, Rio is an ex-capital with rich people living around favelas that think that the States of Brazil cares even about a decadent culturally city periferical...
@@luanlopes9415 Não é questão de bairrismo, só quis fazer um contraponto com o que foi dito no vídeo. Se ele falasse sobre qualquer cidade daquele jeito, apoiaria quem a defendesse, porque na minha opinião ele falou sem nenhum argumento lógico. Parece apenas puro preconceito.
@@luanlopes9415 Como baiano, dizer que a cultura brasileira é mais representada por São Paulo me ofende profundamente
I'm pretty sure he smelled maresia (I have no idea how to say maresia in english) and the was like "yea its probably piss" which it isnt because Leblon DEFINETELY doesnt smell like piss and felt uncomfortable. Since his friend is from São Paulo and many people from São Paulo have no idea how maresia smells like he just agreed. And the first place he visited in Rio was the Rio Novo Bus Station and that place in specific has a bigger ratio of homelessness and there really can smell like piss, he assumed it is everywhere because he had a terrible first impression.
@@endimarley That guy has no idea what he's talking about hahaha
I cant go on with your video since you keep referring Brazil to the second world country. Its interesting cuz as a fellow Asian you must have been through racism against Asian to some extent and you propagate this obsolete colonial mindset. People think they are cultured based on how many stamps or stickers on their passport, but apparently they are not, including you.
to keep the fact straight, Brazil is wildely considered 3rd World as they refused to be sided with one party before Detente
Not a random crypto guy saying people should be able to choose minimun wage, man, people wouldn't pay anything to maids, here in brazil they already dont receive much and people still dont pay all their rights, without the government guaranteeing that the minimum wage is X, people would just pay less and exploit even more workers who are already exploited. The rest of the video was good.
The whole thing about SP having more japanese people (and asians in general) is all because of immigration. In the beggining of the 1900's, lots of japanese people came to Brazil looking for work at the coffee farms, and they sort of spread all over the state, and some of them went to the south of the country as well. That's also why the Liberdade neighborhood exists, which, if you didn't know already, means Freedom, and it became sort of a symbol for the japanese community :)
mas, se não me engano, o nome do bairro tem a ver com o passado escravocrata do que com a imigração do leste asiático. ali era onde eram enforcados ou libertos es cravos, por isso a igreja dos aflitos na rua dos aflitos
pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capela_dos_Aflitos
Loved your video, it was so honest! Usually, people who visit Brazil share only good things on the internet to gain attention and Brazilian fans. I've never been to Rio or São Paulo, but the reason Rio has more homeless people definitely isn't because how many jobs are offered in there. It is because Rio has a long history of trying to “erase” poor and black people from the map, with the local government taking them out from their houses to make the city “prettier for tourists”. Of course, it made everything worse. The favelas (unsafe self-made housing) emerged, and more people became homeless. In general, Brazilian biggest cities vary in quantity of homeless people, cities like Porto Alegre, one of the richest outside Rio-SP, has a lot of them also. Goiânia, even tho being poorer and the exact same size, has way less people sleeping in the streets. In the end, it all comes down to how the cities were founded and their history (Goiânia was a planned city and Porto Alegre wasn't).
Also, the thing about the buses are so true. Sometimes I felt taking and airplane was a much worse experience than taking a bus, TBH. It happens because there are not many options to transportation in the country: it is either taking airplanes or buses. There are almost no trains in Brazil because the government wanted to promote creations of car factories with the industrialization, in mid 20th century - and no one changed it since then.
You are wrong about RJ and SP. There is an absurdly higher number of homeless people in São Paulo. The difference in the size of the two cities is enormous and the concentration of poor people in the noble areas of Rio is great while, in SP, the poorest were thrown away from the central zone. São Paulo has a much stricter historical hygienist policy than Rio de Janeiro. This is so evident there that we see phenomena such as Alphaville and the formation of the Higienópolis neighborhood.
@@lucas-prado o centro de São Paulo é onde mais tem moradores de rua em São Paulo, Alphaville nem fica na cidade de São Paulo, eu trabalhei em Higienópolis por volta de 2015 e não tem mesmo moradores de rua lá, mas quase não tem gente andando na rua lá, o que mais tem na verdade é pessoa passeando com os cachorros dos ricos e bem pertinho de lá tem a praça da república e a paulista que é bem mais movimentada e tem um monte de morador de rua, o que faz mais sentido (eu acho) que em Higienópolis.
Não faço ideia sobre o que o Heitor flw sobre o Rio mas sobre São Paulo o que vc disse não fez sentido pra mim.
O que eu falei sobre Alphaville e Higienopolis foi sobre a política higienista histórica de SP que formou esse condomínio que em SP teve aderência em larguíssima escala e o bairro (Higienopolis) que foi construído literalmente para separar ricos de pobres. Não falei de moradores de rua neles. 😉
Só não esqueça de dizer que muitos dos mendigos de SP foram trazidos do nordeste, mtos prefeitos do nordeste estão mandando caravanas de mendigos e mandando pra SP de forma cr1m1n0s4.
Saiu matérias falando sobre isso, mas quase ninguém comenta sobre pq é a esquerda que faz isso.
They all know brazilian women and men are slimmer than the USA. Their food is not as processed.
The US seems to be at the top of the fat charts. But Brazil isn’t far behind. It’s a typical new world country - excess in consumption. Brazil, Mexico, the US, Canada, etc all have huge issues with diabetes, high sugar intact and general health issues around a middle class culture of over consumption
Estados Unidos tem uma população mais obesas do mundo.
(Asian person here) I went to Rio over 15 years ago and there was definitely some homeless people, but I would not have guessed that there would be more than New York. There were parts of Rio that definitely reminded me of New York (also parts of Naples). And the urine smell must be a new thing. I don't think it was like that when I went. Even in the favelas.
I found Brazilian women to be beautiful, both slim and thicc, but one thing I noticed was the popularity of plastic surgery and I wasn't crazy about that look. As an Asian person, Brazilians were very warm towards me. The only race-related funny thing that happened to me was a bunch of kids chasing me around and laughing at me because it was the first time they'd ever seen an Asian person. And yeah some people thought I was from Liberdade (neighborhood where Japanese people live in SP). I can speak a bit of Brazilian Portuguese so that probably helped a bit.
Thanks for sharing. I have only been to Rio and would love to visit other parts of Brazil one day.
This guy must not know what sea is. The smell isn't from piss, it's from the sea water
interesting
@@jararacavoadora5868 so sea water smells like piss
Come tô Minas Gerais. Lost of waterfalls and good food
Dude, a LOT of things you said came out as just weird. I don't know if you meant em or not, or you're just too young to have a proper worldview, but you had just an odd way of putting things that just comes out as almost disrespecful. And I'm not even talking about the "fatphobic" stuff.
First of all I don't think you'd be robbed through Tinder. Not any more than you would in USA at least and RELAX: We don't want your kidneys. We are not interested in your kidneys.
That being said, minnimal wage exists not at the same level of "going to the bathroom". It's less the government demanding you of doing something and more of the government preventing someone of exploiting the desperation of the poor. I guess you can't see that maybe because you've been living protected in a bubble of privilege, but there are poverty and desperation in the world that could (AND WAS FOR A LONG TIME) being exploited by some greedy people. (And that's not exclusive of Brazil. I'm talking about USA as well FYI)
Odd, disrespectful and arrogant. I didn't watch half of It.
@@BiemexBmXBG And I'm not even talking about the "pee smell in Rio everywhere". I don't live in Rio but I've been there several times throughout the years and I've never ever feel nothing even kind of close (let alone everywhere). But let's give him the benefit of the doubt:
- Dude visited during the carnival: But they clean aftarwards. EVERYDAY!
-No! That year for some reason they didn't clean anything: Never seen that, but just wait for the next day and everything is spotless
-NO! For some reason the exact time that guy came by, the government and public agencies DON'T WORK (never happened) But EVEN SO:... It's NOT "everywhere"
Totally agree.
and also the minimum wage in Brasil is bigger than in the US, the problem is that americans usually make more than minimum (because it is so low it is impossible to live with that) and in Brazil a lot of people dont even make minimum wage, usually the domestic workers he mentioned
just wanted to add that
He literally wants to diminish our people by saying we're gold diggers. Yet, our passport is one of the best passports in the world
You actually compare Brazils price of things using usd dollars. It doesn't work that way when you live in another country, you need to compare the local currency price considering that the salary it's also in local currency. SP is definitely not cheap... you might think like this because you earn in dollars, but of you were to move and work here you would realize it's expensive city. Also, the difference between BRL and dollar has increased a lot in the last 10 years... but it did not use to that different. Also, I think seeing Brazil as a third world country is not correct, Brazil is an emerging country and in lot of ways are better than the US when it comes to life quality. Labour is definitely not cheap and having a personal chef means the person is extremely rich here. I also thought it a bit weird like people asked you about how girls look here, this wouldn't be acceptable in my group of friends.... also about dating apps, people here use a lot for hookups, but although they use a lot, it's not easy to make it anymore than 1x date.
I can't tell much about Rio, I haven't visited it on the last 10 years or so, but it did not use to smell like piss. I like that you pointed out the differences with honesty, I been in a lot of countries and I actually realized a lot of things are better here. Also, about weight, is more about the type of food we eat here maybe..
I am american so i always compare in USD. My friend in brazil who i stayed with has been commenting that BRL has 'gone to shit' in recent years which is why USD is really good. He works for a foreign company where he gets paid in USD then converts it, so we normally use it to compare using that.
and yes about the personal chef person, he is very rich in brazilian standards, but in the US his salary would be 'slightly above average' salary, but it highlights the large wage and labor differences between brazil and the US.
as for teh whole emerging vs developing country thing. When I was in business school in early 2010s, we used to study the BRIC nations as the emerging countries in the future. Brazil russia india china. SInce then, brazil has definitely fallen behind all those countries in economic development.
@@bunny_talks I get where you are coming from. I understand that it makes sense for you and your friend to compare to dollar, but your friend is definitely an exception situation. I work for an american multinational and I know a lot of people who do the same and we earn a good salary, but not converting from USD.
But the average brasilian earn and live in BRL. The difference between USD and BRL is only relavant to us if we travel abroad mostly. An ok place in São Paulo nowadays is 2x the minimum wage salary and a lot of population dont earn it, even if have a good university degree.
About having a maid, its not rare as it is in the US, but you also have to be upperclass to have it. Middle class is not able to afford it now a days.
I honestly dont think we are that far from orther emerging countries. Life quality here is not what I would call a third world country quality. We have a decent public health care and the best universities are the public ones. We have been in economic and political crisis and that affected a lot the currency exchange. Im not trying to picking a fight, we just have different opinions.
Bro started arguiing with himself about fatphobia out of nowhere 😭
Because nowadays God forbid you criticize a whale
Unlike other countries brazilians like foreigners in fact they welcome it.
Cuz the natives are absolute shit
>I'm Brazilian btw
The second world was supposed to be socialist or comunist. But it's not polite to use these terms
We call it emerging country, NOT first, second, third world. Those are demeaning and loaded therms. Not in use since the 90s, pls do your homework
he did his homework, in USA
It shows a lot in the way he talks 😂 usa number 1!!! Number 1 dumbest!
Interesting point of view. I live in SP and your comments help me to give more value to the positive things we have here.
Bro youre so brutally honest thats nice to watch
In São Paulo I met my YiQuan ShiFu Paulo Yong (his name now). And it was WONDERFUL!!! He has been like a father to me for almost 20 years. Distance will never change that.
Your argument of green card ? Discard it.
The beaches in Sao Paulo are at least an hour away. The interior of the Sao Paulo is beautiful
Eu nao sei como esse video veio parar nas minhas sugestões, mas ele é tipo um acidente de carro horroroso que nao dá pra parar de olhar. Meu deus, quanta fala preconceituosa. Pelo menos ele foi justo e ofendeu todo mundo igual, mulheres, pessoas gordas, latinas... a mentalidade media do americano é de (uma falsa) superioridade mesmo.
Ps: rio de janeiro feio???
Those comfortable busses are the intercity travel busses. The ones we use in our everyday lives to get around inside a city are a lot less comfortable, as you might imagine. And really really packed.
And what's that about the $90 meal? Holy crap, that's an expensive place you've been to. If you really want cheap meals, you can find places for much cheaper. There used to be a place here that would serve you a whole meal for like $0.20
3:19 "labor is so cheap..." brother, it is not.
I mean, it is if you're looking through the lens of hte wealthiest people in the country (which kinda says a lot about your privilege).
Most workers are "unionized" as you say in the US, but the main difference is that we have federally guaranteed benefits, such as 13º monthly wage (twice a year we get paid an extra half monthly wage), federally guaranteed retirement fund, guaranteed transportation "vouchers" if you live more than 1 kilometer (aprox 0.62 miles) away from the company, federally guaranteed minimum wage, tax breaks (if you're under 2 minimum wages monthly salary), etc. And most benefits are paid by the company
Keeping a worker is expensive, but Brazil is also a country with a very intensive social inequity. While the rich are very rich, the poor are very poor. We also are having a wave of "PJtismo" (similar to contracting) where people don't get those federally guaranteed benefits.
As a comparison, I'm going to lay down numbers. 90% of Brazillian workers earn less than R$ 3,500.00(1), and minumium wage in 2014 is R$ 1,412.00. As you can see, from those numbers alone, labor is not cheap. You're just privileged enough to think so, and privileged enough to be with a family that lives like that.
(1)www.reddit.com/r/brasil/comments/1dqpi85/90_da_população_brasileira_ganha_menos_de_r_3_mil/#:~:text=O%20Decreto%20Legislativo%20172%2F2022,1º%20de%20fevereiro%20de%202025.&text=90%25%20dos%20Brasileiros%20ganha%20até,*13%3D%2039mil%20POR%20ANO.
economia.uol.com.br/noticias/bbc/2021/12/13/calculadora-de-renda-90-brasileiros-ganham-menos-de-r-35-mil-confira-sua-posicao-lista.htm
vocesa.abril.com.br/dinheiro/90-da-populacao-brasileira-ganha-menos-de-r-3-mil-por-mes-veja-o-grafico
observatorio3setor.org.br/realidade-90-dos-brasileiros-ganham-menos-que-r-3-mil/
(data might be slightly outdated (from 2019 as I can see))
Reasearch before you post, your generalization sickens me. No wonder people thing americans are caught up on their ego. Be better
USA is a country with lot of issues . Its first world only in a few things . Much of the " developing " world is better in so many things . Americans with the right attitude realise it while travelling . I have travelled to 8 countries including europe and in some developing countries in asia are amazing in many things . Europe is better than USA and some developing countries are great too . Of course crime in many parts of brasil is so bad etc etc . Thanks for your video
1st world = all developed capitalists countries; 2nd world = all socialist countries; 3rd world all underdeveloped capitalist countries. São Paulo city is twice the size of New York.
I loved Brazil. People seemed friendlier, healthier, etc. than anything I experienced in the US.
Hope you get to see some of the other cities too. I also went twice to Curitiba.
For me, personally, the US shouldn't even be considered a 1st world country. There's a lot of poverty there and let's not even discuss the health system and etc.
it still scores high in democracy, monetary freedom, security of investment, quality of life and earnings. saying it's not 1st world is, despite its problems, laughable
@@tillysaway quality of life? OK, then.
@@ThiagoCorreaKingJim it has an hdi of 0.926, meaning it falls under "very high", placing it ahead of countries like japan, spain, italy and austria.
É um país onde 10% da população é composta de milionários
Remember, Uber also charges Brazilians 70 R$. The power of the dollar makes it look like 15 US$, but the cost feels the same for us, proportionally.
You never said anything ridiculously offensive, but you sound sorta condescending. Just giving off a weird vibe, very American in the way you describe your experience...
There are beaches in são paulo (state) but not in são paulo (city)
Nice vídeo!! You were truly honest
Damn we are at a place in America now where you have to apologize for not being attracted to a fat person?
Your experience being treated differently as a person of East Asian ancestry wearing a mask in Brazil highlights how a person might be treated better in certain aspects if they venture out to different countries altogether. Like you said, New York is supposedly an "immigrant friendly" city, but you still might catch some anti-mask or anti-Asian sentiment just for looking the way you do. Loosely relating to this point, I know that some Black Americans say they feel safer in Mexico or even Sub-Saharan Africa because they feel less that they're going to get negatively treated solely because of their race. I think all this shows that if a person lives in an English speaking country (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) then they should give other countries a chance and see what they like and dislike, because it could very well bring them a certain level of satisfaction.
Very true, and recently i've watched some black americans vlogging in Brazil, specially in Northeast region and they tell they feel so welcoming and belonging. As a brazilian is very heartwarming to see these reactions.
I think your tinder behaved like that because you have nice features and mostly because you're a foreigner. We Brazilian are mad curious about foreigners. We love having them around, feeding them and watching them react to Brasil. We just love gringos.
Remember that Brazil has National Chinese immigration day. They seem to like Asians somewhat more than Anglo countries
"Chinese"??"Anglo"??😂
I live in São Paulo, you can go to the Beaches that are in our state, there are Bus or if you have a car it take 2 hours to 4 Depending on how far you want to go. They are cleaner than rio de janeiro. My grandad lives in one and is nice to walk there (I don't like to swim).
But the if you leave the city of Rio there are also great places there with cleaner beaches and historical places (that we also have Here)
Minimum wage is supposedly what a person needs to live with dignity. You can pay more than that, but to pay less would be inhuman. It's not about forcing you to do something, it's about respecting the other person by the very least (as minimum wage should be way higher).
OMG did not know you had this channel and I'm happy to find it!
I used to play a lot of TFT for a few seasons and found out about you, then stopped playing 2 seasons ago since I'm graduating in a few months and just not able to play online competitive games as much. Really liked your videos but didn't have a reason to watch, enjoy your talking just interesting to hear a perspective on something. Hope you are doing well
I’ll try to post more on this plus the other channels. Just been focused on tft recently and on a vacation rn! Hoping at least one vid a month
@@bunny_talks I liked the video, put the "urine smell" part was weird to me. I am from São Paulo, have been to Rio many times and lived in NYC for 2 years. All those places have this kind of smell in bar/nightclub areas, but that's it. The other parts of the city (especially residential areas) are fine.
Born and raised in Northern Brazil. Spent 5 weeks on business in São Paulo in Nov/Dec 2023, and I am sad to say thst the homelessness in São Paulo only got worse. So much petty crime, vulgarity, violence, and rampant drug abuse going on in downtown São Paulo and immediate surroundings.
People ask foreigner males about dating because women here are curious and they tend to like foreigners. But most men do have some trouble when go flirting. They missunderstand some signals or the get scared of how fast and direct to the point some women are
Eu acho q a mulherada q corre atrás de gringo gosta é mesmo é do $$$$ do gringo, não dele.
Brazilian here: we just don't care.
😂 it’s hilarious someone from NY or Paris saying any city smells bad or like piss. NY smells badly everywhere. At least Rios metro is clean
He looks 18 and he talks about 15 years ago. What?!
I wish I was 18
@@bunny_talks Sorry, how old are you? you look really good!
@@jacksoncosta4031 29
@@bunny_talks holy shit
@Iyalo cu decent skincare routine helps too! CeraVe ftw
Interesting... i heard from literally every person that came to Rio from São Paulo that the smell is waaay worse in SP. Im from Rio and grew up here all my life and i really dont feel like it smells bad nearly as much as u made it sound like. Be it in From Pedra de Guaratiba till copacabana, ofc there will be smelly places but they are very specific/poor areas and not at all the norm in my experience
Have you ever been to downtown Los Angeles? I think it’s a lot stinkier and has a lot more homeless than in Rio.
Rio de Janeiro is also known as "Hell de Janeiro" by some Brazilians. Many people also go to Rio for the bitchs, but I must say that your trip to Rio was not a complete experience, you were not mugged on the streets.
...and you just summoned all the brazillians
Plenty of examples of American food: start with the hamburger and hot dogs found all across the nation; BBQ in the South, New England clam chowder, fine cuisine in Nappa Valley and Bay Area, CA with famous for food pairings with wine...American ethnic (Chinese, Italian, French...) foods taste better than the native recipes because of better quality and lower cost.
Oh Brazil is the best there is!
Brazil manufactures most of our cars, we do not import them
man .. some stuff u said were just plain disrespectful
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Googling the data shows that the states are more homeless. and even if it is a larger country, this number of residents should be less precisely because it is a 1st world country. Brazil is from the 3rd world and has much less.
falhou, falha e falhara em todos os lugares que colocar os seus tentáculos
If Brazil is the third world, there is no first world outside of Europe.
Brazil is a mix of the very rich, a middle class like anywhere in Western Europe, and then real poverty we don’t have in Europe anymore. So it’s like the US.
Europa com tantos imigrantes e sem ter filhos. Logo serão obliterados por outras populações. @@ckpalmeiras1318
Bruh, stop apologising for what you are or aren't attracted to. You don't owe anyone an explanation😄
Travel buses are basicaly Premium service, the comute ones are less confy
It is weird to hear this man telling about his mask reprimending in NYC, rare but recurring, this did not happen not only in Brazil but in the rest of the world outside US. Shameful and backward.
"I did a lot of bussing around" 😂
take a shot every time he says the word "fatphobic"
1:05 You mean Brazilians of Japanese descent, right? I’ve met Japanese Brazilians/Peruvians, and they’re totally different from Japanese Americans, and absolutely nothing like native Japanese citizens.
And I mean that as something interesting and cool to see. The Japanese Brazilians/Peruvians I met had a warmth and body language that was uniquely South American. For some dumb reason, I thought they would be similar to US citizens of Japanese descent-far from it, and it was refreshing and enlightening to experience.
@@diyfreediver in brazil immigrants blend fast in de Brazilian culture.
@@diyfreediver isso é muito porque a cultura norte americana segrega enquanto a nossa integra as pessoas, por isso somos tão miscigenados
@@Gabi-nn6xu That’s beautiful 😍
no way, japanese people in Brazil generally pick japanese partners and they came here fairly recently, so all of my japanese friends in brazil are actually 100% percent japanese and haven't mixed with other etnicities. I think I know of only two guys which were sons of asian + other nationality.
Let's see. If they lower the minimum wage in Brasil, what bargains we foreigners would gain! Hey! Why don't we bring back slavery?!! That would make it even cheaper for us foreigners to live there! We could ALL have maids then!! Wait! That was done already.. wasn't it....
The reason you got all those matches is because you are a "gringo" (you are an American and much like in Japan we find foreigners from English countries to be exciting).
I would also say that some Brazilian girls have a thing for Japanese guys.
But, yeah, some of them were probably interested in that greencard.
Rio it was far better in the past. Unfortunately we lost a lot of economic growth and opportunities in the past decades, besides bad mayors and governors. About the smell, maybe you’re right, we probably don’t notice anymore 😂 But I’m glad you enjoyed came to Brazil. If you have the chance, try to check other places besides the capitals. Some are amazing!!!
Just like you, sharks also love warm beach waters. That must be why they attack you so much on your beaches. hahahaha
Homeless is now a problem for the lots of states in the USA.
I hate it when you call it second/third world country! Bro its a country, you dont have to demote it
How was ur dating app experience as an Asian guy in Sao Paulo? Did u get any lays or dates?
Everyone has preferences. Honestly, I don’t get why someone would call you fatphobic. I see people that are mostly attracted for blondies or brunettes and that’s not that big of a issue as long as you treat everyone well regardless of their weight, eye color, hair colour, whatever you may be attracted to. Just because you’re not attracted to someone doesn’t mean you find them ugly.
Interesting to see an outside opinion of my home, I am brazilian and italian, have been in italy, USA, Canada, New Zealand, japan, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile...
I will tell you this, there is absolutely no food like brazilian food, I love Italian, Japanese, Thai, Indian food... all those are great, but will never top brazilian food, for sure.
Most Brazilians never went out of the country, because of that there is a certain admiration for foreign ppl.
Rio is a shit place, there are a ton of better places to go, I particularly love buzios, or great places in northeast, like joao pessoa...
São paulo is a great place to work, I live here, it's the greatest place to earn money, but it's very expensive in brazilian standards... so the food that it's half the price compared to US it's probably 1/4 of the price in the countryside.
I like your video! Very honest!
One note though, is that I don’t think converting our wages to dollars is helpful. If a minimum wage in the US is like, 5x the minimum wage in Brazil, it should be noted that every single thing you buy in the US is 5x more expensive as well.
So, to a Brazilian, having a 1500 reais wage would be similar to an American having a 1500 dollars wage.
What may be a factor here to everybody have a “maid” of some sort is basically culture: it’s considered normal and expected, so instead of being viewed as a luxury, people treat it as an expected expense, just like paying for your electricity bill.
Still haven't been... would love to go. Nobody said Rio & even Leblon smelled like urine LOL.
But I guess parts of NYC, LA & SF all smell like pee nowadays....
Haha yeah I’m from nyc and even tho parts here smell bad. It smelled way worse in rio for sure even compared to nyc and it is almost everywhere even in nice areas
I guess you haven’t been to Los Angeles then. I literally see human feces on the sidewalk on a daily basis and on top of that the metro here has human waste which I’ve never seen in Brazil.
I’m from São Paulo, lived in Rio and in America too. I’m with you. I agree with almost everything you said and I understand thinking about the green card. That’s real.
Yes, famous areas of Rio do smell like piss, sadly.
BRAZIL MENTIONED
My nephew is japanese and is a chef in SP.
the prejudice this guy has is crazy
Rio sidewalks and parks haven't been kept up very well and homelessness has become more apparent in the last decade or so. You have all the right to not have enjoyed Rio, but to say that the city smells bad in general is hyperbole.
People asking if you liked the girls is to find out if you're gay or not.
As pessoas ainda perguntam se vc gosta de homis ou mulher? Não é mal-educado?