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RE: Musical Alphabet Challenge ~ A fun way to share music
They are insane! Just like labyrinth. The best and most beautiful views are from those places. I would send you a video on how the favelas first started, but it's in portuguese =s
I don't speak Portuguese unfortunately but i do enjoy hearing it! Especially in singing.
So this will seem dumb but is the violence and robbery etc. mostly in the Rio area? The movies and sometimes the news make it seem like it's dangerous everywhere. Long Beach where i live has neighborhoods near me that i would never go at night and some areas not even in the daytime. I want to photograph the houses and people who live there but i hesitate to because i don't know if i would be welcome or if the people would see me as a stupid jerk exploiting them. It's a difficult thing to talk about
So, I cant speak about Rio because I'm from the South part of Brazil. What I see there is a lot of pickpockets you know, around touristic areas, the sneaky bastards go there and take your camera or something if you are not careful enough.
The favelas are a complete different beast, generally the drug lords there don't let people rob in the community, so mostly the violence is police vs drugs dealers.
Then we have robbery on traffic lights for example, happens on big cities. However, what I see is that the violence scene is all abour drug cartels and consequently by people to rob to pay their addictions.
Just as irony, yesterday a guy was stabbed at night trying to avoid a robbery, my brother saw it happen. So I think common sense applies all over Brazil; avoid some areas and pay attention to what is happening arround you.
I've never been robbed, my brother was 4-5 times. But he doesn't pay attention when he's outside.