And of course, our media ran with the racist angle. It's as if they never went to a house in the suburbs and heard a casual conversation where people called each other "meu nego" or something along the lines. Heck, we even have an assortment of celebrities called Nego, Neguinho and other stuff like that.
Oh, wait! It's because they have
never done that! Almost all our journos are upper-class twits that
think they know how it is to be poor and actually praise it!
@blablabla can confirm this kind of mentality, they call them "abajistas" in Spanish. It's like social climbing, except downwards.
No, seriously, this is why we Brazilians will never amount to anything and why we deserve to live in muck and misery. For all the talk of American pervasiveness in our culture, we are the first to accept it and become servile lapdogs to whatever bullshit their think tanks pull around. It's typical NPC mentality, and the software upgrade for this week is to ignore social context of a term and just use its more glaring meaning.
Also, who the hell is Hamilton to talk about Piquet? Holy shit, this fucker would NEVER be able to drive around a tough-to-handle, actual manual gearbox, no DRS and no HANS Williams, and hold off Senna anywhere, even in fucking Hungaroring.
I'm seriously not looking forward to this weekend, and maybe even skip on the race. You bet everything will be about racism. I watch sports exactly to run away from the constant barrage of "important" sociopolitical grandstanding, and even that has to come to sports because the populace needs to learn to hate itself for the original sin of living in the West.