Re: USA, love it or leave it

Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
>>> i think in brazil, you can beat your wife.
> 
>> No, you can't. Maybe you could, back in 1825.
>> Alberto Monteiro
> 
> http://www.brazzil.com/component/content/article/205-june-2009/10195-
> in-brazil-a-culture-of-violence-sees-wife-beating-as-no-big-
> deal.html 
>
At least there's an epsilon of truth in that site: "This woman is 
what Brazilian's call mulher de malandro. A mulher de malandro is
a woman who teases mens, nags them no end and pratically begs
to be hit" -- and calling someone a "mulher de malandro" is 
_very_ offensive.

> I meant no offense,Alberto.  I have only heard wife 
> beating is tolerated in Brazil, as it is in many countries.
>
Well, that's the kind of information you get when you read porn-sites.
BTW, the author's name "José da Silva" is brazilian's "John Smith".

Alberto Monteiro