As a Brasilian citizen, I am obviously not happy about the part where our anemic industry faces unfair competition from industries that developed through exploiting us.

It seems only the latifundiaries here stand to gain, instead of selling meat and coffee to their countrymen for a reasonable price they would rather export everything they can and destroy the rest to keep the price up.

I made the mistake of looking at the r/europe post about it. I assumed they would all be cheering, because anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would understand that the deal benefits the EU way more than it benefits us.

Most comments seemed at least happy that the negotiations were over. But a few were like “those barbarous savages are going to feed us poison and shit!!!” and a part of me wanted to go there and defend the quality of my country’s agricultural products. Someone actually went there to do just that, and it was embarrassing to watch.

I would love for my people to be able to afford high quality food as easily as the people complaining that our fucking cows don’t drink enough champagne or whatever.

I actually used to be a huge europhile. My dream was to live in one of those nice countries where every street is always clean and it snows and everyone is so elegant and sophisticated. Basically the american dream for people too young to believe in the american part.

I went to the trouble of acquiring italian citizenship from 19th century relatives and learning fr*nch. Now I’m afraid that if I move to an EU country and forget to shave every day, some lunatic will think I’m an arab and hate crime me for “replacing” him.

I know that the average liberal in the imperial core is far from the outliers, but I keep getting surprised by how little they think of us here in the Global South. I am currently learning Chinese with sober expectations.