the products we buy do not have the same quality as they do in USA andEurope. The international companies come to Brazil, because here their profitsare exorbitant; they can sale second class products as luxury products and Braziliancostumers dont care. Consumerism is stimulated through government subsidies,which benefits big companies, increasing their profits.The words Brazil is not a serious country, to whom it shouldbe applied? A country is the territory of a nation and a Nation is made of sufficientlyconscious people, about its unity, therefore, Brazilian people, according to Mr.Filho, are not serious people.We the people, tend to blame the government andthe politicians for everything bad that happens in the country, but the matterof the fact is that we are as much responsible. Each person has its share of responsibilityabout the good and the bad things that happen around us in our country. Wealways ask the government to do something or everything for us, we rarely askwhat we can do to make Brazil, our country, a better place.The government only exists because of people. There is nogovernment without people. People can live without government, but nogovernment can subsist without peoples support. If things are bad in Brazil,our country, we, the people, are to be blamed for it, as much or even more thanour politicians, for they do not exist without us the people. We are co-responsible;we are the ones who elect our government and our representatives in congress.Our politicians do not respect us, and therefore, do notrepresent us in congress accordingly, because they know we are weak as people. Weare weak because we do not have the conscious of unity, which is necessary tomake people powerful. We dont think of Brazil as our own homeland, we are notreally patriotic. Our sense of nationalism and patriotism is limited toFootball; no wonder government has invested billions of reais to hostinternational football championships in Brazil, not mentioning the amounts ofmoney that is spent every year for national and local football championships.If fact, we do not take things as serious as we should. Hereit reigns the law of jeitinho known everywhere as jetinho brasileiro, whichmeans to deceive people and bypass the rules to take advantage of everythingand everyone, to achieve personal goals. The jetinho brasileiro made us moreselfish, without a national conscience and less patriotic.We, Brazilian people do not put the whole society beforeourselves, not even for the greater good. We dont see our country as our land orour community as our home to care for. What is lacking iseducation in Brazil. The numbers are scary, even when compared to our SouthAmerican neighbors. Brazil has a percentage of college students lower than Paraguayan;Only 3% of Brazilians are bilinguals. The country has 9% of illiterates, inBrazil there are 33.000.000 of functional illiterates. Last year 300.000 new illiterateemerged. Among the 300 best universities in the world, has no Brazilianuniversity.The UN 2012 Ranking, Brazil, which was already misplaced,dropped 3 more positions, and today is the number 88 in the world. Brazil isbehind Belize, Fiji Islands, Chad, Azerbaijan, Mauritius, Uzbekistan, Mongolia,Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Belarus, Tajikistan, Botswana, Sao Tome andPrincipe, Namibia,