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Simeon Mitropolitski is a Canadian analyst, of Bulgarian origin, and a former syndicated columnist with the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA). He is the author of several hundred articles dealing with hot political and economic topics, both national and international.
He was part of the first group of Bulgarian intellectuals and students that began the opposition movement that finally put an end to the communist regime in this country in 1989, and in 1996-1997 participated in international observation teams during the elections in several Balkan countries - Romania, Albania and Bulgaria.
In 2002 Simeon and his family moved from Bulgaria to Canada where they live now in Montreal, province of Quebec. Simeon is a Master of Political Science from McGill University and a B.A. of Political Science and History.
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Brazil: Why do they hate us so much?Interesting case some months ago showed clearly to what point Brazilians hate Americans and all other rich nations. After imposing for security reasons finger printing for travelers coming from some countries, the Unite States have seen their own citizens being forced to be finger printed in Brazil. It was obviously an act of reciprocity, usually made between countries when it comes to spy activities or trade disputes. What was done from Brazil was generally accepted in the Third World as a good lesson toward the economically stronger North. Why Brazilians consider Americans and other rich nations as legitimate targets of their hate? Is there something people in the developed countries, America being first among them, should know more about their own image in countries like Brazil? Northern rich countries live within the dominant modernization discourse, meaning that all countries are put into one line of progress, when more modernization means more wealth and less wealth means inadequate modernization. Poor countries and not well to do countries are expected to reach the present level of development attained by the most developed countries by copying their political, economic and social structures. In case of Brazil, which by all standards is situated among the mid-developed countries, if it wants to become rich like the United States, it must follow the path of development of its richer mentor. Not so bright looks the picture from Southern perspective. Brazil doesn't accept the northern modernization image of the world as a process of gradual transformation of traditional into modern societies. More than that, Northern countries, and America first of all, are to be blamed for the fact that poorer countries are not rich enough. Social thinkers like Dos Santos and Cardoso since 1960's have contributed to this understanding, radically opposed to the dominant perception in the developed world. Brazil, although rich in raw materials, is locked into perpetual under-development toward the developed West. The trade is unequal. The country exports mainly cheap raw materials and imports expensive machinery and consumer goods. The living standard in Brazil being one third of the level in the USA and Canada some 70 years ago has remained unchanged in relative terms or has even declined. At that same time the cheap materials produced in Brazil have contributed to material progress in the rich countries. This explanation of the fact that countries like Brazil are chronically unable to catch up with the most developed nations is called "dependency theory" and it enjoys enormous popularity in this country. It's good enough for nations that refuse to blame themselves for the corrupt administration, for the economic mismanagement, and for the failures in allocating resources efficiently. They don't see that some countries starting from the same or even worse positions have reached better results in relatively short periods. The fact is that dependency theory makes rich countries standard scapegoats for any social and economic problem, past, present and future. Those representatives of rich countries that have decided to make Brazil their second home feel these negative feelings. They are result not from any particular behavior of countries like the United States, but from the very nature of distribution of power in today's world.
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