I agree with you in some ways and appreciate your input. Brazil doesn’t quite make the cut, but it’s much closer to the US and Canada and the great Anglo-Saxon democracies that defeated Yamato Imperialism than it is to perennial degraded states such as Chad, Somalia, Afghanistan and Libya.
More on Brazil, a country which I like: It’s a G-20 country, a testament to its power and importance. And oil. Heh!
By the way, Gunma Prefecture has plenty of Brazilians. They work in car parts factories in Ota. They don’t send their kids to school. Education is not a high priority for them. Oh, well!
“…Brazil, for instance, contributes substantial amounts of oil to the overall world supply, along with other forms of production; however, the country is recognized as a developing, industrialized state rather than as a first world nation…”