You have to understand Brazilians have a bad rep, because, whereas Europe and America may have a lot low profile cheaters - when you actually catch a high profile one, it tends to just be a bad apple that has fallen stray from the apple tree.
In the past we have noted that when one Brazilian player was caught cheating within a team. The WHOLE team was cheating, and of course this is not always the case. But without sounding too extreme a good example of this in the real world would be the outlook of Muslims - a lot of people misjudge them and prejudice them as extremists (huge problem in the UK where I live, after the 7/7 bombings), but it is only a tiny percentage of them that are - and it certainly does not make up the whole picture and represent them as a community or religion.
These few bad apples do not represent Brazil either - however it does make some people more anxious towards them and certainly more cynical.
I hope this clears up a bit of the mixed attitudes I am seeing towards Brazilian, from my perspective anyhow, and understand Theo_RJ* - this attitude towards Brazilians is not the majority of the AC community either :)
In the past we have noted that when one Brazilian player was caught cheating within a team. The WHOLE team was cheating, and of course this is not always the case. But without sounding too extreme a good example of this in the real world would be the outlook of Muslims - a lot of people misjudge them and prejudice them as extremists (huge problem in the UK where I live, after the 7/7 bombings), but it is only a tiny percentage of them that are - and it certainly does not make up the whole picture and represent them as a community or religion.
These few bad apples do not represent Brazil either - however it does make some people more anxious towards them and certainly more cynical.
I hope this clears up a bit of the mixed attitudes I am seeing towards Brazilian, from my perspective anyhow, and understand Theo_RJ* - this attitude towards Brazilians is not the majority of the AC community either :)