To see why Brazil currently seems so exciting to both Brazilians and foreigners, it helps to understand just how deep it had sunk by the early 1990s.

ECONOMIST: Getting it together at last

In the past, all they had to deal with were the animal-rights people, many of them foreigners who could not be expected to understand the ways of Spain.

ECONOMIST: Not in front of the children

Many foreigners are surprised that our national characteristics are sometimes very difficult to understand.

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It is rare for me to see foreigners here at the traditional market, and I like talking to them, but I don't understand English.

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