I live next to Água Branca Park, populated by chickens, ducks, geese, peacocks and guinea fowls. My son grew up in the park and knows all these animals.
But every now and then a child appears there who has never seen a duck or a chicken. Weird, kind of bizarre, but understandable. Not everyone in São Paulo has farm animals nearby or the ability to travel to rural areas.
Quite different is the situation of the digital influencer Jade Picon, almost 18 million followers on Instagram. Confined to the house of Big Brother Brasil 22, the girl went to prepare a meat with onions at dawn on Tuesday (1/3).
What followed was Jade absolutely baffled by the fact that slicing onions makes the eyes sting and water. She vented in amazement: “Wow, I’m crying! My God! What’s going on?”
The rich girl’s reaction makes it very clear that she has never had to face an onion in two decades of her life. Young, but old enough to have dealt with things like cooking rice, doing the dishes, or tidying up her own room.
The rich in Brazil are disgusted by any job that seems to be manual, poor. When they invent cooking, it’s to be a chef, it’s to express artistic expression, it’s to honor the ancestry that he knew from the portraits on the wall.
These people would starve if they were left on a desert island with a fishing rod, hatchet and lighter.
But they are the ones who command the destinies of the nation, always. For meritocracy, they say.
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