Marcio Marinho

I don’t really know who started it, that cariocas and paulistas are nasty ( well, at least I ever heard that each side hates the other party ), because they are the way they are. Btw, I am a carioca and I always heard from people here that paulistas don’t like cariocas, that paulistas are unpolite, that paulistas are… blah blah blah.

My opinion about this is : This is not true !

I was there in Sao Paulo for the first time last weekend ( May 30-31 / 2008 ), because I attended to a Scrum Master trainning ( that I will be posting about soon ), and everybody was very nice and kind to me. The people from the airport, the taxi drivers, the hotel staff ( these people are really great ! ), the restaurant people that I had dinner, my classmates ( awsome people ! ) , and so on.

Of course I had an incindent in the airport, and the story was that I forgot my perfume at home and I had to by a new one, everything was fine and I was going to pay, then suddenly a lady pushed me when I was about to pay. What can I say ? all paulistas are evil because an unpolite woman pushed me ? of course not ! I cannot blame 8.000.000 people just because of 1 !!!! Better question : how many people in rio have pushed me in queues ? hhhhmmmm one zilion maybe …. heheheeheh

I am not saying that there are no bad people anymore neither in Sao Paulo nor in Rio, of course there are, but the underlying point is that we can’t make pre-assumptions without knowing the reality.

I simply loved all people there and that part of the city is aewsome, and I want to go there again as soon as possible.

The funniest thing was that even speaking in portuguese everybody asked me the same question : Where are u from?, well, I discovered that I don’t have a strong carioca’s accent, and Rosangela confirmed that saying that I am almost a paulista [:-)]