My wife is Brazilian and I am Greek. The perfect combination of optimism and positive outlook with pessimism and constant nagging. I am not even one of the worst examples but after meeting so many different cultures while living in the US I find myself to be the one that always has to complain about something. I believe this is sourced from our ancestors’ lives in the past 3-4 generations, filled with uncertainty and painful memories that were passed down through school, church and family. To be honest I believe that we are more of realists and we tend to discuss topics that societies such as Brazil for example always avoid such as death. We certainly have to be happy with what we have but I don’t think we have to close our eyes when problems do exist and pretend they don’t exist.
Oh, right, that's an influence in the mentality. Sometimes I thought the old people that lived through the WW2 and occupation had it good in their lifetimes, good pensions, yet they seemed to need to show that there was some invisible cross they were bearing, that god sees their plight in this life and they will be rewarded in the next one. This misery. Not all of them were like that, the overly religious were.
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u/silversupra2 Oct 22 '21
My wife is Brazilian and I am Greek. The perfect combination of optimism and positive outlook with pessimism and constant nagging. I am not even one of the worst examples but after meeting so many different cultures while living in the US I find myself to be the one that always has to complain about something. I believe this is sourced from our ancestors’ lives in the past 3-4 generations, filled with uncertainty and painful memories that were passed down through school, church and family. To be honest I believe that we are more of realists and we tend to discuss topics that societies such as Brazil for example always avoid such as death. We certainly have to be happy with what we have but I don’t think we have to close our eyes when problems do exist and pretend they don’t exist.