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Rhodeisa is different in the sense that the "Whites" "colonized and took the land from the natives", a simplistic hostory which I do not agree with but the natives do. In Brazil, a European origin peoples in terms of culture and blood (mixed as it is and I do not have a problem with that notion) will not go the way of Rhodesia. It may go communist but more than likely go socialist. But that would be the West's fault if that happens because it was the West that pushed such crushing loans on a Brazil that was not amture enough to take on such debt.

I once worked at a dairy farm office here in Upstate New York. It was run by a young couple and his parents and was growing rapidly when I was hired. I was originally hired just part-time to file. As the farm grew to 600 cows I found myself working full-time to satisfy a government bureaucracy that required 8-page reports each time they shipped milk from one place to another. Count in employees leaving and filing for unemployment, workmens compensation filings and claims, IRS filings - in short, a complete bureaucratic nightmare. Then the farm had a small manure spill into a local creek. Along came the Environmental Protection Agency and some other alphabet agencies. I had to work overtime at that point in time. The family did tell me that they were thinking of re-locating to someplace like Brazil. I often thought that the farm employs about 20 employees, but how many government employees are employed to oversee farming operations? Yes, I can understand American farmers yearning to be free, but they should stay in America and fight to be free. Who's to say, if they go to Brazil, set up shop and succeed that one fine day Brazil will say "We want this farming operation to belong to the Brazilian people, not to Americans".

"It's your land...for now. Look at what happened in Rhodesia."

I agree.

In Rhodesia, the whites gave the best land to the blacks. The blacks in Zimbabwe still have problems working the hard soils worked by the whites.

There are already 'walled' communities in Brazil, I was just reading the other day about one of 30,000 residents who employ 1,200 private armed security guards. All non-residents who arrive/depart are searched. These are mainly white/European enclaves.

Brazil has the largest population of blacks outside Africa.