The Slum Of Brazil

The television series 3% is a series on Netflix that is about two different worlds. The original language is Portuguese because the series is set in Brazil. The series is about people who are given the opportunity to move from the slums of Brazil to a place that everyone believes to be a much better place. These two believe that this place is only for the privileged and that they can become one of the privileged. They believe that this community is cleaner and people do not go hungry. They also believe they will not be poor like they are in the slum of Brazil. They get this opportunity at the age of twenty. They are chosen by going through a series of test to become the 3% of elite that will move to what is called the “the offshore”. These …show more content…
According to the article, “Rio de Janeiro (City)” By Amelia Meyer one of Brazil’s largest cities is Rio de Janeiro often referred to as just Rio. Rio is a very large tourist destination and is the top visited city in the southern hemisphere (Meyer). The scenes in 3% show very bad conditions in Brazil. People are dressed in dirty torn clothing. They are hungry and eat very little. The homes they live in are small and dirty and they may not even have a home. The series portrays Brazil and Rio as very poor and that everyone lives in a slum. For a lot of the people of Brazil this is true. Not everyone lives in poverty in Brazil and according to the website “10 Facts About Brazilian Slums” the poverty level is getting smaller in Brazil. There are approximately one thousand slums in Rio. Within these slums are poor infrastructures that have no plumbing or electric. There are many diseases that people live with due to lack of sanitation. Gangs and drug trafficking are very prevalent in Brazil due to the poverty. During the 2016 Olympics, which were held in 2016 in Rio, the media and tourist were very concerned about traveling to Rio because of these slums. The media had a hard time focusing on the Olympics due to the attention of the …show more content…
According to the article, these incomes are their earnings from work and any other sources of income. According to the article, “In Booming Brazil, Census Shows Income Gap Persists” the author reveals major inequalities in incomes in Brazil. The richest people of Brazil earn in one month the amount the poorest earn in three years. This is a dramatic inequity in income from the top to the bottom of the social class in Brazil. According to the article “The Average American Monthly Salary”, in 2011 Americans had an average monthly income of almost four thousand dollars a month. The series 3% by Aurelio Locsin does depict the reality of the slums in Brazil. People do live in these conditions in Rio and