So since when do you consider Brazil not a colony?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
As you can see here, measuring democracy in this other way paints a pretty different scenario.
Why? Because the perception of democracy isn't physical reality.
There is no "coefficient" of freedom of expression to be coupled with that, so that you can start to try a comparison.
As a random example, that coefficient could be derived by the percentage of population that has been arrested for protesting in the last year.
The wars that waged even after the declaration of independence of Brazil, though.
Few years after there was the Paraguayan war.
I totally agree now Brazil is different, just saying they tried their imperialist moves, just like others.
For the same reason psychology isn't considered strictly scientific.
No, that's not how it works. If you test something thatbis not even scientifically measurable over two different samples you aren't testing shit. You are just throwing numbers around that don't correlate to each other.
No, I simply have critical thinking that makes me unable to trust some random numbers.
It's also a comparison of how much people in those countries feel free of criticizing their government then.
To be sure it isn't we should include more countries, first of all, with different kinds of governments. That would be a good start at some kind of more objective discussion based on tangible things.
Exactly, you can't trust such a survey, no matter the source.