I don&#x27;t pretend to know the commentor&#x27;s intentions but, for reference, there&#x27;s something in Brazil called the Stray dog&#x2F;Mongrel complex which was thought up by a famous Brazilian writer, and which may explain it for you. Of his phrase, this writer said it&#x27;s “the inferiority with which the Brazilian positions himself, voluntarily, in front of the rest of the world”.<p>From a NYT piece written by author Larry Rohter in 2004:<p>&quot;Writing in the 1950&#x27;s, the playwright Nelson Rodrigues saw his countrymen as afflicted with a sense of inferiority, and he coined a phrase that Brazilians now use to describe it: &quot;the mongrel complex.&quot; Brazil has always aspired to be taken seriously as a world power by the heavyweights, and so it pains Brazilians that world leaders could confuse their country with Bolivia, as Ronald Reagan once did, or dismiss a nation so large -- it has 180 million people -- as &quot;not a serious country,&quot; as Charles de Gaulle did.&quot;