I'm from Germany, we don't have KKK and I still think it looks like it. I would guess it's known in a lot of places worldwide

we don't have to take anything into account, it's creepy

sus lol

Google "holy week portugal" or "hooded procession portugal" and you'll see loads of "KKK" costumes which are anonymous (that's the point of both costumes!) penitents. Brazil being an ex-Portuguese colony, the resemblance with KKK is obvious but there's no confusion.

But it says SUS right on him ....kinda sus 😂😂

As a Brazilian, I feel like I should talk about this. The mascot name is "Zé Gotinha" (something like "Little Drop Joe"), and was created in 1986, for the public campaigns to vaccinate kids (some vaccines, like the polio, are oral, so that's why the "drop"). Of course a lot of brazilians knows about KKK, we have history lessons too. But when we are toddlers and meet Zé Gotinha, we are simply to young to do this association. And, if u look just to the oficial mascot, it doesn't look a lot like KKK. I mean, it's just a friendly drop. But those costumes are just awful, and even to us they look ridiculous. Oh, and if anyone is asking what is "SUS", it means "Sistema Único de Saúde" (think the best translation is something like "United Health System"). It's the national public health service, I believe it's like the NHS in UK.

Check your history, Brazil imported way more slaves than the US and banned slavery long after the US. Granted that doesn’t exactly mean they’d know the KKK that started in the US post civil war but a lot of confederate slave owners fled to Brazil to continue running a farm the way they knew how. Like the man from Germany said, I think they know enough to recognize it.

I'm glad there's no KKK there but the mascot is still kinda creepy and weird. Kinda looks like a condom.

Sure, but we do know what a ghost looks like.

Thanks for explaining the humor post to us.

welll the nazis did move south of Brazil

Still scares me!

When I was in Ghana I saw a local person wearing white robes with a pointed hood. Does anyone know what that might have meant locally? (I know what the white hood signifies to me...)

You're perfetcly right. We do not have KKK here and we certainly would never think of associating the "little drop" to those extremists.

TBH not many people are aware of the meaning of KKK, they laugh with " kkkkkkkk" and the KKK was exclusively in the US, we have neo Nazis but they are more concerned about LGBTQIA+

No, just old Nazis....

We kinda know this

yes we woundnt think of it at all

Still creepy. Poor kids.

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I don’t know they have a thriving Confederate Village and population

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Who says the KKK cant b in brazil? ... like a KKK member cant fly to Brazil if they wanted.. just curious

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That's why they're starting with the kids..... When those kids get a little older.....BAM! Brazil's own KKK!

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You should do a little research. The confederacy in Brazil lasted another 50 years after the American Civil war

WHITE SUS

and SUS means Sistema Único de Saúde = free health system! We don't have KKK.

@YoYoSthlm why don't you shut the f**k up. just because America is f****d up doesn't mean every other place is f****d up

Unfortunately, it's part of a dark reality in the USA...i get what everyones saying...but still, i do not like this 👎

@moon i'm going to assume what you said is rude, bad or racist but please, LEARN PUNCTIATION.

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ok first of all why do people always think that america is making their problems the rest of the world because a lot of us arent and second it was supposed to be a joke so can you just appreciate it and maybe not try to correct it?

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Well it's a horrible thing and we just don't want to be reminded of it is all...