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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
it just doesn't make any sense.
i mean, dallas, houston, atlanta, chicago, boston and freaking orlando get non-stops but not the mighty LAX???
and it's not like we don't have jets that can easily do that distance.
they have to be two largest unconnected metro areas in the western hemisphere.
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I wrote a paper on Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy during grad school. Washington was very invested in courting Brazil to the Allies, or at least preventing them from siding with the Axis.
So there was a lot of cultural courtship:
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And Disney was instrumental to the strategy. 1944's Three Caballeros is probably the best known example of animation diplomacy:
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The end impact through the decades is that Disney has a very strong brand and has became a signifier of wealth (you've "made it" when you can afford to take your kids to Disney World) and a coming-of-age-tradition.
Many Brazilians will walk over broken glass to visit Orlando, and 36% of Brazilians who land in the U.S. are head to Disney World:
https://qz.com/128367/the-happiest-p...of-brazilians/
Disney has hired 50 Portuguese greeters just to keep up with demand:
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A very interesting book on it by a Brazilian professor from the Federal University of Santa Catarina:
https://www.amazon.com/Brazil-United.../dp/1793613281
Brazil, the United States, and the Good Neighbor Policy: The Triumph of Persuasion during World War II is a detailed and comprehensive study of how the U.S. government used movies as part of the Good Neighbor Policy in Brazil during World War II to win the hearts and minds of Brazilians to the Allies’ side. From an insightful analysis of the internal operations of Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to a thick description of how audiences reacted to U.S. films, this political and cultural study, based on extensive archives sources, offers a convincing analysis about how U.S. cultural hegemony over Brazil increased as a result of wartime cooperations. -- James N. Green, Brown University