Sealing for sealing, just a new verb

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

Sealing for sealing, just a new verb

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The sealing of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, when visiting Brazil four decades ago, decided to seal it here, in the tupiniquin land, taking a swipe at the backward underdeveloped, so he decided and was the front page of the largest printed newspapers in Brazil, when descending from the plane at Brasília Airport, wearing an elegant suit complemented by tennis shoes.

All designed to produce the clash of civilization and show its neo-European, Canadian, superior, up-to-date superiority, a new fad by some gay or transsexual fashion designer from Europe, whose ideas don't always succeed in fashion.

And that was the case with Mr. Trudeau, as one can confront with the current fashion, no head of state or CEO wears a suit complemented with tennis shoes, but that only the lacradores never guessed.

The agreed diplomatic protocol required leather shoes for ceremonies in accordance with classical ceremonial, but Mr Trudeau wanted to give us a lesson in modernity to the unsuspecting poor of the Earth's Southern Hemisphere, and even so being gently and discreetly urged to give up this impudence. The diplomat insisted and went to government palaces wearing her tennis shoes despite the breach of protocol, making use of diplomatic tolerance, so she proceeded.

The idea of ​​celebrating Father's Day, with an image of a homo affective couple or on Mother's Day in the same way, will be revisited in the future as we do now about 40 years later as a cool and time-shifted act, like the Trudeau's, and will go down in history as simple demagoguery, hypocrisy, bizarreness, and nothing more.

This way Volkswagen's campaign with a couple of homo affectives will pass like everything that is biz