The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.
I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy.
Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.