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(…) [A Wikipédia] anglófona é completamente diferente [da lusófona] e há muitos falantes de português que acabam por preferi-la, o que é tão triste quanto compreensível. Infelizmente, na lusofonia, vivemos em países com fraca cultura democrática, em que a aluna bate na professora e o povinho - conivente com ditaduras de dezenas de anos - acha que viver em liberdade e democracia é assim mesmo… O problema da wikipédia lusófona parece ser o sintoma de toda uma era social e de uma geração que questiona os valores dos pais (o que eu acho muito bem), mas que não sabe, a partir daí, criar um novo sistema de valores (o que eu acho muito mal). Ficamos, assim, numa espécie de desorientação pateta em que tudo parece ser possível e aceitável. Enfim…

por Ozalid, administrador (inactivo de momento) da Wikipédia Lusófona

(tradução pt-BR) (tradução pt-PT)

They made us believe that real love, the one that’s strong, only happens once, more likely before your 30ths.

They never told us that love is not something that you can put in motion, neither has time schedule.

They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when u find that other half.

They did not tell us that we were born as whole, and that no-one in our lives deserve to carry on his back such responsibility of completing what is missing on us: we grow through life by ourselves. If we have a good company it’s just more pleasant.

They made us believe in a formula “two in one”: two people sharing the same line of thinking, same ideas, and that it is what works.

It’s never been told that it has another name: invalidation, that only two individuals with their own personality is how you can have a healthy relationship. It has been made to believe that marriage is an obliged institution and that fantasies out of hour should be repressed.

They made us believe that the thin and beautiful are the ones who is more loved, that the ones that have little sex are boring, and the ones that has a lot of it are not trustful, and that will always have a old shoes to a crooked foot; what they forgot to tell us is that there are more crooked minds than feet.

They made us believe that there’s one way formula to be happy, the same one to everybody, and the ones that escape from that are condemned to be delinquents.

We have never been told that those formulas go wrong, they get people frustrated, they are alienating, and that we can try other alternatives.

Oh! Also they did not tell us that no one will tell those things to us. Each and everyone of us will have to learn by ourselves.

And, when we get to the point that you are in love with yourself first, that’s when you can fall in love with somebody.

This guy is soooo right… for long I’ve complaining to people (especially Mau, you hearin’ me?) that most songs are so damn the same…

I even started thinking I could be paranoid and to test that, I started compiling a few very similar songs in a text file… here are a few examples I collected:

• Check out Black Eyed Peas’ Shut Up against Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You out of My Head… haha no need to even try… someone did it already!
• Doesn’t Britney Spears’ Toxic sound similar to — guess what — Linkin Park’s Faint? Doubtful? MTV wasn’t!
• Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams? Wow I’d swear I heard those chords already.. Aha, wasn’t it on Oasis’s Wonderwall? But wait, there’s more! Try Lenny Kravitz’s Fly Away!…
• Nirvana says it Smells Like Teen Spirit… well, I’d say it smells like Pain’s Shut Your Mouth…
• Gwen Stefani’s Luxurious sounded familiar? Try Notorious’ Big Poppa — no, wait… it actually comes from Between the Sheets by The Isley Brothers!!

Well, Rob Paravonian couldn’t have explained it better:
Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the 5th most creative youtube video from 2006:
Pachelbel Rant

PS - He dindn’t mention it, but the Dragon Ball GT theme song is also based on the same chords… No wonder I read somewhere a conspiracy theory of a secret software that major recording companies use to compare their new songs to a database of successes, and the thingie would predict the likeliness of it becoming or not a hit…