Don't dress down!
Tourists intend to dress down to protect themselves from robbers. But you won't look like you come from the ghetto just by dressing down!
Even though a third of all the Brazilians are very poor and live in the favelas (ghettos), the most of them dress well. When I met my fiancé and he told me that he lives in the favela, I just looked at him from top to toe and then I just shook my head and said NO WAY! He always dress very well!
But there is one way to reveal them, their nails! My Colombian friend told me that he was threaten by a gun to give away his bag (which he had a computer and money for a ticket to Finland) when he passed by a bad area in Colombia. He was dressed in a suit, so he told the robber that he's truly a very poor man and just dressed like a business man because he was looking for a job that particular day. The robber didn't believe him, but he insisted that he was telling the truth. The robber didn't know what to believe so he asked to see his nails and that was what saved my friend! My friend's nails were not done by a manicurist for a while...
In South America it's so cheap to fix your nails, so everyone do that even the men! Just the really poor people won't do that!
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