mongrel complex造句

• The expression " mongrel complex " was rediscovered in 2004 by the American journalist Larry Rohter, in an article for " The New York Times " about the Brazilian nuclear program, he wrote:
• Writing in the 1950s, the playwright Nelson Rodrigues saw his countrymen as afflicted with a sense of inferiority, and he coined a phrase that Brazilians now use to describe it : " the mongrel complex . " Brazil has always aspired to be taken seriously as a world power by the heavyweights, and so it pains Brazilians that world leaders could confuse their country with Bolivia, as Ronald Reagan once did, or dismiss a nation so large-- it has 180 million people-- as " not a serious country, " as Charles de Gaulle did.