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Thoughts on Asunción, Paraguay

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83 points Michelangelo11 | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 07:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.241s | source
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aunty_helen ◴[25 Jun 25 16:02 UTC] No.44378788[source]▶
Westerners and gringos especially, have a special ability to turn up to a place that’s different from where they came and point out all of the failings in their eyes. Neglecting that the reasons they hate their own country might be coupled to those differences.
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1. inglor_cz ◴[25 Jun 25 19:45 UTC] No.44381191[source]▶
Certain distance helps with observation. If you are used to X from your childhood, it may not strike you that X is counterproductive.

This would work equally well for a Paraguayan coming to the West.

BTW the city where I live (Ostrava) is architecturally weirdly mixed as well, at least in the older parts, where Communist blocks of flats were often built into a bomb-related gap in an older street built in a very different (and usually more human-friendly) style.

This is a good example:

https://mapy.com/s/covogafahu

How I dislike that green tower...