On Apr 26, 10:43=A0pm, darsiau...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Apr 26, 11:48 am, MTRP=99 <Mir.Topol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >http://counterpunch.org/moses04262008.html
>
> Sure, Chicago is a city of almost 4 million people. There is crime.
> There is poverty. There are alot of guns. There is also alot of
> prosperity, expansive public space, excellent public trans****tation
> and a vibrant cultural life.
>
> But in the end - it's safer here than pretty much anywhere in Brazil.
>
> Vidas
Actually Chicago is somewhat Brazil-like (I am basing this, of course,
on my second-hand knowledge of Brazil), with segregated ghettoes and
prosperous neighborhoods. The prosperous areas are about as safe as
Europe; the ghettoes are probably reminiscent of, though not nearly as
bad as, City of God.
The author's call to provide recreation in the ghettoes is laughable;
the swimming pools placed in the Cabrini Green housing project were
shut down within weeks because the nihilistic residents shattered
glass bottles inthem.
Chicago's business-oriented culture was shocking by civilized Europe's
standards but has long been eclipsed in that way by American-
society. Chicago remains the last and youngest American (and
therefore Western) real city - after Chicago it's all uniform,
standard, interchangeable utalitarian suburbia, whether it's called
L.A., the New South, Denver, etc. etc.
regards,
BM
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