@randahl
Since I was very young, I never felt much admiration for the US. Their cultural influence always seemed overwhelming, maybe that’s one reason I became so drawn to classical music. Today, I can’t imagine living without it.
When I studied physics, I dreamed of earning a PhD in Europe. Why? I wanted to live somewhere where public transportation was the norm, not a privilege.
I was lucky to receive a scholarship that let me spend six months in a wealthy European city during my master’s program. I didn’t finish the degree, but that experience completely changed my life at 23.
I could never relate to friends who wanted to pursue their careers in the US. To me, it always felt like a wealthier version of Brazil. I visited them three times for work, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Sausalito, and the inequalities I’d grown up with were right there in front of me.
I’ve always found American patriotism somewhat suspicious. Maybe it’s a way to compensate for the country’s deep contradictions, to build a fantasy of greatness that so many, even abroad, even in Europe, end up believing in.
@everton137 @randahl You saw it coming.
I didn’t. Maybe the concern about the 1930s was closer to me.
@pait quando voltei a beber, ainda não prestava atenção no açúcar e desgastava da com adoçante.
Hoje, cola zero é o que mais bebo. Se bebo a noite, fico acordado, pois sou muito sensível à cafeína. A descafeinada sem açúcar também é boa.
@pait provavelmente não chegarei na sua idade por causa do colapso climático. Então vou de Coca Zero de vez em quando.
P. S. Nesse exato momento, água com gás num restaurante coreano. É minha bebida favorita depois de mate, que bebo menos que gostaria.
@everton137 @randahl I used to say 3 things set the US apart from Brazil: the Constitution, the national parks, and the liberal arts colleges. Otherwise it was just like Brazil, with a wider toilet paper gage.
At this pace it will soon be just the wider gage.
@everton137 @randahl Yes. And, what’s happening is beyond shocking.
trump’s America is a country that only existed in the imagination of the most rabid freedom-hating leftists. Not even the American far right had imagined it.