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That s your big mistake, Orwellian. To understand your environment, you need your senses, not just intellectual artificial constructions. You needs to see, feel, talk, place yourself in others souls. You need to go deeper than just appearances, to make your own conclusions based on what you...

What i mean is that the more you fear risks, the harder you make your life for yourself and for your family. I am very surprised to read so many North Americans reporting their fears here, be it from driving, from illnesses...since this is in total contradiction with the idea they have about...

Democracy might not be the best applicable system for countries over 1 billion people. Go and travel in both India and China for an extended period of time and report...

The microcentro is actually fairly easy...9 de Julio is very large, there is always some way to get to the traffic light and a lot of free parking for the motorcycles (paying 10 pesos for 2 hours can get tiresome very quickly). Actually, i m more stressed riding in France, i always fear to get...

US expatriates show themselves sometimes so nostalgic of their homeland you wonder why they ever thought about moving to such a desolated place like Buenos Aires. I think it s a question of education. Patriotism is being diffused in every film they watch since their childhood, and having CNN...

I bet a majority would prefer Mickey Mouse for President but entertainment lobbies never thought about it yet. Imagine the savings on political marketing, every us citizen already knows him.:) Disney studios would certainly do better for the international image of the US than Bush studios and...

They have to pay for the translators!! :rolleyes:

How can a wealthy nation go bankrupt? Rich people dont need to borrow money, they have money. This is an asumption once again, not a fact. The use of the word nation rather than country backs it, there is national pride in that asumption. Anyways, believing as well that appearant wealth buys...

This new century is indeed seeing the emergence of Asia as a centerweight of human community, for demographic reasons. This ends a cycle of western domination which started with the european expansion and gave birth to America, both north and south, as it is known today. China will be the...

I will not enter a never ending debate and quotes battle to find out who is right or wrong, this forum had already too many threads locked for being too addictive to some posters. I will just share my experience. When i first got into Argentina, i stayed in a youth hostel. Half of the hostel...

Actually, they do. Undergraduate university is free for foreigners. A student coming from those countries can spend a whole year studying for free while in his country he would have to pay up to several thousands of dollars for a similar service. Argentine tax payers would have a right to be...

This tax seems still unfair. If you take into account the average income, it s still way more affordable for US citizens to enter Argentina than for Argentines to enter the US (reciprocity would then be around 700 USD). Add to this the costs and time to go to an embassy to get a visa and the...

Near the national airport, there is a big resort with huge outdoor swimming pools. It opens only for the summer season. I can t remember the name, but when i got there in 2007 i was impressed by the settings.

Cher Fromage, What makes you a human being is the ice and fire that forged you as you are. Losses are part of the process, like the beauty of a statue is made out of losses of a block of raw material. Luck and fatalism are not acceptable in our western societies, they play a strong role in...

When somebody talks repeatedly about emotions, it s time to ask yourself if he is not being manipulative, since emotions are strong opinion and action vectors. To be a good salesman, you have to know how to use emotional strings. This is nothing new to marketers. Fear and sex are two important...

No fellow monger, i m trying to be as sincere as possible with what i observed and express it as accuratly as i can in a close, but foreign language. But to be sincere with others, you need to be sincere with yourself, not trying to display the best possible social appearance. My grand mother...

Merci pour le compliment Ailujjj :) This is natural for a mother to wish the best for her child. Mothers of the northern hemisphere in their majority work full time, having as a matter of fact much less time/love to give to their family. Economic pressure has something to do with this, since...

No simply that i m french, and as a matter of fact, i learnt to spell them the french way ;) This is called an accent and from the feedback i got, it seems fairly popular, be it in english, spanish or german:p Pericles has never been so generous in thanks...i feel him getting submerged by the...

Oh, btw, nothing change much over the last 40 years http://www.lyricstime.com/joe-jackson-forty-years-lyrics.html

No, Ailujjj, what you state as a universal norm is just your cultural asumption. In China, Bolivia,the norm for kids is to travel with their parents on motorcycles without helmets and they feel totally confortable about it. What is true with distance is also true with time. 100 years ago...