Why do latin American cities look more coloful than U.S cities??

[italiano_pellicano]

mostly poor countries are more colorful

[Adrian12345Lugo]

cities in Mexico have been colorful for thousands of years

[Luxor12]

Originally Posted by italiano_pellicano

mostly poor countries are more colorful

Please tell me more...

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The Colorful Island of Burano, Italy por ShannaCole, en Flickr

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Colourful houses of Corniglia por John in Scotland, en Flickr

[Adrian12345Lugo]

that last one looks poor

[sebvill]

Originally Posted by BringMe

I wonder how many of those who critize south america actually visit the region and stay a minimum of time (1 month) in every single one of them to make that type of comments


Always the same thing people speak without knowing

1 month in every country? not even us!

[sebvill]

Originally Posted by Luxor12

Please tell me more...

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The Colorful Island of Burano, Italy por ShannaCole, en Flickr

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Colourful houses of Corniglia por John in Scotland, en Flickr

CHAN!

Italy is a very colourful country (most of it)

My pics of The Liguria

[Atomicus]

Originally Posted by koolio

Because poor people need colour to cheer up their otherwise miserable lives.

lol, why trolling here? This is not the skybar.

Denmark:




Norway:





I hope you guys are using sarcasm to critice this disguised Country vs. Country thread that clearly OP meant to do.

[BringMe]

[isakres]

Originally Posted by Adrian12345Lugo

that last one looks poor

No wait, there are way poorer neighborhoods.

[isakres]

Originally Posted by sebvill

CHAN!

Italy is a very colourful country (most of it)

My pics of The Liguria

Nice pics in colorful Italy Swede guy.

[andre_e]

Is so depresing to read at the Latin American stereotypes that people has in other continents, take a plane first and come to visit us before give an opinion.

[Svartmetall]

Originally Posted by andre_e

Is so depresing to read at the Latin American stereotypes that people has in other continents, take a plane first and come to visit us before give an opinion.

Actually I don't think we all have that impression at all, I know for a fact that I don't. I honestly think sometimes there is a bit of a persecution complex here - I don't see people in this thread (or elsewhere) saying that Latin America is nothing but slums and poor people...

[Motul]

Obviously the level of opinion will depend on the level of education.. That's why when someone says something suggesting the whole region is practically sub Saharan Africa, I really don't pay attention.. The opinion is coming from a less evolved mind, and hence should be completely discarded.

[goschio]

Asian cities are more colorful IMO.

[eklips]

Originally Posted by Motul

Obviously the level of opinion will depend on the level of education.. That's why when someone says something suggesting the whole region is practically sub Saharan Africa, I really don't pay attention.. The opinion is coming from a less evolved mind, and hence should be completely discarded.

So in other words you just reproduce what you perceive is the perception of Latin-America but towards subsaharian Africa?

[Motul]

Yes, Sub Saharan Africa is the poorest place on Earth.

One thing is to be uneducated and think latam is miserable, and another is to recognize the reality of a region such as the mentioned before, from an educated position.

But I get what you are saying

[koolio]

Originally Posted by eklips

So in other words you just reproduce what you perceive is the perception of Latin-America but towards subsaharian Africa?

Agreed. What a shameful point of view . I hope someone from The Oasis has seen this and is currently in the process of providing all of us with multiple pages worth of visual evidence proving the existence of unparalleled wealth (compared to Latin America) in places like Cape Town, Jo'burg etc.

[eklips]

@Motul. Except that sub-saharian Africa is a huge and very heterogeneous region and like latin-America it has very high inequalities (both between and within countries). In many ways, sub-saharian Africa is both "rich" and "poor" at the same time - but the very idea of "poverty" should be questioned first anyways, something the bureaucrats and statisticians who construct poverty indexes never do because they generally are pretty clueless people (and this also applies to European countries btw). And the idea that the abstract sum of all market goods produced (the "GDP") is enough to measure "poverty" is even more clueless...

Speaking of Latin-America, a few decades ago some authors (Gino Germani, Anibal Quijano...) preferred to use the idea of 'marginalidad' rather than "poverty", I think this was an interesting development.

[Motul]

I never meant to undermine the heterogeneous condition of that area, nor it's natural wealth, which Is vastly unparalleled.

I'm speaking of the average quality of life of the region. Of course there are exceptions, like SA, Namibia, and Angola (to a lesser extent).

What I meant to say in my first comment, is that many ignorant people seem to think that latam is as poor as subsaharan Africa. (Whoever thinks that way clearly has no grasp of reality).

I agree with you, latam is a story of ups and downs, and of marginalization rather than poverty. However, the region seems to be stepping into the global scene lately and is acquiring more attention, especially on the way of FDI.

Little by little it starts feeling like less of a marginal place on the world, and more as a "happening spot". Eurocrisis helps.

Ps- I agree, poverty is a very subjective word and it's very difficult to assess.. In Colombia it dropped 5% from one year to the next just because of a change of methodology. Did that 5% really exit poverty? Of course not. Just statistically.

[MIG2010]

That is why in latin america there is a combination of different styles and cultures