8 years ago
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Welcome to Hooverville, California
As a native of [Los Angeles], I was offended to hear it tagged with such a denigrating label. But in recent years, and for different reasons, I’ve come to believe that a metropolis of the “developing world,” to use a more polite expression, is being born here. Its center is not in East Los Angeles, or any other Latino neighborhood; nor in our recently christened “Little Bangladesh.” The third world exists everywhere here — in the spread of inequality.
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As someone not from the US but who has heard all about how great it is all his life, this is so weird to read.