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“We try to shuck our inherited identity as tourists or consumers or Orientalists or neocolonialists, and build new identities in their places … that will assure us that our musical choices match up with our liberal politics”
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on contemporary tourism & benjamin’s flaneur
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“TOURIST. NATIVE. BOY. GIRL. the poverty of either/or you make a border real by policing it”
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“what to do: 150 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO BUILD SOCIAL CAPITAL”
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‘”The era of the United States as the dominant influence in Latin America is over,” says the Council on Foreign Relations, in a new report filled with sober policy suggestions…’
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‘In the trial of a pornographic Web site operator, the defense plans to show that residents of Pensacola are more likely to use Google to search for terms like “orgy” than for “apple pie” or “watermelon.”’ :: b/c teh net is teh spot for pie
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“From Argentina to Nicaragua, Latin Americans have elected leftist leaders over the last decade who are challenging Washington’s aggressive war on drugs in the world’s top cocaine-producing region.” :: LatinAm’s newly “non-aligned” soft war on drugs
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