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Sounds like somebody went to some other peoples place and was disappointed that the place isn't functioning like the place they came from or the way they imagin
by mrtksn 1y ago
Sounds like somebody went to some other peoples place and was disappointed that the place isn't functioning like the place they came from or the way they imagined it.
Turks are having this all the time for example, they are disappointed that Europe isn't just like rich neighborhood of Istanbul.
Very typical for people who have a stylized mental model of a place based on rumors and memes. Unlike for people with clean slate, they tend to be very aggressively sticking to their wrong ideas and attempt to transform it instead of building it from scratch. You can see very wrong interpretations based on layers and layers of misunderstanding and fantasies. Can be easily detected if the person speaks about the locals as if they are a different species, which is different than making an observation of the psyche.
You can see it in people who think that in US the poor straight up die when get sick or Americans who think that in Europe no one works, live off on museum tickets revenues.
It sounds like a rant of an immigrant going through the stages of adaptation(admiration->confusion->disillusionment->anger->understanding->making peace).
- jzellis 1y agoIn America the poor do straight up die when they get sick. I'm an American who wrote a book about medical tourism who now lives in the UK partially because healthcare is affordable and available here. And I like Berlin personally, but I'd probably like it better if it actually was like the Sultanahmet district in Istanbul. Then I wouldn't have to go to the Turkish neighborhoods to find the best food when I visited there (sausages and pastries, as Weiwei says, being the exception). :-D