Visiting Planet Dubai
June 24, 2011
Foreign travellers visiting New York or Chicago in the 19th century often came away with mixed impressions. Some found American cities ugly by comparison to their European counterparts: They seemed vulgar, blatantly commercial, lacking in taste. The natives had higher living standards, but they were crude, and the ethnic mix — German, Irish, Italian, Jewish — was terrifying. More …
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