Traffic and taxi rides are what I remember the most in Medellin. Haha. Being inches away from other cars, buses and motorcycles will the driver was staring at their phone gave me major anxiety problems. Definitely something I will never forget. I’m returning to Colombia in two weeks! 🇨🇴
I see the same healthy sense of national pride in almost every country outside the Anglosphere, and the toxic self-hating even here is generational: both your and my grandparents would have been proud of their country, not ashamed of it, reminded of its badness every 5 minutes. What you think of as a normal under-enthusiasm for your country is a relatively new aberration, and not a helpful one. If we cant joyfully celebrate our uniqueness everything fades to grey pretty quickly.
I definitely don't hate my country. There's a lot of great stuff about Australia, honestly. I'd even go as far as saying it's one of the best countries in the world. But... I don't tend to find myself thinking about my national identity much. I realize that it's probably more of a generational thing in the US or even the UK, but here in Aus, it's less so the case, due in part because we don't really have as deeply rooted cultural traditions to pride ourselves on upholding (at least, not on the level of the US or the UK). So It's more of an Australian thing that we've never been particularly patriotic (at least when compared to many other countries). That doesn't automatically mean that we hate ourselves or are cynical about our country, just that our national identity isn't something that's really on our conscience quite as much
@@ezratotravel i didnt say you hated it (although surely you can see how the modern conditioning promotes that), only that we display a certain diffidence and a lack of exuberance in flying our own flag/blowing our own trumpets. And that the danger of this is is risks sending a signal to incoming cultures/peoples that the existing one is moribund, an embarassment, and therefore needs replacing. Your pies are amazing. If there were a Pie Olympics Australia would win gold.
Traffic and taxi rides are what I remember the most in Medellin. Haha. Being inches away from other cars, buses and motorcycles will the driver was staring at their phone gave me major anxiety problems. Definitely something I will never forget. I’m returning to Colombia in two weeks! 🇨🇴
Hilarious and true!
Many countries eschew flushing toilet paper -- China, Taiwan, etc.
I see the same healthy sense of national pride in almost every country outside the Anglosphere, and the toxic self-hating even here is generational: both your and my grandparents would have been proud of their country, not ashamed of it, reminded of its badness every 5 minutes. What you think of as a normal under-enthusiasm for your country is a relatively new aberration, and not a helpful one. If we cant joyfully celebrate our uniqueness everything fades to grey pretty quickly.
I definitely don't hate my country. There's a lot of great stuff about Australia, honestly. I'd even go as far as saying it's one of the best countries in the world. But... I don't tend to find myself thinking about my national identity much. I realize that it's probably more of a generational thing in the US or even the UK, but here in Aus, it's less so the case, due in part because we don't really have as deeply rooted cultural traditions to pride ourselves on upholding (at least, not on the level of the US or the UK).
So It's more of an Australian thing that we've never been particularly patriotic (at least when compared to many other countries). That doesn't automatically mean that we hate ourselves or are cynical about our country, just that our national identity isn't something that's really on our conscience quite as much
@@ezratotravel i didnt say you hated it (although surely you can see how the modern conditioning promotes that), only that we display a certain diffidence and a lack of exuberance in flying our own flag/blowing our own trumpets. And that the danger of this is is risks sending a signal to incoming cultures/peoples that the existing one is moribund, an embarassment, and therefore needs replacing.
Your pies are amazing. If there were a Pie Olympics Australia would win gold.
@@cargumdeu Yeah, that's fair, I won't argue that. And thanks for the compliment :)
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