I was thinking about your question before you edited it and I thought I would give it some good thought before answering it but I have to say I find like in Peru and the rest of Latin America more to my taste - both Lucas and Pixel talk about this a lot but life in the UK can be quite hostile, it's a hostile culture - not just for me but for a fair number of white Brits also - I will give you an example - my dad is 89 and the local supermarket is a mile and a half away and there is nowhere for him to sit! Outside is full of what they call 'hostile architecture' they don't want you hanging around anywhere - true - a lot of these amineties get vanadalised but then I suppose that is part of the problem and why we have that kind of 'hostile architecture' everywhere but we don't have that in Latin America and it alienates me when I am in the UK because I know what life can be like and it doesn't have to be that way - also the people are really angry and aggressive - there is a lot of depression and depressed angry people in the UK and though all of Latin America is poorer than the UK - they don't have a lot of those social problems and what social problems they do have stems from poverty but it doesn't affect all of the population.Natural_Born_Cynic wrote: ↑March 4th, 2024, 7:48 amAh.. very fascinating. So you are a Mestizo Brit with Incan warrior/spanish conquistador blood? A nice combo.yick wrote: ↑March 4th, 2024, 2:55 amAlso, I love being Latin American and a mestizo with the blood of the Inca, Mapuche and the Spaniard running through my veins! Every time I am there, I feel alive, I feel like a proper human being - I kind of get how when you listen to Jamaicans living in Ghana feel living there - it's going home - even if you have never been there before, when you hit the tarmac and you see the people and see what you see in the mirror every day - it's a very liberating and comforting experience. Luckily for me, I inherited my mothers nationality and have it and it can never ever be took off me - I am as Peruvian as anyone who was born there - I am as Peruvian as the president of the country! there is no two ways about it I would never ever relinquish that nationality!
Also, in the UK - I am just some ordinary working class Brit scrub - in Peru I am at least middle class and maybe even more than that I get a social and a life upgrade when I am there and of course you have factors like better food, better weather, people are friendlier and it isn't just Peru - I have felt great in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico - wherever I have been I have liked and felt accepted but I have felt far happier. It's not all about race - a lot of it is the outlook of the culture, society and people - there are people who are depressed in the UK and they don't know why nor how to get out of it but when you leave your house unless you live in some nice little village by the sea in Suffolk - then it is depressing and shit and the whole architecture is made to alienate you and make you feel unwelcome.
How do you feel when you're in South Korea?