New Yorker
To research this.
I have been impressed by its ugliness, but people here in Costa Rica tell me it is beautiful, and they wear its clothes most of the time.
For them, anything American is beautiful, and imitate its worst aspects. The traffic in any large city in the developing world is the worst, but more people come there all the time. Even though they can hardly get around. They must feel if everyone else wants their lifestyle it must be better.
They take any popular TV program and copy it, changing the language to Spanish. They haven't copied Instagram yet, probably because it is too American.
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