Just creating a little awareness...
I love Buenos Aires. But I have to admit that it´s really pretty fucked up, in ways that pretty much no American can understand until they see it.
These photos exemplify the rich-poor dichotomy that has become ever, ever too great. In the foreground you see one of the city´s many Villas Miseria, or shantytowns, and in the background you see the richest and most modern neighborhood of the city, Puerto Madero, ostentatiously flaunting its American-inspired skyscrapers.
Here you can see how big they are.
It sometimes baffled me when people here assumed that all Americans are rich. Why would someone think such a thing? Anyone who´s had just one glance at a gangsta movie should know we´ve got ghettos, and the ghettos are hard-core poverty and violence.
But wait. When was the last time you saw a ghetto that looked like this?
I don´t deny there is poverty in America. But it´s a different face of poverty. Sometimes it´s just good to put things into perspective, and this goes for all of us.
These photos exemplify the rich-poor dichotomy that has become ever, ever too great. In the foreground you see one of the city´s many Villas Miseria, or shantytowns, and in the background you see the richest and most modern neighborhood of the city, Puerto Madero, ostentatiously flaunting its American-inspired skyscrapers.
Here you can see how big they are.
It sometimes baffled me when people here assumed that all Americans are rich. Why would someone think such a thing? Anyone who´s had just one glance at a gangsta movie should know we´ve got ghettos, and the ghettos are hard-core poverty and violence.
But wait. When was the last time you saw a ghetto that looked like this?
I don´t deny there is poverty in America. But it´s a different face of poverty. Sometimes it´s just good to put things into perspective, and this goes for all of us.