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The global majority is cooked

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Lol

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Totally enjoyed this “Travel 🧳 piece “

Internal contentment allows us to feel like we in the same place ( home) no matter where we go!!

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The global majority is always above average.

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But nowhere near as above average as the population of Lake Wobegon!

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This is right in the money. Another things Americans could learn from soccer - players clapping for the fans at the end of the game. It’s a nice gesture.

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It is nice! And it's funny that that has never occurred anybody ever in the history of American sports.

It's actually very interesting to compare the expressive vocabulary of American and European/global sports. Americans really can't stand watching the way soccer players take a dive when they beg for a penalty. American sports vocabulary is very stoic for some reason - baseball most of all, football and basketball somewhat less so - while in soccer, players are allowed to be both divas and crybabies. It's really a huge difference.

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Re cultural poles: the young Bengali counterman I surveyed at the Yemeni-owned bodega in Park Slope Brooklyn for my 2025 predictions story said that when it comes to fashion and youth culture, Seoul is the new Paris.

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That is a very international scene Anne! Love the way that you covered five countries, on three continents in one sentence. Ah, there's nowhere like New York! (Except maybe Seoul.)

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The last point is so odd. Negative magic: People think their lost luggage will return faster if they yell at the staff.

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It always makes lost luggage come back faster, no?!

Anyway, it's probably happened once somewhere or other that the airline staff stole the luggage, just like probably somewhere in the world, at some point or other, the chambermaid stole the jewelry left in the hotel room.

- Sam

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I admit I didn't expect Dubai as a major cultural hub (as opposed to a commercial one). Maybe I'm missing something. Unless you're using "cultural" in the broader, anthropological sense.

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Yeah, I mean 'culture' in the widest sense. Dubai means something very particular for a lot of the world - it's LA-style hedonism and consumerism but combined with social conservatism and Islam.

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Global majority - ?

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'Global majority' isn't maybe the most precise term. I was thinking of calling this the 'global culture' but 'majority' seemed like a more striking term. There's a particular mindset that I've come across in a lot of different places, and I'm trying to put a name to it.

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Thank you for your explanation, and sorry for answering so late. I couldn't accept your term of majority because the majority of the population has a different mindset, even in your examples. Some of your articles, such as sports, fashion, culture, and so on, attract in some ways really the majority, but some are not. Some cities, such as Dubay, attract extremely rich people, like Russian oligarchs, who are not a majority but hundreds of criminals; besides, how can Seoul attract a majority? Even in fashion? Anyway, what is the global majority from a common or any POV? M.b., somebody will answer this question... Thank you for your article. Very interesting.

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The global majority likes bourbon and fried chicken, even if not permitted locally.

The global majority likes rock if it’s The Beatles. The global majority knows exactly when the hand claps occur in the studio (but not live) versions of “I Want To Hold Your Hand.”

The global majority likes Star Wars more than Star Trek.

The global majority hates capitalism, but approves of every tenet of capitalism, which it defines, roughly translated, as “things I never understood about money, of which I never have enough, give me my share.”

The global majority prefers, per Charles Wright, a good burger over a good poem, provided both are permitted locally.

The global majority knows deep down, per legendary quarterback Yelberton Abraham (Y. A.) Tittle, that soccer is movement without action.

Source: Wikipedia.

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Haha! I wonder in which places "good poems" are not permitted! Also, a surprise that Y.A. stands for Yelberton Abraham. Who knew?

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Totally idiotic. A Che Tshirt, how fucking 1968. Che was betrayed by Castro, sent to Congo, then Daar es Salam, then Prague and then Bolivia to die. Che is a victim of Comunism, and you a stupid ass.

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The U.S. is the trendsetting Capital or Capitol of the global majority?

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