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Originally Posted by esquire
Interesting. How so?
(I've never been to South America but I have visited the other places on multiple occasions... Europe is not quite as familiar as the US, but it never seemed particularly foreign other than the language part. The culture and customs are pretty recognizable for the most part, notwithstanding the occasional surprise. East Asia struck me as decidedly foreign, though.)
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Probably due to my personal widespread exposure to East Asian (Chinese, Korean, Japanese and so forth) in Vancouver, Toronto, and to a (much lesser) extent, Montreal. The Asian influence on urban Canada is far greater, to me at least, than that from South America. The cacophony, emotion-on-your-sleeve, openly hedonic impressions that I got from my visit to Latin America seemed very different. The built form of huge South American cities (I visited Bogota and Lima) stuck me as really very different from that of Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, whereas Toronto and Vancouver had more than a passing resemblance to East Asian cities.
China, of course, is very different once you step outside of the business centres of Shanghai, etc.
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