[lbo-talk] Volga roadtrip

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jan 29 13:12:19 PST 2008


Charles Brown wrote:
>
> I've never been to Nizhny, but if it's a typical
> industrial suburb, "sprightly" and "colorful" are not
> the words to describe it. "Grim" is probably too much.
> But the writer is using loose, colorful
> travel-journalism language. Haven't you ever noticed
> that whenever a British journalist describes a foreign
> country, it's always "grim"?
>
> ^^^^^^^^
> Some seem to describe Britain as "grim".

British journalists are not the first to see better abroad than at home.

After you peek around the facade, what city inside capitalism (i.e., anyplace) isn't grim;?

Carrol



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