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Able-Emotion4416 t1_itgqzoi wrote

My African family still lives today in the ways of our ancestors: traditional subsistence farming, in natures rhythm. With little to no modern objects. (although, we did start to finance them modern tools, such as a electric stove, solar panels, etc. ).

When I visited them, they would ask question about life in the West. And I would tell them as best I could using simple words that they can understand in their context. And oh my God, the present is already bleak. Very bleak. I realized that while telling them, and they often looked at me with shock and horror.

There's also the stories of hunter-gatherer people from the Amazon forests and the Congo rain forests being invited to visit New-York. Usually, they hate it. The noise, the smells, the dirt, the food, the artificial lights, etc. They even felt ill often.

The only people who love developed Western world are those that have already lived in cities in the developing world. As it's an improvement for them. But for people like my African family, and for hunter gatherers, cities and modern development, be they Western or 3rd world, are usually hated as they look very dystopian for them.

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