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Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by vasco »

theshrike79 wrote: post #8
phreack wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not even Lima, the capital? Is it not common to study what all countries and their capitals cities are called in school where you're from?

It's not about not knowing the name about the capital. It's about not hearing any news from the country ever and maybe not knowing a single distinguishing thing about it because they never come up in regular life in the western world. Like Cameroon, Gabon or Suriname. I know they are countries, but couldn't tell you a single fact about them.

> never come up in regular life in the western world

If you watch any kind of global sports like the Olympics or football (not american), you immediately hear about these countries.

And if you live in Europe you also know a lot about Suriname if you're in the Netherlands or about Cameroon if you're in France, and by extension if you interact with people from there. Maybe they don't come up for a regular American.

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by FredPret »

rootw0rm wrote: post #7
jimmyed wrote: post #3

Every once in a while, I get to read about what I call the "Invisible countries". These are the countries that are apparently there, but have no weight at the global scale. I don't know anyone from there, don't know what their cities are called, don't hear any news from there. Peru falls squarely in that category. Others are Turkmenistan, Gabon, Monaco, Senegal etc.

I created a little news site ( https://magnetoid.com ) specifically to try to get stories from every country in the world. Most countries are directly represented, though there are a few exceptions like Andorra (maybe 20 total?), where there's not a terribly great English news source for me to pull from. Countries not directly represented are still covered by regional sites that I scrape. It's made with Python, SQLit…

I love this site

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by nrp »

jimmyed wrote: post #3

Every once in a while, I get to read about what I call the "Invisible countries". These are the countries that are apparently there, but have no weight at the global scale. I don't know anyone from there, don't know what their cities are called, don't hear any news from there. Peru falls squarely in that category. Others are Turkmenistan, Gabon, Monaco, Senegal etc.

If nothing else, you need to go out of your way to get familiar with Peruvian food, which is some of the most interesting in the world. It’s a blend of pre-Incan (relevancy to the article), Incan, Spanish, Japanese, and Cantonese cuisines. You end up with wonderful stuff like ceviche, chifa cuisine, and pisco sours.

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by mejutoco »

jimmyed wrote: post #3

Every once in a while, I get to read about what I call the "Invisible countries". These are the countries that are apparently there, but have no weight at the global scale. I don't know anyone from there, don't know what their cities are called, don't hear any news from there. Peru falls squarely in that category. Others are Turkmenistan, Gabon, Monaco, Senegal etc.

Not judging you, but havent you heard of machu pichu. That is in Peru.

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by theshrike79 »

vasco wrote: post #11
theshrike79 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not about not knowing the name about the capital. It's about not hearing any news from the country ever and maybe not knowing a single distinguishing thing about it because they never come up in regular life in the western world. Like Cameroon, Gabon or Suriname. I know they are countries, but couldn't tell you a single fact about them.

> never come up in regular life in the western world If you watch any kind of global sports like the Olympics or football (not american), you immediately hear about these countries. And if you live in Europe you also know a lot about Suriname if you're in the Netherlands or about Cameroon if you're in France, and by extension if you interact with people from there. Maybe they don't come up for a regular American.

I know Suriname from Miss World (or Earth) competitions.

But still, I couldn't name you a single fact about any of those countries past the fact that they have a name and they are a country.

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by nusq »

rootw0rm wrote: post #7
jimmyed wrote: post #3

Every once in a while, I get to read about what I call the "Invisible countries". These are the countries that are apparently there, but have no weight at the global scale. I don't know anyone from there, don't know what their cities are called, don't hear any news from there. Peru falls squarely in that category. Others are Turkmenistan, Gabon, Monaco, Senegal etc.

I created a little news site ( https://magnetoid.com ) specifically to try to get stories from every country in the world. Most countries are directly represented, though there are a few exceptions like Andorra (maybe 20 total?), where there's not a terribly great English news source for me to pull from. Countries not directly represented are still covered by regional sites that I scrape. It's made with Python, SQLit…

Great site! nevertheless, I believe your soilurce of news from Portugal is more of tourism promoting website. Forgive me but i need to make just two suggestions: Publish your list of sources for each country; Check Euronews.com, it has news in English for most European countries.

Great job, really! It's bookmarked.

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

#17

Post by 1123581321 »

rootw0rm wrote: post #7
jimmyed wrote: post #3

Every once in a while, I get to read about what I call the "Invisible countries". These are the countries that are apparently there, but have no weight at the global scale. I don't know anyone from there, don't know what their cities are called, don't hear any news from there. Peru falls squarely in that category. Others are Turkmenistan, Gabon, Monaco, Senegal etc.

I created a little news site ( https://magnetoid.com ) specifically to try to get stories from every country in the world. Most countries are directly represented, though there are a few exceptions like Andorra (maybe 20 total?), where there's not a terribly great English news source for me to pull from. Countries not directly represented are still covered by regional sites that I scrape. It's made with Python, SQLit…

What does it mean when a link is red? Nice idea.

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by euroderf »

rootw0rm wrote: post #7
jimmyed wrote: post #3

Every once in a while, I get to read about what I call the "Invisible countries". These are the countries that are apparently there, but have no weight at the global scale. I don't know anyone from there, don't know what their cities are called, don't hear any news from there. Peru falls squarely in that category. Others are Turkmenistan, Gabon, Monaco, Senegal etc.

I created a little news site ( https://magnetoid.com ) specifically to try to get stories from every country in the world. Most countries are directly represented, though there are a few exceptions like Andorra (maybe 20 total?), where there's not a terribly great English news source for me to pull from. Countries not directly represented are still covered by regional sites that I scrape. It's made with Python, SQLit…

Hmm, San Marino seems to be strangely quiet today...

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by vasco »

theshrike79 wrote: post #15
vasco wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> never come up in regular life in the western world If you watch any kind of global sports like the Olympics or football (not american), you immediately hear about these countries. And if you live in Europe you also know a lot about Suriname if you're in the Netherlands or about Cameroon if you're in France, and by extension if you interact with people from there. Maybe they don't come up for a regular American.

I know Suriname from Miss World (or Earth) competitions. But still, I couldn't name you a single fact about any of those countries past the fact that they have a name and they are a country.

Okay but my answer was about these countries never coming up in regular life, they do come up! You not researching random countries that come up in life is obviously normal - but they do come up. I've pooped every day of my life, sometimes multiple times, and know almost nothing about pooping or pooping techniques as I never felt like researching it, for example. Frequency of encounters vs facts known are not completely correlated.

Re: Peru's Great Urban Experiment

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Post by justrealist »

jimmyed wrote: post #3

Every once in a while, I get to read about what I call the "Invisible countries". These are the countries that are apparently there, but have no weight at the global scale. I don't know anyone from there, don't know what their cities are called, don't hear any news from there. Peru falls squarely in that category. Others are Turkmenistan, Gabon, Monaco, Senegal etc.

Peru has been in the news recently because of the presidential attempt to seize power + protests.

I don't think you're wrong about coverage though. People are downvoting because they they think you're saying this is a good thing, but the fact is that no major media outlet regularly features stories from the non-BRICS developing world.

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