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Every time I travel to the third world I am reminded just how much privilege Americans enjoy. Everywhere I go there will be someone who speaks decent English. Everyone is happy to take my dollars. Everything is super inexpensive. The entire world bands over backwards to accommodate me. I will watch some tourists from France or Germany struggle to communicate and I just walk up and talk to the same person with a fairly safe assumption that we can stumble through the language barrier.

For now at least, America is the center of the world. Never forget that.

Every time I travel to the third world I am reminded just how much privilege Americans enjoy. Everywhere I go there will be someone who speaks decent English. Everyone is happy to take my dollars. Everything is super inexpensive. The entire world bands over backwards to accommodate me. I will watch some tourists from France or Germany struggle to communicate and I just walk up and talk to the same person with a fairly safe assumption that we can stumble through the language barrier. For now at least, America is the center of the world. Never forget that.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

I disagree. I will use cell phones as an example.

Well, maybe I'm wrong on that. I'm judging by my own experience (Brazil, Argentina and Chile). Chile was a bit more cheap, but not as much as America. Argentina and Brazil, very expensive. I'm talking about electronics in general. I don't know about Mexico. In Brazil, a MotoG 6 play (16gb, octa, 3gb ram) costs 250 American dollars.

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That's because a MotoG 6 Play is not an "international" model. You have to find the models they do not sell in the states and compare stats.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Oh. I don't even know if they have local models. We have some "local" brands, they import cheap chink botnet phones and put their brand. I know, everything is botnet, but these devices are below usability. I'll try to find some Motorola outside international models.