Summary
Buffalo and San Antonio, Tex. are 1,644 miles apart. San Antonio's population is five times the size of Buffalo's.Its culture, infused with Mexican influence, might seem a world apart from our own peculiar mix of affected Northeastern sophistication and genuine Midwestern folksiness.
But according to this wise, witty and passionate manifesto by San Antonio-based culture writer Sarah Fisch, these two distant cities have a great deal in common. For one thing: a crippling inferiority complex. For another: an underrecognized but genuinely stunning, economically and ethnically diverse cultural scene that would take several lifetimes to fully explore. For a third: deep and seemingly intractable problems with poverty and illiteracy, which in fact a large segment of that cultural scene is interested and invested in fixing.See the full content of this document
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The Plight of the Underrecognized City
"We are a semi-secretly fascinating city," Fisch writes of her beloved hometown in her post on the excellent pan...
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