Why Buenos Aires of all places? While it's refreshing that it's not set in some generic US town, that's kind of an odd choice.
Why Buenos Aires of all places?
Why Buenos Aires of all places? While it's refreshing that it's not set in some generic US town, that's kind of an odd choice.
because argentina is known for it's germans and all the main characters look german
casper van dien really looks like a poor mans jean claude vanne damme
Leave you bed room and go visit Buenos Aires. It's a beautiful and awesome city.
The economy used to be very strong there. There was an idea that they could in the future be a major global economy and power when the book was written.
yeah the fad seems to come around once every 10 years or so.
Women start wearing gaucho pants and sipping mate` for about 6 months and then everyone is over the meme and forgets about argentina for another 10 years.
I'd love to, but it's pretty much as far away from where I live as you can possibly get, so it would be extremely expensive.
>it would be extremely expensive
for you
ngmi
You're a big guy
>There was an idea that they could in the future be a major global economy and power when the book was written.
This.
A lot of scifi writers and futurists in the mid 20th century thought that South America would be the new North America in terms of rapid economic growth and innovation, while Europe and/or America slid into stagnation e.g. Asimov and ACC.
Then in the 70s Japan took off and everyone thought that the future was going to be Japanese. Then japan collapsed and China eventually took its place as the new up and coming foreign culture to knock the west off its pedestal. Presumably once China collapses in the next few decades, it'll be Africa that becomes the new next big thing.
>wakanda
Black folk for the win!
>it'll be Africa that becomes the new next big thing
>not India
sirs....
>it'll be Africa that becomes the new next big thing
He's right. Africa will double India in population by 2050.
In favour of India, Africa is not a single country.
>Leave you bed room and go visit Buenos Aires. It's a beautiful and awesome city
I've been living here for the past 5 years and its a fricking horrible place
not only is the city an ugly, poorly designed, SHIT FILLED (LITERAL SHIT), HOBO FILLED, VILLERO FILLED shithole, the people born here are the worst scum of the country
I've visited most provinces and got to meet most people, the northerners are dumb as shit, but the porteños are dumb and pure evil
NAAAAA DIJITE CUALKIERA WACHO. K C VENGA PAKA EL GRINGITO K LOSOTRO LO ATENDEMO VIEN
>Leave you bed room and go visit Buenos Aires. It's a beautiful and awesome city.
It USED to be a beautiful city, past tense.
Because it was from the books your morons
>implying the entire western hemisphere is not rightful American clay
It's taken from the novel and the lead guy was some latino or pinoy or something. I don't know, Heinlein was weird.
yeah rico was supposed to be a flip.
heinlein definitely did "bet you didn't think the protag would be an <x>, huh!?" thing a couple times in subtle ways. and honestly, a filipino in space really is fantastical and alien in itself
Isn't the guy from the Moon is a Harsh Mistress Russian?
to show how the world has united into one government and you can live anywhere
Thanks, context anons. So are Heinleins later era novels any good or just coomer food?
His books for younger readers are honestly better than his other stuff. If you've already read Rocketship Galileo, Starman Jones, and Farmer in the Sky, just read something else.
The author of the book loves Argentina. I can't blame him. Borges is from there.
homie borges has been dead for like 60 years. let it go.
never. He is an american treasure.
This is scary, I just finished watching Starship Troopers. Are we all telepathically linked?
I'd have to watch this again on the context of Beverly Hills 90210
>Why Buenos Aires of all places? While it's refreshing that it's not set in some generic US town, that's kind of an odd choice.
Back when the book was written we were an important country, not the backwards joke we turned to.
Because it was a false flag idiot and Buenos Aires was deemed not very important
It doesn't matter if it was a false flag or not, it is beyond the scope of the movie as It adds unnecessary complexity and distracts from the overall theme.
It was the main characters home so it drove him to be mad at bugs
It was the whitest city on Earth
first time I read it I thought it was a made up city name
Can't speak for the book since I haven't read it, but in the movie it's clearly meant to speak to the kind of world united government that's been cultivated. The fact that Buenos Aires basically looks like a nice American suburb demonstrates that the whole world has basically become both modernized and Americanized. The main character could be from Nigeria or India or South Africa, it wouldn't really make a difference, because this is what the world is now. If he were just from LA or New York or something, it wouldn't have that same impact, because those places are already American.
What went wrong?
>I THINK BUENOS AIRES SUCKS!
means that the blonde american warmongering fascists have colonized all of the american continent, possibly the whole world.