I'm from a small-ish city in the Brazilian countryside and every day I feel more suffocated by it. What could've been a vibrant, green, walkable town with tons of culture is an urban car-centered gray city. There are tons of homeless people in the streets, I can constantly feel the smell of carbon due to the pollution and I can barely see anything in the night. Much like other Latin-American countries, Brazil is a product of centuries of cultural imperialism. Our cultures got destroyed in favor of the culture of the colonizers; because of that, I see less and less elements of our centuries-long culture around and I can feel it slowly dying in favor of commodified cultural products. And this is in a small city, I can't even begin to imagine how bad it is in big urban centers. It's all so frustrating, honestly. I wish I could live in a city made for people, but cities under capitalism aren't made for the people, they're made to emprison workers while the bourgeoisie live a lavish lifestyle, disconnected from all of us.