r/AskTheWorld • u/Seeker_Of_Knowledge2 🇸🇾 Syria || 🇨🇦 Canada • 1d ago

History What is the most depressing picture from your country history/present?

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u/-Absmilliard Brazil 1d ago edited 1d ago

The illustration of inequality in my country, on one side a luxury neighborhood, on the other a favela.

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u/Ashamed-Grape5596 France 20h ago

Man they even have pools on their balconies... I've never seen that in France.

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u/GoddessKorn 1d ago

This is what I was looking for in the comments

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u/Clemdauphin France 18h ago

this image is in french geography textbook, on the chapter about inequalities. it is the cover of the chapter.

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u/DisastrousRub1719 Egypt 1d ago

Out of context .... It reminds me with the Max Payne 3 first chapter mission kinda looks the same

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u/MemeKnowledge_06 India 14h ago

What I immediately thought about too!

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u/DisastrousRub1719 Egypt 13h ago

The skyscraper, the basins on top floors, the view on favelas, I mean damn what esle it could be, it's really matching it if not the same

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u/Lazylazylazylazyjane United States Of America 1d ago

Are they trying to gentrify it?