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...clarify: No, I was referring to the Southern state. For the past four years, this clarification has inevitably been followed by statements such as “Why would your parents immigrate there?” and “Did you grow up on a farm...
...first, my response to this insulting misrepresentation of my home was an indignant, “No, I did not grow up on a farm. I’m from the Atlanta area.” However, I’ve learned that often at Harvard, “Atlanta” generates as much recognition as “Timbuktu,” or perhaps even less—it’s a city that one vaguely remembers hearing about but doesn’t remember in what context. Although I accept jokes at the expense...
...Advanced Placement class and was more diverse than Harvard. Atlanta is home to CNN, Coca-Cola, the world’s busiest airport, and the fifth-largest number of Fortune 500 companies, falling behind two shockingly Southern cities—Houston and Dallas. True, you can find serene, peaceful farms if you drive for a few hours outside of Atlanta, a similar experience to taking the train out from Paris or any other cosmopolitan city. I’ve been to a farm once, and that was because my enthusiastic parents wanted to show me what farm animals look like...
...basic cabin with a double bed, mosquito net and porch hanging over the water. Many of the cabins on Don Det are owned by farmers capitalizing on the island's burgeoning tourist trade, so don't be surprised to find pigs and chickens wandering the grounds, or a farm dog curled up on your porch in the morning. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
...modern apartment buildings and piazzas give way to the Sassi (or the Stones), a dramatic enclave of Paleolithic cave dwellings and medieval houses dug into the rock. They were inhabited until the 1950s - when the government evacuated the last impoverished tenants who still shared cramped, unventilated quarters with farm animals - and the Sassi's labyrinthine staircases and alleys fell into decline. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...