Tenochtitlán was the capital of the vast Aztec empire; it was essentially an artificial-ish island in Lake Texcoco's shallow end.
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When your subtext is that Mexicans are dumb/silly for building in Mexico City, you're reifying the violence of colonization.
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*Fellow writers, and white ones especially: please don't steal my thread to write a new article as if you knew this all along. Thank you.
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@aurabogado People weren't even hip to this re- the deforestation of HaitiThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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the French left us with beautiful baguettes to make tortas, though.
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Parts of Seattle and San Francisco built on landfill and sand. Both in earthquake zones. Not built by local tribes either. Hmmm...
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It's true, I was thinking the same thing though I felt bad. Buildings are the deadliest in every earthquake. Ancestors knew the land best
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Building in most of San Francisco is also like "building on jello." Half of the high-rises are built on cascajo from 1906.
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