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Evoke Reactionary Pride in Citizens by Dissing the City!

A good friend of mine, Tara from Designing Dublin, came up with this amusing idea for improving vibrancy in Dublin. Intentionally diss the city, thus evoking reactionary pride in the citizen.

This idea is culturally specific to Ireland, where it is not that cool to talk about how great your home is. However, Irish people are secretly very proud people and this pride only tends to surface in a reactionary mode whereby they tend to become very defensive. Another friend of mine suggested that if the people who dissed the city were particular disliked public figures success might be more likely.

This proposal makes me think about the importance of ideas being culturally specific and it really makes me smile (although sense of humour is also culturally specific. I wonder if it would work in Detroit?)

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