As immigrants, perhaps we can find more ways to try to bring the vibrancy of the old world to Canada.
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In the eight minute walk to the market, I navigated dirt cratered roads engulfed in clouds of dust brought by the frequent passing of the boda-bodas, which are motorcycle taxis that are the main way of getting around the city. There are no sidewalks and no traffic lights. On either side of the road are gutters often filled with raw sewage.
Dozens and dozens of women hunched over sewing machines, making dresses and shirts. Men sawed lumber and made wooden furniture in another corner of the market. Still others soldered electronics in the handful of repair shops. Everywhere I looked, there was something different happening, layer upon layer of hustle and bustle, a vibrancy that I will never find in the supermarkets and malls of Toronto, or any city in the developed world for that matter.
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