The trouble with the group of acquired perception is they are extremely vocal, and they are often cited as experts by numerous sources. Not only they pump, via media, a variety of interesting but useless b.s. that does not make sense, they also alter or adversely affect the natural perception group, because the latter think the former as locals.

First things first, I consider any information, idea, observation made naturally from outside, by a non-local an invaluable contribution. See, as locals we are inside our little box, have never had the opportunity to look from outside or above. The constraints that stop us are not only geographical. The biases, habits and all follow us wherever we go. So, we will never have the opportunity to have that different angle, the angle of the outsider, fresh, unprecedented, free of all that in a way poison us, yet at the same time make us who we are.

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