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I, by contrast, Michael Jackson’s fellow Californian, just knew his name and that he had recently died, and I would certainly not have been able to identify any of his songs all by myself. By the time we were arriving in Mariana the first time he even sang-almost without any accent although he was solidly monolingual-several Michael Jackson hits from many years ago.
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4 NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION DRIVER
And my driver went on to speak, with enthusiasm, true compassion, and many details, about Michael Jackson’s life and its tragedies, on the road from Ouro Preto to Mariana and back, and he also talked about the innovations that his hero had introduced to the world of show-business, about his music and his dancing. For when I asked him about his favorite soccer team (expecting that it would be one of the two major league clubs from Belo Horizonte, the State capital), he almost bluntly replied that he did not care about soccer, that the one person in the family who liked sports was his son, whereas his own idol had always been the late Michael Jackson.
4 NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF GLOBALIZATION DRIVERS
Now, there is nothing for the die-heart sports fan that I am, especially in Brazil, like talking soccer with professional drivers or conductors-but this driver was different. These buildings were the reason why, on five subsequent late August days, I went five times from my fancy hotel in Ouro Preto to Mariana and back, with a car and a driver from the University. About fifteen kilometers away lies Mariana, a smaller and also very beautiful (though less spectacular) town that hosts the cathedral of the local diocese and several buildings belonging to the University of Ouro Preto. Despite a steady flow of tourists with historical interests, Ouro Preto cannot be reached by air or by train, which adds to the impression that it is a place far away from the present. Ouro Preto in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, far away from the Atlantic coast, is a well preserved baroque town with a bit less than a hundred thousand inhabitants today-but it may well have been the wealthiest and most powerful city on the American continent around 1700 when, under the name of “Vila Rica,” it provided the Portuguese Crown with gold and precious stones.