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“The whole point of San Francisco is you put up with all the nonsense because it’s a pseudo-European city with safe streets to walk around, interesting restaurants. We don’t have that anymore,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2022

You have to listen to Witold Gombrowicz, who praised the grimy immaturity of Buenos Aires — the vileness of the slums — over the brightly lit, pseudo-European boulevards.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2017

The society of the pseudo-European capital, Papeete, disgusted him.

From Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by Fletcher, John Gould