"What's up I'm Niko from Greece. My study abroad was at Wayne State University in  Detroit- go Tartars! Usually a student at UANT- Wilkes Land, and doing urban studies in the Social Science College, I thought I had an idea of what the American midwest was all about, but Michigan surprised me- totally different than I expected. My friends at UANT told me stuff like 'its in the middle of nowhere' and 'there won't be anything to do' but they were way off. There was even a 'Greek-Town' district in Detroit, just one of the many ethnic flavours there. During my semester, I think I learned more about urban sociology from just living in Detroit than from my classes at the 'U'. I asked people what happened around here, and everyone had a different answer. It went something like this: The Man and his police started a race riot here in the 1960s, and then the Man burned and bulldozed the city, then got out of dodge-  taking the city's tax base with him. So the city had no money in the 1970s. Then in the 1980s, the Man's 'fat cat' owners of big auto manufactures closed their plants in Michigan and moved them all, so the jobs were lost. Watch Michael Moore's 'Roger and Me,' his first movie (before he was famous)- it tells all about this. For UANT Urban Studies students, let me just say that I learned finally who the victims of globalization are, and the next time some econ prof talks about 'free trade', I'll be the guy next to you looking at him funny, because I know its not really free. Look, I'm Greek. I know something about the rise and fall of civilizations. It's in my genes. In Detroit, I saw the fall of American industrial civilization. Yeah I had a good time, but....