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Shylock
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Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow.
Shettlestonian
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To get a better idea of how primitive moneylending works, you don't need to travel back in time.
There are plenty of modern-day Shylocks remarkably close to home.
And they don't need to be Jewish to suffer a similar fate to Shylock.
This is Shettleston in the east end of Glasgow.
It's actually where my grandmother used to live.
And I think with its distinctive steel shuttering, it's one of the grimmest places in the whole of western Europe.
In fact, average male life expectancy here is just 64, which is slightly worse than Bangladesh.
That means that the average Shettlestonian doesn't actually live long enough
to collect his state pension.
You might think nobody would be mad enough to try and provide financial services here. But someone does.要想了解从前放债还款的机制
并不需要穿越时光
我们周围就有许多当代夏洛克的影子
他们不一定是犹太人
却与夏洛克命运相似
这是格拉斯哥东部的谢特尔斯顿
格拉斯哥:英国第三大城市
我的祖母曾经住在这里
我认为这些独特的钢筋围栏
使这里成为西欧最阴森的地方之一
平均预期的男性寿命只有64岁
比孟加拉国还要少一点
这意味着
平均下来 谢村人无法活到
能领取政府养老金的岁数
你也许会认为来这种地方
提供金融服务的人脑子肯定进水了
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发表于 2016-8-2 13:36:15