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(Each percentage point equates to roughly one million people.)
This spin laughably equates all dangerous behavior.
Take, for instance, the various ways they characterize the concept of “playing dumb”: In Bolivia it is “to become an Italian”: hacerse el italiano ; in Colombia the English get it with hacerse el inglés ; in Mexico one becomes a gourd-- hacerse guaje --and El Salvador's hacerse el papo equates playing the fool with one who has a double chin; hacerse chino in Equador means `to fool someone [by acting like a Chinese].
They are not generally less expensive, though; small rings mean fewer seats, which often equates to higher prices.
“The trouble with a case-by-case basis is that it basically equates to no standards, because then people will do what they feel like doing and we're back to the 1990s again,” he says.