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back in 2012 when I moved from pattiveeranpatti, a small village in India to Chennai, a city in the same states . there was something interesting, the kids there had no mental model of villages, farming or the culture around it. Coffee 1, vegetables, and everything else were just things that you procure from shops. I remember explaining in detail, the layers and process involved, but even then they could never grok it at the level, that i’ve lived it in. the smell of sheep and cow that consta...