" She takes the card and frowns at it. There’s nothing on it except, in elegant block capitals, the words MR. SÃO PAULO, and a phone number. Underneath the name, though above the number, is a smaller subhead: CITY REPRESENTATIVE. “Why should she have to make an expensive international call to talk to you? Get an American phone.” “Forcing others to acknowledge my point of origin provides a latent strengthening effect. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The City We Became