The United States, the country everyone claims to hate and also admire, is a country built on wooden houses, not brick, not concrete, not stone, WOOD. How the hell did it grow so large with such precarious constructions? Well, first of all, because wood ISN'T precarious. It's just that after so many centuries of civilization, we see it as weak and fragile. But the homes of most of humanity have always been made of this noble material. But why do gringos almost always use wood? We see them on any newscast or documentary: a tornado devastates a farming town, leaving behind a devastation of planks and shingles, with only the chimneys and bathrooms remaining, the only parts of those houses built of a slightly more durable material. We think this town will never recover from the punishment of the gods. Within a year, they'd already rebuilt all their houses. How do they do it? We have to take into account the enormous difference in philosophy and context between the United States...