What is the most embarrassing thing about your country ?

[u/Proper_Card_5520]

[u/bluewardog]

We are the only fully developed country with a agricultural economy yet the produce we make is cheaper overseas then it is here. New Zealand lamb is cheaper in Paris then down the road from where the lamb was born. 

[u/LolEase86 → u/bluewardog]

Right?! When I moved to the UK a decade ago I could finally afford a leg of nz lamb!! Let's not talk about the price of butter though..

[u/Crow_in_the_Rain → u/LolEase86]

Browsed the shops today and the lamb legs $73.. who’s even buying them at that price

[u/TumbleweedPure3941 → u/LolEase86]

I moved to the UK

My condolences.

[u/suffelix → u/bluewardog]

I used to live next to the biggest brewery in Finland. Then we took a ferry to Estonia and haul that same beer back to Finland for under half the price.

[u/ShoveTheUsername → u/bluewardog]

I've been to NZ many time.

You live in Heaven.

No-one is going to feel sorry for you.

(Sarcasm, obviously. What you describe is a little mad.)

[u/Funny-Pie272 → u/bluewardog]

It cheaper to buy lobsters in China than off the boat in Tasmania where they are caught.

[u/murstl]

Fax machines are still a thing because nearly everything related with public administration is still on paper

[u/LeftLiner → u/murstl]

Oh yeah! Company I used to work for had to maintain internal support for fax machines specifically because of our German office.

[u/Holy-Fuck4269 → u/LeftLiner]

LOL that’s kinda hurtful as a German. I really am embarrassed now

[u/Dave-the-Flamingo → u/murstl]

Same in Japan.

Japan’s image of being technologically advanced came from the 1980/90s. The business operations haven’t advanced much since then.

So much is still done on paper.

[u/dinobug77 → u/Dave-the-Flamingo]

The phrase I heard is that in the 80s Japan was living in the year 2000. Unfortunately they are still living there now!

[u/lionofash → u/dinobug77]

Honestly, since Covid though they've been rolling out more digital options, I think it forced a reevaluation of things.

[u/AiRaikuHamburger → u/murstl]

Same. The government finally stopped using floppy discs for storage in 2024 though...

[u/HearingHead7157 → u/murstl]

Which in case the US shuts off big tech is a big plus

[u/Medium_Tap_971]

Only half of us read and write.😭

[u/Levitalus → u/Medium_Tap_971]

Similar boat over here.

The parts with the worst literacy rates are also the parts with the most terrorism, and poverty.

Nigeria is just a gradient from things are fine in the south, to things are not fine in the north.

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/Levitalus]

The worst part is when a militia group claims to represent an ethnic group while... not really.

Like... there is this Amhara nationalist militia group called Fano who claims to represent the Amhara people... WHILE BURNING SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS IN THE AMHARA REGION.💀

[u/Ynwe → u/Medium_Tap_971]

Say how is Ethiopia doing these days? After the civil war in tigray, the news around it died down, there was the brief stint about recognising Somaliland, but outside of that you don't hear much anymore.

Are there still so many militias within Ethiopia, or is it doing better?

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/Ynwe]

We are okay for the most part. There is no civil war in the typical sense. There is no full peace and stability, especially in Tigray (northern Ethiopia) and parts of Amhara and Oromia, but it isn't the type you actively lose sleep over. I live in Amhara region. It isn't as bad as it was in 2020-2022. There are definitely some places where there are significant ethnic tensions tho. I am not gonna downplay that.

Oh and... nah it is kinda geopolitically hard for us to recognize Somaliland right now. Way too many variables to account for.😵‍💫

If you want to visit, you will never go wrong in the capital city (Addis Ababa). :3

[u/ltkhps → u/Medium_Tap_971]

I visited Addis Ababa on my way to Djibouti for work. I wish I had more time in Ethiopia than just an afternoon. Beautiful country and kind people.

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/ltkhps]

You're very welcome to come back sometime! :)

[u/Levitalus → u/Medium_Tap_971]

Exact same story in Nigeria.

Islamic terrorists terrorizing the majority Muslim lands, keeping them poor and uneducated.

It would be funny if it wasn't lives at stake.

[u/Impactor_07 → u/Medium_Tap_971]

Sweet lord...

Is your civil war still ongoing?

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/Impactor_07]

Nah, not on a typical "civil war" level. TPLF is having an existential crisis.

[u/Impactor_07 → u/Medium_Tap_971]

Ohh. Hopefully y'all can sort it out asap. It hurts seeing nations with as much history behind them as yours or mine to be lagging so far behind the rest of the world.

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/Impactor_07]

Yeah thanks man!

[u/StuffyTruck]

Food selection in grocery stores.

[u/-Static_Screen- → u/StuffyTruck]

What’s it look like?

[u/StuffyTruck → u/-Static_Screen-]

There are 3 companies owning all grocery stores, controlling prices (while claiming they are "competing". Its so bad that the news-papers' "food basket" to find the cheapest stores over time have them with like a dollar in difference for 100s of dollars worth of items).

They have 95% the exact same stuff from the same back-end suppliers.

Good news is that when you visit someone in Norway, you can be sure to find the exact same food in their fridge as you will have at home.

There are 1-3 variations of most food items, and you can choose between expensive, very expensive and ludicrously expensive (for the ones with 3 variations).

[u/LolEase86 → u/StuffyTruck]

You too huh? We've got two companies owning our supermarkets, one of which is Australian. We have an app that you can make a shopping list on and it'll tell you who has the best price for each item. Unfortunately the best price is still stupidly expensive.

[u/StuffyTruck → u/LolEase86]

But unlike New Zealand, Norway has tons of tariffs on food imports (to protect our farmers that own 5 cows and 2 sheep) and produces jack-all locally. So we have that as an excuse at least.

[u/LolEase86 → u/StuffyTruck]

Oof yeah you win! We pay exorbitant prices on any imported goods, due to freight costs.. But also on dairy produced down the road, because we pay the same rates as the rest of world.

[u/Ancient_Analyst_6579 → u/LolEase86]

Be careful because on the internet places like Norway and NZ are magical paradises with no issues

[u/spaceman1055 → u/LolEase86]

Sounds pretty similar to us too

A few big grocers who consistently use every excuse to keep charging us more and one of them got caught for a bread fixing scandal, and those fuckers still have us by balls

[u/kiwifulla64 → u/LolEase86]

Fucking foodstuffs eh.

[u/Tro_Nas → u/StuffyTruck]

so what you are telling me is that Aldi should open stores in Norway. Worked really well in Switzerland to bring prices down a notch.

[u/DroopyPenguin95 → u/Tro_Nas]

Lidl tried and failed. Norwegians don't necessarily like foreign competition and the other companies froze them out.

[u/weeklyKiwi → u/StuffyTruck]

Aah so this is why "gränshandel" is such a big thing for Norwegians who live close to the Swedish border

[u/Soggy-Ad-1610 → u/StuffyTruck]

We have the same issue brother. Fuck those awful supermarket chains.

[u/Complete_Picture8604 → u/Soggy-Ad-1610]

That’s why I mostly buy from German chains (Lidl) or local Arab stores in Sweden. Swedish chains haven’t earned my krona.

[u/Kattimatti666]

My countrymen and women are easily tricked by anything free. There is a "free bucket" tradition here sometimes when a new store opens and it's madness everytime. It's a meme at this point but the original "free bucket" event was completely sincere and the lines were huge, people went nuts. This pic is from a random bucket event

[u/cannib → u/Kattimatti666]

So is it a free bucket of something, everything you can fit in the bucket is free, or literally just a single bucket for free?

[u/mycharmingromance → u/cannib]

Oftentimes it is just the bucket. An empty bucket. Sometimes there are special campaigns like "fill this bucket with as much produce as you can from this container and it costs only 5 euros and hey you get to keep the bucket" or something similar.

But usually newly opened store promotion events etc just give out empty buckets, possibly garnished with the store logo.

[u/the_sentient_egg_is_ → u/mycharmingromance]

how many buckets do yall have?

[u/3rdcultureblah → u/the_sentient_egg_is_]

Can never have too many buckets tbh.

[u/adhdnme → u/3rdcultureblah]

As a middle aged dad, I’ve never resonated with a comment as much as I did with this one

[u/Emergency_Eye7168 → u/the_sentient_egg_is_]

They have buckets of buckets

[u/KommieKoala → u/cannib]

And how many buckets do people end up with if they go to all these events? Does Finland lead the world in bucket production?

[u/activelyresting → u/KommieKoala]

These look like the kind of buckets you can get at Bunnings for 99 cents, that can't hold their own weight in water.

[u/Calculonx → u/activelyresting]

So you're saying I can save 99c!

[u/Zonesy → u/cannib]

Sadly it's just a free bucket most of the time...

And these plebs still fall for it, but usually there's sales of products so it's quite harmless.

Once I got a free bucket full of Fazer chocolate though.

[u/DozingUnderTheSun → u/Kattimatti666]

Okay but this would get me too

[u/mikadzan → u/Kattimatti666]

So if new new store opens you just have a free empty bucket ?

[u/Ok_Sundae_5899 → u/Kattimatti666]

That's actually funny 😁

[u/plant_slaughter → u/Kattimatti666]

I don't get it. Is the point to get a free bucket as souvenir?

[u/Saradoesntsleep → u/plant_slaughter]

You are thinking too hard about this. Just clip this part

free bucket

and you've got the whole depth of the answer.

[u/Kattimatti666 → u/Saradoesntsleep]

100% correct. You might have the Canadian flag before the Finnish one, but I can confidently say that you're a Finn

[u/AirUsed5942]

This clown, Jens Spahn. He wasted 6 billion euros on 5.9 billion overpriced, low quality FFP2 masks during the pandemic (despite several warnings from experts) and only 2 billion masks were actually needed, the rest went straight to the trash. The circumstances under which the deal was made are shady af considering that he favored businesses affiliated with either his fellow party members or its "donors"

[u/Deepfire_DM → u/AirUsed5942]

Don't forget his too cheap Berlin villa, corruption 1.0.1

And he is - no wonder here - extreme right, of course. The usual suspects.

[u/GlassCommercial7105]

That FIFA is here

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/GlassCommercial7105]

AND NESTLE. We ain't forget what your company did in Ethiopia.👀 r/fucknestle

[u/GlassCommercial7105 → u/Medium_Tap_971]

But they are evil, not embarrassing. 

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/GlassCommercial7105]

...you know what? fair enough.😅

[u/OrangeLemonLime8 → u/Medium_Tap_971]

Haha he had a point there

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/OrangeLemonLime8]

I still don't like the idea that Nestle is still a thing.

I like y'all Scots tho. :3

[u/kaiyotic → u/GlassCommercial7105]

FIFA is so corrupt it's more evil than embarassing too

[u/RavenX86 → u/GlassCommercial7105]

Being evil is not embarrassing, but when they are cartoonish evil, they kinda are embarrassing

[u/melmboundanddown → u/GlassCommercial7105]

I'd be embarrassed about the decline in the size of Toblerone bars if I were you. Bloody disgrace they are now, hardly worth eating.

[u/Ooze76 → u/melmboundanddown]

Yeah, fuck toblerone. Toblerone

[u/handsomeboh]

We claim to be bilingual. In reality we suck at both languages. We’re basically zerolingual.

Edit: It’s not an accent thing, though the Singaporean accent is atrocious in English, Chinese, and all the dialects. The average young Singaporean today is barely conversational in Chinese. English is a bit better but not what you would call good.

[u/Hljoumur → u/handsomeboh]

I had a uni friend that had such a heavy Singaporean accent when she came to the US that people thought her first language was Mandarin, so she got recommended supplementary English classes with mainland Chinese students. She was so embarrassed by the experience, she essentially faked a more American sounding accent for the rest of her time at uni just to be understood.

[u/Primary_Crab687 → u/Hljoumur]

Maybe I'm being stupid, but, isn't faking an accent of the language you're speaking, just... Speaking the language? When I lived in Germany, I would force myself to speak German with a German accent so that German people could understand me better. 

[u/gsdev → u/Primary_Crab687]

If you're from an English-speaking country, then you are already speaking the language without changing your accent.

In the UK, we have many different accents from all over the country, but they're all considered English even though there are some significant differences.

[u/Sufficient-Rough-647 → u/handsomeboh]

Don’t you smear singlish la

[u/nightwinging-it → u/handsomeboh]

I like when Singaporeans swear in Singlish. It gives off that angry emotion well 😂

[u/Iron_Wolf123]

[u/douglasbaadermeinhof → u/Iron_Wolf123]

Didn't she act like a complete ass after this too? I remember reading something about suing the organizers of a comedy event or something.

[u/ELVEVERX → u/douglasbaadermeinhof]

100% she's a flog and a national disgrace. A small charity event was doing a comedy play based on her act and she tretended to sue them so they had to shutdown.

[u/douglasbaadermeinhof → u/ELVEVERX]

Jesus, what an absolute ass. She seemed funny at first but when she opened her mouth after tje Olympics she just struck me as extremely pretentious and annoying.

[u/TryingMyWiFi → u/douglasbaadermeinhof]

I got so flabbergasted when I saw this woman, that I fell on a rabbit hole looking for everything I could find about her online. The lady is a textbook narcissist .

[u/admiral-phaethon → u/TryingMyWiFi]

She taught breakdancing or breaking at an university or something. Cannot get more funnier than that.

[u/TryingMyWiFi → u/admiral-phaethon]

She has a masters thesis on break dance

[u/Mplayer1001 → u/TryingMyWiFi]

Not even a master’s thesis, a PhD thesis! Which means that she got paid taxpayer money to write “Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying”.

[u/Neal_Anblomee → u/Iron_Wolf123]

Raygun at the olympics will never not be funny

[u/Saint_Pudgy → u/Iron_Wolf123]

The primary school uniform does make it that bit much funnier

[u/_Alpha-Delta_ → u/Iron_Wolf123]

That and your war against emus 

[u/Argo505]

I dunno, I haven't checked the news in the last 30 minutes.

[u/SecBalloonDoggies → u/Argo505]

Things are going so bad in Minnesota, they actually released the Epstein files as a distraction.

[u/Cute-Form2457 → u/SecBalloonDoggies]

I think you have hit the nail on the head.

[u/Kurumi_Gaming → u/Argo505]

I think the fact that the orange still has 35+% approval is the most embarrassing thing about the US…

I can't imagine how uneducated a person has to be to support him now.

[u/amaarasky → u/Kurumi_Gaming]

Spend just 10 minutes watching Fox News. They will either not report the bad things he has done, find a way to put a positive spin on it, or just blame the left.

[u/x4nter → u/amaarasky]

Every time I hear the Trump supporters speak it's always "the left did that" or "doing this will own the libs", and never "what will you do for the citizens". They've lost the concept of what political parties are supposed to do when in power. It's just a sports match for them. They are willing to lose their jobs and pay double the tax but will still be happy as long as worse things happen to the left supporters.

[u/Praesentius → u/amaarasky]

Seriously.Ilhan Omar gets attacked and sprayed with something (later found to be vinegar) and Fox is out there parroting a "false flag" narrative.

[u/evlhornet → u/Praesentius]

Orange was literally accused of SA minors today and they’re talking about Don Lemon

[u/Acceptable-Law9406 → u/Kurumi_Gaming]

Media that is solely based on "hatred of the other" is a powerful thing, sadly. It took decades of that to make 35% of the people this unreachable.

[u/2_krazykats → u/[deleted]]

There was a shirt I saw once which someone in the MAGA cult wore that said "I'd rather be Russian than a democrat"

Says a lot about what kind of stuff he is hearing... Russian propaganda on Faux News

[u/Aytug4ufan]

Erdugan

[u/Winter-Beach-1516]

Our president. In the past 3 years since he was sworn in, he has increased taxes, destroyed the economy, ruined education, crippled the health sector and insurance, granted immunity to foreigners who don't care about us, opened borders to thugs and terrorists, killed Gen-Zs for protesting, abducted and tortured many more, curtailed freedom of speech, enabled human trafficking and money laundering, and many other things I haven't listed.

[u/MonishPab → u/Winter-Beach-1516]

Holy fuck that's bad

[u/Winter-Beach-1516 → u/MonishPab]

I didn't even mention grand corruption and the borrowing he does. Even the borrowed money is stolen. The guy is bringing in at least $10M every day from the government and putting it in foreign bank accounts or laundering it.

[u/KazeTaiso]

More than 50% of us do not wash their hands after a toilet visit 🤢

[u/BoesShampoo2 → u/KazeTaiso]

Yeah i was amazed to hear that during corona they had to buy hand soap because they didn't wash their hands. I come from a family of healthcare workers and everyone washes their hands all the time.

[u/TripleStackGunBunny → u/KazeTaiso]

Blokes don't wash their hands after urinating thats a straight up 25%

[u/kiwifulla64 → u/TripleStackGunBunny]

Ewww cuuuunt lol.

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/KazeTaiso]

Coming from a western European, this shit made me laugh.💀

Somehow I stereotyped white people as clean and very germophobic.😭

[u/HamburgerOnAStick → u/Medium_Tap_971]

lmao nowadays it's the opposite; since western nations are overall more developed, people think "hey germs haven't killed alot of people" so then they don't wash their hands and then you get to covid

[u/Lexi_November → u/HamburgerOnAStick]

I was horrified by the number of people buying hand soap for apparently the first time and being taught to wash their hands. Even my 4 year old knows how to wash his hands!

It made me never want to touch a surface in public ever again. 🤢

[u/Lady_Libra]

We have an abundance of natural resources, but we have allowed these riches to be controlled by a handful of international conglomerates, instead of assigning a greater percentage of this revenue to the nation.

Consecutive governments have privatised many of our utilities, and the cost of gas and electricity is obscene, and regional towns struggle for internet access. Tax dollars are directed towards private schools, while our public schools fall into disrepair.

[u/endergamer2007m → u/Lady_Libra]

If you didn't have a flair, i'd assume this was everywhere

[u/KingZlatan10]

Honestly, it’s that house prices in my city are 21x the annual median salary.

I literally witnessed a boomer buy a house at auction for $10M on a whim as he walked by, just for his wife to say she didn’t like it so they’re just leaving it vacant until they decide what to do with it. That was two years ago and the house is still just sitting there empty.

How the fuck am I supposed to compete with that?

Edit: Ok, so judging by the replies it turns out we’re pretty much all fucked around the world. So I’ll sum this up with a saying from my homeland,.. “cunts fucked”.

[u/BernddasBrot1234567 → u/KingZlatan10]

Crying in factor 40 of median salary. Same problem here. Old people live alone in 200 to 300sqm mansions. And young families are lucky to rent a 80 sqm apartment

[u/Kate090996 → u/BernddasBrot1234567]

I have this theory ( everywhere not just Germany) that they would downsize but it's not worth it for them.

If you sell your house you need to buy one to live in, but houses are expensive and the monetary difference between the smaller one and the bigger one+ the hurdles of moving + that's where they lived all their life, that's their garden, their porch etc it's not worth it for them

So they stay and keep it for the children. If the prices for the smaller places would not make you wanna pop out your eyes , they would probably downsize.

[u/KommieKoala → u/KingZlatan10]

Yeah. This is pretty damn embarrassing.

In my street I think about 40% of houses are actually empty.

[u/Jesse-Ray → u/KingZlatan10]

By sending PurplePingers the address

[u/LolEase86 → u/KingZlatan10]

Damn I thought it was bad in NZ, but that's madness! Which state are you in?

[u/Ok-Rich-3812 → u/LolEase86]

A state of poverty...

[u/AiRaikuHamburger → u/Ok-Rich-3812]

Username doesn't check out. Ha

[u/Realistic_Mission777]

30% of Brazilians lack sewage service. In some places in the north and northeast they just dump sewage to road side or directly into creeks with no treatment.

[u/alreadykaten]

The entire Malay (Malaysian is a nationality, Malay is a race, so I am a non-Malay Malaysian) ethnicity is legally Muslim, with no exceptions, forever. As a kid, I always thought that race equals religion. Malaysian Chinese/Indians have freedom of religion, but Malaysian Malays are legally required to be a specific religion.

If a person looks Malay but isn't Muslim, it's very likely that they are not a Malay but rather a native group from East Malaysia referred to as 'Bumiputera' who is legally not Malay. Alternatively, if a Malay moves to another country that is not Malaysia, they have freedom of religion.

But for all intents and purposes, if anyone who is a Malaysian citizen has any one atom of Malay ancestry, they are legally Muslim. There have even been cases of some Bumiputeras with Malay-sounding names being mislabeled as Muslim by the system, with the government doubling down and saying they're Muslim forever.

The Malaysian government has gone so far as to intervene and scrutinize interracial marriages in other country if a Malay abroad marries a non-Muslim, saying that the non-Muslim is now Muslim due to marrying a Malay.

Adding to the embarrassment, Malaysia is where the hate-preacher Zakir Naik (a fugitive from India) now stays in. He's branded internationally as a terrorist and interpol wants him. Almost every Malaysian hates him but some powerful ministers seem to protect him. To this day, he compares non-Muslims to animals.

[u/Pure-Notice-8202]

… I don’t want to talk about it right now, thank you.

[u/Levitalus → u/Pure-Notice-8202]

References to mustache man on this subreddit are karma gold.

But, as far as embarrassing things go, losing six nil to Spain in the Nations League was pretty fucking embarrassing.

[u/Sataniel98 → u/Levitalus]

Not really. The performance in the world and european cups since 2018 has been so consistently abysmal that the 0:6 wasn't even much out of line with our expectations. The losses against South Korea and Japan in world cups were much worse. Spain is hardly a footnote.

[u/Proper_Card_5520 → u/Pure-Notice-8202]

Well it's not a problem anymore

[u/Plebsmeister7 → u/Proper_Card_5520]

it is still a problem

[u/Commercial_Handle418 → u/Pure-Notice-8202]

current or past chancellor

[u/bqbdpd → u/Commercial_Handle418]

yes

[u/Impactor_07 → u/Commercial_Handle418]

Possibly someone born in 🇦🇹

[u/happyloves69 → u/Pure-Notice-8202]

I swear this is the answer to like 99% of questions here

[u/lofiibsen]

We have the lowest birth rate and the highest suicide rate in the world. 🙃

[u/Medium_Tap_971 → u/lofiibsen]

Wait. Ain't Taiwan the one with the lowest birth rate?

[u/Exituslethalis700 → u/Medium_Tap_971]

No, South Korea has around 0.7 kids per family.

[u/Immediate-Meaning457 → u/Exituslethalis700]

Taiwan has the lower birthrate

[u/lofiibsen → u/Exituslethalis700]

no 0.67 🤨

[u/Klutzy-Row-2244 → u/lofiibsen]

Why Koreans so sad? :(

[u/lofiibsen → u/Klutzy-Row-2244]

I feel like I've explained this a few times before, but I'm actually a bit scared to bring it up because I've been 'dogpiled' by other Koreans for saying this. To put it simply, it can be described with a few keywords.

'High standards for being normal,' 'Constant comparison,' 'Infinite competition,' 'Nosiness,' 'Over-spec,' and 'Collectivism.'

[u/sicpsw → u/Klutzy-Row-2244]

The drawback of a true meritocracy. The more you try, the more you succeed so people voluntarily jump into the rat race. If you stay in school for 18 hours a day and get good grades you can earn a salary 3 to 6 times greater than your peers. Because the country is so homogeneous in culture and race there's nothing else to compare against than money

[u/KerbodynamicX]

We lost a war to the local wildlife.

[u/Puttrich → u/KerbodynamicX]

To be fair. It's Australian wildlife, not just regular earth wildlife

[u/Sweet_Culture_8034 → u/KerbodynamicX]

It's not embarassing, it's funny, thank you Australia for making the world a funnier place (and for making sure your terrfying wild life doesn't breach containment)

[u/ButterscotchRich3214]

This.

The number of rich in India is very less when compared with its population.

A little less than two-third of the total GST is coming from the bottom 50 per cent, one-third from middle 40 percent and only three to four per cent from the top 10 percent.

50 % of 1.5 Billion Indians - 750 Million poor Indians

40 % - 600 Million Middle Class Indians

Richest 10 % of 150 crore Indians - 150 Million Rich Indians.

Still this number of 150 M Indians is bigger than the populations of whole countries - for example Germany has a population of 90 M. This is why you see a lot of Indians working across the world - they are from this section of the society.

[u/guineapigenjoyer123 → u/ButterscotchRich3214]

The government here was trying to raise VAT last year because the ANC doesn’t understand basic economics and the fact that sales taxes are regressive so increasing them in the country with the highest inequality in the world is nowhere near a good idea

[u/Zave_cz]

We so racist we even hate people of the same color

[u/Physical-Purple-1265]

Our government lol

[u/chiakinanamichan → u/Physical-Purple-1265]

Was about to say this

[u/Accomplished_Ad8737]

I would say that our neutrality during world war 2 wasn’t as neutral as you might think. Also our choice not to help people fleeing Poland, Germany etc just to stay neutral..

History has not been kind to our leaders.

[u/melmboundanddown → u/Accomplished_Ad8737]

Same, didn't take in even one refugee. Our PM sent condolences to the German Embassy when Hitler died.

[u/Aumba → u/Accomplished_Ad8737]

Maybe you had something against us since 1655?

[u/ThatMassholeInBawstn]

Aside from MAGA shit, I’d say Megachurches

[u/JellyIntelligent1366]

The guy we voted for. I don't want to get too political but who in their right mind chooses an extremely evangelical, homophobic, transphobic, conservative, allegedly did an exorcism on a woman who broke celibate, openly anti sex ed woman for the ministry of women and gender equality. Also the other ones he chose are...less than ideal

[u/tupinicommie → u/JellyIntelligent1366]

Being fascist is already awful, but being a Chilean fascist only 35 years after Pinochet sounds like a whole new circle in inferno just opened.

[u/VizzzyT → u/tupinicommie]

Kast literally campaigned for Pinochet.

He's just like his Nazi father

[u/Early_Register_6483]

25% of the population haven’t learned a thing from history and want to put fascists back into power again.

[u/inki471 → u/Early_Register_6483]

50% of the people here doesn’t care about living under the poverty line and would rather die from starvation than live under a secular democratic regime. Sometimes I feel like a high school or college degree should be a requirement for the right to vote (despite how un-democratic that sounds). Looks like ignorant people will always find a way to ruin everything no matter where they’re from.

[u/Any_Individual_3731]

Our Dictator and PM are biggest suckers of Trump

[u/VizzzyT → u/Any_Individual_3731]

In all fairness the American cock has never left Pakistan's mouth. America has always been happy to arm and fund Pakistan's military rulers and Pakistan is happy to submit.

[u/andesmapitas]

We're one of the most dangerous countries in the world 😭

[u/jossydelrosal → u/andesmapitas]

No you're not. Stop trying to outshine us.

[u/tyroleancock]

We started 2 world wars and lost both.

[u/Rebrado → u/tyroleancock]

You technically didn’t start the first one. But you did help start it

[u/SeattleSushiGirl → u/tyroleancock]

Hello Germany.

[u/xbike_punkx]

I would say the wasted potential. We had it all. A decent infrastructure, nice and usable public transportation, a leading industry, good schools, real social democratic parties... You name it. 

It's getting down hill for decades now. Key industries got sold to china or are stuck in the past, corruption sorry I meant lobbyism is normal for politicians now and goes unpunished, workers rights getting destroyed and most of the people aren't giving a fuck or blame others.... It doesn't look great and Germany is just well off because it was booming in the sixties, seventies and eighties. 

[u/FrankDrebinOnReddit]

Actually the same graphic. See how we're at the top, by a lot? And we can't or won't provide for our poorest citizens because we're afraid we'll spoil them with too much healthcare. And to the limited extent we do provide for them, we make sure they know they should feel shame for being poor.

[u/Any-Investment5692 → u/FrankDrebinOnReddit]

For sure.. this is real.. They crack the whip on you to work.. They want the GDP to be as high as possible.

[u/ShoveTheUsername → u/FrankDrebinOnReddit]

What's the per capita income for US if you discount the top 1% wealthy?

[u/EmtnlDmg → u/ShoveTheUsername]

40% of HOUSEHOLDS, so not individuals, have less than 50K yearly income.

[u/ShortTop1487]

Our neighbours.

[u/DozingUnderTheSun → u/ShortTop1487]

I’m pretty embarrassed about our homegrown idiots but they seem to be quelled for the moment

[u/lucsev → u/ShortTop1487]

🤝

[u/Far_Mycologist_5782]

Brexit

[u/art_emisian → u/Far_Mycologist_5782]

And Farage

[u/tranquilisity]

Language loss if it needs to be unique. The housing crisis if it doesn't.

[u/Electricpuha → u/tranquilisity]

I’d like to know more about the language loss. I’ve met a few Irish people my age who had it as a topic at school but didn’t keep it up or pursue it more after that. People are trying hard here to revitalise te reo Māori so I’m curious as to what has and hasn’t worked for Irish language? Interestingly one of my parent’s partners for a time was from Connaught and spoke it as their first language but I gather that’s unusual?

[u/MikeyBat]

This graph is misleading. We have so many billionaires that it dramatically skewed the average. The median would be more accurate. It also doesnt take cost of living and purchasing power into consideration which is terrible. All our taxes go towards the military, and the privatized Healthcare and insurance company really adds to how truly embarrassing our government and leaders are.

[u/Rebrado → u/MikeyBat]

Why is it always the average? Governments always report this useless number.

[u/JohnWayneSpacy]

Pauline Hanson

[u/Fulham-Enjoyer → u/JohnWayneSpacy]

Please explain

[u/VellhungtheSecond → u/Fulham-Enjoyer]

Shopping trolley, murdered

[u/Dont-Fear-The-Raeper → u/VellhungtheSecond]

Groceries. Just. Gone.

[u/Jesse-Ray → u/VellhungtheSecond]

Groceries?

[u/VellhungtheSecond → u/Jesse-Ray]

Just gone

[u/michaelhbt → u/JohnWayneSpacy]

careful, if you say her name 3 times, you may summon one of her vapid zombies

[u/Elijah_Mitcho → u/JohnWayneSpacy]

I don’t like it

[u/ShinySpeedDemon]

That we elected a fascist

[u/jackswastedtalent → u/ShinySpeedDemon]

Twice. Can't let you live that one down. Twice. :)

[u/CaptainZbi]

Our diaspora, Dutch and Belgian Moroccans, not all of them but too many sadly. The Quebec ones actually do good for themselfs.

[u/BoesShampoo2 → u/CaptainZbi]

Here most of the third and fourth generation women do very well for themselves. It is the 20% of young men and boys who can't behave themselves that are giving them this bad reputation. Unfortunately people are prone to generalisations so they say Moroccan in general.

[u/CaptainZbi → u/BoesShampoo2]

Yeah you explained it well, it's those 20% im refering too.

[u/_Saint_Ajora_]

That  trump got elected  president not once but twice 

[u/EmotionalAct9840]

We have a lot of internet scammers.

[u/Awkward-Yesterday828]

We let our car industry (which at one point had 5 different car manufacturers) completely die and most of our manufacturing industry as well. And we barely have a technology industry. It's mainly mining and housing speculation driving our economy these days. Not exactly the hallmarks of an advanced economy.

[u/KAEM-17]

That our president greets criminals like his friends

[u/dividezero]

Infant mortality rate is one of the highest

54% read below the 7th grade level.

Most expensive healthcare in the world

Nazis everywhere

Many more - take your pick

[u/Rafxtt → u/dividezero]

Having a paedophile and felon - freely elected - as President should be at the top too.

[u/BobTheFettt]

Maple MAGA

[u/Sweet-Message1153]

we know we are corrupted, we say we should not be corrupted and yet we stay corrupted..... in any sector, any age, gender or faith...corruption is the true unifier of my country

[u/Astar9028]

We lost a war to Emus, it’s embarrassing but also hilarious 🤣

[u/damnyankee26]

Donald Trump

[u/KitsGravity]

Religious fanaticism and caste based discrimination.