What you don't like about your own Country

[MrTub]

I hate how much we drink.

I hate our overwhelming sense of entitlement.

But most of all... I hate our narrow education system that fails to let our youth grow as people. 12 years of hardcore curriculum studies with little to no choice on what subjects you learn, and then before you know it - BAM! You're 17 and signed up to a degree that relates rigidly to one or two life careers. Have a secret interest in Music or Art History? Tough shit, you choose to study Marketing. Always wondered about International politics? Sorry mate, only Marketing for you between Now and Retirement.

I wish we had the American system of only picking a Major right at the end of undergraduate study; it allows more time to experience different topics and learn enough about yourself and your personal strengths to make an informed decision on how to spend your life. Expecting a 17 year old to know exactly what they want to be doing at aged 45 is ridiculous.

Well we have to decide when we're 14-15 so that is something to hate I guess :/

And Im not to fond of our immigration policies (Sweden) And the fact is somebody says anything negative about taking in 100k people each year, they are called a racist in the news.

 

[SageRuffin]

The other day I was thinking about my home country Australia, and then I was thinking about what I really hate about it. Personally I really hate the politics here, the politicians spend all there time either talking about why they're good or why their opponent is shit and never get anything done.

So Escapists, what country are you from? And what don't you like about your country?

I'm American and I hate that so many people here think it's the only country on the planet. I also hate that everyone else hates us.

Seconded.

I personally hate how our country is ran by a bunch of fucking idiots who can't ever agree on shit and can't see past their wallets. And when someone tries to interject as the voice of reason (as Obama has many times, believe it or not), they're hit with ultimatums and filibusters out the ass.

Addendum: There's far more to this, of course, but the stores about to close and I still need to find my pants.

 

[yuval152]

Israel:

1)16% tax .
2)3.5 NIS=1$USD.
3)I get newly released games after 2-3 weeks.
4)GOD DAMM MOTHER FUCKING Benjamin Netanyahu.
5)The hamas and other terriosts.
6)getting waked up by an alret 3 days in a row.

 

[Sordak]

Austria is DUCKING all the time. Our culture avoids confrontation, we go the appeasement route, with other EU countries and with immigrants.
Many in this country dispise their heiritage because the allies thought it would be a good idea after WW2 to implement the thought there KZs were EVERYONES fault, therfore crushing national pride of both Germany and Austria making both countries atm look like angsty teens, and they are looking like that because they feel guilty for something they didnt even do, heck most people in my country werent even born back then.
Yet we are the "tätervolk" and must feel guilty and therfore saccrifice our own culture.


also for people complaining about the right wign activities in western and northern europe.
CAN YOU BLAME THEM? Yess you might think immigrants are a nonissue, probably youve grown up pretty far away from them. I live in a district dominated by Turks, and i tell you this doesnt have anything to do with "fresh blood" or "dialogue of cultures". this is just shit here.
If you go to the north from my place it looks like a ghetto, and it certainly feels like one, proper german is simply nonexistant, some old austrian people still living here get assaulted in the evening pretty ofthen.
If you live here you better dont think you can get anywhere by bike cause man its gonna be stolen in a few days, think you can lock it up in the basement? nope forget it.
I dont blame the crime rates on Immigrants i blame it on poverty, BUT i blame the bad integration on immigrants. And everyone thinking people voting for the right wing are just ignorant assholes probably never were, let alone lived, in such a place or even close to such a place.

 

[Mekado]

Canada

The government currently voted into power was the only one with no plans for regulating ISPs pricing scheme.

EDIT:

Canada here, the only thing i dislike is the fact 75% of the english-Canadian people (and almost 100% of everybody else)i speak to seems to think all Quebecers are hell-bent on leaving, so i guess the "racism" (langism ? francophobia anyways) against french-Canadians (no, we're not french, we're french-Canadians) I love my country and i love my province, they aren't mutually exclusive.

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In Canada, I don't know what I hate. I'm thinking the Government and the whole Quebec movement.

Didn't the Bloc only have something like 4% support in Quebec during the last election? You'd think that stereotype would go away after that.

While I don't like the fact that some French Canadians actually convinced the government to spend millions on bilingual signs in Ottawa(they had to replace each sign, they couldn't edit them), I blame that on loud people being bitchy.

Mekado, I'm sorry if I offended you, I don't hate Quebec (I been there before and loved it) and everyone (Know people who lived in Quebec who are nice).Please correct me if i am wrong but it's just that some people in Quebec complains about other parts of Canada that they wouldn't do in Quebec (Example would be -Dragmire-'s example, Thank you) and want to be it's own nation and keep Canadian benefits. Why people just be happy what they got?

I'm not offended, no worries i was just making a point hehe About the signs in Ottawa i think the capital city of an officially bilingual country should have bilingual signs, though i wouldn't have any problems with smaller french lettering,modifying what's already there, there's no need to replace the whole city's signposts... I agree that some Quebecers are very over-the-top about nationalism/language/acting-like a spoiled brat but hey, they're the vocal minority now, the separatist movement haven't had any notable steam for 15years+ and at that time they had something to say, right now there's no reason to go.

You're also right about some people wanting Canadian unity benefits with a completely separate nation, this is a ridiculous notion.Quebec would be pretty self-sufficient but there would be some hard time ahead for multiple years anyways, and for what ? being a french nation instead of a bilingual one ? Getting away from big bag Canada who mistreated us ? well ok there was a few raw deals... most of them a few centuries ago, can we let go already ? we have it good right now, and the country respects us enough to keep it bilingual.Truth be told it's probably not for the few franco-manitobans or the few in Ontario or the maritimes.

So yeah, sorry for the rant... long story short, we have it good in the long run being an integral part of Canada (we were one of the first provinces after all) and in my opinion Canada has it good having us there, i'm sure they wish some "damn frogs" would shut up once in a while but hey, we still have some french ancestry...

 

[Zantos]

Coalition government, general melancholy weather, carling and youths. But there are plenty of things about England that outweigh those. Fish and chips, for example.

 

[DischordantMind]

Post from the UK. Just fun to see how unifyingly awful most of the western world is in general!

Everyone here seems to hate the government to the point of wanting a "meh" option on ballot papers.

Also, those that are socially/psychologically unfit to have children breed like rabbits.

It does amuse me that the UK is still portrayed as a nation of tea-drinking, royalist, inbreds. Only half of that is true, anyway.

Good sandwiches, though

 

[zehydra]

Easy. I hate the United States governement.
All of those damned politicians.

And then we could go on to talk about how the United States government is the only thing that holds the US as a coherent thing together.

I hate it too, but would we really have the US without it?


And........ would this be a good or bad thing? Does the kind of reform we need for change in Washington require a new restructuring of the infrastructure?

 

[zehydra]

For me, it's probably the indoctrination of ideas and the careless use of patriotic prose to motivate the masses, here in the US.

As children, we are taught that the US stands for freedom. Not what freedom is, or means. The teachers that teach it don't even know either. People throw out the word like it means something, and everyone stays complacent as the citizens lose more and more freedoms. They never cared about thinking about freedom, they just want you to accept the status quo.

 

[zehydra]

Personally I really hate the politics here, the politicians spend all there time either talking about why they're good or why their opponent is shit and never get anything done.

At least your politicians don't threaten to destroy the country when they can't have their way.


And what I hate most about the United States? Well a certain party that likes to use the Elephant as it's symbol comes to mind. "Whaaaaaat? You're trying to solve a problem? Well we have just as much, if not more, power then you! We demand that you solve things the way we (and a few nameless corporate CEOs) want to solve them! What's that? Our plan is crazy and will never work? Well then I guess we'll just have to let the country burn to the ground!"

We wouldn't even be in this mess if it weren't for those idiots, I swear to god if they lost all their power in a second, we'd be closer to recovering from their mistakes then ever before.

I know I sound angry, but I just am upset with all the B.S. caused by some greedy, old, immature, politicians who claim to be "Trying to protect the innocent people from the Liberal Socialist Commie-Nazi Muslim Threat!"

And now you're lumping everyone together. That is, the Tea party elect(those largest in favor of debt reform) are the ones who committed to the debt ceiling debate. The Republican Party seems to have adopted the Tea party, because they have similar ideologies, but they are still two different things. Not all Repubs are those who scream at and decry Obama's policies as socialism. You can be conservative, and still have a cool, rational head.

However, unfortunately, Cool and rational doesn't seem to win elections alone.

 

[effilctar]

The British police don't carry firearms unless they're being called out on a person suspected to be armed. I'm all for being proper gentlemen about sorting out crimes without resorting to violence instinctively like one bunch of ruffians across the pond, but I'd like to see a 16-20 year old chav dare square up to an armed police officer.

 

[Smagmuck_]

World Politics needs a major overhaul. We really need a world congress, no, not the UN, they couldn't wipe their own ass of they tried. Something effective.

On topic: Democrats, yes I'm a republicanGasp! but that doesn't make me a racist hick who drives a gas guzzling SUV. And Americans who hate their own Country, constructive criticism is a good thing, but not "OMG MURICA IS SO FACIST WE SHOULD BE DIE!!!1!" because that just makes you look like a total twat.

 

[Drake_Dercon]

The British police don't carry firearms unless they're being called out on a person suspected to be armed. I'm all for being proper gentlemen about sorting out crimes without resorting to violence instinctively like one bunch of ruffians across the pond, but I'd like to see a 16-20 year old chav dare square up to an armed police officer.

Canada. It happens all the time.

Mostly I hate how we assume we're better than Americans because some of them are terrible.

Also that people form political opinions without stepping back and analyzing the situation with actual data.

 

[Generalzdave]

I despise the dual-party system that "runs" America, mainly due to the fact that it's doing just a crackerjack job! I have yet to see any politician that isn't in business for ONLY themselves, and has as much regard for this country and its people as they do for a homeless person. I hate the conservatives for constantly pushing for backwards policies that fund themselves, and constantly protecting the rich. I hate the liberals for allowing the conservatives to stomp over their ideals that might possibly be the answer. We'll never know, because they're both constantly locked in a tug-of-war, even trying to get the tiniest bit of inconsequential legislation across. But the DOW will inevitably plummet further and Standard and Poor's will inevitably give us the credit rating of a man with a family and no job, trying to get by pitifully on unemployment and other social welfare programs, which is a substantial amount of the population, but now people are trying to cut the money from those programs because so many lazy people are leeching off the government instead of going out and providing for their own damn selves. All to refill the money we lost following so many ridiculous pursuits in the last few glorious years. Just so we can infallibly make the same exact mistakes in a few years as we have and live through the same turbulence again in an endless cycle until we get sucker-punched from out of the blue and America will be the equivalent of the Ottoman Empire in my future grandchildren's history holograms. Feel free to prove me wrong in my opinions now, but I dare some optimist to say that isn't exactly what is going to happen.

Glad I got that off my chest.

 

[BristolBerserker]

In the UK i hate:

Most politics related things
health and safety
political correctness
celebrity culture
football
the left
our soft justice system
lazy feckless benefits whores
that i can't own a pistol
the media
unregulated immigration (don't get me wrong, i don't mind immigration, but immigrants need certain criteria to enter)
our benefits system
people who want 'independence' from their own country i.e. the Scottish national party
devolved government
ken livingstone
the unions
our governments refusal to leave the EU
the IRA

There is a lot i hate, but i feel that there is more that i love about the UK than hate.

 

[Eireronin]

From Ireland: The Seanad (Sort of an Irish Senate). The Seanad consists of 60 old fat bastards whose job it is (officially) to assure that any legislation voted on and accepted by the Dail (guys and gals who actually run the show) is not unconstitutional (if a law is unconstitutional it goes back to the dail to be altered or the whole country has to vote on whether or not to change the constitution).
An important job that should save the country money you'd think, except for the fact that they hardly ever call a law into question, and they get paid an obscene amount of money, and their job could easily be done by a computer programme, or maybe 10 lawyers with 10 copies of the irish constitution.
Worst part: the Seanad isn't elected by the public, 6 members are voted in by graduates of NUI and Trinity, 11 are picked by the Taoiseach(Kinda like an Irish Prime Minister), 43 are selected by government committees.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

American politics and generally uninformed derp faces

 

[DannyJBeckett]

The fact that it's full of people (who were born here, bear in mind), who say they hate everything about it, but don't leave.