I don’t think I’ve heard a genuine complaint from a Japenese person about Japan, or a Spanish person about Spain, or any other country from a native.
In Turkey teenagers complain ALL the time about how liberals and SJWs are ruining Turkey.
(Seriously tho keep an eye out on them, there is unchecked fascism spreading)
I hear people complain about their countries all the time.
Every person I have ever met from has issues with their home countries.
One of my best friends was from Pakistan and when I asked him about why he left, he used to bitch that “the three things my country doesn’t have are…
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I work with a guy basically ran away from Sierra Leona in the late 90s with nothing but the clothes he had on. Then spent 3 months as a slave on a fishing boat until winding up in a refugee camp and then working his way to America.
This past weekend I had a conversation with a women in NYC who had to flee her home country of Peru in the early 90s because a group called Shining Path were killing everyone around her.
She spent years workin in cruise ships and the hotel/resort industrybefore seeing a classified add that told people to apply for the citizenship lottery in the US. She did and she won, she got to NYC in 98 with 600 bucks in her pocket.
So yeah we all have issues with our home countries, some significant and some trivial and contrived.
You don’t hear them because you’re not exploring enough. Sitting in one spot all of the time and just listening to the area of your environment, doesn’t mean nobody has a problem with their country of origin.
Have fun.
I don’t think I’ve heard a genuine complaint from a Japenese person about Japan
I have and plenty. It depends on the person, the setting, and how well you know them.
“I don’t think I’ve ever heard…” friend, you literally live in an information silo. Do you speak Spanish? Because you probably aren’t hearing anything about Spain if you don’t. Do you follow any British media? Because they’re not coming to an American forum to bitch about Britain. You probably don’t care enough to even notice if someone was talking about another country, so how would you hear anything?
What’s uniquely American is making your internal drama everyone else’s problem.
American forum?
It was made by French communists and most instances exist outside America. For the record, I regularly complain about my country. It’s just my regularity is no where near as regular as the daily wtf that is America.
Heey, be a bit nicer on no stupid questions. All though it is a really funny american question why other people don’t hate their country :'). Everybody does in some way hahaha.
But please refrain from sounding mean, lemmy doesn’t need to scare away users…
Come to England, we complain all the damn time
I have plenty of complaints about Australia (and plenty more about the US). This quote from The Lucky Country (1964) still perfectly sums up so much of the country:
Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.
Australian houses are glorified tents that are too hot in summer and too cold in winter because It DoEsN’t GeT cOlD iN aUsTrAlIa. Our economy is entirely built around digging shit out of the ground and selling it overseas, and selling houses back and forth between slumlord investors. Our federal government is paralysed into inaction by fear of the blatantly partisan and hostile media, who are currently deliberately trying to stir up panic about fuel shortages. Our government is still too scared to criticise or stand up to Trump, and completely caved in to the zionist lobby after the Bondi shooting attack. I could go on.
That said, I would much rather have our current Labor government in charge at the moment than any realistic alternative, because despite my complaints I do think they’re generally competent and they are generally trying to make things better (I just wish they would be more bold, they have a huge majority for a reason). I certainly wouldn’t want to live anywhere else either.
What language do you think Japanese or Spanish people complain about their country in? How often do you visit communities (online or wherever) where these languages are spoken? What nationality do you think I am?
You are obviously a white cis male American, just like everyone else on the internet is, don’t you know?
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Everyone is whining about the USA.
Everyone complains about their own country. The Japanese complain about Japan all the time too - the whole “salaryman running off to start a ramen shop” dream is a complaint about th country. Just because you can’t see it means you’re not understanding subtext.
It’s not “subtext” when you straight-up can’t read the text (i.e. don’t understand the language) :D
You don’t need to read the language to understand what they’re meaning by it (I don’t speak Japanese) and there’s examples in other countries of this too, including English (in the UK it used to be the dream to run a pub). Anyone who “has a dream” where they escape the rat race and/or becomes their own boss and/or moves to “the country” or even out of the country is making a political statement with every one of those thoughts/dreams.
THAT is the subtext, not the actual text. It requires no deep understanding of verbal/written language, just an understanding of human communication which is more nuanced than simply what we say or write.
How are you even going to know about that if you don’t understand a word of it? Machine translation is too inaccurate to read forums and I’ve never encountered this specific dream of opening a ramen shop in manga or anime. Come to think of it, I’ve never even seen a UK person who dreams of opening a pub, either; I think you need to seek out very specific online spaces to see that kind of thing or talk to the people face to face.
People outside of a few countries don’t speak or read English all that much and hence would not be on primarily English speaking communities like lemmy, they have their own locally popular websites
Every country has problems. America is so big that its problems become everyone else’s problems too. If America sneezes the world catches a cold.
It’s not about the physical size, it’s about its oversized influence especially in online spaces. Plus we’re all writing/reading English at this moment so there’s an anglosphere bias.
Yes. I meant “big” as in influential. Lazy typing on phone.
People always complain about their countries in some form or other. Maybe Americans are just the loudest lol?
