What do you hate about your country?

[The Harkinator]

USA

#2 thing I hate:
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That NEITHER party in our farce of a democratic society gives a damn about what the citizens in this country want or say and only care about their party, personal agendas and ensuring the ultra uber rich get even richer DIRECTLY at the cost of everyone else.


I'll stop here because I could easily post about another 99999998 things and I don't think The Escapist's webserver has enough storage.

'I could never run for President of the United States, all that shaking hands of people I don't actually give a damn about. I would be exhausted after ten minutes.' Winston Churchill

Whenever a candidate for a US election is on the TV they are shaking hands with almost everyone in a 10 mile radius. Its a bit confusing, there are 300 million people in the US, is Obama going to shake all of their hands to get votes?

What don't I like about my country? Hmmm, well we are up to our necks in financial crap, whenever the government tries to do something the media and other party tear it to shreds. The price of university fees rises just in time to make me pay more (I will be one of the first paying more) and a company with the name of my country made one almighty **** up in April last year (I know its an international company now but still don't like them anymore). Thats about it. I live in Britain.

 

[DanielBrown]

Jante's Law.
It's sickening that we grow up with a mindset that makes us into humble pussies. I didn't suffer from it when I was younger, but it caught up with me.

From Sweden, btw.

 

[Drummodino]

USA: I hate how, not only is the majority christian, but that they treat people who don't believe in religion like their soul purpouse on earth is to convince them of the ways of satan.

I really don't get people like that. We have a few in Australia (not as many or as outspoken as U.S I think) but they are bloody annoying. Jehovah's Witness people are always going around doorknocking trying to convert the gullible. One good thing they provide is the opportunity to slam a door in someone's face.

 

[Exocet]

France:
We go on strikes for stupid reasons,pretty often.
While we have decent medical system,or education is crap.Don't get me wrong,you learn alot of things,but the system is ridiculous.If you get an engineering degree,you don't know how to be an engineer,so when you get hired,you learn on the go.It's exactly why I dropped out of my school to go study elsewhere in Europe
Politics is heading towards a messed up US system,where you have 2 major parties systematically trying to bring down the other,making the people suffer in the end.
Although younger generations are changing this,we still remain pretty self-centered.
Finally,we are relunctant to change.People are still working and thinking like it's still the 60-70's and wonder why jobs are being relocated to cheaper places.We don't work smart,and sometimes,we don't even work hard either.

 

[conmag9]

Hockey. Sorry rest of Canada, but bleck...

 

[DragonBorn96]

UK The fact that our Prime Ministers forhead is uper reflective of the sun and can be seen from space. Also they appear to be failing at running the coutry.

 

[chiMmy]

Swedes are generally cold, shy and unambitious cowards like me. I don't like that. Also growing racism.

Growing racism, really?
All I've managed to gather is that in sweden we can't say anything because that could be racism.

IIRC there was this guy that got a ticket for saying "******", he didn't say it to anyone and the cop that gave the ticket didn't even hear him say that.

I mean, what the hell? Apparently that's something which happens alot more then I'd like.

 

[MrTub]

Swedes are generally cold, shy and unambitious cowards like me. I don't like that. Also growing racism.

Growing racism, really?
All I've managed to gather is that in sweden we can't say anything because that could be racism.

IIRC there was this guy that got a ticket for saying "******", he didn't say it to anyone and the cop that gave the ticket didn't even hear him say that.

I mean, what the hell? Apparently that's something which happens alot more then I'd like.

Yeah you cant insult people with a difference colour but its not a problem insulting white people, got to love the double standard we have.

 

[zehydra]

US:
It's too damn big.

 

[BlackStar42]

The UK.

The government, the Daily Mail and the weather.

 

[TzarChasm]

I hate the fact that the vast majority of Americans are arrogant, self-centered and culturally blind fools who border on illiteracy. I hate that most of my nation consists of people who are tradition-bound and absolutely hard-nosed about their patriotism despite the fact that our politicians cannot be trusted and fail miserably to truly represent the interests of their constituents. I hate that our justice system is consistently bogged down by logical fallacies and contradictions during trials, and that our Supreme Court can overturn Constitutional provisions based on a subjective majority opinion regarding legal precedents that they freely interpret according to their own interests.

I hate that nobody here can be trusted to treat driving as if it poses a severe and imminent threat to other people's lives if not done responsibly. I see an average of four turn signals used per day and I can't remember the last time I drove the speed limit on any highway without being passed by a dozen vehicles that were a quarter mile behind me in my rear-view mirror just thirty seconds ago. I hate that people here actually believe that driving ten over will make a significant difference in their ETAs at work or home. (The reality is that if you drive 10 over for ten miles in a 45 mph zone you're going to arrive at your destination a measly 1.7 minutes faster than the next guy. You're also going to have decreased windows in which to react to hazards, and a sharply increased braking distance....)

I hate "American pride" and the assumption that we're better, more worthy people than, say, the folks living in Nigeria, Guam or Nepal simply because we're a military powerhouse who used to be economically viable.

I hate a lot of things about America.

 

[oppp7]

The US' reputation.

Edit: I also hate cars and would love to go to a country where I can just ride a bus/walk everywhere and never have to worry about driving.

 

[MrTub]

Regardless of whether you consider Sverigedemokraterna racist or not, you can't hide from the fact that their huge increase in voters is due to them giving people with "questionable" beliefs a safe place of sorts. I definitely feel racial tension brewing, but maybe I just live in the wrong place (Borås).

It might also be cause every other party is so afraid of being labeled racist so they do not dare to do anything about taking in over 100k people a year, which I think is quite crazy that we're taking in more refuges then USA when they have a population of over 300mil when we have around 9mil..

 

[IamQ]

There's snow here. Snow = hard to walk. Combine the snow with cold and ice, and you have the perfect recipe for frustration when you're trying to run to the bus.

 

[C2Ultima]

Here in the U.S, I hate the way that most people take on a greedy, "Survival of the fittest" idealogical standpoint on life. A good example of this is the way that the budget for one Super Bowl commercial is more then the budget for my school this year.

 

[Totenkopf]

The exaggerated political correctness and anti-patriotism,
the modern degeneration,
the incompetent and corrupt democracy,
the left & the right extremists (seriously, but them all in a bag and burn it, you can't hurt an innocent),
and the demonisation of it's own soldiers (present and past) and militarism.

Germany

 

[StealthyNinja]

In Ireland, the only thing that I really hate is the scummy accent some people from Dublin have.(I'm from Dublin).That and what are not supposed to be pronounced without the last T

 

[TzarChasm]

Add to my list: the Southern accent. Ah, why not just add the whole of Southern "culture" to my list while I'm at it?

 

[UltraDeth]

England - Constant shitty weather

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I'm Canadian. and What I hate about my country will probably sound pretty typical for us.

The Modsbanned WEATHER.

Summer is great, but short, Fall is amazing, but short, and winter is long, cold, and terrible.
Seriously, screw our long freezing winters.