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.
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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Idk, Mexican? (/j)
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.
“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.
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…
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.
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.
Ah big as in “empire.” Makes sense.
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)
Everyone is whining about the USA.
People always complain about their countries in some form or other. Maybe Americans are just the loudest lol?
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.
Come to England, we complain all the damn time
Everyone had complaints about their own country. It might not be all conveniently on one platform or online at all. Or it might even be forbidden or negatively impact your social score.
Anyhow. Still it’s highly important to see on which level the complaints are. Currently comparing the US with the EU for example, I’m sorry, but the US is in some deep shit. Yes, over here we also have some (some even related) issues but your pre-trump situation was not all that hot to begin with (as a citizen) and went downhill fast now. It’s highly likely the US will turn into some once-important but then irrelevant country.
We do have complaints about our country here, too, but they are junior league against the problems the US government is causing for its subjects.
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
