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How do you think the people in your country are perceived by others? What is the best thing that characterizes your nation? What is the worst?
Wouldn’t it also be interesting to see how people from the same country see themselves?
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#1
America Most People are nice and helpful and easy to talk to But... EVERYTHING IS ABOUT POLITICS!
Final score:
14points
Sent From The Slytherin House (Submission author) 5 years ago
yup, I do love sports tho
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#2
USA Best: passionate about any thing Worst: still passionate even if they are wayyyyy off
Final score:
11points
#3
US: The kindest people you will meet, strangers help strangers.... also The most assholish people around, selfish and angry and just down right evil, it's un believable.
Final score:
9points
#4
Singapore: Best: Most are kind & trustworthy Worst: 'Kiasu' (Fear of losing can make monsters out of them)
Final score:
8points
#5
UK Best: Our Britishness (multi-cultural, inclusive, pioneering, sense of duty, ingenuity, humour, strength through adversity....) Worst: Our Britishness (the polar opposite of above) :(
Final score:
8points
Vanta Black 5 years ago
It's amazing that the racists in this country will yell at anyone who isn't white to go back to their "own countries", and in the next sentence they can be talking about going on holiday abroad. Equally as amazing/confusing is racists yelling at non-white people to "f**k off back to (insert racial slur-istan here)", despite those people obviously being born and raised right here in Blighty.
Ben Stubbs (Submission author) 5 years ago
Indeed Vanta. I've never understood how these type of people don't realise we're all descended from migrants - Celt, Roman (and empire), Dane, Angle, Saxon, Viking, (technically Viking) and every other population across the globe xxx
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Greece Best: We love a lot (but not everyone, only those who make it to our inner circle) and we're very family- and friend- oriented Worst: We are so loud, you can easily spot us whenever we go abroad!
Final score:
8points
SykesDaMan 5 years ago
This is kind of a mediterranean thing! :) I'm not greek but I recognize many countries including mine! :)
SykesDaMan 5 years ago
And even just some regions/parts of some countries and not the whole counties! :)
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#7
Well here's an obvious one... US Worst: Police brutality, bad presidents (such as Trump). People who value guns too much and choose to shoot innocent people. Human beings who don't respect people of color, women, people who are gay, and so on (basically anyone who isn't like them.) Best: Good presidents (such as Obama). People who do their best to stop gun violence, sexists, racists, and so on (and just about anything else in the "worst" category)
Final score:
8points
Hannah M 5 years ago
FYI whites and Hispanics are 3x more likely to be killed by police than blacks. Before covid screwed up the world, unemployment in the US had gotten down to 3.6%, whereas it peaked and only got just below 5% during Obama's presidency. Nobody is really innocent except unborn babies, which Democrats have no qualms about killing. Trump is not racist, whereas dems believe they own black and Hispanic votes. People cry about Trump supposedly being sexist but somehow Clinton was never 'cancelled' for his atrocious behaviour while in office. A lot of Democrats are friends with pedophiles. Kamala Harris, while a prosecutor, withheld evidence leading to 'innocent' men bring given hard sentences and even left on death row. Also Trump is pretty pro-gay. In reality, the only people with any real reason to be offended by Trump are Christians, as he didn't know which way up to hold a Bible, but, unlike a lot of people, we have enough security to not be offended by an orange man in a suit.
ƒιѕн 5 years ago
Have an upvote for speaking the truth. I actually think we were down to 3.5 the month before covid hit us. This place is pretty anti Trump. Lets watch the downvotes roll in.
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#8
Israel Best: warm, welcoming, always ready to help you out. Worst: think everyone is out to screw them over, also, everything is about politics in the worst most divisive and hate spewing way.
Final score:
7points
#9
Belgium: Best: Hard working, Down to earth, rational (for the most part) & kind Worst: quite mistrusting of people outside their social circle.
Final score:
6points
Ben Stubbs 5 years ago
I can't comment on your worst side of Belgium, but I would add Moules to the list :)
#10
Netherlands: We are one of the most happy countries in the world, but our policitcs are a bit off. For example, we only have to keep distance above 18 years old. That’s our only COVID19 rule. For the rest, you should come visit us!
Final score:
5points
#11
Brazil Best: People are very happy, nice, welcoming and helpful. Worst: Corruption E.V.E.R.Y.W.H.E.R.E.
Final score:
4points
#12
Philippines Best: Warm, Hospitable, Close-knit community Worst: Crab Mentality, Intrusive
Final score:
3points
Vanta Black 5 years ago
I have Filipino family, and this is true from what I've seen. Also, they are super Catholic.
#13
America Best: Lots of people are friendly and there are many people who work to stop hate. Worst: People politicize everything, even if it's just basic human rights. Minorities are ignored, and change is far to slow.
Final score:
3points
#14
France, people are friendly (not in Paris) but they are complaining all the time for everything intead of enjoying the luck to live in this country. Pathetic...
Final score:
3points
F. H. 5 years ago
Are you sure you don't mean Germany? Complaining is a national sport here, I'm kind of a professional myself. The best part is that often people will complain to the point they are either shouted at or offered special treatment - it is customary to refuse the latter because you have allready formend an opinion and don't want to be bribed.
Holly Molly 5 years ago (edited)
It's the same about Singaporeans - we love to complain too, often times about the ruling party PAP lol
#15
India Best: Love your neighbor like your family Worst: Interfere in your neighbor's life like it is your own
Final score:
3points
#16
England people have a good sense of humour but honestly we talk and complain about weather far too much. its like the topic of almost any conversation of anyone over 30.
Final score:
3points
Jon S. 5 years ago
I was chatting with my wife about this topic and she said exactly the same! I think weather is a 'safe' topic we can always comment on without knowing anything else about the person we're talking to. Sometimes it feels better than an awkward silence. But it is certainly boring.
Santhe van der Meulen 5 years ago
We Dutchies also complain about the weather too much ;) It is either too cold/too wet or too hot
Fred and George Weasley (Submission author) 5 years ago
sorry i forgot to press enter after i wrote england it looks awful ack
#17
America People will hate you silently but will later ask you to do something and you cant refuse because your mother is behind you ... or just mt neighbors
Final score:
2points
#18
Colombia: Best: Warm, generous and welcoming people. Worst: Corruption everywhere!
Final score:
1point
Alejandro Albornoz Damme (Submission author) 5 years ago
yes, definitely!
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England Best: Our instinctive ability to form an orderly queue. Worst: Very reluctant to commit to conversations and friendships.
Final score:
1point
Holly Molly 5 years ago
reluctant to commit to friendships? i.e. don't like to have friends? like being alone?
Kendra Miller 5 years ago
To take your place at the end of the line versus cutting, is to understand and respect all those who were waiting first. It's order, it's fair and it's peaceful. Everyone hates the egotistical, self-important a**e who only thinks about themselves. If you are in a rush, arrive earlier, or do without.
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America Good-There is still TP and cleaning supplies Good- There is still food Bad- Politics and crap Bad- PEOPLE ARENT SOCIAL DISTANCING IN DAKOTA OR AND OTHER FRIKIN PLACE
Final score:
1point
#21
im polish but living in britain and i don't under stand why when people think of britain they think of posh accents and tea
Final score:
1point
What do you think ?
F. H. 5 years ago
I would add something about Germany but I can't think of anything positive to say about the people here in general - and I really like living here. It's just that people are neither really welcoming, friendly, helpful or outgoing. Maybe the best is that they are generally OK?
Vanta Black 5 years ago
I had a totally different experience when I visited on a school trip. They weren't overly friendly like Americans, but the people we met were the complete opposite of what you said. The owners of the campsite I stayed at were especially friendly when you bothered to speak to them in German, some fellow campers were happy to join in with our five-a-side football matches (mini England vs Germany), but the cheeriest person we met was definitely the Mayor of Hamelin. He was so eager to share the history of the town, tell the story of the Pied Piper, and he even shook my hand while wearing a huge smile after I thanked him for his time in his language. Okay, so it sounds like they were happiest when hearing German, but since I was the only member of our group who could even speak any, it definitely wasn't that alone. Although the campsite owners did feel confused when one of our group got me to ask them if they had a monkey, before proclaiming himself "Affe Junge".
Load More Replies... F. H. 5 years ago
I would add something about Germany but I can't think of anything positive to say about the people here in general - and I really like living here. It's just that people are neither really welcoming, friendly, helpful or outgoing. Maybe the best is that they are generally OK?
Vanta Black 5 years ago
I had a totally different experience when I visited on a school trip. They weren't overly friendly like Americans, but the people we met were the complete opposite of what you said. The owners of the campsite I stayed at were especially friendly when you bothered to speak to them in German, some fellow campers were happy to join in with our five-a-side football matches (mini England vs Germany), but the cheeriest person we met was definitely the Mayor of Hamelin. He was so eager to share the history of the town, tell the story of the Pied Piper, and he even shook my hand while wearing a huge smile after I thanked him for his time in his language. Okay, so it sounds like they were happiest when hearing German, but since I was the only member of our group who could even speak any, it definitely wasn't that alone. Although the campsite owners did feel confused when one of our group got me to ask them if they had a monkey, before proclaiming himself "Affe Junge".
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