Things you dislike about your country.

[sparkleshine100 92]

1. the british flag needs to be %20 cooler! it needs a welsh dragon and steven fry's head in the middle!

 

2. the weather! we need to move Britain into the middle of the atlantic ocean so it's warm and sunny!

 

3. the national anthem! it is tired and dated! they must change it to "smile smile smile"!

 

4. british people are too negative! they whine and complain about everything and... wait...

 

well that's about it I suppose.

[InfectedPone 1,550]

Australia's so far away from everything else. It's very hot, Christmas is in summer. We have a crap Prime Minister, along with other not great politicians. There's not much to do here. Most of the country is completely empty. Time zones makes most communication difficult. And lastly the lack of products available here.

[Dr. Frasier Crane 319]

The media and how they portray certain groups of people. The UK had a show called 'Benefits Street' which focused on one street in a lower-class suburb where a lot of the residents claimed benefits. They only really focused on the so called 'scroungers' and people who blatantly refused to work, totally ignoring residents on the street who were decent, hard-working people, and who relied on government benefits in order to survive and support their kids. There are so many shows like this and it gives the impression that resorting to benefits makes you  lazy and a 'scrounger'. It boils my blood.

[Shadowed Watcher 183]

Hmmm... I dislike... uhh... all of it? America. Woo. Land of the Shackled!

 

 

 

Then again the entire planet sucks so maybe america isn't the worst... it sure feels like it though.

[Kerberossz 1,929]

Oh my type of thread! I hate our government's every single participant.

 

Basically, there isn't a single party who wants the country develop somewhere.(In effect, they want to steal money instead of solving the problems.) It's a joke. Those who are in power can handle the economic situation like a newborn an AK-47 Rifle. Funny, but still they are the best to lead. The other's are mostly extreme right or "communists" so somebody will suffer for sure whosoever will be selected next. The last man who really loved this country and REALLY wanted to do something died at 1860.

 

It's not like I hate my country, it's nice but the parliament, except picking their nose and arguing with each other about who is the dumber, they don't do anything profitable and I'm not exaggerate. Valley of wolves, this sums up what they are doing.

Edited June 18, 2015 by Kerberossz

[RavenholmZombie 1,330]

I love being an American. However, you can love your country and hate your government at the same time.

 

What I dislike about the United States.

• American Jingoism: "MERICA IS TEH BEST COUNTRI ON EARTH! #1 EVERYONE ELSE IS COMMUNIST!"
• Our Foreign Policy... enough said.
• Corruption. Wall Street and Constitution Avenue are basically the same street now.
• Our government's definition of "Freedom." To them, Freedom means "We get to spy on you, imprison you, and tax you a lot."

[Flint Sparklehooves 37]

Oh wow, where do I begin??  For the USA:

 

Reliance on the car

Extreme suburbanization

Our foreign policy

Our monetary policy

Republicans and Democrats

Clintons and Bushes...and Trumps, and Sanders...

Techno-grandiosity

Crumbling infrastructure

Crumbling towns and cities

Military-industrial complex

Medical-industrial complex

Eds and Meds (higher ed and medical) rackets

Government/Federal Reserve/Wall Street canoodling clusterf#%&

Etc...

Edited July 12, 2015 by Flint Sparklehooves

[Vennax 58]

Things I don't like about Wales:

 

• We're often grouped in with the rest of the British Isles, as if we're all the same country..
• Wales is often ignored as it is the smallest?
• Wales is poor and the poorest country in the UK (Not as bad as some other unfortunate countries in Europe though)
• The weather is usually bad.
• More sheep than people (Sheep = Around 11 Million. Homo Sapiens = Around 3 Million )
• The actual Language of Wales is hardly fluently and commonly used in the south.
• The words Butte and Love are used way too often

Other than those things Wales is a pretty fun place to live.

Edited August 9, 2015 by Vennax

[Akari of Duskshire 581]

As someone close to me described America,"We're not a melting pot.  We're a suspension."

[Luna_tic 120]

The U.S. government trying to erode the middle class.  This goal used to be more subtle, but has come more to light with the decisions of all branches of government over the last six years or so.  Politicians see themselves as an aristocracy that knows what's best for everybody, so they make the government larger, give out more aid to people who don't try very hard and then the middle class is eliminated.  Now this may sound like an odd conclusion, but we're seeing it now.  Unstable job market, low paying jobs on the rise, but better jobs being scarce.  This is because the lower class, on average, have become content with relying on the government.  This frees up low paying jobs and also devalues the dollar because we're nowhere near caught up on our deficit.  Many college graduates or laid off, more experienced, college graduates are having to settle for a severe pay cut by taking lesser jobs.  They cannot pay off their debts from education investments or debts accrued whilst they had a steady income.  This is a widespread problem which is eliminating the middle class.  The rich aren't affected as much, but they are still having to tighten their belts because they are selling less, which in turn means they hire less people.  The main people who aren't affected are politicians, they can give themselves raises whenever they like and apparently aren't bound by the laws they pass.  So there's my beef with America lately.  I won't even touch the constant attempt at taking away second amendment rights in this post.

Edited August 9, 2015 by Luna_tic

[Januaree 38]

The crazy weather. As much as I enjoy wintertime, it's just the summertimes that freak me out. We have about 1-3 Toronto warnings (And sometimes even the real thing) each summer. Just so scary and to top it off we also get harsh thunderstorms so I can't use my computer which gets annoying. Not to mention the Taxes. Those are crazy as well.

Edited August 9, 2015 by Januaree

[baba_booey 4,302]

The United States - Politics and political arguments. Granted, I have mostly liberal thoughts, but man, why is there all this arguing about who's the best option for President and all that. Why can't we just settle something that makes us all happy?

Edited August 9, 2015 by Angry Cartoon Nerd

[redaxted 1,765]

The unpredictable weather, mainly. I don't go outside much (I'm a lazy butt) but when I do it's either too hot or too cold. Why can't it ever be juuuust right? Another thing I don't like is the tea stereotype. I hate tea!

Also One Direction.

Update: I spotted this post again, so I thought I'd edit it with: I like tea now... Yeah... Whoops. I still don't listen to one direction, though, but they aren't too bad anymore... That's just my opinion, anyway! It's alright for anyone to like them.

Edited October 25, 2016 by Wolves

[Fluster 87]

Oh gosh, boy do I have a list! I live in South Africa, so.....


...Our government is crap gone to seed, the country's being run by a village chief who's used billions of rand of tax money to build himself a castle with a pool around it "incase I catch fire, then I go jump in the pool yes", divorced 4 of his 7 wives, I think, might've divorced 5 I dunno, and to finish it off he built a Nkandla. Whatever the heck that is.

They've also failed to maintain electricity factories (or whatever the proper term is ) and so we now have this thing called "load shedding" where our power is cut off for about 2 hours at a time. A tip for the tourists: We get our electricity from the Eskom power grid~ so you won't have to bring your own plugs, just bring your own electricity.

Then there's this thing of Black Revenge. Basically, you're frowned upon for being white here, and white farmers are murdered on a semi-regular basis too. But that problem is sort of low on the government's "to fix" list. We have a looooooot of other little issues to go along with that. One of them being that we have too many people here, and most of them are fairly lazy and/or have 20 children they can't feed.

I'm gonna stop now, this post is long enough I think. lol

[Christmasy Britty 2,553]

pretty much everything the fact that supposedly were free but in reality we are not because we need to have money for everything in order to even live

[Jokuc 8,173]

Something I dislike about Sweden?

 

Everyone is so private, if you meet someone on the street, almost no one will say hi.

If you go on the train or bus, everyone will have their bag on the seat next to them cause they're so afraid of sitting with strangers.

[Megas 27,571]

The fact that shady corporations and politicians has the US by the balls

Edited August 9, 2015 by Megas75

[Nerdy Luigi 2,065]

Oh I don't like plenty of things about America and every country on this planet, probably.

 

*Congress.

*A public too stupid to vote in the right people. (I mean how did Romney even have a CHANCE in the presidential election? Come on now. AND WHAT ABOUT TRUMP'S POPULARITY?)

*Excessive focus on military involvement.

*A Bill of Rights that needs slight reforming.

*Overly Capitalistic economy.

*Corrupt politicians in general.

 

But in principle, America is great...

[Moony the Cat 3,702]

What i hate about my Country? Well, pretty much everything we did in the past, because that was just horrible. ( im from germany, so i guess you know what i mean )

 

But currently..i dont know, i never really listen to the news...so i have no idea what my country does now. But at least there is no war here..thats good i guess.

[Nila Bean 133]

America's drinking laws. And not just because I want to get drunk when I turn 18   You can get pregnant at 16 (much earlier than that if you want), drive at 16, smoke at 18, have a debit card, be sent to war etc. But you can't have a drink   Just seems backwards to me. In a lot of countries they grant you the right at 18, but here in america we have "adults" who can't drink until  21. Do they honestly think teenagers/young adults are obeying those laws? They still drink anyway!

[GuyNamedEarl 1,332]

A lot of people in the US thinks the world revolves around our country.

[darkwingmare 1,319]

We're way too polite and nice in Sweden, it's almost annoying. No one should offend one another so if someone actually offends someone, you can't tell them to stop cause then YOU might offend THE OFFENDER.

Not exactly like that of course, but it's a pretty good example of what I'm trying to say here. Our kindness is so overworked on and about I might vomit!

Edited August 9, 2015 by darkwingmare

[Chara 1,565]

Hm, things I hate about Canada,

 

Bill C-51 just passed as law. (anti-terrorism law that destorys human rights in the process)

We are getting poorer and poorer as time goes on. (looking at you government)

We have strict laws in certain places of Canada. (there is a law in this town where you cannot scream or be with more than a group a three)

We are always stereotyped (like all the time)

[Flint Sparklehooves 37]

Oh I don't like plenty of things about America and every country on this planet, probably.

 

*Congress.

*A public too stupid to vote in the right people. (I mean how did Romney even have a CHANCE in the presidential election? Come on now. AND WHAT ABOUT TRUMP'S POPULARITY?)

*Excessive focus on military involvement.

*A Bill of Rights that needs slight reforming.

*Overly Capitalistic economy.

*Corrupt politicians in general.

 

But in principle, America is great...

 

I'd agree with you on most of that, except the capitalist economy part.  What we have today is more of a "corporatist" or "crony-capitalist", one might even say fascist economy, where government and big business are far too intertwined and prop each other up.  And of course, there are large doses of socialism throughout.  But of course, that's to be expected in a "democracy", where the natural tendency of people is to vote for goodies from the government, and the politicians to promise the people handouts and something-for-nothing to win votes.  Of course that can get ruinously expensive, especially when you have a hobbled, gutted economy--and hence, more damaging economic manipulations are required to perpetuate this cancerous system.

[skbl17 199]

This is from a post I made on another forum, but everything here is still 100% correct.

 

1) The measurement system. Where did it all go wrong? We were one of the original signatories to the Metric Convention, Congress allowed use of the metric system in 1866, and in 1975, Congress passed the Metric Conversion Act. It seemed that we would move along to metric alongside the rest of the world! That wasn't the case; the voluntary nature of the switch, apathy, the elimination of the Metric Board in 1982, and Congress's rejection of US DOT efforts to switch to metric in the 1990s killed the metrication effort in this country (well, outside of Hawaii).

I understand not forcing private businesses to switch; it's in the nature of this country for the government to not tell private industry how to run their businesses. But why extend the exemption to public services (public schools, emergency services, roads, NWS, etc.)? Our biggest and most appreciated national service, the U.S. military, made the switch, and they're just fine. I fail to see why we can't have a gradual (say, fifteen-year) switch to metric in all public institutions.

2) Politics. Our electoral system favors two parties (FPTP/plurality voting), and despite the near lack of difference in our two major political parties, voting for a third option only spoils the result, thus leading to quite a bit of antipathy towards voting third party, in addition to an increase in voter apathy in general. We need a fairer electoral system that doesn't lock candidates out just because they're not GOP or Dem.

In addition, the rampant use of lobbying and donations of campaign dollars from wealthy donors and large corporations unduly influences our political system. We need to move to either a capped campaign finance system (each candidate can only spend a max of x dollars) or a publicly-funded system, where each candidate gets x dollars and that's all they get.

Finally, there's the polarization, which has become irrational in the last few years. It's getting more and more difficult just to have rational political discussion in this country; just look at what's happened on this very thread. Nobody wants to listen to others' opinions, and the few that do proceed to insult the other person just for having an opinion.

3) Infrastructure. It's utterly unacceptable that what it takes some countries (and no, I'm not talking about China or the Persian Gulf states) just a few years and a billion dollars to build, costs us billions of dollars and decades just to finish. Is it the unions? NIMBYs? Corrupt contractors? Property laws? That's not even mentioning our lack of infrastructure investment in this country (outside of roads, but even they're in variable shape). We used to be a leader in building infrastructure; subways, highways, roads, airports, internet, you name it; we led the world. Nowadays, we all seem...content...with what we have, and the few of us who try to raise this issue get called "socialists".

4) The irrational, fear-mongering, hysterically partisan media. The media is private, so we can't do much about this outside of bolstering PBS and NPR, which is practically a political non-starter. While there are obvious exceptions, I've noticed that in countries with established, editorially independent, and strong public service broadcasters, the media tends to be far less irrational, hysterical, and partisan. That's not the case in every country with such a system (the UK has the Daily Mail and the Sun, for example,) but it is in most.

5) Public education. We throw so much money at schools, but it either all ends up in the pockets of a few big corporations or corrupt school officials or it all ends up being for naught. Parents need to be more involved in their students' education, and teachers should be more free to experiment with how the material is presented to students. Oh, and we need to stop with the creationism/intelligent design stuff; in secular public schools, established science needs to be taught to the students, that includes stuff like evolution.

6) Our foreign policy. Sure, we're supposedly the "most powerful" country in the world. Aside from perks like the reserve currency, what has that gotten us? Illogical foreign wars...oops, I mean "police actions", the associated trillions of dollars in debt, and a growing anti-American stance in quite a few foreign countries. I favor non-interventionism; let us engage with the world economically and in humanitarian terms, not for the sake of military adventure!

That's just a small sampling of things I HATE about this country.

Edited August 9, 2015 by skbl17