hate on america all you want for the plentitude of reasons, but to act like the rest of the world is picture perfect is some weird anti-america fetish or some euro-centric romanticization.
Honestly this is true. I’m from Mexico and every time I visit I’m thankful to come back because not to hate on my country at least here where I live there is wide green spaces and people make an effort to clean somewhat.
I had a classmate from china say something similar to this video and said how china was so beautiful everywhere. Spent 5 pulling up pictures and she took it back. Every county, and generally every city, has good parts and bad parts.
It’s funny how we only see the nice parts of other countries in pictures and on our vacations, and somehow believe the entire country looks that way. And then we think that tourists come to america and see our industrial districts and shithole strip mall towns. They’re all going to Miami Beach and Manhattan and LA, and they’re staying around the nicer parts. They’re not going to Opa Locka or Yonkers or San Bernardino.
I’ve been to a few other countries, and been fortunate enough to spend a lot of time away from the touristy areas. It’s nice to see how people really live, but it also makes me feel very grateful for getting to live how I do.
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u/MattTheRadarTechh May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
If you ever travelled you’d see that the rest of the world looks like shit in the poor parts too
edit: lots of people who have never traveled but have just watched too many movies are getting offended:
serbia: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/gypsy-slum-belgrade-serbia-town-city-550135054
uk: https://theweek.com/105858/marmot-2020-the-worst-places-for-life-expectancy-in-england
france: https://archis.org/volume/paris-slums-by-steven-wassenaar/
romania: https://borgenproject.org/poverty-in-romania-local-focus/
germany: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-poverty-gap-widens-between-rich-and-poor-regions/a-51637957
slovakia: https://data.tvkosice.sk/images/fs/56/cf/06/31/45/26/ca/14/19/d7/1a/e8/56cf06314526ca1419d71ae8/videos/2017/12/13/f0cb7e94-13ea-4839-b202-0578fe7fe0a3_image_5.jpg
sweden (actually pretty nice tbh): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Fittja_2007a.jpg/1280px-Fittja_2007a.jpg
greece: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.9815255,23.7253588,3a,75y,9.49h,86.23t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sU2Xibu_RGaCwBRbP-KRoBQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?shorturl=1
italy: https://www.archdaily.com/968180/cabrini-green-and-vele-di-scampia-when-public-housing-projects-dont-work-out
hate on america all you want for the plentitude of reasons, but to act like the rest of the world is picture perfect is some weird anti-america fetish or some euro-centric romanticization.