Your Country Pros & Cons
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- Fanco0
1) canada
2) big. lots of room. lots culture. lots of lots of stuff. ya know. free-health care. country found a good balance on centrist-liberal politics
3) except when the conservatives are voted it. seriously people. we got 3 (4 depending where you live) parties. vote other than the big 2.
4) ameri-who?
5) people pretend like there isnt any...- Cell Phone plans/rates = big conMSTRPLN
- oh yeah forgot about thatFanco
- like racism. we pretend its not thereFanco
- yeah, but you can make a lot of jokes in front of other people about race, etc., compared to other countriesJaline
- which sometimes is better Jaline, I'd rather hear Polish jokes in front of merafalski
- kelpie0
1. scotland
2. humour, landscape, passion, INVENTIONS!!!!!!!!, contrary rebellious questioning nature.
3. sniping, miserable, uneducated, ignorant, violent, lazy people. governmental corruption, blame culture, hardman culture, insularity, chip on the shoulder, ugly wee orange women, exaggerated urban regional accents, shit food
4. it could be so amazing, but isn't for entirely human reasons. not enough of it is named after me in comparison to canada
5. we like to pretend its not an issue here, but its rife when you scratch the surface- Good honest post!boobs
- WEE? not from what i've seen mate. :-/paraselene
- detritus0
1) whatever happened to TeamGB?
- britain's a political entity, not a country. don;t get me wrong, I love our wee union, but I'm scottish, from Scotland 100%kelpie
- Hmm. I don't have that 'luxury'.
Fuckit, I'm just a 'Northerner'.detritus - Each of those words was coupled with me doing little 'air-quotations' with my fingers.detritus
- that's cool, to each his own, a man's a man for a that, wha's like us etc etckelpie
- what's difference between a "country" and a "political entity".kuzzAAAAM
- evcewrything, that you don't know is indicative of your arrogance and ignorance on this subject kuzkelpie
- The letters, O R and Y?detritus
- wtf?? did you seriously just reply to me like that? :-/kuzzAAAAM
- yes I did, bit heated and I apologise but I genuinely believe that you nad I can't have this conversation in text form, we'll do it over beer some daykelpie
- form (on previous evidence), we'll do it over beer some day. sorry I called you ignorant and arrogant, that was wrong. peace xkelpie
- no we wont.kuzzAAAAM
- as you wishkelpie
- mr_clark0
1. Scotland
2. Alkies
3. Neds and Orange ladies
4. Big
5. Hard to say- Orange ladies? You had bring religion into this, didn't you.Jnr_Madison
- hahahahaha, altogether now:
and the saaaaaaaaash my faaa-----kelpie - Haha no, orange tanned ladiesmr_clark
- "Hello, Hello, we are the..."Jnr_Madison
- Billy Boys...mr_clark
- "...not affiliated with any religious groups" was the correct answer.Jnr_Madison
- CBSTHLM0
1. Sweden
2. Nature, Free health care & Education, Summers, Women, Absolut Vodka.
3. Weather, Taxes, Real estate market, Nightlife
4. Only been to NY twice. Loved it. But in general I feel the US is a bit two faced.
5. Not a problem in Stockholm in general. Ingnorence exists everywhere. Not handled at all I think.
- ********0
1) Portugal
2) Being small.
3) Being small.
4) I like it. Nice open-hearted people. Great landscapes.
5) It's not a problem (so far)
- grunttt0
1) US
2) Amazing natural landscape. Freedom. Beer (i'm not talking budweiser)
3) Politics, money and religion often get in the way of logic.
4) Not living up to our potential
5) See 4.
- scrap_paper0
1) Canada
2) Multiculturalism, high standard of living, decent education system, free health care, we like beer and say sorry a lot,
3) Our history with our native peoples, political pandering to the US, high taxes, erosion of our social systems because of gov mis spending.
4) My feelings towards America and Americans are different. On an individual level Americans can be great, focussed, hard working, dedicated people. En masse they start taking on negative traits Americans are associated with (arrogant, self possessed, ignorant).America the country needs a swift kick in the head but that will only happen when social conditions get bad enough for its populace to demand actual reform.
5) Racism is always present. You can never escape it completely but acceptance of other people and cultures is a very important thing here.
- our taxes arent that high. i dont understand how people can complain about its rates.Fanco
- Our taxes are quite high when you consider all the taxes added together. Not just income tax.scrap_paper
- govt. misspending is a natural consequence. why would they spend your money better than you? it's not theirs, who caresrafalski
- ********0
I'm moving to Canada
- when you immigrate here, they sit you down and make you watch the 1972 hockey summit series (google it)Fanco
- lolscrap_paper
- lol********
- rough0
1) Ireland
2) Landscape, 'The Craic', Guinness, Very multicultural
3) Weather, expensive, Poor health care
4) Some of it's great but most of it reminds me of the movie 'Easy Rider'
5) Probably more noticeable among older folk
- grunttt0
fascinating thread. seriously.
- Yeah, it is quite - I've just learned that 'my country' doesn't even exist in my fellow countryman's eyes. Dang.detritus
- aw, sorry, didn't mean to piss ye offkelpie
- twasn't just your answer, chum - everyone's answered 'England' or 'Scotland'.
Well done, nu labour.detritus - always been that way for a long long time mate, I'd look further back than nu lab for a reasonkelpie
- ex-colonial countries are very hard to define, I believe.********
- if asked for my "nationality" I say British though, I guess its fine distinctions, but that's more official classificationkelpie
- its not colonialism, we were all british back then. its the hundreds of years of separate identitykelpie
- so you mean you are all britons, more than you are "british" :)********
- That's what I mean, Witt.
I was born here, from family from all over this island - I am a Briton. Screw parochialism.detritus - "parochialism"? fuck me, are you far off the mark there.kelpie
- Not referring to you, kelpie - my inadvertent singular form of 'countryman' really wasn't aimed at you.detritus
- I was brought overseas, and as a kid thought that we'd all become 'Europeans' - so my outlook is ever toward the ...detritus
- .. greater sphere of people. I just find it odd that people choose to be defined by their region and not their aspirationsdetritus
- ONE WORLD GOV'T FOR THE WIN.detritus
- Well, obviously, I guess I was slightly referring to you - but not just you, nameen?detritus
- Anyway, I have to go see my Scots granny and uncle, his English daughter in a Polish /Bangladeshi part of town.detritus
- But all of Europe is a bit parochial, detritus :)********
- We're all Stardust, baby.
Except infidels and wogs.detritus - as long as enough people believe in it, country, state, nation, can mean anything. Imagined communities etc.kuzzAAAAM
- thebottlerocket0
1) What country do you live in?
England2) What are the pros to your country?
They used to be cockney without many teeth, but with the EU and all they, they're mostly from Eastern Europe and of considerably higher standard.3) What are the cons to your country?
Well, in the past, most of them got shipped out to Australia, now they're housed in places with great names like "Strangeways" and "Wormwood Scrubs"4) What is your honest feeling about America?
As it's a continent, I feel nothing for this landmass.5) How is racism handled in your country?
Ali-G
- kuzzAAAAM0
you have to get "smart" don't you bottlerocket?
- I loved that show.thebottlerocket
- you should be on TV you should.kuzzAAAAM
- orangecrunch0
How come none of you europeans have said anything about your vacation time? We get shit for vaca time in NYC. Unless you work for some Gataca "like" company and make a obnoxious amount of money.
- I get 21 days per year, what do you get?kelpie
- seven weeks this year... HeheCBSTHLM
- 28 days... but feck, there's more to life than vacation you lazy jackass...neue75_bold
- hahakelpie
- Vacation = time to travel. At my company we have a negotiable 2 weeks. It blows.orangecrunch
- 3 weeks.mrdobolina
- 2 weeks??? shiiiiiiiiiiiittee!rough
- d_rek0
1) WE ARE LEGION, FOR WE ARE MANY.
- kelpie0
go on then, do the pro's and cons of Hell
- ********0
In France, the work week is 35 hours, there's 6 weeks of vacation per year or more, free quality healthcare, 1 year of maternity leave, doctors come to your house because the gov't is afraid of people having riots. In America, if you get sick even with healthcare, you can go into deep bankruptcy.
- ********0
1) US
2) We're not France
3) We're not Amsterdam
4) I love it but common sense is almost completely gone
5) Most have the attitude "If it's not happening to me I don't care"
- kezza_20
Second stab being serious...
1) England, London to be specific, which not being from London originally, feels like a completely separate country, completely different to the rest of the UK?
2) We have a phenomenal standard of life for our size and ability as a nation. I think that as a country we constantly seem to have the ability to reinvent ourselves. In the past couple of hundred years we have been inventors, aggressors, traders, thinkers, pirates and a few others to mention. The transformation of the UK in the last 20 years from an industrial/agricultural economy to a large service based economy will be looked on in years to come as amazing. This has largely been born out of a brilliant educational system, and the ability to be upwardly mobile. My dad was an immigrant 50 years ago, and has made his fortune here. Not many places where that can happen, and this meritocratic system has been adopted by places like the US, Canada, Australia and NZ. It's comforting to live somewhere where your work ethic and ability gets rewarded whatever your background.
3) If you don't do well in that system, you get left behind. People in the UK moan to much that the UK is shit, and having traveled the world and lived in poorer countries, people don't realize how good they have it. That depresses me. The weather is genuinely shit.
4) A great place that should be cherished. from where I sit you choose what tribes you want to be apart of in this world. England is lucky to have an amazing legacy where it populated large parts of the world with English speaking peoples, and that 'English speaking' club is the most affluent one. If America every took it's eye off the ball and got overtaken by China as numero uno, I believe that Europe and that English speaking club should be far poorer for it and we'd see a dramatic lowering in the standards of life we've come accustomed too. For that reason I hope the US sorts it's shit out.
5) Being white it's difficult to have perspective on racism. Intrinsically I think we are all closet racists in the world. The most appalling racism I've seen is in places like Africa with Hutu's and Tutsis. More Blacks have died at the hands of blacks and more whites have died at the hands of whites in the last century than any black on white or brown on black racism. I think on the whole we've learnt to say what we say behind closed doors and get on with life in the UK. From what I read and hear the worst segments of racism in the UK aren't from us white Angles, but from polish who hate the Ukrainians or Somalis that hate the Sudanese for example. It seems a lot of the world's conflicts and issues are played out on London streets all the time and are getting worse. So racism is getting worse, and race related crimes are rising but they aren't committed by the typical Sun reader (a newspaper) but by one ethnic minority on another. A worrying trend.
- section_0140
1) United States
2) easy women and cheap golf(around here anyways)
3) whiny liberals and endless government
4) I love it!
5) better now than it once was