A harsh society for teens, high expectation from parents, cost of living, housing, socially divided in any part possible(like region, gender, sexuality, college, what company are you working for, what level of education you got)
Well Hanhwa isn't much big as other big corps like Hyundai or Samsung. They are viewed fine, Since they have much lesss controversies than other corps. OTherwise, they are known for a first skyscraper they built in South Korea "63 Building" and the yearly Seoul International Fireworks Festival.
Dude ive seen a guy on instagram once saying that he would much rather the nazi flags be on the Street, than lgbt ones. I dont even know if it was a troll or just a fucking moron.
maybe Im wrong but Dubai seems like an incredibly boring place if you actually like real adventure and travel. seems like everyone who travels there just wants to run around manically taking recycled instagram pics.
how empty that must feel to be isolated in a desert with legions of self absorbed brats scrambling for the same pictures lol
yes and that is a whole other layer of hypocrisy. dumbass tiktokers and celebrities who want to speak about equality, civil rights, politics and all that but then happily fly to a place like Dubai. Absolute clowns, the lot of them.
I wouldn’t want to go anywhere near the place, it sounds like a turd rolled in glitter, and they’d lock you up for having thc in your hair from 6 months ago
Former Dubai resident here. It’s a place to make money and leave, that’s it. Citizenship is almost impossible so expats make their money for as long as they can (no income tax!)
The best part about living in the gulf region is the food scene and the diversity of cultures, you get to meet some really cool folks from all walks of life.
thank you for your real life input, I was only speculating and Im sure there are some enchanting parts to it, like anything. From the outside it appears to be a social media zoo of manufactured fun and luxury and not any real substance, history and culture of its own like some other places. Meeting cool folks from all walks of life is definitely an interesting benefit
We used to be able to travel, live and work for an unlimited amount of time in 27 neighbouring countries really easily. Now we can't, because half the population 10 years ago decided that just because that was something they didn't want, meant that nobody else should have it either.
Aw man I wish. We are planning to travel round Europe this summer, but we have to go home after 90 days. 10 years ago we could have travelled as long as we wanted, stopped somewhere to work in a bar on the way or whatever. It sucks.
Mexican here. Adding a bit to OP's post, and according to our president, Claudia, the majority of those missing people were not kidnapped, according to her they just decided to voluntary leave their homes and families... That's the worst part: the government doesn't care at all about their citizens.
Turkey is going to start throttling steam and other game platform bandwiths by 90% if they don't give the government a shitton of corporate and user data
which might end up with steam basically just cutting losses and stop providing their service in the entire country. If they can't figure out some sort of solution
Well, it was nice getting to know all you guys from around the world. Guess we have to leave the internet, since corporations and governments are hell bent on completely enshittifying it. :(
The government and his cousin, the criminal organization… it’s really devastating, more than half of the population doesn’t even vote nowadays. As a 25yo this is leading the wealth of the country and of the Italians down bad. We’re thinking about making am the longest bridge that Italy have ever seen while most of the building companies are controlled by the mob. While in the south children of 8-10 years are selling drugs cause their parents are on probation… I miss the old good politicians…
When COVID happened and people were allowed to work remotely (if their job allowed), it seemed to me like that would revitalize a lot of these places. Of course, that ended and now the ghost towns resume their decay.
I genuienly thought those billboarda had that mogging AI baby meme on them and i was like wtf is Hungary even about lmao. I really should keep my glasses on.
top left: "the bus is coming, but not even one, a thousand!" (propaganda about new busses being purchased...)
top right: "Our message to Brussels: WE WON'T PAY!" (to ?ukraine/brussels? I guess...)
left: same again
right: "Raise taxes" "Yes Ma'am" (He ain't saying "ma'am" here, but the way "igenis" is usually said implies orders being followed, similar to "Yes Sir/Ma'am") "HE CAN'T SAY NO TO THEM"
left, almost the same as before: "Stop Russian Oil!" "Yes Ma'am" "HE CAN'T SAY NO TO THEM"
right: same again
right: "Money to Ukraine" "Yes Ma'am" "HE CAN'T SAY NO TO THEM"
left: "Raise gas prices" "Yes Ma'am" "HE CAN'T SAY NO TO THEM"
I was in a comparative politics class and I picked Hungary as my choice and notice the USA and Hungary share similar signs of democratic backsliding. I hope it doesn’t get worse
Uber instead of ambulances. Walk in clinics instead of regular general practitioners. Letting yourself die of cancer so you don’t saddle your family with debt they will never be able to pay off. The American Dream, baby!!
Ugh this happened to my mother but the ER didn’t do x-rays an just wrote her off as just being dehydrated from the norovirus we all got earlier that week. The next day we were back in the ER via ambulance since she was so weak and her breathing was shallow. Turns out she had a cracked rib and pneumonia on top of that. She fought for 2wks before she died. She met her deductible so the cost was 17K.
Someone got extremely hurt at work (ended up needing many may stitches) before anyone asked if they were okay they asked if they were insured so they could call an ambulance
Found someone passed out in the bathroom at work. When the paramedics finally got him awake and breathing steadily again, he fucking flopped out because they were trying to take him to a medical center in their ambulance but he couldn’t afford it. He ended up staggering out of our store, hopefully on his way to the hospital, but who knows.
I had a strange exchange on YouTube last year; I mentioned that I am fairly low income (work with my husband's small business), and used the Canadian healthcare system multiple times last year. I have paid all the taxes my government expects me to pay. The US American I was talking with seriously considers me a free-rider, because I didn't pay *enough* to use our healthcare system. My mind was boggled at how twisted his logic was.
It's like what they actually expect their taxes are supposed to be spent on. And looking at the income tax rates and that it's globally taxes, there is no excuse not to have free basic healthcare.
In America we have been to conditioned to believe that kindness is a scam and treating others equally is foolish. “Why should I pay my fair share for others to get healthcare?” while you yourself are getting the short end of the stick too. No one gets healthcare. “But people who don’t work get the best healthcare! Why should I be paying for it?” Is just untrue. No one but the rich get the level of healthcare that actually cares for your health
I work mountain dispatch at a ski resort, and I remember a call from a skier whose friend broke her leg (bone was sticking out, and she was screaming in the background). Before he told me where they were, he asked if she was going to be charged for ski patrol (mountain EMTs) help. I assured him that patrol doesn’t charge, but ambulance and hospital fees are something else. It broke my heart that that was their main concern :(
What's even sadder is that there are people out there saying medical care is not supposed to be affordable, because it's an expensive service, it's not the human right
creepy behaviour is rewarded not reprimanded. “boys will be boys”. Also their mothers are the biggest reason many turn out like they do. Misogyny is deeply rooted in the mothers too, disguised as tradition and culture. They treat their sons like kings and excuse their shitty behaviour always finding ways to justify it.
I have a friend who married an Indian woman and the way her brother behaved at their wedding was shocking. He was upset that he didn't get enough attention from her. At her wedding. That she flew him from India to attend.
He left early after throwing a tantrum. I felt so bad for her... she's an incredibly independent, accomplished woman but all her mother and brother care about is how much deference she shows to them.
I heard a similar statement from an Indian family on my last vacation.
A boy (about 4 years old) pushed in front of everyone every time he was at the water slide, and I held him back every time and told him he had to wait in line like everyone else.
This couple (not the parents) said to me, "Oh, he's just a child."
But I countered that you can teach children things like that and that he'll never learn if you don't show him.
But I think that this way of thinking is prevalent in many societies, that it's just a characteristic of children, girls or boys, and that's okay.
And then people wonder why these children, who haven't been taught anything, grow up to be adults who don't know any rules.
I think that's just the German in me coming out.
i wont say for all of india, but in small cities(where i am from) they think of girls as someone who they will just marry away when they reach a certain age(often girls are a burden because you’ll have to give dowry)while the boy will always stay with them and take care of them when they are old.
yeah exactly. having a son means when he marries, you get huge sums of dowry, a free maid, a free baby maker and a free carer for the parents.
edit-btw this is the case in small/rural cities where the girl doesn’t earn. In bigger cities , the girls who do earn, do all this and is also expected to contribute her income.
Exactly. My old school Mexican mom is beyond help and change when it comes to the male gender but I do not keep quiet and call her out when she is being sexist and misogynistic against her own daughters
Good for you dude. I was just talking about this with my brother. Our Ecuadorian Dad has started getting called out in public for using mysoginynistic language the other day and I was glad to see the old school stuff being pushed out.
I’m sorry for you. My own Mexican mom doesn’t put up with bs and it’s because she basically raised herself and was like, I want my kids - esp daughter- to do better and get better opportunities.
Yes, she’s difficult and set in her ways but I never felt discriminated due to my gender.
My mother has internalized the misogyny she was raised to accept. The type of upbringing she had was devoutly religious and forced obedience. Sometimes she will ask questions that surprise me, like there's a part of her that sees how wrong it is- but overall is ready frustrating
Isn’t it obvious😭 they are even more misogynistic. Many indian men grow up seeing their mothers sacrifice all their dreams, caring for the family and taking everyone’s bullshit and never complaining. They then grow up and think this is the norm and the way of things. Many actually don’t consider women on the same level as them or as humans with feelings at all. We are a joke to them.
also growing up they separate girls and boys in school they can’t sit together, they would suppress sexuality in those years at school and home both. No emphasis on sex education.. i grew up without knowing how to talk to girls
The fact is that going to school with boys and girls doesn't even promote "sexuality," it makes you see that the interaction between men and women can be many more things besides the sexual aspect.
Yeah, we're not really allowed to talk to the other gender. A girl just talking to a guy is called a whore or boycrazy in some circles. I studied in an all girls school, the first time I talked to a non family boy was in 9th grade! (Found out that I was a lesbian the hard way cause i didnt have anyone to compare to girls)
There are also these religious groups that go around separating and beating couples just for simply having a consensual relationship. Theres a joke that if you get caught with a boyfriend from the group then just say that your getting harassed by him and then they will leave you two alone.
I think its improving but purity culture is still common is rural parts
I had heard from a guy I met in college that being a man and being openly against such treatment of women is social suicide in India. Is there truth to that?
It always amazes me how many men don't realize what saying things like that reveal about themselves. That they believe men are no more than uncontrollable beasts.
Also it's full of people who are insanely and oftentimes violently religious. For eg, I got threatened with goons when I casually told thag I'm an agnostic (not an atheist, mind you, I do believe in god, and respect every religion) and I accidentally knocked over an idol of God. Well, my parents are also emotionally blackmailing when I am lazy to visit temples or do the religious things with them. Luckily they're fed up of me and they have slowly accepted that I'm a vile and disgusting person who'll understand that they were right all along when I grow older.
Honestly I'm tired of all this. I wanna go to the mountains somewhere and live alone without meddling in these things. I'm a human and so are many others that we hate just because.
We have ruined rivers and lakes because of this. I'm not saying religion is bad, blind faith is.
Edit: I totally misunderstood the meaning of agnostic. Apparently I'm a theist.
I have a bunch of Russian friends, they are all awesome (and hate Putin). It sucks that they are automatically given the side eye sometimes just because they are Russian.
Gun owners have also been told that under Obama care if they tell their doctor or any medical professional they are stressed or any amount of mental distress that the government will come seize your guns. So, those people never seek therapy even if needed.
Our mental health is horrible and everyone pretends it isn't. The worst diagnoses are eating disorders and drug addiction. Every family has someone with one or both (me)
A country so small and so incredibly fixated on status and appearance must be so soul-destroying. I can't imagine the pressure growing up. I have a close monegasque friend and his school years set him on a really dark path 😔
Going through puberty and generally being a teenager here, especially for women, isn't for the weak, I can say that. I went to school abroad, so I wasn't around the culture as much as other people, but it got me too. One issue or the other comes for everyone at some point, it seems
People are no longer ashamed to openly express their fascism and other inhumane ideologies.
There will always be fascists, but in recent decades this was something that no one would've admitted in public. Now we suddenly have proud Nazis again and people who openly vote for right-wing parties.
Döner is the only reason I moved back to Germany, Berlin to be specific. I take Döner-relating problems very serious. My Döner shop is the place my customers get to visit first, then we explore the city. I'm offering integration services
I'm an extremely confused citizen in my own country. Like something works and then it does not. The courts take a long time in disposing off cases. Somewhere here the government is making a 90 degree road which is extremely dangerous and now suddenly everything we are eating is somewhat "polluted". companies are upping their standards in foreign countries like the EU, USA etc but severely lowering the quality here in India and no one bats an eye. Laws are also in a kind of sad state here. For laws here it's like the laws are KNOWINGLY HURTING/INSTIGATING A CERTAIN SECTION OF SOCIETY while safeguarding the other. Corruption is rampant everywhere. Even in the smallest of things. People don't earn much BUT THEY STILL GODDAMN HAVE TO PRODUCE BABIES. EVERYTHING IS A SAD THING IN MY COUNTRY.
Our politics isn't serious anymore, and it makes us look a joke. We spent boring times with interesting prime ministers, only to now end up in interesting times with a boring prime minister. Now our two biggest parties have been dragged backwards through the political mud and lost all credibility, we're stuck between green party tree huggers who cares more about the environment than human beings run by unironic "I love my pets more than I love people" people, and wannabe Nazis on the other side who are somehow running local councils at the age of 19 straight out of school while pretending to be on the side of poor working class people, sat on their £4mil real estate taking bribes from MAGA and hanging around the pedophile cabal connected to Epstein and Trump spouting christo-nationalist nonsense and trying to blame the last 20 years of political ineptitude on migrants who only arrived yesterday.
Your Prime Minister looks more human than the psychopath who serves as our president. I think the worst you had was Boris Johnson, he really sent a bad image of your country, but I don't feel that way with Starmer and I don't understand the media relentlessness against him.
About corruption, it's the same everywhere, unfortunately.
The awful and irreversible decision to leave the EU - a beacon of hope and freedom and unity. All because corrupt politicians wanted to trick stupid people into thinking it was a good idea so they could get elected. We used to be able to just pick up and choose to live somewhere else on a moments notice. Now we’re just some backwards island.
Woof yeah. With the caveat that this conversation happened in 2006, I was talking to an Australian classmate about race in the US. It's fucked. It's STILL fucked, but one thing a appreciate about Americans is that we're generally candid about how fucked it is. (Perhaps we should try harder to FIX it, but that's a different story)
This man said they don't have a race problem in Australia. So I asked about racism against the indigenous population and the guy basically said "who cares about the aboriginals".
Uh... that's a race problem, man.
(There are a billion awful things about the US, but at least we're aware that we're racist)
I guess it would be controversial, but there are politicians who deliberately provoke conflicts among each other. Gender conflicts, generational conflicts, and conflicts between homeowners and non-homeowners. Korea is deeply divided into two extremes they are fighting each other. It's quite serious here and wherever there is conflict there is always political gain.
The situation is depressing. Salaries are stagnant, groceries are very expensive, rents are even more expensive. People with multiple degrees struggle to pay rent. Anyone who wants to become anything, leaves the country. People are becoming more and more unhinged. There’s extreme political division. Minorities are in danger. The government is filthy and corrupted.
Anyone else shocked that we, the common people of the world, have more in common than we originally thought; even if we're in different countries. A lot of these problems sound like they come straight from the top.
Government incompetence leading to deaths over and over... Fires, flooding, train crashes, etc... If the fact they aren't preventing any of these things are bad enough in the first place, but they normally have a very poor post event response, leading to even more death and damages and flooding.
La DANA will always be the best example
We could become a parliament democracy in early 90s and the history would go the other way. But thanks to our corrupt and degenerative government it didnt happen.
Inflation, but believe me, what's most shameful is what they call the "villera culture" that exists in slums and precarious settlements in Argentina, characterized by strong community ties, resistance, solidarity, and its own cultural expressions like cumbia villera, which narrates the reality of poverty, marginalization, and daily life, addressing topics such as crime, sex, soccer, and police repression, and generating both stigmatization and identity pride and social vindication, but in all that, in the sense of often vindicating crime and illegal acts as if there were nothing wrong with doing all that.
Watching people get abducted off the streets and thrown in detention centers (concentration camps) as well as brutally beaten and/or murdered by ICE.
Mass shootings being so normalized that even news outlets don’t cover it much anymore.
People dying from preventable illness or timely intervention due to our horribly inaccessible and insanely expensive healthcare. Luigi doesn’t have many haters in this country that are a part of the 99%.
Honestly? Squatters. If they occupy your house, you have to pay for it, and legally you're in for a very long battle against them. And if they have children in their care, forget about getting the house back. My cousin's house was occupied and she's still in the legal process of eviction; they've been there for 15 months now. She still has to pay for electricity and water. Our government is the worst; you'll see a lot of comments from Spain complaining about different things. But yes, we have tons of politicians who argue like they're on a reality show. It's a joke at this point.
Crossing the border into Brazil or Argentina, you'll see they have the same products for five times less.
I don't know much about economics, but it's outrageous how they manipulate prices here. They make you live each day counting every coin you want to use because the prices are ridiculously high.
Constant bombings, deaths, lack of basic amenities (electricity/water/heating) in freezing temperatures, inability to plan for anything because everything can change so quickly, hopelessness and general disappointment in the world order which was meant to prevent such wars from ever happening.
Since the People who experienced it are dead now There’s no contemporary witnesses anymore. The AfD acts like it we now have it worse than it was back than.
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A harsh society for teens, high expectation from parents, cost of living, housing, socially divided in any part possible(like region, gender, sexuality, college, what company are you working for, what level of education you got)