People have so many reasons to love their homeland, from friends and family living there, to nature, language, food, and so much more. But many would agree that even the most amazing ofcountriesunfortunately have a darker side, too, which can be quite scary.
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USA - I freak out at the thought that a young woman who was sexually assaulted must then (if impregnated) give birth to the child she never wanted because some bastards and their poisoned offspring are “pro-life”.
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Ukraine - Oh god. Missiles and drones that try to kill us every single day. F**k russia.
I am from the United States—I don’t care about people having different political opinions or beliefs but there is a massive issue on people being misinformed and wildly uneducated on certain topics.
Men, religion, politics and pollution.I’m Indian.
United States. Health care is so expensive that people suffer and there issues get far worse. And people die because they can’t afford health care.
USA - American food. There’s literally stuff they put in our food that’s illegal in most countries.
Germany- Rise of support for fascists in politics.
Iraq - Teen marriage and teen moms as a teen.
USA. The sheer amount of mentally ill people wandering the streets. I’m talking the extreme cases. Experiencing psychotic breakdowns in public and being left alone to spiral out of control. Frightening and heartbreaking.
U.S.How everything America has built over the last 100 years about to collapse because of the constant neglect of the government and corporations. And how profits matter more than making sure its citizens have food, water and shelter.
The escalating violence. We have deadly assaults, bombs and assassinations in broad daylight on a monthly basis. Kid soldiers carry out murder and they are like 12 (!).Ultimately I blame a catastrophic immigration policy over a 10-20 years period. There has never been a real plan on how to assimilate foreigners into society, which has lead to greater dived between ethnicity and cultures. That has paved the way for a new generation of kids with no prospects because they receive no support or encouragement at home, because their parents have never been part of the society. This has grown exponentially over the years but no one (or at least far from the majority) has dared to address the problem given the cultural and racial connections.A few years ago something happened. The violence became much more cynical and ruthless. Only when the violence hit middle/upper class neighborhoods, things started to happen politically. In desperation, politicians are now enforcing stricter laws to strike down on criminality, some of which are either totally ineffective or morally questionable, and I feel this will only widen the divide and prolong the problem. You’re not really fixing the real issue, only putting band aid on it. Sad part is, and this goes for all democracies, the ruling politicians are swapped out every 4/8 year, which makes it difficult to work long term.I live in Sweden.
US citizen here, probably the amount of shootings, I don’t mean just school shootings, shootings in general, supermarkets, gyms, parks, hell, your own house, and even if we ban guns, criminals will still have guns because they don’t care about the law at this point.
It will sound bad, but immigration. I don’t want my progressive country (Spain) to become more and more islamic :(.
US: Ignorance. Most are not willing to invest the time to understand, read, gain knowledge on what is happening in our country which leads to poor decisions based on headlines and social media posts.
Lack of affordable housing.swiftpanthera:It scares me how global this issue is.
What’s something in your country that genuinely scares you?I live in the US and this last election cycle genuinely scares me.It’s not specifically that Donald Trump won… But more the apparent apathy from a substantial chunk of the country.Something like 40% of the electorate just didn’t bother to vote.And now, after the election, we’re seeing stories about folks discovering what tariffs are.And I’m just having a hard time wrapping my head around that level of apathy. I mean - I’m a nonbinary queer weirdo so I’ve clearly got issues with the Republican platform - but that’s not even what I’m talking about. Trump is proposing policies that would have a substantial financial impact on most folks in the US… And apparently something like half the population just doesn’t care enough to vote?I don’t like dealing with politics. I don’t find this stuff fun or interesting. I’ve got tons of things I’d rather be doing with my time. But I’m not rich-enough to just throw my money away, so I’m going to take a couple hours to figure out which candidate is actually going to be the best for my finances.And, apparently, something like half this country just doesn’t care.There’s so many big f*****g problems in the world… And this last election cycle is going to be felt around the world for years to come… And folks just don’t care?How do you possibly fix anything if people can’t be bothered to even show up to vote? If they can’t spend an hour or two looking at actual policies and positions? If the best we can possibly hope for is that maybe folks will just vote for their team? If even something as real and immediate as your own pocketbook isn’t enough to motivate people?
Scotland is boringly safe and unvenomous compared to other countries, but one thing that is happening here that I find massively concerning is the way cash is being phased out. They like to use the “cash isn’t safe because of covid” argument but that’s so obviously not the reason. Maybe I sound like one of those tin foil hat people but I don’t want to find out what kind of shit the government will pull when money only exists digitally and every transaction is monitored.
China - the Uyghur concentration camps. I’m from that area and I couldn’t believe it when the news first came out. As a matter of fact, I didn’t learn about many negative historical events of China until I left, and I can never look at the CCP the same way.
I’m from the Middle East (specifically Syria) so basically it’s “dictatorship”.
American here. The tribalism that comes with our political system is what scares me the most. So many people on both sides don’t see each other as American, it’s all us vs them, and the only discussions we can have are arguments and fistfights.
Indonesia: Religious extremism and increasing taxes.
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Canada;Cost of living,Lack of housing.Chaos_Object:The endless opportunities to become homeless.
Nepal - Corruption is something that has killed my country over the years.
Norway - S*icide season is coming up :/.As have been stated already Seasonal depression is pretty real when the sun disappears from your life (even when the sun is out, it’s very weak and the vitamins you might catch from it in summer is literally just gone). Add the “most wonderful time of the year” over commercializing, and everyone seeing their family and loved ones will put a massive looking glass on your possible lack of loved ones and the fact this time don’t feel too wonderful for everyone. “everyone else is happy, but I’m not” but supercharged.I first started noticing the trend in 2017 when 4 people I knew personally left in the span of 3 months. It was even mentioned in the Kings speech the year after
UK - Lack of housing. I worry for the next 2 generations.
Rapid population growth from immigration paired with the lack of housing available in liveable areas 🇨🇦.
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Venezuela - authoritarianism in the new country im living at, I don’t want to go through the same things.
India - Our education system.
Religion, difficulty with accessing to services providing abortion, how much rent has become expensive aka inaccessible to many, cost of life compared to salary..(I live in Italy)
Brazilian [justice system] is the worst, the most expensive in the world, 1,6% of the GDP, 84% of which goes to salaries and retirements. Judges gain an absurd the normal way and technicalities. The kind of thing one justified the high extras (not even salary) because he needs to buy 500 dollar suits (3000 reais).
Canada here. And it’s moose.Sounds stupid, but hear me out. In rural areas, moose often cross roads/highways between towns. The number of times I’ve seen and heard of people hitting them unexpectedly is insanely high and the outcome is always a coin toss.It’s a terrifying experience.
UK - The absolute idiots running this country and that they are letting convicted p*dophiles go free while they send police to investigate children for saying something hurtful to someone else in their class.
Russian here… HmmmmmmLet me ttttthhhhink…Bears. Bears are scary.
The anti trans propaganda used in the latest election in the US.They’re really focusing on us in really scary ways.I wish they would go back to largely ignoring us.
USA - Certain snakes and spiders.
UK - Stray dogs. Literally wild animals running the streets and killing people and nothing gets done at all. Terrified of my kids playing in the street.
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