• Astroturfed@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    Huh? Americans are like the most willing to admit their country is shit of like anywhere of the Lemmy audience… America fucking sucks, sign American. I had some dude from Pakistan super mad at me for saying women are second class citizens there the other day. Apparently they treat women super well, according to that angry guy anyway. I’m still pretty sure they don’t.

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      As always, these things can’t be generalised. Every country has people that talk about their own problems, and every country has “patriots” that will deny anything is happening. There are just a lot of Americans on the internet, so people notice those who relentlessly praise America more.

      After all, few countries literally ingrain “[country] exceptionalism” into their population in their school system. Many Americans, while thinking they are pointing out problems, still say “but it’s still better than almost any other country at X”.

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      Instead of “thinking something is true about an other country” why don’t you research the topic? Laws are easy to find.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_related_laws_in_Pakistan

      While yes, there were some Sharia laws back in the 1980’s, many recent laws in the last 20 years have been giving more rights to women.

      And that is the problem with many of you Americans, you read something online once about an other country or hear it on one of your news stations, and you instantly believe it without ever checking if it is factual or not.

      The same type of people exist in other countries of course, but the blatant ignorance of Americans about other countries is staggering.

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        XD ah yes, legally it’s the same, so that’s how it shakes out on the ground for sure!