I wonder how it would look like if say, Iraq and Syria were on that list

Rare outcome, most friend groups would be like "nah dude you're the worst get lost" and then you'd all laugh and chug another beer or whatever it is neurotypical people do when they hang out

Luna oi! (Vietnamese youtuber) did a video on a ""statistic"" by the Pew Research Center saying something like "95% of Vietnamese like capitalism!"

obviously misinformation, but she went ahead and translated the original Vietnamese question in English as something like "do you think the Doi Moi reforms were beneficial to Vietnam?". which like jfc of course they were lol

The sub is the equivalent of a child hiding under a blanket so the monster doesn't get you.

Except the monsters are real and aren't deterred by blankets, it just hasn't reached you yet.

The sub name itself is pathetic. It's pathetic enough being a r*dditor. But it's extra pathetic to join a sub called "Optimists unite!" as if you're part of some superhero team. I can only assume their sole form of media consumption is Marvel movies and Marvel mobile games.

Don't know about other South American countries, but Colombia (and Colombians) has always been very eager to lick the boot of the US. It's no surprise it's one of the only countries in the continent to never have had an openly left wing president or policies until Petro in 2020. Hating the US is something mostly leftists do, and because of the civil war, being a full-on leftist is a bad look for most Colombians.

There's a Colombian comedian who says that Colombians hate being Colombian, and always aspire to be of some other nationality, but it varies which one by class: High-class Colombians aspire to be and act like they're European, Middle class Colombians aspire to be American, and very poor Colombians aspire to be Mexican. It feels really true that a lot of people fall into the trap of wanting shit just because it's from the US, and thinking anything that's not popular there is therefore bad, like cars or phones.

Aussies are mad that Americans are more racist than they are.

If they hate the americans so much then they shouldn't have outsourced their foreign policy to them

Nah there's a lot of hatred for the US in all the other anglophone nations.

We generally don't like Americans as a group, but will bend over backwards to say how our individual yankee mate from uni is actually a decent person if you get used to them. It's more from a sense of cultural inadequacy than actually having any cogent objections to the American empire (for the average person it's posited that America may be a big bully but they're our big bully against the inscrutable *rientals)

A lot of Australians "patriots" oppose the yankification of Australia

I'm sad about that tbh, Poland has so much potential, it's produced some of my favourite artistic expressions in the form of music through bands like Riverside or Coma. I hope things will eventually change

What's surprising? Poland's national and foundational myths since 1990 are basically "le ontologically evil Ruzzians have oppressed my poor nation for all of human history and they're worse than the Nazis, thank god (literally) that we saved ourselves from thay by joining the liberal west".

i mean they did very recently consider switching to the US dollar, which means at least at a government standpoint, they trust the US economy over their own at that moment. They used to hate the US in the early 2000's but its more 50/50 i think nowadays.