Stupid quiz for ya now

[ddstory]

See, I'm kinda dumb*, so this was the smartest thing I could come up with to-evening. You're welcome to laugh at me.

It's the old worn-out quiz: "Which are the 3 top... X".

So my question to you is this. Which are the 3 things you love the most about your respective society, and which are the 3 things you hate the most?

I'll ask those who choose to

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[nairiporter]

I like the purpose of this post.

South Africa.

+ Diversity (still not entirely united in diversity as the slogan says, but we're on the way to there).
+ Ubuntu. I'm a human being through other human beings. It's not just a catchy phrase. Most people put that in practice.
+ Cheerfullness. Even in the direst of predicaments. And we have many of those here.
- We could do a lot better on the issue of tolerance of outsiders.
- Some traditions, while being long-lasting and respected, are outright backward and need to be either adjusted or abandoned. Including the attitude to women in the rural areas and the superstition of common folk lore.
- Ineffective in addressing social and health issues. We have the resources to do it, for god's sake! Just some more brains please.

I could go on but you said 3+3.

[ddstory]

We could do a lot better

The choice of words is telling of this optimistic approach to life that I've seen in South Africans. You didn't say "This sucks" or anything like that. :)

[udoswald]

Country: United States

[ddstory]

While most of these (-)'s are really common for a large array of societies, the very last one really boggles the mind.

[lyssna]

Sweden

I love:
1. We are a quiet country. The people are quiet and the nature is quiet. There is something very unassuming about Swedish nature that is just amazing -- it's not spectacular like the Norwegian fjords, but it's still beautiful, just in another way. You're meant to be in it rather than just look at it, you're meant to feel it

[sealwhiskers]

Good points, all of them!

[anfalicious]

On you -2, do you have local content laws? Our TV stations have to make and play a certain quota of Australian shows (although this got a bit trashed with the US free trade agreement). It's the main reason we have a local TV industry; although at the question for doing things as cheap as possible it means lots of local reality TV. But that's a global trend, without local content laws we would have had a lot more American Idol and a lot less Australian Idol.

[lyssna]

I'm honestly not sure, but I've heard that more than 50% of everything on Swedish TV is imported, or something like that. I think we were even criticized by the EU for not having enough Swedish-language television.

[luvdovz]

Well, others have already said everything that could be said about both my native country (Iceland) and my country of residence (Sweden), so I'm just going to commend this post for the wonderful insights it has garnered.

[sealwhiskers]

Agreed, very interesting post!

[blue_mangos]

Country: Canada

[sealwhiskers]

It's interesting, because in international travel, Canadians are very high on my personal list of people who are the most polite and pleasant to talk to in general. I've met one horrible Canadian in my day, and that's pretty good statistics, since I meet a lot of people.

[anfalicious]

Yep, canucks are way up on my list of international favourites, along with Scandinavians and Latin Americans. Sometimes the French are nice, but they are also often spectacular douchebags (I know the same goes for Australians; meet one of us at a time and we're awesome, as a group we can be very boorish).

[geezer_also]

I haven't been a lot of places, Denmark, Israel, and Vietnam, I know scores (if not hundreds) of Canadians and Brits, and the one thing I have found is most places (including our wildly divergent states) the vast majority of people everywhere react and interact based on Me/You and I would imagine you like I find people polite and pleasant everywhere.....but Canadians really are special :D