With the help of the internet, we can learn a lot about the world without ever leaving home. The trouble is, not everything online is true. And when so much information gets repeated often enough, it becomes easy to believe things that are completely wrong.
That’s exactly why Reddit users from around the globe took it upon themselves to debunk some of the most common myths people still hold about their countries. From Australia to Albania and beyond, scroll down to see what they had to say. It’s quite the eye-opener.
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Look up the current Yuki Adachi situation if you truly think Japan is this wonderful, happy country. The outside world usually only sees what they want foreigners to see.
I read that embassies of Slovenia and Slovakia are regularly exchanging mail delivered by mistake to other one. Not sure in which country, or even countries.
I actually see very few obese people around where I live. I hate guns and think people who drive trucks for some sort of ego boost instead of because they need them are jerks.
well, to be honest, they think they talk portuguese, just like quebec people think they talk french. Je sais de quoi je parle, je suis français d'origine portugaise.
I think most of us are pretty indifferent to them. I also think that whenever there's talk of scrapping the Monarchy, a lot of us look at what's going on elsewhere in the world and think, do we REALLY want a President?
I've lived in Australia all my life and have never been the slightest bit afraid of our wildlife. I do however think it would be scary to go walking in a forest where there might be a leopard or bear!
I've lived there for 5 years and the only thing keeping me from officially moving there, was the bureaucracy. But now bureaucracy in my own country is so bad, that everything grinds to a halt here, that I'm actually reconsidering. I know the peculiarities of Italian bureaucracy, and prefer that over my own country's.
Maybe they think the people are running to get away from the wild animals.
There is a nasty element of racism and right-wing values in Australia. Anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists and Trump admirers are making things worse. We could well end up like the US if we're not careful
We germans joke that Bavaria is infact a foreign nation accidentally being part of Germany
So do you ride the camels to Pizza Hut, or is that just for delivery?
f**k off ya Vichy Scot. Darien was set up to fail, ppl were told to not do trade with us or suffer. as for the ppl carrying out atrocities, they were brtiscots. as for NI, Aye, they used sectarianism to divide ppl further. the occupied six counties should be returned to Ireland. the offspring of the invaders can go to London.
So what are you guys doing during the "siesta" shop closings between 2 and 5PM?
Studies in the 80's demonstrated that no economy can function without an organized underworld. Mafia will always remain.
Hungary had it bad during Covid. Worst country in the world for Covid deaths on three separate occasions.
they don't have hijabs YET. And we won't talk about slavery
But as I understand, lots of corruption and too many tourists have perished under mysterious conditions?
If UNICEF for example is to be believed, the current crisis comes with about 20 million people who suffer from starvation, mostly children. Do we better believe "Anonymous", a single "African from Sudan"?
