Hey Pandas, What Is A Not So Fun Fact About Your Country?

US, the health care system SUCKS!

Donald Trump was president. Enough said.🙁

Canada. The Indigenous were stripped of their land, given reserves to live on (some of which still don't have clean, drinking water, let alone proper plumbing). In the '60s to '90s, their children were needlessly ripped from their families and placed in horrifically abusive "Indian Residential Schools" run by the Catholic church. Many children died and were buried in unmarked graves.

Our Indigenous are still treated as second class citizens and the past atrocities are still being downplayed by ignorant and arrogant politicians. Check out Ex Manitoba Premier, Brian Pallister's embarrassing speech, and a recently sworn in Indigenous Minister's embarrassment on his first day.

United States. The number of school shootings, the way "corporate slaves" are raised up as the model all employees should strive to be, the obsession with brands (I'm not talking Gucci, I'm talking Starbucks, Target, Apple - yup, calling you out), the pressure to be an extrovert especially in the workplace, low wages, horrific "health care" (if it can even be called that), stubborn adherence to political parties even in the face of major issues with said party, ridiculous obsession with college sports, equally ridiculous obsession with American football (both of which actually and literally cause rifts in some families - yes, it's absurd), blind patriotism (it's not bad to want to protect your country, don't get me wrong - I'm talking about the people who immediately jump to the idea that we are the "greatest nation" and the world should be grateful we exist), terrible education systems (yes, I know, we have Harvard and Yale. We're also 38/71 in math and 24/71 in science (in an assessment from 2015). I won't even get into other fields, it's too embarrassing.), social injustice among both racial and gender lines, police brutality, no social safety nets, homelessness, terrible real estate market, most of the things we "make" actually are outsourced to workers in other countries so we can pay the workers less, most of what we "recycle" is actually sent to other countries (usually, China) to be dumped in landfills, pollution, the wealthy 1% (Bezos, Musk, etc.), working 40+ hours a week and still not being able to make ends meet, I mean I could go on, but you get the point...

UK here. Our colonial history is shocking, marched into any country we wanted and claimed it as our own whilst robbing the natives of their natural resources.

Russia. ‘Nuff said

From India:People are killed in the name of religion.Muslims have been killed for carrying beef

As I'm from Germany and everyone knows Germamy's past... Well, everyone knows the answer already. Right?

I'm from the U.S., we slaughtered almost all the natives back when America was just the settlers

Parents from Iran. Biggest problem is probably the fact that women don't have any rights, and our government is pretty broken. Air quality is also pretty bad. I went to Iran to visit my relatives for a month, and didn't see a single electric car :( I am still proud of Iran's culture, though...

united states. using an ambulance is an extra $3000

From the us an ambulance can cost thousands that your insurance can deny if you have it. That’s why we take Ubers to the er. Also leading cause of bankruptcy is medical debt. You can have insurance and pay 10s of thousands for hospital care

Canada. Church-run residential schools.

I'm German. Germany is Europe's centre of human trafficking.

That I live in an Australian state (Tasmania) that in the 1820's and 1830's actively worked to exterminate its Aboriginal population. They nearly succeeded.

Italy often is included on lists of countries that provide free universal health care. The health care in Italy is not free, not universal, and sometimes is of such low quality that it isn't even health care.
Italy is included on lists of countries where a university education is free. University isn't free in Italy. If you abandon your university studies, and want to go back years later, you have to pay all the taxes and fees you would have had to pay if you had been attending all those years, meaning you are paying thousands of euros for which you get absolutely nothing.
Also in Italy, public elementary schools and public high schools do not lend the students textbooks. The parent have to buy all their children's expensive text books in book stores.

UK. Drinking culture here is absolutely horrendous and you're actively encouraged to spend all of your time/money blacking out every weekend because it's how we cope with adult life here.

Finland was an ally of Germany in WWII

South Africa here, our previous president was in jail for a short time but is now out because he has been "sick" for a few months. Also You can't trust our police unless you have some cash to bribe them.

United States. I hate the fact that we are so divided and our politics are insane. I know that "American exceptionalism" has always been an exaggeration, but nonetheless seeing us going so downhill when I grew up in the post WW2 afterglow has been a big shock and disappointment to me.