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[darko100]

hatebreed, on 11 November 2004 - 05:26 PM, said:

Good: Nice country, beautiful nature, great history, honest people...and this is too much..

Bad: economy, political trouble, recent wars, they dont want us in EU, problems with Haag and Kosovo, coruption, slow internet connection, everything is warez, nothing original, ... ya want more?

I live in Macedonia , i also think the same about the good and the bad... But i rate it 6/10

[magnafrost]

DodgyPhil, on 19 January 2010 - 12:45 AM, said:

I still can't believe that homosexuality is outlawed though.. My family has tonnes of Indian connections (my great grandfather was stationed in India in the late 1800s) and subsequently I have a dozen Indian cousins and two aunts who live there. One of my cousins is a self-professed homosexual who moved away from his area because of threats from the law and general scorn by the community; regardless of the fact that he loved his country.
I just find it odd that such a steadily developing country that has universities and technology better than the west still holds onto quite a backward tradition. That's the only qualm I have with India's claim to 'freedom'.

Homosexuality WAS illegal. Thats actually not the case any more. It is still held with a little scorn in society though.

Oh and on topic. I'm from India and I'd give it a 8/10.

Pros: Everything you can think of like freedom.

Cons: Horribly pretentious and hypocritical politicians who couldn't be more selfish and make life just so unfair (Fake votes, reservation, corruption.. Yuck!)

[DodgyPhil]

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- Those that live in India, parkistan, Mexico, Phillipines, China, Poland, Ukraine, and so on give ratings over a wide range, pretty much between 0/10 and 10/10. In other words, they have very different opinions.

You're right; I think a lot of it comes down to national pride. Here in the west the prevalence of national pride is decreasing, mostly due to our obsession with 'roots' (for example, Irish Americans who celebrate St. Patricks day like no tomorrow but wouldn't be able to point out Ireland on a map) and the fact our governments are eager to promote multi-culturalism (unlike multi-racialism, which I think is great, multi-culturalism always makes national pride a taboo and stops immigrants from integrating into society). A lot of us also don't realize how lucky we are. So many teenagers think the grass is greener on the other side (while messing around with their iPads on the way to their private schools). I am a wealthy English teenager but I realize what I have and thank my parents every day, even the government. I don't laugh at my country's history because I realize how crucial it was for our development. I read about British philanthropists from the 1800s and think, dang, we've always had a good streak and now that we do have widespread racial tolerance and a much smaller gap between the rich and the poor, we complain. People from less economically developed countries don't have the same stigmas. They may come from low income neighbourhoods and suffer from horrendous crimes (from gangsters and police) yet they're proud of their country because that's where they were born and it's never going to change. It's why you'll always here chants of "pakistan zindabad!!" during political unrest in Pakistan, but when it starts raining in Britain people start saying "I want to get off this island as soon as possible".

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Homosexuality WAS illegal. Thats actually not the case any more. It is still held with a little scorn in society though.

Ah, soz. My bad. Also the fact that the original ban on homosexuality was put in place by us British.

[anwiii]

the op said to rate a country and he named and rated north america. so much for this turning out to be an intellignt thread...

magna- i think many people will disagree with you on india being a freedom country. i can argue that all day long

dodgy- i love st. patricks day. i also like me irish whiskey. i have less than a quarter irish in me, but i think i relate more to them than other nationalities.

i live in the u.s., specifically missouri but was raised in california. i the only way i can rate is if i am allowed to rate two things....

1: i rate the u.s. a 10/10 if i have to compare it to any other country

2: i rate it about a 7/10 on it's own with no comparisons. the place still sucks in many ways but there are also benefits and privlidges here that you can't get anywhere else in the world

in my opinion, everything started going downhill after the 15th amendment of the u.s. constitution and our bill of rights aren't what they used to be. you also hardly EVER hear someone refer to themselves as a sovereign anymore. it's because the government has created way too many "laws" to regulate it's "citizens"

[iAssistant]

I live in the Philippines and when it comes to beauty of the nature. I can rate it 9.5/10

[ritu]

I live in India and I would give it a 6/10, I really love my country but I know that there are many issues to be dealt with as in infrastructure, social customs and politics of course!