teeigeryuh Master Cheater
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:12 am Post subject: This is so fucking funny |
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https://encyclopediadramatica.se/First_World_Problems
The third world is hella violent
Not true, and this is based on a lack of cultural understanding. Although rape and civil war are terrible things in the west, in Africa and the Middle East it's been a consistent part of their culture since time immemorial. The biggest mistake the western colonial powers made was in trying to suppress these natural needs for strife and sexual assault. Anyone who has seen Spanish or Italian women in conversation could be mistaken for thinking that they're arguing and on the verge of violence when in reality they're simply passionate and using languages far more emotive than English can be. The same is true of Africans who run around shooting anything the can't rape, and in cases of things that can be raped, they'll be shot anyway before or after being raped.
The Middle East is generally perceived as being a violent shit hole, populated almost entirely by suicidal nut jobs, fighting because they can't decide who is correctly interpreting the wishes of their invisible friend? Again, this is untrue. The Middle East is a vibrant and exotic part of the world, blessed with not one but three major religions
The third world is poor
A quick review of the CIA Fact Book reveals the cost of living in third world countries to be far lower than in the west. A miner in the congo can live on a salary of less than five dollars per day - just try doing that in Dayton, Ohio. The average American has little to no savings and a shit load of debt. Contrast this with Zimbabweans, where their government in 2009 had to print 1 trillion Zimbabwean Dollar banknotes because people had so much money! Think you're doing well pulling down 50k in the IT industry? Some grilled lizard seller by a roadside in Zimbabwe has a stack of those trillion Zimbabwean Dollar notes in his back pocket, and your net worth is south of 0.
Government and medical care are disorganised and of poor quality
A quick review of the CIA Fact Book reveals the cost of living in third world countries to be far lower than in the west. A miner in the congo can live on a salary of less than five dollars per day - just try doing that in Dayton, Ohio. The average American has little to no savings and a shit load of debt. Contrast this with Zimbabweans, where their government in 2009 had to print 1 trillion Zimbabwean Dollar banknotes because people had so much money! Think you're doing well pulling down 50k in the IT industry? Some grilled lizard seller by a roadside in Zimbabwe has a stack of those trillion Zimbabwean Dollar notes in his back pocket, and your net worth is south of 0.
Government and medical care are disorganised and of poor quality
Obama's efforts to roll-out universal healthcare pale in comparison to the work of Gambia's president (for life), Yahya Jammeh, who in 2007 announced that he'd personally discovered the cure to AIDS. Even in 2012 AIDS sufferers in America still don't have access to a cure, and this person with a high concentration of pigment in his skin's running around curing it with a bunch of herbs! As well as AIDS, Jammeh's herbs can also cure asthma - a chronic condition that western medicine can alleviate but not cure. As well as Jammeh's work, other African scientists found that AIDS can be cured through sex with virgins.
African countries enjoy far more political stability than the west. Gambia's Yahya Jammeh is a picture of stability, having been in power since 1994. By contrast, no American president has served more than 8 years in power. This is largely due to western democracies and their distrust of the electorate.
The standard approach to elections in Africa and the Middle East is to assume that voters who got it right first time do not need to be asked again every every few years, particularly when a candidate received upwards of 100% of the popular vote. Zimbabweans elected Adolf Mugabe to be their President For Life, and since 1987 have enjoyed unprecedented freedom from decision making, rude health and financial success. Given such a paradise, is it unreasonable for Mugabe to be passionate when defending his rule?
Religious conflict is rampant
As evidenced by the red states of America, strong religious belief and its involvement in government is always a positive thing. Third world countries are practically infested with strong religious belief, and as to be expected from religions claiming divine wisdom, adherents of differing creeds live in peace and enjoy spirited debate. For an outsider it may appear as if all sides, some of which claiming to belong to the same religion, are engaged in civil war and campaigns of murderous terror. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In the third world, bombings and machete massacres are broadly comparable to the cheerful rancor seen at western sporting events.
Doesn't it hurt to be shot, mutilated or raped? Sure, if you're a westerner raised to feel that way. In the third world people don't feel pain or suffering as we in the west do, because they're stronger. A western woman having her genitals trimmed and sewn shut would suffer greatly, while in Muslim countries this is nothing more than a formality that marks their entry in to womanhood. If it's so bad then why do so many women in these countries support it?
Examples of first world problems
ED captcha offering shitty unreadable words
Steam servers down
White wine served at room temperature
Forgot to record Firefly
Having to vote
Women dressing as they wish and driving cars
Drinking no-name bottled water because San Pellegrino is unavailable
Parents bought you a brand new car - wrong color
Black president
Bronies
Examples of third world problems
Being lectured to and bothered by westerners |
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