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I am from Bulgaria. Every country has its flaws. If this article was about Bulgaria. I myself would feel a bit hurt. I would immediately try to lesson the blow
by ChrisNorstrom 14y ago
I am from Bulgaria. Every country has its flaws. If this article was about Bulgaria. I myself would feel a bit hurt. I would immediately try to lesson the blow of some of the arguments and accusations.
And just for the record, I'm being brutally honest about my own home country. India with all its problems has much more of a future than Bulgaria does. Bulgaria's population is shrinking, business is shrinking, villages are shrinking. Every 5 years we go back and see how things have shrunk, life is a bit harder, and corruption shows it's head in more places. Each year Bulgarian businesses have less potential customers. At least in India everything is growing, things are incrementally getting better.
My whole argument is that the author writing posts like this is not going to change anything or do anything productive or constructive. It's just going to hurt feelings without creating action. It's a useless article for Indians because it's not encouraging, has no call to action, and just plain hurts. In fact reading his article just makes me want to stay away from India. Honestly, India was one of the places I wanted to visit in the next 10 years. After reading that and mentally combining it with all the other "I went to India and was shocked and disappointed" articles it makes me want to avoid the country altogether for the next 30 years.
Everyone's country has shit. But if you're going to talk about the shit in Country_X. Equally talk about the flowers too. Otherwise the people living in that shit have their motivation and drive to make it better taken away. And others are given an overly negative view of Country_X.