Third World Country Problems That People In First World Countries Wouldn't Understand (r/AskReddit)

savage cat hopes you have a nice day people living in third world countries what is something that is a part of your everyday life that people in first world countries would not understand slash cope with i'll start in my country the government switches off all electricity for two to three hours at a time several times a day to reduce load on the power systems as i'm busy typing this i'm sitting by candle light in complete darkness this happens in small cities in india as well but on a scheduled basis it's called rostering i live in pakistan and after i found out that other countries don't have this i started hating pakistan and every time my power goes out i yell this country ducking sucks realizing that my money and any more i could make is worth five times less now welcome to lebanon visited lebanon once friendly people fantastic food it's too bad that politicians screw everything up not just in lebanon but everywhere i get you man inflation in argentina was 42 in july in other countries they don't even know what inflation means new stop printing money argentina haha money printer go brrrr egypt here crossing the street is some kind of a sick sport here i was in egypt while it was under mubarak and i remember trying to contend with traffic in cairo i had to ask the police officer who was standing there if the drivers obey the lights or the road markings he told me that those were there to make the roads look nice i chickened out from crossing the street and tried to find a metro station to cut through even if i had to pay the one pound to enter i studied abroad in cairo and by the third month i was playing frogger on the nile cornish without thinking if my mom saw me cross the street like that she'd have a heart attack here in peru especially if you are not from the capital to get a medical appointment you need to wait three months for surgeries or actual medical treatments it can take over a year so many people i knew got random appointments just in case something happens you'd better suffer the himalayage that day or you have to pray for the eucalyptus tea to actually work thank goodness i was able to move to the capital some years ago what happens to most people in medical emergencies people injured in accidents or who had a heart attack for those cases there is a cost which is huge by law the hospital will accept the patient but after the first date has been given the family has to sign documents where they commit to pay the totality of the cost this is why many people in provinces in peru die young families can't afford to pay medical treatments in lima the capital is different there are enough icu for those cases and costs of public hospitals are lower however you still have to wait two to three months to get appointments that system still works bad in any part of the country having to stand for hours in breadlines then for hours at the petrol lines then for hours at the cooking gas lines then coming back home to find that they shut off the electricity because there's too much load i feel you my fellow sudanese lol or egypt having a shot ton of deterrence mechanisms around your house burglar bars on all the windows trellis doors on your front door and then probably one in the bedroom hallway keeping your door locked if you don't have a fence you're just asking people to break in and murder you south africa broken glass bottle set into the top of the brick slash concrete fence surrounding your home oh shut just like mexico just like brazil or every other sa country some brazilian houses look like fortresses all may especially in the more middle-class neighborhoods i'm canadian and i've visited my south african in-laws twice now one of the biggest culture shocks for me was having to be locked up so tight being able to safely be in an unfenced backyard or take a walk by myself at nearly any time of day is a luxury i no longer take for granted ha for me it was the opposite i'm kenyan and have been living in germany for a number of years now the biggest culture shock i had was the fact that i could be out on the streets past 7 p.m and not worry about my safety and i'm a woman second biggest culture shock was a lack of fencing around homes in germany and third biggest culture shock was how people just obey traffic rules in argenina the price of everything raises almost every day argentinian here you just go to the store expecting everything to be five ten percent more than the last time you went how do you cope with that is it possible to put assets into other currencies or otherwise reduce the currency volatility how do you cope with that you just don't buy stuff you buy food and a few things more for example my family goes to the supermarket and we buy food for the whole month it ends up being cheaper than just buying it over time armed security people go to the bank two guys holding our 15 at the entrance the beer delivery truck guy with a shotgun whenever there's money involved there will be guys holding big guns i've been pointed twice while walking on the wrong side of the street i visited family in el salvador about a decade ago now and it was like this at the time there were guys with guns guarding things i wouldn't see at home in the u.s there was a man with a shotgun guarding a gas station and buffett style restaurant food place this was along the road and not in town i also remember there was a guy who watched all the cars at this big grocery store while people went shopping and my aunt would give him small change as a tip i saw this when i visited guatemala even the lunch meat truck fudd brand had an armed guard i wasn't sure if it was really a lunch meat truck or if somebody had the bright idea to transport cash in truck mark jamin instead of one mark dinero i used to wake up the sounds of heavy artillery now to the sounds of blue jays of toronto can't be more grateful such dramatic turn of events that is quite the turnaround where did you live afghanistan welcome to our country friend make yourself at home because you are stray dogs stray dogs which some of them are hostile are everywhere it is not possible to roam in the streets around sunrise when they walk in groups or during night without risking yourself being attacked by dogs i moved to europe now but i'm still unreasonably nervous around leash dogs that people walking we had a small scare recently with coyotes losing fear of people and everybody here lost their minds when one sadly attacked a child i can't even imagine how most here would cope with that becoming a daily oh yeah no don't bother going out at night you'll be eaten alive by dogs i'm american but have worked in 70 plus countries over the last 12 years so let's discuss nicaragua there are no addresses none trying to get to your hotel you'll get a description of the general location using the rising or setting sun lakeshores and other prominent landmarks which may or may not exist then the distance from that landmark in a unit of measurement that hasn't been used for centuries the vera which is about 2.5 feet it's truly amazing that anyone gets anywhere in nicaragua i'm nicaraguan so when i went to do my masters in the united states i could not understand why the address of the house i was living was so short i asked my roommate hey don't you have to put that we live across from the library and say house is white and in a corner and she was like uh if there are no addresses how do you receive mail and packages or deliveries of any kind mainly we don't packages are either picked up at the office of given and central locations malls gas stations always somewhere public and safe office buildings use career system that are expensive but give you shut where you asked for it and as for personal you usually give the neighborhood barrio name the street where it's located and tell them to call you like we do have a dress but you can't google it there are important places that are marked but in the long run it's more like okay i'm in the entrance go to blocks and on the old bank post to take a left and shut like that one aspect of living in a first world country is that it's normal for things to work in third world countries it's the opposite technology roads institutions there is a tacit assumption that none of these things work the way they are supposed to and that's just the way it is when you live in the third world your roads are full of potholes your lights go out every week if not every day everything is on the fritz and politicians are incredibly corrupt and yes i know that there's corruption in europe and the us as well but it's not like our corruption example in the summer of 2016 i took a trip to germany and i was at the hamburg train station waiting for the 650 train to bremen at 6 45 the train station attendant announced that the 650 train was cancelled but that there was another at 705 and that the train company would be happy to exchange everyone's tickets at no cost there would be at most a half hour delay people were flipping the duck out a girl called her parents in tears a couple threaten to sue or kill or maim the train station attendant my german isn't great and neither is my irate german it was like someone had declared ww3 over a half hour train delay in my country on the other hand there are no half-hour train delays because there are no trains shut i wish we had trains i had been living in morocco and took a trip to germany i was waiting for the train and it was listed as arriving at like 7 23 i thought that was hilarious the idea that it would actually arrive on time to the minute was inconceivable i honestly didn't believe it was possible i was so shocked that the train actually pulled in on time to the second that i took a video of the sign and then the clock and then the train pulling in i showed it to all my friends no one could believe it was real when i studied abroad in germany in college the ice train was late by like five to 10 minutes few were incredibly embarrassed and they gave us all free train ride vouchers lol i now live in japan a while back the bullet train left like 34 seconds early once and it was a massive scandal people were fired vouchers were given the company issued a huge apology i walk with my cell phone hidden in my pants because it's extremely common for you to get robbed i've been through a violent robbery at a dinning and very few people i know haven't been through similar experiences multiple times even i always carry two cell phones with me one is my real cell phone i hide it in my backpack if i don't carry the backpack then in one of my socks lol i carry the other cell phone in my pocket it is useless it broke five years ago and has no repair if someone tried to rob me i would give them the fake cell phone i learned this trick from a friend a gang member tried to rob him he told him to give him his cell phone so he took out his fake cell phone and threw it as far as he could the gang member went after the cell phone and my friend used that moment to run the gang member realized what was happening but it was too late my friend managed to get to a store with security guards where they helped him and called the police for mega internet speed is like the fastest internet connection in venezuela more than enough to play runescape

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Length: 11min 55sec (715 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 18 2020