Been seeing a lot about how the government passes shitty laws, lot of mass shootings and expensive asf health care. I come from a developing nation and we were always told how America is great and whatnot. Are all states is America bad ?

  • partyparrot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The highlights you chose struck me as strange. America is a pretty big place, in different cities/states I’ve seen those things be true. I’ve also seen many examples of quite the opposite.

    Tap water quality varies widely, with many places effectively falsely reporting on water quality.

    Bathroom availability varies widely also. You mentioned Starbucks. About half the Starbucks I’ve been to have rules about purchases being required, with most of those it.

    Racism and I’ll expand to bigotry, is an interesting choice… We don’t have a caste society officially in place, but I don’t see how you could make that claim. Racism and bigotry are alive and well in America. There are wide political differences which people rarely engage across the gap on. It’s not a secret our more right leaning party has a racism problem and actively is attempting to dismantle rights for those individuals. Many places are friendly and welcoming, but there are plenty of heavily populated cities in which black or “asian” as example will greatly increase your chances of being abused by police and individuals.

    There are many great places in America and many things we can take pride in, but your response seems specific to areas of America, very much not the whole.