I don’t see what this comment has to do with the shitpost/video but OK.
Comment on America is fucked
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is the kind of culture you get and deserve when you allow corporations to control your country and culture
frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 days ago
fakir@lemm.ee 3 days ago
It’s not just corporations. It’s the individual over the collective. And that is just the nature of certain societies, specifically more competitive societies. In India for example, the mindset of everyone in traffic is ‘me over others’ - fuck everyone else, i grab what space I can get. If I don’t, the next fucker will. Like if it starts raining, your 1 hour trip is now 3 hours, not 1.5 hours because there will be a jam at every intersection in the city. There are just so many people on the road and infrastructure (and society / government at large) that hasn’t lent itself to cooperation but rather competition. It becomes their mindset, it becomes everyone’s mindset. That is why many from that region turn right politically. I bet it’s the same for many Latin countries.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’m in Portugal, and it’s definitely not.
I mean, people are clearly more selfish behind a wheel than they are in person (a lot of Portuguese “good manners” is really just social shame, which isn’t there when people feel anonymous, so many become a lot less polite when inside a car), but everybody just moves over when an ambulance comes and for example you’re more likely to be given way to turn off the road across the other lane, than not.
You do see some asshole shit (for example, cars trying to scare pedestrians into waiting for the car to pass before entering a zebra crossing), but generally it’s a minority (which the notable exception of people not using direction indicators to help others, only themselves, which is a majority) rather than the majority.
In my experience Spain is pretty similar.
From own experience in Latin America it wasn’t much worse, though it was only in Peru and I wasn’t long in Lima to get a good feeling for their big-city driving.