Which Balkan country in your opinion, has the worst reputation abroad?

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Klarkinsov@reddit

Serbia, Albania and Bosnia. I don't think that any Balkan country truly has a good reputation but those three (Serbia especially) take the crown.

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Happy-Hour88@reddit

I think Western Europeans hate us Bulgarians than they hate you.

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

We love Serbia tbh. Might be just us though, lmao

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Klarkinsov@reddit

I think it's probably Greece and Romania that actually love/like us and we genuinely love y'all back lol

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I agree and my perception of Serbs has improved lately after I starting buying stolen bicycles from a Serbian dude in Germany (great guy btw) . I then ship them to Kosovo and sell them at a profit. Sounds like a made up story right? Its not 😂

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Che_Varack@reddit

This is the most Balkan thing I've read in a while!

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Hrvaturk@reddit

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Klarkinsov@reddit

Balkan unity. Fucking up Germans, profiting off them and collaborating together is how it should be 👌🏻😍

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agn0st0sthe0s@reddit

UVEK PRVI 💯💯💯👑👑👑

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Klarkinsov@reddit

NISU NAM NI DO KOLENA 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🎉🎉🎉

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cosmic_joke420@reddit

Sa njih čupamo preije, leti im perike nebu pod oblake💪💪💪🦅🦅🦅

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True-Blacksmith4235@reddit

🥇🥇🥇

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agn0st0sthe0s@reddit

MOGU SAMO DA NAS MRZE ONI ŠTO NAS NE VOLE 🕊️🕊️🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️

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Ok-Goal-3696@reddit

how do they measure this exactly?

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

"We asked citizens across the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K., and the U.S.) to rate other nations on reputational factors such as trust, admiration, respect, and overall image".

(on their page).

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This_Lion5856@reddit

I am 100% sure those are done by these online surveys that people are spamming for $0.20 per piece

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IllNefariousness3822@reddit

More like they’re done for free in ChatGPT, complete with graphs.

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

this thread is evidence, that some Balkans people, still, "have a long way to go".

"it's fake" (in reality, "I don't like it").

(completely) absurd comparisons,

(Egypt/Romania, really?).

if this was an actually global poll only Greece & Turkey would be in top 50. (in different positions).

outside the Western world, no one knows the rest.

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IllNefariousness3822@reddit

Yeah ok I’m a backwards Balkan ape, but if it’s not AI slop then what happens with Cuba, Venezuela and Kuwait disappearing ribbons? Because that’s my only issue here.

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Portocalopita@reddit

Poor U.S. citizens, must be difficult for them.

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milan_fan88@reddit

No, it was difficult for my bank account. I lost more money on a transaction last year to Trump devaluing the dollar than taxes to the Bulgarian government.

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J0hnnyBlazer@reddit

vibes on twitter i guesss

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Programatorka@reddit

Vibes on my twitter are very chinese, yet China is near the bottom here.

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thanasis87kav@reddit

Leftist/liberal sites

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Loopbloc@reddit

There is a guy who sells reputation services for governments. He also measures them.

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Ok-Goal-3696@reddit

the reputation scientist

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Worried-Owl-9198@reddit

From a regional perspective serbia could be mentioned however this is largely related to the bosnian war despite that t think serbia and serbs are very good people

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Chava_boy@reddit

Recency bias, perhaps?

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kalac77@reddit

Not really, their politics and history books still deny a genocide and glorify convicted war criminals. Even in Belgrade, there are murals of the greatest butcher Ratko Mladić.

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kalac77@reddit

Really? Dude you live in another world. Serbia is main source of problems in ex Yugoslavian states. They committed invasion and genocide, and in ex Yugoslavian states the most hated country by far. There was another survey couple of months ago that proves my point.

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Dear-Potential-3477@reddit

Inat intensifies

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puravidauvita@reddit

Traveled via train in old Yugoslavia 50 years ago. was weird from the few that spoke English then how they volunteered their hatred for Musclmen as Muslims were hated even the, same with Serbs hating Croatians and vice versa. Think it was bc Croats were pro Nazi ,if so anyone who was anti nazi deserved my respect Nobody liked the Turks I assume again bc of Ottoman Empire memories. But amazing how the ancient monarchies of this oppressed region used hate then to rule. In this respect I understand how white supremacy can be so contagious and can consume ppl.

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MrMirageFiRe@reddit

What drugs did you take?

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

The hatred you speak of had nothing to do with skin color at all, not even systematically in how it worked. Hatred was only targeted at Muslims because of what the Ottomans did to this region for centuries. That's it.

Orthodoxy kept a lot of us in the balkans alive. Some of us would literally be speaking Turkish and calling ourselves Turks had it not been for our faith, the Ottoman empires entire goal was to erase cultures, languages, and faiths, but do it slowly by drowning people instead of just killing them. When a father of 5 can barely feed his kids because of heavy taxation, less rights, etc, and all he has to do to fix it is to convert to Islam, he'll probably do it. The Church acted as a safety buffer for all Christians, keeping them from having to convert by taking care of them.

The hatred Balkan people have for Islam is quite deep, but it's not based on some supremacy ideology. It's based on anger and identity

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Low-Transportation95@reddit

That was 30 years ago

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OnlineReviewer@reddit

War criminals are still being legally protected and glorified by the highest Serbian authorities. The physical violence stopped but the topic is ongoing.

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toxic8R@reddit

On all sides.

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OnlineReviewer@reddit

Name one Bosniak leader who is glorifying a war criminals or a war crime, or name one war criminals who is being protected from prosecution by the BiH government. I'll be here waiting.

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Imaginary_String_814@reddit

Serbs got over 1000 years in court for their crimes, Bosniaks not even 10 years. Selective justice was applied and i dont understand how they can still make such nonsense statements.

Eternal victims.

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Imaginary_String_814@reddit

the most responsible ones are charged and behind bars, and you got ur selective justice. Well over 1,000 years of prison time in total for Serbs and less then 10 for Bosniaks. Total prison time for crimes against Serbs at ICTY ≈ \~5–6 years.

Serbs of Bosnia got no justice at all from the post war courts, do you think thats fair ? barely 10 years issued for over 4000 Serb civilian deaths.

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vegancorr@reddit

30 years is not much from a historical perspective. The Simpsons predicted the return of the USSR in 1998.

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Low-Transportation95@reddit

And yet it didn't

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merinid@reddit

And it still has not returned

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vegancorr@reddit

The return of the USSR in spirit, not in the actual boundaries.

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merinid@reddit

Not even the actual spirit, not even close. Modern Russia is just a mere shadow if USSR with an oligarchy at the top

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irgendwas2021@reddit

In your west ass :D.

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zargug2@reddit

Probs serbia and albania.

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ImaginaryZucchini272@reddit

why serbia? it is well known to be pro putin!

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Acceptable_Cook2036@reddit

Anti-NATO isn't pro-Putin. Serbs are their own. You sound like Russians- If youre not with me, youre against me.

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ImaginaryZucchini272@reddit

I just say that siding with putin is stupid because Serbia isn’t going to get any advantage! If you get into EU is way better, economically speaking!

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Being anti mato and pro putting aren't necessarily the same thing. Not entirely disagreeing with you, but it's important to understand that some people hate nato because it killed civilians, not because they're pro putin

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Inresponsibleone@reddit

Serbia is pretty pro Russia and pro Putin though.

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Vucic and his government is pro Russia. Most of the younger serbians aren't pro Russia at all. Almost everyone hates vucic basically, but unfortunately he keeps a very loyal base of nationalist idiots as his base.

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Inresponsibleone@reddit

So there are enough likeminded people to keep him in power. I have heared also that it is less popular with the young

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Yeah unfortunately yes. I just meant that you shouldn't see it as representative of the population. In Greece for example, if you look at polls you'll see that 40+% voted for our current prime Minister, but in reality only like, 30% of the entire population voted at all. He's not representative of the population in the slightest. That's what I meant about Serbia.

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Inresponsibleone@reddit

Don't people there care or belive voting outcome would be honored if they don't like the government and still don't vote?

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Not exactly. Voting here is for like, show, and shit. Doesn't matter at all, lmao.

Only one party here is even seriously going for the win. The rest sit there just to argue and call the main guy bad. Literally doesn't matter at all. Everyone is complete garbage

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CherryArmstrong@reddit

he is neutral, not pro Russia and he is stealing votes

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CherryArmstrong@reddit

no they are not

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zargug2@reddit

Thankfully, that mentality is changing, younger people are just anti putin.

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NumerousManager3600@reddit

Nah it’s just Albania.

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suffelix@reddit

Russian puppets. Started WW1. Genocides during Yugoslav wars. Glorifying their genocidal leaders.

Just a couple of reasons why Serbia has a bad world wide reputation.

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NumerousManager3600@reddit

Germany is much worse and their reputation isnt that bad.

Nobody honestly thinks Serbia started WWI it was gonna happen regardless of Gavrilo.

What genocidal leaders are glorified by the general population there?

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zargug2@reddit

Bro blocked me😂

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NumerousManager3600@reddit

Ya he came at me saying Im not Bosniak.

I am not Bosniak because Im Canadian.

Genetically Im Bosniak North Macedonian and Greek.

My father a Muslim, married an Orthodox Macedonian.

He told me nobody gave a shit about Serb this Croatian that when he was a kid growing up in Bosnia. It literally didn’t matter then. I hate how it’s become a thing now.

Serbs in Canada are always kind to me, there are a lot of them. One Serbian girl in high school was totally obsessed with me and she knew I was “Bosniak”.

Should Bosniaks be mad at the Serbs who committed the atrocities? Hell yes! But that’s not like 99.9% of Serbs lol.

It was a terrible civil war, just terrible, but I don’t think the ethnic hate should continue.

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zargug2@reddit

True, that guy was just bipolar lmao.

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NumerousManager3600@reddit

Ya he came at me saying Im not Bosniak.

I am not Bosniak because Im Canadian.

Genetically Im Bosniak North Macedonian and Greek.

My father a Muslim, married an Orthodox Macedonian.

He told me nobody gave a shit about Serb this Croatian that when he was a kid growing up in Bosnia. It literally didn’t matter then. I hate how it’s become a thing now.

Serbs in Canada are always kind to me, there are a lot of them. One Serbian girl in high school was totally obsessed with me and she knew I was “Bosniak”.

Should Bosniaks be mad at the Serbs who committed the atrocities? Hell yes! But that’s not like 99.9% of Serbs lol.

It was a terrible civil war, just terrible, but I don’t think the ethnic hate should continue.

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zargug2@reddit

Serbia didn't start ww1? Learn history..

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

average delusional serb, jesus christ

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NumerousManager3600@reddit

lol im literally Canadian with a Bosniak father lol.

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

so bosnian serb, got it, same shit, different name.

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zargug2@reddit

Jesus christ you failed at that.

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

sure serbian, ofc

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zargug2@reddit

Lmao. You failed with whatever you tried to do with that guy. Lmaoooo don't be frustrated with me.

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

sure serbian, ofc

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zargug2@reddit

😂😂😂

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

imagine having to resort to second acc xd average serbian sperg

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zargug2@reddit

Lmao you think im that guy?? You're even dumber than i thought😂

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

yup, its your mobile acc Lmao Lmao Lmao

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zargug2@reddit

Cope brah, just plain dumb 😂

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

feels bad getting caught on in flagranti huh?

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zargug2@reddit

Getting caught in on** Also, what did i get caught in on exactly?

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

>tries to correct grammar

>fails miserably

-> why would some random guy dig deep in a thread like this show up literally minute after and start sperging around?

nvm, ur a serbian dog, sorry

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zargug2@reddit

Your points are moot. This is a public forum "dog"

Caught in on it =caught up in it. Gotta hit that dictionary and learn some more words and phrases.

Once again, you failes to make a point, ended up being dumb thinking im the other guy. Nothing else to it. Better luck irl maybe.

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

whats up dog, deleted the comment about me being german and dumb?

look how a german lion gets serbian dogs out in 3 sentences

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zargug2@reddit

I think you're starting to hallucinate cuz of how mad you are... I litteraly didn't delete any comments.

Also, they litteraly didn't leave after that video but aight, not unusal for yall to make things out of context to fix your narrative. Also, going from the main point and going onto a different subject screams "i don't have any valid point so I'll just use whatever i want". Seems like you really don't have a life.

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zargug2@reddit

Bro blocked me💀

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

so when i click on this and nothing opens its not deleted ? hmm

also after your miserable try to correct grammar nothing coming but "heheee ur german and stupid theehee"

you so cringe little serbian boy, have fun with your 300 euro wage in your rotting country, may nato bomb the living shit out of you dogs again

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NoRoutine1279@reddit

https://www.linguee.de/englisch-deutsch/uebersetzung/catch+in+flagranti.html

can you PLEASE shut the fuck up serbian dog

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zargug2@reddit

Omg are you german?😂 Proves why you're dumb and moot like that. Makes this even better:3.

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NumerousManager3600@reddit

lol nope Bosniak.

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

You are just basing your opinion on your environment ,Serbia will probably be the most hated because of wars and Albania the second most hated because of drug trafficking but definitely not because Albania was like the North Korea

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No_Cow2407@reddit

Depends on the perspective, within Europe it is Serbia by far and it is not even close. On that side of the pond it might be different and Russians and Chinese probably think they are the best although most Chinese wouldn’t really have much to say on this. But in Europe, there is no contest because of the Russia friendship

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Automatic_Success831@reddit

Albania where bro? Only in the UK where 51% of the people voted for brexit, that should tell a lot about the general intelligence and how the view the propaganda.

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NumerousManager3600@reddit

Albania is mostly because of its past history, and it’s not even like a horrible reputation. It’s just that obscure European country that used to be like North Korea.

Actual Albanians would be welcome in Canada.

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roflemywaffle@reddit

BeST rEpUtaTIoNs!! doh

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Nanako1857@reddit

Seens clear

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zodiac87@reddit

Egypt has more reputation than UAE 😂

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Different-Ring1510@reddit

Honestly.. a lot of countries are not even mentioned because majority of people are too uneducated to even know they exist.. only way americans find out about certain countries is if for example a slovenian is married to their president.. and probably even then they think a slovenian is just an adjective they never heard of..

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Professional_Elk_489@reddit

Albania and Serbia. I think Serbia higher than Albania now since 2022 with Russian invasion of Ukraine and Albania becoming an insta hot spot

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Physical-Entry-3643@reddit

Serbia.

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Ok_Expert5447@reddit

KOSOVO

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No_Drive8921@reddit

Congrats to the makers. The best imaging I have ever seen.

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sunta3iouxos@reddit

Greek better reputation than Belgium? What kind of metric is this?

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Motor_Reality_6@reddit

Probably serbia because of the genocide..

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_segamega_@reddit

what genocide?

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Motor_Reality_6@reddit

The one in srebrenica.. look it up.

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_segamega_@reddit

nope. serbia did not commit any genocide. but for haters like you it's not worth wasting words.

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Motor_Reality_6@reddit

Lol did you look it up? Maybe you like living in ignorance and delusion

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_segamega_@reddit

i don’t need to look it up. i know.

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Motor_Reality_6@reddit

You know? What is your source?

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TheReal_Elite@reddit

Well actually, it was your Serbian entity (Republika Srpska) who started the genocide.

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Sus198@reddit

Funny about Switzerland....money laundering capital of the world

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organela@reddit

Worst reputation Albania or Serbia (Serbia in a better position due to Đoković, Jokić and few other people in sports). Everything average person from around the world knows about tuese countries is from mainstream media (and these two countries do not fare well in those).

Best reputation Croatia, 100% All people from outside know about Croatia is seaside and "that place where they shot GoT" which gives enough credit

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Drax-Gorb-2026@reddit

Definitely Serbia due to its reputation as a tiny Russia. Albania second because of its annoying diaspora that is mostly making the news for its consistent high crime rates, especially in Britain. Greece third because the world got the ick after the financial crisis and is now treating it like a european Thailand.

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Automatic_Success831@reddit

But Albanians perfectly integrated in Italy don’t count huh?

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Drax-Gorb-2026@reddit

I’m not sure if perfectly integrating in the world’s greatest realm of mobsters and corrupt politicians is a positive example in this context.

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Glittery_Marshmallow@reddit

No, they count as Italian, unnoticed. That's what integrating does to you. They only notice you when you stand out.

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kra73ace@reddit

Exactly, because it's the same propaganda... It's funny that the propaganda somehow backfired against its author (USA).

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palladium2@reddit

Albania no doubt. If you ask a Westerner what they think about Albania, they'll tell you organ harvesting, drug trafficking and everyone owning a Mercedes.

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Various-Athlete1611@reddit

My wife said exactly that (regarding organ harvesting) while I was planning 2 week vacation to Albania. We're coming July, so prepare your best (or worst) surgeons :D

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AmountExotic2870@reddit

whats wrong with mercedes? 😇😂

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Yionko@reddit

Moldova isnt even on the list

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Necessary-Noise5578@reddit

Like it or not, its probably Serbia. I fear we will never live down our degenerate ‘leaders’ and the shit they did. War is complex on all sides but yeah. Hopefully in a few decades there will be more healing

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MartinBP@reddit

My opinion of Serbia isn't negative just because of Bosnia/Kosovo, but because when visiting the country today you can clearly see no one learnt anything and the victim mentality is as high as ever.

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LenaLena93@reddit

How can you “clearly see”. You are just a random tourist, like in any other country. People would not bother to share much more than basic daily necessities with a random stranger.

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rrrzrrr@reddit

Lol here we go with defensiveness

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LenaLena93@reddit

Because people be making shit up lol

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rrrzrrr@reddit

Idk sis, I agree about the victim mentality and I’m not a random tourist but someone who lived in Serbia and speaks the language. You can even see it on Reddit which is supposed to be the most “progressive” part of the population

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kupusarovka@reddit

Not with the (most of) younger generation. Maybe it's just people around me, but everyone I know is well aware of what happened during the 90s and no one thinks of us as victims. The problem that younger generation has is that we are judged, and sometimes even harassed, for something that we weren't even alive to do or experience. I'm all for Serbia (as a state) paying for war damages and apologising but I don't want to feel guilty for something I didn't do. I think that most innocent people feel that way but it's hard for us to express that because we are labeled as 'traitors' by older and brainwashed generation, and labeled as 'genociders' by some of our neighbours.

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Necessary-Noise5578@reddit

Tbf there are plenty of people who think we did nothing wrong and i dont like or support that at all. But it is tiring being painted like the only villain in a war, when the truth is the situation in the balkans has been extremely complex for decades before the bosnia, croatia and kosovo horrors happened. I am not denying serbias wrongs whatsoever, just trying to portray the feeling that lingers when the whole world automatically judges you for horrors done by war criminals, but other really fucking horrible things were never judged as harshly. I dont want to go too deep into it cause it always ends with an argument of who started what first, and theres no point to that. Yeah we still have a tone of neanderthals living here. Trust me we dont like it either.

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True-Blacksmith4235@reddit

Hey, if Germany managed lol

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Old-Cardiologist2853@reddit

Far from having same kind of education

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creepy009@reddit

German children go to Aushwitz to see and learn about the misdeeds of their grandparents. Germany actually acknowledged showed remorse for their actions. We never did that. By we I mean whole ex-Yugoslavia.

Until we take responsibility for our history I am afraid there will be no real peace between our countries. It pains me that we are so stubborn and proud to our own detriment.

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Necessary-Noise5578@reddit

Agree!

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Necessary-Noise5578@reddit

And some people even praise them now

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Berimbolo_drej@reddit

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Why is Israel not in there? I doubt that Russia and China are below the USA. This stats are a fraud.

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Kushesollidoro@reddit

Serbia>Albania>Romania

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Jujux@reddit

The unholy trinity. 😀

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floare_salbatica@reddit

I first frowned when I read this, but it actually reminded me of a former German coworker. A really lovely lady actually, I enjoyed working with her, but she once sent a screenshot from what seemed to be fake news stating that people should be cautious since there are bands offering free keychains at gas stations which actually contain chips so they can track you when you're not home and break in. At the end it stated that they are organised Romanian criminal groups. I read it at the end of my vacation, I usually muted notifications while off, but the last day decided to unmute and read the updates. Useless to say that it ruined my vacation. Back at work she asksed me after a while if I'm ok ( I left the work WA group after that message) and that shouldn't take it personally, it could have been any other nation like Serbs, Albanians. In my mind: gurl, please dont make it even worse! 🤣

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the-icebreaker@reddit

As a Romanian, I would say Romania. People always let out an “oh 😬” when I mention where I’m from.

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floare_salbatica@reddit

Weird, it never happened to me. You must be amazing then.

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Fresh-Interaction180@reddit

The funny thing is in Switzerland live A LOT of ethnic Yugoslavians. 2000+ we kept the economy floating. We build so many streets, like the Autobahn between Luzern and Zürich. But our coubtrys have a bad image?

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Fresh-Interaction180@reddit

Serbia does a lot of military Exports (Nora B-52 tested by the US, Milos, Lazar 3M etc). I wish we Croats did export something. Our youth disappears in the EU.

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Bretrix_Metrix_007@reddit

Ha ha. This is a joke map. Romania is as safe as Poland and Hungary tge quality of life is similar . Putting Romania under a narco state as Mexico is ridiculous. There's isn't much difference between these 3 countries Must be some political map payed by JD Vance and Theil

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urbanOutlaw04@reddit

Romanians used to be hated so much by Italians back in the days. But since many grew up there and there have been a lot of mixed marriages between us and Italians, things have definitely improved. We are still very hated in the UK. Germans always had a more neutral opinion of us, some even a positive one.

Albanians are definitely the most hated now.

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DieKalteHeike@reddit

I grew up in a small village in Germany with a very small percentage of foreigners. The largest immigrant group there were Romanians who worked as guest workers for our local butcher. As a child, I was often told by people in the village community, though not necessarily by my parents, to stay away from them. Many residents seemed unsettled by their presence. As a kid, I never really understood why.

When I delivered newspapers as a side job as a kid, they were always friendly whenever I came to their house. That experience never matched the warnings I had heard.

So yes, racism and xenophobia toward Romanians definitely exist in Germany, especially in rural areas. To this day, some people, particularly from the older generation, still use the slur “Zigeuner” when referring to them. Although public xenophobia in recent years has shifted more toward immigrants from Syria and other countries, negative stereotypes about Romanians persist.

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urbanOutlaw04@reddit

I live in Germany and I am studying here. Dual study system. The only time people were racist to me ( indirectly) was in school, but as you said, these were people from the rural area.

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Old-Cardiologist2853@reddit

In UK years afo as well,together with Bulgarians but now other new migrant nations took the crown.

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Kalogero4Real@reddit

Egypt, Mexico and UAE have a better reputation than Romania? Who tf made this graph?

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ESC-H-BC@reddit

I mean, compared to Egypt and Mexico nobody remember Romania lol.

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Kalogero4Real@reddit

Surely... they remember all people who have been lost and never recovered... I'm sure that's the good reputation these lists speak about.

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ESC-H-BC@reddit

And bc they are more relevant

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fk_censors@reddit

The UAE is one of the most advanced, richest, cleanest, most peaceful countries in the world. It has its problems, of course, but it's miles ahead of Romania, if we are honest. Mexico and Egypt had fascinating civilizations, everyone knows them. The pyramids in the two countries are unparalleled anywhere in the world.

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Kalogero4Real@reddit

Here is reputation, not culture or any other thing. You really think that UAE has that great repution? Mybe you should do your own research about indian and pakistan workes and see the real life of the people down there. Not only focus on some celebrities that do escort service. In Mexico and Ehypt people disappear without a reason and never recovered. Would you feel good to walk around in those countries? I don't mean the turistic places. Please before write, research.

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Dalsenius@reddit

I lived in Cairo for a year. It was perfectly safe. For being a mega city crime is pretty low. But you are missing the point. Romania is obviously a better country to live in than Mexico and Egypt for the average inhabitant but the reputation for the country and culture is low. It has no well known positive aspects at all that I am aware of?

Bucharest sounds like a decent town but it’s not as well known as say Prague or Vienna.

Egypt and Mexico are top tier countries in how famous they are even though they are dirt poor.

UAE is super wealthy and Dubai is a very popular tourist destination.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

is Romania really a better place to live in than Mexico?

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Of course it is. Except for Canada, you have poisoned the entirety of south America, so most countries down there don't have anywhere near the living standards as an EU country, even without being particularly rich.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

compare chile to Romania. I'm pretty sure Chile is doing better.

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

And the US is #1 on every economic and power list, yet yall keep graping kids and shooting them in your schools.

Silly reputation lists mean very little when you're judging people. You can say their government and leadership sucks if you wish, but judging an entire country off of a vibe-written list is quite comical, especially when you're an American. Yall know a thing or two about lists, so this isn't exactly surprising.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

no one wants to live in Romania though. Even my GF, who is Moldovan went to Romania, and then left it for Spain.

Chile doesn't have a big problem with crime

agree about the list about Romania is not really a powerhouse country that attracts investment or visitor

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Investing and tourism are very, very different, and the list says nothing like that. Romania gets lots of tourism, and even though there are still lots of issues there, they're doing about as well as any other balkan country. Now, idk about your girlfriend, but I've met plenty of Moldovan women in Greece, and none of them have any issues with romania and would be open to moving there.

Again, you're not in a position to talk about crime data. I'd take a Romanian pickpocket over some American school shooter or island owner every day of the week. And it's not like yall don't gkt shoplifting, gangs, racial violence, racism, political violence, etc.

Lots of people would rather live more modestly and not have to worry about their lids'school getting shot up, rather than the opposite.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

Chile is not a dangerous country. Most people in the US they are not victimized by crying. A lot of of the eastern countries in the EU are still very poor. Which is why they have a huge exodus of their young people going to western Europe. Romania is probably the biggest offender.

what you're saying about the Usa is just memes being repeated from the guardian art social media. Doesn't mean a thing IRL.

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Just memes. Of course. It's not like your president was almost killed 3 times, it's not like politicians have been getting assassinated left and right over the last years and change, it's not like protests are basically happening daily in your country, everything is just memes.

I guess the rape island was also a meme then? Maybe your president fueling political and racial violence every time he speaks is also a meme. Or how NATO almost imploded because you voted for a complete idiot.

Eastern EU countries are poor because they've seen more war and more invasions than most other European countries, we've seen massive-scale propagandization of the masses during the cold War, where the US and the Soviets were trying to get the support of the balkans and meddling in everyone's politics, etc, etc.

By all metrics like population, gdp, gdppc, education scores, HDI,and even crime statistics (I just Checked), Romania and Chile are around the same. Chile actually has worse crime statistics than Romania, so you've literally been lying. Romania has more issues with demographic and brain drain, but every developed country has those issues.

So not only are you minimizing the shittiness of your country and why it's so low in the very list above (below Romania as well btw), you've also been lying. Lmao

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

do you think these things affect the average person living here? They certainly don't. The majority of violence here happens and inner cities between gangs. It's not political.

even after America put a lot of resources into rebuilding Europe, those eastern countries just aren't progressing. Anything to the east of like Poland has a really hard time gaining for his world and western status and Romania and Bulgaria are two of the worst examples.

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

When you stop asking yourself why, and you start assuming random reasons, you've lost the plot.

You don't even know anything about this stuff.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

There's a reason there's a lot of Greeks and Romanians living in the USA, but closer to old people in the USA living in Greece and Romania

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Fk no. Who tf is giving visas to old Americans to just come here and eat our resources lmao. Young Greeks and Romanians leave because our countries can't absorb them into the work force after they're done with their studies, and even if they do, many of them don't make good money at first.

Most Greeks and Romanians who leave for the US work there for a few years and then come back here with money. Ain't nobody wanna live in a country that makes you pay for the ambulance lmao.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

we dont need visas to visit the EU. you are speaking nonsense

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

You said "living" not "visiting" lmao. If you were talking about vacation what ever was your point hahahahha. You make no sense

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fk_censors@reddit

Did you see the viral video from Santiago with the carjackers who shot at a car and the people in the car ran over one of the criminals? That kind of wild action would never happen in Romania, even the mafia there doesn't kill people, human life is valuable unlike in South America. You can't compare the two societies, for all its problems, Romania is liveable for normal people whereas Chile isn't.

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Nro doesn't care lmao. I gave him the stats before. Romania and Chile are quite similar in population, gdp, gdppc, etc, but Chile is significantly worse in crime. He just doesn't care. Bro hates Romania for no reason lmao

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craiova2103@reddit

In terms of GDP per capita, crime rate Romania is doing waaay better than Chile. It's a fact, you can check it.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

morocco and algeria has lower crime than romania and chile too

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craiova2103@reddit

No, they don't. You can check the figures.

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

He's literally lying on everything. No use in replying at all.

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Dalsenius@reddit

Well standard of living is way higher. It’s a EU country with great prospects.

Mexico has massive problems with crime

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

Mexico has crime, but it's still developing faster than Romania, which has a huge population problem because an exit is to Europe

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

yeah,

like, no offense, (we generally like Romania), but I don't know how anyone can compare Romania to Egypt in terms of global reputation, (& this poll isn't really 'global' still).

I've not visited Egypt, & I'm assuming most people answering, also, haven't.

so, people naturally base their answers on what they know of their country & its people.

(& that includes history, obviously, lol).

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fk_censors@reddit

Ask a random person around the world where they would like to visit, and what do you think they would choose first? Romania or the UAE/Mexico/Egypt? This has nothing to do with quality of life, it has to do with global exposure and reputation.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

literally no one would say romania lmfao

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

Egypt.

one of the greatest civilizations/history.

it's low, (if anything).

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havales1@reddit

and one of the most notorious modern ass-grabbers and harassers?

I don't think it's a low. Great country and all in the past, but the present is a different story

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

and Romania? A country that's known for thieves and Romani

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EvenGarage9378@reddit

Our schools aren’t shooting ranges aight?

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Based Romanian Chad leaves American Femboy Flabbergasted

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EvenGarage9378@reddit

He’s just some poor lazy mexican acting murican, check the profile

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Historical_Buyer5248@reddit

lmao i love seeing non-white americans thinking that if they force themselves to be racist that suddenly white MAGA conservatives will like them, they hate you too buddy !

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

I read somewhere that ICE is actually made up almost entirely of Mexicans, lmao.

They think that if they act racist and speak English, the Americans will see them as their own.

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havales1@reddit

Nobody went to Romania and came back blabbering about thieves and/or Romani people. Both are there, sure, but you are overstating the noticeability.

Now poll Egypt travellers and ask them what do they recall.

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AndreiVid@reddit

It’s not about facts, it’s about reputation. And americans heard Egypt at their shooting range.

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Potential-Future-324@reddit

This is not historical, it’s 2024 vs 2025. Egypt is some millennia and civilizations away from those times. Basically like comparing modern Greek mathematicians to Pytagoras

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

irrelevant,

I can tell u most Greeks think of history/ancient civilization, (when Egypt is mentioned).

so, naturally, they have a favourable view.

history is part of a country's reputation.

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idandidc@reddit

i dont think i care about a countries history, if not in a history context.

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

cool.

MANY people do.

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idandidc@reddit

they made great contributions to the history (thousands of years ago), that means they should be very good people!

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

That wasn't really the point at all. You can't judge how good someone is when you don't know them, so you assess their reputation by things like history, recent events, etc. Most people think of today's Egypt as just another Arab country today, st least in my experience.

Most euro-western people don't particularly like Arabs, so if I had to guess I'd say their opinion is leaning towards bad rather than good. I personally don't think history played a big part here, but it does in other cases.

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idandidc@reddit

i think ur just saying words. first you say you cant judge anyone, then you say you asses their reputation by history etc. and then you say history doesnt play a very big part.

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

No, I said you misunderstood the other comment and then gave my own opinion.

I don't believe history is what people think when they think about Egypt. It's not that simple. The other commenter you replied to does think that, though.

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TheyCallHimBabaYagaa@reddit

Yeah but that was thousands of years ago. Now it's a shithole.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

your country is one as well

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

Tf you doing on a Balkan sub? Go install metal detectors in a kindergarten or something

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TheyCallHimBabaYagaa@reddit

Look who's talking 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Dalsenius@reddit

I think most people know very little about Romania and will struggle to find anything positive to say about it. It’s known for exporting beggars to the rest of EU, Dracula and maybe Ceausescu

Egypt has all its millenias of history, the Sahara Desert and Red Sea resorts and diving

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Petger@reddit

They have nothing in common with the current population

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matthiasgh@reddit

Would you believe a Greek is clinging onto the past 🙄

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Nearby-Froyo-6127@reddit

Have you ever been there? They call romanians scammers. People that have never visited egypt probably.

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fk_censors@reddit

But they have pyramids and the Sphinx.

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Salty_Pancakes@reddit

Croatia isn't even on this list? I find it hard to believe that with how touristed it is that it's not higher than Egypt lol. Montenegro too.

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LarssenX@reddit

This only includes the 60 largest economies. That's why Greece and Romania are the only Balkan countries on the list.

Out of the remaining balkan countries, Croatia would probably be the highest rated

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joklje@reddit

Look again.

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casual_philosopher02@reddit

We have the best reputation because we was ancient and shit

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KucukDiesel@reddit

We wuz Romans and shieeet

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

ancient Greek civilization > Byzantium (objectively).

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RemoteLook4698@reddit

It's not a competition lmao. Both were amazing and a testament to our history.

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ConstantVegetable49@reddit

no my ancient civilization is cooler than your ancient civilization

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KucukDiesel@reddit

100%

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NoBodybuilder2454@reddit

And gay sex afficionados

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Imaginary_String_814@reddit

Interestingly ancient Greeks had a fundamental different stance on love as modern understanding.

Love was amoral by definition

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casual_philosopher02@reddit

This gives us woke points

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No-Count-2774@reddit

being gay sex affictionados really pays in the current societal climate, valid

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cosmic_joke420@reddit

GRIK GOD

TIZ IZ GRIK GOD

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TheyCallHimBabaYagaa@reddit

Surely the delicious food helps

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casual_philosopher02@reddit

In expanding the fat on hips it surely does

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This_Lion5856@reddit

We wuz doing maths n shit

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thatonekidfr@reddit

i think maybe seebia cuz of the protsts,and the government not doing anything abt them except calling them oit which obv isnt enough

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petahthehorseisheah@reddit

We have no reputation and our absence is very fitting

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Hracekk@reddit

Czechia on 25th place is a bit surpising lol, anyways, for me the least favorite would be Bulgaria (just because of G-people, don't blame me). Croatia first, no negotiations

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lveekay@reddit

Serbia, although Albania is also a solid contender.

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MIMADANMEI@reddit

Albania, at least here in slovenia

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Glittery_Marshmallow@reddit

Lol Albanians in Slovenia are not from Albania, at all.

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Infamous-Cat-9805@reddit

Romania, mainly because of the gipsies.

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_Winter-Wolf_@reddit

Nu mai e de mult așa, doar rasiștii mai cred așa ceva

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Infamous-Cat-9805@reddit

downvotes fiindca doar prostii cred asta :)))

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urbanOutlaw04@reddit

Nu stiu de ce primesti down vote...

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_Winter-Wolf_@reddit

Nu știu, dar văd că cineva mi-a zis să mă mut în India, fără vreun motiv

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Romania2001@reddit

Adica? Doar nu ai de gand sa-mi spui ca suntem una si aceeasi chestie. Ca in situatia asta poate vrei sa te muti in India.

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Broad-Anywhere-9224@reddit

That's no longer true, people have started to differentiate between Romanians and gypsies.

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

I don't

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iadaci@reddit

I don't think so, the NGO names for Gypsies such as Rom/Roma/Roman/Romani/Romanis/Romany/Romanies are way too similar to Romanian.

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Familiar_Advantage_6@reddit

Balance countries are specific. This list is not correct

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Ujemegaz@reddit

Better have a reputation, than none at all.

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giorgi_iusuf@reddit

😂

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AmountExotic2870@reddit

🦅

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SteveRoussos94@reddit

Albania and it's not even a competition

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PeroCigla@reddit

Serbia maybe?

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Buk_voj_kryp_Z_bardh@reddit

When i say to people my origin. They reply "Mafia" and don't mess with. Knowing we are much more than that, it would be disshonest to say that those words do not bring anger in my blood, but at same time I remember of Machiavelli's virtu. He dictates that while it would be the best to be both loved and feared. If we have to choose between them. The safest option is Fear. People will think twice before crossing paths.

Its a sad reality but that's that i guess...

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Che_Varack@reddit

He said that as advice to a ruler to maintain its position and not be overthrown. Cannot be interpolated to regular peoples positions.

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Buk_voj_kryp_Z_bardh@reddit

Says who? His advice can be easily applied on modern everyday life.

His book has served well to many ambitious people who find themselves virtuous to climb the ladder be that on politics, corporation, business etc.

Even if one does not want to follow the path of the fox. They might find it beneficiary to protect themselves from ambitious "foes".

I personally do not like to act as he says but it has served me well to defend my chair multiple times from people trying to follow that path.

Honestly his words make a lot of sense to me. Or ive worked on very toxic workplaces that play that game so it might be my bias.

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ResidentWave6179@reddit

Nobody is feared of you. Just cautious with you as with any other disease.

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Buk_voj_kryp_Z_bardh@reddit

If albanians are to be considered a common disease. Serbs are cancer itself.

You only have a big mouth because historically you've been the dog of empires. Which in return throw a bone at you.

A "christian" nation that have slain thousands of innocent souls throughout history. Just so it can benefit your grand agenda.

Your attrocities are recorded and with time everything will be uncovered.

The random Serbian has no time to worry about bullshiteries such as yours. It is quite similiar to the average Albanian, but the political cast along some numb knots such as you. Have done horrors and will continue to do so as long as morons of your kind feed them power.

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Tomorr3@reddit

with any other disease

Like being serbian for example

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ConstantVegetable49@reddit

This graph is so unserious with Switzerland on top lmao

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Master-Spring-@reddit

That was the biggest surprise to me.

Edit: My job includes A LOT of travel and I've worked with ALL flavours of Europeans over the past decade. To me, Switzerland came across as the European analogue to Japan with both the good and the not-so-good that that entailed. It was... interesting to watch people ice out or distance themselves from close workplace pals like that, just because the person had fallen out of favour with a higher up or with the 'group' (usually following the person having made some sort of blunder at work or having acted in a manner the group deemed 'weird'). Also, their gossip machine was legendary and rife with plausible deniability. 😅

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Affectionate_Mud1091@reddit

I was never there personally but heard from friends that they are not really nice guys. They told me the swiss people are not fond of Slavic people and look down on them. That you would never be accepted and be one of them and would always be treated cold. Not sure how true it is.

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KataqNarayan@reddit

Yes this is mostly true. Switzerland took a massive number of refugees from the former Yugoslavia which was a mistake (the number, not the act).

The expectation was that they would go home after the crisis was over, but unsurprisingly most did not. So the situation has just festered over the last 25 years.

This means that the average Swiss person does not view Eastern Europeans in general favourably.

But on the plus side our football team got a lot better.

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ILike-Pie@reddit

Can confirm. I also work with some Swiss people and... they're not my favorites.

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Master-Spring-@reddit

It often felt like decisions were taken in a group chat that, as a foreigner, I was not privy to. It just worked in such a practised manner. I was shook, let me tell you. 😅

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Unabomber_X@reddit

World view: serbia My view: croatia

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DragonflyOwn5617@reddit

Actual worst reputation is either Romania or Bulgaria, since we are EU and have a lot of bad representatives who can easily use the privileged passport, more so than Greece. Other Balkan countries automatically are better off, since they have to try a bit harder to travel and have fewer chances to leave bad impressions. That being said, I think Montenegro, Croatia and Greece have the best Balkan reputations

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Equivalent-Water-683@reddit

Serbia and Albania prob. Now we are really talking Europe not outside.

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Winter-Speech978@reddit

It depends where. In the USA they hate Macedonians

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Dalsenius@reddit

No one knows about Macedonians in the US

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Winter-Speech978@reddit

Oh yes they do, very well

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Internet_P3rsona@reddit

yes the most evil and hated people in the usa: macedonians obviously /s

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Winter-Speech978@reddit

I didnt say that, you did

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MyYellowRose@reddit

Me, whose grandparents immigrated from Macedonia to the US

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BudgetingIsBoring@reddit

Hard to say, most people in Canada only know about Croatia, and they confuse Serbia with Siberia 9 times out of ten, nevermind the other countries

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Land_of_smiles@reddit

Crazy Canada is number 2 when the social systems and infrastructure are literally falling apart country wide while unemployment soars.

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ToePast2442@reddit

Iraq to Iran

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nuclearmeltdown2015@reddit

Poll by Europeans think Europeans are the best but dark African monkeys and rice eating Asians are the bottom feeders.

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dilirium22@reddit

We need to make a believable infographic that shows public perception of few random countries. Gary, what you got?

Uuuummm, vibecheck??

Roll

Natural 20, let's fucking go!

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raspadanje@reddit

SERBIA MENTIONED 🇷🇸 🇷🇸 🇷🇸 🇷🇸 🇷🇸 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Familiar-Self5359@reddit

We have a tendency to hate each other. That said, I've been to Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, and Slovenia, and never had a negative experience anywhere. So, wtf is this?!

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bimacar@reddit

Gotta be Serbia because of how we are portrayed in the media, especially because of the wars.

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LarssenX@reddit

Serbia probably

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Beneficial-Code8026@reddit

Definitely Romania from what I have seen

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ThePurpleKing159@reddit

Albania and its not even close.

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Utstein@reddit

Here in the Nordics, it would probably be Serbia, though in all fairness the complexities of Balkan history isn't really well understood here. So you could probably question how fair that reputation is.

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Max_ach@reddit

BS. Definitely not Norway, Sweden or Denmark. Maybe you're talking about the other countries.

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Affectionate_Mud1091@reddit

Why Bulgaria though? Most people outside of the Balkans don't know about Bulgaria from my experience and that it even exists.

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Max_ach@reddit

In scandi? You're known (together with romania) for the people that ask for money on the streets here, beggers. As much as that's not the real image of Bulgaria or the rest of the balkans.

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Affectionate_Mud1091@reddit

I see. Now that makes more sense. So they probably mistakes us for Roma people? My father told me that when he traveled for work in Austria they told him it's not possible for him to be Bulgarian since he has too light skin and light eyes. At least if you are lucky for not being put in stereotypes hah.

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Necessary-Noise5578@reddit

Years ago I met some people from Belgium at Exit festival. They told me half their friends wouldnt come cause they thought they would get stabbed here. I laughed cause crime rate is so much worse in Belgium than here 🤣

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SpecificUnable7240@reddit

russia exactly where it belongs

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Martha_Fockers@reddit

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sudonimic@reddit

Serbia, and I like it that way, tourists can fuxk off

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Internet_P3rsona@reddit

🥶 tuff

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manguardGr@reddit

Prob Albania and Turkey

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Albekvol@reddit

I’d say it’s either Serbia or Romania.

Most of the bad guys in American movies who are of European descent over the years have either been Russian or Serbian. Especially shows like the Blacklist.

Across Europe when there’s crime and theft people usually suspect Romanians quite often unfortunately.

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Mestintrela@reddit

So we are supposed to believe that India has a comparable reputation abroad with Turkey and Romania?

L O L

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Andreas_Ashlyn@reddit

turkyie is associated with Muslims and erdogan. Romania is associated with Romani people and robbery

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Dalsenius@reddit

Sounds reasonable to me, should it be higher or lower?

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

"reasonable".

yeah, it is.

Turkey has an EXTREMELY 'bad' reputation in Belgium.

& while Belgium wasn't polled, I think it has an even worse reputation in Germany/France.

Romania is, largely, unknown.

but it doesn't help that some people "associate" it w/ gypsies.

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RiceCharacter967@reddit

Austria…

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Jenk026@reddit

Not even balkan

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Live-Role7096@reddit

On this sub Anatolia is Balkan but Austria isnt ? Interesting. Austrians are closer genetically to Balkan Slavs than Anatolian Turks will ever be

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PckMan@reddit

Albania probably. Shame too, they don't know them like we do.

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Putrid-Banana-7428@reddit

How much can souvlaki understand to know!

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Morpheus_90_54_12@reddit

Albania, Bulgaria

Last year, despite the judgments, I was on vacation in Albania and I have to say that the country is nice, but it still needs about 20 years of development to catch up with other European countries.

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Putrid-Banana-7428@reddit

Don't worry! In 20 years, all Europian countries will catch up with Albania.

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mihai_necula@reddit

I want to keep Romania’s reputation low, it keeps the country clean & wards off Islamic illegal aliens

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iadaci@reddit

Not really, they are still flooding us with South Asians, what we need is a horrible reputation in South Asia so they can avoid us as well.

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d1v1debyz3r0@reddit

Toss up between Illyria and West Bulgaria

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RenaissanceGuy86@reddit

Albania, at least according to all the far-right UK videos I somehow get on my youtube feed.

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Impossible-Ad9483@reddit

Albania in top 20, Bosnia in top 25 for me.

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Blato99@reddit

Andy why Serbia?

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Tenchi_Muyo1@reddit

It should be ranked by the number of Epstein clients

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Hrvaturk@reddit

I live in the US. A lot of older people still think of the whole region as war torn and dangerous despite all of this internet at their fingertips. Younger people tend to have a positive view of the people of the whole region because of ancient history and the fact that we are kind of poppin in the meme world ngl

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Own_Bison6467@reddit

Croatia.

And it's been a nose dive too. Any tourist these days that has been to Croatia feels ripped off.

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the_bulgefuler@reddit

Nah - although prices have gone up, it hasnt caused a significant dent in global reputation or annual tourist numbers.

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SOHONEYSAME@reddit

it's NOT Croatia.

depending on the country, it's one of Serbia, Albania, Romania, (& Turkey, if u consider it Balkan, which no one in Western Europe does - for Western Europe 'Balkan' basically means the countries north of Greece until Croatia),

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geizige-vorhaut2289@reddit

Any tourist these days that has been to Croatia feels ripped off.

No, that’s unfortunately Montenegro

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OkRace5965@reddit

All the Balkan countries are lovely, with good people, traditions and culture. They have had a rough time in the recent past. Leave them alone. Un abbraccio a tutti

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Scary-Description-38@reddit

no ones gonna say bulgaria watch

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Old-Cardiologist2853@reddit

20 years ago probably…..now the British forgot about it as the others took the crown

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Far_Surprise2971@reddit

neonazi croatia 🇭🇷

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Old-Cardiologist2853@reddit

Serbia probably because of the genocide and wars.

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Green-Anything-3999@reddit

What do all the countries at the top have in common vs the countries at the bottom.

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befigue@reddit

Serbia because of the war, but Albania because of its people. Seriously, the stuff I hear about Albanians is wild. Greetings from Spain

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

Like what?

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befigue@reddit

One that comes to mind is a video of a small Albanian restaurant owner that tried to smash the windshield of the minibus of a group of tourists because they left before they were served (I don’t remember exactly why they left, but it was reasonable). The tourists started driving away and the Albanian man hopped onto the car hood and continue to tray to smash open the windshield. The minibus started driving faster and faster but the Albanian man would lot give up he held tightly to the hood and punched the windshield whenever he could. I’ve never seen such insane level of mad determination for such a small thing in my life.

Source: https://youtu.be/_z1iPRIU0ow?si=qddq8eVnRGst-JfI

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

I know that episode, and it really was crazy. What made it even crazier is that the restaurant owner went on TV 1–2 years later, played the victim, and claimed the episode “emotionally damaged him.” But still, that was an isolated incident. I’d understand if the main issue making us look bad was international drug trafficking, but things like that happen everywhere.

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idandidc@reddit

there was a video of an albanian guy playing a weird instrument and singing about how he hates black people.

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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

Racist individuals exist everywhere

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Relative_Addition881@reddit

How about the illegitimate state in the middle east that's currently committing a genocide?

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plushyeu@reddit

Japan is amazing. Xenophobia will continue until the rankings improve. Japan can into Balkans.

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vercig09@reddit

Iraqi PR team fighting the good fight

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InitiativeClassic112@reddit

Greece is the worst kind you can find and I'm a greek...

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Romania2001@reddit

I only see Greece as a Balkan country. Do you consider Turkey as Balkan too?

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iadaci@reddit

Romania easily, no European country is even close… 😂

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OotB_OutOfTheBox@reddit

I guess China and Korea were never polled…..

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creepy009@reddit

Cries in Serbian while reading the comments…

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pak-ma-ndryshe@reddit

It's alright brate, who gives a f about what people who ask money back for the biscuits they offered with coffee when they invite you home, think of us.

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