I mean yeah thats a good indication, but thinking about it, many asian countries also have this same feeling. So is it a westernized thought process or just "people are stupid as fuck" problem. I lean on the latter.

Worst format ever. It should either be dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy/mm/dd

Public transport stops only appear in Google Maps when you zoom in quite a lot despite being some of the most important points of interest when using public transport. Public transport navigation is also very lackluster.

Maybe its a personal experience or a US problem, but when I was in Japan Google Maps was a godsend for navigating the subway and railway system. I learned quickly to trust that system because they had rail cars coming and going constantly. Ignoring the system caused me to get onto the right train, but that train was a full service train saand stopped at each individual station. Had I waited 2 minutes as directed I would have gotten on the limited service train and arrived at my destination many minutes faster.

Examples include: Google knows that I speak German and English since I put it in my settings and yet it tries to auto-dub German YouTube content and auto-translates German comments in Maps.

I actually have the opposite problem. Sometimes when googling something I get auto translated results (mostly reddit posts tho), and a week ago the YouTube app on my phone decided to auto translate English video titles.

No, I DON'T want your shitty Dutch auto translation. Give me the original English. I am not English illiterate and you 100% know it, Google.

Even in the west that one doesn't stand. We have systemic unemployment and tons of hard working family owned business lost everything when Amazon took their market share

It's not just, but very much an american thing to say. It's almost every video on youtube."i bought this power tool for $4 from china and man it's bad." All the comments are: hahaha china only makes shit, who could've guessed.

You can buy the best literally everything from china. But it's not gonna be cheap. But then it's like:"that's too expensive for something from china." I'm worried when something is "American made" because it's an absolute gamble and the chances are really high that they use their weirdo measurements where you need magically sized tools to taje it apart.

They literally own the means of production

Yep, same in the UK. We've abandoned our elderly and seemingly can't wait for our kids to leave so that we enjoy maybe 10 years of watching TV and not working before we die.

In other, less 'developed' countries the family is a unit. The elderly help with the infants (which has been proven to be mutually beneficial), while the rest of the family works or helps maintain the household. There's way less likelyhood of abandonment or lonliness in old age, which in my country is endemic.

I have some friends in Asia who are obsessed with it as well though.

In the west - yeah? Obviously third worlders also believe in various miracle healers and televangelist preachers and such, but those countries too have scientific minds and communities and bodies that practice evidence-based, aka "western" modern medicine.

Have you seen "Crazy Rich Asians"?

I mean, france is more free when it comes to the freedom of the press

"freedom" is such a vague concept though, mostly used for bullshit rhetoric

I have one for this!

I once asked someone "In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?"

I thought she'd say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)

She said George Washington!