How conservative and/or regressive is your country / place?

[Iloelemen]

I live in the Philippines. So from where I'm from:
- Pretty much everyone is religious
- Pre-marital sex is a big No No.
- Divorce is not legal.
- Abortion is illegal, except for certain life or death situations (but abortion due to rape is illegal).
- Sex education is very limited.
- Sex in general. It's acceptable to a degree to make crude sex jokes, but like, we view there's a sentiment here that Americans being "liberated" are bad because they are perverts.
- There's a law here where in a rape case, the father of the rape victim can force the rapist to marry the victim and this is perfectly legal here.
- Bootstrap mentality is strong here.
- The bloody and violent war on drugs here having many supporters.
- Gay marriage not legal. LGBT tolerance exists, but homophobia is very rampant.

 

[Deleted member 18944]

I live in America. So from where I'm from:
- Donald Trump
- American Culture

 

[Deleted member 30544]

As a whole? pretty bad, we continue to have a lot of Machism , Homophobia and state sponsored classism. The Tijuana's protest against the Migrant Caravan made me hate the north even more (LOL Just kidding...nah)

But i live in Mexico City and things are better here on those matters, still problematic, but comparing it to the rest of the country it's a lot better. The City leans a lot to the left.

 

[Shelbyville Milhouse]

Nobody in Austria is actually religious it's just good excuse to hate minorities.

 

[Squarehard]

US, going in reverse.

 

[Platy]

Brazil was coming from a proportionally pretty good place

Gay Marriage kinda legal
Divorce legal
Transgender name and sex changing legal and kinda easy
Lots of sex in media.

but at the same time

Abortion 200% legal
The country that numeric kills more trans people in the world
homophobia is super rampant
victim blame in rape cases is ridiculous


...and our current president has been compared to Duterte a lot so... any tips ?

 

[Iloelemen]

As a whole? pretty bad, we continue to have a lot of Machism , Homophobia and state sponsored classism. The Tijuana's protest against the Migrant Caravan made me hate the north even more (LOL Just kidding...nah)

But i live in Mexico City and things are better here on those matters, still problematic, but comparing it to the rest of the country it's a lot better. The City leans a lot to the left.

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This is very true in our country too.

 

[Deleted member 10611]

I live in the United States.

So... yeah.

 

[Masquerade Overture]

I'm relatively conservative when it comes to fiscal issues.

But you decided to raise my taxes a couple points so the dude with an offshore account gets a break? Fat orange sack of shit...

 

[John Dunbar]

I live in the Philippines. So from where I'm from:
- Pretty much everyone is religious
- Pre-marital sex is a big No No.
- Divorce is not legal.
- Abortion is illegal, except for certain life or death situations (but abortion due to rape is illegal).
- Sex education is very limited.
- Sex in general. It's acceptable to a degree to make crude sex jokes, but like, we view there's a sentiment here that Americans being "liberated" are bad because they are perverts.
- There's a law here where in a rape case, the father of the rape victim can force the rapist to marry the victim and this is perfectly legal here.
-Bootstrap mentality is strong here.
- The bloody and violent war on drugs here having many supporters.

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does that sex being taboo thing vary from one place to another? because when i was staying with some locals for couple weeks in the south, i would not have guessed that based on what i saw and was told.

 

[JediTimeBoy]

I live in the UK, where the current trend is to believe that the British Empire is still alive and kicking, and that Europe owes us for saving them from the Nazis and should bow to our demands...

 

[Iloelemen]

I live in the United States.

So... yeah.

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It's funny.
Growing up, we always viewed Americans as being "liberated", which is code word for "people who sinfully have lots of perverted sex".

 

[Iloelemen]

does that sex being taboo thing vary from one place to another? because when i was staying with some locals for couple weeks in the south, i would not have guessed that based on what i saw and was told.

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It varies. City people and the youth are more likely to be very accepting of sex.
Also, it's not uncommon to see lots of "dirty" jokes, some being tasteless, in what are supposed to be "family" entertainment.

 

[DJ_Lae]

I live in Edmonton - Alberta is arguably the most conservative province in Canada, but Edmonton and parts of Calgary are the few spots that aren't. Younger population and urban vs rural mostly, among other things.

Rest of the province is, as people claim the mayor of Calgary put it, 'cavemen with F350s.'

 

[Mr. Fantastic]

lol @ posters moaning they are from the USA

Even under Trump you guys have it very, very, very good compared to other countries. Mine is never going to even sniff at stuff like legalizing gay marriage or marijuana

 

[Kernel]

I'm in Ontario, Canada and we elected this guy :

 

[Unaha-Closp]

I believe my City in Scotland is the least Religious in Scotland (not sure about the rest of the UK) so I am thankful (not to a Deity) for that. Abortion is fine here, gay marriage is fine, LGBTQ is being introduced into school sex ed (or might be already?) - all in all we are a fairly chill place. Miserable as all get out and no fun so don't visit but you can be a miserable atheist gay man no problem. At least that is the ideal. I am sure there are morons here as they are everywhere. Colour is predominately white though if that is something you need to know. Lots of different races and cultures here but White is prevalent. Racism and misogyny and hate are here too though - as they are everywhere - just like the morons.

 

[TaySan]

Arizona is still very conservative, but things are slowly transitioning to liberal with each election. I'm hoping for legal marijuana by 2020.

 

[DJ_Lae]

I'm in Ontario, Canada and we elected this guy :

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His smile works on so many levels.

 

[Kernel]

His smile works on so many levels.

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And all those levels are deep in the ground.

 

[Feep]

The US is still absolutely backwards in a ton of ways, but here in California, our culture is somewhat shielded from it. Los Angeles rules and I love my city/state.

 

[Doctor_Thomas]

Northern Ireland
- No equal marriage
- Limited abortion access
- No assisted dying
- Weird shop opening times for religious reasons
- Actual terrorist organisations

 

[TinTuba47]

Vancouver, Canada

-legal weed
-not a ton of aggressively religious folks
-huge LGBTQ population
-Justin Trudeau openly identifies as a feminist

Vancouver has problems, but this place is pretty damn liberal. I fuck with it.

 

[B. Spaceman]

I'm from Spain... LGBT wise, things are pretty good here, probably one of the most tolerant countries in the world in this regard (even some prominent members of the conservative party are gay, as weird as that is). There is a huge feminist movement here but at the same time a lot of reactionary "what about men?" types, even among the young. People are catholic but they're not really religious, most people don't go to church at all so that's good in my book. But this country has a huge problem with Franco apologists, and with the rise of the far right I don't know what's going to happen

And we still kill bulls for fun and call it art

Oh, and my city has a mayor who identifies himself as "anticapitalist" so that's rad, although that might change in may with the elections

 

[Bedameister]

Germany

Seeing what is going on in the world I'm quite happy with our current situations. I don't like the way it might be going though.

 

[TheBeardedOne]

Ontario is disgustingly conservative, according to our last election, when 'we' elected the devil.

 

[Deleted member 30544]

I'm from Spain... LGBT wise, things are pretty good here, probably one of the most tolerant countries in the world in this regard (even some prominent members of the conservative party are gay, as weird as that is). There is a huge feminist movement here but at the same time a lot of reactionary "what about men?" types, even among the young. People are catholic but they're not really religious, most people don't go to church at all so that's good in my book. But this country has a huge problem with Franco apologists, and with the rise of the far right I don't know what's going to happen

And we still kill bulls for fun and call it art

Oh, and my city has a mayor who identifies himself as "anticapitalist" so that's rad, although that might change in may with the elections

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It is true that people made a huge deal about the removal of Franco's remains from "Valle de los Caidos"?

 

[SolicitorPirate]

Australia. Egalitarian hippies compared to the US, New Zealand's dumb, conservative cousin in reality.

 

[Deleted member 3208]

Damn, you certainly don't want to know.

Panama
Since it is a Latin American country, most of the population is religious.
Majority is Catholic, but Evangelicals are increasing each year. And between those two, leave me with Catholics; Evangelicals are crazy and more extremists.
That said, both sides agree to keep the country in the darkness. Completely against Sex Ed, Same-Sex relationships, abortion and all those issues the right hate. They use the shitty term Ideología de Géneros to say that god said humans are male and female only. Any other gender is a mental sickness.
Those people make me sick.

So yeah, country is quite fucked. I don't see a bright future. Another reason I want to leave this cesspool and never return.

 

[///PATRIOT]

Ve, socialism.

 

[Gorger]

Norway

- Gay Marriage legal and overwhelmingly accepted.
- Abortion legal (There were some attempts by our Christian party to slightly limit it, but it didn't go through)
- Majority of country is irreligious
- No one cares what two consenting adults do
- Welfare state
- Tuition-free higher education
- Usually rated highest country in the world by Human Development Index
- Maximum prison sentence is 21 years. Prisons focuses on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
- Death penalty is illegal hasn't been used since 1948 (Reserved for Nazis and traitors after WW2)
- Has issues with racism, bigotry and anti-immigration/muslim sentiments, but this is centered more in online communities. The Utøya terrorist
was radicalized and brainwashed through the internet.
- Avoided most of the alt-right contagion when they were on the rise all over the west. Even though our largest party (Høyre) is center right, it's probably more progressive than the American Democrats and they hold the fringe parties in check.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

I live in the United States.

So... yeah.

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A liberal paradise compared to the Philippines.

 

[Sunster]

In USA, Florida, St. Petersburg.

We had an opportunity to completely revitalize public transportation. 2x as many buses and routes. a light rail that would go from St Pete all the way to Clearwater, connecting all towns in between and creating new business hubs. The cost, 1 penny added to sale's tax. But then the boomers happened... Geriatrics that came to this county in droves to die in old hideous condos by the beach and vote all red in every election while they are still alive. Opportunity lost.

I live in the Philippines. So from where I'm from:
- Pretty much everyone is religious
- Pre-marital sex is a big No No.
- Divorce is not legal.
- Abortion is illegal, except for certain life or death situations (but abortion due to rape is illegal).
- Sex education is very limited.
- Sex in general. It's acceptable to a degree to make crude sex jokes, but like, we view there's a sentiment here that Americans being "liberated" are bad because they are perverts.
- There's a law here where in a rape case, the father of the rape victim can force the rapist to marry the victim and this is perfectly legal here.
- Bootstrap mentality is strong here.
- The bloody and violent war on drugs here having many supporters.
- Gay marriage not legal. LGBT tolerance exists, but homophobia is very rampant.

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Also OP, age of consent in your country is sickeningly low. 12 years old... I am actually moving to the Philippines for work in 2021 and have done a decent amount of research on the country. That is one of my strong dislikes however.

 

[Shodan14]

By ERA standards?

Dystopia incarnate.

 

[1.21Gigawatts]

Germany.

I think the general public is rather conservative, but the entire political system is built on the foundation of some of the most liberal and progressive political theory there is.
A general rejection of nationalism and arbitrary identity concepts, an institutionalized acknowledgement of the inherent flaws of capitalism and the statement that human dignity is inviolable at the very beginning of the German constitution.*
In theory we have all the right ingredients.


*This part of the constitution informs many German policies. ("Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority")

- The death penalty doesn't exist here because it violates human dignity. Same for solitary confinement or sharing a cell with other inmates.
- Homelessness violates human dignity and therefore it is the governments obligation to help people out of homelessness if they want to accept that help.
- The minimum welfare payments unemployed people receive(even beyond their unemployment payments) have been raised several times because the Supreme Court found it wasn't enough to live a dignified life.
- Another important part of that constitutional article is the fact that it talks about "human dignity", not "german dignity", this doesn't specifically concern Germans or people in Germany, but everyone. Reflected for example in Germanys perceived responsibility to take in refugees.

 

[B. Spaceman]

It is true that people made a huge deal about the removal of Franco's remains from "Valle de los Caidos"?

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Oh yeah they did, mostly conservatives but the "liberal" Ciudadanos party too (like the bunch of opportunists they are), and it was always the same thing, "there are more important things to do" "why now? this is a smokescreen" and shit like that, so infuriating. The whole thing is still in progress, too...

 

[Azzanadra]

Toronto, Canada is one of the most liberal places in western world, at least socially. Economically I would say it's centrist.

 

[tabris]

Vancouver, Canada

-legal weed
-not a ton of aggressively religious folks
-huge LGBTQ population
-Justin Trudeau openly identifies as a feminist

Vancouver has problems, but this place is pretty damn liberal. I fuck with it.

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This. I'm so happy I'm living in Canada again after my 1 year stint in the US.

Now if I was living in places like Alberta, Quebec, or Ontario (outside of Toronto), I would probably not be as happy since those areas are pretty conservative (on a Western European spectrum) compared to where I live.

 

[Arjen]

Netherlands,
I think we are doing pretty alright, but we could do better. First country on the planet to legalize gay marriage, so that's pretty cool.

 

[Deleted member 9838]

- gay people can't be open and anything to do with same sex stuff is labeled propaganda
- economy is going literally no where
- huge amounts of nationalism
- press is state owned and heavily censored
- freedom of speech is limited

 

[Iloelemen]

I'm from Spain... LGBT wise, things are pretty good here, probably one of the most tolerant countries in the world in this regard (even some prominent members of the conservative party are gay, as weird as that is). There is a huge feminist movement here but at the same time a lot of reactionary "what about men?" types, even among the young. People are catholic but they're not really religious, most people don't go to church at all so that's good in my book. But this country has a huge problem with Franco apologists, and with the rise of the far right I don't know what's going to happen

And we still kill bulls for fun and call it art

Oh, and my city has a mayor who identifies himself as "anticapitalist" so that's rad, although that might change in may with the elections

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A lot of the Philippine's regression/conservativity are strongholds from colonialism. A lot of our laws for instance are drawn from Spanish laws.
Religion's influence both in our culture and in our laws are still very strong. In fact, it's excessive since the separation of church and state only exist in name only, it doesn't really exist exist in practice.

Funny how our country still clings, in negative ways, to a religion that was only brought to us by colonizers while the country that once colonized us for 300 years, Spain, has now moved on.

 

[Hypron]

NZ is pretty liberal in terms of social issues. We recently went from a centre right to a center left government too, which enacted policies like making the first year of post-secondary study free (with the aim of extending that to a full 3 years-degree in the future).

If you look at individuals though, I still think the country is a bit too religious, but that doesn't actually have a big effect on politics (especially when compared to the US), so it's not too bad.

I also live in Auckland which is super multi-cultural (similar to Toronto in that respect), which I really like.

 

[Spenny]

I'm American. Overall we're very conservative compared to the rest of the western world.

 

[Kaji AF16]

Argentina. A complex case.
On one hand, we have a vast history of working-class achievements and resistances mainly related to anarquism, socialism and the left-leaning versions of peronism. Our 20th century was a pendulum between dictatorships / regressive projects and comparatively progressive governments: what a very respected author (J. C. Portantiero) called an hegemonic tie between two very distinct political models.
Arguably, it is the most European-influenced country of the Latin American subcontinent.

On the other hand, very recently (2015) a neoliberal government (led by Mauricio Macri) won the national elections and speedily dismantled decades of social protections. As ferocious as the reforms have been, the once legendarily combative lower clases have been relatively inactive against this.

Argentina´s capital city, Buenos Aires, is both a very cosmopolitan, vanguard-thinking and socially progressive megalopolis and at the same time an almost assured electoral bastion for the new macrist right.

 

[supra]

US.

Where our furthest viable left candidates are center-right by most standards.

 

[Viewt]

I live in Chicago, which is solidly Democratic, but decades of machine politics make it so that real progressive legislation is slow to take root. We have some pretty massive issues with segregation, racism in general, income inequality and its twin affordable housing, corruption, and infrastructure decay. Like all major U.S. cities, we are far too generous with corporations and don't tax them an iota of what they really owe to re-invest into the population.

If you compare Chicago to Western Europe, uhhhh, yeah, you're gonna be disappointed. For all of its warts, though, it's my (adopted) home, and I've felt more in tune with my surroundings here than any other city I've been to, including the city I grew up in (Miami).

 

[karnage10]

I'll follow your post.
I live in the Portugal:
- Pretty much everyone is Catholic
- No idea how common pre-marital sex is.
- Divorce is legal and everyone is using it.
- Abortion is legal, has ease of access and i think free.
- Sex education is usual here.
- We are a bit prude about sex, rarely using scientific terms.
- misogynist as fuck with a lot of "sayings" that tell women are not good at anything.
- Law here is relatively good IF you can reach a judge. We have our courts so stuffed it is hard to get "minor" complaints heard.
- Healthcare for free but is understaffed so everything takes a lot of time.
- The bloody and violent war on drugs here having many supporters.
- Gay marriage legal since 2001. LGBT tolerance exists, but we have a lot of homophobic terms. I rarely see them used as insults.
- xenophobia against spanish, brazilians and some black people. I haven't ever talked with a portuguese muslim so i don't know how we are in that aspect.

- we torture bulls for fun...

 

[BocoDragon]

This. I'm so happy I'm living in Canada again after my 1 year stint in the US.

Now if I was living in places like Alberta, Quebec, or Ontario (outside of Toronto), I would probably not be as happy since those areas are pretty conservative (on a Western European spectrum) compared to where I live.

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I don't feel that Canadian conservatism really gets all that socially conservative, though. It's all about jobs, industry, etc. No one in rural Alberta cares about political expression of religion, for example.

Definitely a little racism out there. But, there is racism here in Vancouver too. You get the same general sense of "all races live in harmony, we're all Canadian and help each other (but white people don't notice the racism that exists in the shadows)" in both Vancouver and Grande Prairie. Not much difference.

 

[themoralcenter]

I live in America. So from where I'm from:
- Donald Trump
- American Culture

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[whitehawk]

Canada.

So while places like Norway are ahead of us, I'm incredibly privileged and thankful for where I live.