Most Overrated Countries
Now, I know what you're thinking: Booklover, how could you possibly insult whole countries? Easy. I don't insult them. I just think they're getting credit for doing not as much as plenty others, as well as have a low population and get all the news for no reason. Let's get started.So many stupid people, ignorant and annoying. No history and any distinctive culture at all, megalomanic politicians and a brutal lack of respect towards other countries and nations around the world. Their diplomacy is strictly orientated towards causing major global conflicts and destroying communities from Uganda to Tuvalu, just because of their desperate need to pay the biggest debt any state on Earth has. Fat people, McDonald's, Burger King, massacres and mass shootings occur daily from Alaska to Florida, many poor and uneducated people... Sad, but all this is the ugly truth, and so 'the greatest country in the world' (as they call themselves) is not the shiny miraculous place we all know from the movies...
India is not overrated per say. Just really dirty and crowded. My god, stop having so many children. They are super sexist and Indian men are very creepy. They are also pretty awkward. They are book smart, but not street smart, they have strange personalities
Not over rated but over criticized. I have observed british media is quite keen on exaggerating and exclusively showing poor areas of India to show how poor it is. It's becoming quite pathetic actually. Maybe it has to do with their empire history? Maybe the brits are still very bitter about India gaining it's independence. It's definitely depends where you go in India to find those dirty areas, but it's definitely not the place it is shown to be in british media. I also like how mindlessly China's rich parts are shown, when it has equal amounts of old and rotting infrastructure.
In my opinion, India is probably the most successful underachieving country I've ever seen. Lots of countries such as Canada, England, USA, and Australia knows how useless this country is. This country for many company owners would be the last country they'd put their companies in. Why? They'd do jack crap and the companies going to make kids do it for them. That's right. Child labour is in India too.
Oh, definitely India! People don't look past the glamour and are bias when it comes to looking at the downsides. Like, every place on earth can have downsides except India. I'm sorry but this is the most arrogant country on earth id prefer going to other south Asian countries that are ignored
Italy covers an area of 301,338 km². With almost 62 million inhabitants, it is the third most populous EU member state. Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, San Marino, and Vatican City. The... read more
Italy is super conservative, and they have an annoying accent, and are way too dramatic especially with their hands. Italian men are not that masculine and the women are not that pretty. It's a dirty country for sure.
Here in Switzerland we have lots of Italians who immigrated with us for the last 150 years.
Each year and that for generations most of them, and by entire families are returning back to their own country (Italy). That shows how much they are not integrated and how much they do not want to really stayed in Switzerland. Those people do not give any added value to our country. They just refuse to be pure Swiss.
And we guess that this stupid and arrogant way to do is not only visible in Switzerland but also in major countries where they have migrated all along the ages.
So they just come with their food pizza and pasta, eat just that and never try to tend to be Swiss.
Most of other migrants from Asia, Africa and South-America for example are much more respectable people and therefore much to be respected.
And Italians will never accept in their own country someone doing the same as they are doing.
For this reason Italians are very racist, in despite of many people are thinking about them.
Mindless and so nasty population is Italian people.
I've always found France to be overhyped, its an ugly language with ugly people. Paris is a dump. Rest of the country is boring. French people are super cold, nasty, dry, and weird
Why France is one of the most famous country and certainly underrated:
Lots of different landscapes, architectures, more than 36 000 villages and cities, lots of different cultures etc...
Famous for its food, gastronomy, for its History (for the best and worst), its known thousands of castles (e.G. châteaux of the Loire Valley),
Its river network (the first in Europe), ski area (the largest in Europe) etc..
Among the most beautiful beaches in the world, because of many Islands and territories like:
- Part of Amazonia (French Guyanne),
- French Polynesia with about 120 among the most beautiful Islands (Pacific Ocean), - French Caribbean with various known islands (Atlantic Ocean),
- New Caledonia and those famous coral reefs and among the most wonderful beaches.
- Reunion, Mayotte are splendid islands (Indian Ocean) etc..
Etc..
And France (mainland) surrounded by North Sea, Atlantic Sea and ...more
I loved France the first time I went there, but I was tired after a while. I had to go four times, and it's not a bad place; I like it, but I got tired of it quickly as there wasn't much I hadn't done already. And everyone thinks that Disneyland (Paris) is the best thing in France. It's the WORST THING IN FRANCE! Walking around seeing creepy people in Goofy suits hug your children?!?! What are you supposed to get from that?!?!
I'm living now in France and I can affirm that French are kind people. Of course like everywhere you will find some exceptions but not more than normal average.
And the country is so nice, including food, architectures, attractions, exhibitions, festivals...
Way too liberal. Sweden is cold and boring. They speak a weird ugly language, They are really not that attractive or friendly. Its way too expensive anyways
Sweden is a simply awful place to live, especially in the big cities. Let me give you are a tour through the hell that Sweden actually is. First of all the suburbs, rat forsaken holes that no man nor women deserves to experience. Drugs, alcohol and other criminal activity is very common in the suburbs and so the big cities, which the suburbs are located rather near. The culture in Sweden it self is completely horrendous and so is the people, whether ethnic swedes or immigrants the people are just dreadful. The shyness and unpleasantly is to great for words to describe and so is the unkindness, here in Sweden people are just really mean to each other. If you even ask them what time it is, it seems like they are about to call the cops on you. Everyone is just so angry all the time, and don't let me get started on the kids and youths. The youngsters are just so badly raised that it seems like all they can become are bank robbers which a lot of suburban kids become, or drug addicts but ...more
Before you guys talk about criminal rates, I'd like to mention that other countries have MUCH more crime compared to Sweden. All places have "vulnerable areas", the Swedes just chose to mention it out loud. Yes, the people are very shy, but once you get to know you'll learn how nice they are. Unless, of course, your one of those rude people who need's to take a chill pill. I'm assuming you met one mean person and decided that everyone is like them? Or maybe your one of those rightists who can't even tell the difference between real or fake news. No, I have been here and this place is not overrun with immigrants. There are plenty other cities who have accepted much more refugees. If you just didn't like it because it wasn't to your taste, that's totally fine! Anyway, in response to the comment below me, how many residents are drug addicts or bank robbers? Not many, right? Please stop focusing on only the negative aspects and actually open your eyes, though I doubt that's possible for ...more
Country of antisemites, spoiled manginas, ugly women and effeminate idiots who try to act rude when you're not looking at them, most people think is very unsafe, it's not, it actually has very low rate of crimes, but it doesn't make it a good place to live either.
I would prefer to live in Hungary than this boring ass country, all scandinavians countries are overrated, the fact that they have a very solid economy is not enough reason to think they're the best, or would you move to Saudi Arabia or Qatar just because their economies are good?
UK has an awful history. They are bastards. Super racist. Its an inbred island that is cold and has awful food. London is super miserable and it is being invaded by Islam. UK is super depressing, especially the weather and London holds all the power
Hang on, Britain is like the most underrated country in the world. No one ever sees anywhere other than London. 10 minutes driving out of the city centre and you are hit with beautiful green countryside, and the further you go, the more beautiful. We have beautiful beaches, lovely weather in the summer time (hitting as high as 34 celcius last year), lovely people and delicious food. We are not poor, we just live on less. Americans think that we are poor, but we just don't overeat and don't need everything to be huge. Outside of London, everything is to a brilliant standard, and we may not have the huge empire that we once did, but we have more overseas territories than any other country. We still lead the way in science and have the two best and most prestigious universities in the world. We have amazing traditions, and an extremely high standard of living. Those who think Britain is bad have either never been to Britain, or just not taken a 20 minute train out of the city.
Everybody loves Europe and hates Africa (at least a lot of people I know)
Europe is so boring and there's nothing to do but look at buildings. And the UK is no exception their is literally nothing to do and the weather is disgusting. Africa is the best and extremely underrated because its poor. The way African tribes live is amazing and it has the best safaris you will ever see
Sincerely someone who loves to travel
The worst place I have ever visited. Nothing much to do except for shopping and relaxing at Hyde Park. Outside of London, it's even worse.
Japan has a huge capital city called Tokyo, other cities in Japan include Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya and Sendai. It's close to South Korea,... read more
They are not that attractive. The people are anti social and weird. The food is just boring fish and rice. Anime is overrated and weird.
Japan is the most over rated place I have ever been. It is an over populated country with 127 million people crammed into an area about 50% larger than New Zealand. It seems that anywhere that isn't mountainous is completely covered in suburbia. Sprawling freeways, shopping malls, ugly modern Japanese architecture, factories and hordes of people carrying shopping bags, something that you usually leave the west for. There is hardly any nature left in the cities. The odd cherry blossom or tourist filled temple doesn't make up for the endless Astroboy like dull urban landscape. People say it's a mix of the old and the new. For me it was just the new. The old has been destroyed. It was like being stuck in a manga cartoon that I watched after school when I was a kid. The only thing is those shows ended after half an hour. People were friendly and respectful to each other but they are not without their own problems. Massive national suicide, depression and people working so hard that they actually die at work. A highly stressful and un relaxing society. There are a few things that just keep coming up when people say why they like it. The food, Manga, robot restaurants (TACKY0 trains and so on. If you don't like any of these (which I don't) the place doesn't have much character.
It's boring, its just like the U.S, they keep comparing it to the U.S. get your own culture, boring, Canada. You are way too far left, Trudeau is awful, and Canada is way too cold
I know I may be biased (I'm American, after all) but I have lived in Michigan all my life and I have a Canadian cousin, and usually visit her for a month (annually). I genuinely feel like Canada is completely overrated. When I search up a comparison of Canada and the USA, many of the websites only acknowledge Canada's pros and America's flaws; something that irks me to no end. I dislike how many people seem to feel that Canada is flawless; it really isn't, not by a long shot. I honestly am sick and tired of the pro-Canada things that have been circulating the web. Yes, I know they have free healthcare. Yes, I know their national parks are free (how is this even important enough to be listed so often on the pro-Canada lists?! ). But really, are they that great? I feel as if they're so overrated that people won't even admit they're overrated- hence the low position on the list.
Also, their poutine, their beautiful dish, was so heavy that I was full after putting a single fry in my ...more
I migrated to Canada and lived there for nearly 4 years and I can personally say being a friendly country is overrated at all. You go everywhere and they love to compare how much better they are than America. And rude rude people out there. You try to tell them you miss home and you would get reactions like " go home to your own country" or what made you come here then?! Giving you that very odd look. Oh look at us we have so much better in economy than US. Better this better that. And they talk about US news and sports and politics all the time and compare to them.
In the United States there's an odd need to either hate or love Canada. I don't really fall into either category. Most Canadians I've met have been somewhat rude, though such is likely due more so to the area than the people. What is really overrated about Canada is its assumed position as a 'friendlier' USA. It is a title that seems to be often stated by slackers or otherwise hypocritical people. This idea of Canda as an 'escape' from big bad mean USA is very overrated. There's only a small difference in culture between the USA and Canada (sorry all you hippie hopefuls out there). Canada's full of meanies just like the rest of us.
They are super rude, China is gross, polluted, and overpopulated. Their government is awful. They are super sexist, and the women are ugly with bad teeth
Pretty over rated, the people are egoistic and like to act like prudes. Their economy is mostly built on export markets and free grants from the US. If nigeria was given such an oppurtunity, they would have been in the same place that china is now. Plus a lot of inventions that it is attributed to is not even theirs. For instance, fire works was already used by Indian kingdoms in 5th century AD. And the first military use of fireworks was used by Tipu Sultan, an Indian king against british invaders. It's capacity is way over exaggerated.
Not overrated, let's see:
- One of the worst hatebase in existence.
- Most of these anti-chinese comment are biased
- So many people seem to hate it.
So it's an extremely underrated country.
I gotta be honest. China copied so many products from Japan, America, etc.
Why? It's because of communists.
Its a mix between the U.S and the UK. They are ugly, blunt, and annoying with stupid accents. They treat the aboriginals like crap, and they are gunna be invaded by Asians. Australia is expensive, dry, arrogant, and lame
No culture, poor cuisine, and a rather dark shameful history! People are superficial, ignorant and sometimes downright racist and exhibit fake niceness that Americans and Brits are famous for (being insincerely nice seems to be a trait shared by anglocentric countries). An awful country that wouldn't be known if Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman didn't land in the next top insincere and overrated country contender: America!
Thanks to all for calling us pointless and rude. Do you see what you're saying yourselves? We're not superficial, insincere or ignorant either. And I'm sure that Australia, being one of the oldest continents on Earth, has no culture or history. And nothing you can't get elsewhere? Yeah, I mean, there are lots of other countries EXACTLY like Australia, aren't there?
Sterile country with boring, superficial people!
Embraced as a multi-cultural Utopia, however has to be one of the most unsociable countries on the planet where neighbours (See the irony there? ) can live next door and never talk to each other!
Rank beer, blokes full of bravado but very little etiquette!
A big cul-de-sac at the end of the world!
There's nothing beautiful about a poor tiny island country. Because the Caribbean is just an island archipelago, all its countries are poor. Its people are also not good people; they are using the "tourism" of the Caribbean to rob unsuspecting tourists.
Nothing you can't get elsewhere, for a similar experience but with friendlier people Italy and really nicest beaches, go Italy.
Let me tell you a story, there were two major earthquakes in 2010 that I recall, Haiti and Chile. Chiles was bigger and caused more damage, as well as being one of the worst earthquakes of all time, but since Haiti's poor, they get a song written about them, and tons of recognition. I wouldn't mind if Chile got more attention but nobody cared.
Haiti and Chile are both poor underdeveloped Latin American countries. Well, that is to be expected because Latin America and the Caribbean are really impoverished; they are basically a slightly richer Africa, that's it. What a pathetic region, people do drugs just to get easy money or just plain lazy and violent.
"Russians are so tough", "Russia is so cool" etc. Let me tell you, Russia is taking all the pride from rest of Eastern Europe. Polish, Ukrainians, Serbians and others are the same as Russians. Maybe even better. Those Russian stereotypes like their strength, bravery etc. Are basically taken from other slavic countries. Russians are not the strongest. Russians are not tough. I live in an area with a fairly big Eastern European community. Mainly dominated by Russians and Polish peoples, and believe me Polish people can kick some ass. Russians seem to be small. They just take other slavic peoples pride because they have the biggest country and population of slavs.
The most overrated Country in the World. Especially after the disgracement 2014 Olympics women's figure skating competition, when the Russians gaved a OK amateur the Olympic Gold medal instead of the Queen of skating, Yuna Kim. That was ridiculous judging and home style cooking!
Honestly, Russia is UNDERRATED. Everyone on here but me and aj2005 hate it. Sweden's done so much worse than Russia
I agree with this, also Russia took the Muslim Crimean Tatars land from them!
One thing that is extremely annoying about Israel for me is that almost every single Christian I meet has this stupid dream to go on some 'biblical tour' in Israel, now I have nothing against Christians (I'm a Christian myself) but the fact that they think it is some amazing and beautiful country like in the bible really gets on my nerves because in reality is actually a terrorist infected, poverty ridden desert just the same as the rest of the filthy middle east. Also Jewish people are extremely arrogant and racist, like they still think they are 'God's chosen race'. It is rather ironic that Jews are the proudest and most racist people in the world when actually their country is a totally trash, middle eastern hell hole.
There's a whole lot of mysticism still surrounding this country, so much so that Israel is a popular topic in American politics, as though we can't be 'real' Americans unless we support the every move of the often immoral actions of the Israelian government. While the coujtry might not be inherently 'overrated' it nonetheless is talked about quite often, for reasons that seem to me superfluous and based on a decapitating superstition.
Ruled by ultra-nationalistic parties, but criticizes nationalism anywhere else. Enforces apartheid but is called the "only democracy in the Middle East" etc. It's a tiny piece of land and it gets all the news. Who even cares?
Very arrogant, they think they are the superior race and other races are pigs... Just like the Nazis!
I in feel a bit bad for Finland. It's very sad, that a lot of finns have committed suicide and are suffering from alcohol abuse.
Nothing you can't get elsewhere, for a similar experience but with friendlier people, real beautiful beaches and surely better food, try Italy.
Overrated Food
Overrated Culture
Example - flamenco is a simbol of Spain in many countries
It is not even genuinely Spanish!
Flamenco is Gypsy dance and music
One of the worst countries anyone could ever visit and yes I am an Arab from the Gulf and yes I am a Muslim. If I wasn't a Muslim, I wouldn't even think of visiting Saudi. Its people are rude, mean and treat you like... Even if you are an Arab from a neighboring country. They are all full of themselves for god knows what! The only reason why I went there is because of Mecca and Medina, where the prophet pbuh lays. The laws are so backwards and dull. Everything is banned! Before going there, everyone talked about the abundance of shopping malls there but they were rather causal and plus who wants to travel for shopping malls only? >
The only good thing is the abduncade of plenty of restaurants, catering to all tastes
This country is underrated, everybody hate it because it's so strict about Islam, but why all that hate this country is awesome high economy and it's safe.
This country is extremely bigoted towards non Muslims and women. They supply funds and weapons to terrorist and the laws there are crazy
Never go to Saudi, simply the worst country on Earth.
Don't even think of visiting Egypt. I've visited it before the revolution. If you're a foreigner even if an Arab, Egyptians will try to rob you in all possible ways. Sexual harassments are notorious here and are annoying, needless to say. The trip to the Pyramids of Giza is not as fancy or dreamy as it seems on Egyptian T.V. ads. The streets can be overcrowded and beggars will follow you everywhere and to make it worse, shopkeeprs near the pyramids will insist on giving you fake discounts even if you don't want to buy. Stick to hotel restaurants and don't even think of eating anything from the streets. You also don't want to give a tip to one hotel staff as plenty of others will come and walk beside you in desperate hope of receiving a tip. Also, once you step in the airport get ready for beggars(janitors working in the airport will ask you for money) and annoying smell. I seriously don't know what the hell was I thinking when I thought of visiting Egypt. It is a nice place but the ...more
Most overrated African country alongside South Africa and Nigeria.
The pyramids of Gaza are noisy and the inside looks like a cow shed.
Underrated actually all what people know about it is the pyramids
UAE has one of the worst civil rights abuse records on the planet. They walked out of a UN meeting this month aimed at helping them reform their judiciary. It was UAE who wanted UN help, but now walk out? It's counterintuitive.
They've also begun an intel agency with former CIA advisors, so you know it's soon to be a prison nation. Check google for How not to get arrested in UAE. A married man & woman were arrested for kissing on the beach. 😱
I hope this fake church will die soon. Religion is taken too far by them.
This country is nothing but a wannabe mix of every Latin America country and Portugal. While I really appreciate the scenery and culture its kind of overhyped in my opinion. The political and social conflicts are trash and poverty rates are high. And lets not forget the most overrated thing about this country its language. While Portuguese from Brazil is my favorite dialect of Portuguese I hate it when people dismiss European Portuguese for being worst even though I think it is almost as beautiful. Some Brazilians that I have met were just so dismissing to Portugal calling it trash and crap that really pissed me off. The Portuguese here might be better but compared to this overrated place and Portugal, Portugal has better history, nicer people, and less problems.
Brazilian Portuguese sucks! If you want to hear real Portuguese than go to Portugal!
I'm Brazilian and I agree 100%, the country is highly overrated, first of all Brazilians aren't friendly and tolerant as the media says, a lot of Brazilians are extremely homophobic and racist but they deny it.
The country is also unbearably religious, you go everywhere and listen to gospel Christians songs everywhere and it seems to be getting worse by day, if you aren't Christian basically you're disliked by the majority of the population, specially if you're an atheist or belong to an Afro-Brazilian religion.
I'd say Rio is by far the most overrated destination in the country, basically high crime rates everywhere not only in the city but in the whole state., Also Brazilians aren't warm, they pretend to be warm but talk rudely about you behind your back.
Brazilians have a very jealous culture, everyone is jealous of everybody here, if own an iPhone people will hate you, if you have a fit body people will hate you, basically Brazilians think they're inferior to ...more
Germany may has some nice place to visit, unfortunately I find many places in Germany to be kind of boring.
East and west Germany still have some gaps, the west is slightly more developed than the east.
Germany is underrated because they can build their own idol groups where idols you can meet!
German national sport team is an INTERNATIONAL INTERRACIAL JOKE. Who score your goals? Podolski, Gomez and EL Arabi? Are you kidding me?
I saw some gymnastics team 5 girls none of them German, most Russians... What''s the Point?
Same with athletics... Most of your sportsman are nationalised foreigners.
It is so easy to win golds if you have 20 Africans in your team... Go search for your dignity Germany