Anonymous #1 4d

so me and my family actually vacationed in mauritius about 7 years ago and it was beautiful! i loved the weather, food, and culture. it’s def an underrated vacation spot but i highly recommend! i do want to move to eritrea bc of their cultural connections, their focus on community vs individuality in the US, and low cost of living, also eritrea has underrated nature and i plan to vacation there in a few years to check it out! ❤️

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Anonymous #3 4d

eritrea is only viewed as bad bc of eurocentrism and western media wanting to make every country on the African continent look bad…

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Anonymous #2 4d

loved new zealand too! i vacationed there with my family as well and it truly is one of a kind. definitely in my top 5 places i would live.

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Anonymous OP 4d

I have a friend whose family left Eritrea for good reason. Also like some governments can just be worse than others. Eritrea’s government is notably more authoritarian than most on the African continent. If this was all because “every country is made to look bad” that doesn’t explain at all why Eritrea would be treated as authoritarian when Botswana or Kenya or Senegal aren’t.

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Anonymous #3 4d

Like people treat Africa badly that doesn’t mean African governments are incapable of being authoritarian…

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Anonymous #3 4d

authoritarianism ≠ bad. democracy ≠ good. we only view authoritarianism as bad because of US propaganda. democracy can cause just as much harm as authoritarianism. literally look at the history of the US trying to “spread democracy” and the consequences it had in the associated countries.

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Anonymous OP 4d

“We only view authoritarianism as bad because of US propaganda” is one of the most astounding single sentences I have seen written here and that says a lot. Like people will imply it but don’t just outright say it. And in defense of *Eritrea* of all countries, rather than North Korea or China or Russia as I would expect. Wow. I just have to sit with that for a while cause “American dedicated to defending Eritrea” is a type of human I wasn’t aware existed.

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Anonymous OP 4d

Wanted to add that I have brought this up to said Eritrean friend and he finds this equally as baffling and fascinating as I do

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Anonymous OP 4d

america was imperialist, spreading capitalism, so they could exploit the people of the newly capitalist globalized nations. a good analogy for authoritarianism/democracy is: married life for women now versus in.... the 1940s? 1800s? a woman now goes and does as she pleases, can divorce, live on her own, do whatever. a woman then? you had nothing. no bank, no independence, you were essentially property of the husband. would you rather be the first or the second? free or owned? mobile or caged?

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Anonymous OP 3d

Authoritarianism is inherently bad. It creates a system wherein the people have no mechanism but blood to change policy or rulers. Liberal democracy may be far from ideal and come with its many contradictions, but I would much rather be the person who has some level of control over the ship even if it’s mostly at the local level, than be at the whims of an autocrat like Putin or Kim Jong Un

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Anonymous OP 3d

Also plenty of authoritarian nations have engaged in conquest and imperialism. The disease is that of nations, not whether they are democratic or not.

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Anonymous OP 3d

I mean move there

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Anonymous OP 3d

You’re unhinged if you genuinely think authoritarianism isn’t bad. US imperialism does not detract from the impact of authoritarianism, it contributes to it. If you replaced “authoritarianism” with “capitalism”, your comment would stand much better (as US imperialism helps to maintain capitalism, especially with propaganda and force)

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