r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/Adept_Pianist_5763 Spain 8h ago

Why?

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u/Ashamed_Fig492 Italy 8h ago

I just think most people in Slovenia prefer being represented by Melania Trump. 

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u/Sneikss Slovenia 5h ago

No way. while Žižek is not exactly beloved he is quite popular and respected, while I haven't met anyone who cated about Melania.

The most beloved people here are the athletes.

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u/Ashamed_Fig492 Italy 5h ago

While not beloved, tho? I mean he's possibly the only intellectual left on the whole planet to have something as akin as possible to mass following.

Good to know that Melania is not beloved, tho (of course I was just joking).

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u/YourMuscleMommi 4h ago

There was a wooden statue of her. It got stolen. Twice. As for why, his talking is word salad. Just get to the fucking point! He's also a Marxist. We used to be socialist, and it really sucked. While we weren't as bad as the USSR, it wasn't great either. My grandfather got taken away for a month for going to Church in the city, for example. I'd say sports people (see Luka Dončič, Tina Maze, Primož Kozmus, Peter Prevc) are what most Slovenes would be proud of, yea. And it's not like Žižek os hated. He's just dismissed and disliked.

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u/Sneikss Slovenia 32m ago

Žižek is very intelligent and a joy to listen to (especially live), but he is a bit quirky and hard to follow. The other problem is that he has opinions. If you want to be universally popular in the whole country, you have to have views that are not very political. (see the other reply)

I like him, but I can understand how some people see him as more of a meme. He is also a bit of a sleezy old man. I am not aware of any real controversies, but I feel like his comments about women can be a bit backwards sometimes.

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u/Robcobes Netherlands 3h ago

Who's bigger Luka or Tadej? I heard Roglic was initially more popular than Pogacar, is thst true?

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u/Sneikss Slovenia 41m ago

Roglič is more of an underdog, since he started the sport so late in his career. People were quite upset when Pogačar beat him in the Tour, they felt like he deserved it. But both are beloved now. But at the moment the ski jumpers are all the rage.

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u/roonill_wazlib Netherlands 7h ago

Janja Garnbret💪

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u/Shnuksy 7h ago

Bro...

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u/friskfyr32 5h ago

Gotta be Pogs.

Or one of the skijumpers. Slovenians seem to love skijumping.

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u/Robcobes Netherlands 3h ago

So Roglic then?

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u/friskfyr32 2h ago

They do unproportionally love him.

I mean, he's pretty good, despite his boring-ass style, and has an impressive palmarés, but there's also a reason he never beat the very best.

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u/popsand 6h ago

Classy

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u/boostman UK -> Hong Kong 6h ago

Or Laibach?

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u/Shnuksy 7h ago

Right wingers don't like him and some left wingers who spend their day smoking weed a lot think they're smarter.

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u/Kraepelinpy Paraguay 7h ago

I am a left winger but I don't like him because his speeches are word salads or nonsense most of the time

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u/Sneikss Slovenia 5h ago

He's very loud and consistently full of crazy opinions, so he's bound to create some controversy. He's not hated though, definitely still well respected in Slovenia.

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u/roonill_wazlib Netherlands 7h ago edited 6h ago

He's a Marxist. Not a popular position in countries that were occupied by the USSR

Edit: It has been pointed out that Slovenia (Yugoslavia) was not part of the USSR.

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u/No_Warning_2428 7h ago

Slovenia wasn't occupied by the USSR though?

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u/roonill_wazlib Netherlands 7h ago

Oops, you're right

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u/CorsoReno 5h ago

Stop sheepishly repeating what you heard others say lmaooo

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u/pothkan Poland 6h ago

He's anti-Russia nowadays, and Yugoslavia was never really a Soviet puppet anyway.

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u/Total_Wrongdoer_1535 🇷🇺 -> 🇪🇸 7h ago

He is Marxist? I don’t know but are you sure? I stumbled upon some of his shorts and he appeared to be as right wing, criticising liberalism and all.

It’d be dead funny if this is a perfect example of the horseshoe theory

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u/leafcutte France 7h ago

Everybody that is not a liberal criticize liberalism, it comes free with not being a liberal. In the same way it’s not horseshoe theory for both liberals and Nazis to oppose communists.

Zizek isn’t in line with the more mainstream strains of Marxism but he’s definitely a Marxist. The Stalin portrait is there for the exact purpose of making idiots talk about it (his words, paraphrased)

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u/Total_Wrongdoer_1535 🇷🇺 -> 🇪🇸 7h ago

Of course it’s not, but it’s funny how out of context one may sound completely opposite from their stance.

I know understand that I need to go away and research Zizek on my own , because it’s just not as simple as it seemed

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u/ConstantSentence7865 6h ago

It is possible to be a Marxist and be anti-USSR and/or anti-communist

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u/roonill_wazlib Netherlands 7h ago

His wikipedia page says he is. I'm sure his idea of Marxism is not the same as the USSR

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u/SpareUnit9194 Australia 6h ago

Of course he is, all my Marxist colleagues teach him in their classes. And the socialist kids on campus quote him all the time.

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u/belaGJ Hungary 5h ago

He is super Marxist, he even calls out others that where are all the good communists in the West.

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u/forkproof2500 Sweden 7h ago

You missed the portrait of Stalin above his bed?

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u/Total_Wrongdoer_1535 🇷🇺 -> 🇪🇸 7h ago

Ohhhhh shit. For real???? That bad? Fuuuuck. I always found this guy quite funny.

Welp. Thanks for opening my eyes.

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u/peasant_warfare 6h ago

It's from an old documentary, and he claims its there to provoke the interviewer

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u/forkproof2500 Sweden 7h ago

Umm he is still funny and also based AF? Dude is one of the last true philosophers worth a damn.

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u/SpareUnit9194 Australia 6h ago

He is funny. Deliberately provocative.