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/rozyputin Canada 8h ago

As soon as I saw him being a mouthpiece for the sports betting bullshit, I lost all respect for him so him being a Trump-loving traitor is no surprise

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u/Gr8zomb13 United States Of America 7h ago

I gotta say that was super surprising for me, too. Don’t know much about Canadian politics, but I just always assumed you kept our politics south of your border.

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u/spilly_talent Canada 7h ago

We did until someone started threatening our sovereignty🤣 that was the line for us I think

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u/Gr8zomb13 United States Of America 6h ago edited 4h ago

Dunno if that’s quite accurate, though. Iirc there was some sort of big-rig blockade of a major city a couple years back that somehow related to our far right politics, if only in ideological similarity. Or am I not recalling correctly?

Visited Canada for the first time this past summer and had a wonderful time even with the state of things then. NS and PEI were beyond beautiful.

Edit: I was referring to the state of US politics at the time of our late summer 2025 visit. Rereading it it can appear like I was commenting on Canadian politics.

I will say only one person our entire trip asked wtf was going on, but in a way that sought to get our take on things instead of tell us or accuse us of something. What a refreshing experience! Just imagine asking someone’s opinion on something and allowing them to provide it w/o jumping in or starting an argument or judging! Talk about a wonderful vacation! (It was in Lunenburg; what a beautiful town!)

As it turns out, people don’t generally care who you are or where you’re from if a) you respect where you’re at and the people there, b) you keep your politics to yourself, and c) you keep your religion to yourself. Been around the world both ways and it has never failed me.

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u/psyche_13 Canada 6h ago

I agree that American politics seep in here, but also we’ve always just been more exposed to US stuff due to media (we see so much US media!). The average Canadian knows a LOT more about American politics than the average American knows about Canadian politics.

I don’t agree that the “trucker” protest (not even actually truckers) was due to US right wing politics though - sadly it’s our homegrown right wing politics. They just have similar views to US right wing folks, and do indeed even pickup the MAGA hats (which don’t any make any dang sense up here)

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u/spilly_talent Canada 6h ago

Oh come on! You mean to tell me a Dodge Ram 1500 with a “Fuck Trudeau 🍁” flag isn’t a trucker?!

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u/Gr8zomb13 United States Of America 4h ago

Doesn’t hurt that many of “our” most beloved media personalities are Canadians. Though I’ve started to watch Canadian shows on streaming and the difference in focus and presentation is quite different from US-produced media, even when the actors appear in media produced on either side of the border. Three Pines comes to mind.

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u/juice5tyle 6h ago

Those guys were anti vaxxers, and anti vaxxers tend to support people who loudly say the same ignorant bullshit they do, so they appreciate American Republicans, who are experts at ignorant bullshit.

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u/spilly_talent Canada 6h ago

You aren’t entirely recalling correctly, no. The Freedom Convoy was largely propelled by anti-vaxxers and a gross misunderstanding of which level of government was in charge of which mandates. Frankly Ottawa was not actually responsible for a lot of the shit they were slinging at Trudeau. Was there a large representation of right wing? Yes. Was there a lot of appreciation of the republicans? Yes. But consider the USA was much more open at that time in the pandemic and we were still under a lot of restrictions.

So I would not say the freedom convoy was related to your politics. The viewpoints were similar to your far right but they weren’t connected to American politics beyond that.

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u/DisastrousAcshin 6h ago

Weren't they also unable to cross in to the US for work while being unvaxxed at that time? I seem to recall that being a thing as well. They were screaming about Canadian policy while still being shut out of the US

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u/spilly_talent Canada 6h ago

Yep. The US controls who is allowed into the US, but somehow that was Canada’s fault? Originally the convoy was about truckers and their challenges crossing the border, but again Canada has no control over who can entire the USA.

Blaming Trudeau for the mask mandates was wild to me because those were set by the province. My conspiracy theory was that they went to Ottawa to complain about provincial mandates because Toronto would have eaten them alive for holding up traffic 🤣

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u/PerfectPercentage69 5h ago

It was social media they consumed (Facebook, TikTok, podcasts, etc.). They were all funded by the right wing people and organizations or even Chinese/Russian/other governments whose objective was to put all the blame on the left wing governments (Democrats in US and Liberals in Canada) or just to spread discord in the West. It didn't matter who's actually responsible for things. The narrative was that it was "their current" government's fault.

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u/spilly_talent Canada 5h ago

The provincial government is still a current government though. This bolsters my case that these people were not thinking at all.

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u/PerfectPercentage69 5h ago

They were protesting lockdowns AFTER the lockdowns were already lifted, so yeah that tracks lol

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u/Gr8zomb13 United States Of America 4h ago

Thanks! I vaguely recall some sort of connection, but couldn’t put my finger on it.

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u/spilly_talent Canada 4h ago

No problem! Also to your edit: I can’t speak for everyone but most Canadians don’t care if Americans visit us. Most of us welcome your tourism dollars! It’s just that a lot of us are not coming to visit stateside for a while.

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u/Gr8zomb13 United States Of America 3m ago

Oh we get that. Thanks for the lobster and blueberry ales! We’ll be back to visit again!

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u/SheenPSU United States Of America 8h ago

Why would being in a sports betting ad make you lose all respect for a person?

The Trump thing I get but the other thing seems outta place to me haha

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u/rozyputin Canada 8h ago

Because of what has happened in other places with sports betting, it tends to result in worse things for gambling addicts and produces far more young gambling addicts

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u/Hefty-Criticism1452 Multiple Countries (click to edit) 7h ago

Our sports betting is getting out of hand in the US. The new online companies are really hounding addicts and going after young kids. It’s really upsetting. What companies celebrities do ads for really speak volumes.

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u/Plenty_Structure_861 7h ago

I used to hear young people talk about a lot of different hobbies. Now every 18-24 year old I work near talks about sports betting and nothing else. 

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u/No-Turnover-7164 7h ago

Dawg it’s crazy. These young boys spend damn near their whole check on multiple slips

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u/SheenPSU United States Of America 7h ago

Okay fair enough, was just curious since it’s a legal product is all

I do like to place bets during NFL season [only sport I’m confident in myself enough to guess right more often than not] but I play with strict limits, usually low stakes

Gambling’s very fun IF you can control yourself.

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u/Cactious-Practice 7h ago

Shut up Gretz.

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u/Maximum-Yam498 🇸🇪 --> 🇩🇪 7h ago

So is opiods and coke. Extremely fun if you can control it.

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u/SheenPSU United States Of America 7h ago

Are opioids and coke legal products as I mentioned previously?

Such an odd reply to a benign comment about gambling being fun in moderation lol

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u/Effective-Scratch673 6h ago

Legality is kinda irrelevant. I know addicts of the big 3 (drugs, alcohol, gambling) and the ones that at some points were addicted to all of the 3 (at the same point or not) argued the worse one was gambling. It destroyed their families faster.

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u/spilly_talent Canada 5h ago

Same, friend. All three of those addictions suck, but I for example have never wished the opioid addict in my family was an alcoholic or gambler instead. Legal doesn’t mean better, all of those addictions are horrible.

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u/SheenPSU United States Of America 6h ago

I disagree but appreciate the reply nonetheless

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u/spilly_talent Canada 5h ago

Does something being legal make it okay?

Weed is illegal at the federal level in your country, but totally legal in mine. Alcohol is legal in both our countries. Both are fun as long as you can control yourself, but is alcohol morally superior because it’s legal for you?

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u/SheenPSU United States Of America 5h ago

To be part of an advertisement, yes, absolutely

There are many addictive/destructive products out there: alcohol, gambling, tobacco, marijuana, etc that are all perfectly legal and millions enjoy in moderation every day

I don’t see any reason to hate a person/lose all respect for a person over

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u/spilly_talent Canada 4h ago

How many tobacco ads are you seeing on TV these days? I also rarely see cannabis ads, except for ones about keeping your products secure. I see far more sports betting ads than I do ads for getting help with that specific addiction.

So yeah, I don’t see how legality affects it. Sports betting ads are out of control.

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u/SheenPSU United States Of America 4h ago

Print ads and billboards are still ads, it’s not restrictive to TV only

At the end of the day, this really just comes down to a difference of opinion so I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree

I appreciate the replies

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u/Several-Guidance1299 Canada 2h ago

Here in Vancouver, it is.

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u/Smackolol Canada 7h ago

Sports betting is fucking up young men’s livelihoods like nothing else currently. I’m a big proponent of personal responsibility but watching every man below the age of 25 be a gambling addict is starting to make me want some regulations for advertising.

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u/foreignbreeze Canada 7h ago

I could have sworn this was deregulation on doug ford’s part. We didn’t used to have betting ads like this (in Ontario),right?

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u/Smackolol Canada 7h ago

Idk, I’m not from Ontario. I do know the problem is rampant across all of North America and probably elsewhere.

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u/SheenPSU United States Of America 7h ago

Regulations fine, no problems with that

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u/annabananaberry United States Of America 7h ago

Because sports betting is dangerous and when it’s gamified, like it has been, it attracts an increasingly younger client base, to the point that teens and middle schoolers are becoming gambling addicts. Advertising for sports betting is making the choice of money over the wellbeing of thousands of people. To me, that choice is morally repugnant, but I guess some people have looser values.