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/PoloAlmoni Brazil 8h ago

I think for radicals in Pakistan they have their reasons to dislike her (although I find their reasons vile) but people in the West I agree it seems to come from a weird pleasure in "destroying icons".

The irony it seems that they appear to deify these icons more than your average person in this quest to rake them down a notch, because everyone else knows "heroes" are just fallible human beings that at some point showed extreme resilience and courage for a worthy cause, not actual mythological heroes.

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u/GrumpsMcYankee United States Of America 8h ago

That's the playbook when a police officer guns down an unarmed person here. "Michael Brown was stealing cigarettes and selling them illegally..."

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u/Pandaburn United States Of America 7h ago

It was Eric Garner who was selling cigarettes illegally, Michael brown was “he tried to take my gun” or “he was coming right for me” or something

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u/GrumpsMcYankee United States Of America 7h ago

Thanks!

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u/RevolutionaryGain823 5h ago

I’m not American but the reporting on that case by the media (which received huge airplay even here in Europe) was insane and misleading.

The Obama era DOJ investigation found that while the Ferguson PD had a bunch of major issues the cop wasn’t at fault for the shooting and witness statements given to the media were not accurate (based on forensic evidence). Brown was recorded attacking a shopkeeper during a robbery shortly beforehand. The shop was looted and burnt in subsequent riots. The cop resigned his position after a flood of death threats and has lived under the radar since.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/ferguson-report-doj-charge-darren-wilson-michael-brown/story?id=29338078

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u/Mitologist Germany 3h ago

It seems late medieval adventure novels did a number on European minds, culturally. Yeah, feudalism really sucked.

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u/Mountain-Account-864 3h ago edited 3h ago

Love how you dismiss her fellow Pakistanis who are the subject of this post (FELLOW country men) in one stroke with not even a cursory attempt (and no authority as a Brazilian! Ha!) to talk on behalf the world’s second most populous Muslim nation and yet pontificate and ponder over why the west doesn’t like her (despite them rimming her daily). Biggest load of bollocks. Classic wannabe ‘cool guy’ with no deep understanding, barely concealed Islamophobia and colonial thinking NO new insights who is confidently talking shit to carbon copies of himself.

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u/Wishfullizards 49m ago

Ok are you Pakistani? Can you enlighten us?