r/happy • u/[deleted] • Dec 06 '16

🚂 /r/all aboard!😊 This mans positivity makes me so happy! 💕

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u/StabbyMcStabster Dec 06 '16

Generalising as fuck here, but most people from Ghana I've met have been really friendly and happy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16 edited Jun 15 '18

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Thanks to this thread, I'm starting to like Ghana more than the US. Tit for tit.

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u/Jalenofkake Dec 06 '16

that is not the expression.

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u/Jalenofkake Dec 06 '16

but it should be.

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u/PotatoMasher121 Dec 06 '16

Did you just replied yourself

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u/Jalenofkake Dec 07 '16

lmao, it's a bit from the office.

but yes, i did.

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u/Beatminerz Dec 07 '16

Lol going to watch that episode now

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u/Lowefforthumor Dec 06 '16

Fuck yeah Ghana!

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u/nlofe Dec 06 '16

1 Tit for tat

2 You're not even using it properly.

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u/Lowefforthumor Dec 06 '16

How safe is it for an American tourist to visit. Like on a scale of Canada to Iran.

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u/ATCaver Dec 06 '16

I'd say somewhere around Ghana.

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u/porn_corps Dec 07 '16

I recently returned from a year of living in Ghana. The country is very safe. Most of my time was spent in Accra, the capital and largest city. Like any urban area you should be careful in unfamiliar places, but I often felt more secure than in the neighborhoods surrounding my college in LA. I am a guy, but I also knew plenty of women expats who loved their time in Ghana.

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u/Pvt_Larry Dec 06 '16

It's one of the most stable countries in Africa for sure; urban areas have the same type of low-level crime i.e. pickpocketing you'd have anywhere else, but on the whole it's a very safe country with comparatively low levels of corruption for the region.

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u/heartiphone Dec 06 '16

The Australian gov has a site called Smartraveller with travel advice for its citizens - here's Ghana. Looks to be very safe in most of the country.

Some of the legal/visa stuff may not apply if you're not Australian, but the rest of the info is solid. I know the US State dept has a similar site too.

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u/dreams- Dec 06 '16

Most people from Africa in general are. Especially those who are less privileged.

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u/ayovita Dec 06 '16

I got schooled real quick years ago when I assumed a bunch of Ethiopian students came here to escape poverty. I made friends with one girl because we were roommates and found out that the kids with the money were the ones coming here.

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u/INVISIBLEAVENGER Dec 06 '16

The Ethiopeans without money (all of them) can't afford the plane/boat ride. Logic. Solid.

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u/proROKexpat Dec 07 '16

Unrelated story my buddy was dating this Korean chick whose family was worth quite a few million. One day on Skype I overheard his mom say "She's marrying you your money! Don't do it! She just wants out of Korea! She wants to live a privileged life"

I laughed my ass off

She has a personal driver. Bitch wasn't marrying my English Teaching buddy for his $2,000 a month salary.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16 edited Dec 06 '16

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u/ayovita Dec 06 '16

I know it was dumb. I was 18 so by default pretty stupid in general. That was almost a decade ago. The only thing I knew of Africa was "they are hungry." Cringing. That was so insulting.

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u/WorkAcountInTheHood Dec 06 '16

it's people like mother Theresa that caused that kind of thinking, there are a lot of areas of Africa which have droughts etc or are warzones

but a lot of the cities are relatively modern, my friends parents are rich African immigrants and I always annoy her about her "privilege" and whatnot

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u/alonjar Dec 06 '16

... how'd you think the poor kids where coming there?

A lot of poor Christians get sponsored by US missionaries/churches.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '16

Most people in Africa also like Dubya a lot. Despite the mess he made in the Middle East, his effort with regards to HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa were pretty amazing.

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u/Claycious13 Dec 06 '16

Most people in Africa are highly religious and conservative as well.

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u/ChanceTheDog Dec 06 '16

I went to Ghana while I was in the marines. Everyone was chill as fuck, super cool people.

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u/Kap001 Dec 06 '16

I have worked with 2 people from ghana and both of them are amazingly friendly and have some of the realist mentalities I've seen. Great people overall. I have nothing but a positive stereotype of people from Ghana.

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u/WorkAcountInTheHood Dec 06 '16

depends if they integrate or not, in the UK etc there are islamic schools funded by the government which spread racism, sexism and sectarianism. there's video proof of alot of them, where they can they shut them down, but not always.

in some places people have backed down and allowed it to continue under the guise of stopping it is Islamophobic

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u/zebedir Dec 06 '16

I used to know a guy from Ghana, he was probably the nicest person I've met in a long time.

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u/Chryzos Dec 06 '16

People from Gahna really like Germany aswell I think. Almost all of Germanys black population is from Ghana if i remember correctly