| > I am from a third-world country and I know no-one from my country that has allergies related to foods like peanuts, sesame or gluten. B is quite likely, I am from a non-firstworld world country, and back there you hardly ever see people in wheelchairs, blind people, people with disalities. When I first got to EU, I saw so many people in wheelchairs, I thought something is wrong. There are more people with disabilities in europe? Well, turns out people with disabilites in back home live sad and short lives. There is literally zero infrastructure for them - entry to every apartment block has stairs befpre the elvator (90% of people live in apartment blocks) The curbs don't turn into ramps near crossings, they just stay vertical. Our apartment block came with a ramp, and the residents knocked it down because it looked ugly. Eu uses special tiling to indicate to the blind where is an edge of the pedesteian path, where is a crossing, etc. In Russia this does not exist. When the city bought this special tiling, the workers didn't know what it was, so they made random patterns out of it. The traffic lights do not make a sound when its green, if there are roadworks and a giant hole in the ground, no-one puts a yellow fence around it. A missing manhole cover attracks no attention and zero lawsuits. Its not just the government, here is zero awareness, and disabled people don't leave the house, no-one gives a fuck. If you live in the capital, things are slingthly better, but for 90% of the countru thats the reality. |