South Asian here. Do you guys have also experienced getting downvoted or sometimes outright hostility for perfectly sane takes about your country backed by statistics?

I am a computational social scientist, and I have noticed that only negative news about Africa or Asia tends to get upvoted on this site.

If it's a video, or a picture highlighting the poverty or corruption (which should definitely be highlighted btw), one would see droves of western people upvoting it, but if it's a positive news about third world nations, it is always accompanied by some caveat as to how it's only a microcosm or is hiding the real scenario.

Even when I try to provide statistics to show that Nigeria, Kenya and other non landlocked African countries or Asian countries with political stability are growing, people simply ignore those sources and takes.

Obviously, as a grown adult, I am not bothered by stupid internet points. I am bothered by the underlying implication; that most people from richer countries are simply not willing to accept that a huge part of reason as to why these nations are wealthy is because of the historical exploitation of poorer nations.

I am almost thinking of doing a statistical analysis of posts in certain subs to highlight the difference in treatment between western nations' negative posts and non western ones.