Topic: What is the perception of people about gamblers in your neighborhood? - page 4. (Read 536 times)

Well, it's a very common thing that gambling or gamblers are bad to the eye of other people or bad influence. We can't please other people or the crowd about our hobby, so we cannot control what they will think about us gamblers. Well, in my country, there is a process where gambling is legal, for example, in a casino establishment or online casino, and those establishments comply with the rules and regulations of the government. That's why gambling is legal. So many gamblers can say that they play legally, but of course there are illegal gambling or gambling games that are being played in a household. In short, gambling is happening all around the world. It's up to us gamblers if we will be affected by the words of other people. As long as we are not involving other people around us or affecting people around us negatively, then we are clean; we are just doing what we want.

The gambling business is flourishing in our country because it is easy to get a license our government is encouraging it as long as the gambling operators are compliant so we have horse racing, offline cockfighting, and other forms of gambling and our government is also promoting betting on Lottery because they are the one running it.
And the people's perception of a gambler, as long as you are good and managing how you gamble and you don't look poor because of gambling, people will just ignore that you are a gambler, in a third-world country your social status is very important.
If you're poor and you're playing in online or offline casinos people think you are miserable, and if you're rich and you're betting on any of both these platforms people think you are lucky and you're winning.

These days, people get exposed to advanced technology and opportunities to gamble, and the same lets everything be anonymous. In my neighborhood, if someone comes to know that a person is gambling, everyone comes to a conclusion about his earnings or losses. Maybe he has good business and is making good money, but people conclude he has won big, and if he has been experiencing failure in life, the same gets connected with gambling without knowing what the truth is. So, it is good to keep our gambling habits a secret.

In my country gambling is illegal, and is not allowed to operate, but there is still a lot of illegal gambling that exists in secret and is only known and carried out by certain people. Because the majority of the population in my country is Muslim, Muslims consider gambling to be haram and with this being the law and regulations in my country that gambling is illegal, I gamble when I am abroad where gambling is legal.

Maybe if in my country a gambling place was legally opened in one of the regions in my country, I would play there.

Meanwhile, I only play via gambling websites or go to other countries

This doesn't only happen in your area, almost all gambling places are considered an activity that leaves a bad impression, but who can stop it even though many people have a cynical view of gambling. People's mindset is always different for every activity you do, negative assumptions always dominate in people's minds about something you do. Who cares, they can only think and assume, as long as you can finance your gambling needs with your own money, their assumptions will disappear by themselves.

Basically I think in general for most people (not just one area) have a negative point of view on gambling including in my own area, I can confirm that because we are talking about gambling which is an activity that requires the allocation of money to be involved with the aim of betting and looking for the final result whether winning or losing, on the other hand if gambling is not about profit - profit then obviously the public's point of view will not be negative, but however something based on luck is always difficult to predict the end result which means it has the potential to increase money and lose money.

But overall gamblers experience  more losses than wins because bookmakers build casinos with the aim of their own profits so it is only natural that it is very difficult for gamblers to be in a lucky situation in a row. Gambling has the potential for addiction which will certainly make gamblers even more addicted and curious about the final result and that curiosity will make them continue to try their luck which is very difficult to get because as I said luck is always unpredictable so gamblers experience a lot of money loss and because of that impact one of which makes the public's perspective on gambling very negative.

Each region has its own perception of gambling in its area. and in my opinion, people who express their perceptions about gambling only look at the results they see directly, not from someone's struggle or hard work to be able to win at gambling, even though we all know that in gambling there are definitely problems and obstacles, both in the long term. short or long term. Therefore, it is easy for people to express their perceptions about gambling because they may have never participated in gambling activities.
If in my area there are still people who think that gambling is bad behavior that will bring suffering to someone's life, if you see the younger generation gambling, maybe it's just entertainment when they gather with their friends to fill empty activities.

Gambling is a lucrative business in our country, our government is the one running our casinos and the lotteries so it is a very profitable business venture our government, and since it's supported by our government, there are a lot of private businesses that revolve around it, although our country is conservative when it comes to their outlook on vices like gambling, the public still accept gambling since its legal, as long as the gambler is taking care of his family and his business, he will maintain his reputation.
But if his life becomes astray because of his irresponsible gambling that's where people become judgemental on their attitude towards that gambler, so if you're successful you're good but if you go astray people think you're an irresponsible gambler.

It depends on the kind of gambling you're in if you're a lotto bettor which the majority of the people here in our country are, people will openly talk about it or even ask for advice or discuss the rewards, but it's different if you're a casino player people think that you have an addiction in gambling because not everyone here is fully educated that it's very much the same if you're playing in a casino or you are betting in lottery.

Maybe because it's cheap to bet on a lottery here in our country as it only costs $0.30 per ticket compared to betting in casinos where they thought you could lose thousands, based on what they read on rumors about personalities who indulge in casinos and lose their fortune.

If you had the neighbors who keep involving in the gambling,their influences will easily get into their mindset.The reason was the simple one,even the children get easy addicted to the more attractive one like gambling.The basic thing of the gambling was the gambling addiction,the gambler itself doesn’t know to solve the below problem of gambling addiction with their other friends.If you start the game with the value of ten dollars,what you will do after the biggest proofs of profit in only one gambling.The trading need huge initial profit from the gambling site,but trading doesn’t give guarantees of winning.

In my neighborhood I noticed that people tend to copy other neighbors, when some people in my neighborhood were betting on sports, other people started to join in too and started placing sports bets, it's funny that when I approached from them because I wanted to buy some things that had to do with food, because they kept talking near the store I wanted to buy food from, they kept quiet when they realized I was too close, they acted as if they were part of a secret religious cult , I was laughing about that when I got home.

After a few months of seeing their behavior, I began to understand that they only talked to neighbors who had been in that neighborhood for many years, so as I was someone new to the neighborhood, they didn't say anything out of fear that I would think badly of them. The fact is that the guys were talking very loudly, so I could hear their multibet betting plans, they chose to place $1 on multibets with odds of over 300.00, teams would spend over 30 in a parlay, I was left feeling asking if it was really a sports bet or a lottery ticket, from what I could tell, they would rather constantly lose $1 than place a simple bet and win little money, they wanted to win a lot of money

Im not sure if they are really that still having that negativity towards gambling in speaking about my neighborhood on which it seems that they dont really care on other peoples lives or into the things that they are dealing with. One thing that im much pretty sure is that people who are really that close of mine or with my loved ones like relatives and other known people will surely be having that kind of impression which is really that totally negative towards gambling on which on the time that you do deal up with it then they would really be having those kind of impressions on which you would really be looking like a bad man just because you are engaging with it on which its not really that shocking anymore on that case. Doesnt matter on whose those people look at bad at you
but still that if you do play gambling for fun then i dont see any issues.

Most people think that gambling is a bad activity, especially as parents will always forbid their children from gambling, especially if their children don't have a job or are still at school. That's a normal thing, but when children grow up and have their own jobs, whether they want to gamble or not is their own decision, I think parents will no longer interfere in their children's affairs when they are adults.

Gambling does promise instant wins if we are lucky, but we should not depend on gambling. Even though there are people who get big jackpots, that doesn't mean we will get them too. And unfortunately, usually people who get big wins, usually have previously experienced losses that were bigger than the wins they got

In almost all places, people who are known gamblers are looked down on by the community, the same here in my neighborhood.  Old people in my place often look at gamblers as irresponsible and I cannot blame them because the majority of people who gambles in the neighborhood often spend their whole day playing cards.  While others enjoy the company of their friends watching horse races while they wait for the result of their bet.


They won't listen because they only believe what they see and don't understand what is happening on the inside of a gambler.  Most of them have seen how a gambler can be irresponsible wherein they spend the money allocated to food and bills leaving their family in financial ruin.  We cannot blame them of not believing that not all gamblers are irresponsible because they have witnessed how an addicted gambler leave their family to starve.  It also happens in my neighborhood where the father gambles the only money to buy food.  In the end, his kids have nothing to eat lucky some kind people give these kids food.

but up until now, there's taboo in gambling activity even if we say it is acceptable in the society. if you are a known gambler, people still have hesitation on how they deal things on you especially concerning with money. i guess, that will always be a norm even if we say we are in the digital age already. gamblers are seen to be having negative influence in the community.

i believe, most gamblers in my area are discreet with their gambling activities. but for lotto bettors, they are open about it. i think in this area, lotto betting is just part of a normal day to day activity. so there's no taboo in lotto betting. but for other gambling activities, that's where people are being cautious about in disclosing their actual activities.


you can't blame them because a lot of gamblers are indeed problematic ones. families are having financial troubles because of gambling habits of one person in the family. so it is understandable that up until today, people have somewhat negative notion with gamblers.

The people in my neighborhood see gamblers as wayward people. People who have lost focus in life and they are seen as failures in life. Most of them don't respect gamblers many times I have tried to explain to them that gamblers are not what they are thinking.

People are still seeing gamblers as irresponsible people in some parts of my country. Nobody will want to associate themselves with gamblers in some parts of my country, they don’t even care if you are a responsible gambler or not, immediately they know you are a gambler, they will stop association themselves with you. That's why in my society, most people do hide from people that they are gamblers because people will start seeing them as a bad influence.

But you shouldn’t blame people that tag gamblers as bad people, because it’s due to what addicted gamblers do in society. Some addicted gamblers end up doing illegal things just because they want to gamble, they end up stealing from people. That’s why gambling is taken as a bad thing in my society, but where people are always getting it wrong is that not all gamblers are addicted, and not all of them do illegal things.

In some parts of my country, gambling is taken as a job by youth, it’s a normal activity that youths do, but in the northern part of my country, people still see gambling as a bad activity because it’s again their religion, so if you are from the northern part, then your gambling activities should be hidden. But in other parts, you can gamble freely, and people won’t complain or see you as a bad person in society.

A lot of diversifying opinions.
On many occasions especially depending on the majority idea per say, gambling can either be perceived as bad or good sometimes people can even regard it as a neutral act.
Many a time I have come across some persons who frown at gambling activities just because of religious beliefs. However I believe in the fact that it is actually a neutral act as long as it doesn't become an addiction. You don't expect someone with a majority win in gambling to declare it wrong.

My people still despise gambling and consider it an illegal way of making money, and they despise those who engage in it. Many people I know who gamble in my neighbourhood do so publicly rather than at online casinos, and the majority of them are still poor or living below the poverty line. All of their earnings are spent on gambling, which provides them with nothing in return, which is why my people here are opposed to it. Maybe those who do it online still make it big through gambling, but everything is done in a coded way that they keep hidden from the public. Rich people, in my opinion, have a better chance at gambling than poor people.

When talking about the stigma of society, IMHO almost all every region will almost certainly consider gambling to be one of the bad and irresponsible behaviors and this will not be changed because in the end there is indeed an element where gambling behavior is detrimental which will definitely be considered as irresponsible behavior by many people.
In my area it is also the same, although in the end it depends on each of us if we want to gamble as long as it does not harm others then it is not something that is difficult.

Things like this will not be changed at any time because it is also a form of defense from those who do not gamble. But that does not mean that those who do gambling are considered wrong because in the end I think it is a choice and as long as it does not harm others and can still balance and not focus too much on gambling activities then I think it is not a problem as for other views we just need to allow it because we cannot force everyone's perception in this matter.