American Reacts Europe vs America: 10 Differences 

You like cheese. What you've actually grown to dislike, is plastic that calls itself cheese.

Texan: I can drive for eight hours and still be in Texas. Yorkshireman: Aye, I used to have a car like that.

That dude went to Italy and thinks he can speak for all of Europe.

Oh, you think that having cheaper fuel in the US and driving bigger cars is something good? You must be on some strong shit.

USA population 335 M, Europe population 700 M. Europe also has a slightly bigger landmass. So no USA not the biggest at all 😂

Why do Americans call it the bathroom when there’s no bath in the room? 🤷🏻‍♂️

One eleventh difference. In my profession, I have worked for short periods in most European countries. When I had some free time, I used to ask the receptionist at the hotel about interesting places that I can visit on foot because it was a sedentary job and I needed to move around a bit. She/he gave me some advice and wished me a nice walk. Then I traveled as a tourist to the west coast of the USA, including Los Angeles. Asked the same question to the receptionist there and she almost turned pale in the face and lost her chin. -It's dangerous, you shouldn't do that! Well...

Cheese in America is rubbery processed rubbish. I found it hard to find real cheese.

The biggest difference between US and European bathrooms is the lack of baths in the US ones. Mostly they seem to have been mis-named toilets to be honest.

That's so strange to say most European learn American at school. I'm Belgian so I can't know for every country obviously, but here we learn English. Then he complain about European speaking British English. WTF! Yes, we learn our neighbours (haha!) language and the OG one. That seems logical to me. Probably, when Americans have to learn Spanish to speak to there Latinos inlaws, they won't learn Spanish used in Spain. 🤷‍♀

cheddar is not orange in any other country

Not sure how old the original video is but the smoking thing is changing very rapidly in much of Europe. In the U.K. it is completely banned in any public building and on all forms of transport and dropping cigarette butts in the street can get you a hefty fine for littering.

Cent, we call it Cent. 100 Cents equals 1 Euro

I can drive 8 hours south to north and still be in Germany.... same for France and Italy. I know he wants to be sarcastic and funny, but it's just wrong.

US = 9.629.091 km2 Europe = 10.506.000 km²

"...they don't have a lot of seats on the toilets here" - well quite frankly, my young Brave, one would be more than enough for me😆Rest of vid easily summed up as everything bigger US, everything smaller Europe.... Fun fact: Europe's actually about 15% bigger than the US; and YES, could easily spend 8 hours in your car (if only you wanted), and still be in the same country. I rest my case. Cheers from Vienna

In Europe we rather have Universal healt care, but in USA you rather chose cheap gasoline for some reason?

Europeans don't think driving 8 hours and still being in the same place as being crazy. You can drive that and more and stay in the same place in Europe.

I don’t think you can see Monaco from Italy!😂

WRONG ... AGAIN! In France (I can't speak for all 50 European countries), in EVERY restaurant, bar, café, brasserie, ... TAP WATER IS FREE but bottled mineral water, still or sparkling, is not! Even when ordering a coffee at a café terrasse, a glass of FREE tap water is offered on demand, and FREE refills too (of tap water, not of coffee) if you ask for them! Tip for travellers and tourists: When the waiter asks if you want water with your meal and your answer is "yes, please", make sure that you specify a "carafe", i.e., a jug of FREE tap water otherwise he may bring you a bottle of branded mineral water. Should you prefer the latter, then be warned that it will be charged, naturally.

Tipping ... AGAIN! In France (I can't speak for all 50 European countries), in EVERY restaurant, bar, café, brasserie, ...on the menu, "Service Included" will be mentioned, and on the bill, there will be 1 line indicating the total of your consumptions, another line indicating "Service 15%", another line or two will show "Tax" (different % for food and alcohol), and NET TOTAL. That systematic, compulsory 15% Service was implemented decades ago to ensure that the owner would derive enough revenue to pay decent wages to his staff. Hence, tipping is optional: it's an extra you'd leave to the waiter to show your satisfaction on the food, service, etc. At hairdressers too: the price on the bill is the price you must pay but, very often, there would be a little tip jar on the counter. I usually leave a little something for the girl who did the shampoo as they are generally beginners on a relatively low wage. As for delivery men, taxi drivers, etc. the same applies: we have a minimum wage policy here so tipping is never compulsory.

Spain has 5 official languages. Spain all over the country. Regionally Catalan, Galician, Basque and Aranese. UK also has several languages, although English is dominant. Basically all European countries has more or less minority language speakers.

Yes, smaller plates work if you want to eat less. Eating slower works too. He doesn’t even know what communists are or the difference between them and socialist.

I honestly think a lot of "horrible" tasting things are just a matter of them being different. I literally barely knew what to drink in the US because it all tasted so fucking disgusting to me. I think I found some bottled water I liked and just stuck to that all week. I'm sure it's one of those things you get used to but just not instantly. But coke, fanta, etc. was just not drinkable for me and as a Belgian the beer just offended me. Yes I did ask local brews and such. Our group ordered several different types of beers and I don't think we finished any glass. Also, most of Western Europe (except for the french, obviously) have a lower rate of smoking than the US. I honestly think the biggest difference is that it's seen as less shameful so people do it more in public.

Dude, Balkan water is some of the best water you can get. That map was probably "no data" for the Balkans.

Big cars, big meals, big bathrooms, big ego's & even bigger people i thought it was only bigger in Texas!

We DON'T have PUBLIC BATHROOMS !! We have public TOILETS !! The Euro is divided into CENTS . " gotten" older !!?? REAL cheddar isn't orange and a Kraft " cheese" slice has NO cheese in it !!!! "WADDER" !? Do you mean WATER !? British tap water is the best in the world. UK basic income tax is 20%. " eyetalian" !!? Why do Americans say " smoking CIGARETTES" and not just say " smoking" !?

Dude doesn’t fact check a thing lmao USA average height is smaller than European by a couple of inches

I think you never heard of high speed trains. The TGV in France travels at 320 km per hour, and it's been there since the 80's. It can go even faster (so does the Italian one mentioned), but they don't when operating. Of course it's super fast, that's the point.

Saw one of those giant American trucks yesterday here in Scotland, looked ludicrous.

The difference between American English and English English, is the guy who compiled the Webster American English dictionary and changed a lot of the words to make it easier for Americans to understand

Yes, that train has a top speed of 400 km/h (249 mph).

The total land area of the United States is approximately 9.8 million square kilometers, while the land area of Europe is around 10.2 million square kilometers

There are many inaccuracies in this video. For example, in Belgium it is prohibited for traders and catering operators to: sell, serve or offer alcohol to people under the age of 16. Selling, serving or offering spirits to people under the age of 18. So you can only drink beer and wine from the age of sixteen and only strong drinks such as Gin from the age of 18. Smoking is discouraged as much as possible, 30% are still smokers, but this decreases with age because you are only allowed to smoke in public. Under the age of 18 you are not allowed to buy tobacco products in Belgium. Tobacco sellers are responsible for who they sell to. It is legally required to ask customers who look younger than 25 to show their identity card. Online sales of cigarettes are prohibited. The high-speed trains here run at approximately 350 km/h, which is around 220 miles per hour.

Re: taxes and benefits, there's a story of an American tourist injured in a road accident, and someone called an ambulance. She frantically protested, she couldn't afford it, her insurance wouldn't cover it. In the end the frustrated ambulance driver said to her, "It's free. Now get in the f***ing van." If you suffer some sort of injury in the UK you will be picked up and treated for free, end of. Coming to the UK with a serious disease and expecting it to be treated would probably be different, but speaking as a UK taxpayer I've paid for it through my taxes and I have no problem at all with a wounded tourist being treated on the NHS. Just, when crossing the road, remember we drive on the opposite side of the road and look both ways before you step off the pavement!

I know that the guy in the vid you reviewed was playing for laughs and clicks, but he still did a great job of rubbing me up the wrong way. Won't be seeking out his vids. Contrary to the oft-used phrase I do not consider that "the US is the greatest country in the world". As an example in my country we have NEVER EVER had a school shooting massacre ... imagine living somewhere where it's normalised to have regular shooter drills for kids. Give me a break.

Rhode Island, the state, is only slightly larger than the European country of Luxembourg, though Luxembourg is considered small even by European standards.

This is the first time I hear someone disliking water in another country and Im fascinated

(Sweden) I'm around 6 feet tall and weigh about 150 lb, and I'm fairly average, perhaps a bit on the slim side for my age. The tap water here is WAY better than bottled, and WAY better than the tap water I had in Massachusetts when I lived there, no Chlorine just clean water, doesn't smell, doesn't taste off. We haven't really used cash for ~20 years, and defenitly not coins, many stores and public transport don't even accept cash.

26:50 the French-speaking population used the be the cultural and economic elite in the 19th century in Belgium as it was industrialising while the Dutch speaking one kept a mostly agriculture based economy, probably causing your impression that French is "fancier" there. The tendency has been slowly been reversed ever since, with the Dutch speaking part gaining more economic power, and therefore more political leverage.

As a Finnish person I have to protest that you sort of exclude Nordic countries Smoking is still very common in South Europe, but not popular ar all in the Nordics.

You were probably buying mineral water which tends to be much more common bottled than soft water in main land Europe, but you can certainly buy soft water.

2:35 - Thank God we're not, that's a level no european would like to be on! 8:05 - The Eurozone only has 2€ and 1€ coins, the rest are cents: 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1. 13:57 - A bottle of water like that is free here in Portugal. That's basically tap water that goes through a filtering machine and the bottles are reusable, so if he's using that specific bottle as an example, he's BS-ing. 29:27 - No, no one can imagine him saying that because we don't say our height in cms, the majority of us say one metre, X centimetres (or two metres, X centimetres for a few "special" ones).

That plate of pasta wasn't the whole meal! It was probably the second course of a 4 or 5 course dinner. Edit: tap water? Differs widely between regions in Europe. In some places, it's actually the very same stuff they sell at a premium price as mineral water. Sometimes carbonated, but often just as it comes out of the tap in an apartment next to the botteling factory. Same source.

Aluminium, Aluminium, Aluminium 😂😂😂❤

My Italian is perfecto - maybe so, but we all have accents (it's so revealing 🤭) About sirens - well in Denmark we have 3 different ones: one for the police, one for the ambulance, and a third for the fire brigade 🚔🚑🚒☺️🇩🇰

I'm from the UK. I can testify the public transport in Italy is great. The Metro in Rome was so convenient and easy to use. Brilliant......take notice America lol 🤣🤣

I don't know why you think we use the word "coke" for all the different soda's, that's not true. Cola is a coke, sinas is a Fanta/Sisi, 7-up is a 7-up/Sprite. There are the two big companies that own all the fizzy-drink brands. Cocacola has also Fanta and 7-up, and Pepsico has Sisi and Sprite. Bars and shops never are in business with both, it's always one or the other. I don't believe I ever came across "rootbeer", I don't know what it is, I only know it hearing it from Americans on tv/youtube.

Train speed record is 575 Kmh ( 357 Mph) by TGV between Paris and Strasbourg . The average speed for europeans highspeed train is around 300 kmh (186 mph ).

Drinking - Well, if we take my habits (which are kind of typical), I go to a pub for one glass or one pint of something, I don't go to get drunk. And there's often a huge social atmosphere, especially in country towns. In summer in the pub garden, or in winter by the log fire.

From the southern tip of Sweden to the nothern it takes ca 22 hours drive. And you would still be in Sweden. Take that.

Kraft singles orange cheese is not cheese. Real cheese you have to cut with a knife, unless it is a soft cheese. This guy is humorous, but he Iied about water in restaurants. Places I know you can ask for tap water. Of course the restaurants are going to push their bottled water. He also lied about Europeans smoking, except for maybe eastern Europe. Several EU countries have lower rates than the US and the others are marginally higher. Then he lied about Europeans learning American in schools, it is most often British English though that may be changing because of Brexit. He tips his barber for that Beavis haircut!

I’m Swedish, and I’m a smoker. I went to NY a few years ago. I didn’t have much problems with the metro, I remember being fascinated by all the rats on the tracks before trains came in. I wasn’t that aware of the US smoking culture so I had a smoke right there on Times Square, afterwards being told it wasn’t allowed there 😬😁.

a video from an american commented by an american, stating american cliches about the differences between europe and the us, what a balanced source of information. We are bigger, they say. Europe as a whole is - by any standard except military power - bigger than the us. Look it up.

The use of a bidet is an universal sign you live in a properly civilized country

Let's be real, most young people in America are drinking before 21. There's always someone who's willing to buy it for an under 21 or a side street convenience store that willing sell it.

Such stupidity. Bidets are used to wash the interested area after you poop.

Dude should tip his barber more!

Frecciarossa high-speed trains, operated by Trenitalia, reach speeds of 250 miles per hour (400 km/h) and offer maximum comfort, making trips between Italian cities as smooth and short as possible. Peace out

I think this must be quite an old video, the UK banned smoking in pubic spaces some years ago!

When I was in the US I always felt like I had to bribe people when tipping. This guy proves my point. If you don't bribe (tip) people you get s£!t service.

We Brits just like to confuse all others by using MPH and Celcius and Kilograms, but some people still measure things in inches. Our tape measures have both imperial and metric on them. Go to a pub and get a pint of beer or 250ml of wine.

Most of these differences don't apply to Scandinavia. Smoking no, horrible water no we even sell it to silly US for overpriced dollars. Etc, etc

22:35 yup it literally goes 400km/h. bullet trains in europe can go very VERY fast. I'm talking Paris to Berlin in 2 hours fast. If you count check-in time etc it's acutally faster to go from Paris to Berlin by train than by plane

I have to say, portions of pasta in Napoli are quite bigger than that,especially for young men.

Continental Europe is larger than the US :-)

Lol you learn English in school 🙂

29:30 Well no, you just say "I'm one seventy-two" and everyone knows what you mean.

The Frecciarossa 1000 is the most modern train in the Trenitalia fleet. Comfortable, safe and ecological, it is built to travel on all the AV networks in Europe. It can reach a maximum speed of 400 km/h (248.5 mph) thanks to the 16 powerful engines distributed across all the carriages that make the Frecciarossa 1000 a train capable of always making the most of the grip on the tracks.

Fast Trains: Sorry but I have to blow my little French trumpet here again. Europe's fastest train - that has broken world speed records - is the French TGV [Train à Grande Vitesse, i.e., Fast Train]. Watch this exciting video: "Le TGV, de record en record" - Groupe SNCF (on YT. Automatic English subtitles available). Speed records: - in 1981: 380 km/h (= 236 M/h) - in 1990: 515.3 km/h (= 320 M/h) - in 2007: 574.8 km/h (= 357 M/h) Admittedly, they don't ride that fast with passengers on board ... I recently took a TGV from the South of France (St Raphaël) to Paris: Distance: 693 km (> 430 miles); Travel time +/- 4h30; Cost: €55.

He's wrong about high taxes. The basic rate of income tax in the UK is 20%, and you don't pay any tax on the first £12,570 of your income. The rate goes up to 40% for income above £50,270, and to 45% for income above £125,140, but for the average person income tax isn't that high.

Great video, and reaction. I think smoking has gone down a lot over the past years, a lot of countries has banned smoking in public places, and EU has a lot of campaigns about it, but it also varies a lot between different countries.

I have literally never been asked if I wanted to leave a tip in my life, and I've travelled across plenty of Europe as a tourist. And if anyone were to ask me, that sure as hell is the one place where I don't tip at all! I guess they really only do that when they see Americans (I mean I guess I'd do too, knowing that they usually tip a lot lol). Also at least in my circles smoking is definitely not seen as cool, but there's still a lot of people that smoke and also a worrying amount of young people, too. But I agree with the alcohol thing, usually people are kind of accostumed to alcohol slowly and don't drink in excess as much.

Greetings from Finland. Finnish tap water is one of cleanest in the world. In the northern part of Finland it's probably the purest. If someone walks around with a water bottle here, there's a high chance the bottle is filled with tap water-unless the person is a tourist or a hipster. And you don't have to pay for the water in restaurants here. It's the same water that comes from the toilet tap after all. The tipping culture is lunacy and the hidden fees are a fraud, so you should get steamed about them. Just get over it before moving on to other things-especially before getting into language policing. The smallest euro bill is 5 euros, so you need coins. Smoking in Finland is considered a bad habit and drinking is getting more European type-although in general the drinking is more "goal oriented" in the Nordics: "Who Drinks The Most In Scandinavia? Fins, Swedes, Danes Or Norwegians?". And what these fashionable Norwegians are trying to say here is probably that Finland isn't setting the Europe's fashion trends: "Kollektivet: Finnish Trend Report". Some 80s fashion: "The Twisters: Why Don´t Somebody (live 1980)". And rest your eyes on this one: "Finland's GREATEST Trump fan?!". Not everything in Europe is old. The population growth, the post-war rebuild etc. have made sure of that. The modern architecture originates from Europe. Also, the European presidents dent to be younger than the ones in the US. You might not expect ELEVATORS to come from Finland, but they do: "Inside The Lab That Tests Elevator Free-Falls". When you say things in Europe are "small", you must mean more compact, purposeful, efficient and convenient, right? Like, I don't want to take anything away from you, but those trucks you drive 50 miles to the nearest grocery store to buy all those humongous food packages spend way more gas than the cars Europeans drive do. I guess you haven't seen these ones then: "Mission Impossible's Iconic Train Scene | Full Ending 4K" and "TGV speed record 574,8 km/h".

Euro notes - They are €5, €10 - The word is singular, e.g., 5 Euro, 10 Euro, 20 Euro, etc. Euro Coins are call CENT, 5 cent, 10 cent, 20 cent etc. Again the word CENT IS SINGULAR Look at any Euro Note or Coin and you will see EURO and CENT written on them, not Euros or Cents.

This guy is an exact representation of why the US is considered a joke to the rest of the world.

As usual I can’t relate to many things on this list as a Scandinavian (Swedish).

I hate how tipping has started sneaking into bars and restaurants here in Sweden. It's not mandatory for sure, and I sure as heck hope they get paid a proper wage still and they workers aren't being abused like in the US (considering we don't have minimum wage per se). When you're paying they're like, oh, here's the card terminal, hey, just go ahead and accept the amount or enter what you want to pay *wink wink*.

That Italian plate of food is actually real food that tastes amazing

If that speed of the train was 200 km/h it is barely called High speed. Most hight speed trains travel at 320 km/h.

I live in Norway, we have a LOT of space. :)

Hay que recordar que el primer idioma en el continente Américano "no indígena" era el castellano(español) Incluido las 3/4 partes del imperio español de lo que hoy es USA y Canada. Los indios hablaban mínimo 2 idiomas, habéis ido como los 🦀hacia Atrás. Prefiero un plato pequeño de buena comida, que uno enorme de aditivos y conservantes. Por lo que tengo entendido 🇬🇧 ya usan el sistema métrico internacional desde hace unas cuantas décadas.

in EU there was 450.000.000 people in usa 335.000. 000 without other state like albania serbia russia and so on

29:32 classic over complicated US view of the metric system. Example im 179 cm "tall" but that's not how u say it. Its simply spelled: Im One seventy nine. There is no need to spell the point or the unite cuz every body knows what were talking about. Metric is also much more accurate cuz: 5 feet 09" = 175.26 centimeters 5 feet 10" = 177.80 centimeters 5 feet 11" = 180.34 centimeters 6 feet 00" = 182.88 centimeters 6 feet 1" = 185.42 centimeters 6 feet 2"= 187.96 centimeters 6 feet 3 inches = 190.50 centimeters But AGAIN NObody says im 179.09bla centimeters... Im One 79 that's it. If ur 200cm tall u are simply a 2m (meter) guy.

"America Just Likes To Be Different To Be Different" BINGO! So you don't go metric, and instead you use a weird variation on IMPERIAL! Keep Reacting!

17:43 "Don't get me started!" Starts ranting anyway XD XD XD About train top speeds, the TGV has a top speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), achieved on the LGV Est.... Commercial speeds on that line are only up to 350 km/h (220 mph) though.

Only 250 years old ,yes you can still see the cradle marks on your arses . I get the impression this fella should have stayed at home and throw away his passport

Train speed record is 574 kmph. A train can go fast.

Some of the things USA calls cheese in Spain wouldn't be considered cheese. We call "tranchetes" those sheet shapped semi-orange things because the main ingredient isn't milk but other things, like water or a 20% of "a bunch of cheese" with foundant salts and a long list of other chemicals. If you don't see the word "queso" (cheese) on the packet there isn't considered cheese in our legislation but a derivate product.

He left out most of Scandinavia and the UK, when comparing sizes. On the map shown Europe is def bigger if you include all of it, which surely is a basic requirement 🤔🙄

I see that orange cheddar here in Norway but I buy non orange UK produced, also tried Oreo's, never again. Smoking came from the US, everyone in the US smoked in the 50s and 60s.

I think Northern and Eastern Europe in general, or maybe just Denmark in general, we have you beat on the unhealthy drinking culture. We think the Brits are lightweights... Half of my grandparents were chain-smoking alcoholics. And that's not that weird. Maybe for that reason, our public toilets are free as well. Sometimes, drunk people like to use the conveniently placed 300-year-old walls instead, though.

About the water: at least european water isn't combustible or can be used as flamethrower fuel... by the way: how does the fire department of these places extinguish fire? With gasoline, because it's not that volatile? SCNR! Friendly clap back at the water ;)

About tipping at bars in the USA; if the owner is serving you, never leave a tip dip. It's insulting. Do you expect tips when you invite friends over for dinner?

Takes 8 hours to drive across london

22:38 it is 250mi/h or 400km/h, but that's only top speed as he said.

Europe is the Continent Connor, it includes Russia to Siberia and everything inbetween. 🍻😉🇬🇧🇺🇸

On a map with a cylindrical projection (like the one you are looking at at 5:40) the deformation is minimum at the equator and maximum at the poles. The size of India is therefore not deformed.

Is this guy trying to be funny? This video is offensive. I won't go any further. He's done nothing but complain.

We have 1,2,5,10,20,50 cent pieces, they are called cent But austria before the EU had schilling for paper money and groschen for coins