Mate i was once told by a very aggressive and rude American lad that Americans invented English. i said no it's called English because it was created in England ..he said... and i'm not joking... yes but it was invented in England in 1776 when an American went to England after conquering them and forced them to change their language to speak American... you Britishers just speak an offshoot of our language... i was stunned... i said actually English is a Germanic language and comes from Anglo-Saxon Old English with heavy Norman French influences .. he called me the F slur (homophobic one) and told me to go drink some tea to calm down.... this was in London about 15 years ago...
It is truly unbelievable. I mean how on earth is this possible, how can americans possibly think and say things like that? Like it's no longer about plain ignorance that can be understandable, but that's inventing some amazing bullshit unbelievable history.
I've literally just seen a comment from someone who thinks America invented democracy. It's not a "misconception" when people over there think they invented everything that is in the world. That's ignorance only being matched by arrogance.
What’s Dutch? So you’re from Denmark, right? I was right across the strait, in Switzerland, the other day, and it was snowing all the time. These Scandinavian countries are really cold. Do you have polar bears in Købendam? 🙃
Heidelberg 2002, a 40-year-old GI asks me in a pub "and your old King Hitler, where does he live now?" - we thought he was joking with us and got really aggressive when we didn't stop laughing
Off track, but Hello Neighbour. We have a Heidelberg in Victoria Australia. Yes you named your Heidelberg after ours..😂. I’m only joking lol. We got it from you. From memory there are a few streets in our Heidelberg that, from memory sound German. I must check them out 😊
I lived in Straubing and the same happened to me. New American hockey players came and one of the wifes asked me: "Where does that President Hitler live now? She wanted to visit his home town.... (that was in 2010). She was not joking.
09:20 Black and British is an ethnicity (appearance/heritage, possibly culture) and a nationality (legal/citizenship, possibly culture). Americans may use race as a synonym for ethnicity, but I think we stopped doing that decades ago in Europe. We consider it kind of racist to use the term "race" for ethnicity.
True. There's only one race homo sapiens. They might look different here and there, but they're all the same race. So the term 'racist' makes no sense.
Ethnicity and cultural background is the most sensible way to refer to each other.. The simple "where are you from" and then keep digging in a persons ancestry to figure out "where they're from" is kinda offensive when you're dealing with people that have perhaps 3 generations being born in your country. People are often proud of their ethnic origins, and may still follow cultural traditions from there... but that doesn't change what nationality they were born or what society they grew up in. I live in a neighbourhood with a sizable ethnically Turkish minority... I don't mind that the youngsters being cashiers at my local grocery store speaking Turkish with (especially the older) customers. I feel safe. And when it comes to traditional Danish holidays, like xmas, they still go operate the shop like any other day, in exchange those employees are given time off for ramadan and eids. Much like it's a Jewish-American tradition to eat Chinese during xmas. Diversity is a strength, when done right.
@@BenjaminVestergaard Great contribution. And all this diversity we see and enjoy, plays its part inside the boundaries of just one race. Homo Sapiens. The notion of different races, with different rankings(!) comes from early century thinkers, which could not look through appearances. All people are not only equal or free brothers and sisters, no, they are all the same. And deserve the same respect.
9:24 Of course being black and British are not mutually exclusive - that's precisely why she is both simultaneously. Many Americans seem to think that saying someone is "black" is insulting them, and they assume "African American" is, in all circumstances, the acceptable synonym of "black" - even if the person in question is not American.
To many Americans, America is all there is. The Universe is IN America...that's how big they think it is ! If it's not American, than it is OWNED by America. You are taught this! I really do wish your school system was better. When I was eleven, we came to this side of 'the pond' for my father's work. I was in high school with 17 and 18 year Olds, in grade 11, and STILL the curriculum was elementary to me.....I was bored to my very soul, and frustrated that only subject matter pertaining to the USA and American interests, was being taught. In History, you wouldn't know that WW2 had happened, and when it was mentioned....apparently the only people in it were Americans who won every battle they entered into, with "Nazzygermany, and Japan" ! If you were not quite so arrogant, if you were a modicum more humble, and wiling to listen, rather than talk, you'd be admirable. As it is, you are tolerable, but frustratingly ignorant, and cannot in general, be reasoned with..."leastways, not by someone who isn't even an American"! Indeed, what could I know?
I doubt majority of US citizens knows that Christmas has anything to do with Christianity and the birth of Jesus. For them it is a holiday of mass consumption, which is kind of holy in the land of capitalism and exploitation. Especially since Coca Cola established Santa Claus.
I´m on very thin ice here, but isn´t there even a tax on using curtains in the Netherlands? I could be totally wrong, pls don´t kille me, I´m just a German that heared this once on TV xD I love the Netherlands tho, I´ve been to Drachten this spring. It was amazing. PS: pls export your amazing croquettes
@@maciejwawrzyn4674 They turn up in peoples gardens in Scotland staring through windows claiming that the house is their great, great, great grand parents who lived there in 1700 and something. You know its not the person who they're staring at's house, no its their great, great etc.
When my American neighbour met my Scottish fiancé she was surprised to find they had electricity in Scotland. He ran a multi-million pound network of newspapers from around the world and she thought Scotland lived in the Dark Ages. I am American and I died a little when she said it. All I will say is that the quieter, smarter American tourists are around too. They’re just not in your face.
That's what they say about Germany too. I was told that's because most power lines in the cities are laid underground and therefore not visible in photos or movies, unlike in the US, where it's mostly above ground.
That's a good point, loudness and stupidity, just like stupidity and confidence seem to go hand in hand. So if someone is confidently wrong they're probably loud about it as well.
12:00 - The word "English" comes from "Anglisch" and the Angles were a Germanic tribe that conquered England together with the Saxons (Frisians and Jutes) in the 5th century. Thus, the Low German of the 5th century is the base language of the (Old) English language.
And then the Vikings came, 900 of the most used words in English is old Danish, after the Vikings came the Normans who were also descendants of Vikings/French with several Danish/French words. Even the grammar comes from Old Norse/Danish
Close, they came from North Sea Germanic included Old English, Old Frisian and Old Saxon (Old Low German). Old English doesn’t have its roots in Old Low German but the language spoken which they both came from, Old English as a language is older for Low German . Old English started about 450AD and Old Low German appeared about the 700s as a separate language. Ingvaeonic is the name of the Germanic dialect, the Ingvaeons where the ancestor people that lived in Jutland, they became the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Chauci
A few things, I was once by my American host family when I was a teen (I'm french) - "do you guys have cars"? - " do you have real floors in your house?" - "is their a sink in your house?" - "do you know what a supermarket is?" - " do you guys have corn?" - "are you going to f$$$ with me tonight or tomorow "? (by their son, thinking all french girls were "easy", I was 14 and a virgin) - "do you want wine for your breakfast like at home?"
Well, I have yet to meet a girl with an online nickname straight out from Pride and Prejudice that was "easy", if someone out there has still any doubts about your words hahah The guy was kinda deserving a kick in the nuts tbh Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹
I had some of these questions, as an exchange student in Québec, Canada. But they waited a few month... And i didn't had the.... "special" question! Holy crap!
As for "Black and British”: In the USA you have the term “African American”, but we don’t have anything similar in Europe. This guy is not an “African American”, neither is he an “African Brit” or something. He is just British. And obviously identifies as Black. So he’s Black and British.
I yesterday shared my opinion as a Finn to the US election on one of the popular US election videos. The response was not good. It's like Americans don't want to have even an outside perspective on anything? A similar attitude applies to everything I believe and I have worked in the US. Not wanting to receive opinions of ones own country is troubling.
To be fair to the yanks, I've seen that a lot in Finland as well. Especially if you have the audacity to not look nordic. The only people in Finland who are able to take criticism well seem to be the millennials. The eläkeläiset and the teenagers seem to be very xenophobic, to the point of shouting slurs at you across the street. At least that's been my experience living here for 3 years as a non-nordic looking dude.
@@alibarancelik8903 Fair points. Not sure what you mean Finland not being Nordic - we're quite Nordic but a bit more cautious with everything. Also - I think most Finns welcome criticism. GenX'ers and boomers welcome it lol I'm not sure sure exactly which Finnish age groups of people you refer to but there is xenophobia in Finland for sure. I don't think it is prevalent, though. For some reason I think us in Finland, like in many countries within EU, think of 'people not looking like 'us' or people who have moved here' as Finns - if they live here and work here. If you work here, live here you're a Finn. If you speak Finnish you're a Finn for sure😆 Some problems exist, of course but Finland has done a good job with immigration compared to other Nordics imo. Do you live in a small town - I feel awful that you have this experience in Finland. My partner is Iberian and my sister's grandmother is from Ghana. How is your experience like this? I have to add here that I have lived in Metro-Helsinki for most of my life so perhaps I don't have knowledge of the small town Finland(?)
@@toms5996 What I meant was "if you happen to be the wrong kind of immigrant, ie. non blond with blue eyes", probably should have clarified. I lived in a tiny border village and it was pretty awful to be honest. Now that I moved to a bigger, touristy town 30 minutes to Helsinki, things are much better, but the cheap residential Soviet style part I live in is still pretty bad. At first I laughed at the "no civilisation outside ring 3" sentiment but I'm starting to understand why it would be a thing. It still boggles my mind that how racist, sexist and homophobic you can be and still be considered socially acceptable in Finland. People in the street throw around some serious slurs in daily conversation without a second thought. When I tried to volunteer for the church, the hostility was just comical. The lady at the desk called the deacon, said "here's an arab looking guy that wants something, should I get rid of him?", thinking I wouldn't understand. I don't know how common these interactions are, but it's too common to be coincidence. I also talked to a few non-nordic looking people who lived here for generations, yet they still don't feel accepted as a Finn. So I'm gonna disagree on how good a job you guys did with the immigration issue, because the moment you step outside the big cities, it turns into Kentucky pretty fast in my experience. Bit of an exaggeration of course, but you know what I mean.
@@alibarancelik8903 I think any immigrant/person regardless of how they look are welcome in Finland - then again I'm sure you must be right that in the countryside or 'in a small village' as you described it, things can be different. 'Racist, sexist and homophobic' - ok, wow. I don't recognize this. This is not my experience with my foreign/immigrant friends. Homophobic? If you say so I think it is true - but this might be a socio-economic issue as well. Even Metro-Helsinki has different areas....I can imagine some areas being not so nice. Outside Ring 3 does have some bleak parts. Then again I think all cities have bleak parts, all the cities in Finland and within EU where I've lived have some parts that are a bit run-down. I don't think anyone in Espoo or in Helsinki-proper would have any problems of someone being of different race or sexuality. I'm sorry to say this - but you might live in a 'bad neighbourhood'. Thankfully in Finland you can just move, and while it can be difficult if you rent it's always possible. With your fluent English (let alone if you speak Finnish) the city will rent an apartment if you work/study. It might not be easy but surely it's possible.
@@toms5996 Oh I definitely live in the not-so-good area, so sweeping generalisations might not be that fair but it certainly isn't the utopia a lot of Finns seem to think, that's what I was getting at. In central Helsinki/Turku/Oulu nobody even looks twice but it changes pretty quickly when you start moving away. I would imagine it almost never gets to US deep south levels but it's definitely there. Especially among the much older and much younger people, I hear a lot of that kind of talk. Do they do something about it? Probably not, but it's definitely not making me feel more welcome or safe. Doubly so because I witnessed what a small spark can lead those kinds of people to do in other countries. Maybe that's causing me to read too much into shitty people's behaviour but that's been my experience so far. Seeing as far right sentiment has been on the rise across EU, it'll probably get worse before it gets better.
I disagree with you, I used to deal with US-Americans a lot and most of them were polite and reserved, just because these examples only show the “typical Americans”, that only applies to a fraction of them.
@@GianniDN nah others too. When in I was France there were Americans on the bus. There were two guys from Michigan who met someone from Ohio. The poor guy had to immediately explain that he wasn't that kind of Ohian. It really fascinates me how Americans outside of the US immediately gravitate towards each other
My oldest son joined his new US school when he was nine, and I had begun my six-yr contract in America. After sports, the other boys on his lacrosse team thought he was deformed because he was uncircumsised. Only, they didn't know it was they who were mutilated. 😅. They wouldn't believe my son, until their coach was brought into the discussion.
Do you... have electricity? ...have TV?... have cars?... know what chocolate is? (That was a kid so they get a pass) ...have airplanes? ...speak English at home?... have freedom?... want to live in the USA?... know what pizza is? - just a swift selection of questions I have been asked by Americans while in the USA. I am English.
@@graceygrumble At first you just think they are winding you up don’t you? Speaking as an English person who used to go to the US a lot. Although a couple of people did remark on my “classy accent” .
13:44 Quick point, sorry to be a pedant, but they speak English in England, not the UK. In the UK They speak English, Welsh, Scottish (Scots, actually) and/or Irish (Gaelic, actually, which I did know!) Edit: …and Cornish, sorry!
I used to work for a US a company ( in the U.K. and I am from the U.K.), I have been to the US both East and West Coasts on numerous occasions and on holiday in the US on a number of occasions. Although funny it does depend to which Americans you interact with as to their depth of knowledge of the world outside the US. I mostly dealt with those who had travelled abroad ( or even lived abroad) numerous times . I think one of the key reasons some Americans have a slightly distorted view of what happens outside the US is the general lack of any news ( especially TV news) on what happens worldwide together with their somewhat limited ability to travel, ( either by choice or by circumstance). Most of the American tourists I have interacted with over the years have just been a bit naive. Examples include on the Eurostar from the U.K. to France asking me what they would be able to see in the tunnel during their travel, asking if we have the internet, demanding that shops take US dollars, asking why they built Windsor castle under a flight path to Heathrow airport and many more.
I loved it when Ann Coulter came to Canada and was interviewed by the CBC. She said we should have sent boots on the ground troops to Iraq to support America just like we did in Vietnam. The Canadian corrected her and said we did not send troops to Vietnam. just advisors. She told him he didn't know what he was talking about and she would bring proof! She never got back to us. Imagine going to another nation you know little about, and telling them their own history!
@@lucasvanwijngaarden670 My point was the OP did not seem aware of the fact Canadians were involved on the ground. The question would be "is a Canadian in an American uniform an American or a Canadian". I'm sure the North Vietnamese would have asked that question had they captured any of them.
4:18 You do remember that the topic was "american tourists", right? So probably that american was in australia, where the OP is an indiginous person? 🙂
And besides, when someone tells you in a foreign accent they're indigenous most likely they're talking about some other place. That's the point perhaps - awareness that other places exist.
Being in the US and the "average American" finds out you are a foreigner, you will confirm every little dumb question or comment, you hear all of them yourself
Some years ago I was in the US. I was reading a book in Dutch. A guy aproached me and was astound that I could read that book (in my own languish), ...
I am a foreigner, in the past US was a greatest country today the US is for me: Unbearable Karens, school shootings, Sackler Family starting an opioid epidemic that can now be seen all over the US, braggarts and rude people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Hillbillies stuck in the mud with their huge trucks, big cities that now cause shame like Detroit, inhabitants who believe that freedom is the sole property of Americans, the country with the most drug addicts and the most prisons in the world, many armed people, sovereign citizen etc, etc, etc
americans think black is a bad word and you must say african american as teh PC term, but outside america thats of course bollocks as they are clearly NOT african americans xD also alot of people dont like the term "african anything" because they dont see themself as african but as german french british etc. so calling them african aint nice
Years ago I was in Minneapolis travelling through and met someone who asked me where I was from I told her Toronto, Ontario. She said she had been to Ontario a few times with her dad either fishing or hunting and had actually seen the Blue Jays play in Ontario on one of her trips but had never heard of Toronto. Considering the fact that to see the Blue Jays play in Ontario you actually have to be in the city of Toronto astounded me.
I wondered if Christian fundies thought only Americans were descended from Adam and therefore had bellybuttons. The rest of the world are obviously demon-spawn
1:40 There was the World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia in 2019. The biggest scout camp in the world with scouts from all over the world. I'm not him, but probably that.
Yeah, we should be greatful for all those American inventions from Europe. Like WiFi, Bluetooth, cars, microscope, telescope, submarine, human flight (i.e. hot air balloon), toilet… should I continue?
Actually,.... New York Pizza (the fast food chain), was founded in the Netherlands by some dutchies. So that would be confusing, but the've only expanded into europe, not actually in NY afaik.
Interesting how you perceive it. I think the ABBA one is exceptionally stupid. I guess that's how low the bar is. I think the indigenous Australien met the American ... in Australia.
Nah, I think the ABBA one is not stupid at all. They either didn't know that the song is by ABBA, or they didn't know that ABBA is Swedish, so what. Knowledge is different from intelligence, and you can be smart yet not know common pop culture knowledge. And especially young people (like you'd encounter in a scout camp) just know less because they have not yet come in contact with that knowledge, but that doesn't make them stupid.
The McDonald's In Europe (and I include the UK) have to abide by local food laws and also use local ingredients so they're not as bad as in the US, smaller portions yes, but also better quality. What did shock me on trying to visit a MacDonald's in France (I have a rural property there) is that, at least in the region I was in, they don't open until 10:30 am, unlike in the UK.
I commented on a BGT RU-vid video and used the word “pupil.” Someone then asked what it means in English, saying they’re American. I replied, pointing out that as a fellow American, I learned in elementary school that “pupil” means both “student” and the opening in the iris of the eye.
i am no native english speaker but know it. I is however distinct british and rather found in older literature than everyday live. Maybe in posh circles I do not frequent ?
Ryan, in Australia we don’t use the term ‘native Australians’. We mostly refer to ‘indigenous Australians’ - although First Nations people is starting to get used instead more frequently.
Even if you tell them that it means "Bayerische Motoren Werke", at this point the "I will whistle in my head so no actual information comes through" already begun. They are, I think, proud of this "skill".
The thing is that you're food in America is full of additives and preservatives and food colouring chemicals while in the UK there is no additives or artificial colours in our food
7:30 oh boy, what an unfortunate example 😅 Chinese people do in fact have English calling names in addition to their real name, that they use with foreigners 😂
I am German. My classmade was Chinese. Her name translatetd to 'Snow Plum'. All her sisters were Plums, too. Beautiful Plum, Dancing Plum etc., I forgot the rest. We called them "Die Mui Bande" "The Plum Gang". Long ago. Sadly, we lost contact after graduation.
Wouldn't that actually reinforce his statement? They have additional seperate names rather than translations. Which isn't to say they can't be translated, but many of those wouldn't be readily recognised as names in English.
I have a Chinese friend when he came to study here in Germany, he said he just chose a name. It has nothing to do with his Chinese name. It's completely different, and normally, really easy names like Paul, Bruce, John...
@@andyking957 Ja, mein Kumpel nimmt seinen auch manchmal, aber er ist auch voll chill, wenn man den nicht aussprechen kann. Ich kenn ihn jetzt 5 Jahre und sprech den zwischendurch imme noch falsch aus. Aber es amüsiert ihn eher😂
"what were you doing there" almost counts in itself. They're scouts, they go to scout camps. Usually closer to home, but there was a Jamboree in WV a few years ago.
I have never been in USA, but I have met lot of people from USA in my work - hotel. Nobody of them has never said stupid things to me. They were interested of my country (Sweden) and asked sensible questions very nicely. They were positive, polite and teated every body in the staff with respect. But I have seen many videos how stupid the people from States can be - I can't believe it😲! I will never go to USA, I don't want to spoil my positive way of thinking about people from USA!
@@Mariel_Moon yeah they just don't always know the social cues. I remember these two American girls who took the same bus as me. The entire bus was silent except for them. They kept excitedly point at stuff and talk loudly. I don't blame them but it was such a contrast to the swedes on the bus
British is not an ethnicity. That's where all the confusion begins. It is a nationality. It's what is in your passport. My neighbour is an old man who fled to Germany in the 80s, put down his iraqi citicenship to get the german one, but to this day does not get that german is not an ethnicity and that he is german just like me who was born here.
I personally know of one Native American lady who married an indigenous Australian man. They were friends of my mum's parents. Her family were Apaches who immigrated to Papua New Guinea.
7:44 - that's exactly what People of especially Taiwanese and Chinese origin like to do, right? They know that westerners wouldn't be able to pronounce or even just remember their actual names, so they give themselves english or otherwise westernised names when dealing with westerners. Think Jensen Huang, Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee. They weren't named Jensen, Jackie or Bruce by their parents.
Except that “Bruce Lee” wasn’t the westernised version of his name. His actual name was Lǐ Zhènfān, Bruce Lee was just his stage name, something that many actors, singers and in general TV and cinema celebrities do. For Jackie chan, it too was more a stage name than a westernisation to make the real name pronunciable: his real name was Chan Kong-Sang, which he later changed into Fáng Shìlóng to take his father’s family name. No one of them resemble “Jackie”, which was just a stage name. The only one that it is an actual westernisation of the real name is Jensen Huang, because his real name is Jen-Hsun Huang. Jensen is how Americans would pronounce his real name.
@@marcorizzoni9766 I half expected that somebody would point out they were stage names. But i chose these people nonetheless, because they are famous. Nobody knows Paul Wen, tech supporter or Sarah Wong, key account manager, but they know Jackie Chan, movie star. Plus: Even if you say that Jensen Huang is actually called Jen-Hsun Huang, even that is not quite the truth. That is also just a very simplified westernisation of his actual name. Other, more accurate attempts at transliterating his name might look like Renxun Huang or Jin-hun Ng, and even those would be far from perfect. Chinese dialects are so radically different from pretty much all indo-european languages, that names kind of need to be westernised if people with chinese names want to do business in the west. And that's what they do. P.S. And to be fair: Irish can seem quite weird to speakers of english too, right? It's a bit ignorant to assume that everyone would have an "english version" of their name, but I can see where the idea might stem from, and it's not like there's no precedent is all I'm saying.
12:35 I'm Sami, hasn't happened to me because I don't really travel but I've heard multiple people say they've been asked down south if we live in lávvus (sami dwelling now only used when doing extended "camping"). Also heard some people have been asked "why do you wear such weird clothes?" when wearing our traditional garb (gákti). Even though the literal king of Norway has exclaimed Norway was founded on two people's territory, the Norwegian and the Sami, and the Sami languages are an official language in Norway, the absolute ignorance of anything Sami is astounding.
I haven't heard of American tourists staring through people's windows but tourists from some other countries (=China) certainly do that. In the Finnish Lapland, some people are getting totally frustrated because especially during winter, tourists constantly tresspass and press their faces against their windows. "No trespassing" signs in a number of different languages don't help. People can't leave anything like skis or sleds in their own yard because they get stolen right away. Some tourists seem to think that the whole place exists just for them and don't understand that people live there. We do have the thing called "right to roam", but that does not mean that others can go to the area that is part of someone else's *home*. But then, the stupidest American tourists probably don't come to Finland because they haven't even heard of us. We do get American tourists, but they are typically the ones who have already traveled a lot. They usually aren't the stupidest kind.
I've only ever met one American in the wild, and I can thankfully say that they're quite well put together, but that may be because they lived a majority of their life outside of America. But at least that tells us there's hope for them yet
The question "who invented cars?" is actually not that easy to answer. I know we Germans try to claim, we invented cars. We didn't. We invented the modern car with an internal combustion engine. There were steam powered cars way before that. Those were invented by the French. So, no, we Germans didn't invent the car. We invented the car with an ICE. Even electric cars were invented earlier.
I know tourist can give any country a bad name but I have had some close encounters with Americans. The last one were in France. As a Brit I do speak a pretty good de de English 😊 and I had an American say to me why can't the English speak proper English and then went on to give me a monologue on the stupidity of the expression we use and why we can't spell correctly - Oh, he also said we have plenty of mountains in the U.S that are much bigger than these - we were in the Alps. I felt like putting his lights out. He were from queen's New York.
7:40 That username is Aoife... not that long ago, I learned that this basically is the irish version of Eva, after I got curious about how to pronounce this name.
I've told this story before : During the Olympic Games, a rude American who couldn't bear to wait to order in a restaurant said to the waiter ‘we're the ones who liberated you in 1945...Implied : got priority’... And the waiter replied ‘without our help, you'd still be British citizens’...Another story I've already told : In California I was asked if we had vines and wine in France... I live near Bordeaux ^^. Some people really think they invented everything : they forget where they come from.
An American woman asked me why we couldn't afford new houses while walking the streets of Ghent, a medieval city in Belgium. That said, most American tourists are great. Just a bit loud.
Hello Ryan. I keep visiting, so I've subscribed. Yay!!! I have visited the USA several times, met Americans in other countries and never... Repeat. Never. Met anyone as dumb as this. And your comment about tourists treating the world as a kind of theme park/museum hits the nail on the head. Tourism is a state of mind. The classic tourist is a variety of hermit crab. They carry their whole home/world from country to country expecting all their familiar rules to apply. After working on four continents, I can admit that other countries can feel strange and a little intimidating, but I appreciated that I wasn't in Wales any more. Enjoy your shows. Oh, it's pronounced 'Eye-beetha'.
The German that wrote that they invented cars are also wrong though. They invented petrol/gas powered cars but not cars. The first car was a steampowered car invented by Nicolas- Joseph Cugnot in 1770, then a Scotchman named Robert Anderson invented the electric car in the 1830s. And in the 1880s Carl Benz invented the petrolpowered car. But most people in the world don´t know the history of cars/automobiles before the petrol cars.
Haha, the Irish girl's name shows as Aoife in that post. But spoken it sounds more like Efa or something like that. Irish names can be bizarre in the difference between how they sound and how they are spelled.
Today you gave me a good laugh. My Lederhosen almost snapped and I spilled my Stein of beer right when the Kuckucksclock rang. Just kidding, you really gave me a good laugh with your comparisons! One of the best episodes.
15:22 I can sorta understand that one. I assume there are themed pubs in Ireland as well. Like if you wanted the "local colour" and got directed to an "American bar" themed place in Dublin, that'd be kinda disappointing.
My best friend trough most of my school years and beyond was the son of a Portuguese guy and a Cape Verde woman (black or black and white to me more precise), he was Portuguese, that is it, sometimes he was the black guy, but usually he was Portuguese, not mutually exclusive, that is an odd American perspective of putting quotas on your ancestry. I am more German and French than Portuguese when it comes to my ancestry (going to quotas I have German in both my bloodlines "mixed" with French and Portuguese in both "sides"), and yet, you guess it, I am Portuguese, even if I spoke almost just German with my grandfather and still speak it with my nephews here. We have nationality and ethnicity, and nationality is the norm, so, green or purple, you are your nationality...
The car was not invented by the Germans! It was invented by the British. Who had the world first electric car. 10 years before Germany invented the diesel engine and the foot pedals 😉
The first self propelled mechanical vehicle, (or "automobile" from the french and greek) came from Nicholas Cugnot, a Frenchman in 1769, and was steam powered. The British, French and Germans developed Electric cars through the 1800's, while French, Belgian and German engineers developed the internal combustion engine during the last half of the century..
Thank you i just made a comment on it. Tho Cugnot's engine invention was highly based on the mining system of UK , so the brits have some credit for it ! :)
5:30 I would like to know how old these people are who believed Europeans don't have bellybuttons. If they are kids, it's stupid but kids can get away with it more than someone who is 20. Then it's just mind-blowing.
15:10 Maybe he didn't want to go to an Irish pub made for tourists, and go to a authentic Irish pub. When you're in a capital of a country, there are many places that are for the tourists, and people who live in the city don't go to these places. And the other places are often better
I wonder, are the real pubs in Ireland anything like the "Irish Pubs" in the rest of the world? Because that sort of places tend to be really tacky, they intentionally exaggerate things that are supposedly from that country. (Whether those things really are from that country is a whole different question then.) When I was young, there was a pub here in Finland called something like "Ye Olde English Pub" (I don't know if it exists anymore). They had a huge, painted mural of the British Royal Family that covered a whole wall. I don't know if actual British people were amused, bemused or totally confounded by it. I'm sure the owners of the place knew how tacky and silly it was, but the place was popular, so it worked.
There are literally hundreds of “real” Irish pubs in Dublin Irish pubs for tourists only exist outside Ireland just like there are no English pubs for tourists in England
My friend spent one year (in 2003) abroad in Canada as an exchange student and on the first day they were trying to explain him how the TV works. Another highlight was the question if his family lived "outside" or "inside" of the wall (referring to the Berlin wall)
mc donalds in europe and in america are like two completly different things xD i always love having americans going to mc donals in europe and been blown away that its actually eatable xD
they (954 people storm bastille) freed the prisoners during the french revolution place de la bastille was a prison/jail there only are rests left behind. 4. Juli 1789 and between 14. Juli 1790 people fight because they feared under the monarchy king ludwigs would prevent public national gatherings and would arrest them. i hope i am correct i listened to my history class and visit paris once versailles was beautiful.
The question about the authentic irish pub is actually not that stupid, depending on how you have been socialized. For example, I have been to Austria multiple times as a German and some local specialties like Wiener Schnitzel or Sachertorte are often times served at a very high price for tourists in crowded places, and the food does not have to same quality as an "Authentic Wiener Schnitzel". So I wanna ask a local where they would go to have an authentic meal. I think if I was in Ireland I'd also ask where there is an authentic irish pub, which is not only for toutists. Maybe all irish pubs are authentic and dont rip off tourists, but how should the tourist know?
Germany is famous for their Motorway Tourism, Some Motorways or parts of them have no speed limits. People from other countries let themselves fly in to just drive fast without getting fined for speeding. You will get fined if you run out of fuel on the Motorway I would know cuz I got fined once and I am German lived in the UK for too long and simply forgot about that law.
yes a lot of names can be translated. E.g. John = Johann or Johannes in German, Ian = Jan, Michael is spelled Michael in German but has a totally different pronounciation, Mary = Maria, Andrew = Andreas and so on. And there are names in English that don't exist here. But I guess the thing about the mentioned part in the video is: America speaks English. Ireland speaks mostly English. So how would you translate a name from English to English?
There are a lot of Irish names like Aoife, Caoimhe, Cathal, Niamh, Saoirse etc. I think in this case it was Aoife, which is quite common, but definitely not English.
@@sos61 this is why I wrote "ireland speaks MOSTLY English. Sure there are origin names. But I just wanted to tell him that "yes, names can be translatable" because to me it sounded as if he didn't really get that fact.
@@GrouchoEngels hm..... well. If you mean "it does not make any sense because names are not important to understand a foreign language" then I agree. But what about persons who would like to be addressed at with the pronounciation of their name wich is the "original" for them? I mean, if I meet an English native speaker called Andrew, I will call him Andrew, and not "Andreas" which is Andrew in my German language. Get what I mean?
Lots of American I encounter in my life told me the same for what ever reason : "I should be thankful for them" 12:42 I got that a lot too. Living in an Igloo and traveling on a sleigh with my dogs....
The 24th World Scout Jamboree was held at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in West Virginia from 22 July to 2 August 2019. My friends from England went there.
Re the bellybutton thing, at boarding school in the UK, we convinced someone who had lived in the tropics all their life that snow was actually pink, but just looked white only when photographed. She eagerly awaited the first snow fall of winter.
