Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to Americans when they realize the entire doesn’t revolve around them. This was a fun watch. Thanks for subscribing!
Fairly sure, you will find the English spelling of "colour" has been around a lot longer than the americanised version"color". As an Aussie, I prefer to spell it as "colour"
Not actually true. Prior to standardised spelling center and color were just as widely used and apparently can be found in Shakespeare's original manuscripts. Speaking of whom, he spelt his name in four or five different ways and 'Shakespeare' was not amongst them.
@@michaelmclachlan1650 Colour: Early 14th century Anglo-Norman Color: 15th century classical correction Colour, as the English spelling, is over a century older.
I'm a New Zealander who travelled since the late 70s and can testify that Americans generally are the least aware of other countries and cultures by far.
I worry about the current generation. They know so little based on what we did (How is that possible for a generation that had the internet?) I'm more worried about people from the US that know less about the USA than people that are from the opposite side of the globe. By some definitions the USA isn't a country. The treaty that recognized our independence recognized 12 seperate countries (That's right, not one or even thirteen). How many Europeans answer I'm from the EU when asked?
@@gk5891 yeh umm how do I put this nicely... You need to remove your bias, it is definitely not the younger generations that are the problem, infact I'd argue they are better educated about the world thanks to the internet than the older generations. The absolutely full blown retarded comments I've heard from Americans have mostly come from older people. Normally the younger people have already conceded to "yeh I'm American, go ahead and make fun of me", at which point I give them exactly what they ask for haha. It is harder to rip on somebody that knows what's up than those that are oblivious though so I don't go too hard.
@@downunder00 I'm in NZ and I've seen Americans mix up Austria and Aussie alot in the past thinking it's the same country. I always wondered if Aussies noticed that too. Its the same people that think NZ is a State in Aus though so oh well lol. To be completely fair this doesn't annoy me, I like the Aussies. It's not the same insult as calling a Canadian American. 😂
It's selfish because you are assuming that when travelling overseas people should KNOW all the states of the United States, it's pretty obvious. Imagine if someone from Germany was visiting the US and somebody asked "Where are you from?" and they answered Baden-Wurtemburg or Niedersachsen which is their German state. People in the US would expect them to just say Germany, at least as an initial answer. The fact that you don't see the problem with so many of these just further proves the point about Americans. 🤣🤣🤣
I sort of agree but most other places, particularly in the English speaking world, do get a lot of exposure to American culture through Holywood etc. and we do pay a bit of attention to US politics. I have all sorts of preconceptions about people from New York, Texas, Utah, Seattle, Nebraska, Alabama, Boston, West Virginia etc. - pretty much anywhere in the States. There are a lot of places that stand out regionally too like Austin in Texas. Regional accents, regional politics, historical ethnic influences etc. I don't think American tourists should expect the average non-English speaker to know a lot about their home town/ state etc. but at the same time I personally wouldn't be so rude not to engage with them and show a little bit of curiosity if I knew a bit about what they're talking about. It is a pity it is such a one way street though, as while I don't live in the US or Europe, I still know about as much about Europe and other places too. For example, I was at University when 9/11 happened and there were 20-30 US students in my living room that I knew watching the tv and I told them that it was Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. They were all confused as to who would do such a thing at the time. None of them had heard about him, despite him organising recent prior attacks on the US Navy etc., and some of them got agitated when I said this and they tried to tell me that it was an incredibly racist thing to say as a private individual before it had been officially announced. Needless to say that I felt vindicated the next day but no-one apologised or seemed to learn anything from it. The world has a lot to offer. I probably wouldn't be so hard on US tourists though - at least they're the minority who actually own a passport and are at least a bit curious about experiencing things outside of US borders.
@@mrd4785 with 48+ states and 3 or so Territories how are people meant to remember them all when they are not from USA or live next to it? Also why can Americans not remember all UK Counties hell most Americans can not even say 12 EU Countries never that's why it is selfish they expect everyone to know everything about USA but refuse to do the same! I have also traveled a lot 5 weeks in the USA and 9 weeks in the EU in the last 12 years the Americans outside of the US are very loud and disrespectful that is not too say all are but many are thus the stereotype!
If you expect us to know where all the States are in the US, then I would expect the same courtesy in return and know all the States in Australia including all major cities.
If I was travelling around Europe and you asked where am I from I wouldn’t say NSW would I?? I would say Australia. So for her to say Indiana is a self centred or ethnocentric view- I think this is what the woman meant as opposed to selfish (but English isn’t her first language so cut her some slack)
Yea, I think he missed the point that they JUST said Indiana not Indiana, United States. I would probably just say Australia and if they asked for more specific I'd say Tasmania.
Exactly. It's the assumption that anyone who hears 'Indiana' will know it's in the USA. Which many would, but be prepared to know where NSW or the ACT is.
No, you're not helping your case at all, the English language used by the US isn't American, it's American English, it is simply English with some misspellings i.e., Colour, they've dropped the U. English was a language well before America was founded by the English. Not everyone knows the states of the US however we know the USA is a country. As for World Series Sport, yes the adverts for the Superbowl and other USA sports are promoted as World finals and yes, watch your own video, you have proven their point in a few of your responses. A World Series Final would include other countries having competed. An Australian comparison would be if we promoted our AFL Grand Final as WFL Grand Final instead of (Australian Football League) AFL Grand Final.
When Europeans colonised North America (and took English with them), there were no uniform spellings and color was usually spelled without the u. Americans did not later drop the u; they never had it to start with.
Thankyou. Was hoping someone else had said this so I didn't have to. Just because a sport isn't as popular in other countries doesn't give you the right to claim you are the 'WORLD'...we do have the Olympics after all, where many of these sports are played..and I think the Japanese would be very offended with people thinking they don't like baseball as much as the US. Also on the naming your state instead of country: if the person asks that question when you are both in the US, state makes sense. If you met someone in say Germany, they are from Turkey and ask where you're from, then they probably aren't assuming you're American and could think Indiana is a country they've never heard of before.
@@davidbodeker6752 The current difference in spelling between the American and British variants is credited to (or occasionally blamed on) Noah Webster, the American lexicographer. Seeking to establish American independence and identity in language, Webster implemented a number of spelling reforms in A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, which he published in 1806.
Idk about calling them "misspellings", it's just a different standard. You can think it wasn't a good idea to establish this standard, but that's not the same thing as misspellings.
Its selfish because the American saying their state as an answer has made the assumption that everyone in other countries knows all the states of the US. I could name quite a few US states but not all and being able to know exactly where in the US that state is? No. To confuse matters more Georgia is also a country in Eastern Europe. The other thing Americans do online which is even worse is writing their state name as an abbreviation. Is the assumption that everyone will know because 'American is so important you should all know this' or is the assumption that everyone online *is* American? Lol.
@@snowsnake1264 I would start saying "Holland" in response to the question, but sadly most people would still assume I'm refering to the country then, not the provinces XD
Luckily I live in the Netherlands, we were liberated by the Canadians ... I love to point out that fact to Americans as soon as they start about the war.
America didn’t enter the war until the last minute and only after Pearl Harbour and after they had made huge loans for arms to the countries who were there from the start, effectively ensuring these countries were left with huge debts after the war. In other words, America established itself as an economic power by arms dealing.
I was starting to like your open attitude, and then this, you got pretty defensive and took offence without hearing what people were saying. First, when you meet people from other countries, you say country. They do not learn each different countries states unless they want to. So don't assume that anyone knows where the heck Indiana is. And YES, that was too hot of a take. World Champions, why not USA Champions. She is correct, other countries DO play baseball and gridiron AND have a championship of their own sports without claiming they are "world champions". Please open your mind again and listen to what other people say without getting defensive. That way you grow.
If not for Yanks Cricket would be in Olympics, lost count of Yanks that did not know Anzacs and others fought in wars, they do not know we have an Alliance, that we have been by their side in all their stupid unnecessary wars. Have no clue that we were Bombed a lot in the North. So Cute how Yanks all think the world loves them. The Flag thing really pissed me off was perfect example of how world should cater to Yanks. They are only Country that does everything opposite to rest of world.
When I’m sure someone’s from Germany, I also just say the state. It depends on with whom you’re talking. If you’re talking to someone outside your country, I’ll always say the country. But that’s what he said he did too. And side note: I had to learn every state of the us in school
I said which state from México I'm from these summer vacations when went to California and were shocked they didnt know my country, it felt funny. 😂 I'm from Sonora by the way
I’ve noticed that on social media too. Every single person from every single country states they are from Spain, Australia, Japan etc, but every American simply writes Boise IH, or Chicago IL… like the rest of the world is supposed to not only know not only every city in the US, but also the state abbreviations. They literally just don’t comprehend that someone in Amsterdam is not going to know the abbreviation for Tennessee, and there’s absolutely no mention of the USA as a starting point.
It's actually quite easy to work out where they're from: just ask yourself: "what country has citizens who would be so arrogant and self-centred as to expect everyone in the world to know what that means?" and BANG! "The USA" is in your mind, just like that. 🤣
I think about saying what State you come from, there is an assumption, by Americans, the rest of the world knows the names of your 50 States. If you said you were from the District of Columbia, very few would now you are talking about one of your territories. I know it is referred to DC and Maryland is the State DC is in, but I lived in the USA and study American history & politics. Now you know more about Australia, people from this comment section could say New South Wales or ACT but we would say “Australia” to another person as we don’t assume people know our states and territories. I know YOU didn’t say it but never say America “saved” Europe in WWII like that idiot who didn’t know about history continuing. Europe, Australia etc started fighting WWII in 1939. Just a word to the wise when you come to our lovely shores. WWII did not start with Pearl Harbour in 1941. A lot of Americans don’t understand that.
Totally agree Sterry on both points, and with regards to the states of the USA, they have WA as a state initial and I live in WA, however online and to anyone outside of Australia, I will always type our full name of Western Australia, our big state for all the Texans reading this, who seem to think there's nothing bigger. As I've stated previously, Western Australia is 1/3rd the landmass of Australia and 3.8 times the size of Texas and Americans on the whole, don't realise that Australia is a continent in itself and, at 79%, almost as big.
I'm from Australia. I remember being in LA and hanging out with this guy and I remarked that I liked the American accent, and he said that Americans don't have accents. Everybody else does though lol. I tried arguing that a little, but no, I wasn't going to change his mind lol
Ah yes, they're just the best don't y'all know! Pardon my sarcasm, but it's no wonder American tourists are disliked overseas. Seriously. Loud, brash, and egocentric. 🇦🇺
I wonder if he knew that from a linguistics point of view, that hard "R" that is so prevalent im the American accent is actually from Cornwall in England. So I was told by a university graduate who studied linguistics.
You know what the funny thing is that "Ryan Was" or the character he plays in videos is actually a good example of an american who thinks the entire world revolves around him just from his reaction in this video and other ones
Well said. I am glad to have found this comment. I wanted to write this here before, but left it. Because I thought: too impolite, because it is misunderstood or not understood at all.
I'm Australian and visited the US for the first time in the 1980s. The taxi driver coming from the airport in LA asked me where I was from. I told him Australia. His response was 'they have a lot of mountains' there'. I had to think about it for a bit, and then realised he meant Austria!
Australia has the world's 5th longest mountain range, and Australia's mountains cover over 461,000 sq km. The entire country of Austria is only 84,000 sq km, and not all of it is mountainous. The issue is Australia's mountains just aren't very big, and only cover 6% of Australia.
@@revoran4713 it's like the US saying "big as Texas" when to us Aussies it's small compared to our state of Western Australia which is 1/3rd the landmass of Australia and 3.8 times bigger than little old Texas!
Yes you're right. American football, basketball, baseball etc aren't as big in other countries but why are they called "world" series when the only country playing is America and (sometimes) Canada. That makes no sense.
Basketball is an olympic sport and Spain and Australia are high in the rankings both for men and woman, as well as China (men) It might not be as popular because most countries don't have the same "college-sports" that the US has. But basketball is played in schools and on streets all around the world.
Hi. I'm a Brit but I do know that "The World Series" was called that because the competition was originally sponsored by an American newspaper called "The World" and the name stuck. You could argue that it's arrogant to continue with the name but I think it was a catchy title that people liked. Arrogance is looking too deep.
With the “Indiana” thing - if someone from a different country said “Where are you from?” to me, I would not give them the name of my county, I would just say either “I’m English.” or “I’m British.” I would not expect the name of my county to mean anything to them. I have no idea where Indiana is situated in the US, much like I couldn’t point to Bavaria on a map of Germany.
I agree, I find that guy with the the glasses very annoying & rather condescending tbh. Apart from the first comment/s, let’s take a moment to appreciate 🫤 the arrogance of saying the US saved the rest of the world in WW2 🤦🏼♀️ Only after the rest of the world had done all the work 🙄 🤣🤣
@@franceskrahe6261 That incorrect information is often mentioned in historical documentaries on WWII that are shown on SBS quite often. It makes me want to throw something at the TV every time! Especially as so many of our parents and grandparents fought and died in Europe in WWII. Wake up America you're not the only pebble on the beach!
I think the point being made by the guy talking European history was that the American education system is a little America centric, ignoring the outside world.
Hmmmmm, there was a Texan and an Aussie in a bar in the US, and the Texan was raving about his world champion fighting dog that couldn’t be beaten. The Aussie said he has a better one and asked him to come over to Australia with his dog for a contest. So the American brought his dog over and they put them together. It only took a few seconds for the Aussie dog to destroy the Yank’s dog. The Texan said, “Man, that’s one hell of a dog you got there, what sort of dog is that?” The Aussie said. “Some people call it a sleek backed, hairless terrier, but we just call it a crocodile.”😹
@@janined5784 Well thank you Janine D. For that you deserve another one. A man in a bar with his dog. Tells the dog to go and drag the ashtray over to him, get the newspaper off the table, and a few other menial tasks. Another bloke in the bar says, “That’s a pretty smart dog you’ve got there mate.” The owner told him that the dog even plays chess with him and invites him around to his house to prove it. They sit at the chessboard and sure enough, the dog starts playing chess with him. The stranger says, “Wow, that’s gotta be the smartest dog in the world.” The man says, “oh don’t drum him up too much, I beat him 2 out of 3 times.” 😹😹
I understand her completely because I have seen this happen before where the person asking, had no idea where the place was and had to ask another question to clarify it and then feel very embarrassed and stupid for not knowing every place in the United States. To give a comparison, I would say I’m from Australia, but if I said I’m from Wollongong, you wouldn’t know where that was unless you lived in my state of New South Wales. Always state your country to a foreign question and save them the humiliation.
Yeah, like I've picked up probably the majority of state names just through the internet, but I wouldn't know geographically where they are. And as someone else mentioned some people also use the abbreviations of states. I have no clue!
I am stunned, how arrogant can you be, before you say something like that you should inform yourself. You serve the stereotype of an uneducated American and put yourself in the shade. I just did a quick search on the internet and immediately saw how many countries play the sports you mentioned. American football alone is played in more than 25 countries. Including: - Australia - Austria - Bahamas - Belgium - Brazil - Canada - China - Cuba - France - Germany and many more. Basketball more than 50 countries. If only one country participates in the sport, you can not speak of a world championship, if only one country participates in the competition. The USA is far from being the center of the universe. But waking up from a dream sometimes hurts. It seems that for you it starts with sports.
Dig deeper it was named World Series before most other countries played.It's a bit confusing. Some answers say it's because American teams had International players playing for them. However majority replies say it's because they just liked the original title and stuck to it. That's why most think it's arrogance. Nowadays there are many countries playing American football however with it not being played with all the other countries as competing against one another in major competition you have to draw your own conclusions! It does bring in 15 billion a year revenue however it's not very popular in other countries. Others prefer baseball and basketball. What I gather American football is by invitation. So to me that seems controversial as to the true meaning of World or stretching the meaning if that makes sense... "international players hired" but no "mass competition "against other countries" ... there is no actual straight forward answers that I could find. Everyone asking questions but everyone dancing around the answer's 🤷♀️... anyway I'm just an Aussie sheila so what would I know 😂.... oh yeah you were being a bit rude and arrogant. Not everyone is a know all, life's a learning curve!
How many of those countries are allowed to compete against America in any form of international contest outside of the Olympic games? American sports might be played elsewhere but that doesn't make them international. Tennis, Association Football, Rugby (Union and League), Cricket, Volleyball... those are international
@@madpaduk allowed to compete against the USA`??? who gives permssion? Basket is played worldwide, so is American football(though not popular) - There is even a danish lacross team or two.....
Um I don’t think that’s very fair. I mean, just as an example, American football is played in Australia but it’s pretty niche. Basketball is quite popular beyond the U.S. though, that’s for sure. Not everyone has to know sports to be better informed…other things are probably a lot more important/useful.
Lol. I loved the part where you agreed with the girl who said there should be an American English option for translation, despite most of the rest of the English speaking world (as a first language) uses "u" in words like colour. England/Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada (I think) still use the "u". We also say the last letter of the alphabet as zed not zee. And we use the metric system. Good luck when you first start travelling dude. Lol
Over 60 countries participated in the Olympics playing Basketball. Baseball has been included in the Olympics 6 times and the USA has only got gold once! So yeah not just American sports.
And the Japanese do much more at baseball (and personally I'd say they are better at least with tactics and stuff? I don't know how they were in Olymics though... - I watch mostly Japanese high school baseball 😅)
The girl who said about Indiana is completely right, noone else travels to another country and says the place in the country they’re from without saying the country. That’s an American thing and it’s weird.
Just to add context to your spelling issues...A least 40 % of the English language comes from the French language - colour is spelt that way because it is French....cheers from Sydney, Australia...
To be fair, colour is a french word that comes directly from latin word color without an u, as it is spanish, italian (colore), etc. So I guess they are not that wrong about dropping the u.
Its weird how Americans say Filet as “Fil-ay” and Herb as “erb” because it’s the French way but they can’t spell colour with a U, which is like that because of French. :)
They probably don't know where French is, but yes you're right. The word colour comes from the Latin word "colur" with the English being "colour". The current difference in spelling between the American and British variants is credited to (or occasionally blamed on) Noah Webster, the American lexicographer. Seeking to establish American independence and identity in language, Webster implemented a number of spelling reforms in A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, which he published in 1806.
Love your vids. The Indiana thing makes sense when you are travelling in the US, but for example, if I went to the US and was asked where I was from and I replied Tasmania, or Victoria (rather than Australia) most people would have no idea where that is. I think it comes across as a bit arrogant to assume that people in other countries to know that Indiana means a state in the US. A lot of people do know its a US state because of pop culture references, but Americans seem to be the only people who, when asked where they are from, tend to reply with a state rather than a country. Its just a weird quirk i guess.
You made me laugh when talking about sport. A lot of countries have their own national leagues for baseball, basketball and such. As for american football you're right it's not huge outsidebof the states but we don't claim to have world champions in afl.
About the woman from Colombia: American tourists seem to expect people to know where Indiana is. But if a Colombian tourist traveling the US was asked the same question, and she just answered: "Medellin" or even "Santiago", you know what I mean?
9:10 Imagine you asking a random person on the street: "Where are you from?" And the answer is: "Lower Saxony" (state of Germany). "Why is this selfish?" Because this guy expects you to know the interior political structure of his home country. Most people (the remaing billions of humans on Earth) outside your home country usually don´t give a **** of the interior political structure of it. That Includes the US of A and this is exactly the topic of this video: "The world does NOT revolve around the US"
@@finnicpatriot6399 ❤ FI ❤ EU 😆 (start sarcasm) Lets drive Americans crazy together. lol (/s). At least we managed to keep our humour across our European societies. Helps me keep my faith in humanity. Thanks a lot!
Saying America saved Europe in the WW2 is like saying French won independence from Britain for Americans. Help will always be valued but this is just so disrespectful to all the soldiers that gave their lives protecting their homes. That guy is Russian level of arrogant, and makes most Americans look humble and gracias.
Pedantic reply but english is an off shot of the Germanic language(s) as in Anglo Saxon and jutes etc and developed and continually evolving over a period of more than a thousand years.
@@chrisgibson7591 we do speak English but when it comes to the history of the English language over almost 1500 years, its basically a mix of various words from various languages over that period of time that ultimately became the English language we know and speak it now. Look at how many words we use that come from India ( example "bungalow"), from the Scandinavian countries when they were in England from about the year 750 until the year 1050 (approx period of time) or words from various other non English speaking countries that we use almost daily. So the long and short of it is english is generally considered an off shot of the Germanic thing.Ok I may have given a simplicity answer but I think you get the general idea. Look at the English speaking world, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and America, they all have a common language but have their own version of the English language sort of thing.
PS I love all of your videos and every American I have personally met has been so lovely. They were friendly, curious and well educated!! I actually feel sorry for the Americans who are overworked, underpaid and living with the stress of worrying about going under with no social support if they get sick, have an accident or lose their jobs etc. Having said that, I did see the most disgusting display of racism first hand by some southern Americans who refused to stay in the hotel I worked in because there were “black people,” there. They went on to pen a letter to the owners, who pinned it up for all to see the grotesqueness of it, saying how appalled and angry they were that such a highly respected establishment would “allow” those people in and not remove them at request. Furthermore, they were going to tell all of their rich American friends to not go there anymore. 😂. The “black” guests were very highly regarded French diplomats who had brought their friends to stay and to visit their son who was a chef at the hotel. This was in Ireland and we Australians, French and Irish were so shocked having never seen that kind of racism before! We were so proud of our Irish bosses for basically kicking out the Americans and then putting up the letter to show people how revolting some people can be.
When as a family we were taking a holiday in the USA, an American lady commented on my accent, saying it was one she had never heard. She asked where I was from, so I told her Wales. Her reply was, oh I know where that is, it's an island off Australia... 🙄. A lot of Americans don't know where other countries are, yet you took umbridge over the Indiana.
American football, baseball and basketball are big in other countries as well, perhaps not as big but definitely present. Regardless it's weird to call it world championship when it's only one country competing. It's also really annoying when you ask someone what country they're from and they answer "Las Vegas". So I always reply back "oh, is that in Canada?"
I was a tourist in Nebraska in the 80's. I asked a telephone operator to place a call to my home telephone in Australia. The operator put me through to a number in AUSTRIA. But I found the people in Omaha to be very friendly and after all they would hear about Austria much more often than they would about Australia no doubt.
I was in South Korea speaking to a guy from Brunei, he asked where I was from and I said "Australia" he then said wow your English is really good. Lol Took me a bit to realise after he left that he thought I said Austria.
Thought I'd let you know my daughter work on tourist out on to the great barrier reef one American lady wanted to know where the fish were kept of a night time another how the coral was painted. But the best ones not American a couple went out got off the boat onto a large pontoon and just sat all day when it was time to board the boat to go back to Port Douglas they refused as they were told a bus would pick them up to take them back to Cairns it didn't seem to matter that they were on a pontoon floating in the ocean. They didn't eat lunch didn't go in the glass bottom boat didn't swim just sat paid all that money for nothing
I don't think that Indiana was too specific. I think its arrogant to assume that the whole world knows all of the states. (Most Americans probably dont) If someone said they were from West Midlands, Americans would have no idea that that's a district in England, so how is everyone, everywhere, supposed to know where the heck Indiana is?
Was crayon a joke? Hope so as it doesn't have a U. Now if you want to talk about colour or flavour, heck yeah it has a U. You're not helping your case, nope. :D
Props to the young self aware blonde woman with glasses at 5:24 that used the correct term of 'US immigrant' when describing herself living in Costa Rica instead of using the entitled racially discriminatory term 'expat'.
I got told when I moved to the US, that I was now so lucky as I would be able to experience real chocolate, and I had been deprived of all their selection of various things. It was overwhelming the variety of Tang, but I was seriously underwhelmed on the chocolate. When I moved back home I sent a care package back of chocolate and I was told how embarrassed they were realising how good Australian chocolate was and the variety of crisps we have when I sent a picture. They had been so confident thinking we were so close to being almost third world in the quality of food we have. Australia is known as the lucky country for a reason. Good food is just one of those reasons (and not everything having corn syrup, and our snacks dont have msg all over the place, our crisp for a start dont have it and taste better)
I think what bothered the Indiana girl was the presumption that everyone in the rest of the world would know what and where Indiana is. Maybe when she said 'selfish', she meant more like 'self-centered'
9:30 - if you know very little of Australia, would you understand my location if I said - New South Wales? (without using a search engine). Ah, the American presumption.
medusax I work in a museum in Asia, and my job is to go up to foreigners and ask them where they're from and give them a map. I kid you not, for the 3 years that I've been there, not ONE SINGLE American has told me they're American or they're from the US, they have 100% always answered me with either the state or the city that they're from. And internally, I'm like, "oh yeah, another American." Every other foreigner that I've spoken to have always answered with the country. ie "We're Germans, we're from Russia, I'm from Monaco." But not Americans. They've always answered with, "Texas, Los Angeles, New York." And it matters to us coz we have to tally what countries are visiting us so we can print out maps for them. And I was doing the tallying and one of my colleagues wrote down "Colorado" because she thought the visitor had answered her with the country. And another time, my colleague came back looking mightily confused while she asked me, "Where is Georgia? I don't think I've heard of that country." LOL
@@electricglitter6136 hi neighbour ^^ Mecklenburg-Vorpommern here, and yes they do know all about every single state besides Bavaria (not) - most of them don't even know that we have one coast (North Sea) let alone two (Baltic Sea) as for the initial question - tricky since the name is Swedish, yet that would be just too simple
It's not that she didn't like they were specific by saying Indiana. It's the idea that Americans forget other countries exist so instead of saying the country, they say the state. Imagine me, a Portuguese, decided to say I'm from Alentejo region as if expecting other countries to know the regions in Portugal. Americans would be like "How the hell am I supposed to know that?!?!"
FACT .. Russia won WW2. They were the one's that turned the tide of the war which gave the allies hope that they could win this was. US came and joined at half time.
If you meet someone from overseas and you asked where are you from? and they said Donegal a lot of people wont know from which country that is. Works the same for her she didn't know that Indiana is in the USA. That's why she said Selfish because he expected her to know. Hense the title The World doesn't revolve around The USA.
It’s not selfish… just say “where’s that” and the person can reply “oh the United States”. Just seems you guys are seeking out problems to have with Americans so you’re able to act judgmental towards them. It’s very weird… quit trying to find ways to look down on people over something so insignificant.
I used to get asked a lot whether Australia celebrated Thanksgiving and USA Independence Day. I used to respond with “how do you celebrate 26th January (Australia Day) if it is cold?
We've known that about Americans for decades, very US-centric. That and the fact that Americans think that they single-handedly won WWII!! Seriously? I think they need to learn some history. Also, the English language came from England, they, and most other nations who speak English, except America, DO spell colour with a U, also favour with U, and flavour, and many other words and MANY medical words have been changed too, like paediatrics and haematology etc etc etc.
As a South African I prefer to spell colour as colour because that's the original spelling. And last time I checked English comes from England. There's no language called "American". And France is in Europe. So is the UK. Both are European countries. So obviously the British flag would be used to symbolize English. Plus again.....English is from there.
8:15 okay so I am from Denmark, so if someone asked me where I was from I would say “I am from Denmark” I would not say “Central Jutland” which is the Region in Denmark I am from
I don’t need to say where I’m from. 99% of people know an Aussie accent. Ryan, did you know that over the years, the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been “sold” to Americans a number of times?
Well, try with someone who has not English as 1st language. My French ear is barely able to understand people with accents, even less be able to define from where the accent is coming from 😅
Now think about that: The UN recognizes 194 countries, the swiss alone have 26 cantons, india has 28 federal states.... and some Americans don't even know all of their own 50 states but assume everybody from outside has to know them.
That girl was right, most of the world doesn't view the US as specific states, we treat it as one country in our mind, which it de facto is, so saying you're from Michigan or Wisconsin or whatever doesn't tell much to most of the rest of the world, I'd say. They don't each have a completely different language, anthem, flag, culture, etc., so it's more like regions in each European country. You wouldn't know what Europeans were talking about if you would ask them where they're from and they'd say "Schleswig-Holstein/ Zagorje/Posočje/Staffordshire/etc."
My sister was in the US in the 1980s and wanted to mail a package home. The Post Office lady asked, "Australia? That's near New Zealand, isn't it? If I send it to NZ, it will get to Australia, won't it?"
Brilliant example of American arrogance... For a small period of time during WW2 the American fleet moored in a cove in Vanuatu. This cove is now a brilliant bright blue because of the number of Coca Cola bottles that were thrown overboard and broke on the seabed and beach. The glass is everywhere and has now rounded to smooth blue pebbles, but for 40 years the beach was uninhabitable to wildlife and humans because of glass shards. ☹
A couple of these were hilarious (especially the woman who thought judges would find it hard not to cheat for USA because everyone loved America so much (that one was a hoot)) BUT a couple of them were just petty and trying to make something out of nothing. Linda from Brisbane, Australia 🙂
I'm not trying to discredit Americans but seriously you did not save anyone in ww2. You entered the war at the last minute when it was nearing its end. Russia actually broke the back of ww2.
Not everyone knows American State names, why would they? When the rest of the World asks someone "where are you from " they're wanting the Country name... Most people in the World, understand this and try to help and be polite to the enquirer with a succinct reply. Only Americans seem not to understand.. ?
Bro... Korea and Japan are super into baseball. Like, super into it. Also football (soccer). And they don't play American football because they play rugby.
Dude, you didn't help your case indeed. Some of your comments could be added as just another example...Mr. Indiana using american language. Regards from Skåne (and not from Sweden).
The woman that was bothered by the Indiana response, I can relate. It would be the same as if I would say I'm from Brabant (a province in the Netherlands). I don't know where all the states in the US are, and I don't have to.
Cheers man✌️ Re: around the 9 min mark- Think about how many of the states or territories in other countries u know, say in India for example, do u know any of their 28 states or 8 territories?! I sure as hell don’t! I’m Aussie, u know a bit about us now, but if i said which state rather than country I was from would u know immediately?😉 💚🇦🇺
The lady talking about Indiana. I think she refers to Americans assuming everyone in the world is familiar with US states. I mean, why wouldn’t they be, after all, most Americans know the Provinces of South Africa, right? Or the Counties of Britain. Hah! Most Americans don’t even know the COUNTRIES in Europe. (And Asia…) So assuming everyone in the world knows US States is hubris.
I think you might have missed the point of Indiana specific. What would Indiana mean to someone from a different country? I'm from the state of South Australia yet when travelling I would identify myself as Australian and not be specific. Americans assume that everyone is familiar with their state names. I don't even think Americans are that familiar with their own states.
This is hilarious. Sometime ago when I was living in London I was going out with a lovely American girl. I’m an Australian and of course she was a US citizen, and we were quite close. I had some reasonably good conversations with a number of her relatives, but on a number of calls she would finish off laughing out loud. Apparently she had been warned by her older relatives that she may be being used by a “foreigner” to gain access to the supposed US fat white meat, that is apparently limitless in the USA. Eventually she told me about these slurs. I told her to assure them that Australia is an astonishingly prosperous country with far more reasonable and productive distribution of wealth etc etc. I was obviously a foreign commie and was about to infiltrate the US with my filthy lefty propaganda. We held out a long time, until we had to expose the fact that I was actually born in Los Angeles, (an Aussie anchor baby if you’re will) and have voted mostly Conservative all my life. Of course silence was the loud reply. I will be voting in November.
I know people have already said it but she wasn’t trying to be offensive about the whole Indiana thing - it’s like any time I’ve gone abroad and met people who I know are not from that country (I.e not Spanish when in Spain) they would answer the question “where are you from” with like, I’m from Sweden, or Germany - and then I’ve asked oh whereabouts there? It’s just the assumption I think that everyone on the planet knows everywhere in America - that’s what signifies thinking the world revolves around them
Re the stating Indiana, rather that USA, it's kinda US-centric to expect someone from another country to know that Indiana is in the US. For instance, were I to say I'm from Dorset, or Queensland (I'm from neither), the assumption would be that the other person knows Dorset is in UK, and Queensland is in Oz. We in Oz tend to expect people in the US to not even be able to know where Australia is on a map of the world.
If an American traveling in another country is asked what country they are from responds with "Indiana", they have simply failed to answer the question. That is a US State, not a country. If an American asked me, an Australian, where I am from and I say "Perth", would that mean Perth Scotland or Perth Australia or Perth somewhere else? Of course the most likely response from an American would just be "Huh? Is that a place?"
Americans telling you their state and sometimes even county when you ask where they're from really is irritating. It's not that we don't know all of the US states because we cover y'know, the planet, in Geography, but expecting people not from your country to know every sub-region of your country is a really weird US-centric thing. Just say the USA, it's all most people want, if they pry further then give more detail. If someone asks where a German is from, even a Bavarian will say "Germany" before "Bavaria", an English person would say "England" before "Yorkshire".
I'm from New Zealand, My sister played baseball at school and her team won the trip to America, and they also won the league. Steven Adams plays for the Memphis Grizzlies, (Basketball), Riki Gray was the first New Zealander to win the Superbowl, (NZAFF), In the NFL, Kyle Glogoski (Phillies), Ben Thompson (Braves) and Elliot Johnstone (Mets) and two others playing independent professional baseball - Jason Matthews (Great Falls Voyagers, USA) and Nao Fukuda (Ibaraki Astro Planets, Japan). So yeah, Australia also has players all over as well.
Hey mate...when you commented about the word colour with a u in it....well that's a word that came from England who first created the language !?...Americans were the ones who changed the spelling not us along with many other words.
Hahaha your attempt to mock proper English was hilarious. XD "CrayoUn" Also it's different when you're travelling to another country - when someone asks you, you say the country you are from. Saying your state assumes that everyone is also from the US, which isn't selfish, but it's certainly self-centred. In regards to the American Sports championships, I think you completely missed the point. Her point wasn't about what sport is most popular or played, it was solely about Americans calling their domestic league winners "World Champions", when they're the only country competing in the supposed "world" championships. As far as I'm aware of, no other country does that. Here in Australia we say the best team or player is the "Grand Champion", and our top AFL match is called the Grand Finale.
Hi! I'm from Gotland. Now tell me which country I'm from without looking it up. ;) That's how weird it feels for the whole world to hear someone just name a state. Still, please make a guess, Ryan. :D
Only Americans say their state to non-Americans. Everyone else in the world will say which country they are from when asked “where are you from?”. From her perspective she is saying Americans think everything revolves around their country, so they say the state, as if everyone outside of America should know the names of all USA states, which is presumptions and therefore selfish. From now on, Whenever we meet America tourists we should all start saying which state we are from and expect the Americans to just know what country we are from. E.g. Queensland (Australia) LOL
