American reacts to: Do Europeans like America? 

I mean, there would still be the issue of having guns, the health care system, the abortion law and student loans, among other things, but it would certainly be an improvement.

@@Kalakeiko If most Americans were like this man, certain policies and laws could have been subject to change. Ofcourse it's a lot of 'what ifs'.. If my aunt had balls, she 'ld be my uncle. ;)

I couldn't agree more.

@@Kalakeiko Most Americans are like him. You don't know that because its the idiots who make the most noise. They are not the majority. They are simply more visible.

It is a great country

I agree so much to the last paragraph!!

Second that

Well put!

All are `entertained` by the American at the party - except the Briton, who`s throwing up in the back yard and drunkenly trying to open his fly so he can piss all over the geraniums.

Well said.

I used to wish to vist the states way back !!!but seeing how you behave no thank you!!!! Warching how the police act and townhall officals talk to you !!! If a civil worker talkes to use they would get a mouth full Also how worker are treted by emplomemers being robbed?? Most American who i have meat are very nice but when they are in a large group no thanks It is also with chinese are very rude and mouthy We a few ball players and are fun😃😃😃😃

I think there are as many positives as negatives about the US for me. But: All those positives are "unlocked" by being rich, and if you're not you basically only get the negatives. Crime, the guns, police brutality, me having little faith in its legal system... all could be pretty much avoided by being rich. Isolate yourself from the general public, hang out in your rich people bubble and life in the US is great. Enjoy all the benefits, the freedoms, the drive people have... start a project, invest, see your ideas grow into something. Awesome. But if you're not rich... you struggle with everyone else. You're part of a dog eat dog society.

@@barbarusbloodshed6347 Good phrase "all the positives are unlocked by being rich".

I go to an internist here in Austria. I think what he has often interns working in his office (he's a university professor, as well)? Twice he has had young doctors (they draw the blood and operate the EKG, etc., in his office) that talked about plans to go to the USA to become plastic surgeons for the money. The ones who stay behind here in Austria are obviously here for the patients and all I have come across are very dedicated. I had doctors in the USA that were also very dedicated, but the things some of them put you through as a patient to try to make money is very sad and they make unnecessary referrals to each other to continue to make more money for each other. Congress writes the laws. The president signs the ones he likes into law. The Supreme Court rules on the cases that they take before them to decide whether something is "unconstitutional" and trump was the one who appointed enough judges on the Supreme Court with the plan to overturn allowed abortions, which went into effect in 2022. It's all political and the doctors are bound by the law---so it's really trump and the Supreme Court judges that are the murderers of mothers.

@@CabinFever52 Well certain specialities come with certain characteristics. Some people do plastic surgery to help those who had an accident, were attacked, had a tumor and need remodeling. Others just do the beauty part of it. In some disciplines as a specialist you can earn a lot of money in the US but you can also be sured for millions and you basically just work privately. Vacation, retirement, sick leave etc are still usually pretty bad you can compensate with money but what if something happens and you cannot work anymore, they don't have any insurance for that. I disagree. This is why it happened - but the huge amount of supporters and pro-life protesters and internet warriors is frightening. Also there have been new laws ever since then which make it even worse in some states. I think it was Missouri that said not-aborting is more importan than saving a mother's life. If she has severe consequences of let's say preeclampsia they are not allowed to get the child out even if it could survive. The problem is, even IF they are a minority, they are loud and clear and there are obviously not enough people fighting back. Americans most often don't know and don't care. They know next to nothing about their own country. I assure you, everyone in Europe knows more about the US than the average American.

Wait so you're a doctor and you think a fetus isn't a human being? Don't you think a fetus deserves the same rights as a woman or a man?

@@LaReganto No, I do not and I am also not willing to discuss this with you. You don’t have an uterus, you are probably American and you don’t know a thing about embryology.

@@LaReganto Depends on the stage of development. But in general no the mother's life is more important. Embryos on the other hand shouldnt have any right over their mothers.

Not if you were black, hispanic or asian it wasn't. Things are a little better now, but there is still a long way to go.

Who cares what Oscar Wilde said? Look at his personal life. Anyone can make up any statement about anything or anyone. That doesn't make it true.

​@@reindeer7752 it is just an observation dude. And the fact it is rememberd many years later must mean there is some truth to it in some ways.

Yes, killing children is very backwards thing. Too many of it happens in America.

@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor Back in your box Pastor! This is a view widely shared by far right evangelical religious fanatics and a shining example of the septics rapid acceleration to a medieval set of values....No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition in the more advanced countries of the world anymore.....

@@NickBrown-ph6xd Calling me pastor is an insult. I'm not a protestant, nor right winger. I'm an universalist and humanitarian. Spanish inquisition is your thing in the western world, not in mine. Now you stay in your box and don't go out.

@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor So, you think it's okay if a woman or child (the 10 year old in Ohio) who was abused can't get an abortion in her state because it's been criminalized? That bounties are put on helpers? The USA is a Tesla powered by a 200 year old steam engine called the Constitution + “religion”.

@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor Protestant/Catholic/Muslim/Buddhist or whatever...all amounts to the misguided delusion of mythical sky daddies and their rabid believers interpreting fictional doctrines onto the more enlightened and educated. That would be the opposite of universalist

a doctor in the office I go to in Canada moved to Texas. He moved back after 2 years, too hot, had to live in a gated community, didn't fee safe or free. With high medical insurance costs and patients not paying, the Big bucks down there were less than he made in Canada. I agree money isn't everything.

I think they mean that a doctor can be the best in europe but still drive a beaten and old Volvo, whereas in America they have a yatch a helicopter in the garden and the neighborhood is full of people like Eddie Murphy and Oprah and so on.. And they see that as a golden carrot, but would still be a nightmare here.

Your so right , I'm happy just be able to pay my bills and have a little bit left over to treat myself, I have no stresses of a high payed job .lifes too short my family are most important thing to me not big money

​@@ebbhead20doctors in Germany do not drive old volvos (that brand is not so popular). Driving to work is also not so thing in Germany, but yes most people have cars but they are not a status symbol. Doctor would have a decent car, BMW or similar, but for sure he would go to vacation by train or plane if it is further than 200-300 miles. A doctor has at least 5.5k dollars per month after all insurances (including medical) and taxes paid

@@aurelije you clearly missed the point of my post. But okay..

Absolutely.

Bernie/AOC and the such seem to have a more left/European mindset. I don't blame them though. Our European systems seem to work better than those in the US

Define me the right and left wing politics pls! Too much missinterpretation nowadays. Basicly left wing political view: No social hierarchy, the goal is the social equality. Right wing: beliveing in the old fassion statuses and hierarchies(given by god. Being loyal to the king who got his power and title from the God.) But we put too much things into these two political sets. I think the basic mindset of 90% of the world population is on the left wing. People basicly don't want inequality and they think they cannot accept the idea some one is superior to them. But in reality an image of superiority demands fear and respect of sime kind. The human civilization survided and bwcame the dominant species of this planet under right wing dictatorship with a very few kind of left wing dictatorship like roman republic(there was a social hierarchy but at least they tried to be equal in the citizens level at least.) or City Stat of Athen. Don't be mistaken Athen was not a democracy actually not in that way what most people think. A 'democracy' where only the 15% of its citizens had right for vote, women were excluded. Anyway they were a very short periods in the history. Humanity needs right wing dictatorship. I don't like it but this is the truth. I wish the real democracy can works but that is just a dream. Democracy is disfunctional in the reality, cuz we humans are not good enough for democracy. In Athen where the people voted anonimously with clay tile. That was the 1.2 version, do you know why? Not cuz of corruption, but before that they went to the agora and discussed and voted thing openly. That led to chaos. Imagine when a 150IQ people want to convines a 77IQ fellow citizen whe is not awared of anything at all. Pointless. This is the core element of the problem with democracy beyond many other things. And once when you regulated the right for vote then it is no more democracy. Our democracy has ended anyway. That was a very short period about from 1975-2000. And anybody who thinks this is bullshieet cuz democracy is the ultimate governing style(actually this is another missunderstanding; democracy is a governing style not form of goverment. A monarchy can be democratic as the UK was and a republic can be dictatorship like the roman republic or many socialist and communist goverment.) only democracy can prevail... Meanwhile China: Tell me more pls! And lastly democray and left wing are not equal to liberalism by far. In a left wing system you can live togther equally under hard control. And liberalism not equal to 'you can do what you want'. This twisted abomination what some people call liberalism will lead to a disaster. The least worst scenario is kind of starshiptroopers and the worst is that new Hitlers will come again.

@@georgschrotten622 That is a very long comment.

@@kristerhegsund5752 Became a tin foil hat rant towards the end.

UK is not a very good example of equality though 😂 But better than America for sure.

We are the world leaders. Cry about it

Very good point indeed; one reason for not liking the US indeed is their egotism-going as far as basically claiming the whole continent for themselves.

Some nice spots in Canada, too.

I like Costa Rica :-D

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@ThibauddeLaMarnierre - Are you Canadian? Do you call yourself Canadian or American?

the worst part of being a Canadian is when travelling people often think you are American. After I'm "sorry you thought that eh" they know I'm Canadian and things change for the better, most of the time.

You don't want to be referred to as American just because you live in North America. You know, as does the world, that American refers to a citizen of the United States of America, the only country that has America in it's name. You could certainly call yourself a North American as anyone from South America could call themselves South Americans. Most people do not refer to themselves by their continent but by their country. Its only since the formation of the European Union that the blanket term European has become common. The funny thing is, there is no European continent. Its part of Asia.

@@reindeer7752 No, we've called ourselves Europeans since well before the EU trade group was formed. Basically it started with the Council of Europe, formed just after WWII. The EU is a relatively new organisation, barely 30 years old, that has been trying to make itself a political power for the last decade or so and is likely to fail completely within the next 5 years, because the peoples of Europe's countries do not want to be in a EUSSR.

@@Thurgosh_OG I've had friends and neighbors from England, Ireland and Germany. The two from England called themselves English, the two from Ireland called themselves Irish and the one from Germany called himself German. I've also known plenty of Canadians who called themselves Canadians. None of them called themselves by their continent. That is my point. The argument that Americans have no right to call themselves Americans when America is literally in the name of the country is ridiculous. Mexico also has United States in its official name but they refer to themselves as Mexicanos.

@@reindeer7752 It comes from the English language, dating back to 1600s. The English referred to the English people living in their colonies in America as Americans to separate them from people living in England. Once the U.S became independent, they kept the term American, cause they had be called American by their colonial overlords for 150 or so years by this point. Canadians wanted to separate themselves from the people in the new found U.S.A and stopped using the term American. Through diplomatic treaties with other nations the term American became synonymous with a U.S citizen in most foreign languages. To sum it up, people in the Colonies didn't call themselves American, everyone else did, and then they just went with it. This same thing could be applied to almost every country in the history of the world, that had contact with England/France/Spain at the peak of their power. The only difference is, that most of these countries at some point between then and now, refused to go along with it. Edit: To add, if you think about, is the name of your country and the word used to describe the people in it, the same in your native language as the word for it in English? If the answer is no, congratulations, you are also in the same club as "americans", being called something else just cause they did so back in the day.

The propaganda does seem to be very effective at indoctrinating them into thinking their country is the best place. Ive seen Americans be surprised we have things like fridges and dishwashers over here. Who do you think invented those lmao. The Germans of course. Or maybe the English, idk. One of those 2.

So they don't know about the various space programs in various countries in Europe or the European Space Agency (ESA) which launches some of the US's satellites into orbit. Sounds like typical US ignorance to me.

US astronauts were probably still hitching rides into space with the Russians at the time , correct?

​@@PaulG.xcorrect. An u.s space tecnology... Lots of it came from germany, france, sweden, finland......

​@@rockrane1 von Braun , that Old n.zi build the rockets for the moon mission

Dr. Wernher von Braun who put American on the Moon and was a naturalized NAZI. They don't like to mention it much, though LOL

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I believe the hungarian lady. I remember in the 80's being at the beach at Constanta in Romania,it was a hungarian tourist who drunk so much Pepsi that he fainted in the restaurant and an ambulance came and took him to the hospital. They were also buying like crazy that instant coffee Amigo,chewing gum,Marboro,Kent,etc also for some reason Delikat,that condiment mix wich was imported in Romania from Hungary,wich was the weird part,they were buying it back....

Ale czemu ty napisałeś w jakimś dziwnym niemieckim Warchau a nie Warsaw jak faktycznie brzmi po angielsku nazwa stolicy mojej ojczyzny, Polski?

As an American, I couldn't agree with you more. The indoctrination is all to get compliance to all policies that go against a person's own self interest to support the oligarchs and to make possible recruiting an army at any given time.

Any limits to freedom of speech is an abolition of freedom of speech.

I cound‘t have said it bette 👍

Actually - a Right of freedom of speech - IS THE BEST IN WORLD. What is good is good even in America

@@avitalsheva , not sure---what was the point you are trying to make?

There have been wars and invasion since the dawn of civilization, well before the British Empire also happening to countries you had mentioned such as Britain.

@@user-hv5wi6nd4i I know that, but it seems that many people blame the British now for things that their ancestors did 400 years ago, but completely forget what their ancestors did. 😁

On my way to Paris to say "buenas dias" to all the French people

@@TheSuperappelflap They would like that more than "do you speak english" 🙂

@@Muppetkeeper And it would be funny. Me, one of the whitest Dutch guys ever, going to France and ordering cervezas por favor from all the arrogant waiters in Paris. Cant sniff at me for speaking French with a Dutch accent now, huh? I might just try it

Nowdays you wouldn't get an offer for Silicon Valley,for the simple reason now the ,,silicon valey '' moved to Europe,in the North West Romania (Cluj Napoca,Oradea,Arad,etc). It should be in China,but the chinese government shoot himself in the foot with those antispy bs and lost the start.

I don't think that many Europeans moved to the US after WW2 than before it.

@@mixlllllll I didnt say anything about that? to counter your point though, you do have to remember when the original colonies were founded, population levels were much lower, so the emigration from Europe to North America after ww2 is likely a greater objective number than all the people who originally founded colonies in America. Just a much lower number percentage wise as a portion of the population. A ton of people emigrated to the US from every western country after the war due to poverty, food shortage and lack of work.

@@TheSuperappelflap Emigration to the US from Europe was at it's peak in the late 1800's and early 1900's. You're probably right that many people moved there after WW2 too, from my country the emigration to the US pretty much stopped in the 1930's so i may have generalized a bit.

You mean like 'operation paperclip'?

Yes, because Europeans have a superiority complex

Did Portugal put a man on the moon?

@@reindeer7752 Is that the most important thing in life? India has a huge space program. Are all people happy and wealthy there?

He was close but USA is the show.

So, he was a bigot, too.

From a European perspective, both parties appear to be a right-wing, but I can't honestly call them extreme when compared to the government of their best buddies in middle east.

​@@flechtTrump is an fascist

The democratic party is extraordinarily left wing

@@antonioiniguez1615 You don´t know left from right. 🤡

@@antonioiniguez1615 lol, no they are not left wing they just more for democracy.

"average education" in the US is notoriously bad.

the biggest mistake I see is thinking everybody see it as a pro or against it's very "either you are with us or against us"George Bush idea, personally I'm pro peace and this war could easily have been avoided there have been a 20 year lead up to this and especially the past 10 years , and the finger is pointing at the one country starting pretty much all conflicts the past 80 years and their vassals our leaders in Europe , Victor Orban is like the boy in the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, the Emperor's new clothes who is shouting "but he doesn't have any clothes on" while the rest of the leader are pretending the Emperor(the US lead Western power) that we are the innocent, true, democratic, earnest countries who are holding up the "democratic world order" as our leader was the ones who created the problem in the first place and Ukraine is being sacrificed in the proxy war

And then after 5-10 years go back to EU, get married, have family...

The US is definitely the best place in the world to become wealthy

Yeah, I don't know. Many people met at least once in their life a person from the USA, or heard a report from a friend.

Maybe try living in the real world and recognize nothing is perfect

I like living in a country that doesnt have hundreds of thousands of homeless people and millions of people in prison. And trash on the streets everywhere. I like having small local businesses instead of Starbucks and Walmart. Why would anyone want to move to the US to pay more for lower quality of life? If someone offered me a job that pays 300K a year but I had to move to California, I would say no.

chewing gum in Singapore and Dubai is illegal and they're maybe others, it is frowned upon in Japan and many other countries.

@@robertjulianagnel1100 We'd best hope it doesn't escalate to 1956 levels then I guess.

Well,keep voting Orban and those times will return.

Western Europe had plenty of chewing gum but Hungary was an Eastern Block communist country, vassal to the USSR, and their planned economy had no room for "decadent Western products" like gum.

It was called the iron curtain ...

Progressivism is a cancer. Conservatism built the West

Kind of but it is a you Problem if you dont know anything about a country, it takes maybe 30min to inform yourself but many just dont want to do it. I dont like the US because of the people and there politics. It is a beautiful Country but i have just seen and read to much from Americans that is just dumb and stupid BS and dont let me Start with how they run the country ofcourse other countrys also have Problems but in my opinion the USA is not even a First-World-Country (i am not sure if you write it like that)

Australian politics is just as awful as American politics. Two parties competing to see who can sell out to the oil companies harder and who can lie about it more.

​@TheSuperappelflap all j know about Australian politics is from the juice media. Somehow a satirical RU-vid channel is one of thenless bias news sources

watch honest government ads nd you'll see australia is pretty fucked aswell :)

Poverty is largely self inflicted

I don't like Trump but his foreign policy is the best since Reagan

@@antonioiniguez1615 there is one very important thing people need to understand about Trump and people like him: They don't do foreign policy. They are autocrats and autocrats have one goal only. To gain and then to keep power. Everything they do is in line with that goal. For the US that means that Republicans will continue to twist what's left of democracy in the US in a way that they as a minority can rule over the progressive majority. The electoral college (just look when a republican candidate last won the popular vote!) gerrymandering and voter suppression are their favourite tools for that. And they will increse the propaganda that paints Trump as the savior and everyone else as a communist. What's going on in the rest of the world doesn't really matter until a certain point. The voters they depend on don't know and don't care about the rest of the world, they will be content with whatever the Trumpists feed them as long as they can be made to believe that Murica comes out on top. Which will be easy cause they don't ask questions. Every autocratic regime needs an enemy. The fight "of us vs them" is a core principle for them. So far the enemy is the liberal and progressive people in the country. If and when that fight is won, usually an outside threat is being contructed. That's how it happened in Nazi Germany, that's what's happening in Russia today, North Korea is of course a super extreme example. In a way I would be quite interested to see how that pans out for the US cause there is no even remotely realistic direct threat for them. On the other hand I would much rather see that autocratic tendency being nipped in the bud and reason, democracy and human decency prevail.

Tell the left to stop destroying the country's social fabric then

War is a necessary evil and a tool. Europeans don't understand that because their security guard is the strongest military to ever exist

It's because it's short. I'm not say "I'm a United States of American"