I think the drinking age should be inextricably linked to the draft age... If I'm old enough to be sent off to my death for my country then I'm old enough to have a beer.
60's and very early 70's - town cops - behave yourselves boys and we'll ignore the beer: county cops - keep it out of our sight and don't act stupid and we won't make you pour it out; state cops - where the F is your booze, we'll turn you and the car upside down and pour it all out. Meanwhile in New Mexico at a restaurant ordering a meal - he looks fourteen, should I bring him a beer too dad?
The American voting system promotes a two party (Yes/No) choice by making it more difficult for small parties to sustain themselves. I think that's what the meme was trying to say.
Yeah in Germany you have to study to Vote... There are interesting Parties Like "Partie of Love" or "Free Voters".... I think the First one has Something to do with S*xx at the goverment and the second one with people who was in jail or Something Like that. Second one is big in Bavaria.
Yes, america is basically a binary system in politics and funny enough there is not ONE single point where reps and dems agree. It's amazing to watch honestly
but while we may claim the moral high ground, all of the parties that have been in power the past decades all have more in common than they don't. and all will partner up with the same partner unless they really have to. for a really long time it was a government of either red/green or black/yellow. As always ignoring the commies. the times we tried any other coordination they struggled to come to a conclusion , sometimes going as far as consideriing re-elections due to their inability to cooperate. Winning over 5% to get seats in the government requiers media backing and funding. the biggest media outlets are all owned by people with connection to the industry, and so the parties that will statistically get more presence in the minds of people are those, that benefit who ever's got the media outlets in their pockets. If someone else makes it into the government, like the left, they are simply being denied cooperation. can you really, truly say we have a system that leads to more than two choices in germany? To be fair, at least we have a couple cases of exceptions. And our government is not yet as dismissive of human rights as that of the us. But we're getting there. it's the same same but different
@@Oma_Wetterwachs Sweden has for many years had the Donald Duck Party. They want cheaper alcohol and wider sidewalks for when you are drunk. We currently have 8 parties in the Riksdag, if the election where today, two of them would drop out. Two more are just on the limit of dropping out, so we could go from 8 to 4 parties next election.
There’s a reason we have Swedish jokes in the rest of Scandinavia: Once upon a time, a Swede, a Dane a Finn and a Norwegian were out in the forest for a walk. The Norwegian was deaf, the Dane was blind, the Finn was mute and the Swede was paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair. After a while they came to a magical cave in the forest, where each of them could have one wish fulfilled. The Norwegian entered first. After a while he came out and happily exclaimed, "Guys, I can hear!" After him, the Dane went in and came out just as happy: "Guys, I can see!" Then the Finn went into the cave, after some time he returned and shouted: “I can speak!” Last but not least, the Swede rolled in. After a while he came out and shouted: "Check guys, new wheels!"
Sweden is not good at assembling IKEA furniture, they can't even assemble their own 250k+ Islands. Sorry, that was a bad joke, I'm not Scandinavian, so screw it :D
My mother was a librarian in a city court library in Hungary (where only lawyers and judges could borrow books for their work). They had original law books on display that were older than the US. They were once shown to American guests, who said that such books would be behind bulletproof glass and guarded by armed guards in the US.
My mom's also a librarian, and she said the same thing. Americans are always so impressed with the 100-200 year old books. Then she had a Chinese group....
About drinking age: I can't help but remember my childhood when we were sent to the shop as 6-8 year olds and could buy alcohol or cigarette without anyone asking anything. Didn't grow up to be an alcoholic, neither do I smoke.
Well, think that many of our towns and cities in Italy are at least 2000 yo. Rome has just celebrated her 2777th birthday. All the most important cities of South Italy are even older. And so is for Greece (Athens, Corinth).
Everybody can make jokes about WWII. It actually shows you know something about it, cause making jokes is difficult. There are some very dark jokes about it. (Thanks to cancel culture arriving on our shores, I wouldn't joke about the victims though). However, you cannot deny the Holocaust or defend the war.
@@ianjardine7324 Now I'm curious, haven't heard that one before! Could you quote what a obviously completely tasteless person (very unlike yourself) would say it the answer?
@@xfranczeskax well the absolute monster I heard telling this joke in primary school with absolutely no regard for the feelings of Germans or Jews claimed the Germans made shower nozzles with eleven holes because Jews only have ten fingers with which to block them.
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Yup. Even Americans can make jokes about WW2. Of course, they only come up with one if the Japanese joke bombs first.
Water is paid in Europe. But it's technicaly also paid in the US. The water being paid mean that we get it treated better. Pipes are well kept and all. We can drink from the tape without any concern for health (except in some area). While in the US if I rember correctly. Most people don't drink tap water. So they end up paying for bottled water. I wonder who pay the most for water in the end?
Actualy you can make WW2 jokes pretty normal in Germany even if you are not from Germany. I know that as a Czech who is often in Germany (our neighbour). Same as its normal if Germans are making jokes about us Czechs.🙂 Its just fun!🙂
The kids making the most absolutely heinous WW2 jokes at my own high school in America were all very sarcastic, funny, and from Jewish families. Admin didn't really know what to do, so they mostly got away with it.
@@crowe6961 If you watch some comedic movies that were made in 40. and 50. after IIWW in Europe you see how they joke about anything related to it. The whole "it need to be only serious and brooding" is another example of the same stuff as "cultural appropriation" - People who have nothing to do with it, white knight in the self-proclaimed representation of others for the sake of their own self-satisfaction.
@@sztallone415 Yeah, if you are missing a point of reference it looses meaning. In most European countries we have a larger number of parties and then the left-center-right scheme can give you a broad overview. But like with every generalization, you have to take it as that. For me (in Switzerland) it is mostly interesting to see how broad acceptance on initiatives are. E.g. coming Sunday we are voting on an energy bill that is opposed by both the green-liberals (center-left) and SVP (our most right main-stream party). That, to me is an interesting alliance that needs to be dissected. Same with labels/names, I mean Green party gives you a general idea but it is not the end all, mean all. Again the same bill is advocated for by the Green Party (left), but as I already mentioned, opposed by the Green Liberal Party. In summary: It's usually more complicated
Cryptids are just mythological creatures which people claim exist. Like big foot or the lock ness monster. The Yeti. I guess Mermaids, Krakens & Dragons would also fit into the list. I think the American one in the video is either a Wendigo (human turned cannibal animal) and the European one is a gnome, very popular in Ireland is gnomes and Fairies with lots of superstitions.
Ye the meme underestimates the amount of "cryptids" we got in european folklore, but to throw back to the meme, we had to deal with them without guns XD
In 29 states, someone under 21 may drink with their parent's permission if it's in a private residence or on private property. Six states allow someone under 21 to drink on private property without their parent's consent. Eight states allow underage people to drink with a parent's consent in public restaurants or bars.
About the driving age. In Finland, you can get car card when you are 18, but you can get card for mopeds, tracktors and such when you are 15 years old.
2:35 l only know about the age at which you‘re allowed to drive in Germany. In Germany you can get a drivers license at the age of 17 but in thatvage you‘re only allowed to drive accompanied by someone who has already a drivers license. When you‘re 18 years old, you can also drive alone. But that are only the rules for driving a car. (Sorry for eventual grammatical errors, I‘m not a native speaker)
USA political system is all right, as in it doesn't have a real left wing (in terms of economy). One party is right wing, and the other is extremely right wing.
With 17 u are allowed to do ur B17 license so u are allowed to drive a car when ur parents are sitting next to u. With 18 u can do ur normal driver license B (except u have done the B17 then u just get the license). With 16 u can do a motorcycle license for 15 Horsepower (it's called A1), with 18 for 48 horsepower (A2) and when u have the A2 license for two years u can do the A license, then u are allowed to drive every bike (I hate it, wanna move to the USA). I am from Germany and we have so many different types of licenses, for example car, motorcycle, tractor. Like u also have ur own license for an scooter. But when u do some licenses some other licenses are included. All this is for Germany, I don't know the age for licenses in the other countries of Europe. Greetings from Germany
I understand the flag thing and it's one of the things I wish as a country we could take note on. Not nationalism but respect for your country and land
Driving age in Europe: 18 (in my country of 🇨🇿, you can technically drive at 17 under an experienced driver supervision - he/she/they have to have at least 10 years of driving experience, and I'm not sure if this law has passed yet)
Concerning the term "open carry" in Europe and the UK the term involves the right to openly carry and openly drink from an open can of beer or bottle of wine in a public place. We prefer to share shots rather than exchange shots.
The legal drinking age in the Netherlands is 18, this is also the age at which you start driving lessons. And it's not any schmuck with a licence who can teach you, you need an actual licenced instructor from a driving school.
In my country, you need to be 18 to own a driving licence, meaning you'd already be familiar with how badly alcohol can mess you up (if you're into that kind of thing). There are special forms of preparing for a driving licence that allow you to start taking lessons when you turn 17, but you're still not allowed to drive on your own until you're 18.
Getting used to alcohol BEFORE you are allowed to drive is a great advantage because until you get your license you can figure out how much alc you can handle. Which is one reason why there are so many fewer deaths of 21 year olds in Europe. Still too many though. And about the entire Healthcare, it´s not the fantastic thing it´s always made out to be either. Basically, you get a solid basic healthcare covered, but for special things you need specialists thatyou still have to pay seperately, at least in Austria where i live. Plus our defense budget is a joke compared to the US.
It's probably healthier at 20 to taste beer than to die 5000 miles away for a gathering of offended people. Honestly, I grew up with a keg in the apartment, I got drunk once when I was 8 or 9, then accidentally again when I was 20, but I had the decency to drink sparingly and in the last 26 years I haven't gotten drunk again.
We pay a lot of money for our health insurance every month. It's not free of charge. In the end, our healthcare system is probably still better. Although the quality is said to be better in the USA.
2:35 In Spain, 18; In the UK, I think it's 21. In Europe the minimum age to drive changes in some countries. 3:02 In the US, you can only vote for 2 political parties, but in Europe, you could vote for and endless number of them. 3:14 ¿You don't wanna pay for a cup of water but you think that is normal to pay for breeding a child?
And it's only adding New, but also there a lot of cities that literally take the name of a European city and use it. Like, Syracuse is just the same name of an Italian city in Sicily.
In switzerland we can drink Beer and Mixdrinks ("Mischgetränke") I have no idea how to write that in english. The Mixdrinks allow us to basically drink redbull and vodka at the age of 16 even tho vodka is illegal at age 16. But its fine with redbull for some stupid reason.
Driving age in Europe is 18, and your parents are not allowed to teach you to stop bad habits from transferring. American chocolate tastes like baby puke, the thought even of having to eat it gives me the chills :o
If you think that water is a human right, you'd better talk to Nestle. They don't agree! They said that NO-one on this planet has the right to free water!!
american chocolate is overcooked, so it's sour that's the main difference, it's the equivalent of the cheapest chocolate in europe (like in cheap highway hotels)
16 for a provisional drivers license accompanied by a full license holder or you can get a motor cycle license but the engine size is limited by age going in stages until your 27 and then you can ride any size bike but this varies from country to country
In France you have to be 17 now to drive 😅 with a supervisor 20+ years old but at 18 ur good 👍 but have certain restrictions, for example you can’t go over 100 and if your have 0,10+ ml/g of alcohol in your system your driving license will be cancelled. As a new driver you have to wait 3 years to be good to go like everyone else 😂😅
The moment he's talking about 16yo Europeans not being allowed to drive, but to drink alcohol and that it would be actually good that we arent allowed to drive at that age, when we can drink alcohol.. You do realize that drinking and driving is illegal, right?
as far as i'm aware, 1707 was before 1776... so, try not to believe every meme you see ;) though i'll admit, i was 21 before i found out the UK was that young.
The drinking age is not 16 everywhere in Europe, as far as I know, only Germany does that, most other countries, to my knowledge, it's 18 to buy like beer and such and go clubbing, 20 to buy stronger liqour at the store
In the last few weeks, Poles watched and still watch our own parliamentary seasions. There were jokes about the Parliament getting a RU-vid Play button soon thanks to the dedicated audience and viewership.
Well, it's not called the "United Sircus of America" for nothing... (Yes, the spelling is a bit off, but they don't know how to use "s", "z" or "u" in any case, likely won't even notice)
there are a few things that fascinate me as an euro about americans 1) u guys are driving at 16, knowing that is risky, without universal healthcare or a need for an insurance 2) u guys allow any sociopath to carry a gun, while u don't have a systen that would cover for their damages to people (like healthcare) nor institutions to help the mentally ill 3) u guys can sue anyone for pretty much anything and ask for a gazillion millions
They have to drive at 16 tbh USA is very car dependent most cities and towns are not pedestrian friendly a lot of residential areas don't even have paths (sidewalks)
As a sociopath owning a gun i say it is mostly ok. Psychopaths with guns is a terrible hazard, they are more impulsive and tend to act on intrusive thoughs
@@olliered9924 It almost looks like if the big companies in the US are "farming" citizens for the money they don't have. Make them sick with bad food, cash inn with medical care and medicine.
Well, our suing system is basically our healthcare system. Sometimes you have to sue for damages to be able to afford the healthcare. Yes, it’s very fucked.
arent they also drafted into the military while still being fairly young, based on their age-system? long before they are allowed to drink alcohol to drown their misery? I know that some, not all, US-states have 21 for adulthood, but i think i heard that military drafting is around 18? Or was it even earlier? So wouldnt that mean that technically, at least in some US-states, they train child-soldiers? Im probably wrong. an US-citizen should be able to correct me.
3:19 On your point about water being a human right.... The US abstained from voting it as a human right, and outright voted against food as a human right.
@@Transautistic. ..getting close to 30+ years now in Flint, ..and many other long term redstates/redcounties too have big big water problems swept under their rugs too !
Food and water are obviously not "human rights". You cannot state something is your right if another person needs to provide it to you. If there is no food or water and someone needs to go work to get some, how can the fruit of their labor be your right? That's called slavery. Obviously providing clean water to people is part of the responsibilities of government and you pay taxes so they can do the work necessary to provide the water. But that is not the same thing as "human rights".
@@miragrozeva5977 Many human right musts be provided to you. Right to education, right to desirable work, right to a public hearing, right to asylum, right to adequate living standards. All of these are inshrined in the declaration of human rights and all of them require provision by an outside actor.
09:18 "When you realise that technically, the US is older than the UK" - UK established in the Act of the Union 1707 - USA established in 1776. There is no 'Technically older US', the UK is officially older as a nation.
@Clery75019 It's worse than that: after the counties that became Northern Ireland ceded and we're recognized, we became the UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland only in 1922. We've only just had our official Centenary! (Mind you, on the same basis, the current form of the USA was only ratified in the 1960's on the joining of Hawaii, so we are still older than them!)
@@miragrozeva5977 Your life can be taken away from you, can it not? And the state / government where you live is providing your safety by having and enforcing laws to protect you from having your life taken from you, is it not? So according to your comment there is not "right to live/life". EVERYTHING can be taken from you by someone else and MUST be provided/guaranteed by the law of the state/government to you in some way. Have you not realized that?
@@KeesBoons : sure for them the most important thing is to carry a gun & they wrote it in their constitution ! in Europe, most countries includes healthcare & education ..
So you are saying food should be taken away from people? So America believes that they should pick who doesn't get food by your definition@@miragrozeva5977
9mm is in metric, because it's a european bullet. It was first introduced in Europe (specifically Germany) in 1902, that's also why 10mm or 5.7mm are also in metric, they are from Europe too. (specifically Sweden and Belgium, respectively).
American : "you're playing tough but when you'll need military support you'll ask nice" American the first time an European country actual requested military support in decades : "Em...yeah but Russia scary"
I have heard of a story about an American living on rent in Bulgaria. There was this time when he became so angry that he punched the wall and broke his arm in the process. He then wanted to sue the landlord for making the walls thick on purpose, so he wouldn't be able to break it. Seriously, there are times when I fail to comprehend how stupid a person can be to actually think something like this to be possible. And then I remember that Americans like TLC and believe what the media tells them. So... Yeah.
My stepbrother also broke his hand one time when he punched the wall, but he knew that our walls are out of bricks 😂 (my stepbrother is a not so intelligent narcissists with an anger issue … and an idiot 😅)
I havnt heard of that, but it doesn't surprise me XD Did he won cuz, sadly I believe that the stupid bulgarian policy to be polite with all foreigners applies everytime, because our morons want foreigners to have a 'good' opinion on us for all aspects of live (and don't care so much for the people in their own country). So I wouldn't be surprised if the american idiot won in the court. 🥲 (also our court system is bullshit so that would've helped the dude in question)
7:55 About that, the version of Cryptids shown there is about the last 1-2 centuries. Earlier versions were more... brutal and not holding back. I recommend the original tales of the Grimm brothers. It is an... educational lecture. Have fun sleeping after reading it if You haven't. 😃
Like fairies. originally they were considered beings that you really, really didn't want to anger. They would do horrible things for the most minor offence.
Yeah... There's like 6 different things that'll snatch, drown or eat your baby, you or your wife, sometimes all of the above, in any European country's folklore But hey at least sometimes there are little folk who'll fix your shoes if you are nice to them too
The badness of US chocolate is mainly down to butyric acid, it's used as a preservative and is what gives hersheys that distinctive hint of puke flavouring, because its usually found in semi-digested dairy
I once saw in a documentary that Hershey tried to copy European made expensive choclate with use of local dairy cows and cheap cacao. The Hershey taste of choclate became the standard US taste in time. Those poor basterds in the US don't even know they were ripped of with their current choclates and beers 😧
Realy dont like this argument USA chocolate vs European. As someone who is North Europe. UK chocolate is almost as bad as USAs, FInnis Fazer and Estonian Kalev are way above from UK and american chocolate.
America claims to be older than the UK because we didn't add Ireland to the flag until 1801,but ignore the fact that you only added the last two states to your flag on the 4th of July 1960.
@@Thurgosh_OG 1542, not 1707. In 1542 England incorporated Wales creating the United Kingdom. In 1707 Scotland was formally "annexed" to the UK, something that had already been effective in practice since the Union of the Crowns in 1603.
@@Thurgosh_OG Yes, but that was only "The Kingdom of Great Britain". The name "United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)" was first established with the Acts of Union 1800/01. One country, one nation? England, Scotland, Wales...
@@Moribax85 close, when england incorporated wales, it initially referred to that union simply as the 'kingdom of England', the 1707 act of union with scotland changed that name to 'the united kingdom of great britain' , later it added the 'and northern ireland'. so 1707 is when it became the UK
If houses in the US were made as sturdy as old European homes they’d be even more expensive than they already are. I’d rather have a cheap roof over my head than none at all. We don’t have the benefit of centuries upon centuries old architecture when building materials and labor were cheap.
I'm from the Czech Republic and I find it funny how Americans take themselves so seriously, this complex that we are the biggest and basically the only important nation in the world, it's really funny to me because of how embarrassing it is... Like why tf shouldn't anyone make fun of you? Ridiculous! Bro I love your videos, I get a kick out of how you don't understand European stuff. I mean that in a good way of course, there are a lot of things about the US that surprise me too and I didn't know them. But thanks to you and youtubers like you, I know I really wouldn't want to live there :D
@@realdragon ah KURWA. na jokes on you most jokes about the i know are from Germany but my polish colleagues laugh about them too or embrace them even 😅😅
I'm italian, so i don't know about the rest of europe, here you can get a car license at the age of 18, however for motorbikes it works differently, there are 3 different licenses, from the age of 16 you can drive motorbikes up to a maximum of 125 engine capacity, from the age of 18 you can drive almost all motorbikes but with some limits, from 24 years old (or 20 if you have already had a license for two years) there are no longer any limitations
same in France & Austria ... You can learm to drive a car from 16 & make driving hours with your parents (the cars are showing in Austria a big blue L & in France CA conduite accompagnée)
18 is also the age for a car driver's license here in Finland, but a person turning 17 may seek a special exception for it, if they need it for work, school, sports practice, hobbies, or other such provable reasons. Based on your comment, motorbike license rules seem the same. However, even for those 50cc mopeds/scooters you need a license here in Finland if you were born in 1985 or later. Although not for electric scooters that have a max speed of 25kph. If you were born before 1985, you got the necessary skills from your mother's milk, I assume.
In Denmark you can drive a scooter at age 16 motorcycle is 18 for small 21 for the bigger ones and 25 I think for all types of motorcycles For car it's 16 but you need a parent or someone with over 21 years of driving experience, otherwise it's just 18
@@smaragdwolf1 But it's not strictly controlled. I think just like us (The Netherlands here) you shower in drinking water. We have the cleanest drinking water on earth. My city also the second cleanest in the country to boot, and most of it we don't use for consumption, but to wash our clothes or ourselves.
@@PinnacleNL Water is the most strictly controlled Food in Germany^^ But i agree.... we still waste precious freshwater on watering our gardens, washing cars and other stuff. I saw a documentation about self-sufficient homes. They had several levels of water-quality. From cleanest for food-preparation and drinking, to showering and cleaning clothes, then using it for the toilet and watering plants. Filters of course, but the water would get dirtier with time.... would still be good enough for certain purposes. There are still options to use water more efficiently.
@@smaragdwolf1 But that's only if you don't consider how to get the gradient water to home and what to do with it afterwards. For example water used for cooking is not usable for either of this things, even if it started on highest grade, you can't use it for gardening too. You need to filter and clean it before using it on other purposes. And then you need a source of that 2nd grade and 3rd grade water. From where did it come? Do you triple plumbing on whole city level to do it, and even then how it's 2nd grade and 3rd grade made? And then what? Because you would have to have separate filtering facilities with less filtering levels depending on grade. You can't just stop in the middle of standard process to create half-filtered water. And then it's a matter of scale. It's always more efficient to filter water in big facility then in thousand homes separately. The only sensible thing i know is just collecting rainwater so it's not drained immediately through sewage systems and use it to watering gardens or cleaning.
I think the one at 3:00 you can't understand was the character was annoyed that Europeans always US politics is "all right" (just a play on alright, I get it), because by our standards the US does not have leftism.
Mostly due to Europe being way too far left for song long they forgot all about being balanced. It makes sense though as a reaction away from the monarchy and government styles that came before.
@@Nempo13 How the fuck is it too far left to expect free universal healthcare, everyone having access to university and not only the rich, and a freedom of movement without need for cars. Livable cities with breathable air, public transport to go around and being able to form worker's unions to defend the low class needs and means of living. Meanwhile america: MuH fReEdoM (proceeds to bankrupt himself after getting a cold, meanwhile his $200k of student debt is immune to bankrupcies so he just goes further down the shithole, if he even makes it out of school with the amounts of shootings there are. Meanwhile needing a car because not having cheap public transport gives you somehow more freedom). America's devolved into an autocracy ruled by the same party with two different names that are funded by big arms, big oil and big pharma to rob its people of their own money.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Yep… it worries me so damn much. All sorts of right extremists are rising to power. It’s super unbalanced. Worst thing is that most of those politicians are anti-EU. I don’t see how European countries could maintain any sort of prominence on the global stage without sticking together.
@@jarmoliebrand2005 "Worst thing is that most of those politicians are anti-EU"? No sane person who isn't from germany or france would say that EU is a good thing. EU is trying to centralize and take our sovereignty. Moreover EU is far-leftist, socialist and authoritarian, because it's already limiting our freedom.
American chocolate makers process the milk via lipolysis, which adds butyric acid, which is also found in some cheeses. They also add less cocoa and more sugar/artificial sweeteners than European chocolate makers, making the US brands taste sweeter but less like 'real' chocolate.
Actually I think US chocolates contains less sugar than our European versions. It's their regular food that is more sugary, lots of Americans that react to European candy always remark on how sweet it tastes. And if you look at a Hershey Bar, it contains 45g of sugar per 100g product while a Tony's Caramel Sea Salt contains 52.1g of sugar per 100g of product.
@@Henrik_Holstbut that comparison is skewed: caramel is mostly sugar, so caramel chocolate would always have a higher sugar content than plain chocolate.
@@Henrik_Holst where i live chocolates which that low of cocoa content are considered baking chocolates for deserts, most people eat dark chocolate with 70% or more cocoa
@@zloychechen5150come on, if you are considered adult enough to be responsible to drive, you are considered adult enough to decide not drinking before driving.
I think it's 16 for driving and 18 for drinking, but it's not like they check your ID or anything. was 15 first time I bought beer I think. (edit: 18 for driving too, but you can get beginner license at 16)
2:03 "...About how everybody gets offended at anythin these day? Hopefully it doesn't infect Europe..." I'm French and can tell you: GEEZ IF ONLY YOU KNEW you'd be so disappointed 😂😂😂
0:52 Fun fact: New York wasn’t originally called New York. Its original name wad ‘Nieuw Amsterdam’ when it was in the Dutch colony of ‘Nieuw Nederland’. The British later stole this colony in one of the Anglo-Dutch wars, and renamed the city to ‘New York’ after the county of York in Northern England. The Americans didn’t bother to change it, so the name stuck till this day. New Orleans has a similar story, just they didn’t change the name after purchasing Louisiana from France. (Instead of three bloody wars.)
Hi, as a European I really like watching your videos. I have been wondering for a long time when you will finally decide to come to Europe, to any country, to see what it looks like here live. I sincerely wish this for you in the near future. Greetings from Berlin 🙂
Several coworkers form the USA got a serious cultureshock when they came to Europe. But generaly speaking after a week you can start reducing the dosis of tranquilizers 😁
I think US-citizens should start their Europe-culture shock with UK. Same language, but already different. From there, they can slowly increase the dosis of european culture by visiting other countries.
I would be really interested in Ryan coming to southern Finland. It's pretty tame when it comes to snow and ice (or if Ryan wants to experience severe snow conditions, go to Rovaniemi), but just the whole culture thing. I think he would have a blast and just be surprised.
He should be monetizing for these vids. He has a fair platform, use it. Go to EU and experience it for 3-4 weeks. You'll come back the US and wish to move xD
Might be fun, I live in Venice and it might be hard for an American to not have cars at all. You just have to carry all your stuff and walk up and down a hundred bridges (might be less) a day. It's fun though ✌️
My brother actually put a little dent in the wall after an argument with our mom. He didn't break anything, except our mom's tandrum when she heard he'd liked to throw that punch in her direction.
@@Hosenbisla . I get what you're saying. I'm talking more about social consequences as apposed to legal consequences. Perhaps I should have been more clear 🙂
As a German living in the US, the pledge of allegiance always freaks me out. In Europe, only Germany ever had a Fahneneid (pledge of allegiance) and that only between 1933 and 1945.
Speaking of freedom of expression and flags. I really like the line as it are drawn in Denmark. Danes rightly are proud of their flag (Dannebrog). An old nation and their flag are the oldest national flag in the world in unbroken use. In Denmark you can protest and burn the Danish flag BUT it are against the law to burn other nations flags. That way Danes can fully use their freedom of expression internally but chose to show respect to other nations potential pride in their flag and nation. This does not mean you cannot protest other nations. Just that you cannot burn their flag. I think that are the right balance in these both woke and extreme opinion times. Your right to demonstrate, as long as this are pre-advised to police, are by the way a guaranteed right in Denmark.
Also since it’s a birthday decoration I’m sure some of us have accidentally burned it a little bit by having it too close to a candle or the birthday cake 😅
In Sweden you can burn any flag, even the Swedish as long as it is your property. You can also burn the bible and the koran so long as it is yours. Unlike in Denmark who chickened out.
@@b.benjamineriksson6030 On this we can fully agree. ALL religious text should be fair game. Burn any book you have bought for own money if you like. NEVER burn books owned by others!
