@@vaniog29 I live in a random town in a Greek island, and I can have the same internet speed as people in Athens. And that's Greece, the land where change is slow 😆The majority of Europe, probably has even better internet speeds.
I’m an American, living in Europe for several decades. There are good reasons for this. When my daughter was about to leave for an exchange year in the US, I warned her to be prepared for American ignorance. She thought I was exaggerating. Two months later, she wrote to tell me that “People here don’t know ANYTHING!!”
My daughter attends a VBS (Viennese state/public bilingual schools i.e not private or fee-paying at all) school in Vienna, Austria Unsurprisingly she has American and half-American classmates who visit the USA for family visits. They come back aghast at the level of ignorance about general topics, rarely anything outside the USA is well understood.
Imagine being a the world's proclaimed hegemony and your citizens don't know that London is not a country. I guess the US Education Industrial complex is working as intended.
The argument Americans give to defend the imperial system and I love the most is: "Well we put a man on the moon " Yeah, you did. By using the metric system 😂
First time I went to America a woman asked me if we had television in Scotland lol I didn’t tell her a Scotsman invented it I just said what is television
"What is television? We've got the Holo Net." And she would buy it, she's american. Some times they just realize that they are ignorant and then believe everything you tell 'em ^^
Back four decades someone from my school went to the US and back to Germany: The American kids asked they guy if we (the Germans) have cars. He asked them if they ever heard of BMW, Mercedes, Porsche. They said "Oh, they are German cars?!" I mean, who would associate something with an Otto or Diesel engine with Germany. But I'm sure no one would notice if I call a Sterling engine American (/s) ;D
One time i talked with American guy online and he asked me where I am from. Told him i am from Croatia. He asked where is that i told him in Europe. Then he asked where is Europe. When he noticed i am not asking him where he is from he asked me do i not want to ask him where he is from and i told him i know he is American and he asked me how did i know.
Nobody thinks abt Australia LMAO. Live off and consume American culture on a daily, as you're on an American app, on ur American phone etc etc. what a fool
@@TheTheotherfoot Most US states have higher living standards then even the most developed parts of Australia and NZ, US living standards as a whole are similiar to AUS, US has higher wages, more opportunities etc, improving it even higher.
An American once called me uneducated . Why ? Because i wrote in a comment that I'm half Georgian . Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia .He told me that Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and not a country . Like i didn’t know that USA have a state like this lmao .But ignoring a ancient country like Georgia , thinking that Georgia exists only in the US is ridiculous 🙄 .
as an American im Embarrassed by the ignorance of most Americans that are educated in the public school system. the sad part is most of them are not stupid just uneducated our public schools do not teach much of anything that does not involve America itself.
@@gibsalotpeople not being educated on everything is fine. I don't really mind if someone doesn't know every country in Europe, after all i can't name every U.S. state and much less place them on a map. The problem comes when you combine it with someone who thinks they know everything.
@@madsante I think the problem is still the school system, here in germany or europe even asia for that matter, we are not only taught in a lot of different general and sientific subjects but also to always question stuff, go trough the world with open eyes and curiosity. That in turn often leads to people learning more on their own or having more deeper conversations with others and therefor often having better general knowledge about topics even outside of one own's country or culture. E.g. I (German) was not only taught about Germanys' history but also about Englands', Austrias', the US' and Switzerlands' and even partially Russias', even though that can be because of my proximity to the border.
Fun fact, here in Brazil there is an USA citizens exclusive line in customs but just because we do extra security checks just to Americans to mirror what they do to foreigners due to the patriot act
Buddy, the Patriot Act does more to stereotype white Veterans than anyone else. Been a victim of their profiling before and in the end, even though I served this country, I gleefully wait for its demise.
They always brings up this freedom thing... they are so free that they don't even have healthcare and days to go on holidays etc. Really the land of freedom xD
They do seem to have a rather unique idea of what freedom means. It - somehow - seems to be at the same time both rather nebulous and - ironicaly - limited. For example: They generally consider having a car as a symbol and garantor of freedom (go where you want, when you want) but at the same time, many live in a place where they have no other choice BUT to use the car if they want to get anywhere. And they don't seem to see the contradiction.
As an American, I can confirm that I am also afraid of Americans. And I do apologize on behalf of my countrymen because you can be sure they won’t do it themselves.
self-hating Americans be like, but anyway genuinely like 99% of the video and the other America bad videos are just cherry-picking comments that are made by stupid people which are a fraction of a percent.
@@hegemon8 most US Americans been indoctrinated into it... thes a few that got the light bulb switched on moment when visiting other countries... sadly very few...
I'm a Brit. I currently live and work in America. A guy once asked me if we had computers in England. I told him that we didn't, we use the abacus instead, and that I used to be an abacus engineer, and would often have to program them for the users, and other bs. He was taking this all in as gospel truth. To be fair though, he eventually saw that I was taking the piss. Eventually.
my dad used to do this all the time when he moved to the states, from time to time he still does things like this, and some do genuinely believe the rubbish he comes up with.
Here in Germany, SMS is extremely outdated. It's something you expected your grandmother to do about five years ago, before she learned how to use WhatsApp.
@@Muriel20091 in meinem Umfeld und was ich generell so mitbekomme, nutzen jedenfalls alle WhatsApp, SMS zu nutzen wäre da inzwischen schon sehr ungewöhnlich und altmodisch.🤷♀️ Aber es gibt sicherlich auch ein paar Leute die WhatsApp und ähnlichen Apps nicht trauen.
I'm not British myself but I use a lot of British pronunciations when I speak English (in Poland you basically get British English in school and American English in movies etc so we kinda mix things up). NONE of my American friends can get over my British pronunciation of "either" and "neither". It's funny as hell and I have to admit to switching to as many British pronunciations as possible whenever I hang out with them. These poor souls are always so confused xD
I think of it like this America is a Teenager, its acting like a teenager does, I hate everyone i am the best, its getting into trouble, the rest of the world i more like young adults or older people we have gone tbrough the terrible teens hundreds f years ago
Could have worked out though. Sexism and Racism used to big really big problems, but in the decades after WW2 things were better socially. The New Deal, GI bill etc. But they have managed to roll back many positive changes, really mess up some (prisons, health system, traffic etc.) of their systems and just generally regress. Now differences in social class are what increasingly determines - according to Putnam - how well you are doing in the US. But you can't talk about that. It's probably why the various politically correct discourses are so strong. Much more convenient to assume that all problems are indiviual problems or of this or that small group. Not that anybody gets the idea that things are messed up in a more general sense.
@@burningsheep4473 sexism and racism still are really big problems, and have always been. And whilst is has gotten decidedly better since WW2 i dont think the problems are geting worse now really. They are just more visable. I do however agree that the US has been moving backwards in general lately. As have many other countries and people in general.
As someone from a „third world country“, i am offended. Lol your comment is very far from truth. Most of the countries you refer tomhave better education (in fact, we are those that can point to all european countries correctly while europeans usually don’t know much about the so called third world either - and your comment actually proves my point), better maternity leave policies, consume much less etc…
@@PashaHajmanI talked with like 20 Americans on RU-vid through other videos comment section,and non of them could point on Poland,Netherlands,Belgium, Portugal,the 15 of them could point UK,16 of them France,12 Italy,8 Spain,3 Germany,and Poland 0. Nah.
@@jokekopter2509 and these are "easy" countries, I would like to see a round of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Algeria, Egypt and Sri Lanka. Ah wait but Egypt is not a real country, that exists only in Cleopatra movies .... PS. Lived in the US. Had a discussion with a person from Florida who just wouldn't accept that the gulf of Mexico is a gulf of the Atlantic not Pacific and also unsure if Florida was next to Atlantic or Pacific ocean. They lived on the coast. Not all Americans are ignorant but the overall level and prevalence of ignorance are just mind boggling.
My favorite story is about this American tourist who told off a tour guide during a tour of a castle. He reasoned that because the U.S. has only existed for over 2 centuries, it was "impossible for Europeans to have built cities and castles that are many centuries older than the U.S." 😂
An American co-worker explained to me why Americans have such weird conceptions about Europe. He told me that the only things they learn in high school about Europe are basically that once there were Romans, then there were knights and then a couple of centuries nothing much happened until there were communists and nazis. That's why many Americans seem to believe Europe is a war-torn continent where everybody is a poor communist that doesn't have access to the internet and modern "American" technology, such as smartphones and tablets. They also believe we have "socialist" free healthcare, altough our healthcare system is heavily funded with taxes and monthly insurance fees.
We pay for healthcare through our taxes in the Kingdom of Denmark, but we don’t pay insurance fees on top of that. Nor do we pay extra if we are admitted to a hospital.
Your Co-worker is lying to you, most American youth nowadays are way more educated on world geography than their elders. We know our situation, we know their situation.
About english, I just love Jimmy Carr's response when he was asked about his accent. His response: "I don't have an accent. This is what it sounds like when it is pronounced properly". :)
I read somewhere ages ago that general American actually conforms more to the common English spoken at the time of colonization. However, I think there is no way to pronounce English properly. Not because of some lofty ideal that the language belongs to everyone, but because it's a Frankensteins monster of multiple tongues, and there is no objective right way.
As a German who learned English mainly from RU-vid, I always find the pronounciation war between Britain and America funny because every time I speak I‘m randomly switching between them with every word
Yes I do the same xD My pronunciation is more American though (learned English because I watched a lot of American youtubers). But usually spell stuff the way British do because that's what I learned at school and got used to.
@@nordos oh my god reminds me of the time I didn't know the difference between since and science. So I would pronounce since as science xD Can be difficult if you never really hear some words before and also doesn't help if you think you are right for some reason. I was (and still am) stupid.
Same here, born Hungarian, my pronounciation is super typical Hungarian accent. A typical Hungarian accent is most noticeable when you say *R* , Americans and others say it like "urrhh, but when we say it, it sounds like a machine gun😭
I as a German once was asked by an American student (!) when we celebrate the 4th of July. Me: we don't do that at all He: eeeee...why that?! Ah yeah, you Germans lost the war, you would be traitors to celebrate us. Me: we don't celebrate 4th of July because it's no German but an US holiday. He: no! It's everywhere 4th of July, the whole free world celebrates 4th of July. Me: I guess you are wrong. 4th of July is the US holiday in rememberance of 1776 and the independence from Britain. It is your own holiday due to your nation's history. He: you lie. On 4th of July we won over Nazi Germany and freed you, we gave you independence. You should celebrate us. Me: well, in fact that's the false century. You refer to the Third Reich that existed from the 1930s up to 1945. He: you are wrong. I am American, I should know better. At that point I lifted my hands and surrendered. "Yes, you should." And no, it was no ironic joking around. This real conversation happened in 2014 in Hamburg, Germany.
@@_Heckler there's a NATO base in Chania where this took place and this guy was an American sailor, probably based there. He was not just a random tourist.
The misconception I love the most is american view on measurement system. They call imperial measurement system as an american one or freedom units. But none of them put any thought about why is it called "imperial". 'Cause it originates from British Empire, that's why.
I heard, that in North America a plane was short on fuel, because candian gallons (british) were ordered but american gallons they got. Could have been with lbs too, because of long ton and short ton. Big planes use lbs or kg small planes like Cessna usually with gallons - american gallons that is.
I'm Polish, but when I was a teenager, I spent a year in the US, and went to an American school. Before they organized a special English class for foreign students, I attended the regular English classes. On the second or third day, there was a written test. I was one of the very few students who didn't make any mistakes. My English was very far from perfect and it still isn't.
As someone from England, I find it's extremely common for Europeans who speak English as a second language to be better at it than actual English, English speakers. I guess this is because you're taught it properly, while growing up with it as your primarily language you pick up slang and different dialects. I find the Dutch are especially excellent at languages! I have friends from many parts of Europe and English is the common thread that binds us. It's a stereotype but largely true that many English speakers don't learn another language because everyone else also speaks English. I guess to be a citizen of the world you'd need to speak English, Spanish and Mandarin in order to communicate in most places.
@@TalesOfWarYou are absolutely correct. I also think the dutch are amazing at learning languages. Another thing. I went to Israel in 2014 and we were a bit surprised by how good their english was because almost nobody, of the people we knew, took english classes. Their second language is russian but since they don't synchronize their television they watch it in english and learned it this way. So with 12/13 years old most of them were fluent in three languages, Hebrew, Russian and English.
As a german I can asure you that british english is actually closer to other european languages than american english. That's kinda funny that americans say you should at least try to pronounce foreign words right when they most the time don't.
I had problems working with Americans. I didn't have that immediate instinctive reaction when someone was calling my name which is Daniel. It was quite annoying to them. I'm German too and i tried to convince them that this wasn't intentionally. They said i would make things up so i thought i started pronouncing their names the German way.^^ And i have to add: Das war nur ein Amerikaner in dem Video der das gesagt hat aber is klar was du meinst. Ist keine Seltenheit.
This comment makes me think of aluminium and yoghurt 😂 English is a European language 👍 British English is the English language, made up of words from European languages over centuries. British language was taught throughout the British colonies that's why so many countries speak some form of English
@@highlyopinionated5611 actually it's origins are Ingvaeonic from 5th to 7th century. Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, originating from what is now North western Germany, southern Denmark, Netherlands (shock horror) 🙄😂
Thinking of "more advanced", as a Canadian, I went to the US a little while ago and was weirded out that none of the stores did chipping to insert the card, let alone tap or use cell phones, you had to swipe your card the old fashioned way with the magnetic strip. Felt like I'd gone back in time 15 years or so.
When I was in NY a few years back, not only did I have to swipe/PIN my card at department stores, I then had to sign the receipt as well. It’s like they missed the entire purpose of a PIN.
What really weirded me out when I was in the states (which was 25 years ago) There were no pin-number nor a ID check which was pretty much standard back then, just a swipe and thank you very much. I mean dude, what if someone had gotten hold of my credit card?
Don't forget paying bills by check, in 2017 I implemented a new IT system and had to activate the check functionality because the US company only used check ;)
@@MariusELarsen personal and company cheques haven’t been used in Australia, except in rare circumstances, for years, and getting your wages paid by cheque hasn’t been a thing for decades. In fact, my bank hasn’t offered cheque books for years.
No no, it comes from Strawberries. Haven't you seen that reaction video of a gay guy explaining this? "It doesn't come from a cow because it's strawberry milk". A vegan video. Five burly men sits there like "HUH?!".
And in their “democracy”, gerrymandering and voter suppression are rampant. Things not at all compatible with calling oneself “world’s greatest democracy”.
Unbridled capitalism... ugh You have to be born into it to appreciate it... double ykes. Economic America still lives in the age of the industrial revolution.
@@koschmx My knowledge about the intricacies of capitalism are clearly far inferior to yours. Mine is limited to a couple of books, half of them novels, on or related to the subject; some of my preferred are from the movements against 19th century industrialism or the more technical work, but still readable, by Chibber, some Keynes about the perversion of money mechanics; all with emphasis on the historically dehumanizing effect of capitalism and its ultimate abhorrent offspring: unbridled capitalism. As for the problem with both capitalism and socialism, I glad to say, I'm not smart enough to have any of the answers, not even a tiny part of those.
When I was a police officer, I went to California on holiday. I met two officers on venice beach and in conversation, I mentioned being an officer. One actually said " oh do they have police in England? I literally had no response to give!
I was asked if Im envious of the moon here in Europe. This girl really thought only they can see it. The moon! Ive rarely been this torn between crying and laughter, while stunned to absolute silence.
That's not even tho most ridiculous example of tipping culture getting out of hand I've seen. Some self checkout counters in certain popular store chains give you a prompt whether you'd like to tip the store or not. 🤡
@@totallyalpharius507 I lot of bars in England have the card reading machine bring up a prompt asking "Do you want to leave a tip?" Usually the bar staff will press the 'no' button without even asking.
As an English dude I legitimately cringe when an American tells me I'm saying / spelling a word wrong. I always ask them what language they're speaking. Most of the time they say "English". Usually after that a silence is enough for them to think about what they've just told me.
i have been asked that before i usually respond with Americanised english because the euros the Australians new zealanders the british all speak thier own versions of english although i am fond of adding the u in certian words even though im born and raised in boston the u in colour and behaviour armour always felt more natural in spelling for me
Yes ours is the true English Don't know why they had to change words like nappy to diaper or tap to faucet. Tap more easy surely and purse for handbag.
@@tenniskinsella7768 That's because of the confusing aspect of the English language, more meaning to certain words... to tap on the table or to run the tap 😂 I'm assuming that's what the thought was behind the change, similarly the word Holiday was vacation because of the season "holidays" 🤔🤔🤔 I still don't understand the changes either though.... diaper is actually the original word comes from European language which is English, British English made up of European languages and again other words you pointed out are also British English just used to describe different items, a purse is still a bag of money essentially and a handbag is generally a bag of essential womens items ie. Makeup perfume sanitary ect that women carry. Faucet and tap description is very different but still originally British English coming from the original European languages another French word of the many adapted to the British English
@@tenniskinsella7768 Funnily enough, it's often us, not the Americans, that changed words. The words we think they changed are just what was common in the 1700s.
50 years old gentleman from USA looking at the Danube river: " For sure you got many gator here" " Actually we don't" " I mean in the water" "No, we don't have alligators here, in fact in all Europe" " So you don't know" "I know that there are no gators" " LIAR! They are everywhere!" And he walked away...
I was in a store in Madison, Wisconsin and chatting with the clerk when she asked me where I was from. I have lived for a couple of years in England, East End London, so my accent was definitely not American MidWest. When I told her that I come from Romania, she stopped and made a conscienscious effort to recall the whatever info she might have had about the subject. Nothing came though, and after some 20 seconds she asked me, smiling; "Is that east coast or west coast?"
Just the other day an American in a Facebook group quite seriously commented that "most people in England don't have cars because they are too poor". When I corrected this belief she rather snippily told me i could learn a lot from Google and quoted internet figures on population size and car ownership. She didn't seem to realise that a good proportion of the population are too young, too old, too disabled to own a car or that for very good reasons, other than poverty, might choose to have one family car. I've only lived here for 68 uears (and been a car owner for 49) but she knew better.
It's the confidently incorrect that I can't cope with. It's one thing to be ignorant. I can sort of accept that, we can all live and learn. But when you do correct them and do happen to know better, most compound their mistake by denying they're incorrect at all. I don't get why.
Also in UK and European cities there is normally a decent public transport system, so many city dwellers don’t bother to own a car. They just hire one on the few occasions a year they might need one.
@@cornelieus_gorbichevright to life clearly states it cannot be taken away from you or given away by you so no. Police cannot take away your right to life. Murica raaah
The 13nth amendment also bans slavery *except as a punishment*. The guy above is right though. You effectively lose your rights once you are convicted of a crime so they cans end you to jail, depending on the kind of crime you never get them back (owning a gun, etc).
An American born and raised colleague of mine once summed things up beautifully for me: "We Americans only make two mistakes about the rest of the world. We think that everybody loves us and that everyone wants to be like us". Spot on! 🙂
Very many love America, and very many want to be like America. These two groups barely overlap. I love Americans, because they don't waste money on universal health insurance. I don't ever want to be American, because then I wouldn't have health insurance.
@@nydydn "I love Americans, because they don't waste money on universal health insurance. I don't ever want to be American, because then I wouldn't have health insurance." 🤣🤣 Brilliant!! This said, not so sure that many people want to be like America. That idea is probably part of the american dream
I visited my relatives in the USA back in ‘18. One day before we went to pick up some shopping, we went to one of my cousins friends cos he needed to get something from him. The cousins friend was shocked that I came to the USA. He asked 3 questions which, in my mind exemplified the “typical American behaviour” that we all know. 1. How is your American so good?!(answer; you’re speaking English. I’m English… of course I fucking speak English!) 2. You have 1 months PAID VACATION?? (answer; yes, because I live in a civilised country) 3. Do you have cell phones in your country now? (answer; no we’re all telepaths… the fuck do you think??) Ohh and he also tried to give me advice when you’re on a plane; he has never left Kansas never mind been on a plane. 😐
@@ffotograffydd they never learn any other languages so maybe they just never realize that other people have to learn 2 or sometimes 3 languages in school
Im swiss, born there, raised there for more than 18 years of my 24 years, know the language, went to school there and have generations of swiss family members plus obviously the passport; from switzerland not sweden, i had a conversation with an american once who claimed to be swiss, (the shock of they actually meant switzerland not sweden impressed me but that was short lived) the conversation was something like this: He: your accent is soft but there is one, where are you from? it sounds unusual me: oh yea i hear that a lot, im swiss, from switzerland not sweden... its because i grew up bi langue (speaking two languages) english and swissgerman. (i have american family members that live in switzerland, my cousins ?once-twice removed? mum will be important later) He: oh thats awesome, im swiss too! me: oh? ok so did you move to america or were you born there? he: i was born there! me: oh thats cool so you have dual citisenship like my cousin! he: oh no i dont me: but if one or both your parents are swiss then you have the right to a swiss passport... he: him oh no both were born and raised in america! me: um... so your grandparents are swiss?... him: nah both american too! im 5th or 6th generation swiss! me: so... you dont know swissgerman, you dont know swiss french you dont know swiss italian nor do you know any high german... you dont speak the language, youve never lived nor set a foot in the country, you dont have the passport and none of your parents or grandparents are swiss aka are from there regarding birth, knowing the language and or have the passport?... he: well, yea but were swiss regardless. me: *swears in swiss german* no youre not. unless you understood me just now youre not swiss and you never will be unless you learn our culture, language and actually have the fucking passport or at least some form of visa allowing you to live there.
The fact you speak Swiss German, Swiss French, Swiss Italian and a High German on top of that is a wild fact I never knew. I always assumed people just speak German in Switzerland. Thanks for the knowledge, you learn something new everyday.
This right here is exactly the same argument of the African American community. i get it your ancestors are from Africa but you are not African your American just like everyone else born and raised in America. Elon Musk has a better argument that he is African American given he was Born and raised in South Africa.
@@manoftherainshorts9075 i persnally only speak swiss german and swiss french and german and english, and a bit Affrikaans and a tiny bit of Japanese and Latin. but no worries im happy to share our national languages, we have 4 swiss german, swiss french, swiss italian and romanch, the latter is unfortunately dying out with less than 2k people in the WORLD speaking it which is a shame. and for more fun facts about switzerland, mac and cheese is a dish originating in switzerland so are hashbrowns ☺ im happy to learn of cultures and im happy to share mine, have a wonderful day!
@@gibsalot i fully agree. im happy for them to have their black american culture sure by all means but they arent african and the people i spoke to in africa the ones i went to school with didnt believe me when i said that some americans claim that, its a bizarre phenomenon only really found in america its very weird to me and apparently the rest of the world too.
Do you guys also have seven cases, mandatory double (or any multiple but never single) negatives, and freeform, unfixed word order in sentences like Serbian does?
My parents are polish and i couldn't do it. All i ever learned was "Dzyndobre" (idk how it's spelled) and obviously all the basic words. Never even managed to get a full sentence right. i wish you the best of luck in becoming the kielbasa making gigachad you want to be.
6:21 Can confirm that growing up in the US (i am old, however, so maybe this isn't the same anymore), it was basically very much implied that we were the only free country. i'm serious. we all thought other countries didn't have freedom and believed EVERYONE'S goal was to move to America one day.
@@JB-vv6vu definately not taught, more like implied like the first person said. i dont remember ever being taught about other countries and their governments, which probably leads majority of americans assuming without realizing that america is #1 or whatever
@@scarlett6143 I went to school on the rez when I was young, then off when I was older. Maybe those implications about the U.S. start during younger school years? We focused on learning about our culture and language when I was young. When I was older at school and off the rez, I don't remember learning about other countries either. My experience is obviously not the majority. It's an awkward in-between place for us Natives/Indigenous people.
That American soldier arrest in Greece has a lot more depth, when you learn that in the past, several American soldiers accused of harassing and even raping greek girls, were bailed out by their superior officers, and were sent back in the US, without even have to face the Greek justice. This soldier knew very well what he was doing when he called for Nato.
Same as when an American CIA operative killed a British biker on British soil because she was too stupid to drive on the correct side of the road and fled to America to escape British justice and hid behind Donald Trump's coat tails who refused to make her return to the UK.
Standard American procedure, 3 marines raped a young pre-teen girl and the US got them out of country before the police could arrest them. The resulting outcry came close to shutting down the base and evicting the Americans off the island completely.
@@Joe-ez3gt Some years earlier an American diplomat in the UK was accused of sexually abusing his child. He and his wife were rapidly repatriated to the USA, where they faced no investigation.
I remember when EU started to demand pre check for US passport holders and people here in the US were all grievances. Little they know how awful it is to get into the US. It is almost like a North Korea inside out.
This made me laugh, when you look at the statistics of US citizens that actually own a passport and also the statistics of those that actually leave the states to another country 😂
Many years ago I was flying from Germany to the UK. Tis was in the days of hand held security scanners. Two American teens said" you're not doing that to me" the, female, security guard said no problem?". When they tried to go through she just said. NO. If you don't get scanned you don't fly!
When my friend gone to England and said he is from eastern europe, the landlord, who was a middle age woman, started to explain to him what is a microwave, a car and all kind of stuff, because she thought in eastern europe, people still use horse carriage and living in middle age settings. So not just americans are strange.
As a New Zealander currently living in Australia... I like our healthcare for all, our education standards, our less extreme politics, our wages/salaries, 4 weeks paid leave pa, etc... 🇦🇺💙🇳🇿
As an American currently living in Colorado, I like our higher median income, free public education, our first and second amendment rights, and being able to communicate with the world because my native language is the Lingua franca, and our beautiful national parks.
Actually smug European.....................most Americans think its a bad idea to use a different system and would like to change to metric. I'm sorry you can't handle that your storied nation full of superior individuals has becoming nothing more than a VASSAL STATE of the American Empire. Making up lies about how stupid Americans are is not going to change your situation. The situation will remain long after we're both gone decades and decades from now.
As a Brit who lived in Australia and now settled in New Zealand, I would most certainly say "NO" to being a US citizen. Things like healthcare, education ,infrastructure - oh yes, and not having the daft electoral system, would sway my decision.
The USA is actually a very poor place to live. The leading cause of bankruptcy is medical debt and the leading cause of homelessness is bankruptcy caused by medical debt. The USA is the only country in the world where the leading cause of death for children is being shot. As an Australian on a disability pension I receive the equivalent of $500us per week and pay $250 to rent a 3 bedroom house on a quarter acre block less than 2 minutes walk from a large shopping centre. 50% of my rent is subsidised along with 20% of my utility bills. I can catch a bus at the end of my street and be in the city centre in less than 15 minutes or drive for one hour. My weekly shopping bill is $75, but I do get a lot of junk I don't need. All my medical treatments are free and the longest I have had to wait for any procedure is 3 months. Normal general practitioner visits are the day after I book an appointment online. 90% of the food consumed in Australia is grown in Australia, where over 90% of the food consumed in the USA comes from other countries, mostly South American. I have a far better quality of life than the overwhelming majority of Americans. I don't have any worries about walking anywhere in my city at any time of the day or night. Yes, I am glad that I was lucky enough to have been born in Australia because if I was born in the USA, I would be dead.
You could have made a good point with that presentation, if you hadn't started off with some stupidly ridiculous bullshit. The leading cause of bankruptcy is not medical debt; it is irresponsible financial management. The leading cause of homelessness is not bankruptcy due to medical debt; homelessness rarely has anything to do with bankruptcy. The leading cause of death among children is accidents, not being shot. If you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, get off the internet and go talk to your sheep.
I have a friend in Florida who has just had to spend ten days in hospital and her biggest worry now is how big her medical bill is going to be because she doesn't know if her medical insurance will cover the costs. I asked her how much she thinks it could be and she said probably around $40,000. I spat my tea out and said she would have been better of just booking into the world's most expensive hotel for the same length of time and at least die in the lap of luxury instead of spending the rest of her life in medical debt! Medical debt... now thats a phrase you only hear in America!
@Joe-ez3gt your avatar picture is the same one that I use as my computer wallpaper. My biggest worry about going to hospital is whatever I went to hospital for, some medications after getting released are not fully funded but generally nothing costs more than $5 for a month's supply. I had type 2 diabetes and for 120 tablets it was $5.50, with diet and exercise I am no longer a diabetic and don't need any medication anymore, the dietitian and gym were covered by the public health system.
You have just described essentially the same welfare and services available in all the countries of the western world with the notable exception of the US.
When i was about 8, i went to America with my parents on holiday. My dad and i went to a book store and the man who worked there was really friendly, he asked us where we were from and my dad answered "were British but we currently live in Brunei." He didnt know where it was so my dad grabbed a book with the world map in it. The man said, "ok let me just orientate myself... this is america, right?" And pointed to Australia. My dad says he will never forget the look of disbelief on my face. 😂
@@anzaia2164 No? How do you do that with the little ones like Vatican City and Monaco? Maybe for some bigger countries or when zoomed in, I don't really watch world maps, but for all countries you would need a very large map to make the names fit.
@@fireshadowdark5462 Australia is not exactly small on the map... Of course it's not every map, but most I've seen that are just "a map of the world" and not showing some specific data or topology, have names on them. Both America and Australia/Oceania are continents, the largest possible thing to label. Of course LeCrunchNoir's map didn't have to be labeled, and I should stop writing comments at 3 in the night, haha.
Let's not talk about the "great" US military that cannot even help Ukraine to win a war against the literal arch enemy, the literal nemesis of the United States.
@@jayc342009no litteraly. Because if there was a direct intervention, Russia would be dead, like straight up, because they would instantly lose air supremacy
Yeah, as an american, a lot of us have a superiority complex but don't know what any of the rest of the world is like. Its like living in the ocean and never seeing land yet believing you're 10x better than everyone and everything on land. Its absurd.
I worked in the tourism-industry for 11 years, and all US-citizens I met were polite, well educated, and informed about our local habits and circumstances (Spain). They even managed to get the thing with health-assistance straight! (you know, when you NOT get billed thousends of euros for medical treatment). Guess the d*shbags stay mostly at home (I wish I could say the same about the brits. Although most of them are quiet OK, normal and reasonable people, nobody can ruin your day like a british m*r*n). Funny times!
Hilarious as Americans are, what makes it worse is that all of this was done with absolutely no irony whatsoever. They really believe this stuff. They also don't know what irony is, which is itself ironic.
While at a McDonald's in Virgin a local heard my accent and he said to me in his Virginians accent " I'm English". I asked what part of England he came from. He then explained his ancestors Came to North America in Colonial times. I then explained I had an Australian accent.
I was in Indonesia once when I was 16 years old and an American PhD holder, and professor of a State University that I got into a conversation with was surprised that I was well-read, knowledgeable about a range of things and "probably one of the smartest people he has ever met". Oh boy I feel for him. I'm just a normal person 😂
i watched a documentary that was put on youtube where they were suggesting that america should adopt a healtcare system like Australia and they had this learned professor from a supposed reputable university make his case. I have never heard so much dribble from a human being that was supposed to be highly educated. could not make a rational argument to save his life except for meruca. If this guy worked at the university I am currently studying at he would have been fired after the first sentence for overwhelming stupidity.
Gosh! A Ph.D at 16 years old is impressive. I had to look that up. You must be Kim Ung-Yong, born in 1962, receiving a Ph.D at 15 and listed in the Guinness Book of World Records has having the highest IQ at 210. I admire your humility, and am impressed that you’ve taken the time to post a comment on a RU-vid video.
Sorry, but Cleese is wrong on that. American English is definitely a dialect of English. That's the same as saying that Brazilian Portuguese is just bad Portuguese, or the same to Spanish and etc.
As an American I swear to god freedom doesn't exist. As a Puerto Rican I swear to god Spain exists. As a bilingual person, I swear to god we have to specify the area we're from when we speak Spanish because it will get incredibly confusing due to different slangs that are used. Spain Spanish also is fundamentally different, it is proper Spanish, and the Spanish spoken in Central and South America and Mexico is influenced by the native languages and cultures.
@@Loki1815High Spanish doesn't exist, Catalan/Valencian is a separate language, Euskera has nothing in common with the Spanish language, wtf you talking about?
@@Loki1815 i have never heard of any of these and i have spoken the language my whole life with others from different regions. I don't know if you're trying to sound smart with these terms, but I assure you that NOBODY refers to them. I am puerto rican and honduran, and both of those areas are WAAAY different with spanish. My puerto rican family speaks Guayanilla spanish, my honduran family speaks Tegucigalpa spanish. I know columbians, mexicans, spainyards, dominicans and el salvadorians. We all speak different spanish.
@@Loki1815 U are american, right? Like, there is Spanish(The language) and Spain (The country). Also, High spanish doesn't exist unless an Spanish get's high and in spain Gallego is also spoken
@Lucy-ny4gs It's about someone who was born in a shithole town with a bad upbringing, being set off to the Vietnam War, how pointless the war was and ultimately ended up with high unemployment and imprisonment rates were among returning veterans. The name and chorus of the song are completely ironic
@Lucy-ny4gs No problem, happy to help. Yeah its definitely gone down as one of the most commonly misunderstood songs, even though the lyrics aren't subtle about their message. I think people just hear Born in the USA and automatically assume its patriotic without really pay attention to the rest of the song lmao I think the song was also used in a Ronald Reagan election campaign and Bruice Springsteen asked them to stop using it
it’s common, my friend went to america for an exchange and they’re still learning maths we learnt in like year 8. we are in year 13th now (9 grade/college for u)
@@josephrinnesot I'm glad to hear, normally Americans tend to ridicule Brazil for a few things, there can be some negatives but so is America, I'm glad to hear my friend, I wish you the best and hope to visit Brazil, I am from Russia and to the end, always in cooperation
To be fair almost all countrys in the world net to update their school systum. Like i hate i was never taught about alot of stuff that could help you when you move out off your parents place. They say that your being taught to help you when you grow up but that's bullshit!
Some years ago my wife and I were on the market square in Bruges, explaining to friends in English about the buildings. An American couple must have heard us speaking English and wondered if they could ask us something. No problem, of course, and then the man asked, “What time does this place close?” He must have thought he was in Disneyland!
Well, the normal reaction of American tourists to Dubrovnik's walls and city is; Is this a movie set? It looks so convincing! Also, a common question on the Plitvice Lakes; at what time do they close the water valves for the waterfalls?
Overheard similar in Leycock, England. US tourists couldn't fathom a place so old, thought it was fake, and got bored as it wasn't full of funfair rides.
Well when you come from a country where the only time you get to a walkable place is by going to an amusement park, you start to think that everywhere is a nonplace. Watch Not Just Bikes, he has some excellent videos about the Strong Towns charity that talk about his topic.
As one wise internet person once said: "You speak English cause it's the only language you know. I speak English cause it's the only language you know. We are NOT the same"
@@theheartlandgroup757 not really it means that everyone is forced too learn the nglish language because of great britain that owned many country`s in the world so that it became the official world language, usa has nothing too do with it.
@@Super-Godzilla99 …first of all thanks for the history lesson I was already aware of, so kudos for bringing me up to speed. Second, it’s still just exactly as I stated from the original comment. It isn’t a flex. At all.
To be fair, for the vast majority of Americans learning another language has little to no utility, and with the exception of Spanish in some parts of the country, little opportunity to practice the language in face to face conversations to gain and maintain competency in it. Having said that, it does make me cringe when Americans travel to non native English speaking countries and get upset that everyone doesn't speak English...
I have an internet friend from Ohio that asks me the weirdest questions about daily life in Finland. I have realized she thinks Finland is a third world country. 😑
@@billster7424 Just curious, what do you mean by that? :D There's a lot of variety when it comes to architecture in Helsinki. A few houses are from as early as the 1700's (not many of them anymore), but there are ofc really modern apartment complexes being built all over the city continuously.
Freeze dried Canadian here, I've actually thought about moving to Finland a couple times and am still considering it. It's not really that much different from northeast Canada (northern Quebec, the northern territories, northern Manitoba etc) from what I see for weather and environment. Muricans still think we all live in igloos and ride moose around and drink maple syrup, let alone think that arctic Canada is a barren unpopulated wasteland or Inuit live continuously in antiquity and don't have the internet or modern cities or anything like Iqaluit doesn't exist. Still wanna visit Finland one day and maybe move there though, I like the cold so it isn't a problem for me and I'm already learning Suomi anyways :)
@@S3lkie-Gutz You are very much welcome! ☺ All in all, Finland is an awesome place to live. We have slightly higher taxes but the social security you get in return both in your personal life and work life makes it all worth it. And awesome that you are learning Finnish! It's unfortunately quite difficult to completely master (I have it as my second language since I'm a Swedish-speaking Finn), but it's doable. And you can also rely on the fact that most Finns (especially the younger generation) in major cities speak English quite fluently.
fun fact: most people here (Austria) don't see cups as absolute (american) measuremeants when in a recipe or convert them to grams. They just use "any" cup/glass/tupperware, and treat those recipes as relative measuremeants, so one cup of this, one cup of that just means the same amount of both, but doesn't mean any specific amount.
That was the original reason for Fanny Farmer writing recipes that way - everyone had a cup, even if they were too poor to have a measuring jug or a set of scales. It wasn't until much later that the volume of a Cup was standardised to half a US pint.
Same in Poland ;) If I remember correctly from an older book 1 cup of flour means 250 grams, but I will grab the biggest cup I own, and just measure all ingredients with the same one xd
Everyone is always going after the US for using the Imperial system, but in Canada we use °C for the weather, °F for baking, feet and inches for construction and height of a person, metric for distance and speed, pounds and ounces for weight of people, and grams for other situations, and lastly we use cups in baking. What actually is the alternative for cups anyways?
I feel embarrassed by UK Christmas markets though - which are just regular markets selling the same crap as ever, but with a token effort of Christmas decoration.
Funny to me that a lot of those com are related to the "liberty of chosing their "transportation mode" without realising that because of the lack of transportation mode they are unable to chose and are indeed force to take a car.
My son was at an American university -he’s English-and was talking to his friends when a girl asked him where he was from.He replied England,she went on to say ‘which state is that in?’
Benjamin Franklin wrote we hold these truths to be self evident all men are created equal....at that moment he ran out of ink and had to send his slave to buy some more with his inalienable right
"We should not allow dual citizenship, cause the nature of our country is freedom!" How can someone actually think that way and not run head forward straight into a wall????
I've been called a liar online when I said I didn't own any sheep cos an American assumed that as a Scot I must live on a croft and keep livestock. I also had someone else accuse me of lying about being Scottish because "Scotland doesn't have the internet because you don't have electricity"...
There are 4 equations that describe the behaviour of electricity and magnetism; turns out those 2 effects are tied in something called electromagnetism. They are called Maxwell's equations, after a James Clerk Maxwell, who died in 1879. I bring him up here because Maxwell was Scottish.
More lies. It must be humiliating to be a vassal state of England, which is in turn a VASSAL STATE of the American Empire. Keep making up lies to demean and demonize American people, who are way more humble than they need to be. Your mean spirit disgusts me.
About the Nationality thing. I watched a video earlier this week where Americans took a DNA test to find out their ancestry. I was flabbergasted when some people were shocked that they were #% EUROPEAN. I guess they have no idea that everyone, except Native Americans, were originally immigrants!
unless you punch a part of the wall without a stud it can break, but if not then you're punching litteral wood planks and carbon. imagine being mad Americans use abundant resources like the rest of the modern world to build homes, concrete and bricks are huge greenhouse emitters and leach chemicals into the soil.
As an Italian i discover in America many italian immigrants founded towns with the same name of where they were from and here come the horror... I worked at the Venice Cruise Port, where i met thousand of american tourist. As many know Venice is a City built over the Venice Lagoon and have no cars and of course no streets, ONLY CHANNELS FOR BOAT... An American started arguing with the guide because she was not stupid, she knew Venice is a copy of the WONDERFULL city of Venice... in the US... where she's from...
There is an explanation for the Polish guy. He's a vampire that originally lived in Poland, but moved to America and has lived there for the past 5 generations. And because he never used Polish for all that time, he forgot the language.
@@flitsertheo Bram Stoker set his story in Transylvania, which was a largely German-speaking province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time he wrote the book.
@@roderickjoyce6716Bran Stoker’s Dracula was published in 1897. At that time Transylvania was part of the Kingdom of Hungary, which was a part of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (aka Austrian Empire before 1867). At the time of the Hungarian census in 1910, 54% of the nearly 5.3 million people living in what is now Transylvania were Romanian, 32% Hungarian and 11% German-speaking. The official language was Hungarian, though many people learned and spoke German, too.
the superbowl is hilarious, they literally stop the game for adverts... thats the ONLY reason they stop it... for half time show and all that BS ... like wtf, i hate eurovision but id rather eurovision than THAT S show xD
And all the replays that they constantly show are sponsored by some brand with a massive logo popping up on the screen so even while the game is going on youre just watching ads.
My dad who watches rugby league went to Vegas a number of years ago and went to watch an American football game. Said it was the most boring spectacle he had ever seen. 4 hours of nothing but advertising 😅
We have green water in the UK. From all the raw, untreated shit the water companies pump into it and cause algae blooms. The government allow it. Also Swedish water is very delicious and super pure!
@@susansmiles2242 they didnt specify exactly what they thought scotland is they just said since it's not "visible on a world map" and isnt independent it isnt a country 😭
I certainly can see how that misconception came to be, thats not always the case. Im rarely stunned into silence, but American adult thinking only they can see the moon, that finally did it for me. Ive tried to analyze this later, only thing I can come up with has to do with the moon landings.
I love when Americans complain about people measuring in kgs only for them to be told that it’s only America that doesn’t do that! Also that last one, big talk coming from a country that pronounces Notre Dame as No-der Daame! 🤦♀️
I can just about deal with households and “normal” people using imperial but even American scientists use it. Systeme International (except America) it would seem! It’s so parochial
the difference between an american and a pot of yoghurt is that if you leave yoghurt out for 200 years it'd develop a culture of its own. lads dont even have their own language lmao (also, with the spanish thing, ive genuinely seen americans say the exact same thing about english, that its a language and not a nationality. however, ive also seen some americans think english is from america and not... england, i guess for the hundreds of years when america didnt exist the english were just mute?? so im not surprised)
But the US does have a culture? It’s literally impossible for any group of people not to. Here’s a few examples off the top of my head. Music such as Jazz, Bluegrass, Ragtime, Country, Rock, Rap, Sacred Harp singing, Appalachian folk, Soul, Gospel. Many musical instruments were invented in the US, including the banjo and Appalachian dulcimer Local cuisines that developed over 3-4 centuries of using local ingredients such as BBQ, Cajun cuisine, New England seafood culture, Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine, Appalachian cuisine, and soul food World-renowned authors and poets, including Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, JD Salinger, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, HP Lovecraft, James Baldwin, and William Faulkner Unique holidays such as Thanksgiving (US), Kwanza, Fourth of July, Groundhog Day, Cajun Mardi Gras, and Labor Day Myths, legends, and folk heroes such as Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Bigfoot, Johnny Appleseed, Pecos Bill, Moth-man, and Alfred Bulltop Stormalong Artistic movements and styles such as American Expressionism, the Hudson River School, Federal Architecture, American naval tattooing, and the American Western Movement Traditions such as Mummer’s parades, trick-or-treating on Halloween, country fairs, recreational camping, and visiting national parks Sports (some of which have gained international popularity), including Baseball, basketball, gridiron, lacrosse, skateboarding, softball, snowboarding, volleyball, NASCAR, and Rodeos
@@RobertJeffreyHill I'll let you have music and Hollidays but most of the food comes from somewhere else apart from soul food and Halloween was a British thing first u guys do have your own way of doing shit nobody does things like an American for better and for worse your country is still very scary tho way to many guns
0:15 funny..in my country(The Netherlands) you're pretty much considered a boomer who can't keep up with the tech/the modern times, when you still use sms instead of whatsapp.
As an American, I love this vid, find the idea hilarious that we live in some kinda crazy reality show and the rest of the world is just looking in with concern like "wtf?" xD
That is the best description of the American experiment I have ever read. At least that's what it has become. And it turns out that the choice of a reality show host to run the whole thing was no accident. It was simply logical.
About the post about constitutional rights.... do people seem to forget that the largest democracy and the longest written constitution is an ASIAN country? Personally, Americans shouldn't really talk about rights when they don't even have proper gun control and take away reproductive rights from women.
