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@@Arltratlo No. we can still get into France without a passport, we just need to fill in an online form before we go. It takes 2 minutes or less. Try again.
because they have no idea that there even is a rest of the world. Some even think modern history started in 1776 and European history ended the same day. I wish that wasn't true but it is.
It reminds me of how Russians (or rather Russian propaganda) treats Poland nowadays. You would think that we're still a part of the great Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. A country able and willing to invade Russia only to retread after couple months because our nobility got too drunk to fight off peasant rebelion. Meanwhile Poland nowadays can barely form a goverment. Nobody cares about the troubles - people are more focused on what the politicians are trying to push on us
@@alanluscombe8a553or that americans are so cocky about winning the war when France did 90% of the fighting and was the only reason they even have any rights.
@@commandershepard2490If it ain't beating neapolitana, I'm not even going to waste my time, I'm freaking from Switzerland growing up with varieties of Pizzas.😊
@@ajstyles5704 Bin auch aus der deutschen Region um Basel und Italien ist hier halt der standard "lass mal schnell 3 Tage ans Meer fetzen" Urlaub. Niemand hier den ich kenne würde eine amerikanische Pizza der italienischen vorziehen.
The chocolate is actually reverse. Most American "chocolates" cannot be legally considered chocolate in the UK, because they only contain around 5% coco solids where it needs to be 20% for it to be considered chocolate.
You're free to move to England, i'll be your friend. Guns aren't as readily available or easy to get hold of, but at least our food is real, we pronounce words properly and our teeth are real 😊🇬🇧🏴
The problem with the whole “europe doesn’t have …” argument is that Europe is a CONTINENT with different countries that all have their own laws and cultures. Some of the things they say might be true for one country but completely wrong for another.
Yeah, the most triggering thing about this video is all this talk about "Europe" as if it's one place, and "USA Vs Europe" as if they're comparable, and the USA isn't European.
And look at their record fighting in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. If the whole of the US struggles in those conflicts, how could one state defeat an entire continent?
@@p.j.berman9060The US has won a war on their own like... twice. In their entire countries history. Every other time they needed MASSIVE help or just lost. The American military is a joke
I just made the realisation that the one TikTok asking what the UK does during 4th of July highlights something. If the UK had to sit and think about the independence days of EVERY country or region we colonised we probs never have a normal day again 💀
That one person was right, I wouldn’t make it in the US for 6 months, not because of their “work ethic” though, but because of their piss poor wages. That message was not the own he thought it was.
Well it has a lot to do with the fact that America has to subsidize European collective defense While we were screaming at you that the Russians were going to do something you were deciding your armies now you're bitching at us to protect the Ukrainians
And lack of mandatory vacation days for workers, don't leave that out. Many jobs can offer ZERO vacation and sick days--yet, many Americans still think unionizing is "communism".
@@kaecatlady weve got arseholes whinging because Angela Rayner wants workers rights. Fuck them if their works won't cope with decent wages screw them, oh and when they go bust take every penny Ron them to pay redundancy. If that leaves them with nothing screw them
I once mentioned to a US American online that in Switzerland, you technically don't need to ever set foot in a highschool to become a medical doctor. Because there are other ways to qualify for university, which is what you have to attend to become a medical doctor. Despite being given that explanation, that person still think this meant that "Swiss doctors don't even have a highschool degree, therefore they are less educated than someone with a highschool degree". Edit: Typo
@@camelopardalis84 American high school pretty much only succeeds at traumatizing people so I’d argue that Americans would be significantly less qualified
@@camelopardalis84 Thanks to the GOP the educational system in the USA is going to get much worse. It is already close to this comparison: the average English schoolboy is equivalent to the average High School graduate in education. A twelve year old matching an 18 year old in education. It's ridiculous. As an American I find it difficult, with my education, to speak to another adult in my country without cringing at the appalling ignorance...on just about everything. But if you got on the topic of vehicles, or pop culture...there is savant level knowledge happening. Cultural knowledge, history, and the worst one...actual political and economic knowledge is appalling. The right wing party in America has turned the entire country into a cult of stupidity. So, people are doomed to vote for being poorer and poorer and poorer. "Fleece me! Fleece me harder daddy!"
7:34 the funny thing is that Hawaiian pizza was created by Sam Panopoulos, a Greek-born Canadian, in 1962. So it's technically not even American-made, but European. 🤣 edit: I mean that the person was a Greek that just moved to Canada, not that Canada is in Europe. I'm not stupid.
In the UK, we just call it Pizza and it is branded as Italian (in the packaging and colouring used), with the exception of the odd US American themed pizza, which is just the same but with BBQ sauce and or chillies.
And now you understand why Canadians always have a Maple Leaf clearly visible when we travel to other countries. It's our way of saying "Sorry for looking like an American, please don't spit in my food."
The Problem is the leaf makes you look like you are American.. Because i have seen at least 3 US tourists not Canadian wear it on their backpack. But the only Canadian tourist i meet didnt have one.
@@Telendil So you think the Maple Leaf is a USA symbol? Have you ever heard of stolen valour? That's what people from the US wearing a maple leaf are doing and now their making Canadians look just as bad as they make their own country look. They should be called out as the liars they are.
@@timdowney6721 Since my argument mainly is that americans have it on their backback to not look like americans so if you use it you look like an american even if you are actually canadian my sample size would be 3. But this is so common knowlege that comedians make jokes about it that start like this : Since Americans are carrying Canada on their backback for years ....
It's like one of those fairytale origin stories. An old childless widow a thousand years ago went over to Stonehenge and wished for a child, and then a magical fairy showed up and turned one of the giant boulders into a child, and that child is the ancestor of this dude. He's probably very tall.
Stonehenge was pile of stones, when army bought that area to use as shooting range for cannons, Cecil Chubb bought it in 1915 and donated it to nation, people do not realize it was rebuild in 1964, the stone were re-erected in concrete, it has modern foundation, stones were put were those were assumed to been, ancient monument 😀
Europe is about 10 million kilometres squared. Texas is about 700,000 kilometres squared. So, not only is Europe bigger than Texas, it is over 14 times bigger than Texas.
@@AlicjaDee All of the Japanese islands could fit inside British Columbia with room to spare. BC has 1/75th the population of Japan, and Canada itself has a slightly higher population than Greater Tokyo
@AlicjaDee while the combined population of Europe is somewhere in the 750 million area. Which includes two notoriously difficult places to invade, Britain and Russia.
that’s the thing. it’s normal not to know much about other countries. the reason they’re annoying compared to any other nationality is their tendency to assume stuff at their country is the original and not the copy. like why would you assume that, from a nation not even half a millennia old.
@WIDGI we all know what the periodic table is. I didn't know the difference between Belguim and the Netherlands I until adulthood, but that's because of the asymmetry in American education.
@@Laz7481 As a chemist, I can assure you that Americans are as bad at chemistry as well as geography, maths, common sense and understanding that if you can never admit when you are wrong you can never learn anything.
@@cambs0181 Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada belong to us by right of Manifest Destiny and we've been trying to unload Puerto Rico for quite some time now.
@@1pcfred Manifest Destiny? You mean that thing when some inbreds thought "I want this therefore it should be mine"? Sure sounds like colonisation to me.
The rudeness is mainly just a Paris thing, I've found. Almost everywhere else in France I've been, the locals are very normal and friendly. Parisians are notorious even among the French for being rude XD
@battlecat739 Try being a Canadian. When trump called for a wall we thought , " great idea, would you mind building one on your northern border as well?"
American here: What you think of as bottled water (mineral water) and what we think of bottled water are not the same. Mineral Water is just as expensive here, the bottled water here is literally just tap water that has maybe gone through an extra filter. We buy it for the convenience, even though you can just ask to fill up a reusable water bottle at any gas station with a drink machine and almost all of them will let you. I would also like to point out that our Department of Education is a fucking joke due to about 40 years of underinvestment (Reagan), the majority of us haven't seen a fifth of the country, and 10% of us have never even left their home state.
@@Smeik100 You really should go out and see more of your country, there's some really cool stuff there! Also maybe check and see if Blielfeld actually exists.
Yeah, you can only find water bottles that are actual tap water in tourists traps in Europe since for some reason, people don't buy that since tap water is more or less free.
I’ve never been to Domino’s, but I never understood how they managed to survive. Here in Germany pizza from small pizzerias is probably the number one delivery food followed by Asian cuisine. At least in our outskirt of an urban area here pizzerias are everywhere, while stuff like Domino’s flock to big cities. Closest Domino’s is ~32km from here whereas there are, where as the closest pizzerias are 5km and 8km away. Those two exist for as long as I remember, but there are more who popup in villages and disappear occasionally. We certainly have our own styles of pizza, but not that far away from what I ate in Italy. Hospitality culture etc is indeed different here. Though we were indeed mostly in touristic areas, which means my experience might not be thaaat representative for Italian pizza.
Domino's business model is pizza delivery. There's people that sometimes can't go get pizza themselves. Now you can pick Domino's up too. But for the longest time it was just delivery. So delivery was the strong selling point. Not the product itself.
@@1pcfred the point is that normal pizzerias already do that. Pizza was already the number one delivery food here. It’s just a big centralized company that tries to push the small restaurants away Okay, seems they already failed in Germany in the 80ies and now they came back and bought two leading pizza delivery chains.
The American work ethic is only as strong as it is because most Americans have no choice but to work multiple jobs to be able to afford basics like food, housing and healthcare.
@@milo1k846 As I said, most Americans. www.google.com/search?q=what+percentage+of+americans+live+in+cities&rlz=1C1VDKB_enGB1088GB1088&oq=what+percentage+of+americans+live+in+c&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgCEAAYgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIICAMQABgWGB4yCAgEEAAYFhgeMggIBRAAGBYYHjIICAYQABgWGB4yCAgHEAAYFhgeMggICBAAGBYYHjIICAkQABgWGB7SAQkxMzc1OGowajeoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
@@ivanruzic2592 It's all to do with genetics, everyone there in the US is given a choice when born, either be american or have a high IQ, quite easy to understand really 😁
The Americans are like the original idea of earth, believing everything revolves around them. In reality they are like earth, minuscule like everything else
If you look at it from a different pov, American Patriotism is no different to German Nationalism during WW2... Just pointing it out, the lines run parallel to each other...
One of the well known stories about an American visiting Germany is "He (the American) laughed and asked if we even have electricity. He couldn't see the Overlines because everything is underground"
That's funny, the main reason I know I've crossed the border into Germany from the Netherlands is because they still have the power lines above ground. Maybe that's just regional or only rural though.
I was in France last year and me and my partner met a lovely American couple and went for a meal with them. They informed us they were intending to take the EuroTunnel train in several days as they wanted to visit London, the conversation moved to places to visit in London when, without any hesitation, the woman asked me and my partner if the train stopped at any point in the tunnel crossing, I asked why? She proceeded to say, without any irony and completely deadpan, she was hoping it would stop so she could see and take photos of the fish I proceeded to laugh my arse off for about 20 minutes.
Yes London, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam or Venice are themeparks. While being in Venice I heard an asian couple ask "when - or at what hour - will the city close ?"
I was on a flight from JFK to Heathrow a few years ago. As the aircraft was approaching London, the pilot made an announcement that we would have a lovely view of Windsor Castle as we landed. As we passed the castle, the middle aged American couple sitting next to me commented “It’s a shame they built it so close to the airport”. I kid you not.
@@ninokamps4407 smh, not you being untraveled. in a lot of asain countries, cities, towns there is a time where basically the entire city shuts down. all the shops close, and there is almost nothing that you can go do. im guessing what ever language you heard them speak wasnt their first language too. they could have accidentally said city instead of attraction aka museum/churches.
My father in law does that every day thinking it makes him look cool and that being Irish is an excuse for having 6 dui convictions and no drivers license
Adolf Hitler couldnt take Switerland over. Americans who havent even a military, beside sargent shanique and private perez really think they can advance trough Europe and then defeat the end boss Switzerland who has a better geographical advancement then Vietname with their tunnels and Afgahnis with their mountain.... i nearly died by laughter, maybe thats how americans can win future wars
@@Zwingli-Was-Right-AHwasToo He didn't really need to because he kind of surrounded them on all sides, Also this is your daily reminder that Texas the state of Texas has a larger army than 7 European countries And its own defense budget Separate from the United States defense budget
Well Germany did and Texas has a larger army than Germany No I am not exaggerating this is a matter of fact the state of Texas operates a larger military force than the country of Germany.
@@Zwingli-Was-Right-AHwasToo Nobody can invade the Swiss considering they're surrounded by mountains and have a gun to person ratio that the US respects.
@@ronniehopper2726 daily reminder, We can mobilize around 700k people on desiganted posts and combat roles in under 24h..... also a little secret.. your F-15 or drones are useless unless they can play "whac-a-mole"...... you cant even drop nuclear bombs who doesnt even exists, maybe Space Lasers owned by your J-Military complex which are use to justifiy Climate Change by burning down Forests in Canada and North US could work....
Canada does have a little French in it and Australia has what’s left of the Indigenous languages after we kidnapped their children and tried to brainwash the culture out of them. So some of the old languages exist but not to the extent they did before the whole kidnapping thing. What I’m saying is some of these countries do have alternate dialects kicking around.
5:06 It is not a work ethic, it is just a lack of worker protection. Germans work on average about 400 fewer hours per year for the same or better money than Americans.
Americans *are* hard workers. That being said, of course you are right in that a lot of that isn’t really out of choice, but bad worker’s rights. Americans have been manipulated to only look at the economy to judge success for too long. Economic growth and wages are better in the US than EU, the problem is that in the big picture (meaning including universal healthcare, worker rights, public services, general happiness etc.) this advantage almost (only almost!) disappears. In Europe we like less extremes. We had enough of that here already and it brought nothing but ill.
@@TheCappucinochannel-os4ne There are a lot of grossly overpaid people in the USA skewing statistics. For example in Germany CEOs get the same pay rises as every other employee because German law demands that every company above a certain number of employees must have a union representative as a permanent member of board of directors. Consequently a German CEO earns about one tenth of a comparable US CEO while workers earn about the same or more than in the USA.
@@milo1k846 There are a number of videos here on YT made by Americans living in Europe who did work that out and according to them they are financially a bit better off in Germany/Europe despite the higher taxes once into account what you get for your taxes like free universal health care, free university education etc.
11:00 George, you got scammed there. There's a lot of scammers in Paris and their whole shtick is demanding money from tourists whenever they use something.
I couldn't judge about this particular case but toilet Ladies are a reality though. Usually they are not paid any wages and have to buy cleaning products with those Euros the "guests" pay. In return you can expect clean and safe toilets. The usual fee today is 0.50€ to 1.00€ though it doesn't amaze me that in a touristy place such as the Louvre they ask more.
@@flitsertheo Never seen a toilet lady in my life, and not paying someone a wage is illegal, it is France not the US. All the public toilets I ever went to in Paris were free.
They don't, should do research what they learn in history class, but I don't blame them, US and UK loves to rewrite history and add flavours, remove facts, thin out the plots, scramble the time line. Like, you can't blame them.
@@1pcfredYou are the same person on another comment that was talking about ownership of the land through manifest destiny so how did your ancestors get to America because you are clearly not a indigenous American witn your manifest destiny comment ?
@@WinstonSmith19847 I am as indigenous as anyone else is. I was born here. My grandparents were born here. That's as indigenous as it gets. You think the savages just sprang out of the dirt? It has been proven that Europeans were here first. In any event it doesn't matter who got where first. All that matters is who is here now.
3:34 they definitely haven’t had European chocolate. As an American my parents brought back chocolate from Britain and it’s genuinely so much better than American chocolate that I kept the box it came in.
@@yeetjones927 Not really, as different countries have different regulations about how much cocoa and cocoa butter a product needs to contain in order to be allowed to be sold as chocolate.
@@yeetjones927 it's a matter of public record. Switzerland and Belgium top the charts. Saw some awards for German chocolate which I can't judge because I only ever ate the cheap Milka stuff. I doubt it though. Britain is best at having nukes and keeping stolen land like Gibraltar or Las Malvinas. Oh and they're the best at being incoherently drunk or pulling their undies aside to pee on the sidewalk in front of the club. Or getting into fights. What they are most decidedly not best at is chocolate. Stay in your lane pommie.
Yeah we always just say 'plug it in the wall'. I can't be bothered to use words like socket even. Aussies are lazy with language and if we can short something or leave it out, we will.
9:36 truly so stupid when you consider how densely populated the rest of the world is compared to America, where we’re all extremely spread out. The size of the country doesn’t have much to do with how many people are actually there yall 😂
And I always found it funny how everyone jokes how big Texas is, lets just take nordic countries (yes we are actually pretty big countries by land area) combined area 3.5 million square kilometers, Texas is tiny 700 thousand square kilometers. Okay bunch of nordic land is unhabited especially in Greenland/Iceland area.. so lets just take Norway, Sweden and Finland, which everyone thinks are tiny countries in the north, land area over 1.1 million square kilometers. So even the tiny countries in the north can't fit inside Texas :P
There is a significant difference between colonisers and colonists. The British colonists were the ones who founded the United States. The fact that nearly all of US history has been mythologised and/or falsified since then (to an extent that a bunch of nonsense is taught in schools there) may be annoying but it doesn't mean the British were not colonisers.
@@thescrewfly no, there is not a difference between those that founded a colony and the colonists, you all came from somewhere else and colonised. When you use 'colonists' to insult us you UNO reverse yourselves. Your word salad has no power here
@@isnousernameleft everyone needs a scapegoat, why not choose the country that changed the world for the best. What about the Spanish? No one ever mentions them, you choose the UK because we are a good people that achieved much. The real villains are the USA who wage war for profit in the 21st century, not the people that founded you in the 17th century. To keep going on about what happened hundreds of years ago makes you pathetic
@@thescrewflythe British set up the colonies but the colonists in America are the ones that massacred the natives and “manifested destiny” by barrelling through land that even the British allowed the natives to keep. A large chunk of the native empires and nations even sided with the British in the civil war because they were protectorates of the empire meaning they had guarantees from the British that they would remain in tact, the Americans made no such promises and even backstabbed the nations that did support them. That’s all without mentioning the pacific and Caribbean territories or the Philippines too, all of which were far more recent colonial ventures than the vast majority of European colonies or the regime change operations in most of the new world that the cia staged in just the last half century.
Imagine being a colonial, the water of your birth splashing on ground that was a sacred American burial ground converted to a cotton plantation, and being like "We aren't colonisers" 😂😂
I think it explains a lot when you look at the types of people who did emigrate to 'the new world'. Puritans, extremists, people escaping from the law etc. Also, maybe because of the attitude of the colonists and their separatist tendencies maybe we didn't really care enough about it being a British colony anymore, why help people who are too dumb to acclimatise to their environment or work together for a greater good?
What's worse it that the British had already made agreements with the native tribes to not expand any further and those Independant 'former' Brits went against all of those to 'colonise' the mid, south and western parts of the country, not included within the 13 colonies..
@@Thurgosh_OG The plains west of the Ohio were being eyed up as farmland by the colonists, who had no intention of honoring the treaties made by Britain. So they found excuses to rebel.
@@k.edwards3138Maybe because a person's intelligence is known to be based on two factors: socialization and genetics. Because the ancestors of most Americans were religious nutcases who were considered religious nutcases even in their time (I'm just saying: witch burning) or were just naive enough to believe that paradise awaited them on the other side of the Atlantic, one can hardly speak of a genetically transmitted intelligence. Added to this is the education system in the USA, which seems as if the pioneers had just set foot on land in the New World. In parts of the USA it is actually still taught that the earth is around 5,000 years old because that is what it says in the Bible. This can hardly compensate for a knowledge deficit.
English history goes back to the days of Julius Caesar. The Americans censored anything to do with the natives and somehow think their country is ancient.
@@MsAnpassad I've had mexican chocolate, and the ones I had were okay. I'm sure there are better options, tho. I'm down to try chocolate from other countries as well. Anyway, we do have quality chocolate. Not all of our chocolate is made by Hershey, nor does it taste like "vomit."
@@angelicharmoniesTo Europeans, American chocolate tastes sour. Like vomit. It's because of an ingredient in American chocolate that we don't use here.
American Military might v EU military might. Roughly equal Active personnel, twice as many reserves in EU. US has slightly more MBTs and AFV, EU twice as much artillery. US has more total aircraft, but EU has more fighters while US has more attack helicopters. EU has nearly a thousand more Naval Vessels, though US has nearly 3 times as many aircraftcarriers. And remember this is just the EU, it doesn't include non Eu members like Turkey and the UK. If any Texan thinks they could take on Europe in a military battle? Keep dreaming.
I’m a Volunteer Tour Guide in York and enjoy meeting Americans, they are usually friendly and polite. But the type from Texas in a cowboy hat can be a challenge. Before he starts I get my own daft statements and questions in first:- “This must be a culture shock for you, traveling from a little place like Texas to the centre of the world’s biggest empire”.
I always love how Americans will defend their work ethic and then condemn slavery. Your work ethic is modern slavery. You work 95% of a day, consume sugar and coffee to give you energy to stay alive under those conditions and you will still defend your modern slavery system. Land of the "free" 😂 Also, If you go to Balkan countries, like Croatia, people will charge you 2-3 times more for water, because you are foreigner. Water here (big 2L bottles) is less than 1€
Hahaha yes because slavery is wrong wtf, second we work 8 hours a day which is 1/3rd of the day, most people work either 7-3 or 9-5 which both give you enough time to do stuff, why do Europeans go online and lie
@@amanbirbthe4th967and thats also not true. most dont know but france is the country with the most marine territory. its even larger than any country when you combine land and marine territory... so since france is in europe the us cant be larger in any metric...
@@amanbirbthe4th967woopsie! sorry my bad. totally misunderstood/twisted it. then i hope that fact about france was still interesting to you or you already knew! gd day!
“We could’ve taken over after WWII but didn’t” Bro, we (USA) lost or withdrew from every single war since then, not to mention that we could barely keep Russia at bay through the entire second half of the 20th century. We even managed to almost flunk D-day for pete’s sake
D-Day was a pretty massive success, no one expected it to go so well. Sure, Omaha was a clusterfuck, but it was expected, which is why a second division was sent there
As an Englishman, thank goodness our ancestors did what they did in 1939-1945. We had to deliver Hitler's first defeat in the skies in 1940 to survive. US participation (while slightly belated) is still appreciated here. Let's not forget our Canadian brethren either. Even Brazil sent soldiers to fight the Nazis. Comrades all and no disrespect to modern Germans, it was about Nazis, not Germany.
The comedian Al Murray(The Pub Landlord) does a chat on all the countries of the world and comes to Hawaii and mentions Pearl Harbour where "The Americans were taken completly by surprise two years into a World War"
Also, it literally was a fear of the allies that the USA would take over. De Gaulle (the French General in charge of the French Resistance) told his generals that French needed to free Paris before the US, they didn't trust the US, they saw them as imperialist as the Nazi, with as much lack of values for human lives (The USA has no problem sacrificing their soldiers' life like they didn't matter. Also, usamerican soldiers killed a lot of French civilians during D-day. More French civilians died than soldiers from BOTH sides during D-day) So, the USA was seen as a power hungry nation, it's not something to be proud of.
7:55 "we could've taken over after WWII but didn't" right... Guess I imagined that whole thing with the allies splitting up Germany among themselves and taking over for a while.
I come from Belgium, the amount of condiments there just blows away the amount you can get in North America. Just the different types of mayonaise there is something that North America can't beat.
Well to be fair, Texans have a lot more experience with guns. But since they won't be able to use national military equipment, I wonder if they'll even get onto the shore.
3:37 fun fact - the methods used in chocolate production in america result in creation of the same chemicals found in vomit, american chocolate scientifically tastes like vomit apparently originally they used this method as cost saving measure when they were mass-producing chocolate to put in military rations during ww2, and after that the soldiers that returned wanted the same chocolate as they had during the war (for nostalgia ig?), which caused it to became standard in the country.
i thought it was because milk has to be transported a long distance in the USA which makes it hard to keep fresh, so they use other ingredients like butyric acid (the "vomit chemical")
@@sorin_markov The easiest source is Hershey Chocolate company itself. The reason for using the vomit tasting ingredient (butyric acid) is that the milk in the chocolate, on it's own would perish before they could transport it very far, so this acts as a dairy stabiliser, to make it last longer.
Define "real people" because that sounds like a pleonasm. In principle "people" should do, right? I do agree that, having run into some Yank tourists, they're "larger than life" kind of people.
@@JZsBFF you have successfully harvested my braincells. I mean no offence by saying this, but my brain got fried trying to understanding that reply 😂 I think I'm just being dumb lol
I live in Russia, but I was sitting with a few acquaintances and glanced down at my watch and said “oh, it’s the 4th of july” and everyone turned to me like “yeah? And?” Literally no one cares else about your holiday America
I'm always taken aback by the visceral reactions some Americans have to the idea that something might be better in a different part of the world. Or not even better, just good.
It's so strange. How did they engineer their society to be so chauvinistic yet have such a massive inferiority complex? It's some kind of sociological marvel.
4:15 obviously in the ancient/prehistoric era about 200 years ago, Europeans from their small countries came to the greatest nation on earth at that time, seeing the stunning architecture and being like yeah we should adopt this
hm, in the year 1492 Columbus found America, the local people here founded their beer brewery, 70 years before Columbus found America!! my town got a new castle, its build in 1520! i am not sure the mortar is dry yet? the big city close by, got a new Opera House, in 1690! what year the USA got founded...1780, 1865, 1910??
@@TLowGrrreen Those poor teenage English boys really appreciated the proper A/A blues and only when they took it over to the USA did the whities realise how good it was .Having scorned the originals before. Full appreciation was given to the originators by people like Eric Clapton etc .
It's due to Americans believing that Europe is like Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy. An American told me (a Swede) that Swedens weren't in Europe.
Reminds me of the joke by Alaskans, that if Texans don't shut up about the size of their state, they'll split Alaska into two halves and make Texas the third largest state in the USA. 🤣
It's because they think a flat map is the same as the flat earth. If they looked at a globe they could see the difference. Or they could just Google it but they know better than Google.
E123. A red food colouring, it was probably the most controversial of the E-numbers, believed to cause everything from hyperactivity to cancer. The Europeans banned it first, then the UK. Its removal is the reason Tizer doesn’t taste like it did in the 1980s. Also known as Red 40.
Sorry but you are a bit wrong there. The UK, along with Switzerland have banned Red 40 but the EU has not banned it at all. However, in EU countries, all food products containing this and other additives, like Yellow 5&6, must come with a warning label due to health concerns. The UK was and still is the strongest country for protecting its citizens from these types of food additives and it is because they pushed so hard for this to be an EU standard (when they were a full member) that the EU has such food health measures today.
well the second fact is still doubtful. slicing dough and cook it isnt really a genius and special chinese idea. but so far i saw the oldest records of it so far...
Texas could conquer Europe makes me laugh so hard. The U.S. ran lost to Afghani farmers and ran away in the most humiliating military defeat of at least the last thousand years. All money, no ability.
Those were cold war. Solo world superpower. Military spending higher than the next 4 highest combined. Lost to farmers wiith AKs. Also, made Al Qaeda a militay superpower with what they left when then ran away.
@@Someperson12532 Russia spans Eastern Europe AND Northern Asia, so it's kind of split. But it is the largest country by land mass, regardless. I would suggest that Americans (Northern Americans, that is) get confused between the continent of America and the United States of America. Kind of a difference, really.
@@stevepowell491 you are confused yourself. 'Northern Americans' are people from the northern states in the USA. Americans are North Americans. There is absolutely no continent called "America" ... There are continents called North America and South America.
@@lavenderohhalf half..its north and south American when you say all continents. But its at original only 1 continent, there Is No ocean or anything between. Same as Europe and asia is. You Count it 2 but..are it really 2?
12:07 I've seen a lot of people saying "Norwegian food is bland" and stuff like that as well. No idea what they're talking about. Generally in retrospect, these people appears to have visited "Veikroer" or roadside or fast-food places along a road. In other words, the only things they've been touting is their own incompetence as travellers. Oslo has an absolutely ridiculous amount of restaurants per capita, and Norway has one of the highest consumption rates in the _world._ People come from all over Europe to work at high-end restaurants, wine places etc. in Oslo. Yes median salaries are good but I'm talking _high end_ restaurants. You will practically not be able to visit every restaurant in Oslo during a lifetime except if you're unemployed and a millionaire. The food is *SO* diverse and you can find *EXACTLY* what you are looking for, *INCLUDING* some amazing fast-food places like Jafs for instance. You have access to any ingredients you want, including a vast amount of different oriental goods at places like Bazaar or top-end meat at places like Strøm-Larsen. There are professional mushroom and berry pickers (these are not grown artificially and humans are yet to find a good way to do this), of which taste is supreme in the world. The fish here is unparalleled and people can actually afford to buy things because of decent wages. I don't know what else to say, man. If you want to discover local foods then you need to go to rural areas, and you need to research a whole lot better (this includes Norwegians abroad). The best cured meat and ice cream I ever had was in rural Toscana in Italy, to take just one example. The ice cream was home made and a very small business who had done so for decades.
love it!! so just to add to your great point, my daughter in law is japanese and they live in Norway, so thats another cuisine added to their local diet ... why? because nearly everyone in their neighbourhood has been nicking her recipes to try at home .. in Norway the message spreads, its a beautiful thing
no im pretty sure its from germany. Not even joking. I searched it up. The english language originated in denmark and germany. So it is neither american nor english.
@@Someperson12532 Bro, English is related to German, since they belong to the same linguistic family; just like Italian, Spanish, French are related since they are all romance languages descended from Latin. It doesnt means that French/Spanish was invented in Italy 😂😂😂 You guys just keep proving the stereotypes right, don't you?
5:42 why would you buy bottled water in the restaurant???? they just get the bottles from the supermarket and sell them at an extreme the price, just go to a normal supermarket. ALSO most EU countries have drinkable tap water, some cheaper bottled water is literally just tap water because its certified safe to drink (make sure to google first, some regions might be sketchy but most have drinkable water). a 2L bottle of water in Poland in any random store would cost like 2.50zł(PLN) ≈ 0.60€(EUR)
@@wojtekpolska1013 yup, that’s what I’ve always been taught , I’m half Italian and half English so not sure what side that may have came from or just cautious parents I’m not sure
@@TheACTIONZ well it also depends on the specific building, if you live in some very old building with badly maintained pipes it doesnt matter the country has good water if that water goes by 100 year old rusty pipes
Spain gave the USA the Philippines. Which the USA administered until the Philippines could be independent. If the US hadn't annexed Hawaii the British would have. Liberia was supposed to be a place to repatriate former slaves to. I'm not sure why that plan fell through. I suppose it's the thought that counts though.
I'm American, and I was homeschooled by a liberal, atheist mother who had just had enough with our shit school system, so I'm not extra brainwashed like these folks, but I can say I agree with the ones about the water. One time, when I was working the drive thru window at McDonald's, some dude ordered a meal and came to the window and was like, "Can I have a bottle of water?" He had already ordered a meal with a drink, and so I added the bottle of water to his order, and it cost an additional 50 cents. He was like, "50 cents for water? That's ridiculous. Take it off, I'll get water elsewhere." I obviously didn't say anything rude to the fella since American customer service workers have to be extremely polite almost to a fault in some more belligerent cases, but in my head I was just like "well that's ridiculous, you get a bottle of water anywhere else it'll cost 5 bucks". Really have no idea what his problem was.
$0.50! Damn give me two. I went to a public schools in the 80/90s. I was lucky that our school district was ranked in the top 100 in the country. I'm from California. In middle school while taking world history, I was taught The Five Pillars of Islam from a man from Pakistan. We were learning about Middle East. I also read and watched educational shows at home. I was lucky I had parents who road my butt. I'm assuming you are from the south because you made it a big deal to tell us your mother was a liberal and an atheist. Btw, I was raised by two lasped Catholic parents. Now, I'm basically more agnostic. I do agree our education system has turned to crap. Don't get me started on new arithmetic. We need to stop worring about hurting people's feelings and teach the truth. Banning books not only violates the 1st Amendment, it should be made illegal.
@dohanddonuts5716 I don't live in the South anymore, but that's still what people who live in countries that ban homeschooling think of when they hear American homeschooling. I didn't really have any other homeschooled friends when I lived in Texas because most homeschooled groups were run by fundy parents and my mom didn't want to subject me to that crap.
@@julestloid My parents usually kept me away from Bible thumpers, we do have them in California and in the Bay Area. I tend to not like the over religious and idiots who can't get it through there head what the Civil War was about. Sometimes, I think we are doomed.
@dohanddonuts5716 You actually judge people on their opinion of a war that was fought over a 160 years ago? Wow! So that's why California is the way it is.
@michaelholt8590 The ere are a certain group of people, mostly Southerners, who refuse to accept that the Civil War war not only fought to reunify the Union but to end slavery. They will use every other reason, such as states' rights, but they never mention slavery. Furthermore, each state Declaration of Succession mention slavery as their many reason to leave the Union. Now I don't know what being from California has to do with the topic at hand, but when you teach a lie, ban books, put statues up of men who were traitors to our country and wave their flag, I judge a little.
Texas, land of the sovereign citizen, those morons couldn't get through customs before the first brain freeze, NO GUNS lmao, followed by spending the first 72 hours in a cell with a load of free loading drug mules lol
Imagine thinking Texas could conquer Europe lmao they only have 110k active duty military personnel. The U.K. has 150k Italy has 165k, France has 270k, Germany has 180k. And that’s just the current serving numbers, completely ignoring the fact that countries like the U.K. have a population of 70 million people to pull soldiers from, against Texas’ 30 million. US states like California and Texas (the US’s most powerful) are on the same level as the most powerful European Nations (like those mentioned above) because states are essentially countries, just unified into the USA, which means Europe (if you unified it in the same way) has 2 million troops in comparison to the US’s 2 million troops. Most Americans can’t seem to differentiate that their ‘country’ is basically a continent unified with smaller countries (states) inside, so it’s no different to European Countries (which are comparable to states) the only difference is the word used, we use countries they use states (which comes from ‘Nation State’) So it’s kind of laughable when they say “your entire country is as powerful as one state” implying that they are somehow different and it’s not just them using a different word. So no, one American state (country inside the US) could not take over all of Europe.
It isn't how many soldiers you can field it is the kill ratio you can achieve on the battlefield that counts. US forces always enjoy a higher kill ratio over our enemies. In Vietnam it was 58 to one and in Iraq it approached a thousand to one. So it's been on the rise. We're just a naturally bellicose people. There's no kill like overkill.
@@1pcfred We're not talking about US forces. We're talking about Texas forces. Up against half a billion people with two nuclear states and half a dozen conventional armed forces behind them.
@@1pcfred Apples and oranges, of course. The US had huge tech and training advantages over Iraq and Vietnam. Does Texas even have a significant amount of non federal military equipment? Can Texas even get an army to Europe without it being annihilated off the coast?
@@1pcfred And European forces also have a high kill ratio when fighting people far less equipped than them, but Europe and the US share a similar level of technology / defences, in Vietnam you were fighting farmers who had nothing to combat you but Guerilla warfare and you still lost to them, it’s not really a comparable situation. Not that the US and Europe would ever go to war, but Europe is the second most powerful continent on earth and being the most powerful (which is North America) doesn’t guarantee you a victory (like Vietnam), especially when you’re the invader.
@@MrMezmerized well yeah. Advantages are why we win. Texans have significant firearms privately owned. They're Texans. You should see what they've got there. 50 caliber firearms, drum fed shotguns, every little old lady in Texas has some heat in her purse. They use 6 shooters as door handles in Texas. Higgins of boat fame came from the state next door to Texas. So of course Texans can boat too.
It's a matter of perspective. Come to the US and rent a car. Go to I-40 and drive until it ends. Things look different on the ground than they do on a map. Canada is big, but those areas are sparely populated and Canada claims all the way to the north pole and most of that is islands and ice.
