Brit Reacts to 25 Myths About America People Believe Are True! 

I am an 80 yr old female, lived in the US all my life except for 3 yrs in Norway. The only time my life and property were threatened happened in Paris, France. A kind chef in a cafe hid us in his kitchen until it was safe to come out. On American cultural imperialism; Norwegian landlord was complaining about all the TV shows in Europe and asked why we send that trash out to the world. My answer was that's easy - money. So i asked him why Eruopean countries buy that trash and he had no answer.

Not going to lie I'm shocked you didn't know that you guys coined the term soccer..

Public transportation varies wildly depending where you live in the USA. Some places it barely exists, but other places it's fine.

Americans must pay federal income taxes and taxes on their homes, but some states do not charge taxes on income earned by its residents. I live in Florida and there are no state income taxes here. I must still pay federal taxes on my income. My native state of NY forced me to pay taxes on every cent I earned. That's why I no longer reside in NY.

as far as calling the ambulance it's very true that you avoid it if you can. If it's a broken bone or something that requires the ER but isn't time sensitive or bloody, a lot of people would just call an uber instead.

Here in Nevada we have one of the lowest tax burdens in the country. No state income tax. Very low business and corporate tax, no inheritance tax etc.

I'm in Sacramento. Public transport is virtually non-existent

Public transport widely depends on where you live. If you're out where towns are widely spaced apart, or there's more space? Chances are you'll struggle with it. If you're in a major city though? With the traffic and congestion, sheer number of people from all walks of life all trying to get to multiple major hubs? Of course we have solid public transport, or nothing would ever get done! New York City, for instance, most certainly relies on public transit. There are 19,000,000 people living there, to say nothing about people who commute in. My capitol city is pretty good, but the town where I live? Mmm...eh.

Public transportation is good here in America. Here in Chicago , even in LA. My sister lives there and has never owned a car. She took public transit to work for thirty years.

Here's one. We have exactly 50 states. Not 52.

Yes, some states don't have income tax and some states don't have sales tax, I don't think any state has gotten rid of both of them though. But, you can't run from federal taxes no matter what state you're in. Edit: The President is in charge of the executive branch at the federal level and the Governors are in charge of the executive branch at the state level.

9:30 "Is patriotism a bad thing?" "You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race." -- George Bernard Shaw "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!" -- Albert Einstein "Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others." -- Emma Goldman

Everyone in the US is subject to federal income tax (which makes up the majority of most people’s tax bill), but states also impose their own taxes. Most states have income, sales, and property taxes, among others, while a handful choose to eliminate one of those tax streams in favor of increasing another.

I live in Indiana, which is an open carry state (you can openly carry a gun in a holster). In the 7 years I have been here, I have seen 3 people people carrying in public. There's probably a lot more concealed carrying though. I am debating myself. I can see the plusses and minuses.

There are about 5 states that don't have income tax. New Hampshire, where I live, doesn't have income nor sales tax. It costs a ton of money to leave the country. The plane ticket alone is prohibitive for most people.

There are a few major cities that have good public transportation.. but overall there is little to no public transportation anywhere else Most of us conceal carry our guns so you could be standing next to us and not see it or know

Public transport in the US is very good in the North East (DC to Boston). It's practically non-existent in other areas because there is no need for it. We use personal vehicles, and that's not something to be apologetic for. The US used to have better public transportation in the early 20th century and it was removed in favour of personal transportation. He's referring to State Tax.

Oregon has no sales tax in the stores ❤

Oregon has no sales tax but we have a fairly high income tax to make up for it

In Switzerland they have conscription. They serve from ages 16-60 in a militia system. The government issues them machine guns that they keep in their homes. They also havebto train and quality their military skills regularly.

As someone who’s dad is from Slovakia and loves geography… I can’t relate 😅

We don't have a subway in New York. They have one in NYC but that's not New York that's New York City. We USED to have an interurban line that crossed the state. Various trolley and subway systems linked NYC to Albany and across to Buffalo but these were completely abandoned by the 1950's. The same time period that railroads started to abandon passenger service after Americans decided cars were more convenient than a train that let you out at a station that was no where near your destination. It was cheaper and less changing modes to just drive. This left NY with the commuter railroads around NYC, the NYC MTA, and the Amtrak trains that cross the state from NYC to Niagara Falls in the Empire Service and the daily Maple Leaf running from NYC to Toronto, Ontario and the Lake Shore Limited from NYC to Chicago. In my county we have a bus service, 20 passenger busses built on the Ford E-450 chassis. There are bus stops around but they are just a sign and you never see people at them, the bus is a "call for service" system, basically a taxi. You hardly see them stopped just driving around or at a store. He left out the millions of us who live in small villages far away from cities. And the people who don't even live in villages. The thing about guns is there are millions of us carrying guns but open carry is not common. You won't know that we are carrying until shit hits the fan and we have to use our gun. That's the purpose of Concealed Carry, to carry a firearm without making people nervous by seeing it. Especially with the active shooter scares people are likely to call the cops if you are open carrying.

large cities are good at public transport it's once you go to the small towns you run into problems because the town budgets are smaller than the big cities

There is not state tax in Texas just local sales tax on merchandise.

For the most part public transport is terrible, yes the largest cities have good systems but for the most par they are terrible.

I live in Philadelphia which is a large city in the northeast & public transit is fine. We have buses, trolleys, subways & elevated (EL)trains. Just depends where you live. In general larger cities are better with this.

No tax is no tax

You’re not going to see guns because in most states, you have to conceal them. It’s against the law to show your holster. So here in Florida, you’ll never see a citizen with a gun, but rest assured that MANY people never leave home without one, like me.

he is talking about sales tax on clothes, cars, groceries

Please always remember that the USA is the size of a continent.. so there's no possible way that all Americans are a "Typical American" or could be all the same. No we are all not fat, we don't all have guns, and many many Americans are educated and do know geography or at least some geography 😂 Public transportation varies from place to place...where I live we don't have a subway but we do have city buses that are somewhat reliable. Great reaction as always 😊

New Hampshire doesn't have sales tax. Five+ states don't have State Income tax. Everybody pays Federal Income tax.

Long trip trains are great in U.S. The local trains and busses are not great. My insurance is $25 a week. Poor people do get free insurance!

Depending on what part of America you’re in will dictate how public transportation is handled, and also depending upon when the cities and states had more people settling in. After WW2 America economy was booming and the government gave returning GI’s extremely low interest rates for them to buy a house. The thing is the government had a rule to qualify for the loan is it had to be a New House. By doing that it gave so many Americans jobs building houses. So a huge population of Americans moved out of the cities, and built new neighborhoods in the suburbs. Pretty much every American could afford to own a car. The president after the war was General Dwight D. Eisenhower who during WW2 was the supreme allied commander, and he seen the autobahn and wanted something similar for us in America. If you read up on our interstate and the German autobahn is it’s designed to be used as a runway for our jets. What makes perfect sense. Because if America and Russia went to war militarily bases and airports would be some of the first places bombed. Wit the interstates we could park the fighter planes and bombers underneath the overpasses that cross over the interstates to both protect them and to hide them from enemy aircraft over us and from Satellites too. Then the different planes could taxi down the interstate and take off to engage the enemies. If I was to make a video to explain why America does things the way we do. My video would quite literally take a few years just to explain 10% of why we do what we do. Sadly a lot of modern day Americans don’t even know why we do things like this. You can be pretty confident that almost always reasons why we do it especially when you look back at our history during the Cold War with the USSR

I don't know anyone who uses public transportation Period.

Everyone pays Federal Income Tax, but not every state imposes a State Income Tax. Heavy tourist destination states like Florida and Nevada (because of Las Vegas) don’t have a state income tax because the state earns so much money from taxes paid by tourists. (Hotel taxes, rental car fee taxes, etc.) Liberal states like California DO have a ridiculously high state income tax…despite having a gazillion tourists…because they’re fucked up liberal states which waste money. Also, sales taxes differ from state, and even within the SAME states, because tax and spend policies differ from state to state as well by individual municipalities within the same state.

The Czech Republic exists, I've been there, as does Slovakia, that was only 1992...

the comment that most Americans have never hear a gun fired is absolutely ridiculous. I live in a lower income part of the city but far from the worst. I hear gun shots 2-3 times a week. I grew up in rural Wisconsin and most of us there learned how to shoot before we could drive. Guns are a major part of the culture for better or for worse, but to say the majority doesn't deal with it is crazy.

Sugar coatin' event...

this is nonsense, they all pay federal income tax. And there's federal death penalty.

To be fair, Czechoslovakia still exists, it's just called The Czech Republic and Republic of Slovakia now. It still 'exists', it didn't sink into the earth, or down a major sinkhole. Yes, it's pretty bad here w/ the racism, but it's just a small vocal minority, but also too many cops and Republikkklans (tho we Democratic Party members tho fewer are, it still occurs). It's both better and worse than pre-tRumpo the Clown. There is NO "public transport" REALLY here where I live currently in Ohio. But 30 Miles away in Columbus, it's VERY good (or was when I lived there 30 years ago. So RURAL areas - sucks, big to medium sized cities, pretty good everywhere I've been anyway. Well, in OHIO (where I live) we do not tax FOOD, soda? Yes, blended fruit juices, yes, Orange juice (even if it's (yuck) "from concentrate"? NO. Steak? No, Hamburger? No, Fast food burger (IF 'Take out' NO, if you eat it inside the restaurant yes.). So it's odd and quirky, but mostly no. The Feds will still "get" yeah even if a tax-free state exists (which I THINK no). The Federal Government mainly conducts relations - including trade, treaties etc... w/ other countries. And states cannot make laws that violate or circumvent Federal laws (tho the RepubliKKKlans still try - OFTEN, we need to have laws against passing those laws with PENALTIES tacked on that are NOT against the taxpayers, but rather against the politicians. Now, I SPEAK but do not WRITE/Type several languages (and I'm only semi-fluent in a few - so bear w/ my "spelling) Also I don't know the alphabets when different either, but I am getting better on at least The German characters/spellings a BIT. Je parle Français. (I THINK, but am not certain, there's a little accent mark over the e in Parle - but my computer... I'm not sure how to do that ;) Watashi Nihongo-jin (I speak Japanese) Also conversational in ASL (American Sign Language) Ich sprachen zie deutch (I soeak German) I can say hello (and their version of 'nice to meet you") thank you, yes and no in several others, Gaelic, both Scot & Irish, Hawaiian, Swedish, Welsh, Sac & Fox (Northern Native American Tribe) and Urdu... or one of those they speak in Pakistan... I forget, maybe a wee bit more, but definitely understand more than I can speak) I call it "Polite ". But by no means fluently. So, fwiw. Yeah, I also think we feel 'responsible' in a lot of conflicts - and likely should. Half the time we don't even lock our doors around here. But I DO own an AR-15, tho it was a gift. But it is fun to shoot now and then. But I grew up shooting rifles and pistols... lie 1st time I was MAYBE 6 or 7. Shot my 1st muzzleloader at 8 or 9. Both the rifle type and the pistol type. If Europeans visited HERE in the SUMMER they'd understand the whole AC thing. I've had the windows open the last couple weeks b/c the outside temp has been nice... but AC time coming and had it on the 2 weeks before that was AC worthy. Not really, imo Imperialistic... well, some factions of the RepubliKKKlans, but most mainstream folks, no. I take my AR out 2x a year to clean and oil it, had it out last in 2019. Before that, 2015, before that 2008. Before that I didn't own it so... Ambulances typically are too much $. Yes. We are ok )I believe) here locally b/c we have volunteer firefighters/EMS units.

Only the police carry on their hip...every officer

Emergency medical care for pregnant women in Republican anti-abortion states WILL and probably has resulted in women being left to die in the street. Pregnant women SHOULD NOT travel to these states. Even a miscarriage could result in a prison sentence for the bereft expectant mother. Women will die or at the least be punished by those states which have taken control over their own bodies away from them.

A lot more of us have 🔫 than this guy's numbers reflect. A lot of us just don't let it be known 😉

16:24 Is the US imperialistic? Is this a real question? Seriously, is this a real question? The US is the most globe spanning empire that has ever existed. Its tentacles extend to over 120 countries. These are countries we've run military operations in. We've overthrown 50+ govt's since WWII. We're currently supporting, backing and fighting on two fronts in the opening stages of WWIII. Preparations are well advanced for fighting on the third front, Taiwan. In comparison, China hasn't dropped a bomb on another country in over five decades. Russia attacked its neighbor Ukraine in response to provocation from N*TO that they considered an existential threat to their national security. Between China and Russia they have maybe a dozen military bases outside their country. The US has 1,000.

Seeing guns and having guns makes a place SAFE. What's wrong with that?

Who cares what any country,thinks about the USA just a fact

Just saying but a video debunking myths about the United States seems like something the CIA might fund