Try having a conversation with a Glasweigan old man. I can understand the Indians and Pakistanis, Greeks and Poles I work with, no problem. But I was sat with a Glasweigan, a friend of a friend, last year, and nodded through an hours worth of chat without understanding more than a few words. 😅
8:35 As a German, I always found the Brits to be reasonably friendly. However, one then agreed to be my wife, which I now consider unreasonably friendly.
As a Londoner,I lived and worked in Merc City (Stuttgart) for four years from 1999 and loved it. The German people I met and knew were so welcoming. It was also a great hub for travel around Europe. Great country.
@trevorsmith7753 Do you mean the one for the bathroom sink or the one for the last yogurt? No worries, we've got regular diplomatic summit sessions to sort those out.
@hustensaftvernichter3785. Would you care to be more specific, Was she English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish? A 'Brit' can be anything from anywhere.We need to know which of us is to take the blame.
I agree with you it's very important to try and keep an open mind. Unfortunately we have got a lot of people who don't have a particular open mind or who aren't really interested. I am thinking of a lot of right-wing, nationalist governments around Europe at the moment and it's a little bit concerning.
There are some common misconceptions/misunderstandings that are not corrected in this video, in fact it is apparent that the interviewee still holds these herself to some extent. For example, Americans speak American English which is now quite different from English in many respects. So, Americans should not be surprised when they are not clearly understood in the UK. Secondly, London is not representative of the UK. It is so different from the rest of the UK that many British people who live outside London consider it to be almost like a foreign country. Finally, in the UK civilians ARE allowed to have guns but there are fairly strict controls.
Yes and also, this lady's frame of reference is that of Los Angeles as being kind of representative of America when it most certainly is not. I lived in the Hollywood Hills for a dozen years and now I'm in the midwest surrounded by farmland and it's two different worlds.
There is no such thing as American English, there is just standard English from England and then different dialects from around the globe. Only the Yanks could have dreamed up the idea of American English, lol.
Probably worth noting that she's also located in Soho which is one of the nicest/wealthiest areas in the entire of London, probably why she isn't worried about stabbings
I can do a good Brookside accent even though I SHUNNED ALL EPISODES The Channel 4 programmes of Brookie issued prequels earlier in the day without warning .For this reason only I heard the snippets of speech that over the years meant I heard the words and can copy the accent. I NEVER SAW EVEN ONE EPISODE
I am English too. I currently live in Canada where I have no trouble understanding the accents, although I often cringe at the grammar. I have so much trouble with many US accents, not to mention slang, that I have given up watching US films. I have in the past (tried to) watch US films with Canadians friends and even they have had trouble deciphering a sentence or two no matter how many times we replay them. We usually end up by giving up.
She's an Angeleno from a very specific group - well to do, college educated, it an industry dealing with consumption and superficiality. She doesn't represent that massive, very diverse city and the millions of everyday working class people who live there and it's suburbs. She doesn't even represent the majority of California, let alone the USA. Yes, I know she prefaced her interview saying that, but I feel it needs to be repeated.
Agreed. I’ve been to 38 countries, five of which I’ve lived in more than seven years, born abroad, raised abroad, returned to Los Angeles for its cosmopolitan vibe. Where else can you find beaches, mountains, old growth trees and abundant birdlife fifteen minutes from one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world? It’s the multi-ethnic vibe I like the best. It ain’t too white, the music is great, and as long as they’re not making a movie on my street, I’m good. No plastic surgery either.
100% I grew up in USA and have lived overseas for 15 years. I can still see that this woman is not a very good representation of much of the population of USA.
She is a typical brat he detected that "treaty shopping" could get her benefits. Scandinavian countries attract these people like cow dung attracts flees - she will have a rude awakening once facts happen.
I agree with you, she's talking on emotional anecdotal terms of her own personal experience or interpretation. The reality is most people in LA, are pretty down to earth. In fact, I would also argue many of them are very focused on living a healthy lifestyle. Statistics also are not on her side. Far, FAR, more Europeans come to the US than Americans leaving for Europe.
@@evancyclesIncredibly wrong, that butt hurt is really getting to you, a simple cursory examination of US immigrants shows Europeans aren't even in the top 30 of nationalities that go to America, the top 20 are countries worse off, the top ten is simply horrifying, be objective, try and tell the truth, the US is an absolute shit hole.
She sums up the cultural differences pretty well (I lived in UK/Sweden and briefly in the US). The only thing I would add is that there can be BIG regional differences throughout the US and UK, depending on whether you're in a big city or somewhere more rural.
For sure. Living in rural Britain is a totally different experience to the urban lifestyle. And even then living in other cities in the UK is totally different to living in London. London is just distinctively different to the rest of England. And of course Wales and Scotland are entirely different countries in Britain and N.Ireland exists too since people forget about them poor sods. At the very least rural Britain is much safer and much friendlier. And right to roam means you can walk your dog around the fields with the sheep and the cows and the crops and the ponds and the canals and it's just lovely.
@@carefulconsumer8682No, the Scotsman from Peterhead and the Lancastrian from Wigan would get on famously well together. It's the toff from the 'Home Counties' who neither of them would understand, nor the toff either of them - but it wouldn't matter as neither the Lancastrian or the Scotsman would want to talk to him anyway ...
@@Sine-gl9ly Thanks for your input. I tried top date a girl from Wigan when i was at Wrightington Hosp but I could not understand her because of the accent. My roommate from Birmingham also had no idea what she was saying. Too bad for us since she was so nice.
@@Sine-gl9ly Why would you not want to talk them? I was born in Devon,but live in Surrey. I talk to anybody from anywhere. I have had some very interesting conversations with complete strangers on a bus.
A dumb assed american response. There's an entire world out there and to say we are the best is quite laughable. Now granted we aren't the worst, but I can think of some things where we definitely aren't the best ( our healthcare, infrastructure, how we treat our prisoners and our prisons in general, worker rights, etc )
This whole video is full of generalisations, I've travelled to Europe and been around the poorer and richer areas and I found people far more intolerant than back home in Aus, if you can't speak their language or dialect they don't even want to talk to you, France is worse they don't even help if you TRY to learn their language, as the saying goes there's no place like home
LA is not just Beverly Hills rich people or Skid Row homeless or South LA hood/ghetto. The vast majority of LA is good old plain suburban lifestyle. Most people in social media and youtube tend to always go to the extremes. The original poster is obviously biased and implying LA is like the Kardashians. Literally, only rich people or bored upper middle class people (like lawyers and doctors) act like that. The whole materialism and plastic surgery is not LA that’s a small segment. The vast majority also are not homeless which is perpetuated in many videos. I literally never see a homeless unless I go into deep downtown areas. Then the ghettos where you see gangs are also mostly in South LA. Not to sound racist, but those are usually poor black/Latino neighborhoods.
the issue is and maybe this is just the west coast, a lot of the big citys are where you can get the jobs. Trying to get a job in a college town which are usually the nicer parts of the west coast is actually really difficult. All the big citys on the west coast have the same sort of problems. Maybe it is a west coast problem. Where the good alternatives of the medium citys dont have jobs, but it is like that. Its either grinding low quality of life in the big city, or you can try and be a realtor in luxury college towns, its really kind of a fucked economy out here. Somehow i think the rest of the US isnt that much better, but maybe you know more then just the west coast.
You never know what someone is going through and an offer to help someone or a simple smile or short friendly conversation may brighten their day. I don't think it's a bad thing.
I couldn't disagree more. People like to be left alone. Some random comments can be fun but being stuck on a bus or train with someone trying to force a conversation is very annoying.
I made it an iron cast rule for me to at least "say something nice" to at least 5 people every day. It is actually simple. Starting with complimenting the cashier at the Supermarket on how fast he works.
That made me chuckle. It sounds very false to me (a Brit) but some would consider that a lovely gesture. We Brits are generally not great at receiving compliments and would often be embarrassed, awkward and struggle to respond. There are plenty of other ways of being kind/nice that are less direct.
In the UK civilians ARE allowed to own guns, it's just that you have to have a good reason, be vetted, prove you will store and use it correctly and be subject to insoection of said storage. There is also the fact that most of us don't actually want to own a gun.
Nah man. You just need to make crime illegal, and people will stop doing it. Look at fentanyl, for example. It is illegal. People are forbidden to possess it. Are the streets flooded with fentanyl zombies? Do we have tens of millions of users and addicts? ... W-wait... It's almost as if the problem in the US is not guns, but people...
On of the worst features of the USA is its obsession with guns. It is also notable that the European countries with the worst homicide rates are those with relatively lax gun controls (Germany and Switzerland). No country however is as bad as the USA. The UK has one of the lowest levels of gun violence and suicide, a direct result of the strict gun control laws.
I've lived in one English county, Herefordshire, for fifty years. A friend invited my wife and I for dinner at his house, which was on a hill amid a confusion of narrow leafy lanes in another county, Gloucestershire. It was just fifteen minutes drive away from our house and literally over one hill, then up to the top of the next, from where I'd worked for about ten years. We stopped to ask directions so we didn't take a wrong turn going up the final hill, because it was very steep. The man we asked was about eighty years old and had clearly lived in that parish all his life, judging from his Forest of Dean accent. Although I had been to school in Gloucestershire, his accent was so strong that neither of us could understand a word that old man said. We thanked him politely, and guessed which way to get to my friend's house. At about that time at my work, we took on a cook. She'd lived for thirty years in our village and was married to a local man, but had been raised in The Black Country. Her accent was so strong, and her vocabulary so rich with malapropisms, that I often had to think about what she'd said, as did all our colleagues. She must have thought that we were all a bit stupid. In South Wales, adjacent valleys each had their own distinct accents, both in Welsh and in English. And at family gatherings, my uncles would drop their Hampshire accents to do hilarious impressions of my grandfather's gruff put-downs in his Lancashire accent. Sadly, over the decades, all these beautiful accents have become much weaker, and their quirky dialect words forgotten or fossilised as the names of country lanes or of fields.
I have noticed everything is starting to sound like a neutral London accent which is common in the south east depending on where you go. All major cities have lost their accent and you have to go to the rural areas or the old imperial suburbs to hear the accents. Like in Kent, you have to go to Gravesend or around the Medway area to hear the Estuary accent and in the rural villages to hear the country accent which has similar pronunciations to the west country.
@@hulkhatepunybanner You modern narrative does not stand up to scrutiny: Economist Juliet Shor has calculated that 14th Century peasants could - in some years - get away with working for just 150 days a year. Sundays were strict days of rest, as were "high days and holidays" maintained by the Church. Thus Holy Week was a week off in the run-up to Easter, then Whitsuntide was another, there were 12 days off at Christmastide, a day off for the patron saint of your church, another for that of your country, and another for that of your occupation. Most people rested on Saturdays, too. Weddings involved a week off, and travel was allowed for them. My family living in Dalton and Skelmersdale had their baptisms, weddings and funerals in Ormskirk for centuries. Journeymen (skilled tradesmen) could travel as Freemen (or Burgesses) and be exempt from tolls. Mothering Sunday was a day for going to the Mother Church of the Diocese, you could travel to market, and to Hiring Fairs. Restrictions on travel died out after The Black Death due to labour shortages, and effectively ended 600 years ago. Villages were not a thing until the 13th Century. They were planned settlements for agricultural projects that were expected to take centuries: Thus Whitchurch in Herefordshire was established for fenning a marsh, The Birches for clearing "waste". Land was offered on rent to attract villeins to them. They could buy manumission, but mostly preferred land. And that is at the heart of the stasis of peasants: They stayed for stability of land they could occupy, and for their family support network, not compulsion. Apples never fell far from their trees. Only starvation or conflict would drive them off their land - rarely opportunity.
@@lindsayheyes925 *Yeah. Holiday wasn't the modern road trip to the nearest resort town.* Go back as many centuries as you want, it cost money and lots of time to travel so not everyone did it. Seventeenth century England wasn't 1960s US. The US isn't that old and in short time Appalachians developed an accent that many outsiders couldn't understand. That's 'cause dey couldn't afford to go a-travelin'. _Though I'm happy for you to have learned two lessons: history of the English peasant, and how not to respond in haste._
@@hulkhatepunybanner I have learned neither lesson here. I've studied my family history from primary sources for over 20 years, and took a particular interest along the way in two things: 1. The impact of gravitational trip attraction on personal mobility; 2. Social mobility. The effect of gravitational trip attraction is stronger than any authoritarian attempt to confine people, because it follows an inverse square law - unless you or someone else "burns your boats" to make going back impossible or intolerable. Since the Norman Conquest, upward and downward social mobility in England have always been greater than most people imagine. After about seven generations, the differences between the descendants of the rich and the poor will be negligible - with the exception of for titled nobility. The latter (Dukes and the like) benefit (but may be burdened by) from their title being legally bound to an indivisible estate which is not theirs to trade, belonging to The Crown. Thus the present King is no longer the Duke of Cornwall. Custodianship of the estate - the Duchy of Cornwall - has been transferred to his son, on whose death it will revert to The Crown. Basically, if you ever become a Duke, you will own nothing and you will be happy - or you will own nothing and you will be Harry.
I'm an American. I lived abroad in Brazil for several years. It amazes me that for all it's size and influence is how misunderstood America is. Frankly I think her thoughts were full of generalizations and stereotypes. There is so much diversity in this country you an spend a lifetime traveling and experiencing it all. People are people the world over. In Brazil there were really nice people and some really unpleasant people. Just like everywhere else.
You'll read people claim that to be the case in the UK and continental Europe as well. My question is whether people who say that are quietly happy to make that claim.
Speaking about the Empire, such as the USA, history (His-story) is written by the Conqueror.. "Slavery, Genocide, Colonialism and Colonization" are all evil things done and benefited by evildoers. 😔🤷 For honest truths, pls read the supremely informative and insightful, multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z9SMN59vsGY.htmlsi=QZ4aX9jmUdrbRoYL , (which by the way, got pushed down below 200 other comments lately).
Speaking about the Empire, such as the USA, history (His-story) is written by the Conqueror.. "Slavery, Genocide, Colonialism and Colonization" are all evil things done and benefited by evildoers. 😔🤷 For honest truths, pls read the supremely informative and insightful, multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle", on RU-vid, (which by the way, got pushed down below 200 other comments lately).
The difference between Americans and British is exactly the same as the difference between Brazilians and Portuguese. We both speak the same language and yet Brazilians often do not understand Portuguese while we understand Brazilian Portuguese. As for cultural differences, they are exactly the same as the differences between Americans and British. In terms of conclusion, Brazilians are like Americans and Portuguese are like the British.
Not entirely true. Brazilians are mostly natives who just happened to speak Portuguese as a lingua franca. Americans are mostly Europeans who speak English as a lingua franca.
I've met quite a few Americans over the years who no longer live in the US and they have all said, that when they go back even just for a holiday they feel that fellow Americans are entitled, obnoxious and have this self centred belief that they are the best in the world. I once asked why did they think Americans behave like this and the answer was; we grow up being told that we're the best and when you're told that every day growing you believe it. One American lad said, there is a belief by many Americans that everyone else in the world wants to be like the US.
But statistically those are the ones that clearly preferred living elsewhere so you would more likely get that response, what if you talked to the ones that choose to live in America? Well, all I know is that there is over a million European immigrants to the USA each year, so far more people coming to the USA than leaving.
I have always lived in the US. Of course, there are obnoxious people, but most people I know are very kind and helpful. I know there are great things about the USA, but bad things too. I've no doubt every country has things to be proud of and things to be sad about. Most people just want a decent life and for their loved ones to be healthy and happy. I want that for everyone, too.
Americans telling her to go back to her own country. Do they know that they stole that land from the First Nations of North America and make them live on land they call reservations. They tried to wipe the indigenous peoples out . WTF
I don't like non-White Americans. I'm from Europe and I just don't like their attitude. The Whites built the US. The other lower races should be more respectful.
@@evancycles Have you looked at the breakdown of those entering the US? Most are coming from less developed countries so of course they want to move. Far fewer come from Europe and Australasia. I’ve lived in Europe, Australia and the Middle East and while I’ve not lived in the US long term I have been travelling there on a regular basis for 30 years. Having visited a dozen States over three decades I think I’ve seen enough of the place to know it would be the bottom of my list of places to live. Why? For the reasons outlined by the OP in this thread and the video. Of course there are some very fine people but the majority really do think they are head and shoulders above the rest of the world when in fact by many metrics they are not. I wouldn’t trade my American friends for anything but I would never be their neighbour.
Sweeping generalizations about America and Americans. I am sure the outdoors is wonderful in Sweden but it's also available in the US to anyone who wants it.
My impression is that decades back the Swedes were very civilised people indeed, and Sweden was a very safe place to live. Then mass immigration happened, and now it has been transformed, with gang-fights in cities, no-go areas too, Stockholm ‘rape capital of the world’ etc. But nobody will admit it, or else it is frowned upon to speak openly about it?
@@Frankabagnale33 you have to live here a few decades to see the schisms and paradoxes in society . most that upload videos about Sweden see the surface of it all .
If she had moved to a different part of the US she would have had a similar experience. I’m from the Midwest and how she described Europe was how I see the us. LA is not typical of the country.
Exactly! She’s one of those Asian immigrant kid brats. Always complaining. Always got something to say. Not realizing her origins or why her family migrated to the states.
I came to US 35 years ago and 4 years later finished my graduate school in Midwest. Then I moved to east cost CT, it took me a couple of years to adjust, feel people are not friendly as in Midwest, 8 years later moved to New Jersey and feel even worse, never really like east coast people.
You probably live in the suburban or urban areas on the East Coast. Try moving further inland/west like Western NY area around Rochester. I have been living around this area in a few places for 35 years and people are generally friendly. East coast urban areas and NJ particularly suck when it comes to friendliness. See where those uncomplimentary labels NJ Boy or Girl come about. Been to the Midwest and I do agree that they are friendly people in general.
So interesting listening to her describing the differences at a personal scale. It actually reflects the policies made at the top levels of each of the country she mentioned. It shows. Hope she's happy wherever she decides to stay
Not so sure I know my Grandad was born in the city and grew up there , I too was born in the city but grew up in Clerkenwell. So not a huge amount of residents but they are there nonetheless. Just saying , oh and another thing this is where proper Cockneys like myself and some others come from . Not from out in the sticks of tower hamlets , glad i got that off me chest 😉
@@lesmartin8131Surprisingly, Bow Bells were not actually in the City of London proper. The Square Mile has an official population of zero, and every road is a Street. Greater London is a whole different proposition.
There is, ‘The City of London’ and then ‘Greater London’. I believe Greater London is like a Ceremonial County… actually, I am not British so it would probably be easier to look it up 😂! I am getting a bit lost with all the terminology. 😊
I have an american friend and what really blew my mind was their upbringing of the belief that they're the only "free" country. It was taught in schools at a very young age, by elders, hollywood etc.
It's the insecurity of a young country. Australians are the same, but with more reasons to believe in their good luck. I've lived and worked in the US. The American Dream is for those who slumber. Wake up and you'll find it's run for and by an unaccountable elite and it always was.
You don't have the freedom to get sick without worrying about going bankrupt and don't have the freedom to leave your house without the fear of getting shot. You can't jaywalk without fear of getting arrested either. It's not free at all. The brainwashing is insane.
Gen X here. My online business did well and I had an excellent team so I started my dream in being nomadic at 2010. I've lived in many countries and started seeing the world from different lenses. It did not take long to realize that the grass was greener on the other side. There's no perfect country but there may be one for you. I realized just how sick the people in america can be. Mental illness (negative, scarcity and fear based mindsets), entitlement, arrogant and ignorant to global affair and foreign culture let alone anything beyond my neighborhood and I found myself reflecting some of these. My travels gave me that mirror and I shifted massively with this newfound awareness. It used to be only 11% of americans held passports. Today, it's 43%.
I’m an American. I’m glad this woman is happy living in her new country. There are Americans who move to other countries & foreigners who move to America. California is not like the rest of the U.S. so all she can talk about is HER experience in California. America is huge & very diverse! I’m sorry she didn’t have good friends in L.A. I’ve lived in the Midwest, the north east & the South & have had great & dependable friends. Americans may seem entitled to people in other countries but customer service is very important to American businesses. Poor customer service can hurt or kill an American business. And a lot of workers care about providing good customer service. I didn’t always hear that America is the greatest country in the world while growing up. My teachers were very critical of the U.S. & I didn’t always agree with them. America is far from perfect but based on things I’ve heard about other countries from Americans who have travelled abroad & from people who come here from other countries, I do think there are many good & positive things about America & Americans. And based on other reasons I do think we are a great country. But I always figured people from other countries thought their countries were great too. Some of the greatest supporters of America that I’ve met are those who move here from other countries.
Brit here. Ive been going to many different parts of the US for decades, for business, tourism and sport. I like the US and have always enjoyed my visits. Nowhere is perfect.
I was born in the south, lived on long island as a child. Came back to virginia every summer to my grans parents where my parents grew up. Finally my parents split up and we moved back to Virginia. My favorite place on earth in between the Blue Ridge Mts. and the Appalachian Mts. And I have been just about everywhere in the US.
@@propertyguru22 I live in KL and I really do not have an answer to this question, I just got used to it after about 3 days, and now It doesn't bother me anymore. Also, the amount of malls with air-conditioning helps!
@@blue2mato312so do Americans have to change and be like everyone else in the world. Why not give Americans the same respect as other countries when I serving their country? Appreciating diversity is important, is it not?
@@danielcavesripfuture9866 Good for you :). I always refer to American English as American. Either way, American English originates back to the early days of the Pilgrim Fathers and beyond who left England to avoid religious persecution back in the late 1600's. What is known as 'The Fall' in the US is an early English expression for what we now call Autumn. New York (originally New Amsterdam), Boston, Plymouth, Washington etc are all named after places in the UK. But hey, shhh, don't tell anyone :)....
I had an American girlfriend many years ago. I visted her in the US and it was fine, it was the US, no biggie for me. But she then came to stay with me in the UK for a while and when she went back it took her ages to adjust. It really messed with her head that maybe America wasn't all that.
There is no typical LA person, except maybe a type portrayed in movies. In the vast populace of coastal So. California exists communities of people with every life style and value in the world. Our only commmonality is high housing costs.
@15:00 Yoooo! This is not America! San Francisco is a gross terrible place. It used to be so awesome back 20+ years ago. But no one wants to live there anymore. America isn’t like San Francisco at all!!! 😅
listening to this I was thinking just go to a different state. Like North Carolina has beaches, the Appalachian trail, a slower life where people will say hello to you on the street. It's a much calmer life and it still has everything you need from shopping, sports, restaurants. Just get out of LA.
She's comparing the various British accents. ... Like America doesn't have different accents. Boston, Texas, Chicago/MidWest, NY/NJ, So Cal, or just Southern.. She reminds me of a girl I knew who moved to Florida from NYC and went on and on how much better Florida is because of the listing all these topics like ease of driving to malls, and restaurants etc.. I said that's because you never left NYC before. The whole country is like that if you have a car. 💩
As a 28 year old Indian working in corporate, i can totally relate to the part where you have mentioned about the nervous breakdown you had due to exploitation in corporates. This is too much in India, Japan, and now i know in US work culture also. I wish the lady my best with her new business.
@@Arltratlo .... pretty much the same in New Zealand. If people looked at me sideways when I left work at 5pm, I would continue to leave the building. My work contract specified my work hours, and I surely didn't want to break it by staying into the evening..... I saw that staying behind thing as butt kissing, and it didn't actually mean that you achieved more.
That's LA. There are plenty of people and places in the USA that are down to earth and people judge you on your character, not what you own, the jewelry you wear, the car you drive, or where you eat.
Not All of England is Like the Home-Counties, or London; and/Or the Major Cities dotted up-North; there R; 'Rouge-Necks' where I'd uses to work!...They assume the entire Universe Should Speak;......English....(And do everything the way they Instruct!) I'd like to see the "Special Forces" in the U.K. Make the Head of State of a Superpower like Xi Jinping utter a Single Syllable of English when he puts his Foot on "Kingie"; Charles III's Head......(Very near and Up and Coming Future!) The Days of Windsor Popularity is certainly over!......Read: "Spare" with the 'Duke of Sussex.' The word "Spare" Certainly Applies to all the Upper-Crusts in the U.K. It's all that Inbreeding.....(Not too conducive to High-IQs and Balanced Mental Health.....) Remember the:- Russian Romanov and the Blight of Hemophilia in their Bloodline.....Not too Cool is it! The Onus and Center of the World in Shifting away from the West and China is definitely claiming the Seat of MARS; once again! See Architecture like the following:- Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort. Harbin Opera House www.archdaily.com/778933/harbin-opera-house-mad-architects And we haven't even reached the End of the 01St Quarter of the 21St Century! Can we Talk;.....................R we still Friendnemies......... @@conniepr
Exactly. It was quickly apparent that when she lived in LA, she never traveled in the rest of the United States. Even California has plenty of 'rustic' places to go - like the multiple world famous National Parks that are within a days drive.
I visited the US in 2013. One of the last places on earth, that i would like to live.The trouble with those less pretentious places is that the WHOLE country is brainwashed and they just dont realise it-Sad
Very true: people DO judge you on your character . . . You have to be COOL; you have to think cool, act cool, behave cool, talk cool, exude coolness. This can take on different forms. You can be sophisticated, intellectual, philosophical; and, or witty, a smart-aleck, wiseguy, gossiping and telling and laughing at off-the-wall-jokes and stories; and, or being tough and macho, swearing every other sentence, and really getting into sports and s___. And then there are the karens/darrens, Rednecks, Baptists, Hustlers . . . Only then will others be your friend. If you're just nice and friendly, you will be looked down upon as a childish, immature, naive, a nerd, a wimp. At worst people will bully, cheat, swindle, rip you off, and walk over you. At best, they'll simply ignore and shun you.
Work to live, not live to work, that's the European way. Here in the UK you have to take your leave, in the US, it seems you're encouraged not to take it, which causes burn out and stress and medical bills which cause more stress
As a Brit working in the US for a while I was appalled at the lack of holidays and the expectation that I would work overtime for free, but met some great people and had no real problems understanding difference as we've had a fantastic music and cultural back and forth over the years. I did start saying aloominum and tommaytoes as people were confused in those days about brit talk. When I got back to UK after some years my previous work buddies thought it was hilarious that i used terms like 'parking lot' and other simple stuff. Live and learn! :-)
@@panchopistola8298 We have British Citizenship which qualifies people for a British Passport, we are not subjects as you seem to think. 4 weeks off is pretty crappy, most Brits get 30 to 35 days off, plus 10 bank holidays and a Christmas break too. Average working week is also only 37.5 hours, plus we dont have to pledge allegiance to some bloody flag every day like your school children.
@@panchopistola8298Just before I retired I was getting six weeks annual leave plus 9 public holidays - and BTW the monarch has ZERO executive power - we're UK citizens (our passports say so) and like you (you got the system from us) we have a democratically elected, two chamber government.
She is conflating the US with LA. I know she mentioned that she grew up there but she keeps saying "The US" and then describes LA. LA is a unique place, some people there are obnoxious like she's describing. Most Americans are not like them. The way she speaks of America sounds very ungrateful. She's having fun traveling Europe during times of peace and seems to have forgotten who insures that peace. The US absolutely carries NATO financially and militarily. Regarding her disdain for American patriotism, it's disappointing but not surprising given the fact she was raised in LA. She has a skewed perception. It's good to love America and say it. We Americans should be patriotic. She's taken an amazing life for granted and won't understand that unless she has a revelation or until times of peace have been taken away and we don't have the protection with which our country has blessed us and the world. Oh, and she hates the second amendment. Like I said - times of peace. If the government becomes too tyrannical in European countries their citizens cannot protect themselves. And she complains that Americans will not follow through on plans to hang out like Europeans but then goes on to say that in Europe you have to pull teeth to get any business done because the people there are so unreliable. This woman is neurotically liberal. Either way I wish her the best. Terrible take though.
LA and NYC aren't traditional America, you won't even find that many Americans there anymore, they're like London. Those places are full of people living there on visas and many living there illegally. So, of course you won't get an American experience in those places. I don't know how she didn't experience diverse cultures in those cities as you can go down each street and see different shops with products from those nations and speak different languages on each street. You take a train with people from every country in the world and hear hundreds of languages being spoken. There isn't another place as diverse as New York City. The US has forests to, you don't have to go across the world to find a forest, in fact, we have places where nobody lives and you can stay out there as long as you want or as long as your survival skills allow.
She said the most important thing at the end, "I'm happy" because she's not having to work 18 hours a day and feels safer. I visit London a lot and I always find it clean and well cared for. All big cities can have problems, but I feel safe in London and it has a great vibe. She has done well to set up her salon in Fitzrovia which is a good area. Asian people will feel very at home in London - it's very culturally diverse and Asian people are very polite which British people really love.
Many Parisian French in their 20s or early 30s love London over Paris. As a Brit it is great to have the input we have gained from the former Empire, now Commonwealth of Equals. The UK has benefitted greatly from immigration BUT the current Mass Illegal Immigration is not welcome. Without "Immigrants" 70% of UK Universities would CLOSE!
I went to live and work in USA for few years. I noted that in US people have an erroneous belief that they are the greatest country and society in the world. Explaining to them was not easy but bring them to realize that other countries and esp Europe is not only much more advanced , civil and beautiful than US was an interesting exercise. Materialism to the exclusion of all else is the hallmark of America and this goes with superficial loud and brash attitudes and less sympathetic to those who could not keep pace .
I wish here as a Brit that we would adopt more of the American spirit of patriotism. It is truly wonderful to behold, to have a country that values its rich history rather than constantly devaluing it.
They are forced to be 17:47 patriotic to stop them rising up again like the confederate soldiers did . It’s only the flag and the anthem holding them together. The kids in school have to swear allegiance every day. The Americans don’t like each other. They are so divided and it’s getting worse. One percent of the people have 90 percent of the wealth. They are called billionaires. Similar to the Oligarchs in Russia. They have brainwashed the masses to believe that socialism is evil too hold on to their wealth. It’s really sad . They are brainwashed to believe that they are living in best country in the world. Most of them are really uneducated.
I moved to the US in 2012 from the UK. I'd advise people against it, it's not a great country and it's a bad mentality as well prices being ridiculously expensive for a worst or more antiquated service than in Europe. A simple example is for internet access I have to have a business account in the US to use a VPN for work so $250+ a month for a service that has less features and is less reliable, in comparison to paying £28 a month in the UK for a more feature rich service that's more reliable. Same applies to other services. If it was a choice I'd move back to the UK.
Totally. At home we would pay around $80 a month for a cellphone plan for 1 month. Same plan overseas costs us $18 a month. Don't even get me started on internet.
I'm amazed that anyone, much less a POC, could grow up in the U S. and think it's the greatest country in the world. They would have to be completely sequestered from reality.
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Depends where the POC comes from and I will blow your mind now: PIC are coddled. As are White women. It's only White men and new migrants who live in the real world there
I was taught by a Portuguese engineer in the northern English city of Newcastle. When he first moved over, he "thought" he had basic English but he couldn't understand what anyone was saying to him because Geordies have a thick accent. After about a month of learning by doing he still couldn't speak to Geordies but he'd picked up the Geordie accent so when he called his mother she couldn't understand him either lol. For about 8 months no one understood a word he said regardless of language. Eventually, he learned Geordie English and his mother learned how to translate Portuguese Geordie.
Then leave ? Or find a new town, America is a giant country with many ways one can choose to live. There are more than 350 million people, if you think they are all the same you are the shallow one.
Yes. The people are very fake. I spent most of my life with Americans. No they are not all the same, but yes the majority don't really care about you despite using a lot of flattery.
very nice lady 🙂 I've lived in US for 13 years now (in Miami, Seattle, Portland) and Vancouver (Canada) She should not blame herself so much for not being a good friend in early 20-s, because it's the way labor market is set up in US, people are employed and being fired "at will" in one day, there are almost no unions here, it's a money-centered country and society, that's why it was so successful in capitalism, that's why there are so many great companies and startups were build over here - because money and success are #1 value, not people, people in Europe make less money at the same jobs but they are protected better (that's why there are so many homeless and mentally ill people in US and not so many in Europe). So it's a choice - want to make more money and build a great career - go to US, but it comes with sacrifices... And a note about LA people (the same goes for NY, Miami people) - yes, she is right, but majority of population in other parts of US are very simple-dressed, care a lot about family time and nature - because what else you can do in boring suburban USA?😅 Europe is definitely so much better at social life, medical care, easy, quick and cheap travel to many countries around, great beautiful centers of the cities, where you can walk, socialize, without stepping over needles and looking over shoulder because you not feeling safe... not mentioning gun violence, Pharma lobby... Americans deserve better government I think, it's not doing good lately...
American system is based on the natural laws of survival. It is all on yourself and for yourself...Forget about the social safet network... Survival o the fittest.
The US does worse than Western Europe not only on soft measures like happiness and well-being, but also on hard outcomes like murder rate, life expectancy and even maternal and infant mortality. These are not the diseases of affluence. It's because the US is so polarised. There are more very rich and also more very poor people. The rich act as if they believe they NEED to have a high level of poverty, which they disguise by blaming the poor for their fate. The newspapers make us THINK that London and the UK as a whole have high levels of knife violence, but the figures show that more Americans are killed with knives. It's just overshadowed by the greater number of shooting deaths. There are more motor vehicle accidents and deaths on the roads too.
@@bullwinkle60 They'd almost certainly be treated better. Over here, most people are less self-centred, and a bit more focused on social co-responsibility. Maybe in the American Bible the bit about "thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself" is optional.
I'm from France, I've been in the US for 35 years, I don't know anybody who had plastic surgery and most Americans I know are very relaxed and I'm on the East Coast. Oh yeah, the Swedes are so friendly and outgoing, right!
I'm Australian, there is a whole world out there but America is an amazing country that has set the standard for the rest of the world. Without America, or freedom and standard of living would be much lower. It is the greatest country in the world, whether is the best country, that's a matter of Personal taste but the world is a much better place for America's existence.
@@peterd.4611 I've been to 2 of those countries. They are hell holes that treat women like animals and cut off the heads of gay people. They are terrible countries. You do not have a clue.
@@stuartcollins82 no I’m being deadly serious the more north of Watford you go the IQ lowers. It doesn’t normalise again until you hit Scotland, which has much better education.
It was somewhat cringy to listen to her LA perspective description of Americans. The people not to talk to about what Americans are like are the big city Americans like NY, LA, Chicago, SF. The majority of people do not live in these places and they are not at all like the rest of the country. The rest of the country has different values, ways and the experience in these other places is so much different. We don’t have rampant drug use, stranding people on the streets, we don’t have the crime, poverty, fakeness, and rude behaviors. Worst of all it’s the citizens of these cities that are wrecking them by routinely electing leaders that do not perform or do idiotic things such as passing laws the allow theft or immediately release criminals to repeat their crimes.
I’m going to say what many have said. Her experience in LA is not most of the US. I couldn’t relate to what she was saying about loving in the US at all and I’m in the US. It’s a huge country. Also I’ve spent time in the Uk and never had a problem understanding anyone so far.
There is no perfect country in the world, it is about your perception. Every country has good and bad. I have been traveling to 54 countries and 47 States, every time I came back from other countries , I appreciate more about living in USA especially the conveniences, the friendliness, the number one is the customer service!
every time i left the USA, i took a deep breath and been happy i survived again... i dont have the same feeling after leaving every other country i went! i got only 8 states and 32 countries under my belt! but i barley travel!
hahaha your silly gun culture, your lack of free universal healthcare and education, you spend $700 billion a year on stupid wars all over the world, your $30 trillion in debt your current politics is a joke bla bla bla US is one of the worst countries in the developed world lol
As a South African, we also tip in the service industries, but we aren't arrogant and berate service industry workers if their service is bad. We just won't go to that place again...passive aggressive LOL
Most of us aren't arrogant and don't berate service workers here, either. You only hear about them because it's so out of the ordinary. Being normal is not news worthy.
Belgium: we are allowed to have guns. In most of EU including Sweden; various guns are "Allowed with permit" Reasons vary. Example: Belgium: 11.6 million people. 850,000 guns officially owned. 1,3 million minimum unregistered guns owned by population.
My Chinese wife and I - I am Caucasian American male - celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary. We met in 1973 in an American university. We just witnessed our oldest granddaughter graduate high school. A lovely evening. Living in the United States, little by little, I have tried to bring up the subject of the United States, that it has its problems, and it is not the overall best culture. This always upsets my wife. I drop the subject. She has this faith in the United States, which I have noticed many Asians have. However, saying this, I also realize the United States has plenty of good. I agree with the young Asian lady, mostly. (I say young. I myself am 76.) I have no doubt she can resude in European countries of delightful cultures and people. Yet as this young lady lives and experiences, she may find that no country on earth is anywhere near perfection. But in many, perhaps most countries, we can find good. Look for the good and you can eventually find good. If she likes where she is at, stay, enjoy, look for the good, with one eye wary of what bad may threaten, be wise.
You are very right about your points made but I would like to point out that she never bashed the US and just got interviewed about her experience in those new countries and to give a small comparison. A lot of US people commenting feels like defending sth that does not need to be defended, there were no accusations in this interview.
I'm English, live in Scotland, lived and worked in France for a decade, moved to CA for another decade. In the US, people did ask me something on the lines if 'How does it feel to be here?' Well, Californians are a bit like the French. They think they are the centre of the world. The point is, the French are right. Which confused people. (Edinburgh isn't bad, either)
Yes, but California is just ONE of 50…I would NEVER live in LA for exactly what she described…but she hasn’t even seen how different other states are….
I like her honesty. Appreciation for moving from US to Sweden then to our lovely city (to some degree 😂) London, and comparing versus living in LA and San Fran etc. London is a big city, and yes there is crime in any city and we are not immune naturally. Knife crime is a huge issue, and this is still an ongoing issue that needs to be dealt with. Unlike the US, where gun crime is a HUGE problem, and it’s easy to feel unsafe due to this🙁. When you feel you don’t belong somewhere anymore, you move. I’m born and raised in London, family is from the Caribbean. However, having travelled now 5X times to Kuala Lumpur (recently spent more 3x), I feel so at home there than here in London now. I hope to make that leap over to Malaysia, as I don’t feel like U.K. is home for me anymore. London will always be home, but the feeling is no longer the same as it was. The govt has screwed us over royally, and it’s not the people in this city or country that makes me dislike it, it’s just political part that does.
Is the illegal immigration a part of what you feel the government has done to screw its people over? It seems like the government isn’t putting its people first. I could be wrong! I am just curious as I love British history, and it would be interesting to hear from an actual Brits perspective as opposed to the news. I hope your dream to live in Malaysia comes true! Sounds lovely.
Nothing wrong with feeling national pride anywhere. I don't know what school here in the U.S. she is referring to, she makes it sound like they were feeding her propaganda in the form that everywhere else sucks but America is wonderful, I don't know. I've traveled extensively around the world with shipmates and solo and the feeling was mutual for all of us in that we missed home and practically fell to our knees to kiss the ground. I've seen and met a lot of wonderful people and many countries and I'm richer for it. The U.S. is a young country that is the world's greatest social experiment still in development.
I suspect a trip out of Central London to [insert your choice of UK turd towns HERE] would accomplish that, without sending her carbon footprint through the roof!
I used to love visiting the U.S. but it’s changed so much in recent years and not for the better. I’m a city person and made multiple visits to NYC but after my last visit I won’t be going back, homeless, litter etc had increased substantially, the sense of vibrancy and energy declined, iconic places gone, tacky tourist places increased, giant corporate image almost taken over the whole city. Not for me anymore.
Yes, one large state in a pool of 50, is hardly knowing America. You couldn't fully know CA living there your entire life, it's a large state itself with many different types of people and places.
I have traveled all over the world to fantastic countries and enjoyed myself immensely. The USA is also a fantastic country, and it also has a lot of problems, but then so does every other country. The greatest thing about Americans is the quality and strength of their character. With 350 million people, you will also find some monsters. I do not feel a great need to compare countries. I just enjoy them.
I have lived in several countries outside of the USA. It made me appreciate the USA a lot more. It's more chaotic, competitive and cruel, but there is no country as innovative or productive.
@@Artist1974CH China's a lot of things, but innovative is not one of them. The USA leads the world in technological and scientific innovation by a large margin. China just copies.
China has become the leader in innovation in most fields and no country is as productive. One visit will shock westerners how modern and advanced it is.
Being in a productive and innovative country is not much use if you have no access to healthcare, welfare, stuck in a menial job with no way out. Imagine how much talent is lost in the chaos.
i am American. I grew up up in Santa Monica, California. I have also lived in Japan and Belgium. Now I live in Missouri. What you experienced in Los Angeles is not what its like in other places of the USA. I prefer Missouri to California, and I now know that LA is NOT the USA even though people in LA think of themselves as superior to everywhere else in the USA. When I travelled thru Asia and Europe I did my best to conform to local customs. I speak 3 languages, English, Spanish and French, and they appreciated in Wallonia, Belgium and France that I could speak their language, and I never had a bad experience. I didn't have to learn Flemish Dutch or any Scandinavian languages, because in those places they all spoke English as well as me. As for patriotism, remember this absolute fact: The American taxpayer is protecting the Pacific and Europe from "Near Peer Threats," We don't ask for thanks, but it would be nice. The Belgians love America.... even more than some Americans love America. The USA saved the Belgians from hunger and famine during WWI and sacrificed to defeat Hitler during WWII.
To a degree the role of the leviathan is important as a peacekeeping force. However, the US creates a lot of war in the world. Much of the current situation in Ukraine is due to the US, for example.
@@txdmsk oh.... and the Russians had nothing to do with that? What we could do is withdraw all American forces and see what the PRC, N Korea, Russia, and Iran do in response.... to validate if the US creates... or stops.... war in the world. Do you think we would then be a better, more peaceful world free of tyrants? That being said, I'm not an advocate for the USA spending $ billions in US taxpayer money to prop up a corrupt Ukrainian regime because of the Biden family's corrupt relationship with Ukraine.
@@txdmsk How so? Russia was always going to try and rebuild the Soviet Union, and they're going to do it by force. Back when the Soviet Union was formed, the US wasn't even involved in international affairs.
People are quick to forget the good deeds you do for them, this is the reason we shouldn't do good deeds for anyone. We need to go back to isolationism, and if these people want to leave, then that's great. California itself is a different country, the only State you need to enter through a checkpoint.
@@mattycakes1161 I don't know if Russia trying to rebuild the SU was or is a given. The current war with Ukraine was heavily influenced by the US trying to establish their puppet government multiple times in Ukraine. The US's expansion of NATO eastwards. The US's foreign policy towards Russia, and so on.
No- this lady is not lovely. She is a grown-up and being part of something - that is the least on her mind She is the typical "freeloader" living on her family and "best friends".
She was in an industry in a part of Los Angeles that is 80% of people that migrated from everywhere else in the world that’s not the real LA. California is 4 times the size of England so many other places within and outside of Los Angeles. She’s another example of someone that got chewed up and spit out by the demand of La so she was looking for a contrast not a better option in general just a better option for her.
I'm British and have lived and travelled in both countries. The US may have faults but it is STILL the Greatest in most respects.. !! The US is a continent NOT a little country you can travel through in 6 hours.?!?
Theres more people live in the uk than canada and australia COMBINED (canada is larger than the usa landwise)California isnt 4 the size of england,theres far more people,towns and cities in the uk...It isnt an empty field. (theres more world heritage sites in the uk then the whole n american continant by the way)
I love my country, but certainly believe that there are other countries I might love more, especially if I were raised there. This view is only reinforced the more I travel. The US has it's bad points, and I prefer to think that pointing them out should be viewed as an opportunity to think constructively about how to improve.
I saw a recent study that looked at American and British accents over the last few years, especially over the pandemic. They found that because people were stuck at home watching so much RU-vid, our accents had begun to merge and American parents were noticing their kids pronouncing words the way British people do, and vice versa. I'm 41, as a kid before social media became a thing, the America accent was so different, now it's just the same as a slightly different regional accent.
I had no idea this kind of America from which she has happily escaped existed except as a side note in a B movie. If you "hang out" with spoiled, entitled people I guess that's what you know. I never have and I'm perfectly happy living in America. Is it the best place in the world? I have no idea, but I do know that in America, if you want to live in a good place for you it's not that hard to find here. There is no "one" America, there's thousands.
Not many people who have grown up in the US have experienced other cultures but those who do, generally see some real advantages about living elsewhere. The US is in steep decline but few Americans know there are options once they are trapped in the credit system and really have no more options. It is a very divided country where anyone suspecting that another person is not believing identically as they do, is suddenly the enemy. It is very polarized with at least a 1000 factions where every one of them hates the other 999. When in public one has to self censor every world to reduce the rich of angering them until you find out what faction they believe in and the stranger aligns speech to agree with them. Americans live under incredible stress with debt and fear of crashing if someone in the family gets sick or a job is lost so everything can crash when so few have savings and so many services that are free elsewhere is very expensive in the US. It is very difficult now to start a family unless wealthy where as before about 1970 is was a normal and doable goal. The median price for a normal delivery of a baby now with a single stay in the hospital is $40,000 for a natural process. Doctors until recently when there was a lot of backlash prices increase to compensate for a doctor not being able to schedule 10-15 deliveries a day by insisting on turning a normal delivery into a caesarian section. But in every where, services that are free in other countries are debt items in the US. Any type of medication is 10 to 1000 times more expensive than anywhere else in the world. Very few countries do not have universal health care except the US. Education is extremely expensive and burdens the student with decades of debt that reduces marriage rates so birth rates in intact 2 adult couples is lower than almost any other country since housing, needing a car for each adult due to almost no public transportation, and the average number of bills a couple will have every month even with a very modest life style averages around 100 3-7 times more than any other developed country. The lack of culture is something no one can deny, is a problem making life in the US less rewarding. One in 10,000 Americans have ever seen a real opera or Ballet performance which are only for wealthy since two tickets can easily cost $1600 for a mid-grade performance and where moved to, every night I have a choice between many options for less than $20 with better cast, sets, orchestra and theater. Ask anyone who lived outside the US for a while for the difference. They were safer, lived better on far less, had governments that did not constantly lie to them, had little or no debt, better food quality, free or very low cost medical and dental care, had access to safe streets, parks and low cost of housing, and with few exceptions if living in a city has excellent low cost public transportation. I have spent time in 92 countries and have only visited my native USA(California) 5 times for 1-2 weeks each and have been shocked by the rapid decline in civil conversation, safety, economic security, and explosion of crime and homelessness..People are angry and divided. It is not like that elsewhere.
@@stanspb763 I agree with you that America is unkind to the young and it is unfortunate that the problems you have enumerated are not a priority in the minds of those who could do something about them, but for most people living in the US, running away to the "verdant pastures of idyllic Europe" is not an option .But if you think about those people who could initiate changes in housing and healthcare and economic opportunity, I think that you'll find that the very ones who seem to most cherish the very political divides according to perceived social needs over practical survival needs, you'll find that there is a clear path to survival. Educate the political leadership and the pampered wealthy into understanding that things need to change and they are the sole reason things don't change. But you can't do this if you run away. If both sides would stop worrying about pronouns over making life for everyone more livable then maybe politicians could do some good for a change, but you runaways don't seem to care about the problems as long as you don't have to do anything about them.
A perfect way to show the difference. If I move to one of these places in America where all the neighbours come to welcome you. There's no where to go but down. If you don't talk to some but become friend with others. = friction The UK, if I move in to a new place, the neighbours don't go out of their way to get to know you, so the only way is up and no friction with thise you don't get to know so well
I’m a Brit in England. Many years ago an American tourist came up to me in Knightsbridge and he said “Where’s the closest subway, boy?” So I sent him to one over a mile away when he was less than two hundred yards away from the Knightsbridge Tube Station.
"If you are not putting people first, if you are not committed to common prosperity, if you are not helping others develop, but rather exploiting others, your system is based on exploitation, slavery , oppression ... then can we call USA democratic?" Josef Gregory Mahoney, professor of Politics and International Relations
You said that in English or American, www British invention also so was mass production, devision of labour, the television, and the whole Industrial Revolution. So no it was not just the USA
@@reebud Not ignorance or arrogance, just a fact. The iOS or android platform that you are using right now is American buddy. Wake up!!! Your daily life routinely depends on USA creation and invention. The only Superpower that exists, Period!!!!
I will say I was surprised traveling in England/Scotland and discovering that their customer service was so poor compared to how it tends to be in America. They really didn’t seem to care that you were going to spend money in their shops and they just wanted you to hurry up and get out so they could leave their shop at closing or before if possible. Restaurants weren’t as bad as the stores. Several bakeries seemed to be annoyed if you took longer than 15 seconds to order items. Which I get, but it was very jarring at first.
Went to the US and had poor customer service most of the time. Hotel and Shops mainly. Like arriving at a hotel and nobody to serve us for 15mins and no apology. Going to an adidas store 15mins before closing and they had to unlock the door and the woman moaned they were closing. Just found it to be very impersonal and rude people and I’ve travelled to 50+ countries in my life.
Much of the customer service comes across as insincere niceties when I visit America, like they are only being pleasant out of desperation for a larger tip. Seems forced, plastic.
How do us Brits regard our cousins? My grandmother, a nurse, knew GIs in two world wars ... "Oversexed, overpaid and over here"!!. Reginald D Hunter scored a hit for the New World with his observation "You British drink like us Americans eat"!! Funny the Scottish accent got a mention. Rab.C.Nesbitt is one of the greatest comedy programmes ever .... even if most English need subtitles!! Two nations, separated by a common language"
@@wulfsorenson8859And it’s fricken sad for this yank to see. I don’t want to see Scotland or Britain as a whole, lose its heritage and unique and magical history and culture and traditions.
I see that the interviewer mentioned stabbing in London, I guess that these have made international news, but on the other hand the vast number of stabbing incidents are not random, they are mostly gang or drug related. It is incredibly unlikely that a normal everyday person would be attacked or even hurt, unlike in the US where shootings are often random in cinemas, clubs, churches, supermarkets or even and often schools, for goodness’s sake etc. You are much less likely to be caught up in such random acts of violence in London as an exam moderator, checking school project marking to help and advise teachers on their marking levels, I used to travel to London areas such as Greenwich, Brixton and Whitechapel areas which have a bad reputation, but I interacted with the local teens on the street during lunch breaks, telling the odd slightly rude jokes and treating them with the respect they deserve, and I could walk among them and the locals without feeling any fear or animosity. The same goes for when I travel to another poor reputational city such as Birmingham, I love it. I have rarely in my felt fear walking alone day or night.
Well, I heard a Red Flag early on in her story. Her American experience centered around Los Angeles. Problem #1. Problem #2, she didn't know how to get out and touch grass outside of her comfort zone in the urban wasteland of Los Angeles. Problem #3 not minding the poor customer service in Europe. I've heard complaints from UK RU-vidrs that it takes forever to get anything from your waiter. And the wait staff seem like they don't wanna be there. This is what happens when there's no Tip Culture. Many American servers not only live on, but live for getti g those big tips, and it makes them work for it, which gives a win-win situation dor both the server and the customer. Problem #4...Americans are loud. Um, yeah, because we are taught from an early age that if you wanna be heard, both literally and figuratively, you gotta speak up. No one cares about a soft talker. That's why if I were ever confronted by a soft talking UK police officer, I'd laugh in their face. No one should take those wussies seriously.
In spite of the internet we are all clueless about one another. It has certainly bridged the gap between different cultures but you really don't have a clue until you've lived abroad.
Like Silbi I am an American who's moved abroad. For me it was when I was 35 at the end of the 1990s with a move to Asia with the idea to spend two years there and then move home but that move never happened and I don't think it ever will. Since then I have spent the majority of my life in Asia with a couple of years in the UK. At the moment I am here in London but I will return to Asia at the end of this month. Listening to Silbi speak it reminds me of my own experiences. Now going on 27 years abroad I can not imagine ever living in the US ever again.
I visited San Francisco in 1968. As a British citizen I was looking forward to experiencing the hippy culture and meeting all the happy people. WOW!! What a shock it was. All the young people were hopeless heroin addicts and the girls were dancing naked in bars to feed their addiction. There was nothing erotic about watching this wretched entertainment! I then discovered that Frisco had the largest ghetto in the world, eclypsing even the ghettos of Brazil. There is nowhere in Europe that can match the miserable conditions that Americans live in. Greatest country in the world, my ass!!
I am pretty sure there are lots of families in CA that have family values and morals. CA is far from lost, still has the largest GDP in the nation. Why is it expensive because supply and demand, despite what you hear on FOX news, there are a lot of people who want to live in CA.
The standard view of America as the greatest country in the world only comes from entitled people who live relatively well (top 20% of the population). They're relatively insulated from the negative aspects of America. Isn't ignorance bliss? But for the bottom 80%, life isn't so great. About 60% of Americans have difficulty making ends meet; they can't afford a $400 emergency expense. Many of them have to work multiple jobs. Millions of Americans can't afford health insurance. Their health care suffers as a consequence. Life expectancy in America is declining. Upwards of half a million Americans are homeless. Education is declining. Poverty is growing. Economic disparity is widening. Gun violence is out of control. On average, there is one mass shooting in America _every day of the year!_ Infrastructure is crumbling. Is all this worthy of the greatest country in the world? US politics is deeply polarized. Congress is gridlocked. The corporate capitalist elite virtually rule the country. Democracy is effectively dead. Free speech is dying. You can get "cancelled" for speaking out against Ukraine and Israel. Is this worthy of the greatest country in the world?
In the free speech part, you exposed yourself as s liberal bedwetter. Let's be honest you will be cancelled for talking about Blacks or transsexuals. Not Ukraine or Israel.
Also the 'mass shooting part'. Forget that abusable term and look at murder rates. Is there a specific demographic with notably higher murder rates than other groups?
You are wrong on that one for sure. 80 million American homes have guns for home defence, that is for protection against their own countrymen. Why?: because 10,000 plus get murdered with guns (knife murders are also significantly worse than in the UK too as are all other murders). 1200 plus Americans get shot dead by the police every year. Even their roads are dramatically more dangerous than the UKs. The suicide rate is much worse than the UKs. Race relations are much worse. Life expectancy is worse in the country with the most advanced medical capability in the world. Homelessness is much worse. The prison population is at least 5 times per capita larger than the UK. Hardly a relax and caring society.
If Americans say they are greatest country in the world, it is usually in the context of the opportunity to do what you want, if you are willing to work hard enough. They usually don't mean the people, but the fact it is a Constutional Democratic Republic, and under a free market system more people succeed here that anywhere else. This is true, but doesn't mean everyone does, or that it's perfect. Freedom of religion or belief is also protected for every individual. That doesn't mean you can't get killed here by psychopaths or criminals, or even nature. It's a big place with plenty of danger if you don't educate yourself. It's about freedom and actually living, not just existing.
0:56 Typical of the *_traveler's blues_* : one assimilates traits of other cultures and can *no longer fit* into one's culture of origin, which is sometimes *psychologically very difficult* , especially if one comes across people steeped in certainty. *There is no coming back* to culturally limited environment.
