I wish somebody had mentioned that in the US most people drink coffee. So our version of a kettle would probably be a coffee maker, which boils the water. Yes, we Americans drink tea, but not near as much as coffee.
the flags everywhere part is only a thing some people do religiously. its not even half of the people in the USA. some people think their patriotism is shown by absurdly wearing it, even though they arent always the best people in terms of neighbors or community.
@@thkempe what I mean is how can you steal more if the bathroom is sealed? In some airport some jackass will always put some valuables on the ground while relieving themselves. You can steal all the toilet paper from a bathroom easily no matter how you construct them
@@Censeo they meant stealing from the store. It's common for people to go into the bathroom and open up packaging, take the item out and put it in their pockets. If you can easily see inside a stall someone might be less inclined to steal that way.
I don't think a lot of countries make pupils pledge allegiance to their flag/country. China does, and there was a time in Germany when they did that. I'll let you guess when that was.
As an american who went to primary school in New Zealand for a bit, I really enjoyed singing the national anthem every monday during the weekly assemblies. I was surprised we didn't do that in the US, considering how much we say the pledge of allegience. As for the date format, this is mostly speculation but I believe in british english they call it THE 8th OF September (for example, THE day OF month), where as americans shortened it to September 8th.. we cut out the extra words. I know this was very popular in letters and dates on important papers. So shorthand writing became commonplace.
4:50 I think most of the world used Fahrenheit until they started metrification? I’m guessing. What I do know is that the English speaking countries converted to Celsius in the 60s at their own rates. For example, I know that Canada converted to centigrade from Fahrenheit in 1968, and the metric system was officially adopted in 1972
The Pledge of Allegiance is deeply ingrained in the American psyche as is putting your hand over your heart during the national anthem, so much so that many Americans just do it out of instinct when the national anthem plays. The pledge was adopted after the Civil War, I think, and the national anthem is a patriotic song adopted during the Great Depression that refers way back to the British war (Part 2 ;-) in 1812 against Britain's former American colonies, and now it's just a common thing Americans do without really knowing why. It's certainly not anything like that "German thing" of the 1930s or like China's enforced Communist pledge, as Americans do it voluntarily and some don't at all or even kneel in protest to America's policies.
Yes and some states even have their own pledge as well like Texas, u honor the pledge of alligence first than u follow it up by the states pledge every morning since pre k till senior and college too.
In Brazil we also had to do the Pledge of Allegiance before going to our classroom, i don't know if that's the name also in Brazil but we used to sing our brazilian anthem everyday as we got in the school. Also some bathrooms here have that gap between the floor and the door, but it's not that severe as well. But i still feel myself uncomfortable in using them... Even me being a man.
I will say in the states (I live in Florida)...Im 22 now but when I was in school (K-8th Grade) everyone said the pledge but then in high school (9-12) I noticed practically everyone no longer saying the pledge rather just remain quiet and stand... but then more and more people begin remaining seated too and practically no one stood for the flag anymore which I always found in my head shocking but honestly really didn't doubt it happening.... my younger sister (now in 11th) tells me no one does the pledge anymore and matter of fact some people continue there conversation and ignore the pledge... its basically falling apart in schools right before our very eyes.
The kids starting to drive at like 13-14 aren't necessarily illegal as in some states they can get a permit that allows them to drive within a certain area for farm work
On the date format, its quite simple. In North American English, when you say a full date, you would say "June 22nd 2024". Thus "mm-dd-yyyy" is the format equivalent. When you talk about a future date thats in the same year, many people will say "The meeting is on the 9th of September". Latin based languages always give the date of the month, then the month.
Canada mixes its units of measurements. Officially, its metric - temperature in Celcius, distance in kilometers, gas in litres. Many people, however, will measure their own weight in pounds, will measure room dimensions in feet and inches, the entire building trade is in imperial units, and we commonly use SAE tools (1/2", 5/8", 1/4", etc) along with metric tools. In school, you are taught strictly in metric, unless you are in the trades, in which case, measurements, tooling, and standard materials sizing is imperial. Americans get thrown off when getting gas in Canada. I tell them just multiply the price by 4 and thats the price per gallon. I then have to assure them "yes, we pay that much for gas"!
The best of both worlds is a toilet cubicle wall going to the floor and a small gap a the for passing emergency supplies. Those exist in the UK and are the best.
The American girl is very young. Plenty of us have tea kettles. And nearly everyone had them before microwaves. I'm in the American South and we don't normally drink hot tea. We drink iced tea. We make that by the gallon. For that, we do use a pot.
1:43 in Canada, the Canadian flag, is only in every classroom of a public school (JK-Grade 8) or elementary school (JK-5) or a Senior Elementary School (6-8 usually) But in high school/secondary school only in the gym. But not even that is consistent. Of course, like most countries you will see the flagpole outside of the school, sometimes with the territorial/provincial flag next to the national flag 2:09 but in any school *_O Canada_* will play over the PA system before announcements, and then class starts. Usually little kindergartners will sing. It may be because their teachers told them to, but some people don’t. Otherwise you are supposed to remain silent and still if you’re in the hallways. Unless you want to sing the hymn. People *_might_* look at you Funny if you put your hand over your heart, unless it’s a staff member they wouldn’t care about that. Or there are a lot of patriotic kids in this school. Between Junior kindergarten and grade 8, you would face the flag, but you wouldn’t put your palm on your chest. No one would’ve told you to do that. No one is stopping you, but.. no one is thinking it
In Quebec, it's another story though. Classes don't have the flag but there's that one class in my former high school that had a Kim Jong-un ad hanging there? I think that was in a geopolitics class. It was weird. Although the flag pole is everywhere and I'm not even kidding
I will say in the states (I live in Florida)...Im 22 now but when I was in school (JK-8th Grade) everyone said the anthem but then in high school (9-12) I noticed everyone no longer say the pledge rather just remain quiet and stand... but then more and more people begin remaining seated too and practically no one stood for the flag anymore which I always found in my head shocking but honestly really wouldn't doubt it happening.... my younger sister (now in 11th) tells me no one does the pledge anymore and matter of fact some people continue there conversation and ignore the pledge... its basically falling apart in schools right before our very eyes.
5:14 Hey! Briton Girl! Are you not gonna mention how your road signs are in imperial?! or how your petrol stations sell fuel by the liter, but measure fuel economy by mpg?
Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem is really only in Elementary School. Some schools will also have a "Pledge of Respect" or something similar which is just for that specific school. Not all schools have one. But it's pretty much just in Elementary School. By middle school, I don't think we did it anymore, and it's certainly not in most high schools or colleges, if any.
9:02 yeah in Canada even if you’re not a big tea drinker you still have a kettle. I hate tea. I also hate coffee but I still use an electric kettle for making hot water for my hot chocolate. In my experience, I haven’t encountered an American home without a cuddle sure, they may not use it, but it’s somewhere there. And no, unless you some dumh child/teenager you will never use microwave for this purpose. Not even instant noodles. You can use the kettle, but you wouldn’t use the microwave unless it was part of the instructions.
Mia, our schools usually do have a flag somewhere. It definitely is not as big a thing as America. Our schools used to do the national anthem too but not really anymore.
I'm pretty sure the gap in the bathroom stalls is for safety. It's much easier for medical professionals to get to someone having a medical emergency if the door is locked and they're lying on the floor.
We learn to drive at such a young age because all except a few cities in the US have actual good public transportation. And even services like uber are incredibly expensive and not really feasible for the average person. Also why would you walk 20 minutes when you already have a car and could get to the place you need to be in 5 minutes...?
You could take as well a bike. Americans even use the car if it was a five minute walk. Or instead to walk from one shop to the shop right next to it, Americans go to the parked car and drive to the parking slot of the other shop. In fact this needs more time then just walk. With all these drive-ins people are not used any more to leave their car. I think in your first sentence you meant bad transportation not good.. Therefore it totally makes sense to learn driving cars at a younger age. Overall this is just another little thing why lots US people have a problem with overweight.
@@somersault4762 A bike cannot go the same speed a car can. And it depends on the person, but most people I know would not bother getting in the car again if their next destination is next door. Also, I meant what I said, you just misread what I wrote. I said that public transportation is not good with the exception of a few cities. Yes it is a major problem, but the solution is also major because our country is massive. It will take billions upon billions of dollars to add subway stations across the US. But regardless public transportation really is not a reasonable solution for people with families/young children.
@@OceanLaboratory ofc a good Transportation System is not an Option. But thats not my point. Even if it is possible to walk or to take the bike an American wont. And thats not a question of speed. Every mile that you dont drive by car and instead walk or ride the bike is good for your health, for environment and your wallet. Its not meant that you always have to avoid the car. but if you can you should.
@@somersault4762 I don't know why europeans seem to have all the time in the world but in the US we don't. We work 40 hours a week, sometimes more, and we simply do not have the time to be spending unnecessarily when we don't have to. Also, a lot of us have physical labor jobs? If I spend 40+ hours a week on my feet all day walking around, like hell am I gonna walk home after all that.
@@OceanLaboratory I used to take my bike to go to work. It was a 20 minute ride. Instead of using my car and goto my parking spot, stay in traffic with my car, have to look for another one close to my office I am already there with my bike. I had co-workers who even needed 1 hour. We had showers in the office that people used. I sit all the day at my desk in the office. Riding my bike is a good exercice to keep me in balance. I guess it's just a cultural thing. People in the US go to the gym as well. I think overall the bike lanes are better in Europe and more safe. In the Netherlands they have more bikes than people. On weekends it's a normal thing to make a day trip by bike to a lake and have a nice time there.
It's a really good point the British representative makes about not singing or knowing the national anthem. In recent years there's been a rush of angry nationalism, but I'm quite sure that 90% of those spouting this crap and waving flags don't know the words past the first or second line, because nobody sings it. It's just there. The truth is that British patriotism has always relied on deeds rather than flags or a song. I was brought up to think that flag waving was an embarrassing thing Americans and French people did and that we only brought them out on rare occasions (if then) because WE KNOW WHO WE ARE and don't need to remind ourselves*. I'm disgusted at people claiming to represent me betraying our culture (again) and trying to make us a clone of the US (again). Hypocrites! As British as George Washington! *This is a rough quote of American Stan Lee's classic line 'We don't need names; we know who we are', just to show I'm not bashing Americans!
I never really had to do the national anthem at school in the Netherlands. We did learn the first part of it at some point, and it is also the oldest in the world so therefore it might have some significance i guess, but it never was something you had to know (exept for maybe the first verse for a single exam at some point). I can't imagine doing that every day. learning to use a bicycle on a public road safely was more important than something like the anthem in the early years of primary school, and i'm happy about that.
I've always drank tea and I've always had a kettle and now I'm wondering if it's because my grandmother was from the UK lol. I thought most people did this too but I guess not?
I'm an Aussie, and yep, we think the US obsession with its flag is pretty weird! We sang the national anthem once a week at primary school. Don't remember if we unfurled a flag too. We never sang the anthem at high school. Hardly any Aussie homes have a flag. You mostly only see it at big sporting events or outside govt buildings.
1:18 America is the 3rd biggest country in the 3rd most populated. Being as densely populated as they are, and the fact that you are just not used to another countries flag. It might seem that way.
America is only densely populated in the northeast from Washington through Baltimore, then Philadelphia, then New York to Boston. And of course within major cities. Otherwise, it's wide open. There are 11 states with larger land areas than the UK but none come close to the UK's population.🎉
Americans see other people do things differently: That's new, I've never seen that before. Other people seeing Americans do thing differently: I'm so frustrated! Why can't you conform and be like us?!
I'm not sure that microwaving water is "so normal" in the US🤔I really do think they need to start these videos off with "Im so and so from Kentucky and this is my American viewpoint". Also add to that, "I've only lived in the US for 10 years and I'm 20" because other times, yall barely "lived" in the US🤦🏽♂ But still always entertaining to watch lol 🤣👏🏽
I always find these videos so weird cause I'm left wondering where in the US the American is from. Cause like I'm from the northeast in a suburban area and my answers would be so different. The backwards date thing we actually got from England FOREVER ago, and when they changed theirs to the day first we didn't. Dunno why. No idea why everyone has such big vehicles. Cause MURICA or something dumb like that. I personally don't see the need for a huge truck unless you build stuff or transport furniture frequently, but I also drive a little sedan, so I'm not the best authority on that 😅We do drive a lot of places, though, unless you live in a city, even if walking is convenient. American flags really only appear for 4th of July and at the houses of uber conservatives (and even then usually only in the country). We did say the pledge in elementary/middle school, but not in high school. But also not every classroom has a flag. At least in most of the schools I went to (we moved a lot, so 6 by the time I graduated high school) I think there was 1 that actually had a flag, and the teacher brought that in cause they taught American History in that classroom throughout the day. There were flags in the auditorium and outside the building. They broadcast the pledge over the loudspeaker during homeroom and everyone was supposed to say it together. We also weren't really in trouble if we didn't do it, either. In colleges there were no classroom flags, either, and of course you didn't do the pledge there. As an adult you really only see a flag at like a school or city hall/court. Some retail places will also fly them, though that's always struck me as weird. Portion sizes are big. I always wind up bringing half my meal home. But also, you don't HAVE to upsize if it's an option. Farenheit and other measurements are like the dates. We brought them over from Europe and just never changed when the world moved onto more logical systems. The large gaps are AWFUL. I hate it and always have. It makes zero sense at restaurants/schools/etc. In retail stores I think it has to do with theft? But I honestly don't see how it would help. Pharmacies are a catch all here. You have snacks, books, toys, medicine, cosmetics, etc. It really is for everything except the groceries, though our grocery stores often have pharmacies in them as well, and you can get much of the rest of this stuff at the grocery store. Usually pharmacies are used for if you need one or two items so it will be really quick to run through a smaller store. I know just as many people who use the microwave/teapot/electric kettle. Like it's all common here. I grew up with a mix of using the microwave (for one cup) or teapot for more than one cup. As for microwaving everything, that's also a very household to household basis. Mine was broken for 2 years before I bothered to fix it. I heat up my leftovers in the microwave at work, but at home I primarily use the oven if I'm not in a rush. I also don't know many people who cook their dinner and such in a microwave. It's really just a fast place to reheat things. But again, it's all household/region/etc specific. The US is over 9 million square kilometers (over 3 million sq miles). and made up of so many different cultures, so it's hard to generalize any behavior.
About the flag thing, I think it's probably region specific like you said. I grew up in the south but not the deep south, I grew up in a Democrat leaning beach city in Florida. But regardless in any neighborhood you'll find houses with flags outside, Im not surprised when a house has a built in flag pole. I'm actually surprised your classrooms didn't have flags, Almost every one I can remember had a flag, at least a mini flag. They're on lots of boats and cars around here, too. The pledge felt very mandatory for me, nobody ever stayed sitting. I wouldn't say the words but still had to stand. Someone in a class of mine got told off by a teacher for disrespecting veterans by not standing. There's definitely big differences in different parts of the US, especially between the south and north, the US is also such a big place. Even when you're not in a conservative area in the south these things are just part of the culture we grow up with.
It felt weird to me as a kid too, like something you would do if you were stuck in a Communist regime. At my school, we also wrote letters to soldiers and we were encouraged to appreciate the military in other ways.
The date as mm/dd/YYY is because when you archive, you do it by year. So, the year is the least important on the document itself. When you peruse the document to find the right one, it's easier to look up the month then the day. European date format dd/mm/yyyy isn't that good because you need to look at the second number. Iso date format yyy-mm-dd would be the best, but if your files are in a cabinet by year, having the year first would just be noise. So, the American date format was the best to be used for archives. Now, with digital, it looks weird, and even American Millenials don't know the reason ^^
Most American schools don’t do the Pledge of Allegiance any more and it was just in elementary school when they did. I also had to sing “America is Beautiful” song when I was young, but my kids never did. Also, most grocery stores have pharmacies in them, too. And we do walk 😂😂😂
The human body can distinguish ever single degree in Fahrenheit down to zero up to 200. The brain starts to die above 106. England Land of Hope and Glory (Pomp and Circumstance) Australia Waltzing Matilda or Advance Australia Fair.
Excessive sugar on everything is the weirdest thing, I like candy and cakes but in the US everything is excessively and unnecessarily sweet no wonder the obesity and diabetes
America was on the winning side of the two world wars and then went on to be the winner of the cold war, so it makes sense that Americans would fly that flag everywhere 😂
