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I liked this one : muricans have some of the largest asses of any human population, so when they halfass something, it's still quite impressive. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
When I was a teenager I worked in a newsagent in a small(ish) South Wales town. An American couple came in and complained there were no US papers and magazines. Then when they went to pay for the drinks they wanted, they complained that I wouldn't accept US dollars. I tried to explain we used £ pound sterling and I was very polite. The owner of the newsagent came out and was not so polite. They left complaining like it was our fault.
On holiday in Greece, an American asked the tour guide if the windmills we were viewing were solar powered. The tour guide said no the windmills are powered by the wind. The American said gee she did not know that!
on a vacation a guy from the USA told me that in Argentina there are no mountains... I tried to explain to him that in Argentina there are mountains, glaciers, deserts... etc... he kept telling me that I didn't know what I was talking about... I am from Argentina, he couldn't even locate Argentina on the map.... but he knew more than me
I'm also Argentinean and I had a long argument with an American guy who danced something that he called tango but wasn't, not even close. Three Argentineans couldn't make him understand that he was wrong. He was quite offended, too!
Oof!! I have a ton of these from my time living in the U.S.A. When I first started high school in '91, my english was pretty much non-existent. It took me a full year to learn the basics so I could have a somewhat decent conversation. But that first year I remember hanging up with many people from spanish speaking countries like mine (Argentina),and it was easier to learn english with them. One day, maybe like 2 or 3 months after I started high school, we were hanging out at the school yard on lunch time, and two american dudes passing by heard us speaking in spanish and one of them said, 'Get back to Mexico if you wanna speak spanish! We speak american here!' It was hard to keep a straight face but we told them that none of us were mexican! It was me (an Argentinean), there was a girl from Nicaragua, a dude from El Salvador and the other one hailed from Guatemala. They stopped and told us that we were speaking spanish, so therefore we HAVE to be from Mexico. We tried to explain to them that there were many other countries apart from Mexico in which spanish was the official language and I told them my friends were trying to teach english to me, to which they reply 'English? We're in America! We speak american here!' What do you say to that? It's useless...
Love the video. It ... totally ... blows ... my ... f..... mind that there are people who don't see the connection between 'England' and 'English". I mean, what?? 😭🤦♂
I was in California and an American asked me where on the east coast I was from, I told her I was actually from the UK. Her response, “Oh, I thought you were from somewhere like New York, because your English is so good!”
I remember reading about a guy from Norway who was working in the US. While he was speaking to one of his family members back home. He was speaking in Norwegian. An old couple stated to him that he was in America and that he should be speaking in American. To which he turned around to them and spoke in fluent Navajo.
@@chaseonfroy When in the USA visiting relatives, I applied a lot of English/ British words and Americans insisted that I ,as a Norwegian,should speak English. Words like: Pavement,fortnight,and my ultimate favorite: The wireless. 🇧🇻😎😎🇧🇻
I used to work with Americans in an American company in my country (Poland) for a few years and I really enjoyed being with them, but from time to time they said something that shocked me. For example: once one of them asked me where he should go for lunch near here. I replied and offered we could go together and I'd show him the way. We walked. After we arrived at the place he told me it was such a long way and we should have taken a taxi. The restaurant was a 10-minute walk from our office. Do you EVER walk? And the man used to go to the gym a lot to keep fit. Another thing is geography and languages where you are not good at: American managers who work for 4-6 years in a foreign country cannot use more than a few words in a foreign language even if they work (and they usually do) with natives.
Well, that's our mistake. We talk in English so they don't even think about learning it. We should simply force them to learn the language of the country they're living in for years.
@@izabela1961 A fraction of them is working for an "american" company. Most of them are just working abroad. All the other employees speak the local language. However, this is not a good argument because the Germans working for German companies in the US don't stick on German. Sure, some people struggle while learning another language it's often the US-expats which don't even want to try. I once lost patience with such an expat and said "you're living in Geneva for seven years and you don't speak French yet? Congratulations, you have the intellectual level of a Turkish grandmother." He deserved it.
@@kobold90 Hi. I was in Geneva 2 years ago. And in most big cities in Switzerland:). Yes, you are right. Some people just don't show any interest in other cultures. I love learning languages because only this way you can really understand the people and the culture of the country you are in.
When I stayed in Lake Orion, Michigan a few years ago, for three weeks I was the only person walking from A to B. There were no cyclists either. Some roads had traffic lights for pedestrians but they didn't work.
At an international school fair in Oregon a parent came up to my Swedish table and asked if we have sun. I answered: No that part of the earth doesn't rotate.
"Of the top 250 RU-vid channels, 66% of the content is in English, 15% in Spanish, 7% in Portuguese, 5% in Hindi, 2% in Korean, while other languages make up 5%." However, I think the figures for _all_ channels are probably quite different, because most will be in the creators' native languages rather than a 'popular' language for clicks.
From google search: In fact, the majority of videos published on RU-vid aren't even in English. According to a survey, two-thirds (67 percent) of the videos posted by popular RU-vid channels are in other languages. Of the rest, just 28 percent are in English, while the remaining five percent are in English and other languages
An american channel could be watched by brittish , indian, australian, nigerian, south african, canadian, etc. And even from France, belgium, brazil, cameroon, etc. But a german channel would not have that audience if they speak german. So its pretty obvious that the biggests channels are mostly in english. But that doesnt mean the number of vidéos in english is the same , they're more seen indeed
While on vacation on Bonaire, I got to talk with an American tourist who had been on the island for two weeks. Our conversation went something like this: American woman: "Why are there so many Dutch people here?" Me: "…" Me: "Well, why are there so many Americans in Hawaii?" American woman: "Hawaii is American." Me: "Indeed" American woman: "…" She still didn't understand. Then I had to explain to her that she had been in the Netherlands for the last two weeks.
for not so well versed people: Bonaire is a pretty island in the leeward caribbean off the coast of venezuela. Aruba and Curacao are around the corner and also belong to the Netherlands
@@rivenoak The Dutch Antilles stopped existing when in 2010 Bonaire voted to remain part of the Netherlands together with Saba and Sint Eustatius as special municipalities (not within a province), while Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten voted to become independent countries while remaining in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, thus making the Kingdom of the Netherlands consist of 4 constituent countries: the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten.
I used to work in a dive industry and we always asked our guests their nationality to register for the boat passenger...we asked this couple, a man from the US and his girlfriend from Thailand what their nationalities are, the man replied "white" while the girl replied "Thailand".
My mother's family is Spanish (from Barcelona, Spain)...they were talking at work and she said her maiden name was Chavez. One guy pipes up, "Oh so you're a wetback?" (okay, totally offensive and racist but mom, bless her just looks at him) "Yes. Yes, my family swam the Atlantic Ocean to come to America." The man couldn't understand why everyone started laughing at that point.
I’m Polish, have a “lovely” accent and many people ask where it is from 😊 I let them quests and they usually end up with Germany, Holland, South Africa, France…. Or completely opposite like Russia, Croatia, Chech, Slovakia, Slovenia…. When I ask what country is between Germany and Russia, hardly anyone knows … ok, geography may be a bit difficult, so my next t question is where did the WWII started? 99,5% people asking about my accent have no idea where the WWII started…😢
Had a similar experience in London at the time of the first Gulf War. I met a group of Americans who were wearing Maple Leaf badges. When I asked why they said they were worried as they were "so close" to Iraq. 🥺 My colleague looked them up and down and said "Home of the BRAVE and the land of the free then?", gave a snort of derision, turned on his heel and walked off. They looked part embarresed and part mad. 🤣🤣🤣
I was playing an online video-game and talking with a bunch of people. One of the guys asked me where I am from so I said mid Europe. He proceeded to ask me if I live in a big town so I said its not huge but its not a shithole either. He legit asked me how far is my closest Walmart 🤣 I went on google to tell him how many thousands of kilometers it is from me. He seemed confused. Didn't really want to understand that we don't have Walmarts in Europe but got many other hypermarkets, supermarkets, shopping centers, small shops etc. So apparently anywhere without a Walmart is a shithole xD
In America that's basically correct. If your town doesn't have a Wal Mart then it's a tiny place that wouldn't show up on a map. If you don't have a Wal Mart then you don't have a grocery store in your town. It's kind of sad honestly
As a czech myself, I had to think really hard whether I watch more videos in czech or in english. I honestly often dont even know which language a video is in unless I focus and think about that specifically. In the end, I believe, I watch slightly more videos in english, but my mom for example very rarely watches videos in any other language than czech.
I am from the UK. When I worked in the US, an American asked me if i had gotten used to wearing shoes since been here in the US? Apparently we dont wear shoes much in the UK? 🤔😩
Earlier this year, I was on a train in Germany (I'm English) and there was a large group of American tourists and among other things, they 100% seriously spent a significant period of time collectively wondering where the villages we passed got all their firewood from - they were very obviously situated in the middle of an enormous forest. I wonder where they could've got all the wood from. Edit: thought I'd ad that they never figured it out.
ohh yea let me tell you how we germans get our Firewood every day our Family sits down and prays to the god of firewood to give us some fire wood and Poof the another day it just appears in front of our House nicley cut and perfektly Dry for direct use i hope i could help you with that answere
The teacher assistant said, it was in high school. Oh Ryan, you have NO CLUE how often Americans want to correct me on European and especially German history to fit their narrative.
@@bladerunner3314 Maybe it had to do with all the slavery.... and the witch burning (yes, I know it happened in Europe as well)..... and declaring war on Middle Eastern countries for "housing terrorists"...... but that's just my thoughts.
@@macgyver42563 Oh, witch burnings, another thing Gemany excelled back then ... we're/'ve been a lovely bunch, eh? Facts: in these videos, you only see the dumb/funny responses and you can find stupid people everywhere.
I saw a video where a girl in her 20s was asked the name of the capital of europe - she said it was france. I think Americans find it very difficult not to see Europe as a unified country like the United States. We do have confederations of states like the EU, but we don't have a uniform language, culture or sense of community like the USA. Europe isn't "one country", but the Americans don't understand that and therefore don't know their way around. You said in another video that you think German, Dutch and English are similar because they are Latin based languages. But that is not correct either, if you consider that all Romance languages are similar: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and therefore also Latin, on which all Romance languages are based. English, Danish, Dutch, German, and much more are based on the Germanic languages. In Europe we mainly use Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, as well as Finno-uhric languages (Hungary, Finland).
Technicly there is a capital of europe, of the EU at least, we could even argue that there are several Bruxelles being the main one but there are also Starsbourg, La Haye, Francfort.
Once in 7th grade I went to this international school, And this girl came up to me and went: “OMG YOU ARE FROM ITALY!” And I was like, “yeah?” “What language do you speak in Europe?” 💀 “Well every European country speaks a different-“ “Oh I am so sorry, You are Spanish, in Europe you speak Spanish, am I right?” Girl w h a t
@Bethlehem Eisenhour well as a 50+ brit..I had to look up an age for 7th grade,(different systems here) 12 ~13years old right...Well even making allowances for that, that's pretty dumb. I hear all the time on tv adult Americans referring to Europe as YERP as if it were all one and the same country.
@Bethlehem Eisenhour Yes, they are not the same. I thought that was the obvious part. The fact that these young Americans don't know that, and the dumb things your 7th grade girl said to you ~ that is the astonishing part.
I'm American, and this is the dumbest thing an American has said to me. A guy was bothering me, so I excused myself and started to walk away. He asked where I was going, and I said, "away from you". He said, "I'll go with you!". And that wasn't the dumbest thing! When I told him that he couldn't go WITH me to go AWAY from him, he asked, "Why not?"
Having watched these "ignorants on the street"-videos you react to, I've found them a little concerning, but mostly fun. There are ignorants in all countries, these are the worst of the worst. Some people take pride in their own ignorance. But when advisors at college thinks Paris is in Italy, and principals think Colombian society is some absurd version of pre-history...well, that speaks for itself.
I was an exchange student and I’m from the Netherlands, I was often asked questions like: do you have cars, electricity, television, fridges etc. The fact that I said I was from the Netherlands proved very confusing because many didn’t know where that was. Holland is used more, even though Dutch people normally don’t. Some people thought Holland was the capitol of Amsterdam.
For future reference, you would use an ‘a’ in capital when referring to a city. Capitol with an ‘o’ is used for the building that’s in the capital city.
as a dutchie, i dont know what stumps me more. people thinking holland is the netherlands (while in reality, its just 2 provinces of the netherlands) or them thinking amsterdam is a country...
Yeah you don't get to kick out your dumbest people. 1 We don't want them (will they all fit on Rhode Island?) 2 You made 'em, it's your job to look after them.
Hear hear. This really bugged me in the video. You shouldn’t be kicking out your least educated people, you should be learning from your mistakes and improving the education system in the USA. A prime example is the so many Americans seem to think that the rest of the world was frozen in time once the first states were founded.
Some years back i was living in Edinburgh and worked in a shoe shop. two adults and two children walk in looking like the stereotypical American tourist family. as soon as they walked in, they stood in the doorway, in the way of other customers trying to get in and out and loudly announced themselves. "hi!. we are Americans. do you have any American shoes for American feet?" the shop would of fell silent if it were not for the sound of staff and customers' eyes rolling so hard.
@@ravarga4631 A range of sizes exist, regardless of how they're labelled. If the shoes don't have sizes on them in the numbering system you're used to, just try on some shoes that seem approximately the right size, to see if you're looking for smaller or larger shoes than that, and based on the number on the shoes you just tried, start looking for ones with smaller or larger number than that. 🤷
When I was dating an American girl, her dad asked me if I was hoping to get a US passport through her. Didn't understand when I laughed and said that no, why would I want one, when I already have a way better one (finnish). Didn't help when her daughter (the one I was dating) said that she'd be the one winning by getting the finnish nationality. The dad was republican, the daughter was anything but.
One thing that struck me the most when I was an exchange student in the US was an incident in French class. The teacher had spent some time in Europe and drew a rough version of the map of Europe and included Italy, with the boot pointing to the right.
I was an exchange student from France during sophomore year in high school and a girl asked me (and she was serious) whether we had electricity in our homes in France...
As Spaniard, I also got lots of similar questions, like if we had cars, or TV and when I said sure, we do but it is in Spanish, they just couldn't comprehend how it was possible that it was not in English. That one literally blew their minds 😂 but one that got me really annoyed was when a girl insisted that we eat very spicy food in Spain and that it was between Mexico and Brazil.
In city of Dubrovnik (Croatia, Game of Thrones shooting location and tragically the sole reason for Americans to visit), locals are frequently asked by American tourists: "Where do you keep your city walls when the season is over?". In the very city of Dubrovnik where people used to insist on title "Free republic of Dubrovnik". Among first republics to recognize America as a sovereign state...they now come and believe these huge walls and whole city was built for their HBO viewing pleasure. And I'm not speaking about one isolated case. It happens frequently.
Wow. I’ve been to Zadar before and it was just common sense to me that back in ancient times you had to defend the city with walls and that it made no sense to tear them down.
@@ryanferguson9249 Dubrovnik republic was also one of (if not THE) first ones to banish slavery, forbid all merchants with slaves on board to drop anchor in its waters, invent quarantine, have the oldest working pharmacy in the world, invent modern bookkeeping and various protocols of modern diplomacy, set philosophical, artistic, merchant, literature and music grounds for the rest of the Europe- Italians, French, Dutch, English... have Shakespeare before Shakespeare, Dante before Dante, Mozart before Mozart... and yet- it is known for Game of thrones. And all foreign interest ends with Game of thrones
I went to the Brontes house in Yorkshire and an American couple were literally upset that they couldn't find heathcliffs room. I.e a character from withering heights one of the sisters novels! I was younger than 10 n I knew that was ridiculous
I had an American couple ask me for directions in London. I said I have no clue am irish I'm a tourist too. They said, you English are so rude and wont help us
I told an American friend that we were going on holiday to Jersey. She started talking about coming to meet us while we were in the USA. Jersey is a small island off the coast of France. 😂😂😂
I will tell you that most Americans are probably like my sisters. They were taught geography in school. But then they graduate and joint the adult, working world. Because they are busy working and providing for their family, and because the USA is so large and we only get a small amount of international news, its just not much of a concern for most people. We have 50 states to worry about; most Americans don't have time to worry about what's happening on the other side of the world. And the phrase "Use it or lose it" is a real thing. And I can tell you that Jersey (the island) NEVER appears on our news broadcasts.
@@daniel_sc1024 You know it’s 2022 right? The internet exists, and plenty of Americans haunt the comment sections of the English language versions of European media outlets. Mostly saying daft things to be fair, so maybe they are just there to troll rather than learn? Most Europeans know far more about the USA than Americans know about Europe! We also work and have families, but somehow manage to find the time to inform ourselves. I’m constantly amazed by how little Americans do know, even about your closest neighbours, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean countries. I mostly put it down to laziness and lack of curiosity. If someone knows about New Jersey or New York, but has never thought to ask what places they are named after then there’s something very wrong with your education system!
@@ffotograffydd I've seen plenty of videos of Americans and Europeans pitting their knowledge. Your average Briton is no more smarter than the average American. For every American who cannot locate Romania on a map, there is a European who cannot locate Montana. And, to be very blunt, we have the largest economy in the world - our economy is larger than Europe's combined. What we do matters to the world. The decisions of the President of the United States can be felt around the world; the decisions of the prime minister of Sweden, not so much.
@@daniel_sc1024 Thanks for demonstrating perfectly why the rest of the world looks at Americans and thinks WTF?! Do you honestly think the USA is more important than the EU? Or China? OK mate, whatever… 😂
There was an online game I used to play years ago that was very global and my guild had people from many countries around the world. Myself, I'm from Australia and as it was getting late, I said I had to go because dinner was ready. I kid you not, one of the Americans turned around and said, quite shocked, I might add, "Dinner? But it's morning! I've only just had breakfast!" I had to explain to the poor kid how the world had many different timezones and the entire planet wasn't on his XD
I’m Australian. I drove across the US a few years ago … 6 weeks, 6,500 miles, and 17 states between NYC to San Fran. I really don’t have any standout dumb things and I talked to sooo many strangers. I hope that makes you feel better! Mostly, people were just curious because in rural areas they don’t meet many foreigners. Often uninformed about the rest of the world, but nobody said anything straight up dumb. One odd thing was that in the South, heaps of people didn’t pick my accent as foreign. It’s like they knew I wasn’t Southern and the only other possibility was “some kind of Yankee”.
I once asked an American telephone operator for the number of the Australian Embassy--she replied she didn't have the Australian number, but she had the Austrian one! Oh, that will do then(?) I gave up saying I was from Australia when someone said she had always wanted to go to Europe--we had been talking about kangaroos at the time.
Background Information: The Minoan civilization existed in Crete between 2.000- 1.200 BC. Their kings were called Minoas and their capital was Knossos. I heard a story from a tour guide in Knossos. They were about to take a group of Americans for a tour in the archeological site and they specifically requested the tourists to wear comfortable clothes because they would be walking around the place and because in summer it's quite hot. One lady came to the tour wearing a night dress with heels. She said 'I am going to be well dressed if I meet King Minoas'.
Hahahaha and actually goes back as 3000 BCE hahahaha 😆 the king Minoas is more mythological since we know not if he existed as a title (it remained as an assumption though) and basically Crete probably didn't have a "capital" per se but different palace city-states Hahahahaha so yup you need to look great for king Minoas 😂
I asked my coworker what two *countries* he would like to visit. His response was "Europe and North America"..... He is an American, and has NEVER left North America. I'm pretty sure he said he thought Mexico was in South America as well. Plus, who believes that Europe is a country???
Someone who thinks that América is a country although the truth is that América is a continent from Alaska to Patagonia. The US one of the 35 countries of América
@@mariaguadalupeestrada7996some maps divide America into 2 continents, south and north. Some even mention central America as a continent. But honestly I just use America as a whole continent lol
I used to get asked why I spoke Spanish if I wasn't Mexican all the time!! Im American but my mom is Chilean and taught me Spanish. So many people in the US only relate Spanish to being from Mexico.
Que bueno que tu mama te enseño Español, y no hizo lo mismo que muchos latinos que se van a USA y reniegan de su idioma materno, haciéndoles un "flaco favor" a su descendencia, y no enseñándoles un idioma tan rico, y que también puedes usar en todo el mundo.
I travelled quite a bit on my own in the usa, and I would talk to random people sometimes when the drive was too boring. So in Arkansas I talked to the guy mowing the lawn around the gas station... He asked about my accent, I said I was from France... his answer: "I ain't ever met anyone from out state!".... after explaining France was not just another American state, he asked if I was a refugee, if it was hard to live under a dictatorship, etc.
I'm English but this feels unfair to Americans. Every country has these people. Having said that, I did hear one ask "how big are your 6inch Pizzas" & "Do you have sunsets in the UK"... But how can you not smile when you hear these things :-)
One American lady I met absolutely insisted that Americans invented the English language!!! She and her husband were 'doing' England. This consisted of one whole day in London, and then a trip to Stonehenge and Stratford-upon-Avon. Job done!!!
@@sibboo4411 Actually the word aluminium derives from the word Aluminum. And before that, it was called "alumium". The word has actually changed spelling over the years, but it all means the same. Carmel, yes, that is a mispronunciation. It's CA-rah-mel.
@@ryanferguson9249 the scientific community on its first discovery of aluminium considered that the naming had been incorrect as it did not flow with other elements in the group, therefore the name aluminium replaced it by the scientific community. Webster’s dictionary decided upon aluminum in 1828, however the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially adopted the word Aluminium in 1990. North America declines to recognise the internationally approved spelling, and the classical scientific approach to the naming of aluminium. Americans also decided to remove u from many English words because it saved money on advertising in newspapers to remove the letter u. It is astounding that so many Americans do not understand the origin of the language they use, to the point that British museums have to print an American flag on top of their brochures so Americans can recognise it is the English language in their brochure. It’s shocking tbh that they don’t have the intelligence to recognise that they are speaking English, which originates from England.
Best one: Isnt it bad that they built Windsor Castle so close to the airport, when it is so noisy! I was too polite to say anything. My son attended the castle's school!
Once in Paris I was asked If I spoke American to which I replied "Sorry, no, but I'm pretty good at English" At a party in West Virginia I was asked by a group of college students if they spoke European in Europe and were convinced Australia was next to Germany.
Okay, I have to correct you a little on this. American English is not British English. It’s a completely different dialect of English altogether. There are lots of words and expressions that the English use that, we, Americans just never use or even know the meaning of. It’s kind of like the difference between German and Swiss German. Same root language, different dialect.
@@ryanferguson9249 in school they did actually teach me both American and British, though if you did talk with me, I'd just probably use a mix of both 😂
dude asked me where I was from, I said Greece...........he then proceeded to laugh as if I had made the funniest joke so naturally I was like ??why are you laughing?? he said "cause Greece isn't a real country! it's the imaginary country from greek mythology" when I tell you I'm still shocked 2 years later, American stupidity knows no bounds..
Bill Cosby featured pre-schoolers, though. The TA was talking about a high school history class. I think it’s reasonable to expect high schoolers to realize they can’t move states, countries or any other landmass and plop it onto another one. 🤷🏻♀️
Telling people where they are from is not a thing only Americans do. I am a Belgian living in Belgium and have multiple times been identified as Polish by strangers. Apparently I look Polish even though Polish people are quite diverse in their facial features, hair color and eye color and overlap with other europeans. One guy even called me a liar when I told him I was actual Belgian off Belgian descent. He kept insisting he could tell people from diffrent coutries apart by looks.
Same here, exept instead of Poland it was every mediterranian country for me. People even asked in times of the old analogue photographs (when you had to give the rolls to a store to have them developped) "when are you going back to your country? These might not be ready in time." "This is our country, we literally just got back from our vacation..." Those kind of people are everywhere, not just in the USA 😅
15:46 Actually, we are a third world country, but a lot of foreigners who haven't visited the Philippines think that we live in a bunch of undeveloped islands, that none of us speak English or that we don't get proper education. Which is really funny because our 2nd language is English! They teach us math in English nationwide, and even the most rural parts of the Philippines have public schools. Most east Asians (mainly South Koreans) actually move and study here to learn English. Don't get me wrong though, we do have tribes and ethnic groups who don't have frequent access to modern technology, but I'm pretty sure most of them ARE aware or have heard about it. It's just really mind boggling that people still think this way, even to other third world countries. Like, if you're genuinely curious if this or that country has access to this or that, google is literally just one click away it also saves you from a very awkward and embarrassing conversation. 🤦♀
@@MeMyselfAndI-xw5yj Sorry,you are badly mistaken. I'm European, Norwegian and 77. I have been around 27 countries on 3 continents and met uninformed US tourist everywhere.Nothing new. 🇧🇻😎😎🇧🇻
In a Canadian newspaper a few years back it said the Filipinos have an easier time integrating to Canadian society than other groups, because 90% of you speak English when you come. That is one hurdle you don't have. Also....fun fact....after English and French, Tagalog is the third most popular language in the prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba)!
It is true that not everybody is chasing the american dream in 2022. If you are from Northern Europe, aussie or british is very unlikely that you need to move to the US. Just unlikely. By the way, is there really anybody who ignore that England invented the English language?
Well not only do you not need to, I'd even recommend against it. Besides you might even turned away at the border/airport because you made a bad joke on Facebook once.
I am of Puerto Rican decent and my Football Coach asked me If I was a US Citizen being from Puerto Rico because he didn't want any problem's from the Immigration Dept . I told him Yes I was and if he didn't believe me he could ask my Father, And he said well he didn't speak Spanish and I said my Dad speaks English as well , He is in the Army and has been for the last 21 yrs. Needless to say after my Dad talked with this IDIOT, MY Dad said I don't think you will have a problem with him again. Which I did not.
When you add Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi and Russian most of RU-vid's videos (that have commentary) aren't in English. Even without China and the Russian Federation, many countries that have RU-vid don't have English as the primary language.
Once a gringa found out that I am Venezuelan, she was impressed that I spoke English well and she asked me if it was difficult to communicate with my family only by postal mail, since for her there are no telephones, computers, or Internet in my country... then Talking a little more with her, she told me that she believed that there were no cars or cities in my country (nor in most of Latin America), and that she believed that we all lived in huts and rode horses
As an ex-pat, who has visited or lived in aboout 90 countries, asking the question "are Americans that dumb" is considered amongst one of the dumbest.......especially in this day and age of the Internet (and jusat in case an American reads this and misses the point, Yes! you are)
I’m from England and went on holiday to Mexico when I was 19 I was with my brother who was 17, bit of context for you! Anyway, we were both stood at the bar having a laugh then 2 old Americans (by old I mean late 40’s), who had obviously noticed our accent but asked anyway😂. They said “I heard it rains everyday at 5 o’clock”, not sure if they were being sarcastic or not, I replied very sarcastically with “yes, everyday, same time”, my brother just started howling, I think they were serious!!! Weird question😂
Correct, over 60% of RU-vid is non-English. When it comes to the notion of people speaking English, a good number in the US actually think they invented the language. Insane.
@@JonInCanada1 Shame they don't make them multi-lingual. So many more video's could be watched (Edit: granted we could learn more but it would be nice to hear views from other nations)
Im currently learning Spanish with a private Tudor and it's def hard but so far it's been fun and I've learned a lot I'd say everyone should learn another language it can be so rewarding
I (german) worked at Linderhof palace for almost nine years. It's one of King Ludwig II's palaces (as is Neuschwanstein, not far from Linderhof). And the amount of american tourists in disbelieve, that Neuschwanstein is NOT the copy of the Disney castle, but the other way around still impresses me till today.
A few years ago, I read an article about how a US veteran demanded a veteran's discount in a German shop in Germany, since he was a US veteran and is supposedly entitled to receive one. That has most likely been the dumbest thing. I mean, the audacity to demand a discount is already off the charts and then trying to argue for it by stating that you have been part of a foreign military that has in the past been an enemy of the country you are visiting is mind-boggling.
True story. A female audit partner of the Big Four auditors from Malaysia met her counterparts from US when she was on a trip to US, and they asked her, "Do you Malaysians live in tree houses?" She was speechless and didn't know how to react. I bet some the American colleagues of mine would think that I lived in one of these big Chinese junks, and men where pig tails.
When I travelled to the US in the early 2000s an American woman explained to me how the washing machine works and in all seriousness asked me: "How do you even wash your clothes in Eastern Europe?" Ignoring the fact that she also got the Eastern Europe part wrong, like, in a washing machine? We do know what that is and how it works, we use it a few times a week.
9:48 : What languages are most common on RU-vid? We analyzed the languages of the top 250 RU-vid channels and found that 66% of the content is in English, while 22% are in Spanish and Portuguese. Accordingly, English content seems to be the most popular with Spanish and Portuguese coming second and third. According to April 2022 statistics, India has the largest RU-vid using population, with 467 million active users. With 247 million users, the USA has the next largest user base for the platform
2:27 You speak Spanish if you are from Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Argentina, Peru, Guatemala and many other country so...yeah..the person that say that you can't speak Spanish if you aren't Mexican is really dumb.I am living in Montreal and sometimes, I feel like I live in a completly different planet than USA...
My father was a taxi driver. One day someone asked him where he was from. My father replyed "I came from Poland". "Ooo, which highway to take to get there"? 😞😂
Paris is in Texas (!) that’s why USA films always state, “Paris, Texas”. That’s astonishing that Americans don’t know about Italy, even if it’s only from watching The Godfather! Er, the citizens of Spain speak Spanish … and everywhere in South America except Brazil (Portuguese) and those Welsh settlements in Patagonia where they speak Welsh as well as Spanish.
I think Americans deny Paris, France because their war of independence ended with the Treaty of Paris and if you inform them that's Paris France they ask questions like why their war of independence ended with a treaty of Paris in France just after the Anglo-French wars... It puts an entirely new spin on American history when you look at Anglo-French wars and link them with the war of independence and the 1812 war it's difficult to sell their revisionist history.
Bit of a correction, there're also Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, where the languages spoken are, respectively, English, Dutch, and French. French Guiana is also considered part of France, meaning it's a part of the EU
@@maxmiller784 I'm guessing that there would be numerous pockets of Portuguese speakers in South America outside of Brazil. I'm not sure how many or how big though.
Hey Ryan, just came across a few of your videos. I would suggest when you review don't defend or say much because the more you say/defend something, you appear to be a bit below average too. So it'd be best to just give a short response mate ☕️
I think it would be interesting to do a map of the world as an American sees it. It would probably be the United States of America covering the globe (unless it's Flat Earth) with Hawaii and Alaska as islands (of course Puerto Rico does not count)
I once had an adult American ask if electricity had been invented in Ireland. Keep in mind, this was two years ago not the early 1900s. The temptation to take the piss got the better of me and I had to tell him that electricity was only made available in the last 10 years. The fact that he believed me was shocking but not as shocking as seeing him run off to share his newfound knowledge with his wife 🤦♂️
"Oh, Martin Luther King was German - I didn't know that." "I always thought Germany was somewhere in America - but you have to cross the ocean. And the ketchup costs extra."
Martin Luther King, St., and Martin Luther King, Jr., were both born in America. However, Martin Luther, was a priest, born in Germany, and the Lutheran church stemmed from his descent from traditional Catholic doctrine.
Mexicans are NOT the only people who speak Spanish, the Spanish and most Central and South Americans do, too, except Brazil where they speak Portuguese. English is no more "American" than Spanish, those two languages, along with French and Portuguese, are the languages of the invading colonial powers.
I went to high school 1989 in Louisiana and was asked if we speak Finnish (coming from Germany. That you speak Finnish in Finland, German in Germany, English in England seemed to be a revelation ), if Hitler ist still ruling (yeah, he is like 120, alive and kicking!) and if we have electricity and telephones (well, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes are from Germany but the concept of electricity - that´s new to me…) Also it was the time of the fall of the Berlin wall and it was all over the news the whole day and I still was asked if I come from West or East Germany (I would not be there if I came from East Germany). But to be honest, I think they just tried to make conversation and be nice and didnt´t think too much about what they were saying. It was not their fault they knew so little. If you hear the whole day how great you are and the best, etc. , etc. and only learn about your own history your interest in getting to know other cultures is not encouraged. Also, in Europe we are surrounded by other countries and languages, so knowledge comes naturally, and people here are dumb and stupid in many other ways - Just look to our neighbour east from Berlin. He is fluent in German and lived many years in Germany, unfortunately without getting a wider, more liberal perspective
I lived in Windsor many years ago, the southernmost large city in Canada. We have summer. It can get to over 30C (86F) here in the summer. So this carload of Michiganders (people from Michigan), who live within 100 miles (to use their archaic measurement) of Windsor, cross the border in July with skis on their roof rack, asking where to go skiing for the day and have enough time to drive home. Sorry, fellas, even if you drove to the northernmost part of Canada you wouldn't find anywhere to ski in July.
I was asked once if the polar bears are serious threat for polish children when they walk to school. My answer was that of course not, because when you have your bucket of vodka for breakfast you are actually looking for a good old fistfight with a polar bears
If you were not born in Africa then you are NOT African ! You are from what ever country you were BORN in. Just because you are black and live in America DOESN'T make you African American ! If I moved to America and was born in England does that make me ANGLO AMERICAN !? NO !!
Why do some Americans do this if their great grandparents were born somewhere they say it's their nationality, weather it's Irish or Italian or something, I don't understand it?
And yet many Americans still insist they are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. There were no Anglo-Saxon Protestants, that branch of Christianity didn’t exist during the Anglo-Saxon period of history.
Americans use language differently than Europeans (even when both are speaking English). You are just not accustomed to how they do it. That does not mean it is wrong. Just different. You could even say it's flawed, poorly thought out, unfit to reality. But it still is the way they ACTUALLY use English. Hence not wrong.
@@silkwesir1444 It is wrong to refer to Anglo-Saxon Protestants, because it’s really not a thing. And we are sadly all too accustomed to how Americans butcher the English language.
If you want a challenging language to learn as a american than try dutch, and if you want to make it even harder try flemish. Flemish is a dutch dialect that is spoken in flanders and we have a words that completly sound different from normal dutch, like a newspaper in dutch is " krant " but in belgium we call it " gazet " because we take dutch, french and german and use some words in a dutch sentence so you could have dutch, french and german in 1 sentence
Call students on highschool children sounds to me that you have to have the adult limit somewhere atound your 30. 15 years old should be able to use his brain more completely.
As a brit, I got told by an american that I should go d1e and feel ashamed for colonising america even though I wasn’t even born and other empires did the same as us 😐
Did you answer that he should go d1e and feel ashamed bc of the numerous invasions and attempts at colonization? Bc damn they need a taste of their own medicine sometimes. Also no US Americans would exist had it not been colonized.
The aussie who was to be sponsored might be muslim and was a approached for marriage by another muslim; we may infer this by the object on the wall with arabic religious inscription. Or I could be racist.
The question is, why would anyone ask someone else for marriage entirely out of the blue? I'm definitely smelling something fishy here. Looks like the guy dodged a bullet by outright rejecting the request.
I was once talking with an American who was surprised that there is TV in New Zealand. I replied that we have just got it but have trouble with stabile power supply, but that luckily we still had slaves and put them on fitness bikes to generate electricity. Sadly, they seemed to like the concept….
My wife is from Panama and she went to college in Minnesota and she got asked a lot of dumb questions. They asked her if they wore shoes in Panama, if they had cars or did they just ride horses or if they had electricity in Panama. I'm from Minnesota but now living in Kansas City. I was working in Wisconsin once and the local I was working with asked where I was from and I said Kansas City.He then said in puzzlement, Kansas City is there even anything down there. I didn't even bother entertaining his stupidity and said nope.
On RU-vid 67% are non-English, which when you think about it is reasonable because the 28% which is English (for those Americans reading, the language not the country) is about right for native language nations... The remaining percentage is mixed languages (as in more than one).
