@@fiziks5466 Alberto Fernández "we all came from Europe, unlike the Brazilians who came from the jungles" Of course not everyone shares his views. He was just appealing to some of his followers
@@gaykid80 It's nice that they're proud of their heritage, especially since Italians had a very hard time as immigrants to the US in the first half of the 20th century.
This is so accurate. My partner tried to tell me I'm not really German because I've lived in Australia most of my life, despite it being my first language, my citizenship, I have a German passport, and my entire family is German. But he's Irish because his great grandma was Irish or something 😂
Well technically he would be Irish then if his grandma is Irish- that’s his blood heritage. But I get what you’re saying. Do you have a weird accent that’s like German Australian? My stepmom is polish, but then ran to Germany, then to South Africa where she learned English- her accent is so thick, but it’s great I love it!
@@Pokesus we literally never use that lmao We might say "arrivederla" as a very formal way to take our leave, but I don't think I've ever unironically used "arrivederci" in my 22 years
Hahaha this is soooo on point 😅 "Excuse me, where is your accent from?" "Norway" "Ah! My seconds cousin's neighbor's wife's second grade teacher's mechanic was part Swedish!"
They should probably make sure they stay as far away from their second cousin’s neighbour’s wife’s second grade teacher’s mechanic as possible. Never know what could happen with those devils
The “Milan or Madrid” thing is underrated in this. Alleged famous quote by a German football player called Andreas Möller regarding rumours about his Transfer to another Club: “Milan or Madrid, as long as it is Italy.” 😂
@@PeachDragon_ south americans love it quite a bit, and to be honest i've seen more brazilians pay proper respect to italy than the rest of the world... somehow.
Lol. I get this a lot from people who don't realize how massive the U.S. is. I say. "I live in Florida." And they say, "My friends live there! Do you know the _____family?" Or, "You must go to Orlando all the time!" Umm, no. It takes about 8 hours to drive to my mother's house, and she lives in Florida, too!" 😀
@@patmaurer8541 yup. Its a problem we (Europeans) have with Australia too. We look at a map and dont realise that an individual state can be bigger than a lot of European countries. For example, I'm Irish. You can fit ten Irelands in some American states.
Lol this happened to me. An american guy who was part Taiwanese said that to me. Funny enough I'm not even taiwanese my country is just next to them on a 2 hour boat ride.
My grandmother was married to an abusive a$$ that I never called or considered him my grandfather same with my father calling him his dad. After he ran off with another woman(the grandfather) my grandmother met this amazing man named Poncho,he was polish from Poland with this beautiful green eyes.(I wasn't born yet but his granddaughter Jessica and I were best friends growing up,funny we just bonded). He was married to Jess's mother but you know things happen. He helped my parents who had my oldest sister young in h.s raise her and my oldest sister adored him. When he died,my grandmother was the nurse who attended to him and I don't know if his wife was there too but anyway I know it's not blood but I'd call Poncho my grandfather all the time then that man. It was interesting to meet Jessica bc she's got his eyes and it's just nice that he had a positive impact on my sister's life.
They don't realize it'd be the equivalent of saying something like... Me: I'm from the states. Them: Oh! I'm from Canada! Like it's different countries lol.
its only americans who use that percent thing, meanwhile anyone from anywhere else couldn't care less, cause me personally i am still bosnian no matter what a percentage tells me 😂
As a Turk-Chinese raised in NZ, I introduced myself differently in different places. I study in Germany, and I tell people I'm a Chinese New Zealander Back in New Zealand, I just tell people I'm Chinese But back in China, I tell people I'm Chinese with Turkic ancestry
Americans be like "I'm Irish-Jewish-German-Swiss-Spanish-Portuguese-Russian-The Entire EU on my mother's side, and my dad's grandpa saw a cherokee once"
Isn't Judaism is a religion? not an ethnicity? Edit: Not deleting this comment cos I.dont wanna make myself seem sketchy..but if ur about to comment "it's both" please for the love of God I got it after the first 30 times people replied to this comment...
I remember telling an American friend my girlfriend at that time was from Lithuania (northern Europe) and he replied "I also have a friend from Lebanon" (middle east) 😂😅🤣
Apparently, Americans do this so often that when I told someone online that I'm Celtic, they assumed that I got my Ancestry results back. Like no, I'm a whole ass pasty Welsh woman.
@@brainderp808 no it’s because people like to discuss their ethnic and family history. America is a country where everyone came from somewhere else. It’s also not very old, so most family’s are only two to three generations removed. In Canada it’s even more common to only be two generations removed form English immigration. My family came from Germany during ww2 to escape the holocaust that is why I’m American today. Why would I not want to talk about my family history because it make some guy who was born in Germany upset because I’m not german myself. I’m American but my family lineage is not.
@@RusticRonnie sorry but you are not German, you are American. Your grandparents weren't the first to run from a war torn country and they weren't the last. You're not special.
@@gb469x to be fair it is 🤣 people treat celtics like we're some magical whimsical fairies that existed hundreds of years ago. Like news flash, we're still here. We're the fellas with the funny little accents lmao
@say que I live in America, a massive portion of „white“ heritage is attributed to Irish on dna tests. But most people in my region would claim part Native American for the free acre
“Oh yeah I’m from Europe” “I’ve visited Europe! Such a beautiful country!” Real conversation we had and I had to explain to an 19 year old man that Europe wasn’t a country 💀
Classic. When I would say I'm polish in Chicago, they are trying to be nice (i somehow appreciate that), and say they are too. Even if by being polish they mean that they like pierogis and their polish neighbour once gave them our beer, which name they cannot pronounce, but they liked it 😅
Scotch-Irish isn't a mix of Scottish and Irish, it's what Americans called Ulster Scots two hundred years ago to differentiate them from Gaeilge speaking Catholics.
@@gerry127 as an Italian person, I can confirm it is the same word... It's "ciao", used for both hello and goodbye. In school they might teach you "arrivederci" used as goodbye but it's quite formal and we hardly use it.
Please understand Americans. When you say to a person from Europe that you are Italian, What we hear is "I am born and raised in Italy most of my life". We don't hear "my great-great grandfather who was Italian came to America on a boat".
The only thing that really matters to Europeans upon meeting other Europeans is citizenship. You wouldn't launch a conversation with a stranger by declaring that you're an Englishman with some Irish, Scottish, or Welsh roots. Or that you're a Swede with a few Norwegian or Danish ancestors somewhere in the family tree. Luxembourgish with Belgian, French, or Dutch ancestry... I'm not going to claim that ethnicity is completely irrelevant -- obviously it's not, but the question "where are you from" generally refers to nationality. This applies to non-EU citizens as well. Americans, you're American.
@@jdotoz there's a problem with your statement. sure, we know that many americans say it this way. but how are we supposed to know that the person is american when they say they're something else? if i hear "i'm from spain", i'll interpret that as them being actually from spain, not america, because otherwise i would have to assume everyone is american until proven otherwise (which enough americans are already doing as it stands)
Ah yes, America - a place where everyone is so proud of being American but also desperately doesn't want be described as "just American" at the same time
Are you American? There is no "desperation" about it. Culturally we find it interesting to learn where our ancestors are from. I'm American. My ancestors immigrated from Germany but I don't walk around calling myself a German American.
@@ericadavenport2039 You don't, tens of millions of other people do. That's the kind of people the comment means. I've literally only been to America a few times and had a similar conversation to the video 10+ times
@@DonDadda45 that stems from history we are a melting pot of almost every single culture and race in the world and on the other side we have very little home born culture which leads to us just using our ancestors like I’m Mexican American my parents were born in Mexico I know the culture I speak the language and I have visited and spent a good portion of time in Mexico my kids will also do the same plus whatever my future wife ancestors are and it keeps going like that
@@archemides1517 hahahah jesus fuck. You think Europe doesn't have the same? Yes we do, most places here are much more diverse than the US yet no one goes around speaking of some weird ancestry BS
I was born in Amsterdam, but my parents moved to Haarlem when I was 1. I don't even say I'm from Amsterdam, I say I'm from Haarlem haha. Even though my passport says Amsterdam on it
German heritage in Wisconsin is kindof weird because most families came over when Bismark started Bismarking, but you'll still find some families where everyone still knows German. For my family that tradition ended with my Mom, but it still lasted a pretty long time all things considered.
I had a girl at a college party in CT whip out her Smartphone after a brief "hallo" and show me wikipedia articles of her SS-great-grandpa. I didn't know what kind of reaction she was expecting to get from me..
@@esther7943 Yikes indeed. The point is: he has his own Wikipedia article - so he wasn't just a common soldier. Think about that for a second: people get Wikipedia articles for a reason, and with the SS, certainly not because they earned many Brownie points.
This might have already been said, but the Irish were not considered white by American society. Thus, they were targeted by the KKK and persecuted. This lead to them continuing to identify with their European roots even after the persecution stopped.
When white Americans say "I'm Irish" or "I'm German" or whatever, they mean that's where their ancestors that first came to America were from. It's just a shorthand, they aren't literally claiming to have grown up in Ireland.
I worked in a museum about 30 years ago and an American was so happy to meet another man named Evans in Wales it's one of the most popular names in Wales it was really funny
I’m Swedish, when I was in the states last time, I just started speaking Swedish with every person telling me that they where Swedish as well…. Needless to say a lot of people got a reality check
yeah what's REALLY annoying is that many just say they ARE Swedish, Italian or so, not even say I am "part" this even if it was just an ancestor who moved to the US Centuries before. like, you are not in the least just cause a bit of your DNA comes from there🤦♀️
@@silviab5723 Yup in europe people say im swedish but my ancestry is greek, or my Grand parents are Swedish, you’d never meet a person in say France say that he is Finnish just becouse his great great grandfathers and mothers where finnish
@@iliaskaranzas1382 well actually I'm French and live in France and I swear there are so many French people claiming that they're Italian, Spanish and German just because their grand-grand-grand-grand-grand parent visited the country, so yeah it's also a thing there sadly
@@user-bh6mz2kf6o Knowing the full capital letters on the word "GEOLOGY", he's clearly aware of that. He's talking about other people who's not paying attention to geography class at all to the point that the person mistaken geography as geology.
Interviewer: Where do you like to play the Most? Lothar Matthäus: I don't care if it is (AC) Milan or (Real) Madrid. Main thing it' s in Italy😂. (Lothar Matthäus was a famous German footballplayer in the nineties)
This is why I always specify that my mother is German, so that people don’t think I’m just another “I have European heritage dating back 200 years!” person
You would be of European heritage regardless of if people thought of it as so or not or regardless if you stressed it or not. You’re still German by blood. Why do you avoid that and treat it like it’s a mockery? I don’t understand. Your heritage doesn’t stop when your immigrant ancestors have kids in America and they’re full on American citizens. That’s only nationality, heritage and ethnicity continue without nationality, especially if you marry into families with the same heritage. It’s not like you stop being European. By nationality yeah, but by blood no.
@@Wadiyatalkinabeet_ Why do Americans not understand that they are the only ones that care about bloodlines or blood heritage. What matters the most is your nationality, anything else is irrelevant.
@@pollatin1052most asians also like this.. even some country like japan or korean wouldn't say you're japanesse or korean if your heritage is not, even tho you already have citizenship
@donk8105he meant that if you proclaim to be german, its expected for you to have some level of proficiency because thats a statement of nationality. If you have german ancestry, why not say that you have german ancestry. Statement of ethnicity Its not horrible, just mildly annoying because in most countries nationality does not equal ethicity. And if you, as you said, live in the nation people will expect you to at least make an effort of learning the language of the people around them. (If you speak english you are gonna be fine, but longterm its just gonna be annoying for everyone around them) PS: i also know people that don't speak the language of the nation they live in.
@Don K I honestly doubt that several of your friends were adopted into the US and UK and you additionally know several military children, but that's besides the point. In my experience, a child that grew up their whole life in one country and doesn't speak a word of their biological parents language, nor having any cultural roots in that country, would not immediately tell someone that they are from that country. At least not in Europe, here the genetics aren't really relevant.
As an Italian who did an exchange year in the US I can confirm this is 1000% true😂. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE kept telling me “oh, I’m partly Italian too” and then proceeds to tell me a story of how his or her great great great uncle once talked with an Italian in Canada as proof. Edit: look mom I’m famous😂
@@pongangelo2048, damn! I love pizza too! With extra cheese and pepperoni and lots of crispy bacon and plastic mozzarella cheese! Pizza Hut is, without a doubt, my favourite Italian restaurant. Right up there next to Taco Bell, my favourite Mexican restaurant! Hey! I must be part Mexican and part Italian! 🇲🇽🇮🇹
The patriotic people don't wanna be from anywhere but America, vs the people who aren't proud of the country and wanna be from other places. You forget that America is split into two when it comes to mindsets
@@cryppi1510 that’s not true, there are many patriotic people that are proud to be Irish, polish, German, etc. also. You can be proud of the country you live in, but also respect your ancestry. This black and white scenario you are portraying is more complex.
When I visited the US last year I was ordering food at a fast food place, and after that a guy came up to me and said "I noticed you're Italian, I'm part Italian, vivie le italienne" I'm from Spain, but i didn't have the courage to tell him that or that he said "Viva l'Italia" Wrong, so I just said "ooh very cool"
i’m fully irish (i still call myself american though since i moved here when i was young) but it was so funny when i was fresh off the boat and all the californian kids would make sure to inform me that they were 1/16th irish on their mother’s dogs side.
Just to let you know, yes you can still consider American, but not entirely...I am Hispanic, I don't consider myself American even though I was born in America. It is when you are born in an country that you are then more or less actually considered a citizen of that country...if you were born in Ireland then you'ed be Irish and that's that, although you could get papers so that you can become a citizen...I don't mean this in any type of offense towards you, but it is something that people who barely visit or come to live in America may sometimes not know.
@@tankys3996 I know how citizenship works. I am a citizen of America and have been since I was a baby, nationality wise I am both a citizen of America and Ireland. So if I was talking about my ethnicity, I am almost, if not 100% Irish, but I am American if we’re speaking of nationality. It’s funny, I’ve had people berate me about calling myself Irish but never about calling myself American.
@@kristen6342 just ignore that guy. If you moved here an hour ago, you’d still be 100% American in our eyes. America isn’t even 250 years old yet, almost every family here dates back to somewhere else so that’s why we call it a melting pot. You’re just as American as the people next to you, that’s what makes this place so great
It hits even harder if you are from an even smaller country. "I'm Czech" "Do you speak Russian? German?" "No, I speak Czech, it's close to Polish" "Oh, I'm partly Polish!" "How?" "I ate perogies yesterday and my grandpa saw a Russian once."
Can confirm, it gets confusing as an actual European in the US. Met so many “Italians” and “Portuguese” and “German” who have never been outside of America.
@@radhiadeedou8286 Being a german ect. isn't a ethnicity, so if ur american with an european background that doesn't make u an european if u know nothing about the culture, language or else, in my pov
As someone who's part Irish and actually starting to study the culture and language (called to be a missionary there but still), I felt this way too hard.
No, we just can't identify as American yet. American isn't seen as an Ethnicity/heritage. Like if I travel, and people ask where I'm from I say American, but then they ask "yeah but where are your parents from" My family has been in this country for over 200 years.
in the 1900's and before there was a great "Proud to be American" way of life and thinking spurred on by the World Wars and the Cold War. Now, not so much.
Africa and Europe are almost touching each other down on spain or smth. And of course theres a landbridge to africa, africa is not a on water floating continent like australia. Considering a part of africa to europe isnt too far fetched if Great britain is also considered europe (geographically at least, BREXIT LUL)
@@pepintheshort7913 Wouldnt suprise me if they made a genetics test that could tell that. It doesnt say exactly deom where, but usually it can tell general ethnicities. Depending on who you ask, Sardinian is a diffrent ethnicity from Italian
Honestly my own family is a mix of like 6 different European nationalities and all I know is "I'm German" If somebody tells you they are a mix of more than 2 European identities they're most deffinetly an American.
I hate when people act like they’re more of an ethnicity than they are. My grandpa is 100% Sicilian and my other grandpa is 50% Calabrian so I have lots of Italian in me yet other people act like they’re Italian because they’re 5% and they don’t even know where from. At least study the culture a bit and be respectful. Coming from an American.
@@that_one_av57 I'm Italian and O have been to Madrid about two weeks ago, its not that bad (ignoring the fact that there was someone having stroke every 2 minutes because of the hot temperatures)
Hits home. Went to a Scandinavian festival in New Jersey, while living in NYC. Not a lot of distinguishing between Dutch, Irish and Scandinavian. Lot of fun, though. Lovely people!
Having read the comments, I understand why Americans say this. But in Europe, we usually expect someone to have a deep knowledge of the culture and language when they proudly claim to be "part" something. I also think, once you get 3rd generation, the claim to be part something starts to drop out. Nothing wrong with either, just a real culture clash.
Thats understandable. But my interactions with Europeans is I usualy ask a question about the culture and unless its a super common thing they don't know lol. I actually taught a Scottish dude about Scouttish folk lore cause hed had never heard anything outside the 9 stories his family told.
2 generations is enough. When it's your granny the one with the connection, you don't have any. If it's your dad and mom, the connection is way stronger, but that's about it.
But in general it depends; there are these guys in Bosnia who are definitely Trentini (a region in Italy) although the last time any of them was in Trentino was in the 50s of 1800, before Italy was even formed (1861) or Trentino became part of Italy (1918)
@@greyhunter3271 culture is not folklore. It can also be that, but that's not it. It's way more complicated than that. It's how you behave, it's customs, it's shared beliefs, it's language. It's the way you are, the way you think, not WHAT you think or know. Lore is a thing but it's not a requirement.
People be like "ya, my mother's cousin's goldfish's previous owner's barber's ex girlfriend's solicitor's sister's second cousin is 0.004% Irish and 0.0007% Russian, so that means I'm 70% Irish and 30% Russian!"
When I met Americans first time in my life in the past it's literally what I did. And I was like 'So why would you tell me you're part of my nation if you have no idea where it is located and you don't speak a word. I was young. lol
Luckily, that ain't a huge trend here in Australia, since we're all proud to be aussies. But I only say I'm Mexican and Austrian.....because I am. My dad's austrian, and I'm semi-fluent in german, and spent 4 years there; and my mum's mexican, and I am semi-fluent in Spanish, and lived there for 2 years.
Another thing you gotta love is when you're Canadian and speak Dutch because of family heritage and everyone's like "wow you could get along so well with the German exchange kids"
If only Europeans did this "Yeah I'm from french-dutch-german-finnish descent!" And it'd probably still be closer related than Americans are to their heritage
I'm italian, my parents are one from north and one from south, i probably have in my blood half eurasian continent. But I considered myself just italian. Anzi, milanese, I'm from Milano, let's be specific 🤣🤣🤣
I'm an English person descended from the Irish diaspora and I'm trying to learn Gaelic because I think it would be good to go there and learn about that culture to which my grandfather belongs.
I’m originally from Russia and I met so many “Russians” here: people whose great great someone came from Russia. And of course they don’t know a single word in Russian, don’t actually know which part of Russia their ancestors came from or it turned to be that they came from Finland, Poland, They’re all very nice people and it always nice to see how excited they are to meet a guy from their motherland:)
Ah that's awesome :) I get the same when I speak to Americans who visit Scotland. I agree they get excited. However I do wonder why it always seems to be Americans doing this.
I’m from Amerika I tell people I’m russian because my family some of them come from siberia from a town called NovoSibirsk I’m russian polish and Estonian :) mixed with other things :)
@@OmgKatySlays I’ve been to Novosibirsk many times (business trips). It’s actually a big city, not a town, also known as the capital of Western Siberia. Fun fact: the lowest temperature I’ve ever experienced was minus 48 Celsius (-54 Fahrenheit). And it happened to me in Novosibirsk airport around 5 in a morning. I thought I was going to die while wailing for the aircraft standing on a getaway.
@@jordantalbot246 kudos to you for knowing history/geography. That’s true. But the thing is that even then nobody called them “Russia”. They were Autonomous Principality of Finland and Autonomous Kingdom of Poland respectively. It would be almost impossible to imagine that Pole or Polka called themselves “Russian” considering the complicated history of relationship between Poland and Russia.
As an American, I would like to state that these people do not represent all of us! Some of us are cultured and knowledgeable about other countries. For example, I won 3 games of GeoGuesser in a row, so I’m basically Hungarian, Romanian and Greek.
