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I mean, if you’re a democracy, you can pretty much judge people based on their politicians. The politicians don’t grow in the woods they are reflection of society

I think you misunderstand about being disliked for "being happy". I think it is more about the insincere fake smile and constant "have a nice day" comments. It seems so forced and fake and Europeans don't respond so well to the insincerity. That was one of the reasons that Walmart failed so hard in Germany.

As a comment already stated. People of a country always say "don't judge us on our political leaders." But these are the people the majority of the population chose to represent them - therefore are a reflection of the citizens.

In my opinion Americans always make a big deal out of little things, they exaggerate. And I don’t like that some things are rubbing off to our society. Take a gender reveal party by expecting parents, or a baby shower. And don’t get me started on weddings. It has to be bigger than others had, at more beautiful venues than others had, with more guests than others had, more romantic than others etc. Everything has to go flawless and because of that you have rehearsals, crazy. And a lot of Americans react crazy when they hear a surprise, like a daughter’s pregnancy or a soldier son coming home from deployment. Running around screaming, or plummeting to the floor and cry and scream, so exaggerated, like they play a role in a tv comedy series.

I'm from Rome, Italy. Every year we welcome millions of tourists. I can tell you that American tourists fall into two categories. Fifty percent are wonderful tourists, respectful of the culture and the place they are in. The other fifty percent, however, think they are in an amusement park. They think that by paying, they can do whatever they want without respecting the people and the place they are in. I can assure you that this high percentage (50%) of rude people is not found in any other group of tourists. This makes you very unpopular and has little to do with your country's politics.

It does appear to me that Americans abroad want to be actively liked, and when they are treated neutrally they take that as being disliked. Maybe that's down to the culture of false enthusiasm and friendliness that permeates a lot of social interaction (led by retail) in the States that has become part of the national personality (sort of), so the European more neutral attitudes comes over as negative in comparrison. There's also a culture of mickey taking in Europe (especially the UK) where we poke fun at people that is not as common so much in the US, except maybe for very close friends who can get away with it, and this may be taken as disliking when done by people you have not known for long, but it is one of the ways we get to know you, especially from your reaction.

Hate is a strong word, I would say we are disappointed or disillusioned. We used to admire the US and took a lot of inspiration from there. In Europe we have always had a lot of information about the US in our news. And many of us has visited US multiple time. However, something has happened and we have become disillusioned. America's reputation has deteriorated in recent decades. The 2016 presidential election and its preceding election campaign were a disaster for America's reputation in the rest of the world! The following presidential therm did not help!

There is another video where an American is asking British people why they dislike people from the US, and almost all said they liked Americans as individuals, but quite a few disliked the diversive stance of the politicians, the erosion of human rights, particularly abortion decisions, and singled out Trump: they found it difficult to understand how he can be worshiped by so many when he is so dishonest and self serving.

I think about the ''judging based off the president'' is due to the fact that the usa is closed off so they don't talk about presidents of other countries. Especially the media. Like I know here (in france) we talk about political leaders quite a lot (especially the elections)

With the Internet and Social Media i think a lot of opinions now are based more on regular people rather than politicians. You get to experience more of an unfiltered version of people regardless of where they are from.

Hi there from Portugal. Speaking for myself of course, but I don't think we hate Americans per se. I guess we hate the apparent predisposition to violence, the lack of common sense ( health service, anyone?), and the increasing censorship stances (i.e., forbidding certain books in certain states, therefore hindering critical thinking.), That's absolutely a no-no for me. This is just what we hear out here, although we know we shouldn't generalise...Again, this is what's being sold to us, for better or worse

If you read a local newspaper in Europe, you will always find a large section with international news. In the US people are less informed. And your attitude is different as well. You mentioned that thanks to the internet you now can get access to all that information. As a German I was used to hearing these news every day through local radio stations or public tv stations. Even the private channels have adopted this news culture because everybody was used to it since the late fifties of the last century. And even these days, if I read something in the social media, I will check whether the public news service confirms the information before assuming it to be true. And since these media are controlled by a large group of different organisations they are rather reliable.

The Netherlands, where I live, is considered to be a christian country, but here religion is personal and not so prominent in society. I heard "in The Netherlands we have not only freedom of religion, but also freedom from religion" and I think that's a good thing. Exceptions are there of course, but over all we just get along, religious (from what ever religion) or not.

G'day Guys! OK so I am Australian...I worked in Brazil, Argentina & Uruguay in the late 70's/80's and the reason the people there don't like "Yanquis" is because the CIA et al did so much to prop up the fascist dictatorships there... People here don't dislike US citizens per se but let's face it alm 80 million voters almost half of votes cast in 2020 were for Trump and we look at that and wonder how stupid can those people be? We see Republicans, some not all, who we would describe as borderline fascists just looked at as "conservatists" the electoral system is one of the least democratic in the Western world. Does an independent body set electoral boundaries? NO! Do the various "secretaries" get elected by the people? NO!!! Sadly people like yourselves who WANT to learn do not appear to be the majority over there... Cheers!

I think its more about that Americans don't care about europe and their culture not knowing anything they still have opinion about something they dont know and its irritating to people from that countries it's making Americans look selfish and rude .Sometimes if you don't know you just ask and people will help you understand but they don't do that, they saying stuff without thinking about the meaning or people who may they offend.

16:30 every country has stereotypes inside of it 😅 in Italy stereotypes range between provinces 50km distant to each other.. in my region (Veneto) for example we have a little song that emphasizes stereotypes among the region like Venice is rich and Padua is full of doctors..

The biggest problem with some Americans is their exceptionalist self-image. Either "we are the greatest country in the world" or "all we do is fuck up the world". Neither is true. The things, that make America great, like economy, military and technological innovations don't matter all that much for the average citizen. For them stuff like housing, healthcare, education and crime are more important in their day to day life. And those are the things the US does worse than any other developed nation. And while the US foreign policy certainly isn't perfect, some people take it to the extreme and say it is all bad. That's not true either. NATO is a good thing, international cooperation is a good thing and keeping agressive superpowers like Russia or China in check is also a good thing.

We do NOT dislike Americans, we just wonder how this could happen

Growing up in a tourist town, pre Internet and social media, US citizens only seemed to travel in tours and always a bit confused about where they were, history, currency, etc. The Japanese also favoured the lightening speed tour of Europe, but even with a language barrier, had done their research and understood. Nowadays, even with the Internet and social media, you get a few more independent travellers from the US, but as a generalisation, not much more research. Amazes me even more now that I know that PTO is limited, precious time, yet all that money spent with no research! Final note, the mass shootings, the right to bear arms is so important to some, and these same people are anti abortion. I can't get my head around the people backing these policies, and any protest is given up after a week!

Why do I not like the USA, not America, the USA? When I was 5, i.e. 70 years ago, I realised that they do not take responsibility for their negative actions. The usa still doesn't.

I live in Indonesia. I'm Indonesian. My first encounter with an American, I've got several fvcc yous in my face. I was a chef trainee in a hotel restaurant and he was ordering quite a detailed way of how to cook his eggs. It was a particularly crowded breakfast service and I had many specific ways of cooking the guests' eggs in hand before his. Mind you, he was finally in the restaurant because he was already making a ruckus of how the effin stupid front desk person forgot to wake him up (which he didn't ask for a wake-up call in the first place). So he was there a good 10 minutes past the breakfast time limit. I didn't forgot what he ordered (omelette of three eggs with only two of the yolks, only salt no pepper, with some onions). I was making the order that came 2 orders before his, but he was in front of me already asking for his eggs. Not even 3 minutes have passed since he was asking for it. I was completely flabbergasted because he was just starting to say rude things and make negative remarks about me and how I'm fat lol and he topped it off with a few fvcc yous for good measure So yeah. Not exactly a joyous meeting..

People dont travel places because the politics are different they travel for geography and culture.

The "enlightend" americans and those who travel abroad are not the issue. It's the MAGA people and those who think like them who ruin the image....and also politicians.

I'm European, Conservative, and Gay 😂 here to be a conservative is like to be a liberal.over there 😂

South Park isn't Canadian. Just that the writing staff has one Canadian writer on it.

in Europe you only even get to know the Americans who made the effort on getting a passport, are able to get time off work and can afford to travel intercontinentally. that already is a huge bias in what type of Americans you can interact with f2f. I only met an American couple once: in Thailand on a booked trip around Phuket. as expected they were super nice, open-minded and we had a good chat during the car drives.

I think most of my negative feelings towards America are less about the people and more about the system. Compared to most western countries America has more inequality, a worse political system, worse access to health care, mental health support, benefits, etc. I listen to a lot of American podcasts and I'm constantly shocked by how much worse things are in the US. Listening to 'Ear Hustle' for example made me aware of how utterly fucked up the American prison system is. Shocking. I thought European prisons were dehumanising but they're nothing compared to American norms. I've met lots of Americans who are fully aware of all of those things but I have also met lots of Americans who were patriotic in a way I've never heard anyone else speak about their country. As a German who has been living in the UK for over a decade that kind of patriotism feels super uncomfortable. It's interesting that extremes kept coming up in the video. It made me realise that my feelings about America are pretty polarised as well. I think of breathtaking natural landscapes, warm hospitality but at the same time of oppressive Christianity, extreme conservatism... Lots of the people I look up to, who have shaped who I am today are American. Musicians like Big Thief, Sufjan Stevens or Ethel Cain, writers like Audre Lorde and even RU-vidrs like ContraPoints.

Hello I'm French and I just wanted to let you know that I don't hate the Americans. Thinking that all the French do is just another stereotype;

Europe has a culture, they have song, dance, architecture and food and they are proud of it. The US has, Levi's jeans, McDonalds, mass shootings, guns and bombs and you are proud of it?

yes, Europeans tend to answer based on political view and news. However, I would agree with some of their points and it's connected to my own experience traveling to US and interacting with people there... And again people will judge every other country - just ask😂

You looked puzzled by the English woman saying we are not European, yes we have many Brits who are ignorant of their own history, talking stereotypes, Briths in us have a stereotype of being intelligent, yep it's a stereotype. For me, the Positives are the many reaction channels like yours which give more genuine insights

I think the internet has had a much bigger effect on Americans than it has on anyone else worldwide. America has been a net exporter of culture for a long time while only really importing small amounts of culture from other countries - music from UK, food from Mexico maybe a little film noir from France. That was about it until the internet opened the world up to everyone which I find weird considering USA is a county of immigrants. Meanwhile European countries (even Britain which keeps itself fairly culturally isolated) have always had a history of influences from the many different countries they are in close proximity to. I presume the same happens on the other continents. So while the world shrank for everyone as the internet grew, it really looked from the outside as if many of the Americans I interacted with back then were slowly discovering that the rest of the world wasn't just a smaller, poorer old fashioned version of America and didnt in fact particularly look up to them or down on them very much at all (individual ameriphiles/ameriphobes notwithstanding). The best metaphor I can come up with is America was absolutely convinced it was the universally popular kid at school until it listened in on the group chat and found out that it was mid popular and American people (not government) still seem to be struggling to come to terms with that. Sure sometimes the perception of America is about your government but usually it isn't. Especially since every aspect of the english speaking internet is massively dominated by Americans. The rest of the world gets to interact with alot more Americans than Americans do with people from the rest of the world.

Like a famous german comedian once said: "We should not fall into this superficial anti amercanism. But mine isn't superficial."

We as Americans do not care abou foreign opinions

Being conservative and liberal at the same time means you are just a moderate. Or a centrist as we usually call it here in Poland. I always thought this is the healthiest place to be politically. Trying to see reason on both sides and avoding any crazy extremes.

I don't think Europeans dislike Americans. People from Canada or Mexico are also Americans. They have done nothing wrong. But we don't like the ignorance and the attitude of some people of the US, in particular the attitude to be god's chosen country and the whole world has to revolve around. For example, when US Americans ask an Englishman what language they speak in England... I just have no sympathy for idiots like that. And we don't like the fake friendlyness the fake smiles. That US-Americans do one moment, as they will be your best friend, and the other moment they forget you exist.

Politicians are a representative of your society

We can differentiate between US politicians and the people. We also know that there are nice open people like you. Not all of them are MAGA and crazy. But Reagan, Bush jr. and Trump were elected by many people (majority? Cough). And when I look at the GOP candidates omg.🐵

In 2022, Europeans made up 10% of the 46.2 million immigrants living in the United States, which is just over 4.7 million people. In 2022, 76,221 Americans moved to the European Union Hm

American has exported it's pop culture to the UK at full speed since the 80s. It was hyper charged when the internet came along. But before the internet there was music, sport, food, film & Hollywood, TV programmes, reality shows & TV series flowing into the coutry. All of this media rubs off onto the psyche of Briton's as they grow up. This has much more of an influence of our views on the average American. *I fully appreciate that there is no such thing as an average american in any way whatsoever!

In the 80s and 90s I read books and furthered my education, now I spend far too much time watching funny videos of animals. 😂

As a brit and having been to America many many times together with staying in a lot of the States, have found Americans to be the opposite of what is perceived. They very friendly,helpful, kind and good fun to be with, only one person, ever was so rude and pushed me to my limit was in New York. Lucky for him he was behind a glass barrier. So it seems there is always one, ready to spoil the image. I loved my stay in the States and had many good times with Americans, who like me enjoyed good food and excitement- got them finally to appreciate a good beer!! There are some really good real ales in the USA forget Coors and Budweiser! Still in touch with many of the families. As a side note, take it from me, the people are not a reflection of their politicians, quite the opposite in fact. Its just like us in the UK we vote between a rock and a hard place, our systems are becoming very undemocratic. Me? I'm off down the pub, trying forget those idiots who pretend that they are helping us.

DON'T HATE ANYONE! 😀

Good points and as a European i agree with all.. Mostly duo to USA tourists which are the absolute worst in my opinion(Obviously not "ALL" but a vast majority. What you say about judging USA Civillians based on their political leadership is true, but that happons to alot of Country's . Easy example: Russia and China..

As a dane with a lot of american friends, i`ll just say that "dislike americans" is not a title i`m crazy about🙂 we have great news and great correspondents overthere, so we do understand that it`s a big country, and that an american from Alabama screaming Phraise the Lord and i hate socialists, isn`t the same as an american living in San Fransisco or New York🙂

It hard to generalize US and EU, bc they are just to big. But the list of positieve and negative aspects makes it more clear, I think. And unfortunately there are too many negative US aspects. And again,I appriciate this video.and your comment a lot.👍👍

I can't understand Europeans that look down on Americans thinking they are so much better. Most Europeans haven't met most Americans or vice versa, same with the rest of the world, so basically we know jack shit bout each other. As far as my experience goes considering Americans; most were wonderful, very helpful and super friendly people and I noticed very little differences between people from west and east coast or those from the 'fly-over-states'.

You know. I hear you saying we judge you because of your politicians. And you obviously don’t think that’s fair. But realistically what is anyone doing about it. Like, WHAT?

It's not as if Europeans fundamentally dislike every single U.S. citizen. It's more the case that there are an incredible number of aspects of the U.S. that Europeans simply don't like. I personally can't understand how one can live under all these burdens, as I would call these aspects. For me, that would be no life, only survival. What I as a European absolutely cannot understand is the fact that many US Americans have resigned themselves to the conditions in their country, even if they would like to change them. The U.S. has absolutely no demonstration culture, the citizens just accept everything. Only when it comes to their beloved money do they take to the streets. Occupy Wall Street was the largest protest movement in North America in 2011. Everything else you just have to accept and survive.

We like americans... Your ancestors is from here...i only been to New York city... People there where amazing so helpful.. IF we where looking at a map, they rushed to help US out..

I didn't know what a vlog was but I saw your thingy below and clicked on it and saw you on a video walking around, I was amazed to see you outside on legs, lol. I have subscribed and now look forward to seeing more of your great videos. Take care in CA. (U.K.)👍

I feel sorry for the US Americans. You're stuck with some things from 100 years ago. Not a good social system. Without social health insurance. No worker rights (vacation, continued payment of wages...). Free education. They take on debt and work, they take on more debt and work more. Like the farmers in the Middle Ages. They are "governed" by two parties, as was known at the end of the monarchy in Europe. Many people still have the same moral ideas as they did 100 years ago. They still have to protect themselves with firearms... It's really the case that people in Europe think that films like: The Handmaid's Tale, The Purge can become a reality in the USA. Not for the whole country but for parts of it...

Obviously every Country has their Stereotypes, Never change who you are as a person for anyone, as long as you're a good person then who cares what other people think.....Great video guys! From UK.

But in some countries like the UK we don’t directly choose our leader, we elect the party and they have their leader, so you can agree with the party and choose them, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you agree with or like the leader or think of him or her as a reflection

Guys, I don't think you can make such a neat separation between politicians and the people. After all, politicians are part of the people, they came from American homes, schools, churches, businesses and Americans vote for them time and again. The strange idea that the government is something separate, removed from actual people and not to be trusted is so American that most Americans can't see the simple truth that politicians are actually a statistically relevant sample of the population. For heck's sake, over 70 million of you have watched Trump for four goddamn years, listened to him, read his abysmal tweets, saw him bully the weak, the fallen, the downtrodden, listened to him making nasty, tasteless jokes of every decent human feeling and then thought "yeah, that's my kind of guy, I'll vote for him again". Seventy million plus change, that's almost four times the entire population of my country! Now that is scary. Not Trump, he's a douchelord, but he's just one person. His voters, those who like him not in spite of who he is but precisely because of who he is. They see themselves, their own values, feelings and thoughts in him. Let's be clear, I don't generalize, I've spent three years in the USA, I know and like many Americans, I have friends there to this day. I think the USA is actually two nations locked inside the same country. One of them very normal, very similar to people from other Western countries. The other one though has values and morals that have more in common with the past centuries: fundamentalist religious fanatics, patriarchal Christian Talibans, gun nuts, utterly ignorant hillbillies who are actually proud of their ignorance, people who belittle intelligence, their ego bloated to immense size by their sense of American superiority. More or less openly racist, bigoted. There are those who think The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopia and those to whom it's a utopia. Sometimes I think you should have let the South secede.

Conservatives are people that dont want changes. Liberals want to change for better. You can be democrat and conservative and you can be republican and liberal. The big problem is to confuse politics with religion.

only canadian in southpark is 'ike' kyles brother, everyone else is from south park Colorado

Here in Sweden Bernie Sanders is considered far right and so much more far right than our parties that are far right.

I don’t hate ‘American’s’ I hate ‘America’, the way it’s designed does include an American dream, but what they don’t tell u is it’s a dream only the rich can have.

I think as individuals Americans seem like good people but as a collective not so much .

Hi from Sweden 🇸🇪 Personally I find Americans to be generally nice people. However as a country it seems like the US is loosing it. Looking in from the outside you only see the polarisation, the loud extremes. Going to check out the vlog channel now, peace and love ❤

We dont hate Americans, but there is some stereotypes of americans we kind of dislike! Its rather this.. US have for a verry long time proved that they are Europes friend! And then its probably more about US citicens that not knowing anything outside there own comfort zone? I wonder if it have to do with that US is a multi cultur/language country, the biggest settler group in USA is Germans.. put in scandinavians.. germanic should be your native language??? But the elite was English, (another germanic language), they didnt like to pay taxes to England, and you keept all the laws and rules frome "Good old England" even after you got your independens! Its a bit strange?? For me it seems you got stuck there 1776, when Europe have moved on, to an "American way of living", introduced by USA!

22:00 The values & policies of conservatism vary wildly depending on the country & time. Conservatism can take many forms such as; Liberal conservatism, Religious conservatism, Progressive conservatism, Fiscal conservatism, etc. An example of different policy views is that the Swedish conservative party wants to make abortion a constitutional right for women. This is not something you wouldn't hear from the US Republicans.

The stereotypes thing inside the country: every single small european country has that. Stereotypes about cities, or small regions are pretty normal.

Before the internet we read books!!! preferably from different viewpoints, and then we made our own personal decisions. Don't rely on the media, big or small. 🙂

We actually judge each other and other countries based on the politicians of each a lot. I think Americans just do not realize this because they are kind of closed off from world politics, so they do not have easy media access to such politicians and the stereotypes they attach to their own people.

I love Americans

Where I live, the Liberal Party is a conservative party, which is not the case in the States

@2:54, it's 7 months later and no zombie apocalypse yet. So yay? XD

Damn, he has a good grasp on the french language, i'm impressed...

I’m European and I love Americans but I am in the Channel Islands so we only get the posh ones 😹😹😹 I have friends in America and am intelligent enough to realise you can’t stereotype a nation. Unfortunately the 2016 election made many lose total respect. I didn’t know Southpark was Canadian. I honestly can’t tell the difference between American and Canadian accent. Oh yes as someone just said the anti abortion laws yet you have more guns than people is a huge point. In my personal experience I’ve met lovely Americans- not arrogant like some Americans in media. I love you two! You are soooooooooo laid back😹😹😹😹

we had ecoli on veggies called eheck. so its harsch all around

18:55 It's annoying enough when Americans get Europe and the EU mixed up but it bothers me even more when Europeans do it.

Nice commentary. I wanna add the following; We europeans don't get to interact with people from the United States a lot and if we do we mostly really like the interactions with you beyond a few outliers who, to us, can act very oddly or ignorant. What we do get to see and "interact" with on a daily basis is your foreign policies. For the longest time we saw what you did in the middle-east etc. and as said in the video, we see how you present yourself on the internet. Your entire country suffers from being basically almost the size of Europe, yet Europe gets judged entirely different since we are a collection of individual countries. Therefore we get to be judged per country, while you are not offered the same "respect" of being judged state by state, although it would actually be more fair to do so. So when we think of the USA we do not seperate Texas and California etc., all of you are just the USA to us. Thus when we see you carpet bombin civillians in the middle-east, to us, it's all of you, no matter which state you are from, doing that and appearing to be in support of these acts. I personally am terrified of the USA, you are one of the closest allies to Europe, yet your values and foreign policies do not seem to align AT ALL with our values and virtues. Coupled with the fact that we see people such as Logan Paul as legitimate representatives of your people really doesn't help your case.

Speaking of Yes Theory, one of that team was on the boat talking to Nathaniel, whom I also follow.

Certainly, here in Great Britain, politics is perceived as very separate from religion. The handful of politicians (or, indeed, other public figures), who have spoken about the effects of their religious beliefs on their politics have generally been sidelined and regarded as odd, if not a little dangerous. In the UK (with the possible exception of Northern Ireland) religion is considered a very private and personal thing and is seldom discussed publicly. In the US it appears, at least to outsiders, that politicians make a big public show of their religious beliefs On a downer, sorry guys, to a grumpy middle aged bloke from Yorkshire at least, the US habit of loudly, repetitively and incorrectly using the word 'awesome' at least once in every sentence grates. Yes, appreciated, it's probably the optimism thing that we don't do (especially in Yorkshire) but the word just gets very overused.

I see there are a lot of videos like this on youtube lately. You should know that we (generally) don't actually hate Americans. We might dislike/hate certain things about US politics or culture, but you shouldn't take it personaly. Also, I don't get why these videos focus on Europeans, when people in other parts of the world have the same (if not worse) type of feelings about Americans or the US.

for what its worth i dont know anyone that hates americans, we definitely dislike the way your country treats its people and the politics and nosnense news though. The republicans in ireland were the ones to fight for gay rights and stuff during the irish civil rights movement haha, we also generally like biden even with all the tiktok clips of him sleeping and saying dumb stuff. You were also talking about countries being different is a positive, i agree, part of what the EU does is set targets and rules for countries, like 'every citizen must have easy and affordable access to healthcare' and the country can choose how to achieve this, so any method that works is fine. Some choose universal care some choose goverment subsidised etc as long as the goal is met and verified by eu inspectors then youre good.

I think the 'dislike' is that, it's such a young country that has done and caused so much already! (From a negative point of view.)

Everybody always dislikes the top dog. It's natural. Ask the rest of Europe what they think of Germany. You'll get the same answers.

I think the view of America as a beacon of hope in the world is gone which is why so many Americans experience this "dislike". Also, everything that happens in the US comes to Europe a few years later and we don't always appreciate what comes...

I think people tend to be critical of the country/system/culture of the USA more than its people. Yes, you have someone like Trump who was elected by nearly 63 million Americans in 2016. In 2020, more than 74.2 million people voted for Trump. That means at least 74.2 million people eligible to vote in the USA agree with him, which is a significant minority. It makes sense for Europeans to consider that voter turnout. Conversely, Americans don't typically seem to know much about other world leaders, including here in Europe, so it wouldn't make sense for them to talk about leaders they've never heard of. US election coverages are just more pervasive and present in Europe and other parts of the world than vice versa. When's the last time US media spoke about the French presidential election for example?

Matey in the video (with glasses) should also realise that there is a general crises of identity in the western world at the moment. This is probably contributing to his anxiety.

One of the reasons the rest of the world thinks Americans are weird and crazy is because they shout from the rooftops that the US is the best country in the world and 80% of them have never left the country and many haven't even left their home state. The rest of the world may also have the same percentage, but they don't say they are the best in the world. What many hate is the American political class and the slavers, not the anonymous citizen.

What do you mean south park are canadians? It takes place in Colorado

As a portuguese who knows americans, i know not all americans are the same, but it's like the almost universal bad reputation of cab drivers... stereotypes sometimes make sense and generalizations ar inevitable.because there are so many americans that cause a bad impression in some foreign countries (most of the times it's not really their fault...). The american culture and politics are going the the opposite direction of most of the developed countries and that only helps for this perception of americans in the world.

This is the point ,Governments are supposed to work for the people of a country that’s there job!! why do the citizens put up with this?

We also have stereotypes in Europe, Western Europe vs Eastern Europe

I really like yours both point of view of many subjects, the channel is very interesting 💚

Thanks!

once I went to a party with Americans. They talked about themselves and friends but these "friends" seemed insignificant. Americans in general don't listen and learn new things like they do over here in France. There is nothing more rewarding.

Ok, you don't judge other countries based on their leaders but there's a difference: US leaders have an impact on US foreign policy which affects the majority of other countries too. The reverse is not necessarily true.

South Park is based in Colorado, in the US 😆

I honestly miss the days when I'd wake up on a sunny day and walk to the shop to buy a newspaper...

I think people are aware of the stereotypes *within* America. It's a bit much to say 'we're a big country'. We get it. People from California are vacuous, people from New York are rude and people from Florida are racist if they're old and go to prison if they're young. But hey, I'm British, so I'm probably sexually repressed and have bad teeth, so am not worth listening to. The point is - embrace your stereotypes. They're pretty funny in the long run. If you get angry about those things, you probably conform to the archetype.

I think it's important to differenciate between the american people and the political/social system, they live in. The majority are "normal" people, that are friendly, welcoming and warmhearted. What I personally don't like, is people that show exaggerated patriotism, are prude, are racist or at least evangelical. Unfortunately this minority has a lot of influence and is even louder than the majority. I have some american friends and really like hanging around with them. From a political/social aspect, in my opinion the US are a failed state, but that hasn't anything to do with the individual. These guys have to deal with the crap system they live in day by day and I'm not jealous about them, as wouldn't like it either.

Oh that's just not unique to you either you just have like 50 countries/states in 1, and I don't even blame those who can't name every single one, when I ocassionally struggle with my 16 here in lil ol Germany, hehe. But Nothern Germans are humourless (there is legitmaltey a saying that says people from the North go to the chambers to laugh) Collogne people are way mor extroverted and likea good and loud laugh. Former East Germany ocassionally known to be very "old times romantizising" wanting the wall back or even earlier than that. and not to forget from Rhine area on they're mainly catholic on paper and therefore have more holy-holidays lol also carenval which is depending on which eye you view it is hillariour - problematic, I suppose. Bavaria is the Texas of Germany to many (which I doubt belive is a fair = at all) but it is known to be wanting to be it's own and going and it's the birth place of leatherpants and coo-coo clocks so eh Oh yes Berliners have a loud / big mouth and newly "Berlin isn't Germany anymore" bc so many immigrants... I trust you 2 to think for yourself at the end. ^^

In Germany, per capita consumption of raw pork is 5.2 kilograms or 11.5 pounds, and we have no health concerns because the standards are very high. ;)

These two sitting there should talk of what they think of crime in each country. America would be on top of the list. Listen to American news it’s always about a shooting there. Wonder what they think of the gun laws in other countries.

Every country has it's dumb people. The problem I think America has, even if a small percentage of people are dumb, that's still a lot of dumb people. Then on top of that, those dumb people like to be heard. You only hear those who shout the loudest and all that. If you can look past that though, the majority of Americans are no different to the average person in any civilised society. We all just want to get on with it, do our best and live our lives. We're really not that different.