Dumbest Things Americans Have Said to Norwegians | American Reacts | #2
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As an American I am aware that we tend to say some pretty ignorant things. Today I am both nervous and curious to hear about some of the dumbest things Americans have ever said to Norwegians. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
There are houses still in use in norway that were built 500 years before the US was established...
and there are stave churches built in the 8 century,still standing.
I explained to an American, while I was traveling, that I lived in East Africa. He asked me if we had houses and clothes there, and said it must be very dangerous with all the Lions there. I responded jokingly that he was right, but it was even worse with the lack of food there. "I had to eat three neighbors last year because I ran out of food!" I told him. He moved away from me, clearly afraid that I might eat him.
Early 2000 I had a 5 year military assignment in NATO. During a 3 week course at a military base in Italy (we were all wearing uniforms) I was approached by 2 americans attending the same course as me. They asked if they could help me escape to USA so I did not have to live in a socialist/communist country. When I very confused tried to explain that I was quite happy living in Norway their response was even more disturbing. They asked if my refusal to escape was because my relatives in Norway was being held in prison and would be executed if I did not return.
It still confuses me to this day why a country would send dumb dumbs like that to represent their country in uniform.
Wow😅 that’s quite disturbing.
We also from time to time have some from Marine Core at winter survival courses in Northern Norway. Some of them likes is so much they do not wantvto return to Trumpist MAGA US, but rather stay in a communist /socialist country with decent health care and free University education. Polite Police, in most cases unarmed. 4-5 weeks payed holidays pr year etc etc.
Give them some slack.. if this story is even true, I guess they’ve heard of north Korea or something similar. It was good intentions and that is in my opinion much more telling than anything else. I don’t think ridicule is contributing to anything good. Have you ever thought about what it might say about us when we so obviously have fun on other peoples behalf? Shouldn’t we know better?
@@elsemargrethetnder883 and how do they confuse asians with europeans?
@@runeingebretsen8378 lack of knowledge I guess but..since you are asking, you can obviously read, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you understand, does it?
Oh, I've heard worse. I ilive in a very small community (around 80 people) in the innermost part of a fjord in Northern Norway. There is not a lot of Americans coming here, but it happens. Here's a few quotes of things I've heard from them personally over 20+ years:
- Where's the nearest subway station, I wanna go to your university
- Where are all the polar bears? I wanna shoot one, my brother dared me to do so.
- When are you going on a whate hune? Can I join?
- You're not a Norwegian, you're not blonde.
- We're in Sami territory, why aren't you dressed as one? (No Sami here at all...)
- How can I get back to Europe?
- (Watching my 18 years old nephew having a beer with me, and asks his age). Why isn't anyone calling the police?
- Where can we meet real vikings? Me: the viking age ended almost 1000 years ago. American: LIAR - are you hiding them in your basement?
- Where can I buy a gun? Me: you can't. American: what is this shithole of a country?
- and more...
And btw, Norway being the capital of Sweden, that one is more common than you may think.
hehehe, oooff 😂
Teacher: Only the US can build tall things. The Burj Khalifa: You're a special kinda dumb huh?
In Oslo. 2x American tourist pointed at the royal castle, one asking the other; What is that?
the other: I think its the prison...
foreigner in washington D.C standing in front of the white house,what is that i think it's a prison,would americans be offended? btw did they not see the millitary guards in front of the kings castle,in royal guards uniforms,with guns?
@@runeingebretsen8378 obviously prison guards!
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As another Oslonian, that's hilarious 😂In more ways than one.
Also, I'm glad it's not flashier - if otherwise would be insinuated - I think it represents us quite well. It's just grand enough. Serious building, but not extravagant for no reason.
It is impossible to have midnight sun and northern lights in a single trip. The first guarantees 24 hours of daylight, the second requires the dark.
It is more complex than just "requires the dark" but in practice I'll let you have that sentence 😅
@@SebHaarfagre Of course it requires dark.I've seen the aurora several times and each time it grew in visibility as the sky got dark.
One time I was in Dominican Republic, I talked to a street performer and he asked me where I was from. I said Norway, and he replied 'where is that?" I said it was a country in Northern Europe. Then I asked where he was from and he answered Manhattan.
I know where Manhattan is, but he answered like it should be common knowledge to know a neighbourhood in a unknown city within a unknown country. Still he don't even know that Norway is a country in Eurpe.
So you should have answered, "In that case, I'm from Kvaløysletta". 😅
@@liselotte3281 or I'm from Mellomvegen
@@Doneforful 😂😂
I had some American youths telling me they were told before going to Norway that they would see polar bears roaming around in the streets of our cities. Also; when I was a student I worked in a grocery store, and two Americans came to pay for their groceries. I heard them speaking English, so I spoke with them in English. Then they told me: "Man, you Norwegians do know how to speak English!" I have learnt it at school since I was about nine years old, we watch movies and TV series in their native language, mostly American, and I lived at the biggest student housing in Bergen. So yeah, we know how to speak English!
They,ve probably heard about Svalbard once and thought that was all of norway.
Easy, you just need a long stay!
Vi talk in inglish veri gudd, hehe
The first story was not so much foolish as it was sad.
Wasn’t foolish at all, just sad. I’m Norwegian and don’t know everything about Norway either.
It was definitly foolish, you want darkness to view the auroras and it's bright when the sun is up.
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@roevhaal578
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- Auroras are somewhat comparable to shadows...
Just because you can't always see them it doesn't negate the fact that they are there.
The main difference being that 'Auroras' are caused by geomagnetics and 'Shadows' are caused by the blockage of light.
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@@BizzyX78What is the point of your comment? Auroras being there is irrelevant for viewing if it's too bright to see them. Same reason you don't go stargazing while it's bright out. Even if you can see a handful of stars it's gonna be underwhelming.
To those of you who don't like my point of view, could it be that you misunderstood the message? It definitely does not mean that I don't find it foolish or silly at all. There's also something called empathy. Sometimes it strikes us.
"Do you live in actual houses or tree huts?"
I think I would have replied: "Do all Americans live in actual houses or in tepees?" ^^
And BTW ... No one build taller buildings than the Americans? Abu Dhabi any one? It HAS been a year or two since the US held THAT record! ^^
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*The* Troll platform, it's a name, not *a* Troll platform.
speaking of evil socialites. I am from Norway but live in Sweden. these 2 countries have pretty much the same political structure and the same welfare. I got cancer and so far have had 6 doctor visits and been hospitalized for 4 days and had an 8 hour operation to remove the cancerous lumps on my neck. I have to wait radiation treatment 5 days a week for 7 weeks. All I have paid is 80 us$ and don't have to pay anything more and that includes taxi transport 10 miles 5 days a week for 7 weeks. so I'm not complaining about our nasty socialism
Svalbard would have midnight sun in August... just a little bit more to the north. Northern lights are dependent of the sun, but easier to spot in winter when it is dark, obviously.
The sun is up during 00:00 AM in August at Svalbard?
Sorry for the doubt but it sounds like you're using hyperbole and I genuinely do not know.
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"Isnt Norway the capitol of Sweden?"
People from Stockholm: 😡
People from Norway :😡
There is a lady in Kansas that believe I have polar bears for pets - right here where I live on the west coast of Norway, located in Asia bordering China to the west and Kenya to the east. Yeah… I don’t know.
The stupid is painful. How do you feel you can speak with any authority about a place you know nothing about? It's just baffling.
Honestly, I don't think we have anything in Norway that you don't have somewhere in the US. The difference is that in Norway it's spread over a much smaller area.
Yes, especially if we include Alaska. That’s “Norway” on steroids.
@@oh515 Your comment seems to imply that you can find it even without including Alaska. Where do you find the midnight sun in USA outside of Alaska?
we don't have kfc
@@simenkolas9373 FUCK! Don't remind me! :D
@@simenkolas9373 that was in reverse of what the comment was tho
Well Schweden took Bohuslän, Jämtland and Härjedalen, the only arable land of Norway, and let those Viking tribes use the rest as a reservation!
And Schweden lies next to Austria, where the Australians lives. So its imposible for polar bears to live there, its rather kangaroos on the streets!🤣
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I'm 7% Viking and I demand retribution for what the Norwegians did to my people!😠
You don't HAVE TO live amongst those people. You CAN move. To Norway for example. 😉
Husk at vi ser på de verste skrekkeksemplene da.
Polar bears DO wander around in the streets i Norway.
They live in Svalbard which is Norwegian.
Yea but it's about as accurate as saying polar bears wander the streets in USA.
Polar bears don't generally wander around the streets of Longyearbyen in Svalbard. They're way too dangerous to be allowed to do that.
Polar bears (around 3000) do habitate the wilderness in Svalbard. Therefore you need to bring a gun when traveling into the wilderness. However, polar bears can move to areas with humans like camps, tents, huts and even the outskirts of Longyearbyen. The bears are looking for food. So you need guns even close to your home.
You can compare this with grizzly bears in USA. They're not living in the streets of US cities, but you might encounter one occasionally in the outskirts.
They wander around far away from any streets.
The one whit the vikings..! 🤣😂
time has no meaning to americans it seems.
You actually give us hope for USA... You can be proud of yourself, to learn as you go in theese videos Tyler! 🥰😁🤭
Hmm that one about midway through about walking upto a sales window to buy being confusing, just makes me wonder if Americans will eventually evolve into a legless population, and I don't mean "pisssed".
I have a collegue at work who moved here (Sweden) from St Paul Minnesota 10 years ago. One of his biggest chocks, was when he realised how bad the US education is.
When you use insurance for the welfare, it will be twice the price.
You need to pay the insurance companies and the hospitals.
i belive norwegians need to bring with them a globe wherever they travel to in america. spin the globe around to show america first.. then spin it to show them norway, tell them that's norway and it's a country, next to norway is sweden, that's another country, point to denmark and tell them that's another country, those 3 countries make up scandinavia. if point and tell does not work then i'm afraid they're too far gone.
it's just enough if we bring our phones,we can just type in world map,and show americans,btw why can't americans do that?
Problem with bringing a globe is that a lot of Americans are flat Earthers...
You mean, there are three countries besides America?
You are still going strong. Thanks!
I knew a guy from USA who tought Norway was in North America 😂Scandinavia too was part of North America
Norwegian here. The Northern Lights/Midnight sun made me remember two stories I've been told from friends working as receptionists at hotels in northern Norway.
One of them was approached by middle-aged American woman that was very unhappy when she asked when the Midnight sun would rise and was informed that it's the regular sun not setting. So no midnight sun sunrise to see.
The other had an American couple in middle of the winter asking for the midnight sun. My friend was like "you mean the northern lights, right? Aurora Borealis?". No, they wanted to see the midnight sun and had read online that the best time of the year to see it was summer. So they traveled to Norway when it's summer in the Southern Hemisphere. They hadn't thought about the opposite seasons of there northern and Southern Hemisphere. Fortunately a couple of nights of stunning northern lights seemed to do the trick and they were very happy when they checked out, despite the lack of midnight sun.
The one about Vikings and Native Americans I heard the first time in the 90s - probably more of an urban legend.
That professor, did he get his degree through mail order or something? The tallest building in the world is surely The Burj Khalifa in Dubai? 😅
The polar bears in our streets one is a classic. I've also been asked if we live in igloos and ride reindeer to school/work/wherever.
I worked for a few years in a store, and every day I went too work I hoped I could meet one of these people. Sadly never did:(
The Norwegians were the original vikings. How come I have never seen "the dumbest things a Canadian has ever said about America" or about anywhere else for that matter? I am Canadian and have met some dumb Canadians, so they do exist, but have never found anything like "the dumbest things Americans have said" about anything. If anyone has a link for something like that, please let me know.
Im from Norway. Is that in Oklahoma? 😂
Now is Utha in Michigan?
Not everybody keeps the map in their head.
Yes, Norway is in Africa...
We may not have conquered Norway from the vikings, but Norway has a dark history of oppression and violence against the Sami people, our own native population.
The Sami are no more native than us Norwegians. If anything, they arrived later than the first Norwegian ancestors. We're natives.
@@Onnarashi Yes, thank you.
The oppression part is true, though. However it was never as bad as the worst imperialist nations and I like to believe both Sami and non-Sami here wish each other well.
Oh and the Sami never travelled far South, and their routes must be seen in correlation with a borderless map (at least for early history).
But yes, Norwegians are the only native people south of Narvik or further North (can't remember right now) which is the absolute vast majority of coast, landmass and population.
12:03 My favorite thing to ask people that think they know Norway is what is "Janteloven"? For the people that never have heard of it before, its basically how we see ourselves and with others. In Norway we learn that "your not important, you shall not believe you're better than others and so on..." There for saying "I am Norwegian, my great grandma was" is something a real Norwegian would never say. And we know you're not real.
The last one: You should follow upp with: I live close to the north pole
To be fair i think i would secretly be wondering about polar bears lol... I am glad its americans asking that question lol. But i love the skiing question lol
I think a lot of U.S. Americans (not all) have delusions of grandeur their whole life or are accustomed to this mindset because USA USA and all that.
Then they travel, and suddenly feel small, and must go around talking to natives like they know everything and know it better than themselves.
It's just dissonance, really.
Well that, AND a lack of education or any form of attempt at self-improvement...
Again, these are *NOT* representative of a typical U.S. American (yes this is the proper term outside of USA, since "American" is non-descriptive beyond the entire New World) and most U.S. citizens are nice and friendly and outgoing.
And likewise, considering the foundationless grandeur and boasting demeanour of some of these, there's absolutely _no_ reason for anyone to try and defend it, nor is there any reason for someone from USA that is at least somewhat cognizant to feel offended.
Somebody told me a story about americans asking "When do they turn on the Northern Lights?" I am not sure if it is a true story, but some other comments make it seem more likely....hahah
As a swede I'm jelous that you focus on Norway :)
In the army I met quite a few americans - and their knowlege of Norway is minimal. And few of them has any idea og what is socialist, social democrasy and so on. Frankly - what politics concerns, the american shoollsystem really sucks.
Technically, it's called a "drive through" for a reason. Walking people can go inside and order. Cars can't. Logic really.
8:43 Once walked my dog and wanted to buy a burger at the same time, I went through the drive-in. it went perfectly and they give my dog one ice cream. and I know you get the food faster in a drive-in with or without a dog anyway
_"I know you get the food faster in a drive-in with or without a dog anyway"_
???
Do you mean, "I know you get the food faster in a drive-in (as opposed to another place)"? I'm so confused by that sentence 😅😅
Me and wife we walk up to a drivetrue and order burgers i york. That was no prob. The girl was like, thats the first time someone walk up here. But she smile and was very kind to us Norwegin walking idiots😅😅❤
I was in Florida. Someone asked us where we were from. We answered Norway. No Where? Where is it? Was the response from the Americans.
18:30 now you know how I feel almost all videos
It is not norweigan to walk up to a drive thru. Its super american to not give any alternative than to do so 😂
Easy to solve, if there are two of them. One walks towards the window while the other mimics the sound of a car engine.
Vær ikke vred på amerikanerne, thi de ved ikke bedre. 😏
they have a computer in their hands,walking around,use it.
I'm halfway through and I just want to say, USA didn't "take" much from Native Americans, in their defense:
When USA was established, there wasn't many Native reserves left, and initially it wasn't like the Native Americans was sprawled across EVERYWHERE at this massive continent; they were nomadic.
It's rather that "modern" borders had to be set up of sorts, during and after the colonialist Era.
I mean, still, it's horrible by today's standards, but it's often said without context or understanding, even from Northern Americans themselves.
What they did to Mexico was arguably worse, however Mexico/Spain was in turn worse than that again, in these areas...
If someone from elsewhere in the world should complain about USA and its treatment of natives, they should rationally mention Peru, Colombia, Mexico or Spain instead. Way, way, WAY worse.
Not everything was exactly planned like that (disease has most of the fault), but it was in practice literally genocide in the millions.
And most other nations in "the new world" has a similar story, just to varying degrees.
A burger walk about 😅😅
oh this has to be good.
you have oslo in usa to
the question "did norwegians have the same problem with vikings and americans and native americans?" Was weird because weren't norwegians a part of vikings?
Norwegians WERE the Vikings. Along with Swedes and Danes and so forth.
8:40 this is so cringe it makes me wanna just idk pull the plug of myself aka die of cringeness ffs
and fun fact is that northern lights must be seen in winter, and midnight sun in the summer. So you would at least need two trips to nothern parts of Norway to see both things.
Or stay for at least half a year.
@@Quzinqa1122 yes, but you cannot do that on a tourist visum.
@@Quzinqa1122 It will probably be cheaper to have two trips as well.
Why is this American wearing headphones, while reading reddit? ;-)
See you next time. 👍 🇳🇴
"You can´t be Norwegian ..."
"You can´t be American ´cause you are not racist enough! Oh no, sorry, you are!"
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BTW: There is nothing wrong if you don´t know anything. But to teach people in the wrong about their home country is - not nice.
Not your fail pr gilt
Are im aloud to say de stupidest stori i ben told
:( I like it better when you react to videos. Please, videos only :D
NO: NORWEY IS NOT IN SWEDEN.
i mean... do you need glasses? or can you just not read? that BK lady didnt say no, she had no idea how to react.......
Nigerians❤?
Maybe there is a thing about Americans not being that concerned with details either? Mr Walker here, constantly regurgitates what he is reading wrongly!
"regurgitates"?
regurgitates wrongly?
Lefse is not bread.
Do americans not have any perception of time? The vikings were not the native people of norway, the Sami are.
The sami has status as «urfolk» as deceided by norwegian goverment. The samis came from east of the ural mountains, while at the same time germanic tribes started populating Norway. However the samis are a minorty in Norway with their own culture, language and ways of life different to the average norwegian. The idea is to protect the samis from the majority so that they are less likely to be be discriminated by the majority.
So the american claim that the vikings (here: norse-germanic) were native is as correct as claiming that the samis are native. The only differences are that what people referred to as viking is a boring white norwegian today, while some of the samis live a life similar to what they did hundreds of years ago.
The Sami are no more native (less actually) than us Norwegians.
A veteran is free to obtain private medical insurance, and the veteran may prefer that private medical insurance for extended family members, friends, etc. be available.
Who are you 💀
@@SjokopandaM-T Troll in training obviously.
@@SjokopandaM-T It's silvadil it has been with the cannel since the beginning. A person with some issues.
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@user-kq5ke5yb6k
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- On the topic of 'VA-Health Care'...
The grand irony about the 'VA-Health Care' in the USA is that before the laws changed back in January of 2019 it pretty much worked the same way as it does for everyone in Norway and not just for the veterans, but only on a much smaller scale.
If a veteran didn't have basic health insurance coverage when applying for 'VA-Health Care', they were in fact taxed for said health care, just like every Norwegian over the age of 18 years old is to this day.
Although this changed when the laws changed at the start of 2019 and they didn't get taxed the same way when filing their taxes in 2020.
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Um, YOU were clueless about the northern lights, the midnight sun, etc. not long ago.
And, it took you forever to understand.
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@user-kq5ke5yb6k
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- As the old saying goes...
"You live, you learn."
With that said, obviously no one can get to the same level of enlightenment as you.
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