Because our NHS (healthcare) is free (paid via tax, so not really free) it is in our govt’s interest for us to be healthy and eat healthy food. The cynic in me suggests that the huge Pharma lobby in the US would rather you were not so healthy as that hurts profit.
@me-xj7et Exactly. USA health system is working as intended. Making people as unhealthy as possible, results in more money for the big pharma companies and therefore the government as well. Charging so much to see a doctor, results in people putting off seeing a doctor, until their illness forces them to go to the emergency room at a hospital, which costs them a hell of a lot more. You couldn't make it up could you? but guess what, their greedy, ever so caring government has.
The description of freedom screams you are free to do whatever you want to anyone else including selling toxic substances as food, whereas freedom in Europe is more on you are free to do whatever you want as long as it doesn't impact others
Do you honestly believe there are no good hearted people that truly want the best for everyone within the US? Do you think they only exist in Europe? What is the intent behind this comment? It sounds like you no longer want to be friends with the strongest nation in the world. Good thing your politicians are smarter than you.
It's not that the US government says "let the people eat what they like", Connor. The problem is twofold (1) The FDA allows all sorts of chemical and other rubbish in your food. (2) Big Food, like Big Pharma, has too much influence
@beanrtowl The fact that an American believes that Europeans are unable to grow their own food just reinforces the idea that Americans are ignorant boors. The fact you try and use what you see as fact, but is actually pure nonsense, to prove the supposed superiority of the US over Europe is comical. The fact is that the food in Europe is safe for human consumption. Unless something can be proven to be safe, it can't enter the human food supply. The US is the exact opposite. Anything can be added to your food unless it can be proven to be dangerous. Thus if a new product takes 40 years to poison people and for the authorities to realise and do something about it. Then that's 40 years of harm inflicted on the US population. It's not real freedom other than a Corporations freedom to make profit at any cost. Stop being a sheep and believing all the lies and propaganda that you are fed.
It’s almost like Americans came from the EU. Who woulda thought 😮. So basically the language was created by the same people that are over there. lol try claiming something else like all the L’s we take in the recent wars of the last century and how America has had to help us time and time again. Be realist if America pulls out of all these countries like everyone wants the world would go to shit like the middle eastern or Ukraine. Russia started a war with the Ukraine specifically so America wouldn’t get stronger… let the sink in.
The bacon which Americans use is streaky bacon and it comes from the pork belly. Back bacon is from the pork loin in the middle of the pig, which is normally served with an Irish/English/Ulster Fry breakfast.
Also packed with growth hormones banned in all of Europe, and processed like hell in some cases. I don't even think most Americans realise that most of their chicken is sprayed with chlorine before they eat that shit.
Hi Connor, its not the freedom of the people to buy and consume unhealthy stuff, its the freedom of the companies to sell unhealthy, and thus cheaper to make, stuff, that is the issue.
Is this where we are right now. Claiming to be adults while bitching about plastic cups? Everyone needs to grow the fuck up and consider the real issues we face as humanity
Connor: a single terminal 's' (ess) is pronounced like a 'z' (zed) in most English words e.g. Princes, whereas Princess terminates in an ess sound due to the double esses (essez); rooves, hooves, screams & roves. License is modified by the terminal 'e' to sound like an ess as are many English words, thus, modified.
Isaiah Berlin made a distinction between ‘ freedom to’ and ‘freedom from’. I feel Europe focuses on freedom from and the US on freedom to. So, for the example, in Europe we have more freedom from unhealthy food while in the US you have freedom to be as healthy or not as you want
@djs98blue Like most things, USA seems to have gotten hold of the wrong end of the stick. A lot of stuff in good ol' US is wrong way round. Chinese whispers springs to mind, if you don't have a clue what I mean, consult Mr Google. That reminds me, if North Americans are so ignorant generally about anything whatsoever outside of Murica, why don't they use the services of search engines? On the subject of health, US system is working exactly as the government intends and wants it to, as unhealthy citizens equals more money for the government courtesy of the pharma companies and hospitals. Christ, even the prison system is run for profit.
1:30 I think it’s also to do with Britain and the rest of Europe having more socialist policies such as healthcare that gives an incentive to keep their countries population healthier
G'day Connor. I have never been, never wanted to and NEVER will go to the USA. From all the comments, observations and docco's i have seen throught my life, the thought of having to survive on the food you are forced to consume terrorfies me. Good luck mate.
Sucks for you. The US is a pretty awesome place. Yeah there are shitty parts to it but thats the same with literally every country. Can’t imagine being so ignorant as to think that every single piece of food here is full of toxic chemicals
Is it freedom when most people in the US are forced to buy that low quality, cheaper crappy food because they can not afford to buy the much more expensive healthy food?
From my limited experience of living in five different states in the US the food laws are the same across the country meaning the types of food that are sold in terms of ingredients in the food that you buy at the grocery stores are the same from each state from one state to another so there’s no defense saying that things vary from state to state because they don’t from what I can see. And I have lived in Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas and California. I was born and raised in the US and I am now an emigrant living in Mexico.
Says the second lady in sitting in a red chair, red mic, two red labels on her laptop, bright red lipstick, the screen in her background has a bright red banner - answer: red stands out, it's energetic. Probably Oprah is embarrassed because she's shown her true (not nice) colours. The massive gaps in your toilets (or bathrooms, as it's usually euphemistically put) seem very utilitarian. The girl asking about pronunciation is a non-starter - for heaven's sake we've got hundreds of accents in the UK alone, plus of course Noah Webster the American man who put together the American dictionary probably has a lot to do with your spelling and pronunciation. Conclusion: of course there are differences, we're TWO different nations. Thanks Connor ....
I don’t think her point was the colour of the plastic cups,I think it was why plastic cups? It’s a different approach to drinks that’s just a bit weird.
For philosophical and theological reasons I believe freedom should be maximized. But in any society, if some people are too free, they will curtail the freedom of others. These mainly applies to the powerful. What seems to be wrong in the United States - and I admit it applies to a lesser degree in the UK - is that there aren't enough curbs on the very powerful. Generally, people should be allowed to do things which aren't very good for them; but the powerful should be restrained from oppressing the weak. This includes preventing people from getting cheap good food. There were continual battles during our Middle Ages. Sometimes the nobles were right in opposing a tyrannical king, but sometimes our kings - and they were surprisingly good at this - intervened to stop our nobles oppressing us. An elderly Scots woman was once told that our King George V was nearby. She said, ' We must bow to the bush that shields us'. Our Kings have usually felt it to be their duty to protect us from the powerful. ( Hence a lot of the symbolism of the Coronation.)
@@stevepage5813 yes, you're right indeed.!! People should be free to look through the gaps - to have sealed up toilets therefore is not democratic. I must take this up with John Dommenico - (Trump impersonator). I'm sure he'll clarify the constitional requirement of having gaps around doors.
We have something called a Zed Bed, a kind of fold away matress/bed. It wouldn't work if it was a Zee Bed. We used to spell it organize but it's been updated to organise for some reason. It now feels weird to use a Z in those kind of words.
Americans have the right to mispronounce English words, and even misspell English words, or even give English words a different meaning. But please be aware the original spelling and meaning and pronunciation is ENGLISH, a language that predates the discovery of America by an ENLISH MAN so if a word or meaning or pronunciation is different, it's because an American changed it.... By the way when this video was made about Americans having a bad knowledge of geography, I don't think it was made with Conor as it's soul viewer, and probably more directed as a generalisation... Love ya man, keep them coming.
Most UK card payments when shopping are now done by inserting the card into a reader and keying your 4 digit pin number. Or wirelessly by holding your card chip against the reader for smaller amounts. I haven't signed a card swiped paper slip for at least 10 years. Even my local charity shops prefer me to pay by card, because they now have tp pay more for banking cash.
@samuelritchie5483 Yes it is British bacon in Canada and we also have US style streaky bacon here in UK, which of course originated here and was adopted by the Yanks. So was the language, which the North Americans managed to butcher somewhat. I was going to say dumbed down, but I think that would be a bit too unfair.
Thank god I am in The EU no antibiotics in our meat more fresh food here its not in our culture to use a drive thru on the way to work and get coffee and some doughnuts. After work its straight home first and eat and prepare the meal. and no acholic drinks. merci Jean-Marc
The pronunciation questions are ludicrous. The UK has so many different accents in such a small area that we all pronounce things differently to each other. But most of the people in this video are fairly posh/upper middle class judging from their voices so maybe they think that all Brits speak like them, without any regional accent.
@stevesm4 Exactly. Just as a lot of North Americans (Murica) think that all Brits live in or around London. Some of the USA reacters are realising that we have so many different accents here in the UK and some of them have ventured out of the ignorant bubble to actually experience it first hand. I understand that there are a few different US accents, but over here, you only need to travel twenty miles or less to come across very different dialect.
Thanks for 'highlighting' the strength of individual State Law making opposed to the National or even a separate State that could be a 'neighbour'. Have not been thinking upon that as much as I should have been previously. Regards sent from a cold & wet Scotland.
I have a American mom passed away. uncle he's the first to coach American baseball over to UK and still doing it he was living in michigen I think gran was in the women's army she saw perill harbour
Herbs is from old French and was originally pronounced the French way with no H. At some point we Brits have anglicized it whereas the US retains the old pronounciation.
I got one that I've never seen come up, Americans call milk cream and cream cream but you also sell cartoons of half and half? So what do you call the two halves? Milk and cream or cream and cream?
Yes, I've questioned about the different ways of interpreting "freedom" for a long time, and it's certainly a very debatable subject. However, I will offer one viewpoint which has taken my attention for a long time - freedom USA style appears to be of most benefit to the very comfortably off, and in any society - of-course it's going to be those people who will be singing the praises of any system that primarily suits themselves.
H-Dropping at the start of words is quite common in some regional accents, but typically still, and historically, it's often stigmatized as being an indicator of poor or uneducated speech associated with the working classes in contrast to the more 'prestigious', in linguistic terms, received pronunciation (RP) accent. So near me you will very commonly hear...'orses, 'ospital, 'elicopter, 'is, 'er, 'air, 'ate etc which causes many issues for those unfamiliar with the accent. The last one, for example, 'ate meaning hate can easily be confused with ate and eight becoming homophones when they should not be. Americans though seem to really only do it with 'erb, for some reason best known to themselves...and it's not just a straight h drop, there's often a sort of weird affectation with it where it's said in a way as if it's someone trying to do a really bad French accent. (probably unintentional, but that's what it sounds like). Strangely, elsewhere the h sound is sometimes overemphasized as in vehicle (vee - Hi - kul) whereas in English most would slide the h sound so that it sounds more like a y sound (vee - yuh -cul)...with emphasis on the first syllable and not the second.
it's not that Americans stopped using the H, it's that the English nonsensically started using it 200 years ago. It's like Stewie's "Cool Whip" but the brits said "run with that".
The food regulation may be also because of public healthcare. If the government pays for healthcare, they don't want industry to fill the food with different poisons and carsinogens which happens to make it look more attractive or otherwise be more addictive. The $/€ is the consultant at the both sides of the pond, but the business owner is different.
I think the last guy was saying, "scones and jus" but his pronunciation was wrong to start with and the editing clipped it to sound like the other thing!
For the 'Organise' vs 'Organize' example....Rise, wise, franchise, merchandise, advertise, enterprise, improvise, compromise, etc......all words you spell the same as us and have a 'z' sound rather than an 's' sound, so your argument doesn't really hold up lol
As for the comments about being useless at Geography, I believe you must be one of the rare exceptions to the rule and the norm as even if it my limited experience of chatting with Americans, I would say that in general, your geographical knowledge is extremely poor! Like it has been pointed out I this video, you see to think Europe is a country as opposed to a Continent, unlike us here in Europe that class 'North America' as a Continent, i.e. The USA and Canada together are 'The North American Continent'! Here in the UK, a place that has a population of fewer than 7,500 is classed as a village and the small Town of Arnold, in Nottinghamshire where I live, currently has a population of roughly 39,995 as of the time of the last Census undertaken in 2021! Back in the 1980's it was said to have been over 50,000 but I think the boundaries have changed over this time period! Lol 😂 What has surprised me is that in The USA, there is a 'City' with a population of only 1835, which along with Bellaire and West University Place, classed as 2 other Small Cities are all surrounded by the giant Metropolis of Houston which apparently had refused to put sewers into these places at a time when they were needed, however once these places had paid for Sewers to be built, Houston came along asking them to join the 'Great City of Houston' but because they had had to pay for their own sewers before Houston would accept them, it is said that these smaller cities apparently told the so-called 'Great City of Houston' where to go! Hence the tiny Populations of these So-called Cities, however here in the UK these places could only be classed as Villages! A City has to have a Cathedral, but also has to be awarded City Status for that place to actually be classified as a City! Following on from that, there is something of an anomoly here in the UK too as the County of Derbyshire has been called so for many Centuries, however, Derby was only awarded City status by Queen Elizabeth II back in 1977 which was her Silver Jubilee Year! Hence the reason she bequeathed City Status on the County Town of Derby, yet before 1977, there was no City in the whole County of Derbyshire! The current population, as of 2019, was 258,746. This is compared to the population of the whole County which is 796,142 as of 2018!
We do say 'water' and yes, the fact you pronounce your 'T's' as 'D's'! The one major thing that gets to me is that you normally say 'Have a nice day!' as it truly sounds so condescending and really doesn't sound like you are being genuine, especially when followed by the big teeth smile! And just for your information, I am not trying to be funny with you either when I say that! I am being truly honest when I say that it really does just come across as so very faked and insincere!
@@kernow9324 thank you for saying exactly what you have said and also in the context to why you said it as you did as I do appreciate what you are saying and accept what you are saying, though as it is expected for those members if staff to say just that and therefore could still be perceived as insincere, whereas here in the UK, if a staff member said something nice to you, then those words then become personal to you from that staff member as they are not forced to say such things here, therefore it always comes across as genuine!
I think that UK/European governments have social healthcare. If you eat too much sugar or risky toxic substances, all tax payers have to pay the bill for related healthcare consequence, In the US, any healthcare consequences of, say, being overweight are costed to the individual (or their health insurance).
I wouldn't worry too much about pronouncing water (which you did in quite a posh way, to be fair) when cockneys have been known to leave out the T in it completely.
A lot of those pronunciations are regional, both in the UK and the US, so those are a bit unfair. A lot of the spelling things are odd because the US spellings are usually closer to how the words sound (and I can’t tell you how much it hurts to admit that as an Englishman) but the original British spellings reflect the history of the words, which we think is kind of important. It’s a reminder our our long history. The one word that most British people are absolutely unanimous with, and the way it’s spelt reminds us of the history, is the loan word that is adopted into the English language from old French for “twice cooked” and can therefore only be applied to something that has a firm, crisp texture and that word is biscuit. Biscuit is not the British word for cookie, we use the word cookie as well but a cookie can be soft textured whereas a biscuit absolutely cannot be soft, the firmness comes from the second cooking that is implicit in the word. See also the Italian word biscotti.
I've a good one for you... Why do Americans say "I could care less" in the context of implying they don't care about something. Saying I COULD care less implies you care somewhat, the correct saying is "I couldn't care less" meaning you could not care any less if you tried.
Hehe you getting a little triggered was funny. To be fair I don't know why some Brits slam Americans for the way they pronounce things, English is a whole web of contradicting pronunciations...
You're right about the freedoms. The US is so terrified of socialism and what is known as the nanny state. But also a lot of your laws are driven by corporate interests. In the UK we have strict laws about food being healthy for the people, which makes sense because of having the national health service, the more unhealthy people are the more it costs the NHS. Actually Zebra is the original African way of sayig it 0 its not ZEEbra.. Trevor Noah makes a point of that in one of his stand up routines. But if I start on pronunciations I'd be here all day.
Vehicle size - I'm sure in the past has been dictated by the long distances you have to drive. A lot of these foreign critics don't have much experience of life outside Europe.
The biggest driver of that now is the stupidity of federal regulations...it gives an incentive to build more SUVs and other "light trucks" because of the lower fuel economy required of those. Also, in the USA there is no real reason to make cars smaller, since almost none of the cities have older parts with super narrow ancient streets.
When you learn alphabet as a child in America, do you learn XY Zet, or XY Zee? Super curious, I have never heard anyone say XY Zee, but I was learning British English in school. I wonder if people actually say it like that in this context.
@@101steel4I understand that in UK, you would not call it British English, but when you learn it in school as a second language, they need to differentiate somehow. So they sometimes use the term British English, as opposed to American English (and others). At least that is what they officially used when I was in school. I think it's a common term used in language learning circles outside of UK.
Annoyingly Americans say herb closer to the way it should be said, it's a borrowed word in English (from italian i think) that we mispronounce. An example of the silent H you were looking for is 'honour' (let's not start on whether the U should be there)
British people being snooty about English language and “correct” spelling always remind me of old-fashioned, patriarchal parents who have lost touch with the modern world.
When a Zee is alone, it is depressed, and so it becomes a Zed, ...and when it has friends within the word to be spoken in, it is a happy/happee and thus can sound its delight by sounding more Zee-ish.
Otherwise American English is it's own evolving form of an older Renaissance era of English, when English had more letters within the alphabet and Zeds/Zees were used more often as a way to provide clues to how pronounce words. All before Dictionaries were created and commonly available to the masses.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 unfortunately the Ancient Greeks have had too much influence particularly upon the Americans and their Fraternities & Soriaties influencing business management abuses etc m, even though it was the Khemeroi/Simmerians/Cimmerians (the 10 Tribes escaping the Assyrian-Babylonian Civil War,) whom first taught them how to govern, how to read, how-to write and rhetorics, debate, whilst they passed through towards the large Green Islands to the North of Aragon, and they (the Ancient Greeks) still got it wrong, then again, they adapted it to there own Hellenic vocalisations.
US can't have the same government structure Europe has, a government that big can't over reach or it becomes oppressive. So that's actually something they're doing kind of right, letting states have the freedom to create their own laws. Has to be that way when it's such different cultures. I've thought a lot about this, and if we're ever going to have something like a word government it has to be very hands off so individual areas can have their own laws best suited for the. And it's not just because if individual freedom either, it's so that society can remain fluent and flexible so it can develop in many different direction and not stagnate from too much uniformity. But also of course because laws that work for Iceland probably won't work that well for Somalia, so local management should have as much freedom to manoeuvre as possible, and that can only happen if the top layer stays out of everyone's business.
We invented and came up with the pronunciation of the words eg WATER,TOMATO the list goes on Which is the correct way WHY WAS IT CHANGED 🤣 then you say to an English person that is the wrong way to pronounce it IM SPEECLESS , if you come up with a new word then that’s the correct version so people would say it that way but to change English words we have developed over time then you change it or SAY no you don’t pronounce it that way is a bit of a cheek and then argue that is pure ignorance 🤷♀️
I've noticed myself and everyone else pronouncing strong etc as shtrong, which I heard was a relatively new thing. Do many people say it without the "sh" sound?
Not quite. America (as a whole, the system) are that couple who love getting pregnant, love being pregnant. But in no way should be allowed to be parents. Negligent to say the least. Child dies from that negligence? Eh, we'll just have another. Rest of the world as a whole? They/we want our kids to grow up to be able to experience all that life has to offer. We want our kids to learn from our mistakes. We don't abandon our kids at some rundown petrol station to fend for themselves.
Connor, how do you say "rise", as in "sunrise"? I guess you must say "rice" as in "sunrice", right? And "You've got beautiful ice" when you mean eyes? Well well, I've clearly never listened to you closely enough 'cause I've never noticed this odd New England pronunciation quirk. I'd well 'advised' (so you say "ad-viced", right?) to listen more carefully in future!
On food and freedom: I think that: - the tradition within Europe, particularly southern Europe, is for quality food. - governments in Europe do, to varying degrees, require a certain level of healthiness of food - corporate power is very strong in the US and profit is paramount - advertising and cheap junk food is more prevalent in the US - many people in the US are not educated in nutrition and don't have a lot to spend on food - the UK sits between the US and mainland Europe on this
But US citizens are, in general, not good at Geography. Neither are we ( us Britons ) particularly good at it. Suppose I were to ask you in which city lies a Soverign State ( Country ) ? You`re looking for a city that is larger than the country it contains.
Because our NHS (healthcare) is free (paid via tax, so not really free) it is in our govt’s interest for us to be healthy and eat healthy food. The cynic in me suggests that the huge Pharma lobby in the US would rather you were not so healthy as that hurts profit.
@me-xj7et Exactly. USA health system is working as intended. Making people as unhealthy as possible, results in more money for the big pharma companies and therefore the government as well. Charging so much to see a doctor, results in people putting off seeing a doctor, until their illness forces them to go to the emergency room at a hospital, which costs them a hell of a lot more. You couldn't make it up could you? but guess what, their greedy, ever so caring government has.
The description of freedom screams you are free to do whatever you want to anyone else including selling toxic substances as food, whereas freedom in Europe is more on you are free to do whatever you want as long as it doesn't impact others
Negatively.
Yes freedom to compared to freedom from - two different versions of liberty
You are misguided. We have laws to punish people that bring harm to others as well. What an ignorant comment
Do you honestly believe there are no good hearted people that truly want the best for everyone within the US? Do you think they only exist in Europe? What is the intent behind this comment? It sounds like you no longer want to be friends with the strongest nation in the world. Good thing your politicians are smarter than you.
@@djs98blueIsaiah Berlin "2 modes of liberty" (positive and negative liberty)
You sound like you're aware of it?
It's not that the US government says "let the people eat what they like", Connor. The problem is twofold (1) The FDA allows all sorts of chemical and other rubbish in your food. (2) Big Food, like Big Pharma, has too much influence
Yet unlike Europe we have the ability to grow our own food and not deal with government regulations. I do it every year.
@beanrtowl The fact that an American believes that Europeans are unable to grow their own food just reinforces the idea that Americans are ignorant boors. The fact you try and use what you see as fact, but is actually pure nonsense, to prove the supposed superiority of the US over Europe is comical.
The fact is that the food in Europe is safe for human consumption. Unless something can be proven to be safe, it can't enter the human food supply.
The US is the exact opposite. Anything can be added to your food unless it can be proven to be dangerous. Thus if a new product takes 40 years to poison people and for the authorities to realise and do something about it. Then that's 40 years of harm inflicted on the US population. It's not real freedom other than a Corporations freedom to make profit at any cost.
Stop being a sheep and believing all the lies and propaganda that you are fed.
You have to remind Americans that they use our language, we don't use theirs.
It’s our language as well. We may be descendants from your bloodline but that doesn’t mean we are dumb enough to continue following your rules
It’s almost like Americans came from the EU. Who woulda thought 😮. So basically the language was created by the same people that are over there. lol try claiming something else like all the L’s we take in the recent wars of the last century and how America has had to help us time and time again. Be realist if America pulls out of all these countries like everyone wants the world would go to shit like the middle eastern or Ukraine. Russia started a war with the Ukraine specifically so America wouldn’t get stronger… let the sink in.
Je suis française et pour moi l'accent anglais est tellement plus joli....plus classe ! ❤
@@lesjolissouvenirs7751I think it's the other way around 😊
@@williambailey344American accent prettier than English accent? for me the English accent is so much prettier, more distinguished.
The bacon which Americans use is streaky bacon and it comes from the pork belly.
Back bacon is from the pork loin in the middle of the pig, which is normally served with an Irish/English/Ulster Fry breakfast.
And a Scottish breakfast.
@@jerry2357 Oops “touché” 😀😃
Plus they have to get rid of the fat somehow
Also packed with growth hormones banned in all of Europe, and processed like hell in some cases.
I don't even think most Americans realise that most of their chicken is sprayed with chlorine before they eat that shit.
Zebras are from Africa, they pronounce it Zebra not Zeebra, they should know.
Hi Connor, its not the freedom of the people to buy and consume unhealthy stuff, its the freedom of the companies to sell unhealthy, and thus cheaper to make, stuff, that is the issue.
Ladies don’t want people watching them through gaps in the cubicles.
Stay out of the Gents then.
@@mosthaunted2 ha! Ha!
Especially if it's trans women looking through the gaps at them or their children. Eww.
Chip and pin is old school now. Watch or phone pays for everything. On my trip to USA last year I had to write the ammount and sign a receipt!!
Yes we are adults in the UK
So we use glass and not plastic cups 😂😉
Well, the red cups are disposable. So there's that, too...
@@franzliszt8957Yes and more plastic to go into land fill.
Or straws.
Maybe American wine tastes better from a chemical tasting plastic cup!
Is this where we are right now. Claiming to be adults while bitching about plastic cups? Everyone needs to grow the fuck up and consider the real issues we face as humanity
Connor: a single terminal 's' (ess) is pronounced like a 'z' (zed) in most English words e.g. Princes, whereas Princess terminates in an ess sound due to the double esses (essez); rooves, hooves, screams & roves. License is modified by the terminal 'e' to sound like an ess as are many English words, thus, modified.
Isaiah Berlin made a distinction between ‘ freedom to’ and ‘freedom from’. I feel Europe focuses on freedom from and the US on freedom to.
So, for the example, in Europe we have more freedom from unhealthy food while in the US you have freedom to be as healthy or not as you want
@djs98blue Like most things, USA seems to have gotten hold of the wrong end of the stick. A lot of stuff in good ol' US is wrong way round. Chinese whispers springs to mind, if you don't have a clue what I mean, consult Mr Google. That reminds me, if North Americans are so ignorant generally about anything whatsoever outside of Murica, why don't they use the services of search engines? On the subject of health, US system is working exactly as the government intends and wants it to, as unhealthy citizens equals more money for the government courtesy of the pharma companies and hospitals. Christ, even the prison system is run for profit.
1:30 I think it’s also to do with Britain and the rest of Europe having more socialist policies such as healthcare that gives an incentive to keep their countries population healthier
G'day Connor. I have never been, never wanted to and NEVER will go to the USA. From all the comments, observations and docco's i have seen throught my life, the thought of having to survive on the food you are forced to consume terrorfies me. Good luck mate.
Sucks for you. The US is a pretty awesome place. Yeah there are shitty parts to it but thats the same with literally every country. Can’t imagine being so ignorant as to think that every single piece of food here is full of toxic chemicals
Sure some people think Africa is a country but then they also think America is a country :-)
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Is it freedom when most people in the US are forced to buy that low quality, cheaper crappy food because they can not afford to buy the much more expensive healthy food?
From my limited experience of living in five different states in the US the food laws are the same across the country meaning the types of food that are sold in terms of ingredients in the food that you buy at the grocery stores are the same from each state from one state to another so there’s no defense saying that things vary from state to state because they don’t from what I can see. And I have lived in Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas and California. I was born and raised in the US and I am now an emigrant living in Mexico.
Says the second lady in sitting in a red chair, red mic, two red labels on her laptop, bright red lipstick, the screen in her background has a bright red banner - answer: red stands out, it's energetic. Probably Oprah is embarrassed because she's shown her true (not nice) colours. The massive gaps in your toilets (or bathrooms, as it's usually euphemistically put) seem very utilitarian. The girl asking about pronunciation is a non-starter - for heaven's sake we've got hundreds of accents in the UK alone, plus of course Noah Webster the American man who put together the American dictionary probably has a lot to do with your spelling and pronunciation. Conclusion: of course there are differences, we're TWO different nations.
Thanks Connor ....
I don’t think her point was the colour of the plastic cups,I think it was why plastic cups? It’s a different approach to drinks that’s just a bit weird.
For philosophical and theological reasons I believe freedom should be maximized. But in any society, if some people are too free, they will curtail the freedom of others. These mainly applies to the powerful.
What seems to be wrong in the United States - and I admit it applies to a lesser degree in the UK - is that there aren't enough curbs on the very powerful. Generally, people should be allowed to do things which aren't very good for them; but the powerful should be restrained from oppressing the weak. This includes preventing people from getting cheap good food.
There were continual battles during our Middle Ages. Sometimes the nobles were right in opposing a tyrannical king, but sometimes our kings - and they were surprisingly good at this - intervened to stop our nobles oppressing us.
An elderly Scots woman was once told that our King George V was nearby. She said, ' We must bow to the bush that shields us'. Our Kings have usually felt it to be their duty to protect us from the powerful. ( Hence a lot of the symbolism of the Coronation.)
The toilet gaps - is it to check up on people to ensure that they ARE indeed just engaged in toilet activities.??!!
@user-gt2ud2gw9e I thought folks in "The Land Of The Free" were allowed to do whatever they want to do.
@@stevepage5813 yes, you're right indeed.!!
People should be free to look through the gaps - to have sealed up toilets therefore is not democratic.
I must take this up with John Dommenico - (Trump impersonator).
I'm sure he'll clarify the constitional requirement of having gaps around doors.
Nice job if you can get it.
We have something called a Zed Bed, a kind of fold away matress/bed. It wouldn't work if it was a Zee Bed. We used to spell it organize but it's been updated to organise for some reason. It now feels weird to use a Z in those kind of words.
Brits and pretty much the rest of the world say Kosovo. Americans say Koesoevo. Why do Americans mispronounce the "O" sound?
Moss Cow. Ow!
When I travelled in America years ago you couldn’t get a simple boiled egg for breakfast served in its shell in an egg cup. Is that still the case?
**triggered** Nooooooooo@@ninamoores
Americans have the right to mispronounce English words, and even misspell English words, or even give English words a different meaning. But please be aware the original spelling and meaning and pronunciation is ENGLISH, a language that predates the discovery of America by an ENLISH MAN so if a word or meaning or pronunciation is different, it's because an American changed it....
By the way when this video was made about Americans having a bad knowledge of geography, I don't think it was made with Conor as it's soul viewer, and probably more directed as a generalisation... Love ya man, keep them coming.
Most UK card payments when shopping are now done by inserting the card into a reader and keying your 4 digit pin number. Or wirelessly by holding your card chip against the reader for smaller amounts. I haven't signed a card swiped paper slip for at least 10 years. Even my local charity shops prefer me to pay by card, because they now have tp pay more for banking cash.
The British get the latest banking technology first because Barclays Bank are responsible for inventing most banking technology 😉
It's definitely 'organise" and "Zed"
Your bacon is disgustingly sweet.
@ruthfoley2580 And very fatty.
What the fuck kind of bacon are you eating that’s sweet?
Love your honesty too your a genuine guy and like your videos 😊
It's not the Canadians bacon It's ours 😂
@samuelritchie5483 Yes it is British bacon in Canada and we also have US style streaky bacon here in UK, which of course originated here and was adopted by the Yanks. So was the language, which the North Americans managed to butcher somewhat. I was going to say dumbed down, but I think that would be a bit too unfair.
the one place McJibbi shows domenance is on the toilet. ''wanna watch me take a dump? fine'' stares right back to show dominance
"watuh.. WAD'RR?"🌊😂
I'm from Lincolnshire, I say Wa'er.😆
Thank god I am in The EU no antibiotics in our meat more fresh food here its not in our culture to use a drive thru on the way to work and get coffee and some doughnuts. After work its straight home first and eat and prepare the meal. and no acholic drinks. merci Jean-Marc
In Germany it is "zett", too. But we pronounce it "tsett", so we would say "Tsebra".
A lot of the spelling differences are due to historical languages, French and Germanic, such as centre and center.
The pronunciation questions are ludicrous. The UK has so many different accents in such a small area that we all pronounce things differently to each other. But most of the people in this video are fairly posh/upper middle class judging from their voices so maybe they think that all Brits speak like them, without any regional accent.
I know this is controversial but speaking with a regional accent is incorrect pronunciation.
@stevesm4 Exactly. Just as a lot of North Americans (Murica) think that all Brits live in or around London. Some of the USA reacters are realising that we have so many different accents here in the UK and some of them have ventured out of the ignorant bubble to actually experience it first hand. I understand that there are a few different US accents, but over here, you only need to travel twenty miles or less to come across very different dialect.
English used to be rhotic (pronouncing r), but gradually it dropped over here except for around Somerset.
Ooo aarrr!
She shuold have used aluminum in her example rather than caramel
Thanks for 'highlighting' the strength of individual State Law making opposed to the National or even a separate State that could be a 'neighbour'. Have not been thinking upon that as much as I should have been previously.
Regards sent from a cold & wet Scotland.
We don't need those cups. We just drink out of the bottle or can.
Our language our rules obey.
Our unofficial language (we don't have an official language) 😅
Our bacon is from a different part of the pig and not nearly as fatty as streaky bacon which is the American variety.
I have a American mom passed away. uncle he's the first to coach American baseball over to UK and still doing it he was living in michigen I think gran was in the women's army she saw perill harbour
Connor we speak the same language but there are so much differences in the way we word things
Herbs is from old French and was originally pronounced the French way with no H. At some point we Brits have anglicized it whereas the US retains the old pronounciation.
I got one that I've never seen come up, Americans call milk cream and cream cream but you also sell cartoons of half and half? So what do you call the two halves? Milk and cream or cream and cream?
Ah! But do you eat apple piez?
You are indeed very good at geography and just just as an American! 🤘🏾
Spanish bread is sweet too. Also some americans say jaffa cake and others say joffa cake do they not see the letter A?
Yes, I've questioned about the different ways of interpreting "freedom" for a long time, and it's certainly a very debatable subject.
However, I will offer one viewpoint which has taken my attention for a long time - freedom USA style appears to be of most benefit to the very comfortably off, and in any society - of-course it's going to be those people who will be singing the praises of any system that primarily suits themselves.
H-Dropping at the start of words is quite common in some regional accents, but typically still, and historically, it's often stigmatized as being an indicator of poor or uneducated speech associated with the working classes in contrast to the more 'prestigious', in linguistic terms, received pronunciation (RP) accent.
So near me you will very commonly hear...'orses, 'ospital, 'elicopter, 'is, 'er, 'air, 'ate etc which causes many issues for those unfamiliar with the accent. The last one, for example, 'ate meaning hate can easily be confused with ate and eight becoming homophones when they should not be.
Americans though seem to really only do it with 'erb, for some reason best known to themselves...and it's not just a straight h drop, there's often a sort of weird affectation with it where it's said in a way as if it's someone trying to do a really bad French accent. (probably unintentional, but that's what it sounds like). Strangely, elsewhere the h sound is sometimes overemphasized as in vehicle (vee - Hi - kul) whereas in English most would slide the h sound so that it sounds more like a y sound (vee - yuh -cul)...with emphasis on the first syllable and not the second.
it's not that Americans stopped using the H, it's that the English nonsensically started using it 200 years ago. It's like Stewie's "Cool Whip" but the brits said "run with that".
Love ya az well, Connor. Good onya mate. 😊😊😊
😊 and we say 'house' and 'house's differently ...!! 😊
Connor you know where most counties are here in the u.k than I do 😊. But why do you literally have your national flag flying everywhere. 😊.
The food regulation may be also because of public healthcare. If the government pays for healthcare, they don't want industry to fill the food with different poisons and carsinogens which happens to make it look more attractive or otherwise be more addictive. The $/€ is the consultant at the both sides of the pond, but the business owner is different.
I think the last guy was saying, "scones and jus" but his pronunciation was wrong to start with and the editing clipped it to sound like the other thing!
That was amusing!
For the 'Organise' vs 'Organize' example....Rise, wise, franchise, merchandise, advertise, enterprise, improvise, compromise, etc......all words you spell the same as us and have a 'z' sound rather than an 's' sound, so your argument doesn't really hold up lol
As for the comments about being useless at Geography, I believe you must be one of the rare exceptions to the rule and the norm as even if it my limited experience of chatting with Americans, I would say that in general, your geographical knowledge is extremely poor! Like it has been pointed out I this video, you see to think Europe is a country as opposed to a Continent, unlike us here in Europe that class 'North America' as a Continent, i.e. The USA and Canada together are 'The North American Continent'! Here in the UK, a place that has a population of fewer than 7,500 is classed as a village and the small Town of Arnold, in Nottinghamshire where I live, currently has a population of roughly 39,995 as of the time of the last Census undertaken in 2021! Back in the 1980's it was said to have been over 50,000 but I think the boundaries have changed over this time period! Lol 😂 What has surprised me is that in The USA, there is a 'City' with a population of only 1835, which along with Bellaire and West University Place, classed as 2 other Small Cities are all surrounded by the giant Metropolis of Houston which apparently had refused to put sewers into these places at a time when they were needed, however once these places had paid for Sewers to be built, Houston came along asking them to join the 'Great City of Houston' but because they had had to pay for their own sewers before Houston would accept them, it is said that these smaller cities apparently told the so-called 'Great City of Houston' where to go! Hence the tiny Populations of these So-called Cities, however here in the UK these places could only be classed as Villages! A City has to have a Cathedral, but also has to be awarded City Status for that place to actually be classified as a City! Following on from that, there is something of an anomoly here in the UK too as the County of Derbyshire has been called so for many Centuries, however, Derby was only awarded City status by Queen Elizabeth II back in 1977 which was her Silver Jubilee Year! Hence the reason she bequeathed City Status on the County Town of Derby, yet before 1977, there was no City in the whole County of Derbyshire! The current population, as of 2019, was 258,746. This is compared to the population of the whole County which is 796,142 as of 2018!
You cannot say zee when you say zoo
We do say 'water' and yes, the fact you pronounce your 'T's' as 'D's'! The one major thing that gets to me is that you normally say 'Have a nice day!' as it truly sounds so condescending and really doesn't sound like you are being genuine, especially when followed by the big teeth smile! And just for your information, I am not trying to be funny with you either when I say that! I am being truly honest when I say that it really does just come across as so very faked and insincere!
I agree with you to a point. When I'm in the US, it's fine, but hearing it in the UK it sounds just as you said.
@@kernow9324 thank you for saying exactly what you have said and also in the context to why you said it as you did as I do appreciate what you are saying and accept what you are saying, though as it is expected for those members if staff to say just that and therefore could still be perceived as insincere, whereas here in the UK, if a staff member said something nice to you, then those words then become personal to you from that staff member as they are not forced to say such things here, therefore it always comes across as genuine!
I think that UK/European governments have social healthcare. If you eat too much sugar or risky toxic substances, all tax payers have to pay the bill for related healthcare consequence, In the US, any healthcare consequences of, say, being overweight are costed to the individual (or their health insurance).
I wouldn't worry too much about pronouncing water (which you did in quite a posh way, to be fair) when cockneys have been known to leave out the T in it completely.
...so it sounds like warterr wort urgghh with a very minimal short t sound that disappeares among the other sounds of the word.
A lot of those pronunciations are regional, both in the UK and the US, so those are a bit unfair. A lot of the spelling things are odd because the US spellings are usually closer to how the words sound (and I can’t tell you how much it hurts to admit that as an Englishman) but the original British spellings reflect the history of the words, which we think is kind of important. It’s a reminder our our long history. The one word that most British people are absolutely unanimous with, and the way it’s spelt reminds us of the history, is the loan word that is adopted into the English language from old French for “twice cooked” and can therefore only be applied to something that has a firm, crisp texture and that word is biscuit. Biscuit is not the British word for cookie, we use the word cookie as well but a cookie can be soft textured whereas a biscuit absolutely cannot be soft, the firmness comes from the second cooking that is implicit in the word. See also the Italian word biscotti.
I've a good one for you...
Why do Americans say "I could care less" in the context of implying they don't care about something.
Saying I COULD care less implies you care somewhat, the correct saying is "I couldn't care less" meaning you could not care any less if you tried.
You're also right about the bacon, only Brits and their colonies call that bacon. But you're wrong about the Z, it's colonised not colonized.
usually, plastic cup a white here. and "paper" ones can be any colors. What red is for ?
Colours.
@@101steel4 ok, i'm french. i tried the british, but corrector wanted only american. 😞
If you call it a `zee` it can sound awfully like a `cee`
Z=C
Hehe you getting a little triggered was funny. To be fair I don't know why some Brits slam Americans for the way they pronounce things, English is a whole web of contradicting pronunciations...
You're right about the freedoms. The US is so terrified of socialism and what is known as the nanny state. But also a lot of your laws are driven by corporate interests. In the UK we have strict laws about food being healthy for the people, which makes sense because of having the national health service, the more unhealthy people are the more it costs the NHS. Actually Zebra is the original African way of sayig it 0 its not ZEEbra.. Trevor Noah makes a point of that in one of his stand up routines. But if I start on pronunciations I'd be here all day.
I got red cups in the house 😂
Vehicle size - I'm sure in the past has been dictated by the long distances you have to drive.
A lot of these foreign critics don't have much experience of life outside Europe.
My country has long distances too but we don't have such large cars 😁
The biggest driver of that now is the stupidity of federal regulations...it gives an incentive to build more SUVs and other "light trucks" because of the lower fuel economy required of those. Also, in the USA there is no real reason to make cars smaller, since almost none of the cities have older parts with super narrow ancient streets.
When you learn alphabet as a child in America, do you learn XY Zet, or XY Zee? Super curious, I have never heard anyone say XY Zee, but I was learning British English in school. I wonder if people actually say it like that in this context.
Not British English. Just English 😉
@@101steel4I understand that in UK, you would not call it British English, but when you learn it in school as a second language, they need to differentiate somehow. So they sometimes use the term British English, as opposed to American English (and others). At least that is what they officially used when I was in school. I think it's a common term used in language learning circles outside of UK.
Bacon over here is back bacon not belly.
We have way too much unnecessary sugar in our food.
Annoyingly Americans say herb closer to the way it should be said, it's a borrowed word in English (from italian i think) that we mispronounce.
An example of the silent H you were looking for is 'honour' (let's not start on whether the U should be there)
New Yorkers cant say coffee lol.
"cawfee"?!
They can't even say york😂
Yoik
Connor, how do you spell surprise? So why don't you spell it organise?
British people being snooty about English language and “correct” spelling always remind me of old-fashioned, patriarchal parents who have lost touch with the modern world.
the main problem is American English is nothing like ENGLISH and you dont use the same Alphabet
No surprise they don’t get us and we don’t get them ;-)
Name one town that's part of Middlesex in London.
😊 ❤ Enfield (like the rifles) ❤😊
as a brit i dont know why we say zed, doesnt make sense, superfluous "d"
When a Zee is alone, it is depressed, and so it becomes a Zed,
...and when it has friends within the word to be spoken in, it is a happy/happee and thus can sound its delight by sounding more Zee-ish.
Otherwise American English is it's own evolving form of an older Renaissance era of English, when English had more letters within the alphabet and Zeds/Zees were used more often as a way to provide clues to how pronounce words.
All before Dictionaries were created and commonly available to the masses.
Because it's been the name of that letter going back to the Greek Zeta (Ζ ζ), which evolved into Zed in various European languages.
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 unfortunately the Ancient Greeks have had too much influence particularly upon the Americans and their Fraternities & Soriaties influencing business management abuses etc m, even though it was the Khemeroi/Simmerians/Cimmerians (the 10 Tribes escaping the Assyrian-Babylonian Civil War,) whom first taught them how to govern, how to read, how-to write and rhetorics, debate, whilst they passed through towards the large Green Islands to the North of Aragon, and they (the Ancient Greeks) still got it wrong, then again, they adapted it to there own Hellenic vocalisations.
@@razor1uk610 I don't know what you are talking about. It's the British and Canadians that are closer to the original Greek in this case.
Buzz Feed are their own bubble....
This video was done 8 years ago so the chip ansd pin question ia out dated.
Advise / advice
Test; Which kingdoms and countries are on Hans island?
We have to be healthier because we don't pay for health care were as you do that's how they make money from that fact.
I bet my life’s savings that you are definitely better versed in Geography than I am, pls don’t think anyone here assumes you fall into the stereotype
US can't have the same government structure Europe has, a government that big can't over reach or it becomes oppressive. So that's actually something they're doing kind of right, letting states have the freedom to create their own laws. Has to be that way when it's such different cultures. I've thought a lot about this, and if we're ever going to have something like a word government it has to be very hands off so individual areas can have their own laws best suited for the. And it's not just because if individual freedom either, it's so that society can remain fluent and flexible so it can develop in many different direction and not stagnate from too much uniformity. But also of course because laws that work for Iceland probably won't work that well for Somalia, so local management should have as much freedom to manoeuvre as possible, and that can only happen if the top layer stays out of everyone's business.
We invented and came up with the pronunciation of the words eg WATER,TOMATO the list goes on Which is the correct way WHY WAS IT CHANGED 🤣 then you say to an English person that is the wrong way to pronounce it IM SPEECLESS , if you come up with a new word then that’s the correct version so people would say it that way but to change English words we have developed over time then you change it or SAY no you don’t pronounce it that way is a bit of a cheek and then argue that is pure ignorance 🤷♀️
Hahaha Freedom 'Murica, give the people awfull food. Untill it comes to Alcohol, Cigarettes and Nipples. There ends your "freedom".
I've noticed myself and everyone else pronouncing strong etc as shtrong, which I heard was a relatively new thing. Do many people say it without the "sh" sound?
Strong... And the Tube - Tyuuube' -
(_NOT_shtrong or toob or chube 😡😡😡
Not quite.
America (as a whole, the system) are that couple who love getting pregnant, love being pregnant. But in no way should be allowed to be parents. Negligent to say the least. Child dies from that negligence?
Eh, we'll just have another.
Rest of the world as a whole? They/we want our kids to grow up to be able to experience all that life has to offer. We want our kids to learn from our mistakes.
We don't abandon our kids at some rundown petrol station to fend for themselves.
Connor, how do you say "rise", as in "sunrise"? I guess you must say "rice" as in "sunrice", right? And "You've got beautiful ice" when you mean eyes? Well well, I've clearly never listened to you closely enough 'cause I've never noticed this odd New England pronunciation quirk. I'd well 'advised' (so you say "ad-viced", right?) to listen more carefully in future!
Is tv free? And. What shows, serials, movies, do Americans watch on tv?
On food and freedom: I think that:
- the tradition within Europe, particularly southern Europe, is for quality food.
- governments in Europe do, to varying degrees, require a certain level of healthiness of food
- corporate power is very strong in the US and profit is paramount
- advertising and cheap junk food is more prevalent in the US
- many people in the US are not educated in nutrition and don't have a lot to spend on food
- the UK sits between the US and mainland Europe on this
Love your British accents the London posh one and the cockney one too😊
He said 'scones' incorrectly..
But US citizens are, in general, not good at Geography. Neither are we ( us Britons ) particularly good at it. Suppose I were to ask you in which city lies a Soverign State ( Country ) ? You`re looking for a city that is larger than the country it contains.
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