I think America's biggest problem is not the lack of education, or the pride in the lack of education, but that those who take pride in their lack of education are so darned vocal about it.
I agree. I still remember when someone asked Americans online why they don't want to learn about the rest of the world. Their answer? "Our country is big and we have everything here and most of us will never travel outside of USA, so why bother?" It was BIZZARRE. Majority of the world actually likes to learn about other countries, they don't care if they will maybe never travel into other countries, they STILL like to learn about the world and are proud about their knowledge. I have no idea why so many Americans are so against basic knowledge when it comes to other countries 🤷🏻♀️
I think it's America's most popular cheese. I know as a kid I thought it was American. And, is America the only country that labels cheese by country and not city/region? I was excited to learn that Cheddar is a place. And I'm very curious what the cheddar tastes like there.
Once an American told me that I'm not Spanish because Spanish is a language and you can't be a language and that I was actually Mexican. Uh....I am from Spain. The country of Spain.
Oh lol, that always cracks me up when I read or hear about it. I am from The Netherlands, we have even weirder stuff when they ask where I am from or what language I speak or such. For some reason they think The Netherlands is just Amsterdam (apparently a country to them?) or that I am German or something. I am like, wut? Amsterdam is a city in my country and The Netherlands is not the same country as Germany. I think the confusion comes from Dutch and Deutsch. XD
@@johnhobbes2268 If you did some research you would know that this is actually NOT what it says at all. "Wilhelmus" originated in the Dutch Revolt, the nation's struggle to achieve independence from the Spanish Empire. It tells of the Father of the Nation William of Orange who was stadholder in the Netherlands under the King of Spain. The word Duytschen in the first stanza, generally translated into English as 'Dutch', 'native' or 'Germanic', is a reference to William's roots; its modern Dutch equivalent, Duits, exclusively means 'German', and while it may refer to William's ancestral house (Nassau, Germany) or to the lands of the Holy Roman Empire it is most probably a reference to an older meaning of the word, which can loosely be translated as 'Germanic', and seeks to position William as a person with a personal connection with the Low Countries as opposed to the king of Spain, Philip II, who was commonly portrayed as foreign, disconnected and out of touch. In doing so, William is also implicitly comparing himself with the well liked Charles V (Philip's father) who, unlike his son, was born in the Low Countries, spoke Dutch and visited the Low Countries more often than any other part of his realm. So as you can read, it doesn't swear loyalty to Spain at all. It is actually meant to symbolise our freedom from Spain. Also let's not forget that this Anthem, the oldest in history that is still in use is dated back from 1572. So the words might have changed through the years, as some words change and with it their meaning. Also, what does that have to do with what I said actually? I mean, that still doesn't mean Dutch is Deutsch nor does that mean Amsterdam is a Country. 🤦
@@johnhobbes2268 Nobody here sings the national anthem. And I've never sworn loyalty to the King. Why TF would I? Only Americans do that creepy shit, swearing their allegiance to a fucking FLAG. And making KIDS do it every day. With a hand over their heart. Super culty.
@@dachivale5319 He's American. Why would you expect him to do research or have even a very basic grasp of knowledge before loudly talking about something? xD
I once got berated for not voting in the US elections because "every vote counts". I am from the Netherlands, Dutch since the last Ice Age, not a US citizen. You'd think people would get upset if I *did* vote.
@@Charlieb82 I think what they mean is that since most of europe sees the US as quite right wing compared to themselves, the more right wing party wouldnt like it. Also Republicans dont like anything non American anyways
I was in the Midwest (work related) and a woman (nice, but...a bit...) we met was exited when she heard that I'm german. She told me that she had German in school and immediately started talking to me in German. She wasn't bad at all. Not good either! But her simple topics in somewhat broken sentences with kinda weird pronunciation (I'm not shitling on that, my English IS way better than her German, but it's far from being perfect and I have a strong accent) was pretty impressive for an American somewhere in the Midwest. Now, after some time she told me that my German was really good and that she notices that it's definitely better than hers (I've talked slowly and simple, of course, because that's what I want someone to do if I'm not great in a language) and that I must have been paying much more attention in school than she was. I told her that...yeah, that's my native language and of course I'm fluent in it. She was flabbergasted (and, to be fair, embarrassed, as I said she was a nice and open person) to learn that English wasn't the first language in... Germany. Now, with her being so embarrassed about it I can't blame her and just blame the US system. Otherwise I would have blamed her.
Right. And I had a dumb Brit ask me why America doesn't speak Spanish since they were the first colonizers of America Or the dumb Brit that thought I should be speaking Native-American language Illini since in was born in the state of Illinois. Then they wondered why Illinois looked like a French word so wonder if I spoke French or Illini. Oh, the hopeless Brits, I had to recite the entire history of America from the Indians to the Spanish to the French to the Dutch and English but they were so confused I drove the Brit back to the airport to fly to Heathrow where they could seem smart again.
Imagine the pikachu face though, had you been German or something and just had mostly international school education, like me - that might have actually broken their brain by the sounds of it XD
@@christinestromberg4057 The difference between Americans can’t be bigger. I was an exchange student in the US and stayed in 3 different states with 3 different families. The first state was Texas and people were poor and undereducated, I couldn’t stay a month and arranged with my exchanged family in Maine that I could say 2 months with them instead of one month. They were actually amazing, caring intelligent people but they were Democrats in a blue state. Huge difference. They told me that the intelligence in red states is the lowest on this planet and I experienced it. My 3rd exchange family were also democrats in a blue state.
Yes, we are not "anti-American". We identify with our own cultures and are anti those people, who evidently regard us as inferior because we do not fit into their bubble.
@@christinestromberg4057 i dont realy not like americans. I like them. But, how to put it. Theyr on the edge of insanity. And they are ready to cross the threshold :) For whatever reason...
@@karlbmiles I have heard American people from the Deep South speak on TH-cam . Absolutely fantastic accent . Just amazing . I don't want to comment on the NY accent . ❤️
"My cousin is from Dunoon, do you know him?" I live in Edinburgh. I know that's a short commute by rural American standards where everything is big trucks and straight roads, but goddammit.
That reminds me (German) of "lady" a roommate (former US soldier) told me about. She was the wife of a fellow soldier, who got offended when she was called a foreigner in Germany. She allegedly told everybody that there was no way she could be a foreigner as she was a US citizen and how dare these foreigners call her a foreigner! 😅
I’m an American living in Germany, and every time I return to the U.S. for a visit, I’m flabbergasted. Most Americans have no idea how good life can be in Western Europe. I’m often asked by Americans, "Why would you want to live in Germany when you could live in America, the freest country in the world?" Earlier this year, in January, I experienced a retinal detachment here in Germany. I couldn’t be more grateful for my German medical insurance, which covered everything over several months. This included four surgeries, three hospital stays, medications, and several weeks off work. Thankfully, my vision has stabilized, I still have my job, and I have zero medical debt. Had this happened in the U.S., I would likely be unemployed-thanks to at-will employment laws-with a mountain of unpaid medical bills and possibly blind in my left eye. I certainly dodged a bullet, both figuratively and maybe even literally. There is absolutely no way I’ll ever move back to the U.S. I’m too happy here.
Good for you. I am German originally from SE Asia. I have relatives in the US. Every time I visit the ask me when I would move as I am totally alone in Germany. I always say NO but NO thanks. I`m to progressive to do modern slavery.
I initially misread this as rectal detachment rather than retinal detachment . I don't know why, but I thought you should know. Hope your eyes are doing better since.
Reminds me of an American couple who went to Spain and complained that everything over there was "too Spanish." They complained because the food was Spanish. They complained because the receptionist at the hotel they were at spoke Spanish. (The NERVE of that receptionist! Speaking her native language in her home country! Unthinkable! Yeah, I'm being sarcastic.) Their stupidest comment? "We never expected to see so many FOREIGNERS there." CRINGE!!! I'm American and people like this couple embarrass me.
I'm English but I took Spanish citizenship a few year back (my husband is Spanish) and I've lived her for over a decade. A couple of years ago I was waiting at the bus stop and I had a tee on with English words on it (ironically "I Hate People"). An older gent in a cowboy hat was wandering round before he saw my tee and said "Excuse me ma'am, do you speak English?" I replied I did and how could I help him. He responded "I'm here for the fair but I don't know what bus to get" and had he stopped there I would have helped him but he continued "It's so good to hear English, nobody here speaks English they're obviously too lazy to learn it as they're too lazy to open any stores" (It's La Feria, everything is closed, it's Andalusia's 4th July!). I smiled at him and directed him to the wrong bus. I wasn't about to help some racist old white dude when he was disrespecting my husband, my in-laws, my friends, and my students (I'm an English teacher.). I wish I could say this was an isolated incident, but I live near a US naval base and this happens a lot.
@@Senovitj They didn't tell me one way or the other. (I don't even think they heard me ask. They were too riled up.) Most places there do hire at least some bilingual workers.
@@Miss_ESL I've met some really kind-hearted (and level-headed) people from Texas, but that state is also undeniably home to a large number of ignorant, barely literate, arrogant, excessively nationalistic, Trump-infatuated bigots. I think I would have done what you did.:)
Almost as funny as a American interviewer telling Sir Lenny Henry CBE that he Lenny has to be classified as African American, finishing with: "No where are you really from?" Lenny replied: "Dudley". He didn't add that it is located in "The Black Country".
Little joke here in Germany : When the Lord created the world he somewhen created Canada. He gave it a breathtaking beautiful countryside, stunning animals, endless sources and the nicest people ever. One of his angels asked:"Don't you think that's a bit too much for just one nation?" The Lord replied :"Oh yes. Of course. But you don't know who their neighbors will be!"
@@jclkaytwo well i didnt claim you canadians were the nicest people ever 😂 i know far to little canadians to make a claim like that, im just saying, if you are like americans without guns, thats still a 100% improvement from the american default 😂 at least one doesnt have to fear getting shot for no apparent reason
The problem is not that they don't know things, being ignorant in something simply gives you the opportunity to learn something new. The problem is that they are so confident in their ignorance that they even try to refute the people of the country they are talking about.
As an American, I make this argument to my own people. I get slammed for reminding them that there is a whole world outside the US. And suggest they find the beauty of other cultures.
@@CarlosGarcia-ze1mk Not all Americans are like that, but sadly the undereducated ones are very loud and spread their stupidity everywhere. I often feel sorry for the normal Americans who are just like us, I had an amazing exchange family 4 years ago in Maine and they were very lovely, down to earth people, well educated. I enjoy seeing them back every year. I feel like Europeans are much more similar to eachother than Americans from different states. We have done 18 states, 3 as exchange student, the others with my parents. The difference in mentality between red and blue states can’t be bigger.
I've been told that i live in a totalitarian society without liberal freedoms. I'm from Finland.... Yesterday i was told that we don't have real winters and that the entire continent is flat. Saying "but i'm from here" has no impact. People from other countries make mistakes too but usually they just shut up after proven wrong, delete their comment or says "ah, didn't know that". Muricans will insist that you are lying or even worse: that somehow, using some very weird logic that you don't know how the very place you live in is like, how it works and how people live there. It is really weir.d
I remember once that I was in italy (im an european not an american btw) and an american couple was complaining that they couldn't find an italian restaurant... As somebody who can use english decently well (even tho its not my native language) I told them that they are everywhere... And they complained no they are not because they are not called italian restaurant so they are not an italian restaurant. Till that day I thought the stories off americans where exaggerated. But that was the day I realised they might not have been.
Your story sounds made up too. The idea that a wealthy international traveler would pay thousands of dollars to vacation in Italy and not know that there are Italian restaurants everywhere, as you said. They knew about the Blue Grotto, Michaelangelo, the Vatican, but didn't know about Italian food? So this was their first hour in Italy? Not likely in the first place, but to complain to a stranger about it just doesn't ring true.
@@karlbmiles They didnt complain to me directly. I overheard them complaining about it. And to be fair when I go on holiday I do look into things to visit but its not like I research the whole culture or something everytime before I go on holiday. I mean I feel like people who do are the exception. Doesnt mean that the italian restaurant thing is something you should know even without research.
@@karlbmiles I think you misunderstood the issue. They were in Italy, they know about Italian food. The disconnect comes from them thinking an Italian restaurant would be labelled in Italy.
@@karlbmiles I think you are vastly overestimating how many people have common sense. I'm from the US (though have friends all over the world, and have traveled to Germany), and I will tell you, stupid people exist everywhere... but sometimes Americans are a special brand of stupid. Or perhaps I should say, a special brand of entitled. Stories do not need to be made up. There are an overwhelming number of examples of people like this. I have some of my own, but you seem to dislike people sharing, in spite of this being a comment section under a video specifically about the subject. Not everyone researches a ton of things before traveling. They should, but I know plenty who didn't. Some thought they would simply get a tour guide once there, and others go to visit friends or something, and assume those people will just tell them everything they need to know. But in the given example, the issue was more that the couple was not applying common sense to the situation. Something all the research in the world is not going to grant them. Considering how dumb some people I've met are, including ones who have traveled internationally, this story does not even remotely surprise me. Never underestimate the power of stupidity, or lack of common sense.
The only personal example of this is the time I left a comment on Facebook that was critical of US foreign policy and someone called me a self-hating American brainwashed to hate his country. I'm from Finland
My dad had aa saying, when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one you hit. You're trying to say you actually love America, then just say it.
On Instagram I saw a funny video on price inflation in supermarkets here in Australia. It was very obviously not the US. It had an Australian talking. The supermarkets had the branding and signage of our supermarket here, which doesn't exist in the US. No kidding... Half the comments were Americans going, "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU VOTE IN BIDEn!!!!!" While the other half were people going, "this is why everyone thinks Americans are stupid!" I was definitely in the second group. Not going to lie.
So out of 330 Million Americans, you ran into one that didn't realize a news cast on inflation wasn't about American inflation. What a coup! You're an idiot, not going to lie.
I've see something similar in Brazil. Most notely after our last presidential elections. It was still November and people started to blame the next president for everything ad that happened. Each burglary, each infrastructural problem, each natural crap (regardless of country), Amazon's landoffs etc.
When I was an exchange student in the US a guy from Texas told me that Italy doesn’t exist, that it was invented by Democrats to make Americans pay more taxes. 🤣🤣 I was stunned. I am an Italian from Italy but I apparently don’t exist 🤣🤣
I'm Scottish. Was once told by an American that Scotland was, in fact, a province of Ireland. I tried to be polite and say that our accents and cultures are similar (which is a bit of a stretch) so it was an easy mistake to make but, Scotland is part of the UK. She just said no it wasn't and finished the conversation by telling me to 'talk to the hand' - this was about 25 years ago for context.
@@CaesarPortugal Last year I studied a year in Madrid and we had roomies from all over Europe including Scottish and Irish. A Scottish friend told me that Scottish people are actually very similar to Belgians. He was reading a book Scotland and the Flemish people, and told us about the history of Scotland, that the name Fleming comes from Flemish and how both countries were culturally very close. Last year we took our Scottish friends together with Belgians and Italians to Tomorrowland in Belgium but we visited Belgium too. We ended up in a village who was having highland games. We said to the local Belgians that we had 4 Scottish guys among us and they kept on offering them beer. 😅😅 Our 4 Scottish friends were so drunk that they barely remembered which planet we were on. The local people explained that every village and city in Belgium has highland games and that they adore Scottish people. To conclude, My Belgian friends are very similar to my Scottish friends, they both have such a similar humour and it’s impossible to argue with them. They are such a positive people. I love Irish people too, but they are different, mentally wise. For me it’s like saying Italian and Swedes are the same people.
A few days after the 11th of September 2001, I was with an American family as everyone showed how appalled they were at what had happened. An American newspaper had the front page headline "World gathers round its wounded leader". I pointed to this aghast at the stupidity of the text. The family didn't understand. I had to explain that the world does not see the USA as their leader. And no, we still don't.
"But I'm 'murican! Not some fkn foreigner!" "Um sir... your plane landed in Japan. That would automatically make you the foreigner. Yes... yes... I understand it's a hard concept for you to grasp, but nonetheless true, now please - move on down the line"
Wasn’t there an animated film years ago? About an astronaut landing on an alien planet and exclaiming: “I am on an alien planet full of aliens!” “Dude, you landed on our planet, YOU’RE the alien here.” “Nonono, that’s not how that works!” Paraphrasing here since it’s been years, but the gist is the same.
Best thing with the example being in Japan is... you're an "alien" there. At least that's what it officially translated as when I was a foreign student over a decade ago. I went through "alien registration" or something like it. I was highly amused. Here comes the alien, but I'm not about to abduct anyone! :)
Years ago, I visited Boston. Sitting in a bar one night, an American said to me "You guys are so lucky, never to have experienced terrorism". I had a choice leave or get into an argument about how the US partly funded the IRA.
Not experienced terrorism? I‘m German, born in 1975. I grew up with the „wanted“ posters for RAF members (Baader-Meinhof) plastered everywhere. They officially dissolved in 1998.
@@katp797yup, also, many countries in europe lived throught wars, bombs falling on their heads, armies marching throught their streets and fascists erasing entre cities, so...
@@bogicvujadinovic772😂😂 I had no clue people In Montenegro were white, I thought you were all Yellow, aren’t you located next to China and ride bears to school? 😅 AHAHA Just kidding, love from 🇮🇹
Asmongold did a few weeks ago a reaction to a video about r/2Balkan4You and he has read every flair out loud except Montenegro (sleepy serb) thinking it's a slur, even though it was the most innocent of them all.
I once had a waitress in Dallas insist that I was from New England, and then when I eventually persuaded her that I was from England and not New England, her response was a haughty "What's the difference?" Erm... about 3000 miles... I then told her I'd come from Worcester and the cycle started again, "Worcester is NOT in Europe, its in the US. I know, my daddy makes the sauce" Jesus fucking christ
@@karlbmilesimagine if all the foreigners that play baseball in the us play for their countries in an actual 'world series' also keep in mind that baseball tournaments happen also in other parts of the world other than the U.S
@@karlbmiles but if you say the same thing about basketball i actually think that they would win because an U.S basketball team would be really strong
@@edisonsilva9332 and that is pretty much how most international tournaments work. People play for their nation, not the club they have acontract with.
A young Black American woman, went viral because she saw a documentary about the Eurovision song contest and there was a country "Montenegro" whereupon she freaked out.🙈
@@karlbmiles He didn't, watch the video from the youtuber "Hero Hei" titled "she's offended by the country montenegro" (you can just search up "montenegro hero hei" and it will show up) it's only 1:25 minute long
I find it odd when Americans don't understand time zones, as there are literally 6 in the USA. In the UK we have one, but we seem to totally understand how other countries are in other zones.....
Tony Blair told everyone that the millennium started in London because of the zero meridian, unaware that the international date line was exactly opposite on the other side of the world. We have our idiots too.
My friend in America can't grasp that I am 13 hours ahead of her on the clock. She just keeps texting me at 2 and 3 am. and then acts like I'm ignoring her when I don't text back right away.
@@Joanna-il2ur I can't find any reference to that, except for when Tony Blair unveiled a new electronic time-keeping organization (Greenwich Electronic Time) on 1st January 2001, designed to help people co-ordinate their time-keeping on the Internet. So he meant that the Millennium started in Greenwich in these terms. It's a metaphor. He knows about time zones.
This reminds of a time when I took a taxi to New Orleans Airport (I am Australian). I was chatting to the driver about various things and he comes up with "Yeah, 'Merica is the best place in the world." I said "Oh, where have you been?" (thinking he would be able to compare "'Merica" to other countries). He says "Oh, I've been everywhere: Oklahoma, Florida, Texas ..."
Maybe one day we'll see these videos made about the stupid Australians, but nobody gives a shit about Australia, you'll only see videos about America and Americans and the rest of the world will fall for the click bait just to insult Americans. Point of pride, people can't get enough about America, our products, our movies, our generosity, our protection, and so on.
I work in tourism in a country with primarily American tourists. Trust me, pointing out to Americans that they're foreigners when abroad is necessary. I can't begin to count how many times Americans have started quoting the US Constitution at me or citing US law when they don't agree with local laws. When I point out those don't apply here, I'm usually met with one of two responses. Either 1:"It's not the American constitution. It's THE constitution. It applies worldwide." or 2:"American laws take priority over your laws, because America is more important."
I think it is important to remember that we don't learn or own language by reading dictionaries but rather by imprinting. If all your life “foreign” has ment “non-American” you probably won't connect that the real meaning is “not from the current county.” I've seen this happened to people from other countries, just that Americans are usually the largest, laudest, and more persistent and stubborn (entitled?) group where this happens.
@@nkscou9008 Even worst, this country (USA) has no name of its own, a periphrasis is used to refer to it, like the united kingdom. And both theses periphrasis are not targeting exactly the entity they should. The Netherlands, or belgium, are indeed a united kingdom too, and Mexico or Brazil are a united states of America. At the beginning the Brazil was even formerly known as "Estados Unidos do Brasil". So basically when people are speaking about " american", it can be people from Brazil, when they are speaking about "USA", it can be Brazil too. When they are speaking about "the biggest country in America" or the "big one" it can be the Canada (biggest in size). And cherry on the cake, if the are speaking about the richest country in America, it is Bermuda (GDP by inhabitant PPP) or Falkland. Better to say "the only one country having used a nuclear weapon on civilians"
@@jeanmartin963 Actually the UK is correctly called by the full name "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (which is what is says on the front of my passport). It's just that it's commonly abbreviated to UK because that's less of a mouthful.
I was a manager on an international gaming network. I am from Germany. We had another manager, a typical southern american Karen mom. When a girl from Estonia, with the name punane (which literally means red in the Estonian language) applied, she got all upset since it resembles a slur in the English language and wanted to ban that poor girl. Luckily she was alone in her opinion and didn't get her way. Eventually manager Karen quit and started rambling to her Karen friends on facebook about our network being inapproriate. What makes this even more sad is that if someone with the name let's say green arrow had applied and it had turned out that "green" is a slur in another language, she would not have cared a bit. Also, that same Karen manager kept making fun about my accent, told me repeatedly that I sound like Arnold, ignoring the fact that while I indeed have a slight accent, I am also fluent in 2 languages and dabbling in 3 others, while she spoke only English.
@@Sandstroem1981 Thanks. Wasn't doubting you, just curious that l couldn't think of one. 😊 l'm normally quite good at swearing. 😉 Perhaps it's American slang.
The comment to the irish female who wanted to live in the woods. Do US people think that cities are somehow not built on the land owned by the same Native Americans who owned the countryside and woods?
@@neuralwarp They are the indigenous people or Ireland though, at least since the Indoeuropean migrations, because for some reason that doesn't count as an invasion & replaceament the same way modern colonization did
@@neuralwarp Ding ding ding: American spotted. THEY ARE. The Celtic (so nowadays Irish, Scottish and Welsh) are the ORIGINAL INHABITANTS of the British Isles (the Ireland not even being British by the way). The Anglo-Saxon were the invasors.
It always astounds me how race obsessed people can't fathom that the word black in whatever language was conceived before it was associated with people for the color of their skin that had the color described
@geonunes I think that's too difficult a reasoning for the USians (adopted from a comment here) we're talking about to understand. I really want to believe they're not ALL like this.
@@paulavitoria1798 you even see that in writing. They avoid using the word black like the plague to give any description of a black character. I don't know if you're familiar with Rick Riordan, who wrote Percy Jackson. He has no problem in describing Percy as having black hair, but when he later introduces a black character, he describes her hair as brown, and ethnically speaking, even if she was mixed race, that's a very improbable outcome
It would really blow their minds, if they realised, that the Spanish word for black "negro" was appropriated by their ancestors to describe their slaves. Literally nobody else uses it for anything other than the name of a color. And nobody else finds anything offenses with stating the name of a color.
What bugs me is two things actually. First is NOT lack of knowledge but lack of awareness. I don't for example necessarily expect an American to actually know all the items of vocabulary that are different in the English of 'non-Americans' (I say that because often words or spellings labelled as 'British English' are also used by the Irish, the Australians, the New Zealanders and even sometimes the Canadians). But I DO expect them to be aware that these differences exist. So when they hear somebody with an English accent saying something or spelling something differently they think "oh, that's how they must say it" rather than "that's just wrong!!" Second, is refusing to be corrected. So they'll say something totally wrong about your country, you correct them and they refuse to believe you! That's too much for me to cope with.
@@101steel4 unless it's an app many a time I spelt a word right only for it to be changed and I am not the greatest speller so sometimes I think oh did I spell that wrong but no sometimes they just change my correct English spelt word into the American spelling even this sentence it wants me to change spelt into spelled which both can be used in English spelling but I guess spelt is not used much in American English
I watched a video where the guy was showing off his new ants, he used the scientific Latin name. They were black ants. He had to fight with youtube to get his video reinstated all because they thought he was being racist.
They would love hungarian language. :D The word for kiss in hungarian is puszi, which is pronounced close to pussy. Also, trees are fák, similar to fuck. The list goes on. :)
I moved from a country in South America to the U.S. and I have been asked "when did you come to America?" I'm like I have never left America, I moved from the south of it to the north of it.
In English, we think of these landmasses as 2 continents, North America and South America. America itself is typically just the shortened version of the United States of America in English, much like how the Estados Unidos Mexicanos is just called Mexico. When referring to someone from a continent, we'll say either North American or South American. I believe the fuss over "America/American" comes from this language barrier and different continental model, as well as the fact that if I were to actually say what state in the US I come from, no one would know where I'm actually from. If you're going to complain about "American", you should start learning the states, since our state names are our unique names. We are called the United States of America because we're a union of states located in North America, after all. I don't mean to be rude, I just wanted to explain why we call ourselves Americans when technically you could call people in the rest of the Americas "American".
@@Tornnnado I know the story you are telling perfectly well, and I can recognize the name of the states. If you think they are 2 land masses, ask the people crossing the Darien by foot. Well before the USA was a country, Europeans had already called the continent America. During the independence fight against the Spaniard rule, the descendants from the Spanish differentiated themselves as Americans as they fought against them. You said it yourself, USA is called The United States because there were a bunch of colonies that united with each other and got rid of the British. People in these colonies referred to them as the United Colonies of North America. Once they became independent, it became the United States of North America. Shortly after, they dropped the North part. USA was the first country to become independent and the only one with such federal system. The name refers to a bunch of states united under a commonly agreed government in a part of the world called America (the only united states of the area at the moment). They did not name the country America, so the abbreviation to only America is wrong and misleading. Everyone born from Canada and Alaska all the way to the Patagonia, including the Caribbean, are Americans. This makes your analogy with Mexico incorrect, as there is a history behind those names. Many countries in America, copied the government system from the USA. In this case, a piece of land already recognized as Mexico, adopted a similar government style and called themselves that: United Mexican States as a reference to the federal system from the USA.
@@TornnnadoDo you realise that this comment could be in Ryan's next video? You're demonstrating that what he says is true! Friendly reminder by another American, not from the US.
@@silviac221 How so? I'm aware that everyone from the Americas is an American, as I mentioned previously, and that the demonym 'American' isn't exactly very specific, but again, in English, people from the USA don't have another good way to refer to the country as a whole (Unitedstatesian is not a demonym in English). Not to mention that when we refer to the continents (because yes, the model used in English speaking countries differentiates them, much like how Asia and Africa are considered different continents while also being connected), we say someone is 'North American' or 'South American', not just 'American.' When we refer to a specific American country, we use its name and demonym, and thus do not need to say 'American', even though, yes, I'm aware they are Americans. The trouble I see is that yall can't seem to accept that we're allowed to call ourselves American just as much as you are.
It's like how someone from CDMX is allowed to call themselves "mexicano/a" to refer to themselves and their city even though the rest of the country is also named Mexico. It's confusing, it's a little annoying to everyone outside of CDMX, but it's ultimately not a huge deal. My point is, multiple places can share the same name and be equally correct even while referring to different things.
I’m from Denmark and in 2017 or 18, Trump wanted to, extremely arrogant,buy parts of my country (Greenland to be precise) And so when our primeminister told him no and said to him he was absurd (our primeminister is a woman😊) he got so offended and ran as fast as he could to the airport! He left our Queen at the doorstep, where she was hosting a galla in honor of the American President😮 Back in the US, Trump wined and ranted about what a horrible woman the danish Primeminister was for calling him absurd😮 I haven’t laught so hard for a long ass time! I tell you that😂 He learned it the hard way! Don’t ever mess with the danes!! And btw… He’s not welcome in our country nomore!
@@melanierhianna Yeah I know! He didn’t know the first thing about Royal etiquette did he🙄 Stepped in front of the Queen and started waving like some lonatic😬🙄 It was so chrinching I couldn’t watch! Our Queen was like, good riddens he’s off.. Now let’s get back inside and party😅
There can't be any sane person not hating Trump as he represents US best - "With money but not too much clue about outside world" =)) Now, I totally get why he sells so well inside though - "he is one of us" not some random dude or gurl with fancy vocabulary hiding all "suspicious" things! (no hate - I like toooon of US citizens and even my sister was teaching kids for half a year in California =)) )
I always think the classic is Americans telling British people they really should use their own language and not English. Hard to know where to start with this really.
The 'He's your president' line is a line I've only Heard US Americans use. Everyone else is aware that other countries exist and that people in comments have a high chance of not being from the US, so 'RudeBoy' definitely sounds like he's from the US to me.
@@Kayta-Linda No, it doesn't seem obvious. It seems superfluous. Yes, all Americans are from the US in English, as the result of the US not being able to come up with a proper name for their country. The demonym of the United States is "American."
I once encountered an American who argued with me that vikings only existed in Norway. He didn't care that I was Swedish but thought he knew better than me.
the National Gallery in Washington was founded in 1937, the National Gallery in London was founded in 1824. Maybe the National Gallery Washington should have " Copy of" in their screen name.
When we finally re-opened to tourists a couple of years ago here in Japan a notice soon appeared at one of the restaurants I go to: "Please be aware we do not accept US dollars" No mention of pounds, euros or anything else. Can't imagine why they'd need to just mention dollars....
Because it's not only Americans who run around with US dollars in cash when outside their home country. Russians are notorious for this, especially under the current circumstances.
You are missing the point here. Nobody in europe presumes euros are accepted outside of Europe. Why would US citizens expect their dollars to be accepted?
@@Himmelgrau68 My sarcasm seems to have been missed. I was pointing out it is only Americans who demand dollars are taken. We have plenty of Russian visitors in Japan and there seems no need to put up a sign for them. Maybe they act differently in other countries.
When i worked in normandy each year during the period of the d day celebration we had a massive number of tourist and each year we had to explain to some of them that we only accept euro, each time it was american tourist.
@@nattm6553 That's why they are all shocked after using the European health care system. Americans are just mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and cover them with shit.
I briefly lived in the USA and I remember over there being informed by someone that I had "an accent". Fair enough, I thought - although _technically_ he had an accent too, but I wasn't being pedantic about it - so I explained to him that I come from the UK. He nodded sagely and then complimented me on my English, "especially with it being your second language and all"...
I’m from Canada and was working for a Canadian company. I was trying to order something from a small company. The lady on the phone tells me they don’t accept foreign currency so I can’t buy what they’re selling. So I tell her I’ll try and get our foreign office to send the check. She said no they don’t accept foreign money you have to have your domestic office send the check. I went back and forth with her a few times about if I send a check from our domestic office it will be in Canadian, I’ll have to send it from our foreign office. She never clued in that to me our US office was our foreign office. Eventually I got tired of playing with her and just hung up.
Slightly off-topic, I can't stop wondering that they still use payments via cheques in the USA instead of doing simple bank transfers from account to account like the whole world does. That is much, much easier and doesn't require the additional paperwork that processing cheques requires...
@@juliansmith4295 Cash is another thing. Cash is used, more or less, pretty much everywhere in the world and will be probably used always. But we are talking about cashless payments here.
Back around 1990 an older American lady, on an internal UK flight asked me what African-Americans are called in the UK. After some initial confusion, I realised she was talking about British people. When not just calling them British, people of African descent in the UK are called black. Or sometimes in a specific context, Afro-Caribbean, Ghanaian, Somali or whatever. She advised me in a kindly tone that “black” is a bit offensive, and perhaps we should start using African-American.
It would be an interesting response to the current "THEY ARE INVADING US!!!" rhetoric in the USA. There are no "blacks". They are all "African-Americans". Thus "Americans"... meaning every person with dark skin is automatically a U.S. citizen. If they want to or not. ;)
Tell her that this guy doesn’t have an American passport, not born in America, has never even been in America. So “American” doesn’t fit. What do you call him then? And watch her brain overload. 🤣
I am black from Jamaica. If being black is not a bad thing, then why do Americans treat it like a dirty word? And do they seriously not realize how stupid they sound trying to call people who are neither African nor American "African-American"
My friend had this happen to her in a Hotel in Geneva. While they were chatting in the foyer she told an American lady that she was Ethiopian, and the lady told her she should just refer to herself as African American, because "where your ancestors were taken from as slaves shouldn't matter in this day and age".
The times I have been in airport queues and been pushed out of the way (with everyone else) by some twat waiving their passport while hollering “Let me through! I’m an American!” is mind boggling.
Working with Americans in the 1980s, they were really annoyed that they had to get visas for the UK, and Heathrow Airport only had EU Citizen and Non EU Citizen customs channels. Only the US was entitled to restrict foreigners from entering their country, because everybody knew that the rest of the world were all desperate to get into the US. No US citizen would ever want to permanently live abroad, so they should be aloud to just come and go as they wanted.
I saw a reality show about the Austrailan customs. They checked a USAmerican's luggage, and he was so offended. He had never had his luggage gone through before, and he told the customs officers (only doing their job) that he would tell everybody about his bad experience in Australia. His first time abroad, probably. I have had my luggage rummaged through by a British customs officer (I was very late for a flight and had a black eye, so I don't blame her for finding me suspicious), and I can't blame her for doing it (although she sort of made it take longer than it could have).
@@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 I saw similar in Manchester Airport. An American couple and the man complaining about having his luggage checked. He said: "This is outrageous. We've just been on a plane for x-number of hours from Shanghai, but we're going to the U.S!' The customs woman said: "So? Everyone is going somewhere from somewhere and the quicker you open your bags the quicker it will happen.' That shut him up.
@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 Two things:- I love watching those shows. I saw one with a middle-aged American couple saying it went their Amendment Rights 🤦♀️ If it's not impolite, why were you late with a blacked eye?
The three letter f word means cigarette in Australia too. The anti smoking advert slogan in the 80’s was only dags need f..s. We can’t use our own vernacular and slang as social media is governed by US words and feelings. Censorship Mussolini would be proud of.
Not really - American social media sites are governed by US standards. There's nothing stopping an Australian company building a social media platform that allows Aussie slang (though given I virtually never hear that word used in a non-prerogative way, I'm not sure what level of demand there is!).
The gallery in Washington is called "The National Gallery of Art"... the one in London is just called "National Gallery"... it was formed over 100 years prior.
@@petebeatminister Correct... besides that fact... the national gallery she listed as an excuse doesn't even have the same name... it was a double wammy.
@@seanmcmichael2551 And football as well. Every country in the world has their own football association, eg the Scottish FA, the French FA. The English one is recognised by FIFA as just the FA since it was first.
I once had an American tell me the Australian ABC should be sued because that name is in use in the US. I just replied that we (Australia) were using the name first though.
@@valsyaranamual6853 So australia - Britain - Canada: ABC - BBC - CBC Where is the DBC? I mean, there is DBC News in Bangladesh, and DBC in Hong Kong, but those don't quite have the same regional meaning.
The Passport queues (Lines for Yanks) is not meant as an insult to US Americans, it's there because of US Americans thinking (aloud) that they should be given special treatment, in other countries, just because they are from the US. It has happened so many times that these signs had to be put up, in many countries, to reduce (it doesn't negate the issue) the numbers of US Americans trying this.
Well, fact is, many countries would go bankrupt if America tourist dollars dried up, so yes, we should be given special treatment all over Europe. Actually, we do. spain has requested that Brits quit coming -- they are too rowdy and too cheap.
@@karlbmiles Oh boy! Don't want to be near when you eventually wake up. You can tell an American tourist a mile away because you can hear him/her complaining, even if you're behind closed doors. And as for Spain, that related to soccer hooliganism, and is from almost 15 years ago.
I had just flown into Gatwick from NZ and while waiting in the line at immigration a teenaged American girl swanned past, straight onto the end of the much shorter UK and EU line. Next minute she kicks of when they told her to go on the back of our line. She was waving her passport aggressively at the officials and informing everyone in the building that this is a US passport. The officers explain that it is no use tonher in that line. She didn't give up but carried on, advising them that the US "ran" NATO (that must have frightened them). By the time she got through her fluffy head that her US passport was not magic and will not open all doors she was on the end of a line that had grown by passengers from two more incoming aircraft. Poor little thing.
Believe me, I have seen Americans wondering where to go at Heathrow Airport 🤦♀️ Foreigners definitely wasn't for them, and UK line didn't seem to quite fit either, they just stand around helplessly saying WTF, until someone in the Foreigners queue gently guides them to their place. Ah well 🙄🥴 🙋♀️🇬🇧🤪
TBF they don't really have to go through the "foreigners" queue now, as they can use the e-gates along with many nationalities. There isn't a special UK-only channel anymore that I know of. Some ports back in the 1980s and before had three channels: UK, EEC, rest of world, but that's just the past.
There is no such thing as a 'foreigners' queue. I doubt there ever has been in a UK airport. You get signs saying things like UK, EU, All Other Passports and lots of flags. You don't get 'Foreigners' as a sign.
@@blotski That is true. KLIA1 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for example, definitely has a "Foreigners" channel, but passport holders from 63 countries/territories can use the e-gates if they have visited Malaysia before. Citizens, immigrants (rare, as Malaysia, despite being multi-racial, isn't really an immigration country), and MM2H pass holders can also use the "domestic" staffed immigration-control channel.
No, no, hear me out Ryan. Having r/politics be all about US politics actually makes perfect sense. Where else would people discuss how a crayon shortage stems from a political issue? You guys manage to transform ANY problem into a political one. Witnessing it is an amazing, horrifying and a brain rotting experience, all at once.
r/politics being us politics only isn't really that big of a deal for me. Politics outside of the US are fairly boring anyway to the point where I think a worldwide politics subreddit doesn't exist. r/news and r/worldnews however...
r/politics being us politics only isn't really that big of a deal for me. Politics outside of the US are fairly boring anyway to the point where I think a worldwide politics subreddit doesn't exist. r/news being mainly US with r/worldnews for the rest however...
@@Zanion "Fairly boring"? Nope - and you dislike it because you don't know enough context. Luckily your state-department has smart people sorting out the US internationally. Hopefully this will continue, but I don't hope for miracles.
Oh the amount of times I've debated something in FB with an American and they often say it's the governments fault and I'm just a sheep for the government. I don't usually say I'm from Finland right away, because just saying I don't care about your government, makes them loose their minds😆 And it doesn't always stop even me telling them I'm Finnish, because you know, I'm speaking English so I must be American..
Similar thing happened to me many times on Twitter when they ask me Trump or Kamala and I say I dont care. They call me ignorant. No. I just care about my country's politics.
@@svetlanaandrasova6086 A rare moment when calling you ignorant for not caring about US elections would be fitting. Any other election and it would be very safe to completely ignore and live your life. But this time there is far more at stake than US. If Trump is elected Ukraine will absolutely get fucked and lose the war in 1 year max unless Europe doubles the support to make up for lack of support and hostility from USA. Trump isn't exactly subtle about liking dictators of the world such as North Korea and that he wants to become on himself. No need to vote anymore he says, it will be all right he says... just vote this one time he says.
That's hilarious 😂😂😂😂 Just because US citizens aren't able to speak a second language, it doesn't mean the rest of the world just stuck with one language...
@@karlbmiles What do you mean America's Facebook? Although it was created by US citizens and is still an US business/corporation, Facebook is obviously a world social network, just like the internet itself (which wasn't invented by US citizens, by the way). I dare say Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook shareholders wouldn't be as rich as they are if Facebook was strictly US (you haven't the luxury of having one thousand million - or one billion, as you put it - nationals, like China, to have an exclusive social network).
Oh, another example is korean songs on american radio get beeped or muted when the word "niga/nega" is said which literally just means "you", or the word "naega" which means "I". You can imagine how butchered songs get when you erase all yous and Is
@@BlackHoleSpain i don't think we need to go into details. The point is that America censors other languages for SOUNDING like an insult they came up with
@@BlackHoleSpain Your alias sounds like someone self-complex and with problems. It's really grave that crazy kpop fans are dedicated to sink their country with hate, Americans/South Americans/rest of Europeans, etc kpop fans do the same. You all work from the enemies of your countries. You aren't quite bright nor good people
This reminds me when Americans got offended at an Australian TV ad showing a black person (West Indies, but of course Americans called them AFRICAN AMERICAN) eating fried chicken, because Australia really cares about AMERICAN stereotypes that mean nothing here.
I remember that. The joke is that the WI are Commonwealth cousins, are hero worshipped, nobody cares about their skin colour and - if they are silly enough to clog their arteries with KFC that is up to them, not Aussies.
@@catmeow11111 & the ad was made by an American company! The View hosts were HORRIFIED by the racism… in a country where there is no cultural link between the colour of one’s skin & fried chicken! IGNORANT on the grandest of scales.
Your issue seems to be those dopey Europeans that think 'American' must mean the continent, not the county. Continent of Africa plus Continent of America yields African-Americans living in the Indies.
I had a similar conversation to the one about Trump being my president in a Reddit forum a while ago. I said that Trump was not, never had been and never would be my president. I didn’t clarify why, hoping one of the various Muricans berating me might work it out, but they never did. They got more and more furious, telling me I would have to accept it, US laws definitely did apply to me, and I would end up in “gaol” - I asked if they meant prison but they still didn’t catch on 😁
Sitting next to a family of newly-arrived American tourists in a small family restaurant in Italy, I watched them insist on sending back their pizza to have it cut up even though they had knives and other cutlery in front of their eyes on the table. This complete lack of initiative made me laugh but it really confused the poor girl serving them because uncut is normal.
The official tourist office in Oslo, Norway some years ago, reported that a lot of Americans gave them feedback that they were surprised and offended that we Norwegians were not all blond, white and blue eyed. That we have a multicultural society in Norway too, was offensive to them apparently ....
Top American defaultism: The USA people call themselves Americans, leaving outside every single one of the other 34 countries in the continent. Think all the excuses you want, but Americo Vespucio was Florentine and the word America was put in place by the Spanish as the name of the continent, 2 centuries before Benjamin Franklin began promoting its political use to separate the english colonies in north america from the royalist forces from britain.
@@leirumf5476 I must confess that I myself have difficulties deciding on a term that makes sense. The problem is that USA neither is a real country nor has a real name.
You're wrong! Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. His collaborator Matthias Ringmann and he are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci in a world map they delineated in 1507.
@@jacquestricatel7055 Interesting. I read decades ago, that the name was derived from Vespucci's first name, but I never heard who did that. Thank you for sharing.
I'm Scottish. A Scottish friend of mine one got a facebook ban for using the phrase 'that's a cracker'. In Scottish, the word 'cracker' indicates something that is excellent, very good, a fine example, high quality.
But the point remains that that particular connotation of the word is *only* used within the US, and not used by anyone in any other nation. So to apply that interpretation to a Scot is absolutely US-centrism run amuk.
Ohhhh i remember an American complaining that if Britain is 5hrs ahead of the USA, then why didn't they warn the USA about the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbour
It happened on July 12th too. We could have warned them months before. Of course, the World Trade Centre attack happened on November 9th for us, so we couldn't warn them.
I am still amazed that, with 350,000,000+ people in the USA, the country cannot find just ONE that will make an intelligent, capable and acceptable President!
@@vivettebell1610 From your lips to god's ear..... it's really looking bleak wherever I look. Our "politicians" are such an unspeakable gathering of incompetent clowns, it's not even funny. And once more the fish stinks from the head, but not only.
In the seventies I had a lot of interaction with USA military service people in Germany. Probably because military service is at least 90% boredom, I had fairly long discussions with quite a few of them. Some of them were very knowledgeable people with well thought-out opinions. But they were well and truly in the minority because most of them didn't have a clue about basically anything that wasn't directly or specifically focussed on the USA. My interactions with people from the USA during the following decades, up to present day, didn't give me any cause yet to modify my opinion.
Danish person here. I posted a picture of myself in a facebook group wearing a viking outfit and wrote, I want my Danegeld you bastards. I was reported for inciting violence
An American once told me he would never go to Canada because it was too cold... He was from Alaska. To be fair, his friend, who was from California really looked ashamed.
I live in a small town in northeastern BC. Years ago, a friend of mine encountered an American tourist who was heading to Alaska from somewhere in the Lower 48. The tourist had to stop for the night and was perplexed about why the drive was taking so long (I live about 11 hours from the US border to the south, and it's another 21 hours to get to Alaska); he didn't realize that Canada was so big. At some point, he got out his map and showed it to my friend to illustrate why he was so confused. The map was of the US; it had Alaska and Hawaii crammed a bit closer to the contiguous states, and while it did have Canada on the map, is was shrunk down and squashed in order to fit Alaska into the frame. I guess all map projections have some distortion. I'm pretty familiar with the Mercator projection, but I'm intrigued by the 'Murica projection.
Googled for real information: Canada generally experiences colder temperatures compared to Alaska. While Alaska does have extreme cold temperatures, some regions in Canada, particularly in the northern parts, can have lower average temperatures. The coldest measured temperature in Canada was -62.8 degrees Celsius, while the coldest in Alaska was -62.2 degrees Celsius. I don't know why you bothered with your story. I lived in Alaska for two years, and it could have been meaningful if you told us where in Alaska he lived. Sitka averages 48 degrees (Fahrenheit) in January and 64 degrees in July. Quite pleasant don't you think?
@@karlbmiles because over 80% of canadians dont live in the northern parts of canada where the temperature can be -62. If you had read a little more, you would have learned that most of us live near the American border. And some Canadians live also as south as the northern part of California. You can't compare the average Canadian temperature to Sitka. Because it takes into account the parts of Canada where nobody lives. If you take the average temperature of the places where the majority of Canadians live vs the average temperature of where the majority of Alskan live, you'll see the Canadian weather is the same as Alaskan weather and even warmer in some places. Also, you failed to mention that the colder temperature ever recorded in Alaska was -62.2C... in Canada, -62.8. Not much of a difference... which was my point. The American who made the comparaison just said that Canada was too cold. He made a generalization that was stupid, since he comes from Alaska. If he had look into Canada 2 seconds, he would have found quite a lot of places that barely see snow in winter.
@@karlbmiles I'm getting notifications on this argument because I commented earlier, but I just have to point out some BS when I see it. If they don't respond to you, you'd assume they can't respond and that you've made some sort of airtight argument. Since they did respond, and in enough detail to pre-empt a pointless back-and-forth, you're stepping back from the argument that _you_ started, pretending as if it's not even worth discussing, and you've re-focused your argument to be about their motivation for bothering to engage with you. What you're essentially saying is that your earlier post wasn't made in good faith. I do agree with you that engaging with your argument isn't worth the effort, but to be fair, you only demonstrated that with your second comment. Also, to clarify, I'm not bothering to engage with your argument. I'm just writing a long comment to essentially call you an asshat because it's cathartic.
I am Spanish. The controversy over the word "black" in Spanish shows how self-centered and ignorant some Americans can be. It's like I told him "you can't say your car is black because you're white."😀
Plus, their ancestors appropriated that word from Spanish to describe their slaves. Thats on them, not on any1 else. The rest of us have no problems with the word. Just another mindboggling American thing.
We - Oui See - Si Different words, different languages, different spellings, different meanings, but same pronunciation. Nego in Spanish does not equate to the "N word." Isn't spelled like it, doesn't sound like it, and, surprisingly, (to some) the Spanish Negro retains its original meaning of "black" and is not a racial slur.
One of the things that bothers me around this topics is that a lot of Americans go to other non-English speaking countries and expect the citizens there to speak English to them. I mean, seriously? You expect foreign tourists to speak English in the U.S., but you think it's weird when people speak in their native languages in their own countries? Just because you speak English, doesn't mean every person out there in the world has to speak English.
Once in a fb group a friend from the US was worried about an oncoming hurricane that was expected to be one of the worst natural disasters in his state. He was asking for tips on how to endure it, as well as a shopping list. Having endured MULTIPLE devastating hurricanes, I replied his post with some tips and ideas for a shopping list (some more friends in common did as well). Apparently some guy took offense in my reply for whatever reason and said "Well, Mr. Know-it-all but he is about to experience the worst hurricane in our country. It's not like in your state where there is just rain." My reply was "Bro, "My state" was the epicenter of the top 2 worst hurricanes in the history of MY country. I think I might know a thing or two" I never understood what his deal was. Fortunately other people called him out too.
Dude... I'm Indigenous American from the Navajo Rez (Reservation). The education is embarrassingly bad; still, I learned about other cultures and languages and the peoples who they come from. Seeing this video has, no joke, made me feel more confident in my knowledge about other countries, which, by the way, isn't a lot compared to others. But, far better than what I've seen in this video. 😄 Thanks for the boost in my own self worth!
I study with a USA university - submitted a thesis & had it marked down for bad spelling LOL. Sorry for being from Oz - ignorant fools until my Professor spoke up for me.
@@TheBlackcredo Even Microsoft had this in many earlier versions of Windows (English with UK flag and English Simplified with US flag), until, after decades, they realised that it made them (and the US) look stupid and changed it.
With half of the US supporting a likely absolute monarch for 'president', it seems a lot safer to live in an affirmed constitutional kingdom far, far away.
@@nihilistzero8066 You are assuming that @seijka46 is British there. Are you a US American? You do realise that other countries have Kings too don't you?
@@nihilistzero8066 Don't be rude about our King ( or any other country with a monarchy)when you have someone who was found guilty on 35 counts still at large and running for president, a position he intends to keep forever and pass down to family. "you'll never have to vote again" he said. sounds a tad like a dictatorship to me.
Yeah, I don't like to pull the "This is how the Nazis gained power" card, but when I read and hear Trump's statements, combined with those of other MAGA politicians and spokespeople, combined with the actual GOP Agenda for this election, I really see how Hitler could rise to power and turn an unstable country into a racist dictatorship in a matter of a few years. Trump has made it clear he's willing to be a dictator, the GOP agenda is very clear about cleansing education and government of "communists, socialists" and many others while never defining who those people are. I mean, I see people call Harris and Walz communists, Bernie Sanders has to occasionally defend he's not a socialist, I've even seen people call Obama a communist. Education is going to be "patriotic", as decided by a Trump-appointed commission. College campuses will be "patriotic" again. Large-scale deportations of illegal immigrants, possibly even deportations of legal immigrants. Some stuff about protecting Christians and the Bible (other religions aren't memtioned). There's some awful implications. And no, it won't be a holocaust or anything, but Trump and the MAGA crowd sure seem eager to turn the US into a dictatorship.
I was recently on a zoom call with a group of community theatre people from around the world, I live in Australia and a woman in New York complemented me when she said that my English was very good. Gee, I wonder why it was so good? Possibly because English is the Australian national language! Oh, I was born in the UK.
reminds me when an US guy said that my english is better than from most people he even heard talking english only to think that im lying to him that english is my third language because of how good i speak it. Im semi-fluent in english btw
It's honestly very unfortunate and sad, in my opinion. As an American, I've lived in America my entire life, and I recently have taken proper English classes due to me having poorly spoken English sentences. After a while, I intended to feel dislocated in multiple groups due to their lack of proper English. All they blabber are "Bro. Ig wcg to gas station?" It was like having a stroke trying to comprehend what it meant. I wasn't even aware that "wcg" defines in "we could go." They don't actually write out the correct usages. It has regularly turned into a simple one letter per word where it began. I've also noticed how Americans school stories write outs are only 350 letters long. Even when I tried to form a proper long story, my father complained and plain up just said to make the story simple within 200 letters?! No wonder we do not think clearly?! Our schools refuse to teach us actual genuine useful information. It's very frustrating. I feel like an outsider.
To be fair, it also happens - albeit to a much lesser degree - here in the UK. Example: a former work colleague was Canadian, working over here. As part of her long-term work visa requirements, she was informed she would have to pass an English language test. She rang the Home Office (i.e. our Immigration Department) to gently clarify whether she needed to do this, especially as she came from an English-speaking part of Canada, a largely English-speaking country (and in particular from British Columbia, not even Quebec). She was informed no, she still had to take the test as a foreigner. Fine, she thought, just a hoop she had to jump through in the red tape, so she took the test. But she didn't hear anything about the result for ages, and had to ring again to find out what had happened. She was then informed that the Home Office was trying to work out what to do with her result, as she scored 100% and "no-one ever scores 100%" so they were having to check to see if she had cheated or not... 🙄
Conversely to this, Quebec also has a language proficiency test for foreigners to work there, and people from France have to take the test to prove they are proficient in French. Weirdly, because Quebec French can be quite different from France French, some of the French test takers actually fail the test, when they should be shoo-ins.
I remember that a week or so ago, they tried to cancel this Irish girl on twitter for using "mammy", which is how you call a mom in Ireland...apparently it's an anti black slur in the US? Idk man, she was just talking about her mom 😭 They were like "well, don't use it!"
It is time to create a similar network based somewhere in europe without interference of american sjws and identity politics. It is funny that americans say that they have the most freedom but when you use a word that could be slightly offensive than they are more similar to socialist countries during the cold war.
@@manuelhauler1083 I'd rather have their sjws than the raging racists, who think, their 1st Amendment gives them free rain to say and do anything with impunity and be as hateful and denigrating and threatening, as they want, and nobody can touch them, coz "free speech". That said, I otherwise agree with u fully.
This is the sort of intellectual comments you get from a country of people who spend half the school day learning how to hide under the school desks. Education... Geography ..Definitely not a priority
Education is a priority, half of American adults have a college degree, about the same as the UK and we don't get education "free", we have to want it enough to earn it. Geography? You mean Europe? Why should we care about your backyard more than out own?
I'm disappointed : not a single "That's racist ! You have to say Asian/African-American" when talking about a non American. Those are a classic, for the double whammy of both wrong country and USA race obsession
It gets really confusing. American and Canadian racists are too lazy to learn actual ethnicities, so we go to other countries and think things are great because no one seems to hate Black people or Hispanic people. But... They might still totally hate Nigerians or Somalians or such. Being a bigot is way harder out in the rest of the world! Lol
I never understood calling a black person African-American. Not all black peoples families come from Africa. I remember asking a Teacher isn't it rude to assume a black person is from Africa? She said it was better than the alternative. Like we had two choices African-American or the "N" word. Yeah, not a good answer.
They never solved the social problems of some ethinicity, and instead of solving the problems they talk about words. And they want to teach the rest of the world how to deal with certain issues, forgetting that elsewhere the police don't kill a black man for 20 dollars.
The best example is that you call yourselves "Americans" when America is a whole continent. You should be "Unitedstatians". I'm from Argentina and I live in America too, like Mexicans, Canadians, Peruvians, Brazilians, etc...
I was in a restaurant in a diner in Eureka, Montana….the people at the next table said “you’re not from these parts”, I told them I was from the U.K., they then said my English is very good!!!!
You should have capitalised the name. So tell me, how do Americans deal with 'The Black hills' of Dakota, once a pop-song? Or Black Jack Ketchum, a notorious outlaw? Or anybody named Black?
The so called derogatory word for the neutral “black” in Spanish is the fault of the people in the US. It was appropriated as a slang term. The word itself meant “black” before the americas were discovered!
Don't forget the origin of the more frequently used derogatory term, the name of the country of origin for many slaves, Nigeria (and Niger since the two countries were once one). It had one of the largest slave populations and exported them as a "natural resource". The use of the Spanish word for black as a derogatory term is all but nonexistent these days and has been replaced by a similar sounding word of different origin.
I don’t know why I clicked on this video, the crushing force of this secondhand embarrassment is enough to collapse my house into α Magnetar. -Sincerely, an American
I watched a UK made YT documentary about a gas explosion in a UK coal mine. It prompted lots of comments from Americans "correcting" the pronunciation of "methane". The narrator used the English pronunciation mee-thane.
If the UK was a major producer or user of "Mee-thane" we'd probably all call it that. But America is the world's biggest producer of petroleum products and drilled the first oil-well to discover commercial methane. Americans refer to "Fish and Chips" without complaint don't they?
@@karlbmiles You can call it whatever you want, but Americans simply dosen´t have the right to dictate another nation how to use their own languange. That was the core of the statement and you knew that very well.
@@karlbmiles I've no problem with you pronouncing it however you like, but that doesn't mean you can criticize how we pronounce it. Saltom Pit in England was using methane for pit-top lighting in 1730 and by 1830 it was used for street lighting in the town, about 30 years before the first oil well in the US.
@@karlbmiles The fact that the USA decided to change the pronunciation of a lot of ENGLISH words doesn't make Britons wrong, it just makes Americans different, so you go ahead and call it meth-ane if you like and we'll call it me-thane, and we'll all know what we are talking about. Besides "fish and fries" just sounds weird, LOL.
6:47 There seem to be British people like that too. Apparently some of them in Spain have been upset they couldn't queue in the line for EU citizens and had to queue with Moroccans... You know, after they left the EU.
Yes, Ive seen outraged social media posts and even videos of them "documenting" the horrible treatment, theyre receiving by no longer being EU citizens. Apparently those in this category are especially insulted, that the Irish get the "special" treatment in the EU queue, while they the "superior" English must wait in long lines with the plebs from the rest of the world.
One thing that grates me, when American media and politician’s I may add refer themselves as “leaders of the free world” it only fuels the whole exceptionalism in its population.
It's a really antiquated concept which MAY have been true during the Cold War. The thing is, the world has changed since 1945 but many Americans don't get it.
they say this because in their own bubble their country is their own world, since they are so self-centered, not because they are leaders of the free world as in every country
I had an American tell me that, and I quote, I "can't live in South Africa and be on the internet because Africa doesn't have electricity...that's why they call it the dark continent". When challenged to look at satellite images of Africa at night they declined before stepping off the plane of sanity and beginning to froth at the mouth while becoming more and more incoherent. I blocked them and moved on.
My best one is being told that I live in a castle because I'm a White S. African. He was angry when I told him I didn't, and was lying because he saw it on tv. What tv do they watch?
@patrickporter6536 that's a new one to me. Maybe he heard about the castle in Cape Town and assumed that all whites live there like British Royalty? Very peculiar conclusion to jump to. Edit: went and looked. We have a bunch more castles than I ever heard of. Makes sense given our history and the British love of building castles to defend important locations.
On the foreign passports sign: It's not insulting to americans because I *GUARANTEE* this sign exists because this facility was seeing a very high proportion of americans not going to the foreign passports area. This won't be based on a random uncharitable assumption it will be a response to actual events.
The same with travel books apparently. Americans used to ask for American travel guide books and assistants would offer them the English version to be rebuffed as travel guides usually have country flags indicating language on the covers to make it easier for customers. They used to have the British flag for English and most Americans ignored them, had no clue, wouldn't even open the books to see they were in English, so publishers now put out travel guides with the US flag on the cover, problem solved. Dim lot.
These signs are at entry points all over Europe. And no, its not to insult, its simply to clarify to US Americans, coz they have wasted so much time over the years, having to explain to them, that here in a foreign country they are indeed foreigners. And despite these signs its a regular occurrance, at busy entry points several times per day, that US Americans still need help getting in the right line or even complains loudly about not getting the special treatment, they believe, theyre due as 'Muricans. Its really hard to go through an international airport in Europe (and I would assume, the same applies elsewhere in the world), without meeting/hearing US Americans confused or even outraged over being foreigners.
I can't say for certain, but based on the "Can" on the right side of the airport sign, I suspect it might actually be in Canada, which makes it even more embarrassing (Foreign Passports/Passeport d'estranger and Canadian Passports/Passeport domestiques). The sign does show the world and adds the US flag to it (just for clarity, I'm sure).
The Spanish word for Black isn't even spelled the way the n-word is spelled. I'm just gonna leave the name of one of my mom's favorite red wines here: El Gato Negro (One of her favorite white wines: El Gato Blanco) Spoiler: It means "(The) Black Cat" and "(The) White Cat". There's nothing racist about that word, or can we no longer talk about the countries Niger and Nigeria as well?
Nah, according to US standards, only black people are allowed to say names of those countries out loud. If you ever need to talk about those countries, make sure you bring along a black person to say those countries names for you 😂
The word negro (usually capitalized) is also used in English. If I'm not mistaken it came from the Portuguese slave traders and used to be the fancy way to refer to blacks. While the other n-word was always a slur. Since the 1970s the N-o word begun to fade in normal usage because, altho not a slur was still considered racist.
Of course, we cannot continue talking about the countries Niger/Nigeria. They must disappear so that the American narcissistic virtuosists do not get offended (sarcasm, of course)
@@rataflechera Actually the word Negro (capitalized) isn't a slur, is the world in Portuguese for black people, and it isn't offensive in any way. I'm from Brazil and we speak Portuguese (our version of it). Calling a person "Preto" (black) is more offensive than Negro. Because Preto (black) is the color, (and some people use it in a derogatory way to refer to black people, still since is the name of a color it isn't a slur) and Negro is the race, we have different words for different things (in this case everything else vs. people), just that. So, to exemplify: the cat is preto, the man is Negro.
I had someone go nuts because a student’s name was “Jesus “ . I told her it was pronounced Hey-zeus and was a common Spanish name. I’m white and totally baffled by things I hear.
Americans are self centred?! The very idea is absurd....oh, wait, after the Olympics every reactor was focussed on the US being top of the medals table. Now we've just finished the Paralympics - not a word!! 😅
@t.a.k.palfrey3882 oh my , that's socsad , we had a 2hours exclusive interviews with our paralympics guys in France and here at home, WE are very proud of them. HOP HOP SWISS🇨🇭
I'm not aware of a single country in the world that pays as much attention to their Paralympians as their Olympians - even those, like the UK, that perform better in the Paralympics than they do in the Olympics.
Tried to understand the OP... And failed. Every reactor was focused on the US medals... What reactors (I guess people who react on yt)? Do you watch them all? Also, are everyone obligated to react to paralympics, and what does that have with Americans and their egoism?
Got asked by a US tourist why we weren't celebrating Thanksgiving. Had quite a hard time explaining that it's a celebration we don't do because we are a different country i.e. New Zealand. They looked quite offended. I asked them did they celebrate Matariki and they looked shocked at the suggestion. Well then. You're being a bit "american" over the US airport lines too.
When there is a thread on Social Media about where people are from US Americans usually only post the state they are from. Like „I‘m from PA“ - it‘s rather disrespectful. They think everybody knows the abbreviations and that they‘re from the States.🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
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The lack of education is not what's shocking. It's the PRIDE in the lack of education that is the real concern.
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I think America's biggest problem is not the lack of education, or the pride in the lack of education, but that those who take pride in their lack of education are so darned vocal about it.
I agree. I still remember when someone asked Americans online why they don't want to learn about the rest of the world. Their answer? "Our country is big and we have everything here and most of us will never travel outside of USA, so why bother?" It was BIZZARRE. Majority of the world actually likes to learn about other countries, they don't care if they will maybe never travel into other countries, they STILL like to learn about the world and are proud about their knowledge. I have no idea why so many Americans are so against basic knowledge when it comes to other countries 🤷🏻♀️
@@Moonless-ih9emit's just ignorance and arrogance. The poorly educated are proud of their stupidity and too lazy to change anything about it.
@@Moonless-ih9em If you take pride in being the greatest nation that ever existed, real knowledge about the world is dangerous for your self-esteem.
I had an American argue with me that Cheddar 🧀 was invented in America. I literally live in Cheddar, England....
« New Cheddar » probably exist in the USA.
I think it's America's most popular cheese. I know as a kid I thought it was American. And, is America the only country that labels cheese by country and not city/region? I was excited to learn that Cheddar is a place. And I'm very curious what the cheddar tastes like there.
@@MrAigidos Is World history even taught in America?
What the yanks call cheddar is actually toxic waste formed into blocks and then sliced. No cheese ever is that yellow.
Does England actually exist?
Once an American told me that I'm not Spanish because Spanish is a language and you can't be a language and that I was actually Mexican.
Uh....I am from Spain. The country of Spain.
Oh lol, that always cracks me up when I read or hear about it.
I am from The Netherlands, we have even weirder stuff when they ask where I am from or what language I speak or such. For some reason they think The Netherlands is just Amsterdam (apparently a country to them?) or that I am German or something. I am like, wut? Amsterdam is a city in my country and The Netherlands is not the same country as Germany. I think the confusion comes from Dutch and Deutsch. XD
To be fair, you sing in your national anthem that you're from German blood and you swear loyalty the King of Spain.
@@johnhobbes2268 If you did some research you would know that this is actually NOT what it says at all.
"Wilhelmus" originated in the Dutch Revolt, the nation's struggle to achieve independence from the Spanish Empire. It tells of the Father of the Nation William of Orange who was stadholder in the Netherlands under the King of Spain.
The word Duytschen in the first stanza, generally translated into English as 'Dutch', 'native' or 'Germanic', is a reference to William's roots; its modern Dutch equivalent, Duits, exclusively means 'German', and while it may refer to William's ancestral house (Nassau, Germany) or to the lands of the Holy Roman Empire it is most probably a reference to an older meaning of the word, which can loosely be translated as 'Germanic', and seeks to position William as a person with a personal connection with the Low Countries as opposed to the king of Spain, Philip II, who was commonly portrayed as foreign, disconnected and out of touch. In doing so, William is also implicitly comparing himself with the well liked Charles V (Philip's father) who, unlike his son, was born in the Low Countries, spoke Dutch and visited the Low Countries more often than any other part of his realm.
So as you can read, it doesn't swear loyalty to Spain at all. It is actually meant to symbolise our freedom from Spain.
Also let's not forget that this Anthem, the oldest in history that is still in use is dated back from 1572. So the words might have changed through the years, as some words change and with it their meaning.
Also, what does that have to do with what I said actually? I mean, that still doesn't mean Dutch is Deutsch nor does that mean Amsterdam is a Country. 🤦
@@johnhobbes2268 Nobody here sings the national anthem. And I've never sworn loyalty to the King. Why TF would I? Only Americans do that creepy shit, swearing their allegiance to a fucking FLAG. And making KIDS do it every day. With a hand over their heart. Super culty.
@@dachivale5319 He's American. Why would you expect him to do research or have even a very basic grasp of knowledge before loudly talking about something? xD
I once got berated for not voting in the US elections because "every vote counts". I am from the Netherlands, Dutch since the last Ice Age, not a US citizen. You'd think people would get upset if I *did* vote.
Maybe we can get it so Europeans can vote in the US elections too.
@@gerritvalkering1068I suspect the Republicans would not be happy with that.
Oh, didn't the Dems import you specifically to vote against Trump? That's what Republicans keep saying.
@@silencehill3355unless they were voting for them
@@Charlieb82 I think what they mean is that since most of europe sees the US as quite right wing compared to themselves, the more right wing party wouldnt like it.
Also Republicans dont like anything non American anyways
I had an American tell me that I understood English really well……. Had to tell him that I am English.
😂😂😂
And then he said that English it's not a nationality, that it's a language😂😂🤦🏽♀️
I was in the Midwest (work related) and a woman (nice, but...a bit...) we met was exited when she heard that I'm german. She told me that she had German in school and immediately started talking to me in German.
She wasn't bad at all. Not good either! But her simple topics in somewhat broken sentences with kinda weird pronunciation (I'm not shitling on that, my English IS way better than her German, but it's far from being perfect and I have a strong accent) was pretty impressive for an American somewhere in the Midwest.
Now, after some time she told me that my German was really good and that she notices that it's definitely better than hers (I've talked slowly and simple, of course, because that's what I want someone to do if I'm not great in a language) and that I must have been paying much more attention in school than she was.
I told her that...yeah, that's my native language and of course I'm fluent in it.
She was flabbergasted (and, to be fair, embarrassed, as I said she was a nice and open person) to learn that English wasn't the first language in... Germany.
Now, with her being so embarrassed about it I can't blame her and just blame the US system. Otherwise I would have blamed her.
Right. And I had a dumb Brit ask me why America doesn't speak Spanish since they were the first colonizers of America Or the dumb Brit that thought I should be speaking Native-American language Illini since in was born in the state of Illinois. Then they wondered why Illinois looked like a French word so wonder if I spoke French or Illini. Oh, the hopeless Brits, I had to recite the entire history of America from the Indians to the Spanish to the French to the Dutch and English but they were so confused I drove the Brit back to the airport to fly to Heathrow where they could seem smart again.
Imagine the pikachu face though, had you been German or something and just had mostly international school education, like me - that might have actually broken their brain by the sounds of it XD
Americans sometimes ask why others don't like them. This is part of it. And yes we know it's not all of you.
@@christinestromberg4057 The difference between Americans can’t be bigger. I was an exchange student in the US and stayed in 3 different states with 3 different families. The first state was Texas and people were poor and undereducated, I couldn’t stay a month and arranged with my exchanged family in Maine that I could say 2 months with them instead of one month. They were actually amazing, caring intelligent people but they were Democrats in a blue state. Huge difference. They told me that the intelligence in red states is the lowest on this planet and I experienced it. My 3rd exchange family were also democrats in a blue state.
Yes, we are not "anti-American". We identify with our own cultures and are anti those people, who evidently regard us as inferior because we do not fit into their bubble.
Please accept my apologies for the ignorance of my fellow citizens.
The thing is these are the loudest and have the most American flags on their clothings, so everyone can make an instantaneous conection :D:/
@@christinestromberg4057 i dont realy not like americans. I like them.
But, how to put it. Theyr on the edge of insanity. And they are ready to cross the threshold :)
For whatever reason...
I had an American tourist tell me I didn't speak English because it didn't sound right . I am Scottish . I speak English with a Scottish accent 😂
I feel your pain. I hate being told I'm from "Scatland" . I love cats, but the country is SCOTland.
We have the same issue in America. We're not sure Southerners or New Yorkers speak English either.
@@karlbmiles I have heard American people from the Deep South speak on TH-cam . Absolutely fantastic accent . Just amazing . I don't want to comment on the NY accent . ❤️
@@Yesser-Thistle73 Edinborrow / Glasgoww . Try Pitlochrie 😅
"My cousin is from Dunoon, do you know him?"
I live in Edinburgh.
I know that's a short commute by rural American standards where everything is big trucks and straight roads, but goddammit.
That reminds me (German) of "lady" a roommate (former US soldier) told me about. She was the wife of a fellow soldier, who got offended when she was called a foreigner in Germany. She allegedly told everybody that there was no way she could be a foreigner as she was a US citizen and how dare these foreigners call her a foreigner! 😅
Literally incapable of seeing the world from the perspective of others. Like a 2 year old.
@@bravetherainbow People lacking cognitive empathy (yes, that's a proper term) should really be deprived of legal capacity...
@@bravetherainbownot even that,she's just too dumb to understand a word in her own leanguage
It's actually simple
They think the world belongs to them
@@JamieMoonJMYes, this is a really narcissistic thought
I’m an American living in Germany, and every time I return to the U.S. for a visit, I’m flabbergasted. Most Americans have no idea how good life can be in Western Europe. I’m often asked by Americans, "Why would you want to live in Germany when you could live in America, the freest country in the world?"
Earlier this year, in January, I experienced a retinal detachment here in Germany. I couldn’t be more grateful for my German medical insurance, which covered everything over several months. This included four surgeries, three hospital stays, medications, and several weeks off work. Thankfully, my vision has stabilized, I still have my job, and I have zero medical debt.
Had this happened in the U.S., I would likely be unemployed-thanks to at-will employment laws-with a mountain of unpaid medical bills and possibly blind in my left eye. I certainly dodged a bullet, both figuratively and maybe even literally.
There is absolutely no way I’ll ever move back to the U.S. I’m too happy here.
Good for you. I am German originally from SE Asia. I have relatives in the US. Every time I visit the ask me when I would move as I am totally alone in Germany. I always say NO but NO thanks. I`m to progressive to do modern slavery.
Yeah But Socialism Is EVILLLLLLLHHHH!1!!!!!11!!11!!
"The freest country in the world"
🤓Amercia is equal rank to the UK on the Freedom Index this year, with many countries scoring better including Japan.
I initially misread this as rectal detachment rather than retinal detachment .
I don't know why, but I thought you should know.
Hope your eyes are doing better since.
Welcome to Germany new neighbour :D
Reminds me of an American couple who went to Spain and complained that everything over there was "too Spanish." They complained because the food was Spanish. They complained because the receptionist at the hotel they were at spoke Spanish. (The NERVE of that receptionist! Speaking her native language in her home country! Unthinkable! Yeah, I'm being sarcastic.) Their stupidest comment? "We never expected to see so many FOREIGNERS there." CRINGE!!! I'm American and people like this couple embarrass me.
I'm English but I took Spanish citizenship a few year back (my husband is Spanish) and I've lived her for over a decade. A couple of years ago I was waiting at the bus stop and I had a tee on with English words on it (ironically "I Hate People"). An older gent in a cowboy hat was wandering round before he saw my tee and said "Excuse me ma'am, do you speak English?" I replied I did and how could I help him. He responded "I'm here for the fair but I don't know what bus to get" and had he stopped there I would have helped him but he continued "It's so good to hear English, nobody here speaks English they're obviously too lazy to learn it as they're too lazy to open any stores" (It's La Feria, everything is closed, it's Andalusia's 4th July!). I smiled at him and directed him to the wrong bus. I wasn't about to help some racist old white dude when he was disrespecting my husband, my in-laws, my friends, and my students (I'm an English teacher.). I wish I could say this was an isolated incident, but I live near a US naval base and this happens a lot.
Was the receptionist talking to coworkers or (non-Spanish speaking) tourists? I would hope a person working with tourists can communicate with them.
@@Senovitj They didn't tell me one way or the other. (I don't even think they heard me ask. They were too riled up.) Most places there do hire at least some bilingual workers.
@@Miss_ESL I've met some really kind-hearted (and level-headed) people from Texas, but that state is also undeniably home to a large number of ignorant, barely literate, arrogant, excessively nationalistic, Trump-infatuated bigots. I think I would have done what you did.:)
@@Miss_ESL Although I'm American, I speak Spanish fluently. So... I would have probably asked him who was REALLY being lazy. :)
I found it hilarious when an American journalist referred to Nelson Mandela as an African American.
62 million South Africans had a giggle.
It is beyond stupid and embarrassing
somebody said this to KSI once too :)
But Elon Musk is an African American.
Almost as funny as a American interviewer telling Sir Lenny Henry CBE that he Lenny has to be classified as African American, finishing with: "No where are you really from?" Lenny replied: "Dudley". He didn't add that it is located in "The Black Country".
Little joke here in Germany :
When the Lord created the world he somewhen created Canada. He gave it a breathtaking beautiful countryside, stunning animals, endless sources and the nicest people ever. One of his angels asked:"Don't you think that's a bit too much for just one nation?" The Lord replied :"Oh yes. Of course. But you don't know who their neighbors will be!"
Good joke. But now get prepared for the hate
canadian here. that joke is way too generous for canada. we're basically america without guns.
@@jclkaytwo Which already is like, 100% improving upgrade or something
@@CaroBVB09-pn4vz still far from "the nicest people ever" lmao. culturally, we're just the USA but further north. basically the 51st state.
@@jclkaytwo well i didnt claim you canadians were the nicest people ever 😂 i know far to little canadians to make a claim like that, im just saying, if you are like americans without guns, thats still a 100% improvement from the american default 😂 at least one doesnt have to fear getting shot for no apparent reason
The problem is not that they don't know things, being ignorant in something simply gives you the opportunity to learn something new. The problem is that they are so confident in their ignorance that they even try to refute the people of the country they are talking about.
They are arrogant in their ignorance. (And yes, I know it's not all of them)
As an American, I make this argument to my own people. I get slammed for reminding them that there is a whole world outside the US. And suggest they find the beauty of other cultures.
@@CarlosGarcia-ze1mk Not all Americans are like that, but sadly the undereducated ones are very loud and spread their stupidity everywhere. I often feel sorry for the normal Americans who are just like us, I had an amazing exchange family 4 years ago in Maine and they were very lovely, down to earth people, well educated. I enjoy seeing them back every year. I feel like Europeans are much more similar to eachother than Americans from different states. We have done 18 states, 3 as exchange student, the others with my parents. The difference in mentality between red and blue states can’t be bigger.
I've been told that i live in a totalitarian society without liberal freedoms. I'm from Finland.... Yesterday i was told that we don't have real winters and that the entire continent is flat. Saying "but i'm from here" has no impact. People from other countries make mistakes too but usually they just shut up after proven wrong, delete their comment or says "ah, didn't know that". Muricans will insist that you are lying or even worse: that somehow, using some very weird logic that you don't know how the very place you live in is like, how it works and how people live there. It is really weir.d
The Dunning Kruger effect.
I remember once that I was in italy (im an european not an american btw) and an american couple was complaining that they couldn't find an italian restaurant... As somebody who can use english decently well (even tho its not my native language) I told them that they are everywhere...
And they complained no they are not because they are not called italian restaurant so they are not an italian restaurant.
Till that day I thought the stories off americans where exaggerated. But that was the day I realised they might not have been.
as an italian this is hilarious
Your story sounds made up too. The idea that a wealthy international traveler would pay thousands of dollars to vacation in Italy and not know that there are Italian restaurants everywhere, as you said. They knew about the Blue Grotto, Michaelangelo, the Vatican, but didn't know about Italian food? So this was their first hour in Italy? Not likely in the first place, but to complain to a stranger about it just doesn't ring true.
@@karlbmiles They didnt complain to me directly. I overheard them complaining about it. And to be fair when I go on holiday I do look into things to visit but its not like I research the whole culture or something everytime before I go on holiday. I mean I feel like people who do are the exception. Doesnt mean that the italian restaurant thing is something you should know even without research.
@@karlbmiles I think you misunderstood the issue. They were in Italy, they know about Italian food. The disconnect comes from them thinking an Italian restaurant would be labelled in Italy.
@@karlbmiles I think you are vastly overestimating how many people have common sense. I'm from the US (though have friends all over the world, and have traveled to Germany), and I will tell you, stupid people exist everywhere... but sometimes Americans are a special brand of stupid. Or perhaps I should say, a special brand of entitled. Stories do not need to be made up. There are an overwhelming number of examples of people like this. I have some of my own, but you seem to dislike people sharing, in spite of this being a comment section under a video specifically about the subject.
Not everyone researches a ton of things before traveling. They should, but I know plenty who didn't. Some thought they would simply get a tour guide once there, and others go to visit friends or something, and assume those people will just tell them everything they need to know. But in the given example, the issue was more that the couple was not applying common sense to the situation. Something all the research in the world is not going to grant them. Considering how dumb some people I've met are, including ones who have traveled internationally, this story does not even remotely surprise me. Never underestimate the power of stupidity, or lack of common sense.
The only personal example of this is the time I left a comment on Facebook that was critical of US foreign policy and someone called me a self-hating American brainwashed to hate his country.
I'm from Finland
My dad had aa saying, when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one you hit. You're trying to say you actually love America, then just say it.
@@karlbmileswhat the f are you yapping about?
@karlbmiles You got the wrong idiom.
"Don't throw stones when sitting in a glass house" fits better with your comment.
Same here. I'm Chilean.
@@carl7534 His dad dropped him on his head while throwing stones at a pack of dogs.
On Instagram I saw a funny video on price inflation in supermarkets here in Australia. It was very obviously not the US. It had an Australian talking. The supermarkets had the branding and signage of our supermarket here, which doesn't exist in the US. No kidding... Half the comments were Americans going, "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU VOTE IN BIDEn!!!!!" While the other half were people going, "this is why everyone thinks Americans are stupid!" I was definitely in the second group. Not going to lie.
Lol.
Sadly those kind of people are the loudest and the most stupid out of the rest
So out of 330 Million Americans, you ran into one that didn't realize a news cast on inflation wasn't about American inflation. What a coup! You're an idiot, not going to lie.
I've see something similar in Brazil.
Most notely after our last presidential elections.
It was still November and people started to blame the next president for everything ad that happened.
Each burglary, each infrastructural problem, each natural crap (regardless of country), Amazon's landoffs etc.
Those are bots, not real people, that's why they "cannot" understand the content and imagery. It's not a real person.
When I was an exchange student in the US a guy from Texas told me that Italy doesn’t exist, that it was invented by Democrats to make Americans pay more taxes. 🤣🤣 I was stunned. I am an Italian from Italy but I apparently don’t exist 🤣🤣
I'm Scottish. Was once told by an American that Scotland was, in fact, a province of Ireland. I tried to be polite and say that our accents and cultures are similar (which is a bit of a stretch) so it was an easy mistake to make but, Scotland is part of the UK. She just said no it wasn't and finished the conversation by telling me to 'talk to the hand' - this was about 25 years ago for context.
😂 Every country has nutjobs but the USA is taking the piss.
@@CaesarPortugalI can’t get over how confidently wrong people can be 😂
@@CaesarPortugal Last year I studied a year in Madrid and we had roomies from all over Europe including Scottish and Irish. A Scottish friend told me that Scottish people are actually very similar to Belgians. He was reading a book Scotland and the Flemish people, and told us about the history of Scotland, that the name Fleming comes from Flemish and how both countries were culturally very close. Last year we took our Scottish friends together with Belgians and Italians to Tomorrowland in Belgium but we visited Belgium too. We ended up in a village who was having highland games. We said to the local Belgians that we had 4 Scottish guys among us and they kept on offering them beer. 😅😅 Our 4 Scottish friends were so drunk that they barely remembered which planet we were on. The local people explained that every village and city in Belgium has highland games and that they adore Scottish people. To conclude, My Belgian friends are very similar to my Scottish friends, they both have such a similar humour and it’s impossible to argue with them. They are such a positive people. I love Irish people too, but they are different, mentally wise. For me it’s like saying Italian and Swedes are the same people.
@@Rosie-ij3onOr wilfully stupid.
A few days after the 11th of September 2001, I was with an American family as everyone showed how appalled they were at what had happened. An American newspaper had the front page headline "World gathers round its wounded leader". I pointed to this aghast at the stupidity of the text. The family didn't understand. I had to explain that the world does not see the USA as their leader. And no, we still don't.
They always say best in the world when they only mean America, that one annoys me because they really are not that great at all.
Ah, yes. The Self appointed 'Leaders of the Free World'. When they have less freedoms than many other countries and there is no such post to hold.
@@karlbmiles You are also in the lead with the worst healthcare system, the largest national debt, the most school shootings, ...
@@karlbmilesaw, bless. You keep thinking that if it makes you happy.
@@karlbmiles reality
"But I'm 'murican! Not some fkn foreigner!"
"Um sir... your plane landed in Japan. That would automatically make you the foreigner. Yes... yes... I understand it's a hard concept for you to grasp, but nonetheless true, now please - move on down the line"
Wasn’t there an animated film years ago? About an astronaut landing on an alien planet and exclaiming: “I am on an alien planet full of aliens!”
“Dude, you landed on our planet, YOU’RE the alien here.”
“Nonono, that’s not how that works!”
Paraphrasing here since it’s been years, but the gist is the same.
@@Mousse9That sounds like Buzz Lightyear, but I haven't seen much of him lately.
@@Mousse9I think it was an animated movie. Something like „Planet 49“. I loved it 😅
@@tarwod1098 That was a spaniard movie that makes fun of Usonians, called "Planet 51" by the way 🤣
Best thing with the example being in Japan is... you're an "alien" there. At least that's what it officially translated as when I was a foreign student over a decade ago. I went through "alien registration" or something like it. I was highly amused. Here comes the alien, but I'm not about to abduct anyone! :)
Years ago, I visited Boston. Sitting in a bar one night, an American said to me "You guys are so lucky, never to have experienced terrorism". I had a choice leave or get into an argument about how the US partly funded the IRA.
Well you can't leave us hanging.
@@walover165 I moved to a different part of the bar, and ended up taking one of the waitresses back to my hotel :) So guess it was a good thing haha
@@stretch977 American was right but about a different thing when he said you are lucky
Not experienced terrorism? I‘m German, born in 1975. I grew up with the „wanted“ posters for RAF members (Baader-Meinhof) plastered everywhere. They officially dissolved in 1998.
@@katp797yup, also, many countries in europe lived throught wars, bombs falling on their heads, armies marching throught their streets and fascists erasing entre cities, so...
So, that's why Americans don't do geography, Montenegro offended them.......
My country. Indeed I have got some weird looks when I said where I am from given that I am white😂
@@bogicvujadinovic772😂😂 I had no clue people In Montenegro were white, I thought you were all Yellow, aren’t you located next to China and ride bears to school? 😅 AHAHA Just kidding, love from 🇮🇹
😂 Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
you can't say that word (jk)
Asmongold did a few weeks ago a reaction to a video about r/2Balkan4You and he has read every flair out loud except Montenegro (sleepy serb) thinking it's a slur, even though it was the most innocent of them all.
I once had a waitress in Dallas insist that I was from New England, and then when I eventually persuaded her that I was from England and not New England, her response was a haughty "What's the difference?" Erm... about 3000 miles...
I then told her I'd come from Worcester and the cycle started again, "Worcester is NOT in Europe, its in the US. I know, my daddy makes the sauce"
Jesus fucking christ
Nowadays, you can just google things in front of them and that tends to shut them down (a bit).
I usually do the opposite I reinforce their dumb ideas 😂
But...but...you would have said 'Wuster' and she would not have known it was the same as 'Wor-sester-shire' sauce?
Imagine the confusion when my parents, Jersey born and bred, went to America with Jersey passports. Old Jersey, the original and best
@@riccardofregi2013 You monster
i have a friend from the US who was in shock when he realized that who ever won the NBA is NOT the champion of the world in basketball
Or their baseball "World Series".
@@dfuher968 And who could beat the U.S. in baseball?
@@karlbmilesimagine if all the foreigners that play baseball in the us play for their countries in an actual 'world series' also keep in mind that baseball tournaments happen also in other parts of the world other than the U.S
@@karlbmiles but if you say the same thing about basketball i actually think that they would win because an U.S basketball team would be really strong
@@edisonsilva9332 and that is pretty much how most international tournaments work. People play for their nation, not the club they have acontract with.
A young Black American woman, went viral because she saw a documentary about the Eurovision song contest and there was a country "Montenegro" whereupon she freaked out.🙈
No way haha.
Funny thing is she didn't even have to be black.
I can't find any reference on the internet to your claim. I think you made it up.
@@karlbmiles no it was on tiktok
@@karlbmiles He didn't, watch the video from the youtuber "Hero Hei" titled "she's offended by the country montenegro" (you can just search up "montenegro hero hei" and it will show up) it's only 1:25 minute long
😂 I have more fun reading the comments section than watching the video.
Same
Here is your cup of tea my friends ☕️
Same here. The comments are aces! And much more entertaining
Same , this guy is annoying me...
Exactly!
I find it odd when Americans don't understand time zones, as there are literally 6 in the USA. In the UK we have one, but we seem to totally understand how other countries are in other zones.....
Tony Blair told everyone that the millennium started in London because of the zero meridian, unaware that the international date line was exactly opposite on the other side of the world. We have our idiots too.
My friend in America can't grasp that I am 13 hours ahead of her on the clock. She just keeps texting me at 2 and 3 am. and then acts like I'm ignoring her when I don't text back right away.
@@Joanna-il2ur I can't find any reference to that, except for when Tony Blair unveiled a new electronic time-keeping organization (Greenwich Electronic Time) on 1st January 2001, designed to help people co-ordinate their time-keeping on the Internet. So he meant that the Millennium started in Greenwich in these terms. It's a metaphor. He knows about time zones.
@@davcrav it was just before the millennium.
@@Joanna-il2ur It's not dumb to think of UTC (GMT) as "world time".
This reminds of a time when I took a taxi to New Orleans Airport (I am Australian). I was chatting to the driver about various things and he comes up with "Yeah, 'Merica is the best place in the world." I said "Oh, where have you been?" (thinking he would be able to compare "'Merica" to other countries). He says "Oh, I've been everywhere: Oklahoma, Florida, Texas ..."
Maybe one day we'll see these videos made about the stupid Australians, but nobody gives a shit about Australia, you'll only see videos about America and Americans and the rest of the world will fall for the click bait just to insult Americans. Point of pride, people can't get enough about America, our products, our movies, our generosity, our protection, and so on.
Nice try devil, everyone knows only hell exists below the flat earth and claim to come from down under.
Switserland is just like Oklahoma. It only sounds, smells and looks different.
reminds of a friends fav anecdote, when he was in Germany in the British zone, a US soldier told him "I've been all around the world and other places!
@@RobertJames-fe2pd Was his name Neil Armstrong?
I work in tourism in a country with primarily American tourists. Trust me, pointing out to Americans that they're foreigners when abroad is necessary. I can't begin to count how many times Americans have started quoting the US Constitution at me or citing US law when they don't agree with local laws. When I point out those don't apply here, I'm usually met with one of two responses. Either 1:"It's not the American constitution. It's THE constitution. It applies worldwide." or 2:"American laws take priority over your laws, because America is more important."
I think it is important to remember that we don't learn or own language by reading dictionaries but rather by imprinting. If all your life “foreign” has ment “non-American” you probably won't connect that the real meaning is “not from the current county.” I've seen this happened to people from other countries, just that Americans are usually the largest, laudest, and more persistent and stubborn (entitled?) group where this happens.
The crazyness begins when you use the name of a continent instead of the name of your country.
Thank God that the country it's not being called United States of America of the Earth.
@@nkscou9008 Even worst, this country (USA) has no name of its own, a periphrasis is used to refer to it, like the united kingdom. And both theses periphrasis are not targeting exactly the entity they should.
The Netherlands, or belgium, are indeed a united kingdom too, and Mexico or Brazil are a united states of America. At the beginning the Brazil was even formerly known as "Estados Unidos do Brasil".
So basically when people are speaking about " american", it can be people from Brazil, when they are speaking about "USA", it can be Brazil too. When they are speaking about "the biggest country in America" or the "big one" it can be the Canada (biggest in size). And cherry on the cake, if the are speaking about the richest country in America, it is Bermuda (GDP by inhabitant PPP) or Falkland.
Better to say "the only one country having used a nuclear weapon on civilians"
@@jeanmartin963 Actually the UK is correctly called by the full name "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (which is what is says on the front of my passport). It's just that it's commonly abbreviated to UK because that's less of a mouthful.
Tell that to our founding fathers.
Since you're the only person confused about America the country and North America and South America the continents, I say we just don't talk to you.
I was a manager on an international gaming network. I am from Germany. We had another manager, a typical southern american Karen mom. When a girl from Estonia, with the name punane (which literally means red in the Estonian language) applied, she got all upset since it resembles a slur in the English language and wanted to ban that poor girl. Luckily she was alone in her opinion and didn't get her way.
Eventually manager Karen quit and started rambling to her Karen friends on facebook about our network being inapproriate.
What makes this even more sad is that if someone with the name let's say green arrow had applied and it had turned out that "green" is a slur in another language, she would not have cared a bit.
Also, that same Karen manager kept making fun about my accent, told me repeatedly that I sound like Arnold, ignoring the fact that while I indeed have a slight accent, I am also fluent in 2 languages and dabbling in 3 others, while she spoke only English.
What on earth was the slur? I can't think of anything in English. 😊
@@nikiTricoteuse punani. Not a slur,, I mixed that up. More like a vulgar term
@@Sandstroem1981 Thanks. Wasn't doubting you, just curious that l couldn't think of one. 😊 l'm normally quite good at swearing. 😉 Perhaps it's American slang.
@@nikiTricoteuse It's originally from Jamaica.
@@darkiee69 Thanks. I'd be grateful for any hint as to what it means. 😊
The comment to the irish female who wanted to live in the woods. Do US people think that cities are somehow not built on the land owned by the same Native Americans who owned the countryside and woods?
Mitakuye ohyasin, from Scotland.
Do Irish people forget they aren't the indigenous people of the British Isles?
@@neuralwarp They are the indigenous people or Ireland though, at least since the Indoeuropean migrations, because for some reason that doesn't count as an invasion & replaceament the same way modern colonization did
As the Hound once said, "I'm standing on it, it's my land."
@@neuralwarp Ding ding ding: American spotted.
THEY ARE. The Celtic (so nowadays Irish, Scottish and Welsh) are the ORIGINAL INHABITANTS of the British Isles (the Ireland not even being British by the way). The Anglo-Saxon were the invasors.
I once told an American at a wedding that my son (whos gay) was outside smoking a f@g. She dam near lost her mind
You should have try to then convinced her that your son loves smoking so much that he had just married a cigarette! :)
🤣
A gay pyromaniac...
@@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 You mean a Pyrogayniac
Ah, the English language 😂😂😂
It always astounds me how race obsessed people can't fathom that the word black in whatever language was conceived before it was associated with people for the color of their skin that had the color described
Interesting too that the 6-letter N word was just the African-American pronunciation of the 5-letter N word.
@geonunes I think that's too difficult a reasoning for the USians (adopted from a comment here) we're talking about to understand. I really want to believe they're not ALL like this.
@@paulavitoria1798 you even see that in writing. They avoid using the word black like the plague to give any description of a black character. I don't know if you're familiar with Rick Riordan, who wrote Percy Jackson. He has no problem in describing Percy as having black hair, but when he later introduces a black character, he describes her hair as brown, and ethnically speaking, even if she was mixed race, that's a very improbable outcome
It would really blow their minds, if they realised, that the Spanish word for black "negro" was appropriated by their ancestors to describe their slaves. Literally nobody else uses it for anything other than the name of a color. And nobody else finds anything offenses with stating the name of a color.
Imagine if they learn that there are two countries called Niger and Nigeria, and also one named Montenegro.
What bugs me is two things actually.
First is NOT lack of knowledge but lack of awareness. I don't for example necessarily expect an American to actually know all the items of vocabulary that are different in the English of 'non-Americans' (I say that because often words or spellings labelled as 'British English' are also used by the Irish, the Australians, the New Zealanders and even sometimes the Canadians). But I DO expect them to be aware that these differences exist. So when they hear somebody with an English accent saying something or spelling something differently they think "oh, that's how they must say it" rather than "that's just wrong!!"
Second, is refusing to be corrected. So they'll say something totally wrong about your country, you correct them and they refuse to believe you! That's too much for me to cope with.
It's not "British" English, just English.
Oy! And South Africans!
@@101steel4 unless it's an app many a time I spelt a word right only for it to be changed and I am not the greatest speller so sometimes I think oh did I spell that wrong but no sometimes they just change my correct English spelt word into the American spelling even this sentence it wants me to change spelt into spelled which both can be used in English spelling but I guess spelt is not used much in American English
@@patsytyler2199 Sarth Efrikans 😅
Spelt
Imagine being so entitled to say other people not to use their language because in their language some words means something bad (for them only )
I watched a video where the guy was showing off his new ants, he used the scientific Latin name. They were black ants. He had to fight with youtube to get his video reinstated all because they thought he was being racist.
An Arican-American activist told an Australian Aboriginal woman that Aboriginal people are not Black. (Aboriginal people use the term Blak)
Indeed. I've heard American's tell Koreans they can't use their word for 'I' and 'you' because it's the N word to their American ears.
They would love hungarian language. :D The word for kiss in hungarian is puszi, which is pronounced close to pussy. Also, trees are fák, similar to fuck. The list goes on. :)
I remember someone reported a Japanese streamer because he said 'Nigero!'
I moved from a country in South America to the U.S. and I have been asked "when did you come to America?" I'm like I have never left America, I moved from the south of it to the north of it.
In English, we think of these landmasses as 2 continents, North America and South America. America itself is typically just the shortened version of the United States of America in English, much like how the Estados Unidos Mexicanos is just called Mexico. When referring to someone from a continent, we'll say either North American or South American. I believe the fuss over "America/American" comes from this language barrier and different continental model, as well as the fact that if I were to actually say what state in the US I come from, no one would know where I'm actually from. If you're going to complain about "American", you should start learning the states, since our state names are our unique names. We are called the United States of America because we're a union of states located in North America, after all. I don't mean to be rude, I just wanted to explain why we call ourselves Americans when technically you could call people in the rest of the Americas "American".
@@Tornnnado I know the story you are telling perfectly well, and I can recognize the name of the states. If you think they are 2 land masses, ask the people crossing the Darien by foot. Well before the USA was a country, Europeans had already called the continent America. During the independence fight against the Spaniard rule, the descendants from the Spanish differentiated themselves as Americans as they fought against them. You said it yourself, USA is called The United States because there were a bunch of colonies that united with each other and got rid of the British. People in these colonies referred to them as the United Colonies of North America. Once they became independent, it became the United States of North America. Shortly after, they dropped the North part. USA was the first country to become independent and the only one with such federal system. The name refers to a bunch of states united under a commonly agreed government in a part of the world called America (the only united states of the area at the moment). They did not name the country America, so the abbreviation to only America is wrong and misleading. Everyone born from Canada and Alaska all the way to the Patagonia, including the Caribbean, are Americans. This makes your analogy with Mexico incorrect, as there is a history behind those names. Many countries in America, copied the government system from the USA. In this case, a piece of land already recognized as Mexico, adopted a similar government style and called themselves that: United Mexican States as a reference to the federal system from the USA.
@@TornnnadoDo you realise that this comment could be in Ryan's next video? You're demonstrating that what he says is true!
Friendly reminder by another American, not from the US.
@@silviac221 How so? I'm aware that everyone from the Americas is an American, as I mentioned previously, and that the demonym 'American' isn't exactly very specific, but again, in English, people from the USA don't have another good way to refer to the country as a whole (Unitedstatesian is not a demonym in English). Not to mention that when we refer to the continents (because yes, the model used in English speaking countries differentiates them, much like how Asia and Africa are considered different continents while also being connected), we say someone is 'North American' or 'South American', not just 'American.' When we refer to a specific American country, we use its name and demonym, and thus do not need to say 'American', even though, yes, I'm aware they are Americans. The trouble I see is that yall can't seem to accept that we're allowed to call ourselves American just as much as you are.
It's like how someone from CDMX is allowed to call themselves "mexicano/a" to refer to themselves and their city even though the rest of the country is also named Mexico. It's confusing, it's a little annoying to everyone outside of CDMX, but it's ultimately not a huge deal. My point is, multiple places can share the same name and be equally correct even while referring to different things.
I’m from Denmark and in 2017 or 18, Trump wanted to, extremely arrogant,buy parts of my country (Greenland to be precise)
And so when our primeminister told him no and said to him he was absurd (our primeminister is a woman😊) he got so offended and ran as fast as he could to the airport! He left our Queen at the doorstep, where she was hosting a galla in honor of the American President😮
Back in the US, Trump wined and ranted about what a horrible woman the danish Primeminister was for calling him absurd😮
I haven’t laught so hard for a long ass time! I tell you that😂 He learned it the hard way! Don’t ever mess with the danes!! And btw… He’s not welcome in our country nomore!
Our Queen hated him too.
@@melanierhianna Yeah I know! He didn’t know the first thing about Royal etiquette did he🙄 Stepped in front of the Queen and started waving like some lonatic😬🙄
It was so chrinching I couldn’t watch!
Our Queen was like, good riddens he’s off.. Now let’s get back inside and party😅
There can't be any sane person not hating Trump as he represents US best - "With money but not too much clue about outside world" =)) Now, I totally get why he sells so well inside though - "he is one of us" not some random dude or gurl with fancy vocabulary hiding all "suspicious" things!
(no hate - I like toooon of US citizens and even my sister was teaching kids for half a year in California =)) )
He's not welcome in the UK either.
Oh I totally forgot about the Greenland. Thing. He did so much f.. stuff you can't keep track.
I always think the classic is Americans telling British people they really should use their own language and not English. Hard to know where to start with this really.
Lol they need to be reminded that the language is English, not American 😂
Omg I'm southericam and I know English is from England.
The 'He's your president' line is a line I've only Heard US Americans use. Everyone else is aware that other countries exist and that people in comments have a high chance of not being from the US, so 'RudeBoy' definitely sounds like he's from the US to me.
no far right german neonazis of teh AfD use that phrase too, they use all phrase from the MAGA
What's a "US American"?
@@juliansmith4295
An American from the US? Seems pretty obvious, bud. Not all Americans are, after all.
@@Kayta-LindaI thought they were called "Usonians".
@@Kayta-Linda No, it doesn't seem obvious. It seems superfluous.
Yes, all Americans are from the US in English, as the result of the US not being able to come up with a proper name for their country. The demonym of the United States is "American."
I once encountered an American who argued with me that vikings only existed in Norway. He didn't care that I was Swedish but thought he knew better than me.
I don't think an American would really give a shit. But if you managed to get in an argument over it you have really accomplished something.
You met a smart one then who knew that there were Vikings in Norway
the National Gallery in Washington was founded in 1937, the National Gallery in London was founded in 1824. Maybe the National Gallery Washington should have " Copy of" in their screen name.
National Gallery (copy) like the windows file manager
That's not even its name, it's called "National Gallery of Art". Has a totally different logo too.
oh that's a bit harsh, that would mean 95% of everything would need a "copy of"
Well, it's a different nation after all. Maybe they should just use a different language.
@@jattikuukunen They do.
English (Traditional) - 🇬🇧
English (Simplified) - 🇺🇸
When we finally re-opened to tourists a couple of years ago here in Japan a notice soon appeared at one of the restaurants I go to:
"Please be aware we do not accept US dollars"
No mention of pounds, euros or anything else. Can't imagine why they'd need to just mention dollars....
Because it's not only Americans who run around with US dollars in cash when outside their home country. Russians are notorious for this, especially under the current circumstances.
You are missing the point here.
Nobody in europe presumes euros are accepted outside of Europe. Why would US citizens expect their dollars to be accepted?
@@basengelblik5199 Sorry, maybe you missed my sarcasm. That was exactly the point I was making.
@@Himmelgrau68 My sarcasm seems to have been missed. I was pointing out it is only Americans who demand dollars are taken. We have plenty of Russian visitors in Japan and there seems no need to put up a sign for them. Maybe they act differently in other countries.
When i worked in normandy each year during the period of the d day celebration we had a massive number of tourist and each year we had to explain to some of them that we only accept euro, each time it was american tourist.
lucky for the world, north America is only about 4% of the world population.
@@frankdrebin9082 Most of the Americans don realize it but in some cases there as isolated as Chinese people from the outside word.
Yes, but they think the other 96% do/should do things the way they do.
@@nattm6553 That's why they are all shocked after using the European health care system.
Americans are just mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and cover them with shit.
Sadly for the World these 4% spent around 37% of worlds military spendings.
@@c.b.4270 well a freaking wrench cost 100 times normal price ..and are of the lowest quality..that's military spending for ya
I briefly lived in the USA and I remember over there being informed by someone that I had "an accent". Fair enough, I thought - although _technically_ he had an accent too, but I wasn't being pedantic about it - so I explained to him that I come from the UK.
He nodded sagely and then complimented me on my English, "especially with it being your second language and all"...
Oh dear Lord.^^
It's funny how Americans don't realize their language is borrowed from the UK...
I'm Dutch. We have a king. And, watching the US presidential election unfold, I'm quite happy with having a king.
Goed Morgen
And of course the king rules and there are no elections in holland HOL
Half of them want King Trump 😂 they're insane.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 That's not true we just don't want Kamel Toe Harris
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517I am in total disbelief, I have never seen anyone more deranged and stupid than that old Trump thing. Greetings from 🇮🇹
I’m from Canada and was working for a Canadian company. I was trying to order something from a small company. The lady on the phone tells me they don’t accept foreign currency so I can’t buy what they’re selling. So I tell her I’ll try and get our foreign office to send the check. She said no they don’t accept foreign money you have to have your domestic office send the check. I went back and forth with her a few times about if I send a check from our domestic office it will be in Canadian, I’ll have to send it from our foreign office.
She never clued in that to me our US office was our foreign office. Eventually I got tired of playing with her and just hung up.
Cheque
Slightly off-topic, I can't stop wondering that they still use payments via cheques in the USA instead of doing simple bank transfers from account to account like the whole world does. That is much, much easier and doesn't require the additional paperwork that processing cheques requires...
@@0raj0 People in Japan are still sometimes paid in cash. (Cheques never really existed in Japan.)
@@juliansmith4295 Cash is another thing. Cash is used, more or less, pretty much everywhere in the world and will be probably used always. But we are talking about cashless payments here.
Check in the US (and maybe Canada? I honestly don't know what they use) and cheque everywhere else. @juliansmith4295
Back around 1990 an older American lady, on an internal UK flight asked me what African-Americans are called in the UK. After some initial confusion, I realised she was talking about British people. When not just calling them British, people of African descent in the UK are called black. Or sometimes in a specific context, Afro-Caribbean, Ghanaian, Somali or whatever. She advised me in a kindly tone that “black” is a bit offensive, and perhaps we should start using African-American.
It would be an interesting response to the current "THEY ARE INVADING US!!!" rhetoric in the USA.
There are no "blacks". They are all "African-Americans". Thus "Americans"... meaning every person with dark skin is automatically a U.S. citizen. If they want to or not. ;)
Tell her that this guy doesn’t have an American passport, not born in America, has never even been in America. So “American” doesn’t fit. What do you call him then?
And watch her brain overload. 🤣
I am black from Jamaica. If being black is not a bad thing, then why do Americans treat it like a dirty word? And do they seriously not realize how stupid they sound trying to call people who are neither African nor American "African-American"
"He needs to get US citizenship" 😅😂
My friend had this happen to her in a Hotel in Geneva. While they were chatting in the foyer she told an American lady that she was Ethiopian, and the lady told her she should just refer to herself as African American, because "where your ancestors were taken from as slaves shouldn't matter in this day and age".
The times I have been in airport queues and been pushed out of the way (with everyone else) by some twat waiving their passport while hollering “Let me through! I’m an American!” is mind boggling.
The proper answer is : "So, what ?"
Working with Americans in the 1980s, they were really annoyed that they had to get visas for the UK, and Heathrow Airport only had EU Citizen and Non EU Citizen customs channels. Only the US was entitled to restrict foreigners from entering their country, because everybody knew that the rest of the world were all desperate to get into the US. No US citizen would ever want to permanently live abroad, so they should be aloud to just come and go as they wanted.
Small nitpick: you probably mean "allowed" (have permission) not "aloud" (audibly). The last part jarred a bit.
Best Wishes. ☮
Even though within the last 5yrs, 7 million Americans have moved permanently to the EU.
I saw a reality show about the Austrailan customs.
They checked a USAmerican's luggage, and he was so offended.
He had never had his luggage gone through before,
and he told the customs officers (only doing their job)
that he would tell everybody about his bad experience in Australia.
His first time abroad, probably. I have had my luggage rummaged through
by a British customs officer (I was very late for a flight and had a black eye,
so I don't blame her for finding me suspicious), and I can't blame her for doing it
(although she sort of made it take longer than it could have).
@@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 I saw similar in Manchester Airport. An American couple and the man complaining about having his luggage checked. He said: "This is outrageous. We've just been on a plane for x-number of hours from Shanghai, but we're going to the U.S!' The customs woman said: "So? Everyone is going somewhere from somewhere and the quicker you open your bags the quicker it will happen.' That shut him up.
@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 Two things:-
I love watching those shows. I saw one with a middle-aged American couple saying it went their Amendment Rights 🤦♀️
If it's not impolite, why were you late with a blacked eye?
The three letter f word means cigarette in Australia too. The anti smoking advert slogan in the 80’s was only dags need f..s.
We can’t use our own vernacular and slang as social media is governed by US words and feelings. Censorship Mussolini would be proud of.
Well when Americans come to Europe and see a croissant I've heard many of them call it a f!g donut .
Lol, lol !
@@gregorygant4242 really?! Luckily for me Western Australia is too far removed for that country to come here! We don’t exist! Or are part of Britain!
@@gregorygant4242 I find it hard to believe many of them are calling it that, but that's absolutely being used as a slur.
Not really - American social media sites are governed by US standards. There's nothing stopping an Australian company building a social media platform that allows Aussie slang (though given I virtually never hear that word used in a non-prerogative way, I'm not sure what level of demand there is!).
@@callum9999 I've heard a few Americans call it that in Europe not many times but I've heard it .
The gallery in Washington is called "The National Gallery of Art"... the one in London is just called "National Gallery"... it was formed over 100 years prior.
We have a National Gallery in Victoria Australia and also in Canberra, national capital but Victoria's opened in 1861 and Canberra's in 1982
Yes, same as with The Open in golf. There is no British Open.
I guess about every country has a national gallery. Because they are nations, too, perhaps?
@@petebeatminister Correct... besides that fact... the national gallery she listed as an excuse doesn't even have the same name... it was a double wammy.
@@seanmcmichael2551 And football as well. Every country in the world has their own football association, eg the Scottish FA, the French FA. The English one is recognised by FIFA as just the FA since it was first.
6:46 The sign is from Vancouver International Airport in Canada, because sometimes Americans forget that Canada is a completely separate country.
They are at entry points all over Europe as well.
I once had an American tell me the Australian ABC should be sued because that name is in use in the US. I just replied that we (Australia) were using the name first though.
And all probably began in Britain - BBC -to Australia ABC!
@@valsyaranamual6853 So australia - Britain - Canada: ABC - BBC - CBC
Where is the DBC?
I mean, there is DBC News in Bangladesh, and DBC in Hong Kong, but those don't quite have the same regional meaning.
The Passport queues (Lines for Yanks) is not meant as an insult to US Americans, it's there because of US Americans thinking (aloud) that they should be given special treatment, in other countries, just because they are from the US. It has happened so many times that these signs had to be put up, in many countries, to reduce (it doesn't negate the issue) the numbers of US Americans trying this.
Well, fact is, many countries would go bankrupt if America tourist dollars dried up, so yes, we should be given special treatment all over Europe. Actually, we do. spain has requested that Brits quit coming -- they are too rowdy and too cheap.
Does it say something that you have to clarify for the Yanks what a queue is?
@karlbmiles you font know what your on about Pal....sit down and shut the fuck up
@@karlbmiles Oh boy! Don't want to be near when you eventually wake up. You can tell an American tourist a mile away because you can hear him/her complaining, even if you're behind closed doors. And as for Spain, that related to soccer hooliganism, and is from almost 15 years ago.
@@karlbmiles You again? I suggest you now go and look up real facts.
I had an "American " say to me that Spain is a Republic, because they are half spanish and they know their history.🤷🏽♀️
This person probably thinks Spain is Mexico
I had just flown into Gatwick from NZ and while waiting in the line at immigration a teenaged American girl swanned past, straight onto the end of the much shorter UK and EU line. Next minute she kicks of when they told her to go on the back of our line. She was waving her passport aggressively at the officials and informing everyone in the building that this is a US passport. The officers explain that it is no use tonher in that line. She didn't give up but carried on, advising them that the US "ran" NATO (that must have frightened them).
By the time she got through her fluffy head that her US passport was not magic and will not open all doors she was on the end of a line that had grown by passengers from two more incoming aircraft.
Poor little thing.
Believe me, I have seen Americans wondering where to go at Heathrow Airport 🤦♀️
Foreigners definitely wasn't for them, and UK line didn't seem to quite fit either, they just stand around helplessly saying WTF, until someone in the Foreigners queue gently guides them to their place.
Ah well 🙄🥴 🙋♀️🇬🇧🤪
TBF they don't really have to go through the "foreigners" queue now, as they can use the e-gates along with many nationalities. There isn't a special UK-only channel anymore that I know of. Some ports back in the 1980s and before had three channels: UK, EEC, rest of world, but that's just the past.
Thanks for the update, but I bet they are still confused 🤔 😊@@nobbynobbynoob
There is no such thing as a 'foreigners' queue. I doubt there ever has been in a UK airport. You get signs saying things like UK, EU, All Other Passports and lots of flags. You don't get 'Foreigners' as a sign.
@@blotski That is true.
KLIA1 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for example, definitely has a "Foreigners" channel, but passport holders from 63 countries/territories can use the e-gates if they have visited Malaysia before. Citizens, immigrants (rare, as Malaysia, despite being multi-racial, isn't really an immigration country), and MM2H pass holders can also use the "domestic" staffed immigration-control channel.
Wouldn't "gun owners, this way" have helped ?
No, no, hear me out Ryan.
Having r/politics be all about US politics actually makes perfect sense. Where else would people discuss how a crayon shortage stems from a political issue?
You guys manage to transform ANY problem into a political one. Witnessing it is an amazing, horrifying and a brain rotting experience, all at once.
Ahh - got it . . . that / after the r actually stands for "etarded " . . .
@@SuperfluousIndividual 🖍️🖍️Oh no communist crayons😲
r/politics being us politics only isn't really that big of a deal for me. Politics outside of the US are fairly boring anyway to the point where I think a worldwide politics subreddit doesn't exist.
r/news and r/worldnews however...
r/politics being us politics only isn't really that big of a deal for me. Politics outside of the US are fairly boring anyway to the point where I think a worldwide politics subreddit doesn't exist.
r/news being mainly US with r/worldnews for the rest however...
@@Zanion "Fairly boring"? Nope - and you dislike it because you don't know enough context. Luckily your state-department has smart people sorting out the US internationally. Hopefully this will continue, but I don't hope for miracles.
Oh the amount of times I've debated something in FB with an American and they often say it's the governments fault and I'm just a sheep for the government. I don't usually say I'm from Finland right away, because just saying I don't care about your government, makes them loose their minds😆 And it doesn't always stop even me telling them I'm Finnish, because you know, I'm speaking English so I must be American..
Similar thing happened to me many times on Twitter when they ask me Trump or Kamala and I say I dont care. They call me ignorant. No. I just care about my country's politics.
@@svetlanaandrasova6086 A rare moment when calling you ignorant for not caring about US elections would be fitting. Any other election and it would be very safe to completely ignore and live your life. But this time there is far more at stake than US. If Trump is elected Ukraine will absolutely get fucked and lose the war in 1 year max unless Europe doubles the support to make up for lack of support and hostility from USA. Trump isn't exactly subtle about liking dictators of the world such as North Korea and that he wants to become on himself. No need to vote anymore he says, it will be all right he says... just vote this one time he says.
That's hilarious 😂😂😂😂 Just because US citizens aren't able to speak a second language, it doesn't mean the rest of the world just stuck with one language...
Speaking English on America's Facebook, I can see that people might assume you're an American. There's still a Finland after WWII?
@@karlbmiles What do you mean America's Facebook? Although it was created by US citizens and is still an US business/corporation, Facebook is obviously a world social network, just like the internet itself (which wasn't invented by US citizens, by the way). I dare say Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook shareholders wouldn't be as rich as they are if Facebook was strictly US (you haven't the luxury of having one thousand million - or one billion, as you put it - nationals, like China, to have an exclusive social network).
Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 🇩🇪
Oh, another example is korean songs on american radio get beeped or muted when the word "niga/nega" is said which literally just means "you", or the word "naega" which means "I". You can imagine how butchered songs get when you erase all yous and Is
Well, "ga" is the sentence subject mark, the real words are "ni" and "ne" ... but I feel what you say.
@@BlackHoleSpain i don't think we need to go into details. The point is that America censors other languages for SOUNDING like an insult they came up with
Wow, this is a whole new level of stupidity. Really something only th US could come up with. Smh
@@BlackHoleSpain the world sound "niga/neaga". Why are you correcting him when he wasn't wrong?
@@BlackHoleSpain Your alias sounds like someone self-complex and with problems. It's really grave that crazy kpop fans are dedicated to sink their country with hate, Americans/South Americans/rest of Europeans, etc kpop fans do the same. You all work from the enemies of your countries. You aren't quite bright nor good people
This reminds me when Americans got offended at an Australian TV ad showing a black person (West Indies, but of course Americans called them AFRICAN AMERICAN) eating fried chicken, because Australia really cares about AMERICAN stereotypes that mean nothing here.
I remember that. The joke is that the WI are Commonwealth cousins, are hero worshipped, nobody cares about their skin colour and - if they are silly enough to clog their arteries with KFC that is up to them, not Aussies.
Yeah. West Indies cricket team were sponsored by kfc.
Wait why can’t a black person eat fried chicken?
@@catmeow11111 & the ad was made by an American company! The View hosts were HORRIFIED by the racism… in a country where there is no cultural link between the colour of one’s skin & fried chicken! IGNORANT on the grandest of scales.
Your issue seems to be those dopey Europeans that think 'American' must mean the continent, not the county.
Continent of Africa plus Continent of America yields African-Americans living in the Indies.
I had a similar conversation to the one about Trump being my president in a Reddit forum a while ago. I said that Trump was not, never had been and never would be my president. I didn’t clarify why, hoping one of the various Muricans berating me might work it out, but they never did. They got more and more furious, telling me I would have to accept it, US laws definitely did apply to me, and I would end up in “gaol” - I asked if they meant prison but they still didn’t catch on 😁
Sitting next to a family of newly-arrived American tourists in a small family restaurant in Italy, I watched them insist on sending back their pizza to have it cut up even though they had knives and other cutlery in front of their eyes on the table. This complete lack of initiative made me laugh but it really confused the poor girl serving them because uncut is normal.
The official tourist office in Oslo, Norway some years ago, reported that a lot of Americans gave them feedback that they were surprised and offended that we Norwegians were not all blond, white and blue eyed. That we have a multicultural society in Norway too, was offensive to them apparently ....
What do they say about the Sami?
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Thanks for that. Now I'll just stay home where there's more to see.
@@karlbmiles ?
Also... who... who goes to a country to look at the people?
Top American defaultism: The USA people call themselves Americans, leaving outside every single one of the other 34 countries in the continent.
Think all the excuses you want, but Americo Vespucio was Florentine and the word America was put in place by the Spanish as the name of the continent, 2 centuries before Benjamin Franklin began promoting its political use to separate the english colonies in north america from the royalist forces from britain.
And the first Europeans to discover Vinland were Icelandic. And of course the very first inhabitants came from Siberia.
I chuckled SO loud whenever he said Americans in this video as referring only to US citizens. THE IRONY
@@leirumf5476 I must confess that I myself have difficulties deciding on a term that makes sense. The problem is that USA neither is a real country nor has a real name.
You're wrong! Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1520) was a German cartographer and humanist scholar. His collaborator Matthias Ringmann and he are credited with the first recorded usage of the word America to name a portion of the New World in honour of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci in a world map they delineated in 1507.
@@jacquestricatel7055 Interesting. I read decades ago, that the name was derived from Vespucci's first name, but I never heard who did that. Thank you for sharing.
I'm Scottish. A Scottish friend of mine one got a facebook ban for using the phrase 'that's a cracker'. In Scottish, the word 'cracker' indicates something that is excellent, very good, a fine example, high quality.
Interesting ! I don't know what it means for the US but I would have the same issue cause in France, a cracker is the name of a biscuit. 😅
@@Denwelyn That's a valid meaning in the UK too. The problem with 'cracker' in the US is that it has a meaning with racial connotations.
@@PreceptorGrant Oh ok ! Thanks for the explanation ! :)
The surprise in your story is that FB would care if anyone tried to insult a white American with a pejorative term.
But the point remains that that particular connotation of the word is *only* used within the US, and not used by anyone in any other nation. So to apply that interpretation to a Scot is absolutely US-centrism run amuk.
Ohhhh i remember an American complaining that if Britain is 5hrs ahead of the USA, then why didn't they warn the USA about the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbour
i believe the british did warn the usa about an impending japanese attack, but it was ignored because the intel did not come from their own military
It happened on July 12th too. We could have warned them months before.
Of course, the World Trade Centre attack happened on November 9th for us, so we couldn't warn them.
I am still amazed that, with 350,000,000+ people in the USA, the country cannot find just ONE that will make an intelligent, capable and acceptable President!
We've got that on a smaller scale in the UK!!!
@@vivettebell1610 Count yourself lucky, you could live in Germany ... where all hope is lost.
@mercatorjubio3804 don't lose hope. There is a saying that the darkest hour is just before dawn.
@@vivettebell1610 From your lips to god's ear..... it's really looking bleak wherever I look. Our "politicians" are such an unspeakable gathering of incompetent clowns, it's not even funny. And once more the fish stinks from the head, but not only.
We’ve got Kamala Harris! What more do you want?
In the seventies I had a lot of interaction with USA military service people in Germany. Probably because military service is at least 90% boredom, I had fairly long discussions with quite a few of them. Some of them were very knowledgeable people with well thought-out opinions. But they were well and truly in the minority because most of them didn't have a clue about basically anything that wasn't directly or specifically focussed on the USA. My interactions with people from the USA during the following decades, up to present day, didn't give me any cause yet to modify my opinion.
Danish person here. I posted a picture of myself in a facebook group wearing a viking outfit and wrote, I want my Danegeld you bastards. I was reported for inciting violence
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An American once told me he would never go to Canada because it was too cold... He was from Alaska. To be fair, his friend, who was from California really looked ashamed.
I live in a small town in northeastern BC. Years ago, a friend of mine encountered an American tourist who was heading to Alaska from somewhere in the Lower 48. The tourist had to stop for the night and was perplexed about why the drive was taking so long (I live about 11 hours from the US border to the south, and it's another 21 hours to get to Alaska); he didn't realize that Canada was so big. At some point, he got out his map and showed it to my friend to illustrate why he was so confused.
The map was of the US; it had Alaska and Hawaii crammed a bit closer to the contiguous states, and while it did have Canada on the map, is was shrunk down and squashed in order to fit Alaska into the frame.
I guess all map projections have some distortion. I'm pretty familiar with the Mercator projection, but I'm intrigued by the 'Murica projection.
Googled for real information: Canada generally experiences colder temperatures compared to Alaska. While Alaska does have extreme cold temperatures, some regions in Canada, particularly in the northern parts, can have lower average temperatures. The coldest measured temperature in Canada was -62.8 degrees Celsius, while the coldest in Alaska was -62.2 degrees Celsius.
I don't know why you bothered with your story. I lived in Alaska for two years, and it could have been meaningful if you told us where in Alaska he lived. Sitka averages 48 degrees (Fahrenheit) in January and 64 degrees in July. Quite pleasant don't you think?
@@karlbmiles because over 80% of canadians dont live in the northern parts of canada where the temperature can be -62. If you had read a little more, you would have learned that most of us live near the American border. And some Canadians live also as south as the northern part of California.
You can't compare the average Canadian temperature to Sitka. Because it takes into account the parts of Canada where nobody lives.
If you take the average temperature of the places where the majority of Canadians live vs the average temperature of where the majority of Alskan live, you'll see the Canadian weather is the same as Alaskan weather and even warmer in some places.
Also, you failed to mention that the colder temperature ever recorded in Alaska was -62.2C... in Canada, -62.8. Not much of a difference... which was my point.
The American who made the comparaison just said that Canada was too cold. He made a generalization that was stupid, since he comes from Alaska. If he had look into Canada 2 seconds, he would have found quite a lot of places that barely see snow in winter.
so important to you for that Alaskan to be wrong? How much time do you have on your hands?
@@karlbmiles I'm getting notifications on this argument because I commented earlier, but I just have to point out some BS when I see it.
If they don't respond to you, you'd assume they can't respond and that you've made some sort of airtight argument. Since they did respond, and in enough detail to pre-empt a pointless back-and-forth, you're stepping back from the argument that _you_ started, pretending as if it's not even worth discussing, and you've re-focused your argument to be about their motivation for bothering to engage with you.
What you're essentially saying is that your earlier post wasn't made in good faith. I do agree with you that engaging with your argument isn't worth the effort, but to be fair, you only demonstrated that with your second comment.
Also, to clarify, I'm not bothering to engage with your argument. I'm just writing a long comment to essentially call you an asshat because it's cathartic.
I am Spanish. The controversy over the word "black" in Spanish shows how self-centered and ignorant some Americans can be.
It's like I told him "you can't say your car is black because you're white."😀
Plus, their ancestors appropriated that word from Spanish to describe their slaves. Thats on them, not on any1 else. The rest of us have no problems with the word. Just another mindboggling American thing.
We - Oui
See - Si
Different words, different languages, different spellings, different meanings, but same pronunciation.
Nego in Spanish does not equate to the "N word." Isn't spelled like it, doesn't sound like it, and, surprisingly, (to some) the Spanish Negro retains its original meaning of "black" and is not a racial slur.
@@cat4444-n4k Tell that to the Americans who are shocked when they find out there is a country called Montenegro.
He’ll go « That’s right. My car is African-Americain.
One of the things that bothers me around this topics is that a lot of Americans go to other non-English speaking countries and expect the citizens there to speak English to them. I mean, seriously? You expect foreign tourists to speak English in the U.S., but you think it's weird when people speak in their native languages in their own countries? Just because you speak English, doesn't mean every person out there in the world has to speak English.
Once in a fb group a friend from the US was worried about an oncoming hurricane that was expected to be one of the worst natural disasters in his state. He was asking for tips on how to endure it, as well as a shopping list. Having endured MULTIPLE devastating hurricanes, I replied his post with some tips and ideas for a shopping list (some more friends in common did as well). Apparently some guy took offense in my reply for whatever reason and said "Well, Mr. Know-it-all but he is about to experience the worst hurricane in our country. It's not like in your state where there is just rain." My reply was "Bro, "My state" was the epicenter of the top 2 worst hurricanes in the history of MY country. I think I might know a thing or two" I never understood what his deal was. Fortunately other people called him out too.
Dude... I'm Indigenous American from the Navajo Rez (Reservation). The education is embarrassingly bad; still, I learned about other cultures and languages and the peoples who they come from.
Seeing this video has, no joke, made me feel more confident in my knowledge about other countries, which, by the way, isn't a lot compared to others. But, far better than what I've seen in this video. 😄
Thanks for the boost in my own self worth!
My email client has an option for "English US" or "Proper English"!
I prefer 'English' and 'English simplified'.
@@TheBlackcredo Nice!
I study with a USA university - submitted a thesis & had it marked down for bad spelling LOL. Sorry for being from Oz - ignorant fools until my Professor spoke up for me.
@@TheBlackcredo Even Microsoft had this in many earlier versions of Windows (English with UK flag and English Simplified with US flag), until, after decades, they realised that it made them (and the US) look stupid and changed it.
@@Thurgosh_OG doesn't take much to make the US look stupid. It's practically their national pastime.
With half of the US supporting a likely absolute monarch for 'president', it seems a lot safer to live in an affirmed constitutional kingdom far, far away.
yeh king sausage fingers, defender of the faithS really got your best interest at heart.
@@nihilistzero8066 You are assuming that @seijka46 is British there. Are you a US American? You do realise that other countries have Kings too don't you?
@@nihilistzero8066Maybe try Googling how many countries have monarchies! You'll be surprised!
@@nihilistzero8066 Don't be rude about our King ( or any other country with a monarchy)when you have someone who was found guilty on 35 counts still at large and running for president, a position he intends to keep forever and pass down to family. "you'll never have to vote again" he said. sounds a tad like a dictatorship to me.
Yeah, I don't like to pull the "This is how the Nazis gained power" card, but when I read and hear Trump's statements, combined with those of other MAGA politicians and spokespeople, combined with the actual GOP Agenda for this election, I really see how Hitler could rise to power and turn an unstable country into a racist dictatorship in a matter of a few years. Trump has made it clear he's willing to be a dictator, the GOP agenda is very clear about cleansing education and government of "communists, socialists" and many others while never defining who those people are. I mean, I see people call Harris and Walz communists, Bernie Sanders has to occasionally defend he's not a socialist, I've even seen people call Obama a communist. Education is going to be "patriotic", as decided by a Trump-appointed commission. College campuses will be "patriotic" again. Large-scale deportations of illegal immigrants, possibly even deportations of legal immigrants. Some stuff about protecting Christians and the Bible (other religions aren't memtioned). There's some awful implications. And no, it won't be a holocaust or anything, but Trump and the MAGA crowd sure seem eager to turn the US into a dictatorship.
I was recently on a zoom call with a group of community theatre people from around the world, I live in Australia and a woman in New York complemented me when she said that my English was very good. Gee, I wonder why it was so good? Possibly because English is the Australian national language! Oh, I was born in the UK.
reminds me when an US guy said that my english is better than from most people he even heard talking english only to think that im lying to him that english is my third language because of how good i speak it. Im semi-fluent in english btw
It's honestly very unfortunate and sad, in my opinion. As an American, I've lived in America my entire life, and I recently have taken proper English classes due to me having poorly spoken English sentences. After a while, I intended to feel dislocated in multiple groups due to their lack of proper English. All they blabber are "Bro. Ig wcg to gas station?" It was like having a stroke trying to comprehend what it meant. I wasn't even aware that "wcg" defines in "we could go." They don't actually write out the correct usages. It has regularly turned into a simple one letter per word where it began. I've also noticed how Americans school stories write outs are only 350 letters long. Even when I tried to form a proper long story, my father complained and plain up just said to make the story simple within 200 letters?! No wonder we do not think clearly?! Our schools refuse to teach us actual genuine useful information. It's very frustrating. I feel like an outsider.
To be fair, it also happens - albeit to a much lesser degree - here in the UK.
Example: a former work colleague was Canadian, working over here. As part of her long-term work visa requirements, she was informed she would have to pass an English language test. She rang the Home Office (i.e. our Immigration Department) to gently clarify whether she needed to do this, especially as she came from an English-speaking part of Canada, a largely English-speaking country (and in particular from British Columbia, not even Quebec). She was informed no, she still had to take the test as a foreigner. Fine, she thought, just a hoop she had to jump through in the red tape, so she took the test. But she didn't hear anything about the result for ages, and had to ring again to find out what had happened. She was then informed that the Home Office was trying to work out what to do with her result, as she scored 100% and "no-one ever scores 100%" so they were having to check to see if she had cheated or not... 🙄
Conversely to this, Quebec also has a language proficiency test for foreigners to work there, and people from France have to take the test to prove they are proficient in French. Weirdly, because Quebec French can be quite different from France French, some of the French test takers actually fail the test, when they should be shoo-ins.
I remember that a week or so ago, they tried to cancel this Irish girl on twitter for using "mammy", which is how you call a mom in Ireland...apparently it's an anti black slur in the US? Idk man, she was just talking about her mom 😭 They were like "well, don't use it!"
It is time to create a similar network based somewhere in europe without interference of american sjws and identity politics.
It is funny that americans say that they have the most freedom but when you use a word that could be slightly offensive than they are more similar to socialist countries during the cold war.
@@manuelhauler1083 I'd rather have their sjws than the raging racists, who think, their 1st Amendment gives them free rain to say and do anything with impunity and be as hateful and denigrating and threatening, as they want, and nobody can touch them, coz "free speech".
That said, I otherwise agree with u fully.
You guys understand now why the Chinese created their own social media outlets?
This is the sort of intellectual comments you get from a country of people who spend half the school day learning how to hide under the school desks. Education... Geography ..Definitely not a priority
Education is a priority, half of American adults have a college degree, about the same as the UK and we don't get education "free", we have to want it enough to earn it. Geography? You mean Europe? Why should we care about your backyard more than out own?
@@karlbmiles You have a backyard? Is it Mexico? So that would make Canada your front lawn... makes sense.
@@karlbmiles That reply was perfect... Thankyou from Australia🤣 did you mean 'Our own'?🤣
@@karlbmilesreally?
The other half they are doing shooting drills
I'm disappointed : not a single "That's racist ! You have to say Asian/African-American" when talking about a non American. Those are a classic, for the double whammy of both wrong country and USA race obsession
It gets really confusing. American and Canadian racists are too lazy to learn actual ethnicities, so we go to other countries and think things are great because no one seems to hate Black people or Hispanic people. But... They might still totally hate Nigerians or Somalians or such. Being a bigot is way harder out in the rest of the world! Lol
There might be in the future
I never understood calling a black person African-American. Not all black peoples families come from Africa. I remember asking a Teacher isn't it rude to assume a black person is from Africa? She said it was better than the alternative. Like we had two choices African-American or the "N" word. Yeah, not a good answer.
They never solved the social problems of some ethinicity, and instead of solving the problems they talk about words. And they want to teach the rest of the world how to deal with certain issues, forgetting that elsewhere the police don't kill a black man for 20 dollars.
@@ChrisBGramz4u et pourquoi ne pas dire simplement...Américain ? En FRANCE il n'y a aucun Afro-français, juste des Français !
The best example is that you call yourselves "Americans" when America is a whole continent. You should be "Unitedstatians". I'm from Argentina and I live in America too, like Mexicans, Canadians, Peruvians, Brazilians, etc...
Canadians do NOT want to be called Americans. Please call us Canadians.
I am gonna use that when someone from US annoying me
Technically, two continents, yes?
De todas formas, en otro hilo comentan que la palabra sería algo así como "Usian".
And then they will complain when we call them "gringos"
Well when the north and south manage to win a war against us then they can call themselves Americans. Till then they can fuckin deal with it.
I was in a restaurant in a diner in Eureka, Montana….the people at the next table said “you’re not from these parts”, I told them I was from the U.K., they then said my English is very good!!!!
😂 I once told a woman working in Sweden that her English was wonderful, thinking she was Swedish. Turns out she was English. 😊
But not perfect 🙂
...whilst living in a town whose name is an ancient Greek verb, struck me as funny.
Thanks, yours is quite alright too.
I too was once reported on racial grounds, because I was having a conversation on the internet about the black country in the UK.
Kind of like the Scunthorpe effect.
You should have capitalised the name. So tell me, how do Americans deal with
'The Black hills' of Dakota, once a pop-song? Or Black Jack Ketchum, a notorious outlaw? Or anybody named Black?
@@tacfoley4443 I guess they'll have to rename the Martin Brest (Brad Pitt/Anthony Hopkins) movie: "Meet Joe African-American" 😆
The so called derogatory word for the neutral “black” in Spanish is the fault of the people in the US. It was appropriated as a slang term. The word itself meant “black” before the americas were discovered!
Just get over yourselves
In Spanish and Portuguese, if you please...
@@paulavitoria1798 yes of course. I am sorry, the Rio Negro in Brazil. Comes to mind
Don't forget the origin of the more frequently used derogatory term, the name of the country of origin for many slaves, Nigeria (and Niger since the two countries were once one). It had one of the largest slave populations and exported them as a "natural resource". The use of the Spanish word for black as a derogatory term is all but nonexistent these days and has been replaced by a similar sounding word of different origin.
@@Lilith-Rose Loving your name litith. Adams first squeeze.
I don’t know why I clicked on this video, the crushing force of this secondhand embarrassment is enough to collapse my house into α Magnetar.
-Sincerely, an American
I watched a UK made YT documentary about a gas explosion in a UK coal mine. It prompted lots of comments from Americans "correcting" the pronunciation of "methane". The narrator used the English pronunciation mee-thane.
If the UK was a major producer or user of "Mee-thane" we'd probably all call it that. But America is the world's biggest producer of petroleum products and drilled the first oil-well to discover commercial methane. Americans refer to "Fish and Chips" without complaint don't they?
@@karlbmiles You can call it whatever you want, but Americans simply dosen´t have the right to dictate another nation how to use their own languange. That was the core of the statement and you knew that very well.
@@karlbmiles First Oil Well was drilled in today Southern Poland in 1852 😛
@@karlbmiles I've no problem with you pronouncing it however you like, but that doesn't mean you can criticize how we pronounce it.
Saltom Pit in England was using methane for pit-top lighting in 1730 and by 1830 it was used for street lighting in the town, about 30 years before the first oil well in the US.
@@karlbmiles The fact that the USA decided to change the pronunciation of a lot of ENGLISH words doesn't make Britons wrong, it just makes Americans different, so you go ahead and call it meth-ane if you like and we'll call it me-thane, and we'll all know what we are talking about. Besides "fish and fries" just sounds weird, LOL.
6:47 There seem to be British people like that too. Apparently some of them in Spain have been upset they couldn't queue in the line for EU citizens and had to queue with Moroccans... You know, after they left the EU.
They were probably the ones who voted No to Brexit.
They're the ones that refer to themselves as ex-pats if they leave their country but everyone else is fkn immigrants...
Everyone is like this really. They just blame a select few so they don't have to recognize their own hypocrisy.
Sadly ignorance doesn't confine itself to one country!
Yes, Ive seen outraged social media posts and even videos of them "documenting" the horrible treatment, theyre receiving by no longer being EU citizens. Apparently those in this category are especially insulted, that the Irish get the "special" treatment in the EU queue, while they the "superior" English must wait in long lines with the plebs from the rest of the world.
One thing that grates me, when American media and politician’s I may add refer themselves as “leaders of the free world” it only fuels the whole exceptionalism in its population.
It's a really antiquated concept which MAY have been true during the Cold War. The thing is, the world has changed since 1945 but many Americans don't get it.
...especially any of their war criminal former presidents.
they say this because in their own bubble their country is their own world, since they are so self-centered, not because they are leaders of the free world as in every country
Well, it's certainly no longer the Free World in the USA now.
@@joannafarrer8085 Inauguration of the new president will be on January 20th next year.
I had an American tell me that, and I quote, I "can't live in South Africa and be on the internet because Africa doesn't have electricity...that's why they call it the dark continent". When challenged to look at satellite images of Africa at night they declined before stepping off the plane of sanity and beginning to froth at the mouth while becoming more and more incoherent. I blocked them and moved on.
My best one is being told that I live in a castle because I'm a White S. African. He was angry when I told him I didn't, and was lying because he saw it on tv. What tv do they watch?
@patrickporter6536 that's a new one to me. Maybe he heard about the castle in Cape Town and assumed that all whites live there like British Royalty? Very peculiar conclusion to jump to.
Edit: went and looked. We have a bunch more castles than I ever heard of. Makes sense given our history and the British love of building castles to defend important locations.
@@celticphoenix257950 years ago.
On the foreign passports sign: It's not insulting to americans because I *GUARANTEE* this sign exists because this facility was seeing a very high proportion of americans not going to the foreign passports area. This won't be based on a random uncharitable assumption it will be a response to actual events.
Can you imagine the annoyance for everyone when they insist on being checked in the domestic line? 😮
The same with travel books apparently. Americans used to ask for American travel guide books and assistants would offer them the English version to be rebuffed as travel guides usually have country flags indicating language on the covers to make it easier for customers. They used to have the British flag for English and most Americans ignored them, had no clue, wouldn't even open the books to see they were in English, so publishers now put out travel guides with the US flag on the cover, problem solved. Dim lot.
These signs are at entry points all over Europe. And no, its not to insult, its simply to clarify to US Americans, coz they have wasted so much time over the years, having to explain to them, that here in a foreign country they are indeed foreigners. And despite these signs its a regular occurrance, at busy entry points several times per day, that US Americans still need help getting in the right line or even complains loudly about not getting the special treatment, they believe, theyre due as 'Muricans. Its really hard to go through an international airport in Europe (and I would assume, the same applies elsewhere in the world), without meeting/hearing US Americans confused or even outraged over being foreigners.
I can't say for certain, but based on the "Can" on the right side of the airport sign, I suspect it might actually be in Canada, which makes it even more embarrassing (Foreign Passports/Passeport d'estranger and Canadian Passports/Passeport domestiques). The sign does show the world and adds the US flag to it (just for clarity, I'm sure).
The Spanish word for Black isn't even spelled the way the n-word is spelled.
I'm just gonna leave the name of one of my mom's favorite red wines here: El Gato Negro (One of her favorite white wines: El Gato Blanco)
Spoiler: It means "(The) Black Cat" and "(The) White Cat". There's nothing racist about that word, or can we no longer talk about the countries Niger and Nigeria as well?
Nah, according to US standards, only black people are allowed to say names of those countries out loud. If you ever need to talk about those countries, make sure you bring along a black person to say those countries names for you 😂
The word negro (usually capitalized) is also used in English. If I'm not mistaken it came from the Portuguese slave traders and used to be the fancy way to refer to blacks. While the other n-word was always a slur. Since the 1970s the N-o word begun to fade in normal usage because, altho not a slur was still considered racist.
Of course, we cannot continue talking about the countries Niger/Nigeria. They must disappear so that the American narcissistic virtuosists do not get offended (sarcasm, of course)
@@rataflechera Actually the word Negro (capitalized) isn't a slur, is the world in Portuguese for black people, and it isn't offensive in any way. I'm from Brazil and we speak Portuguese (our version of it). Calling a person "Preto" (black) is more offensive than Negro. Because Preto (black) is the color, (and some people use it in a derogatory way to refer to black people, still since is the name of a color it isn't a slur) and Negro is the race, we have different words for different things (in this case everything else vs. people), just that. So, to exemplify: the cat is preto, the man is Negro.
With regards to "f@cking weapon", pretty much anything can be turned into an insult in Scotland.... it's our superpower
Your a bread now
@@RogerKeulen Don't tell the Germans, they'll eat you :) Well, unless you call them a fake, spongy American bread, that they'll avoid.
Anywhere in the UK. We can put "fn", "absolute" or "proper" in front of any noun and turn it into an insult
Weapon is used in Ireland too. I also love waggon
Remember the American who allegedly was a geography teacher and thought Brazil was in Europe?
No, never heard of him/her!
I saw one saying that Mercure was a country.
A geography teacher from US, yes.
We are slowly taking Portugal back, so... 😅
I had someone go nuts because a student’s name was “Jesus “ . I told her it was pronounced Hey-zeus and was a common Spanish name. I’m white and totally baffled by things I hear.
Very common among portuguese people if I am not mistaking.
Always funny when you can tell text them you found Jesus and can help show them how to meet him to.
And then you show up with your good friend Jesús.
Americans are self centred?! The very idea is absurd....oh, wait, after the Olympics every reactor was focussed on the US being top of the medals table. Now we've just finished the Paralympics - not a word!! 😅
The paralympics are not for the mentally challenged. If it was the US would win every medal.
@t.a.k.palfrey3882 oh my , that's socsad , we had a 2hours exclusive interviews with our paralympics guys in France and here at home, WE are very proud of them. HOP HOP SWISS🇨🇭
I'm not aware of a single country in the world that pays as much attention to their Paralympians as their Olympians - even those, like the UK, that perform better in the Paralympics than they do in the Olympics.
@@callum9999 Spain also :) but we pay them attention, they are our pride and joy 🤩
Tried to understand the OP... And failed.
Every reactor was focused on the US medals... What reactors (I guess people who react on yt)? Do you watch them all?
Also, are everyone obligated to react to paralympics, and what does that have with Americans and their egoism?
Got asked by a US tourist why we weren't celebrating Thanksgiving. Had quite a hard time explaining that it's a celebration we don't do because we are a different country i.e. New Zealand. They looked quite offended. I asked them did they celebrate Matariki and they looked shocked at the suggestion. Well then. You're being a bit "american" over the US airport lines too.
When there is a thread on Social Media about where people are from US Americans usually only post the state they are from.
Like „I‘m from PA“ - it‘s rather disrespectful. They think everybody knows the abbreviations and that they‘re from the States.🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
Panama? ;)
@@HappyBeezerStudios 🤣🤣🤣🤷🏼♂️🤣🤣maybe?