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I'm a Brit. An American once asked me if we celebrate 4th July in the UK... I had to explain their own history to them!
😮 now that right there is embarrassing 😐
roflmao That's hilarious. Did that person think you Brits were celebrating that you'd managed to get rid of some of your colonies by losing a war to them?
@@clefsan It was all taken in good humour though. From thereon we always referred to 4th July as "Kick-your-ass-out" day. 😆
You should have said "Yes, we celebrate as well because that day we got rid of loads of heavily armed dump people for free".
And you even got to keep the peacefull and well-educated Canadians. That's another good reason to bring out the fireworks. :0)
@@sneakyfox4651 now that I think about it... don't the Brits celebrate the Guy who tried to blow up their Parliament in the 17th century? So celebrating american independence day would make sense for them :D
Living in Sydney, Australia a few years ago, an American tourist asked me when and where they could see the Vienna Schoolboys Choir. I told them that was Austria. They repeated their question. When I said that's a different country, they got angry thinking I refused to help.
Wow
OMG, this is unbelievable. The American education system has only gotten worse since 1970, and here's the results
Austria... Australia... it's all the same. 🤣🤣
Just like Sweden and Switzerland often being confused by Americans.
@@redscale82 Yup, this happens to me quite frequently. I'm Swedish-American, dual citizen, and I have lived in the US for almost a decade. Americans get Sweden and Switzerland confused *a lot*.
They'll ask me things like why Swedish cheese has big holes in it (referring to Swiss cheese), or they will say that they once went to Sweden and loved the Alps. Shit like that.
I try not to judge them, they're the products of an education system that focuses very little on the rest of the world, and they can't help that their school system failed them when they were kids. They had no say in the matter.
Nowadays though, when everyone's got the internet available 24/7, there's really no excuse to not look things up yourself, and educate yourself, but that unfortunately doesn't happen a lot.
The stupidest conversation I had to suffer was 20 years ago with this hick old dude at a Pepboys.
Old guy: So do you guys have televisions in Japan?
Me: …. Yes. In fact your television is probably Japanese.
Old guy: No it isn’t! It’s a Sony!
Me: ….. I can’t…
The most memorable question(s) that I can remember, as a European who's lived in the US as a US citizen for almost a decade, is when an American girl (mid 20s) asked me if we're allowed to go outside at all in Europe, and how we get food when there are no stores.
Her whole life she had been fed the idea that America is the only country where people are free and the only country that has freedom and that it's the only democracy on earth. She thought that people in the rest of the world, who doesn't have American freedom and democracy, were locked up as if in prison their whole lives, forced to work and that stores are illegal and that everyone is fed by the government.
I usually try to explain things without judging and without being condescending when I get a somewhat odd question about Europe, but the above left me speechless once I realized that she wasn't joking. I just didn't even know what to say. By the time I had collected my thoughts she had already started a conversation with someone else and I decided it was best to just leave it alone.
My sister was asked when she was in Chicago if we had pizza in Ireland. Not too bad. The next question was "Do you have roads?".
Maybe you should have told the girl that we Europeans all still hunt and gather their food from nature, so we do not need stores. It would also have answered her other question on whether we are allowed to go outside...
My belief is:
Don't talk to stupid people.
Move to the other side of the bar or your head will explode.
An American once asked me "I don't get the metric system, why do you use it?", I replied, "Do you own a gun back home?", "Yes" came the answer, "What size bullets does it take?", "It's a 9mm.... Hmmmmm"..... Yes, exactly, they only use the metric system on the guns. That is so American.
Also in their pockets with a 100 cents in the Dollar ;-)
@@simonbutterfield4860 Ah no, that's the decimal system not the metric system.
I ran into a lady at the store once a long time ago, and we started talking. I commented that I loved her accent and asked where she was from. She told me she was from New Zealand. I said that I've heard it's really beautiful there and would love to visit it one day. She started laughing and said when she's told others she's from there they always comment on how well she's learned English........All I could do was face palm and shake my head.
We both got a big laugh at that.
A friend of mine who was working as a tour guide here in Sweden was onced asked by an American lady how long it took to build the replica of the castle they were visiting. She still thought my friend was lying when she said it was actually built in the 12th century because the lady was convinced nothing could survive so long... 🤦
......i......what does she think fossils are ? I cant 😂😂😂😂
@@flovonnejohnson707 americans dont believe in fossils, they believe in God...
@@gtvgranberglol😂😂😂
im american, Christian and i still know that fossils and old bones exist ......
I swear so many people in America think like a hundred year old building is incredibly old (probably due to American history in the colonial sense only going back to like 1600?). I mean not so say that those buildings can't have historical significance of course but most of the world do indeed have buildings still in use which are hundreds if not a thousand or two thousand years old.
I am American. Born and raised. We are brainwashed and poorly educated. We are trained to think that the USA is " the greatest Country in the World" . Unless we A, study and break this cognitive dissonance for ourselves and/or B, travel and see it for ourselves we never learn otherwise!
I'm from the UK and lived in Texas for 4 years and the dumbest question I was asked by an American was, "So, you speak English very well. When did you learn it?". I said, "When? I'm English, I speak English. You speak English because of us. What language did you think I spoke?". She replied, "I dunno, French I suppose.".
Ah,.. she thought you were nobility. How endearing.
And that's how you kill an English person. Comparing to France LOOOOL
if you look it up the states have no official language whatsoever...
💩
My dad a cereral grain grower (farmer) did a visit to USA. He mentioned harvest time and the issues he had were the same in USA.
He was asked what "month do you harvest wheat"?. "Late November all December" dad replied.
The USA farmer went, "Oh l know your problem. You can't grow and harvest wheat in the winter!" (He was dead serious)..
Dad was perplexed and said "no we harvest the wheat in summer! Which is November to Feb In southern hemisphere!"
The USA farmer got real mad and said...
"You can't friggen harvest in snow"!!!
Again dad tried to tell him that in deed he was right but he lived in Australia, and harvest time was in November -January...
So the USA Farmer all confused said,
"So that means you celebrate Christmas in July?"...
Lots of palms smacking forheads was heard by many..🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦♀️
Christmas cards in Australia still have snow on them (or so I hear) which is surprising - but I guess all Christmas movies I can think of are set in the northern hemisphere too. Are there Australian or NZ Christmas movies? there must be, surely. I used to watch the Australian soap Neighbours so I've seen sunny Christmas scenes, but never a Christmas movie set in summer.
@@Hiforest
Not sure which country your from. But chritmas cards Aussie stype exists. The icon of Christmas is the northern hemisphere indication of snow and the red beanie hat.
Selling Aussie summer Christmas cards in USA would just confuse many Americans. But you can buy them in abundance in Australia...
This is not to belittle an American. But many have absolutely no idea that the other half of the world runs on a different time schedual. (World is a big round ball 1 sun!!)
There are movies that depict an Aussie Christmas. But trying to remember the name for you (A couple hallmark cringy movies have one or two). Its everything summer. Cold turkey Ham, seafood, salads galore, Icey cold drinks champagne and contant on coming delights of savoury and sweet snacks all day.
Its the same as Winter Christmas but different temperature. Iv done Christmas in England. What a hoot actually resembling a christmas. card. But Hot weather pools, seafood and post christmas lunch nanna naps is what lm use to...
Try it one day its fun ...
@@paquitagillis901 erm... I'm Scottish.. of course I *know* there are different hemispheres and how time zones work lol. I have family who live in Australia (which is where I heard they still do have Christmas cards with snow) I guess I missed the bit about alternative ones too - and tbf, this was told to me in the 1990s - I was fully aware I could be incorrect. I also realised there were most likely Christmas movies set in summer that might be fun to watch.
@@Hiforest
Ooh loved Scoltand been there a few times. 😍
You' re experts on cold and the chill factor in Nessy country . 🤣🎅
Sorry no insult was intended. But l do worry about out American's. Not sure what is taught in schools, but sadly it appears very little about wolrd Geography and what goes on outside USA shore lines . Im quite shocked at times how the rest of the world know about "the world" and other countries climates, democracies etc. But Americans come out with some seriously bizzar assumptions of what is beyond their beaches.
Best Americans are the ones who have left USA shore lines...🤣🤣.
Hope you make it back to Aus one day. I will venture back to Scotland again some day as well...
@@paquitagillis901 We've had almost no snow here this winter and our summers are getting hotter. I'd have to visit Oz in winter or I'd probably die lol.
I do plan to travel again once I'm feeling more confident about it. Oz has been on the list of places to visit, as long as I've had a list, but with kids it's just too long a flight for them. I'm waiting until they are older.
I think most Americans are probably fine, but there's enough loud ones that make the rest look bad. I dated an American and spent a lot of time there, I realised the majority are smart people, even if some of them thought Scotland was part of England until I politely corrected them.
American "do you have the 4h July" Yes it's between the 3rd and the 5th.
They dont understand that every nation has own national holidays.
Explaining I was from Scotland but visiting N. Caroilina my host was introducing me to some of their American friends . One lady confirmed I was from Scotland and began her next question " I have a friend in Scotland .Do you know ...." I was just doing an internal " eye roll " ( as it were ) when I had to confess that I did know a family of the name she asked about in the place she had visited . Turned out I had been in one member of that family's house less than two weeks previously ! "
Still haven't met the Queen though .
I was asked In Hawaii, on the deck of my ship, By a middle aged woman. Quote " Where did all you guys learn to speak American so well". I attempted to explain that in Australia we speak English, But she didn't seem to understand.
I had a weird discussion with an American about currency exchange rates. He didn't get the concept that 1 euro doesn't have the same value as 1 US dollar. And he wasn't average, it was a university professor...
I'm shocked that so many so called "educated" people from the US are so ignorant
@@TheKeystoneChannel Ignorant is fixable. But not getting simple concepts like this even when explained ... that is more than simple ignorance.
The dumbest question I have been asked by a US american: I was chatting online with a girl from LA and she asked me if we have internet in Germany. At first I thought she was joking but no - she was dead serious. Asking me if we have internet in Germany while chatting with me on the internet...yeah, that's another level of stupid.
6:45 A lot of these names are not in any way shape or form english names to begin with. Almost all of these names are either of greek or (more commonly) latin aka roman origin.
8:15 Yeah but it should be said that a lot of people here in Europe are really annoyed when US americans call their weird egg throwing stuff that isn't even played by foot football and make up an insulting new word to the real sport called football.
I would agree with you on the football thing, but unfortunately, the term "soccer" was invented by the English...
But then, the Fahrenheit temperature scale was invented by a German Polish person.
Perhaps the real wisdom is in recognising when you are going in the wrong direction and discarding bad ideas.
I wonder why Americans call it American football which is basically similar to our english rugby, so why not call it American rugby??🤔 both have balls the same shape and score similar points in touchdown and conversion?
@@mbwoods2001 It's honestly not like Rugby - they have the same shape ball but it's like saying pool and snooker is the same because they are both played on a table with pockets.
@@Hiforest a guy from England actualy took rugby union to the US then changed a few rules and now it's called grid iron or as the US call it football.
@@mbwoods2001 It is ruby union only some rules are changed to the US liking.
Texan to me: "You speak mighty fine English for a foreigner, what language do you speak in England"? ....and he clearly didn't believe my answer...
You should've said, hint; Engl- ish
Oh my god,..unbelievable.
I used to work in tourism in Southern England. One thing that used to occur often was an American trying to pay me for something using dollars and not understanding why I wouldn't accept it. A man once asked how long it would take him to get to England and wouldn't believe me when I told him he already was. The most famous American tourist question in southern England was, 'Why did they build Windsor Castle so close to the airport?' Classic!
The famous questions about Edinburgh Castle come to mind 'Why'd they put it all the way up this hill?' and Why didn't they build it nearer the railway station?' Whether they're true or not who knows.
Holy shit now that's really stupid
@@jswmonkey197 your example as well, gosh... They're so dumb over in America
I'm told The Norwegian Tourist Office gets Americans asking them what date they switch the northern lights off.
In a similar vein a tourist guide in Iceland told our English group of an American lady who assumed that somebody switched the geyser Strokkur off at night to save energy .
There are no stupid questions, only sometimes the lack of general knowledge about the world is surprising.
Some years ago I lived in Brazil, flew in to Orlando, FL to visit relatives. I had a conversation with a couple from NY on the transfer shuttle and I could not get them to understand that I was from Europe, currently living in South America in a country called Brazil and now visiting relatives in the US. Brazil appeared to be the most confusing part, in essence that there is an actual country called Brazil.
There actually are stupid questions. Many adults just don't want to quash the curiosity of children who might fear that their question might be considered dumb by those know-it-all adults, so they encourage children keep their inquiring minds until they find out how to find answers to their questions by themselves.
But as an adult, you are responsible for your actions, and even for the action to ask questions. So think carefully before you ask a dumb question. You will be judged by them.
@@SiqueScarface I think you are actually describing the actions/behaviour of dumb people rather than dumb questions. But I agree, people will judge you.
There ARE stupid questions. Like when an American says in a shocked voice "your English is really good!", when they know I was BORN and LIVE in ENGLAND. Or ask if we now have "cell phones" in England... this was 2018 🙄. Or my favourite one is, "do you live near the Queen".
Its both ignorance AND stupidity. It's almost like the US knows nothing about the rest of the planet, and sometimes they know just as little about their own country.
I guess this attitude is what the rest of the world dislikes about Americans. The "there are no stupid questions". Yes, there are very stupid questions, and it's a culture of total disrespect towards your fellow humans that you refuse to do your homework, yet you expect others to spend their time and energy in educating you. I wish Americans would stop with the "there is no stupid question" bs. It's a glorification of ignorance and sloth that ultimately always leads backwards. Start doing your homework. Respect others' time. Ask questions once you first used your brain and concluded you don't know.
It's not cool to be ignorant. It's not cool to advertise your ignorance. It's not cool to make it seem okay if someone is lazy to use their resources to find answers. It's not cool to go around asking any random question that pops up in your head without thinking whether you can find the answer yourself. You're not 2 years old or not in middle school or something. Once you're an adult you need to take responsibility, and THINK before speaking.
@@andij605On the other hand, asking questions is an integral part of any learning process.
Being told to speak "American" because they couldn't understand my ENGLISH ACCENT. 🙄
Classic!!
I used to joke with Australians over Twitch, asking them "How is Tomorrow looking like," but this is just ridiculous...
🤣🤣🤣🥲
They always lie though. I asked an Aussie friend, what the weather was going to be like tomorrow, he said it was going to be glorious sunshine all day. So I took the day off to go to the beach, it snowed all day. I'm in Europe BTW.
Well that is sort of true, they are in tomorrow but not in the future if you get me, thinking they know what yesterday looks like is crazy
@@PoppyMeadowsmc I'm an Aussie but doesn't everyone know what yesterday looked like
@@jadecawdellsmith4009 Lol
I found the most stupid questions about my country on Quora and TH-cam:
1. "Are Italians considered white?"
I know that the vast majority is white and we are not as diverse as America, but that doesn't mean that there aren't other colors. It's just stupid to try to categorize an entire country on the color of the skin of its people when we're 60 millions.
2. "Are there Italians with blue eyes?"
I really don't understand where it comes from. We have the same eye colors of the rest of the world lol, no pink eyes yet unfortunately
3. "Do they drive cars in Italy?"
Yes, but they're flying, you know 😃
4. "Is Italy a third world country?"
I don't know what to say about it, those people clearly don't know what's a third world country.
5. "Does it rain in Italy?"
Man we live on Pluto according to them apparently
Let me tell you as a South African.
How did you get here?
Well a lion brought me here lol, we have airports and not ones that they shoot up.
Do you speak African?
That's like asking do you speak American?
Are there white people in Africa?
Well Africa is a continent. And we're not all neighbours.
Me: I'm South African
Americans: oh I love Kenya
Me: bruh it's a different country
Answer to question one 'No, they are more of an azure blue'.
Answer to question three is 'Yes, the locals do, but tourists are too petrified to.'
Answer to question four is 'No, they can afford universal healthcare, paid holidays & a high standard of education. Is your country a third world country?'
Answer to question five, 'Only on Tuesdays'.
Jajajaja you made my day if you live in Pluto I guess Argentina is in Saturn
I was actually remarking today on the American obsession with skin colour and what shade of brown people are. It's especially crazy in Europe. My mother is so dark skinned and dark haired, you'd think her Spanish. I'm so pale, people will want to take me to the emergency room. I literally had that conversation. Americans think everyone is so concerned about shades as they are.
1. Italians weren't considered white in the USA less than 100 years ago. You think about it as a descriptor akin to hair colour. That's not exactly how Americans view race.
I'm Dutch. In 2013 I travelled with a group through the US. When we heard Nelson Mandela was very sick, it was a big conversation point for us. Than our (good educated) American tourguide asked us:
Who is Nelson Mandela?
He was not a Kardashian , that's the problem.
As an Australian, I have come across a few Americans who did not understand how the timeline works. They believed the northern hemisphere has the sun before the southern hemisphere. I thought it was a joke when I first heard this view.
They probably were flat-earthers...
In a way, that's true during summer in northern emisfere. In south the daylight is shorter, so the sun rises later.
I'm Swedish, but I lived for over 10 years in the US, mainly during the 90's. I still remember some of the first questions I got when I went to school there. "So...how did you get here?" "Well, you see, there was this giant bird, I got onto its back, and then it started flapping its wings and flew me over here!". Or..."Do you have cars in Sweden?" "Um...have you heard of SAAB and Volvo?" (Both brands were sold in the US, as I had seen both on the streets.) "Yeah, those are Swedish brands."
I honestly don't know where this belief about the technological backwardness of the *entire* rest of the world came/comes from, but it seems pretty common.
Reminds me of a comment my mother had heard from a russian back in the "good old days" that they (soviets) brought electricity and culture to us. Both entirely wrong, of course.
Because they are brainwashed that they are "the best at everything".Invented "everything".Built "everything" know "everything"( nothing).
So, you’re actually Nils Holgersson?
@@OnkelPeters Hahaha...yeah, but I flew somewhat further than he did!
I'm from Sweden, and in america I was asked how long it would take to drive to Sweden. I just looked at them as a fool. Also I tried to talk about currency with americans in Australia, They really did not understand how an oz dollar was of less value to the us dollar an did just think everything was so expensive. I really tried to explain it but it just didn't sink in.
lol what
@@lucaswallo8127 let me tell you as a South African, they ask how did you get here? Or do you speak African? That's like asking do you speak American? Or they ask do you ride on lions? Lol
@@GameOn71213 if you ask a bunch of US folks if they speak american, you probably get yes as the answer more often than you'd expect.
@@GameOn71213 I guess the words "African" and "Afrikaans" are closer than "English" and "American", so... close enough I guess ? xD
In Europe Americans are forever confused that we don't want them to pay in dollars.
I have a few online American friends. We have so much fun translating for each other, even though we both speak English. They don’t ask stupid questions, but if I use an Australian word that either has a weird meaning or a different meaning to them, I get - “ ok translation time again or please explain” 😂 and we end up laughing. I use Aussie slang I don’t usually use, but just for fun so they have no idea what I’m talking about and we laugh laugh. As a joke they know I’m time wise nearly a day ahead - they ask for the lottery numbers as a joke. Funny wonderful people. Our families have become friends as well over a few years which is lovely I’m even friends with their friends as well, and mine theirs. So cheer up, there’s lots of fun and friendships between other countries too. You probably don’t hear about the good stories as much. Ooroo, hava bonza day 👍
I've a chatroom with some friends that we called "Earth Sandwich" (you can google "earth sandwich meme" to know where we got that name from).
In this chatroom we're 2 indians, 1 nepalese, 1 malaysian, 1 south african, 1 georgian (the country, not the state :P), and 1 french (me ahah :P).
Similar stories here, we're having fun clashing our cultural differences and explaining them to each other. Also, the nepalese guys has some autralian relatives, so he had us guessing the meaning of some autralian slangs as well ahah :P
Yea....like the difference in what a thong is lol.
@@PierreMiniggio, thanks for the "earth sandwich" information.
Never heard of it before! Just googled it!
Greetings from north Germany 🏖️☀️
Well there are a lot of people who believe that the earth is flat.. So time zone for them must be too hard to understand 😅
During my summer camp vacation in '84 I got asked multiple questions about Germany. Some were almost informed, others were pretty ridiculous.
Alright, they were kids, so let's give them some leeway, but still...
One of the more informed ones was if I came from East or West Germany. While that indicated a certain knowledge about the split of Germany (at that time) it also showed that the kids did not know that an East German kid would never be allowed to leave the country alone, especially not to the USA.
The more ridiculous one was if I flew over or if I took the ship to California. From Germany. Now that really baffled me. While it would technically be possible to travel either the reaaaaally long distance around Africa (or through Mediterranean and the Suez Canal), through the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean, even the shorter trip across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, and back up to California would have taken several weeks. Not that passenger ships travel that way, anyway. So I had to enlighten them that, yes, I flew for (at the time) roughly 11 hours plus time zone difference.
The dumbest one was if we had cars in Germany. I had to explain to them that the internal combustion engine car was INVENTED in Germany and that four of the ten largest vehicle manufacturers in the world (at that time) were German. That kid outright denied that was the case. Unfortunately there was no internet nor Google at the time so I couldn't easily show him proof.
The strangest request came from someone who claimed to speak German and asked me to speak some German with him. I asked him the simple question of "Kannst du verstehen, was ich dich frage?" / "Do you understand what I am asking you?" and he answered with total gobbledigook claiming that was German. I told him in German "Nö, das war mit Sicherheit kein Deutsch." / "Nope, that was definitely not German." Whereupon he proudly claimed his German heritage and proclaimed his unbelievable German skills.
I did agree in English, that yes, his 'German' skills were completely 'unbelievable' and left it at that.
Habt ihr überhaupt elek. Strom in den Städten? Ich sehe gar keine Strommasten und -leitungen? XD
Wtf bro
When I was in the US my host Dad asked me if we had escalators in Germany ...
Let me tell you as a South African.
How did you get here?
Well a lion brought me here lol, we have airports and not ones that they shoot up.
Do you speak African?
That's like asking do you speak American?
Are there white people in Africa?
Well Africa is a continent. And we're not all neighbours.
Me: I'm South African
Americans: oh I love Kenya
Me: bruh it's a different country
America crosses four time zones from west to east. The fact that some people think other parts of the world are living in the future because of the abstract (human created) concept of time differences according to the staggered rising and setting of the sun across the globe is just mind-blowing 🤯
You should definitely watch some of those TikTok "What's the dumbest thing an American has ever asked you"-compilations. They're both hilarious and worrying at the same time. 😅
im from Argentina, an American girl asked me if i have shoes. When i said yes, of course i do, she was surprised and asked why i would wear shoes. Supposedly South Americans dont wear shoes and live in huts. I didnt want to upset her telling her i got my university degree in Physics for free, or that i have affordable healthcare, and yes, i wear shoes in university and at the doctors. Probably too much to swallow.
Worse, a Greek friend of mine was asked if she could see the Moon from Greece.
Deutschland is the German name for Germany. Germany is English. Of course every country has its own name in the language people in that country speak. Sweden is the English name for my country, but we Swedes say Sverige. The United States of America in Swedish is Amerikas förenta stater. Spain is English for España, Swedes say Spanien. Great Britain in Swedish is Storbritannien. And so on.
So of course a German says Deutschland. Because they speak, you know, Deutsch there. Just as you say the US, USA or the United States of America.
Woah
I didn’t know that!
@@foreignreacts That’s the fun part about Europe 😉, so many different languages. Finland, for example, the Finns say Suomi. Norway is Norge.
Thank God for English 😂😅! We have to have a common language.
I recently had this idea, that we all should just adopt the real name of every Country in our own language. But then I realized, every language has it's own phonetics, and it's really hard to learn new phonetics that we weren't exposed to at an early age... Maybe things are fine as they are.
@@foreignreacts That would explain why you want to compare the US with Europe, it wouldn't work because so many Americans don't realise this.
@@foreignreacts may I ask how you thought it was?
In America: lady asked, slowly..
" Your English is very good, where are you from?"
England.
"Oh and what language do you speak in your country?"
And I don't think I have an accent??
i see many Americans blaming their school system... but I think no school system in the world actually produces a 100% perfectly educated and informed population ... No, I blame their media companies.
I blame the inherent unwillingness to read and question and investigate themselves.
Or the comment that the Netherlands is the capital of Amsterdam. Or when I mentioned that the rising sea levels are a danger to the Netherlands because our country is below sea level for 1/3,someone said "oh shut up, Florida won't be bothered in a 1000 years." which is awesome for Florida, but it's still a problem for the Netherlands....
An American really couldn't care less about anywhere else in the world!
When I was studying in Ireland, an American guy asked me if I was a real Spaniard, because he thought I was too white to be one. I didn't know how to answer. I'm an average Spaniard woman. I don't know what he thought Spaniards looked like.
Maybe he’s linking Spaniards to Mexicans
@@foreignreacts Maybe, but then I was shocked. Now, when I think about it it's funny.
I've heard of that before. I think they link Spanish to Mexico and South America. I seen someone in the US complain that white people shouldn't be allowed to speak Spanish lol
@@dd7aa Yes, after that I met a few through Internet that believes that Mexico and Spain was the same country. Well, I can say that there are Americans who know what and where is Spain.
@@foreignreacts There are Mexican people who have light skin tones. Even if they are confusing the two countries, it's annoying they find the fact there can be white people south of the border so unbelievable that they have to accuse someone of lying.
I'm from South America (Venezuela) and I have fair skin, and there're many of us. Not just because a little thing called immigration (there are latinos of Asian descent too, for example), but because Spaniards came during the colonial time and their descendants never left, just like the British in the US. The fact that the majority is of mixed race doesn't mean we all look the same. Haven't people met children of mixed couples, with one sibling way darker/lighter than the other?
Being surprised that a person here looks white and commenting on it is like being surprised that a black person is English. Or that an Asian is American.
This wasn’t a question but I overheard somebody in a bar. I was in Los Angeles in a bar and for some reason they had the Eurovision song contest on. And they were going through the countries one by one and then they said now preforming from the Netherlands. And this American guy said the Netherlands isn’t that where Peter Pan is from. I was like OMG
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I mean it did happen in a bar, so it's kinda understandable
An american:
I visited Matera, beautiful, but why people dont speak english ?
I:
For the same reason that at Omaha people dont speak italian.
"In europe we all drive on the right side of the road except the British"
Cries in Irish
Woah 😮
Don't forget Malta!
The dumb question i have from some Americans, you are not from Africa because you white ??? And Morocco is in north Africa !!! Do you know that country 😅 Do you knows is in Africa, you have white peoples, lights peoples, blacks peoples !!!! And then, they don't accept the Fact!!! Morocco is in north Africa !!!! And Africa is a continent,not a country !!!! 🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇧🇪
In Copenhagen, Denmark, I once overheard an American female tourist say "She's so small" when she visited the statue of The Little Mermaid.
Yo, Lady, why do you think she's called "The LITTLE Mermaid"?
To every foreigner out there who has been asked a stupid question by an American. Welcome to the club. I lived and worked on an Indian reservation that encouraged tourism. Many of my family are members of the tribe. I look like my father’s family with light skin and blue eyes. I don’t know how many times I’ve been asked 1) Do I know any Indians. 2) where do the Indians live 3) do the Indians speak English 4) where are the tepees. I can understand some of these questions coming from a foreigner but not from a citizen.
Chances of getting any of those questions from a foreigner are pretty small.
The worst question is always "Do you know X in Y". I live in South Africa, Africa is a massive continent. No, I do not know John in Nigeria.
Back in 2013, me and my family were travelling from Ireland to California for our summer holidays (summer vacation). When we were going through US Customs and Border Protection in San Francisco Airport the customs officer (or TSA agent) that was interviewing us asked us a lot of weird questions too (as they do). 🙄 He asked why my little brother had red hair but the rest of us didn’t. 😂😂
You mean your laethanta saoire an tsamhraidh
Did your parents use the old "well, the Milkman has red hair" joke?
@@Thurgosh_OG no
As far as Americans and geography, I'll never forget the story someone from New Mexico told - they had visited Canada, and on re-entering the US, he got in trouble with the American border people who insisted he must be Mexican, not American. The very people whose job it is to watch the border didn't know where the border was.
Americans on the internet that seem to assume everyone else who writes in English must also be from the US is probably my fav. Like it doesn't even seem to cross their mind at all that who they're writing to (in a place as giant as the internet) might not be from the same country as them. Them writing in English tells you pretty much absolutely Nothing about where someone might be from
I'm a Scandinavian living in Sweden but have been assumed as American several times and been very incorrectly told off about something based on that assumption
And some of the worst english language can offer you comes from the american mouths. These people dont get their own language. When you understand just a single language but you still dont get "there" and "their" are not the same words.
Happened to me ceveral times. Mostly in political discussions bc I like Bernie Sanders a lot.
@@unwokeneuropean3590 And then there is their confusion about "your" and "you're".
@@SurfinScientist As just a regular slavic dude I can tell you that personally i do understand that "your" means belonging to somebody and "you're" means "you are". If any american can't understand it I think they are idiots.
@@unwokeneuropean3590 unfortunately alot of my fellow Brits don't get that in writing either and the amount of times you see loose used instead of lose.
About timezone. I had an American customer at one time. (I very specialized in programming languages and software) And he had NO concept of time zones. He called me in the middle of the night and was confused about my cranky and groggy behavior. He was quite annoyed about my early calls (between 7 and 8 o'clock for him). He had to say a lot about my unnatural working schedule.
On a video call i had to show him the window to make him realize that is was in the middle of the night for me. And it took him a few more calls to notice the time difference didn't change.
What? How do they not understand that... they have 4 major timezones within their own borders.
Just look north of the border. The amount of Americans who think we live in igloos is amazing! I have been asked online "You have INTERNET in Canada?" Wait, which part of "WWW" or "WORLD WIDE WEB" did you miss? It isn't USAWeb. Before the internet, I was working in a cafe and had some Americans walk in and telling me they had come to Canada to "do the ice fishing and snow mobiling thing". It was July. It was 103F/39C that day. Beautiful green grass. Lovely green leaves. No snow in sight. People wearing shorts and tank tops, swimming in the lakes, fishing by boat. Yeah. They had packed all their brand new winter clothing and had to purchase a bunch of shorts and tank tops. They believed that crossing that border = complete change in weather. They were amazed that we had houses and electricity and drove cars! They were actually expecting us to be going around by dog sled! Oh well. At least they tipped well.
Actually this is one of the most annoying things about Americans (some of them): The believe that outside the US people still live in stone age.
Main problem is Americans think the USA is the best country on earth and can't be bothered to find out about anywhere else. The rest of the world knows America is not the best country on earth and enjoys the diversity that can be found elsewhere.
Americans believe that they are in the American Dream!! Other countries try telling them it's a nightmare.
I have been asked so often by friends from the US what I am doing to celebrate July 4th.
I am English.
I reply as often with "Burning an effigy of George Washington" (I know he was English too but they do not)
It’s great when you get use if the time differences. My wife here in Sweden got an acute x-ray rather late in the night. They send it to a clinic in Australia who are 10 hours ahead where specialists could give a diagnosis promptly.
In 8th grade I moved from Canada to the USA (Montana) halfway through the school year. Only about 75 miles south of the Canadian border. Teacher introduced me as being from Canada. One of the students in my new class asked (completely serious) "Is that near Spain?" Of course lots of kids also wanted to know what it's like to live in an igloo. 🙄
As a 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸Spaniard, I got asked how long it took to travel between the two countries… by car. I didn’t even know what to say, so in my answer I stressed by Plane. A Canadian buddy was asked how they could afford to wear shoes… Hello, it’s Canada, your neighbour to the north, not a country that far away or different from you…
I like your videos as I really see that you are willing to put your effort into understand the differences. All of us are ignorant at the times but that can be changed! :) greetings from Latvia!
I had a random conversation with an American once, i mentioned i was from Denmark.. he then asked me what state that was in, i explained that its a country and ohh my, he then asked if i then spoke Dutch.. he got confused when i laughed and said, No the Dutch people speak Dutch, Danes speak Danish. I had to defend that there actually is a language Called danish.. we dont eat danish we speak it.. and have since Long before anything was Called USA 😅
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As a Dutchmen who talks to people from the US a few times a week. The confusion of Danish or Dutch is truly mind boggling to me. Like i know most have never seen a map of the EU but my god this is truly an achievement to get close to a nation which gets confused by this.
@@Laughing_God i am glad to hear that it also happens to Dutch people and not only Danes 😅 i could Better understand the confusion if the Netherlands and Denmark were direct neighbours, if the language and country names were similar and if the languages sounded alike, but none of Those criteria are fullfilled..
Much love from a Dane to the Dutch people 🙃
Come on guys, your beautiful countries are not apart so far from each other. Dutch or Danish. Soo similar, hehe 😁 Says the dude from that country which borders both of yours 😛
LOL, such a classic! I'm Dutch and they either think we speak German or that Kopenhagen is our capital 😂
On holiday in Cambodia my wife and I heard the dumbest American question ever. We overheard an American woman talking with her guide at Ankor Wat. She asked him," What's that building over there?" He replied, "The library." So she says," Oh really, what did they keep in there?" I don't know how the guide kept a straight face long enough to tell her, "Books", cos he was facing us just crying with laughter!
The dumbest question I was asked by an American was when I invited an American girlfriend from boarding school (in the UK) to spend the summer holidays with my family in Germany and then on to Italy (I'm half British and half German). She got very worried about what she should put in her suitcase and actually asked me if there was toothpaste available in Germany. I was pleased about her dental hygiene, but I nearly lost it, laughing so much. We did not get off to a good start !!!!
Woah 😮
That’s
That’s just amazing right there!
No, no, no, we still run around with yellow teeth caked in plaque all the time until our teeth drop out at age 20.
Oh, and this new concept, soap, yeah, some people are still fighting it tooth and nail. No washing off the protective dirt now and then.
😂😂
@@RustyDust101 Or at least they fight it tooth and nail until their teeth fall out at the age of 20.
@@peterc.1618 That would be "Fighting it gum and nail." ; )
She's fun and lighthearted about this and we shld be too. I've heard(& probably asked) some pretty daft questions in my time. Loved u reacted to this. Nice to hear about other cultures too. Peace. 😁💕
To be fair, the many names of Germany can be a bit confusing.
Germany has many different names because every neighbouring nation has taken it's name for the country from the tribe closest to them selfs. In the latin languages, it's versions of Alemagne/Allemania after the Alamanni tribe that the late Romans and Franks/Merovingians interacted with a lot. In Baltic languages and Finnish, it's "Saksamaa" or "Saksi" after the north german Saxons that the northern Europeans would have encountered the most, in the scandinavian languages and Germany it's (some variation of) "Tyskland", derived from the Old High German word "Diutisk". English uses the old roman name for the whole area, Germania.
Often these things aren't a fair representation of a country but, sadly, that's not the case here. The US is an inward looking country with a terrible public education system. It's a bad combination. Americans say things that just leave me (I'm Canadian) speechless and exasperated. Why do I speak English? Do you have electricity? Why are we communist? Do you know my cousin Kathy in Vancouver? You have farms in Canada? Isn't it too cold to grow anything? Why are you imitating an American accent when you talk to me?
Yeah, Canadians speaking English is so weird. You should get your own language - you can call it Canadian. Must be weird taking a language from another country.
Good thing they don't do that in the US, right? ;)
@@Yotanido and yet.. english, American, Australian.. 20% of the base language have its roots in old Norse/scandinavian 😅
I sell some hobby stuff online and I've sold to Americans before. One of them freaked out and tried to call me a scammer when I sent them a paypal invoice for 800yen when the item was like US$8. I had to explain to them it's still $8 for them it just looks different because of my currency and our smallest bill value....
to germany having many names - that goes way back. see germany was a country of many tribes - germanic tribes, all with more or less the same language and similiar culture but different tribes with different traditions, habits and politics.
And tribes were rather local - so french people would encounter, mostly, a tribe callled....the allemannes. So naturally theyd call the country allemagnia after that tribe. Meanwhile ancient rome called the place "germania" - and romance speaking countries, fort he most part, went with "germania" in localised variants, like germany. meanwhile some countries named it after the saxons cause thats the tribe they dealt with
Germans meanwhile, called their country "the land of our people" or, in old germanic - "tiuskland" and as language evolved it become "teutschland" and finally "Deutschland" - the scandinavian countries, also speaking germanic languages, actually adopted that name and call it "Tuskaland" accordingly.
Thinking about how many times Americans have insisted that here in the UK we have zero freedoms, and definitely no Freedom of Speech. That we can't criticise the royals or the govt. as we'd be arrested. 😂 I've even had people say that we'd be taken to The Tower for saying anything unflattering about the royals! Mate, anyone can go in there. If they have the £30 entrance fee. (Worth it if you're interested in history or have never seen ravens close up) We have all sorts of names for the royals - from our customary 'affectionate' insults to outright vile. As for the govt. we have songs like 'Boris Is A C*nt'.
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Yes, there is people that's not aware of the timezones.
Between smart devices that convert automatically and the idea of everyone being in the same country and therefore all the "same" the time zones ends up not being something that people actually is made aware of often...
And even when dealing with it and being aware of it (I had a long distance American gf) it's something that's easy to forget.
Europeans have the advantage of knowing that when we enter a new country there's probably going to be things (like time zones) that's different, and indeed correcting our (non-digital) watches (or just doing the math in our head) is a part of our routine when entering a new country, something we do regularly since our countries are smaller and borders here are open.
People in the states that's not aware of time zones however can get away with it.
Many have never left their home state much, and when they did their modern automatic time corrections masked most things while they where going just one state over or whatever, so the issues just didn't become noticable.
Ignorance is bliss they say...
One thing though, it's a bit sad seeing reactions to essentially Americans making fools of themselves out there (it happens but still).
What about a reaction to a video about something Americans are good at for a change?
Because you are good at a number of things.
And better than us at some.
Thank you for this reaction. I worked in Disney World in Florida in the Norwegian pavillion and I was asked if I went baxk and forth between Florida and Norway every day by an American. I told him how many hours i had to go by plane back and forth (16-17 hours from New York-Oslo-New York and you have to add on the flight from New York to Orlando as well) and he did not see the problem of doing that. I was also asked if we have polar bears running around in the streets of Norway, if we went skiing back and forth from work/school every day. Love from a new subscriber from Norway ❤
Those are quite interesting and unrealistic questions Norway just sounds like a pleasant place to me
So without knowing it I’d be asking dumb questions like how rich are you
How powerful is your country.
Also thanks for joking the family
Also as a Swede I'm fed up with people confusing Sweden and Switxerland, but not only amercans have confused this to my face, also a lot of asians. But it's very very annoying.
Read a story on reddit where an American couple asked where the Alps are in Sweden 😭😭😭😭😭
@@mewtje3095 Just turn right after you passed the pyrenees and turn left if you see the sign Madeira.
Maybe they are Dyslexic like my son who is 26.
He always confuses Sweden an Switzerland but gets very annoyed with himself when he realises what he did.
@@helenjarvis7755 I dont believe that the amount of those who mix them can all be dyslexic...some are just plain dumb and ignorant
@@helenjarvis7755 Not all dyslexics have that issue though. I'm dyslexic as well and I don't do that ahah :P
A friend of mine came back to Spain from the US (around 14 years old), and he told me he convinced his classmates that that Spain was somewhere south of Mexico.
And during a conversation after 9-11, with a 23 year old Californian, she was convinced that they "muricans" had the right to go into ANY country and grab anyone that was against the US, by force, even in Europe.
I think some recent presidents have been of the same opinion.
The scary thing is they actually did that. People were kidnapped from different countries and dragged to Guantanamo!
Met an American at a festival in Germany. He thought that every product in the world had a different company so i told him no thats not true and said that coca cola sprite and fanta is from the same company his world came crumbling down and he was confused lol
"why do u call ur country by the name it has in ur countrys own languague" has to be the most american thing i have EVER heard
Because it would sound strange if i talked about my country's name using french, english , hungarian, turkish or any other name but by own :-D
American guy in an online game: Do you have a moon too in Europe?
me: .... What do you mean?...
American: I mean... Can you see a moon in the night sky like we do here in USA?
me:......... Oh.... yes...... I mean.... We see The moon here................ We call it "White pizza"! (i'm from Italy)
America: Ohhh! Interesting!
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OH MY GOD :D
It's the "Pizza in the Sky", worshipped by Italians everywhere..😂
Pizza? I thought it was cheese!
Regarding the time zone question: I wonder if something bad were to happen at the west coast of the US, if the same people would blame everyone on the east coast for not warning them three hours earlier.
Oh boy! Bring out the popcorn and enjoy the show!😂
Yeah, like D.C. didn't warn Pearl Harbour in 41 although they knew it would happen.
"If there are people seven hours ahead, why didn't they warn us about 9/11?"
I can top this. A former coworker of mine moved to Japan. Between Japan and Germany there are nine hours and Japan is ahead. So her sister once asked me "Hey, I want to call my sister. Do I have to let the phone ring for nine hours?" When I asked her why she should do that she answered, that she wanted to call her sister at 6:00 pm and she thought for real that she had to start the call nine hours earlier in her own time zone and then let it (again in her own time zone) ring until it was 6:00 pm. So if she hadn't ask she would have started a call at 9:00 am CET and let it ring until 6:00 pm CET (or until her sister would have picked up the phone)... Time zones can be confusing. :,D
I remember a topic posted two years ago about New Year (2019-2020) and why everyone wasn't celebrating it at the same time.
The thing with time zones is sure, America falls under multiple different time zones but sometimes people have a hard time looking beyond their own bubble they live in. I've heard stories of Americans not knowing what country or state they live in etc, like some people just live their life not conserned with such things. That 9/11 stuff, I remember actually reading stuff like that myself, people wondering why nobody warned them about it. Another great one is people thinking the age of the planet we live on is the number of year it currently is. There are just certain people who lack the ability to look further than in front of them especially when it comes to anything that has to do with numbers. It's almost like this child-like ignorance but not cute anymore when you're in your 30s.
I can confirm the time zone thing. A favourite musician of mine, always drops at Fridays 9am PST (videos, albums, new merch, whatever) and there are always some Americans complaining, that everything will be sold out by the time they could by it in their time zone (eg 11am CT). There's only one time zone in my country and even I get the concept of time zones😂
Malta, a small country/Island in the Mediteranian sea are also driving on the left side
Very rarely do I comment on a video; but I honestly love the FOREIGN REACTS series.
The only thing that *really* grinds my gears is when I hear "you axed me" or "I axe you a question".
It's not even a pet peeve, it's a major peeve. It's just the wrong verb. 'To axe' is one thing, 'to ask' is another, and they both exist.
Am I the only OCD guy like that? I feel the same irritation when people say Febuary instead of February, or Nucular instead of Nuclear
Perhaps it's the fact that my mother tongue is phonetically consistent... I don't know...
All love man
I try my best with the pronunciations
I also do have a slight speech impediment
Where is hard to pronounce certain words
So that’s my bad
Thanks for commenting✅
@@foreignreacts It's not you - it's as common as rain. I feel like it started growing a few years back and it never stopped.
Like, I can't remember the last time I watched an action film mentioning "nuclear weapons" where people actually pronounced it "nuclear", you know what I mean? :P
At some point the way the words themselves are written is going to change (as it has happened with other words before).
I wonder if it'll still get to me then.
I still hate how our word for egg changed from "αυγό" to "αβγό" and I still use the former 😂
Keep up the good work, lad. Really love the Foreign Reacts videos. Cheers!
Dude, I was wondering the same! I keep hearing "aks (axe)" instead of "ask". But from what I noticed I hear it always from black americans. I'm really curious where does this come from and why?
English is not my native lamguage and I keep detecting it because it throws me off every single time. Lol
@@foreignreacts yeah it's not just you or a speech impediment of any sort, it seems to be a widespread thing that's only recently started. I never heard it as a kid as it makes zero sense and is a different word.
@@GiannisMamalikidis Hate the way Americans say " I want to come to Europe" No its "I want to GO to Europe"
I am Canadian and spent many years living close to the American-Canadian border between British Columbia (a Canadian province)and Washington State. I remember once being in Washington (American) and filling up with gas and having a couple of elderly women look at my license plate and ask me which "state" British Columbia was in. I can forgive them not knowing that Canadians call their regions provinces and not States but what I struggled to understand was how these 2 women who had inhabited America for at least 65 years, could know nothing about their neighbour. I was literally in Blaine Washington which is right at the border to British Columbia and yet they still did not know where that was.
I’m from the West Indies. When I arrived here in the U.S I worked with some college students who had no idea where the West Indies was. I was told, “your English is great!” I was asked, “Are you from Montego Bay?” (Montego Bay is in Jamaica. I’m not Jamaica.) They scorned when I told them I ate goat meat while they delight in lamb/sheep meat. I’m like what?!
In regards to time, some Americans don’t even realize that places east have a later time than places west.
Im from Scotland and that amount of times I have been asked about if I live in a castle or not is insane, yes they exist but they are all worth millions... so no lmao...
I have also been asked if I have internet... while... on the internet.... another one is, do you know the Queen? - or do I know ___ .. like, the country has more than 10 people in it.
I have had the time zone thing asked as well before... as well as if I like tea and crumpets? - well, crumpets is more traditional and English while tea is well... decent...
It doesnt compare to the most annoying thing that I get ALL THE TIME and its not a question its this;
"My cousins, uncles, goldfish is Scottish so like we are the same"..... without trying to be mean, your country was founded by Europeans... but you cant just choose to be Scottish because you spoke to one of us
I'm an Aussie, I spent two years in the US as an exchange student, (15 to 16 years old) and I was asked or told the dumbest shit ALL the time, honestly dumbfounded. You got the standard, do you ride Kangaroos to school? do you know Steve Irwin? does the toilet flush backwards there?
But then there were the real head scratchers like do you have Newspapers? (that question followed the sadly regular wow your English is really good!) to the face palms like have you ever been bitten by a shark? and, do you live in mud huts? Sadly, I'm not kidding.
Going through all the comments here - what did you answer them? "We don't need newspapers we come from the future?"
I was asked by an American couple in London once….. “we thought London was bombed flat,how come all these old buildings are still here?”
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Nononono, the last one is just funny stories among countries. It reminds me about how Swedes and Norwegians tease each other. In Noway it is always the Swede that is the dumb one in Swedish stories it is the Norwegians. The Australians always make fun of the Kiwis and vs. Europeans makes fun of Americans etc... It is like teasing among siblings...
A bank clerk in Chicago asked me if we have automatic teller machines (atm) in Germany. This was in the 90s. 😄
Hahaha, time travelling!
I was in Boston on practical experience (2003), I am Spanish and I was asked a few times if I was "white" European? I thought it was strange mainly because they could see what color I was. And is true that when you say I am from Spain, like the girl from Germany was asked, they do say "so do you speak Spanish?. The Republic of Ireland drives on the left too, not only Brithish.
Back in the mid 80s I flew from London to Charlotte, NC to visit the American branch of my mum's family. My aunt and uncle were supposed to meet me at the airport, but when I arrived they were nowhere to be seen. So I went to the airport information desk to ask them to put out an announcement for them. I got talking to the young lady at the desk, and she asked me where I was from. I told her I was from London, and had just arrived on the direct Piedmont flight from London Gatwick. Imagine my surprise and confusion when she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Do y'all speak French there?"!!
Which side of the road do people drive on? Their is a TH-cam Channel called Lindybeige who has a video called 'drive on the left, you' this gives a englishman's understanding of the situation.
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I've heard of before the question about the fridge or the washing machine :D
About the driving on the "wrong side:" In the Czech Rep. (back than Czechoslovakia) we drove on the left side untill the nazzi ocupation in 1939. So today we drive on the "right side" and we blame Germans for it! (just a joke)
Also you can try some video made form channel Dream Prague. It's made by native Californian who lives in CZ.
I worked night security for a film company in Luxembourg. Every night I would have Americans wanting to know why there was no one in the office, this would be because it was two o'clock in the morning.
The dumbest question I ever heard an American ask was by a Texan. Imagine the scene. A train in Germany, with me, and Australian and this Texan, in a compartment that seats 6 people. We were all introducing ourselves, like " Hi, I'm Martin from England," "Howdy, I'm Brad from Texas", "Hi, I'm Pete from Australia"...to which the Texan said "Why dawg'awn y'all, ain't that where all them goddamn jumpin' critters come from?"
I was playing free on-line poker a few years ago and an American asked me in the table chat where I was from. I replied Australia. She then started asking me some questions like, what language do we speak, what money do we use and if we had airline/s and what planes we flew. On the last question I replied that yes we have airlines, the national carrier being QANTAS and they flew both Boeing and Airbus passenger jets. She had never heard of Qantas (she typed the name). She then said her sons were out of work flight engineers and wanted to know if there were any jobs going with QANTAS (she typed the name again). I replied that I don't know but she could go on their web site and look. She then asked me what I still think is the dumbest question from her. How do I spell QANTAS. Yes, she typed the name and asked me how to spell it.
Well obviously she wanted to make sure she hadn't been misspelling it upto that point.
0:35 Actually, there are six time zones in the US: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, Alaskan, and Hawaiian. If you include US territories (e.g. Guam, Samoa), the number increases.
My weirdest conversation with an American was: You're Austrian? So you speak Austrian? - No, we speak German. - Are you sure? That makes no sense, the country is called Austria, not Germany? - We speak German, that's my first language. - But are you sure though???
"Good for you" hahaha 😆
I'm from the UK and first went to the states in 1978 and got the 'Do you have refrigerators' question then. I was also asked if the UK was in Germany - they obviously thought that 1939-45 was a civil war.
Sometimes you just have to shake your head in disbelief and then pretend your from Canada and DO have more than 3 brain cell's to rub together.
A few years ago while travelling on an open top tourist bus in Windsor..... I overheard a group of American tourist discussing why would the Queen build a castle right in the middle of flight path of the planes heading for Heathrow Airport...
Well, the answer is obvious, isn't it? The Queen's favorite hobby is plane watching, so the castle was built there to make things more convenient for her. ;-)
@@clefsan
"Oh I didnt know that" as the muricans would say... 🤣🤭