AMAA - European Explains Europe to Americans - Reaction by Average Middle Aged American
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- In this video, I react to and discuss the video: " explaining europe to americans" My commentary is my based on my opinion as an Average Middle Aged American that had not yet been to Europe.
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"Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Asia and Africa. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the waterway of the Bosporus Strait.
Europe covers about 10.18 million km2 (3.93 million sq mi), or 2% of Earth's surface (6.8% of land area), making it the second-smallest continent (using the seven-continent model). Politically, Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states, of which Russia is the largest and most populous, spanning 39% of the continent and comprising 15% of its population.
Europe had a total population of about 745 million (about 10% of the world population) in 2021; the third-largest after Asia and Africa. The European climate is affected by warm Atlantic currents, such as the Gulf Stream, which produce a temperate climate, tempering winters and summers, on much of the continent. Further from the sea, seasonal differences are more noticeable producing more continental climates.
European culture consists of a range of national and regional cultures, which form the central roots of the wider Western civilisation, and together commonly reference ancient Greece and ancient Rome, particularly through their Christian successors, as crucial and shared roots. Beginning with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, Christian consolidation of Europe in the wake of the Migration Period marked the European post-classical Middle Ages. The Italian Renaissance spread in the continent a new humanist interest in art and science which led to the modern era. Since the Age of Discovery, led by Spain and Portugal, Europe played a predominant role in global affairs with multiple explorations and conquests around the world. Between the 16th and 20th centuries, European powers colonised at various times the Americas, almost all of Africa and Oceania, and the majority of Asia.
The Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars shaped the continent culturally, politically, and economically from the end of the 17th century until the first half of the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution, which began in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century, gave rise to radical economic, cultural, and social change in Western Europe and eventually the wider world. Both world wars began and were fought to a great extent in Europe, contributing to a decline in Western European dominance in world affairs by the mid-20th century as the Soviet Union and the United States took prominence and competed over dominance in Europe and globally. The resulting Cold War divided Europe along the Iron Curtain, with NATO in the West and the Warsaw Pact in the East." - wikipedia
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What happens in Spain (as in Italy and several parts of France) is that the most important meal of the day is lunch, not breakfast or dinner. Therefore it's the meal that lasts the longest, and the traditional practice (not in all cases, but in many) was for many shops/offices to close at midday (the least busy time of the day as most people are eating, not shopping, etc.) and go home for lunch. That's why they gave the workers about two hours (maximum three) to do this and have time to go home, eat and go back to work. Many foreigners misinterpreted this as us doing it for the siesta (due to all the bad and stupid stereotypes that exist about us, especially from the Anglo-Saxon world) and people think that businesses close at midday for the siesta (which is stupid), but in reality they close because it's lunchtime. In Italy the same thing happens, but nobody accuses them of closing for the siesta, it's just Spain that gets the bad reputation as usual.
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2:56 potato/tomato divide it’s similar to the butter/olive oil divide (and she did not make it up). In southern europe tomato (and olive oil) is used more than potatoes (and butter), in northern europe it’s the opposite.
11:09 i think she meant that Europe is smaller than northern america. Keep in mind, not all of Russia is in Europe, the big chunk of it, beyons the Ural Mountains, it’s in Asia!
13:11 what’s she saying it’s that, like the US, each european country has many differences in it’s many regions. Often even linguistical. Here in Italy Sicily and Lombardy are two radically different places, in culture, language, cuisine and “mood”. In Barcelona they speak a different language than Madrid, and in San Sebastian they speak a language that it’s not even romance. In a tini country like Swtzerland they speak 3 different official languages. Europe it’s wildly diverse.
23:11 fancy! But, oh boy, farenheit are SO confusing!
25:36 no school in europe teaches creationism. Just saying 🤷🏻♂️
27:55 what’s she’s saying is that “italian” is not a “genetic” factor, but a cultural one. And italian-american is very much *not* italian!
But she’s wrong on the passport part. By italian law it’s EXTREMELY easy to get italian citizenship if you have an italian surname (we call it ius sanguinis).
32:38 your meat is full of hormones, and that’s the reason most american meat cannot be exported to europe. RFK jr is kind of all over the place, i really don’t know what to expect. And with Elon and Ramaswamy in the mix i would expect wild deregulations, and not mote regulations, if i had to make a guess. But oh boy, as someone who doesn’t have a horse in the race, it won’t be boring.
9:15 yes we can, every single one, including their capital, that is something we have to learn by age 9 or 10... it is primary school education (at least here in Belgium).
I will be the first to admit that USA schools focus on USA.
They made us learn all the countries in Europe (and their capitals) at school. Then all the countries and capitals in the world except for Polynesia for some reason. I think I was like 10.. I still remember a bunch of them.
Naps ("Iberian yoga" as a famous writer stated) in the middle of the day are a luxury retired folks might practice (or not), depending on how early you wake up or late you go to sleep (but it is not done in the middle of working hours by a regular employee). It is practiced by some on weekends, more in rural areas and more often in summer. So, napping culture is half-true, being generous. Some small stores close from 15:00 to 17:00 (check always as each store ha different timings) because then they work to 20:00 or later; they cannot afford shifts but need to have convenient business hours for the general public, who finish work earlier and go shopping after it. Our delayed lunch and dinner times have little to do with naps, by the way.
Do you have any businesses that are open 24/7?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American No, besides hotels (obvious), we don't have open 24/7 businesses.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American What happens in Spain (as in Italy and several parts of France) is that the most important meal of the day is lunch, not breakfast or dinner. Therefore it's the meal that lasts the longest, and the traditional practice (not in all cases, but in many) was for many shops/offices to close at midday (the least busy time of the day as most people are eating, not shopping, etc.) and go home for lunch. That's why they gave the workers about two hours (maximum three) to do this and have time to go home, eat and go back to work. Many foreigners misinterpreted this as us doing it for the siesta (due to all the bad and stupid stereotypes that exist about us, especially from the Anglo-Saxon world) and people think that businesses close at midday for the siesta (which is stupid), but in reality they close because it's lunchtime. In Italy the same thing happens, but nobody accuses them of closing for the siesta, it's just Spain that gets the bad reputation as usual.
@@jabato9779 Are you saying that gas stations are not open 24/7 in Spain? And you don't have 24/7 supermarkets? Because I definitely went to such business at 4 in the morning.
Americans regularly far underestimate the cultural diversity in Europe. Yes, America has cultural diversity and the lives of some software engineer in silicon valley is going to very different from a coal miner in the mid west or rocket engineer in Texas. But there are some things that are so universal and homogenous in almost all of the U.S. that tie America culturally very close together. I remember saying the pledge of allegiance every day in elementary school, and this is something that almost all Americans know. You have the same Fox News and MSNBC across all of the united states, the same Government and over the top electoral cycles, same obsession with putting the flag on everything and owning Ford F-150s or some other pickups.. With some exceptions, most all Americans speak the same englisch dialect with not all too huge variations with some exceptions (like how black Gangstas speak or Pennsylvania Dutch etc.). The U.S. Is one culture with local variation, not many cultures. Even notable (from American perspective) odd communities like the Mormons in Utah fit in the standard U.S. cultural framework. Europe is not like this. I remember having to translate between two Germans speaking their own different local dialects from the same German state of Bavaria. How language changes here over short distances is astonishing, and it is common that languages here have some form of high dialect so that all people can understand each other. 80 years ago more than half of Italians didn't even speak Italian, and an Italian from middle Italy would not be able to speak to a Sicilian for example. And many cultural categories all together don't translate from place to place. England is a class society for example, and for them dialect is very distinguishing category between classes. But class in England is not just about money and occupation and heritage but a vary complicated construct. None of these cultural categories even make the slightest sense to the closest continental neighbors the French, or most other Europeans. In upper Bavaria in southern Germany rich and poor alike speak the same version of upper Bavarian dialect. Here class distinction is purely a matter of income and wealth. An American cultural category such as the White collar/Blue collar distinction may make sense to some Europeans in some regions, but it would vary by region. This cultural category is universal in the U.S. and almost all of U.S. think at least partially in these terms. Ironically enough, most Europeans would know many American cultural categories because of American media and the homogeneity of American culture, and would probably understand American culture better then the culture of their own neighboring nations! As she stated in the video, it makes more sense to think of most Europeans countries as cultural sphere like the U.S. instead of all of Europe like that. Trust me Bro, I grew up in the U.S., and Europe is something totally different. There is a reason why you can drive for 5 hours in a straight line and the main language of communication changes 4 times in Europe. It's because in those 5 hours you pass through culturally very distinct places. Almost all of the people in those regions will at least heard of Walmart, but not know what local Supermarket chain is in the other 3 regions unless they have been there.
Oh, and I think you missed the point in the video about the 57% percent Italian genes thing. In American culture being Italian for instance is more of a race based thing, and in most of Europe nationality is more of a cultural thing. How Americans view nationality seems very racist from a vaguely western European point of view. This is somewhat Ironic, because being American isn't a race thing, which you seem to understand very well due to the whole melting pot thing. It's just very weird when Americans, who are arrogant about how great the U.S. is, often in the same time suddenly claim that are Irish, because being Irish is somehow cool, and don't have the slightest idea of Irish culture, and that they have their own language for instance. They should call themselves Irish-American or something, the real Irish would like to keep the name Irish for themselves. No person outside of the U.S. would call an Irish-American wannabe Irish, because we already have the Irish. They are Americans.
@@bastiankraft3108 - Very insightful. I agree with much of what you said. Thanks for commenting and checking out my videos..
@bastiankraft3108 - we have plenty of ignorance here for sure. Technically, Kamala is Jamican-Indian-American not African-American and Elon Musk is African-American.
The language barrier means that information does not travel in the same way .AMAA says that New hampshire is totally different to texas and us Europeans can say something similar but we would be much vaguer and light in our knowledge.I am irish and through youtube i know that quad hockey is the third most popular sport in portugal but other than that i wouldn't have a clue and vice versa doubt if portuguese know what gaelic football and hurling is.I wouldn't have a clue what the most popular music is in denmark,Czechia, and hungary.Food would be better well known but really thats just France ,Italy and to lesser extent spain and thats it.
In Poland for political geography you need to know all countries, point them on the map and their capitals. I had an exam from that twice - once in middle-highschool and later again in highschool - you were given a small wordmap with borders and random ~50 countries that you have to mark on the map and write their capitals next to the name (bonus points if could give multiple capitals or old names in case some recently changed, eg. Birma-Myanmar or Lagos&Abuja for Nigeria). During lessons if you didn't know Europe + biggest countries you would be ridiculed in front of the class, countries from less "important" regions wasn't as essential.
Lo de la siesta en España es un tópico. Muchos comercios cierran a mediodía pero no es porque van a hacer la siesta, es un tema cultural, las familias se reúnen a comer a mediodía y los niños suelen comer en casa, más que en el colegio. Después de comer los niños vuelven al colegio y los adultos al trabajo. Actualmente las costumbres van cambiando y muchos trabajan solo por la mañana y más niños comen en el colegio, y también más comercios permanecen abiertos al mediodía (aquí llamamos mediodía de las 13 a 15 horas)
Of course, you can also get rich as a craftsman in other countries if you set up your own business. The US is not the only capitalist country. Small and medium-sized businesses make up the largest share of German tax revenue, not large companies.
I think we can both agree that Germany is an outlier in Europe.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American
Which European country is not capitalist?
@arnodobler1096 - if the UK considers themselves capitalists, they are doing a piss poor job.
@JohnnyBoy-h6z - LMAO! We moan too, just not as much.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American
Non-capitalist countries, like the GDR (East Germany) back then, have not existed since the 1990s. But let's not let the big companies determine our lives and politics! Social democracy with a social market economy, also known as Rhine capitalism. There is certainly enough lobbying here too (it's not always bad), but far less than in the US. And far less corruption as a result.
Maybe you should learn how the GDR economy and state system worked to get a real idea of what socialism and communism really mean. In the US, these terms are thrown around, it always makes my hair stand on end everywhere, and I get a rage in my stomach. It makes a mockery of the people who lived and suffered under it.
In Spain or Italy, there is usually air conditioning in the houses, due to the summer heat, although in the north of Spain it is not so necessary. In Sweden or Germany or Austria, they do not need it. Denmark is not the same as Greece, in temperature, just as Michigan is not the same as New Mexico. The girl in the video is Nordic, but I think she says about being better than the USA with double intent. In general, Europeans are not usually arrogant, (except French and English)
And Austrian and Swiss people.
13:55
Whoa, what a surprise that Texans talk, sound and act differently in comparison to let's say New York
*face palm*
While in Europe, the way one speaks,sounds and act can be different from one city to the next major village. Let me make this clear for you Americans.
My dialect in my own language is distinctly different as soon as I go about 15km ( ±10miles) away from the city center I was born and live in. Not a 1000 miles, not even 100 miles, TEN miles. And that is not only not leaving my country but not even leaving my province. Where as in the USA you can drive 10 miles in certain cities and still be within city limits.
14:25
Second myth, that the USA is big on diversity, way more then other countries.
The USA isn't even in the top 50 of most diverse countries. Heck, even Belgium (population 11million) has way more diversity that the entire USA.
To be exact, there is one kind of diversity that the USA excels in, namely religious diversity because of the thousands of different denominations in all kinds of religions and the high level of religious nutjobs being around.
18:12
Wie will have to wait to see how badly Bonespur Spanky will screw up the US economy to see if that will still be true in a few years.
21:12
So other countries using the USD without any say whatsoever is a good thing
So other countries using the Euro while having influence on a political level is a bad thing.
Confused much?
25:26 Save countries in wars?
You mean invade countries or subvert legal elections so as to set up a regime that is more favorable to the US economic needs even if it involves training death squads?
Let me remind you that the USA hasn't won any war by itself without serious help from outside forces and this even includes the war of independence.
Oh wait, I'm wrong. The USA did win the war against Grenada. An island nation with a population size smaller than the amount of soldiers that the US Marines have available.
I know, the US loves to think that it saved Europe from the Nazis.
The US lost 400K men in that war. That wasn't even 0.5% of the population. Only 141K was in Europe, the rest was in the Pacific.
Belgium lost 1% of it's population during that war (soldiers and civilians)
Poland lost close to 14% of it's population (soldiers and civilians)
Russia lost 27 Million conservatively or 6% of it's population (soldiers and civilians)
We don't think we are more superior because we know more languages, know more about the world in general or even about the USA then the average US American, or that that the average European knows more about geography, astronomy, sciences, history, culture, biology, nor because we are not as likely to be flat earthers or young earthers or bible thumpers, nor because we are less likely to judge a person because of their skin colour or because of their gender seeing as those kinds of things aren't embedded in fabric of our countries.
But because we have a better standard of living for a far greater proportion of our citizens because workers have rights, we have paid vacations, paid sick days, paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, health care systems that aren't perfect (and that differ from country to country) but that won't bankrupt you if you need something done and no, there are no large wait times for vital things.
Oh and because elections over here only take a few weeks, a couple of months at most and voting isn't gerrymandered nor are their long wait lines. The other day there were EU elections across the EU. It took me 10 minutes to vote and that's including the 8 minute walk to the voting place and back. This isn't because I live on the right side of the tracks because in the EU there is no right and wrong side of the tracks.
If one has 57% of Italian then no, it's not a given that one has relatives in the first degree that were actually Italian. Perhaps one have grandparents that were born in Italy but if you are born in the USA you are USA and NOT Italian.
You believing that RFK jr is pro health... ah sweet summer child.
RFK jr is a nutjob and even if he wasn't, he's going to work for a moron that doesn't care about anyone but himself.
Enjoy your bad food now... knowing that it will only get worse.
33:50
The USA being 100% self sufficient?
ROFLMAO
No it isn't nor can it be.
here's an example : at least 25% of every US made car by an USA brand comes from outside of the USA.
And saying that the USA could is nonsense because if they could then the question is why it doesn't and you have the answer why the USA doesn't and there for can't.
No country is the best.
Every country has something that they can be proud of and things that they should improve.
BUT the USA has lots and lots and lots of thing that they should improve. Here's just one, maternity mortality (and child moratlity ) rate in the USA is the worst of all so called 1st world countries and in fact even worse then lots of countries that aren't 1st world. So sure, the USA has the most aircraft carriers but they can't.
@@PDVism - you are certainly entitled to your opinion as am I. I don't censor comments that are not hateful. Thanks for your thoughts.
Don’t criticise the US! They’re the best. Not at the top or top ten of any positive list. They do come top of negative lists though. Rate of imprisonment for example. Don’t bother trying to explain that’s per head capita, they’ll say it’s because of their high population regardless. I wish they could use cutlery. Start with the basics.
@trevorcook4439 - Be nice or leave.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American You have to understand that people don't like smart asses. So when an average American says: we're the best, US is the greatest thing ever, we are the center of the universe, then he's not gonna be liked by many of the remaining 95% of the world population that is not American. Remember, you can believe that the US is the greatest thing ever (because you were brainwashed to think so) but you are not forced to tell that to everyone.
Have you ever looked at the US trade deficit, especially the last few years? So much for independent.
RFK? OMG
I said we have the ability to be self suffient, and we do. You probably know it, but dont want to admit it.
Trade deficit has nothing to do with ability. It is a ratio based on choices.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American
So you made a bad choice? If I buy more than I sell, what happens?
If you are so independent, why do you buy raw materials in other countries, would it be cheaper to use your own? You don't have enough raw materials in your country either, don't kid yourself, there's no way around globalization. Clinton has driven all the US companies abroad to produce, the USA has become a service country!
Apart from Apple, Tesla and kitchen aid, I hardly see any products from the US here, that used to be different.
Never said cheaper. I said self-sufficient. Competive advantage and trading partners influence our decisions. That is not the same as reliant. Germany is reliant on Russia for fuel. America buys from China for cheaper pricing. Big difference.
We can agree to disagree. Being self sufficent has nothing to do with exporting to other countries. You see no American brands in Germany? Really? Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds, Subway, KFC, Microsoft, IBM, Boeing, Dell, Ford, Levis, FritoLay, 3M, Nike, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, UPS, FedEx, Amazon, Johnson and Johnson, John Deere, VISA, MasterCard, American Express, JP Morgan/Chase, Eli Lilly, Meta/Facebook, GOOGLE, TH-cam, Nvidia, intel, Exxon Mobile? Seriously?
21:57 - she's from the North and is generalizing, countries in the south do have AC. I am from the south and find it strange that people don't use AC in Germany.
The Europeans are usually travelling for all Europe , for us haven’t frontiers . And know our continent so well
Makes sense to me.
En España si tenemos aire acondicionado central en los edificios oficiales y comerciales y en las viviendas. Yo tengo aire acondicionado central en mi casa. Ella habla de países europeos donde tienen muy pocos días de calor. En España no podríamos trabajar, ni ir a las tiendas ni hoteles, ni bancos, etc… si no tuviéramos aire acondicionado central. Esta señorita parece que no ha salido de su país
Yes, but you will understand most Americans, if not all! Send a North German to the Allgäu (part of Bavaria) and he won't understand a word of the dialect, seriously! Cuisine and tradition are also completely different!
No, we'd rather keep the euro, thanks!
Why specifically do you prefer the euro?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American
Why should we adopt a currency from a foreign country (from another continent) and make ourselves more dependent? No
The euro is a stable currency and makes trading between euro countries easier.
@arnodobler1096 - I am not talking about adoption. People say the Euro is better, I want to know why they think that.
@JohnnyBoy-h6z From which country did we adopt the euro, please?
The EU created her own, that´s it.
@JohnnyBoy-h6z Yes, and no other euro country has benefited as much from the euro as Germany. Because it exports so much. The DM was too expensive.
The euro is our currency in Germany, it makes trade in the eurozone much easier.
You can't compare US to europe we have common things like Champions league and Eurovision but thats the height of it apart from the EU.Yes USA is diverse but the diversity in Europe is on a whole different level due to the sheer amount of languages yes you have spanish bit of french and many native languages that nearly extinct but in europe its on a whole different level with atleast 50 languages spoken.If you land in a rural village in spain or sweden its unlikely any one will speak english only the professionals are bilingual in english and there native language.
English is really universal these days. Given that you mentioned Sweden: Especially in the Scandinavian countries, almost everyone speaks very good English. Not so good in some other countries, that's true. But you can get by without knowing the local language almost everywhere. Technology also helps, you can always use google translate.
@@xaverlustig3581 i saw an irish tv documentary in the irish language about two irish speaking young ladies couch surfing in Europe .They couch surfed on a goat farm,where the farmer spoke fluent english however it was from years of hosting couch surfers before that he hadn't a word of english granted he was from a remote part of sweden but thats what i meant small villages in the middle of nowhere.I was in a small village in french speaking switzerland and its the same thing many wouldn't have more than a few words of english
43:45
We have a TV-Show in GER about Restaurants who are struggeling because of bad food and so on (like Gordon Ramsay).
One of the worst, if not the worst, was a mexican-style Restaurant (Manolo) in the City of Osnabrück.
They closed down during the episode. U can find it on YT. Absolute legend 😃
@@TrumpFanClubDeutschland - LMAO!
Yes, I can name all the countries in Europe including capital cites. No joke 😅
But I will not do it here in the comments. Catch me up in some of my live streams and ask me in the chat 😃
Nooooo! Se hace la siesta, en España,estamos trabajando o almorzando, dinner, de 14h a 15h. Y a seguir trabajando hasta las 7 o más tarde .
16:50 She's wrong on the Flag. The EU uses the Flag of the Council of Europe and not vice versa. The EU has no other flag than the «European Flag». The «EU Flag» doesn't exist per say. So because she's spreading wrong information, no wonder why it's confusing for her.
Europe is more diverse than the U.S. but Americans always have trouble believing that. The U.S. is one big country, Europe is 50+ different countries. And all of those countries have different states.
You can drive from California to New York and yes there will be changes, but you are still in the same country with the same language and the same government.
If you drive from Spain to Russia, you will see much bigger differences. Different country, different language, different government, different laws, different history, different customs.
Edit: Typo
Edit 2: The Euro is worth more than the Dollar
Edit 3: She means LIVING relatives. Your grand, grand, grandmother from 1760 doesn't count.
Edit 4: Scrapping the FDA is not going to improve your food quality. On the contrary.
No one with a brain would think the USA is more diverse than the continent of Europe. I said that I did not believe each COUNTRY in Europe was more diverse than the USA.
The Euro is worth more than the dollar? What exactly is that supposed to mean?
You can't be 57% Italian without having close relatives that are Italians. LOL!
FDA is a joke. I find it interesting that Europeans talk about how bad our food is due to capitalism and then criticize the guy who wants to fix it.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American He means you need more dollar for one euro
No, we almost never take naps or "siesta". That would be great, but it's more an utopia than anything. Maybe on holidays in summer if you are very tired or to avoid the worst hours of the day. In summer we can reach 100 fahrenheit easily or higer and a lot of us we don't have AC. Last summer we spent most of August in 40 celsius and the lowest at night was like 30, so... Well, Answering you question: yes I vcan name all the countries in Europe with their capitals. In school and highschool geography it's mandatory and we have to learn aaaaall the countries in the world with their capitals, most important rivers and montains and that stuff. Really was a nightmare, but, it stock with me until today. I think this girl is a little bit rude in some parts.
the vast majority of russian land mass is in asia not europe
england .ireland. scotland. and wales are not reigions they are separate countries that make up great britian
Yep
What kind of class system? Okay in the UK, maybe still.
Accents and dialects are two different things.
Okay, i have to comment on the tipping waiters part. Yes most places i europa waiters have a decent salary and don't need tips to survive (i would say that is a good thing), but that doesn't mean we don't tip at all. Here a tip is given when a worker did an extra ordinary thing or went beyond there normal duty to please the customer. When you do your job, you should get payed livable wages, no matter how you do your job (if your not doing your job well enough, thats when you get fired). It is not that we don't tip workers here in europe, we just don't tip everyone everytime, as i said a tip is for extra ordenary performance. Not a normal everyday thing. Just for a little perspective, where i live even a McDonald's worker get 22$ an hour, and i don't think McDonald's has worse service here, it looks better in my opinion.
Yeah the European continent is slightly bigger than US
Yep, Europe is slightly larger than the US.
There is a difference with accents, I can travel 30 min away and barely understand anything the locals say. Yes America has accents and different slang words, I've been there enough to know, but it's *nothing* compared to European countries, and I'm talking about each country, not the whole continent.
Money is quite different, ie in Germany you need cash while in Sweden many places don't accept cash.
For AC, it depends on where in Europe, but in Sweden we have good insulation and wooden houses, so they generally don't get too hot in the summer and not too cold in wintertime.
Tipping has been proven not to really work for good service, depending on what good service means, here good service is leaving the customers alone but be ready if you need something, and a good workplace has a manager that will raise the pay for servers that do a good job, so there really is an insentive.
Do you not find it odd that every European youtuber that visits America talks about how nice people are and how great the service is in stores and restaurants?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American I wouldn't say every, but I mean to each their own, I prefer to be left alone but servers to be near and ready to help if I ask them.
And bear in mind that I've lived in USA for a total of around 1.5 years, so I probably have more experience of the country than those TH-camrs.
@@matshjalmarsson3008 - I think the ideal waiter makes sure your glasses stay full (free refills) and walks by often looking at the table. I agree, I don't like being interrupted in conversations, but the water being available when needed, clearing table, etc, is important to me. I don't want them to be the center of attention and I don't want to be ignored. Good waiters know this and are rewarded appropriately in America.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American It's the same everywhere, people who do a good job gets rewarded, the difference is that generally in Europe, they get a raise, not tips.
So let's say a flipping burger job gives a pay of $2500/month (not sure, but it's around there), if you do it good, you'll get a better sallary, and perhaps get promoted, or can move on to a proper restaurant and earn more
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American And there is no such thing as free refills, you pay for it one way or another, no business owner gives things away for free, so with "free" refills, you'll pay $25 instead of $20 for a reasonably good meal, not quite fine dining but close (talking of Sweden, and guesstimating the price). And you pay that extra even if you don't want the refills.
1:47 You mean the Allies, right?
You are right about tipping, but what is currently happening in the US is not tipping anymore. Because it's mandatory. By definition tipping cannot be mandatory. So when the bill already includes the tip without even asking, that's not tipping. You are basically paying their salary, that's all. It's not an incentive to be a better server since the tip is guaranteed. And before saying that tipping is actually not mandatory, when they ask you how much do you want to tip instead of whether or not do you want to tip, then it's mandatory.
When was the last time you were in the USA? The only time tips are ever on my restaurant bills is when there is a large party and it is clearly stated on the menu.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Last time I've been this summer for 3 weeks on the western coast. Every single time they gave me an option about how much tip to pay, and although there was a small option called no tip, they were basically watching you what you press, so I pretty much felt obliged to tip.
Not sure where you ate. Sounds like starbucks. Real restaurants run your card before tipping and give you a paper bill that you leave on the table after you tip, then you leave. Regardless, tip amount is optional, but 20% is what I usually leave. More for cheap meals and less for expensive ones generally.
En el colegio aprendemos los paises y capitales, rios, montañas.... de todo el mundo. Historia solo la europea (aunque ya es bastante extensa). Y preferimos un millon de veces el euro al dolar.
Why, specifically, do you prefer the euro?
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American If your question is about why we prefer euro over the US dollar, the answer is pretty simple. Because we print euros and we decide how much we print. Basically the same reason why you prefer your US dollars over the euro.
@@RaduRadonys - USA is a country not a continent. Preferring a currency is not the same as saying it is better or that the "dollar is falling" when it is not. It does not bother you at all that the currency of your country is not controlled by your country? There is no wrong answer.
I try to take the good things of the US (I lived there), from Europe and from Spain and try to ditch the bad ones. However, it is really hard to get rid of the bad traits of your own culture. In Europe also some countries feel superior to others, but as a Spaniard I really don't give a damn; I am content in my "own sauce" (as we say here). Now, I cannot imagine a free world without the US, today and in the last 80 years, so we should be grateful for that to the US, among many other things. As a Spaniard I feel I owe more to the American Revolution than to the French Revolution (sooo... overrated), or anything that came from France to Spain.
Whst goes around comea around. Spain and France and others helped us and we help the world. Karma.
Yes all EU countries if we are EU we can name. And mostly capitals as well
"If you come to Europe, the world is not revolving around you. So, learn a European language. If we come to the USA, we learn English"
As a European, I agree that the EU is similar to the US, but when it comes to languages, it's really different . It's hilarious that you, as a white European, defend your new place of living called America . And not even in small European countries without the euro is inflation much different from the US. Plus, the dollar is falling quickly. It's no longer the standard it was years ago.. It seems that you are living in the past. Very much in the past - you're policing Russia? Or China or India? You just seem stuck in the past
@avitalsheva - you might want to review the history of the euro vs the USD. The USD is worth morth more now than it has been over the last 20 years other than a few months in 2022. Seems like I am not the one living in the past. Thanks for checking out my video(s) and commenting.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American I don't know what your metrics are, but the dollar could buy more 20 years ago than it can today. The same applies to the euro. Inflation is inflation, and we are not in a deflationary period."
What are you talking about? Inflation happens every year. You said the dollar is falling quickly, yet the exchange rate between the euro and the dollar clearly shows the at euro worth is falling against the dollar.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Not necessarily must happen. Deflation is an example of it. But it is pointless to discuss with you-you do not have knowledge about economics
@@avitalsheva - LOL. Yea? Tell my college degree that.
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True 😁
My country is pretty much the same size as the USA. My state is bigger than Texas, I think it’s actually the second largest in the world. Diversity here is at 26% whereas the US is at 14%. There’s no way I’d ever compare it to the diversity in Europe or a whole continent. My country is a continent though it’s not considered one in America. We have beaches, rainforests, snow, mountains, desert . US isn’t special.
How did you feel when they took your guns?
LOL about working class being rich in the US as opposite to Europe :)) I live in Romania, a rather poor country in the EU and most of my relatives and friends are blue collars working in construction and they all have huge villas and 3 cars and their own companies starting from zero :)) I think you have a very skewed view of the European capitalism, not sure why though, but I suspect because of the same American superiority complex.
Not about superiority; quite the opposite. More about taxes and opportunity.
I take it this guy hasn’t left the US borders?
Caribbean, Canada, Mexico.
Haha only americans use farenheit. Nobody understand it
I like it better since it is more descriptive.
81f = 27.2c
82f - 27.8c
83f = 28.3c
84f = 28.9c
El mundo prefiere Grados centígrados. No. Farenheith.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American They are only differences in concepts, expressed in different ways. In Europe we use degrees Celsius, meters and kilometers, and the 24-hour time cycle, and in the USA, degrees Fahrenheit, yards and miles and the 12-hour time cycle AM and PM. Simple expressions for the same measurements. Respect and learning.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American The scale spreads out in Fahrenheit, which gives more granularity. Does it bring an advantage? Or is it better to handle a narrower set of values? In Celsius, 0 means the water freezes and 100 is when water boils, which I think is quite neat. Eventually, it does not really matter, everyone already has the values set in their mind correlated to how warm or cold it feels.
@@Average_Middle_Aged_American Your wrong
0°C = 32°F
1°C = 33 4/5°F
2°C = 35 3/5°F
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