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As less than 10% of Americans own a passport, for the other 90% it must look very strange, as driverslicence is the main form of ID. So you could overlook that, but I have to wonder about the school curriculum in American schools.
@@ronalddejong3017 I would love to see American schools curriculums for various ages. I imagine they would consist of nothing except America, America, America.
An American in London on an open top tourist bus, outside harrods. The traffic lights turn red and you hear a repeating beep beep beep etc so if anyone who is blind and wants to cross the Rd they know it's safe. The American tourist asks the tour guide, "excuse me but what's that beeping"? and the tour guide replies " that's to let blind people know the traffic lights have turned red". Her reply was " what! Omg! In America we don't allow blind ppl to drive".
Not the dumbest thing an American has said to me, but a fairly dumb thing that allowed to seriously mind-fuck with one. An American had just moved to the UK and started work in my department. She was pleased to find out that she would be getting the first Monday in May as a Bank Holiday (UK version of a US federal holiday), which was only about three weeks away. I explained to her that the holiday was basically the same thing as Labor Day in the US (which the US celebrates in September), just to put it in some kind context she would understand. She then asked me why we celebrated "an American holiday". I explained to her that the holiday over here was called May Day. But it is also the holiday for International Worker's Day. May Day and IWD are both on May 1st over here, but we always have the first Monday as a Bank Holiday. I explained that we celebrate Labor Day as do many countries, as it is a socialist holiday recognising the contribution of workers, unions, and the labour market, and honouring the first strike held by workers over pay and condiitons. I shit you not, she spent the next two weeks trying to accept her and family held a socialist celebration every year. She kept on calling me a liar, until I told her to look it up for herself.
I always have a problem with Labour day. On Labour day you are supposed Labour. That is what the name indicates. (in NL we don't celebrate Labour day, we just work [if it is not a weekend]). But then we have kings day on the 27th of april, with the previous queen it was 30th of april, so we get our day off anyway.
"What would your ancestors think about you?" German here: During my surf-around-the-world trip one destination was LA in California. As you can imagine I was DEEPLY tanned and I had well maintained awesome sun bleached dreadlocks that even black-Americans appreciated by nodding towards me. Classic stereotype for a surfer fulfilled, I could have been in the Quiksilver catalogue...! 😂 While standing in the queue at McDonalds I talked to some people and we came into a conversation. There was another man and when he heard I came from Germany he asked me about what my ancestors would think about me... Pretty puzzled I asked what he meant. He specified what my German ancestors would think about me with my 'bright blue eyes' and my 'kind of hair'. Realizing about that dude's thoughts I replied that my German ancestors would feel very proud about me because with this 'kind of hair' they defeated the Roman legions in Teutoburg-forest that were invading my country. Not what he expected.... 🤣
Well those are Germanic ancestors. And yep, even native English speakers mix that up, and it drives me up the walls. It's like equating American and Native American. Good retour, though!
@@Julia-lk8jnThe thing is, that the Germanic tribes are the ancestors of modern Germans (and many other Europeans). Whereas native Americans are the ancestors of only a few modern US-citisans.
Every other country on earth knows that Sweden and Switzerland is two different countries but not America. Everytime I say that I am from Sweden, Americans start talking about clocks, chocolate and lederhosen (short leather pants). Some of the time the get the meatballs right but still. Greetings from the cold north of Sweden :D
An american once insited to me that the capital of Sweden was Zurich and another one confused Sweden with Scotland and started talking about William Wallace
A friend of mine told me today that when she was visiting Scotland, she stayed in a hostel with an American teacher. She asked my friend where was she from, she said Uruguay. She said that Uruguay is not a country. My friend, yes it is, im actually from there. The American says, no believe me, im a GEOGRAPHY TEACHER and i have never heard of a country named Uruguay. WTF!!!!
Believe me this I know-it-all attitude does not only apply to American teachers. My geography teacher (she is german but for some reason identifies as English? No idea why.) was teaching about the the Mediterranean climate. Since I’m Turkish, she naturally asked me about winters I had experienced in Turkey. I told her it was about the same as in Germany. It gets cold and snows. She didn’t believe me and ridiculed my answer cause she was convinced it was always warm in Turkey. This was back in 6th grade I’m now 30 and I still remember her false conviction than ever I see snow. And since Istanbul had multiple blizzards last month I kept thinking about that grumpy old know-it-all. But on the bright side, I realised early on thanks to this that you shouldn’t just believe everything that is taught
@@adrasthea17 People like her are the reason why teachers is considered somewhat of a low job role in modern society. At least elementary and stuff. I hope this was not a high school teacher.
@@adrasthea17 Yep, that is a sort of an occupational hazard for teachers - always be right, never ever admit to an mistake. I've seen a few cases of it, and I made sure that when I teach (Languages, mostly) I simply say "okay, not certain about that, I'll look it up". Honestly, when you've gotten a few unspeakably bitchy responses from teens ("how can you not know that? aren't you supposed to be a teacher?") , you kind of understand where that "no, I'm right, _especially when I'm wrong" comes from.
@@Julia-lk8jn From what you say about the teenagers that you teach ,I am more then ever convinced that the country that is the USA has not yet grown past that stage. Boasting ,always know that they are right even when proved wrong ,accept violence as a necessary part of life ,worship guns and fast cars , sex, money means more than culture etc, etc. We are the greatest etc.
wow, I have alot of admiration for some of these people....with tv, movies, the internet, social media, etc it takes real commitment to actually be that dumb. You really have to work at it to avoid getting any knowledge! LOL
some of these people might be making important decisions about how to handle the current 'special operation' in the Ukraine - just let that sink in for a moment
I have never been to America, but I had an interesting experience with American tourists in Cologne, Germany (I am German) a few years ago. At the time I was coming out of the main train station and heading towards Neumarkt when I noticed a couple talking quite loudly in English about why nearly all people were talking in a language (German) they didn't understand and not in English and that everything was much better in America, and so on. I went and asked if they needed help. It could have been that they were lost or something. No, they were just upset that in Germany (!) German is spoken and not English, so they didn't understand anything. I just said that Germany is called Germany for a reason and not "Engmany". And that the national language of Germany is German. After some back and forth, I found out that they still wanted to go to France and wished them good luck. I know from my own experience that many French people can speak English, but often don't (want to) speak it. Like Americans, they expect others to adapt to them and not vice versa. I still wonder today how the American couple coped with the fact that not all the world worships the English language and that English is not the main language in every country in the world. 🤔 And that the main language of France is French, not English. 🤣
People from the UK do this too you know, expecting English. Although we from the UK do recognise that there are different languages spoken in other countries. Its just that we're terrible at it. I mean we love Spain but we need to make some changes here. Theres no Bingo in the evenings. No decent Fish n Chips and we are struggling to get a roast on Sundays!
@@CrazyInWeston Some of my online friends are from the UK. One of them is a polyglot. He doesn't have an easy time learning, but still tries and is currently learning his sixth language. He says that you get to know the country and the people so much better when you speak their language and he is fascinated by all the different cultures. I wish I was as motivated as he is when it comes to learning. So far, I only know German (logically), English (relatively well) and French (unfortunately I've forgotten a lot of it because I'm not in contact with French people enough) from school and I'm currently learning Japanese. Unfortunately, there are also some Germans who complain abroad that German is not spoken and why there is no Döner or Currywurst with chips or Schnitzel. I always hit myself in the forehead when I hear something like that and ask myself why they don't just stay in Germany if that's what they want.
When I used to study at Porto's University I had to go trough Luiz I's Bridge everyday and if you know the area you know tourists are there all the time during the entire year. So, I'm going to class on a thursday wearing Porto's traditional university attire "traje académico" ( most of the university students that wear it do so on that day of the week). Well, add people wearing the traditional attire looking pretty much like Harry Potter characters in a touristy place and you'll get a lot of people asking for photos. It was normal life. Some says we did, other times we didn't because we couldn't or because we didn't want to. Can you imagine from where were the people pretty much demanding we took photos with them instead of asking? I went there for years and most tourists were nice ( even American one's) but all the rude one's I've encountered were American... Once they even berated a friend of mine for not speaking English well enough for them and they treated us as if we were supposed to be there to serve them on our knees and be oh-so-grateful they deigned themselves to be with our inferior people... We were private citizens doing our own thing. We don't owe you shit and we're not getting to class late just because you are demanding we stay so you can take pictures of us... Specially not after you're being rude asf to us.
If stupidity was an event America would be gold medal Olympian level, for example I saw another American react to this video and he refused to accept that Irish guys accent was real and he was actually arguing with people in the comments about it ha ha its the ego and arrogance of them thinking they know better than everybody else when most of them know precisely zero that's really annoying.
@@Ryuichi72 He just kept going on and on how the accents were being exaggerated and faked, I was like bro people like you are the reason videos like this exist ha ha oh the irony.
English native speakers are very used to accents by foreign speakers, I assume. Why? Because English is worldwide the most important language in international trading, negotiations etc. Therefore and due to spread by British imperialism over half of the world there uncountable accents exist. Everybody is invited to correct me. I’m glad to learn new stuff and points of view everyday 🙂
@@Ryuichi72 We are used to accents because there are so many in the UK accents are totally different every 10 miles or so, and are so different we can't understand each other sometimes.
I love the fact that she was told she needed an American passport to VISIT America. First, which country in America are you referring to? Second: I as a swede use my SWEDISH passport to visit America. I am not surprised though.
1. You don’t need an American passport to visit America 2. Some countries have the privileges to visit with either visa or their country has a passport agreement with the USA 3. American passports are given to only American citizens
@@angshusarma8331 no he means an american passport, which everyone knows as the united states but for example brazil is in South America but ppl there have Brazilian passport not "South american" passports
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It's like somebody else on these videos said: "We all know that not all Americans are this way. But when Americans do dumb, they are really good at it."
On a side note to the guy from Switzerland, the concentration camps were in Germany also. In Poland were the camps with the gas chambers, in Germany they were more like labour camps, but the people still died like flies there.
Had an american student visit Finland for a year to study, his first question was "Where are all the flags, aren't you celebrating the independence day?" We were of course confused because our independence day was a good 8 months away. He meant the american independence day.
Why? Don't you, finnish people, celebrate american holydays? 🤣🤣 it must be eye openning to them to discover that the rest of the world doesn't revolve around them...
So weird they actually believe the entire world celebrates the day that the United States gained their independence from the United Kingdom. And then be shocked when they learn that no one ever cared.
I'm from Ukraine and when I took my citizenship here in US I was shocked that Americans had no idea of majority of those questions about 80% of it and me being immigrant I knew every question Shocking to me
That's why it's so easy for foreign nationals to get American citizenship. You have to leave 60% of your brain where you came from and you will still do just fine in America.
The US however did provide aid to Egypt during the Arab Spring/2011 Egyptian revolution (the US thinking was maybe we can help put a government in power that is more kind to Israel)
Yeah, I was wondering. If the USA is the whole world does that mean the USA keeps getting into wars with itself or what? Her brain is a frigging wasteland.
I was working on a train from London (England) going to Glasgow (Scotland) when an American tourist who was going to Edinburgh looked out the window and asked me "Is that the same moon up there as we have in the states".. Then silence.. then Laughter,She thought the moon was exclusive to the USA. Crazy but true🤔🤔🤔
I was in Chicago for 3 weeks. The amont of times a manager was called when I wanted to buy cigaretts or beer was amazing, I found it funny see them trying to understand my swedish passport or drivers licence, since here we always put year/month/date, and they just did not get it 😀
I've been in Sweden several times and I didn't know you wrote your dates backwards 😛 (I'm British we write our dates the opposite way round - date/month/year)
@@roguegargoyle914 I have colleagues in Chicaco and Edinburgh, and sometimes we get all confused regarding the dates but also the time diffrence 😀 If somone leaves 04.05, I have to ask is it 4 May or 5 April. Plus I write all times in military time, and I often talk about weeks, not dates, like I have vaciation in weeks 27 to 30, that confuses the americans even more, they have no idea when that is.
@@roguegargoyle914 I sometimes write dates/times in text fields or file names as YYYYMMDD HHMMSS especially if followed by a description, eg error messages. 20220531 152408 fail X 20220601 032345 error3 In a spreadsheet as text, or a folder, ordering them ascending or descending will put them in date/time order, which is useful in troubleshooting.
The Sweden Vs. Switzerland thing is so common, sometimes you just have to laugh. For an example. When the Swedish music company Spotify got registered on the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York even they raised the Swiss flag (the tradition is to raise the flag of the country the company is from outside). I just can not cope sometimes haha
I find this weird bc in Spanish they have much more similar names, and I used to mix them up, but when I learned English I saw they were so different and created a form to remember with their English names. So, I really don't see how they mix them up
About 30 years ago, I took my daughters American friends on a day trip to London. Things started to fall apart when I introduced a little history. I explained that the City of London is not Metropolitan London. It has its own mayor and police force etc. At one point, I pointed to a street sign an said look. We were in the city of Westminster. That confused them for a good ten minutes. Until, a black bloke drove past in a nice car. Maybe a BMW. "He must be a chauffeur" one of them said. I said why do you think that? " because that's a really expensive car" I gave up when we passed a convenience store. Indian owned by the sign. I said, Indian corner shops are a thing here. There are thousands of them. At which point I was called a liar. Indians, it transpired, are from America. Asians are from India.
How about this one. I work in a fairly culturally diverse place. There's one idiot there and i forget how it came up, but the subject of "Asians" came up. I looked around the room and pointed out about a dozen coworkers who are Asians. They were people from Afghanistan, india, nepal, thailand, laos, philippines, china, vietnamese, etc. I said they're all asians. He called me an idiot and said they weren't. We're not talking about a kid, this is a 40 year old dumb ass who thinks he knows so much about everything and the world. ...and he's educated you know where.
@@aiijae9884 - They are still debating whether they should get one :) You know, freedom™ and school ... either or. Their national anthem is not about the land of the well educated, is it?
Canadian girl, you didn't move to America, you moved to the United States of America. There is no country called America. North America is a continent. Canadians, Mexicans are Americans as well because they live on the American continent. The ones you call Americans are actually citizens of the United States of America.
Thank you so much! I’ve been pointing that out for years, it’s so irritating not to mention central and South America that get completely erased from existence.
@@elvangulley3210 Yeah you are, but your country chose a shitty name for itself because people from other countries on the continents of North- and South America are also 'Americans'. Just as people from European, Asian and African countries are also European, Asian and African respectively. They just didn't call their country "the United States of Europe/Asian/Africa" so they got the names from their individual countries too. Yours is just the same as the continental. They are for example both Swedish and European, both Chinese and Asian, both Kenyan and African, and you are both American and (North-)American. Not our fault y'all called yourselves that and then claimed the term from 2 entire continents lol. Canadians are both Canadian and (North-)American, Chileans are both Chilean and (South-)American, etc. Everyone living anywhere from the northern tip of Canada to the most southern tip of Chile is, in fact, American.
I didn´t know what a bidet was but when I looked it up it was pretty obvious it was toilet-related due to how it looked... so the dude that drank from it had to be a new level of stupid.
The Canada story at around 6:32 ... I was applying for a couple of courses in a school in Sweden (I am from Finland, I got accepted for exchange studies and all was fine and dandy up to this point), but then the form told me to insert my SWEDISH social security number to apply for the courses, which I obviously didn't have, so I ticked the option "I need assistance on this matter from a school official" where they redirected me to a form which said "what kind of problem are you having? Please insert your SWEDISH social security number for help". We kept going around in circles and I was on the telephone to resolve this matter for days even though I was already officially accepted into the program months ago. So much bureaucracy was involved that I felt like flipping a table because "how on earth could you get accepted into a Swedish school while not being Swedish in the first place?" (even though I am a Swedish-speaking Finn and made it clear from the get-go by stating this and only speaking to them in Swedish). Jesus. It was the same kind of French-speaking Canadian vs English-speaking Canadian energy.
An Aussie with a very general accent, I tried to order from a food stand at LA Airport. After a few tries, I was asked what language I was speaking to see if they could possibly get an interpreter.
I have bought wine in NYC with my Brazilian Passport as a tourist! I am not from the US. (So it doesn't even matter if the passport was from the US or not.) That passport person must have been in a place that doesn't get international tourism.... imagine forbidding every tourist from buying alcohol by making passports an invalid form of identification! That's crazy!
I'm from London,, visited New Jersey an elderly gent gets in the lift with me so I asked what floor he wanted I replied I'm going through the foyer myself mate. He says 'you sound just like the actor from down under!' I replied Mel Gibson? He said 'no he's American, I mean Michael Caine!' I replied 'well we are Both Cockneys.' He then asked where abouts in Australia Cockney was.
I found a lesson plan online for 1st grade geography. They talk about continents. So these people that say America is the only country have literally failed the 1st grade. This isn't an insult. This isn't an exaggeration. It's a literal fact that 1st graders know more about continents than these people. We should have a TV show called "Are you smarter than a preschooler", where the contestants have to identify blue squares and red circles. I vaguely remember preschool where we had to "learn" how to color and trace our hands to make a "hand turkey". Remember that? When you were taught that your hand is a thing? That's preschool. That's the education level of America. Yet these people vote?! That scares me and explains everything
There IS a show called similar to that. Its called "Are you smarter than a 5th Grader?" in the US - In the UK the show was called "Are you smarter than a 10yr old?" The level of dumbness happens in both countries.
@@CrazyInWeston Yes I know, which is why I said that. I choose not to be condescending but there would have been no reason for me to say it that way had I not known about the existing show. I'm starting to think every human on earth is stupid lol
@@CrazyInWeston yeah, my father tells me that in the late 80s he was in the UK and someone asked him if there were monkeys all around Rio de Janeiro in the streets. And another person asked him if Rio de Janeiro was in Africa. So I know this isn’t exclusive to Americans, but the poor Americans are more visible when it happens. Also, my dad’s story was pre-internet. Somehow I think the internet brought visibility to more parts of the world so I wonder if those comments diminished over time.
@@juliepandora Our phones are amazing. A phone 10 years ago had more computing power than all of NASA combined when it put man on the moon. Our phones nowadays put them to shame to the same level. Our computers would put our modern phones to shame too. Our phones have the sum total of all human knowledge and experience. You can watch porn, you can order pizza. You can learn how to handle the rabid animal that's on your front porch right now. You can watch live feeds from security cameras around the world. Did you know that MIT (one of the top 5 schools in the world), posts their full, unedited lectures on youtube? Look for MIT OpenCourseware! I learned how to repair computers and build websites and robotics from youtube alone. And I owned a successful computer repair company in Florida for 2 years before moving to Texas. All from what I was able to learn from this little box we put in our pocket! We can watch live court and senate proceedings. Information can travel around the globe in less than 1 second! And we still have people that think the earth is flat, or that covid is a hoax. It's sooooo sad to me. We still have people who think the only way to earn a living is to scam people from a scammer call center. If people used their handheld box for more than cat videos, imagine what this world would look like NEXT WEEK! We can build artificial general intelligence if we wanted to. That AGI could solve everything from climate change, cancer and time travel in a matter of minutes, if not hours! But nope. We want to take pictures of our food. GOD why are we doing this to ourselves??? I'm not saying we HAVE TO do all these things. But if you wake up Tuesday in the same situation you did Monday, then Monday was worthless. If you wake up at 50 in the same situation you did at 40, then all of your 40s were worthless. And you have some people with the same mindset and worldview their entire lives. You know those people. Those are the people that say "back in my day". To hell with "back in my day". You can't experience the present if you're mind is in the past. Yeah, grandpa, back in your day they didn't have a technology addiction. Back in your day you had to wait a week to get a letter from your wife too. Back in your day you had to take it on faith that your government was being honest. Back in your day, people died from food poisoning. Back in your day you had to get a book to learn how to fix a car. Back in your day, blacks weren't allowed to speak. Neither could women. Back in your day, if you didn't raise a family you were considered broken. Back in your day, a homosexual was beaten to death. Times have changed. And it's truly sad and confusing that some people haven't changed with the times. Some people are even pushing to revert back to the old times. Especially American Republican politicians. Plato's allegory of the cave comes to mind. People are so stuck staring at the shadow that they don't even ask where the shadow comes from or how it works. Turn from your perspective and look around. You'd be amazed at what you find. But humans are still living in the cave.
I love how the guy who encountered "Shannon" was so confidently INcorrect: There were actually concentration camps in Germany as well as Poland and you can see them in both countries. 🤦♀️
@@alterego9082 No. The German part of Germany that has always been Germany. If you had done a simple Google search you would have found 7 of them in less than a second of pressing enter. I mean Dachau next to Munich is nearly as far away from Poland as you can get in Germany.
@@alterego9082 You're thinking death camps, I presume? Because the most western concentration camp was in Holland. I just limited it to the two countries mentioned in the video.
@@imajinallthepurple Auschwitz Birkenau was concentration camp, death camp for this complex was Treblinka. Both were made on occupied territory of Poland, there were no concentration camps in Poland as it was occupied
A passport is like an ID and SS card and history book all rolled into one. It's taken everywhere in the world. That's its main function. That cashier and manager were dumbbbbbb
I'm from Germany and we learned all the states plus their capitals and exact location on the map by heart 😂 I still remember most of it or at least can point in the right direction and that's like from over 15 years ago. Same goes with basically every country and I think that's what the majority is capable of. It's so funny and sad at the same time to see the lack of knowledge about their own country.
I had a geography teacher that gave us all blank paper and told us to write down as much countries and capitals as we could. We had no help, just a pen and a blank paper. We simply had to know, because we had to learn. 😅😂
I'm from Austria and it was the same here. Not only did we need to learn all the states and capitals but we also had to study all the european countries and their capitals and if they had the euro or not. It was the basic standard. idk why so many americans are so damn uneducated on the simplest things.
FFS people, the oldest American building (as in, U.S, not counting native american), the oldest American building, is, at most, 300 years old. I live in Europe and I can see a 1000-year-old medieval watchtower from my backyard. Get some perspective gents! "Egypt doesn't exist"... oh God...
I have the suspicion that intelligence is tied to the distance people live from each other. Like people in the US live in Houses that are miles away from each other and it makes sense they come up with unique ways of explaining things.
@@bartholvangent3225 I think it's the school boards. US school boards have an inordinate amount of control on what is taught, and they're composed of lay people who usually really don't understand or value education, they're more interested in nothing being taught that offends their sensibilities, no matter how dumb those are.
Kids in USA - or at least a huge portion of them - are encouraged to pledge allegiance to the flag daily. Before it became... "problematic", the pledge was made in the 'Bellamy Salute' position, named after Francis Bellamy, best known for writing the pledge. The salute may have changed over the years, but it still feels the same to me.
Question: Does American passport comes only with pictures, doesn't it say Passport of United States of America or something? Also for ID maybe you should add 'murica in the brackets next to the name of state... you know, just in case.
Answer: USA passports says "passport" and "United States of America" on the front cover with the national crest image of an eagle. Inside with the ID photo it's got a big picture of an eagle with the USA flag and in 2 places it has a big "USA" written in bold type, as well as the ful name of the country written multiple times. All the stamp pages are printed with stereotypical images from the country. So yeah... even if the moron was illiterate, there is enough recognizable USA iconography to assume it's a USA passport. But then again... it's really not very common to even have a passport, much less having seen one in person. Sigh. I am deeply embarrassed. And thankful I left the country years ago.
@@TiaTruly Don't be embarrassed. From my experience that I encountered Americans on the internet they were not dumb at all. And trust me, you can find stupid people everywhere. I believe all passports of every country have coat of arms and the name of a country on it. I was kinda joking because you can point on the cover and ask the person to read what it says. Then open it where all the info is and all kinds of anti-counterfeit protection is on it. You can tell it is legit document even if you never saw one. lol now I'm curious what happens if you have passport from another country in another language and try to buy alcohol. :)
this video reminded me of a person who playing geoguessr found the eiffel tower but said it was the tower of tokyo ..... , it would be interesting to see you play geoguessr😁
This was funny! 😄 However, the Americans that I know and consider them to be my friends, are well-educated, well-traveled, cosmopolitan, open to the world, and amazingly sweet and caring people. I have to say that.
I grew up in Ontario, Canada on the border with New York. I would visit American friends on occasion who lived a 30 minute drive from the border and nearly every time I would meet at least one American teen or adult in that town who would ask me about living in an igloo, what it was like to live without electricity and television, what did I do with the dogs from my sled once I got to the border, how did I learn to speak English so well, or any number of other ridiculous questions. They lived 30 minutes from the border... 30 minutes. So while I love my American neighbours and have many American close friends to this day, this video doesn't seem so odd.
I am pleased you can laugh at your fellow Americans, personally though I would be ashamed to be an American and totally disgusted. On the plus side, Countries around the world have been laughing at the yanks for many many years. Love your vids and your attitude, U.K. (written in real English) ✔
@@foreignreacts I'm glad you have the sense of humour to laugh about it. Because of the sorry state of affairs that US is in. If you couldnt laugh at it, you'd be well depressed. Its why British people joke all the time. Its making light of the situation. Yeah you get the snowflakes being offended, ignore them!! Thems the ppl creating cancel culture. Joke about them too, make them angrier its funny.
I visited the US in 1990 with the Royal Dutch Navy. When in Baltimore we opened the ships for visitors. They asked us where we were from. We replied that we were from Holland. The reactions varied from "Is that Holland Texas or Holland Virginia?" to "Really? Why do you have ships??" Some responded: Oh i know Poland....... We decided not to educate them on geography but just let them live in their US bubble.......
I have bought alcohol in the US as a tourist, and with an international passport 🤣 and to think the lady had an US passport! Not accepting it is just ignorant. 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣
I have a British passport. Years ago, while travelling around the US, I went into a bank to cash in some travellers cheques. The bank clerk refused because, according to him, my ID wasn't valid. How dumb can you be?
Well, place of incident: Northern Germany (Hamburg airport to be precise). An exchange student is coming over and for some reason I went with my aunt to pick her up. So far so good. Literally first thing she asks: "Why is no one wearing 'Lederhosen' and 'Dirndl'." - "You are in Hamburg, Northern Germany." - "Yeah, why is no one wearing them, it's my favorite thing about Germany!" At that point I turned around to not start laughing in her face. That was around 20 years ago.
I very briefly worked answering phones for tourists. It was not a job that lasted long. The pay was great but the people were beyond stupid. Some questions I have been asked. I'm Canadian btw. 1)where are the ATM machines in Canada? Like every half block if you're downtown. 2) how can I get into the polar bear races? Well, go up North, tie some meat to your friend and set them loose. Sooner or later a bear will likely show up. 3) How much winter gear should I bring....? For Vancouver Island...in summer..... Enough said. 4)can I see penguins. 5) I'm not a good hunter should I bring my own food? Just after declaring they were going to Toronto...hardly the middle of nowhere. No you can eat at a restaurant like the other sane tourists. I've been asked if Canada has showers, running water, indoor heating, if they can bring their semiautomatic and just walk around with it. (We actually have these things called gun laws. And fyi Americans. If you actually read your constitution you will find that the freedom to bare arms specifically is in reference to military and a militia formed by the govt. To quote: "*A well regulated Militia*, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Technically by their own constitution, any American civilians not part of the militia or the military have no 'right' to bare arms at all.)
It’s probably because the US itself is so big but they seem to think all of Europe is the same. Like no 😂 every country is different try to compare France to Germany and there is a big difference 😂😂
Us Europeans do the same, don't we? We often speak of the US as a whole when almost every subject varies greatly depending on where in the US the other party lives.
On a driving holiday with my husband and two daughters , a 6 and a 7 year old. American woman “ where y’all from?” Me “Australia”. Our daughters come to us to ask me a question, American “ how y’all teach them that sweet accent?” Me 🤷🏻
I've not had the misfortune to have a "dumb American" moment, but one time I, a life-long Australian, got confused for an American by a fellow Aussie and was told to "go back to America" because I was celebrating Halloween, which is "an American holiday". There's also the time a random commenter called me a N*zi because I'm German by heritage on both sides of my family, but was born and raised Australian. Not sure if they were American or not, but stupidity runs rampant no matter where you're from.
Let me assure you, these are not fake. I am American, but, after graduating high school I enlisted in the Navy and have been to several places in Asia. Travel, curiosity, and a natural inclination to read both fiction and non-fiction have left me feeling more and more like a foreigner in my own country. I have literally met people in my city who don't know basic math, who don't know the difference between a continent and a country, who don't know how many states comprise the U.S... There are a ton of factors that contributed to this sad situation in our country, but those would require a book to tell, not a post. ;-)
Regarding the concentrartion camps - that was not actually wrong; yes, the big ones are in eastern europe, but there are concentrations camps in Germany too, and it is quite conceivable that the person visited those.
In Austria there are concentration camps too. Also: please please don't try to visit "where Hitler was born". I'm from close by and only Neo Nazi creeps do that, it makes us very uncomfortable and wtf, go to the concentration camp and learn something instead.
I visited a camp in Germany as well, can't remember if it was a death camp though. Had to go back to the tour bus cause, being in the camp and knowing what happened made me sick. Do read a lot about European history though and about the camps.
8:40 I've been extremely anxious speaking english for years because of my accent (I'm french) and even today, if I worked hard on it and I don't have any problem to discuss in english, I'm still really embarrassed when I hear myself because I still have a really strong accent. But the one this girl has is one of the strongest french accent I've ever heard wow 😂 Yes in case you ask, for most of the people here, this accent doesn't sound cute or sexy but ridiculous, that's why many french people don't even try to speak another language even if they have enough knowledge to do so, because they don't want to look ridiculous 🤷♂️
Bonjour/bonsoir, cette ‘Parisienne’ n’était pas du tout française. C’est un pur accent de comédie. Plutôt offensant, je trouve. NB: en anglais, on dit ‘speak a language’, pas ‘discuss’ qui signifie ‘débattre’. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
@@valerieh84 Ouais je me disais bien que l'accent était vraiment fort aussi voire un peu surjoué. Mais j'en ai déjà vu qui ont un accent français encore plus prononcé sans le forcer...
Who cares...that shouldnt make you feel down. Most people who aint native speak english with an accent. Did you hear Ex-Yu people speak english? Most of them have a thicker accent. Even though I am one of those people of this region I grew up in Germany and everyone says when I speak English that you can hear the German accent instead of croatian 😅 As long you dont have trouble to communicate with people in terms that you all understand each other the accent doesnt matter.
@@Epintus06 Oui, j’ai connu une ou deux personnes comme ça. Mais même celles-là ne parlaient pas aussi mal, du point de vue phonologique 😂 Là, il s’agit de quelqu’un qui parle avec un ‘accent’ de comédie, comme l’imaginent des personnes qui n’ont aucune expérience de l’accent français, en insistant grossièrement sur de soi-disants caractéristiques ... ce qui révèle l’ artifice. Je pense qu’il s’agit d’une francophone qui veut se rendre intéressante. Dommage que je n’ai pas accès à des logiciels d’analyse phonologique, je pense que je pourrais le prouver facilement.
Speak proudly with your beautiful native accent. You took the time and effort to learn another language and that is most definitely an achievement worthy of being shown off.
One of the funniest experiences I had in the US was buying a beer at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. I was 50 years old at the time and I was asked to provide ID to prove I was over 21 years old. Now, I look my age, don’t have a problem purchasing beer in Australia. Didn’t make any sense then and still doesn’t make any sense. And with the English comment. I was told by a woman in Michigan that my English was really good given my native language was German……. Austria or Australia…..doesn’t seem to make any difference!!! Grüße aus Australien, mate.
"That's cool, I've never seen a passport before..." I've had American cops try and tell me that my Canadian Drivers License wasn't valid in the US and that I needed to get an American one to drive in the US. It was like talking to children.
I'm American and I've actually had other Americans ask me where I was from. I would tell them a city or state, but they would ask me, "where are you really from?" Which is basically code for what other country are you really from because you don't really look American. It's like "dominant society people" have forgotten that there were and still are indigenous people living here. Duh.........
3 days ago I am in a local Mexican restaurant here in Spain 🇪🇸, we are 5,993 miles from Mexico, a small group of Americans walk in (judging from accents from California I’d guess) and sit at the table beside mine. We don’t like spices so please no chillies, no guacamole and also we don’t want lime or cilantro on our food.. The food comes.. One of the group says outloud to her friends ‘Doesn’t taste like real Mexican food does it?’ … I swear I nearly sprayed the beer i was drinking out of my nose…..
The Canadian lady did a really great and FUNNY job with that southern accent and her facial expressions were delightful lol!!!Wonder if she's an actress?
Jajaja talking about maps. I understand how that boy feels about maps. When I went to Ireland as a teacher I met a pair of USA girls, and when I said I was Mexican they said I couldn’t cause I was white, after all that shit, they asked me how did I got to Ireland and I said “in a plane” they were all shocked to know we had planes in Mexico, and cars… and houses… my Irish friends were looking at these girls like “are you serious?” but then one of them said “Hey, if you have cars in Mexico, why didn’t used your car to come to Ireland, isn’t cheaper than the plane ticket” We all were dumbfounded and I said “dear there is an ocean in between” and they all shocked said “No way! Damn! I have no idea there was an ocean between Mexico and Ireland” and I said “Girl! There is one too between the States and here, we are in the same continent” but when I said “we are in the same continent” they thought I was talking of that right moment meaning Europe and I clarified “No I mean America, Mexico and USA are in the American continent, you also have an ocean in between” and the fake blonde said “No, we don’t, Mexico may have one, but we don’t, America is not a continent dear, is a country” and one of my friends said “No girl, indeed America is a continent we know that from elementary school” and one guy said “How did you came here? By a car?” and the brunette answered “Don’t be silly a car ride would take so many hours, a plane is faster” (not the first time I hear that dumb shit about the ocean in between) and this guy said “No girl, there is an ocean, cars can’t seal!” they were astonished and I said “It is true, if Mexico can’t USA can’t” “Why” “Because of geography” “What has geography to do here?” “Well, if you can’t come here by a car from Mexico, you can’t from the States. Mexico is right below the States,” and the blonde one said this stupid puritan shit “Oh girl don’t be so bad to your own country, I know Mexico is not as developed and powerful and great as the US, but don’t use the word “Below” to denigrate your own country. No country is below another” and I said “Well tell that to the maps you idiot”. Yeah whenever they try to be nice they just fuckup. And by the way for all the stupid "USAers" (American is the right fucking demonym for everyone born and raised in this continent) who make the joke "in Spanish they laugh in the wrong written way because their jajajaja sounds like iA iA iA" Well that is stupid and entitled, like english and it's fonetics is the only language that matters in a world that has about 7100 languages. If from english jajajaja sounds "silly" imagine your so called "Way to correctly write a laught (ha ha ha ha)" in SPANISH where H is SILENT. You certanly sound like a mentally retarded saying AAAAAAAAAAAAA old loquendo and insert drool falling from their mouths.
In the Bojack Horseman episode 'The dog days are over' there is a conversation between American tourists in Vietnam, and the American Vietnamese Diane, where they try to talk to her and don't understand that she speaks English. I thought it was a funny joke, but hearing these stories, that could actually be true.
Looooool, it is also NOT true that it has to be an American ID, it has to be a valid ID for entering the US. If such idea state that you are of a legal age to buy alcohol or tobacco, they HAVE to accept it. Sometimes people need to be more aware of the actual existing and still active NATIONAL laws. (Yup not state or local, but federal) Seems that someone never heard of a Bible. Ever read about America in it ?? Ever read about Egypt in it ?? (Even if you are not a Christian, I am sure most people could answer those questions.)
I got a few to add: American: "We are going to Holland" Me: "I hope you realize that 'Holland' is not the country, but one of 2 provinces North-Holland or South-Holland. It could also refer to one of many ships or fortresses all over the damn world including a town in your own United States?" American: "I went to [insert university] so I'm better then you [insert bs reasoning]" Me: "I hope you realize that US universities are not the best in the world anymore, or for that matter any decent if you treat it like a prison because of shool shootings and thing it's normal. Think you need to party and make the life's of other students hell to fit in. Think you are better while doing bullshit things like gender studies and just shout 'murica' because you are too stubborn to learn more about the world and can't even imagine anything past your own backyard?"
14:33 We have a joke for that in Germany. The two greatest achievements of Austria were convincing the world that hitler was a german and Mozart an Austrian.
Charlotte Church was a young opera singer from the UK. She sang for president Bush junior and after the concert he asked her where she came from she said Wales, ( A country which is part of the UK) he said Oh what state is that in. She told that her self on a TV chat show.
The stupidest thing an American woman asked me on a bus in San Diego was "Are there universities in Italy?". I replied: "Yes madam there are, in my city Bologna there is the oldest university in the world!"
I went to college in the US (Boston) and in my freshman year, I got a random American roommate. Because I had an accent (or maybe also the color of my skin lol) he politely asked me where I'm from, I said Malaysia, And one of the first things he asked me was, do u have freeways (highways) there? I kid u not
Back in the 80s, I worked in a restaurant (in Canada) and we moved to different colored money. An American tourist said "Boy, your money sure looks funny", and I replied "at least we can easily tell the difference between a $5 and $10 bill" Then there's the ones who want American change for Ameican $$ - um - no.
Do American s realise that Britain is not England,and know that Scotland, Wales make up Britain , you add northern Ireland and that is the United Kingdom, Britain is made of 3 separate countries, Scottish dislike American thinking Britain is England as do Welsh people,educate your fellow Americans pal
I live on the Isle of Wight which is an admittedly pretty small Island off the south coast of the UK. I traveled around the USA for six months an the amount of people who straight up accused me of making it up to sound more "fairytale" was not so funny after the first half dozen times. Even showing where it was on Google maps didn't sway some of them.
Hiya mate. I was asked by a young woman selling cany apples and cotton candy in a mall (toffee apples & candy floss in the UK) if I knew the queen. As sarcasm is a British martial art I replied "yes of course, she regularly comes round for tea and scones". She said, with a high pitched & excited voice "oh really"? I replied "no, not really" & just walked away with my American wife who muttered "stupid f..king yanks". I guarantee you that you wouldn't get within 10 feet of the queen without being flattened by an MI6 agent.
The 'Do you know the queen?' is a classic. It's pretty much guaranteed if you're British and meet an American. That said I do actually know two people who have been introduced to her. The first is my sister after she won an award and the second is one of my caving mates, Rick Stanton, who met her when he got his MBE and then again for his George medal (after the Thai cave rescue).
I've never done anything so bold as to warrant an award from the queen. Spent most of my 60 years in rock bands smoking weed and shagging women. Seems to work for some, (mick Jagger, Elton John) but I was not so fortunate 😂✌
Man I'm binge watching your videos, I'm struck by your humble attitude and open mind, it really speaks for someone's intelligence to be able to go out of their comfort zone and explore other ideas and cultures. I suggest you to react to history and geography videos as those are often topics to which american people aren't really exposed in school or in the culture. Props to you form Italy.
I always try my best to reply to as much comments as possible but I fortunately get around idk too much comments per day but i honestly am happy I saw this one! I’ll for sure take your suggestion
I guess when you live, especially, in Europe and on top of that in a very touristy place accents aint that exciting 😅 probably because we are quite used to it....but I guess for people like you who didnt have much contact with people from all over the world it is exciting 😉 Edit: the guy with the story about Shannon killed me...his acting 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm from England, living in Germany. I love hearing all the different European accents. I just wish I didn't sound so English when I try to speak German
@@alansmith4748 why? That is not a bad thing. Rea Garvey, a great singer who is from Ireland and lives in Germany, has an accent too when he speaks and it sounds cool. As long people understand you that is all that matters. But I have to say when I was a kid I always wanted to sound british when we learnt english in school 🤣🤣🤣 I just love the sound of it...although some accents are hard to understand for me as a non native...scottish being one of them 😅
@@alansmith4748 really? In general I guess I am more used to different english accents, but I wouldnt be able to specify which one is from which region. I would have to sit down and listen carefully how each accent sounds and learn the region. Tbh I will try now to find at least one video with people from Liverpool to see if I am able to understand them. 😆 I guess the easiest for foreigners to understand is the one from London. Nevertheless, I personally really like how you Brits sound in general. 😁
How is it that I know Indiana is in the USA as a foreigner who never ever studied the American states in school and a local who has studied it doesn’t know!? 🤦🏻♀️
I'm a big fan of ⚽⚽, through that i can acknowledge every country/nation worldwide like automatically learn about Geography Nice video, bro Keep it up 👏👏👏
you guys are really f up. 5 of your Presidents are from the Netherlands! New York was New Amsterdam. That is why the New York flag is also Orange, White and Blue. We also have a place in the south called America and in the southeast a place Russia. And a place called "the Hulk". Greetings from Spakenburg Netherlands.
During my uni years I spent a summer in the US doing camp America. One of the American counsellors asked where I was from so I said I was from England. Then he asked how long it had taken me to drive from there. Thinking he might have thought I meant New England, though my accent should have been a clue I wasn't, I clarified that I meant was from England in Britain/UK?Europe not NEW England. Him: "Yeah I got that, I'm not dumb I go to college. But how long a drive is it? I'm thinking of visiting one day." Me: "You can't drive here you have to fly. Or perhaps come by boat but that's really expensive and would take ages." Him: "How come?" Me: Have you ever heard of this big, wet, sploshy thing called the Atlantic Ocean? It's between the US and England and you have to cross over it to get here."😄 I also had to explain the British Isles are part of the European Continent. He admitted he'd always thought England was part of the US. With the odd exception most of the other American councellors were nearly as ignorant. I'd known the US education system was poor, but had thought that the ones who went to college wouldn't be too bad. I was wrong. Even worse me and the other European counsellors discovered we actually knew far more about the US than the Americans at camp and spent much of the summer correcting their misconceptions about the world and educating them about their own country. That said there are plenty of ignorant people here in the UK. I once had to explain to half a dozen colleagues where Manchester was, one of their own country's biggest cities. Some knew it was 'somewhere North' but were flumoxed when I asked Northwest or Northeast and what other large cities it was close to. I told them it was close to Liverpool (40 miles). They weren't sure where that was either. At that point I just facepalmed. I asked hadn't they ever looked at the maps of Britain and the world hanging on the classroom walls at school? Or watched the weather forecast after the News which has a big map with the locations of most big cities? Or just been curious enough to find out for themselves? Apparently not. Being ignorant can be understandable in some cases. If nobody has ever explained something to you and you've never had a reason to find out then fair enough. However not knowing things that are common knowledge is worrying. Willful ignorance is another matter. Having a complete lack of curiosity about the world around you, not caring enough to find something out, asking a question and then refusing to listen when someone takes the trouble to explain. Those are attitudes I don't understand and have no time for.
I take slight issue with your Manchester comment. The only reason I know where it is, is because I've lived all over the country, Manchester included. And that's the only reason. I have no reason to know where certain cities are on a map. I know all the major ones, sure, but that's again due to me moving all over. I've never studied a map to learn where places are. The UK is small enough that it doesn't make much of a difference in the grand scheme. Often when people are trying to tell me where something is and they say "oh it's next to..." and I shrug. I don't need to know. I do however know where most European countries are approximately, and the majority of Northern and Southern America. Knowing the location of countries, that are actually important, and the location of key cities are two very different things.
My god I could listen to that French lady all day, gotta love other accents. I used to work with a Mauritian lady and her accent.....OMG just amazing. Similar (not the same) to the French accent because they speak French Creole.
Jesus I love the energy the dude put into the telling of the Netherlands story. But I have to point out one incorrect thing, theres a lot of concentration camps in other countries too and Germany does have a few, they're not only in Poland.
so how do tourists buy beer (or other alcoholic beverages) in the US? .... Portugal not in Europe? ANd here I thought I'd moved back to Europe when I moved here... I wonder where the f* I am...
Considering there was another video where an American immigration officer at an airport said Portugal wasn’t even a country, I guess this is progress!? 🤷🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣
@@juliepandora I guess 😄At least according to this person, I'm in an actual country, even if I have the wrong continent, inestead of being in a non-existent place 🤣🤣🤣 Good to know I haven't moved into limbo 🤣
I think he meant death camps (lit. "annihilation camps"/"Vernichtungslager"). They were all in Poland (the "Generalgouvernement"). There were other camps in Germany and elsewhere, but they were "just" labour camps. Many people died there as well though.
I went to Luxembourg once when we as a family were touring round the Netherlands and Belgium. It was a public holiday and everywhere was closed. We stayed maybe an hour, just checking, and went back to Belgium. That was 1963.
We reside in Arizona, some twenty odd years ago my wife and I traveled to Missouri to visit her relatives. While there we went to an auction. My wife had the highest bid. When we went to pay the young lady accepting payment looked at the traveler's checks with suspicion. She asked where we were from. My wife told her AZ, to which the young lady replied, "I ain't never seen Arizona money before." Also, we once traveled to Texas to see my relatives. We stopped at a restaurant to get a bite. My wife has a gluten allergy and inquired if the restaurnt had gluten free bread. The waitress replied, "We don't use gluten here, we make our bread with wheat." What intelligence I have is in spite of my American education.
Jeez man, just stop replicating and making fun of british, scottish, irish, australian and other accents. Like yeah they probably sound weird or funny to you, but cmon. That's really the most annoying part of your videos for me. Otherwise they are great
Not mocking or making fun Me repeating something or enjoy hearing it Isn’t mocking Thought humans understand that laughing isn’t always a bad thing Doesn’t mean I don’t like it It means I love it.
From canada to florida in your mind is all the way north to all the way south? have you heard about south america? and consider that just because he lives in canada he can live waay up northern canada or just beyond the border, biig difference.
What makes it all funnier is that most of the things here are basic info you can look up on the internet. I know Americans are busy with their own stuff in USA, but it wouldn't hurt to look up that info.
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Please don't excuse yourself for your honest reaction! It just shows the lack of educational level and ignorance in your country.
As less than 10% of Americans own a passport, for the other 90% it must look very strange, as driverslicence is the main form of ID. So you could overlook that, but I have to wonder about the school curriculum in American schools.
I think we all agree that you "losing compusure" is the best parts haha, you are not too much you are great
@@ronalddejong3017 I would love to see American schools curriculums for various ages. I imagine they would consist of nothing except America, America, America.
The guy in the grey sweatshirt who you didn't know where he was from, he's from Ireland.
An American in London on an open top tourist bus, outside harrods. The traffic lights turn red and you hear a repeating beep beep beep etc so if anyone who is blind and wants to cross the Rd they know it's safe. The American tourist asks the tour guide, "excuse me but what's that beeping"? and the tour guide replies " that's to let blind people know the traffic lights have turned red". Her reply was " what! Omg! In America we don't allow blind ppl to drive".
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We have those beeping sounds in Germany, too. Not everywhere, but I definitely know this.
Still... stupid answer. 😅
LOL What?! 😂
🤦🏼♂️ … that’s a good one for humour pages in Sunday newspapers
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Not the dumbest thing an American has said to me, but a fairly dumb thing that allowed to seriously mind-fuck with one.
An American had just moved to the UK and started work in my department. She was pleased to find out that she would be getting the first Monday in May as a Bank Holiday (UK version of a US federal holiday), which was only about three weeks away. I explained to her that the holiday was basically the same thing as Labor Day in the US (which the US celebrates in September), just to put it in some kind context she would understand.
She then asked me why we celebrated "an American holiday". I explained to her that the holiday over here was called May Day. But it is also the holiday for International Worker's Day. May Day and IWD are both on May 1st over here, but we always have the first Monday as a Bank Holiday. I explained that we celebrate Labor Day as do many countries, as it is a socialist holiday recognising the contribution of workers, unions, and the labour market, and honouring the first strike held by workers over pay and condiitons.
I shit you not, she spent the next two weeks trying to accept her and family held a socialist celebration every year. She kept on calling me a liar, until I told her to look it up for herself.
Damn 🤣
And the best thing is that the strike took place in Chicago. 😂
@@panther7748 And that's Americans celebrate it in September. So that it won't be associated with the Chicago strike.
@@Andy-ju8bb Wow. That's stupid.
I always have a problem with Labour day.
On Labour day you are supposed Labour.
That is what the name indicates.
(in NL we don't celebrate Labour day, we just work [if it is not a weekend]).
But then we have kings day on the 27th of april, with the previous queen it was 30th of april, so we get our day off anyway.
"What would your ancestors think about you?"
German here: During my surf-around-the-world trip one destination was LA in California. As you can imagine I was DEEPLY tanned and I had well maintained awesome sun bleached dreadlocks that even black-Americans appreciated by nodding towards me. Classic stereotype for a surfer fulfilled, I could have been in the Quiksilver catalogue...! 😂
While standing in the queue at McDonalds I talked to some people and we came into a conversation. There was another man and when he heard I came from Germany he asked me about what my ancestors would think about me...
Pretty puzzled I asked what he meant. He specified what my German ancestors would think about me with my 'bright blue eyes' and my 'kind of hair'.
Realizing about that dude's thoughts I replied that my German ancestors would feel very proud about me because with this 'kind of hair' they defeated the Roman legions in Teutoburg-forest that were invading my country.
Not what he expected.... 🤣
Well those are Germanic ancestors. And yep, even native English speakers mix that up, and it drives me up the walls. It's like equating American and Native American.
Good retour, though!
@@Julia-lk8jnThe thing is, that the Germanic tribes are the ancestors of modern Germans (and many other Europeans). Whereas native Americans are the ancestors of only a few modern US-citisans.
Every other country on earth knows that Sweden and Switzerland is two different countries but not America. Everytime I say that I am from Sweden, Americans start talking about clocks, chocolate and lederhosen (short leather pants). Some of the time the get the meatballs right but still. Greetings from the cold north of Sweden :D
An american once insited to me that the capital of Sweden was Zurich and another one confused Sweden with Scotland and started talking about William Wallace
As a Swiss I couldn't agree more. Same experience while details change. Yep my Swiss ancestors were Vikings🤦♂️😂
Marabou?
You are lucky you are Swedish man. ive heard countless times that Americans think Norway is the capital of Sweden.
Just a fun fact, Lederhosen aren't even worn a lot in Switzerland, they're more of a german thing.
A friend of mine told me today that when she was visiting Scotland, she stayed in a hostel with an American teacher. She asked my friend where was she from, she said Uruguay. She said that Uruguay is not a country. My friend, yes it is, im actually from there. The American says, no believe me, im a GEOGRAPHY TEACHER and i have never heard of a country named Uruguay. WTF!!!!
Believe me this I know-it-all attitude does not only apply to American teachers. My geography teacher (she is german but for some reason identifies as English? No idea why.) was teaching about the the Mediterranean climate. Since I’m Turkish, she naturally asked me about winters I had experienced in Turkey. I told her it was about the same as in Germany. It gets cold and snows. She didn’t believe me and ridiculed my answer cause she was convinced it was always warm in Turkey.
This was back in 6th grade I’m now 30 and I still remember her false conviction than ever I see snow. And since Istanbul had multiple blizzards last month I kept thinking about that grumpy old know-it-all.
But on the bright side, I realised early on thanks to this that you shouldn’t just believe everything that is taught
@@adrasthea17 People like her are the reason why teachers is considered somewhat of a low job role in modern society.
At least elementary and stuff. I hope this was not a high school teacher.
@@adrasthea17 Yep, that is a sort of an occupational hazard for teachers - always be right, never ever admit to an mistake. I've seen a few cases of it, and I made sure that when I teach (Languages, mostly) I simply say "okay, not certain about that, I'll look it up".
Honestly, when you've gotten a few unspeakably bitchy responses from teens ("how can you not know that? aren't you supposed to be a teacher?") , you kind of understand where that "no, I'm right, _especially when I'm wrong" comes from.
@@Julia-lk8jn From what you say about the teenagers that you teach ,I am more then ever convinced that the country that is the USA has not yet grown past that stage.
Boasting ,always know that they are right even when proved wrong ,accept violence as a necessary part of life ,worship guns and fast cars , sex, money means more than culture etc, etc. We are the greatest etc.
wow, I have alot of admiration for some of these people....with tv, movies, the internet, social media, etc it takes real commitment to actually be that dumb. You really have to work at it to avoid getting any knowledge! LOL
Wow 🤣😭😵💫🤣
some of these people might be making important decisions about how to handle the current 'special operation' in the Ukraine - just let that sink in for a moment
I have never been to America, but I had an interesting experience with American tourists in Cologne, Germany (I am German) a few years ago. At the time I was coming out of the main train station and heading towards Neumarkt when I noticed a couple talking quite loudly in English about why nearly all people were talking in a language (German) they didn't understand and not in English and that everything was much better in America, and so on.
I went and asked if they needed help. It could have been that they were lost or something. No, they were just upset that in Germany (!) German is spoken and not English, so they didn't understand anything. I just said that Germany is called Germany for a reason and not "Engmany". And that the national language of Germany is German. After some back and forth, I found out that they still wanted to go to France and wished them good luck.
I know from my own experience that many French people can speak English, but often don't (want to) speak it. Like Americans, they expect others to adapt to them and not vice versa. I still wonder today how the American couple coped with the fact that not all the world worships the English language and that English is not the main language in every country in the world. 🤔 And that the main language of France is French, not English. 🤣
People from the UK do this too you know, expecting English. Although we from the UK do recognise that there are different languages spoken in other countries. Its just that we're terrible at it. I mean we love Spain but we need to make some changes here. Theres no Bingo in the evenings. No decent Fish n Chips and we are struggling to get a roast on Sundays!
It reminds me of reading once about an American tourist in Spain complaining there were way too many Spanish people around...
@@CrazyInWeston Some of my online friends are from the UK. One of them is a polyglot. He doesn't have an easy time learning, but still tries and is currently learning his sixth language. He says that you get to know the country and the people so much better when you speak their language and he is fascinated by all the different cultures.
I wish I was as motivated as he is when it comes to learning. So far, I only know German (logically), English (relatively well) and French (unfortunately I've forgotten a lot of it because I'm not in contact with French people enough) from school and I'm currently learning Japanese.
Unfortunately, there are also some Germans who complain abroad that German is not spoken and why there is no Döner or Currywurst with chips or Schnitzel. I always hit myself in the forehead when I hear something like that and ask myself why they don't just stay in Germany if that's what they want.
When I used to study at Porto's University I had to go trough Luiz I's Bridge everyday and if you know the area you know tourists are there all the time during the entire year.
So, I'm going to class on a thursday wearing Porto's traditional university attire "traje académico" ( most of the university students that wear it do so on that day of the week).
Well, add people wearing the traditional attire looking pretty much like Harry Potter characters in a touristy place and you'll get a lot of people asking for photos.
It was normal life. Some says we did, other times we didn't because we couldn't or because we didn't want to.
Can you imagine from where were the people pretty much demanding we took photos with them instead of asking?
I went there for years and most tourists were nice ( even American one's) but all the rude one's I've encountered were American... Once they even berated a friend of mine for not speaking English well enough for them and they treated us as if we were supposed to be there to serve them on our knees and be oh-so-grateful they deigned themselves to be with our inferior people... We were private citizens doing our own thing. We don't owe you shit and we're not getting to class late just because you are demanding we stay so you can take pictures of us... Specially not after you're being rude asf to us.
@@CrazyInWeston I know where you got that brilliant quote from! 😉🤣🤚
One of the dumbest questions I was asked by an American:
"You're from South Africa, right?"
"No."
"Are you sure?"
🤣🤣🤣
but are you sure tough?
"Are you sure you have right's"
If stupidity was an event America would be gold medal Olympian level, for example I saw another American react to this video and he refused to accept that Irish guys accent was real and he was actually arguing with people in the comments about it ha ha its the ego and arrogance of them thinking they know better than everybody else when most of them know precisely zero that's really annoying.
Yeeeees I watched this dude, too!
@@Ryuichi72 He just kept going on and on how the accents were being exaggerated and faked, I was like bro people like you are the reason videos like this exist ha ha oh the irony.
I’m very sorry for that experience you guys had
Accents are very real and I personally love accents
English native speakers are very used to accents by foreign speakers, I assume.
Why? Because English is worldwide the most important language in international trading, negotiations etc. Therefore and due to spread by British imperialism over half of the world there uncountable accents exist.
Everybody is invited to correct me. I’m glad to learn new stuff and points of view everyday 🙂
@@Ryuichi72 We are used to accents because there are so many in the UK accents are totally different every 10 miles or so, and are so different we can't understand each other sometimes.
I love the fact that she was told she needed an American passport to VISIT America. First, which country in America are you referring to? Second: I as a swede use my SWEDISH passport to visit America. I am not surprised though.
Well said.
1. You don’t need an American passport to visit America
2. Some countries have the privileges to visit with either visa or their country has a passport agreement with the USA
3. American passports are given to only American citizens
@@foreignreacts U mean the United States. America is a continent, North and South America
@@angshusarma8331 no he means an american passport, which everyone knows as the united states but for example brazil is in South America but ppl there have Brazilian passport not "South american" passports
@@angshusarma8331 This guy is a perfect representation of how undereducated these poor people are in reality.
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It's like somebody else on these videos said: "We all know that not all Americans are this way. But when Americans do dumb, they are really good at it."
excelling at everything they do, as usual
On a side note to the guy from Switzerland, the concentration camps were in Germany also. In Poland were the camps with the gas chambers, in Germany they were more like labour camps, but the people still died like flies there.
Don't forget austria and Czechia
Had an american student visit Finland for a year to study, his first question was "Where are all the flags, aren't you celebrating the independence day?" We were of course confused because our independence day was a good 8 months away. He meant the american independence day.
Tollo mikä tollo 😂
Why? Don't you, finnish people, celebrate american holydays? 🤣🤣 it must be eye openning to them to discover that the rest of the world doesn't revolve around them...
Ouch 😓
Thought Merica was special ☹️
@@foreignreacts ofc you are. Just like everyone else...
So weird they actually believe the entire world celebrates the day that the United States gained their independence from the United Kingdom. And then be shocked when they learn that no one ever cared.
I'm from Ukraine and when I took my citizenship here in US I was shocked that Americans had no idea of majority of those questions about 80% of it and me being immigrant I knew every question
Shocking to me
That's why it's so easy for foreign nationals to get American citizenship. You have to leave 60% of your brain where you came from and you will still do just fine in America.
What kind of questions?
Those questions are actually tough though. My friend had to study for them and I took a look and only knew about half lol
If the US was true to the citizenship, you should only be able to become a US citizen if you score a maximum of 20% correct.
That's kind of normal. It's always fun to run people through a naturalization test of their own nation.
The US has not been to war with Egypt and we all know that:
“War was/is God’s way of teaching Americans geography”
The US however did provide aid to Egypt during the Arab Spring/2011 Egyptian revolution (the US thinking was maybe we can help put a government in power that is more kind to Israel)
Yeah, I was wondering. If the USA is the whole world does that mean the USA keeps getting into wars with itself or what? Her brain is a frigging wasteland.
ouch
12:40 Luxembourger here: he’s right, we might be small but we are important too 😂😭
It's OK I still consider you a country. But Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino and Monaco can just go ahead and get annexed.
*pet little Luxembourg* your Neighbors know and like you, little one :D
I was working on a train from London (England) going to Glasgow (Scotland) when an American tourist who was going to Edinburgh looked out the window and asked me "Is that the same moon up there as we have in the states".. Then silence.. then Laughter,She thought the moon was exclusive to the USA.
Crazy but true🤔🤔🤔
The UN general assembly should decide to force the USA to scrap US-Educationsystem and provide them a working one xD
That physically hurts me🙈🙈🙈🤣🤣
I was in Chicago for 3 weeks. The amont of times a manager was called when I wanted to buy cigaretts or beer was amazing, I found it funny see them trying to understand my swedish passport or drivers licence, since here we always put year/month/date, and they just did not get it 😀
🤦♀️😆
I've been in Sweden several times and I didn't know you wrote your dates backwards 😛 (I'm British we write our dates the opposite way round - date/month/year)
@@roguegargoyle914 I have colleagues in Chicaco and Edinburgh, and sometimes we get all confused regarding the dates but also the time diffrence 😀 If somone leaves 04.05, I have to ask is it 4 May or 5 April. Plus I write all times in military time, and I often talk about weeks, not dates, like I have vaciation in weeks 27 to 30, that confuses the americans even more, they have no idea when that is.
@@roguegargoyle914
I sometimes write dates/times in text fields or file names as
YYYYMMDD HHMMSS especially if followed by a description, eg error messages.
20220531 152408 fail X
20220601 032345 error3
In a spreadsheet as text, or a folder, ordering them ascending or descending will put them in date/time order, which is useful in troubleshooting.
The Sweden Vs. Switzerland thing is so common, sometimes you just have to laugh. For an example. When the Swedish music company Spotify got registered on the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York even they raised the Swiss flag (the tradition is to raise the flag of the country the company is from outside). I just can not cope sometimes haha
Aside from colours and form at least there was a cross on the flag 🙃
@@Ryuichi72 True. So that's something I guess hehe
I find this weird bc in Spanish they have much more similar names, and I used to mix them up, but when I learned English I saw they were so different and created a form to remember with their English names. So, I really don't see how they mix them up
As an Austrian and not Australian, I feel you.
That is hilarious!!
About 30 years ago, I took my daughters American friends on a day trip to London. Things started to fall apart when I introduced a little history.
I explained that the City of London is not Metropolitan London. It has its own mayor and police force etc.
At one point, I pointed to a street sign an said look. We were in the city of Westminster. That confused them for a good ten minutes. Until, a black bloke drove past in a nice car. Maybe a BMW. "He must be a chauffeur" one of them said. I said why do you think that? " because that's a really expensive car"
I gave up when we passed a convenience store. Indian owned by the sign.
I said, Indian corner shops are a thing here. There are thousands of them. At which point I was called a liar. Indians, it transpired, are from America.
Asians are from India.
So basically they were racist
I do wonder what goes on with their education system .-.
How about this one. I work in a fairly culturally diverse place. There's one idiot there and i forget how it came up, but the subject of "Asians" came up. I looked around the room and pointed out about a dozen coworkers who are Asians. They were people from Afghanistan, india, nepal, thailand, laos, philippines, china, vietnamese, etc. I said they're all asians. He called me an idiot and said they weren't. We're not talking about a kid, this is a 40 year old dumb ass who thinks he knows so much about everything and the world. ...and he's educated you know where.
@@aiijae9884 - They are still debating whether they should get one :) You know, freedom™ and school ... either or. Their national anthem is not about the land of the well educated, is it?
Canadian girl, you didn't move to America, you moved to the United States of America. There is no country called America. North America is a continent. Canadians, Mexicans are Americans as well because they live on the American continent. The ones you call Americans are actually citizens of the United States of America.
Thank you so much! I’ve been pointing that out for years, it’s so irritating not to mention central and South America that get completely erased from existence.
No you are wrong we are Americans
@@elvangulley3210 Yeah you are, but your country chose a shitty name for itself because people from other countries on the continents of North- and South America are also 'Americans'. Just as people from European, Asian and African countries are also European, Asian and African respectively. They just didn't call their country "the United States of Europe/Asian/Africa" so they got the names from their individual countries too. Yours is just the same as the continental. They are for example both Swedish and European, both Chinese and Asian, both Kenyan and African, and you are both American and (North-)American. Not our fault y'all called yourselves that and then claimed the term from 2 entire continents lol. Canadians are both Canadian and (North-)American, Chileans are both Chilean and (South-)American, etc. Everyone living anywhere from the northern tip of Canada to the most southern tip of Chile is, in fact, American.
Yeah, the Canadian girl is an American who moved to United States, like how a German is a European who could move to France.
@@Liggliluff
Did she move to the United States of Mexico or the United States of America?
Drinking water from a bidet,what the fuck is that all about,even crocodile dundee knew what a bidet was used for!
I didn´t know what a bidet was but when I looked it up it was pretty obvious it was toilet-related due to how it looked... so the dude that drank from it had to be a new level of stupid.
The Canada story at around 6:32 ... I was applying for a couple of courses in a school in Sweden (I am from Finland, I got accepted for exchange studies and all was fine and dandy up to this point), but then the form told me to insert my SWEDISH social security number to apply for the courses, which I obviously didn't have, so I ticked the option "I need assistance on this matter from a school official" where they redirected me to a form which said "what kind of problem are you having? Please insert your SWEDISH social security number for help". We kept going around in circles and I was on the telephone to resolve this matter for days even though I was already officially accepted into the program months ago. So much bureaucracy was involved that I felt like flipping a table because "how on earth could you get accepted into a Swedish school while not being Swedish in the first place?" (even though I am a Swedish-speaking Finn and made it clear from the get-go by stating this and only speaking to them in Swedish). Jesus. It was the same kind of French-speaking Canadian vs English-speaking Canadian energy.
An Aussie with a very general accent, I tried to order from a food stand at LA Airport. After a few tries, I was asked what language I was speaking to see if they could possibly get an interpreter.
OMG lol
😆
I have bought wine in NYC with my Brazilian Passport as a tourist! I am not from the US. (So it doesn't even matter if the passport was from the US or not.) That passport person must have been in a place that doesn't get international tourism.... imagine forbidding every tourist from buying alcohol by making passports an invalid form of identification! That's crazy!
🤣🤣 bizar
The punchline of her story was that she showed the cashier not a foreign passport but a passport of the USA 🤣
Not just crazy. It's STUPID 🤦🏻♂️😂
This really, really isn't funny it's incredibly sad!
Nah, it's very funny too
I'm from London,, visited New Jersey an elderly gent gets in the lift with me so I asked what floor he wanted I replied I'm going through the foyer myself mate. He says 'you sound just like the actor from down under!' I replied Mel Gibson? He said 'no he's American, I mean Michael Caine!' I replied 'well we are Both Cockneys.' He then asked where abouts in Australia Cockney was.
lol
I found a lesson plan online for 1st grade geography. They talk about continents. So these people that say America is the only country have literally failed the 1st grade. This isn't an insult. This isn't an exaggeration. It's a literal fact that 1st graders know more about continents than these people. We should have a TV show called "Are you smarter than a preschooler", where the contestants have to identify blue squares and red circles. I vaguely remember preschool where we had to "learn" how to color and trace our hands to make a "hand turkey". Remember that? When you were taught that your hand is a thing? That's preschool. That's the education level of America. Yet these people vote?! That scares me and explains everything
There IS a show called similar to that. Its called "Are you smarter than a 5th Grader?" in the US - In the UK the show was called "Are you smarter than a 10yr old?" The level of dumbness happens in both countries.
@@CrazyInWeston Yes I know, which is why I said that. I choose not to be condescending but there would have been no reason for me to say it that way had I not known about the existing show. I'm starting to think every human on earth is stupid lol
@@CrazyInWeston yeah, my father tells me that in the late 80s he was in the UK and someone asked him if there were monkeys all around Rio de Janeiro in the streets. And another person asked him if Rio de Janeiro was in Africa. So I know this isn’t exclusive to Americans, but the poor Americans are more visible when it happens. Also, my dad’s story was pre-internet. Somehow I think the internet brought visibility to more parts of the world so I wonder if those comments diminished over time.
@@juliepandora Our phones are amazing. A phone 10 years ago had more computing power than all of NASA combined when it put man on the moon. Our phones nowadays put them to shame to the same level. Our computers would put our modern phones to shame too. Our phones have the sum total of all human knowledge and experience.
You can watch porn, you can order pizza. You can learn how to handle the rabid animal that's on your front porch right now. You can watch live feeds from security cameras around the world. Did you know that MIT (one of the top 5 schools in the world), posts their full, unedited lectures on youtube? Look for MIT OpenCourseware! I learned how to repair computers and build websites and robotics from youtube alone. And I owned a successful computer repair company in Florida for 2 years before moving to Texas. All from what I was able to learn from this little box we put in our pocket! We can watch live court and senate proceedings. Information can travel around the globe in less than 1 second!
And we still have people that think the earth is flat, or that covid is a hoax. It's sooooo sad to me. We still have people who think the only way to earn a living is to scam people from a scammer call center.
If people used their handheld box for more than cat videos, imagine what this world would look like NEXT WEEK! We can build artificial general intelligence if we wanted to. That AGI could solve everything from climate change, cancer and time travel in a matter of minutes, if not hours! But nope. We want to take pictures of our food. GOD why are we doing this to ourselves???
I'm not saying we HAVE TO do all these things. But if you wake up Tuesday in the same situation you did Monday, then Monday was worthless. If you wake up at 50 in the same situation you did at 40, then all of your 40s were worthless. And you have some people with the same mindset and worldview their entire lives. You know those people. Those are the people that say "back in my day". To hell with "back in my day". You can't experience the present if you're mind is in the past.
Yeah, grandpa, back in your day they didn't have a technology addiction. Back in your day you had to wait a week to get a letter from your wife too. Back in your day you had to take it on faith that your government was being honest. Back in your day, people died from food poisoning. Back in your day you had to get a book to learn how to fix a car. Back in your day, blacks weren't allowed to speak. Neither could women. Back in your day, if you didn't raise a family you were considered broken. Back in your day, a homosexual was beaten to death.
Times have changed. And it's truly sad and confusing that some people haven't changed with the times. Some people are even pushing to revert back to the old times. Especially American Republican politicians.
Plato's allegory of the cave comes to mind. People are so stuck staring at the shadow that they don't even ask where the shadow comes from or how it works. Turn from your perspective and look around. You'd be amazed at what you find. But humans are still living in the cave.
I love how the guy who encountered "Shannon" was so confidently INcorrect: There were actually concentration camps in Germany as well as Poland and you can see them in both countries. 🤦♀️
on the territory of occupied Poland*
@@alterego9082 No. The German part of Germany that has always been Germany. If you had done a simple Google search you would have found 7 of them in less than a second of pressing enter. I mean Dachau next to Munich is nearly as far away from Poland as you can get in Germany.
@@alterego9082
You're thinking death camps, I presume? Because the most western concentration camp was in Holland. I just limited it to the two countries mentioned in the video.
@@imajinallthepurple No there were sadly also concentration camps in Germany. Many students have to visit one of those during their school time
@@imajinallthepurple Auschwitz Birkenau was concentration camp, death camp for this complex was Treblinka. Both were made on occupied territory of Poland, there were no concentration camps in Poland as it was occupied
A passport is like an ID and SS card and history book all rolled into one. It's taken everywhere in the world. That's its main function. That cashier and manager were dumbbbbbb
I'm from Germany and we learned all the states plus their capitals and exact location on the map by heart 😂 I still remember most of it or at least can point in the right direction and that's like from over 15 years ago. Same goes with basically every country and I think that's what the majority is capable of. It's so funny and sad at the same time to see the lack of knowledge about their own country.
I had a geography teacher that gave us all blank paper and told us to write down as much countries and capitals as we could. We had no help, just a pen and a blank paper. We simply had to know, because we had to learn. 😅😂
I'm Austrian and I had to be able to recite every country + capital of Europe and one extra continent of my choice to graduate...primary school.
I'm from Austria and it was the same here. Not only did we need to learn all the states and capitals but we also had to study all the european countries and their capitals and if they had the euro or not. It was the basic standard. idk why so many americans are so damn uneducated on the simplest things.
FFS people, the oldest American building (as in, U.S, not counting native american), the oldest American building, is, at most, 300 years old. I live in Europe and I can see a 1000-year-old medieval watchtower from my backyard. Get some perspective gents! "Egypt doesn't exist"... oh God...
Obviously not religious, didn't Jesus and parents flee to Egypt? I'm not even religious.
rates along with the tiktok 'authority' who insists the roman empire never existed, and that the ruins and archeological evidence are all greek
So funny that I went on vacation several times to a country that didn`t exist :))
Maybe I was in a parallel world?
I have the suspicion that intelligence is tied to the distance people live from each other. Like people in the US live in Houses that are miles away from each other and it makes sense they come up with unique ways of explaining things.
That kinda breaks down when looking at Finland. We keep hitting the top of school rankings and our population density is also one of the lowest :P
it's more about confidence... americans from day they were born are brainwashed that they are the best, smartest, no 1 in the world.
Nah, I think it's the home schooling thing. No basic proper education but just being taught what the parents understand or find teach worthy.
@@bartholvangent3225 I think it's the school boards. US school boards have an inordinate amount of control on what is taught, and they're composed of lay people who usually really don't understand or value education, they're more interested in nothing being taught that offends their sensibilities, no matter how dumb those are.
@@KaiHenningsen you have a very valid point.
So let me get this right the kids in usa are taught to stand round a pole sing to a flag but not history or geography lol
Kids in USA - or at least a huge portion of them - are encouraged to pledge allegiance to the flag daily.
Before it became... "problematic", the pledge was made in the 'Bellamy Salute' position, named after Francis Bellamy, best known for writing the pledge. The salute may have changed over the years, but it still feels the same to me.
Question: Does American passport comes only with pictures, doesn't it say Passport of United States of America or something?
Also for ID maybe you should add 'murica in the brackets next to the name of state... you know, just in case.
Answer: USA passports says "passport" and "United States of America" on the front cover with the national crest image of an eagle. Inside with the ID photo it's got a big picture of an eagle with the USA flag and in 2 places it has a big "USA" written in bold type, as well as the ful name of the country written multiple times. All the stamp pages are printed with stereotypical images from the country.
So yeah... even if the moron was illiterate, there is enough recognizable USA iconography to assume it's a USA passport. But then again... it's really not very common to even have a passport, much less having seen one in person.
Sigh. I am deeply embarrassed. And thankful I left the country years ago.
@@TiaTruly Don't be embarrassed. From my experience that I encountered Americans on the internet they were not dumb at all. And trust me, you can find stupid people everywhere.
I believe all passports of every country have coat of arms and the name of a country on it. I was kinda joking because you can point on the cover and ask the person to read what it says. Then open it where all the info is and all kinds of anti-counterfeit protection is on it. You can tell it is legit document even if you never saw one.
lol now I'm curious what happens if you have passport from another country in another language and try to buy alcohol. :)
Don’t get excited mate ! That “French maid” was completely fake 🤣🤣🤣Worse impersonation of a French accent I ever heard
Yep!
this video reminded me of a person who playing geoguessr found the eiffel tower but said it was the tower of tokyo ..... , it would be interesting to see you play geoguessr😁
you know what? he might have not been that wrong. There is, in fact, a tour Eiffel replica in Tokyo.
That was a joke my guy
This was funny! 😄 However, the Americans that I know and consider them to be my friends, are well-educated, well-traveled, cosmopolitan, open to the world, and amazingly sweet and caring people. I have to say that.
Yeah I’ve never actually met an American who’ve been this way
I got same experiences but maybe it’s true: the exception proves the rule 🤔
I grew up in Ontario, Canada on the border with New York. I would visit American friends on occasion who lived a 30 minute drive from the border and nearly every time I would meet at least one American teen or adult in that town who would ask me about living in an igloo, what it was like to live without electricity and television, what did I do with the dogs from my sled once I got to the border, how did I learn to speak English so well, or any number of other ridiculous questions. They lived 30 minutes from the border... 30 minutes. So while I love my American neighbours and have many American close friends to this day, this video doesn't seem so odd.
Some people do not think American is a nationality or ethnicity.
I would say every country in the world has these kind of people.
I am pleased you can laugh at your fellow Americans, personally though I would be ashamed to be an American and totally disgusted. On the plus side, Countries around the world have been laughing at the yanks for many many years. Love your vids and your attitude, U.K. (written in real English) ✔
😵💫🤣 real English 🤣
Sometimes when life gives you bad you laugh about it rather than to be miserable or sad about it
It depends on his mood/mindset it changed over time.
@@foreignreacts You have the right attitude and I think your great. Take care over there. 👍
@@foreignreacts I'm glad you have the sense of humour to laugh about it. Because of the sorry state of affairs that US is in. If you couldnt laugh at it, you'd be well depressed.
Its why British people joke all the time. Its making light of the situation. Yeah you get the snowflakes being offended, ignore them!! Thems the ppl creating cancel culture. Joke about them too, make them angrier its funny.
All these uk people talking trash about America is funny. These are the same people that voluntarily left the EU and put borris johnson in power.
I visited the US in 1990 with the Royal Dutch Navy. When in Baltimore we opened the ships for visitors. They asked us where we were from. We replied that we were from Holland. The reactions varied from "Is that Holland Texas or Holland Virginia?" to "Really? Why do you have ships??" Some responded: Oh i know Poland....... We decided not to educate them on geography but just let them live in their US bubble.......
You need American ID to buy alcohol? So a tourist can't buy alcohol?
good question!
Nope, you don’t at all - I’ve bought alcohol in several US states with a British passport
Nothing exists outside the US and even Indiana isn't in it anymore. I think they learn to count to 40...
They would only ask for ID if you looked under age?
I have bought alcohol in the US as a tourist, and with an international passport 🤣 and to think the lady had an US passport! Not accepting it is just ignorant. 🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣
I have a British passport. Years ago, while travelling around the US, I went into a bank to cash in some travellers cheques. The bank clerk refused because, according to him, my ID wasn't valid. How dumb can you be?
I would be so angry trying to explain something to those ppl, I would just have to leave so I don't swear at them xD
Well, place of incident: Northern Germany (Hamburg airport to be precise). An exchange student is coming over and for some reason I went with my aunt to pick her up. So far so good. Literally first thing she asks: "Why is no one wearing 'Lederhosen' and 'Dirndl'." - "You are in Hamburg, Northern Germany." - "Yeah, why is no one wearing them, it's my favorite thing about Germany!" At that point I turned around to not start laughing in her face. That was around 20 years ago.
Now if that had been in Hamburg any time in the '50's she'd have seen all the boys and many of the men in Lederhosen, no Dirndl though.
@@jimfrodsham7938 Ah well that is just the wrong way around :D
@@j.p.vanbolhuis8678 😁 we boys spent the whole summer in lederhosen, my cousins wore them all year.
I very briefly worked answering phones for tourists. It was not a job that lasted long. The pay was great but the people were beyond stupid. Some questions I have been asked. I'm Canadian btw.
1)where are the ATM machines in Canada? Like every half block if you're downtown.
2) how can I get into the polar bear races? Well, go up North, tie some meat to your friend and set them loose. Sooner or later a bear will likely show up.
3) How much winter gear should I bring....? For Vancouver Island...in summer..... Enough said.
4)can I see penguins.
5) I'm not a good hunter should I bring my own food? Just after declaring they were going to Toronto...hardly the middle of nowhere. No you can eat at a restaurant like the other sane tourists.
I've been asked if Canada has showers, running water, indoor heating, if they can bring their semiautomatic and just walk around with it. (We actually have these things called gun laws. And fyi Americans. If you actually read your constitution you will find that the freedom to bare arms specifically is in reference to military and a militia formed by the govt.
To quote:
"*A well regulated Militia*, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Technically by their own constitution, any American civilians not part of the militia or the military have no 'right' to bare arms at all.)
It’s probably because the US itself is so big but they seem to think all of Europe is the same. Like no 😂 every country is different try to compare France to Germany and there is a big difference 😂😂
Us Europeans do the same, don't we? We often speak of the US as a whole when almost every subject varies greatly depending on where in the US the other party lives.
On a driving holiday with my husband and two daughters , a 6 and a 7 year old. American woman “ where y’all from?” Me “Australia”. Our daughters come to us to ask me a question, American “ how y’all teach them that sweet accent?” Me 🤷🏻
I've not had the misfortune to have a "dumb American" moment, but one time I, a life-long Australian, got confused for an American by a fellow Aussie and was told to "go back to America" because I was celebrating Halloween, which is "an American holiday".
There's also the time a random commenter called me a N*zi because I'm German by heritage on both sides of my family, but was born and raised Australian. Not sure if they were American or not, but stupidity runs rampant no matter where you're from.
Confusing Sweden and Switzerland is a damn classic, it is such a curse of us who come from either of the two or both
Austrians and Australians seem to have a similar curse
Could be worse. Could be Georgia.
@@ankhi3585 Wasn't Stalin born in Georgia.
@@iriscollins7583 Yeah just outside Savannah I believe.
Let me assure you, these are not fake. I am American, but, after graduating high school I enlisted in the Navy and have been to several places in Asia. Travel, curiosity, and a natural inclination to read both fiction and non-fiction have left me feeling more and more like a foreigner in my own country. I have literally met people in my city who don't know basic math, who don't know the difference between a continent and a country, who don't know how many states comprise the U.S... There are a ton of factors that contributed to this sad situation in our country, but those would require a book to tell, not a post. ;-)
Regarding the concentrartion camps - that was not actually wrong; yes, the big ones are in eastern europe, but there are concentrations camps in Germany too, and it is quite conceivable that the person visited those.
In Austria there are concentration camps too. Also: please please don't try to visit "where Hitler was born". I'm from close by and only Neo Nazi creeps do that, it makes us very uncomfortable and wtf, go to the concentration camp and learn something instead.
I visited a camp in Germany as well, can't remember if it was a death camp though.
Had to go back to the tour bus cause, being in the camp and knowing what happened made me sick.
Do read a lot about European history though and about the camps.
8:40 I've been extremely anxious speaking english for years because of my accent (I'm french) and even today, if I worked hard on it and I don't have any problem to discuss in english, I'm still really embarrassed when I hear myself because I still have a really strong accent.
But the one this girl has is one of the strongest french accent I've ever heard wow 😂
Yes in case you ask, for most of the people here, this accent doesn't sound cute or sexy but ridiculous, that's why many french people don't even try to speak another language even if they have enough knowledge to do so, because they don't want to look ridiculous 🤷♂️
Bonjour/bonsoir, cette ‘Parisienne’ n’était pas du tout française. C’est un pur accent de comédie. Plutôt offensant, je trouve.
NB: en anglais, on dit ‘speak a language’, pas ‘discuss’ qui signifie ‘débattre’.
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
@@valerieh84 Ouais je me disais bien que l'accent était vraiment fort aussi voire un peu surjoué. Mais j'en ai déjà vu qui ont un accent français encore plus prononcé sans le forcer...
Who cares...that shouldnt make you feel down. Most people who aint native speak english with an accent. Did you hear Ex-Yu people speak english? Most of them have a thicker accent. Even though I am one of those people of this region I grew up in Germany and everyone says when I speak English that you can hear the German accent instead of croatian 😅
As long you dont have trouble to communicate with people in terms that you all understand each other the accent doesnt matter.
@@Epintus06 Oui, j’ai connu une ou deux personnes comme ça. Mais même celles-là ne parlaient pas aussi mal, du point de vue phonologique 😂 Là, il s’agit de quelqu’un qui parle avec un ‘accent’ de comédie, comme l’imaginent des personnes qui n’ont aucune expérience de l’accent français, en insistant grossièrement sur de soi-disants caractéristiques ... ce qui révèle l’ artifice. Je pense qu’il s’agit d’une francophone qui veut se rendre intéressante. Dommage que je n’ai pas accès à des logiciels d’analyse phonologique, je pense que je pourrais le prouver facilement.
Speak proudly with your beautiful native accent. You took the time and effort to learn another language and that is most definitely an achievement worthy of being shown off.
One of the funniest experiences I had in the US was buying a beer at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. I was 50 years old at the time and I was asked to provide ID to prove I was over 21 years old. Now, I look my age, don’t have a problem purchasing beer in Australia. Didn’t make any sense then and still doesn’t make any sense. And with the English comment. I was told by a woman in Michigan that my English was really good given my native language was German……. Austria or Australia…..doesn’t seem to make any difference!!! Grüße aus Australien, mate.
"That's cool, I've never seen a passport before..."
I've had American cops try and tell me that my Canadian Drivers License wasn't valid in the US and that I needed to get an American one to drive in the US. It was like talking to children.
Just because my country of Sweden and Switzerland both start with "Sw" I guess we are the same country. We do have a thing for chocolate and time
Yep. No wonder Swaziland changed their name to Eswatini.
I'm American and I've actually had other Americans ask me where I was from. I would tell them a city or state, but they would ask me, "where are you really from?" Which is basically code for what other country are you really from because you don't really look American. It's like "dominant society people" have forgotten that there were and still are indigenous people living here. Duh.........
3 days ago I am in a local Mexican restaurant here in Spain 🇪🇸, we are 5,993 miles from Mexico, a small group of Americans walk in (judging from accents from California I’d guess) and sit at the table beside mine.
We don’t like spices so please no chillies, no guacamole and also we don’t want lime or cilantro on our food..
The food comes..
One of the group says outloud to her friends ‘Doesn’t taste like real Mexican food does it?’
… I swear I nearly sprayed the beer i was drinking out of my nose…..
Wait, you can't buy alcohol in the USA if you are not from the USA?. So if I'm a tourist I can't have a beer?
AND you need an American passport to visit America, don't forget that. Even if you visit America from the distant lands of Tennessee.
The need of an American passport to visit the US had me laughing so hard I almost fell over! 🤣🤣🤣
I laughed so hard at the french lady describing the "fountain" experience
And some people use it to wash their feet too😂😂😂😂
The Canadian lady did a really great and FUNNY job with that southern accent and her facial expressions were delightful lol!!!Wonder if she's an actress?
Sure did
Jajaja talking about maps. I understand how that boy feels about maps. When I went to Ireland as a teacher I met a pair of USA girls, and when I said I was Mexican they said I couldn’t cause I was white, after all that shit, they asked me how did I got to Ireland and I said “in a plane” they were all shocked to know we had planes in Mexico, and cars… and houses… my Irish friends were looking at these girls like “are you serious?” but then one of them said “Hey, if you have cars in Mexico, why didn’t used your car to come to Ireland, isn’t cheaper than the plane ticket” We all were dumbfounded and I said “dear there is an ocean in between” and they all shocked said “No way! Damn! I have no idea there was an ocean between Mexico and Ireland” and I said “Girl! There is one too between the States and here, we are in the same continent” but when I said “we are in the same continent” they thought I was talking of that right moment meaning Europe and I clarified “No I mean America, Mexico and USA are in the American continent, you also have an ocean in between” and the fake blonde said “No, we don’t, Mexico may have one, but we don’t, America is not a continent dear, is a country” and one of my friends said “No girl, indeed America is a continent we know that from elementary school” and one guy said “How did you came here? By a car?” and the brunette answered “Don’t be silly a car ride would take so many hours, a plane is faster” (not the first time I hear that dumb shit about the ocean in between) and this guy said “No girl, there is an ocean, cars can’t seal!” they were astonished and I said “It is true, if Mexico can’t USA can’t” “Why” “Because of geography” “What has geography to do here?” “Well, if you can’t come here by a car from Mexico, you can’t from the States. Mexico is right below the States,” and the blonde one said this stupid puritan shit “Oh girl don’t be so bad to your own country, I know Mexico is not as developed and powerful and great as the US, but don’t use the word “Below” to denigrate your own country. No country is below another” and I said “Well tell that to the maps you idiot”. Yeah whenever they try to be nice they just fuckup.
And by the way for all the stupid "USAers" (American is the right fucking demonym for everyone born and raised in this continent) who make the joke "in Spanish they laugh in the wrong written way because their jajajaja sounds like iA iA iA" Well that is stupid and entitled, like english and it's fonetics is the only language that matters in a world that has about 7100 languages. If from english jajajaja sounds "silly" imagine your so called "Way to correctly write a laught (ha ha ha ha)" in SPANISH where H is SILENT. You certanly sound like a mentally retarded saying AAAAAAAAAAAAA old loquendo and insert drool falling from their mouths.
In the Bojack Horseman episode 'The dog days are over' there is a conversation between American tourists in Vietnam, and the American Vietnamese Diane, where they try to talk to her and don't understand that she speaks English. I thought it was a funny joke, but hearing these stories, that could actually be true.
Looooool, it is also NOT true that it has to be an American ID, it has to be a valid ID for entering the US. If such idea state that you are of a legal age to buy alcohol or tobacco, they HAVE to accept it. Sometimes people need to be more aware of the actual existing and still active NATIONAL laws. (Yup not state or local, but federal)
Seems that someone never heard of a Bible. Ever read about America in it ?? Ever read about Egypt in it ?? (Even if you are not a Christian, I am sure most people could answer those questions.)
Others countries doesnt exist. Ok...where did the pilgrims come from? *runtime error, brain crashed
I got a few to add:
American: "We are going to Holland"
Me: "I hope you realize that 'Holland' is not the country, but one of 2 provinces North-Holland or South-Holland. It could also refer to one of many ships or fortresses all over the damn world including a town in your own United States?"
American: "I went to [insert university] so I'm better then you [insert bs reasoning]"
Me: "I hope you realize that US universities are not the best in the world anymore, or for that matter any decent if you treat it like a prison because of shool shootings and thing it's normal. Think you need to party and make the life's of other students hell to fit in. Think you are better while doing bullshit things like gender studies and just shout 'murica' because you are too stubborn to learn more about the world and can't even imagine anything past your own backyard?"
My German colleague once was asked by an American, wether BMW is known in his country…
14:33 We have a joke for that in Germany. The two greatest achievements of Austria were convincing the world that hitler was a german and Mozart an Austrian.
judging by the video and the comments you can add that kangaroos live there as well :)
Charlotte Church was a young opera singer from the UK. She sang for president Bush junior and after the concert he asked her where she came from she said Wales, ( A country which is part of the UK) he said Oh what state is that in. She told that her self on a TV chat show.
The stupidest thing an American woman asked me on a bus in San Diego was "Are there universities in Italy?". I replied: "Yes madam there are, in my city Bologna there is the oldest university in the world!"
"Shannon, you live on the ground floor! Come,let me take you up to the sventh floor!"
I literally cried while laughing about this.
I went to college in the US (Boston) and in my freshman year, I got a random American roommate. Because I had an accent (or maybe also the color of my skin lol) he politely asked me where I'm from, I said Malaysia, And one of the first things he asked me was, do u have freeways (highways) there? I kid u not
Back in the 80s, I worked in a restaurant (in Canada) and we moved to different colored money. An American tourist said "Boy, your money sure looks funny", and I replied "at least we can easily tell the difference between a $5 and $10 bill" Then there's the ones who want American change for Ameican $$ - um - no.
"Portugal is not in Europe". So you mean my life has been a lie all this time?! XD
Had me confused when I saw this comment
I felt I was lied to
Until I realize you weren’t for real!
@@foreignreacts Why are you reacting to a non-existing person?
@J.P. van Bolhuis 😕
Do American s realise that Britain is not England,and know that Scotland, Wales make up Britain , you add northern Ireland and that is the United Kingdom, Britain is made of 3 separate countries, Scottish dislike American thinking Britain is England as do Welsh people,educate your fellow Americans pal
I live on the Isle of Wight which is an admittedly pretty small Island off the south coast of the UK. I traveled around the USA for six months an the amount of people who straight up accused me of making it up to sound more "fairytale" was not so funny after the first half dozen times. Even showing where it was on Google maps didn't sway some of them.
Hiya mate. I was asked by a young woman selling cany apples and cotton candy in a mall (toffee apples & candy floss in the UK) if I knew the queen. As sarcasm is a British martial art I replied "yes of course, she regularly comes round for tea and scones". She said, with a high pitched & excited voice "oh really"? I replied "no, not really" & just walked away with my American wife who muttered "stupid f..king yanks". I guarantee you that you wouldn't get within 10 feet of the queen without being flattened by an MI6 agent.
The 'Do you know the queen?' is a classic. It's pretty much guaranteed if you're British and meet an American.
That said I do actually know two people who have been introduced to her. The first is my sister after she won an award and the second is one of my caving mates, Rick Stanton, who met her when he got his MBE and then again for his George medal (after the Thai cave rescue).
I've never done anything so bold as to warrant an award from the queen. Spent most of my 60 years in rock bands smoking weed and shagging women. Seems to work for some, (mick Jagger, Elton John) but I was not so fortunate 😂✌
@@coot1925 Most of your 60 years eh? I suppose you just wasted the rest of the time.
M.I 6 agent ?
Man I'm binge watching your videos, I'm struck by your humble attitude and open mind, it really speaks for someone's intelligence to be able to go out of their comfort zone and explore other ideas and cultures. I suggest you to react to history and geography videos as those are often topics to which american people aren't really exposed in school or in the culture. Props to you form Italy.
I always try my best to reply to as much comments as possible but I fortunately get around idk too much comments per day but i honestly am happy I saw this one!
I’ll for sure take your suggestion
Original Mad Max from 1979 had subtitles in cinemas in the USA because ausralianezeas is too difficult to understand
And doesn't the dubbed version sound horrible!
I guess when you live, especially, in Europe and on top of that in a very touristy place accents aint that exciting 😅 probably because we are quite used to it....but I guess for people like you who didnt have much contact with people from all over the world it is exciting 😉
Edit: the guy with the story about Shannon killed me...his acting 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm from England, living in Germany. I love hearing all the different European accents. I just wish I didn't sound so English when I try to speak German
@@alansmith4748 why? That is not a bad thing. Rea Garvey, a great singer who is from Ireland and lives in Germany, has an accent too when he speaks and it sounds cool.
As long people understand you that is all that matters.
But I have to say when I was a kid I always wanted to sound british when we learnt english in school 🤣🤣🤣 I just love the sound of it...although some accents are hard to understand for me as a non native...scottish being one of them 😅
@@Niki91-HR I'm from Liverpool. That's also difficult :)
@@alansmith4748 really? In general I guess I am more used to different english accents, but I wouldnt be able to specify which one is from which region. I would have to sit down and listen carefully how each accent sounds and learn the region. Tbh I will try now to find at least one video with people from Liverpool to see if I am able to understand them. 😆
I guess the easiest for foreigners to understand is the one from London.
Nevertheless, I personally really like how you Brits sound in general. 😁
How is it that I know Indiana is in the USA as a foreigner who never ever studied the American states in school and a local who has studied it doesn’t know!? 🤦🏻♀️
It's much worse for residents of New Mexico, I've read a few stories of folk from that state and their troubles with call centres etc
I'm a big fan of ⚽⚽, through that i can acknowledge every country/nation worldwide like automatically learn about Geography
Nice video, bro
Keep it up 👏👏👏
08:36 The accent is what people believe to be a french accent.
you guys are really f up. 5 of your Presidents are from the Netherlands! New York was New Amsterdam. That is why the New York flag is also Orange, White and Blue. We also have a place in the south called America and in the southeast a place Russia. And a place called "the Hulk". Greetings from Spakenburg Netherlands.
During my uni years I spent a summer in the US doing camp America.
One of the American counsellors asked where I was from so I said I was from England. Then he asked how long it had taken me to drive from there. Thinking he might have thought I meant New England, though my accent should have been a clue I wasn't, I clarified that I meant was from England in Britain/UK?Europe not NEW England.
Him: "Yeah I got that, I'm not dumb I go to college. But how long a drive is it? I'm thinking of visiting one day."
Me: "You can't drive here you have to fly. Or perhaps come by boat but that's really expensive and would take ages."
Him: "How come?"
Me: Have you ever heard of this big, wet, sploshy thing called the Atlantic Ocean? It's between the US and England and you have to cross over it to get here."😄
I also had to explain the British Isles are part of the European Continent. He admitted he'd always thought England was part of the US.
With the odd exception most of the other American councellors were nearly as ignorant. I'd known the US education system was poor, but had thought that the ones who went to college wouldn't be too bad. I was wrong.
Even worse me and the other European counsellors discovered we actually knew far more about the US than the Americans at camp and spent much of the summer correcting their misconceptions about the world and educating them about their own country.
That said there are plenty of ignorant people here in the UK. I once had to explain to half a dozen colleagues where Manchester was, one of their own country's biggest cities. Some knew it was 'somewhere North' but were flumoxed when I asked Northwest or Northeast and what other large cities it was close to. I told them it was close to Liverpool (40 miles). They weren't sure where that was either. At that point I just facepalmed.
I asked hadn't they ever looked at the maps of Britain and the world hanging on the classroom walls at school? Or watched the weather forecast after the News which has a big map with the locations of most big cities? Or just been curious enough to find out for themselves? Apparently not.
Being ignorant can be understandable in some cases. If nobody has ever explained something to you and you've never had a reason to find out then fair enough. However not knowing things that are common knowledge is worrying.
Willful ignorance is another matter. Having a complete lack of curiosity about the world around you, not caring enough to find something out, asking a question and then refusing to listen when someone takes the trouble to explain. Those are attitudes I don't understand and have no time for.
I take slight issue with your Manchester comment. The only reason I know where it is, is because I've lived all over the country, Manchester included. And that's the only reason. I have no reason to know where certain cities are on a map. I know all the major ones, sure, but that's again due to me moving all over.
I've never studied a map to learn where places are. The UK is small enough that it doesn't make much of a difference in the grand scheme. Often when people are trying to tell me where something is and they say "oh it's next to..." and I shrug. I don't need to know.
I do however know where most European countries are approximately, and the majority of Northern and Southern America.
Knowing the location of countries, that are actually important, and the location of key cities are two very different things.
Most Brits don't know or feel that the British Isles are part of the European continent.
My god I could listen to that French lady all day, gotta love other accents.
I used to work with a Mauritian lady and her accent.....OMG just amazing. Similar (not the same) to the French accent because they speak French Creole.
Jesus I love the energy the dude put into the telling of the Netherlands story.
But I have to point out one incorrect thing, theres a lot of concentration camps in other countries too and Germany does have a few, they're not only in Poland.
The other thing is it makes it sound like those camps were made by Poland and not Germany
I went to Florida one time. I’m from Minnesota but they thought I had an Irish accent. SMH
I’m truly shocked how bad the educational divide is in the United States of America, they are so clueless on so much 😂😂😂
5:45 "Where are you from?" He's from Northern Ireland, or 'Norn Iron'.
so how do tourists buy beer (or other alcoholic beverages) in the US? ....
Portugal not in Europe? ANd here I thought I'd moved back to Europe when I moved here... I wonder where the f* I am...
Considering there was another video where an American immigration officer at an airport said Portugal wasn’t even a country, I guess this is progress!? 🤷🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣
@@juliepandora I guess 😄At least according to this person, I'm in an actual country, even if I have the wrong continent, inestead of being in a non-existent place 🤣🤣🤣
Good to know I haven't moved into limbo 🤣
14:27 Did he just say that there are no concentration camps in Germany? 🤨
I think he meant death camps (lit. "annihilation camps"/"Vernichtungslager"). They were all in Poland (the "Generalgouvernement"). There were other camps in Germany and elsewhere, but they were "just" labour camps. Many people died there as well though.
Luxembourg is small but rich rich rich. The city is immaculate, and the downtown is packed with designer stores.
I went to Luxembourg once when we as a family were touring round the Netherlands and Belgium. It was a public holiday and everywhere was closed. We stayed maybe an hour, just checking, and went back to Belgium. That was 1963.
Yeah.... But it's a super boring!
@@dengamleidiot Won't argue with you there, but I did enjoy the historical site, right in the city.
We reside in Arizona, some twenty odd years ago my wife and I traveled to Missouri to visit her relatives. While there we went to an auction. My wife had the highest bid. When we went to pay the young lady accepting payment looked at the traveler's checks with suspicion. She asked where we were from. My wife told her AZ, to which the young lady replied, "I ain't never seen Arizona money before."
Also, we once traveled to Texas to see my relatives. We stopped at a restaurant to get a bite. My wife has a gluten allergy and inquired if the restaurnt had gluten free bread. The waitress replied, "We don't use gluten here, we make our bread with wheat."
What intelligence I have is in spite of my American education.
Jeez man, just stop replicating and making fun of british, scottish, irish, australian and other accents. Like yeah they probably sound weird or funny to you, but cmon. That's really the most annoying part of your videos for me. Otherwise they are great
Not mocking or making fun
Me repeating something or enjoy hearing it
Isn’t mocking
Thought humans understand that laughing isn’t always a bad thing
Doesn’t mean I don’t like it
It means I love it.
From canada to florida in your mind is all the way north to all the way south? have you heard about south america? and consider that just because he lives in canada he can live waay up northern canada or just beyond the border, biig difference.
Southern Ontario is actually on the same parallel as Northern California. Actually, there are several states farther north than southern Ontario!
Love the last guy's "GOD DAMN IT" 😂
What makes it all funnier is that most of the things here are basic info you can look up on the internet. I know Americans are busy with their own stuff in USA, but it wouldn't hurt to look up that info.
Wait.....how would any tourists be able to buy alcohol in the USA if they didnt take international identification?
Yeah, that's what I'm wondering...
Großartig! Stupidity never disappointing ..