I once got into an argument with an American tourist in Finland. We talked about how higher education is not only free in Finland, but the government pays monthly student benefits to all students. He called us a communist country and said that this will devaluate the degrees as "any lazy and poor kid can get a Master's degree for some free money". His reaction to hearing that poor people have access to education as well said everything about him as a person.
Yeah, it's the worst thing about America, how many of my countrymen have drunk up the propaganda that to have any sort of social program that benefits the poorer or less fortunate is an evil thing and that everyone just needs to work harder.
If you want to offend an American about work/life balance. Point out that Americans have the lowest productivity in relation to work hours in any 'first world country'.
That’s it. I’ve seen ignorant people all around the world but very few actually have the ARROGANCE to say every dumb thing that comes to their mind so confidently, without a couple drinks at least
This is pre-COVID. We ran a B&B in the north of Scotland, an American lady was leaving us to travel to London to see her son who was studying there. On her last day we asked if she was looking forward to seeing London, she surprisingly said “not really”. When we asked why she said “because of the plague and the smog”. She wasn’t joking either. 😅😅😅
Oh please tell me you didn’t clear things up for her, and that you wound her up a bit . If she was that thick I’d have told her to watch out cos Jack the Ripper still hasn’t been caught yet 😂
Actually Irish do wear the full kilt outfit as well. The difference is in the colours. However, some groups have came up with their own Kilt colours, just to have an uniform appearance. I can't see the distinguishing colours in that kilt to adequately determine which region of Ireland it might be trying to represent. It looks more like they came up with their own colours just to be uniform in appearance instead.
The funniest part about this is how much americans tend to brag about how they dont mind taking 12 hours straight car rides like it's nothing because their country is so big and stuff. But no, two countrys sharing a border wont Travel to another without planes cause it would take too long
@@IceMetalPunk Aye, since they're basically markov chains they necessarily lie. You cannot trust them to manage fact, or to understand things, because they can't. They're pretty good to bounce ideas off of or to reformulate text though!
@@emdivine Meh, I disagree. Humans are also just complicated Markov chains, yet we claim to understand things. The main barriers to these AI models being very accurate are limited modalities, model size, and a lack of continual learning. All of which are constantly improving. Their inaccuracy isn't something inherent to the model architecture, it's just scaling and efficiency in several aspects.
Most recent one I saw was "$ means money in general why are you so dense?" when somone pointed out something costed £150 not $150. My favourite is being told I'm African American, I'm neither African nor American but I'm black and to some Americans that means I'm African American.
That's so real though! I went to E3 with two friends a couple years ago. We are all born and raised in Germany but they are black and I am white. People insisted that they were African American when they are neither African nor American in any way. They are just as German as I am.
@@CiCodiCadno If you find that person, start exchanging money with them. Giving them the equivalent of $6 for $1000 every time would be quite hillarious.
My favourite examples were when Russia invaded Georgia the country, Georgians from the state of Georgia were on Twitter asking where all the Russian tanks were
You might want to actually look up the details of that particular short conflict. Both sides equally violated the terms of a 1992 agreement due to a separatist movement in Ossetia. As in both sides sent their troops into Ossetia thus violating the 1992 agreement.
@@Sabundy It isn't really relevant to this conversation, but Russia invaded Georgia with the same bad pretext that it invaded Ukraine and a lot of other countries. Don't be on the side of imperialism.
Surely, people in Georgia would be aware of the fact that there's a country called Georgia as well up there in the Caucuses mountains, Wouldn't it be a sort of quirky thing that would pique their interest?
Back in the early 00's I was on a stag trip to Prague. We met a group of 4 American college students in a bar. The three girls had no interest in a group of drunk Brits so we instead set about winding up the bloke they were travelling with who was a huge fan of George W Bush. He became so angry with our piss taking of GWB that he stood up and angrily shouted "if it wasn't for us guys (Americans) you'd all be speaking German". To emphasise this, he pointed to each of us in turn stating "un, deux, trois" 😂
Wait till he finds out that without the French or British their country wouldn't have even existed. And without literally every single other nationality on Earth, they would be quite insignificant on the world stage due to a teeny tiny population lol
Ah, the O' Rico family, a fine Irish family, lovely people and very welcoming. They are however, very difficult to understand, speaking only a strange patois of Irish and Spanish.
Guess that's why Chilean Spanish is supposed to be so difficult to understand with Bernardo O'Higgins freeing Chile from Spanish rule during Chile's war of independence... 😜
Ah, yes, the survivors of the Great Spanish Armada that made it to Ireland and then settled there... And to those who actually checked that in google: Ha ha, made you look.
I had no idea that Boston is in Ireland… 😂 Imagine their reaction when they find out that the original Boston is in Lincolnshire, England, and that Lincolnshire isn’t named after Abraham Lincoln. 😂
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo🤭🤭🤭 I don't think they realise that New York is the new branch of the original York and not just a cool 2 part name that someone made up. I'm also really surprised when US towns get biblical names that weren't the greatest places the first time around, like Moab.
My wife told me a story about how, after she'd given a presentation on her research at a conference in Prague, an American came up and had a chat with her about it. One of the last things said to her was along the lines of "your American accent could be a lot better." This was after she had told the American she was from the UK.
I don’t doubt your story. I’m just struggling to wrap my mind around how an American travels all the way to another country, hear someone speak English after saying they’re from the UK, and think this person is attempting to be American. That’s just astounding!
@@shabingly I'm an American woman that has traveled and spoken at events . Honestly, that person sounds like they were very intimidated by her. Especially if it was a man. That's why he waits to the end to make that statement . It wasn't a flex, it just announced his misogyny and insecurity . Some Americans will deliberately play dumb for a purpose . We receive constant criticism globally, it can come from anywhere. I've experienced that since age 14, much to my surprise, but I've never responded to it. It is a fact though and I figure some countries have good reason for it. Unfortunately, It's over 50 years now . What gets me is anyone thinking all 350million of us are the same . I'm not implying that here of your wife. The person she spoke to would be vile in any language . Sometimes it's not cultural, it's just a person being themselves. Also, historically, if anyone is being snarky, it's often the English. Much more so than any other country. I've met wonderful people in Scotland, Ireland and Wales over the years. English folks it's much more dicey and I've never known why. And it's not a difference in the sense of humor, some people are just plain hateful. There are so many things I've loved about England since I was a kid. I've never been taught to even dislike the English .
@@anitapeludat256 during the years I have learnt that people are idiot because they are idiots, not because of skin tone, language they speak or virtual line on a map they were born beyond
I think it's just a case of sites like reddit or Twitter being predominantly used by Americans, so all the schizo takes are seen all the time causing the wrong perception.
@@simonrook5743 Ok, and how do you explain election results in the UK or Hungary? You can basically do this kind of reddit with every country, it's just that the stupid people in the US are far more vocal with their stupidity.
Yes. I was in that group years and years ago, and I was blocked for sharing some Polish nursery rhymes because the moderators didn't actually read or speak Polish and thought what I shared was offensive 😂😂
@@vincentlevarrick6557 I got banned from group when I said that surname of one person that was proud of it, was in fact Russian and not Polish (it was comming from Russian bereza meaning birch) so they may have actually Russian heritage instead of Polish. 😂
Looks like some americans cosplaying as scots pretending to be irish. Wouldn't that fall under cultural appropriation ... I mean, we do have to apply american values to americans right?
@@HappyBeezerStudios hey, there's nothing more american than larping on other people's culture the "cowboy' archetype was literally stolen from the mexican
@@SnowyRVulpixYes, Italian ones are delicious and if bought from a pizzeria, made in front of you. Not sure about the US, but they can't even have real cheese for goodness sake, and Mozzarella is illegal. Margherita pizza without mozzarella?!!!!
It's odd that he claimed Italy invented pizza, considering the Greeks and Persians ate pizza centuries before anyone in Italy. The Italians' greatest pizza innovation was the use of tomato sauce. Before Columbus people in the Old World assumed tomatoes were poisonous because they are closely related to deadly nightshade.
@@wizardsuth Also, the acid in tomato juice mixed badly with the copper and bronze pots and dishes that were used back then and many were sickened by this.
I’m a Brit but I worked for several years in the US. Fellow workers would go on vacation and return to work early after 3 or 4 days because they said they were bored. As a Brit with European sensibilities I could never understand their point of view. One of my fellow workers was a Scot. He had people compliment him on how well he spoke English… no joke.
Some US people manage to twist their "heritage" in insane ways: I have an acquaintance that claims that she is probably related to me (a Finn living in Finland) because I happened to mention that we have a castle ruin from the 1370's near our summer cottage. Since she has Scottish and Irish (and apparently had to mention 1% Navajo) heritage, that castle ruin in "the country of Europe" means that when her grandfather traced her family tree back five generations, her ancestor's last name then was "Queen of Scotts", and this very (in)famous queen lived in a castle, so it's all connected. *I swear, I'm not making this shit up.* I asked her "so your grandpa traced your family tree to the birth of Mary Stuart for five generations back to 1542?" and she replied "Yes! Isn't that amazing!" Bruh. I don't think she knows how many castles there are "in the country of Europe" or how generations work 😅
There are castles literally everywhere yeah. To the point a lot of them are in ruin because they're just not interesting enough to preserve. And meanwhile I'm pretty much the opposite. Im English with some Irish, Welsh, German and possibly Polish ancestry (the records are a little fuzzy on that front thanks to WWII and the USSR). But if someone asks, I'm English, it's where I'm from lmao.
Yeah, there are some couple hundred thousand castles. And the heavy focus on the ancestor's culture could be easily explained with the lack of any meaningful modern american culture.
In Germany, directly at the river Rhine and just between the town Bingen and the city Koblenz, which is roughly just 60 km, are 40 castles (ruins) alone. That's just 60 km and just directly at the Rhine. Granted, it's the area with the most "dense" castle presence in all of Europe, but still. There are so many damn castles here...
"I've never seen a castle, so they must be very rare!" Yeah, that's because Native North American tribes didn't traditionally build castles (and rarely used stone to build at all), and by the time Europeans came over to the Americas, neither did they. But in countries where Europeans and their ancestors *actually lived going back centuries,* there are *tons* of castles.
That one about the Aussie accent hit close to home. I used to work as a jouster at Renaissance Festivals in the US. I got told it was a weekday, I didn't need to keep putting on my accent. I'm British by birth, I'd been in the US for less than three years. 🤦
No no, but you see, you don't have to keep faking it! We're being nice by allowing you to drop the accent that doesn't really exist. We know it's a fake way of talking for movies! It used to be real, but no one has had that accent since we declared independence in 1776; so you can relax and stop doing that now. We're so nice. /s
@@IceMetalPunk Hilariously, what I was planning on doing with my 'character' for jousting going forward, but didn't get to implement due to contract disputes and buyouts putting me out of a job, was to play a character who wasn't British, and to instead mimic the American accent, leaving all the Americans with their fake British accents to play the European characters.
Omg yes!! I once had this conversation with an American who thought it was shockint that North Koreans have pictures od the supreme leader in their classrooms and homes... While Americans deck out their classrooms and homes with the flag, pledge allegiance to it every morning and find that "patriotic", not brainwashed😂
The thing about it is, if you were to describe a country the USA considers an "enemy" (or "evil" could be another word for it) doing something similar to the pledge of allegiance without calling it that, most of them would find it outrageous and call it propaganda. I wish I had realised to ask people about it this way and point it out during my exchange year in the states, as I'm sure I would've gotten some interesting responses. Tbh, probably would've gotten some justifications like one of the replies above mine, acting as if the USA has never committed any war crimes ever or making use of colonialism for its own good 😮 there's literally so many examples about the US government's wrongdoings across the world. Edit: we also had some recruiters from the US military visiting my hs classes during my exchange year. The propaganda was so real it felt almost comical.
That's reminds me a video by a Polish girl who surfed though American Facebook groups of Polish Americans. And man, how Americans are so proud of their heritage yet know zilch about Poland. And when they find a real Pole online or go to Poland they get offended. Literally saying that actual Poles are not real Poles, but they in America preserved "polishness".
Years ago i had a totally fruitless argument with an American woman who accused me of being racist . I had just used the idiom " Pot calling the kettle black".....
MULTIPLE times while visiting NYC last month (it was my first visit to the US) people asked me where I was from, I told them that I'm Scottish, and they shared either that they are "Irish" or an anecdote about an Irish person they know. A manager of a bar I was in (not one of the many Irish pubs) told me "I know it's not the same, but we had an Irish guy over for work experience a few months ago". Another lady used almost the same wording to say "I know it's not the same, but I'm Irish". In her thick Boston accent. Turns out she is in fact less Irish than I am. I honestly blame events like the one depicted in that Boston Irish meme you shared. With the guys in kilts, playing Scottish bagpipes. The issue is that a lot of Americans with Irish heritage go to those events and think the two cultures are the same. I do want to say that I didn't exactly mind either interaction. It was just something I noticed.
Mmmm, what about ghe Ulster Plantation? Isn't that when a load of Scots moved to Ireland, Northern Ireland I think. So unfortunately the Northern Irish and the Scots have quite a connection.
But mind you I read that the Scots were Irish Celts who migrated to Scotland.... so who knows I'm confused, but there seems to be a huge link between them
@@ddbb6618 I am Scottish. Some of my _ancestors_ are Irish. Same is true in reverse for those who moved in the other direction. We are very similar. But we are not the same. The image claiming that people from Boston _are_ Irish contains a group of people in Scottish kilts, playing Scottish bagpipes. I'd class that as cultural confusion. I'm not at all offended and I really wasn't bothered by my interactions with anyone while I was there. I was just suggesting that events like the one depicted might be the reason for some conflating the two similar but distinct cultures.
I've literally met two US americans who moved to France to work there bc they have chronic illnesses so France's healthcare system is their only chance to live a normal life instead of an exhausting and awful one... I congratulated them for making the smart choice. Both of them said they vastly preferred life there and had no intention of ever going back outside of small vacations to see their family.
Thats not based on government, the insurance industry is why that happens, its not the doctors, in fact the insurance companies are even allowed to interfere and tell a doctor they wont allow a certain drug or procedure even if the doctor fights with them and makes it clear the person needs that treatment or they could die or suffer. Insurance industry rakes in trillions and will buy and sell politicians to continue allowing their industry to be put over any other form of healthcare.
As a Canadian who has had the displeasure of living within a days journey to the US boarder, it is laughable. Have had American's who actually think that we live in Igloos and only consume maple syrup and Kraft Mac'n'cheese, didn't realize they were in Canada yet, because there was no snow, in Ottawa in the Summer... Was shocked they were in Canada and applauded us on our American accents... For one that was an honest mistake when I lived in the countryside for awhile, had a couple come to a resort I worked at and they rented a Canoe and Snow shoes, it was March. Now for the honest mistake the place I work for should not have let them book the canoe at all. They arrived, we brought the snow shoes and canoe down, asked them where they planned to canoe, they said on the lake their cabin was supposed to be on. They then asked where the lake was, we pointed to the white stretching plane, they did not understand, so further explained that it was March and the lake still has over 1ft of ice on it, they would not be canoeing. That is when the husband got confrontational and thought I was trying to make them seem dumb and play a joke, going on about how "Lakes can't freeze over" and that was just a flat area of grass. After much fighting and explaining and showing the pictures of the resort in both Summer and winter so he could see exactly where the water was, brought them onto the ice where one of the fishing huts was that we dug a test hole, and he was shocked the moment he looked in and became deadly terrified that we'd brought them out on the water, and were they going to fall thru and die. Had to slowly guide them back as they were so scared until a truck went zooming across in the distance on the ice. They were both very apologetic about the whole thing and we got them the money back on the canoe rental. For a worse one working camp security at an international Scout camp when I was 12. I had to make sure no kids left the camp as I guarded one of the exits. American leader came up and was planning to take the kids in his group into town to get something to eat as they had brought no food to speak of except snacks. Explained that he could leave but the kids could not as that is camp policy. After a lot of back and forth arguing and him screaming at 12 year old me and my 13 year old friend on with me, and us just straight faced explaining the same thing and not budging, dude pulls a gun on us, threatening us if we don't let the kids cross. Me and my friend started dying laughing in his face which instantly deflated his ego and put him on the back step. We were not laughing because we thought it was fake, we were laughing because this guy just pulled a gun on a 12 and 13 year old because they said they can't let the kids leave the camp. How little of a person do you have to be to think such an action is justified. By this time our security leader had come over as she had been hearing quite the commotion and she chewed the guy a new asshole. His hole group had to be checked for firearms, which more were found, and they were permanently banned. It also created a new screening process where American groups had to drive into a separate line when coming to camp, for all of their belongings to be checked to ensure they were not smuggling firearms illegally into the camp and country. Multiple more groups were banned because they brought guns to camp and demanded they had a right under the 2nd amendment which doesn't exist in Canada so they had no right to arms. Also lead to stricter searches at the countries boarder because people from the USA kept trying to smuggle guns in with them.
Mark Twain - 'It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt' unknown -- 'America has a very individualistic, LOUD, self-confident culture.'
The beauty of this particular quote though, is Mark Twain was an American, and, along with my partner, his mere existence proves intelligent, reflective and learned Americans do indeed exist - as with all people, the loud obnoxious ones ruin the reputation of the rest.. However in the US the wrong crowd is LOUD, very loud - you can partially blame sheer population, there's 333 million Americans in the world, your bound to get some dunces in such a number, but on the other hand any American could also tell you the education system in the us is an utter, utter shambles, and at this point your better off educating your own child, as their nearly guaranteed to learn much more in your own care than in a classroom
"There's no country named Spania." Well, they're right about that. And in a weird twist of fate, they ironically invented something that's halfway between the English name and the actual Spanish name, which was of course created by people from España.
St Patty's day is the official day to celebrate St Patty, patron saint of burger patties, which are named after him, since when he was martyred, he was finely chopped up and fried on a griddle. Traditionally celebrated on the 17th of March by the Julian Calendar (no, not *that* one, the calender that Julie from accounts made up).
@@tonyrykes2228 If you're of an age you will know that Leisuresuit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards became Passionate Patty In Pursuit Of Pulsating Pectorals after a sex change.
"Real Spanish is spoken in Latin America". You clearly haven't encountered certain Hispanic Americans who say "white people shouldn’t speak Spanish", forgetting that the language is from Spain.
Most Mexicans actually believe that their spanish is 'better' than continental Spanish. It's the same thing as it is between the US and UK, but more serious - and less playful - they really believe it.
@@gagenater "most Mexicans"? citation needed... ironic that in a video about how Americans think they know more about other's peoples countries you would post that.
12:27 That pic of the Chicago river always reminds me of "The Fugitive". "If they can dye the river green today, why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?" 😆
The "only English is American English, English English is an dialect" thing made me laugh. Here in Switzerland we sometimes jokingly say that German German is a Swiss-German dialect. But we atleast could argue that large portions of Middle- and High-German dialects had a vowel change that didn't happen in most Swiss-German dialects. But it's still just joking... ...maybe xD
When I was in the US an American complimented me on my English. I said, “Thank you, but as I was born in England it should be good.” Their response was, “But isn’t England in Europe?” I didn’t know how to respond to that. 😂
Well, here in Germany we sometimes say that Dutch is just another German dialect. If a Dutch person speaks slowly (or if you're very, very drunk) you do understand enough to get what they're trying to say, same with a German person speaking to a Dutch person. With Schwitzerdütsch it's different.
@@ffotograffyddYou could have really messed with them and said "Traditionally yes, but we're trying to leave" (I have met multiple people who described Brexit as "leaving Europe"!). 😆
In fact they will very happily correct people who do, because it comes from the Irish name Pádraig. There are few things that'll make an Irish person's eye twitch more than hearing someone say, "Happy St. Patty's Day!"
I never quite reached the point of not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance; UK born, but family emigrated to California when I was 2 - introduced to the pledge in school, obviously, and participated. At some point, I stopped saying "under god" as I didn't believe in the big man in the clouds. By the start of highschool, I was standing silently, but still with my hand on my heart. By the end of highschool, just standing silently with my arms to my side. ETA: Returned to England when I was 22.
Why would anyone stand for a flag and a pledge in 2024.. except in dictatorships... We never done that in Europe.... oh sorry..... last time anyone did that in Europe, was in Germany in 1930's.. Its a bit scary, that there are still countries in the west, where it happens People say danish sound like you have a potato in your throat.. Greetings from Denmark. ;)
danish isn't language is throat condition and it's just accent of swedish. same with norwegian is accent of swedish with ski jump ending, at end of their sentenced there's jump in octave. (it's like someone grabs norwegian in their balls at end their sentenced.) as we Finns have estonian language which we understand bit and somewhat more or less in drunk. but who the heck is invented same words, as us but doesn't mean anything that those words are supposed to mean.
@@antcommander1367 danish isnt that hard to learn.. Trust me... I have spoken it my entire life.. Swedish and norwegian is easy to understand... Finish on the other hand, isnt a language... Its just a brunch of funny sounds🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Evan, recently the other day online I saw someone talking about a Robin, from the UK. The amount of Americans arguing with this person that it isn't a Robin, what Robin's look like and eat. And it wasn't just this one time. I see it all the time with birds. People from literally the rest of the world will talk about crows, magpies and such from their countries, and every single time multiple Americans will not ask them about it, they will just confidently and stubbornly tell them that they are incorrect and that the bird isn't what they say it is. I think this is one of my largest issues with people (mostly Americans) in general, they don't ask, they don't think things are different elsewhere. They just go "That's wrong! In America that isn't right so that's wrong!" So that person getting angry and losing it about the Australian 10 dollar bill? I would believe it. I have seen that exact same interaction so many times about so many other things. Like bringing up a topic you yourself brought up, I recently got into an argument with someone who was being so condescending and insulting to me, because they refused to believe UK plugs are different/safer than US plugs. Again, one of my biggest issues with people (largely Americans) is that, even when you try to educate them and show them facts and explain things, so rarely do they admit they are wrong or open to learning. They willingly, stubbornly, and angrily will continue to choose to believe the incorrect thing, and insult you for challenging their beliefs. I wish people (largely Americans) would realise things are different all over the world, and that it's okay to be incorrect and learn
@@almightykellus2585 It drives me crazy! I have seen people talk about birds before and though "Wait? Is that another bird?" but then I will look and see it's a bird from another country! I just wish they'd do it! Instead they argue and tell the bird expert that they're wrong. Sometimes it already woulda been addressed a ton in the comments on a post, yet they don't even put the effort in to check those and just say the same thing!
The American Robin is in fact not a Robin, it's a Thrush. Early British settlers called it a Robin because it has similar colours to the European Robin which actually is a Robin.
I'll say that something to consider is that the "Americans" you are more likely to encounter visiting your country are those with excessive disposable income, readily able to afford a trip overseas, and those are the people more limited in flexibility of thinking, more dedicated to the orange jesus, and less likely to see anyone else's point of view. They are victims of confirmation bias, and are therefore certain that their way is right, and therefore, if your way differs, it must be wrong. I know the outlets in the UK are different, have been to London once, and had the necessary adapters for my electronics to work there, just as they did with the ALSO DIFFERENT outlets in Germany. All of my electronics are set to plug in to USA outlets, but as a frequent visitor to Germany, I have a cord that plugs into the wall there and then into the current adapter on the other end, so I'm good with things. It is good not to be too darned rigid, ennit?
I ended up getting into a debate online about why the BRITISH political party was called "Labour" not "Labor". Several Americans who just didn't understand that the American spelling can exist, but the party is called "The Labour Party", that's its name.
Liamella - I am Australian and have the same difficulties with how what was once the Australian Labour Party (A.L.P.) (back in the 70's I think) became The Australian Labor Party - I feel a good marketing strategy would be to put "U" back into Labor.
Was very strange when me, a Swedish person that was born, raised, and currently living in Sweden, was told by an American that I don't know anything about Swedish politics and that I was being offensive. They shut up very fast when I answered in Swedish and they didn't understand anything I said.
The world is happy to accept French is from France, Spanish is from Spain & German is from Germany... so why is it SO difficult to remember English is from England?! 🙂
Many Americans know the English were not the first people to live and thrive in North America. I've never understood the hubris it takes for the English to declare that as some sort of "gospel". Many of us have direct heritage to France and one of many tribal nations as in my mother's long heritage with a hand from King Louis the 14th . My father is a direct Ulster Scot from later on. Many locations in North America had names long before some puritans came over and changed them. Many French, for example, got along better than the English did eventually. Therefore native words were passed down from the French to the English, which are now used on a daily basis in England. Or are French translations that the English then translated into their English. Large parts of North America, USA, have more in common with New Brunswick, and every other province than the English. The state of Michigan was considered a paradise for its abundant resources for several large tribes. The entire UK would fit in the space of Michigan, including the upper peninsula and some of the Great Lakes, just for size comprehension. The tribal nations made a significant impression on Michigan and its citizens, as did France.
Having lived in Dublin for years, I can't count the number of Americans who introduced themselves loudly with "Hi, we're Irish", as it was usually a retired couple not being 4 day + vacation bums. My standard reply was "Welcome back to civilisation!" The conversation usually ended there.
When he talked about Portuguese being spoken in Brazil and Spanish in Latin America, I wanted to comment "bold of you to assume americans don't think Brazil speaks Brazilian and Colombia speaks Mexican". Later in the video I realized "damn, do they know that Spain and Portugal are in Europe?"
@@Juhcifer Actually, SOME of us know that the Portuguese spoken in Brasil is not identical to that spoken in Portugal, and Spanish and Portuguese have slightly different words from the name of the nation, and the names of the people: Brasil/Brasil/Brazil, brasileña/brasileño | brasileira/brasileiro, though apparently in Portugal they only use brasileiro. Also, some of us know that in MOST nations south of the USA in the Americas, Spanish is the default language, but for Brazil it is Portuguese and indigenous languages, while other countries speak English (like Belize) and they speak French in French Guiana, and Dutch is spoken in Suriname. While I can understand people from Central America if I need to after asking them to speak "mas despacio, por favor," when I heard people speaking castellano in Europe, I did not even consider the possibility of understanding. Not the same language, and far too rapidly spoken for slow American ears. Just please be cautious not to over-stereotype, we're not ALL the dunces you are most likely to encounter. And no matter what you think of us today, don't forget our contribution to both world wars. One of my uncles lost an arm and a leg when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. On the other hand, I'll note that one of the most notorious Nazi monsters, Josef Mengele, fled to Brazil after the war.
My parents are atheists, I used to just sit when everyone knelt to pray-it was fine. Making you stand for the pledge of allegiance is totalitarian-even if the kid was from the US.
As a linguist (formerly somewhat professionally, now amateur), I realize language evolves and that what words meant 50 or 100 years ago isn't necessarily what they mean today. As just a person who watches a lot of media, the term "3rd world" was a political term to differentiate countries that were neither capitalist nor marxist. Capitalist countries were 1st world, Marxist ones were 2nd world, everything else was the 3rd world. It's interesting that people forgot 2nd world existed, and thought 3rd world just meant "Lacking in modern amenities"
I do find it a bit bemusing that north americans seem to find "3rd world" offensive, but they replace it with "global south" which means the same thing.
It wasn't even capitalist or marxist, it was officially US aligned and officially Soviet aligned. So Sweden, a capitalist country, and Yugoslavia, a communist country, were both 3rd world countries.
Okay, so this brought back a great High School memory. In my senior year in High School I was a Dean's Aide first period. This means I was a general dog's body for the Dean's office and would run errands all over the school. One morning I was in the Principal's (Head Teacher's) office during the Pledge of Allegiance. As usual, I stood respectfully facing the flag with my hands at my side and silent throughout the pledge. It seems that the Principal's secretary witnessed this and was appalled! (Can you say pot stirring KAREN!?) I kid you not, later that day an announcement was made to the entire school that it was against the law to not say the Pledge of Allegiance and that teachers should send any student that did not want to say the Pledge to the Principal's office. The teacher whose class I was in at the time of the announcement immediately asked if there were any honor roll students in the class who didn't feel like being forced to recite the Pledge. Of course, all of the honor roll students in the class raised their hands and he sent them all to the Principal's office. I asked if I could go as well, and since everyone knew I was English and didn't say the Pledge, he said "yes, you go as well". Needless to say, later that day another announcement was made that it was not against the law if you didn't want to say the Pledge. It seems that all those smart students that were called into the Principal's to be talked to actually talked back and "educated" the Principal on History, Law, and the meaning of Freedom. THIS WAS IN 1982!!! Whenever comparing the US with any other country when trying to explain strange ideas like real health care, schooling, holidays, work benefits, and the like you will usually hit the USA #1 wall. When you tell them about universal health care from birth to death, free schooling through college or vocational/technical school, college stipends, government mandated vacation/sick leaves, paid maternity/paternity leave, and my favorite...a government retirement pension (social security) that allows you to live and not just survive you are usually treated to the same nonsensical responses. That's socialist/communist (BAD). They have a lot less people that the US (that this would mean more people would be paying in to the system doesn't seem be at all understandable to them). Or, my favorite, they pay way higher taxes than the US. I will admit that that last one is correct, but they don't understand that people don't mind paying higher taxes when they get such a high return on those taxes (free healthcare, free college, decent holidays/sick time, and a livable pension - to name a few). Surely those mythical countries across the big water can't do things better than the US. The US is #1 in everything! (Or...Why More Americans Should Travel Outside the USA or at least view more TH-cam channels.) I've worked with the public in the US for the last 40+ years. There is a small percentage of educated (meaning they know about stuff outside of the USA bubble, can read, understand logic, and THINK) people in the US. The majority of people are trapped in a little bubble of US knowledge and are indoctrinated to believe that the USA knows more and is the best when compared to any other country, even though many of these people have never been to those countries or even learned about them. Common Sense is an oxymoron! My "American" accent is a strange mix of my English accent and Southern accent which somehow sounds like a New England accent. When people guess I'm from New York I tell them, "No, further East" to which they'll respond with another state (usually one that isn't further East). Repeat this four or five times and they're still listing off New England states, occasionally there will be a smart one in the crowd that knows there are other countries out there across the big water and not just dragons and they say Britain. Evan, another great video...I think you triggered me! As usual, looking forward to your next one. Mark
West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette settled the pledge of allegiance question way back in 1943 when the US Supreme court ruled that students cannot be compelled to observe it.
@@eattherich9215 Man landed on the Moon a few decades ago, but there are still Americans who think the Earth is flat. There is reality and then their are those that live in their own version of reality! The worst of these are those "patriots" that think that everyone should be FORCED to be patriotic. A number of years ago I coined a phrase, it will be the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" when they become Brave enough to let everyone be Free.
No, more East. I love imagining the look of incomprehension. It goes the other way to tho, Im an Aussie, born n raised, but with a healthy application of British comedy, so in banter I'd flip n mix regional dialects. some jokes just sound better with particular sounds, entirely subconscious, and just kinda smushed them all together. I've had people from the UK who couldnt place where I came from ask "where the fek in the UK are you from?", "oh, bout 200km south of here, (some country town)". utter disbelief, No, Where in the UK? "never been there". even amongst my peers I was known to have a kinda weird accent day-to-day. I just liked playing with words and sounds. My sister had a bit of a speech impediment, and I could switch from John Cleese to how my sister talked (which if we did it quickly not even our folks could understand), to Red Green. and then when I was talking in my own natural speaking, they didn't believe me. it even developed into a drinking game where we would role play as tourists in a touristy bar, where we'd pick characters for each other, until the charade fell apart. sometimes the other patreons would get really pissy, other times they thought it great fun. never done tabletop roleplay, but it was great fun. usually you got caught out in 15 min, but sometime you lasted the whole interaction.
The word paddy saved my great grandfather's arm during the war as when the German doctor called him up as tommy he said "I ain't a tommy I'm a paddy" lucky enough for him that German doctor had practiced in Ireland for some time before the war and had grown an affinity for the Irish. So rather than amputating the arm he was given proper treatment and a glass of sherry a day.
@@natel9388I'm glad your great grandad kept his arm but this story doesn't't say much for the Doctor though. 'Do no harm' unless you are motivated by hate?
@@urbanshadow777 Aussie here with English Irish and Scottish Stuart ancestors from Glasgow. I love listening to them speak, but I don’t understand a lot of what they are saying - it just sounds wonderful 😊 Yes my sister has done the family tree and she’s had us all do dna tests lol - and a uni course in something connected to it. Must ask her what it was called. I was born a Stuart, but no crown came along with the surname, only the red hair lol. My grandmother was a first gen Aussie, her parents from Coventry England. Look out, my sister is heading over to the UK this year - beware of any red headed Aussies lol😂
It's so refreshing to see an American get it right when people say stuff like "I'm Irish"... I once had a long discussion with an American who claimed to be more Polish than people in Poland. The reasoning was rather bizare and they said it's be because Polish had been "tainted by communism" despite the American person knowing almost nothing about Poland and not speaking the language.
@@chimpinaneckbrace DNA and DNA test will not show you if you are Irish, German or Polish. it is literrally all based on asumptions and algoritms. even one egg twins can get diffrent results in Dna tests. It is all a scam targeted people which dont know who they are and have crissis of identity and beeing just white US American is not pollitical correct.
The only thing I usually say about my Polish ancestry is that there's a bit of Pole in me, it's bloody uncomfortable. I'm British and would never claim to be Polish.
@@ianz9916 Yeah nationality and ethnicity are different I guess. I'm technically Scottish, but grew up in England but wouldn't even try and claim to be Scottish
I have two comments about this. One, no school can require a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I stopped when I was 11 years old and sat down to figure out what I was saying. This was in the 70s. I got sent to the principal's office, and he called my mom, and my mom was PISSED....at the principal. Pulling her out of work for THIS?? He doesn't have to stand for that! And that was that. I never stood for it again. I sometimes took shit for it, sometimes even peer pressure. But I never got into trouble. That would be unconstitutional. The second point is that I've been an expat since 1991, and I learned to just avoid speaking to Americans. I've picked up some Britishisms over the years and for some reason, these offend Americans so much that it derails whatever conversation we might have been having. I've just encountered more British English (from Brits as well as Kiwis and Aussies) than American, so it should not be a surprise that I picked up a few things. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to avoid other Americans. I just don't encounter that many. I don't hang out with any predominantly American community. They exist, and I'm glad they do, because wherever they hang out? I just don't go there. HA!
I visited the US in 1980, when I was 13 and they did the pledge, when I visited my cousins school. So maybe it's not 'required' but it was happening in 1980 and given news articles like the Florida school incident, it is still happening more often than people are aware of, even today.
Hey Evan. I was recently chatting to a US business associate based in Dallas Texas who casually mentioned how great it was that most Brits flew to the US to use the healthcare there. I responded that I wasn't sure the US needed to boost it GDP. I'm not sure she got the irony! 😀
@@CiCodiCadno Right-wing echo chambers. They are constantly making up the most ridiculous lies about healthcare in other western countries to defend our ridiculous profits-over-people system. They honestly believe we have the best healthcare system in the world, and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.
To be fair, people from countries with proper healthcare systems and strong regulations will occasionally travel to the US for elective plastic surgery and various implants no responsible non-US doctor would ever install.
Oh god Robert from the Polish Heritage group, that man's a celebrity on Polish reddit and some other online Polish spaces. Just not in the way he wants to be. He will block people or try to remove them from the Polish heritage group if they try to explain to others what the Polish words they're misusing are. I've seen someone think the Polish word for basically "a lil shit" like "bratty child" was a cute endearing term their nana used for them when they were kids and he got mad.
@@paulinagabrys8874 Chyba coś było z "gówniarz", nie pamiętam dokładnie teraz, ale bardzo się wkurwiali, że im się tłumaczy że dziadzia nie miał uroczego nickname tylko ich nazywał gówniarzem :P
@@wyrmoffastringhaha nice. My grandparents generation referred to little kids as “tauge nichts” which means “no good” or “useless” in German. They always said it meant “little rascal”! Oh that WWII American immigrant generation sure did have a hard way about them didn’t they!
@@attrezzopox Actually "tauge nicht" literally means "person who is no good", in a moral sense. "Tauge" has nothing to do with worth, value or use. It is more related to morality. But the expression "tauge nichts" it is only used for children and has a very cute connotation, so "little rascal" is actually a very accurate translation. And it makes sense as young children have yet to acquire morality.
@@jonathanfontaine2325all I know is the Germans I tell this to are appalled. My cousin in Hamburg, my wife’s family in Kaiserslautern, language tutors at the German American society…. This will be the first time I’ve encountered someone outside of Texas who says “actually, totally fine…”
I have never understood why some people keep saying "I am Italian/Irish/French/whatever". I am of Italian descent and that's what I would say if asked. It wouldn't occur to me to say I am Italian.
I am British and English but I believe something like my great great great grandfather was Welsh and I have a Welsh surname. Perhaps I should consider myself Welsh?
@@trickygoose2 I was born in England but my dad is Welsh, but I would never claim that that I was 'Welsh'. How people in the USA can claim to be 'Irish/Scottish etc' because one of their ancestors three generations ago came from there is bizarre.
Well, I’m Italian, but I do have some Italian American friends, they pretty much think like you as well. I don’t know, maybe it’s an Italian thing to have more respect for one’s heritage 🤷♂️
@@Kiba_a.zno bro, gli italoamericani sono i più convinti di tutti di essere italiani. Quelli che si rendono conto di quanto sia una cazzata sono quelli che hanno in qualche modo regolare contatto con l'Italia. Dovresti fare un giro sui social dedicati e vedere che cazzo dicono lol
@@johnwellbelove148 Its called identity politics, they want people to divide and conquer, a means to divide people into going against each other over heritage. race, gender, etc.
About the heritage thing: Say that you have Swedish/French/German/Italian/whatever heritage, don't say that you are Swedish/French/German/Italian/whatever. You're not. You are US-American.
This! I once got in a fight cuz some guy said he was Dutch and knew more about the Netherlands than anyone else. Upon questioning I found out four of his grandparents were born in the USA but THEIR parents were Dutch and German. They'd never visited Europe either.
My surname is Polish but I'm a Londoner as was my father. Whenever people say "That's an unusual name, where does it come from?" I always say I got it from my Dad.
Thirty seconds in: "British plugs bad, British teeth bad!" - Evan defends British plugs - Evan does not defend British teeth Our dental health is statistically better than American dental health though :(
Americans bleach their teeth and think that means they’re healthy! Meanwhile I know two people my age with false teeth because they lost their natural teeth through decay, both are American. My teeth might not glow in the dark, but they’re mine, and I didn’t have to contribute thousands to an orthodontist’s Mercedes fund! 😂
I think the difference between British and American teeth is that, in the US, it seems to be expected that people in show business and TV have perfectly straight bright white teeth. In the UK, minor imperfections tend not to be an impediment for things like becoming a newsreader.
I used to work at a petrol station that got a lot of tourist traffic and an American tourist once saked me why all the street signs were in Icleandic and not in English. After explaining to her in my best customer service voice that in Iceland we speak Icelandic, she told me that not having English street signs wasn't very considerate of us.
Boy it is really going to blow her mind. If she travels to Ireland she will find the road signs in Gaeilge, Scotland the signs in Gaelic and Wales the signs in Celtic. I'll fetch the popcorn 🤣
The funny thing about the American mixed ancestral heritage is that they always play favorites with a particular culture. My buddy in high school was always going on about how Italian he was. What about your mom whose family is of 100% Polish ancestry? "That doesn't count because it comes from your dad's side." Coincidentally this was still the time period when those stupid Polish jokes were still popular in the US and Italian mafia movies were at the height of their popularity.
I don't think you can claim your ancestry if you don't speak the mother tongue. I wonder if the person who boasted of coming from Polish stock spoke the language?
My favourite stupid shit I've heard Americans say these last few days - I've seen at least 3 different tweets under news US news articles like CNN etc now that suggest Sunak chose 4th July for GE because it's American independence day, and because we as the british are still so distressed at America gaining their independence, he's chosen that date to try and instil some kind of patriotism that will inspire people to vote for him hahahaha. I tried to point out to one of them that we don't learn anything about American history in our schools so whilst if you ask a british person when the US independence day is, about 80% will know the answer - that date isn't automatically synonymous for us - it is not the first thing we think of and has much more to do with the timing around summer holidays. he thought I was bullshitting him...
The airport sign at 18:55 is from a Canadian airport (the English and French should give that away). In Canada the vast majority of international air travel is to/from USA. Major Candian airports have US preclearance so the airlines can fly into the US as domestic flights. Therefore at Candian airports there are three categories of travel: domestic, USA, and international; hence the unique treatment of Americans. Regardless, I do appreciate the fact that Americans have a hard time recognizng themselves as foreigners when outside their cpuntry.
as someone who is half Swedish half Irish (my mom is from Sweden, my dad is from Ireland, I grew up in Malmö, southern Sweden, and spent my summers in Cork, southern Ireland) that last bit felt weird lol! felt like you were talking directly to me haha! even to I have no connection whatsoever to the US (well I do have some distant cousins on my dad's side but I've never met them)
@@drcl7429 usually I just have a Swedish accent, I have a few videos on my channel talking about cameras and whatnot lol! but get a few pints in me... and well I start speaking in a cork accent haha
I had a good one earlier this year I was on my field trip for A-Level Geography to collect data for our coursework we went to the small town of Keswick in the Lake District as one of the most beautiful places in the UK the lake district receives large amounts of tourism both from within the UK and international visitors we were surveying people about the town and the area when we came across an American he looked like the most stereotypical MAGA Yank possible with a big old trump 2024 shirt on lol. We got to the end of our survey and a few fighter jets passed overhead (due to its remote location the Lake District is commonly used for RAF training) the American looks up and says: "You see that? That's MY tax dollars protecting your asses. You're welcome." I would have loved to point out that those were British jets completely unrelated to the US and the area is commonly used by the RAF for training the US had no relevance whatsoever to the situation and the UK does not need protection but I decided to just smile nod and complete the survey and leave him with his delusions.
@@daftirishmarej1827 Agreed, Ben needs to work on his high-school English more than his A-Level geography. Sorry Ben.... good story, but Jesus; "lol" is not a reasonable substitute for the 5 full-stops and 2 commas you missed.
I'm a Brit who lived with an American for about 20 years. We were both motorbike couriers. When he was new in the UK, he told the controller he was empty in Chis-wick. They fell about laughing. Me and him used to call it Chis-wick after that. He also asked me about bubble and squeak. He described it and called it "something like squeaky bubbles". Yeah that's what we called it afterwards.
I really don't understand how some of these people manage to exist in the world (especially in the age of the internet). I think my favourites were: - The person who didn't understand the concept of a holiday - have they just seen photos of people sunbathing on the beach or by the pool and think that's all people do on holiday? - The person who doesn't understand international train travel. I have literally taken the train to get from the UK to Germany, via France (as well as trips by train to other European countries as well). - All of the people who don't understand that other cultures and languages exist and that the people who live there / speak the language might actually know more than them about it!
Yes, workaholic US dude definitely thinks everyone on holiday is lying on a beach drinking cocktails. Or possibly at Disneyland/Disney World with the kids. That's it. He knows nothing about spending time outside of work, barring a few hours "relaxing" with TV, video games, or perhaps a weekend BBQ.
19:15 Ouch... same happened with British tourists in a Spanish airport after Brexit. They kept going to the EU line and the ariport had to put the UK flag in the "foreign" line. They got offended by that.
Read a British novel in which a British detective worked with two US FBI men, and he came to realise that '-while the US does know intellectually that other countries exist... they don't really believe it.' 'The Rivers of London' series of novels by Ben Aaronovitch.
@@dbracer Too many letters and not pompous enough. It needs to be simple and arrogant - maybe something like "Good Words"..... "We speak the Good Words here, not Spanish"
All of the garbage on the lines of "you're in America, so you have to speak English" is particularly cretinous because the US doesn't have an official language, unlike many if not most other countries. Here in NZ we have three official languages but I've never known anyone to complain about people using any language.
"First of all this is America, speak English" made that lady's concern about racism on that Spanish language website come off as really authentic and genuine.
Mate, I've been in a queue & the salesgirl said "Tena koe", to a lady, who absolutely lost her rag at the poor girl for not speaking in English. (Was in Wellington).
I think for a situation like driving it's a safety issue. I think if all the signs are in English and the cop who pulls you over is going to question you in English then you not knowing English is a problem.
I'm extremely grateful to the American girl I encountered on my year abroad in Bonn. I got invited out bowling, and she loudly talked about how she had been raised in Denmark and they were "with us in I-Rak", complete with fist pump, attracting stares from strangers. The next day, I went to lunch with them cos I did like some of the others, and she proceeded to bitch at length about one of the Americans I happened to like (and am still Facebook friends with, 18 years later) - a lesbian woman. This was literally the whole argument. I'm grateful, because the Anglophone groups especially intermeshed, especially the Brits, Irish, and Americans. It put me off so badly that I made more of an effort with the locals. Another Brit had a similar gut reaction and got into an arty scene. She'd only done GCSE German, incidentally, but by the end of the year was fluent. 18 years later, I'm living in Germany, married to a German, and naturalised. I earn my living largely through my ability to speak German - second only to my ability to write well in English. I doubt my German would have got to that level if that American girl's views and her friends' tolerance of her intolerance hadn't repulsed me so much!
Obviously, not all Americans are like that. It might have been a different story if I'd met someone like you, though! Perhaps we'd have held out for a bit just to be able to laugh about it! 😂
I’m Irish, born and raised, and I don’t dislike Americans being proud about Irish ancestry. I really don’t, I think it’s sweet and I know that a lot of people here love to complain about them but most of them are harmless. It just sucks when some of them say insane stuff, particularly around trying to ‘prove their irishness’. I’ve had an Irish American try to convince me that Irish people should go to war with England over Northern Ireland, and that the IRA is actually a good thing. When I disagreed he told me that I don’t hold ‘true Irish values’.
The last year a voice actress for Primos a Disney series, answered the critics of the bad used of Spanish with these words. "Spanish isn't a Latin America language, it is a language that the Spanish conquistadors forced onto Latin America people. Say whatever you want I'm Latina and native America" And she said it in English.
Danish person here. No offense taken. We're very aware that our language sound like we have a potato stuck in our mouth. It's one of the reasons why danish is so difficult to learn (not the grammar but the spoken part).
So I don't know if it's been said elsewhere here, but the Irish version of Patrick is Padraig, that's where Paddy comes from. St Patrick's Day in is "Lá 'le Pádraig", or "the day of Patrick". Interesting fact, there is a St Patricia. But she's the patron saint of Naples (yes, Americans, the Naples in Italy). So when you say "Oh, it's Saint Patty's Day!". No, that's the 25th of August and its for the patron saint of a city in Italy. Sincerely, an actual Irishman.
6:00 God I remember being on Tumblr when this post happened and seeing the responses on my dash in real time, this also wasn't the only time I saw a post on Tumblr were someone didn't know what Spain was. Every day I pray those posts were bait but my time on Tumblr gives me little hope that thats the case.
I giggled each time Evan said "American accent." I moved from Chicago to Boston when I started high school. It took several months for me to be able to fully understand what anyone was saying! Two years later, we were in Georgia. I'm amazed I learned anything in high school!
Just to put that in perspective, the US has around 30 regional dialects/accents, the UK is only slightly more with about 40. However the UK is about 2.5% of the size of the US (about the size of Oregon). So the confusion you faced moving hundreds or thousands of miles, we get from driving 50. I know what you mean though, I'm from Lancashire and moved 130 miles away to Newcastle. My Lancastrian accent is closer to the Mid-Atlantic American accent than anything in Geordie! :D
@@EthanKristopherHartley Point taken, but I have to wonder who is deciding the 30. Just in the Southeast, I've lived in Georgia, East Tennessee, and North Carolina. Despite what Hollywood seems to think, they are quite different. There are very different accents just in the state of Tennessee.
@@nancythomas5387 There's a whole range of linguists who consider how to classify and separate regional variations. 30 was the highest number that I found with most lay-articles counting 3(I know 😲!) to 25. The difficulties come from the differences between accents and dialects (accents are *just* the way you pronounce words, dialects are pronunciation and the words used. (For example a big one I've seen about the US is pop vs soda, which isn't a debate about accents, but dialects.) When you then bring in slang it can start to sound like a whole new dialect. But slang isn't part of a regional dialect as it's often a temporary addition. Then you have transposed accents and dialects. Those are words and pronunciations that are "borrowed" from an existing dialect. For example, the term Traffic Circle was popular in the mid-late 20th century, but after an increase in exposure to Brits and British media the term roundabout is becoming more popular. It's something we're seeing *a lot* here in the UK. But it doesn't change the underlying dialect or accent. On the flipside, someone who's knowledgeable about a specific accent (for example a native speaker) might notice small differences more regularly and view them as larger or more noticeable than they actually are. (I used to be able to pin down about 20 local towns and villages and spot people about 80%-90% of the time. But they were still all Lancastrian. Sorry for the long reply, but etymology and lexicography are two passions of mine and I get a bit carried away and I'll completely understand if you skip it. But if you don't then I hope it's interesting and maybe a little bit of help. 😉 Hope you have an awesome day!
You're gonna be as amused as I am when you find out what kiss means in Swedish, or what sheet sounds like. There's a word in Swedish that is completely inoffensive but in Polish it sounds like the word for male genitala. A friend from Poland first heard it on a children's show and nearly died laughing.
18:58 ok, I have to comment on the airport sign and did so in the original post. That's a sign in a Canadian airport (I'm pretty sure it's Vancouver based on the clues). In Canada, and particularly in airports, the US is frequently treated special, somewhere between domestic and international. For instance, for flights to the US, there are US customs officers in Canadian airports and you clear customs before you get on your flight and you end up in a special secured area so that you're effectively making a domestic US flight. So it absolutely makes sense that the US is called out seperately on signs in the airport.
Signage in English, French, and Chinese ... ya good bet that's in Vancouver. If so, then yes, the distinction between Foreign and US is valid and important.
@JJ-hu4zm in this case yes. My point was that the US/Americans are frequently treated differently than International/Foreign in Canada (and especially in airports) , so calling it out specifically makes sense.
@@sdymott Schengen zone is different. In this case there's still customs/passport control. It just happens in the Canadian airport before you board your flight.
4:26 the idea that spending time with family and friends, building memories with children, doing productive tasks around the house, having new experiences isn’t “fulfilling” is very sad
14:48 OMG OUR GUY ROBERT MADE IT INTO EVAN'S VIDEO he's a celebrity over in that Facebook group, Poles get a kick out of his BS Source: I speak Polish and enjoy the constant stream "sh*t Polish-Americans say" in the group
I got kicked out of that group years ago for sharing some Polish nursery rhymes, and because the moderators don't read or speak Polish, they didn't know what I had written and thought it was offensive. "Love my Polish heritage" but don't know the language or culture? Forget that noise.
Fajnie że Kasia robi taką karierę w zagranicznym YT. Mogłaby zrobić część drugą, czyli jak Polacy rzucili się na grupkę My Polish Heritage i trollowali Polisz Amerikanów
American: My ancestor came here from ireland 300 years ago so i'm irish Me: what are you on? My grandfather was MP for Belfast and i don't consider myself irish.
Technically British. As someone who has only one Irish parent have a slight London accent, live in Ireland I'm still not considered Irish. And that's fine
@@johnrodgers2018 "Irish" can refer to either the Republic of Ireland, or the island of Ireland, which includes both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
@@OntarioTrafficMan I know some protestants in Northern Ireland that would strongly disagree with you. Whether you consider NI British or Irish is pretty much down to your tribe, I wont use religion as its more cultural then that. I like to stick with the Roman term Hibernia for the island
@@Keeping_It_Kyle you are not English, your nationality is British though. The British isles includes England, Wales and Scotland. Northern Irish people are also British citizens.
A friend of mine used to work at a bookstore at a memorial site in Germany where they sold history books regarding the topic and they had a section for books in foreign languages where also English books were on the shelf and it happened more than once that Americans were flabbergasted that the English books were in thar section.
Cultural identity in the US is really interesting because of the sheer amount of immigrants this country had in such a short amount of time. Many of the people who came here did not want to lose their culture, so they created communities and kept their cultural identity. This cultural identity has passed on through the generations, and even as we get further from our immigrant ancestors people are still identifying as being from that country. With time I think this identification will go away, but it is still weird that people are trying to speak for a country they don't even reside in.
It's an interesting theory and probably on the right lines but the Boston people claiming to be Irish while wearing Scottish Dress (Kilts etc.) and playing on Scottish Bagpipes, says they already don't know the culture they think they have.
When you are from New Jersey and actually speak Italian (or Sicilian or Venetian or whatever), because your family kept the identity alive and you learned the language and culture at home from your parents, than you might say you are Italian. If you don't know a word in Italian and know almost nothing about the culture, than you are not.
I once got into an argument with an American tourist in Finland. We talked about how higher education is not only free in Finland, but the government pays monthly student benefits to all students. He called us a communist country and said that this will devaluate the degrees as "any lazy and poor kid can get a Master's degree for some free money".
His reaction to hearing that poor people have access to education as well said everything about him as a person.
oh, to be communist like the nordic countries
should be hands down the goal of any sane country
Stupidity is not America think. But when America do it. They do it very well
Yes they have drunk the coolade and been indoctrinated into ferocious capitalism!
Yeah, it's the worst thing about America, how many of my countrymen have drunk up the propaganda that to have any sort of social program that benefits the poorer or less fortunate is an evil thing and that everyone just needs to work harder.
WOW
If you want to offend an American about work/life balance. Point out that Americans have the lowest productivity in relation to work hours in any 'first world country'.
They don't need to be told that. How many of them work X amount of jobs and can still barely scrape by?
@@hughtube5154 It's the system that's broken, the people are just trying to survive.
You haven't worked on an American farm?
@@neilthehermit4655 The system is working exactly how it's designed to work. To benefit the 1%.
@@TalesOfWar Yep.
Its not even the lack of intelligence, its the confidence and arrogance that they're correct that does it for me😂
The two often go hand-in-hand.
That’s it. I’ve seen ignorant people all around the world but very few actually have the ARROGANCE to say every dumb thing that comes to their mind so confidently, without a couple drinks at least
I've often dreamed I'd ever achieve the confidence of an average American citizen.
The Dunning-Kruger effect.
The dumber the dumb, the higher the confidence.
I'm German and had an American argue that he is more German than me because he has blue eyes and I have green eyes. I am not making this up.
Er klingt ein bisschen verrückt.
Lol - and green is a mutation of blue to start with. 😂 Failing genetics AND geography AND law there!
Was he blond?
That´s not german, that´s arian! A concept every nazi follows! Blond, tall, blue eyes!
@@jeddgangman4502 I guess he was blöd.
This is pre-COVID.
We ran a B&B in the north of Scotland, an American lady was leaving us to travel to London to see her son who was studying there. On her last day we asked if she was looking forward to seeing London, she surprisingly said “not really”. When we asked why she said “because of the plague and the smog”. She wasn’t joking either. 😅😅😅
😂😅
and she was still willing to go! What a trooper.
🤣🤣🤣 you can’t make these things up. They do exist 😂😂
Never trust a black!
Oh please tell me you didn’t clear things up for her, and that you wound her up a bit . If she was that thick I’d have told her to watch out cos Jack the Ripper still hasn’t been caught yet 😂
"In Boston we are Irish" showing a bunch of guys (police pipe band?) carrying an American flag and dressed in full Highland (Scottish) dress.
It’s honestly perfect
They aint even got any Saffron
They also use the Highland bagpipes and not the smaller Irish ones.
Actually Irish do wear the full kilt outfit as well. The difference is in the colours. However, some groups have came up with their own Kilt colours, just to have an uniform appearance. I can't see the distinguishing colours in that kilt to adequately determine which region of Ireland it might be trying to represent. It looks more like they came up with their own colours just to be uniform in appearance instead.
"In Boston we are Irish". Plastic Paddies are ridiculed at laughed by real Irishmen/women . Most Plastic Paddies could hardly find Ireland on a map.
“Nobody takes a train from Germany to France” There’s literally a border town where you can catch a tram from France to Germany.
Or you can take the TGV from Munich to Paris or an ICE from Frankfurt to Paris...
yeah, I really would have liked a photo of the 4 bridges (tram/train/cars/pedestrians) to show how hard it is to cross the border without a plane :D
Imagine when they hear you can take a train from France to UK.
Wait until they find out that in some places people just walk between France and Germany.
The funniest part about this is how much americans tend to brag about how they dont mind taking 12 hours straight car rides like it's nothing because their country is so big and stuff. But no, two countrys sharing a border wont Travel to another without planes cause it would take too long
google before you tweet is the new think before you speak.
Absolutely
tbh, it's turning into ask chatgpt before you xeet (I now feel dirty for saying that...)
@@RealMrStoofus Ffs, no, not yet. Don't encourage people to take GPT's words at face value. Maybe in another 4-10 years, but not with current models.
@@IceMetalPunk Aye, since they're basically markov chains they necessarily lie. You cannot trust them to manage fact, or to understand things, because they can't. They're pretty good to bounce ideas off of or to reformulate text though!
@@emdivine Meh, I disagree. Humans are also just complicated Markov chains, yet we claim to understand things.
The main barriers to these AI models being very accurate are limited modalities, model size, and a lack of continual learning. All of which are constantly improving. Their inaccuracy isn't something inherent to the model architecture, it's just scaling and efficiency in several aspects.
Most recent one I saw was "$ means money in general why are you so dense?" when somone pointed out something costed £150 not $150. My favourite is being told I'm African American, I'm neither African nor American but I'm black and to some Americans that means I'm African American.
I'd love to see someone describe a ¥1000 as $1000 because '$ means money in general' lol
That's so real though! I went to E3 with two friends a couple years ago. We are all born and raised in Germany but they are black and I am white. People insisted that they were African American when they are neither African nor American in any way. They are just as German as I am.
@@CiCodiCadno If you find that person, start exchanging money with them. Giving them the equivalent of $6 for $1000 every time would be quite hillarious.
@@CiCodiCadno They probably think that everything's really expensive in Japan 😆
@@hannahk1306 "Japan is something else! Did you know the average new car costs $1,750,000?? No wonder everyone takes the train!"
My favourite examples were when Russia invaded Georgia the country, Georgians from the state of Georgia were on Twitter asking where all the Russian tanks were
I thought that might happen, although I am surprised it actually did happen.
You might want to actually look up the details of that particular short conflict. Both sides equally violated the terms of a 1992 agreement due to a separatist movement in Ossetia. As in both sides sent their troops into Ossetia thus violating the 1992 agreement.
@@Sabundy It isn't really relevant to this conversation, but Russia invaded Georgia with the same bad pretext that it invaded Ukraine and a lot of other countries. Don't be on the side of imperialism.
During the elciise this year 911 was over run with calls in Texas with people saying “ the sky turned off”
Surely, people in Georgia would be aware of the fact that there's a country called Georgia as well up there in the Caucuses mountains, Wouldn't it be a sort of quirky thing that would pique their interest?
The US is by no means a stupid country, but it does stupidity with such flair and aplomb.
Or, to rephrase it.
The US didn't invent stupidity, we just perfected it.
And so very loudly!
As an American... I have to disagree. We are *full* of stupidity, much of it codified into our culture, traditions, and laws.
@@IceMetalPunk Are you braggin? 🤣
@@liamwagner6597 No, more like wishing it wasn't so 😂
Back in the early 00's I was on a stag trip to Prague. We met a group of 4 American college students in a bar. The three girls had no interest in a group of drunk Brits so we instead set about winding up the bloke they were travelling with who was a huge fan of George W Bush.
He became so angry with our piss taking of GWB that he stood up and angrily shouted "if it wasn't for us guys (Americans) you'd all be speaking German". To emphasise this, he pointed to each of us in turn stating "un, deux, trois" 😂
Yksi, kaksi, kolme ...
(I am afraid my Finnish knowledge is finished at this point.)
🤣
Too good. 😂
Wait till he finds out that without the French or British their country wouldn't have even existed. And without literally every single other nationality on Earth, they would be quite insignificant on the world stage due to a teeny tiny population lol
Prague was liberated by the Soviets...
Ah, the O' Rico family, a fine Irish family, lovely people and very welcoming. They are however, very difficult to understand, speaking only a strange patois of Irish and Spanish.
They do make a mean spanish tortilla and potato farl hybrid though!
It is called SPIRISH! 🇪🇸 🇮🇪
Guess that's why Chilean Spanish is supposed to be so difficult to understand with Bernardo O'Higgins freeing Chile from Spanish rule during Chile's war of independence... 😜
Ah, yes, the survivors of the Great Spanish Armada that made it to Ireland and then settled there...
And to those who actually checked that in google: Ha ha, made you look.
Port O' Rico is either really stupid or really creative.
I had no idea that Boston is in Ireland… 😂
Imagine their reaction when they find out that the original Boston is in Lincolnshire, England, and that Lincolnshire isn’t named after Abraham Lincoln. 😂
they dont know that humans like to reuse names a lot?
@@piarateking8094absolutely not. Wait til they find out there is a Plymouth in England. 😂
@@sarahrosen4985 Wait till they find out that there's a Paris in France...
Boston is in Ireland. It's a small village in north County Clare.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo🤭🤭🤭 I don't think they realise that New York is the new branch of the original York and not just a cool 2 part name that someone made up. I'm also really surprised when US towns get biblical names that weren't the greatest places the first time around, like Moab.
My wife told me a story about how, after she'd given a presentation on her research at a conference in Prague, an American came up and had a chat with her about it.
One of the last things said to her was along the lines of "your American accent could be a lot better."
This was after she had told the American she was from the UK.
I don’t doubt your story. I’m just struggling to wrap my mind around how an American travels all the way to another country, hear someone speak English after saying they’re from the UK, and think this person is attempting to be American. That’s just astounding!
@@thomasonyango8208 Might have though he was giving her some "positive" feedback to help her presentation.
@@shabingly I'm an American woman that has traveled and spoken at events . Honestly, that person sounds like they were very intimidated by her. Especially if it was a man. That's why he waits to the end to make that statement . It wasn't a flex, it just announced his misogyny and insecurity . Some Americans will deliberately play dumb for a purpose . We receive constant criticism globally, it can come from anywhere. I've experienced that since age 14, much to my surprise, but I've never responded to it. It is a fact though and I figure some countries have good reason for it. Unfortunately, It's over 50 years now . What gets me is anyone thinking all 350million of us are the same . I'm not implying that here of your wife.
The person she spoke to would be vile in any language . Sometimes it's not cultural, it's just a person being themselves.
Also, historically, if anyone is being snarky, it's often the English. Much more so than any other country. I've met wonderful people in Scotland, Ireland and Wales over the years. English folks it's much more dicey and I've never known why. And it's not a difference in the sense of humor, some people are just plain hateful. There are so many things I've loved about England since I was a kid. I've never been taught to even dislike the English .
@@anitapeludat256 during the years I have learnt that people are idiot because they are idiots, not because of skin tone, language they speak or virtual line on a map they were born beyond
As an American, I’m so sorry. We aren’t all like this. Even I, again an American, am flabbergasted by these. We gotta do better 😂
I think it's just a case of sites like reddit or Twitter being predominantly used by Americans, so all the schizo takes are seen all the time causing the wrong perception.
Ik ppl like this because their parents are neglectful
It may explain some election results in the USA?
I never understood the obsession many Americans have with Ireland while they know NOTHING about us
@@simonrook5743 Ok, and how do you explain election results in the UK or Hungary? You can basically do this kind of reddit with every country, it's just that the stupid people in the US are far more vocal with their stupidity.
Polish person in the coments: "thank fuck, please stay away" xD
Yes. I was in that group years and years ago, and I was blocked for sharing some Polish nursery rhymes because the moderators didn't actually read or speak Polish and thought what I shared was offensive 😂😂
"Love my Polish heritage" but don't know the language or culture? Fuck off with that shit.
You too were in polish ancestry group? They're stupid indeed.
@@vincentlevarrick6557 I got banned from group when I said that surname of one person that was proud of it, was in fact Russian and not Polish (it was comming from Russian bereza meaning birch) so they may have actually Russian heritage instead of Polish. 😂
"In Boston we are Irish"
*American flag in background intensifies*
While wearing a Scottish kilt and playing Scottish bag pipes
Looks like some americans cosplaying as scots pretending to be irish.
Wouldn't that fall under cultural appropriation ... I mean, we do have to apply american values to americans right?
@@Shoomer1988yep
"my great great great grandpa from my wife's boyfriend side were irish
that means I'm irish too" - average Bostonian
@@HappyBeezerStudios hey, there's nothing more american than larping on other people's culture
the "cowboy' archetype was literally stolen from the mexican
My Italian husband almost fainted when you said Americans perfected the pizza😂
Imo we should consider italian and american pizza to be similar but different foods, as there are a lot of differences between them.
@@SnowyRVulpixYes, Italian ones are delicious and if bought from a pizzeria, made in front of you.
Not sure about the US, but they can't even have real cheese for goodness sake, and Mozzarella is illegal. Margherita pizza without mozzarella?!!!!
True, in Poland Italian pizza is a delicacy. American one is useless but crap fast food.
It's odd that he claimed Italy invented pizza, considering the Greeks and Persians ate pizza centuries before anyone in Italy. The Italians' greatest pizza innovation was the use of tomato sauce. Before Columbus people in the Old World assumed tomatoes were poisonous because they are closely related to deadly nightshade.
@@wizardsuth Also, the acid in tomato juice mixed badly with the copper and bronze pots and dishes that were used back then and many were sickened by this.
I’m a Brit but I worked for several years in the US. Fellow workers would go on vacation and return to work early after 3 or 4 days because they said they were bored. As a Brit with European sensibilities I could never understand their point of view.
One of my fellow workers was a Scot. He had people compliment him on how well he spoke English… no joke.
Some US people manage to twist their "heritage" in insane ways: I have an acquaintance that claims that she is probably related to me (a Finn living in Finland) because I happened to mention that we have a castle ruin from the 1370's near our summer cottage. Since she has Scottish and Irish (and apparently had to mention 1% Navajo) heritage, that castle ruin in "the country of Europe" means that when her grandfather traced her family tree back five generations, her ancestor's last name then was "Queen of Scotts", and this very (in)famous queen lived in a castle, so it's all connected. *I swear, I'm not making this shit up.* I asked her "so your grandpa traced your family tree to the birth of Mary Stuart for five generations back to 1542?" and she replied "Yes! Isn't that amazing!" Bruh. I don't think she knows how many castles there are "in the country of Europe" or how generations work 😅
Or that 1542 is a lot more than 5 generations.
That would only take you back to about 1900 give or take a couple of decades....
There are castles literally everywhere yeah. To the point a lot of them are in ruin because they're just not interesting enough to preserve.
And meanwhile I'm pretty much the opposite. Im English with some Irish, Welsh, German and possibly Polish ancestry (the records are a little fuzzy on that front thanks to WWII and the USSR). But if someone asks, I'm English, it's where I'm from lmao.
Yeah, there are some couple hundred thousand castles.
And the heavy focus on the ancestor's culture could be easily explained with the lack of any meaningful modern american culture.
In Germany, directly at the river Rhine and just between the town Bingen and the city Koblenz, which is roughly just 60 km, are 40 castles (ruins) alone. That's just 60 km and just directly at the Rhine. Granted, it's the area with the most "dense" castle presence in all of Europe, but still. There are so many damn castles here...
"I've never seen a castle, so they must be very rare!" Yeah, that's because Native North American tribes didn't traditionally build castles (and rarely used stone to build at all), and by the time Europeans came over to the Americas, neither did they. But in countries where Europeans and their ancestors *actually lived going back centuries,* there are *tons* of castles.
That one about the Aussie accent hit close to home. I used to work as a jouster at Renaissance Festivals in the US. I got told it was a weekday, I didn't need to keep putting on my accent. I'm British by birth, I'd been in the US for less than three years. 🤦
No no, but you see, you don't have to keep faking it! We're being nice by allowing you to drop the accent that doesn't really exist. We know it's a fake way of talking for movies! It used to be real, but no one has had that accent since we declared independence in 1776; so you can relax and stop doing that now. We're so nice.
/s
@@IceMetalPunk Hilariously, what I was planning on doing with my 'character' for jousting going forward, but didn't get to implement due to contract disputes and buyouts putting me out of a job, was to play a character who wasn't British, and to instead mimic the American accent, leaving all the Americans with their fake British accents to play the European characters.
@@KidarWolf "If the Yanks are going to sound ridiculous, then I shall sound ridiculous, too!" It's like the plot of a lost Monty Python sketch 😂
Americas pledge of allegiance is such a North Korean thing to do🤷♂️🤷♂️
Yup. As my WWII Vet Dad used to say, Forced Patriotism is Fascism. Americans haven't a clue.
What’s wrong with being a patriot? Can British people be proud of their past? Ooooohh, gosh…. Yeah, seems right😮
Omg yes!! I once had this conversation with an American who thought it was shockint that North Koreans have pictures od the supreme leader in their classrooms and homes... While Americans deck out their classrooms and homes with the flag, pledge allegiance to it every morning and find that "patriotic", not brainwashed😂
The thing about it is, if you were to describe a country the USA considers an "enemy" (or "evil" could be another word for it) doing something similar to the pledge of allegiance without calling it that, most of them would find it outrageous and call it propaganda. I wish I had realised to ask people about it this way and point it out during my exchange year in the states, as I'm sure I would've gotten some interesting responses.
Tbh, probably would've gotten some justifications like one of the replies above mine, acting as if the USA has never committed any war crimes ever or making use of colonialism for its own good 😮 there's literally so many examples about the US government's wrongdoings across the world.
Edit: we also had some recruiters from the US military visiting my hs classes during my exchange year. The propaganda was so real it felt almost comical.
@@Bunnybananabunny you don’t have to pledge the allegiance in American anymore (mostly, I live in California by the way). It’s not the case anymore
That's reminds me a video by a Polish girl who surfed though American Facebook groups of Polish Americans. And man, how Americans are so proud of their heritage yet know zilch about Poland. And when they find a real Pole online or go to Poland they get offended. Literally saying that actual Poles are not real Poles, but they in America preserved "polishness".
Was it Kasia Babis?
If an American claimed that he was a Pole, I'd seriously asked him "Wood or metal?"
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo probably lead,
because they are really dense.
@@towelie1313 yes. But her English channel - Kasia Baba
Yeah I saw that video. 😂
"This was Hamilton doing a drag performance in Sydney!" Stop! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Years ago i had a totally fruitless argument with an American woman who accused me of being racist . I had just used the idiom " Pot calling the kettle black".....
If it makes you feel any better my mum once got accused of racism, by a white American man, for saying 'monkey see, monkey do'
@@CiCodiCadno oh ye gods!
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Mark Twain
@@CiCodiCadno So he heard the word monkey, and his first thought was people of colour. Hmm...
So confused, in America we also use both idioms lol.
Evan, please don't encourage the people of Munster to sail across the Atlantic and take Port O'Rico. Because they will do it.
Port O'Rico 💀
@@ffotograffydd Yes that's the joke.
Being fair, the O'Ricos are a well established family from near Kenmare and Kerry is always looking to expand the Kingdom.
MULTIPLE times while visiting NYC last month (it was my first visit to the US) people asked me where I was from, I told them that I'm Scottish, and they shared either that they are "Irish" or an anecdote about an Irish person they know. A manager of a bar I was in (not one of the many Irish pubs) told me "I know it's not the same, but we had an Irish guy over for work experience a few months ago". Another lady used almost the same wording to say "I know it's not the same, but I'm Irish". In her thick Boston accent. Turns out she is in fact less Irish than I am.
I honestly blame events like the one depicted in that Boston Irish meme you shared. With the guys in kilts, playing Scottish bagpipes. The issue is that a lot of Americans with Irish heritage go to those events and think the two cultures are the same.
I do want to say that I didn't exactly mind either interaction. It was just something I noticed.
Mmmm, what about ghe Ulster Plantation? Isn't that when a load of Scots moved to Ireland, Northern Ireland I think. So unfortunately the Northern Irish and the Scots have quite a connection.
But mind you I read that the Scots were Irish Celts who migrated to Scotland.... so who knows I'm confused, but there seems to be a huge link between them
We're all immigrants, just depends how far back you go (Africans excluded, that's where we all started and then spread out from there)
@@ddbb6618 I am Scottish. Some of my _ancestors_ are Irish. Same is true in reverse for those who moved in the other direction. We are very similar. But we are not the same. The image claiming that people from Boston _are_ Irish contains a group of people in Scottish kilts, playing Scottish bagpipes. I'd class that as cultural confusion.
I'm not at all offended and I really wasn't bothered by my interactions with anyone while I was there. I was just suggesting that events like the one depicted might be the reason for some conflating the two similar but distinct cultures.
As similar as we are, and as shared as our heritage is, yeah we're completely different countries and people!
'all americans want to live the american dream' - but some can't afford the $1200 fee for getting an ambulance to the nearest hospital
$1200? Don't tell them that, they'll all want to move to that cheap state. The US average is $2500.
As Al Murray said, we don't have a dream in the UK, that's because we're awake.
Universal healthcare is communism!
I've literally met two US americans who moved to France to work there bc they have chronic illnesses so France's healthcare system is their only chance to live a normal life instead of an exhausting and awful one... I congratulated them for making the smart choice. Both of them said they vastly preferred life there and had no intention of ever going back outside of small vacations to see their family.
Thats not based on government, the insurance industry is why that happens, its not the doctors, in fact the insurance companies are even allowed to interfere and tell a doctor they wont allow a certain drug or procedure even if the doctor fights with them and makes it clear the person needs that treatment or they could die or suffer. Insurance industry rakes in trillions and will buy and sell politicians to continue allowing their industry to be put over any other form of healthcare.
As a Canadian who has had the displeasure of living within a days journey to the US boarder, it is laughable.
Have had American's who actually think that we live in Igloos and only consume maple syrup and Kraft Mac'n'cheese, didn't realize they were in Canada yet, because there was no snow, in Ottawa in the Summer... Was shocked they were in Canada and applauded us on our American accents...
For one that was an honest mistake when I lived in the countryside for awhile, had a couple come to a resort I worked at and they rented a Canoe and Snow shoes, it was March. Now for the honest mistake the place I work for should not have let them book the canoe at all. They arrived, we brought the snow shoes and canoe down, asked them where they planned to canoe, they said on the lake their cabin was supposed to be on. They then asked where the lake was, we pointed to the white stretching plane, they did not understand, so further explained that it was March and the lake still has over 1ft of ice on it, they would not be canoeing. That is when the husband got confrontational and thought I was trying to make them seem dumb and play a joke, going on about how "Lakes can't freeze over" and that was just a flat area of grass. After much fighting and explaining and showing the pictures of the resort in both Summer and winter so he could see exactly where the water was, brought them onto the ice where one of the fishing huts was that we dug a test hole, and he was shocked the moment he looked in and became deadly terrified that we'd brought them out on the water, and were they going to fall thru and die. Had to slowly guide them back as they were so scared until a truck went zooming across in the distance on the ice. They were both very apologetic about the whole thing and we got them the money back on the canoe rental.
For a worse one working camp security at an international Scout camp when I was 12. I had to make sure no kids left the camp as I guarded one of the exits. American leader came up and was planning to take the kids in his group into town to get something to eat as they had brought no food to speak of except snacks. Explained that he could leave but the kids could not as that is camp policy. After a lot of back and forth arguing and him screaming at 12 year old me and my 13 year old friend on with me, and us just straight faced explaining the same thing and not budging, dude pulls a gun on us, threatening us if we don't let the kids cross. Me and my friend started dying laughing in his face which instantly deflated his ego and put him on the back step. We were not laughing because we thought it was fake, we were laughing because this guy just pulled a gun on a 12 and 13 year old because they said they can't let the kids leave the camp. How little of a person do you have to be to think such an action is justified.
By this time our security leader had come over as she had been hearing quite the commotion and she chewed the guy a new asshole. His hole group had to be checked for firearms, which more were found, and they were permanently banned. It also created a new screening process where American groups had to drive into a separate line when coming to camp, for all of their belongings to be checked to ensure they were not smuggling firearms illegally into the camp and country. Multiple more groups were banned because they brought guns to camp and demanded they had a right under the 2nd amendment which doesn't exist in Canada so they had no right to arms.
Also lead to stricter searches at the countries boarder because people from the USA kept trying to smuggle guns in with them.
Mark Twain - 'It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt'
unknown -- 'America has a very individualistic, LOUD, self-confident culture.'
I guess he met a lot of people who could learn from that and thus he wrote it down. 🙂
Many Americans would rather be confidently wrong than cautiously correct.
The beauty of this particular quote though, is Mark Twain was an American, and, along with my partner, his mere existence proves intelligent, reflective and learned Americans do indeed exist - as with all people, the loud obnoxious ones ruin the reputation of the rest..
However in the US the wrong crowd is LOUD, very loud - you can partially blame sheer population, there's 333 million Americans in the world, your bound to get some dunces in such a number, but on the other hand any American could also tell you the education system in the us is an utter, utter shambles, and at this point your better off educating your own child, as their nearly guaranteed to learn much more in your own care than in a classroom
@@Delicious_JYou’re*
@@wellno7179 Get a hobby you little goon
"There's no country named Spania." Well, they're right about that. And in a weird twist of fate, they ironically invented something that's halfway between the English name and the actual Spanish name, which was of course created by people from España.
SPANGLISH
It's actually quite funny because that's what we call Spain in Norwegian 😅
@@emmybm15and in Finnish 😂
And in Italian it’s Spagna, which is pronounced basically like an American would pronunce “Spania”
And in Romanian. Exactly like that, Spania (pronounced in the way Espagna is pronounced)
St Patty's day is the official day to celebrate St Patty, patron saint of burger patties, which are named after him, since when he was martyred, he was finely chopped up and fried on a griddle.
Traditionally celebrated on the 17th of March by the Julian Calendar (no, not *that* one, the calender that Julie from accounts made up).
When did “St. Patty” have a sex change? Patty is female, Paddy is male.
@@tonyrykes2228 You should be able to infer from this which parts were choppd up first.
@@tonyrykes2228 If you're of an age you will know that Leisuresuit Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards became Passionate Patty In Pursuit Of Pulsating Pectorals after a sex change.
Ye gods.
Patty is short for Patricia.
Paddy is short for Padrig (Irish for Patrick pronounced paw-drig).
"Real Spanish is spoken in Latin America".
You clearly haven't encountered certain Hispanic Americans who say "white people shouldn’t speak Spanish", forgetting that the language is from Spain.
Most Mexicans actually believe that their spanish is 'better' than continental Spanish. It's the same thing as it is between the US and UK, but more serious - and less playful - they really believe it.
@@gagenaterI’d love to see a video on that
Real Spanish is Castellano from Castilla, Spain.
@@gagenater "most Mexicans"? citation needed... ironic that in a video about how Americans think they know more about other's peoples countries you would post that.
Also even if the language wasn't from Spain there are tens of millions of white people in Latinamerica.
12:27 That pic of the Chicago river always reminds me of "The Fugitive".
"If they can dye the river green today, why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?" 😆
The "only English is American English, English English is an dialect" thing made me laugh. Here in Switzerland we sometimes jokingly say that German German is a Swiss-German dialect. But we atleast could argue that large portions of Middle- and High-German dialects had a vowel change that didn't happen in most Swiss-German dialects. But it's still just joking...
...maybe xD
When I was in the US an American complimented me on my English. I said, “Thank you, but as I was born in England it should be good.” Their response was, “But isn’t England in Europe?” I didn’t know how to respond to that. 😂
Well, here in Germany we sometimes say that Dutch is just another German dialect. If a Dutch person speaks slowly (or if you're very, very drunk) you do understand enough to get what they're trying to say, same with a German person speaking to a Dutch person. With Schwitzerdütsch it's different.
@@ffotograffydd😂😂😂
@@ffotograffyddYou could have really messed with them and said "Traditionally yes, but we're trying to leave" (I have met multiple people who described Brexit as "leaving Europe"!). 😆
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo If dutch is spoken slowly even I, as a Swede can get most of what they're trying to say.
"Nobody takes a train from Germany to France"? Guess, I don't exist for a few hours every summer....
Wormhole! 😁
@@etherealtb6021😂😂😂😂
Guess there is no intra-European rail guys, no train from Turkey to Austria.
From Cologne to Paris about 4 hours, if I remember correctly.
Nobody in Ireland says St Patty. Nobody.
Aint it cuz it comes from Padraigh
In fact they will very happily correct people who do, because it comes from the Irish name Pádraig. There are few things that'll make an Irish person's eye twitch more than hearing someone say, "Happy St. Patty's Day!"
@Quessir
He had an Irish name ?
Or is that the slave name the Irish gave him?
I never quite reached the point of not standing for the Pledge of Allegiance; UK born, but family emigrated to California when I was 2 - introduced to the pledge in school, obviously, and participated. At some point, I stopped saying "under god" as I didn't believe in the big man in the clouds. By the start of highschool, I was standing silently, but still with my hand on my heart. By the end of highschool, just standing silently with my arms to my side.
ETA: Returned to England when I was 22.
As long as you don't stand silently with the right arm raised... But I guess that's a different pledge.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodohey that was the original intended salute for the flag.
Fun fact that Evan loves ignoring its only mandatory to stand for the pledge actually saying/participating in the pledge is entirely voluntary
@@brandonhowell5096 It shouldn't be mandatory to stand for it either.
@@thegrouchizationit’s not.
An Italian, an Irishman and a Polish man walk into a bar and they perfectly understand each-other because they are all Americans.
Why would anyone stand for a flag and a pledge in 2024.. except in dictatorships...
We never done that in Europe.... oh sorry..... last time anyone did that in Europe, was in Germany in 1930's..
Its a bit scary, that there are still countries in the west, where it happens
People say danish sound like you have a potato in your throat..
Greetings from Denmark. ;)
Belarus, Hungary and Russia are in Europe. (The continent, not the union)
Sadly the current Italian GOVERNMENT does, and they very much are Fascists (Not Anti-Fascists is basically Fascists).
@@MarcoPiazzo sound like they are moving backwards in time to Mousulinl
danish isn't language is throat condition and it's just accent of swedish.
same with norwegian is accent of swedish with ski jump ending, at end of their sentenced there's jump in octave.
(it's like someone grabs norwegian in their balls at end their sentenced.)
as we Finns have estonian language which we understand bit and somewhat more or less in drunk.
but who the heck is invented same words, as us but doesn't mean anything that those words are supposed to mean.
@@antcommander1367 danish isnt that hard to learn.. Trust me... I have spoken it my entire life.. Swedish and norwegian is easy to understand... Finish on the other hand, isnt a language... Its just a brunch of funny sounds🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Evan, recently the other day online I saw someone talking about a Robin, from the UK. The amount of Americans arguing with this person that it isn't a Robin, what Robin's look like and eat. And it wasn't just this one time. I see it all the time with birds. People from literally the rest of the world will talk about crows, magpies and such from their countries, and every single time multiple Americans will not ask them about it, they will just confidently and stubbornly tell them that they are incorrect and that the bird isn't what they say it is. I think this is one of my largest issues with people (mostly Americans) in general, they don't ask, they don't think things are different elsewhere. They just go "That's wrong! In America that isn't right so that's wrong!"
So that person getting angry and losing it about the Australian 10 dollar bill? I would believe it. I have seen that exact same interaction so many times about so many other things. Like bringing up a topic you yourself brought up, I recently got into an argument with someone who was being so condescending and insulting to me, because they refused to believe UK plugs are different/safer than US plugs. Again, one of my biggest issues with people (largely Americans) is that, even when you try to educate them and show them facts and explain things, so rarely do they admit they are wrong or open to learning. They willingly, stubbornly, and angrily will continue to choose to believe the incorrect thing, and insult you for challenging their beliefs. I wish people (largely Americans) would realise things are different all over the world, and that it's okay to be incorrect and learn
That first part really annoys me too, especially if it's someone talking about buzzards
@@almightykellus2585 It drives me crazy! I have seen people talk about birds before and though "Wait? Is that another bird?" but then I will look and see it's a bird from another country! I just wish they'd do it! Instead they argue and tell the bird expert that they're wrong. Sometimes it already woulda been addressed a ton in the comments on a post, yet they don't even put the effort in to check those and just say the same thing!
The American Robin is in fact not a Robin, it's a Thrush. Early British settlers called it a Robin because it has similar colours to the European Robin which actually is a Robin.
I'll say that something to consider is that the "Americans" you are more likely to encounter visiting your country are those with excessive disposable income, readily able to afford a trip overseas, and those are the people more limited in flexibility of thinking, more dedicated to the orange jesus, and less likely to see anyone else's point of view. They are victims of confirmation bias, and are therefore certain that their way is right, and therefore, if your way differs, it must be wrong. I know the outlets in the UK are different, have been to London once, and had the necessary adapters for my electronics to work there, just as they did with the ALSO DIFFERENT outlets in Germany. All of my electronics are set to plug in to USA outlets, but as a frequent visitor to Germany, I have a cord that plugs into the wall there and then into the current adapter on the other end, so I'm good with things. It is good not to be too darned rigid, ennit?
I ended up getting into a debate online about why the BRITISH political party was called "Labour" not "Labor". Several Americans who just didn't understand that the American spelling can exist, but the party is called "The Labour Party", that's its name.
Careful, that is Socialism.....which is essentially Communism. 🙂
imagine their shock when they'll see the spelling of the word "colour"
Liamella - I am Australian and have the same difficulties with how what was once the Australian Labour Party (A.L.P.) (back in the 70's I think) became The Australian Labor Party - I feel a good marketing strategy would be to put "U" back into Labor.
Was very strange when me, a Swedish person that was born, raised, and currently living in Sweden, was told by an American that I don't know anything about Swedish politics and that I was being offensive. They shut up very fast when I answered in Swedish and they didn't understand anything I said.
The world is happy to accept French is from France, Spanish is from Spain & German is from Germany... so why is it SO difficult to remember English is from England?! 🙂
Actually, many U.S Americans think Spanish is from Latin America.
From Mexico more specifically@@mehallica666
@@mehallica666 I'm guessing they think Latin is also from Latin America?
Many Americans know the English were not the first people to live and thrive in North America. I've never understood the hubris it takes for the English to declare that as some sort of "gospel". Many of us have direct heritage to France and one of many tribal nations as in my mother's long heritage with a hand from King Louis the 14th .
My father is a direct Ulster Scot from later on. Many locations in North America had names long before some puritans came over and changed them. Many French, for example, got along
better than the English did eventually. Therefore native words were passed down from the French to the English, which are now used on a daily basis in England. Or are French translations that the English then translated into their English.
Large parts of North America, USA, have more in common with New Brunswick, and every other province than the English.
The state of Michigan was considered a paradise for its abundant resources for several large tribes. The entire UK would fit in the space of Michigan, including the upper peninsula and some of the Great Lakes, just for size comprehension. The tribal nations made a significant
impression on Michigan and its citizens, as did France.
@@anitapeludat256yawn
Having lived in Dublin for years, I can't count the number of Americans who introduced themselves loudly with "Hi, we're Irish", as it was usually a retired couple not being 4 day + vacation bums. My standard reply was "Welcome back to civilisation!" The conversation usually ended there.
When he talked about Portuguese being spoken in Brazil and Spanish in Latin America, I wanted to comment "bold of you to assume americans don't think Brazil speaks Brazilian and Colombia speaks Mexican". Later in the video I realized "damn, do they know that Spain and Portugal are in Europe?"
No, most Americans would assume that Brazilian is 100x a Billion.
@@jedislap8726 😂😂😂
Most don’t 😂😂😂
Brazilian here, the clueless americans I had the chance to talk to believed we speak Spanish. Not even "Brazilian", just full on Spanish.
@@Juhcifer Actually, SOME of us know that the Portuguese spoken in Brasil is not identical to that spoken in Portugal, and Spanish and Portuguese have slightly different words from the name of the nation, and the names of the people: Brasil/Brasil/Brazil, brasileña/brasileño | brasileira/brasileiro, though apparently in Portugal they only use brasileiro. Also, some of us know that in MOST nations south of the USA in the Americas, Spanish is the default language, but for Brazil it is Portuguese and indigenous languages, while other countries speak English (like Belize) and they speak French in French Guiana, and Dutch is spoken in Suriname. While I can understand people from Central America if I need to after asking them to speak "mas despacio, por favor," when I heard people speaking castellano in Europe, I did not even consider the possibility of understanding. Not the same language, and far too rapidly spoken for slow American ears. Just please be cautious not to over-stereotype, we're not ALL the dunces you are most likely to encounter. And no matter what you think of us today, don't forget our contribution to both world wars. One of my uncles lost an arm and a leg when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. On the other hand, I'll note that one of the most notorious Nazi monsters, Josef Mengele, fled to Brazil after the war.
Americans: the only country who’s people live up to their negative stereotypes ☕️🇺🇸🦅
and some of them seem to be proud of it
Says smug European(stereotype)😆
No, no. We English quite often are found drunk, sunburned and in possession of awful teeth.
@@Timbothruster-fh3cwas an European I can say that we ate pretty smug
Don't forget about Morocco.
My parents are atheists, I used to just sit when everyone knelt to pray-it was fine.
Making you stand for the pledge of allegiance is totalitarian-even if the kid was from the US.
As a linguist (formerly somewhat professionally, now amateur), I realize language evolves and that what words meant 50 or 100 years ago isn't necessarily what they mean today.
As just a person who watches a lot of media, the term "3rd world" was a political term to differentiate countries that were neither capitalist nor marxist. Capitalist countries were 1st world, Marxist ones were 2nd world, everything else was the 3rd world. It's interesting that people forgot 2nd world existed, and thought 3rd world just meant "Lacking in modern amenities"
I do find it a bit bemusing that north americans seem to find "3rd world" offensive, but they replace it with "global south" which means the same thing.
It wasn't even capitalist or marxist, it was officially US aligned and officially Soviet aligned. So Sweden, a capitalist country, and Yugoslavia, a communist country, were both 3rd world countries.
@@ShiftySqvirrel Yugoslavia was a socialist country. Literally official name was "Socialist Republic Yugoslavia"
@@totalstrangerthing7419 But not Soviet aligned, due to Tito splitting from the Soviet bloc, as such it was 3rd world.
Okay, so this brought back a great High School memory. In my senior year in High School I was a Dean's Aide first period. This means I was a general dog's body for the Dean's office and would run errands all over the school. One morning I was in the Principal's (Head Teacher's) office during the Pledge of Allegiance. As usual, I stood respectfully facing the flag with my hands at my side and silent throughout the pledge. It seems that the Principal's secretary witnessed this and was appalled! (Can you say pot stirring KAREN!?) I kid you not, later that day an announcement was made to the entire school that it was against the law to not say the Pledge of Allegiance and that teachers should send any student that did not want to say the Pledge to the Principal's office.
The teacher whose class I was in at the time of the announcement immediately asked if there were any honor roll students in the class who didn't feel like being forced to recite the Pledge. Of course, all of the honor roll students in the class raised their hands and he sent them all to the Principal's office. I asked if I could go as well, and since everyone knew I was English and didn't say the Pledge, he said "yes, you go as well". Needless to say, later that day another announcement was made that it was not against the law if you didn't want to say the Pledge. It seems that all those smart students that were called into the Principal's to be talked to actually talked back and "educated" the Principal on History, Law, and the meaning of Freedom. THIS WAS IN 1982!!!
Whenever comparing the US with any other country when trying to explain strange ideas like real health care, schooling, holidays, work benefits, and the like you will usually hit the USA #1 wall. When you tell them about universal health care from birth to death, free schooling through college or vocational/technical school, college stipends, government mandated vacation/sick leaves, paid maternity/paternity leave, and my favorite...a government retirement pension (social security) that allows you to live and not just survive you are usually treated to the same nonsensical responses. That's socialist/communist (BAD). They have a lot less people that the US (that this would mean more people would be paying in to the system doesn't seem be at all understandable to them). Or, my favorite, they pay way higher taxes than the US. I will admit that that last one is correct, but they don't understand that people don't mind paying higher taxes when they get such a high return on those taxes (free healthcare, free college, decent holidays/sick time, and a livable pension - to name a few).
Surely those mythical countries across the big water can't do things better than the US. The US is #1 in everything!
(Or...Why More Americans Should Travel Outside the USA or at least view more TH-cam channels.)
I've worked with the public in the US for the last 40+ years. There is a small percentage of educated (meaning they know about stuff outside of the USA bubble, can read, understand logic, and THINK) people in the US. The majority of people are trapped in a little bubble of US knowledge and are indoctrinated to believe that the USA knows more and is the best when compared to any other country, even though many of these people have never been to those countries or even learned about them. Common Sense is an oxymoron!
My "American" accent is a strange mix of my English accent and Southern accent which somehow sounds like a New England accent. When people guess I'm from New York I tell them, "No, further East" to which they'll respond with another state (usually one that isn't further East). Repeat this four or five times and they're still listing off New England states, occasionally there will be a smart one in the crowd that knows there are other countries out there across the big water and not just dragons and they say Britain.
Evan, another great video...I think you triggered me!
As usual, looking forward to your next one.
Mark
West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette settled the pledge of allegiance question way back in 1943 when the US Supreme court ruled that students cannot be compelled to observe it.
@@eattherich9215 Man landed on the Moon a few decades ago, but there are still Americans who think the Earth is flat.
There is reality and then their are those that live in their own version of reality! The worst of these are those "patriots" that think that everyone should be FORCED to be patriotic. A number of years ago I coined a phrase, it will be the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" when they become Brave enough to let everyone be Free.
That Common Sense thing reminds of a famous American who once wrote that : 'Common Sense is what tells you the world is flat'. Long time ago.
No, more East. I love imagining the look of incomprehension. It goes the other way to tho, Im an Aussie, born n raised, but with a healthy application of British comedy, so in banter I'd flip n mix regional dialects. some jokes just sound better with particular sounds, entirely subconscious, and just kinda smushed them all together. I've had people from the UK who couldnt place where I came from ask "where the fek in the UK are you from?", "oh, bout 200km south of here, (some country town)". utter disbelief, No, Where in the UK? "never been there". even amongst my peers I was known to have a kinda weird accent day-to-day. I just liked playing with words and sounds. My sister had a bit of a speech impediment, and I could switch from John Cleese to how my sister talked (which if we did it quickly not even our folks could understand), to Red Green. and then when I was talking in my own natural speaking, they didn't believe me. it even developed into a drinking game where we would role play as tourists in a touristy bar, where we'd pick characters for each other, until the charade fell apart. sometimes the other patreons would get really pissy, other times they thought it great fun. never done tabletop roleplay, but it was great fun. usually you got caught out in 15 min, but sometime you lasted the whole interaction.
Further east from NYC meaning Long Island?
The word paddy saved my great grandfather's arm during the war as when the German doctor called him up as tommy he said "I ain't a tommy I'm a paddy" lucky enough for him that German doctor had practiced in Ireland for some time before the war and had grown an affinity for the Irish. So rather than amputating the arm he was given proper treatment and a glass of sherry a day.
@@natel9388I'm glad your great grandad kept his arm but this story doesn't't say much for the Doctor though. 'Do no harm' unless you are motivated by hate?
If you want to stick it up to someone who cosplays your nationality, respond in Gaelic and just watch them disconnecting.
Don't even need to speak Gaelic, I just use my normal Glaswegian accent and they look like a deer caught in headlights.
@@urbanshadow777Lol! I've been to Glasgow and Edinburgh and let me tell you they did not speak the kind of English I was tought at school! 😂😂😂
@@onerva0001 *taught 😉
@@urbanshadow777
Aussie here with English Irish and Scottish Stuart ancestors from Glasgow. I love listening to them speak, but I don’t understand a lot of what they are saying - it just sounds wonderful 😊
Yes my sister has done the family tree and she’s had us all do dna tests lol - and a uni course in something connected to it. Must ask her what it was called. I was born a Stuart, but no crown came along with the surname, only the red hair lol.
My grandmother was a first gen Aussie, her parents from Coventry England. Look out, my sister is heading over to the UK this year - beware of any red headed Aussies lol😂
@@bernadettelanders7306 hope she enjoys it here! australians are always welcome, love you guys :)
It's so refreshing to see an American get it right when people say stuff like "I'm Irish"...
I once had a long discussion with an American who claimed to be more Polish than people in Poland. The reasoning was rather bizare and they said it's be because Polish had been "tainted by communism" despite the American person knowing almost nothing about Poland and not speaking the language.
I had no idea socio-economic political systems transformed people's DNA. Someone alert the Scientific community.
@@chimpinaneckbrace I'm tempted to write a PHD on how socialism makes you less you
@@chimpinaneckbrace DNA and DNA test will not show you if you are Irish, German or Polish. it is literrally all based on asumptions and algoritms. even one egg twins can get diffrent results in Dna tests. It is all a scam targeted people which dont know who they are and have crissis of identity and beeing just white US American is not pollitical correct.
The only thing I usually say about my Polish ancestry is that there's a bit of Pole in me, it's bloody uncomfortable. I'm British and would never claim to be Polish.
@@ianz9916 Yeah nationality and ethnicity are different I guess. I'm technically Scottish, but grew up in England but wouldn't even try and claim to be Scottish
I have two comments about this. One, no school can require a student to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I stopped when I was 11 years old and sat down to figure out what I was saying. This was in the 70s. I got sent to the principal's office, and he called my mom, and my mom was PISSED....at the principal. Pulling her out of work for THIS?? He doesn't have to stand for that! And that was that. I never stood for it again. I sometimes took shit for it, sometimes even peer pressure. But I never got into trouble. That would be unconstitutional. The second point is that I've been an expat since 1991, and I learned to just avoid speaking to Americans. I've picked up some Britishisms over the years and for some reason, these offend Americans so much that it derails whatever conversation we might have been having. I've just encountered more British English (from Brits as well as Kiwis and Aussies) than American, so it should not be a surprise that I picked up a few things. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to avoid other Americans. I just don't encounter that many. I don't hang out with any predominantly American community. They exist, and I'm glad they do, because wherever they hang out? I just don't go there. HA!
I visited the US in 1980, when I was 13 and they did the pledge, when I visited my cousins school. So maybe it's not 'required' but it was happening in 1980 and given news articles like the Florida school incident, it is still happening more often than people are aware of, even today.
Hey Evan. I was recently chatting to a US business associate based in Dallas Texas who casually mentioned how great it was that most Brits flew to the US to use the healthcare there. I responded that I wasn't sure the US needed to boost it GDP. I'm not sure she got the irony! 😀
God I would love to study that person. Where on Earth did they get their facts from
@@CiCodiCadno Right-wing echo chambers. They are constantly making up the most ridiculous lies about healthcare in other western countries to defend our ridiculous profits-over-people system. They honestly believe we have the best healthcare system in the world, and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.
To be fair, people from countries with proper healthcare systems and strong regulations will occasionally travel to the US for elective plastic surgery and various implants no responsible non-US doctor would ever install.
@@anserbauer309 maybe because there's a good reason for the non-US doctors not to do those procedures?!?!
@@CiCodiCadno Fox news or OAN probably.
Oh god Robert from the Polish Heritage group, that man's a celebrity on Polish reddit and some other online Polish spaces. Just not in the way he wants to be. He will block people or try to remove them from the Polish heritage group if they try to explain to others what the Polish words they're misusing are. I've seen someone think the Polish word for basically "a lil shit" like "bratty child" was a cute endearing term their nana used for them when they were kids and he got mad.
Chodzi o słowo głuptasek? Obrażanie się o takie rzeczy robią tylko Amerykanie...
@@paulinagabrys8874 Chyba coś było z "gówniarz", nie pamiętam dokładnie teraz, ale bardzo się wkurwiali, że im się tłumaczy że dziadzia nie miał uroczego nickname tylko ich nazywał gówniarzem :P
@@wyrmoffastringhaha nice. My grandparents generation referred to little kids as “tauge nichts” which means “no good” or “useless” in German. They always said it meant “little rascal”! Oh that WWII American immigrant generation sure did have a hard way about them didn’t they!
@@attrezzopox Actually "tauge nicht" literally means "person who is no good", in a moral sense. "Tauge" has nothing to do with worth, value or use. It is more related to morality. But the expression "tauge nichts" it is only used for children and has a very cute connotation, so "little rascal" is actually a very accurate translation. And it makes sense as young children have yet to acquire morality.
@@jonathanfontaine2325all I know is the Germans I tell this to are appalled. My cousin in Hamburg, my wife’s family in Kaiserslautern, language tutors at the German American society…. This will be the first time I’ve encountered someone outside of Texas who says “actually, totally fine…”
A place called spain full of spainish people? lmao next you'll tell me there's a place called Englia full of english people
The funniest part of that is they said there isn't a place called "Spania". So, so close!
They are called Engliards.
As an American, this is probably my favorite series! Please do more! :)
I have never understood why some people keep saying "I am Italian/Irish/French/whatever". I am of Italian descent and that's what I would say if asked. It wouldn't occur to me to say I am Italian.
I am British and English but I believe something like my great great great grandfather was Welsh and I have a Welsh surname. Perhaps I should consider myself Welsh?
@@trickygoose2 I was born in England but my dad is Welsh, but I would never claim that that I was 'Welsh'. How people in the USA can claim to be 'Irish/Scottish etc' because one of their ancestors three generations ago came from there is bizarre.
Well, I’m Italian, but I do have some Italian American friends, they pretty much think like you as well. I don’t know, maybe it’s an Italian thing to have more respect for one’s heritage 🤷♂️
@@Kiba_a.zno bro, gli italoamericani sono i più convinti di tutti di essere italiani. Quelli che si rendono conto di quanto sia una cazzata sono quelli che hanno in qualche modo regolare contatto con l'Italia. Dovresti fare un giro sui social dedicati e vedere che cazzo dicono lol
@@johnwellbelove148 Its called identity politics, they want people to divide and conquer, a means to divide people into going against each other over heritage. race, gender, etc.
About the heritage thing: Say that you have Swedish/French/German/Italian/whatever heritage, don't say that you are Swedish/French/German/Italian/whatever. You're not. You are US-American.
It is not just Heritage European-Americans, Heritage Asian-Americans are just as bad.
This! I once got in a fight cuz some guy said he was Dutch and knew more about the Netherlands than anyone else. Upon questioning I found out four of his grandparents were born in the USA but THEIR parents were Dutch and German. They'd never visited Europe either.
I love Conan O'Brien, but every time he says "I'm Irish", I yell at the TV: "YOU ARE FROM BOSTON!"
@@Allaiya. Then stop claiming it whenever you meet someone who isn't from that country. It's not rocket science, it's clown college.
My surname is Polish but I'm a Londoner as was my father. Whenever people say "That's an unusual name, where does it come from?" I always say I got it from my Dad.
"Robert from Krakow" became a bit of a meme in Poland!
Thirty seconds in: "British plugs bad, British teeth bad!"
- Evan defends British plugs
- Evan does not defend British teeth
Our dental health is statistically better than American dental health though :(
Americans bleach their teeth and think that means they’re healthy!
Meanwhile I know two people my age with false teeth because they lost their natural teeth through decay, both are American.
My teeth might not glow in the dark, but they’re mine, and I didn’t have to contribute thousands to an orthodontist’s Mercedes fund! 😂
yeah, but americans bleach their teeth and that apparently equates to better dental care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was about 20 years ago when that study came out. I'd be amazed if it's still the case after what the Tories have done to dental care.
I think they mean orthodontistry! 🤷♀️😁
I think the difference between British and American teeth is that, in the US, it seems to be expected that people in show business and TV have perfectly straight bright white teeth. In the UK, minor imperfections tend not to be an impediment for things like becoming a newsreader.
I used to work at a petrol station that got a lot of tourist traffic and an American tourist once saked me why all the street signs were in Icleandic and not in English. After explaining to her in my best customer service voice that in Iceland we speak Icelandic, she told me that not having English street signs wasn't very considerate of us.
Boy it is really going to blow her mind. If she travels to Ireland she will find the road signs in Gaeilge, Scotland the signs in Gaelic and Wales the signs in Celtic. I'll fetch the popcorn 🤣
The funny thing about the American mixed ancestral heritage is that they always play favorites with a particular culture. My buddy in high school was always going on about how Italian he was. What about your mom whose family is of 100% Polish ancestry? "That doesn't count because it comes from your dad's side."
Coincidentally this was still the time period when those stupid Polish jokes were still popular in the US and Italian mafia movies were at the height of their popularity.
I don't think you can claim your ancestry if you don't speak the mother tongue. I wonder if the person who boasted of coming from Polish stock spoke the language?
As a Swedish person, I approve of your description of the Danish language.
16:50 I love how outraged they are at a perceived racist comment, only to then make a racist comment themselves. Masterclass
Evan using the word povo without pause proving he truly is one of us. ❤
I was impressed but for the wrong reason - I thought Evan had picked up some Aussie slang! I was devo we didn't originate povo!
My favourite stupid shit I've heard Americans say these last few days - I've seen at least 3 different tweets under news US news articles like CNN etc now that suggest Sunak chose 4th July for GE because it's American independence day, and because we as the british are still so distressed at America gaining their independence, he's chosen that date to try and instil some kind of patriotism that will inspire people to vote for him hahahaha. I tried to point out to one of them that we don't learn anything about American history in our schools so whilst if you ask a british person when the US independence day is, about 80% will know the answer - that date isn't automatically synonymous for us - it is not the first thing we think of and has much more to do with the timing around summer holidays. he thought I was bullshitting him...
I’ve even had the “ where do I go the see the fireworks”.
Me:”nowhere. This is Denmark” 🤷🏼♀️ their faces 😳😳😳😳
@@laugesen18 If it's a Saturday day in the summer in Copenhagen I'd say Tivoli, around midnight.
The airport sign at 18:55 is from a Canadian airport (the English and French should give that away). In Canada the vast majority of international air travel is to/from USA. Major Candian airports have US preclearance so the airlines can fly into the US as domestic flights. Therefore at Candian airports there are three categories of travel: domestic, USA, and international; hence the unique treatment of Americans. Regardless, I do appreciate the fact that Americans have a hard time recognizng themselves as foreigners when outside their cpuntry.
as someone who is half Swedish half Irish (my mom is from Sweden, my dad is from Ireland, I grew up in Malmö, southern Sweden, and spent my summers in Cork, southern Ireland) that last bit felt weird lol! felt like you were talking directly to me haha! even to I have no connection whatsoever to the US (well I do have some distant cousins on my dad's side but I've never met them)
I wonder what you sound like.
@@drcl7429 usually I just have a Swedish accent, I have a few videos on my channel talking about cameras and whatnot lol! but get a few pints in me... and well I start speaking in a cork accent haha
Vacation-take dude is clearly just a union buster. They love that "Working harder and earning less makes you a better human" rhetoric.
I think indoctrinated is the other option.
@@autohmae Fair point- those who drank the kool-aid tend to spout the same talking points as those serving it up.
The last sentence was even more insane, no one takes 3 month long vacations lol
I had a good one earlier this year I was on my field trip for A-Level Geography to collect data for our coursework we went to the small town of Keswick in the Lake District as one of the most beautiful places in the UK the lake district receives large amounts of tourism both from within the UK and international visitors we were surveying people about the town and the area when we came across an American he looked like the most stereotypical MAGA Yank possible with a big old trump 2024 shirt on lol. We got to the end of our survey and a few fighter jets passed overhead (due to its remote location the Lake District is commonly used for RAF training) the American looks up and says:
"You see that? That's MY tax dollars protecting your asses. You're welcome."
I would have loved to point out that those were British jets completely unrelated to the US and the area is commonly used by the RAF for training the US had no relevance whatsoever to the situation and the UK does not need protection but I decided to just smile nod and complete the survey and leave him with his delusions.
I'm older and would have corrected him.
A friend of mine once heard an American couple in the Lake District asking "What time do the lakes open?"
I'm exhausted. Punctuation helps.
I went to the Lake District for the first time in April. They were STUNNING!
@@daftirishmarej1827 Agreed, Ben needs to work on his high-school English more than his A-Level geography. Sorry Ben.... good story, but Jesus; "lol" is not a reasonable substitute for the 5 full-stops and 2 commas you missed.
I'm a Brit who lived with an American for about 20 years. We were both motorbike couriers. When he was new in the UK, he told the controller he was empty in Chis-wick. They fell about laughing. Me and him used to call it Chis-wick after that. He also asked me about bubble and squeak. He described it and called it "something like squeaky bubbles". Yeah that's what we called it afterwards.
I really don't understand how some of these people manage to exist in the world (especially in the age of the internet). I think my favourites were:
- The person who didn't understand the concept of a holiday - have they just seen photos of people sunbathing on the beach or by the pool and think that's all people do on holiday?
- The person who doesn't understand international train travel. I have literally taken the train to get from the UK to Germany, via France (as well as trips by train to other European countries as well).
- All of the people who don't understand that other cultures and languages exist and that the people who live there / speak the language might actually know more than them about it!
Yes, workaholic US dude definitely thinks everyone on holiday is lying on a beach drinking cocktails. Or possibly at Disneyland/Disney World with the kids. That's it. He knows nothing about spending time outside of work, barring a few hours "relaxing" with TV, video games, or perhaps a weekend BBQ.
19:15 Ouch... same happened with British tourists in a Spanish airport after Brexit. They kept going to the EU line and the ariport had to put the UK flag in the "foreign" line. They got offended by that.
That Port O Rico moment might just be the most I've laughed out loud in the past month 🤣👌
Flying in Europe should be safer because there are more Airbus planes.
If hard work made you rich everyone born before 1800 would have been millionaires- newsflash, they were'nt.
But....YOUR hard work will make THE CEO rich!!
@@macdieter23558 Are you trying to sell that as a good thing?
6:05 Port o´Rico is just the best :D "Why do they speak Spanish in Europe" gold :D
Read a British novel in which a British detective worked with two US FBI men, and he came to realise that '-while the US does know intellectually that other countries exist... they don't really believe it.'
'The Rivers of London' series of novels by Ben Aaronovitch.
If Spain was a country the language would be called "Spainish" - checkmate Europe.
So, United States-ese, or Possibly United Statian?
@@dbracer "Yank" is less of a mouthful
@@jackwalker4874 Latin America calls them gringos and they love it (not)
@@dbracer You-nighted state-ish ^^
@@dbracer Too many letters and not pompous enough. It needs to be simple and arrogant - maybe something like "Good Words"..... "We speak the Good Words here, not Spanish"
All of the garbage on the lines of "you're in America, so you have to speak English" is particularly cretinous because the US doesn't have an official language, unlike many if not most other countries. Here in NZ we have three official languages but I've never known anyone to complain about people using any language.
"First of all this is America, speak English" made that lady's concern about racism on that Spanish language website come off as really authentic and genuine.
Mate, I've been in a queue & the salesgirl said "Tena koe", to a lady, who absolutely lost her rag at the poor girl for not speaking in English. (Was in Wellington).
I think for a situation like driving it's a safety issue. I think if all the signs are in English and the cop who pulls you over is going to question you in English then you not knowing English is a problem.
I'm extremely grateful to the American girl I encountered on my year abroad in Bonn. I got invited out bowling, and she loudly talked about how she had been raised in Denmark and they were "with us in I-Rak", complete with fist pump, attracting stares from strangers. The next day, I went to lunch with them cos I did like some of the others, and she proceeded to bitch at length about one of the Americans I happened to like (and am still Facebook friends with, 18 years later) - a lesbian woman. This was literally the whole argument.
I'm grateful, because the Anglophone groups especially intermeshed, especially the Brits, Irish, and Americans. It put me off so badly that I made more of an effort with the locals.
Another Brit had a similar gut reaction and got into an arty scene. She'd only done GCSE German, incidentally, but by the end of the year was fluent.
18 years later, I'm living in Germany, married to a German, and naturalised. I earn my living largely through my ability to speak German - second only to my ability to write well in English. I doubt my German would have got to that level if that American girl's views and her friends' tolerance of her intolerance hadn't repulsed me so much!
Obviously, not all Americans are like that. It might have been a different story if I'd met someone like you, though! Perhaps we'd have held out for a bit just to be able to laugh about it! 😂
I’m Irish, born and raised, and I don’t dislike Americans being proud about Irish ancestry. I really don’t, I think it’s sweet and I know that a lot of people here love to complain about them but most of them are harmless. It just sucks when some of them say insane stuff, particularly around trying to ‘prove their irishness’. I’ve had an Irish American try to convince me that Irish people should go to war with England over Northern Ireland, and that the IRA is actually a good thing. When I disagreed he told me that I don’t hold ‘true Irish values’.
The last year a voice actress for Primos a Disney series, answered the critics of the bad used of Spanish with these words.
"Spanish isn't a Latin America language, it is a language that the Spanish conquistadors forced onto Latin America people. Say whatever you want I'm Latina and native America"
And she said it in English.
Danish person here. No offense taken. We're very aware that our language sound like we have a potato stuck in our mouth. It's one of the reasons why danish is so difficult to learn (not the grammar but the spoken part).
Really makes you wonder what Danish sounded like before potatoes were introduced to Europe... ;)
It´s not that hard, just be totaly wasted, I as a swede can speak danish fluently after a few jägershoots =)
@@Groffili Since it's Danish you are talking about, before French was introduced to the language would be the correct time frame 😀
Being from Skåne every time I speak Danish in Denmark people ask if I'm from Bornholm.
So I don't know if it's been said elsewhere here, but the Irish version of Patrick is Padraig, that's where Paddy comes from. St Patrick's Day in is "Lá 'le Pádraig", or "the day of Patrick".
Interesting fact, there is a St Patricia. But she's the patron saint of Naples (yes, Americans, the Naples in Italy). So when you say "Oh, it's Saint Patty's Day!". No, that's the 25th of August and its for the patron saint of a city in Italy.
Sincerely, an actual Irishman.
6:00 God I remember being on Tumblr when this post happened and seeing the responses on my dash in real time, this also wasn't the only time I saw a post on Tumblr were someone didn't know what Spain was. Every day I pray those posts were bait but my time on Tumblr gives me little hope that thats the case.
I giggled each time Evan said "American accent." I moved from Chicago to Boston when I started high school. It took several months for me to be able to fully understand what anyone was saying! Two years later, we were in Georgia. I'm amazed I learned anything in high school!
Just to put that in perspective, the US has around 30 regional dialects/accents, the UK is only slightly more with about 40. However the UK is about 2.5% of the size of the US (about the size of Oregon). So the confusion you faced moving hundreds or thousands of miles, we get from driving 50.
I know what you mean though, I'm from Lancashire and moved 130 miles away to Newcastle. My Lancastrian accent is closer to the Mid-Atlantic American accent than anything in Geordie! :D
@@EthanKristopherHartley Point taken, but I have to wonder who is deciding the 30. Just in the Southeast, I've lived in Georgia, East Tennessee, and North Carolina. Despite what Hollywood seems to think, they are quite different. There are very different accents just in the state of Tennessee.
@@nancythomas5387 There's a whole range of linguists who consider how to classify and separate regional variations. 30 was the highest number that I found with most lay-articles counting 3(I know 😲!) to 25.
The difficulties come from the differences between accents and dialects (accents are *just* the way you pronounce words, dialects are pronunciation and the words used. (For example a big one I've seen about the US is pop vs soda, which isn't a debate about accents, but dialects.) When you then bring in slang it can start to sound like a whole new dialect. But slang isn't part of a regional dialect as it's often a temporary addition.
Then you have transposed accents and dialects. Those are words and pronunciations that are "borrowed" from an existing dialect. For example, the term Traffic Circle was popular in the mid-late 20th century, but after an increase in exposure to Brits and British media the term roundabout is becoming more popular.
It's something we're seeing *a lot* here in the UK. But it doesn't change the underlying dialect or accent. On the flipside, someone who's knowledgeable about a specific accent (for example a native speaker) might notice small differences more regularly and view them as larger or more noticeable than they actually are. (I used to be able to pin down about 20 local towns and villages and spot people about 80%-90% of the time. But they were still all Lancastrian.
Sorry for the long reply, but etymology and lexicography are two passions of mine and I get a bit carried away and I'll completely understand if you skip it. But if you don't then I hope it's interesting and maybe a little bit of help. 😉 Hope you have an awesome day!
@@EthanKristopherHartley Hell, I live in Norwich, and the dialect here is completely different from the one used in any of the surrounding towns.
@@EthanKristopherHartley The UK has over 600 recognised dialects and accents, where did you get 40 from?
the Australian $10 dollar bill with the big clue printed on the bill: 'Australia'
And you want the average American to know that is actually a country.
Needs a bigger clue apparently...
See, they even spelled 'America' wrong !
You're gonna be as amused as I am when you find out what kiss means in Swedish, or what sheet sounds like. There's a word in Swedish that is completely inoffensive but in Polish it sounds like the word for male genitala. A friend from Poland first heard it on a children's show and nearly died laughing.
It's never St Patty's day, Jesus Christ, don't say that
Taking the mickie
25th August might disagree (it's the Feast Day of St Patricia of Naples. 😁)
It's St. Paddy's Day, not Patty's.
Don't tell Americans to stop it. It's funny. Let them cook.
Hahahaha
@@evan I enjoy TH-cam's 'Translate to English" under your comment. They obviously know you are laughing in American
@@Tyrconnell I pressed the translate button and it changed 4 "ha"s to only 3 "ha"s...
@@lisso71 That's because Americans always exaggerate. 😂
3 'ha's is enough.
18:58 ok, I have to comment on the airport sign and did so in the original post. That's a sign in a Canadian airport (I'm pretty sure it's Vancouver based on the clues). In Canada, and particularly in airports, the US is frequently treated special, somewhere between domestic and international. For instance, for flights to the US, there are US customs officers in Canadian airports and you clear customs before you get on your flight and you end up in a special secured area so that you're effectively making a domestic US flight. So it absolutely makes sense that the US is called out seperately on signs in the airport.
Signage in English, French, and Chinese ... ya good bet that's in Vancouver. If so, then yes, the distinction between Foreign and US is valid and important.
@@charlesd2109 ya, that was kind of my thinking. From what we can see it just kinda looks like YVR too
Similar arrangements happen all over the world. Have you not heard of the Schengen zone which allows free movement within Europe.
@JJ-hu4zm in this case yes. My point was that the US/Americans are frequently treated differently than International/Foreign in Canada (and especially in airports) , so calling it out specifically makes sense.
@@sdymott Schengen zone is different. In this case there's still customs/passport control. It just happens in the Canadian airport before you board your flight.
You're missing a bit of info about the T pronunciation thing for Paddy. Paddy is short for Padraig, the Irish version of Patrick.
4:26 the idea that spending time with family and friends, building memories with children, doing productive tasks around the house, having new experiences isn’t “fulfilling” is very sad
14:48 OMG OUR GUY ROBERT MADE IT INTO EVAN'S VIDEO
he's a celebrity over in that Facebook group, Poles get a kick out of his BS
Source: I speak Polish and enjoy the constant stream "sh*t Polish-Americans say" in the group
I got kicked out of that group years ago for sharing some Polish nursery rhymes, and because the moderators don't read or speak Polish, they didn't know what I had written and thought it was offensive. "Love my Polish heritage" but don't know the language or culture? Forget that noise.
Fajnie że Kasia robi taką karierę w zagranicznym YT. Mogłaby zrobić część drugą, czyli jak Polacy rzucili się na grupkę My Polish Heritage i trollowali Polisz Amerikanów
American: My ancestor came here from ireland 300 years ago so i'm irish
Me: what are you on? My grandfather was MP for Belfast and i don't consider myself irish.
Technically British.
As someone who has only one Irish parent have a slight London accent, live in Ireland I'm still not considered Irish.
And that's fine
@@johnrodgers2018 "Irish" can refer to either the Republic of Ireland, or the island of Ireland, which includes both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
@@OntarioTrafficMan I know some protestants in Northern Ireland that would strongly disagree with you. Whether you consider NI British or Irish is pretty much down to your tribe, I wont use religion as its more cultural then that. I like to stick with the Roman term Hibernia for the island
As a Scottish man living in america, many have tried to call me british and all have failed lol.
Well now we've used up all your oil we don't care. 😂
@@ianz9916 we still got plenty lol wym
Suck it up Kyle - you are British (like me, from Clydebank). Drop the petty nationalism.
@@rattywoof5259 Scottish people aren’t British, we fought for that right. You should move down south if you believe we are.
@@Keeping_It_Kyle you are not English, your nationality is British though. The British isles includes England, Wales and Scotland. Northern Irish people are also British citizens.
A friend of mine used to work at a bookstore at a memorial site in Germany where they sold history books regarding the topic and they had a section for books in foreign languages where also English books were on the shelf and it happened more than once that Americans were flabbergasted that the English books were in thar section.
Seriously!? I thought it was the Americans who *don't* travel that were ignorant!
Cultural identity in the US is really interesting because of the sheer amount of immigrants this country had in such a short amount of time. Many of the people who came here did not want to lose their culture, so they created communities and kept their cultural identity. This cultural identity has passed on through the generations, and even as we get further from our immigrant ancestors people are still identifying as being from that country. With time I think this identification will go away, but it is still weird that people are trying to speak for a country they don't even reside in.
It's an interesting theory and probably on the right lines but the Boston people claiming to be Irish while wearing Scottish Dress (Kilts etc.) and playing on Scottish Bagpipes, says they already don't know the culture they think they have.
When you are from New Jersey and actually speak Italian (or Sicilian or Venetian or whatever), because your family kept the identity alive and you learned the language and culture at home from your parents, than you might say you are Italian.
If you don't know a word in Italian and know almost nothing about the culture, than you are not.