Hello lovelies! This week in my exchange advice series I talk about my impressions of all things UK, as well as some general culture shocks you might face on exchange. Enjoy!
nonono, don't call everyone from the UK english. Call people from England english. Don't ever tell a scots/welsh/irish person they're english. But most people won't care that you call them British. Best way to respond if someone goes "Al'ight?" is something like "yeah, al'ight, you?" even if you're feeling like shit.
British and English aren't interchangable. Welsh, Scottish, English and N.Irish people are British, but only people from England are English :D So don't call a a british person from scotland/wales/n.ireland english!
I used to work in Sainsbury's years ago and both beef and pork sausages and chipolatas were readily available. Pork sausages are the more popular choice in the UK but both sausages are available.
one warning never call a welsh person English, some people get really offended if you call them English due to the complicated history between England and Wales way back when in the Victorian era and earlier the English tried to erase welsh culture.
why should he 'mind'? how is a total stranger who isn't big on accents supposed to know where you're from? If he's in the UK why would someone assume he were French? or German? (from someone who's half english and half welsh and doesn't give a damn).
I’ve lived in England all my life and have never had a problem obtaining beef sausages, which suggests to me that you were referring to the England that’s on Mars!
I don't understand when people come to England and get freaked out by all the tea drinkers. There is always the option to have coffee instead, we're not a backwards tea-only kinda place, you know? Also, beef sausages? I am intrigued.
And why is Australian food such low quality and in such low supply, I’ve been living in Australia for nine months now and I feel like I’m wasting away. It’s like Britain in the 70’s
Most English people do only mean 'hello' when they say 'alright?'. I never know what to do when I say alright to somebody and they reply 'yeah good you', always catches me off guard.
The clothes thing, yep, worked in Saudi and took a suitcase full of clothes. On my first leave I took most of them back, just kept a coat for trips back home.
alright means exactly the same as G'day! it's a question to be answers in the same way. alright is answered with either alright or a quick yeah mate you?
correction - British people consists of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish people. Maybe you should be more specific by changing the title to English culture shock , not British.
i love your video and I'm the same way I really want to go to the UK and live there for a little bit I don't know how I'm going to do it but I want to, I need to do more research! how do you go to school there say I'm from the US so we've got plenty of schools but I think it'd be really cool if I got a job or went to school there for a year!
Tipping is NOT the norm in the UK or Europe. Hardly anyone tips in either place. Where did you get the idea that tipping is common in the UK or Europe ?
There are several ways to cook pork sausage successfully, 1. simmer them in water for a while first, (this cooks them through) then remove them from the pan. Clean and dry the pan, dry the sausage. put the sausages back in the pan with a splash of cooking oil and brown them. 2. My method, put them in the oven for a while. Get a temperature probe, when the middle of a sausage is 75C its done! You can get beef sausage but its not that popular, yet. Also chicken, venison and turkey sausages. but maybe not from a supermarket, try a real butchers.
You don't have to like tea, you don't have to drink it, but i'd say offer it to people when they come over your house. Is that fair? Just cus it's kinda the custom and I cannot tell you how often I go to the house of someone not from the UK and like wishing they'd offer, its a literal addiction 😂😂
Yeah it's always been a pain for me because I hate tea and coffee, yet it seems to be a pre-requisite for a lot of jobs at entry level. I just put my foot down, tell them I hate the stuff, then again I'm English so perhaps it's easier for me to be stubborn about it.
7:11 Whoa, hold on, no. Where did you go? Tipping here is only if you've done a really good job, it's entirely optional (unless they put a surcharge on your bill.
You can buy beef sausages in the UK, all the main supermarkets stock them - but maybe not in very small branches. If your pork sausages go from white to black, without ever going golden - you’re not cooking them right.
Vegiemite and marmite are much the same thing , they are both made from yeast exstract i think . I dont eat sausages unless i make them my self , but if you like beef sausages and not pork sausages then buy beef sausages .
In the UK you just don't tip if you do it tends to only be a few quid as they get full wages and don't rely on tip to supplement wage You would only really tip if you have had really good service and it is a top notch place to eat
There is no reason to apologise for not having makeup on . You are very pretty without it and have a beautiful complexion ! We hope you had a chance to see more of England and Britain , then where you were working .
I don't know why I'm watching this or what brought me here hahaha. I have kinda a northern English accent, and even some people from other parts of England have actually said they struggle to understand what I'm saying sometimes and that I sometimes talk a bit too fast for them. I'm not really oblivious to it though, when I'm editing my own videos I listen to myself and I understand what I'm saying, but I can see why people have a problem with it haha. I tend to merge words together like I sometimes say stuff like "Ainit" or "Innit" instead of isn't it or "dunnit" instead doesn't it
A lot of people like being called British💕 I am actually Welsh although I am right at the border and my family is English so I don't have a Welsh accent
I'm sure you can get beef sausages, but I guess most of them are pork. You can get any kind of sausage generally except for maybe a lot of European sausages, which is a shame. Honestly though the culture shocks you mentioned are surprising to me because they really are minor things. Currency just comes down to your maths knowledge at the end of the day. I never thought fashion was a big deal here either, maybe it's different if you're a girl.
Originally British meant all the islands in the British archipelago, this included Ireland. But somehow over time it’s come to understood as the largest part of the land mass England, and has fallen out of favour. Being British is not being English but being from a group of Islands thus named.
I don't know who you've been hanging out with but no one I know gets offended by being called British. It's more usual for someone to refer to someone as that rather than 'english'
no tipping in finland even though we're part of europe..I mean i guess you could tip but it's not part of the culture:D sorry if i come across rude but im very triggered when people present europe as culturaly uniform areaxD
I don't know why people deny that they're British because they are and that's that. If you're born in England then yes you are English BUT because England is apart of Britain, that makes you British aswell. Kinda confusing when you think about it....We're not like the Cornish who always get offended if you say they're English and from England. You'll definately get a slap then.
I think in a lot of cases, Its more to do with foreigners (Americans i see in particular) referring to English people as British when they actually mean English.
Hey. Aussie us one of the biggest wine-producing countries in the world! In fact I prefer Aussie wines to anything else! In fact I've never had a bad Aussie wine.
We do have beef sausages. You need to go to a butchers. You have obviously never had a proper cup of tea. Watch a TH-cam video on marmite and vegemite. It is basically the same except for some reason vegemite tastes like burnt cabbage.
You got lot of things WRONG! British is a broader term which contains all of the regions (ie: Scotland, Ireland, etc) But English is specifically for English people not British (excluded Scottish, Irish, Welsh because they r not English) About dressing, I didn't see anyone wearing pajamas in class, it is bad bc they r v well dressed- perhaps you did- and definitely u might see people in US walking in pajamas but not EU. It seems to me that you have not seen Europe in general otherwise you would realize that they dont boil the toilet water for tea but they buy drinking water for tea.
Just to confuse you, I prefer ''British'' over ''English'', either or really. Just don't call the Welsh, Scottish, or Northern Irish, English. They will take offense. Apart from that, glad you enjoyed your stay with us. You can get beef sausages in the UK. Just that pork are more popular. Aussie food okay I thought, although I did have a couple of bad bbqs the last time I was over there. Need to get your government to ease the immigration laws, just for commonwealth countries.
Not only do we have beef sausages we also have chicken and venison and that's just at tesco if you go to Iceland well that will blow your mind. 😊😊😊😊 . Happy shopping oh and just stay we will accept you you are young intelligent fun and beautiful what's not to like.
Well, you're half right. Most of the people in the North East of England are Angles not Saxons but that's why we are called Anglo Saxons not Saxon Angles
We have beef sausages what are you talking about..Oh and they're better than they are in OZ..Made from Aberdine Angus beef ..Funny OZ to a US citizen means Dorothy I kid you not they have no clue..Tipping in the UK is not a expectation so just like OZ unlike tip central
Australian's do dirk tea a lot. older people dirk tea all the time. we do love tea. the person doing this video dose not have a common view on tea as an Australian
So sad that you "travelled" but have so little conception of when "British" can - or should - be used - as opposed to English (hint: don't call people "English" anywhere except in the English bits of the UK - and sometimes (e.g. Cornwall) - not even then...and please also learn the difference between "England", "Britain", and "The UK" - these are *NOT* interchangeable terms. As for playing the march of the *BRITISH* Grenadier Guards during your video whilst stating that you mustn't call English people "British" - Jesus wept.
This is TH-cam. It is worldwide. You are obviously Australian but .... you need to explicitly ... tell people you are Australian. You must never have watched .. TH-cam yourself.
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Tipping is optional in the UK.
Oh she's Australian? No wonder she can't cope with the weather? If the temperature drops below 20 degrees the Aussies can't cope.
nonono, don't call everyone from the UK english. Call people from England english. Don't ever tell a scots/welsh/irish person they're english. But most people won't care that you call them British.
Best way to respond if someone goes "Al'ight?" is something like "yeah, al'ight, you?" even if you're feeling like shit.
Yeah I'm kinda used to being called English by now...even though I'm Welsh
actually the best way to reply to "al'ight" is exactly that. "al'ight" they covered it on QI and its always been the way i've replied to it.
Call the welsh 'sheep shaggers'. It's okay the welsh are not that great at fighting..or anything else for that matter.
@@dezalan437 yes
anyone born in britain is called british. it doesn't make any difference what their skin colour is.
British and English aren't interchangable. Welsh, Scottish, English and N.Irish people are British, but only people from England are English :D So don't call a a british person from scotland/wales/n.ireland english!
I call people what the fuck I want.
M Edwards Wow,tough attitude..........must mean you're.......tough.
I ... am .... tough ... as ... nails. LAD LAD LAD basking shark LAD!
S.H.I.E.L.D Scotland. Hibernia(Wales). Ireland. England. Londonnia. Druiland(Britain).
Jesus christhole yes you can call a English people British because they are part of Britain if they like it or not
I used to work in Sainsbury's years ago and both beef and pork sausages and chipolatas were readily available. Pork sausages are the more popular choice in the UK but both sausages are available.
one warning never call a welsh person English, some people get really offended if you call them English due to the complicated history between England and Wales way back when in the Victorian era and earlier the English tried to erase welsh culture.
Silvana Worrall extremely true
I'm Welsh and I do not mind when tourists called me English .
I expect it's a bit like calling a Swede a Dane :P
@@welshpete12 I don't believe you are Welsh. Would you mind if your were called French or German.
why should he 'mind'? how is a total stranger who isn't big on accents supposed to know where you're from? If he's in the UK why would someone assume he were French? or German? (from someone who's half english and half welsh and doesn't give a damn).
I’ve lived in England all my life and have never had a problem obtaining beef sausages, which suggests to me that you were referring to the England that’s on Mars!
What's this about tea drinking? From an AUSSIE? I've been there quite a few times and found tea was pretty popular there too!
I don't understand when people come to England and get freaked out by all the tea drinkers. There is always the option to have coffee instead, we're not a backwards tea-only kinda place, you know?
Also, beef sausages? I am intrigued.
Her understanding of British culture is not accurate, it s just her opinion
The Turkish and the Chinese drink way more tea than the English
Rory G you can't get beef sausages only perk and beef or pork am I right
The Irish drink the most, will you have a cup of tea? You will, you will, you will you will
Definitely do have beef sausages in England 😂
And why is Australian food such low quality and in such low supply, I’ve been living in Australia for nine months now and I feel like I’m wasting away. It’s like Britain in the 70’s
But for some reason pork sausages are more expensive and better
Most English people do only mean 'hello' when they say 'alright?'. I never know what to do when I say alright to somebody and they reply 'yeah good you', always catches me off guard.
Ancient Fractal ‘alright?’ is short for, “are you alright?’.... as in ‘how are you?’....which is why the standard response is, “yeah good, you?”
The clothes thing, yep, worked in Saudi and took a suitcase full of clothes. On my first leave I took most of them back, just kept a coat for trips back home.
alright means exactly the same as G'day! it's a question to be answers in the same way. alright is answered with either alright or a quick yeah mate you?
correction - British people consists of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish people. Maybe you should be more specific by changing the title to English culture shock , not British.
Llinospritch94 I was very triggered
I get offended when I'm called a Sheep shagger/Drunken scotman. I'm a more of a Oliver Twist
Llinospritch94 It’s easiest to say I’m British, as I’m an Anglo-Scot.
i love your video and I'm the same way I really want to go to the UK and live there for a little bit I don't know how I'm going to do it but I want to, I need to do more research! how do you go to school there say I'm from the US so we've got plenty of schools but I think it'd be really cool if I got a job or went to school there for a year!
Course you can get beef sausage my local butcher does steak sausage as well as venison.
Tipping is NOT the norm in the UK or Europe.
Hardly anyone tips in either place.
Where did you get the idea that tipping is common in the UK or Europe ?
England, uses the union jack in the thumb nail, face palm
There are several ways to cook pork sausage successfully, 1. simmer them in water for a while first, (this cooks them through) then remove them from the pan. Clean and dry the pan, dry the sausage. put the sausages back in the pan with a splash of cooking oil and brown them. 2. My method, put them in the oven for a while. Get a temperature probe, when the middle of a sausage is 75C its done! You can get beef sausage but its not that popular, yet. Also chicken, venison and turkey sausages. but maybe not from a supermarket, try a real butchers.
Good advice!
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You don't have to like tea, you don't have to drink it, but i'd say offer it to people when they come over your house. Is that fair? Just cus it's kinda the custom and I cannot tell you how often I go to the house of someone not from the UK and like wishing they'd offer, its a literal addiction 😂😂
Yeah it's always been a pain for me because I hate tea and coffee, yet it seems to be a pre-requisite for a lot of jobs at entry level. I just put my foot down, tell them I hate the stuff, then again I'm English so perhaps it's easier for me to be stubborn about it.
Try it. You"ll like it. Eventually.
There are beef sausages and chicken ones, you get them from Tescos. I buy them all the time. Tea is good marmite is yuk
marmite is good and vitamin b12.
Tipping is not common in all European countries. If you did that in Finland people would think you can't count.
Majoeity of Americans can't.
Apologise for having a clear porcelain complexion? You've been watching too many Essex shows
Starbucks, Costa and Pret Manger sell millions of cups of coffee in the UK every day.
7:11 Whoa, hold on, no. Where did you go? Tipping here is only if you've done a really good job, it's entirely optional (unless they put a surcharge on your bill.
You can buy beef sausages in the UK, all the main supermarkets stock them - but maybe not in very small branches. If your pork sausages go from white to black, without ever going golden - you’re not cooking them right.
We only tip in restaurants.
I love tea
Vegiemite and marmite are much the same thing , they are both made from yeast exstract i think . I dont eat sausages unless i make them my self , but if you like beef sausages and not pork sausages then buy beef sausages .
brilliant
That tea comment really made me shook relapsing just how British I am since I got slightly triggered 😂😂
what country did you go to? docent sound like england to me
We have beef sausages. We had them before Australia existed.
We don't drink tea as much as the Irish.
Overall, I'd give you 5 out of 10.
Beef sausages were always considered to be those bought by people who could not afford ones of pork.
In the UK you just don't tip if you do it tends to only be a few quid as they get full wages and don't rely on tip to supplement wage
You would only really tip if you have had really good service and it is a top notch place to eat
Tipping isn't expected in the UK it's up to you if you want to tip.🇬🇧
There is no reason to apologise for not having makeup on . You are very pretty without it and have a beautiful complexion ! We hope you had a chance to see more of England and Britain , then where you were working .
as a Brit in Australia I found this video very interesting
you can get beef sausages
I don't know why I'm watching this or what brought me here hahaha.
I have kinda a northern English accent, and even some people from other parts of England have actually said they struggle to understand what I'm saying sometimes and that I sometimes talk a bit too fast for them.
I'm not really oblivious to it though, when I'm editing my own videos I listen to myself and I understand what I'm saying, but I can see why people have a problem with it haha.
I tend to merge words together like I sometimes say stuff like "Ainit" or "Innit" instead of isn't it or "dunnit" instead doesn't it
I also hate tea, Coffee all the way hahaha, never assume every British person likes tea
You can get beef sausages...you can get beef, pork, lamb, venison, duck sausages easily
A lot of people like being called British💕 I am actually Welsh although I am right at the border and my family is English so I don't have a Welsh accent
We have plenty of Beef sausages, beef and tomato especially.
Funny thing is, British get more British when abroad.
I'm from the uk, don't drink tea, neither does my mum or boyfriend but yes it's everywhere
I'm sure you can get beef sausages, but I guess most of them are pork. You can get any kind of sausage generally except for maybe a lot of European sausages, which is a shame. Honestly though the culture shocks you mentioned are surprising to me because they really are minor things. Currency just comes down to your maths knowledge at the end of the day. I never thought fashion was a big deal here either, maybe it's different if you're a girl.
Originally British meant all the islands in the British archipelago, this included Ireland. But somehow over time it’s come to understood as the largest part of the land mass England, and has fallen out of favour. Being British is not being English but being from a group of Islands thus named.
You remind me of Maisie Williams... Anyway, great vid and good advice.
The Aussies call us whingeing poms. Oh the irony of it all...
I don't know who you've been hanging out with but no one I know gets offended by being called British. It's more usual for someone to refer to someone as that rather than 'english'
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emma k maybe in your world, don't think you speak for us English.
no tipping in finland even though we're part of europe..I mean i guess you could tip but it's not part of the culture:D sorry if i come across rude but im very triggered when people present europe as culturaly uniform areaxD
I don't know why people deny that they're British because they are and that's that. If you're born in England then yes you are English BUT because England is apart of Britain, that makes you British aswell. Kinda confusing when you think about it....We're not like the Cornish who always get offended if you say they're English and from England. You'll definately get a slap then.
I think in a lot of cases, Its more to do with foreigners (Americans i see in particular) referring to English people as British when they actually mean English.
When we say alright? all it means is - I hope you're well.
Hey. Aussie us one of the biggest wine-producing countries in the world! In fact I prefer Aussie wines to anything else! In fact I've never had a bad Aussie wine.
We dont have beef sausages????...... yes we do
I fucking love tea
Greeting is very much age related,be courteous,and if in doubt speak English. Still nothing wrong with saying hello.
Even the sad complainers do know what you mean xxx
We do have beef sausages. You need to go to a butchers. You have obviously never had a proper cup of tea. Watch a TH-cam video on marmite and vegemite. It is basically the same except for some reason vegemite tastes like burnt cabbage.
you can get beef sausages from small butcher shops, goto any town and you can find one...just get out the damn capital!!!!
You got lot of things WRONG!
British is a broader term which contains all of the regions (ie: Scotland, Ireland, etc)
But English is specifically for English people not British (excluded Scottish, Irish, Welsh because they r not English)
About dressing, I didn't see anyone wearing pajamas in class, it is bad bc they r v well dressed- perhaps you did- and definitely u might see people in US walking in pajamas but not EU. It seems to me that you have not seen Europe in general otherwise you would realize that they dont boil the toilet water for tea but they buy drinking water for tea.
you fill the kettle from cold tap in kitchen.
We do not buy drinking water for tea. That would be stupid.
@@fionagregory9376 who is "we" ?
We do have the best beef sausages so why did you say we don't have beef sausages in the UK when we definitely do you going to the wrong shop's
You can get beef sausages in the uk, but they are considered posh.
+scott morgan I have eaten them all my life and that is simply not true !
They are not posh you can get very cheap and very expensive beef sausages
I dont even think we know what alright means 😂
You look like a giant owl - an I LOVE owls, so feel free to come back !
Spot on
Is it bad that I got offended when she dissed tea
Tea - toilet water! How have you been making your tea!
I think you will find it's the other way round people don't like being called English when they are actually British.
Also, There are so many people who don't drink tea over here (´∀`)
And god, that's not English music that's military marching music lol
Ngl I thought when she said play the British music she was gonna play grime
We are not English, we are Welsh, English, Scottish, Northern Irish. Derrrrrrr
you alright means how are you are you all right i accept you as one of us you want a brew?
"They don't like it when you call them British"? Dreary me!
Everywhere does beef sausages!
Simon Watts I don't eat beef sausages! eugh I have almost never came across them where I live!
Vegimite, a bit like a watered down Marmite.
Just to confuse you, I prefer ''British'' over ''English'', either or really. Just don't call the Welsh, Scottish, or Northern Irish, English. They will take offense.
Apart from that, glad you enjoyed your stay with us.
You can get beef sausages in the UK. Just that pork are more popular.
Aussie food okay I thought, although I did have a couple of bad bbqs the last time I was over there. Need to get your government to ease the immigration laws, just for commonwealth countries.
You biggest reverse culture shock is the realisation that there only Brit chicks available to provide the home comforts.
Not only do we have beef sausages we also have chicken and venison and that's just at tesco if you go to Iceland well that will blow your mind. 😊😊😊😊 . Happy shopping oh and just stay we will accept you you are young intelligent fun and beautiful what's not to like.
Even better find a farm shop or a decent butcher, and they will have an immense selection
Drac Williams we also have horse
You can buy Beef Sausages in England but they are mainly sold in The North. Why do Australians never go north of Watford? London isn't England.
norman swindon yes it is any one north of Watford is a foreigner
Well, you're half right. Most of the people in the North East of England are Angles not Saxons but that's why we are called Anglo Saxons not Saxon Angles
Why apologising for not wearing make-up?
THESE TYPES OF PEOPLE SURE DO LIKE EXAGERATING
Where are you from?
oz
Of course you can buy beef sausages!
John Cowley yup, if they were missed so much, didn't try very find to find them.
I like your humor. English people may find the video offensive since you find them funny :P
Aizaz Ali not offensive?
@@DustAuror3 yer not you
We have beef sausages what are you talking about..Oh and they're better than they are in OZ..Made from Aberdine Angus beef ..Funny OZ to a US citizen means Dorothy I kid you not they have no clue..Tipping in the UK is not a expectation so just like OZ unlike tip central
Westminister is not the most liked city in England.
Australian's do dirk tea a lot. older people dirk tea all the time. we do love tea. the person doing this video dose not have a common view on tea as an Australian
You sound a mix of Aussie and American. What aare you?!
So sad that you "travelled" but have so little conception of when "British" can - or should - be used - as opposed to English (hint: don't call people "English" anywhere except in the English bits of the UK - and sometimes (e.g. Cornwall) - not even then...and please also learn the difference between "England", "Britain", and "The UK" - these are *NOT* interchangeable terms. As for playing the march of the *BRITISH* Grenadier Guards during your video whilst stating that you mustn't call English people "British" - Jesus wept.
I nearly got hung for calling Newlyn Penzance! Did not realise I was standing on the wrong side of that stream.
black puddings are great!
Hey. Come ON! You MUST know what a penny us, you only went decimal 5 years before we did. But you adopted dollars while we kept pounds.
Poor people prefer being called English... rich people prefer being called British...
I'm English I never drink tea, I like coffee.
This is TH-cam. It is worldwide. You are obviously Australian but .... you need to explicitly ... tell people you are Australian. You must never have watched .. TH-cam yourself.
I thought you were English lol
I think most people drink coffee here...
You insulted our tea? That's racist.
The English speak English. I am not sure what language you speak.
Can't understand about English British thing just don't say to a Welsh man a Scottish man a Irish man are you English