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If you ever decide to come to America, our home is your home. We live in Colorado, one of the most beautiful states. We have the Rocky Mountains 🌄. I am originally from eastern North Carolina, but I now live in Colorado. So just letting you know. Hope you and everyone here has a Safe, Blessed, and Wonderful day. Oh, we can take you on a tour of the state of Colorado...then you will see why I call this state, Beautiful..😊
@anthonyramirez9925 that's legit! I feel like people get this idea that cowboy is just an aesthetic for people who watch old westerns, and it's actually pretty offensive.
People actually mistake cowboys for being a _southern_ thing? I thought everybody knew that cowboys were a _western_ thing. John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood weren't known for all the great "Southerns" they made.
My wife and I took a road trip around the U.S. for a vacation once we drove 6700 miles or 10,780 KM in just 10 days. We saw so many beautiful places we consider this our best vacation ever.
One of the greatest rights we have is the right to criticize our leaders and government. This doesn't mean we love our country any less. And if you want a road trip around the country, we will look forward to you moving here 😀. I have been here 50 years not even close to seeing it all. And we do have poverty, in Oklahoma 1 in 5 children faces food shortages
What they said about wealth is very accurate. It would be very hard for 70% of Americans to take a family of 4 or 5 to Europe. It would require years of saving. It is much more affordable to take a road trip a few states away.
Having the ability to criticize one's own government and history is one of the ultimate expressions of American patriotism...our founders strived for a peaceful system with the capability for reformative change built-in and with the rights to the processes of such change guaranteed.
"...the rights to the processes of such change guaranteed." Although it seems more and more often people get attacked for having differing opinions. I wish people would remember what you just said and discuss their differences peacefully.
I came here to post similar. I've never understood people who consider it unpatriotic to criticize the government in any way. I would argue that it is MORE patriotic to try and improve the great (but certainly imperfect) country we live in to strive toward "a more perfect union", than to sit back and proclaim that the US is #1, can do no wrong and turn a blind eye to injustices, poor policy, or outright wrong-doing. Citizens can (and should) work to right wrongs while still feeling proud, standing during the national anthem, and celebrating our country. You CAN do both!!!!
Yea i was gonna say something similar. There are a ton of problems and maybe other problems we don't even know about but I'd rather live in this country than really most countries in the world
I agree. Wanting your country to do better is patriotic to me. If you blindly accept everything your country does that sounds more like a dictatorships. Hell in some places of the world criticizing the government will get you thrown in jail or killed
That’s the beauty of this country. No matter where you came from (or how you came here) we’re all Americans and all in this boat together. It saddens me to see our politicians and media talk about our differences and not our national identity of “One Nation under God”. God bless ❤
We ended slavery in America. One day we will end slavery and indentured servitude worldwide. All through history all people have been enslaved. We must work together to end it once and for all.
Hi. I’m enjoying your America reactions. I’m a 63 year old woman who lives in North Mississippi. In all my years, I’ve never been up north and the only western state I’ve been to is California, for training classes for work. I just retired and plan to visit some of the states I’ve never been to. You’re right, I’d rather explore America than travel overseas.
I don't care for Watch Mojo either, but it's not the end of the world. On the languages, it depends. Spanish is the most common language besides English, but in areas with more languages you will encounter them routinely. My city seeks translation services for (and prints in) about 130-160 languages in an average year, in other areas it may be just one or two. There is an Amharic radio station (Ethiopia) in my area as well as a Korean news paper, a Spanish television station, and [you get the idea]. Restaurant menus are oftentimes in English, the language of the owner or the food's culture, and Spanish. Most businesses have signs and advertising in their windows in English, Spanish, and often the more common languages of that neighborhood. Even at protests and organized events there are usually multiple translators either on the PA or in the crowd speaking loudly so people can gather close and hear them, it's quite the experience when that happens. And this is normal! And i love it 😊.
Cowboys are everywhere. I live in Southern California & there’s cowboys & a lot of people who have horses. Same for northern California. I’d say almost every state has some cowboys, some more than others.
Florida has a lot of tri-lingual communities. English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. I work for the state government and our notices go out to clients in their language preference.
Hawai'i is a virtual Melting Pot, with nearly the entire Pacific Islands there and a few more- Guamanians, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Samoan, Fijian, Filipinos, Tahitians, Rapa Nui (Eastern Islanders), Cook Islanders, Marshall Islanders, Micronesians and that's just off the top of my head, and fun fact: Most signage are in Tagalog ( Pilipino), Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean but you will be hard pressed to find any in Spanish
I generally stay away from WatchMojo, but they were definitely stating some facts in this video. I think certain groups in thr country feel uncomfortable when the U.S. is criticized, but most Americans are very aware of the criticisms in this video.
14:25 nah. I’m American. I feel they’re fair. They point out the good and the bad. I feel that’s necessary to manage people’s expectations. Every country has their trade-offs.
Regarding the 'patriotic' part, I think what the narrator is trying to say is that there is a significant portion of the population that doesn't feel the need to fly the US flag 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or yell and scream about America being 'the best!'. We will indeed argue loudly among ourselves. BUT.....that is not the same as how quickly we will coalesce if we are attacked. This is the lesson that some people outside the country do not fully grasp about our national character, in my opinion. And if you are interested in a US road trip, Portugal is about the same size as Indiana, if that helps
@@Yawnzee_ top dog? By what metric? The military? Sure. Not a flex. The percentage of your population in prison, which is often used for modern slave labour? The amount of destroyed democracies? The amount of school shootings? Being the only developed country with an increasing fatality rate for newborns?
New Mexico, Arizona and the rest of the southwest have lots of people who are Hispanic that have always been there, when the place was owned by Mexico. They are natives of the state and not immigrants.
I love my country very much, but I don't even fly the flag. Just never got around to buying one. My house the way the water and snow comes off the roof would destroy it if I put one out. However my hobby as a model railroader I collect the models of the bicentennial locomotives that were created in 1976 to commemorate our bicentennial. And I don't own any guns, I wanted to be a cop but when I was 11 I developed severe depression and became suicidal. So I won't own a gun.
Kudos to you for your choice and your courageous willingness to post this. According to multiple sources, the majority of gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides. I will not have one in my house for that reason, as well.
@@philmakris8507 yeah man totally true!! Great point! They brought over many vaqueros in the 1800s That’s even a better example of cowboy culture in an unexpected place 🤙
Many people think that patriotism means things like flag waving and exclaiming how great America is and getting angry with people who say that America has social equity problems that need to be addressed. Yet these same patriots live with hate for other Americans. True patriots genuinely love America and Americans, and work to make our laws more equitable and lives better for all Americans. True patriots reject hate, bigotry, racism and all the ways we ourselves bring our nation down. True patriots have a vision of how America should be and that America could actually become the greatest nation on Earth. I am aware that this sentiment is very unpopular among many people and I am sure I will be hearing from some of them. Bring it on.
Cowboys are actually people who herd cows on horses. Sometimes they put the cows in trucks and take them to different pasture far away to get fresh grass. Cowboys are always near large herds To move them but also to protect them with guns. I think there were more horse riders in the old west because there were no cars and everyone rode horses or had horses pull carriages. The settlers who went west to settle the west coast usually brought very strong animals like oxen to pull their wagons and then they use them to plow the fields once they made it. But of course animals died on the way. Now even if someone does not have any cattle they’ll wear cowboy boots and a big hat because it’s the culture of the area. Not every cowboy has a lot of cows, Because they’re just wearing boots and a Stetson but don’t have any cows.
As an American I find it interesting to see what other people think of us or about us and watching videos like yours is one way to do that. I'm not a 'patriotic' person in that over-the-top, chanting "USA, USA" type of person. There are things America has to be very proud of and there are things we should not be proud of. I do believe that speaking out when you think your country is in the wrong is about the most patriotic thing you can do. It comes from a place in the belief that you can and should be better. Unfortunately, it seems that the 'patriotic' American has become a caricature.
Andre , the most beautiful voices EVER in country music were Marty Robbins , Roy Orbison ( known mostly for rock and roll ) and Patsy Cline . Roy and Marty wrote their ballads ( stories ) . Roy had a range of 4 to 5 octaves . Elvis Presley , the King , stood up in the audience in Las Vegas at Roy’s show one night and called him “ the best singer in the world “. ❤😊
As someone who’s lived in montana her entire life, the only time I’ve ever seen a menu in Spanish here was in a Mexican restaurant, literally next to the English version. Montana is over 90% white. It was even more so when I was a child. As much as I love it here, outside of the “big” cities and tribal lands, there unfortunately is a lack of diversity.
The statement that wealth is not evenly distributed is just true. 66.6 percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. 11.4% of Americans live in poverty, 12 million of those are children. Wealthier cities are closer to the oceans, and in the planes and central states families live far apart from each other. Fast food is more commonly the diet in smaller cities and towns whereas large cities have more variety of fresh food either in takeaway or sit down restaurants. American obesity is not only tied to fast food, abundant snacks, sugary desserts but to a sedentary lifestyle of movies, video games, driving instead of walking to everything, and over stimulus of entertainment and distraction. The life in America is fantastic if you make it that way. Life can be absolutely misery just as easily. The best part of this country is the diversity. Options in food, housing, transportation, entertainment, culture.. just tidbits of every country and culture in a big melting pot. I have heard you saying that you want to visit Texas and New Orleans and Florida. Montana is very far away from those. I hope you do visit. We have so much to explore.
Florida has a heavy Cuban population, states that border Mexico will have a heavy Mexican population close to the border but when you go north a bit that will change, in texas there are some cities with more of a German influence. There is a good size diversity with in the states.
Follow the You Tuber, Shaun, who is from Scotland. He and his wife have visited different regions of the US with every trip they make. If you wish to travel all around the country at once, I’d say plan on several months here. When they toured the west coast, they drove 9 hours without even leaving Oregon. So keep that in mind.
He was correct in that Americans lack of travel and cultural experience which Europeans look down upon - is all about the cost. It is too expensive for most to travel abroad no matter how much they would like to have the experience. Also as someone else mentioned - the lack of free time. We have no law that requires an employer to give vacation time to the workers, we are lucky to get a week or two off each year.
I will also say this about Americans traveling: we only share borders with two other countries - Canada & Mexico. In the US, people live hours away from other states, making it hard to visit, let alone visiting our international neighbors. Going further abroad than Canada & Mexico is a lot more time and money. Basically, our states are the size of other countries. Some people are very well traveled within the states which would be equivalent to being well traveled within Europe size wise. Americans probably also average (it depends on your employer and time in employment usually) 18 paid days a year (paid leave and paid holidays) compared to totals (paid leave & holidays from what I can find online) in the Uk's - 30, Ukraine - 37, Switzerland - 27, Sweden - 34, Spain - 36, Slovakia (35), Russia -34, Romania -37, Portugal - 31, Norway - 35, etc. We don't have a lot of time off and many people prioritize those days for family events or emergencies. Extensive traveling is usually not on the radar unless you take unpaid leave and can weather the drop in your paycheck. Teachers though have most of the summer off so I know many of them travel.
Since printing a menu is a business expense, a restaurant would print a menu in more than one language if it made business sense. "Does the business it brings in cover the expense of printing." would be a question a restaurant would ask in deciding whether or not to print the menu in more than one language.
The part where all Americans are rich. No we are not. When I worked I was just above the poverty line. Now I'm disabled and retired I'm below the poverty line. And with the recent inflation, I can barely afford food. And a lot of people are in the same situation. Also you are right about it being very diverse in each state. When it counts (re:9/11) We all unite. And become one.
I live in the biggest southern city in America, Miami. It's so different from America, the "Southern States" and even it's own State of Florida. It's as International as New York or Los Angeles but it's also just as American. Fun fact, Miami is the only city in America to be founded by a Woman, Julia Tuttle, July 28th 1896. btw I just posted this as you mentioned if Mojo sticks it to America once in a while, Americans stick it too each other all the time, it's not one monolithic country of agreed ideology and politics (as is probably obvious). Being critical of America is almost as American as Apple Pie.
Wyoming, referred to as the "Cowboy State" the College football team is called the Cowboys, the licenses plates have a cowboy on a bucking horse. And yes they ride horses. Sometimes through the bank drive-thru.
I live in Arizona and I operate almost as well in Spanish as I do in English. It's helpful since we share a border with Sonora to our south and they're one of our largest trade partners. You'd fit in here just fine, btw. There are a lot of enclaves of Portuguese and Brasilians in the US. Rhode Island and Massachusetts both have large ethnic Portuguese populations.
It amazes me you understand this country more than most that live here. It is like different countries and it’s the greatest of all time. A true melting pot of people that while even complain about their country would only leave kicking and screaming.
As a born and raised Southern Californian, I can attest to the differences. We have the best Mexican food (sorry Texas), lol, and my own heritage is Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Jewish. So there you go on the melting pot. Lol But honestly, I do find it cool seeing so many different ethnicities. And I love food, so I'm always asking about what I don't know that I don't know. Lol But yeah, push comes to shove, and everyone will stand up together. That's what makes this place great. Not a politician.
I'm from Puerto Rico and have been living in mainland USA for 13 years, mostly in Florida. Regarding the Spanish speakers, like you mentioned we are everywhere but you can see larger concentrations in specific states like Florida, Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, California and New York. That being said, it usually comes with an event in history for example the Cubans to Miami (like the ScareFace movie), or hurricane Maria that caused 100,000+ migrants to Florida in only a couple of months, Mexico illegal immigrants, Puerto Ricans in New York because Boxing sport, ect.
I just got back from visiting my Sister and her family for Christmas. We both live in the U.S. but the round trip was equivalent to driving from Lisbon, Portugal, to St Petersburg Russia.
Yeah, traveling from State to State is kind of what I imagine traveling from one country to another is like for Europeans. We're kind of stuck on this continent over here and the prospect of flying across the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean to get to another country is prohibitedly expensive. I've had the good fortune to see Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Ireland.
My friend, we seek to serve Spanish speaking people, and when I speak Spanish, in my broken faltering way… it warms the hearts of my Spanish speaking countrymen… however, when the rubber meets the road… I revert to English, and my Spanish speaking countrymen accept on some level, rightly or wrongly, that it is their responsibility to speak and understand English… and not the other way around 🤷🏻♂️🤔❤️
Plenty of American TH-camrs and their followers are well aware of the following. The price of their healthcare is ridiculously high. The average American worker is overworked and underpaid by companies who couldn't care less about their well-being. No matter how sick you're feeling, the boss will probably call you to try and make you feel guilty for not being able to work. Another reason Americans have a hard time travelling overseas is that even if they get a couple of weeks of vacation time. It's highly unlikely that it's paid vacation time. The food quality standards in general are pretty shameful in general, that's why many European countries have banned quite a lot of it. From harmful artificial additives to the over the top amounts of sugar they put in things. For instance their bread has six times as much sugar and they add the same chemical that they use to make yoga mats. I'm not trying to knock America, I'd love to visit some time. But I'm grateful to be living in Australia.
Ah I see all the propaganda is still getting around just fine. Yes healthcare cost is high but that is because we have the best doctors and nurses (who are paid very well) and also have the most technologically advanced systems that provide the best outcomes for serious diseases like cancer and heart disease. We have virtually no wait times for our treatment. I live an hour away from and can use a world renowned facility that Saudi princes go to for treatment (the Mayo Clinic). 94% of Americans are covered by insurance and the vast majority are happy with it. I love the constant harping on US healthcare when the reality is the rest of the world ISN'T EVEN CLOSE to what we have available to us. As for pay and work conditions, you simply have to look it up. The poorest 20% of Americans have the same purchasing power as the average citizen in most other Western countries. All the whining about sick time etc.. you see on social media is done by unskilled Gen-Zers (usually women) who are used to laying about all day in college. The fact is the US is the best place for someone starting out from nothing to make something of themselves, which is why the US houses 40% of the world's millionaires and billionaires (80% being 1st generation). As for food standards, we have this thing called "choice" in the US. We are free to eat as healthy or as unhealthy as we want. We have federal AND state regulations in many cases for food safety, unlike other countries, which only have one layer of protection. Europe loves to ban things and make their citizens lives as miserable as possible, but I guess if that's your thing, more power to you. I prefer to have a CHOICE.
You are correct some areas of the USA have mostly Caucasians that speak only English, but in other areas Spanish is very prevalent. I myself like find mojo videos on the US as usually realistic in a good way.
It's pretty funny the cowboy thing is actually of Mexican origin. The Spanish called them Vaqueros. Areas that used to be Mexico are going to be where you will find the most cowboy culture stuff.
A lot of Americans make bucket list items of visiting each state or each National Park. International travel to Europe, Asia, Africa or anywhere else is very expensive for the average American. The flights start around $800 USD, and can get as high as $2,500 USD per person… Passport’s are around $100.00, with application and photo. The average American can’t afford a $400.00 USD emergency expense right now. International travel just isn’t feasible for a large number of Americans. And that’s just the expense, they don’t really mention that most Americans really only get 10 days of paid vacation, excluding paid holiday, a year and you’d have to use every minute of it on an international trip.
I disagree. Most of America is middle and is rather easy. Work hard, have good financial ethics, be responsible. Then you have the wealthy which is a tiny tiny portion of citizens, the poor which is mostly cared for by the tax payer and charities.
I have been in I think 42 States and now I'm old and I have health issues and I will never see the last states. Try to see the rest of the States before you get into your 50s because once you get into your 60s you really change and start getting old fast
My husband is Korean and in the PNW there is a big Korean population. You will find pockets like this everywhere in America. I see Korean signs everywhere.
12:20 On paper 50 states that make a country, but in practice, it's more every city is diffraction all the way down to the neighborhood and even down to the family house. All forming the states and territories that form 1 nation
But we are also one of the few places on the earth where the poor can be wealthy within a week and a wealthy person can be poor in a week. Welcome to capitalism.
In the U.S., we actually think of the "south" as something different than where cowboys live. "Cowboys are in Texas", is the actual sentiment. Texas is in the American Southwest. The "south" is stereotyped as either hillbillies or Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind. The Southern U.S. is the Carolina's, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, West Virginia, Louisiana, Kentucky and Florida.
WatchMojo is a CANADIAN company, based in Montreal..so yeah, they're not big fans of us...and seem to be unqualified to make videos like this about America.
Over 50 percent of people in the USA live in a household with a gun. Recent data refutes the videos' claim about guns. Thirty to forty percent admit to a stranger to personally owning a gun
I am very patriotic, i feel all people in the world deserves freedoms, im proud of my country as a whole and served in the Army when I was younger. And id rather cook food myself it taste better and is healthier.
Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming I would say have the most 'Cowboy Culture.' I would say Wyoming and Montana, due to their rural nature' have more remaining while the urbanization of Texas and Oklahoma have reduced the cultural identity.
I think the only thing WatchMojo got jarringly wrong in this video was indicating that the South was a region where you would find a lot of cowboys. Nope. Cowboys and ranches are Western culture. And no, you are not going to find cowboys all over the country. Anyone trying to pass themselves off as a cowboy in rural Connecticut or the Chicago area is going to be making an ass of themselves -- unless they are with a professional rodeo circuit passing through town.
Buddy, every year I do a roadtrip with my kids. Highly recommended. If you have a moment to take a look at my out west grand tour video you’ll see a road trip from the east coast to the Pacific Northwest and then down into Lake Tahoe and through the desert back to the east coast. Not high quality but I would highly recommend driving around.
Travel abroad is more difficult for Americans. Most people consider themselves lucky to have 2 weeks vacation time. So spending the $$ for such a short time, is not practical. There is soooo much variety in geography, customs, food etc, in the USA, Canada and Mexico - why go off the North American continent!
Your thinking of each state is similar to 50 different countries united under one flag is spot on and yes mojo is a little critical & political (somewhat Left leaning) of its take on the US.
A roadtrip across the U.S. to give each state a fair "due" would be darn near impossible. You'd probably want about 1-2 weeks per state, so about 1-2 years... and that's for a decent sampling to really understand the place. We don't even understand ourselves at that level. Really. XD But please, by all means, hop on by, we love meeting new people and getting new ideas/outlooks on life! Edit to say: your idea of seeing the national parks, from other videos, is definitely a great place to start! But so much of the truly beautiful things of the U.S. are the UNKNOWN things in each state.
Your last question about spanish and english language use. America has a lot of spanish and french language users. Here in my state Maine which is maybe the whitest in America... top 3 definitely we have a ton of French speaking people and i hear spanish regularly. Often menues have spanish versions or someone may speak enough of it to figure out what the spanish speaking person wants.
for the most part in bigger cities we have biligual people, as for my area for example, I live in Dearborn Michigan a sub of Detroit, we have the largest concentration of arab descent living here outside of the middle east. we also have inside the city of detroit, mexican town, greektown, corktown [irish] so diverse here but in many northern states not so much.
There’s truth to what watchmojo brought up (at least in this video, not sure about others). As an American, it’s possible for me to love my country but also be critical of it (want it to do and be better); those aren’t mutually exclusive.
More to your point about America being like 50 countries, I live in Michigan, which is larger than the United Kingdom, and in 10 other states are too, and several are near that size
We typically prepare our own food at home, But at least for me and people I know we may visit a Fast food restaurant once or maybe twice a week. More popular for many is pizza, chicken wings or oriental food primarily on the weekends. Americans are overall a bit or more overweight than average. But more and more are looking at fitness.
Cowboy/Western culture is very strong in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Dakotas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska and of course Texas. I probably missed a few more like Arkansas. If you are talking about participation a professional cattle workers, aka real cowboys & cowgirls?, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico... but I am not an expert.
I’ve lived all over the middle of the U.S. ( cannot say Midwest because what states make the middle is a constant conversation/debate hahaha) I’d say Montana has the most actual cowboys I’ve ever actually seen. I spent a lot of years in Oklahoma, lot of rodeos, lot of horses but not actual Cowboys moving cattle.
The state that is most synonymous with cowboys is Wyoming. Also, cowboys are no a southern thing, they are a western thing. most Americans are very patriotic. He's wrong about that. To say that for every patriotic person there are dozens who are not is just wildly inaccurate. These guys get quite a bit wrong. Chicago has a very high Mexican and Polish population as well as Italian and Irish.
Honestly, the American Nation is most comparable to the European Continent. The trouble with wanting to do a road trip is that it'd be like wanting to do a tour of Europe- unless you're basically going to just drive through every state and leave, it's going to take years to try and see everything. I'd recommend treating each state like its own country and maybe just starting out by visiting one state you really want to explore first before starting to wander.
As the video says, people being overweight is often due to environmental problems, which means this country allows chemicals and toxins on our commercial crops and food, as well as a lot of toxic chemicals in boxed foods. A lot of US foods are banned from being imported to other nations all over the world because of it. However, in the US there is no end to the variety, quality, and availability of every possible type, or culture of food choices here, day and night. Just as with prescription drugs, Americans pay the highest prices for travel costs. No other nations in the world pay as much as Americans have to pay. We pay 70%+ more money for prescription drug costs, so the rest of the world can have cheap drugs. It is the same for travel. Besides, as you know, we have so much here there is really no need to go elsewhere. Your cost to get here and back home is probably 50% less than if I were already in Portugal and wanted to get to the US and back to Portugal. Because I am American, I will have to pay a much higher price. My ID card, passport, and home address mean everything. We are tagged with a massive searchlight to pay high prices. When the rest of the world criticizes us I always want to say, "Hey, don't you know that your technology, higher education, food, energy, vehicles, low medical and prescription costs, etc... ARE BECAUSE me and my family pay for you to have these equalizing privileges?" Of course, I do not say it because it is my distinct and honorable privilege to live in a nation that gives so much more than all other nations put together so the world can have a nice place to live. We aren't perfect, but only God can out-give us and it is in fact God Himself that has blessed us so. But who are we? We are people, from ALL over the world, every nation, that God gathered here so we could be a blessing to the world economically. You will find multiple languages in every state, Spanish and French being the most used all over America, but in Houston, Texas; San Francisco and Los Angeles California you will even see a lot of street signs in multiple Asian languages. Houston alone has large populations from 83 nations that own their own part of the city. Chicago, Boston, New York, Miami, and Seattle all have high populations of other nationalities. But it is not only large cities. Very small cities all over this nation have such dense populations of other nationalities that their language is spoken more than English. There are cities in Maine and Louisiana that speak mostly French. There are cities in Texas that speak mostly German, Chinese, Spanish, or Slovakian. Texas has high populations of other nationals, well over 143 the last time I looked and most of those can be found in Houston. There are huge areas of the city that look like, shop like, and rent like other nations and the money from those nations can be used there and no street signs are in English. In all of the large cities, there are areas similar to this, but especially in Texas. It is like that all over this nation. Look at the population of the islands and coastal areas of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. We have nationalities that you have never heard of that have lived there and kept their original culture for 100s of years, since before this land became a nation. In these areas, it is the African Gullah or Gullah Geechee. Also, the Acadians in Louisiana and Texas. There are a lot of these small nationalities and cultures. The Dutch (German) that are settled all over and live separate, mostly called Amish. There are Scandinavians all over the northern parts of the US. Of course, we have very large Jewish population, of which I am a part and there are many cultural subsets of us, for instance, I am a Mizrachi Jew. Each of these has its own culture and its own cities or sections of cities within the US. And we cannot forget all of the sovereign nations of American Indians. There are 574 different sovereign nation indigenous tribes and they all have their own tribal lands. It is a great place we have here, and that is why everyone wants to live here and risks their lives coming here when they cannot afford it or cannot wait to do it legally. We have our current southern border crisis and in the 1970s through the 1990s Vietnamese crossed the Pacific in tiny boats to come here. TINY BOATS CROSSING THE HUGE PACIFIC! WHO DOES THAT? Lots of people, ever since the USA became a nation and before. Sorry for my long reply. Love your reactions to things American 🤩
There are many reasons people are proud of their home town/state/country. Patriotism. But in the US, we have reached a level of prosperity along with a degree of self-centered ignorance which leads people to complain about living in the USA. Anyone who has traveled internationally (outside resorts) knows that terms like "poverty", "corruption", "racism", and "freedom", mean VASTLY different things in most places around the world
He says researchers estimate that there's only 30% or so of people who own firearms. There are several others that have indicated that that number has been way off for many years. They estimate that up to 70% of the citizen's in the US own at least 1 firearm. How they figured this out is by the answers given to different questions. Just asking an American if they have a firearm will get a No answer because they don't want the government prying into their lives. They also fear the idea of the government having a list of who owns what. Top that off, the people they often ask are on a list of people they can call for polls, those people are often on the democrats. Democrats are more open to making changes and adjustments then Republicans, so they are often more open when it comes to answering these kinds of questions. When it comes to the wars, its not so much about support of, but more so about wanting to help our people with the money we are dishing out. When I say help though, its more of a bringing down what we owe, so we can help others better. By our debt being so high it hurts everyone in every country. A lot of people feel the reason for us being over weight is because of the differences in our foods. Like Coke... Most countries have Coke with real sugar vs high fructose corn syrup and all the other ingredients. Yeah, we all know sweats aren't good for you in large amounts, but when you add a lot of ingredients it can mess you up. So, when you are here, just eat less sweats or make sure you are reading what is in them so you can make sure you either work out more to burn it off, or eat less. When I was younger we could go to Mexico and Canada without a passport. Yes Mojo is very Democratic leaning. I still check their videos out, because I like to hear all sides. So, when you go through and react to both sides like you do, I love it.
You should come visit, but before you come you should look up different city’s and area’s tourism associations and let them know you are European and want to do some American tourism promotional videos on your channel. Not only will they set you up with a lot of cool stuff to do, but a lot of places will pay for you to do so.
Biased, but you should watch more on Oklahoma history, there is rich Native American history and also videos that explain the 'panhandle' of the state!
New Mexico and Hawaii are Euro-minority culture. Otherwise, other states are Euro-majority but varies by city and neighborhood. Know your neighborhood to avoid crime.
If you look at the term "majority-minority" defined as percentage of the population who are non-Hispanic whites, there are actually six states that are majority-minority (i.e., non-Hispanic whites are a minority of the population). The six states are: Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, Nevada and Maryland. Washington, D.C. also is majority-minority by that definition. In addition, there are 11 more states where non-Hispanic whites are less than 60 percent of the population. This is approaching the percentage of white population (as opposed to black or mixed-race) in Brazil, which is 43 percent white.
@@johnalden5821 Politically, marginal minorities are included/excluded based on political ideology and gerrymander. I consider Norwegian-Americans as enemy for example ;-)
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States i pick are Florida and Hawaii. They got your Cowboys hell Florida more often has more cattle than Texas.
Sorry buddy, no hard feelings but your constant pauses drove me away.
Visit us, I love cross country drives sometimes.
Just remember that nobody is more critical of the U.S. especially the U.S. government than Americans.
If you ever decide to come to America, our home is your home. We live in Colorado, one of the most beautiful states. We have the Rocky Mountains 🌄. I am originally from eastern North Carolina, but I now live in Colorado. So just letting you know. Hope you and everyone here has a Safe, Blessed, and Wonderful day. Oh, we can take you on a tour of the state of Colorado...then you will see why I call this state, Beautiful..😊
Cowboys exist all the way from Canada to Argentina.
Vaqueros. The Mexicans of Texas 💕
Cowboys are a job, I think most people have forgotten that
@anthonyramirez9925 that's legit! I feel like people get this idea that cowboy is just an aesthetic for people who watch old westerns, and it's actually pretty offensive.
If you're worried about a language barrier anywhere in the U.S., don't be. They will understand and help you in any state of the U.S. 😊
The largest immigrant group in Rhode island is now Portuguese....it used to be Italian.
People actually mistake cowboys for being a _southern_ thing? I thought everybody knew that cowboys were a _western_ thing. John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood weren't known for all the great "Southerns" they made.
I thought that was weird too. It must be because of Texas.
In fact, Gary Cooper was raised on a Montana ranch by immigrant parents from England. He and his older brother were sent to English boarding schools
The wild west is a fallacy.
My wife and I took a road trip around the U.S. for a vacation once we drove 6700 miles or 10,780 KM in just 10 days. We saw so many beautiful places we consider this our best vacation ever.
And so much more to see
One of the greatest rights we have is the right to criticize our leaders and government. This doesn't mean we love our country any less.
And if you want a road trip around the country, we will look forward to you moving here 😀. I have been here 50 years not even close to seeing it all.
And we do have poverty, in Oklahoma 1 in 5 children faces food shortages
What they said about wealth is very accurate. It would be very hard for 70% of Americans to take a family of 4 or 5 to Europe. It would require years of saving. It is much more affordable to take a road trip a few states away.
Having the ability to criticize one's own government and history is one of the ultimate expressions of American patriotism...our founders strived for a peaceful system with the capability for reformative change built-in and with the rights to the processes of such change guaranteed.
"...the rights to the processes of such change guaranteed." Although it seems more and more often people get attacked for having differing opinions. I wish people would remember what you just said and discuss their differences peacefully.
I came here to post similar. I've never understood people who consider it unpatriotic to criticize the government in any way. I would argue that it is MORE patriotic to try and improve the great (but certainly imperfect) country we live in to strive toward "a more perfect union", than to sit back and proclaim that the US is #1, can do no wrong and turn a blind eye to injustices, poor policy, or outright wrong-doing. Citizens can (and should) work to right wrongs while still feeling proud, standing during the national anthem, and celebrating our country. You CAN do both!!!!
Yeah but too many people complaining about the government then say they hate the country itself. The politicians are the issue, not our nation
Yea i was gonna say something similar. There are a ton of problems and maybe other problems we don't even know about but I'd rather live in this country than really most countries in the world
I agree. Wanting your country to do better is patriotic to me. If you blindly accept everything your country does that sounds more like a dictatorships. Hell in some places of the world criticizing the government will get you thrown in jail or killed
Im a descendant of slaves and proud of my country as a whole. I can also criticize parts of its history and condemn it. That’s America.
That's amazing
Yes ❤
That’s the beauty of this country. No matter where you came from (or how you came here) we’re all Americans and all in this boat together. It saddens me to see our politicians and media talk about our differences and not our national identity of “One Nation under God”. God bless ❤
We ended slavery in America. One day we will end slavery and indentured servitude worldwide. All through history all people have been enslaved. We must work together to end it once and for all.
You can criticize policies of your country and still be patriotic.
Hi. I’m enjoying your America reactions. I’m a 63 year old woman who lives in North Mississippi. In all my years, I’ve never been up north and the only western state I’ve been to is California, for training classes for work. I just retired and plan to visit some of the states I’ve never been to. You’re right, I’d rather explore America than travel overseas.
If any state would be most identified with cowboys, it would be *Wyoming.* Wyoming is known as "The Cowboy State."
That was my first thought!
I don't care for Watch Mojo either, but it's not the end of the world. On the languages, it depends. Spanish is the most common language besides English, but in areas with more languages you will encounter them routinely. My city seeks translation services for (and prints in) about 130-160 languages in an average year, in other areas it may be just one or two.
There is an Amharic radio station (Ethiopia) in my area as well as a Korean news paper, a Spanish television station, and [you get the idea]. Restaurant menus are oftentimes in English, the language of the owner or the food's culture, and Spanish. Most businesses have signs and advertising in their windows in English, Spanish, and often the more common languages of that neighborhood. Even at protests and organized events there are usually multiple translators either on the PA or in the crowd speaking loudly so people can gather close and hear them, it's quite the experience when that happens.
And this is normal! And i love it 😊.
Cowboys are everywhere. I live in Southern California & there’s cowboys & a lot of people who have horses. Same for northern California. I’d say almost every state has some cowboys, some more than others.
Florida has a lot of tri-lingual communities. English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. I work for the state government and our notices go out to clients in their language preference.
I thought Ron DeSantis was deported a lot of those illegals
Hawai'i is a virtual Melting Pot, with nearly the entire Pacific Islands there and a few more- Guamanians, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Samoan, Fijian, Filipinos, Tahitians, Rapa Nui (Eastern Islanders), Cook Islanders, Marshall Islanders, Micronesians and that's just off the top of my head, and fun fact: Most signage are in Tagalog ( Pilipino), Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean but you will be hard pressed to find any in Spanish
I generally stay away from WatchMojo, but they were definitely stating some facts in this video. I think certain groups in thr country feel uncomfortable when the U.S. is criticized, but most Americans are very aware of the criticisms in this video.
I love the image of the bald eagle wearing aviator glasses...it's strangely appropriate for this wonderful and crazy country.
14:25 nah. I’m American. I feel they’re fair. They point out the good and the bad. I feel that’s necessary to manage people’s expectations. Every country has their trade-offs.
Patriotism is loving your country and respecting the government when it is deserved.
Regarding the 'patriotic' part, I think what the narrator is trying to say is that there is a significant portion of the population that doesn't feel the need to fly the US flag 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or yell and scream about America being 'the best!'. We will indeed argue loudly among ourselves.
BUT.....that is not the same as how quickly we will coalesce if we are attacked. This is the lesson that some people outside the country do not fully grasp about our national character, in my opinion.
And if you are interested in a US road trip, Portugal is about the same size as Indiana, if that helps
your country isnt special...
@@MaticTheProto yes it is
@@Yawnzee_ maybe it is… in the same way some children are called „special“
@MaticTheProto that's OK we are used to people bashing us but that's what happens when your the top dog always going to be haters.
@@Yawnzee_ top dog?
By what metric?
The military? Sure. Not a flex.
The percentage of your population in prison, which is often used for modern slave labour? The amount of destroyed democracies? The amount of school shootings? Being the only developed country with an increasing fatality rate for newborns?
New Mexico, Arizona and the rest of the southwest have lots of people who are Hispanic that have always been there, when the place was owned by Mexico. They are natives of the state and not immigrants.
I love my country very much, but I don't even fly the flag. Just never got around to buying one. My house the way the water and snow comes off the roof would destroy it if I put one out. However my hobby as a model railroader I collect the models of the bicentennial locomotives that were created in 1976 to commemorate our bicentennial.
And I don't own any guns, I wanted to be a cop but when I was 11 I developed severe depression and became suicidal. So I won't own a gun.
Kudos to you for your choice and your courageous willingness to post this. According to multiple sources, the majority of gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides. I will not have one in my house for that reason, as well.
Huge cowboy culture in southern California as well, tons of cattle ranches there, like John Wayne’s Cattle Ranch 🤠
@@philmakris8507 yeah man totally true!! Great point! They brought over many vaqueros in the 1800s That’s even a better example of cowboy culture in an unexpected place 🤙
New Mexico has a lot of Hispanics, but it also has a lot of American Indians and Spanish (from Spain) people.
Many people think that patriotism means things like flag waving and exclaiming how great America is and getting angry with people who say that America has social equity problems that need to be addressed. Yet these same patriots live with hate for other Americans. True patriots genuinely love America and Americans, and work to make our laws more equitable and lives better for all Americans. True patriots reject hate, bigotry, racism and all the ways we ourselves bring our nation down. True patriots have a vision of how America should be and that America could actually become the greatest nation on Earth. I am aware that this sentiment is very unpopular among many people and I am sure I will be hearing from some of them. Bring it on.
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Cowboys are actually people who herd cows on horses. Sometimes they put the cows in trucks and take them to different pasture far away to get fresh grass. Cowboys are always near large herds To move them but also to protect them with guns. I think there were more horse riders in the old west because there were no cars and everyone rode horses or had horses pull carriages. The settlers who went west to settle the west coast usually brought very strong animals like oxen to pull their wagons and then they use them to plow the fields once they made it. But of course animals died on the way. Now even if someone does not have any cattle they’ll wear cowboy boots and a big hat because it’s the culture of the area. Not every cowboy has a lot of cows, Because they’re just wearing boots and a Stetson but don’t have any cows.
As an American I find it interesting to see what other people think of us or about us and watching videos like yours is one way to do that. I'm not a 'patriotic' person in that over-the-top, chanting "USA, USA" type of person. There are things America has to be very proud of and there are things we should not be proud of. I do believe that speaking out when you think your country is in the wrong is about the most patriotic thing you can do. It comes from a place in the belief that you can and should be better. Unfortunately, it seems that the 'patriotic' American has become a caricature.
Andre , the most beautiful voices EVER in country music were Marty Robbins , Roy Orbison ( known mostly for rock and roll ) and Patsy Cline . Roy and Marty wrote their ballads ( stories ) . Roy had a range of 4 to 5 octaves . Elvis Presley , the King , stood up in the audience in Las Vegas at Roy’s show one night and called him “ the best singer in the world “. ❤😊
As someone who’s lived in montana her entire life, the only time I’ve ever seen a menu in Spanish here was in a Mexican restaurant, literally next to the English version. Montana is over 90% white. It was even more so when I was a child. As much as I love it here, outside of the “big” cities and tribal lands, there unfortunately is a lack of diversity.
The statement that wealth is not evenly distributed is just true. 66.6 percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. 11.4% of Americans live in poverty, 12 million of those are children. Wealthier cities are closer to the oceans, and in the planes and central states families live far apart from each other. Fast food is more commonly the diet in smaller cities and towns whereas large cities have more variety of fresh food either in takeaway or sit down restaurants. American obesity is not only tied to fast food, abundant snacks, sugary desserts but to a sedentary lifestyle of movies, video games, driving instead of walking to everything, and over stimulus of entertainment and distraction. The life in America is fantastic if you make it that way. Life can be absolutely misery just as easily. The best part of this country is the diversity. Options in food, housing, transportation, entertainment, culture.. just tidbits of every country and culture in a big melting pot. I have heard you saying that you want to visit Texas and New Orleans and Florida. Montana is very far away from those. I hope you do visit. We have so much to explore.
Florida has a heavy Cuban population, states that border Mexico will have a heavy Mexican population close to the border but when you go north a bit that will change, in texas there are some cities with more of a German influence. There is a good size diversity with in the states.
Follow the You Tuber, Shaun, who is from Scotland. He and his wife have visited different regions of the US with every trip they make. If you wish to travel all around the country at once, I’d say plan on several months here. When they toured the west coast, they drove 9 hours without even leaving Oregon. So keep that in mind.
He was correct in that Americans lack of travel and cultural experience which Europeans look down upon - is all about the cost. It is too expensive for most to travel abroad no matter how much they would like to have the experience. Also as someone else mentioned - the lack of free time. We have no law that requires an employer to give vacation time to the workers, we are lucky to get a week or two off each year.
I will also say this about Americans traveling: we only share borders with two other countries - Canada & Mexico. In the US, people live hours away from other states, making it hard to visit, let alone visiting our international neighbors. Going further abroad than Canada & Mexico is a lot more time and money.
Basically, our states are the size of other countries. Some people are very well traveled within the states which would be equivalent to being well traveled within Europe size wise. Americans probably also average (it depends on your employer and time in employment usually) 18 paid days a year (paid leave and paid holidays) compared to totals (paid leave & holidays from what I can find online) in the Uk's - 30, Ukraine - 37, Switzerland - 27, Sweden - 34, Spain - 36, Slovakia (35), Russia -34, Romania -37, Portugal - 31, Norway - 35, etc. We don't have a lot of time off and many people prioritize those days for family events or emergencies. Extensive traveling is usually not on the radar unless you take unpaid leave and can weather the drop in your paycheck. Teachers though have most of the summer off so I know many of them travel.
one side of my family is only several generations from italy, the other has been here since the 1700s, and are native. soooo many cultures!
Since printing a menu is a business expense, a restaurant would print a menu in more than one language if it made business sense. "Does the business it brings in cover the expense of printing." would be a question a restaurant would ask in deciding whether or not to print the menu in more than one language.
The part where all Americans are rich. No we are not. When I worked I was just above the poverty line.
Now I'm disabled and retired I'm below the poverty line. And with the recent inflation, I can barely afford food. And a lot of people are in the same situation.
Also you are right about it being very diverse in each state. When it counts (re:9/11)
We all unite. And become one.
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Thank you so much. Really means a lot 🙌
CharlesBronson was a famous actor (also did westerns)! That skit about Bronson Missouri showed all,the people looked like Charles Bronson! Funny!
I had someone in college who was from New York City and honestly believed she would see horses and wooden sidewalks when she arrived in Arizona.
I live in the biggest southern city in America, Miami. It's so different from America, the "Southern States" and even it's own State of Florida. It's as International as New York or Los Angeles but it's also just as American. Fun fact, Miami is the only city in America to be founded by a Woman, Julia Tuttle, July 28th 1896. btw I just posted this as you mentioned if Mojo sticks it to America once in a while, Americans stick it too each other all the time, it's not one monolithic country of agreed ideology and politics (as is probably obvious). Being critical of America is almost as American as Apple Pie.
Well said. Being critical of America is patriotic.
Wyoming, referred to as the "Cowboy State" the College football team is called the Cowboys, the licenses plates have a cowboy on a bucking horse. And yes they ride horses. Sometimes through the bank drive-thru.
In Rhode Island, we have a lot of Portuguese.
I have been halfway around the world, I'm glad I live in the US, especially California.
Here in New Mexico we have a large population of Spanish speakers, but we also have 17 pueblos and native nations with their own languages.
I live in Arizona and I operate almost as well in Spanish as I do in English. It's helpful since we share a border with Sonora to our south and they're one of our largest trade partners. You'd fit in here just fine, btw. There are a lot of enclaves of Portuguese and Brasilians in the US. Rhode Island and Massachusetts both have large ethnic Portuguese populations.
It amazes me you understand this country more than most that live here. It is like different countries and it’s the greatest of all time. A true melting pot of people that while even complain about their country would only leave kicking and screaming.
yes, thats exactly it. 50 states. another word for state is country or even nation. 50 united countries.
This video is 100% correct.
As a born and raised Southern Californian, I can attest to the differences. We have the best Mexican food (sorry Texas), lol, and my own heritage is Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Jewish. So there you go on the melting pot. Lol But honestly, I do find it cool seeing so many different ethnicities. And I love food, so I'm always asking about what I don't know that I don't know. Lol But yeah, push comes to shove, and everyone will stand up together. That's what makes this place great. Not a politician.
I'm from Puerto Rico and have been living in mainland USA for 13 years, mostly in Florida. Regarding the Spanish speakers, like you mentioned we are everywhere but you can see larger concentrations in specific states like Florida, Texas, Arizona, Pennsylvania, California and New York. That being said, it usually comes with an event in history for example the Cubans to Miami (like the ScareFace movie), or hurricane Maria that caused 100,000+ migrants to Florida in only a couple of months, Mexico illegal immigrants, Puerto Ricans in New York because Boxing sport, ect.
I just got back from visiting my Sister and her family for Christmas. We both live in the U.S. but the round trip was equivalent to driving from Lisbon, Portugal, to St Petersburg Russia.
Yeah, traveling from State to State is kind of what I imagine traveling from one country to another is like for Europeans. We're kind of stuck on this continent over here and the prospect of flying across the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean to get to another country is prohibitedly expensive. I've had the good fortune to see Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Ireland.
My friend, we seek to serve Spanish speaking people, and when I speak Spanish, in my broken faltering way… it warms the hearts of my Spanish speaking countrymen… however, when the rubber meets the road… I revert to English, and my Spanish speaking countrymen accept on some level, rightly or wrongly, that it is their responsibility to speak and understand English… and not the other way around 🤷🏻♂️🤔❤️
Plenty of American TH-camrs and their followers are well aware of the following. The price of their healthcare is ridiculously high. The average American worker is overworked and underpaid by companies who couldn't care less about their well-being. No matter how sick you're feeling, the boss will probably call you to try and make you feel guilty for not being able to work. Another reason Americans have a hard time travelling overseas is that even if they get a couple of weeks of vacation time. It's highly unlikely that it's paid vacation time. The food quality standards in general are pretty shameful in general, that's why many European countries have banned quite a lot of it. From harmful artificial additives to the over the top amounts of sugar they put in things. For instance their bread has six times as much sugar and they add the same chemical that they use to make yoga mats. I'm not trying to knock America, I'd love to visit some time. But I'm grateful to be living in Australia.
Ah I see all the propaganda is still getting around just fine. Yes healthcare cost is high but that is because we have the best doctors and nurses (who are paid very well) and also have the most technologically advanced systems that provide the best outcomes for serious diseases like cancer and heart disease. We have virtually no wait times for our treatment. I live an hour away from and can use a world renowned facility that Saudi princes go to for treatment (the Mayo Clinic). 94% of Americans are covered by insurance and the vast majority are happy with it. I love the constant harping on US healthcare when the reality is the rest of the world ISN'T EVEN CLOSE to what we have available to us.
As for pay and work conditions, you simply have to look it up. The poorest 20% of Americans have the same purchasing power as the average citizen in most other Western countries. All the whining about sick time etc.. you see on social media is done by unskilled Gen-Zers (usually women) who are used to laying about all day in college. The fact is the US is the best place for someone starting out from nothing to make something of themselves, which is why the US houses 40% of the world's millionaires and billionaires (80% being 1st generation).
As for food standards, we have this thing called "choice" in the US. We are free to eat as healthy or as unhealthy as we want. We have federal AND state regulations in many cases for food safety, unlike other countries, which only have one layer of protection. Europe loves to ban things and make their citizens lives as miserable as possible, but I guess if that's your thing, more power to you. I prefer to have a CHOICE.
You are correct some areas of the USA have mostly Caucasians that speak only English, but in other areas Spanish is very prevalent.
I myself like find mojo videos on the US as usually realistic in a good way.
It's pretty funny the cowboy thing is actually of Mexican origin. The Spanish called them Vaqueros. Areas that used to be Mexico are going to be where you will find the most cowboy culture stuff.
Quit trying to take shortcuts across Death valley in minivans. It is called DEATH VALLEY for a reason.
A lot of Americans make bucket list items of visiting each state or each National Park.
International travel to Europe, Asia, Africa or anywhere else is very expensive for the average American. The flights start around $800 USD, and can get as high as $2,500 USD per person… Passport’s are around $100.00, with application and photo. The average American can’t afford a $400.00 USD emergency expense right now. International travel just isn’t feasible for a large number of Americans. And that’s just the expense, they don’t really mention that most Americans really only get 10 days of paid vacation, excluding paid holiday, a year and you’d have to use every minute of it on an international trip.
economic inequality is a very real problem in America..
I disagree. Most of America is middle and is rather easy. Work hard, have good financial ethics, be responsible. Then you have the wealthy which is a tiny tiny portion of citizens, the poor which is mostly cared for by the tax payer and charities.
@@wendicrain5515 congrats, thats the dumbest thing ive read on the internet today..
you should read more non-fiction and less headlines..
The largest ranch in the US is actually in Hawaii on the Big Island.
I have 35 states left to visit but I've been lucky enough to visit 4 other countries.
I have been in I think 42 States and now I'm old and I have health issues and I will never see the last states. Try to see the rest of the States before you get into your 50s because once you get into your 60s you really change and start getting old fast
I live in small town America (central IL) and u don't know anyone who isn't Patriotic and the greatest thing about American food is Tex-Mex
My husband is Korean and in the PNW there is a big Korean population. You will find pockets like this everywhere in America. I see Korean signs everywhere.
12:20 On paper 50 states that make a country, but in practice, it's more every city is diffraction all the way down to the neighborhood and even down to the family house. All forming the states and territories that form 1 nation
He is right about the financial differentiation between classes . Political parties differ with taxing the elite rich constantly.
But we are also one of the few places on the earth where the poor can be wealthy within a week and a wealthy person can be poor in a week. Welcome to capitalism.
In the U.S., we actually think of the "south" as something different than where cowboys live. "Cowboys are in Texas", is the actual sentiment. Texas is in the American Southwest. The "south" is stereotyped as either hillbillies or Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind. The Southern U.S. is the Carolina's, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Virginia, West Virginia, Louisiana, Kentucky and Florida.
WatchMojo is a CANADIAN company, based in Montreal..so yeah, they're not big fans of us...and seem to be unqualified to make videos like this about America.
Over 50 percent of people in the USA live in a household with a gun. Recent data refutes the videos' claim about guns. Thirty to forty percent admit to a stranger to personally owning a gun
I am very patriotic, i feel all people in the world deserves freedoms, im proud of my country as a whole and served in the Army when I was younger. And id rather cook food myself it taste better and is healthier.
Original cowboys are from Florida but Arizona is the image that comes to most people's minds I believe
Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming I would say have the most 'Cowboy Culture.' I would say Wyoming and Montana, due to their rural nature' have more remaining while the urbanization of Texas and Oklahoma have reduced the cultural identity.
I think the only thing WatchMojo got jarringly wrong in this video was indicating that the South was a region where you would find a lot of cowboys. Nope. Cowboys and ranches are Western culture. And no, you are not going to find cowboys all over the country. Anyone trying to pass themselves off as a cowboy in rural Connecticut or the Chicago area is going to be making an ass of themselves -- unless they are with a professional rodeo circuit passing through town.
Buddy, every year I do a roadtrip with my kids. Highly recommended. If you have a moment to take a look at my out west grand tour video you’ll see a road trip from the east coast to the Pacific Northwest and then down into Lake Tahoe and through the desert back to the east coast. Not high quality but I would highly recommend driving around.
Travel abroad is more difficult for Americans. Most people consider themselves lucky to have 2 weeks vacation time. So spending the $$ for such a short time, is not practical.
There is soooo much variety in geography, customs, food etc, in the USA, Canada and Mexico - why go off the North American continent!
Your thinking of each state is similar to 50 different countries united under one flag is spot on and yes mojo is a little critical & political (somewhat Left leaning) of its take on the US.
A roadtrip across the U.S. to give each state a fair "due" would be darn near impossible. You'd probably want about 1-2 weeks per state, so about 1-2 years... and that's for a decent sampling to really understand the place. We don't even understand ourselves at that level. Really. XD But please, by all means, hop on by, we love meeting new people and getting new ideas/outlooks on life! Edit to say: your idea of seeing the national parks, from other videos, is definitely a great place to start! But so much of the truly beautiful things of the U.S. are the UNKNOWN things in each state.
im proud ur having fun blessings from iowa
Your last question about spanish and english language use. America has a lot of spanish and french language users. Here in my state Maine which is maybe the whitest in America... top 3 definitely we have a ton of French speaking people and i hear spanish regularly. Often menues have spanish versions or someone may speak enough of it to figure out what the spanish speaking person wants.
for the most part in bigger cities we have biligual people, as for my area for example, I live in Dearborn Michigan a sub of Detroit, we have the largest concentration of arab descent living here outside of the middle east. we also have inside the city of detroit, mexican town, greektown, corktown [irish] so diverse here but in many northern states not so much.
There’s truth to what watchmojo brought up (at least in this video, not sure about others). As an American, it’s possible for me to love my country but also be critical of it (want it to do and be better); those aren’t mutually exclusive.
Whereas in Canada you'll have French or English as choice.. In America yes, you'll have Spanish or English as a choice in many situations/ places
More to your point about America being like 50 countries, I live in Michigan, which is larger than the United Kingdom, and in 10 other states are too, and several are near that size
In my family favorite two words are ROAD TRIP
There are 200 million gun owners out of 380 million people...i'm not sure how 'that is on the decline'.
We typically prepare our own food at home, But at least for me and people I know we may visit a Fast food restaurant once or maybe twice a week. More popular for many is pizza, chicken wings or oriental food primarily on the weekends. Americans are overall a bit or more overweight than average. But more and more are looking at fitness.
Cowboy/Western culture is very strong in Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Dakotas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Nebraska and of course Texas. I probably missed a few more like Arkansas. If you are talking about participation a professional cattle workers, aka real cowboys & cowgirls?, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico... but I am not an expert.
I’ve lived all over the middle of the U.S. ( cannot say Midwest because what states make the middle is a constant conversation/debate hahaha)
I’d say Montana has the most actual cowboys I’ve ever actually seen.
I spent a lot of years in Oklahoma, lot of rodeos, lot of horses but not actual Cowboys moving cattle.
11:16 You basically need to plan for months to do a trip around the nation, and you will still miss some things.
I grew up in Arkansas, I saw more Cowboys in Washington and in Montana. Just because its the South doesn't mean there are more Cowboys.
The state that is most synonymous with cowboys is Wyoming. Also, cowboys are no a southern thing, they are a western thing. most Americans are very patriotic. He's wrong about that. To say that for every patriotic person there are dozens who are not is just wildly inaccurate. These guys get quite a bit wrong. Chicago has a very high Mexican and Polish population as well as Italian and Irish.
Honestly, the American Nation is most comparable to the European Continent. The trouble with wanting to do a road trip is that it'd be like wanting to do a tour of Europe- unless you're basically going to just drive through every state and leave, it's going to take years to try and see everything. I'd recommend treating each state like its own country and maybe just starting out by visiting one state you really want to explore first before starting to wander.
As the video says, people being overweight is often due to environmental problems, which means this country allows chemicals and toxins on our commercial crops and food, as well as a lot of toxic chemicals in boxed foods. A lot of US foods are banned from being imported to other nations all over the world because of it.
However, in the US there is no end to the variety, quality, and availability of every possible type, or culture of food choices here, day and night.
Just as with prescription drugs, Americans pay the highest prices for travel costs. No other nations in the world pay as much as Americans have to pay. We pay 70%+ more money for prescription drug costs, so the rest of the world can have cheap drugs. It is the same for travel. Besides, as you know, we have so much here there is really no need to go elsewhere. Your cost to get here and back home is probably 50% less than if I were already in Portugal and wanted to get to the US and back to Portugal. Because I am American, I will have to pay a much higher price. My ID card, passport, and home address mean everything. We are tagged with a massive searchlight to pay high prices. When the rest of the world criticizes us I always want to say, "Hey, don't you know that your technology, higher education, food, energy, vehicles, low medical and prescription costs, etc... ARE BECAUSE me and my family pay for you to have these equalizing privileges?" Of course, I do not say it because it is my distinct and honorable privilege to live in a nation that gives so much more than all other nations put together so the world can have a nice place to live. We aren't perfect, but only God can out-give us and it is in fact God Himself that has blessed us so. But who are we? We are people, from ALL over the world, every nation, that God gathered here so we could be a blessing to the world economically.
You will find multiple languages in every state, Spanish and French being the most used all over America, but in Houston, Texas; San Francisco and Los Angeles California you will even see a lot of street signs in multiple Asian languages. Houston alone has large populations from 83 nations that own their own part of the city. Chicago, Boston, New York, Miami, and Seattle all have high populations of other nationalities. But it is not only large cities. Very small cities all over this nation have such dense populations of other nationalities that their language is spoken more than English. There are cities in Maine and Louisiana that speak mostly French. There are cities in Texas that speak mostly German, Chinese, Spanish, or Slovakian. Texas has high populations of other nationals, well over 143 the last time I looked and most of those can be found in Houston. There are huge areas of the city that look like, shop like, and rent like other nations and the money from those nations can be used there and no street signs are in English. In all of the large cities, there are areas similar to this, but especially in Texas. It is like that all over this nation.
Look at the population of the islands and coastal areas of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. We have nationalities that you have never heard of that have lived there and kept their original culture for 100s of years, since before this land became a nation. In these areas, it is the African Gullah or Gullah Geechee. Also, the Acadians in Louisiana and Texas. There are a lot of these small nationalities and cultures. The Dutch (German) that are settled all over and live separate, mostly called Amish. There are Scandinavians all over the northern parts of the US. Of course, we have very large Jewish population, of which I am a part and there are many cultural subsets of us, for instance, I am a Mizrachi Jew. Each of these has its own culture and its own cities or sections of cities within the US. And we cannot forget all of the sovereign nations of American Indians. There are 574 different sovereign nation indigenous tribes and they all have their own tribal lands. It is a great place we have here, and that is why everyone wants to live here and risks their lives coming here when they cannot afford it or cannot wait to do it legally. We have our current southern border crisis and in the 1970s through the 1990s Vietnamese crossed the Pacific in tiny boats to come here. TINY BOATS CROSSING THE HUGE PACIFIC! WHO DOES THAT? Lots of people, ever since the USA became a nation and before. Sorry for my long reply. Love your reactions to things American 🤩
There are many reasons people are proud of their home town/state/country. Patriotism. But in the US, we have reached a level of prosperity along with a degree of self-centered ignorance which leads people to complain about living in the USA. Anyone who has traveled internationally (outside resorts) knows that terms like "poverty", "corruption", "racism", and "freedom", mean VASTLY different things in most places around the world
I have had the privilege to travel to a number of countries. You are absolutely right. We should thank god every day for allowing us to be born here.
I was told by a friend of mine from Europe that they beleive we still have Cowboys and Indians like we did in the old western days.
He says researchers estimate that there's only 30% or so of people who own firearms. There are several others that have indicated that that number has been way off for many years. They estimate that up to 70% of the citizen's in the US own at least 1 firearm. How they figured this out is by the answers given to different questions. Just asking an American if they have a firearm will get a No answer because they don't want the government prying into their lives. They also fear the idea of the government having a list of who owns what. Top that off, the people they often ask are on a list of people they can call for polls, those people are often on the democrats. Democrats are more open to making changes and adjustments then Republicans, so they are often more open when it comes to answering these kinds of questions.
When it comes to the wars, its not so much about support of, but more so about wanting to help our people with the money we are dishing out. When I say help though, its more of a bringing down what we owe, so we can help others better. By our debt being so high it hurts everyone in every country.
A lot of people feel the reason for us being over weight is because of the differences in our foods. Like Coke... Most countries have Coke with real sugar vs high fructose corn syrup and all the other ingredients. Yeah, we all know sweats aren't good for you in large amounts, but when you add a lot of ingredients it can mess you up. So, when you are here, just eat less sweats or make sure you are reading what is in them so you can make sure you either work out more to burn it off, or eat less.
When I was younger we could go to Mexico and Canada without a passport.
Yes Mojo is very Democratic leaning. I still check their videos out, because I like to hear all sides. So, when you go through and react to both sides like you do, I love it.
The Spanish language is actually becoming the UsA's second most used language!❤❤
You should come visit, but before you come you should look up different city’s and area’s tourism associations and let them know you are European and want to do some American tourism promotional videos on your channel. Not only will they set you up with a lot of cool stuff to do, but a lot of places will pay for you to do so.
Biased, but you should watch more on Oklahoma history, there is rich Native American history and also videos that explain the 'panhandle' of the state!
New Mexico and Hawaii are Euro-minority culture. Otherwise, other states are Euro-majority but varies by city and neighborhood. Know your neighborhood to avoid crime.
If you look at the term "majority-minority" defined as percentage of the population who are non-Hispanic whites, there are actually six states that are majority-minority (i.e., non-Hispanic whites are a minority of the population). The six states are: Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, Nevada and Maryland. Washington, D.C. also is majority-minority by that definition. In addition, there are 11 more states where non-Hispanic whites are less than 60 percent of the population. This is approaching the percentage of white population (as opposed to black or mixed-race) in Brazil, which is 43 percent white.
@@johnalden5821 Politically, marginal minorities are included/excluded based on political ideology and gerrymander. I consider Norwegian-Americans as enemy for example ;-)