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Just a little funfact: In Germany it is illegal to not help someone or at least call for help(ambulance etc.) when there is an emergency, whilst you cannot geht sued for trying to save their life.
Same in France, it's called something like "No assist to an endangered person" (is "endangered" the good word here ? Don't know) and if severely punished as you are considered as kind of responsible for the death if you don't try to help.
Totally correct. Sure, if you CLAIM to know CPR but actually have never trained it, you took the spot while somebody who was actually able to do it did something else important THEN you might be sued, but not for neglecting to try to help someone, or being sued for trying to help someone, but for fraudulent and dangerous behavior. But you need to construct some really convoluted cases to have any chance of being sued trying to help someone, and failing, or even hurting them in the process. BTW: if you know CPR that means that person is NOT responding, so you CAN'T ask consent and will loose precious seconds trying to gain consent. Ask Dr. Mike about "Chest compressions, chest compressions, chest compressions", right?!?
That one black lady crying because someone saw her for her nationality and not her skin color. It's truly sadening.. I went to the US once and some black dude walked past me and my mom from behind and before he was even close enough he was already like "hello have a nice day, just passing through". At that moment, my mom and me just thought "oh what a nice person" and we were like "yeah sorry, we're blocking the path, no problem have a nice day" while he kept walking. Only later did I realize... He wasn't just being really friendly... He had to say that so we wouldn't freak out, cuz a black man was passing by us from behind... What the fuck is wrong with america?
I used to watch more American cop and crime procedural shows but I started to realize how much they portrayed black men as inherently aggressive and gangsters, I noticed it started to seep into my everyday perception and I don't want to become like that. Europe isn't perfect in the way we treat black people but contamination from the US has to be avoided at all cost.
Whenever you or other US citizens talk about "guns" or "gun culture" in the US I have to think about the meaning of the line "Home of the brave". You really have to be brave in the USA when you need "guns for self protection". You are protecting yourself against YOUR OWN PEOPLE!
Mate I can't even comprehend a place where you can get shot dead for accidental trespassing? It's utterly insane, and the fact Americans find that completely normal is just as insane.
I just can’t deal with the gun culture in America, I just can’t understand the mentality that thinks this is normal. I could never live there for that reason. I would hate if my children wanted to live there
@@DerryK67 the most deaths from guns is suicide soooo for the most part nobody is out there shooting you, and there isn't a culture here centered around guns huh
No, the woman who felt like she was going to "kill" the man is not because she's crazy, it's because men hurt women often. Especially drunk vulnerable women. Women in America walk to their cars at night with their keys between their fingers for a reason. Every strange man is a threat, especially at night, especially alone, especially without a phone. So, no, she's not crazy.
Statistically, not so dangerous in comparison that this would actually be rational behavior. The reason is more that people in USA are way more scared. Note; being scared does not mean american are scared nation but.. really, i've talked a lot of you and you have NO idea how rare crime really is, even in the worst places in USA. This is the reason for kids not being allowed to play in their own frontyard; kidnapping by strangers is less common that lighting striking them.. Several magnitudes less common than traffic accidents, and still.. so many moms driver their kids everywhere and when you mention that this actions are causing more danger, they go ballistic. They literally think that kids are taken within 15 minutes from the safest suburbs in the country.. You guys have been indoctrinated with fear. I'm very sorry.
I agree. If you live in NYC and Chicago you will understand why there are these mindsets. I agree that no one should want to kill anyone. But if you were raised in big cities then you have a certain mindset to protect yourself at all cost
@@squidcaps4308 Violent crime is relatively uncommon, yes. But women are subjected to violence that isn't always physical or life threatening. It's not fear indoctrination when half of all women worldwide are s*xually assaulted by the time they're 18. And it's not just a US phenomenon, gendered violence and harassment occurs wherever women are. Men don't understand this because they don't have to think about being s*xually harmed or physically assaulted, often for the simplest things, like ignoring or not smiling at a man. When you can be in a stadium full of women and every single one of them has a story of being harassed or worse, it's not out of the realms of possibility that any woman would go into attack mode, or prepare against a possible attack, when approached by a strange man in the middle of the night in an area she doesn't know.
I was going to say that too. it is not an american thing to feel fear if a man walks up to you randomly, it is a female thing sadly and probably hard to really understand as a male
@@mimimusick9734 The thing is, _random_ violence is much rarer than people think. The vast majority of the violence that happens to women is _not_ a random stranger coming up to you and hurting you - it happens with people you trust(ed). It's the same with child harm - everyone has the image of a stranger kidnapping their kid, but the actual reality is... it's almost never a stranger. And the craziest thing is... the red flags are usually there _well_ in advance.
My now teen-aged sons have been pretty much independent on buses, biking and so forth going to school/hobbies/out with friends etc since they were 8. No fear here. 🙏🇫🇮 Finnishmama
Same in Switzerland.... I also find it funny how in the US 13 year olds need a babysitter because their parents are away for the evening, in Switzerland 13 year olds don't need a babysitter they are the babysitter.
@@hiho1311 And just to really blow their minds ... Switzerland is another country with many, many guns. (And there _is_ more gun violence than in the rest of Europe, but not remotely as much as in the US.)
3:15 In Germany (and other countries) there is actually a law that if you do not help someone who is in danger or has a injury, that you could face up to one year in jail. (Of course, you don't have to do anything which brings yourself in danger. but you have to do everything which is reasonable to do to help) In German it is called "Unterlassene Hilfeleistung" if you don't help. On the other hand, you are immune to be sued from helping another person, whether it succeeds or fails.
I don't know about Germany but I'm rather confident this only applies to medical workers. Here in Belgium it basically apply to anyone with medical knowledge. This includes for example veterinarians. Most of these will also have a small sign on the back of their car indicating such.
@@Londronable It's true for Germany. Helping already includes calling an ambulance. When you want to make a drivers license in Germany, you will have to pass a first aid course. So at least people with a German drivers license should, at some point, have learned how to do it. When you do an emergency call and tell them that you don't know what to do, they usually help you remembering those things and guide you if necessary. So it's like Jutta said. If you can help in any way you have to do it by law.
To the Girl who Said she was gonna kill a Stranger: First, I don't think she meant it literally, she was preparing to defend herself at all Cost, and Second, as a young Woman alone, at night, lost, in a foreign country, intoxicated...cant blame her to be on Edge, even in a relatively save place, which she even didnt know she was in
The girl who said that she was about to kill the guy obviously exaggerated, but you seemed genuinely confused about her fear for strange men. As a woman you are indeed scared when you're outside when it's dark and you see a man you son't know. You can't afford to wonder if he means no harm or not so you have to be careful. Yes, even outside of America. It's safer, but it's still not safe. Carrying your keys in case you need a weapen is very common.
I have no issue with harming someone in order to run Before you think of yourself as a woman Think about your dad or your son if possible Then ask yourself this one question Would you want a woman assume your dad is a rapist just because it’s night and she doesn’t know him Then she instantly thinks I gotta kill this guy if he comes close to me Then your dad dies for an assumption I don’t give rights to a woman who assumes then ends a innocent man’s life I’d never teach my daughter to attack without being threatened Or in danger I’d never raise my kids to let the word kill come out of their mouth so easily and I’ve seen this so many times with cops they kill someone because they suspect they’re dangerous I know most of the world won’t agree with me but it’s a sad to know people would readily think of killing someone before thinking of a way to get away!
@@foreignreacts I think you did not understand: She was AFRAID!! Yes, women are afraid of men. Especially by night. I do not think she really meant to kill him. She was afraid!
@@foreignreacts You still did not understand her point. She was talking about her fear of male persons. To be honest: I am German, and even if Germany is a very safe country - I understand her fear. I feel it. Many men do not know how women feel about them when they are walking home at night or so. Just like many white people do not understand how racism feels for a black person.
Love the way you are describing the whole gun thing... and thinking this is normal in a civilised society. Stop using 'culture' as an excuse. Bear fighting used to be a cultural thing. Public execution used to be a cultural thing. Lots of bad things used to be cultural... until it was decided to change it. At the moment, there is only one conclusion you can draw about the US. And that is that America is the most technologically advanced third world country on Earth. It's time for change.
11:00: Most of the guys who watch this video laugh about her story or are shocked. Even in Europe I would be uncomfortable: alone in the night, in an area I don't know, drunk and a guy comes up to me. I wouldn't think about killing him, to be fair.
@@Dorian_B_73 No, the guy shouldn't have approached her like he did. Men don't perceive themselves to be potential threats to women, but women have to factor in the possibility that any man could become a threat to her. We're forced to go into a defensive mode because too many of us end up killed or injured by men. Sarah Everard was murdered by a cop. If even the men we're supposed to be able to trust harm us, and keep doing it with nauseating regularity, why wouldn't we go into (or prepare to go into) attack mode, when men can turn violent at the drop of a hat? What if that guy hadn't had good intentions?
@@Dorian_B_73 You likely wouldn't have been under threat of sexual harm (or threatened with actual sexual harm) from those groups of women the way women are from men. You're taking something that's relatively uncommon-- women attacking men for no reason (or what you think is no reason)-- and probably with no sexual component to it-- and trying to equate that with the 24/7/365 attacks women experience from men. It's a false equivalence and disingenuous when women are at massively increased risk from gendered and sexualised violence where men simply are not. So while it's awful that you had that experience, you can't place it against the violence, threats and intimidation most women experience most of the time. It's like you saying you being assaulted once has the same weight as a woman being assaulted 365 times. It doesn't.
@@Dorian_B_73 Like you said, any violence is wrong, no matter what gender the victim or the attacker is. But most of the time men are stronger than women and violence by men to women is more common. Because you had a bad experience with violence by a woman, you cross the road if you see a gang of women. For the same reason this woman tried to prepare for a possible attack by this man, because she had had a bad experience. She was pretty intense though by saying she was going to kill him. I wouldn't even attack first, but I would prepare to fight.
I am German currently living in Japan and, had these conversations with American expads about children walking alone/with friends to elementary school and around Tokyo. They are always so shocked about it but I couldn’t understand the problem because growing up in Germany kids would also play outside for hours alone/with their friends or go to elementary school by themselves.
I mean I did that here in america but I guess location in america also could play a big part like you probably don't want your kids running about a big american city alone though a small town would mostly be fine.
@@jacksmith-vs4ct yes I guess that’s true, but since Tokyo is not really a small place it might be shocking to see. But even though it’s big, Tokyo is extremely safe with comparable low crime rate.
On a bit of a tangent... it's ridiculous how normalised it became to call these people "expats" (especially Americans). You're immigrants. Stop creating a new category for yourself to avoid negative associations with the word "immigrant" (which itself often already comes from treating immigrants as less-people). It's just yet another thing contributing to the increasingly racist view of the world, as if whites couldn't be immigrants, right? :D
@@LuaanTi English is not my first language so I might not understand all nuances of words. But I thought that expats are people who are living abroad for a set time for example for being located there by their company, studying abroad or doing work‘n‘holiday. While an immigrant is someone who comes to a country to live there permanently. So I would call myself an immigrant because I am married here, have my kids here and do not plan on going back. But for the people I met, I would call them expats because most of them are now back in the US or about to go back in a few years. Anyway like I said, it’s not my first language so the word immigrant or expat is for me just a vocabulary that I learned with a certain definition. If I got it wrong, I am sorry but no need to get so worked up about it.
@@Ayusa Oh, sorry, my bad. I didn't get "worked up about it", and I didn't mean to make you feel bad in the slightest. Of course "immigrant" is _supposed_ to mean changing your "home country", while "expatriate" just means you're not there (for whatever reason, _including_ things like being a refugee or dealing with immigration). But it's always been abused by the nationalist types, and definitely gets a bad smell (you know what we call immigrants where I come from? Well... nothing; it's a label that's only relevant in highly technical things, not something you'd use in casual conversation. As far as I know, there isn't even a word for something like "expat" - it just isn't particularly useful).
In Australia we used to have a deep gun culture as well. I grew up shooting guns and my dad had 3 hunting rifles. My uncle was a collector and he probably have 50 odd various guns. Then the Port Arthur Massacre happened and the government enacted some serious new gun laws and did a massive gun buy back. Banned all automatic and semi automatic weapons, made it very difficult to get a gun license. Not only do you need to apply on a National data base, but you have to have a letter from a farmer saying that you had permission to come into their property to help with pest control essentially. I think their are special sporting licenses ect. But you also have to have special safes and they need to be bolted into the wall in a specific way to prove that they are not going to be stolen or misused.
Yep. I dont think theres any country in the world that has no guns. Farmers still have guns legallty, sporting shooters still have guns legally. Hell we have olympic gold medal shooters. That said, besides a shooting range, ive seen one gun in my entire life (36 years old)
It is very common here in Denmark to leave the pram outside so that the child can get fresh air while they sleep, while mothers or fathers sit inside the cafe and get a cup of coffee, there is always baby arlam in the prams. No one here could think of taking a baby, just the thought is absurd.
Even as a Hungarian that had been weird to me when I was visiting family in Sweden. Like the neighbor's kid would be sleeping on the hallway in the pram, and I'm like did you forget your child outside or what? 😂 My family there didn't do a good job of explaining what was up, they were just like "that's how it is here". By now I kinda got used to it, and don't immediately go into "I need to find their parents asap" mode.
I'm pretty sure that if americans did the same, child snatching incidents would be as low as in Sweden. Having your child stolen out of the pram is largely a subjective fear, not an objective danger.
There is a thing in Australia called the “Good Samaritan Act” which basically states that is you attempt to provide first aid, and as long as you are not will fully negligent, no matter the outcome, you can’t be sued. You were doing your best to assist someone and that’s what every person should do in such situations, without hesitation, and without fear of repercussions.
In case you didn't catch that! The lady was talking about not being racially profiled by the people around you, just being seen as a human being, is like waking up from a bad dream.
So, as a Swede, I dont really worry about crime, taken you have to not be an idiot you wont really get into any real trouble. Sure, bar fights n shit happen all over as per usual, and crime and murder has been going up a bit and are mostly centered around our big cities. But as an example, I just took San diego for random reasons. Of a population at around 1.5million, in 2019 there was 115 homocides. In Sweden 2019 there were 111 homocides, of a population at around 10million. I've lived in one of the worst "no-go zones" in Sweden for three years. Shit was chill af. Sure, some fucked up shit happened IN BETWEEN GANGS AND CRIMINALS a few times, but I never felt unsafe, no one ever fucked with me even a little. I once had a conversation with a recently immigrated Palistinian. As I was explaning how safe Sweden actually was, and we havent had a war in 200years etc, he was completely blown away. We seem to be living in our own little bubble of safety, and I'm not complaining. My sister is sick and need medications every once in a while. I talked to one of my mates whos a businessman, paying our "INSANE TAXES" and shit. And I asked him, "My sister needs a medication that costs the taxpayers like 10k a year, or she'd be fucked. What do you think about that?" and he said "Well, ofc I want my tax money to go to that, thats what its for, we take care of each other as best we can, and if she needs it, she should have it, and Im glad to pay those tax dollars (kronor)". tl;dr (cause that was some wall of fuckin text.) I live in Sweden, and I'm not complaining.
When I was 6 I would play on the streets all day with my friends. I grew up in Hungary. I lived in an area with a lot of apartment buildings, but there were also cars going through the side streets. We never thought of running out in front of a car. When I was 7 I even organised the other kids and we picked litter in the area for a whole day. When adults saw what we were doing some joined in.
Yes, i come from Germany and Other adults would look after u from far away. Its like an unsaid rule. Of u had those old folks looking Out their window and balcony and just knew u were protected. Also negativ was that ur parents somehow always knew what dumb stuff u did 😅
@@sophiam.krager3815 This last sentence is so true xD When I was young I was hanging around with my best friend. We entered a cube building with 10 floors and we were looking out of a window in the house hall in the 7th floor. Even the same day when I arrived at home, my mom said: "Where have you been? I know where you were. A friend saw you two leaning out of the window. Don't do that again!" It really was a wtf moment. 😅
It was a year ago when I was on the beach with some friends when I got an allergy attack I we had to rampage to the hospital. I had literally entered the door, given a description of what happened and I was given medication for 20 days and a shot for the symptoms. I left that hospital without giving even my id. As an Spaniard this doesn't surprise me too much but hearing all these experiences I strongly believe that I am fortunate for not being born in usa.
As a german I got to say. If you hear a loud boom or something similar here it's not a weapon shot. Not even when you were able to locate the sounds direction and see Police there or someone chasing someone else. Still no Weapon shot... It still was something else you heard.
Probably more likely for a small ww2 bomb to explode nearby than hearing a gun shot lol Although you should be able to differentiate between a bomb and a gun shot. Neither has ever happened to me so... Idk
11:00 I dont think its a her thing, I think its a woman-in-the-us thing. A man approaching you at night while you're drunk, alone and vulnerable has rarely good intentions and sends you into fight or flight
I hope y’all do understand and realize I don’t have an issue with a woman being worried or scared The problem is impulsively thinking to kill someone without knowing their intentions I really hope that’s not too hard to understand Cause for some reason no human seems to have the patience to understand me 😁
@@foreignreacts unfortunately we do understand you, that was an all too common male response to a woman being afraid of being assaulted. Thankfully I've never been in that situation, I'd like to think I would do whatever to escape, but if it was a sexual assault or my life versus theirs then so be it.
I'm from Wales UK🏴, here it's perfectly normal for kids playing outside or go to a near by park by themselves or even go to school by themselves.
The suing ties in with the fact there is less protection in many cases. Basically Americans have to sue more because they have more reasons to. For example. The woman that got hot scalding coffee on her legs from McDonalds sued them for medical bills. This isn't really a thing outside of the US but she was forced to sue to pay her medical bills. That's why anything related to medicine and health is so sue happy. It comes with a cost otherwise and you need to be able to get that money from somewhere, most likely the guilty party, to not get drown in debt.
yeah and they were serving that coffee ridiculously hot like way beyond normal temperatures and were already warned it was too hot. I think she got like second and third degree burns
@@jacksmith-vs4ct Yeah, and unlike what you might think from the media coverage the case got, she immediately accepted her fault at driving with coffee in her lap. But that's what you get when you put the lawyers in charge - the only thing that matters is protecting "the company". So they made her into a frivolous suit crazy-woman that demanded to be paid millions for spilling coffee over herself. She wasn't suing because she was an idiot who spilled coffee on herself and demanded someone else to take responsibility - she sued because the coffee was ridiculously hot, and it isn't supposed to be.
Weird things Americans say: People in a country leave a child unattended and that's crazy? Not the part where someone would steal your child in the US 😂
also in germany you might have to pay a little. like i felt pretty sick, and worried it might be a heartattack. turns out it was just an upset stomache that had similiar symptoms, but it was basicly nothing so the insurance charged me....10 bucks for 1 night in hospital including all the tests that were run. i guess i can afford ten euros
Your comment regarding police and guns. There are lots of countries where police do carry guns including my country of Australia. The big difference is the attitude and training of our police officers. Most countries train their officers to de-escalate situations, how to communicate and they go through many months of training and assessment. It seems in America very little training is given and just about anyone can become a cop. You do get bad cops all over the world but most are just average human beings doing a job. Just watching the various cop shows from around the world shows American cops in a very bad light on the way they treat people.
I like how everyone is talking about all the stuff the other people in the video were talking about but i'm hung up on the story told by the owner of the channel. I think The states are probably the only place in the world where a homeless man can still, somehow, be obese. Truly fascinating.
Well there's the cheap, low quality food. Processed food. But, it's "affordable" and available in grocery stores, corner stores, gas stations, fast food places, etc. When one has a budget to keep, "cheap" and "cheaper" is acceptable.
The girl @11:00 isn´t going to kill anybody.... Please, she might flail her arms and scream like a mini-karen... But then again, that might be "killing" someone to the millenial tik-tok crowd.
Sounds to me like the American version of Freedom is premised on having to fear each other. Why do you feel the need to steal each other’s children, shoot each other, and sue each other for trying to keep each other alive with First Aid, and come to that , why do you all need guns. You’d solve a load of problems if you sold all the guns to pay for the poor to get medical attention. The allegiance to the flag is really funny. Do you think no one else is Patriotic? I think an allegiance to your fellow citizens would be better on your psyche. Welcome to the free world. Nice reaction vid.
I am Finnish and when I was seven years old 1st grade in Primary School I started to walk alone to the school about 2 km one way. Did it everyday - to school and back home - through my Primary School. Also walked to my hobbies on my own - and so did most of my friends too! 🙂
🇪🇪Estonian here and by the internet and press freedom we have shared the top 1 place in the world for years(with Island). 🇪🇪Estonia is the small brother of 🇫🇮Finland and we share and are clisest to each other with culture and language (the only 2 countries with Finnish ugry language).
I'm from Portugal and our dictatorship only ended in 1974. During that time there was a cross(Roman catholic country) and the picture of the dictator in every classroom and students had to sing our national hymn every day with one hand in their hearts. That stopped once we became a democracy. Seeing that happening in American schools doesn't look vlike a democracy...
@@LadyNikitaShark I believe it is banned now at least at public schools though I'm not certain it was a thing when in grade school about 25ish years ago
@@commanderpinkie7617 What if I (an Australian) didnt do it? surely they cant expect foreigners to do it to the same extent? Although it wouldnt surprise me.
im always shocked when i hear how frightened american women are of american men... they must live in constant fear over there and i dont doubt their reasons but damn... i would not like to live there as a woman.
I live in Iceland and the police has twice shot someone who was running around with a gun and actually shooting an officer. The police officers came forward afterwards and apologised for it. The criminals don’t have guns and neither does the police. There is always a gun in a locked safe in the police car but they can’t get to it unless they get the code from their chief. We don’t have any kind of military and you can walk up to the presidents house and knock on the door, he would most likely invite you in for some coffee and waffles:)
so yall travel/ visit or live and work in other Countries and enjoy the benefits and rights of those countries, but then go back to the States and conform instead of campaigning for better healthcare, working hours holidays etc etc. We fought for these rights over time Are all these people drama students ? Do they not do research of the countries you are travelling to?
The happiest children in the world live in the Netherlands. Children play outside unattended from about 4-6 years old depending on the child. They learn to ride a bike from about 4 years old and that means freedom.
@@palantir135 ah yea, i heard you guys in the netherlands really like your bikes, we have some areas for bikes in cities but still not enough, hope it'll get better with the gas prices increase 😂
7:00 - There was a news article in Finland, on how (Finnish) police had killed 8 people during the years 2000-2016. 2016 was slightly concerning, seeing how police violence ramped up with 3 of those 8 kills. There was more recent article that death toll is now 10 (during years 2000-2021).
American cops kill like ten people a day >.> okay not really but its still way too high something like 100 confirmed deaths a year with something like twice that number suspected as things aren't always recorded and reported correctly.
How do Americans live with this stress? Jeezez! I am a 68 year old living in Canada. I have NEVER locked my doors. When my car is at home it is not locked and the keys are in it. I have never been frightened of other people for my life or my children's lives. No one I know owns a handgun. Healthcare is free. I lived in Maine in the 70s and absolutely loved it but I can't bring myself to cross the border now.
I used to instruct First Aid. When would you administer CPR? - when the casualty does not breathe, has no pulse? What is someone with no pulse, no breath? - dead? Well, you can't make him deader.
Health care here is not free. We pay national insurance during our working lives which, in part, goes into the NHS. Also unless retired, under a certain age, or other factors, we pay for all prescribed medication. Visitors to the UK have benefited through our payments which is how it is, but please don't keep yelling "it's free" because it's not.
My american friend once told me...the thing he loved the most about living in the netherlands...is everyone just saw and treated him as a man...not a BLACK MAN!!
I was a kid in Serbia in the 90s and would spend a lot of my free time outside. I lived in a part of town that had a lot of apartment buildings but also had sports fields and a playground. The parents would only tell you to come back by a certain time for lunch/dinner but you were encouraged to go out and play with the neighoring kids when not at school or busy doing your homework. There might be a parent or gradparent there keeping an eye on all the kids, but it's mostly the case if we were playing in front of the apartment buildings on the pathways and lawns. We would fall down, cry, fight, make up, have fun, and just be kids. Even now there is that kind of freedom. Mayble a bit less in the big cities. However, these days there a less kids out due to the entertainment devices at home. But, kids are still enrolled in city sports clubs and do physical activities so I guess it's not too bad.
I am from the Netherlands, and I have always wondered why companies put the word 'serving suggestion' next to a picture on most packages of food. Is that because otherwise, someone from the US would expect a cracker with jam, when obviously it is just the jam that's in the jar, and not the crackers? And because of it, would sue the company? Just like the warning: do not dry your cat in a microwave.. 😆 Love your video's btw🍀
In the UK 11 year olds outside is normal. Secondary school starts age 11. By that age they have to be independent enough to travel to school on there own. Using normal public buses and trains. The USA type of school buses don't exist. Also going to the park to play without parents is normal.
Errrrr where do you live! because here in Liverpool there’s school buses aplenty, lots of secondary schools have their own/hires double decker buses which goes around picking up kids to get them into school in the morning and again to take them home when the school day finishes!
@@irenemcgrath7739 Kent, parents have to get student travel passes from the County Council. Depending on circumstances can cost £370 going up to £450 June this year.
Greetings from Finland! Just thought that i was propably about 5 years old when i started to hang out outside by my own and play with other children that were our naighbours from the same resident block. We had rule not to go far so if mom calls you from balcony you can hear it and go home. We lived suburban area about 4,5km (about 3 miles) away from city central and that time there were propably 6500 inhabitants in that area. That part of the city has the worst image about safety in whole city but still there were kids of my age playing outside together. I don´t think that these days no-one lets the children play outside by them self that young, but that was common in the 80´s.
I don't think that young woman meant she would literally "kill" someone. Kill is usually used as a euphemism to chew someone out, to get in their face and yell at them. Come to think of it, I've been "killed" many times.
In the UK all people in work pay a tax called National Insurance. This tax means that healthcare is free at the point of need for everyone. Those that have pay for those that have not. It also pays everyone over 65 a retirement pension of about $9,000 a year (this can be more depending on circumstances). The amount you pay depends on how much you earn. $22,000 (minimum wage) $33 per month $29,000 (UK average) = $55 per month. You never see this money as it is deducted from your pay before you get it. The USA federal govenment through taxation spends the equivalent $300 per month per American on public healthcare (medicare etc).
3:18 Here in Australia, there is a simple deterrent from making frivolous or spiteful lawsuits. If you sue somebody and lose, you are liable for the court costs.
When I was a kid I would go out for hours at a time. Sometimes mum would leave a sandwich in the fridge.. and I wouldn’t see her all day sometimes during the summer
I'm from Portugal, so naturally we don't really see the police carrying guns. I actually only saw cops with guns once, and I really don't know much about guns, but those were way larger than pistols. I was frightened and thinking "What is going on? Why do they have guns?" and I definitely didn't want to be there anymore because I was afraid something bad would happen. I didn't hear anything in the news later on so I suppose nothing really happened, but that was scary.
Hey, I'm French. I know that since all the terrorists attacks on our territory we increased the level of patrols of cops who carry guns. (Gendarmes). And cops do shoot people here, if you carry a weapon to hurt or is a big threat to others they won't hesitate to harm you or kill you. In Guadeloupe where I'm from we had a movement"déposez les armes" : "Put the guns down" a few years ago, and it was initiated by the police I think or the state, to go and give your "unlawful"/illegal guns to the police station. So yeah we have a gun problem too. It actually worked a little, lots of people participated, but not the gangs obviously (the big target) (I dont remember everything I was a teen). But gang violence is rampant and worldwide and drugs and guns are correlated, poverty too.
I grew up in the Sixties in California and people didn’t sue. It was very rare. Credit cards had not been invented. Health insurance had not been invented. Our doctor came to our house. Home visit, not an emergency. I assume mom paid him directly I was 6 years old so I didn’t notice. Cash or maybe check. No one had guns. I never heard any talk of guns. My friends dad took us shooting when I was 9. One day. We locked our front door only at night. One little handle lock that you press in. We live on a corner house and walked to school a block and a half away. My friend and I rode bikes and walked everywhere. Our dog was never on a leash and when she felt like roaming the neighborhood she took a stroll alone. She came to school with us for Halloween as the wolf in red riding hood. The things you grew up with are recent. They are not permanent fixtures. They came and we can make them go! It is not embedded in the culture. It is now but it can go overnight if we want it to. We can rise up and stop this craziness. Overnight if we come together and demand it. By the way, cops chasing people or ordering them out of the car never or rarely happens to white people. We would sue the police department up down and sideways if they did that. It happens to black people, we think because they are shouting and hiding their hands and or running. But I see now why black people run. They might have a chance if they run. If I had a black son I would be scared everyday. We need to stop this. Bad cops need to be in jail.
The funny thing is crime was actually around the same or higher back in the 60s than it is today if we account for the increase in population but the 70-90s were the really bad times crime really was exploding for a variety of reasons, its dropped a ton since the 90s to now but because the news is now 24/7 we hear every little thing so it seems like the rates are higher now but they really aren't. Cop violence on the other hand thats always been high only now its actually reported on.
Yup - Denmark. We leave kids outside in a stroller to sleep or by the store when we go inside.... With each passing year I feel more and more grateful I don't have to live in a place like the USA.😉
These have been good reactions for you as sometimes you've been a bit defensive hearing European opinions on the US. Hearing it from Americans who have moved away seems to have helped make the information more real for you. Keep digging my man
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I am from Serbia and..... That girl that was asking for consent. 2:45 .... why would you sue somebody who tries to help you saving you (even if you get like cold from them). Guy at 4:15 I am going to doctor all my life because of epilepsy. Only time I had to pay for something (beside my medicine participation witch is like 4€ a month) was when I payed for crotches when I broke my leg cause I was getting a bit better one. The guy at 5:15 is very wrong in almost all countries in Europe cops are obligatory to carry a weapon. Maybe not magnum 44 or desert eagle but definitively they do. Now for security guards no they are mostly never allowed to carry one. Maaaaaybe taser but that is rare too. Women at 8:35 it is usually ok to leave child outside for few minutes but not to like enter in restaurant or go in shopping mall. Girl at 9:10 she is right that Americans do have totally different view of freedom, but they are totally hive minded and you are not allowed to go much different from rules and not being laughed or criticized about it. Girl at 13:05 I sit in loads of restaurants or coffy places..... and never ever thought someone shoot a gun even if few times there were some stuff like once some ballon poped or similar stuff like that bang from construction site, only I had when some stuff dropped from cargo truck. And no matter how much I seen this type of videos. I NEVER stopped getting shocked when I hear on Americans medicine bills..... those things just can not enter my mind......
I live in South Korea.. My son is 8 years old and he has been walking to school on his own, by choice, since he was 7 years old… and I feel comfortable with it because I know nothing will happen to him… of course as a parent I worry and track his phone like crazy , but for the most part it is very safe for him to do this
Two times in this video your reaction was "that's a blessing". Those are not 'blessings', those are facilities put in place by a society that cares about itself. But i guess you'd call it a blessing when you don't realize the curses put upon you in your own society.
Other countries have police officers with guns... England or the UK are I would say in the minority where policmen dont carry guns. But as far as I know for Germany and Croatia they wont pull guns just like that and shoot you... they will only do that if the situation becomes waaaay to risky and to protect themselves in case the "bad guy" does something. But in general that doesnt happen that often. Also the police is trained to DEESCALATE the situation, which american cops dont really do. At least they dont get the kind of training as far as I have heard. In Croatia our policemen and women have to go to the police acadamy for 3 years I believe. And 3 years is I would say a good amount to learn everything properly. Also being sued for trying to help someone is the most stupid thing ever.
Yeah cops in the US usually do 18 months of training very little to do with actual law or deescalation, I think a good quarter of it is learning how to use your gun and when its okay to shoot people >.> and sometimes can be doing both that training and actually working with the public at the same time before they even graduate they also get paid fairly little so only certain kinds of people want to do the job and unfortunately most of those people are not very good people.
@@jacksmith-vs4ct it seems the system has to be changed. Not only in the financial aspect...but maybe less people would also be afraid of the cops if the training would be longer and knew how also to deescalate the situation. Idk but what we hear and see from the US I guess even I wouldnt be too trusting. Here where I live I see the police as a friend and helper (which btw the German call their police like that) and I cant imagine being afraid to be pulled over for example. It is crazy how different it is between us and the US.
@@Niki91-HR The problem with de-escalation is its very easy when theres a 99% chance that the perpetrator doesnt have a gun (most countries). but in the US its probably like 50% chance that they are carrying a gun. Makes it worse for cops as they get shot more, and are more on edge...and makes it worse for the people who get assumed to be pulling a gun when theyre reaching for their licence or whatever. It wouldnt matter what US cops have, theoretically any clown in the street can be packing heat and end their life.
eh correction we do have shooters in germany but it happens waaaayyyyyyyyyyy less. so yeah, if there is banging noises the chances of it being a shooter are extremely small. we talk like a once per decade event if that
I find the second one funny, because normaly if you find a person who needs CPR is not conscious. So asking a not conscious person that you wanna help if he/she allow to do so, is to say it nice BS
The "i was going to kill him" is an expression. I hear kids say "my parents are going to kill you." and siblings say the same to each other. She was basically saying she's ready to defend herself and I understand it. It's different for women, especially those living in major cities. Most of the American population live in cities. and it is NOT safe for a woman alone during the day or the night. the number of men who call out things that range from annoying to inappropriate to downright sexually explicit to passing women would blow your mind. A number of them will find some way to "accidentally" brush up against or lean into various body parts. And those are the tame ones. that's not counting the high levels of rape in American cities. I don't know a single women who hasn't been sexually assaulted at least once, from being groped all the way up to being raped. so yea, I understand her reaction to seeing a strange guy come up to her. She wasn't saying all men are bad. she's saying she doesn't know which he is. complete stranger danger there. Edit: wow just listening to you go on and on about her trying to kill someone. Have you never heard of hyperbole before? the girl was ready to defend herself against whatever he was going to do. As a woman, when a man is walking straight to you that you don't know, yes we all go on the defensive. Because it only takes a few moments for some guy to bash you over the head and drag you off into an alley for a bit of "fun." You have to be ready just in case. I've noticed it's always the men who don't get and don't believe this one. And if the men watching it don't live in a city, they are even more unbelieving. Do me a favor, get some makeup place to do you up like a pretty woman, doesn't even have to be beautiful, and walk through the city. You'll see for yourself. In fact there are multiple videos on TH-cam of women being recorded by a friend walking through American cities and the problems they face from the male population. There's a few men who dressed up as women who did the same thing to see if it was true.
Few comments: First about the girl saying that she will kill the guy. I think she was overexaggerating it and only American would take it seriously because most of other people wouldn't have means to actually do it. It takes a lot to strangle somebody and in many countries you are not just carrying guns. Second point is about 11 year olds playing outside by themselves. Well in Finland most of the kids walk/bike/takes public transportation to school from age 7. Ofcourse they often also play with their friends on the way home or after school. Thirdly about police: In my country police shoots guns about ten times a year. I mean the whole police force of my country shoots gun on duty around 10 times a year and only about 5 of those times towards human and it's not every year somebody dies by police shooting them. Also when a police shoots gun on duty there is always investigation on if there was good reason for that. Also the investigation is done by different police station than where the shooter is from so there isn't social pressure to say that "my friend did the right thing".
I´m Swedish and in pretty much all of Scandinavia and Europe you won´t get sued for anything unless you do something illegal. It isn´t illegal to help people either just as an example. xD On the topic of guns in America, changing that isn´t impossible in my humble opinion. America could start to have way stricter ammo control, not gun control. Because you can´t do anything about the oversaturation of existing guns in America. That is actually impossible. But if your government starts leveraging ammunition to their existing guns, then you will eventually make them way easier to control. An empty gun isn´t much of a threat. So even if a crazy person has hundreds of guns he wouldn´t be able to use them if their all empty. And then you don´t need to touch the issue of "Taking our guns" as well. They can keep them too. I think America could see a pretty noticeable difference in gun control and gun violence within just a few years if ammo became controlled, not guns.
Regarding listening to the cops: Here in Germany, and I would say pretty much whole "western europe" the police is friendly and they would not stop anyone for no real reasin. But if you make the mistake to fool arroundwith them or take what they say to you as a joke, just because they are "just european cops" you can be in trouble as well.
Our police officers just don’t behave like that. I’m sure there are some that are bullies because you get them everywhere, but I’ve never ever seen someone arrested in that manner. They don’t talk over a loudspeaker and order you to get out of your car as if you’re a serious criminal. It’s all low key and extremely civilised and respectful.
I think that the whole ‘they are going to take out guns’ mentality comes from when the US was still a British colony. Taking guns and the taxation thing are still taught today and have traumatized people into thinking other countries did not progress as well.
Damn that sucks, as a kids me and my friends used to leave house at 8am and come back around 11 pm (9-12y. old), you says i would be kidnaped in US? For my parents it was a bleesing that we do that so they have some peace, feel bad for US parents.
Guns were fairly common in Australia until 1996, when we had a mass shooting of 35 people. The Govt urgently passed a law banning guns unless you could show reasonable cause to own a gun (farmers, sporting shooters, etc.) To own one, you need a police check & license issued, you must have it stored in approved secure locked cabinet with ammo in separate storage. It was easy to change gun culture - legally ban them buy back & destroy and make sales very difficult - easy.
There's always been the argument that banning something just means only criminals will have the thing. And it's true. But guns... pretty much always escalate. There's no real chance of using them any other way. And that's why cops in Europe rarely wield guns - not because guns are uncommon as a rule (there aren't in Switzerland, for example); it's because guns are useless for the police, who are meant to _protect_ people and property, not _punish perps_ (who themselves are far less likely to escalate the situation, because the risk-reward calculation is very different than in the US). Their number one priority is to de-escalate, and protect people and property (in that order). And when they mistake their role, they are almost always severely reprimanded, because - surprise, surprise - they _are not judged by their peers_, but by other independent branches of the system. You don't get shootouts and car chases and all that, because those are almost always far more destructive than other options of dealing with criminals (and when they need to be done, they're done by professionals with specialised training for that, not run of the mill policeman who have a different role entirely). Having a gun doesn't improve a policeman's job. It changes it.
@@LuaanTi I fully agree. lived in UK where only specially trained police units have guns and back in 1980's even criminals usually didn't use weapons. The local bobby knew I was away for 3-5 days a week, working & would keep an eye on my house, but if I was home, he would stop to say hello and often have a cup of tea/coffee with me before riding off on his bicycle.
6:50 There will always be a moment Give life in which one is infinitely angry. And since you often don't know beforehand how to freak out, it's better not to have a gun in the first place and not to have gotten used to it.
Last year, some nutjob started shooting in the air near our house. i was in my room when it happened and you know, any normal person would duck right? Not me. i literally just shrugged & finished my dinner.
Whilst living in Sweden for my husbands job, (we are English), one American lady decided to hold a ‘coffee morning’ at the American Embassy 🤔 On entering I was asked if I had any small armed guns. I literally laughed out loud thinking this was a joke. Oooops. They were serious. Not a comfortable coffee morning from there on in. What a way to live. 😣
USA is considered to be a "flawed democracy" instead of "full democrazy" like two dozen other countries. USA is 44th when it comes press freedom. According to "Freedom house", American organization, there's like over 60 countries that are more free than United States. That's kind of messed up thing that shock even an European.
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Just a little funfact: In Germany it is illegal to not help someone or at least call for help(ambulance etc.) when there is an emergency, whilst you cannot geht sued for trying to save their life.
Same in Finland 👍 It would be terrible neglet on the part of someone that could save a life just by making a call.
Same in France, it's called something like "No assist to an endangered person" (is "endangered" the good word here ? Don't know) and if severely punished as you are considered as kind of responsible for the death if you don't try to help.
Moreover, in Europe it is almost impossible to get sued by that, I believe we are fortunate of living on this side of the world
Totally correct.
Sure, if you CLAIM to know CPR but actually have never trained it, you took the spot while somebody who was actually able to do it did something else important THEN you might be sued, but not for neglecting to try to help someone, or being sued for trying to help someone, but for fraudulent and dangerous behavior.
But you need to construct some really convoluted cases to have any chance of being sued trying to help someone, and failing, or even hurting them in the process.
BTW: if you know CPR that means that person is NOT responding, so you CAN'T ask consent and will loose precious seconds trying to gain consent. Ask Dr. Mike about "Chest compressions, chest compressions, chest compressions", right?!?
Same in the Netherlands, especially when you have your 'EHBO'. But anyone is obliged to help.🍀
That one black lady crying because someone saw her for her nationality and not her skin color. It's truly sadening..
I went to the US once and some black dude walked past me and my mom from behind and before he was even close enough he was already like "hello have a nice day, just passing through".
At that moment, my mom and me just thought "oh what a nice person" and we were like "yeah sorry, we're blocking the path, no problem have a nice day" while he kept walking. Only later did I realize... He wasn't just being really friendly... He had to say that so we wouldn't freak out, cuz a black man was passing by us from behind...
What the fuck is wrong with america?
oh my god that is so sad
If you are raised in fear everyting is a threat.
Land of the free 🤔
Her story got me right in the heart.
Hard.
I cried.
I used to watch more American cop and crime procedural shows but I started to realize how much they portrayed black men as inherently aggressive and gangsters, I noticed it started to seep into my everyday perception and I don't want to become like that. Europe isn't perfect in the way we treat black people but contamination from the US has to be avoided at all cost.
@@c.w.8200 yes 👍 we dont need more racial hate.
Whenever you or other US citizens talk about "guns" or "gun culture" in the US I have to think about the meaning of the line "Home of the brave". You really have to be brave in the USA when you need "guns for self protection". You are protecting yourself against YOUR OWN PEOPLE!
Well said!
Mate I can't even comprehend a place where you can get shot dead for accidental trespassing? It's utterly insane, and the fact Americans find that completely normal is just as insane.
It is not a "gun culture" but a culture of fear... leading to guns - so sad this is mistaken to be freedom
I just can’t deal with the gun culture in America, I just can’t understand the mentality that thinks this is normal. I could never live there for that reason. I would hate if my children wanted to live there
@@DerryK67 the most deaths from guns is suicide soooo for the most part nobody is out there shooting you, and there isn't a culture here centered around guns huh
No, the woman who felt like she was going to "kill" the man is not because she's crazy, it's because men hurt women often. Especially drunk vulnerable women. Women in America walk to their cars at night with their keys between their fingers for a reason. Every strange man is a threat, especially at night, especially alone, especially without a phone. So, no, she's not crazy.
Statistically, not so dangerous in comparison that this would actually be rational behavior. The reason is more that people in USA are way more scared. Note; being scared does not mean american are scared nation but.. really, i've talked a lot of you and you have NO idea how rare crime really is, even in the worst places in USA. This is the reason for kids not being allowed to play in their own frontyard; kidnapping by strangers is less common that lighting striking them.. Several magnitudes less common than traffic accidents, and still.. so many moms driver their kids everywhere and when you mention that this actions are causing more danger, they go ballistic. They literally think that kids are taken within 15 minutes from the safest suburbs in the country..
You guys have been indoctrinated with fear. I'm very sorry.
I agree. If you live in NYC and Chicago you will understand why there are these mindsets. I agree that no one should want to kill anyone. But if you were raised in big cities then you have a certain mindset to protect yourself at all cost
@@squidcaps4308 Violent crime is relatively uncommon, yes. But women are subjected to violence that isn't always physical or life threatening. It's not fear indoctrination when half of all women worldwide are s*xually assaulted by the time they're 18. And it's not just a US phenomenon, gendered violence and harassment occurs wherever women are. Men don't understand this because they don't have to think about being s*xually harmed or physically assaulted, often for the simplest things, like ignoring or not smiling at a man. When you can be in a stadium full of women and every single one of them has a story of being harassed or worse, it's not out of the realms of possibility that any woman would go into attack mode, or prepare against a possible attack, when approached by a strange man in the middle of the night in an area she doesn't know.
I was going to say that too. it is not an american thing to feel fear if a man walks up to you randomly, it is a female thing sadly and probably hard to really understand as a male
@@mimimusick9734 The thing is, _random_ violence is much rarer than people think. The vast majority of the violence that happens to women is _not_ a random stranger coming up to you and hurting you - it happens with people you trust(ed). It's the same with child harm - everyone has the image of a stranger kidnapping their kid, but the actual reality is... it's almost never a stranger. And the craziest thing is... the red flags are usually there _well_ in advance.
My now teen-aged sons have been pretty much independent on buses, biking and so forth going to school/hobbies/out with friends etc since they were 8. No fear here. 🙏🇫🇮 Finnishmama
Same in Germany, and probably the same everywhere in Europe.
Same here in Denmark
Same in Switzerland.... I also find it funny how in the US 13 year olds need a babysitter because their parents are away for the evening, in Switzerland 13 year olds don't need a babysitter they are the babysitter.
@@hiho1311 And just to really blow their minds ... Switzerland is another country with many, many guns. (And there _is_ more gun violence than in the rest of Europe, but not remotely as much as in the US.)
I'm from an Island and wad going to school on my own since I was 6/7 and learned to take the bus alone very quickly
3:15 In Germany (and other countries) there is actually a law that if you do not help someone who is in danger or has a injury, that you could face up to one year in jail. (Of course, you don't have to do anything which brings yourself in danger. but you have to do everything which is reasonable to do to help) In German it is called "Unterlassene Hilfeleistung" if you don't help.
On the other hand, you are immune to be sued from helping another person, whether it succeeds or fails.
I don't know about Germany but I'm rather confident this only applies to medical workers.
Here in Belgium it basically apply to anyone with medical knowledge.
This includes for example veterinarians.
Most of these will also have a small sign on the back of their car indicating such.
@@Londronable Yes in Germany it is like that. You have to help as good as you can.
In Greece jail time is only for those who abandon a car crash victim without help a hit and run basically.
@@Londronable It's true for Germany. Helping already includes calling an ambulance. When you want to make a drivers license in Germany, you will have to pass a first aid course. So at least people with a German drivers license should, at some point, have learned how to do it. When you do an emergency call and tell them that you don't know what to do, they usually help you remembering those things and guide you if necessary. So it's like Jutta said. If you can help in any way you have to do it by law.
@@latze98 TIL.
Thank you.
To the Girl who Said she was gonna kill a Stranger: First, I don't think she meant it literally, she was preparing to defend herself at all Cost, and Second, as a young Woman alone, at night, lost, in a foreign country, intoxicated...cant blame her to be on Edge, even in a relatively save place, which she even didnt know she was in
I had to laugh when he said guns are American culture😂
Oh? I cried....
"American culture..." - that sounds like an oxymoron.
@@dsludge8217 You were right about the Moron bit.
Guns do seem to be accepted as part of the fabric of American life. But what started can be stopped. You just have to have the will to do it!
I get the oxymoron. 🤣🤣🤣
The girl who said that she was about to kill the guy obviously exaggerated, but you seemed genuinely confused about her fear for strange men. As a woman you are indeed scared when you're outside when it's dark and you see a man you son't know. You can't afford to wonder if he means no harm or not so you have to be careful. Yes, even outside of America. It's safer, but it's still not safe. Carrying your keys in case you need a weapen is very common.
I have no issue with harming someone in order to run
Before you think of yourself as a woman
Think about your dad or your son if possible
Then ask yourself this one question
Would you want a woman assume your dad is a rapist just because it’s night and she doesn’t know him
Then she instantly thinks I gotta kill this guy if he comes close to me
Then your dad dies for an assumption
I don’t give rights to a woman who assumes then ends a innocent man’s life
I’d never teach my daughter to attack without being threatened Or in danger
I’d never raise my kids to let the word kill come out of their mouth so easily and I’ve seen this so many times with cops they kill someone because they suspect they’re dangerous
I know most of the world won’t agree with me but it’s a sad to know people would readily think of killing someone before thinking of a way to get away!
@@foreignreacts I think you did not understand: She was AFRAID!! Yes, women are afraid of men. Especially by night. I do not think she really meant to kill him. She was afraid!
Happy she didn’t
She’d have to live with guilt of killing an innocent man
Some wife would be crying and now be a widow
Some child fatherless ☹️
@@foreignreacts You still did not understand her point. She was talking about her fear of male persons.
To be honest: I am German, and even if Germany is a very safe country - I understand her fear. I feel it.
Many men do not know how women feel about them when they are walking home at night or so. Just like many white people do not understand how racism feels for a black person.
☹️
Well as of now on my ass walks as far as possible from a woman
Love the way you are describing the whole gun thing... and thinking this is normal in a civilised society. Stop using 'culture' as an excuse. Bear fighting used to be a cultural thing. Public execution used to be a cultural thing. Lots of bad things used to be cultural... until it was decided to change it. At the moment, there is only one conclusion you can draw about the US. And that is that America is the most technologically advanced third world country on Earth. It's time for change.
Fr. And then He calls it a "Blessing" we dont have to think about stuff Like that
11:00: Most of the guys who watch this video laugh about her story or are shocked. Even in Europe I would be uncomfortable: alone in the night, in an area I don't know, drunk and a guy comes up to me. I wouldn't think about killing him, to be fair.
I truly love this comment
@@foreignreacts Oh, I edited my comment without seeing your answer. I hope I dind't delete what you liked about the comment ☺
@@Dorian_B_73 No, the guy shouldn't have approached her like he did. Men don't perceive themselves to be potential threats to women, but women have to factor in the possibility that any man could become a threat to her. We're forced to go into a defensive mode because too many of us end up killed or injured by men. Sarah Everard was murdered by a cop. If even the men we're supposed to be able to trust harm us, and keep doing it with nauseating regularity, why wouldn't we go into (or prepare to go into) attack mode, when men can turn violent at the drop of a hat? What if that guy hadn't had good intentions?
@@Dorian_B_73 You likely wouldn't have been under threat of sexual harm (or threatened with actual sexual harm) from those groups of women the way women are from men. You're taking something that's relatively uncommon-- women attacking men for no reason (or what you think is no reason)-- and probably with no sexual component to it-- and trying to equate that with the 24/7/365 attacks women experience from men. It's a false equivalence and disingenuous when women are at massively increased risk from gendered and sexualised violence where men simply are not. So while it's awful that you had that experience, you can't place it against the violence, threats and intimidation most women experience most of the time. It's like you saying you being assaulted once has the same weight as a woman being assaulted 365 times. It doesn't.
@@Dorian_B_73 Like you said, any violence is wrong, no matter what gender the victim or the attacker is. But most of the time men are stronger than women and violence by men to women is more common. Because you had a bad experience with violence by a woman, you cross the road if you see a gang of women. For the same reason this woman tried to prepare for a possible attack by this man, because she had had a bad experience. She was pretty intense though by saying she was going to kill him. I wouldn't even attack first, but I would prepare to fight.
I am German currently living in Japan and, had these conversations with American expads about children walking alone/with friends to elementary school and around Tokyo.
They are always so shocked about it but I couldn’t understand the problem because growing up in Germany kids would also play outside for hours alone/with their friends or go to elementary school by themselves.
I mean I did that here in america but I guess location in america also could play a big part like you probably don't want your kids running about a big american city alone though a small town would mostly be fine.
@@jacksmith-vs4ct yes I guess that’s true, but since Tokyo is not really a small place it might be shocking to see. But even though it’s big, Tokyo is extremely safe with comparable low crime rate.
On a bit of a tangent... it's ridiculous how normalised it became to call these people "expats" (especially Americans). You're immigrants. Stop creating a new category for yourself to avoid negative associations with the word "immigrant" (which itself often already comes from treating immigrants as less-people). It's just yet another thing contributing to the increasingly racist view of the world, as if whites couldn't be immigrants, right? :D
@@LuaanTi English is not my first language so I might not understand all nuances of words. But I thought that expats are people who are living abroad for a set time for example for being located there by their company, studying abroad or doing work‘n‘holiday.
While an immigrant is someone who comes to a country to live there permanently.
So I would call myself an immigrant because I am married here, have my kids here and do not plan on going back. But for the people I met, I would call them expats because most of them are now back in the US or about to go back in a few years.
Anyway like I said, it’s not my first language so the word immigrant or expat is for me just a vocabulary that I learned with a certain definition. If I got it wrong, I am sorry but no need to get so worked up about it.
@@Ayusa Oh, sorry, my bad. I didn't get "worked up about it", and I didn't mean to make you feel bad in the slightest. Of course "immigrant" is _supposed_ to mean changing your "home country", while "expatriate" just means you're not there (for whatever reason, _including_ things like being a refugee or dealing with immigration). But it's always been abused by the nationalist types, and definitely gets a bad smell (you know what we call immigrants where I come from? Well... nothing; it's a label that's only relevant in highly technical things, not something you'd use in casual conversation. As far as I know, there isn't even a word for something like "expat" - it just isn't particularly useful).
In Australia we used to have a deep gun culture as well. I grew up shooting guns and my dad had 3 hunting rifles. My uncle was a collector and he probably have 50 odd various guns.
Then the Port Arthur Massacre happened and the government enacted some serious new gun laws and did a massive gun buy back. Banned all automatic and semi automatic weapons, made it very difficult to get a gun license. Not only do you need to apply on a National data base, but you have to have a letter from a farmer saying that you had permission to come into their property to help with pest control essentially. I think their are special sporting licenses ect. But you also have to have special safes and they need to be bolted into the wall in a specific way to prove that they are not going to be stolen or misused.
Yep. I dont think theres any country in the world that has no guns.
Farmers still have guns legallty, sporting shooters still have guns legally. Hell we have olympic gold medal shooters.
That said, besides a shooting range, ive seen one gun in my entire life (36 years old)
It is very common here in Denmark to leave the pram outside so that the child can get fresh air while they sleep, while mothers or fathers sit inside the cafe and get a cup of coffee, there is always baby arlam in the prams. No one here could think of taking a baby, just the thought is absurd.
Even as a Hungarian that had been weird to me when I was visiting family in Sweden. Like the neighbor's kid would be sleeping on the hallway in the pram, and I'm like did you forget your child outside or what? 😂 My family there didn't do a good job of explaining what was up, they were just like "that's how it is here". By now I kinda got used to it, and don't immediately go into "I need to find their parents asap" mode.
I'm pretty sure that if americans did the same, child snatching incidents would be as low as in Sweden. Having your child stolen out of the pram is largely a subjective fear, not an objective danger.
There is a thing in Australia called the “Good Samaritan Act” which basically states that is you attempt to provide first aid, and as long as you are not will fully negligent, no matter the outcome, you can’t be sued. You were doing your best to assist someone and that’s what every person should do in such situations, without hesitation, and without fear of repercussions.
In case you didn't catch that! The lady was talking about not being racially profiled by the people around you, just being seen as a human being, is like waking up from a bad dream.
So, as a Swede, I dont really worry about crime, taken you have to not be an idiot you wont really get into any real trouble. Sure, bar fights n shit happen all over as per usual, and crime and murder has been going up a bit and are mostly centered around our big cities.
But as an example, I just took San diego for random reasons. Of a population at around 1.5million, in 2019 there was 115 homocides. In Sweden 2019 there were 111 homocides, of a population at around 10million.
I've lived in one of the worst "no-go zones" in Sweden for three years. Shit was chill af. Sure, some fucked up shit happened IN BETWEEN GANGS AND CRIMINALS a few times, but I never felt unsafe, no one ever fucked with me even a little.
I once had a conversation with a recently immigrated Palistinian. As I was explaning how safe Sweden actually was, and we havent had a war in 200years etc, he was completely blown away.
We seem to be living in our own little bubble of safety, and I'm not complaining.
My sister is sick and need medications every once in a while. I talked to one of my mates whos a businessman, paying our "INSANE TAXES" and shit. And I asked him, "My sister needs a medication that costs the taxpayers like 10k a year, or she'd be fucked. What do you think about that?" and he said "Well, ofc I want my tax money to go to that, thats what its for, we take care of each other as best we can, and if she needs it, she should have it, and Im glad to pay those tax dollars (kronor)".
tl;dr (cause that was some wall of fuckin text.)
I live in Sweden, and I'm not complaining.
When I was 6 I would play on the streets all day with my friends. I grew up in Hungary. I lived in an area with a lot of apartment buildings, but there were also cars going through the side streets. We never thought of running out in front of a car. When I was 7 I even organised the other kids and we picked litter in the area for a whole day. When adults saw what we were doing some joined in.
Yes, i come from Germany and Other adults would look after u from far away. Its like an unsaid rule. Of u had those old folks looking Out their window and balcony and just knew u were protected. Also negativ was that ur parents somehow always knew what dumb stuff u did 😅
@@sophiam.krager3815 This last sentence is so true xD
When I was young I was hanging around with my best friend. We entered a cube building with 10 floors and we were looking out of a window in the house hall in the 7th floor. Even the same day when I arrived at home, my mom said: "Where have you been? I know where you were. A friend saw you two leaning out of the window. Don't do that again!"
It really was a wtf moment. 😅
@@Andifined fr! Happend too many times
It was a year ago when I was on the beach with some friends when I got an allergy attack I we had to rampage to the hospital. I had literally entered the door, given a description of what happened and I was given medication for 20 days and a shot for the symptoms. I left that hospital without giving even my id. As an Spaniard this doesn't surprise me too much but hearing all these experiences I strongly believe that I am fortunate for not being born in usa.
The American dream is a dream wake up.
Being able to leave you child outside in the sun and fresh air is NOT crazy. Not being able to, is crazy! 🤗
That woman that left for Norway, seeing her feel human was emotional
13:38 "poor poor Americans" Oh this is such a wibe :D not only in Germany dear. :D
Everyone in Europe basically
As a german I got to say.
If you hear a loud boom or something similar here it's not a weapon shot. Not even when you were able to locate the sounds direction and see Police there or someone chasing someone else.
Still no Weapon shot... It still was something else you heard.
Probably more likely for a small ww2 bomb to explode nearby than hearing a gun shot lol
Although you should be able to differentiate between a bomb and a gun shot. Neither has ever happened to me so... Idk
11:00 I dont think its a her thing, I think its a woman-in-the-us thing. A man approaching you at night while you're drunk, alone and vulnerable has rarely good intentions and sends you into fight or flight
Exactly
Not just a US thing i'm from europe and i would not feel safe in that situation either.
Women around the world I think😔
I hope y’all do understand and realize I don’t have an issue with a woman being worried or scared
The problem is impulsively thinking to kill someone without knowing their intentions
I really hope that’s not too hard to understand
Cause for some reason no human seems to have the patience to understand me 😁
@@foreignreacts unfortunately we do understand you, that was an all too common male response to a woman being afraid of being assaulted. Thankfully I've never been in that situation, I'd like to think I would do whatever to escape, but if it was a sexual assault or my life versus theirs then so be it.
I'm from Wales UK🏴, here it's perfectly normal for kids playing outside or go to a near by park by themselves or even go to school by themselves.
The suing ties in with the fact there is less protection in many cases.
Basically Americans have to sue more because they have more reasons to.
For example.
The woman that got hot scalding coffee on her legs from McDonalds sued them for medical bills.
This isn't really a thing outside of the US but she was forced to sue to pay her medical bills.
That's why anything related to medicine and health is so sue happy. It comes with a cost otherwise and you need to be able to get that money from somewhere, most likely the guilty party, to not get drown in debt.
That is...sad and messed up...
yeah and they were serving that coffee ridiculously hot like way beyond normal temperatures and were already warned it was too hot. I think she got like second and third degree burns
@@jacksmith-vs4ct Yeah, and unlike what you might think from the media coverage the case got, she immediately accepted her fault at driving with coffee in her lap. But that's what you get when you put the lawyers in charge - the only thing that matters is protecting "the company". So they made her into a frivolous suit crazy-woman that demanded to be paid millions for spilling coffee over herself. She wasn't suing because she was an idiot who spilled coffee on herself and demanded someone else to take responsibility - she sued because the coffee was ridiculously hot, and it isn't supposed to be.
People should sui Macdonald's for making them FAT!
@@LuaanTi and she only wanted her medical bills to be paid
Weird things Americans say:
People in a country leave a child unattended and that's crazy? Not the part where someone would steal your child in the US 😂
Yes because abductions only happen in the US sure, plus imo leaving any kid or pet unattended is bad parenting or guardianship
also in germany you might have to pay a little. like i felt pretty sick, and worried it might be a heartattack. turns out it was just an upset stomache that had similiar symptoms, but it was basicly nothing so the insurance charged me....10 bucks for 1 night in hospital including all the tests that were run. i guess i can afford ten euros
As a man I dont think you understand that woman who said she was ready to attack.....what is the biggest killer of women in the world....MEN
Your comment regarding police and guns. There are lots of countries where police do carry guns including my country of Australia. The big difference is the attitude and training of our police officers. Most countries train their officers to de-escalate situations, how to communicate and they go through many months of training and assessment. It seems in America very little training is given and just about anyone can become a cop. You do get bad cops all over the world but most are just average human beings doing a job. Just watching the various cop shows from around the world shows American cops in a very bad light on the way they treat people.
I like how everyone is talking about all the stuff the other people in the video were talking about but i'm hung up on the story told by the owner of the channel. I think The states are probably the only place in the world where a homeless man can still, somehow, be obese. Truly fascinating.
😂 wild obese and broke!
Well there's the cheap, low quality food. Processed food. But, it's "affordable" and available in grocery stores, corner stores, gas stations, fast food places, etc.
When one has a budget to keep, "cheap" and "cheaper" is acceptable.
The girl @11:00 isn´t going to kill anybody.... Please, she might flail her arms and scream like a mini-karen... But then again, that might be "killing" someone to the millenial tik-tok crowd.
Its an expression used in the rest of the world.it doesn't mean you are going to literally kill someone. 🤣🤣
@@MrNathanDJNGGiles oh I know, but the reactors reaction made it seem that he took it litteraly.
Sounds to me like the American version of Freedom is premised on having to fear each other. Why do you feel the need to steal each other’s children, shoot each other, and sue each other for trying to keep each other alive with First Aid, and come to that , why do you all need guns. You’d solve a load of problems if you sold all the guns to pay for the poor to get medical attention. The allegiance to the flag is really funny. Do you think no one else is Patriotic? I think an allegiance to your fellow citizens would be better on your psyche. Welcome to the free world. Nice reaction vid.
I am Finnish and when I was seven years old 1st grade in Primary School I started to walk alone to the school about 2 km one way. Did it everyday - to school and back home - through my Primary School. Also walked to my hobbies on my own - and so did most of my friends too! 🙂
🇪🇪Estonian here and by the internet and press freedom we have shared the top 1 place in the world for years(with Island).
🇪🇪Estonia is the small brother of 🇫🇮Finland and we share and are clisest to each other with culture and language (the only 2 countries with Finnish ugry language).
America sounds completely insane.
Ikr. Especially as a black person I don’t think I’m ever even go on a vacation there. Ngl, I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere without being scared
as for the first girl, it doesn't seem to be a cult, it seems to belong to a certain nation during the second world war
With a moustache man as a leader? Yeah I got that Vibe too
I'm from Portugal and our dictatorship only ended in 1974. During that time there was a cross(Roman catholic country) and the picture of the dictator in every classroom and students had to sing our national hymn every day with one hand in their hearts. That stopped once we became a democracy. Seeing that happening in American schools doesn't look vlike a democracy...
@@LadyNikitaShark I believe it is banned now at least at public schools though I'm not certain it was a thing when in grade school about 25ish years ago
@@jacksmith-vs4ct In América the pledge of allegiance is mandatory. My school would put you in detention for, “not respecting the flag.”
@@commanderpinkie7617 What if I (an Australian) didnt do it? surely they cant expect foreigners to do it to the same extent? Although it wouldnt surprise me.
im always shocked when i hear how frightened american women are of american men... they must live in constant fear over there and i dont doubt their reasons but damn... i would not like to live there as a woman.
I live in Iceland and the police has twice shot someone who was running around with a gun and actually shooting an officer. The police officers came forward afterwards and apologised for it. The criminals don’t have guns and neither does the police. There is always a gun in a locked safe in the police car but they can’t get to it unless they get the code from their chief. We don’t have any kind of military and you can walk up to the presidents house and knock on the door, he would most likely invite you in for some coffee and waffles:)
so yall travel/ visit or live and work in other Countries and enjoy the benefits and rights of those countries, but then go back to the States and conform instead of campaigning for better healthcare, working hours holidays etc etc. We fought for these rights over time Are all these people drama students ? Do they not do research of the countries you are travelling to?
The happiest children in the world live in the Netherlands. Children play outside unattended from about 4-6 years old depending on the child. They learn to ride a bike from about 4 years old and that means freedom.
its the same in France, and i think everywhere in europe ... 😂
@@kam7r882 maybe but it’s much safer to ride a bicycle here in the Netherlands
@@palantir135 ah yea, i heard you guys in the netherlands really like your bikes, we have some areas for bikes in cities but still not enough, hope it'll get better with the gas prices increase 😂
7:00 - There was a news article in Finland, on how (Finnish) police had killed 8 people during the years 2000-2016.
2016 was slightly concerning, seeing how police violence ramped up with 3 of those 8 kills.
There was more recent article that death toll is now 10 (during years 2000-2021).
American cops kill like ten people a day >.> okay not really but its still way too high something like 100 confirmed deaths a year with something like twice that number suspected as things aren't always recorded and reported correctly.
@@jacksmith-vs4ct Its about 4 a day in reality. Which is staggering.
If we have 1 in a year we're utterly shocked.
How do Americans live with this stress? Jeezez! I am a 68 year old living in Canada. I have NEVER locked my doors. When my car is at home it is not locked and the keys are in it. I have never been frightened of other people for my life or my children's lives. No one I know owns a handgun. Healthcare is free.
I lived in Maine in the 70s and absolutely loved it but I can't bring myself to cross the border now.
I used to instruct First Aid. When would you administer CPR? - when the casualty does not breathe, has no pulse? What is someone with no pulse, no breath? - dead? Well, you can't make him deader.
All perscriptions in Scotland are FREE
This video has a much better reaction amount than some of your others. I'd say you're getting better bud. :-)
In Norway we also put the babies outside in the stroller. It's normal at least in Scandinavia
Health care here is not free. We pay national insurance during our working lives which, in part, goes into the NHS. Also unless retired, under a certain age, or other factors, we pay for all prescribed medication. Visitors to the UK have benefited through our payments which is how it is, but please don't keep yelling "it's free" because it's not.
I really like your content! Nice job ;-)
"It's a shame, it's a stain
on the banner of the nation
That citizens' rights are named Money"
- W von Heidenstam
Man I couldn't live in America even if Jeff Bezos gave me all his money,yuk,yuk,yuk
My american friend once told me...the thing he loved the most about living in the netherlands...is everyone just saw and treated him as a man...not a BLACK MAN!!
I was a kid in Serbia in the 90s and would spend a lot of my free time outside. I lived in a part of town that had a lot of apartment buildings but also had sports fields and a playground. The parents would only tell you to come back by a certain time for lunch/dinner but you were encouraged to go out and play with the neighoring kids when not at school or busy doing your homework. There might be a parent or gradparent there keeping an eye on all the kids, but it's mostly the case if we were playing in front of the apartment buildings on the pathways and lawns. We would fall down, cry, fight, make up, have fun, and just be kids. Even now there is that kind of freedom. Mayble a bit less in the big cities. However, these days there a less kids out due to the entertainment devices at home. But, kids are still enrolled in city sports clubs and do physical activities so I guess it's not too bad.
I am from the Netherlands, and I have always wondered why companies put the word 'serving suggestion' next to a picture on most packages of food. Is that because otherwise, someone from the US would expect a cracker with jam, when obviously it is just the jam that's in the jar, and not the crackers? And because of it, would sue the company? Just like the warning: do not dry your cat in a microwave.. 😆 Love your video's btw🍀
In the UK 11 year olds outside is normal. Secondary school starts age 11. By that age they have to be independent enough to travel to school on there own. Using normal public buses and trains. The USA type of school buses don't exist. Also going to the park to play without parents is normal.
Errrrr where do you live! because here in Liverpool there’s school buses aplenty, lots of secondary schools have their own/hires double decker buses which goes around picking up kids to get them into school in the morning and again to take them home when the school day finishes!
@@irenemcgrath7739 Kent, parents have to get student travel passes from the County Council. Depending on circumstances can cost £370 going up to £450 June this year.
17:47 it’s cute how you wave at her when she’d said Hey ☺️
Greetings from Finland!
Just thought that i was propably about 5 years old when i started to hang out outside by my own and play with other children that were our naighbours from the same resident block. We had rule not to go far so if mom calls you from balcony you can hear it and go home. We lived suburban area about 4,5km (about 3 miles) away from city central and that time there were propably 6500 inhabitants in that area. That part of the city has the worst image about safety in whole city but still there were kids of my age playing outside together. I don´t think that these days no-one lets the children play outside by them self that young, but that was common in the 80´s.
I don't think that young woman meant she would literally "kill" someone. Kill is usually used as a euphemism to chew someone out, to get in their face and yell at them. Come to think of it, I've been "killed" many times.
No, no, no, the chocking thing is not leaving the kids outside, stealing kids is!!!
In the UK all people in work pay a tax called National Insurance. This tax means that healthcare is free at the point of need for everyone. Those that have pay for those that have not. It also pays everyone
over 65 a retirement pension of about $9,000 a year (this can be more depending on circumstances).
The amount you pay depends on how much you earn. $22,000 (minimum wage) $33 per month $29,000 (UK average) = $55 per month. You never see this money as it is deducted from your pay before you get it. The USA federal govenment through taxation spends the equivalent $300 per month per American on public healthcare (medicare etc).
Aren't you lucky? As women, We've been taught from a young age to be on our guard.
3:18 Here in Australia, there is a simple deterrent from making frivolous or spiteful lawsuits. If you sue somebody and lose, you are liable for the court costs.
When I was a kid I would go out for hours at a time. Sometimes mum would leave a sandwich in the fridge.. and I wouldn’t see her all day sometimes during the summer
I'm from Portugal, so naturally we don't really see the police carrying guns. I actually only saw cops with guns once, and I really don't know much about guns, but those were way larger than pistols. I was frightened and thinking "What is going on? Why do they have guns?" and I definitely didn't want to be there anymore because I was afraid something bad would happen. I didn't hear anything in the news later on so I suppose nothing really happened, but that was scary.
It makes you think,the things that we never give a second thought to ,are so surprising to the people of the usa🇬🇧N.H.S. ❤❤❤
What! Some security guards have guns?????? That's crazy.
Hey, I'm French. I know that since all the terrorists attacks on our territory we increased the level of patrols of cops who carry guns. (Gendarmes). And cops do shoot people here, if you carry a weapon to hurt or is a big threat to others they won't hesitate to harm you or kill you. In Guadeloupe where I'm from we had a movement"déposez les armes" : "Put the guns down" a few years ago, and it was initiated by the police I think or the state, to go and give your "unlawful"/illegal guns to the police station. So yeah we have a gun problem too. It actually worked a little, lots of people participated, but not the gangs obviously (the big target) (I dont remember everything I was a teen). But gang violence is rampant and worldwide and drugs and guns are correlated, poverty too.
I played outside all the time as a kid, as soon as I was 7 they let me go outside without supervision
I'm from Chile 🇨🇱
I grew up in the Sixties in California and people didn’t sue. It was very rare.
Credit cards had not been invented.
Health insurance had not been invented.
Our doctor came to our house. Home visit, not an emergency. I assume mom paid him directly I was 6 years old so I didn’t notice. Cash or maybe check.
No one had guns. I never heard any talk of guns. My friends dad took us shooting when I was 9. One day.
We locked our front door only at night. One little handle lock that you press in.
We live on a corner house and walked to school a block and a half away. My friend and I rode bikes and walked everywhere.
Our dog was never on a leash and when she felt like roaming the neighborhood she took a stroll alone. She came to school with us for Halloween as the wolf in red riding hood.
The things you grew up with are recent. They are not permanent fixtures. They came and we can make them go! It is not embedded in the culture. It is now but it can go overnight if we want it to. We can rise up and stop this craziness. Overnight if we come together and demand it.
By the way, cops chasing people or ordering them out of the car never or rarely happens to white people. We would sue the police department up down and sideways if they did that.
It happens to black people, we think because they are shouting and hiding their hands and or running. But I see now why black people run. They might have a chance if they run.
If I had a black son I would be scared everyday. We need to stop this. Bad cops need to be in jail.
Very true!
The funny thing is crime was actually around the same or higher back in the 60s than it is today if we account for the increase in population but the 70-90s were the really bad times crime really was exploding for a variety of reasons, its dropped a ton since the 90s to now but because the news is now 24/7 we hear every little thing so it seems like the rates are higher now but they really aren't. Cop violence on the other hand thats always been high only now its actually reported on.
Yup - Denmark. We leave kids outside in a stroller to sleep or by the store when we go inside.... With each passing year I feel more and more grateful I don't have to live in a place like the USA.😉
3:25 - if a person is unconscious, how can they give consent? Are you supposed to let them die and not even try?
These have been good reactions for you as sometimes you've been a bit defensive hearing European opinions on the US. Hearing it from Americans who have moved away seems to have helped make the information more real for you. Keep digging my man
I've already commented on this before, but here i go again ^^ : when i watch your réactions it really feels like I'm watching a cartoon character :D seriously, your face is super expressive and funny. Maybe you should try comedy
Apart from that, keep it up, it is nice to see someone being open-minded
The ad 😂
I am from Serbia and.....
That girl that was asking for consent. 2:45 .... why would you sue somebody who tries to help you saving you (even if you get like cold from them).
Guy at 4:15 I am going to doctor all my life because of epilepsy. Only time I had to pay for something (beside my medicine participation witch is like 4€ a month) was when I payed for crotches when I broke my leg cause I was getting a bit better one.
The guy at 5:15 is very wrong in almost all countries in Europe cops are obligatory to carry a weapon. Maybe not magnum 44 or desert eagle but definitively they do. Now for security guards no they are mostly never allowed to carry one. Maaaaaybe taser but that is rare too.
Women at 8:35 it is usually ok to leave child outside for few minutes but not to like enter in restaurant or go in shopping mall.
Girl at 9:10 she is right that Americans do have totally different view of freedom, but they are totally hive minded and you are not allowed to go much different from rules and not being laughed or criticized about it.
Girl at 13:05 I sit in loads of restaurants or coffy places..... and never ever thought someone shoot a gun even if few times there were some stuff like once some ballon poped or similar stuff like that bang from construction site, only I had when some stuff dropped from cargo truck.
And no matter how much I seen this type of videos. I NEVER stopped getting shocked when I hear on Americans medicine bills..... those things just can not enter my mind......
The "no gun cops" are basically only located on Great Britain, the island, not the country.
The police in Norway do not carry a gun.
I live in South Korea.. My son is 8 years old and he has been walking to school on his own, by choice, since he was 7 years old… and I feel comfortable with it because I know nothing will happen to him… of course as a parent I worry and track his phone like crazy , but for the most part it is very safe for him to do this
Sounds amazing
Two times in this video your reaction was "that's a blessing". Those are not 'blessings', those are facilities put in place by a society that cares about itself. But i guess you'd call it a blessing when you don't realize the curses put upon you in your own society.
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Other countries have police officers with guns... England or the UK are I would say in the minority where policmen dont carry guns.
But as far as I know for Germany and Croatia they wont pull guns just like that and shoot you... they will only do that if the situation becomes waaaay to risky and to protect themselves in case the "bad guy" does something. But in general that doesnt happen that often. Also the police is trained to DEESCALATE the situation, which american cops dont really do. At least they dont get the kind of training as far as I have heard. In Croatia our policemen and women have to go to the police acadamy for 3 years I believe. And 3 years is I would say a good amount to learn everything properly.
Also being sued for trying to help someone is the most stupid thing ever.
Yeah cops in the US usually do 18 months of training very little to do with actual law or deescalation, I think a good quarter of it is learning how to use your gun and when its okay to shoot people >.> and sometimes can be doing both that training and actually working with the public at the same time before they even graduate they also get paid fairly little so only certain kinds of people want to do the job and unfortunately most of those people are not very good people.
@@jacksmith-vs4ct it seems the system has to be changed. Not only in the financial aspect...but maybe less people would also be afraid of the cops if the training would be longer and knew how also to deescalate the situation.
Idk but what we hear and see from the US I guess even I wouldnt be too trusting. Here where I live I see the police as a friend and helper (which btw the German call their police like that) and I cant imagine being afraid to be pulled over for example.
It is crazy how different it is between us and the US.
@@Niki91-HR The problem with de-escalation is its very easy when theres a 99% chance that the perpetrator doesnt have a gun (most countries).
but in the US its probably like 50% chance that they are carrying a gun.
Makes it worse for cops as they get shot more, and are more on edge...and makes it worse for the people who get assumed to be pulling a gun when theyre reaching for their licence or whatever.
It wouldnt matter what US cops have, theoretically any clown in the street can be packing heat and end their life.
eh correction we do have shooters in germany but it happens waaaayyyyyyyyyyy less. so yeah, if there is banging noises the chances of it being a shooter are extremely small. we talk like a once per decade event if that
its not crazy to leave baby in a stroller infront of shop or restaurant here in Europe, its crazy that in US somebody can kidnapp the baby
I find the second one funny, because normaly if you find a person who needs CPR is not conscious. So asking a not conscious person that you wanna help if he/she allow to do so, is to say it nice BS
its usually for someone who is choking but not unconscious and yes it is that stupid but its a real thing lol
Point is its not a real thing anywhere else but the US. If you're in distress and someone tries to help you, you'd never consider suing them.
The "i was going to kill him" is an expression. I hear kids say "my parents are going to kill you." and siblings say the same to each other. She was basically saying she's ready to defend herself and I understand it. It's different for women, especially those living in major cities. Most of the American population live in cities. and it is NOT safe for a woman alone during the day or the night. the number of men who call out things that range from annoying to inappropriate to downright sexually explicit to passing women would blow your mind. A number of them will find some way to "accidentally" brush up against or lean into various body parts. And those are the tame ones. that's not counting the high levels of rape in American cities. I don't know a single women who hasn't been sexually assaulted at least once, from being groped all the way up to being raped. so yea, I understand her reaction to seeing a strange guy come up to her. She wasn't saying all men are bad. she's saying she doesn't know which he is. complete stranger danger there.
Edit: wow just listening to you go on and on about her trying to kill someone. Have you never heard of hyperbole before? the girl was ready to defend herself against whatever he was going to do. As a woman, when a man is walking straight to you that you don't know, yes we all go on the defensive. Because it only takes a few moments for some guy to bash you over the head and drag you off into an alley for a bit of "fun." You have to be ready just in case. I've noticed it's always the men who don't get and don't believe this one. And if the men watching it don't live in a city, they are even more unbelieving. Do me a favor, get some makeup place to do you up like a pretty woman, doesn't even have to be beautiful, and walk through the city. You'll see for yourself. In fact there are multiple videos on TH-cam of women being recorded by a friend walking through American cities and the problems they face from the male population. There's a few men who dressed up as women who did the same thing to see if it was true.
Inferno metal festival? Hell, yeah, girl friend! \m/
Few comments:
First about the girl saying that she will kill the guy. I think she was overexaggerating it and only American would take it seriously because most of other people wouldn't have means to actually do it. It takes a lot to strangle somebody and in many countries you are not just carrying guns.
Second point is about 11 year olds playing outside by themselves. Well in Finland most of the kids walk/bike/takes public transportation to school from age 7. Ofcourse they often also play with their friends on the way home or after school.
Thirdly about police: In my country police shoots guns about ten times a year. I mean the whole police force of my country shoots gun on duty around 10 times a year and only about 5 of those times towards human and it's not every year somebody dies by police shooting them. Also when a police shoots gun on duty there is always investigation on if there was good reason for that. Also the investigation is done by different police station than where the shooter is from so there isn't social pressure to say that "my friend did the right thing".
I´m Swedish and in pretty much all of Scandinavia and Europe you won´t get sued for anything unless you do something illegal. It isn´t illegal to help people either just as an example. xD
On the topic of guns in America, changing that isn´t impossible in my humble opinion. America could start to have way stricter ammo control, not gun control. Because you can´t do anything about the oversaturation of existing guns in America. That is actually impossible. But if your government starts leveraging ammunition to their existing guns, then you will eventually make them way easier to control. An empty gun isn´t much of a threat. So even if a crazy person has hundreds of guns he wouldn´t be able to use them if their all empty. And then you don´t need to touch the issue of "Taking our guns" as well. They can keep them too.
I think America could see a pretty noticeable difference in gun control and gun violence within just a few years if ammo became controlled, not guns.
Regarding listening to the cops: Here in Germany, and I would say pretty much whole "western europe" the police is friendly and they would not stop anyone for no real reasin. But if you make the mistake to fool arroundwith them or take what they say to you as a joke, just because they are "just european cops" you can be in trouble as well.
Our police officers just don’t behave like that. I’m sure there are some that are bullies because you get them everywhere, but I’ve never ever seen someone arrested in that manner. They don’t talk over a loudspeaker and order you to get out of your car as if you’re a serious criminal. It’s all low key and extremely civilised and respectful.
The thing that kids can not go outside to play by themself is heartbreaking. What kind of childhood do you have then? Non-stop supervised by adults?
Handguns are banned in UK since Dunblane school massacre 1996.
I think that the whole ‘they are going to take out guns’ mentality comes from when the US was still a British colony. Taking guns and the taxation thing are still taught today and have traumatized people into thinking other countries did not progress as well.
People scream and shout, because they are freaking angry about that stuff! 🤬
Damn that sucks, as a kids me and my friends used to leave house at 8am and come back around 11 pm (9-12y. old), you says i would be kidnaped in US? For my parents it was a bleesing that we do that so they have some peace, feel bad for US parents.
Guns were fairly common in Australia until 1996, when we had a mass shooting of 35 people. The Govt urgently passed a law banning guns unless you could show reasonable cause to own a gun (farmers, sporting shooters, etc.) To own one, you need a police check & license issued, you must have it stored in approved secure locked cabinet with ammo in separate storage. It was easy to change gun culture - legally ban them buy back & destroy and make sales very difficult - easy.
There's always been the argument that banning something just means only criminals will have the thing. And it's true. But guns... pretty much always escalate. There's no real chance of using them any other way. And that's why cops in Europe rarely wield guns - not because guns are uncommon as a rule (there aren't in Switzerland, for example); it's because guns are useless for the police, who are meant to _protect_ people and property, not _punish perps_ (who themselves are far less likely to escalate the situation, because the risk-reward calculation is very different than in the US). Their number one priority is to de-escalate, and protect people and property (in that order). And when they mistake their role, they are almost always severely reprimanded, because - surprise, surprise - they _are not judged by their peers_, but by other independent branches of the system. You don't get shootouts and car chases and all that, because those are almost always far more destructive than other options of dealing with criminals (and when they need to be done, they're done by professionals with specialised training for that, not run of the mill policeman who have a different role entirely).
Having a gun doesn't improve a policeman's job. It changes it.
@@LuaanTi I fully agree. lived in UK where only specially trained police units have guns and back in 1980's even criminals usually didn't use weapons. The local bobby knew I was away for 3-5 days a week, working & would keep an eye on my house, but if I was home, he would stop to say hello and often have a cup of tea/coffee with me before riding off on his bicycle.
6:50 There will always be a moment
Give life in which one is infinitely angry. And since you often don't know beforehand how to freak out, it's better not to have a gun in the first place and not to have gotten used to it.
Last year, some nutjob started shooting in the air near our house. i was in my room when it happened and you know, any normal person would duck right? Not me. i literally just shrugged & finished my dinner.
Whilst living in Sweden for my husbands job, (we are English), one American lady decided to hold a ‘coffee morning’ at the American Embassy 🤔 On entering I was asked if I had any small armed guns. I literally laughed out loud thinking this was a joke. Oooops. They were serious. Not a comfortable coffee morning from there on in. What a way to live. 😣
USA is considered to be a "flawed democracy" instead of "full democrazy" like two dozen other countries. USA is 44th when it comes press freedom. According to "Freedom house", American organization, there's like over 60 countries that are more free than United States. That's kind of messed up thing that shock even an European.
It was the UK that introduced the democratically elected parliamentary system to the world