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@@kirdot2011 that's about the most american thing ever to ask, to be honest haha I have lived in houses that are much older than that. as a teenager i lived in one from the 1870ies
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There are some rare Americans like you who are curious. Unfortunately the arrogantly ignorant are still the vast majority, and you can't educate the arrogantly ignorant.
in Austria, stores are jokingly selling T-shirts with the inscription "This is Austria, there are no kangaroos here", because so many American tourists were surprised by their absence...😅
Yeah, when I saw it for the first time, as a Slovak, I didn't get the joke 🤣. I was wondering why all the No kangaroos signs all over the bags and t-shirts in tourists areas. Why would somebody mistakes Austria for Australia... 🤷.
Not knowing is ok, it's sad but it's ok. The arrogance is the problem. Thinking that other countries have nothing, or telling people they don't know their own countries, saying "it's all the same shit"... that's the problem. The ridiculous self-confidence and being unashamedly ignorant.
Willful ignorance it is...and the superiority complex of being told they are the best at everything makes them not even try to alleviate their ignorance, hence the arrogance. Vicious cycle.
@@Drew-cv2jl Ja, dennoch. Als Mensch hat man imho die Pflicht, über den Tellerrand zu schauen, aber ich weiß natürlich was Du meinst. Ooops, this was German! 🤣 But Google/TH-cam will translate it, right? Nevertheless I liked your comment. 😊
Mate, we have the equivalent of that travel option here in Australia, but instead of camels or magic carpets, we have kangaroos. I use one to get to the local train station so I can communte to my job in the city. Fortunately, there is a huge fenced off paddock with water and shelter close to the station so my kangaroo can stay there for the day. The only problem is when I arrived back from my commute, I have to spend time retrieving my kangaroo. That’s because they all look the same and I always have difficulty identifying mine. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
Not said to me, but a French friend of mine. She lives in the UK, so speaks perfect English and she travelled to the US with her French friends. Some American guys were chatting up her group of friends in a bar. One guy she was flirting with took her outside to get some one-on-one time away from the group. Apparently the moon was out and the guy said, looking up at the moon: "I love the moon, it's so romantic" Her: "Yeah, it's beautiful" Him: "Must be hard not having romantic nights like this in France" Her: "What?" Him: "You know. With the moon" Her: "I don't understand what you mean" Him: "Well, you know. The nights probably aren't as romantic, because you don't have the moon in France." Her: "What are you talking about? Of course we have the moon in France." Him: "No you don't. The moon is American. We own it. So you can't possibly have the moon in France." ... He did not get lucky that night 😅
Also, a History teachers can get fired there If they try to teach the less proud Part of History . . . .so they feel all entitled to judge every German AS a Nazi while denying their own racist History and present . . .great
Politics. It's easier to control an ignorant population. It's also easier to portrait every other country as worse instead of made your country better.
I once met an american, he asked me where I was from, and I answered that I am danish. He then laughed and said it was a good joke, because danish is a pastry and not a nationality.
A woman from Alabama once had an entire lineup in Canada laughing when she asked if she could pay using her American dollars or if she had to convert her money to Euros. - We accept US funds but I'm curious, why Euros? Woman: "Aren't we in Europe?" - Did you drive here m'am or take the plane? "We drove." - Then you can't possibly be in Europe.
@@Insertsomethingpls Depending on how you define "drove to europe" you could get an europe approved car, find a ship that takes cars(to a country in Europe), and drive it on and off the ship. And you might be able to say "we 'drove' to Europe". I've certainly said that about boats and driving from x to z in Europe.
I'm Italian, an American once asked me if we had roads or cars where I live. I was tempted to tell him "no, but every day we decide the life and death of people in the Colosseum"
The stupidest ive heard/read is this: British girl being college student in US school. 4th of July comes along. Girl gets asked her plans for the holiday. "Im going to watch the 4th july parade, ive never seen one before." "Oh you dont have those in Britain?" "Umm no.. we dont" "Why not?" "The war. The one we fought against each other and you won, so now you are your own country instead of our colonies. Why would we celebrate our loss?" "Oh. Thats history. History is boring so I didnt bother study it" Amazing how this ignorance can come from a college student.
The funiest part is that they barely won and it was only because the empire was withdrawing forces from the US to go to other warfronts...And they are so proud as if they did anything amazing.
The stupidest thing I've heard a American say to me 'America invented democracy' First I thought it was a joke so I laughed but he was dead serious about it, I did not know how to bring him the devastating news that that's not the case.
Well, that is actually true. Or what we think of as modern democracy. You'll learn this in every social science department in every unversity in the world. Where did you think it was invented? The U.S constitution is the first democratic constituion in the world. And for the record I am not American but a Danish teacher with a master's in Btitish and American studies.
Democracy started in ancient Greece, some 2500 years ago, in Athens. demos=(common) people + kratos=force/strength/might. Also, also the Vikings of Iceland had instituted a democracy, freeing themselves from King Harald’s tyranny on the mainland.
I recently learned why their Education-System sucks so much. Becuase in the US and A, literally everyone can be a Teacher. Not joking, the school Board is choosen by Election, same as their Sheriffs. Now you know why at least half of their Country stopped progressing and are still at the Levels from 100-150 Years ago.
It's not technically illegal. But it's frowned upon to allow the lower classes to partake in it. Proper education is reserved for the children of the oligarchy.
But that ist a valid question. When the russians left Germany in some barracks the basement was used ad a toilet. They Had sealed it Off and drilled a hole from above and from there they would use it. Was a nasty surprise for the wrecking Crew.
The dumbest thing an American ever said to me was when he tried to explain what a tv was while showing me and my wife around an apartment. I broke his heart when I told him that the guy who invented it came from Scotland.
The funniest I heard was told by an Australian girl, she was talking with an American girl who couldn’t fancy why Australians didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving, then she added : - At least, you have July 4th ? - Yes, we have ; for to avoid 3rd and 5th to collide ! 🤣🤣🤣
@@francoisevassy6614your English is probably still better than the French of most people watching. Seriously, that type of mistake could easily be a typo for a native speaker. Nothing else in your post gave you away as not being a native until you mentioned it & looked closer. Personally, I speak Hindi as well as English, but my accent is terrible & I can never remember the alphabet, so you're English is really good!
@@francoisevassy6614 My apologies or "pardon" I think you say in France. I expect that your English is far better than my French which is minimal to say the least. Google Translate:- Mes excuses ou "pardon" je crois qu'on dit en France. Je m'attends à ce que votre anglais soit bien meilleur que mon français qui est pour le moins minime.
I once asked an Irish American to point out Ireland on the map. He pointed to Africa. When I (an Irish person) tried to point him to our actual island, he said 'no, that's too small.' He also pointed to Italy when asked to identify England. I don't know what happens in your schools. Of coursr, he knew more about Ireland than any actual loval, and hated 'the Brits' despite not even knowing where they lived.
One day I was watching a video about USA persons that aren't good a geography when the interviewer ask a girl in the video what is your "Ethnicity" and she answered "Colombian" .Me as an actual colombian born and raised in Colombia knows that colombian its a nationality, not an ethnicity. Next he asked her where is Colombia and she pointed Africa ( Colombia is in South America) in the map, I already knew that she was going to answer it wrong 🙄🙄🙄🙄.
I believe that when Hollywood makes any character from anywhere in Eastern Europe have an unbelievably thick RUSSIAN accent, some Americans just eat it up and form these kinda assumptions. I get that a Russian language still has a presence in other neighboring countries cuz colonialism and USSR, but... but SERBIA??? I feel like if I ever go to US, I'll just bring a world map or a globe with me in case I encounter someone this stupid. I don't want to lose my shit and yell at them, I'd rather just show them the map and look at them disappointedly 😕
These stupid people don't even realize that they are ignorant, or stupid. And that's why they aren't ashamed to give stupid answers. I was asked where I came from. I said Germany. She asked me whether we had cars. I was a little surprised and said we even invented them and the first military jet fighter. And a number of other things. She didn't want to believe it.
Mine is a little bit different… Upon finding out that I am Dutch, an American woman tells me she’s Dutch as well. I asked her if she lived in the Netherlands, she said no. I asked whether she spoke Dutch. She said no. I asked if she had ever visited the Netherlands, she had not. There just happened to be a Dutch ancestor somewhere in her family line. When I told her that most people in the Netherlands wouldn’t exactly consider her Dutch, she got very upset with me and called me racist.
Nationality is not as much of a heritage as it is culture you live in. Not just at home but also outside of it. Its a bonus if you are connected to it by heritage, but not necessary. Imagine a person of a nationality they cant speak its language. You cant.
If her logic was true I'd be Latvian, Russian, Swedish, Polish, German, Ukrainian and Jewish all at the same time :D There might be more, but these are the ones I know of. Similarly with most people in Europe, especially central and eastern. Seems kinda funny how Americans can be so arrogant about their country yet still cling to the idea of being special and something other than American by having the tiniest bit of European blood. But maybe those are different groups of people :D
They do this so much lmaoooo. Every time I see an American say that they´re latinos, they don´t speak Spanish or Portuguese, they've never been to South America, they don't know anything about the countries, they think having a grandma from another part of the world makes them something they're not. If you're born and raised in the United States, you're from the United States. It's so simple but they don't get it💀
My parents both immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands. My siblings and I are all bilingual and we have been there many times. We are dutch. Many of the people we grew up with say that they are dutch as well, and I tell them that they are Canadian with a pure dutch heritage since all their grandparents came from the Netherlands. I was like you can't say you are dutch if you can't speak the language, have never been, and don't understand the culture and have the same traditions.
I’ve been asked “Is there a Fourth of July in your country?” My answer is “No. that’s an American thing. In my country we jump directly from the third to the fifth of July”.
@@martingerlitz1162isn’t that the American day of mourning? When the Americans mourn their date of independence from the British? If it wasn’t a day of mourning, why else would the Americans use the British date format (fourth of July instead of July fourth)? I hear they celebrate with politicians making speeches. What could be more depressing than that?
i’ve genuinely only interacted with an american ONCE. he was a really nice guy, just a simple tourist that actually knew about my country and wasnt afraid to politely ask about things. love people like that
I'm South African and I play a game where I tell people to guess 5 CONTINENTS after they ask me where I'm from. They almost always name off countries instead.....
@@Yummi_913 Ha ha ha, yeah .... too much choice can be a problem too. Give them a multiple choice test with 10 different choices, and only one *_glaringly correct_* option, and they will become unsure if it's the right one. Though sometimes, it happens with only a few choices too .. for example which is bigger, the sun or the moon ?
I'm Jamaican. When I was in high school, an American girl (older than I was) who visited the island, asked my friends and I if we have airports in Jamaica. She said that she knew we're a poor country, so she wanted to know what we have here. I asked her how she got here, she said "by plane, but I went to the airport in Kingston, not Jamaica". So, I asked her what country Kingston was in. She didn't respond, but looked annoyed. She was dumbfounded when she learned that most of us from the group of girls she was talking to had travelled abroad before. She thought that she was bringing hope to us.
I know several Canadians who don’t know what country Negril, Montego Bay or Ocho Rios are in. Mind you, they probably couldn’t locate Ottawa on a map either…
Well seeming how Americans are not taught any of this information and basically are made to believe all other countries are poor and lack things, that's not that dumb. It's the country's fault not the people's. And it's a hell of a lot of work to find reliable sources that give you information on other countries. I honestly believe they don't teach it because so many Americans would leave for a different country if they knew. If I had the funds to do so, I would move out of the country. This country is a terrible place and I hate the way they go about things. I'd rather live somewhere else but at the same time I can't find enough information about anywhere else to figure out where to go. I know some people in the Dominican Republic but it seems a lot of people over there speak Spanish so I'd want to learn the language first, but at least I would have a completely reliable source on what it's really like to live there.
The funniest thing an American said to us at a BBQ while we were visiting the US. She commented we spoke 'funny' so we explained were were from New Zealand so accents are different. Then she asked, 'What language do you speak there?". Answer: "The one we're been speaking with you for the past 10 minutes, English". She said, "It doesn't sound like English". So we tried again: "But you understood us and you're speaking English". She then said, "No, I'm speaking American". She was in her 20's and had never been out of her home state of Virginia. We found American's geographical views very entertaining. She was even more confused when we explained we'd just driven across the States from South Dakota. She didn't know where that was. She was very sweet though and meant well.
Retardation. I mean, the dizzy in your car, did you 'retard' it for fuel economy. You've gotta watch it though, you don't want to overheat, just runnin' off of gasses. Unbelievable, but believable at the same time. You cannot help these individuals. Just nod your head.
It's scary how dumb a lot of the "adults" in some of these states are. I'm always at a loss for words when people hear my British accent and tell me to "speak regular" and tell me that they don't have an accent lol. I've even had people tell me to speak English. I speak the Queen's English you silly 🐄
It's extremely saddening how in the 21st century, we have access to pretty much everything at our fingertips through technology and social media. Than you have these people who are literally bubble children/adults that have Absolutely No Idea that other cultures, languages, accents, cuisine, etc.. exist. The future generations are making the future very dim. It's messed up too that people around my age who grew up in the 80's/90's raised these bubble children and now those kids are having braindead kids who truly believe they know Everything. 😑 Us true educated Americans are out there but we're outnumbered by the moron's. I apologize. 🥺🙏
I am Greek, an Athenian and in 2004 during the Athens Olympics, I was waiting in a que to buy tickets for an event. An American tourist was shouting if someone was speaking "American". My nanny was English, from London and I told him that I was speaking English and how could I help him. He was shouting to me "No English, American!". Afte a few attempts to explain to him that it is the same Language with different spelling, he got so frustrated that left swearing that these Europeans, not Greek, are stupid...😂😂😂😂
I guess the conversation you had was, indeed, in english, and that he understood everything completely and still decided that you were not, in fact, speaking the same language.
dumbest thing an american has said to me was in response to me being german "oh, no, i am so sorry. I can't imagine what it is like to live in a third world country". xD She also asked if we had trees in germany.
„Do you guys have showers?“ - „Yes“ - „With warm water in every house?“ - „Yes“ - „But… you don‘t have electricity there, right?“. I‘m from Germany. We don‘t life in the middle ages
Warm water in every house to compensate for the cold whenever you have the Fenster Auf's Kipp, ihr Deppen. Sweet greetings from your cheese-neighbours.
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They must've thought the Germ in Germany is because you guys live dirty 🤣
So, I'm Hungarian-American, I speak the language, I've been to Hungary, but that's not important for this story. So I was at the airport around the time that Britain left the EU. There's these two women who were sitting in a Starbucks, and I overhear one say, "do you think America will leave the EU?" and the other one ponders this for 30 seconds before responding unironically, "no, I don't think that would happen" never in my life have I heard something nearly as stupid.
And it's not as if there are countries without idiots :-) I am sure I've been incredibly "unaware" of things myself... Hey, it happens, and it doesn't define me - or at least I keep telling myself :-)
a) i overheard two women (under thirty) talking about Egypt being made up, but Wakanda being real b) i got asked (while working at Starbucks) where I am from, to which i responded "from Greece" her response was "Oh, the capital of Europe, nice!" suffice to say, the two romanian guys i was working with, were rolling on the floor laughing, behind the bar, while i had to keep a straight face and finish her order at the register without laughing at her face...
The hype about the Wakanda movie was a very bizarre thing. Like this movie re-wrote African-American history and freed the slaves (a movie celebrating a monarchy).
@@peteralthoff6920 because it is, they choose their leader though fighting and use musical instrument to turn on and off their force field ecc,how they don't see that film as racist is absurd
As a Canadian visiting Florida in the late 80s, I was asked if we had telephones in Canada. He then refused to believe me when I told him that telephones were invented by a Scottish born Canadian and that we had telephones before America did.
Yeah some Americans always think they inventend all things in the world 🙈 also with our german cars they drive a lot and thinks they are american brands 😂
Afaik, the telephone was first invented by the german Philip Reis, and secondly by an italian who moved to the US and patented it there. When he could not longer afford to pay the patent fee to renew his rights before he could start production, Graham Bell got the telephone idea patented. He had seen the telephone of Reis in Scotland, and shortly later on an exhibition in Chicago, and then experimented with his copy until the patents became again available. But as with many inventions, I have heard from people of all european nations claims somebody of their country was the one having invented the steam engine, the telephone, the airplane, the tv, or the computer. But it is now for the first time I hear that a scottish-born canadian invented the phone. As always, I don't expect to see any evidence for it :-)
At a Viking Age historical market in Denmark, an American got angry with my friend because the items sold were expensive. He demanded to talk to the "reseveration manager." It took my friend a few moments to realise that the guy thought we were an indigenous population...
As a Bulgarian, I understand that Serbian girl completely. I’ve been told multiple times that I’m Russian (I’m not). People also asked me if we are still part of USSR (we never were). I’m skipping over things like “Do you guys have: roads, schools, supermarkets, internet, running water?” because, frankly, it’s useless to answer dumb questions like that.
Technically Bulgaria was a part of the Warsaw Pact so it was a communist ally of the USSR. This is why many old Bulgarian towns are built with identical buildings with small apaetments (ideas of communes). This is why many Bulgarians till this day have such great understanding of the Russian language. Russia let some countries "remain independent" as long as they served the communist regime well.
It’s understandable from people of my generation because we used to learn all of that area as the Soviet bloc, Eastern bloc, or sometimes, the Communist bloc. I always knew the country of Bulgaria because at some point it had a large empire and I must have learned about it in World History. In the 1980s, people used Russia and Soviet Union simultaneously. I took Geography only once as a complete subject and it was shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union and while the Balkan wars were going on. Geography consisted of a series of quizzes where we would memorize names of countries and write them on a paper map. It was boring and nothing stuck. In the late nineties, I started meeting people from countries I had never heard of like Croatia, Serbia, and then Lithuania and Latvia! At first I did not connect all of this to the breakup of the Soviet Union. Then there was the conflict in Kosovo in the late nineties that brought that area into focus. The internet and social media have made geography and history so much more interesting and I hope that schools are doing a better job now, I learned Geography as an adult because the internet made it so fascinating, accessible, and interactive, plus I started meeting people from all over the world which made the other side of the world seem real, not just country names on a flat piece of paper. P.S. I didn’t meet anyone from Bulgaria until 2008. But only recently, I found out that Bulgaria is where my great grandmother was born. My great grandfather was born in former Yugoslavia, most likely Serbia. They came to the US just before WW 1. That prompted me to learn much more about the history of Bulgaria. 😊 Before that I was guilty of lumping in Bulgaria with the rest of the region thinking it was a satellite state of the Soviet Union, but in our defense, Bulgaria was considered to be part of the “Eastern bloc” which was a political alliance also called the Soviet bloc. The 20th century was a confusing time and when I went to school the focus of History was on the World Wars and the specific events and the new alliances formed. I hope it’s better now!
My all time favorite takes the cake, hell, it takes the bakery. I was born in Africa, I am of British and Dutch descent so people get confused when they realize I am a white African. This one girl asked me where I was from, I told her and she replies, "oh, so how long have you lived here", I told her I had lived here for over 10 years and she says "ooooh, so thaaats why you are white".........
Was chatting with an American guy, who told me he had lived in Europe for 20 years, so he was qualified to tell me how amazing the US is compared to the rest of the world. I asked which country in the EU he had lived in and he replied "Europe"...
Well once an american asked me where I'm from. I said Switzerland. He replied:" oh, Switzerland, the capital of Sweden!" As he said it like a fact, not as a question, my then 18 years old self was just baffled. (This was 30 years ago)
@@koschmx 40 bucks for using our roads, well highways, otherwise its free of charge except you have a vehicule over 3.5 tons(for up to 13 month bought at the right time) is expensive? Have you used the highways and tunnels in Austria or Italy? That shit is expensive. There we are fairly cheap xD
Not knowing is completely ok! The problem is the arrogance, the entitlement, and the blatant refusal to learn that some Americans display. I've had an American insist that I speak Spanish because I'm from Brazil. When the friends that were with me at the bar (one Venezuelan, one Mexican) told him that I indeed did not speak Spanish, he proceeded to say that Venezuela is "not even a place" and "isn't Brazil in Mexico anyway? It's all the same shit". I kid you not. 🙃
I'm from New Zealand when my brother lived in america some of his work mates asked if we had the internet, he said no because we get our power from coconuts and they don't generate enough energy to run computers. And they didn't give it a second thought just 100% believed that could be a thing 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Fellow kiwi here, I had someone ask me a few years ago if we had electricity….. via email/chat.. and I’m just like nah man, we just plug our computers into a tree 🤦🏽♀️
Just watched an American couple who have lived in England for 10 years, trying to work out why their 5 year old son has an English accent. They said they thought he would have an American accent like them. They were truly baffled 😂
I'm sort of curious. Let say that American couple lives for 10 years in a non-English speaking country. Let say, for example, Japan. I bet the son would be able to speak Japanese and English with perfect American accent. In the case above, why can't he be able to speak English in perfect British AND American accents?
The dumbest thing was when they said my ID was fake because the date on it was fake. Told het we do day/month/year in europe, but she said i was lying 🙄 i just laughed in her face because i was shocked
The american way of writing dates is so silly. I'm Australian, and we also do day/month/year. It makes sense, you go in order of shortest to longest. Seconds, minutes, hours. Days, months, years. Jumbling them up is weird.
@@circleofleaves2676Do you really write it as seconds, minutes, hours? SS:MM:HH? The usual way is HH:MM:SS so the best way to write the date is YYYYMMDD HH:MM:SS - like the in the ISO date standard. As a computer programmer I have constantly had real trouble with date formats - most of the world uses the ISO date standard - but the date standard in American database software is totally different. Constantly had to ask for the date in ISO standard, then translate it to American to store it - and vice versa when retrieving the date. Very frustrating.
There is two "correct" ways to write the date DDMMYYYY or YYYYMMDD ( I think they use this in some asian countries but IDK ). The second is better for searching/sorting by date on the computer. And yes here in Oz we use HH:MM:SS.
@@alanhilder1883Yes, there are - in the UK we tend to use DDMMYYYY - but the ISO is YYYYMMDD, which is the most logical way, because you are going into finer and finer divisions of time - and you can keep getting finer as much as you like. And the ISO way is the best search and ordering method.
You can be forgiven for not knowing something but when someone informs you something and yet you still persist on being stuck to your ignorance and dismiss that information, is the real entitlement and entitled people can not be forgiven.
I visited a Chinese Civil War museum in China. It was located at a major battle in the civil war. An American was amazed by this, and told me he thought all the battles of the civil war happened in America. 💀💀💀
So, I'm from Mexico, and one piece of info that is interesting to many ('cause it's almost never mentioned out of Mexico) is that our country's full name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United Mexican States). Once, I was in some voice chat room for English practice with a bunch of people, and for some reason this came out and the... host of the room, an American guy, didn't believe it. So far, understandable. Not many people know that and it might be surprising. However he wasn't just like "oh, that's crazy" or something like that, no. He told me I was wrong, I was confused. "The name of your country is Mexico". I even showed him our coins, that have the full name engraved, but no, he was determined to teach me what the name of my country was 😆
I'm British, I thought this was general knowledge - obviously not everyone will know it, but it's not exactly an obscure fact. I can kind of understand being ill-informed about a country on the other side of the world, but to be that ignorant of a neighbouring country is astounding! It's like me not knowing of terms like "Republic of Ireland", "Eire" or "République Française".
Think about it, how many accents are used just in Britain 😉 That's why your english is judged. Look how speak Adelle and Cumberbatch. The nightmare is when someone drops "tt" and "h" 🙄😵
im from spain and an american exchange student genuinely believed he was in mexico 😭 i remember going to talk to him during our break cus he was kinda lonely and he asked me and my girls if our town was "south or north mexico" we were SPEECHLESS
Similar story...I spent 3 weeks in Spain (Madrid) studying spanish, during the summer holiday, there was this american girl in my class, one day she asked the teacher which train she needs to get to go to Mexico because she was planning on going there for the weekend...We just steared at her while the teacher explained... By the way, she was from Florida, she was going to be starting University after the break, going to UCLA, I always heard it was hard to get in as they say it is one of the best over there..But after this girl.. I'm not sure it is that hard...
I was an Aussie living in London and I overheard two American backpackers talking. The first said "all travellers have a flag embroidered on their backpacks... should we do that too?" The second girl said "we don't want to advertise we're American". She was aware how some Americans are perceived overseas. I felt sorry they had to feel that way.
What’s worse is when Muricans sew the Canadian flag to their belongings so as to be treated better. Funny how you’re so proud of being Muricans until you’re called on your sh*t.
One American I was having a conversation with talked about Christians and Catholics in the US. I quickly came to realize that he referred to Protestants as Christians and Catholics as, well, Catholics. I gently pointed out to him that Catholics are Christians too, but he didn’t seem to believe me. 😅
lol I’m catholic and even my catholic teacher in my catholic school in Thailand said I was not Christian she said she taught Christian and I’m catholic so I’m not Christian and I couldn’t correct her and tell her that this is a catholic school with a Catholic Church so I wasn’t included in most of the stuff I just sit around in that class
This was an argument I had at school frequently. I went to Cathilics schools but I'm Church Of England. I used to say yes you're Catholic but also Christian.....they did not understand 😂😂😂
I am from Estonia and I have relatives living in America. they have also said that the Americans think that Estonia is like some kind of stone age country. fun fact (Estonia is one of the highest in the IT field in the world)
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I'm a Norwegian, and I seriously got asked by an american visiting Norway "Do you celebrate 4th of july here?". Like.... why? It's YOUR Independence day.... Ours is 17th of May...
Just tell them that "Yes, we do celebrate 4th of July in Norway. But due to the different time zones, we celebrate it on the 17th of May." Also, I like to say that we don't have polar bears walking in the streets in EVERY city in Norway. They are endangered now, so there's only one city where they might meet a polar bear on the streets. In my city, the last time we had a polar bear swimming in the harbour, was in the 1950s. And of course, the most funny things about this, is that it's all true.
I think the dumbest thing I've been told by an American is that I don't have any freedom in Australia and no one has guns. We have plenty of freedom and yes we do have guns. We just have laws for them. There's been plenty of other things too
@sumbajumba3037 thats not really how it works. We only have a couple of laws & treaties which mention freedom of speech. Namely being hate speech towards an individual & defamation. Only other mention We have is we're allowed to criticise our government. So yes we do have freedom of expression in the same way many other countries do. Ours doesn't restrict very much
@@sumbajumba3037"The Australian Constitution does not explicitly protect freedom of expression. However, the High Court has held that an implied freedom of political communication exists as an indispensable part of the system of representative and responsible government created by the Constitution." From a simple Google search
@jaywaautomotive You Australian's are beautiful people and definitely built differently. (In a good way). Your country is beautiful but also highly dangerous, esp with all the venomous creatures. I applaud you all for living there. I understand the city life won't be As crazy as the outback, but still spiders, snakes, frogs, etc... do move around. I'd still love one day to visit but I'd definitely be on guard a bit. Lol. Much love from an American woman from Florida, USA. (I'm used to our alligators, sharks, poisonous snakes, frogs, spiders, etc...) But I know Australia will definitely be a beautiful adventure. ^^
Here is some info about Norway: -We do not have polarbears in the streets -We actually DO have daylight during a year -Sweden is another country -Norway is not the capital of Sweden (see above) -The midnight sun is in fact…..wait for it….the same sun you see at home (and no, it does not give rights for refund of your trip) 😊 Oh yes, the fjords are open all year, in case you were wondering 😂
Why your angst about polar bears in the streets? We have them here too in Scotland, especially on a Friday night after some 'relaxing' drinks after work. Also and unfortunately it is always dark here in Scotland (because we are located very near to Sweden). 'Prost' from bonnie Scotland.
In London once, I overheard a White British guy telling a story referring to his Black British friend as black, and a White American woman interjected angrily "you can't say Black, its African American" 😂
They got the first half right tho. This colour shyt is invented by white "masters". It's stupid to use these demeaning labels. He's African british or British African.
As was told to me lo these many years ago. Average means the overall center of a data set. Now think about all the people you have dealt with and their average level of intelligence. Now consider the fact the law of averages means half of humanity is worse than that.
One day, a friend told me that when she had spent a year in the US, students had asked her if she came from Paris. She replied that "no", so the students asked which country she came from. She replied that she came from France. Once again the students were surprised, saying it was impossible since France was a city in Paris. Finally, after having given them a little geography lesson, another student asked her if she could speak Italian (thinking that it was the original language of France)...
I mean... To excuse them... French and Italian (and other European languages) come from Latin... so there's a common heritage... But I'm still very baffled by Paris actually being my country, I didn't know that! And here I was, thinking for all my life I was living in France
@@kasumifuwaka5795 Yeah, Italian and French come from Latin, but it still remains quite different. If it had been Spanish and Italian it would have been more understandable.
Imagine explaining to an American that Egyptians practiced dentistry at least dating back to 2660 BC, as indicated by wooden artefacts uncovered from a tomb near Cairo.
About two months ago i was living in Portugal and used to work in a exchange house. The shock face that americans do when they discover that US dolars "worth" less than Euros. Some accused me for stealing...
I once Witnessed a conversation between an American and a Canadian and will never forget the look on the Canadians face when the American stated he had never heard of Vancouver despite being born in Seatlle and lived there all of his 30 year old life 😂
There's a very handy term in German which must've been invented for situations like this: "fremdschämen" which doesn't have an English equivalent but translates into something like feeling the sometimes almost unbearable shame in lieu of the person being so oblivious to the stupidity they're bringing 😜
Oh my gosh I hate that!!! One time I responded by saying yes I know them! You know Jennifer Aniston, right?! She was very happy to say yes until she realized the point I just made 😂
Tbf, I live in Korea and I've had people ask where I'm from and I tell them nearby Chicago (Indiana gets a blank stare) and receive "My friend moved to California. Do you know him?" And I'm like...no...
If I had a dollar for every time I've been asked "but why are you white?" I would be bloody rich. And all the questions about riding elephants to school and having pet lions 🙄 I was cornered about this in history class DAYS after we covered the Anglo Boere Oorlog. Another top contender is having to explain to Americans that "South" Africa is not SOUTHERN Africa. Whenever I say I'm from South Africa they often follow up with "cool, which country in South Africa?" 🤦🏻♀️
I was talking with an American girl once while on vacation in Greece and she asked me where I was from. I told her I was French, from Paris, and she just looked at me and went "but that's in Texas!". So I told her that Paris was actually the capital of France and she just asked me "why would you call your capital from a city that's in Texas? Can't you find your own names?". That was just too much for me 😂
@@fannycharbon2065 non, parce qu'elle m'a fait le même coup avec Athènes...elle pensait vraiment qu'en Europe, on piquait les noms des villes américaines. Et elle était incapable de me situer sa ville, à part qu'elle était sur la côte Est
I am an American from Texas that moved to Oregon when I was in high school. They literally would ask me the dumbest questions like if I knew how to drive a car or if I just grew up riding horses. They were shocked that I spoke fluent Spanish even though I was white. They were so ignorant towards me I can’t imagine how they act towards foreigners.
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows I had never been in a state that did not legally allow you to pump your own gas until I has driven through Oregon. I went to put gas in my car and the attendant told me I couldn't. It was weird.
first time i visited the US I was 19 and me and another German friend were hanging out with a bunch of American kids. They were super nice, mind, but yeah... one asked us if we knew what a washing machine was. We looked her deadpan in the eye and I said with a straight face 'Yeah, we recently got those! Generally, life has become way easier since we got electricity in our houses!' and she was like 'Wow! Yeah! I can imagine!' and me and my friend just glanced at each other without saying a word and moved to another topic. Half an hour later that girl comes back up to us and is like 'Wait! Guys! You were kidding?!!' someone must have enlightened her XD
I love and hate the way that Americans tend to not just admit their misunderstanding, but they double down on their assertion. I remember how hard I tried to tell them that Sony was a Japanese company, they always tried to convince me that I was the one getting it wrong. Thank you Nintendo for having a more Japanese sounding name.
......? Just about every american knows Sony is japanese though. Where are you going to hear this nonsense? Deepest Redneck pothole in the sleeziest part of alabama?
I worked in Niagara Falls (Canadian side) and in the middle of summer, a family from the US pulls up to my friend who was working at a gift shop with skis attached to their van and asked where they can go skiing. They legit thought once you cross the border into Canada it becomes winter 24/7.
That happened to me at the duty free in Niagara when I was in scouts. I told them to drive north until they hit highway 1 and turn left, can't miss it.
I have worked as a receptionist in Rome, Italy for several years. The most asked question by Americans hands down was, while looking at the city map I was giving them, "where is the tower of Pisa?" Another couple of times I've been asked why Italy is full of Pinocchios. Apparently the name didn't give it away. Another time while working in a very typical Florentine paper shop (an ancient technique from several centuries ago) we've been accused of stealing ideas from a NY shop. Yes, it was the same company. From Florence. He was pretty angry too. I've also been called "exotic", which was hilarious to me, though in their perspective, I guess I really was Oh, and I've been told "you're not white, you're Italian!". That actually left me speechless
Well . . .in my class WE Had a Guy WHO was Always claiming discrimination because He was black . . . He was biracial but so light No one would have ever guessed . . .Like our Italien Guys Had notacibly darker skintones then him . . . One can actually argued whatever the darker mediterainian Typs are "White or Not" given they can BE darker then for example people from north africa or the middle east . . . Someone italian or spanish can Just as easely BE Hit with islamophobe hate against people from the middle east . . . IT IS all so stupid, humanity does Not even have enough diviation to justify seperation into races to beginn with
my god!The infinite discussions about italians not being white,but latinos🤣🤣🤣 maybe they think this way because Romans spoke LATIN?🤣I don't know,but the level of ignorance leave me speechless
I'm an aussie veteran. Back in 2005, my section was manning a check point in Baghdad. Our role was to do vehicle checks for IED's and to pat down civilians going through our gate. We had to have a female service member with us to search female civilians as per UN rules. Being an infantry unit we had no females with us so our yank mates supplied one. We met her for the first time she asked whether or not we spoke English, cheekily I said "no, not a word" and she went "Oh ok then" Some hours later she still hadn't said a word to us so we ask her about it "Hey are you ok?" She looked shocked. "My god, you do speak English!" So dumb, lol.
As a Brit, Aussies are the best! Our slang is the same and the people are just down to earth and just great. You could never do a video on Aussies being dumb.
@@stud105 Dumb? No. Being absolute idiots? Absolutely. I've been an idiot at least twice today. To be fair, I become more skillful the drunker I get though.
@@mives02 Obviously mate! That's why you're great... Honestly though, Australians are the up there. I've met Aussies all over the world and in London and always have a proper laugh with them.
As an American, it''s sobering to walk the streets of ANY European city or village and find old buildings and homes galore, all centuries older than the US has been around. Leave the arrogance at home when visiting other places
This actually takes me to my visit to Italy last september...I was at the Uffizi and there were so many americans around, and so so so many stupit remarks. The one that really struck me was these three american guys taking shit about the paintings, and complaining about all the money they paid to see all this crap, and while looking at a the Birth of Venus saying they had a friend that went to X University and could paint much better than these. I had to distance myself from them before I did something stupid...
But then you have the American woman in Edinburgh who complained that the world famous castle was too far from the airport ....!!! (err, sorry, the castle is over 1,000 years old - they didn't think about airports in those days). 😂
As a Swiss person, i don't mind getting asked questions. Sure, some of them i'm a little taken aback because i'm thinking like "How can you not know that?" But i'll answer them because they are curious and it'll hopefully help their knowledge expand. My problem is that a lot of americans tend to ask these questions in a very condescending manner or answer you very rudely. For example: I had an american complain to me that there were no fireworks in Switzerland on the 4th of july. Now if she had politely asked my why that was the case, i would've answered her the same way but she was straight up b*tching about it. Or when a lady in a restaurant next to me asked the waitress why she hadn't greeted her in english. The waitress politely told her that english isn't an official language in Switzerland so she usually greets people in one of our native languages (in this case italian as we were in the italian speaking region of Switzerland) but once the waitress had left the table, the lady went on complaining, to who i assume was her husband, that it was lazy of the waitress to not greet her in english and that swiss people should be more respectful thowards their foreign guests.
imagine it the other way round and staff in the US would have to greet every single foreign tourist in their native language or otherwise get a complaint or get fired.
@@AvailableNameForMe Right, like you can't go to a foreign country and expect every single person to speak your native language. It's ignorant and selfish. And it's not like the waitress was refusing to talk to her in english. She just greeted her in italian because it's normal for her to do that but when the lady talked to her in english, the waitress immediately switched to english as well.
Plus, you can't know what language a person speaks just by looking at them. Americans can be downright rude. Oh, and I have lived in the States since I was one. Originally from Belgium.
In a restaurant in Austria an American tourist was demanding "hash browns" from the waitress, a young girl who didn't speak much English. My friends had to hold onto me, because I wanted to clout him over the ear. What are hash browns anyway?
I don't know about the US, but there used to be a world map in every classroom when I was a kid. Most of this ignorance can only be explained if these people have never seen one.
They had to take it down so they could fit some version of " The 10 Commandments" that is disputed by all the bible scholars as not the correct ones. Problem if the only textbook used is over 2000 years old.
There are in France, but in my school the maps are quite old, like South Sudan doesn't exist, Montenegro is still part of Yugoslavia, Volgograd is named Tsaritsyn...
We have maps, we learn the geography of other countries and the history of other countries when it clashes with points in American History. We are not taught the modern history of other countries . It seems that many Americans forget or perhaps never payed attention in class in the first place .
Oh hell nah Yesturday, I went to see Robben Island and obviously there were American tourists (respectfully) and the tour guide was telling the peoples about the extend of the racial segregation and then one of the Americans asked; "Can't you just sue the system?" Why do you think their were political prisoners??? 💀💀💀💀
My shooting pal, Rian van der Moewe is 6ft 3in, blonde and built like a refrigerator. He was born near Bloemfontein in RSA and is married to a lovely American lady. He became a US citizen about ten years back. He rightly describes himself on documents as Afro-American.
When I went to Portland, Oregon in 2017, we went to a restaurant and the waitress noticed that we spoke another language between each other. She asked where we were from and we replied Norway. She asked "Oh, how long of a drive is that?", and followed up with "Are there books in your language?"
Here is one from the early 80s (Actually happened, words may be slightly different): Americans cross the border from New York state to Ontario, in mid summer. They have skis strapped to the roof of their car. They ask " Where are the ski slopes?" "Um. Why?" "Duh. Clearly, we are going skiing!" "Ahhhh,well. Go about 8 hours east. Then wait 6 months for the seasons to change." "Huh?" (They could not be convinced they were wrong about Canada always having snow. Even though they lived just the other side of the border...)
The funniest thing I’ve been asked by an American was when at like fourteen/fifteen years old, when I went to a summer camp in the Usa. I met this guy and I told him I was from Italy and he said: “so you speak… Spanish right?”. Another very funny question came from an educator of a different summer camp (also in the Us). There were several European kids in that class (including myself) and the teacher told one of them that they liked their glasses and wondered how much they cost. The kid answered “thanks, they cost X euros”. The teacher looked really confused, and asked: “Euros? You mean… euro dollars??”
I was a camp counsellor at an American camp. I had a 16yo American kid ask me "what language do we speak in Australia?" I said "What do you think?" the kid replied "Spanish"!
i had someone ask me whether we speak korean or japanese in china well technically theres a korean ethnic minority in northeastern china that speaks korean but still our official language is mandarin
No we don't spell colour differently, it's YOU Americans that do! lol Remember, we brought the language over with us to America. I am amazed at how many Americans think we speak 'British'. It doesn't occur to them that they speak english! lol
'color' is better than 'colour' . 'colour' is a 'bad' Old French mutation of the Orginal Latin 'color' - which came with the French-Norman invasion to England. In this case the American AND the original Latin words are better, because more pragmatic with less noise AND can claim to be older and more original. A similar mistake French AND English AND Americans etc. make is calling Karl/Carl der Grosse ('Charles the great') 'Charlemagne' which is just wrong, ahistorical - again a bad transfer from a localized French naming to England without any real connection to the true history (except that 'Charles' is also just a mutation from he original 'Karl/Carl'). Why it is bad? Because ALL historical texts on the planet in ALL languages of that time and ALL architectures at that time and later refer to the Carl-Karl naming (latin: Karolus/Carolus Magnus) which is why it is Karl/Carl in all German speaking countries or Northern European ones etc, also in all Slavic languages, Arabic languages, also in Italian or Spanish (Carlo Magno, also Carlos comes from that etc.) and so on ...
In sweden we were taught brittish english in school, but as a grownup one comes mostly into contact with american english. So it's a bit of a mess up there in my language centre, like the aforementioned word colour :) and spellcheckers always complain about it when english spelling creeps in. I'm aware that you can specify brittish english but then it would probably complain even more haha.
The funniest part about america is that they always yell they are the best and other countries should never tell them what to do. But for some reason america cant seem to stop getting into other countries' business
One day a british person found out i am from Argentina (this happened on tiktok) and then out of nowhere he started to ask me in which pueblo originario i was in and then when i told him that i was not from any and that the language we use is Spanish not mapuzugun or Guaraní he started to call me Spanish white supremacist that was using the language of colonist and that i should have free the Argentinian people already.. 💀
But at the same time they say that Southern European aren't White!😂 Spain never had colonies, not everything was a colony. They accuse the rest of the world of being like them to make their behavior less grave. And US has colonies and vassal states all over the world. Free Puerto Rico! They are so narcissists......
I think part of this can be explained with the culture of American exceptionalism, where Americans think the USA is the best in everything or most things, and in many cases aren't open to learning from others. It's not hard to imagine people generalizing this as other countries not having anything nice.
@@koschmx There are dumb people everywhere. The belief in American exceptionalism doesn't need majority prevalence to be a real cultural phenomenon. It even has a Wikipedia page.
I honestly don’t remember people or even teenagers being this dumb when I was in high school in the late eighties. I grew up in Texas but we still knew about world history and geography! I was in a German class for 4 years and we had an exchange program with a school in Heinsberg, Germany.
My American ex co-worker, higly educated lady, was surprised to see so many African Americans in Bergen, Norway. My response: They are most likely Norwegians. Or, you know, perhaps Africans. Her response, to her credit, was "oh yeah, that was me being very American there for a sec" :)
My sister had an American friend visit us in Jamaica. They went out and the American at some point referred to us Jamaicans as African American. You should have heard how hard she got roasted for that gem.
@@pallew You never wonder why there are tons of European descendants in America, Africa, Oceania...? Unless you think immigration is somehow more immoral than conquest and colonization.
I was asked if we have toilets in our houses, in Germany 😂 Quite often I was asked what cars we drive in Germany, and I was frequently showered in disbelief when I replied with Mercedes, BMW, VW and Audi 😅 The icing on the cake was then mentioning that our police cars are usually Mercedes E Class station wagons, it resulted sometimes in a mental overload 😂
I laughed so hard when I saw they were surprised at VW, because (as I’m sure you know) it stands for Volkswagen (not German, hope I spelled it right!) which is a German word, therefore making it a German company and, on top of all that, Germans created cars!! 😂😂
Sorry, sometimes it's our fault. My friend was asked by his coworkers in USA how did he get there from Europe. He has convinced them that he couldn't afford a plane ticket, so he came on foot, over the bridge. Why not a car? The bridge is too narrow for cars to pass, so only pedestrians are allowed...
My sister-in-law was in Italy this year and there was a couple from the US sitting next to her, the woman pointed out to the waiter that there was a mistake on the wine list. It said Pecorino as a wine (which is available) and she knew exactly it was a cheese (which is also true). The waiter explained that it is also a wine. The lady insisted that he had made a mistake and she wanted it sorted out. The waiter went to the boss, came back and apologized for the mistake. My sister-in-law had seen her first Karen.
@@rumpelpumpel7687 die weibliche Form von pecorino ist pecorina. Nun markieren und in google suchen im Kontextmenü auswählen. Es geht um zwischenmenschlichen Stellungskampf...
Let's just be clear Halloween is actually an Irish pagan festival called Samháin. When Ireland was converted to Christianity, specifically Catholicism, the missionaries took the date of Samháin, where spirits could come back to the Earth for one night, and instead called it Halloween (All Hallows Eve). Everything from dressing up, to trick or treating to bonfires were all rites performed during Samháin. It is not an American festival, it's Irish and was brought over to the US by Irish immigrants. Also that Canadian girl was always living in America, North America.
A few years ago , a friend who had served in the US Army in Germany noticed that i wrote the time of day the way people in the military would write it....for instance : 3 pm is 15 : 00 , etc..... He said " oh ! are they making you use military time now " ? .....i was confused.." what ? who ? no , nobody is making us do anything " 😂😂😂😂😂 that's just how we do it .
It always makes me laugh when Americans say that others who spell words like Colour instead of Color do it differently.... Nah fam, you guys are the ones who do it differently, everyone else does it right.
I come from Austria and live now in the US, the amount of people asking me if I've ever seen a Kangaroo in real life and if I have visited Sydney is astounding 🤣 I then started helping them by stating that I come from Austria, Europe, next to Germany, in hopes the questions would stop, but they would most of the time stay the same, like a check list, kangaroo and sydney! 🤣
Since we are on the topic of the dumbest thing an American said, I was watching a video about Australian cost of living and this American commented, this is why you should not have voted Biden. Apparently Australia and America have the same president/prime minister now
Well Scotty was trying to join Humpty Trumpty in every way, boosted the "trade war" with China no end, still struggling with that aren't we. Little Johnny joined his good buddy Dubbya and that pommy bloke that no one remembers, in a little war that we all just got out of, leaving some religious nutjobs in charge. Do I need to any more examples.
Being Indian, i was trying to tell the American guy that India is part of Asia too and Asia is a continent and not a country. As a continent, Asia includes countries like India, Pakistan, China, Russia, etc. He said "Wait, first you tried to tell me India is in Asia and now you are telling me Russia is in Asia too?. You are so dumb!! So when we (America) won the war in Vietnam, we won Russia and China too?" I gave up.
Had an American who worked in the postal service assure me 100% that Canada is small and only has 1 time zone "Canada time". Canada has 5 time zones, our home and native land is W I D E !
I really don’t get this. I can understand not knowing much about other continents, but don’t they have geography lessons there? Like what the hell I know Europe’s geography best bc it’s closest to me, then Africa/Asia and then America. But even I know that Canada is huge. I don’t understand how it works
I was in an American cafe, gave my name to the barista. After she amde my coffee she was interested in my accent and my name (my name is Stavros), so i told her that my nationality is Australian and my heritage is Greek so my parents gave me a Greek name... She then politely told me it's not possible to be born in two countries.. Do Americans not know what nationality or heritage mean?
I'm a German. I've been in South Carolina once. An engineer asked me if we also built a wall along the border to Mexico... Uhm no. We made them digging a trench 3000 miles in width. I showed him the location of Germany in Google maps. Dude was surprised how far you can zoom out. Other questions have been: Do you have cars / laptops / phones / animals / plants in Germany? There was also an expat from Italy. He absolutely couldn't get over this question: Do you have pizza and pasta? Pro tip: never ever ask an Italian this question in particular. Don't do that.
Traveling with a colleague to an exhibition at a military base in the middle of nowhere in the US from Austria. Waiting for the security guy (contractor) to allow us access, he checked our Austrian Passports for about 15min. Then he came back to us to ask: “Is Austria an own country? Or is it part of Germany?”
I'm French and the things i've been asked by Americans are wild aswell. Like not knowing what is EU and UK and mixing up the 2, not knowing where a single country is on a map, asking if we have Christmas here and thinking since the WW2 happend everything is still in rubbles...
I was in USA for 5yrs and US colleagues every year were asking me for the 4th of July and Thanksgiving what we were doing in Italy or Europe to celebrate ……my polite reply was no one was giving a f..k because are USA festivities…..every time they were shocked 😂
The 4th of July question is really surprising. But maybe this people celebrate actually the 4th of July and not the independence of their home country? So, they expect no different elsewhere because July, 4th is such a great day? Or they just assume, you celebrate with them their independence? Regarding thanksgiving. Of course, other countries don't have this history regarding Thanksgiving. But a celebration of a good harvest is probably part of every culture around the world. Not like the USA does, not at the same day etc. but there is some kind of celebration.
@@hw2508that's why I call the 4th of July by its actual name: Independence Day! I will say that if you have a permanent green card or are a Naturalized U.S. citizen and live here, I would hope you would be celebrating Independence Day with us.
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since you said your house was built in 1920`s I must ask is it haunted?
@@kirdot2011 that's about the most american thing ever to ask, to be honest haha
I have lived in houses that are much older than that. as a teenager i lived in one from the 1870ies
My first thoughts after changing the t-shirt were that you were trying to trick us or had some unforeseen accident, like splashing yourself with some drink.
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@@jurgnobs1308 any ghosts in that one?!
There are some rare Americans like you who are curious. Unfortunately the arrogantly ignorant are still the vast majority, and you can't educate the arrogantly ignorant.
in Austria, stores are jokingly selling T-shirts with the inscription "This is Austria, there are no kangaroos here", because so many American tourists were surprised by their absence...😅
Yeah, when I saw it for the first time, as a Slovak, I didn't get the joke 🤣. I was wondering why all the No kangaroos signs all over the bags and t-shirts in tourists areas. Why would somebody mistakes Austria for Australia... 🤷.
As an Aussie, I love this. Comedy gold. 👏🏻👏🏻
Not only that but there are a LOT of americans who buy plane tickets to Austria thinking its Australia LMFAO
Oida!! wie GEIL isn des!? 😂😂😂😂 sorry little tourist from USA. the Austrian Alpine Kangaroo doesn't exist! 😂😂😂😂
Oh wait! T-shirt idea!
"The Austrian Alpine Kangaroo is a myth" 😂😂😂😂😂
Not knowing is ok, it's sad but it's ok. The arrogance is the problem. Thinking that other countries have nothing, or telling people they don't know their own countries, saying "it's all the same shit"... that's the problem. The ridiculous self-confidence and being unashamedly ignorant.
You nailed it!!! 👍 Nobody can be shamed for his intelligence, but for his arrogance he should be held responsible for.
Yes, being arrogant in their ignorance
Willful ignorance it is...and the superiority complex of being told they are the best at everything makes them not even try to alleviate their ignorance, hence the arrogance. Vicious cycle.
@@Drew-cv2jl And then people like that get so angry at being told something they don't know, from others who've actually lived it
@@Drew-cv2jl Ja, dennoch. Als Mensch hat man imho die Pflicht, über den Tellerrand zu schauen, aber ich weiß natürlich was Du meinst. Ooops, this was German! 🤣 But Google/TH-cam will translate it, right? Nevertheless I liked your comment. 😊
In fact, in Egypt, children do not ride to school on camels, but on flying carpets
The carpets have got to have those tassles things on each corner though 😂
Mate, we have the equivalent of that travel option here in Australia, but instead of camels or magic carpets, we have kangaroos. I use one to get to the local train station so I can communte to my job in the city. Fortunately, there is a huge fenced off paddock with water and shelter close to the station so my kangaroo can stay there for the day. The only problem is when I arrived back from my commute, I have to spend time retrieving my kangaroo. That’s because they all look the same and I always have difficulty identifying mine. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
FACT CHECK : TRUE.
They have their own pet genies too.
OMG they should have played that card. Anyone dumb enough to ask is probably dumb enough to believe it 😂
@@peterfromgw4615 that is the reason I ride a wombat, it's the only one in the shelter 😁😁
Not said to me, but a French friend of mine. She lives in the UK, so speaks perfect English and she travelled to the US with her French friends.
Some American guys were chatting up her group of friends in a bar. One guy she was flirting with took her outside to get some one-on-one time away from the group. Apparently the moon was out and the guy said, looking up at the moon: "I love the moon, it's so romantic"
Her: "Yeah, it's beautiful"
Him: "Must be hard not having romantic nights like this in France"
Her: "What?"
Him: "You know. With the moon"
Her: "I don't understand what you mean"
Him: "Well, you know. The nights probably aren't as romantic, because you don't have the moon in France."
Her: "What are you talking about? Of course we have the moon in France."
Him: "No you don't. The moon is American. We own it. So you can't possibly have the moon in France."
... He did not get lucky that night 😅
Oooooh so THAT's why the nights have been dark lately! And here I was, thinking it was because of the clouds
First I read "travelled to US with her French Fries" 😂
Ye Gods.
OMG and LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
After reading this I can feel my brain deteriorating 😨
I'm starting to understand why Americans are always so proud of their country, they think the rest of the world has literally nothing for some reason
That if they even acknowledge the rest of the world actually exists.
Also, a History teachers can get fired there If they try to teach the less proud Part of History . . . .so they feel all entitled to judge every German AS a Nazi while denying their own racist History and present . . .great
Politics. It's easier to control an ignorant population. It's also easier to portrait every other country as worse instead of made your country better.
So proud? Heck they have shootings like every other week
That's not their fault, they are told that USA is the best country ever since they are a child.
I once met an american, he asked me where I was from, and I answered that I am danish. He then laughed and said it was a good joke, because danish is a pastry and not a nationality.
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Most of the world wouldnt know too, unless you say Denmark.
@@simplyyellow6240 If most of the world doesn't know what "danish" actually is, then there is something seriously wrong with the educational system :)
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A woman from Alabama once had an entire lineup in Canada laughing when she asked if she could pay using her American dollars or if she had to convert her money to Euros.
- We accept US funds but I'm curious, why Euros?
Woman: "Aren't we in Europe?"
- Did you drive here m'am or take the plane?
"We drove."
- Then you can't possibly be in Europe.
I don’t know what worries me more, the fact that she thought canada was in europe, or that she thought she could drive there
@@Insertsomethingpls Tbh we won't hear the stories from those who drove over to europe. Most if not all of them have breathing issues.
😂OMG 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Here me out here.
USA-Canada-Frozen sea-Russia-Asia-Europe.
@@Insertsomethingpls Depending on how you define "drove to europe" you could get an europe approved car, find a ship that takes cars(to a country in Europe), and drive it on and off the ship. And you might be able to say "we 'drove' to Europe".
I've certainly said that about boats and driving from x to z in Europe.
I'm Italian, an American once asked me if we had roads or cars where I live. I was tempted to tell him "no, but every day we decide the life and death of people in the Colosseum"
Oh my gardens😂😂😂😂 you should have told him that 😂😂😂😂😂
And all you eat is pizza and pasta, right? 😂 this is so stupid omg
Lmfao I feel for you
You missed a golden opportunity.
Same thing to Indonesia, has no road . Maybe they think Indonesian live in a jungle.
The stupidest ive heard/read is this:
British girl being college student in US school.
4th of July comes along. Girl gets asked her plans for the holiday.
"Im going to watch the 4th july parade, ive never seen one before."
"Oh you dont have those in Britain?"
"Umm no.. we dont"
"Why not?"
"The war. The one we fought against each other and you won, so now you are your own country instead of our colonies. Why would we celebrate our loss?"
"Oh. Thats history. History is boring so I didnt bother study it"
Amazing how this ignorance can come from a college student.
Horrifying that it is coming from a COLLEGE(UNIVERSITY) student! No, it is shameful!
Selfish child attitude.
The funiest part is that they barely won and it was only because the empire was withdrawing forces from the US to go to other warfronts...And they are so proud as if they did anything amazing.
Multiple American adults have complimented me on my English, and how I have done such a good job learning it.
I mean I’d hope so, I’m English.
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The dumbest thing an American asked me was if we have cars in Germany.
I was just speechless.
Understandable
I guess he doesn't drive Mercedes 😆
Autobahn is just for pedestrians ofc.
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*Baffled in BMW*
The stupidest thing I've heard a American say to me 'America invented democracy'
First I thought it was a joke so I laughed but he was dead serious about it, I did not know how to bring him the devastating news that that's not the case.
Well, that is actually true. Or what we think of as modern democracy. You'll learn this in every social science department in every unversity in the world. Where did you think it was invented? The U.S constitution is the first democratic constituion in the world. And for the record I am not American but a Danish teacher with a master's in Btitish and American studies.
@@Facetterdk Cleisthenes?
Kkkkkkkk the US has one of the worst election system, they don't know what a true democracy is
Greece mate
Democracy started in ancient Greece, some 2500 years ago, in Athens. demos=(common) people + kratos=force/strength/might.
Also, also the Vikings of Iceland had instituted a democracy, freeing themselves from King Harald’s tyranny on the mainland.
I genuinely thought up to this point that education is illegal in the US and now my suspicions have been confirmed
as a political method, probably it is illegal...
I recently learned why their Education-System sucks so much. Becuase in the US and A, literally everyone can be a Teacher. Not joking, the school Board is choosen by Election, same as their Sheriffs.
Now you know why at least half of their Country stopped progressing and are still at the Levels from 100-150 Years ago.
It's not technically illegal. But it's frowned upon to allow the lower classes to partake in it. Proper education is reserved for the children of the oligarchy.
If it was illegal they would all be looking for it.
Dumb people are easier to control and manipulate
When Americans ask me if we in Russia have toilets, I usually reply, "No, we shit out the window." 😂
stop lying， we don't have windows😅
Yeah you do 😊
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Vasya in the Hay.
But that ist a valid question. When the russians left Germany in some barracks the basement was used ad a toilet. They Had sealed it Off and drilled a hole from above and from there they would use it. Was a nasty surprise for the wrecking Crew.
The dumbest thing an American ever said to me was when he tried to explain what a tv was while showing me and my wife around an apartment. I broke his heart when I told him that the guy who invented it came from Scotland.
Why tf that guy was explaining to you how a TV works? 😆
Philo Farnsworth - Anerican.
@@C-man553 Nope, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird
@@SkyRied1 He couldn't explain how it works. Telling us what it was cracked us up.
@@TheZeroAssassin Thank you.
The funniest I heard was told by an Australian girl, she was talking with an American girl who couldn’t fancy why Australians didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving, then she added :
- At least, you have July 4th ?
- Yes, we have ; for to avoid 3rd and 5th to collide ! 🤣🤣🤣
3th?
@@baylessnow
Sorry !
I am French, I must pay more attention when I write in a language which is not mine: I correct it immediately ! Thanks.
@@francoisevassy6614your English is probably still better than the French of most people watching. Seriously, that type of mistake could easily be a typo for a native speaker. Nothing else in your post gave you away as not being a native until you mentioned it & looked closer.
Personally, I speak Hindi as well as English, but my accent is terrible & I can never remember the alphabet, so you're English is really good!
As an Australian, I have had the Thanksgiving and 4th of July thing more than once.
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th. 3rd is correct.
@@francoisevassy6614 My apologies or "pardon" I think you say in France. I expect that your English is far better than my French which is minimal to say the least.
Google Translate:- Mes excuses ou "pardon" je crois qu'on dit en France. Je m'attends à ce que votre anglais soit bien meilleur que mon français qui est pour le moins minime.
I once asked an Irish American to point out Ireland on the map. He pointed to Africa. When I (an Irish person) tried to point him to our actual island, he said 'no, that's too small.' He also pointed to Italy when asked to identify England. I don't know what happens in your schools. Of coursr, he knew more about Ireland than any actual loval, and hated 'the Brits' despite not even knowing where they lived.
"They took our LAAAND. I don't know where my land is, nor do I know where they took it, but......THIEF Baggins, we hates it forever!"
One day I was watching a video about USA persons that aren't good a geography when the interviewer ask a girl in the video what is your "Ethnicity" and she answered "Colombian" .Me as an actual colombian born and raised in Colombia knows that colombian its a nationality, not an ethnicity. Next he asked her where is Colombia and she pointed Africa ( Colombia is in South America) in the map, I already knew that she was going to answer it wrong 🙄🙄🙄🙄.
If an American tells me that East European and central Asian countries are just Russian.
I say " And you are just British."
Don't ever say that to an Irish person but hopefully we're better educated than that!
I believe that when Hollywood makes any character from anywhere in Eastern Europe have an unbelievably thick RUSSIAN accent, some Americans just eat it up and form these kinda assumptions. I get that a Russian language still has a presence in other neighboring countries cuz colonialism and USSR, but... but SERBIA???
I feel like if I ever go to US, I'll just bring a world map or a globe with me in case I encounter someone this stupid. I don't want to lose my shit and yell at them, I'd rather just show them the map and look at them disappointedly 😕
Whch would still be kinda closer to truth than the first claim.
@@ShipperTrashRussia had colonies? I thought eastern European countries were occupied, not colonised
These stupid people don't even realize that they are ignorant, or stupid. And that's why they aren't ashamed to give stupid answers. I was asked where I came from. I said Germany. She asked me whether we had cars. I was a little surprised and said we even invented them and the first military jet fighter. And a number of other things. She didn't want to believe it.
Mine is a little bit different… Upon finding out that I am Dutch, an American woman tells me she’s Dutch as well. I asked her if she lived in the Netherlands, she said no. I asked whether she spoke Dutch. She said no. I asked if she had ever visited the Netherlands, she had not. There just happened to be a Dutch ancestor somewhere in her family line. When I told her that most people in the Netherlands wouldn’t exactly consider her Dutch, she got very upset with me and called me racist.
Nationality is not as much of a heritage as it is culture you live in. Not just at home but also outside of it. Its a bonus if you are connected to it by heritage, but not necessary. Imagine a person of a nationality they cant speak its language. You cant.
If her logic was true I'd be Latvian, Russian, Swedish, Polish, German, Ukrainian and Jewish all at the same time :D There might be more, but these are the ones I know of. Similarly with most people in Europe, especially central and eastern.
Seems kinda funny how Americans can be so arrogant about their country yet still cling to the idea of being special and something other than American by having the tiniest bit of European blood. But maybe those are different groups of people :D
They do this so much lmaoooo. Every time I see an American say that they´re latinos, they don´t speak Spanish or Portuguese, they've never been to South America, they don't know anything about the countries, they think having a grandma from another part of the world makes them something they're not. If you're born and raised in the United States, you're from the United States. It's so simple but they don't get it💀
My parents both immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands. My siblings and I are all bilingual and we have been there many times. We are dutch. Many of the people we grew up with say that they are dutch as well, and I tell them that they are Canadian with a pure dutch heritage since all their grandparents came from the Netherlands. I was like you can't say you are dutch if you can't speak the language, have never been, and don't understand the culture and have the same traditions.
@@JessalynnHelmus If they can't say that they're Dutch in Dutch, they're definitely not Dutch.
I’ve been asked “Is there a Fourth of July in your country?”
My answer is “No. that’s an American thing. In my country we jump directly from the third to the fifth of July”.
😂😂😂😂! Yes! So funny! But when USA=world 🌎, then you finally should embrace Independence Day!!😅
@@martingerlitz1162isn’t that the American day of mourning? When the Americans mourn their date of independence from the British?
If it wasn’t a day of mourning, why else would the Americans use the British date format (fourth of July instead of July fourth)?
I hear they celebrate with politicians making speeches. What could be more depressing than that?
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most of them don't even know what they are celebrating...
i’ve genuinely only interacted with an american ONCE. he was a really nice guy, just a simple tourist that actually knew about my country and wasnt afraid to politely ask about things. love people like that
"Interacted with an American" sounds really funny because we are a different breed 😂
well he knew other countries exist, doesnt sound like an elitist so its a pass
I think the stupidest I have heard from an American, was a young guy being asked to name TWO countries in Europe :
He answered AFRICA, and ASIA.
Pain
I'm South African and I play a game where I tell people to guess 5 CONTINENTS after they ask me where I'm from. They almost always name off countries instead.....
@@Yummi_913
FIVE continents ?
That's way too many, reduce it to just ONE continent, and they might succeed. 😆
@@Grumpy_old_Boot I figured if I let them guess 5 times they may actually stand a chance! Boy was I wrong 😅
@@Yummi_913
Ha ha ha, yeah .... too much choice can be a problem too.
Give them a multiple choice test with 10 different choices, and only one *_glaringly correct_* option, and they will become unsure if it's the right one.
Though sometimes, it happens with only a few choices too .. for example which is bigger, the sun or the moon ?
I'm Jamaican. When I was in high school, an American girl (older than I was) who visited the island, asked my friends and I if we have airports in Jamaica. She said that she knew we're a poor country, so she wanted to know what we have here. I asked her how she got here, she said "by plane, but I went to the airport in Kingston, not Jamaica". So, I asked her what country Kingston was in. She didn't respond, but looked annoyed. She was dumbfounded when she learned that most of us from the group of girls she was talking to had travelled abroad before. She thought that she was bringing hope to us.
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I'm so sorry you had to experience this...3 scortched braincells you shall never get back. 😂
I know several Canadians who don’t know what country Negril, Montego Bay or Ocho Rios are in. Mind you, they probably couldn’t locate Ottawa on a map either…
This is sad. My word!
Well seeming how Americans are not taught any of this information and basically are made to believe all other countries are poor and lack things, that's not that dumb. It's the country's fault not the people's. And it's a hell of a lot of work to find reliable sources that give you information on other countries. I honestly believe they don't teach it because so many Americans would leave for a different country if they knew. If I had the funds to do so, I would move out of the country. This country is a terrible place and I hate the way they go about things. I'd rather live somewhere else but at the same time I can't find enough information about anywhere else to figure out where to go. I know some people in the Dominican Republic but it seems a lot of people over there speak Spanish so I'd want to learn the language first, but at least I would have a completely reliable source on what it's really like to live there.
The funniest thing an American said to us at a BBQ while we were visiting the US. She commented we spoke 'funny' so we explained were were from New Zealand so accents are different. Then she asked, 'What language do you speak there?". Answer: "The one we're been speaking with you for the past 10 minutes, English". She said, "It doesn't sound like English". So we tried again: "But you understood us and you're speaking English". She then said, "No, I'm speaking American". She was in her 20's and had never been out of her home state of Virginia. We found American's geographical views very entertaining. She was even more confused when we explained we'd just driven across the States from South Dakota. She didn't know where that was. She was very sweet though and meant well.
Have you noticed the dumbest ones are under 35 and from the south?
Retardation. I mean, the dizzy in your car, did you 'retard' it for fuel economy. You've gotta watch it though, you don't want to overheat, just runnin' off of gasses.
Unbelievable, but believable at the same time. You cannot help these individuals. Just nod your head.
She was just confused by all the christians you were asking her.
It's scary how dumb a lot of the "adults" in some of these states are. I'm always at a loss for words when people hear my British accent and tell me to "speak regular" and tell me that they don't have an accent lol. I've even had people tell me to speak English. I speak the Queen's English you silly 🐄
It's extremely saddening how in the 21st century, we have access to pretty much everything at our fingertips through technology and social media. Than you have these people who are literally bubble children/adults that have Absolutely No Idea that other cultures, languages, accents, cuisine, etc.. exist. The future generations are making the future very dim. It's messed up too that people around my age who grew up in the 80's/90's raised these bubble children and now those kids are having braindead kids who truly believe they know Everything. 😑 Us true educated Americans are out there but we're outnumbered by the moron's. I apologize. 🥺🙏
I am Greek, an Athenian and in 2004 during the Athens Olympics, I was waiting in a que to buy tickets for an event. An American tourist was shouting if someone was speaking "American". My nanny was English, from London and I told him that I was speaking English and how could I help him. He was shouting to me "No English, American!". Afte a few attempts to explain to him that it is the same Language with different spelling, he got so frustrated that left swearing that these Europeans, not Greek, are stupid...😂😂😂😂
"American" is also known as "Simplified English". He probably wasn't able to understand long and complicated words, such as "colour".
@@Tjalve70 😂😂😂😂
I guess the conversation you had was, indeed, in english, and that he understood everything completely and still decided that you were not, in fact, speaking the same language.
The most disturbing thing is not them being stupid it's they don't wanna learn even if you teach them
Or when told, totally ignore it.
Or argue their totally incorrect points ad infinitum!
They can't. Their ignorance hinders them.
Their egos get in the way of their concessions
That is so weird programming. They don' t get, they don' t believe you, they don' t shame. Can somebody explain how this behavior is created.
dumbest thing an american has said to me was in response to me being german "oh, no, i am so sorry. I can't imagine what it is like to live in a third world country". xD
She also asked if we had trees in germany.
She may have a point looking at how Europe has been invaded.
@@anonniemouse8042thanks for confirming the topic of this video😂
@@anonniemouse8042 OH YOU’RE HILARIOUS!!! ‘INVADED’
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I had an American asking me if I was living in a concentration camp since I am a jewish german 🎉
„Do you guys have showers?“ - „Yes“ - „With warm water in every house?“ - „Yes“ - „But… you don‘t have electricity there, right?“. I‘m from Germany. We don‘t life in the middle ages
My American cousin asked me if we have internet in Hungary. We where talking on SKYPE video call.
😢😢😢😢 BS
@@fannipiros2580hahaha😂
Warm water in every house to compensate for the cold whenever you have the Fenster Auf's Kipp, ihr Deppen.
Sweet greetings from your cheese-neighbours.
They must've thought the Germ in Germany is because you guys live dirty 🤣
So, I'm Hungarian-American, I speak the language, I've been to Hungary, but that's not important for this story. So I was at the airport around the time that Britain left the EU. There's these two women who were sitting in a Starbucks, and I overhear one say, "do you think America will leave the EU?" and the other one ponders this for 30 seconds before responding unironically, "no, I don't think that would happen" never in my life have I heard something nearly as stupid.
What’s ‘the EU’? Genuine question- I’m 13 and Australian-
European Union
Don't beat yourself up for what other Americans do, Ryan, you're intellectually curious and very open to what goes on in the rest of the world. 👍
And it's not as if there are countries without idiots :-) I am sure I've been incredibly "unaware" of things myself... Hey, it happens, and it doesn't define me - or at least I keep telling myself :-)
You're right. Stupid people exist in every society. No reason for Fremdschämen.
No they are not cuurious, they just think everyone else is a curiosity.
That is actually why we all like him so much!!! 👍
Yes, not all Americans are dumb, Especially not Ryan. But some can do it very well indeed 😊
a) i overheard two women (under thirty) talking about Egypt being made up, but Wakanda being real
b) i got asked (while working at Starbucks) where I am from, to which i responded "from Greece"
her response was "Oh, the capital of Europe, nice!"
suffice to say, the two romanian guys i was working with, were rolling on the floor laughing, behind the bar, while i had to keep a straight face and finish her order at the register without laughing at her face...
The hype about the Wakanda movie was a very bizarre thing. Like this movie re-wrote African-American history and freed the slaves (a movie celebrating a monarchy).
@@hw2508 Have a black South African friend who thought it was one of the racist movies he has ever seen.
I can't understand the difficulty with geography for Americans, considering the US is basically a land of immigrants.
@@peteralthoff6920 because it is, they choose their leader though fighting and use musical instrument to turn on and off their force field ecc,how they don't see that film as racist is absurd
If a country was the capital of Europe it would be Germany, or maybe Belgium since its its where the EU headquarters is
As a Canadian visiting Florida in the late 80s, I was asked if we had telephones in Canada. He then refused to believe me when I told him that telephones were invented by a Scottish born Canadian and that we had telephones before America did.
Yeah some Americans always think they inventend all things in the world 🙈 also with our german cars they drive a lot and thinks they are american brands 😂
Afaik, the telephone was first invented by the german Philip Reis, and secondly by an italian who moved to the US and patented it there. When he could not longer afford to pay the patent fee to renew his rights before he could start production, Graham Bell got the telephone idea patented. He had seen the telephone of Reis in Scotland, and shortly later on an exhibition in Chicago, and then experimented with his copy until the patents became again available. But as with many inventions, I have heard from people of all european nations claims somebody of their country was the one having invented the steam engine, the telephone, the airplane, the tv, or the computer. But it is now for the first time I hear that a scottish-born canadian invented the phone. As always, I don't expect to see any evidence for it :-)
Alaxander Graham Bell, yeah?
@@UndeadNoir1013 yup.
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At a Viking Age historical market in Denmark, an American got angry with my friend because the items sold were expensive. He demanded to talk to the "reseveration manager." It took my friend a few moments to realise that the guy thought we were an indigenous population...
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As a Bulgarian, I understand that Serbian girl completely. I’ve been told multiple times that I’m Russian (I’m not). People also asked me if we are still part of USSR (we never were). I’m skipping over things like “Do you guys have: roads, schools, supermarkets, internet, running water?” because, frankly, it’s useless to answer dumb questions like that.
Emil Kostadinov
When I moved from Italy to Romania, I had an Italian friend who me asked if in Romania there are cars 😑
Technically Bulgaria was a part of the Warsaw Pact so it was a communist ally of the USSR. This is why many old Bulgarian towns are built with identical buildings with small apaetments (ideas of communes). This is why many Bulgarians till this day have such great understanding of the Russian language. Russia let some countries "remain independent" as long as they served the communist regime well.
It’s understandable from people of my generation because we used to learn all of that area as the Soviet bloc, Eastern bloc, or sometimes, the Communist bloc. I always knew the country of Bulgaria because at some point it had a large empire and I must have learned about it in World History.
In the 1980s, people used Russia and Soviet Union simultaneously.
I took Geography only once as a complete subject and it was shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union and while the Balkan wars were going on. Geography consisted of a series of quizzes where we would memorize names of countries and write them on a paper map. It was boring and nothing stuck.
In the late nineties, I started meeting people from countries I had never heard of like Croatia, Serbia, and then Lithuania and Latvia! At first I did not connect all of this to the breakup of the Soviet Union. Then there was the conflict in Kosovo in the late nineties that brought that area into focus. The internet and social media have made geography and history so much more interesting and I hope that schools are doing a better job now,
I learned Geography as an adult because the internet made it so fascinating, accessible, and interactive, plus I started meeting people from all over the world which made the other side of the world seem real, not just country names on a flat piece of paper.
P.S. I didn’t meet anyone from Bulgaria until 2008. But only recently, I found out that Bulgaria is where my great grandmother was born. My great grandfather was born in former Yugoslavia, most likely Serbia. They came to the US just before WW 1. That prompted me to learn much more about the history of Bulgaria. 😊 Before that I was guilty of lumping in Bulgaria with the rest of the region thinking it was a satellite state of the Soviet Union, but in our defense, Bulgaria was considered to be part of the “Eastern bloc” which was a political alliance also called the Soviet bloc.
The 20th century was a confusing time and when I went to school the focus of History was on the World Wars and the specific events and the new alliances formed. I hope it’s better now!
@@AnaLucia-wy2ii Yugoslavia didn't exist before world war 1?
My all time favorite takes the cake, hell, it takes the bakery. I was born in Africa, I am of British and Dutch descent so people get confused when they realize I am a white African. This one girl asked me where I was from, I told her and she replies, "oh, so how long have you lived here", I told her I had lived here for over 10 years and she says "ooooh, so thaaats why you are white".........
Oof
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Oofda!
Ufda
1 generation change😂
Was chatting with an American guy, who told me he had lived in Europe for 20 years, so he was qualified to tell me how amazing the US is compared to the rest of the world. I asked which country in the EU he had lived in and he replied "Europe"...
Guess he lived on a military base, so technically didn't even live outside of the US ...
liar. has probably never left swampy hollow, mississippi.
Ha ha ha😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well once an american asked me where I'm from. I said Switzerland. He replied:" oh, Switzerland, the capital of Sweden!"
As he said it like a fact, not as a question, my then 18 years old self was just baffled. (This was 30 years ago)
@@koschmx 40 bucks for using our roads, well highways, otherwise its free of charge except you have a vehicule over 3.5 tons(for up to 13 month bought at the right time) is expensive? Have you used the highways and tunnels in Austria or Italy? That shit is expensive. There we are fairly cheap xD
Not knowing is completely ok! The problem is the arrogance, the entitlement, and the blatant refusal to learn that some Americans display. I've had an American insist that I speak Spanish because I'm from Brazil. When the friends that were with me at the bar (one Venezuelan, one Mexican) told him that I indeed did not speak Spanish, he proceeded to say that Venezuela is "not even a place" and "isn't Brazil in Mexico anyway? It's all the same shit". I kid you not. 🙃
I'm from New Zealand when my brother lived in america some of his work mates asked if we had the internet, he said no because we get our power from coconuts and they don't generate enough energy to run computers. And they didn't give it a second thought just 100% believed that could be a thing 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
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You up the wahss
How many coconuts do you need to run your computer? Mine needs 700.
@@johngellare3507 One coconut per MHz processing power. Your computer is oooold, man 😜
Fellow kiwi here, I had someone ask me a few years ago if we had electricity….. via email/chat.. and I’m just like nah man, we just plug our computers into a tree 🤦🏽♀️
Just watched an American couple who have lived in England for 10 years, trying to work out why their 5 year old son has an English accent.
They said they thought he would have an American accent like them.
They were truly baffled 😂
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Holy shit, that's just woeful
I love them 😂
I mean it's mostly their own fault.
They don't talk to their own child enough for it to pick up their accent
I'm sort of curious. Let say that American couple lives for 10 years in a non-English speaking country. Let say, for example, Japan. I bet the son would be able to speak Japanese and English with perfect American accent. In the case above, why can't he be able to speak English in perfect British AND American accents?
The dumbest thing was when they said my ID was fake because the date on it was fake.
Told het we do day/month/year in europe, but she said i was lying 🙄 i just laughed in her face because i was shocked
🤦🤣🤣🤣
The american way of writing dates is so silly. I'm Australian, and we also do day/month/year. It makes sense, you go in order of shortest to longest. Seconds, minutes, hours. Days, months, years. Jumbling them up is weird.
@@circleofleaves2676Do you really write it as seconds, minutes, hours? SS:MM:HH? The usual way is HH:MM:SS so the best way to write the date is YYYYMMDD HH:MM:SS - like the in the ISO date standard. As a computer programmer I have constantly had real trouble with date formats - most of the world uses the ISO date standard - but the date standard in American database software is totally different. Constantly had to ask for the date in ISO standard, then translate it to American to store it - and vice versa when retrieving the date. Very frustrating.
There is two "correct" ways to write the date DDMMYYYY or YYYYMMDD ( I think they use this in some asian countries but IDK ). The second is better for searching/sorting by date on the computer.
And yes here in Oz we use HH:MM:SS.
@@alanhilder1883Yes, there are - in the UK we tend to use DDMMYYYY - but the ISO is YYYYMMDD, which is the most logical way, because you are going into finer and finer divisions of time - and you can keep getting finer as much as you like. And the ISO way is the best search and ordering method.
You can be forgiven for not knowing something but when someone informs you something and yet you still persist on being stuck to your ignorance and dismiss that information, is the real entitlement and entitled people can not be forgiven.
I visited a Chinese Civil War museum in China. It was located at a major battle in the civil war.
An American was amazed by this, and told me he thought all the battles of the civil war happened in America. 💀💀💀
😂😂😂 This beat me, I can't! 😂
i had someone ask me if we spoke korean or japanese in china
So, I'm from Mexico, and one piece of info that is interesting to many ('cause it's almost never mentioned out of Mexico) is that our country's full name is Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United Mexican States). Once, I was in some voice chat room for English practice with a bunch of people, and for some reason this came out and the... host of the room, an American guy, didn't believe it. So far, understandable. Not many people know that and it might be surprising. However he wasn't just like "oh, that's crazy" or something like that, no. He told me I was wrong, I was confused. "The name of your country is Mexico". I even showed him our coins, that have the full name engraved, but no, he was determined to teach me what the name of my country was 😆
He must be very shocked if he knew Japanese people called their country Nihon, Finnish called their country Suomi etc
I'm British, I thought this was general knowledge - obviously not everyone will know it, but it's not exactly an obscure fact.
I can kind of understand being ill-informed about a country on the other side of the world, but to be that ignorant of a neighbouring country is astounding! It's like me not knowing of terms like "Republic of Ireland", "Eire" or "République Française".
Same vibes as an American guy who told me Spain was in South America and got mad at me while I was trying to prove Spain is in Europe
Yeah that’s it, I’m no longer calling it just Mexico.
Amerisplaining
Worst thing? Absolutely true. I’m British. ‘Your English is so good’.
Oh No . . . .oh no😂
Lol. 😂 that's actually just so hilarious. "Your English is so good." XD
An english person which english is good. Who would have thought?
Oh wow!! who could have guessed...a Brit with a good English! that's a rare situation right there!! :D :D
Think about it, how many accents are used just in Britain 😉 That's why your english is judged. Look how speak Adelle and Cumberbatch. The nightmare is when someone drops "tt" and "h" 🙄😵
im from spain and an american exchange student genuinely believed he was in mexico 😭 i remember going to talk to him during our break cus he was kinda lonely and he asked me and my girls if our town was "south or north mexico" we were SPEECHLESS
Similar story...I spent 3 weeks in Spain (Madrid) studying spanish, during the summer holiday, there was this american girl in my class, one day she asked the teacher which train she needs to get to go to Mexico because she was planning on going there for the weekend...We just steared at her while the teacher explained... By the way, she was from Florida, she was going to be starting University after the break, going to UCLA, I always heard it was hard to get in as they say it is one of the best over there..But after this girl.. I'm not sure it is that hard...
I was an Aussie living in London and I overheard two American backpackers talking. The first said "all travellers have a flag embroidered on their backpacks... should we do that too?" The second girl said "we don't want to advertise we're American". She was aware how some Americans are perceived overseas. I felt sorry they had to feel that way.
Fortunately, Americans yell whenever they talk so a flag wouldn't be necessary to spot them
Americans stitch Canadian flags to get nicer treatment when travelling.
@@gng11 Yes and we hate it.
What’s worse is when Muricans sew the Canadian flag to their belongings so as to be treated better. Funny how you’re so proud of being Muricans until you’re called on your sh*t.
@@gng11unacceptable
One American I was having a conversation with talked about Christians and Catholics in the US. I quickly came to realize that he referred to Protestants as Christians and Catholics as, well, Catholics. I gently pointed out to him that Catholics are Christians too, but he didn’t seem to believe me. 😅
lol I’m catholic and even my catholic teacher in my catholic school in Thailand said I was not Christian she said she taught Christian and I’m catholic so I’m not Christian and I couldn’t correct her and tell her that this is a catholic school with a Catholic Church so I wasn’t included in most of the stuff I just sit around in that class
Also in front of the school the sign said Catholic Church 🤦♀️
This was an argument I had at school frequently. I went to Cathilics schools but I'm Church Of England. I used to say yes you're Catholic but also Christian.....they did not understand 😂😂😂
We have that kind of Protestant here in the Netherlands too. I'm afraid we might have exported them.
Like, like, like. Wtf
I am from Estonia and I have relatives living in America. they have also said that the Americans think that Estonia is like some kind of stone age country. fun fact (Estonia is one of the highest in the IT field in the world)
Come to Germany to see the stone age in digitalization 😂🇩🇪
@@ChriDDel Harsh, but very true.
@@ChriDDel #DigitalisierungDeutschlands
Kõikidest videotest, mille kommentaare ma täna igavusest lugenud olen, ei oodanud ma siit leida eest eestlasi, tore üllatus! Aajaa, mulle on sama asja ameeriklaste poolt öeldud, korduvalt
Ihan sama paskaa Suomesta ääliöiltä amerikkalaisilta... Mitä meni pieleen niiden kasvin aikana? 😂
I'm a Norwegian, and I seriously got asked by an american visiting Norway "Do you celebrate 4th of july here?". Like.... why? It's YOUR Independence day.... Ours is 17th of May...
Just tell them that "Yes, we do celebrate 4th of July in Norway. But due to the different time zones, we celebrate it on the 17th of May."
Also, I like to say that we don't have polar bears walking in the streets in EVERY city in Norway. They are endangered now, so there's only one city where they might meet a polar bear on the streets. In my city, the last time we had a polar bear swimming in the harbour, was in the 1950s.
And of course, the most funny things about this, is that it's all true.
I think the dumbest thing I've been told by an American is that I don't have any freedom in Australia and no one has guns. We have plenty of freedom and yes we do have guns. We just have laws for them. There's been plenty of other things too
Don't forget the covid camps that were all rounded up and dumped in when we breached curfew 🤣
you dont have freedom of speech in your constitution so he was somewhat right
@sumbajumba3037 thats not really how it works. We only have a couple of laws & treaties which mention freedom of speech. Namely being hate speech towards an individual & defamation. Only other mention We have is we're allowed to criticise our government. So yes we do have freedom of expression in the same way many other countries do. Ours doesn't restrict very much
@@sumbajumba3037"The Australian Constitution does not explicitly protect freedom of expression. However, the High Court has held that an implied freedom of political communication exists as an indispensable part of the system of representative and responsible government created by the Constitution." From a simple Google search
@jaywaautomotive You Australian's are beautiful people and definitely built differently. (In a good way). Your country is beautiful but also highly dangerous, esp with all the venomous creatures. I applaud you all for living there. I understand the city life won't be As crazy as the outback, but still spiders, snakes, frogs, etc... do move around. I'd still love one day to visit but I'd definitely be on guard a bit. Lol. Much love from an American woman from Florida, USA. (I'm used to our alligators, sharks, poisonous snakes, frogs, spiders, etc...) But I know Australia will definitely be a beautiful adventure. ^^
Here is some info about Norway:
-We do not have polarbears in the streets
-We actually DO have daylight during a year
-Sweden is another country
-Norway is not the capital of Sweden (see above)
-The midnight sun is in fact…..wait for it….the same sun you see at home (and no, it does not give rights for refund of your trip)
😊
Oh yes, the fjords are open all year, in case you were wondering 😂
Funnier than those in video! 🤣
You have polar bears in Svalbard which belongs to Norway. People there are recommended to wear weapons when going outside.
@@gerbre1
Yes, that is true, but it is not the normal, it is the exception (luckily 😊)
Why your angst about polar bears in the streets? We have them here too in Scotland, especially on a Friday night after some 'relaxing' drinks after work.
Also and unfortunately it is always dark here in Scotland (because we are located very near to Sweden).
'Prost' from bonnie Scotland.
@@tomaddie1969 The haggis scare the polar bears away and keep us safe though. They don't have haggis in Norway.
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American: "Switzerland is next to Russia?"
Putin: "Not yet"
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He'd have to get through Germany and NATO first. 😂
ooohhh. that one hits defferent
This is so not funny but it also kinda is 😢
In London once, I overheard a White British guy telling a story referring to his Black British friend as black, and a White American woman interjected angrily "you can't say Black, its African American" 😂
british african american 🤣
They got the first half right tho.
This colour shyt is invented by white "masters". It's stupid to use these demeaning labels.
He's African british or British African.
I once had an American teacher at university in Portugal and she used to say that the average American was just like Homer Simpson.
So there are worse???😂
@@martingerlitz1162 I think she meant those were the worst.
As was told to me lo these many years ago.
Average means the overall center of a data set. Now think about all the people you have dealt with and their average level of intelligence. Now consider the fact the law of averages means half of humanity is worse than that.
@@liamwarner5749 thanks
@@martingerlitz1162oh yes! Millions of them.
One day, a friend told me that when she had spent a year in the US, students had asked her if she came from Paris. She replied that "no", so the students asked which country she came from. She replied that she came from France. Once again the students were surprised, saying it was impossible since France was a city in Paris. Finally, after having given them a little geography lesson, another student asked her if she could speak Italian (thinking that it was the original language of France)...
I mean... To excuse them... French and Italian (and other European languages) come from Latin... so there's a common heritage...
But I'm still very baffled by Paris actually being my country, I didn't know that! And here I was, thinking for all my life I was living in France
@@kasumifuwaka5795 Yeah, Italian and French come from Latin, but it still remains quite different. If it had been Spanish and Italian it would have been more understandable.
@@Peaceful-User Yeah, true
Imagine explaining to an American that Egyptians practiced dentistry at least dating back to 2660 BC, as indicated by wooden artefacts uncovered from a tomb near Cairo.
Tell an American they invented beer even earlier in Egypt.
@@timothyclark803 They'd loose their mind for sure.
Will they even accept that there was the third millennium before Christ?
@@MarcLeonbacher-lb2oe Highly doubtful.
So 4000+ years before America was even discovered
About two months ago i was living in Portugal and used to work in a exchange house. The shock face that americans do when they discover that US dolars "worth" less than Euros. Some accused me for stealing...
I once Witnessed a conversation between an American and a Canadian and will never forget the look on the Canadians face when the American stated he had never heard of Vancouver despite being born in Seatlle and lived there all of his 30 year old life 😂
🙄🙄🙄
Wow, it's not even 4 hours by public transport 😆
@@andyossie 230km (145 miles) is just too far for Americans 😂
@@Markevans63 hahaaha 😆
People drive between the 2 cities for a weekend away. Obviously not that clueless wonder though.
There's a very handy term in German which must've been invented for situations like this: "fremdschämen" which doesn't have an English equivalent but translates into something like feeling the sometimes almost unbearable shame in lieu of the person being so oblivious to the stupidity they're bringing 😜
Myötähäpeä is Finnish countepart.
Second hand embarrassment.
"Vergüenza ajena" in Spanish
This video series is my daily dose of schadenfreude.
I Heard it is "cringe" in english, but I don't know If it's really accurate.
American: Where are you from?
Me: South Africa
American: Oh! I have a friend in Nigeria! Maybe you know him!
Bwuahaha. Geography isn't their strong point for sure.
Oh my gosh I hate that!!! One time I responded by saying yes I know them! You know Jennifer Aniston, right?! She was very happy to say yes until she realized the point I just made 😂
Tbf, I live in Korea and I've had people ask where I'm from and I tell them nearby Chicago (Indiana gets a blank stare) and receive "My friend moved to California. Do you know him?" And I'm like...no...
If I had a dollar for every time I've been asked "but why are you white?" I would be bloody rich. And all the questions about riding elephants to school and having pet lions 🙄 I was cornered about this in history class DAYS after we covered the Anglo Boere Oorlog. Another top contender is having to explain to Americans that "South" Africa is not SOUTHERN Africa. Whenever I say I'm from South Africa they often follow up with "cool, which country in South Africa?" 🤦🏻♀️
@@Yummi_913 Hahaha, yes! Been there done that, too. 🤣🤣
I was talking with an American girl once while on vacation in Greece and she asked me where I was from. I told her I was French, from Paris, and she just looked at me and went "but that's in Texas!". So I told her that Paris was actually the capital of France and she just asked me "why would you call your capital from a city that's in Texas? Can't you find your own names?". That was just too much for me 😂
Hello ! I'm french and I just read your story ! Do you think the mistake came because of the movie whose title is "Paris Texas
???
@@fannycharbon2065 non, parce qu'elle m'a fait le même coup avec Athènes...elle pensait vraiment qu'en Europe, on piquait les noms des villes américaines. Et elle était incapable de me situer sa ville, à part qu'elle était sur la côte Est
@@georgiosgeorgiadis103
Ah! Oui ! quand même !!! Effarant !
Merci pour votre réponse !
@@fannycharbon2065 il faut savoir que le niveau de culture générale d'un américain moyen se situe à peu près à notre ́CE2, peut-être CM1
I am an American from Texas that moved to Oregon when I was in high school. They literally would ask me the dumbest questions like if I knew how to drive a car or if I just grew up riding horses. They were shocked that I spoke fluent Spanish even though I was white. They were so ignorant towards me I can’t imagine how they act towards foreigners.
Should have asked them if they know how to put gas in their cars 😂
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows I had never been in a state that did not legally allow you to pump your own gas until I has driven through Oregon. I went to put gas in my car and the attendant told me I couldn't. It was weird.
I was asked if we road cows to school....
Did you move to the Oregon woods where nothing is?!
wait until they hear about Spain
first time i visited the US I was 19 and me and another German friend were hanging out with a bunch of American kids. They were super nice, mind, but yeah... one asked us if we knew what a washing machine was. We looked her deadpan in the eye and I said with a straight face 'Yeah, we recently got those! Generally, life has become way easier since we got electricity in our houses!' and she was like 'Wow! Yeah! I can imagine!' and me and my friend just glanced at each other without saying a word and moved to another topic. Half an hour later that girl comes back up to us and is like 'Wait! Guys! You were kidding?!!' someone must have enlightened her XD
I love and hate the way that Americans tend to not just admit their misunderstanding, but they double down on their assertion. I remember how hard I tried to tell them that Sony was a Japanese company, they always tried to convince me that I was the one getting it wrong. Thank you Nintendo for having a more Japanese sounding name.
Yeah, thats the horrifying Thing, Like Not knowing Happens, but Just how Sure they are the Other could Not possably BE right . . .
......? Just about every american knows Sony is japanese though. Where are you going to hear this nonsense? Deepest Redneck pothole in the sleeziest part of alabama?
Im from Germany and some Americans asked me if the “mustache man” is still our ruler and how its is to live in fear😭
auf der heide bluht... i'm so sorry, that's literally the first thing comes to mind when talking about Germany :(((((
@@c_rum_makes_music lmao (its spelled blüht
@@kartoffelgamerin I wish my keyboard could type that
I worked in Niagara Falls (Canadian side) and in the middle of summer, a family from the US pulls up to my friend who was working at a gift shop with skis attached to their van and asked where they can go skiing. They legit thought once you cross the border into Canada it becomes winter 24/7.
That happened to me at the duty free in Niagara when I was in scouts. I told them to drive north until they hit highway 1 and turn left, can't miss it.
Yep, same here. I grew up in Niagara Falls and this happens all the time!! 🤦♀️
Did you say family? As in functional adults were involved?? 😂😂😂
@@Shujaa24 What makes you think the adults were functional?
@@Tjalve70 When you put it that way..poor kiddos
I have worked as a receptionist in Rome, Italy for several years. The most asked question by Americans hands down was, while looking at the city map I was giving them, "where is the tower of Pisa?"
Another couple of times I've been asked why Italy is full of Pinocchios. Apparently the name didn't give it away.
Another time while working in a very typical Florentine paper shop (an ancient technique from several centuries ago) we've been accused of stealing ideas from a NY shop. Yes, it was the same company. From Florence. He was pretty angry too.
I've also been called "exotic", which was hilarious to me, though in their perspective, I guess I really was
Oh, and I've been told "you're not white, you're Italian!". That actually left me speechless
Well . . .in my class WE Had a Guy WHO was Always claiming discrimination because He was black . . . He was biracial but so light No one would have ever guessed . . .Like our Italien Guys Had notacibly darker skintones then him . . .
One can actually argued whatever the darker mediterainian Typs are "White or Not" given they can BE darker then for example people from north africa or the middle east . . .
Someone italian or spanish can Just as easely BE Hit with islamophobe hate against people from the middle east . . .
IT IS all so stupid, humanity does Not even have enough diviation to justify seperation into races to beginn with
America is a continent.
@CarolinaDaza
Or two.
@@CarolinaDaza broski no
my god!The infinite discussions about italians not being white,but latinos🤣🤣🤣 maybe they think this way because Romans spoke LATIN?🤣I don't know,but the level of ignorance leave me speechless
I'm an aussie veteran. Back in 2005, my section was manning a check point in Baghdad. Our role was to do vehicle checks for IED's and to pat down civilians going through our gate. We had to have a female service member with us to search female civilians as per UN rules. Being an infantry unit we had no females with us so our yank mates supplied one. We met her for the first time she asked whether or not we spoke English, cheekily I said "no, not a word" and she went "Oh ok then" Some hours later she still hadn't said a word to us so we ask her about it "Hey are you ok?" She looked shocked. "My god, you do speak English!" So dumb, lol.
As a Brit, Aussies are the best! Our slang is the same and the people are just down to earth and just great. You could never do a video on Aussies being dumb.
@@stud105 Dumb? No. Being absolute idiots? Absolutely. I've been an idiot at least twice today. To be fair, I become more skillful the drunker I get though.
@@mives02 Obviously mate! That's why you're great... Honestly though, Australians are the up there. I've met Aussies all over the world and in London and always have a proper laugh with them.
@@stud105 obly people from England ever call themsleves a brit
@@stud105oh yes you could mate, we have our fair share of dumbo's 😁😁
As an American, it''s sobering to walk the streets of ANY European city or village and find old buildings and homes galore, all centuries older than the US has been around. Leave the arrogance at home when visiting other places
This actually takes me to my visit to Italy last september...I was at the Uffizi and there were so many americans around, and so so so many stupit remarks. The one that really struck me was these three american guys taking shit about the paintings, and complaining about all the money they paid to see all this crap, and while looking at a the Birth of Venus saying they had a friend that went to X University and could paint much better than these. I had to distance myself from them before I did something stupid...
But then you have the American woman in Edinburgh who complained that the world famous castle was too far from the airport ....!!!
(err, sorry, the castle is over 1,000 years old - they didn't think about airports in those days). 😂
As a Swiss person, i don't mind getting asked questions. Sure, some of them i'm a little taken aback because i'm thinking like "How can you not know that?" But i'll answer them because they are curious and it'll hopefully help their knowledge expand. My problem is that a lot of americans tend to ask these questions in a very condescending manner or answer you very rudely. For example: I had an american complain to me that there were no fireworks in Switzerland on the 4th of july. Now if she had politely asked my why that was the case, i would've answered her the same way but she was straight up b*tching about it. Or when a lady in a restaurant next to me asked the waitress why she hadn't greeted her in english. The waitress politely told her that english isn't an official language in Switzerland so she usually greets people in one of our native languages (in this case italian as we were in the italian speaking region of Switzerland) but once the waitress had left the table, the lady went on complaining, to who i assume was her husband, that it was lazy of the waitress to not greet her in english and that swiss people should be more respectful thowards their foreign guests.
imagine it the other way round and staff in the US would have to greet every single foreign tourist in their native language or otherwise get a complaint or get fired.
@@AvailableNameForMe Right, like you can't go to a foreign country and expect every single person to speak your native language. It's ignorant and selfish. And it's not like the waitress was refusing to talk to her in english. She just greeted her in italian because it's normal for her to do that but when the lady talked to her in english, the waitress immediately switched to english as well.
Plus, you can't know what language a person speaks just by looking at them. Americans can be downright rude. Oh, and I have lived in the States since I was one. Originally from Belgium.
How would an American react if you demanded that they greet you in Italian?😂 ”Be respectful to your foreign guests!” lol
In a restaurant in Austria an American tourist was demanding "hash browns" from the waitress, a young girl who didn't speak much English. My friends had to hold onto me, because I wanted to clout him over the ear. What are hash browns anyway?
I don't know about the US, but there used to be a world map in every classroom when I was a kid. Most of this ignorance can only be explained if these people have never seen one.
Well, it's already been explained by Miss Teen South Carolina quite a time ago. 😅
They had to take it down so they could fit some version of " The 10 Commandments" that is disputed by all the bible scholars as not the correct ones. Problem if the only textbook used is over 2000 years old.
Maybe there's none since they need space for active shooting drills information posters
There are in France, but in my school the maps are quite old, like South Sudan doesn't exist, Montenegro is still part of Yugoslavia, Volgograd is named Tsaritsyn...
We have maps, we learn the geography of other countries and the history of other countries when it clashes with points in American History. We are not taught the modern history of other countries . It seems that many Americans forget or perhaps never payed attention in class in the first place .
With so much free info in the internet, there is no excuse for ignorance.
Right, because everyone spends their free time watching documentaries and reading Wikipedia.
@@mayatabachnikoff7999I’d hope that knowing there are countries other than the US wouldn’t have to come from watching a documentary…
I'm South African "You guys have internet over there?" Asked while playing an online game and using voice chat
Oh hell nah
Yesturday, I went to see Robben Island and obviously there were American tourists (respectfully) and the tour guide was telling the peoples about the extend of the racial segregation and then one of the Americans asked; "Can't you just sue the system?"
Why do you think their were political prisoners???
💀💀💀💀
My shooting pal, Rian van der Moewe is 6ft 3in, blonde and built like a refrigerator. He was born near Bloemfontein in RSA and is married to a lovely American lady. He became a US citizen about ten years back. He rightly describes himself on documents as Afro-American.
To be fair we only have Internet when there's no load shedding 😂
When I went to Portland, Oregon in 2017, we went to a restaurant and the waitress noticed that we spoke another language between each other. She asked where we were from and we replied Norway. She asked "Oh, how long of a drive is that?", and followed up with "Are there books in your language?"
...and are there? 🤔🙄
@@WedrownyGrajek One or two
Here is one from the early 80s (Actually happened, words may be slightly different):
Americans cross the border from New York state to Ontario, in mid summer. They have skis strapped to the roof of their car. They ask " Where are the ski slopes?"
"Um. Why?"
"Duh. Clearly, we are going skiing!"
"Ahhhh,well. Go about 8 hours east. Then wait 6 months for the seasons to change."
"Huh?"
(They could not be convinced they were wrong about Canada always having snow. Even though they lived just the other side of the border...)
Such weird stories about Americans in Canada or Americans talking about Canada seem to be very common, judging by the comments under such videos.
The funniest thing I’ve been asked by an American was when at like fourteen/fifteen years old, when I went to a summer camp in the Usa. I met this guy and I told him I was from Italy and he said: “so you speak… Spanish right?”.
Another very funny question came from an educator of a different summer camp (also in the Us). There were several European kids in that class (including myself) and the teacher told one of them that they liked their glasses and wondered how much they cost. The kid answered “thanks, they cost X euros”. The teacher looked really confused, and asked: “Euros? You mean… euro dollars??”
That teacher is living in the world of Cyberpunk
Quel tipo quando scoprirà dell'esistenza dei centimetri e dei metri: 👁👄👁🔫
I was a camp counsellor at an American camp. I had a 16yo American kid ask me "what language do we speak in Australia?" I said "What do you think?" the kid replied "Spanish"!
Well, it's quite obvious that he doesn't know about any other languages than American and Spanish.
i had someone ask me whether we speak korean or japanese in china
well technically theres a korean ethnic minority in northeastern china that speaks korean but still our official language is mandarin
No we don't spell colour differently, it's YOU Americans that do! lol
Remember, we brought the language over with us to America.
I am amazed at how many Americans think we speak 'British'. It doesn't occur to them that they speak english! lol
Noah Webster has a lot to do with American ignorance.
'color' is better than 'colour' . 'colour' is a 'bad' Old French mutation of the Orginal Latin 'color' - which came with the French-Norman invasion to England. In this case the American AND the original Latin words are better, because more pragmatic with less noise AND can claim to be older and more original. A similar mistake French AND English AND Americans etc. make is calling Karl/Carl der Grosse ('Charles the great') 'Charlemagne' which is just wrong, ahistorical - again a bad transfer from a localized French naming to England without any real connection to the true history (except that 'Charles' is also just a mutation from he original 'Karl/Carl'). Why it is bad? Because ALL historical texts on the planet in ALL languages of that time and ALL architectures at that time and later refer to the Carl-Karl naming (latin: Karolus/Carolus Magnus) which is why it is Karl/Carl in all German speaking countries or Northern European ones etc, also in all Slavic languages, Arabic languages, also in Italian or Spanish (Carlo Magno, also Carlos comes from that etc.) and so on ...
@@publicminx Your opinion. It is a lazy bastardisation of the mother language.
America removed many letters from words eons ago to save money on printing. Fun US history fact.
In sweden we were taught brittish english in school, but as a grownup one comes mostly into contact with american english. So it's a bit of a mess up there in my language centre, like the aforementioned word colour :) and spellcheckers always complain about it when english spelling creeps in. I'm aware that you can specify brittish english but then it would probably complain even more haha.
For me it was: American: "Where are you from?" - Me: "Germany" - Them: "But there's war! How did you get out of there?"
yeh man, had same situation in 1988 .. so nothing much seem to have changed in the US since then🤣🤣
Or: how can you go out while hi*ler is your president? 😂😂
Some people are poor and i am so sorry for that 😂
Wooowwww👏👏👏👏👏
That's one... Uh.... "Smart" American... Definitely!..
Fr now, do they think we are just in constant war?
@@n4tural....te4 I mean there's Russia almost right next to us. Maybe that counts as being in war?
Should have replied something like "I was taken as a prisoner of war by the yankees."
The funniest part about america is that they always yell they are the best and other countries should never tell them what to do. But for some reason america cant seem to stop getting into other countries' business
That's a narcissistic behavior
Like if the American government was involved in a terrorist attack, golpe, rigged elections or occupation in your country.
One day a british person found out i am from Argentina (this happened on tiktok) and then out of nowhere he started to ask me in which pueblo originario i was in and then when i told him that i was not from any and that the language we use is Spanish not mapuzugun or Guaraní he started to call me Spanish white supremacist that was using the language of colonist and that i should have free the Argentinian people already.. 💀
Was he speaking English, i.e. the language of the Angles who colonized Great Britain? Why doesn't he speak the language of the ancient Britons?
@@wizardsuth Tbh, i was asking the same exact thing 😭.
But at the same time they say that Southern European aren't White!😂
Spain never had colonies, not everything was a colony. They accuse the rest of the world of being like them to make their behavior less grave. And US has colonies and vassal states all over the world. Free Puerto Rico!
They are so narcissists......
😂😂😂
@@Heart_of_Heathers145 As good narcissists that they are, they blame others for what they are and do😂
I think part of this can be explained with the culture of American exceptionalism, where Americans think the USA is the best in everything or most things, and in many cases aren't open to learning from others. It's not hard to imagine people generalizing this as other countries not having anything nice.
@@koschmx There are dumb people everywhere. The belief in American exceptionalism doesn't need majority prevalence to be a real cultural phenomenon. It even has a Wikipedia page.
It's kinda ironic that it similar with what happened in North Korea. While in N. Korea, it was the govt who instigated it but in US it was Hollywood.
I honestly don’t remember people or even teenagers being this dumb when I was in high school in the late eighties. I grew up in Texas but we still knew about world history and geography! I was in a German class for 4 years and we had an exchange program with a school in Heinsberg, Germany.
Makes sense.. if they learnt about other countries they'd realise how shit America actually is. 😂
@@juliewalsh7401then what do you think the reason is? I am sincerely asking because I really want to know…
My American ex co-worker, higly educated lady, was surprised to see so many African Americans in Bergen, Norway. My response: They are most likely Norwegians. Or, you know, perhaps Africans.
Her response, to her credit, was "oh yeah, that was me being very American there for a sec" :)
My sister had an American friend visit us in Jamaica. They went out and the American at some point referred to us Jamaicans as African American. You should have heard how hard she got roasted for that gem.
And yet they arent't in africa :(
I recall years ago an American sportscaster referred to Lewis Hamilton as the first "African American" to win an F1 Grand Prix.
once i hear form murican: egyptian african. and in hungary we just call them gypsy...
@@pallew You never wonder why there are tons of European descendants in America, Africa, Oceania...? Unless you think immigration is somehow more immoral than conquest and colonization.
I was asked if we have toilets in our houses, in Germany 😂
Quite often I was asked what cars we drive in Germany, and I was frequently showered in disbelief when I replied with Mercedes, BMW, VW and Audi 😅
The icing on the cake was then mentioning that our police cars are usually Mercedes E Class station wagons, it resulted sometimes in a mental overload 😂
Germany...Cars...
Germany invented cars!
They often think Germany has no electricity because they rarly see powerlines going from house to house.... 🙄
I laughed so hard when I saw they were surprised at VW, because (as I’m sure you know) it stands for Volkswagen (not German, hope I spelled it right!) which is a German word, therefore making it a German company and, on top of all that, Germans created cars!! 😂😂
And Volkswagen means "People's Car."
wait, what do you mean by "houses" ?
Sorry, sometimes it's our fault. My friend was asked by his coworkers in USA how did he get there from Europe. He has convinced them that he couldn't afford a plane ticket, so he came on foot, over the bridge. Why not a car? The bridge is too narrow for cars to pass, so only pedestrians are allowed...
My sister-in-law was in Italy this year and there was a couple from the US sitting next to her, the woman pointed out to the waiter that there was a mistake on the wine list. It said Pecorino as a wine (which is available) and she knew exactly it was a cheese (which is also true). The waiter explained that it is also a wine. The lady insisted that he had made a mistake and she wanted it sorted out. The waiter went to the boss, came back and apologized for the mistake. My sister-in-law had seen her first Karen.
Strange that there are multiple things that share the same word as a name, imagine if she ever found out what the female version of pecorino is 😂
@@giulianopisciottano8302 to be fair, I'm German, I don't speak Italian, but I had to google it. Can't stop smiling
@@EyMannMachHin lmao
@@EyMannMachHin dann gib doch mal die Übersetzung für alle die zu faul oder zu dumm sind? Bitte :D
@@rumpelpumpel7687 die weibliche Form von pecorino ist pecorina. Nun markieren und in google suchen im Kontextmenü auswählen. Es geht um zwischenmenschlichen Stellungskampf...
Let's just be clear Halloween is actually an Irish pagan festival called Samháin. When Ireland was converted to Christianity, specifically Catholicism, the missionaries took the date of Samháin, where spirits could come back to the Earth for one night, and instead called it Halloween (All Hallows Eve). Everything from dressing up, to trick or treating to bonfires were all rites performed during Samháin. It is not an American festival, it's Irish and was brought over to the US by Irish immigrants. Also that Canadian girl was always living in America, North America.
A few years ago , a friend who had served in the US Army in Germany noticed that i wrote the time of day the way people in the military would write it....for instance : 3 pm is 15 : 00 , etc.....
He said " oh ! are they making you use military time now " ? .....i was confused.." what ? who ? no , nobody is making us do anything " 😂😂😂😂😂 that's just how we do it .
I'm almost convinced that the reason Australia is in the Eurovision song contest is to mess with Americans...
I'm almost convinced they just showed up one day, and the Europeans were too polite to tell them they couldn't be there.
It always makes me laugh when Americans say that others who spell words like Colour instead of Color do it differently.... Nah fam, you guys are the ones who do it differently, everyone else does it right.
😂 it's like paper sizes A4 and letter format... Or miles and km.... One of the two examples always is the more global standard 😂
Why did you add the "U" is a common question from Americans 🤣🤣
@@martingerlitz1162 I always ask Americans if you take one "l" from traveller why don't you take one from silly......or take an "o" from book....
@@ponto08 so funny! Bok...! I stayed in the UK for too long 😄. Would always spell it like traveLLer
funny how they took a language, changed it, and now push it as THE language
I come from Austria and live now in the US, the amount of people asking me if I've ever seen a Kangaroo in real life and if I have visited Sydney is astounding 🤣 I then started helping them by stating that I come from Austria, Europe, next to Germany, in hopes the questions would stop, but they would most of the time stay the same, like a check list, kangaroo and sydney! 🤣
Here in Australia we get asked where Julie Andrews sang "Climb Every Mountain" (our highest mountain is 2200m)
Since we are on the topic of the dumbest thing an American said, I was watching a video about Australian cost of living and this American commented, this is why you should not have voted Biden. Apparently Australia and America have the same president/prime minister now
Well Scotty was trying to join Humpty Trumpty in every way, boosted the "trade war" with China no end, still struggling with that aren't we.
Little Johnny joined his good buddy Dubbya and that pommy bloke that no one remembers, in a little war that we all just got out of, leaving some religious nutjobs in charge.
Do I need to any more examples.
Being Indian, i was trying to tell the American guy that India is part of Asia too and Asia is a continent and not a country. As a continent, Asia includes countries like India, Pakistan, China, Russia, etc. He said "Wait, first you tried to tell me India is in Asia and now you are telling me Russia is in Asia too?. You are so dumb!! So when we (America) won the war in Vietnam, we won Russia and China too?" I gave up.
Vietnam is such a trauma the whole ass country is living in denial now.
I'm American, and once in high school, I had to explain the speed of light to a student. She told me the speed of light didn't exist
Had an American who worked in the postal service assure me 100% that Canada is small and only has 1 time zone "Canada time". Canada has 5 time zones, our home and native land is
W I D E !
I really don’t get this. I can understand not knowing much about other continents, but don’t they have geography lessons there? Like what the hell
I know Europe’s geography best bc it’s closest to me, then Africa/Asia and then America. But even I know that Canada is huge. I don’t understand how it works
Canada is slightly larger than the contiguous USA. 10m sq km versus 9.8m sq km.
Canada has six time zones. Perhaps you overlooked Newfoundland?
I was in an American cafe, gave my name to the barista. After she amde my coffee she was interested in my accent and my name (my name is Stavros), so i told her that my nationality is Australian and my heritage is Greek so my parents gave me a Greek name... She then politely told me it's not possible to be born in two countries..
Do Americans not know what nationality or heritage mean?
Me born in Brazil with an Italian dad and a Japanese mom reading this lol
They mix race, nacionality, ancestry an heritage
They don't 😂
Short answer, no.
Yes exactly...how can you be in two places at once? lol :D :D honest mistake to make
I'm a German. I've been in South Carolina once. An engineer asked me if we also built a wall along the border to Mexico... Uhm no. We made them digging a trench 3000 miles in width.
I showed him the location of Germany in Google maps. Dude was surprised how far you can zoom out.
Other questions have been: Do you have cars / laptops / phones / animals / plants in Germany?
There was also an expat from Italy. He absolutely couldn't get over this question: Do you have pizza and pasta? Pro tip: never ever ask an Italian this question in particular. Don't do that.
Does Germany have cars? Germany invented the car!
And Italians invented pizza and pasta 😂😂😂
Answer from an Italian: "Yes, and keep talking shit and we are going to take them back."
They should have asked the Italian if they like pineapples on their pizza🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@bubs45 The car thing is a common theme. I am more baffled with "do you have animals & plants?". Like no, Germany is just barren land, we eat stones.
Traveling with a colleague to an exhibition at a military base in the middle of nowhere in the US from Austria. Waiting for the security guy (contractor) to allow us access, he checked our Austrian Passports for about 15min. Then he came back to us to ask: “Is Austria an own country? Or is it part of Germany?”
LMAO I hope you said it's still the part of the Third Reich.
I'm surprised he didn't ask you about your kangaroos.
"Yeah, that was tried a while back ... it didn't last"
I'm French and the things i've been asked by Americans are wild aswell. Like not knowing what is EU and UK and mixing up the 2, not knowing where a single country is on a map, asking if we have Christmas here and thinking since the WW2 happend everything is still in rubbles...
@user-cn4cz2zh9t C'est abusé, c'est comme si on vivait sur une autre planète
I was in USA for 5yrs and US colleagues every year were asking me for the 4th of July and Thanksgiving what we were doing in Italy or Europe to celebrate ……my polite reply was no one was giving a f..k because are USA festivities…..every time they were shocked 😂
The 4th of July question is really surprising. But maybe this people celebrate actually the 4th of July and not the independence of their home country? So, they expect no different elsewhere because July, 4th is such a great day? Or they just assume, you celebrate with them their independence?
Regarding thanksgiving. Of course, other countries don't have this history regarding Thanksgiving. But a celebration of a good harvest is probably part of every culture around the world. Not like the USA does, not at the same day etc. but there is some kind of celebration.
Should have seen "Independence Day". The president said, that NOW Independence Day might be for everyone.
@@hw2508that's why I call the 4th of July by its actual name: Independence Day!
I will say that if you have a permanent green card or are a Naturalized U.S. citizen and live here, I would hope you would be celebrating Independence Day with us.
it sounds to me that they just "know" that the 4th of July is a day for celebration and dont bother or care to ask what or why they celebrate.@@hw2508
@@hw2508Many countries throughout the world celebrate a harvest festival - Thanksgiving day in America is the absolute epitome of genocide.