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LOVE the Kenyan guy. "Stupidity is in no way an exclusively American trait but, damn, when they do it, they do it so well" MASTERFUL.
Stupidity is not exclusively an American trait, but some things you hear/read and you just know it's an American who said it
HAHA
Classy burn, I appreciate it lol
-an American
#1 again!
When he ate like a snack it was just perfect
Worked at a casino here in Australia and had an American visitor complain to me - "why don't our ATMs pay out US Dollars? It very inconvenient". I asked him back "do ATMs in Vegas casinos issue Australian dollars?" He scoffed back "dont be ridiculous". I said "you've just answered your own question".
I seriously find my head shaking at the importance of self, right there. Oh well.
@@SilverScriptz Yeah WTF! collective narcissism.
Your responses are perfection!
Boom….. spot on response. Course 101 on how to do a put down 👏👏👏
so i went to Europe for a couple of years. before i went i obviously exchange dollars for pounds at the airport my sister (i swear I'm adopted) she said to me can i take a look at your London money and i like its pounds. we don't call the Australian dollar Melbourne money
When in New Zealand I was surprised to find toy Kangaroos for sale. When I asked why, the store owner said the toy kangaroos are for American tourists who visit New Zealand & think they are in Australia.
She said at first she tried to tell them that NZ wasn’t Australia but after awhile it was easier to just sell them kangaroo souvenirs.
Best story ever....that made me laugh!
Love this so much 🤣🤣😂
That is pretty genius! Good for sales. Put some wombats, tasman devils and the likes in there as well?
I just love it when people use Americans ignorance of geography for profit
From America and find this hilarious
When I was still in school, we had this american exchange school girls with us for two weeks, and the first evening she asked us, if german engineers were able to construct houses taller than three stories yet.
When we recovered, my dad smoothed things over and changed the subject. The weekend we made a trip to Cologne and we showed her the Dome (474ft tall) and explained to her, that it actually is twice as old as her country.
It was like watching a toy robot dog having a short circuit for about ten minutes.
I'm laughing so hard 🤣🤣🤣
She probably thought the Statue of Liberty is american-made. 😩
@@xrc7445 the number of Americans who do….
LMAO..
When I lived in Mönchengladbach, we went to Köln during carnival, the city is beautiful and my GF was so happy with her free sweets XD it was amazing.
I'm Australian and I was talking to this American guy online years ago and he asked me if we had electricity in Australia. My response...No mate, I'm sitting at my computer desk peddling my generator.
I feel like this is a very typical Aussie reply and I love it 😂
This reminds me of a former American colleague in France (I was employed by a US company), whose mother, who had hardly even left her state, was planning a visit to her son; she asked him if we had "roads that automobiles can safely drive on" in France.
I had similar but I’m from NZ and they asked if we lived like Xena warrior. Similar response given, yup, the American missionaries let us use there computer lol
If you have a generator that is operable, you have electricity, but I get your point.
I'm rubbing a cat on a perspex rod just so I can type this
"Do you have schools in the Philippines? "
Actually this kind of question makes me wonder if you have schools in the USA.
Golden one. 🙂
To be fair foreign nations often don’t have everything america has. The Philippines is a 3rd world nation so Americans start at square one. We ask questions like “do you have electricity there?” And “do you have cars there?” As a baseline. Then we go into intermediate things like “do you have internet there ?” Or “do you have microwaves there?”. And finally we go to advanced things like “do you know what hop scotch is?” Or “do they have Burgers in the Philippines?”. We always sus it out starting stupid and simple and advancing to more cultural questions once we learn you have plumbing or cellphones there
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Dude...my guy...that's so wrong on so many levels, wtf?...pls tell me that you can see why is so wrong or my faith for your country will forever be damage man
@@sagc1998 Right? Why do they say things like that!? It's not like the rest of the world is still on medieval times or something 🤣 even the majority of third world countries have electricity, phones, etc! Wtf!
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Please tell me this is a joke while i eat my burger i reheated in our microwave oven after my Masters classes that i have been taking up online.
Being ignorant is totally fine - everyone is ignorant about a whole lot of things. What makes America stick out in these circumstances is the arrogance that goes along with it. Now, America definitely does not have a monopoly on ignorance or arrogance but, anecdotally, the combination of the 2 is something of a trait.
Indulged societal ignorance.
well said
That tone of ignorance and arrogance together...when you hear it or read it...you just know it was an American who said it
@niels lund LMAO
I have always said that the Americans are as arrogant of their ignorance as their French are ignorant of their arrogance.
So, I am Bulgarian, but spent three years in the US Naval Academy as a foreign exchange student.
I spent my freshman year with this bonehead from Texas who was as stereotypical as one can possibly be.
Because of the high call rates, I and my dad arranged a Skype session every Sunday for one hour.
And every time I talked to my dad, this moron was standing there, seething, because I would speak "a communist language", because Bulgarian sounded like Russian to him (to give him credit, they do sound alike).
Anyway, one day I was chatting with my dad and this idiot was like:
- What are you doing?
- Talking to my dad.
- In Bulgarian?
- Uh, yes.
- You're in America! You're not supposed to speak this language around here!
He wanted me to speak American? Fine.
So, I learnt enough Navajo just to piss him off.
Ya'at'eeh, ahalaane kwa'asini!
Underrated comment lol
Hahaha genijalno! Pozdrav od Skopje!
@@Filip-ub9eb Поздрави от Пловдив, брате!
You learned a new language to express pettiness…I fucking love it lmao
So you raised the number of navajo Speaking Bulgarians for more than 100%.. ;)
Living in Australia - I had an american girl ask me if it was hard travelling to school in kangaroo pouches. As a responsible Australian, I told her that legally you're only allowed to ride kangaroos until you're 10, then its walking for the older kids
I tell foreigners when they ask about Koalas and kangaroos, i say theyre delicious . They look at me in horror 😆
Then i relieve them of their shock that only kangaroo meat can be eaten as Koalas are a protected species, their reactions are priceless 😆
Kangaroo meat high in iron low in fat,
much more healthy to eat than beef or pork
I'm sure that was a joke. But you Aussies arent good at being witty or intelligent enough to pick up on it.
@@nipponsuxs I had some kangaroo burgers, very nice, loved the texture and taste, not dripping with fat like other meats, initial couple of bites was a bit strong, then got used to it and very good.
Convinced people I rode a moose to school and had a pet penguin. I'm from America, these were Americans.
Oh, so like our Canadian Moose Buses and National Igloo lmao
When I was fifteen I spent six months living in Phoenix. On my first day of school, a girl asked me to say something in British. I asked her what did she mean?
She said that as I come from Britain, I must speak British. So I told her there's no such language and that we actually speak English. Ok then she said say something in English. I had to ask her what language did she think I was speaking? American she replied. I had to walk away.
@tacfoley so that isn't english then, it's welsh. Coming from a Brit
I remember watching a youtube video with an American teen and she also said she spoke "American"
No, it's Americanish
Hahahahahaha 🤣
OMG...as an American I just have to shake my head.....why some Americans don't understand that the US is not the only country that speaks English is so embarrassing
Oh, I'm from Finland btw. A friend of mine also spent a year in the US as an exchange student and she got asked if she's ever seen an airplane.
She replied with 'No, I swam here across the Atlantic ocean.'
The person asking the question didn't even understand she was being sarcastic.
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Classic.
Kävin joskus Bovallius-ammattiopistoa ja meillä kävi sellainen Amerikkalainen mies eräällä luokalla vierailulla, kertomassa elämästään täällä Suomessa. Yksi meistä kysyi häneltä että mikä ylätti hänet eniten Suomessa ja hän vastasi että kun hän tuli suomeen, hän kysyi ihmisiltä että missä päin suomea elää jääkarhuja ja yllättyi kun ihmiset kummmastelivat häntä ja vastasivat ettei niitä elä lähmaillakaan.
I’m Scottish and was in Florida on holiday and this American family came up to me and my brother and said that we shouldn’t speak our language and that it’s America so you should only speak English, we had to explain that we were speaking English but we just had an accent. They didn’t believe us 🤣
Funny how English isn't even an American language it's taken from another country but they wouldn't want a language spoken from another country in their own
Well... I can understand them somehow...😂😂😂
Your first mistake was being in Florida
Most Americans know English comes from England. You also have Americans like me who know Old English is made up of multiple germanic languages.
"Do you have cars in germany"
no, we only invented them, build all the Porsche, Mercedes, VW, BMW etc., and then immediately ship them all off to the US, without keeping a single one.
Well, many Americans seem to think, that Henry Ford invented the car. Oh, and of course Alan Turing built the first Computer, not Konrad Zuse.
Haha yea, I had the same question. How do you guys transport? 🤣🤣🤣
I knew it!
@@GGysar I think that you will find that the first concept for computing was by Charles Babbage!
@Mik Davies And you will find, that Konrad Zuse BUILT the first working computer. I wrote nothing more nor less. Further by that logic Yngve Björnståhl invented the LCD, not George H. Heilmeier, who is generally credited for inventing the modern LCD. Does this make sense to you? not really, right?
I once had an American (who knew perfectly well I am from Australia) start to preach to me about my constitutional rights..... meaning the American Constitution. He honestly thought it applied everywhere. Also, at least once every year an American will ask me what I'm doing to celebrate the 4th of July holiday, knowing that I am from Australia - like the whole world celebrates America's FREEEEEDUMB
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah I've been asked by an American if we have the 4th of July here. I said yes, right between the 3rd and the 5th. He just couldn't get his head around the fact that we don't celebrate it as it has zero relevance here.
The same with Thanks giving 🤪
Plenty of Australians (Not me!) also preach the US constitution way too often. They mistakenly believe we have freedom of speech, and plead the 4th. Too much US tv, and not enough education.
@@gaijininja ugh don't get me started on Australian Sovereign Citizens using US Sov Cit talking points......
The first time I travelled to the USA, I was speaking casually with a couple and the lady asked where I was from. When I said I was from Australia, the lady put her hand on my arm and said, "I must compliment you on how well you speak english". She was being so nice and earnest, I didnt want to embarrass her, so I said "Thank you. I practice everyday"!! I still laugh about it more than 20 years later
i admit i made a similar mistake in Thailand in my first few days there.
i complimented more than a couple Thai people how well they spoke English
(better than some N.Americans really),
then i found out English is mandatory learning elementary school and has been for decades.
@@niagarawarrior9623 But your mistake makes more sense, they do speak Thai along with around 70 other local languages. Many probably do not speak English well. Not the same thing as Australians, English is their mother tongue , they have done the same thing to English people, you know, from Englad!!! haha I have heard stories from British people too, those cases are serious ignorance, lol
@@niagarawarrior9623 well English has been a mandatory subject for a long time here in HK and the fluency can range from perfectly fluent (almost indistinguishable from a native speaker), to only being able to write and read, whilst speaking with the most ridiculous accent ever. it’s really weird, people who don’t do particularly well in English (people who can’t write that well or people who don’t do well in more advanced classes) can often hold their own in conversation, and can continue to hold one for as long as they wanted, whereas people who do exceptionally well in English (people who are great with the pen or people who excel in advanced classes) can’t hold a conversation for very long in English, since they only developed their writing and analytical skills, not their actual verbal skills.
@@aguyonasiteontheinternet don't worry, most of us Aussies are grateful that you can at least read english. We barely can. Please don't ask us to learn Cantonese...
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if she said “I must compliment you on how well you speak American”
Sorry, Swede again...
In the US a coworker asked me about Sweden, so I told her a little about our history and that we stopped having human sacrifices approximately a 1000 years ago...(It got "cancelled" when christianity started). She started seriously freaking out, since she could not grasp the concept of A THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
Easy to confuse with days or minutes.
Jag menar USA har inte funnits så länge så dom tror att världen startade 1776
When did she think Jesus lived?
@hypsyzygy506 oh gee, is that like Jesus H. Christ who wrote like, the Declaration of Independence and the First Amendment?
A mate and I landed in LA from NZ, chatted with a few Americans at a bar who asked if we had electricity in NZ. We said no, but we fill up empty bottles with electricity and post back to our families in NZ. They were amazed and bought us drinks all night. They told us about these amazing inventions like microwave ovens.
LOL
How do we eat fish then?
That's epic. If I ever get overseas again I'm definitely trying that one.
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I'm from Scotland and American said what part of Manchester is that
This story sounds fake af and that is the reason I 100% believe it LMFAOOO
I've spent way to long explaining to Americans that the American constitution, primarily the 1st and 2nd amendments, don't have any legal standing in New Zealand.
We get Americans in Canada and, especially at border crossings, going hysterical about that. Neither the 1st or the 2nd Amendment nor any other part of American Constitutional law is worth a sparrow's tweet up here. They are totally subjected to our own laws, which they scream about if caught for something or are turned away at border points for carrying weapons - which may very well be confiscated as we don't believe in slaughter in the streets up here.
Hahahahahahahaahahahaha
Had a similar discussion while arresting an American serviceman who had carried a pistol out of his camp thinking his military status and concealed carry permit carried any weight in the UK.
dumbest encounter i had was with some military guys stationed here in germany. one of them was like "damn, you guys have so many import cars here, all these BMW, VW, Audi and Porsche everywhere. even the cabs are mercedes." i tried to explain to him that those are domestic cars to us, but he didn't seem to grasp the meaning of the words "import" and "domestic".
"Import" might be synonymous to "fancy" to them.
@@e.458 With the amount of times germans get asked if we "have cars in Germany" probably not 😅
Please tell me they weren't allowed to use actual weapons...
@@maritnordin6017 they were iraq combat veterans, so i guess they used their fair share of weapons.
@Gi Gi two countries at least, as they were stationed in germany and were deployed to iraq.
of course not all of them didn't grasp the meaning of the word "import", but some had trouble with the definition of what an import car is.
I’m Ecuadorian. Once had someone ask me what I was. I told them I was Latino, and they guessed Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Guacamole.
🤣 Saludos de Argentina y mataría por unos chifles de maqueño...
Mande chifles también. Saludos desde Chile.
I Love Guacamole! 😁
@@Paddeltroll
It's lovely this time of year!
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Guys I’m American and yesterday I had to try my best to convince my coworkers that fish are animals. My friend at work is going vegan for a little bit and upon hearing this, my other coworkers told him to eat fish because it’s not an animal. the amount of people with college degrees who don’t know anything is way to damn high.
I'm an American liking these comments because they are funny, but actually they are so sad!
And what do they think fish are? Minerals? Fungi? Plants? Another different kingdom?
I'm vegan. But you don't have to be vegan to know that fish are animals, just the intellect of a 5 yo.
Still should eat fish though 😂 because vegan isn't healthy enough.
@@Vickzq never said it was. Missing the point a little hard there bud.
I don’t mind people asking questions, even stupid questions. What I don’t like is when they become belligerent and arrogant when they are gently corrected of their errors and misconceptions.
the amount of times Americans on the internet will confidently and aggressively insist they are right about a country they couldn't find on a map and have never been to, even in the face of folks who live in said country and are happy to provide sources, is truly mind blowing.
I was an exchange student in the USA and I had a speech in my geography class about Norway. I told them that the capital of Norway is Oslo and the teacher told me "no, it is Stockholm". Even after i told her again that the capital is Oslo and that i know the capital of my own country, she continued insisting that it was Stockholm. And she was a teacher of geography 😅
Wow. Just wow. I would have liked to say to her "I think you need to TAKE a geography class, not TEACH a geography class".
Amazing!
and you were surprised why?
thats crazy that the didnt know what the was teaching i the Capital of norway is Oslo not knowing that and you are a teacher she insissted that the Capital of norway is the Capital of my cuntry 😁
This reminds me of a German (I am also German but double nationality) that insisted that another city in the country that I grew up in was the capital city and not the one I said it was. Someone even had to step in and defend me that I was indeed right. Only then he was like "huh really?" Not even sorry or anything.
I work in a hotel in Rome, Italy.
The civilization before the Romans were called the Etruscans, but they have been gone for about 2000 years.
One American tourist asked me if we kept them in reservation like they do in the US with the native reservations.
I just imagined them visiting Russia and finding out about the autonomous republics...
The Russian Federation is called a federation, because it consists of many ethnic groups with specific territories and cultures. Although 80% of people in Russia are ethnic Russians, there are also 22 minorities, that have their own republics within Russia.
These republics aren't reservations. They're for the most part the original tribeslands of indigenous people, that were conquered by the Russian Tsardom since the 17th century.
The Tsardom didn't expell the natives or attempt to extinguish those tribes. There were no "Indian Wars" like in the US. The tribes got to keep their homelands and are to this day still largely self-governing.
They have to pay federal taxes (= a full 13% of their net income) and be able to understand Russian (for administrative purposes), but that's pretty much it. Many of them have their own law systems, which are separate from federal Russian law. When they're not talking to federal bureaucrats, they speak their own languages and live their lives as they see fit.
Just to put this into perspective: Absolutely vast parts of Russia are owned by indigenous tribes. The natives were not dumped in some crammy desert hellhole, after settlers had taken all the fertile farmland like in the US.
Find a map of Russia and search for Yakutia. This republic belongs to a native tribe, the Yakuts, who have been there since forever. Yakutia alone is basically as big as the whole European continent - and nobody tried to stuff the Yakuts in a reservation. It's all still theirs, although politically they belong to Russia.
@@unterdessen8822 Aktually there are more than a couple of videos about the Yakuts and the coldest place on earth on YT. It's worth watching!
@@unterdessen8822 nice, i must say i was ignorant and would have believed that the russians opeessed them much more. Ofc not reservations, I know they are just on their normal land, but I thought there would be more cutural repression. Bug I guess it was more during UDSSR times? I mean it's very common for the state government to try to eradicate local cultures. E.g. france succeeding in eradicating most local languages spoken in france beforehand.
@@KatalovesLinkinPark Yes, things were stricter under Soviet rule. Some republics went insane, as soon as communist control was gone. A good example is Chechnya.
Its people came to southern Russia as slave hunters in early medieval times. They sold Slavic women and children to Arabs and Turks as military slaves ("Mamluks") and sex slaves. At some point the empire reclaimed the territory, but didn't kick the Chechens and related Muslim slave hunter groups out.
They kept quiet as long as there was a strong government in charge - tsars or communists -, but when communism collapsed in the 1990s, the Chechens took the opportunity to try and split from Russia and open their own extremist Islamist caliphate. This led to 2 wars with the federal government, and Moscow didn't actually perform too well in the first one. But they managed to regain control.
This was seen as a civil war by western countries, so many accepted the poor, innocent Chechen refugees... which led to the Boston marathon bombing. Those brothers were Chechens.
If you're interested, check out the Beslan school massacre as well, to get an idea of what those extremists were like.
But Russia always tries to bring people back together. Enemies can become friends after a while. One of the three units (V, X and Z), that were originally deployed to Ukraine is a Chechen unit (X), led by their Head of State Ramzan Kadyrov. After all of their mad extremists and other bad apples had left due to the wars in the 90s, Chechnya recovered and now works with Moscow. Kadyrov's father was one of the Chechen leaders, who sided with Moscow in the 90s and worked to end the war and prevent extremists among his own people from f*cking everything up for the whole ethnic group.
That said, the alleged oppression during tsarist and Soviet times is vastly exaggerated. Of course there were conflicts between the tsardom and non-Russian ethnic groups, but in general they were treated with much more respect than North American natives. It was and is Russia's policy to let people live their own lives the way they want, and although the communists didn't fully follow that path, they MOSTLY kept it up.
Putin is currently advocating to implement this policy on a worldwide scale, along with the other BRICS nations. They think it's wrong to force everyone on Earth to accept a certain western brand of democracy, subscribe to the same ideology and give up their culture for a corporate non-culture that erases all interesting differences between people.
If you want a real shocker, check out the Sorbs. They're a tiny Slavic minority within Germany, that has its own territory with its own schools and its own language.
They ended up in Germany, when German settlers started cultivating swampland in the east from the 9th century on. There were small Slavic tribes in the swamps, that are now eastern Germany and Poland, and they either mixed with the settlers or became enclaves in the newly developed farmland.
An example for mixing are the Prussians, whose kings became German emperors in the Second Empire.
But the Sorbs remained on their island and the First Empire grew around them, leaving them alone for the most part (except for Christian missionaries). For a thousand years nobody even questioned their existence.
Then the nazis rose to power and at a party meeting one guy came up with the idea to extinguish the Sorbs. They were a very small Slavic ethnic group, they had no lobby, and their land could be distributed among Germans after they were gone.
This proposal caused an epic shitstorm (as it should). The whole rest of the attendants was against it. They pointed out, that the Sorbs had been part of Germany for a thousand years, they had never caused any trouble, were good decent people and nobody had a problem with them speaking their funny dialect or practising their local customs. It didn't matter that they were Slavs, they were neighbours. They belonged to Germany and to hell with everyone who dared to touch them!
You see... even in Stalin's Russia land was not taken from the Yakuts. Even in nazi Germany 99% of avid, committed nazi officials didn't want to get rid of the defenseless Sorbs.
Reminds me of the Southern American who contacted the Australian embassy and asked would he be able to speak English if he visited Australia. He got the reply, Yes, but first you'll need to learn it.
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That's GOLD!
Yeah but Australian English is different from British English but both are of course far in advance of American English where they can't even say ALUMINIUM properly.
@@vinnyganzano1930 OR nuclear.
@@vinnyganzano1930 As someone from England, I agree with the sentiment entirely, however aluminum as Americans pronounce it is far more historically correct. That was what the inventor called it, it was only changed in the UK as a result of pressure from Europe that preferred the pronounciation aluminium. It still irritates me that we essentially have no argument for the way they pronounce it.
I've worked years for american customer service. Most of the time it is actually not about ignorance it is more about ARROGANCE.
I find they often go hand in hand.
Ignorance and arrogance is usually the worst combination.
I was traveling to California, I was stopped for random search in security and they asked me where I was from So I answered "Denmark", to which the security guy asked if that was in Asia.
I told him "no, that is in Europe" to which the other guy started laughing at the first one and said: "Like, in the country Europe right?"
It took me a good minute to collect myself before I said. "No..like it a continent"
guy 1: "I don't think I've ever been to continent"
If I hadn't been there with a group a friends I would have taken the next flight home, in fear of losing IQ if I stayed.
Ofc there are also all the standard "Do you guys still wear viking helmets at celebrations" to which the answer ofc is, "Only if we are drunk enough"
knowing me, I would have answered to the vicking helmets : "only our military force, and on vicking ships along with bucklers for security measures, I used one to come here, what a rough ride it was..."
California says it all 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@matts1451 I'm from California and I don't know anyone who doesn't know that Europe is a continent. That is required knowledge in elementary school.
@@DeidresStuff 🤣🤣🤣That's a first, where are you from in California? I never met any intelligent people from there they just came into the nice area of Arizona where I lived and turned it into a liberal shithole where they dont know if they are a boy or a girl.
@@DeidresStuff i’m from quebec. Just last year, i was in 9th grade (the equivalent), and our history teacher asked us to pinpoint where we were on a mpa of quebec. More than half the class couldn’t do it and i was amazed
“Our spiders are nicer than your people” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Coming from an Australian, that is SERIOUS!!!😅
I live in Canada and was asked by an American truck driver from Texas if the border between Canada and the US was placed there because that is where the temperature always drops by at least 30 degrees. I explained how the US radio station he listened to was reporting the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit while the Canadian radio station he switched to was reporting it in degrees Celsius. He was never able to understand that the temperature didn't change at the border; the measuring system did.
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Shh...don't tell him about the miles to kilometres change either. His mind might break.
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"Stupidity is in no way a specifically American trait, but when they do it, Damn! they do it well!" Put that on a bumper sticker. I worked at a planetarium in Florida for a year and we had an "Ask an Astronomer" hotline (this is in the mid 90s). This one woman kept calling at least once a week or so to ask the most 420 induced questions ever. The one I remember: "So, I read that the average rain cloud is about a million pounds. How much damage would happen if a cloud ever hit the earth?" Yes, ma'am, that's called fog.
I'm an American, so I'm embarrassed to tell you this... If you'd like a good laugh, search on TH-cam for deer crossing signs. I can't possibly do it justice, just listen to it. Smdh...
At least, she was curious and willing to educate herself, wasn't she ?
I have my own stupid American Story as an American.... I am an answering service operator working remotely from home in Texas for a company based in Georgia ... one night a woman called one of the companies that service the Georgia and Florida area .... the woman asked if the company was based in the US...it was explained to her what the service area was and omg she then asked if that was in California... apparently some people in California think they are the only state in the US ... Texans have talked about succeeding from the US to create our own Country for years and now more than ever I wish we would...lol
@@greggb5819 OMG!
But, but ... gravity!
I once had an American women compliment me, “Oh Katie, you speak such good American!” I said, yes, we call it English. 🇦🇺 Also, when I was running some business in New Mexico, I twice had companies tell me that they did not deliver to outside the USA. They were surprised when I said that New Mexico is a state of the USA. Good grief.
That New Mexico problem seems to be encountered a lot.
@@michaelmclachlan1650 That can't possibly be true!
When I first drove through New Mexico I saw the state License Plates that read "New Mexico USA"
I thought is was just another USA State pushing the endless: Raw Raw American Hype,
Nope, many Americans have no idea New Mexico is an American State.
I met a 20 year old American guy in New Zealand. I had told him the drinking age in New Zealand (18) he was so sad he wasn't a resident. Coz he was American and the drinking age is 21 in America, so therefore he couldn't drink. We were in NZ.
This took a lot of explaining to the point of giving up. Very sure of himself. ✌ 😆
I've spend way too much hours reading this hilariously good comment section, GOLD! 😂👌
Me too. I’m so fascinated by all the comments, that I forgot to walk my dog today 😂😂😂
It's good you can take this on the chin Ian. As an Australian I can safely say that the USA has NOT cornered the market on stupidity. I was at the local pub with a friend from Scotland and an Aussie woman was really interested in him...he was flattered until she asked him if they had electricity there...I think beer came out of my nose at that point.
Alcholol out the nose is painful
🤦🏼♀️
I find it hard to believe he was being serious seeing as Australian soaps are ridiculously popular in the U.K. and have been since the 80s.
@@penname5766 She probably doesn't know Scotland is in the UK.
I'm Aussie and had a friend who thought the holocaust was the the eruption of Mt Vesuvius. She is a stripper but damn
I get the odd job offer from the USA for freelance projects. People are always so affronted (and offended) when I tell them I'm not interested since my hourly rate paid by my South African and New Zealand clients is 4 times more than their US rates. 😂
They seem to think I should be grateful for getting the opportunity to work for a US company and should accept it even if I don't agree to the rates. 🇿🇦
I believe Walmart tried to open and run a shop in Germany some years ago. With American rules, wages, insurances etc. Most of them illegal in Germany. So they had to close very fast.
american wages have always and will always boggle me… i dont know how how half their population isnt in poverty or worse…
@@maybe3631 Because they work long hours and are entitled to less vacation.
@@6aviota they should be paid more.
@@maybe3631 Yes. And not have to endure such work conditions. A 40 hour work week, reasonable time off after you have a child, proper vacations...
I am from the US. I lived in England for two years. Everyone at my (international) college was amazed that A: I know the geography of the entire world, and B: I am bilingual. It blew their minds when I displayed critical thinking skills too.
TBH, an American who knows things and can actually think is a bit of a rarity
How did your country manage without their intelligent citizen for that time? 🤣
@@Jill-mh2wn Well the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal was during that time. I was VERY happy not to hear about it all the time.
That would blow my mind too.
@@CrazyMazapan TBF I didn’t learn geography at school - I felt like learning something while recovering between four surgeries in 18 months. My mother is a teacher and my house was really into critical thinking skills. Learning a second language opened my mind a LOT, and being white and raised by a Black step parent from a young age made me get over myself. Well - that and being GenX.
I'm Scottish, from Glasgow with a very strong Glasgow accent and I was a police officer in the north of England. I was stopped by an American couple asking for directions to a museum which I gave them. They stood there staring at me then the woman asked why they let an Irishman be a cop with a gun in England. They were even more surprised when I told them I was Scottish and their jaws really hit the ground when I explained that four countries make up Britain. Of course they did also ask why I wasn't wearing a kilt if I was Scottish. My mate who was beside our car was literally pissing himself laughing.
Are you sure your mate was literally pissing himself??
My family is from Glasgow. I was born in Australia. We were once accused of having "posh" accents, and I just about died laughing.
@@jfrakers According to him a little bit of wee came out and we don't lie in the police 😜
@@vinnyganzano1930 🤣🤣
Ironically, of all the countries in the UK, it’s only the one that’s Irish where the police routinely carry guns.
When I visited the US, I went to a casino in Shreveport Louisiana. The 2 security officers needed ID to prove I was over 21. So I showed my Australian Drivers licence. They took their time….. they couldn’t find it in their book of US driver’s licences…… ummmm I’m from the country of Australia. You will never find it in that book…. They still didn’t get it. I had to get them ask for a supervisor… I explained it to him. He just laughed and said enjoy your night. The 2 security officers still looked perplexed.
Nice one 🤣
Classic!
I’m not sure they were fit to be described as “officers”! 🤦♂️
Having met American soldiers, I have no problems believing that. Nice guys but thicker than Vegemite😉
@@vinnyganzano1930 'Thicker than Vegemite,' 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆.
I was a tour guide in Scotland, while travelling through Edinburgh one of my American visitors casually mentioned how great it was that they built the Castle so close to the train station. The Castle was built in the 1000's!
At least they never asked what part of Ireland you were from, that's all I got for years.
🤣
Well would have been built after 1066 because it was the Norman invaders who brought the stone castle idea with them.
@@ethanmccormack9561 Most of the current castle was build in the 16th century after a particularly damaging seige. The oldest building in the castle complex though, and likely the oldest in Edinburgh is St. Margarets Chapel, known to date to the 12th century.
It's widely recognised that the rock on which the current castle sits has been continuously occupied by a fortified seat of power since the 6th century AD with lots of evidence of iron age occupation before that.
@@jncg2311
Did you keep wasting iron age invaders out of the country yet ???
I'm from New Zealand. I went to Uni in the US. A girl in my class told me I need to stop faking my accent because its just embarrassing for me. Apparently, she had a friend who moved to New Zealand for 2 years and he came back with an authentic Kiwi accent so she knows what I should sound like. A year later, I met him. He was still using the accent (it was horrible), he asked me where I'm from and suddenly his original GA accent came back. Totally dropped his fake Kiwi accent. The girl was shocked.
Nope, you can't blame it on just the education system, even if it's a major contributor to this shame-fest. People have a world of knowledge literally at their fingertips, they simply choose to be ignorant and believe in their exceptionality.
True, but you have to teach people HOW to learn before they can have a thirst for knowledge. The rate of illiteracy in the US is still notable as is the class disparity in relation to education.
Ignorance is bliss... A happy drone is compliant one... It might be on purpose
@@Lekkah666 I mean, ya. As it was said in Roman times, “bread and circuses”. That’s what placates the masses, right?
@@clarissathompsonits bread and games 2.0 to an extend 😂
A couple of Americans I met asked me to say something in Australian. I said we speak English, but they didn't believe me. So to appease them I said ' Wagga Wagga Parramatta' (which are a town in NSW and a suburb in Sydney in an Indigenous language). They were so impressed. They asked me what it meant. I said it means 'pass me the vegemite'.
Australians are hilariously unintelligent as well.
Love it
Vegemite.... Oh you Australians really like your own versions of food. 😁 Never seen it though, only marmite. And never tasted that.
This made me laugh so hard omg
🤣😂🤣💀💀💀💀💀
I was travelling around Europe by train many years ago. An American girl asked me if she could get to Australia on her Eurail Pass. I smiled sweetly at her and said ‘not if you can’t swim!’
🤣🤣 especially when Australia is on a different continent
🤣🤣🤣 beautiful response 👍🏼
@@adambrock3932 Australia, officially, is a different continent , not on a continent... Actually Its an Island....
@@MickH60 still on its own continent and a separate continent to Europe
well said. I kek'd.
As someone who works in the tourism/hospitality industry, the mount of times I get the "But you're white, you can't be born and raised in Africa" is quite shocking. Another one of my favorites is when they're shocked that I don't have the dream of moving to America, like it boggles them that other people can be happy in their own countries. One last one, I also get asked if I speak African, a lot, like you gotta be more specific, just my home country alone (South Africa) has 11 official languages.
I was in the street talking Spanish with my friend by phone and when I finished the call some teenagers came to me and told me “wow how can you speak spanish that good?” And i told them “well because I’m from Spain” and they told me “from Spain?? But you’re white…” and I told them “Spain is in Europe, we are white” and he went like “wait, isn’t Spain next to Mexico?”🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Sad truth is... there are even europeans who are stupid enough to believe sun-tan makes people no more being white. They don't get that white people get darker skin at the sun... but would turn pale after months in the far north.
Joder Lobezno, onda vital, a todo gas, don pepe y los globos
Reminds me of that time where Antonio Banderas was told that he's Latino not white. He had to fill out some form in the US and they asked for his race and made his mark for white, but then was told that he should have marked Latino. WTF?
My god💀
Lo mismo me ha pasado a mí al visitar EU al ser un mexicano blanco y no chaparro 😅
4:35 Nope, that happens. I'm German and I have been asked if I speak German by US americans multiple times.
However my personal highlight is a girl from LA who asked me if we have internet in Germany while chatting with me on the internet. And it wasn't a joke, she was dead serious.
And while the US education system is definetly part of the problem it's unfortunately not the only problem - it's the entire US mindset and narcissism (that hyper-exxagerated patriotism).
Correct.
Yeah I've been emailed by a lady that asked me (in the Netherlands) if we had internet.
It was an email-response via the Postcrossing-cards (she emailed me a thankyou-for-the-card-response.)
I was fire fighting in the US in 2015 and one of the American fire fighters said" it should be easy fire fighting in Australia, it's an Island", all I could say was, it's a fucken big island though.
How is Hitler going ? Is he still your president ?
@@camembertdalembert6323 Oooooh, edgy edgelord here, everyone.
I've had a few such interactions and what completely floors me is that the Americans concerned are so sure of their incorrect facts that you are drawn down into having to effectively humiliate them no matter how politely and gently you try to set them straight. In fact trying to be polite only makes it worse because they think YOU are stupid 😨
I've even had an American complain to me that no one seems to celebrate independence day in Britain. The more I think about I think we should ...... it was a narrow escape.
Best comment award!! Yes let's celebrate it, byeeeeeeeee
Yes id have yo agree the english dont realise how lucky they were
@@nipponsuxs The Dutch realized that already in 1674 and discarded it to the english.
Hilarious considering the state of the UK right now, you're getting buried in high taxes, probably wishing you could get to America now.
Also ignoring the fact British people are some of the most unlikeable, ,miserable, pessimistic people in the world.
I was working in Austria some years ago and noticed they sold T shirts there printed with "There are no kangaroos in Austria!". Apparently the first question most American tourists ask is "Where are the kangaroos?" Later while I was working as an adventure cave guide an American told me "The Caves in America are darker than this." I said, "Turn your light off." He did and said, "Oh yeah!" We would regularly get asked (by American tourists) "What time is the ten o'clock tour?" "How long is the three hour trip?" "What time does it get back?" But my favourite was "Are there any undiscovered caves around here?" I'd just smile and say "Yes, nine." That would really throw them!
Yes,nine OR yes/nein ? XD I lke that T-shirt, I crossed body of water to get one on Schwechat airport. XD
Years ago my daughter, who was about 14 at the time, and I were at a large bicycle competition in Whistler, B.C. An American rider commented to my daughter that he was surprised to see that we had buildings, cars, and other "modern" amenities. Without missing a beat, she explained that Whistler is a tourist town and as such is built to make people from America feel more at home, but in our day to day lives we live in igloos and must take dog sleds to get there. Love that kid
I love their answer 😂
Hahaha that's amazing
Did you import any bald eagles? 😄
America is not a country. The irony of a Canuck laughing at one from the south 🤦♀️
I had a similar experience with an American who lived here in Argentina. My gym instructor took pleasure in making them believe the most outrageous things in revenge for their ignorance and stupidity. They were wholly convinced a lot of people had raw cow entrails for breakfast and had rodeos with cows because they were supposedly ten times more dangerous than bulls. 🤣 The yankees never seemed to catch up to the fact that the whole gym was sniggering in their sleeves. It was hilarious and I loved every minute of it.
I was caught in a layover in Osaka with an American once, so we decided to walk around and look at some temples. At one place, he points and goes, "Oh look. It's like a wishing well. In America, we have this thing called a wishing well." And then he proceeds to explain to me what a wishing well was. :|
I didn't want to offend him, so I just said, "Right. Like the Trevi fountain. We have them in my country, too." I kid you not, he said, "No, you don't. Wishing wells are American."
As if that wasn't something even known in old european fairytales 😂 ... and of course in asia since china had emperors...
@@Vickzq He would have gone to the emperor to tell him his wishing wells in his Chinese gardens were American, probably through an interpreter. Luckily the last emperor is already dead.
Was on a tour in Italy. We had a couple of days in Rome with a free afternoon and evening. A group of us mainly Aussies and Canadians decided to head into the city for bit of sight seeing and a meal. Some elderly Americans who were on the tour asked if we were allowed to leave the hotel without a guide. Apparently they had done multiple tours and never went outside a hotel without a guide. Laughing internally we invited and took them with us. They had no idea how to buy a train ticket from the ticket machine or how we worked out where we needed to go. So we purchased it for them and pointed to the map on the wall. Although in Italian (which none of us spoke) it was not had to follow. At the end of the night they told us they had never had so much fun. Felt sorry that they had missed out on so much in the past but hoped they had the confidence to do similar things in the future.
Good on you. You not only gave them a great night out, but you taught them important safety skills if they have no guide in any foreign country.
This is real ,Santiago de Compostela (Galicia) in Spain. An American student was injured in a a hand in a footbol (soccer for you) match (he is really bad, by the way lol). When we went to the hospital to take him home, he had been arrested because of that: No one wanted to charge him and he scream "I want to pay i have things to do, this country is shit...." When a policeman asked him about the screming, he punched him because "he thought that the cop wanted to kidnap him" The hospital was free (is free for everyone) but the puch ... 2 days in police station jail and about 3400$ fee...
Qué cojones...
Being Norwegian I was asked if not having access to shotguns made me feel insecure given the polar bears ?
I told him I live in the capitol and the only polar bear I have seen is on the discovery channel and they live in the arctic mostly Svalbard which is not part of the Norwegian mainland.
Now if you will excuse I will go back to my iglo and play Halo on my oil driven tv.
Oh yeah.. as a finnish person, I've been asked about polar bears too and if we live in igloos... 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@@einienj3281 really? That's silly, I thought you lived in the forests, in tree houses and spent all day raking the "floors" of the forests, ha ha A very stable genious told me that, he had the best words
@@mirna-garcia Oh yeah, that too.. yes, I spend all my free time raking the forests.. 😄
You should have told him you carry a seal around with you and if a polar bear approaches you drop the seal and run. The bear always prefers the seal.
You have tv in Norwegia?
Sorry, I'm Australian and couldn't resist the joke.
Dumbest thing I have heard recently is either "Australia would be smaller if you had as many states as the we do." or possibly (talking about the President of Ukraine) "How can he (President Zelenskyy) be the President if Joe Biden is the President?".
At least they knew it was Biden
1986, pre-Crocodile Dundee (when Americans discovered a place called Australia), Chinese restaurant in Merced, CA. I'm talking with my 6 year-old daughter when a nice American lady excuses herself and asks if I'm Australian. I'm impressed and a little bit shocked that she even knew of Australia when she says to her husband "told you so." I ask how did she know. Her reply....wait for it......"you're using chopsticks."
chopsticks are awesome, i use them to scramble and cook eggs.
Yes, the only white looking people in the world proficient with chopsticks are the Aussies
@@iris4547 the best way to scramble eggs
@FIIK but got have chicken salt otherwise they bit blan.
@@1969firefox chicken salt, now that's something the yanks don't have
Several years ago I was sent from England to a job in the United States. My manager who had spent some time there told me "Think of them as naive and innocent but basically well-meaning children". I found that advice to be pretty accurate. I got the classics such as "I just lurve your accent!" and "what language do y'all speak there?". On the plus side, I found Americans to be some of the nicest and most hospitable people I've met and I loved the "Can do, will do" attitude. Here we seem to look for reasons not to do something, but the American way is "What are we waiting for? Let's get on with it!"
This comment should get more likes!
My boss had a boss, who was like "OK, If this cannot be done, write down 10 reasons why not, Then we will see." Through the time my boss learnt that it is easier to find one way how to do stuff, than 10 reasons to not do.
I remember a few years ago, when I was still in high school. I got my self a slice of pizza for lunch and was just walking back to school, when an American tourist stopped me and asked me if they could take a picture of me with the pizza because they didn't expect we had pizza in Slovenia. We literally border Italy, did she not expect one of the simplest dishes to be exported everywhere.
Uh... Time ago I had a long argument in TH-cam comments with an American guy who was certain that pizza is an American dish. He never came to believe it's of Italian origin. Not even when I linked videos of pizza history and something about UNESCO and Italian cultural heritage. So...
There are pizzas in every country in Asia, how about that ?
I ran into two American marines, while living in Tokyo. We talked, I explained I was from Denmark. When I said we paid potentially more than 50% taxes, one of the dudes go "oh so you're Communist, don't worry we'll liberate you."
No thank you.
dam I laughed out loud but that's honestly scary....
No thanks! Geeze.
You have got to be fucking kidding me, I am so sorry for you. It’s sad because we’re so god damn brainwashed. I don’t even support militaries, but god that’s some messed up shit.
Some may feel it's still a form of coercion, no matter how nice.
Fun fact, in 1944 the highest tax rate was 94%
Edit: and in 1970 it was 70%
I was married to a guy who left the US when he was 13 and came to Oz and he couldn’t believe how much we learnt about the rest of the world. He said all he learnt in School was America and how it was “the greatest country int the world”. When he turned 26, he had to decide whether to keep his US passport or become Aust Citizen. He chose Australia because he felt they were way less ignorant.
Why couldn't he just have dual citizenships? I am sure I know people with both.
@@Wug.01 because back then the US wouldn’t allow that.
@@Wug.01 sorry an amendment here to my last reply, he had to go back and live in the US for at least a few years to retain his US citizenship, so he gave it up.
Aussies reckon too that they have the " best country in the world ". Oz education isn't that great either. My son for example had to tell his primary school teacher how to spell "Koala" and had to remind her that tigers don't come from Africa.
@@61sunset you get a few bad teachers here and there, but our education system is at least built to tell our students about the world and its history. Not just our own.
The "do you have schools there" happened to me as well. I was in the US with a university exchange program and while i was at work someone heard me talking in Romanian and asked how i got in the US. My first thought was i could be so sarcastic and say by plane obv, but let's play nice and say with a student exchange program. I kid you not when i said that, that person looked at me like i had just said i was from Mars and then opened their mouth and said: "but how is that possible, you have universities in your country?". I was so close to slapping them.
The funniest I ever saw was, a group of Americas in America were shown a map and asked which country it was. None of them could answer it, but it was the US turned upside down. Ian immigrate to Australia whilst you can and give your children a real education.
The U.S is still a lovely country as long as you're financially secure.
Yep, saw that and, if memory serves, at least one of them was a college graduate.🤔
Oh and, FYI, in Australia we use the correct form, 'emigrate', rather than the North American version, 'immigrate'. It's like the 'aluminium'/ 'aluminum' thing.
Colour/color, Labour/labor, rationalise/rationalize.
Why would he come here to our tyrannical government run prison. It would be better to live in a red state over there. Anyway we are a fictitional country and don't really exist, I've heard American's say.
@@jonlowing7907 immigrate - means entering a country and emigrate - means leaving a country. Ian would be emigrating from America and immigrating to Australia.
An American in Rome, telling his fellow countryman, that the Colosseum was a leftover prop from "Ben Hur" 😄🇦🇺🇺🇸
Oh God
Jezzz 🤦🏼♀️😂😂
That's why we love you man. You remind us that there are good, normal Americans out there.
I was approached by a couple from america, with their teenage son in the backseat, who was visiting Denmark quite a few years ago, and they wanted to know where a local inn was, and for some reason they spoke incredibly slow and condesenting to me. I told them "you don't have to talk slow, i speak english perfectly fine, so just talk normally", and they both go "Oh thank god we met another american! We can't understand a word those danes say...!"...
So when i told them i was native danish, they looked incredibly confused at how i could be native danish, but still speak english, and even when i told them that english is a mandatory language to learn in school here, along with either german or french, they for some reason couldn't comprehend that people could speak two languages, even without having to visit an english speaking country!
I have never seen a kid try to sink into a carseat that badly, and it felt like he was silently BEGGING his parents to just shut up and at least TRY not to seem insanely stupid...
I’m Australian I find it funny when someone says “oh your from Australia, my wife’s favourite restaurant is outback” it’s like saying “oh your Chinese I love Panda Express”
It is what it is! Unfortunately in this case.
I've had Americans ask me if we eat blooming onions here. I'm like nah, closest thing would be onion rings - from the American fast food chain Hungry Jacks aka Burger King. They're always disappointed when they hear that.
Having said that blooming onions look delicious. Low key wanna try one one day.
Funny thing about steak houses...over there Australian steakhouses are the novelty and over here it's American/western style steakhouses
At least they didnt ask you if you knew Mel Gibson!
'oh my gosh, do you know Crocodile Dundee?'
I used to work for a tibetan refugee spiritual master in himalaya, looked bit like yoda, funny amazing guy. He lived in rustic temporary conditions with his monks/ nuns. Highly revered, teacher to the Dalai lama of the highest teachings. One day he was hysterically laughing saying that some americans had got him a green card so he could go to USA, had organised the whole move. He said they hadnt asked him at all. Just assumed he would want to go and they were saving him somehow, he said 'why would they assume I want to go there!?'. Perhaps people dont learn about the outside world when they need to believe they are the greatest country on earth... problem is everyone knows americans can get very upset if someone suggests otherwise.
It’s not usually just a suggestion!? 😂
"Looked a bit like Yoda" lol
It would be interesting if you interviewed your local community to see what they understand about Australia. Could be a laugh Ian.
That would make a really good - and probably pretty hilarious - video. Nice! lol
or a very short one
Would just be a repeat of this video lol
@@thomasdendtler4077 😲😆
Well we ride kangaroos to school and to work so they can't be that ignorant.
A lady from the USA visiting a small coastal village in the UK was asked if she like the place. Oh yes its super. I like it as its so clean. They sweep the streets and she then said to us, do you know they pump all the dirty water out of the harbour and replace it with clean......two times every day....I mean every day without fail. We had to explain that it was the tide going in and out.
I was working as a waitress for a month in a town in South Eastern Spain to gain a little bit of money and buy a traditional folk Spanish dress from my region (they can be quite expensive, I think they are ranked as the second most expensive folk dress in the world), and they sent me to take the order of this American couple because I was the only one who had a somewhat decent level of English. First thing they did was to ask me where I was from. I was so confused, I think my English is quite good but my accent stills shows up a lot, so anyway, I said I was from Spain, from that same town. They told me I was lying. I was shocked, but insisted I was Spanish. They answered that even if I was Spanish I had to have ancestry from somewhere else, to which I responded that no way manuel XD My entire family as far as I know is 100% Spanish. To that, they answered I had to have some Irish, English, German or overall Northern European "family" because I had green eyes and Spaniards "can't have" light eyes. Had I not been holding the tray with their drinks I would have facepalm so hard. Funny thing is, I don't even have green eyes, but hazel. Sure, they look definitely greenish under the sun, but they usually look just brown, they got lucky it was a sunny day. Better yet, the most common eye colour in Spain is hazel, and about 1/5 of Spaniards have light eyes, as in blue, grey, or actually really green eyes (not hazel). Worst thing was not the utter ignorance they displayed, but the arrogance of telling me what I "am" even after telling them repeatedly that they were wrong. One thing is being ignorant and having some prejudices, a different thing is people from a very specific country telling you you're wrong about their country and their own life and existence, yet insisting on knowing better. It was so ridiculous.
Forgot to mention. One of the other waiters had blue eyes, guess they assumed he was Swedish or something.
Sorry for these ignorant Americans. Unfortunately, too many of us Americans think anyone who speaks Spanish is Mexican. Doesn’t matter if you really are Colombian, Cuban, Argentinian or a Spanish for that matter.
Ngl I have brown eyes and am mostly Spanish and Greek so I’m pretty sure they’re right?! Like didn’t light eyes originate in Northern Europe to deal with the snow refraction or something?! How do you know it wasn’t like 5-6 generations ago your family had a relative move to Spain who gave y’all the light eyes ?!
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se 70% of spaniards were *CELTIC* before the Roman Empire invaded on 218 BC. It's been said that spaniard celtics populated Ireland around 5000 BC, not the other way round, and 20% of all britons have our genes!!! In fact, 14% of our population is naturally blonde and 3% is red haired!
I am a blondish -reddish haired pale ghost. I get that all the time. American People actually tell me I am not my own nationality. Or, if I am, then I should do a dna test asap. I have no words.
@@BlackHoleSpain I am one of those definitely, pale and green eyes, my father was blonde gray eyes. But I have curly dark hair like my mother.
i was in Boston and got these 2 comments
ooh youre from Australia, where did you learn english?
and can you teach me how to say hello in Australian ...i nearly fell off the seat but played along with it.rolled out the old
gdaymatehowyagoin, then sat back and laughed to myself as they tried to pronounce it...made my day
perfect. the lack of spaces instantly conveys exactly how its said.
I would like to hear an American trying to say that.
@@missharry5727 it sort of sounded like this
giidaaymaateowrugoiingh
Driving around with with my partner's family in the car. Them repeatedly pointing at signs and asking "how do you say that?" Omeo - Oh me Oh, Tallangatta - Tal lan guh tah, Tangambalanga _ Tan gam ba lan gah. Sound them out, they are phonetic. Response "We don't have phonetic words at home." Nah, of course not, you're from Dallas.
oh yes, the oh so Aussie "howyagoin"
In 2014 I was riding around Australia on a motorbike and had stopped at Uluru and spent a couple of nights staying at the resort. The rock is about 20km from the resort as it is on sacred land. At a restaurant one night I was sitting across from a group of 4 Americans who spent the night complaining about everything imaginable flies, the heat the food etc, but the comment that had me spitting my beer across the table and rolling on the floor laughing was when one of the ladies said quite seriously "They should have put the rock closer to the resort".
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
While standing at Uluru, my father overheard an American tourist complain that climbing the rock (when one could) was tiring and an elevator should be installed.
@@mattbates7099 hmm!🥰
My American step-cousin thought there was a escalator to the top of Uluru and that you could see the Sydney Harbour Bridge from the top! He was a 35 year old man!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm a New Zealander, was visiting the US when I was younger and was asked if I was there to study English. I replied yes (just to see where that conversation would go) and they didn't disappoint - "honey you're doing so well, I can almost understand you - maybe another year and you'll be fluent!" 🤣🤣
I talked to this girl from Oklahoma over a decade ago on the web, and the chat sort of veered into politics. When she asked what system we have here in Norway, I said we have a social-democratic constitutional monarchy, complete with a parliament with several parties, and a (practically just figurehead) royal family. She was flabbergasted, at the social-democratic part. She said something along the lines of "If you're socialist, you cannot be democratic" and implied we were all being bullshitted over here. At that point, I just couldn't.
She's right in a way.
@@chadjcrase If we had a one-party system like China, sure. Or a two party system with two, in practice, similar parties where one is basically conservative and the other is insane.
@@chadjcrase Another "wise" american....ignorance is a plague in that country.
@@chadjcrase here's something that will blow your mind. I live in a country where one of the main three political parties is socialist. Sometimes they win the elections, sometimes like now they don't. You know... like a democracy.
@@chadjcrase How American of you to say that.
I have had multiple Americans tell me that the English language was invented in the U.S.
The ENGLISH language! A language that evolved (it wasn't 'invented') over a time period longer than the U.S.A. has existed. And this happens a fair bit, far more often than it should. The clue is in the name of the language people!
Incidentally, if it really was "invented" in the USA, why is it named "English"?
England + ish = English
yep as an aussie I gotta say I have had a number of americans tell me I speak really good english considering it's my second language. And the game that non american backpackers used to play with americans was 'name the capital city of a country'... sorry to say it was guaranteed you would win over americans every time.
haha I got told by a TSA Agent checking passports at an American Airport that my English was great "being Austrian and all"...he had my Passport in his hand, which features a kangaroo on the front..oh and the word "Australia"...😆Craig
@@vk3crg Seems to be common for people from the US to mix up Australia and Austria. Years ago was working for a US based company, and one day had several servers arrive in Sydney that were unexpected. After talking to IT who were even confused, we chased it up, and they were supposed to have been shipped to Austria, then to Germany for a new office that was being set up. They managed to fly to the technician to the right place for the weekend, and had to organise to get them there within 2 days to meet the deadline.
I'm Australian and was in NYC and a woman working in a shop was very impressed with my English. That really confused me, until I later realised she thinks we speak a foreign language here. I often wonder what language she thinks we speak down here lol
@@Melrick72we speak Australian, silly¬! ;)
1 in 5 'mericans can't identify the US on a map...
Have a good one, too! So I was visiting Czechia and met an american couple at the supermarket. Back at the register the american couple asked if the take US Dollars. The cashier told them no, they don't. The th guys response was " but why? I haven't had any issues in other 3rd world contires to accept US dollars" ....
As someone who has done a lot of travel & worked in tourism for many years, I have LOADS of similiar stories. As a backpacker in Europe in the 80's, I too was told many times by Americans that I spoke really good English. This was often followed by the question, "what language do you guys speak in Australia?" WTF??. Working in Cairns had an American lady on the reef say "oh my God the water is so clear, do you guys chlorinate here?" And so many more. Having said that there are also so many well spoken, kind, intelligent, well informed Americans. These guys are a pleasure & delight to show around. Kinda sad that it's dumbassed stereotypical shmucks that you remember
We speak ocker mate!!
That's why the Great Barrier Reef is in so much trouble - they forgot to chlorinate the water!
Quick, head to Bunnings!!
I think that many of the people you mentioned confuse Australia with Austria. During the 1970s, the head of the 'right wing' Australia Civic Council - Bob Santamaria always confused Tasmania with Tanzania. Tanzania was in the news quite a lot - then.
I spent a year in Texas as a part of an exchange student program and I made friends with a school teacher. She never grasped the idea that there are many different countries in Europe. I tried to explain it to her but nope. It's like she refused to take in any new information. I found that puzzling for a school teacher. How could she teach others if that was the level of her own education??
And thus you understand why many of our schools are so bad and people are so ignorant. Unfortunately, teaching is not a highly paid profession here, and in some states, they actually prefer the under educated as teachers. It is a very sad situation.
My favorite... I was working in Whistler (Canada) and we had town decorated with Canadian flags etc. for Canada Day (July 1st) BBQ's fireworks etc. I overheard a US couple talking about whether they should tell someone we had the wrong day. It took a minute to realize they thought we were trying to celebrating Independence Day. They eventually decided not to say anything because they didn't want to embarrass the town that we got it wrong and they appreciated our effort and thought it was quaint. I can just imaging them telling the story of when they went to Whistler and we screwed up the holiday...still makes me chuckle.
Yep, welcome to the Canadian tourist industry. Money speaks, and the guests talk ignorant nonsense.
If that's true, that's the best one I've heard.
@@chadjcrase Yep, it is. Got witnesses!
A student of mine was looking at a map in a book. Asked me where Spain was. After repeated attempts to narrow it down for her, I asked to see the map. It was a map of Mexico.
One time in Seattle I was waiting to be seen by a doctor and was talking to a guy on the waiting room and had to pick up a phone call from my health insurance and had to switch to spanish (I am brazilian and my first language is portuguese, but the concept of a country in South America where people don’t actually speak spanish is too complex for americans, so I had given up on trying to get a portuguese speaker to help me out and settled for the guy who knew spanish).
The dude I was talking to was shocked, he gave me a very weird look and after I hung up the phone, he asked me what language was that. I said “spanish, I’m from South America” and he said “oh, like from Texas?”
I swear to god.
I'm from Aotearoa New Zealand. Our national bird is the Kiwi. Kiwifruit (Chinese Gooseberries) got called kiwifruit when farmed here because the skin somewhat resembles a Kiwis pin feathers.
I've had two well spoke and seemingly educated US tourists get pissy because I called the fruit a kiwifruit not a Kiwi (cos that's a fucking bird mate).
I mean y'all say tunafish and horseback riding instead of tuna and horseriding. You'd figure kiwifruit would be second nature and you'd call.the bird a kiwibird.
But nope, apparently we need to change how we say it because (drum roll please) Kiwis (the fruit) are American, and we shouldn't correct Americans because we don't have proper schooling....
I asked them what the US English etymology for kiwi is, since it's a Māori word. Got told that I was making up words. Apparently "etymology" does not exist, and Māori are a fictional people from stories......
Then they very patronisingly excused me for it and said since New Zealanders don't usually know English it's probably just me minunderstanding things and one day my English would improve.
English is the first language for most New Zealanders, with Te Reo Māori and NZSL being our other offical languages.
They'd been in country a month, speaking English to people....... and going by their bags they'd been to at least one of the Māori cultural shows where the countries pre-European history would have been discussed.
Another (very old) Kiwi here, the Kiwi Fruit was not so named because of its looks but because they used to be known as Chinese Gooseberries here, and that name during the cold war when our export of this fruit started would have given them the kiss of death on the US, hence the more acceptable modern name (generally lost that origin now since we are all friends and trading partners). I recall when attached to a US army unit sharing a beer with my colleagues in a US officers' club when we were joined by a couple of older retired US officers. They saw that our uniforms were different and asked where/what we were. We said "Kiwis" and they got quite toey, telling us not BS them, Kiwis were a fruit. There began a somewhat long and ineffectual education session which ended with them moving on.
Having a conversation with an American comparing the cost of medications between the US and Aus and explained the PBS (single-payer Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) is why medications here are so cheap in comparison.
He told me that in fact, the reason our medications are so cheap is because America subsidises them for poor, communist countries like Australia and if we were a democracy, we'd pay higher prices too.
OMG…. 😳 sometimes people should 🤐
LMFAO
He was half right. Meds made in the USA are sold at a higher price, to American consumers to cover their R & D costs and drive up profits, thus, in effect, Americans do "subsidize" drugs to the rest of the world.
LMFAO!! He'd have an aneurysm if he ever found out that all PBS prescriptions in NZ are $5 and in Scotland they're free.
Think he would be signing papers to emigrate if he actually did some research on some Commonwealth countries health systems not to mention Medication. Truly they think themselves so BIG but their ignorance on the world leaves many gaping holes.
My wife, whilst working for the National Trust, was asked by two Americans visiting Chartwell, why the Queen built Windsor Castle so close to the Motorway - she tactfully answered that the castle was built before the Motorway - yeah like 1000 years ago. 😂
But they did build it way too close to Heathrow Airport!
Don't worry, it's not just Americans, as a full blown Aussie, I've been learning Spanish for about 4 and 1/2years, and I said to my mum one day, that I'd been talking to a friend in México, and my mum asked ,,,are you learning Méxican too ??, I didn't know that
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Yeah, the Australians are also not intelligent individuals, everyone knows that, it's just less obvious and easier to diss Americans.
A teacher from the US came to do a talk at my school in Australia. I was probably 12 at the time. Afterwards I was talking to him, and we got onto the subject of geography. I guess he wanted to test my knowledge so he asked me, "Do you know how big Alaska is?"
I was like "No..." and he replied "It's twice the size of Texas"
Im guessing he was correct, but it seemed completely lost on him that I, an Australian, might not be totally brushed up on US geography
You have sheep farms bigger than Texas 😄🇬🇧
I'm from New Zealand and had an American couple ask how many hours drive it would be to get to Melbourne, Australia. I told them to buy an Amphibious Car or take a 4 hour Plane ride via an international airport.
They went on to try and tell me New Zealand was a state of Australia. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I thought that as well. Untill I started in school. Then we had geography.
If they were in Australia they would definitely think that was true ... ;-)
New Zealand and Australia are Commonwealth nations. Australia still have Queen Elizabeth as their head of state
There is still provision in our constituton for it if you're up for it, but yeah, that would be a pretty long undersea tunnel to build.
@@chadjcrase hahahah... Don't think our government will ever go for it... Though would mean things here would get a hell of a lot cheaper... Getting damn well ripped off here in NZ
I'm from germany. When I was for exchange two weeks in the USA I was in this history class and the teacher told the students to ask the exchange students some questions. I can't remember If they asked something normal but the dumbest thing they've asked was a girl who asked: "Do you guys drive cars in germany like we do here in America?" I looked at the teacher and she was silent and looked at her clock so I answered: "No, we just have our tanks its a bit hard to drive with them at first but after a while its simple." She just looked confused and they continued to ask us about the tanks and the other exchange students carried on and explained to them how we park tanks. The teacher saw we made fun of her students so she ended the class 😂😂😂😂 We couldn't stop laughing afterwards.
Firstly I love how many Aussies are in the comments.
I'm also an Australian (with Italian heritage) and lived in Texas for 4 years. Of the many delightful encounters I had with people, the one that stood out to me was having to explain to a workmate that Catholics are Christians. !!!
One of the reasons Biden is having problems is the refusal of the evangelical right to recognize his Catholicism as following the path of Christianity.
Sometimes only barely 😂😂😂
Depends on who you ask lol
I had to do this too.
Oh, that's a hot potato in the Evangelical Christian world.
I have a reverse stupidity example. During an youth exchange program here in Bulgaria we were hosts to students from different places. Four of those guests were from USA. And my otherwise good natured friend had his brain relapse moments and upon learning the guys were Americans he asked them point-blank "So, have you ever managed to shoot someone at your school?"
That day I learned two things - I can melt into the ground because of shame in less than a nanosecond, and Americans (at least four confirmed) have a twisted sense for dark humour.
First, just a point on Spanish being everywhere, in NZ we have no tradition or connection with Spanish speaking countries so you would be hard pressed to find a Spanish speaker in a random group of Kiwis.
The Aussie who was offered sponsorship reminded me of a friend who spent some time in the US researching for her doctorate. Much later, home in Auckland she was contacted by the US consulate advising her that her green card was about to expire and she would need to come in to renew it. She was going by them later so called it to tie up the loose ends of her travel and told the woman (American) on duty that she would not be renewing the green card. Shocked silence! "You do realize that this allows you to live in the US, don't you?" Yes, friend replies, but I don't want to. Again, imitation of a stunned mullet..."this can lead to you gaining US citizenship." Friend replies, that she has no desire to be a US citizen or live in the US.
It was too much, the poor lady passed my friend over to another staff member to wrap things up, no doubt losing hours of sleep from having to deal with a mad woman who actually was happy living in a country that is more democratic than the US, has free quality healthcare and schools don't have to schedule active shooter drills into the daily programme. How sad.
He meant all over the world. Of course not everybody speaks Spanish, wtf?
No offence, but apart from Straya, NCaled, NewGuin, Fidji or even China or the Phils, I guess you haven't got connections to so many.
Imagine if she ever found out millions of Mexicans don't want to live in the USA.
Yes....it is hard as an American to see that there are people that still believe that America is the greatest country in the world ..... I don't have to travel to know that other countries have better healthcare than the US and of any developed country we have the most gun violence unrelated to civil unrest .... if I could afford it I would move to another country like TH-camr Cinnamon Toast Ken who recently moved to Australia
I mean New Zealand is nice but why wouldn’t she want to move to the US? In list of countries best to worst you start with the first world nations America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, then you go second world like Italy, England, France, South Korea. Then third world like China and Russia and Mexico, and finally fourth world like all of Africa and Cambodia and places like that. So why wouldn’t someone want to consider upgrading from #4 to #1 on the list?! I mean they don’t have to but it wouldn’t hurt to have both citizenships and alternate between whichever lifestyle suits their fancy the best ?!
I lived in Alabama for over 2 decades and as SOON as I heard the lady from Wales say she met a couple from Alabama I cringed. I knew it was going to be bad. And it was.
It’s ok Ian- you are doing a wonderful job proving that this is not a reflection on all Americans. The thing that scares me after seeing a few of these is that many of the stories involve 1. Border security that don’t have knowledge on other countries & their languages???😳 and 2. the number of these that are comments from teachers/principals/ lecturers- if these people have no clue your education system really really is in trouble 😬
On the bright side- imagine how brilliant your children are going to be with you involving them so much in all you are learning through this channels experience.
Since you mention Border Security, i've got a story to tell you that happened to my friend on his honeymoon.
A bit of background, my friend and i are of Turkish heritage but we were born and grew up in Australia, our parents have been here since the 70 but we can and do speak Turkish due to our parents teaching us when we were younger.
So my friend married his long time GF who is of Laos descent and they decided to go for their honeymoon in the US, they were planning on spending a week in LA and a week in Vegas, when their flight landed at LAX as they were going through Border Security the his wife goes through just find but the TSA agent pulls my friend aside and looks at his passport seeing his name and proceeds to question him;
TSA: Your passport says your an Australian Citizen but your name doesn't look Australian. Where are you coming from?
F: Im coming from Sydney Australia
TSA: No i mean what's your nationality
F: Im an Australian Citizen
TSA: Again what is your nationality, what is your heritage?
F: Oh, i mean my background is Turkish, my parents were born there and immigrated to Australia
TSA: Oh your Turkish then, so do you speak Arabic?
F: No i can speak English and Turkish
TSA: Ok, how about Farsi, can you Speak Farsi?
F: No just English and Turkish
TSA: How about Iranian, can you speak that?
F: Sir i already explained, i can only speak English and Turkish
TSA: So what is the purpose of your visit to America?
F: Well you see i just got married and my wife and i are coming here for our honeymoon
TSA: Your wife hey, who here is your wife?
Friend proceeds to motion over to his wife who comes over, TSA looks confused seeing a Middle Eastern looking guy together with an Asian looking woman, checks her passport and sees they both have the same last name
TSA: Ma'am is this man your husband?
FW: Yes he is, is there some sort of problem?
TSA: (Even more confused) Ok You are both cleared to enter, but we will be keeping and eye on you both!
And with that they went off and enjoyed the rest of their honeymoon, but ended up coming back with a funny story to tell everyone for many years to come.
@@tolgahk84 That is not only funny but sad... I mean come on how insensitive and out-of-touch with reality do you have to be. Good story tho!
Exept the part where he made a deal out of Spanish being from spain then states spanish is even spoken in parts of europe!
Spain is a European country
Except
@@tolgahk84 The ATF used to be the catchall for our dumbest government employees, but then the TSA was created
Once was telling someone I was from New Zealand and he said ‘haha good one, but where are you actually from?’
I responded slightly confused thinking he was teasing me, with, ‘What do you mean does my accent not sound genuine enough? Haha’
And he continued with ‘Yeah I get it haha but like where are you like actually from’
I reconfirmed more seriously this time and with a little more confusion that I am from New Zealand.
He replied with a genuine serious tone as though he was trying to convince me,
‘No but like New Zealand isn’t a real place. It’s made up like Narnia or Middle earth, like it doesn’t exist..... right?’
And I had to take a whole minute of back and forth conversation and me pulling up a map of the world to show him to figure out that he was NOT IN FACT joking.
That could have gone wrong. If you'd picked the wrong map. (NZ is the country most often omitted from world maps)
That is just rude. Middle earth made up country? NZ made up country?
Come on..we all know that NZ is Middle earth and that it is very real!
@Alan Clague
That actually made the problem worse 😂 Both he and I pulled up a map but the one I pulled up had NZ on it and his one didn’t. So he just thought I was pulling the Mickey even more.
Ironic since the LotR was mostly..? Recorded in NZ
@@zimzimph Completely
"Everyone has the right to be stupid. Some people just abuse it." - Some meme I can't remember. :D
Oh boy, as a Finnish person I’ve gotten quite a few of these. “You’re from Finland? Isn’t that just a part of Russia?” “Everybody knows that Finland is a fake country.” “You sound like a Latino, you sure you’re not a Mexican?” “Isn’t Finland covered in snow all year round?” “Finland? Isn’t that next to Canada?” And the list goes on.
Well the first one isn’t that far from the truth (it’s a joke)
I'm also from FInland and I recently heard of this dumb*ass conspiracy theory that FInland is a fake country, that there is no land between Sweden and Russi, just ocean, and the most moronic part of the thoery is, their explanation why FInland was "made up" It was a deal betwen the Russians and Japanese because the Japanese wanted the exclusive fishing rights to this bit of ocean where "Finland" supposedly is, so they promised Russia a part of the catch in exchange for Russia spreading the "lie" of FInland..... I have never facepalmed as hard as I did when I heard this.....
Somehow Russia is part of Finland with those 30 000 troops 6feet deep, is not it? (joke)
I have had people in USA upon learning that I lived in Australia asking if I had a hard time learning the language there. Seems many Americans think English is only spoken in USA and Canada.
Hey, now! We do not speak bloody American English. Get past Pennsylvania and you need a translator. We speak Canajun, they speak Murcan. As in "eh?" vs "huh". We're the "eh" guys. Sorry.
@@coldlakealta4043 Englishman here. Can confirm "eh" is the correct terminology.
I have a suspicion that they confuse it with Austria a lot, because there are so many Australians with that language story...
The audacity of people speaking it outside of the US and Canada! This must be brought to the Pope!
A lot of comments here from New Zealander's - I have to add my story. A group of us went to the US and I was asked where I was from... 'New Zealand' I answered...
"Oh - New England!'
'No - New Zealand' thinking it was my kiwi accent she didn't pick up on.
"Where is that, is that part of America?'
'I said no - do you know where Australia is?'(I felt a bit guilty asking an adult this)
'She said yes, it's way down south in the Pacific, so you are part of Australia?' - (well done)
I said 'Well you fly to Australia but when you get there you keep going but stop before you hit the South Pole.
I couldn't believe it and thought it was a one-off but 2 days later another woman asked me where I was from - same scenario, 'Do you know where Australia is?'
'Yes'
'Have you heard of Sydney and the Sydney Harbour Bridge? - well you drive over that and you arrive at the Auckland Harbour Bridge in New Zealand' (yes she believed me).
There was a glimmer of hope when the 3rd person asked me - 'NZ - is that near Australia?'
BINGO! YES!
'Oh - I thought so, how long does it take to drive from Australia to NZ?' (GROAN)
I said '3 hours - if you are driving a Jumbo Jet with a good tail wind.'
I work for an American company, that has an Australian branch.
I've had an American customer call my Melbourne (Australia) store at 5am asking for a product. I told them sorry we don't sell that, never had. "Why are you lying to me, I bought it last week, I want to make a complaint-yadda yadda"
I clued on and asked are you talking about Melbourne Florida? Cause you've called Melbourne Australia!
"Why are you lying to me, there is no Melbourne in Australia, I just want my product and you're being deliberately unhelpful!!"
Dude, if my Aussie accent wasn't a giveaway, your phonebill will be making a long international call.
she would say " mell- byornnne " where as we say " Melbun " would be the give away
It wasn't to me, I just saw that scene. A tourists couple were "talking" to a local sweets seller who clearly didn't speak English. They were yelling at him for not understanding them, as if the fact that that old man, who probably barely can afford a modest life selling handmade local sweets by $2 each, not knowing English was completely absurd (and, I must also add that he was actually already bilingual, Portuguese and Borari, and he was trying to learn Spanish because of his friends).
I tried to help them to leave him alone and they started to mock my accent.
Well, I got pissed enough, so I just sent them to the wrong bus across the city, and I don't regret it.