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Once got asked by a polish friend of mine about what guns I own and how many. That led into a long discussion about guns, different calibers and gauges, and gun laws.
Do . . . do these kids think we live in the Purge?
Yeah
I mean I've lived here all my life and think we are basically living in the purge so I'm not surprised tbh
You don't? 😮
Are you going to try to convince us those were Hollywood theatrics rather than the serious documentaries we all know they are? 😂
I mean they seem to think ye do
When my uncle visited us from France, he brought along my cousin Andre and his wife. Andre wanted a Stetson hat, so i took them downtown. When they got out of the car, my uncle said, "Arm yourselves" The salesman was African- American and had been assigned to a French colony in the service. They were shocked that he spoke French. They were also surprised that African-American police officers were allowed to carry sidearms.
Pumpkins are native to the Americas. Same with potatoes.
Bread and similar products for the kimchi equivalent? Not at every meal, but many meals involve something akin to bread (Burgers, sandwiches, flour tortillas, etc)
As an Australian in the US I was amazed that Americans did live up to the gun toting stereotype. In DC the majority of American students in my graduate classes did actually have guns.
Very funny. Thanks for the laughs.
Where did those students get the idea that we sleep with our shoes on? Did they also believe that we slept with our glasses on too?
cuz i have watched American show that some dude wear shoes in bed xD
Probably cartoons, they always got characters wearing shoes indoors
@onionbubs386 You're probably right. As for the glasses comment, I saw silent comedian Harold Lloyd sleep with his glasses on in his films. And I know that people in real life take their glasses off when they go to bed.
Story 4: Uff-da. Some criminals are incredibly stupid.
Story 11: It's actually pretty hard to get machine guns and assault rifles. You basically either have to pay a ton of money and apply to own it after paying your taxes, or you illegally modify or manufacture your own, resulting in the ATF flash banging the neighbors' house, immolating the kids whose dad is a pedophile, and shooting every dog in a 3 mile radius.
I will say there is some truth to the big car thing. It's easier to just make trucks and SUVs bigger to meet the fuel use standards than actually increasing the fuel mileage. Us small truck guys are furious that the new "small trucks" are so huge they not only dwarf out 2000's and older rangers and S10's, but actually take the same space as our Rams, Silvardos, and F150's
As for story four I would imagine Jamaicans are all petty good at English
I had someone ask me since i was from the south did we all still ride horses and were there bulls everywhere. I was like please disregard what you see on TV for every storyline based on Texas sighs.
America is a very universal country. What I mean by that is the fact that everybody's from a different country plus the indigenous people. Many different languages are spoken here. Different people have different religions and cultures. There's even cultures within different states here. If you took a person from every single country in the whole world and put them in an area, That's what America looks like. Is correction, The united states of America. Not all areas have different cultures in one area. I'm saying in general, As a whole, The united states of america Is multiculture.
I studied abroad in Thailand and Indonesia in college and later taught English in Thailand for a year. Here are some highlights:
1.) Most of my students in Thailand thought that Thailand was the only country with any green plants. They were under the impression that everywhere else was frozen desert post-apocalyptic wasteland and that English speakers had come to Thailand as desperate refugees fleeing the hellscapes that were their home countries. I showed them a photo of my hometown in the U.S. once and they thought it was Thailand because the trees in the photo had green leaves. They also had a really hard time believing me when I said that I was planning to eventually move back to the U.S. and wouldn't spend the rest of my life in Thailand.
2.) My boss in Thailand mixed up the words "proctor" and "proctology" and told me that he wanted me to "give a proctology exam" to the students. What he meant was that he wanted me to sit in a classroom while students were taking tests and make sure that no one was cheating.
3.) There was an impression among Thai people in general that all Americans are of British descent and the more evidence they have that someone is not of British descent the more skeptical the Thai people are that the person is really an American. My last name is German so I constantly had people who knew my last name insist that I must be German and not really an American or a native English speaker (my job required me to be a native English speaker). They had a *very* hard time grasping that not only did I not speak German but that I had only visited Germany once in my life as a tourist and was an American.
4.) The presidential election in which Obama was first elected took place while I was in Thailand. The Thai perception that all Americans were British factored in there too as I was frequently asked why Obama could become president since he "clearly wasn't an American." I had to explain many times how citizenship works in the U.S. and that not all Americans look like or are descended from British people.
5.) When I was in Indonesia one of my classmates and I both really liked Indonesian-style hats and shirts so we bought them and wore them everywhere. Random Indonesian people would walk up to me on the street and want to have their picture taken with me because they thought that a white person wearing Indonesian clothes was fascinating and treated me like a tourist attraction. I was in Java, but in eastern Indonesia the native population appears similar to Africans. I never went there, but my classmate with a similar taste in Indonesian hats and shirts was African-American so the Indonesian people we met assumed that he was Indonesian as well and was from the eastern part of the country. In Indonesia, prices are not fixed and sellers offer prices based on what they think buyers can afford and then a price is haggled. Tourists always get charged much higher prices than local people. My classmate was disappointed that Indonesians didn't see him as a tourist attraction the way they saw me, but I thought he had the advantage since sellers would always give me the inflated tourist price for goods but would give my classmate the much lower Indonesian price. There was a similar situation in Thailand in which my Asian classmates and coworkers were offered better taxi rates.
6.) An American coworker of mine in Thailand told me that an expat from Iran (who was living in the same town in Thailand) tried to convince her to become his third wife and didn't seem to understand why she wasn't interested.
7.) When I was a student in a study-abroad program in Thailand, my class visited a refugee camp where people from Myanmar were living. We were told that the Thai and American governments had worked out a deal in which some of the refugees would be allowed to immigrate to the U.S. and that the refugees were going to ask us questions about what it was like to live in the U.S. One of the refugees said that he was terrified of "being attacked by African-Americans" and thought that every black person in the U.S. would attack him on sight. A clearly very offended African-American classmate of mine did his best to assure the refugee that that was not the case.
8.) I visited Macau (which was formerly a Portuguese colony and is now part of China) as a tourist during a short break from teaching in Thailand. The guy who ran the hostel where I was staying asked me a bunch of religious questions and wanted to know how I felt about them as a Christian. I told him that I was an Atheist and he then told me that was impossible since all Americans are Christians. He then insisted that if I was an Atheist that I must really be Russian and not American since, according to him, only Russians can be Atheists.
9.) When I started my Indonesian study-abroad program, I needed to fill out paperwork that would be kept on file by the college I was attending in Indonesia. They wanted me to list my religion on the form and had a very hard time comprehending that I did not have a religion. It turned out that the reason the religion question existed was because hospitals in Indonesia all have a religious affiliation and they assumed that if I was injured that I would want to be taken to whichever hospital was associated with my religion. I told them if I ever needed to be hospitalized that I wanted to be taken to whichever nearby hospital that was best suited to fix the problem and that I wouldn't notice or care if the hospital had a religious affiliation.
10.) Thai people would periodically ask me if I had sex with prostitutes. This included, but was not limited to, my Thai coworkers at the school where I taught. When I said no, they assumed that meant that I was gay, which was incorrect. Sometimes gay men in Thailand (including one of my Thai coworkers) would use my statement that I was not interested in prostitutes as an indication that I would be interested in them, so they would start hitting on me. I'm straight, I just have no interest in prostitutes!
11.) My classmates and I met a man on a train who insisted that there was a visual difference between Americans and Canadians and that he could tell us apart just by looking at us. He explained that he wasn't referring to accents or clothing or how people carried themselves but that Americans and Canadians were distinctly different from one another in the same sense that people from different Asian countries look different from each other. One of my classmates, who was of Vietnamese descent, then asked the man if she looked Canadian or American. He spluttered something about that being a trick question.
12.) During the first week that I was studying-abroad in Indonesia several of my classmates and I tried to enter the library on our college's campus. One of my classmates was stopped by a security guard at the door and we were told that he was not allowed into the library. We were in Indonesia to learn the Indonesian language, but since that was just a few days after we arrived we did not understand the language well enough to know why one of us was being denied entry into the library. Since the classmate who as not allowed into the library was the only African-American student in the group, we assumed that the security guard was racist. It turned out that Indonesian libraries have a dress code and people are not allowed to wear t-shirts into the library. The student who was not allowed into the library happened to be the only student in the group who was wearing a t-shirt.
What a great collection of experiences you've had! It's funny, but when we think of tourist stereotypes, we immediately envision the pale, overweight, guy in Bermuda shorts and a straw hat demanding everyone speak English and where can he get a good steak, anyway? But from what I've heard and read today, it really seems that absurd stereotypes and prejudices exist everywhere.
That tornadoes everywhere thing got me. 😂😂
But then again I did live right next to a place that got warnings all the time.
It's funny that they think American women are easy when we not only are known for being prudes, but have the exact same styreotype of Europeans.
The amount of "do you own a gun" in this vid means that every country thinks that the us allows every people (exept kids).
Arizona lets children own firearms.
Is there a thread about the crazy things Americans believe about your country, cause boy i have some....
For instance, we have NO idea what you use for currency, and half of us think most violence in Europe is the inevitable (sometimes global) wars.
Once from another video I found out that in America a "late night" is 7pm. I'm in Greece, and the reason I have a f*cked up sleep schedule now is because when I was younger my dad would come back late from work (around 10-11pm) and I wanted to spend time with him. Now he changed jobs and comes back at 7pm, and for us that's an early night!
agreed
I was just watching a video about a TH-camr teaching aboard in Japan for a few years and this pops up. I know it’s not related but I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
Gaijin Goomba had some of these issues. He's pretty liberal, so the guns and horses things sent him for a loop.
Canadians are asked if they lived in igloos.
I've also gotten the question if I know Josh, Todd, orJennifer in Toronto. (I live in Vancouver.)
I once had a Korean housemate who cooked kimchi at least twice a day - sometimes frying it. Made me nauseous.
Bro said high-ation immigrant at 1:26 I'm dead 💀💀
I have to admit that I like those US bashing videos, how uneducated some people are. This one is a very refreshing reverse. Although some questions I can understand why they were asked.
My school starts at 7:50
Story 17: I'm pretty sure that's both Detroit Become Human and Blade Runner they got it from.
Wait the American gun thing is a stereotype??!?
I'm an American and basically every adult in my family owns a gun; My dad said he was even going to teach me how to use one
Okay, but that doesn't mean that EVERY American owns a gun. I don't, no one in my family does, and I don't know anyone who does.
@@hodgeelmwood8677 yeah I didn't think it'd be every, I thought it'd be most 😭
There are well over a billion privately owned firearms in America. That doesn't count the police or military. There are 3 guns for every individual man, woman and child. I own 4. My dad owns 10+. My sister owns one, not counting the one that was stolen from her that someone else now has. Yes, a small minority of the population is heavily armed, but it's never safe to assume in America that someone isn't armed at any given time given how lax the open and concealed carry laws are and that they vary state-by-state.
That last story...
Pumpkins are _native to North America_
Not a foreign teacher BUT once had a Mexican dude on roblox vc ask if all Americans had guns and lived in gang territory
the last story is pure stupidity
the one about the red solo cups at parties is not that far off
Aren’t the US one big industry slum where no one works, parking lots and nightmarish suburbia?
Not me but one of my teachers used to be an exchange student in France in the 90s-early 2ks and has 2 interesting misconceptions. 1st, they thought we could dodge bullets like in the matrix. 2nd he has a similar story to the celebrity one at 7:15, but that's just because mainland European countries are so close together that you can live in France, go through Switzerland, and have pasta in Italy and return home for dinner and thus have a different sense of distance than us Americans where everything is more spread out.
People wear shoes when they go to bed and I live in Minnesota if I am not in below 32° weather it is an amazing day or summer somtimes
In northern italy, they were shocked You don't go to church because they probably go every weekend. There is a church Everywhere in northern Italy, at least in Genoa there is. I went every Sunday when I stayed in Genoa.
It's so funny the stereotypes people outside the U.S have about the U.S. thanks to Hollywood.
"New York isn't the crime filled state it was back in the 1980s." That comment aged poorly
I hope that you can sit down in a New York elevator when it's in use because of story 39!
That guy who says he has to teach JAMAICANS english is a liar...the 1st language of Jamaica is ENGLISH. We do have a local dialect but its just broken English
heh, gta that reminds me. as someone who lives in the Greater Toronto Area (gta) the game is nothing like real life
If they asked me if I see everything in blue, because my eyes are blue, I would ask them. Do you see it in black since your eyes are black
Yo yo yooooo!
...And this is why African Americans have entire books on how best to travel abroad.
Lol
Story #4 why would you have to teach Jamaicans english they litterally speak english...
Oil
black people are made of chocolates is hilarious common that some innocent cute comment.
I'm sorry who doesn't know their blood type tho????
Most people actually