American Reacts to What Norwegians Think About America (Part 2)
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As an American I am aware of the stereotypes we have as a country. Today I am very curious to continue hearing from Norwegians about what they honestly think of America and Americans. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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Have you ever considered making videos of you having a conversation with a Norwegian?
Like over voice or video chat with a variety of people from different places here in Norway and on top of that you could also talk to people from different generations as well. Could be a ton of potential content and you'd also learn a lot about Norway from the ones you talk to, just an idea that popped into my head.
Keep up the good content, it's nice to learn about you guys' culture through these videos too!
Posted this on your previous video and I don't mean to spam, but I just wanted to see what you'd think of that idea.
I second that. It would be super interesting!!
Under the video there is a link to a page where you can send suggestions😊
@@mari97216 Oh, I didn't notice that! Thanks for letting me know :)
@@JasM3dia no problem:) Im glad he has that option now
Several times people, and you, mention how big and diverse the USA is.
Worth to mention is the fact that Europe is bigger than USA and with about the same population.
We can have 5-10 different languages spoken within a few hour’s ride with a car.
There is different cultures, holidays, political systems and even currencies!
THAT is diverse!
As for social customs, and I am ofc very much biased as a Norwegian. But I feel like navigating in the Norwegian social sphere is somewhat more relaxed than the American way. Because although you guys are way better at small talk, and the "shallow" end so to speak, of social interactions, it seems there is a much higher pressure on "proving yourself"/being boisterous/make people notice you, in an American setting.
While as an "ambivert" Norwegian, I rarely feel the need to "prove myself" to others, and usually act and behave as I normally would. Been interesting while traveling abroad, as from my experience this attitude seems to be seen as relaxed, easy going and genuine.
And although I certainly think most Americans are likely equally as empathic and kind as most Norwegians, there does seem to be a societal lack of empathy for those less fortunate in the US. As in people of low social status seems to be viewed as it being wholly their own fault, without the sense that sometimes life can really kick you in the teeth, without it being within your control.
Overall, I can see good and bad sides of both cultures in this regard, but I do think we land closer to atleast social hamony, more relaxed attitude, and seeing people more in a fair and empathic light.
You mention the "Janteloven" And something very funny is that you have to carry the "Janteloven" with you every day, and remember it, but as soon as you start looking for a job, you just forget the "Janteloven" as soon as you sit down in one interview for a position. Then you have to brag about yourself, and promote what you are good at. So in job interviews, most Norwegians are probably quite bad, but you get better after a few interviews!
It cerainly feels very uncomfortable to promote yourself.
I was on a rivercruice in China, and met this guy called Paul. He had been a far East expert in the White House for ten years. No he had resigned, and visited far East for the first time. To me that was shocking. I was 20, he was about 50, and he thought I might be a spy, because he thought I knew to much about American institutions and politics.
When travelling alone, I am thankful Americans are so easy to spot and contact. Makes it very easy if I want company, as they are always open to having a beer together and chat. :)
I have a few American friends, and I do understand why they don’t travel that often abroad. I have five weeks of vacation every year, and from what I understand that’s pretty rare in the States. You’re usually higher up in the system and probably older when you get those privileges. If I only had 12 days perhaps, traveling far away would be so much more difficult.
The poor slaves of America dont have the money or the time to travel. USA is a developing country compered to Norway. More like UK, Russia and India. I call USA "the land of the poor and homeless people".
The poor Americans do several jobs, and are still poor as fuck. They never speak of politics, and worship ancient uncontrolled capitalism as God, without looking at developed nations and their modern solutions.
When most Norwegians earn $30+ an hour, the Americans can get as little as $10 an hour fully legal. Even less if they work in some kind of service.
Try to tell Americans that even staff at McDonald earn more then $22 an hour + tip in Norway, and that no Norwegian would work for less.
And when we get free education, and free health care in developed countries, and everybody get their own money to live from, the poor Americans only get free prison. That is why the USA have almost 20 times more people (per C) in prison then developed countries.
I love your reaction videos! They are genuine and sympathetic as well as educational, as I learn a lot about american culture throug them. Keep doing what you're doing👍
Really seem Norway is fully aware what America is like and this video is about Norway you just said it your self you learning some much about America but the video is meant to be about Norway not America
@@kathryndunn9142really...observing other ppl reactions actually gives a lot of information about the person, the attitude, how information is preceived, what they feel and think around diffrences...witch probably say something about the culture this person comes from. He actually often talk about how americans see things too.
You said the comments hurt, but u also tells me that you are learning. U are maybe the most openminded yankee ever! I really like your reacts.
Yessssss !!! Agreed 🤩
@@tanteballe Thank you! Is it possible u are danish?
@@knutarvidhansen3300 No sir 🤓 I am Armenian/Austrian, born & raised on Norway.
Complicated case 😂😂😂😂
The rest of the world look at America like America looks at Florida 😂
Thinking about the differences by Americans and Norwegians I would explain the stereotypical Norwegians to an american as something in between a wierds mix of Bernie Sanders and Keanu Reeves
wth? You teaming up Keanu with Bernie?
yes@@BergenDev
@@BergenDev
Keanu is a great compliment towards Norwegians. Such a nice guy!
we drive to Sweden just to shop and drive back home the same day. from where I live it takes about 1 hour by car, sometimes when I`m bored I take a quick trip to Sweden just for fun😃 I thought that was common for other countrys to do that but I found out that its not.
One ting I want Norway to adopt from the US is the social openness, as a norwegian myself we are extremely reserved people, there is a wall that you need to break through. In America you can talk randomly to people on the streets, that would be considered weird here (especially in the capital).
I’m one of those Norwegians that like being «weird» 😁
@@henriz.l Weird can be a fun detour, if it's a cool weird
As for recognition, I do not expect an american to recognize or know of a norwegian actor. An actor from Europa or Scandinavia perhaps, but not from indiviual countries. It would be like a norwegian knowing of an actor from a spesific state in the US.
LMAO. That one guy lived in the UAE for several years, but was asked: the Norwegian way or the American way? The Emirates and the United States, so similar, NOT.
That entire video reeks of anti American propaganda.
And sadly enough, this is what Norwegians believe. Most of us buy into this crap.
i would totally watch Tyler trying to label all the countries in Europe. we used to have this test in school (i’m norwegian) where we did that and it was pretty difficult. but it was pretty much the same as trying to memorize all the states in the US. you just gotta memorize it
Nice to see that you are very open minded and more understanding when reacting
Many claiming to be Norwegians here telling you about their thoughts and ways as Norwegian ways, makes me wonder if I'm lying when i say I'm born and raised in this country and if I'm currently in a different reality/dimension/realm. I guess the culture of south and north is different and age difference too🤔 😊
Okay. You're kinda loud, but you're cute and charming. Never forget. And very very friendly. I love that about Americans❤
I notice TH-cam channels are pretty loud, all over the nations, but I agree with you, he seems like a really nice fellow. I'm wondering about Nordic opinions, so I am here lol.
You might have to change your intro seeing as learning about different countries is not very "typical, average American" :p
I enjoy your videos, keep them coming. I also known you have learned about Lars Monsen. Would be nice to see you react to one of his episodes if you have the patience
Tyler, you have been concentrating on Norway for a long time. Just so you get a bit wider view, maybe it is time to look at its neighbors? Btw, I admire your ability to listen to the negative as well as the positive opinions. Too few are willing to do that.
Why? Are you a jealous Swede? 😂 There are a lot more to react to about Norway….. He also react to the UK and Canada.
Sounds like something a Jealous Swede would say. 😀
But he does other countries too, but he runs individual channels per country.
He does a handful of them. Not Sweden though.
Id have to say. Part of the reasons Americans are overweight is because many work two jobs and stops to grab some easy food between them. Or they work a lot so they buy fast food more. But of course American industries think more about profit so they have unhealthier food also.
The Law of Jante is a ficticious law from a fictitious place in a novel . It is the things that hold Norwegians back from even loving themselves. It is a parody of sorts, how you can't stick out because people think that means they have the right to critisize you and make fun of you, even try to stop you. Also this love of other's failures.. It is wrong and we should not treat it as some philosophy, more a warning
I hope you are coming too Norway soon.
If it's not for moving here, i hope you want to visit us (norway) one day.
But please don't get a heart attack because of our landscape. Seen couple times there you need to take a minute too get the breath back.
It should really be a something in betweenJanteloven and the American dream . Lets learn from each other
Yess! A middle way between👍
There are more veterans in America than there are Norwegians as a whole. Those people have traveled to more far flung countries (our many overseas bases) than Norwegians. (Ditto the huge diplomatic core of the State Dept., etc.)
They just stay on their base or perhaps go off to find a McDonald’s. That’s not travelling.
6:18 Is it really a stereotype when it's estimated that a little over 42% of American adults have obesity, while about 30.7% are overweight? Overall, more than two-thirds of U.S. adults in the United States are overweight or have obesity. Adults between ages of 40 and 59 are more likely to have obesity.
Norwegians doesn't know too much foreign politics, we tend to mean the same as the mass media:)
Btw those American tourists I,ve met in all my life has seemed like nice and polite people:)
Yeah, agree with alot here. I feel bad for US citizens. The political process is rotten ( yes we have hair rippingly bad and chokingly baffling decicision making here too )and bought to the core ( hope your Kennedy 3rd party wins but Reds and Blues team up to crush him..) and the stuff you inhale/ ingest/ drink is bare min healthy. I DO want to give credit to some of you US folks: You are very creative, eager, have brilliant scientists, idealists and do have some "sane" people. You do have religious folks who respect other beliefs and are not fundamentalistic and full of zeal rdy to gut education in evolution, science etc. I love alot of your entertainment stuff though the working conditions and skeletons in the closets are unsavory
We think It’s typical Norwegian to be good, but we don’t think it’s nice to brag about it. But I think a lot of Americans are just very nice when they come visiting as tourists.
I like the "go for it" attetude. I like the work for education but dont like the high price and exclution it is. I like self asteam but not on behalf of others. No one choose their family and upbringing. I like opertuneties but not the lack of consideration of workers. Ilike familyvalues but not that the lack of time together in everyday life. Your helthsystem is BAD. The ranking of humens too.
I'm pretty sure you'd get similar answers from most other countries to be honest. We are all aware of the US. Partly because of the very deliberate spreading of American media and news to the rest of the world.
Landed in New York, WORK, a lady asked me why I brought my own sigs, and showed me what real money looked like., dollars I just looked to the right and shut up., off. Next was Chicago and the Twin Cities. But beiin treated lika a stinking farmer was unproffesional in my opinion, this was Work, Industrial control systems trainijng..
As a indigenous LGBTQ+ person I generally hate the US, all that it stands for and most Americans, but I don’t mind my American friends as they have enough self awareness and we’re on the same side politically, for the most part, and even if we don’t agree to everything, we have enough respect for one another, and the fact that we do have the same values, of not the gap would be too big. Probably because they are all fellow indigenous people🤣🤣🤣
I understand you very well being a black transgender woman born and raised in the US, but now an emigrant in Mexico. I have very similar feelings towards the country of my birth, but a country of which I never felt I belonged. I’ve been living abroad for more than three years now and am so much happier than I ever was in the states. I also have a standard of living here that I could never have had in the US. I wish you all the best. Stay safe and be well! 😌
11:30 Norwegians are NOT an objective third party in the least!
EVERY news organisation in this country is owned and driven by politically left-leaning people, state financed one included. We don't have ANY right-leaning newsoutlets, and the few we had were boycoted and slandered by the mainstream ones. The one true right leaning party we had was ousted from one of the biggest political events of the country (arendalsuka) by every other political party AND every single news outet present. I haven't seen them mentioned in the mainstream news ever since.
Not once did anyone EVER on Norwegian mainstream news say anything even remotely positive about Trump or anything Trump has ever done. Like or dislike the man, he did SOME good. Abraham accords not the least, but our media barely touched that, and when they did, every "expert" they invited to speak on the subject was exclusively negatively angled towards the deal.
Kinda like CNN, CBS, ABC, etc.
It's kinda sad how politically homogenous we have become. You can't develop your mind properly in an echo chamber.
Found the right-wing nutter! 😂
Taylor always compare Norway to America but America is more like Europe continents consists of many states/ countries .. NORWAY IS A COUNTRY/ ONE STATE 😅
Plastic surgery is not so uncommon here, we have a pastic sergeon in my town even it's a small town. :)
The U.S. is like the new kids on the block who got the key to the kingdom
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I can easely spot a Norwegian tourist as well, probably drunk and rude.
Where from? And who you meet and when? Usally alcohol is a icebreaker to make new friends. Unless you are super sensitive about things and dislike people for their opinions. No fakery and BS.
Dear Cobra! You are so right! However, there is allways some bad people from every country!
@@BergenDev My comment was a respons to the woman in the end of the video saying american tourists are self centered and take up a lot of space. When I travelled across europe i found americans to be very friendly and polite opposed to f,ex germans, yes not all norwegians det drunk but you know how they can be when they go for holidays in southern europe.
@@cobra3289 Oh yea. Been there done & seen that :D Never made any problems myself, never mean or toxic. Just shitfaced 🤣Lot of bromance and hugging it out a lot🤣
Do you have any plans to come to norway?
"...to come to norway"? Okay.
'Me Tarzan. You Jane.'
@@KarmaisReal-sm6bz?
It's like, the louder you are, the further you get in the US
@Don_CoyoteAlso; Norwegians on vacation in «Syden» (Spain, Greece etc) sometimes turn into loud, unpolite, drunken idiots🤦♀️ So it can also be situational🤔
Lol I have a feeling you'll lose some weight if you stay in Europe with your current diet with European groceries for a month or so.
Finally, is nothing wrong either way ?
My encounters with Americans are that they are too loud and too proud of their country.
Also, it seems as if many think that god have the US as a favourite.
Why would one country, only about 400 years old be the one favoured and protected by your deity?
I hear "God bless America" over and over.
Ironically, the only Americans I have met that had the decency to be humble, were Mormon missionaries.
Pattern forming its meant to be about norway seem to be more about America once again no matter how you dress it up. Is this about America not about norway no matter how you do it America always have to make it about them 🥱. Yes American is self centered like in this video its became about America not norway. And I can guarantee this will not go down well but I speak the truth ever video becames about America in one way or another and you all need to see this i mean he goes on a rant about America on ever video and i know somes going to say hes just comparing countries but we know more about America then we do about norway i watch to know about Norway not America as ive seen so many videos on it im fully aware of it but norway im learning
then go watch the original video, or similar videos instead of a reaction where mr reactor is inclined to give input and draw comparisons based on his baseline knowledge on the topic
Did you miss the part where it says "American reacts"? He will obviously compare the content of the video to his own life experiences which is from an americans POV.
Going on a vecation with US people living in Norway to USA is just a horrible situation. The sec we set feet on USA ground the Americans shange to loud obnocteous people saying sh*t like "Don't mind him/her it's JUST Norwegian... Like WTF?!?
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Tyler, you don't know much about stuff INSIDE of America.
Nice bot name.