American Reacts to When Americans Realize the Entire World DOESN'T Revolve Around Them 🤣
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I was talking to a girl online one night before the last US elections and she asked who I was voting for, I replied "You know I'm in Australia don't you?" She said "What? you guys don't get to vote for world leader?" I was speechless.
Well, considering how influential the US is, I guess we people outside of the US should have a say as to who is elected president...
(I'm joking)
Wow... Just wow
Today in Australia we vote for our own world leader!
Tbh with no disrespect to Ian, I'm not surprised
@@nomadgigi4051 Didn't we ever!!! 😊😊😊😊
I’m Irish and have visited the US a few times.
One time me and a couple of friends were in a store in NYC and were chatting. This older woman (I’m only taking like 50’s) came up to us and asked where we’re from so I said Galway, Ireland.
I’ll never forget the next thing she said to me.
“Wow, your English is really good.”
To which I replied: “thanks, yours too” and smiled.
She looked so confused for a solid 5 or 6 seconds before informing me that:
“of course it is because she’s from America”, so I said something like “aye, and I’m from Ireland where we’ve spoken English for longer than your country’s existed” and carried on shopping 😂
When in NJ people kept telling me they'd been to Scotland and how beautiful Scotland is after l told them was Irish and from Donegal, good craic. They thought it was all the same l guess, friendly people though on the whole.
to be frank, people in Ireland are supposed to be speaking Irish no? its a no brainer to the average person. It's not our fault the Irish chose to stick with English instead and letting their mother tongue die out.
@@vicnad92 Firstly: our ‘mother tongue’ hasn’t died out at all.
Secondly: no, it’s common knowledge that Irish people speak English because it’s quite literally our first language (well for most of us)
@@connoroneill9406 Hmm it is dying out. Just look at the recent stats. Only few older people are fluent at native level all situated in far rural parts of Ireland. Funny enough, there are more fluent Welsh speakers, followed by Scottish Gaelic than Irish. Moreover, with recent immigration, the Irish govt does not require for new immigrants to know basic Irish, unlike Germany or Sweden where knowing the basics of the national language is mandatory by law. Seems like you don't know your country well enough.
@@vicnad92 Yes, Irish is our first language.
English is our second language.
Try reading
Bunreacht na hÉireann
"... and when we rescued them in WW2."
Just that statement is so American. Completely ignoring the Russians, Canadians, British and other nation's soldiers that had a hand in defeating the Axis powers.
Totally left out the ANZACS (Australian and New Zealand) that played a big part too. Just so arrogant, their britches are bigger than their parent country Britain!
It also is a total fail in that why would people that no longer exist (since they all apparently moved to the USofA) need "rescuing".
Not to mention that if WW2 were a clock, the Yanks turned up at 11pm and went ‘great work we did it’ after one beach landing.
My favourite is "you guys would be speaking German if it wasn't for us"
Yeah? And what language would you guys be speaking if it wasn't for England?
And the white Americans that said these worlds they forget that actually are Europeans.
Oh man I remember talking to this girl who was studying abroad in the Netherlands (my country). She was a nice girl but she was a textbook example of how the American education system failed her in multiple ways. A prime example was history and how 'old' things are. She was oh so proud of her old town, and how it was founded somewhere in the 1700's and had a lot of old architecture yadda yadda. I'm sure it's great, I love old architecture and culture. But I asked her if she visited some of ours in the city she's studying at, we've got a lot of history too. Her response was "it can't be that old." It was a big discussion because she refused to believe there was a world before the USA and she couldn't wrap her head around the fact that my town was founded in 792. Not 1792, but 792. I had to show her the wiki lmao.
Since the sensible People came to america...except the fools in new amsterdam. You can have van buren, roosevelts and wall st. (the walls of the then old town)
This will be fun conversation when we start talking about indian civilization🤣
What was she studying, and why did they let her 🫣
@@Salakert 🤡
Where do they think the people came from who settled America?
I was a Taxi Driver. I picked up a passenger from the Airport who had just flown in from California. As we were driving to the hotel, he was looking out the window and turned to me to say, "Gee, you guys sure have imported a lot of Eucalypts."
Caught by surprise, I replied, "What do you mean?"
He gestured expansively out the window at the bushland we were driving through, and explained to me as if I were a little slow, "All these trees are Eucalypts. They are from California, where I am from. You guys sure must have imported a lot to have so many!"
I just about had a brain aneurysm trying to process this thought, and all I managed was "Um, they are native to Australia..."
He just gave me a pitying look, shook his head sadly at my ignorance, and stated, quite authoritatively, "No, I think you will find they are from California!"
I let the confusion clear from my face, smiled and said simply, "Oh, I guess we must have imported all the Koalas also."
Again he shook his head pityingly and said, slowly, talking to the obvious simpleton I am, "No, those are native to Australia."
"Oh," I said, confused again, "Given they eat only Eucalypt leaves, they must have been very relieved when we imported so many to save them from starvation..."
He looked a little confused, and said "No, they eat Gum leaves."
"Mate," II replied, "Gums *ARE* Eucalypts. They and Koalas are native, the seeds were taken from Ballarat and Bendigo to California during the '49 Gold Rush, and that is how you ended up with Eucalypts in the USA!"
He absorbed this for a while, all sorts of emotions playing over his face as he reassessed his entire existence, then he turned to me and said "Was Australia already settled in 1849?"
I gave up... 🤦♂️
Now that woulda made a bloody good video😂🤣
I don't dislike yanks at all but geez they're so bloody insular,on the whole.
Hahaha That's gold...!!
great story
Excellent story
Another American who is wilfully ignorant and proud of it.
I've had a surprising number of Americans genuinely shocked to discover that we here in Australia don't celebrate Thanksgiving or 4th July.
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A Aussie mate came back to Australia with his American bride and 2 kids.. she confused me and my ex wife, she wanted to buy fireworks, so Australia could celebrate 4th of July..
She got upset when we said, that's only a American thing.. 93% off the world population doesn't give a shit.. then she told me, America runs the world..
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What's 4th of July even represent? Lol
@@iceeeuuuu The Declaration of Independence passed on 4th of July 1776 signalling the birth of the America as a nation and the end of the Revolutionary War.
@bobbiebob575 bob Funnily enough, I did mean that. Somehow, I missed United States. Dunno what happened. That is why it reads "the America" in my post lol. I might have deleted it when I was fixing a spelling error or two 🤔
I once met a Texan who asked me (a Brit): "I notice y'all listen to lots of American music, right?"
"Sure," I reply, "there's a lot of great American music"
"Yeah!" he proclaims triumphantly. "I mean - no offence - but we just have the best music! Like what have you guys got that compares to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin or the Stones?"
"Er...sorry to break this to you but they're all British."
Long pause....
"You're kidding, right???" he says in disbelief. "That music is awesome - it must be American!"
...and then Americans wonder why they have a reputation for arrogance!
One wonders if he's heard of The Beatles, The Who, or Status Quo.
@@A_nony_mous Saddest thing is they really do have plenty of great music of their own to crow about - there's really no need to go claiming ownership of other people's!
Please tell me you proved it to him 🙏
WTF??? Seriously??? 😱
One American once tried to tell me that rammstein is a incredible because it's the only American band that speaks German....
I am married to a German and live in Germany... there are so many crazy things that I have heard Americas say, but the best one was when the topic of 4th of July came up and a woman asked my wife "So you guys don't have the 4th of July in Germany?". My wife had the best response to it and the look afterwards on that woman's face was priceless... My wife answered "No we go from the 3rd of July straight to the 5th."
Another great example of 'hilarious' German humour
@Al Khen ○ Omega One little error: the Mexicans don't really celebrate May 5th. USians do…
😂😂soo nämlich! :D haha
She rolled a 1.
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I find it funny that on websites you’ve got “English 🇬🇧” and then they have “English (simplified)🇺🇸” it just makes me laugh😂
Just dumbed down 😂
Oh man 🙈
absolute truth on a language point of view 😇
its still to hard for them XD
I like traditional german 🇩🇪 over simplified one
I remember standing in a line with my wife to see a local tourist attraction. An American gentleman in front of us was asking for two tickets for him and his wife for entry to the Colosseum. He got quite argumentative when told by the attendant that she couldn’t sell him any tickets to the Colosseum. He became quite defensive thinking it was something to do with him being from the USA. The attendant politely said this is the Parthenon in Athens, if you want tickets for the Colosseum you will have to go to Rome in Italy. Such a grasp of history!
Omg🤦🏼♀️
OMG! 🤤
I love it. 😅
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Reminds me of when we had an American lady upset at our staff because we weren't selling souvenirs of the Statue of Liberty. However, she was in Canada. When we told her that, she insisted she was in the U.S.
I am not from the USA but once this guy was here visiting my country (Brazil) because his girlfriend, a friend of mine who at the time was an exchange student in the US, came to see her parents and brought him with her. The thing is, this guy was genuinely surprised that no one here cared for "american football", especially because we knew what it was but just didn't care for it, and it blew his mind when he found out that what he knew as "soccer" was known as football not only by us but by the rest of the world and that it was far more popular
By a million miles more popular.
They are so insular and their inward arrogance is astonishing for the wealthiest country on the planet,but third world when it comes to awareness of the rest of the planet.
TBH I’m American and I can’t stand American football.
@@jpbaley2016 you mean handegg?
Because you play with your hands, and that's an egg.
@@andrebrait 😆😆😆
@@andrebrait literally what it should be named
A story I read elsewhere was from an English couple on holiday. They were in the bar of the hotel late in the evening, and an American said to them to "Hurry up, the fireworks will be starting soon!"
They hadn't heard anything about a firework display, but they followed the Americans up to the roof, and waited, and waited . . . no fireworks.
The Americans were baffled. "There's no fireworks? But it's 4th July!!"
They were in Turkey . . .
😆 In Turkey? Wow
Omg how did they fit bar inside a turkey 🦃?
Sounds a bit on the fake side. If they asked when the fireworks started, that I would believe.
@@johnyyjoestaro lol they meant the country Turkey
@@johnyyjoestaro Bro has achieved peak comedy
One of my female friends here in Australia who was in an online forum discussion and struck up a convo with a US military guy told me that all the other Americans in the forum were trying to say that she was just trying to hook up with him to get a green card and free healthcare. We already have free healthcare in Australia for everyone, not just military personnel. 😂
yeah the idea that people from other "developped" countries (and even not so "developped") would want a US green card for healthcare is the most ridiculous one yet. Everybody else has better healthcare than the US...
Yes. US military has socialised healthcare!
(A comunist army???)
@@allister.trudel yeah everybody, the developed world isn't actually everybody, not even a minority infact, the U.S.A ranks 11 out of 193 in healthcare so clearly not everyone and perhaps you may check your ignorance too.
@@zues9614 sure, you have good health care, for those that can afford it.
@@benwatson5787 yeah like the $3500 bill my son got for going to outpatients for 15 minutes...
What I've seen from living in Oz, England and the US is that America teaches American history and geography and most other countries teach World history and geography
Thing is we have a course called world history and it’s basically just talking about how America has done with other countries (the good) and doesn’t really speak on the bad or other countries history too much except for maybe The UK
I feel as an Aussie backing the 70's & 80's we didn't really learn a great deal about Australian history. Only the nice parts.
The world history we get taught in Australian schools is pretty much limited to the world wars. The better schools teach about the wars, the not so good ones just teach what Australians did in them. Considering that we were in both from a fairly early point, unlike the US that jumped in late, then bragged how they "saved us all". I'm thinking more along the lines of "where the hell were you guys at the start of the war?"
In Australia we do world geography, Australian geography, World History, and Australian history. Well we do now days used to be different. We still learn a lot about Britian though. Do love out Motherland.
This explains why Americans seem to think they live on their own planet.
I once read a comment from a US citizen on a news comment section that the world should be grateful to the USA for giving us a language and culture. A couple from the US came into the pharmacy where my sister worked. As she greeted them in French, the woman asked 'Do you speak American?'. My sister: 'No, sorry, but I do speak English.'
@@doomslayer1984 You sure like that line a lot. Stuck on ALT+V?
@@EllaBee90 Sorry if the truth hurts. And hey I'm just spreading the word as you white euro's are content with dissing my fellow colored brothers and sisters in the US that makeup half that country's population and which I and the majority of others in the global south have no beef with.
@@EllaBee90 "ALT+V"? What's that? The only related thing I'm aware of would be "Control+V".
They're giving us culture? 😂😂😂😂😂 I bet they don't know there were freaking universities in Europe,long before the discovery of America.
@@amradzinovic4086 Yeah universities that catered only to white people slick! Yes so very cultured...YAWN!
As an Australian once said "America got the puritans, thank God we got the convicts".
I once had two international students to take care of in my University Buddy programme, where local and international students get paired up, so they can ask for help, find their way around the city etc. Usually those kids don't speak German. I got an American girl and a black guy from France, who knew German quite well, so he needed a lot less assistance.
I explained this to the American girl, and she was totally mistified.
Her: "How can he speak German?"
Me: "Dunno, probably learned it in school."
Her: "But he is black!"
Me: "..."
Her: "How can he speak German, when he is black?"
Me: (thinking I heard that languages are often elective in American High School) "He is from France. In most European countries you have English and a second foreign language course in High School for everyone. Maybe theirs had German."
Her: "But he is black, how can he be from France?"
Me: "Ummm... so, France had a lot of colonies, but we also have a lot of migration from African countries right now. So quite a lot of Europeans have darker skin..."
Her: "..."
Me: "..."
Her: "I didn't know there were Afro-Europeans. Are there many of them?"
Me: "Umm... we don't call them that. Like, we don't ask for race in the census, so I don't know..."
This was also the girl that had her parents from Texas send over a winterjacket they bought for her in the US, because she didn't trust local brands. IN AUSTRIA, in the ALPS. Where we have a Jack Wolfskin Store and any brand you can think of...
Before I started university I would have quipped about how the f she managed to be accepted to uni but after a few semesters I have lost a lot of respect for any academic degree short of a PhD…
Reminds me of when French black people are referred to as African-Americans in US media because they're afraid of saying "black people".
I would have thought she was a staunch racist if it wasn't for her seemingly intellectual deficit.
Reminds me of when a US chat show host kept calling Lenny Henry (UK comedian) African American. He is British born and bred, though his family is from the Caribbean. He isn't the only one either, they seem to think than if you have darker skin you can only be African American. Mind blowing.
Afro-Europeans ???
What the hell is that ?
I taught English in Japan & my sons taught English in China & Japan. From our experience most of our students wished to learn English for either business or international travel. None of us have ever had a student who was learning English because they wanted to move to the USA or any other english speaking country.
I learnt English because I wanted to travel and at least in Spain is requested for a lot of jobs.
I personally learnt English for fun. But I'd never wanna move to the US. Half of the population voted for Donald Trump lmao I would not feel safe
I learnt English in order to survive my childhood in Australia. Never had any intention to move to the USofA, still don't.
In Europe English is mandatory in schools , at least as far as I know it is more or less the same across Europe. And it makes life soooooo much easier when you know it. Especially when it comes to business but of course it is a big plus for travelling as well.
We do learn other languages as well but those we can choose like between French, Spanish, Italian, German....depending where you live.
It is funny that some would assume we learn it because of the States... it is even funnier to me since in Europe we learn british english and after a while at least I had a few hours where we had a few chapters where we learnt the differences between certain british and american words and thats it xD
@@Niki91-HR Maybe now but when my best friend was in school she had a choice of Russian or French as a second language (she chose French). When she was accepted into Ireland as a refugee she learned English simply from watching ALL the different soap operas. Her English, especially her grammar, is actually better than that of many USAmericans (and I have a number of friends from the US who now live in Ireland, more USAmericans who DON'T want to live in the US) though despite never having had formal classes which I find amazing.
I'm Dutch and I met two American girls in a Dutch 'coffeeshop' in the winter of 2017.
So after a bit of the usual chit-chat bout where I was from and where they were from and where we have traveled to throughout the years they started talking politics and they asked me who I voted for in the 2016 POTUS-election .... as I said they already knew I am Dutch and that I never lived in the US.
I. Kid. You. Not. !!
A dutch laziale ? thats a new one
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C'mon eagles
@@ultramarine40k65 not really, we are legion.
Those are dangerous people, honestly. Even in the movies is clearly said that THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.
A guy from the US was shocked to learn that we have TVs in Scotland, and actually said "You're welcome!". Had to explain that the TV was invented by John Logie Baird - a Scottish engineer. He didn't believe me, and it almost resulted in a fist fight because he was so incredibly insulted. He genuinely believed that the USA invented the entire modern technological world and graciously shared it with the rest of us.
He was also one of those types who said "I'm Scottish" when what he really meant was "I have Scottish ancestry". Note to Americans - please don't do that. We hate it.
He may of just watched Braveheart.
William Wallace has many descendants in USA from what I hear 😂
@@forbiddenrecallskillinguss4012 It's not absolutly correct, but at least, Baird was involved in that invention overall.
Note to ignorant people like you: Stop stereotyping nations based on ONE person. It doesn't make you look any smarter than the people you're insulting.
Wonder what his reaction will be when he finds out color Tv was invented by a Mexican
Plastic paddies/ Scots/ Sheep shaggers and wankers, gotta love to them!
I met a couple of guys from the US a few years ago here in Sweden. The kind of guys that seemed to really want to talk to everyone they met in the bar. It was like they were on a small talk frenzy that ended shortly after the questions about the US ended. Anyways, the eventually came to our pool table and started talking. Since I’m mixed race one of them asked me were I’m from… from Sweden, I said. So I asked him were he was from. He said Texas. I said: that’s not a country. That’s were he’s face changed. He took it like an insult and said with a condescending tone. America then, you get it now? I said, that’s a continent. Then he walked away.
Had exact same discussion. When back packing Europe.
Introductions...
Everyone said Australia, New Zealand, England, Brazil, South Africa. And then Walter said Texas. I said, oh l come from Victoria.
He said very confused ..
You dont sound Canadian. I said when did l say l was from Canada?
He said "You said your from Victoria.
Then what country is that?
I said Australia.
He said, how would l know that...
I said. Well you assumed it with your State.
You cant assume as you do that everyone know's' Texas.
Its a state of the USA.
Its annoying your assume everyone knows where the state of Texas is..
(Even though the world does its still annoying!!)
Tip:
Just say USA, we will find out the state later!!!
@@paquitagillis901 But England hasn't been a country since the Acts of Union 1707 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1707). If Texans should say they're from the US then shouldn't people from England say they're from the UK/Britain/Great Britain?
EDIT: I should've written 'sovereign nation' instead of 'country'. Both Texas and England are non-sovereign entities/regions within sovereign nations with England being a non-sovereign country and Texas being a non-sovereign state. If one thinks one should say either what sovereign nation one is from or what country one is from, but not what state one is from, then obviously Texas is not an option, but England is. I think this is a pretty strange rule though and IMO, if it's OK to say England, then it should also be OK to say Texas (which I think it is, even if not preferable).
A final issue is pragmatics. One should not say they're from somewhere no one has heard of. Most people have heard of England and Texas, very few have heard of Victoria outside of Australia and New Zealand.
@@chaoticsequencer England is still a country its just not the nation
@@monstercrx Seems like semantics to me. Texas is a "state" within a federation. It existed as an independent state prior to joining the federation. England is a "country" in a Kingdom (or nation) and doesn't even have its own parliament. I think the English get away with this where Texans don't because people equate England with Great Britain (to the annoyance of many a Scot) whereas no one equates Texas with the US.
@@chaoticsequencer it's not semantics, ffs. Nation and Country are two different definitions in dictionary. Nation CAN eventually be used as a synonymous of country only if the cultural heritage and the country territory coincide, but it's a very broad definition and doesn't always identify as a country. Ex. The First Nation in the US refers to the Native Nord American People, but not to the US or Canada, which are the countries those people currently live in. So. Not semantics. Everyone says their country when asked where they are from, never heard anyone refer to their nation as their country (also because they don't necessarily coincide).
As someone from another country I find it so cringey that the English language is represented by the America flag haha
That’s like using the Mexican flag to represent Spanish
Yep, I too find it a little jarring when a website in a non-English language uses the USA flag to change to English. But to be honest doing that is probably the most helpful to the most people - the sad as that is.
But it does make be understand how Scottish people must feel when asked where in England they come from. :-)
@@LemonChick haha yeah I heard that pisses them off. I’m Australian so I don’t really get that down here
Yeah, that cringe! But I love it when there's both a US and British flag. The US one usually is for simplified English. Always makes me a bit more giggly than what is appropriate for a middle aged Scandinavian.
Actually depending on where you go or what sites you visit the Mexican flag does represent Spanish speakers.
@@doomslayer1984 yup, I often have to remind both Americans and Mexicans that Spanish is a European language from Spain, in Europe, and that it comes from the language the Romans spread across Western Europe.
I did have a tourist couple once tell me they were from Georgia, obviously in the US. But just to mess with them I replied with "Ahh, I've never been there but I really want to go visit Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, I hear that it's a very pretty part of the world. It was even more funny when they said to each other looking very confused "I think he means Alabama"
Hahaha
This what i dont like in Americans there are so full of themselves
I met a couple of guys in Belize once who asked me where I was from. When I responded "Australia", they indicated themselves, grinned, and said proudly, "California". I honestly didn't know what to do with that. Was it supposed to mean something special? Australia is around the same size as the US, but I'd never introduce myself overseas as being from Queensland, just Australia.
I remember when Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics and when Georgia came on the whole stadium erupted. I swear it was because they all thought it was their state and not the country!
@@B-A-L Epic. I have seen the Atlanta olympics on TV. The end result is: before the olympics even ended, i had become anti-american ^^. Unsufferable to watch.
Many times I've had arguements with Americans telling me that I need to learn English and to speak proper English because they read that I Spelled Colour, Honour, Neighbour, and humour the proper way. One of them insisted that she were in the right all the time and I was wrong. It dragged on for a bit just to lure Her into a direction I wanted Her to go until She said "Where did you learn English because it's terrible". I said "In England. I'm from Britain!" to which She replied "You can't be. I know English because I'm speaking it and you're not. You are a liar!". This get's more entertaining; so I say "OK then, what language do you think we speak in Britain?" She replied "Err, British Duh!". I know where this is going so I go along with it. "And what Countries are in Britain?" to which She replied "One, Britain is a country. Shows how smart you are!". Here I'm going to try to educate Her. "Is that so? Google: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and tell me what Google says". So She does and comes back "OK. I saw Britain but I didn't see England. You're stupid!". So then I ask "Where's London?" Me giving my screen a stupid face look at this point. She replied "In England stupid!". I'm getting frustrated by her stupidity at this point then said "Right, England is a Country in Britain". "No stupid. England is in the UK. I knew you were lying" was her response.
Cutting it short. The arguement went on and on. She claimed that Her English was correct and My English was wrong because She was speaking English and even though This country spawned the language and My family have been here for over a thousand years She was in the right. I just left her to it and let her idiocy speak for itself for all to see. This is not an isolated case. I've had variations of this arguement so many times I've lost count. This is how f-ing stupid a lot of Americans can be. This is why they can only drive Automatics. (Europeans will get the message of what I mean here!)
🤣🤣Sorry if I laugh. I had the same discussion once with an "American" Instead of "I knew you were lying" I was told to learn geography bc I never lived there...and don't know what I was talking about...
Ironically American ancestor was from British and I bet those American doesn't knew about it.........
Sorry, but you Brits are idiots too and that autmatic thing is one of the past, since intelligent people would ALWAYS chose that kind of transmission, since it is way more oeconomic.
On the other side, your "English" is primitive still, since it is based on an OLD lower german accent and the point is on LOWER.
Ever read shakepeare? Even there you'll find that proof, that you don't have an language of your own, since it is still missing important things, not just one (grammatical) tense.
I had an altercation with my old "english" teacher, who actually was from the US, to make it even more ridiculous, trying to sell it to us, that English is older then the german language.
I dared to disagree, at the age ot 15 !!! and told him to his face, that this is a lie, BECAUSE english is bases on said LOWER german accent.
He still insisted and gave me a warning, which my other teacher had removed, after I got to tell him the whole story, and he even gave his colleague, who was also his friend, a talk-to about that topic, since it was a bloody lie.
You are every bit as stupid if you use stereotypes to insult a country will hundreds of millions of people. How does bullying people from other countries make your life better in any way?
I have had the color colour argument with an American and how the u should be included, it ended with me saying "think about the word colon and figure it out"
I'll be honest mate....I have never understood that "everyone wants to go to the US" mentality. With how accessible the internet is nowadays, there really is no excuse for staying this ignorant.
about the english translation on websites, not sure how common this is - and I find it both funny and insulting for the people of the USA - but some sites have the Union Jack flag which says "English" and then the United States flag which says "English - simplified"....
I’ve never seen that, that’s hilarious 😂
Considering how many conversations I've had with Americans just this past week alone that were derailed because they didn't understand the definition of simple words, kept misusing them, or misunderstood me when I used them, raged at me for giving them the dictionary definition to clarify and couldn't be bothered to look it up for themselves...Yeah, "English - Simplified" fits.
@@breezy3392 I've seen studies about the average reading level of the US population. Look it up, it's terrifying when you consider about half of these people vote! If you want to be understood by a majority, you damn well need simplified English.
"English - simplified" - hahahaha
Also - as lovely a bunch as the Americans are - I may want to visit the place at some stage in the future... but live there ? Not a chance !!
It should really be the English flag, not the Union Jack. Afterall, it's the English language, not the British language. That would confuse Americans more than they already are.
I took a domestic train trip from Halifax to Montreal (both in Canada) that cut through northern Maine because it was quicker. It never occurred to me that I needed to bring my Canadian passport on that trip but at the border US Customs checked ID for all passengers. I got yanked off the train & interrogated. It only dawned on me 20 minutes into it that they thought I was trying to sneak into the US. When Canadian border control confirmed I was former Canadian Armed Forces they started back pedalling but they almost seemed disappointed that they were wrong. You have to be next level self absorbed to assume people are all clamouring to get into the US.
From the North? No. From the South? Yes. Doesn't matter to me. I say let them in as they actually want to work which is more than I can say for a lot of native US citizens I know.
@Smiling Shadow Passports have only been required for cross border US-Canada in the not so distant past.Easily forgettable,get off your high horse
@Smiling Shadow I'm closer to it than you are 😁
@Steiner just getting the word out that you white people regardless of where you're from love to think your shit don't stank to the rest of the world. But news flash... it does!
@Smiling Shadow The good old days my friend were far better than what you're experiencing now😁
I'm from Japan, and when I visited my American friend's family 25 yrs ago, an American wife started to explain what TV is as if I have never seen TV before in my life, and said "you don't need to go to the TV to change TV channels, we have a 'remote controller ' to change any channels without standing from a couch". I was stunned how she was educated to think all other countries are so behind.... And I noticed that their electric devices are all made in Japan and a little bit behind models...., but I couldn't say anything because I was too shocked.
Yikes, I'm so sorry you had to hear all that.
Japan beats the USA 10/0 in terms of culture and technology
Whoof... that sounds like a horrible experience xp
All you gotta do is point at the TV and ask: "So where was this made?"
@@MerryMoss She´d probably say, USA, look it´s in english
@@motorlife7037 Aaaarghh x'p
As an immigrant from Switzerland to the US, I'll never get tired of hearing almost each year "Do you have thanksgiving in Switzerland?" 😂...And that's if they don't call my country Sweden. 🤣
I am from Sweden, and i have lost count of how many times people confuse it with Switzerland. 😂
Even some that try to tell me we don't have any coastline in Sweden, course it's an mountain nation in the Alps.
Sweden ↔️ Switzerland
Austria ↔️ Australia
🫡
The real question here is why would you immigrate from Switzerland to the US.. buy hey Ive heard Swiss loves Guns too. But you guys are more peaceful.
wieso würd mer freiwillig ih dere kognitive sackgass welle lebe?
@@AnnaZundel Sorry I speak French. ;)
Husband was staying in a castle in Scotland that had become a hotel whilst on a business trip it was full of tourists mostly American. A American couple received their meal which included chips, the Americans had known they were ordering fries but didn’t know our chips are chunky. Bless ‘em when they started to complain the Scottish waitress in a loud and no nonsense thick accent told them “ you ordered chips, you got chips, this is Scotland, you have our chips!” walked off leaving the couple looking like a pair of naughty children.
I love it when Scots tell off Americans. It’s one of the funniest things ever.
Nice one
If I had a restaurant, I'd hire her on the spot. 😊
Gie it tae them full Monty..
@@doomslayer1984 Eh? 🤣
Well, in Rome I've actually heard a elderly American couple complaining about "why no one is fixing all these old structures" while walking in the Roman Forum 😑
😂
Once a guy online asked me why we don't rebuild the Colosseo from the ground up to play shows inside of it
My nephew....italian citizen, but born and raised in America. Why is all ruined? But she's 8 years old.
@@Liaros_ lol, I mean maybe building a replica would be a nice idea. The original should stay ofc 😄
@@vask92 A modern replica already exists: is the Olimpico stadium for football.
An exact replica of the Colosseo would just be a fake with no purpose, unless we decide to start gladiators fights again.
Funny but true story: When i was in high school a friend of mine was doing an exchange year in the us (somewhere around the year 1999). He ended up in a very nice family in texas. One day they asked him if we even had cars in germany. As he tried to explain, that germans (karl benz & gottlieb daimler) somewhat invented the car and therefor there are ofcause cars in germany they were shocked and almost looked at him like he was the anti-christ in person.
I mean how can you not know something basic like this, especially when there are mercedes and volkswagon in the us too?!? xDDD
A lot of Americans seem to think Ford invented the car
@@monstercrx Yes, or he invented the production line which is also not true.
Volkswagen gives it away, surely?
@@A_nony_mous the Volk with the Wagen...
January 29th 1886 - Benz got his patent for the first automobile.
I’m from Germany, my husband is from the US. Without bragging I would say that my English is rather good, with little to no accent to give away that I’m not from the US originally.
When I first met my husbands cousin we talked for a while and it seemed completely natural to her that I speak good English, until my husband pointed out to her that my native tongue is German. Somewhat confused she asked, “what do you mean, when talking to your family at home in Germany you don’t all speak English?”
I was at an absolute loss for words. I couldn’t even grasp the amount of stupidity and ignorance in those words. And she was being dead serious.
It was definitely at that point I realized the public school system has failed Americans and if we ever have kids, I want them to go to grow up and go to school in Germany.
In the top 10 world's best universities, 6 are from USA and zero are from German
So gemany gets its as kickd by USA at producing world class universities.
@@larrybuchannan186 An American study using criteria that are massively favoring universities from English-speaking countries (and especially the USA themselves) finds 5 (!) of the Top 10 universities are from the US, while 4 are from the UK. I'm shocked (well, not that shocked). Anyway, enjoy your student loan - assuming you actually did go to an university. Looking at your spelling, I'm not too sure. But maybe that is also the result of the world class universities you have in the US.
@larry : u’re absolutely right : 6 colleges, app 9000 graduates per year, so 55 000 (among which a significant number of foreigners), out of 4M graduates, are clearly better than most graduates around the world. The other 3 450 000 are just morons, is your point I guess. Thanks for the confirmation. Just missing is : which college did u graduate from ? 😂😂😂
@@Scamander Say what you want but if you look at a list for american universities especially upper tier and ivy leagues they have pages of international applications. It isn’t a coincidence that the US has the most amount of foreign born doctors they come here for schooling for a reason it’s okay to admit that the US does things better than other countries lmao
@@larrybuchannan186 Yes but about 3,2% of the USA citizens visit those universities (in about 80 years). Its like praising that u have the wealthiest brands and companies but most of the citizens are still poor. Like where is the win for you exactly
Its funny how the USA hates China so much but have so much in common too
I’m from the UK, the first time I travelled to the US Me and my mate got talking to some guys in a sports bar while watching baseball. One of them pointed at the screen and asked what I thought of it. I said I didn’t really understand the rules but it looked fun.
He said, and I quote ‘No not the baseball, the TV, what do you think of TVs’ - assuming we’d never seen one before!
Quick as a flash my mate jumped up and got on a stool, pretending to look in the back of the TV and asked the American guy ‘how do you feed the little people in the magic box?’
I tried to keep a straight face and keep it going, we lasted about 2 more minutes before we lost it. Couldn’t stop laughing.
Oh my god 😄😆
Did you tell them a Scotsman invented TV? And the telephone?
I can't believe that story.
No way that baseball actually looked fun.
London actually made the first T V transmission in 1932.
🤣🤣Great!very british umor , greetings from Italy
I've got a fun one. I was in a Kiwi sports team touring the States back in the 80s. We were playing a college team in Kansas, I think it was, and were sharing a dressing room with the home team. We were all chatting and one of the local lads said "Hey, you guys speak pretty good English!" I replied "Why thank-you; I wish I could return the compliment."
😄😄😄
Yeah, I'm from Slovakia, and I absolutely LOVE correcting english grammar of native speakers =D
@@MidnightSt English, not english (proper nouns are always capitalised in English) 😂
@@duhusker4383 Yes, I'm aware, I just don't bother most of the time, unless there's a point that needs to be proven. :)
😂😂😂 great reaction
Many years ago we had a young engineer come over to the UK from our US parent company and I was driving him around town showing him where things were. As we drove past a sign advertising one of the gyms by showing some people in a swimming pool, he actually said to me "people in England can swim?". I was stunned.
Did he know he was on an island?
@@kevartje1295 probably not
Still, the tea spilled by the Americans could not be saved :(
We're an island surrounded by the sea! I should hope so!
@Al Khen ● Omega People have swam across the English Channel lad. You know what’s on the other side of that don’t you? France.
I'm french. I went to florida for holidays in 2014. I made friend with a local girl. Among the question she had about france, she asked if we had the same phones as they do. Not the latest version just smartphones. She thought we had old Nokias or something.
She also asked if we had WI-FI. Not everywhere, just if it known and if some had it. Not the majority, just some.
I wasn't to far from telling her we didn't have access to electricity and water everyday.
To be fair to her, if i were not French myself and had to judge France from what French politicians are saying when they're abroad, i would probably ask the same kind of questions.
What is this "electrickery" you speak of? Is it powerful magic?
Working in Edinburgh, during the festival time, when there are many people form around the world that visit. A lovely American couple started chatting with us and the lady asked "After the festival, do they take down the castle?". I laughed thinking this was a joke....and then realised that she was genuine.
I mentioned that the castle originates from the 12th century. You can imagine she was embarrassed.
@Al Khen ○ Omega The Edinburgh Festival is the biggest arts festival in the world, plus the Fringe festival (which is now a bigger draw than the main event) - three weeks of comedy, theatre, literature, music, street performance and general freakery.
Thanksgiving in Europe just tells me that Americans don’t understand why they celebrate Thanksgiving at all, the history of it and how it came about and so on. If they did, they would know it’s an American holiday and nothing to do with the rest of the world.
We should do thanksgiving in the UK….giving thanks we got rid of those pesky pilgrims.
I saw one of these compilations recently where an Aussie exchange student in the US had a girl ask her where she was from. She pointed on an imaginary globe at the top for the US & at the bottom for Australia. The girl asked but what State is it in. She was told Australia is a different country twice. The girl went onto say but the US IS THE GLOBE. So maybe some think everyone celebrates Thanksgiving because the US runs the world, even knowing other countries exist.
@@tommoxjr Spot on!
This is a hot one in Canada. The Americans are in disbelief that we celebrate Thanksgiving in a different month (October) which is totally unrelated to the settlers and Indigenous Peoples myth down there. Our Thanksgiving continues the centuries-long European custom of a harvest feast - nothing to do with the Plymouth fantasy. It's in October because up here the cold is coming and the grain is in the barn. Plus, we don't have Black Friday, thank heavens.
@@tommoxjr good one, mate, from Canada
Returning to Australia, after a trip to the USA, I’d just entered the arrivals hall at Brisbane airport. I was queued in the “Australian Passports” line, when a lady approached me and asked if I knew where the line for Americans was. I just pointed to the “All other Countries” line. She walked over and joined the queue, looking totally dejected.
@Chris Davis
Russia is not a shithole!
@@aiziszizis2536
Politics aside, I'm sure there are many beautiful places in Russia, but considering the current state of affairs, I don't think many people want to go visit them.
@Chris Davis
You saw Moscow, Sankt Petersburg, big cities? These cities are beautiful, really!
@@aiziszizis2536 Shithole as it is. І я знаю про що я кажу.
@@aiziszizis2536 Even in Russia they saying "there exist Moscow and St. Petersburg and the Russia" because of the huge gap between life quality experience.
I did an online course from a USA university but with people talking part across the world. We had exams and these ran in a 24 hour time slot, the exam itself only talking a couple of hours but once you started you had to finish within six hours. So you needed to decide when you wanted to start to fit in with your day. The dates were posted at the start of the course so everyone could plan, with the start times reference to UTC+0.
First exam - carnage. Everyone in non USA countries seemed to be fine figuring out the time difference but not so Americans. Not all Americans of course, but a surprising number just assumed that the window start times posted were referenced to their time zone (which is extra weird as the USA has a number of time zones just across that country) but this was just the start of it. Over the next few days in the forum there was a discussion about what UTC+0 means and why a course aimed at an international audience might decide that is a good way of describing time - us all just having to add to or subtract from 0.
Most, while still being a bit grumpy that their specific time zone was not the base, came round but there was a group in one USA area who would not have it, saying it made the most sense to use their time zone as the base. Their argument? Everyone watches America TV and there was a particular show (cannot remember what it was now) that was popular so everyone across the world would just know what the time zone is in that part of the USA, their part, where the show was set. We would all just know, as a matter of course, what the time difference was between our place in the world and theirs.
Still can't get my head round even starting to unpick the logic but it sort of went that because we watched say... Friends... everyone across the world knew, in their heart and soul, the time difference between their country and New York so it made the best sense to have that as a base.
The people who ran the course kept it at UTC+0 and added a link to a website to help with the conversion.
wow... that's hilarious and sad all at the same time :P
Did they have trouble with the date as well?
Fun fact: the exam took place on 9/4/2021 😏
@F. A. Educated does not equal intelligent ;)
yeah, time zones is another thing. i play final fantasy XIV, which is a japanese MMO that regularly has maintainances scheduled around night-time in japan to not inconvenience the players too much. but it is played everywhere in the world and time and again americans complain about the maintainance schedule because it is not adjusted to THEIR time zones.
The problem with saying which state your are from isn't specifying the state, but omitting the country. Especially Georgia.
I once heard a conversation between two American tourists visiting Caernarvon Castle (North Wales, UK) one said to the other, what a beautiful Castle, it's just such a shame they had to build it so close to a railway station.
No you didn't.
They also wish Stonehenge was further from the road
Yeah reminds me of when some American relatives visited us and we took them to Warwick castle. They commented some of it looked a bit tired and worn which was a shame. I had to tell them the first parts were built in 954... they just couldn't comprehend it. 1954? No a thousand years before that...
@@fintonmainz7845 Yes I did
@@brunogimeno9086 no you didn't Giuseppe.
I’m American. I remember one time in my freshman English class, a girl who has a reputation for being, let’s just say, not all the way there, said something incredibly ignorant. I can’t remember what, but it was stupid. I responded to her, saying, “I bet you’re the type of person who wonders why Europeans don’t celebrate the 4th of July.” She looked shocked, saying, “They don’t?!”
European here. Given our history with the Brits, and the recent Brexit handling, I think we should start celebrating 😂
I (British) was in an Irish bar in Florence, Italy and 2 American women walked in. Given it was Florence you've got the gallery, statue of David, incredible architecture, the duomo and a million other things. They walked in the bar and were pointing out the Guiness posters, Irish flag, joke leprechaun shit and exclaimed "Oh My God, Italy has soooo much interesting culture!! We should try some of this guiness stuff".
No words.
The flags are similar at least, you gotta admit that xD
I'll be perfectly honest and blunt. You could not pay me enough to move to the US. I have 3 great friends in the US and they all want to move here (Norway) because they're completely done with the US.
What happened to "God bless America and no place else" though? No really,you don't hear that anymore
I'm French and my wife is from the US, so I've moved here. Beside making money everything sucks here and I can't wait to move back to Europe with her in 3 years
Why would anyone move into a country that makes u work 40hrs a week at 7.25$ hr and the rent and bills are more expensive than an eco car
God forbid you get sick in the us
You might literally just die cuz u cant afford the hospital bills
And they say itd the land of the free
Americans live in a bubble
@@jmlepunk woooo
Im Australian I was backpacking in Europe and at youth hostel in Finland I met an American couple. We got talking they asked where I was from I told them Australia. They both told me that I speak good English and asked it must be hard for you to learn a new language such as English!
I am from London and have been told that my English was very good by Americans.
Greetings from Finland, did you have fun? :D Terveisiä Suomesta!
A friend was visiting relatives in New York and when one of them indicated some traffic lights, asking "Do you have those in Australia?".
This one comes up a lot. I met someone years ago, friend of my then flatmate, who had worked at summer camp in the US. This woman is English. The kids at summer camp told her she had really good English and asked her how she learnt it. She replied “Books and television” 😂
@John H I mean the words sound similar. As a kid I couldn’t differentiate the two either (I‘m German and Austria is Österreich so the word sounds completely different to Australien which is the German word for Australia). At least it was a mix-up and not just them thinking Australia doesn’t speak English. Which of course also happens and imo is so much worse
From Czech Republic with all respect to educated Amaricans. I am not speaking just for me, but for majority of my friends, there is no desire to move to US or even visit. In the past times, america image seems to be rather silly to us. With all the stupidity going on there... Social media are just approving this opinions. I know this is up to longer debate, but this is how we feel like. All of my friends are glad, we have not been born in America. With all our social advantages and balanced tax system. Ohhh, and metric system.... Sorry to hear hat. 😐
When I was hosting an international quilting design swap, I asked participants to add their names and location (city, state/region, country) as I thought it would be fun to see where everyone lived.
Without exception all Americans wrote their location as USA & abbreviations for their state. Everyone else wrote country name & city or region in full.
After noticing this I asked everyone not to use abbreviations for their states, but write the state name in full as this is an international swap.
It made no difference to the USA participants as they just continued to use the state abbreviations.
Guess they expected everyone around the world knows the abbreviation of each USA state though pretty sure most Americans wouldn’t know the regions/states of other countries by their abbreviations.
Being an Australian, WA confuses me often. Sure, it is the abbreviation for Washington, but to me it is Western Australia.
@@AndrewFishman The A's and the M's get me every time the abbreviations could apply to so many different states.
We of the world simply look up the abbreviations. The USA on the other hand would not.
@@AndrewFishmanthis explains a lot to my simply mind thankyou lol
My educated guess is, most Americans can’t spell their states in full. American education leaves the rest of us, going WTF !
While visiting Australia 🇦🇺, an American exclaimed;
"I'm protected by the American constitution", I replied;
Not here your not!
🤣😂🤣😂
I met an American woman in a transit lounge in Asia somewhere. I was in drunk, dry sarcasm mode.
“Oh wow, you speak really great English!”
“Thanks, I had to learn it at school.”
“Have you ever seen a Mow-ree?”
“Once, but he ran back into his cave when he saw me.”
“Oh my god, that must have been frightening!”
She went on to learn some useful NZ facts from me. We ALL own sheep, they’re a sign of wealth. We hunt, garden and fish for food. We live in Olde English wooden shacks. Our income is 90% UN aid.
“But you have the internet right?”
“Is that like a fishing net?”
She was the highlight of my trip.
omg lol.. this anecdote is gold! hahah :-)
I'm laughing at this, but then I remembered how I was chatting to an Irish bloke in a pub in Bristol and he told me that draught Guinness was piped into Britain, directly into pubs, through a network of pipes running under the Irish Sea. I fell for it hook, line and sinker and sat there enthralled listening to him ... until I caught sight of the barman laughing his head off.
As funny as it is to troll extreme ignorance, the problem is that woman x 100 million is how Trump got elected. If you ever have the chance again, you might want to think about doing your bit to educate - I know it's not nearly as fun, but you're doing a public service to the world.
@@charlieboy6315 If "extreme ignorance" got Trump elected, how do you describe Biden and Kamala getting where they are ha ha ha
Who's next, that TV couple, I can't remember their names. He has running shoes and she has a big bum. Nothing would surprise me anymore.
Good responses. As a kiwi, living in the USA, I always teased people who said they eat kiwi's. And then, the constant laughs as americans tried unsuccessfully to pick where my accent came from.
Isn't it bizarre that here in the Netherlands, the subjdct history, teaches you about the whole english, british, indian, indonesian, german and english history. Also a lot of other stuff, but Americans are just like: there are more countries with history?
They teach you Indian history in Netherlans?
@@TheElevenBravo20 more BS i see.
@Chris Davis wtf?
@Chris Davis god damn, you must be a troll, 100%
@Chris Davis no objections there. the russian attack on ukraine is in breach of internarional law and theres crimes against humanity commited
still, what kind of bullshit are you spitting about the united states of garbage?
I can’t recall the number of times I’ve been in a discussion with a American online and been told that “people criticize/say negative things about the USA just because they are jealous…”
wtf jealous lol, jealous of what? Im so glad I live here in Australia.
lol that's a good one :)) I'm honestly sad for US americans thinking they have it best when their systems are all around so lacking...
@@allister.trudel recently I had a conversation with an American about gun control.
He actually thought America had the least crime in the world… it was so endearing that I was hesitant to tell him America ranks around 22nd place when it comes to crime…
They are jealous of the USAs cultural impact that outreaches Europe, and it pisses them off that a country so illiterate of the world yet has such an impact.
I've been told that as well, people seem to think that everyone is jealous of the US.
I was in a group chat once on Twitter with a lot of fans from the same band and one of them asked how we were all celebrating the 4th of July. They got so angry when most of us said we didn’t celebrate it as we were all from around the world. Couldn’t believe how we could just be so ignorant to not celebrate how great the US is…they eventually left the group…
It's interesting that most comments here share a similar story with 4th of July. I wonder why many Americans think other countries should celebrate it because I've never once in my life believed that an other country would celebrate a national historic moment of my country
@@valentinvas6454because for the most part they are so self absorbed and ignorant.
it's because they are brainwashed (or sufficiently ignorant) to have an American-centric view of the world... And it's only getting worse... And most of those people will go on to have kids of their own... @@valentinvas6454
everytime an american says 'rescued them in world war 2' .. it definitely triggers me XD
I have posted this elsewhere but my favourite discussion with an American was about landmarks around the world , when I said I would like to visit Paris , France to see the Eiffel Tower he laughed and said he didn’t need to because he could go to Vegas and see the real one 🫤 I kid you not ‼️
I've been in a long distance relationship with an American girl, I really hope she never got any of those questions about green cards... besides... I'm in Norway, why would I wanna move away from proper healthcare? :P
Exactly mate it’s crazy
From living in Germany now for about 7 years I can tell you that most Europeans would not date an American to get a green card. The vast majority of them don't want to move to the USA and look at it with a mixture of horror and curiosity fairly often. During Covid it seems that Germany mostly looked at the USA for a lesson on what not to do. We need to do X policy or we will end up like Florida kind of stuff.
We really did😂
And these days we look at it more with horror... couriosity can be satisfied by using the internet or reading up on stuff.
I'm considering a trip to New York next Spring, but I'd never choose to live in the US. Great place for a holiday, but it's so good to be back on a BA flight back to Heathrow.
Gemany became a civlzd country under US leadership
Before that you were busy starting worldwars
Ye... Im sure there are lots of lovely things to see and do in the US, but in my experience Europeans typically look at the US as reality tv.
I was commenting on TH-cam about the US political situation back in 2020 when I had this reaction from an American woman: "Don't complain. I know it's not always perfect but this is the best country in the world. Just be glad you have a seat at the table."
My response was that, being Australian, I have no desire for a 'seat at the table' in America and I naturally disputed that it is 'the best country in the world' (every country thinks that about themselves). I have travelled extensively, including across the USA, and nothing in the world could persuade me to live there. I'll stick to my own uncrowded, relaxed and safer country.
Do you really think every country in the world thinks they're the best? I doubt it... When I was volunteering in Romania every teen we met planned to leave for Western Europe or elsewhere. Obviously, I don't think you'll ever reach a consensus on what is the best country (which is probably a good thing).
@@Snowshowslow You're both wrong: countries don't think. They're countries, not living beings. ;-)
@ Wow, such great insight... You probably got top marks when it came to metaphors in school, huh?
I would dispute the safer talking about australia, there are to many dangerous animals for me sorry :)
@@mimig4378 Seriously! And where did you see this? In a you tube video. Unless your travelling in the outback or swimming in the swamps with crocodiles your not going to come into contact with a dangerous animal. Even spiders you might come accross seldomly. Even our largest spider is harmless.
I was working as a tour guide in Tallinn in Estonia and I showed the tourists the medieval walls of surrounding the Old Town. A little later a guy from the group came up with to me and asked a question: Excuse me, there is one thing I can't understand. You have the medieval walls surrounding the city,right? So how come your country got occupied during WW II?
Tallinn is such a beautiful city!
Because 20th century weaponry defeats medieval defences.😮
I know plenty americans who take great pride in telling everyone they’re from Texas, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa …. even to the extend of using state abbrevations to nonamericans.
You do know … to the rest of us … you’re “just” americans. 😉
But of course since you are open-minded, you then begin to understand this habit isn't a sign of boorishness but of identity. Isn't your attitude a little like an "american" considering you "just" a foreigner?
I could care less about your national identity. Just like you could care less if I identify as a zealander or a jute.
When you ask me where I am from, and I tell you what region within my country, you have no idea where that is. But you apparently expect my openmindedness to accept your identity not being american but KY, AL, GA, CA … or whatever. Because your identity is not american.
So … my openmindedness auggests me to accept your arrogance?
Yes. I'm Canadian. We could fit at least 3 of Texas into my province and still have room left over and we're not even the biggest province. So I find it rather funny that they think people in other countries would necessarily be impressed by the size of Texas. I have a nickname for Texas by the way... I call it "the crackpot state" because as much as I've heard crazy comments from Americans online, the people are most often from Texas.
TX, KT, IN or IL, IW?
I'm from europe, so I'm halfway remembering, halfway guessing those, but yeah, no. They're not "just" americans for me, since I'm not as ignorant as most of them are ;)
😂Fair enough. Ignorance goes both ways,if you choose to be ignorant about my country,then I'll just be equally as ignorant about yours
It's not fair that I have to get out of my way to learn about your country,state,culture,accent,music, history etc. when you can't even name one country from my continent
Ian, I think the real problem is that it is very hard to create a sense of American (US) exceptionalism if your governments were to encourage their citizens to learn about the rest of the world. You have watched the videos comparing working conditions in the States compared to other countries and the differences in medical care and costs. You have seen how badly things are run in the US for the average punter. Very hard for a politician to bang on about communism and socialism, if the people listening actually understand how the concept works in the civilised world. You might note I don't include the US in that. Any country that puts individual success ahead of the needs of the community is not wholly civilised.
I have always enjoyed the company of people I have met from the US. Almost universally you are polite and friendly. On the other hand you are so woefully and sometimes wilfully ignorant of the world in general that it can be frustrating and annoying. The Great America is a dream from 60 years ago that has been corrupted by corporate greed and even worse politicians. The fact that your schools aren't fully funded by the states but rather have to basically beg for money just leads to lower and lower education outcomes. Don't get me wrong, the brilliant will find a way to succeed no matter what, but for the average student, they will continue to live in ignorance.
Excellent comment, Darren! I've been to the US on many occasions and have a few friends there, they really are quite insular & US-centric and that's just the openminded ones ;)
Do Americans know that our black people in UK were not brought over as slaves. They belonged to the British Commonwealth so entitled to come over and live in Britain 🇬🇧 ❤️❤️❤️
@Smiling Shadow well well, it was Britain the first country pushed to abolish slavery. We were slaves ourselves, Romans , vikings and Ottoman empire etc. Yes we are taught extensive history of the world. You certainly are biased that is evident, anyway black people sold their own people as slaves !!!! I think it's Tim you got out of this rut. Have you lived abroad??? Get over it
The USA is such a massive country, each state is like a mini country X
@Smiling Shadow of course I now that Canada was a former colony of Britain, our history educational is expansive. By the way it's not " England" I live in the UK but not England, do they teach you that?????. By the way nobody balances the argument about what the British have brought to the world???? Too many inventions and innovations to mention yet we don't blow smoke up our own arses! Steam engine, telephone ( yes Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish one of the countries in the UK) anasthetic, penicillin. First to isolate the human genome and use dna in a criminal court. Good luck studying, look at the contributions of countries you can't make judgements of things that happened centuries ago the whole process is the development of mankind. Do your research and look at the contributions that Scotland, England Ireland and Wales ( collectively known as The United Kingdom) has made to the world promoting health care and education to many poor countries. Its the USA that is in its final death throws. Once ( if the public waken up ) even the Roman empire fell. Good luck 👍🏻
Have spent some serious time in the US, and have lost count of the number of times I have been asked … as an Aussi…”what is it like to be in a free country?” The rationale for the question was that Australia was still under the oppression of the British monarchy. When I replied that we had just as much freedom as the US, I was often told that was not true, as we still had the queens head on our coins.
I hear you.... because in a truly 'free', secular, constitutional democracy the money has "In God we trust" printed on it.
@@anserbauer309 In a „free“ country where you are suddenly not allowed to have an abortion 🤡
Worth watching Jim Jeffries on this:
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lol and their "free" country has the most imprisoned people per capita (Also known as modern day slavery)...
@@allister.trudel Yes, the 13th amendment abolished slavery "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted".
The myth of the USA being the best country in the World is carefully maintained, because otherwise the people might learn something and expect better from their leaders.
They've been brainwashed into thinking that especially there "PLEDGE OF ALLIGENCE" A political oath you've got to sing at soon as you hit school age.I get CULTISH VIBES from that and you'd expect that from CHINA, RUSSIA or a 1940's GERMANY not from AMERICA.But the AMERICANS don't realise it because they've been conditioned to think it's all patriotic so they don't know the difference.. Creepy AF
I'm a Brit. Once in Florida a lady asked me how long it took me to drive across the bridge. When I pushed further, she meant the bridge from the UK to the US. This grown woman thought there was a 5,000 mile long bridge across the Atlantic ocean.
you are a liar
I would have said, it's a rough trip with no rest stops along the way.
Rolling my eyes at this moment.🙄
I remember playing a game while I was in the US. A good part of the family was involved. It was some quiz type deal you play on your tv. The topic was " 10 most famous beaches in the world"....so naturally I said Copacabana...which is in Brasil. That beach wasn't on the list of "10 most famous beaches IN THE WORLD" because it wasn't in the US!
US beaches are shit aswell the audacity...
I notice that when you watch Jeopardy. They are very smart people but quite often with a non US based topic when questions get harder, they often fail. One stuck out where I was thinking why are they asking such an easy question for final jeopardy (to do with the the separation of Pakistan from India). None got it. Some may say 'well it's a US general knowledge show' but all the UK/Aussie ones I've seen over many years have far less localised questions so I don't think that's it. I really think even the well educated are not exposed to outside influences & don't think to learn much of it.
@@tkps Yes agreed Australian game shows will often include world topics or questions about other countries.
@@tkps As someone who has watched multiple versions of jeopardy from several countries I can assure you that Americans are not alone when it comes to ignorance of the outside world.
We have german Songs About the Copacabana...
I was living in Spain, and I started a new job on the day of the 9/11 attacks. One of my colleagues was a young Colombian lady. A few days later, she told me that her brother was travelling to the states at time, and shortly after crossing the border he stopped for fuel. When he went to pay the cashier, she asked, presumably because of his complexion, "Where are you from?" "I'm from Clolombia", he said.
"Is that anywhere near Iraq"?!!!!!!
Yes, that’s the level of their geographical knowledge. Pathetic.
I would never give up the perks of living in the EU, especially Germany, for moving to US. You couldn't pay me enough money for that 🤣
I'm in USA and thought Germany was REALLY oppressive.......so many ways to offend Germans- just with simple everyday things - like asking for ICE in drinks (did you guys lose the recipe ?) and everything (and I mean EVERYTHING ) closed on Sunday.
@csnide6702 I am so scared that it could not be irony 👀
On a visit to Florida 25 years ago my husband and i were having a meal in a restaurant when the man at the next table heard our accents and asked if we were british he then proceeded to tell us that America had won the war for us and we should be grateful my husband said "well you must have read a different history book to the one i read mate" the manageress of the restaurant actually came over and apologised for him.
WWII lasted 7 years. The USA was only involved for the last 4 years of WWII
@@debbie541 1945 - 1939 = 6 .. where do you take the 7 from?
@@liviuganea4108 Classic off-by-one error. Yours, that is. Even though you're both wrong: the war in Europe was "just" 5 years and 8 months, and in the Pacific it was even shorter, "just" 3 years and 8 months.
But your calculation is still wrong: if something goes from, say, 2012 to 2018, it's considered to go for 7 years, not 6, since you have to include both the first and the last year.
@ Apparently you need to study history some more. And maths.
@@liviuganea4108 His math is correct. WW2 (European theatre) was actually 5 years 8 months, but...
Counting the years as inclusive:
1939 - year 1
1940 - year 2
1941 - year 3
1942 - year 4
1943 - year 5
1944 - year 6
1945 - year 7
🙂 Not too difficult, when you write it out. And Jürgen certainly didn't deserve your condescending comment.😊Cheers now..
I hope you don't mind my mentioning another experience I had in America, when visiting my late sister there. My sister's business partner; an obnoxious individual who hailed from the State of Georgia had the temerity to say you Australians (I am a Scot living in Australia actually) drive on the wrong side of the road, your light switches turn on and off opposite to the ones in the States, and your sink water flushes anti clockwise. He in fact also tried to tell me that the Brits were inferior to the Americans and how wonderful the American GI's were. I could not help but snap back at him as I'd had enough of his crap by this time. I asked him what the advantage was in having "Light Switches" operating in reverse to countries in Britain and the Commonwealth. Secondly, it just so happens that our water goes down the sinkhole in reverse to the Northern Hemisphere because Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, and finally I told him that if he were discussing military matters (An as an Ex Serviceman I could speak from experience) I would not be crowing too loudly about how good the US army was as during the War of 1812, The Black Watch (yes we Scots who had now entered the British army for the first time) took hold of Washington and burned down what was the Presidential residence in which the incumbent James Madison (was President) took flight. The Presidential Palace bore scorch marks and was subsequently painted WHITE to prevent the local inhabitants from feeling despair; flattening morale. This clown then asked me: "HOW DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT". I said I read History in Kindergarten. That shut him right up. Sorry but I am not casting aspersions at US soldiers. I served along side them and they were good chaps, but I had to put that moron back in his place. Cheers
if he were educated he would have sung "go home Brittish soldier"
Or
"come out ye black and tans"
all sind that picture the special heroism of Brittish soldiers.
"and your sink water flushes anti clockwise"
i'm honestly surprised he was aware of coriolis effect, even though I'm pretty sure he didn't know how it's called
@@TremereTT To begin with, you talk of being educated however, your grammar, spelling and general knowledge is abysmal. Would you like me to give you the definition of ABYSMAL? Then go back to Kindergarten and LEARN TO SPELL BLOKE as it appears you have no knowledge how to construct a sentence or spell. Highlanders were NOT the Black & Tans. Get your facts straight you buffoon. I shall remind you of the Hill in Korea, that was held briefly for three occasions by US troops, and on each occasion; the North Koreans swept them off the hill. Each time US troops were evicted; the Glorious Gloucester Regiment retook the hill and handed it back to US troops only to have them loose it again. The Gloucesters retook the hill and totally out numbered they held it until wiped out by a superior force. The Aussies showed you lot how to fight at Kapyong. Read what happened to US and South Korean troops at the battle of the YALU River. the US lost all but two of your boys, which was put down to arrogance and poor training. I saw with my own eyes the bloody awful mess your troops made of their time in Vietnam. Our Lads; of D Company The 6th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (a total of 105 men) were ambushed by over 2000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong (D 445 Regiment). Out gunned, and running out of ammunition, the lads of D Company held on, killing over 245 (By Body Count). During the battle, 17 Australians were killed and a further 25 were wounded, one of whom later died of wounds. This was the highest number of Australian casualties incurred in any one engagement of the Vietnam War. The losses on the Vietnamese side were at least 245 dead, an estimated 350 wounded, and three captured. There was evidence that the Charlie carried off his dead to deprive their enemy of an accurate body count. For that action; your filthy perverted president Lyndon Baines Johnson award our unit the US Presidential Citation. I threw mine away into the rubbish bin where it belonged as did most of the lads. I suggest if you wish to debate with me you HAYSEED, I'd be more than willing to give you a run for your money. Whilst you are at it; suggest you keep your Pretend Princess METAHNE MARKLE; that dopey Fake Prince Henry, CLUELESS CLOONEY and OPERA WINDBAG in the States. We have enough shite from the States, and we do not need anymore of you there.
Wait... switches in the US are on when up? Never knew that..
@@MaMastoast and i am surprised there is a pattern at all! here in austria nearly every room in every house has different switches in every direction, left to right, up to down, every way you can imagine, next room it's completely different... that's how it is here, at least in the old houses that were built around 1940 like mine is and were never renovated all at once...
Many years ago I was once chatting with someone and I asked them where they are located. They responded by saying "Milford, DE". I thought to myself how strange that there's a German town called Milford. Of course, I knew that they were Americans so I reciprocated by saying that I'm from North Shore, NSW. They were confused.
I'm from NSW but any time people ask where I'm from I have to say town and state because I'm from wellington and everyone thinks I'm from NZ
@Steiner thanks to the people I think I know them towns and states and countries now
That was a common complaint on a website during the pandemic, called 'View from my Window'. People in isolation around the world sent photos of their own view and some of them were spectacular, so there was obviously a lot of curiosity about their origin.
Being an international website, most contributors labelled their photo with the area and country. Americans, however, almost always just wrote the town and an abbreviation for their state. When people commented, asking them to write state (in full) and country, the general response was to 'look it up on Google'.
I live in Canada, and a friend of mine worked at pub downtown and always had lots of American tourists from cruise ships. One American couple asked him “how do you grow your totem poles?”
He stared at them shocked and said, “you mean trees?” They said “no totem poles are not trees.”
He had to explain they are trees that are cut down and carved into totem poles. They sincerely thought they were grown already carved and painted🙄
Sometimes one would think that they all upkeep such an image of numbnuts as a conspiracy, while in the meantime they are doing something clever and sneaky while nobody is paying them any attention.
Hadn't heard that one before. Mind you, pre-covid Vancouver had 2 million cruise tourists in 2019. Heard a lot of others.
When an American asks me why wr don't celebrate Independence Day. I always say;
We gave our own Indrpendence Day
It was so long ago we aren't sure of the date.
But it was in 293AD, when the Romans left,
That's when they scratch their heads and ask "Romans?"
I'm a Brit by the way.
I am an Aussie who travels heaps to the USA. It's mainly to see my clients (as I am a new product developer and manufacturer), but also to see my youngest son, who is a Captain for a major airline there. I get asked so many times by Americans, "When are you moving to the USA?". When I reply "NEVER!". The look of shock on their faces is quite funny, I can see them thinking "someone DOESN'T want to move to the USA"!!! Having been to almost 60 countries, I only go to the USA out of necessity and to see US family, which includes my two Australian-American granddaughters.
Yes that one where they tell you which state they are from, I don't get it why Americans want to give you a geography lesson everytime... "Oh yes, I am from San Francisco, California"! Like how many San Franciscos are there in the world. I don't say I am fron Sydney, New South Wales, Australia... strange...
Re the girl talking aobut judges and sport, I actually find it offensive when Americans don't dip their flag at the olympics, when every other country in the world does. It is simply called respect, nothing else. Just makes you look so arrogant. What do you think about this Mr Wrocker?
Could be Sydney, Canada. I've heard a few stories where people have flown to the Canadian Sydney by mistake without checking their flight details. lol I can understand if Americans say either the US, Alaska or Hawaii as each one is separate from the other.
@@michaelmurray3800 oh wow that’s crazy hey! But Canadians don’t add the province like we don’t add the state! Lol
I remember a few years back my mum was looking for flights from Cairns to Sydney and one that came up was Cairns -> Sydney -> Los Angelos -> Sydney and we were really confused until we realised the final destination was Sydney, Canada
My favourite story was in Column 8 of the Sydney Morning Herald. A Qantas flight attendant was assisting passengers to disembark at Cairns International Airport. An American man asked him what time does the Cannes Film Festival start…..
@@r.fairlie7186 oh that is so funny!
I lmao when I see the USA flag with "English (simplified)" next to it.
Back from 2 week cruise over the Mediterranean Sea. Two things struck me. One. All over Europe, and especially in southern Italy, there are allot of American flags flying upside down. Second. On the patio in Paris many have chalk placards on the entrance that reads, "All Americans MUST be accompanied by an adult." 5700 miles away, they get it.
They didn’t need adults in 1944 🤷♂️
@@TheIceman567 no, they needed brits, canadians, russians...
@@sergioagusti4871 no they need the USA since it was the largest supplier of weapons and troops in the western front. Stop embarrassing yourself
@@TheIceman567 no, the US needed brits and canadians in the west front too, and the west front needed east front, without the east front the US would have been butchered and would speak german now.
@@sergioagusti4871 there were no Russians on the western front the commonwealth needed the USA
I was talking to an American once and he was shocked to hear we have Italian restaurants in Australia. I asked why he was shocked and he said he didn’t think we could have real Italian food here. He then said that if I wanted to try real Italian food, I should come to the US. I just said that sounded great and I’d love to try some real Italian food someday.
i'm an italian: you probably have better italian food than they have good american food
@@stephen8797 cuz american food is all dogshit?
@@stephen8797 0.1%? You are so naive and optimistic. 😄
@@stephen8797 more like the bottom 72% of americans (30% overweight + 42% obese)...
( according to your own government: www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/overweight-obesity )
@@Janoww to be fair, BMInumber doesn't reflect people's health. Overweight is irrelevant to being fat. You can gain more weight but have a much better body type. Body fat is a better way to compare with BMI
I was engaged to an American, I can guarantee I did not want a US green card! I wanted him to come to Australia. lol
As for Americans not knowing about the rest of the world, I think a lot has to do with US news only airing stuff if America is involved in the story.
No, it's the American people that dictate which type of news are shown on TV. The media can show more international news and people would change channels then they're screwed.
@@tnguyen403 yeah, you're right. Ngl, but it's mainly the americans own mindset that isolates them.
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@@TheChill001 I agree, and I think it's largely due to an identity that is engrained. They don't see themselves as human, they see themselves as American. Take away their sense of American and they would probably fall apart.
Replace Americans with white people (regardless of country) and I feel this would be more in line with reality.
I'm Brazilian and I went with my father to his master drawing teacher's exposition in Argentina. He was part of this art exposition with many other great names from our triple continent. The head artist came to talk with us saying how glad she was to make this event out of America with other people and we were like "you know we're South American, right? This is America just as much...". Her face when she realized we also present ourselfs as American, it took her a while to calculate the goegrafy.
In this case, we need to remember that their country's name is America (United States of America) as well as Brazil (Federative Republic of Brazil). We were even the United States of Brazil.
@@lucas-prado united states OF America not America
What do you mean, "triple continent"?
@Al Khen ○ Omega triple continent is probably a reference to north america center america and south america. Outiside the US this is a common concept. The entire continent is called america, after all. So yes, everybody is a american in a way. Is aways messy due the continent and the contry having the same name. Aways leads to discussions
Sadly i heard that too. Had to reconvince some others they are american too through.
Im always about supporting my fellow americans against foreigners. Like Argentina in the soccer world cup.
I have struck it a lot online where Americans will assume theyu are speaking to Americans because of the use of English. It can be particularly difficult to lock down a time for events, as the will just say something like "9AM Eastern". Many countries have different time zones, not just the US.
Australia also has an "Eastern" time zone, AEST or AEDT, which is just called Eastern here. And NO, the A does NOT stand for American.
That is a pet peeve of mine too; people using local time zones to organise an international event. Most people should know their time zone relative to UTC and if they don't it's not hard to find out and remember, so just use UTC.
Canadians have a secret code so we recognize each other. Many of our spellings are Auld English, such that the American words for color, honor etc are spelled up here as honour and colour, and words like center are spelled as centre. Borrowing from our French ancestry, we don't write checks - we write cheques. And many many more examples from both heritage languages. Spell check and predictive text drive us crazy as they always expect American spellings.
As a Canadian who has travelled around much of the eastern side of the U.S. I could write a book about things like this. What irritates me the most is that Americans assume they invented everything.
People wonder why Americans are so self-centred as a nation. Here's one of the reasons why.
Much of this comes from a deliberate effort by the U.S. media to obscure the origins of new developments and make them sound as if they were all from the U.S.
Here's how this is done. Let's say Reuters puts a story on the wire about French scientists making an important discovery in the fight against a nasty disease. This story leads, "French scientists in Lyon have announced today that . . . " and a Canadian newspaper would run the story as is. A U.S. paper will delete the the French references and run the story as, "Scientists have announced today . . . " knowing full well that U.S. readers will automatically assume that the scientists were American.
One of the worst examples happened a number of years ago. We were watching the Canadian news on TV then we switched over to NBC news (a U.S. TV network that we can get in Canada). Three stories ran on the Canadian news channel: Canadian researchers had made an important discovery in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a Canadian aircraft (DHC Twin Otter) with a Canadian crew flew to Antarctica to rescue an American scientist who had suffered a heart attack, and the Canadian made robotic arm was being installed on the International Space Station.
NBC ran the three same stories and never once used the word 'Canada'. In fact they went out of their way to ensure that no one watching the broadcast would associate these stories with Canada. Only pictures of the robotic arm and the Twin Otter plane that lacked Canadian flags or registration were shown. The significance of the HIV/AIDS development was explained by an American researcher, leaving everyone with the impression that his team was responsible for the development.
These aren't isolated examples. They happen every day in every news media in the U.S. And we wonder why Americans sound so smug.
I make you right.
They do the same with British inventions and discovery's
@@forbiddenrecallskillinguss4012 Just spotted a good one recently showing how this approach permeates all aspects of the news, even sports. A Canadian born football player was recently signed by an American NFL team and it was noteworthy enough for the story to be picked up by a number of U.S. sports news outlets.
Some outlets repeated the original story which contained references to the fact that he was Canadian. Others however, deliberately removed all of those references, leaving the impression that he was an American. Since he had attended a U.S. university, it was an easy con to pull off.
Don't get me started on Hollywood propaganda . . .
@@tatters2072 as an avid follower of football (not American football), I sometimes watch ESPN. And the pundits there (all American) constantly try to drum up Pulisic and some other no name American footballers whilst undermining probably the best footballer to come out of North America, a Canadian, Alphonso Davies. I'm not even Canadian but it annoys me to no end.
Delusions of grandeur!
Smug & stupid
I remember playing an online games years ago. I was on team speak with an American (from Chicago), and we started talking about history and WW2. We eventually got to the subject of the D-Day landings. That is when the conversation got a bit 'heated'. He was adamant that ONLY the Americans forces stormed the beaches, NO other nation was involved. WE argued for about 30 minutes, even when I showed him the proof other nations took part, he refused to believe me.
He went on to tell me the next day that the school he went to, when they did the D-Day landings, had taught only the Americans had invaded the 4 beaches........
He wasn't paying attention then, because I'm still in school and know perfectly well it wasn't only US soldiers involved.
In fact, of the five beaches stormed the US troops made up only about 45% of the total landing forces. By
I had someone I thought was a very well-informed American tell me point blank that Canada wasn't involved in WW2! I was really astounded... I'm used to hearing alot of ignorant comments from Americans but I really knew him to be well-informed so I didn't see it coming. We had a rather heated conversation and when he realized he wasn't getting anywhere with me he then tried to dismiss Canadian participation in world war 2 because he said we were not in the pacific theater (which actually is wrong again) and therefore that equated to not being in the war. As if the pacific theater was the be all and end all of world war 2 anyways. You know it's very few Americans who even seem aware that they were 2+ years late to the war to start with....
They didn't even help in WW2 until Pearl Harbour was bombed.They only fought for 2 years!
@@silkeotd7194 did you explain that Newfoundland was not part of Canada in WW2 so also participated separately? Ohh - me stupid - he wouldn't know what Newfoundland was.
In France an American once asked me why there were no brochures available in English- and yes, there were loads of them under the British flag. Also (in Britain) where an American could change dollars for 'some of this funny money you guys use', if we celebrate Thanksgiving (and if not, why not) and about 5 years ago I was asked if I'd ever tried the new American dish of 'mac 'n' cheese'. No- but I've been eating macaroni cheese for about 60 years (not constantly, you understand). Oh-and someone else picked up a second hand book with a dedication written inside it- To Mother, Christmas 1856' and, amazed, said 'Did you guys HAVE printing in 1856?'
'Did you guys HAVE printing in 1856?' - Yes, and the four hundred years or so before that, assuming you only consider the movable-type printing press. Dear, oh dear.
There's no such thing as a British flag though. The Union Jack which is what I'm assuming you're referring to is the UK flag.
It is pretty cool to find a book from 1856, though. They are not all *that* common in regular stores.
I took my American Directors on a tour of my Oxford College. I pointed oit that the New Library was completed in 1431, which predates printed books. "What ??!! How can you have a library that pre-dates printed books". Erm, like we have manuscript scrolls!
"Rescued Them"???!!!
Showing up late is NO claim to fame!
(We British find that one highly offensive)
Yet he was apparently 'educated'. My wife is American and she's ashmed when she hears stuff like this. His education was surely in the US where this attitude never stands corrected.
Especially as half of the American parties are now in the same Camp that the usa declared war on back then...
As do us Aussies. Wish they would join the real world.
The hint with the second one, about "America didn't invent the English language", is probably the part where it's called the "English language", and the fact there's a country called England, which is the home of the English people.
And we all had to learn American instead of the grunts that Shakespeare used.
During the Paris-Brest-Paris, another cyclist asked me something in English. I recognised the accent (plus we had our country flags on the number tags) and replied in Italian. He was amazed that a foreigner spoke his language, and we chatted for a while. So he asked where I'm from (Austria), and I asked him where he's from, and guess what he said? "Italy". No shit, Sherlock XD. I had to explain I meant: which region of (bloody obviously) Italy (Campania). I missed a chance there to say that then he certainly must have some mozzarella cheese on him :).
The idea that any significant number of Europeans, let alone any kind of majority, wants to move to the US is simply laughable. We know about your health business (or "care" as you call it). We know about the gun nuttery and the mass shootings. We know about people working several jobs without making a living. We know about a level of crime and violence this entails. We know about the religious nuttery. We've seen Bush and Trump. If you want a majority, ask about Europeans who definitely DON'T want to live there, and wouldn't do so without a hell of a good reason.
The infamous Trump quote about shithole countries, when he asked "why don't we get more people from Norway?" is particularly hilarious. You mean, why do people from one of the richest countries in Europe, with the highest standards of living, great social services, healthcare, low crime, low poverty, excellent infrastructure, excellent schools, low inequality etc. want to leave their country to be a probably hated alien over THERE??? Well, I don't know, it's a terrible conundrum!!!
These are not the times of Irish potato famine, poverty in Italy or Germany, wars and despotism. Times have changed. You need to pull your head out of your arse and recognise that America being the greatest in anything is at least 50 years out of date, and that you have fallen behind everyone else on almost any metric: freedom, security, social services, infrastructure... In order to improve, you must stop dissing other countries and recognise that YOU have become a shithole country.
Excellent comment!
@Smiling Shadow Clearly a right wing Nazi sympathising misogynistic racist bigoted government is your preference. I went to the US several times before 2005 on business and pleasure and it was poorer than many European countries. It also has appalling working conditions and employee rights compared to Europe. I constantly had problems with US staff trying to take short-cuts in a distorted belief that it would make more money when in fact they were putting contracts in jeopardy. American employees had no maternity leave, holiday or any right to question instant dismissal. Colleagues in Germany, Spain Netherlands etc were much more effective and were far better at independent decision making. I found European employees were motivated by trust, self confidence and closer cooperation. American employees were driven by fear of losing their job, especially if there was a health issue. As for the guarantee of retiring as a millionaire, I have done that but I also get to keep it with free healthcare and low tax in an European country of my choice. I speak two languages and capable in another and my German wife is fluent in 3 (we have friends who are fluent in 4) so choosing a place to live was fun, house-hunting in arid climates and alpine regions.
@Smiling Shadow See what you did there? You couldn't help but assert that I'm being "bitter", that is, envious, of the supposed US greatness, and dismiss my views out of hand. I had listed (some of) the reasons why the US is today a shithole country - you could have taken any or all of those and tried to prove me wrong, but nah - you are not willing to take any of those seriously, instead you imply that I'm just envious. Which, besides being childish, is also the reason why the US not only is, but will remain, a shithole country.
Not that it matters, but you don't sound at all like an European or someone who knows Europe. The cheesy old line about "Not in a million years could I do $elsewhere what I could do in the US", just like the "Only in America you could..." is typical of an American who has no clue about how things are elsewhere. Nobody who knows about things here would say that you can't achieve your goals if you try. People start and run successful businesses here all the time. This is borne out by statistics: social mobility index is far higher in Europe than in the US.
Certainly, you can make a lot of money in the US. Taxes are low, you don't have to pay for insurance (yours or your employees'), there are less regulations to meet etc. Sure, you can get rich. Provided you don't get sick, you don't have a breakdown, you don't suffer a catastrophic event, you don't get killed while being robbed or burgled, you don't get addicted to substances because other businesses used the lack of regulations to hook you on addictive medication... There's a whooole lot of ifs in there. With all the stuff that happened to me until now, without the social safety net and support, and the medical help, I guess I would be homeless now - instead of living a comfortable life, as is the case.
You say that any well-educated European is near-guaranteed to retire as a millionaire - presumably based on your own experience. But that's cheating. These well-educated Europeans, allegedly including you, have profited from all of the benefits we have here - were cared for, raised, educated for free, paid for by the community - and you then go to the US and compete with people who are hundreds of thousands in debt just for going through school. The salaries are high because they MUST be, because those people must have a chance to pay off their debts. The success you're bragging with is paid for by us, people who paid to educate you, and your colleagues, the people who get in horrible debt to achieve what you got for free. You're gaming the system. Good for you. But that's not sustainable. The chances of your American colleagues are considerably worse than yours, thanks to your privilege.
So why don't we all do what you did and leech off both systems? Because we don't want to. We don't want to get rich at any price. Most people here just want to live a good life. To have time to live, not worry about stuff, and just enjoy yourself. A Frenchman who refuses to put in more than 34h on a union job does so because he wants to have an hour or hour and a half to enjoy his meal at noon. A German doesn't want to put in extra hours because he wants to spend time with his family. A Dutch person doesn't want to only work when not sleeping because they want to travel to Italy for two weeks every year. An Italian doesn't to work all day because they want to have their 4 or 5 weeks paid vacation just to enjoy doing nothing (since they're already in Italy, they don't have to travel :) )
I don't want to be rich. I wouldn't mind having too much money, but as things stand, I have enough to buy things I want. And I have the freedom and time to enjoy the things have. What would be the point of pissing your life away, accumulating money you don't need so you have a lot of it when you finally drop dead? Screw that, I want to live now.
Anyway, enjoy your success. And don't go assuming everyone else wants the same as you.
As an American I completely agree with everything stated in your comment. I don’t put it past Europeans for staying within Europe and not moving to the U.S. unless for specific reasons.
@Smiling Shadow so you think the money makes you happy, hmmm... so you don't care around you the ppl, should I be envy for your simplicity... nope
Had a situation where one lovely afternoon I decided to indulge myself and go to my regular bar for lunch, a pint and to do the crossword in the newspaper. Anyhow, there were about ten people (this is by the way Temple bar in Dublin.) sat around the Pub and I was sat like a skinny 'Norm Petersen' at the bar engrossed in my crossword. When to my right, a guy sitting 4-6 stools away loudly blurts out "Newtons second law of thermodynamics proves there's a god." to no-one in particular. Everyone glances at each other. I look at the barman, he looks back at me with a 'Oh shit no!' look, and retreats into the front part of the bar. I sighed and swiveled around on my stool. "Newton's? As in Isaac Newton, creator of calculus and of apple on head fame? His second law on thermodynamics?" I asked.
'Yessir' He replied
"Ok, its showtime" I thought. "Okay, firstly Thermodynamics as a science did not exist in the 17th Century, Secondly Isaac Newton did not study anything close to what could be associated with thermodynamics. He did however formulate his second law of motion."
The guy looked smug at this revelation on Newtons second law of motion may vindicate him.
"However, simply put, it states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction." (Yes, I know I got it's Newton's second and third law of motion mixed up... but the goon wouldn't know.)
The guy looked blankly at me.
"There is though a second law of thermodynamics..."
The guy perked up slightly.
But that essentially states that if you heat up an Iron bar and hold the opposite end the heat will eventually reach the end of the bar, however some of the energy will be lost during the process. Essentially, there's no such thing as a free meal. So I'm not quite sure how either prove there's a god."
The guy scowled at me, rolled up his sleeve and held up his forearm showing a tattoo "I live by the word of god" looking closely I could see it was that well worn line from Leviticus 18 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.'
"Uh huh", I replied "I presume it's the King James version or the derivative New American bible your tattooist is using. Because Leviticus also states 'Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you' and states it is punishable by stoning."
The guy stormed off and as he got to the door yelled 'Fucking pinko commie!'
I just couldn't help my self and yelled after him "Your constitution states all 'men are created equal' if that isn't a communist statement then I don't know what is!"
I actually got a round of applause and the barman re emerged with a pint saying 'I knew you wouldn't let that slide'.
Now I know that a lot of Newton's theorem etc. I've grossly oversimplified, or stretched/warped to fit. But that idiot wouldn't know.
Still got a free beer...
Priceless! Burned on multiple levels.
🤣🤣 Well done that man!
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You're my kind of guy 😂
If we ever meet I'll stand you a beer myself.
I have the exact same experience with the green card thing dating my american boyfriend. Some people told him, watch out maybe she's using you for a green card, and I was like ''hell no I don't want to live in the US'' haha. He ended up ''using'' me and we live in Europe. Americans would be surprised at how many Americans are looking for a way outta there.
Around 50,000 per year manage to relocate to Europe.
Yes, I was surprised with the number. That's not exactly a handful.
@@LMB222"relocate"? If your ancestors left Europe about 400 years ago it's a bit difficult to relocate anywhere.
As a naturalized Canadian I can say that most of us are glad that most Americans don't know where Canada is.
The less they know the better.
Lol 😂
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OMG, I just glanced at your comment before actually reading it, and instead of naturalised Canadian, I thought it said neutralised 😂
My bother in law, a Harley Davidson fan, did a 3 month trip to the U.S. to personally pick up his new bike and then tour the country. The number of times when he told people that he came from Australia was, "did you ride all the way"?
😂😂🤦🏼♀️
Well it’s a Reasonable question. You could’ve got in a big cargo ship and rode your Harley all the way around the ship until you docked. L O L
"Sure, I rode a dolphin."
What a cool way to celebrate the new motorcycle!
@@BenightedAlizar no no no, Turtles, as in Pirates of the Caribbean
The stuff that comes out of some Americans mouths is just mind boggling. 🙄🤦🏼♀️This is why your channel is so refreshing to watch Ian.
To be fair stupid people are everywhere, USA is huge so obviously there are more people that fall in that category and there is extremely pathetic us education system concentrated around US while in Europe we tend to learn about history of most countries.
You hate us cause you ain’t us
@@gravyboat0042 that’d be NO. You couldn’t pay me enough money to live in America. See, now you’re one of those ones I’m talking about saying stupid stuff🙄🤦🏼♀️
@@julzhunt7790 sounds like jealousy to me
@@gravyboat0042 jealous… of what? School shootings, crap healthcare system, medical bankruptcy, medicines that are ridiculously priced, self entitled assholes, having to work a 60-80hour week just to survive, minimum wage workers who don’t even get a livable wage and have to rely on tips, crap coffee, chocolate and all the processed food you lot eat. Huge portion sizes and unlimited free refills. A system that craps on military vets. Absolutely NO work/life balance with decent holiday or maternity leave. Abortion issues. Gun laws that sacrifice children. Race issues. Homeless veterans. Klu Klux Klansmen, White supremacists. Billions spent on military instead of the people. Seriously…wtf is there to be jealous of!🙄🤦🏼♀️ I live in a big beautiful safe, friendly, egalitarian, socially responsible, caring society that is not run by the almighty dollar and elitism duh. It’s no contest.
(Canadian here) I was in line at a Tim Hortons doughnut shop for a coffee and doughnuts, a woman in front of me was paying for her order and was checking her purse for some money. She pulled a handgun out of her purse and placed it on the countertop and resumed looking for money to pay while complaining that Canadian shops should accept American money. She was absolutely shocked when police officers came up to her and arrested her for having a firearm in public.
I've always had the impression that Canadian customs officers asked US visitors about what firearms they might be carrying. I'm sure there are signs at the border.
Complete and total bs
Sad she went to our icebox colony for the unwanted
That just didn’t happen lol
My husband, a former London police officer was shot at whilst on duty, by an American pilot, who, when he was arrested and charged amongst others things for Possessing a Fire arm, said, but I’m American
For quite a few years I'd visit the USA, specifically northern Washington, but did tour around a lot so have visited 29 states in all. I have, as a consequence quite a few friends scattered around that big country, and I value my relationships with those people. Now that I think about it, almost all of those people have travelled outside their country, and when I meet someone who has not done that I find that I can generally tell. Its said that travel broadens the mind, and I note that that is very true for Americans in particular as their media and culture is very inward looking.
I have found the same, my daughter over the years through her involvement with stage performing, has made a large number of American friends, when we invite those same friends to visit us in Australia for a vacation, they seem surprised that we have the same items that they have in the U.S.
They have a bigger surprise when we tell them those items were invented and developed in Australia.
@@treadingtheboards2875 I've experienced that. It's like they were expecting a third world country.
Felicidades, es un buen ejemplo.
250 sentadillas son unos Zeimbut.Host muchas y
un buen ejercicio.
5:25 Se deja ver que hay muy👆 buenos resultadoss....
@@treadingtheboards2875 for some reason, at least 25 years ago, it was a common accurence that Americans explained European(German, Austrian, French) exchange Students and Au pairs, how a fridge works...
I mean Carl Linde invented that technology in Germany over a century ago.... wtf.
I hope these things Dont happen anymore as its so long ago...
@@treadingtheboards2875 You mean there's more then kitkats?😉
I was travelling through the Bangkok Airport 20 years ago (not the current new airport) changing from a fight from Sydney to the internal Chiang Rai flight. They started boarding families with small children etc and they also board Buddhist monks at the same time to prevent passengers accidentally touching them (Buddhist observance in a Buddhist country). A middle aged American couple went to join the Monk's queue with the lady most likely to come into contact with them. The airport check in person raced towards them but I was closer and understood so stepped out between the monks and the couple and explained the situation. The man then said. "Why that's ridiculous, it wouldn't happen in the states." His wife had by then looked at the Thai's reaction, realized their faux pas and pulled her husband away and calmed him down.
i was on a flight from the azores back to germany and had to change flights at lisbon (portugal). the flight was hours late and many people missed their connecting flight. it was a small airline so there was a long queue at the counter and lined up there i realized that they were literally from all over the world. so the lady working there tried her best to find connecting flight alternatives for everybody but it wasn't easy. i had to stay over night e.g. all costs on the airline of course. but there was a lady who already had been rude enough to cut the queue and she was insisting on being booked on a certain flight and the clerk told her, that she would have to pay for that herself since it wasn't included in the policy. and she went apeshit. but not only that, she started to scream that she was an american citizen and that they couldn't treat her like that ... etc.
jesus christ.
@@ashitakaharuo Surprised she'd be able to point out The Azore on a map!
At least he had a sensible companion :-)
@@EMMYK1916 Of course she can - AZORES - = AZ it's off the coast of Arizona.
Met a guy from the U.S and the thing that hit me was that America is apparently the U.S in the U.S whereas here, America is the entire continent north, central and south. I was confused for a minute when we started talking.
On another note he claimed that he could drink me down (I'm danish) so we went at it. I mean he drank off but the beer we ordered is 7.5% so he didn't last long.
To all you great visitors from the U.S: EU beer is often stronger than what you get in the U.S so read the label 😃, just a friendly advice.
I will say that your educational and political system is not like it is here in the EU but saying that the people in the U.S.A are stupid is wrong. Sadly stupid people all around the world have got a mouth piece via social media... no matter what you say you'll always find someone who agrees with you.
❤ to all in the U.S from Denmark
We have to constantly warn American tourists here in Canada to be careful when drinking beer because unlike American beer we put booze in it.
I was an exchange student in Madrid, Spain in 89/90, and several of my fellow students were American. Myself, I am Norwegian. Now granted, this was before the internet, but still. The American students told me they would get letters from home asking things like: "Do they have electricity?", "Are there street lights in Spain?" and "Isn't it fun having to ride on a mule to school since there are no cars there?"
As a Spaniard, some of these guys think we're mexican and that's one of the main reasons why Spain has a serious anti-american problem LOL
Todavía lo siguen preguntando, la hija de una amiga fue a US de intercambio y me preguntaron si habían toros sueltos por la calle, también si comía tacos...🤦🏻♀️🤣 Pero no todo el mundo es así, también había gente que era mas culta.
@@dutyfree5192We the Spaniards are not anti-American, at least those who know better. Ignorance is not purely American, as a Spaniard I know a lot of ignorant fellow Spaniards.
I worked for a car parking company a few years ago. Reception and answering queries an public email was one of my many jobs. I listened to the usual phone messages from over night one morning, to find a message from a couple of American men. They were ringing to find out how to drive a rental car (obviously they were hiring a car at the airport, for which my company managed the parking). They were complaining big time! They couldn't work out how to drive the car since the steering wheel was apparently on the WRONG SIDE of the car! The conversation went on for some minutes while they discussed it. They wondered how do you drive when everything (steering wheel/gear stick/dip sticks etc) is on the wrong side. They thought the car was some kind of huge mistake. They thought it would be difficult to drive it on the road since the steering wheel was on the passenger side. EVEN IF they were so incredibly ignorant that they didn't realise Australia drove on the other side of the road before they came, this conversation where they couldn't work it out just seemed ludicrous! They were in a CAR PARK filled with other cars. They didn't think to look at them to see what side other cars had their steering wheels? It didn't AT ALL occur to them that in Australia we might just drive on the OTHER SIDE of the road. They eventually hung up, seemingly without a resolution to their problem! We played that message throughout the office to peels of laughter!
I never replied to their message since it wasn't our company's concern at all (they needed to talk to the rental company with complaints about rental cars). But HOLLY CRAP!! I knew Americans were stupid, but that really drummed home exactly how stupid!! Chimpanzees are smarter than that!!
I'm not from USA im from Poland but Mann, Australians rly have best English writing and talking style
@@cybel4820 LOL! Thank you! 🙂
I'm glad to have a couple of Americans represent 300 millions people🎉. Amazing👏
"13 questions 3 possible answers for each question. Can we beat the chimpanzees?" Hans Rosling. "No we can't"
@@fransmith3255honestly america needs to be invaded and the population eradicated
When I traveled to Greece, everyone I encountered who asked where I was from wanted to know what state in the U.S.? They were interested in visiting some states and not others. This was in 2016. The Greeks knew their U.S. geography.
As a Greek I confirm!
@@dafnikem Really all the states? I recently talked my self in learning all the 50 states reliably. Before that I would *recognized* what was a state and what not, but I couldn’t list them by memory nor could I place all of them except in the vaguest sense „Somewhere in New Englang“ or Umm... East of Texas. And that’s my experience with my fellow Germans. There are perhaps 20 states they can name and place reliably, but then it gets sketchy.
I with those Greeks ! I'm from the North in US and in NO WAT will I travel to The South ever again.
That website language flag thing has hit me before in the opposite way (as a non-American). Every so often websites do use an American flag to represent English, and I’ve definitely spent like 5 minutes looking for the English button only to realise they’re using a US not a UK flag.
It is the same on Duolingo. They also use US English there. Honor in stead of Honour and such. It is just a minor but ever present background annoyance.
Yeah I don’t get that, why do Americans just remove the letter U from so many words, e.g. colour to color?
@Al Khen ○ Omega hahaha 🤣
@@lexamex3526 Because the Brits added the u after the US became independent…
@ really?
A few years ago my brother had to show the city of Lisbon (Portugal) to some American executives.
They could not accept that several monuments had been built in the 12th or 16th century nor that Portugal had begun to colonise several territories around the world in the 15th century.
In the end they were stunned by the rich history of a small country.
The world was much smaller until Portugal showed the rest of it how to get there
All Americans know is vinyl sided boxes
everything in europe is older then the US itself lol. i have a city in the netherlands thats 2000+ years old. nothing strange for europe
Lol 😆 20 odd years ago when I was holidaying in NZ from Aus, I was at an athletic event watching my cousin compete.... anyway an American family was there and asked me..... ' Is it true you can walk from NZ to Aus at low tide' , I replied of course you can, but you'd better run 🏃♂️ 🤣🤷♂️🤣
Love your channel mate👍👍
7:34 🤣 I think the word you might be looking for is ignorant? It sounds harsh but it doesn't actually mean someone's stupid. It just means that that person hasn't got all the facts or been exposed to enough information to know any better 🤷 And that's usually a result of the environment we grow up in and how much information and general knowledge we are exposed to. ❤️
Even if You are technically right. I prefer to call them dimwitted morons.
Something I saw once I quite liked "stupidity is forgivable, ingnorance is not."