What Americans Don't Know About European Culture That Will BLOW Their Minds?
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How young the USA actually is? At the bicentennial, a Dutch artist had to smile and said: 'Our State Lottery is older!' And that's correct, in 1976 USA was 200 years and the State Lottery 250 years old.
Puts things in a different perspective!
i am living in the newest settlement in my area, founded in 1256!
the day of its founding, a nearby village been already around 500 years old!
and the oldest city in my country already 1300 years old..
@@Arltratlo Same here! Town got town rights in 1185 but village nearby kept parish rights over it until 1240 because of older rights. Romans build a temple on a much older Gallo-Germanic site of worship. And Tumuli (grave hills) were found dating back to 750 bC, with a bronze bucket for cremation remains, containing a curled up kings-sword. Recently a Neanderthal camp was found going back 70.000 years.
But we should not forget that the area, now housing the US, also has an archaeological 'history' of ten thousand years at least.
Australia is about the same age as the US, but they are switched on and up to date 🤔 🙋♀️🇬🇧🤗
Scary idea, Trump might be president at the 250th anniversary of the USA in 2026
Alot of American food has palm oil and syrup added to it and makes it more fattening and alters the taste , Cadbury chocolate was bought by an American company and the first thing they did was alter the recipe i tried it and haven't bought it since
So true
Hey since in that video you're reminding us you haven't been to Europe yet, when are you crossing the sea to join us on this side and see for yourself ? :P
Who knows, financial reasons and personal things are stopping me, I hope one day
@@ItsCharlieVest When it comes to financials, I think you should spend some time looking up all the options that are available.
Because there are all kind of social help, and programs in many different countries that apply to very specific groups of people depending on one's situation, which might make moving not too expensive.
For example I once met a guy from Morocco who lived with accomodation (in a dorm room) and lunch for free for 2 years in France just to study in a prep school.
If I recall correctly, in his situation it was a mix between doing decent at school rewarding him things, and social help because he comes from a poor family that also lives far away (of course given they're outside the EU) from where he was studying.
For example in France, we have campusfrance that lists all the grants a foreign student could get from them.
But I'm guessing there are other things in other European countries too, and not only for students, there are all kind of things for multiple categories, I've heard there are things for skilled profesionnals in certain fields, etc.
Europe burocracy at every level can be a nightmare, but it also means there are hidden gems one can sometimes find.
It's hard to keep track of all of them, for example last year I've learned that I could access a 0% interest loan from my region if I were to want to buy a place, lol 🤣
@@ItsCharlieVest I'm sure you'll make it 🤗
@@ItsCharlieVest dont forget, we dont use $ in our daily live and measures are all metric...
and most people you met in Europe are not Americans, many been to the USA and went back happy to Europe!
@@ItsCharlieVest I Think you’re making great videos always being open minded, curious and fair. If you decide on crowdfunding I’ll chip in 👍 At this point I think you deserve to experience Europe first hand 🙂🧳
I think in that last shock involving toilet paper "small things" should be read as "little things" more than "things that are small". Feels more sensible. That said... At least here in Finland the size of toilet paper can vary quite a bit. Different brands have different lengths or widths of the squares as well as texture or layers of the paper. Cheaper brands tend to be smaller
its called car lobbyisim also happens in bavaria germany
basicly polititions get payed by car companys to anmd in return try to block money from goin into puiplic transport or founds to help renovating the train systhem and so on
Paper towel has also a different size. Greetings from Belgium, Love your channel. I often go to San diego, I visit the missions al the time. Also old and beautiful! I'm a chocolate maker and a Plastic Artist.
nice
The problem in the US is there's no public transport AND the people don't know how to drive. 😂
they have public transport in the USA, but only poor people using it, while in Europe, doctors, lawyers and others using public transport?
and i can attest that they cant drive..
What an American thing to say ."Poor people using it ". Outside the big cities there is basically no public transportation.
@@ErisstheGoddessofmanhwaswhere I live it's true. Mostly poor people use public transport. Angel soft😂 TP🎉
I would use more public transportation in Dallas, TX but the bus system is always late, the light rail system is lacking in destination stops, routes and upkeep. We do have lots of homeless people on the trains and at stops. Not enough security on the trains and people try to get away with eating smelly food, leaving trash in the cars and smoking on it.
@@johnah2 America is not as good as it thinks and till you wake up it will get worse.
It is disgraceful that Americans are forced to own cars. If you are poor, you have to pay for your car insurance, gasoline etc... before you can buy food. To force people to have the burden of supporting a car when the rest of the world provides public transportation is ridiculous.
The public transportation system is not free, it has a cost. It is heavily subsidised by tax money to keep it affordable for the individual. Same with healthcare, it's not free.
Something that I have reflected on occationally, is that in the USA, the costs of all things seems to be placed on the individual, not shared through a "single buyer"; the government.
It is a high stake driven, survival of the fittest society, were you must pay out of pocket yourself, without aid from your fellow citizens. So... USA is not so much a community?
Rather ironically; it seems that the "christian" USA is quite darwinistic in nature, while the less religious scandinavian countries are more "loving".
Perhaps that is why they are more happy? 🙂
Or is it the capitalism, the huge companies which sees a higher potential profit in selling their products one and one directly to the end user, than in bulk to a distributor?
Does not Amazon show the potential profit in this system? Cutting out the small local hardware store that had been a central place in town for a century?
If one entity, is deciding what is good enough for you to buy, then is it not likely that the "good enough" will be from their perspective, not yours?
If you tell you local hardware store what you need, and they in turn ask their supplier what is available, there is at least three evaluations to what is "good enough".
You, your friend in the store, and their friend at the supplier. Three friendly people vetting the product, instead of just you finding out that it not fit fot the use you had in mind.
If you run the country as a company, does it not follow that the citizens becomes employees?
And if unions are discouraged, ie lesser political parties are banned, does it not follow that the citizens will ultimately become slaves?
It's pretty much the same in Australia, the bigger the country the more car centric it is.
Hi, Charlie! Switzerland actually has 4 languages: German, French, Italian and Reto-Roman (not sure about the spelling).
The languages have their own areas more or less. For instance, French is spoken in the western region, German in the northern, Italy in the South and Reto-Roman somewhere...in the middle?
(South) East in the mountainous area, northish to the Italian speaking parts in the state (canton) that looks like Switzerlands Mini-Me
@@aleisterlavey9716 Thank you! I suppose you mean that these areas are where Reto-Roman is spoken?
@@Gittas-tube yes.
It's Raeto-Roman.
@@diarmuidkuhle8181 Thank you for giving me the correct spelling, i.e., Raeto-Roman!
_"The amount of public transportation and in many places people not driving or not even knowing how to drive"_
Most people above 25 know how to drive, if they prefer not to drive is because public transportation can be faster than driving a car.
If you have to choose between _(let's say)_ 30 minutes by train to go somewhere or go by car with the possibility to get into a traffic jam and get to the destination in 1-2 _(or more)_ what would you choose?
Another reason to take public transportation is to get to a city center, cause parking spots are often limited to residents who live in the center.
Then there's one more reason, it's better for the climate supposedly.
And the ones not knowing how to drive exist, but are rare. In most European countries getting a drivers license is much more expensive than in the states, there are driving schools which you have to visit to be trained, not by your parents, and so on. So it is also a matter of money if you can get a license.
@@Herzschreiber well some people really don't need a drivers license (i'm one of those people).
i live in a medium sized city, which means that i have all the types of shops/stores in my own city that i could need.
and my city is on a train line with a direct link to the countries biggest train station (form where you can get to all corners of the country).
and we are a bus hub, meaning we are in the middle of two bus area's that both connect to my city, making taking a bus to anywhere real easy.
and for everything in or around town (up to 1 hour or 30ish km distance) i use a bicycle.
and packages/goods to big to take with me on public transport, bike or walking, can be delivered to my door. (like a fridge, new bike, furniture etc)
all those options mean that i have no use for a drivers license. it isn't purely about money for me, i really have no use for one so why would i bother getting one.
and in the rare occasion i do need a car (like when i move to a new house) i ask a friend/family for help that day.
@@ChristiaanHW Sure. I never claimed that each and every German needs a drivers license, and what you tell here has already told before by many commentators. But even in cities with a proper public transportation, some jobs may depend on if a person has a drivers license or not. All I wanted to say is: Some people need one, some don't, and a rare number would be in need but cannot afford one.
@@Herzschreiber I'm 54 and never got a driving license. Living in Madrid where we have 300 subway stations and 250 lines of buses, I never felt the urge to get it. However, I wouldn't be able to afford a car, since our salaries are extremely low. I'm an IT Systems & Networks technician, but I've been already 17 years unemployed without any income. Even if I managed to get a job, that position is barely paid €23k/year, less than 2007 when I got dumped because of ageism, while the salary is doubled in Central Europe or even $80k in the States.
Spain here. I was curious, so I just measured my toilet rolls: 2 layers with rectangles of 9.5 x 12.5 centimetres (3.74 x 4.92 inches) and 40 metres long. So it's exactly 8 rectangles per metre.
German here. I also thought about doing this - but I'm just to lazy today😂
So, thx you did it 👌
Ireland here, got curious so measured 1 sheet that I had handy. Each sheet is 10.3cm/4'' by11.4cm/4.5'' and is 3 layers thick per sheet. Don't have a roll handy for number of sheets but I've seen 240 mentioned on a pack in the supermarket so it's probably around that number
toilet paper package is different and we use bidets
Americans Don't Realise how Much Petrochemicals and Pharmaceutical is in their Food .
Also our toilet paper is based on metric dimensions. 😂
Oh, I thought the American toilet paper was maybe bigger because the people were fatter and therefore had bigger arses.
Belgian here and about half of my friends and aquintances don't own a car (all in their 30s and 40s). They all live close to town or in town so they either use public transport (wherever you are within the city limits, you have a bus or tram every 10 minutes) or bicycle.
I’m from Switzerland and just to let you know, we have 4 official languages (French, Swiss German, Italian and Romansh). The 5 (unofficial) language is English! 😜
5:33 actually there is a lot.. In New york, the oldest skyscrapers, San Fransisco, Saltlake City, Chicago, more North.. Canada has these buildings aswell.. Montreal, Quebec, Omntario, they are in fact all over the wolrd.. not specific Europe.. Tokyo, Mogbadishu, Capetown, Havanna, Mexicocity, Buenos aires, Lima, Santiago, all same architecture, They didn't founded it...they FOUND it
I’ve been to the US and there is no difference in the size of toilet paper 🧻 😂. Unless the bigger you are the more sheets you need to rip off. That made me laugh 😂😂😂😂.
Americans do not have enough arm-length to reach it...
Was it about the package size? In German grocery stores for examples package size with ten rolls and even lesser are pretty normal.
@@Hey.Joe. I buy them at 4 or 6...
While in the US we needed them for our rented RV and smallest pack was 12. It was a short trip of six weeks, so we left a few for the next renter.
@@dutchman7623 Yes, for traveling you can get small package sizes here too. I think the smallest pack was 3, if my memory isn't pranking me.
@@Hey.Joe. In the UK , we get packs of 2, 4, 6, 12, 16 and 24 as normal and sometimes other amounts (like 3) but those are less common. I have seen single rolls in adverts but never bought one.
We make the toilet paper to fit our arses.
In Switzerland they also speak Italian as well French and German and another one I can't remember...
In Belgium we have 3 languages, Switzerland does better and has 4 .
I had a Scandinavian boyfriend and he used to go home for vacation. He always used to say that when he was in Scandinavia all he did was eat, and he would come back to the US 10lbs thinner.
#06:01 urban development is really at an all-time low in the usa...hopefully it will get through there one day
yeah hopefully
About drinking in public, in Germany its ok, but its not common think in every European country
In the US, people go to bars to get alcohol and get drunk. However in Spain, bars are social and cultural restoration sites which are often filled with children and their parents.
Italian is also spoken in Switzerland
It always surprising to me that Americans don't go on holiday for at bare minimum a week per year like in the UK even lower middle class and working class kids go to Spain or turkey for a cheap package holiday with their parents, literally every year.
As a kid we were only middle class but we went away easily 2-3 weeks per year, all over Europe and Egypt and Australia etc
i came back from my 3 weeks vacation, still have a few days left before going back to work...
its funny, the days i spend after my vacation are the same amount the Americans have for their entire year...
next 3 weeks vacation is x-mas!
_"surprising that they don't go on holiday for a bare minimum a week per year"_ ...
not to me, after seeing many videos that told me that many people have only one week of PTO that they need to save in case their few sick days are not enough.
if 1 or 2 days remain at the end of the year, they are not used for vacation but to work, for proving to their employer how valuable and hard working they are ...
@@Anson_AKB i got 0 sick days....
@@Arltratlo _"i got 0 sick days"_ may be good or bad ... depends on where you live :
0 (=no) sick days is good when you live in Europe and the concept of "sick days" doesn't exist, being sick meaning to be sick and excused from work, no fixed number of days.
0 (=number) sick days is bad in other countries when you would have to reduce your vacation/PTO days instead, when you get sick.
@@Anson_AKB i have beed sick home for over 14 months,
of course i am EU citizen, after become okay, i had 55 days vacation accumulated....and my bank account been full of money...no medical bills in my country!
Decades ago a Danish writer wrote: "There runs a stream of beer through Danish history." The same may very well be true of several other European countries. (Germany? Belgium?)
It is true, for sure in other European countries, although it might not be the ones everyone thinks of.
When beer is mentioned everyone is always thinking about Germany or Ireland while in fact the most beer per capita, globally (with a huge margin) is drunk in the Czech Republic.
Here are the top ten countries: (consumption ten per capita in litres)
1🇨🇿 Czech Republic 188.5
2🇦🇹 Austria 101.2
3🇵🇱 Poland 99.6
4🇮🇪 Ireland 99.3
5🇱🇹 Lithuania 97.6
6🇪🇸 Spain 95.1
7🇩🇪 Germany 93.3
8🇪🇪 Estonia 93.1
9🇷🇴 Romania 91.6
10🇳🇦 Namibia 90.8
@@farral Oops! I forgot Czechia. Too bad. I have actually known about their great beer tradition for 50+ years. Embarrassing.
And Britain but its mead ale beer rather than lager
@@TroelsNybo-j2t Budweis (České Budějovice) is in Czechia.
@@gottfriedheumesser1994 Czechia, a country with a dramatic history for its famous beer to stream through.
Ultra processed food. The following is for the UK but I don't think US food is less ultra processed having worked there and shopped in supermarkets.
.“About 50.7%: or over half of all the food bought by families in the UK is “ultra-processed" , more than any others in Europe. Ultra-processed food is made in a factory with industrial ingredients and additives invented by food technologists and bearing little resemblance to the fruit, vegetables, meat or fish used to cook a fresh meal at home... In Italy: only 13.4%, in France: 14.2%." (Guardian 2 Feb 2018)
As the saying goes "You are what you eat".
I live in Finland, but visited the US in 2015. I didn't notice anything special with the toilet paper -- there are different sizes where I live, depending on the brand and price. The toilet paper I currently have seems to be the narrower kind -- I hadn't noticed it before, but there's a notable amount of unused space in the roll holder. The width of this narrower paper is 9.5 cm (3.74 inch).
Instead, I did notice a difference in the size of paper towels. While in the US, I liked the larger sheets -- a single sheet was always enough. I don't remember the size, but I did measure it, and it would be something in full inches -- maybe it was 11" x 11" (which would be 28 cm x 28 cm). Instead, in Finland, where the size of a paper towel sheet is 22 cm x 22 cm (8.7" x 8.7"), I often have to use two or more. Of course, there are uses where the smaller size is enough, but I wish the American size was available here. Ideally, I would keep two roll holders, each loaded with different size, so I could pick the one more suitable for each task.
6:27 - 6: 50 or so... semi-joking terms for the US include "Third world country wearing Armani" / "richest third world country. And when it becomes especially annoying, I like to call Canada and the US Northern and Southern Prudistan.^
Are the Canadians as big a bunch of Prudes as the Yanks are? I'd never heard that aboot them.
I think ALL of Europe allows drinking in public, if I'm not mistaken.
But the Roman Empire was vast. Ruins can be found from...the U.K. to Turkey, I believe. Also, there are streets and buildings still in better shape than those in the U.S.
200 pounds? Oh, you meant 20 pounds. Yes, we have horrible food with harmful chemicals in it.
I think the food in Europe is probably about 60%-75% of why people lose weight. The other part is exercise.
I think they are talking about how much toilet tissue is on a roll. We have double, triple and quadruple toilet paper on our rolls. Same for paper towels.
@Charlie I think the toilet paper comment wasn't about its actual size as much (its metric, but roughly the same dimensions), rather than the *thickness* of it. At home we used 4-ply, but 3-ply is standard most places....
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The toilet paper - no different there🥸
I'm using toilet & facial tissue made from bamboo and sugarcane fibre here in Vancouver, Canada. Paper towels are just stupid.
How are paper towels that are made from fibers from recycled textile more stupid than towels made from bamboo and sugarcane fibres that are probably cut down specifically for this purpose? Our tissues are made from fibres made by bacteria ... What's more stupid you think?
@@andyhorvath6630 I use a washcloth for wiping up rather than flimsy paper that gets tossed.
"European culture" is NOT a thing.
Yeah, more like "european cultures".
Why not ?
There are things that are common among most places in Europe, and things that are specific to some places, that are part of Europe.
In the same way that you'd for example say that braids are part of african culture, even though that for example people from arabic countries don't have any link with them, nor for another example do the Indian settlers in Kenya, nor the British and Dutch descendant in South Africa.
@@PierreMiniggio Boers are the Dutch in Africa, speaking Africaans...
the only common thinngs in Europe is what Americans dont understand...its an continent, not a country...
or an US American is happy, that i call him/her all the time Mexican or Canadian because both countries are also in North America!
or ask all the time, how is it to live in Puerto Rico and you English is very good for a not born British person!
@@Arltratlo You calling an US person an Canadian or a Mexican is different. Because you're calling them another subdivision of a bigger set, instead of calling them with the bigger set name like presented here. In that example, you could be calling them a Northern America person or something that groups all the 3 countries.
@@PierreMiniggio I would not think of Braids (I think you may mean Dreadlocks) as being of African culture when they were in use in my country, Scotland for thousands of years. Vikings also had them long before any contact with Africans was established. Braids and Dreadlocks are just a particular way, longer hair was styled (or more left to go that way with Dreadlocks).
Hello! In swisserland People speeking 4 langage french, deuch, italian and romanche
If you dont have a vehicle in the U.S, you're basically a second class citizen.
The Swiss speak German, French and Italian.
And Reto Roman!
architactal historic buildings are beautifull,true
but if you see what we build these days,well that will never be called historic ;-)
they even build them in historic sides of cities 😡
I've been to the US a couple of times, to different places there and the toilet paper was just the same size as it is in the UK.
In Switzerland there are three officials llanuages German French and Italian
I don’t agree with your take on walking when on holiday. I’m in the UK. I walk every day and still not losing a significant amount of weight. It makes sense that someone adjusting to different, healthier diet would lose weight.
If say you burned 500 calories a day walking and you removed that you would gain 1 pound of fat per week because 3500 calories = 1 pound... Over a year this could add up to an extra 50+ pounds.
Walking is VITAL.
All weight loss is calories in calories out
He means, that many US Americans do not walk anywhere more than a minute or two away, they always default to driving, if they can. So walking while on holiday is more of a thing for Yanks.
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EVERYTHING in the USA has SUGAR in it ... FAR TOO MUCH ... so ...
- make your own bread ... and I mean BREAD, NOT "toast"!!!!
- cook your food from fresh ingredients ... which means you should CHANGE YOUR "once every two weeks HUGE shopping" habit too!
Unfortunately, the US has two problems (at least) with that. Fresh, healthy ingredients are hugely expensive (unaffordable ny many) and even a lot of the so called 'Organic' options still have chemicals, hormones and GMOs in them.
"He didnt see the whole roman empire"! Who can?
After shi..., US make big Paperballs ... , Europe is more Origami. US Paper is very softer you can't make Origami with US Paper ! Funfact University's make Studies for the Paperindustry😲
The Roman Empire was less than half the size of the USA so for an American to consider it huge is weird to me.
they got it without nukes!
@@Arltratlo So did the Yanks, so what are you on about?
Swirzerland. Three official languages: German, French and Italian. Being two or three weeks in the sun works miracles. Big a%%es take big paper.
4, you forgot Romansh
@@MrsStrawhatberry And Swiss-German, which, to me, sounds nothing like Hochdeutsch.
@@dutchman7623 Well I agree but because there is no official grammar and vocabulary and Swiss German is too diverse and regional, the official language is standard German (which btw is also not exactly the same German in Germany). This is the only reason why Swiss German is not considered a language but a dialect: there is not one rule book to define them all.
@@MrsStrawhatberry Saw a documentary on a Swiss television broadcaster but could only pick up a few words. Though I grew up with ARD and ZDF and understand standard German perfectly.
Interesting 🤔🤣🤣
Vytamins!?
Us people dont wipe their ass 😂
EVERY american "city planner" SHOULD have a mandatory 1-month european educational trip ... with learning about BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE in the Netherlands, INTEGRATED PUBLIC TRANSPORT in Freiburg, the Autobahn (and "freeze resistant road construction") in Germany ... and beautiful architecture all over the continent.
Have just returned from Rome and unfortunately met some of the rudest most demanding people all being American.would jump queues demand immediate service treat staff like their own slaves even saw one couple throw taxi fair at the driver and swore and shouted that the 60 euro fair was too much and that 40 would do .could not believe their behaviour in restaurants,not just one but almost every one we went to some level of self importance demanding behaviour from couples or families or just down right rudeness would be on show .i admit not all were like this but for many to behave like they did is totally unacceptable just sad that they think because they are American,as some would shout out , can behave in this way in a foreign country
Americans think that Europe is just one country and Europeans think the USA is all of America.
British know North America is Alsaka Canada and America.
@@MaryBradley-s3s And what about Mexico?
I'm in Europe but I miss all the old buildings in UK. I would guess in my region of Croatia there is nothing more than about 200 years old.
I wonder why?
There are roman ruins in Croatia though
@@MrsStrawhatberry nice
There‘s Roman emperor Diocletian‘s palace in Splitt. Is 700 years old enough for you?
Them pesky Romans left a big thing in Pula
Some times we even have sht paper de luxe,for nothing.
On the market muslims give a way free qurans.