Especially since most black Americans trace their ancestry to Northern Africa, to Asia, and to the West Indies. Southern Africa below the equator hardly features at all in their ancestry.
@@sharonmartin4036 More or less all black Americans have gotten their skin color from their ancestors from West Africa. North Africa nor Asia have black (or had) black populations. I don't understand what you mean by West Indies since the indigenous people there isn't black. The black populations there are descendants to black slaves from West Africa just like the ones in the US.
@@j.ackermann9110 Actually, neither is subject to VAT in UK, unless it is served as part of a meal, where both are subject to VAT (at the standard rate). So whilst it is true that the 'bread' in question is, in UK, considered 'cake' it doesn't really matter, I think the issue arose in Ireland, where VAT rules are different (so it probably did matter).
@@j.ackermann9110 That's interesting, in The Netherlands ALL food is in the lower tax bracket because food is considered a basic need and government doesn't interfere with how you get your nutrition/calories, that is your own personal freedom.
There was a legal case in Britain, settling (for tax reasons) whether Jaffa Cakes are legally defined as cakes or biscuits (cookies). It was agreed they are cakes. The decision rested on whether they turned soggy (like biscuits) or stale (like cake) with time. Such is life in the UK.
We once had an American placement student at work over the summer. He said he'd home bake an apple pie for us for 4th July, which was a really sweet gesture. But he went the supermarket he came back with a pre-made one because he couldn't find apple pie ingredients. He commented that Brits obviously dont do much home baking. We were a bit confused, until we quizzed him a bit further and realised his understanding of apple pie ingredients is a pre-made pie base and a jar of apple pie filling. The concept that pastry can be made from flour, butter and water and the filling from apples and sugar completely blew his mind!
@@lisaistryingtolive Worryingly he was about 22 and on a placement from a fairly high ranking American University. He was a long way from home - we weren't too mean to him. I think he learned a lot from his time in the UK!
It is disconcerning. Basic human functioning. Not knowing something is one. Awareness of the basics of food production of humanity is another. People have been in schools for many months. Some would say for 10 years. 'Democrats' the world over have demolished basic human values. I detest the mentality with which they destroy life for the next Gen. I'm 55, I witnessed it. DETEST. The results are so ugly.
...olive oil (the good stuff), and salt, maybe a bit of pepper. But yes that's really it, no herbs no nothing. Also don't use much garlic at all (max 2 cloves peg kilo), and also importantly use proper high-fat yoghurt, ~10% fat. That means a kilo of yoghurt is made from ~4l milk instead of the more usual 1l. Two cucumbers per kilo of yoghurt, thereabouts, shredded, that's the point where you add the salt to remove water, wait 10 minutes, then squeeze the shreds with a cloth. De-core the garlic, dice finely (no squeezing), mix everything together with a bit of olive oil, let steep in the fridge for at least an hour better overnight, then mix again and adjust taste (salt, pepper) and consistency (olive oil). If that doesn't taste heavenly buy better yoghurt and/or olive oil.
I'm English. I was once on a university hiking trip in the Yorkshire Dales and a Greek guy brought his homemade tzatziki. It was very strong. Also I've noticed Ranch is now available in Morrisons an English supermarket - probably got something to do with its new American owners....
10:56 Reminds me of the occasion when an American family was in Kreuzberg, in the Wrangelkiez, and their 16-year old son struck up a conversation with local lads sitting on a bench and ended up sipping from a bottle of beer they had graciously provided... Mama went postal and started screaming blue murder which attracted a couple of police officers. Said mom demanded that the locals be arrested for underage drinking in public and corrupting her innocent son. The officers checked the age of both the locals and her son and informed mom that everything was absolutely fine, everybody was 16 and above and no law was broken, which sent mom off on another rant about siccing the embassy on the city, the police and whater else she could think of. There was a rather wry facepalming article in a local newspaper on this incident.
Was she a narcissist or something? Can't imagine how a normal person would still overeact even after being told that no law was broken and everything was ok.
@@SkyRied1I knew someone in the US who was told by a mother of her daughter's classmate that she was going to call the police on her for letting her daughter drink some champagne as the family were celebrating her graduation from high school.
@@Xiroi87 Well, yes and no. But mainly, no - It´s landlocked, so you don´t get the benefits of the Mediterranean. Bummer. But you´re also VERY far south compared to the Northern parts of Norway, which is also European. So yeah, you´re southern European :) Congrats!
@@olenilsen4660 Austria is, by definition, NOT in Southern Europe. Just because a region is south of Norway doesn't make it Southern Europe. What an extremely weird (and kind of American) thing to say. Geography doesn't revolve around Norway.
I had American ask me "So if you're from Spain...why are you white?"....I legit thought she was doing a "Mean Girls" reference. Nope. She was dead serious.
About the wrong spelled names, I remember a video of a girl from Wales/UK abd she was told by an US woman that she should not lie about where she came from as Wales are animals. The UK lady replied that it was a region in the UK and that Prince Charles ( at that moment) was the Prince of Wales and the US woman replied , "Yes honey , he is the Prince of the animals... the Wales. This was the funiest story I ever read.
Wales is a country, not a region & it's not even spelt the same. That's a really funny story. The fact that she didn't stop to consider or check that she may be wrong is hilarious. Hi from England, UK.😊
I was also on a Train in Scotland and a girl in a Hijab was talking on a phone when this archetypical brash American tourist type told her 'This is England, speak English' at which point this woman stood up and in the Broadest Glaswegian accent I've EVER heard told him 'This is SCOTLAND and she's speaking Gaelic'
@@NessieNice - I hope he knew what Scotland was.... but yeah the idea of Gaelic may have thrown him. But TBH I wouldn't argue with the angry Glaswegian woman so I doubt he would too.
About the classification one: Euros love to classify due to legal reasons, you just can't just call a product something even tho it's not. Kinda like your American Fanta, which is sold as "orange soda" but has the disclosure "contains no orange juice". That wouldn't fly in most of Europe
FDA in the US also classifies certain foods just like the European Union. Classifying is not exclusive to the EU. States also have their own legal definitions for products.
@@siggilinde5623 Way before actually. It was a Viking settlement but historians have been able to show people lived there even before (since prehistoric times).
@siggilinde5623 a lot farther back that that Strabo (64BC - c21CE). mentioned a settlement called Eblana where Dublin is today. Ptolemy (a contemporary of Strabo also mentions a settlement in the same area. The Vikings ruled Dublin from around the 800s till 1016CE when Brian Ború, the High King of Ireland defeated them. Dublin was one of the most important cities of Danelaw.
The legality of bread/cake classification is for the purposes of "what can they sell it as". If it's legally a cake, they can't sell or market or advertise it as bread.
@pauljmorton You will remember the Great Jaffacake Controversy, where the manufacturers took a case to court for a decision as to whether the product in question was in law a cake or a biscuit (Am: cookie), because in law biscuits are subject to value-added tax but cakes aren't. I apologise in advance if you are indeed British and perfectly aware of this case, and also for remembering it the wrong way round.
11:30 I experienced something similar in Germany, with a group of German teens in the park barbecuing and drinking a few beers, until a group of older US tourists came, escalated to the point that the police came and banned the tourists from the square!
I made a similar "cultural" mistake in Germany, I complained about the "child whores" in the pub toilets. Apparently if they have a parental note it's legal for teen boys to hang out there in fishnet jeans and bully tourists for cigarettes ???????
we send a pic of my 16 years old daughter, drinking beer to our US American family Whatsapp group... they went crazy! after she turned 18, we send a picture about the empty bottles of her party.... and pics how they drunk from them in public... another reason they never let their kids come here! they also been ashamed, they cant ride the bicycle....a thing we use here daily!
I work in tourism in Scotland - I once had an American COMPLAIN that the road signs in the North had a “different language” on them. That different language happened to be Gallic / Gaelic - the native language of Scotland. I will also mention that they all have the English translation on them underneath.
it’s funny how Americans who can name their children literally anything from fruit (Apple Paltrow) to a bunch of letters and numbers (Elon’s kid) can even dare to criticise other nation’s name spellings :D
@@squidthingWe don’t recognize him as South African anymore and we don’t want him back. He is too far gone to the Americans and is as bad as the most stereotypical of Americans
@@squidthingtheir kid was born and named in the US though, so US laws apply. The string of letters and numbers that they chose would not have been allowed in many other countries.
An American tourist asked me when so the fireworks start. I asked him why would the Spanish celebrate American independence day. He had came off one of the cruise ships in Málaga harbour.
Happened to me in Berlin.. They were SO offended that Germans don’t celebrate 4th of July… „But you have to! We defeated you in the war!“ was their direct quote… I just laughed and walked away..
@@Georgie_R We Brits can be pretty ignorant & crass etc expecting fish & chips everywhere abroad on holiday. But Americans definitely take it to the next level. It's that "customer is always right" thing taken way too far
What to expect from a country who thinks is the center of the universe and thinks that May 5th is the independence of México, not actually is September 16!!!! 😅
Drinking age in USA is so wierd and stupid. You can be married, have kids, go to war and die but you cannot drink alkohol? Maybe I'm missing something but that is just dumb
@@Thurgosh_OG 4 states have no official minimum age, but still require either parental consent, court approval or both: California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
@@Ardie_06 It's sixteen with parental approval, but only as an exception, for "important reasons" and if it's for the good of the family ("§ 1. Nie może zawrzeć małżeństwa osoba niemająca ukończonych lat osiemnastu. Jednakże z ważnych powodów sąd opiekuńczy może zezwolić na zawarcie małżeństwa kobiecie, która ukończyła lat szesnaście, a z okoliczności wynika, że zawarcie małżeństwa będzie zgodne z dobrem założonej rodziny").
What's even weirder to me is that fifteen-year-olds can drive. Like, driving a huge, fast, potentially deadly vehicle is a big responsibility - you basically trust the lives of everyone on the road to a teenager.
I'm from Austria. Several years ago, we had some American friends staying with us for a week, and they had a spare key to our apartment that they forgot to return when they left. They sent it back from America by mail. It arrived three or four weeks later via Australia. 😂
Hey, Austria may have lost most of its land and its global power after the war and shrunk to the size of five shoeboxes, but we still have lot to see here. 😂
@@kathilisi3019 Count yourself lucky. A once had a friend who was supposed to receive a package from an American, and despite the sender specifically putting "Vienna - Austria" on it, what with there being several Viennas in the USA too... and it came back. So for the second try, they wrote "Vienna - Austria - Europe" and it will only managed to cross the Atlantic on the third attempt. Maybe the 4-digit area code confused them...
A few weeks ago an north-american called me dumb because I had “Brasil” (with an S) on my biography on instagram. He swore to god that Brazil is the right spelling of a PORTUGUESE word and said that writing it with an S doesn’t exist. His profile picture was him with the usa flag behind him while he held a dead fish on his arms.
O que me faz mais triste é saber que alguns fellow americans provavelmente sabem dizer qual foi o decimo segundo presidente deles mas não sabem apontar o brasil (quinto maior pais do mundo ) no mapa
As an Australian we grew up with Tzatziki, perhaps as we have the largest Greek population in the world outside of Greece, but yes strange to think you’ve not even heard of it in the States.
I'm from Denmark. When I was a teenager, I had the dubious pleasure of showing some American family guests around the city. I was asked if we had a reservation nearby. Mildly confused, I asked for clarification assuming I had misheard.. Nope. They wanted to know if we treated Vikings better than they treated than Native Americans were treated over there.
I watched a RUclips video of an African American coming to visit South Africa. She said she was disappointed when she got off the plane and they weren't playing drums to welcome her "home" 😂😂😂
12:50 I was asked by an American colleague who was visiting Czechia for a business trip (and not for the first time), if we actually use agricultural machinery, or whether we still plow the land by hands. I thought she was joking, so my immediate reaction was to laugh. Then it hit me she was serious.
I was thinking that. America has some HUGE trees, that would take up the space of... 4 of ours in a clump? So it makes sense that we think we have more.
To be honest, American tourists tend to have a way of standing out in the crowd. Their speech - which does often precede them - just confirms the fact!
Recently we had some relatives visiting from Canada. It was funny how they went out of their way to let everybody know, they are canadian, not from the USA. For example in every restaurant where we sat and spoke english in public, if anyone noticed and looked or asked, we really, really HAD TO tell, they are CANADIAN. We even put up the canadian flag to let the neighborhood know....
I have read in comment sections like this that Canadians find they are treated differently (i.e. better) in Europe when the locals find out they are not USAmericans. (And no surprise.)
My friends who are the rare type cool Americans, actually always introduce themselves as Canadian until they're comfy enough to tell the truth. And no, rather than feeling offended for being lied to, we just laughed because we got it.
It's funny, but when the American guy in 2015 found out that I'm Russian, he asked if I knew the director of the first full pov action movie called Hardcore Henry (2014). He's Russian, his name is Ilya Naishuller. And I wanted to say in anger that there are 150 million people living in Russia, and this is outrageous... But, damn, I really knew Ilya in personal and have met him at many events!!! 😂😂😂
As a fellow brazilean ( 210 million people ) if something similar happens to me i would probably be pissed at first then proceed to use as a joke for my entire life
I actually have a story as a French guy : I met an American while I was doing my master's degree years ago (he was there as an exchange program student). The guy was really nice and fun to be with, so he ended up hanging out with me and a bunch of friends, good times. We planned to go party in Paris (we were living in Reims) at some point, since one of the guys in the group had a studio apartment there...and our American buddy told us that he couldn't wait to visit "Nostradamus". We had to explain to him that he was talking about "Notre Dame". The funny thing is, I ended up watching a tv series called "the sopranos" a few years after that, and the EXACT same situation was shown in it (Tony explaining one of his henchmen what I had to explain to my own friend in the past), which, you can imagine, made me laugh for a good minute. I guess this has to be a common mistake amongst Americans, I don't know? Anyways, the dude was a really decent fellow, so he ended up just laughing about his own mistake with so much honesty that we really didn't care in the end xD.
We certainly also make some genuine mistakes regarding other cultures, including USA. The point is when despite having no factual knowledge, you insist that you are the sole one being right. This guy was a clever fellow and the proof that there are very nice american people.
L'erreur est mignonne car Nostradamus s'appelait bien Nostredame (soit Nôtre-Dame avec la graphie de l'époque) et a juste "latinisé" son nom pour faire classe, l'histoire a fait une boucle.
They were chopped down to clear space for agriculture mostly, but you're right, the industrial revolution was what pushed it to the lowest point. It's slowly climbing back up though!
You are right. The dwindling of resources, like the reduction of forests due to industrial needs, was another reason for migration to America. That is probably why those lads were told about the topic at school.
Whatever it is, it´s weak. I´m Norwegian, I´ve been to Greece quite a few times, and I have to say it´s nothing I´d like to recommend. It´s ok, but why bother? Ranch, on the other hand, we should be condemned to eternal pain for calling that sorry a$$ sour cream Ranch over here! I´ve had US Ranch, and THAT´s what a condiment should taste like! IDK anything about ingredients or anything, but "Ranch" here in Europe is lightyears away from the real, US Ranch. That stuff is tasty!!!
@@olenilsen4660 i quite like it. its definately got a subtle flavour, which is prob why americans dont like it. subtlety is not something they're known for. lol
It's not even the fact that it's a real name, it's just so weird to me how you can tell someone to their face that their name isn't real. Like I would believe you, if you told me your name was porcelain. Why would you just question that? Like..
I (French) was once told by an American friend that he loves my french accent when I speak French to be fair, he was a bit drunk but that’s still funny
my favourite is when i went to herculaneum this summer and a tour group full of americans walked by. the italian guy leading the group was talking about vesuvius and its eruption and mentioned that it'd erupted in 1944, and he had to pause and add on that 1944 was in the second world war. there were also a lot of americans being extremely disrespectful at herculaneum (i know they were americans because i could hear them long before i actually saw them) by lounging on the windows of the ruins and not treating the place like the graveyard it is. in the same trip, when i did a boat trip around ischia, there was a group of americans who got really annoyed with me because the captain of the boat was only talking to me in english and not them. not gonna lie, i felt rather smug.
In 2020, the European Court of Justice ruled that bread from the fast food chain Subway in Ireland should not be classified as “bread” but as “bakery products” due to its high sugar content. This decision was based on Irish tax regulations, which set an upper limit for sugar in bread (maximum 2% of the weight of flour). Subway bread exceeded this limit.
I'm sorry, tsatziki is not even remotely similar to mayonnaise. It's some kind of yoghurt with cucumber and lemon in it. Anyone who has actually eaten it, isn't going to mistake it for mayonnaise
@siegfriedjuschka4826 I mean, I've never even been to Greece, but I have bought tsatziki from Tesco at some point, along with various other dips, and it's quite nice. It wasn't my favourite, so I haven't kept buying it, but when I did years back I made sure I looked at what was in it. Caramelised onion houmous became my favourite dip
A friend jobbing in a hotel was asked by US-american tourists where to find the entry gate to the black forest. It took her quite a while to find out talking to them that they thought of the black forest like some kind of national park in the US, and expected a gate with a fee. The conversation must have been hilarious. "Black forest is over there, just drive." - "Yes but how do we get in?" - "Where do you want to go?" - "The black forest" - "yes ...?" - "What does it cost?" ...
@@whitesheepdriver79 but there is no special entrance. You can just go in. Just like here in the Netherlands. Although decades ago some moron politician suggested asking for an entrance fee. Gods we had a good laugh and a nice bit of anger about that one.
I was once asked by American tourists 'what time does the Black Forest close?'. The Black Forest has around 268,000 residents living in Towns and villages. Do they all have to leave at 17:00?
My favorite celebrity gossip story is Jaden Smith inviting his parents to a restaurant in London for his 18th birthday and ordering a beer right in front of them, much to their shock. Which is especially amusing if you consider he could have done it at 16...
Not unusual for Americans to cross the border into Canada to celebrate their birthdays. The legal drinking age is 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. 19 in the rest of the country.
There are numerous RUclips videos of Americans visiting Australia and comparing food. They seem to concentrate on comparing US McDonald’s with Australian McDonald’s and being bewildered by the fact that Australia doesn’t have all the same fast food chains. Very few of them even visit the individually owned and wonderfully diverse cafes. Also “snacks” seem to play an overwhelming part in their diet.
But often also not as traditional as we like to think. Lots of "traditional" European recipes use produce that came from the Americas, like potatoes and tomatoes for example. If we went back 500 years, we'd probably all be eating more parsnips and barley or something.
correct me if i'm wrong but i think ive learned around 25 years ago that celtics were fighting around my hometown area in south-west germany.....so those guys came around xD
Think most of Europe was, but as some part of Britain was isolated, the traditions kept longer. Jest looked at celtic, and viking stuff got mixed up as they kept the tradition. Jest like the Irish and green they colour was orange, but they adopted the colour of saint Patrick, who was welsh
I’m a Tour Guide in York England. We love American Tourists because of the challenging questions:- ‘Why did we chose an American name for our City’? ‘What came first Roman or Medieval?’ So I like to get some of my own stupid questions in, such as “This must be a real culture shock for you, traveling from a tiny place like Texas, to the very centre of the World’s biggest empire”.
one of the challenges must be differentiating between the uneducated and those who are taking the pizza. because a lot of better educated Americans will play the "american tourist" role up for laughs.
@@kenbrown2808The thing is, playing "the American tourist" (and you mean "USAmerican") could only be done for laughs on the other side of the Atlantic. In Europe, it is tantamount to harrassment.
@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 the thing is, people from the US are the only ones who commonly refer to themselves as Americans. But many will claim to be canadians, to dodge the prejudice. And some are ignorant buffoons, and some can make - and take a joke. And from what i can see, many europeans can't tell the difference - and just let their prejudice do the talking. Just so you know, we haven't had an indian attack in months.
I usually don't defend Americans, but the question, If Roman or Medieval came first, is not a stupid question. Their country didnt exist in that two times, so of course they would not get educated about this in school.
5:28 Yes, there is a legal definition of cake, certainly in my country (Portugal), so I guess Ireland has something similar. in Portugal, if your product meets the legal requirements (including sugar content) to be classified as bread, you pay 6% VAT; if it does not fit the criteria, VAT jumps to 23% - so bakeries have an incentive to lower sugar content.
The distinction is also important in France because the law requires that every citizen has access to fresh bread daily. I am English so I hope that a French commenter will step up to explain the history behind this law.
Here (Greece) in order for a food product to be classified as bread, it must be made with _flour dough (wholegrain/wholewheat flour, it doesn't make a difference), yeast, salt_ if one adds sugar is not bread but _pastry_
@@MazzaEliLi7406 Is this the reason why bread is dirt cheap in France? I loved buying baguettes there, as we pay 7-8 times the price here in Austria. Eight (?) years ago, one baguette in France was 40 cents and 2,79 - 3€ in Austria. God, I'm so sick of my scammy country.
@@SatieSatie I am English. Count your blessings! Even the far right in Europe drew the line at leaving the EU. Sigh. Brexit is making the people of all four countries of the UK poorer. & there is worse to come. Be pleased & proud to be Austrian & part of the Peace through Prosperity initiative that evolved into the EU. Nothing, nowhere & no-one is perfect but if you reach for the stars you might make it to the moon. May Austria & the EU evolve together for many more years. Cheers.
In summer 1979, an Australian couple photographed me driving a bus in Cambridge (UK). How do I know this? Two weeks later I met that couple in Thailand!
I used to teach Spanish in Sweden. 4 years later I was working as a flight attendant, asked a couple what they wanted to drink... they were my students. 5 rows further back there was another of my students, from a different school!
I am Aussie and live on a street called Edinburgh st. Lots of people say "Edin-berg". One person at an employment agency argued with me about how it was pronounced and I had to explain it's named after the city in Scotland.
As for trees... In Sweden, in 1831, an oak forest was planted at Visingsö in the south of Sweden to provide timber for the navy. In 1975, the trees were ready to be used. The head of the navy was offered the oaks (that was what they were planted for) but declined. It is always good to plan ahead. (The forest is still standing, and the timber that is harvested from it is used for other things.)
I hear that in the rules it was stipulated that a dispatch rider should ride to navy headquarters in Stockholm and deliver the message that the oak could now be harvested. I look at the forest once a year when I drive from the south to the Grenna Bluegrass festival in august
There is a difference between accent and mispronunciation. No-one takes umbrage at someone saying words in their own accent but saying Edin-burg instead of Edin-burra isn’t due to accent it isn’t even like the irritating habit those from the US have in putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable (like they do with the Lomond in Loch Lomond…we tend to be forgot the whole in the mispronunciation of Loch as we understand that the ch sound at the end of loch isn’t in every language and a good proportion of English people can’t manage it either), the way that people from the US often pronounce both Glasgow and Edinburgh (even after being corrected) starts to reek of them arrogantly insisting that they know best and Scottish people are wrong.
Yes , John McEnroe still insists on calling Novak Djokovic Jokeovich even after traveling the world and meeting him on numerous occasions. How hard can it be?
Edinburgh is nowhere near unique in having people stubbornly mispronouncing their name. there are entire youtube videos about brand names having different pronunciations in different places.
@@kenbrown2808 not quite the same thing and I didn’t claim that it was unique to the mispronunciation of Edinburgh (I even mentioned Glasgow and Loch Lomond also receiving the same treatment), I just used Edinburgh as it was the example given in the video. The mispronunciation of product names is often down t9 the products marketing teams marketing the products with different pronunciations in different places. I somehow doubt that Visit Scotland (for example) is using a different pronunciation of its capital city for US ads than it is everywhere else in the world. Or for that matter that the English tourist board are butchering the names of places like Gloucester and Leicester. The mad thing is, that I’ve watched a few videos that make claims that US Americans make more of an attempt to pronounce words closer to how they are spoken in the languages that they originated from…and I definitely think that is very dependent on the original language. They may do it for Spanish and maybe Portuguese and Italian to a lesser extent but they certainly don’t in regards to the UK or France.
@lynnejamieson2063 actually, there are a lot of words that Americans pronounce closer to the historic pronunciation than the british do. But the point is, americans grew up reading the spelling of uk place names, and not hearing them spoken by locals, and formed habits. And habits are hard to break.
@ I didn’t dispute the fact that the pronounce some words closer to the original than people in the UK do I was more stating that they aren’t necessarily more prolific at it than the UK we just have different languages that we are closer to the originals. As for only reading names and not growing up saying them? Not completely true is it? They can pronounce many names correctly that are directly named after UK towns and cities in their own country but will mispronounce the exact same name in reference to the original UK version like Norfolk. The one in Virginia is pronounced the exact same way as the one in Eastern England, yet they will pronounce it correctly for the US version and butcher the exact same word in regards to the UK. There is even less excuse in this modern age where you can search the internet for correct pronunciations and hear it spoken but they either choose not to or make the presumption that they will just be able to wing it…but this does not alter the fact that even when they have the correct pronunciation explained to them, many will still choose to use their own incorrect way of saying it. There is nothing wrong with getting something incorrect as long as you are willing to make improvements when you discover where you are going wrong. After all, you cannot be expected to know something you’ve never been taught…but once you are taught, if you choose not to change what was wrong, you are either arrogant or hard of learning, as you can no longer claim ignorance.
Most ridiculous thing that happened to me was in the Paris metro. Two guys sat in front of me and one of them had one of these conversation books with sentences in main European languages. One of the guy asked me a question that I couldn't understand. Eventually, I asked him with my fingers to show me the line he was saying... It was in German. And of course these two people were.... Japanese...
4:16 Alright, out of boredom: I checked Google and some other resources, and as to my calculation, the USA have 33% of their territory where there are forests. England has 43%. Mind that I am only referring to the US mainland without any outside territories like Hawaii or Alaska, and to England as England, not the whole island, and that I may have miscalculated that and/or the data I obtained may be wrong.
I am pretty sure they misunderstood their teacher telling them that Britain used to be almost completely covered by forests. Including Scotland. Now look at Scotland today and yeah, there are very few trees. Brits reduced the size of their forests by a lot and I can't remember exactly why but I think one reason was the insane amounts of wood needed to build their fleet? I think that was the main reason. But might be wrong. Anyway... used to be covered almost completely by forests, lost most of its forests.... maybe someone would get that wrong and think there are no trees left at all.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 Most trees were removed for firewood and to make room for farmland. England or the whole of the UK having a big fleet came _loooong_ after that process.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 Deforestation was to protect the population from the Drop Bear, it happened when we discovered Australia, the Drop Bears went there.
It occurred to me that all these comments about American's "shouting", they weren't actually shouting, just talking an an American volume, which would seem like shouting for the rest of the world
Some americans came with me to visit Paris (yes the one in France) ..... in the end they nearly only ate McDonald and still complained "it's not the right burgers"
The British used to be renowned for demanding traditional English food when they were in the colonies: brown windsor soup, meat and two veg, spotted dick etc in the jungle. Now there are no colonies they ask for chips with everything in Spain and wash it down with English lager.
It seems reasonable that an American chain that expects its customers to be able to read English with trademarked English language menu items and the slogan "i'm loving it" (with French translation in the small print) would be consistent.
Once I told my American friend about something in the EU, and she asked "What is the EU?" She is not stupid, I met all my American friends in places for open-minded people, like language clubs, so this surprised me. Indeed, a few years ago the Irish court ruled that the bread of a US fast food franchise qualifies as cake.
@Kiwi-Araga There are some ideas about being a united country, but many people oppose it. Even if the EU becomes a single country eventually, it will take time. But it does function like one. Still, people should know how it works, it's not like the EU was founded 2 weeks go.
An american once asked me if my grandparens knew hitler personaly. Mind you they were barely teens at that time. Also why do americans ask this so often as if every german's grandparents were good friends with him?😭
My history professor (in his fifties) once told us, that when visiting the US he was greeted with one armed salutes and “H*** H*****!” by a local as soon as he told him, that he was from Germany.
I’m Mexican and I’m really mad that the USA people can called themselves “Americans” when they think and even acknowledge that they are the WHOLE continent of America. When they in fact aren’t JAJAJA. The audacity of this country I swear!.
We have in most European countries very strict rules and lawas about food. Sonyes, there are laws stating how much sugar a bread can contain... Also, number of trees is bigger in the States, but when you look at the size and the percentage of the country covered by trees, UK looks like it has more... It is a very, very green country...
There was a court case in UK over whether a Toffee Apple was a fruit or a sweet. If it was a fruit it wasn't liable for VAT, and if it was a sweet, it was.
I really appreciate these videos, Ryan. Unfortunately, people who should be seeing this, will probably not come across this content. Still, this is gold, you made my European heart happy and took some weight off from all the things I've heard Americans say about Europe. I laughed until people came to check up on me.. (one does not simply LOL in Germany). I especially appreciated your uncomfortable laugh... Because some things are just too much for a comment. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
That first one reminds me of the conversation I had over this weekend in YT comments with an American, who was adamant that St Patrick's Day was first celebrated in the USA and only then imported back to Ireland. He believed this, because his grandparents who left Ireland in 1960 told him so (?). He refused to believe that, by law, St Patrick's Day was made a Bank Holiday in 1903 - and for the whole of Ireland. He was also absolutely certain Northern Ireland didn't ever celebrate it and only the British live there.
In this case, the American was right - St. Patrick's Day was indeed first celebrated in America, not in Ireland. Irish settlers in America started it in the 18th century, but in Ireland itself the first celebration was only in 1903. Why? The British were frankly oppressive toward Irish people and culture, and changing course in the 20th century was too little, too late - the Irish would not be satisfied by anything less than full independence.
@@cccpike _"The Irish began celebrating St. Patrick's Day in the ninth and tenth centuries. It was originally a religious feast day, but Irish immigrants brought it to the United States, where it evolved into a secular celebration of Irish culture."_ My great grandparents certainly celebrated it in the nineteenth century. In County Cork. It was a Saint's Day in the Catholic Church calendar from the 1600s. As Irish protestants, they were later (1920) ethnically cleansed from Ireland (their house was set alight while they were asleep).
@wessexdruid7598 No one is disputing that the religious feast day dates back centuries. Likewise, it is undisputed that the modern St. Patrick's Day originated outside Ireland. Short quote from Wikipedia: "The first Saint Patrick's Day parade in Ireland was held in Waterford in 1903, hundreds of years after the first parade in North America."
Re: the Trees comment. UK here! It is true that in pre-history much of the forested areas of what is now Britain were de-forested (if that is a word) for farmland & that our sheep infested moors were once densely forested. Ancient forests are few & far between though the Forestry Commission maintains our current sustainable forests & Local Authorities protect trees. In recent times many of our commercial orchards have been systematically destroyed & disease has also killed off many trees. Climate change has also had an effect on the tree population. But thankfully Britain is still 'a green & pleasant land' with many trees.
similarly, much of iceland was deforested in an attempt to keep warm through the winters. the residents are now making an extra effort at reforestation.
Climate change 🤦♂️ I worked in forestry ( still do in a way) and the climate has not changed that much since medieval times. Dendrochronology proves this. Also, after the industrial revolution non native species were planted in forests which never took well to our climate. And suffered. I could go on, but you obviously watch too much BBC......... and it would be pointless 🤦♂️
@@Aine197 The islands that are now known as Britain (& Doggerland that is now under water) were well settled &/or farmed long before the Romans arrived. That is classed as pre history. History relates to the written record. Pre history predates the written record but forensic archaeology has established what was happening to the land before the written record. Cheers.
Once had an American telling me "please speak English, you're not making any sense here" while I was with my friends Jesus lady, you are in Vietnam and l wasn't even speaking English
13:02 The Faroe Islands are located about halfway between mainland Europe and Iceland in the Atlantic Ocean. It is a country and the language they speak there is Faroese, which, along with Icelandic, is one of the most similar modern languages to Old Norse. The grammar is almost unchanged, but the spelling and pronunciation is often different.
They are an autonomous region of Denmark. Whether that counts as a "country" is up to what definition you use, but they are not a sovereign state. They have full lawmaking authority over their own region as long as it doesn't involve foreign affairs.
@@kasperfabchbrandt537 I grew up in a Scottish fishing town. We often had Faroese fisherman sailing in to the harbour. Possibly they don't now, but then, it wasn't uncommon.
I went travelling when I was 23 with my mate Warren. We were drinking one night in Sydney and met these American girls, when they asked for our names Warren said "It's where Rabbits live"... And one girl gave us a scowl and said "There's no way your name is Rabbithole!" 🤣🤣 Absolutely cracked us up!
I was asked by an America if we had trees in England. I asked if he had ever seen a 'Robin Hood' film, he said yes. So I asked where Robin Hood used to 'hang out', Sherwood forest was the answer, And what is Sherwood forest made of ? 'Trees' EXACTLY I said....He didn't get it !
As an American myself, you have to ask an American if they know where Sherwood Forest is before you ask a question like that. Unfortunately some of my fellow Americans are not too bright and are the ones that get found and exposed by the rest of the world.😂 That's just me giving the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know where it was at.😂
Tsatziki is a salad - and there is no mayo there at all ;) Just Greek yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, dill, olive oil, salt. In Bulgaria we have something close to it and it contains Bulgarian yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, dill, sunflower oil, salt, grinded wall nuts. And it is called Snejanka. Of course we have the same ingredients as a cold soup if you add water and then it is called Tarator. And yes, in US you don't have anything even close to it.
The funniest interaction I've ever heard was an American in Tasmania trying to order a bagel from a local cafe. The waitress standing above a range of pastries and donuts stares at her for a few seconds then says "What's a bagel?". The American looked like she had just seen a ghost. I think if the room was quiet enough I we'd hear her brain ticking like "Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore".
@@richardharrison284 I remember when on exercise, we were told by the officer responsible for disbursements, it was cheaper to pay a farmer for a dead cow 🐄 than to damage a tree 🌳 when we travelled between caches. This was during the 1970s, pretty everywhere in Germany.
I've heard one of the reasons the industrial revolution happened in England was because due to lack of firewood people switched to coal, which encouraged more efficient coal mining techniques, which lead to steam engine, and everything just followed from there.
When USA was still being settled, so many trees were cut down to make way for farmland, it had a noticeable effect on the climate. This became known as the Settler Effect and can be clearly seen in climatological records.
@@vytah Many woods were "coppiced" to maintain a steady supply of wood for charcoal making before the majority use of coal. A large number near Sheffield were coppiced to provide for the early steel making forges. Ecclesall wood has a heritage centre which explains the history
Once an American customer asked "where is our Xerox machine?" I answered "we don't have one, but we do have copy machine but it's made by Canon" I was just glad he understood the joke..
I'm from Spain (as in, Spanish parents and I was born there). I had an American here (UK) tell me "OMG, I'm Spanish, too!" when I asked where abouts they were from in Spain they said "Oh, I was born in America, but my great grandmother was Mexican"....uh....not sure where she got "Spanish" from "American with Mexican heritage" lol
Was asked by an American man whilst on holiday in St Lucia, if we still had problems with the clans fighting in Scotland ….his wife apologised immediately😂
Ive seen a few examples of this sort of thing where Americans think their laws apply all over the world. One i saw recently was an American that was being tried in Australia for possessing a firearm and the defence he kept arguing was his right to bare arms. Idiot.
I’m from northern Spain and I overheard Americans in the airport complaining and shouting to the ariline worker “You need to refund my flight tickets because If I knew that Spain wasn’t in Mexico I wouldn’t have come. And also, 10 hour flights aren’t legal, you’ll be hearing from my lawyer”
@@vulkandrache1928 Why? I would believe it's a joke on "pharaoh" as that's spelled with a "F" instead of "Ph" in some European nations. So pharaoh islands with a lot of pyramides?
The Thor thing could be that Tor (Thor in English) is a Nordic name, from Asgård (I think it’s Asgard in English), one of the Gods. Thursdays is Torsdag in the Nordic countries, named after Tor, one of Asgard’s main gods.
of course, almost anyone in Europe, even the southern peoples, know who is Tor/Thor. So why should it not be a first name for someone from north of Europe ? Just because it was a god name ? 🤣
Is there anybody here who has never met or overheard an American? I somehow doubt it. They are everywhere and not exactly incognito. Btw English is not my mother tongue and I not only understand Scots, I also know how to pronounce Edinburgh. It’s a matter of informing yourself and learning how to do it correctly. Doesn’t have anything to do with your accent, or would you like to be called Rihan?
To be fair- as a kid I mispronounced Arkansas because of Kansas... names can be confusing. Some of these examples really sound like jokes- i can't believe them...😂
only recently (I believe through a CGP Grey video) I learnt that Arkansas isn't pronounced Ar-kansas, but Arken-saw. (where did the second s go? nobody knows)
The problem is not names. The problem is that English orthography sucks. You're supposed to just guess how things are pronounced and that's insane. Pretty much every European language I can think of fixed that with diacritics.
@@DrVictorVasconcelos Names are usually an exception. I was born in a city where the name end with a S. It shoud be silent, but it's not. I can't fault non-locals to not know it. In France you have alot of places who's names starts with "mont" (hill or moutain). When it's attached to the next word, all bets are off on wether the T is gonna be silent or not. There's also the famous case of the "De Broglie" family. Don't even try. You're supposed to say it as "De breuil". So yeahh I won't fault anyone to not know how to say names if they aren't local. It's not something that is unique to English.
@@LeSarthois But French is the most insane language. It's almost like you made a liberal accent the more prestigious one while control of the orthography was left to a conservative institution or something. But there are sane languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, etc.
The trouble with Arkansas is that the state is pronounces Arken-saw, while the Arkansas river is alternately pronounced Arken-saw and Are-Kansas When I was young, the ch in Chicago was pronounced more like Shicago, and I was told it was because the name is in some Native American language. However, the last decades I have heard the ch in Chicago pronounced as the ch in cheese. (So I think to myself that the river is perhaps more and more frequently called Arken-saw in the same manner that Chicago has lost its Sh-beginnings and that the US is losing their shit internally as well.)
"It's not just stupid, it's weird" is a pretty good summation of a lot of this kind of thing. Also I reckon the "I was shouted at..." is more that Americans seem to be really loud and normal people probably consider them to be shouting vs actually getting angry. Or not, sometimes people just lose their shit for stupid reasons.
As for real English on a train, I witnessed the inverse thing in German once. I was at some restaurant in the Alps in Austria, and a table or two away there was an attempted conversation between two very obvious Austrian women (very thick local valley accent) and a German tourist (standard German as they speak in, maybe, Hanover). The two sides failed to arrive at an understanding. Once the tourist split off, one of the two women asked the other (still in that thick accent) something along the lines of if the guy couldn't understand, or speak (it was many decades ago, my memory is not perfect) German. I was sorely tempted to assert that he was perfectly able to, but they obviously weren't - but I kept my comments inside my head. And when I say "thick accent", I mean that I (also a German tourist) who had been visiting that area of Austria for decades and usually had no problems understanding the locals (at least when they were trying to talk to me) understood maybe half the words they spoke. I probably just showed my age, huh? No problem. At 64, that doesn't bother me. Actually, I can't remember if it ever bothered me.
@KaiHenningsen i worked on a job where the owners were korean, and they had a korean handyman. One day one of the workers made a comment to the owner that for speaking 7 languages, he didn't speak very good english. The owner laughed and said "he doesn't speak very good korean, either."
I read once that Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't dub his own voice for his films in the German market because his Austrian accent makes him, "Sound like a farmer."
I work in Castle Cornet in Guernsey. Yes a real castle that is 800 years old. To enter the Castle to get to the shop to pay for your entry ticket, you have to walk across 2 bridges through a big arch way with two big wooden doors walk through a 40 foot tunnel and under the portcullis half way through the tunnel. My office is one level up from the shop and my workshop is 4 leaves up from the shop, I will regularly be approached by Americans who will ask one of two questions 1) how do we get into the castle? 2) What time is the noonday gun Gun (just to clarify we fire a cannon at 1200 hours, Midday, Noon, 12 o'clock) these are by far the most popular questions I get asked mainly by Americans but sometimes other nationalities as well. how do you answer these questions with a strait face? By the way the castle is almost at the end of the harbour pier out in the sea.
I have encountered some Americans that thought that there is only eternal winter in southern Finland. They never believe me when I tell them I suffered from severe heatstroke a couple of summers ago, due to a prolonged heatwave that made life miserable for everyone.
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Shout out to the American who told me black South Africans should be referred to as 'African Americans'. They're African Africans, dude.
Especially since most black Americans trace their ancestry to Northern Africa, to Asia, and to the West Indies. Southern Africa below the equator hardly features at all in their ancestry.
They do the same with indigenous people who are not from US 😅, they're refered as native americans
@@sharonmartin4036 More or less all black Americans have gotten their skin color from their ancestors from West Africa. North Africa nor Asia have black (or had) black populations. I don't understand what you mean by West Indies since the indigenous people there isn't black. The black populations there are descendants to black slaves from West Africa just like the ones in the US.
@@sharonmartin4036 Yeah, only Brazil has some southern Africans. from Angola and maybe even from Mozambique.
@@TLRHFN keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. Everyone knows Yanks prefer fee-fees over facts.
The sugar content in American bread is over 3 times the legally allowed amount in the UK, and is therefore classed as cake.
And cake is taxed higher because it isn't a staple food 😂
@@j.ackermann9110 Actually, neither is subject to VAT in UK, unless it is served as part of a meal, where both are subject to VAT (at the standard rate).
So whilst it is true that the 'bread' in question is, in UK, considered 'cake' it doesn't really matter, I think the issue arose in Ireland, where VAT rules are different (so it probably did matter).
@@j.ackermann9110 That's interesting, in The Netherlands ALL food is in the lower tax bracket because food is considered a basic need and government doesn't interfere with how you get your nutrition/calories, that is your own personal freedom.
There was a legal case in Britain, settling (for tax reasons) whether Jaffa Cakes are legally defined as cakes or biscuits (cookies). It was agreed they are cakes. The decision rested on whether they turned soggy (like biscuits) or stale (like cake) with time. Such is life in the UK.
Meanwhile in Germany it is considered an insult.
We once had an American placement student at work over the summer. He said he'd home bake an apple pie for us for 4th July, which was a really sweet gesture. But he went the supermarket he came back with a pre-made one because he couldn't find apple pie ingredients. He commented that Brits obviously dont do much home baking. We were a bit confused, until we quizzed him a bit further and realised his understanding of apple pie ingredients is a pre-made pie base and a jar of apple pie filling. The concept that pastry can be made from flour, butter and water and the filling from apples and sugar completely blew his mind!
was he 4 years old?
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He already said "American".
@@lisaistryingtolive Worryingly he was about 22 and on a placement from a fairly high ranking American University. He was a long way from home - we weren't too mean to him. I think he learned a lot from his time in the UK!
It is disconcerning. Basic human functioning. Not knowing something is one. Awareness of the basics of food production of humanity is another. People have been in schools for many months. Some would say for 10 years. 'Democrats' the world over have demolished basic human values. I detest the mentality with which they destroy life for the next Gen. I'm 55, I witnessed it. DETEST. The results are so ugly.
@@lisaistryingtolive no an American 😂
Tsaziki is made from yoghurt, cucumber and garlic, so it's nothing like Ranch or Mayonaise
I make my own and put a little pinch of salt in it too.
Isn't ranch a farm?
@@turkoositerapsidi yes but they mean the ranch sauce.
...olive oil (the good stuff), and salt, maybe a bit of pepper. But yes that's really it, no herbs no nothing. Also don't use much garlic at all (max 2 cloves peg kilo), and also importantly use proper high-fat yoghurt, ~10% fat. That means a kilo of yoghurt is made from ~4l milk instead of the more usual 1l. Two cucumbers per kilo of yoghurt, thereabouts, shredded, that's the point where you add the salt to remove water, wait 10 minutes, then squeeze the shreds with a cloth. De-core the garlic, dice finely (no squeezing), mix everything together with a bit of olive oil, let steep in the fridge for at least an hour better overnight, then mix again and adjust taste (salt, pepper) and consistency (olive oil).
If that doesn't taste heavenly buy better yoghurt and/or olive oil.
I'm English. I was once on a university hiking trip in the Yorkshire Dales and a Greek guy brought his homemade tzatziki. It was very strong. Also I've noticed Ranch is now available in Morrisons an English supermarket - probably got something to do with its new American owners....
10:56 Reminds me of the occasion when an American family was in Kreuzberg, in the Wrangelkiez, and their 16-year old son struck up a conversation with local lads sitting on a bench and ended up sipping from a bottle of beer they had graciously provided... Mama went postal and started screaming blue murder which attracted a couple of police officers. Said mom demanded that the locals be arrested for underage drinking in public and corrupting her innocent son. The officers checked the age of both the locals and her son and informed mom that everything was absolutely fine, everybody was 16 and above and no law was broken, which sent mom off on another rant about siccing the embassy on the city, the police and whater else she could think of. There was a rather wry facepalming article in a local newspaper on this incident.
Was she a narcissist or something? Can't imagine how a normal person would still overeact even after being told that no law was broken and everything was ok.
@@SkyRied1 She wasnt normal, she was from USA! 🤣
Haha entitled helicopter parents.
@@SkyRied1I knew someone in the US who was told by a mother of her daughter's classmate that she was going to call the police on her for letting her daughter drink some champagne as the family were celebrating her graduation from high school.
@@izibear4462 Some people are just shitty. 😑
Yes I confirm: we hear them long before we see them...
a had the same problem with spiders when I went to work in southern part of Europe (Lower Austria)... heard before being seen
Austria is not Southern Europe
Don't worry. They use silent drones now
@@Xiroi87 Well, yes and no. But mainly, no - It´s landlocked, so you don´t get the benefits of the Mediterranean. Bummer. But you´re also VERY far south compared to the Northern parts of Norway, which is also European. So yeah, you´re southern European :) Congrats!
@@olenilsen4660 Austria is, by definition, NOT in Southern Europe. Just because a region is south of Norway doesn't make it Southern Europe. What an extremely weird (and kind of American) thing to say. Geography doesn't revolve around Norway.
I had American ask me "So if you're from Spain...why are you white?"....I legit thought she was doing a "Mean Girls" reference. Nope. She was dead serious.
Que cojones... 😂
maybe he thought spaniards are spinach green
Is spain not majority white?
@@loucar10 Yeah, we're classed as white.
You can't just ask someone why they're white!
About the wrong spelled names, I remember a video of a girl from Wales/UK abd she was told by an US woman that she should not lie about where she came from as Wales are animals. The UK lady replied that it was a region in the UK and that Prince Charles ( at that moment) was the Prince of Wales and the US woman replied , "Yes honey , he is the Prince of the animals... the Wales. This was the funiest story I ever read.
Wales is a country, not a region & it's not even spelt the same. That's a really funny story. The fact that she didn't stop to consider or check that she may be wrong is hilarious. Hi from England, UK.😊
@@sarahhanson7127 Cymru is a country, Wales is what the English say. 😉
@@sophiesharbour I know I just wanted the text as the US lady said it , I know the differences.
I was also on a Train in Scotland and a girl in a Hijab was talking on a phone when this archetypical brash American tourist type told her 'This is England, speak English' at which point this woman stood up and in the Broadest Glaswegian accent I've EVER heard told him 'This is SCOTLAND and she's speaking Gaelic'
I hope she received a round of applause.
😂
That must have confused the tourist even more because "what is Scotland?", "What is Gaelic?", and "what even the relation between those 2?" 😂😂😂
@@andrewwalton6236 🤌🏻😀😀😀😀❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
@@NessieNice - I hope he knew what Scotland was.... but yeah the idea of Gaelic may have thrown him. But TBH I wouldn't argue with the angry Glaswegian woman so I doubt he would too.
About the classification one: Euros love to classify due to legal reasons, you just can't just call a product something even tho it's not. Kinda like your American Fanta, which is sold as "orange soda" but has the disclosure "contains no orange juice". That wouldn't fly in most of Europe
Also in some countries more luxury foods like cake are taxed at a higher rate
In the US It's called "orange" because of the color, not the ingredient 😂
It wouldn't fly in any part of Europe.
@@dylanquinn1461Yes. The bread in " Subway" was classified as cake in Ireland and meant they paid more tax.
FDA in the US also classifies certain foods just like the European Union. Classifying is not exclusive to the EU. States also have their own legal definitions for products.
"The US founded Ireland?" 😂😂There are whole streets in Dublin whose houses were built in the early 1700s before the US was established.
and those houses are still considered newish.
I have family in Ireland who live in a house that dates back to 1672
Dublin dates back to at least the 1200
@@siggilinde5623 Way before actually. It was a Viking settlement but historians have been able to show people lived there even before (since prehistoric times).
@siggilinde5623 a lot farther back that that Strabo (64BC - c21CE). mentioned a settlement called Eblana where Dublin is today. Ptolemy (a contemporary of Strabo also mentions a settlement in the same area. The Vikings ruled Dublin from around the 800s till 1016CE when Brian Ború, the High King of Ireland defeated them. Dublin was one of the most important cities of Danelaw.
The legality of bread/cake classification is for the purposes of "what can they sell it as". If it's legally a cake, they can't sell or market or advertise it as bread.
In some countries there's also tax implications, since bread is considered a basic nutrient (and taxing is reduced) and cake isn't.
And it came about in relation to subway subs [rolls to most people], or some of them at least.
I've often seen the bread in the ingredients list of American-style burgers listed as "brioche bun"
@@missharry5727 cake isnt taxed in the UK as a luxury
@pauljmorton You will remember the Great Jaffacake Controversy, where the manufacturers took a case to court for a decision as to whether the product in question was in law a cake or a biscuit (Am: cookie), because in law biscuits are subject to value-added tax but cakes aren't. I apologise in advance if you are indeed British and perfectly aware of this case, and also for remembering it the wrong way round.
11:30 I experienced something similar in Germany, with a group of German teens in the park barbecuing and drinking a few beers, until a group of older US tourists came, escalated to the point that the police came and banned the tourists from the square!
Lmao, the embarrassment
I made a similar "cultural" mistake in Germany, I complained about the "child whores" in the pub toilets. Apparently if they have a parental note it's legal for teen boys to hang out there in fishnet jeans and bully tourists for cigarettes ???????
If we can sumarize American tourists in one word is "Entitlement".
They feel like them can order everyone around.
It's always funny and embarrassing when US citizens think, the US laws apply to every other country in the world
we send a pic of my 16 years old daughter, drinking beer to our US American family Whatsapp group...
they went crazy!
after she turned 18, we send a picture about the empty bottles of her party....
and pics how they drunk from them in public...
another reason they never let their kids come here!
they also been ashamed, they cant ride the bicycle....a thing we use here daily!
Hahahahaa.
Good job keeping them away 😂😂😂
I work in tourism in Scotland - I once had an American COMPLAIN that the road signs in the North had a “different language” on them. That different language happened to be Gallic / Gaelic - the native language of Scotland. I will also mention that they all have the English translation on them underneath.
15:02 "Sir, we don't have "dollar stores" here because we don't use dollars."
it’s funny how Americans who can name their children literally anything from fruit (Apple Paltrow) to a bunch of letters and numbers (Elon’s kid) can even dare to criticise other nation’s name spellings :D
Is she not Apple Martin 😀😃😄 (sorry couldn't resist)
Elon is South African and Grimes is Canadian
@@martinajurickova5750 trust me, we ridicule those, too.
@@squidthingWe don’t recognize him as South African anymore and we don’t want him back. He is too far gone to the Americans and is as bad as the most stereotypical of Americans
@@squidthingtheir kid was born and named in the US though, so US laws apply. The string of letters and numbers that they chose would not have been allowed in many other countries.
An American tourist asked me when so the fireworks start. I asked him why would the Spanish celebrate American independence day. He had came off one of the cruise ships in Málaga harbour.
Americas has independence day?
Happened to me in Berlin..
They were SO offended that Germans don’t celebrate 4th of July…
„But you have to! We defeated you in the war!“ was their direct quote…
I just laughed and walked away..
@@Georgie_R We Brits can be pretty ignorant & crass etc expecting fish & chips everywhere abroad on holiday. But Americans definitely take it to the next level. It's that "customer is always right" thing taken way too far
@Georgie_R to be honest, Brits demanding a full refund for the dumbest reasons happens all the time un Mediterranean tourist spots.
What to expect from a country who thinks is the center of the universe and thinks that May 5th is the independence of México, not actually is September 16!!!! 😅
Drinking age in USA is so wierd and stupid. You can be married, have kids, go to war and die but you cannot drink alkohol? Maybe I'm missing something but that is just dumb
Even worse when you consider, that in a few States, the marriage age can be as low as 12!
@@Thurgosh_OG 4 states have no official minimum age, but still require either parental consent, court approval or both: California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
@@Thurgosh_OG In Poland it's 15 or 16 but with Parental approval but 12 is way too low like wtf?
@@Ardie_06 It's sixteen with parental approval, but only as an exception, for "important reasons" and if it's for the good of the family ("§ 1. Nie może zawrzeć małżeństwa osoba niemająca ukończonych lat osiemnastu. Jednakże z ważnych powodów sąd opiekuńczy może zezwolić na zawarcie małżeństwa kobiecie, która ukończyła lat szesnaście, a z okoliczności wynika, że zawarcie małżeństwa będzie zgodne z dobrem założonej rodziny").
What's even weirder to me is that fifteen-year-olds can drive. Like, driving a huge, fast, potentially deadly vehicle is a big responsibility - you basically trust the lives of everyone on the road to a teenager.
That was intersting to me, as an US American try to "educate" me, that my hometown (Hamburg/Germany) was named after the Burger. WHAT? 🤣😂
Lol
Moin Moin!
@@Ihridyaahni Was Moin Moin? Das ist schon gesabbel... ein Moin reicht völlig! 😀 Was lustig ist, weil ich ja viel sabbel! 🙂
Funny. Another example of US Americans have no clue of timescale. Asking why Stonehenge is build so close to the road is another one... lol
😂
You asked "how did you end up in Austria" before you finished the sentence I thought "maybe they wanted to go to Australia" 😂
I'm from Austria. Several years ago, we had some American friends staying with us for a week, and they had a spare key to our apartment that they forgot to return when they left. They sent it back from America by mail. It arrived three or four weeks later via Australia. 😂
@kathilisi3019 Haha I love that 😂
Hey, Austria may have lost most of its land and its global power after the war and shrunk to the size of five shoeboxes, but we still have lot to see here. 😂
@@kathilisi3019 Count yourself lucky. A once had a friend who was supposed to receive a package from an American, and despite the sender specifically putting "Vienna - Austria" on it, what with there being several Viennas in the USA too... and it came back. So for the second try, they wrote "Vienna - Austria - Europe" and it will only managed to cross the Atlantic on the third attempt. Maybe the 4-digit area code confused them...
A few weeks ago an north-american called me dumb because I had “Brasil” (with an S) on my biography on instagram. He swore to god that Brazil is the right spelling of a PORTUGUESE word and said that writing it with an S doesn’t exist. His profile picture was him with the usa flag behind him while he held a dead fish on his arms.
I mean, at least it was a fish, rather than a gun...
@@nagranoth_ HUAHAHAHA Truuue!
O que me faz mais triste é saber que alguns fellow americans provavelmente sabem dizer qual foi o decimo segundo presidente deles mas não sabem apontar o brasil (quinto maior pais do mundo ) no mapa
"why do you shout at anyone?" some Americans are loud, so when they speak normally, people register it as shouting in Ireland, Austria etc
Tourists from US are by far the loudest. Then there are italians, middle east, and russian speaking people. Then you have brits
As an Australian we grew up with Tzatziki, perhaps as we have the largest Greek population in the world outside of Greece, but yes strange to think you’ve not even heard of it in the States.
Melbourne ?
I should know I grew up in OZ as a kid now living in Europe .
Sounds tasty 😊, greeks have great cuisine. Greetings from northern México 🎉🇲🇽
Germany would be a very different place without Tzatziki.
I'm Welsh and have been eating tzatziki since the 1980s
Dane here, love tzatziki.
And the good thing is at the 2€ store..., the tax is already included 😎🤣
I'm from Denmark. When I was a teenager, I had the dubious pleasure of showing some American family guests around the city. I was asked if we had a reservation nearby. Mildly confused, I asked for clarification assuming I had misheard.. Nope. They wanted to know if we treated Vikings better than they treated than Native Americans were treated over there.
LOOOL
you should have told them that "no, we ARE the Vikings, and we are in charge here :-)"
As fellow Dane - I too have had this happen…
Thats absolutetly hillarious
LOL! Helo from Australia. 😊
I watched a RUclips video of an African American coming to visit South Africa. She said she was disappointed when she got off the plane and they weren't playing drums to welcome her "home" 😂😂😂
Wtf lmao
12:50 I was asked by an American colleague who was visiting Czechia for a business trip (and not for the first time), if we actually use agricultural machinery, or whether we still plow the land by hands. I thought she was joking, so my immediate reaction was to laugh. Then it hit me she was serious.
As we all know, one Czech is pulled by the legs, while his extended arms clad in armor plough the land.
Maybe, you shouldn’t give her any more of your czech beer...
Too much KCD lol
Fun fact: There are more American giant redwood trees in the UK than in America. The UK has approximately 500k compared to the 80k in America.
I was thinking that. America has some HUGE trees, that would take up the space of... 4 of ours in a clump? So it makes sense that we think we have more.
To be honest, American tourists tend to have a way of standing out in the crowd. Their speech - which does often precede them - just confirms the fact!
Recently we had some relatives visiting from Canada. It was funny how they went out of their way to let everybody know, they are canadian, not from the USA.
For example in every restaurant where we sat and spoke english in public, if anyone noticed and looked or asked, we really, really HAD TO tell, they are CANADIAN. We even put up the canadian flag to let the neighborhood know....
I have read in comment sections like this that Canadians find they are treated differently (i.e. better) in Europe when the locals find out they are not USAmericans. (And no surprise.)
Young Canadian backpackers sew the Maple Leaf flag on their backpacks.
@@christinemarshall1366 Good idea!
@@christinemarshall1366so do US travellers to avoid being identified as Americans.
I’ve witnessed this as a Canadian.
My friends who are the rare type cool Americans, actually always introduce themselves as Canadian until they're comfy enough to tell the truth. And no, rather than feeling offended for being lied to, we just laughed because we got it.
It's funny, but when the American guy in 2015 found out that I'm Russian, he asked if I knew the director of the first full pov action movie called Hardcore Henry (2014). He's Russian, his name is Ilya Naishuller. And I wanted to say in anger that there are 150 million people living in Russia, and this is outrageous...
But, damn, I really knew Ilya in personal and have met him at many events!!! 😂😂😂
As a fellow brazilean ( 210 million people ) if something similar happens to me i would probably be pissed at first then proceed to use as a joke for my entire life
I actually have a story as a French guy : I met an American while I was doing my master's degree years ago (he was there as an exchange program student). The guy was really nice and fun to be with, so he ended up hanging out with me and a bunch of friends, good times. We planned to go party in Paris (we were living in Reims) at some point, since one of the guys in the group had a studio apartment there...and our American buddy told us that he couldn't wait to visit "Nostradamus". We had to explain to him that he was talking about "Notre Dame".
The funny thing is, I ended up watching a tv series called "the sopranos" a few years after that, and the EXACT same situation was shown in it (Tony explaining one of his henchmen what I had to explain to my own friend in the past), which, you can imagine, made me laugh for a good minute. I guess this has to be a common mistake amongst Americans, I don't know?
Anyways, the dude was a really decent fellow, so he ended up just laughing about his own mistake with so much honesty that we really didn't care in the end xD.
We certainly also make some genuine mistakes regarding other cultures, including USA. The point is when despite having no factual knowledge, you insist that you are the sole one being right.
This guy was a clever fellow and the proof that there are very nice american people.
L'erreur est mignonne car Nostradamus s'appelait bien Nostredame (soit Nôtre-Dame avec la graphie de l'époque) et a juste "latinisé" son nom pour faire classe, l'histoire a fait une boucle.
Swede here. I remember being taught in school that most of the forests in the UK were chopped down for coal during the industrialisation
They were chopped down to clear space for agriculture mostly, but you're right, the industrial revolution was what pushed it to the lowest point. It's slowly climbing back up though!
A lot were chopped down for making boats.
You are right. The dwindling of resources, like the reduction of forests due to industrial needs, was another reason for migration to America. That is probably why those lads were told about the topic at school.
I mean it’s true; across most of the world. If humans didn’t exist there would be a lot more trees.
Um, no coal is a fossil fuel dug out of the ground.
I was on holiday in Austria, and an American asked me where the wild kangaroos could be watched
LOL
that explains all the airport merch "there are no kangaroos in Austria" :D
Mountain kangaroos very common in austria😂mostly with skis on my feet
The Austrian Embassy in London has a sign on the door:
"Achtung! Kangaruhs Verboten!"
Notway's most famous sailor was called Thor Heyerdahl.
tzatziki is essentially yoghurt with grated cucumber, chopped mint, garlic and lemon juice
Whatever it is, it´s weak. I´m Norwegian, I´ve been to Greece quite a few times, and I have to say it´s nothing I´d like to recommend. It´s ok, but why bother?
Ranch, on the other hand, we should be condemned to eternal pain for calling that sorry a$$ sour cream Ranch over here! I´ve had US Ranch, and THAT´s what a condiment should taste like! IDK anything about ingredients or anything, but "Ranch" here in Europe is lightyears away from the real, US Ranch. That stuff is tasty!!!
@@olenilsen4660 i quite like it. its definately got a subtle flavour, which is prob why americans dont like it. subtlety is not something they're known for. lol
dill not mint + olive oil + pepper.
Was in Roma, south central Queensland, when a car load of American tourists ask if they could drive to Perth by dark.
This was just after lunch.
Maybe they could have made it... in their dreams!
That’s hilarious!! 🤣
10:26 German here: I know a Thor and also a Thore. Not an unusual name in northern europe.
Clearly the American had never heard of the scientist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl.
Even more common in Germany is Thorsten.
Also German here, I know another Thore.
or write is with the original letter Þor
It's not even the fact that it's a real name, it's just so weird to me how you can tell someone to their face that their name isn't real. Like I would believe you, if you told me your name was porcelain. Why would you just question that? Like..
I (French) was once told by an American friend that he loves my french accent when I speak French
to be fair, he was a bit drunk but that’s still funny
Ah yes, I love when they speak French with a French accent, it makes the French soooo much Frenchier😂😂😂
tbf Feench people also prefer theFrench accent in French over Canadian French 😂
@@TerezatheTeacherthe québécois accent is dope (I'm french and Quebec is the part of canada who speaks french)
Subway in Ireland can't call their Bread 'Bread' because of how much sugar is in it!
If I recall correctly, they can call it bread, so long as they pay VAT on it, since cake is taxed at 13.5%, whereas bread is VAT exempt
@dylanquinn1461 fair enough Dylan! I stand corrected!
@@dylanquinn1461That's when they came into the country first.
They had to source all of their bread from European countries.
@@dylanquinn1461 No. The court ruling was that they could not use the term 'bread' at all in describing the product.
Same in Finland.
my favourite is when i went to herculaneum this summer and a tour group full of americans walked by. the italian guy leading the group was talking about vesuvius and its eruption and mentioned that it'd erupted in 1944, and he had to pause and add on that 1944 was in the second world war. there were also a lot of americans being extremely disrespectful at herculaneum (i know they were americans because i could hear them long before i actually saw them) by lounging on the windows of the ruins and not treating the place like the graveyard it is. in the same trip, when i did a boat trip around ischia, there was a group of americans who got really annoyed with me because the captain of the boat was only talking to me in english and not them. not gonna lie, i felt rather smug.
In 2020, the European Court of Justice ruled that bread from the fast food chain Subway in Ireland should not be classified as “bread” but as “bakery products” due to its high sugar content. This decision was based on Irish tax regulations, which set an upper limit for sugar in bread (maximum 2% of the weight of flour). Subway bread exceeded this limit.
I'm sorry, tsatziki is not even remotely similar to mayonnaise. It's some kind of yoghurt with cucumber and lemon in it. Anyone who has actually eaten it, isn't going to mistake it for mayonnaise
Don't forget the tasty garlic!
@siegfriedjuschka4826 I mean, I've never even been to Greece, but I have bought tsatziki from Tesco at some point, along with various other dips, and it's quite nice. It wasn't my favourite, so I haven't kept buying it, but when I did years back I made sure I looked at what was in it. Caramelised onion houmous became my favourite dip
@@irreverend_ Yes, you are right. I'm just wondering how another Brit thought it was just like Mayonaise. They have quite a different taste.
@@Thurgosh_OG if anyone said it, and given it's a Reddit comment, they cannot have tasted it. American or British
Never trust a Brit when it comes to food.
A friend jobbing in a hotel was asked by US-american tourists where to find the entry gate to the black forest. It took her quite a while to find out talking to them that they thought of the black forest like some kind of national park in the US, and expected a gate with a fee. The conversation must have been hilarious. "Black forest is over there, just drive." - "Yes but how do we get in?" - "Where do you want to go?" - "The black forest" - "yes ...?" - "What does it cost?" ...
So falsch ist es nicht, Teile des Schwarzwalds zählen als Nationalpark
@@whitesheepdriver79 but there is no special entrance. You can just go in. Just like here in the Netherlands. Although decades ago some moron politician suggested asking for an entrance fee. Gods we had a good laugh and a nice bit of anger about that one.
@@Audulf-of-Frisia Ja das ist mir schon klar
I was once asked by American tourists 'what time does the Black Forest close?'. The Black Forest has around 268,000 residents living in Towns and villages. Do they all have to leave at 17:00?
My favorite celebrity gossip story is Jaden Smith inviting his parents to a restaurant in London for his 18th birthday and ordering a beer right in front of them, much to their shock. Which is especially amusing if you consider he could have done it at 16...
Not unusual for Americans to cross the border into Canada to celebrate their birthdays. The legal drinking age is 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. 19 in the rest of the country.
American teenagers drink a lot, they just do it in secret.
at least they knew ireland is a coutnry, progress...
Because Aunty Mary came from there, 49 years ago! 😁
@@jenniferharrison8915 Or great-great-grandma in the 19th century.
@@bookllama8158 Yes! 😄
Boy, that bar is low.😅
There are numerous RUclips videos of Americans visiting Australia and comparing food. They seem to concentrate on comparing US McDonald’s with Australian McDonald’s and being bewildered by the fact that
Australia doesn’t have all the same fast food chains. Very few of them even visit the individually owned and wonderfully diverse cafes. Also “snacks” seem to play an overwhelming part in their diet.
Yeah, most of traditional local "cuisine" in other countries is older than the USA.
But often also not as traditional as we like to think. Lots of "traditional" European recipes use produce that came from the Americas, like potatoes and tomatoes for example. If we went back 500 years, we'd probably all be eating more parsnips and barley or something.
Apple pie is one of them.
An 11th century dish.
@@bookllama8158Potatoes and Tomatoes came from South America.
I have books that are older than the USA.
Not most, every.
1s got told that I shouldn't have a celtic tattoo as I am not irish, no I am welsh, lol😂
Wales, Scotland and Ireland are Celtic nations.
And parts of France, and Galicia and Asturias in Northern Spain.
correct me if i'm wrong but i think ive learned around 25 years ago that celtics were fighting around my hometown area in south-west germany.....so those guys came around xD
@@gerardflynn7382And the DNA shows that most English have a significant amount of Celtic DNA :)
Think most of Europe was, but as some part of Britain was isolated, the traditions kept longer. Jest looked at celtic, and viking stuff got mixed up as they kept the tradition. Jest like the Irish and green they colour was orange, but they adopted the colour of saint Patrick, who was welsh
I’m a Tour Guide in York England. We love American Tourists because of the challenging questions:-
‘Why did we chose an American name for our City’? ‘What came first Roman or Medieval?’ So I like to get some of my own stupid questions in, such as “This must be a real culture shock for you, traveling from a tiny place like Texas, to the very centre of the World’s biggest empire”.
one of the challenges must be differentiating between the uneducated and those who are taking the pizza. because a lot of better educated Americans will play the "american tourist" role up for laughs.
@@kenbrown2808The thing is, playing "the American tourist" (and you mean "USAmerican") could only be done for laughs on the other side of the Atlantic. In Europe, it is tantamount to harrassment.
@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 the thing is, people from the US are the only ones who commonly refer to themselves as Americans. But many will claim to be canadians, to dodge the prejudice. And some are ignorant buffoons, and some can make - and take a joke. And from what i can see, many europeans can't tell the difference - and just let their prejudice do the talking. Just so you know, we haven't had an indian attack in months.
@kenbrown2808 There aren't any better educated Americans
I usually don't defend Americans, but the question, If Roman or Medieval came first, is not a stupid question. Their country didnt exist in that two times, so of course they would not get educated about this in school.
5:28 Yes, there is a legal definition of cake, certainly in my country (Portugal), so I guess Ireland has something similar.
in Portugal, if your product meets the legal requirements (including sugar content) to be classified as bread, you pay 6% VAT; if it does not fit the criteria, VAT jumps to 23% - so bakeries have an incentive to lower sugar content.
The distinction is also important in France because the law requires that every citizen has access to fresh bread daily. I am English so I hope that a French commenter will step up to explain the history behind this law.
Here (Greece) in order for a food product to be classified as bread, it must be made with _flour dough (wholegrain/wholewheat flour, it doesn't make a difference), yeast, salt_ if one adds sugar is not bread but _pastry_
VAT (value added tax) is kind of like sales tax for any Americans out there. But in Europe, the tax is already included in the price tag.
@@MazzaEliLi7406 Is this the reason why bread is dirt cheap in France? I loved buying baguettes there, as we pay 7-8 times the price here in Austria. Eight (?) years ago, one baguette in France was 40 cents and 2,79 - 3€ in Austria. God, I'm so sick of my scammy country.
@@SatieSatie I am English. Count your blessings! Even the far right in Europe drew the line at leaving the EU. Sigh. Brexit is making the people of all four countries of the UK poorer. & there is worse to come. Be pleased & proud to be Austrian & part of the Peace through Prosperity initiative that evolved into the EU. Nothing, nowhere & no-one is perfect but if you reach for the stars you might make it to the moon. May Austria & the EU evolve together for many more years. Cheers.
The wildest for me, was after 22 years I walked into a lift in Perth, then seen a guy I used to hang with in South Australia that long ago!
In summer 1979, an Australian couple photographed me driving a bus in Cambridge (UK). How do I know this? Two weeks later I met that couple in Thailand!
It really can be a small world.
riding a train from Arbroath to London, we met a pair of tourists who had a vacation home one town north from our hometown.
I used to teach Spanish in Sweden. 4 years later I was working as a flight attendant, asked a couple what they wanted to drink... they were my students. 5 rows further back there was another of my students, from a different school!
I am Aussie and live on a street called Edinburgh st. Lots of people say "Edin-berg". One person at an employment agency argued with me about how it was pronounced and I had to explain it's named after the city in Scotland.
we have melbourne rd, next to me on outskirts of glasgow
@roberthughes5600 Full circle!
American: We founded Ireland.
Also American: I'm Irish.
At least you get called Irish! We Scots get called Scattish, or Scats!
@Yesser-Thistle73 I get called Swiss, because I'm Swedish.
Most of europe classifies MacDonald and Burger King "bread' as cake because of the sugar content.
I believe the particular classification in Ireland affected Subway's "breads".
@@TheRealWormboboth of you are telling the truth here
As for trees... In Sweden, in 1831, an oak forest was planted at Visingsö in the south of Sweden to provide timber for the navy.
In 1975, the trees were ready to be used. The head of the navy was offered the oaks (that was what they were planted for) but declined.
It is always good to plan ahead. (The forest is still standing, and the timber that is harvested from it is used for other things.)
I hear that in the rules it was stipulated that a dispatch rider should ride to navy headquarters in Stockholm and deliver the message that the oak could now be harvested. I look at the forest once a year when I drive from the south to the Grenna Bluegrass festival in august
@@zymelin21 That particular rule might not have been followed.
There is a difference between accent and mispronunciation. No-one takes umbrage at someone saying words in their own accent but saying Edin-burg instead of Edin-burra isn’t due to accent it isn’t even like the irritating habit those from the US have in putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable (like they do with the Lomond in Loch Lomond…we tend to be forgot the whole in the mispronunciation of Loch as we understand that the ch sound at the end of loch isn’t in every language and a good proportion of English people can’t manage it either), the way that people from the US often pronounce both Glasgow and Edinburgh (even after being corrected) starts to reek of them arrogantly insisting that they know best and Scottish people are wrong.
Yes , John McEnroe still insists on calling Novak Djokovic Jokeovich even after traveling the world and meeting him on numerous occasions. How hard can it be?
Edinburgh is nowhere near unique in having people stubbornly mispronouncing their name. there are entire youtube videos about brand names having different pronunciations in different places.
@@kenbrown2808 not quite the same thing and I didn’t claim that it was unique to the mispronunciation of Edinburgh (I even mentioned Glasgow and Loch Lomond also receiving the same treatment), I just used Edinburgh as it was the example given in the video. The mispronunciation of product names is often down t9 the products marketing teams marketing the products with different pronunciations in different places. I somehow doubt that Visit Scotland (for example) is using a different pronunciation of its capital city for US ads than it is everywhere else in the world. Or for that matter that the English tourist board are butchering the names of places like Gloucester and Leicester.
The mad thing is, that I’ve watched a few videos that make claims that US Americans make more of an attempt to pronounce words closer to how they are spoken in the languages that they originated from…and I definitely think that is very dependent on the original language. They may do it for Spanish and maybe Portuguese and Italian to a lesser extent but they certainly don’t in regards to the UK or France.
@lynnejamieson2063 actually, there are a lot of words that Americans pronounce closer to the historic pronunciation than the british do. But the point is, americans grew up reading the spelling of uk place names, and not hearing them spoken by locals, and formed habits. And habits are hard to break.
@ I didn’t dispute the fact that the pronounce some words closer to the original than people in the UK do I was more stating that they aren’t necessarily more prolific at it than the UK we just have different languages that we are closer to the originals.
As for only reading names and not growing up saying them? Not completely true is it? They can pronounce many names correctly that are directly named after UK towns and cities in their own country but will mispronounce the exact same name in reference to the original UK version like Norfolk. The one in Virginia is pronounced the exact same way as the one in Eastern England, yet they will pronounce it correctly for the US version and butcher the exact same word in regards to the UK.
There is even less excuse in this modern age where you can search the internet for correct pronunciations and hear it spoken but they either choose not to or make the presumption that they will just be able to wing it…but this does not alter the fact that even when they have the correct pronunciation explained to them, many will still choose to use their own incorrect way of saying it.
There is nothing wrong with getting something incorrect as long as you are willing to make improvements when you discover where you are going wrong. After all, you cannot be expected to know something you’ve never been taught…but once you are taught, if you choose not to change what was wrong, you are either arrogant or hard of learning, as you can no longer claim ignorance.
Most ridiculous thing that happened to me was in the Paris metro. Two guys sat in front of me and one of them had one of these conversation books with sentences in main European languages. One of the guy asked me a question that I couldn't understand. Eventually, I asked him with my fingers to show me the line he was saying... It was in German. And of course these two people were.... Japanese...
Cake and bread have different tax rates (GSTs) so the definition determines the rate. Australia has a similar system.
Ask John Hewson about the GST on cake. Still nobody knows..
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4:16 Alright, out of boredom: I checked Google and some other resources, and as to my calculation, the USA have 33% of their territory where there are forests. England has 43%. Mind that I am only referring to the US mainland without any outside territories like Hawaii or Alaska, and to England as England, not the whole island, and that I may have miscalculated that and/or the data I obtained may be wrong.
I am pretty sure they misunderstood their teacher telling them that Britain used to be almost completely covered by forests.
Including Scotland. Now look at Scotland today and yeah, there are very few trees.
Brits reduced the size of their forests by a lot and I can't remember exactly why but I think one reason was the insane amounts of wood needed to build their fleet? I think that was the main reason. But might be wrong. Anyway... used to be covered almost completely by forests, lost most of its forests.... maybe someone would get that wrong and think there are no trees left at all.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347Much of the deforestation took place long before there was a navy. It started in Neolithic times.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 Most trees were removed for firewood and to make room for farmland. England or the whole of the UK having a big fleet came _loooong_ after that process.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 Deforestation was to protect the population from the Drop Bear, it happened when we discovered Australia, the Drop Bears went there.
England has not much more than 10% tree coverage. God knows where you got that 43% from.
It occurred to me that all these comments about American's "shouting", they weren't actually shouting, just talking an an American volume, which would seem like shouting for the rest of the world
Some americans came with me to visit Paris (yes the one in France) ..... in the end they nearly only ate McDonald and still complained "it's not the right burgers"
There was this couple who made a point of eating at McDonald's in every country they visited and were proud of that.
Oddly enough, as Brit, when visiting Paris, McDs supply the best cup of tea, so there is some merit there.
The British used to be renowned for demanding traditional English food when they were in the colonies: brown windsor soup, meat and two veg, spotted dick etc in the jungle. Now there are no colonies they ask for chips with everything in Spain and wash it down with English lager.
@@Thurgosh_OG😂😂
It seems reasonable that an American chain that expects its customers to be able to read English with trademarked English language menu items and the slogan "i'm loving it" (with French translation in the small print) would be consistent.
Once I told my American friend about something in the EU, and she asked "What is the EU?" She is not stupid, I met all my American friends in places for open-minded people, like language clubs, so this surprised me.
Indeed, a few years ago the Irish court ruled that the bread of a US fast food franchise qualifies as cake.
subway!
@Arltratlo I didn't know if I can write company names here, so I thought it's safer to just describe it.
Well, open-minded doesn't necessarily mean clever, either.
What the hell are places for open minded people... and how does that correlate to them not being dumb as bricks..
@Kiwi-Araga There are some ideas about being a united country, but many people oppose it. Even if the EU becomes a single country eventually, it will take time. But it does function like one. Still, people should know how it works, it's not like the EU was founded 2 weeks go.
"There is no registry for how many trees..."
*waves from Sweden*
Hi! We have a registry of all our oak trees 😂
...and all of them can vote 🤦🏻♂️
That's why Trump won. For the second time at that.
An american once asked me if my grandparens knew hitler personaly.
Mind you they were barely teens at that time. Also why do americans ask this so often as if every german's grandparents were good friends with him?😭
My history professor (in his fifties) once told us, that when visiting the US he was greeted with one armed salutes and “H*** H*****!” by a local as soon as he told him, that he was from Germany.
@@lijuanzhou6971 That's awful!
Mad props for you fact checking things! Sometimes people forget how easy it is to google things youre not sure about. Much love from Czechia ❤
BTW: legal drinking age for non-spirit alcohol in Austria is 16. So a beer at the age of 16 would be perfectly fine.
I’m Mexican and I’m really mad that the USA people can called themselves “Americans” when they think and even acknowledge that they are the WHOLE continent of America. When they in fact aren’t JAJAJA. The audacity of this country I swear!.
We have in most European countries very strict rules and lawas about food. Sonyes, there are laws stating how much sugar a bread can contain... Also, number of trees is bigger in the States, but when you look at the size and the percentage of the country covered by trees, UK looks like it has more... It is a very, very green country...
England had a legal case about tax with what is a cookie vs. A cake
It was whether Jaffa Cake is a biscuit or a cake.
There was a court case in UK over whether a Toffee Apple was a fruit or a sweet. If it was a fruit it wasn't liable for VAT, and if it was a sweet, it was.
@@trevormillar1576 It was a VAT Tribunal (not quite a court but the effect is the same).
I really appreciate these videos, Ryan. Unfortunately, people who should be seeing this, will probably not come across this content.
Still, this is gold, you made my European heart happy and took some weight off from all the things I've heard Americans say about Europe. I laughed until people came to check up on me.. (one does not simply LOL in Germany).
I especially appreciated your uncomfortable laugh... Because some things are just too much for a comment. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
That first one reminds me of the conversation I had over this weekend in YT comments with an American, who was adamant that St Patrick's Day was first celebrated in the USA and only then imported back to Ireland. He believed this, because his grandparents who left Ireland in 1960 told him so (?).
He refused to believe that, by law, St Patrick's Day was made a Bank Holiday in 1903 - and for the whole of Ireland. He was also absolutely certain Northern Ireland didn't ever celebrate it and only the British live there.
In this case, the American was right - St. Patrick's Day was indeed first celebrated in America, not in Ireland. Irish settlers in America started it in the 18th century, but in Ireland itself the first celebration was only in 1903. Why? The British were frankly oppressive toward Irish people and culture, and changing course in the 20th century was too little, too late - the Irish would not be satisfied by anything less than full independence.
@@cccpike _"The Irish began celebrating St. Patrick's Day in the ninth and tenth centuries. It was originally a religious feast day, but Irish immigrants brought it to the United States, where it evolved into a secular celebration of Irish culture."_
My great grandparents certainly celebrated it in the nineteenth century. In County Cork. It was a Saint's Day in the Catholic Church calendar from the 1600s.
As Irish protestants, they were later (1920) ethnically cleansed from Ireland (their house was set alight while they were asleep).
@wessexdruid7598 No one is disputing that the religious feast day dates back centuries. Likewise, it is undisputed that the modern St. Patrick's Day originated outside Ireland.
Short quote from Wikipedia: "The first Saint Patrick's Day parade in Ireland was held in Waterford in 1903, hundreds of years after the first parade in North America."
The american in Austria who screamed that the 17 year old wasnet allowed to drink beer obviously was there because he stept in the wrong plane!!!!
Ob er statt nach Österreich nach Australien wollte? Did he want to go to Australia instead of Austria?
What is the legal drinking age in Australia?i am from austria😊
@@Salige150I think it's 18 in most countries so probably 18 there too.
@GermanGovernment thank you 🙂
@@Salige15018 years is the legal drinking age in Australia. 🦘🇦🇺
Re: the Trees comment. UK here! It is true that in pre-history much of the forested areas of what is now Britain were de-forested (if that is a word) for farmland & that our sheep infested moors were once densely forested. Ancient forests are few & far between though the Forestry Commission maintains our current sustainable forests & Local Authorities protect trees. In recent times many of our commercial orchards have been systematically destroyed & disease has also killed off many trees. Climate change has also had an effect on the tree population. But thankfully Britain is still 'a green & pleasant land' with many trees.
similarly, much of iceland was deforested in an attempt to keep warm through the winters. the residents are now making an extra effort at reforestation.
Climate change 🤦♂️ I worked in forestry ( still do in a way) and the climate has not changed that much since medieval times. Dendrochronology proves this.
Also, after the industrial revolution non native species were planted in forests which never took well to our climate. And suffered. I could go on, but you obviously watch too much BBC......... and it would be pointless 🤦♂️
Pre-history? I was told the Romans did it. That‘s not PRE-history
@@Aine197 The islands that are now known as Britain (& Doggerland that is now under water) were well settled &/or farmed long before the Romans arrived. That is classed as pre history. History relates to the written record. Pre history predates the written record but forensic archaeology has established what was happening to the land before the written record. Cheers.
Once had an American telling me "please speak English, you're not making any sense here" while I was with my friends
Jesus lady, you are in Vietnam and l wasn't even speaking English
13:02 The Faroe Islands are located about halfway between mainland Europe and Iceland in the Atlantic Ocean. It is a country and the language they speak there is Faroese, which, along with Icelandic, is one of the most similar modern languages to Old Norse. The grammar is almost unchanged, but the spelling and pronunciation is often different.
They are an autonomous region of Denmark. Whether that counts as a "country" is up to what definition you use, but they are not a sovereign state. They have full lawmaking authority over their own region as long as it doesn't involve foreign affairs.
@kasperfabchbrandt537 Oh, ok, I didn't know they were part of Denmark. I thought they were a separate country like Iceland.
@@kasperfabchbrandt537 I grew up in a Scottish fishing town. We often had Faroese fisherman sailing in to the harbour. Possibly they don't now, but then, it wasn't uncommon.
I went travelling when I was 23 with my mate Warren. We were drinking one night in Sydney and met these American girls, when they asked for our names Warren said "It's where Rabbits live"... And one girl gave us a scowl and said "There's no way your name is Rabbithole!" 🤣🤣 Absolutely cracked us up!
I used to know a "hutch"
I was asked by an America if we had trees in England. I asked if he had ever seen a 'Robin Hood' film, he said yes. So I asked where Robin Hood used to 'hang out', Sherwood forest was the answer, And what is Sherwood forest made of ? 'Trees' EXACTLY I said....He didn't get it !
As an American myself, you have to ask an American if they know where Sherwood Forest is before you ask a question like that. Unfortunately some of my fellow Americans are not too bright and are the ones that get found and exposed by the rest of the world.😂
That's just me giving the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know where it was at.😂
So I just looked at pictures of Faroe Islands and it's incredible!!! My god. Insane, spectacular landscapes
Tsatziki is a salad - and there is no mayo there at all ;) Just Greek yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, dill, olive oil, salt. In Bulgaria we have something close to it and it contains Bulgarian yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, dill, sunflower oil, salt, grinded wall nuts. And it is called Snejanka. Of course we have the same ingredients as a cold soup if you add water and then it is called Tarator. And yes, in US you don't have anything even close to it.
The funniest interaction I've ever heard was an American in Tasmania trying to order a bagel from a local cafe. The waitress standing above a range of pastries and donuts stares at her for a few seconds then says "What's a bagel?". The American looked like she had just seen a ghost. I think if the room was quiet enough I we'd hear her brain ticking like "Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore".
9:00 dude, Tsatziki is absolutely delicious, it's extremely popular throughout all of Europe. The Greeks quite literally cooked, when they made this
5:40 Maybe you should look up the Jaffa cake lawsuit about whether they should be classified as "cake" of "biscuit" for tax purposes 🤣
Isn't it cake is hard when it's stale whereas biscuits go soft?
@@infin8eeyes you're right.
I don't care what it is -it's really good!!
Berlin has for years kept a register of every tree in the municipal boundary
You can email a tree in Newcastle NSW
newcastle.nsw.gov.au/living/environment/get-involved/email-your-favourite-tree
Selbstverständlich, ist das nicht überall so? Of course, isn't that the case everywhere?
@jrgptr935 some countries can't even keep track of their nuclear bomb stockpiles, so no.
@@richardharrison284 I remember when on exercise, we were told by the officer responsible for disbursements, it was cheaper to pay a farmer for a dead cow 🐄 than to damage a tree 🌳 when we travelled between caches. This was during the 1970s, pretty everywhere in Germany.
In Potsdam sind die Bäume nummeriert!! Zur Meldung blätter rechts!!
Re no trees in the UK, the UK used to be covered in forests, and many got cut down to make room for farms. Somehow these facts have gotten twisted.
I've heard one of the reasons the industrial revolution happened in England was because due to lack of firewood people switched to coal, which encouraged more efficient coal mining techniques, which lead to steam engine, and everything just followed from there.
When USA was still being settled, so many trees were cut down to make way for farmland, it had a noticeable effect on the climate. This became known as the Settler Effect and can be clearly seen in climatological records.
@@vytah Many woods were "coppiced" to maintain a steady supply of wood for charcoal making before the majority use of coal. A large number near Sheffield were coppiced to provide for the early steel making forges. Ecclesall wood has a heritage centre which explains the history
These are the stories about the Americans who travel abroad. Just imagine some responses from those who don't... 😮
😂💯
Once an American customer asked
"where is our Xerox machine?"
I answered
"we don't have one, but we do have copy machine but it's made by Canon"
I was just glad he understood the joke..
I'm from Spain (as in, Spanish parents and I was born there). I had an American here (UK) tell me "OMG, I'm Spanish, too!" when I asked where abouts they were from in Spain they said "Oh, I was born in America, but my great grandmother was Mexican"....uh....not sure where she got "Spanish" from "American with Mexican heritage" lol
Was asked by an American man whilst on holiday in St Lucia, if we still had problems with the clans fighting in Scotland ….his wife apologised immediately😂
Ive seen a few examples of this sort of thing where Americans think their laws apply all over the world.
One i saw recently was an American that was being tried in Australia for possessing a firearm and the defence he kept arguing was his right to bare arms. Idiot.
I’m from northern Spain and I overheard Americans in the airport complaining and shouting to the ariline worker “You need to refund my flight tickets because If I knew that Spain wasn’t in Mexico I wouldn’t have come. And also, 10 hour flights aren’t legal, you’ll be hearing from my lawyer”
Bonkers
Ah the Faroes Island, that's were where they put all the pyramides. Just kidding ....
You meant to say the stone heads?
@@vulkandrache1928 Why? I would believe it's a joke on "pharaoh" as that's spelled with a "F" instead of "Ph" in some European nations. So pharaoh islands with a lot of pyramides?
The Thor thing could be that Tor (Thor in English) is a Nordic name, from Asgård (I think it’s Asgard in English), one of the Gods. Thursdays is Torsdag in the Nordic countries, named after Tor, one of Asgard’s main gods.
of course, almost anyone in Europe, even the southern peoples, know who is Tor/Thor. So why should it not be a first name for someone from north of Europe ? Just because it was a god name ? 🤣
Everyone knows the name of Thor in most of Europe, and with the Avengers Americans should too...
Is there anybody here who has never met or overheard an American? I somehow doubt it. They are everywhere and not exactly incognito.
Btw English is not my mother tongue and I not only understand Scots, I also know how to pronounce Edinburgh. It’s a matter of informing yourself and learning how to do it correctly. Doesn’t have anything to do with your accent, or would you like to be called Rihan?
About Edinburgh, if a tourist doesn't know how to pronounce it he just has to ask, it's better than mispronouncing
To be fair- as a kid I mispronounced Arkansas because of Kansas... names can be confusing. Some of these examples really sound like jokes- i can't believe them...😂
only recently (I believe through a CGP Grey video) I learnt that Arkansas isn't pronounced Ar-kansas, but Arken-saw. (where did the second s go? nobody knows)
The problem is not names. The problem is that English orthography sucks. You're supposed to just guess how things are pronounced and that's insane. Pretty much every European language I can think of fixed that with diacritics.
@@DrVictorVasconcelos Names are usually an exception. I was born in a city where the name end with a S. It shoud be silent, but it's not. I can't fault non-locals to not know it.
In France you have alot of places who's names starts with "mont" (hill or moutain). When it's attached to the next word, all bets are off on wether the T is gonna be silent or not.
There's also the famous case of the "De Broglie" family. Don't even try. You're supposed to say it as "De breuil".
So yeahh I won't fault anyone to not know how to say names if they aren't local. It's not something that is unique to English.
@@LeSarthois But French is the most insane language. It's almost like you made a liberal accent the more prestigious one while control of the orthography was left to a conservative institution or something. But there are sane languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, etc.
The trouble with Arkansas is that the state is pronounces Arken-saw,
while the Arkansas river is alternately pronounced Arken-saw and Are-Kansas
When I was young, the ch in Chicago was pronounced more like Shicago,
and I was told it was because the name is in some Native American language.
However, the last decades I have heard the ch in Chicago pronounced as the ch in cheese.
(So I think to myself that the river is perhaps more and more frequently called Arken-saw
in the same manner that Chicago has lost its Sh-beginnings
and that the US is losing their shit internally as well.)
"It's not just stupid, it's weird" is a pretty good summation of a lot of this kind of thing. Also I reckon the "I was shouted at..." is more that Americans seem to be really loud and normal people probably consider them to be shouting vs actually getting angry. Or not, sometimes people just lose their shit for stupid reasons.
As for real English on a train, I witnessed the inverse thing in German once. I was at some restaurant in the Alps in Austria, and a table or two away there was an attempted conversation between two very obvious Austrian women (very thick local valley accent) and a German tourist (standard German as they speak in, maybe, Hanover). The two sides failed to arrive at an understanding. Once the tourist split off, one of the two women asked the other (still in that thick accent) something along the lines of if the guy couldn't understand, or speak (it was many decades ago, my memory is not perfect) German. I was sorely tempted to assert that he was perfectly able to, but they obviously weren't - but I kept my comments inside my head.
And when I say "thick accent", I mean that I (also a German tourist) who had been visiting that area of Austria for decades and usually had no problems understanding the locals (at least when they were trying to talk to me) understood maybe half the words they spoke.
I probably just showed my age, huh? No problem. At 64, that doesn't bother me. Actually, I can't remember if it ever bothered me.
@KaiHenningsen i worked on a job where the owners were korean, and they had a korean handyman. One day one of the workers made a comment to the owner that for speaking 7 languages, he didn't speak very good english. The owner laughed and said "he doesn't speak very good korean, either."
I read once that Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't dub his own voice for his films in the German market because his Austrian accent makes him, "Sound like a farmer."
I work in Castle Cornet in Guernsey. Yes a real castle that is 800 years old. To enter the Castle to get to the shop to pay for your entry ticket, you have to walk across 2 bridges through a big arch way with two big wooden doors walk through a 40 foot tunnel and under the portcullis half way through the tunnel. My office is one level up from the shop and my workshop is 4 leaves up from the shop, I will regularly be approached by Americans who will ask one of two questions 1) how do we get into the castle? 2) What time is the noonday gun Gun (just to clarify we fire a cannon at 1200 hours, Midday, Noon, 12 o'clock) these are by far the most popular questions I get asked mainly by Americans but sometimes other nationalities as well. how do you answer these questions with a strait face? By the way the castle is almost at the end of the harbour pier out in the sea.
The same question gets asked about the one o'clock gun in Edinburgh Castle! "What time does it get fired?" "Er......one o'clock?"
I have encountered some Americans that thought that there is only eternal winter in southern Finland. They never believe me when I tell them I suffered from severe heatstroke a couple of summers ago, due to a prolonged heatwave that made life miserable for everyone.