Yeah, I'm sure if you moved to the US and referred to yourself as African American, they would all be up in arms because you're not Black. It makes little sense to conflate a region of the world with a skin color. XD
It has NOTHING to do with whether or not the black is from Africa or America. It has EVERYTHING to do with the way race and ethnicity is defined by law. Anti-miscegenation laws in the 19th century USA made it a crime for individuals to wed someone categorized as belonging to a different race. These laws were part of a broader policy of racial segregation in the USA to minimize contact between people of different ethnicities.
@@RuanAntunes7 Funny thing is, if you moved to the US and called yourself African-American, a bunch of people of multiple races would get offended and tell you you're not allowed 😂 It's even worse that it's not just Africa this happens with. A lot of people here also think all Jamaicans are Black, and when they hear a white person with a Jamaican accent, they call it cultural appropriation -- even if the guy was born in Jamaica 😅
This "race" obsession is so weird to me.. if I'm a black American I would be more offended by Afro-American because I'm just American and no less American than anybody else... you wouldn't call white Americans Euro-American as well
yeah to me it seems like just another way of segregating the people living in the US. just call your citizens (US)Americans. that probably would also help solve the whole polarization a bit.
@simonkopp9238 Actually, I do when skin colour or colonialism is important to what I'm saying. After all, Native Americans always get the additional descriptor so why not the whites?
The only get out for the poster would be if they said played by an African American actress. The fact she wasn't of subsaharan origins is another nail in the OPs coffin.
@@lylobean She was barely even Egyptian as well. It's argued what Cleopatra's entire genetic lineage was, but we know she was primarly of Greek heritage. It's possible she was also part Persian (due to Alexander the Great's conquests) and Egyptian, but we don't know for sure.
Especially since she was of Macedonian Greek descent. A form of Greek was her first language and she was the first member of her family to learn Egyptian. The Ptolemaic Dynasty (her family) had, in Cleopatras time, been running Egypt for over 270 years. They spoke Greek and governed Egypt as Hellenistic Greek monarchs.
I have a friend (white, Afrikaaner) who has dual US /SA citizenship, he drives US authorities mad by putting African American on forms, they cannot comprehend how he can be African American and white, even though he literally is living proof that it is possible.
4:09 Yes, they do. I’ve read book reviews where people are complaining that the English author of a book set in England needs to get a good editor, because there’s no excuse for so many “spelling errors” in a published work.
@@voxtur__7 Yes, the Murkins demanded that it be retitled "The Sorcerer's Stone" because Murkin kids are too ignorant to know what a philosopher's stone is. Murkins also think that pronouncing the letter "z" as "zed" rather than "zee" is weird when in fact, with the exception of a few Murkin-influenced Canadians (frowned upon by their compatriots, especially in the last couple of weeks when Canadians decided they had HAD it with Murkins), the rest of the English-speaking world pronounces it "zed."
The default English for spell-checking on every document-making app is U.S. English, despite that form of English only existing there. So we're used to even school computers trying to tell us to spell things like an American. They really are incredibly self-obsessed... and encouraged to be.
A black american woman, who was a tourist in Berlin/Germany, tried to explain to my colleague, who is black with nigerian parents and raised in Germany, that he is an "african american", since all "black people outside of africa are african american". She got very upset when he said that he is not african american but Deutsch-Nigerianer. She got VERY upset. That was in 1994
@@ThW5 probly for two reasons. 1. she was corrected in the typical german fashion - direct, and most muricans find that rude! 2. Muricans are always right! even if they are wrong!!
Everytime an American says "yeah well our country is huge/bigger than you" I just think "and the pub at the end of my road has more history than your entire nation"
When I've told US friends how old something I've visited I've missed, they've sometimes assumed I've missed the 1 off the front. No, it really was 622, not 1622.
For them it’s big vs. small. Big=winner small=looser. It doesn’t matter what’s the thing to be big or small. Except the brain, which smaller seems to be better...
Usually proven to be the case. Also, Americans really are an odd bunch, "thick" if you like. Many of them seem to think that the USA is the only nation that exists... and that every photograph, video or story MUST have happened in the USA. Saw a post once of a questionably parked british police vehicle in a UK supermarket - clearly a british vehicle as its british registration plates were on display. It's actually "legal" since it's private land so it's up to the landowner if they want to enforce anything or not (Civilly not criminal since it's not a crime). Cue all the stupid yanks that came crawling out from their basements going "THIS IS ILLEGAL, DUMB COPS BLAH BLAH BLAH I'M AMERICAN". Literally non-stop comment after comment from dimwit yanks, all wrong and none of them even had an ounce of common sense to look at the quite obvious british police vehicle (A Peugeot - which to my knowledge NO US POLICE FORCE even use) was a british one. They all used their stupid logic of "This photo must have been taken in America"
It depends on what the stupidity is. Like referring to someone who is born and raised in Africa as African American despite not even setting foot on US soil a single time in their life is probably a safe sign to assume they're American. It's also funny to bully Americans
yes so true, usually on what's said, not hard to pick out, mostly statements without any critical thought, or basic common sense or basic knowledge... easy....
I spoke with a 40 year old American who did not understand how in Australia (southern hemisphere) had opposite seasons to north America being in the northern hemisphere. They thought our summer in December/January/February was just the same season as they have, being winter, but a much hotter winter. 😳 I thought they would teach school children about the Earth, and geography, with the Earth having two hemispheres, and how the globe rotates on its axis, as it rotates around the sun, and the four seasons change during the year between the hemispheres. And then the equatorial areas, do not have four seasons, but have more of a wet and dry season.
I love that! Our Aussie summers are actually versions of America's Winter only much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much hotter! Makes total sense!
In my school I was taught the earth has four hemispheres not two like a few dumb ass Australians believe. How old are you so I can put your age in my story?
Stupidity is not just american, but most other countries keep thier stupid people local so others don't have to suffer, we're kind like that,passports come with a simple test.
I had this recently,i watched a video where an american police officer stopped a car and found a body in the boot, the trunk is refered to as the boot in the UK, and was called out by a person telling me the correct term was trunk, when I pointed out that neither was 'correct' each country have their own terms for things, the other person got really angry and said that as Americans invented the car the world should use american terms. I didn't have the heart to tell them that America didn't invent the car.
6:15 "the whole Internet is American" - this would be even more hilarious, considering the fact that the www was invented at CERN - in the French speaking part of Switzerland
Exactly! Let's complain about people not talking in Swiss-German, French, Italian or Rumansh in the internet because it's Swiss! What a weird mindset to get offended by somebody talking in a different language 😂
@@peterrjg6843 TCP/IP may mostly have been made by three Americans, but HTTP and the related HTML was invented by an Englishman working at CERN. CSS was made by the World Wide Web Consortium, which counts that Englishman among its members. IRC is a Finnish invention, and so is SSH. FTP is an Indian invention. SFTP, which merges those last two ideas, is a quite international invention by the IETF. Many foundational protocols and standards aren't at all American. Mobile technology (and now a lot of computers) builds on British inventions. You may have heard of Arm Holdings (once upon a time known as Acorn RISC Machines). So to be absolutely fair, modern technology is very much an international effort. All we're doing now is improving on designs from the 80s, making them faster, more secure, and if we're really lucky, more reliable.
4:12 I used to work for an Australian company as a customer service rep. One day we got an email from a customer in the US saying our blog post written by our CEO was riddled with spelling mistakes, such as colour, analyse, favourite, and centre. When I let them know that these were how they were spelled in Australia by Australians, the customer said they thought American English was used over there.
Spelt* surely? 😂😂 Nah but for real, it shits me when people don't realise that not only do we not use American English, but Australian English is slightly different again to Br.E. While the spelling is comparable, there are vocabulary differences like bottle-O/ bottle shop, whereas in UK it's known as an off- licence. Same for service station vs garage, op shop vs charity shop. I suppose in a corporate company you're not going to come across it often, but it may come up. Thought of another; fairy floss but BrE uses candy floss. And vege like zucchini and eggplant not courgette and aubergine.
I gave up playing spelling app games, as they were using American spelling. When I put in the word colour, it would reject it, or mark me as having a wrong answer. Very frustrating. You’d think nowadays, that any app that is based on ‘correct’ spelling, would allow the user to designate what spelling they wish to use, such as British/American/Australian etcetera.
@@vincentlevarrick6557 I'm aware of vocabulary differences between AuE and BrE, but yes, those words aren't really used in our corporate and PR communications. For the most part, it's the spelling that they're pretty nitpicky with. As a non-American I'm more open to spelling and vocabulary differences across different English speaking countries.
@@hunterwatson8613 that's a fair point. Especially if the app was developed by a certain country. Ours was Australian but for the UI, we used American English. I also heard somewhere that when it comes to coding language, it's also mostly American English?
If you are African, Chinese, Mexican or whatever in Australia you are just Australian. America is the only country that I am familiar with that inserts Ethnicity before the Country. African American, Asian American …….
Lo mismo en Argentina. Incluso aunque tengas padres extranjeros y todas las personas que conocés te apoden con esa nacionalidad (el chino, el negro, el ruso, etc), si naciste acá y compartís la cultura, nadie jamás te va a negar que sos argentino, independientemente de tu color de piel o rasgos físicos en general.
@@orion_winter Sí, porque incluso las etnias reales no son algo que nos tomemos muy en serio (ejemplo, te pueden decir "chino" sólo por tener los ojos rasgados. "Ruso" a principios del siglo XX era un remoquete lunfardo que significaba "judío"). Oh, sorry everyone, we didn't realise RUclips is american, we're reverting back to english now lol
@@ekathe85 Exacto. También a mi melliza le decían "la rusa" o "polaca" de chiquita porque era bien rubia, de pelo lacio y ojos claritos. Sin embargo, ninguna de las dos teníamos parientes de sangre provenientes de Rusia o Polonia, era un apodo nomás xD
I've met a few Americans who told me "yea well, Europeans don't know where american states are on a map either" as if it was some kind of gotcha comeback. But they're not equivelant, They're not relevant on the world stage. Why would I need to know which rectangle is which cornfield state?
I wouldn't be surprised though if more Europeans were able to identify American states than Americans are able to identify European countries. The average European probably can't tell Utah from Colorado and Kansas on a map, but many Europeans could probably point to California, Texas, Florida, Alaska and Hawaii, because they are easier to tell apart. Imagine asking the average American to identify the German federal states, the four countries or even the counties of the UK, or the regions of France.
@@gabbathehut3235 There's plenty of Americans who don't know where all fifty states are or that the correct number is 50 to begin with, let alone where China and North Korea are. There's a vast difference in ignorance levels here.
I remember watching a video years ago of a black american woman talking about her experience in Spain. I remember her saying in the video that she was shocked by spanish people using the word "negro" very casually to refer to black people. She thought it had the same negative connotation (I imagine) it has in the US. The word 'negro' has no negative connotations in Spain, it just means 'black'. It is the only term to refer to black people in spanish.
In portuguese we have 2 words to refer to black, "Negro" and "Preto". And people often just choose wich one they like best. My friend likes "preto", a friend of my mother liked "negro" and I don't know why it's such a problem. "White" people aren't even actually white! I mean, some are, be not the majority. And oh dear, I HATE, HATE when they call USA "America" or 'Americans". Argentina, Brasil, Caribe and so much other contrys are States united in America. It's like saying that EUROPE is a contry and I just can't >:(
When i was in the Army a black workmate told me a story how he offered to help an old white lady across the street. When they got to the other side she said "Thankya Darkie". He thought it was hilarious. She was polite but from a different time.
@@galaxiadoce2554 it's because they have not an official country name to refer to. They could call themselves an United Statesman or woman. I find it strange too.
Oh same here, the Philippines was colonized by Spain many years ago. 'Negro' and 'Negra' is use to describe a person with darker skin. There's even a place here called 'Negros Occidental'
4:20 this works both ways, I remember some british publisher used a command to change all instances of "pants" to "trousers" in some book that was written by an American, the outcome of it is such words as "occutrousers"
@giftofthewild6665 Oh, that NEVER happens because made-in-USA light bulbs are the bigliest and bestest light bulbs ever made anywhere EVER!! Nothing is better made than a true blue, red-white and blue, screamimg eagle MURICAN bulb. They never need changing.
@sman8491 That's one of the ugly images of the 21st century ... the hothead yelling "USA! USA! USA!" with the red face that ooks like he's straining on the toilet. It's up there with trilling barbarians firing their Kalasnikovs in the air from the backs of Toyota pickups. Ugly 21st century stuff that the World has had quite enough of ....
I set my estimation of how old something is by when my school was founded. It's not a really Old School, it wasn't founded until 1722. (Fun fact: Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.)
Same in Guatemala. A black Guatemalan is just Guatemalan. They still speak their own language aside Spanish, and still preserve some African culture, whereas in the US, they don’t have either. They far more removed from their ancestors.
@@simplyrowen I must confess, we don't have many black people in Shrewsbury, England. We have some brown people to run the corner shops, and yellow people to run the takeaways. Our largest minority seem to be Eastern Europeans. We're mostly white and heterosexual. Oh well, one out of two's not bad.
For the racist thing, I love a movie I can't recall about racists being racist: White person asks: "Why do you call yourself black? You are more brown than black." Black person replies: "Why do you call yourself white? You are more pink than white." Perfect reply.
My husband is from Italy and I'm Canadian. When he was visiting the US, he was confused by some of the black and white talk he would casually hear. It's not as pronounced here as in the US. He was like "I have brown hair, brown eyes, tan skin but they would call me white? It makes no sense."
Racists being racist lol , every race is, to a certain degree racist , at least if you're Caucasian and have pride in your heritage, you are . Every other race has black pride ,Asian pride, gay pride etc. ( you can't have white pride ) Every race that cries discrimination is more racist than the ones they accuse of being racist . Walk down a black township ( as a whiqte folk )if you wanna see and hear real racism at its strongest and most violent .the people who claim that racism is holding them back will always tell 1you how they've been wronged abused etc. and everybody else has privilege rather than try and get ahead and educate themselves and their kind they spout this crap over and over but have no ideas on how to change things except to drag down those they blame for getting themselves ahead , those who have struggled and worked hard for generations for their ' privilege ' whilst the others were watching and being 'held back and discriminated against ' truth is if you want to get somewhere , you have to work hard, not just complain at how wrong done by you are because of racism .
As an Australian i dread December where anything an Australian posts about summer time is flooded with comments of “why am I seeing this in December?” “Why do you need summer Christmas pjs?” And my favourite “but it’s winter?”
Laughing my ass off at my own reddit post, comments are going mental saying “this mf lives in the past” or “This mf proved the sun has a surface” now that one killed me 🤣
2:30 In Spanish, skin colors haven't racist meaning. In the cultures of Spain (Europe) or Latin America we haven't the same concept of "Race" as the USA. In fact, for the USA, a Mexican is a Hispanic (Hispanic -> from Hispania -> Spain, so European... yes, absurd) and a Spaniard like me, white with green eyes, is Caucasian (close to Russia, even more absurd). *In Spain you are what you are based on your nationality and we don't invent races. The skin color doesn't matter. USA YES INVENT RACES.*
@@NikiokoIn 1700 maybe, nowadays we don't really call anyone those. At most we differentiate between indígenas out of respect (and regrettably some without respect) and anyone else but that's it. We don't really have class based terms. We do call othere by skin color if needed tho, like moreno or güero
@@NikiokoFunny thing about that, is that during the colonial period they tried to classify people according to their race, but everyone mixed so much that they ended up with like 20 classifications and they ended giving up at a certain point. Nowadays I will say most people over here dont even know the mix of what they are😂.
@@SantiagoNogueira-gx3rg Not sure about Nikioko being American, but it's something I noticed with Americans : they can bring up stuff that happened or awas true decades if not centuries ago and rub it on your face as if it was relevant to the situation (or as if the concerned country did nothing about it). But don't bring up Jim Crow laws and slavery, that's old news that obviously have absolutely no relationship whatsoever with any issues the USA might have currently.
I was born in India and so have brown skin, but I’ve grown up in England, so I am English by nature. When in America in 1999, I had so much fun on the greyhound because people were fascinated by how I spoke perfect queens English with my skin colour, then when I changed to an Australian, French, South African, Texas, Spanish, Russian accent (for my own amusement), it screwed their brains up.
Came back from the States two months ago. I am 68 and I previously visited when I was 13. An American man said 'Oh, so you really haven't travelled much in your life!'. Well I am not one of the great world travellers as I have only lived in or visited 26 countries, but I think I probably have travelled to other countries more than him.
I would have laughed at him, don't worry pal - something like almost 50% of US citizens don't even have a passport.... they think going to Las Vegas when they live in Los Angeles is a "Holiday" and consider themselves "well travelled". Most arrogant, obnoxious, loud and rude bunch of people I've ever met. If I never meet another American in my entire life I wouldn't care one jot.
When I taught 4th grade in North Carolina my class partnered with a class in Australia to exchange letters. When we made Christmas cards I let them know that these would be the last messages, because after Christmas their pen pals would be done with 4th grade. After the ripple of "What?" "Already?" "Lucky!" I got out the globe. I pointed out the hemispheres and reminded them of what we had already gone over in science class about how seasons work. They understood the concept with the drawing of the northern hemisphere tilted toward the sun being labeled June and the one with the southern hemisphere tilted toward the sun being labeled December. Their 9-year-old minds just hadn't connected the dots between that information that they had learned in order to pass a science quiz with the reality of children in the southern hemisphere having their summer break at the opposite time of the year as their own. The Christmas cards were what finally made it click. Both classes emphasized this for the other. We made a point of sending cards with outdoor scenes covered in snow. They sent us cards with kangaroos and koalas out in the sun on the green grass and wearing Santa hats. It's not much, but at least those are some American's that understand the season thing now.
As a german who had to study about the nazi time for years in school, US Americans fixation on "race" (Which biologically doesn't make sense in the human species. The only race is homo sapiens. There are ethnicity and phenotype differences. But not race) is extremely disturbing to me
I studied biology too. Homo Sapiens is the human Genus Species within the Animal Kingdom. The races represent variations within the human Species that are not so great to cause infertility.
Americans were always big fans of eugenics, extreme patriotism, anticommunism, blonde hair and all of that, so there are some scary similarities between the two. To be honest, if Nazi Germany only kept bullying the Eastern side, the US would most likely not only be an ally, but also praise them for "pushing back communism".
@@manfromdownunder9740 AFAIK the differences in human phenotypes are too little and too blurry to qualify as races, like those of dogs, cats, cows or whatever other animal with them.
Reminds me of being asked where i was from when i visited Florida, when I said I am Irish they said no you're Irish American. I said no, I'm Irish, born in Ireland. Person asking rolled their eyes and said thats what they all say 😂
@@thefiestaguy8831 What you Europeans do not understand is one of the most important causes is the US Census & the way immigrants were treated. First, you have the problem of "one drop" of African blood classified a person as a Negro. Second, from 1850 to 1890, Irish and any central or southern European immigrant were listed as Non-White, only a half step above blacks. Third, from 1880 to about 1960 anyone with Irish, eastern or southern European heritage, no matter how many generations removed was treated as a second-class citizen at best. Therefore, it became VERY important for "good" immigrants like Germans, to remember and emphasize their heritage, while "bad" immigrants could never be allowed to forget theirs. As late as the 1979, the US media regularly made fun of "bad" immigrant heritage - Google "Polack or Wop Jokes". In response most Americans became super attached to their ethnic roots, celebrated their heritage, and made sure that their children & grand children would NEVER forget their ethnic roots.
Once had an IT mandatory training for a company I worked for. The company was a Danish company, but it’s massive and has international offices all over the world. The training was available in just about every language imaginable, and there was a simple mostly multiple choice question at the end to pass (which in itself is a very US American thing, but that’s not the story). The training had been created by on of the offices in the US and distributed to employees around the world. There was a section of the test about emergency services (can’t remember why, since this was a training about IT), and the instructions were that if ‘x’ happened you should call 911. Not the emergency services in your country, but 911. During the test basically the entire company had to answer one of the questions incorrectly in order to pass, because it specifically asked ‘which number do you use to call the emergency services’. And of course initially people entered their own emergency service numbers (999, 888, 119, 100, 112, 191, 117) but when they failed realised it was a US American who had written the test and likely a US American who had checked it (if checked at all). Lots of complaints about that one, followed by an apology issued from IT.
Hungary made 911 to work about ten years ago because Hollywood junkie teens tried to call it several times instead of 107 or 112. (Even my girlfriend called 911 once when she was drunk as a student.)
@@robinharwood5044 I don't really know what kind of emergency '911' is for. In France, we have 15 for ambulances, 18 for firefighters (and their ambulances), and 17 for the police.
As someone who dabbles with writing, is Australian and therefore does not spell like a North American, I can definitely confirm that not only do some NA's get upset about this, but are willing to give one star reviews to books that, whilst they have enjoyed the premise and characters within a book, will remove four stars for lack of the author being capable of spelling correctly... Yes, you read that right. This is why many non-NA authors will place items of interest, such as The Authors Note on Language that you have read here, within the front of their novels. Sadly, this does not stop the aforementioned one star reviews. I can only believe that those particular people skip to chapter one and damn anything that the author may have to say about their own work of art.
I put an Australian spelling disclaimer in the front of my novel and set the eBook to start on that page, but Amazon seems to override it and jumps straight to chapter one. So annoying.
Bands also need to change lyrics and song names so Americans can cope too. Also heard s of bands having a American version of songs and even band names
As a Brit, I was "corrected" on RUclips once by an American, over the spelling of 'offence'. The American assumed he/she had hit me with a mic dropping comeback to my comment, with the simple retort:- '*offense'. I didn't have the heart to explain that 'offence' is the correct English spelling for English people, where the language of English was actually invented.
Just to avoid confusion, might put "invented" into quotation marks, or someone might think that English was actually an artificially created language like Esperanto.
i got ask why i learned American in my German school.... i never learned American, we call it English, its a island off the coast from Belgium.... and since 2016, we call it silly island!
@@Arltratlo Was it really necessary to comment on British politics? Also, England is not an island; it's a country on the mainland of Great Britain, bordered by Wales to the west and Scotland to the north. To put it simply, England is not surrounded by sea.
It drives me mad the american defaultism on Microsoft products. They offer for us to pick UK English - but it still tries to correct you to the americanisms! why offer it as a choice if it doesnt work?!
'Merica claims freedom then lectures the world on how to do things. Which is hilariously ironic because it is one of the least "Free" countries there is, and ranks much lower than the UK on any "Freedom index" scale.
My previous computer had this notion that all Canadians use the French keyboard, even when using English. The only way to get the English keyboard was to choose American English.
The Internet, which is controlled by USA corporations is making sure that British spelling of various words are highlighted as errors that need to be corrected. In turn these computer programs are being used worldwide, despite your protests. Every computer’s spelling recognition pattern is simply noting any non-USA version of any English word must be classified as an error.
I was speaking to an American lady in her 70s. She was a former school teacher, which makes this so much worse.. She asked me if we have Christmas in Australia. 🤦♀️🙄
4:29 I have actually seen some Amazon reviews complaining that Jane Austen or Charles Dickens books weren't proofread since common words like "realize" or "color" were misspelled on every page...
3:00 I am Dutch there are some Dutch words that are censored too. For instance when speaking Dutch online I can't say "You can do this" in Dutch because that is "Je kunt dit doen" because "kunt" resembles a certain English word. I encountered this in several online game chats and also on Twitch were i was watching a Dutch streamer who streamed in Dutch and had set his chat language to Dutch. What's even more ridiculous is that censoring "bad" words is only a thing in English speaking countries, and it's sad that other countries copy this BS practice too look cool and American.
It's known as the Scunthorpe Problem after a town in England of that name which Spam filters, etc didn't like as it contains the word 'cunt'🤔🤣🤣🤣 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem What gets me is America clamps down on supposedly offensive words due to all the religious nutters there but, mass shootings of school kids due to it's insane gun laws is fine. Personally I think they need to take a long hard look at their priorities.
Egypt is in North Africa, where ethnicity has been mixed for a long time due to trade, piracy, invasion and conquest. Alexander The Great, the Macedonian warrior, conquered Egypt and expelled the ruling Persians at the time. The city of Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast was founded by Alexander. Cleopatra was descended from the Greek/Macedonian Ptolemy family that took control of Egypt after the death of Alexander. The Macedonian élite families intermarried probably to maintain bloodlines. So the upper class would be the same as the conquerors, regardless of the ethnicity of the conquered people.
USA Doesn't even have an official language so when they are complaining about others not speaking english it is absolutely hämmentävää Hämmentävää is finnish by the way. It means bewildering. I am allowed to speak other languages.
@@cloudyfromtpotreal i think you should speak the relevant language to the conversation, dont go into a mexican restaurant and then complain that people are speaking spanish inside, you can definitelly be annoyed if the workers cant understand you, but if they are speaking to each other in another language that is ok
@Sauvva_ I'm not gonna get mad at people for speaking Spanish, but my point was that since most people know English as a second language, it wouldn't be impossible to communicate, and if it was, it wouldn't be that hard to find another place where it isn't.
I have never seen the Cleopatra show, but if it is about THE Cleopatra, then the fact that she lived a few thousand years before the first African American was born should probably also be taken into consideration.
There's like nine Cleopatras if I remember right. The famous one is the sixth or seventh as I recall. Edit: It was Cleopatra VII and fun fact she was half Greek.
@@oberoneledthar3782Not quite. Cleopatra VII was of part Greek heritage but her relationships were actually with Romans namely Mark Antony and Julius Caesar. She wasn't married off to anyone, she was the full monarch of Egypt.
The show in question related to in video, is particularly bad, as it insults egyptian history and heritage, to the point it was considered a diplomatic insult by the Egyptian government and people. As its blackwashing, and Americanizing their own culture. Which the egyptians really, really really hate, as their own past as a subject of Both Turks and British in the past rubs them the wrong way.
For Finland we have 2 subreddits. One intended for native speak and of course inside jokes and cultural things that don't really translate to English or foreigners and one in English so people around the world can discuss all things Finland. France subreddit being in French doesn't really strike as odd in any way
same thing for r/Lithuania and r/Lietuva. We just ignored that unwritten rule and continued writing in our language. If you really want to know what are we writing about, just add an addon to your brower that translates everything. Literally takes 5 minutes.
@95DreadLord Switzerland, with its at least 4 national subreddits (Italian, German, French and English (I didn't check if the one in Rumantsch exists))....
Problem being that France is written the same in French and English. However there's /AskFrance where English is accepted (there's French messages too, either from Francophone people or people who are learning the language). And Every now and there there are message in English on France, and they are usually answered, granted the OP doesn't make a fuss about the subreddit being all in French.
Still one of the nationalities that usually stubbornly keeps talking in their native language where other nationalities adapt to English online so we can all communicate, often in games with VOIP, making a French team within an international team. Polish being another one, nothing wrong being proud of ur language but its very impolite in those situations, English isn't my native language either.
I usually write stuff down in blue ink, but for more important stuff I use an African-American pen to write in African-American ink. It pops up when reading it.
@@stephenlee5929 Yes indeed I can, although recently the African-American mode is widely used so I usually use white colour for text and African-American for background.
Nah, you can only say "African-American" when referring to someone's ethnicity. You can't use it as a replacement for actual colors. You would probably seem very weird if you said that.
@@TheAugmentedMan1 Thanks for the clarification. To foreigners it looks like to Americans it is a politically correct name for the color. Literally, skin color
@SavkinAnton Yeah, sometimes Americans don't know how their own terms work. Black: This means someone has a dark skin color regardless of what continent they come from African: They live in Africa. It doesn't matter if they are white or black. If they were born and live in Africa, the correct term is African African-American: Can be used for someone who was from Africa and moved to America. However, a lot of people use it for people born in America who have ancestors from Africa, and enough people use it that way that it's an acceptable use of the term. Anyway, that's the correct way all these terms are used. But sometimes Americans assume someone is African American if they are black even if they come from somewhere else.
@unpetitpingouinsauvage6 You're one joking around here. He specifically wanted to know how the term was used here, so I answered the question, and we learned something new. What's your problem with that? You can't expect everyone to know everything unless they ask questions first. That's like how all of human knowledge has been gained and passed down. Do you have a problem with learning or something?
6:00 Of course, it makes perfect sense for all the French people that don't know English to learn English just so they can post in a subreddit about their own country
Thing is nearly all countries have subs for the native tounge and for english speaking people. You can differenciate them by the subs beeing named in native tounge. Germany r/germany for english and r/de for german, Italy r/italy for english, r/italia for italian or poland with r/poland for english and r/polska for polish. France is litterlay the only European country that doesn't do it that way. Especially since the sub is named in english and not in french.
@@_LOGA_ the sub is named in french, France is spelled the same way in both language, english is just 33% bad pronounced french, 33% worst pronounced nordic and 33% even worst german and all that over simplified to make it easy to learn, that even american can (barely) speak and write it.
I was talking to an american earlier this week and we were at the subject of ancient greece. Then i asked him if he knew in what year the battle of Marathon was. He answered 1976, when i specifically said it was ancient greece. I didn't expect the person to get it right, but when you answer 2466 years wrong that's more than not knowing
@@Shan_Dalamani My immediate reaction to that was: I don't know exactly when the Salem witch trials were, but I'd imagine it was a lot closer to 1693 than 1963. _Googles._ That's the correct year. Okay, easy mistake to make, but surely with a bit of common sense you'd question something like that being in the mid 20th century? Then I read the bit about her accusing you of being a witch. Right, about that common sense thing... Similarly with the battle of Marathon. I don't know a lot about ancient history, but is "a few centuries BC" really so much to ask? Or at the very least _ancient history._
@@TheMoonRover She's basically nuts, making all sorts of claims I know are wrong. I gave up trying to explain everything to her, because she's one of these people who prefers to make up her own reality and to hell with anyone who shows her proof that she's wrong.
I grew up in South Africa. Yes, I saw snow as a child but only after we drove like 2 hours to go up into the mountains. And the first time I ever saw it actually snowing was when I was in Germany and about 26 years old.
Im Australian, 49, and have never seen snow and no desire to ever see it. I don't do cold. The snow is about 5 hours of flights or a 4 day drive from where I live.
Elon's mother was born in Canada, that's why he moved here and got Canadian Citizenship thru his mother. I hope he gets rid of it. We don't want this conman associated with Canada.
There was a recent thing about something coming out for $7USD, but it was a lot more expensive in other currencies so people weren't happy about it, and SO many people were like "It's JUST $7, that's not a lot of money, stop complaining" They could not even fathom the idea of people having a higher price because of being in a different country lol For me as a Canadian, it was nearly $15, which is a big jump! Let alone in places like South America! I'll never understand how some people think their country is the only one to exist lmao
12:52 I'm also Australian and I *DID* learn about US states* in school but it wasn't because "It's America, you have to know this" it was just a _small_ part of learning about the rest of the world, not even a full lesson was spent on it. *I'm aware of the tautology of saying 'United States states' 👍
I don’t blame my fellow young americans we aren’t taught anything in history outside our own and ww1 and ww2 and the korean war the vietnam war and the cold war thats it….. just as far out of just our own history as we get it’s shameful…
I did projects on America, Japan, and a lot of European history when I was at school too. I think we had a very international education in Australia in the 1970's, well at least I did......
@@IVALKYRIE925We are required to take one full year of exclusively World History (Human Geo, Advanced Placement European History), and then one full year of US History. And even in AP US History, things from Euro (which I took last year) help US History make sense as you understand things in a global context. I’m in California by the way
I'm French and working for a big WW company. So we are using english with our colleagues over Europe, Asia, and NA. BUT especially for confusing the NA ones I pay attention to use the date coding DD/MM/YYYY, the 24hour time instead or PM or AM and obviously the metric system. they have to adapt to the uses that are common outside.
Canadians are also North American and use all those things, we elder citizens are proudly fluent in both metric and imperial. Many of us have trouble remembering Fahrenheit and miles per hour though because it's been so long but anyone under 50 won't remember the old system at all. Ironically with 2 official languages, most of us in Ontario speak little or no French .
YYYY-MM-DD is the only logical scheme - positional notation taken to its logical conclusion. We already write millennia before centuries, centuries before decades and decades before years. It's just a question of also writing years before months and months before days.
@@to_loww As someone in China pointed out, the majority of the world uses YYYY/MM/DD - which is the default in most of Asia anyway as well as for most computer users - or DD/MM/YYYY. Then you have the USA.
1:30 Cleopatra was of Greek and Macedonian ancestry, by the way. She was the last heir of the Ptolemaic dynasty; Ptolemaios I had been one of the generals of Alexander the Great who split Alexander's empire between themselves after his death; and Egypt had been one of the first conquests by Alexander.
Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals. Ptolemy reigned Egypt after Alexander's death in 323 B.C.
@@DanDownunda8888why would she need to trace her family her parents were from Greece am sure she knew her own family as they were white been European lol she's European
@gregorygant4242 there all mixed race because the greeks invaded every were but yes it us Greece only greeks invaded Egypt before the Romans lol but Turkey is alsi mixed with greeks abd spainish so on si hard ti tell if she full Greek or even mixed race with African because the kings used to have sex with the slaves lol u don't think anyone knows who her mother is but yes all we know is she's Greek tribe
@@Sharon-bo2seI think this person refers to the fact that it doesn't snow. Volcanos have snow in the top around the crater because it is really high and the temperature creates snow there.
As a Brit, I've never really understood the whole African American or black American thing! To me, you'd simply be American. We don't say in the UK, if you were born here or legally become a Brit, African British/ English or Black English, you're simply English. If you are born in a country or legally become a citizen of that country, then you simply are, or at least should be, a person of the country. I think perhaps the reason there seems to be, although of course, maybe not as many think, racism still in America is because people refer to each other and even themselves in this way. What skin colour you are or your dependency really isn't so important. Yes, it may be important to you and your family to know and understand your families history but on day to day living, it's not. If you were born there or legally became a citizen there then simply call yourself an American or whatever, depending on the country. Stop being so focused on skin colour, instead, focus on becoming a better version of you. I, for example, have both Irish and Welsh family on each side yet i don't call myself Irish or Welsh English/ British, I'm simply English or British. I like knowing my families history as it's interesting to know how I came to be and where from but I know myself as being English/ British. If i was to move to America and become a citizen there then I wouldn't want to be English American or British American, i would simply be American. This is why I also don't get why someone from Ireland would call themselves Irish American, you're simply American. It is, however, only something I've ever seen happen in America. As far as I'm aware, I don't know of any other country that refers to people this way.
Lenny Henry was once on an American talk show and had this argument with him when they called him "African-British" he also pointed out his family are Jamaican!
Give it time… we’ll be forced to say “Afro-Carribean” or some other shit like that before we know it. Given the amount of American culture being imported into the UK
@sarahglover3286 I don't blame him either! Not only is every black person not necessarily African, they are American if they become an American citizen. I feel people spend way too much time and focus way too much on these things. Skin colour really isn't all that important. What's important is the type of person you are, how you treat others and yourself etc. Yes, there can be terrible people in the world but those people can be white, black and any other colour in between. People should be treated as people, on and individual level, not by the colour of their skin or where they may have grown up.
@@JONSEY101 A lot of people in the UK are blissfully unaware that what they’re doing are Americanisms in the first place. Some examples I’ll name that I find increasingly common are: Brit instead of Briton or British Any spelling with Z instead of S in words like Realise Any spelling with S instead of C in words like Defence Tire instead of Tyre Fall instead of Autumn The missing U in the word Colour Writing the date as December 20th instead of 20th December I would mention “mom” instead of “mum” but apparently that’s also the Brummie dialect, so I’m not sure on that one
On “Threads” there have been a few posts complaining about the spelling of words like colour, favour etc, and saying that people “should just stop” putting the u in. It is North America that leaves it out while most of the rest of the English speaking world leaves it in. America did not invent the English language.
@@TheAugmentedMan1 i told him 2 mins before i am from Europe....! also, i got a strong accent, English is just my 2nd or 3rd language! but i also got the question if i have electricity in my village.... i told him also before, i am from a town of over 40.000 people and electrician from profession! but the cake was, he even ask me if we have cars... i am from the country where the guy invented the car...
@Arltratlo Damn, guess he forgot there are over a billion English speakers and not all of them live in one country 🤣. I'm all for nationalism and all, but I still hate it when people think they are the center of the world, and they assume other places are non-developed
@@IDraw99 no, his 10 years old son tried to explain it to him that i am currently in a foreign country, he even showed him a map from his school book...daddy didnt got the memo while i been there!
05:45 That's not how it works. To be technical: Yes, the company has its headquarters in the US (San Francisco), but they have Servers around the world for performance reasons. It is _WAAAAAY_ faster to access reddit on Servers in Australia, if you are living in Australia. It actually makes a big difference. So technically speaking: Reddit does not belong to a specific country. If the US get's cut off from the Internet tomorrow, you can access Reddit anyway.
Yeah, that's for all of the internet.. it's decentralised and international! I mean the Internet was invented in Switzerland, so why aren't we talking in Swiss-German, French, Italian or Rumansh? The Internet is clearly Swiss! 😂
Are you sure? I'm not familiar with Reddit specifically, but in case of sites in general, I'd imagine the satellite servers would still need constant access to the main servers. While users usually use the sites' servers constantly just in their home countries, they might travel abroad (or might just use VPN), and they'd want to still access the site. That's why user accounts are site-wide and could be used through any of the servers, which means that the information must be synced rather quickly. And I'd assume that the servers in the site's home country would be coordinating the syncing. That's why I'm assuming that losing access to the main servers would quickly make the satellite servers stop working until they can again sync with the main one.
Not always. It depends if the servers are independent domains or offshoots. If they're offshoots the main server or HQ going down would effect all the service on a website.
That's not the point. I don't think BMW has only german available for the various displays in their cars in the US - and civilized units like km/h while we're at it :D
"I refrain from correcting anyone on anything, unless I'm a 100% certain." That is a really good rule to set for yourself. Good for you, Ryan. More people should have the epistemic humility to think like that.
I was doing the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain on my bicycle. I met this two people from the US who were walking it and they still had about a month to go. I told them they would finish right before temperatures reached into the upper 30s (as a Spaniard - I'm also Mexican- I was of course talking in Celsius). Without pause, they asked "How much is that in Farenheit?" The asumption is that the whole world needs to learn to speak in their terms rather than they bothering to learn what are not only the local customs, but the customs of basically everwhere except the US, Liberia and Myanmar.
2:11 some Americans are so scared to say black that African American has replaced black and carries no other meaning. I 100% had someone tell me a story about a black man from England playing drums in a band in England and they said "there's an African American guy playing drums now." I just smiled and let him go on.
1. I challenge Americans to try and name all the federal subjects of, let's say, Russia (to keep them big) on a map and compare it to the average European's knowledge on the USA geography. 2. Another problem in the "foreign language" question is that in many countries people learn more than one foreign language.
The worst part is that America is a *continent* and like, 90% of its countries speak Spanish (90% is an exaggeration I don’t know the actual percentage)
@@AIHumanEquality No, for some reason a lot of Americans don't consider India to be an Asian country. I've seen Americans have a full on argument about how India OBVIOUSLY isn't in Asia, because that's China, duh!
What irks me is when there's a great online course or Live I want to join, but it's in America and they don't put the proper timezone. They put the cryptic EST as though I'm supposed to magically understand what they mean. Australia has EST as well, so wtf am I supposed to do with your version? And please don't get me started on the state abbreviations. All I know are the basic NYC, LA, SF (which I'm pretty sure is San Francisco? Unless I'm wrong lol). I think that's it, because like that comment in the video said, I really don't care 😂 Please, anyone - not just in the USA - if you host an online course or Live, please put the country, state (actual name), date and time so we can easily search what it would be for us, otherwise you risk losing potential customers. No hate to anyone! Just an observation and my personal experience 💓
Same, I get really annoyed with this as well. I only know GMT (UK) and I make calculations based on IST (India Standard Time) even though I don't live in India and I get sooo annoyed when they put UTC, EST or whatever and I have to google what it means.
@@gissyb1 I know I put state, but I meant general abbreviations. Again, I don't know jack shit about the US aside from what I see in shows/movies and on TV/RUclips lol. I hardly pay attention to things in Australia let alone other countries 😂
I remember playing Guild Wars back in the day, and one of my guild mates made a comment of "Argh! Noooo, I died!" and then another guild mate said "Dyed*". You can bet your ass he was American. What's worse is that in Guild Wars, dyes were a dropped item. Sure, it was one of the rarer drops to customise your armour, but also sought-after, so he should definitely know the difference between dye and die.
Yes! "Zee" is not a letter in English. As someone who has lived all his life in English speaking countries (both in Northern And the Real Hemispheres) it infuriates me when 'Merkin's use this nonsense made up letter and pretend they are speaking English - when they have just proved that they are wittering on in the crap made up language that is 'Merkin!
The one with learning foreign languages is even funnier because it is an only one choice poll, so Americans can't even fathom the idea that people might study MULTIPLE foreign languages in school the way it's common in Europe outside of the UK and Ireland.
English is the world's language now. Yes, many countries have the children learn a second language, but it's always English for good reason. I grew up in a different time, so I studied German and French in school into college. I lived in Korea a year but never bothered to learn the language. I lived in the Netherlands for a year, and found I could stumble through a German conversation with them, but why bother when we all spoke English? I also lived in Buenos Aires for 6 months and my company gave me a Spanish tutor, but the their Spanish is so different from the Mexican Spanish I'm more familiar with, the teaching was mostly useless. Today I find most languages totally useless. I do learn Spanish because I interact with many Hispanics in my real estate/construction activities.
Excuse me but it is also common in England. Schools here teach Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, Latin, German & Greek to my certain knowledge. There might be other languages taught which I haven’t experienced. Any combination of those and others but what they don’t teach is American English.
Here in Australia you are much more likely to be studying an Asian language at school than a European one as they are much more useful for us (most Europeans also speak English and most of our close trading partners are from Asia). I was surprised that common languages like Japanese, Mandarin and Indonesian were not on the list.
It can be quite funny seeing non-rugby-familiar Americans (which is the vast majority of Americans) struggle with the name of the New Zealand national rugby team: the All Blacks. Their minds are completely blown by the name of the New Zealand national basketball team! 🤣
A while ago I worked with a black American whilst he was in Australia. He couldn't understand how the All Blacks got their name when there were no blacks in the team.
@@chriswatson7965 that's like asking why it was called "The Beatles" when every one was human, or "Queen" when there wasn't even a royal there not even a woman 😭
@@NessieNice Also, black people don't have a monopoly on the word "black", just like white people don't have a monopoly on the word "white". "Black" and "white" can describe all sorts of things which have nothing to do with a person's skin colour or origins.
@@chriswatson7965Was the Yank blind???? He could have worked out the team’s name by looking at their playing kit if he’s bothered to think about it. Sounds like another stupid Seppo. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
When my son went to the USA from South Africa, he was asked how can he come from Africa and not be black. lol So after he got his green card he was basically African American but not black lol
10:50 I remember I made a Thanksgiving themed drawing and posted it up. Someone tried to correct me by saying Thanksgiving is in November - I'm Canadian, we have Thanksgiving in October. I wasn't even the one to point that out, other people did.
What is "thanks giving"? I am Indian, by the way. Original Indian. Not "east" Indian. Just Indian. Because my country was named (by other ignorant white invaders) after a major river on our western boundary - the Indus river.
@@toonedinIt's so good to someone referring to themselves as just INDIAN. "Indians from the north and south" have so much beef with each other. It's painful to watch my own country being split apart. But you guys are the chillest ones.
@@I_am_doomed Thanks for the good words. But I was addressing the Americans who refer to us as "east Indians" because to them their native indigenous aboriginal inhabitants whom Columbus misnamed as _Indios_ are their Indians, not us. That we tend to refer to ourselves as north- or south- Indians is an entirely different discussion from that going on here in the comments of this video.
8:35 Opposite has happaned in Finland. When I was growing up, it was very rude to refer to people by colour. You said dark skinned or light skinned. And this was in no way tied to any made up human races. Plenty of North Africans, Middle Easterns, and Asians were also called light skinned. This has changed due to the influence of the English language and USian racial politics. Now in Finland even the news speak about black/white/brown people and human races, which until very recently was understood to be a racist concept because scientifically speaking there are no human races and this kind of thinking was famously promoted by the nazis.
13:09 Being from Sweden we always have to except that most Americans don’t know the difference between Sweden and Switzerland (other side of Europe). And of course they also think that all swedes are blond and blue eyed. Do you know how offensive those stereotypes are? 😔🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
In Britain we were taught about all countries, obviously some much more than others. Where they were, the capitol, language currency, main features, and the products. Also outside affiliations if relevant, eg. if part of the Commonwealth, or a Spanish or Dutch colony etc..
just yesterday. One guy posted in FB group about my favorite game.(Its 7.00 am why servers are so full and I can`t connect? go to your jobs!) at that time it was like 4.00 pm in Czech Republic
I have never seen a Skyscraper , I have never been on a Subway , I have never eaten a Mac Donalds , I have never been on a Plane , I have never gone through a Revolving Door , I live in the Middle of Wales 🏴
6:07 why arent we all speaking chinese on tiktok and speaking french on snapchat? if you post in english people will be more than willing to respond in english for any questions you have about the location
I visited the states on a holiday and someone asked me where I was from I was like “oh! I’m from New Zealand.” They then responded “that’s the little Australian island right?” OMG I nearly screamed in the middle of the street
the very term african american is an oxymoron, you are either born in an african country or you are born in america, no matter your skin colour you are american if you were born there.
It can be quite funny seeing non-rugby-familiar Americans (which is the vast majority of Americans) struggle with the name of the New Zealand rugby team: the All Blacks. Their minds are blown by the name of the New Zealand basketball team! 🤣
I lived in the US, California in 1977, and remember that in my first day of class, at Pleasant Hill High, when the teacher introduced me to the classmates, someone said "You're not American," (because of my black hair). I replied, I am American ..... South American ..... then asked "why do you have British accent then" ..... They had never heard about Chile (except for mexican chili) and that there were British and German schools here (Redland School and Deutsche Schule in Santiago). They used to call me Chilianna ..... That was fun. I still keep friendship with many of them. 😊
5:31 okay, Reddit, Facebook, LifeJournal, etc is American, but what does WWW before every "american" site means then? Especially two first W's? Just asking...
I'm German. I saw a vidio, there was two German tourists in USA in a train, they were talking in German. Suddenly a american woman in this one train, she shouted the two german mens, they must talking in englisch, she was extremly aggressive. As a German I'm shocked 😢
@Kiwi-Araga actually happens a lot in our tourist cities here in Sweden which is why the work requirement often is that you have to speak one of German, Italian or French.
@@antoniogarcialopezvazquez4806 Actually for Americans of European backgrounds, they are further broken down into Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc. Those designations are actually part of the US Census law based on ethnic heritage, not color or race or nationality.
A few years ago, in the UK, the commonly used phrase ' coloured people' was deemed insulting, and we were told that 'black' was the preferred term. Now, it seems the preferred terminology is 'people of colour'.
The whole colour thing is ridiculous as human skin tone are shades of brown. We all have brown skin from very pale to very dark. White and black is a social construct.
Only around the kind of white people who like to make a fuss on behalf of 'people of colour' and presume to speak for them. All my black mates call themselves 'black'.
@@Phiyedough Yeah, I like Ryan because he seems to be quite sensible and doesn't talk all the way through the video like some reactors, but he doesn't create original videos of his own, like for instance Girl Gone London.
I don't remeber from who did I get this story, but it says that when he went to USA and telled to many people that he's from argentina, most of them literally said "No, you're not" becouse he's withe. wtf
14:19 Funny that one of the states Village-Physical chose as states without snow is precisely Nevada, when "Nevada" is Spanish for "Snowy". 🤣 "Sierra Nevada" = "Snowy Mountain"...
@@karlbmiles Sierra is also considered mountains/hills. For example, in Perú we can separate the country in three regions: Costa, Sierra y Selva which refers to the desert, the mountains and the amazon ^^
Remember until the 1940s America had a policy of isolationism so no wonder the nation is so unaware of the rest of the world. I guess when Americans talk about Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq etc, then they imagine somewhere outside of Earth.
I actually had the experience of trying to explain to an American customer service agent that I, a Canadian customer, really did have an account with them - because to the agent, Canada is in Europe and they don't deal with people "overseas." I informed her that if she wanted to come to my city, all she needed to do was go outside and walk north. It would take awhile, but she'd get here eventually - and not cross even one inch of ocean.
In Greece I got a question from an American if he could drive with a rental car from Athens to the island of Santorini. When I said "No" and told him it takes 7 hours by conventional ferry and 5 hours by high speed ferry he got upset and asked how I would know that. Huh? Maybe because I live and work here?
@@pvdppvdp6638 Obviously they should break out the superduper high speed ferry for him. I was chatting with an American couple in British Columbia, in the month of August. They mentioned they were looking forward to going to Alberta (neighboring province in Canada) and seeing the Calgary Stampede (world-class rodeo). They were shocked when I told them they would have to wait until next year, because the Stampede only runs for a couple of weeks in July. They said, "We thought it runs all year!" Since Calgary, like most of Canada, gets snow for 6-7 months of every year... no, they don't have year-round rodeos, though they did do a mini-indoor rodeo for the tourists in 1988.
Yes, a *highly inbred* Macedonian. (A non-inbred person has 128 fifth-great-grandparents - Cleopatra had a total of just 20.) So, even claiming she might be mixed race is ludicrous.
Cleopatra was Macedonian like modern Americans are Irish and Scottish because their great-great-grandpa was an Irish or Scottish immigrant. If we are to make fun of them (and we should), then we shouldn't be making double standards about historical figures.
I had an aquaintance from the US who spent a good half an hour arguing with an Italian friend of mine that they were pronouncing the word pasta incorrectly. The person from the US couldn't even speak Italian, while my friend was a native speaker. It was the sheer overwhelming confidence in their belief that they were right that flummoxed us, even after they found out that the person they were correcting was actually Italian.
That poll is stupid in multiple respects. I studied English, German _and_ French in the equivalent of what you call high school. And that’s not special at all.
This old joke sums up the subject: What is a person that speaks several languages called? - Multilingual or a Polyglot. What is a person that speaks 2 languages called? - Bilingual What is a person that only speaks 1 language called? - American.
I'm a native French speaker (Québec Canada), in school I learned English then Spanish and in university Italian. You should learn a language for the richness of the different cultures. The more things you learn the richer you are.
@@fedodosto3162 Who is going to study German for a year on the off chance they will visit Germany one day? Because when I'm in Germany, I just speak English and everybody is happy. Sure, I could say Wein instead of Wine, or Milch instead of Milk, but why bother when I can just say Beer?
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My Father is from Iceland and my Mother is from Cuba. I'm an Ice Cube.
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@@hippybuddhist That’s so funny! 😂🤣😂 Nice that you have so much confidence and pride - you wouldn’t be able to joke otherwise!❤️❤️❤️🇸🇪
Your nickname should be Ice Ice Baby 😂
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I'm from Africa. I'm not black and I'm not American
Same here^^
But how could you not! Every person that is from Africa is black and they are all African Americans! You racist! *sarcasm* 😂
@@marikothecheetah9342 good thing you added *sarcasm* or i wouldn't have known 😂
Guys! I found an african-american!
Yeah, I'm sure if you moved to the US and referred to yourself as African American, they would all be up in arms because you're not Black. It makes little sense to conflate a region of the world with a skin color. XD
Wait till they find out there are black people who are neither from Africa nor America :D
Some Americans can't wrap their heads around the fact that black people in Canada aren't called African-Americans.
@@Shan_Dalamani Though it wouldn't be that wrong, Canada is also in America.
They may be just not that blockheaded about political correctness.
It has NOTHING to do with whether or not the black is from Africa or America. It has EVERYTHING to do with the way race and ethnicity is defined by law. Anti-miscegenation laws in the 19th century USA made it a crime for individuals to wed someone categorized as belonging to a different race. These laws were part of a broader policy of racial segregation in the USA to minimize contact between people of different ethnicities.
Wait till they find out there are even white people in Africa(like me). I’m from South Africa btw
@@RuanAntunes7 Funny thing is, if you moved to the US and called yourself African-American, a bunch of people of multiple races would get offended and tell you you're not allowed 😂
It's even worse that it's not just Africa this happens with. A lot of people here also think all Jamaicans are Black, and when they hear a white person with a Jamaican accent, they call it cultural appropriation -- even if the guy was born in Jamaica 😅
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"Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?"
"No Senator, again, I'm Singaporean"
Now that is stupid 😂
This "race" obsession is so weird to me.. if I'm a black American I would be more offended by Afro-American because I'm just American and no less American than anybody else... you wouldn't call white Americans Euro-American as well
Don’t worry, they’ve already thought of that one. Instead of white people, they use “Caucasian” (whoever decides that)
yeah to me it seems like just another way of segregating the people living in the US.
just call your citizens (US)Americans.
that probably would also help solve the whole polarization a bit.
We should start with that. Call all white people in America Euro-Americans.
@simonkopp9238 Actually, I do when skin colour or colonialism is important to what I'm saying. After all, Native Americans always get the additional descriptor so why not the whites?
@@simonkopp9238 I've yet to meet a black person who gets offended at being called black.
The most absurd from all these here was calling Cleopatra an "African American".
Definitely true, especially considering that Cleopatra died 1537 years before the word America was invented... 😅
The only get out for the poster would be if they said played by an African American actress. The fact she wasn't of subsaharan origins is another nail in the OPs coffin.
@@lylobean She was barely even Egyptian as well. It's argued what Cleopatra's entire genetic lineage was, but we know she was primarly of Greek heritage. It's possible she was also part Persian (due to Alexander the Great's conquests) and Egyptian, but we don't know for sure.
@@Onnarashi The details are hazy. All we know is she was part Egyptian and part Greek.
Especially since she was of Macedonian Greek descent. A form of Greek was her first language and she was the first member of her family to learn Egyptian. The Ptolemaic Dynasty (her family) had, in Cleopatras time, been running Egypt for over 270 years. They spoke Greek and governed Egypt as Hellenistic Greek monarchs.
I have a friend (white, Afrikaaner) who has dual US /SA citizenship, he drives US authorities mad by putting African American on forms, they cannot comprehend how he can be African American and white, even though he literally is living proof that it is possible.
is he called Elon? ;)
You know else is African American? Elon Musk!!!!
He's actually more African-American than black Americans
That friend is Elon Musk, correct?
😂😂😂😂😂
4:09 Yes, they do. I’ve read book reviews where people are complaining that the English author of a book set in England needs to get a good editor, because there’s no excuse for so many “spelling errors” in a published work.
That reminds me of when the first Harry Potter book (including its title) had to be translated to American English.
@@voxtur__7 Yes, the Murkins demanded that it be retitled "The Sorcerer's Stone" because Murkin kids are too ignorant to know what a philosopher's stone is. Murkins also think that pronouncing the letter "z" as "zed" rather than "zee" is weird when in fact, with the exception of a few Murkin-influenced Canadians (frowned upon by their compatriots, especially in the last couple of weeks when Canadians decided they had HAD it with Murkins), the rest of the English-speaking world pronounces it "zed."
The default English for spell-checking on every document-making app is U.S. English, despite that form of English only existing there. So we're used to even school computers trying to tell us to spell things like an American. They really are incredibly self-obsessed... and encouraged to be.
There is no such thing as American English. There is English and there is wrong.
@@nicholaswhite3811 saying American English is “wrong” by default is like saying English is incorrect German.
A black american woman, who was a tourist in Berlin/Germany, tried to explain to my colleague, who is black with nigerian parents and raised in Germany, that he is an "african american", since all "black people outside of africa are african american". She got very upset when he said that he is not african american but Deutsch-Nigerianer. She got VERY upset. That was in 1994
Why did she get upset?
@@ThW5 probly for two reasons. 1. she was corrected in the typical german fashion - direct, and most muricans find that rude! 2. Muricans are always right! even if they are wrong!!
_truth, facts_ etc. get most people upset.
because most people are d u m b : )
But did she understand that “american” referes to America, and if the guy had never been in America, calling him “American” doesn’t make sense?
@ThW5 “ Why ? “ 😳
Everytime an American says "yeah well our country is huge/bigger than you" I just think "and the pub at the end of my road has more history than your entire nation"
"We stole more land in one spot than you did" isn't the brag those people think it is.
When I've told US friends how old something I've visited I've missed, they've sometimes assumed I've missed the 1 off the front. No, it really was 622, not 1622.
For them it’s big vs. small. Big=winner small=looser. It doesn’t matter what’s the thing to be big or small. Except the brain, which smaller seems to be better...
You should tell them that Russia is twice the size of America and it is in Asia .Wonder how that will register .
Australia is as big as the US minus Alaska and Hawaii and we have cattle stations bigger than Texas.
That's funny, we have something similar.
If somebody is stupid on the internet we _also_ assume they're American.
Usually proven to be the case.
Also, Americans really are an odd bunch, "thick" if you like.
Many of them seem to think that the USA is the only nation that exists... and that every photograph, video or story MUST have happened in the USA. Saw a post once of a questionably parked british police vehicle in a UK supermarket - clearly a british vehicle as its british registration plates were on display. It's actually "legal" since it's private land so it's up to the landowner if they want to enforce anything or not (Civilly not criminal since it's not a crime).
Cue all the stupid yanks that came crawling out from their basements going "THIS IS ILLEGAL, DUMB COPS BLAH BLAH BLAH I'M AMERICAN". Literally non-stop comment after comment from dimwit yanks, all wrong and none of them even had an ounce of common sense to look at the quite obvious british police vehicle (A Peugeot - which to my knowledge NO US POLICE FORCE even use) was a british one. They all used their stupid logic of "This photo must have been taken in America"
It depends on what the stupidity is. Like referring to someone who is born and raised in Africa as African American despite not even setting foot on US soil a single time in their life is probably a safe sign to assume they're American.
It's also funny to bully Americans
@@tonymacaroni955 Yes, that one is funny and interesting. But most Americans laugh at those people too for being a little too woke.
yes so true, usually on what's said, not hard to pick out, mostly statements without any critical thought, or basic common sense or basic knowledge... easy....
🤣🤣🤣 So true!
I spoke with a 40 year old American who did not understand how in Australia (southern hemisphere) had opposite seasons to north America being in the northern hemisphere.
They thought our summer in December/January/February was just the same season as they have, being winter, but a much hotter winter. 😳
I thought they would teach school children about the Earth, and geography, with the Earth having two hemispheres, and how the globe rotates on its axis, as it rotates around the sun, and the four seasons change during the year between the hemispheres. And then the equatorial areas, do not have four seasons, but have more of a wet and dry season.
They do. The 40 year old either went through a bad school system or suffers from the “Whatever isn’t American doesn’t matter to me” syndrome
I love that! Our Aussie summers are actually versions of America's Winter only much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much hotter! Makes total sense!
In my school I was taught the earth has four hemispheres not two like a few dumb ass Australians believe. How old are you so I can put your age in my story?
The globe does NOT revolve around an axis. It revolves around America 😂. That's what the kids are taught anyway.
Ununited Statesians can’t teach anything - because they know nothing.
Stupidity is global, but Americans do seem to have taken it to the next level.
The real problem is that they don't think of it as a problem; they are proud of their stupidity.
Like a great sage once said: " stupidity isn't an exclusive american thing, but when americans do it... Damn they do it well".
In America stupidity has evolved into an art form.
Stupidity is not just american, but most other countries keep thier stupid people local so others don't have to suffer, we're kind like that,passports come with a simple test.
Everything is bigger in America, America is the Texas of the world, and sometimes the Florida.
I had this recently,i watched a video where an american police officer stopped a car and found a body in the boot, the trunk is refered to as the boot in the UK, and was called out by a person telling me the correct term was trunk, when I pointed out that neither was 'correct' each country have their own terms for things, the other person got really angry and said that as Americans invented the car the world should use american terms. I didn't have the heart to tell them that America didn't invent the car.
No you should have told him it was Germany.
They need education.
It will help, with their "problem". 😂❤
@@animalian01 The car is a German invention BTW
@AbAb-th5qe I know
Oh nah thats just sad
Just wanna point it out, both are correct not, neither are correct
6:15 "the whole Internet is American" - this would be even more hilarious, considering the fact that the www was invented at CERN - in the French speaking part of Switzerland
To be fair, practically everything else about the internet has an American origin - the protocols, the software, the hardware etc.
Exactly! Let's complain about people not talking in Swiss-German, French, Italian or Rumansh in the internet because it's Swiss!
What a weird mindset to get offended by somebody talking in a different language 😂
And the World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, an Englishman.
Invented at CERN by an Englishman, Tim Berners-Lee, who was working there at the time.
@@peterrjg6843 TCP/IP may mostly have been made by three Americans, but HTTP and the related HTML was invented by an Englishman working at CERN. CSS was made by the World Wide Web Consortium, which counts that Englishman among its members. IRC is a Finnish invention, and so is SSH. FTP is an Indian invention. SFTP, which merges those last two ideas, is a quite international invention by the IETF. Many foundational protocols and standards aren't at all American.
Mobile technology (and now a lot of computers) builds on British inventions. You may have heard of Arm Holdings (once upon a time known as Acorn RISC Machines). So to be absolutely fair, modern technology is very much an international effort. All we're doing now is improving on designs from the 80s, making them faster, more secure, and if we're really lucky, more reliable.
4:12 I used to work for an Australian company as a customer service rep. One day we got an email from a customer in the US saying our blog post written by our CEO was riddled with spelling mistakes, such as colour, analyse, favourite, and centre. When I let them know that these were how they were spelled in Australia by Australians, the customer said they thought American English was used over there.
It’s almost painful that someone can be that ignorant. “Spelling mistakes”. Please. One online search could’ve told them. 😭😭😭
Spelt* surely? 😂😂
Nah but for real, it shits me when people don't realise that not only do we not use American English, but Australian English is slightly different again to Br.E. While the spelling is comparable, there are vocabulary differences like bottle-O/ bottle shop, whereas in UK it's known as an off- licence. Same for service station vs garage, op shop vs charity shop.
I suppose in a corporate company you're not going to come across it often, but it may come up.
Thought of another; fairy floss but BrE uses candy floss. And vege like zucchini and eggplant not courgette and aubergine.
I gave up playing spelling app games, as they were using American spelling. When I put in the word colour, it would reject it, or mark me as having a wrong answer. Very frustrating.
You’d think nowadays, that any app that is based on ‘correct’ spelling, would allow the user to designate what spelling they wish to use, such as British/American/Australian etcetera.
@@vincentlevarrick6557 I'm aware of vocabulary differences between AuE and BrE, but yes, those words aren't really used in our corporate and PR communications. For the most part, it's the spelling that they're pretty nitpicky with. As a non-American I'm more open to spelling and vocabulary differences across different English speaking countries.
@@hunterwatson8613 that's a fair point. Especially if the app was developed by a certain country. Ours was Australian but for the UI, we used American English. I also heard somewhere that when it comes to coding language, it's also mostly American English?
If you are African, Chinese, Mexican or whatever in Australia you are just Australian. America is the only country that I am familiar with that inserts Ethnicity before the Country. African American, Asian American …….
How about “ABC?” American-born Chinese? Dude!!!😩
Canada does it as well but only with East Indians, sometimes Chinese. Indo-Canadians, think the Chinese are just Chinese-Canadians.
Lo mismo en Argentina. Incluso aunque tengas padres extranjeros y todas las personas que conocés te apoden con esa nacionalidad (el chino, el negro, el ruso, etc), si naciste acá y compartís la cultura, nadie jamás te va a negar que sos argentino, independientemente de tu color de piel o rasgos físicos en general.
@@orion_winter Sí, porque incluso las etnias reales no son algo que nos tomemos muy en serio (ejemplo, te pueden decir "chino" sólo por tener los ojos rasgados. "Ruso" a principios del siglo XX era un remoquete lunfardo que significaba "judío").
Oh, sorry everyone, we didn't realise RUclips is american, we're reverting back to english now lol
@@ekathe85 Exacto. También a mi melliza le decían "la rusa" o "polaca" de chiquita porque era bien rubia, de pelo lacio y ojos claritos. Sin embargo, ninguna de las dos teníamos parientes de sangre provenientes de Rusia o Polonia, era un apodo nomás xD
I've met a few Americans who told me "yea well, Europeans don't know where american states are on a map either" as if it was some kind of gotcha comeback. But they're not equivelant, They're not relevant on the world stage. Why would I need to know which rectangle is which cornfield state?
I wouldn't be surprised though if more Europeans were able to identify American states than Americans are able to identify European countries. The average European probably can't tell Utah from Colorado and Kansas on a map, but many Europeans could probably point to California, Texas, Florida, Alaska and Hawaii, because they are easier to tell apart. Imagine asking the average American to identify the German federal states, the four countries or even the counties of the UK, or the regions of France.
I’m European and I can identify most US states on the map. They’re so insular they presume everyone is as ignorant as themselves.
At least, we can recognize the USA on the map... some of them can't do it 😂😂😂
@@gabbathehut3235 There's plenty of Americans who don't know where all fifty states are or that the correct number is 50 to begin with, let alone where China and North Korea are.
There's a vast difference in ignorance levels here.
The rectangle states are not cornfield states.
I remember watching a video years ago of a black american woman talking about her experience in Spain. I remember her saying in the video that she was shocked by spanish people using the word "negro" very casually to refer to black people. She thought it had the same negative connotation (I imagine) it has in the US. The word 'negro' has no negative connotations in Spain, it just means 'black'. It is the only term to refer to black people in spanish.
In portuguese we have 2 words to refer to black, "Negro" and "Preto". And people often just choose wich one they like best. My friend likes "preto", a friend of my mother liked "negro" and I don't know why it's such a problem. "White" people aren't even actually white! I mean, some are, be not the majority.
And oh dear, I HATE, HATE when they call USA "America" or 'Americans". Argentina, Brasil, Caribe and so much other contrys are States united in America. It's like saying that EUROPE is a contry and I just can't >:(
When i was in the Army a black workmate told me a story how he offered to help an old white lady across the street. When they got to the other side she said "Thankya Darkie". He thought it was hilarious. She was polite but from a different time.
@@galaxiadoce2554 it's because they have not an official country name to refer to. They could call themselves an United Statesman or woman. I find it strange too.
I never understood the aversion to the word Negro. The horrible slur based on it is so different, it can't be mistaken for it.
Oh same here, the Philippines was colonized by Spain many years ago. 'Negro' and 'Negra' is use to describe a person with darker skin. There's even a place here called 'Negros Occidental'
4:20 this works both ways, I remember some british publisher used a command to change all instances of "pants" to "trousers" in some book that was written by an American, the outcome of it is such words as "occutrousers"
Ah, the clbuttic problem!
😂
“I have been running for ages!” He trousers.
@@icyandhoney3356 EXACTLY
"Wow, there are so many particitrousers !"
"How many Americans does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
Answer: "He just holds it up in the air and the whole World revolves around them."
Must be difficult when multiple Americans need to change the bulbs at once, do they all wait in line for the world to revolve for them?
@giftofthewild6665 Oh, that NEVER happens because made-in-USA light bulbs are the bigliest and bestest light bulbs ever made anywhere EVER!!
Nothing is better made than a true blue, red-white and blue, screamimg eagle MURICAN bulb.
They never need changing.
USA! USA! USA! 😂😂😂
@sman8491 That's one of the ugly images of the 21st century ... the hothead yelling "USA! USA! USA!" with the red face that ooks like he's straining on the toilet.
It's up there with trilling barbarians firing their Kalasnikovs in the air from the backs of Toyota pickups.
Ugly 21st century stuff that the World has had quite enough of ....
PWAHAHAHAHA 😂
America didn't exist before 1760. I am British, and even I know that LOL. Do you know what we call black British? We call them British.
LOL
I set my estimation of how old something is by when my school was founded. It's not a really Old School, it wasn't founded until 1722.
(Fun fact: Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.)
Same in Guatemala. A black Guatemalan is just Guatemalan. They still speak their own language aside Spanish, and still preserve some African culture, whereas in the US, they don’t have either. They far more removed from their ancestors.
@@simplyrowen I must confess, we don't have many black people in Shrewsbury, England. We have some brown people to run the corner shops, and yellow people to run the takeaways. Our largest minority seem to be Eastern Europeans.
We're mostly white and heterosexual. Oh well, one out of two's not bad.
@@garybarnes4169maybe call them asian not yellow
For the racist thing, I love a movie I can't recall about racists being racist:
White person asks: "Why do you call yourself black? You are more brown than black."
Black person replies: "Why do you call yourself white? You are more pink than white."
Perfect reply.
Babies might be pink. Most white people (outside of Britain) have a little bit of tan.
@@karlbmileswe aren't albinos here in murica
Cry Freedom is the movie
My husband is from Italy and I'm Canadian. When he was visiting the US, he was confused by some of the black and white talk he would casually hear. It's not as pronounced here as in the US.
He was like "I have brown hair, brown eyes, tan skin but they would call me white? It makes no sense."
Racists being racist lol , every race is, to a certain degree racist , at least if you're Caucasian and have pride in your heritage, you are . Every other race has black pride ,Asian pride, gay pride etc. ( you can't have white pride ) Every race that cries discrimination is more racist than the ones they accuse of being racist . Walk down a black township ( as a whiqte folk )if you wanna see and hear real racism at its strongest and most violent .the people who claim that racism is holding them back will always tell 1you how they've been wronged abused etc. and everybody else has privilege rather than try and get ahead and educate themselves and their kind they spout this crap over and over but have no ideas on how to change things except to drag down those they blame for getting themselves ahead , those who have struggled and worked hard for generations for their ' privilege ' whilst the others were watching and being 'held back and discriminated against ' truth is if you want to get somewhere , you have to work hard, not just complain at how wrong done by you are because of racism .
As an Australian i dread December where anything an Australian posts about summer time is flooded with comments of “why am I seeing this in December?” “Why do you need summer Christmas pjs?” And my favourite “but it’s winter?”
Laughing my ass off at my own reddit post, comments are going mental saying “this mf lives in the past” or “This mf proved the sun has a surface” now that one killed me 🤣
I remember an American when my dad who hates being filmed at the 2019-20 fires was called Santa because beard, someone literally had to correct them.
2:30 In Spanish, skin colors haven't racist meaning. In the cultures of Spain (Europe) or Latin America we haven't the same concept of "Race" as the USA. In fact, for the USA, a Mexican is a Hispanic (Hispanic -> from Hispania -> Spain, so European... yes, absurd) and a Spaniard like me, white with green eyes, is Caucasian (close to Russia, even more absurd). *In Spain you are what you are based on your nationality and we don't invent races. The skin color doesn't matter. USA YES INVENT RACES.*
What about Peninsulares, Criollos, Mestizos, and Mulatos?
@@NikiokoIn 1700 maybe, nowadays we don't really call anyone those. At most we differentiate between indígenas out of respect (and regrettably some without respect) and anyone else but that's it. We don't really have class based terms. We do call othere by skin color if needed tho, like moreno or güero
@@NikiokoFunny thing about that, is that during the colonial period they tried to classify people according to their race, but everyone mixed so much that they ended up with like 20 classifications and they ended giving up at a certain point. Nowadays I will say most people over here dont even know the mix of what they are😂.
@@Nikiokothose were from the spanish empire and aren't used anymore
@@SantiagoNogueira-gx3rg Not sure about Nikioko being American, but it's something I noticed with Americans : they can bring up stuff that happened or awas true decades if not centuries ago and rub it on your face as if it was relevant to the situation (or as if the concerned country did nothing about it).
But don't bring up Jim Crow laws and slavery, that's old news that obviously have absolutely no relationship whatsoever with any issues the USA might have currently.
I was born in India and so have brown skin, but I’ve grown up in England, so I am English by nature. When in America in 1999, I had so much fun on the greyhound because people were fascinated by how I spoke perfect queens English with my skin colour, then when I changed to an Australian, French, South African, Texas, Spanish, Russian accent (for my own amusement), it screwed their brains up.
They blue screened. 👤👤👤 Like some American operating system.
Bwahaha
😂😂😂
Being mulitlanguistic has in benefits 😁
🫡 Damn hero right here. Keep them on their toes my multilingual friend.
Came back from the States two months ago. I am 68 and I previously visited when I was 13. An American man said 'Oh, so you really haven't travelled much in your life!'. Well I am not one of the great world travellers as I have only lived in or visited 26 countries, but I think I probably have travelled to other countries more than him.
I would have laughed at him, don't worry pal - something like almost 50% of US citizens don't even have a passport.... they think going to Las Vegas when they live in Los Angeles is a "Holiday" and consider themselves "well travelled". Most arrogant, obnoxious, loud and rude bunch of people I've ever met.
If I never meet another American in my entire life I wouldn't care one jot.
@@iandodds5448 I'm sorry you encountered a moron so early upon return.
As an american , he probably hasn't travelled further than 30 miles from his front door.
Whatever you say, Grandpa, let's get you to bed
@@pohylioushe’s got a point tho
When I taught 4th grade in North Carolina my class partnered with a class in Australia to exchange letters. When we made Christmas cards I let them know that these would be the last messages, because after Christmas their pen pals would be done with 4th grade. After the ripple of "What?" "Already?" "Lucky!" I got out the globe. I pointed out the hemispheres and reminded them of what we had already gone over in science class about how seasons work. They understood the concept with the drawing of the northern hemisphere tilted toward the sun being labeled June and the one with the southern hemisphere tilted toward the sun being labeled December. Their 9-year-old minds just hadn't connected the dots between that information that they had learned in order to pass a science quiz with the reality of children in the southern hemisphere having their summer break at the opposite time of the year as their own. The Christmas cards were what finally made it click. Both classes emphasized this for the other. We made a point of sending cards with outdoor scenes covered in snow. They sent us cards with kangaroos and koalas out in the sun on the green grass and wearing Santa hats.
It's not much, but at least those are some American's that understand the season thing now.
thanks you saved a few americans
As a german who had to study about the nazi time for years in school, US Americans fixation on "race" (Which biologically doesn't make sense in the human species. The only race is homo sapiens. There are ethnicity and phenotype differences. But not race) is extremely disturbing to me
its an inherited misues of words, they are synonyms in everyday speech now
I studied biology too. Homo Sapiens is the human Genus Species within the Animal Kingdom. The races represent variations within the human Species that are not so great to cause infertility.
Americans were always big fans of eugenics, extreme patriotism, anticommunism, blonde hair and all of that, so there are some scary similarities between the two. To be honest, if Nazi Germany only kept bullying the Eastern side, the US would most likely not only be an ally, but also praise them for "pushing back communism".
I totally agree.
@@manfromdownunder9740 AFAIK the differences in human phenotypes are too little and too blurry to qualify as races, like those of dogs, cats, cows or whatever other animal with them.
Reminds me of being asked where i was from when i visited Florida, when I said I am Irish they said no you're Irish American. I said no, I'm Irish, born in Ireland. Person asking rolled their eyes and said thats what they all say 😂
They're a simple bunch. Wait til you tell them you have "dual nationality"... "Oh, so you're American then?"
@@ChampagneCosmeticsCruising Ireland? What state is that in? /s
That's impossible! The USA is the only country in the world!
/s
@@thefiestaguy8831 What you Europeans do not understand is one of the most important causes is the US Census & the way immigrants were treated. First, you have the problem of "one drop" of African blood classified a person as a Negro. Second, from 1850 to 1890, Irish and any central or southern European immigrant were listed as Non-White, only a half step above blacks. Third, from 1880 to about 1960 anyone with Irish, eastern or southern European heritage, no matter how many generations removed was treated as a second-class citizen at best. Therefore, it became VERY important for "good" immigrants like Germans, to remember and emphasize their heritage, while "bad" immigrants could never be allowed to forget theirs. As late as the 1979, the US media regularly made fun of "bad" immigrant heritage - Google "Polack or Wop Jokes". In response most Americans became super attached to their ethnic roots, celebrated their heritage, and made sure that their children & grand children would NEVER forget their ethnic roots.
They were right! Americans DO all say that!
Once had an IT mandatory training for a company I worked for. The company was a Danish company, but it’s massive and has international offices all over the world. The training was available in just about every language imaginable, and there was a simple mostly multiple choice question at the end to pass (which in itself is a very US American thing, but that’s not the story). The training had been created by on of the offices in the US and distributed to employees around the world.
There was a section of the test about emergency services (can’t remember why, since this was a training about IT), and the instructions were that if ‘x’ happened you should call 911. Not the emergency services in your country, but 911.
During the test basically the entire company had to answer one of the questions incorrectly in order to pass, because it specifically asked ‘which number do you use to call the emergency services’. And of course initially people entered their own emergency service numbers (999, 888, 119, 100, 112, 191, 117) but when they failed realised it was a US American who had written the test and likely a US American who had checked it (if checked at all). Lots of complaints about that one, followed by an apology issued from IT.
Hungary made 911 to work about ten years ago because Hollywood junkie teens tried to call it several times instead of 107 or 112. (Even my girlfriend called 911 once when she was drunk as a student.)
999 is the most common number. I think our Australian 000 is the least common.
@@robinharwood5044 I don't really know what kind of emergency '911' is for. In France, we have 15 for ambulances, 18 for firefighters (and their ambulances), and 17 for the police.
You know what else is massive? The low-taper fade meme!
We have 112 here in Sweden :)
As someone who dabbles with writing, is Australian and therefore does not spell like a North American, I can definitely confirm that not only do some NA's get upset about this, but are willing to give one star reviews to books that, whilst they have enjoyed the premise and characters within a book, will remove four stars for lack of the author being capable of spelling correctly... Yes, you read that right.
This is why many non-NA authors will place items of interest, such as The Authors Note on Language that you have read here, within the front of their novels.
Sadly, this does not stop the aforementioned one star reviews. I can only believe that those particular people skip to chapter one and damn anything that the author may have to say about their own work of art.
I put an Australian spelling disclaimer in the front of my novel and set the eBook to start on that page, but Amazon seems to override it and jumps straight to chapter one. So annoying.
@ Very much so.
Bands also need to change lyrics and song names so Americans can cope too.
Also heard s of bands having a American version of songs and even band names
@@gissyb1 ikr? So very inconsiderate of them to do this. *snark*
@@gissyb1 the same thing has happened for decades with book and film titles
As a Brit, I was "corrected" on RUclips once by an American, over the spelling of 'offence'. The American assumed he/she had hit me with a mic dropping comeback to my comment, with the simple retort:- '*offense'. I didn't have the heart to explain that 'offence' is the correct English spelling for English people, where the language of English was actually invented.
As an Australian I would have told him/ her. 😊
Just to avoid confusion, might put "invented" into quotation marks, or someone might think that English was actually an artificially created language like Esperanto.
@@smallwisdom8819 🤣
i got ask why i learned American in my German school....
i never learned American, we call it English, its a island off the coast from Belgium....
and since 2016, we call it silly island!
@@Arltratlo Was it really necessary to comment on British politics? Also, England is not an island; it's a country on the mainland of Great Britain, bordered by Wales to the west and Scotland to the north. To put it simply, England is not surrounded by sea.
It drives me mad the american defaultism on Microsoft products. They offer for us to pick UK English - but it still tries to correct you to the americanisms! why offer it as a choice if it doesnt work?!
'Merica claims freedom then lectures the world on how to do things.
Which is hilariously ironic because it is one of the least "Free" countries there is, and ranks much lower than the UK on any "Freedom index" scale.
My previous computer had this notion that all Canadians use the French keyboard, even when using English. The only way to get the English keyboard was to choose American English.
It's probably just for date formats and keyboard layouts.
Seems they don’t even bother to check if there are differences
The Internet, which is controlled by USA corporations is making sure that British spelling of various words are highlighted as errors that need to be corrected. In turn these computer programs are being used worldwide, despite your protests. Every computer’s spelling recognition pattern is simply noting any non-USA version of any English word must be classified as an error.
I was speaking to an American lady in her 70s. She was a former school teacher, which makes this so much worse..
She asked me if we have Christmas in Australia. 🤦♀️🙄
Did she ask if Australia will respect her 2nd Amendment rights because that's always a fun one
It isn't the ignorance that gets me, it's the addition of arrogance to that ignorance that's embarrassing 😅
Strong point
Americans have no shortage of confidence or arrogance, especially if it is undeserved.
@@mlpfanboy1701 if by confidence you meant the Andrew tate type "look at me and how great I am" fake confidence, I agree
@@bikesbirdsandbonsai2012 Brainwashing at work 😆
4:29 I have actually seen some Amazon reviews complaining that Jane Austen or Charles Dickens books weren't proofread since common words like "realize" or "color" were misspelled on every page...
🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
OMG!
Do they not know how to use the internet to look things up? Wikipedia will immediately tell you their nationality… 😂😂😂
Jesus christ
And i have seen so many Americans write period books set in the europe with American spellings and even newer slangs🤦♀️
3:00 I am Dutch there are some Dutch words that are censored too. For instance when speaking Dutch online I can't say "You can do this" in Dutch because that is "Je kunt dit doen" because "kunt" resembles a certain English word. I encountered this in several online game chats and also on Twitch were i was watching a Dutch streamer who streamed in Dutch and had set his chat language to Dutch.
What's even more ridiculous is that censoring "bad" words is only a thing in English speaking countries, and it's sad that other countries copy this BS practice too look cool and American.
Yes, there are perfectly normal Swedish words too, similar to certain English words, that sometimes get censored, or can't be used in passwords etc
here in England it's known as the Scunthorpe dilemma. Which is a place name, but filters pick up only 'S cunt horpe' and censor it
It's known as the Scunthorpe Problem after a town in England of that name which Spam filters, etc didn't like as it contains the word 'cunt'🤔🤣🤣🤣
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
What gets me is America clamps down on supposedly offensive words due to all the religious nutters there but, mass shootings of school kids due to it's insane gun laws is fine.
Personally I think they need to take a long hard look at their priorities.
There is a place in England called Scunthorpe, which often got blocked and so we have en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
@@GBPhilip How about the country of Montenegro? :D
Egypt is in North Africa, where ethnicity has been mixed for a long time due to trade, piracy, invasion and conquest.
Alexander The Great, the Macedonian warrior, conquered Egypt and expelled the ruling Persians at the time. The city of Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast was founded by Alexander.
Cleopatra was descended from the Greek/Macedonian Ptolemy family that took control of Egypt after the death of Alexander.
The Macedonian élite families intermarried probably to maintain bloodlines.
So the upper class would be the same as the conquerors, regardless of the ethnicity of the conquered people.
USA Doesn't even have an official language so when they are complaining about others not speaking english it is absolutely hämmentävää
Hämmentävää is finnish by the way. It means bewildering. I am allowed to speak other languages.
You still should have to speak the majority language of a country to live there; whether it's official or not
ON MY AMERICAN WEBSITE???!?!?
@@cloudyfromtpotreal i think you should speak the relevant language to the conversation, dont go into a mexican restaurant and then complain that people are speaking spanish inside, you can definitelly be annoyed if the workers cant understand you, but if they are speaking to each other in another language that is ok
@Sauvva_ I'm not gonna get mad at people for speaking Spanish, but my point was that since most people know English as a second language, it wouldn't be impossible to communicate, and if it was, it wouldn't be that hard to find another place where it isn't.
Yeah they have an official language. It is broken and misspelled English.
I have never seen the Cleopatra show, but if it is about THE Cleopatra, then the fact that she lived a few thousand years before the first African American was born should probably also be taken into consideration.
There's like nine Cleopatras if I remember right. The famous one is the sixth or seventh as I recall.
Edit: It was Cleopatra VII and fun fact she was half Greek.
I may be wrong but i remember that she might have been a greek princess that got married off to egypt. could be wrong, but she was def not black
@@oberoneledthar3782Not quite. Cleopatra VII was of part Greek heritage but her relationships were actually with Romans namely Mark Antony and Julius Caesar. She wasn't married off to anyone, she was the full monarch of Egypt.
Cleopatra was part of the Ptolemaic dynasty who claimed descendants of Ptolemy who was a general of Alexander the Above Average
The show in question related to in video, is particularly bad, as it insults egyptian history and heritage, to the point it was considered a diplomatic insult by the Egyptian government and people. As its blackwashing, and Americanizing their own culture. Which the egyptians really, really really hate, as their own past as a subject of Both Turks and British in the past rubs them the wrong way.
For Finland we have 2 subreddits. One intended for native speak and of course inside jokes and cultural things that don't really translate to English or foreigners and one in English so people around the world can discuss all things Finland. France subreddit being in French doesn't really strike as odd in any way
same thing for r/Lithuania and r/Lietuva. We just ignored that unwritten rule and continued writing in our language. If you really want to know what are we writing about, just add an addon to your brower that translates everything. Literally takes 5 minutes.
@95DreadLord Switzerland, with its at least 4 national subreddits (Italian, German, French and English (I didn't check if the one in Rumantsch exists))....
r/Norway and r/norge too.
Problem being that France is written the same in French and English. However there's /AskFrance where English is accepted (there's French messages too, either from Francophone people or people who are learning the language).
And Every now and there there are message in English on France, and they are usually answered, granted the OP doesn't make a fuss about the subreddit being all in French.
Still one of the nationalities that usually stubbornly keeps talking in their native language where other nationalities adapt to English online so we can all communicate, often in games with VOIP, making a French team within an international team.
Polish being another one, nothing wrong being proud of ur language but its very impolite in those situations, English isn't my native language either.
I'm in Taiwan. On CNN they will say "Good morning" and I sarcastically say "It's evening. Look outside."
I usually write stuff down in blue ink, but for more important stuff I use an African-American pen to write in African-American ink. It pops up when reading it.
Can you also select African American as your text colour in word?
@@stephenlee5929 Yes indeed I can, although recently the African-American mode is widely used so I usually use white colour for text and African-American for background.
There is also the African-American swan in Swan Lake, wich is Russian.
@@stigolarReal, live, African-American swans are indigenous to Australia, which complicates matters even further ...
@@stigolar The African-American Swan is actually native to Australia.
Would it be acceptable to say “the color of my car is African American”? I'm a foreigner and don't know all the details
Nah, you can only say "African-American" when referring to someone's ethnicity. You can't use it as a replacement for actual colors. You would probably seem very weird if you said that.
@@TheAugmentedMan1 Thanks for the clarification. To foreigners it looks like to Americans it is a politically correct name for the color. Literally, skin color
@SavkinAnton Yeah, sometimes Americans don't know how their own terms work.
Black: This means someone has a dark skin color regardless of what continent they come from
African: They live in Africa. It doesn't matter if they are white or black. If they were born and live in Africa, the correct term is African
African-American: Can be used for someone who was from Africa and moved to America.
However, a lot of people use it for people born in America who have ancestors from Africa, and enough people use it that way that it's an acceptable use of the term.
Anyway, that's the correct way all these terms are used. But sometimes Americans assume someone is African American if they are black even if they come from somewhere else.
LMAO 😂😂😂😂
The joke was excellent, but the ridiculously serious conversation that come after is even more funny I can't 😭😂😂
@unpetitpingouinsauvage6 You're one joking around here. He specifically wanted to know how the term was used here, so I answered the question, and we learned something new. What's your problem with that?
You can't expect everyone to know everything unless they ask questions first. That's like how all of human knowledge has been gained and passed down. Do you have a problem with learning or something?
6:00 Of course, it makes perfect sense for all the French people that don't know English to learn English just so they can post in a subreddit about their own country
Thing is nearly all countries have subs for the native tounge and for english speaking people. You can differenciate them by the subs beeing named in native tounge. Germany r/germany for english and r/de for german, Italy r/italy for english, r/italia for italian or poland with r/poland for english and r/polska for polish. France is litterlay the only European country that doesn't do it that way. Especially since the sub is named in english and not in french.
@@_LOGA_ If anyone would post on r/de like this, the comments section would go crazy with "Sprich deutsch du Hurensohn!" XD
@@_LOGA_ the sub is named in french, France is spelled the same way in both language, english is just 33% bad pronounced french, 33% worst pronounced nordic and 33% even worst german and all that over simplified to make it easy to learn, that even american can (barely) speak and write it.
@@MrGroConnard r/confidentlyincorrect
What is the French for "France", then ? @@_LOGA_
5:55 "Edit: Touchy bunch" You really went to insult french in r/france what did you expect???
I was talking to an american earlier this week and we were at the subject of ancient greece. Then i asked him if he knew in what year the battle of Marathon was. He answered 1976, when i specifically said it was ancient greece. I didn't expect the person to get it right, but when you answer 2466 years wrong that's more than not knowing
An American woman told me the Salem witch trials ended in 1963, and accused me of being a witch. But then she's BS!C about a lot of things.
@@Shan_Dalamani My immediate reaction to that was: I don't know exactly when the Salem witch trials were, but I'd imagine it was a lot closer to 1693 than 1963. _Googles._ That's the correct year. Okay, easy mistake to make, but surely with a bit of common sense you'd question something like that being in the mid 20th century? Then I read the bit about her accusing you of being a witch. Right, about that common sense thing...
Similarly with the battle of Marathon. I don't know a lot about ancient history, but is "a few centuries BC" really so much to ask? Or at the very least _ancient history._
@@TheMoonRover She's basically nuts, making all sorts of claims I know are wrong. I gave up trying to explain everything to her, because she's one of these people who prefers to make up her own reality and to hell with anyone who shows her proof that she's wrong.
Lol it's living proof that Jimmy Carter comes from Ancient Greece (long live, Mr President)
I grew up in South Africa. Yes, I saw snow as a child but only after we drove like 2 hours to go up into the mountains. And the first time I ever saw it actually snowing was when I was in Germany and about 26 years old.
I experienced snow on the ground in the Gauteng Province of South Africa four or five times in the last 65 years.
@@sharonmartin4036I life near Centurion and sadly it never snowed, it did reach very cold temps which killed me but no snow
Sounds like you from Durban.
@@Mountain_Lake_Adventures Cape Town. I've actually never been to Durban.
Im Australian, 49, and have never seen snow and no desire to ever see it. I don't do cold. The snow is about 5 hours of flights or a 4 day drive from where I live.
Is Elon Musk African-American? He was born in South Africa, after all.
No, he is South African. Not a drop of American blood (whatever that is) in him. His father was South African and his mother was British.
@@deter1k I somehow have the feeling that’s a rhetorical question
@@deter1k Nor of African blood I suspect. Probably a mixture of British and Dutch? I don't really know or really care...
Elon's mother was born in Canada, that's why he moved here and got Canadian Citizenship thru his mother. I hope he gets rid of it. We don't want this conman associated with Canada.
Elon is African-American, he was born in South Africa and immigrated to America legally.
There was a recent thing about something coming out for $7USD, but it was a lot more expensive in other currencies so people weren't happy about it, and SO many people were like "It's JUST $7, that's not a lot of money, stop complaining"
They could not even fathom the idea of people having a higher price because of being in a different country lol For me as a Canadian, it was nearly $15, which is a big jump! Let alone in places like South America! I'll never understand how some people think their country is the only one to exist lmao
12:52 I'm also Australian and I *DID* learn about US states* in school but it wasn't because "It's America, you have to know this" it was just a _small_ part of learning about the rest of the world, not even a full lesson was spent on it.
*I'm aware of the tautology of saying 'United States states' 👍
I don’t blame my fellow young americans we aren’t taught anything in history outside our own and ww1 and ww2 and the korean war the vietnam war and the cold war thats it….. just as far out of just our own history as we get it’s shameful…
I did projects on America, Japan, and a lot of European history when I was at school too. I think we had a very international education in Australia in the 1970's, well at least I did......
@@IVALKYRIE925We are required to take one full year of exclusively World History (Human Geo, Advanced Placement European History), and then one full year of US History. And even in AP US History, things from Euro (which I took last year) help US History make sense as you understand things in a global context. I’m in California by the way
@@Shaia_TeamLCE im sitting here shaking my head. It cant be. Why has no one in the world ever met you. Proofs in the pudding im afraid.
I'm French and working for a big WW company. So we are using english with our colleagues over Europe, Asia, and NA. BUT especially for confusing the NA ones I pay attention to use the date coding DD/MM/YYYY, the 24hour time instead or PM or AM and obviously the metric system. they have to adapt to the uses that are common outside.
Canadians are also North American and use all those things, we elder citizens are proudly fluent in both metric and imperial. Many of us have trouble remembering Fahrenheit and miles per hour though because it's been so long but anyone under 50 won't remember the old system at all. Ironically with 2 official languages, most of us in Ontario speak little or no French .
@@janetraats7380 of course I mean USA, but they call themselves NA in the company as a regional area.
But please make it YYYY-MM-DD or at least DD.MM.YYYY to make it less ambiguous.
YYYY-MM-DD is the only logical scheme - positional notation taken to its logical conclusion. We already write millennia before centuries, centuries before decades and decades before years. It's just a question of also writing years before months and months before days.
@@to_loww As someone in China pointed out, the majority of the world uses YYYY/MM/DD - which is the default in most of Asia anyway as well as for most computer users - or DD/MM/YYYY. Then you have the USA.
1:30 Cleopatra was of Greek and Macedonian ancestry, by the way. She was the last heir of the Ptolemaic dynasty; Ptolemaios I had been one of the generals of Alexander the Great who split Alexander's empire between themselves after his death; and Egypt had been one of the first conquests by Alexander.
Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals. Ptolemy reigned Egypt after Alexander's death in 323 B.C.
@@DanDownunda8888why would she need to trace her family her parents were from Greece am sure she knew her own family as they were white been European lol she's European
The Macedonians were an ancient Greek people so she was Greek
@gregorygant4242 there all mixed race because the greeks invaded every were but yes it us Greece only greeks invaded Egypt before the Romans lol but Turkey is alsi mixed with greeks abd spainish so on si hard ti tell if she full Greek or even mixed race with African because the kings used to have sex with the slaves lol u don't think anyone knows who her mother is but yes all we know is she's Greek tribe
Cleopatra VII*
The Australian rugby team were in Scotland a few weeks ago and none of the players had ever seen snow until that.
@ Apparently they mustn’t have. They were fascinated by it.
I live in north queensland lots of children haven't seen snow. Not everyone travels or can afford to travel.
@Jem-w6h Yes. Millions of British kids have never seen the sun 😐
Well we have snow in Australia
@@terrybarrett2368 I didn’t see anyone say you didn’t. But none of the current Wallabies squad have ever seen it.
The worst thing about the snow on is they didn't even consider all the parts of the US that probably don't get snow. Like Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam
Actually, Hawai'i does get snow up on the high volcanoes where they have the telescopes.
You know Guam is not a state. It’s a territory. They can’t even vote in your elections. It’s US soil, an unincorporated territory.
@@Sharon-bo2seI think this person refers to the fact that it doesn't snow. Volcanos have snow in the top around the crater because it is really high and the temperature creates snow there.
@CarolinaBluko you know that and I know that but are you sure that person is on the clue bus?
It’s never snowed in Florida, either.
As a Brit, I've never really understood the whole African American or black American thing!
To me, you'd simply be American.
We don't say in the UK, if you were born here or legally become a Brit, African British/ English or Black English, you're simply English.
If you are born in a country or legally become a citizen of that country, then you simply are, or at least should be, a person of the country.
I think perhaps the reason there seems to be, although of course, maybe not as many think, racism still in America is because people refer to each other and even themselves in this way.
What skin colour you are or your dependency really isn't so important.
Yes, it may be important to you and your family to know and understand your families history but on day to day living, it's not.
If you were born there or legally became a citizen there then simply call yourself an American or whatever, depending on the country.
Stop being so focused on skin colour, instead, focus on becoming a better version of you.
I, for example, have both Irish and Welsh family on each side yet i don't call myself Irish or Welsh English/ British, I'm simply English or British.
I like knowing my families history as it's interesting to know how I came to be and where from but I know myself as being English/ British.
If i was to move to America and become a citizen there then I wouldn't want to be English American or British American, i would simply be American.
This is why I also don't get why someone from Ireland would call themselves Irish American, you're simply American.
It is, however, only something I've ever seen happen in America.
As far as I'm aware, I don't know of any other country that refers to people this way.
Lenny Henry was once on an American talk show and had this argument with him when they called him "African-British" he also pointed out his family are Jamaican!
Give it time… we’ll be forced to say “Afro-Carribean” or some other shit like that before we know it. Given the amount of American culture being imported into the UK
@sarahglover3286 I don't blame him either!
Not only is every black person not necessarily African, they are American if they become an American citizen.
I feel people spend way too much time and focus way too much on these things.
Skin colour really isn't all that important.
What's important is the type of person you are, how you treat others and yourself etc.
Yes, there can be terrible people in the world but those people can be white, black and any other colour in between.
People should be treated as people, on and individual level, not by the colour of their skin or where they may have grown up.
@hashbrown1392 Yeah, with the way this country is going, I wouldn't be surprised.
@@JONSEY101 A lot of people in the UK are blissfully unaware that what they’re doing are Americanisms in the first place. Some examples I’ll name that I find increasingly common are:
Brit instead of Briton or British
Any spelling with Z instead of S in words like Realise
Any spelling with S instead of C in words like Defence
Tire instead of Tyre
Fall instead of Autumn
The missing U in the word Colour
Writing the date as December 20th instead of 20th December
I would mention “mom” instead of “mum” but apparently that’s also the Brummie dialect, so I’m not sure on that one
On “Threads” there have been a few posts complaining about the spelling of words like colour, favour etc, and saying that people “should just stop” putting the u in. It is North America that leaves it out while most of the rest of the English speaking world leaves it in. America did not invent the English language.
I'm Canadian. We learned to spell honour, labour, , etc. with a U. American spelling was considered an alternative, but frowned upon in school.
i got ask in the USA if i ever been to a foreign country....i am from Europe, i am in the USA....how more foreign you can get!
Did they know you are from Europe?
@@TheAugmentedMan1 i told him 2 mins before i am from Europe....!
also, i got a strong accent, English is just my 2nd or 3rd language!
but i also got the question if i have electricity in my village....
i told him also before,
i am from a town of over 40.000 people and electrician from profession!
but the cake was, he even ask me if we have cars...
i am from the country where the guy invented the car...
@Arltratlo Damn, guess he forgot there are over a billion English speakers and not all of them live in one country 🤣.
I'm all for nationalism and all, but I still hate it when people think they are the center of the world, and they assume other places are non-developed
@@ArltratloI think the dude might have been messing with you to be honest
@@IDraw99 no, his 10 years old son tried to explain it to him that i am currently in a foreign country, he even showed him a map from his school book...daddy didnt got the memo while i been there!
05:45 That's not how it works. To be technical: Yes, the company has its headquarters in the US (San Francisco), but they have Servers around the world for performance reasons. It is _WAAAAAY_ faster to access reddit on Servers in Australia, if you are living in Australia. It actually makes a big difference. So technically speaking: Reddit does not belong to a specific country. If the US get's cut off from the Internet tomorrow, you can access Reddit anyway.
Yeah, that's for all of the internet.. it's decentralised and international!
I mean the Internet was invented in Switzerland, so why aren't we talking in Swiss-German, French, Italian or Rumansh? The Internet is clearly Swiss! 😂
Are you sure? I'm not familiar with Reddit specifically, but in case of sites in general, I'd imagine the satellite servers would still need constant access to the main servers. While users usually use the sites' servers constantly just in their home countries, they might travel abroad (or might just use VPN), and they'd want to still access the site. That's why user accounts are site-wide and could be used through any of the servers, which means that the information must be synced rather quickly. And I'd assume that the servers in the site's home country would be coordinating the syncing. That's why I'm assuming that losing access to the main servers would quickly make the satellite servers stop working until they can again sync with the main one.
Not always. It depends if the servers are independent domains or offshoots. If they're offshoots the main server or HQ going down would effect all the service on a website.
Yeah like mcdonalds might be american but if you go to a McDonald's in france they'll speak french to you.
That's not the point. I don't think BMW has only german available for the various displays in their cars in the US - and civilized units like km/h while we're at it :D
"I refrain from correcting anyone on anything, unless I'm a 100% certain."
That is a really good rule to set for yourself. Good for you, Ryan. More people should have the epistemic humility to think like that.
Or people are 100% sure of things they are wrong about.
I was doing the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain on my bicycle. I met this two people from the US who were walking it and they still had about a month to go. I told them they would finish right before temperatures reached into the upper 30s (as a Spaniard - I'm also Mexican- I was of course talking in Celsius). Without pause, they asked "How much is that in Farenheit?" The asumption is that the whole world needs to learn to speak in their terms rather than they bothering to learn what are not only the local customs, but the customs of basically everwhere except the US, Liberia and Myanmar.
At least they are aware you are talking in Celsius. They just don't know how to convert Celsius into Farenheit.
@@kencube86 Yeah, if they didn't know, they didn't know. Fault them for not knowing if you must, but I don't see how you can fault them for asking.
2:11 some Americans are so scared to say black that African American has replaced black and carries no other meaning. I 100% had someone tell me a story about a black man from England playing drums in a band in England and they said "there's an African American guy playing drums now." I just smiled and let him go on.
Lmao that's so dumb 😂 Black is a skin colour, not a slur.
@7:45 - The Ivory Coast is a country. Africa is a continent. Ivorian is the term they're looking for.
1. I challenge Americans to try and name all the federal subjects of, let's say, Russia (to keep them big) on a map and compare it to the average European's knowledge on the USA geography.
2. Another problem in the "foreign language" question is that in many countries people learn more than one foreign language.
We in Russia have 89 federal subjects. It's a bit more than 50 states XD
@@admiraladriel8781 let them call 10
The worst part is that America is a *continent* and like, 90% of its countries speak Spanish (90% is an exaggeration I don’t know the actual percentage)
Seen recently : "You can't use the term Indian, Native American is correct. -Dude, I'm from India and my parents are Indians"
dont tell an American, they will ask where you hide your feather hat??
Um actuscully the correct term is Asian. 🤓 /s
@Arltratlo I won't be surprized if they ask someone of Cherokee or Navaho are they still riding the elefants and worship Sheeva)))
@@AIHumanEquality No, for some reason a lot of Americans don't consider India to be an Asian country. I've seen Americans have a full on argument about how India OBVIOUSLY isn't in Asia, because that's China, duh!
Bravo. Columbus assumed he was in the Indies and was encountering Indians.
What irks me is when there's a great online course or Live I want to join, but it's in America and they don't put the proper timezone. They put the cryptic EST as though I'm supposed to magically understand what they mean. Australia has EST as well, so wtf am I supposed to do with your version? And please don't get me started on the state abbreviations. All I know are the basic NYC, LA, SF (which I'm pretty sure is San Francisco? Unless I'm wrong lol). I think that's it, because like that comment in the video said, I really don't care 😂
Please, anyone - not just in the USA - if you host an online course or Live, please put the country, state (actual name), date and time so we can easily search what it would be for us, otherwise you risk losing potential customers.
No hate to anyone! Just an observation and my personal experience 💓
Same, I get really annoyed with this as well. I only know GMT (UK) and I make calculations based on IST (India Standard Time) even though I don't live in India and I get sooo annoyed when they put UTC, EST or whatever and I have to google what it means.
Btw LA is a city... but yea why should we know us states it's irrelevant to most of us.
@@gissyb1 I know I put state, but I meant general abbreviations. Again, I don't know jack shit about the US aside from what I see in shows/movies and on TV/RUclips lol. I hardly pay attention to things in Australia let alone other countries 😂
I agree Rusn, never correct other people unless you're SURE - but that's the thing with some US Americans; they sre so confident in their ignorance
And arrogant. Don't forget the arrogance.
I remember playing Guild Wars back in the day, and one of my guild mates made a comment of "Argh! Noooo, I died!" and then another guild mate said "Dyed*". You can bet your ass he was American.
What's worse is that in Guild Wars, dyes were a dropped item. Sure, it was one of the rarer drops to customise your armour, but also sought-after, so he should definitely know the difference between dye and die.
If the author was Irish they would be Zeds not Zees. 😉
19 seconds ago
Came here looking for this comment.
But if they were being considerate of the intended audience they would have imported some Zees for this purpose.😁
@@stephenlee5929Don't you mean Irish American Zeds?
Z is Zed. Zs are Zeds.
Love the vids mate! Always a good laugh 😂. Much love from Australia brother ❤
By the way, they are not "zees"! They are "zeds"!😂
Zeducks
Agree. A character in Shakespeare, no less, has the line "Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!" Look it up!
zets!
In context of the rest of this video wether it is zee or zed is the least of my concerns honesltył
Yes! "Zee" is not a letter in English. As someone who has lived all his life in English speaking countries (both in Northern And the Real Hemispheres) it infuriates me when 'Merkin's use this nonsense made up letter and pretend they are speaking English - when they have just proved that they are wittering on in the crap made up language that is 'Merkin!
The one with learning foreign languages is even funnier because it is an only one choice poll, so Americans can't even fathom the idea that people might study MULTIPLE foreign languages in school the way it's common in Europe outside of the UK and Ireland.
😂😂
English is the world's language now. Yes, many countries have the children learn a second language, but it's always English for good reason. I grew up in a different time, so I studied German and French in school into college. I lived in Korea a year but never bothered to learn the language. I lived in the Netherlands for a year, and found I could stumble through a German conversation with them, but why bother when we all spoke English? I also lived in Buenos Aires for 6 months and my company gave me a Spanish tutor, but the their Spanish is so different from the Mexican Spanish I'm more familiar with, the teaching was mostly useless. Today I find most languages totally useless. I do learn Spanish because I interact with many Hispanics in my real estate/construction activities.
Excuse me but it is also common in England. Schools here teach Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, Latin, German & Greek to my certain knowledge. There might be other languages taught which I haven’t experienced. Any combination of those and others but what they don’t teach is American English.
Here in Australia you are much more likely to be studying an Asian language at school than a European one as they are much more useful for us (most Europeans also speak English and most of our close trading partners are from Asia). I was surprised that common languages like Japanese, Mandarin and Indonesian were not on the list.
@@booker0110 Is it compusory or optional though? Because foreign language profficiency in pretty low in the UK compared to mainland Europe.
It can be quite funny seeing non-rugby-familiar Americans (which is the vast majority of Americans) struggle with the name of the New Zealand national rugby team: the All Blacks.
Their minds are completely blown by the name of the New Zealand national basketball team! 🤣
A while ago I worked with a black American whilst he was in Australia. He couldn't understand how the All Blacks got their name when there were no blacks in the team.
@@chriswatson7965 that's like asking why it was called "The Beatles" when every one was human, or "Queen" when there wasn't even a royal there not even a woman 😭
Americans:
"Dats racist"
Also Americans:
"Hey maw, there's a blaccckkk kid at the door, go get the gun".
@@NessieNice Also, black people don't have a monopoly on the word "black", just like white people don't have a monopoly on the word "white". "Black" and "white" can describe all sorts of things which have nothing to do with a person's skin colour or origins.
@@chriswatson7965Was the Yank blind???? He could have worked out the team’s name by looking at their playing kit if he’s bothered to think about it. Sounds like another stupid Seppo. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.
When my son went to the USA from South Africa, he was asked how can he come from Africa and not be black. lol So after he got his green card he was basically African American but not black lol
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I remember I made a Thanksgiving themed drawing and posted it up. Someone tried to correct me by saying Thanksgiving is in November - I'm Canadian, we have Thanksgiving in October. I wasn't even the one to point that out, other people did.
What is "thanks giving"? I am Indian, by the way. Original Indian. Not "east" Indian. Just Indian. Because my country was named (by other ignorant white invaders) after a major river on our western boundary - the Indus river.
@@toonedinIt's so good to someone referring to themselves as just INDIAN.
"Indians from the north and south" have so much beef with each other. It's painful to watch my own country being split apart. But you guys are the chillest ones.
@@I_am_doomed Thanks for the good words. But I was addressing the Americans who refer to us as "east Indians" because to them their native indigenous aboriginal inhabitants whom Columbus misnamed as _Indios_ are their Indians, not us.
That we tend to refer to ourselves as north- or south- Indians is an entirely different discussion from that going on here in the comments of this video.
I feel like im gonna feel this some day, right now i get confused every november and think “why are they so late?” or “why am i getting this now?”
@@toonedin Not many Americans know that Canada has two official languages, English and French. And they don't seem to understand why.
8:35 Opposite has happaned in Finland. When I was growing up, it was very rude to refer to people by colour. You said dark skinned or light skinned. And this was in no way tied to any made up human races. Plenty of North Africans, Middle Easterns, and Asians were also called light skinned. This has changed due to the influence of the English language and USian racial politics. Now in Finland even the news speak about black/white/brown people and human races, which until very recently was understood to be a racist concept because scientifically speaking there are no human races and this kind of thinking was famously promoted by the nazis.
This happend in past centuries before. Not since the nazis saying it.
13:09 Being from Sweden we always have to except that most Americans don’t know the difference between Sweden and Switzerland (other side of Europe). And of course they also think that all swedes are blond and blue eyed. Do you know how offensive those stereotypes are? 😔🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
And what about the other confusion : Austria- Australia ?
I'm Australian and people think we all sound like Crocodile Dundee and go surfing every day.
@@CasperV1982 G'day mate. How's loif upside down? That's not a noif. THAT's a NOIF!😂
@noneofyerbeeswax8194 we don't speak like that.
In Britain we were taught about all countries, obviously some much more than others. Where they were, the capitol, language currency, main features, and the products. Also outside affiliations if relevant, eg. if part of the Commonwealth, or a Spanish or Dutch colony etc..
just yesterday. One guy posted in FB group about my favorite game.(Its 7.00 am why servers are so full and I can`t connect? go to your jobs!) at that time it was like 4.00 pm in Czech Republic
I have never seen a Skyscraper , I have never been on a Subway , I have never eaten a Mac Donalds , I have never been on a Plane , I have never gone through a Revolving Door , I live in the Middle of Wales 🏴
Holy crap 🤣 @daidavies6210. Think how many firsts you have to look forward to doing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
*McDonald's
6:07 why arent we all speaking chinese on tiktok and speaking french on snapchat? if you post in english people will be more than willing to respond in english for any questions you have about the location
I visited the states on a holiday and someone asked me where I was from I was like “oh! I’m from New Zealand.” They then responded “that’s the little Australian island right?”
OMG I nearly screamed in the middle of the street
the very term african american is an oxymoron, you are either born in an african country or you are born in america, no matter your skin colour you are american if you were born there.
So the Black Panthers need to be called African-American Panthers now? :)
It can be quite funny seeing non-rugby-familiar Americans (which is the vast majority of Americans) struggle with the name of the New Zealand rugby team: the All Blacks.
Their minds are blown by the name of the New Zealand basketball team! 🤣
@@MelODeon-l9b Thanks for that, had to look it up but well worth it.😊
😂
The new Marvel movie: African-American Panther! 🤣
African-American eyed peas now?
I lived in the US, California in 1977, and remember that in my first day of class, at Pleasant Hill High, when the teacher introduced me to the classmates, someone said "You're not American," (because of my black hair). I replied, I am American ..... South American ..... then asked "why do you have British accent then" ..... They had never heard about Chile (except for mexican chili) and that there were British and German schools here (Redland School and Deutsche Schule in Santiago). They used to call me Chilianna ..... That was fun. I still keep friendship with many of them. 😊
As a Puerto Rican I can confirm we're treated like we're immigrants when we move to the states
5:31 okay, Reddit, Facebook, LifeJournal, etc is American, but what does WWW before every "american" site means then? Especially two first W's? Just asking...
World wide (W)america :)
😂😂😂
I'm German. I saw a vidio, there was two German tourists in USA in a train, they were talking in German.
Suddenly a american woman in this one train, she shouted the two german mens, they must talking in englisch, she was extremly aggressive. As a German I'm shocked 😢
She ended up losing her job over it.
@@brightonbabe2139 it wasnt her first rodeo on booze.
such i have no symphaty for her, she knew that she reacts bad on alcohol and did it anyway.
@Kiwi-Araga she was drunk.
@Kiwi-Araga actually happens a lot in our tourist cities here in Sweden which is why the work requirement often is that you have to speak one of German, Italian or French.
talked with two german tourists in german at the airport in Greensboro n.c. Result = was strip searched in security.
Plural for "American" is "Americans". No apostrophe. Adding an apostrophe makes it a possessive form.
Genitive.
And 'pedantic' describes someone who doesn't know how spell-checkers work.
He was showing his own murican side
@@karlbmiles I think you might wanna check out a dictionary.
It's obvious, isn't it?🙂
the first one misses the point that she died around 1500 years before the USA even gained independence
i believe all white Americans need to be called European Americans.hehehe
Anglo-Americans!!
@@antoniogarcialopezvazquez4806 Actually for Americans of European backgrounds, they are further broken down into Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans, etc. Those designations are actually part of the US Census law based on ethnic heritage, not color or race or nationality.
EU-Americans : D
@@Csakbetksszmok Eumericans
@@gregorybiestek3431 No, "race" and ethnicity are surveyed independently and can be any combination.
A few years ago, in the UK, the commonly used phrase ' coloured people' was deemed insulting, and we were told that 'black' was the preferred term. Now, it seems the preferred terminology is 'people of colour'.
The whole colour thing is ridiculous as human skin tone are shades of brown. We all have brown skin from very pale to very dark.
White and black is a social construct.
Only around the kind of white people who like to make a fuss on behalf of 'people of colour' and presume to speak for them. All my black mates call themselves 'black'.
@@katel7309except for the guy that i saw when i was 15 during a trip, he has blue skin because of superstitious silver ingestion😂
"People of colour" is subtly insidious as it implies that everyone who isn't wallpaper-white is part of some monolithic "other".
This guy is becoming one of my favourite creators on RUclips!
Super relatable to me as a Canadian living in Sweden haha
He is not a creator, his videos are parasitic.
@@Phiyedough Yeah, I like Ryan because he seems to be quite sensible and doesn't talk all the way through the video like some reactors, but he doesn't create original videos of his own, like for instance Girl Gone London.
@@robcrossgrove7927I too like Ryan. I like his Australian videos.
He's a reactor, not a creator.
I don't remeber from who did I get this story, but it says that when he went to USA and telled to many people that he's from argentina, most of them literally said "No, you're not" becouse he's withe. wtf
14:19 Funny that one of the states Village-Physical chose as states without snow is precisely Nevada, when "Nevada" is Spanish for "Snowy". 🤣
"Sierra Nevada" = "Snowy Mountain"...
47 years ago, snow fell in South Florida for the only time in recorded history
i came into the comments literally just to say that nevada has snow lmao they couldn't even get that right
Sierra means "Saw". The jagged peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountain range resemble saw teeth. Montana is a U.S. state, and means mountain in Spanish.
@@karlbmilessierra also means hill tho
- native Spanish speaker
@@karlbmiles Sierra is also considered mountains/hills. For example, in Perú we can separate the country in three regions: Costa, Sierra y Selva which refers to the desert, the mountains and the amazon ^^
Remember until the 1940s America had a policy of isolationism so no wonder the nation is so unaware of the rest of the world.
I guess when Americans talk about Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq etc, then they imagine somewhere outside of Earth.
I actually had the experience of trying to explain to an American customer service agent that I, a Canadian customer, really did have an account with them - because to the agent, Canada is in Europe and they don't deal with people "overseas."
I informed her that if she wanted to come to my city, all she needed to do was go outside and walk north. It would take awhile, but she'd get here eventually - and not cross even one inch of ocean.
In Greece I got a question from an American if he could drive with a rental car from Athens to the island of Santorini. When I said "No" and told him it takes 7 hours by conventional ferry and 5 hours by high speed ferry he got upset and asked how I would know that. Huh? Maybe because I live and work here?
@@pvdppvdp6638 Obviously they should break out the superduper high speed ferry for him.
I was chatting with an American couple in British Columbia, in the month of August. They mentioned they were looking forward to going to Alberta (neighboring province in Canada) and seeing the Calgary Stampede (world-class rodeo).
They were shocked when I told them they would have to wait until next year, because the Stampede only runs for a couple of weeks in July. They said, "We thought it runs all year!"
Since Calgary, like most of Canada, gets snow for 6-7 months of every year... no, they don't have year-round rodeos, though they did do a mini-indoor rodeo for the tourists in 1988.
Cleopatra was actually Macedonian but I'm nitpicking
While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals.
Yes, a *highly inbred* Macedonian.
(A non-inbred person has 128 fifth-great-grandparents - Cleopatra had a total of just 20.)
So, even claiming she might be mixed race is ludicrous.
Cleopatra was Macedonian like modern Americans are Irish and Scottish because their great-great-grandpa was an Irish or Scottish immigrant. If we are to make fun of them (and we should), then we shouldn't be making double standards about historical figures.
@@Darkprosper The real answer is who cares. Cleopatra is a historical figure, her skin color is completely trivial.
Yes, but she definitely wasn't African American 🤣
I had an aquaintance from the US who spent a good half an hour arguing with an Italian friend of mine that they were pronouncing the word pasta incorrectly. The person from the US couldn't even speak Italian, while my friend was a native speaker. It was the sheer overwhelming confidence in their belief that they were right that flummoxed us, even after they found out that the person they were correcting was actually Italian.
That poll is stupid in multiple respects. I studied English, German _and_ French in the equivalent of what you call high school. And that’s not special at all.
This old joke sums up the subject:
What is a person that speaks several languages called? - Multilingual or a Polyglot.
What is a person that speaks 2 languages called? - Bilingual
What is a person that only speaks 1 language called? - American.
I think I may have found a fellow Dutchy
I'm a native French speaker (Québec Canada), in school I learned English then Spanish and in university Italian. You should learn a language for the richness of the different cultures. The more things you learn the richer you are.
@@nancystowell4877 Use up that joke while you can. I would say that a lot of Americans speak Spanish too.
@@fedodosto3162 Who is going to study German for a year on the off chance they will visit Germany one day? Because when I'm in Germany, I just speak English and everybody is happy. Sure, I could say Wein instead of Wine, or Milch instead of Milk, but why bother when I can just say Beer?