I like how Ricky Gervais said it: "Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid."
@@Paul_C OH NO! Somebody uses a phrase that was true in 1 situation also happens to be true in another! Oh the horror! I guess that phrase cut you up like a sharp knife.
You say many Americans "care" about places such as Mexico or China. I think you're wrong. They care only insomuch as these places are viewed as threatening to the US. Few know anything about these countries' people, history, lifestyle, geography, or domestic politics. This is where the US in unique.
Saying the US is unique in anything illustrates your point magnificently. Ironic. It's also worth considering the distinction between empathy and awareness when talking about "caring about" other people; you can know virtually nothing about Africans but still care about droughts, wars and famine, and vice versa: be totally clued-up and still not give a crap. I still think it's funny that some Americans think all black people are "African-American", especially when they are neither African nor American. It's an interesting oxymoron of genetic origins and nationality. Biology and geography are so rarely smashed together to produce benign idiocy.
As an Australian, i wouldn't say the US is unique about that. While Australia is a far less aggregious offender than the US, your post could apply to us too.
@@SnowyRVulpix Australia certainly cares more about the outside world than America does. It cares about the anglosphere. It participates in eurovision. It competes in the Asian football federation. It has its neighbour NZ right next door. Australia suffers from a lot of American problems because of how geographically similar the two are, but the culture and mindset isn't quite as insular as the US even though Australia is literally ... an island.
@@shmick6079 Every statement like that is always a generalization. Were Germans in the 1930s antisemitic? Yes. Is that a massive generalization? Yes. I think the original comment is completely fair in saying that Americans (as in: the vast majority of them) don't care about Mexico other than seeing it as a threat. With China, it's not even a question up for debate.
My Aunt did a year's teacher exchange between her primary school in Harlow, England and an elementary school in Atlanta Georgia in 1960. On her return a local newspaper asked of her experience and she expressed surprise at the amount of poverty she had witnessed. She then received a letter from the US Embassy telling her that if she ever said such things again, she would be refused a visa!
The USA never truly ended slavery ... they just transformed it from OWNERSHIP slavery to WAGE slavery ... which is why the population needs to be kept stupid ... to not realise that part of their situation. This is also the reason why "the black communities" were destroyed in the 90s .... to make them DEPENDANT upon government grants again. *THE AMERICAN DREAM:* You basically "enslave yourself as hard as you can in your 20s/30s" (as a man) to "make it" and become part of the slave owners yourself.
America is definitely not a country indeed. Last time i looked at a world map, it was a continent. And mind you, Amerigo Vespucci landed in present-day Venezuela.
Americans: It's hard to choose who to vote, there are 2 candidates! Europeans: I am not voting, there are only 20 candidades and there is not a single one I want as a president.
@@markusjongren4098 Yes pretty much. Although, since i have no favorite, i only voted once, in 2002, shortly after i grew old enough to vote. In the second round, for the very reason you mentionned. Here, every last politician ever since 2007 has been an embarrassement and a clown.
I was on a tour in the US once, about 16yrs ago. In a small town roughly on the border between Arizona and Utah someone got that I was german. They had a Trabant from the "Ralley Magdeburg" in front of the mayors office. I was asked how it feels to live under H*tler. His eyes nearly fell out when I told him H* is dead since WW2.
Pretty much the same thing several USAmericans asked me in march 2001 in NY, one of them lightened up when I said that I‘m from Germany: „Oh, you‘re Gernan? Are you a N*zi? 🤩“. This was very disturbing for me.
@@seldakaya0414The funniest part in this, is that the only country i know of where people claiming to be nazis are let alone and interviewed on TV and in magasines... is the USA.
Interesting, my father who was Aussie entered New York airport in 1958. The customs asked him if he had read any communist literature. To which dad said yes otherwise how could I criticise it.
I wonder what American kids learn in schools. We in the Netherlands learned all sorts of things in "social studies" about countries all over the world; climate, art, culture and more.
Not much, obviously. Shooter drills and being told how great they are probably 😂 My English cousin married an American woman. At the time, his 15 year old stepson had never had a geography lesson in his life. That explains a lot.
I am from Switzerland and after I got my Bachelor here, I did get a second one in the US a few years later in New York. I am telling you, I don't know how some of those kids managed to get through high school and be allowed in my bachelor program. They didn't know basic math, English, civics, etc. I sometimes found myself having to explain to them how the branches of their government work. If I took those kids and put them through the Swiss high school exit exam they would all fail miserably.
What surprises me is there's no mention at all, in this video, of a concept that we Europeans, and especially journalism students, have known ever since the 60s: CULTURAL COLONNIALISM
The Toubon law in France isn't banning radio stations (or tv channels) to play too much american music. That law says that tv/radio have to play a minimum of (iirc) 40% of songs sung in French or in one of France's regional languages (Britanny, French Basque Country or Corsica languages, for exemple, even if they're not the only ones). It was also designed to promote new/emergent artists but some stations were not submitted to it. For exemple, radio stations airing mainly old-timers like Radio Nostalgie or centered around Jazz or classical music weren't submitted to it for obvious reasons. 40% was the base model, but there were two alternatives with lesser quotas as low as 20% but I can't remember what were their specifics. That law was a law of preservation of the French cultural and lingusitic heritage and it was also aimed at other communications : for exemple, international transport was submitted to an obligation to have their documents translated in French and any other language (German for goods going to/originating from Germany, etc), international corporations with employees in France have to communicate with those employees in French, ... The law was criticised when it was designed in 1994 and was amended multiple times during the 30 years it has been in application. It's far from perfect, but it (kinda) works.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o Fun fact, that law was designed and voted by France's right-wing RPR majority. So yeah, socialism wasn't their primary focus (they pushed retirement age to 61 years and sold some major state-owned companies : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisations_en_France#Gouvernement_Alain_Jupp%C3%A9 ) This law is a social one, not an economic one. You can say it's a nationalist one, not a socialist one and it's effect on 'capitalism' was marginal. And France doesn't have a problem with sustainable capitalism; just with non-regulated neoliberalism.
I don't know if there is a difference in English between the words "stupid" and "ignorant." Ignorance is a condition that can be corrected; stupidity is a character trait. I don't think all ignorant people in America are stupid. They are simply the result of a lousy educational system.
Us Australians are so far away from other country’s (NZ doesn’t count) that you think we would struggle with knowing other countries, but we don’t because most of us have roots in Europe and/or Asia. And as Aussies we need to know which country we are taking the piss out off.
It’s simple 100% capitalism is not fair. It’s designed that way so uneducated people have uneducated children. The uneducated are also the poor. So as more people move out of the middle class to lower class their children get the same education as the poor/ uneducated, so because late stage capitalism concentrates wealth at the top and the middle class shrinks, there are more lower class and therefore more uneducated. Capitalism is not a sustainable economic system. It is not only resources inefficient it also disadvantages the population until you get societal collapse, not only because the people are poor but because they don’t have the education to change the situation, they lack the ability to process the problems they face and therefore chase simple answers that have been tried before and failed before.
And yet the Scandinavian countries, which are rated as more capitalist than the US, are doing very nicely. No economic system can really be regarded as long-term sustainable because no such system exists in a vacuum. Any economic system is going to be highly influenced by the political and social systems that surround it, and which can change. Regulated capitalism, as we see in the Scandinavian countries, works well for the people because of the political and social environment in which it operates. Poorly-regulated capitalism, as we see in the US, doesn't work well for the people as a whole because of US politics and societal norms.
Justeat, wetransfer and booking are headquartered in the Netherlands. Klarna is Swedish. Afterpay is Australian. There are lots of big players in the app world that arent American. Most people just dont know they arent American.
Actually, the US isn't a biggest producer of movies in the world. In absolute numbers, the largest number of films are produced by: 1.Nigeria 2. India 3. China and 4. The US The thing is that first three countries create most of films for a domestic market, but Hollywood does it for export
With a lot of Australian and British actors in them. Heath Ledger (The Joker) and Errol Flynn (Robin Hood) were both featured in this video 😊 they’re both Aussies
In Germany we say "freedom of opinion" to put a fine line between this and "just saying everything". Not protected are lies, insults, threats or call for violence.
About restrictions, you can also look at movie ratings. Most movies and TV shows have higher certifications in the US than in most countries. US R rated are very often 14+ in Canada and 12+ in France. Sometimes PG. That's also a way to control exposure, not only to contents, but to ideas and perspectives that might challenge mainstream values or societal norms. This kind of rating system indirectly influences what people, especially younger audiences, can access, shaping cultural understanding and limiting exposure to diverse viewpoints or controversial topics. And quite unfortunately it's also a recipe to a backfire romanticizing of violence and excesses.
I attended Danish primary school from 1969 to 1979, where we learned to investigate sources and assess their validity. No books were banned in our libraries or schools
@@henningniehues8023 The westerner from “the last samurai” was inspired by Jules Brunet, a French officer who fought alongside samurais in one of the Japanese civil wars (Boshin war). He was originally part of a French diplomatic mission sent to Japan to train the Shogunate soldiers to modern warfare (France and Japan are friendly countries). Rebellions broke out, the diplomats were called back but Brunet decided to stay back against management orders as it would be dishonourable to forsake your country’s allies. As you know the Shogun lost and the Imperial forces gained back power. France intervened to prevent Brunet from being executed.
I have to be honest with you Ryan. Since a certain creepy orange thing became your leader and mentor, I have struggled to maintain any respect for the US. All countries produce a few uneducated delinquents, but America beats the world. Thank goodness there are people like yourself, people who can receive as well as transmit, who want to learn. YOU are a true ambassador to your country.
You must be quite a young laddie for it to have been that president, who awakened your awareness of US mediocrity. Mine was back during the 'Bush' eras. When I was young I thought that Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were alright but once the 1st Bush got in the downward spiral had begun.
No, it was the Reagan Era . As tourist's and visiting relatives in the USA in the 1980s. The USA had lots of untruths told. I found out the US had a lot of propaganda and brainwashing. @Thurgosh_OG
The problem is in a lot of countries the person that leads the political party can be sacked for under performance. Here in the UK our prime minister can be forced to resign through political pressure from their party and if they don’t I think they can be got shot of through a vote of no confidence, not 100% on that one politics are not really my thing. But how do you revise a political system that is a couple of hundred years old and that a population is happy to have. And what right do we as outsiders have to tell another country how they should be?
@@Thurgosh_OG It actually started with Reagann not that he was that bad but he had the wrong vieuw on economics. Not a bad one just a wrong one and the GOP never changed it. Must say every Republican president was a bit worse then its predecessor cummulating in the monstrosity that is its candidate now. I can sort of understand it in 2016 when he was first elected but now its just a freak show.
I've been glad i've stuck with you for your journey so far. watching you change over time is enlightening. Keep up the good work. Just don't become too scynical. Show the world the good side, the thing's you like about the U.S.....🙂
He cannot show anything as there’s no good nor anything positive to show about USA 😂🤣 I’ve lived in USA for 2years believe me when I say there’s strictly nothing to like about USA compared to most of the countries I have lived. I lost faith in humanity during that 2yr period was desperate to get out. I was glad the day I left that hell hole.
The thing about the Hayes Code, was it was never a government regulation, it was self-imposed by the MPPDA to prevent any chance of government censorship, by self-censoring.
NOT quite 'get away with it'... More like a 'cliffhanger ending'... ( 😎) waiting for the _(at the time)_ 'discussed' sequel, which will never come NOW ! 😦
@@Castropc If you haven't seen the original (Michael Caine) film... You really must; its truly a 'classic of British cinema'. And yes, the storyline is similar, but also quite different (more comedic too), with a different outcome !
@@StewedFishProductions I've seen the Michael Caine film many times but I didn't realise that the film the American's saw had a different ending. So if they don't end up with the "cliff hanger", how does it end? What do the American's think happened? I want to see this alternative version!
@@Castropc The film itself is 'updated' and I don't think I should put 'spoilers' here...! LOL - Watch it the next time its on TV or see a video.... At least you have seen the BEST version first!
Dude, Bro, Mate, that “flipped around” map is STANDARD IN AUSTRALIA. That is how WE see the world, with Oz in the middle. YOUR maps have the Americas centered. That is how YOU see the world.
Hey Ryan, I just wanted to say something about your intro… Good onya mate! Waiting a year to react to a video is a really thoughtful, principled thing to do. I recently watched “Girl Gone London” talk about reaction channels, and she suggests exactly this. This shows you are one of the better reactors for showing respect other content creators. I won’t go on at length, but just really wanted to say keep up the good work and the good principles. 👍
There's a reason one channel I view occasionally has explicit rules about reactions to their content. It's something approximately like "not on the 5 newest, then only so many per some time" or similar - can't remember exactly as I was never interested in doing reaction videos.
I've become more discerning since watching that Girl Gone London video too. I thought I'd have to stop watching Ryan's videos, but I'm reasured by this intro. I'm so glad, because I was enjoying his channel and find him thoughtful, humble and open-minded.
I've always wonder if the fact that the USA was so heavily dependent on cars was a contributary factor. The massive use of leaded fuels, lead causes damage to the brain reducing it's capabilities, reducing the ability to learn during childhood.
Actually he isn't, he grew up in Australia but was born in the USA and his fathe and mother were also from the USA. His father was a preacher/ paster who came to Australia to spread the gospel as the Americans like to say.
I heard one reason for American ignorance that sounds very good - it's the ridiculous paid holiday leave most Americans get. Most UK workers are entitled to 28 days' paid holiday, Americans aren't entitled to any paid holiday, most get just 10 days. If that's all you're not going to waste it on going half way round the world to somewhere you don't know. So you don't research these places because you're not going to go there, in turn there's no need to teach this stuff in school.
Well, Eastern Europeans were more or less banned from travelling to the West or the US during the cold war, they still did know about them. As for "UK workers", they might travel abroad more, but are famous for only travelling because of wanting better weather / cheap alcohol, and not really care about where they are. Or they know the name of the resort they fly to (Las Palmas, Larnaca), without knowing what language is spoken or what country the place belongs to. Not all of them, of course. But enough to have created this reputation.
@@watermelon7998 I think in the case of Brits yes, there are the notorious sun, sea and sand consumers but there are also many others who are genuine travellers. It's simply that there is enough time and it's easy. Eastern Europeans might have been banned from travelling but there was still a huge network of friends and families which crossed borders. I do think the fact of very short holiday entitlement is a huge barrier for Americans - they have to waste at least 2 days of that 10 travelling in and out of the country to begin with.
@Badgersj Well, try living in Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇦🇺! It's a point Americans get vertically, no holidays, vacation, or sick leave. Very poor workers' rights and long working hours. The USA is 50 to 75 years behind other Western world countries, but you can't say anything because telling the truth is seen as COMMUNIST!!
There's some truth to this... Very little though. Reality is we don't get enough time off to travel very far... true... but most Americans don't even see the whole country and they'd rather do that. America is nuanced and dynamic. Each small area has different people (ethnicity), cultures, foods, accents, etc. There are 50 states and each one of those states has multiple cultures inside of it. Well, most of the 50 do. Point is, you could vacation to a state a year for 50 years. THAT is why we don't usually leave the land of the free.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o Oh absolutely, but not as much difference as there is between, say, Alaska and Pakistan! I really think the key is the lack of vacation time, if you have 28 days plus public holidays you can risk going somewhere really different. You can take a fortnight off for your main holiday and two week-long holidays in the same year, and if you time them right there's still at least a week to use round Christmas. You could do Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon (both of which are utterly fantastic and I urge everyone to go) and still have time to do something really adventurous - if it doesn't work out then you haven't wasted your whole year's entitlement. Workers of the US unite!
@tfuntowatch You're not missing out on anything if you have not seen his reaction videos before. He has a youtube reaction channel under the name Tyler rumple. But if you're curious and wana go down that rabbit hole, search that and I'm sure you'll find it. Personally i think tyler is the opposite of ryan here. Like many other ppl have said ryan is open and willing to learn what he does not know. I have seen a few of Tyler's videos and i dont get those vibes. It's like nails on a chalkboard, i wana scream at my screen. Sorry I've been rambling, hope this helps you. Edited for typos.
The way your government controls information shapes your culture, sometimes in wierd ways. And sometimes actually they end up being comically stupid. I'm from Portugal, and for 50 years we were a dictatorship; it ended in 1974 with a magnificent, mostly peaceful revolution. However, during those 50 years the regime deliberately aimed to perpetuate what was a shocking level of illitearcy compared to other European countries, and which we're still dealing with today (until all of that generation dies the numbers will remain). And this was advantageous to the regime because it's much easier to control the ignorant than the informed - we also had heavy censorship on everything, so that didn't help. One of ways the regime decided would help them keep people ignorant was to subtitle all foreign media that played on television, or in the movie theatres. If people couldn't read, they couldn't understand what was going on. However... this backfired spectacularly, because people not only started to learn how to read from the subtitles themselves (some words like yes or no are great starting points to identify sounds), but people also started to learn foreign languages by ear, since you had the translation right there. So incredibly, the way they chose to block knowledge from the people while pretending to actually be doing something good was so botched, they ended up giving many people _an education_ . To this day there are no dubs in Portugal, with the exception of media for children, everything else is still subtitled. What I'm getting from the video you're reacting to is that the USA had its own form of government-mandated censorship, which is pretty odd, but also makes perfect sense, considering what it ended up becoming.
Well we have had also every program here subtitiled for tens of years, but it had nothing to do with people not knowing how to read. It was about money, dubbing is a lot more expencive than subtitiling. Bigger nations like Germany, France and Spain could affor dubbing, but smaller nations like Portugal, Finland, Denmark and so on could not in the 1950 or 1960. It is actually the other way around. subtitles actually increase the the understanding and reading profiliancy in a country, as you also mention. In fact in your nabouring country the same time dictatorship actually demanded dubbing for all foreign programs. It is easier to learn foreing languages with subtitles and hence many small coutries, with subtitles, have better understanding of other languaces, than bigger nations with dubbing.
Yep, the Pilgrim Fathers did not flee religious persecution, they fled the religious freedom of the Dutch Republic where people were allowed to not be puritan and prudish.
@@mehallica666 Within the boundaries of a good same denomination marriage, the Dutch where very liberal for that age. Public display of affection between husband and wife, also the youngsters could dance and stuff to find a spouse, women travelled unacompanied. This was shocking to all English visitors, the puritants were terrified by the effect on their children.
@@DenUitvreter The Pilgrim Fathers were a group of English settlers who established the first permanent European settlement in New England, Plymouth Colony, in 1620. They only stopped over in the Netherlands on their way to the Americas and were not Dutch.
I have always known/thought those shorts/videos of when an American is asked, "where country ********** is?", they are usually picked out of a larger selection, and the dumbest/funniest ones are selected. That said, when I was in L.A. several years ago, an Uber driver I had said during our conversation that he was born and raised in California. When I asked/mentioned that Sacramento was California's State capital, his response made me second guess the selection policies of those "American's are dumb" shorts/videos, as his response was - "I'm not sure. There are a lot of government buildings up there, so maybe." He wasn't even sure of his own State Capital. This is from someone who claimed to be "born and raised in California."
The pressure from American movies is strong. Since about the early 2000s, "we" here in Germany have taken over stag/hen nights, ridiculously expensive weddings, home cinemas, huge fridges in the kitchen, SUVs etc., and finally (since about 10 years) Halloween.
I gotta say - folks, claiming that you haven't read a book since high school, or that you're such a silly, weird, CLUELESS adult - that's not the flex you think it is ...
No they are the slaves of a capitalist dictatorship run by multi billion corporations 😂🤣💩. They are not willing to fight for their rights like us Europeans. Look how a convicted criminal who is responsible for millions of USA citizens deaths during Covid can still run for presidency it’s because of that country’s stupid citizens. Trump is not a type of a leader any European Union country citizen would never accept( didn’t say Europe as Uk with Boris in the same boat as USA 😂🤣 but they did woke up though 😂🤣)
The proliferation of film happened in large part because of ww2. The Germans were the first to use film to make propaganda movies and put them in theaters to increase war support. The American propaganda "news" reels during the war were made for the same reason. The normalization of watching these news reels made going to the cinema a more popular and regular thing for people to do.
For freedom of speech, there is the same asterisk in the US. It is limited by laws against defamation, incitement to violence, obscenity, false advertising, and speech that poses a direct threat to public safety, such as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater w/o cause. It's a common misconception that one country has no limit and others have many, but they're quite similar in reality. The only difference really is that spewing hate based on identity is explicitly included in incitement to violence. Never understood why so many Americans wanna exclude it.
The biggest difference is that in the US you are more likely to face a civil lawsuit from another citizen over abusing your right to free speech and in EU countries its more likely the government will come after you for posting an offensive meme.
Except that trump has broken most, if not all, of these. So, you really need an additional asterisk...because authorities don't care about the real laws. He`s not suffered any consequence (other than dementia) for any of it.
Correct. The free speech actually means that you can say whatever you want, not that it all goes unpunished. If you prevent people from speaking their mind, either by censorship or fear of draconian punishment, there is no free speech. Free speech means no permission up front is needed.
The Hayes Code also prohibited positive portrayal of queer identities. And though the Hayes Code is no longer in place, the "bury your gays" trope and the "queer-coded villain" have stuck around
Hey Ryan, I am a German and I like to join your view and perspective on Europe! What makes me really nervous is your election coming up because it will effect the whole world. To me it is quite a decision between sens and nonsense! So I would love to see Americans shouting out loudly: NO NON-SENSE!!!... Hope to hear that because I want to believe that the USA are not so dump as it sometimes appear. Best regards, Sven Stark
add sublevel education and you'll be close to the cause. They're indoctrinated from an early age. Name another country that requires ALL primary schools to have a national flag in the corner of each classroom and require children to pledge their allegiance every morning?
The French law was passed to control anglo-saxon music (not specifically American). A minimum of 40% must be "chanson française" so there's still plenty of air-time for saxons to plug their hits.!! Some stations of-course are 100% francophone, but you get that in nearly all non-english speaking countries, ESPECIALLY overseas (outside Europe) where english is understood only by the small percentage of "highly educated class".
@@jbp246 no, you miss-understand me. I'm not stating that the authority of l'Academie Française is replicated in other cultures. The point I'm making is that in most other regions of the world, this happens by default - that means - it's not the requirements of any government body - it's simply the wishes of the population.
Who created this index? No other countries protect their citizen's rights as well as the U.S. Our constitution states our rights come from God, not the government. That's not to say they aren't infringed upon and restricted on the extremes but the U.S. guarantees a much higher minimum level of personal autonomy than any other country I've ever looked into.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o you can believe whatever you want. Your constitution doesnt state your rights come from god (this would be unconstitutional according to your constitution!!!) other countries have constitutions too - thats not unique to the USA. Source: World Population Review/ Freedom Index by Country
@@RustyShackleford-s2oYou sound like you’re trying to prove that Americans are stupid like the video said. I personally can’t take stupid people seriously because they just say things and never think. Good job.
As a swede, the fact is I would have it easier to go to North Korea then to the US as a tourist. And on the app three big Apps/programs/games coming from Sweden: Skype, Minecraft and Spotify.
America does not have more freedom of speech compared to other countries. It has less 😅!!! US censured tons of words... In other countries, you have the right to use them.
It’s so funny when I hear Americans saying we are the land of the free……. Yet you guys have so many restrictions…… fuck, cunt and so many others words gets bleeped out…… you can’t take alcohol with you in public….its so harder to get a green card in the US, then in Europe…. And thank you for being so curious to learn about what the world looks like outside the US 😊
I remember the episode of Top Gear where Clarkson, May and Hammond were chased out of a town because the wrote some words on their cars which the locals found offensive... So much for "The land of the free" (Freedom of speech)
you don't need to travel overseas to have a wider knowledge of the world and world events - so the passport % is really a nothing - i live in Australia - 10x thousands of air miles from anywhere and the majority of Australians have a wide knowledge of world geography and politics - it is taught in schools - and is reported daily on news networks and in newspapers
As a New Zealand citizen I was always amazed at the stupid questions on the visa application to the USA. Did anybody in the USA ever wonder how it was possible to answer this question. “Are you now or have you ever been a member of a Communist front organization.” If it was a communist front organization how would I know?
The fact you refuse talking something political says something about freedom of speech. Not? Really, the world has gone mad. But maybe reacting to Loekie de Leeuw or Loekie the lion (Dutch commercial break intervention) like the German Mainzel mänchen will give something to smile again. People need a laugh every day!
American celebrities? Looks like 91% of Americans recognised Mel Gibson. He's Australian. And not the Australia in the European mountains. Or am I missing something? :)
In many countries its perfectly legal to marry a cousin. That its just some states in the US make it stricter on that than many other places. Its not common obviously, and looked upon with disgust, but legal.
A week ago my American friend called me here in France. He had received a letter but he didn't know what to do with it. He told me that he had doubleclicked on it but it didn't open. :-) Just joking!
I hate how "America is the greatest country in the world" turned to "America is the worst country to ever exist" America is absolutely awesome in some ways probably the greatest in a couple of metrics. America is also absolutely horrendous at a number of things that a lot of people value Although there are many things I would change, on the global scale I am grateful that the US exists, you know, security in Europe reasons. In a weird way, some of America's defense budget helps enable some of the things we love to greater extend, because we would be having to spend more on our defense budgets if America wasn't this ahead and our ally And as much as we say they spend to much on defense budget, which they realistically probably do, we definitely all need America to spend enough on it. I don't like the idea of living in a world where China or north Korea or some place like that becomes the global superpower. Especially if China takes over Taiwan in the near future and the US is unable to stop it, if China controls that much of chip manufacturing in Taiwan uncontested it's probably gg.
Europian NATO members standing armies are together about 1,5-1,7 times the Russian army size, not counting any reserve troops. They have more aircraft than Russia or China and their Navy is only smaller compared to China nad USA. I think the EU has big enough army. It is offen missed, that Europe is not just depending on 1 army, it has multiple armies and when compined are actually really big.
@omatjalisvideot9734 true and fair Though I don't know how much the EU army could project their power proactively to prevent certain risks, like China taking Taiwan. I could be wrong, but I feel like the US is in a unique situation with their military and their power protection that allows them to interfere with things all over the globe very quickly. I feel like this ability is pretty vital in stopping or even just deterring something, I don't think Europe could take this role within any reasonable time frame for us not to need the US. I will grant that if the entirety of the situation was things along the lines of Russia invading a country, Europe could probably manage a lot better than people think, I just don't know if we could do enough outside of Europe
Like, it is so weird though. The major thing that I have noticed is that U.S.A. do not know much outside of its borders/internationally. Whilst we know much about the world and about U.S.A. If you flip it, it would be like an european saying that the dollar is a newspaper, Britney Spears is an indigenous american known for her politics, a sheriff is a dogbreed, New York is the capital of Mexico, the president of U.S.A. is James Brown etc, stuff like this, this is actually how crazy some U.S.A. people say when they are to answear international stuff. OFC not everyone, but some are actually like this. Some even think that Europe is a country, it is insane. It is like me saying that U.S.A. is a city in Canada or something. Whilst not being dumb, just being incredibly ignorant and uneducated about international stuff.
The Passport thing is that Canada and Mexico are on what's referred to as a travel permit, the requirements for which were tightened in the last score of years.... so rather than having a permit to travel to Canada, you now require a Passport.
The internet gives us all access to everything. What is sad, is that people decide to restrict their viewing exclusively to sources that support their view. This is a natural tendency, but is furthered by Trump, who specifically says that sources that disagree with him are fake. People are now self selecting one view and denying themselves the benefits of universal information.
I too got real 'Coca-Cola' (Coke) served in the 'Hotel Nacional' in Havana, CUBA too... It was produced in the Coke factory ('COCA-COLA INSURGENTES Plant') in Monterrey, Mexico ! So when asked the question; which are the two countries in the world you cannot buy Coca-Cola, Cuba is not one of them and the question is wrong! 🤣🤣🤣
There's this thing I appreciate from United States citizens that is their patriotism. I really like that. The love for their own country is awesome. But it brings a huge drawback for the people. That arrogance that comes from excessive love (that turns into obsession). To the point that it makes them think that all others are trash and that they wouldn't learn anything useful from others. Thus, fabricating a lot of dumb citizens that don't want to learn from others unless they're american (except all other americas' coutries than United States).
I think it is just a symbtom from the real reason, which is fear. Fear makes national leaders look invard and make big differences between nations. They will find enemies from outside and bolster internal strengths. This is evident from all nations where isolation happens. Fear also leads to propaganda about own nations superiority, as you have to give a view to people that we are strong, so fear not as long as you have the right leaders. This has happended in Germany and Italy in 1930s, in USA from 1950s, Russia for the entire history, China for its communist history, North Korea, Irak, Iran, the list is really never ending ...
About the music. I would love to see you react to the video called something along the line of "Top 50 songs written by swedish songwriters and producers"
The difference between freedom of speech and freedom of expression isn't that there's less freedom to express your opinion, it's the understanding that you can express your opinion without being a dick about it. And reaching the bar to actually violate freedom of expression is difficult, because the priority of the law is your freedom to express your thoughts, not to limit that freedom 😊
In my country freedom of speech is limited by the constitution and rightly so when it - promotes hatred - violence - racism - pornography etc. And that constitution is vastly based on the USA one! I am German.
@@irminschembri8263 Yeah it's the same here, I think most of the laws contain the same elements but it's when to apply them that is different 🤔 the American one is the broadest in the world, that's why they can still refer to groups as vermin and animals etc. without consequences 🫠
A lot of US citizens make a big deal of their "freedom" which no other country possesses, in reality most European countries have just as much, if not more. In the UK you can drink, swear and appear totally naked on tv, and cross the road wherever you want to, the only freedoms we don't have, and most don't want, is the freedom to carry a gun in public, and call people insulting racial slurs. Also you can be imprisoned for offences that would earn you a fine or probation here, which is why you have the highest prison population, per capita of any democratic country.
USA is not a democratic country in reality it’s a dictatorship governed and run by few multi billion companies and it’s ignorant citizens are willing slaves. How can a criminal who is convicted can run for presidency 💩😂🤣.
Did you see that last year’s Olympics was the Beijing 2008? This video is awfully outdated because of Venezuela crisis. I’m pretty sure they don’t serve Coca-Cola anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong though.
I like how Ricky Gervais said it: "Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid."
How does he know one doesn't know?
And once again something gets ripped from the context it was said in. Bloody mor
@@marleneMS The first step is to doubt if you know or not.
@@Paul_C OH NO! Somebody uses a phrase that was true in 1 situation also happens to be true in another! Oh the horror! I guess that phrase cut you up like a sharp knife.
@@marleneMS any evidence that you do?
You say many Americans "care" about places such as Mexico or China. I think you're wrong. They care only insomuch as these places are viewed as threatening to the US. Few know anything about these countries' people, history, lifestyle, geography, or domestic politics. This is where the US in unique.
Saying the US is unique in anything illustrates your point magnificently. Ironic. It's also worth considering the distinction between empathy and awareness when talking about "caring about" other people; you can know virtually nothing about Africans but still care about droughts, wars and famine, and vice versa: be totally clued-up and still not give a crap.
I still think it's funny that some Americans think all black people are "African-American", especially when they are neither African nor American. It's an interesting oxymoron of genetic origins and nationality. Biology and geography are so rarely smashed together to produce benign idiocy.
As an Australian, i wouldn't say the US is unique about that. While Australia is a far less aggregious offender than the US, your post could apply to us too.
@@SnowyRVulpix Australia certainly cares more about the outside world than America does. It cares about the anglosphere. It participates in eurovision. It competes in the Asian football federation. It has its neighbour NZ right next door. Australia suffers from a lot of American problems because of how geographically similar the two are, but the culture and mindset isn't quite as insular as the US even though Australia is literally ... an island.
I think this is a massive generalisation.
Like the video points out, some Americans are educated and do look at the world beyond their own borders.
@@shmick6079 Every statement like that is always a generalization. Were Germans in the 1930s antisemitic? Yes. Is that a massive generalization? Yes. I think the original comment is completely fair in saying that Americans (as in: the vast majority of them) don't care about Mexico other than seeing it as a threat. With China, it's not even a question up for debate.
the rule is: the smarter you are, the more you know what you don‘t know and the stupider you are, the more likely you are to think you‘re a genius!
Called the Dunning-Kruger effect
That explains the "stable genius" 😅
There is a reason why Trump openly states he loves the uneducated.
Unless you are smart enough to actually be aware that you are smart?
@@KarraNikito smart in every aspect? could you name anyone?
My Aunt did a year's teacher exchange between her primary school in Harlow, England and an elementary school in Atlanta Georgia in 1960. On her return a local newspaper asked of her experience and she expressed surprise at the amount of poverty she had witnessed. She then received a letter from the US Embassy telling her that if she ever said such things again, she would be refused a visa!
@@Padraig1916 Wow.
more or less the truth even today .. u can lie all u want,
but if u tell the truth about certain things ...
Americans don't like any criticism. A lot don't like Freedum of Speech.
Look at it today.
City streets lined with homeless people and no real affordable health care.
Nothing has changed.
Freedumb of speech.
America is not a country in itself it is just a huge business a theme park.
horror park
You mean the US? Not all of the continent of America has people like the citizens of the "good ol' US of A" eh?!
The USA never truly ended slavery ... they just transformed it from OWNERSHIP slavery to WAGE slavery ... which is why the population needs to be kept stupid ... to not realise that part of their situation. This is also the reason why "the black communities" were destroyed in the 90s .... to make them DEPENDANT upon government grants again.
*THE AMERICAN DREAM:* You basically "enslave yourself as hard as you can in your 20s/30s" (as a man) to "make it" and become part of the slave owners yourself.
America is definitely not a country indeed. Last time i looked at a world map, it was a continent. And mind you, Amerigo Vespucci landed in present-day Venezuela.
Pirates lair, you mean?
America might make a lot of movies but,these days,few of them are worth watching
Especially when Hollywood has become a tool for propaganda. "Dunkerque" was an atrocity amongst atrocities.
Americans: It's hard to choose who to vote, there are 2 candidates!
Europeans: I am not voting, there are only 20 candidades and there is not a single one I want as a president.
Which is the reason i don't vote :). You nailed it.
@@nox8730 I mostly go just to second round, it's much easier when you have just 2 candidates. 😀
@@Pidalin 2nd round is no better to me, there is still none i agree with.
@nox8730 You pick your favorite in the 1st round. The 2nd round is there to block your least favorite
@@markusjongren4098 Yes pretty much. Although, since i have no favorite, i only voted once, in 2002, shortly after i grew old enough to vote. In the second round, for the very reason you mentionned. Here, every last politician ever since 2007 has been an embarrassement and a clown.
I was on a tour in the US once, about 16yrs ago. In a small town roughly on the border between Arizona and Utah someone got that I was german. They had a Trabant from the "Ralley Magdeburg" in front of the mayors office. I was asked how it feels to live under H*tler. His eyes nearly fell out when I told him H* is dead since WW2.
Pretty much the same thing several USAmericans asked me in march 2001 in NY, one of them lightened up when I said that I‘m from Germany: „Oh, you‘re Gernan? Are you a N*zi? 🤩“. This was very disturbing for me.
@@seldakaya0414 Look them straight in the eye and ask them why they're insulting you like that.
@@seldakaya0414The funniest part in this, is that the only country i know of where people claiming to be nazis are let alone and interviewed on TV and in magasines... is the USA.
@@seldakaya0414 Just ask them about the WWII era German-American Bund, flying the swastika in Madison Square Gardens.
@@nox8730 the only country in the world that has a KKK
Interesting, my father who was Aussie entered New York airport in 1958. The customs asked him if he had read any communist literature. To which dad said yes otherwise how could I criticise it.
Did the custom agent's head explode trying to work that out?
If he only said yes, you wouldn't exist.
I wonder what American kids learn in schools. We in the Netherlands learned all sorts of things in "social studies" about countries all over the world; climate, art, culture and more.
Not much, obviously.
Shooter drills and being told how great they are probably 😂
My English cousin married an American woman.
At the time, his 15 year old stepson had never had a geography lesson in his life. That explains a lot.
I am from Switzerland and after I got my Bachelor here, I did get a second one in the US a few years later in New York. I am telling you, I don't know how some of those kids managed to get through high school and be allowed in my bachelor program. They didn't know basic math, English, civics, etc. I sometimes found myself having to explain to them how the branches of their government work. If I took those kids and put them through the Swiss high school exit exam they would all fail miserably.
@@PincoPallino-zh8wm why am I not surprised. 🤭
You learned all that while American troops were protecting your skies and lands. You're welcome.
Y=MX+B 🗣️🗣️🔥
What surprises me is there's no mention at all, in this video, of a concept that we Europeans, and especially journalism students, have known ever since the 60s: CULTURAL COLONNIALISM
Which makes it fun when Asian Entertainment makes it into the mainstream: Anime for example or K-pop and K-Drama
looks like you didnt watch this video ...
The Toubon law in France isn't banning radio stations (or tv channels) to play too much american music. That law says that tv/radio have to play a minimum of (iirc) 40% of songs sung in French or in one of France's regional languages (Britanny, French Basque Country or Corsica languages, for exemple, even if they're not the only ones). It was also designed to promote new/emergent artists but some stations were not submitted to it. For exemple, radio stations airing mainly old-timers like Radio Nostalgie or centered around Jazz or classical music weren't submitted to it for obvious reasons. 40% was the base model, but there were two alternatives with lesser quotas as low as 20% but I can't remember what were their specifics.
That law was a law of preservation of the French cultural and lingusitic heritage and it was also aimed at other communications : for exemple, international transport was submitted to an obligation to have their documents translated in French and any other language (German for goods going to/originating from Germany, etc), international corporations with employees in France have to communicate with those employees in French, ...
The law was criticised when it was designed in 1994 and was amended multiple times during the 30 years it has been in application. It's far from perfect, but it (kinda) works.
I've got a feeling Irish radio stations have to play a certain amount of music from Irish artists, too.
We have a similar thing in Canada. And in Quebec, I believe it's also a certain percentage of quebecois artists as well
That's a stupid socialist law and exemplifies France's problem with sustainable capitalism.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o Fun fact, that law was designed and voted by France's right-wing RPR majority. So yeah, socialism wasn't their primary focus (they pushed retirement age to 61 years and sold some major state-owned companies : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisations_en_France#Gouvernement_Alain_Jupp%C3%A9 )
This law is a social one, not an economic one. You can say it's a nationalist one, not a socialist one and it's effect on 'capitalism' was marginal. And France doesn't have a problem with sustainable capitalism; just with non-regulated neoliberalism.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o On ne peut débattre ni avec les crétins, ni avec les imbéciles; par conséquent je ne débattrai pas avec vous !!!
I don't know if there is a difference in English between the words "stupid" and "ignorant." Ignorance is a condition that can be corrected; stupidity is a character trait. I don't think all ignorant people in America are stupid. They are simply the result of a lousy educational system.
And a lot of wilful ignorance as well.
Willful ignorance and patriotism of the bad kind
That's it. It is willful ignorance in the US..
Us Australians are so far away from other country’s (NZ doesn’t count) that you think we would struggle with knowing other countries, but we don’t because most of us have roots in Europe and/or Asia. And as Aussies we need to know which country we are taking the piss out off.
It’s simple 100% capitalism is not fair. It’s designed that way so uneducated people have uneducated children. The uneducated are also the poor. So as more people move out of the middle class to lower class their children get the same education as the poor/ uneducated, so because late stage capitalism concentrates wealth at the top and the middle class shrinks, there are more lower class and therefore more uneducated. Capitalism is not a sustainable economic system. It is not only resources inefficient it also disadvantages the population until you get societal collapse, not only because the people are poor but because they don’t have the education to change the situation, they lack the ability to process the problems they face and therefore chase simple answers that have been tried before and failed before.
Exactly
And yet the Scandinavian countries, which are rated as more capitalist than the US, are doing very nicely. No economic system can really be regarded as long-term sustainable because no such system exists in a vacuum. Any economic system is going to be highly influenced by the political and social systems that surround it, and which can change. Regulated capitalism, as we see in the Scandinavian countries, works well for the people because of the political and social environment in which it operates. Poorly-regulated capitalism, as we see in the US, doesn't work well for the people as a whole because of US politics and societal norms.
Spotify is Swedish, SoundCloud is founded in Germany and Kahoot is Norwegian 🤔
But i didnt find any other "big players" in the app world
Deezer (French) as well
Justeat, wetransfer and booking are headquartered in the Netherlands. Klarna is Swedish. Afterpay is Australian. There are lots of big players in the app world that arent American. Most people just dont know they arent American.
Bitdefender is Romanian, Kaspersky is Russian.
Skype is a collab between Swedish - Danish - Estonian programmers.
AVG is Czech.
7:10 "Well read" DOESNT EQUATE TO "well informed" ... if those newspapers are full of "we are the greatest" PROPAGANDA.
We know Hollywood is huge, however you may be surprised how many Hollywood big budget "Movies" are actually filmed in UK studios? Worth looking up.
Actually, the US isn't a biggest producer of movies in the world. In absolute numbers, the largest number of films are produced by:
1.Nigeria
2. India
3. China
and 4. The US
The thing is that first three countries create most of films for a domestic market, but Hollywood does it for export
Not just the U.K. All over Europe. Cinecitta in Rome, Babelsberg in Berlin etc.
or in Australia, they film here a lot too
With a lot of Australian and British actors in them. Heath Ledger (The Joker) and Errol Flynn (Robin Hood) were both featured in this video 😊 they’re both Aussies
Who do you think won the first oscar? It was a german actor btw
In Germany we say "freedom of opinion" to put a fine line between this and "just saying everything". Not protected are lies, insults, threats or call for violence.
About restrictions, you can also look at movie ratings. Most movies and TV shows have higher certifications in the US than in most countries. US R rated are very often 14+ in Canada and 12+ in France. Sometimes PG. That's also a way to control exposure, not only to contents, but to ideas and perspectives that might challenge mainstream values or societal norms. This kind of rating system indirectly influences what people, especially younger audiences, can access, shaping cultural understanding and limiting exposure to diverse viewpoints or controversial topics. And quite unfortunately it's also a recipe to a backfire romanticizing of violence and excesses.
Seven Years in Tibet in *not* about an American in China, it's about an Austrian in Tibet.
Pretty sure Brad Pitt is American. Or did I watch a different movie?
@@lockedinreason think you missed the point here
@@lockedinreason wow, did you really just say that , lol 😂
Still a USAmerican actor played an Austrian, which actually even makes this worse.
@@lockedinreason No, but your american brain just missed the obvious 🤦♂️
I attended Danish primary school from 1969 to 1979, where we learned to investigate sources and assess their validity. No books were banned in our libraries or schools
not even the juicy sex ones?
Seven years in Tibet is about an Austrian in Tibet, not an american
Which probably nobody remembers as he was played by Brat Pitt.
I really wonder now about the other information in the video xD
@@henningniehues8023 The westerner from “the last samurai” was inspired by Jules Brunet, a French officer who fought alongside samurais in one of the Japanese civil wars (Boshin war). He was originally part of a French diplomatic mission sent to Japan to train the Shogunate soldiers to modern warfare (France and Japan are friendly countries). Rebellions broke out, the diplomats were called back but Brunet decided to stay back against management orders as it would be dishonourable to forsake your country’s allies.
As you know the Shogun lost and the Imperial forces gained back power. France intervened to prevent Brunet from being executed.
I have to be honest with you Ryan. Since a certain creepy orange thing became your leader and mentor, I have struggled to maintain any respect for the US. All countries produce a few uneducated delinquents, but America beats the world. Thank goodness there are people like yourself, people who can receive as well as transmit, who want to learn. YOU are a true ambassador to your country.
You must be quite a young laddie for it to have been that president, who awakened your awareness of US mediocrity. Mine was back during the 'Bush' eras. When I was young I thought that Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were alright but once the 1st Bush got in the downward spiral had begun.
No, it was the Reagan Era . As tourist's and visiting relatives in the USA in the 1980s.
The USA had lots of untruths told. I found out the US had a lot of propaganda and brainwashing. @Thurgosh_OG
@@Thurgosh_OG Mine was Reagan. Then Bush. Then the orange guy. That was a bit too much.
The problem is in a lot of countries the person that leads the political party can be sacked for under performance. Here in the UK our prime minister can be forced to resign through political pressure from their party and if they don’t I think they can be got shot of through a vote of no confidence, not 100% on that one politics are not really my thing. But how do you revise a political system that is a couple of hundred years old and that a population is happy to have. And what right do we as outsiders have to tell another country how they should be?
@@Thurgosh_OG It actually started with Reagann not that he was that bad but he had the wrong vieuw on economics. Not a bad one just a wrong one and the GOP never changed it. Must say every Republican president was a bit worse then its predecessor cummulating in the monstrosity that is its candidate now. I can sort of understand it in 2016 when he was first elected but now its just a freak show.
I've been glad i've stuck with you for your journey so far. watching you change over time is enlightening. Keep up the good work. Just don't become too scynical. Show the world the good side, the thing's you like about the U.S.....🙂
He cannot show anything as there’s no good nor anything positive to show about USA 😂🤣 I’ve lived in USA for 2years believe me when I say there’s strictly nothing to like about USA compared to most of the countries I have lived. I lost faith in humanity during that 2yr period was desperate to get out. I was glad the day I left that hell hole.
If anything, he's not cynical enough. Would you prefer if he ignores reality?
The thing about the Hayes Code, was it was never a government regulation, it was self-imposed by the MPPDA to prevent any chance of government censorship, by self-censoring.
that is why "THE ITALIAN JOB" had its ending changed, they get away with it in Europe, but get caught in the USA
I had no idea the Americans had a different ending. I take it that now they would see it as the rest of us do?
NOT quite 'get away with it'... More like a 'cliffhanger ending'... ( 😎) waiting for the _(at the time)_ 'discussed' sequel, which will never come NOW ! 😦
@@Castropc
If you haven't seen the original (Michael Caine) film... You really must; its truly a 'classic of British cinema'. And yes, the storyline is similar, but also quite different (more comedic too), with a different outcome !
@@StewedFishProductions I've seen the Michael Caine film many times but I didn't realise that the film the American's saw had a different ending. So if they don't end up with the "cliff hanger", how does it end? What do the American's think happened? I want to see this alternative version!
@@Castropc
The film itself is 'updated' and I don't think I should put 'spoilers' here...! LOL - Watch it the next time its on TV or see a video.... At least you have seen the BEST version first!
Dude, Bro, Mate, that “flipped around” map is STANDARD IN AUSTRALIA. That is how WE see the world, with Oz in the middle. YOUR maps have the Americas centered. That is how YOU see the world.
Hey Ryan, I just wanted to say something about your intro…
Good onya mate! Waiting a year to react to a video is a really thoughtful, principled thing to do. I recently watched “Girl Gone London” talk about reaction channels, and she suggests exactly this. This shows you are one of the better reactors for showing respect other content creators.
I won’t go on at length, but just really wanted to say keep up the good work and the good principles. 👍
There's a reason one channel I view occasionally has explicit rules about reactions to their content. It's something approximately like "not on the 5 newest, then only so many per some time" or similar - can't remember exactly as I was never interested in doing reaction videos.
I've become more discerning since watching that Girl Gone London video too.
I thought I'd have to stop watching Ryan's videos, but I'm reasured by this intro.
I'm so glad, because I was enjoying his channel and find him thoughtful, humble and open-minded.
I've always wonder if the fact that the USA was so heavily dependent on cars was a contributary factor. The massive use of leaded fuels, lead causes damage to the brain reducing it's capabilities, reducing the ability to learn during childhood.
yep.. be interesting to take a case study of residents in Flint Michigan re the lead in water issue.
dont forget about the fluoride added to the drinking water. That also cost them a couple iq points on average.
That's ridiculous, every country in the world is heavily dependent on cars.
I like how they referred to american celebrities, only thing is, mel gibson is australian.
Actually he isn't, he grew up in Australia but was born in the USA and his fathe and mother were also from the USA. His father was a preacher/ paster who came to Australia to spread the gospel as the Americans like to say.
shhhh, australians may not want this tidbit spread...
Does Mel Gibson not have
'International Status' now?
@@moxellex
😂. Aussie here
@@moxellex its ok, we disowned him when he started getting all crazy
In Europe we don't have freedom of speech, what we have is freedom of expression, that is not the same thing.
I heard one reason for American ignorance that sounds very good - it's the ridiculous paid holiday leave most Americans get. Most UK workers are entitled to 28 days' paid holiday, Americans aren't entitled to any paid holiday, most get just 10 days. If that's all you're not going to waste it on going half way round the world to somewhere you don't know. So you don't research these places because you're not going to go there, in turn there's no need to teach this stuff in school.
Well, Eastern Europeans were more or less banned from travelling to the West or the US during the cold war, they still did know about them. As for "UK workers", they might travel abroad more, but are famous for only travelling because of wanting better weather / cheap alcohol, and not really care about where they are. Or they know the name of the resort they fly to (Las Palmas, Larnaca), without knowing what language is spoken or what country the place belongs to. Not all of them, of course. But enough to have created this reputation.
@@watermelon7998 I think in the case of Brits yes, there are the notorious sun, sea and sand consumers but there are also many others who are genuine travellers. It's simply that there is enough time and it's easy. Eastern Europeans might have been banned from travelling but there was still a huge network of friends and families which crossed borders. I do think the fact of very short holiday entitlement is a huge barrier for Americans - they have to waste at least 2 days of that 10 travelling in and out of the country to begin with.
@Badgersj Well, try living in Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇦🇺!
It's a point Americans get vertically, no holidays, vacation, or sick leave.
Very poor workers' rights and long working hours. The USA is 50 to 75 years behind other Western world countries, but you can't say anything because telling the truth is seen as COMMUNIST!!
There's some truth to this... Very little though. Reality is we don't get enough time off to travel very far... true... but most Americans don't even see the whole country and they'd rather do that. America is nuanced and dynamic. Each small area has different people (ethnicity), cultures, foods, accents, etc. There are 50 states and each one of those states has multiple cultures inside of it. Well, most of the 50 do. Point is, you could vacation to a state a year for 50 years. THAT is why we don't usually leave the land of the free.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o Oh absolutely, but not as much difference as there is between, say, Alaska and Pakistan! I really think the key is the lack of vacation time, if you have 28 days plus public holidays you can risk going somewhere really different. You can take a fortnight off for your main holiday and two week-long holidays in the same year, and if you time them right there's still at least a week to use round Christmas. You could do Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon (both of which are utterly fantastic and I urge everyone to go) and still have time to do something really adventurous - if it doesn't work out then you haven't wasted your whole year's entitlement. Workers of the US unite!
0:25 sign of intelligence is questioning yourself if you are wrong ? you passed
I lived in the US for a year.I was appalled at the ignorance of the average American.Can't even remember how many times 'where is South Africa?'
you have to cut em some slack there ... i mean ... how can anyone deduct that south africa may be ... in the south ... of ... africa....
@@wedernoch6441 Yes,I suppose I shouldn't be so critical after all most of them don't even know what state they are living in.
It's a really good video, the one Ryan is reacting to. It puts things into context.
They said American celebs and showed a pic of Mel Gibson. He's Australian!
@@sharonmartin4036 The creator caught 'Americanitis'.
@@sharonmartin4036 But Mel has been in Hollywood for avery long time and sounds 'American' most of the time so...
Ryan is so thoughtful and knows a lot. I refuse to believe he is American. :)
Except when he says "Millions of people flooding in through our southern border without documentation" like some FOX news parroting drone
Your are right, he is a German, payed by the US Gov. to pretend that there are good, smart Americans who are willing to learn.
Unlike his brother!
@@mehallica666Who is his brother?
@tfuntowatch You're not missing out on anything if you have not seen his reaction videos before. He has a youtube reaction channel under the name Tyler rumple. But if you're curious and wana go down that rabbit hole, search that and I'm sure you'll find it. Personally i think tyler is the opposite of ryan here. Like many other ppl have said ryan is open and willing to learn what he does not know. I have seen a few of Tyler's videos and i dont get those vibes. It's like nails on a chalkboard, i wana scream at my screen.
Sorry I've been rambling, hope this helps you.
Edited for typos.
The way your government controls information shapes your culture, sometimes in wierd ways. And sometimes actually they end up being comically stupid.
I'm from Portugal, and for 50 years we were a dictatorship; it ended in 1974 with a magnificent, mostly peaceful revolution.
However, during those 50 years the regime deliberately aimed to perpetuate what was a shocking level of illitearcy compared to other European countries, and which we're still dealing with today (until all of that generation dies the numbers will remain).
And this was advantageous to the regime because it's much easier to control the ignorant than the informed - we also had heavy censorship on everything, so that didn't help.
One of ways the regime decided would help them keep people ignorant was to subtitle all foreign media that played on television, or in the movie theatres. If people couldn't read, they couldn't understand what was going on.
However... this backfired spectacularly, because people not only started to learn how to read from the subtitles themselves (some words like yes or no are great starting points to identify sounds), but people also started to learn foreign languages by ear, since you had the translation right there.
So incredibly, the way they chose to block knowledge from the people while pretending to actually be doing something good was so botched, they ended up giving many people _an education_ .
To this day there are no dubs in Portugal, with the exception of media for children, everything else is still subtitled.
What I'm getting from the video you're reacting to is that the USA had its own form of government-mandated censorship, which is pretty odd, but also makes perfect sense, considering what it ended up becoming.
Well we have had also every program here subtitiled for tens of years, but it had nothing to do with people not knowing how to read. It was about money, dubbing is a lot more expencive than subtitiling. Bigger nations like Germany, France and Spain could affor dubbing, but smaller nations like Portugal, Finland, Denmark and so on could not in the 1950 or 1960.
It is actually the other way around. subtitles actually increase the the understanding and reading profiliancy in a country, as you also mention. In fact in your nabouring country the same time dictatorship actually demanded dubbing for all foreign programs. It is easier to learn foreing languages with subtitles and hence many small coutries, with subtitles, have better understanding of other languaces, than bigger nations with dubbing.
One of my teachers once said that the smartest person he ever met was an American, but the dumbest person he ever met was also American.
I could say the same from my own experiences 🇨🇦
The Hayes Code was straight out of the 1700's Puritanism that founded the country.
Yep, the Pilgrim Fathers did not flee religious persecution, they fled the religious freedom of the Dutch Republic where people were allowed to not be puritan and prudish.
@@DenUitvreter Absolutely correct. They fled to the 'new world' where they could continue to impose their strict religious doctrines.
@@mehallica666 Within the boundaries of a good same denomination marriage, the Dutch where very liberal for that age. Public display of affection between husband and wife, also the youngsters could dance and stuff to find a spouse, women travelled unacompanied.
This was shocking to all English visitors, the puritants were terrified by the effect on their children.
@@DenUitvreter How scandalous.😱
@@DenUitvreter The Pilgrim Fathers were a group of English settlers who established the first permanent European settlement in New England, Plymouth Colony, in 1620. They only stopped over in the Netherlands on their way to the Americas and were not Dutch.
In my country it's manly because we can't imagine an intelligent country should choose someone like Trump to lead your country.
And your leaders are selected by the WEF. I rather have Trump.
I have always known/thought those shorts/videos of when an American is asked, "where country ********** is?", they are usually picked out of a larger selection, and the dumbest/funniest ones are selected. That said, when I was in L.A. several years ago, an Uber driver I had said during our conversation that he was born and raised in California. When I asked/mentioned that Sacramento was California's State capital, his response made me second guess the selection policies of those "American's are dumb" shorts/videos, as his response was - "I'm not sure. There are a lot of government buildings up there, so maybe." He wasn't even sure of his own State Capital. This is from someone who claimed to be "born and raised in California."
We have all knowledge in our fingertips but hardly any Americans ever read anything except for conspiracy theories lol
Ryan is on to something today.
"Wuzer" is from the old German for a dealer in herbs, after all 😉
Journalism integrity is what died.
The pressure from American movies is strong. Since about the early 2000s, "we" here in Germany have taken over stag/hen nights, ridiculously expensive weddings, home cinemas, huge fridges in the kitchen, SUVs etc., and finally (since about 10 years) Halloween.
Halloween isn't American, its Celtic New Year and goes back to Roman times.
@@gagada124 Sure, but we know Halloween from US movies and "imitate" what we see there.
Impressionable dumb people without strong cultural heritage or strong families are easily influenced by hedonistic superficial american shite.
Stag/hen nights is a British term. Americans have bachelor/bachelorette parties.
Europeans complain about everything that comes from America - and then some time later they adopt it. ^^
I gotta say - folks, claiming that you haven't read a book since high school, or that you're such a silly, weird, CLUELESS adult - that's not the flex you think it is ...
As the dean says in Animal House, "Son, fat drunk and stupid is no way to lead your life".
you guys are not as free as you think
No they are the slaves of a capitalist dictatorship run by multi billion corporations 😂🤣💩. They are not willing to fight for their rights like us Europeans. Look how a convicted criminal who is responsible for millions of USA citizens deaths during Covid can still run for presidency it’s because of that country’s stupid citizens. Trump is not a type of a leader any European Union country citizen would never accept( didn’t say Europe as Uk with Boris in the same boat as USA 😂🤣 but they did woke up though 😂🤣)
The proliferation of film happened in large part because of ww2. The Germans were the first to use film to make propaganda movies and put them in theaters to increase war support. The American propaganda "news" reels during the war were made for the same reason. The normalization of watching these news reels made going to the cinema a more popular and regular thing for people to do.
That's rubbish, most of the old big, beautiful theatres were built in the 1920s and 30s.
For freedom of speech, there is the same asterisk in the US. It is limited by laws against defamation, incitement to violence, obscenity, false advertising, and speech that poses a direct threat to public safety, such as yelling "fire" in a crowded theater w/o cause. It's a common misconception that one country has no limit and others have many, but they're quite similar in reality. The only difference really is that spewing hate based on identity is explicitly included in incitement to violence. Never understood why so many Americans wanna exclude it.
I was gonna make this same comment, you’ve saved me the time. 😅
The biggest difference is that in the US you are more likely to face a civil lawsuit from another citizen over abusing your right to free speech and in EU countries its more likely the government will come after you for posting an offensive meme.
@@DW-py4up Likewise.
Except that trump has broken most, if not all, of these. So, you really need an additional asterisk...because authorities don't care about the real laws. He`s not suffered any consequence (other than dementia) for any of it.
Correct. The free speech actually means that you can say whatever you want, not that it all goes unpunished. If you prevent people from speaking their mind, either by censorship or fear of draconian punishment, there is no free speech. Free speech means no permission up front is needed.
No mention of 40 years of systematically dismantling the education system or the erosion of journalistic integrity...yeah, pretty big oversight.
The Hayes Code also prohibited positive portrayal of queer identities. And though the Hayes Code is no longer in place, the "bury your gays" trope and the "queer-coded villain" have stuck around
19:03 Spotify is Swedish! 🇪🇺
the reason the map is like that is because Great Britain invented GMT - therefore it starts at 12 o clock right there
Hey Ryan, I am a German and I like to join your view and perspective on Europe!
What makes me really nervous is your election coming up because it will effect the whole world.
To me it is quite a decision between sens and nonsense!
So I would love to see Americans shouting out loudly:
NO NON-SENSE!!!...
Hope to hear that because I want to believe that the USA are not so dump as it sometimes appear.
Best regards, Sven Stark
Thanks for the video! So much to think about
My theory is lead water pipes and chemicals in food.
Inbreeding and religion cannot be overlooked.
add sublevel education and you'll be close to the cause. They're indoctrinated from an early age. Name another country that requires ALL primary schools to have a national flag in the corner of each classroom and require children to pledge their allegiance every morning?
3:10 "..most Americans care about Mexico.." - Yeah, shure, when it comes to make them pay for the wall! 😂
Never going to happen.
Never going to happen especially as it is called a US border.
@@gerardflynn7382
Never say never!
@@gerardflynn7382"nobody has the intention to build a wall.", Walter Ulbricht two months before he started to build the Berlin wall
Yeah, they care how well they can mow a lawn.
The French law was passed to control anglo-saxon music (not specifically American).
A minimum of 40% must be "chanson française" so there's still plenty of air-time for saxons to plug their hits.!!
Some stations of-course are 100% francophone, but you get that in nearly all non-english speaking countries, ESPECIALLY overseas (outside Europe) where english is understood only by the small percentage of "highly educated class".
Which other non english speaking countries have rules like this? I'm curious, since I always thought this was unique to France (I'm from Germany)
@@jbp246 Nigeria has a ban on white actors in advertisements.
@@jbp246We have such a law in Slovenia, I belive the percentage is the same as in France
@@jbp246 no, you miss-understand me.
I'm not stating that the authority of l'Academie Française is replicated in other cultures.
The point I'm making is that in most other regions of the world, this happens by default - that means - it's not the requirements of any government body - it's simply the wishes of the population.
According the Freedom Index by Country = USA is on place
27 for personal freedom
17 for human freedom
5 for economic freedom
Who created this index? No other countries protect their citizen's rights as well as the U.S. Our constitution states our rights come from God, not the government. That's not to say they aren't infringed upon and restricted on the extremes but the U.S. guarantees a much higher minimum level of personal autonomy than any other country I've ever looked into.
@@RustyShackleford-s2o you can believe whatever you want. Your constitution doesnt state your rights come from god (this would be unconstitutional according to your constitution!!!) other countries have constitutions too - thats not unique to the USA. Source: World Population Review/ Freedom Index by Country
@@RustyShackleford-s2o😂
@@RustyShackleford-s2oYou sound like you’re trying to prove that Americans are stupid like the video said. I personally can’t take stupid people seriously because they just say things and never think. Good job.
As a swede, the fact is I would have it easier to go to North Korea then to the US as a tourist.
And on the app three big Apps/programs/games coming from Sweden: Skype, Minecraft and Spotify.
I wanted to write exactly the same! 😊 popular european (swedish) apps/ platforms
Oh I remember when the new york stock exchange posted a Swiss flag to celebrate spotify‘s public offering. 🇨🇭🇸🇪
@@MrsStrawhatberry Well it's the same flag uh ? 😁😁😁
And from France uuuuh.... Dailymotion.... but we do other things well, I promise
Yes, but both Minecraft and Skype is now owned by Microsoft.
America does not have more freedom of speech compared to other countries. It has less 😅!!! US censured tons of words... In other countries, you have the right to use them.
I agree that the USA 🇺🇸 has a lot less freedom of speech. I've travelled the US and tell the truth you get death threats!!
It’s so funny when I hear Americans saying we are the land of the free……. Yet you guys have so many restrictions…… fuck, cunt and so many others words gets bleeped out…… you can’t take alcohol with you in public….its so harder to get a green card in the US, then in Europe….
And thank you for being so curious to learn about what the world looks like outside the US 😊
than* in Europe.
I remember the episode of Top Gear where Clarkson, May and Hammond were chased out of a town because the wrote some words on their cars which the locals found offensive... So much for "The land of the free" (Freedom of speech)
you don't need to travel overseas to have a wider knowledge of the world and world events - so the passport % is really a nothing - i live in Australia - 10x thousands of air miles from anywhere and the majority of Australians have a wide knowledge of world geography and politics - it is taught in schools - and is reported daily on news networks and in newspapers
I grew up in Sydney, and to be honest, I think being from the arse end of the world actually motivates us to learn more about the rest of the world.
As a New Zealand citizen I was always amazed at the stupid questions on the visa application to the USA. Did anybody in the USA ever wonder how it was possible to answer this question. “Are you now or have you ever been a member of a Communist front organization.” If it was a communist front organization how would I know?
Definitely do not let those children into Canada if they are driving.
About the billboard hot singles there is a big question mark ...who wrote the songs? Sweden, for example, has written many that American artists sing
The more I learn about USA, the more negative I become.
Australia was making movies before the US
your eyes speaks volumes
17:44 i don't think it's that surprising that companies flock to a nation where they can treat employees like slaves to save money.
The fact you refuse talking something political says something about freedom of speech. Not? Really, the world has gone mad.
But maybe reacting to Loekie de Leeuw or Loekie the lion (Dutch commercial break intervention) like the German Mainzel mänchen will give something to smile again. People need a laugh every day!
I like to believe that war exists so Americans can learn geography
That is the best one I have heard so far. 👍
"God created war so that Americans would learn geography." - Mark Twain
American celebrities? Looks like 91% of Americans recognised Mel Gibson. He's Australian. And not the Australia in the European mountains. Or am I missing something? :)
Yes. Venezuela is in Pakistan. 🙂
He was born in the US.
Seems more like Freedom to Lie right now
One of your biggest problems is the fact that in some states you can still marry your cousins and have children
In many countries its perfectly legal to marry a cousin. That its just some states in the US make it stricter on that than many other places. Its not common obviously, and looked upon with disgust, but legal.
That old European practice of incest still exists in rural parts but it is definitely seen with disgust. Did y'all finally stop practicing incest?
The first full length feature movie was made in australia. Ned Kelly b/w silent
Tweezer-stealing cellists are a big problem here, it's a good thing the cello is not a popular instrument.
A week ago my American friend called me here in France. He had received a letter but he didn't know what to do with it. He told me that he had doubleclicked on it but it didn't open. :-)
Just joking!
Wait. Hold up. Children can go to Canada without a passport if they're driving. I feel like that could've been worded better. 😜
Well its america so it wouldn't suprise me if he said it correct 😉.
I hate how "America is the greatest country in the world" turned to "America is the worst country to ever exist"
America is absolutely awesome in some ways probably the greatest in a couple of metrics.
America is also absolutely horrendous at a number of things that a lot of people value
Although there are many things I would change, on the global scale I am grateful that the US exists, you know, security in Europe reasons.
In a weird way, some of America's defense budget helps enable some of the things we love to greater extend, because we would be having to spend more on our defense budgets if America wasn't this ahead and our ally
And as much as we say they spend to much on defense budget, which they realistically probably do, we definitely all need America to spend enough on it.
I don't like the idea of living in a world where China or north Korea or some place like that becomes the global superpower. Especially if China takes over Taiwan in the near future and the US is unable to stop it, if China controls that much of chip manufacturing in Taiwan uncontested it's probably gg.
Europian NATO members standing armies are together about 1,5-1,7 times the Russian army size, not counting any reserve troops. They have more aircraft than Russia or China and their Navy is only smaller compared to China nad USA. I think the EU has big enough army. It is offen missed, that Europe is not just depending on 1 army, it has multiple armies and when compined are actually really big.
@omatjalisvideot9734 true and fair
Though I don't know how much the EU army could project their power proactively to prevent certain risks, like China taking Taiwan.
I could be wrong, but I feel like the US is in a unique situation with their military and their power protection that allows them to interfere with things all over the globe very quickly.
I feel like this ability is pretty vital in stopping or even just deterring something, I don't think Europe could take this role within any reasonable time frame for us not to need the US.
I will grant that if the entirety of the situation was things along the lines of Russia invading a country, Europe could probably manage a lot better than people think, I just don't know if we could do enough outside of Europe
There is nothing more evenly divided than our brain, we all believe we have enough.
Like, it is so weird though. The major thing that I have noticed is that U.S.A. do not know much outside of its borders/internationally. Whilst we know much about the world and about U.S.A.
If you flip it, it would be like an european saying that the dollar is a newspaper, Britney Spears is an indigenous american known for her politics, a sheriff is a dogbreed, New York is the capital of Mexico, the president of U.S.A. is James Brown etc, stuff like this, this is actually how crazy some U.S.A. people say when they are to answear international stuff. OFC not everyone, but some are actually like this. Some even think that Europe is a country, it is insane. It is like me saying that U.S.A. is a city in Canada or something.
Whilst not being dumb, just being incredibly ignorant and uneducated about international stuff.
"I could be stupid" is the basic sentence an intelligent person should pronunce when he wants to raise his intelligence 😁
The Passport thing is that Canada and Mexico are on what's referred to as a travel permit, the requirements for which were tightened in the last score of years.... so rather than having a permit to travel to Canada, you now require a Passport.
and in that quiz, 84& had no idea there was any other county in the world
I'm glad that your quote "I'm not political" is foiled by your actual views and responsibility ... at least for an American :P
The internet gives us all access to everything. What is sad, is that people decide to restrict their viewing exclusively to sources that support their view. This is a natural tendency, but is furthered by Trump, who specifically says that sources that disagree with him are fake. People are now self selecting one view and denying themselves the benefits of universal information.
That's because they're so dumb they don't even think for themselves
I too got real 'Coca-Cola' (Coke) served in the 'Hotel Nacional' in Havana, CUBA too... It was produced in the Coke factory ('COCA-COLA INSURGENTES Plant') in Monterrey, Mexico ! So when asked the question; which are the two countries in the world you cannot buy Coca-Cola, Cuba is not one of them and the question is wrong! 🤣🤣🤣
There's this thing I appreciate from United States citizens that is their patriotism. I really like that. The love for their own country is awesome. But it brings a huge drawback for the people. That arrogance that comes from excessive love (that turns into obsession). To the point that it makes them think that all others are trash and that they wouldn't learn anything useful from others. Thus, fabricating a lot of dumb citizens that don't want to learn from others unless they're american (except all other americas' coutries than United States).
I think it is just a symbtom from the real reason, which is fear. Fear makes national leaders look invard and make big differences between nations. They will find enemies from outside and bolster internal strengths. This is evident from all nations where isolation happens. Fear also leads to propaganda about own nations superiority, as you have to give a view to people that we are strong, so fear not as long as you have the right leaders.
This has happended in Germany and Italy in 1930s, in USA from 1950s, Russia for the entire history, China for its communist history, North Korea, Irak, Iran, the list is really never ending ...
About the music. I would love to see you react to the video called something along the line of "Top 50 songs written by swedish songwriters and producers"
Freedom of speech? What about your censor? Try saying "fuck" on tv.
You can in Australia.
@@triarb5790 here in Europe as well, but not in the usa
Good job Ryan. I'm living in Germany
You are not one of them.
He is Canadian
He is one of us, we claim him.
His brother is though
@@owenbradley726 what did brother do
@@owenbradley726😂
The difference between freedom of speech and freedom of expression isn't that there's less freedom to express your opinion, it's the understanding that you can express your opinion without being a dick about it. And reaching the bar to actually violate freedom of expression is difficult, because the priority of the law is your freedom to express your thoughts, not to limit that freedom 😊
In my country freedom of speech is limited by the constitution and rightly so when it
- promotes hatred
- violence
- racism
- pornography etc. And that constitution is vastly based on the USA one!
I am German.
@@irminschembri8263 Yeah it's the same here, I think most of the laws contain the same elements but it's when to apply them that is different 🤔 the American one is the broadest in the world, that's why they can still refer to groups as vermin and animals etc. without consequences 🫠
Oh, no,no,no. You are the smartest on Earth. Your government can Control the weather 😂
when you are stupid you believe you are smart , and when you are smart you now that you are stupid
A lot of US citizens make a big deal of their "freedom" which no other country possesses, in reality most European countries have just as much, if not more. In the UK you can drink, swear and appear totally naked on tv, and cross the road wherever you want to, the only freedoms we don't have, and most don't want, is the freedom to carry a gun in public, and call people insulting racial slurs. Also you can be imprisoned for offences that would earn you a fine or probation here, which is why you have the highest prison population, per capita of any democratic country.
USA is not a democratic country in reality it’s a dictatorship governed and run by few multi billion companies and it’s ignorant citizens are willing slaves. How can a criminal who is convicted can run for presidency 💩😂🤣.
Wrong, England has people in jail right now for tweeting lies. In America, people tweet lies all day long and get paid for it.
Did you see that last year’s Olympics was the Beijing 2008? This video is awfully outdated because of Venezuela crisis. I’m pretty sure they don’t serve Coca-Cola anymore. Correct me if I’m wrong though.