It's common to them just pop up in random youtube comment sections of videos of any language. And start saying that crap. Even if the name of video don't have any English text.
I'm German and some Teenager in a Gamelobby once asked me : "Is Hitler still your King ?" I told him that he never was and that Hitler killed himself and his Family in a Bunker around 80 Years ago. Turned out that this Kid always thought that whenever he saw Prince Charles of Britain in a Picture or in the TV that he was called Hitler before he changed his Name into Prince Charles.😅
@@bubsy3861 I'm not sure if RUclips is testing stuff or the creator can add translations to titles, but I have seen videos recommended to me with titles in my native language and then the video has the audio in english. Maybe they felt click baited? No excuse for being an ahole tho
Well, my little story. An American girl, met in Berlin (i'm Italian), tried to convince me that the italian word for "hello", that in Italian is "ciao", (in english sounds like the word "chow"), i wis mispronunciating it, and tried to teach me the correct pronunciation (that for her was EXACTLY HOW WOULD THE LETTERS "ciao" sounds in english), because she has "italian heritage".
I was on vacation in England and a American dude heard me talking swenglish, he asked me where I'm from, and I answered "Sweden" 🇸🇪 he did inform me that it is pronounced Switzerland 🇨🇭 not Sweden 🇸🇪 in English. 😳 Now I wonder how they spell stupid...
Must be the same American woman who said to me "in the US we don't call it Sweden, we call it Switzerland" and as much as I tried to explain to her those are 2 different countries, it was no use.
When I was 16, I went to the US for a 3 week school exchange. The host family picked me up from the airport; on the drive home, the teenage daughter asked me whether we have cars in Germany (yes, seriously). I politely pointed out that we were sitting in her father's Volkswagen, a German car brand, and listed other German car manufacturers. She would not believe me, saying that "but we bought this car here in the US, so it must be American!" It was three very long weeks ... 😶
This is what happens when the only thing you learn in school and from your parents that 'Merica is the greates country ever, over all and on earth... All other countries are boring, meaningless, irrelevant and unimportant... Because we live in 'Mercia! *Eagle scream in the distance* 😆
I was involved in a research project many years ago that distinguished Australians by ethnicity. Some American participants wanted African American as a category, though Australian people with dark pigment are generally neither African nor American.
I do not understand the concept of xxx-american (african, asian and what not). Either you are american or not (otherwhise the "white" americans should be refered to as "caucasian-american"? and how would you refer to a white guy from south africa? Caucasian-african-american?) Just weird....
I remember a radio program where they were talking about Nelson Mandela, referring to him as "the African-American leader" because "black leader" couldn't be said. Somehow didn't occur to then that he could be referred to as "African leader".
An American tourist asked me directions to the Eiffel Tower. We were in London. When I told her she was in the wrong country, she got angry and said she'd been told she could see the "tower" in London. Yes, madam, you can see the Tower BRIDGE the Tower of LONDON, plenty of other towers, but the Eiffel Tower is in bloody Paris, France. At that point her husband tried to calm her down by saying "Don't worry darling, we've seen the original one in Vegas anyway"...
"Sir. You need American passport in order to get in America." In Florida a gas station lady, to me when I was buying beer and was asked to show my ID. I showed her my Finnish passport. She ended up calling the cops on me for being an "Illegal immigrant" even though I was on a three week holiday.
@@paulacampos When the cops arrived, the cashier yelled to them of what was going on and that I need to be arrested and deported. The younger officer took me to the side, looked at my passport asked where I was from, what was the pourpose of my visit and where I was staying. After I had answered all her questions, she apologized so many times. She said she had heard of the "haha dumb american" but always thought that it was just a joke. I don't know what went down with the cashier, but I did hear loud screaming. Next thing I know she's handcuffed and they take her to the patrol car. They asked me if I wanted to press charges for "illegaly detaining me" (she prevented me from leaving the store). I said I didn't, cause 1. I'm a foreigner and 2. I didn't wanna get anymore involved than I already was. In the end the older officer offered to pay for my beer. I've no idea what happened to the cashier.
same situation with me on a different scenario and the worst of all, the cop didn't believe that Portugal was a real place. What the actual fuck moment.
@@pauloa.7609 Not the first time I hear that that has happened. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has had to contact their embassy and have someone from there to come clarify things.
@@pauloa.7609, desculpa aqui a interrupção, mas a sério?? Podiam no mínimo pesquisar o nome do país na net. E se foi com americanos, ainda pior porque a vida deles passa a olhar para o telemóvel 😅
In a small Zoo in England, American asks the keeper, "So where are they (lemurs) from?" Zookeeper replies, "They're from Madagascar." American man scoffs, "Eh, I think you'll find that that's a film, not a real country."
I`m from El Salvador, and always talk with this girl; once, when she asked me how I learned english, I told her by reading the lyrics of the songs I like, on RUclips. She opened her eyes, really really, really surprised, and asked: “Do you have internet in Latin America?” That day I lost the little respect I had for her. I realized that day that the Simpson and Family Guy is more of a documentary than a comedy show.
In communist Poland i've learned english by reading with Lord of The Rings (smuggled obvioysly) to my right, dictionary to my left (found in basement, printed before the war) and a notebook in the middle. I've learned to speak thx to cassettes with rock music and inlets with lyrics xD
porque se piensan algunos gringos que vivimos en la edad de piedra como si no tuvieramos internet, carro, aeropuertos, me acuerdo que un mexicano conto que una vez un aleman se sorprendió que el estuviera en Alemania porque pensaba el alemán que en México andamos en burro o en caballo, no es solo en estados unidos pero bueno la verdad me sorprende la ignorancia de algunos
@@spacebattlenun3522 In every sense. I can't think of a single way that Europoors are more influential than Americans. You're not watching this on a German platform, are you?
My aunt was working for a big pharma company in the US something like 20 years ago. When she said where she's from during diner with Americans, she was asked if we had electricity in our country. We're from Switzerland, one of the richest country on Earth ...
after many many many times, explaining that Europe isn't a country and I'm from Germany.. I've finally given up at some point :D either you need to paint a map to show where Germany is and so on.. or you find yourself in a discussion, where 1 american tells you: ya bro, if germany is inside of europe, your counry is europe... while his 3 buddys put on their winning smile haha
Im Spanish from Spain. I once had to go to a congress in Florida, and a woman that was also attending the congress asked where I was from. I said I was from Spain - Europe (I always tend to add Europe as I encountered many of these situations). Her next response was "Oh yeah Spain, beautiful Mexican region".... At the same congress I was asked by another woman, I gave ger the same reply. She then proceeeded to ask where Spain was, and I said below France. She then proceeded to ask where France was. I gave her a simple explaination about France, Europe and Paris (as it is a well nown city). Her response: "But isn't Paris in Canada? is France a canada state then?". It was a fun trip.
OMG so many times that I hear that, might be true and it's tragic... I'm really schocked by the level of ignorance of the world (geography, culture, languages...) of the Americans (from USA), they could at least show a little interest in Europe from where their close ancestors (max 5 or 6 generations 😮) come !!! It make me think a strong 'reset' syndrome might have happened when our ancestors (I'm French) landed there !
@@nicolasaubertin4949 It's because of education and schooling or rather lack of. Yes people can naturally find interests but a lot of interest are cultivated. Most people wouldn't go out of their way to learn algebra on there own and same with history and geography so if you get a bad education you don't know a lot of things. A lot of people in these videos seem to probably have been educationally neglected or didn't pay attention at all in school. Some of them aren't necessarily dumb. They just haven't learned about things that they should have been taught. It's doesn't reflect as much on their intelligence as it does on the education system in the US.
@@y-tiplex Couldn't agree more. But I think that if people are not naturally dumb, the US education system will make them dumber génération after another... And unfortunately it's the way it's going here in France (maybe in Europe) too 😓
@@y-tiplex But they can all tell you about the 30 genders....can't add 2+2 even with New Math and a ream of paper......they aren't being educated, they're being 'indoctrinated".
technically in Canada we do have a Paris, Ontario... but this person obviously doesn't know anything but a few Canadian stereotypes I'd think due to the fact they said "is France a Canada STATE then?" Canada doesn't have states we have provinces
1. I'm Brazilian, and when I said that when visiting the U.S., EVERYBODY immediately apologized: "Sorry, I don't speak Spanish." They got VERY confused when I replied: "I don't either." Unlike most other South American countries, Brazil was colonized by *Portugal,* not Spain, so we speak *Portuguese,* not Spanish. But even after I explained that, they couldn't understand it. 2. A friend of mine, another Brazilian, was asked by an American if there were cannibals in Brazil. I loved his reply: "Not anymore, we ate the last one last month." 🤣 3. A similar story to the passport one when buying beer, as told in the video, happened with a friend of mine who is Swiss and was visiting the U.S., but he used his Swiss national ID card instead, and there was a different problem. I don't know his birthdate, but let's assume for the sake of example that it's March 23, 1966 (day greater than 12 - you guessed where we're heading). His birthdate was written 23/03/1966 - day/month/year, as is customary in nearly every country other than the U.S. The attendant became very rude and threatened to call the cops because he was using a fake ID. "There is no month 23, there are only 12 months!" He tried to explain but the ignoramus wouldn't even hear it. He had to buy his beer elsewhere...
Ia m not US citizen and made somehow same mistake. Since I have Brazilian friends, I know about Portugal /Spanish treaty in era of discoveries about division of found lands ;) (It is half of the globe far from place I live, then ups ... but I did not try to convince my friends that they are wrong about their own country)
Uma vez eu estava em um jogo online, e surpreendentemente só tinha brasileiros, lá. Do nada entrou uma pessoa que aparentemente só falava inglês, e ele ficou "irritadinho" e mandou nos pararmos de falar ESPANHOL. Eu disse para ele que nos estávamos falando português, e que ele era o único falando inglês no servidor inteiro, mas ele falou "Eu não me importo, apenas pare com essa merda". Ele gicou mais bravo e logo depois saiu do server. Ficou tudo calmo depois que ele saiu.
Also Brazilian. I've had an American flat out deny that Portuguese is our mother language. Dude legit said "nope, you speak Spanish, everyone knows that". 😂😂
One of my mates had some Americans ask him if they had music in Australia.... they were eventually shocked to learn that ACDC is an Aussie band. My boyfriend was on a holiday in Peru and an old American couple asked him for the WiFi password..... At the top of the Machu Picchu.
@stubbsieshorse327 AC/DC was formed in Sydney in 1973 haha and judging by how sunny and warm the city is, I can definitely assure you it's nowhere near Scotland 😂
@@linanafie8571 Haha. You'll find that the Young brothers and Bon Scott were all "formed" in Scotland! If you watch their video for " It's a long way to the top" you'll not see many dingos or wallabies in it! 😅
It's not just Americans. I remember a story about a woman in the UK yelling at a couple to speak English because they were speaking a language she didn't understand. They were speaking Welsh. They were currently in Wales.
Americans literally have slurs against smart people like 'nerd' or 'geek'. Literally, if you're *too smart* you're automatically an outcast in an US school.
isnt that a common thing generally? I live in germany and when i was in school, some very smart kids would be antagonized aswell. Same in the working space. Dumb ppl say stupid stuff all the time everywhere. If a smart person jumps in and only needs two sentences to proof how dumb and narrow-minded ppl are, they feel threatened and in response call you geek or nerd or brainiac or something. I consider it a coping mechanism ^^ ... Being smart is an offense if you walk amongst the stupid ;D
I'm Serbian and I met Americans once while vacationing in Tunis. They kept insisting we are Russian and that we're from Siberia, asking us how we are coping with the heat when we're usually surrounded by ice year round. Hint, we are not. Even a good part of Siberia isn't constantly under ice, it's just cold and dry half the time. But that's Siberia. Serbia has a lovely four seasons in a year with mild winters and summers. So, yeah.
Something similar happened to me! 😂 While I was waiting in line in Wellington (NZ), I asked a man where he was from and he said Montpelier, which, fair, it's the capital of Vermont, but it's by no means that famous internationally (no one even knows Vermont, let alone Montpelier 😂). Very American of him to expect a rando to know a medium-sized American city by name, but anyway, I did because I'm a bit of a geography freak. Then he asks me where I'm from, so I decide to follow his lead and reply that I'm from Brasilia. Dude looks at me with pity and goes "oh, honey, it's pronounced Brazil in English". 😂😂😂 Brasilia is the capital ffs! 😂
@@Jonas-h4w3q Pasta/Noodles doesn't really have a single point of origin. It's a common thing made from wheat. It was common across Asia but no one really knows exactly where it came from. The oldest archeological evidence we currently have is in Italy however. Pizza however we have solid evidence for came from Naples, Italy. It was immigrated to the US by italian immigrants in the 1940s.
Italian here, I worked for 15 years in the tourism industry and once an American family asked me, with all possible seriousness, if we kept the ancient Romans on reservations like the Indians
Actually, in the US, they don't have to. Although many teachers do not know that and try to force it on everyone, or try to punish students who refuse to say the pledge and/or to stand up for the pledge - Native Americans kids, for instance, who know more about their rights than some teachers or school boards.
I went to the Panama Canal and the museum showed miniature replicas of the trains they used to transport the material used to build the canal. An American woman next to me looked at this few inches long train and said “oh my god I did not expect them to be so small?!” I had to dive behind a post to laugh because I didn’t want to make her feel bad. I was crying with laughter!
I'm Belgian, and on a party in portugal I was asked by an American; "Where are you from", So i told him I'm from Belgium, he asked if i could say hello in Belgian, so I answered that's not possible, but i can say it in Dutch, he then responded, "Ah, so you're from Holland?", to which I responded, "Can you say hello in American ????", He was totally flabbergasted and didn't understand what i was pointing at :)
Of course it´s hard to understand the point, without knowing that belgium is seperated in 3 language-areas, an no "belgian". And that English is seperated in many parts like AE,BE AusE etc.
I’m German and live in Berlin. Some years ago I was asked to take care of some American exchange students because my English was quite good. I was supposed to show them around the city, take them on some trips. The first thing that surprised me was that they were unable to speak German. If you go into an exchange program in Germany, at least in my school, you were supposed to be able to speak at least on a C1 level. Those students couldn‘t even ask for directions, tell somebody their names or where they are from. It wasn‘t a problem as many people in Berlin speak at least a bit of English. The second surprise was as issue, though. They constantly asked about Adolf Hitler. Where does he work, where does he life, can they see him, could they make a foto with him. At first I thought they were joking, after I realized that they were not I had a very hard time convincing them that 1. Hitler is dead since the second world war … because the Allies including the US won that fucking war against Nazi Germany (and even if they didn‘t he would‘ve probably died of old age by that point, it was 2008 or something around that time) And more important 2. that Adolf Hitler is not some kind of celebrity in Germany. I was shocked to see how little they new about the worlds history their country shaped
What shocks me more about this is how someone could possibly know enough to know who Hitler is yet presumabely know not enough about him to realise that you wouldnt want a picture with him? Like, how could someone possibly learn who Hitler is without also learning atleast some of the things that make him very very unlikeable, to put it nicely.
@@gklkjuhylpoiuyuiojhjklkjuh9976 C1 basically means that you are fluent in a language, which I think is a pretty fair requirement if you want to be an exchange student. After all being an exchange student should mean wanting to relatively Independently live in a foreign country for a while. Not be a tourist.
I've often heard variations of the fireworks on July 4th. What I found worst was that US tourists were expecting the fireworks in London. I mean, you'd think that if Americans are going to celebrate Independence Day, they should know why they're doing it, and of all the places in the world, London is the place where you least expect fireworks.
Believe it or not, they often expect Canada to have fireworks on July 4th as well. If so, they're three days late, as July 1st is their national holiday, known as "Canada Day" (formerly known as "Dominion Day").😉
I’m English my wife is American. I was talking with my in-laws once and somehow the city Vienna was mentioned. My wife I guess was feeling left out of the conversation so she suddenly interjected “Traveling to Italy has never appealed to me!” My Father in-law sarcastically said “I’m so glad I paid for your education.” 😂😂
When I hear something like this, I always remember a joke. A professor tells the students, 'Ask anything you like; there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.' One student asks, 'If I grab the contact wire with my hands and stand on the rails with my feet, will I move like a tram?'
I’m English but was on holiday in Wales, where we went to visit a thousand year old castle. There was an information board which said an American had once asked the owner of the castle why they had been given planning permission to build a castle in front of Cardiff airport
A castle in front of _Cardiff Airport?_ Hmm? Is that Fonmon Castle you're referring to? I guess it _is_ close-by but I didn't consider it THAT close. I've heard about similar things happening at Cardiff Castle and Conwy Castle, since they're right in the centre of Cardiff and Conwy, respectively.
@lagerku.3137 It was Fonmon, yes. I guess the American saw the airport on a map or saw a plane flying low or something. Maybe someone said it was “near here”
@@lagerku.3137 In Cardiff Castle a friend was asked by a tourist why they had built the castle so close to the shops. The original castle/fort had been there since at least the Roman Period.
It's not just Americans; I read a travel review by an English woman who complained that, while the sunny weather was great, her holiday resort was full of Spanish people and the staff mostly only spoke Spanish..........in Spain!
If they have never been given the curiosity to the rest of the world at school, how can they improve ? I'm schocked each time I hear Americans not knowing at least 10 countries and their capitals in Europe, and at least the 10-20 major countries in the world ! But when you think that they might not even know all the States of the UNITED STATES ( I seriously hope they learned it at school), I'm wayyyy more schocked... They don't have a f**** clue on how the World works and its different cultures... Makes me sad and scary with all this stupidity 😢
It's seriously embarrassing. They stopped teaching anything of validity a long time ago. I think they started the "no child let behind" on the newest kindergardener's when I was in like 5th grade. They attempted to with the older classes. They been tried force passing me when my dad came in told them....HELL NO! She repeats her grade because I ain't allowing you to turn her into a moron. I ain't got no shame in admitting I sucked in school. Truth was, I needed help and help programs were harder to get into.
This is very real. I'm from Ireland (Republic of), and I've had *several* Americans TELL me Ireland is part of the UK. I've corrected them, kindly, not looking to argue, just to inform... And they insist on arguing that *I* am wrong about where *I* am from. They tell me I'm British even after I correct them.
That's the thing. It seems to be only yanks that speak nonsense with such arrogance and confidence. Plenty of people who speak rubbish but the yanks do it in a particularly irksome way.
@@Mark73 Yeah, that's the part that makes no sense for me. I wouldn't get mad at someone for not knowing something, but insisting they're right and getting argumentative about it is crazy and stupid.
I worked in museums for four years in Scotland, I could write a book on daft things asked. Here are three that stick after nearly 20 years: 1. "Is that France I can see from the top of Edinboro Castle?" Tried to explain, in the end I had to say yes! "Jeez I never realised it was so close" 2. "How come you and your colleagues speak such good English?" 3. "How do you know when this happened?" Explain that in the 17th century we do have written records. "No I mean the exact time in the afternoon" (they thought 1617 was the time not year an event happened". Oh and we get an "isn't it neat they built the castle so close to the train station" frequently in Edinburgh!
I believe the yeoman warders in the tower of London sometimes make a joke that it was a bad idea to build the tower under the approach paths to two airports - they then have to explain to American tourists that it's a joke...
As someone who worked in hotels in Edinburgh for many years, I too have heard some shite. For example, "We're just going for a day trip to Loch Ness and come back here for dinner!" No you're bloody not, that's a 4 to 5 hour drive up there ya eejit! "REALLY?! But we thought Scotland was small enough to drive round in a day?" 😐
I work in a supermarket in the Tuscany sea side, had an American tourist asking why he could not se the colosseum around and if he was in a walkable distance. when I said it’s not walkable, he accused me of being rude cause we European think Americans are all fat, I said to him he should WALK 6 days straight if he wanted to reach it and he said I was talking bs, after all Europe is all walkable…
An American traveller in the UK is on a train and gets into conversation with an Englishman telling him how great the USA is. When he says it takes three days to cross the US by train the Englishman responds by saying, "Some of our trains are quite slow as well."
Considering that I just saw a story in this very comment section about an american family driving a Volkswagen asking if there are cars in germany... it's only a matter of time.
8:25 OK small history lesson for all of my other Americans. Czechoslovakia is no longer a country. It hasn’t been a country since January 1, 1993, when it was divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. So not only is everybody wrong in the fact that Russian would be her primary language, but Czechoslovakia is also no longer correct. And yes, the majority of the people who were part of the countries that were involved in the USSR do speak Russian. It’s just not their first language. Unlike the United States, the majority of other countries teach more than one language to their children while they’re growing up.
@@andreasfischer9158To be honest I wish Swedish summers were that short. I'm moving north as soon as I get a job in Lule or Pite. Bring me those polar nights damn it, Stockholm's winters sucks compared to how winter could be.
Many years ago I was in Cambridge (UK) city centre which is my home city when I heard an American woman speaking to her partner as they stood outside Kings College. Gee the English have obviously modelled their city on Cambridge MA. Even the gate porter fell about laughing. A woman in the throng corrected her by saying that the oldest college in Cambridge was Peterhouse founded in 1284 to which she replied . But their was no history that far back. Americans wonder why the rest of the civilised world laughs at them.
Not all Americans are stupid or ignorant. And that definitely was since America came way after Great Britain and every other European Country. I can see why you would think that if all your encounters are like this though. If the only kind of Europeans that came here said stupid stuff like that I would think y’all were stupid too I guess.
@@chelcybryant225 I have no idea what you're trying to say with that 2nd sentence, which kinda makes your comment even more funnier. 😝 FWIW though, there are *many* f'ing stupid people in EU too, as well as in any other part of the planet for that matter. Being stupid is not an exclusive Murican trait, unfortunately. There are some reasons you stand out though: - You are the self-proclaimed "Leaders of the Free World" &, as such, you've raised the bar on yourselves. People expect those whose votes directly affect world affairs to be informed/educated, enough to at least being able to find their own f'ing country on the map. - You are arrogant & delusional, for no good reason either if I may add. - You are stubborn. Even when corrected you tend to ask "are you sure?". Well yeah, I believe I know better than you (for example) what the language we speak in my country is called. "No, we don't speak "Belgian" in Belgium, we speak Dutch. Yes, I'm sure." - _Irl example._ - & many, *many* more... P.S.: Don't get me wrong, I *LOVE* Americans! You guys are (typically) fun & kind, way more than many (most?) North Europeans I'd say. But the level of your idiocrasy is staggering, as is evident from your lifestyle, your societal issues, your political system, all the way up to your last couple POTUS themselves. So yeah, there you have it...
We were eating burgers and the guy sitting next to us asked if this was our first time eating them (he overheard us speaking german). My husband is from Hamburg so we joked about him being a hamburger. He didn't get it, so we tried to explain the joke, but he just got mad and told us we were making it up and Hamburg wasn't a place. The thing is, in other parts of the world being stupid isn't something that is valued, so our idiots just shut up. In the US, intelligence is what is frowned upon, which is very bizarre. I don't know any other culture where idiocy is considered an attribute, but people really do get offended by intelligent conversation and see it as annoying and shameful. Even in the movies the smart kids get bullied. In most other countries, the smart kid is the popular one.
Naja... tu mal nicht so als ob kluge Kinder als "Streber" zu mobben hier in Europa nicht stattfinden würde. Zum Glück nicht auf dem Level wie in den USA, aber wirklich beliebt ist man als kluges Kind in Europa auch nicht. Oder nur, wenn man es anderweitig kompensiert und ständig Streiche spielt oder so. Wenigstens hört sich das bei uns dann an der Uni / im Erwachsenenalter auf.
Exactly, I was always shocked to see in US high school movies, how a smart kid was labelled as ' Nerd ' or was bullied while in India education is something that is seen so imp. The intelligent or topper kids are more famous and loved than backbenchers.
I know that the burgers comes from Germany because of Hamburg, I speak Spanish and the word Burger in Spanish is similar to the name hamburg, so for me it's weird that other people don get a curiosity to know about other countries including his food 👍
I went on a trip to the USA a few years back. Two golden interactions were : - in LA : spoke to dudes doing basketball near the beach. They invited me to play. Asked me where i was from and when I said "France" they didnt want to believe me because "french dont speak english". At first i thought was a compliment because we do tend to be pretty bad at english but then when I said "yeah our school system is pretty bad at teaching us english" they were shocked and one said "you learn it at school ???" And no, it wasnt a joke. They didnt know we learn english in french schools. - In Vegas : went to a casino and tried a few machines to have fun. Eventually socialized with other people in the casino. One asked where i was from, said France, they answered "Paris ?" I laughed because it's no wonder people think Paris, said Bordeaux, another known town and to my surprise they didnt say "dont know it" they said "oh yeah its where the wine is from" and it is pretty known for wine. But then they added "I thought it was in Italy though, its pretty close to it yes ?". I answer its like 6hrs of drive away if not 8hrs and they said "yeah what i said, close" then marseille (extreme south of france) and paris (very up north) are "close" since they are 8hrs of drive apart 😂 He was so astonished that you can cross france in max 12hrs
Pour un Américain c’est normal. Un jour un américain m’a dit : pour vous 200km c’est loin, pour nous 200 ans c’est vieux.😅 Et expérience perso. J’ai été invité au mariage d’un pote dans le nord de l’etat de NY. C’est un de ses potes de lycée qui m’a emmené, départ de Rochester et 5 heures de route autour de 400 km). Pendant le trajet, on discute et là il me dit qu’il rentre ce soir! Le mec a fait 800 bornes dans la journée et est resté 2-3 heures au mariage. Pour lui No problème!
I met an American in UK where I live and he noticed my accent. When I told him I am Italian he got excited and said "I'm going to Italy for 3 days soon! I want to take a bike and travel from Venice to Florence and Rome!" I didn't tell anything to him but I tell you: Venice-Florence-Rome is around 380 miles (625km). Good luck with that in 3 days.
@@flighttrain71 whoops I meant Kilometers plural but I can see what you mean it does look like I meant km/s. Does op mean a bicycle? I can see how that would take forever but I was assuming a motorbike.
Yep I often jokingly taunt a Scottish person I know with that. I often call him British as a joke. I mean it's technically correct, but they really don't like it. I do it through a webcam though, so I can't get punched in the face, lol. In all seriousness, it's genuinely just as a fun joke. They take it in good spirit. But I'm Dutch and they are very well aware that I know how the UK works, at least fundamentally.
I used to work Retail ( menswear ) in the west end of London, y'know...Oxford St, Regent St etc ) an American woman with her husband asked if i could speak 'Murican'. In my best oxford English accent I replied ' I'm terribly sorry madam...I'm afraid i only speak English'....dumfounded look in response.
I'm German and some Teenager in a Gamelobby once asked me : "Is Hitler still your King ?" I told him that he never was and that Hitler killed himself and his Family in a Bunker around 80 Years ago. Turned out that this Kid always thought that whenever he saw Prince Charles of Britain in a Picture or in the TV that he was called Hitler before he changed his Name into Prince Charles.😅
Small correction to your comment Andreas, but which doesn't take away, alas, from its distressing comedy ! Hitler didn't commit suicide on 04/30/45 in his Berlin bunker with his "Family", but only with his mistress Eva Braun whom he had just married a few hours before. On the other hand after Hitler's death, Joseph Goebbels his most faithful and fanatical "Follower" since the 1920s, committed suicide with his wife Magda after poisoning their six children. Like that of Hitler and Eva Braun, the bodies of all the Goebbels family were cremated in the gardens of the Chancellery, between two Soviet bombings, by his aide-de-camp SS Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche and his men who guarded the bunker...
@@MoSkent1 i know, we had all of this in School. But thats 30 Years ago and i was not paying that much Attention. All i cared about was Girls, Weed, Skateboarding and Grafitti. 😂
A while ago i had a argument with someone from the US who did not understand that even after Brexit, Britain is still part of Europe. He was convinced that the EU and the European Kontinent are the same. After failing to explain the difference to him for about 20 minutes !, i just went with it. So i told him that Britain set Sails and is currently near Costa Rica. HE BELIEVED IT I feel a bit bad about it but who says Germans have no sense of humor ^^
English here but have lived in several other countries including Germany. I've always been of the opinion that Germans mostly have the SAME sense of humour as us (definitely more so than the rest of Europe), but due to slight historical differences of opinion we just don't like to admit it. We are, after all, Anglo-Saxons! 😆
I heard that a LOT during the Brexit times... SO many people thought it meant, that Britain was somehow leaving the European CONTINENT as opposed to just the political union called EU for short, lol........ a lot... of people...
I was taking a walk in Rome, waiting for a friend near the Coliseum, and a couple stopped me for a question. We started talking and it turns out they were Americans, from Seattle. At some point, I don't exactly remember the context, the husband, pointing to the Coliseum, asks me: - but... Is that real? - I'm sorry? - yeah I mean, is it the real one? The Romans built? - Sorry, I really don't understand. Of course the Romans built it. - but if it stays outside it will be ruined! The conversation was surreal, so I tried to be a bit sarcastic, answering something like "oh yeah I understand now! No of course we don't want to ruin it, so this is a replica of course! We moved the real one into a very big museum" and they were all like "ohh that's cool it does make sense!". I wasn't able to tell them the truth. I just hope they never went to someone asking where the museum of the real Coliseum was. 😅
don't be to too upset. Italians have placed some things inside museums and put up replicas in public places mostly because of the elements. the statue of David for example and he is just 520yrs old.
@@embreis2257I mean obviously some stuff are replicated! But the all Colosseo! 😂 How can you even think about move something so huge! 😂 And we also can’t do that to our ancestors😂😂😂
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@@Sim0sama "How can you even think about move something so huge". If you're American, (you think) anything is possible.
Me to an American (about 1648 Polish-Ukrainian war): -...and so we voted, elected a new king and defeated Ukrainians. American: You cannot elect a king. It isn't how kings work.
@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor to be fair, lots of people are surprised when I tell them that Poles used to elect their kings. On the other hand, no-one who is not from the USA has ever told me that it's impossible, they actually want to learn more about it.
I was in Amsterdam, visiting the Anne Frank museum, which is notorious for having these really long queues to get inside. In front of me were two women from Chicago. We started talking, and then one of them asked me where I’m from. So I tell her that I’m from the Netherlands - that is - Holland (I added Holland because I know many people get confused when you talk about the Netherlands). She nods and asks me “is that far away from here?” She thought Amsterdam was a country! I explain to her that Amsterdam is our capital city, just like Washington DC is hers. She nods again and says: “right, yes that makes sense, I already thought you looked a bit Scandinavian!”
@romydevos610 Washington D.C. is not even part of the U.S., it is like the City of London, the Bank for Internatinal Settlement, the Vatican - and mostprobably Berlin also... Philadelphia used to be the original capital of the U.S., until the british banker took over. in 1871.
My favourite one was a US news network reporting that our UK fireworks night was actually us celebrating Biden becoming president. Literally even US news channels don't have a clue about other countries, so how can we expect their population to know better? I have a couple of stories myself: -I once saw a post in a group chat where an American was about to move to Switzerland and wanted to know if they had refrigerators there, or would she have to get hers shipped from the USA? She was literally moving across the world without the foggiest idea of the culture she was moving to. -I had an argument with MSN because every time I pressed the keyboard key for "€" it sent MSN into fits of webdings (I lived in a country using the Euro currency, I literally had a separate button on my computer keyboard for it). I assumed they'd just reply and say "oh yes, go to this setting and change from US to UK English" or something along those lines. Instead I got a reply back saying that MSN doesn't support "minority symbols". Population of USA = 333 million. Population using the Euro currency = 350 million (plus countless millions more using it in business). Sigh.
When Xbox Live first came out it was quite a friendly place. One session of Burnout an American asked me if we have TVs and electricity in England. I played along saying that we don't have either making up stories. He clicked at the end of the game, came to the realisation that I'm playing a game with him. Bless.
I was in 🇺🇸 for 5 yrs, I’m Italian from north eastern corner, my hometown in the alps is close to the borders with Austria and Slovenia. I don’t have an Italian sounding last name, and a lot of Americans were telling me that I was not Italian because of my blonde hair, green eyes and 6.2 ft tall. They were shocked when I was telling that Italy is not only Rome, Florence or south Italy! A lot of stereotypes 😂
😂 we speak about “Europeans” but just looking at Italy we are so different from each others… imagine trying to speak about similarities between Italy and north European countries 😂 Not even Italians themselves share the same habits/ looks/ accent /sometimes languages 😂 My boyfriend is from Napoli and he’s blonde with blue eyes and when he went out with his Moldavia friend (blonde with blue eyes) you really couldn’t tell the difference 😂 they seemed cousin! But yeah In Italy we come in all different colors, even the skin colors can be different sometimes 🤷🏻♀️even if we’re still all technically “white/Caucasian”.
I mean, in fairness your area is not ethnically Italian. It was taken from Austria a century ago. It's absolutely normal that those Americans would be confused, and that doesn't make them ignorants per se. Nobody can know every uniqueness of each single small region in the world. I'm from Spain and here barely nobody knows about your region (only history and geography geeks). People from here would believe you being Italian because of your accent (assuming your mother tongue is Italian and not German), but for the rest (your look and your surname) they would be as surprised as those Americans you were talking about, because it's not something popularly known.
There's a similar toddler joke people like to make about Turkey. Either Americans will have to fix our education system or you guys will need to change your name, I'd probably start throwing around new name ideas if I were y'all.
The thing with the 4th of July firework happened to me as well.. i was asked by an older american couple in Berlin where the big fire work happens.. when i told them that we dont celebrate 4th of July, they were SO offended and said we HAVE to cause they beat us in WWII.. i slowly backed away from them
Good on you. They also seem to think they won the war all on their own. They didn't even join the war until Dec 1941 meanwhile allies from around the world had been fighting alongside the British and European allies for 2 years and they didn't enter WW1 until April 1917. Australia lost over 60,000 men during WW1 out of 416,809 who enlisted for service. Australia only had a population of 4M people at the time. They represented 38.7% of the total male population aged between 18 and 44. But there were boys as young as 14 who put their age up to join. You can imagine the effect of losing a generation of young men on our country. They are not forgotten. The US had a population of a little over 103M in 1917 for a similar amount of deaths. Apparently an Australian soldier wounded Hitler in WW1. Just imagine how many lives on all sides would have been lived if he had died.
@@Mr21December2012 I bet the only reason they travelled abroad was because they wanted to connect to their "roots". "Yeah, we're German-Americans - even though I don't speak any German, couldn't find it on a map and don't know anything about it. But we're totally German!"
@@QuentinPlant yep, when I was in the US someone told me: „Cool, I‘m German as well!“ I asked: „Cool! Von wo genau kommst du?“. He look funny at me. I raised my eyebrows: „Sooo, you don’t speak German?“. He: „Nooooo, my great-great-great-grandfather came from Germany! I was never there and don’t know any German.“ Okay, cool story, bro…
I'm in contact with people in Philadelphia. It was the Friday before your recent 4th of July celebrations. The person at the end of the call said "Have a good weekend and happy 4th of July" I laughed and replied "Thank you but we don't celebrate the 4th of July" They responded "Oh, why is that" to which I said "we don't normally celebrate the day we get our arses kicked by ourselves"
@@Mr21December2012 And where are you from? I bet, well maybe lol. I saw it before you did lol. Was in fits of laughter before on FB to a lovely American online friend, we got talking about time travel lol. Intelligent girl and her brother is a college/university lecturer, very dry humour but so funny, But we still educate each other about our different ways and terminology - which usually ends up in fits of joint laughter 😊
One time I was talking to an american girl. She asked me where I am from because of my accent. I told her that I am a Portuguese who grew up in Berlin. All of this took place in the beginning of 2010's. She then went on to ask me wether the Berlin wall is still standing. She also was convinced that Portugal is a spanish province
@@lynn69jackson 😂 I am not sure if she would know what a peninsula is...but all jokes aside, I didn't want to mess with her. She was very friendly and had a good heart, which is more important. Memorizing facts is an easier task than being kind.
The 4th of July thing is so TRUEEEE. There is this girl in Tiktok that is brazilian but lived in america for a few years and she talked about how her american friends ware SO shocked that brasilians didn't celebrate 4th of July. After she came back to Brazil they even sent her a massage at the date, like, "happy 4th of july, what are u and ur family gonna do?" and she was like "nothing??" lol. To try to explain to them how weird this logic is when our independency day came she sent them a message too, to ilustrate how, you know, comemorating another country independance day doesn't make any sense.
Was in an uber in Baton Rouge. Driver asked me where I'm from, and i said Australia. Driver told me that sounds like a great place to visit, but would never go due to lack of freedoms. Very quiet drive after that nugget.
@@aledjangoYep, I'm from Ireland and know most state capitals, even in cases where the state capital is not the "obvious" well-known city of that state.
Oh, I was once laughed at by an American woman for mentioning "The Americas" ... She said: _"There's only one America stupid"_ So, I just said _"Oh, silly me... I thought there were more"_ - what followed was a detailed and highy innaccurate explanation of how the USA has 50 states + Hawaii ... while we all sat there nodding and trying not to laugh : ) Americans, gotta love 'em... that, and keep them away from sharp objects.
Im Dutch and live in southern California. I was asked if we have freedom, and if we also celebrate Thanksgiving. People are also convinced I must be Danish because I speak Dutch. The worst one was a friend of the family here who was going off on a rant about how EVERYONE wanted to come to the USA and how the USA passport was the most important thing in the world. To everyone. He has never been to Europe, but this fool was acting as if he couldn't safely go to Europe, because we're all savages that would try to steal his passport from him if anyone found out that he's American, IF he ever would go.
Dutch and Danish are just different names for the same thing, kinda like Austria and Australia. All of you Scandinavians come from Deutschmark anyway, everybody knows that. What’s your capital called? Is it Amstelhavn or Købendam? Sorry, I'm not good at these Duits place names...😊
The Netherlands is placed as high as Canada on the World Freedom Index, both are top ten on the planet. WAY above the USA... Which is lost around the 30th place. I NEVER care when an American tells me some corny untruth. I just say SURE, in case they turn violent if contradicted with the truth, and RUN away, before my giant, sarcastic smirk has a chance to get me in trouble
Weirdest thing an American said to me (a Brit) was at Ontario International airport in California (east of LA). I was at a car hire desk and the girl was trying to sell me additional insurance cover for $60 or whatever. I turned to my girlfriend and said, "That's an additional £40". The girl overhead me and said, "Excuse me, what's a Pound? Do you mean like pounds of gold?".... Yes, sir, at an international airport, the car hire employee had never heard of the British currency. True story.
Oh and another one. I was in a shop in England, when an American asked me the price of something, when I said 10 pounds, she replied "you mean Dollars" 🙄
When I went to the US I was asked what do we cook for Thanksgiving. No one could believe we don’t celebrate that in Australia. Then during my stay someone said to me, On the news we saw a plane crashed near Australia! I was like OMG did it crash into the ocean? They looked confused and said no it crashed on land. So it crashed in Australia?? They said it was near the border of Australia. Later I learned the plane crashed in Austria. 🤦🏻♀️
I met an American chap in Austria who was on the train and wanted to go to Vienna but couldn't find it. I explained to him that the sign said "Wien".....but he couldn't figure it out...He had gone by it twice.
22:20 The Norwegian flag hanging in the back of the room reminded me of a news story where they removed a Norwegian flag, thinking it was the flag of the Confederate States.
I corrected an American for using the American flag to represent the English language. I replied with the English flag, to which he replied "is that from a hospital?" 😂😂
Dumbest thing an American has ever told me: American: Do you speak Swedish and are you from Denmark? Me: I live in Norway and I speak Norwegian American: Norway is not a country Me: Yes it is. Its next to Sweden on the right and its in Scandinavia American: You're wrong. Germany, Russia and Finland is part of Scandinavia and they all speak Swedish and German. Me: What did I listen to right now😳
Hahahaha! That's terrible. I'm Swedish and I do understand it can be confusing exactly what Nordic countries are Scandinavian, but that's a version of Scandinavia I wouldn't expect 😂
My favourite was an American tourist who told me how awesome it is that everybody here speaks English, and she really wasn't expecting it. It's England.
Coming from Eastern Europe, the funniest thing Americans think, is Eastern Europe is still communist, and don't have access to technology. Americans are sometimes amazed I have a smartphone and access to the Internet.
When I was on the train to Milan, I was going to take a stroll there with my mom for a day and I happened to overhear a conversation from these two Americans. “I want to have pizza for lunch, but how do they call it in Italy?” “I don’t know dude let me Google translate it real quick”
In our defense, he did lose the popular vote. We just have this stupid, obsolete thing called the "electoral college" that's a holdover from 200 year old voting logistics.
This reminded me of a moment in Whose Line is it Anyway, when the host mistakenly calls Africa "a big country," which causes one of the contestants to burst out laughing, calling out the correction of, "It's also a big continent if you're a geographer!"
Drew Carey was the one who said Africa was a big continent and Greg Proops was the one who pointed it out. They poked fun of it during the skits a few times for the rest of the episode as well xD.
To be fair there is actually a city named Belgium... in america (new-york state to be precise). But yes I know he was atually speaking about our country and not some small city in th US.
A friend moved to the US 2 years ago and her daughter had a debate in class (all of the class v’s her daughter) that the Americans invented the English language and she should say thanks. Her daughter tried to explain that she was from England so therefore English and spoke English. It didn’t compute, what was scary was that the teacher didn’t interject and correct them. Another time a teacher said that Great Britain was not in Europe ??? As she was a new student she didn’t want to embarrass the teacher with the truth. I’m going to guess maybe he got confused with the EU.
Us teachers are terrible. I visited a few schools back in 88 I had one teacher tell me we said aluminium wrong because the US invented it. I told her it's an element it can't be invented and, it is based on Latin which hasn't been natively spoken for centuries. Another said because when sharks open their mouths you can swim sideways when they open their mouths to attack. I said no it doesn't work sharks have other senses than sight, like sensing movement in water, how else can sharks hunt you can't see that far under water and they don't just swim in the top 30 foot ocean.
I was an exchange student in Fayetteville, NC in 2007-08. I got asked the dumbest shit but one of the dumbest was " Do you have movie theatres in Italy'?". My answer was "No we don't cause we do not have electricity in Italy ". Only at that point she realized how stupid her question was.
Oh man.. Lucky you. I'm Canadian and they would have BELIEVED that we had no electricity, AND lived in igloos because we are ALWAYS under 10 feet of snow and ice...
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You got one of the smarter ones. Quite a few would easily have believed you about the electricity.
I was once told by an American that we in Denmark in Scandinavia only got our written language in the 19th century?????? and by another that Denmark is not a country ??????
I‘m from germany and when I was in the us last year i rent a mercedes and when I spoke on the phone german with my friends an american couple asked me what language that was and I told them german. When they saw me going to my car they asked me how I knew how to drive. I told them why I shouldn‘t know how to drive and they said because there r no cars in germany lol I told them that mercedes invented the car and its a german car company. They looked so confused and I still get nightmares from that incident
I work for a US cooperation at the European HQ. One time we had a visit from my manager’s manager from the US. She asked during a meeting: which language is spoken in the United Kingdom? BTW the lady holds a master’s degree.
Nowadays people there don’t speak Russian, just a small percentage. Since the 90’s Russian it’s not obligatory in schools, after that most of the students have chosen other languages to learn as a second one.
Upon arriving at Detroit Metro Airport, a person working there asked me if we in Europe have electricity. When I sais "yes, of course", she wanted to know if we also have television. (was in 2009, not in 1935)
In Venice, I saw an American asking where to buy tickets while standing next to a sign with directions where to buy tickets (in English). He then demanded that the woman responded in English - she was speaking in English, but with an Italian accent. Rudest thing was an American going to a restaurant waiter and asking directions to a different restaurant! Also in Venice. These are just the Americans that are allowed to leave the country, what are the rest like!
I think I have a big one guys, I’m Italian, from Florence and last summer a group of American tourists asked me where they could find Pinocchio’s grave (the novel is set in a place near Florence but obviously Pinocchio is a fictional character, he doesn’t have a grave). When I answered ‘it doesn’t exist’ they accused me of being ignorant. P.S. Also while I was in school I spent a month in the us as an exchange student and some girls were very surprised I had a phone as an Italian, cause apparently italians still live in the middle ages according to them
Cynically, I wonder if it’s easier to keep a populace from questioning their own situation if you can keep them believing their nation is the greatest and not have knowledge of other nations to measure that claim against.
My family has been saying the same about the UK dumbing down education; that the last thing politicians want is an educated electorate. But it appears they have a long way to go to get down to the level of most US schools.
An American asked me (in America) why I came over from Europe by plane and not by car - because planes were so expensive! 🤣 And another one asked me how the war was currently going and if Hitler was still in charge.... 🙈 (I am from germany)
While living in Atlanta with my then husband and two children, I got to know a lady from Illinois. We had been friends for six months or so, and I was helping her and her husband pack to move to another apartment. We were discussing the moving process, and she knew I was from New Zealand, but she asked me, "How long did it take you to drive down?" I was dumbstruck!, Yes, eventually I explained where New Zealand is located.
Oh, I felt that so much. I've had to explain multiple times that in Brazil, we speak Porrtuguese, not 'Brazilian'. I didn't have to explain that only to US Americans, though lol
@@koalaeucalyptus well I guess I should say I'm glad it's not just Americans that are dumb. However it's sad that the school system has failed us all in some way.
1:37 To be fair. The one nationality people around the world might consider to be deserving of saying "I'm sorry" to, (although nobody would actually say it...) it's not North Korean at all. It's American. For reasons... 🤷
@@ladybeagle4131 Yep. A lot of them asked why nobody warned them bc we were some hours ahead. Damn. When I was in elementary school (like, 1st or 2nd grade) I thought I was really smart and knew a trick how to win the lottery. My dad explained time zones to me and that was that. But grown ups still think that...
When I told an American I am from Finland, she immediately started talking about our cold weather. I said "yes, we can have cold winters, but our summers can be fairly warm. One summer during covid it was actually so hot that I suffered from heatstroke several times". She didn't believe me.
@@Ausecko1 Well, it's not like I can compete with you, since I'm aware that you experience scorching hot temperatures. But it is possible to experience heat stroke in Finland, believe it or not.
@@Sim0sama As I have visited Italy but also the North: They can also have up to 30°C. Of course not for many weeks in a row, but they have hot Summerdays in the north of Europe!
Ry, mate, they didn’t say it to me personally, but apparently there’s a percentage of Americans who think that if they go to a foreign country they are still under American law and have “rights” and stuff 😂😂😂
Oh my god this reminds me of a discussion I had with an american in yt comments who kept insisting that the american right to bear arms is a "human right" that applies to everyone...
Have you seen that other YT video where a British policewoman is trying to ask two Americans a question and they start spouting off American law about knowing their rights? They did not understand that their laws have diddlysquat traction in the UK.
There was this exchange student from Dallas that came here to (the middle) Sweden in late July. When I picked her up at the airport, she had brought only very thick winter clothes and it was 27 degrees Celsius (80 Fahrenheit). But the worst part is that she thought that there were polarbears and reindeers walking the streets here..... Then, in februari we went on a roadtrip and was driving on a iceroad. I said, -now we are driving on the ice of a lake. She panicked and wanted out of the car. I calmed her down and said that there are semitrailers driving here to. Then she said that she never could tell her parents that, they would´nt believe her, and probably must go home.
This video confirms the wisdom of the good old English saying that “whilst we all have a right to be stupid, there will always be those that abuse even that privilege.”
Why not ruining their Education a little more 😂 like this: "Oh, actually, when our Sons turn 10, we sent them out to hunt one with only their Hands and only return until they got one and if they do, we celebrate and eat it, same thing with our Daughters but they go hunting when they are 12". I guarantee you they believe it and would re-tell this as fast as possible. 🤣
As an American who was educationally neglected I only learned about the fact that England is in Great Britain maybe a month ago and I had to learned it from a british friend. In my experience the education system here is lacking especially with history and geography. I don't know all the names of the states myself. Yes I've been able to pass all my history classes with that lack of knowledge. I'm trying to memorize them on my own time. I've only ever done two kinds of history classes: classes about US history or classes about world history. The US history classes would started off with columbus finding america every single year, then a couple wars, a section in the middle about slavery, some random missionaries, and some inventions. The World history classes would talk about ancient room, ancient greece, and maybe a couple of other places far in the past. They never talked about other countries currently. I never had to take a Geography class. Geography was like one single unit I did in 6th grade history and never again. They talked about Canada, Mexico, North America and South America. No other places. Geography never came up again after that except for occasionally flipping past a map a class never used that was in the history book.
Thanks for being honest. Interesting what you say about geography. I always remember the two girls who visited us. They told us that the geography teacher told them they would all get a pass on the condition that they turned up to sports day.
So there was this American couple in a park in France, typical tourists. There were some kids playing around and the lady was amazed how this little kid was so young and could already speak a foreign language so well... The husband says. What are you talking about? It's his native language! And she replies, "yes but i suppose it must've been really hard for him to learn". I laughed and the husband just rolled his eyes, shrugged and shook his head.
An American commented on one of my German YT videos with "Speak English, you immigrant." I'm German, living in Germany.
I've had Americans ask me to speak English, as they can't understand what I'm saying.
I'm English 😂
It's common to them just pop up in random youtube comment sections of videos of any language. And start saying that crap. Even if the name of video don't have any English text.
I'm German and some Teenager in a Gamelobby once asked me : "Is Hitler still your King ?"
I told him that he never was and that Hitler killed himself and his Family in a Bunker around 80 Years ago.
Turned out that this Kid always thought that whenever he saw Prince Charles of Britain in a Picture or in the TV that he was called Hitler before he changed his Name into Prince Charles.😅
@@bubsy3861 I'm not sure if RUclips is testing stuff or the creator can add translations to titles, but I have seen videos recommended to me with titles in my native language and then the video has the audio in english. Maybe they felt click baited? No excuse for being an ahole tho
Well, my little story. An American girl, met in Berlin (i'm Italian), tried to convince me that the italian word for "hello", that in Italian is "ciao", (in english sounds like the word "chow"), i wis mispronunciating it, and tried to teach me the correct pronunciation (that for her was EXACTLY HOW WOULD THE LETTERS "ciao" sounds in english), because she has "italian heritage".
I was on vacation in England and a American dude heard me talking swenglish, he asked me where I'm from, and I answered "Sweden" 🇸🇪 he did inform me that it is pronounced Switzerland 🇨🇭 not Sweden 🇸🇪 in English. 😳 Now I wonder how they spell stupid...
Once an American asked me where I'm from. I said "Switzerland". And he responded:"oh Switzerland, the capital of Sweden. Very nice". 😂
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Those people spell stupid like this "USA, USA, USA, USA" Just kidding, those kind of people can't spell xD
One wonders what the nationality is of those people that arrived at Swaziland airport with skis.
Must be the same American woman who said to me "in the US we don't call it Sweden, we call it Switzerland" and as much as I tried to explain to her those are 2 different countries, it was no use.
When I was 16, I went to the US for a 3 week school exchange. The host family picked me up from the airport; on the drive home, the teenage daughter asked me whether we have cars in Germany (yes, seriously). I politely pointed out that we were sitting in her father's Volkswagen, a German car brand, and listed other German car manufacturers. She would not believe me, saying that "but we bought this car here in the US, so it must be American!"
It was three very long weeks ... 😶
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Hey why dont you explain to them that Volkswagen was founded because Adolf Hitler ordered it
This is what happens when the only thing you learn in school and from your parents that 'Merica is the greates country ever, over all and on earth... All other countries are boring, meaningless, irrelevant and unimportant... Because we live in 'Mercia! *Eagle scream in the distance*
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Damn! 😊
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
(Charles Bukowski)
Finally some wisdom! RIP Charles
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Bertram Russell said this , Bukowski stole it ....
This makes me feel smart and I doubt that's a good thing.
Try explaining to an American that you're not "African American" (when you're black and British).
Also... Are they American Africans when living there?
I was involved in a research project many years ago that distinguished Australians by ethnicity. Some American participants wanted African American as a category, though Australian people with dark pigment are generally neither African nor American.
I do not understand the concept of xxx-american (african, asian and what not). Either you are american or not (otherwhise the "white" americans should be refered to as "caucasian-american"? and how would you refer to a white guy from south africa? Caucasian-african-american?) Just weird....
I remember a radio program where they were talking about Nelson Mandela, referring to him as "the African-American leader" because "black leader" couldn't be said. Somehow didn't occur to then that he could be referred to as "African leader".
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An American tourist asked me directions to the Eiffel Tower.
We were in London.
When I told her she was in the wrong country, she got angry and said she'd been told she could see the "tower" in London.
Yes, madam, you can see the Tower BRIDGE the Tower of LONDON, plenty of other towers, but the Eiffel Tower is in bloody Paris, France.
At that point her husband tried to calm her down by saying "Don't worry darling, we've seen the original one in Vegas anyway"...
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Aïe ça fait mal 😭😭
Shit!!! Lets hope they are not professionals.. they are probably from some rural areas or probably been living off grid since the day they were born..
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I can’t properly process the fact how utterly uneducated a big percentage of Americans are...
"Sir. You need American passport in order to get in America."
In Florida a gas station lady, to me when I was buying beer and was asked to show my ID. I showed her my Finnish passport.
She ended up calling the cops on me for being an "Illegal immigrant" even though I was on a three week holiday.
Omg, please, tell me how it ends after the cops show up!
@@paulacampos When the cops arrived, the cashier yelled to them of what was going on and that I need to be arrested and deported.
The younger officer took me to the side, looked at my passport asked where I was from, what was the pourpose of my visit and where I was staying.
After I had answered all her questions, she apologized so many times. She said she had heard of the "haha dumb american" but always thought that it was just a joke.
I don't know what went down with the cashier, but I did hear loud screaming. Next thing I know she's handcuffed and they take her to the patrol car.
They asked me if I wanted to press charges for "illegaly detaining me" (she prevented me from leaving the store). I said I didn't, cause 1. I'm a foreigner and 2. I didn't wanna get anymore involved than I already was.
In the end the older officer offered to pay for my beer.
I've no idea what happened to the cashier.
same situation with me on a different scenario and the worst of all, the cop didn't believe that Portugal was a real place. What the actual fuck moment.
@@pauloa.7609 Not the first time I hear that that has happened.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone has had to contact their embassy and have someone from there to come clarify things.
@@pauloa.7609, desculpa aqui a interrupção, mas a sério?? Podiam no mínimo pesquisar o nome do país na net. E se foi com americanos, ainda pior porque a vida deles passa a olhar para o telemóvel 😅
In a small Zoo in England, American asks the keeper, "So where are they (lemurs) from?" Zookeeper replies, "They're from Madagascar."
American man scoffs, "Eh, I think you'll find that that's a film, not a real country."
but Madagascar is a country in Africa
@@GHOVAGHOuhh, yea, that's the joke? r/woooosh
@@martimlopes8922 no, Madagascar it's a real county
are you that dense? are you American? @@GHOVAGHO
@@pauloa.7609 search the internet about Madagascar
I`m from El Salvador, and always talk with this girl; once, when she asked me how I learned english, I told her by reading the lyrics of the songs I like, on RUclips. She opened her eyes, really really, really surprised, and asked: “Do you have internet in Latin America?”
That day I lost the little respect I had for her. I realized that day that the Simpson and Family Guy is more of a documentary than a comedy show.
In communist Poland i've learned english by reading with Lord of The Rings (smuggled obvioysly) to my right, dictionary to my left (found in basement, printed before the war) and a notebook in the middle. I've learned to speak thx to cassettes with rock music and inlets with lyrics xD
Brit here, but just remember what Mark Twain said "It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
porque se piensan algunos gringos que vivimos en la edad de piedra como si no tuvieramos internet, carro, aeropuertos, me acuerdo que un mexicano conto que una vez un aleman se sorprendió que el estuviera en Alemania porque pensaba el alemán que en México andamos en burro o en caballo, no es solo en estados unidos pero bueno la verdad me sorprende la ignorancia de algunos
@@cathulhu3772well I'm not sure, i think my English is well but it's not perfect, I also learned a bit of english of music and reading
@@GHOVAGHOyour English is better than most Americans'.
USA is a country younger than most buildings in Europe.
And more powerful than every single country :)
True if you drop the word "most"
@dfdf-rj8jr powerful in what sense?
@@spacebattlenun3522 In every sense. I can't think of a single way that Europoors are more influential than Americans. You're not watching this on a German platform, are you?
@@dfdf-rj8jr Also worse in most ways.
Dumbest thing an American has said to me? "America is the greatest nation on Earth".
Real
Irony or MAGA ???
Everything America is or was they owe to the European immigrant.
The greatest nation in North America if Canada doesn't compete. /s
@@Albanach-je1nk No, a great majority will insist on that.
My aunt was working for a big pharma company in the US something like 20 years ago. When she said where she's from during diner with Americans, she was asked if we had electricity in our country. We're from Switzerland, one of the richest country on Earth ...
She shouldve said that they also got free epipens
But can you win war against USA? You can't, right? So stfu
-Any American ever
She should have repeated "yeah, we also have trees, air, water, people, mountains, animals and also the moon there. Any more questions?"
The scariest part is how asolutely confident these guys are in their stupidity.
If they weren't that stupid, they wouldn't be that confident
Exactly, as far as I'm concerned I've had weird encounters with some of these people, I tried to explain some stuff but they don't seem to understand
after many many many times, explaining that Europe isn't a country and I'm from Germany.. I've finally given up at some point :D either you need to paint a map to show where Germany is and so on.. or you find yourself in a discussion, where 1 american tells you: ya bro, if germany is inside of europe, your counry is europe... while his 3 buddys put on their winning smile
haha
Im Spanish from Spain. I once had to go to a congress in Florida, and a woman that was also attending the congress asked where I was from. I said I was from Spain - Europe (I always tend to add Europe as I encountered many of these situations). Her next response was "Oh yeah Spain, beautiful Mexican region".... At the same congress I was asked by another woman, I gave ger the same reply. She then proceeeded to ask where Spain was, and I said below France. She then proceeded to ask where France was. I gave her a simple explaination about France, Europe and Paris (as it is a well nown city). Her response: "But isn't Paris in Canada? is France a canada state then?". It was a fun trip.
OMG so many times that I hear that, might be true and it's tragic...
I'm really schocked by the level of ignorance of the world (geography, culture, languages...) of the Americans (from USA), they could at least show a little interest in Europe from where their close ancestors (max 5 or 6 generations 😮) come !!!
It make me think a strong 'reset' syndrome might have happened when our ancestors (I'm French) landed there !
@@nicolasaubertin4949 It's because of education and schooling or rather lack of. Yes people can naturally find interests but a lot of interest are cultivated. Most people wouldn't go out of their way to learn algebra on there own and same with history and geography so if you get a bad education you don't know a lot of things. A lot of people in these videos seem to probably have been educationally neglected or didn't pay attention at all in school. Some of them aren't necessarily dumb. They just haven't learned about things that they should have been taught. It's doesn't reflect as much on their intelligence as it does on the education system in the US.
@@y-tiplex Couldn't agree more. But I think that if people are not naturally dumb, the US education system will make them dumber génération after another... And unfortunately it's the way it's going here in France (maybe in Europe) too 😓
@@y-tiplex But they can all tell you about the 30 genders....can't add 2+2 even with New Math and a ream of paper......they aren't being educated, they're being 'indoctrinated".
technically in Canada we do have a Paris, Ontario... but this person obviously doesn't know anything but a few Canadian stereotypes I'd think due to the fact they said "is France a Canada STATE then?" Canada doesn't have states we have provinces
1. I'm Brazilian, and when I said that when visiting the U.S., EVERYBODY immediately apologized: "Sorry, I don't speak Spanish." They got VERY confused when I replied: "I don't either." Unlike most other South American countries, Brazil was colonized by *Portugal,* not Spain, so we speak *Portuguese,* not Spanish. But even after I explained that, they couldn't understand it.
2. A friend of mine, another Brazilian, was asked by an American if there were cannibals in Brazil. I loved his reply: "Not anymore, we ate the last one last month." 🤣
3. A similar story to the passport one when buying beer, as told in the video, happened with a friend of mine who is Swiss and was visiting the U.S., but he used his Swiss national ID card instead, and there was a different problem. I don't know his birthdate, but let's assume for the sake of example that it's March 23, 1966 (day greater than 12 - you guessed where we're heading). His birthdate was written 23/03/1966 - day/month/year, as is customary in nearly every country other than the U.S. The attendant became very rude and threatened to call the cops because he was using a fake ID. "There is no month 23, there are only 12 months!" He tried to explain but the ignoramus wouldn't even hear it. He had to buy his beer elsewhere...
Ia m not US citizen and made somehow same mistake. Since I have Brazilian friends, I know about Portugal /Spanish treaty in era of discoveries about division of found lands ;) (It is half of the globe far from place I live, then ups ... but I did not try to convince my friends that they are wrong about their own country)
Uma vez eu estava em um jogo online, e surpreendentemente só tinha brasileiros, lá. Do nada entrou uma pessoa que aparentemente só falava inglês, e ele ficou "irritadinho" e mandou nos pararmos de falar ESPANHOL. Eu disse para ele que nos estávamos falando português, e que ele era o único falando inglês no servidor inteiro, mas ele falou "Eu não me importo, apenas pare com essa merda". Ele gicou mais bravo e logo depois saiu do server. Ficou tudo calmo depois que ele saiu.
Also Brazilian. I've had an American flat out deny that Portuguese is our mother language. Dude legit said "nope, you speak Spanish, everyone knows that". 😂😂
Portuguese here. I've been asked before "Where is Portugal located? Oh it's in Brazil, right?".
Your friend's response should be nominated as a national treasure
One of my mates had some Americans ask him if they had music in Australia.... they were eventually shocked to learn that ACDC is an Aussie band.
My boyfriend was on a holiday in Peru and an old American couple asked him for the WiFi password.....
At the top of the Machu Picchu.
@@linanafie8571 AC/DC are Scottish🤣
@stubbsieshorse327 AC/DC was formed in Sydney in 1973 haha and judging by how sunny and warm the city is, I can definitely assure you it's nowhere near Scotland 😂
@@linanafie8571 Haha. You'll find that the Young brothers and Bon Scott were all "formed" in Scotland!
If you watch their video for " It's a long way to the top" you'll not see many dingos or wallabies in it!
😅
@stubbsieshorse327 doesn't make it any less of an Australian band, it still formed in New South Wales and they rose to fame in Australia.
It's not just Americans. I remember a story about a woman in the UK yelling at a couple to speak English because they were speaking a language she didn't understand.
They were speaking Welsh.
They were currently in Wales.
there is dumb peoples all over the world
they just seems to gather all in USA
To be fair, most Welsh can't speak Welsh...
There are stupid people everywhere , that is the only thing every country shares 😅
😮😮😮
Yes, that whole thing about expecting the entire world to only ever speak English is definitely a classic for native English-speakers in general, lol.
I've had an american tell me it's weird that I (finnish) "celebrate 4th of July on 6th of December" (6.12. is the finnish independance day)
Perrrrrrkeleee, what a bunch of weirdos! Do you also ride polar bears to sauna?
😂😂😂😂🎉
And we in Italy celebrate 4th of July on April 25th
@@mikhalbruns2414 hahahaha🤭😂🙌🏻😎❤️❤️❤️🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
😂😂😂
Americans literally have slurs against smart people like 'nerd' or 'geek'. Literally, if you're *too smart* you're automatically an outcast in an US school.
"What are you reading for?"
isnt that a common thing generally? I live in germany and when i was in school, some very smart kids would be antagonized aswell. Same in the working space. Dumb ppl say stupid stuff all the time everywhere. If a smart person jumps in and only needs two sentences to proof how dumb and narrow-minded ppl are, they feel threatened and in response call you geek or nerd or brainiac or something. I consider it a coping mechanism ^^ ... Being smart is an offense if you walk amongst the stupid ;D
Do not forget to mentioning the well known broken glasses. In every ‘murican movie all the “smart people” or nerds wear glasses.
hahaha do other countries not use insults like that?
@@ryanwuzer not rly, not here in Sweden anyway..
.. the moment u land in US u feel like an alien...
I'm Serbian and I met Americans once while vacationing in Tunis. They kept insisting we are Russian and that we're from Siberia, asking us how we are coping with the heat when we're usually surrounded by ice year round. Hint, we are not. Even a good part of Siberia isn't constantly under ice, it's just cold and dry half the time. But that's Siberia. Serbia has a lovely four seasons in a year with mild winters and summers. So, yeah.
Something similar happened to me! 😂 While I was waiting in line in Wellington (NZ), I asked a man where he was from and he said Montpelier, which, fair, it's the capital of Vermont, but it's by no means that famous internationally (no one even knows Vermont, let alone Montpelier 😂). Very American of him to expect a rando to know a medium-sized American city by name, but anyway, I did because I'm a bit of a geography freak. Then he asks me where I'm from, so I decide to follow his lead and reply that I'm from Brasilia. Dude looks at me with pity and goes "oh, honey, it's pronounced Brazil in English". 😂😂😂 Brasilia is the capital ffs! 😂
I have heard of an American saying in Naples, where pizza was invented, "You have pizza here too?"
facepalm x2 combo
Hah yeah right. Next you're gonna tell me Italy has pasta.
They believe they invented chocolate spread too but it comes from Italy.
Actually Pizza was invented in China and Marco Polo brought it to Europe, where the italians cultivated it. Same thing for Pasta.
@@Jonas-h4w3q Pasta/Noodles doesn't really have a single point of origin. It's a common thing made from wheat. It was common across Asia but no one really knows exactly where it came from.
The oldest archeological evidence we currently have is in Italy however.
Pizza however we have solid evidence for came from Naples, Italy. It was immigrated to the US by italian immigrants in the 1940s.
Italian here, I worked for 15 years in the tourism industry and once an American family asked me, with all possible seriousness, if we kept the ancient Romans on reservations like the Indians
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Não é possível 😂
Hey, at least... they knew that ancient romans existed 🥲
omg same thing happened here in sweden, an american tourist asking if we keep our vikings in reservations😭
Hell no! Ma veramente?????!! 😅😅😂😂😂😂 non riesco a smettere… di ridere… scusami!
There are very few countries where children have to swear to the flag at school:
North Korea, Germany between 1933 to 1945, and the US
Do you intend to tell us smth through the flower? 🤣🤣
@@JohnDoe-rm1kw YES, and I guess You manage to find the sense of it
Actually, in the US, they don't have to. Although many teachers do not know that and try to force it on everyone, or try to punish students who refuse to say the pledge and/or to stand up for the pledge - Native Americans kids, for instance, who know more about their rights than some teachers or school boards.
China and Russia ... almost every communist country actually. Plus the US 😅
@@kjk8941 Do you know that Russia isn't a communist country and children there don't have to do so?
I went to the Panama Canal and the museum showed miniature replicas of the trains they used to transport the material used to build the canal. An American woman next to me looked at this few inches long train and said “oh my god I did not expect them to be so small?!” I had to dive behind a post to laugh because I didn’t want to make her feel bad. I was crying with laughter!
I'm Belgian, and on a party in portugal I was asked by an American; "Where are you from", So i told him I'm from Belgium, he asked if i could say hello in Belgian, so I answered that's not possible, but i can say it in Dutch, he then responded, "Ah, so you're from Holland?", to which I responded, "Can you say hello in American ????", He was totally flabbergasted and didn't understand what i was pointing at :)
Of course it´s hard to understand the point, without knowing that belgium is seperated in 3 language-areas, an no "belgian".
And that English is seperated in many parts like AE,BE AusE etc.
this person probably thinks they speak _Indian_ in India, Chinese in China or Swiss in Switzerland.
I feel for you brother. I grew up in Flanders. Douglas Adams: Belgium man, Belgium (as in a curse word)...still funneh as hell
His interlocutor should have replied, "Howdy!"
@@embreis2257 What the hell is Swiss? I think you mean Switzerish.
I’m German and live in Berlin. Some years ago I was asked to take care of some American exchange students because my English was quite good. I was supposed to show them around the city, take them on some trips.
The first thing that surprised me was that they were unable to speak German. If you go into an exchange program in Germany, at least in my school, you were supposed to be able to speak at least on a C1 level. Those students couldn‘t even ask for directions, tell somebody their names or where they are from. It wasn‘t a problem as many people in Berlin speak at least a bit of English.
The second surprise was as issue, though.
They constantly asked about Adolf Hitler. Where does he work, where does he life, can they see him, could they make a foto with him.
At first I thought they were joking, after I realized that they were not I had a very hard time convincing them that 1. Hitler is dead since the second world war … because the Allies including the US won that fucking war against Nazi Germany (and even if they didn‘t he would‘ve probably died of old age by that point, it was 2008 or something around that time)
And more important 2. that Adolf Hitler is not some kind of celebrity in Germany.
I was shocked to see how little they new about the worlds history their country shaped
What shocks me more about this is how someone could possibly know enough to know who Hitler is yet presumabely know not enough about him to realise that you wouldnt want a picture with him?
Like, how could someone possibly learn who Hitler is without also learning atleast some of the things that make him very very unlikeable, to put it nicely.
😮😮 I am afraid you are not joking?
At least C1? Seriously? Sounds like an overkill.
@@gklkjuhylpoiuyuiojhjklkjuh9976
C1 basically means that you are fluent in a language, which I think is a pretty fair requirement if you want to be an exchange student. After all being an exchange student should mean wanting to relatively Independently live in a foreign country for a while. Not be a tourist.
How old should Hitler be today? About 130 years? 😂
I've often heard variations of the fireworks on July 4th. What I found worst was that US tourists were expecting the fireworks in London. I mean, you'd think that if Americans are going to celebrate Independence Day, they should know why they're doing it, and of all the places in the world, London is the place where you least expect fireworks.
We just quietly celebrate having got rid of the USA with a nice cup of tea and some crumpets in our tactful understated British way.
@@missharry5727was looking for some comment about being glad to get shot of it. But you made it 100% better! 😄
I can say with confidence, there are very few people who even know WHY we have fireworks here in the USA. It is just seen as a fun pastime.
Believe it or not, they often expect Canada to have fireworks on July 4th as well. If so, they're three days late, as July 1st is their national holiday, known as "Canada Day" (formerly known as "Dominion Day").😉
London (or England in general) honestly would be the only other (somewhat) logical place for fireworks on 4th of July. I mean...
I’m English my wife is American. I was talking with my in-laws once and somehow the city Vienna was mentioned. My wife I guess was feeling left out of the conversation so she suddenly interjected “Traveling to Italy has never appealed to me!” My Father in-law sarcastically said “I’m so glad I paid for your education.” 😂😂
All europeans can detect an american tourist anywhere, and that says a lot...
are you from Portugal too?
Greek here, confirms that 😂
Same in Australia.
White socks and sneakers 😂
Maybe we should stop telling people that there are no stupid questions. Some people really take it to heart.
When I hear something like this, I always remember a joke. A professor tells the students, 'Ask anything you like; there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.' One student asks, 'If I grab the contact wire with my hands and stand on the rails with my feet, will I move like a tram?'
I’m English but was on holiday in Wales, where we went to visit a thousand year old castle. There was an information board which said an American had once asked the owner of the castle why they had been given planning permission to build a castle in front of Cardiff airport
😂😂😂😂😂
A castle in front of _Cardiff Airport?_ Hmm? Is that Fonmon Castle you're referring to?
I guess it _is_ close-by but I didn't consider it THAT close.
I've heard about similar things happening at Cardiff Castle and Conwy Castle, since they're right in the centre of Cardiff and Conwy, respectively.
@lagerku.3137 It was Fonmon, yes. I guess the American saw the airport on a map or saw a plane flying low or something. Maybe someone said it was “near here”
@@lagerku.3137 In Cardiff Castle a friend was asked by a tourist why they had built the castle so close to the shops. The original castle/fort had been there since at least the Roman Period.
Must have been the same guys that took all those airports during the American civil war...😂
It's not just Americans; I read a travel review by an English woman who complained that, while the sunny weather was great, her holiday resort was full of Spanish people and the staff mostly only spoke Spanish..........in Spain!
If they don’t even know their own country,how can they know other countries.
If they have never been given the curiosity to the rest of the world at school, how can they improve ?
I'm schocked each time I hear Americans not knowing at least 10 countries and their capitals in Europe, and at least the 10-20 major countries in the world ! But when you think that they might not even know all the States of the UNITED STATES ( I seriously hope they learned it at school), I'm wayyyy more schocked...
They don't have a f**** clue on how the World works and its different cultures...
Makes me sad and scary with all this stupidity 😢
It's seriously embarrassing.
They stopped teaching anything of validity a long time ago.
I think they started the "no child let behind" on the newest kindergardener's when I was in like 5th grade.
They attempted to with the older classes.
They been tried force passing me when my dad came in told them....HELL NO!
She repeats her grade because I ain't allowing you to turn her into a moron.
I ain't got no shame in admitting I sucked in school.
Truth was, I needed help and help programs were harder to get into.
Depends where the oil is
In that way they are pretty similar to russians.
@@nicolasaubertin4949 and how many states/capitals do you know??
This is very real. I'm from Ireland (Republic of), and I've had *several* Americans TELL me Ireland is part of the UK. I've corrected them, kindly, not looking to argue, just to inform... And they insist on arguing that *I* am wrong about where *I* am from. They tell me I'm British even after I correct them.
That's the thing. It seems to be only yanks that speak nonsense with such arrogance and confidence. Plenty of people who speak rubbish but the yanks do it in a particularly irksome way.
It's amazing seeing as everyone living in America claims to be Irish 😂
Well apparently I'm french since I look like it(?) and in no way I am from Germany since I habe dark brown hair and eyes 😅😂
Holy fuck. I can see somebody getting that wrong, but when somebody who is _from the damn country_ tries to correct you, believe them.
@@Mark73 Yeah, that's the part that makes no sense for me. I wouldn't get mad at someone for not knowing something, but insisting they're right and getting argumentative about it is crazy and stupid.
I worked in museums for four years in Scotland, I could write a book on daft things asked. Here are three that stick after nearly 20 years:
1. "Is that France I can see from the top of Edinboro Castle?" Tried to explain, in the end I had to say yes! "Jeez I never realised it was so close"
2. "How come you and your colleagues speak such good English?"
3. "How do you know when this happened?" Explain that in the 17th century we do have written records. "No I mean the exact time in the afternoon" (they thought 1617 was the time not year an event happened".
Oh and we get an "isn't it neat they built the castle so close to the train station" frequently in Edinburgh!
Many things were time dated in the 1600s and 1700s so that's still a dumb question.
Ouch!
Luckily you dont really have guns in that kind of a job ... because such responses are dangerously close to a Darwin Award.
I believe the yeoman warders in the tower of London sometimes make a joke that it was a bad idea to build the tower under the approach paths to two airports - they then have to explain to American tourists that it's a joke...
As someone who worked in hotels in Edinburgh for many years, I too have heard some shite. For example, "We're just going for a day trip to Loch Ness and come back here for dinner!"
No you're bloody not, that's a 4 to 5 hour drive up there ya eejit!
"REALLY?! But we thought Scotland was small enough to drive round in a day?"
😐
I work in a supermarket in the Tuscany sea side, had an American tourist asking why he could not se the colosseum around and if he was in a walkable distance. when I said it’s not walkable, he accused me of being rude cause we European think Americans are all fat, I said to him he should WALK 6 days straight if he wanted to reach it and he said I was talking bs, after all Europe is all walkable…
Europe is so tiny and cosy, like a little village...
@@Ba_Yegu Europe is bigger than the USA but it’s a lot of different states and the majority can’t see each other…
I met some american tourist here in Norway, and they said. "It's so clean and beautiful and we didn't know that you had electrisity... What 😂😂
Hva faen 😂
An American traveller in the UK is on a train and gets into conversation with an Englishman telling him how great the USA is. When he says it takes three days to cross the US by train the Englishman responds by saying, "Some of our trains are quite slow as well."
Brilliant, best comment so far (and there have been some good ones!)
Three days is so bloody fast. Would usually take longer by car, even if you took turns driving never stopping for sleep.
@@chere100 The number of days is unimportant. It's the response which is the point.
@@chere100 It took me three days to drive from Maryland to Nebraska for the 2017 eclipse.
@@Mark73 Poor guy. Didn't sleep much, I'm guessing. 😢
I wonder if I someday will hear the exclaimed question: "You have IKEA in Sweden!?".
No takers on that bet.😂
Did not you sold it into Netherlands? Is not it Dutch now?
@@stanislavbandur7355 They moved the official headquarters to the Netherlands for tax reasons, yes, but it's still as Swedish as ever.
Bet you will
Considering that I just saw a story in this very comment section about an american family driving a Volkswagen asking if there are cars in germany... it's only a matter of time.
8:25 OK small history lesson for all of my other Americans. Czechoslovakia is no longer a country. It hasn’t been a country since January 1, 1993, when it was divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. So not only is everybody wrong in the fact that Russian would be her primary language, but Czechoslovakia is also no longer correct. And yes, the majority of the people who were part of the countries that were involved in the USSR do speak Russian. It’s just not their first language. Unlike the United States, the majority of other countries teach more than one language to their children while they’re growing up.
As a Swede we use polar bears to pull our skateboards when the snow is to deep.
These black/white ones? 😂
Best the huskies get the hump about that!! 😂😂😂
@@andreasfischer9158 you lucky bastard. One whole day?
And kids in Australia ride kangaroos to school. 😂😂😂😂
@@andreasfischer9158To be honest I wish Swedish summers were that short. I'm moving north as soon as I get a job in Lule or Pite. Bring me those polar nights damn it, Stockholm's winters sucks compared to how winter could be.
Many years ago I was in Cambridge (UK) city centre which is my home city when I heard an American woman speaking to her partner as they stood outside Kings College. Gee the English have obviously modelled their city on Cambridge MA. Even the gate porter fell about laughing. A woman in the throng corrected her by saying that the oldest college in Cambridge was Peterhouse founded in 1284 to which she replied . But their was no history that far back. Americans wonder why the rest of the civilised world laughs at them.
No history. That's priceless 😂
Wait.. Americans are civilised?
Not all Americans are stupid or ignorant. And that definitely was since America came way after Great Britain and every other European Country. I can see why you would think that if all your encounters are like this though. If the only kind of Europeans that came here said stupid stuff like that I would think y’all were stupid too I guess.
@@chelcybryant225
I have no idea what you're trying to say with that 2nd sentence, which kinda makes your comment even more funnier. 😝
FWIW though, there are *many* f'ing stupid people in EU too, as well as in any other part of the planet for that matter.
Being stupid is not an exclusive Murican trait, unfortunately.
There are some reasons you stand out though:
- You are the self-proclaimed "Leaders of the Free World" &, as such, you've raised the bar on yourselves.
People expect those whose votes directly affect world affairs to be informed/educated,
enough to at least being able to find their own f'ing country on the map.
- You are arrogant & delusional, for no good reason either if I may add.
- You are stubborn.
Even when corrected you tend to ask "are you sure?".
Well yeah, I believe I know better than you (for example) what the language we speak in my country is called.
"No, we don't speak "Belgian" in Belgium, we speak Dutch. Yes, I'm sure." - _Irl example._
- & many, *many* more...
P.S.:
Don't get me wrong, I *LOVE* Americans!
You guys are (typically) fun & kind, way more than many (most?) North Europeans I'd say.
But the level of your idiocrasy is staggering, as is evident from your lifestyle, your societal issues,
your political system, all the way up to your last couple POTUS themselves.
So yeah, there you have it...
Hey, I'm also from Cambridgeshire
We were eating burgers and the guy sitting next to us asked if this was our first time eating them (he overheard us speaking german). My husband is from Hamburg so we joked about him being a hamburger. He didn't get it, so we tried to explain the joke, but he just got mad and told us we were making it up and Hamburg wasn't a place.
The thing is, in other parts of the world being stupid isn't something that is valued, so our idiots just shut up. In the US, intelligence is what is frowned upon, which is very bizarre. I don't know any other culture where idiocy is considered an attribute, but people really do get offended by intelligent conversation and see it as annoying and shameful. Even in the movies the smart kids get bullied. In most other countries, the smart kid is the popular one.
Naja... tu mal nicht so als ob kluge Kinder als "Streber" zu mobben hier in Europa nicht stattfinden würde.
Zum Glück nicht auf dem Level wie in den USA, aber wirklich beliebt ist man als kluges Kind in Europa auch nicht. Oder nur, wenn man es anderweitig kompensiert und ständig Streiche spielt oder so. Wenigstens hört sich das bei uns dann an der Uni / im Erwachsenenalter auf.
Exactly, I was always shocked to see in US high school movies, how a smart kid was labelled as ' Nerd ' or was bullied while in India education is something that is seen so imp. The intelligent or topper kids are more famous and loved than backbenchers.
I know that the burgers comes from Germany because of Hamburg, I speak Spanish and the word Burger in Spanish is similar to the name hamburg, so for me it's weird that other people don get a curiosity to know about other countries including his food 👍
I went on a trip to the USA a few years back. Two golden interactions were :
- in LA : spoke to dudes doing basketball near the beach. They invited me to play. Asked me where i was from and when I said "France" they didnt want to believe me because "french dont speak english". At first i thought was a compliment because we do tend to be pretty bad at english but then when I said "yeah our school system is pretty bad at teaching us english" they were shocked and one said "you learn it at school ???" And no, it wasnt a joke. They didnt know we learn english in french schools.
- In Vegas : went to a casino and tried a few machines to have fun. Eventually socialized with other people in the casino. One asked where i was from, said France, they answered "Paris ?" I laughed because it's no wonder people think Paris, said Bordeaux, another known town and to my surprise they didnt say "dont know it" they said "oh yeah its where the wine is from" and it is pretty known for wine. But then they added "I thought it was in Italy though, its pretty close to it yes ?". I answer its like 6hrs of drive away if not 8hrs and they said "yeah what i said, close" then marseille (extreme south of france) and paris (very up north) are "close" since they are 8hrs of drive apart 😂
He was so astonished that you can cross france in max 12hrs
Mdrrr on est les meilleures rofllll
I mean... by American standards that might actually be pretty close 😂
Pour un Américain c’est normal.
Un jour un américain m’a dit : pour vous 200km c’est loin, pour nous 200 ans c’est vieux.😅
Et expérience perso. J’ai été invité au mariage d’un pote dans le nord de l’etat de NY.
C’est un de ses potes de lycée qui m’a emmené, départ de Rochester et 5 heures de route autour de 400 km).
Pendant le trajet, on discute et là il me dit qu’il rentre ce soir!
Le mec a fait 800 bornes dans la journée et est resté 2-3 heures au mariage.
Pour lui No problème!
I met an American in UK where I live and he noticed my accent. When I told him I am Italian he got excited and said "I'm going to Italy for 3 days soon! I want to take a bike and travel from Venice to Florence and Rome!"
I didn't tell anything to him but I tell you: Venice-Florence-Rome is around 380 miles (625km). Good luck with that in 3 days.
Possible but only if you can ride 24/7 so you drive like 200km per day
That could be done easily. As someone who lives rural, travelling 600kms in one day is normal.
@@flighttrain71how slow are you going that 200kms takes a whole day?
@@esmeraldagreengate4354 not by car...
Btw that s at the end of km is not correct... You wrote Kilometer seconds
@@flighttrain71 whoops I meant Kilometers plural but I can see what you mean it does look like I meant km/s. Does op mean a bicycle? I can see how that would take forever but I was assuming a motorbike.
US citizens have to accept that their Education system and Health system is devastated
More like none existent
And political system and law system...
And may just get worse
I feel like if you went upto a Scottish person and said "wow I love your British accent!" you might get punched in the face
I can at least confirm the general disdain at being called British. I've made that mistake, it sure makes a room turn on you quickly!
Yep I often jokingly taunt a Scottish person I know with that. I often call him British as a joke. I mean it's technically correct, but they really don't like it. I do it through a webcam though, so I can't get punched in the face, lol.
In all seriousness, it's genuinely just as a fun joke. They take it in good spirit. But I'm Dutch and they are very well aware that I know how the UK works, at least fundamentally.
Depends on where in Scotland and which Scots. Doing it in a Rangers pub isn't likely to cause problems. Doing it in a Celtic pub though...
same reaction a 🇨🇦 has when being accused of being a yank while travelling
why? Scotland is in Britain...
I used to work in a shop in a popular(ish) tourist spot in my city. A city in England. "Do. You. Speak. American?" *hand waving*.
I used to work Retail ( menswear ) in the west end of London, y'know...Oxford St, Regent St etc ) an American woman with her husband asked if i could speak 'Murican'. In my best oxford English accent I replied ' I'm terribly sorry madam...I'm afraid i only speak English'....dumfounded look in response.
Should have told them no, English.
I'm German and some Teenager in a Gamelobby once asked me : "Is Hitler still your King ?"
I told him that he never was and that Hitler killed himself and his Family in a Bunker around 80 Years ago.
Turned out that this Kid always thought that whenever he saw Prince Charles of Britain in a Picture or in the TV that he was called Hitler before he changed his Name into Prince Charles.😅
OMG i love that hahahaah
No way! I have to screenshot this and send to my friends, I'm Dutch
Okay but I'm going to ask this to every German I meet going forward 😅
Small correction to your comment Andreas, but which doesn't take away, alas, from its distressing comedy !
Hitler didn't commit suicide on 04/30/45 in his Berlin bunker with his "Family", but only with his mistress Eva Braun whom he had just married a few hours before. On the other hand after Hitler's death, Joseph Goebbels his most faithful and fanatical "Follower" since the 1920s, committed suicide with his wife Magda after poisoning their six children. Like that of Hitler and Eva Braun, the bodies of all the Goebbels family were cremated in the gardens of the Chancellery, between two Soviet bombings, by his aide-de-camp SS Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche and his men who guarded the bunker...
@@MoSkent1 i know, we had all of this in School.
But thats 30 Years ago and i was not paying that much Attention.
All i cared about was Girls, Weed, Skateboarding and Grafitti. 😂
A while ago i had a argument with someone from the US who did not understand that even after Brexit, Britain is still part of Europe.
He was convinced that the EU and the European Kontinent are the same.
After failing to explain the difference to him for about 20 minutes !, i just went with it.
So i told him that Britain set Sails and is currently near Costa Rica. HE BELIEVED IT
I feel a bit bad about it but who says Germans have no sense of humor ^^
English here but have lived in several other countries including Germany. I've always been of the opinion that Germans mostly have the SAME sense of humour as us (definitely more so than the rest of Europe), but due to slight historical differences of opinion we just don't like to admit it. We are, after all, Anglo-Saxons! 😆
I love German sense of humor 🙂 . It's my kind of humor .
😂😂😂
I heard that a LOT during the Brexit times... SO many people thought it meant, that Britain was somehow leaving the European CONTINENT as opposed to just the political union called EU for short, lol........ a lot... of people...
Is a Kontinent like a the final boss continent?
I was taking a walk in Rome, waiting for a friend near the Coliseum, and a couple stopped me for a question.
We started talking and it turns out they were Americans, from Seattle.
At some point, I don't exactly remember the context, the husband, pointing to the Coliseum, asks me:
- but... Is that real?
- I'm sorry?
- yeah I mean, is it the real one? The Romans built?
- Sorry, I really don't understand. Of course the Romans built it.
- but if it stays outside it will be ruined!
The conversation was surreal, so I tried to be a bit sarcastic, answering something like "oh yeah I understand now! No of course we don't want to ruin it, so this is a replica of course! We moved the real one into a very big museum" and they were all like "ohh that's cool it does make sense!".
I wasn't able to tell them the truth.
I just hope they never went to someone asking where the museum of the real Coliseum was. 😅
U cant be sarcastic with those people they wont get ittttt haha
don't be to too upset. Italians have placed some things inside museums and put up replicas in public places mostly because of the elements. the statue of David for example and he is just 520yrs old.
Nope it is a replica Italo-Disney built ...
@@embreis2257I mean obviously some stuff are replicated! But the all Colosseo! 😂
How can you even think about move something so huge! 😂
And we also can’t do that to our ancestors😂😂😂
@@Sim0sama "How can you even think about move something so huge". If you're American, (you think) anything is possible.
That "go back to your country" is the one i hate the most
Like, your own country is literally stolen lands from indigenous people
American to me "who is your President?" Me "We don't have one"...American looks very confused....
i got told, i have a Führer not a president in Germany, i still wonder why Steinmeier is president?
Me to an American (about 1648 Polish-Ukrainian war): -...and so we voted, elected a new king and defeated Ukrainians.
American: You cannot elect a king. It isn't how kings work.
😂@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor
Atleast he knew "your president" is not the same as his president. And there are more countries with presidents than kings/queens.
@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor to be fair, lots of people are surprised when I tell them that Poles used to elect their kings. On the other hand, no-one who is not from the USA has ever told me that it's impossible, they actually want to learn more about it.
I was in Amsterdam, visiting the Anne Frank museum, which is notorious for having these really long queues to get inside. In front of me were two women from Chicago. We started talking, and then one of them asked me where I’m from. So I tell her that I’m from the Netherlands - that is - Holland (I added Holland because I know many people get confused when you talk about the Netherlands).
She nods and asks me “is that far away from here?”
She thought Amsterdam was a country! I explain to her that Amsterdam is our capital city, just like Washington DC is hers.
She nods again and says: “right, yes that makes sense, I already thought you looked a bit Scandinavian!”
She's getting there
Maybe she visited one of the famous coffee shops just before your conversation?
😂😂😂
@romydevos610 Washington D.C. is not even part of the U.S., it is like the City of London, the Bank for Internatinal Settlement, the Vatican - and mostprobably Berlin also...
Philadelphia used to be the original capital of the U.S., until the british banker took over. in 1871.
You should‘ve asked her vill du fika?
My favourite one was a US news network reporting that our UK fireworks night was actually us celebrating Biden becoming president. Literally even US news channels don't have a clue about other countries, so how can we expect their population to know better?
I have a couple of stories myself:
-I once saw a post in a group chat where an American was about to move to Switzerland and wanted to know if they had refrigerators there, or would she have to get hers shipped from the USA? She was literally moving across the world without the foggiest idea of the culture she was moving to.
-I had an argument with MSN because every time I pressed the keyboard key for "€" it sent MSN into fits of webdings (I lived in a country using the Euro currency, I literally had a separate button on my computer keyboard for it). I assumed they'd just reply and say "oh yes, go to this setting and change from US to UK English" or something along those lines. Instead I got a reply back saying that MSN doesn't support "minority symbols". Population of USA = 333 million. Population using the Euro currency = 350 million (plus countless millions more using it in business). Sigh.
the 'muricans are totally unaware they only represent about 5 per cent of the world population
The Euro thing is WILD to me, the Euro is literally more expensive a currency than the American Dollar is
When Xbox Live first came out it was quite a friendly place. One session of Burnout an American asked me if we have TVs and electricity in England. I played along saying that we don't have either making up stories. He clicked at the end of the game, came to the realisation that I'm playing a game with him.
Bless.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was in 🇺🇸 for 5 yrs, I’m Italian from north eastern corner, my hometown in the alps is close to the borders with Austria and Slovenia. I don’t have an Italian sounding last name, and a lot of Americans were telling me that I was not Italian because of my blonde hair, green eyes and 6.2 ft tall. They were shocked when I was telling that Italy is not only Rome, Florence or south Italy! A lot of stereotypes 😂
Tirol ... One of my favorite places to visit ... We usually stay in Schenna just north of Meran.
@@karlsenula9495 I think the guy was referring to another part of Northern Italy called Friuli or more specifically Carnia.
😂 we speak about “Europeans” but just looking at Italy we are so different from each others… imagine trying to speak about similarities between Italy and north European countries 😂
Not even Italians themselves share the same habits/ looks/ accent /sometimes languages 😂
My boyfriend is from Napoli and he’s blonde with blue eyes and when he went out with his Moldavia friend (blonde with blue eyes) you really couldn’t tell the difference 😂 they seemed cousin!
But yeah In Italy we come in all different colors, even the skin colors can be different sometimes 🤷🏻♀️even if we’re still all technically “white/Caucasian”.
I mean, in fairness your area is not ethnically Italian. It was taken from Austria a century ago. It's absolutely normal that those Americans would be confused, and that doesn't make them ignorants per se. Nobody can know every uniqueness of each single small region in the world. I'm from Spain and here barely nobody knows about your region (only history and geography geeks). People from here would believe you being Italian because of your accent (assuming your mother tongue is Italian and not German), but for the rest (your look and your surname) they would be as surprised as those Americans you were talking about, because it's not something popularly known.
Hai mica un cognome di origine longobardo, es. Braida?
Any time an American asked "are you Hungry?" after I said I'm from Hungary ... I learned a lot of self control trough that time
You need to convince world to call your country Hungaria (most of them will not do Ď/GY) As Trurkia tries to do
I'm not from Hungary, but I think I would laugh my ass off at this and then get really angry if I were 😔
There's a similar toddler joke people like to make about Turkey. Either Americans will have to fix our education system or you guys will need to change your name, I'd probably start throwing around new name ideas if I were y'all.
And are you hungry? Maybe it's time to eat something.
@@nichtwork I will find you
The thing with the 4th of July firework happened to me as well..
i was asked by an older american couple in Berlin where the big fire work happens..
when i told them that we dont celebrate 4th of July, they were SO offended and said we HAVE to cause they beat us in WWII..
i slowly backed away from them
ohhh... cringe... but you have to give them credit for at least owning a passport and daring to leave the US... but still...
I like to tell them that the 4th of July is when we celebrate thanksgiving.
Good on you. They also seem to think they won the war all on their own. They didn't even join the war until Dec 1941 meanwhile allies from around the world had been fighting alongside the British and European allies for 2 years and they didn't enter WW1 until April 1917. Australia lost over 60,000 men during WW1 out of 416,809 who enlisted for service. Australia only had a population of 4M people at the time. They represented 38.7% of the total male population aged between 18 and 44. But there were boys as young as 14 who put their age up to join. You can imagine the effect of losing a generation of young men on our country. They are not forgotten. The US had a population of a little over 103M in 1917 for a similar amount of deaths. Apparently an Australian soldier wounded Hitler in WW1. Just imagine how many lives on all sides would have been lived if he had died.
@@Mr21December2012 I bet the only reason they travelled abroad was because they wanted to connect to their "roots". "Yeah, we're German-Americans - even though I don't speak any German, couldn't find it on a map and don't know anything about it. But we're totally German!"
@@QuentinPlant yep, when I was in the US someone told me: „Cool, I‘m German as well!“ I asked: „Cool! Von wo genau kommst du?“. He look funny at me. I raised my eyebrows: „Sooo, you don’t speak German?“. He: „Nooooo, my great-great-great-grandfather came from Germany! I was never there and don’t know any German.“
Okay, cool story, bro…
I'm in contact with people in Philadelphia. It was the Friday before your recent 4th of July celebrations. The person at the end of the call said "Have a good weekend and happy 4th of July" I laughed and replied "Thank you but we don't celebrate the 4th of July" They responded "Oh, why is that" to which I said "we don't normally celebrate the day we get our arses kicked by ourselves"
I saw this episode before Ryan uploaded it because where i'm from it's 6 hours ahead of USA
So....why didn't you warn them? 🤪
😂
Showoff.
And I even saw this episode before Ryan recorded it!
@@Mr21December2012
And where are you from? I bet, well maybe lol. I saw it before you did lol.
Was in fits of laughter before on FB to a lovely American online friend, we got talking about time travel lol. Intelligent girl and her brother is a college/university lecturer, very dry humour but so funny, But we still educate each other about our different ways and terminology - which usually ends up in fits of joint laughter 😊
One time I was talking to an american girl. She asked me where I am from because of my accent. I told her that I am a Portuguese who grew up in Berlin. All of this took place in the beginning of 2010's. She then went on to ask me wether the Berlin wall is still standing. She also was convinced that Portugal is a spanish province
It would have messed with her head if you had told , just because they are both on the Iberian peninsula, doesn't make Portugal a part of Spain.
@@lynn69jackson 😂 I am not sure if she would know what a peninsula is...but all jokes aside, I didn't want to mess with her. She was very friendly and had a good heart, which is more important. Memorizing facts is an easier task than being kind.
At least she knew where Spain is and did't confused it with mexico, you got to give her credit for that 😂
PD: saludos vecino 🙋🏻♂️🇪🇦🇵🇹😘
You are right mi hermano iberico 🙋♂️🇵🇹🇪🇦😘
that's our problem for years, Portugal as province of Spain 😵💫😵💫
Overheard in Paris “Gee this menu’s got poison on it”.
😅😅😅
Don't eat the fish in France 😂
To be fair though, that comment is pretty much mandatory, even if you know what it means. :)
@@HenrikJansson78 Not spelled the same though!
😂😂😂😂
The 4th of July thing is so TRUEEEE. There is this girl in Tiktok that is brazilian but lived in america for a few years and she talked about how her american friends ware SO shocked that brasilians didn't celebrate 4th of July. After she came back to Brazil they even sent her a massage at the date, like, "happy 4th of july, what are u and ur family gonna do?" and she was like "nothing??" lol. To try to explain to them how weird this logic is when our independency day came she sent them a message too, to ilustrate how, you know, comemorating another country independance day doesn't make any sense.
Was in an uber in Baton Rouge. Driver asked me where I'm from, and i said Australia. Driver told me that sounds like a great place to visit, but would never go due to lack of freedoms. Very quiet drive after that nugget.
I wonder if he thinks America is the only free country... or if he's a gun nut.
And I know that's the state capital of Louisiana, despite not being from the US
😮
@@aledjangoYep, I'm from Ireland and know most state capitals, even in cases where the state capital is not the "obvious" well-known city of that state.
@@ShizuruNakatsu I learned all 50 for literally no reason, probably autism
Oh, I was once laughed at by an American woman for mentioning "The Americas" ...
She said: _"There's only one America stupid"_ So, I just said _"Oh, silly me... I thought there were more"_ - what followed was a detailed and highy innaccurate explanation of how the USA has 50 states + Hawaii ... while we all sat there nodding and trying not to laugh : ) Americans, gotta love 'em... that, and keep them away from sharp objects.
you didnt explained to her that America is a continent (or 2) and has more then USA, Canada and Mexico?
its like they are little dump kids
Im Dutch and live in southern California. I was asked if we have freedom, and if we also celebrate Thanksgiving. People are also convinced I must be Danish because I speak Dutch.
The worst one was a friend of the family here who was going off on a rant about how EVERYONE wanted to come to the USA and how the USA passport was the most important thing in the world. To everyone. He has never been to Europe, but this fool was acting as if he couldn't safely go to Europe, because we're all savages that would try to steal his passport from him if anyone found out that he's American, IF he ever would go.
Dutch and Danish are just different names for the same thing, kinda like Austria and Australia. All of you Scandinavians come from Deutschmark anyway, everybody knows that. What’s your capital called? Is it Amstelhavn or Købendam? Sorry, I'm not good at these Duits place names...😊
The Netherlands is placed as high as Canada on the World Freedom Index, both are top ten on the planet. WAY above the USA... Which is lost around the 30th place.
I NEVER care when an American tells me some corny untruth. I just say SURE, in case they turn violent if contradicted with the truth, and RUN away, before my giant, sarcastic smirk has a chance to get me in trouble
@@noneofyerbeeswax8194 bro im german and that really made me crack up xD
Maybe that was the case 50 years ago, but nowadays, more US citizens are looking into moving to Europe, Canada or Australia than the other way around.
@@noneofyerbeeswax8194
There is often more than a grain of truth in old sayings.
Especially the one that says „Empty vessels make the most noise”.
Weirdest thing an American said to me (a Brit) was at Ontario International airport in California (east of LA). I was at a car hire desk and the girl was trying to sell me additional insurance cover for $60 or whatever. I turned to my girlfriend and said, "That's an additional £40". The girl overhead me and said, "Excuse me, what's a Pound? Do you mean like pounds of gold?"....
Yes, sir, at an international airport, the car hire employee had never heard of the British currency. True story.
Even stranger when you think it used to be their currency too😂
Oh and another one.
I was in a shop in England, when an American asked me the price of something, when I said 10 pounds, she replied "you mean Dollars" 🙄
She wasn't too far off. A pound was originally a pound of silver. Hence a "pound sterling".
@@leenorman853 Much more than calling others stupid we should enjoy an interesting bit of information!
@@vechnoezabvenie I didn't call anybody stupid. O czym mówisz?
When I went to the US I was asked what do we cook for Thanksgiving. No one could believe we don’t celebrate that in Australia. Then during my stay someone said to me, On the news we saw a plane crashed near Australia! I was like OMG did it crash into the ocean? They looked confused and said no it crashed on land. So it crashed in Australia?? They said it was near the border of Australia. Later I learned the plane crashed in Austria. 🤦🏻♀️
This is an easy miss understanding .
They just see the similar word, that means they’re must be the same thing!😂
Have you ever had the debate with an American that Aus is a made up country?
That one made my brain hurt.
I met an American chap in Austria who was on the train and wanted to go to Vienna but couldn't find it. I explained to him that the sign said "Wien".....but he couldn't figure it out...He had gone by it twice.
Close enough 🤭
Austria - Australia, potato - tomato. Who can tell the difference anyway?
22:20 The Norwegian flag hanging in the back of the room reminded me of a news story where they removed a Norwegian flag, thinking it was the flag of the Confederate States.
I remember that one. Imagine googling for one second, yikes.
I corrected an American for using the American flag to represent the English language.
I replied with the English flag, to which he replied "is that from a hospital?" 😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A Hindu temple was attacked by Jewish women who say swastikas on the gates.
Dumbest thing an American has ever told me:
American: Do you speak Swedish and are you from Denmark?
Me: I live in Norway and I speak Norwegian
American: Norway is not a country
Me: Yes it is. Its next to Sweden on the right and its in Scandinavia
American: You're wrong. Germany, Russia and Finland is part of Scandinavia and they all speak Swedish and German.
Me: What did I listen to right now😳
I was also told by an American that Norway doesn't exist. I was like, but I live here!
Hahahaha! That's terrible. I'm Swedish and I do understand it can be confusing exactly what Nordic countries are Scandinavian, but that's a version of Scandinavia I wouldn't expect 😂
And here I (a finnish person) was thinking we aren't part of scandinavia. Good to know I was wrong😅. (At least we speaking swedish was partly correct)
I will never understand why some americans can't admit they are wrong. They literaly tried "correcting" people about their own country...
@@thatsalt1560 I thought they were joking…turned out they weren’t joking about that
My favourite was an American tourist who told me how awesome it is that everybody here speaks English, and she really wasn't expecting it.
It's England.
i bet most of the countrys in europe speaks better english then the US....
@@Dermi_Skycountries* speak* than*
Firstly, Czechoslovakia is no more, but I will give that one to you... Secondly USA is closer to Russia than Czechoslovakia (9:20)
Indeed. Always baffles me that Americans forget the planet is a pressed on ball, not a 2D map.
Somehow it seems to me that Americans forget about the existence of Alaska more often than anyone else
Coming from Eastern Europe, the funniest thing Americans think, is Eastern Europe is still communist, and don't have access to technology. Americans are sometimes amazed I have a smartphone and access to the Internet.
I’m English. In our Ohio office. ‘You speak English so well, did you learn at school?’
😂
"Your English is pretty good too."
@@blechtic "... espacilly because it's an imported foreign language from overseas. You know, from these pesky immigrants."
Apparently England is full of English people speaking English with English accents - who knew?
😂
When I was on the train to Milan, I was going to take a stroll there with my mom for a day and I happened to overhear a conversation from these two Americans.
“I want to have pizza for lunch, but how do they call it in Italy?”
“I don’t know dude let me Google translate it real quick”
When you had a president who thought Belgium was a nice city, what would you expext.
In our defense, he did lose the popular vote. We just have this stupid, obsolete thing called the "electoral college" that's a holdover from 200 year old voting logistics.
This reminded me of a moment in Whose Line is it Anyway, when the host mistakenly calls Africa "a big country," which causes one of the contestants to burst out laughing, calling out the correction of, "It's also a big continent if you're a geographer!"
Drew Carey was the one who said Africa was a big continent and Greg Proops was the one who pointed it out. They poked fun of it during the skits a few times for the rest of the episode as well xD.
To be fair there is actually a city named Belgium... in america (new-york state to be precise). But yes I know he was atually speaking about our country and not some small city in th US.
A friend moved to the US 2 years ago and her daughter had a debate in class (all of the class v’s her daughter) that the Americans invented the English language and she should say thanks. Her daughter tried to explain that she was from England so therefore English and spoke English. It didn’t compute, what was scary was that the teacher didn’t interject and correct them.
Another time a teacher said that Great Britain was not in Europe ??? As she was a new student she didn’t want to embarrass the teacher with the truth. I’m going to guess maybe he got confused with the EU.
I've just pictured in my head, is when UK left the EU, you all took out the paddles and started rowing the island away from the Europe.
A teacher???
Us teachers are terrible.
I visited a few schools back in 88
I had one teacher tell me we said aluminium wrong because the US invented it. I told her it's an element it can't be invented and, it is based on Latin which hasn't been natively spoken for centuries.
Another said because when sharks open their mouths you can swim sideways when they open their mouths to attack. I said no it doesn't work sharks have other senses than sight, like sensing movement in water, how else can sharks hunt you can't see that far under water and they don't just swim in the top 30 foot ocean.
@@voidseeker4394 LOL
@@voidseeker4394 dont give us hope.....
I was an exchange student in Fayetteville, NC in 2007-08. I got asked the dumbest shit but one of the dumbest was " Do you have movie theatres in Italy'?". My answer was "No we don't cause we do not have electricity in Italy ". Only at that point she realized how stupid her question was.
I hope you have electricity by now.
I mean, we made movies even before them!!!
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_italiano
@@Zajuyes one of the first movies was L Inferno 1907 thats about the Dantes Inferno very good movie
Oh man.. Lucky you. I'm Canadian and they would have BELIEVED that we had no electricity, AND lived in igloos because we are ALWAYS under 10 feet of snow and ice...
You got one of the smarter ones. Quite a few would easily have believed you about the electricity.
I was once told by an American that we in Denmark in Scandinavia only got our written language in the 19th century??????
and by another that Denmark is not a country ??????
I‘m from germany and when I was in the us last year i rent a mercedes and when I spoke on the phone german with my friends an american couple asked me what language that was and I told them german. When they saw me going to my car they asked me how I knew how to drive. I told them why I shouldn‘t know how to drive and they said because there r no cars in germany lol
I told them that mercedes invented the car and its a german car company. They looked so confused and I still get nightmares from that incident
I work for a US cooperation at the European HQ. One time we had a visit from my manager’s manager from the US. She asked during a meeting: which language is spoken in the United Kingdom? BTW the lady holds a master’s degree.
You missed a big opportunity there. The only official language in the UK is Welsh.
@@watfordjc and the national animal is the one from scotland: a unicorn
Czechoslovakia has also ceased to exist in 1992.. over 30(!) years ago!
But some decades ago the chances were high that the people would speak Russian as a second language.
@@reinhard8053 As third language... Czech, Slovak, Russian...
Sure, but it turned into the Czeck Republic and Slovakia
@@Donnah1979 im aware but americans still pretrend like its one and the same country
Nowadays people there don’t speak Russian, just a small percentage. Since the 90’s Russian it’s not obligatory in schools, after that most of the students have chosen other languages to learn as a second one.
Upon arriving at Detroit Metro Airport, a person working there asked me if we in Europe have electricity. When I sais "yes, of course", she wanted to know if we also have television. (was in 2009, not in 1935)
In Venice, I saw an American asking where to buy tickets while standing next to a sign with directions where to buy tickets (in English). He then demanded that the woman responded in English - she was speaking in English, but with an Italian accent.
Rudest thing was an American going to a restaurant waiter and asking directions to a different restaurant! Also in Venice.
These are just the Americans that are allowed to leave the country, what are the rest like!
I think I have a big one guys, I’m Italian, from Florence and last summer a group of American tourists asked me where they could find Pinocchio’s grave (the novel is set in a place near Florence but obviously Pinocchio is a fictional character, he doesn’t have a grave). When I answered ‘it doesn’t exist’ they accused me of being ignorant.
P.S. Also while I was in school I spent a month in the us as an exchange student and some girls were very surprised I had a phone as an Italian, cause apparently italians still live in the middle ages according to them
Should have said Pinocchio was buried in the local sawmill.
Cynically, I wonder if it’s easier to keep a populace from questioning their own situation if you can keep them believing their nation is the greatest and not have knowledge of other nations to measure that claim against.
Low education absolutely keeps people from power.
My family has been saying the same about the UK dumbing down education; that the last thing politicians want is an educated electorate. But it appears they have a long way to go to get down to the level of most US schools.
Having read the "Grapes of Wrath" while in early HS (Greece) Oklahoma is one of the first US states I knew. Okies is a term I will never forget.
An American asked me (in America) why I came over from Europe by plane and not by car - because planes were so expensive! 🤣
And another one asked me how the war was currently going and if Hitler was still in charge.... 🙈 (I am from germany)
Oh! That must be one of those who think Trump is running the US government and Biden is just for show.
😨 imagine Hitler still being in charge for 80 more long years old.
Europe wouldn’t be remotely the same 😂 especially Germany and Italy …
Awkward!! I had one American tell me the once that he ( Hitler) was living the life of riley in South America somewhere.🙄
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While living in Atlanta with my then husband and two children, I got to know a lady from Illinois. We had been friends for six months or so, and I was helping her and her husband pack to move to another apartment. We were discussing the moving process, and she knew I was from New Zealand, but she asked me, "How long did it take you to drive down?" I was dumbstruck!, Yes, eventually I explained where New Zealand is located.
New Zealand, New York, New Jersey, New England etc... They are all part of the region New in the US..
@uturner absolutely 💯 😉😉😉 that's why our social security cards, we were made to get, were stamped "Alien not eligible for work". 😀
To be fair, a lot of maps in America show Australia but leave out our little piece of Paradise altogether; please don't enlighten them too much.
I've gotten in full blown fights because I insist that Canada speaks English and French not Canadian. I'm in Pennsylvania.
Oh, I felt that so much. I've had to explain multiple times that in Brazil, we speak Porrtuguese, not 'Brazilian'. I didn't have to explain that only to US Americans, though lol
@@koalaeucalyptus well I guess I should say I'm glad it's not just Americans that are dumb. However it's sad that the school system has failed us all in some way.
That must be so entertaining 😂
1:37 To be fair. The one nationality people around the world might consider to be deserving of saying "I'm sorry" to, (although nobody would actually say it...) it's not North Korean at all. It's American. For reasons... 🤷
I saw that on public interviews after 9/11 people crying why nobody in Europe warned them
As in because of the time zones??? 😱
@@ladybeagle4131
Yep. A lot of them asked why nobody warned them bc we were some hours ahead.
Damn. When I was in elementary school (like, 1st or 2nd grade) I thought I was really smart and knew a trick how to win the lottery. My dad explained time zones to me and that was that. But grown ups still think that...
When I told an American I am from Finland, she immediately started talking about our cold weather. I said "yes, we can have cold winters, but our summers can be fairly warm. One summer during covid it was actually so hot that I suffered from heatstroke several times". She didn't believe me.
I wouldn’t believe you neither 😂
I’m from south Europe, you can imagine what hot summer can mean to me 😂
To be fair, that 2020 Summer was unusually hot, at least here in the UK. I'm from South Spain and it almost felt like I was back home.
As an Aussie, i don't believe you either
@@Ausecko1 Well, it's not like I can compete with you, since I'm aware that you experience scorching hot temperatures. But it is possible to experience heat stroke in Finland, believe it or not.
@@Sim0sama As I have visited Italy but also the North: They can also have up to 30°C. Of course not for many weeks in a row, but they have hot Summerdays in the north of Europe!
Ry, mate, they didn’t say it to me personally, but apparently there’s a percentage of Americans who think that if they go to a foreign country they are still under American law and have “rights” and stuff 😂😂😂
Over 4000 Americans have been charged with illegally trying to bring their guns into Canada in the last 10 years ! 🇨🇦
Oh my god this reminds me of a discussion I had with an american in yt comments who kept insisting that the american right to bear arms is a "human right" that applies to everyone...
Have you seen that other YT video where a British policewoman is trying to ask two Americans a question and they start spouting off American law about knowing their rights? They did not understand that their laws have diddlysquat traction in the UK.
@@nicola_k-syou have a link to that? I can’t find it
There was this exchange student from Dallas that came here to (the middle) Sweden in late July. When I picked her up at the airport, she had brought only very thick winter clothes and it was 27 degrees Celsius (80 Fahrenheit). But the worst part is that she thought that there were polarbears and reindeers walking the streets here..... Then, in februari we went on a roadtrip and was driving on a iceroad. I said, -now we are driving on the ice of a lake. She panicked and wanted out of the car. I calmed her down and said that there are semitrailers driving here to. Then she said that she never could tell her parents that, they would´nt believe her, and probably must go home.
This video confirms the wisdom of the good old English saying that “whilst we all have a right to be stupid, there will always be those that abuse even that privilege.”
Gold!
Honestly I just go with it. If an American asked me if I've ever seen a polar bear, I'd just say that we keep them as pets.
Aaand they deliver the mail
Love those clever retorts.
Very good choice, such fluffy pet in frozen wasteland :D (joking)
Why not ruining their Education a little more 😂 like this: "Oh, actually, when our Sons turn 10, we sent them out to hunt one with only their Hands and only return until they got one and if they do, we celebrate and eat it, same thing with our Daughters but they go hunting when they are 12".
I guarantee you they believe it and would re-tell this as fast as possible. 🤣
I have seen them, but fortunately it was from the inside of a Twin Otter, when flying along the coast of Hudson Bay.
As an American who was educationally neglected I only learned about the fact that England is in Great Britain maybe a month ago and I had to learned it from a british friend. In my experience the education system here is lacking especially with history and geography. I don't know all the names of the states myself. Yes I've been able to pass all my history classes with that lack of knowledge. I'm trying to memorize them on my own time.
I've only ever done two kinds of history classes: classes about US history or classes about world history. The US history classes would started off with columbus finding america every single year, then a couple wars, a section in the middle about slavery, some random missionaries, and some inventions. The World history classes would talk about ancient room, ancient greece, and maybe a couple of other places far in the past. They never talked about other countries currently.
I never had to take a Geography class. Geography was like one single unit I did in 6th grade history and never again. They talked about Canada, Mexico, North America and South America. No other places. Geography never came up again after that except for occasionally flipping past a map a class never used that was in the history book.
good for you! I think the school system is to blame for the lack of education in the US
Thanks for being honest. Interesting what you say about geography. I always remember the two girls who visited us. They told us that the geography teacher told them they would all get a pass on the condition that they turned up to sports day.
"ancient room" was the best part of this story 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So there was this American couple in a park in France, typical tourists. There were some kids playing around and the lady was amazed how this little kid was so young and could already speak a foreign language so well... The husband says. What are you talking about? It's his native language! And she replies, "yes but i suppose it must've been really hard for him to learn".
I laughed and the husband just rolled his eyes, shrugged and shook his head.
I think you made this up just to be a part of the "tell stories" gang.
@@agldlfe sure. Am i in?
@@Kerhuz haha, yes, you are.