Mate i was once told by a very aggressive and rude American lad that Americans invented English. i said no it's called English because it was created in England ..he said... and i'm not joking... yes but it was invented in England in 1776 when an American went to England after conquering them and forced them to change their language to speak American... you Britishers just speak an offshoot of our language... i was stunned... i said actually English is a Germanic language and comes from Anglo-Saxon Old English with heavy Norman French influences .. he called me the F slur (homophobic one) and told me to go drink some tea to calm down.... this was in London about 15 years ago...
It is truly unbelievable. I mean how on earth is this possible, how can americans possibly think and say things like that? Like it's no longer about plain ignorance that can be understandable, but that's inventing some amazing bullshit unbelievable history.
I am Polish. Recently on vacation in Spain, a slightly tipsy American, wearing a T-shirt with the Polish flag and the sign of our resistance movement, tried for an hour to prove to me that he was a better Pole than me because his grandmother was from Poland, he went to Sunday school and did shopping in a Polish store in Chicago. The guy didn't know a word of Polish except a few curse words, had never been to my country and he wiped his dirty hands on my flag. This is another Italian-American, Irish-American or other combination I have met. However, I have never heard a resident of another country in the world describe himself in such a way.
THIS is the thing I find most annoying about Americans. Them claiming to be *insert country here* because some ancestor is from that country. Honey, nobody cares if your grand-grandmother is from Poland. You spend your entire life in the US. You are an American 🙄
I think that person is more American, than Polish, because a true Pole wouldn't even think about disrespecting the Polish flag like that (because american "patriotism" at most cases has nothing to do with actual patriotism, which was shown excelently here). Why? Because Polish constitution says: You mustn't hang the national flag the wrong way, you mustn't tear it, scrunch it, or make it intentionally dirty, because that's disrespectful towards the flag. And not knowing that is considered not being a true Pole
We Latin Americans have to listen that every day, how they say “I’m Latino because my great grandfather was from there” and they don’t know Spanish or Portuguese and think that all the south is Mexico, I’m from Argentina, and once I saw a video of an American saying “Argentinians can’t be Latin American because are white”… Now to be Latin American we have to be brown or black?
What’s Dutch? So you’re from Denmark, right? I was right across the strait, in Switzerland, the other day, and it was snowing all the time. These Scandinavian countries are really cold. Do you have polar bears in Købendam? 🙃
Well, at least he knew who built it and that there was something with Neuschwanstein and Disney - just not that it was the other way round. I'd personally give that a solid 5/10, i've heard worse ;-)
I’m American, and, on a tour in Berlin, another American tourist asked if the beautifully domed church we were looking at was Muslim. My husband and I were trying not to laugh when our tour guide sarcastically said that “Yes, most mosques have Christian crosses on top.”
To be fair, the architecture of mosques is in general heavily inspired by the Hagia Sophia mosque - a repurposed church in Istanbul. So, eastern/orthodox churches and mosques can share quite a few architectural similarities, including the way domes are designed.
@ However, as our guide pointed out, the church did have a cross at the top, not a crescent like a mosque would have. Our guides sarcasm hit very hard.
Sometimes it's amusing, most times, it's not. They insist they're entitled to the Second Amendment rights ........in a foreign country. The US Constitution does NOT apply anywhere else but the US.
@@claudialanzerstorfer1995 only up to the point where someone better knowledgeable would tell them otherwise, like an english person telling them 'American' is in fact English, or a german person telling them that Hitler is not alive anymore. After that it's arrogance.
Sadly these are not a joke. Do you have a minute? Dutch woman here: - In New York: how did you get here? By boat? He couldn't believe we have airports in Europe. We couldn't be that advanced. Schiphol Amsterdam airport is only one of the largest airports in the world but hey. - I am from The Netherlands; O you live in Amsterdam? No, an hour North of Amsterdam in so and so. Yeah Amsterdam! AMSTERDAM IS A CITY NOT A COUNTRY! - You live in an actual house in The Netherlands? That can't be! I thought they live in windmills! - How did you heard of New York? Like you guys have no acces to the internet in Europe have you? No lady, we Dutchies only invented bluetooth and made wifi feasible for general use but hey. - Wendy? No! That couldn't be your name, you only try to fit in. What is your real Dutch name? - That must be something to see skyscrapers? You have them nowhere else in the world! Sir, we have them in The Netherlands too. - Wow you must be stoned all the time! Uh no? Never been. Why? Yeah all people in Amsterdam use weed don't they? First of all and again: AMSTERDAM IS A CITY NOT A COUNTRY! And I literally no one person who ever smoked weed. It are the American tourist here who cause problems. - And last one was in Delaware: Do you guys like iceskate everywhere? Like to work and so? HUH?! And even not considering the stupidity of that question, the last time we could iceskate outside was like ten years ago!
The name thing is just absolutely incredible! The confidence with which Americans are prepared to tell others that they are not in fact something they say they are is unparalleled.
Bluetooth was invented in Lund, Sweden by Ericsson. The foundation was done by Swedes and then the hired 2 engineers, 1 dutch and 1 swede, to comstruct it.
German here. Was asked "do you have cars?" as well while sitting in an Mercedes. And was proudly shown a dishwasher ("we do wash our dishes in there"). A dishwasher from Siemens...
@@Thunderworks The steam wagon yes, but it was not designed to carry passengers and it was hardly practical. The first passenger carrying self propelled vehicle was in England in the 1803 by Richard Trevithick named the "London Steam Carriage" so really the British invented the car as the word car is derived from CARriage or Motor CARriage. Since the steam engine is an engine and it's was installed in a carriage designed to carry a driver and passengers then it's officially a car. Benz only put a petrol engine on his car and made it far more practical for the individual however he did not invent it nor did he invent the internal combustion engine, again, that was the Belgians with the gas engine (Not gasoline) and later the Germans with the petrol engine derived from the gas engine for the most part.
@@Kit_BearYeah, no. Practically is not really a measure when we talk about inventing (not producing) and a lorry/semi isn’t designed to carry passengers, but it’s still a car. So I would say Cugnot was indeed first who engineered and built the first self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle or an automobile. Which is, by the way, a proper word for it, not a car. Now that’s English-defaultism) Upd: Trevithick’s carriage could not maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods of time and was of little practical use. So apparently no practicality for both.
@@DKaz3 It's still recognised as the worlds first self propelled passenger vehicle no matter how much you want to be correct which you are not. A tractor is not a car, nearly everyone accepts that fact except you. If a lorry or semi is a car then why is called a lorry or semi? They are two distinct differences of transportation. Next you'll be saying a Ferrari is a type of motorbike. BTW. Car is an abbreviation of Motor Carriage just so you know, A Carriage is designed to carry people hence the name CARRIAGE or to carry as opposed to Cart meaning to cart along goods or livestock.
@@Kit_Bear wanted to correct me so bad that forgot how to read. I never said it wasn’t the first passenger “car”, cause it obviously is. But it’s not the first “car” ever. If you don’t like the word “car”, which may be mistranslation, cause for me car and automobile are synonymous, than tell me what’s the proper general word for all self propelled vehicles with wheels? About lorry/semi: they are called so to differentiate between passenger and cargo automobile. It’s the same as asking if laptop is a computer, why is it called laptop? If they are used differently, it does not mean that they are not built on the same principle. And I know that car comes from carriage. But carriage is not specifically for carrying people. Can’t you say carry cargo in English? And even if you can’t carriage stands for 4 wheelers and cart for 2 wheeler. Just so you know.
My favorite example of this is when I witnessed an american being absolutely convinced that the middle ages never happened, and that knights never existed. His reasoning behind this is that he's never seen a castle in America. He also said something along the lines of "I've been to a lot of museums and not once have I seen a knights sword or even an armor on display."
"Good sir, that's because the knights were the ones to threw YOUR ancestors out of Europe because they were to religiously extreme and the knights wanted to be rid of them." - Yeah, I know, I know, that happened a couple hundred years later but ... *shrug* ... not like that specific type's educated enough to know that.
Just to not irritate fellow Americans: the Middleage has been all over Europe into the middle East. Not only the UK. It is pretty common all over the Europe to have a Castle, Palace, Tower, some sort of defensive Building etcetc from that Time near by xD
2 years ago when I was in Dubrovnik, Croatia (King's Landing from GOT), an American girl walked by me while filming a video with her phone on a selfie stick and I overheard her saying "It's amazing how they built an entire city just to film scenes for Game of Thrones"! It quickly turned into an awkward moment when she noticed me laughing like a mad man.
An American tourist was having a tour at the abbey in St Albans. They asked "is this pre war ?“ to which the tour guide replied "actually madam , it’s pre America " .. the abbey is nearly 1000 years old .
Maybe they meant the Battle of Hastings/war with the Normans????????????????? Dad and his brother sang in the choir there during the war [WWII], my aunt was married at the high altar in the 1950s. My home city [though I now live in Ireland] and my favourite cathedral though I'm not a fan of the ''new'' chapter house. It is also one of the rare cathedrals who not only has a genuine saint but a saint that is largely [almost totally in fact] intact.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou - They are not educated about European history. Don't excuse them. 😊 For them, Europe begins with the world wars, where the US "saved us." That's all they are told (if they don't study history at college).
Considering all the documentaries released on how poorly English areas in and around London fared with Nazi bombers, it’s a legitimate question to ask if it survived the war. Look at a lot of Europe, where so much fantastic architecture had to be rebuilt due to bombing raids.
Same thing happened to me but I was asked by a TEACHER. I spent a year in the U.S. (specifically Minnesota) as a teen (I'm from UK) and an American TEACHER asked me if you have cars in Europe "Because I know ya'll don't have cellphones yet". I told her cars were invented in Europe and she told me "No, you'll find they were invented in America" I literally had to google it on my phone and SHOW her to prove that the automobile was invented in Germany.
Well, to be more precise, the automobiles with an ICE system were German . The first automobiles( "moving by themselves") with an engine (steam) were French, a century earlier.
Am I the only one finding the phrasing "you'll find they were invented in America" ominous as hell ? Like "you will be brainwashed and learn the American truth" ?
dont correct them. let them teach you. ask for the info in writing. and sources. let them dig themselves so deep they accidentality stumble upon the truth. at which point you dont even touch the work they did and walk away
Fun and real story, I once met an American on the island of Fuerteventura in a hotel. I'm from Germany and was on vacation. He told me that he was never before out of the US and never made any vacation before, but now in his 40s and money is ok, his business runs well, he want to make a vacation. BUT, he booked it via a travel agency and never thought about where this island is located etc. He was surprised how long the flight take and then he was there on a small island in the atlantic ocean not far from the west african coast which belongs to spain. :) It was completly weird and fun to hear about it, I had to laugh, but he was not upset. We had more than one cool evening with a lot of beers, but I was suprised to hear that he runs a business over there and not have any knowledge about geography, history and such things, but he was not a dumb person. He knows how to communicate, math, physics all that stuff. It felt like talking to a person that was completly educated, but missed all geography classes and all history classes before 1776.
What always frightens me is that the tourists are the ones that get out of the country, and have a mind open enough to see the world...I'm German and had the pleasure of doing a trip to Italy with some americans from my wifes extended family - and the inability to adapt to a foreign place for even an inch is just so painful... In a certain way it was like travelling with kids...No you can't just throw your trash on the ground - Yes, if you order food in a non-fast-food place it takes more than ten minutes to make - No we can't drive the rental car into the historic town center just because the bnb is there - Yes, we do have to walk - No, its not "a win" to spend the entire day in the car for an instagram picture - Yes the time scale in this museum goes big number to small number because its bc...
Sorry but as a Swiss I feel the same about Germans... Like I try to order in Italian even if the waiter is speaking German or English.. while German tourists aren't trying at all or are even upset if the local doesn't speak their language
@@simonkopp9238 I do not doubt there are ignorant people everywhere, the difference in my observations while traveling is if you hear someone speaking German, Dutch, or British English there is a chance they'll behave ignorantly, if you hear an American accent its almost a guarantee... Btw - where have you seen that in Italy? You do realize that at least in some parts German is an official language in Italy? Sounds a bit like you where in Trentino, or encountered someone who hadn't realized they had already left Trentino...
@@jimmyincredible3141 as a dutchy i want to ask why we are lumped into that, me personally take great pride in trying to blend in and so do most people i know in my personal life
@@Burning_Dwarf Just my observations...I'm guessing its because you guys travel a lot as well... I'm German, and i also take pride in trying to blend in while travelling - as most people do...Most doesn't mean everyone though
I am British.i was once in Kansas City on business. I was asked by a cab driver if I was Australian. I told him I was British. He replied "oh that's not far from Australia is it?"
As for "Black and British”: In the USA you have the term “African American”, but we don’t have anything similar in Europe. This guy is not an “African American”, neither is he an “African Brit” or something. He is just British. And obviously identifies as Black. So he’s Black and British.
Yes and British is not a bloody race, it's a nationality! It's crazy to think the American education system still hasn't moved past their eugenic understanding of human populations since the 1930s.
There's a story about an American interviewing Kriss Akabusi who just won the gold on 400m relay race in a big international competition, forgot which. Apparently the video did not survive to the Internet age, but there's people who swear it happened. "So, Kriss, what does this mean to you as an African-American?" "I'm not American, I'm British" "Yes, but as a British African-American ..." "I'm not African. I'm not American. I'm British." ... and apparently it went on. It seems that in some people's heads "Black" is rude and should always be replaced by "African-American", and the literal components of this phrase never enter their brain. So "black and British" makes perfect sense as a response to "African-American".
I've told this story before : During the Olympic Games, a rude American who couldn't bear to wait to order in a restaurant said to the waiter ‘we're the ones who liberated you in 1945...Implied : got priority’... And the waiter replied ‘without our help, you'd still be British citizens’...Another story I've already told : In California I was asked if we had vines and wine in France... I live near Bordeaux ^^. Some people really think they invented everything : they forget where they come from.
My favorite story: An American family wants to fly home from Israel and got stopped at check-in. After questioning they pulled a still active unexploded artillery shell out of their bag and asked if this can be put into a suitcase cause they wanted to bring it back home. The airport was evacuated.
@@ninemoonplanet Canada may be officially bilingual (English and French) but there are many more languages spoken here than just those. So my answer would be "depends on where you are".
Oh, that's a double whammy. Firstly not knowing that "Mexican" isn't a language. Secondly mistaking Catalan with Spanish. Boy oh boy these Americans were some special specimens
The worse part is you know underneath they are proud that someone not from USA is learning THEIR LANGUAGE so hard, trying so hard to be a native speaker 😂😂😂
As a Norwegian I once had two American backpackers insist on getting a ride and told me "You should be grateful we come here to stimulate your economy!". We've got the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, we're the largest exporter of natural gas and the second largest exporter of oil to the EU.
Recently i saw a tweet from Hideo Hojima, a Japanese man who was the director for the Metal Gear solid games. His tweet was in english, and he said "I voted today". A lot of americans were commenting "How??????" Today was the Japanese General Election. Same thing happened a few months ago when the UK was having its own General Election. I even saw some Americans post links to British Political news articles, and saying things like "Congress needs to sort this out because they shouldn't have done this!" all the while the article very much prominently had a picture of the (now) previous British Prime Minister.
@@runeingebretsen8378 we have fireworks in germany on this day 😂 because my hometown has many americans living here. but they celebrates just in one American area the rest of the city dont celeberate the 4th of july here 🙈
@@MinVerden00_live here in norway you can only use fireworks between 1800 and 0200 on the 31 of december to 1 of january,and the sale is only allowed between 27 and 31 of december.
@@runeingebretsen8378 Thats awesome 😍 the 4th July Firework is only 15minutes thats ok but on New Year we have 4 weeks before and after fireworks and the small things just for loud sounds 🥲 Its not cool for our pets, the most are scared of this. I hope we have this also as an official rule. Norway is always a role model for me 😊 thanks for sharing
This is so true. Some American tourists I met kept going to MacDo as we call it here in France? When I asked why they weren't eating in French restaurants they said because they can't believe just how good MacDo food is in France! I'm still not sure if they tried French food before they returned home!
In the US, they put a lot of chemicals in food that are not used in Europe because they are considered at least unhealthy and hazardous to health, if not poisonous...
7:10 the weirdest part about this whole looking into the houses thing? Do that in the wrong State in the US, you're gonna get shot. How can you be THIS lacking in self awareness....
I've literally just seen a comment from someone who thinks America invented democracy. It's not a "misconception" when people over there think they invented everything that is in the world. That's ignorance only being matched by arrogance.
recently i’ve found out why they don’t know geography - they actually don’t have it as a whole course in schools. they can study the globe as a part of economy course, global history course, but it’s not wholesome study of countries and places as we - all other countries in the whole world - have. so - yes, we just need to wait when they will invent geography 😌
Don't talk about geography dude . Some random white American classmate of my sister thought only china , Japan and Korea(i assume he meant S. Korea ) are Asian and others aren't because we don't look asian enough 😐.
When I guided a group of US-officers (army) through the river Rhein- valley, the most used sentence was "Oh a castle, lets visit" Every higher building was told to be a castle. Unless I told them that was a water-tower.
A few things, I was ask by my American host family when I was a teen (I'm french) - "do you guys have cars"? - " do you have real floors in your house?" - "is there a sink in your house?" - "do you know what a supermarket is?" - " do you guys have corn?" - "are you going to f$$$ with me tonight or tomorow "? (by their son, thinking all french girls were "easy", I was 14 and a virgin) - "do you want wine for your breakfast like at home?"
Well, I have yet to meet a girl with an online nickname straight out from Pride and Prejudice that was "easy", if someone out there has still any doubts about your words hahah The guy was kinda deserving a kick in the nuts tbh Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹
I had some of these questions, as an exchange student in Québec, Canada. But they waited a few month... And i didn't had the.... "special" question! Holy crap!
I doubt majority of US citizens knows that Christmas has anything to do with Christianity and the birth of Jesus. For them it is a holiday of mass consumption, which is kind of holy in the land of capitalism and exploitation. Especially since Coca Cola established Santa Claus.
I was once got asked in a voice chat how I play the game without power (he heard me and a friend of mine speaking in German). I asked him, "What are you talking about? We do have power." He then replied, "No, you don't. There are no power lines to houses in Germany." 💀🙏🏻
8:54 Can someone explain to me why Americans label black people? Regardless of the colour of your skin if you are born in the US aren't you just simply an American?
It's for marketing purposes. IDK if it's still a common thing, but at least not that long ago there were usually ethnicity boxes to tick off on various product registration cards.
Sorry Ryan, but black & British is not an ethnicity & a race, it's a colour & a nationality. I personally find it bizarre how most Americans insist on calling themselves either Irish, or African, or Italian etc, when they are purely AMERICAN. It actually insults foreign cultures to which they simply do not belong.
Agreed. As a Polish person, I loathe the "I'm Polish" Americans. No. Your grandma was. You got raised pledging allegiance to a rag. You didn't get raised by people who grew up in the Communist block. You didn't go to podstawówka. You went to primary school. Didn't go to a liceum ogólnokształcące. Went to High School. Didn't visit dead relatives and light votive candles in their memory on the eve of All Saints Day. You got to dress up and extort neighbors for free diabetes. They claim the name without having lived in our shoes for a second. And then, they butcher our language, culture, cuisine, etc. Don't know the difference between Białystok and Vostok.
Nobody is "purely" anything. We are all a "melting pot" whether you call yourself American, British or Saudi, like it or not. Just curious Sugarplum, what race would an American or British person of color be, if they can not be considered black? I know "black" people who will tell you they are NOT African American, and refer to their race as black. Also if you have ever filled out documents that require race you will see "Black" or "African American" on them, just like you will see "White" or "Caucasian." Myself I don't believe in adding another country, besides the one you were born in to describe themselves. But having said that and knowing people who have become American citizens, they are proud to call themselves "American" and who am I to say differently.
Reminds me of the Sopranos episode where they went to Italy, thinking that the italians would treat them as italians, but where shocked that they were treated as foreigners.
you're born in America; American you gain citizenship in America; American you have citizenship in France; French It does not need to be more complicated than that. Skin colour doesn't change nationality, just sometimes culture.
10:31 the most common american stereotype is that they tell you, you should be thankful for them being gracious enough to walk the earth, solving every problem that ever was
Heidelberg 2002, a 40-year-old GI asks me in a pub "and your old King Hitler, where does he live now?" - we thought he was joking with us and got really aggressive when we didn't stop laughing
Off track, but Hello Neighbour. We have a Heidelberg in Victoria Australia. Yes you named your Heidelberg after ours..😂. I’m only joking lol. We got it from you. From memory there are a few streets in our Heidelberg that, from memory sound German. I must check them out 😊
I lived in Straubing and the same happened to me. New American hockey players came and one of the wifes asked me: "Where does that President Hitler live now? She wanted to visit his home town.... (that was in 2010). She was not joking.
I live in an old house in the UK. A coach stopped in front of our house and 30 odd Chinese got out, opened our front gate and proceeded to walk around our garden, peered through our windows and photographing everything.
As a teenager I had a temporary job in a snack bar. One day a guest from the USA freaked out because I didn't speak English very well and he couldn't pay with US dollars. Greetings from Switzerland (Europe)
On the other hand that happens sometimes with Europeans as well. When me and wife was in Stockholm to celebrate the millenium shift there was one very angry older Italian tourist yelling at the people in the tourist center at the central railway station in Stockholm about how mad he was that no one spoke Italian in Sweden.
I used do work in hotel in EU country and very angry guest from US was telling me how he is getting scammed bc everything is expensive here and when he wanted to exchange USD for euros, they would give him less euros than he gave them USD. He wanted me to call the police on perfectly legit exchange office. Just for context, you can get large beer for like two euros here.
Thanks for the clarification where Switzerland is. Grüße aus Deutschland!
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When I was living in Turkey, there was a small group of Tourists that I was showing around. We did some nice sight-seeing together and they didn't do anything super dumb, so I was like 'ok they're a decent bunch'. And then they invited me to go watch the fireworks together, because they and their friends they met at the hotel were going, so I didn't think much of it and joined them. Then they were like ''when are the fireworks starting'' and I was like ''I don't know'' so we waited a bit more, and then I glanced at my phone to check the time and realised it was July 4th. They wanted to watch the 4th of July fireworks in Turkey...
OK Ryan get ready for a 10/10. They were constructing the seating for the Tattoo on the Edinburgh Castle esplanade & I was asked by an American tourist 'do they put the castle up every year for the Tattoo. I said 'No' the castle was built in the 12th century!'. Disney has soooooo much to answer for.
Well that may be excusable here, when it was held in Australia, we first had to construct a replica of Edinburgh Castle! But not if you're in Scotland! 😄
@@jlaurelc An American school headmaster once told Neil deGrasse Tyson that Romeo and Juliet is "one of the classics of American literature." My attempts to explain to the other YT commenters why this was egregiously stupid just sailed over their heads. They can't wrap their minds around the fact that Shakespeare was not American.
I’m British. Was in Lisbon for a week with my mum, we went to this smaller museum with 15-19th century furniture. It was just us and an American couple being taken round by a tour guide. They asked at nearly EVERY. SINGLE. ARTEFACT. if it was made in Portugal. I was genuinely astounded. We were in Portugal, in a museum about historical Portuguese furniture. What.
I'm Australian and when I was vacationing in Canada many years ago, I went south of the border for a few days. Took a bus tour around Boston for a half day and had a yank explain every little place, like we passed a Walmart and he tells me that's called a supermarket I know you're probably confused but it's where you can buy a lot of different foods. Then as the bus is making a stop he says we can get food I've never heard of called pizza. Me being a typical Aussie just go with it so when I see tv in a windows I exclaim to him, hey nice. We just got lectricity where I live last month and I'm thinking of getting one of them talking picture boxes. He looked at me nodding and believing it and it was so hard for me to maintain a straight face lol. I suspect it wouldn't work nowadays but when they visit they still believe in drop bears and bunyips haha.
@I.am.Sarah. Given the recent election and nonsense, I am quite certain a good portion of the populace would accept that as fact. I live close to the US border and we get many here for the cruise ships to Alaska.
09:20 Black and British is an ethnicity (appearance/heritage, possibly culture) and a nationality (legal/citizenship, possibly culture). Americans may use race as a synonym for ethnicity, but I think we stopped doing that decades ago in Europe. We consider it kind of racist to use the term "race" for ethnicity.
True. There's only one race homo sapiens. They might look different here and there, but they're all the same race. So the term 'racist' makes no sense.
Ethnicity and cultural background is the most sensible way to refer to each other.. The simple "where are you from" and then keep digging in a persons ancestry to figure out "where they're from" is kinda offensive when you're dealing with people that have perhaps 3 generations being born in your country. People are often proud of their ethnic origins, and may still follow cultural traditions from there... but that doesn't change what nationality they were born or what society they grew up in. I live in a neighbourhood with a sizable ethnically Turkish minority... I don't mind that the youngsters being cashiers at my local grocery store speaking Turkish with (especially the older) customers. I feel safe. And when it comes to traditional Danish holidays, like xmas, they still go operate the shop like any other day, in exchange those employees are given time off for ramadan and eids. Much like it's a Jewish-American tradition to eat Chinese during xmas. Diversity is a strength, when done right.
@@BenjaminVestergaard Great contribution. And all this diversity we see and enjoy, plays its part inside the boundaries of just one race. Homo Sapiens. The notion of different races, with different rankings(!) comes from early century thinkers, which could not look through appearances. All people are not only equal or free brothers and sisters, no, they are all the same. And deserve the same respect.
I'm Italian, a friend of mine was an exchange student in highschool and her classmates used to ask her the craziest questions: "how do you feel seeing a car for the first time?" (Ehm... have you ever heard of Ferrari, Bugatti, Lamborghini... doesn't it ring a bell?), "do you have trees and streets in Italy?" (I don't know how many streets built the roman empire...), "so.... italian is made of other sounds? I thought everyone in the world spoke english with different accents, now i feel so stupid!", and I could go on for hours. Also, in a test that was being GRADED, she had to colour a soldier. These things make me question : is Harvard really that hard? Lol, jokes aside I know that not everyone is like this, but the fact that some people don't really know that a whole world exists outside them is shocking to me. I apologize if I made some grammatical mistakes!
@@LeInternetcockroach Yeah, I think my choice of words was a little odd, what I really meant was : is getting into Harvard really that hard? They make it look so difficult in tv series and movies but based on my experience it doesn't seem like it. Of course it's just my experience, and I'm one, I'd like to know more about it
pl do not udge me but - the entire race - thing is just a sideeffect of the "US"way of indoctrination in schools e.g. rising the hand towards haert, turn to flag in classroom´s corner and sing such an awful song - Germany had similar ways in 1934 + but was traumarized by the Millions of tons of -TNT until 1945- (still today 80 years after are more then 12 undetonated bombs found in grounds daily. if the German bombers would have reached and rubbled the US the world would be a better place i guess , because the US citizens would be more realistic, would be actually united, and less arrogant- but this is just my guess of alternate way of history.
But over 200 years ago, the word "race" often meant nationality. Which has interesting implications. It meant that colonists in the mid 1600s weren't called "White" or "Black," nor was there a legal definition of same. Legally they were subjects of the English king. Categorically they could be said to be of the English race or Scottish race or Irish race. Or "African"/"negro". At that point indentured servants could be Caucasian or African. Slavery was not yet the norm. But servant rebelliousness created a crisis that was solved by creating legal definitions of "White" and "Negro" by which the former were freed and the latter turned into permanent slaves. With the understanding that the freed "Whites" now had a social status that obligated them to stand with their "White" masters to support the oppression of those whom they'd recently labored alongside. So the White "race" suddenly was invented as a Master caste. And that became American identity. And we've never articulated a true replacement White identity.
@@warheadsnation Very intresting history of American terms, but still means little to us in the UK, where black and white stood together under law and church to abolish slavery. Even before that marriages between the races (often sailors) occured. When you had top judges bringing up black children it kind of made your form of division difficult to implement. There were no Jim Crow or miscegenation laws in The UK, so are histories (even with empire and Commonwealth) are very different.
26 years old, always liked studying History, Geography and Biology. And never, in all this time I EVER saw someone use "race" as a synonymous to "nationality". Those two are completely different things. I don't even know how to react to this...
Do you... have electricity? ...have TV?... have cars?... know what chocolate is? (That was a kid so they get a pass) ...have airplanes? ...speak English at home?... have freedom?... want to live in the USA?... know what pizza is? - just a swift selection of questions I have been asked by Americans while in the USA. I am English.
@@graceygrumble At first you just think they are winding you up don’t you? Speaking as an English person who used to go to the US a lot. Although a couple of people did remark on my “classy accent” .
This September, I was on a holiday in Scotland and on that one tour I booked (because I don't have car right now), I was the only one non-american, except of the driver. And all of them were just interested, polite and had plenty of smart and thoughtful questions. Just wanted to throw it here, so after reacting to all those things about stupid, you can rest assured that those exist, too.
Thank you. Unlike some of those who have commented here, I am glad to see at least one person that has the decency and/or common sense to not lump all of us "dumb Americans" into one.
Thank you! I always feel like most of these stories just have to be lies right? I simply refuse to believe that most americans are just stupid, arrogant, ignorant people without manners. Like that simply can't be true😂
I was chatting in German with my German friend. An American gentleman asked me where I came from and I answered that I am from Scotland. He turned to his wife and said "don't they talk funny in Scotland "😅🙄
I live in a village house in Spain, and my kitchen door opens onto the pavement and is often open for fresh air. On several occasions, I have heard voices, turning around in my kitchen to find tourists watching me inside my house as if it were a living museum.
When visiting Guam, we were asked by some Americans if we knew a family called Shepherd, who lives in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. We are New Zealanders..... Strangely enough, we did meet that family twenty years later!
My parents meet a woman from America in Switzerland. She asked them if they knew her daughter who was living down in Wellington. They live in the Tron. At least she did know where NZ was.
When my American neighbour met my Scottish fiancé she was surprised to find they had electricity in Scotland. He ran a multi-million pound network of newspapers from around the world and she thought Scotland lived in the Dark Ages. I am American and I died a little when she said it. All I will say is that the quieter, smarter American tourists are around too. They’re just not in your face.
That's what they say about Germany too. I was told that's because most power lines in the cities are laid underground and therefore not visible in photos or movies, unlike in the US, where it's mostly above ground.
That's a good point, loudness and stupidity, just like stupidity and confidence seem to go hand in hand. So if someone is confidently wrong they're probably loud about it as well.
I can imagine John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor of the television, standing lost with the plug of his first tv in his hand wondering what is missing for his experiment to work.
I disagree with you, I used to deal with US-Americans a lot and most of them were polite and reserved, just because these examples only show the “typical Americans”, that only applies to a fraction of them.
@@GianniDN nah others too. When in I was France there were Americans on the bus. There were two guys from Michigan who met someone from Ohio. The poor guy had to immediately explain that he wasn't that kind of Ohian. It really fascinates me how Americans outside of the US immediately gravitate towards each other
Many years ago, the company my dad worked for had guests from the USA. Possible business partners. One of them asked, if we even have electricity in Germany. YES, we have! You don't see it because we don't have 19th century wooden poles anymore. Our powerlines are installed below ground!
@@FlbcImp I was thinking exactly the same thing. It really isn’t their fault, kids, teenagers, any age really. It’s the educators in the school system. And many children ask their parents about things they don’t know or are corrected by parents with wrong information. But….what was the parents basic general knowledge of the world’s info? Australian here, I’m still learning things aged 70, and I love it, you never stop learning, but … their lack of basic general knowledge of the rest of the world is definitely at a very low standard. Why????
@@bernadettelanders7306 Plenty of students do just fine in the US educations system. What seems to be the actual culprit is there is a larger culture of not paying attention or caring about learning. Imagine your schooling in Australia, you probably had a couple "slackers" in your class that ended up "dumb", but in America an average class might have 20 to 30 % of the class being that way.
@@Redbeardian Yeah, primary school a few dodos lol. High school, can’t think of one. All did ok, I think it helped no boys at my high school, all girls, no distractions lol😂
I also noticed that in US education it has become standard, to reward any answer a student gives in a test no matter how incorrect or how far off the answer is from the actual curriculum being tested. As long as the student gives a remark to a question (written or oral) his test performance cant be no longer categorized as „total Failure“, graded with the lowest grade an „F“, and instead being automatically rewarded with a „D“, categorized as „poor“ but is still good enough to be a passing grade in the US education system. A „D“ in the US is the equivalent to a „4“ in the German numeral school grading system (the German grading system goes from „1“ as Excellent, „2“ as Good, „3“ as Satisfactory, „4“ as Sufficient, „5“ as Failed, „6“ as very Poor (having a „5“ or „6“ as final grade in one of the subjects means the German student have failed his subject and isn’t allowed to move up in to a higher Level and instead must repeat the entire school year including all the already gone through subjects) which makes this premise of US grades so ridiculous for a German. Its literally ingrained the premise in to everyUS-American that „no matter how little knowledge you actually have about the topic, as long as you say at least something (even its stupidest sh t ever) society will honored it, much more than admitting intellectual defeat, not having enough knowledge about the topic being questioned about and choosing not to answer Instead of making a fool of yourself by saying something totally wrong showing how little you actually know. Which in german school tests could be graded even harsher and being a reason for getting maybe even a lower grade, through creating actual evidence for his lack of attention in class, not compensating through intensive studying and preparing for the test, resulting in the failed knowledge required to answer the question correctly and maybe even making such enormously false statements instead, that you getting overall points removed from the end result, which could have been avoided through simply not answering the question and skipping instead to the next one.)
@@PPfilmemacher Your first sentence actually made my jaw drop. That I’d totally crazy. So kids ‘learn’ that whatever they say is probably correct and acceptable. No wonder they think they are always correct. I’m totally shocked. My education was very good, but a German education is the next level, that’s wonderful. Remind me never to debate a German lol, only joking, it my Australian sense of humour kicking in😊 I must re read what u wrote about your education. I’m old and grey😂 and I need a double take to make things sink in lol 😊
I've spent a year in Pennsylvania as an exchange student, in the last year of high school. Do I have to explain how horrified their teacher was, when a class greeted us exchange students with a nazi salute, truly trying to be nice and welcoming? It's been many years ago, but I will never forget how easy it was to get straight A's. I didn't learn anything new, in terms of school stuff, but I had some actually valuable life lessons. Hope the dudes and dudettes are doing well.
I feel you Rabe... I "only" have got Mittlere Reife but just for fun i took the US GED about 20 years after i left school for good (incl. Berufsschule) and behold: i would've got 175+ on all subjects, even stuff i NEVER learned about in school!
@@TransnestianLilytbf that's something you'll encounter all around the globe 🫠 I love watching bike packing content on RUclips. That one channel (a guy from Germany) did a bike tour to Iran and Afghanistan. On multiple occassions he got greeted that way because people really thought that's a polite way to greet Germans 🙈
Ryan, - the content, that you commented in this reactionvideo was super. The combo of content and your reactions made me laugh a lot and you increased my mood even though its dark and rainy outside, here in Denmark. Thanks a lot!
9:24 Of course being black and British are not mutually exclusive - that's precisely why she is both simultaneously. Many Americans seem to think that saying someone is "black" is insulting them, and they assume "African American" is, in all circumstances, the acceptable synonym of "black" - even if the person in question is not American.
To many Americans, America is all there is. The Universe is IN America...that's how big they think it is ! If it's not American, than it is OWNED by America. You are taught this! I really do wish your school system was better. When I was eleven, we came to this side of 'the pond' for my father's work. I was in high school with 17 and 18 year Olds, in grade 11, and STILL the curriculum was elementary to me.....I was bored to my very soul, and frustrated that only subject matter pertaining to the USA and American interests, was being taught. In History, you wouldn't know that WW2 had happened, and when it was mentioned....apparently the only people in it were Americans who won every battle they entered into, with "Nazzygermany, and Japan" ! If you were not quite so arrogant, if you were a modicum more humble, and wiling to listen, rather than talk, you'd be admirable. As it is, you are tolerable, but frustratingly ignorant, and cannot in general, be reasoned with..."leastways, not by someone who isn't even an American"! Indeed, what could I know?
As I assume you know, America has a very racist past. There were many terms used to refer to black people in America, and they were always used in a derogatory way. If I remember correctly, it was a black woman who coined the term “African American.” It has actually worked to end some of the terms being used, and has resisted being twisted into a derogatory term itself. I’ve been hearing statements from individuals in the black community lately that they see themselves as black Americans and don’t need to be called African Americans. So that term may fall out of favor eventually. However, it’s up to them to determine what they preferred to be called But I agree 100% that it is ignorant for an American to expect people in other countries to use that term within their own country.
12:33 I have met several Americans online who did not think that the USA has invented English, but who thought that American English was the real deal and British and Australian people speak and write English incorrectly. At first I thought it was a joke, a little bit of teasing, but then I realised that most of them were very serious about that. Americans literally told English people that their English was wrong 🤦♀️
My best one was an American trying to tell me that pizza was invented in NY and the American GIs taught the Italians how to make it during WWII ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Actually the first tries of pizza were made in South italy aaaaaaall the way back when the South italy was greek so like in 400 A.C. (i am italyan myself)
@@LorenzoGrigoli Were did you get the tomatos?!? 😜 But I see what you mean. It's in fact really simple food. Dough covert with all the stuff you like. Pretty sure almost ALL people did something like that back to the dawn of time... if my mind isn't playing tricks on me. Flammkuchen is something similar and it was first made just to check if the oven is already right and hot enough for the bread to be backed. I really liked all of this stuff and still do. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🍕🍕🍕😋😋😋
I heard from from a very reliable source that an American who was seconded to the source's company that he (the American) thought it was "cute" that a lot of English towns were named after towns in the US.
When I worked as a store manager and opened the store at 1pm, after my lunch break: American tourist: "Aaaahh, finally open! How was your 'siesta'? Was it 'bueno'?" 😑... I'm portuguese. This was in Portugal.
Ford didn't invent the production line .The Royal Navy used one to produce ships blocks in 1803 designed by Marc isambard Brunel and based at the Portsmouth Blockmills at Portsmouth Hampshire.
I hate to break it to you, but Marc Isambard Brunel was a Frenchman from Normandy. He migrated to the USA at the age of 24, then at the age of 30 to England, where he married an English woman and settled down.
@@issey1456 & I hate to break it to you but Anthony Williams didn't appear to claim that the Royal Navy invented the production line... just that the Royal Navy had one before Ford did 😉😊
My school (in Germany) also had signs to keep tourists out of most parts of the building. It was necessary because the school is an old cistercian monastery from the 1100s. We would come out of chemistry class and suddenly bump into some tourist wandering the hallways :D
americans think black is a bad word and you must say african american as teh PC term, but outside america thats of course bollocks as they are clearly NOT african americans xD also alot of people dont like the term "african anything" because they dont see themself as african but as german french british etc. so calling them african aint nice
Don't say "Americans" that puts us all in one lump. We all do NOT think "black is a bad word." But you are correct, and sometimes I will use it to be PC. I use black around friends and relatives (some are black) and AA in business. Actually had a discussion with a black female customer the other day. She had just taken classes at her place of work on being PC and we both were commenting on using the term black. We both agreed the PC stuff has gone to far and that there was nothing wrong with the term black. I'm white and that term doesn't bother me. Years ago I worked retail and about 3 black kids came in and were looking at shoes and one of them said something about "white" guys. They looked at me, stared and went quiet. I laughed and said " don't worry about it. I know I'm white " No harm no foul. We all had a good laugh and they went on shopping.
@@thatsmyopinion.whatsyours8825 I heard the word African American was popularized because everything else became deragotory in the states. But elsewhere Black was just used to notify ethnicity.
I commented on a BGT RUclips video and used the word “pupil.” Someone then asked what it means in English, saying they’re American. I replied, pointing out that as a fellow American, I learned in elementary school that “pupil” means both “student” and the opening in the iris of the eye.
i am no native english speaker but know it. I is however distinct british and rather found in older literature than everyday live. Maybe in posh circles I do not frequent ?
@@andyking957 it's a bit older, I agree. 'Pupil' was in use when I was a child back in the 20th century but now people (me included) would say 'school student'.
I think the meaning may be more like "successor of a certain profession" and considering that it no longer happens, the term has probably fallen into disuse
@@robydemoxXx The 1998 American thriller “Apt Pupil” is based on a novella by Stephen King, starring Ian McKellan and the late young Brad Renfro. The word isn’t out of use.
G'day and Happy Arvo to you! Here's an example of US tourists in Australia: in Victoria on the coast we have a wonderful tourist attraction where hundreds, maybe thousands, of people go to watch huge flocks of penguins coming in from the sea at dusk and heading to their nests. Tourists asked if the Penguin Parade, as it's called, could be done earlier because they had a plane to catch. Friends of mine encountered some extreme silliness in the USA when they were tourists there: apart from the people who didn't seem to know the difference between Australia and Austria and complimented them on their English, they were told the eucalyptus trees in California were native to the area and could not be convinced they were actually Australian trees. A zoo (I think in California) had been given some koalas (from Australia of course) but local US citizens refused to believe they weren't "Huggin Bears" (they're not bears anyway),which was how the zoo promoting them.
I loved it when Ann Coulter came to Canada and was interviewed by the CBC. She said we should have sent boots on the ground troops to Iraq to support America just like we did in Vietnam. The Canadian corrected her and said we did not send troops to Vietnam. just advisors. She told him he didn't know what he was talking about and she would bring proof! She never got back to us. Imagine going to another nation you know little about, and telling them their own history!
@@lucasvanwijngaarden670 My point was the OP did not seem aware of the fact Canadians were involved on the ground. The question would be "is a Canadian in an American uniform an American or a Canadian". I'm sure the North Vietnamese would have asked that question had they captured any of them.
She was wrong but so are you! Canada did not send troops to fight the VC. That is correct. BUT it contributed to peacekeeping forces in 1973 to help enforce the Paris Peace Accords. Those were armed troops sent by the government. Check it out it is even covered in an episode of House. :)
5:51 There is a Small picturesque village in England, Bibury, that went viral on Japanese social media, and Japanese tourists wander into peoples houses, thinking its a model village or theme park, not a regular village with people just living their lives. I wonder if its the same thing, not realising, not everywhere is a concrete jungle nightmare.
The funny thing is there's actually a model village based on Wales in Japan. Like I somewhat understand building a replica of central Paris or Venice like they've done in China, but some Japanese person visited Wales and thought it was so lovely and quaint that they must have it at home!
@@SimonJ57 It's called Dreamton, Cdawgva (he's Welsh) did a video on it titled "I Tried Japan’s Secret British Town Ft.@AbroadinJapan". They were not very impressed :D And apparently he has a second video of a different place also in Japan, some sort of British style resort!
Not only Americans. Overheard in a Bed & Breakfast by Loch Ness - addressed to a couple of German tourists - Quote " I don't suppose that you have supermarkets in Germany" Unquote. The look on their faces was priceless.
i will never forget this young male american tourist customer (20-25 years old) coming in our garden center shop asking me as a saleperson where we have riffles for sale. In our country (Austria) we can only buy and have guns/ riffles if you have a weapon license so i said to him we dont sell guns in a garden center we are not walmart our gun laws are strictly different here outside the US in Europe. This young american was shocked and asked me how we defend us and why we have no civil war going on in your country. I asked him why he is in need of a gun on his holiday (for 1-2 weeks here) and which us state he came from because there are different gun laws in us states. He said he came from california and most people wear guns there. As someone who lived in a peaceful country i was confused why he felt the need for a gun during his stay in my country. he consist asking where he could buy elsewhere a riffle this was quite disturbing. was kind of a cheerful scary dude. i mean what did he plan to do in my country wearing a gun around on his holiday..i guess he felt kind of vulnerable without a gun :)
10:35 The "Be thankful for X" or "We did X, so your facts don't matter" is really common when arguing with Americans. Most of the time it's "we landed on the moon! USA! USA! USA!" or "We invented the car, so shut up!". The funny thing is, that Americans didn't invent a lot of the things they think they invented. The telephone for example was not invented by Alexander Graham Bell (who was Scottish by the way) nor Antonio Mucci (Who was born in Italy). A lot of people worked on it and the basic technologies weren't invented in a single country, but the first working, electrical transmition of sound over distance or in other words, the first telephone in a modern sense (so not just a tin can telephone) was invented by Johann Philipp Reis, who also came up with the name. Bell just got the first patent in the USA, just like Edison didn't invent the light bulb, he just improved on the existing invention (he didn't do anything new, he just manufactured it better) and GOT THE PATENT IN THE USA.
I just subscribed.. because after that election your source material seems to have hit 52% ish of the population.. The comic possibilities are now limitless. :D
My friend use to be a gide in Spain and Italy , 1 day he had some Americans in her bus , she was telling in Italy about the Roman's and Julius Cesar , 1 of the Amercans said that's not true , that's movie , and beside , the statue from Cesar don't look like the Amercan actor 😳 😂
I´m on very thin ice here, but isn´t there even a tax on using curtains in the Netherlands? I could be totally wrong, pls don´t kille me, I´m just a German that heared this once on TV xD I love the Netherlands tho, I´ve been to Drachten this spring. It was amazing. PS: pls export your amazing croquettes
@@maciejwawrzyn4674 They turn up in peoples gardens in Scotland staring through windows claiming that the house is their great, great, great grand parents who lived there in 1700 and something. You know its not the person who they're staring at's house, no its their great, great etc.
Some years ago I was in the US. I was reading a book in Dutch. A guy aproached me and was astound that I could read that book (in my own languish), ...
@@satsumamoon for me, as a nativ speaking Belgian- Flamish, this realy is mind blowing. This is my language I 've been speaking sinds I was a todler. And reading sinds I was 7 years old.
6:30 I can relate to this. I’m French and I’ve lived in the center of an old medieval city… As soon as April began, tourists (and not only americans) would come en masse. Some would go up to the window and stare at me chilling on my couch watching TV for long minutes. I’m pretty surea few took pictures with me in it. Or would take pictures of my ugly ass door and mailbox with my name on it, lol. There are gorgeous and very ornate wooden doors, mine was not one of them. Sometimes I found it funny to stand in front of the window, staring at them in the eyes without blinking.
6:20 I've heard crazy stories of people living by hiking tracks in Norway having tourists walking in their yard and breaking into their houses (we don't usually lock the house in rural/up in the mountain areas) making themselves comfortable because they think it's some kind of accomodation or whatever! They end up having to put up signs saying private property and whatnot at every corner to stop the invasion of privacy
if we're talking about christmas, even swedes know that santa lives in finland at Korvatunturi, not north pole. the north pole santa thing was invented for an ad by coca-cola in 1930s I think. and incidentally the first coca-cola santa was played by a finnish guy. korvatunturi is a real place with tons of tourists visiting it yearly, while there's nothing at the north pole.
@@babstra55It’s not the rest of the world believing that Santa comes from Lapland, it’s the North Pole for Danes as well. Greenland may have something to do with it though
@@babstra55 I have only ever heard talk (internationally) about Santa living in Lapland until I heard from specifically Americans that he lives in the North Pole, and I assume they learned it from the Coca Cola ad and went with it
Years ago I was in Minneapolis travelling through and met someone who asked me where I was from I told her Toronto, Ontario. She said she had been to Ontario a few times with her dad either fishing or hunting and had actually seen the Blue Jays play in Ontario on one of her trips but had never heard of Toronto. Considering the fact that to see the Blue Jays play in Ontario you actually have to be in the city of Toronto astounded me.
My sister was an exchange student in Roscoe, Ill. back in 1970 and when she told she comes from Germany she was asked whether it is located at the east or the west coast.
My oldest son joined his new US school when he was nine, and I had begun my six-yr contract in America. After sports, the other boys on his lacrosse team thought he was deformed because he was uncircumsised. Only, they didn't know it was they who were mutilated. 😅. They wouldn't believe my son, until their coach was brought into the discussion.
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To all amercian thinking that the US invented everything: Europe invented the US.
A Scottish guy invented their navy.
Good answer! I like it!👍
love it
True 😂😂😂😂😂
If I wanted to be rude, I would say : was it a good idea ?
Mate i was once told by a very aggressive and rude American lad that Americans invented English. i said no it's called English because it was created in England ..he said... and i'm not joking... yes but it was invented in England in 1776 when an American went to England after conquering them and forced them to change their language to speak American... you Britishers just speak an offshoot of our language... i was stunned... i said actually English is a Germanic language and comes from Anglo-Saxon Old English with heavy Norman French influences .. he called me the F slur (homophobic one) and told me to go drink some tea to calm down.... this was in London about 15 years ago...
It is truly unbelievable. I mean how on earth is this possible, how can americans possibly think and say things like that? Like it's no longer about plain ignorance that can be understandable, but that's inventing some amazing bullshit unbelievable history.
They just can't admit they are wrong can they
He was pulling your leg.
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OK, that's another level!
I am Polish. Recently on vacation in Spain, a slightly tipsy American, wearing a T-shirt with the Polish flag and the sign of our resistance movement, tried for an hour to prove to me that he was a better Pole than me because his grandmother was from Poland, he went to Sunday school and did shopping in a Polish store in Chicago. The guy didn't know a word of Polish except a few curse words, had never been to my country and he wiped his dirty hands on my flag. This is another Italian-American, Irish-American or other combination I have met. However, I have never heard a resident of another country in the world describe himself in such a way.
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Well, I would describe myself as Belgian- Luxembourgish but it's because I actually have both citizenships haha
THIS is the thing I find most annoying about Americans. Them claiming to be *insert country here* because some ancestor is from that country. Honey, nobody cares if your grand-grandmother is from Poland. You spend your entire life in the US. You are an American 🙄
I think that person is more American, than Polish, because a true Pole wouldn't even think about disrespecting the Polish flag like that (because american "patriotism" at most cases has nothing to do with actual patriotism, which was shown excelently here).
Why? Because Polish constitution says: You mustn't hang the national flag the wrong way, you mustn't tear it, scrunch it, or make it intentionally dirty, because that's disrespectful towards the flag. And not knowing that is considered not being a true Pole
We Latin Americans have to listen that every day, how they say “I’m Latino because my great grandfather was from there” and they don’t know Spanish or Portuguese and think that all the south is Mexico, I’m from Argentina, and once I saw a video of an American saying “Argentinians can’t be Latin American because are white”…
Now to be Latin American we have to be brown or black?
I once was told by an American that my English was so horribly bad, it was completely incomprehensible..........I was speaking Dutch.
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Ahh at a fast speed?- double Dutch!
What’s Dutch? So you’re from Denmark, right? I was right across the strait, in Switzerland, the other day, and it was snowing all the time. These Scandinavian countries are really cold. Do you have polar bears in Købendam? 🙃
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Ik spreke een hele klein beetje Nederlands.
Oh,
Ik ben Wels.
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Shwmae o Gymru.
An American once told my father that Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, built by King Ludwig II, was a copy of Disney Land
Well, at least he knew who built it and that there was something with Neuschwanstein and Disney - just not that it was the other way round.
I'd personally give that a solid 5/10, i've heard worse ;-)
When you think you've seen everything, Americans can still surprise you...
I didn't know that Disney has been around for so long 😂
Well they had the correct information but in the wrong order
as someone who is from Munich.. that's just offensive 😭 we are so proud of our king Ludwig
Americans invented English and some guys in Europe were so happy about that, they named their country England because of that.
Yup, that´s what happened! But then: socialism! That´s why the US of A are the greatest nation! 🤭
Americans invented burgers and some guys in Europe were so happy about that they named their city Hamburg because of that
please someone tell me this is sarcasm because I don't know what's real or a joke in these comments anymore...
@@J.101CC sarcasm lolll
@@LesbianImpact thank you..
I’m American, and, on a tour in Berlin, another American tourist asked if the beautifully domed church we were looking at was Muslim. My husband and I were trying not to laugh when our tour guide sarcastically said that “Yes, most mosques have Christian crosses on top.”
We like domes on our churches in germany^^ Not everything needs to be spikey.
For a moment I expected he was talking about the Reichstag...
To be fair, the architecture of mosques is in general heavily inspired by the Hagia Sophia mosque - a repurposed church in Istanbul. So, eastern/orthodox churches and mosques can share quite a few architectural similarities, including the way domes are designed.
@ However, as our guide pointed out, the church did have a cross at the top, not a crescent like a mosque would have. Our guides sarcasm hit very hard.
@@officialDragonMap German churches aren't orthodox though^^
Their ignorance is only surpassed by their arrogance.
i am not so sure maybe lack of knowledge about everything outside of the us is the most reasonable point
Sometimes it's amusing, most times, it's not. They insist they're entitled to the Second Amendment rights ........in a foreign country.
The US Constitution does NOT apply anywhere else but the US.
It's the Dunning-Kruger effect.
@@claudialanzerstorfer1995 only up to the point where someone better knowledgeable would tell them otherwise, like an english person telling them 'American' is in fact English, or a german person telling them that Hitler is not alive anymore. After that it's arrogance.
and their arrogance is surpassed by their entitelment.
Sadly these are not a joke. Do you have a minute? Dutch woman here:
- In New York: how did you get here? By boat? He couldn't believe we have airports in Europe. We couldn't be that advanced. Schiphol Amsterdam airport is only one of the largest airports in the world but hey.
- I am from The Netherlands; O you live in Amsterdam? No, an hour North of Amsterdam in so and so. Yeah Amsterdam! AMSTERDAM IS A CITY NOT A COUNTRY!
- You live in an actual house in The Netherlands? That can't be! I thought they live in windmills!
- How did you heard of New York? Like you guys have no acces to the internet in Europe have you? No lady, we Dutchies only invented bluetooth and made wifi feasible for general use but hey.
- Wendy? No! That couldn't be your name, you only try to fit in. What is your real Dutch name?
- That must be something to see skyscrapers? You have them nowhere else in the world! Sir, we have them in The Netherlands too.
- Wow you must be stoned all the time! Uh no? Never been. Why? Yeah all people in Amsterdam use weed don't they? First of all and again: AMSTERDAM IS A CITY NOT A COUNTRY! And I literally no one person who ever smoked weed. It are the American tourist here who cause problems.
- And last one was in Delaware: Do you guys like iceskate everywhere? Like to work and so? HUH?! And even not considering the stupidity of that question, the last time we could iceskate outside was like ten years ago!
The name thing is just absolutely incredible! The confidence with which Americans are prepared to tell others that they are not in fact something they say they are is unparalleled.
@Greippi10 It is exactly that. Unbelievable!
Bluetooth was invented in Lund, Sweden by Ericsson. The foundation was done by Swedes and then the hired 2 engineers, 1 dutch and 1 swede, to comstruct it.
I think my brain is leaking
Funny them asking about New York when the Netherlands established New Amsterdam centuries ago, or what’s today called New York….
German here. Was asked "do you have cars?" as well while sitting in an Mercedes. And was proudly shown a dishwasher ("we do wash our dishes in there"). A dishwasher from Siemens...
Cars were invented in France, not Germany.
@@Thunderworks The steam wagon yes, but it was not designed to carry passengers and it was hardly practical. The first passenger carrying self propelled vehicle was in England in the 1803 by Richard Trevithick named the "London Steam Carriage" so really the British invented the car as the word car is derived from CARriage or Motor CARriage. Since the steam engine is an engine and it's was installed in a carriage designed to carry a driver and passengers then it's officially a car. Benz only put a petrol engine on his car and made it far more practical for the individual however he did not invent it nor did he invent the internal combustion engine, again, that was the Belgians with the gas engine (Not gasoline) and later the Germans with the petrol engine derived from the gas engine for the most part.
@@Kit_BearYeah, no. Practically is not really a measure when we talk about inventing (not producing) and a lorry/semi isn’t designed to carry passengers, but it’s still a car.
So I would say Cugnot was indeed first who engineered and built the first self-propelled mechanical land-vehicle or an automobile.
Which is, by the way, a proper word for it, not a car. Now that’s English-defaultism)
Upd: Trevithick’s carriage could not maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods of time and was of little practical use. So apparently no practicality for both.
@@DKaz3 It's still recognised as the worlds first self propelled passenger vehicle no matter how much you want to be correct which you are not. A tractor is not a car, nearly everyone accepts that fact except you. If a lorry or semi is a car then why is called a lorry or semi? They are two distinct differences of transportation. Next you'll be saying a Ferrari is a type of motorbike.
BTW. Car is an abbreviation of Motor Carriage just so you know, A Carriage is designed to carry people hence the name CARRIAGE or to carry as opposed to Cart meaning to cart along goods or livestock.
@@Kit_Bear wanted to correct me so bad that forgot how to read.
I never said it wasn’t the first passenger “car”, cause it obviously is. But it’s not the first “car” ever.
If you don’t like the word “car”, which may be mistranslation, cause for me car and automobile are synonymous, than tell me what’s the proper general word for all self propelled vehicles with wheels?
About lorry/semi: they are called so to differentiate between passenger and cargo automobile. It’s the same as asking if laptop is a computer, why is it called laptop? If they are used differently, it does not mean that they are not built on the same principle.
And I know that car comes from carriage. But carriage is not specifically for carrying people. Can’t you say carry cargo in English? And even if you can’t carriage stands for 4 wheelers and cart for 2 wheeler. Just so you know.
My favorite example of this is when I witnessed an american being absolutely convinced that the middle ages never happened, and that knights never existed. His reasoning behind this is that he's never seen a castle in America. He also said something along the lines of "I've been to a lot of museums and not once have I seen a knights sword or even an armor on display."
"Good sir, that's because the knights were the ones to threw YOUR ancestors out of Europe because they were to religiously extreme and the knights wanted to be rid of them." - Yeah, I know, I know, that happened a couple hundred years later but ... *shrug* ... not like that specific type's educated enough to know that.
Then he has never been to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. They have a magnificent armour and medieval weapons exhibition.
This is especially funny to me living in a city in Scotland where there's castles less than a half hour's walk from home.
@@Totsugekiiiii Fr, as an Englishman, I can get to the castle near me in a few mins
Just to not irritate fellow Americans: the Middleage has been all over Europe into the middle East. Not only the UK. It is pretty common all over the Europe to have a Castle, Palace, Tower, some sort of defensive Building etcetc from that Time near by xD
2 years ago when I was in Dubrovnik, Croatia (King's Landing from GOT), an American girl walked by me while filming a video with her phone on a selfie stick and I overheard her saying "It's amazing how they built an entire city just to film scenes for Game of Thrones"!
It quickly turned into an awkward moment when she noticed me laughing like a mad man.
An American tourist was having a tour at the abbey in St Albans. They asked "is this pre war ?“ to which the tour guide replied "actually madam , it’s pre America " .. the abbey is nearly 1000 years old .
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Maybe they meant the Battle of Hastings/war with the Normans?????????????????
Dad and his brother sang in the choir there during the war [WWII], my aunt was married at the high altar in the 1950s. My home city [though I now live in Ireland] and my favourite cathedral though I'm not a fan of the ''new'' chapter house. It is also one of the rare cathedrals who not only has a genuine saint but a saint that is largely [almost totally in fact] intact.
@@steviefraser5240 ye the cathedral has roman walls in parts
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou - They are not educated about European history. Don't excuse them. 😊 For them, Europe begins with the world wars, where the US "saved us." That's all they are told (if they don't study history at college).
Considering all the documentaries released on how poorly English areas in and around London fared with Nazi bombers, it’s a legitimate question to ask if it survived the war. Look at a lot of Europe, where so much fantastic architecture had to be rebuilt due to bombing raids.
Same thing happened to me but I was asked by a TEACHER. I spent a year in the U.S. (specifically Minnesota) as a teen (I'm from UK) and an American TEACHER asked me if you have cars in Europe "Because I know ya'll don't have cellphones yet".
I told her cars were invented in Europe and she told me "No, you'll find they were invented in America"
I literally had to google it on my phone and SHOW her to prove that the automobile was invented in Germany.
Well, to be more precise, the automobiles with an ICE system were German . The first automobiles( "moving by themselves") with an engine (steam) were French, a century earlier.
@@issey1456 Correct, I should have said the MODERN automobile
Am I the only one finding the phrasing "you'll find they were invented in America" ominous as hell ? Like "you will be brainwashed and learn the American truth" ?
@@HakitosamaNot really ominous. Just ignorant. Or arrogant at worst: "You'll find that we invented this or that. We're the centre of the universe."
dont correct them. let them teach you. ask for the info in writing. and sources. let them dig themselves so deep they accidentality stumble upon the truth. at which point you dont even touch the work they did and walk away
Fun and real story, I once met an American on the island of Fuerteventura in a hotel. I'm from Germany and was on vacation.
He told me that he was never before out of the US and never made any vacation before, but now in his 40s and money is ok, his business runs well, he want to make a vacation.
BUT, he booked it via a travel agency and never thought about where this island is located etc.
He was surprised how long the flight take and then he was there on a small island in the atlantic ocean not far from the west african coast which belongs to spain. :)
It was completly weird and fun to hear about it, I had to laugh, but he was not upset.
We had more than one cool evening with a lot of beers, but I was suprised to hear that he runs a business over there and not have any knowledge about geography, history and such things, but he was not a dumb person. He knows how to communicate, math, physics all that stuff. It felt like talking to a person that was completly educated, but missed all geography classes and all history classes before 1776.
Black Americans in other countries are known as - well - Americans!!!
Include rhe asian americans, also just americans
Again, I am amazed how much the color of the skin do matter in America.
There is also an ethnic group called "African American" - the descendants of slaves. It makes the whole thing very confusing linguistically.
@@tristanridley1601Americans mate
leaves you wonder how Americans call Black people from Africa. African Africans??
What always frightens me is that the tourists are the ones that get out of the country, and have a mind open enough to see the world...I'm German and had the pleasure of doing a trip to Italy with some americans from my wifes extended family - and the inability to adapt to a foreign place for even an inch is just so painful...
In a certain way it was like travelling with kids...No you can't just throw your trash on the ground - Yes, if you order food in a non-fast-food place it takes more than ten minutes to make - No we can't drive the rental car into the historic town center just because the bnb is there - Yes, we do have to walk - No, its not "a win" to spend the entire day in the car for an instagram picture - Yes the time scale in this museum goes big number to small number because its bc...
Sorry but as a Swiss I feel the same about Germans...
Like I try to order in Italian even if the waiter is speaking German or English.. while German tourists aren't trying at all or are even upset if the local doesn't speak their language
I would probably have difficulty in a new country (I'm Canadian) but I'd at least be apologetic because of it!
@@simonkopp9238 I do not doubt there are ignorant people everywhere, the difference in my observations while traveling is if you hear someone speaking German, Dutch, or British English there is a chance they'll behave ignorantly, if you hear an American accent its almost a guarantee...
Btw - where have you seen that in Italy? You do realize that at least in some parts German is an official language in Italy? Sounds a bit like you where in Trentino, or encountered someone who hadn't realized they had already left Trentino...
@@jimmyincredible3141 as a dutchy i want to ask why we are lumped into that, me personally take great pride in trying to blend in and so do most people i know in my personal life
@@Burning_Dwarf Just my observations...I'm guessing its because you guys travel a lot as well...
I'm German, and i also take pride in trying to blend in while travelling - as most people do...Most doesn't mean everyone though
I am British.i was once in Kansas City on business. I was asked by a cab driver if I was Australian. I told him I was British. He replied "oh that's not far from Australia is it?"
"Just around the earth.. not far" 😂
@@paulhmann Well, compared to Andromeda, sure, it's just around the corner.
As for "Black and British”: In the USA you have the term “African American”, but we don’t have anything similar in Europe. This guy is not an “African American”, neither is he an “African Brit” or something. He is just British. And obviously identifies as Black. So he’s Black and British.
I can't believe this even needed explaining to be honest.
Yup, British is a nationality not an ethnicity.
Yes and British is not a bloody race, it's a nationality! It's crazy to think the American education system still hasn't moved past their eugenic understanding of human populations since the 1930s.
Same in a lot of countries, including 🇨🇦 where we don't designate people by any ancestry. They're Canadian. Period.
There's a story about an American interviewing Kriss Akabusi who just won the gold on 400m relay race in a big international competition, forgot which. Apparently the video did not survive to the Internet age, but there's people who swear it happened.
"So, Kriss, what does this mean to you as an African-American?"
"I'm not American, I'm British"
"Yes, but as a British African-American ..."
"I'm not African. I'm not American. I'm British."
... and apparently it went on. It seems that in some people's heads "Black" is rude and should always be replaced by "African-American", and the literal components of this phrase never enter their brain. So "black and British" makes perfect sense as a response to "African-American".
I've told this story before : During the Olympic Games, a rude American who couldn't bear to wait to order in a restaurant said to the waiter ‘we're the ones who liberated you in 1945...Implied : got priority’... And the waiter replied ‘without our help, you'd still be British citizens’...Another story I've already told : In California I was asked if we had vines and wine in France... I live near Bordeaux ^^. Some people really think they invented everything : they forget where they come from.
I will be disappointed if that first American didn't get the table next to the toilets.
they forget that their ENTIRE population is the descendent of Europeans, Africans, Asians etc
@@mistercool8376 thats wrong native americans still exist and live in the us
or do you want to go bakc WAY back
then everyones african
You say that but you don't even know how to write whine
@@scrollexdestinyFor native americans you don't even have to go that far back, they're actually asians.
My favorite story:
An American family wants to fly home from Israel and got stopped at check-in. After questioning they pulled a still active unexploded artillery shell out of their bag and asked if this can be put into a suitcase cause they wanted to bring it back home.
The airport was evacuated.
What in the f*cking hell ?!? What is wrong with some people?!?
Where u there? How do u know about this
@@أحمد_عباس You literally have a smartphone in your hand. Google it. There are a few news coverages about it.
My sister heard a group of Americans discussing why on earth everyone was speaking Mexican as they disembarked their cruise liner in Barcelona 😂😂😂
Yeah, I believe it. Like asking a Canadian what language we speak. 🤦
@@ninemoonplanet Canada may be officially bilingual (English and French) but there are many more languages spoken here than just those. So my answer would be "depends on where you are".
😅😅😅😂😂
Oh, that's a double whammy. Firstly not knowing that "Mexican" isn't a language.
Secondly mistaking Catalan with Spanish. Boy oh boy these Americans were some special specimens
Also, they most likely were hearing more catalan than spanish, so double F
My sister and I were told in Wisconsin "You speak English very well.". We are Australian.
I had that happen and I'm english!!
The worse part is you know underneath they are proud that someone not from USA is learning THEIR LANGUAGE so hard, trying so hard to be a native speaker 😂😂😂
if they told me that i would say thanks,i am norwegian.
Wisconsin is crazy 😂
They have Wisconsin in Australia?
As a Norwegian I once had two American backpackers insist on getting a ride and told me "You should be grateful we come here to stimulate your economy!". We've got the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, we're the largest exporter of natural gas and the second largest exporter of oil to the EU.
and don't forget all the weapons you export and the billions you give in credits to dictatorships.
@@ag4444 Weapons sales is fuck all, about 1 billion USD and only make up 0.2% of our gdp. Compared to the US 238 billion dollars made in 2023.
Recently i saw a tweet from Hideo Hojima, a Japanese man who was the director for the Metal Gear solid games. His tweet was in english, and he said "I voted today". A lot of americans were commenting "How??????"
Today was the Japanese General Election.
Same thing happened a few months ago when the UK was having its own General Election. I even saw some Americans post links to British Political news articles, and saying things like "Congress needs to sort this out because they shouldn't have done this!" all the while the article very much prominently had a picture of the (now) previous British Prime Minister.
and then you have americans on vacation in europe on the 4th of july and wonders why there are no fireworks.
@@runeingebretsen8378 we have fireworks in germany on this day 😂 because my hometown has many americans living here. but they celebrates just in one American area the rest of the city dont celeberate the 4th of july here 🙈
@@MinVerden00_live here in norway you can only use fireworks between 1800 and 0200 on the 31 of december to 1 of january,and the sale is only allowed between 27 and 31 of december.
@@runeingebretsen8378 Thats awesome 😍 the 4th July Firework is only 15minutes thats ok but on New Year we have 4 weeks before and after fireworks and the small things just for loud sounds 🥲 Its not cool for our pets, the most are scared of this. I hope we have this also as an official rule. Norway is always a role model for me 😊 thanks for sharing
*Hideo Kojima
Dont compare you McDonalds in the US with the ones in Europe. They are still crap but with FAR LESS shit pumped into the food
This is so true. Some American tourists I met kept going to MacDo as we call it here in France? When I asked why they weren't eating in French restaurants they said because they can't believe just how good MacDo food is in France! I'm still not sure if they tried French food before they returned home!
Thats it , in Europe the food ist much better, still crap but much better , thanks to the food laws we have .
@@dizzlery3628 as an American I would agree with this 100 percent.
In the US, they put a lot of chemicals in food that are not used in Europe because they are considered at least unhealthy and hazardous to health, if not poisonous...
EU food hygiene regulations. they work.
7:10 the weirdest part about this whole looking into the houses thing? Do that in the wrong State in the US, you're gonna get shot. How can you be THIS lacking in self awareness....
I've literally just seen a comment from someone who thinks America invented democracy. It's not a "misconception" when people over there think they invented everything that is in the world. That's ignorance only being matched by arrogance.
Yep, even the name of the concept is English 🙄
They'll be floored when they discover the US isn't a democracy either. It's a constitutional republic.
@@apmoy70 Romans had a parliament building. It was a Republic for a while.
Arrogance and stupidity is an unfortunate combination usually only seen in ‘the land of the free.’
@@apmoy70 Democracy (the concept and the word) actually originated in ancient Greece. It came into English via Latin (and maybe French - not sure).
One day America will invent geography... they seem to think they invented everything else
Apparently they didn’t invent intelligence yet. 😂
They won't - they don't care about what goes on outside the USA, so why would they?
God invented war so Americans could learn geography.
recently i’ve found out why they don’t know geography - they actually don’t have it as a whole course in schools. they can study the globe as a part of economy course, global history course, but it’s not wholesome study of countries and places as we - all other countries in the whole world - have. so - yes, we just need to wait when they will invent geography 😌
Don't talk about geography dude . Some random white American classmate of my sister thought only china , Japan and Korea(i assume he meant S. Korea ) are Asian and others aren't because we don't look asian enough 😐.
When I guided a group of US-officers (army) through the river Rhein- valley, the most used sentence was "Oh a castle, lets visit" Every higher building was told to be a castle. Unless I told them that was a water-tower.
Ok depending on the place that must have been painful with waht feels like 5 castles every degree you turn your head lol
A few things, I was ask by my American host family when I was a teen (I'm french)
- "do you guys have cars"?
- " do you have real floors in your house?"
- "is there a sink in your house?"
- "do you know what a supermarket is?"
- " do you guys have corn?"
- "are you going to f$$$ with me tonight or tomorow "? (by their son, thinking all french girls were "easy", I was 14 and a virgin)
- "do you want wine for your breakfast like at home?"
wow
Let that sink in.
Well, I have yet to meet a girl with an online nickname straight out from Pride and Prejudice that was "easy", if someone out there has still any doubts about your words hahah
The guy was kinda deserving a kick in the nuts tbh
Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹
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I had some of these questions, as an exchange student in Québec, Canada. But they waited a few month... And i didn't had the.... "special" question! Holy crap!
To put that into context: Swedes were Christian ~400 years before what is now the United States was colonized.
And pagan
I doubt majority of US citizens knows that Christmas has anything to do with Christianity and the birth of Jesus. For them it is a holiday of mass consumption, which is kind of holy in the land of capitalism and exploitation. Especially since Coca Cola established Santa Claus.
and the founders even had to import Christianity into later US ....
And were among the last nations in Europe to become christian.
But what was originally celebrated on this day before the Romans made it a Christian holiday has nothing to do with Christianity
I was once got asked in a voice chat how I play the game without power (he heard me and a friend of mine speaking in German). I asked him, "What are you talking about? We do have power." He then replied, "No, you don't. There are no power lines to houses in Germany." 💀🙏🏻
8:54 Can someone explain to me why Americans label black people? Regardless of the colour of your skin if you are born in the US aren't you just simply an American?
It's for marketing purposes.
IDK if it's still a common thing, but at least not that long ago there were usually ethnicity boxes to tick off on various product registration cards.
@@AltCutTV
And also official documents?
Which is kind of creepy...
@@AltCutTV so american society is inherently promoting racism, got you
Fun fact, Elon Musk is African-American
He was born in South Africa
@@3173_Delta I can imagine Americans call him African-American...
Sorry Ryan, but black & British is not an ethnicity & a race, it's a colour & a nationality. I personally find it bizarre how most Americans insist on calling themselves either Irish, or African, or Italian etc, when they are purely AMERICAN. It actually insults foreign cultures to which they simply do not belong.
Agreed.
As a Polish person, I loathe the "I'm Polish" Americans. No. Your grandma was. You got raised pledging allegiance to a rag. You didn't get raised by people who grew up in the Communist block. You didn't go to podstawówka. You went to primary school. Didn't go to a liceum ogólnokształcące. Went to High School. Didn't visit dead relatives and light votive candles in their memory on the eve of All Saints Day. You got to dress up and extort neighbors for free diabetes.
They claim the name without having lived in our shoes for a second. And then, they butcher our language, culture, cuisine, etc. Don't know the difference between Białystok and Vostok.
Nobody is "purely" anything. We are all a "melting pot" whether you call yourself American, British or Saudi, like it or not. Just curious Sugarplum, what race would an American or British person of color be, if they can not be considered black? I know "black" people who will tell you they are NOT African American, and refer to their race as black. Also if you have ever filled out documents that require race you will see "Black" or "African American" on them, just like you will see "White" or "Caucasian." Myself I don't believe in adding another country, besides the one you were born in to describe themselves. But having said that and knowing people who have become American citizens, they are proud to call themselves "American" and who am I to say differently.
And the thing is, they aren't even american in the first place
Reminds me of the Sopranos episode where they went to Italy, thinking that the italians would treat them as italians, but where shocked that they were treated as foreigners.
you're born in America; American
you gain citizenship in America; American
you have citizenship in France; French
It does not need to be more complicated than that. Skin colour doesn't change nationality, just sometimes culture.
10:31 the most common american stereotype is that they tell you, you should be thankful for them being gracious enough to walk the earth, solving every problem that ever was
The confidence with which Americans tell others what they are never ceases to amaze me
Heidelberg 2002, a 40-year-old GI asks me in a pub "and your old King Hitler, where does he live now?" - we thought he was joking with us and got really aggressive when we didn't stop laughing
40 year old gastrointestinal?
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Off track, but Hello Neighbour. We have a Heidelberg in Victoria Australia. Yes you named your Heidelberg after ours..😂. I’m only joking lol. We got it from you. From memory there are a few streets in our Heidelberg that, from memory sound German.
I must check them out 😊
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I lived in Straubing and the same happened to me. New American hockey players came and one of the wifes asked me: "Where does that President Hitler live now? She wanted to visit his home town.... (that was in 2010). She was not joking.
I live in an old house in the UK. A coach stopped in front of our house and 30 odd Chinese got out, opened our front gate and proceeded to walk around our garden, peered through our windows and photographing everything.
once a waitress in LV asked me where I’m from . On my reply from Germany, she said „ah from the east coast“! Well the direction was at least correct
the direction is always correct. if you travel long enough you will get to Germany somehow.
@@Dermi_Sky not always
There are two small towns in the US called 'Germany'.
As a teenager I had a temporary job in a snack bar. One day a guest from the USA freaked out because I didn't speak English very well and he couldn't pay with US dollars. Greetings from Switzerland (Europe)
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On the other hand that happens sometimes with Europeans as well. When me and wife was in Stockholm to celebrate the millenium shift there was one very angry older Italian tourist yelling at the people in the tourist center at the central railway station in Stockholm about how mad he was that no one spoke Italian in Sweden.
Das kann man sich nicht ausdenken.....
I used do work in hotel in EU country and very angry guest from US was telling me how he is getting scammed bc everything is expensive here and when he wanted to exchange USD for euros, they would give him less euros than he gave them USD. He wanted me to call the police on perfectly legit exchange office. Just for context, you can get large beer for like two euros here.
Thanks for the clarification where Switzerland is.
Grüße aus Deutschland!
When I was living in Turkey, there was a small group of Tourists that I was showing around. We did some nice sight-seeing together and they didn't do anything super dumb, so I was like 'ok they're a decent bunch'. And then they invited me to go watch the fireworks together, because they and their friends they met at the hotel were going, so I didn't think much of it and joined them. Then they were like ''when are the fireworks starting'' and I was like ''I don't know'' so we waited a bit more, and then I glanced at my phone to check the time and realised it was July 4th. They wanted to watch the 4th of July fireworks in Turkey...
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OK Ryan get ready for a 10/10. They were constructing the seating for the Tattoo on the Edinburgh Castle esplanade & I was asked by an American tourist 'do they put the castle up every year for the Tattoo. I said 'No' the castle was built in the 12th century!'. Disney has soooooo much to answer for.
Well that may be excusable here, when it was held in Australia, we first had to construct a replica of Edinburgh Castle! But not if you're in Scotland! 😄
This is what the educated part of this globe has to deal with......
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je ne vous dit pas en France ce que l'on déguste avec eux! moi il me font peur ces gens .
Patience, far too frequently required. 🙄
I can't believe how many Americans insist they and they alone have "the best, the biggest".
Including the educated Americans. The ignorant are just as ignorant here in the U.S. as they are when they're traveling.
@@jlaurelc An American school headmaster once told Neil deGrasse Tyson that Romeo and Juliet is "one of the classics of American literature." My attempts to explain to the other YT commenters why this was egregiously stupid just sailed over their heads. They can't wrap their minds around the fact that Shakespeare was not American.
I’m British. Was in Lisbon for a week with my mum, we went to this smaller museum with 15-19th century furniture. It was just us and an American couple being taken round by a tour guide. They asked at nearly EVERY. SINGLE. ARTEFACT. if it was made in Portugal. I was genuinely astounded. We were in Portugal, in a museum about historical Portuguese furniture. What.
I'm Australian and when I was vacationing in Canada many years ago, I went south of the border for a few days. Took a bus tour around Boston for a half day and had a yank explain every little place, like we passed a Walmart and he tells me that's called a supermarket I know you're probably confused but it's where you can buy a lot of different foods. Then as the bus is making a stop he says we can get food I've never heard of called pizza. Me being a typical Aussie just go with it so when I see tv in a windows I exclaim to him, hey nice. We just got lectricity where I live last month and I'm thinking of getting one of them talking picture boxes. He looked at me nodding and believing it and it was so hard for me to maintain a straight face lol.
I suspect it wouldn't work nowadays but when they visit they still believe in drop bears and bunyips haha.
I'f probably broke a rip or three trying to maintain a straight face...
@I.am.Sarah. Given the recent election and nonsense, I am quite certain a good portion of the populace would accept that as fact. I live close to the US border and we get many here for the cruise ships to Alaska.
09:20 Black and British is an ethnicity (appearance/heritage, possibly culture) and a nationality (legal/citizenship, possibly culture). Americans may use race as a synonym for ethnicity, but I think we stopped doing that decades ago in Europe. We consider it kind of racist to use the term "race" for ethnicity.
True. There's only one race homo sapiens. They might look different here and there, but they're all the same race. So the term 'racist' makes no sense.
@@hardyvonwinterstein5445arent you mistaking "species" with "race" ?
@@mif4731 No. Are you?
Ethnicity and cultural background is the most sensible way to refer to each other..
The simple "where are you from" and then keep digging in a persons ancestry to figure out "where they're from" is kinda offensive when you're dealing with people that have perhaps 3 generations being born in your country.
People are often proud of their ethnic origins, and may still follow cultural traditions from there... but that doesn't change what nationality they were born or what society they grew up in.
I live in a neighbourhood with a sizable ethnically Turkish minority... I don't mind that the youngsters being cashiers at my local grocery store speaking Turkish with (especially the older) customers. I feel safe.
And when it comes to traditional Danish holidays, like xmas, they still go operate the shop like any other day, in exchange those employees are given time off for ramadan and eids.
Much like it's a Jewish-American tradition to eat Chinese during xmas.
Diversity is a strength, when done right.
@@BenjaminVestergaard Great contribution. And all this diversity we see and enjoy, plays its part inside the boundaries of just one race. Homo Sapiens.
The notion of different races, with different rankings(!) comes from early century thinkers, which could not look through appearances. All people are not only equal or free brothers and sisters, no, they are all the same. And deserve the same respect.
I'm Italian, a friend of mine was an exchange student in highschool and her classmates used to ask her the craziest questions: "how do you feel seeing a car for the first time?" (Ehm... have you ever heard of Ferrari, Bugatti, Lamborghini... doesn't it ring a bell?), "do you have trees and streets in Italy?" (I don't know how many streets built the roman empire...), "so.... italian is made of other sounds? I thought everyone in the world spoke english with different accents, now i feel so stupid!", and I could go on for hours. Also, in a test that was being GRADED, she had to colour a soldier. These things make me question : is Harvard really that hard? Lol, jokes aside I know that not everyone is like this, but the fact that some people don't really know that a whole world exists outside them is shocking to me. I apologize if I made some grammatical mistakes!
Бугатти - французская марка. Хотя сам Бугатти был, несомненно, итальянцем.
Harvard is hard, public schools aren’t
@@LeInternetcockroach Yeah, I think my choice of words was a little odd, what I really meant was : is getting into Harvard really that hard? They make it look so difficult in tv series and movies but based on my experience it doesn't seem like it. Of course it's just my experience, and I'm one, I'd like to know more about it
9:18 British is not a race! It's a nationality. Jesus the obsession of American with eugenics is crazy.
pl do not udge me but - the entire race - thing is just a sideeffect of the "US"way of indoctrination in schools e.g. rising the hand towards haert, turn to flag in classroom´s corner and sing such an awful song - Germany had similar ways in 1934 + but was traumarized by the Millions of tons of -TNT until 1945- (still today 80 years after are more then 12 undetonated bombs found in grounds daily. if the German bombers would have reached and rubbled the US the world would be a better place i guess , because the US citizens would be more realistic, would be actually united, and less arrogant- but this is just my guess of alternate way of history.
But over 200 years ago, the word "race" often meant nationality. Which has interesting implications. It meant that colonists in the mid 1600s weren't called "White" or "Black," nor was there a legal definition of same. Legally they were subjects of the English king. Categorically they could be said to be of the English race or Scottish race or Irish race. Or "African"/"negro". At that point indentured servants could be Caucasian or African. Slavery was not yet the norm.
But servant rebelliousness created a crisis that was solved by creating legal definitions of "White" and "Negro" by which the former were freed and the latter turned into permanent slaves. With the understanding that the freed "Whites" now had a social status that obligated them to stand with their "White" masters to support the oppression of those whom they'd recently labored alongside.
So the White "race" suddenly was invented as a Master caste. And that became American identity. And we've never articulated a true replacement White identity.
@@warheadsnation Ok Eugenicist.
@@warheadsnation Very intresting history of American terms, but still means little to us in the UK, where black and white stood together under law and church to abolish slavery. Even before that marriages between the races (often sailors) occured. When you had top judges bringing up black children it kind of made your form of division difficult to implement. There were no Jim Crow or miscegenation laws in The UK, so are histories (even with empire and Commonwealth) are very different.
26 years old, always liked studying History, Geography and Biology. And never, in all this time I EVER saw someone use "race" as a synonymous to "nationality". Those two are completely different things. I don't even know how to react to this...
Do you... have electricity? ...have TV?... have cars?... know what chocolate is? (That was a kid so they get a pass) ...have airplanes? ...speak English at home?... have freedom?... want to live in the USA?... know what pizza is? - just a swift selection of questions I have been asked by Americans while in the USA. I am English.
Americans think that brown stuff in their stores is chocolate. Only if you consider something that tastes like vomit chocolate.
@@graceygrumble At first you just think they are winding you up don’t you? Speaking as an English person who used to go to the US a lot. Although a couple of people did remark on my “classy accent” .
My favorites were if we (Germans) have a language and if we have birds...
@@MrJojux 😂 You win!
Yeah, I got similar questions when I stayed with an American host family. I'm from Germany.
Ryan, if you think "lately" implies a plural, I'm not gonna argue, but "an American" is clearly a singular.
I think its about it not being a Group of people but the thing happening more than once
He's british.he's black.he has nothing to do with africa,nor america and definitely isn't african-american.
he is black and has nothing to do with Africa? certainly the origins :)
I was quite shocked that he was confused at that. It's self explanatory.
@@bobbyvialli if you want to go that way everyone's origins are in Africa. Isn't relevant for the question
@@bobbyvialliSame goes for all of us.
Well he does have something to do with Africa. Even if it's not a lot.
This September, I was on a holiday in Scotland and on that one tour I booked (because I don't have car right now), I was the only one non-american, except of the driver. And all of them were just interested, polite and had plenty of smart and thoughtful questions. Just wanted to throw it here, so after reacting to all those things about stupid, you can rest assured that those exist, too.
I do wonder how many of these incidents are Americans with a sense of humour teasing the locals.
Thank you. Unlike some of those who have commented here, I am glad to see at least one person that has the decency and/or common sense to not lump all of us "dumb Americans" into one.
Thank you! I always feel like most of these stories just have to be lies right? I simply refuse to believe that most americans are just stupid, arrogant, ignorant people without manners. Like that simply can't be true😂
@@thatsmyopinion.whatsyours8825yeah like there’s only 5% of you lol
They exists.
I was chatting in German with my German friend. An American gentleman asked me where I came from and I answered that I am from Scotland. He turned to his wife and said "don't they talk funny in Scotland "😅🙄
I live in a village house in Spain, and my kitchen door opens onto the pavement and is often open for fresh air. On several occasions, I have heard voices, turning around in my kitchen to find tourists watching me inside my house as if it were a living museum.
That is really creepy. how do they not have common sense. And you can't even blame the education system for that.
Invest in a screen door.
@@heatherhoward2513 Like the one I have that they opened !
@@GermanGovernment I had to fit a lock to my screen door which was a pain as my house is 800 years old with all sorts of protections on it .
No respect for privacy, obviously🇨🇦
When visiting Guam, we were asked by some Americans if we knew a family called Shepherd, who lives in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. We are New Zealanders..... Strangely enough, we did meet that family twenty years later!
My surname is Shepherd from Bristol England
Lmfao. That coincidence. 😂
"The Prophecy came true!"
naaaaa you've met lost time travelers.....
My parents meet a woman from America in Switzerland. She asked them if they knew her daughter who was living down in Wellington. They live in the Tron. At least she did know where NZ was.
Did he just say that Sweden is like a real North Pole? 2:28
When my American neighbour met my Scottish fiancé she was surprised to find they had electricity in Scotland. He ran a multi-million pound network of newspapers from around the world and she thought Scotland lived in the Dark Ages. I am American and I died a little when she said it. All I will say is that the quieter, smarter American tourists are around too. They’re just not in your face.
That's what they say about Germany too. I was told that's because most power lines in the cities are laid underground and therefore not visible in photos or movies, unlike in the US, where it's mostly above ground.
That's a good point, loudness and stupidity, just like stupidity and confidence seem to go hand in hand.
So if someone is confidently wrong they're probably loud about it as well.
@@lucasvanwijngaarden670 It's called "Dunning-Kruger-Effect".
Very good point! I think there’s a lot of truth to it.
I can imagine John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor of the television, standing lost with the plug of his first tv in his hand wondering what is missing for his experiment to work.
You can always spot the americans , no matter where they go i the world , even before they speak and tell you they are americans
You don’t have to see them, you can hear them.
To be fair though, I can usually spot a fellow Dutchie from a mile away. 😂
I disagree with you, I used to deal with US-Americans a lot and most of them were polite and reserved, just because these examples only show the “typical Americans”, that only applies to a fraction of them.
not all of them, only the tRump supporters.
@@GianniDN nah others too. When in I was France there were Americans on the bus. There were two guys from Michigan who met someone from Ohio. The poor guy had to immediately explain that he wasn't that kind of Ohian. It really fascinates me how Americans outside of the US immediately gravitate towards each other
Many years ago, the company my dad worked for had guests from the USA. Possible business partners. One of them asked, if we even have electricity in Germany. YES, we have! You don't see it because we don't have 19th century wooden poles anymore. Our powerlines are installed below ground!
Tells you all you need to know about the standard of American education.
@@FlbcImp
I was thinking exactly the same thing. It really isn’t their fault, kids, teenagers, any age really. It’s the educators in the school system. And many children ask their parents about things they don’t know or are corrected by parents with wrong information. But….what was the parents basic general knowledge of the world’s info?
Australian here, I’m still learning things aged 70, and I love it, you never stop learning, but … their lack of basic general knowledge of the rest of the world is definitely at a very low standard. Why????
@@bernadettelanders7306 Plenty of students do just fine in the US educations system. What seems to be the actual culprit is there is a larger culture of not paying attention or caring about learning. Imagine your schooling in Australia, you probably had a couple "slackers" in your class that ended up "dumb", but in America an average class might have 20 to 30 % of the class being that way.
@@Redbeardian
Yeah, primary school a few dodos lol. High school, can’t think of one. All did ok, I think it helped no boys at my high school, all girls, no distractions lol😂
I also noticed that in US education it has become standard, to reward any answer a student gives in a test no matter how incorrect or how far off the answer is from the actual curriculum being tested. As long as the student gives a remark to a question (written or oral) his test performance cant be no longer categorized as „total Failure“, graded with the lowest grade an „F“, and instead being automatically rewarded with a „D“, categorized as „poor“ but is still good enough to be a passing grade in the US education system.
A „D“ in the US is the equivalent to a „4“ in the German numeral school grading system (the German grading system goes from „1“ as Excellent, „2“ as Good, „3“ as Satisfactory, „4“ as Sufficient, „5“ as Failed, „6“ as very Poor (having a „5“ or „6“ as final grade in one of the subjects means the German student have failed his subject and isn’t allowed to move up in to a higher Level and instead must repeat the entire school year including all the already gone through subjects) which makes this premise of US grades so ridiculous for a German. Its literally ingrained the premise in to everyUS-American that „no matter how little knowledge you actually have about the topic, as long as you say at least something (even its stupidest sh t ever) society will honored it, much more than admitting intellectual defeat, not having enough knowledge about the topic being questioned about and choosing not to answer Instead of making a fool of yourself by saying something totally wrong showing how little you actually know. Which in german school tests could be graded even harsher and being a reason for getting maybe even a lower grade, through creating actual evidence for his lack of attention in class, not compensating through intensive studying and preparing for the test, resulting in the failed knowledge required to answer the question correctly and maybe even making such enormously false statements instead, that you getting overall points removed from the end result, which could have been avoided through simply not answering the question and skipping instead to the next one.)
@@PPfilmemacher
Your first sentence actually made my jaw drop. That I’d totally crazy. So kids ‘learn’ that whatever they say is probably correct and acceptable. No wonder they think they are always correct. I’m totally shocked.
My education was very good, but a German education is the next level, that’s wonderful. Remind me never to debate a German lol, only joking, it my Australian sense of humour kicking in😊
I must re read what u wrote about your education. I’m old and grey😂 and I need a double take to make things sink in lol 😊
I've spent a year in Pennsylvania as an exchange student, in the last year of high school.
Do I have to explain how horrified their teacher was, when a class greeted us exchange students with a nazi salute, truly trying to be nice and welcoming?
It's been many years ago, but I will never forget how easy it was to get straight A's. I didn't learn anything new, in terms of school stuff, but I had some actually valuable life lessons.
Hope the dudes and dudettes are doing well.
I feel you Rabe...
I "only" have got Mittlere Reife but just for fun i took the US GED about 20 years after i left school for good (incl. Berufsschule) and behold: i would've got 175+ on all subjects, even stuff i NEVER learned about in school!
they WHAT
@@TransnestianLily I wish that was the only case I saw raised hands that way while I was there :'3
Oh my god, I just can't....😱
@@TransnestianLilytbf that's something you'll encounter all around the globe 🫠 I love watching bike packing content on RUclips. That one channel (a guy from Germany) did a bike tour to Iran and Afghanistan. On multiple occassions he got greeted that way because people really thought that's a polite way to greet Germans 🙈
Ryan, - the content, that you commented in this reactionvideo was super. The combo of content and your reactions made me laugh a lot and you increased my mood even though its dark and rainy outside, here in Denmark. Thanks a lot!
9:24 Of course being black and British are not mutually exclusive - that's precisely why she is both simultaneously.
Many Americans seem to think that saying someone is "black" is insulting them, and they assume "African American" is, in all circumstances, the acceptable synonym of "black" - even if the person in question is not American.
Americans are known to not understand nuance in any circumstances.
And probably has never been to America.
To many Americans, America is all there is.
The Universe is IN America...that's how big they think it is !
If it's not American, than it is OWNED by America. You are taught this!
I really do wish your school system was better. When I was eleven, we came to this side of 'the pond' for my father's work. I was in high school with 17 and 18 year Olds, in grade 11, and STILL the curriculum was elementary to me.....I was bored to my very soul, and frustrated that only subject matter pertaining to the USA and American interests, was being taught. In History, you wouldn't know that WW2 had happened, and when it was mentioned....apparently the only people in it were Americans who won every battle they entered into, with "Nazzygermany, and Japan" !
If you were not quite so arrogant, if you were a modicum more humble, and wiling to listen, rather than talk, you'd be admirable.
As it is, you are tolerable, but frustratingly ignorant, and cannot in general, be reasoned with..."leastways, not by someone who isn't even an American"!
Indeed, what could I know?
Or even of African decent.
As I assume you know, America has a very racist past. There were many terms used to refer to black people in America, and they were always used in a derogatory way. If I remember correctly, it was a black woman who coined the term “African American.” It has actually worked to end some of the terms being used, and has resisted being twisted into a derogatory term itself. I’ve been hearing statements from individuals in the black community lately that they see themselves as black Americans and don’t need to be called African Americans. So that term may fall out of favor eventually. However, it’s up to them to determine what they preferred to be called
But I agree 100% that it is ignorant for an American to expect people in other countries to use that term within their own country.
12:33 I have met several Americans online who did not think that the USA has invented English, but who thought that American English was the real deal and British and Australian people speak and write English incorrectly. At first I thought it was a joke, a little bit of teasing, but then I realised that most of them were very serious about that. Americans literally told English people that their English was wrong 🤦♀️
I once met an American couple from New York who loved my British accent. I'm from Toronto. We are something like 25 generations in North America.
Well, check if you accidentally have that type of accent, because my friends somehow can fake being British pretty well (both me and her are Asians)
My best one was an American trying to tell me that pizza was invented in NY and the American GIs taught the Italians how to make it during WWII ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪
Actually the first tries of pizza were made in South italy aaaaaaall the way back when the South italy was greek so like in 400 A.C. (i am italyan myself)
@@LorenzoGrigoli Were did you get the tomatos?!? 😜
But I see what you mean. It's in fact really simple food. Dough covert with all the stuff you like. Pretty sure almost ALL people did something like that back to the dawn of time... if my mind isn't playing tricks on me. Flammkuchen is something similar and it was first made just to check if the oven is already right and hot enough for the bread to be backed. I really liked all of this stuff and still do.
👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🍕🍕🍕😋😋😋
Try telling that to Neapolitans, lol.
I heard from from a very reliable source that an American who was seconded to the source's company that he (the American) thought it was "cute" that a lot of English towns were named after towns in the US.
🤦♀️🤦♀️
Oh my goodness, their ignorance!🤣
@@wudgee Unfortunately, I don't think World geography and/or history is taught in US schools.
@@TheDagda1000 All americans know is shoot guns.
"Why did you scrap the New from New York? Couldn't you not just name it New New York! Wait... *sound of imaginary coinage drop*" 😁
When I worked as a store manager and opened the store at 1pm, after my lunch break:
American tourist: "Aaaahh, finally open! How was your 'siesta'? Was it 'bueno'?"
😑...
I'm portuguese. This was in Portugal.
Irmão é que nem sabes
I had an American ask me how in Lisbon what was the way to the Eiffel tower ... How do you get that lost ?
@@thesalamanders8740 Do they even knew how to use their phones and google maps? Even my 80 old father in law know how to use it.
Give them credits for trying tbh, Spanish and Portuguese are almost the same (I’m learning both and it’s my experience)
Ford didn't invent the production line .The Royal Navy used one to produce ships blocks in 1803 designed by Marc isambard Brunel and based at the Portsmouth Blockmills at Portsmouth Hampshire.
And, to point out to Americans who might not get this... That's Hampshire. Next to Dorset. England. Not New Hampshire, next to Vermont, USA.
I hate to break it to you, but Marc Isambard Brunel was a Frenchman from Normandy. He migrated to the USA at the age of 24, then at the age of 30 to England, where he married an English woman and settled down.
@@issey1456 & I hate to break it to you but Anthony Williams didn't appear to claim that the Royal Navy invented the production line... just that the Royal Navy had one before Ford did 😉😊
@issey1456 And your point being? I never claimed he was English.But could be another example of a French man collaborating with the enemy ?
If we want to get historical the first chain production was invented by the Venetians (Venezia) in the 16th century with the "Arsenale di Venezia"
I love how "Black and British" is so confusing to him 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's not just the USA being multicultural. 😂 British is nationality, and same goes to Chinese, Indonesian, even Indian.
I'm finnish and half of my family is black. there's so many stupid exchanges I get to with americans...
My school (in Germany) also had signs to keep tourists out of most parts of the building. It was necessary because the school is an old cistercian monastery from the 1100s. We would come out of chemistry class and suddenly bump into some tourist wandering the hallways :D
americans think black is a bad word and you must say african american as teh PC term, but outside america thats of course bollocks as they are clearly NOT african americans xD also alot of people dont like the term "african anything" because they dont see themself as african but as german french british etc. so calling them african aint nice
When African Americans travel or move to Africa, they are only referred to as Americans!
Don't say "Americans" that puts us all in one lump. We all do NOT think "black is a bad word." But you are correct, and sometimes I will use it to be PC. I use black around friends and relatives (some are black) and AA in business. Actually had a discussion with a black female customer the other day. She had just taken classes at her place of work on being PC and we both were commenting on using the term black. We both agreed the PC stuff has gone to far and that there was nothing wrong with the term black. I'm white and that term doesn't bother me. Years ago I worked retail and about 3 black kids came in and were looking at shoes and one of them said something about "white" guys. They looked at me, stared and went quiet. I laughed and said " don't worry about it. I know I'm white " No harm no foul. We all had a good laugh and they went on shopping.
@@thatsmyopinion.whatsyours8825 I heard the word African American was popularized because everything else became deragotory in the states. But elsewhere Black was just used to notify ethnicity.
I commented on a BGT RUclips video and used the word “pupil.” Someone then asked what it means in English, saying they’re American. I replied, pointing out that as a fellow American, I learned in elementary school that “pupil” means both “student” and the opening in the iris of the eye.
i am no native english speaker but know it. I is however distinct british and rather found in older literature than everyday live. Maybe in posh circles I do not frequent ?
@@andyking957 it's a bit older, I agree. 'Pupil' was in use when I was a child back in the 20th century but now people (me included) would say 'school student'.
@@chrisamies2141 I still learned 'pupil' for school kid in english class in ~ 2006 😮
I think the meaning may be more like "successor of a certain profession" and considering that it no longer happens, the term has probably fallen into disuse
@@robydemoxXx The 1998 American thriller “Apt Pupil” is based on a novella by Stephen King, starring Ian McKellan and the late young Brad Renfro. The word isn’t out of use.
G'day and Happy Arvo to you! Here's an example of US tourists in Australia: in Victoria on the coast we have a wonderful tourist attraction where hundreds, maybe thousands, of people go to watch huge flocks of penguins coming in from the sea at dusk and heading to their nests. Tourists asked if the Penguin Parade, as it's called, could be done earlier because they had a plane to catch. Friends of mine encountered some extreme silliness in the USA when they were tourists there: apart from the people who didn't seem to know the difference between Australia and Austria and complimented them on their English, they were told the eucalyptus trees in California were native to the area and could not be convinced they were actually Australian trees. A zoo (I think in California) had been given some koalas (from Australia of course) but local US citizens refused to believe they weren't "Huggin Bears" (they're not bears anyway),which was how the zoo promoting them.
I loved it when Ann Coulter came to Canada and was interviewed by the CBC. She said we should have sent boots on the ground troops to Iraq to support America just like we did in Vietnam. The Canadian corrected her and said we did not send troops to Vietnam. just advisors. She told him he didn't know what he was talking about and she would bring proof! She never got back to us. Imagine going to another nation you know little about, and telling them their own history!
Many Canadians enlisted in the US army to specifically serve in Vietnam war, some estimate as many as 30,000.....134 of them died there.
@@jamonit7169 Still, that's not the Canadian government sending troops.
@@lucasvanwijngaarden670 My point was the OP did not seem aware of the fact Canadians were involved on the ground. The question would be "is a Canadian in an American uniform an American or a Canadian". I'm sure the North Vietnamese would have asked that question had they captured any of them.
Confused Australia and Canada but then....
She was wrong but so are you! Canada did not send troops to fight the VC. That is correct. BUT it contributed to peacekeeping forces in 1973 to help enforce the Paris Peace Accords. Those were armed troops sent by the government. Check it out it is even covered in an episode of House. :)
5:51 There is a Small picturesque village in England, Bibury,
that went viral on Japanese social media, and Japanese tourists wander into peoples houses,
thinking its a model village or theme park, not a regular village with people just living their lives.
I wonder if its the same thing, not realising, not everywhere is a concrete jungle nightmare.
Them darn city slickers
The funny thing is there's actually a model village based on Wales in Japan. Like I somewhat understand building a replica of central Paris or Venice like they've done in China, but some Japanese person visited Wales and thought it was so lovely and quaint that they must have it at home!
@@Greippi10 I've love to know where, so I can visit and scrutinise the actual welshnessness.
@@SimonJ57 It's called Dreamton, Cdawgva (he's Welsh) did a video on it titled "I Tried Japan’s Secret British Town Ft.@AbroadinJapan". They were not very impressed :D
And apparently he has a second video of a different place also in Japan, some sort of British style resort!
@@Greippi10 Thanks I'll be sure to check them out!
Not only Americans. Overheard in a Bed & Breakfast by Loch Ness - addressed to a couple of German tourists - Quote " I don't suppose that you have supermarkets in Germany" Unquote. The look on their faces was priceless.
i will never forget this young male american tourist customer (20-25 years old) coming in our garden center shop asking me as a saleperson where we have riffles for sale.
In our country (Austria) we can only buy and have guns/ riffles if you have a weapon license so i said to him we dont sell guns in a garden center we are not walmart our gun laws are strictly different here outside the US in Europe. This young american was shocked and asked me how we defend us and why we have no civil war going on in your country.
I asked him why he is in need of a gun on his holiday (for 1-2 weeks here) and which us state he came from because there are different gun laws in us states.
He said he came from california and most people wear guns there. As someone who lived in a peaceful country i was confused why he felt the need for a gun during his stay in my country. he consist asking where he could buy elsewhere a riffle this was quite disturbing. was kind of a cheerful scary dude.
i mean what did he plan to do in my country wearing a gun around on his holiday..i guess he felt kind of vulnerable without a gun :)
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hello fellow austrian 👋👋
@@Isabel-y3p7i hello nice to meet in the comments a fellow austria citizen
@@claudialanzerstorfer1995 war das in Wien?
@alphtjodo9919 Nein Oberösterreich Linz
10:35 The "Be thankful for X" or "We did X, so your facts don't matter" is really common when arguing with Americans. Most of the time it's "we landed on the moon! USA! USA! USA!" or "We invented the car, so shut up!".
The funny thing is, that Americans didn't invent a lot of the things they think they invented. The telephone for example was not invented by Alexander Graham Bell (who was Scottish by the way) nor Antonio Mucci (Who was born in Italy). A lot of people worked on it and the basic technologies weren't invented in a single country, but the first working, electrical transmition of sound over distance or in other words, the first telephone in a modern sense (so not just a tin can telephone) was invented by Johann Philipp Reis, who also came up with the name.
Bell just got the first patent in the USA, just like Edison didn't invent the light bulb, he just improved on the existing invention (he didn't do anything new, he just manufactured it better) and GOT THE PATENT IN THE USA.
russians: *they got to space first*
Thats happens when people got slammed with false propaganda since birth.
I just subscribed.. because after that election your source material seems to have hit 52% ish of the population.. The comic possibilities are now limitless. :D
My friend use to be a gide in Spain and Italy , 1 day he had some Americans in her bus , she was telling in Italy about the Roman's and Julius Cesar , 1 of the Amercans said that's not true , that's movie , and beside , the statue from Cesar don't look like the Amercan actor 😳 😂
Americans thinking Swedes may not have Christmas, but are outraged to find out that no-one except Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. 😂
As a Canadian, we celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October
Wait until Americans find out thanksgiving started in Canada
Or that May 5th is just a regular day in Mexico
Or that no one celebrates 4th of July
@@cosmickid1794 - I stand corrected. I didn’t know that. Thx. 😊
An American tourist while visiting roman temple in Brescia (Italy): " it's a copy of Washington capitol!"
I’m from the Netherlands, and Americans can’t believe we keep our curtains open. What weirder, keeping them open, or staring inside?
Staring.
I´m on very thin ice here, but isn´t there even a tax on using curtains in the Netherlands? I could be totally wrong, pls don´t kille me, I´m just a German that heared this once on TV xD I love the Netherlands tho, I´ve been to Drachten this spring. It was amazing. PS: pls export your amazing croquettes
It's both weird! 🤷♂
@@toffellm6506nope no taxes on curtains
@@maciejwawrzyn4674 They turn up in peoples gardens in Scotland staring through windows claiming that the house is their great, great, great grand parents who lived there in 1700 and something. You know its not the person who they're staring at's house, no its their great, great etc.
Some years ago I was in the US. I was reading a book in Dutch. A guy aproached me and was astound that I could read that book (in my own languish), ...
😂😂😂
To be honest, I understand.
I have the same feeling as an English ex-pat here in Germany. Im always impressed when little kids speak such good German.
@@satsumamoon for me, as a nativ speaking Belgian- Flamish, this realy is mind blowing. This is my language I 've been speaking sinds I was a todler. And reading sinds I was 7 years old.
6:30 I can relate to this. I’m French and I’ve lived in the center of an old medieval city…
As soon as April began, tourists (and not only americans) would come en masse.
Some would go up to the window and stare at me chilling on my couch watching TV for long minutes. I’m pretty surea few took pictures with me in it.
Or would take pictures of my ugly ass door and mailbox with my name on it, lol.
There are gorgeous and very ornate wooden doors, mine was not one of them.
Sometimes I found it funny to stand in front of the window, staring at them in the eyes without blinking.
🤣🤣🤣
The industrial revolution was well before Henry ford
The assembly line predates the industrial revolution by centuries
I had to laugh so much. No, we don`t have cars in Germany , we just travel around in a horse -drawn carriage.🤣
The foot bus always drives👍
Yes, It never caught on, like Kaiser Wilhelm II predicted.
Oh, oh, “here’s your sign” :D.
I would go with "No we don't use cars anymore ever since teleportation became commonplace."
"We don't need cars because our public transport system actually works just fine." - Yeah, I know ... ;)
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I've heard crazy stories of people living by hiking tracks in Norway having tourists walking in their yard and breaking into their houses (we don't usually lock the house in rural/up in the mountain areas) making themselves comfortable because they think it's some kind of accomodation or whatever! They end up having to put up signs saying private property and whatnot at every corner to stop the invasion of privacy
Er du norsk🇳🇴?
a lot of americans on vacation think that everything was just put there for them and old houses in villages are like Disneyland
Maybe that's why we have a fenced in front yard. To prevent the tourists from looking in through the windows 😂🤣
I'm Canadian, we were in Florida once and a woman asked my dad what we do in the summers since there's still snow everywhere...
“It’s like the real North Pole of the world” wouldn’t that be..the North Pole? Not Sweden?😂
if we're talking about christmas, even swedes know that santa lives in finland at Korvatunturi, not north pole. the north pole santa thing was invented for an ad by coca-cola in 1930s I think. and incidentally the first coca-cola santa was played by a finnish guy. korvatunturi is a real place with tons of tourists visiting it yearly, while there's nothing at the north pole.
@@babstra55It’s not the rest of the world believing that Santa comes from Lapland, it’s the North Pole for Danes as well. Greenland may have something to do with it though
@@babstra55 I have only ever heard talk (internationally) about Santa living in Lapland until I heard from specifically Americans that he lives in the North Pole, and I assume they learned it from the Coca Cola ad and went with it
Years ago I was in Minneapolis travelling through and met someone who asked me where I was from I told her Toronto, Ontario. She said she had been to Ontario a few times with her dad either fishing or hunting and had actually seen the Blue Jays play in Ontario on one of her trips but had never heard of Toronto. Considering the fact that to see the Blue Jays play in Ontario you actually have to be in the city of Toronto astounded me.
If not even the fact that they are the Toronto Blue Jays clued her in, all hope was lost anyway 😉
I told an American that I was Canadian and he asked me if Canada was by Toronto…😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My sister was an exchange student in Roscoe, Ill. back in 1970 and when she told she comes from Germany she was asked whether it is located at the east or the west coast.
Yea, it is true. Germany do not have cars, they made the autobahn for shits & giggles.
We don't need no speed limit here because we're all just going about on our pedal powered tricycles. They top out around 20kph anyway..
Isn't the Autobahn a giant sidewalk/walkway without speed limit so you can run as fast as you want? 😂
Made my day 😂
@@TheBredeBertXD
It just occurred to me that since America is a new country colonised by Europeans, how come that Americans are so disconnected from their origin ?
They're a long ways away. I think you'd find that the northeast US is more similar to Europe than most of the country. Politically they are for sure.
I know my or every British person origins, all originated from the anglo saxons@@georgesimon1760
Long story, short: Protestantism.
America is not a country
Look at who those european colonizers were and you will find your answer. (Spoiler: the christian equivalent of the talibans).
I'm French and I live in France and each time I interacted with American people they were always nice and respectful.
That's why there isn't anything bad about those people, can't say anything bad if there isnt anything bad
My oldest son joined his new US school when he was nine, and I had begun my six-yr contract in America. After sports, the other boys on his lacrosse team thought he was deformed because he was uncircumsised. Only, they didn't know it was they who were mutilated. 😅. They wouldn't believe my son, until their coach was brought into the discussion.
Why were they checking out his penis? 😮
They shouldn't be looking in the first place. Looks like they were cruising for a piece of a**.