These examples may prove that A: The American education system is failing, which is a scary thought, or B: The American education system is working exactly as planned, which is even scarier.
Yeh but it’s so much more than that. I learned more about the world from reading books, newspapers, watching the news, talking to people, travelling, even playing Trivial Pursuit 😂.. not even the convenience of internet then.. and yet young people in America just don’t seem to care..
@@101steel4 What's really sad to me is that we have all of this amazing technology that allows us to connect to the world in ways we never could before, to learn about different cultures and histories... AND THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT STILL BELIEVE THE WORLD IS FLAT.
@@williammccullough2466 Exactly. There's no excuse for anyone to be ignorant about the world around them. Everything you need to know is literally at your fingertips.
I'm Australian, a friend of mine's sister did a 12 month exchange to the US in highschool. While there she entered an oration/poetry competition and did "The Man From Snowy River" which is a famous Australian poem, it's had a couple of movies made based on it and everything. She started off by explaining that she was Australian and she had selected an Australian poem for the competition. She was marked down for her fake Australian accent. She is Australian. That was her normal voice.
What do you expect, from teachers who can't tell what a woman is and are unsure of how many genders there are... They probably thought she should sound like Schwarzenegger, because Austria apparently is the same as Australia.
Yep great movies and had Kirk Douglas come down for the main male supporting role in the original and Brian Dennehy for the sequel. My mother used to quite often read that poem to us when we were kids.
A friend of mine still occasionally reposts on his personal social media account a show review where the theatre critic called him out for trying too hard to put on a phony British accent. That's his real accent. They later had to add a correction to the review and everyone I know still finds it hilarious.
I’m Aussie & when I was in the US, yanks asked me if I speak like this all the time 🤦♂️, they also said they gave gumtrees to Australia because Australia had no trees 🤦♂️🤦♂️
As a former exchange student who spent a year in an American Highschool in Nebraska, I have so many similar stories. Now, I am Swedish, but people, even adults, would regularly ask me if it was not strange for me to see this much technology. Obviously, I did not understand the question when it was first asked. So they would elaborate, and say: "Yeah, you know... computers, electricity, TVs!" As if... we do not have that back in Europe. Or most of the entire world with only a few exceptions. In fact, the stuff we have in Sweden is a lot better than what the households in Nebraska had. A few select people also thought it was unsafe for me, as an Athiest, to enter a church. While a bit dumb, at least the concern came from the right place.
I went to a Muslim country several years ago and had to argue with people when I returned to American that I used the bathroom in a flushing toilet. And when I explained it, I was told what I said wasn't true. Apparently I lied and Americans have exclusivity on flushing toilets.
I remember visiting Stockholm for work around 1995. I was amazed how much more ADVANCED stuff in Sweden was compared to what I was used to in America. Taxis with tiny printers (this was before GPS was available), able to look at my hotel bill on my room TV (which was like magic in 1995!). I got the same feeling visiting Japan in the 2010's. It's like we don't get the really cool stuff in America first anymore.
Always fun to tell the Americans that our tax declarations takes about five minutes, we are almost not using cash anymore and that Internet connections here is dirt cheap, highly reliable and everywhere. And free health care and education all through university of course.
I'm Canadian. I met an American tourist who was surprised to find out we had cars in Canada. He was from North Dakota and had seen Canadian licence plates on cars before because they get a lot of tourists from Winnipeg, but he hadn't put two and two together. And after I had explained it to him, he wanted to know where I kept my dogs. I said I only had one dog, and she slept in my back hall. He asked what happened to the rest of my dogs. I said I didn't have any other dogs. He was surprised to hear I only needed one dog _"TO PULL MY SLED"._ Over 80% of Canadians live in urban centres. I've never met _anyone_ who owned a dog sled team.
I raise you one better. Got asked over Discord if we had cars and internet in Germany... over Discord... Cars.. and internet.. to give them a little kudos.. no we do have internet.. but not really its crappy at best some days xD but cars?.. like we invented them! xD Course we got cars.. where did they think that Porsche, Audi, BMW, Mercedes and VW come from xD
@@MasumiSeike the Germans didn't really invent cars, tbh. They were just the first to make them on a production line as identical vehicles for sale rather than unique experimental ones: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
I was In the Coliseum (which is in Rome, Italy, Europe 🤣) and the tour guide was talking about which dignitaries sat where., Caesars area, the politicians and where important foreign visitors to Rome say, from England, Spain, France and Greece. A voice came from the back of the crowd, a small loud fat woman In khaki shorts, where did the Americans sit? The guide said, nowhere, you lot weren’t discovered for another 1500 years. Everyone but her laughed.
The second one really baffles me... I find it really weird that they value a driver's licence as a higher form of ID than an actual IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT (aka ID) like a passport. And what if I don't drive? What if I never took the driver's test? Can't I be identified without it?
Also what's up with only accepting american ID?? What they just gonna refuse to serve any tourists coming through? Like I show them my canadian driver's licence and I don't get to buy beer??? WTF?!?!
Theres so many "They stole the election from me with fraud" Trump "I believe what Trump says" some idiots "Theres no government documents in my possession" in Trumps sworn statement "They took the stolen government documents out of a box in the storage room, which I clearly where there" Trump on TWITter!
@@sebastienlecmpte3419 I once was almost rejected at an American bar in Seattle. Bouncer stared at my Canadian ID for what felt like 5 minutes before his boss had to step in and tell him that it was fine. He turns to me and says 'Next time you come here bring your American drivers license'. Yeah ok buddy, next time I'm at a foreign bar I'll bring my local ID, no problem.
If you think this is scary to watch as an American, then imagine watching this as an European knowing that these are the people sailing around the world in nuclear submarines and carrier ships.
Yeah, exactly. This year I went to India, for 6 months. I'm Italian. I stood there with poor people and mixing a bit. I got in touch with at least a part of India culture (6 months are not a week). When I come back to Italy, my mom retrieved me at the airport and drove back together. Let me say that she's a very contradictory person, she studied and she values her "knowledge" a lot, but she's the most easier to influence on somethings, and the dumbest goat head on others. During the drive, at a certain point, she said, refering to India, china, Asia, whatever...: "Now they have the a nuclear missile and it will be a mess" I suddenly stopped all my loving back home feelings and said: "Do you really think that the problem of the world is this? When America has I don't even know how many? Do you realize that what you just said it's just propaganda?" No way, I had to stop the conversation or I went for burying her. (The point here is how much can misinformation, propaganda and stupidity chosen and unchosen, can turn people mindset, even the most "studied ones") No, the neutral eye you have it or develop it or not, and got sucked in, in a way or another.
Americans think they the only people that exist so no need to know anything or anyone else. Then a lot of them don't even know their own country States as per another channel l watched. But l think it's more the younger generation who are dumb regardless of the fact they the generation in the modern technology era. Easy access to millions of information.
Californian here, I've been around the block a few times and stupid has a way of sneaking up in you. I was in Germany, Berlin specifically, and I was amazed at how well this Asian woman was speaking German. Took a minute for my proper brain to start up with, "She was probably born and raised here idiot. Even if she isn't, German isn't exactly a rare language. " I was ashamed of myself.
I'm Canadian but born to new German immigrants. When I went to Germany when I was 16, I too was astounded to see Indian, Chinese, Sikh etc speaking German. Toronto has lots of new Canadians, but they always spoke English. Mind you I wonder how I would react visiting Quebec City or Montreal where they speak French?!?!
Ermm - I knew a Afghanee ethnic guy from Germany doing post-grad in London. He spoke educated English of course and he said "British people just assume I am British, of perhaps Indian heritage, but in Frankfurt where I was born and raised and am a citizen I often meet locals who flatly refuse to believe me as i can't be because not white."
I love how frustrated you were getting. In no way do I think all Americans are stupid, but, the dumbest things I've heard and had said to me were ALL said by Americans.
🤣Yep! My brother-in-law is American and we're all close with his family (uncles and cousins and everyone), they're confounded by the things some Americans say! But yeah, even with all my experiences with them and other Americans... plenty of lovely normal people, but every stupid question I've been asked has been from an American 😂
Not knowing Europe is classic. I gave up on saying I am from The Netherlands, and explaining Amsterdam is just a city. If you give up on it, it can be fun. I convinced ' a Shanon' I was from Holland, lived in a windmill, with a beautifull view of the Eiffel tower and that I went for my daily groceries to Stockholm on my bike.
oh holy hell. As a living, breathing, educated, logical American - there are at least 10 of us who know that. The other 330 million - maybe not so much. We are going to crap. Help!!!
I am happy that you choose Stockholm for buying your groceries! Maybe I'll see you sometimes when we both ride our bikes through my beutiful home town! (I especially like this because my mother spoke Dutch. She was a translator, mainly from English and German, but she expanded her horizons and learned Dutch as well.)
JAJAJAJAJAJA 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 when they find out that I'm Latin American , many of em have told me : "hey i know some Mexicans words" OMG i die of cringe i just answered back ohh really because I know they aren't trying to be rude. But it really makes you wonder what the hell they teach them
Well when the curriculum is 11 years of American history and one course (that wasn't for the whole year) of World History, what do you expect? (As someone from a small town school in America, this is the education I got.)
Canadian here. I have to start by saying that I have worked in jobs where many of my colleagues were American, and for the most part they were intelligent and educated. But... There was one year in late December when I was providing software support to a woman in the North Carolina office, and she said, "Just to let you know our office will be closed on the 25th. We have an American holiday called Christmas. Have you ever heard of Christmas?"
Really, A LOT of Americans don't understand their own culture, historical figures and icons. Definitely an age and education thing. Older people with basic education can destroy young people in HS and college. Older educated people are 4 times, no wait, 40 smarter than the president. I'm sitting in In N Out Burger with a friend and his relatives and their friends. I look around and say "Oh, a fifties theme in this restaurant, huh". Every American says "What do you mean a fifites theme?" I dunno, fifties music playing, people dressed like a soda jerk, tuck and roll seats, pictures of cars from the 50s... I am nowhere near the age of someone born in the 50s. I grew up with fuel injected cars, internet, computers. People now, don't seem to know anything from the day before they were born and before. People learn the minimum because they don't have to know more to function in society. The same people get upset when things don't go the way that they want it to go or think that it should go because they understand nothing else. The movie "Idiocracy" was a funny joke, until it became true.
This story I'm going to tell you is the absolute truth. I was a Travel Consultant for American Express for 11 years and my older sister booked her own trip to England online all by herself without consulting me first on what were the best areas to book a inexpensive hotel in London and what tours to take, etc;.. she booked the flight, hotel and car rental through the website... when I ask her where she was going after London she looked me dead in the face and said, I'm going to drive to Paris... I looked at her and said, "you mean you're going to fly to Paris"... she replied, "No, I'm driving there in my rental car. I said, Kathy, you can't drive from London to Paris, you either have to take a plane, a train or a ferry if you want to go to Paris. I told her, if you want to take your rental car you can pay to transport it through the Chunnel on the Eurostar. Otherwise you must use the ferry to cross the English Channel with your car.She looked me dead in my face and laughed and said, "Oh My God, you do not have to cross a body of water... England and France are right next to each other... you can drive there in about 2 hours. What was worse is my older sister chimed in and validated my other sisters claim that not only were London and Paris 2 hours apart by car but that they were both on the Pacific Ocean. I couldn't beleive my ears. My one sister looked at me and said you don't know what you're talking about, you haven't been educated enough to know Geography like I do. I was 38 at the time with 4 years of college under my belt to her 7th grade education at 50. My oldest sister went to the 10th grade... later that day my older sister asked me how to spell "IF"... I shit you not. I love my sisters but they are dumb as stumps. My nephew came in the room and told my sisters, "I think that someone with ha degree in World History and works for a Travel Agency for a living would know a whole lot more about these places than a Data Entry Clerk and a unemployed Auto dealer cashier. We just looked at each other and shook our heads. He knew what time it was. hahaha 🤣😂
The craziest part about this is the fact they actually believed they were 2 hours apart, forget everything about the English Channel and whatnot, London and Paris. 2 hours travel. I don't care if you don't know the geography of the area, if you have ever looked at a big city in your life and what kind of traffic there is as soon as you go outside of the city center and towards the outskirts you'd KNOW that this type of prediction makes no damn sense, fuck, Paris to Orléans can definitely take you more than 2 hours just due to traffic alone let alone taking the distance into account (depending on the day and hour of course, if you do it a Tuesday in April at 6:30 AM you would encounter a lot less traffic) and those cities are really close
@@daisychong3488 She never got to Paris because once she landed in London and asked for a map to Paris she got a wake up call. To make matter worse for her she didn't know where to go to site see and wasted her entire week walking around London with no idea as to where the Museums were, or seeing Kennsington Palace or even the Tower of London. I recommended all of these places and more and especially thought she's love visiting Hampton Court Palace. She never saw any of it. The best she got to see was the route she took to go visit a lady she met online a few hours out of London... at lease she was able to take in the sites as she drove past them. Some people just don't want to learn anything new because they think they already know it all.
I was a high school math teacher in Wisconsin for 12 years. I had a student who told another student that their ethnicity was Korean. The other student said, "No. You're Asian." It took me 20 minutes to explain that Koreans are Asians just more specific, kind of like we're American, but also Wisconsinites. I'm not convinced they understood.
@@AaaaNinja entirely possible. Although it was 20 minutes because I would explain it and he would say no, that's not right and I would try again. This was before everyone had a computer in their pocket so I didn't have a map. Great idea, though.
@@peregrinef3203 The next time think about a thing. You cant save all the stupids. Never lose more than 5 minutes in these things. Instead, use the other 15 minutes to try and save another 3 stupids.. chances are much better this way.
As a Dutch person, I am forever grateful to that last guy. In the 3 weeks that I've spent in the US I got so sick of having to explain that. I also got sick of the amount of times I had this conversation: 'Are you guys speaking German?' 'No, we're speaking Dutch' 'What's the difference?'
They think Denmark is the capital of Holland or sweden. And we had polarbears running around and the best part that we used them to ride to get around,.
@@theotherguy8007 Canadian here - Thought it was only Canadians they thought rode polar bears to school if we even had schools that is. And we live next door. Lol. With this amount of ignorance you can have fun with it as we do. We tell them the most outrageous stories and they just sit there mouth agape. Of course this only encourages them. But the only alternative is to be astounded at their ignorance while true isn't much fun. We chose fun a long time ago .
Ohhh no, everyting in the northern hemisphere rides them polarbears(Cars only exist in AMERIKKKA). I have heard alot of dumb tings they say with a straight face. Not long ago i heard one say that casa de augustus aka caesars palace didnt look anyting like the one they have in vegas....... Haha yeah one can say some wild tings.
I'm from London, but live in the US and have been told multiple times that my English "is real good for a foreigner". I've also been asked to "speak British to my kid". When I utter words in English, the response was "No, no. Your own language!" 😑
That feels like a dystopian nightmare. A friend of a friend went to the US for a holiday and she had to show her ID (Finnish Passport) at a convenience store and they claimed that her passport was fake and that Finland doesn't even exist. Honestly it threw my mind on a loop for a while. I mean I guess it's a meme but seriously?? Even the security said the same thing as the cashier.
I had similar issues with my American drivers license in Germany including some people who refused to accept it because I didn’t believe it was a proper form of ID even when I had translated it. Smart people don’t work at convenience stores.
@@Mortablunt German here. Looked it up and a drivers license should be normally enough to get age verification in a store. But stores can house rule to not accept a drivers license at all. In that case you need a passport. (That's the ruling for german drivers license - I asume the ruling is similar for foreign documents. )
@@DasBilligeAlien I understood it as they didn't know if it was legitimate or not; not a lot of Americans come by with drivers licenses. I also looked very young for my age. I was 19, but I looked 14. I had an incident in America few years later where a bar bouncer refused to beleive I was actually of age and took my ID.
@@Mortablunt Makers sense. Also they increased risk for the cashier years ago (a decade maybe more?) so you cna actually loose your job if you make a mistake with age validation As it had been very leninent before. So its likely they would say no before risking their job.
This brings back a memory from my time working as a waiter in Munich. I got in conversation with an American guest at the hotel who asked me where Is was from. I let him know that I was a student from England but I was working in Munich during the summer break. He complimented me on my grasp of English saying it was almost fluent! As he tipped me 5 DM, I thanked him and told him that I had practiced speaking it a lot..
Belgian here, more specifically Bruges. My girlfriend was walking through the city some time ago and an American tourist asked her when Bruges closes.. Looking totally flabbergasted by the question she replied: "At 8pm" That tourist was under the sheer impression that our city is an amusement park and noone lives within the city walls...
A city like Bruges or Venice is so different from anything in the US that the poor guy probably couldn't comprehend that it's an actual city were over 100k people live LOL.
The dumbest thing I heard an American say, “Jesus was an American because he was preaching American values and American democracy.” To which I promptly said,” ah that’s why it didn’t end so well for him in the Middle East.” 😂👏🏾
oh, thats actually Mormonism. in that fanfiction/religion, Jesus came to America, and Native Americans are Hebrews, and that dark skin is a result of sinning.
I met a 30-something year old American man in NC who spent over an hour telling me about his hunting adventures around the world, even going so far as Tasmania Australia to hunt Tasmanian Tigers..... They have been extinct for over 100 years.
Reminds me of a guy I knew. Doesn't quite fit the topic as we're both Canadian, but the brand of stupid was the same. He tried to impress me by telling me about a rattlesnake he once killed with a stick. Said it's corpse was lying there twitching, and blinking. Genuis gets double points for a) claiming an animal without eyelids was blinking, and b) bragging about the senseless killing of an animal listed as threatened, in an attempt to get into a vegan's pants. Goes to show, stupid isn't always simple, sometimes it has layers.
I had an American tell me he was driving to Alaska. I asked him how many days is he spending in Canada. He said he was just driving to Alaska, so no days. I had to pull out a map and show him that Alberta is the length of the entire USA from the southern point of Texas to the northern part of Idaho. The American education system at work.
Not to be that guy, but if there's a photo of one at a zoo from 1930 they have not been extinct even 100 years let alone "over" 100 years. But for a 30-year-old that is definitely dumb.
"There's no way you actually speak more than one language. Everybody knows bilingual people are an urban myth." That was more than a decade ago and I still have no idea how she thinks translators do their job.
Oh my lord, i had the same thing. Norwegian here, on vacation in germany. We ended up with some americans in a pub, and the talk was flowing (in english ofc). And then my friend turned to me and told me he had to call home, in norwegian. This one american dude flat out refused to believe that we were not making up some weird english accent or something, and not speaking our native language. We all went 404 Error blank stare on him, because he was not kidding.
Love your reactions... your facial expressions are like "dead inside", "dude, you f*** serious", "why am I not even doubting this happened this exact way" :D
In 2015, I took some classes at a community college (3rd career change, I was in my early 60's). In one class we gave PowerPoint presentations on health care systems of other countries. One student gives her report on Switzerland, and prefaces it by saying Switzerland is not Sweden. After her report, the teacher said "But there is a country called Sweden, isn't there?" She genuinely was asking. This was the person grading my research papers.
I mean they are very different words. in my native language, Portuguese, they are very similar: Suíça (Switzerlanda) and Suécia (Sweden). So, it is A BIT more understandable that KIDS would mix them.
Teachers in my school usually didn't get things wrong, except for on occasion math, the reason for this is I was there. You don't get things wrong when you have a kid who sleeps through class, and knows all the right answers before you dare to wake him. Do you have any idea how funny it is to be woken up and then within 5 mins, corrected the teacher telling them the problem written on the board is written wrong, give them the answer to both the incorrect problem and the actual problem they were suppose to write, and then be told to go back to sleep instead of being awake for the rest of class. Now granted my teachers were better at knowing what to teach more than some others as I soon learned from seeing people talk about their experiences on the internet. Now unfortunately I had a number of teachers who didn't care, they did teach us the right things, but they didn't care about bullies in school. In fact some of them would punish anyone that defended themselves against the bullies (in other words me, cause I have siblings, I know how to fight and the bullies, they didn't have a fun time). Thankfully I also had from time to time good teachers which did their job, they knew how to deal with me (basically saying I at least needed to look like I was awake or paying attention, cause they knew I already knew the answers so I didn't need to be there), they didn't allow bullies, and they were just cool teachers. Not everyone has those I realize, and I feel bad for anyone who went through school without at least 1 good teacher. Hell I learned chess from a teacher who used to be a chess champion, which I think is cool, then again I'm a nerd so eh.
Went to historical Jamestown when visiting the USA. The guide was dressed in period costume and telling us the history of the settlement. He said his shirt was made from buckskin leather rather than cotton. As it was an unseasonably warm day I asked him how he was finding it. He looked at me like I was complete idiot and said. 'No sir. I didn't find it. I made it.' I didn't ask any more questions after that.
so if portugal is a city of spain, every american knows spain is just under mexico so you must eat really good tacos! ( how many times they're brains are broken when listen: spain is in Europe)
When I told people in the US I was moving to Vienna, they either said, "Oh my gosh! I didn't know you spoke Italian!" or "You have to ride the gondolas." If I made the mistake of clarifying that Vienna is in Austria, invariably I would get a little silence, then "I love kangaroos."
I thank GeoGuessr for confirming the existence of Austria because I never knew it existed and thought it was Australia with a typo. But I wasn’t an adult when thinking that and staying ignorant af!
I just don’t understand what people do with their time?? Even if they never crack open a book, Hollywood movies and tv have a lot of info about other countries!!
17:55 That did it! Hahahahahahahahaha After ALL the corrections, the one that killed me was someone from a different country telling you what floor of a building you live on!!
I was born in England but moved to America when I was 5 as my mother married an american, then moved back when I was 10. I was straight A student in America, but was C in England and worked toward my final B. English schooling is more complex. An A in America is borderline needing help in England lol
I think this is the insulting thing. It's not that Americans (or other, English people are sometimes guilty of this as well) are uninformed. It's that when some Americans are confronted with new information that contradicts what they have been taught, instead of being open minded, some Americans see fit talk down to a person who is more knowledgeable on a topic when they have no clue. To the point (like in this video) where an American is lecturing a Canadian on what Canada is like when chances are they haven't even been to Canada themselves. It's not ignorance, it's willful ignorance and extreme arrogance mixed together
That right there is going to be the downfall of the US if they aren't more careful about it. People make it a point of honour to argue about things they think they know, and that everyone else is a fool. Even if it's a widely established scientific fact they are arguing against. Unwilling to change their views in the event of new information. Total refusal to accept anything that goes against their past (often very flawed) knowledge. That type of cognitive dissonance is one of the main things that is wrong with society and politics in my opinion. It's even creeping into other countries like mine (UK) now. Confidence in long-held beliefs is seen as an almighty virtue. Things change though, and we all should have the capacity to change our minds without shame or "defeat".
They do seem to focus more on making children confident/arrogant instead of making them know stuff. They grow up thinking they know best so when they encounter a gap in their knowledge, instead of saying "Hmm, I don't know, I'll look it up!", they revert to what they're taught to do, be confident and arrogant about it, the facts aren't important. Obviously they're not all like that but it does seem to be a common behaviour there.
I'm from Eastern Canada, and my family went to my uncle's cottage in Maine. 2 elderly women stopped by as my sister and I were at the lake, and asked if we were visiting or lived in the area. We mentioned we were Canadians and that our uncle has a cabin here that they always come to in the summer, and this year we tagged along. Both women proceeded to ask us how much snow we had back home. In the middle of July. On the East coast where we get more rain than snow because of humidity. We laughed and said there was no snow, and that we get boiling hot summers too. They straight-up didn't believe us and thought we were lying, insisting "you're from Canada so there MUST be snow!!! Isn't it right there at the border!?!?". I brought up my weather app and searched for back home, and showed them how actually it was 5 degrees hotter back home than it was right there in Maine at that moment. I even converted it to Fahrenheit for them, and they left my sister and I with this ignorant attitude of "how can we be wrong?" That was my very first face-to-face interaction with an American. I was 16 lol.
I was once asked in the US, Florida to be specific, which country I was from. I told the guy I was English to which he replied "what language do they speak there, because your English is really good?" I just sighed. Also in Florida I was wearing an English brand of clothing called 'Maine - New England'. An American came up to me and asked "where in Maine are you from?" perfectly acceptable question. I replied "it's just a clothing brand name I'm from England. To which he replied "that can't be true only Maine can use that name." I was tempted to name a list of English town and city names but I worried his head might explode. I'm coming to the conclusion that all the chemicals they put in American food are slowly killing the brain cells of Americans.
@@nicksshitbro The amount of crap coming out of CNN is insignificant compared to the crap from Fox News. Like 99.99% vs 0.01% However, to non Americans, Fox news is quite the entertainment channel in regard to the retarded idiocracy they proclaim.
@@nicksshitbro easy: until FoxNews came in, CNN was considered to be fair and balanced. The poisened athmosphere has one source, at that is FoxNews. Nowadays CNN is literally as onesided as FoxNews, though not so far away from objectivity and facts. But the shrill tone FoxNews brought in is at any media outlet nowadays
To be fair we have ALOT of people in Florida that are not from the US so they may have not recognized your accent. On my street alone we have people that are from Cuba, Dominican Republic and Poland and the older family members don't speak English at all. It is interesting living in Florida a whole new world of crazy but still interesting.
I'm Australian, I've travelled a lot in the US and have heard a LOT of dumb things said. But I can vouch for the need for a translator. But a tip for Aussies in the US; after the third failed attempt at being understood speaking normally, repeat exactly what you just said with a fake American accent, and they'll get it.
Heck, Americans have trouble understanding other Americans sometimes actually had to have a southern translater when I couldnt understand this thick Alabama accent. Actually asked her to speak slower still couldnt understand. And she was supposedly speaking English.
I once had a conversation with an American fella on holiday in the UK with his family, we were all on the train going from London to Edinburgh. Being Scottish, this fella picked up on my accent when I was speaking to the guard handling tickets and he turned to me after and said: "You must be loving this son?" Being a bit confused, I asked him what he meant and he proceeded to explain to me how Scotland was third world and didn't have electricity in most places. So the act of being on an electric train must've been a thrilling experience to me. His wife and kids were very keen to just stare out the window while I let him know that we're not that backwards in the north though I'm not sure he really believed me.
You should've just bullshitted him and said something along the lines of 'yeah it's tricky trying to find an electrician that can wire up a castle - the solid stone is a real pain to drill through' and just fed him the idea that Scotland was some kindof middle-ages fantasyland where everyone is a lord with a giant sword.
Do you want to know something even weirder? “Third World” doesn’t mean what most people think it means, or at least what it ORIGINALLY meant. First World meant NATO and it’s allies; Second World meant Warsaw Pact nations and China (Communist countries); Third World meant NON-ALIGNED countries. So Switzerland and Ireland are “third world “ countries. It didn’t mean un/under/ developed/ developing nations. But as they say, language usage changes.
As a Canadian in college, we were accepted in the border towns but when I first travelled across the south from California to Florida I had similar experiences at almost every stop. Most polite but curious but some were so completely ignorant of anything beyond their own limited travel.
I know what you mean. I was a military brat and many of us spent time overseas. Once a teacher told a friend that he was wrong about Japanese geography. My friend had just spent 5 years living there! The teacher had never even travelled out of state!
I’m an American whose fourth grade teacher had never traveled outside the eastern US. She insisted that it’s three hours later in California than in New York, when it’s the other way around.
I (English) was in a McDonald's in Stockton California when a server said she loved my accent. I responded 'I love yours too.' Her response leaves me amused whenever I think back to it all these years later. She said "But I don't have an accent?" and stood there frozen with a confused look for several seconds as I exited the establishment.
@@AramatiPaz Yes. Be realistic. There will never be a world like that. People have different opinions about things. And that is natural and good. We need some struggle. Having all people agree can only happen with tyranny - the law will tell you what you can and cannot say.
My third grade teacher ridiculed me for answering her question: "Which planet is closet to the Sun?" I had answered Mercury. She then lectured me on how Mars is the closest planet to the Sun. That was the first time I realized that (on some things) I knew more than my teachers.
I once met an american student here in germany and he said to me "He thought it was always raining here since all the WW2 movies show a rainy and dark germany!"
As a German I had the same pasport problem when buying cigarettes. When I tried to explain what a passport is and that if it is good enough to cross the border it should be good enough to buy some tobacco, they threatened to call the police. At that point I was in full culture shock mode and just went. At that point I realized I had to handle my interactions with Americans in America much more carefully. I never felt safe there to be honest.
Holy crap. I am so sorry. There are about a dozen of us here who have an actual education. We just can't keep the other 330 million in their cages. They keep escaping and spouting ignorance and shedding tears over how oppressed they are. Which they record on their $1000 iPhones for your viewing pleasure. It is driving us nuts. It's awful here. Help.
About half the population of America is dumb and the other half is educated. People homeschooling their kids does not help, especially when they only teach the Bible, my cousin's for example. They literally don't learn anything else. 🤦 Some parents who homeschool their kids are actually good about it, but some of them teach them flat Earth concepts and s*** like that.
I was once on my way home from working in Edinburgh when I overheard an American couple discussing, entirely in earnest, how convenient it was that the castle had been built so close to the train station. 🤦
I worked in a bank for a while in customer service and I got a call from an American woman who wanted to apply for an Irish credit card. She still lived in America and was only going to be visiting Ireland later in the year. She thought that if she used an American card, the ATMs here in Ireland would only give her dollars and not Euros. I didn't know how to even begin explaining to her that's not how that works...
Actually, could you elaborate on this? Last time I traveled abroad cash was still a thing. Does it work like exchanging currency? Does the local bank take interest for processing another country's currency? Does it work for any country?
As teenagers in 1967, my buddy and I went to the Worlds Fair in Montreal. We met a couple from New Jersey camped next to us. They were in a panic as the starter had quit on their car. We took him down and got one ordered even though they speak French there. The wife ran out of food and was afraid to buy any in Canada because all the labels were in two languages. They told us this was the furthest they had ever been from home and the first time ever out of the US. We believed them.
i moved from germany to the us as a middle schooler and had a 45 minute discussion with my geography teacher because she didn't believe me that we actually also drive on the right side of the road her argument was only the US drives on the right side. The day after she actually seriously asked me if we have DVDs and TVs over there this wasnt very long ago abot 6-7 years and as i told her technologically germany was at least as advanced as the US she called me a liar hahaha
OMG. I remember using the word "Haus Frau" in sophomore English class. The teacher argued endlessly with me that it was not a word. It means housewife in German. She was also the type whose exams on a classical novel would ask, "What color dress was Rebecca wearing in the scene on the marsh?" I swear that is a true story.
It's not like Germany has a bit of a reputation regarding the automobile industry 😂 Yeah, it's a big surprise we have running water and electricity. America is really wild, man
In their defense, every one of them is an individual, not a hivemind. Some people educate themselves, others get educated but a third part stay ignorant.
When I was young I spent a few months studying in the United States. I'm Spanish. I was asked several times, people who did not know each other, on different occasions if we have a moon in Spain.
I’m Canadian, this happened many years ago, probably 1995. An American I was speaking to in a chatroom, on the internet, that I needed a computer to access, asked me if Canada had electricity yet.
Recently an American started working in a department near mine (she's only been in the UK a short time and this was her first job here). She was upset to find out she would not be getting Labor Day, Columbus Day, nor any of the 11 Federal holidays off work. It was amusing when she complained to her manager. It was even more amusing when she complained directly to the Director of HR and our CEO.
@@neverever3590 One of these videos recounts Americans holidaying in MOROCCO on the 4th July and wondering why there were no celebrations. The stupidity is bone deep.
with access to NHS and dependant on contract annual leave and sick day allowances, as well as everything you buy in the uk actually having the full price you pay on the label rather than having to add tax afterwards .... the uk current law on holidays is 28 days of paid leave (normally 2 to 4 weeks notice has to be given, but thats normally employer to employer basis) so take those 11 days of paid leave (dont know if you still get a wage for the national holidays) and add another 2 weeks off of paid leave to it (ive left some over as bank holidays can be points where you either have them off or are on a double/triple pay system dependant on workplace)
I spent 6 months in the US as an exchange student. I've gotta say that the general level of the courses and requirements at the university were at the same level as in high school in Finland (also, my apologies to those that I tricked when I said that we have pet penguins and polar bears are the main threat to human population here). Once in class the professor referred to an American study, which proved that "on average, 50 per cent of the American people are smarter than the other half." I laughed at first bc I thought he was making a joke, but then I noticed no one else was laughing, including the professor. Then he just went on with this insightful study. Well, I have to admit that he wasn't wrong, but... Oh well.
They use the educational system to literally stupidfy the whole population so they are easier to manage.. this in turn comes with its own problems.. ignorance breeds violence and that is what they get.
On the flip side - the first time I met my Greek neighbor, I pointed to the segmented nautilus-shell shape he displays on both his cars. "Ahh! The Fibonacci Sequence! Beautiful!" When he said he was surprised an American knew what that is, I wanted to punch him. After watching your video, I guess I owe him an apology.
The one that made me laugh the most was an American telling an Algerian he was pronouncing the name of his country wrong and the correct way to pronounce it was "Argentina"..
Speaking to a American girl here in UK, we were talking about travelling and so on. She then says "I really want to visit Rome because I've never been to France before", we couldn't stop laughing.
Well, I know a famous German footballer - Andreas Möller - who once answered (he says he hasn't) to the question which team he will change to: "Milan or Madrid, main thing it's Italy."
I had a literal American physics student, in a pub, tell me that Stonehenge was caused by a volcanic eruption... I wish, I WISH... I was kidding 😂 being academic isn't being smart, it's being singularly driven, which, is actually the antithesis of broadening your mind.
I befriended an US army guy here in Germany and since he was stationed here for some years, he tried to get his parents to visit him. His mom didn't want to come as she didn't know what clothes to pack. She reckoned it severally unsave to pack her jeans as Germans don't know these garments and she might get robbed of them. She really thought Germans dress like in "The Sound of Music". And she believed Germans don't have any technology, like we're living in the middle ages ;))) She had the most severe culture shock when she actually did come.
when I visited a friend in wisconsin for the first time, he wanted to introduce me to a dude he knew, who annoyed everyone around him with his stupidity and his claims of being of "german heritage" and how great his german is and all. since I am german, my friend wanted me to not say where I'm from and see how my first impression of the guy would be. I went along with it and met the guy at a small party and when his only ever conversation topic came up, I heard his german skills... and they were not good at all. my friend could pronounce certain words better than he did and my buddy never claimed to be good at it! so I went up to him and corrected him here and there in the middle of his monologue. this guy took this kinda personal as it seemed, because he fired back at me, to shut up with my fake german accent. I told him, it wasn't fake because unlike himself, I was actually from germany. he didn't believe me, and asked me mockingly to say a few sentences in german then, which I did, but in return he just giggled and "corrected" my "obvious" fake-german pronounciation failures, which no actual german would ever commit. I answered, that this might be because the german teacher in his and my friend's school probably doesn't know how to pronounce those words right to begin with and that he learned them wrong because of it, while I was speaking not high-german but a watered-down lokal dialect from my home region. No, that was fake to him. I was a cheap wannabe, who tried too hard, but ultimately failed to the depth of his well of knowledge. :)
It's really sad when high school language teachers don't speak the language they're trying to teach as well as they should and aren't willing to admit to their students, "I'm not a native speaker. I've never actually been to a country that speaks this language." or "This isn't the only accent or dialect of this language that exists." I've taught Portuguese, briefly, to a couple of private students, and I told them "I will do my best to teach you proper Portuguese, but there are a variety of accents in Brazil, just like there are in the U.S." One time I accidentally said something in a caipira accent (sort of a backwoods accent, reflecting the area where I'd lived), and the student I was with got mad at me, and dropped me as her teacher.
@@rafaelsmith5737 I wouldn't put too much blame on this teacher. My friend told me, that this "german"-guy was acting like an odd ball even in class, claiming stuff and "correcting" people around him even when the teacher tries to pull his ego back a little... I think this dude just has some issues, even the teacher couldn't fix.
The „not accepting a passport to buy alcohol“ has happened to me. The cashiers name was Tiffany (no kidding) and she refused to believe that GERMANY IS A LEGIT COUNTRY and that my german passport is legit… She didn’t even understand the concept of OTHER countries She legit thought that EVERY place on this planet is in the US…
I am from Liverpool where there is a China Town - been there 300 years. My mother told me to look at all the Chinese people there. Well, I thought that was China - mind you I was 5 years old at the time!
I had a store refuse my greencard as ID. If you fake a drivers license they take it off you. If you fake a greencard they deport you. I don't wanna know how desperate he thought I was.
i been fined because my Danish drivers licens was not accepted as a valid ID by a Danish cop 🤪 * it´s those thing that makes you respect the police even more 🤭
And when I was in Germany I had a number of times where I had issues using my American drivers license as a form of ID. There were even a few times where it was just simply rejected even when I translate how to read it.
Two weeks ago I posted that it was the hottest Tuesday morning for 40 years here in the UK, an American replied that it was Monday and that I was a dumbass , I explained to him that international time zones mean it isn't the same day or time in all countries on Earth at the same time and he responded that I was full of shit and Brits always try to sound superior even if they are wrong 🤔
Watching another one of these "Dumb American" tiktoks regarding time differences reminds me of an American girl that was upset that her German friend who was following the news mid-afternoon German time on 9/11 hadn't phoned the Americans to warn them!
You should have told him we invented time zones and they are regulated against Greenwich mean time. Problem is he'd probably think Greenwich Connecticut and not the place it stole its name from in London.
@@B-A-L I also love the different date format that alot of americans don't understand. For example in the uk we do 25/12/2022 for christmas day, in the US it would be 12/25/2022. What always shocks me is that a lot of Americans cannot even entertain the idea they could be wrong
I'm from NZ and a few years ago I was studying for my degree in art and design. We had an American dude in our class and when July 4th rolls around he's demanding to know where the flags and banners and shit were. We couldn't get it through to him that it wasn't a world wide holiday even though his arguments insisted it should be since we gained independence and should celebrate it. I think we broke his entire world view that there is a world beyond the US
bro I live in England and I'm unlucky enough to live near a military base, these guys are actually here celebrating their independence from us, whilst living in our country for free, and they insist on shooting off fireworks every night from July first to, like, the tenth
@@stultusvenator3233 wow, really? i never knew that, i always assumed that the Americans had more sense than that, but wouldn't it have been picked to celebrate two days later because that would have been when everybody realized they had became independant?
@@thomasbaker7754 They did not become independent on 4th July - they made a Declaration to be independent - they had to fight a war of 7 years to get independence.
Last summer I was working at a hotel in Iceland. Some night shift, after dinner service, I was attending the bar when a lady came over for a drink and small talk, while I was preparing her drink she asked where I was from, so I answered I am Spanish and she replied (pretty shocked) that I don't look Mexican at all!! I just had to stop and lmao.
I think the most shocking is the geography teacher who told the guy there are only sleds in Canada. One might expect someone who left school at 14 to say that, but the woman is a teacher. Not only that, she teaches geography. How on earth did she gain a degree?
My son had a similar experience. He was a foreign student in a very famous university attending a civics class . The professor was talking about the American transportation system. He asked my son if he had a car and driving the roadways. My son replied he did to which the professor said "you must find our roads and highway systems very intriguing ". My son replied that it was indeed very different than the dirt tracks he was used to. This university is less than an hours drive from the border. Has this guy never even seen a picture of Toronto? For that matter does he even know there is a city called Toronto?In no way am I putting all Americans into this level of willful ignorance, but teachers? This is the same civics class where my son was the only student in the room that could answer the questions about how the federal government has been set up and the division of power down to state level. He can do this because from elementary thru high school, we study the history and their place in the modern world of countries and regions around the globe. I wouldn't be lying if I said that we probably come out of high school knowing more about American history than our own. It would be interesting to see the percentages of highly educated, basic educated and undereducated.
I would chalk that down as the teacher pulling their leg, I know my teachers would often do that with exchange students and the like. But then again, they had a cruel sense of humor.
The dumbest thing an American said to me was, “Cool! I have a Canadian friend named Jim! He lives in *insert random Canadian city* do you know him?” This was after a conversation we had (but I forget what it was about). I just remember that the man clearly thought I would know his buddy just because we both live in Canada lmao.
I used to live in Cape Town, at the very tip of Africa. A man I met in London told me he had a friend in Cairo, and next time I was passing I should pop in and see him.
Yes this is such a weird thing. Americans think that all us Canadians know each other. My family had one when we were visiting West Virginia. A bunch of Americans kept insisting we knew a family (with our same last name) in another province. We responded that no, we don't have any family or know anyone in Manitoba, but they kept insisting we must know them as they had the same surname. We don't know everyone with the same name. Hell we don't even know everyone in our own city. So strange.
@@selenacordeiro1458 They seem to think that because we have a lower population, we all know each other. Not the case at all. It's truly bizarre. But not as bizarre as the one American I talked to that seemed to think (I kid you not) that French was only spoken in Paris and nowhere else in the world. 🙄 I'm Canadian like you are. So you know I'm baffled by that statement because French is literally one of our national languages. I think my brain shut down for a moment from that nonsense. Nevermind there are French speaking areas in the US and many countries around the world speak it as a first language.
One of my favourites was in a TV documentary filmed at the Tower Of London about the Beefeaters. An American lady was talking to one and said she loved history and her daughter worked in a recreation of Jamestown. That was originally built in 1607 she told him. Do you have anywhere in England that old she asked him? The way he looked around the area they were in, built in 1068, before quietly just saying “Yes, madam” was masterful. Not to mention asking why palaces built 500 years ago were built under flight paths or near railway stations.
Friend of mine works as a tour guide in a castle here in Ireland. He watched a middle aged American lady looking at a lit candle before placing her hand in the flame and burning herself. She looks at him with a shocked face and asks "Why didn't you tell me the candle was real!?"
Just like many other comments from British people already included on here, I worked in Hotel Management right up to GM level across the UK, but have since retired after 45+ years serving all nationalities. In my experience, the worst country to provide its citizens with the most dumb questions was the USA. Sorry, but true! I was working in a hotel in Edinburgh, where we had around 3-4 coach tours each night, all staying just one night. It was the anti-clockwise tour of the UK which had their first overnight stop after leaving London that morning, supplying the best (ie worst questions).... "Isn't Scotland big - is it true it's a Country in its own right?" (and to me asking why they asked?) "we were taught at school it was a little village in the North of England!" Or the guests who asked on arrival at the same hotel, " do you have electricity here?" because they couldn't see any visible power poles and cables strung across the roads as the passed through Edinburgh en-route to the hotel! Or the best one ever was the lady travelling by herself, for the first time ever out of her little town in North Dakota, to follow a folk band playing at a major Folk music festival as a headline act, in a major town in England and she was staying at the hotel where I was working, On her due day of arrival, she hadn't shown up by late evening, but at around midnight, I received a call from the Police in Birmingham, some 20 miles away. They brought her to the hotel as she'd had an appalling trip. The starting airport in the USA saw her get on the wrong flight, only to arrive in Cape Town, instead of London Heathrow. She was returned to her starting US Airport, where she was re-routed correctly. At Heathrow the next day, instead of getting to the central coach station there for her coach directly to our town, she somehow got onto a taxi into central London where she wandered round utterly lost. She managed to find the Coach Station and got a coach to Birmingham. There she saw a road named after the town where she would be staying, thought it was "local" (whereas that road was 20-25 miles long to us! She went through some parts of the city trailing two large suitcases until she was found by people in the suburbs of the city who called the Police, who brought her to me. I asked her why she hadn't asked anyone for help at any stage? Her response was " Until I was taken to the Police, I didn't know if you all spoke fluent English in the UK or whether I would be understood?" A week later she started her return trip home, with copious notes written out by us to help her. But even three years on, I wonder if she ever found her way home??
The fact that ANYONE would choose to travel without any interest to learn anything about the country they plan to visit, let alone what language they speak-- despite it being unbelievably obvious in this case-- is just so flummoxing to me! Why even travel if one lacks any curiosity to learn about the country in the first place? Did she just refuse to research the country because she thought those were spoilers or something? 😬
It's like this more and more in the UK. I'm still working in my 60's and as we get new younger staff in it gets worse with each intake. We get folks who can't do elementary maths, write like 3 year olds can't spell, have no basic understanding of things like "mopping the floor" (guess mother did it) following the rules (they think they are exempt). I just bite my tongue and think to myself "when the redundancies start, I'm going to be good for a while"
Unfortunately the most idiotic questions/statements I've had from tourists or other travellers has been from Americans as well. I live in Sweden, northern Europe, and yes, it can be cold in winter, but summer can be real warm as well. Anyways, an example: we had a summercamp once, I was a teenager and kids and adults came from all over the world. Brazilians, Austrians, Australians and too many other countries to list them all. But! The American group shows up w winterclothing only! WE use winterclothing when we get down to +5C maybe? Water freezes at 0C, and you might see a little snow by then. But at the moment we had about +25C! They expected us to have snow, no heating (or as the case needed; AC), polarbears in the streets as well as penguins (they only live on opposite ends of the world, but whatever) and fully expected to live in igloos! So we ALL had to chip in to even get the kids appropriate clothing! As soon as we could we took the whole group to the stores, and paid for their new clothes in advance until we could get hold of their parents. To top it off the leader says that he didn't even think to contact us in advance as he didn't know we understood English!
Fun fact: Arctic loosely translates as place with bears and Antarctic as place with no bears. Poor old elite Penguin defence force members get no mention.
Reminds me of a story my friend told me. We live in New Jersey, which weather-wise is known for cold-ish winters (other places are definitely colder but we get below freezing here). My friend and her family were flying home from Southern California a few summers ago and the passenger next to them said he’d never been to NJ and asked if he was dressed appropriately for the weather. He was wearing a turtleneck t-shirt. It was August and our summers get into the 90sF (32-37C) and very humid. Because of his lack of research, he had not only planned for the wrong weather, but had not packed appropriate clothing for the weather he was expecting.
@@wcapewell3089 we only had enough troops and good generals for Europe and India their is a passage in Hansard were they are discussing if India or American was worth more they got it right and picked India.
@@wcapewell3089 'They' fuelled the rebellion by accusing King George III of being a 'tyrant' - yet they accepted support from an Absolute French Monarch. Ironic really, rather like Putin 'liberating' the Ukraine.
i work in a museum in Antwerp (Belgium) and we had an American couple presenting us with their glorious presence. so they went up the escalators to the uppers floors (yes our museum consists of 10 floors, panoramic rooftop included) and they wanted to enter. as they went up to me and wanted to enter i asked them "Can you show me your wrist please" and they asked, "why?" so i replied with "well as you passed by the ground level, you bought a ticket and that ticket comes in a form of a wristband that you have to put around your wrist to make it for us easier to identify that you bought a ticket. it takes away the constant requests and wait time to get your ticket." they go "why, don't you believe us" me, yet again "it is not about me not believing you but more about the fact that our second floor and panoramic rooftop are actually free to visit. so to shift out the people who just wanted to go to the roof but try to get in the expositions without paying? we placed in the wristband system." they replied again with "oh well then we won't enter your exposition ... it is not like Antwerp has anything to offer and it is not like Antwerp and Belgium itself has anything culturally to offer nor made anything good that affected the world. we as experienced saxophone players wanted to visit Europe to learn more about its culture and what they brought into the world but Belgium and Antwerp are terribly disappointing which had nothing to offer unlike the American town in New York. which were the founders of this city we are in ... plus we only wanted to visit the rooftop and the tickets are expensive anyways. me baffled "erm excuse me sir but you do realize that as you claimed to be an experienced saxophone player and your wife as well... that the saxophone is Belgian, invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax, who was born in Dinant, french side of Belgium. also, the founding fathers of this city of Antwerp were in fact not Americans, this city is 1000 to 1200 years old which is up for debate on an accurate count. so to be created by Americans ... is deemed to be impossible because at the time Americans did not even exist for the next what ... 500 to 600 years but ... what i clearly made out of the stupidity that you spout is that you cannot even read because downstairs before the registers ... it clearly says 10 times that the panoramic rooftop is FREE of charge. so you wasted a good 12euro (a little bit less than 12$) but if you find that expensive? then why don't you go to the Louvre in France ... the tickets there cost 17euro and in Germany, a museum visit is around 20 to 30 euros. but if you want to have a panoramic view in France? then you cough up at least 20 euros. in Germany, it is 15euro. so we are very cheap with our panoramic view ... since it is ... free. so have a nice day and by this, i revoke your tickets" without a word, they handed me their tickets and left and i had a good laugh with my boss and co-workers. i almost pissed myself from laughing and burst a vein or two with anger. i have allot of pride in my city. i do apologize for the bad English.
I'm Belgian, lived in the US for nearly a decade and was unfortunate to attend a high school. The stupidity detector died really quick and things got worse when I got my first job, started talking online with a girl from Finland, my coworkers found out about her and one of them asked me dead serious "how does she have a phone? Do they have phone chargers in igloos?"
I only know half of your pain. I'm half-Swiss. As did my Dad. He once had the experience where he was talking to someone and they found out that he was Swiss and they said, "Oh my god, that's so cool, have you met so-so, they speak perfect Swiss," My Dad, being polite, didn't tell them that Swiss is NOT a language but took the phone anyway....long story short, the friend was from Sweden and spoke Swedish. (But in my Dad's case, it was someone in New Zealand, not the U.S. Lol).
I wish I could disbelieve the "Egypt doesn't exist" story, but... in high school English class, in one of our textbook exercises, there was a short passage about someone whose Egyptian friend always got upset when people claimed that aliens built the pyramids. And in the middle of class, one girl blurts out, completely astounded, "Egyptians are still around?!" Everyone looked at her for a moment like, "...how dumb *are* you really, though?" before bursting out laughing. I feel bad for her, because obviously in her head "Egyptian" was associated with Pharaohs and ancient Egypt and such, but... come on... There are stupid people everywhere, but some places breed them like rabbits. We live in a culture that literally thinks experts are untrustworthy *because* they're experts, and random people who say things they like are *more* reliable. How do we educate people who can't even understand what education is (and isn't) in the first place? I don't want to be cynical, but... we might be doomed. (BTW, I'm from Florida, so... let that color your judgment.) I want to give Bidet Guy the benefit of the doubt here. It sounds like the woman is French, so I'm going to assume "American on the floor of the bathroom in a hotel in France" was probably on vacation and had a *wee bit* too much to drink. I'd like to think he was just hammered out of all common sense and not actually that dumb... that said, hearing "the water goes up your ass" in a French accent was way funnier than I could have expected 😂
To be fair, people don't trust "experts" because they're usually paid to be biased, or got their job through nepotism. There's a lot of corruption, especially in how Covid was handled.
@bastiat There's a difference between questioning good science, require source material and proper methods. Saying "I don't believe it" simply because I don't like it don't cut it.
@bastiat Transgender is not a science, it's a way of expressing yourself and therefore subjective. Neither is it biological, it's a spiritual thing. And what's this about brain shape? Don't think I've ever heard that.
The passport problem happened to me too! When I returned to SC from studying abroad, my driver's license had expired so I had to use my passport for ID until I could get it renewed. The clerk refused to accept a valid US passport and a valid international driving license. She didn't know what either of them were. So my UNDERAGE friend shows his FAKE ID and she accepts it without a quibble. OMFG!
Years ago my son and some other rail enthusiast friends were going through Eastern Europe .They were asked for Identity Cards ,which the UK does not have, passports were not acceptable. But it was OK when one of his friends produced his British Rail work pass.
Malaysian here...this didn't happen to me but to my friend.. So we celebrated our Independence Day recently on the 31st of August and had a celebration and a big parade at the country's capital (Kuala Lumpur/KL) after 2 years of not being able to celebrate it on a national scale because of the pandemic... This friend of mine works as a hotel receptionist and the hotel happened to be close to where the parade was held. An elderly American couple (maybe in their 60s) got curious about all the noise and the crowd and asked my friend, and she kindly explained to them what all the fuss was about. The elderly couple suddenly laughed and one of them, with a straight face, legit said "but Independence Day is on the 4th of July!", to which my friend calmly replied "Yes ma'am, that's the *American* Independence Day. We are celebrating the *Malaysian* Independence Day today, 31st of August." And the lady just straight up said "Why are you celebrating it today? What's wrong with celebrating your Independence Day on the 4th of July like the rest of us?" My friend had 1001 snarky retorts she could've said to the lady in reply, but she wanted to keep her job, so she just shrugged her shoulders and said "I also wonder why..." with the sweetest smile she could muster..
Pf, typical Malaysians. Everyone knows that the 4th of July became an international holiday when the Americans saved us all from an alien invasion back in the 90's!
Years ago in Ft. Wayne Indiana, an American girl (very, very pretty) found out I was Canadian. She asked me if it was true that the Canadian government blocked American satellites from sending news signals into my country, and that was why all Canadians were so happy, because we weren't getting bad news day in and day out. She was dead serious. I think about that girl every now and then...hope she is doing well.
For the bigger part of my youth, I lived in Heidelberg, Germany...huge U.S. military HQ there, you saw and interacted with G.I.s ore U.S. tourists almost on a daily basis...very open, friendly guys...but often enough I had to explain basic stuff to adult persons...being 12+ myself...
Back in 2000, I was an exchange student, living at a host family in Atlanta, Georgia. My host mother used to point to various things in the house and asked me if we had these things in Germany too. Things like the vacuum cleaner, the fridge, the microwave and so on. She could not believe that most of that stuff was invented in Germany.
Omfg that's what gets me the most. People from the US who have been so brainwashed to think they're "the greatest country in the world" to the point where they think people from other countries live in the middle ages. It's WILD. Can't wait to go to Germany again btw, love your country
I feel for you my friend, I found it pretty depressing and I'm British. The look on your face is priceless, and I have the biggest smile just from your reaction!
A few years ago, the English Tourist Board published the top 10 dumb questions asked by American tourists. Number 1 was "Why did the Queen build Windsor Castle on the flightpath to Heathrow Airport?
I met an American in Melbourne Australia while I was watching Australian Rules Football in a Pub. When the first Quarter ended and they went to an Ad break she asked "How many Quarters are there in this game"? This woman had a Master's Degree !
I'm Aussie and spent six weeks travelling across the USA, and a lot of people said they couldn't understand me while speaking English. Others said I spoke really good English for an Australian. I had to explain to a lot of people that Australia was an island about the same size as the US - it was the only country that's also a continent of the world! How did they not know where it was?! Saying it was a continent confused them and they said the USA was the North America continent. I said no, it's a country of the North America continent - Canada and Mexico were also on the same continent as the USA. And some of them wanted to argue that I was wrong about that too! FFS! They have no idea!
I apologize and assure you that at least 10 of us are actually educated enough to know that and are ashamed of our fellow moron citizens. Too much time spent on gender exploration and learning how to have a temper tantrum any time someone says something you don't like.
i have seen this topic atleast a few times, for some reason some ppl think US is a whole continent, or refuse t oaccept that Mexico is part of north america... lol
It's common for Americans, upon visiting Europe, to "complain" that they could understand the English of different-native-language speakers in European countries, but regions of England or Ireland where English is still the common language they were lost and couldn't understand past the accent. Like it was a foreign language, but praising the non-native-English speakers on their "superb" English. What?
@@mosaicowlstudios I apologize that we have allowed these uneducated Americans in your country. We have a serious stupid problem and our education system seems to have caused it on purpose. We are working on it. Be patient.
Australian here, I literally had multiple people tell me to stop using a fake accent when I was in the US. I had to get my passport out in bars because it happened so often.
As a foreigner living in the USA a while ago, I was frequently complemented on my ability to be able to speak English. I happen to be English 🤣 I was once asked if the British celebrate Independence Day.
I’m a Brit who used to live in the US. One evening I was having dinner in Denver with a Senior Exec Japanese visitor and a clueless dumb colleague from my office in Atlanta and she asked him if learning English was difficult for a native Chinese speaker. I nearly choked on the Rocky Mountain ‘oysters’ we’d ordered. The look on the Japanese guy’s face was absolutely priceless, he was literally lost for words.
now did you take him out to eat testicles or did he take you out to eat testicles? edit: the obvious joke to be made here is that he was at a loss for words until he stole some characters from the chinese language to find the words to speak.
A couple of these remind me of the time I was at Heathrow airport and overheard an American tourist tell her friend how nice it is that they speak really good English there, except for that “weird accent”.
We lived for a year in Manchester, England and went to an English school. When we returned stateside my younger sister's teacher wanted her to start speech therapy. We had all picked up a Mancunian accent and the teacher had never heard a northern accent. The teacher changed her mind when mum talked to her! 😂
For what it's worth, I'm British and our younger generations have nary a few brain cells to spare between them. One teenager I work with genuinely, positively and passionately believed that the Rocky movies were a documentary. Upon hearing they were not he stated 'but I've seen him in real life!'.......I had to show him who Sylvester Stallone was. I nearly died.
What because they didn't know about a 40 year old film? Neither have I watched rocky and neither do I care too, because i could not care less about wrestling, so according to you I have not a single braincell? People of a certain age enjoy shitting on the younger generations because they are sore about staring down the barrel of old age, you sound like one of them.
Yeh, I was about to say the same. I'm 40 from Northern Ireland & moved to England in my teens. All the time I get called backwards & stupid just because of where I'm from, but they will argue with me when they compliment my accent & then get offended when I compliment theirs "WE DONT HAVE AN ACCENT" despite me just mimicking their English accents. I have older & younger friends & my younger friends know very little. One of my younger friends asked me if Scotland was in Belfast? I asked a few of them questions about the Queen, one being her name? Not a clue. They actually didn't know the royal family was an actual family & thought all you needed was to fill out an application form to join. One complained about having swollen ovaries in her neck (glands). One worried she would catch a transexual disease when she found out her man was cheating on her. One couldn't start her car for 20 minutes because she was in fact sitting in the passenger seat. One sat watching a movie for half hour, puzzled at why she couldn't understand what was being said. I had to point out that it was in a different language. When my friend was pregnant for the first time, she held her belly & said "Oh I can feel my heart beating" I had to tell her it was her baby kicking. Her response " Well I didn't know. Where is the heart then?" Went to park at IKEA & my friend tried parking much further away than she needed. I asked her why she wasn't parking at the mother & baby spaces & she replied "You need a child to be able to park there" I pointed to the backseat of her car & asked her "What's that?" Her toddler in his car seat. A friend mentioned to someone that she had been to Germany. Someone asked her which part & she said France, but hey I'm stupid because I apparently say the alphabet backwards because I'm Irish. I don't, but I can 😁
I am Brazilian, and in early 2000's I've lived in Florida for a few years under an H1B visa, as a software developer. Towards the end of my stint with that company, I met my current husband - who is Cuban-American and worked all his life in the music business. After a while, we decided to move to my city in Brazil, where we intended to - and actually did - open a record store. One of his friends, on learning about our plans, was like "But... but... what are you going to do there? It's just a little island, covered in jungle, full of snakes, jaguars and crocodiles!" After all those years living there, I was kinda used to the stereotypes and misconceptions, so I've tried to explain Brazil is larger than the contiguous 48 US states, and my town (São Paulo) is like New York on steroids, with a population of ~11 million, compared with the ~1,5 million of Miami-Dade, where we used to live by then . He, however, wouldn't have any of it, and kept saying he wouldn't dare visit us because jungle and dangers, and this and that. I finally got fed up and said "Look, it is actually better you never go there, cause chances are you would be killed by a jaguar and an alligator, all right: ran over by a drunk rich guy driving a fancy car, dressed in LaCoste gear." 🙄
@@kirra7406 Yes... that's precisely why I wrote "contiguous 48 US states", as Alaska and Hawaii do not share any borders with the other 48 states - hence are not contiguous/adjacent to them. 😉
I moved to Costa Rica about 9 years ago from the US. On a visit back to the US, one of my friends seriously asked me if the locals wore shoes. That friends seriously thought the locals lived in huts and ran around all day without shoes. I was like they only go shoeless at the beach and wear shoes like the rest of us everywhere else.
I lived in the US for 13 years, I am originally from Belgium but Canadian now. At one time someone working with me asked this (I quote): "When you drive home to Belgium after work what interstate do you take?" At first, I thought he was joking. When it became clear he was serious, I told him I took I-72 east. He totally believed me.
That's not terribly surprising considering things like the following are true: "I went to college in Delaware." "I went to the exact same college in Ohio." My college was in Delaware, Ohio. I have never been to the state of Delaware.
I was travelling in Europe many years ago and an American asked where I was from. I said Tasmania. He complimented me on my amazing grasp of the English language. We figured out he thought we were from Tanzania. I said my native language was Swahili but it was compulsory to learn English in school. I said I would sing our national anthem: "Tasmania, Tasmania, no relation to Albania, Pennsylvania or Transylvania - TASMANIA " Which I sang loudly and proudly to him but it went right over his head.
I've noticed a trend in a lot of American movies, if the story unfolds at different locations, there is often a text across the screen where they are. If it's in the US, it's very specific: "Las Vegas, Nevada" or "Brooklyn, New York". As soon as the action takes place somewhere else, it's: "Germany", "China" or "Sahara". Somehow the characters still find the exact location they need to...
Went to a local pancake restaurant with my family over a decade ago. Heard some woman at the table next to us say to her friend, "Did you know the Titanic really happened? It's not just a movie!" I don't think I've ever physically facepalmed so hard in my life. >__>
My son travelled throught the southern US with his Irish girlfriend - they could understand her but he had to put on an American accent to be understood. They were supposed to be there for 6 months, they cut their trip short by 3 months and left in sheer frustration...
Have to say, stupidity is not unique to America, (although they do it really well), here in UK my wife is constantly asked "Are you open on Bank Holiday Monday?" - she works in a Bank! Also, when talking about rising fuel costs and how it will cost a lot more at the petrol station, someone actually said.. "It doesn't really affect me, as I always just put £20 in." 😧
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These examples may prove that A: The American education system is failing, which is a scary thought, or B: The American education system is working exactly as planned, which is even scarier.
Your B is correct. Brainwashed into the American bubble that few take a peek outside of.
My cousin lives in Florida, his stepson is 15 and has never had a geography lesson.
Yeh but it’s so much more than that. I learned more about the world from reading books, newspapers, watching the news, talking to people, travelling, even playing Trivial Pursuit 😂.. not even the convenience of internet then.. and yet young people in America just don’t seem to care..
@@101steel4 What's really sad to me is that we have all of this amazing technology that allows us to connect to the world in ways we never could before, to learn about different cultures and histories...
AND THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT STILL BELIEVE THE WORLD IS FLAT.
@@williammccullough2466 Exactly. There's no excuse for anyone to be ignorant about the world around them. Everything you need to know is literally at your fingertips.
I'm Australian, a friend of mine's sister did a 12 month exchange to the US in highschool. While there she entered an oration/poetry competition and did "The Man From Snowy River" which is a famous Australian poem, it's had a couple of movies made based on it and everything. She started off by explaining that she was Australian and she had selected an Australian poem for the competition. She was marked down for her fake Australian accent. She is Australian. That was her normal voice.
What do you expect, from teachers who can't tell what a woman is and are unsure of how many genders there are...
They probably thought she should sound like Schwarzenegger, because Austria apparently is the same as Australia.
Yep great movies and had Kirk Douglas come down for the main male supporting role in the original and Brian Dennehy for the sequel. My mother used to quite often read that poem to us when we were kids.
Marked down for a “fake” Aussie accent? How stupid are these bloody yanks?
A friend of mine still occasionally reposts on his personal social media account a show review where the theatre critic called him out for trying too hard to put on a phony British accent.
That's his real accent. They later had to add a correction to the review and everyone I know still finds it hilarious.
I’m Aussie & when I was in the US, yanks asked me if I speak like this all the time 🤦♂️, they also said they gave gumtrees to Australia because Australia had no trees 🤦♂️🤦♂️
As a former exchange student who spent a year in an American Highschool in Nebraska, I have so many similar stories. Now, I am Swedish, but people, even adults, would regularly ask me if it was not strange for me to see this much technology. Obviously, I did not understand the question when it was first asked. So they would elaborate, and say: "Yeah, you know... computers, electricity, TVs!"
As if... we do not have that back in Europe. Or most of the entire world with only a few exceptions. In fact, the stuff we have in Sweden is a lot better than what the households in Nebraska had.
A few select people also thought it was unsafe for me, as an Athiest, to enter a church. While a bit dumb, at least the concern came from the right place.
I went to a Muslim country several years ago and had to argue with people when I returned to American that I used the bathroom in a flushing toilet. And when I explained it, I was told what I said wasn't true. Apparently I lied and Americans have exclusivity on flushing toilets.
I remember visiting Stockholm for work around 1995. I was amazed how much more ADVANCED stuff in Sweden was compared to what I was used to in America. Taxis with tiny printers (this was before GPS was available), able to look at my hotel bill on my room TV (which was like magic in 1995!). I got the same feeling visiting Japan in the 2010's. It's like we don't get the really cool stuff in America first anymore.
Always fun to tell the Americans that our tax declarations takes about five minutes, we are almost not using cash anymore and that Internet connections here is dirt cheap, highly reliable and everywhere. And free health care and education all through university of course.
@@FredrikHaugen or that nordic countries doesnt pay 80% taxes of their income because cheap healthcare
@@Nemusplanta Nope, average taxes is about 30-35%.
One guy on Facebook corrected me that "You're Asian, not Vietnamese" when I said that I'm from Vietnam.
I've never face-pamled so hard in my life.
Wtf. Seriously. Folks are crazy.
Should have told him people like him are why the US lost the Vietnam War.
@@GhostBear3067I know it's not a joke, but I'm still laughing, really.
@@GhostBear3067
*Lands in Siberia*
"I don't understand! The map says Asia!"
@TheWolfalpino what do you mean not a joke? While pretty much true I did mean it to be funny.
I'm Canadian. I met an American tourist who was surprised to find out we had cars in Canada. He was from North Dakota and had seen Canadian licence plates on cars before because they get a lot of tourists from Winnipeg, but he hadn't put two and two together.
And after I had explained it to him, he wanted to know where I kept my dogs. I said I only had one dog, and she slept in my back hall. He asked what happened to the rest of my dogs. I said I didn't have any other dogs. He was surprised to hear I only needed one dog _"TO PULL MY SLED"._
Over 80% of Canadians live in urban centres. I've never met _anyone_ who owned a dog sled team.
Lmfao you're making my day
I raise you one better. Got asked over Discord if we had cars and internet in Germany... over Discord... Cars.. and internet.. to give them a little kudos.. no we do have internet.. but not really its crappy at best some days xD
but cars?.. like we invented them! xD Course we got cars.. where did they think that Porsche, Audi, BMW, Mercedes and VW come from xD
@@MasumiSeike the Germans didn't really invent cars, tbh. They were just the first to make them on a production line as identical vehicles for sale rather than unique experimental ones: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile
You mean in America as well. You are an American, just not a yank.
@@oldmanaz.6811 No I'm a Canadian, not an American. I am a North American though, if that's what you mean.
I was In the Coliseum (which is in Rome, Italy, Europe 🤣) and the tour guide was talking about which dignitaries sat where., Caesars area, the politicians and where important foreign visitors to Rome say, from England, Spain, France and Greece. A voice came from the back of the crowd, a small loud fat woman In khaki shorts, where did the Americans sit? The guide said, nowhere, you lot weren’t discovered for another 1500 years. Everyone but her laughed.
😂
The fact that someone was brazen enough to ask that at the Coliseum in Rome pains me greatly.
Lmao wtf
Sad thing is, that was definitely not the first time they heard that question, I guarantee.
@@emeraldspark101 Oh, definitely not and it unfortunately will not be the last.
The second one really baffles me... I find it really weird that they value a driver's licence as a higher form of ID than an actual IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT (aka ID) like a passport. And what if I don't drive? What if I never took the driver's test? Can't I be identified without it?
Also what's up with only accepting american ID?? What they just gonna refuse to serve any tourists coming through? Like I show them my canadian driver's licence and I don't get to buy beer??? WTF?!?!
Theres so many
"They stole the election from me with fraud" Trump
"I believe what Trump says" some idiots
"Theres no government documents in my possession" in Trumps sworn statement
"They took the stolen government documents out of a box in the storage room, which I clearly where there" Trump on TWITter!
@@_JoyceArt oh yeah 100%, I was just pointing out how stupid that person is
The only US (federal) IDs are the social security card and the passport. 🤦
@@sebastienlecmpte3419 I once was almost rejected at an American bar in Seattle. Bouncer stared at my Canadian ID for what felt like 5 minutes before his boss had to step in and tell him that it was fine. He turns to me and says 'Next time you come here bring your American drivers license'. Yeah ok buddy, next time I'm at a foreign bar I'll bring my local ID, no problem.
If you think this is scary to watch as an American, then imagine watching this as an European knowing that these are the people sailing around the world in nuclear submarines and carrier ships.
😱
Europe? Ask all of the world, we all feel the same.
Yeah, exactly.
This year I went to India, for 6 months.
I'm Italian.
I stood there with poor people and mixing a bit.
I got in touch with at least a part of India culture (6 months are not a week).
When I come back to Italy, my mom retrieved me at the airport and drove back together.
Let me say that she's a very contradictory person, she studied and she values her "knowledge" a lot, but she's the most easier to influence on somethings, and the dumbest goat head on others.
During the drive, at a certain point, she said, refering to India, china, Asia, whatever...:
"Now they have the a nuclear missile and it will be a mess"
I suddenly stopped all my loving back home feelings and said:
"Do you really think that the problem of the world is this? When America has I don't even know how many? Do you realize that what you just said it's just propaganda?"
No way, I had to stop the conversation or I went for burying her.
(The point here is how much can misinformation, propaganda and stupidity chosen and unchosen, can turn people mindset, even the most "studied ones")
No, the neutral eye you have it or develop it or not, and got sucked in, in a way or another.
Americans think they the only people that exist so no need to know anything or anyone else. Then a lot of them don't even know their own country States as per another channel l watched. But l think it's more the younger generation who are dumb regardless of the fact they the generation in the modern technology era. Easy access to millions of information.
@@TheWolfalpino I think you're mother, very likely has a level of media literacy skills, that are practically non-existent.
Californian here, I've been around the block a few times and stupid has a way of sneaking up in you. I was in Germany, Berlin specifically, and I was amazed at how well this Asian woman was speaking German. Took a minute for my proper brain to start up with, "She was probably born and raised here idiot. Even if she isn't, German isn't exactly a rare language. " I was ashamed of myself.
I'm Canadian but born to new German immigrants. When I went to Germany when I was 16, I too was astounded to see Indian, Chinese, Sikh etc speaking German. Toronto has lots of new Canadians, but they always spoke English. Mind you I wonder how I would react visiting Quebec City or Montreal where they speak French?!?!
@@NordeggSonya come and try. We won't bite.
@@MmeHyraelle but you don't speak French. Quebecois is not French
@@NordeggSonya love how Indians and sikhs are different 🤣
Ermm - I knew a Afghanee ethnic guy from Germany doing post-grad in London. He spoke educated English of course and he said "British people just assume I am British, of perhaps Indian heritage, but in Frankfurt where I was born and raised and am a citizen I often meet locals who flatly refuse to believe me as i can't be because not white."
I love how frustrated you were getting. In no way do I think all Americans are stupid, but, the dumbest things I've heard and had said to me were ALL said by Americans.
Most civil workers are so stupid to start with
There nose's are so far up you know we're that they can't smell the butt smoke
Sad, but (in my experience) true.
Me too!
I'm from the UK and I've met a lot of stupid people here. They're everywhere.
🤣Yep! My brother-in-law is American and we're all close with his family (uncles and cousins and everyone), they're confounded by the things some Americans say! But yeah, even with all my experiences with them and other Americans... plenty of lovely normal people, but every stupid question I've been asked has been from an American 😂
Not knowing Europe is classic. I gave up on saying I am from The Netherlands, and explaining Amsterdam is just a city. If you give up on it, it can be fun. I convinced ' a Shanon' I was from Holland, lived in a windmill, with a beautifull view of the Eiffel tower and that I went for my daily groceries to Stockholm on my bike.
oh holy hell. As a living, breathing, educated, logical American - there are at least 10 of us who know that. The other 330 million - maybe not so much. We are going to crap. Help!!!
I am happy that you choose Stockholm for buying your groceries!
Maybe I'll see you sometimes when we both ride our bikes through my beutiful home town!
(I especially like this because my mother spoke Dutch. She was a translator,
mainly from English and German, but she expanded her horizons and learned Dutch as well.)
JAJAJAJAJAJA 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 when they find out that I'm Latin American , many of em have told me : "hey i know some Mexicans words" OMG i die of cringe i just answered back ohh really because I know they aren't trying to be rude. But it really makes you wonder what the hell they teach them
@@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 I'll wave! Fun fact is that I am a language teacher 🙂 (English, Dutch and German)
Well when the curriculum is 11 years of American history and one course (that wasn't for the whole year) of World History, what do you expect? (As someone from a small town school in America, this is the education I got.)
Jeremy Clarkson nailed it when he asked; "Why do UFOs ALWAYS seem to appear in a particular place or community in south-west America?"
Because they're looking for idiots!
The ufo was dropping him off.
Canadian here. I have to start by saying that I have worked in jobs where many of my colleagues were American, and for the most part they were intelligent and educated.
But...
There was one year in late December when I was providing software support to a woman in the North Carolina office, and she said, "Just to let you know our office will be closed on the 25th. We have an American holiday called Christmas. Have you ever heard of Christmas?"
Fun fact: Christmas is a European invention, not an American one. Pretty sure Canadians know about it.
That’s funny coz i’m from malaysia , a muslim country and we too have a christmas holiday 😂
@@ameeerul3933 Rock on😀
@@ameeerul3933 The Flintstones celebrated Christmas. Think about it...
Really, A LOT of Americans don't understand their own culture, historical figures and icons. Definitely an age and education thing. Older people with basic education can destroy young people in HS and college. Older educated people are 4 times, no wait, 40 smarter than the president.
I'm sitting in In N Out Burger with a friend and his relatives and their friends. I look around and say "Oh, a fifties theme in this restaurant, huh". Every American says "What do you mean a fifites theme?"
I dunno, fifties music playing, people dressed like a soda jerk, tuck and roll seats, pictures of cars from the 50s...
I am nowhere near the age of someone born in the 50s. I grew up with fuel injected cars, internet, computers. People now, don't seem to know anything from the day before they were born and before. People learn the minimum because they don't have to know more to function in society. The same people get upset when things don't go the way that they want it to go or think that it should go because they understand nothing else.
The movie "Idiocracy" was a funny joke, until it became true.
This story I'm going to tell you is the absolute truth. I was a Travel Consultant for American Express for 11 years and my older sister booked her own trip to England online all by herself without consulting me first on what were the best areas to book a inexpensive hotel in London and what tours to take, etc;.. she booked the flight, hotel and car rental through the website... when I ask her where she was going after London she looked me dead in the face and said, I'm going to drive to Paris... I looked at her and said, "you mean you're going to fly to Paris"... she replied, "No, I'm driving there in my rental car. I said, Kathy, you can't drive from London to Paris, you either have to take a plane, a train or a ferry if you want to go to Paris. I told her, if you want to take your rental car you can pay to transport it through the Chunnel on the Eurostar. Otherwise you must use the ferry to cross the English Channel with your car.She looked me dead in my face and laughed and said, "Oh My God, you do not have to cross a body of water... England and France are right next to each other... you can drive there in about 2 hours. What was worse is my older sister chimed in and validated my other sisters claim that not only were London and Paris 2 hours apart by car but that they were both on the Pacific Ocean. I couldn't beleive my ears. My one sister looked at me and said you don't know what you're talking about, you haven't been educated enough to know Geography like I do. I was 38 at the time with 4 years of college under my belt to her 7th grade education at 50. My oldest sister went to the 10th grade... later that day my older sister asked me how to spell "IF"... I shit you not. I love my sisters but they are dumb as stumps. My nephew came in the room and told my sisters, "I think that someone with ha degree in World History and works for a Travel Agency for a living would know a whole lot more about these places than a Data Entry Clerk and a unemployed Auto dealer cashier. We just looked at each other and shook our heads. He knew what time it was. hahaha 🤣😂
Fotfl
@@jocelynnowen3078 Little man for the win! He roasted his mom and aunt despite knowing that hes gona get a wooping not long after that! XD
Please let me know what happened when she finds out she does, indeed, have to cross a body of water, lmao.
The craziest part about this is the fact they actually believed they were 2 hours apart, forget everything about the English Channel and whatnot, London and Paris. 2 hours travel. I don't care if you don't know the geography of the area, if you have ever looked at a big city in your life and what kind of traffic there is as soon as you go outside of the city center and towards the outskirts you'd KNOW that this type of prediction makes no damn sense, fuck, Paris to Orléans can definitely take you more than 2 hours just due to traffic alone let alone taking the distance into account (depending on the day and hour of course, if you do it a Tuesday in April at 6:30 AM you would encounter a lot less traffic) and those cities are really close
@@daisychong3488 She never got to Paris because once she landed in London and asked for a map to Paris she got a wake up call. To make matter worse for her she didn't know where to go to site see and wasted her entire week walking around London with no idea as to where the Museums were, or seeing Kennsington Palace or even the Tower of London. I recommended all of these places and more and especially thought she's love visiting Hampton Court Palace. She never saw any of it. The best she got to see was the route she took to go visit a lady she met online a few hours out of London... at lease she was able to take in the sites as she drove past them. Some people just don't want to learn anything new because they think they already know it all.
I was a high school math teacher in Wisconsin for 12 years. I had a student who told another student that their ethnicity was Korean. The other student said, "No. You're Asian." It took me 20 minutes to explain that Koreans are Asians just more specific, kind of like we're American, but also Wisconsinites. I'm not convinced they understood.
Maybe they didn't understand because if it took 20 minutes perhaps you were overcomplicating it. What if you had just shown them a map?
@@AaaaNinja entirely possible. Although it was 20 minutes because I would explain it and he would say no, that's not right and I would try again. This was before everyone had a computer in their pocket so I didn't have a map. Great idea, though.
Reminds me of King of the Hill when Kahn tells them he's from Laos and Hank just goes, "So are you Chinese or Japanese?"
@@peregrinef3203 The next time think about a thing. You cant save all the stupids. Never lose more than 5 minutes in these things. Instead, use the other 15 minutes to try and save another 3 stupids.. chances are much better this way.
note my shock and surprise that the USA school system teaches anything not written in their constitution
As a Dutch person, I am forever grateful to that last guy. In the 3 weeks that I've spent in the US I got so sick of having to explain that. I also got sick of the amount of times I had this conversation:
'Are you guys speaking German?'
'No, we're speaking Dutch'
'What's the difference?'
They think Denmark is the capital of Holland or sweden. And we had polarbears running around and the best part that we used them to ride to get around,.
@@theotherguy8007 Canadian here - Thought it was only Canadians they thought rode polar bears to school if we even had schools that is. And we live next door. Lol. With this amount of ignorance you can have fun with it as we do. We tell them the most outrageous stories and they just sit there mouth agape. Of course this only encourages them. But the only alternative is to be astounded at their ignorance while true isn't much fun. We chose fun a long time ago
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Ohhh no, everyting in the northern hemisphere rides them polarbears(Cars only exist in AMERIKKKA). I have heard alot of dumb tings they say with a straight face. Not long ago i heard one say that casa de augustus aka caesars palace didnt look anyting like the one they have in vegas.......
Haha yeah one can say some wild tings.
I vr never been to Holland, but I ve been to the Netherlands lol
I'm from New Zealand but the people at my work insisted on introducing me from the Netherlands. I stopped correcting them, close enough I guess.
I'm from London, but live in the US and have been told multiple times that my English "is real good for a foreigner". I've also been asked to "speak British to my kid". When I utter words in English, the response was "No, no. Your own language!" 😑
Give 'em a bit of Boom & Bang (Rhyming Slang).
JAJAJAJA
You should've taught them a FOOTBALL CHANT 😂 they'd think that's some other language 😂. Do you support any Premier League Team?
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@@balerion77 Who ate all the pies, who ate all the pies, you fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pies
That feels like a dystopian nightmare. A friend of a friend went to the US for a holiday and she had to show her ID (Finnish Passport) at a convenience store and they claimed that her passport was fake and that Finland doesn't even exist. Honestly it threw my mind on a loop for a while. I mean I guess it's a meme but seriously?? Even the security said the same thing as the cashier.
Babe wake up new conspiracy theory just dropped
Finland isn't real
I had similar issues with my American drivers license in Germany including some people who refused to accept it because I didn’t believe it was a proper form of ID even when I had translated it. Smart people don’t work at convenience stores.
@@Mortablunt German here. Looked it up and a drivers license should be normally enough to get age verification in a store. But stores can house rule to not accept a drivers license at all. In that case you need a passport. (That's the ruling for german drivers license - I asume the ruling is similar for foreign documents. )
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I understood it as they didn't know if it was legitimate or not; not a lot of Americans come by with drivers licenses. I also looked very young for my age. I was 19, but I looked 14. I had an incident in America few years later where a bar bouncer refused to beleive I was actually of age and took my ID.
@@Mortablunt Makers sense. Also they increased risk for the cashier years ago (a decade maybe more?) so you cna actually loose your job if you make a mistake with age validation As it had been very leninent before. So its likely they would say no before risking their job.
This brings back a memory from my time working as a waiter in Munich. I got in conversation with an American guest at the hotel who asked me where Is was from. I let him know that I was a student from England but I was working in Munich during the summer break. He complimented me on my grasp of English saying it was almost fluent! As he tipped me 5 DM, I thanked him and told him that I had practiced speaking it a lot..
I apologize for how many living breathing morons we have inflicted on the world.
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Holy shite
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Belgian here, more specifically Bruges. My girlfriend was walking through the city some time ago and an American tourist asked her when Bruges closes.. Looking totally flabbergasted by the question she replied: "At 8pm"
That tourist was under the sheer impression that our city is an amusement park and noone lives within the city walls...
A city like Bruges or Venice is so different from anything in the US that the poor guy probably couldn't comprehend that it's an actual city were over 100k people live LOL.
The dumbest thing I heard an American say, “Jesus was an American because he was preaching American values and American democracy.”
To which I promptly said,” ah that’s why it didn’t end so well for him in the Middle East.”
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God damn, what a comeback
I had an American say to me "I speak American, if it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me." I thought he was joking. He was not.
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...that's pretty damn dumb.
oh, thats actually Mormonism. in that fanfiction/religion, Jesus came to America, and Native Americans are Hebrews, and that dark skin is a result of sinning.
I met a 30-something year old American man in NC who spent over an hour telling me about his hunting adventures around the world, even going so far as Tasmania Australia to hunt Tasmanian Tigers..... They have been extinct for over 100 years.
He probably just watch hunting RUclips videos
Reminds me of a guy I knew. Doesn't quite fit the topic as we're both Canadian, but the brand of stupid was the same.
He tried to impress me by telling me about a rattlesnake he once killed with a stick. Said it's corpse was lying there twitching, and blinking.
Genuis gets double points for a) claiming an animal without eyelids was blinking, and b) bragging about the senseless killing of an animal listed as threatened, in an attempt to get into a vegan's pants.
Goes to show, stupid isn't always simple, sometimes it has layers.
Was his name Lestat? 😁
I had an American tell me he was driving to Alaska. I asked him how many days is he spending in Canada. He said he was just driving to Alaska, so no days. I had to pull out a map and show him that Alberta is the length of the entire USA from the southern point of Texas to the northern part of Idaho. The American education system at work.
Not to be that guy, but if there's a photo of one at a zoo from 1930 they have not been extinct even 100 years let alone "over" 100 years. But for a 30-year-old that is definitely dumb.
"There's no way you actually speak more than one language. Everybody knows bilingual people are an urban myth." That was more than a decade ago and I still have no idea how she thinks translators do their job.
Oh my lord, i had the same thing. Norwegian here, on vacation in germany. We ended up with some americans in a pub, and the talk was flowing (in english ofc). And then my friend turned to me and told me he had to call home, in norwegian. This one american dude flat out refused to believe that we were not making up some weird english accent or something, and not speaking our native language. We all went 404 Error blank stare on him, because he was not kidding.
@@thanossnap4170 yeah...thats like a special lvl of stupid😂😂😂
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@@thanossnap4170 And that where Scandinvanian languages sound so nice to my tysk ears.^^
Can't beat a 5th grader.
Love your reactions... your facial expressions are like "dead inside", "dude, you f*** serious", "why am I not even doubting this happened this exact way" :D
In 2015, I took some classes at a community college (3rd career change, I was in my early 60's). In one class we gave PowerPoint presentations on health care systems of other countries. One student gives her report on Switzerland, and prefaces it by saying Switzerland is not Sweden. After her report, the teacher said "But there is a country called Sweden, isn't there?" She genuinely was asking. This was the person grading my research papers.
I mean they are very different words. in my native language, Portuguese, they are very similar: Suíça (Switzerlanda) and Suécia (Sweden). So, it is A BIT more understandable that KIDS would mix them.
@Pedro Bastos, yes, kids, but teachers? That's insane. They should've known!.
Teachers in my school usually didn't get things wrong, except for on occasion math, the reason for this is I was there. You don't get things wrong when you have a kid who sleeps through class, and knows all the right answers before you dare to wake him. Do you have any idea how funny it is to be woken up and then within 5 mins, corrected the teacher telling them the problem written on the board is written wrong, give them the answer to both the incorrect problem and the actual problem they were suppose to write, and then be told to go back to sleep instead of being awake for the rest of class. Now granted my teachers were better at knowing what to teach more than some others as I soon learned from seeing people talk about their experiences on the internet. Now unfortunately I had a number of teachers who didn't care, they did teach us the right things, but they didn't care about bullies in school. In fact some of them would punish anyone that defended themselves against the bullies (in other words me, cause I have siblings, I know how to fight and the bullies, they didn't have a fun time). Thankfully I also had from time to time good teachers which did their job, they knew how to deal with me (basically saying I at least needed to look like I was awake or paying attention, cause they knew I already knew the answers so I didn't need to be there), they didn't allow bullies, and they were just cool teachers. Not everyone has those I realize, and I feel bad for anyone who went through school without at least 1 good teacher. Hell I learned chess from a teacher who used to be a chess champion, which I think is cool, then again I'm a nerd so eh.
Went to historical Jamestown when visiting the USA. The guide was dressed in period costume and telling us the history of the settlement. He said his shirt was made from buckskin leather rather than cotton. As it was an unseasonably warm day I asked him how he was finding it. He looked at me like I was complete idiot and said. 'No sir. I didn't find it. I made it.' I didn't ask any more questions after that.
@@davidstirk4732 wow......i feel my self esteem points restore like + + +
reading all these stories.
I'm a portuguese and the amount of times I've heard an American say my country is in Africa or is a city in Spain is painfully astronomical.
To be honest arent we all a city in spain at heart?
And remember, Spain is in South America, the Iberian peninsula is a mistake in the map, we are not European... 😂😂😂
As as Spanish person I am exhausted from being told that my nationality is a language and not a real nationally😢😂.
so if portugal is a city of spain, every american knows spain is just under mexico so you must eat really good tacos! ( how many times they're brains are broken when listen: spain is in Europe)
Spend the 14th Century fucking around, spend the 21st Century finding out...
When I told people in the US I was moving to Vienna, they either said, "Oh my gosh! I didn't know you spoke Italian!" or "You have to ride the gondolas."
If I made the mistake of clarifying that Vienna is in Austria, invariably I would get a little silence, then "I love kangaroos."
Ok but in their defence, I am german and I once mistook Austria for Australia... But on the other hand, that was in 4th grade
I thank GeoGuessr for confirming the existence of Austria because I never knew it existed and thought it was Australia with a typo. But I wasn’t an adult when thinking that and staying ignorant af!
😅Vienna, Venice, Australia and Austria all mixed up
There's a sign in one of the major Austrian airports that says "Welcome to Austria, we are not Australia."
I just don’t understand what people do with their time?? Even if they never crack open a book, Hollywood movies and tv have a lot of info about other countries!!
17:55 That did it! Hahahahahahahahaha After ALL the corrections, the one that killed me was someone from a different country telling you what floor of a building you live on!!
I was born in England but moved to America when I was 5 as my mother married an american, then moved back when I was 10. I was straight A student in America, but was C in England and worked toward my final B. English schooling is more complex. An A in America is borderline needing help in England lol
I think this is the insulting thing. It's not that Americans (or other, English people are sometimes guilty of this as well) are uninformed. It's that when some Americans are confronted with new information that contradicts what they have been taught, instead of being open minded, some Americans see fit talk down to a person who is more knowledgeable on a topic when they have no clue. To the point (like in this video) where an American is lecturing a Canadian on what Canada is like when chances are they haven't even been to Canada themselves.
It's not ignorance, it's willful ignorance and extreme arrogance mixed together
That right there is going to be the downfall of the US if they aren't more careful about it. People make it a point of honour to argue about things they think they know, and that everyone else is a fool. Even if it's a widely established scientific fact they are arguing against. Unwilling to change their views in the event of new information. Total refusal to accept anything that goes against their past (often very flawed) knowledge. That type of cognitive dissonance is one of the main things that is wrong with society and politics in my opinion. It's even creeping into other countries like mine (UK) now. Confidence in long-held beliefs is seen as an almighty virtue. Things change though, and we all should have the capacity to change our minds without shame or "defeat".
Well said! And very accurate.
Wilful Ignorance is the 8th Deadly Sin.
Very good point
They do seem to focus more on making children confident/arrogant instead of making them know stuff. They grow up thinking they know best so when they encounter a gap in their knowledge, instead of saying "Hmm, I don't know, I'll look it up!", they revert to what they're taught to do, be confident and arrogant about it, the facts aren't important.
Obviously they're not all like that but it does seem to be a common behaviour there.
@@SaintPhoenixx Then again, we Brits will just raise our talking volume at you until you understand Ok
To quote the great George Carlin.. "When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."
Or my personal favorite: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
I'm from Eastern Canada, and my family went to my uncle's cottage in Maine. 2 elderly women stopped by as my sister and I were at the lake, and asked if we were visiting or lived in the area. We mentioned we were Canadians and that our uncle has a cabin here that they always come to in the summer, and this year we tagged along.
Both women proceeded to ask us how much snow we had back home. In the middle of July. On the East coast where we get more rain than snow because of humidity. We laughed and said there was no snow, and that we get boiling hot summers too. They straight-up didn't believe us and thought we were lying, insisting "you're from Canada so there MUST be snow!!! Isn't it right there at the border!?!?". I brought up my weather app and searched for back home, and showed them how actually it was 5 degrees hotter back home than it was right there in Maine at that moment. I even converted it to Fahrenheit for them, and they left my sister and I with this ignorant attitude of "how can we be wrong?"
That was my very first face-to-face interaction with an American. I was 16 lol.
I was once asked in the US, Florida to be specific, which country I was from. I told the guy I was English to which he replied "what language do they speak there, because your English is really good?" I just sighed. Also in Florida I was wearing an English brand of clothing called 'Maine - New England'. An American came up to me and asked "where in Maine are you from?" perfectly acceptable question. I replied "it's just a clothing brand name I'm from England. To which he replied "that can't be true only Maine can use that name." I was tempted to name a list of English town and city names but I worried his head might explode.
I'm coming to the conclusion that all the chemicals they put in American food are slowly killing the brain cells of Americans.
I'd guess it's foxnews, but the food chemicals are also a good conclusion
@@dasbertl how are you gonna say fox News and not include CNN? Thats so laughable.
@@nicksshitbro The amount of crap coming out of CNN is insignificant compared to the crap from Fox News. Like 99.99% vs 0.01% However, to non Americans, Fox news is quite the entertainment channel in regard to the retarded idiocracy they proclaim.
@@nicksshitbro easy: until FoxNews came in, CNN was considered to be fair and balanced. The poisened athmosphere has one source, at that is FoxNews. Nowadays CNN is literally as onesided as FoxNews, though not so far away from objectivity and facts. But the shrill tone FoxNews brought in is at any media outlet nowadays
To be fair we have ALOT of people in Florida that are not from the US so they may have not recognized your accent. On my street alone we have people that are from Cuba, Dominican Republic and Poland and the older family members don't speak English at all. It is interesting living in Florida a whole new world of crazy but still interesting.
I'm Australian, I've travelled a lot in the US and have heard a LOT of dumb things said. But I can vouch for the need for a translator. But a tip for Aussies in the US; after the third failed attempt at being understood speaking normally, repeat exactly what you just said with a fake American accent, and they'll get it.
Wow
Tbf that's not really a stupidity thing (still kinda odd though)
In America, understanding accents and dialect is basically a superpower.
Heck, Americans have trouble understanding other Americans sometimes actually had to have a southern translater when I couldnt understand this thick Alabama accent. Actually asked her to speak slower still couldnt understand. And she was supposedly speaking English.
Might just take my Glaswegian, Liverpudlian, Newcastle mates😂
I once had a conversation with an American fella on holiday in the UK with his family, we were all on the train going from London to Edinburgh. Being Scottish, this fella picked up on my accent when I was speaking to the guard handling tickets and he turned to me after and said: "You must be loving this son?"
Being a bit confused, I asked him what he meant and he proceeded to explain to me how Scotland was third world and didn't have electricity in most places. So the act of being on an electric train must've been a thrilling experience to me.
His wife and kids were very keen to just stare out the window while I let him know that we're not that backwards in the north though I'm not sure he really believed me.
Ridiculous
You should've just bullshitted him and said something along the lines of 'yeah it's tricky trying to find an electrician that can wire up a castle - the solid stone is a real pain to drill through' and just fed him the idea that Scotland was some kindof middle-ages fantasyland where everyone is a lord with a giant sword.
You should have told him about Robert Davidson (1804-1894) Who was a Scottish inventor who built the first known electric locomotive in 1837.
Do you want to know something even weirder? “Third World” doesn’t mean what most people think it means, or at least what it ORIGINALLY meant. First World meant NATO and it’s allies; Second World meant Warsaw Pact nations and China (Communist countries); Third World meant NON-ALIGNED countries. So Switzerland and Ireland are “third world “ countries.
It didn’t mean un/under/ developed/ developing nations.
But as they say, language usage changes.
@@GrumpyOldFart2 I did not know that. I have learned a new thing today. Thanks! 😁
As a Canadian in college, we were accepted in the border towns but when I first travelled across the south from California to Florida I had similar experiences at almost every stop. Most polite but curious but some were so completely ignorant of anything beyond their own limited travel.
I know what you mean. I was a military brat and many of us spent time overseas. Once a teacher told a friend that he was wrong about Japanese geography. My friend had just spent 5 years living there! The teacher had never even travelled out of state!
I’m an American whose fourth grade teacher had never traveled outside the eastern US. She insisted that it’s three hours later in California than in New York, when it’s the other way around.
I (English) was in a McDonald's in Stockton California when a server said she loved my accent. I responded 'I love yours too.' Her response leaves me amused whenever I think back to it all these years later. She said "But I don't have an accent?" and stood there frozen with a confused look for several seconds as I exited the establishment.
Waiting the day humanity will understand everybody has accent and that's ok.
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If ever there is a person with no accent, they have created a new accent.
probably a university graduate. We suck at education here.
@@AramatiPaz Yes. Be realistic. There will never be a world like that. People have different opinions about things. And that is natural and good. We need some struggle. Having all people agree can only happen with tyranny - the law will tell you what you can and cannot say.
Ugh Stockton, such an awful place, glad you survived.
As a Swedish person I get a lot of: "-Oh, you got the Alps, right?" Swiss guys, I feel your pain.
Just tell them Yes, you all have shares in them.
The Swedish alps that border Italy and Sweden. So Glad as a French Alps guy i can go to Stockholm in an hour using my snowbike 😂
@@GORANJOVIC631 As long as you watch out for the polar bears that supposedly walk the streets of our capital.... 😂
@@CeleWolf I wish. 😄
@@erikaeriksson9840 It's ok i have my domestic wolf with me 🤣
My third grade teacher ridiculed me for answering her question: "Which planet is closet to the Sun?"
I had answered Mercury. She then lectured me on how Mars is the closest planet to the Sun. That was the first time I realized that (on some things) I knew more than my teachers.
I had a Danish teacher for one year at school, who was supposed to teach us our national language… Danish.
And the fun part? Well. She was dyslexic.
Reminds me of a college lecturer who told me that I couldn't describe a shape as a right-angled triangle "because that depends on which way up it is".
she probably talked about habitable planet but not the other planet which is unhabitable
@@Polymerata Mars is not habitable. Mars is also further away from the sun than Earth.
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Then she would have been tripple wrong because none of that would be mars.
I once met an american student here in germany and he said to me "He thought it was always raining here since all the WW2 movies show a rainy and dark germany!"
As a German I had the same pasport problem when buying cigarettes. When I tried to explain what a passport is and that if it is good enough to cross the border it should be good enough to buy some tobacco, they threatened to call the police. At that point I was in full culture shock mode and just went.
At that point I realized I had to handle my interactions with Americans in America much more carefully. I never felt safe there to be honest.
Holy crap. I am so sorry. There are about a dozen of us here who have an actual education. We just can't keep the other 330 million in their cages. They keep escaping and spouting ignorance and shedding tears over how oppressed they are. Which they record on their $1000 iPhones for your viewing pleasure. It is driving us nuts. It's awful here. Help.
@@pierrepiea3279 Americans I meet outside of the US are mostly very nice to be around. So it is not all bad.
@@pierrepiea3279 This made me laugh so hard.
@@Youbetternowatchthis That's because they are smart enough to know that there is a world outside of the United States of America.
About half the population of America is dumb and the other half is educated. People homeschooling their kids does not help, especially when they only teach the Bible, my cousin's for example. They literally don't learn anything else. 🤦 Some parents who homeschool their kids are actually good about it, but some of them teach them flat Earth concepts and s*** like that.
I was once on my way home from working in Edinburgh when I overheard an American couple discussing, entirely in earnest, how convenient it was that the castle had been built so close to the train station. 🤦
Same with Windsor Castle being built so near Heathrow Airport! And they think the castle is built out of fibreglass like a Disney attraction!!
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You sneaky little devils you😃😃😍😍.
Oof! That's right down there with Trump's claim that the Continental Army took the British Airfields during the Revolution
I worked in a bank for a while in customer service and I got a call from an American woman who wanted to apply for an Irish credit card. She still lived in America and was only going to be visiting Ireland later in the year. She thought that if she used an American card, the ATMs here in Ireland would only give her dollars and not Euros. I didn't know how to even begin explaining to her that's not how that works...
What?! They don't freshly print the money inside of the ATM based on the nationality of the person withdrawing funds? I'm shocked! 🤣
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Wello, they certainly wouldn't give her any cents. 😉
That can't be trueeeee 🙀🙀🙀🙀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👀👀
Actually, could you elaborate on this? Last time I traveled abroad cash was still a thing. Does it work like exchanging currency? Does the local bank take interest for processing another country's currency? Does it work for any country?
As teenagers in 1967, my buddy and I went to the Worlds Fair in Montreal. We met a couple from New Jersey camped next to us. They were in a panic as the starter had quit on their car. We took him down and got one ordered even though they speak French there. The wife ran out of food and was afraid to buy any in Canada because all the labels were in two languages. They told us this was the furthest they had ever been from home and the first time ever out of the US. We believed them.
i moved from germany to the us as a middle schooler and had a 45 minute discussion with my geography teacher because she didn't believe me that we actually also drive on the right side of the road her argument was only the US drives on the right side. The day after she actually seriously asked me if we have DVDs and TVs over there this wasnt very long ago abot 6-7 years and as i told her technologically germany was at least as advanced as the US she called me a liar hahaha
fuck man...the country of the bmw´s audi´s and mercedes and no dvd´s and tv´s....
OMG. I remember using the word "Haus Frau" in sophomore English class. The teacher argued endlessly with me that it was not a word. It means housewife in German. She was also the type whose exams on a classical novel would ask, "What color dress was Rebecca wearing in the scene on the marsh?" I swear that is a true story.
@@pierrepiea3279 hahahaha yeah sounds about right idk why theyre so ignorant and stupid its kind of painful
@@pierrepiea3279 What an idiot Teacher, because in German you can just make NEW words by combining other words XD
It's not like Germany has a bit of a reputation regarding the automobile industry 😂 Yeah, it's a big surprise we have running water and electricity.
America is really wild, man
As they say, "There aint no cure for stupid" Stupid is universal, but I must admit that SOME Americans have turned it into an artform!
As a European, I feel your pain! It's astonishing how 400 mil country has people who are clueless about the planet they live on.
Ohhh my worse yet...devoid of self awareness.
@@janeguarnera7700 bone idle
there is a saying: all the gear and no idea.
In their defense, every one of them is an individual, not a hivemind. Some people educate themselves, others get educated but a third part stay ignorant.
As an Australian who’s lived here 3/4 of my life I still get asked ridiculous crap
When I was young I spent a few months studying in the United States. I'm Spanish. I was asked several times, people who did not know each other, on different occasions if we have a moon in Spain.
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I’m Canadian, this happened many years ago, probably 1995. An American I was speaking to in a chatroom, on the internet, that I needed a computer to access, asked me if Canada had electricity yet.
I’m curious too know what makes an American think Canadians are
living in caves.
Recently an American started working in a department near mine (she's only been in the UK a short time and this was her first job here). She was upset to find out she would not be getting Labor Day, Columbus Day, nor any of the 11 Federal holidays off work. It was amusing when she complained to her manager. It was even more amusing when she complained directly to the Director of HR and our CEO.
That is a strange complaint given that she was likely to be getting way more annual leave in the UK than she would ever get from any job in the US.
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One of these videos recounts Americans holidaying in MOROCCO on the 4th July and wondering why there were no celebrations.
The stupidity is bone deep.
And yet she probably had more combined vacation in the UK anyway.
with access to NHS and dependant on contract annual leave and sick day allowances, as well as everything you buy in the uk actually having the full price you pay on the label rather than having to add tax afterwards ....
the uk current law on holidays is 28 days of paid leave (normally 2 to 4 weeks notice has to be given, but thats normally employer to employer basis) so take those 11 days of paid leave (dont know if you still get a wage for the national holidays) and add another 2 weeks off of paid leave to it (ive left some over as bank holidays can be points where you either have them off or are on a double/triple pay system dependant on workplace)
@@c.w_ and paid as well!
I spent 6 months in the US as an exchange student. I've gotta say that the general level of the courses and requirements at the university were at the same level as in high school in Finland (also, my apologies to those that I tricked when I said that we have pet penguins and polar bears are the main threat to human population here).
Once in class the professor referred to an American study, which proved that "on average, 50 per cent of the American people are smarter than the other half." I laughed at first bc I thought he was making a joke, but then I noticed no one else was laughing, including the professor. Then he just went on with this insightful study. Well, I have to admit that he wasn't wrong, but... Oh well.
Ah yes, this floor here is made out of floor
I had to read this 3 times because I thought I kept misreading the percentages 😂
@@BobbieSmith46 did you also know that 50% of Americans are richer than the other 50%? Crazy.
@@TheGrimbler all these percentages are frying my brain, but unfortunately there wasn't much there to start with.
They use the educational system to literally stupidfy the whole population so they are easier to manage.. this in turn comes with its own problems.. ignorance breeds violence and that is what they get.
I'm Norwegian, I spent 11 years in South Carolina. I'm permanently scarred by stupid questions.
On the flip side - the first time I met my Greek neighbor, I pointed to the segmented nautilus-shell shape he displays on both his cars. "Ahh! The Fibonacci Sequence! Beautiful!" When he said he was surprised an American knew what that is, I wanted to punch him. After watching your video, I guess I owe him an apology.
The one that made me laugh the most was an American telling an Algerian he was pronouncing the name of his country wrong and the correct way to pronounce it was "Argentina"..
It's that deadly combination of stupidity and arrogance 😅
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 yep, the Dunning-Kruger effect in full swing...
That and the one with the girl from Egypt.
@@Nemshee Your fantasising, Egypt is just a myth from Disney cartoons. Indiana Jones has been there but it was a Hollywood fake I think.
My French friend had a similar experience when she revealed she's French Algerian, an American kept asking if she meant French Albanian
Speaking to a American girl here in UK, we were talking about travelling and so on. She then says "I really want to visit Rome because I've never been to France before", we couldn't stop laughing.
She can enjoy some lovely native food there, like tacos 😂
LOL
Well, I know a famous German footballer - Andreas Möller - who once answered (he says he hasn't) to the question which team he will change to: "Milan or Madrid, main thing it's Italy."
I had a literal American physics student, in a pub, tell me that Stonehenge was caused by a volcanic eruption... I wish, I WISH... I was kidding 😂 being academic isn't being smart, it's being singularly driven, which, is actually the antithesis of broadening your mind.
@@Frohds14 to be fair atleast one of those city’s is Italian
I befriended an US army guy here in Germany and since he was stationed here for some years, he tried to get his parents to visit him. His mom didn't want to come as she didn't know what clothes to pack. She reckoned it severally unsave to pack her jeans as Germans don't know these garments and she might get robbed of them. She really thought Germans dress like in "The Sound of Music". And she believed Germans don't have any technology, like we're living in the middle ages ;))) She had the most severe culture shock when she actually did come.
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when I visited a friend in wisconsin for the first time, he wanted to introduce me to a dude he knew, who annoyed everyone around him with his stupidity and his claims of being of "german heritage" and how great his german is and all.
since I am german, my friend wanted me to not say where I'm from and see how my first impression of the guy would be.
I went along with it and met the guy at a small party and when his only ever conversation topic came up, I heard his german skills... and they were not good at all. my friend could pronounce certain words better than he did and my buddy never claimed to be good at it!
so I went up to him and corrected him here and there in the middle of his monologue. this guy took this kinda personal as it seemed, because he fired back at me, to shut up with my fake german accent. I told him, it wasn't fake because unlike himself, I was actually from germany. he didn't believe me, and asked me mockingly to say a few sentences in german then, which I did, but in return he just giggled and "corrected" my "obvious" fake-german pronounciation failures, which no actual german would ever commit. I answered, that this might be because the german teacher in his and my friend's school probably doesn't know how to pronounce those words right to begin with and that he learned them wrong because of it, while I was speaking not high-german but a watered-down lokal dialect from my home region.
No, that was fake to him. I was a cheap wannabe, who tried too hard, but ultimately failed to the depth of his well of knowledge. :)
That teacher is a total failure
It's really sad when high school language teachers don't speak the language they're trying to teach as well as they should and aren't willing to admit to their students, "I'm not a native speaker. I've never actually been to a country that speaks this language." or "This isn't the only accent or dialect of this language that exists." I've taught Portuguese, briefly, to a couple of private students, and I told them "I will do my best to teach you proper Portuguese, but there are a variety of accents in Brazil, just like there are in the U.S." One time I accidentally said something in a caipira accent (sort of a backwoods accent, reflecting the area where I'd lived), and the student I was with got mad at me, and dropped me as her teacher.
@@rafaelsmith5737 I wouldn't put too much blame on this teacher. My friend told me, that this "german"-guy was acting like an odd ball even in class, claiming stuff and "correcting" people around him even when the teacher tries to pull his ego back a little... I think this dude just has some issues, even the teacher couldn't fix.
You can't fix stupid..
Wow , als deutsche bin ich echt sprachlos. Die Amerikaner wollen aber auch nicht zugeben dass sie falsch liegen , unter gar keinen Umständen.
The „not accepting a passport to buy alcohol“ has happened to me.
The cashiers name was Tiffany (no kidding) and she refused to believe that GERMANY IS A LEGIT COUNTRY and that my german passport is legit…
She didn’t even understand the concept of OTHER countries
She legit thought that EVERY place on this planet is in the US…
I am from Liverpool where there is a China Town - been there 300 years. My mother told me to look at all the Chinese people there.
Well, I thought that was China - mind you I was 5 years old at the time!
I had a store refuse my greencard as ID. If you fake a drivers license they take it off you. If you fake a greencard they deport you. I don't wanna know how desperate he thought I was.
i been fined because my Danish drivers licens was not accepted as a valid ID by a Danish cop 🤪 *
it´s those thing that makes you respect the police even more 🤭
And when I was in Germany I had a number of times where I had issues using my American drivers license as a form of ID. There were even a few times where it was just simply rejected even when I translate how to read it.
@@Hansen710 Sometimes the state changes, "updates" the appearance of their state ID and I can see how that can cause confusion for a while.
Two weeks ago I posted that it was the hottest Tuesday morning for 40 years here in the UK, an American replied that it was Monday and that I was a dumbass , I explained to him that international time zones mean it isn't the same day or time in all countries on Earth at the same time and he responded that I was full of shit and Brits always try to sound superior even if they are wrong 🤔
Watching another one of these "Dumb American" tiktoks regarding time differences reminds me of an American girl that was upset that her German friend who was following the news mid-afternoon German time on 9/11 hadn't phoned the Americans to warn them!
You should have told him we invented time zones and they are regulated against Greenwich mean time. Problem is he'd probably think Greenwich Connecticut and not the place it stole its name from in London.
@@andrewlaw Nah, he'd probably think Greenwich Village in NYC.
@@B-A-L I also love the different date format that alot of americans don't understand. For example in the uk we do 25/12/2022 for christmas day, in the US it would be 12/25/2022. What always shocks me is that a lot of Americans cannot even entertain the idea they could be wrong
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"Australia-an-ish-ese." That was too much!
I'm from NZ and a few years ago I was studying for my degree in art and design. We had an American dude in our class and when July 4th rolls around he's demanding to know where the flags and banners and shit were. We couldn't get it through to him that it wasn't a world wide holiday even though his arguments insisted it should be since we gained independence and should celebrate it. I think we broke his entire world view that there is a world beyond the US
Wow, just... wow. i don't know how far up your own ass you would have to be to believe this.
(Oh look!!! A Kiwi!!! 😆. Hello from Oz!)
bro I live in England and I'm unlucky enough to live near a military base, these guys are actually here celebrating their independence from us, whilst living in our country for free, and they insist on shooting off fireworks every night from July first to, like, the tenth
What is worse is that Independence Doc's were actually signed on the 2nd, just turned out the 4th was picked to celebrate.
@@stultusvenator3233 wow, really? i never knew that, i always assumed that the Americans had more sense than that, but wouldn't it have been picked to celebrate two days later because that would have been when everybody realized they had became independant?
@@thomasbaker7754 They did not become independent on 4th July - they made a Declaration to be independent - they had to fight a war of 7 years to get independence.
Last summer I was working at a hotel in Iceland.
Some night shift, after dinner service, I was attending the bar when a lady came over for a drink and small talk, while I was preparing her drink she asked where I was from, so I answered I am Spanish and she replied (pretty shocked) that I don't look Mexican at all!! I just had to stop and lmao.
You were at that moment in Spain without the S?
As a Spaniard, i feel your pain.
I think the most shocking is the geography teacher who told the guy there are only sleds in Canada. One might expect someone who left school at 14 to say that, but the woman is a teacher. Not only that, she teaches geography. How on earth did she gain a degree?
My son had a similar experience. He was a foreign student in a very famous university attending a civics class . The professor was talking about the American transportation system. He asked my son if he had a car and driving the roadways. My son replied he did to which the professor said "you must find our roads and highway systems very intriguing ". My son replied that it was indeed very different than the dirt tracks he was used to. This university is less than an hours drive from the border. Has this guy never even seen a picture of Toronto? For that matter does he even know there is a city called Toronto?In no way am I putting all Americans into this level of willful ignorance, but teachers? This is the same civics class where my son was the only student in the room that could answer the questions about how the federal government has been set up and the division of power down to state level. He can do this because from elementary thru high school, we study the history and their place in the modern world of countries and regions around the globe. I wouldn't be lying if I said that we probably come out of high school knowing more about American history than our own. It would be interesting to see the percentages of highly educated, basic educated and undereducated.
Oh come on, anyone can buy a degree in America!
if you complain enough about being bullied because of your religious beliefs, they'll give you anything in america.
CrackerJack box. The same place that most Americans get their drivers licenses.
I would chalk that down as the teacher pulling their leg, I know my teachers would often do that with exchange students and the like. But then again, they had a cruel sense of humor.
The dumbest thing an American said to me was, “Cool! I have a Canadian friend named Jim! He lives in *insert random Canadian city* do you know him?” This was after a conversation we had (but I forget what it was about). I just remember that the man clearly thought I would know his buddy just because we both live in Canada lmao.
I used to live in Cape Town, at the very tip of Africa. A man I met in London told me he had a friend in Cairo, and next time I was passing I should pop in and see him.
@@patsytyler2199 AHAHAAAA oh man. While you’re on your next little stroll why not? I don’t see an issue there🤣💀
Yes this is such a weird thing. Americans think that all us Canadians know each other. My family had one when we were visiting West Virginia. A bunch of Americans kept insisting we knew a family (with our same last name) in another province. We responded that no, we don't have any family or know anyone in Manitoba, but they kept insisting we must know them as they had the same surname. We don't know everyone with the same name. Hell we don't even know everyone in our own city. So strange.
@@mish375 lmaooo. They don’t seem to understand that our main cities still have hundreds of thousands-millions of people in them 🤣
@@selenacordeiro1458 They seem to think that because we have a lower population, we all know each other. Not the case at all. It's truly bizarre. But not as bizarre as the one American I talked to that seemed to think (I kid you not) that French was only spoken in Paris and nowhere else in the world. 🙄
I'm Canadian like you are. So you know I'm baffled by that statement because French is literally one of our national languages. I think my brain shut down for a moment from that nonsense. Nevermind there are French speaking areas in the US and many countries around the world speak it as a first language.
One of my favourites was in a TV documentary filmed at the Tower Of London about the Beefeaters. An American lady was talking to one and said she loved history and her daughter worked in a recreation of Jamestown. That was originally built in 1607 she told him. Do you have anywhere in England that old she asked him? The way he looked around the area they were in, built in 1068, before quietly just saying “Yes, madam” was masterful.
Not to mention asking why palaces built 500 years ago were built under flight paths or near railway stations.
Friend of mine works as a tour guide in a castle here in Ireland. He watched a middle aged American lady looking at a lit candle before placing her hand in the flame and burning herself. She looks at him with a shocked face and asks "Why didn't you tell me the candle was real!?"
why did she want to touch a fake candle flame anyway?
This had me laughing so hard 😂😂 I can just imagine her face hahaha
Just like many other comments from British people already included on here, I worked in Hotel Management right up to GM level across the UK, but have since retired after 45+ years serving all nationalities. In my experience, the worst country to provide its citizens with the most dumb questions was the USA. Sorry, but true!
I was working in a hotel in Edinburgh, where we had around 3-4 coach tours each night, all staying just one night. It was the anti-clockwise tour of the UK which had their first overnight stop after leaving London that morning, supplying the best (ie worst questions).... "Isn't Scotland big - is it true it's a Country in its own right?" (and to me asking why they asked?) "we were taught at school it was a little village in the North of England!"
Or the guests who asked on arrival at the same hotel, " do you have electricity here?" because they couldn't see any visible power poles and cables strung across the roads as the passed through Edinburgh en-route to the hotel!
Or the best one ever was the lady travelling by herself, for the first time ever out of her little town in North Dakota, to follow a folk band playing at a major Folk music festival as a headline act, in a major town in England and she was staying at the hotel where I was working,
On her due day of arrival, she hadn't shown up by late evening, but at around midnight, I received a call from the Police in Birmingham, some 20 miles away. They brought her to the hotel as she'd had an appalling trip. The starting airport in the USA saw her get on the wrong flight, only to arrive in Cape Town, instead of London Heathrow. She was returned to her starting US Airport, where she was re-routed correctly. At Heathrow the next day, instead of getting to the central coach station there for her coach directly to our town, she somehow got onto a taxi into central London where she wandered round utterly lost. She managed to find the Coach Station and got a coach to Birmingham. There she saw a road named after the town where she would be staying, thought it was "local" (whereas that road was 20-25 miles long to us! She went through some parts of the city trailing two large suitcases until she was found by people in the suburbs of the city who called the Police, who brought her to me.
I asked her why she hadn't asked anyone for help at any stage? Her response was " Until I was taken to the Police, I didn't know if you all spoke fluent English in the UK or whether I would be understood?"
A week later she started her return trip home, with copious notes written out by us to help her. But even three years on, I wonder if she ever found her way home??
*Facepalm* I'm going to assume she probably didn't make it...
The fact that ANYONE would choose to travel without any interest to learn anything about the country they plan to visit, let alone what language they speak-- despite it being unbelievably obvious in this case-- is just so flummoxing to me! Why even travel if one lacks any curiosity to learn about the country in the first place? Did she just refuse to research the country because she thought those were spoilers or something? 😬
...How the hell did they even make it out of the states?
The fact that she forgot she was going to London and wound up on a completely different continent thousands of miles away is astonishing.
She...didn't know if people in the UK spoke English...I...Ok then
It's like this more and more in the UK. I'm still working in my 60's and as we get new younger staff in it gets worse with each intake. We get folks who can't do elementary maths, write like 3 year olds can't spell, have no basic understanding of things like "mopping the floor" (guess mother did it) following the rules (they think they are exempt). I just bite my tongue and think to myself "when the redundancies start, I'm going to be good for a while"
Unfortunately the most idiotic questions/statements I've had from tourists or other travellers has been from Americans as well. I live in Sweden, northern Europe, and yes, it can be cold in winter, but summer can be real warm as well.
Anyways, an example: we had a summercamp once, I was a teenager and kids and adults came from all over the world. Brazilians, Austrians, Australians and too many other countries to list them all. But! The American group shows up w winterclothing only! WE use winterclothing when we get down to +5C maybe? Water freezes at 0C, and you might see a little snow by then. But at the moment we had about +25C! They expected us to have snow, no heating (or as the case needed; AC), polarbears in the streets as well as penguins (they only live on opposite ends of the world, but whatever) and fully expected to live in igloos!
So we ALL had to chip in to even get the kids appropriate clothing! As soon as we could we took the whole group to the stores, and paid for their new clothes in advance until we could get hold of their parents. To top it off the leader says that he didn't even think to contact us in advance as he didn't know we understood English!
Är du seriös nu? Snälla säga att det var satir...
Fun fact: Arctic loosely translates as place with bears and Antarctic as place with no bears. Poor old elite Penguin defence force members get no mention.
@@darthwiizius Uhm actually, the literal bear in the word arctic refers to the star constellation Ursa Major near the celestial North Pole
@@HagenvonEitzen 😉
Reminds me of a story my friend told me. We live in New Jersey, which weather-wise is known for cold-ish winters (other places are definitely colder but we get below freezing here). My friend and her family were flying home from Southern California a few summers ago and the passenger next to them said he’d never been to NJ and asked if he was dressed appropriately for the weather. He was wearing a turtleneck t-shirt. It was August and our summers get into the 90sF (32-37C) and very humid. Because of his lack of research, he had not only planned for the wrong weather, but had not packed appropriate clothing for the weather he was expecting.
Now you are beginnning to understand why we Brits see the War of Independence (in the words of Al Murray) as a lucky escape
2nd best divorce ever. (I'm claiming #1 for myself!)
@@kevg3320 My ex would like a word .... 🙄
Al Murray, love that guy.
Yeah, i really wonder how the hell they won that war.
@@wcapewell3089 we only had enough troops and good generals for Europe and India their is a passage in Hansard were they are discussing if India or American was worth more they got it right and picked India.
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'They' fuelled the rebellion by accusing King George III of being a 'tyrant' - yet they accepted support from an Absolute French Monarch.
Ironic really, rather like Putin 'liberating' the Ukraine.
A gringo told me once "Welcome to America" . I told him "I live in America already". He was so confused 😂 Cheers from México 😉
i work in a museum in Antwerp (Belgium) and we had an American couple presenting us with their glorious presence. so they went up the escalators to the uppers floors (yes our museum consists of 10 floors, panoramic rooftop included) and they wanted to enter. as they went up to me and wanted to enter i asked them
"Can you show me your wrist please"
and they asked, "why?"
so i replied with "well as you passed by the ground level, you bought a ticket and that ticket comes in a form of a wristband that you have to put around your wrist to make it for us easier to identify that you bought a ticket. it takes away the constant requests and wait time to get your ticket."
they go "why, don't you believe us"
me, yet again "it is not about me not believing you but more about the fact that our second floor and panoramic rooftop are actually free to visit. so to shift out the people who just wanted to go to the roof but try to get in the expositions without paying? we placed in the wristband system."
they replied again with "oh well then we won't enter your exposition ... it is not like Antwerp has anything to offer and it is not like Antwerp and Belgium itself has anything culturally to offer nor made anything good that affected the world. we as experienced saxophone players wanted to visit Europe to learn more about its culture and what they brought into the world but Belgium and Antwerp are terribly disappointing which had nothing to offer unlike the American town in New York. which were the founders of this city we are in ... plus we only wanted to visit the rooftop and the tickets are expensive anyways.
me baffled "erm excuse me sir but you do realize that as you claimed to be an experienced saxophone player and your wife as well... that the saxophone is Belgian, invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax, who was born in Dinant, french side of Belgium. also, the founding fathers of this city of Antwerp were in fact not Americans, this city is 1000 to 1200 years old which is up for debate on an accurate count. so to be created by Americans ... is deemed to be impossible because at the time Americans did not even exist for the next what ... 500 to 600 years but ... what i clearly made out of the stupidity that you spout is that you cannot even read because downstairs before the registers ... it clearly says 10 times that the panoramic rooftop is FREE of charge. so you wasted a good 12euro (a little bit less than 12$) but if you find that expensive? then why don't you go to the Louvre in France ... the tickets there cost 17euro and in Germany, a museum visit is around 20 to 30 euros. but if you want to have a panoramic view in France? then you cough up at least 20 euros. in Germany, it is 15euro. so we are very cheap with our panoramic view ... since it is ... free. so have a nice day and by this, i revoke your tickets"
without a word, they handed me their tickets and left and i had a good laugh with my boss and co-workers. i almost pissed myself from laughing and burst a vein or two with anger.
i have allot of pride in my city.
i do apologize for the bad English.
OMG 🤦♀️🤦♀️
I'm Belgian, lived in the US for nearly a decade and was unfortunate to attend a high school. The stupidity detector died really quick and things got worse when I got my first job, started talking online with a girl from Finland, my coworkers found out about her and one of them asked me dead serious "how does she have a phone? Do they have phone chargers in igloos?"
Cries in Nokia
*NOKIA has left the chat*
Oooh this one hurt..dear god hahaha
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I feel so bad for you my guy
that sounds like a joke, like it's pure irony, please, I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT WAS SERIOUS... IT WOULD AT LEAST BE FUNNY THEN
Imagine being a half-Swedish half-Swiss person in America... that's my life, lol.
sorry for you but keep on educating !!
In the good side, they can't get it wrong. kkkk
I only know half of your pain. I'm half-Swiss. As did my Dad. He once had the experience where he was talking to someone and they found out that he was Swiss and they said, "Oh my god, that's so cool, have you met so-so, they speak perfect Swiss,"
My Dad, being polite, didn't tell them that Swiss is NOT a language but took the phone anyway....long story short, the friend was from Sweden and spoke Swedish.
(But in my Dad's case, it was someone in New Zealand, not the U.S. Lol).
Your Swahili is impeccable!
Give up. Just tell them you're from Europe. Most of them will just assume it's a country.
I wish I could disbelieve the "Egypt doesn't exist" story, but... in high school English class, in one of our textbook exercises, there was a short passage about someone whose Egyptian friend always got upset when people claimed that aliens built the pyramids. And in the middle of class, one girl blurts out, completely astounded, "Egyptians are still around?!" Everyone looked at her for a moment like, "...how dumb *are* you really, though?" before bursting out laughing. I feel bad for her, because obviously in her head "Egyptian" was associated with Pharaohs and ancient Egypt and such, but... come on...
There are stupid people everywhere, but some places breed them like rabbits. We live in a culture that literally thinks experts are untrustworthy *because* they're experts, and random people who say things they like are *more* reliable. How do we educate people who can't even understand what education is (and isn't) in the first place? I don't want to be cynical, but... we might be doomed.
(BTW, I'm from Florida, so... let that color your judgment.)
I want to give Bidet Guy the benefit of the doubt here. It sounds like the woman is French, so I'm going to assume "American on the floor of the bathroom in a hotel in France" was probably on vacation and had a *wee bit* too much to drink. I'd like to think he was just hammered out of all common sense and not actually that dumb... that said, hearing "the water goes up your ass" in a French accent was way funnier than I could have expected 😂
It's likely he'd never heard of a bidet. They're extremely rare on this side of the pond.
I won´t hold being a Floridian against you.
To be fair, people don't trust "experts" because they're usually paid to be biased, or got their job through nepotism. There's a lot of corruption, especially in how Covid was handled.
@bastiat There's a difference between questioning good science, require source material and proper methods. Saying "I don't believe it" simply because I don't like it don't cut it.
@bastiat Transgender is not a science, it's a way of expressing yourself and therefore subjective. Neither is it biological, it's a spiritual thing. And what's this about brain shape? Don't think I've ever heard that.
The passport problem happened to me too! When I returned to SC from studying abroad, my driver's license had expired so I had to use my passport for ID until I could get it renewed. The clerk refused to accept a valid US passport and a valid international driving license. She didn't know what either of them were. So my UNDERAGE friend shows his FAKE ID and she accepts it without a quibble. OMFG!
Years ago my son and some other rail enthusiast friends were going through Eastern Europe .They were asked for Identity Cards ,which the UK does not have, passports were not acceptable.
But it was OK when one of his friends produced his British Rail work pass.
Malaysian here...this didn't happen to me but to my friend.. So we celebrated our Independence Day recently on the 31st of August and had a celebration and a big parade at the country's capital (Kuala Lumpur/KL) after 2 years of not being able to celebrate it on a national scale because of the pandemic... This friend of mine works as a hotel receptionist and the hotel happened to be close to where the parade was held. An elderly American couple (maybe in their 60s) got curious about all the noise and the crowd and asked my friend, and she kindly explained to them what all the fuss was about. The elderly couple suddenly laughed and one of them, with a straight face, legit said "but Independence Day is on the 4th of July!", to which my friend calmly replied "Yes ma'am, that's the *American* Independence Day. We are celebrating the *Malaysian* Independence Day today, 31st of August." And the lady just straight up said "Why are you celebrating it today? What's wrong with celebrating your Independence Day on the 4th of July like the rest of us?"
My friend had 1001 snarky retorts she could've said to the lady in reply, but she wanted to keep her job, so she just shrugged her shoulders and said "I also wonder why..." with the sweetest smile she could muster..
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If it was me i wouldn't have been able to hold myself from laughing and correct them
Pf, typical Malaysians.
Everyone knows that the 4th of July became an international holiday when the Americans saved us all from an alien invasion back in the 90's!
Shouldve recorded it and made it viral masuk tv lmao
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Years ago in Ft. Wayne Indiana, an American girl (very, very pretty) found out I was Canadian. She asked me if it was true that the Canadian government blocked American satellites from sending news signals into my country, and that was why all Canadians were so happy, because we weren't getting bad news day in and day out. She was dead serious.
I think about that girl every now and then...hope she is doing well.
IF ONLY! IF ONLY the Canadian govt had blocked all the toxic USian stuff from their people lmao.
For the bigger part of my youth, I lived in Heidelberg, Germany...huge U.S. military HQ there, you saw and interacted with G.I.s ore U.S. tourists almost on a daily basis...very open, friendly guys...but often enough I had to explain basic stuff to adult persons...being 12+ myself...
Refreshing to see an American laugh at these instead of saying these are fake, with a frown on their faces.
Back in 2000, I was an exchange student, living at a host family in Atlanta, Georgia.
My host mother used to point to various things in the house and asked me if we had these things in Germany too. Things like the vacuum cleaner, the fridge, the microwave and so on. She could not believe that most of that stuff was invented in Germany.
she obviously would have told you that the computer was also invented in the US !! HAHAH !!
The refrigerator was invented in Australia by James Harrison .
@@maxrussell7364 The refrigerator was invented in Sweden. 🤷♀️
@@maxrussell7364 no sorrry - 1748 - William Cullen a scottish scientist discsovered the fridge scheme ...
Omfg that's what gets me the most. People from the US who have been so brainwashed to think they're "the greatest country in the world" to the point where they think people from other countries live in the middle ages. It's WILD.
Can't wait to go to Germany again btw, love your country
I feel for you my friend, I found it pretty depressing and I'm British. The look on your face is priceless, and I have the biggest smile just from your reaction!
Yeah, all us British people keeping quiet and keeping our heads down :/ lol
@@TheGramophoneGirl lol but they are good at being stupid
I'm not american but even I feel a need to pour a stiff drink watching this.
Yeah I'm British and I feel embarrassed
Yep I'm English and feel for them :/
A few years ago, the English Tourist Board published the top 10 dumb questions asked by American tourists. Number 1 was "Why did the Queen build Windsor Castle on the flightpath to Heathrow Airport?
I met an American in Melbourne Australia while I was watching Australian Rules Football in a Pub. When the first Quarter ended and they went to an Ad break she asked "How many Quarters are there in this game"?
This woman had a Master's Degree !
I'm Aussie and spent six weeks travelling across the USA, and a lot of people said they couldn't understand me while speaking English. Others said I spoke really good English for an Australian. I had to explain to a lot of people that Australia was an island about the same size as the US - it was the only country that's also a continent of the world! How did they not know where it was?! Saying it was a continent confused them and they said the USA was the North America continent. I said no, it's a country of the North America continent - Canada and Mexico were also on the same continent as the USA. And some of them wanted to argue that I was wrong about that too! FFS! They have no idea!
I apologize and assure you that at least 10 of us are actually educated enough to know that and are ashamed of our fellow moron citizens. Too much time spent on gender exploration and learning how to have a temper tantrum any time someone says something you don't like.
i have seen this topic atleast a few times, for some reason some ppl think US is a whole continent, or refuse t oaccept that Mexico is part of north america... lol
Are you sure that Australia is a continent? I thought that Australia was in Oceania, together with a bunch of other island countries.
It's common for Americans, upon visiting Europe, to "complain" that they could understand the English of different-native-language speakers in European countries, but regions of England or Ireland where English is still the common language they were lost and couldn't understand past the accent. Like it was a foreign language, but praising the non-native-English speakers on their "superb" English. What?
@@mosaicowlstudios I apologize that we have allowed these uneducated Americans in your country. We have a serious stupid problem and our education system seems to have caused it on purpose. We are working on it. Be patient.
Australian here, I literally had multiple people tell me to stop using a fake accent when I was in the US. I had to get my passport out in bars because it happened so often.
What was it to them if you wanted to use a fake accent anyway?
@@vytas5584 And how sure were they it was even fake?
As a foreigner living in the USA a while ago, I was frequently complemented on my ability to be able to speak English.
I happen to be English 🤣
I was once asked if the British celebrate Independence Day.
rofl.
Did you say 'yes, I'm so grateful you guys are gone?' Lol
@@jackiehuff7736 LOL
Given the stupidity of the average American, I believe we really should start celebrating independence day. They did us a f*cking favour, lmao!
Honestly, I think that’s a valid question 😅 given that most countries in the world celebrate their independence from Britain.
5 minutes in and Alan says he cannot watch anymore. This is just too funny! 🤣
I’m a Brit who used to live in the US. One evening I was having dinner in Denver with a Senior Exec Japanese visitor and a clueless dumb colleague from my office in Atlanta and she asked him if learning English was difficult for a native Chinese speaker. I nearly choked on the Rocky Mountain ‘oysters’ we’d ordered. The look on the Japanese guy’s face was absolutely priceless, he was literally lost for words.
😂 Yes, so very special are we!
Doesn’t everyone know Asia is a country. Rotfl
@@jocelynnowen3078 what
now did you take him out to eat testicles or did he take you out to eat testicles?
edit: the obvious joke to be made here is that he was at a loss for words until he stole some characters from the chinese language to find the words to speak.
Considering Japan and Chinas relationship she really put her foot in it there.
A couple of these remind me of the time I was at Heathrow airport and overheard an American tourist tell her friend how nice it is that they speak really good English there, except for that “weird accent”.
We lived for a year in Manchester, England and went to an English school. When we returned stateside my younger sister's teacher wanted her to start speech therapy. We had all picked up a Mancunian accent and the teacher had never heard a northern accent. The teacher changed her mind when mum talked to her! 😂
For what it's worth, I'm British and our younger generations have nary a few brain cells to spare between them. One teenager I work with genuinely, positively and passionately believed that the Rocky movies were a documentary. Upon hearing they were not he stated 'but I've seen him in real life!'.......I had to show him who Sylvester Stallone was. I nearly died.
What because they didn't know about a 40 year old film?
Neither have I watched rocky and neither do I care too, because i could not care less about wrestling, so according to you I have not a single braincell?
People of a certain age enjoy shitting on the younger generations because they are sore about staring down the barrel of old age, you sound like one of them.
Yeh, I was about to say the same. I'm 40 from Northern Ireland & moved to England in my teens. All the time I get called backwards & stupid just because of where I'm from, but they will argue with me when they compliment my accent & then get offended when I compliment theirs "WE DONT HAVE AN ACCENT" despite me just mimicking their English accents. I have older & younger friends & my younger friends know very little. One of my younger friends asked me if Scotland was in Belfast? I asked a few of them questions about the Queen, one being her name? Not a clue. They actually didn't know the royal family was an actual family & thought all you needed was to fill out an application form to join. One complained about having swollen ovaries in her neck (glands). One worried she would catch a transexual disease when she found out her man was cheating on her. One couldn't start her car for 20 minutes because she was in fact sitting in the passenger seat. One sat watching a movie for half hour, puzzled at why she couldn't understand what was being said. I had to point out that it was in a different language. When my friend was pregnant for the first time, she held her belly & said "Oh I can feel my heart beating" I had to tell her it was her baby kicking. Her response " Well I didn't know. Where is the heart then?"
Went to park at IKEA & my friend tried parking much further away than she needed. I asked her why she wasn't parking at the mother & baby spaces & she replied "You need a child to be able to park there" I pointed to the backseat of her car & asked her "What's that?" Her toddler in his car seat. A friend mentioned to someone that she had been to Germany. Someone asked her which part & she said France, but hey I'm stupid because I apparently say the alphabet backwards because I'm Irish. I don't, but I can 😁
How to politely tell someone they're stupid. Wisdom keeps chasing you but you've always been faster 🤭😆🤣
I am Brazilian, and in early 2000's I've lived in Florida for a few years under an H1B visa, as a software developer. Towards the end of my stint with that company, I met my current husband - who is Cuban-American and worked all his life in the music business. After a while, we decided to move to my city in Brazil, where we intended to - and actually did - open a record store. One of his friends, on learning about our plans, was like "But... but... what are you going to do there? It's just a little island, covered in jungle, full of snakes, jaguars and crocodiles!"
After all those years living there, I was kinda used to the stereotypes and misconceptions, so I've tried to explain Brazil is larger than the contiguous 48 US states, and my town (São Paulo) is like New York on steroids, with a population of ~11 million, compared with the ~1,5 million of Miami-Dade, where we used to live by then . He, however, wouldn't have any of it, and kept saying he wouldn't dare visit us because jungle and dangers, and this and that. I finally got fed up and said "Look, it is actually better you never go there, cause chances are you would be killed by a jaguar and an alligator, all right: ran over by a drunk rich guy driving a fancy car, dressed in LaCoste gear." 🙄
I’m sure you’re aware it’s 50 states.
@@kirra7406 Yes... that's precisely why I wrote "contiguous 48 US states", as Alaska and Hawaii do not share any borders with the other 48 states - hence are not contiguous/adjacent to them. 😉
@@katiamps okay that makes sense. 👍😃
@@kirra7406 🤦♂
@@kirra7406 that video is about u.
I moved to Costa Rica about 9 years ago from the US. On a visit back to the US, one of my friends seriously asked me if the locals wore shoes. That friends seriously thought the locals lived in huts and ran around all day without shoes. I was like they only go shoeless at the beach and wear shoes like the rest of us everywhere else.
My mom tells everyone she's Puerto Rican and that she grew up not wearing shoes. But she grew up in Oregon.
I lived in the US for 13 years, I am originally from Belgium but Canadian now. At one time someone working with me asked this (I quote): "When you drive home to Belgium after work what interstate do you take?" At first, I thought he was joking. When it became clear he was serious, I told him I took I-72 east. He totally believed me.
Legit like maybe he thought it was a town?
the E40 ofc
There is a town named Belgium in Wisconsin, according to Google...
That's not terribly surprising considering things like the following are true:
"I went to college in Delaware."
"I went to the exact same college in Ohio."
My college was in Delaware, Ohio. I have never been to the state of Delaware.
I was travelling in Europe many years ago and an American asked where I was from. I said Tasmania. He complimented me on my amazing grasp of the English language. We figured out he thought we were from Tanzania. I said my native language was Swahili but it was compulsory to learn English in school.
I said I would sing our national anthem: "Tasmania, Tasmania, no relation to Albania, Pennsylvania or Transylvania - TASMANIA "
Which I sang loudly and proudly to him but it went right over his head.
😂😂😂
Honestly, I never even heard of Tasmania before I saw this comment.
I've noticed a trend in a lot of American movies, if the story unfolds at different locations, there is often a text across the screen where they are. If it's in the US, it's very specific: "Las Vegas, Nevada" or "Brooklyn, New York". As soon as the action takes place somewhere else, it's: "Germany", "China" or "Sahara". Somehow the characters still find the exact location they need to...
Why don't they just abandon pretence and say "not america"
Went to a local pancake restaurant with my family over a decade ago. Heard some woman at the table next to us say to her friend, "Did you know the Titanic really happened? It's not just a movie!" I don't think I've ever physically facepalmed so hard in my life. >__>
My son travelled throught the southern US with his Irish girlfriend - they could understand her but he had to put on an American accent to be understood. They were supposed to be there for 6 months, they cut their trip short by 3 months and left in sheer frustration...
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Have to say, stupidity is not unique to America, (although they do it really well), here in UK my wife is constantly asked "Are you open on Bank Holiday Monday?" - she works in a Bank! Also, when talking about rising fuel costs and how it will cost a lot more at the petrol station, someone actually said.. "It doesn't really affect me, as I always just put £20 in." 😧