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Most of us Americans don't know anything about Europe. Today I want to check out this video called "Explaining Europe to Americans" and see what I can learn. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
open a map before you open your mouth, priceless😂😂😂
Get OUT! DAFT TREATY IS CANCELED including all US VISA (WAIVERS)! "You don't want borders; YOU don't want a country"?. Fine !.... But we in The Netherlands Danmark thus Greenland EU and Canada Ukraine keep our country, freedom and our own borders and keep thugs and terrorist out; including ALL uninvited thus criminal illegal visitors or those hostile trash overstaying our welcome or are threatening us with annexation. Yankee doodle GET THE HELL OF OUR LAWS! Islam and thus snuf remains banned indefinite in our lands
Btw, Europeans don't learn English to communicate with Americans, they use it to communicate with each other. In fact, since English was the langage of commerce throughout the British empire, it slowly became a second langage worldwide for that very same reason.
And sport.
Trying to explain to Americans, that English is a European language 🙄
@oaktreeman4369 The yanks even try to claim football as theirs 😂
And we're talking about Oxford English, not this gibberish spoken in Trumpistan!!!
At a period of the beginning of the United States, it was possible the americans would speak german...😊...
Speaking as a swede. The "low energy" service at shops in Europe doens't really have to do with tipping. It's just that we're not all acting like used car salesmen and also don't like to be intruded upon needlessly. If we need help, we reach out to a staff member. If the staff is all up in our business all the time, we're most likely to leave and go somewhere more chill.
Same in my country, The Netherlands. Tipping 5-10%? I don't. They just need to get payed well just like everyone else. Are Americans also tipping their doctors (on a minimum wage), their lawyers? No. Why only waiters? Absurd and to my mind close to discrimination.
@Serenoj69waiters in America get like 2,50 dollar per hour, i read somewhere, it is really horrible.
@terrapax8554 I don't know about other EU countries but here in Finland waiters minimum salary should be 10'ish euro per hour. It is not big, but most of them are working at evenings and weekends and they got extra from that.
And good thiung compared to US is that we (I think this is EU rule, so maybe whole EU) all prices told to customers must be the price what you need to pay. All taxes and other extra costs must be included in price, and customers don't need to calculate the final price.
Same in Italy. I do not expect any acting
I am a skilled waiter from Denmark. In denmark the tips are included in the bill. And give the service a decent salary. In USA is the tip the salary, not included in the price. and the owner has to report to the tax authority how much the waiter has had in sales, and if you don't give the waiter a tip, the waiter will have to pay tax on money they haven't received. bad system.
Perhaps when the USA becomes a province of Canada they will become properly educated. 😂😂😂
Reminds me of when Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilisation and he answered that it would be a good idea!
The Canschluss of the US by Greater Canada.
@lindafielding6733Maybe he should have said 'at least they have indoor toilets and don't crap in the streets.'
Right on !! Becoming the 11th province (+our 3 terr.), haha !
All they will do is talk through a teacher saying they didn't know and react on it. Instead of just shutting up and listen, so their brains get allowed to absorb actual knowledge.
People from Nordic countries are not cold... we just respect each other's time and personal space, so we don't intrude into others' lives unless it's necessary...
ikr.. quite stupid reasoning too, at 34:02 "people are cold probably because it's cold most of the time, and they don't want to waste energy with things that don't really matter".. like wtf, are you 5? you think we freeze every winter and need to preserve our energy levels?
just because people are discreet and polite, and won't come into your personal bubble unless you invite them, that doesn't mean they're cold.. not every country must have the same uniform ways of engagement and social interaction..
Probably more so perceived as cold. In Sweden for example people are very friendly but often as you said reserved so they often do not take the first step.
Some times I wonder if these traits come from climate because during winter most people stay at home more than socialize.
@EarCproduction I don't really know where these personality traits come from, but I doubt it has anything to do with the climate... here in Norway, people are outside almost regardless of the weather. I myself go on a good walk every single day, and many others do too. The strange thing is that you rarely greet people on the street, but if you meet strangers in the mountains, you can end up standing and talking with them for quite a while, even if they are people you've never met before.
@trygvehadland9560yes same would go for northern Sweden. Even if the population is scarce they are very friendly, so yeah maybe weather has nothing to do with it as the weather there is more extreme.
@EarCproductionWhy are you confusing discretion and politeness with reservation though? Reservation means someone doesn't feel secure enough to approach you, which isn't usually the case. It's respect and a mutual "social contract".
Using the same logic one can say that people coming to your face and trying to start a conversation are rude and intrusive. None is true, just different cultures having different rules of engagement. They're not cold and not rude either.
"Imagine travelling to another country every weekend"
Meanwhile here in Istanbul, I travel to another continent on my way to work every morning.
No tak z Azji do Europy lub z Europy do Azji fajnie
The problem with being labelled Eastern Europe basically comes down to people paying no attention to those countries and just saying "ah, so basically Russia?". We did not survived multiple Russian invasions and occupations, having our languages and cultural differences erased, and our economic growth halted for the entirety of the Soviet lifespan just to be equated to Russia, poverty, and low intelligence.
Yes but as a Czech, it's also offensive to be constantly put into the same group with Russia.
We have nothing in common with Russia or Russians.
@Hello.Bye.123 Nothing? Your language seems to be very common with them. We can hate them for a thousand reasons, quite rightly (as an Empire not as individuals) but denying facts doesn't really help in arguing in this topik.
@prompt4196
Do you speak Russian and Czech? I will react further after you answer this.
@Hello.Bye.123 This has nothing to do with my language skills, but history and linguistics (aka science).
@prompt4196
So the answer is "No, I do not.". Could have saved yourself a few words there.
Now I will react as I promised:
a) "Your language seems to be very common with them. "
Russian and Czech languages diverged around 1400 years ago. We do not even use the same alphabet and Czech was quite significantly influenced by German and latin.
While our language is somewhat similar to Polish or Croatian for example, and we can understand some things, we generally do not understand Russian at all. Russian speaking students come to Prague and need to take an intensive 1 year language course to be B2 profficient. This is the same course Turkish students take, for example. On the contrary, Polish students (actually similar language) can easily accomplish this in one semester. Slovaks don't need to study Czech at all as the languages are actually close.
b) "history". Have you ever opened a book? DO you know how to read?
This is extremely insuling to the point I'd heavily confront you if this was IRL. Literally the only place where our history converges in the past 1400 years is when they forcibly occupied us during the last century. Our people have been murdered by them and our economy ruined as many intelligent and educated people refused to take take part in the system, which lead to their persecution and appointment of useful idiots into positions of power and influence.
Open a book, for god's sake.
27:51 the problem is that the US is extremely arrogant, calling itself the "greatest country in the world" all the time, which basically no other country does. Many european countries have higher quality of life, less inequality and way less crime and the inability of the US to even recognise this is infuriating to many Europeans.
They have "main character syndrome". Usually people need to repeat that they are the greatest when they know that it's the opposite.
And infuriating to Canadians too. Why do you think they pretend to be Canadians when in Europe?
It infuriates us Canadians too, for many of the same reasons.
If one is truly the best, then there is no need to be boastful. When one has nothing going for them, a puffed up ego is all that keeps them a float. Hopefully, hubris is only a crutch until they find their footing again.
The US has taken it to another level, 'We're Number One', in what? Oh yeah, mass shootings, the US is number one in that!
I hope they shake this off and ask for some help. I would be more than happy to help if I was respectfully asked (and knew how, lol)!
True. But it has proven to be a very effective way to manipulate one’s own citizens. Only when smartphones and social media became widespread did Americans seem to finally compare themselves with the rest of the world.
European countries are like siblings. We love to argue with each other and play pranks, but if someone from outside messes with one of us... the others will defend them to the death.
Difendiamo alla Francia? 😅😂
@dani85ichnos
France can defend itself.
It has nuclear weapons, a professional and experienced army, a modern air force, a powerful navy with an aircraft carrier and nuclear submarines, elite units such as the Foreign Legion, and a strong, largely independent defense industry.
Deterrence, technology, experience. Enough to be taken seriously.
@dani85ichnos of course, as french jok (je suis francais) but as you know, we are from europe first. we have big history, but if i have to do i ll defend italian or spanish, german and so on. Now we are europeen first, what we do in europe is amazing. exempl ariane. our culture from all the country is a wealth, we have to be proud of it.
@jfbr9958esatto, la mia era una battuta concordo con te
Do they only teach Americans about America?
In US you are free is TO own a weapon in Europe you are free FROM meating a armed lunatic...
Isaiah Berlin's negative and positive liberty. Love how accurately it explains the difference between the US and Europe.
So who saves you from knife attackers ?? If you were intelligent and decided to do a smidgen of research, you'd discover guns SAVE lives from those lunatics. Cain killed Abel with a rock. Why aren't people demanding the banning of rocks ?? I have 7 guns. They've never unlocked themselves, loaded themselves, became sentient and went out doing crime. I could do it....but I could use a pitchfork, rocks, a stick, a knife, a bottle, frying pan, poison, dynamite .... You anti gun folks are brutal hypocrites.
@NilesCoopr , there is a very important word missing in the first sentence of your message.
According to Isaiah Berlin, true freedom requires a "balance" between negative and positive freedom.
I doubt that the majority of humanity even knows, or will ever know, what true freedom is, given the fact that they aren't even aware of all their invisible chains.
@machteldvdb1185 My point was that each favors one over the other. I don't think I need to mention "balance" to make that point.
Also getting a weapon license in Europe is not that hard but usually nobody feels we need to own a weapon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh btw Europe IS NOT smaller then USA. You cannot just copy USA over Europe because maps are distorted to look natural on paper.
By size Europe is actually little bit larger then USA.
Please please people stop using maps to compare size you cannot do it to get real results.
However, as an Austrian, I must say that Europe appears larger than the United States due to the distortion of the Mercator projection, as it is located further north in its entirety.
Since so many have the internet, all they would have to do is put into a search engine 'show comparative size of North America and Europe in square miles'.
There is a cool website called "The True Size Of..." where you can compare the undistorted size of countries
Yes, there was some kind of a misunderstanding when US was colloquially called "America" when it isn't even most of North America. It makes them think too big of themselves.
Don't know why this girl makes such a basic mistake, . Even the map set-up she uses isn't correct because it excludes Scandinavia.
My mom travels to different european country at least 6 times a year. She's retired, and we are from Poland. And yes, sometimes she travels alone. She speaks polish, german, broken english and broken russian. And She's almost 70.
Your mom sounds like a cool lady
Jestem w wieku Twojej mam też tak robię.
The UK is not seperated from Europe by water, it is a part of Europe. Leaving the EU doesn't change that.
It has always been classed as Europe, where else could it be?!! No one would dream of saying that Switzerland, Ireland or Iceland are not in Europe!
Touchy! 😂
It is separated from mainland Europe by that stretch of water known as the English Channel and North Sea etc, the lass was also speaking a language not her first - she said she is Latvian so possibly English could even be her third language.
My atlas always says Europe and the British Isles
@batman51the British Isles are situated on the Eurasian Continental shelf. They were once connected to mainland Europe before the ice melted after the last ice age. Strip away the relatively shallow waters of the North Sea and English Channel and you can clearly see the continental plate, on which rests the British Isles, and you can clearly see the edge of the continental shelf before it plunges deep into what is the Atlantic Ocean. Your Atlas is wrong to label the British Isles as separate from Europe.
The common misconception is we learn English to comunicate with people from US. No no no 😂 we learn English to comunicate with other people who speak English. Which is most (at least young) people in Europe. When I (Czech) meet Russian we will most probably communicate in english.
We gave English to America. It was the English who colonised it. Apart from the
native Indian population, English was spoken by the population.
I’m British. I went grape harvesting in France where I worked with Italians and Spanish people. English became the lingua Franca and I translated into French!
@marycarver-t6v Some USAians claim that they speak “American” and that you have an accent. 😉
@lindafielding6733 Ironic considering the origin of the concept of a lingua Franca :D
@GCOSBenbowtrueenough
reminds me of an old Soviet joke; goes something like this,
'at the end of the cold war a KGB agent and his CIA counterpart meet up in a bar,
"I must admit" the CIA agent says- "you guys really know how to rile people up, cheers!"
as the CIA agent raises his glass,
the KGB agent raises his glass and responds,
"No my friend, we were the ones impressed with you, accomplishing things we could not, your people believe every piece of propaganda your government puts out!"
a disgusted look washed over the CIA agents face, he pulls his drink back, deeply offended,
"Excuse me, you must be mistaken, MY country doesn't produce propaganda!"'
I don’t understand
@aprilapril2are you American lol
@aprilapril2 pat pat on your shoulder
@Ghost_of_RobespierreI think it’s not really a joke is it?
@aprilapril2whoosh
Spaghetti with meat balls sounds like italian guy in IKEA.
actually no one eats spaghetti with meatballs in Italy....that's an american thing.....ask any italian
@jet63919 I am italian, in my childhood that was pretty possible instead. Our parents used spaghetti with meatballs and tomato souce (ragù) but nowadays spaghetti have been replaced by tagliatelle, a very similar pasta for a foreigner, but it makes the difference with that classic dish. I often cook it as well, and it's much more complicated than it seems like. Obviously your recept could have been simplified or in some ways modified, but it has been imported from Italy.
'm Italian. It's true, at home it could happen people eat spaghetti with sauce and meat but according to my life experience it's very rare and tradition here does NOT like the association SPAGHETTI+MEAT.
Meat is not ok with spaghetti.. sea food is however! Garlic, oil and pepper also!
Europe is larger a bit than US, European Union is smaller...
Exactly
Yes, but try explaining 100,000 sq Km to a USian
She discounted Russia's landmass in Europe.
@PinnacleNLA lot of people do, but part of Russia is still a part of Europe.
@BritAbroad66😂😂😂
The spread of English was largely due to the British Empire and now has become a useful language to connect with different language groups in Europe.
The UK is NOT divided into 4 regions, we are actually 4 different COUNTRIES.
Does Northern Ireland count as its own country? I always thought it was only 3 and Nothern Ireland counted as part of England.
@carlwrede3850 Yes, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are two different countries on the island of Ireland.
The Republic is not part of the UK, which is the 4 countries ruled by England
@carlwrede3850I really would not go into a pub in Northern Ireland and tell them that they are all English , not if you want to see the light of day again 😂
To confuse Americans even more, the Isle of Man and both Channel Islands, Guernsey and Jersey and their islands are part of the British Isles geographically only as independent Crown Dependencies' that also happen to be Tax Havens but that is another story.
We are not 4 different countries. The UK is one country. Why do you think that Scotland had an independence vote in 2014 and is still agitating for independence. Sovereign states can break apart either peacefully like Czechoslovakia or violently like the former constituent "countries" of Yugoslavia.
Service: Americans give tips so the other PRETENDS to like you and being nice. Let's sink that in. - In Europe we prefer sincerety.
It's called respect, not to mention it's a different payment system. They are paid very little, their wage is their tip. We are 2 totally different Countries and cultures...why compare? I'm an American expat over here, we have very little in common and that's ok. My British wife and I are very similar, there are exceptions to every rule.
Phil, no its called sucking up for bare minimum. Also no one will get the same amount of tip so it will always be unfair.
@philspurling6414 not expat, migrant .
@philspurling6414first thing americans and british ppl need to start doing is to stop using a word 'expat', its like thinking using a word expat will somehow add inches to your pp, and somehow make you better or different, instead of using a correct word ''immigrant''.
I'm happy she precised that in Italy we don't eat spaghetti with meatballs!
Neither do we in the UK! It sounds gross ! We eat our pizza and pasta in
the same way Italians do.
In a restaurant in Stratford-upon-Avon, with my Californian wife and my niece, we across the room from a party of Americans. My niece leaned over and whispered: "Jeez, are we REALLY that loud!?!"
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
YOU ARE.
Yes you are. !!!!!
A funny thing is that a several hundred year old building in europe is not a big thing. It is not even concidered to be very old.
The US is 250 years old, my British cottage is the same age as my old house in the States was "1850"'. Who cares?
In the UK there are multiple buildings, Churches, Cathedrals, Palaces, Towers,
etc etc in every town across the the country very very old. A famous
Cathedral, York Cathedral, was built in AD 07 ! It is still in a magnificent
condition. There literally are myriads of similar examples across the UK
today.
I explained to the lady in the video a few years ago that we like to call ourselves Central Europe, but because we are in CENTRAL Europe and that includes Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, but also Hungary, Switzerland and Slovenia. This very example of this person's slander of Europe is worthy of no note! And the Americans created a political map of the West and the East, and they follow the map, then they are surprised when someone asks them how life is here in the East, and that ends all further conversation!
and Croatia as well
As a Czech. We are way closer to Germany than Russia anyway. Why should we be seperated from Germany by being called Eastern?
We love beer, there is quite neat living quality (all things considered of course), our language use a lot of germanized words, ...
We were a big part of Austria-Hungary for crying out loud - and they still throw us (and Hungary as well, which is ironic) to be on the "Russian side" of the Europe map. When I feel we don't have that much in common with it other than: Oh you all are Slavics, you all must be somewhat the same.
The peoples of the European continent are indeed densely packed.
The people of America are mostly just dense!
Estonia has 75 per cent forest. So Boeing packed IS such a foreign issue for us. Northern Europe in general. We give the concept of personal Space a new meaning
I'm from Belgium, one of the countries in Europe.
In Belgium, we speak three different languages: German, French, and Dutch.
My experience with Americans has been very negative.
Those I've met have a very high opinion of their country and are surprised to discover that Europeans don't share this view of the US at all.
What shocked me was seeing Americans who had been living in my country for 10 years and still couldn't hold a simple conversation in the local language.
They seem to think everyone speaks English and try to impose it on conversations.
English speaking people that move to Denmark also have a tendancy NOT to learn danish. Mostly because danish people have a tendancy to just speak english to you if you seem to struggle with danish. This makes it kinda hard for people to learn the language.
This explanation, by this woman, is very very superficial.
It talks about weather differences, but nothing at all about its
politics, its past, its presence. Of very little real use in fact.
🇨🇦🤯 I can’t imagine moving to another country and having no interest in learning their language. I think that’s the difference between Canadian and American travelers too. We want to experience your culture when we visit while Americans expect to see how far along you’ve come in being as great as they are. 🤦♀️ they just don’t know because they’ve not learned actual world history and geography. As their neighbour it’s so good to see more and more taking the time to educate themselves. There’s a lot of young teen Americans on RUclips reporting news and their own political views as good as any adult, and a lot of Americans like Tyler sharing their journey of it. ❤ there’s hope for a future America that is as free and safe as they believe it is. 🇨🇦 wants that for them ….but America, stay the F over there and out of other sovereign countries while you figure it out 😅😆
So what? Not an excuse to avoid learning the language. Ever heard of courses? Duolingo?
@chrisaugustinus1748 Okay but. We've been to a few countries in Europe, we always buy a phrase book and tour guide. Almost as soon as we try to converse with anyone, the response is "ah you are English, can I practice my English please". This happens mostly in the more eastern countries. We do actually speak French as we have property near Toulouse.
If you put it to double speed, he speaks a normal speed
Hääääh…I…NEVER….HEARD…..ABOUT…….THAAAAAT😮😮😮
To say that that Nordic people are "unfriendly"
is an overstatement!!
I would say we are more private... we don't shout out every detail of our private life for everyone to hear!!
And we like you to respect our private space!!
But we are openminded...
According to this person the only "good" countries in Europe is what she calls western Europe.
I think this is HER OPINION not a fact...
She gives no reason to WHY she thinks so.
It's up to you to decide what make you most happy and what country suits you the most to live in!
I mean, there's a reason why we don't all live in Germany...
Pros and Cons.
❤
I'm Italian, and I've always thought Nordic people were very friendly. The American girl confuses fake smiles with friendliness.
This is a young girl with little life experience and bias.
@erosgritti5171 The american girl? Who do you mean by that? If you are referring to the girl who made this video about explaining Europe .. she is from Latvia!
Exactly. 🇩🇰
@kiekendiefjeit says “the young irl”
"How often do you travel to another country?" - Well, I cross european borders at least 4 times a day - does this count? 🙂
A tour guide I worked with in the past had a way of really confusing American tourists on a Britain and Ireland tour, when ten minutes from the border heading into Scotland would tell them to get their passports ready for the border crossing, 20 minutes later one of them would yell from the back "When are we getting there?" The guide would say over the P.A. "Didn't you see the sign a few miles back with Welcome to Scotland on it?" A few may have done if at the front but kept quiet. that alone was unusual, ten or so minutes without a daft question or statement from the ones visiting first time without doing any accurate research. The ones that knew it was a joke kept quiet as probably had the same trick played on them before.
You can cross three borders just in Basel!
Where do you live for crossing borders so often ?
Same as state to state, or Mexico, South America, on and on.
I am French, living in the South West of France, close to the Basque country (they call it Euskadi). People there speak their local language (Basque or Euskera in their language) and French. Basque is very ancient, it was one of the first European languages before the Proto-Indo-Europeans invaded in the Bronze Age and imposed their language which split up into most modern European languages (except Hungarian, Finnish and Basque). I regularly drive across the border to the Spanish side where people speak Euskera and Spanish. I go there to San Sebastian (Donostia in Euskera) for the night life and eating tapas (and filling my gas tank. it's cheaper). Sometimes, I drive my motorcycle along the Pyrenees (awesome ride in the mountain twisties) to see friends in Andorra where they speak Catalan, Spanish, and French. Or I fly a little plane across the Pyrenees (I am a GA pilot) and land in La Cerdaña, Catalonia, right next to Andorra. Its really funny because they speak Catalan over the radio, and incoming planes from outside haven't got a clue (its a tiny aerodrome mostly for GA and gliders, 5 euro landing tax, cheap. Always some room in the hangar). My brother lives in Montpellier where they speak Occitan and French. Occitan is the language Catalan, Aranese, Provençal, Balearic and Valencian evolved from. Occitan evolved from the old Latin.
In winter, I work as a ski instructor in Switzerland. The valley I work in is french speaking, but the next one (towards Zermatt) is officially Swiss German. In fact, they speak a dialect of Swiss German called Alt-Walliser which a normal Swiss German from Bern would be mystified by. A German can barely understand any form of Swiss German. I also worked in St Moritz in Switzerland where they officially speak Romanch, which is also related to Occitan and Catalan. But many people there speak Swiss German and Italian.
A one hour drive from St Moritz you are in Italy, where they speak... Piemontese, and other dialects. So language does not follow modern borders, and each country can contain many languages and dialects. Some languages are shared across borders, like French (France, Belgium, Switzerland), Basque (France, Spain), Flemish (Belgium, Holland), Catalan (France, Spain), different versions of German (Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Luxemburg, Poland, Ukraine and probably more 😅). But everyone learns at least one of their official national languages (in France it is French, in Spain it is Castillian Spanish, in Switzerland it is High-German, French, Italian or Romanch). All this results from thousands of years of a wonderfulky complex history. It must be really confusing for an American who tend to have a simplistic worldview.
You have ignored Estonian which is acknowledged as a Finno-Ugric language. I believe that Basque is not classed as one of these but is similar to Welsh and other Celtic tongues. My parents were both Estonian and became naturalised British citizens after liberation from a German Prisoner of war camp.
Bé, crec que és confús per atots els americans. Jo soc català i aquí rebem molta immigració hispanoamericana i quan es troben amb una llengua implantada a la societat, una llengua que en molts casos no sabien que existia els sobta molt i no és estrany trobar-se amb persones que es tanquen en rodo i no volen saber res d'això negant-se a aprendre la llengua i et diuen directament que no entenent la seva existència i que s'hauria de prohibir.
One of the reasons why in Europe we are more careful with food additives is because healthcare is paid for by the state, therefore the healthier we are, the lower the healthcare expenditure.
A healthy workforce has a better productivity, also.
les dépenses de santé en France ne sont pas miraculeusement financées par l'Etat. tout salarié cotise sur son salaire mensuel ainsi que l'employeur. c'est l'argent des contribuables. la différence c'est que tout le monde peut en bénéficier.
I believe it is because we have a natural aversion to artificial additives in our
food from a health point of view. However, each independent European country
has its own laws.
Americans have to realise that private healthcare has no interest in full recovery, but in keeping people half ill
Not only Germany has states, most of the countries are divided into smaller parts and they have different dialects.
For example my country Italy has 20 regions, and if we didn't have standard Italian which is our national language, we couldn't understand each other cause our regional dialects are very different
It's not too long ago when all the Germanic states were part of the Holy Roman Empire
Technically the USA is older than both Germany and Italy as they were founded in 1776 and the latter weren't unified until mid 1800s
@michaelcantwell-e8h the state yes, but people have lived here longer, and the regions existed a long time before Italy as a state was created, before the US was even an idea.
@michaelcantwell-e8hMost European people have experienced 'interesting' history. Political discontinuation is widely spreaded.
Germany, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland qualify as true 'federal states'. Most others are more centralistic. UK is testing out federalism.
And Italy? Well, I have heard about a referendum making italy more federal. A majority said: 'No!'
Another referendum asked To centralize Italy even more. A majority said: 'No!'
So Italy continue to organize itself as it had done before. Some regions and their provinces have more autonomy, some less. Sardinien and Sicily ate more autonomous, perhaps because being islands, and on top of the list is Trentino-Alto Adige high up in the Alpes.
These three are the three 'autonomous regions' of Italy, and Alto Adige (aka South Tyrol) and Trentino not only belong to an autonomous region, but are autonomous provinces.
Wow! That nearly as complicated as the inner structure of Belgium.
Of course, heute are provinces and regions elsewhere, like in Spain, the Netherlands or France. It's not easy, but very European.
In Scandinavia we love to small talk. I was on vacation in Florida, in Cape Coral near Fort Myers. I asked the neighbor if there were any fish in the canals. She lived there permanently with her family. “Yes,” she said, “there’s plenty of life.”
A couple of hours later, the doorbell rang, and there stood her daughter with fishing rods and bait. “Shall we go fishing?” she asked. “Yes,” I said.
We went down to the water, and she and her sister wanted to know everything about Denmark. That was about eight years ago. We still talk on the phone and write to each other.
So no, we Danes are not reserved.
In UK, waiters are here to serve the food not to serve your every wish. x
Different culture, what do you expect? No 2 Counrties are alike.
I actually really disliked the type of service in the US. It felt like we were constantly being interrupted by either "How's the food? Good? Need anything else?" or asking if we wanted more to drink or whatever. I don't go to restaurants to socialise with the wait staff; I go to spend time with the people I'm eating with. I also absolutely HATED the circus that happened when it was revealed that it was my friend's birthday. Suddenly our table was disturbing the entire restaurant's eating experience. I felt awfully uncomfortable.
They just want tips, they're not really interested. The richest country in the world that can't pay it's workers decent money.
Most Europeans usually despise this, regardless where they are from. One common trait at least!
Yes. I said this on another video and americans can't understand. We don't like to be disturbed. We can ask for help if we need. American waiters work for tips... what you are doing is a guarantee not to get a tip. Just be proffesional.
@JuanSanchezVillalobosRamirez77I feel like this is mostly where complaints from Americans come from when visiting Europe. They're just used to the system being the waiter asking you instead of the one here where you have to ask.
I think the best example is food customization where - in the US - they'll ask you a million questions about how you want to customize your food whilst in Europe what you order is normally what you get and to customize you have to ask.
Yes, they've started to do this in Canada too and it's very annoying.
From the co-capital of Greece, I drive 1,5 to 2 hours to 3 different countries. I had a small (20 days) road trip last year and we crossed 6 countries.
To be fair you saying you are going to Europe is like me saying I am going to North America rather than saying United States as you quoted
Or going to Asia or Africa.
Its like saying youre going to the EU. But when we federalise it will be like the US, so that we are going to meanthe eu when we speak about europe.
one rpoblem is, that they call themself "american" not realizing that America is a continent of three parts. North, middel and south. The should start by sying we are U.S.
@brokkrep Hmm no, USA is not a federation of countries. The EU is.
As an example: Germany is a federation of states just like the US.
Even more similar, it's like saying you're going to South America.
My father lived in Denmark, but worked in Sweden when I was born. He came home every evening.
My dad id the same but in reverse.
We moved to Sweden from Denmark and he kept his job for a while until he got his bus driver licens.
Damn, i drove to Göteborg from The Netherlands last summer, lovely trip but to do the bit from Denmark every day must have been exausting.
I live in the very north of Germany. There are many people here who live in Germany and work in Denmark - and vice versa.
My dad worked in England/Scotland/Ireland/USA... he wasn't home much until we had 3-day week/blackouts. Him reading books to us by candlelight was a magical part of my childhood and setting up car batteries to run the radio is cherished. A good dad driven away to make money 😢
3:03 i drank beer when i was 7 my moms brother gave me he said it was nonalcoholic but it wasnt
Your tech companies and military are where all your tax dollars are going instead of into universal Healthcare, high quality education and nutritious foods for every citizen.
Not even mentioning the horrible infrastructure that requires Americans to depend on cars to get anywhere. I've heard there's a lot of places where there's no pedestrian walking areas at all, none. And that their public transport is abysmal.
Europe is NOT the land of under age drinking, it just has more sensible age limits.
It was a joke because many USAians keep claiming that drinking is only allowed from the age of 21 and that Europeans drink illegally while underage. They project their laws onto European countries.
Haha yea, In belgium and many other European countries they have vending machines with beer and liquor, you just put some coins in and you can get a beer or some rum, nobody cares, no one even knows the drinking age, if you want to drink , go ahead, literally no one cares.
@Oobe Arriving off the train in Munich, 19 year old me was very surprised to see Germans drinking beer in the station bars at 7:00 in the morning. But why travel anywhere if you want everything to be the same?
16 is the age at which alcohol can be purchased in the pub.
There are NO laws about age concerning what families do in their own homes.
I started drinking some beer publicly (with the approval of my parents) at the age of 14. However, drinking young is becoming a problem since I have friends that in restaurants order beer to their 10 years old children and let them drink a small one (330 ml) for the dinner.
I remember when tv ads where no skipable on tv seeing ads on tv for the Euro.
16:55 No, Europe is not smaller than the US, we are in fact slightly larger. Europe is roughly 3.93 million square miles while the U.S. is roughly 3.8 million square miles.
Absolutely correct.
I went to America once; visited the capital Montreal, Niagara Falls, Springfield and Acapulco.
It was wonderful and sometimes people even could understand english.😂
Montreal is the Capital of Canada last time I looked !!!
@marycarver-t6v And Canada is a part of America, last time I looked !!! He didn´t write "capital of the USA" !!!!!!!!
@marycarver-t6vMaybe you should have another look; Montreal may be the biggest city, but Ottawa is the capital.
@marycarver-t6v I think he's being sarcastic. (Ottawa is the capital of Canada, Acapulco is in Mexico)
@marycarver-t6v isn't it america?
hey Tyler its good to see that there are still nice americans. Greetings from Switzerland
"Germany has states?" Don't you and your bro ever speak to each other? 😅
Many years ago, there was a BBC TV programme about Americans on a 'tour of Europe' by coach. The title was, 'If it's Tuesday, it Must Be Belgium'. Says it all!
1: Read a book.
2: Learn a foreign language.
3: Read a book in that language.
4: Stay some time in a country that DONT speak English.
Greetings from a well organized country!
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It seems Tyler's brain is similar to Kelly Bundy's. There's limited room, so whenever he learns something, something else pops out. He's claiming he's NEVER heard a bunch of facts he's made videos on in the past... 🙂
few times I mentioned that also :DDD and I commented with his own links from the past.... maybe he is just trying to explain everything to new subscribers? that's ok for me :D
Learning stuff this way passively isn't very efficient to anyone. One needs to find out the same stuff over and over again until it sticks. That's why it would be good policy to always repeat the key points of this kind of video at the end. Because only 10 percent likely can be memorized with one go.
I think he is from Norway, even his accent is no where near an America, as he claims to be an average ...lol....
@jacquelinebl6 No way he's from Norway. I'm Norwegian and the way he struggles with pronunciation of words in his "Norway coverage" simply can't be faked by a native speaker of the language. 🙂
@jacquelinebl6 he sounds completely american what are you on about
In Sweden its not dark in the summer, the sun is up all night long.🇸🇪 In The winter we have snow to brighten up, more In The north. 🇸🇪
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Russia is known as being in "Eurasia" A combo of both Europe and Asia.
The Ural Mountains are generally taken as the dividing line between European Russia and Asian Russia.
Russia is BIG 😂
@John_259 not that Tyler has ever heard of the Urals and what it means to live east or west of them. 😆 or how the Russian population is distributed between the two sides of the Urals.
@embreis2257how should have? Most younger or ignorant Europeans doesn't know. Where does the divide go between east, mid and western usa?
The western part of Russia ,that is the most populated,and by Europeans only is in Europe
Tyler very very rarely even looks at comments, or replies, which is why I think he's done this reaction at least twice before, and remembers almost nothing..
Yeah, but he speaks so slowly that it’s hard to tell.
Which is sad because in the beginning he responded and liked comments all the time.
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Europe is actually larger the the US. Europe 10,180,000 USA 9,833,517.
10 Million eggs? ;-)
And Africa is bigger than both of those 🤷🏻♀️🤣
We don´t tip so much because we have ok
wages.
Tyler there are also maps of Europe in books as well as the whole world can be seen through the Internet wow
Some people in Europe go to work in another country every day.
Living in one and working in another, most border crossings do not need even to show passport (free walking from one to another with no fence or anything).
7:02 Scandinavian countries have friendly people, but their culture makes them come off as unfriendly for people from USA or countries with similar cultures. You see, Scandinavian people respect each other's time, space, and business, so they don't do small-talk because people may not have time for that, they don't sit next to each other on public transport because they don't want to invade someone's personal space, they don't involve themselves in other's business because that is their (the other's) business. When someone from the USA or similar cultures experience this kind of respect, they mistake it as unfriendliness, and that is how Scandinavians are said to be unfriendly.
True, tho that kind of respect is also seen differently in different regions in the Scandinavian countries too. Oslo is called "the City of Tigers" cause Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson from Trondheim thought people in Oslo were so cold and unfriendly 😂 mid to northern Norway is known nationally to be more warm and open people
@bijeyguiyu Only an American would comment that, hello from Norway :)
@bijeyguiyu It's shocking hearing something like that come from a European, what European country do you live in that doesn't spend the tax money responsibly on things the people benefit from?
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If you tell Americans, they speak American English, a dialect, they argue with you😂
Argue with you is what Americans do.
@TheRealRedAceI have another American, adamant that English people speak "British" English.
He even blocked me from his comment section 😂
No, our English is influenced by the Native Americans, Spanish and French. For example, my favourite town is Oconomowoc, falling water in British English.
@philspurling6414 Falling water in English.
There's A LOT of brotherly teasing and jokes about your neighbors in Europe. For instance in the Nordic coutries we have a full library of jokes starting "a Swede, a Norwegian, and a Finn went to a bar / to work / whatever..."
And this classic might give you some insight: 😂
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.
Rather this than vengeful wars, amirite?
@nielskorpel8860Absolutely! 👍
Well, both are still better than Russia.
good joke 😃 thanks for sharing
The thing about this brothery teasing is: EVERYONE HERE GETS IT.
No one is MAD ifyou tell a joke like this.
On the other hand, when an outsider, like a USanien makes fun about one of us... that's a different animal.😂
Russie is on both... europ and asia
I am Slovakian, I travel twice a year on the highway through Austria to Italy to see my family. Slovakia, Austria, Italy use the euro. But the countries around us, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine use their own currency. We are used to exchanging money for foreign currency since forever (time before euro). But we use bank cards, so where is the problem with a different currency. 👍
The zone euro is too short than the zone on "no euro". 27 countries on UE but in the 27 countries, they choose to get the euro money or not. That’s their choice, no obligation.
I'm from Australia, we're much further away from Europe than the US is. But when I see videos like this and the American reaction to it, I think to myself really? how come Americans are so ignorant? At the very least you should be taught this and much much more at school. Perhaps we should start to refer to the US as the hermit kingdom (which in case you missed the reference, is a derogatory term for North Korea being isolated and cut off from the rest of the world).
US educational system sucks. It had to be dumbed down to process the poor through it with as few "held backs" as possible, because we don't want to hurt the kids' self-esteem and because the football team needs "passing" players. So, you have high school grads who can barely write their own names.
@scockeryScholarships is the problem. In America, they became about sports. A dumb kid with a good throw can get a scholarship while a smart kid with no sports skills can miss out. In the UK, scholarships are handed to the best of the best with some also for disadvantaged groups.
@scockerycrazy. i went to a high school that’s called gymnasium in czech republic (a school for the more smart people who want to continue to a presitigious university and work position after high school) so my studies were much more harder to pass than other types of high schools, and i’m starting to think it was harder to pass than american univerisities are 😭
@scockery That's really sad. I live in a Lithuania, we have free education for all and only a few paid private schools. So you basically get 12 years of education from your country for free. During this time you learn at least 3 languages, including your country's and two foreign, math, history, georgraphy, science is split to biology and physics. In higher grades topics like phylosophy and civics are included. Students have option to leave school from grade 9 to join a vocational school (also free), so the system filters out the non-willing without leaving them to their own devices.
@HotteaLT Math, history, geography, and science, biology and physics. Stop, you're scaring the students there...
But y can drive to another country, Mexico or canada
01:40 I think she was poking fun on the many Americans that think 21 is the age limit for drinking, just because it is in the USA, so when they hear about people drinking at 18 or 19 in other countries, they call it underaged drinking.
She isn't. She's referring to how most minors drink alcohol, of course illegally, in their countries.
Look up what "botellón" is. And every EU country has a version of that.
@DimitriMoreira I think it’s a bit of both + the drinking age often is even lower, like 16, nonetheless even then often we start drinking underage so I guess it’s just a very broad joke
Finnish children study Finnish, German, Swedish, and English.
We know Swedish kids have to learn both …it’s compulsory… not a choice….
Finns are tough! 🙂
Estonian learn three foreign languages. By their own choice. English usually, but the remaiming teo can be anything
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It really surprises me that Americans have forgotten that half of their country belonged to Spain a few centuries ago. Who do you think brought Spanish there? Florida, California, Mexico, etc. Don’t they really teach you any history beyond your independence, which Spain helped you achieve?
"Europe is a continent which has forty countries. America is a continent that has 35 nations, but one of them thinks that it is the whole continent and calls itself America, which is as daft as England calling itself Britain or Europe. .
Tbf it's usually called The Americas afaik, cause they consist of South, Central, and North America.
@Brakvash Indeed, but do the US ians know this!?
@Brakvash "Tbf it's usually called The Americas" Only in the USA. In all other parts of the world America is a continent like Africa, Asia and so on.
@tattergreis4511 In the UK America is split into two continents, North and South. With Central America (Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala etc.) all being part of North America.
I am Spanish. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous communities plus 2 autonomous cities, each with its own parliament, laws, etc. Furthermore, each autonomous community is divided into provinces, for a total of 50 provinces. There are also 4 official languages, although the official language of Spain is Spanish (Castilian), and multiple dialects. Now add up all the European countries with all their divisions and more than 200 different languages.
19:52 Greetings from Switzerland, we speak 4 different languages in our country (dialects from the regions not included 😅)
Official languages! With more the 25% foreigners there are a lot more spoken languages.
The American stereotype of them being social and sociable is thoroughly undermined by your politics and gun culture.
Why do such friendly people need so many guns?
yep so much stereotypes
There is no such thing as a collective European culture. Each individual country that makes up the continent of Europe have their own very distinct cultures, and these culture differences can even vary from one region to another within the same country.
But generally speaking there are underlying common values and habits. Each country has its own culture but they are not so different as EU vs USA vs Asia.
Als Limburger word ik niet graag Hollander genoemd.
@hardyvonwinterstein5445no wonder there is war in the world. Geezes grow up.
@wykydytronNo, you're overestimating that.
There are more than 14 different countries making up the CONTINENT of Europe!
Each with its own language, Parliament, Laws, etc. Just for a basic piece of
information!
19:18 I thought countries having states and different sounding dialects was common sense,
my country has 15 states and 8 different dialects (I think that's how you say it in English)
Regarding the travelling question, we travel at least once a year.
I'm 27 years old and have been to 18 countries.
Portugal 🇵🇹, Luxembourg 🇱🇺, Spain 🇪🇸, Andorra 🇦🇩, Switzerland 🇨🇭, Croatia 🇭🇷, Bosnia & Herzegovina 🇧🇦, Slovenia 🇸🇮, Slovakia 🇸🇰, Hungary 🇭🇺, Czech Republic 🇨🇿, Germany 🇩🇪, Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, The Netherlands 🇳🇱, France 🇫🇷, Denmark 🇩🇰 and Sweden 🇸🇪.
Since Portugal 🇵🇹 belongs to the Schengen Zone we don't need any sort of passport in order to visit other countries that are part of the Schengen zone. All I need is my ID card from Portugal in order to travel.
And when travelling try to learn how to say: hello; goodbye; thank you; sorry; entrance; exit.
You have been saving Norway for last?
@bentorefrland5722I'm learning Norwegian "norsk bokmål" in order to emigrante. By July I should be living in Norway 🇳🇴 😅
Jeg snakker litt norsk. But by June/July I'll probably have the B2 certificate in Norsk bokmål.
For now i speak portuguese (mother tongue), Spanish (did the course at the consulate of Venezuela for free), English (did the Cambridge C1 exam/CAE - Certificate of Advanced English).
Suppose I tell you I'm going on vacation to America. When I get back, I tell you how much I enjoyed it and that Toronto is such a beautiful city.
How would that sound to you? But technically, I'm right, because Toronto is on the American continent. That's how it feels when people from the US say they've been on vacation in Europe but have only really visited Rome.
They are dumb is just impossible to them understand AMERICA IS THE WHOLE CONTINEN!!
THEY ARE SO COMFORTABLE BIENG DUMB DONT TAKE TIME TO EDUCATE THEM
An interesting example of "speak the same language but also speak a different language" is Shetland in Scotland. Shetland is a more island, most northern part of Scotland. However Shetland was part of Norway until a few hundred years ago, but even then due to its very remote location the culture and peoples sort of evolved on their own. So Shetlanders speak English, they learn English in schools etc, but they also have their own language that is unique to Shetland, with its own words and spellings. There are lots of places here that have the "English" place name and the Shetland place name, like Walls / Waas and Aith / Eíd. There are also very different accents despite being such a small place, there's 4 main difference accents on the main island of Shetland, and one for each of the other inhabited islands (about 16). I've had to translate between a Shetlander and an American tourist, all of us technically speak English but cannot understand each other
Tyler, in the US the customers don’t tip, because a tip is freely given. What you actually have is a forced tip included in the bill, which, because it’s not freely given, it becomes a sales fee and that’s illegal in some countries including Australia. Business owners cannot add on extra fees unless it’s upheld under the law. In some countries, tipping is seen as offensive, as if the employer isn’t paying his staff their wage entitlements. In Australia, the minimum wage for adults is A$30 per hour and the employer has to pay his staff at least that amount; he can choose to pay more but not less. So we only tip our waiter if we really feel they deserve it, but no one has to rely on tips to survive, so no one expects tips.
You mean EU
I think you need to edit your comment. And there is a forced tip added in the UK now, its usually 12.5%. Technically you can say you don't want to pay it, but then you'd have to go through the entire process of having them give you another bill.
@j2174 I found that in London a few years ago, but never seen it where I live.
it must blow you guys mind if we tell you, that sometimes we go to another country just for groceries cause that specific item is cheaper there XDD
Rather strange that the "white" Americans don't seem to realize that they are of European ancestry & didn't just appear in what is now the US, a few centuries ago (or even as little as a few generations ago) They share European history right up to where their earliest relative decided to go to the US & continue their lineage.
yes!
Britain was the first and colonised America. and the Settlers and their colonies
were still under the British King until 1776 when they revolted against the high
taxation being imposed by their home country ! They fought the British soldiers
sent to restore order, until they withdrew. However, 'Independence' was gained
for the colony by Brits fighting Brits, not Americans who at that time were
legally the native population of Indians.
@marycarver-t6v Well said!
@marycarver-t6v Actually, no. The Brits arrived nearly a century after the Spanish. The Brits held the 13 colonies along the Eastern coast of the now US at the time of the War of Independence.
Western America was owned by Spain, Alaska by Russia & Texas & other parts of the S.W. by Mexico.
The inhabitants of the colonies, though governed by England, were not all Brits....... French, Spanish, German, Scandanavian, Russian etc. So it wasn't only Brits against Brits during the War of Independence & France was fighting on the American colonialists' side too.
Yes. That always puzzles me. Especially when they are commenting on medieval Europe and saying things like, those Europeans are very clever, how did they manage to build those Cathedrals, we haven't got anything like that. Boy oh boy.
Worth noticing. The countries in southern Europe is at the same latitude as northern USA. Rome = New York and Northern Europe is on the latitude of Canada. Stockholm in Sweden = Anchorage in Alaska.
Worth noticing why?Whats your point?
@pipodeschoen8308 maybe about the air conditioning thing...
@pipodeschoen8308 The climate is so much colder because the latitudes are so much more northern. For example Dortmund, or even London (they're roughly level), are more north than any major settlement (above 500k pop) in North America other than I think Edmonton in Canada.
This is a good explainer as to why AC is less prevalent/required in most of Europe. But it also contributes to different food preservation i.e. eggs being left out vs getting put in the fridge (though the US does also wash eggs vs most of Europe where we don't).
@pipodeschoen8308 The point is that when you compare USA to Europe you should be aware of the fact that Florida is at the latitude of northern Afrika, i.e. the Sahara desert and NOT Europe!
And that New york is the same latitude as Rome, not Berlin or London.
Yes, I know this video is a month old and I'm late on the ball. But here in Romania, upon paying the check at a restaurant you'll have the option to tip 5, 10 or 15% in tip which is then added to the total amount of what you'll pay.
You may not be taught this stuff in school but have you never seen European or British films or read any books?
I don't think Tyler reads books and he hardly seem to be aware that other countries make films, not even the UK. He has mentioned not really seeing any before. Go American bubble! 😂😅
He also has very poor retention regarding information.
I think Americans rely on regular school curriculum and lack curiousity. i met loads of Americans when in the Air Force and most had very little idea of ANYTHING if it happned outside their state ( or even their county) . very parochial people i found.
@coling3957 That is a large part of their ignorance. In UK schools, Geography is taught-and taught well.
He acts dumb to pretend that he hasn't covered topics numerous times already. It's all about YT income with this guy.
I have a friend from France who once visited some place in the States. When she was introduced to her American boyfriend's mother, the lady told her: "Oh you're French? I know France! Paris, Rome..." 😄
Did she follow up with "Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Athens, it's all the same thing though, right? I mean it's all the EU now, so they're all the same country now. So it's basically like driving from Ohio to Indiana, so no passport is required. They just use different coloured flags for decoration." ??
@user-lo3tv8so4w My mom once met an american pair and the women tells how good they were travelling at Germany. And her husbands adds "Yes... and after Germany we went into Berlin".
Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland also speak French and it's annoying when an American hears us speaking French and says "I love France", "I love Paris" or "I love the Eiffel Tower". 😆
@Wathieux.와치으 I feel for you!
You asked how often we travel to another country. To answer simple, I live in Belgium, work in Luxembourg, and go shopping in France or Germany. (All 4 of them are within 70 miles or less from my house). About 3 times a year a visit Italy, passing Switzerland, and once every 2 years a visit Romania or Denmark passing Netherland, Austria, Slovenia and Hungary. Did this answer your question?
A, and the best part, just a valid ID if enough.
That is actually insane
I live in the "Benelux" region, I can hop in my car, drive 40 min and get through 3 different countries (Belgium Netherlands and Germany) then if I drive one hour south, I can go through Luxembourg, from there I drive 40min west and I'm in France, so in 2 hours, I can visit 5 different countries. I love it, I often go shopping in Germany, then drive to Belgium for some fries and then drive south and go hiking in Luxembourg, all in half a day.
Similar to different States.
@philspurling6414true but a state is not the same as another country.
I’m jealous of you guys being able to travel that easily and quickly. Several parts of Europe are not as connected as the countries in the middle there.
If I drive like 10 hours I’m in another country but it’s very pricey plus the country is too similar to be that exciting ;) and to drive to a bigger city than just across the border takes even longer, else there’s always flights but then you have to pay for hotels as well so it’s not cheap.
@philspurling6414 different states still have the same Wendy's or kfc, theres no diversity in food. Different countries in europe all have their own regional cuisine, architecture, language
This year I was in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark and Norway.
At the middle school I went I think we had to take a foreign language class I think in 7th grade. It was only filling out worksheets in the language we were learning and in English not learning to speak the languages.
At the first elementary school I went to we had to learn Spanish. But we mostly spoke English. While learning basic Spanish like counting and the Alphabet. The only Spanish I remember from the class is Tango Uno Banana.
When I was growing up, and my dad’s mom was still alive. My brother and I, and an are two cousins that are my brother and I dad’s older brothers kids. Went to a Concordia College Norwegian language camp where we mainly spoke English. While learning basic Norwegian like counting, the before and after meal songs, names of food, the camp song.
At the high school I went to foreign language classes were optional classes not mandatory classes. I took German 1. Where we mainly spoke English. While learning basic German. Counting, the alphabet, names of items, how to ask for items, etc.
Here's a challenge for you Tyler.
Make a video about any country you like (except the US) without using the words "America", "US", "Back Home" or any other reference or synonym for The United States of America. You won't be able to do it because you only make comparisons - not observations.
USa is Very good at some stuff :
Number of people in prison , child mortality , school shooting , gangs ( perhaps south america contest the win here ) and many other insane stuff ^^
We have castles with high speed internet !
Not to forget expenses for military purposes.
Hi from France, thanks for your vidéos, like your reactions,waiting for more ☮
"Do you travel to another country every weekend?" Tyler - 2025. Unless you are insanely rich, or practically live on the border of another country then of course no. Some people never travel to another country, some do it a couple of times in their life, some people travel once or twice a year, or more again if rich.. Personally I've been to around 20 countries on 3 continents, travel 1-2 times per year..saving up for it.
In England there are trains that travel under the English Channel into France,
A regular service, and you can take your car with you. The journey is not long
and once there it is easy to travel to the entire rest of Europe without Border control.
This makes international travel as easy a getting on a train in London and getting
off in Edinburgh for example. Most Brits. will cross the channel for holidays etc.
and Europeans take possession of London in particular during the summer months!
So many different languages going on.
No, you don't have to be that rich to travel to another country. Spending some days in another country is not a problem. You can use train, plane or even car. So, you can plan to travel one a year for hollidays.
@galadinthedark9862you didn’t understand what I wrote, sorry
@marycarver-t6vI get that, but you don’t go to France every weekend
29:31 With many "old historical buildings" in Europe is that on many of them you will find plaque with "Build in 1220, ruined in 1327, rebuild in different style in 1440, turned into stables in 1472, burned in 1563, rebuild in another style in 1664, then remodelled in 1733, then some noble tired to make it look back "medieval" but lack historical knowledge so botched reconstruction in 1855, then shelled by artillery in WW I, rebuild, bombed in WW II, rebuild in 1955, restauration in 2017 from EU funds" - so yeah, there are some bricks in basement that are that old...
28:00 we don't think it. we *know* it. 😀
Yes, spaghetti and meatballs is not a thing in italy, in fact, most of what you think is italian food, doesn't exist in italy, there's no chicken parm, there's no Alfredo sauce, there's no spaghetti bolognese, there's no Pepperoni pizza, all of it is just a hybrid cheap American imitation of authentic italian food. If you order a Peperoni pizza in italy, they'll serve you a pizza with vegetables, because the word peperoni means bell peppers in italian
Tyler, you are just willfully ignorant of the fact that there are over 40 countries in Europe, as you have reacted to many videos on Europe across your 3 RUclips channels.
Tyler, I have lived in Málaga, Southern Spain, for 14 years now and have adapted to the Spanish way of life. I speak Spanish which is a great help
As you have never been anywhere outside America going anywhere in Europe would blow your mind and be a massive culture shock. My life in Spain is considerably better than yours Tyler. Can you tell what freedoms you have that I don't have living in Spain?
The freedom to bear arms 😅.
Btw, I live in Mijas
Depending on how to count, Europe even might have more than 50 countries.
Well, EU member Cyprus is Asian indeed, and some might argue that Malta should be counted as African.
It's not easy, but - hey, easy is what everybody can do.
I would say it's the re-upload of a very old video, he knows more about Europe than this
@oleksandrbyelyenko435I rly hope you're joking
@Lizzzard22 should I?
I recall an American colleague (he was working at one of our overseas offices) who told me once that on his vacation he would be " doing Europe". I asked him how long his trip would take and he said 8 days. When I told him, that time would would be barely sufficient to visit two or three of the more interesting cities in any of the European countries he just did not believe me.
Mate, for THOUSANDS of years tribes and peoples moved through, what today is Germany and all the other modern states. An example: my State of Baden-Württemberg (South-West Germany) had the tribe of the alemans as well as other tribes settling in this fertile part of Germany. The Bavarians were another tribe and today we all communicate in so called "High German" (like Oxford English in UK) BUT our dialects are a different animal :). This goes for all of Europe. For a very long time we had thousands of little kingdoms and so on, until Charlemagne put it into one big empire.
Elmar from Germany
23:56 I live in The Netherlands, went to Düsseldorf to visit the Christmas market. And the fact we have schenger, makes it all very easy.