I retired in 2012 and it was my experience that most of us was afraid of being out of the office/workplace too long because we were fearful of being replaced. It seems productivity has been the measure of a 'good employee' even in my professional field as a therapist/triage specialist at a mental health facility. When your productivity dropped during a specific period you are still held accountable as your employer did not consider that you were on vacation for two weeks...your productivity level numbers dropped and you end up having to explain yourself and prove your value. It's a mess .
Where I worked, they were constantly asking for mentors for new people, but they wouldn't give you a break on your quotas even though you were helping new people become productive.
I was a school bus drive for 10 yrs. I heard kids talking in so many different languages. So I started asking, I found 35 different languages on just a bus of middle school kids. Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Greek, Arabic, sign language, Korean, Japanese, Italian, ...... My mind was blown. Then I realized their parents had come here for work. This the greater Houston area, lots of jobs. The best part is they all got alone famously.
Born and raised in St Louis Missouri and worked in a large lab. One day walking through the facility to go home I heard conversations in Italian, Arabic, Pakistani, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, Nigerian, Indian and German and realized I never heard one word of English! However, I only speak English and most my family and neighbors have never heard anyone speaking anything else!!!
Scotland was experiencing with Outlander what Australia experienced in the 80's with Crocodile Dundee. My advice: don't get used to it, we get bored easily lol
I’m American and speak English and Spanish. However, I know Americans with no recent immigrant history who speak languages other than English. I used to live in the South and some of my friends grew up in households where the primary language was Louisiana Creole or Cajun French. I also know people who speak Native American languages like for example Choctaw. In fact, Choctaw has been used by the U.S. military so obviously someone has to speak it. Now I’m in the Midwest and hear different German dialects spoken by Mennonites. I grew up in California and heard more languages than I could count.
The problem in the US, especially for people lower on the ladder, is that we don't get a choice. Obviously we would LOVE to have more time off to spend with our families. But when the company says, "we NEED you! Work or face the consequences!" What choice do we have? I don't work because i love my job. I work because I'm hungry. I work because I need a roof over my head. I need heat in the winter and cool air in the summer. I work because I don't have a choice in the matter. And if the company says work or lose your job, then I have no choice but to work or try to find another job.
Good points. In addition to that; I've also sometimes been made to feel as though I was being lazy if I took my legally required breaks, or if I clocked out when I was scheduled to do so, and not after. So have a few other people I met, or known.
8:20 - dude, America is huge, we don't need to travel to other countries, we have the entire spectrum of nature within our own country. It's a multi-day drive from one side of the country to the other.
it'll always be popular to hate the biggest things. ppl see something popular and immediately hate it, bc ppl don't actually form opinions, they just wanna go against the grain to feel special
@@WGGplant It is convenient to put things/people into boxes or types. I know I do it for somethings. It is just hard to conceive the world any other way. Our heads would explode trying to take it all in.
" All Americans are ignorant"... Yea, EVERYONE is ignorant. It's a fact of life. I cannot know everything about everything. "There is no shame in ignorance; the shame is in willfully remaining so"
As an American: We have homeless and poor but a lot of this is impossible to balance freedom, choice, and rights against drugs, mental illness, and criminal selfish attitudes. America used to have bad to horrific mental health institutions and extremely long jail sentences for minor crimes. We have gone far the other way with criminals loose and also let people who can not take care of themselves fend for themselves with uncoordinated and inconsistent assistance. But, no matter where you draw a line people will be on the wrong side of that line in individual cases.
6:09 my ex-girlfriend is half Japanese and Half Brazilian, she knows three languages fluently: Portuguese, Japanese, Korean. She struggles with English tho, she can read and write it for the most part but speaking it and understanding spoken English is hard for her. Were are in a long distance relationship.
Where I work it's pretty common for people to be made to use up vacation time at the end of the year that they didn't use that year and that's at a company that only gives 2 weeks per year. We are allowed to carry over vacation time for one year but if it's not used by the end of the second year the company forces employees to use it. I know of other companies that give employees the option of taking pay for their unused vacation time instead of forcing employees to take time off work.
I really like that Shaun uses the term ignorant. Ignorant is not a negative, it just means one is not informed, not that they are stupid or wrong or even correct. Lesson is, learn and experience as much as you can.
You are so right. Ignorance is not knowing the facts about something. And learning facts allows you to gain knowledge. Someone who is stupid, is someone who doesn’t know the basics about anything and refuses to embrace knowledge. I try to learn something new, no matter what the subject, every day. The thing about stupid people, they lack common sense. And common sense is something that can’t be taught. I’m 72 years old but still embrace knowledge. You never get too old to learn! Those are just my opinions anyway.
He’s right. I’ve always wanted ti visit Scotland but even more so when I started watching Highlander. Same for wanting to visit New Zealand with LOTR, UK and others with GOT, etc. Americans loved when the a British shows started being aired on Masterpiece Theater, Netflix, Acorn and movie channels like HBO. I can imagine to would give tourism a bump in Europe but it also let us in on all your great actors and entertainers. A European tour is still on my bucket list. With as much as we have in common and can get along, I think it’s going to feel like a second home away from home or a relative’s back yard (garden).
If you go down to Louisiana and Mississippi as well as Texas you here a French variant called bayou creole in Miami the Haitians have their form of creole plus all the native Americans still to some extent speak the native tongues
If we are talking about the same thing, people I know call the language Louisiana Creole. I know people who speak this. We call what Haitians speak as Haitian Kreole. Then of course there is Cajun French.
We are work-aholics! The successful people work so much to achieve their goals. People that don’t work, are the ones that end up on the poorer side of the spectrum. We aren’t forced to work here. We choose to work enough to support the lifestyle we choose.
The ending "holic" denotes addiction or Escapism from life. While there are Americans who use work to escape life, many work so many hours to build a business that they can later either sell and live off the profit or let others run the day to day in their behalf and make a more passive income off of.
I wonder if it has to do with the intense conflict between Ireland and England. There are a lot of red headed Irish people and those two countries had a pretty tough relationship not so long ago.
The other thing about Americans and travel and lack of passport holders in America. We have every terrain and climate in our own country, therefore we don’t need to leave our own country as often. We don’t get as much vacation time to be able to go intercontinental very often if ever due to time constraints. And until a couple years ago, we could travel to Mexico and Canada with just a birth certificate and a drivers license. Only now do we need a passport to cross borders.
Now this is an interesting reaction. I'm one of those who work 8-hour shifts with 2 fifteen-minute breaks and a one-hour lunch. I look forward to our paid holidays and definitely look forward to taking vacations. I have heard that there are some job places that make you go on vacation if you haven't done so for mental and physical health purposes. I don't understand why people want to work all the time and not take a vacation. Vacations are a wonderful break from work! I enjoyed this reaction video! ☮ and 💕
Many in the US are more lifestyle-holics. Lol They want a particular lifestyle, and do what it takes to reach and maintain that lifestyle. Some work insane amounts because they can't earn as much for their labor, while others get more for their efforts and get to work less for it. It all depends on what value you can get for your labor, where you live in the country, etc.
You should check out Outlander...fabulous show! Has history, time travel...not as weird as it sounds, a great love story, scottish and american history and gorgeous scottish scenary. The acting is fantastic. Men and women can both enjoy it. Highly recommend it!
Shaun is great! He visits several places in the US. He recently visited my home state of Pennsylvania, by the way. I'd have to recommend his video on visiting North Carolina.
I lived in central PA for years, and now have lived in North Carolina for years. Totally going to check these out!! It's interesting to see how others view these states. Without question, I like NC better than PA, but that has more to do with the weather than anything else - and the easy access to the ocean. PA being landlocked drove me absolutely nuts!!! Otherwise, it's a decent state (with its share of problems, of course.)
There are plenty of we Americans who are introverted & natually quiet, too. Additionally, I think other countries may be surprised at how many Americans don't embrace the "gun culture". Love Shaun's videos; the one with Lawrence et al, at a baseball game was hilarious. :)
I'm currently living in Seattle. The hospital system I used to work for has translators on call for 83 different languages. You can't ride the bus or go shopping or do anything in public and not hear several languages being spoken. So, yes; America is very multi-lingual, very multicultural. Myself, I'm a native American-English speaker. But I've been picking up bits of other languages since childhood. I took a couple years of German in junior high school, I learned a little Welsh over a ten-day intensive, currently I'm learning Spanish from Duolingo, and I took some American Sign Language a few decades back. I've picked up some other words in Yiddish, French, Sanskrit, and Russian just from the general environment, but not enough to really communicate. I also had a half semester of Latin plus the Latin and Greek picked up from reading word derivations in dictionaries, but again, not enough to form sentences. Frankly, there is enough differences between American-English and British-English that they could be considered different languages, and I've studied British-English from outside the UK most of my life (being an Anglophile since about 1964). The workaholic thing: There's a confluence of things involved in this. 1. One important American value is our work ethic. We place value in being industrious and productive. We strive to pull our own weight, not take charity, 'climb the corporate ladder'. 2. There's an expectation to conform. As much as we value individuality, we more value being a part of the 'herd'. That means social expectation to participate in the same actions and events, to have the same level of home/car/apparel/relationships as others in your social sphere. These things cost money, so people work hard to be able to afford to 'keep up with the Jones', prove social worthiness by the quality of the things one can provide one's family. 3. Employers exact an expectation of hard work and loyalty, to prove you want the job. Americans don't get as much time off as Europeans do, and American workers who use all the sick time and vacation time available to them are considered not serious about their jobs, so are less likely to advance in companies. If the company goes through a cost-saving period, the 'less serious employees could also lose their jobs. And jobs not only provide income, they also provide essential medical benefits. 4. That all being said, Covid has made a change. Jobs asked too much of employees, laid off too many in a cavalier fashion, put their health in jeopardy, and paid them too little. In adapting to the pandemic, a great many people were working from home and self-monitoring their hours and workloads. Turns out they were more productive working from home instead of in the office. They also saved time without a commute or having to buy and clean work clothes. The lack of social gatherings in combination with the self-reflection and life re-evaluation made people reconsider working so hard for someone else and worrying about acquiring material things. Some people changed jobs, most people demanded more pay and more time off. Employers are STILL having difficulty recruiting workers, so workers now have the upper hand in negotiations. The 'workaholic' desperation has calmed down and become more sane.
Spanish and French are very common in the states and people speak them fairly easily. Hindi is somewhat common, the Philippine language is spoken by nurses or others, German is heard, Chinese is spoken around Chinatowns, Japanese around little Tokyo and at schools, I’ve heard some polish before, and lots of others. Disney has a map in every language including some rare African languages that you never heard before including the rare Click language. Also they have maps in native Alaskan and Navajo. Honestly it’s a wonder they could do that. From my experience I understand bits of so many languages as I hear them a lot around town but my native languages are English and Chinese (the Cantonese dialect) with some speaking of Spanish and French. You sorta pick things up things over time and you get a sense of what they are saying without them saying it.
@@TheJoeml85 I'm also from America, and I guess it depends on where you live. The bigger cities like New York, LA, Chicago and Houston have a lot of languages spoken. I live in Houston and the languages I've heard aside from English and Spanish are Vietnamese, Hindi, and Punjabi. There is also a community in central Texas where they mostly speak German. At one time, the older people there never learned English. I hear French and Cajun French in Louisiana. There are a lot of languages spoken in the U.S.
@@TheJoeml85 One of the areas where you will hear French is the northeast due to its proximity to Quebec (among other reasons). For example, there are even towns in Maine where signage in the town will be both in French and English. Maine is surrounded by Canada on three sides. And the other New England states either border Quebec or are within easy driving distance so there has been a lot of cross over with French Canadian culture.
I grew up in the northeast, a few hours from Quebec. I'm from heavily French and French-Canadian ancestry, and lived in an area with a large French-Canadian population. I had a French-speaking babysitter throughout toddlerhood, preschool and kindergarten, and took French for 6 years in school. Sadly, I've lost a lot of it, but I used to be pretty darn fluent. It all depends on the influence of where you live, and what you're exposed to. My parents put a high value on knowing other languages, and strongly encouraged me to also learn Spanish (wish I had taken that advice!!)
@@TheJoeml85 I’m also American and that you have only heard English and Spanish blows my mind. 😂 I assume you live in a non-diverse area and don’t travel much. I hear Tagalog, Vietnamese and other Asian languages. Also with “French” there are different dialects. I know people whose first language is either Louisiana Creole, Cajun French or Haitian Creole. The first two I hear from non-immigrant Americans. Some of my friends grandparents don’t speak English and grew up in the USA. Currently I live in the Midwest around a lot of Mennonites. I hear them speaking German dialects often. Have you never heard Pennsylvania Dutch/Deutsch? Not to mention I have heard people speaking Native American languages like Choctaw. Some reservations have their own schools.
It’s hard not to have some gun culture in a country so vast and so geographically diverse that you need to be ready to protect yourself from some pretty deadly wildlife. When a bear is looking at you as it’s next meal or you hear the tail rattle of a venomous snake near your feet, it’s no time to be squeamish about guns. We were raised with guns, taught gun safety/ responsibility and firmly instructed that guns are not toys!
We do overtime, a large portion of companies will tell you to do the overtime or they will find someone that will. Meaning they will fire you. My last job was 12+ hours a day 5 days a week (and extremely physical) and sometimes 6 days a week.
4:06 that can be dangerous. I work around homeless people so I know not all are bad people but some are, also some aren't necessarily bad but have mental conditions that can get then to dad bad things here and there.
A little perspective on Americans being rich. I have heard it said that by comparison to some others in the world, even our poor (until you get down to the homeless) are rich.
Hi! So I am from the pacific northwest (Oregon) from what I can see with our work ethics is that it depends on where on that corporate ladder you are on is what guides you. Most people want to get ahead, own that house, live in comfort and have the life they desire. So to gain that they will do what they need to do. For some its never just not enough, they want to get to that corporate top and be the best. So for some working weekends, holidays, late hours and such means promotions and getting ahead. But for others its not that. Before I ventured out on my own I worked in a call center. I went as high as I could go (I knew that) I was working 50 hours a week for $9.50 an hour in a place that you needed to make $15 an hour to support yourself and $30+ an hour for a small family. So I worked a second job on the weekends 10-15 hours a weekend at the time min wage was $8.50. I couldn't afford to lose either job or even think about moving to a different company because I couldn't afford to lose the mandatory overtime job a provided as well as health care and other job perks, and I couldn't afford to lose job b because that meant I couldn't afford to pay all my bills. So it's hard to explain that no we don't want to literally work ourselves to death but some people are able to gain a lot by climbing the corporate ladder, but they give up a lot too. A good number have missed out on family events, holidays, and that sort of thing. So I think Americans in General either haven't learned to live in a balanced life. But a greater portion of people aren't allowed to because of economic factors.
@@holyfire11 Yeah I miss Portland but moved to Salem YEARS ago and went out on my own doing wedding photography and other odd jobs. Did much better for myself especially when the ACA started. The fact that our health care is attached to our jobs has so many people just stuck in jobs they loathe. That was my main concern, I have two kids and well kids are stupid and do stupid things I couldn't lose health care even though that call center job was giving me a mental breakdown every 9 months on average.
The most multicultural city in the world is Toronto, Canada. Approximately 140 languages are spoken. Canada's official languages are English and French.
That kind of work ethic is crucial to the innovative free enterprise system that makes our society function. I know a bunch of folks that saw a niche to fill, created a service to cover it, then sold it by pointing out a problem that most companies didn’t know they had. Or specialize in something no one else wants to do. Those people work 80+ hours a week and are usually on call the rest of the time. Running even a small, 1 man operation profitably is a 24-7 job. But a lot of those same people own $1M lakefront homes, boats, Harley’s and take quarter mil vacations with the fam every couple of years. It’s about perspective, and what you’re willing to work for.
I think that because we were used to working 9-5, 5 days a week with weekends off then went to America being open 24 hours a day 7 days a week so someone has to be working all the time around the clock… when we get time off, we stick close to home but get bored after a week and a half and are ready to go back by week 2 of vacation, long enough to catch up on the sleep that we missed while working.
The difference in vacation time is why we don't travel out of the country much. When I was working we got 25 days of vacation max, which was given on your date of hire. But this is accumulated over some 20 years, and you have to use it up before your next date of hire anniversary or you lose it. In addition we had a 2 week plant shutdown in the summer so you had to reserve 10 days for that. I read a couple of years ago that when you got hired in France, the government gave you 30 days when you started. In the US the company decides how much time you get off cause they are paying for it
There is no Federal law for mandatory vacation , or holidays, or sick leave. That is generally governed by States and individual companies. If in a labor Union, the Union bargains for it. There are workers who have no paid vacation. Some have very little and some have a lot, but generally after working for a particular company for certain number of years.
Also the passport numbers aren’t necessarily reflective of whether an American has traveled internationally. I’m American and I started traveling outside of the country BEFORE I had a passport because when I was growing up my family and school would drive into Mexico . A lot of my family has driven into Canada without passports. My family also took a trip to the Bahamas when I was a teen without passports. Also if you are in the military and get stationed overseas you don’t have to have passport. My uncle lived in Germany for two years and has never had a passport. My dad and other uncles have been all over the world with the Navy and never had passports.
I’m a 27 year old American and I have never taken a vacation in my adult life. I just finally got a job where I actually get good vacation hours and good enough pay that I’m planning a vacation in November. I think this is pretty normal here, I’d rather work to make more money until I have the disposable income to actually enjoy a vacation. Plus less vacation means more money towards a retirement fund.
I know our culture here in the states doesn’t make sense to many people, especially our right to bear arms, but if you look at how our country started and all it took, it can explain a lot. If it’s looked at objectively. Just my two cents.
Ah yes the good old days. Back when women, free blacks, and Roman Catholics couldn't own firearms. When states refused to have a standing army as a nation and instead had state militias. The more recent supreme court ruling cemented the view your trying to paint, but the more historic ones paint a different view. Perhaps you can see the difference in most recent years? United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875) In the first case to deal with the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment does not bar state regulation of firearms. The Court stated that the Second Amendment “has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government.” Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886) The Supreme Court held yet again that the Second Amendment applied only to the federal government, not state governments. United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939) The Supreme Court held that the NFA, which places registration requirements on machine guns, short-barreled weapons, destructive devices, and other unique firearms, does not violate the Second Amendment. The Court held that the “obvious purpose” of the Second Amendment was to “assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness of” the state militia, and the Amendment “must be interpreted and applied with the end in view.” Barrett v. United States, 423 U.S. 212 (1976) the Court again upheld gun control laws. United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995) SCOTUS ruled the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 unconstitutional, they further limited how the federal government could regulate (or restrict) gun rights. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) 1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to own firearms for the purpose of self-defense, unrelated to militia or military activity. And because handguns are today’s primary defensive weapon of choice, they’re also protected. 2. The phrase “bear arms” meant: “to wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.” 3. A “well regulated Militia” is not the state’s military forces. The D.C. regulation effectively banning handgun possession and the law requiring firearms in the home to be kept inoperable at all times, both violated Second Amendment protections. The Second Amendment is not unlimited or absolute. Reasonable restrictions may be upheld (such as limits on firearm possession, carrying in schools and government buildings, and “dangerous and unusual” weapons) *the District of Columbia is under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress and the federal government, not a state. So, while SCOTUS made several key decisions on what the Second Amendment means and protects, the case shed no light on whether states could regulate and/or ban firearms. McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010) The Supreme Court held that Second Amendment protections apply at the state level through “selective incorporation” under the Fourteenth Amendment. SCOTUS repeated that individual self-defense was at the core of the Second Amendment. Meaning, the constitutional right to bear arms (and its protections as stated in Heller) prohibits states from enacting bans on handguns for self-defense in the home. This Second Amendment Supreme Court case decision overturned the Second Amendment rulings in Cruikshank and Presser.
Get a haircut from a woman who speaks almost only Vietnamese, buy a single beer at a c-store where the staff speaks Sinhala after driving home drinking half a 24 of Steel Reserve decide you don't wanna cook and get dinner at a taco trailer and more beer at the c-store where they speak Punjabi which is the same thing as Hindi or Urdu because you cared to learn a little. Or you can go to that new creole food place within walking distance to where you live and get catfish fillets and fries with coleslaw. There's cheaper 40's at the c-store next to it. I want that seafood place to survive, but the taco trailer wins.
Trust me, not working like that because we “want” to; we just want to keep our jobs. And no one happily works OT, other than that they’re happy to get the extra money because they’re not getting paid enough to begin with.
I live in SoCal so most people I know are at least bilingual (English/Spanish) but it’s not at all uncommon to find someone who knows 3 or 4 languages.
You can't compare the US to one single country. States have different cultures, lifestyles, economics, crimes, attractions, politics, climates, health systems, educational systems, etc.
Every single person on this planet is ignorant of something. I'm ignorant of astrophysics. Being ignorant isn't bad, it's normal. No one knows everything, so embrace your ignorance and try to learn something new every day 😊
When I grew up in Alabama the only language other than English I ever heard spoken other than English was two guys in a Chinese restaurant speaking Chinese . After moving to New York City , I have heard literally hundreds of languages/dialects spoken here
As for being, loud, my family is definitely loud...but if you consider how we (my siblings and I) grew up...if we were at grandparents Haun, if someone older from the house for one of us, it had to be passed from the house, to the worksheet, to the Colburn, possibly out to the rabbit pens, and possibly out to th alfalfa fields...you had to be loud. Now if we were at grandma Aerts's house , mostly in our early years she lived on Ross drive...which same scenario as before...you had to yell as far as the back patio 1/4acre away, past the garden, take a left at the end of the garden, and holler into th orchard...again you had to be loud. During all this childhood, we also went camping nearly every weekend, in the high Unitah Mtns...where we have 12 1/2 acres...were the rules of camp were 1 keep the arch in site ( there is a natural rock arch on the property high on the hill) 2 keep camp in site, or 3 keep our neighbors ( across the creek from us) in site...if we followed just 1 of these rules we were free to go explore, or fish...so again when someone hollered we came. But when we moved into a subdivision...the layout of the subdivision was truly unique as to where our house was...1 sibling had a friend she used to hang out with all the time, that lived4 streets over, another sibling had friends that lived as fr away as 3 streets over, the last sibling had a fiend on the street behind us...however if they decided to go to the park...our house was on a hill, the park was in a tiny valley 6 streets away. If any of them were needed at home I would stand on the back porch and yell for however was needed at home...cell phones were practically none existent, and I was told by my siblings they were not allowed their friends landlines phone numbers...so I became very loud...not on purpose but of necessity.
On the 'Americans are ignorant' topic: I personally lay a lot of that at the feet of what I call "Social media nut-picking". This is the habit that some people have of picking the biggest nut you can find in a group of people and putting them on display in social media as evidence of the entire population, solely for the purpose of likes & clicks. You see that quite a bit in the US with right & left wing media outlets as well. It's actually quite disheartening...
When my dad retired he had 6 months worth of vacation, sick, and time accrued to use. He got the maximum amount to cash out and retired with 26 years instead of 25. Different jobs have different amount of vacation time and hours worked and time on call. Public services like police fire ems - they don't care if you're off duty if you're needed you come in. As a result of that they tend to have better benefits and a more lenient work structure - but pay isn't the best. However overtime pay usually helps to cover the differences.
I think the Americans are workaholics is a bit overstated. Most people that I know get 3-5 weeks of vacation every year, but some of it is classified as vacation or PTO and some of it is classified as sick leave or PPT. Many use their sick days for vacation. I don't know many people who only get 2 weeks vacation/year (or less). Most corporations give you 3-4 weeks of vacation and you accrue more vacation the longer you work at the company.
Plus there are the federal holidays that typically are days off not counted against vacation time. Depending on the company between 4 and 11 days depending on the company. Some companies if they are open during those days give a comp day to those who have to work.
I personally am Pagan, but so many of our American youth are realizing that the founding religions are more Lifestyle Ideals (which can be wonderful) but may not suit everyone like they did in the past years.
14:59 Most places here, not sure about the UK, will pay you for unused Sick pay at the end of the year and some places you can just keep collecting vacation days. I work on a weird set up so not going to bring up mine because I am not sure how many people have it that way 😅.
I love working. Keeps me busy and away from stuff I probably shouldn't be doing. Yeah I don't get any holidays but Thanksgiving and Christmas off, I don't get paid vacation time, but I choose that. Like everyone else that works with me. I do get paid well and as long as I can support my family, I'm happy. I don't need big amounts of time off or ill get bored and destructive anyway. Call me a workaholic if you want, but I love what I do.
The Joy guys when to an American Sports Restaurant that is in the UK, it was open by an American in the UK. The Joy guys tried some American Sports snacks and food there
American here: our work culture is pretty toxic sometimes, partly because we've had half a century of union-busting that we failed to fight adequately. We're mostly not workaholics by choice, but because we lack the protections most European workers enjoy. Most US states are "at-will" and by law you can be terminated without any specific reason (some reasons are prohibited by law, but you have to be able to prove it). We essentially have no mandated holidays or paid leave, and you can lose your health insurance if you lose your job. And while there are plenty of knowledgeable, aware people, there are also plenty of ignorant ones. And they're really loud.
I wish people would quit speaking as if happiness is the top priority. Happiness isn't everything. Sometimes you need to set aside your happiness to do or accomplish what is right and what is good for you and others.
Beesleys If you ever come to Tennessee I'll be more than happy to take you to a gun range so you can get some trigger time. I served in the US Army so I used to train troops that never handled a gun before. Its nothing to be scared of. I think you both would enjoy it. My wife and kids all go to the range with me, it's a family affair. I watched Shawn's video when he went to the gun range and it seems like he just doesn't like guns period. If you ever go to Tennessee or Central New York (where I grew up) let me know and I'll take you so you can experience it. By the way my cousin used to live on Jersey island she was a nun and stayed at Ille de la manche until she passed away.
I am considered an average American. With a population pushing 400 million, I’m right in between the geniuses and the dumb@sses, which we have a lot of both of in the US, but more of us are in the middle like me.
I was at my local Walmart the other day and saw 2 of the cutest little nuns, but not from an order I recognize...instead of the traditional black and white habits that are usually worn by nuns in this area their habits were white and looked like they were covered in lace or needle point white on white....did not want to intrude or stare but this was definitely a different branch of convent...the walked rather rapidly almost a jog, their habits came to just about an inch or two above their ankles their shoes were white also, and they quickly would glance around to make sure as to not to run into people but mostly they looked at the ground...never saw nuns like this before...have seen a lot of nuns from different sects or religions but none that looked like these nuns...lol😂
No country is going to say "Come see our poor"! We have a lot poverty here....I see homeless every day! As for languages ....in my area alone ....I hear at least 15 different languages daily. I speak English but also know some Spanish, German, French, Arabic & some Japanese. I also know a little sign language that I teach to new mothers and to special needs children. I'm still traveling in the US so I can see things in other states. But I have also traveled to Europe and places in Canada. I would like to travel more but that is where finances come in...lol. It's expensive to fly to other countries! I wish I had more free time! Most companies dont give you holiday time. Or taking the time off takes away from the money that is needed to pay bills!
With a large extended family(about 90 from grand parents to their great great grandchildren) we have many different races, and religions,and countries, and native languages spoken. I think of us as the family based melting pot that the USA is referred to.
As a Scottish, Welsh, Swedish American I take offense to the unhealthy, overweight American but now I know I got it legitimately from my Scottish heritage. just kidding but I thought it was funny. Great video!
I work in the social work sector and I typically get insane amounts of time off. I normally have a hard time using it up. I like this because you never know when you are going to need it.
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I retired in 2012 and it was my experience that most of us was afraid of being out of the office/workplace too long because we were fearful of being replaced. It seems productivity has been the measure of a 'good employee' even in my professional field as a therapist/triage specialist at a mental health facility. When your productivity dropped during a specific period you are still held accountable as your employer did not consider that you were on vacation for two weeks...your productivity level numbers dropped and you end up having to explain yourself and prove your value. It's a mess .
Where I worked, they were constantly asking for mentors for new people, but they wouldn't give you a break on your quotas even though you were helping new people become productive.
I was a school bus drive for 10 yrs. I heard kids talking in so many different languages. So I started asking, I found 35 different languages on just a bus of middle school kids. Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Greek, Arabic, sign language, Korean, Japanese, Italian, ...... My mind was blown. Then I realized their parents had come here for work. This the greater Houston area, lots of jobs. The best part is they all got alone famously.
Kids, man. We could learn a thing or two from them.
Yes, Houston is supposed to have the most languages spoke in a US city because of the oil and gas industry. I lived there most of my life.
Born and raised in St Louis Missouri and worked in a large lab. One day walking through the facility to go home I heard conversations in Italian, Arabic, Pakistani, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, Nigerian, Indian and German and realized I never heard one word of English! However, I only speak English and most my family and neighbors have never heard anyone speaking anything else!!!
Scotland was experiencing with Outlander what Australia experienced in the 80's with Crocodile Dundee. My advice: don't get used to it, we get bored easily lol
I’m American and speak English and Spanish. However, I know Americans with no recent immigrant history who speak languages other than English. I used to live in the South and some of my friends grew up in households where the primary language was Louisiana Creole or Cajun French. I also know people who speak Native American languages like for example Choctaw. In fact, Choctaw has been used by the U.S. military so obviously someone has to speak it. Now I’m in the Midwest and hear different German dialects spoken by Mennonites.
I grew up in California and heard more languages than I could count.
The problem in the US, especially for people lower on the ladder, is that we don't get a choice. Obviously we would LOVE to have more time off to spend with our families. But when the company says, "we NEED you! Work or face the consequences!" What choice do we have? I don't work because i love my job. I work because I'm hungry. I work because I need a roof over my head. I need heat in the winter and cool air in the summer. I work because I don't have a choice in the matter. And if the company says work or lose your job, then I have no choice but to work or try to find another job.
Good points. In addition to that; I've also sometimes been made to feel as though I was being lazy if I took my legally required breaks, or if I clocked out when I was scheduled to do so, and not after. So have a few other people I met, or known.
8:20 - dude, America is huge, we don't need to travel to other countries, we have the entire spectrum of nature within our own country. It's a multi-day drive from one side of the country to the other.
I love Shaun's videos. I highly recommend his videos.
Shaun's travel videos are definitely worth watching
We're workaholics because we don't have a choice. Overtime happens because we get paid 1.5x our pay.
As far as American Stereotypes. I don't really care. LOL!! A lot of people 'take a swipe at the US'. It really is of no consequence.
it'll always be popular to hate the biggest things. ppl see something popular and immediately hate it, bc ppl don't actually form opinions, they just wanna go against the grain to feel special
@@WGGplant It is convenient to put things/people into boxes or types. I know I do it for somethings. It is just hard to conceive the world any other way. Our heads would explode trying to take it all in.
" All Americans are ignorant"...
Yea, EVERYONE is ignorant. It's a fact of life. I cannot know everything about everything.
"There is no shame in ignorance; the shame is in willfully remaining so"
As an American: We have homeless and poor but a lot of this is impossible to balance freedom, choice, and rights against drugs, mental illness, and criminal selfish attitudes. America used to have bad to horrific mental health institutions and extremely long jail sentences for minor crimes. We have gone far the other way with criminals loose and also let people who can not take care of themselves fend for themselves with uncoordinated and inconsistent assistance. But, no matter where you draw a line people will be on the wrong side of that line in individual cases.
The US was settled by the very same people who live in England, Scotland, Ireland and they definitely brought their culture/religion with them.
6:09 my ex-girlfriend is half Japanese and Half Brazilian, she knows three languages fluently: Portuguese, Japanese, Korean. She struggles with English tho, she can read and write it for the most part but speaking it and understanding spoken English is hard for her. Were are in a long distance relationship.
As an American, I speak 3 languages, English, bad English, and sarcasm lol
i only heard some spanish and english spoken here i can speak some russian because of my girl 😂
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@TheJoeml85 i also know one Arabic word lol
I speak English, Spanglish, and ASL.
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Where I work it's pretty common for people to be made to use up vacation time at the end of the year that they didn't use that year and that's at a company that only gives 2 weeks per year. We are allowed to carry over vacation time for one year but if it's not used by the end of the second year the company forces employees to use it. I know of other companies that give employees the option of taking pay for their unused vacation time instead of forcing employees to take time off work.
I really like that Shaun uses the term ignorant. Ignorant is not a negative, it just means one is not informed, not that they are stupid or wrong or even correct.
Lesson is, learn and experience as much as you can.
You are so right. Ignorance is not knowing the facts about something. And learning facts allows you to gain knowledge. Someone who is stupid, is someone who doesn’t know the basics about anything and refuses to embrace knowledge. I try to learn something new, no matter what the subject, every day. The thing about stupid people, they lack common sense. And common sense is something that can’t be taught. I’m 72 years old but still embrace knowledge. You never get too old to learn! Those are just my opinions anyway.
He’s right. I’ve always wanted ti visit Scotland but even more so when I started watching Highlander.
Same for wanting to visit New Zealand with LOTR, UK and others with GOT, etc.
Americans loved when the a British shows started being aired on Masterpiece Theater, Netflix, Acorn and movie channels like HBO.
I can imagine to would give tourism a bump in Europe but it also let us in on all your great actors and entertainers.
A European tour is still on my bucket list.
With as much as we have in common and can get along, I think it’s going to feel like a second home away from home or a relative’s back yard (garden).
If you go down to Louisiana and Mississippi as well as Texas you here a French variant called bayou creole in Miami the Haitians have their form of creole plus all the native Americans still to some extent speak the native tongues
Bayou Creole and Gullah Gullah are so interesting!! 💙
If we are talking about the same thing, people I know call the language Louisiana Creole. I know people who speak this. We call what Haitians speak as Haitian Kreole. Then of course there is Cajun French.
We are work-aholics! The successful people work so much to achieve their goals. People that don’t work, are the ones that end up on the poorer side of the spectrum. We aren’t forced to work here. We choose to work enough to support the lifestyle we choose.
The ending "holic" denotes addiction or Escapism from life. While there are Americans who use work to escape life, many work so many hours to build a business that they can later either sell and live off the profit or let others run the day to day in their behalf and make a more passive income off of.
Why do British people have a problem with redheads, or 'gingers.' Why is this? As an American I am baffled by it.
I love red hair. I think it’s gorgeous.
I wonder if it has to do with the intense conflict between Ireland and England. There are a lot of red headed Irish people and those two countries had a pretty tough relationship not so long ago.
His blue shirt is of the Indiana state flag.
No doubt we work more, however the real question is...is that choice or the expectation?
We do not like working overtime. We do understand that hard work is needed, but most rather just do what is contracted
Because we are a multicultural nation, we do have a lot of extremes.
The other thing about Americans and travel and lack of passport holders in America. We have every terrain and climate in our own country, therefore we don’t need to leave our own country as often. We don’t get as much vacation time to be able to go intercontinental very often if ever due to time constraints. And until a couple years ago, we could travel to Mexico and Canada with just a birth certificate and a drivers license. Only now do we need a passport to cross borders.
Now this is an interesting reaction. I'm one of those who work 8-hour shifts with 2 fifteen-minute breaks and a one-hour lunch. I look forward to our paid holidays and definitely look forward to taking vacations. I have heard that there are some job places that make you go on vacation if you haven't done so for mental and physical health purposes. I don't understand why people want to work all the time and not take a vacation. Vacations are a wonderful break from work! I enjoyed this reaction video! ☮ and 💕
Many in the US are more lifestyle-holics. Lol
They want a particular lifestyle, and do what it takes to reach and maintain that lifestyle. Some work insane amounts because they can't earn as much for their labor, while others get more for their efforts and get to work less for it. It all depends on what value you can get for your labor, where you live in the country, etc.
You should check out Outlander...fabulous show! Has history, time travel...not as weird as it sounds, a great love story, scottish and american history and gorgeous scottish scenary. The acting is fantastic. Men and women can both enjoy it. Highly recommend it!
Be warned, they didn’t finish due to Covid so they leave you hanging after the last episode
@@SBC581 it was announced that it was going to be a short season.
Shaun is great! He visits several places in the US. He recently visited my home state of Pennsylvania, by the way.
I'd have to recommend his video on visiting North Carolina.
I lived in central PA for years, and now have lived in North Carolina for years. Totally going to check these out!! It's interesting to see how others view these states. Without question, I like NC better than PA, but that has more to do with the weather than anything else - and the easy access to the ocean. PA being landlocked drove me absolutely nuts!!! Otherwise, it's a decent state (with its share of problems, of course.)
My family's version of beating around the bush is and I quote " ummm" then we will, tell you what
Being real with no pretense is very important for Americans.
I've been learning every day about other countries.
There are plenty of we Americans who are introverted & natually quiet, too. Additionally, I think other countries may be surprised at how many Americans don't embrace the "gun culture". Love Shaun's videos; the one with Lawrence et al, at a baseball game was hilarious. :)
I can speak for most New Yorkers and Californians who don't want guns around!!
People in The UK forget that a great percentage of Us are descendants of People from The UK
I'm currently living in Seattle. The hospital system I used to work for has translators on call for 83 different languages. You can't ride the bus or go shopping or do anything in public and not hear several languages being spoken. So, yes; America is very multi-lingual, very multicultural.
Myself, I'm a native American-English speaker. But I've been picking up bits of other languages since childhood. I took a couple years of German in junior high school, I learned a little Welsh over a ten-day intensive, currently I'm learning Spanish from Duolingo, and I took some American Sign Language a few decades back. I've picked up some other words in Yiddish, French, Sanskrit, and Russian just from the general environment, but not enough to really communicate. I also had a half semester of Latin plus the Latin and Greek picked up from reading word derivations in dictionaries, but again, not enough to form sentences.
Frankly, there is enough differences between American-English and British-English that they could be considered different languages, and I've studied British-English from outside the UK most of my life (being an Anglophile since about 1964).
The workaholic thing:
There's a confluence of things involved in this.
1. One important American value is our work ethic. We place value in being industrious and productive. We strive to pull our own weight, not take charity, 'climb the corporate ladder'.
2. There's an expectation to conform. As much as we value individuality, we more value being a part of the 'herd'. That means social expectation to participate in the same actions and events, to have the same level of home/car/apparel/relationships as others in your social sphere. These things cost money, so people work hard to be able to afford to 'keep up with the Jones', prove social worthiness by the quality of the things one can provide one's family.
3. Employers exact an expectation of hard work and loyalty, to prove you want the job. Americans don't get as much time off as Europeans do, and American workers who use all the sick time and vacation time available to them are considered not serious about their jobs, so are less likely to advance in companies. If the company goes through a cost-saving period, the 'less serious employees could also lose their jobs. And jobs not only provide income, they also provide essential medical benefits.
4. That all being said, Covid has made a change. Jobs asked too much of employees, laid off too many in a cavalier fashion, put their health in jeopardy, and paid them too little. In adapting to the pandemic, a great many people were working from home and self-monitoring their hours and workloads. Turns out they were more productive working from home instead of in the office. They also saved time without a commute or having to buy and clean work clothes. The lack of social gatherings in combination with the self-reflection and life re-evaluation made people reconsider working so hard for someone else and worrying about acquiring material things. Some people changed jobs, most people demanded more pay and more time off. Employers are STILL having difficulty recruiting workers, so workers now have the upper hand in negotiations. The 'workaholic' desperation has calmed down and become more sane.
Spanish and French are very common in the states and people speak them fairly easily. Hindi is somewhat common, the Philippine language is spoken by nurses or others, German is heard, Chinese is spoken around Chinatowns, Japanese around little Tokyo and at schools, I’ve heard some polish before, and lots of others. Disney has a map in every language including some rare African languages that you never heard before including the rare Click language. Also they have maps in native Alaskan and Navajo. Honestly it’s a wonder they could do that. From my experience I understand bits of so many languages as I hear them a lot around town but my native languages are English and Chinese (the Cantonese dialect) with some speaking of Spanish and French. You sorta pick things up things over time and you get a sense of what they are saying without them saying it.
i’m from america and only heard spanish and english never heard people speaking french don’t know what you are talking about 😂
@@TheJoeml85 I'm also from America, and I guess it depends on where you live. The bigger cities like New York, LA, Chicago and Houston have a lot of languages spoken. I live in Houston and the languages I've heard aside from English and Spanish are Vietnamese, Hindi, and Punjabi. There is also a community in central Texas where they mostly speak German. At one time, the older people there never learned English. I hear French and Cajun French in Louisiana. There are a lot of languages spoken in the U.S.
@@TheJoeml85 One of the areas where you will hear French is the northeast due to its proximity to Quebec (among other reasons). For example, there are even towns in Maine where signage in the town will be both in French and English. Maine is surrounded by Canada on three sides. And the other New England states either border Quebec or are within easy driving distance so there has been a lot of cross over with French Canadian culture.
I grew up in the northeast, a few hours from Quebec. I'm from heavily French and French-Canadian ancestry, and lived in an area with a large French-Canadian population. I had a French-speaking babysitter throughout toddlerhood, preschool and kindergarten, and took French for 6 years in school. Sadly, I've lost a lot of it, but I used to be pretty darn fluent. It all depends on the influence of where you live, and what you're exposed to. My parents put a high value on knowing other languages, and strongly encouraged me to also learn Spanish (wish I had taken that advice!!)
@@TheJoeml85 I’m also American and that you have only heard English and Spanish blows my mind. 😂 I assume you live in a non-diverse area and don’t travel much. I hear Tagalog, Vietnamese and other Asian languages. Also with “French” there are different dialects. I know people whose first language is either Louisiana Creole, Cajun French or Haitian Creole. The first two I hear from non-immigrant Americans. Some of my friends grandparents don’t speak English and grew up in the USA. Currently I live in the Midwest around a lot of Mennonites. I hear them speaking German dialects often. Have you never heard Pennsylvania Dutch/Deutsch? Not to mention I have heard people speaking Native American languages like Choctaw. Some reservations have their own schools.
It’s hard not to have some gun culture in a country so vast and so geographically diverse that you need to be ready to protect yourself from some pretty deadly wildlife. When a bear is looking at you as it’s next meal or you hear the tail rattle of a venomous snake near your feet, it’s no time to be squeamish about guns. We were raised with guns, taught gun safety/ responsibility and firmly instructed that guns are not toys!
As a Hoosier (someone that lives in Indiana) I love his shirt. Now I want one
We do overtime, a large portion of companies will tell you to do the overtime or they will find someone that will. Meaning they will fire you. My last job was 12+ hours a day 5 days a week (and extremely physical) and sometimes 6 days a week.
I'll be 59 next week and have never seen anyone other than an officer carry a gun in any place I've ever ventured. In my life
Workaholic is someone who loves to work. A lot of Americans love to be productive.
Britain is the reason the US has the 2nd ammendment, thank King George...
Great video guys. One misconception he didn't mention is that we don't use the Metric system. I smile while loading my 9mm. lol
Me bagging grams looks around nervously
4:06 that can be dangerous. I work around homeless people so I know not all are bad people but some are, also some aren't necessarily bad but have mental conditions that can get then to dad bad things here and there.
People speak loudly at parties. Maybe loud Americans are happy and having fun.
A little perspective on Americans being rich. I have heard it said that by comparison to some others in the world, even our poor (until you get down to the homeless) are rich.
Oh my goodness! Shawn is wearing my State’s T-shirt! 🎉
I have had several ignorant bosses, not stupid just ignorant. Ignorance is not synonymous with stupid
Hi! So I am from the pacific northwest (Oregon) from what I can see with our work ethics is that it depends on where on that corporate ladder you are on is what guides you. Most people want to get ahead, own that house, live in comfort and have the life they desire. So to gain that they will do what they need to do. For some its never just not enough, they want to get to that corporate top and be the best. So for some working weekends, holidays, late hours and such means promotions and getting ahead.
But for others its not that. Before I ventured out on my own I worked in a call center. I went as high as I could go (I knew that) I was working 50 hours a week for $9.50 an hour in a place that you needed to make $15 an hour to support yourself and $30+ an hour for a small family. So I worked a second job on the weekends 10-15 hours a weekend at the time min wage was $8.50. I couldn't afford to lose either job or even think about moving to a different company because I couldn't afford to lose the mandatory overtime job a provided as well as health care and other job perks, and I couldn't afford to lose job b because that meant I couldn't afford to pay all my bills.
So it's hard to explain that no we don't want to literally work ourselves to death but some people are able to gain a lot by climbing the corporate ladder, but they give up a lot too. A good number have missed out on family events, holidays, and that sort of thing. So I think Americans in General either haven't learned to live in a balanced life. But a greater portion of people aren't allowed to because of economic factors.
@@holyfire11 Yeah I miss Portland but moved to Salem YEARS ago and went out on my own doing wedding photography and other odd jobs. Did much better for myself especially when the ACA started. The fact that our health care is attached to our jobs has so many people just stuck in jobs they loathe. That was my main concern, I have two kids and well kids are stupid and do stupid things I couldn't lose health care even though that call center job was giving me a mental breakdown every 9 months on average.
We have a lot of quiet people in the USA you just can’t hear us. 😊
The most multicultural city in the world is Toronto, Canada. Approximately 140 languages are spoken. Canada's official languages are English and French.
imagine having an official language. skill issue
That kind of work ethic is crucial to the innovative free enterprise system that makes our society function. I know a bunch of folks that saw a niche to fill, created a service to cover it, then sold it by pointing out a problem that most companies didn’t know they had. Or specialize in something no one else wants to do. Those people work 80+ hours a week and are usually on call the rest of the time. Running even a small, 1 man operation profitably is a 24-7 job. But a lot of those same people own $1M lakefront homes, boats, Harley’s and take quarter mil vacations with the fam every couple of years. It’s about perspective, and what you’re willing to work for.
I think that because we were used to working 9-5, 5 days a week with weekends off then went to America being open 24 hours a day 7 days a week so someone has to be working all the time around the clock… when we get time off, we stick close to home but get bored after a week and a half and are ready to go back by week 2 of vacation, long enough to catch up on the sleep that we missed while working.
The difference in vacation time is why we don't travel out of the country much. When I was working we got 25 days of vacation max, which was given on your date of hire. But this is accumulated over some 20 years, and you have to use it up before your next date of hire anniversary or you lose it. In addition we had a 2 week plant shutdown in the summer so you had to reserve 10 days for that. I read a couple of years ago that when you got hired in France, the government gave you 30 days when you started. In the US the company decides how much time you get off cause they are paying for it
There is no Federal law for mandatory vacation , or holidays, or sick leave. That is generally governed by States and individual companies. If in a labor Union, the Union bargains for it. There are workers who have no paid vacation. Some have very little and some have a lot, but generally after working for a particular company for certain number of years.
Also the passport numbers aren’t necessarily reflective of whether an American has traveled internationally. I’m American and I started traveling outside of the country BEFORE I had a passport because when I was growing up my family and school would drive into Mexico . A lot of my family has driven into Canada without passports. My family also took a trip to the Bahamas when I was a teen without passports. Also if you are in the military and get stationed overseas you don’t have to have passport. My uncle lived in Germany for two years and has never had a passport. My dad and other uncles have been all over the world with the Navy and never had passports.
I’m a 27 year old American and I have never taken a vacation in my adult life. I just finally got a job where I actually get good vacation hours and good enough pay that I’m planning a vacation in November. I think this is pretty normal here, I’d rather work to make more money until I have the disposable income to actually enjoy a vacation. Plus less vacation means more money towards a retirement fund.
As an American, we work hard and play hard. ... why not ?
I know our culture here in the states doesn’t make sense to many people, especially our right to bear arms, but if you look at how our country started and all it took, it can explain a lot. If it’s looked at objectively. Just my two cents.
Ah yes the good old days. Back when women, free blacks, and Roman Catholics couldn't own firearms. When states refused to have a standing army as a nation and instead had state militias. The more recent supreme court ruling cemented the view your trying to paint, but the more historic ones paint a different view. Perhaps you can see the difference in most recent years?
United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875) In the first case to deal with the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment does not bar state
regulation of firearms. The Court stated that the Second Amendment “has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government.”
Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886) The Supreme Court held yet again that the Second Amendment applied only to the federal government, not state governments.
United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)
The Supreme Court held that the NFA, which places registration requirements on machine guns, short-barreled weapons, destructive devices, and other unique firearms, does not violate the Second Amendment. The Court held that the “obvious purpose” of the Second Amendment was to “assure the continuation and render possible the effectiveness of” the state militia, and the Amendment “must be interpreted and applied with the end in view.”
Barrett v. United States, 423 U.S. 212 (1976) the Court again upheld gun control laws.
United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995) SCOTUS ruled the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 unconstitutional, they further limited how the federal government could regulate (or restrict) gun rights.
District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008)
1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to own firearms for the purpose of self-defense, unrelated to militia or military activity. And because handguns are today’s primary defensive weapon of choice, they’re also protected.
2. The phrase “bear arms” meant: “to wear, bear, or carry . . . upon the person or in clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose . . . of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person.”
3. A “well regulated Militia” is not the state’s military forces.
The D.C. regulation effectively banning handgun possession and the law requiring firearms in the home to be kept inoperable at all times, both violated Second Amendment protections.
The Second Amendment is not unlimited or absolute. Reasonable restrictions may be upheld (such as limits on firearm possession, carrying in schools and government buildings, and “dangerous and unusual” weapons)
*the District of Columbia is under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress and the federal government, not a state. So, while SCOTUS made several key decisions on what the Second Amendment means and protects, the case shed no light on whether states could regulate and/or ban firearms.
McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010) The Supreme Court held that Second Amendment protections apply at the state level through “selective incorporation” under the Fourteenth Amendment. SCOTUS repeated that individual self-defense was at the core of the Second Amendment. Meaning, the constitutional right to bear arms (and its protections as stated in Heller) prohibits states from enacting bans on handguns for self-defense in the home. This Second Amendment Supreme Court case decision overturned the Second Amendment rulings in Cruikshank and Presser.
The US is the only country with people from every country in the world. So every language in the world is represented, here.
not the only country but yeah
We also have a lot of Amerind languages and ancestry.Pocahontas was my 8th great grandmother through the Bolling and Murray line.
So,True! Europes rejects turned out to be best of the best!
Get a haircut from a woman who speaks almost only Vietnamese, buy a single beer at a c-store where the staff speaks Sinhala after driving home drinking half a 24 of Steel Reserve decide you don't wanna cook and get dinner at a taco trailer and more beer at the c-store where they speak Punjabi which is the same thing as Hindi or Urdu because you cared to learn a little. Or you can go to that new creole food place within walking distance to where you live and get catfish fillets and fries with coleslaw. There's cheaper 40's at the c-store next to it. I want that seafood place to survive, but the taco trailer wins.
You are a damn liar 😡
Trust me, not working like that because we “want” to; we just want to keep our jobs. And no one happily works OT, other than that they’re happy to get the extra money because they’re not getting paid enough to begin with.
I would absolutely love to travel all over but being in pain 24/7 doesn't make it possible. I like this Scottish guy
I used to be a workaholic, often working and extra 24 to 30 hours per week, for the money. But with age the desire to work that much has gone away.
I live in SoCal so most people I know are at least bilingual (English/Spanish) but it’s not at all uncommon to find someone who knows 3 or 4 languages.
Been to Scotland and love the Scottish people!! 🇺🇸❤️🏴
You can't compare the US to one single country. States have different cultures, lifestyles, economics, crimes, attractions, politics, climates, health systems, educational systems, etc.
I'd take you guys to a Range if you ever came to America, itd be an interesting experience
Americans love the UK it is our beginnings.
Every single person on this planet is ignorant of something. I'm ignorant of astrophysics. Being ignorant isn't bad, it's normal. No one knows everything, so embrace your ignorance and try to learn something new every day 😊
Loved the Indiana shirt he had on, greetings from the great state of Indiana.
When I grew up in Alabama the only language other than English I ever heard spoken other than English was two guys in a Chinese restaurant speaking Chinese . After moving to New York City , I have heard literally hundreds of languages/dialects spoken here
As for being, loud, my family is definitely loud...but if you consider how we (my siblings and I) grew up...if we were at grandparents Haun, if someone older from the house for one of us, it had to be passed from the house, to the worksheet, to the Colburn, possibly out to the rabbit pens, and possibly out to th alfalfa fields...you had to be loud. Now if we were at grandma Aerts's house , mostly in our early years she lived on Ross drive...which same scenario as before...you had to yell as far as the back patio 1/4acre away, past the garden, take a left at the end of the garden, and holler into th orchard...again you had to be loud. During all this childhood, we also went camping nearly every weekend, in the high Unitah Mtns...where we have 12 1/2 acres...were the rules of camp were 1 keep the arch in site ( there is a natural rock arch on the property high on the hill) 2 keep camp in site, or 3 keep our neighbors ( across the creek from us) in site...if we followed just 1 of these rules we were free to go explore, or fish...so again when someone hollered we came. But when we moved into a subdivision...the layout of the subdivision was truly unique as to where our house was...1 sibling had a friend she used to hang out with all the time, that lived4 streets over, another sibling had friends that lived as fr away as 3 streets over, the last sibling had a fiend on the street behind us...however if they decided to go to the park...our house was on a hill, the park was in a tiny valley 6 streets away. If any of them were needed at home I would stand on the back porch and yell for however was needed at home...cell phones were practically none existent, and I was told by my siblings they were not allowed their friends landlines phone numbers...so I became very loud...not on purpose but of necessity.
Shaun has collaborated with Lawrence Brown's Lost in the Pond, when he was in the U.S.A., last year.
An English complaint of American soldiers during WW2 was "They're overpaid, they're oversexed and they're over here."
And the American response at the time was that the English were underpaid, undersexed, and under Eisenhower.
Yet, we helped the allies win the war!!
On the 'Americans are ignorant' topic: I personally lay a lot of that at the feet of what I call "Social media nut-picking". This is the habit that some people have of picking the biggest nut you can find in a group of people and putting them on display in social media as evidence of the entire population, solely for the purpose of likes & clicks. You see that quite a bit in the US with right & left wing media outlets as well. It's actually quite disheartening...
I'm from the South, we find Northerners rude, especially New Yorkers.
Now that’s ignorant.
When my dad retired he had 6 months worth of vacation, sick, and time accrued to use. He got the maximum amount to cash out and retired with 26 years instead of 25. Different jobs have different amount of vacation time and hours worked and time on call. Public services like police fire ems - they don't care if you're off duty if you're needed you come in. As a result of that they tend to have better benefits and a more lenient work structure - but pay isn't the best. However overtime pay usually helps to cover the differences.
This guy, the Scotsman, had a good channel for a few weeks then stopped talking to anyone without money.
I think the Americans are workaholics is a bit overstated. Most people that I know get 3-5 weeks of vacation every year, but some of it is classified as vacation or PTO and some of it is classified as sick leave or PPT. Many use their sick days for vacation. I don't know many people who only get 2 weeks vacation/year (or less). Most corporations give you 3-4 weeks of vacation and you accrue more vacation the longer you work at the company.
I've never had more than 2 weeks
Generally, if you don't work for a big company or you are in a menial manual labor job, you may not get any vacation at all.
Plus there are the federal holidays that typically are days off not counted against vacation time. Depending on the company between 4 and 11 days depending on the company. Some companies if they are open during those days give a comp day to those who have to work.
Everybody i know gets 1-2 wks or none so all.
Millions work in menial labor and construction..0 benefits at all many times.
I personally am Pagan, but so many of our American youth are realizing that the founding religions are more Lifestyle Ideals (which can be wonderful) but may not suit everyone like they did in the past years.
Shaun's videos are awesome
I'm trying to find his channel. What is his handle?
14:59 Most places here, not sure about the UK, will pay you for unused Sick pay at the end of the year and some places you can just keep collecting vacation days. I work on a weird set up so not going to bring up mine because I am not sure how many people have it that way 😅.
I love working. Keeps me busy and away from stuff I probably shouldn't be doing. Yeah I don't get any holidays but Thanksgiving and Christmas off, I don't get paid vacation time, but I choose that. Like everyone else that works with me. I do get paid well and as long as I can support my family, I'm happy. I don't need big amounts of time off or ill get bored and destructive anyway. Call me a workaholic if you want, but I love what I do.
The Joy guys when to an American Sports Restaurant that is in the UK, it was open by an American in the UK. The Joy guys tried some American Sports snacks and food there
American here: our work culture is pretty toxic sometimes, partly because we've had half a century of union-busting that we failed to fight adequately. We're mostly not workaholics by choice, but because we lack the protections most European workers enjoy. Most US states are "at-will" and by law you can be terminated without any specific reason (some reasons are prohibited by law, but you have to be able to prove it). We essentially have no mandated holidays or paid leave, and you can lose your health insurance if you lose your job.
And while there are plenty of knowledgeable, aware people, there are also plenty of ignorant ones. And they're really loud.
I wish people would quit speaking as if happiness is the top priority. Happiness isn't everything.
Sometimes you need to set aside your happiness to do or accomplish what is right and what is good for you and others.
Beesleys If you ever come to Tennessee I'll be more than happy to take you to a gun range so you can get some trigger time. I served in the US Army so I used to train troops that never handled a gun before. Its nothing to be scared of. I think you both would enjoy it. My wife and kids all go to the range with me, it's a family affair. I watched Shawn's video when he went to the gun range and it seems like he just doesn't like guns period. If you ever go to Tennessee or Central New York (where I grew up) let me know and I'll take you so you can experience it. By the way my cousin used to live on Jersey island she was a nun and stayed at Ille de la manche until she passed away.
I went to an all-girls school from 1st grade to 9th grade and we started French from the 1st grade, and in the 7th and 8th grades we had Latin. NYC!
I am considered an average American.
With a population pushing 400 million, I’m right in between the geniuses and the dumb@sses, which we have a lot of both of in the US, but more of us are in the middle like me.
Ignorant means that you haven't been taught.
I was at my local Walmart the other day and saw 2 of the cutest little nuns, but not from an order I recognize...instead of the traditional black and white habits that are usually worn by nuns in this area their habits were white and looked like they were covered in lace or needle point white on white....did not want to intrude or stare but this was definitely a different branch of convent...the walked rather rapidly almost a jog, their habits came to just about an inch or two above their ankles their shoes were white also, and they quickly would glance around to make sure as to not to run into people but mostly they looked at the ground...never saw nuns like this before...have seen a lot of nuns from different sects or religions but none that looked like these nuns...lol😂
No country is going to say "Come see our poor"! We have a lot poverty here....I see homeless every day! As for languages ....in my area alone ....I hear at least 15 different languages daily. I speak English but also know some Spanish, German, French, Arabic & some Japanese. I also know a little sign language that I teach to new mothers and to special needs children. I'm still traveling in the US so I can see things in other states. But I have also traveled to Europe and places in Canada. I would like to travel more but that is where finances come in...lol. It's expensive to fly to other countries! I wish I had more free time! Most companies dont give you holiday time. Or taking the time off takes away from the money that is needed to pay bills!
With a large extended family(about 90 from grand parents to their great great grandchildren) we have many different races, and religions,and countries, and native languages spoken. I think of us as the family based melting pot that the USA is referred to.
No glasses misspell
Americans are creators. That requires dedication.
Hard work. None of this comes easy.
As a Scottish, Welsh, Swedish American I take offense to the unhealthy, overweight American but now I know I got it legitimately from my Scottish heritage. just kidding but I thought it was funny. Great video!
I work in the social work sector and I typically get insane amounts of time off. I normally have a hard time using it up. I like this because you never know when you are going to need it.
Yes Outlander!!!!!