This is an absolutely true story. When the Snowden story broke in 2013, that was two years after the awful terrorist attack in Norway and our wounds were still very fresh. I said that I hope it won't be revealed that the Americans knew about the attack from their surveillance but chose not to tell us in order to keep their system secret. For me, it was an expression of friendship, but the American got really angry and asked why they should warn us when we didn't warn them about 9/11. I didn't understand what he meant, because we don't have a global mass surveillance system. But what he meant was that we live in the future, being 8 hours ahead in time. So apparently, we could watch the plane flying into the WTC and call the American Embassy informing them that this would happen in eight hours so they could stop it. This was difficult for me to believe, but I have asked Americans to explain time zones and many of them actually hold these kinds of ideas to some extent. They _actually_ don't understand how it can be noon in Norway when it's morning in USA. This is not funny to me, it's terrifying.
😅😅😅😅 I live in Sweden and my sister (American) never understood the idea of time zones, either. It was like we were literally 7 hours in the future, like some sort of time travel. 😅😅😅😅
There's plenty of that on the other side of the pond. Just ask anyone in Africa or Asia whose countries were colonized by France or Germany or the UK. And before you accuse me of being a disinterested and arrogant American, I studied European history (and other histories) in college (or university, whatever). I'll have to check but I think I still have the textbook.
My friend studied in Michigan for a year in a regular school on an exchange in 2005-2006. When he came back he said that except for language practice and trips to nature, he did not learn anything new for himself and even became stupid! What they studied there in the 9th grade, he had already gone through in Russia in the 5th-6th grade and more seriously. But his main disappointment was not that his classmates knew nothing about the world at all, they DIDN'T WANT to know anything. In Russia, if you don't know some elementary things, it's shameful, they can laugh at you. In America, being ignorant is not shameful. My friend said that when he mentioned some relevant fact from history/biology/physics, etc. in class or in conversation, he often heard in response: Why do you need (to know) this? You are full of useless information! This was said by people who could list all the Marvel heroes, but not the planets of the solar system😢
Everytime i really wondering myself what is wrong with americans. I was with my wife and 2 students that i work with on the Alexanderplatz, a hotspot in Berlin germany, and 3 nice asking policeofficers ask ONLY me for my ID. I give them my ID and speak relly nice with them and also we make some jokes. It was really funny for the policeofficers and myself. For myself it was nothing and total normal. But one student he is from Illinois say after this to me he would never do this in the USA. Its against there rights and so on. What is the problem to show the ID if you have nothing bad stuff done? It takes us 2 Minutes and the policeofficers tell me that i fit to a discription of a person that they are looking for. Why we should not help the police? The only doing there jobs like everybody else. And yes i fit to a discription of a bad person but they NEVER say that i do anything. For myself and my wife and the other students its total OK and no big deal. But the student was really woundering that i do this. He really was confused about our behave to the policeofficers. I explain it to him and he say that is in some way really good but as american he find this strange. I think americans are in this case the strange people. :)
I live in Thailand and once was asked by a middle-aged American whether I moved to Thailand because all German cities had been destroyed during the war. I answered, "Yes, exactly. But I plan on moving back soon because we finished rebuilding last week." He was genuinely delighted to hear the news and wished me good luck.
True story, in a facebook page where people ask questions about moving to Portugal, one US citizen asked if there is running water in Portugal. A guy just answered, "no, we only have walking water, we are slow and lazy over here!"
There's a fun Kenyan lady on tik tok who answers questions like do you have aircon by standing in front of an LG one answering no, the village elder has us all stand in a circle and he gets elephants to flap their ears to cool us.
Over 60% of Americans who move to Portugal leave due to many many reasons. They think it is similar to living in an Hispanic country. They sure find out quickly.
It's a genuine question. When I married a Swiss man, his mother said to me, "You really have buildings from the 1600s?" I said,"Of course. Our forefathers didn't live in tents or swing from trees. We even have buildings from 750. This is current Common Era." My mother-in-law asked this question because a church in New York City burned to the ground. It was built in the late 1600s if I remember correctly.
This one is almost exactly the same is one here in Tasmania. Bumch of loudly dressed American tourists on the wharf in Port Arthur. A local fisherman was unloading Crayfish (Lobsters) from his boat into plastic tubs on the wharf. One of the female senior tourists asked…” I say, Mister, are those things real?” The fisherman, as dead-pan as can be replied, “No madam, these are wind-up ones be buy from Japan to sell to the tourists!” She was so dopey she did not even see the joke. Us Aussies think that “having Americans on”…i.e. making jokes at their expense, is “like straling wheat from blind chooks”…i.e. no contest…the don’t even bite because they are just so oblivious. Think this lot were from Texas….sorry to everybody else in Texas, know they can’t ALL be this bad ot the electronics giant, “Texas Instruments” would not exist. “One of my mates ysed to exclaim, “Hold on to your Texas Instruments…it’s going to be a rough ride!”
I'm Irish, a Dubliner. An inner city Dubliner, a friend, once told me that, when they were kids, they'd hang around the entrances to the Hotels and if they saw an American Tourist (NOT hard to distinguish), they'd approach them and offer to show them where the Leprechauns live. If the Americans took them up on their offer, they'd charge them some money, then bring them to a large park just outside central Dublin, show them the rabbit holes, and tell them that the Leprechauns only came out at night... They made a surprising amount of money out of this...
I met two American guy´s in a bar in Greece back in the eighties. They were very nice, and seemed happy to finally go abroad and see something else than the U.S. I told them i was from Scandinavia, Sweden, and they were more exited when they heard, because they wanted to go to Scandinavia as well sometime. One of them had a grandparent from there, not really shure witch country thou. I asked them what they knew about Sweden, and then it began: they told me about winter all year long, polar bears roaming the streets, no fruits or vegetables just meat to eat and a lot more. Me, being an mean drunk i told them more. A lot more. My pet penguin Freddy and the miserable Elf i shared an apartment with probably being the worst. So, everything the Americans got wrong about the world, is not just their fault. Others helped..
Australian here. In the early 1990’s I was travelling Guatemala and over breakfast one day, I struck up a conversation with an American woman in her early 20’s. After establishing that I was indeed from Australia , she asked me “how did I get to Guatemala from Australia?” I responded that I had flown there. She asked, “why didn’t you drive?”
Did you bother to answer, or just walk away? 🤪 I was asked how/why Britain (overlooking N Ireland) had left Europe, when we weren't in Europe to start with !!?? They always say England/Britain & Europe as though we are own continent, (oh, and Europe is a single country apparently 🙄 ) The prospect of trying to explain Brexit was too daunting, so I didn't.🤗 🙋♀️🏴🇬🇧
@@JenniferRussell-qw2co Explaining Brexit is one, explaining the why of it requires a completely new level (and the fact is at an American level of stupidity).
I had an American yell at me in Spain, because he couldn't understand me, telling me angrily to speak English. My calm reply was, well I do speak English, with a Northern English accent, to be exact, seems like you're not familiar with the accent. While I typically make a point to speak more slowly and clearer when speaking to people from outside the UK, I made an exception with this guy. Would love to see him in Glasgow!
@@Xiroi87 American here. You know, it wasn't until 21 years old that I understood what a "loo" is. And I grew up watching British TV shows on Nickelodeon, such as "The Tomorrow People" - similar to Dr. Who, but made for kids.
🤣There's a video on YT about 2 old ladies (customers) yelling at the manager "Go back to Mexico if you want to keep speaking Spanish". He was answering to his co-worker who asked something. He is Puerto Rican aka 100% US citizen. After 10 min of discussion he kicked them out bc they went on forbidding him to speak Spanish.....
I worked in Buenos Aires and I would try out my Mexican phraseswith my co-workers. Whenever I tried one, they'd say "that's Mexican", not the Spanish language that Argentines speak. About the phrase "Vaya con Dios", they said never say that to an Argentine, they would take it as a threat!
For your information they still speak Latin in Vatican City. It's dead. Uncommon in the world but still spoken. And it is still studied in many part of the world since Latin is the origin of Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Romansh and other Romance languages it helps with the understanding of those language.
As an Italian, I have recently noticed many videos about the cultural differences between Europe and the United States and many of these videos, in my opinion, idealize us Europeans a bit too much. Everywhere in the world there are ignorant people without any discrimination, the real problem is when some of these people are in power. In Italy our Minister of Culture was convinced that Time Square was in London, as a judge of the most prestigious Italian literary award (Premio Strega) he admitted without any shame that he had not read any of the books in the competition and, recently, he published a post to celebrate the 250 years since the foundation of Naples (the years since the foundation of Naples are 2500). Another minister stopped a high-speed train in a station where no stop was scheduled just because it was more convenient for him and he was convinced that any citizen could do such a thing. We should start to worry not as citizens of one Country rather than another but as a human race.
@@misssunnydee who knows. Maybe they think there's kangaroos in Austria. I'm from Spain. Once on holiday in New Orleans someone asked me if Spain was close to Mexico. I'll never go back to the USA
@@misssunnydee 😂😂😂 Maybe they booked vacation in the wrong country, or they think Australia and Austria are the same country. Like many Americans think Switzerland and Sweden are the same country. But what is worse is the many Americans can’t find the USA on a world map. 🙈
The thing that bothers me the most is not the ignorance about things - which is bad enough in itself - but the self-confidence with which those people state absolute atrociously wrong things. If I don't know something, I either state "I don't know" or I shut up about it...
In my travels, and speaking to foreigners online, I've found that some Europeans are actually as incredibly ignorant and overly confident in their opinions of Americans. The ignorance works both ways. The only reason you know anything about America is because, as a superpower, we're in damn near every story on the world news. I've also found opinions from abroad that were just as ignorant. This one Swedish chick thought I had to lower a bucket in a well to get water for the house, because most Americans are technologically backward. I guess ignorance can work both ways and both sides of the pond.
The problem with that idea is that people know they are wrong. Imagine this situation for yourself: You're back in school and there's a test today. So you read through all the questions and you answer all of them, being confident about having answered every question correct. Then you get the test back and it turns out that some of your answers were wrong. You didn't know when you answered them, in your brain, the wrong answers were correct, you were just as confident as these people. They don't know they are wrong and think that you try to tell them stuff to fool them. And that's where the ignorance kicks in: I assume you would go and look stuff up after that situation, they however would not. Even if you came back with any sort of proof, they would still tell you that you made things up because they "know" better.
@@Vampirzaehnchen I cannot imagine answering any question in a test thinking I'm right and turning out I was wrong. I guess it can happen like once in 10,000 questions, but I either know the answer or know that I don't know it. I may have some general idea of what the answer should be, but in such case, I wouldn't be confident that my answer is correct. Unless they've been taught from early age that being confident is more important than being correct, I have no idea what's going on. In a test, your confidence doesn't matter at all (thankfully).
It buffles me, how obssesed many US Americans seem to be with race and ethnicity, while beeing so angry an calling someone a racist when it is mentioned...
That stuck me lately when some video showed such questions on forms for everything, getting a credit, applying for a membership, a lot of things. One was kind of a census questionaire though, there I might see the purpose. But maybe this is maybe because such a question is very irritating for most europeans. As actually due to our privacy laws, depending on the way data is collected or the purpose, it may even be iollegal to ask, let alone to use such data for making any kind of score or decision. The only way to ask such a thing here would be in a strictly anonymised survey (like a census) for statistical reasons.
Here in Gernany at least "Race" is simply not an acceptable concept, speaking about human races automaticaly makes you sound like a nazi from the 1930s. If I saw a form asking for "race" I would assume that I time traveled and that this form was for submission to auschwitz
😂😂Found it really funny how you were breaking your head over the "Pacific Lake" story - but not the fact that Orcas are mammals and do not lay eggs !🤣🤣
OMG, ain’t that the truth! This was my first time watching this channel, and it will be my last. My suggestion is, don’t make fun of other people’s ignorance and then be ignorant about something so obvious yourself.
My dad was once in an Uber in Maryland. The driver asked where he was from. My dad said Spain. The driver then asked "what language they speak in Spain". When my dad told him we speak Spanish in Spain, the driver was shocked.
Yeah it's people like us that give us all a bad name. BTW I'm from Maryland. Not the most exciting state, and a bit annoying since we get all the "backwash" from Washington DC in our backyard.
I've experienced similar in Chicago. Upon hearing my accent, the driver asked where I was from. "I'm from Britain" I responded. His reply; "Oh, but you speak English so well, where did you learn?".
We've all had a taxi or Uber driver being puzzled when we replied we are from or live in Spain. Mine said "oh, my brother's wife is from Mexico". I patiently explained Spain is in Europe, only for him to say, I'm afraid I'm not good at geography. Oh well...
A friend of mine was complemented on his English by security at the airport. When asked where he came from he replied "Great Britain" to which security said ."oh do they speak English in Britain?"
A White South African told me, that when he was in USA, he got the reaction: "You can't be African, stop fooling me" so many times, that he gave up and told everyone that he is British.
Well, in the bad old days of the British Empire, I believe Britain did control South Africa so your friend isn't fibbing, he's just a century or so out of date. 😀😀
@@sooskevington6144 Britain also controlled India. It doesn't mean someone from India now has to pretend they are British to please an ignorant person. Also there's a very strong likelihood the person above was Afrikaans, i.e. of Dutch origin, not British.
@@forgottenmusic1 some ramdom american.... He is not white south african.... He is american african.. As they think black people in the rest of the world is african american. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Here in Finland, midsummer sales typically start in stores at the end of June. At the same time, especially in Helsinki, there are a lot of tourists from the United States who come here on big cruise ships. In Finnish, a sale is "ale". ("Ale" is an abbreviation of the Finnish word "alennusmyynti", which means sale at a discount.) There is always that one American who definitely needs to feel bad about it and make himself a number by loudly bringing out and teaching us Finns that; "Oh my god, the Finns can't even write correctly that it should be sale." On the other hand, maybe there is something wrong with the self-esteem of us Finns, because every year more and more businesses seem to prefer the word "sale" instead of the word "ale". Or maybe we're just being overly friendly to all those Americans who are upset by the sight of a non-English language.
What? Is that a thing? I guess I have hardly ever visited the central part of Helsinki in the midsummer, so I have never really witnessed this "turistisesonki". The northern suburbs feel almost like a different town, tourists for example don't really come there 😅
@@acetar574 cruise ships (other than Tallink-Silja and Viking Line) bring about 120 000 tourist annually to visit Helsinki during summer time. Tourist of those ships spends millions of euros. In 2019 it was studied, that these tourist from cruise ships for one summer did spend about 25 million euros during their visit.
In the sixties here in Canada, tanker trucks hauling inflammable materials used to be clearly labelled 'INFLAMMABLE,' but we had to change it because the Americans on the roads were confused and thought it meant 'can't catch fire.' Since then these trucks have all been labelled 'FLAMMABLE' and, in the interests of commerce, Canadians have politely forgotten the proper word.
@@wrmacdonald9383 What next? Will inflammation become flammation? 😅 Like, wot?? Yes, that's an example of an exception from the general rule, but that's why you STUDY and LEARN even your native language.
I love the Vietnam war comment. Not only is the opponent in the title, not only was it not including the British, but it was also a war America didn't beat anyone!
America/USA is not, never has been and never will be a first world continent/country. The First World countries are the British & European ones who settled America. The Americas are the New World So: Europe = First World The Americas = New World. Everywhere else = Third World
Yep they are a first wotld country, first in obesity, first in speaking obnoxiously, first in arrogance, first in ignorance, first in stupidity shall I go on.
i got ask if i have electricity and cars in my village... i am living in a town of over 40.000, i am electrician from profession and use my car for commute to and from work! my country is Germany, we invented the car and build the first high power transfer line for electricity!
What can you expect with stupid people??? They think the same about México the place that brought anticonceptive pills, indeleble ink and color tv!!! ❤🎉🇲🇽
Ford invented the car and electricity transfer? No way. That was an American invention. Also did you know Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone was American?
@@supercolinblow depends on what you mean with airplanes, there were many different people who invented something that made our modern planes possible and there may have been many different types of airplanes before the junkers f13 but the junkers f13 for example was the world's first all-metal transport aircraft according to Wikipedia so technically in easier wording, the world first modern plane, the zeppelin was also a popular invention wich is why many people call any type of rigid aircraft a zeppelin although zeppelin is just a company, it’s like on the same level as Nutella or Lego where you call the whole product category after one company because it’s so famous
The fact that he got hung up on Pacific Lake and not orcas laying their eggs baffles my mind.. ETA: There is one lake in the US that is called Pacific lake, then there is a company called Pacific lake, the third option I'm not sure about..
Thank you! I mean, how can you overlook or not know that Orcas are mammals and therefore have live births after internalized fertilization? There is NO LAYING OF EGGS!
Did he not Know that the Orca is a mammal just like humans, or perhaps his mother laid an egg and he hatch two weeks later. what kind of asylums do american children go to?
I work in a rather large hotel in Ireland and once had an American tourist complain about the brown bread being stale. (brown bread is home made by me, pastry chef). When the Duty Manager asked him to show him what he meant iit tirned out this guys had buttered and eaten a wheetabix (breakfast cereal) instead of brown bread. Oh boy.....
And you thought an America tourist eating breakfast in an Irish hotel restaurant should know about the British product Weetabix? I go to Europe once or twice every year, and lived i London for a year, but I've never heard of Weetabix. Although, I see I can order it from Amazon if I wanted to make sense of your story.
In the 70´s, I went to the US as a foreign student at a college in Mn. We were a bunch of foreign students from all continents. What stroke me very much, was that us foreign students used the library facilities very frequently, at least 2-3 times a week, and we used to go there not only for academical matters, but because there were so many books and information about almost anything you wanted to know about. But the library was used almost exclusively by us, the foreign students; hardly we would see a US student. There was no interest at all to learn or to know a bit more about anything.
Ma ancora negli anni 70 i ragazzi USA erano comunque molto impegnati culturalmente e socialmente , ne ho conosciuti molti, il disastro e' iniziato con gli anni 80 , Reagan e wall street hanno distrutto tutto.
Was in USA in 1987 and when we told people, that we were from Denmark, they had one of the 2 following questions.. 1. Denmark.. yeah, the capital in Sweden 2. How did you get permission to leave the country. They actually thought that it was a part of Soviet Union and we had to get permission from Moscow to leave.
@@MichaelHedegaardJensen Especially in my house cos my in-laws came from Austria but their son, my husband, is Australian and our house in the Black Swamp had roos and wallabies on the front lawn.
@@amyboleszny543 sometimes I feel sorry US americans.. I dont know why, but I do.. Imagine if the rest of the world was like USA... only had enough in themselves, didn't know anything about the world that surrounded you..
Have you considered that these people, who have the time and money to travel abroad, are (theoretically and, according to meritocracy) America's best and brightest? 😂
Ryan, an Orca is otherwise known as a killer whale. Whales are mammals. Mammals do not lay eggs. Mammals give birth to live young then suckle them (like breastfeeding in humans)
I think in most countries, people who travel abroad do it to learn about new/different stuff (culture, climate, flora, fauna etc.), but in the US it must be a status thing like a big car or house... but wealth is different from intelligence : just look at some of their billionaires
well they dont say in what regard, do they. That song could be about America beeing the best Continents to the west of Europe and Africa and to the east of Asia and Australia :D
@@Emil_Stoltz But Europe isn't west of Europe and Africa. It's easy to be the best if one is the only con-tester, though obviously it also makes one the worst.
I used to live in Stratford-upon-Avon and when we were showing friends around Shakespeare’s birthplace, an American tourist asked the docent “Where does he live now?” Another asked “Was his first name Shake and his last name Speare?”
Just to say, a Leopards weights around 35 kilos, while Tiger can weight up to 310 kilos, that's just almost factor 10... its more like shouting Chiwawa to a Rottweiler.
"I always find it so cute when whales and dolphins lie on their eggs and incubate them. A whale's egg is 50 times larger than an ostrich egg, making it the largest egg in the world. From one whale egg, you can make about 880 fried eggs. If they weren't under protection, you could use them to solve world hunger." :D
They may not have mistaken the Ocean with the lake. There are two lakes in Canada named "Pacific Lake", one in Ontario and one in British Columbia where there's also a provincial park. Perhaps that's where they were... The post says Western Canada.
@@9wombats That alone proofs, he is also not the smartest... Orcas (Basically all Whales) dolphins etc are MAMMAL and NO FISH... They DO NOT lay eggs..
@@lydiakaraiskou1421so they confused a Canadian lake with the Pacific ocean AND thought that lake had egg laying orcas living in it? Like lake, ocean, same thing, salt water mammal, fresh water fish, same thing?
When I was 10 I moved to Texas from Israel. One day I was showing one of my classmates where Israel was on a map, and when he asked how I got all the way from there to here, I said “On an airplane”. He looked at me incredulously and asked “You guys have airplanes over there??” Granted, we were both 10 at the time, but it just goes to show you how deeply that attitude is ingrained in Americans from a young age.
Probably escaped from a zoo. Happened to me once, got through a hole in my mosquito net. When I woke up the next morning I discovered it had bit my leg clean orff.
A woman from california was baffled when i told her i am from Austria! She looked at me dumbfounded than said to me i dont look asian enough to be from Austria!! She thought Austria = Australia ( which according to my experimente 80% of Americans believe) but she also thought Australia is a "country" in central Asia
@@dominikdiensthuber7458 Australia isn't a continent, that was my point, Oceania is the continent. Not to be pedantic about it, it's not a big deal, just wanted to correct the record on that point, kiss ^^
@@aurelo54 thats a big can of worms i dont want to open because there is still a big discussion about, Australia, Australia and Oceania, or just Oceania. For example in the Encyclopedia Britannica they still have Australis as continent: "... Australia, the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere..." also my Atlas still refers to Australia as continent. There are also differences from which part of the world you are. UN uses Australia and Oceania
@@dominikdiensthuber7458 I was not aware about that discussion, thanks for the input ! Sounds akward to me, like the way people in USA call their country "America" ^^"
America: Ranch Sauce... Rest of the world: What the heck is Ranch Sauce? Europe: The best I can do is Mayo or Ketchup, do you want Hot Sauce? I can give you a stick of butter, you already look like you've had 5 today but, I can help you out. Asia: Did you say Soy Sauce or Prawn Sauce? Indonesia specifically: Do you want Rendang? Perhaps Sambal Oelek? Sweden specifically: We have Garlic, we have Hot Sauce, we can also give you Pineapples, or Bananas what about peanuts? Anchovies? Squid? We have literally everything between heaven and Earth except for Ranch.
I've never seen banana or pineapple trees in Sweden. Not too many things grow there, which is why you can find there imported food from all over the world. But considering that one of Sweden's main culinary inventions is rotten fish, aka, surströmming, maybe you shouldn't be so fast to cockily dismiss Ranch.
Hi ! French here ^^ For the 600k swiss home, I would have to assume the relevance is that they asked OP about their farm. Assuming they had one and were taking care of this big plot of land as a farmer. Since, unfortunately, agriculture is not very lucrative for a small farmer in Europe, that also may mean being not well off financially. But (at least in France) Switzerland is known to be a very wealthy country, way more than for its agriculture or farmers. So the price of their house is relevant in terms of context. Because I believe there are way more chances someone in Switzerland is loaded, than they are a farmer. Especially because there are fewer farmers over the years in Switzerland. In the end, I would sooner assume a Swiss friend is rich, than ask him about his farm ! The farm part wouldn't even come to mind, because that is NOT what this country is famous for, for us. It would only be a question if the friend spoke about animals or things that raise the question. I've been in Switzerland several times now, and I've never seen SO MANY EXPENSIVE CARS In one day ! I must have seen more than a hundred BMW, Ferraris, porshes... Granted, I was in Geneve for an big event. But still... Assuming someone from Switzerland automatically lives on a farm doesn't make sense to me, at all. But them telling the price of their house does, because of what I know about the place. And the context that it gives.
On a RUclips comment, regarding a community post discussing some school closures in USA due to "extreme cold"... I pointed out where I lived, that temperature was "normal". Multiple Americans, for some reason, insisted those temperatures were _not_ normal and sending kids to school in those temperatures was child abuse. I calmly explained that for good portions of the world in which the winter months get colder than that. Then one bright one asked "how do you heat the class rooms, wood stoves? That's a lot of wood." I then had to explain what a furnace was too. Good times.
In places where it's typically cold they have the clothes for the cold. When cold weather comes unexpectedly, what are you going to do. Make the kid suffer because some Swedish kid has a warmer coat?
@@karlbmiles, *Sigh* They wanted _all_ schools, in _every_ country to shut down when the outside temperature dips below -15 degrees Celsius. They wanted any parent who sends their kids to school in those temperatures to be charged with _child abuse._ Their opinion. As you've said, people wear _clothes_ for the weather conditions they live in. Though, many coats are designed to exceed the typical temperature conditions for the area they are sold in... just in case of a cold snap.
My one work colleague flew to the States from South Africa and when he landed, the guys who met him was like, " Oh, you're white" and my colleague said that there are white people in Africa. He thought we were all only black. They also have the misconception that we have lions and elephant roaming the streets and that we live in mud huts in the bush. WE ARE A HIGHLY CIVILIZED COUNTRY. We have cars, busses, trains, planes and industry. We had one of the top education systems in the world until about 20 yrs ago. Our education is still good tho. So Africa is not still stuck in the stone age.
Everyone that doe not have English as a native language write is English so Americans can understand it. I am dutch and a long time ago i had a job at Amsterdam Central Station at the luggage depot. A elderly couple from the US came to the counter to drop of their bags, I talked to them in my US English. ( i can also speak real English and Scottish English). They asked me :"What state are you from?" I told them i was Dutch. They had a hard time believing me. So in front of them I started a conversation in Dutch with a co-worker. They said " You're making that up". I wished them a very nice day in English (US and UK), German, Dutch, Frisian, French and Spanish.😄
Most EU countries wouldn't touch Ranch dressing with a bargepole - have you seen what's in it ? Who needs phosphoric acid, modified food starch, monosodium glutamate, artificial flavours, disodium phosphate, sorbic acid and calcium disodium edta as preservatives, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate ?
Wow....impressive. I don't touch ranch dressing either, I like the dressing you cannot see (vinegar and oil, which I was told when I went to Italy that people in Italy and elsewhere don't use those designer American dressings.)
All that crap and more is in all their daily food and when they think it’s organic it’s genetically modified and all their meat is hormone treated and the animals have antibiotics pumped into them. Everything is made to make you ill so you pay for healthcare. The country is backwards and they are too thick to realise
For your information a polder is artificial yes, but not by adding sand in the sea to create an island. It's the opposite. It's removing the sea water to gain land So a large part of the Nederlands is under the sea level.
De Flevopolder is gemaakt door drooglegging, maar na het aanleggen van de Knardijk is er wel degelijk héél veel zand opgespoten. Ik heb het als kind zelf gezien.
I'm French, and I spent 8 months in Boston for work. It’s been the funniest 8 months of my professional life! I've heard so many mind-blowing things that I could write a collection of jokes.
@@JustMe-sh8nd Most French can and do, it is Parisians that have problems with any other language than French and even problems with any other accent than Parisian.
I'm German, I spent a year in Louisiana (when I was 15-16, went to highschool there) here's some of the questions/comments I got: - was asked multiple times if I came by car - a classmate assumed I was a refugee. same classmate wondered if it was scary for me to take a bus in the US assuming we don't have busses in Germany. - another classmate asked if the Jews killed the Nazis. she was also shocked to learn there are Jews in the US.. and then again to learn Judaism is a religion also, not exactly fitting the theme, but I never heard the word "freedom" more than during that year while I also never felt any less free... was a weird year ngl
ThyssenKrupp actually has an elevator that can do that: ruclips.net/video/kdTsbFS4xmI/видео.htmlsi=4UDh-TCKUyfBuDGi It's still a prototype, but the technology is available.
@@JC130676 So, this is the same story as with the first mobile phone? Made by Motorola in the looks and feels of a comunicator from Star Trek. ^^ I love it. Same goes for the Alcubierre Drive ^^
My Mum watched half of this with me having never seen you before and said "He's a smart guy" so congratulations, this British family have declared you are not a dumb American! 🤣
Idk why we Europeans like to think we're so much smarter? Take the UK for example. Only way is Essex, Love Island etc are hardly filled with the brightest of characters lmao.
@@Ayeshteni I think he was just so confused trying to work out what the American's were looking for and realising they meant Ocean that he didn't pay too much attention to that bit!
Its because Americans grow up being told they are the greatest country on the face of the earth, they have the best and are the best of everything and therefore nobody & nowhere else matters. Its sad especially in the age of the internet when the world and everything it has to offer is at your fingertips.
It's sad there are people in America who still believe that crap. When the penny finally drops and Americans realise how far BEHIND the rest of the world they really are it'll be interesting to see how they react to this and put it right (or not)
One summer I worked at an international camp for kids from around the world. One day we had an open day so people could come and see what we were doing. Overheard a woman talking to our campstaff when a young girl ran passed them. The woman asked where she were from and the staff replied "Denmark" whereby the woman happily exclaimed: "Oh, I know Denmark! It's the biggest city in Sweden"
I have started to take revenge and ask random Americans whether they turn off the Niagara falls at night to save electricity and if the water is recycled.
The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list. In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd.
I knew about the 32 place - mentioned it in a comment on another channel, it wasn't received well - but they've dropped even FURTHER DOWN. Unbelievable, it really is given how they brag about being the best in everything.
If we should ever be teetering on the edge of World War 3, all of Europe, UK and S. America will come crying to us for help. We are a successful country with brilliant scientists, inventors and businessmen because we're so darn stupid. Did you ever see our game show, Jeopardy? It has been on TV every nite for about 50 years. Contestants have to be extremely smart , well informed and well-read. These people compete every nite. Maybe a poor example. I lived in DC for 40 years. Most residents have advanced degrees and are very smart. I don't believe most of these anecdotes.
The US is a vast country. Each state has its own culture, food, history , terrain and accent. The Netherlands is a bit smaller than the state of West Virginia. Our size makes things very complicated. I don't doubt that we have some genuine idiots in a country of 350 million.....similar to trump. Americans, generally, are smart, generous, sincere, hard working and optimistic. Foreign countries have many of the same problems....immigrant issues, crime and drug problems. When you criticize us, it feels like schadenfreude and some jealousy. We live in a resort town in Central NY. The teenagers are polite and the adults are very kind. We live on a lake that is 2nd cleanest in the US. The cleanest is also in NY state....Lake George.. I can walk to a part time job for my nite shift at 11 pm without fear of crime or guns. There are thousands of towns like this across the US. Don't come here . Stay where you are.
I am a surveyor and worked in Acropolis, Athens, Greece for some years. Once an American woman told me that we should install in Parthenon an elevating rotating coffeeshop, to have a better view of the site and Athens. My response wasn't polite but her husband gave me credit and told her to shut up......
You’re right. ‘Third world’ is a term from the Cold War. But it does not mean ‘poor’ or ‘underdeveloped’. It means a country not aligned to either the USA and the NATO nations of Western Europe (the ‘First World) or the Communist nations in Eastern Europe allied to the USSR or in Eastern Asia allied to China (the ‘Second World’). Famously independent, non-allied Switzerland is by definition a Third World nation.
The term seems to be used differently. According to the german edition of Wikipedia it is a problematic socioeconomic category and at least in German is only used to designate developing countries - not Switzerland, Sweden etc.
@@GeorgStalmann-ip9wi Perhaps we should call developing countries “developing countries”, and neutral or non-aligned countries “neutral” or “non-aligned countries” instead of continuing to use ‘problematic’, ambiguous, anachronistic terms like “third world”.
The Black Country in the West Midlands of England got its name in the mid-19th century due to the smoke from the region's many ironworking foundries and forges, as well as the working of its coal seams. The smoke filled the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, and Wolverhampton, and became so common that the name is still used today.
I'm from Portugal 🇵🇹 I once got asked if we had Internet...I was like "yeah, we do, I have a 500Mbps download and 200Mbps upload fiber connection at home". He was shocked I had better Internet than him.
Interesting image of "third world countries". That's a term from the Cold War era, differentiating between western, liberal (NATO) countries (first world), communist countries (Warsaw Pact - second world) and those not belonging to any of those two blocks (third world). Nowadays people confuse the term Third World Country with developing countries. And those tourists would be pretty shocked when they realize that the US is, compared to the rest of the world, in many aspects still pretty undeveloped and not the "best country in the world" as their propaganda says (North Korea tells its citizens the same bs). But don't worry: if the USA works really hard on developing itself it might reach the European minimum standards required to join the EU in about 10 years :D .
The 1st one at 0:46 is a double-header of ignorance; yeah, the student reply was moronic ... but the TEACHER claims that he was "immigrating" to Sweden, when he/she was in fact, EMIGRATING! Big difference, my cousins ... big difference.
@@GeorgStalmann-ip9wi but the US are used to people immigrating without asking the locals for the last 500 years, they can't understand that someone would emigrate from the place.
I've work for Eurostar ( the train between London and Paris) for years and I don't count the number of American asking: 1 - where was going the lift one the train !!!! ( pointing to the disable toilet ) 2 - My favorite was all the ones waiting with their camera to take picture of the Fish !!!! and complaining that the tunnel was to dark !!!!!!
*Face Palms* The reason there aren't any fish in that tunnel is... it was drilled through the bedrock (to prevent water from drowning the people on the train)... However, I have been in a US airport which had tunnels lined with fish tanks... so... I suppose it's possible.
It’s not just Americans. I’ve been surprised by a number of Germans who think the tunnel sits on the sea bed. I think in their case they’ve not really thought about it. For me Eurostar is a way of going to various countries in Europe, so I use it most years when I go on holiday. For them, unless they’re travelling to the UK, it’s of mild interest only.
I once saw an American lady struggling to order food at an airport café in Finland. She asked if they had a menu in English, even though she was standing right in front of one. The café worker politely responded in perfect English, pointing out the menu. But instead of realizing her mistake, she kept asking what he meant, getting increasingly frustrated. Finally, she raised her voice and shouted, "Oh, you don't speak English!"
the eating with a knife question is particularly funny if one considers the U.S. as the No. 1 fast food place that LOVES eating everything with bare hands…
and bead is indeed very old, around 30 000 years at least, knifes are even older. They were pretty much the second tool after hammers and predate our species.
I do recall an American couple coming out from a cruise ship, Jamaica, I believe. And the kind waiter asked him, " How would like to have your coffee, Sir ? The American replied, " As black as your ass ". And this is not fiction, I sat in table beside those people. Never seen that rudeness, since or before. I have been to a lot of states, and have some of my BFF in USA. I come from Finland, so blond hair, blond skin.....but I felt for the waiter then. But I also remember being in Paris, speaking English. The waiter disliked us for not speaking french, so he farted at our faces.
Had I been that waiter I would have brought milk foam with a touch of cocoa on top saying „this as close as can mimic my donkey‘s coat with food safe means.“
in regards to the swiss comment ~7:40, the teacher made the assumption the student lived on a farm (the implication being they were from an undeveloped place and only knew about farming), the response was that they lived in a house that has stood for ~550 years, aka significantly older than the country of the USA, and that his house costs that much as a frame of reference due to a similar sized house in the states likely costing millions of dollars etc.
While I was at London University in the 70s an American student explained that he'd only brought suitcases full of jeans when he came to study here. He believed he'd bd able to make a lot of money because there weren't any jeans in the UK. He was surprised to find out we had no shortage of jeans and had to spend a lot of money buying the things he should have brought with him. As a note, he also explained that he prayed to God for guidance on which camera to buy. Apparently, God was very helpful.
Whacko, puritanical, god loving America, a country where they pixelate a partial bum crack on the television show 'Survivor' but allow their children access to guns !
oh please. Not all American tourists are that dumb. I've been to Europe three times (in the 1990s) and no one with whom I travelled was that dumb. I think the idiots are just the ones you hear and read about. Who wants to meme or poke fun at an intelligent, respectful and not loud as fuck American tourist? In any circus, its always more fun to watch the clowns than the orchestra, if you get my meaning.
A famous Canadian author and comedian, Rick Mercer, used to do a segment on his TV show called "Talking to Americans". He once had Governor Huckabee, the father, congratulate Prime Minister Poutine on his recent election. On another show, he had a big group of university students and professors shouting that |Canada should end the Saskatchewan seal hunt. Do a quick map of Saskatchewan.
Whilst on a tour of an American warship in Fremantle West Aust a few years ago an officer/guide was demonstrating a light switch explaining that the light bulb glowed because of "electricity" and that It would really transform our lives when we discovered it. This atonishing statement was met with gales of laughter from us Aussie "plebs". Yep! my husband said and when we finally get cars we can retire our Kangaroos to the outback.
No dude otherwise Americans won’t be able to call themselves the land of the free, they are free of education that’s why they can call themselves the land of the free
Well, by definition it is. First world was the term for the countries in the Western alliance (NATO and the US pacific alliances), 2nd world was the term for the countries aligned with the Soviets and 3rd world was unaligned. Sweden, Ireland, Austria and Finland were all 3rd world countries. The meaning of the word started to shift gradually, since most unaligned countries were in poorer parts of the world, it later came to (wrongly) refere to a developing country. But that wasn't/isn't what the word actually means. But though Ireland is a neutral country, I'd still place it firmly in the Western camp today. That wasn't all that obvious 70 years ago though, when the phrase was minted.
@@victorcapel2755 “The modern definition of ‘Third World’ is used to classify countries that are poor or developing. Countries that are part of the ‘third world’ are generally characterized by (1) high rates of poverty, (2) economic and/or political instability, and (3) high mortality rates.” The Cold War ended a long time ago mate.
Hi there, about The Netherlands. Hundreds of years ago, about half of The Netherlands (the west-north-west part) was mainly water and swamps! Later much of the land was land that had seasonal floods. Those parts were indeed filled with sand and dykes around them to stop the influx from the sea. The Flevopolder and different parts of Amsterdam and in the western provinces also sandfilled areas of land. Our main airport, Schiphol, I also placed in an area that used to be a large lake. That was pumped out of there and at most parts filled with sand. But not everywhere. A huge chunk of the western part of The Netherlands was drained and is under sealevel. If ever the dykes would break or sea levels would rise too much, the most of the western part of The Netherlands would be under water. Luckily we are very good in water managerment.
@@gerardflynn7382drop bears are fiction animals that attack tv reporters. we all have fictional stories, there's one about a Yorkshire man that bought a round of drinks
Yeah, I was really worried about drop bears wen I visited Oz, but a mate told be to use Fosters as "drop bear repellent" as no self respecting native Australian creature would come within 500m of the stuff. Worked a treat, I didn't see a single drop bear the whole time I was there.
Right, that's it now, I'm going to ask. Please can someone pretend I'm American and tell me what a drop bear is? I keep reading about those and I feel like the last person on earth who isn't in on the joke.
Mate, the Orca post was not about the place (that's stupid to, thou) but about the Orca eggs. Orcas are mammals and give birth to live babies :) . I'm a bit surprised that you did not see that, on other hand, you didn't also know who Sir D. Attenborough is in the other video, that's why just "a bit surprised" ;)
@@mikeparkes7922 yeh monotremes lay eggs but the only to 2 living monotremes are the platypus and echidna, orcas like most of the mammals on earth are placental mammals that give birth to live young and marsupials give birth to live young when they are practically still a fetus
There's an old joke about Americans and Germans. An American (Texan) comes into a bar in East Frisia (North German coast), sits down at the bar, gets a shot and brags "If I drive my car once around my farm, I'll be on the road for 6 days" and slams the glass down on the bar with a proudly swollen chest. An old wrinkled East Frisian sits next to him, stares into his glass and says "Well, I used to have one of those shitty cars"
RE: Chaining the Islands down. The comeback should have been "Unlike the US, we dont have enough fat people to hold it in place. We have to use old school chains".
We dont dump sand in the sea to make land XD We build a dyke, then drain the water out, then plant reeds and other plants, wait a couple of years, and then we dump sand on the places we want to build buildings on. Its completely different. Do you have any idea how much sand it would take to create an artificial island with an area of hundreds of square miles? Where would we even get that much sand?
"Do you have any idea how much sand it would take to create an artificial island with an area of hundreds of square miles? Where would we even get that much sand?" Let's face it, Dubai did it and they got the sand from the Red Sea. It turned out not to be the best material for artificial islands.
When friends from the USA was coming to Sweden to visit they suddenly changed their route. They call to say that they landed in Düsseldorf instead and we could pick them up there. It was 990 km from us including 2 ferrys and crossing Denmark. 4 of us went with two cars starting in the night 😅
yeah, muricans have no idea of distance and time. A friend of ours landed in Amsterdam of a morning, and asked if she could come for afternoon coffee. driving time from Amsterdam to our place would be 6 hours at 130 km/t/82 mph and no stopping! she did'nt make it!!
Many many years ago I drove the Dempster highway and stopped at the tourist lookout point with a sign that explained that you were looking towards the arctic circle. Knowing that the arctic circle refers to earth above a certain longitude and not a physical land feature, I was quite surprised when an American couple driving from Alaska stopped and asked what the arctic circle looked liked since they couldn't see it. There was a slight contrast in shades of green in vegetation in the field beyond the sign, so I told them that was the arctic circle. After they ooohed and aaahed they took pictures for a few minutes and then went on their merry way. They were happy, I chuckled, all was good.
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This is an absolutely true story. When the Snowden story broke in 2013, that was two years after the awful terrorist attack in Norway and our wounds were still very fresh. I said that I hope it won't be revealed that the Americans knew about the attack from their surveillance but chose not to tell us in order to keep their system secret. For me, it was an expression of friendship, but the American got really angry and asked why they should warn us when we didn't warn them about 9/11. I didn't understand what he meant, because we don't have a global mass surveillance system. But what he meant was that we live in the future, being 8 hours ahead in time. So apparently, we could watch the plane flying into the WTC and call the American Embassy informing them that this would happen in eight hours so they could stop it. This was difficult for me to believe, but I have asked Americans to explain time zones and many of them actually hold these kinds of ideas to some extent. They _actually_ don't understand how it can be noon in Norway when it's morning in USA. This is not funny to me, it's terrifying.
😅😅😅😅 I live in Sweden and my sister (American) never understood the idea of time zones, either. It was like we were literally 7 hours in the future, like some sort of time travel. 😅😅😅😅
Better not tell him other states in the US have a different time zone than him, it would blow his mind
@@dawn5227 Why didn’t the New Yorkers warn the Californians about the earthquakes? Surely they could have at least warned them about the LA riots… 😂
@@dawn5227 Assuming he had one
Those same people vote for trump. Ignorance is literally dangerous.
Ah, the fabled egg laying orca. A rare species indeed. If you're really lucky, you can find them perching in the trees cleaning their plumage.
LOL good one!🤣
Remember they have to protect their nests from the ferocious Kangawallafox. 🇬🇧
I once saw one being torn to pieces by a swarm of Wild Flying Haggis - terrible business.
The plumage doesn't enter into it.
@@dsludge8217 I wish to register a complaint...
The most disturbing part is that it is indicative of the lack of interest in the rest of the world and arrogance.
So true, but you can blame their education system for a lot of this too.
There's plenty of that on the other side of the pond. Just ask anyone in Africa or Asia whose countries were colonized by France or Germany or the UK. And before you accuse me of being a disinterested and arrogant American, I studied European history (and other histories) in college (or university, whatever). I'll have to check but I think I still have the textbook.
My friend studied in Michigan for a year in a regular school on an exchange in 2005-2006. When he came back he said that except for language practice and trips to nature, he did not learn anything new for himself and even became stupid! What they studied there in the 9th grade, he had already gone through in Russia in the 5th-6th grade and more seriously.
But his main disappointment was not that his classmates knew nothing about the world at all, they DIDN'T WANT to know anything. In Russia, if you don't know some elementary things, it's shameful, they can laugh at you. In America, being ignorant is not shameful.
My friend said that when he mentioned some relevant fact from history/biology/physics, etc. in class or in conversation, he often heard in response: Why do you need (to know) this? You are full of useless information!
This was said by people who could list all the Marvel heroes, but not the planets of the solar system😢
Everytime i really wondering myself what is wrong with americans. I was with my wife and 2 students that i work with on the Alexanderplatz, a hotspot in Berlin germany, and 3 nice asking policeofficers ask ONLY me for my ID. I give them my ID and speak relly nice with them and also we make some jokes. It was really funny for the policeofficers and myself. For myself it was nothing and total normal. But one student he is from Illinois say after this to me he would never do this in the USA. Its against there rights and so on. What is the problem to show the ID if you have nothing bad stuff done? It takes us 2 Minutes and the policeofficers tell me that i fit to a discription of a person that they are looking for. Why we should not help the police? The only doing there jobs like everybody else. And yes i fit to a discription of a bad person but they NEVER say that i do anything. For myself and my wife and the other students its total OK and no big deal. But the student was really woundering that i do this. He really was confused about our behave to the policeofficers. I explain it to him and he say that is in some way really good but as american he find this strange. I think americans are in this case the strange people. :)
the world? is that in like mexico or smth?
I live in Thailand and once was asked by a middle-aged American whether I moved to Thailand because all German cities had been destroyed during the war. I answered, "Yes, exactly. But I plan on moving back soon because we finished rebuilding last week." He was genuinely delighted to hear the news and wished me good luck.
I was once asked by an American if we also celebrated the fourth of July. No, we are Dutch, why would we? He was quite amazed when he heard that.
You would rather celebrate the expulsion of the germans by the Canadian army in 1945, and you do, and rightly so.
We get that from Americans visiting Canada too.
I tell them we call it Traitor Day.
They are always shocked.
I had the same question from a relative of my partners from the US also. I’m in the UK
@@pm1395 LOL good one. I saw a t-shirt online "Make America Great Britain Again".
True story, in a facebook page where people ask questions about moving to Portugal, one US citizen asked if there is running water in Portugal. A guy just answered, "no, we only have walking water, we are slow and lazy over here!"
There's a fun Kenyan lady on tik tok who answers questions like do you have aircon by standing in front of an LG one answering no, the village elder has us all stand in a circle and he gets elephants to flap their ears to cool us.
Over 60% of Americans who move to Portugal leave due to many many reasons. They think it is similar to living in an Hispanic country. They sure find out quickly.
@@tkps5079 do you have a name? that sounds great
It's a genuine question. When I married a Swiss man, his mother said to me, "You really have buildings from the 1600s?" I said,"Of course. Our forefathers didn't live in tents or swing from trees. We even have buildings from 750. This is current Common Era." My mother-in-law asked this question because a church in New York City burned to the ground. It was built in the late 1600s if I remember correctly.
This one is almost exactly the same is one here in Tasmania. Bumch of loudly dressed American tourists on the wharf in Port Arthur. A local fisherman was unloading Crayfish (Lobsters) from his boat into plastic tubs on the wharf. One of the female senior tourists asked…” I say, Mister, are those things real?” The fisherman, as dead-pan as can be replied, “No madam, these are wind-up ones be buy from Japan to sell to the tourists!” She was so dopey she did not even see the joke.
Us Aussies think that “having Americans on”…i.e. making jokes at their expense, is “like straling wheat from blind chooks”…i.e. no contest…the don’t even bite because they are just so oblivious. Think this lot were from Texas….sorry to everybody else in Texas, know they can’t ALL be this bad ot the electronics giant, “Texas Instruments” would not exist.
“One of my mates ysed to exclaim, “Hold on to your Texas Instruments…it’s going to be a rough ride!”
Somehow this reminds of the old snarky joke:
"What borders on stupidity?"
"Canada and Mexico"😂
I'm using that one.
Yoink! 😁
I'll be using it too!! 🤣
@@rush5620 what don't you get?
In the UK it was said that London had the densest population.
I'm Irish, a Dubliner.
An inner city Dubliner, a friend, once told me that, when they were kids, they'd hang around the entrances to the Hotels and if they saw an American Tourist (NOT hard to distinguish), they'd approach them and offer to show them where the Leprechauns live. If the Americans took them up on their offer, they'd charge them some money, then bring them to a large park just outside central Dublin, show them the rabbit holes, and tell them that the Leprechauns only came out at night...
They made a surprising amount of money out of this...
Genius. Love it.
The price of stupidity 😂, well done 🎉
Greetings from northern México ❤🇲🇽
That's hilarious and genius at the same time!
Brilliant. 😂
I always said the Irish have brilliant minds.
I met two American guy´s in a bar in Greece back in the eighties. They were very nice, and seemed happy to finally go abroad and see something else than the U.S. I told them i was from Scandinavia, Sweden, and they were more exited when they heard, because they wanted to go to Scandinavia as well sometime. One of them had a grandparent from there, not really shure witch country thou. I asked them what they knew about Sweden, and then it began: they told me about winter all year long, polar bears roaming the streets, no fruits or vegetables just meat to eat and a lot more. Me, being an mean drunk i told them more. A lot more. My pet penguin Freddy and the miserable Elf i shared an apartment with probably being the worst. So, everything the Americans got wrong about the world, is not just their fault. Others helped..
Australian here. In the early 1990’s I was travelling Guatemala and over breakfast one day, I struck up a conversation with an American woman in her early 20’s.
After establishing that I was indeed from Australia , she asked me “how did I get to Guatemala from Australia?” I responded that I had flown there.
She asked, “why didn’t you drive?”
You can not make this stuff up… (face palms…)
Did you bother to answer, or just walk away? 🤪 I was asked how/why Britain (overlooking N Ireland) had left Europe, when we weren't in Europe to start with !!?? They always say England/Britain & Europe as though we are own continent, (oh, and Europe is a single country apparently 🙄 ) The prospect of trying to explain Brexit was too daunting, so I didn't.🤗
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They stopped teaching geography 50 years ago.
@@JenniferRussell-qw2co Explaining Brexit is one, explaining the why of it requires a completely new level (and the fact is at an American level of stupidity).
@@JenniferRussell-qw2co No one can explain the Brexit.
i had an american shout at me for putting on a fake pirate accent ,i am from rural somerset in the english west country
This made me laugh.
I love Somerset accent ❤
😅 Arrr!
Arrr! RUclips, translate to English. Haha
I had an American yell at me in Spain, because he couldn't understand me, telling me angrily to speak English. My calm reply was, well I do speak English, with a Northern English accent, to be exact, seems like you're not familiar with the accent. While I typically make a point to speak more slowly and clearer when speaking to people from outside the UK, I made an exception with this guy. Would love to see him in Glasgow!
@@Xiroi87 American here. You know, it wasn't until 21 years old that I understood what a "loo" is. And I grew up watching British TV shows on Nickelodeon, such as "The Tomorrow People" - similar to Dr. Who, but made for kids.
The problem is that to teach "there are no stupid questions", and some Americans see it as a challenge
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Good thing those asking can't understand the concept of sarcasm
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"There are no stupid questions, only stupid people"
-South Park
There are no stupid questions, only stupid Americans!
I'm from Spain and I met online an American who asked me "how can you speak Spanish so good if you are not Mexican"?
English people get asked something similar about English 😂
🤣There's a video on YT about 2 old ladies (customers) yelling at the manager "Go back to Mexico if you want to keep speaking Spanish". He was answering to his co-worker who asked something. He is Puerto Rican aka 100% US citizen. After 10 min of discussion he kicked them out bc they went on forbidding him to speak Spanish.....
I worked in Buenos Aires and I would try out my Mexican phraseswith my co-workers. Whenever I tried one, they'd say "that's Mexican", not the Spanish language that Argentines speak. About the phrase "Vaya con Dios", they said never say that to an Argentine, they would take it as a threat!
Sighs 😢
Switzerland has ground level places too..errrmm!😂 and it was very warm (short sleeves warm) this past Spring and Summer
For your information they still speak Latin in Vatican City. It's dead. Uncommon in the world but still spoken. And it is still studied in many part of the world since Latin is the origin of Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Romansh and other Romance languages it helps with the understanding of those language.
It’s also used in medicine and botany.
As an Italian, I have recently noticed many videos about the cultural differences between Europe and the United States and many of these videos, in my opinion, idealize us Europeans a bit too much. Everywhere in the world there are ignorant people without any discrimination, the real problem is when some of these people are in power. In Italy our Minister of Culture was convinced that Time Square was in London, as a judge of the most prestigious Italian literary award (Premio Strega) he admitted without any shame that he had not read any of the books in the competition and, recently, he published a post to celebrate the 250 years since the foundation of Naples (the years since the foundation of Naples are 2500). Another minister stopped a high-speed train in a station where no stop was scheduled just because it was more convenient for him and he was convinced that any citizen could do such a thing. We should start to worry not as citizens of one Country rather than another but as a human race.
@@bisfra Yup, it comes out a lot though in the US though with Trump and his cult followers!
No movie theatres in Ireland; they have cinemas.
we have theatrers here...
but our cinema is a Kino!
It's called bioscoop here.
good one.
@@Arltratlo sorry, Kino?
@@supercolinblow Kino is the german word for movie theatre
Some Americans on holiday in Austria complaining that after eight days there they haven't seen a single kangaroo
😂😂😂
Oh dear nooo!😂
For crying out loud...Did they accidentally book a holiday to the wrong country??
@@misssunnydee who knows. Maybe they think there's kangaroos in Austria. I'm from Spain. Once on holiday in New Orleans someone asked me if Spain was close to Mexico. I'll never go back to the USA
@@misssunnydee 😂😂😂 Maybe they booked vacation in the wrong country, or they think Australia and Austria are the same country. Like many Americans think Switzerland and Sweden are the same country. But what is worse is the many Americans can’t find the USA on a world map. 🙈
The thing that bothers me the most is not the ignorance about things - which is bad enough in itself - but the self-confidence with which those people state absolute atrociously wrong things. If I don't know something, I either state "I don't know" or I shut up about it...
In my travels, and speaking to foreigners online, I've found that some Europeans are actually as incredibly ignorant and overly confident in their opinions of Americans. The ignorance works both ways. The only reason you know anything about America is because, as a superpower, we're in damn near every story on the world news. I've also found opinions from abroad that were just as ignorant. This one Swedish chick thought I had to lower a bucket in a well to get water for the house, because most Americans are technologically backward. I guess ignorance can work both ways and both sides of the pond.
And these people are allowed to home school their children 😅
And these people are allowed to -home school their- *have* children
FTFY
The problem with that idea is that people know they are wrong.
Imagine this situation for yourself: You're back in school and there's a test today. So you read through all the questions and you answer all of them, being confident about having answered every question correct. Then you get the test back and it turns out that some of your answers were wrong. You didn't know when you answered them, in your brain, the wrong answers were correct, you were just as confident as these people.
They don't know they are wrong and think that you try to tell them stuff to fool them. And that's where the ignorance kicks in: I assume you would go and look stuff up after that situation, they however would not. Even if you came back with any sort of proof, they would still tell you that you made things up because they "know" better.
@@Vampirzaehnchen I cannot imagine answering any question in a test thinking I'm right and turning out I was wrong. I guess it can happen like once in 10,000 questions, but I either know the answer or know that I don't know it. I may have some general idea of what the answer should be, but in such case, I wouldn't be confident that my answer is correct.
Unless they've been taught from early age that being confident is more important than being correct, I have no idea what's going on. In a test, your confidence doesn't matter at all (thankfully).
The egg laying Orca went way over this Americans head😝😂
😂😁💖
😂😂😂
The PAIN
It buffles me, how obssesed many US Americans seem to be with race and ethnicity, while beeing so angry an calling someone a racist when it is mentioned...
That stuck me lately when some video showed such questions on forms for everything, getting a credit, applying for a membership, a lot of things. One was kind of a census questionaire though, there I might see the purpose.
But maybe this is maybe because such a question is very irritating for most europeans. As actually due to our privacy laws, depending on the way data is collected or the purpose, it may even be iollegal to ask, let alone to use such data for making any kind of score or decision. The only way to ask such a thing here would be in a strictly anonymised survey (like a census) for statistical reasons.
It really is so few of us that really care!
Here in Gernany at least "Race" is simply not an acceptable concept, speaking about human races automaticaly makes you sound like a nazi from the 1930s. If I saw a form asking for "race" I would assume that I time traveled and that this form was for submission to auschwitz
Those are liberals. Not too bright! So sorry! 😢
😂😂Found it really funny how you were breaking your head over the "Pacific Lake" story - but not the fact that Orcas are mammals and do not lay eggs !🤣🤣
Same!😂😂
Ditto 😂😂
true
OMG, ain’t that the truth! This was my first time watching this channel, and it will be my last. My suggestion is, don’t make fun of other people’s ignorance and then be ignorant about something so obvious yourself.
It confirmed he’s American 😅
My dad was once in an Uber in Maryland. The driver asked where he was from. My dad said Spain. The driver then asked "what language they speak in Spain". When my dad told him we speak Spanish in Spain, the driver was shocked.
Yeah it's people like us that give us all a bad name. BTW I'm from Maryland. Not the most exciting state, and a bit annoying since we get all the "backwash" from Washington DC in our backyard.
Maybe be he was shocked that your dad didn’t mention catalan or basque
I've experienced similar in Chicago. Upon hearing my accent, the driver asked where I was from. "I'm from Britain" I responded. His reply; "Oh, but you speak English so well, where did you learn?".
We've all had a taxi or Uber driver being puzzled when we replied we are from or live in Spain. Mine said "oh, my brother's wife is from Mexico". I patiently explained Spain is in Europe, only for him to say, I'm afraid I'm not good at geography. Oh well...
A friend of mine was complemented on his English by security at the airport. When asked where he came from he replied "Great Britain" to which security said ."oh do they speak English in Britain?"
A White South African told me, that when he was in USA, he got the reaction: "You can't be African, stop fooling me" so many times, that he gave up and told everyone that he is British.
Well, in the bad old days of the British Empire, I believe Britain did control South Africa so your friend isn't fibbing, he's just a century or so out of date. 😀😀
@@sooskevington6144 Britain also controlled India. It doesn't mean someone from India now has to pretend they are British to please an ignorant person. Also there's a very strong likelihood the person above was Afrikaans, i.e. of Dutch origin, not British.
Elon Musk?
@@forgottenmusic1 some ramdom american.... He is not white south african.... He is american african..
As they think black people in the rest of the world is african american. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@tinaunderhill5412 I would also suggest Charlize Theron but I'm not sure they'd believe me...🙄
Here in Finland, midsummer sales typically start in stores at the end of June. At the same time, especially in Helsinki, there are a lot of tourists from the United States who come here on big cruise ships. In Finnish, a sale is "ale". ("Ale" is an abbreviation of the Finnish word "alennusmyynti", which means sale at a discount.) There is always that one American who definitely needs to feel bad about it and make himself a number by loudly bringing out and teaching us Finns that; "Oh my god, the Finns can't even write correctly that it should be sale."
On the other hand, maybe there is something wrong with the self-esteem of us Finns, because every year more and more businesses seem to prefer the word "sale" instead of the word "ale". Or maybe we're just being overly friendly to all those Americans who are upset by the sight of a non-English language.
What? Is that a thing? I guess I have hardly ever visited the central part of Helsinki in the midsummer, so I have never really witnessed this "turistisesonki". The northern suburbs feel almost like a different town, tourists for example don't really come there 😅
@@acetar574 cruise ships (other than Tallink-Silja and Viking Line) bring about 120 000 tourist annually to visit Helsinki during summer time. Tourist of those ships spends millions of euros. In 2019 it was studied, that these tourist from cruise ships for one summer did spend about 25 million euros during their visit.
In the sixties here in Canada, tanker trucks hauling inflammable materials used to be clearly labelled 'INFLAMMABLE,' but we had to change it because the Americans on the roads were confused and thought it meant 'can't catch fire.' Since then these trucks have all been labelled 'FLAMMABLE' and, in the interests of commerce, Canadians have politely forgotten the proper word.
@@wrmacdonald9383 What next? Will inflammation become flammation? 😅 Like, wot?? Yes, that's an example of an exception from the general rule, but that's why you STUDY and LEARN even your native language.
I love the Vietnam war comment. Not only is the opponent in the title, not only was it not including the British, but it was also a war America didn't beat anyone!
"I thought you're supposed to be a third world country?"
I thought you were supposed to be a first world country.
America/USA is not, never has been and never will be a first world continent/country. The First World countries are the British & European ones who settled America. The Americas are the New World
So:
Europe = First World
The Americas = New World.
Everywhere else = Third World
Yep they are a first wotld country, first in obesity, first in speaking obnoxiously, first in arrogance, first in ignorance, first in stupidity shall I go on.
indeed the US are just 2the second world" or the new world - and Europe is the old world or the first world - ^^
The USA is not a country at all, but a business.
The USA is (so far) the only Fourth World country.
i got ask if i have electricity and cars in my village...
i am living in a town of over 40.000, i am electrician from profession and use my car for commute to and from work!
my country is Germany, we invented the car and build the first high power transfer line for electricity!
Airplanes too? :)
@@supercolinblow Otto Lillenthal built only gliders...
but without his experiments, the Wright brothers had ditched at Kitty Hawk!
What can you expect with stupid people??? They think the same about México the place that brought anticonceptive pills, indeleble ink and color tv!!! ❤🎉🇲🇽
Ford invented the car and electricity transfer? No way. That was an American invention. Also did you know Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone was American?
@@supercolinblow depends on what you mean with airplanes, there were many different people who invented something that made our modern planes possible and there may have been many different types of airplanes before the junkers f13 but the junkers f13 for example was the world's first all-metal transport aircraft according to Wikipedia so technically in easier wording, the world first modern plane, the zeppelin was also a popular invention wich is why many people call any type of rigid aircraft a zeppelin although zeppelin is just a company, it’s like on the same level as Nutella or Lego where you call the whole product category after one company because it’s so famous
The fact that he got hung up on Pacific Lake and not orcas laying their eggs baffles my mind..
ETA: There is one lake in the US that is called Pacific lake, then there is a company called Pacific lake, the third option I'm not sure about..
I googled the animal because I thought at first that I had a different animal in my mind. But no. They definitely do not lay eggs.
Thank you! I mean, how can you overlook or not know that Orcas are mammals and therefore have live births after internalized fertilization? There is NO LAYING OF EGGS!
Did he not Know that the Orca is a mammal just like humans, or perhaps his mother laid an egg and he hatch two weeks later. what kind of asylums do american children go to?
Came to say the same thing x)
Hahaha same. Orcas are mammals, they don't lay eggs!
I work in a rather large hotel in Ireland and once had an American tourist complain about the brown bread being stale. (brown bread is home made by me, pastry chef). When the Duty Manager asked him to show him what he meant iit tirned out this guys had buttered and eaten a wheetabix (breakfast cereal) instead of brown bread. Oh boy.....
😂
And you thought an America tourist eating breakfast in an Irish hotel restaurant should know about the British product Weetabix? I go to Europe once or twice every year, and lived i London for a year, but I've never heard of Weetabix. Although, I see I can order it from Amazon if I wanted to make sense of your story.
@@karlbmiles It's not about knowing what weetabix is, it's about knowing what bread is. You can't confuse the two.
He must have been stunned to learn (and may still enjoy sharing the story) that people actually choose to eat Weetabix at breakfast.
In the 70´s, I went to the US as a foreign student at a college in Mn. We were a bunch of foreign students from all continents. What stroke me very much, was that us foreign students used the library facilities very frequently, at least 2-3 times a week, and we used to go there not only for academical matters, but because there were so many books and information about almost anything you wanted to know about. But the library was used almost exclusively by us, the foreign students; hardly we would see a US student. There was no interest at all to learn or to know a bit more about anything.
Ma ancora negli anni 70 i ragazzi USA erano comunque molto impegnati culturalmente e socialmente , ne ho conosciuti molti, il disastro e' iniziato con gli anni 80 , Reagan e wall street hanno distrutto tutto.
Was in USA in 1987 and when we told people, that we were from Denmark, they had one of the 2 following questions..
1. Denmark.. yeah, the capital in Sweden
2. How did you get permission to leave the country.
They actually thought that it was a part of Soviet Union and we had to get permission from Moscow to leave.
My husband was Swedish and Americans would actually ask him if he could speak Swedish. 😅😅😅
Many confuse Danes with Dutch - sad dat!
@@amyboleszny543 and Austria with Australia
@@MichaelHedegaardJensen Especially in my house cos my in-laws came from Austria but their son, my husband, is Australian and our house in the Black Swamp had roos and wallabies on the front lawn.
@@amyboleszny543 sometimes I feel sorry US americans.. I dont know why, but I do..
Imagine if the rest of the world was like USA... only had enough in themselves, didn't know anything about the world that surrounded you..
Have you considered that these people, who have the time and money to travel abroad, are (theoretically and, according to meritocracy) America's best and brightest?
😂
Eh...worked in the tourism industry, I witnessed enough of some of these Americans. But they're not the worst, though. They're entertainment.
Now there's a scary thought!
Ryan, an Orca is otherwise known as a killer whale. Whales are mammals. Mammals do not lay eggs. Mammals give birth to live young then suckle them (like breastfeeding in humans)
I think in most countries, people who travel abroad do it to learn about new/different stuff (culture, climate, flora, fauna etc.), but in the US it must be a status thing like a big car or house... but wealth is different from intelligence : just look at some of their billionaires
It takes absolutely no intelligence to get a passport. The only thing they’re able to do is read.
I wouldn't sing along to "America is the best" because I was taught not to lie. 😉
well they dont say in what regard, do they. That song could be about America beeing the best Continents to the west of Europe and Africa and to the east of Asia and Australia :D
@@gbbgbb1856That would also be false. The best continent is Europe
i would - if I add a line "in being dumb " America is the best" ^^
@@Emil_Stoltz true
@@Emil_Stoltz But Europe isn't west of Europe and Africa. It's easy to be the best if one is the only con-tester, though obviously it also makes one the worst.
I used to live in Stratford-upon-Avon and when we were showing friends around Shakespeare’s birthplace, an American tourist asked the docent “Where does he live now?” Another asked “Was his first name Shake and his last name Speare?”
The tiger/leopard thing seems to me like shouting "Dalmatian!" at a German shepherd, since they're both large dogs
Just to say, a Leopards weights around 35 kilos, while Tiger can weight up to 310 kilos, that's just almost factor 10... its more like shouting Chiwawa to a Rottweiler.
"I always find it so cute when whales and dolphins lie on their eggs and incubate them. A whale's egg is 50 times larger than an ostrich egg, making it the largest egg in the world. From one whale egg, you can make about 880 fried eggs. If they weren't under protection, you could use them to solve world hunger." :D
Trouble is the whales tend to crush the eggs, so not many actually hatch. Its why whales are endangered. True fact.
As whales and dolphins are mamals, you'd rather find milk.
@@pierre-francoishenrion8433 That's the joke, my guy.
@@rowindejong3309 He must be Frensh, he must correct.
I could understand they mistaken Pacific Ocean with Lake. I am more concerned they think orcas LAY EGGS lol.
They may not have mistaken the Ocean with the lake. There are two lakes in Canada named "Pacific Lake", one in Ontario and one in British Columbia where there's also a provincial park. Perhaps that's where they were... The post says Western Canada.
I’m concerned Ryan doesn’t know Orcas don’t lay eggs 🤦🏼♀️
@@9wombats That alone proofs, he is also not the smartest... Orcas (Basically all Whales) dolphins etc are MAMMAL and NO FISH... They DO NOT lay eggs..
@@lydiakaraiskou1421I am afraid no Orcas live in those lakes, do they? 😅
@@lydiakaraiskou1421so they confused a Canadian lake with the Pacific ocean AND thought that lake had egg laying orcas living in it?
Like lake, ocean, same thing, salt water mammal, fresh water fish, same thing?
Leprechauns are not animals, they’re little people from Irish folklore. Why would you lock them up anyway? Alive or dead!
A kind of Leprechaun reservation, I guess 😂
reminds me of that episode of South Park where they detained a leprechaun, leading to a terrorist attack on Imagination Land.
well, they wouldn't be the first people Americans lock up just because they look different
Leprechauns are fictional characters from children's story books.
They are not now, nor have they ever been real.
@@gerardflynn7382 I know that! I’m half Irish😂
21:50 this was painful, Ryan. I assume you learned by now from other comments that Orcas are mammals 😂
When I was 10 I moved to Texas from Israel. One day I was showing one of my classmates where Israel was on a map, and when he asked how I got all the way from there to here, I said “On an airplane”. He looked at me incredulously and asked “You guys have airplanes over there??”
Granted, we were both 10 at the time, but it just goes to show you how deeply that attitude is ingrained in Americans from a young age.
For all the Monty Python fans out there…. “A tiger? In Africa?…..”
🤣
Shhh !
well it's probably escaped from the zoo.
Probably escaped from a zoo.
Happened to me once, got through a hole in my mosquito net. When I woke up the next morning I discovered it had bit my leg clean orff.
Yes! 😁
A woman from california was baffled when i told her i am from Austria! She looked at me dumbfounded than said to me i dont look asian enough to be from Austria!! She thought Austria = Australia ( which according to my experimente 80% of Americans believe) but she also thought Australia is a "country" in central Asia
Australia is a country actually... not a "country"
@@aurelo54 country in quotations because she didnt know Australia is also a continent and definitely not just a country in central Asia
@@dominikdiensthuber7458 Australia isn't a continent, that was my point, Oceania is the continent. Not to be pedantic about it, it's not a big deal, just wanted to correct the record on that point, kiss ^^
@@aurelo54 thats a big can of worms i dont want to open because there is still a big discussion about, Australia, Australia and Oceania, or just Oceania. For example in the Encyclopedia Britannica they still have Australis as continent: "... Australia, the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere..." also my Atlas still refers to Australia as continent. There are also differences from which part of the world you are. UN uses Australia and Oceania
@@dominikdiensthuber7458 I was not aware about that discussion, thanks for the input ! Sounds akward to me, like the way people in USA call their country "America" ^^"
America: Ranch Sauce...
Rest of the world: What the heck is Ranch Sauce?
Europe: The best I can do is Mayo or Ketchup, do you want Hot Sauce? I can give you a stick of butter, you already look like you've had 5 today but, I can help you out.
Asia: Did you say Soy Sauce or Prawn Sauce?
Indonesia specifically: Do you want Rendang? Perhaps Sambal Oelek?
Sweden specifically: We have Garlic, we have Hot Sauce, we can also give you Pineapples, or Bananas what about peanuts? Anchovies? Squid? We have literally everything between heaven and Earth except for Ranch.
Bravo. I hate that shit. Think about it makes me need to run to the ---[vomiting noises]
Especially when Ranch sauce is an American invention.
@@gerardflynn7382 In most countries in Europa we even didn't have ranches (only farms) so why should we call a Sauce Ranch?
I've never seen banana or pineapple trees in Sweden. Not too many things grow there, which is why you can find there imported food from all over the world. But considering that one of Sweden's main culinary inventions is rotten fish, aka, surströmming, maybe you shouldn't be so fast to cockily dismiss Ranch.
@@Xiroi87 Neither bananas nor pineapples grow on trees. Just saying. 😄
Hi ! French here ^^ For the 600k swiss home, I would have to assume the relevance is that they asked OP about their farm. Assuming they had one and were taking care of this big plot of land as a farmer. Since, unfortunately, agriculture is not very lucrative for a small farmer in Europe, that also may mean being not well off financially. But (at least in France) Switzerland is known to be a very wealthy country, way more than for its agriculture or farmers. So the price of their house is relevant in terms of context. Because I believe there are way more chances someone in Switzerland is loaded, than they are a farmer. Especially because there are fewer farmers over the years in Switzerland.
In the end, I would sooner assume a Swiss friend is rich, than ask him about his farm ! The farm part wouldn't even come to mind, because that is NOT what this country is famous for, for us. It would only be a question if the friend spoke about animals or things that raise the question. I've been in Switzerland several times now, and I've never seen SO MANY EXPENSIVE CARS In one day ! I must have seen more than a hundred BMW, Ferraris, porshes... Granted, I was in Geneve for an big event. But still...
Assuming someone from Switzerland automatically lives on a farm doesn't make sense to me, at all. But them telling the price of their house does, because of what I know about the place. And the context that it gives.
An Orca is a Mammal, Mammals don't lay eggs, except for an Echidna and a Duck- billed Platypus, both of which have venom also!
Omg the Orca thing killed me... Orca's are mammals! They give live birth.....
Proves you're an American... 😅
On a RUclips comment, regarding a community post discussing some school closures in USA due to "extreme cold"... I pointed out where I lived, that temperature was "normal". Multiple Americans, for some reason, insisted those temperatures were _not_ normal and sending kids to school in those temperatures was child abuse. I calmly explained that for good portions of the world in which the winter months get colder than that. Then one bright one asked "how do you heat the class rooms, wood stoves? That's a lot of wood." I then had to explain what a furnace was too.
Good times.
In places where it's typically cold they have the clothes for the cold. When cold weather comes unexpectedly, what are you going to do. Make the kid suffer because some Swedish kid has a warmer coat?
@@karlbmiles,
*Sigh*
They wanted _all_ schools, in _every_ country to shut down when the outside temperature dips below -15 degrees Celsius. They wanted any parent who sends their kids to school in those temperatures to be charged with _child abuse._ Their opinion.
As you've said, people wear _clothes_ for the weather conditions they live in. Though, many coats are designed to exceed the typical temperature conditions for the area they are sold in... just in case of a cold snap.
I have a friend from Guam, when she lived in Texas she was told several times to stop lying about where she was from and admit she was Mexican. 🙄
There was a Miss World from Guam a few decades ago.
@@izibear4462 ?
I'd ask them if they don't have Google maps in the US really.
My one work colleague flew to the States from South Africa and when he landed, the guys who met him was like, " Oh, you're white" and my colleague said that there are white people in Africa. He thought we were all only black. They also have the misconception that we have lions and elephant roaming the streets and that we live in mud huts in the bush. WE ARE A HIGHLY CIVILIZED COUNTRY. We have cars, busses, trains, planes and industry. We had one of the top education systems in the world until about 20 yrs ago. Our education is still good tho. So Africa is not still stuck in the stone age.
And in northern Africa live Arabs…
Everyone that doe not have English as a native language write is English so Americans can understand it. I am dutch and a long time ago i had a job at Amsterdam Central Station at the luggage depot. A elderly couple from the US came to the counter to drop of their bags, I talked to them in my US English. ( i can also speak real English and Scottish English). They asked me :"What state are you from?" I told them i was Dutch. They had a hard time believing me. So in front of them I started a conversation in Dutch with a co-worker. They said " You're making that up". I wished them a very nice day in English (US and UK), German, Dutch, Frisian, French and Spanish.😄
Most EU countries wouldn't touch Ranch dressing with a bargepole - have you seen what's in it ? Who needs phosphoric acid, modified food starch, monosodium glutamate, artificial flavours, disodium phosphate, sorbic acid and calcium disodium edta as preservatives, disodium inosinate and disodium guanylate ?
Wow....impressive. I don't touch ranch dressing either, I like the dressing you cannot see (vinegar and oil, which I was told when I went to Italy that people in Italy and elsewhere don't use those designer American dressings.)
Most American food is banned in other countries, because of the poisonous chemicals (in almost everything).
@@mikeparkes7922yeah American companies need to modify their recipes to meet EU standards. If they don't they can't sell them
They engineer food in the US. Artificial food makes them happy!🤣🤣🤣
All that crap and more is in all their daily food and when they think it’s organic it’s genetically modified and all their meat is hormone treated and the animals have antibiotics pumped into them. Everything is made to make you ill so you pay for healthcare. The country is backwards and they are too thick to realise
For your information a polder is artificial yes, but not by adding sand in the sea to create an island. It's the opposite. It's removing the sea water to gain land So a large part of the Nederlands is under the sea level.
I think Ryan actually knows that. So, two levels of stupid for the American but still one way he was half right? Lol
De Flevopolder is gemaakt door drooglegging, maar na het aanleggen van de Knardijk is er wel degelijk héél veel zand opgespoten. Ik heb het als kind zelf gezien.
The American gets points for knowing that the Netherlands exist.
@@sonjadewaal8584 Ik wilde dit ook zeggen, maar jij was me voor. Veel zand en ook rotsen.
It's not 'a large part'. Most of the country isn't under sea level at all! It's 1/4 and 1/5 of the estimated population considered below sea level.
I'm French, and I spent 8 months in Boston for work. It’s been the funniest 8 months of my professional life! I've heard so many mind-blowing things that I could write a collection of jokes.
you are the first french who wants to understand english 👏
@@JustMe-sh8nd
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@@JustMe-sh8nd Most French can and do, it is Parisians that have problems with any other language than French and even problems with any other accent than Parisian.
I'm German, I spent a year in Louisiana (when I was 15-16, went to highschool there) here's some of the questions/comments I got:
- was asked multiple times if I came by car
- a classmate assumed I was a refugee. same classmate wondered if it was scary for me to take a bus in the US assuming we don't have busses in Germany.
- another classmate asked if the Jews killed the Nazis. she was also shocked to learn there are Jews in the US.. and then again to learn Judaism is a religion
also, not exactly fitting the theme, but I never heard the word "freedom" more than during that year while I also never felt any less free... was a weird year ngl
"There are no stupid questions" has always been a trap
There are no stupid questions ... but there are inquisitive idiots.
1:40 'mericans thinking they on the starship Enterprise and are expecting turbolifts. 🤣 No sir, this is just a cruise-ship!
Exactly! :-)
"Computer! Deck 36 - Engineering!"
ThyssenKrupp actually has an elevator that can do that: ruclips.net/video/kdTsbFS4xmI/видео.htmlsi=4UDh-TCKUyfBuDGi
It's still a prototype, but the technology is available.
@@JC130676 seriously? that's awesome. As long as the elevator doesn't become self-aware lol.
I just thought the sama thing..
@@JC130676 So, this is the same story as with the first mobile phone? Made by Motorola in the looks and feels of a comunicator from Star Trek. ^^ I love it. Same goes for the Alcubierre Drive ^^
My Mum watched half of this with me having never seen you before and said "He's a smart guy" so congratulations, this British family have declared you are not a dumb American! 🤣
He still had no idea that Orca's are mammals and don't lay eggs, so take that as you will.
Idk why we Europeans like to think we're so much smarter? Take the UK for example. Only way is Essex, Love Island etc are hardly filled with the brightest of characters lmao.
@@cara2290 Love Islanders are not an example of British people I would ever show, they are in the minority but there is also a Love Island USA
@@Ayeshteni I think he was just so confused trying to work out what the American's were looking for and realising they meant Ocean that he didn't pay too much attention to that bit!
@@cara2290 That is why they were chosen, specially, for entertainment value.
Its because Americans grow up being told they are the greatest country on the face of the earth, they have the best and are the best of everything and therefore nobody & nowhere else matters. Its sad especially in the age of the internet when the world and everything it has to offer is at your fingertips.
That’s exactly the problem! Americans are brainwashed into believing the US is the best in everything. But it’s not true at all!
It is funny seeing their faces, when they find out they're not as great as they thought.
And are in fact pretty shit 😂
It's sad there are people in America who still believe that crap. When the penny finally drops and Americans realise how far BEHIND the rest of the world they really are it'll be interesting to see how they react to this and put it right (or not)
Actually, that is not true. The majority of people here are not like that they’re very kind and nothing like what you see on TV.
@@connie9523no one’s is saying your not kind
One summer I worked at an international camp for kids from around the world. One day we had an open day so people could come and see what we were doing. Overheard a woman talking to our campstaff when a young girl ran passed them. The woman asked where she were from and the staff replied "Denmark" whereby the woman happily exclaimed: "Oh, I know Denmark! It's the biggest city in Sweden"
We don't have "movie theaters in Ireland" - we have "cinemas".😀😃😄
I love how you can see the actual pain, Ryan is experiencing reading these 😂
...but then not wondering about orcas laying eggs. No, I don't judge him. It could have been me.🙈🙈🙈
But he is also annoyingly slow and waffles far too much.
I have started to take revenge and ask random Americans whether they turn off the Niagara falls at night to save electricity and if the water is recycled.
I would love to read about their answers.😅
The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.
In its global rankings, the United Nations Office of Sustainable Development dropped the U.S. to 41st worldwide, down from its previous ranking of 32nd.
I knew about the 32 place - mentioned it in a comment on another channel, it wasn't received well - but they've dropped even FURTHER DOWN. Unbelievable, it really is given how they brag about being the best in everything.
They bang on about "freedoms" not realising that they're not that free!
If we should ever be teetering on the edge of World War 3, all of Europe, UK and S. America will come crying to us for help. We are a successful country with brilliant scientists, inventors and businessmen because we're so darn stupid. Did you ever see our game show, Jeopardy? It has been on TV every nite for about 50 years. Contestants have to be extremely smart , well informed and well-read. These people compete every nite. Maybe a poor example. I lived in DC for 40 years. Most residents have advanced degrees and are very smart.
I don't believe most of these anecdotes.
The US is a vast country. Each state has its own culture, food, history , terrain and accent. The Netherlands is a bit smaller than the state of West Virginia. Our size makes things very complicated. I don't doubt that we have some genuine idiots in a country of 350 million.....similar to trump. Americans, generally, are smart, generous, sincere, hard working and optimistic. Foreign countries have many of the same problems....immigrant issues, crime and drug problems. When you criticize us, it feels like schadenfreude and some jealousy. We live in a resort town in Central NY. The teenagers are polite and the adults are very kind. We live on a lake that is 2nd cleanest in the US. The cleanest is also in NY state....Lake George.. I can walk to a part time job for my nite shift at 11 pm without fear of crime or guns. There are thousands of towns like this across the US. Don't come here . Stay where you are.
I am a surveyor and worked in Acropolis, Athens, Greece for some years. Once an American woman told me that we should install in Parthenon an elevating rotating coffeeshop, to have a better view of the site and Athens. My response wasn't polite but her husband gave me credit and told her to shut up......
You’re right. ‘Third world’ is a term from the Cold War. But it does not mean ‘poor’ or ‘underdeveloped’. It means a country not aligned to either the USA and the NATO nations of Western Europe (the ‘First World) or the Communist nations in Eastern Europe allied to the USSR or in Eastern Asia allied to China (the ‘Second World’). Famously independent, non-allied Switzerland is by definition a Third World nation.
The term seems to be used differently. According to the german edition of Wikipedia it is a problematic socioeconomic category and at least in German is only used to designate developing countries - not Switzerland, Sweden etc.
@@GeorgStalmann-ip9wi Perhaps we should call developing countries “developing countries”, and neutral or non-aligned countries “neutral” or “non-aligned countries” instead of continuing to use ‘problematic’, ambiguous, anachronistic terms like “third world”.
The Black Country in the West Midlands of England got its name in the mid-19th century due to the smoke from the region's many ironworking foundries and forges, as well as the working of its coal seams. The smoke filled the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, and Wolverhampton, and became so common that the name is still used today.
Naaah, you're thinking about Mordor ^^
I'm from Portugal 🇵🇹 I once got asked if we had Internet...I was like "yeah, we do, I have a 500Mbps download and 200Mbps upload fiber connection at home". He was shocked I had better Internet than him.
The internet is actually better in dozens of sub-Saharan African countries than in the USA or Canada.
They get really shocked when they find out most of Europe has vastly better internet than them.
I was in America long ago and was shocked that the TV's image was so bad in comparison with what we, european countries, had. Hope it did improve.
I doubt it, Pierre. The NTSC system is called Never Twice the Same Colour by electricians! 😂
@@pierre-francoishenrion8433 they and many other countries run on the NTSC system. NeverThe Same Colour - twice!
Interesting image of "third world countries".
That's a term from the Cold War era, differentiating between western, liberal (NATO) countries (first world), communist countries (Warsaw Pact - second world) and those not belonging to any of those two blocks (third world). Nowadays people confuse the term Third World Country with developing countries.
And those tourists would be pretty shocked when they realize that the US is, compared to the rest of the world, in many aspects still pretty undeveloped and not the "best country in the world" as their propaganda says (North Korea tells its citizens the same bs). But don't worry: if the USA works really hard on developing itself it might reach the European minimum standards required to join the EU in about 10 years :D .
That's a bit optimistic, more like 50 years.
If it's the US you are talking about.
10,000yrs would be closer.
Holy shit! Have I as a swede lived in a third world country all my life with out knowing about it. Damn!
Well, at least the citizens of True Korea (north for you...) are not as bad as most of the americans.
Lol
These cruise ships are pretty massive, I am assuming they can't fathom, that someone expects them to walk more than 100 yards.
The 1st one at 0:46 is a double-header of ignorance; yeah, the student reply was moronic ... but the TEACHER claims that he was "immigrating" to Sweden, when he/she was in fact, EMIGRATING! Big difference, my cousins ... big difference.
You do both at the same time: you emigrate out of your first country and immigrate into the new country. It only depends on the perspective.
@@GeorgStalmann-ip9wi but the US are used to people immigrating without asking the locals for the last 500 years, they can't understand that someone would emigrate from the place.
I noticed that too 😂
Leprechauns? Ah yes! Down there to your left right in between the tooth fairies and the unicorns!
I've work for Eurostar ( the train between London and Paris) for years and I don't count the number of American asking:
1 - where was going the lift one the train !!!! ( pointing to the disable toilet )
2 - My favorite was all the ones waiting with their camera to take picture of the Fish !!!! and complaining that the tunnel was to dark !!!!!!
*Face Palms*
The reason there aren't any fish in that tunnel is... it was drilled through the bedrock (to prevent water from drowning the people on the train)... However, I have been in a US airport which had tunnels lined with fish tanks... so... I suppose it's possible.
@@aralornwolf3140 I think they expected the rails to go on the bottom of the sea with a "simple glass tunnel" around the rails.
You have to tell these people it's sleeping time for the fish so they turn out all the lights.
@@flitsertheo 😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s not just Americans. I’ve been surprised by a number of Germans who think the tunnel sits on the sea bed. I think in their case they’ve not really thought about it. For me Eurostar is a way of going to various countries in Europe, so I use it most years when I go on holiday. For them, unless they’re travelling to the UK, it’s of mild interest only.
I once saw an American lady struggling to order food at an airport café in Finland. She asked if they had a menu in English, even though she was standing right in front of one. The café worker politely responded in perfect English, pointing out the menu. But instead of realizing her mistake, she kept asking what he meant, getting increasingly frustrated. Finally, she raised her voice and shouted, "Oh, you don't speak English!"
I'm sure he spoke English.
Just not American.
😂 most finns speak absolutely perfect English
wonder if he responded something containing voi vittu or perkele 😂
@@dieZera😂
Americans do not speak English.
If you don't speak with an American accent, I've found that many Americans can't understand what you are saying
They look completly different.
Never seen a tiger?
I also would love to see an Orca Egg 🤣🤣🤣
The age of the swiss guys house propably refers to the fact, that his hous is about 250 years older than your country!
the eating with a knife question is particularly funny if one considers the U.S. as the No. 1 fast food place that LOVES eating everything with bare hands…
And who lay down their knives after cutting something, change their fork to the right hand and eat. And repeat.
and bead is indeed very old, around 30 000 years at least, knifes are even older. They were pretty much the second tool after hammers and predate our species.
I do recall an American couple coming out from a cruise ship, Jamaica, I believe. And the kind waiter asked him, " How would like to have your coffee, Sir ? The American replied, " As black as your ass ". And this is not fiction, I sat in table beside those people. Never seen that rudeness, since or before. I have been to a lot of states, and have some of my BFF in USA. I come from Finland, so blond hair, blond skin.....but I felt for the waiter then. But I also remember being in Paris, speaking English. The waiter disliked us for not speaking french, so he farted at our faces.
Okay, but the second one is just the french being extremely locked up when it comes to their language.
Had I been that waiter I would have brought milk foam with a touch of cocoa on top saying „this as close as can mimic my donkey‘s coat with food safe means.“
in regards to the swiss comment ~7:40, the teacher made the assumption the student lived on a farm (the implication being they were from an undeveloped place and only knew about farming), the response was that they lived in a house that has stood for ~550 years, aka significantly older than the country of the USA, and that his house costs that much as a frame of reference due to a similar sized house in the states likely costing millions of dollars etc.
While I was at London University in the 70s an American student explained that he'd only brought suitcases full of jeans when he came to study here. He believed he'd bd able to make a lot of money because there weren't any jeans in the UK. He was surprised to find out we had no shortage of jeans and had to spend a lot of money buying the things he should have brought with him. As a note, he also explained that he prayed to God for guidance on which camera to buy. Apparently, God was very helpful.
Whacko, puritanical, god loving America, a country where they pixelate a partial bum crack on the television show 'Survivor' but allow their children access to guns !
Ah Ryan proving the stereotype by thinking that Orcas lay eggs 😂
I have been working at a German university since the nineties. NEVER did we ever NEED security even…
We Swedes mastered the science of teleportation years ago. Sometimes, the US seems to be stuck in the middle age...
oh please. Not all American tourists are that dumb. I've been to Europe three times (in the 1990s) and no one with whom I travelled was that dumb. I think the idiots are just the ones you hear and read about. Who wants to meme or poke fun at an intelligent, respectful and not loud as fuck American tourist? In any circus, its always more fun to watch the clowns than the orchestra, if you get my meaning.
Yeah they still don't have functioning public transport
They are still stuck in the middle ages.
When Republicans take charge in Congress they won't let the Country advance.
If it helps Ryan, we can make you an honorary Brit? You’ve got the sarcasm and exasperation down 100% 😅
A famous Canadian author and comedian, Rick Mercer, used to do a segment on his TV show called "Talking to Americans". He once had Governor Huckabee, the father, congratulate Prime Minister Poutine on his recent election. On another show, he had a big group of university students and professors shouting that |Canada should end the Saskatchewan seal hunt. Do a quick map of Saskatchewan.
Whilst on a tour of an American warship in Fremantle West Aust a few years ago an officer/guide was demonstrating a light switch explaining that the light bulb glowed because of "electricity" and that It would really transform our lives when we discovered it. This atonishing statement was met with gales of laughter from us Aussie "plebs". Yep! my husband said and when we finally get cars we can retire our Kangaroos to the outback.
".......we can retire our Kangaroos to the outback." Or they could join the US Navy.
Orca's laying eggs?!!! 🤣 🤣they could wait forever for that, and still be disappointed.
Education is a wonderful thing... 'mericans should try it!
No dude otherwise Americans won’t be able to call themselves the land of the free, they are free of education that’s why they can call themselves the land of the free
But... even a dumb person can educate them self 😋
Intelligence and knowledge is not the same 😉
I think you’ll find that IRELAND 🇮🇪 is definitely not a third world country.
Ireland is 1st country for the other members of the EU...
the UK is a 3rd country!
Well, by definition it is. First world was the term for the countries in the Western alliance (NATO and the US pacific alliances), 2nd world was the term for the countries aligned with the Soviets and 3rd world was unaligned. Sweden, Ireland, Austria and Finland were all 3rd world countries.
The meaning of the word started to shift gradually, since most unaligned countries were in poorer parts of the world, it later came to (wrongly) refere to a developing country. But that wasn't/isn't what the word actually means.
But though Ireland is a neutral country, I'd still place it firmly in the Western camp today. That wasn't all that obvious 70 years ago though, when the phrase was minted.
@@Arltratlo3rd country status with regard to the EU is not the same thing as a third world country.
@@victorcapel2755 “The modern definition of ‘Third World’ is used to classify countries that are poor or developing. Countries that are part of the ‘third world’ are generally characterized by (1) high rates of poverty, (2) economic and/or political instability, and (3) high mortality rates.”
The Cold War ended a long time ago mate.
@@ffotograffydd i know that, but Brits dont!
13:12 Flevoland (Flevopolder) was not made by dumping sand into the sea. Instead it was made by building a dyke and pumping out the water.
Hi there, about The Netherlands.
Hundreds of years ago, about half of The Netherlands (the west-north-west part) was mainly water and swamps! Later much of the land was land that had seasonal floods. Those parts were indeed filled with sand and dykes around them to stop the influx from the sea. The Flevopolder and different parts of Amsterdam and in the western provinces also sandfilled areas of land. Our main airport, Schiphol, I also placed in an area that used to be a large lake. That was pumped out of there and at most parts filled with sand. But not everywhere. A huge chunk of the western part of The Netherlands was drained and is under sealevel. If ever the dykes would break or sea levels would rise too much, the most of the western part of The Netherlands would be under water. Luckily we are very good in water managerment.
Australian here. Once they experience the Leprechauns, I can’t wait for them to meet our Drop Bears .😂
Leprechauns are fictional characters from children's story books.
@@gerardflynn7382drop bears are fiction animals that attack tv reporters. we all have fictional stories, there's one about a Yorkshire man that bought a round of drinks
@@gerardflynn7382 Elves with an accent.
Yeah, I was really worried about drop bears wen I visited Oz, but a mate told be to use Fosters as "drop bear repellent" as no self respecting native Australian creature would come within 500m of the stuff. Worked a treat, I didn't see a single drop bear the whole time I was there.
Right, that's it now, I'm going to ask. Please can someone pretend I'm American and tell me what a drop bear is? I keep reading about those and I feel like the last person on earth who isn't in on the joke.
Mate, the Orca post was not about the place (that's stupid to, thou) but about the Orca eggs. Orcas are mammals and give birth to live babies :) . I'm a bit surprised that you did not see that, on other hand, you didn't also know who Sir D. Attenborough is in the other video, that's why just "a bit surprised" ;)
There are some mammals that lay eggs. But yes, the Delphinidae are not one of them :)
Some mammals (like the platypus) lay eggs.
@@mikeparkes7922 There is a saying: Exceptions confirm the rule. Platypus being the exception, the rule being that mammals do not lay eggs…
The only orca I know that lays eggs is the Orca from Tiberian Sun...
@@mikeparkes7922 yeh monotremes lay eggs but the only to 2 living monotremes are the platypus and echidna, orcas like most of the mammals on earth are placental mammals that give birth to live young and marsupials give birth to live young when they are practically still a fetus
There are two things that are infinite, the stupidity of humans and the universe, although I'm not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
"Where is the border to Mexico?" really got me.
An American would emigrate to Sweden.He would be an immigrant in Sweden.
There's an old joke about Americans and Germans. An American (Texan) comes into a bar in East Frisia (North German coast), sits down at the bar, gets a shot and brags "If I drive my car once around my farm, I'll be on the road for 6 days" and slams the glass down on the bar with a proudly swollen chest. An old wrinkled East Frisian sits next to him, stares into his glass and says "Well, I used to have one of those shitty cars"
🤣 nice
😂😂😂
When I heard it, the Texan was in Ireland, but who cares, it's the same joke!
RE: Chaining the Islands down. The comeback should have been "Unlike the US, we dont have enough fat people to hold it in place. We have to use old school chains".
We dont dump sand in the sea to make land XD
We build a dyke, then drain the water out, then plant reeds and other plants, wait a couple of years, and then we dump sand on the places we want to build buildings on. Its completely different.
Do you have any idea how much sand it would take to create an artificial island with an area of hundreds of square miles? Where would we even get that much sand?
Well, I guess that’s why northern Germany is that flat.
Some countries use landfills and trash to achieve the same goal. It's a pretty interesting engineering feat.
Plus water washes away sand.
@@winterlinde5395 😂
"Do you have any idea how much sand it would take to create an artificial island with an area of hundreds of square miles? Where would we even get that much sand?"
Let's face it, Dubai did it and they got the sand from the Red Sea. It turned out not to be the best material for artificial islands.
When friends from the USA was coming to Sweden to visit they suddenly changed their route. They call to say that they landed in Düsseldorf instead and we could pick them up there. It was 990 km from us including 2 ferrys and crossing Denmark. 4 of us went with two cars starting in the night 😅
yeah, muricans have no idea of distance and time. A friend of ours landed in Amsterdam of a morning, and asked if she could come for afternoon coffee. driving time from Amsterdam to our place would be 6 hours at 130 km/t/82 mph and no stopping! she did'nt make it!!
Many many years ago I drove the Dempster highway and stopped at the tourist lookout point with a sign that explained that you were looking towards the arctic circle. Knowing that the arctic circle refers to earth above a certain longitude and not a physical land feature, I was quite surprised when an American couple driving from Alaska stopped and asked what the arctic circle looked liked since they couldn't see it. There was a slight contrast in shades of green in vegetation in the field beyond the sign, so I told them that was the arctic circle. After they ooohed and aaahed they took pictures for a few minutes and then went on their merry way. They were happy, I chuckled, all was good.