Americans think they live in the only free country in the world. But as it seems they have less freedoms than most western European countries if you count in poorly state-regulated Health Care, poor School Education, ..... these are also things that give you more freedom on the long term. A healthy individual has more freedom to travel and work as they want to.
Additionally, after voting for Trump AGAIN (...), the country will now be fully run by billionaires, which will be the only ones left with actual freedoms. Total freedoms actually, committing crimes at will like Trump. And since the whole judiciary is a joke now, since none of the rich and MAGA folks are actually held accountable for anything, they have simply no idea what real freedom means anymore.
Yes, we have guns in Europe. The big difference is the purpose of the guns. Here (Sweden in this case), guns are regarded as a tool, like a shovel or a hammer. It's for hunting or competition shooting. We don't keep a gun to defend ourselves when going to the supermarket...
The right to use violence has been delegated to the police. I get that in the US, people has a somewhat weird perception of police - on one hand, they are heroes, thank you for your service, etc. On the other, they are bad guys with the right to steal and shoot at will with no oversight. It is fascinating to me that these views can exist in parallell and be equally strongly held. In either case, it seems obvious that people in the US do not feel comfortable delegating that right to police.
@CallioNyx The point I'm making is that this is never a factor in deciding to get a gun here. The gun is for practical use, but surely it could, and would, be used for protection if needed. The intention was not there though....
Yea same in greece , i ve seen many guns and used a couple , but ppl use them as tools for hunting , never a dispaly of power or in public.On another note , i used to want to go to USA , now i wouldnt even go if i was paid .
In Germany we have something like: Human dignity is inviolable. Your freedom ends, if you violate the dignity of another person. That's a much more civilized concept.
I am from Europe and sorry but things are pit off here. The woman was found guilty of defaming the man, who was convicted for gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in Hamburg in 2020. She got longer jail time than the rapists.
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 Our principal on elementary was wild, he made us play dodgeball with a tennis balls, girls didnt even wanted to get in for stg 😂
the second amendment is a relic of the past to a time before America had a standing army and needed the general population to defend against external aggressors, that's why it talks about militias'.
A lot of us don't want it, or not in this form, so maybe you could stow the judgment? As if America's not an oligarchy and we get to choose... ever since Bill Clinton did Citizens United and let corporations donate to whatever they want, we've been locked in an endless cycle of hell where elites can buy whatever laws they want to exist and the only checks and balances are whether other corporations dislike those laws.
@@mark7978 You're forgetting the frontier. There are plenty of people who live too far away from police to get any urgent help if they needed it, meaning a gun would be their only protection. I don't understand wanting to live that far out, but people still do it.
I like your comments, but please allow the whole sentence to be finished before you interrupt and comment... Sometimes you miss the point. I really enjoy your perspective, it is always interesting
Why should Ryan follow anybody else's preferred way of reacting? It's his channel. He's not reacting for the benefit of the viewers. He's not reacting because the viewers might have a question. This is his authentic self. Now you know how he reacts, gives his opinions. He always mentions the video. Watch that yourself without his reactions.
@@danielvermeer5079 Sure, of course it's his channel and he can do whatever he wants. But I think OP just wanted to make a suggestion and did so in a polite way. And a lot of people seem to agree. I don't see an issue with them sharing some constructive criticism?
Unfortunately freedom of speech in the United States is sometimes also freedom of telling outrageous lies without any consequences. Not just in the USA, but they are world class in this regard.
@hanes2 like ceos, like the nra, like fox, yes all your politicians and especially the lying rapist trump, like your education system......shall I continue?
12:06 just because you start work early and finish late, doesn't mean you're a hard worker, it means you've been taken advantage off. A worker can go in early and clock off late and have done f-ck for the day. Whilst a person who done half 8 to half 4 has worked hard and got a lot done
The thing I could never understand about the “death panels” argument against social medicine is that the US system already has death panels. The insurance companies refuse to fund expensive life-saving care despite all the money you pay in. If that’s not a death panel I don’t know what is.
Blows my mind Americans think Europe has 'death panels' and that they wouldn't be better of with universal healthcare. Universal healthcare literally means that you will get the help you need.
So true. A CEO billionaire owner of a health insurance company was killed a week ago- far more outrage about that than the killing of hundreds of children in their classrooms. Yet that man's company probably left many people to suffer without medication or surgery. US is an awful country with very skewed values .
Health insurance is supposed to make it so people can get health care who couldn't otherwise afford it. The American health insurance industry has exactly the opposite goal: to maximize profit by denying coverage as much as possible. With universal health care, everyone gets health care. No denial of coverage. No "co-pays". No insurance payments. And the average cost in taxes is half what Americans pay today.
I’ve been told many times that we in Europe are poor, that we have no work ethic, we do, we just don’t NEED to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week without sick days off, sick pay or paid vacation time, because we are paid properly for our time and skills. Also that we have no freedom, we can’t own guns, that we don’t even have cell phones. Many Americans seem to think we all live in feudal states over here. 😂
The US-American public has been brainwashed into being the perfect exploitable worker. They think having worker protection laws is bad, they think having the right to be healthy is bad, They think they are the best at everything Etc. And they love their corporate overlords because they believe one day they can be billionaires too.
dont generalize, there are many countries in Europe. I could go and get a gun in my country. I need doctors note and do class and get license like driving license and can get a gun. Every one does not live in Great Britain. You soon need to ban knives and cars as well.
@@TheRuben_music We have 26 days of vacations guaranteed by labour law, to be used as we want and about 12 days of national / religious holidays. So if you combine your vacation and holidays in 2025 you end up with 40 days of work.
It is important to recognize that there are two types of freedom: Active and passive freedoms, or "freedom to" and "freedom from". Example: The "freedom to" own guns works directly against the "freedom from" getting shot. The US focusses on active freedoms, while Europe focusses on passive freedoms. So, in most places, you are not allowed to own a gun unless you have a reason, are sound of mind and follow the safety rules. That way, the passive freedom is protected while allowing the active freedom in a reasonable way.
Americans don't understand that one person's freedom ends where another person's freedom begins. I can't buy a gun, but others have the freedom not to have to worry about gun violence. In Germany, there is freedom of opinion instead of freedom of speech, and a racial slur is just not an opinion. On the other hand, it is always weird how much swearing is censored in the US TV. Here, nothing is censored on TV, not even genitals, and yet it feels like no one uses swear words as often as Americans.
Freedom to Americans means, "MY freedom to do and say whatever I want, provided I can get away with it. Freedom is a personal thing." Other countries' residents prefer, "I want freedom, but not to the extent that it would put my fellow citizens at greater risk. Freedom is a communal idea."
I think an alternative form of thinking about it is that in the US, you have the freedom of the strong, while in the EU, you have the freedom of the weak. In the US, the 'strong' have more freedom to impose their will on you; you are less protected. In the EU, it is the weak that have freedom. The 'strong' would here be employers, insurance companies, etc. They are more regulated in the EU so they cannot demand you give up rights to the same extent.
There is active freedom and passive freedom. 2 different concepts and one is practiced by usa and the other is followed in europe. It basicly comes down to the difference between " freedom to" and " freedom from"
I think an important difference is that (at least in Germany) when we are talking about Vacation, we are talking about paid leave, and taking it is actually mandatory
Same in Belgium. 20 years payed vacation and 10 payed official Hollydays. As a start that is, cause the longer you work, the more payed vacation days you earn, depending on what company you work for. If you work for the gouvernement , you get even more payed Hollydays. And then there is ofcource the extra (payed) 6 days per year when you work at a job with 40 hours/work week, as our country officially has 38 hours/work week. I sometimes wonder if Americans really want to know all this stuff cause I would feel quite Luigii if I would realize how messed up it is if my country would try to use me as a squised lemon.
To me the pledge of allegiance sounds like something that north korea does and not a democracy. Kinda screws over any freedoms when you dont have freedom to think for yourself.
It's brainwash...keep them busy (1-3 jobs to pay the credit card depts) , feed them fake news and call racism patriotism et voilà you have an American 🤷♀
Actually, "north korea" (or more accurately Best Korea) doesn't do sstuff like that. It only exists in america, and in a certain point of German history.
5:00 aren't British black people more free, because they are free from being called the N-word all day long? Why do Americans only see the freedom to do something, but never the freedom from something?
@thedeadgypsy I didn't say to let the entire video play without pausing, just to pause between sentences, not in the middle of the sentence. I've seen 20 reactions to this video and none of them pause in the middle of sentences, and they are just fine, no copyright issue.
@CROM-on1bz I remember this from "Rock", a Michael Bay movie, a bittersweet reminder that Hollywood movies USED to have actual scriptwriters for their dialogues
It was Dr. Samuel Johnson who said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scandal." However you feel about it, the reality is that nations are artificial entities; a poor substitute for community.
13:33 As a European, I am glad that my ancestors already fought successfully for workers' rights, and we now have labor protections. America still has that ahead of them.
I envy your optimism. Each year that pass makes my country more and more like the US when it comes to workers (and unemployed) rights. But they haven't touched vacation time yet, they're not THAT stupid.
Standing up and clutching your chest whilst repeating a politicized view of patriotism is absurd to Europeans. The last country to try that, was a fascist dictatorship during the 1930s and 1940s. Just look at how that turned out.
You say you'll get paid for not using your leave, they'll pay you those days, but in Europe we get paid to take our vacation days, so we are still paid for those days when we are on our break.
OMG! Ryan, what is wrong with you American Reactors, you all never listen to one whole sentence without interrupting a person many times, resulting in you getting the point backwards!!!! You know we are all blessed with 2 ears and 1 mouth, because one is supposed to listen more and speak less, and most Americans do this, and gets everything backwards! Also, in countries in EU etc, if you didn't use up all your holidays then you DO get paid for the unused holidays - if you had 20 days unused holidays, then you get 20 days paid at the end of the year, on top of your weekly/monthly wages. If you work overtime, for hourly employees, overtime is typically paid for any hours worked beyond the standard working hours of 39hr week, 1st 4hrs @ a rate of 1.5 times the regular hourly rate (39hrs + 4hrs = 43hrs), and for additional hours worked, overtime will be paid at x 2 regular hourly rate. If one must work overtime on a Sunday then it'd double the rate, working on a Bank Holiday is also double plus an extra Days Holiday PPS. Pledging in schools sounds to most of us living outside the USA like brain-washing!!!!
In Australia the cashiers stand too (except Aldi). These days though, we mostly use the self checkouts so the cashiers aren’t standing at the checkouts as much as they used to.
My grandma, 101, at the beginning of this year fell and broke her femur. Got hospitalized, got surgery and it all went well. All through the national healthcare system. Not treating her would have resulted in death. And yet, though clearly not profitable, they did it. Plus, if you're over a certain age you don't even have to pay the 'ticket' fee you might pay sometimes.
In Norway we have limits for guns but it isn’t as we don’t have freedom, but we have to follow rules to protect people. Guns are used for hunting , not for killing children.
Ryans content getting more and more UNWATCHABLE. Pausing all the time, making assumptions instead of letting the others talk, listening and UNDERSTAND.
I agree, I've clicked out of many of his videos recently because he interrupts/corrects (sometimes incorrectly) the speaker so frequently and it makes it very difficult to follow, especially when he's being over defensive rather than taking on board an experience that is different to his own.
I live in Britain, last year My Wife was in Hospital for 6 months with Sepsis, June this year she had a heart attack, she also has stage-5 renal failure. My Mother is 87 she has COPD, she had a fall at home and spent 3 months in hospital, she is now home , she has regular visits from a Doctor who is on the Respiratory Team at our local Hospital, No having to pay for any of this and nothing from any Death board. The NHS unlike American Health Insurance doesn't do that sort of thing.
Funny thing about the pledge of allegiance: as a German child my parents always made sure to raise me in a way, that I would stand against blind allegiance, especially to a country, as this is what breeds facism and similar things. It was kind of our way to honor democracy and our countries values. I thing I wouldn't have done such if I would've been asked to, instead my father's favorite quota was one about standing against your time and society and say no, if the circumstances would make it a necessity. I'm not sure, but I think there is also a German law making it legal for soldiers and similar professions to ignore orders to protect democracy or not to commit cruelties.
The american freedom thing is very funny especially knowing that US is classified as a deficient democracy, while funcioning democracies are mainly in western Europe.
The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution had a different interpretation when it was introduced. Under the influence of the British occupation, it was intended to allow independent liberation troops (militias) to organize and arm themselves. It was NOT for individuals to equip themselves with weapons. Unfortunately, the amendment was poorly worded and led to the wrong, unintended by the founding fathers, this absurd current situation.
It wasn't a British occupation. It was Britain vs its colony with outside help of the French. Major difference but you do you. And by the by, if it wasn't for Britain, the Spanish, the French etc through a series of events America would not even exist as you know it
@@Benson...1 I'm sorry that a small comment on YT is not enough to show the very nuanced view of the small uprising of a tiny colony of Great Britain during the growth of colonies all over the world. The so-called American Revolution was not really acknowledged anywhere in the world and Great Britain had not even reached its peak. Only the Americans think that their "revolution" was somehow a world-significant event.
Funny thing, actually. They tell you a lie about the founding fathers and their "freedom of religion". The founding fathers were puritans. They didn't leave Europe because they were prosecuted - but because they were no longer allowed to prosecute people based on religion! They didn't seek freedom of religion and freedom of prosecution, they were looking for a place where they could prosecute people if they had a different relition. (Un)fortunately, this freedom didn't last too long. The founding fathers took away their freedom to prosecute once again, and after that they ran out of uncolonized land.
Hand guns have been banned in the UK since the dunblane massacre in 1996. There hasnt been a mass shooting since. Rifles and shotguns are allowed, but they are highly regulated. Even getting into an argument with someone is enough for the police to take them away. it's mainly used by people who hunt pheasants deer, etc.
Guns are heavily regulated in Europe. You can own a gun, if you're a policeman, a military man or if you go hunting basically. And there are a lot of documents, tests validating your mental stability and that you're able to use a gun, you pay taxes for owning a weapon.. Of course there are some people who find their ways to own a gun, but it's a ridiculously small percentage. It's nothing compared to the States, I read that 44% of the people over there own a gun, and in my country it's about 8% of the population, which is still a very high number for us.
Please Ryan. Don’t be so offensive all the time! And take a look at how your own country are treating you, with crap wages and no vacation time at all! What kind of people put up with being treated like shit all the time, but Americans!! Oh and don’t get me started on the whole insurance business! You put up with that too! I wonder when y’all have had enough of this nonsense and get up and do something about it! Over here in Denmark a lot of people work 4 days a week, being just as productive as they were before and being able to actually spend time with their families! We also have 6 weeks of paid leave pr year. Maternity and paternity leave for a year+ some. All paid for. We have free healthcare, it’s free to see your GP and students are paid $1100 per month to study or train as a craftsman or whatever education you want. Oh and if you’re sick you’re sick and you don’t get fired. And if you need to call an ambulance, you just make the call. That’s free too! You stay at home until you feel better and you get paid while you’re at home trying to get better. It’s all financed over taxes and our country is built on trust! What freedoms do you have that we don’t? We really don’t need to pledge to our flag in order to feel proud of who we are and where we come from. we know, and that’s enough for us. The pledging thing only brings bad memories of times where we were oppressed by the Germans and forced to pledge to their “flag”😢 We in the southern parts were once oppressed for 56 years by them and couldn’t use our own flag and weren’t allowed to use our own language and many other horrible things were done to us!!
9:35, Ryan 'social housing is meant for the more impoverished, so they put it where the more impoverished live', no that is not how it works, the more impoverished live where the social housing is supplied. In the UK, that supply is not in segregated areas (generally), I think it is similar in much of Europe.
It does tend to be segregated in the inner cities, London in particular, with council estates dedicated to social housing. Though since Thatcher allowed renters to buy their council houses & very few new ones have been built , there is desperate shortage of social housing in Britain.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 London is always different, regardless of everyone else. There are large housing developments with mixed rental/bought homes in Scotland.
Please let the person explain their point, before speculating. You keep doing this in all your videos. I understand you need to pause, but don't make your point for the person speaking. Why bother if you are not going to listen and absorb, before getting defensive.
It is important to note the distinction between laws, activism, and self-regulation. It is absolutely *LEGAL* to say 'bad' words on TV, but a network would probably not get core family hours viewing slots - so they self-regulate. Or is that actually a law? As for being dressed - there's laws about public decency and such everywhere, but the exact differences are sometimes fussy. Not sure who the 'we' are you two refer to, but ... it's not universal neither in the US, EU, or anywhere else. Generally speaking public nudism outside of specific areas tend to be discourageg, but what you do in your garden is usually (not always) your business.
@@CallioNyx 'Generally speaking public nudism outside of specific areas tend to be discourageg,' Not in Germany it isn't. I don't know about everywhere else
its sad that the guy doing the actual video has to defend himself when he says 'the pledge of allegiance is ridiculous' because of all the indoctrinated americans who will berate it for him for it
For the vacation thing. In Sweden as an example you get a minimum of 25 days paid vacation per year, out of those you may save up to 5 of those days that will carry over for next year. You can do that for 5 consecutive years for a total of 25 extra days saved before you are required to use them. Any vacation days not used that exceed the amount of days you can save will be paid out. You can also have any saved or unused days paid out as well if you want to whenever you so wish. All unused days will also be paid out if for any reason you stop working at your current employer.
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In Germany you are required to take your vacation time, if the Employee doesnt use it, the Employer can get into alot of trouble
The thing is, we've already done plenty of research into less hours. It does increase productivity, reduces stress, a whole lot of good stuff from perspectives of capitalism -and- the individual. Problem is, despite this being known, parties that advocate capitalism do not advocate this, because most capitalists in politics are not about capitalism. They're about control. They want to control their employees, that's why they want you to come in early, want you to leave late, so they can own your soul, inside, and outside work.
@@Miamia_01are they there just to choose which one you want or do you need a sales person to give it to you? No idea how this works and ir terrifies me!
@@HeysiriB I think you could get it yourself, but handguns might have been behind the counter. I can’t remember exactly. This was in Oregon. It IS scary when it’s sold so openly.
The problem with any written Constitution is that they get out of date and often they are deliberately made difficult to alter. But context is important. The US Constitution reflects the time in which it was written but that world has changed immensely and to apply the Constitution literally to the world today is really a problem.
It's not a problem, they are amendments & amendments can be amended. But not to worry, once Trump has finished, there will no longer be a constitution.
2:30 In Poland, to have a gun you need to have a reason to have a gun. If you have a reason, the police will give you a permit, but the number of murders is so low that there is no reason to have a gun
it's easy to get a gun, you need to be a part of a shooting association, get a shooting license (passing exams), sports association license(have to attend like 4 competitions a year), do medical exams (psychological and psychiatric tests), apply for a firearm license which you need to buy a gun, and also you NEED to have a real deal safe with certificates to store your guns.
@@purplewastaken "easier than getting a driver's license" yes - but it is hard and expensive to get a driver's license in comparison ... theoretical instructions, theoretical test, 14h of driving with a driving instructor and the practical test. ~30-40h depending on how good you are at learning. For a weapon: No, you don't need to be part of any association. Just fill out a form to register the weapon and there is a field to name the reason why you want a gun. Hunting, sports, self-defense are all valid reasons. No, you don't need a safe - but a lockable compartment and weapon/ammunion must be stored in separate compartments. However, that is always depending on the specific country. Nothing mayorly different than the US. The US just has ~120 weapons per 100 citizen and they don't vanish. Too many weapons in the country ....
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 for sports, which is the easiest one to get, you have to be a part of association/club and you do need a safe, even a small one. We're talking Poland here. Self-defense is pretty much impossible to get, unless you're a very, VERY important person. Hunting is also a problematic because you have to go through a hunting course, pass an exam and be a part of polish hunting association.
Fun fact about second amendment: a well-regulated militia was originally a Swiss concept. the founding fathers of the United States admired a lot Switzerland and called its way of defending itself "well-regulated militia". Johnny Harris actually made a video on about second amendment and Swiss gun culture here on RUclips, it was really fascinating, I recommend everyone to watch it. Today Switzerland has a lot of guns, but at the same time it is one of the safest countries in the world.
It's not really the number of guns you have nor the regulation of them but also the attitude of those with guns . The Swiss would not easily use them or carry them on themselves the Americans would do both no problem with that.
@@davidbodor1762 Do you know this is it harder for the Swiss to get the ammo? I don't know about that it's the attitude of them compared to the Americans I think they could get the ammo pretty easy as well.
@@gregorygant4242 Yes. So, you can buy ammo as a civilian, but you have to have the same permits to do so that you need to acquire a gun. There's also limits on what types of ammunition are allowed - explosive, armor-piercing and some others are completely banned. The control over ammo and guns is fairly tight. Also, some non-citizens are banned outright from the purchase of ammunition - Albania, Kosovo, Turkey, couple of others too that I don't recall. At gun ranges, you can buy ammo, even if you are not 18, but you have to use all of it and can't keep any of it. Gun ranges are pretty tight in regards to the ammo they sell, they're only for use there. Not all weapons (and ammo) are under the same permit requirements. There are some hunting rifles (single shot) that you do not need a permit for, also replicas, antiques, that sort of thing. Basically, the more modern (and lethal) the weapon, the more permits you need. As for the rifles and ammo from military service. Basically everyone used to get a gun and a single sealed box of ammo after completing their military service for the Swiss militia, but after 2007 the rules were changed, the ammo was recalled (the gun wasn't, but they needed training and a permit to keep it) and 99% of all the ammo was collected by 2011. Now only a handful special members are allowed to keep their military issued ammunition at home.
In Australia, We get 20 days PT per year of service and can save them up to 30 days. If you leave you are paid out any unused leave. (THAT IS WORKING FOR THE NSW GOV)
A big difference with the "housing" situation... is the idea of "value". A house here isn't an investment. We don't obsess so much about the "value" of the house. A house is just the place you live at. We are more utilitarian in that sense.
This is true. Whilst you are living in your house, it has the value of providing shelter and comfort. Its monetary value is only really relevant when you come to sell. Most ordinary working people never actually cash out their home.
Talking about Temu slave labor cracked me up since US companies mostly enslave their workers in horrible ways with low wages and no free time. Said like a true American. 😂😂😂 and yeah that health care😅 dang.
The stuff that's sold in Walmart, the Dollar Store and all those very American business is the same thing they sell on Temu's site. Cheap low quality items made in China.
@@caligo7918 But CHina's manufacturing services are cheap because they artificially manipulate the value of their own money to stay on a stable low, otherwise it would be expensive as hell to hire China for manufacturing. It's not "child labor" or "slavery" as many China hater westerners think.
We get fully paid vacation anyway Ryan, so it makes no difference to my wages if I take all my holiday days or not. So if I don't take all my entitlement of holiday days, I just lose them come April, which is the start of the new tax year here in the UK.
I get paid the monetary value of any holidays not taken in a given year in my job. My wages this month had an extra 3 weeks money in them which was a lovely surprise just before Christmas! 😊
@@bojo88 I also used to get paid for unused holidays...not like that happened, except maybe an odd day or two. Also I got paid at an increased rate...we got time and a third pay. 1.3x gave you a bit extra money for your holiday time. It was pretty good.
Pledge of Allegiance is indeed a weird thing for us in Europe, tbh. I've got two anecdotes about that. 1. My sister spent 3 months in an exchange program in Tennessee. She was coerced into standing and reciting the pledge on her first day which angered the family she was staying with. They had to go to the school to remind the management that in Public School, since the 1943 Supreme Court decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, any student who wants to opt out of saying the pledge, or of even standing for the pledge, must be allowed to do so. Especially if they're not even American and just an exchange student. Management had to (begrudgingly, family told my sister) allow her to remain seated and not pledge allegiance. When my sister talked about this with the students in her class, they were stunned to learn that French schools do not have anything even remotely close to the Pledge of Allegiance. 2. I spent my high school years in a high school run by the French army, with military management (teachers were appointed by Education Nationale like in all public schools in France, but the management was carreer military with a colonel acting as principal, each year supervised by a Captain and every class in this year under the supervision of a Lieutenant assisted by an Adjutant or a Major) and framing which meant raising of the flag, basic military training (really basic tbh, mostly discipline and cohesion, no guns involved, we were teens and not in America!), you get the picture. We NEVER had to pledge our allegiance to the Republic, only mandatory thing (which is what is done in all French Military btw) was to salute the raising of the flag if we were on flag duty or if we were passing by as it was raised. And as the school also had some students from other countries (my class had two students from Mali, for exemple), they were encouraged to participate and they did gladly as it is more paying respect to the flag (and the country by extension) than pledging allegiance.
In junior school we had an American join us for a year. He told us about the pledge of allegiance and one of the other kids said "We have a flag but we don't all go on about it"
@@desperadox7565 When saluting the flag is seen as paying respect to the values it stands for and not pledging allegiance to it, it's still less creepier imo, but I agree, it can be viewed as creepy when you're not in the military. But it was skippable tbf: the raising of the flag happened every day at the same time (7:30 in the morning) so all you had to do (if you were not on flag duty) was to be in your room or eating breakfast a that time and you were good. When I joined the Army years later, it wasn't skippable in any regiment I was assigned to (I was in the Health Department known as Servide de Santé des Armées so I had been assigned to Infantry, Cavalry and even an air base).
Social housing isn't necessarily about being poor, it can also be just being young not having enough work experience to earn those big salaries that would allow you to start a family. So, what governement could do is pay for building of new housing and then charge only to cover the expanses, so it's not all tax payers paying for it, it's just that big landlords are not making a huge profit out of it, forcing young people to move to some other country to look for better opportunities while demographics of the whole country tanks.
If you use racist lingo then do not be surprised if your teeth go missing or that you arrested for hate speech as most places that are civilised do not allow hate crime at any level when it comes to race,religion or sexual orientation. Freedom of speech is a good thing but not hate speech.
I think when talking about freedoms I feel the big difference is that in the USA you have the freedom TO do something. However, elsewhere you have the freedom FROM something. For example in the US you have the freedom TO carry a gun, while in Europe you have the freedom FROM being shot. You are free to say hateful things to someone while in Europe you are free from being abused. Etc etc.
In my opinion, the pledge to the flag feels like a brainwashing thing. Because, why would you think about criticizing your country if, right from a little kid, you declare your loyalty to America? In a subtle yet obvious way, it's making sure all citizens will be faithful to America. It feels like it, anyway. It is the repetition of the process, to a particular theme/object, and from very young. No matter what, it will leaves its imprint when it is repeated and repeated and repeated.
Ryan!! Why don't you let him finish what he is saying, then pause and react. You hear one sentence and go off on a tangent, pausing after every two words and now I completely missed most of what he said regarding the gun thing. I like watching your channel, but come on, dude!
In Europe (again, its not a country but a continent with many countries) we are experimenting in some countries with 6h work days and/or 4 day work weeks with surprisingly good results. And I think you can get your unused holiday days in money in most if not all countries if you want. BTW. Is the Pledge of Allegiance a voluntary thing in schools? Or is it something everybody must do? If its not voluntary then think: Land of the free? Freedom of speech and expression? Sounds like something a totalitarian dictatorship would force on its citizens - like they do now in communist China and did long time ago in CCCP. Something you do not see or accept in Europe - it has nothing to do with patriotism as it is forced by the government, it's oppression.
The pledge is from what I understand voluntary on paper. Just like corruption is illegal in the US on paper. We can all see how effective those pieces of paper are. The reality is that it doesn't matter whether it's voluntary or not. Children are expected to cite the pledge and judged for not doing so. Unless someone tells them that it's acceptable to say no, most children will just blindly do as they are told by an adult they are supposed to trust. And that is in the situations where they aren't scolded or bullied for refusing to do so.
I know he also sounds like he talking about one country when he talking about Britain and the British instead of actually talking about one country at a time
A friend of mine went to the US for her last year in high school. Just for context, it's a common practice in upper middle class families in Spain to send their teens to an English speaking country for one year to improve their English, either through an exchange programme or host family. Anyway, she was obviously Spanish, yet had to learn and recite the pledge of allegiance every morning at school. Sheer madness.
"I think you can get your unused holiday days in money" at least not in Austria. You can "carry" up to a maximum of 50 vacation days into the new year. Everything beyond that would not carry over into the next year. most companies will have several talks with you at that point to take a damn vacation .... ;-) And if you REALY don't want to take your vacation days - your boss might give you a one-time bonus as compensation when vacation days perish because you had more than 50 days at the end of the business year. But they are not required to do that by law and must a) give you the opportunity to consume the days b) remind you in advance that they would perish
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 I think in Nordic countries you can take your overtime in vacation and/or your vacation in money compensation if you want. At least in the one I live in you can. And the vacation time is mandated by law so you can never lose it completely.
after watching lots of your videos I'm starting to notice that you tend to listen less and come to strange conclusions about things not actually being said.
I have the right to annual leave for 35 days a year, I am a nurse, I have been working for 30 years.Sundays and Saturdays are not counted. The annual minimum is 4 weeks, for people who have just started working. Croatia
@depressedutchman because of our euthanasia laws. Its considered liberal in their eyes, and some seem to think we kill them because they old and do not 'contribute' anymore.
"You get payed off for not taking vacation days." Dude, we get payed on our vacation days ongoing! No mater if we are at work or not. I mean you still recive your normal sallary in your holydays. Employers are forced by law to give you 20 days minimum off.
There is a saying " freedom ends where yours begins" and I think this is what European freedom is about and what the US could not understand fully. One American couple ( also from YT) said it in different way as well that European have freedom from e.g. racism, danger, dying without care and Americans have freedom to e.g. say whatever they like without caring for others, to carry a gun. Times are changing in my opinion Americans will soon realise that they're not really free ( maybe from education and healthcare).
The 6h work day trials have been done in Sweden since mid 2000's in different ways and periods, and the conclusion have been pretty much the same every time. Better physical and mental health of the workers, less stress related sickness, better effectivity, more job opportunities and lowered unemployment of the society as a whole, and even 80% of the executives and bosses of companies and government work places are in favor of 6h work days instead of the 8h that is today. So who is against this? Well, basically only the conservatives and far right politicians who can't accept the results of the trials of 6h work days because it goes against their firmly rooted ideology, you can't reason with someone who shields themselves from the truth with their stupid ideology.
Here you have to use your vacation or you lose it. Also the Employer is forced by law to encourage you to take it and are liable to be fined by the government if they discourage or prohibit their employees from taking their vacation without proper reason. Most companies I worked at would encourage you to be responsible with your vacation time and check with your team members and the current workload. So if you gotta support a product (working as software dev) that someone is always there to take care if something happens. This means most of the time, people take time off in waves so there is always someone there in case. Also most companies "close" over Christmas and new years and the employees are encouraged to plan their Christmas vacation accordingly.
Have had 12 surgeries in 6 diffrent countries in europe and paid in total 200 dollars in total and that was for some medicin that i needed to take for my recovery, If i was living in the US i would been in debt for the rest of my life because of that
Franco ( dictator in Spain from during WW2 until the 70s when he died ) also had people singing' cara al sol' as a national pledge type every day - school kids too.
By the sounds of it, you got more freedom in US to be an asshole or even harm to your fellow citizen. But I guess how corporations can treat people however they want and unions are shut down asap, people over there don't really care about everyone having safe and comfortable lives.
"Talking about a highly regulated militia" So all gun owners should join a regulated militia which set the rules on how to keep the weapons. Maybe in a locker for the case the militia is needed?
In Europe, the right to freedom of expression does not include the right to discriminate, defame or threaten other people.
You have the right to express yourself however you want. BUT that does not mean you can´t get in trouble for that.
In America you only have freedom of speech if it doesn’t infringe on someone else’s civil rights, so the same.
@@panik735Tell that to Trump.
@@parallelmensch That's not how a right works. Don't be a sophist.
Those rights' main purpose was to allow people to criticize the powers in place, not to say out loud what goes through your head
Americans think they live in the only free country in the world. But as it seems they have less freedoms than most western European countries if you count in poorly state-regulated Health Care, poor School Education, ..... these are also things that give you more freedom on the long term.
A healthy individual has more freedom to travel and work as they want to.
Same in Australia.
Additionally, after voting for Trump AGAIN (...), the country will now be fully run by billionaires, which will be the only ones left with actual freedoms. Total freedoms actually, committing crimes at will like Trump. And since the whole judiciary is a joke now, since none of the rich and MAGA folks are actually held accountable for anything, they have simply no idea what real freedom means anymore.
They also think their country is the largest country in the world. It's quite comical since America isn't even the largest country in North America.
@riddick7082Europe has a greater landmass as well, and more inhabitants (780 million)
Yeah ... just try to crack open a beer in a public park in the USA
You often miss the point, by not listening to the end.
He pauses in the middle of a word. Talks. Press play. Then pauses a second later to talk about what he talked about the first time.
Does this on every video unfortunately
A lot of americans do this I notice. Speculating about something that's being explained.. really frustrating
Very American of him 😉😂
I often have to use the 10-second skip function on my keyboard because of this over-pausing
Yes, we have guns in Europe. The big difference is the purpose of the guns. Here (Sweden in this case), guns are regarded as a tool, like a shovel or a hammer. It's for hunting or competition shooting. We don't keep a gun to defend ourselves when going to the supermarket...
Well with whats happening in Sweden maybe you should? Maybe you wouldn't be the r*** capital of Europe.
The right to use violence has been delegated to the police. I get that in the US, people has a somewhat weird perception of police - on one hand, they are heroes, thank you for your service, etc. On the other, they are bad guys with the right to steal and shoot at will with no oversight. It is fascinating to me that these views can exist in parallell and be equally strongly held. In either case, it seems obvious that people in the US do not feel comfortable delegating that right to police.
@CallioNyx The point I'm making is that this is never a factor in deciding to get a gun here. The gun is for practical use, but surely it could, and would, be used for protection if needed. The intention was not there though....
Yea same in greece , i ve seen many guns and used a couple , but ppl use them as tools for hunting , never a dispaly of power or in public.On another note , i used to want to go to USA , now i wouldnt even go if i was paid .
Plus unfortunately the police in the US have no accountability.
As such they cannot be considered to be public servants. @@CallioNyx
In Germany we have something like: Human dignity is inviolable. Your freedom ends, if you violate the dignity of another person. That's a much more civilized concept.
But we can curse as much as we want. in the US people were arrested for doing so.
I am from Europe and sorry but things are pit off here. The woman was found guilty of defaming the man, who was convicted for gang-raping a 15-year-old girl in Hamburg in 2020. She got longer jail time than the rapists.
The freedom to go to school without fear of projectiles.
but every school has some kind of dodge-ball ...
my gym teacher when we played "Völkerball": "this is no game, this is an execution!"
/s
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 I was thinking smaller and faster.
The freedom not to be executed by own government.
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 Our principal on elementary was wild, he made us play dodgeball with a tennis balls, girls didnt even wanted to get in for stg 😂
And the freedom not to live next door to a trigger happy maniac with a larger collection of firearms
Youve had 82 school shootings this year , you can keep your 2nd amendment. We think its absolutely crazy .
the second amendment is a relic of the past to a time before America had a standing army and needed the general population to defend against external aggressors, that's why it talks about militias'.
83
A lot of us don't want it, or not in this form, so maybe you could stow the judgment? As if America's not an oligarchy and we get to choose... ever since Bill Clinton did Citizens United and let corporations donate to whatever they want, we've been locked in an endless cycle of hell where elites can buy whatever laws they want to exist and the only checks and balances are whether other corporations dislike those laws.
@@mark7978 You're forgetting the frontier. There are plenty of people who live too far away from police to get any urgent help if they needed it, meaning a gun would be their only protection. I don't understand wanting to live that far out, but people still do it.
Only 83? Keep on america, eventually you'll get there as rest of the world without shooting your kids🙅♂️
I like your comments, but please allow the whole sentence to be finished before you interrupt and comment... Sometimes you miss the point. I really enjoy your perspective, it is always interesting
Very often
maybe he got ADHD.....
Why should Ryan follow anybody else's preferred way of reacting? It's his channel. He's not reacting for the benefit of the viewers. He's not reacting because the viewers might have a question. This is his authentic self. Now you know how he reacts, gives his opinions. He always mentions the video. Watch that yourself without his reactions.
@@danielvermeer5079 Sure, of course it's his channel and he can do whatever he wants. But I think OP just wanted to make a suggestion and did so in a polite way. And a lot of people seem to agree. I don't see an issue with them sharing some constructive criticism?
@@danielvermeer5079 Do you have a crush on him? You are all over this thread with this or similar comments.
Unfortunately freedom of speech in the United States is sometimes also freedom of telling outrageous lies without any consequences. Not just in the USA, but they are world class in this regard.
no such thing as free speech anymore
Lies? Like politicians? No way 😮😂
Democracy is not perfect
@hanes2 like ceos, like the nra, like fox, yes all your politicians and especially the lying rapist trump, like your education system......shall I continue?
Most don't actually understand what the 1st amendment actually says...they think they do, but they don't.
12:06 just because you start work early and finish late, doesn't mean you're a hard worker, it means you've been taken advantage off. A worker can go in early and clock off late and have done f-ck for the day. Whilst a person who done half 8 to half 4 has worked hard and got a lot done
If you need something done give the task to a busy person.
nah you are just so lazy
The thing I could never understand about the “death panels” argument against social medicine is that the US system already has death panels. The insurance companies refuse to fund expensive life-saving care despite all the money you pay in. If that’s not a death panel I don’t know what is.
Blows my mind Americans think Europe has 'death panels' and that they wouldn't be better of with universal healthcare. Universal healthcare literally means that you will get the help you need.
@@black4pienus And free at the point of Delivery, if under a National Health Service.
so true!!!
So true. A CEO billionaire owner of a health insurance company was killed a week ago- far more outrage about that than the killing of hundreds of children in their classrooms. Yet that man's company probably left many people to suffer without medication or surgery. US is an awful country with very skewed values .
Health insurance is supposed to make it so people can get health care who couldn't otherwise afford it. The American health insurance industry has exactly the opposite goal: to maximize profit by denying coverage as much as possible. With universal health care, everyone gets health care. No denial of coverage. No "co-pays". No insurance payments. And the average cost in taxes is half what Americans pay today.
I’ve been told many times that we in Europe are poor, that we have no work ethic, we do, we just don’t NEED to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week without sick days off, sick pay or paid vacation time, because we are paid properly for our time and skills.
Also that we have no freedom, we can’t own guns, that we don’t even have cell phones.
Many Americans seem to think we all live in feudal states over here. 😂
The US-American public has been brainwashed into being the perfect exploitable worker.
They think having worker protection laws is bad,
they think having the right to be healthy is bad,
They think they are the best at everything
Etc.
And they love their corporate overlords because they believe one day they can be billionaires too.
dont generalize, there are many countries in Europe. I could go and get a gun in my country. I need doctors note and do class and get license like driving license and can get a gun. Every one does not live in Great Britain. You soon need to ban knives and cars as well.
@@mrsmerily what a weird reply considering the original post was actually quite balanced, well put and didnt even mention Great Britain
I am from Poland, and when you are talking about taking usually 2 days of vacation each year it is beyond my imagination. Modern slavery.
Yes. Here in Norway I HAVE to take 4-6 week summer vacation. No questions asked
@@TheRuben_music We have 26 days of vacations guaranteed by labour law, to be used as we want and about 12 days of national / religious holidays. So if you combine your vacation and holidays in 2025 you end up with 40 days of work.
Freedom of expression in the US stops at a nipple slip…
Or lord forbid you see a bottle of alcohol.
Or to say f*** 😂😂😂😂
@ Yeah, the freedoms they enjoy!
They are free to believe an all-powerful being in the clouds exists, but apparently, a man expressing themselves as a woman is the outrageous thing.
@@shanegates678 A being that more often than not is a man wearing a dress, hanging out with twelve other dudes wearing dresses and kissing each other…
It is important to recognize that there are two types of freedom: Active and passive freedoms, or "freedom to" and "freedom from". Example: The "freedom to" own guns works directly against the "freedom from" getting shot. The US focusses on active freedoms, while Europe focusses on passive freedoms. So, in most places, you are not allowed to own a gun unless you have a reason, are sound of mind and follow the safety rules. That way, the passive freedom is protected while allowing the active freedom in a reasonable way.
Uncomprehensible to the american mind.
Americans don't understand that one person's freedom ends where another person's freedom begins.
I can't buy a gun, but others have the freedom not to have to worry about gun violence.
In Germany, there is freedom of opinion instead of freedom of speech, and a racial slur is just not an opinion. On the other hand, it is always weird how much swearing is censored in the US TV. Here, nothing is censored on TV, not even genitals, and yet it feels like no one uses swear words as often as Americans.
Freedom to Americans means, "MY freedom to do and say whatever I want, provided I can get away with it. Freedom is a personal thing." Other countries' residents prefer, "I want freedom, but not to the extent that it would put my fellow citizens at greater risk. Freedom is a communal idea."
Freedom from is how we see it 😊
I think an alternative form of thinking about it is that in the US, you have the freedom of the strong, while in the EU, you have the freedom of the weak. In the US, the 'strong' have more freedom to impose their will on you; you are less protected. In the EU, it is the weak that have freedom.
The 'strong' would here be employers, insurance companies, etc. They are more regulated in the EU so they cannot demand you give up rights to the same extent.
There is active freedom and passive freedom. 2 different concepts and one is practiced by usa and the other is followed in europe.
It basicly comes down to the difference between " freedom to" and " freedom from"
I think an important difference is that (at least in Germany) when we are talking about Vacation, we are talking about paid leave, and taking it is actually mandatory
Same in Belgium. 20 years payed vacation and 10 payed official Hollydays. As a start that is, cause the longer you work, the more payed vacation days you earn, depending on what company you work for. If you work for the gouvernement , you get even more payed Hollydays. And then there is ofcource the extra (payed) 6 days per year when you work at a job with 40 hours/work week, as our country officially has 38 hours/work week. I sometimes wonder if Americans really want to know all this stuff cause I would feel quite Luigii if I would realize how messed up it is if my country would try to use me as a squised lemon.
@@juliusoschmann Same in Australia
@@channyh.221B 20yrs paid vacation? Sign me up haha.
Also I know you meant days there by the way.
Also just to help, it is paid not payed.
In Europe we can still be patriotic without having to shout about it all the time.
Yeah but patriotism is a business in the US. Just think about all that patriotic made-in-China merch.
@LowPlainsDrifter60 True
To me the pledge of allegiance sounds like something that north korea does and not a democracy. Kinda screws over any freedoms when you dont have freedom to think for yourself.
It's brainwash...keep them busy (1-3 jobs to pay the credit card depts) , feed them fake news and call racism patriotism et voilà you have an American 🤷♀
You have to brainwash them from an early age so they accept to be treated like s*** when adults.
Actually, "north korea" (or more accurately Best Korea) doesn't do sstuff like that. It only exists in america, and in a certain point of German history.
5:00 aren't British black people more free, because they are free from being called the N-word all day long?
Why do Americans only see the freedom to do something, but never the freedom from something?
Ryan, you start to comment without having heard his complete statement and you without having it thought through.
It’s like: shoot first, think later
Like every american (almost)
CAN YOU FREAKING LET THE GUY FINISH HIS SENTENCES????????? GODAM!!!!
I don't think you understand how RUclips works. He would have his video copyrighted if he did.
@thedeadgypsy I didn't say to let the entire video play without pausing, just to pause between sentences, not in the middle of the sentence. I've seen 20 reactions to this video and none of them pause in the middle of sentences, and they are just fine, no copyright issue.
It was Charles de Gaulle, the French general and president, who said: "Patriotism is loving your country. Nationalism is hating everyone else."
Brilliant 👏
"Patritotism is the virtue of the vicious."
Oscar Wilde
@@karstenbursak8083 So he doesn't talk about "vicious" but about "brutes" which is not the same, you will agree.
@CROM-on1bz I remember this from "Rock", a Michael Bay movie, a bittersweet reminder that Hollywood movies USED to have actual scriptwriters for their dialogues
It was Dr. Samuel Johnson who said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scandal."
However you feel about it, the reality is that nations are artificial entities; a poor substitute for community.
13:33 As a European, I am glad that my ancestors already fought successfully for workers' rights, and we now have labor protections. America still has that ahead of them.
I envy your optimism. Each year that pass makes my country more and more like the US when it comes to workers (and unemployed) rights. But they haven't touched vacation time yet, they're not THAT stupid.
Standing up and clutching your chest whilst repeating a politicized view of patriotism is absurd to Europeans. The last country to try that, was a fascist dictatorship during the 1930s and 1940s. Just look at how that turned out.
In USA - freedom TO: carry guns, free speech, etc; In Europe - freedom FROM: poverty, medical debt, etc
does it have to be either or. Maybe it would be nice if all.
Too quick to comment Ryan... too defensive... a very American thing
agree 100%
You say you'll get paid for not using your leave, they'll pay you those days, but in Europe we get paid to take our vacation days, so we are still paid for those days when we are on our break.
OMG! Ryan, what is wrong with you American Reactors, you all never listen to one whole sentence without interrupting a person many times, resulting in you getting the point backwards!!!! You know we are all blessed with 2 ears and 1 mouth, because one is supposed to listen more and speak less, and most Americans do this, and gets everything backwards!
Also, in countries in EU etc, if you didn't use up all your holidays then you DO get paid for the unused holidays - if you had 20 days unused holidays, then you get 20 days paid at the end of the year, on top of your weekly/monthly wages.
If you work overtime, for hourly employees, overtime is typically paid for any hours worked beyond the standard working hours of 39hr week, 1st 4hrs @ a rate of 1.5 times the regular hourly rate (39hrs + 4hrs = 43hrs), and for additional hours worked, overtime will be paid at x 2 regular hourly rate. If one must work overtime on a Sunday then it'd double the rate, working on a Bank Holiday is also double plus an extra Days Holiday
PPS. Pledging in schools sounds to most of us living outside the USA like brain-washing!!!!
In the USA, cashiers have to stand in supermarkets, except at Aldi, I wonder why?
And bag the shopping 😮
America is very reminiscent of Victorian England when it comes to working conditions.
Aldi is a European company, that's why.
In Australia the cashiers stand too (except Aldi). These days though, we mostly use the self checkouts so the cashiers aren’t standing at the checkouts as much as they used to.
@Yesser-Thistle73 thanks for explaining the point that was already made, that was super duper helpful
My grandma, 101, at the beginning of this year fell and broke her femur. Got hospitalized, got surgery and it all went well. All through the national healthcare system. Not treating her would have resulted in death. And yet, though clearly not profitable, they did it. Plus, if you're over a certain age you don't even have to pay the 'ticket' fee you might pay sometimes.
In Norway we have limits for guns but it isn’t as we don’t have freedom, but we have to follow rules to protect people. Guns are used for hunting , not for killing children.
Ryans content getting more and more UNWATCHABLE. Pausing all the time, making assumptions instead of letting the others talk, listening and UNDERSTAND.
I agree, I've clicked out of many of his videos recently because he interrupts/corrects (sometimes incorrectly) the speaker so frequently and it makes it very difficult to follow, especially when he's being over defensive rather than taking on board an experience that is different to his own.
I live in Britain, last year My Wife was in Hospital for 6 months with Sepsis, June this year she had a heart attack, she also has stage-5 renal failure.
My Mother is 87 she has COPD, she had a fall at home and spent 3 months in hospital, she is now home , she has regular visits from a Doctor who is on the Respiratory Team at our local Hospital, No having to pay for any of this and nothing from any Death board. The NHS unlike American Health Insurance doesn't do that sort of thing.
Here in the UK, the majority of us love our country too, we just aren't delusional about its shortcomings.
Sounds like a nightmare to me: To be sick and at the same time be worried to not get bankrupt because of the medicine and doctor visits you need.
Funny thing about the pledge of allegiance: as a German child my parents always made sure to raise me in a way, that I would stand against blind allegiance, especially to a country, as this is what breeds facism and similar things. It was kind of our way to honor democracy and our countries values. I thing I wouldn't have done such if I would've been asked to, instead my father's favorite quota was one about standing against your time and society and say no, if the circumstances would make it a necessity.
I'm not sure, but I think there is also a German law making it legal for soldiers and similar professions to ignore orders to protect democracy or not to commit cruelties.
The american freedom thing is very funny especially knowing that US is classified as a deficient democracy, while funcioning democracies are mainly in western Europe.
I dislike how creator jumps to conclusions without finishing one segment of the video to provide the reaction/response to it 😢
The 2nd Amendment to the Constitution had a different interpretation when it was introduced.
Under the influence of the British occupation, it was intended to allow independent liberation troops (militias) to organize and arm themselves.
It was NOT for individuals to equip themselves with weapons.
Unfortunately, the amendment was poorly worded and led to the wrong, unintended by the founding fathers, this absurd current situation.
It wasn't a British occupation.
It was Britain vs its colony with outside help of the French.
Major difference but you do you.
And by the by, if it wasn't for Britain, the Spanish, the French etc through a series of events America would not even exist as you know it
The US arms industry has ensured the current interpretation.
@@Benson...1 I'm sorry that a small comment on YT is not enough to show the very nuanced view of the small uprising of a tiny colony of Great Britain during the growth of colonies all over the world.
The so-called American Revolution was not really acknowledged anywhere in the world and Great Britain had not even reached its peak.
Only the Americans think that their "revolution" was somehow a world-significant event.
So true and back by the NRA @@LowPlainsDrifter60
Funny thing, actually. They tell you a lie about the founding fathers and their "freedom of religion". The founding fathers were puritans. They didn't leave Europe because they were prosecuted - but because they were no longer allowed to prosecute people based on religion! They didn't seek freedom of religion and freedom of prosecution, they were looking for a place where they could prosecute people if they had a different relition. (Un)fortunately, this freedom didn't last too long. The founding fathers took away their freedom to prosecute once again, and after that they ran out of uncolonized land.
Hand guns have been banned in the UK since the dunblane massacre in 1996. There hasnt been a mass shooting since. Rifles and shotguns are allowed, but they are highly regulated. Even getting into an argument with someone is enough for the police to take them away. it's mainly used by people who hunt pheasants deer, etc.
Guns are heavily regulated in Europe. You can own a gun, if you're a policeman, a military man or if you go hunting basically. And there are a lot of documents, tests validating your mental stability and that you're able to use a gun, you pay taxes for owning a weapon.. Of course there are some people who find their ways to own a gun, but it's a ridiculously small percentage. It's nothing compared to the States, I read that 44% of the people over there own a gun, and in my country it's about 8% of the population, which is still a very high number for us.
Not only the pledge of allegiance is something from the past, Americans try to govern a 21st century country with 18th century laws and ideas.
Please Ryan. Don’t be so offensive all the time!
And take a look at how your own country are treating you, with crap wages and no vacation time at all! What kind of people put up with being treated like shit all the time, but Americans!! Oh and don’t get me started on the whole insurance business! You put up with that too! I wonder when y’all have had enough of this nonsense and get up and do something about it!
Over here in Denmark a lot of people work 4 days a week, being just as productive as they were before and being able to actually spend time with their families!
We also have 6 weeks of paid leave pr year. Maternity and paternity leave for a year+ some. All paid for. We have free healthcare, it’s free to see your GP and students are paid $1100 per month to study or train as a craftsman or whatever education you want. Oh and if you’re sick you’re sick and you don’t get fired. And if you need to call an ambulance, you just make the call. That’s free too! You stay at home until you feel better and you get paid while you’re at home trying to get better. It’s all financed over taxes and our country is built on trust! What freedoms do you have that we don’t? We really don’t need to pledge to our flag in order to feel proud of who we are and where we come from. we know, and that’s enough for us. The pledging thing only brings bad memories of times where we were oppressed by the Germans and forced to pledge to their “flag”😢 We in the southern parts were once oppressed for 56 years by them and couldn’t use our own flag and weren’t allowed to use our own language and many other horrible things were done to us!!
9:35, Ryan 'social housing is meant for the more impoverished, so they put it where the more impoverished live', no that is not how it works, the more impoverished live where the social housing is supplied.
In the UK, that supply is not in segregated areas (generally), I think it is similar in much of Europe.
It does tend to be segregated in the inner cities, London in particular, with council estates dedicated to social housing. Though since Thatcher allowed renters to buy their council houses & very few new ones have been built , there is desperate shortage of social housing in Britain.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 London is always different, regardless of everyone else. There are large housing developments with mixed rental/bought homes in Scotland.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 There are a number of mixed estates across York, Some currently under construction.
Maybe take a look at Harbord Square, in Canary Wharf, also Stratford area around the Olympic Park, there are also mixed areas near Barking station.
@@LowPlainsDrifter60 not true I've seen small blocks of flats next to very posh houses in London.
Please let the person explain their point, before speculating. You keep doing this in all your videos. I understand you need to pause, but don't make your point for the person speaking. Why bother if you are not going to listen and absorb, before getting defensive.
We also have the freedom to say f-words or other "bad" words on tv.
And also show nudity without the bible bashers losing their shit.
And the freedom to be dressed or not as we desire
It is important to note the distinction between laws, activism, and self-regulation. It is absolutely *LEGAL* to say 'bad' words on TV, but a network would probably not get core family hours viewing slots - so they self-regulate. Or is that actually a law? As for being dressed - there's laws about public decency and such everywhere, but the exact differences are sometimes fussy. Not sure who the 'we' are you two refer to, but ... it's not universal neither in the US, EU, or anywhere else. Generally speaking public nudism outside of specific areas tend to be discourageg, but what you do in your garden is usually (not always) your business.
Good one . I suppose it’s our fault for sending them the puritans. We don’t want them back.
@@CallioNyx 'Generally speaking public nudism outside of specific areas tend to be discourageg,'
Not in Germany it isn't.
I don't know about everywhere else
1. Interrupt someone mid sentence.
2. Create a strawman argument
3. Talk a bunch of unrelated nonsense.
Yep, it all checks out.
Reaction videos are copyrighted if you don't regularly interrupt them with chat. I don't think many people realize this.
its sad that the guy doing the actual video has to defend himself when he says 'the pledge of allegiance is ridiculous' because of all the indoctrinated americans who will berate it for him for it
For the vacation thing. In Sweden as an example you get a minimum of 25 days paid vacation per year, out of those you may save up to 5 of those days that will carry over for next year. You can do that for 5 consecutive years for a total of 25 extra days saved before you are required to use them. Any vacation days not used that exceed the amount of days you can save will be paid out.
You can also have any saved or unused days paid out as well if you want to whenever you so wish.
All unused days will also be paid out if for any reason you stop working at your current employer.
In Germany you are required to take your vacation time, if the Employee doesnt use it, the Employer can get into alot of trouble
The thing is, we've already done plenty of research into less hours. It does increase productivity, reduces stress, a whole lot of good stuff from perspectives of capitalism -and- the individual.
Problem is, despite this being known, parties that advocate capitalism do not advocate this, because most capitalists in politics are not about capitalism.
They're about control. They want to control their employees, that's why they want you to come in early, want you to leave late, so they can own your soul, inside, and outside work.
Well, idea of possibility to buy the gun in the supermarket is completely crazy and mind-blowing.
I was mind blown when I was in the US some years back and saw that😬
@@Miamia_01are they there just to choose which one you want or do you need a sales person to give it to you? No idea how this works and ir terrifies me!
@@HeysiriB I think you could get it yourself, but handguns might have been behind the counter. I can’t remember exactly. This was in Oregon.
It IS scary when it’s sold so openly.
@@Miamia_01 oh wow. Very scary!
You miss the point because you keep pausing the video. When he talked about highly regulated firearms he was referring to the UK, not the USA.
The problem with any written Constitution is that they get out of date and often they are deliberately made difficult to alter. But context is important. The US Constitution reflects the time in which it was written but that world has changed immensely and to apply the Constitution literally to the world today is really a problem.
It's not a problem, they are amendments & amendments can be amended. But not to worry, once Trump has finished, there will no longer be a constitution.
the 2nd ammendment was wrote when people had flintllocks not automatic weapons
2:30 In Poland, to have a gun you need to have a reason to have a gun. If you have a reason, the police will give you a permit, but the number of murders is so low that there is no reason to have a gun
it's easy to get a gun, you need to be a part of a shooting association, get a shooting license (passing exams), sports association license(have to attend like 4 competitions a year), do medical exams (psychological and psychiatric tests), apply for a firearm license which you need to buy a gun, and also you NEED to have a real deal safe with certificates to store your guns.
folks at the shooting range i used to attend say it's easier than getting a driver's license
@@purplewastaken "easier than getting a driver's license"
yes - but it is hard and expensive to get a driver's license in comparison ... theoretical instructions, theoretical test, 14h of driving with a driving instructor and the practical test. ~30-40h depending on how good you are at learning.
For a weapon:
No, you don't need to be part of any association. Just fill out a form to register the weapon and there is a field to name the reason why you want a gun.
Hunting, sports, self-defense are all valid reasons.
No, you don't need a safe - but a lockable compartment and weapon/ammunion must be stored in separate compartments.
However, that is always depending on the specific country. Nothing mayorly different than the US. The US just has ~120 weapons per 100 citizen and they don't vanish.
Too many weapons in the country ....
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 for sports, which is the easiest one to get, you have to be a part of association/club and you do need a safe, even a small one.
We're talking Poland here. Self-defense is pretty much impossible to get, unless you're a very, VERY important person.
Hunting is also a problematic because you have to go through a hunting course, pass an exam and be a part of polish hunting association.
they also do community interviews, asking your neighbors about you, what kind of person you are, if you are belligerent, etc.
Fun fact about second amendment: a well-regulated militia was originally a Swiss concept. the founding fathers of the United States admired a lot Switzerland and called its way of defending itself "well-regulated militia". Johnny Harris actually made a video on about second amendment and Swiss gun culture here on RUclips, it was really fascinating, I recommend everyone to watch it. Today Switzerland has a lot of guns, but at the same time it is one of the safest countries in the world.
It's not really the number of guns you have nor the regulation of them but also the attitude of those with guns .
The Swiss would not easily use them or carry them on themselves the Americans would do both no problem with that.
@@gregorygant4242 Helps that they mostly do not have access to ammo, just the gun.
@@davidbodor1762 Do you know this is it harder for the Swiss to get the ammo? I don't know about that it's the attitude of them compared to the Americans I think they could get the ammo pretty easy as well.
and in fact militia with handguns can do nothing against real army. guns won't help at all, if you are being shelled by artillery from 30 km.
@@gregorygant4242 Yes.
So, you can buy ammo as a civilian, but you have to have the same permits to do so that you need to acquire a gun. There's also limits on what types of ammunition are allowed - explosive, armor-piercing and some others are completely banned.
The control over ammo and guns is fairly tight. Also, some non-citizens are banned outright from the purchase of ammunition - Albania, Kosovo, Turkey, couple of others too that I don't recall.
At gun ranges, you can buy ammo, even if you are not 18, but you have to use all of it and can't keep any of it. Gun ranges are pretty tight in regards to the ammo they sell, they're only for use there.
Not all weapons (and ammo) are under the same permit requirements. There are some hunting rifles (single shot) that you do not need a permit for, also replicas, antiques, that sort of thing. Basically, the more modern (and lethal) the weapon, the more permits you need.
As for the rifles and ammo from military service. Basically everyone used to get a gun and a single sealed box of ammo after completing their military service for the Swiss militia, but after 2007 the rules were changed, the ammo was recalled (the gun wasn't, but they needed training and a permit to keep it) and 99% of all the ammo was collected by 2011. Now only a handful special members are allowed to keep their military issued ammunition at home.
In Australia, We get 20 days PT per year of service and can save them up to 30 days. If you leave you are paid out any unused leave. (THAT IS WORKING FOR THE NSW GOV)
A big difference with the "housing" situation... is the idea of "value". A house here isn't an investment. We don't obsess so much about the "value" of the house. A house is just the place you live at. We are more utilitarian in that sense.
This is true. Whilst you are living in your house, it has the value of providing shelter and comfort. Its monetary value is only really relevant when you come to sell. Most ordinary working people never actually cash out their home.
Talking about Temu slave labor cracked me up since US companies mostly enslave their workers in horrible ways with low wages and no free time. Said like a true American. 😂😂😂 and yeah that health care😅 dang.
Didn't some US states roll back a bunch of child labor regulations? someone really wants to compete with China's labor cost ;)
@@caligo7918 US labour laws and workers' rights are like 18th century Britain.
The stuff that's sold in Walmart, the Dollar Store and all those very American business is the same thing they sell on Temu's site. Cheap low quality items made in China.
@@caligo7918 But CHina's manufacturing services are cheap because they artificially manipulate the value of their own money to stay on a stable low, otherwise it would be expensive as hell to hire China for manufacturing. It's not "child labor" or "slavery" as many China hater westerners think.
Both can be pish
We get fully paid vacation anyway Ryan, so it makes no difference to my wages if I take all my holiday days or not. So if I don't take all my entitlement of holiday days, I just lose them come April, which is the start of the new tax year here in the UK.
In Australia they accumulate. If you have too many weeks owing you may be asked to take some to get the number down.
I get paid the monetary value of any holidays not taken in a given year in my job. My wages this month had an extra 3 weeks money in them which was a lovely surprise just before Christmas! 😊
@@bojo88 I also used to get paid for unused holidays...not like that happened, except maybe an odd day or two. Also I got paid at an increased rate...we got time and a third pay. 1.3x gave you a bit extra money for your holiday time. It was pretty good.
You should listen to the full sentence and then comment rather than interrupt the flow 5 times during a single sentence.
Love for an country is good thing, intentionally overlooking its flaws and to refuse improve them is pure evil.
He's going to break his pause button and please God let it be soon!
😄🙏
Pledge of Allegiance is indeed a weird thing for us in Europe, tbh. I've got two anecdotes about that.
1. My sister spent 3 months in an exchange program in Tennessee. She was coerced into standing and reciting the pledge on her first day which angered the family she was staying with. They had to go to the school to remind the management that in Public School, since the 1943 Supreme Court decision in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, any student who wants to opt out of saying the pledge, or of even standing for the pledge, must be allowed to do so. Especially if they're not even American and just an exchange student. Management had to (begrudgingly, family told my sister) allow her to remain seated and not pledge allegiance. When my sister talked about this with the students in her class, they were stunned to learn that French schools do not have anything even remotely close to the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. I spent my high school years in a high school run by the French army, with military management (teachers were appointed by Education Nationale like in all public schools in France, but the management was carreer military with a colonel acting as principal, each year supervised by a Captain and every class in this year under the supervision of a Lieutenant assisted by an Adjutant or a Major) and framing which meant raising of the flag, basic military training (really basic tbh, mostly discipline and cohesion, no guns involved, we were teens and not in America!), you get the picture. We NEVER had to pledge our allegiance to the Republic, only mandatory thing (which is what is done in all French Military btw) was to salute the raising of the flag if we were on flag duty or if we were passing by as it was raised. And as the school also had some students from other countries (my class had two students from Mali, for exemple), they were encouraged to participate and they did gladly as it is more paying respect to the flag (and the country by extension) than pledging allegiance.
Being told to salute a flag sounds creepy enough.
In junior school we had an American join us for a year. He told us about the pledge of allegiance and one of the other kids said "We have a flag but we don't all go on about it"
@@desperadox7565 When saluting the flag is seen as paying respect to the values it stands for and not pledging allegiance to it, it's still less creepier imo, but I agree, it can be viewed as creepy when you're not in the military. But it was skippable tbf: the raising of the flag happened every day at the same time (7:30 in the morning) so all you had to do (if you were not on flag duty) was to be in your room or eating breakfast a that time and you were good.
When I joined the Army years later, it wasn't skippable in any regiment I was assigned to (I was in the Health Department known as Servide de Santé des Armées so I had been assigned to Infantry, Cavalry and even an air base).
When you interrupt him by pausing you should rewind by five seconds so you don't miss what he's saying..?
He doesn't actually seem interested in what the video he's "reacting" to is actually saying.
Social housing isn't necessarily about being poor, it can also be just being young not having enough work experience to earn those big salaries that would allow you to start a family. So, what governement could do is pay for building of new housing and then charge only to cover the expanses, so it's not all tax payers paying for it, it's just that big landlords are not making a huge profit out of it, forcing young people to move to some other country to look for better opportunities while demographics of the whole country tanks.
If you use racist lingo then do not be surprised if your teeth go missing or that you arrested for hate speech as most places that are civilised do not allow hate crime at any level when it comes to race,religion or sexual orientation. Freedom of speech is a good thing but not hate speech.
The USA miss one important Point in a Free Society. Your rights end, where other peoples rights beginns!
I think when talking about freedoms I feel the big difference is that in the USA you have the freedom TO do something. However, elsewhere you have the freedom FROM something. For example in the US you have the freedom TO carry a gun, while in Europe you have the freedom FROM being shot. You are free to say hateful things to someone while in Europe you are free from being abused. Etc etc.
Social housing in the Netherlands is not for poor people. The rent you pay is defined by your monthly income.
Maybe give him a chance to speak before you interupt
In my opinion, the pledge to the flag feels like a brainwashing thing. Because, why would you think about criticizing your country if, right from a little kid, you declare your loyalty to America? In a subtle yet obvious way, it's making sure all citizens will be faithful to America. It feels like it, anyway. It is the repetition of the process, to a particular theme/object, and from very young. No matter what, it will leaves its imprint when it is repeated and repeated and repeated.
Ryan!! Why don't you let him finish what he is saying, then pause and react. You hear one sentence and go off on a tangent, pausing after every two words and now I completely missed most of what he said regarding the gun thing. I like watching your channel, but come on, dude!
Segregating social housing is what causes poor people to be associated with a specific area.
Stupid system in every way
In Europe (again, its not a country but a continent with many countries) we are experimenting in some countries with 6h work days and/or 4 day work weeks with surprisingly good results. And I think you can get your unused holiday days in money in most if not all countries if you want.
BTW. Is the Pledge of Allegiance a voluntary thing in schools? Or is it something everybody must do? If its not voluntary then think: Land of the free? Freedom of speech and expression? Sounds like something a totalitarian dictatorship would force on its citizens - like they do now in communist China and did long time ago in CCCP. Something you do not see or accept in Europe - it has nothing to do with patriotism as it is forced by the government, it's oppression.
The pledge is from what I understand voluntary on paper. Just like corruption is illegal in the US on paper. We can all see how effective those pieces of paper are.
The reality is that it doesn't matter whether it's voluntary or not. Children are expected to cite the pledge and judged for not doing so. Unless someone tells them that it's acceptable to say no, most children will just blindly do as they are told by an adult they are supposed to trust. And that is in the situations where they aren't scolded or bullied for refusing to do so.
I know he also sounds like he talking about one country when he talking about Britain and the British instead of actually talking about one country at a time
A friend of mine went to the US for her last year in high school. Just for context, it's a common practice in upper middle class families in Spain to send their teens to an English speaking country for one year to improve their English, either through an exchange programme or host family. Anyway, she was obviously Spanish, yet had to learn and recite the pledge of allegiance every morning at school. Sheer madness.
"I think you can get your unused holiday days in money"
at least not in Austria. You can "carry" up to a maximum of 50 vacation days into the new year. Everything beyond that would not carry over into the next year.
most companies will have several talks with you at that point to take a damn vacation .... ;-)
And if you REALY don't want to take your vacation days - your boss might give you a one-time bonus as compensation when vacation days perish because you had more than 50 days at the end of the business year. But they are not required to do that by law and must a) give you the opportunity to consume the days b) remind you in advance that they would perish
@@benjaminmeusburger4254 I think in Nordic countries you can take your overtime in vacation and/or your vacation in money compensation if you want. At least in the one I live in you can. And the vacation time is mandated by law so you can never lose it completely.
like your videos but oh my god stop pausing 4 times in the same sentence, couldnt even watch this one till the end
after watching lots of your videos I'm starting to notice that you tend to listen less and come to strange conclusions about things not actually being said.
In Norway we have 5 weeks of free a year, and when you are 60 years, you get a sixth week. And everyone has the right to take 3 of the weeks at once.
I usually take 4 weeks off in the summer and save to take some extra days off for christmas.
I have the right to annual leave for 35 days a year, I am a nurse, I have been working for 30 years.Sundays and Saturdays are not counted. The annual minimum is 4 weeks, for people who have just started working.
Croatia
@ that’s awesome:) I have 5 weeks. People over 60 get their 6th week that year and onwards.
I often heard that Americans think we kill our elders in the Netherlands 😅
Could you elaborate?
@depressedutchman because of our euthanasia laws. Its considered liberal in their eyes, and some seem to think we kill them because they old and do not 'contribute' anymore.
It says a lot that even with the UK's heavy shift to the right in recent years, no one will even consider doing away with universal healthcare.
I wouldn't be so sure, the far-right like Farage, want to privatise the NHS.
Oh my goodness!!! you're so nitpicky in this reaction you can't even go more than 4 sentences without stopping and trying to defend the US in someway.
That we dont have guns because it's more regulated, is like saying we have no cars because we need a driver's licence.
"You get payed off for not taking vacation days." Dude, we get payed on our vacation days ongoing! No mater if we are at work or not. I mean you still recive your normal sallary in your holydays. Employers are forced by law to give you 20 days minimum off.
Slightly irritated that you didn't let him finish a single sentence, it sort of changes the context when listening.
I don't know the rest of Europe but in Italy if you don't use your vacation days you will be forced by law to take a break from work
A rare RUclips occurrence - the comments are better than the video.
There is a saying " freedom ends where yours begins" and I think this is what European freedom is about and what the US could not understand fully. One American couple ( also from YT) said it in different way as well that European have freedom from e.g. racism, danger, dying without care and Americans have freedom to e.g. say whatever they like without caring for others, to carry a gun. Times are changing in my opinion Americans will soon realise that they're not really free ( maybe from education and healthcare).
The 6h work day trials have been done in Sweden since mid 2000's in different ways and periods, and the conclusion have been pretty much the same every time. Better physical and mental health of the workers, less stress related sickness, better effectivity, more job opportunities and lowered unemployment of the society as a whole, and even 80% of the executives and bosses of companies and government work places are in favor of 6h work days instead of the 8h that is today. So who is against this? Well, basically only the conservatives and far right politicians who can't accept the results of the trials of 6h work days because it goes against their firmly rooted ideology, you can't reason with someone who shields themselves from the truth with their stupid ideology.
Can you please let people make their points and then make yours. It’s really irritating when you keep interrupting all the time!
Here you have to use your vacation or you lose it. Also the Employer is forced by law to encourage you to take it and are liable to be fined by the government if they discourage or prohibit their employees from taking their vacation without proper reason. Most companies I worked at would encourage you to be responsible with your vacation time and check with your team members and the current workload. So if you gotta support a product (working as software dev) that someone is always there to take care if something happens. This means most of the time, people take time off in waves so there is always someone there in case. Also most companies "close" over Christmas and new years and the employees are encouraged to plan their Christmas vacation accordingly.
only 2 weeks of vacation a year? as a dutch person thats realy crazy to me
As an aussie it's crazy yo me too. The treatment of workers I the US is horrible
Have had 12 surgeries in 6 diffrent countries in europe and paid in total 200 dollars in total and that was for some medicin that i needed to take for my recovery, If i was living in the US i would been in debt for the rest of my life because of that
Franco ( dictator in Spain from during WW2 until the 70s when he died ) also had people singing' cara al sol' as a national pledge type every day - school kids too.
Yeah, Germany had some form of Pledge of Allegiance, too. Weirdly, it stopped in 1945...
@cindz4618 not true at all. Maybe right after the war, which ended in 1939, but that was it. Of course I'm not defending Franco.
By the sounds of it, you got more freedom in US to be an asshole or even harm to your fellow citizen. But I guess how corporations can treat people however they want and unions are shut down asap, people over there don't really care about everyone having safe and comfortable lives.
"Talking about a highly regulated militia"
So all gun owners should join a regulated militia which set the rules on how to keep the weapons.
Maybe in a locker for the case the militia is needed?
Trump's militia are likely to be unhighly regulated.
Kind of like the National Guard
you missed every point he made