The most stupid thing I have heard from an American was "Finland can't survive with their free healthcare or education for more than 25 years". Fun fact. Finland is over 100 years old and our current system has been a thing for most of that time. Maybe they could use a little bit more free education?
It's the kind of comment that would be passed on by private US heathcare and private education corporations for the public to be conditioned to agree with and iterate
Germany has socialized health care since Bismarck and a lot of other socialist benefits. Not because Bismarck, a monarchist, cared about the common people, he just wanted to undercut the socialists. Still they remained popular so he let socialists be persecuted later on. That was about 150 years ago.
Not travelling physically from state to state is no excuse for not knowing about the other states when there’s television and the internet. Many Europeans may never have travelled outside of Europe, but still know about other countries in other continents.
Yeah, I'm from Poland and the only other country I've ever been to was Germany, but it didn't stop me from learning basic geography and know and have something to say about at least 90% of countries in the world The same probably applies to all Europeans
We have to Fly to another country from Australia, does not stop us travelling the world and having the knowledge about other countries and their locations.
I have lived in norway my entire life and part of our social studies was to be able to name all the US states and their capital. Oh and also name all the countries in the world and their capital. Like come on, there are videos singing you through the entire world! The education system must be beyond broken in America.
I’m from Sweden and I’ve got family in the US, and I’ve met many American tourists here in Sweden. Most of them are very nice and intelligent, but when I encounter a dumb one it’s really bad. I’ve been asked by several Americans what it’s like living in a communist country! Then I have to give them this long explanation on how Sweden is not now, nor has it ever been , a communist country. They don’t understand democratic socialism, or how our tax system is designed to help everyone, not just to benefit the rich. They also have a hard time understanding that most Swedes are not religious, and only attend church if it’s for a wedding or a funeral. Maybe THE dumbest thing an American said to me was “How come no one is wearing those hats with horns?”. This moron was an elderly man from Texas who actually expected to see people walking around Stockholm dressed as Vikings.
As a German living in Stockholm at the moment, this is so fucking hilarious xD Stockholm people dress fantastically from cozy to chic and it is everything... But a horned helmet I have only ever seen in tourist trap gift shops xD
@Gunther H.G. Geick I know that, of course they didn't, but that doesn't make it less touristy. It is like s cheesy gimmick s tourist can buy in these shops. That they are not historically correct at all is irrelevant in that case, because it still makes money to sell stuff like that.
US Americans seem to be really into this whole "my grand grandpa's neighbor's niece was from Ireland", etc. stuff. And then think they're Irish, German, Italian or whatever. And people born and raised in that country somehow don't qualify for that ... like yeah, you lived your whole life in Italy, but you're not Italian. But my grandma one saw spaghetti napoli on a menu with her own eyes, so call me Giovanni.
Now, most people in my area are of german and polish heritage,but we dont say we ARE german. But we do use it to explain why theres a heavy german influence in city names, food and some of the accent and turns of phrase we use. But thats it. Lol
Well here in Argentina there are many people descendants of German, Russian, ukrainian and many other European countries but we don't think ourselves European we are just Argentinian 🤷♀️
I'm from Scotland. stupidest thing that was said to me was years ago I was in a chatroom with a number of people, including a few Americans (and I specify that in America's defence, as only one said something stupid). Anyway, there was a girl who, on hearing my accent, asked were I was from. I said Scotland. She then asked me how I could be talking to the chat from Scotland. I replied, rather hestitantly as I assumed there was something I was missing, "via the mic and software, same as everyone else". To which she replied, "Nuh uh, I've seen Braveheart, and you guys don't have electricity yet, let alone computers." At least the other Americans present, even if they hadn't seen it, were aware the movie is (loosely) based on historical events from 700 years ago.... when no one had computers, let alone USA, which didn't exist back then.
A friend came to visit with her American acquaintance, and he told me he wanted to make a round trip the next day and visit Berlin, Hamburg and Copenhagen. Yes, in Europe, cities are much closer together, but not so close.
I wish I could have seen the look on his face if you told the distances in kilometers, few Americans understand the metric system because it’s either not taught in schools, or it’s taught poorly.
A lot of Americans also think cars were invented in America. Obviously the automobile was invented in Germany. As was the jet engine, and the concept of jet aircraft in general.
I live in Germany, once a American person asked me on Discord where I am from since I posted a photo saying "Look how bright it is outside during summer and we have almost 10pm". The guy lived in a area in the US where he never got sun after 8pm during the summer so he asked me if I was trying to fool him and so asked me where I would live. I said "I'm from Germany" and he literally wrote back: "Nah, they don't have it that sunny there" I was like: "Eh ok?" and he went like: "Isn't it cloudy, cold and rainy all day?" I was like: "Not really?" ... his last response was: "Well you are not a German if you don't know your country's weather" ...
2:23 As a German I can't fathom how normal it is for Americans to think of (foreign) nationality as equal to "race" (a racist term by definition). It just blows my mind how citizens of a country founded by ethnic foreigners, built up and populated by immigrants - citizens of a country that has historically been so diverse that it doesn't have an official language could become so obsessed with ethnic origins and just weird with peoples nationalities, yet call people racists for the dumbest things so frequently.
Well they haven't managed to unify, to create one nation with it's own identity... So they still care where they come from cause it's still an identifier. Makes them better than others
@@pmparda Yet they force children to pray obedience to a flag, just like during the darkest days of my home country's history. The whole "us versus them" mindset reminds me of the same thing. It's just as sad as is is terrifying to watch from the outside.
I'm from Spain, when I was 17 I passed a month with a family in Kentucky. During my stay there I would go to church with them although we didn't share the same believes. One time, at sunday school, I was chatting with the guy seated next to me. He was talking about he was making plans to go to Europe the next year. And then he asked me if I had ever been there. That wasn't the dumbest thing, it was that when I explained him about Spain being in Europe he said "Are you sure?"
Considering from this video a lot of Americans don’t seem entirely sure where their own country is or what it contains it is a little more reasonable to assume others are equally ignorant.
So, a couple of years back I was part of this multicultural fb group of roughly 100k members for people who wanted to experience music from all around the world. One day I posted a video of three teens from Tbilisi who were singing a traditional Georgian folk song while hiking. Next day I woke up to 20k angry emojis + over 3000 comments, almost exclusively by Americans, who were shaming me for sharing FALSE info. The average comment was "I was born/raised/have friends in Atlanta - this is not what a traditional Georgian folk song sounds like". Tried to explain how that's really a county in Europe - fb algorithm automatically kicked me out of the group after that mob reported me. :)
Oh I saw people from the US get mad so many times knowing there is a country called Georgia out there and demand it change its name because they were first...NO HONEY, YOU WERE NOT. Or people from the US getting mad at the country Niger for its name saying that's racist. Must I really explain how different languages work? The "We are the center of the universe" mentality has to be the most annoying thing coming from stupid people.
Try telling them that Georgia is named after Saint George, the North African Roman doctor famed for defeating diseases, not dragons, in much of the world. That might be fun. ;-)
OMFG it just defies belief. Almost every place in the US is named after somewhere else. And then to assume the reverse - that the country named itself after the city - is f***ing hilarious 😂 😂 😂 You should have written a complaint to Facebook and got yourself readmitted to the group. That would’ve annoyed the hell out of me.
Next time a US American asks where those songs are from, just answer from Sakartvelo. They won't know what or where it is, but honestly at this point it doesn't make that much of a difference. At least they won't be angry at you.
I was once asked "Where are you from " by an American guy and I said Bulgaria. Of course I did not expect him to know where a small European country is, so I was expecting a following question like "where's that" but instead the question was "in which state is it?" So I calmly explained that it's not in the States, it's in Europe. Then he apologized for not knowing that which was totally fine by me and then asked what was the language we speak in Europe. And I started again with the explanations that being Bulgarian I speak Bulgarian, other countries in Europe speak their own languages and that there's no European language that we all speak. So he blocked me
I am English and back around 1985 onwards spent several years as an assistant manager in large city centre hotels, we dealt with a lot of American Tour Coaches every week, I must have been told that I should learn to speak English at least ten times a week by fat idiots in velour leisure wear, talk about dumb.
I've met a couple people with yellow eyes but I wonder if that falls under amber? Either way they were super cool looking and the iris turned an orange or red sometimes.
Love how he tries to explain their ignorance by saying "oh Americans dont really travel and that's why they don't know other states". No sir, you are supposed to know the states and capitals of at least your own damn country.
@Shannon L we think different and that's ok, everyone has their opinions. In my experience as a teacher, I find it really important because it opens the doors for many things, but if you don't find it useful, that is ok too.
@@_pianoN_ - Nah, I get what he meant by that. The girl asked where she'd bought her top and she replied "Singapore". That could've been explained by her thinking Singapore was ALSO the name of the store/mall from which she bought the top (perfectly possible). That went out the window in the part that followed though, lol.
This one is from my brother but it still upsets me 😂 My brother works at a hotel's reception in the South-East part of France, near Cannes (you know with the international film festival). One day, two American tourists came to him and asked the best way to go to Cannes. So my brother tells them the best way is to take the train in at the train station near there and so on... And the woman in front of him kept correcting his pronunciation of Cannes. Then he explained that in fact the S at the end of Cannes is a silent letter and that normally, is should be pronounced Canne, not Cannes. Then the woman answered "No, you have to pronounce the S". She was teaching my brother how to pronounce the name of a french city even if she doesn't know any french word and even if my brother was born and raised there. 🙄
What is it with Americans not wanting to be American? I was born and raised in Hungary, my native language is Hungarian, parents both Hungarian, etc etc I didn't even move away from my hometown in Hungary until my mid-twenties... AND THESE RANDOM AMERICANS TRY TO EDUCATE ME ABOUT HUNGARY ALL. THE. TIME. They haven't even been to Europe, let alone Hungary. They don't speak Hungarian. They don't know anything about Hungary except its name. Yet, because they had 1 great-great-grandfather who was Hungarian, they're like "this is how it ACTUALLY is in Hungary", and try to educate me. It's insane, really. The ignorance...
Try being an Italian from Italy in America. You get Italian Americans telling you you're not a real Italian because for them "Italian" = Italian American only. Most don't speak Italian or others speak a local dialect which was/is only spoken in the village where their great grandparents' were originally from. These dialects either aren't spoken any more in Italy or have changed over time. This isn't their fault but they insist that they are more authentically Italian than Italians who were born, raised and educated in Italy and speak modern standard Italian.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Italian Americans then complain that Italians in Italy don't recognize them as being Italian. That is because culturally they are more American than Italian. The dominant culture in the US is Anglo Saxon whereas Italian culture in Italy is Latin.
I'm from Germany and when we visited Canada in the early nineties we visited the Niagara Falls. In our group we talked in German and a bystanding man, who later identified himself from New York, tried to listen. After a while he asked what language we used. He assumed it could be a language from a small native tribe in northern Finland. When we told him it was German he was shocked that we were able to visit Canada, because he thought that Germany was enclosed by a big wall that no one could cross. At the same day while having Lunch in a restaurant at the american side of the Falls the waitress heard that we were from Germany. After paying she gave everyone in our group a big doggy bag because of the long drive we would have to go home. At this time a doggy bag was very foreign to us, because here in Germany it didn't exist in this time.
I‘m from Austria and in the early 2000‘s we were 4 girls taking a 10 days trip to New York City. In the cab from the airport to the hotel we talked a lot with each other in german and so our driver asked if we‘re from the Ukraine and we were no we‘re from Austria and he oh, my mom is from Salzburg. And we so, have you ever been to Salzburg? And he no, I don‘t even have a passport. I feel sorry for him til this day.
I worked in a hotel next to the mathematic institute of the university in Münster - Germany and we often have these really smart people from the US (and all over the world) and even one of those smart "Maths-Nerds" asked me if I voted for Hitler back in the time - I was born around 40 years after the end of world war 2 ...
Mich würde mal die Prozentzahl derjenigen (USAmerikaner) interessieren, die glauben dass Hitler noch lebt!? Meine beste Freundin war 1990 Austauschschülerin in Amerika. Die hat mir Sachen erzählt - will man nicht glauben 🙈 ... Die wurde auch öfter gefragt, ob sie denn Hitler wählen würde, wenn sie schon wählen dürfte. (in deren Geschichtsbüchern muss ganz schön viel Schrott stehen)
I am australian and I feel really sorry for the average American. I have friends and family living in the US and hear about their struggles often. I live in hope that things improve for everyone, at least to the point that people can get healthcare and housing. There is no reason in wealthy countries for homelessness and poverty. You are a wonderful young man for using this medium to educate your contemporaries. It is people like you who will achieve change for all and I wish you well. Cheers 😁
@Shannon L lol..didn't mean to, but I can only speak for those i know, and for growing number of people in some areas, it IS a third world country. I have a cousin there, a widow, who works 2 jobs and still can't afford to keep her house. Perhaps it is easier for the young, but most the people I am hearing from are elderly. Sorry if I offended you.
The Dumbest thing an American has ever said to me has to be when I was in London. Now I'm English however an American tourist told me as a complement saying 'Wow you guys speak really good English.' Where do I begin firstly the name is in the Title of or language. Secondly, What language were YOU expecting, and thirdly what language do you think your speaking !!!🤣
They really think English is spoken only in the US 😂🤣. This guy kept saying how he finds it weird and hadn’t been to a foreign country where everyone speaks English when he visited South Africa, but then I remember he also travelled to the UK so there was nothing to correct 🗑
A curious thing: Americans are the only people I know of who part themselves up in ethnicities, like black am., asian am. and so on. Most other nationalities would call themselves mixed, if adressing it at all. You are american if born in the U.S.A., german if born in Germany and so on. Why do you categorise your self?
@@nose-vm3gu Not even that - here in Germany it's a matter of nationality. If you hold a German passport then congrats - you're German. If you don't hold a German passport then you're not German. What really pisses me off is all these US americans claiming that they are German/French/Italian/Chinese/Whatever just because someone in their ancestry line was from Germany.
@@nose-vm3gu Nope, not even close. No matter what color your skin, no matter where your parents came from or your grandparents, or their grandparents... they are just Germans, French, Dutch, Belgian, Swedish etc.. In the USA it's a way to divide, to make it an us vs them, and in some cases even to claim heritage. Because let's be honest, who the eff cares if someone is 1/32th French and 1/16th German... get over yourself, you're American. signed A Belgian (which means I have Italian, Spanish, French, German, Austrian, Norwegian, Danish, English, Portugese bloodlines, at the bare minimum)
To the people that replied to my comment, I'm literally saying the same, I was saying Americans treat skin tone like a culture (which it's not) and using it to divide I really don't know what you're debating here(? 💀😂
Does America not have geography as a subject?...Here in the UK, I distinctly remember drawing detailed maps of all the continents, of learning about coffee production in Brazil, Ice floes in the Antarctic, Indian tea plantations and Tobacco growing in China amongst many other topics, (as well as facts about our own country) surely US schools have a World Map pinned up somewhere at least?
Some schools do. The point is that there is no national curriculum in the USA. Some states have a state curriculum, but often the curriculum is set by the local school board, which is elected. Whereas in the UK and in most other countries around the world, geography is a compulsory subject for everyone at least up to the age of 14, it seems that in many schools in the USA "world geography" is an elective and not necessarily offered. Education is a very classist thing in the USA - and it's people from the USA who have told me that.
@@norma8686 Well, to be fair, I've met some people in the UK and other European countries whose knowledge of geography has been pretty patchy. But at least they know that Africa, Asia and Australia are continents.
@@lynnhamps7052 Somewhere on the net there's a video of an American in his 20s living in England called Ethan (I think) explaining a high school curriculum from somewhere in New England to someone called Corrie (a Scot). It's quite an eye-opener. Especially when you read the comments from other Americans stating that that the guy must have gone to a high school in a rich area as they didn't get that choice where they lived. Elsewhere, I've heard an American engineer who's been living in Germany for a year (since 2021) being amazed that his kids (all under 12) attending German schools are learning to understand mathematical concepts in primary school. I wondered what he was talking about and was gobsmacked when he explained. Apparently, in the USA "math" at primary school is just very simple arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, long and short division, etc.). His kids were getting practical text problems like "If an apple costs x, how many apples can I buy for x sum of money." or "If I have 2 pizzas to share equally among 6 people, how do I cut up the pizzas?). Another thing that completely wowed him was the concept of spatial thinking: looking at a 2D shape and understanding what it was in 3D. He said he only got introduced to that when he was at college!!!!! I mean this is basic geometry.
The guy with his Irish great grandmother.... gosh! I always found weird hearing Americans describe themselves as part Irish, part Scottish, part Italian etc... I mean obviously in the actual world most families are culturaly or ethnicaly mixed so there is no point to bloat about it . You can respect yours origins but that doesn't mean you'll know better than a local but thats my European pov 🤷♀️
When I was a kid I had to learn all the US states and their capitals. I had to learn all the countries in the world and their capitals. This was in primary school. I am from the Netherlands and am proud of our educational system.
Well that shows that the Dutch have always been and are great businessmen and merchants, preparing the next generation like that.... I never learned that at school but I loved to study the globe and maps as a kid and I drew maps from memory just for fun, much love from Germany !
I'm from Germany. For me it's the same. I even had an own American Geography class for a year. Learned all US states, capitals and most important mountains, rivers and so on. Learned countries and capitals from the whole world as well. Common knowledge
@@TheKeystoneChannel hispanic is for Spanish Latino is for latin american country. Edit: I check my sentence and it's OK All spanish speaking = hispanic Latin america = latino
i am a Nederlander in 1994 i was in a bar in new york having a conversation with the natives one asked if we have our own language and i told him yes we do he then asked me if i knew that due to the colonizing not a lot of european country,s have their own language , and that ''we over here speak american , and were did i learn how to speak american?'' he was a bit iritated when i told him that ALL european country,s have their own language and that he spoke english and not american because we europeans did ccolonise most of the rest of the world and that the city we were in was once a part of Nederland called nieuw Amsterdam
Man, I really want to visit USA, try out those bacon and eggs and hamburgers with refill coffee in diners... you know like in the movies/series. And cherry on top, to get asked stupid questions!
IN 2010, my Brother, who lives in Australia, invited me to Come visit, and since I was unemployed, I decided to go. I noticed that a whole lot of people always expressed a wish to visit, but never did, due to all the dangerous animals. I lived in Australia for nearly two years and lived in Melbourne, Kiama, Sydney and parts of Queensland. And I saw a total of 2 snakes and NO deadly animals. The most terrifying creature I came across was a sort of yellow wasp we dont have here in Europe. But seriously, dont let the wildlife scare you. You have to be VERY Lucky to Come across all the deadliest creatures.
@@foreignreacts this is very true. I live rurally on a produce farm in Australia and still don't encounter dangerous animals often. When I do it's usually a snake and I see it because its fleeing very quickly. The vast majority of snake bites in Australia occur while a person is attacking the snake, so the old saying 'Live and let live' is very appropriate here. Please don't let our wildlife be the reason you don't visit.
This is a comment I posted on Reddit a few years ago... "No shit…as an US American expat living in Germany, I was on a trip in the USA with two friends from university.We were at a public swimming pool in south Dakota speaking German and a young boy walks up to me (maybe 5th grade…) - “you’re using different words” he says to me…After my initial shock I proceeded to explain that there are many different countries in the world. Many these countries have their own languages and customs etc. I don’t know if he believed me… I sort of gave up on the us education system at that point."
An American on an anime forum accused me of faking being Polish because "there is no internet in communist countries". For those who are not in the loop, communism in Poland ended in '89. Before I was even born.
Some US-citizens believe all of Europe is communist. Because we have social health care, welfare, high taxes, etc. They freak out any time they hear or see the word 'social'.
Lived nearly 70 years in Australia & never got injured by a deadly animal, even though I have seen most in the wild when travelling around. Same in Africa, saw hippos, elephants, lions etc. & no problems. Went to USA a few times, held up at gunpoint twice, and one standing in a queue at Greyhound, had my bags stolen & a cop was standing behind me & everyone said they "saw nothing". I know which country I would prefer to live in.
I think it's so crazy that so many Americans don't know anything about geography, like bruh my parents once had a competition of who could name all 50 states in US and could both name almost every single one. My parents are from Europe and never even learned such things in school.
I was drunk and bar hopping with some friends and we sat down in a pizza place at 1 am. One of my friends and I and listed off every US state capital we could think of. We got almost all of them. We’re Canadians and do not learn this in school
Considering the US influence is worldwide it’s not really that surprising. Now I’m betting if you tried that with Africa you would have a tougher time.
@@AliceAndWonderland2 that's some fine American exceptionalism you got there. I would bet that most Europeans can name 80% of the countries on any continent.
@@sirquasi yeah, it’s been a decade (or two) since I learned them in school, but I still remember around 80% I think. We were taught all the countries and capitals in primary school and then again secondary school, so maybe that’s why it sort of stuck well? 😂
I'm Canadian and learned how stupid some Americans are when I was 10 yrs. old and visiting relatives in Lansing Michigan. I went to school for an afernoon with my cousin who was a year older and in Grade 6. I was in Grade 5 in Ontario, Canada. The teacher asked me if I would tell her class about Canada. I stood in front of the class ad explained how we have provinces rather than states and that Quebec was our largest province and was larger than Texas. The teacher instantly contradicted me and said that no, Texas was bigger. I got into an argument with her and ended walking out of the class feeling angry and humiliated as I knew I was right. This in 1951 and sadly things seemed not to have changed.
Hmm, you kind of ruined it by starting off telling us you're Canadian and then went on to say Ontario, Canada as if nobody actually knows where Ontario is, well, apart from Americans, and yet you didn't say Lansing, Michigan, USA! If any country really does need to build a wall it is Canada, North America!
I'm retired, my career was in International Sales. The best buy for most AMERICANS would be a $10 world map. Tack it to a wall and look at it once in a while. Thank you.
I feel like i'd neet to give that last australian girl a hug and start a gofundme for her to get through the pain. I could physically feel the pain in what she described.
The last one reminds me of a friend (Veneuzlan guy) telling me how, when his family moved the the US and he started school, the geography teacher asked him in which state Venezuela was.....
That's scary. It's one thing if a random person you meet out and about display such ignorance, but when it comes from a teacher... And not just any teacher, without the Geography teacher! Yikes!
American here. Can confirm the last time I had to learn geography in school was 4th grade (10 years old) and it wasn't even graded, so most people didn't bother to try very hard. We had these little "passports" and we got a stamp for every country we got correct on the weekly test. But you didn't have to fill your passport by the end of the year for a passing grade. There wasn't really any incentive to learn them all except having a full passport. My Dad, fortunately, did care because he did a double major in college, bio-chemistry and history. One of his classes was nothing but geography. He knows where every country is and their capital. So not only did he take a personal interest in making sure I knew all the geography we were learning in class, but he added to it (Capitals) and insisted learning geography was important. I'm glad he did, because the school made no effort to explain why it was important or make us care. He didn't want me to be like my mom... Dad: -layover in Japan due to whether Mom: -On the phone with a friend Mom: Yeah, David's been stuck in South America for 18 hours. Me: I thought Dad was in Japan. Mom: He is. Me: ... Me: Japan is in Asia. Mom: Same thing. Me: You're not even close.
I love telling American kids that, as New Zealand is the first country in the world to start the new day, Santa Claus comes to our country first. Therefore Kiwi kids get the best presents, Australian kids get the 2nd best, and so it goes around the world until Santa gets to American. As they have the last 3 time zones in the world, American kids get the left overs. I wasn’t popular- but l got a bloody good laugh out of it.
I was travelling the US. Some dude was like "woah man, where you from? You British?" and I said "Yeah. Jersey, near the UK". He was like "you guys have a Jersey too?" I get that. That's fine. Jersey is some tiny island. From a country that often barely understands Europe, I don't expect them to know. But the fun part was explaining that New Jersey is named after Jersey. And then New York is named after York, New England, New Hampshire, New anything, half the place names without "New" too, etc. After his epiphany that America was full of names from other places... he finally said "wow. That's a lot of British names huh". Yeah. Strange that...
They have half of the cities of their country with spanish names that pronounce badly. And they still think those are english names. So, dont ask them too much..
Jersey island is well now for its taxes or the lack of them. At least for corporations. Correct me if I'm wrong, please, that's the first thing that came to mind
@@txellblanxer9060 Yes. Taxes are still levied upon money entering and money leaving, payroll, etc, but on a year to year basis Jersey has 0% income tax on corporates and 0% capital gains tax. For individuals, we have up to 20% income tax, 0% capital gains and if you are truly baller, we have a tax cap meaning if you can pay £150,000 or something per year in income tax, you don't need to pay a penny more.
I overheard 2 Americans who were looking at the Wallace monument in Stirling ,one of them was saying how sweet it was to build a monument to celebrate Mel Gibson
I'm an Aussie and when I visited the US a few years ago I was asked where I came from. I said Australia and the woman said 'oh you speak exceptionally good English.' I said it is our common language. She was shocked. "Oh I thought you all spoke German." Another instance, where we were asked where we came from and we replied Australia, the American said 'Oh yeah, the land of zebras and giraffees' that was her pronunciation. We said no, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, koalas and cockatoos. She dismissed us saying 'oh I don't go to zoos, they shouldn't have animals in those kind of places.'
About the standard of education in USA there is much disagreement which statistics is giving the best picture of the situation. But there is one statistic that goes far back, is quite trustworthy and VERY revealing: The reading & writing ability of recruits when joining the US Army. This shows that Americans was better at reading during the Civil War than today!
I think some of them are homeschooled. That is also a very American thing, that patents can homeschool their kids, without having a proper education themselves and with no help from real teachers. Btw love your channel and your smile. Hope you will be able to visit us here in Europe soon❤️
Yeah, where I am from homeschooling isn't even a thing it's against the law and I think we're discussing removing religious schools too I think because they teach controversial shit like "gay bad, women inferior etc." Which is bad for society.
Yes, in Germany homeschooling is prohibited by law too. It's not about the freedom of the parents to do what they want with their children, it's about the freedom of the children to get a decent education and social interactions with their peers.
In my life experience, I can say that there are no Black-Europeans, just Europeans. I'Portuguese and we come in many shapes and colors. Simply Portuguese. We can analyze our heritage, but that's another story. And it will never be something that can diminish but rather be great as pride to be Portuguese.
What you say makes so much sense. I have an American friend who was totally shocked that i knew much much more about his country, American history and political system than he knew. And i am only a silly German. :)
FYI by world population green eyes are at 2% and blue is 8-10% 😁👍 the only eye colours less than green is red/violet and heterochromia (two different coloured eyes)
I had to laugh when you shook your head at the term "petrol. "Gas" by definition is not a liquid. Yeah, I know it's short for "gasoline", which is the term used in the US for petroleum. In Australia, we have LPG which is an actual gas used to fuel vehicles. So we would only use the term "gas" here in reference to cars that have been converted to run literally on gas. Also, did you say you were turned off Australia because we have fires and animals? Don't you have those in the USA? 🤔
Well, these days, California tries to beat Australia at the fire game - I don't know about the stats to judge how close they are. But as for animals (and in the context of Australia, those are usually poisonous animals), I believe Australia still has no close rival.
@@KaiHenningsen Bears, Cougars, Bobcats, Coyotes, Wolves and Wolverines. I say US has lethal animals, you can stomp on a spider or snake, cannot say that about yours.
@@redwarpy Mine? Since when are the US ones mine? There's a whole ocean between us. And for that matter, those are fairly harmless compared with _homo sapiens,_ of which they have several hundred millions, and a lot of those are a particularly dangerous variant.
I have a funny harmless one: I was staying for a few weeks in the US as part of an exchange program in high school, so I was actually attending classes there; one day I sit in class and the girl in front of me has heard about me so she turns to me and asks "Oh are you French?" I agree, she turns back, then turns again a few seconds after "So that means you speak French???" and I mean yeah I'm French, I speak French... she turns back, another few seconds, and she turns once again towards me asking "And you speak English?????????" I mean yeah duh in which language did you think I was communicating with you TT She seemed truly flabbergasted
14:15 "HOW!?!" As an American born and raised, some Americans seem to just straight up start conversations with people just to hear themselves talk. They don't listen.
In high school( in Australia ) I had an argument with a girl from Florida ( an International baccalaureate scholarship exchange student ), she was insisting that Miami was the capital of Florida, I told her I was fairly sure it was Tallahassee, this was 1989 so no Google to help then, so here’s me thinking…umm could I be wrong, she’s a scholarship student and it’s her State…Then she said Tallahassee is the capital of Louisiana , I’m really confused now “ isn’t it Baton Rouge” say I ( poor fool!) she calls me an idiot and stormed off … of to the library I go, thank you Encyclopedia Britannica. I never bothered to set her straight I needed that Oxygen more than she needed and education.
lol, nice reaction, cheers. I'm born and bred in Scotland as is my sister who had the oppertunity to live in Mobile, Alabama for a year. the stories she told me still resonate in my memory lol. She explained it a good way though, "when we brits turn on the tv here in britain, (at the time there were 4 channels available), but when i was in the states, you could tune into hundreds, but 99% of the content was geared/focused towards LOCAL, STATE or if adventurous NATIONAL news." i will never forget going to pick her up at bus station when she came home as she had gained a hilarious southern drawl and 20 decibels volume when she spoke, 'HEY!! HOW YA'LL DOING?' Basically she told me, americans don't actually strain their poor wee minds to consider that there are other continents, countrys, languages.
I love Singapore! I've visited about four times already and it's an amazing city and country with so much to do in such a small region. It's funny that the girl said, an American asked her if Singapore was a mall, because that's how I affectionately describe Singapore… I say, "It's the world's biggest, multi-level indoor and outdoor shopping center where people live and work, that's connected by a subway/monorail system (the MRT)" Singapore is a country that is technically a giant mall. It's awesome!!!
Aussie here. 2 American girls from Kentucky (yes I know, not a great start) came to stay at a family's house. There was a phone call from Kentucky and the person on the phone asked (imagine the accent for the purpose of story plz) "are there Aborigines living in teepees near your home?'" . Im a mix and thankfully they came to BBQ with me and a whole bunch of Aboriginal and Torres Strait island guys at our white mate's family home, with our mate's family having a Russian background. So there are like ohhhh? Australia is kinda cool. haha. One of the girls was brown as me and with ethnic features and I said "whats your heritage?" and she said "what? just normal" and I said "no you have colour and all that" and she does "no ,I'm white" and I laughed a bit and said "don't worry ,you're not in Kentucky now sis, you're safe to tell" and she got defensive about being only white so I just left it at that with a hmmmmmm oooooo kkkkkk
I am German, we did a student exchange with a high school and they wanted to show us a real US college, we had a Q&A with the college (!) students there. „ Do you have cars in Germany?“
So, i moved to usa when I was 11, and I told my class I was from Switzterland. And then the next day a classmate didn't remember where I was from so asked again. I replied that I am Swiss and this other girl got angry at me for lying yesterday when I said I was .... Switzerland (?). Like apparently every person from Switzerland is Switzerland and the swiss is wrong... So my dad calls people from the usa, Usa-er just to get me to giggle.
I am from Iceland and I used to work as a shuttle driver for AVIS car rental. One time I wss picking up a middle aged canadian man and his wife. We were talking and I said something about Icelandic being in Europe and then the guy interupted me and said condesendingly: “wait so YOU think Iceland is in Europe?” Like I was the idiot. I was speechless. Point is, there is ignorance everywhere.
Fun fact: I work in a Canadian airport. Did you know that lots of Americans put a Canadian flag tag on their luggage because they know Americans aren’t particularly liked around the world? 🤣 they know people will be much nicer to them ( and their belongings) if they say they’re Canadian 🤦🏻♀️
When my friend was an highschool exchange student in the US approximately 20 years ago. She said that the dumbest thing someone had asked her was if fake nailes and manicure existed in Sweden. 8/
The one with the mall, I actually have an understanding for the poor girl that asked about it. She was expecting directions or a name of the actual store. Having those expectations she could have interpreted the answers that way, not even realising that the answer could be cities and continents. Malls and stores can have weird names. I mean, there's a fashion chain from Germany called "New Yorker". I've seen stores having first names. So this is the one that might be just misinterpretation based on expectations, not on ignorance.
Having blond hair and blue eyes myself, I gotta tell others that this is a mutation and not the norm on a regular basis...being german doesn't make this easier at all lol.
During a family trip to USA on vacation (we are spaniards living in Spain) we were asked by people in a couple of times which language we were speaking...We responded...spanish...they answered...wow..we speak some spanish but you dont speak like spanish.....We answered...well, it must be our accent. ..question? Where in spain are you from? We are from Bilbao...answer...is it in Mexico or Chile? No, it is not. It is in Spain...yeah, but where?.......
@@nose-vm3gu The funniest thing is that I could feel my mum nervous, really tense during the conversation and I learnt aftewards she thought that stupid conversation was no more than a trick to keep us entertained so we could be robbed at some point....And I answered her it was just a misunderstanding...and she answered...jajajaja...How can you get so innocent and naive. No misunderstandings possible...everyone knows Mexico, Chile, USA or Spain are countries...full stop!. jajajajaja
The best one was the woman who couldn`t accept the different date line re: Australia ,then flew into a rage at being told that the seasons were reversed
Ignorance about other places, including but not limited to your own country has nothing to do with “Leaving your comfort zone.” Or “Going for a drive”. It’s a lack of interest or education except your own little slice of the globe. The American system of indoctrination of young school children into this fantasy of the US as the “Best place in the world” encourages them to not bother, generally, to learn about anywhere else geographically or historically. Certainly you have a minority of curious people who choose to learn and expand their understanding of the rest of the world but the general public not so much. By the way you aren’t ‘America’ or ‘Americans’ you are citizens of the the United States of North America or the States for short. There are two other countries in North America Canada and Mexico who technically are just as American as you not to mention an entire continent to the South containing Central and South America.
I have been to tbe USA several times and to many states. On three occasions in Milwaukee I was asked where I am from... So I said I am from England... I was then asked what language do we speak there.
You may have noticed, there are lots of American-XXX people (for a lot of values of XXX), but American-English doesn't ever seem to be mentioned. Strange, that. Almost as if they still haven't forgotten the war and don't want to know how that was another civil war.
Oh you have an entire series about this... ok let's share a bit more. While living in London I met this girl from Oklahoma and when she asked me where I was from I said “Mexico” and she said “Oh I’m so sorry…” all worried by the way, and I said “why?” and she said “It was not my intention to bring you sad memories of war, crime rape and hunger, so you came here escaping Mexico” I was shocked… after some seconds I said “Pardon me?” and she said “I can’t imagine all you had to go through to come here. Did you came in a balsa?” and I said… “Girl, first of all, the ones in America, AMERICA THE CONTINENT, who escape in a balsa are Cubans. Second: If you didn’t notice there is an entire OCEAN between Mexico and the UK, I could never do it in a balsa. The only way to come here is in a plane or in a transatlantic ship” and she added so sweet (NO JOKE) “Well you could also come in a car, if you had one” and I said “Are you joking?” and this stupid girl told me (she wasn’t joking for God’s sake) “Oh yeah that you don’t have cars in Mexico, but yeah those are machines that move with power and wheels and can take you anywhere” and I said “anywhere but here” and she said “No it’s true they can” and I said “Girl… didn’t you hear me? There is an entire FUCKING OCEAN in between the continents!” and she said “Ooh so there is an ocean in between Mexico and the Uk, that sounds hard” and I added “How did you come here?” and she said “in a plane because is faster than the car” and I said “I came also in a plane but not because is faster than the car, it’s because a car can’t float in the ocean”, and she said “No way! You have planes in Mexico?!” and I couldn’t help my sarcasm and said “Yes we do, but they work with human power, we don’t have seats we have bikes you have to pedal all the way to UK or the plane will fall” my British mates got the sarcasm immediately and start laughing but this girl thought I was being serious and said all mad “Don’t make fun of her! Is not her fault to have been born in an undeveloped country with poor planes! ” At least she was trying to “defend me” let’s give her some credit…
I think that it's really weird THAT people from U.S.A don't know other countries because they are fighting war's all over the globe and normal people support those war's even that they don't even know where and why the war is going on. If my country would go to a war In another side of the world I would like to know where it is and why this is happening and search for information and learn.
Awhile back on vacation in Bali an american asked me where I’m from, I told him that I’m from Singapore. Dude glass eyed me and said “You don’t look chinese.” I’m a native Singaporean malay and we are a multi racial island nation 😂
They only know my country, austria, from "sound of music". Apparently every child in america watches this musical, almost none child in austria knows the trapps or the musical.
That is so funny, I never understood that love for the sound of music with Americans either, it's like their favorite musical with Alice in Wonderland, I wonder if this is why they are not very educated cause these fairytales are being taught more than actual facts
That's because the Von Trapps eventually settled in America and were well known as a singing group in the '50s. The Sound of Music is also huge in Britain but at least a lot of British fans have actually bothered to visit Salzburg, including my mother and sister who dragged me all the way there just because of it but I did also revisit it because I was a big Formula 1 fan for a long while and stopped there on the way to the Austrian GP at Zeltweg!
Before cable tv became a thing, The Sound of Music was aired at least once per year on the Dutch tv-channels as well. My grandfather liked the movie so much us grandkids had to sit through several sittings each time we stayed over (he had it on video). I prefer Commisar Rex to The Sound of Music! 🙂
Personally, my favorite thing about being an American and American culture, IS the cultural diversity. In my hometown, there is a Chinatown, a Greektown, Ukranian village, etc. We have summer festivals for the Italians, the Mexicans, the Germans, the Polish, etc. They are all fantastic fun, great food, good music, and a lot of alcohol. These festivals are attended by all kinds of people, from all cultural backgrounds. And yes, on St, Patrick’s day, Irish or not, Christian or not, we all get publicly drunk in the middle of day, and embarrass ourselves in front of our professional coworkers. Most of us understand that there is an odd juxtaposition between being proud of the idea of a “nation of immigrants” or “the melting pot” while also seeing a lot of “too many damn immigrants coming here”. Not my feelings, but these ideas do both exist at the same time. We’re not all dumb. Videos with titles like, “Tell us about intelligent conversations you’ve had with an American,” don’t get clicks. Likewise, these street quizzes that are so popular now, of course they edit out all the people who answer the questions correctly and who can point out the location of any country on a map. Its just more fun to watch the dumb people, and makes us feel better about ourselves for not being that person. I’ve travelled a good bit. There are dumb people everywhere. Americans just have a bit of over-confidence that goes along with our dumb sometimes. Peace and love, friends.
Driving from Finland to Sweden will take a really long time, if you're not living up in the northern parts. Let's say driving from Stockholm to Helsinki (not going by boat) only driving on land will take 21h (the distance being 1760 km) . It will take the same amount of time as to drive to Paris, France from Stockholm. (22h; 2000 km) What I want to say by this is that there are some large distances in Europe too, even if the countries are close by, there are quite some distance for travel. Sweden is 1937 km long, and driving from the northernmost to the southernmost part will take about 23h. For comparison, that's the same amount of time it will take you to drive from New York to New Orleans (2100 km)
I can’t speak for the ignorance of others on the subject of geography, but I know that for me the Mercator projection map really threw off my understanding of the sizes of countries and the distances between them for a long time, because it distorts those things. Just my experience.
Yeah, driving from the Swedish speaking, western coastal areas of Finland to Northern Sweden, where many of us have friends and relatives, does take a really long time. Luckily there is a ferry between Vasa and Umeå, so that helps a lot! In the south of Finland the ferry connections to Stockholm and Tallinn are of course very good, but other than that Finland is a little secluded and we can't really go on a quick weekend trip to any large European city without flying. I'm hoping the Baltics will build a high-speed train line to Prague, preferably starting with a Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel.
I visited the USA 20 years ago and a waitress asked where we were from. The Netherlands I replied. She was honest and said she didn't know where that is. So we told her it's in Europe. Then she asked if we had traffic lights and microwaves too...
There is a tiny part of Turkey on the Asian side around the city of Marmaris, where a good portion of the locals look like vikings. Blond or red hair, steel blue eyes, tall men, tall women, no hooked noses and fair skin. Typical for the region, a-typical for the entire country of Turkey. There are countless regions on the planet with such abnormities.
Same for the region around Moscow. Those Scandinavians traveled, and occasionally conquered, pretty widely - also, as far as we know, were the first Europeans to visit America, long before Columbus.
A possible answer about this is for the presence in the Bizantine Empire of the Franks Crusaders in the XI century. Literally during the time of the first Crusade
The comment you made about race is very true. The problem of course is that humans are visual creatures and tend to link words with these visuals. The girl talking nonsense about people from Spain is a clear example of this. She has associated the word caucasian with not just a specific look but with a specific place aka U.S. She has also probably associated Spain with 'latina people' just because they speak spanish and the only visual she has for that are people from say Mexico or Puerto Rico. Latinas ofcourse can be caucasian but that's not the visual this girl is associating with the word. It's also why some dark-skinned people in the U.S. struggle to understand that Africa has the entire range of skin tones, hair textures and eye colours and that a light skinned person with grey eyes and curly hair from the continent may not necessarily be mixed.
caucasian? Bro Spain is on the west side of Europe. Caucasus is a mountain range partly in Asia at the black sea (East side of Europe). Georgia, Armenia, Russia are in the caucasus area. Not Spain. Completely wrong word.
@@fabiansaerve Caucasian is the word "White" people in the USA have appropriated to use to refer to themselves when they don't want to use the word "White", especially on forms where one has to fill in the relevant racial categories. I'd be surprised if the Americans using it nowadays have any idea about the actual cultural/ geographical region it comes from.
@@melissagrant1649 Similar to how the Nazis talked about "Aryan" - also completely the wrong word. In the past, people did that a lot, and some of that shit still survives in some places.
@@fabiansaerve Caucasian is a term used in the USA to describe people who originate 'west of the Caucasus' - so Europeans and Arabics. Asians they mean anyone with an epicantic fold (that would include anyone descendant of steppe nomads, like Seljuk Turks - even though they live west of the Caucasus). Then of course there's the African( -American), anyone (with ancestry) out of sub-Saharan Africa. Then Latinos for anyone speaking Spanish or Portugese who is born in the Caribean or Americas. But yeah, humans or homo sapiens will do for all of them, if we're talking race / species. But then there's these memes of US-citizens going 'Homo sapiens? We're all good christian people here, none of this gay baloney!"
The most stupid thing I have heard from an American was "Finland can't survive with their free healthcare or education for more than 25 years". Fun fact. Finland is over 100 years old and our current system has been a thing for most of that time. Maybe they could use a little bit more free education?
I hear that all the time too, being Dutch, they just want to be right and mighty at all times
It's the kind of comment that would be passed on by private US heathcare and private education corporations for the public to be conditioned to agree with and iterate
The difference between socialism and social state is hard for some people.
Germany has socialized health care since Bismarck and a lot of other socialist benefits. Not because Bismarck, a monarchist, cared about the common people, he just wanted to undercut the socialists. Still they remained popular so he let socialists be persecuted later on. That was about 150 years ago.
@@MrsNanaBlue yes, and that is weaponized by republican politicians.
Not travelling physically from state to state is no excuse for not knowing about the other states when there’s television and the internet. Many Europeans may never have travelled outside of Europe, but still know about other countries in other continents.
Yeah, I'm from Poland and the only other country I've ever been to was Germany, but it didn't stop me from learning basic geography and know and have something to say about at least 90% of countries in the world
The same probably applies to all Europeans
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We have to Fly to another country from Australia, does not stop us travelling the world and having the knowledge about other countries and their locations.
I have lived in norway my entire life and part of our social studies was to be able to name all the US states and their capital. Oh and also name all the countries in the world and their capital. Like come on, there are videos singing you through the entire world! The education system must be beyond broken in America.
the Problem is just most Americans are so dumb( don´t be offended :D) they think there are no other country´s :D (except China)
I’m from Sweden and I’ve got family in the US, and I’ve met many American tourists here in Sweden. Most of them are very nice and intelligent, but when I encounter a dumb one it’s really bad.
I’ve been asked by several Americans what it’s like living in a communist country! Then I have to give them this long explanation on how Sweden is not now, nor has it ever been , a communist country. They don’t understand democratic socialism, or how our tax system is designed to help everyone, not just to benefit the rich. They also have a hard time understanding that most Swedes are not religious, and only attend church if it’s for a wedding or a funeral.
Maybe THE dumbest thing an American said to me was “How come no one is wearing those hats with horns?”. This moron was an elderly man from Texas who actually expected to see people walking around Stockholm dressed as Vikings.
As a German living in Stockholm at the moment, this is so fucking hilarious xD
Stockholm people dress fantastically from cozy to chic and it is everything... But a horned helmet I have only ever seen in tourist trap gift shops xD
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@Gunther H.G. Geick I know that, of course they didn't, but that doesn't make it less touristy. It is like s cheesy gimmick s tourist can buy in these shops. That they are not historically correct at all is irrelevant in that case, because it still makes money to sell stuff like that.
@Gunther H.G. Geick they did, on occasion, use horned helmets as funeral gifts.
To be honest, I find the idea of scandinavians running around like vikings awesome.
US Americans seem to be really into this whole "my grand grandpa's neighbor's niece was from Ireland", etc. stuff. And then think they're Irish, German, Italian or whatever. And people born and raised in that country somehow don't qualify for that ... like yeah, you lived your whole life in Italy, but you're not Italian. But my grandma one saw spaghetti napoli on a menu with her own eyes, so call me Giovanni.
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Now, most people in my area are of german and polish heritage,but we dont say we ARE german. But we do use it to explain why theres a heavy german influence in city names, food and some of the accent and turns of phrase we use. But thats it. Lol
@@shadowstalker130666 Pennsylvania?
Well here in Argentina there are many people descendants of German, Russian, ukrainian and many other European countries but we don't think ourselves European we are just Argentinian 🤷♀️
@@KaiHenningsen Wisconsin.
I'm from Scotland. stupidest thing that was said to me was years ago I was in a chatroom with a number of people, including a few Americans (and I specify that in America's defence, as only one said something stupid).
Anyway, there was a girl who, on hearing my accent, asked were I was from. I said Scotland.
She then asked me how I could be talking to the chat from Scotland. I replied, rather hestitantly as I assumed there was something I was missing, "via the mic and software, same as everyone else".
To which she replied, "Nuh uh, I've seen Braveheart, and you guys don't have electricity yet, let alone computers."
At least the other Americans present, even if they hadn't seen it, were aware the movie is (loosely) based on historical events from 700 years ago.... when no one had computers, let alone USA, which didn't exist back then.
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Wow dumb!
Maybe it was just a joke.
A friend came to visit with her American acquaintance, and he told me he wanted to make a round trip the next day and visit Berlin, Hamburg and Copenhagen. Yes, in Europe, cities are much closer together, but not so close.
I wish I could have seen the look on his face if you told the distances in kilometers, few Americans understand the metric system because it’s either not taught in schools, or it’s taught poorly.
da weiß ich nicht, ob ich lachen, oder weinen soll..
I guess if by visiting he means see their airport, it's doable :P
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@@poulhansen3813 worry not,they're as thick as a brick.. They had to be shown my UK passport but didn't know what it was,serious problems.
I was once asked in the USA if refrigerators exist in Germany.
It was developed in 1876 by the German engineer and entrepreneur Carl von Linde.🤦🏻♂️
Put that damn fascist flag down dude, you're embarrassing yourself
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk man they claim that airplanes were invented there and not by Santos Dummond
Yep, and their god, the automobile, was invented in Germany in 1886 (Karl Benz).
A lot of Americans also think cars were invented in America. Obviously the automobile was invented in Germany. As was the jet engine, and the concept of jet aircraft in general.
I live in Germany, once a American person asked me on Discord where I am from since I posted a photo saying "Look how bright it is outside during summer and we have almost 10pm". The guy lived in a area in the US where he never got sun after 8pm during the summer so he asked me if I was trying to fool him and so asked me where I would live. I said "I'm from Germany" and he literally wrote back: "Nah, they don't have it that sunny there" I was like: "Eh ok?" and he went like: "Isn't it cloudy, cold and rainy all day?" I was like: "Not really?" ... his last response was: "Well you are not a German if you don't know your country's weather" ...
You say you're not a smarty pants, but you're prepared to learn stuff, which is great, so well done you
I think he is very smart
@@alicevanhuijzen-vandenbran6646 Smart I don't know but very aware!
That is enough for me.
2:23 As a German I can't fathom how normal it is for Americans to think of (foreign) nationality as equal to "race" (a racist term by definition).
It just blows my mind how citizens of a country founded by ethnic foreigners, built up and populated by immigrants - citizens of a country that has historically been so diverse that it doesn't have an official language could become so obsessed with ethnic origins and just weird with peoples nationalities, yet call people racists for the dumbest things so frequently.
america is addicted to race and racial issues, and to some extent is arguably conditioning the young in all countries thanks to social media
Well they haven't managed to unify, to create one nation with it's own identity... So they still care where they come from cause it's still an identifier. Makes them better than others
@@pmparda Yet they force children to pray obedience to a flag, just like during the darkest days of my home country's history.
The whole "us versus them" mindset reminds me of the same thing.
It's just as sad as is is terrifying to watch from the outside.
American education is so bad ! They don’t teach them history !!
@@Bassalicious I sooo agree... and am reminded every time I see something about that...
I'm from Spain, when I was 17 I passed a month with a family in Kentucky. During my stay there I would go to church with them although we didn't share the same believes. One time, at sunday school, I was chatting with the guy seated next to me. He was talking about he was making plans to go to Europe the next year. And then he asked me if I had ever been there. That wasn't the dumbest thing, it was that when I explained him about Spain being in Europe he said "Are you sure?"
Considering from this video a lot of Americans don’t seem entirely sure where their own country is or what it contains it is a little more reasonable to assume others are equally ignorant.
So, a couple of years back I was part of this multicultural fb group of roughly 100k members for people who wanted to experience music from all around the world. One day I posted a video of three teens from Tbilisi who were singing a traditional Georgian folk song while hiking. Next day I woke up to 20k angry emojis + over 3000 comments, almost exclusively by Americans, who were shaming me for sharing FALSE info. The average comment was "I was born/raised/have friends in Atlanta - this is not what a traditional Georgian folk song sounds like". Tried to explain how that's really a county in Europe - fb algorithm automatically kicked me out of the group after that mob reported me. :)
Oh I saw people from the US get mad so many times knowing there is a country called Georgia out there and demand it change its name because they were first...NO HONEY, YOU WERE NOT.
Or people from the US getting mad at the country Niger for its name saying that's racist. Must I really explain how different languages work?
The "We are the center of the universe" mentality has to be the most annoying thing coming from stupid people.
Try telling them that Georgia is named after Saint George, the North African Roman doctor famed for defeating diseases, not dragons, in much of the world. That might be fun. ;-)
OMFG it just defies belief. Almost every place in the US is named after somewhere else. And then to assume the reverse - that the country named itself after the city - is f***ing hilarious 😂 😂 😂 You should have written a complaint to Facebook and got yourself readmitted to the group. That would’ve annoyed the hell out of me.
Next time a US American asks where those songs are from, just answer from Sakartvelo. They won't know what or where it is, but honestly at this point it doesn't make that much of a difference. At least they won't be angry at you.
I was once asked "Where are you from " by an American guy and I said Bulgaria. Of course I did not expect him to know where a small European country is, so I was expecting a following question like "where's that" but instead the question was "in which state is it?" So I calmly explained that it's not in the States, it's in Europe. Then he apologized for not knowing that which was totally fine by me and then asked what was the language we speak in Europe. And I started again with the explanations that being Bulgarian I speak Bulgarian, other countries in Europe speak their own languages and that there's no European language that we all speak. So he blocked me
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And they have access to nukes, it scares me.
I am English and back around 1985 onwards spent several years as an assistant manager in large city centre hotels, we dealt with a lot of American Tour Coaches every week, I must have been told that I should learn to speak English at least ten times a week by fat idiots in velour leisure wear, talk about dumb.
But hang on, you speak fluent English!
Lazes Europljani imaju isti jezik 🤣🤣
Well, actually having green eyes is a lot more rare than having blue eyes. Great video.
And violet eyes are more rare than green!
@@juanausensi499 true,
Tho those kinda toe the line of what is considered natural.
1 Brown 70% to 79%
2 Blue 8% to 10%
3 Hazel 5%
4 Amber 5%
5 Gray 3%
6 Green 2%
7 Red/Violet
I've met a couple people with yellow eyes but I wonder if that falls under amber? Either way they were super cool looking and the iris turned an orange or red sometimes.
@@xursed7990 My father had blu eyes, I have hazel eyes (green and brown) and my brother amber (brown and yellow).
Love how he tries to explain their ignorance by saying "oh Americans dont really travel and that's why they don't know other states". No sir, you are supposed to know the states and capitals of at least your own damn country.
Our culture actively discourages remembering a lot of facts and trivia that's not directly useful for most employment, unfortunately 😐
he should be in the video just for saying..... she thought singapore was a mall, i can understand that!!! blissful ignorance
@Shannon L we think different and that's ok, everyone has their opinions. In my experience as a teacher, I find it really important because it opens the doors for many things, but if you don't find it useful, that is ok too.
@@_pianoN_ - Nah, I get what he meant by that. The girl asked where she'd bought her top and she replied "Singapore". That could've been explained by her thinking Singapore was ALSO the name of the store/mall from which she bought the top (perfectly possible). That went out the window in the part that followed though, lol.
This one is from my brother but it still upsets me 😂
My brother works at a hotel's reception in the South-East part of France, near Cannes (you know with the international film festival).
One day, two American tourists came to him and asked the best way to go to Cannes.
So my brother tells them the best way is to take the train in at the train station near there and so on... And the woman in front of him kept correcting his pronunciation of Cannes. Then he explained that in fact the S at the end of Cannes is a silent letter and that normally, is should be pronounced Canne, not Cannes.
Then the woman answered "No, you have to pronounce the S".
She was teaching my brother how to pronounce the name of a french city even if she doesn't know any french word and even if my brother was born and raised there. 🙄
Totally stupid woman thinking she knew how to pronounce Cannes better than a native French speaker could. Arrogance personified.
What is it with Americans not wanting to be American? I was born and raised in Hungary, my native language is Hungarian, parents both Hungarian, etc etc I didn't even move away from my hometown in Hungary until my mid-twenties... AND THESE RANDOM AMERICANS TRY TO EDUCATE ME ABOUT HUNGARY ALL. THE. TIME. They haven't even been to Europe, let alone Hungary. They don't speak Hungarian. They don't know anything about Hungary except its name. Yet, because they had 1 great-great-grandfather who was Hungarian, they're like "this is how it ACTUALLY is in Hungary", and try to educate me.
It's insane, really. The ignorance...
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Try being an Italian from Italy in America. You get Italian Americans telling you you're not a real Italian because for them "Italian" = Italian American only. Most don't speak Italian or others speak a local dialect which was/is only spoken in the village where their great grandparents' were originally from. These dialects either aren't spoken any more in Italy or have changed over time. This isn't their fault but they insist that they are more authentically Italian than Italians who were born, raised and educated in Italy and speak modern standard Italian.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Italian Americans then complain that Italians in Italy don't recognize them as being Italian. That is because culturally they are more American than Italian. The dominant culture in the US is Anglo Saxon whereas Italian culture in Italy is Latin.
I bet most of those Americans couldn't even point to Hungary on a world map!
Hungarian gang,galiant soldiers of Horthy 🇭🇺
I'm from Germany and when we visited Canada in the early nineties we visited the Niagara Falls. In our group we talked in German and a bystanding man, who later identified himself from New York, tried to listen. After a while he asked what language we used. He assumed it could be a language from a small native tribe in northern Finland. When we told him it was German he was shocked that we were able to visit Canada, because he thought that Germany was enclosed by a big wall that no one could cross.
At the same day while having Lunch in a restaurant at the american side of the Falls the waitress heard that we were from Germany. After paying she gave everyone in our group a big doggy bag because of the long drive we would have to go home. At this time a doggy bag was very foreign to us, because here in Germany it didn't exist in this time.
😱 😂 😭😭😭
Aaaw that was so kind of her though! Ignoranced apologized!
I‘m from Austria and in the early 2000‘s we were 4 girls taking a 10 days trip to New York City. In the cab from the airport to the hotel we talked a lot with each other in german and so our driver asked if we‘re from the Ukraine and we were no we‘re from Austria and he oh, my mom is from Salzburg. And we so, have you ever been to Salzburg? And he no, I don‘t even have a passport. I feel sorry for him til this day.
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Don’t be too harsh, he might’ve been in a coma since 1990.
I legit had an American friend that thought that England was in Africa 😂🙈 And asked why I was white 🙈😂🇬🇧🇺🇸
Noooo that's so bad 😂
That's some next level stupidity 😆
Ah yes Africa,
Known for it's global empires and exploitative practices.
Angola?
Was it Karen from Mean Girls?
I worked in a hotel next to the mathematic institute of the university in Münster - Germany and we often have these really smart people from the US (and all over the world) and even one of those smart "Maths-Nerds" asked me if I voted for Hitler back in the time - I was born around 40 years after the end of world war 2 ...
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Ach du Scheiße 🤣🤣🤣🙈🙈🙈
And? Did you? 😜
Das wurde ich 2014 als 13 Jährige in Texas auch gefragt
Mich würde mal die Prozentzahl derjenigen (USAmerikaner) interessieren, die glauben dass Hitler noch lebt!?
Meine beste Freundin war 1990 Austauschschülerin in Amerika. Die hat mir Sachen erzählt - will man nicht glauben 🙈 ... Die wurde auch öfter gefragt, ob sie denn Hitler wählen würde, wenn sie schon wählen dürfte. (in deren Geschichtsbüchern muss ganz schön viel Schrott stehen)
While traveling in the US, an American called me a liar cause I rightfully stated that we Germans invented the car..
This guy drove a Volkswagen😂
Ach Du Schande... 🤣🤣🤣
Rammstein has a line in their song "Amerika" that sums up the US so well.
"Coca-Cola, sometimes war"
Oh I adore the Wonder bra - Wunderbar pun in that song.
Well basically I adore all the punning Till does. That dude is a top-class poet.
I am australian and I feel really sorry for the average American. I have friends and family living in the US and hear about their struggles often. I live in hope that things improve for everyone, at least to the point that people can get healthcare and housing. There is no reason in wealthy countries for homelessness and poverty. You are a wonderful young man for using this medium to educate your contemporaries. It is people like you who will achieve change for all and I wish you well. Cheers 😁
@Shannon L lol..didn't mean to, but I can only speak for those i know, and for growing number of people in some areas, it IS a third world country. I have a cousin there, a widow, who works 2 jobs and still can't afford to keep her house. Perhaps it is easier for the young, but most the people I am hearing from are elderly. Sorry if I offended you.
The Dumbest thing an American has ever said to me has to be when I was in London. Now I'm English however an American tourist told me as a complement saying
'Wow you guys speak really good English.'
Where do I begin firstly the name is in the Title of or language. Secondly, What language were YOU expecting, and thirdly what language do you think your speaking !!!🤣
Believe it or not most Americans think that we speak “American” and not “English” 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️ I’m an American and it amazes me too lol
@@lukemomodujr Tbh you do speak American not English!
They really think English is spoken only in the US 😂🤣.
This guy kept saying how he finds it weird and hadn’t been to a foreign country where everyone speaks English when he visited South Africa, but then I remember he also travelled to the UK so there was nothing to correct 🗑
@@B-A-L🙄🙄🙄😊
A curious thing: Americans are the only people I know of who part themselves up in ethnicities, like black am., asian am. and so on. Most other nationalities would call themselves mixed, if adressing it at all. You are american if born in the U.S.A., german if born in Germany and so on. Why do you categorise your self?
In other countries it's just skin tone, Americans treat it like a culture
@@nose-vm3gu Not even that - here in Germany it's a matter of nationality. If you hold a German passport then congrats - you're German. If you don't hold a German passport then you're not German.
What really pisses me off is all these US americans claiming that they are German/French/Italian/Chinese/Whatever just because someone in their ancestry line was from Germany.
@@nose-vm3gu But a skin tone is not a culture.
@@nose-vm3gu Nope, not even close.
No matter what color your skin, no matter where your parents came from or your grandparents, or their grandparents...
they are just Germans, French, Dutch, Belgian, Swedish etc..
In the USA it's a way to divide, to make it an us vs them, and in some cases even to claim heritage.
Because let's be honest, who the eff cares if someone is 1/32th French and 1/16th German... get over yourself, you're American.
signed
A Belgian
(which means I have Italian, Spanish, French, German, Austrian, Norwegian, Danish, English, Portugese bloodlines, at the bare minimum)
To the people that replied to my comment, I'm literally saying the same, I was saying Americans treat skin tone like a culture (which it's not) and using it to divide
I really don't know what you're debating here(? 💀😂
Does America not have geography as a subject?...Here in the UK, I distinctly remember drawing detailed maps of all the continents, of learning about coffee production in Brazil, Ice floes in the Antarctic, Indian tea plantations and Tobacco growing in China amongst many other topics, (as well as facts about our own country) surely US schools have a World Map pinned up somewhere at least?
Some schools do. The point is that there is no national curriculum in the USA. Some states have a state curriculum, but often the curriculum is set by the local school board, which is elected. Whereas in the UK and in most other countries around the world, geography is a compulsory subject for everyone at least up to the age of 14, it seems that in many schools in the USA "world geography" is an elective and not necessarily offered. Education is a very classist thing in the USA - and it's people from the USA who have told me that.
@@alicemilne1444 Wow, that is insane...and it kinda explains how some americans can be so ignorant about the world.
@@norma8686 Well, to be fair, I've met some people in the UK and other European countries whose knowledge of geography has been pretty patchy. But at least they know that Africa, Asia and Australia are continents.
@@alicemilne1444 That's very interesting, I didn't realise they didn't have a National Curriculum, explains a lot :)
@@lynnhamps7052 Somewhere on the net there's a video of an American in his 20s living in England called Ethan (I think) explaining a high school curriculum from somewhere in New England to someone called Corrie (a Scot). It's quite an eye-opener. Especially when you read the comments from other Americans stating that that the guy must have gone to a high school in a rich area as they didn't get that choice where they lived.
Elsewhere, I've heard an American engineer who's been living in Germany for a year (since 2021) being amazed that his kids (all under 12) attending German schools are learning to understand mathematical concepts in primary school. I wondered what he was talking about and was gobsmacked when he explained. Apparently, in the USA "math" at primary school is just very simple arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, long and short division, etc.). His kids were getting practical text problems like "If an apple costs x, how many apples can I buy for x sum of money." or "If I have 2 pizzas to share equally among 6 people, how do I cut up the pizzas?).
Another thing that completely wowed him was the concept of spatial thinking: looking at a 2D shape and understanding what it was in 3D. He said he only got introduced to that when he was at college!!!!! I mean this is basic geometry.
The guy with his Irish great grandmother.... gosh! I always found weird hearing Americans describe themselves as part Irish, part Scottish, part Italian etc... I mean obviously in the actual world most families are culturaly or ethnicaly mixed so there is no point to bloat about it .
You can respect yours origins but that doesn't mean you'll know better than a local but thats my European pov 🤷♀️
Apparently the USA isn't good enough for them,
They won't admit that, but it's the only logical conclusion.
But they freak out when a fellow US citizen claims to be proud of their Turkish / Afghan / Sri Lankan / Brazilian etc. heritage...
If I was Australian I would have told that person that I swam to the US 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Every day to work and back. Want to stay fit, don't we?
@@Cau_No Of course 💪😁🤣
@@mangomonster5296 🤣🤣 yep, I guess so. 🙈
If you were Australian you’d know that’s impossible because you’d have got eaten by a great white shark 🦈 before you got away from the coastline😂
When I was a kid I had to learn all the US states and their capitals. I had to learn all the countries in the world and their capitals. This was in primary school. I am from the Netherlands and am proud of our educational system.
Well that shows that the Dutch have always been and are great businessmen and merchants, preparing the next generation like that....
I never learned that at school but I loved to study the globe and maps as a kid and I drew maps from memory just for fun, much love from Germany !
@@theoderich1168 I’m from Germany too and we had to learn that 👀
@@moniblack829 As a german i can confirm i had to learn that stuff too, forgot most of it now tho. :/
@@pizzakeks4816 yeah me too 🥲
I'm from Germany. For me it's the same. I even had an own American Geography class for a year. Learned all US states, capitals and most important mountains, rivers and so on. Learned countries and capitals from the whole world as well. Common knowledge
Americans have a huge misunderstanding about Spanish and Hispanic!
I'm European and I don't know the difference, is Hispanic what they also call " latino" in the US? Or is Hispanic all Spanish speaking countries?
@@TheKeystoneChannel hispanic is for Spanish
Latino is for latin american country.
Edit: I check my sentence and it's OK
All spanish speaking = hispanic
Latin america = latino
i am a Nederlander
in 1994 i was in a bar in new york having a conversation with the natives
one asked if we have our own language
and i told him yes we do
he then asked me if i knew that due to the colonizing not a lot of european country,s have their own language , and that ''we over here speak american , and were did i learn how to speak american?''
he was a bit iritated when i told him that ALL european country,s have their own language and that he spoke english and not american because we europeans did ccolonise most of the rest of the world and that the city we were in was once a part of Nederland called nieuw Amsterdam
Man, I really want to visit USA, try out those bacon and eggs and hamburgers with refill coffee in diners... you know like in the movies/series. And cherry on top, to get asked stupid questions!
IN 2010, my Brother, who lives in Australia, invited me to Come visit, and since I was unemployed, I decided to go. I noticed that a whole lot of people always expressed a wish to visit, but never did, due to all the dangerous animals. I lived in Australia for nearly two years and lived in Melbourne, Kiama, Sydney and parts of Queensland. And I saw a total of 2 snakes and NO deadly animals. The most terrifying creature I came across was a sort of yellow wasp we dont have here in Europe. But seriously, dont let the wildlife scare you. You have to be VERY Lucky to Come across all the deadliest creatures.
You see I can take snakes, yellow wasps, grumpy koalas…but I can’t deal with spiders. I don’t wanna see them.
Wow that’s really interesting
Good to hear the perspectives of the ones who experienced!
@@foreignreacts this is very true. I live rurally on a produce farm in Australia and still don't encounter dangerous animals often. When I do it's usually a snake and I see it because its fleeing very quickly. The vast majority of snake bites in Australia occur while a person is attacking the snake, so the old saying 'Live and let live' is very appropriate here. Please don't let our wildlife be the reason you don't visit.
depends where you live, too. you're not going to see snakes and dangerous animals in a cbd obviously.
@@lifelongbachelor3651 umm yeah you do just not often
14:15 if she thought America is the whole world... did she think Immigrants from other countries were literal Aliens or what?
This is a comment I posted on Reddit a few years ago...
"No shit…as an US American expat living in Germany, I was on a trip in the USA with two friends from university.We were at a public swimming pool in south Dakota speaking German and a young boy walks up to me (maybe 5th grade…) - “you’re using different words” he says to me…After my initial shock I proceeded to explain that there are many different countries in the world. Many these countries have their own languages and customs etc.
I don’t know if he believed me…
I sort of gave up on the us education system at that point."
homeschooling? cult? lol
An American on an anime forum accused me of faking being Polish because "there is no internet in communist countries". For those who are not in the loop, communism in Poland ended in '89. Before I was even born.
Some US-citizens believe all of Europe is communist. Because we have social health care, welfare, high taxes, etc. They freak out any time they hear or see the word 'social'.
Polish? 🤨 🇭🇺🤝🇵🇱
Lived nearly 70 years in Australia & never got injured by a deadly animal, even though I have seen most in the wild when travelling around. Same in Africa, saw hippos, elephants, lions etc. & no problems. Went to USA a few times, held up at gunpoint twice, and one standing in a queue at Greyhound, had my bags stolen & a cop was standing behind me & everyone said they "saw nothing". I know which country I would prefer to live in.
Oh no that’s wild 🤣
Beware the hippo! Most dangerous mammal in the world.
I think it's so crazy that so many Americans don't know anything about geography, like bruh my parents once had a competition of who could name all 50 states in US and could both name almost every single one. My parents are from Europe and never even learned such things in school.
I was drunk and bar hopping with some friends and we sat down in a pizza place at 1 am. One of my friends and I and listed off every US state capital we could think of. We got almost all of them. We’re Canadians and do not learn this in school
Considering the US influence is worldwide it’s not really that surprising. Now I’m betting if you tried that with Africa you would have a tougher time.
@@AliceAndWonderland2 that's some fine American exceptionalism you got there. I would bet that most Europeans can name 80% of the countries on any continent.
@@sirquasi yeah, it’s been a decade (or two) since I learned them in school, but I still remember around 80% I think. We were taught all the countries and capitals in primary school and then again secondary school, so maybe that’s why it sort of stuck well? 😂
@@AliceAndWonderland2 Well sorry to disappoint you but we do learn the names and location of all countries, including the ones in Africa
I'm Canadian and learned how stupid some Americans are when I was 10 yrs. old and visiting relatives in Lansing Michigan. I went to school for an afernoon with my cousin who was a year older and in Grade 6. I was in Grade 5 in Ontario, Canada. The teacher asked me if I would tell her class about Canada. I stood in front of the class ad explained how we have provinces rather than states and that Quebec was our largest province and was larger than Texas. The teacher instantly contradicted me and said that no, Texas was bigger. I got into an argument with her and ended walking out of the class feeling angry and humiliated as I knew I was right. This in 1951 and sadly things seemed not to have changed.
Hmm, you kind of ruined it by starting off telling us you're Canadian and then went on to say Ontario, Canada as if nobody actually knows where Ontario is, well, apart from Americans, and yet you didn't say Lansing, Michigan, USA! If any country really does need to build a wall it is Canada, North America!
I'm retired, my career was in International Sales. The best buy for most AMERICANS would be a $10 world map. Tack it to a wall and look at it once in a while.
Thank you.
I feel like i'd neet to give that last australian girl a hug and start a gofundme for her to get through the pain. I could physically feel the pain in what she described.
Omg, that little rant at the end was freakin hilarious! 😂🤣😂
The last one reminds me of a friend (Veneuzlan guy) telling me how, when his family moved the the US and he started school, the geography teacher asked him in which state Venezuela was.....
That's scary. It's one thing if a random person you meet out and about display such ignorance, but when it comes from a teacher... And not just any teacher, without the Geography teacher! Yikes!
that 8th grader thinking america is the whole world made my head hurt... in finland we had to memorize the whole world map in the 5th grade
American here. Can confirm the last time I had to learn geography in school was 4th grade (10 years old) and it wasn't even graded, so most people didn't bother to try very hard.
We had these little "passports" and we got a stamp for every country we got correct on the weekly test. But you didn't have to fill your passport by the end of the year for a passing grade. There wasn't really any incentive to learn them all except having a full passport.
My Dad, fortunately, did care because he did a double major in college, bio-chemistry and history. One of his classes was nothing but geography. He knows where every country is and their capital.
So not only did he take a personal interest in making sure I knew all the geography we were learning in class, but he added to it (Capitals) and insisted learning geography was important. I'm glad he did, because the school made no effort to explain why it was important or make us care.
He didn't want me to be like my mom...
Dad: -layover in Japan due to whether
Mom: -On the phone with a friend
Mom: Yeah, David's been stuck in South America for 18 hours.
Me: I thought Dad was in Japan.
Mom: He is.
Me: ...
Me: Japan is in Asia.
Mom: Same thing.
Me: You're not even close.
I love telling American kids that, as New Zealand is the first country in the world to start the new day, Santa Claus comes to our country first. Therefore Kiwi kids get the best presents, Australian kids get the 2nd best, and so it goes around the world until Santa gets to American.
As they have the last 3 time zones in the world, American kids get the left overs. I wasn’t popular- but l got a bloody good laugh out of it.
I had Americans state that I was not white, because I am Italian. But I'm literally vampire pale and have blue eyes... 😅😅😅
I was travelling the US. Some dude was like "woah man, where you from? You British?" and I said "Yeah. Jersey, near the UK". He was like "you guys have a Jersey too?"
I get that. That's fine. Jersey is some tiny island. From a country that often barely understands Europe, I don't expect them to know. But the fun part was explaining that New Jersey is named after Jersey. And then New York is named after York, New England, New Hampshire, New anything, half the place names without "New" too, etc. After his epiphany that America was full of names from other places... he finally said "wow. That's a lot of British names huh".
Yeah. Strange that...
They have half of the cities of their country with spanish names that pronounce badly. And they still think those are english names. So, dont ask them too much..
Jersey island is well now for its taxes or the lack of them. At least for corporations. Correct me if I'm wrong, please, that's the first thing that came to mind
@@txellblanxer9060 Yes.
Taxes are still levied upon money entering and money leaving, payroll, etc, but on a year to year basis Jersey has 0% income tax on corporates and 0% capital gains tax.
For individuals, we have up to 20% income tax, 0% capital gains and if you are truly baller, we have a tax cap meaning if you can pay £150,000 or something per year in income tax, you don't need to pay a penny more.
Harlem was named after the Dutch Haarlem and they can't believe it when you tell them 😂
@@TheKeystoneChannel Just don't even try to explain to them that New York was originally called New Amsterdam!
I overheard 2 Americans who were looking at the Wallace monument in Stirling ,one of them was saying how sweet it was to build a monument to celebrate Mel Gibson
I'm an Aussie and when I visited the US a few years ago I was asked where I came from. I said Australia and the woman said 'oh you speak exceptionally good English.' I said it is our common language. She was shocked. "Oh I thought you all spoke German."
Another instance, where we were asked where we came from and we replied Australia, the American said 'Oh yeah, the land of zebras and giraffees' that was her pronunciation.
We said no, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, koalas and cockatoos. She dismissed us saying 'oh I don't go to zoos, they shouldn't have animals in those kind of places.'
About the standard of education in USA there is much disagreement which statistics is giving the best picture of the situation. But there is one statistic that goes far back, is quite trustworthy and VERY revealing: The reading & writing ability of recruits when joining the US Army. This shows that Americans was better at reading during the Civil War than today!
I think some of them are homeschooled. That is also a very American thing, that patents can homeschool their kids, without having a proper education themselves and with no help from real teachers.
Btw love your channel and your smile. Hope you will be able to visit us here in Europe soon❤️
Yeah, where I am from homeschooling isn't even a thing it's against the law and I think we're discussing removing religious schools too I think because they teach controversial shit like "gay bad, women inferior etc." Which is bad for society.
@@siffe3336 It's the same in my country.
Yes, in Germany homeschooling is prohibited by law too. It's not about the freedom of the parents to do what they want with their children, it's about the freedom of the children to get a decent education and social interactions with their peers.
@@panther7748 so true. It's the same here in the Netherlands
I think some are more educated at home then at school, cause I've heard Harvard students being as dumb as they can come. It is amazing
Like honey,we ARE the colonizers.
That shit as a Belgian got me weak. 😂😂 ngl
In my life experience, I can say that there are no Black-Europeans, just Europeans. I'Portuguese and we come in many shapes and colors. Simply Portuguese. We can analyze our heritage, but that's another story. And it will never be something that can diminish but rather be great as pride to be Portuguese.
What you say makes so much sense. I have an American friend who was totally shocked that i knew much much more about his country, American history and political system than he knew. And i am only a silly German. :)
FYI by world population green eyes are at 2% and blue is 8-10% 😁👍 the only eye colours less than green is red/violet and heterochromia (two different coloured eyes)
Never knew that, cheers.
And yes, I fall in the 2% category (light green), which my American wife keeps saying is one reason she fell for me.
Forgot one rare colour. Less than 1% of the world's population have grey eyes.
I had to laugh when you shook your head at the term "petrol. "Gas" by definition is not a liquid. Yeah, I know it's short for "gasoline", which is the term used in the US for petroleum. In Australia, we have LPG which is an actual gas used to fuel vehicles. So we would only use the term "gas" here in reference to cars that have been converted to run literally on gas. Also, did you say you were turned off Australia because we have fires and animals? Don't you have those in the USA? 🤔
The term "gasoline" even exists in german > "Gasöl", yet it is an obsolete term and isn't in use for about 90 years or so.
Well, these days, California tries to beat Australia at the fire game - I don't know about the stats to judge how close they are. But as for animals (and in the context of Australia, those are usually poisonous animals), I believe Australia still has no close rival.
@@KaiHenningsen We have a few nasties here for sure. Just frustrating that people think it's super dangerous here when it's not.
@@KaiHenningsen Bears, Cougars, Bobcats, Coyotes, Wolves and Wolverines. I say US has lethal animals, you can stomp on a spider or snake, cannot say that about yours.
@@redwarpy Mine? Since when are the US ones mine? There's a whole ocean between us. And for that matter, those are fairly harmless compared with _homo sapiens,_ of which they have several hundred millions, and a lot of those are a particularly dangerous variant.
I have a funny harmless one: I was staying for a few weeks in the US as part of an exchange program in high school, so I was actually attending classes there; one day I sit in class and the girl in front of me has heard about me so she turns to me and asks "Oh are you French?" I agree, she turns back, then turns again a few seconds after "So that means you speak French???" and I mean yeah I'm French, I speak French... she turns back, another few seconds, and she turns once again towards me asking "And you speak English?????????" I mean yeah duh in which language did you think I was communicating with you TT She seemed truly flabbergasted
Oh, that was about the funniest video of `Dumb Americans` I`ve seen and you laughed along with me .Thank you .😂
" India, it's all a jungle there, right?"
"Are there roads in Africa?"
14:15 "HOW!?!" As an American born and raised, some Americans seem to just straight up start conversations with people just to hear themselves talk. They don't listen.
In high school( in Australia ) I had an argument with a girl from Florida ( an International baccalaureate scholarship exchange student ), she was insisting that Miami was the capital of Florida, I told her I was fairly sure it was Tallahassee, this was 1989 so no Google to help then, so here’s me thinking…umm could I be wrong, she’s a scholarship student and it’s her State…Then she said Tallahassee is the capital of Louisiana , I’m really confused now “ isn’t it Baton Rouge” say I ( poor fool!) she calls me an idiot and stormed off … of to the library I go, thank you Encyclopedia Britannica. I never bothered to set her straight I needed that Oxygen more than she needed and education.
lol, nice reaction, cheers.
I'm born and bred in Scotland as is my sister who had the oppertunity to live in Mobile, Alabama for a year. the stories she told me still resonate in my memory lol. She explained it a good way though, "when we brits turn on the tv here in britain, (at the time there were 4 channels available), but when i was in the states, you could tune into hundreds, but 99% of the content was geared/focused towards LOCAL, STATE or if adventurous NATIONAL news." i will never forget going to pick her up at bus station when she came home as she had gained a hilarious southern drawl and 20 decibels volume when she spoke, 'HEY!! HOW YA'LL DOING?'
Basically she told me, americans don't actually strain their poor wee minds to consider that there are other continents, countrys, languages.
I love Singapore! I've visited about four times already and it's an amazing city and country with so much to do in such a small region. It's funny that the girl said, an American asked her if Singapore was a mall, because that's how I affectionately describe Singapore… I say, "It's the world's biggest, multi-level indoor and outdoor shopping center where people live and work, that's connected by a subway/monorail system (the MRT)" Singapore is a country that is technically a giant mall. It's awesome!!!
Aussie here. 2 American girls from Kentucky (yes I know, not a great start) came to stay at a family's house. There was a phone call from Kentucky and the person on the phone asked (imagine the accent for the purpose of story plz) "are there Aborigines living in teepees near your home?'" .
Im a mix and thankfully they came to BBQ with me and a whole bunch of Aboriginal and Torres Strait island guys at our white mate's family home, with our mate's family having a Russian background. So there are like ohhhh? Australia is kinda cool. haha.
One of the girls was brown as me and with ethnic features and I said "whats your heritage?" and she said "what? just normal" and I said "no you have colour and all that" and she does "no ,I'm white" and I laughed a bit and said "don't worry ,you're not in Kentucky now sis, you're safe to tell" and she got defensive about being only white so I just left it at that with a hmmmmmm oooooo kkkkkk
7:15 I mean, she blew her mind so i guess you could call that terorrism in some way? XD
Hahaha I love your "HOW?!?!?!" response xD Keep on rocking dude!
I am German, we did a student exchange with a high school and they wanted to show us a real US college, we had a Q&A with the college (!) students there. „ Do you have cars in Germany?“
Meanwhile they drive 'Merks' and 'Beamers'...
Holy cow!!.. There's hope for me yet!.. YESSS!! 🤣🤣🤣
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So, i moved to usa when I was 11, and I told my class I was from Switzterland. And then the next day a classmate didn't remember where I was from so asked again. I replied that I am Swiss and this other girl got angry at me for lying yesterday when I said I was .... Switzerland (?). Like apparently every person from Switzerland is Switzerland and the swiss is wrong... So my dad calls people from the usa, Usa-er just to get me to giggle.
I am from Iceland and I used to work as a shuttle driver for AVIS car rental. One time I wss picking up a middle aged canadian man and his wife. We were talking and I said something about Icelandic being in Europe and then the guy interupted me and said condesendingly: “wait so YOU think Iceland is in Europe?” Like I was the idiot.
I was speechless. Point is, there is ignorance everywhere.
Fun fact: I work in a Canadian airport. Did you know that lots of Americans put a Canadian flag tag on their luggage because they know Americans aren’t particularly liked around the world? 🤣 they know people will be much nicer to them ( and their belongings) if they say they’re Canadian 🤦🏻♀️
'Then she called me a terrorist'. Laughing hurts now.
When my friend was an highschool exchange student in the US approximately 20 years ago. She said that the dumbest thing someone had asked her was if fake nailes and manicure existed in Sweden. 8/
The TGI Friday Australian lady must have realized quickly that her initial joke was too clever.
The one with the mall, I actually have an understanding for the poor girl that asked about it. She was expecting directions or a name of the actual store. Having those expectations she could have interpreted the answers that way, not even realising that the answer could be cities and continents. Malls and stores can have weird names. I mean, there's a fashion chain from Germany called "New Yorker". I've seen stores having first names.
So this is the one that might be just misinterpretation based on expectations, not on ignorance.
Black Irish is a full glass of Guinness....yum!😋😋😋🥰🥰🥰🥰
Having blond hair and blue eyes myself, I gotta tell others that this is a mutation and not the norm on a regular basis...being german doesn't make this easier at all lol.
Generally miseducated is perhaps the best description rather than dumb although the dumb ones are usually the most vocal. Wonder why? LOL
During a family trip to USA on vacation (we are spaniards living in Spain) we were asked by people in a couple of times which language we were speaking...We responded...spanish...they answered...wow..we speak some spanish but you dont speak like spanish.....We answered...well, it must be our accent. ..question? Where in spain are you from? We are from Bilbao...answer...is it in Mexico or Chile? No, it is not. It is in Spain...yeah, but where?.......
Do they even know Chile? 😂💀
@@nose-vm3gu qué weá? Yo pensé que solo conocían México XD.
@@patoconzapatos lit jahskdjs
@@nose-vm3gu The funniest thing is that I could feel my mum nervous, really tense during the conversation and I learnt aftewards she thought that stupid conversation was no more than a trick to keep us entertained so we could be robbed at some point....And I answered her it was just a misunderstanding...and she answered...jajajaja...How can you get so innocent and naive. No misunderstandings possible...everyone knows Mexico, Chile, USA or Spain are countries...full stop!.
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@@XabierXabi everyone but Americans jahaksjdj
The best one was the woman who couldn`t accept the different date line re: Australia ,then flew into a rage at being told that the seasons were reversed
Ignorance about other places, including but not limited to your own country has nothing to do with “Leaving your comfort zone.” Or “Going for a drive”. It’s a lack of interest or education except your own little slice of the globe.
The American system of indoctrination of young school children into this fantasy of the US as the “Best place in the world” encourages them to not bother, generally, to learn about anywhere else geographically or historically.
Certainly you have a minority of curious people who choose to learn and expand their understanding of the rest of the world but the general public not so much.
By the way you aren’t ‘America’ or ‘Americans’ you are citizens of the the United States of North America or the States for short.
There are two other countries in North America Canada and Mexico who technically are just as American as you not to mention an entire continent to the South containing Central and South America.
Honey we are the colonisers 😂😂😂 killed me there
I have been to tbe USA several times and to many states. On three occasions in Milwaukee I was asked where I am from... So I said I am from England... I was then asked what language do we speak there.
You may have noticed, there are lots of American-XXX people (for a lot of values of XXX), but American-English doesn't ever seem to be mentioned. Strange, that. Almost as if they still haven't forgotten the war and don't want to know how that was another civil war.
7:04 Same thing here in New Zealand. We spend our christmases on the beach and enjoying the hottest part of summer
For goodness sake. It has nothing to do with "driving", it has everything to do with a crap education system.
Oh you have an entire series about this... ok let's share a bit more. While living in London I met this girl from Oklahoma and when she asked me where I was from I said “Mexico” and she said “Oh I’m so sorry…” all worried by the way, and I said “why?” and she said “It was not my intention to bring you sad memories of war, crime rape and hunger, so you came here escaping Mexico” I was shocked… after some seconds I said “Pardon me?” and she said “I can’t imagine all you had to go through to come here. Did you came in a balsa?” and I said… “Girl, first of all, the ones in America, AMERICA THE CONTINENT, who escape in a balsa are Cubans. Second: If you didn’t notice there is an entire OCEAN between Mexico and the UK, I could never do it in a balsa. The only way to come here is in a plane or in a transatlantic ship” and she added so sweet (NO JOKE) “Well you could also come in a car, if you had one” and I said “Are you joking?” and this stupid girl told me (she wasn’t joking for God’s sake) “Oh yeah that you don’t have cars in Mexico, but yeah those are machines that move with power and wheels and can take you anywhere” and I said “anywhere but here” and she said “No it’s true they can” and I said “Girl… didn’t you hear me? There is an entire FUCKING OCEAN in between the continents!” and she said “Ooh so there is an ocean in between Mexico and the Uk, that sounds hard” and I added “How did you come here?” and she said “in a plane because is faster than the car” and I said “I came also in a plane but not because is faster than the car, it’s because a car can’t float in the ocean”, and she said “No way! You have planes in Mexico?!” and I couldn’t help my sarcasm and said “Yes we do, but they work with human power, we don’t have seats we have bikes you have to pedal all the way to UK or the plane will fall” my British mates got the sarcasm immediately and start laughing but this girl thought I was being serious and said all mad “Don’t make fun of her! Is not her fault to have been born in an undeveloped country with poor planes! ” At least she was trying to “defend me” let’s give her some credit…
I think that it's really weird THAT people from U.S.A don't know other countries because they are fighting war's all over the globe and normal people support those war's even that they don't even know where and why the war is going on.
If my country would go to a war In another side of the world I would like to know where it is and why this is happening and search for information and learn.
Actually the countries that America has fought in since WW2 are the only ones Americans have heard of!
"Is Asia a mall?" I spilled my coffee!
A dumb question if I may. Is geography not a subject in US schools?
Awhile back on vacation in Bali an american asked me where I’m from, I told him that I’m from Singapore. Dude glass eyed me and said “You don’t look chinese.”
I’m a native Singaporean malay and we are a multi racial island nation 😂
They only know my country, austria, from "sound of music". Apparently every child in america watches this musical, almost none child in austria knows the trapps or the musical.
That is so funny, I never understood that love for the sound of music with Americans either, it's like their favorite musical with Alice in Wonderland, I wonder if this is why they are not very educated cause these fairytales are being taught more than actual facts
That's because the Von Trapps eventually settled in America and were well known as a singing group in the '50s. The Sound of Music is also huge in Britain but at least a lot of British fans have actually bothered to visit Salzburg, including my mother and sister who dragged me all the way there just because of it but I did also revisit it because I was a big Formula 1 fan for a long while and stopped there on the way to the Austrian GP at Zeltweg!
Before cable tv became a thing, The Sound of Music was aired at least once per year on the Dutch tv-channels as well. My grandfather liked the movie so much us grandkids had to sit through several sittings each time we stayed over (he had it on video).
I prefer Commisar Rex to The Sound of Music! 🙂
Personally, my favorite thing about being an American and American culture, IS the cultural diversity. In my hometown, there is a Chinatown, a Greektown, Ukranian village, etc. We have summer festivals for the Italians, the Mexicans, the Germans, the Polish, etc. They are all fantastic fun, great food, good music, and a lot of alcohol. These festivals are attended by all kinds of people, from all cultural backgrounds. And yes, on St, Patrick’s day, Irish or not, Christian or not, we all get publicly drunk in the middle of day, and embarrass ourselves in front of our professional coworkers.
Most of us understand that there is an odd juxtaposition between being proud of the idea of a “nation of immigrants” or “the melting pot” while also seeing a lot of “too many damn immigrants coming here”. Not my feelings, but these ideas do both exist at the same time.
We’re not all dumb. Videos with titles like, “Tell us about intelligent conversations you’ve had with an American,” don’t get clicks. Likewise, these street quizzes that are so popular now, of course they edit out all the people who answer the questions correctly and who can point out the location of any country on a map. Its just more fun to watch the dumb people, and makes us feel better about ourselves for not being that person.
I’ve travelled a good bit. There are dumb people everywhere. Americans just have a bit of over-confidence that goes along with our dumb sometimes.
Peace and love, friends.
Driving from Finland to Sweden will take a really long time, if you're not living up in the northern parts. Let's say driving from Stockholm to Helsinki (not going by boat) only driving on land will take 21h (the distance being 1760 km) .
It will take the same amount of time as to drive to Paris, France from Stockholm. (22h; 2000 km)
What I want to say by this is that there are some large distances in Europe too, even if the countries are close by, there are quite some distance for travel. Sweden is 1937 km long, and driving from the northernmost to the southernmost part will take about 23h.
For comparison, that's the same amount of time it will take you to drive from New York to New Orleans (2100 km)
I can’t speak for the ignorance of others on the subject of geography, but I know that for me the Mercator projection map really threw off my understanding of the sizes of countries and the distances between them for a long time, because it distorts those things. Just my experience.
Nah, it does not take that long.
Drive on the ferry.
Drive off the ferry
A quick and easy 2 minutes :)
Yeah, driving from the Swedish speaking, western coastal areas of Finland to Northern Sweden, where many of us have friends and relatives, does take a really long time. Luckily there is a ferry between Vasa and Umeå, so that helps a lot! In the south of Finland the ferry connections to Stockholm and Tallinn are of course very good, but other than that Finland is a little secluded and we can't really go on a quick weekend trip to any large European city without flying. I'm hoping the Baltics will build a high-speed train line to Prague, preferably starting with a Helsinki-Tallinn tunnel.
Bruh I've never been out of my comfort zone as well lol knowing what is country, state, continent is a basic General Knowledge!😂
Just... The most american thing is relating everything with the raze.
I visited the USA 20 years ago and a waitress asked where we were from. The Netherlands I replied. She was honest and said she didn't know where that is. So we told her it's in Europe. Then she asked if we had traffic lights and microwaves too...
There is a tiny part of Turkey on the Asian side around the city of Marmaris, where a good portion of the locals look like vikings.
Blond or red hair, steel blue eyes, tall men, tall women, no hooked noses and fair skin.
Typical for the region, a-typical for the entire country of Turkey.
There are countless regions on the planet with such abnormities.
Same for the region around Moscow. Those Scandinavians traveled, and occasionally conquered, pretty widely - also, as far as we know, were the first Europeans to visit America, long before Columbus.
Possibly descendents of Varangian Guards who brought their family withj them.
@@warrenwiley5656 That's about what I heard.
A possible answer about this is for the presence in the Bizantine Empire of the Franks Crusaders in the XI century. Literally during the time of the first Crusade
I nearly threw my phone out the window at the ending one.....your reaction was me but on the inside.
The comment you made about race is very true. The problem of course is that humans are visual creatures and tend to link words with these visuals. The girl talking nonsense about people from Spain is a clear example of this. She has associated the word caucasian with not just a specific look but with a specific place aka U.S. She has also probably associated Spain with 'latina people' just because they speak spanish and the only visual she has for that are people from say Mexico or Puerto Rico. Latinas ofcourse can be caucasian but that's not the visual this girl is associating with the word. It's also why some dark-skinned people in the U.S. struggle to understand that Africa has the entire range of skin tones, hair textures and eye colours and that a light skinned person with grey eyes and curly hair from the continent may not necessarily be mixed.
caucasian? Bro Spain is on the west side of Europe. Caucasus is a mountain range partly in Asia at the black sea (East side of Europe). Georgia, Armenia, Russia are in the caucasus area. Not Spain. Completely wrong word.
@@fabiansaerve Caucasian is the word "White" people in the USA have appropriated to use to refer to themselves when they don't want to use the word "White", especially on forms where one has to fill in the relevant racial categories. I'd be surprised if the Americans using it nowadays have any idea about the actual cultural/ geographical region it comes from.
@@melissagrant1649 wait… what?! Why are Americans always obsessed with “races” (which aren’t actual races) lol
@@melissagrant1649 Similar to how the Nazis talked about "Aryan" - also completely the wrong word. In the past, people did that a lot, and some of that shit still survives in some places.
@@fabiansaerve Caucasian is a term used in the USA to describe people who originate 'west of the Caucasus' - so Europeans and Arabics. Asians they mean anyone with an epicantic fold (that would include anyone descendant of steppe nomads, like Seljuk Turks - even though they live west of the Caucasus). Then of course there's the African( -American), anyone (with ancestry) out of sub-Saharan Africa. Then Latinos for anyone speaking Spanish or Portugese who is born in the Caribean or Americas.
But yeah, humans or homo sapiens will do for all of them, if we're talking race / species.
But then there's these memes of US-citizens going 'Homo sapiens? We're all good christian people here, none of this gay baloney!"
"Black Irish," is a term to describe certain Irish people with curly, black hair, probably descended from stranded Spanish sailors.
Yes from the Spanish Amarda.