@@TheSebbyHour they had concrete, they even had something we didnt have today, or, at least, up until last year. "self healing concrete". google and you will learn: "why was roman concrete so durable". i dont want to mouth - feed you with that, so GOOGLE IT.
Retired Australian here. I've had many years experience working in hospitality & tourism. Believe me it's very common here too. The look of outrage & indignation when you tell them you can't accept $US is hilarious. Used to ask them if my Aust $'s would accepted in the States. Reply, "of course not". The hypocracy & superority is astounding
I worked in tourism for a year and a half at a ferry terminal and the hypocrisy and superiority complex that some people have when travelling is actually insane. And it's not just Americans on this front, I have found some English, French and German people to be very rude to me in my work... Whilst others were lovely! Americans were always very cold and blunt and never responded to a cheerful "Good morning" or "Good evening" when they reached check-in... Often just sat silently in their cars and handed me the documents I asked for whilst hardly acknowledging my existence. 🥲
@@TheSebbyHour lol. I can so relate. Used to live & work in Thailand as an English teacher & adventure tour leader. The Thais call westerners "farang". Something odd happens to westerners in the tropical heat & they/we tend to go a bit loopy. Thais have term for this, they call it "farang fits". I live smack bang on the tropic of Capricorn in inland Qld we call it mango madness cos mango season coincides with the wet season in summer. A time of year when wierd things happen. Another term is "going troppo" Believe me it's a real thing. Worked in a resort in Cairns for years, one day a coach load of English tourists stayed for a few days mid summer. On check in their tour leader handed out their room keys & told them how to get to their rooms. I was heading for a break & found this relatively elderly English dude lost. When he saw me in my uniform he threw his bag on the ground at my feet & started stomping his feet like a toddler, screaming "Where's my f**king room". Used to meet & greet at the airport. Mate of mine reckoned that the airport security gate where it goes ping was bullshit. His theory was that the gate used to ping as it sucked out holiday makers brains on boarding a flight & gave it back when they got home 😂. At the airport all of us drivers used stand in line with our signs as we waited to meet our guests. We LOVED swapping stories about our various pax. The yarns could easily fill several yards of hilarious book space. Not my saying but I heard someone say that stupidity is not unique to Americans but damn, when they do it, they do so well. Sadly Aussies aren't much better but the Yanks are in a league of their own. If you get the chance I highly recommend watching a series of You Tube clips called "What's the dumbest thing an American has said to you?" That'll give you a giggle & have you shaking your head in equal measure. Essay over. So many stories, so little time & space. Best wishes & keep em coming.
@@robertclothier3597 hahaha, I used to love the contrast between British or French lorry drivers Vs the Polish or Romanian ones. The Brits and French would always hour if they had to share a cabin with someone else (which was standard policy because their companies used to group them together). One of my colleagues who worked on the boats said that they had a Romania driver walk into a flooded cabin which had a sign on the door saying "Please go to reception to get assigned a new cabin". He mustn't have seen the sign because, bless him, he went and slept on the unmade bed (no mattress or sheets) in a flooded room and didn't even complain. Staff went to knock on the door when he didn't come to reception after the boat took off, they just found him in there, accepting of his fate 😂
I'll never forget the story an Italian friend of mine told me: he went to the US for a business-trip and an American asked him if he already tasted some real American food, like pizza. 😂
@@TheSebbyHour I live in a town in Canada that has literally won best pizza in the world many times over. in the 50s some Italian immigrants created a pizza joint then after they retired their staff went on to create 30% of the current pizza joints that consistently win awards for it. its a local cheese producer as well that is part of it.
I have heard that there are some very good pizzas in the US and Canada, but I do question who organised said competition. A bit like how most of the Michelin star restaurants are in France 👀
I don't get born 'n' bred Yanks calling themselves "Irish" or "Italian" etc. I'm a New Zealander. My ancestry includes Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. 28% of my genetic heritage comes from Wales, but I don't identify as "Welsh", even though my Welsh ancestors arrived in New Zealand far more recently than the average Yank's ancestors emigrated from Ireland. I've never been to Wales, I can't exchange more than the most basic pleasantries in Welsh, I know fuck all about their culture, and I would certainly not presume to comment on their politics or lifestyles... I was born and raised in New Zealand, like both of my parents, all of my grandparents and a goodly number of my great- and great-great-grandparents. You get Yanks that would be hard pressed to find Ireland on a world map claiming to be "Irish" despite no one in their family having set foot in Ireland for the last 200-odd years. Mind boggling.
My views exactly! 😂 My genetic heritage includes so many countries as well... But I have 2 citizenships and those are the two I identify as! (I have the passports to prove it!)
It's almost as if being "American" isn't good enough for them, maybe there's some doubt in their minds that the US truly is the greatest country in the world.
Loved your channel :D subscribed! I've actually had a lot of 'interactions' with American visitors in my parents restaurant when I was a child - we lived near a big, international exhibition centre and entertainment complex - and have seen groups of 5-6 americans literally empty our restaurant of other customers, being loud, arrogant and obnoxious and it always looked like a pigsty whenever they left.
Thank you for subscribing! I'm really glad you enjoy what I make 🫶 They have a terrible attitude towards customer service, it's insane. When I worked in the ferry terminal they were always the rudest and most unpleasant customers... 🥲
Most of us who travel are pretending to be Canadian and running away from the loud ones who refuse to learn any other languages and just yell to "make them understand" and often wear big hats and come from San Antonio.
Yeah, it's all those people from the big SA. 😂 I will say, in fairness, I've seen so many Brits talking loudly and slowly at customer service workers in France because they didn't even bother learning "Hello", "Goodbye", "Please" and "Thank you"... I've never understood that... When I went to Poland, I always made sure to give everyone a dzień dobry when I walked into a business. It's not hard to at least just learn the polite expressions in a new language, it shows good faith and interest in foreign culture... But then, I worked in tourism and know what it's like to be on the receiving end of a nasty tourist so...
This is the first time I get a comment about the audio quality, so I'm very surprised... Mainly as I use an SM58, which is a perfectly reqsonable microphone for this kind of video. I export the audio as MP3 and not WAV before importing it into my video editing software, maybe that's what sounds bad to you? But honestly, I'm editing all of this on a computer that is on the verge of death... The computer already struggles with what I ask of it, if I replaced the MP3 with WAV it would brick... But also, unless you're listening with high quality speakers or quite loudly with studio headphones, the compression shouldn't be that disturbing... What exactly is it that bothers you about the sound?
I had a similar experience to your Burger King feeders. On a trip to Europe a few years ago I was on a bus full of overseas tourists. We stopped in Cologne for lunch and the driver suggested some local restaurants. Suddenly there was a stampede of Americans (US) following a leader who was loudly declaring that there was a Mac Donald's on the corner with "real food". God bless their fatty little hearts.
Australia is pretty much the same size as America. We have public transport as that is a freedom. It’s a freedom to not drive (great for getting pissed!) viable for the youth, elderly and disabled who can’t drive. Not having public transport is restriction of freedom.
@ apparently, found out today, the place with the most roundabouts, is a place in Indiana US! But yeah fear of roundabouts is extraordinary to me. We have plenty here in Western Australia. There’s be more if it didn’t come down to local vs federal government funding!
@trevorcook4439 I think that's a bias of how Google works and I would fact check that... When I Google "City with the most roundabouts" it comes up with Carmel "has more than 150 roundabouts, more than any other city in the United States". Yet if I Google the city in France which has the most roundabouts (that's Nantes), that has 1100 of them... It completely blows Carmel out of the water 👀
I'm Australian, my nana was Scottish, I am still Australian, Never understood why Americans always brand themselves into groups. My cousin is married to a black American soldier, they live in Australia, he always tells me Australia is the only place where he was just called an American, not African American, which makes no sense, what about a white south african living in America? what are they called.
I'm reminded of a story about President Grant having taken a tour of Europe. The Mayor of Rome gave him a tour, and their coach passed the Coliseum. Grant said, "That's a magnificent looking building. When will it be finished?"
It's still in use in the Roman-Catholic church - for special occasions at least. Possibly you could meet people speaking Latin fluently in the Vatican state in Rome - it's an independent state within the city of Rome in Italy (there're probably a dozen Romes in the USA).
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl It is not just a state, it is an independent country. But none of the citizens is a native Latin speaker. And in everyday communication, they speak Italian rather than Latin.
I cite latin as being one of the nost useful things i learnt in school. Although my french and german is poor i can pick up a newspaper or book in any latin derived language and figure out whats going on from the derivation of the words.
I have personally never heard of that in my life, or most other meanings of SA, other then the assault one, but that is good to know, and I will try to keep it in mind
I have often found that most of the Americans I have met who either study or have moved to the UK or France tend to be quite critical of other Americans. 😂
this video looks so professionally made, that it's hard to believe you only have 189 subscribers. I'm impressed, you've got yourself another sub, and keep up the great work!
I was delivering downtown once in a boarder town in Canada and i had 2 Americans come around the corner after crossing in the middle of July in a heat wave and ask "where is all the snow?" (we are also south of Detroit) i pointed down the main road that leads to the 400 series highways and said drive down this road for 4 hours, when you see highway 400 head north, drive for 3 days till you run out of road you might see snow if you walk for a few weeks after that." the look of disappointment and confusion was priceless! I've also went to Florida when i was 14 and convinced a few of them i forgot to put away my penguin... No joke. their education system sucks.
@@TheSebbyHour I haven't seen more then 3 or 4 inches in a decade where i'm at across from Detroit. the river used to never freeze over due to pollution, then the zebra muscles cleaned it and it used to freeze consistently up to just 11 or 12 years ago. I haven't seen it freeze over since.
3 or 4 inches seems like a lot to me 😂 We got about half an inch last year and everyone lost their minds because it was the most we'd had in almost a decade!
Irish-American here. These criticisms are largely deserved and I wince in shame when I run into fellow Americans acting ugly overseas, particularly when they use their outdoor voices indoors or incessantly compare everything they experience with their more familiar US version. And although I understand and harbor some Irish-American pride, it's conscientiously measured because being Irish-American is like being a Dallas Cowboy fan: There are so damn many of us running around that it hardly matters when we encounter one another. "Oh, you too, huh? You don't say!" BTW, this may be ugly of me but any non-American who insists on calling us "USians" had better put 'em up or run away at once, fast.
Hahaha, I won't call you a USian, promised! (Although you do claim the whole continent as your nationality name 😂) I love the "use their outdoor voices indoors" 😂 Even our outdoor voices are quieter than some tourists I've come across. But if it can serve to reassure you, Brits abroad are also a nightmare! 🫠
Americans don't really have a good grasp of "nationality" because to us there's the USA and then there's everywhere else. We DO, however, have a very thorough, nuanced, and incorrect concept of race and ethnicity, and thus see people from different countries as different ethnic groups. So, an Irish-American is an *ethnicly* Irish American. For example, a Black person from Jamaica or Brazil is still African American, somehow. "Ethnic" makeup is super important because racism and eugenics are still the dominant cultural and political forces here.
Oh, that's a really interesting take on the question. Thank you for your comment! I never thought of it like that and it does actually make more sense viewed from that angle... It's crazy how much the history of a country plays into its perception of the world. 😊
What if the cause of the racism is your strange obsession with race. We don’t do that here in Australia. We’re all Australian. Even those of us born overseas call ourselves Australian. Diversity here is higher than the US too. 26% here to 14% in the US. Same size countries and both young countries colonised by the British.
It is this institutionalised racism built into US culture by the rich and powerful, using Mainstream Media and Social Media that keeps the people of the US from looking at what those rich and powerful are doing to their country. Nowhere else in the world, other than USA, segregates their people into sub categories based on skin colour and generational heritage. I'm convinced that if the common people of the US stopped calling themselves African-American, Irish-American, Mexican-American, Chinese-American, etc. and just called themselves Americans, that racism levels would drop considerably.
Not so much America The Home Of The Free as the home of racism, then . The rest of the World is trying to rid itself of this ,the US.as usual is 400 years behind .
I've come to the conclusion that there are a sizable number of Americans who have probably never travelled outside of the US and whose view of the rest of the world is based on what their right wing media has told them. They are like those annoying teenagers that get on every ones nerves in a world of adults. I know compared to most countries in the world the US is very young as a nation, but Australia and New Zealand are very young as nations. It must be the education system in Australia and New Zealand that has educated them so much better than a sizable portion of the US. But I supposed if from your first day in school they start with the brainwashing that the US is best and their swearing allegiance to a flag and what it stands for. Which is also strange because they also claim to be a very Christian country and the Bible quite distinctly says they should be be swearing oaths to other things.
My video that came out on Sunday touches on exactly what you said about Christianity clashing with their right wing politics, brain washing and in general the American Dream. As for brainwashing, I do find it quite surprising that a country that loves freedom has such a cult-like mentality towards its own national pride... It's disconcerting to say the least. I don't know how the media landscape works in Australia and New Zealand that much, but I'm pretty sure some of the major issues with the US media landscape is the lack of a strong, independent public broadcaster. As far as I'm aware, PBS has terrible viewing figures compared to companies such as Fox News. I feel like that's at least one big problem right there, along with the failing education standards...
Well, see, they use a loophole. "One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". That way you can say you're worshipping God, and not the country. P.S. If you don't know, that's how the pledge of allegiance ends. I was still able to recite that from memory, because I had to say it every day in middle school while holding my hand on my heart and facing an American flag.
Claiming that you are something more than American proves to me that being American isn't enough for Americans. They feel they are lacking so they need to add something. Quite sad really.
I agree... It's a bit like toxic masculinity in some ways. If you feel like a trait or characteristic (in this case, culture) defines you and you constantly require validation on that front, you're just insecure at the end of the day... 🤷♂️
Americans go to Ireland and claim they are irish. No you're not. Or they do a history dna and claim they are related to ALL the British royals... Yeh right!
@@TheSebbyHour 'toxic masculinity' is a term used by the 'modern feminist' movement to use against any male who does not agree with their viewpoint. The term came from a US psychologist 'Shepherd Bliss' in the 1980s, that he used in a study. Like the 'Alpha Wolf' theory, both have since been proven' to not be a thing due to a misunderstanding of events and facts. But the term persists, just like the Alpha Wolf thing.
@@Thurgosh_OG My comment was In context of the presentation, good fellow! And we are by now roughly 2000 years later and have only relatively recently come up with something 'Just as good'? Besides that, there are to my knowledge as yet no buildings of 2000 years old built with Portland cement, it being patented roughly 200 years ago. There are several surviving buildings and structure from Roman origin, however.
You're quite wrong about concrete. The cupola of the Pantheon in Rome is made of concrete. It is the largest non-reinforced concrete structure in the world, built at the beginning of the second century (that's roughly the year 125). The Romans made excellent concrete.
Being wrong about concrete has really fueled engagement on this video 😂 I accept that I was wrong, please replace the word "concrete" with the term "modern building techniques" and "technology". Thanks! Hope you enjoyed the rest of the video 😂
@@TheSebbyHour ,your reaction channel is there for others to react, thus provoking comments . Surely that is your intention ,people commenting on the comments
I'm happy to have a chat, for sure. But I have answered this particular comment multiple times now. 😅 At the end of the day, my goal with the channel is just to have a bit of fun and make something people will enjoy. This video has completely exceeded expectations and, because I try to answer all comments, has become a sort of part-time and unpaid job in itself 😂 As for my concrete statement, it was a genuine mistake... And I would never have expected it to drive this many comments 😂😂
On the topic of food, Dutch people asking where they could find a MacDonalds while visiting Italy, have seen that in blogs too. seriously? It is crazy!
Burger King in France or anywhere else in Europe, is a lot healthier to eat than US Burger King. Not that either can be called healthy, just the European outlets serve fast-food with safer ingredients.
Rome has a decent Metro. I'm surprised they didn't complain that the Colosseum was in ruins and should be repaired. Some Americans travelling abroad are clueless but very few of them have the time or the money to travel, so we only see the mostly arrogant elites and get a very skewed view of Americans in general. I've been to the US & the majority of ordinary Americans are great. I didn't bother with Disney Paris. The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and Arc de Triumph were higher priorities. Travel a little further to Bavaria and you can see a REAL castle or 2 at Neuschwanstein / Hohenschwangau. And France has quite a few impressive castles too. Ditto for the UK. I don't speak either Spanish or Portuguese, just French, so I won't be applying for any South American jobs any time soon.
Hahaha, the Colosseum does take the piss doesn't it? They could at least give it a coat of paint 😂😂😂 I've met some very nice Americans too, there are all sorts! But I do think their culture and institutions tend to skew them towards thinking they are better than absolutely everyone else 🥲
Sorry, but Neuschwanstein / Hohenschwangau is not a "real" castle. It's a 19th Century fake castle. It's still nice though. But if you want to see a real castle, visit Neuenburg (Freyburg / Unstrut), Eltz, Marksburg, Nuremberg, Burghausen, Coburg, Münzenberg ...
I also saw it as that but didn't want to risk a strike or an age restriction on the video 😂 I'm not eligible for monetisation yet so the policy doesn't affect me for now
The SA person has a point if they switched "San Antonio" to "Saudi Arabia" and that the official abbreviation of South Africa is "ZA". But that's getting too technical.
The whole nationalities thing actually does make sense, you just have to recontextualize it to understand it. The term Irish-American, for instance, is not saying "I'm Irish and I'm American", but rather it's saying "I am a unique cultural blend of Irish and American", and I think it's actually a perfectly apt way to describe some Americans of Irish heritage. The important thing to recognize here is that the US is a country of immigrants from a wide range of places. And because the cultures and nationalities of the immigrants are so diverse, immigrants generally settled in somewhat insulated communities with other immigrant families from their home. Even within the big cities, you still have sections of the city with distinct cultures. You have sections of the city that are distinctly more Irish, Dutch, Jewish, Chinese, etc. As a result of the insulation, many of these immigrant communities held on to a lot of specific elements from their homeland culture, which were passed on (and morphed) down the generations. It would be wrong to deny Irish-Americans the Irish part of their identity, because of how heavily it impacts their existing culture. I think where Americans go wrong is when they're too ignorant to realize that their cultures have diverged in the generations since the immigration. So then people try to claim that they're Irish, not Irish-American, because they don't know that there's a significant difference. Also, I think where Europeans often get confused is that they don't understand just how distinct these cultures can be. It's not just about having ancestry from a specific country, it's about having a distinct and separate culture from other Americans. At least, this is how I understand it. So, a person isn't Irish-American because their grandpa was an Irish immigrant, but rather they're Irish-American because they grew up in a community of Irish immigrants and their descendants, with their own distinct accent and culture. There's a big difference there.
I've just woken up to two massive comments on essentially this same topic, reading time! 😂 It is true that I simplify the situation in this video, but it is fundamentally a funny little poking fun video.... not a sociological study of the US and its populations 😂 My main criticism of this situation is that a lot of Irish-Americans or Italian-Americans, etc; often claim that nationality when they go out on the internet or into the world and speak up on behalf of "Italians" or "Irish people" as if they didn't even realise that there was a country beyond their own little bit of heritage... I get how diverse America is as a country and how many little sub cultures exist there, but I think that if you're going to claim a culture in your identity you should at least know a bit about it... And obviously I only speak based on the examples I've seen, but a lot of the time it seems Italian-Americans use that label because they have black hair, a New York accent and look like they're in the mafia. It often seems like exaggerations of one or two cliché traits of a culture. Again, I don't know that much about it at the end of the day, I'm simply poking fun at the arrogance of it. 😊
@@TheSebbyHour It's possible that the other massive comment was also mine lol. I did write another one after this, in reply to someone else's comment, wording things differently and adding a few other thoughts I hadn't elaborated on here. But yeah, I agree. I think the vocal ones, and the ones you see pointed out on social media, are the ignorant people who don't share much of the culture and don't know that there's a difference. And they are understandably made fun of for that. But you did ask for someone to explain it, so that's largely why I made the comment. Also because I literally had this realization while watching your video, and I was kind of working through it and thinking about it through writing the comment(s). I equally don't know much about it at the end of the day, and am largely extrapolating based off of some broad first-hand observations about American culture and depictions in the media.
Genuine question to @peterlewis2178 Why does it matter that they have a different culture? Most European countries ,especially the UK, also have a population made of migrants; the tendency in the past has been a happy assimilation ,only recently have people of a specific religion refused to do so.
I'll let @peterlewis2178 give their own answer, but I feel the need to touch on the last bit of your comment. I have hardly ever seen people from different cultures or religions refuse to incorporate into society, in England as much as in France... It is very common for people of immigrant backgrounds to group together (and always has been) because it's simply a comfort. You often see all the Brits living in France grouped together in the same neighbourhoods for instance. I don't think this has changed recently in itself, I think it has simply been demonised by both a sensationalist media landscape and an increasingly right-wing and even populist political skew in the modern world at the moment... 😕
@@Jill-mh2wn Take this with a grain of salt, since I'm not in any of those communities myself (I've got strong Dutch ancestry, but enough removed that I don't personally identify with it much). A lot of the people immigrating to the US were fleeing some degree of persecution. That already says something about how the immigrants valued their culture, if they were willing to flee to a foreign country rather than just assimilate (if an option). Then, on top of that, they often faced discrimination and ostracization once they arrived in the US, which likely sort of forced them to retain and build their own distinct culture. As to why it matters that they have a different culture, it matters because it helps to validate them as people. If no one recognizes their culture, then they're left feeling ostracized, treated as if they're just Americans, while simultaneously having clear cultural differences from other Americans. It's not that any one culture is better, it's that the different cultures exist, and recognizing that is just the decent thing to do. Also, I do take strong contention with the claim that "the tendency in the past has been a happy assimilation". For one, have you not heard of the Spanish Inquisition? Thousands of people were murdered for not assimilating well enough to the Catholic faith. Also, the crusades? Yeah, those aren't strictly in Europe, but still. And even more to the point, the original US colonies were largely founded by Protestants fleeing Britain so they could have religious freedom. Assimilation has never been a peaceful process.
Absolutely agree, the concept of Irish/German/Italian (etc) American is ludicrous, it is also an insult to America, they place their original nationality (which many of them never held) before their present nationality, if they were proud to be American then they would class themselves as American Irish etc. Possibly this is due to America being such a very young country, with certain people desperately searching for a history to validitate themselves. Be proud of what you are and have, be proud to be American.
New Zealand and Australia are much younger countries than the USA and we call ourselves "Kiwis"/New Zealanders and "Aussies"/Australians respectively. We may acknowledge our ancestry includes English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish etc, but we're _first and foremost_ inhabitants of our countries.
With a group of Americans, i was the only British person, the second night in Como we had no evening meal arraged. I along with a couple of other people walk round the town found a delightful square and a had a wonderful meal. Behind the Hotel was a Mcdonalds. Many of thr group had a meal there. They were too scarred to go to a restaurant because tgey would know what to order as they didnt speak Italian. They were shocked when i told them that the restaurants were used to tourists and had menus printed in English. One did ask if they had them printed in American Engish as well😂
Yes I would love to hear more about this subreddit. And anything that shows the ignorance of poeple from the US. One it's just hilarious and two, hopefully Americans will recognise that there is more to this world then just the USA 🇺🇸 😊. No bad feelings towards America whatsoever btw. You bring it light hearted ✨️ and are charismatic. Poeple will be less offended. I subscribed and am curious where this leads. Good luck! 👍 ❤
So happy to hear that you've enjoyed it, I'll be sure to make a follow up episode 😄 The aim is of course not to offend anyone, it's teasing in good spirits and I'm glad it comes across that way!
The US is bigger in surface than the EU (10 million km2 against 4.5 million) but smaller in population (335 million in the US against 447 million in the EU). We're both dwarfs in land size compared to Russia and its 17 million km2 and dwarfs in population compared to China (1.5 billion) or India (also 1.5 billion). But how is that even important ?
The point is that the size of the US is constantly used as an argument for why you can't have functional public transit. The fact that the US had functional public transportation solutions in the past and that those were torn down to make space for cars is always completely ignored and size is used as an explanation for why it would be "impossible".
@@TheSebbyHour . When those in the US talk about distances, it is as though every time they travel anywhere, they travel right across the country. The fact is, the more densely populated east side of the US is very comparable to Europe where size and distances are concerned. Public transport would be completely practical if the powerful highway lobby didn't control so much. The whole of Europe is only slightly smaller than the US.
@@TheSebbyHour Not really, as the Normans only really interacted with the Nobility. French was the spoken language of the nobles during the times of Norman rule over England but the common people continued speaking an earlier version of English.
I will defend the Burger King one, you have try the local Mcdonalds/Burger King at least once when travelling, I want to try the items we don't have and sometimes, just sometimes, you want something basic :p.
1:09 Yeah, I've never once heard an American call it a car park. I know the term exclusively from tv and the internet. So I'm just as surprised as you there.
If my brain wasn't stuck firmly in my head, I'd lose that too. How do you expect me to remember the name of my own nationality? I only worked on the border between France and England for a year and a half checking people's passports, you can't expect me to know what they look like! 😂
Here's the thing about "Irish-American" or whatever other European country-American. It's similar in Canada. People who use those terms are talking about ethnicity, not nationality. They're holding on to a small bit of family history, not claiming to be experts on whatever European countries their ancestors came from. I'll admit that I only read and speak a tiny bit of the language from one of the countries my grandfather was from before emigrating to Canada. I won't claim even the slightest familiarity with the culture. I've never been there and probably never will. But it's a fact that on the long-form census in Canada, they ask this sort of thing - where your family came from before they were Canadian. They also want to know if you're fluent in the language(s) of that place. This is because while the U.S. is a melting pot, Canada is a mosaic, and multiculturalism is part our identity. It's really rude of you to giggle about this, acting like people are stupid for wanting to acknowledge their family history. That said, there are obnoxious people who do claim equal identity with people who really are Irish citizens. But I rather doubt that most are like that. Oh, and Americans who wear Maple Leaf pins or patches? They should stop appropriating Canada's cultural identity. Especially if they behave in their usual loud, boorish, rude way while doing it.
The thing I laugh at in this video is people appropriating the culture of another country. The person I take the piss out of literally calls Irish people "the Irish-Irish" as a means of comparing them to "us Irish-Americans". Although it may not be a majority of Americans in real life, those who go onto the internet to argue about their "heritage" are usually claiming to be Irish, Spanish, Italian or so on... In addition to this, we have all got mixed origins, especially in Europe. I joke about it in this video, my family is part German, Scottish, Welsh... And that's only in recent history (often more recent than the link most Irish-Americans have with Ireland). The whole reason I point fun at Americans in this video is because America has this incredibly entitled superiority complex towards the rest of the world. You think it's rude that I giggle at misappropriated identity... How rude is it to literally the rest of the planet to teach kids in school that their country is "the greatest country in the world"? The aim of this video isn't to start a fight. It's simply to poke fun at American grandeur and the bubble that US culture seems to live in.
@@TheSebbyHour Since I'm Canadian, I also poke fun at American grandeur, on a daily basis. I'm so tired of their superiority complex and constant bragging. And yes, non-Canadians wearing the maple leaf in hopes of better treatment, are misappropriating our culture. However, your giggling at people who hyphenate their ethnic identity means you're not differentiating between the people who are obnoxious about it and the people who are not obnoxious about it. I hyphenate for the purpose of the long-form census, if I'm picked to fill it out. I hyphenate for the purpose of participating in some Swedish or Norwegian-Canadian cultural events here (the organizers usually ask). But by no means do I consider myself a citizen of either of those countries. I've never been there (would like to some day, but that's unlikely to be possible). My grandfather was reluctant to teach me Swedish, "because I live in Canada now, and in Canada we speak English". Yet he still received letters and cards from family in Sweden, written in Swedish, and I at least wanted to learn to read what was on the cards. He eventually did teach me some, though not enough to carry on much of a conversation. At least I can now read the cards and some of the letters, and have some small connection to people who are literally distant relatives. There's another obnoxious kind of claim that some people make. I belong to several medieval history groups on FB, and some groups have banned posts and comments where people boast that So-and-So From English Royalty/Aristocracy is their multi-generation great-grandparent, aunt, or uncle. It's tiresome. I'm just grateful that I know where some of my ancestors came from and approximately how far back. And there's not a royal or aristocrat anywhere, that I know of.
I do think that's an interesting perspective on the matter. But again, I'd say you're Canadian with Swedish heritage... I'd still disagree with you if you said you were Canadian-Swedish. I'm not making fun of people who feel an attachment to their heritage. I'm making fun of those who have no attachment other than genetics and claim to originate from some European country they know nothing about. You so often see "as an Italian, I completely disagree with this" and if you actually dig it turn sour said "Italian" is an American with a great grandfather who was from Naples. It doesn't make YOU Italian. I understand that you feel an attachment to Sweden and are interested in the culture, but I'm sorry to say I would disagree with you if you called yourself Swedish-Canadian or Canadian-Swedish... But I would agree if you said you're Canadian of Swedish descent, because (based on what you've told me) you are. But again, the point of this video is not to mock your heritage, simply the way that some people put theirs forward with the intention of getting "extra credit" with a nation or to win in arguments by pretending to be from somewhere they've never even visited.
@@TheSebbyHour You're still missing the point. You don't get to tell other people how to self-identify, regarding their ethnic heritage. It's like you don't get to tell other people how to self-identify regarding gender, or how they prefer to call themselves if they have a disability. You don't get to decide these things for other people and tell them they're wrong if their perception doesn't match yours. If I identifies as "Canadian-Swedish, I'd be a Canadian in Sweden, which is not what I said. I have Swedish-Norwegian ancestry and I'm Canadian. There are customs my grandparents grew up with there that they brought here, and I still keep a few of them a century later. I explained that FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE FEDERAL CENSUS there are times when I identify as Swedish-Canadian because the long-form census has questions regarding ethnic heritage. Multiculturalism is a federal policy here, so the government needs to know these things. You don't live here, so it's not something you grew up with, and it doesn't look like you're even trying to understand. I acknowledged that some people do claim to have the same status or credibility as the people from the European country in question, and it annoys people from those countries. I don't do that. I'd never claim expertise on any Swedish or Norwegian matter. By the way, that attempt at an American accent? Don't do that. It's rude to imitate others' accents for purposes of mockery. I'm not American, but I've had enough interaction with them to know that many of them find others' attempts to imitate one or more of their accents to be annoying. They don't all talk like that, just as there really aren't that many Canadians who say "eh".
OK then. Its a n.American thing. Because here we all come from somewhere else except indigenous people who we dont call them native natives.lol. but of course Im Canadian Canadian.
Well, Irish-americans and really the other nationality-americans are American, but the other part has to do with a cultural heritage and traditions. Really nothing wrong with having cultural roots, just don't claim to be better.
Oh, I agree, claiming the cultural heritage is fine. It's just weird when they consider themselves as being just as Irish as actual Irish people (whilst having none of the culture or traditions), then speak out "on behalf of" that nationality but also can fall back on being American anytime it suits them 😂
Huh... Concrete, didn't exist... If I remember my history lessons right, the Romans invented concrete, that hardens under water, which is a main archivment. Greetings from Germany. P.S. I live right beside the former Roman border and we have a lot of findings around here. A dozen miles north of Frankfurt, is a complete restored Roman border fortress, rebuilt 120 years ago and opened by a real emporer, the last German emporer...
I did get that completely wrong, I grant you that... My meaning was more "before we had modern construction methods" but I chose the example of concrete which happens to also be quite old... 😂
El que habla de roma y de los rascacielos y sus materiales, deberia saber que muchas de las cosas que construyeron los romanos, són de cemento, ya que ellos lo inventaron.
Couldn't you have left these comments a couple weeks ago? I made a video replying to angry comments already but yours would have been a lovely edition. I've never taken drugs in my life, I have hay fever which makes my eyes a bit red in the autumn and winter months... But talking of drugs, you should take a chill pill.
Je ne sais pas s'ils sont font des blagues ou si ce sont eux qui sont les blagues 😂 Faut-il avoir de l'humour pour être drôle ? Sortez vos feuilles, 2h de rédaction de philo !
Ah the Wokism of Americans, does this mean they no longer have their Great American Dream. The Romans did invent concrete which was far far superior to our modern concrete, unfortunately the recipe got lost in time.
I feel like America and "wokism" are rather oxymoronic... It's such a conservative country 😂 As for the concrete, yep, my bad. Recipe lost to time? I'd say lost to economics. Cheaper always equals better nowadays. Even when it means worse quality.
Oslo, Norway: I get your point about not the whole Irish population starving and therefore having to leave, but famine in Ireland was exceptionally serious and Britain did not exactly help. Re Americans identifying their ancestry 'hyphened': Italian-American, Irish-American, etc, while most other nations do not, it reflects on the one hand the present US population being of such mixed origin, at the same time as they have to a large extent felt it valuable to keep a link to their original group identity, which also lies not all that many generations back and is not so clearly dominated by one major group/nation. Look at the settlement patterns and their social grouping. If it were not for the dominance of English language, it would be even more evident. I have met Americans who told me that as late as about 1950, only German was spoken by the adult society where they lived (it was changing: the children went to English-language schools). I think you possibly misunderstand 'Latin language'. Yes, of course Latin is more or less a dead language (outside of societies of Classical scholars who, some of them, actually enjoy conversing in Latin), and it has no native speakers who grew up with Latin as their first language, but I have heard not only "Latino" but "Latin" used to characterise language (Spanish or possibly Portugese) or other facets of life or population in parts of the USA and Latin America in contradistinction to the English-and-northern-based parts. Quite a practical way of using words in a new sense when it is unequivocal. - - By the way, you might enjoy the videos "American speaks Latin at the Vatican with Priests" and "Can an Italian understand spoken Latin?". Actually, there are more of those videos: ... at the Colosseum, in the park, ecclesiatical Latin, Vatican priest speaks Latin with American on the radio, and so on. They are on youtube and very enjoyable!
Thank you for your comment, it's very detailed 😄 I understand where the hyphenation of two nations comes from, my main criticism is more of people who go on the internet (or even into the world) and call themselves Irish, Italian (or any other nationality) and speak up on behalf of that group, despite actually being 100% American, but with some distant heritage. I also think it strange that they love their country which is allegedly the greatest in world, yet feel the need to complete their nationality with a heritage that, let's face it, most of them have little to no connection to... As for Latin, I get that many languages fall under the umbrella of being "Latin languages", but I'm pretty sure the job post in question was looking for a native Latin speaker. Either a misuse of the language and very vague (are you looking for french, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian?...) or just really odd seeing as Latin in itself is a dead tongue. 😅
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I'm a native Latin speaker, hi
@@jamesrossmann9405 how exciting! There I was thinking you didn't exist...
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Ave
A latin speaker??😂😂😂
What are you
Actually, concrete DID exist in Rome 2,000 years age - that is what they built the Colosseum with.
@@angharaddenby3389 have you got any evidence of that? I won't accept anything flimsy, any evidence you provide has to be concrete.
@@TheSebbyHour Do your research. The harbour at Alexandria, Egypt ws ALSO made from concrete.
@@angharaddenby3389 Show your workings.
If you don't know the Romans used concrete... you should go back to school .... or just Google it before you write anything
@@TheSebbyHour they had concrete, they even had something we didnt have today, or, at least, up until last year. "self healing concrete".
google and you will learn: "why was roman concrete so durable".
i dont want to mouth - feed you with that, so GOOGLE IT.
I stood beside an American woman in a nice café in Singapore earlier this year and she was flummoxed when they wouldn’t accept her US dollars. 😂
How outrageous of them! They don't take freedom money!?!? 😨😱
Retired Australian here. I've had many years experience working in hospitality & tourism. Believe me it's very common here too. The look of outrage & indignation when you tell them you can't accept $US is hilarious. Used to ask them if my Aust $'s would accepted in the States. Reply, "of course not". The hypocracy & superority is astounding
I worked in tourism for a year and a half at a ferry terminal and the hypocrisy and superiority complex that some people have when travelling is actually insane. And it's not just Americans on this front, I have found some English, French and German people to be very rude to me in my work... Whilst others were lovely!
Americans were always very cold and blunt and never responded to a cheerful "Good morning" or "Good evening" when they reached check-in... Often just sat silently in their cars and handed me the documents I asked for whilst hardly acknowledging my existence. 🥲
@@TheSebbyHour lol. I can so relate. Used to live & work in Thailand as an English teacher & adventure tour leader. The Thais call westerners "farang". Something odd happens to westerners in the tropical heat & they/we tend to go a bit loopy. Thais have term for this, they call it "farang fits". I live smack bang on the tropic of Capricorn in inland Qld we call it mango madness cos mango season coincides with the wet season in summer. A time of year when wierd things happen. Another term is "going troppo" Believe me it's a real thing. Worked in a resort in Cairns for years, one day a coach load of English tourists stayed for a few days mid summer. On check in their tour leader handed out their room keys & told them how to get to their rooms. I was heading for a break & found this relatively elderly English dude lost. When he saw me in my uniform he threw his bag on the ground at my feet & started stomping his feet like a toddler, screaming "Where's my f**king room". Used to meet & greet at the airport. Mate of mine reckoned that the airport security gate where it goes ping was bullshit. His theory was that the gate used to ping as it sucked out holiday makers brains on boarding a flight & gave it back when they got home 😂. At the airport all of us drivers used stand in line with our signs as we waited to meet our guests. We LOVED swapping stories about our various pax. The yarns could easily fill several yards of hilarious book space.
Not my saying but I heard someone say that stupidity is not unique to Americans but damn, when they do it, they do so well. Sadly Aussies aren't much better but the Yanks are in a league of their own. If you get the chance I highly recommend watching a series of You Tube clips called "What's the dumbest thing an American has said to you?" That'll give you a giggle & have you shaking your head in equal measure.
Essay over. So many stories, so little time & space. Best wishes & keep em coming.
@@robertclothier3597 hahaha, I used to love the contrast between British or French lorry drivers Vs the Polish or Romanian ones. The Brits and French would always hour if they had to share a cabin with someone else (which was standard policy because their companies used to group them together). One of my colleagues who worked on the boats said that they had a Romania driver walk into a flooded cabin which had a sign on the door saying "Please go to reception to get assigned a new cabin". He mustn't have seen the sign because, bless him, he went and slept on the unmade bed (no mattress or sheets) in a flooded room and didn't even complain. Staff went to knock on the door when he didn't come to reception after the boat took off, they just found him in there, accepting of his fate 😂
I'll never forget the story an Italian friend of mine told me: he went to the US for a business-trip and an American asked him if he already tasted some real American food, like pizza. 😂
Everyone knows pizza is an American-English word 😂
@@TheSebbyHour I live in a town in Canada that has literally won best pizza in the world many times over. in the 50s some Italian immigrants created a pizza joint then after they retired their staff went on to create 30% of the current pizza joints that consistently win awards for it. its a local cheese producer as well that is part of it.
I have heard that there are some very good pizzas in the US and Canada, but I do question who organised said competition. A bit like how most of the Michelin star restaurants are in France 👀
@@TheInsaneupsdriver 'best in the world' seems to me 'a bit' of an unrealistic statement and impossible to know.
I don't get born 'n' bred Yanks calling themselves "Irish" or "Italian" etc. I'm a New Zealander. My ancestry includes Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. 28% of my genetic heritage comes from Wales, but I don't identify as "Welsh", even though my Welsh ancestors arrived in New Zealand far more recently than the average Yank's ancestors emigrated from Ireland. I've never been to Wales, I can't exchange more than the most basic pleasantries in Welsh, I know fuck all about their culture, and I would certainly not presume to comment on their politics or lifestyles... I was born and raised in New Zealand, like both of my parents, all of my grandparents and a goodly number of my great- and great-great-grandparents.
You get Yanks that would be hard pressed to find Ireland on a world map claiming to be "Irish" despite no one in their family having set foot in Ireland for the last 200-odd years. Mind boggling.
My views exactly! 😂
My genetic heritage includes so many countries as well... But I have 2 citizenships and those are the two I identify as! (I have the passports to prove it!)
It's almost as if being "American" isn't good enough for them, maybe there's some doubt in their minds that the US truly is the greatest country in the world.
**Horrified screams** 😱
@@nicksykes4575 America: the land of the free, the home of the brave.
Americans: "I'm Irish."
😂😂😂
Loved your channel :D subscribed! I've actually had a lot of 'interactions' with American visitors in my parents restaurant when I was a child - we lived near a big, international exhibition centre and entertainment complex - and have seen groups of 5-6 americans literally empty our restaurant of other customers, being loud, arrogant and obnoxious and it always looked like a pigsty whenever they left.
Thank you for subscribing! I'm really glad you enjoy what I make 🫶
They have a terrible attitude towards customer service, it's insane. When I worked in the ferry terminal they were always the rudest and most unpleasant customers... 🥲
Most of us who travel are pretending to be Canadian and running away from the loud ones who refuse to learn any other languages and just yell to "make them understand" and often wear big hats and come from San Antonio.
Yeah, it's all those people from the big SA. 😂
I will say, in fairness, I've seen so many Brits talking loudly and slowly at customer service workers in France because they didn't even bother learning "Hello", "Goodbye", "Please" and "Thank you"...
I've never understood that... When I went to Poland, I always made sure to give everyone a dzień dobry when I walked into a business. It's not hard to at least just learn the polite expressions in a new language, it shows good faith and interest in foreign culture... But then, I worked in tourism and know what it's like to be on the receiving end of a nasty tourist so...
@@TheSebbyHourYou might consider changing your microphone mate, this one doesn't sound great 🫤
This is the first time I get a comment about the audio quality, so I'm very surprised...
Mainly as I use an SM58, which is a perfectly reqsonable microphone for this kind of video. I export the audio as MP3 and not WAV before importing it into my video editing software, maybe that's what sounds bad to you? But honestly, I'm editing all of this on a computer that is on the verge of death... The computer already struggles with what I ask of it, if I replaced the MP3 with WAV it would brick...
But also, unless you're listening with high quality speakers or quite loudly with studio headphones, the compression shouldn't be that disturbing... What exactly is it that bothers you about the sound?
@@TheSebbyHour Perhaps ask the audience to give feedback ?
I watch RUclips many hrs a day, so I notice things...
@@edwardfletcher7790 I wondered if the mike needed some settings adjusted, from the audio but didn't say anything as it wasn't too bad.
I had a similar experience to your Burger King feeders.
On a trip to Europe a few years ago I was on a bus full of overseas tourists. We stopped in Cologne for lunch and the driver suggested some local restaurants. Suddenly there was a stampede of Americans (US) following a leader who was loudly declaring that there was a Mac Donald's on the corner with "real food". God bless their fatty little hearts.
Hahahaha 😂
Australia is pretty much the same size as America. We have public transport as that is a freedom. It’s a freedom to not drive (great for getting pissed!) viable for the youth, elderly and disabled who can’t drive. Not having public transport is restriction of freedom.
Completely agree 👍
And not being able to walk anywhere is just as big, if not a bigger restriction of freedom 😂
@@TheSebbyHour the freedom to be confined to your car 😀
@trevorcook4439 and stuck in traffic because infrastructure is terrible and roundabouts are scary 👻
@ apparently, found out today, the place with the most roundabouts, is a place in Indiana US! But yeah fear of roundabouts is extraordinary to me. We have plenty here in Western Australia. There’s be more if it didn’t come down to local vs federal government funding!
@trevorcook4439 I think that's a bias of how Google works and I would fact check that... When I Google "City with the most roundabouts" it comes up with Carmel "has more than 150 roundabouts, more than any other city in the United States". Yet if I Google the city in France which has the most roundabouts (that's Nantes), that has 1100 of them... It completely blows Carmel out of the water 👀
Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand
Aww, it's good that they're friends. Always important to find common interests 😂
🎶 Arrogance and ignorance sitting in a tree...
Or head in hands?
I'm Australian, my nana was Scottish, I am still Australian, Never understood why Americans always brand themselves into groups. My cousin is married to a black American soldier, they live in Australia, he always tells me Australia is the only place where he was just called an American, not African American, which makes no sense, what about a white south african living in America? what are they called.
The whole concept is really alien to me too... 😂
I am, you are, we are Australian. Not anything-australian unless it's indigenous Australians.
I'm not Australian! 😂
I'm reminded of a story about President Grant having taken a tour of Europe. The Mayor of Rome gave him a tour, and their coach passed the Coliseum. Grant said, "That's a magnificent looking building. When will it be finished?"
That's amazing 😂😂😂
Latin is a language, dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans, and now it's killing me.
It's still in use in the Roman-Catholic church - for special occasions at least. Possibly you could meet people speaking Latin fluently in the Vatican state in Rome - it's an independent state within the city of Rome in Italy (there're probably a dozen Romes in the USA).
@@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl It is not just a state, it is an independent country. But none of the citizens is a native Latin speaker. And in everyday communication, they speak Italian rather than Latin.
I cite latin as being one of the nost useful things i learnt in school. Although my french and german is poor i can pick up a newspaper or book in any latin derived language and figure out whats going on from the derivation of the words.
Please do go to the US disneyland and leave France alone
I feel like Parisians would be happier as a result 😂
wow amazing video didnt expect to see the numbers hope your channel grows. this video was very entertaining. Much love from Norway
@@TheWolf4636 thank you so much 🙏
Yes, my channel is very new but I'm trying to make some good quality stuff, glad you enjoyed it!
That’s ridiculous. EVERYBODY knows that SA stands for South Australia. 😉
Oooooh, I thought it stood for South Atlantic 😂
In most of Europe SA is asociated with Worl War II, the Nazi security and enforcement force Sturmabteilung.
I have personally never heard of that in my life, or most other meanings of SA, other then the assault one, but that is good to know, and I will try to keep it in mind
You beat me to it - that’s the first thing us Aussies would think it stood for!
I thought it was South Africa. (Kiwi here)
My wife is a yank, she hates when she finds other Americans. She’s always complaining about how loud and ignorant they are 😂
Lol 😅
I have often found that most of the Americans I have met who either study or have moved to the UK or France tend to be quite critical of other Americans. 😂
@@TheSebbyHour Don't forget the Netherlands.... I know so many Americans that stayed here 😊
Roman concrete stayed strong for centuries even when being underwater. Good luck for moderne concrete to last that long !
this video looks so professionally made, that it's hard to believe you only have 189 subscribers. I'm impressed, you've got yourself another sub, and keep up the great work!
Thank you 🫶
I try my best to make it look and sound good 😊
I was delivering downtown once in a boarder town in Canada and i had 2 Americans come around the corner after crossing in the middle of July in a heat wave and ask "where is all the snow?" (we are also south of Detroit) i pointed down the main road that leads to the 400 series highways and said drive down this road for 4 hours, when you see highway 400 head north, drive for 3 days till you run out of road you might see snow if you walk for a few weeks after that." the look of disappointment and confusion was priceless! I've also went to Florida when i was 14 and convinced a few of them i forgot to put away my penguin... No joke. their education system sucks.
You don't even have snow in mid July? Typical Canadians! If the US had snow as an export they would have it in stock year round!
@@TheSebbyHour I haven't seen more then 3 or 4 inches in a decade where i'm at across from Detroit. the river used to never freeze over due to pollution, then the zebra muscles cleaned it and it used to freeze consistently up to just 11 or 12 years ago. I haven't seen it freeze over since.
3 or 4 inches seems like a lot to me 😂
We got about half an inch last year and everyone lost their minds because it was the most we'd had in almost a decade!
Irish-American here. These criticisms are largely deserved and I wince in shame when I run into fellow Americans acting ugly overseas, particularly when they use their outdoor voices indoors or incessantly compare everything they experience with their more familiar US version. And although I understand and harbor some Irish-American pride, it's conscientiously measured because being Irish-American is like being a Dallas Cowboy fan: There are so damn many of us running around that it hardly matters when we encounter one another. "Oh, you too, huh? You don't say!"
BTW, this may be ugly of me but any non-American who insists on calling us "USians" had better put 'em up or run away at once, fast.
Hahaha, I won't call you a USian, promised! (Although you do claim the whole continent as your nationality name 😂)
I love the "use their outdoor voices indoors" 😂
Even our outdoor voices are quieter than some tourists I've come across. But if it can serve to reassure you, Brits abroad are also a nightmare! 🫠
Americans don't really have a good grasp of "nationality" because to us there's the USA and then there's everywhere else. We DO, however, have a very thorough, nuanced, and incorrect concept of race and ethnicity, and thus see people from different countries as different ethnic groups. So, an Irish-American is an *ethnicly* Irish American.
For example, a Black person from Jamaica or Brazil is still African American, somehow.
"Ethnic" makeup is super important because racism and eugenics are still the dominant cultural and political forces here.
Oh, that's a really interesting take on the question. Thank you for your comment! I never thought of it like that and it does actually make more sense viewed from that angle... It's crazy how much the history of a country plays into its perception of the world. 😊
What if the cause of the racism is your strange obsession with race. We don’t do that here in Australia. We’re all Australian. Even those of us born overseas call ourselves Australian. Diversity here is higher than the US too. 26% here to 14% in the US. Same size countries and both young countries colonised by the British.
It is this institutionalised racism built into US culture by the rich and powerful, using Mainstream Media and Social Media that keeps the people of the US from looking at what those rich and powerful are doing to their country. Nowhere else in the world, other than USA, segregates their people into sub categories based on skin colour and generational heritage. I'm convinced that if the common people of the US stopped calling themselves African-American, Irish-American, Mexican-American, Chinese-American, etc. and just called themselves Americans, that racism levels would drop considerably.
Not so much America The Home Of The Free as the home of racism, then .
The rest of the World is trying to rid itself of this ,the US.as usual is 400 years behind .
I've come to the conclusion that there are a sizable number of Americans who have probably never travelled outside of the US and whose view of the rest of the world is based on what their right wing media has told them. They are like those annoying teenagers that get on every ones nerves in a world of adults. I know compared to most countries in the world the US is very young as a nation, but Australia and New Zealand are very young as nations. It must be the education system in Australia and New Zealand that has educated them so much better than a sizable portion of the US.
But I supposed if from your first day in school they start with the brainwashing that the US is best and their swearing allegiance to a flag and what it stands for. Which is also strange because they also claim to be a very Christian country and the Bible quite distinctly says they should be be swearing oaths to other things.
My video that came out on Sunday touches on exactly what you said about Christianity clashing with their right wing politics, brain washing and in general the American Dream.
As for brainwashing, I do find it quite surprising that a country that loves freedom has such a cult-like mentality towards its own national pride... It's disconcerting to say the least.
I don't know how the media landscape works in Australia and New Zealand that much, but I'm pretty sure some of the major issues with the US media landscape is the lack of a strong, independent public broadcaster. As far as I'm aware, PBS has terrible viewing figures compared to companies such as Fox News. I feel like that's at least one big problem right there, along with the failing education standards...
Well, see, they use a loophole. "One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all". That way you can say you're worshipping God, and not the country.
P.S. If you don't know, that's how the pledge of allegiance ends. I was still able to recite that from memory, because I had to say it every day in middle school while holding my hand on my heart and facing an American flag.
4:52: They are both wrong. SA means Sturmabteilung.
I've always thought that 😂
You got me there.
have to say, when I clicked out of full screen to subscribe I was shocked to see “38”. very entertaining and great personality. keep at it
Thank you! It means so much to see all the positive comments on this video, it's incredibly heart warming. Thank you for your support 😊
I make sure I have a koala key ring hanging off my backpack so that I’m not mistaken for an American!
Good thinking 👏🏻
When I see/hear all these things, I realise again and again how dumb many of these people are!
I love your video!
It is quite impressive how silly some people can be in public 😂
Thanks for your support! 😁
Claiming that you are something more than American proves to me that being American isn't enough for Americans. They feel they are lacking so they need to add something. Quite sad really.
I agree... It's a bit like toxic masculinity in some ways. If you feel like a trait or characteristic (in this case, culture) defines you and you constantly require validation on that front, you're just insecure at the end of the day... 🤷♂️
It's like they claim to be the most multi-cultural country on Earth, yet still get excited every time they hear an non-US accent.
And have huge amounts of anti immigration propaganda... 🤔
Americans go to Ireland and claim they are irish. No you're not. Or they do a history dna and claim they are related to ALL the British royals... Yeh right!
@@TheSebbyHour 'toxic masculinity' is a term used by the 'modern feminist' movement to use against any male who does not agree with their viewpoint.
The term came from a US psychologist 'Shepherd Bliss' in the 1980s, that he used in a study. Like the 'Alpha Wolf' theory, both have since been proven' to not be a thing due to a misunderstanding of events and facts.
But the term persists, just like the Alpha Wolf thing.
Hm, The romans made better concrete than is presently used.
I've touched on this in one of my more recent videos, it has been brought up so many time... 😢
Actually 'Portland Cement', invented (or reinvented) in the UK is said to be just as good as the Roman stuff.
@@Thurgosh_OG My comment was In context of the presentation, good fellow! And we are by now roughly 2000 years later and have only relatively recently come up with something 'Just as good'?
Besides that, there are to my knowledge as yet no buildings of 2000 years old built with Portland cement, it being patented roughly 200 years ago. There are several surviving buildings and structure from Roman origin, however.
You're quite wrong about concrete. The cupola of the Pantheon in Rome is made of concrete. It is the largest non-reinforced concrete structure in the world, built at the beginning of the second century (that's roughly the year 125). The Romans made excellent concrete.
Being wrong about concrete has really fueled engagement on this video 😂
I accept that I was wrong, please replace the word "concrete" with the term "modern building techniques" and "technology". Thanks! Hope you enjoyed the rest of the video 😂
@@TheSebbyHour ,your reaction channel is there for others to react, thus provoking comments .
Surely that is your intention ,people commenting on the comments
I'm happy to have a chat, for sure. But I have answered this particular comment multiple times now. 😅
At the end of the day, my goal with the channel is just to have a bit of fun and make something people will enjoy. This video has completely exceeded expectations and, because I try to answer all comments, has become a sort of part-time and unpaid job in itself 😂
As for my concrete statement, it was a genuine mistake... And I would never have expected it to drive this many comments 😂😂
On the topic of food, Dutch people asking where they could find a MacDonalds while visiting Italy, have seen that in blogs too. seriously? It is crazy!
You could get a nice pizza for 8€ or less... Or you could spend 15€ on terrible American food 😂
Actually, when in Paris, the only place to find a decent cuppa (tea) was in McDonalds, so they do have their uses.
Wow did not expect your channel to be in it's infancy. Nice work and good luck growing it - have a sub and I look forward to more content!
That means a lot, thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video and happy to hear that it doesn't look too amateurish 😄
It's a British passport not an English passport
@@JohnnyBoy-h6z I couldn't check seeing as I lost it in the ferry terminal a month ago 🤷♂️
@@TheSebbyHour :)
Correct. They have been British Passports since 1915.
Burger King in France or anywhere else in Europe, is a lot healthier to eat than US Burger King. Not that either can be called healthy, just the European outlets serve fast-food with safer ingredients.
Stricter food laws. Our Coca Cola is also quite a bit safer to consume overall... It's quite sad in my opinion how lax the FDA is on some fronts 😕
Just found you sweet pea. Subscribed and what a wonderful channel.
Glad you enjoy my videos! 😊
Rome has a decent Metro. I'm surprised they didn't complain that the Colosseum was in ruins and should be repaired. Some Americans travelling abroad are clueless but very few of them have the time or the money to travel, so we only see the mostly arrogant elites and get a very skewed view of Americans in general. I've been to the US & the majority of ordinary Americans are great. I didn't bother with Disney Paris. The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and Arc de Triumph were higher priorities. Travel a little further to Bavaria and you can see a REAL castle or 2 at Neuschwanstein / Hohenschwangau. And France has quite a few impressive castles too. Ditto for the UK. I don't speak either Spanish or Portuguese, just French, so I won't be applying for any South American jobs any time soon.
Hahaha, the Colosseum does take the piss doesn't it? They could at least give it a coat of paint 😂😂😂
I've met some very nice Americans too, there are all sorts! But I do think their culture and institutions tend to skew them towards thinking they are better than absolutely everyone else 🥲
There is nothing "real" about Neuschwanstein, it is as "authentic" as nineteenth century kitsch can be.
Sorry, but Neuschwanstein / Hohenschwangau is not a "real" castle. It's a 19th Century fake castle. It's still nice though. But if you want to see a real castle, visit Neuenburg (Freyburg / Unstrut), Eltz, Marksburg, Nuremberg, Burghausen, Coburg, Münzenberg ...
Yeah in Paris itself you have le Château de Vincenne which is a medieval castle. Not as pretty as the Neuschwanstein but pretty impressive.
I'm in a cleft stick here ,I laughed at your jokey comments but at the same time I like Americans . I think You are Toast!!!
You can laugh at people you like 😄
I laugh at my friends and family all the time, doesn't mean I don't like them!
I'm an Irish Anglo Viking with a hint of Australian and a touch of Canadian
@@OwDoGaming-kx9jo can I have a side order of chips with that? 🙃
@@TheSebbyHour poutine, gravy and a pint of guiness with that sir 😂
I read SA as sexual assault lol, thanks RUclips monetization policies
I also saw it as that but didn't want to risk a strike or an age restriction on the video 😂
I'm not eligible for monetisation yet so the policy doesn't affect me for now
The SA person has a point if they switched "San Antonio" to "Saudi Arabia" and that the official abbreviation of South Africa is "ZA". But that's getting too technical.
@@neilchristensen6413 I just find it funny that they prefer to give the acronym to a single US city rather than an entire country 😂
The whole nationalities thing actually does make sense, you just have to recontextualize it to understand it. The term Irish-American, for instance, is not saying "I'm Irish and I'm American", but rather it's saying "I am a unique cultural blend of Irish and American", and I think it's actually a perfectly apt way to describe some Americans of Irish heritage.
The important thing to recognize here is that the US is a country of immigrants from a wide range of places. And because the cultures and nationalities of the immigrants are so diverse, immigrants generally settled in somewhat insulated communities with other immigrant families from their home. Even within the big cities, you still have sections of the city with distinct cultures. You have sections of the city that are distinctly more Irish, Dutch, Jewish, Chinese, etc. As a result of the insulation, many of these immigrant communities held on to a lot of specific elements from their homeland culture, which were passed on (and morphed) down the generations. It would be wrong to deny Irish-Americans the Irish part of their identity, because of how heavily it impacts their existing culture.
I think where Americans go wrong is when they're too ignorant to realize that their cultures have diverged in the generations since the immigration. So then people try to claim that they're Irish, not Irish-American, because they don't know that there's a significant difference.
Also, I think where Europeans often get confused is that they don't understand just how distinct these cultures can be. It's not just about having ancestry from a specific country, it's about having a distinct and separate culture from other Americans. At least, this is how I understand it. So, a person isn't Irish-American because their grandpa was an Irish immigrant, but rather they're Irish-American because they grew up in a community of Irish immigrants and their descendants, with their own distinct accent and culture. There's a big difference there.
I've just woken up to two massive comments on essentially this same topic, reading time! 😂
It is true that I simplify the situation in this video, but it is fundamentally a funny little poking fun video.... not a sociological study of the US and its populations 😂
My main criticism of this situation is that a lot of Irish-Americans or Italian-Americans, etc; often claim that nationality when they go out on the internet or into the world and speak up on behalf of "Italians" or "Irish people" as if they didn't even realise that there was a country beyond their own little bit of heritage...
I get how diverse America is as a country and how many little sub cultures exist there, but I think that if you're going to claim a culture in your identity you should at least know a bit about it... And obviously I only speak based on the examples I've seen, but a lot of the time it seems Italian-Americans use that label because they have black hair, a New York accent and look like they're in the mafia. It often seems like exaggerations of one or two cliché traits of a culture.
Again, I don't know that much about it at the end of the day, I'm simply poking fun at the arrogance of it. 😊
@@TheSebbyHour It's possible that the other massive comment was also mine lol. I did write another one after this, in reply to someone else's comment, wording things differently and adding a few other thoughts I hadn't elaborated on here.
But yeah, I agree. I think the vocal ones, and the ones you see pointed out on social media, are the ignorant people who don't share much of the culture and don't know that there's a difference. And they are understandably made fun of for that.
But you did ask for someone to explain it, so that's largely why I made the comment. Also because I literally had this realization while watching your video, and I was kind of working through it and thinking about it through writing the comment(s). I equally don't know much about it at the end of the day, and am largely extrapolating based off of some broad first-hand observations about American culture and depictions in the media.
Genuine question to @peterlewis2178
Why does it matter that they have a different culture?
Most European countries ,especially the UK, also have a population made of migrants; the tendency in the past has been a happy assimilation ,only recently have people of a specific religion refused to do so.
I'll let @peterlewis2178 give their own answer, but I feel the need to touch on the last bit of your comment. I have hardly ever seen people from different cultures or religions refuse to incorporate into society, in England as much as in France... It is very common for people of immigrant backgrounds to group together (and always has been) because it's simply a comfort. You often see all the Brits living in France grouped together in the same neighbourhoods for instance.
I don't think this has changed recently in itself, I think it has simply been demonised by both a sensationalist media landscape and an increasingly right-wing and even populist political skew in the modern world at the moment... 😕
@@Jill-mh2wn Take this with a grain of salt, since I'm not in any of those communities myself (I've got strong Dutch ancestry, but enough removed that I don't personally identify with it much).
A lot of the people immigrating to the US were fleeing some degree of persecution. That already says something about how the immigrants valued their culture, if they were willing to flee to a foreign country rather than just assimilate (if an option). Then, on top of that, they often faced discrimination and ostracization once they arrived in the US, which likely sort of forced them to retain and build their own distinct culture.
As to why it matters that they have a different culture, it matters because it helps to validate them as people. If no one recognizes their culture, then they're left feeling ostracized, treated as if they're just Americans, while simultaneously having clear cultural differences from other Americans. It's not that any one culture is better, it's that the different cultures exist, and recognizing that is just the decent thing to do.
Also, I do take strong contention with the claim that "the tendency in the past has been a happy assimilation". For one, have you not heard of the Spanish Inquisition? Thousands of people were murdered for not assimilating well enough to the Catholic faith. Also, the crusades? Yeah, those aren't strictly in Europe, but still. And even more to the point, the original US colonies were largely founded by Protestants fleeing Britain so they could have religious freedom. Assimilation has never been a peaceful process.
Absolutely agree, the concept of Irish/German/Italian (etc) American is ludicrous, it is also an insult to America, they place their original nationality (which many of them never held) before their present nationality, if they were proud to be American then they would class themselves as American Irish etc.
Possibly this is due to America being such a very young country, with certain people desperately searching for a history to validitate themselves.
Be proud of what you are and have, be proud to be American.
I'm not sure Americans lack pride in their own nation 😂
But I think you're right, it probably does stem from the US being a relatively new country.
New Zealand and Australia are much younger countries than the USA and we call ourselves "Kiwis"/New Zealanders and "Aussies"/Australians respectively. We may acknowledge our ancestry includes English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish etc, but we're _first and foremost_ inhabitants of our countries.
With a group of Americans, i was the only British person, the second night in Como
we had no evening meal arraged. I along with a couple of other people walk round the town found a delightful square and a had a wonderful meal.
Behind the Hotel was a Mcdonalds. Many of thr group had a meal there. They were too scarred to go to a restaurant because tgey would know what to order as they didnt speak Italian. They were shocked when i told them that the restaurants were used to tourists and had menus printed in English. One did ask if they had them printed in American Engish as well😂
Yes I would love to hear more about this subreddit. And anything that shows the ignorance of poeple from the US. One it's just hilarious and two, hopefully Americans will recognise that there is more to this world then just the USA 🇺🇸 😊. No bad feelings towards America whatsoever btw.
You bring it light hearted ✨️ and are charismatic. Poeple will be less offended. I subscribed and am curious where this leads. Good luck! 👍 ❤
So happy to hear that you've enjoyed it, I'll be sure to make a follow up episode 😄
The aim is of course not to offend anyone, it's teasing in good spirits and I'm glad it comes across that way!
Of course there's more than the USA. Universities aren't the whole world, you've still got the rest of San Antonio
5:50 Please don't give them ideas like that. Now, we Canadians will look like fools went traveling. Do not tarnish our reputation.
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Just give it to them upside down, they won't know the difference
The US is bigger in surface than the EU (10 million km2 against 4.5 million) but smaller in population (335 million in the US against 447 million in the EU). We're both dwarfs in land size compared to Russia and its 17 million km2 and dwarfs in population compared to China (1.5 billion) or India (also 1.5 billion). But how is that even important ?
The point is that the size of the US is constantly used as an argument for why you can't have functional public transit. The fact that the US had functional public transportation solutions in the past and that those were torn down to make space for cars is always completely ignored and size is used as an explanation for why it would be "impossible".
The EU is not Europe.
@@TheSebbyHourI'm not sure, if it is really ignored or Muricans just don't have any idea that public transport existed in the past.
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When those in the US talk about distances, it is as though every time they travel anywhere, they travel right across the country. The fact is, the more densely populated east side of the US is very comparable to Europe where size and distances are concerned. Public transport would be completely practical if the powerful highway lobby didn't control so much.
The whole of Europe is only slightly smaller than the US.
Europe is slightly larger than the US in land area
2:55 USians? Thank you, thank you, who ever gave me that word. I needed it!
It's not fair to call ALL of them Ameristanies 😆
Irish Americans?
You might as well call half of the English Viking English.
And the rest Norman English? 😂
@@TheSebbyHour Not really, as the Normans only really interacted with the Nobility. French was the spoken language of the nobles during the times of Norman rule over England but the common people continued speaking an earlier version of English.
I will defend the Burger King one, you have try the local Mcdonalds/Burger King at least once when travelling, I want to try the items we don't have and sometimes, just sometimes, you want something basic :p.
It's true that there are some variations, but really? Is it that important? 😂😂
romans invented concrete.
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SA means South Australia, not San Antonio. (It also means South Africa.)
I mean, it can mean all three. Just some of those carry more weight than others 😂
1:09 Yeah, I've never once heard an American call it a car park. I know the term exclusively from tv and the internet. So I'm just as surprised as you there.
I highly suspect it's a troll.
@@EvanEdwards Yeah, definitely possible. It also could have been 2 different people, the first one being British, and the second being American.
There's no such thing as an English passport mate. You may have lost your British passport, though.
If my brain wasn't stuck firmly in my head, I'd lose that too. How do you expect me to remember the name of my own nationality? I only worked on the border between France and England for a year and a half checking people's passports, you can't expect me to know what they look like! 😂
Here's the thing about "Irish-American" or whatever other European country-American. It's similar in Canada.
People who use those terms are talking about ethnicity, not nationality. They're holding on to a small bit of family history, not claiming to be experts on whatever European countries their ancestors came from. I'll admit that I only read and speak a tiny bit of the language from one of the countries my grandfather was from before emigrating to Canada. I won't claim even the slightest familiarity with the culture. I've never been there and probably never will. But it's a fact that on the long-form census in Canada, they ask this sort of thing - where your family came from before they were Canadian. They also want to know if you're fluent in the language(s) of that place.
This is because while the U.S. is a melting pot, Canada is a mosaic, and multiculturalism is part our identity. It's really rude of you to giggle about this, acting like people are stupid for wanting to acknowledge their family history.
That said, there are obnoxious people who do claim equal identity with people who really are Irish citizens. But I rather doubt that most are like that.
Oh, and Americans who wear Maple Leaf pins or patches? They should stop appropriating Canada's cultural identity. Especially if they behave in their usual loud, boorish, rude way while doing it.
The thing I laugh at in this video is people appropriating the culture of another country. The person I take the piss out of literally calls Irish people "the Irish-Irish" as a means of comparing them to "us Irish-Americans".
Although it may not be a majority of Americans in real life, those who go onto the internet to argue about their "heritage" are usually claiming to be Irish, Spanish, Italian or so on...
In addition to this, we have all got mixed origins, especially in Europe. I joke about it in this video, my family is part German, Scottish, Welsh... And that's only in recent history (often more recent than the link most Irish-Americans have with Ireland).
The whole reason I point fun at Americans in this video is because America has this incredibly entitled superiority complex towards the rest of the world. You think it's rude that I giggle at misappropriated identity... How rude is it to literally the rest of the planet to teach kids in school that their country is "the greatest country in the world"?
The aim of this video isn't to start a fight. It's simply to poke fun at American grandeur and the bubble that US culture seems to live in.
@@TheSebbyHour Since I'm Canadian, I also poke fun at American grandeur, on a daily basis. I'm so tired of their superiority complex and constant bragging. And yes, non-Canadians wearing the maple leaf in hopes of better treatment, are misappropriating our culture.
However, your giggling at people who hyphenate their ethnic identity means you're not differentiating between the people who are obnoxious about it and the people who are not obnoxious about it. I hyphenate for the purpose of the long-form census, if I'm picked to fill it out. I hyphenate for the purpose of participating in some Swedish or Norwegian-Canadian cultural events here (the organizers usually ask). But by no means do I consider myself a citizen of either of those countries. I've never been there (would like to some day, but that's unlikely to be possible). My grandfather was reluctant to teach me Swedish, "because I live in Canada now, and in Canada we speak English". Yet he still received letters and cards from family in Sweden, written in Swedish, and I at least wanted to learn to read what was on the cards.
He eventually did teach me some, though not enough to carry on much of a conversation. At least I can now read the cards and some of the letters, and have some small connection to people who are literally distant relatives.
There's another obnoxious kind of claim that some people make. I belong to several medieval history groups on FB, and some groups have banned posts and comments where people boast that So-and-So From English Royalty/Aristocracy is their multi-generation great-grandparent, aunt, or uncle. It's tiresome. I'm just grateful that I know where some of my ancestors came from and approximately how far back. And there's not a royal or aristocrat anywhere, that I know of.
I do think that's an interesting perspective on the matter. But again, I'd say you're Canadian with Swedish heritage... I'd still disagree with you if you said you were Canadian-Swedish.
I'm not making fun of people who feel an attachment to their heritage. I'm making fun of those who have no attachment other than genetics and claim to originate from some European country they know nothing about. You so often see "as an Italian, I completely disagree with this" and if you actually dig it turn sour said "Italian" is an American with a great grandfather who was from Naples. It doesn't make YOU Italian.
I understand that you feel an attachment to Sweden and are interested in the culture, but I'm sorry to say I would disagree with you if you called yourself Swedish-Canadian or Canadian-Swedish... But I would agree if you said you're Canadian of Swedish descent, because (based on what you've told me) you are. But again, the point of this video is not to mock your heritage, simply the way that some people put theirs forward with the intention of getting "extra credit" with a nation or to win in arguments by pretending to be from somewhere they've never even visited.
@@TheSebbyHour You're still missing the point. You don't get to tell other people how to self-identify, regarding their ethnic heritage. It's like you don't get to tell other people how to self-identify regarding gender, or how they prefer to call themselves if they have a disability. You don't get to decide these things for other people and tell them they're wrong if their perception doesn't match yours.
If I identifies as "Canadian-Swedish, I'd be a Canadian in Sweden, which is not what I said. I have Swedish-Norwegian ancestry and I'm Canadian. There are customs my grandparents grew up with there that they brought here, and I still keep a few of them a century later. I explained that FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE FEDERAL CENSUS there are times when I identify as Swedish-Canadian because the long-form census has questions regarding ethnic heritage. Multiculturalism is a federal policy here, so the government needs to know these things. You don't live here, so it's not something you grew up with, and it doesn't look like you're even trying to understand.
I acknowledged that some people do claim to have the same status or credibility as the people from the European country in question, and it annoys people from those countries. I don't do that. I'd never claim expertise on any Swedish or Norwegian matter.
By the way, that attempt at an American accent? Don't do that. It's rude to imitate others' accents for purposes of mockery. I'm not American, but I've had enough interaction with them to know that many of them find others' attempts to imitate one or more of their accents to be annoying. They don't all talk like that, just as there really aren't that many Canadians who say "eh".
But I see many Americans imitate an English, Scottish or Irish accent. Nearly always very badly.
OK then. Its a n.American thing. Because here we all come from somewhere else except indigenous people who we dont call them native natives.lol. but of course Im Canadian Canadian.
Well, Irish-americans and really the other nationality-americans are American, but the other part has to do with a cultural heritage and traditions. Really nothing wrong with having cultural roots, just don't claim to be better.
Oh, I agree, claiming the cultural heritage is fine. It's just weird when they consider themselves as being just as Irish as actual Irish people (whilst having none of the culture or traditions), then speak out "on behalf of" that nationality but also can fall back on being American anytime it suits them 😂
I love the shirt!
I learnt Latin at school in the seventies. 😊 🇬🇧
Huh... Concrete, didn't exist... If I remember my history lessons right, the Romans invented concrete, that hardens under water, which is a main archivment. Greetings from Germany.
P.S. I live right beside the former Roman border and we have a lot of findings around here. A dozen miles north of Frankfurt, is a complete restored Roman border fortress, rebuilt 120 years ago and opened by a real emporer, the last German emporer...
I did get that completely wrong, I grant you that... My meaning was more "before we had modern construction methods" but I chose the example of concrete which happens to also be quite old... 😂
@@TheSebbyHour Don't mention it...
El que habla de roma y de los rascacielos y sus materiales, deberia saber que muchas de las cosas que construyeron los romanos, són de cemento, ya que ellos lo inventaron.
Many, many comments have said this now. I have even touched on it in another one of my videos. 🥲
Stop using SA for San Antonio.
I wasn't! I swear! 👐
@@TheSebbyHour😂
Bonjour Sebby! Comment Allez vous aujourd’hui?
Bonjour, je vais très bien et vous-même ?
In land mass Europe is bigger than the USA and in people is more than double.
Also, I would lay off the drugs dude. Your eyes give you away.
Couldn't you have left these comments a couple weeks ago? I made a video replying to angry comments already but yours would have been a lovely edition.
I've never taken drugs in my life, I have hay fever which makes my eyes a bit red in the autumn and winter months... But talking of drugs, you should take a chill pill.
I'm a 78 year old Canadian and enjoy your channel immensely.
Very happy to hear that! 😊
The one with the Canadian flag is still great 😜🤣😂
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J'en peux plus!! 🤣🤣🤣 Bon sang, en fait ils ont de l'humour ces américains! Punaise, c'est mieux que les sketchs!!!😂😂😂
Je ne sais pas s'ils sont font des blagues ou si ce sont eux qui sont les blagues 😂
Faut-il avoir de l'humour pour être drôle ? Sortez vos feuilles, 2h de rédaction de philo !
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Very entertaining video.. please keep annoying as many people as you can
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Ah the Wokism of Americans, does this mean they no longer have their Great American Dream.
The Romans did invent concrete which was far far superior to our modern concrete, unfortunately the recipe got lost in time.
I feel like America and "wokism" are rather oxymoronic... It's such a conservative country 😂
As for the concrete, yep, my bad. Recipe lost to time? I'd say lost to economics. Cheaper always equals better nowadays. Even when it means worse quality.
😂 USA the land of NFI 😂
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Before Brexit you also couldn't pay with pounds in the rest of the EU. Educate yourself more.
What are you even talking about? I never claimed you could?
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Oslo, Norway: I get your point about not the whole Irish population starving and therefore having to leave, but famine in Ireland was exceptionally serious and Britain did not exactly help.
Re Americans identifying their ancestry 'hyphened': Italian-American, Irish-American, etc, while most other nations do not, it reflects on the one hand the present US population being of such mixed origin, at the same time as they have to a large extent felt it valuable to keep a link to their original group identity, which also lies not all that many generations back and is not so clearly dominated by one major group/nation. Look at the settlement patterns and their social grouping. If it were not for the dominance of English language, it would be even more evident. I have met Americans who told me that as late as about 1950, only German was spoken by the adult society where they lived (it was changing: the children went to English-language schools).
I think you possibly misunderstand 'Latin language'. Yes, of course Latin is more or less a dead language (outside of societies of Classical scholars who, some of them, actually enjoy conversing in Latin), and it has no native speakers who grew up with Latin as their first language, but I have heard not only "Latino" but "Latin" used to characterise language (Spanish or possibly Portugese) or other facets of life or population in parts of the USA and Latin America in contradistinction to the English-and-northern-based parts. Quite a practical way of using words in a new sense when it is unequivocal. - - By the way, you might enjoy the videos
"American speaks Latin at the Vatican with Priests" and
"Can an Italian understand spoken Latin?".
Actually, there are more of those videos: ... at the Colosseum, in the park, ecclesiatical Latin, Vatican priest speaks Latin with American on the radio, and so on. They are on youtube and very enjoyable!
Thank you for your comment, it's very detailed 😄
I understand where the hyphenation of two nations comes from, my main criticism is more of people who go on the internet (or even into the world) and call themselves Irish, Italian (or any other nationality) and speak up on behalf of that group, despite actually being 100% American, but with some distant heritage. I also think it strange that they love their country which is allegedly the greatest in world, yet feel the need to complete their nationality with a heritage that, let's face it, most of them have little to no connection to...
As for Latin, I get that many languages fall under the umbrella of being "Latin languages", but I'm pretty sure the job post in question was looking for a native Latin speaker. Either a misuse of the language and very vague (are you looking for french, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian?...) or just really odd seeing as Latin in itself is a dead tongue. 😅