Czech here. 2:20 Calling a fridge "American" is not anything good/bad. It is just a name we use for the double-door fridges. Usually, the fridges here have a single door, they are around 60 cm (for you about 2 ft) wide, and the freezer is usually in the bottom part and the refrigerator in the top part.
Not alot of people wants the last memory of their loved ones being a lifeless husk in a box! most of us Europeans prefer the memories of the person as they was, when alive. not cold, waxy, and rotting in a box!...hence we have videos, stories, pictures. when said person was happy and such
I am South African (Xhosa) we DO NOT do open casket funerals ,No ma'am!! But there is a small intimate service for family members who want to see the deceased before the actual funeral. In some families,when the person died of an accident,the body doesn't even enter the family compound and therefore no one sees the deceased except for elder men of the family who put him in his resting place.
In Denmark we always have closed coffins. But we have the option of saying goodbye, b4 they are placed in the coffin. Fx. we said goodbye to my grandmother in the hospital chapel, after she passed. And when my dad died at home, my mum, my brother and I washed and dressed him ourselves and said our goodbye b4 placing him in the coffin. And my uncle also came and said his goodbyes, b4 we moved him. Tho I know, a lot of Danes find it somehow offputting to be around dead ppl. The undertaker was very surprised, that we were capable of doing it ourselves and touching our dads dead body. But he was still our dad, just cold. But yeah, that part is not common in Denmark.
The Dutch too and mostly not positive. Going Dutch for example, although I don’t see it as that negative. Splitting bills, I mean. But then again, I am Dutch. 😏😉
In the Netherlands, the only thing we call American is the side by side fridge, always thought that was because they have an ice maker built in. Open caskets are not uncommon, but I never heard anyone call that American. American potatoes, beds and stuff, never heard of all that. So certainly not all Europeans call these things American.
There is also American sauce in the supermarket. It is the sauce flavour for French fries inspired by the sauce from the Mac Donalds. Sauce specifically made for Mac Donalds in the Netherlands. 😊
@@TheDemouchetsREACT Nothing weird about open caskets. But most of the times they are not open on the day of the funeral, but the night before when the immediate family and close friends to say the last goodbye. Sometimes there's not even a casket at all, but some sort of chair. On the funeral day the casket is almost always closed.
I've never seen an open casket during a funeral here in Belgium, though you can go see the deceased for a last goodbye at the funeral home in the days leading up to the burial. That said, it is done in Catholic and Protestant funerals in Europe, just a lot less than in the US, I think. Here in Belgium we don't use most of these names honestly, except for the American fridge ^^ Interesting though :)
Open caskets aren't a thing in my country, not sure if they even allow them. They don't even sell the kind with the hinges. They seal them in the funeral home and if you want to see your loved one after death you'd have to do so in the hospital before they're taken to the funeral home.
This should actually be called "Why Chechs call these things American". A lot of these things are not at all the same around Europe. Like the fridge, in my country its just a fridge, a completely standard fridge and has been for decades since b4 the fall of the Iron Curtain, never been called American in any way, but maybe some countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain started calling some things, they didnt have b4 "American"? Idk. Coffins? WTF, never ever heard of "American" coffin. And I could go on. Honestly, coming from a Scandinavian country I have never heard of a single 1 of these things, he claims, "Europeans" call American. Except for "American car" and thats coz its actual old imported American muscle cars, that some car enthusiasts like, but arent sold in Europe, coz.... theyre huge and impractical and cost a fortune to run. And American football, which we have to call it, since u insist on calling it "football", when the rest of the world already has a far more popular and widespread game named football, where we actually, u know, play with our feet. And no, calling something American where Im from absolutely does NOT mean, its somehow bigger and better. Its far more likely to mean, its substandard. But any European really shouldnt make a video about his own country vs the US and call it "European", coz we are more than 50 very different countries. If Americans watch this and think, this is indicative of all of Europe, they are really being misled. And btw, what u Americans call bread cannot be legally sold in the EU, coz its full of banned harmful additives and loads and loads of sugar, far too much to qualify as bread (and imo tastes awful), so his "American bread" would not at all taste like, what u can buy in the US.
I'm not sure about other countries or for Catholics, but in Romania for Christian Orthodoxs the coffin is taken to the house of the family of the deceased person and it's kept open so family and friends can say their goodbyes and so the pope can do a religious ceremony. After that the coffin will be closed and you walk behind it till you arrive at the cemetery where they will be buried. After that we celebrate in the deceased's honour! Hope what i wrote makes sense in English
Amazing video, and really fascinating to hear your perspectives! I used to live in Columbus, OH and had a bunch of culture shocks while there (the biggest one being store greeters and strangers coming up to talk, as people up here in the Nordic countries typically do NOT speak to anyone anywhere unless they have to, and instead value their personal space, sometimes making us come off as rude). As a Swede, most of these are actually not true in Europe as a whole! IKEA here (where IKEA is based and originated from) does not call box spring beds 'American beds', they're simply referred to as box spring or foam mattresses. We most definitely don't call two-door fridges 'American fridges' or larger potatoes 'American potatoes' (we love potatoes). HOWEVER, we do have 'American' sections at the supermarket, but it's things that you can't get in Sweden otherwise that are imported from the US. Usually, it's marshmallow fluff, candy, BBQ sauces and soda! On the American cars though - Sweden has one of the biggest car meets in the world and a massive classic American car amount in the small country, and there's a whole culture around it going way back. My family has a 1960 Thunderbird and it's the pride and joy of everyone in my immediate family. It's easy to view Europe as being pretty tied together, but there's so many different cultures, customs and ways of life and so many things are different from place to place. For example, some countries don't have a major focus on the English language, and tend to dub EN films and shows. Some don't dub at all, and as a result are better at speaking English.
Americans tend to embalm their dead so they “last” longer. This isn’t the norm in Europe, which is why closed coffins make sense. Anyone who wants to see their dead would most likely say goodbye at the hospital right before the undertakers come to get them. The closest family could also say goodbye prior to the actual ceremony on their burial day, but no, open caskets would seem weird here.
Like European we buy our Fridges or something necessary lookjng for range of energy and obsolescence . In my case Gaggenau for kitchen A ++ end for was area Miele A+++ from Germany , my fridge cost 8.000 € , is like your houses wood against rock and cement and steel, our houses are for ever .
I think these term are more common on previously Soviet Communist countries, where they are more obssed about America. Not so much on Western Europe where I live. Open coffin is not too uncommon either, Most of these are more local habits than european wide. I completely agree with him on football though.
American fridge is excessive my fridge is 1/4 of the size of that monster. Also sits under counter. Different shopping habits means different size fridge. Closed coffins are normal in the UK, open caskets are unheard off. CREEPY MUCH! Never seen American bread in uk, want fresh bread with no sugar! Whats normal in US is rarely the norm in the rest of the world. Its not that we view you as better, the Internet crushed that! Alot of these things are more to do with excess like car sizes.
- An American fridge is what a lot of people would like to have but is expensive. - I only went to a funeral with an open coffin once, here in the Netherlands. All others were closed. We often do have wakes were the coffin is open (no lid on it so still not a casket) where people can pay their respects and say goodbye. But at the funeral itself the coffin is most often closed. - We would call these kind of beds a boxspring. - Instant mash potatoes 🤮. Never heard of American potatoes. - That bread I think we would call that bread Casino bread. No idea why. Only ‘good’ for making toast. - Also never heard of American night - Nope, I would just say you have a fake smile. Maybe not say it but would think it. - I think in the Netherlands we would only say, I bought an old American if it is an oldtimer car.
We have wakes as well. If the casket is closed it is due to how the person passed away or requested. It is extremely emotional watching the casket close at the end of our funeral services.
The correct title should be "Why Czechs call these things American?) None of them is called American in Greece. Still in Europe. The OG Europe actually.
Czech here.
2:20 Calling a fridge "American" is not anything good/bad. It is just a name we use for the double-door fridges. Usually, the fridges here have a single door, they are around 60 cm (for you about 2 ft) wide, and the freezer is usually in the bottom part and the refrigerator in the top part.
Not alot of people wants the last memory of their loved ones being a lifeless husk in a box! most of us Europeans prefer the memories of the person as they was, when alive. not cold, waxy, and rotting in a box!...hence we have videos, stories, pictures. when said person was happy and such
in Poland we have "American Kebab"
It's basically a kebab but it has no vegetables lol
I am South African (Xhosa) we DO NOT do open casket funerals ,No ma'am!! But there is a small intimate service for family members who want to see the deceased before the actual funeral. In some families,when the person died of an accident,the body doesn't even enter the family compound and therefore no one sees the deceased except for elder men of the family who put him in his resting place.
Same in Romania ,exactly the same
In Denmark we always have closed coffins. But we have the option of saying goodbye, b4 they are placed in the coffin. Fx. we said goodbye to my grandmother in the hospital chapel, after she passed. And when my dad died at home, my mum, my brother and I washed and dressed him ourselves and said our goodbye b4 placing him in the coffin. And my uncle also came and said his goodbyes, b4 we moved him.
Tho I know, a lot of Danes find it somehow offputting to be around dead ppl. The undertaker was very surprised, that we were capable of doing it ourselves and touching our dads dead body. But he was still our dad, just cold. But yeah, that part is not common in Denmark.
As a French I feel you guys !
I keep on hearing foreigners calling things “French” and I have no idea why 😅
😂 We do call a lot of things French here! French kiss, French fries, French doors, French braids, and more I can’t think of now.
The Dutch too and mostly not positive. Going Dutch for example, although I don’t see it as that negative. Splitting bills, I mean. But then again, I am Dutch. 😏😉
like croissants? ggg ;)
In the Netherlands, the only thing we call American is the side by side fridge, always thought that was because they have an ice maker built in. Open caskets are not uncommon, but I never heard anyone call that American. American potatoes, beds and stuff, never heard of all that. So certainly not all Europeans call these things American.
There is also American sauce in the supermarket. It is the sauce flavour for French fries inspired by the sauce from the Mac Donalds. Sauce specifically made for Mac Donalds in the Netherlands. 😊
We learn something new everyday. 😅 The open caskets had me thinking we were weird.
@@TheDemouchetsREACT Nothing weird about open caskets. But most of the times they are not open on the day of the funeral, but the night before when the immediate family and close friends to say the last goodbye. Sometimes there's not even a casket at all, but some sort of chair. On the funeral day the casket is almost always closed.
That was specialy czech point of view
I've never seen an open casket during a funeral here in Belgium, though you can go see the deceased for a last goodbye at the funeral home in the days leading up to the burial. That said, it is done in Catholic and Protestant funerals in Europe, just a lot less than in the US, I think.
Here in Belgium we don't use most of these names honestly, except for the American fridge ^^ Interesting though :)
American rugby 🔥
In Australia funerals are usually closed casket the family may have a viewing earlier. Many people cremate and do ot bury.
I love the side eye she's giving us the entire video 🤣
I had to watch this twice cause the first time I wasn't paying attention due to being distracted with envy of the fulness of Sierra's hair.
No envy, Sis😅. It took a while for it to get here.
Open caskets aren't a thing in my country, not sure if they even allow them. They don't even sell the kind with the hinges. They seal them in the funeral home and if you want to see your loved one after death you'd have to do so in the hospital before they're taken to the funeral home.
This should actually be called "Why Chechs call these things American". A lot of these things are not at all the same around Europe. Like the fridge, in my country its just a fridge, a completely standard fridge and has been for decades since b4 the fall of the Iron Curtain, never been called American in any way, but maybe some countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain started calling some things, they didnt have b4 "American"? Idk. Coffins? WTF, never ever heard of "American" coffin. And I could go on.
Honestly, coming from a Scandinavian country I have never heard of a single 1 of these things, he claims, "Europeans" call American. Except for "American car" and thats coz its actual old imported American muscle cars, that some car enthusiasts like, but arent sold in Europe, coz.... theyre huge and impractical and cost a fortune to run. And American football, which we have to call it, since u insist on calling it "football", when the rest of the world already has a far more popular and widespread game named football, where we actually, u know, play with our feet.
And no, calling something American where Im from absolutely does NOT mean, its somehow bigger and better. Its far more likely to mean, its substandard.
But any European really shouldnt make a video about his own country vs the US and call it "European", coz we are more than 50 very different countries. If Americans watch this and think, this is indicative of all of Europe, they are really being misled.
And btw, what u Americans call bread cannot be legally sold in the EU, coz its full of banned harmful additives and loads and loads of sugar, far too much to qualify as bread (and imo tastes awful), so his "American bread" would not at all taste like, what u can buy in the US.
I'm not sure about other countries or for Catholics, but in Romania for Christian Orthodoxs the coffin is taken to the house of the family of the deceased person and it's kept open so family and friends can say their goodbyes and so the pope can do a religious ceremony. After that the coffin will be closed and you walk behind it till you arrive at the cemetery where they will be buried. After that we celebrate in the deceased's honour! Hope what i wrote makes sense in English
Amazing video, and really fascinating to hear your perspectives! I used to live in Columbus, OH and had a bunch of culture shocks while there (the biggest one being store greeters and strangers coming up to talk, as people up here in the Nordic countries typically do NOT speak to anyone anywhere unless they have to, and instead value their personal space, sometimes making us come off as rude).
As a Swede, most of these are actually not true in Europe as a whole! IKEA here (where IKEA is based and originated from) does not call box spring beds 'American beds', they're simply referred to as box spring or foam mattresses. We most definitely don't call two-door fridges 'American fridges' or larger potatoes 'American potatoes' (we love potatoes).
HOWEVER, we do have 'American' sections at the supermarket, but it's things that you can't get in Sweden otherwise that are imported from the US. Usually, it's marshmallow fluff, candy, BBQ sauces and soda!
On the American cars though - Sweden has one of the biggest car meets in the world and a massive classic American car amount in the small country, and there's a whole culture around it going way back. My family has a 1960 Thunderbird and it's the pride and joy of everyone in my immediate family.
It's easy to view Europe as being pretty tied together, but there's so many different cultures, customs and ways of life and so many things are different from place to place. For example, some countries don't have a major focus on the English language, and tend to dub EN films and shows. Some don't dub at all, and as a result are better at speaking English.
As a British person that worked in a funeral home. Never heard of them being called American Coffins.
Americans tend to embalm their dead so they “last” longer. This isn’t the norm in Europe, which is why closed coffins make sense. Anyone who wants to see their dead would most likely say goodbye at the hospital right before the undertakers come to get them. The closest family could also say goodbye prior to the actual ceremony on their burial day, but no, open caskets would seem weird here.
learnt the fake smile in art history to be "Greek smile"
Like European we buy our Fridges or something necessary lookjng for range of energy and obsolescence . In my case Gaggenau for kitchen A ++ end for was area Miele A+++ from Germany , my fridge cost 8.000 € , is like your houses wood against rock and cement and steel, our houses are for ever .
As European i have to say that some things told here is not whole european. It seems to be more specific to some european countries. 🙂
I never heard anyone refer to these things as american, even the bug is just referred as stonka, not "american bug"
I think these term are more common on previously Soviet Communist countries, where they are more obssed about America. Not so much on Western Europe where I live. Open coffin is not too uncommon either, Most of these are more local habits than european wide. I completely agree with him on football though.
American fridge is excessive my fridge is 1/4 of the size of that monster. Also sits under counter. Different shopping habits means different size fridge.
Closed coffins are normal in the UK, open caskets are unheard off. CREEPY MUCH!
Never seen American bread in uk, want fresh bread with no sugar!
Whats normal in US is rarely the norm in the rest of the world.
Its not that we view you as better, the Internet crushed that! Alot of these things are more to do with excess like car sizes.
I'm in Scotland, Glasgow and Catholic. We have a lot of open caskets, or a viewing first, where the lid is just off the coffin.
Why in hell would I want to see the person I love dead?
I want to remember them alive and well, not rigid and dead inside a wooden box...
- An American fridge is what a lot of people would like to have but is expensive.
- I only went to a funeral with an open coffin once, here in the Netherlands. All others were closed. We often do have wakes were the coffin is open (no lid on it so still not a casket) where people can pay their respects and say goodbye. But at the funeral itself the coffin is most often closed.
- We would call these kind of beds a boxspring.
- Instant mash potatoes 🤮. Never heard of American potatoes.
- That bread I think we would call that bread Casino bread. No idea why. Only ‘good’ for making toast.
- Also never heard of American night
- Nope, I would just say you have a fake smile. Maybe not say it but would think it.
- I think in the Netherlands we would only say, I bought an old American if it is an oldtimer car.
We have wakes as well. If the casket is closed it is due to how the person passed away or requested. It is extremely emotional watching the casket close at the end of our funeral services.
The correct title should be "Why Czechs call these things American?) None of them is called American in Greece. Still in Europe. The OG Europe actually.
Its kinda wrong to say europeans in the original video title. As few of these are true for the countries around this part of europe.
i love amercans they dobt drink as much as me
English muffins our not English
Topgear promoted it in India
Ok this video tells me czechs have a very diffrent mindset than other europeans