Watching this a lot later than anyone else- working my way thru your stuff. Id just like to say i admire your openess and curiousity. I wish all of us had more of it. I appreciate your effort put into this.
As a fellow millenial from germany. we talked about the iraq war in school while it was happening.. we even were given permission to leave school to go to anti-iraq-war protest marches..
Gulf War 1.0 started when I was in middle school (so I was like, 11 or 12 years old at the time). We talked about that quite a bit. No one gave students permission to leave to participate in anti-war demonstrations. But of course, that was a bit different from Gulf War 2.0.
9:14 it might have been just in hindsight for you, but for us in Europe it wasn't. We all knew the UN inspectors and the independent inspectors all testified no WMD existed in Iraq, THOSE WHO WERE ON THE GROUND INSPECTING and INVESTIGATING testified there was no WMD's in Iraq and yet Bush went and did the Lajes Summit, hosted by Durão Barroso (Portugal) and attended by Bush (ofc), Tony Blair (UK) and José Maria Aznar (Spain) to go behind the UN and the whole international community (including Portugal's civil society, who was very much against it) and start the second Iraq war in search of the inexistent WMD's. At that point we all knew it wasn't about no WMD.
The German intelligence agency also retracted the source of the WMD claim, let the US know the claim’s most likely fake etc. but that doesn’t stop the hawks eager for a war.
It kind of is. I mean depending on the distance, the context changing, trains are not as viable modes of transportation as they used to be. The US is not the only countries where railways were dismantled.
@@noefillon1749 Which OECD countries have an even worse infrastructure? With the exception of a few US cities, inner-city public transport has been wiped out.
@@arnodobler1096 I know the standard is low and the US could do much better despite their geography. That doesn't mean the distance argument isn't valid, and I am referring more to intercity passenger rail there.
@@noefillon1749 the distance is no excuse, especially with how fast trains can be these days. You have a very widespread street net. Going these distances by train is way more comfortable than using a car. Especially in far distances. Also transportation of materials and goods is way more energy friendly if using trains. You just need a decent railroad system.
@@gregor2436 High speed railways are twice as expensive to build as 2x2 lanes highways (in France) and the high speed line DOES NOT replace the highway. It's additional. So yes, it would be a huge expense for a mode of transportation into a harsh competition with car (which can be cheaper when you are a family or even only a couple, and when you being your car, you have a means of transportation once you arrive at your destination, if you don't plan to stay exclusively in the city) and plane which can be way faster on long routes (and also cheaper sometimes). There is a range of distance in which rail is viable. A well functioning line between NYC and LA is more a dream than anything else. Too far, too little inbetween.
Hello Ryan, about the people that send hateful comments to you and saying hateful stuff. What helped me is the fact that all humans strive for happiness and want to reduce suffering. If that is their way of achieving that, yeah then it is like that maybe. But more deep that hate is compassion and if their wounds would be healed they would love you too. I can say I love America and everyone at that. I think you do great things and surely you have very great things ahead of you. My love is very strong towards you people and many are feeling the same. We all just want to be happy, we are one family with the same goal. Thank you Ryan, stay awesome ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi from Ireland ! I totally agree with your comment. To find peace in my heart and mind after many years of struggling against disapproval and not being good enough ... and getting nowhere lol .. Forgiving, and accepting others for who they are, and just being more kind to people make such a difference in live .. to genuinely love without expectation or intention and just be!! It made such a difference in my life !
Uh, not in Belgium or Portugal or many other countries, though. 😅 At least not in the way Germany has done it, but then again, no other country in the world has handled the their own war crimes with such openness, integrity, and sophistication. So hats off to you, dear deutsche neighbours.
we aren't told churchill was a racist mass murderer and stuff like that though or anything really about the reality of european colonialism everywhere. it's all whitewashed and sanitized to a degree that's in itself an attrocity.
As a german we never had history in our schedule.. it was called guilt/shame and with 12 years of age they will traumatize you with horrible pictures of holocaust victims and dead gypsies and stories how n@zis made lamps out of jew skin Good old school times, am I right guys? 😂
From France here not a single lesson on the Algerian war during all my school time, a war where both parties did horrible things and that has tremendous consequences on the French society until now. We had one optional lesson in the equivalent of 12th grade but my teacher chose to rather study the memories of WW2 (which btw was a very interesting topic, how the French society and politics handled, or did not handle at first, the guilt of collaboration between 1945 and 1998). But the fact that I know so little about the Algerian war while it has been so important in recent French history is quite upsetting. I mean, many people that participated in it or were victims (from both sides) are still alive and live here. It caused huge tensions back then, in the society and some people that were involved transmitted their bitterness to their children. It was also one of the causes of the comeback of De Gaulle as a President and the writing of a new constitution in 1958 (a very particular constitution that gives huge powers to the sole President, which is nowadays showing its weaknesses) etc... and still I don't know much about the events.
americans not owning kettles will never be not weird to me.. what they drink there is indeed not tea.. and im not even british but it triggers me as well..lol
Yeah I have an electric kettle that I use daily when I want really hot water. I don’t even drink tea daily. When gas prices surged a few years ago I started using my electric kettle to heat water for the dishes, as electricity was much cheaper for me. I’d never think of using the microwave to heat plain water.
...you're not supposed to boil tea, the optimal brewing temperature is something like 80-90C depending on the type of tea, not 100C. boiling it turns it bitter.
It never fails to amaze me how Pearl Harbor is portrayed as THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE THING EVER in the US while their own subsequent (and _absolutely_ annihilating) atomic bomb droppings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (maybe the most vile acts committed by humanity in war) are sugar-coated and barely ever mentioned. 😅
if you have the logistics to invade a country every 2 years you have the logistics to put up a couple bike paths...just tell the goverment its for devence
I've never understood the "America is too big for public transportation so there's no point in having it" concept. Europe as an area is not much smaller but I could go by public transport from, I don't know, Lisbon to Prague. But not just between big cities, even the smallest rural communities.
I cannot figure out how to take a train from Cologne, Germany to Istanbul. I don't think there is one, and I'd rather take a train than a plane. Can you help?
@@LythaWausWof course you can take a train to Istanbul but just not direct. Via vienna and Bukarest for example, but you need a lot of time, Like 50 hours or so.
@@LythaWausWyou can do it in about three nights. Personally I'd get the Euronight from Stuttgart to Budapest, then an IC to Arad, Astra Transcarpathic to Bucharest, and the couchette from there to Istanbul.
so we should have let the Soviets have Afghanistan? Or declared war on them overtly rather than covertly? Are you insane? I'm asking that because you said "events that had already happened before" so I assume you're referencing what led to 9/11 from years before. Maybe I misunderstood, I don't know.
@@supercolinblow First of all, the Iraq War was not related to 9/11, as confirmed by the 2004 report from the 9/11 Commission, which disproved the alleged connection to Al-Qaeda, the group held responsible for 9/11. By 2007, further investigative reports also debunked other reasons given for the war, such as the possession of weapons of mass destruction. In other words, the USA had lied. Regarding the Afghanistan War, which I didn't specifically mention earlier (there were other instances where the USA intervened and only caused chaos): the USA supported the Mujahideen (Islamic guerrilla groups) with money and weapons. The conflict resulted in 1.5 million deaths, 5 million displaced people, and led to significant radicalization. As a consequence, terror groups like Al-Qaeda and the Taliban emerged. If the USA had not supported these groups, Al-Qaeda might not have existed or become as powerful as it did.
20:22 emm... I live in Romania and I have traveled to France in one day using only trains. The size of the USA is no excuse, you could have good public transit if you want to.
@@vincentterraneo263 dude, to get from Romania to France you cross three or four countries, and they ain't small. Well except if you take the Lichtenstein route. Of course we fly over countries. And we also have fly over states, cause some of those countries have states, just like the USA☺
@@e1123581321345589144 I don't mean states between destinations I mean States were there is little to no purpose for anyone to stop there because 80% of the land is corn and cows. I'm also aware other countries have administrative division. I'm saying states because the size of US States are comparable to the size of European countries.
@@vincentterraneo263 He is right but he is NOT right. A high-speed rail system from SOUTH to NORTH on both coasts would make travel much cheaper and more comfortable. It's about 300 km per hour. So you can do the math, three hours between the center of Chicago and New York. And a little less between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
@@vincentterraneo263 oh, I see, I got the idea wrong 😁 Yeah, probably you won't start with a high-speed rail corridor across Wayoming and Idaho, But linking Florida to Montreal and Quebec on the east coast is certainly feasible, then you can develop the Quebec-Montreal-Toronto-Detroit-Chicago line, which you would then link back east through Cleavland and Pittsburgh and south to Atlanta through Cincinatti and Nashville. Back west Sacramento to Tijuana makes sense as well as Portland-Seatle-Vancouver and of course there's the Huston-Dallas-San Antonio-triangle in Texas which could be further linked to Monterrey in Mexico with possible future links to the central Mexican valley and Mexico City itself if that network is eve set up. and eventually you world want link these up together, I mean you have the interstate going through these flyover states, why not high-speed rail?
Culturally there’s a huge divide when it comes to older generations but young people are more and more the same everywhere. I can relate to Gen Zers and Millenials all over the western world because we all grew up watching the same movies, playing the same video games and laughing at the same memes. Most young Europeans are bilingual and we communicate in American English with Europeans from other countries.
Maybe it's just me, but it always amazes me that people are proud of something that they themselves had nothing to do with, only because the live in the same country! 🤯 Only the person who made or achieved something can be proud of it and maybe their parents and grandparents, but that's about it! 🤷🏻♂️✌🏻
Ryan you need to remember that most of us speak English as a second or third language and we can be a little bit literal when writing in English, often we write things without the nuance of a person who has English as a first language, very few people in Europe actually hate Americans but many of us strenuously disagree with some American policies re the rest of the world ( which means us) . We find Americans to be in general very loud and entitled but while we may disapprove of their actions we don’t actually hate them, I think most of us are just irritated by them, generally speaking.
I think anti-Americanism is definitely a thing here in Europe and I do not think it is a language issue. There really is a portion of the European population who simply enjoys casually hating on Americans, even if they've never truly known one in person. I am Dutch and I think anti-Americanism needs to stop. Mostly it is people who have anger towards the foreign policy of the USA, who then misdirect that political disagreement onto some random US-citizen, which is both an unintelligent thing to do but also unethical. But other times there are those who really just seem to enjoy casually looking down on Americans. Which is even worse and which I find to be extremely embarrassing, as it looks grandiose and insecure.
@@squarecircle1473 yes but actually hate is a very strong emotion and I don’t think most Europeans care enough to invest that much in how they feel about Americans , I think most people say hate but actually mean dislike .
@@squarecircle1473 if you cannot blame the population for the actions done by the gov, you would admit that they are not a democracy. in a democratic gov, the people voting are responsible for the actions taken by those voted into power. it's a far stretch to blame everything on "some random US-citizen", but you should hold them accountable for their foreign policy. unless, like mentioned, you do not think it is a democracy; in that case the population isn't to blame.
@@LoLrand0mness No, it's a democracy all right. Some polls showed a 70% approval rating for Bush (the younger) when they started the war. But as it became clearer that it wasn't ending anytime soon and we hadn't found anything compromising (WMD) in Saddam's jewelry box, and consequently there was no real reason for it, we gradually turned against it. Europeans seem to confuse "support our troops" with "support our government". This is a reflection of a different mentality between US and European politics and society, and nothing could be farther from the truth. Even a year later, Bush's margin of re election was narrow. The popular vote was 50.7% for GWB; NOT a resounding approval as presidential elections go. It's certainly a far cry from 70%.
the car centric design is "kinda working". but only kinda. the whole urban concept of suburbs and car-focused cities is not scalable in the long term without incurring massive costs. the infrastructure is already not in a good state. investment is already massively behind schedule and continuing to build up billions and billions of additional debt just to maintain the infrastructure will be an impossibility in the long run. under the bottomline, it is a waste of economic resources that could be better used to serve the nation and the people.
Why did a European say 'y'all?' Well, I'll let you in on a little secret: You know that thing where you're not supposed to mimic someone else's accent? Yeah, you can't really avoid that when learning a second language. You kind of have to pick some kind of accent to aim for. Also, the word y'all is gaining a lot of traction outside the South these days. It's getting more and more popular among young city folk, so it makes sense why young Europeans might pick it up from their American counterparts.
I used it before knowing it was accent etc, just to write it shorter so that could be it too. I wouldn't say it aloud texas style but its easy to write
@@gerardflynn7382 In fact it can do, If you disturb the surface tension. That´s why it´s a bad idea to boil water in a microwave. ruclips.net/video/1_OXM4mr_i0/видео.html&ab_channel=Caramthros
By the way, Irak had nothing to do with 911. The Irak war was a dirty war, the USA had to blame someone, and as the result, the whole middle east is messed up. Good Job. I know from first hand, because my husband went to the first irak war.
well, the middle east has been messed up for centuries, it just started to become worse and worse.. the british after WW1 inventing countries and drawing lines on maps without caring who lives tehre, the whole israel question...etc. 2003 iraq war was just another bucket of fuel into a burning lake of fuel..
The entirety of my WWII block in high school was quite graphic honestly. From footage of people burning alive at Pearl Harbor to the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the horrible treatment of Jewish people and how emaciated and terrible their conditions were when they were freed. There really was not any sugar coating at all on the international part but they definitely did not linger too long on how Asian Americans were treated after Pearl Harbor. That section was to the point and not too in depth, very few image as well. But of course, here in the USA what you learn and how in depth you learn it depends on the region and whether you attend public or private school or a charter school.
To non-Americans, here in the US the Iraq War is strictly the one that began in 2003. The 1991 war is called The Gulf War, it’s not at all considered the Iraq War. The term "First Iraq War" is less commonly used because the 1991 conflict was not exclusively fought within Iraq's borders. Additionally, the term "First Iraq War" could be confused with the Iran-Iraq War, which took place from 1980 to 1988. Not all of us Americans are dumb. Most young Americans don’t know the gulf war even happened because we didn’t learn about in school. I was born in 1992 and didn’t learn about it in school but I’m smart and like watching historical documentaries in my free time. I also learned about it in one of my college (university for non-Americans) classes.
There certainly is celebrity culture in Spain. Personally, I don't care for it, but it does exist. Gossip and reality TV shows have been huge in Spain for quite a while and they are TRASH. Another difference I see between Spain and the US that has to do with reality TV is how the American version of the same program (e.g. Master Chef) is far more about the competitive aspect while the Spanish version is much more about personal conflicts between participants, which in turn becomes gossip material.
The truth is that if we talk about TV it is a very bipolar issue in Spain. We have a fairly high-quality television with cultural programs and very good series in the style of the BBC or RTF, but we have some of the worst things one can imagine. I think that with the Internet and being able to watch old TV we can realize the quality of the different series in different countries, not only current but also old. And unfortunately or fortunately we are NOT very different from most Europeans.
Your argument about public transit (20:50 mins in) is stupid of ot outright dumb. I think it was OBF that made a very clear video showing this. If you take the landmass of Europe (Not just the EU) than Europe is slightly larger as the US, but even international public transit is easy accessible and widespread. You can get anywhere by train and bus. Thus your remark on the size of the US is crap and invalid.
Small scale pubilc transport is still negatively affected by the larger size and outright insane design of US houses/property and their neighborhoods. A bus/tram/train can not collect all potential passengers in a US suburban area in any effective way, nor can passengers get to the next stop without walking insanely large distances. Or you have to add so many additional stops for your public transportation system of choice, that it will take insane amounts of time to run from its start to its end AND the low population density will create a $/km ratio, that it will turn out to be extremely expensive at the same time. And that's not just for suburbs - even the block-design of city cores creates much larger distances for busses / trains / trams / subway trains to move between stops. all of this creates even bigger problems. Your system of choice also needs to maintain a high frequency to serve your stops, in order to be attractive. 1 train per hour isn't good enough. So you need to run even more units, that will have to go longer distances and serve double/triple the amount of stops. Which makes it slower and triple or quadrouple as expensive.
@@dnocturn84 yes, many American post war developments were poorly designed and city centres were hollowed out. Even so, the overall size of the country has nothing to do with it, people aren’t going coast-to-coast on a regular basis.
@@dnocturn84 And that distance is more than covered in Europe. Europe has approx. 20% more landmass than the US and is spread a fair bit wider by seas, stretching the distances between places.
Innovation in 1967 Sir Dr. Christian Barnard preformed the human heart transplant on 2/3 December in Cape Town South Africa. Without this innovation millions of people would not be alive today me included. To me this is the greatest innovation ever.
Based on the work of two-headed dog doctor Demikhov? Horrible for the dogs, but really nice for the ppl who need transplants. Just looked up Barnard - he also used dogs! The doctor seemed to love America, that's nice: ) I dissected a heart once, and it's clear to see that the valves are the tricky parts.
@@LythaWausW You've heard of Pavlov's dog, naturally. He was working in an era when ethics weren't an issue, so there were also Pavlov's Orphaned Children who never get mentioned. All just to prove that if someone says 'dinner' you expect to get fed...
18:37 the innocent blinking after admitting to tea atrocities killed me haha! 😂 I'm kidding, however you heat your water, no matter the inefficiencies, is fine. I think Americans would be much more likely to drink tea if they had electric kettles. Love from Australia.
I think its a bit wrong that in US many say that its too spread out for public transport, there are many rural and spread out areas in Europe aswell, the government just subsidizes the busroutes then and you use smaller busses. Its not a reason to not have public transport at all. US is the richest country in the world, you would think this its a non-issue but I guess the culture there is to make a buck from everything and a subsidized transport system is not really making money in a direct way.
German here. To the car centric design: I suppose the question rose partly because in Europe many cities began a change in their design to become more pedestrian friendly again. Of course in the countryside a car is very useful, mostly necessary, but not in cities. And if Europeans can change their cities, why not Americans? (A well-known example for an over-the-top car centered city is LA.) Effort for change is needed here, too. Additionally, making cities pedestrian-friendly may change the perspective of people wanting use their cars. 23:08 "They are happy with their cars. Oh man, what a freaking nightmare it is driving a car through a city." I see some irrationality in the combination of these consecutive sentences. 😂 This was a very entertaining video!
Well you can thank Britain for Americans heating water in the microwave oven, we gifted them the cavity magnetron which powers the microwave oven, we should have gifted them kettles instead.
I’m Dutch, ‘proud’ is a big word. But happy ASML came up with the tech they have (google is your friend), but likely ‘more proud’🤷♂️ about what wea a super small country do in acro-tech (Wageningen university)
You summed it up well, Ryan, regarding computers, etc , we are living in a world of unintended consequences, regarding most things Step 1, good invention, Step 2, how can we exploit it for financial/disruptive purposes. Was it ever thus? 🙋♀️🇬🇧
I really hoped someone would ask about the general awareness of climate crisis. Here I finally see more coverage in the media and even mentions in weather forecasts. I feel like the arguably biggest challenge in human history is still quite under the radar overall.
learn about climate overall through history and evidence and ask yourself why it is that only the doom and gloom propaganda is permitted to be aired. There is no debate amongst experts. Why? CO2 follows temperature rise, it doesnt drive it...see the dryas periods to start with. Be a Scientist
The problem with 'The Climate Crisis' is that for some of us, this is the 12th or 19th or 25th or more, 'Climate Crisis' within our lifetimes and all that has occured is higher taxes and bigger profits for some companies. And yet somehow it is the people's fault, not the massive industries, who are the real ones, causing these problems and don't want to reduce their profits to make improvements, to reduce their impact.
Whenever I see videos of suburbs in the USA I think they are already fit for bikes. You would just need a bike path to the shopping mall, to the school and to some activities. Even if you don't do it for yourselfs - your children would suddenly be so much more independant. And for the cities: You say that there is good public transportation, so you could try to keep cars out of it by adding park and ride lots (huge parking lots outside the city with acces to the public transportation into the city).
WHY do you Americans _insist_ upon mispronouncing Iraq...?! (_Ir_arq ...as "Eye_rack"🙁) It's like when I hear (some) Americans (citizens of the USA) say "Eyetalian" 🤔😐 ...instead of _It_alian... Whyyyy?!!?
Why are American accounts the only one scrutinized like this? Like if an American did this to someone else they'd rightfully be seen as an abrasive jerk.
about Mein Kampf, in germany till the end of war there were sold 10 millions copies, he wrote it mostly for his follower, but when he became a chancellor and after that a fuhrer, the having of this book became a must, in other word "you are not a good german if you don´t own a copy", it was also a mandatory reading at school, even before a war jewish family own that book...and honestly I don´t know if this book is illegal in US, but in 2016 this book became a bestseller and in my country Slovakia you could also buy translated copy in 2000, this book is not banned but after 2000 weren´t reprint in my language, so sometimes you see notice someone looking for a book and want to buy it
@@ImRezaF Hmpf ... you are right. That seems to be a german thing. The german wikipedia also calls it "Third Gulf War" or "Second Iraq War", while that's not a thing in the english and french versions. I hereby retract whatever I posted before and / or claim that I actually meant, whatever is currently considered to be right and / or makes sense.
@@lupf5689In the US the gulf war is what happened in the early 1990’s. To you as a German this would be the second gulf war. I was born in 1992 which was a year after the gulf war ended
You say it's a struggle to find parking in american cities, yet you have about eight parking spaces for every regitered car in the entire country 🤣 I do get that the majority of these spaces are not in the cities but outside the cities by the gigantic shopping areas with megastore after megastore after megastore, but still, kinda funny... in Europe we have just barely over one space per registered car on average!
I swear, don't EVER try to go into Paris with a car. I once paid about 35 € for 3 or 4 hours (we had no choice but to stay there for this long) after looking for the spot for at least 15 minutes.
The reason why (non-British) Europeans start picking up the American "y'all" quite easily is probably that most (non-English) European languages have distinct forms for you (sing.) and you (plur.).
About the extremism and you not thinking that there's gonna be tyranny anytime soon. I was thinking the same but an episode of Last Week Tonight about Trump possible second term made me think again 😮 you should check it out some time! Greetings from Germany
I think with the transport question it's a case of 'what you've never had, you never miss'. Americans who have experienced a different way of doing things invariably change their view. Also, it isn't a case of either/or, I have a car, and I use public transport, so you pick what is best at any given time. By the way, ignore the trolls, ignorant people look for opportunities to be rude on social media, or whatever, it makes them feel big, but it really shows them up for what they are ... small, and inconsequential. We can always see the good and bad differences in all cultures, but being nasty isn't necessary. I like Americans, as a collective, yes many of the stereotypical ideas are true with some people, but we Brits have our fair share of 'idiots abroad', especially the 18-30 brigade who delight in getting drunk on holiday abroad, and annoying the locals. So embarrassing!! 🙋♀️🇬🇧🇺🇲
America's reaction to 9/11 is totally understandable, Ryan, I would feel the same if we had been hit in the same way, (we have had some pretty devastating terrorist attacks here too since 9/11). There is such a thing as a just war. A huge difference between being a defender or an aggressor. All the people who say you should never fight, all the so-called 'hippy freedom types", would be in a sorry state if some marauding despot walked into their undefended country and took away their rights, that others had fought so hard for them to enjoy. In America's case, no point in quoting the 1st Amendment, or the 2nd, or indeed the 5th bcos you wouldn't be invited to speak, you'd be powerless. On 9/11 I was in my car when the first plane went in, and I thought, "what a terrible accident", when the second one went in I literally thought, "the world will never be the same again", the realisation of what had happened, and so it has proved to be, regardless of how the US and allies responded the dial had moved. Sad but true😢 🙋♀️🇬🇧
11:26 i am european and i say y'all...i have internet at home, so i can access to many channels around the world and adapt my informal writting in english😂
My question: Why do you refer to your country as America when in fact America is a continent? Or should I as a German start to refer to my country as Europe? Questions over questions...
America is not a continent. North America and South America are 2 continents but in the English language the word America refers to the United States of America, the only country with America in its name.
They don't have a name, it's the only country who has no name. Everything is just going in circles, no matter how they try, they end up referring to the continent.
Nope, that is not so difficult. If it is, than Ukraine war is also difficult. Russia invaded a country to whipe out its regime. Some local citizens were greatful, most of them hate the invaders and fight back. In Iraq USA/NATO invaded a country to whipe out its regime. Some local citizens were greatful, most of them hate the invaders and fight back. The only difference is the west called the iraqi resisters terrorists and we call the Ukrainians heroes and the Iraq war had much more casualties. Do you know how Iraq looks like by now? It is not a country anymore. But a playing ground of the US backed goverment, ISIS, Iran and Kurds and other jihadist groups. A complete mess and tragedy. We can hope Ukraine would not be in that shape after the war is over. The sad thing is that Ukraine is the biggest crime of Russia in the recent years but Iraq is not the biggest crime of the USA in the recent years. I would say that was Lybia. But for the US citizens that would be Afghanistan. So much money for nothing. They had burnt more than 1000 billion USD, they trained and equiped 500k local forces beyond the NATO forces against 120k strength Taliban with poor and outdated equipments and they suffered more casualties than the Taliban and finally they had to retreat. Very embarrassing but 3 months later booooom! Russian invasion! And no one talks about Afghanistan anymore...
Here in Poland we've had mandatory health insurance since the state was reborn after WW1, so we didn't actually elect those people who implemented it. It's Americans who voted for people who took universal healthcare away from you :(
Hm, I don't think you are stuck with your car infrastructure for the foreseeable future. Many places in Europe were built and bulldozed for cars too, just like in the US, and then actively changed again within the last years or decades. The thing is: car infrastructure often doesn't carry itself financially and also has to be worked on constantly like all infrastructure (roads need to be renewed, broadened etc). There are good videos on this topic. So you don't really have to choose between passively relaxing and actively changing, you just choose between redoing what you have done and doing it differently than before.
@@powerviolentnightmare5026 There isn't one. How about a silhouette of the Continent of Europe? Europe is made up of numerous sovereign nations each with their own unique character. Europe isn't represented by the dumb flag of some political organisation.
Ryan just wanted so say as a european, thanks for your videos. You re a nice, smart guy who has an open mind and still dont take too much bullshit. The ideal guy to show some culture and stuff to and want hear their opinion. Would love you go to see to europe at some point. Take care and react to some euros football fan videos ;) Btw. Europeans hate noone as much as some other europeans....
What's the most similar people in the world, I would say Americans and Europeans, fun fact more than 2 thirds of Americans are/or dissent directly from Europeans, just as an example Leonardo Dicaprio has a German mother and an Italian father yet he is American 🇪🇺❤🇺🇲
Sorry I disagree, I think Europeans, in particular the British, are quite different from most Americans, especially those who have never travelled outside of the States...in my experience, we are very much more like Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians. 😊✌
There are Castles in Florida, they are very interesting coastal fortresses that do not differ from European fortifications. You will be able to see barbicans and drawbridges. The most interesting cathedral, apart from those in Texas, which are very modified, is that of MEXICO D.F. I assure you that it has nothing to envy of most European cathedrals. I'll tell you in case you're curious. ruclips.net/video/Z3FzGs0udFs/видео.html ruclips.net/video/Ax0Wo3UJXzw/видео.html
Culturally there’s a huge divide between the US and Europe when it comes to older generations but young people are more and more the same everywhere. I can relate to Gen Zers and Millenials all over the western world because we all grew up watching the same movies, playing the same video games and laughing at the same memes. Most young Europeans are bilingual and we communicate in American English with Europeans from other countries.
Here are some lessons about the Iraq war : Volker Pispers history of USA and terrorism 1 of 5 ruclips.net/video/n4H_E8b-qmo/видео.html watch all 5 parts.
people hating on america in your comments may be because you pander to a certain demographic that is usually the one that hates america - in the US as well as in germany. Your memes for example are exclusively from reddit and on reddit, you have some difficulty even finding american that like america.
9:30 yes there was people and stuff saying it wasn't true at the time. America didn't want to know, just like your assistants in a Genocide in Palestine with Israel at the moment.
You really think that Republican policies are not extreme? Banning books, Roe v Wade abolished, etc are not extreme enough? Well, I politely beg to differ.
3:33 thank the Dutch for making the machine that creates those micro chips that made all the things you just described possible. It wasn't silicon valleythat came up with the techniques.. they just had the idea
GenZ (not all of them) and Millenials )also not all of them) do seem to use more 'American English' terms on the internet. Probably because US Americans seem to be online 24/7.
15:28 Eh don't worry, you're not the only one. Europeans often rub me off too and i'm not even american or have anything to do with US. They can be pretty snobbish a lot of time.
that's strange that at the first question (great accomplishments of US), the first answer was "i'm proud of my national identity". that's weird and wrong answer in my opinion, the national identity has nothing to do with the great accomplishments question. the question was about accomplishments, not identity. in my european point of view, that's totally different. one is good pride, the other is dangerous nationalistic.
I use y'all sometimes. sounds good and is way closer in meaning to some ways thah we have (for example in italian) to address an unidentified group of people you're talking to. Our english often is a bit of a frankensein monster of pronunciations spelling and vocaboulary. For example, the first years of high school I did a year of extra English classes that were mandatory in the school to take my FCE test and the professor was indian. The confused look the British examiners gave each other when most of us showed up at the exam with an indian accent was priceless lmao. nowadays I use most of the words I like no matter where they are from, lot of british and american slang learned online. I still sound like super mario on crack when I speak cause my accent fluctuates from american to scottish to british to indian to italian to whatever comes to my mind better in that moment, but it's quite fun to hear I guess hahahahah
2:20 I think on one hand, yes, you are right, but since it was crucial for the USA to be the first nation to land on the moon and only American astronauts were involved, I don't see it that way.
@@winterlinde5395 I know he said that, but he's speaking from a modern perspective. Back then, and even a few years ago, hardly any Americans knew or thought about this. I bet if you asked Americans today, 80% wouldn't know about von Braun and others.
@@Thurgosh_OG I completely agree and think that's true, but do you think Americans, Asians, Indians, or Russians know that? When talking about the first moon landing, people only mention the USA and the three astronauts.
Most Europeans don't speak English as their first language but learn it as a foreign language, therefore you can't say that Europeans don't use "y'all". We pick up words from many places when we learn English. You can't really choose or influence your English when it is a foreign language to you. We all speak a mixture of British, American, Aussie, and our mother tongue when we speak English. - obviously no in the UK+Ireland, bc they are native speakers. We also talked about recent events in school and I'm also a Millennial, we had the Irak war in school. It was more of a spontaneous thing between some other topics but recent history and politics is def taught. There is one town in Indiana, USA, that is known for their bike friendly infrastructure. Just saying, it's closer to you than Europe ;)
Well, I don't think that innovations in the PC sector are anything that Americans should be proud of. If I take Microsoft as the company that set the standards, then I see above all a large amount of bribes to establish this status. There were better operating systems and also application software, for example UNIX, OS/2, Wordperfect, Lotus123, all programs that were miles better than the Microsoft products of that time. But authorities and schools in Germany only bought Microsoft products because they were the only ones that received subsidies (a group of schools even petitioned Atari to please bring the MegaST with an integrated AT card onto the market so that the purchase would be subsidized). The PC market could have developed very differently without lobbying. And today, Microsoft's greatest innovation is that people are reliably and permanently being ripped off because a new Windows is constantly being released, the old operating system is no longer supported and, on top of that, the user's surfing behavior is logged so that the company is a valuable address for companies that want to get rid of their advertising. Please don't get me wrong, you can be proud of the development in the PC sector but unfortunately the focus is not on development but on exploiting the users.
Without German technique and German scientist the USA never reached the moon ore computers. The best ever made USA invention: The stop sign and the zipper..
And there was a certain British Engineer, Francis Thomas Bacon. He was hired by NASA and Pratt and Whitney to develop the fuel cells used in the successful Apollo 11 launch. The development of these fuel cells by Bacon was so innovative and groundbreaking that later US President Richard Nixon told him, “Without you Tom, we wouldn’t have gotten to the moon.” There were several other British Engineers involved, along with the German Scientists (and some from other countries), so the Moon Landings were a joint operation, funded mainly by the US but not possible without a lot of non-US people.
"Does any country in Europe say y'all?" That was quite cute, no European country says y'all, we speak our own language. We learn English as a foreign langage and you can randomly hear or learn "y'all". Your teacher or your course book might mention it, or you keep hearing it in American films or from real-life Americans. So this person asking knows they are speaking to Americans and thought of using it. English is spoken as a first language in the UK, and they might say "you lot", if they say anything. I hope your wife gets well soon! You can boil the water in the microwave, it's just that we don't it. In Central Europe we also drink the kind of tea that Americans drink, weak tea with sugar and lemon juice, and drink it ice cold in the summer. It's almost like lemonade.
@@ParaSpite In Europe, of course, I don't know why I got this question. I wrote about Euroepans in general, speaking our own language, and then mentioned the UK kind of as an exception, whose own language is English (also partly Ireland, but I don't know what they say for y'all"). Sorry if I wasn't clear.
If the moon landing was faked, how did they get Tidbinbilla on board? Oh, haven't heard of it? Tidbinbilla is the Australian relay station that got y'all the pictures of the landing. You're welcome. And what about Pine Gap?
What about the direct monitoring of the entire flight and mission by the Soviet Union? Who would have had a field day, if the landings had been faked. The Soviet leader even congratulated the US, on the achievement and it was in some soviet newspapers.
my most important question when will you start to learn world history and geography in yous expensive and inefficient school system as your healthcare system is please google is your friend and its free
As a European (Dutch) I agree that anti-Americanism needs to stop in Europe. Usually it is people who have anger towards the foreign policy of the USA, who then misdirect that political disagreement onto some random US-citizen, which is both an unintelligent thing to do but also unethical. And the fact that some people seem to be so casual with it is embarrassing, imo.
I totally agree. It's also the resentment of the superpower or often just pure envy. This level of generalizing is normally unacceptable in any other area of life in Europe. I'm especially surprised by the level of American bashing in England.
Watching this a lot later than anyone else- working my way thru your stuff. Id just like to say i admire your openess and curiousity. I wish all of us had more of it. I appreciate your effort put into this.
As a fellow millenial from germany.
we talked about the iraq war in school while it was happening..
we even were given permission to leave school to go to anti-iraq-war protest marches..
Gulf War 1.0 started when I was in middle school (so I was like, 11 or 12 years old at the time). We talked about that quite a bit. No one gave students permission to leave to participate in anti-war demonstrations. But of course, that was a bit different from Gulf War 2.0.
this is from the US by the way, I'm not European.
9:14 it might have been just in hindsight for you, but for us in Europe it wasn't. We all knew the UN inspectors and the independent inspectors all testified no WMD existed in Iraq, THOSE WHO WERE ON THE GROUND INSPECTING and INVESTIGATING testified there was no WMD's in Iraq and yet Bush went and did the Lajes Summit, hosted by Durão Barroso (Portugal) and attended by Bush (ofc), Tony Blair (UK) and José Maria Aznar (Spain) to go behind the UN and the whole international community (including Portugal's civil society, who was very much against it) and start the second Iraq war in search of the inexistent WMD's. At that point we all knew it wasn't about no WMD.
The German intelligence agency also retracted the source of the WMD claim, let the US know the claim’s most likely fake etc. but that doesn’t stop the hawks eager for a war.
Blair has still to be tried for Treason to the British people for that lie.
The US was mass colonized by the train.
After WW2, the car lobby had everything bulldozed for cars.
The size of the US is no excuse this time either.
It kind of is. I mean depending on the distance, the context changing, trains are not as viable modes of transportation as they used to be. The US is not the only countries where railways were dismantled.
@@noefillon1749 Which OECD countries have an even worse infrastructure?
With the exception of a few US cities, inner-city public transport has been wiped out.
@@arnodobler1096 I know the standard is low and the US could do much better despite their geography. That doesn't mean the distance argument isn't valid, and I am referring more to intercity passenger rail there.
@@noefillon1749 the distance is no excuse, especially with how fast trains can be these days. You have a very widespread street net. Going these distances by train is way more comfortable than using a car. Especially in far distances. Also transportation of materials and goods is way more energy friendly if using trains. You just need a decent railroad system.
@@gregor2436 High speed railways are twice as expensive to build as 2x2 lanes highways (in France) and the high speed line DOES NOT replace the highway. It's additional. So yes, it would be a huge expense for a mode of transportation into a harsh competition with car (which can be cheaper when you are a family or even only a couple, and when you being your car, you have a means of transportation once you arrive at your destination, if you don't plan to stay exclusively in the city) and plane which can be way faster on long routes (and also cheaper sometimes). There is a range of distance in which rail is viable. A well functioning line between NYC and LA is more a dream than anything else. Too far, too little inbetween.
I'm sorry you receive hateful comments, you don't deserve it. You are great :)
I agree, i really don’t get why some people are so bitter for no reason at all
Hello Ryan, about the people that send hateful comments to you and saying hateful stuff. What helped me is the fact that all humans strive for happiness and want to reduce suffering. If that is their way of achieving that, yeah then it is like that maybe. But more deep that hate is compassion and if their wounds would be healed they would love you too. I can say I love America and everyone at that. I think you do great things and surely you have very great things ahead of you. My love is very strong towards you people and many are feeling the same. We all just want to be happy, we are one family with the same goal.
Thank you Ryan, stay awesome ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi from Ireland ! I totally agree with your comment. To find peace in my heart and mind after many years of struggling against disapproval and not being good enough ... and getting nowhere lol .. Forgiving, and accepting others for who they are, and just being more kind to people make such a difference in live .. to genuinely love without expectation or intention and just be!! It made such a difference in my life !
Well, in Europe we are told at school about the wars we are involved in, usually from a critic point of view. So perhaps this is a difference 😂
Uh, not in Belgium or Portugal or many other countries, though. 😅
At least not in the way Germany has done it, but then again, no other country in the world has handled the their own war crimes with such openness, integrity, and sophistication. So hats off to you, dear deutsche neighbours.
we aren't told churchill was a racist mass murderer and stuff like that though or anything really about the reality of european colonialism everywhere. it's all whitewashed and sanitized to a degree that's in itself an attrocity.
@@SatieSatie What? I'm from Portugal, all the wars we were taugh were with critical thinking about it
As a german we never had history in our schedule.. it was called guilt/shame and with 12 years of age they will traumatize you with horrible pictures of holocaust victims and dead gypsies and stories how n@zis made lamps out of jew skin
Good old school times, am I right guys? 😂
From France here not a single lesson on the Algerian war during all my school time, a war where both parties did horrible things and that has tremendous consequences on the French society until now. We had one optional lesson in the equivalent of 12th grade but my teacher chose to rather study the memories of WW2 (which btw was a very interesting topic, how the French society and politics handled, or did not handle at first, the guilt of collaboration between 1945 and 1998). But the fact that I know so little about the Algerian war while it has been so important in recent French history is quite upsetting. I mean, many people that participated in it or were victims (from both sides) are still alive and live here. It caused huge tensions back then, in the society and some people that were involved transmitted their bitterness to their children. It was also one of the causes of the comeback of De Gaulle as a President and the writing of a new constitution in 1958 (a very particular constitution that gives huge powers to the sole President, which is nowadays showing its weaknesses) etc... and still I don't know much about the events.
Whatever you made for your wife was not tea. Water heated in the microwave doesn't boil so the flavour of the tea is ruined.
americans not owning kettles will never be not weird to me..
what they drink there is indeed not tea..
and im not even british but it triggers me as well..lol
@@mats7492 not british, not a tea fan, still weirded out by the lack of kettles :P
@@JohnDoe-xz1mw That's the thing, Kettles are not just for tea, they have so many uses, like a quick Pot Noodle.
Yeah I have an electric kettle that I use daily when I want really hot water. I don’t even drink tea daily. When gas prices surged a few years ago I started using my electric kettle to heat water for the dishes, as electricity was much cheaper for me. I’d never think of using the microwave to heat plain water.
...you're not supposed to boil tea, the optimal brewing temperature is something like 80-90C depending on the type of tea, not 100C. boiling it turns it bitter.
It never fails to amaze me how Pearl Harbor is portrayed as THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE THING EVER in the US while their own subsequent (and _absolutely_ annihilating) atomic bomb droppings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (maybe the most vile acts committed by humanity in war) are sugar-coated and barely ever mentioned. 😅
There was no other choice
@@Definitely-Packie How's the Kool-Aid in this hot weather
@@SatieSatie I’m white I don’t drink kool-aid
@@Definitely-Packie jesus, hahahha
You do realize the firebombing killed more people than both atomic bombings combined ?
if you have the logistics to invade a country every 2 years you have the logistics to put up a couple bike paths...just tell the goverment its for devence
I've never understood the "America is too big for public transportation so there's no point in having it" concept. Europe as an area is not much smaller but I could go by public transport from, I don't know, Lisbon to Prague. But not just between big cities, even the smallest rural communities.
I cannot figure out how to take a train from Cologne, Germany to Istanbul. I don't think there is one, and I'd rather take a train than a plane. Can you help?
@@LythaWausW You have to take a bus, it seems
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@@LythaWausWof course you can take a train to Istanbul but just not direct. Via vienna and Bukarest for example, but you need a lot of time, Like 50 hours or so.
@@LythaWausWyou can do it in about three nights. Personally I'd get the Euronight from Stuttgart to Budapest, then an IC to Arad, Astra Transcarpathic to Bucharest, and the couchette from there to Istanbul.
Not all small rural communities have public transport though.
I'd like to see more videos of this kind with you talking/discussing rather than just plain reacting. maybe even talks with the community?
G.O.A.T.E.D pfp
Agree 👏
8:20 9/11 was indeed an impact of events that had already happened before, and where the USA was not particularly honest even with its own people.
so we should have let the Soviets have Afghanistan? Or declared war on them overtly rather than covertly? Are you insane? I'm asking that because you said "events that had already happened before" so I assume you're referencing what led to 9/11 from years before. Maybe I misunderstood, I don't know.
@@supercolinblow First of all, the Iraq War was not related to 9/11, as confirmed by the 2004 report from the 9/11 Commission, which disproved the alleged connection to Al-Qaeda, the group held responsible for 9/11. By 2007, further investigative reports also debunked other reasons given for the war, such as the possession of weapons of mass destruction. In other words, the USA had lied.
Regarding the Afghanistan War, which I didn't specifically mention earlier (there were other instances where the USA intervened and only caused chaos): the USA supported the Mujahideen (Islamic guerrilla groups) with money and weapons. The conflict resulted in 1.5 million deaths, 5 million displaced people, and led to significant radicalization. As a consequence, terror groups like Al-Qaeda and the Taliban emerged. If the USA had not supported these groups, Al-Qaeda might not have existed or become as powerful as it did.
20:22 emm...
I live in Romania and I have traveled to France in one day using only trains. The size of the USA is no excuse, you could have good public transit if you want to.
We have fly over states you don't have fly over countries.
@@vincentterraneo263 dude, to get from Romania to France you cross three or four countries, and they ain't small. Well except if you take the Lichtenstein route.
Of course we fly over countries. And we also have fly over states, cause some of those countries have states, just like the USA☺
@@e1123581321345589144 I don't mean states between destinations I mean States were there is little to no purpose for anyone to stop there because 80% of the land is corn and cows.
I'm also aware other countries have administrative division. I'm saying states because the size of US States are comparable to the size of European countries.
@@vincentterraneo263 He is right but he is NOT right.
A high-speed rail system from SOUTH to NORTH on both coasts would make travel much cheaper and more comfortable.
It's about 300 km per hour. So you can do the math, three hours between the center of Chicago and New York. And a little less between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
@@vincentterraneo263 oh, I see, I got the idea wrong 😁
Yeah, probably you won't start with a high-speed rail corridor across Wayoming and Idaho, But linking Florida to Montreal and Quebec on the east coast is certainly feasible, then you can develop the Quebec-Montreal-Toronto-Detroit-Chicago line, which you would then link back east through Cleavland and Pittsburgh and south to Atlanta through Cincinatti and Nashville.
Back west Sacramento to Tijuana makes sense as well as Portland-Seatle-Vancouver and of course there's the Huston-Dallas-San Antonio-triangle in Texas which could be further linked to Monterrey in Mexico with possible future links to the central Mexican valley and Mexico City itself if that network is eve set up.
and eventually you world want link these up together, I mean you have the interstate going through these flyover states, why not high-speed rail?
"Are we really that different?" Well we are all human beings of course. Culturally? There is an abyss.
I mean... I don't think that much, when compared with the difference with cultures that are way further from us like east asian cultures for example
Culturally there’s a huge divide when it comes to older generations but young people are more and more the same everywhere. I can relate to Gen Zers and Millenials all over the western world because we all grew up watching the same movies, playing the same video games and laughing at the same memes. Most young Europeans are bilingual and we communicate in American English with Europeans from other countries.
"I'm a millenial I'm old" . Me , born in the 80s : 😭😂
I was born in the early 70s. You youngster!
@@Yandarval Even older guy here, Laddie.
@@Thurgosh_OG there is always some older. Being born in the 80s. He is moaning, when he is barely half way done yet.
So, being born in 67, I should get a drink from you all! I remember having my first Mac which was a MacClassic from 1990…
@@Attirbful If you are in the US. You are still too young.
Maybe it's just me, but it always amazes me that people are proud of something that they themselves had nothing to do with, only because the live in the same country! 🤯
Only the person who made or achieved something can be proud of it and maybe their parents and grandparents, but that's about it! 🤷🏻♂️✌🏻
Ryan you need to remember that most of us speak English as a second or third language and we can be a little bit literal when writing in English, often we write things without the nuance of a person who has English as a first language, very few people in Europe actually hate Americans but many of us strenuously disagree with some American policies re the rest of the world ( which means us) . We find Americans to be in general very loud and entitled but while we may disapprove of their actions we don’t actually hate them, I think most of us are just irritated by them, generally speaking.
Americans Do NOT speak English 😉
I think anti-Americanism is definitely a thing here in Europe and I do not think it is a language issue. There really is a portion of the European population who simply enjoys casually hating on Americans, even if they've never truly known one in person. I am Dutch and I think anti-Americanism needs to stop. Mostly it is people who have anger towards the foreign policy of the USA, who then misdirect that political disagreement onto some random US-citizen, which is both an unintelligent thing to do but also unethical. But other times there are those who really just seem to enjoy casually looking down on Americans. Which is even worse and which I find to be extremely embarrassing, as it looks grandiose and insecure.
@@squarecircle1473 yes but actually hate is a very strong emotion and I don’t think most Europeans care enough to invest that much in how they feel about Americans , I think most people say hate but actually mean dislike .
@@squarecircle1473 if you cannot blame the population for the actions done by the gov, you would admit that they are not a democracy.
in a democratic gov, the people voting are responsible for the actions taken by those voted into power. it's a far stretch to blame everything on "some random US-citizen", but you should hold them accountable for their foreign policy.
unless, like mentioned, you do not think it is a democracy; in that case the population isn't to blame.
@@LoLrand0mness No, it's a democracy all right. Some polls showed a 70% approval rating for Bush (the younger) when they started the war. But as it became clearer that it wasn't ending anytime soon and we hadn't found anything compromising (WMD) in Saddam's jewelry box, and consequently there was no real reason for it, we gradually turned against it.
Europeans seem to confuse "support our troops" with "support our government". This is a reflection of a different mentality between US and European politics and society, and nothing could be farther from the truth. Even a year later, Bush's margin of re election was narrow. The popular vote was 50.7% for GWB; NOT a resounding approval as presidential elections go. It's certainly a far cry from 70%.
the car centric design is "kinda working". but only kinda.
the whole urban concept of suburbs and car-focused cities is not scalable in the long term without incurring massive costs. the infrastructure is already not in a good state. investment is already massively behind schedule and continuing to build up billions and billions of additional debt just to maintain the infrastructure will be an impossibility in the long run.
under the bottomline, it is a waste of economic resources that could be better used to serve the nation and the people.
Why did a European say 'y'all?' Well, I'll let you in on a little secret: You know that thing where you're not supposed to mimic someone else's accent?
Yeah, you can't really avoid that when learning a second language. You kind of have to pick some kind of accent to aim for. Also, the word y'all is gaining a lot of traction outside the South these days.
It's getting more and more popular among young city folk, so it makes sense why young Europeans might pick it up from their American counterparts.
I used it before knowing it was accent etc, just to write it shorter so that could be it too. I wouldn't say it aloud texas style but its easy to write
Microwaves heat unevenly - so they don't _boil_ all the water. Tea needs to be infused with water at over 95 degC.
Try using a kettle, water doesn't boil in a Microwave.
Tea of any kind will taste horrible coming from a microwave.
@@gerardflynn7382 In fact it can do, If you disturb the surface tension. That´s why it´s a bad idea to boil water in a microwave. ruclips.net/video/1_OXM4mr_i0/видео.html&ab_channel=Caramthros
@@gerardflynn7382 I would agree - rather the point of my post.
Agreed. Microwaved water also seems to have an odd taste to it, in hot drinks.
And there is different kinds of tea, needing different temperatures. Green tea should never be boiled but also not be microwaved...
By the way, Irak had nothing to do with 911. The Irak war was a dirty war, the USA had to blame someone, and as the result, the whole middle east is messed up. Good Job. I know from first hand, because my husband went to the first irak war.
well it did not start there as the US fucked up others before -remember US made Iran
well, the middle east has been messed up for centuries, it just started to become worse and worse..
the british after WW1 inventing countries and drawing lines on maps without caring who lives tehre, the whole israel question...etc.
2003 iraq war was just another bucket of fuel into a burning lake of fuel..
Iraq
@@gerardflynn7382 العراق
@@gerardflynn7382just in english is iraq for many countries is Irak
I am actually intrested how bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is portraid in US schools
They've probably never heard of it
The entirety of my WWII block in high school was quite graphic honestly. From footage of people burning alive at Pearl Harbor to the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as the horrible treatment of Jewish people and how emaciated and terrible their conditions were when they were freed. There really was not any sugar coating at all on the international part but they definitely did not linger too long on how Asian Americans were treated after Pearl Harbor. That section was to the point and not too in depth, very few image as well. But of course, here in the USA what you learn and how in depth you learn it depends on the region and whether you attend public or private school or a charter school.
Well done Ryan for speaking out and outlining what you understand.
To non-Americans, here in the US the Iraq War is strictly the one that began in 2003. The 1991 war is called The Gulf War, it’s not at all considered the Iraq War.
The term "First Iraq War" is less commonly used because the 1991 conflict was not exclusively fought within Iraq's borders. Additionally, the term "First Iraq War" could be confused with the Iran-Iraq War, which took place from 1980 to 1988.
Not all of us Americans are dumb. Most young Americans don’t know the gulf war even happened because we didn’t learn about in school. I was born in 1992 and didn’t learn about it in school but I’m smart and like watching historical documentaries in my free time. I also learned about it in one of my college (university for non-Americans) classes.
8 miles isn't that far, I walk that distance regularly, I don't even bother to take the bus or use my bike...
I used to walk like that. I live in a place that used to be mostly rural, but is not getting more suburbanized.
There certainly is celebrity culture in Spain. Personally, I don't care for it, but it does exist. Gossip and reality TV shows have been huge in Spain for quite a while and they are TRASH.
Another difference I see between Spain and the US that has to do with reality TV is how the American version of the same program (e.g. Master Chef) is far more about the competitive aspect while the Spanish version is much more about personal conflicts between participants, which in turn becomes gossip material.
Drag Race Espana is actually one of the best in all the franchises. The humour is the best. Watching from Australia.
The truth is that if we talk about TV it is a very bipolar issue in Spain.
We have a fairly high-quality television with cultural programs and very good series in the style of the BBC or RTF, but we have some of the worst things one can imagine.
I think that with the Internet and being able to watch old TV we can realize the quality of the different series in different countries, not only current but also old. And unfortunately or fortunately we are NOT very different from most Europeans.
hi ryan, concerning 6:29 : did you finish the volker pispers history of... 5/5 series? obviously not on YT but privatly? 😉
I have been waiting for that! Maybe he had trouble with subtitles/following along?
Your argument about public transit (20:50 mins in) is stupid of ot outright dumb. I think it was OBF that made a very clear video showing this. If you take the landmass of Europe (Not just the EU) than Europe is slightly larger as the US, but even international public transit is easy accessible and widespread. You can get anywhere by train and bus. Thus your remark on the size of the US is crap and invalid.
Small scale pubilc transport is still negatively affected by the larger size and outright insane design of US houses/property and their neighborhoods. A bus/tram/train can not collect all potential passengers in a US suburban area in any effective way, nor can passengers get to the next stop without walking insanely large distances. Or you have to add so many additional stops for your public transportation system of choice, that it will take insane amounts of time to run from its start to its end AND the low population density will create a $/km ratio, that it will turn out to be extremely expensive at the same time. And that's not just for suburbs - even the block-design of city cores creates much larger distances for busses / trains / trams / subway trains to move between stops. all of this creates even bigger problems. Your system of choice also needs to maintain a high frequency to serve your stops, in order to be attractive. 1 train per hour isn't good enough.
So you need to run even more units, that will have to go longer distances and serve double/triple the amount of stops. Which makes it slower and triple or quadrouple as expensive.
@@dnocturn84 yes, many American post war developments were poorly designed and city centres were hollowed out.
Even so, the overall size of the country has nothing to do with it, people aren’t going coast-to-coast on a regular basis.
"Anywhere" is a little exaggerated but yeah 😁
@@jackwalker4874 Yes, the bare country size isn't the issue. But the distance between everything is.
@@dnocturn84 And that distance is more than covered in Europe. Europe has approx. 20% more landmass than the US and is spread a fair bit wider by seas, stretching the distances between places.
Innovation in 1967 Sir Dr. Christian Barnard preformed the human heart transplant on 2/3 December in Cape Town South Africa. Without this innovation millions of people would not be alive today me included. To me this is the greatest innovation ever.
Based on the work of two-headed dog doctor Demikhov? Horrible for the dogs, but really nice for the ppl who need transplants. Just looked up Barnard - he also used dogs! The doctor seemed to love America, that's nice: ) I dissected a heart once, and it's clear to see that the valves are the tricky parts.
@@LythaWausW You've heard of Pavlov's dog, naturally. He was working in an era when ethics weren't an issue, so there were also Pavlov's Orphaned Children who never get mentioned.
All just to prove that if someone says 'dinner' you expect to get fed...
18:37 the innocent blinking after admitting to tea atrocities killed me haha! 😂 I'm kidding, however you heat your water, no matter the inefficiencies, is fine. I think Americans would be much more likely to drink tea if they had electric kettles. Love from Australia.
I think its a bit wrong that in US many say that its too spread out for public transport, there are many rural and spread out areas in Europe aswell, the government just subsidizes the busroutes then and you use smaller busses. Its not a reason to not have public transport at all. US is the richest country in the world, you would think this its a non-issue but I guess the culture there is to make a buck from everything and a subsidized transport system is not really making money in a direct way.
This was truly interesting ❤
German here. To the car centric design: I suppose the question rose partly because in Europe many cities began a change in their design to become more pedestrian friendly again. Of course in the countryside a car is very useful, mostly necessary, but not in cities. And if Europeans can change their cities, why not Americans? (A well-known example for an over-the-top car centered city is LA.) Effort for change is needed here, too.
Additionally, making cities pedestrian-friendly may change the perspective of people wanting use their cars.
23:08 "They are happy with their cars. Oh man, what a freaking nightmare it is driving a car through a city." I see some irrationality in the combination of these consecutive sentences. 😂
This was a very entertaining video!
Well you can thank Britain for Americans heating water in the microwave oven, we gifted them the cavity magnetron which powers the microwave oven, we should have gifted them kettles instead.
I’m Dutch, ‘proud’ is a big word. But happy ASML came up with the tech they have (google is your friend), but likely ‘more proud’🤷♂️ about what wea a super small country do in acro-tech (Wageningen university)
When do you move to Europe
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If a European says y'all, they're probably not a native English speaker, and they learned it from (Americans on) the internet.
Definitely. I've never personally heard an English person say Y'all.
Everyone would probably piss themselves laughing.
You summed it up well, Ryan, regarding computers, etc , we are living in a world of unintended consequences, regarding most things Step 1, good invention, Step 2, how can we exploit it for financial/disruptive purposes.
Was it ever thus? 🙋♀️🇬🇧
I really hoped someone would ask about the general awareness of climate crisis. Here I finally see more coverage in the media and even mentions in weather forecasts. I feel like the arguably biggest challenge in human history is still quite under the radar overall.
There is no climate crisis. It is a doomsday cult.
learn about climate overall through history and evidence and ask yourself why it is that only the doom and gloom propaganda is permitted to be aired. There is no debate amongst experts. Why? CO2 follows temperature rise, it doesnt drive it...see the dryas periods to start with. Be a Scientist
You mean one of the biggest scams of our time….
The problem with 'The Climate Crisis' is that for some of us, this is the 12th or 19th or 25th or more, 'Climate Crisis' within our lifetimes and all that has occured is higher taxes and bigger profits for some companies. And yet somehow it is the people's fault, not the massive industries, who are the real ones, causing these problems and don't want to reduce their profits to make improvements, to reduce their impact.
There is no climate crisis. It is a doomsday cult.
Whenever I see videos of suburbs in the USA I think they are already fit for bikes. You would just need a bike path to the shopping mall, to the school and to some activities. Even if you don't do it for yourselfs - your children would suddenly be so much more independant.
And for the cities: You say that there is good public transportation, so you could try to keep cars out of it by adding park and ride lots (huge parking lots outside the city with acces to the public transportation into the city).
Does Ryan answer to comments?👀
Nope but I bet he reads them and laughs at us all fighting amongst ourselves 😀😃😄
@@annfrancoole34nah he just don't bother, typical lazy yan,k.
No
No
Most of them are pretty hateful anyway. Why should he?
5:20 What is your opinion on Neuralink?
WHY do you Americans _insist_ upon mispronouncing Iraq...?! (_Ir_arq ...as "Eye_rack"🙁)
It's like when I hear (some) Americans (citizens of the USA) say "Eyetalian" 🤔😐 ...instead of _It_alian... Whyyyy?!!?
They mispronounce nearly everything.
Why are American accounts the only one scrutinized like this? Like if an American did this to someone else they'd rightfully be seen as an abrasive jerk.
@@vincentterraneo263 because it's only Americans who do this 😉
@@John-jw8rx yeah because if anyone else did this it'd be an "accent."
@@vincentterraneo263 mispronouncing words isn't an accent.
about Mein Kampf, in germany till the end of war there were sold 10 millions copies, he wrote it mostly for his follower, but when he became a chancellor and after that a fuhrer, the having of this book became a must, in other word "you are not a good german if you don´t own a copy", it was also a mandatory reading at school, even before a war jewish family own that book...and honestly I don´t know if this book is illegal in US, but in 2016 this book became a bestseller and in my country Slovakia you could also buy translated copy in 2000, this book is not banned but after 2000 weren´t reprint in my language, so sometimes you see notice someone looking for a book and want to buy it
"What were you taught about the Iraq War in school?"
Well ... which one?
Iraq War referred to the 2003 one. The first war is more commonly known as Gulf War.
@@ImRezaF Hmpf ... you are right. That seems to be a german thing. The german wikipedia also calls it "Third Gulf War" or "Second Iraq War", while that's not a thing in the english and french versions. I hereby retract whatever I posted before and / or claim that I actually meant, whatever is currently considered to be right and / or makes sense.
@@lupf5689 In the UK it's commonly called 'The Second Gulf War'.
@@lupf5689In the US the gulf war is what happened in the early 1990’s. To you as a German this would be the second gulf war. I was born in 1992 which was a year after the gulf war ended
You say it's a struggle to find parking in american cities, yet you have about eight parking spaces for every regitered car in the entire country 🤣 I do get that the majority of these spaces are not in the cities but outside the cities by the gigantic shopping areas with megastore after megastore after megastore, but still, kinda funny... in Europe we have just barely over one space per registered car on average!
It’s rare that I don’t find a parking spot or that it’s hard to find one.
I swear, don't EVER try to go into Paris with a car. I once paid about 35 € for 3 or 4 hours (we had no choice but to stay there for this long) after looking for the spot for at least 15 minutes.
The reason why (non-British) Europeans start picking up the American "y'all" quite easily is probably that most (non-English) European languages have distinct forms for you (sing.) and you (plur.).
"Nintendo is a country in Japan" typical American geography 3:25
About the extremism and you not thinking that there's gonna be tyranny anytime soon. I was thinking the same but an episode of Last Week Tonight about Trump possible second term made me think again 😮 you should check it out some time! Greetings from Germany
I think with the transport question it's a case of 'what you've never had, you never miss'. Americans who have experienced a different way of doing things invariably change their view. Also, it isn't a case of either/or, I have a car, and I use public transport, so you pick what is best at any given time.
By the way, ignore the trolls, ignorant people look for opportunities to be rude on social media, or whatever, it makes them feel big, but it really shows them up for what they are ... small, and inconsequential. We can always see the good and bad differences in all cultures, but being nasty isn't necessary.
I like Americans, as a collective, yes many of the stereotypical ideas are true with some people, but we Brits have our fair share of 'idiots abroad', especially the 18-30 brigade who delight in getting drunk on holiday abroad, and annoying the locals. So embarrassing!! 🙋♀️🇬🇧🇺🇲
Nice shirt, I like the album too.
I quite like videos like this with more of your talking points and a bit less reaction
Ryan, have you seen Capricorn One?
great Movie
America's reaction to 9/11 is totally understandable, Ryan, I would feel the same if we had been hit in the same way, (we have had some pretty devastating terrorist attacks here too since 9/11). There is such a thing as a just war. A huge difference between being a defender or an aggressor. All the people who say you should never fight, all the so-called 'hippy freedom types", would be in a sorry state if some marauding despot walked into their undefended country and took away their rights, that others had fought so hard for them to enjoy. In America's case, no point in quoting the 1st Amendment, or the 2nd, or indeed the 5th bcos you wouldn't be invited to speak, you'd be powerless.
On 9/11 I was in my car when the first plane went in, and I thought, "what a terrible accident", when the second one went in I literally thought, "the world will never be the same again", the realisation of what had happened, and so it has proved to be, regardless of how the US and allies responded the dial had moved.
Sad but true😢 🙋♀️🇬🇧
11:26 i am european and i say y'all...i have internet at home, so i can access to many channels around the world and adapt my informal writting in english😂
Looking forward to the responses😂
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My question: Why do you refer to your country as America when in fact America is a continent?
Or should I as a German start to refer to my country as Europe? Questions over questions...
I find that odd too.."here in America.." when only talking about the USA.
@@nolaj114 It is very disrespectful for the other 20+ countries that form America, isn't it? As if they did not matter :/
America is not a continent. North America and South America are 2 continents but in the English language the word America refers to the United States of America, the only country with America in its name.
They don't have a name, it's the only country who has no name.
Everything is just going in circles, no matter how they try, they end up referring to the continent.
Nope, that is not so difficult. If it is, than Ukraine war is also difficult. Russia invaded a country to whipe out its regime. Some local citizens were greatful, most of them hate the invaders and fight back. In Iraq USA/NATO invaded a country to whipe out its regime. Some local citizens were greatful, most of them hate the invaders and fight back. The only difference is the west called the iraqi resisters terrorists and we call the Ukrainians heroes and the Iraq war had much more casualties.
Do you know how Iraq looks like by now? It is not a country anymore. But a playing ground of the US backed goverment, ISIS, Iran and Kurds and other jihadist groups. A complete mess and tragedy. We can hope Ukraine would not be in that shape after the war is over.
The sad thing is that Ukraine is the biggest crime of Russia in the recent years but Iraq is not the biggest crime of the USA in the recent years. I would say that was Lybia. But for the US citizens that would be Afghanistan. So much money for nothing. They had burnt more than 1000 billion USD, they trained and equiped 500k local forces beyond the NATO forces against 120k strength Taliban with poor and outdated equipments and they suffered more casualties than the Taliban and finally they had to retreat. Very embarrassing but 3 months later booooom! Russian invasion! And no one talks about Afghanistan anymore...
Here in Poland we've had mandatory health insurance since the state was reborn after WW1, so we didn't actually elect those people who implemented it. It's Americans who voted for people who took universal healthcare away from you :(
one thing i notice: Iraq war- none to just one "unit" of lessons in school. Nazis- 4 years of holocaust studies.
Hm, I don't think you are stuck with your car infrastructure for the foreseeable future. Many places in Europe were built and bulldozed for cars too, just like in the US, and then actively changed again within the last years or decades. The thing is: car infrastructure often doesn't carry itself financially and also has to be worked on constantly like all infrastructure (roads need to be renewed, broadened etc). There are good videos on this topic. So you don't really have to choose between passively relaxing and actively changing, you just choose between redoing what you have done and doing it differently than before.
If you really did make it to the moon, why is almost impossible for you now
Hey from Romania! cool videos man, didn't really like you at first but you're awesome actually. :))) Have a good one! Cheers!
dude your shoulders are huge, you're a wardrobe
we had in Europe car-centric cities, after WW II. But it changed, progressively.
It's Europe not the EU. What's the EU flag got to do with it?
Das the whole of Europe have a flag? Please, show me one that encompasses all of Europe. Go on
@@powerviolentnightmare5026 There isn't one. How about a silhouette of the Continent of Europe? Europe is made up of numerous sovereign nations each with their own unique character. Europe isn't represented by the dumb flag of some political organisation.
It's the flag of the Council of Europe. It includes every country in Europe except for Belarus (and Russia was suspended since it invaded Ukraine)
@@fra604 It's a shame the EU was allowed to use it and conflate the two.
@@davidhumpherson4904 your correct.. 44 countries all with their own flags
Well, I was (barely) still in school when the first iraq war happened. So, if YOU’re old, what am I?
I really enjoyed your perspective on these questions. I had no idea you were old enough to remember 9/11.
11/09/01 was only 23 years ago. How old do you think Ryan is?
Ryan just wanted so say as a european, thanks for your videos. You re a nice, smart guy who has an open mind and still dont take too much bullshit. The ideal guy to show some culture and stuff to and want hear their opinion.
Would love you go to see to europe at some point.
Take care and react to some euros football fan videos ;)
Btw. Europeans hate noone as much as some other europeans....
Are you sure? They seem to hate Americans pretty bad.
What's the most similar people in the world, I would say Americans and Europeans, fun fact more than 2 thirds of Americans are/or dissent directly from Europeans, just as an example Leonardo Dicaprio has a German mother and an Italian father yet he is American 🇪🇺❤🇺🇲
Sorry I disagree, I think Europeans, in particular the British, are quite different from most Americans, especially those who have never travelled outside of the States...in my experience, we are very much more like Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians. 😊✌
They ARE Europeans.
Just like black people are African.
@@John-jw8rx No. They are all US Americans, if they are US citizens.
There are 44 different countries in Europe. How can you compare? I am from the UK, Europe but am not similar to all the other 43.
There are Castles in Florida, they are very interesting coastal fortresses that do not differ from European fortifications. You will be able to see barbicans and drawbridges.
The most interesting cathedral, apart from those in Texas, which are very modified, is that of MEXICO D.F. I assure you that it has nothing to envy of most European cathedrals. I'll tell you in case you're curious.
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"the iraq war". :D which one?
In the UK, they were known as the Gulf Wars.
Culturally there’s a huge divide between the US and Europe when it comes to older generations but young people are more and more the same everywhere. I can relate to Gen Zers and Millenials all over the western world because we all grew up watching the same movies, playing the same video games and laughing at the same memes. Most young Europeans are bilingual and we communicate in American English with Europeans from other countries.
Here are some lessons about the Iraq war :
Volker Pispers history of USA and terrorism 1 of 5
ruclips.net/video/n4H_E8b-qmo/видео.html
watch all 5 parts.
people hating on america in your comments may be because you pander to a certain demographic that is usually the one that hates america - in the US as well as in germany. Your memes for example are exclusively from reddit and on reddit, you have some difficulty even finding american that like america.
9:30 yes there was people and stuff saying it wasn't true at the time. America didn't want to know, just like your assistants in a Genocide in Palestine with Israel at the moment.
You really think that Republican policies are not extreme? Banning books, Roe v Wade abolished, etc are not extreme enough? Well, I politely beg to differ.
At 5:57 I spot Bernd das Brot.
Ryan just recently did a reaction to Bernd das Brot on his German channel, Ryan Wass.
3:33 thank the Dutch for making the machine that creates those micro chips that made all the things you just described possible. It wasn't silicon valleythat came up with the techniques.. they just had the idea
Why would we say "y'all" ? thats an english expression...
we just mimic the way you speak...
Also it's the internet
Any European that says y’all should receive a slap to the face.
American, not English - but agreed, you use the language that people expect, if you want them to listen.
Certainly isn't an English expression. It's American.
GenZ (not all of them) and Millenials )also not all of them) do seem to use more 'American English' terms on the internet. Probably because US Americans seem to be online 24/7.
You have Pyramids over there in the Americas
15:28 Eh don't worry, you're not the only one. Europeans often rub me off too and i'm not even american or have anything to do with US. They can be pretty snobbish a lot of time.
As an european i feel really embarassed when i read these kind of comments
NASA = Never Actually Step'd Anywhere (moon)
Ryan, you are a European 😉
that's strange that at the first question (great accomplishments of US), the first answer was "i'm proud of my national identity". that's weird and wrong answer in my opinion, the national identity has nothing to do with the great accomplishments question. the question was about accomplishments, not identity. in my european point of view, that's totally different. one is good pride, the other is dangerous nationalistic.
I use y'all sometimes. sounds good and is way closer in meaning to some ways thah we have (for example in italian) to address an unidentified group of people you're talking to. Our english often is a bit of a frankensein monster of pronunciations spelling and vocaboulary. For example, the first years of high school I did a year of extra English classes that were mandatory in the school to take my FCE test and the professor was indian. The confused look the British examiners gave each other when most of us showed up at the exam with an indian accent was priceless lmao. nowadays I use most of the words I like no matter where they are from, lot of british and american slang learned online. I still sound like super mario on crack when I speak cause my accent fluctuates from american to scottish to british to indian to italian to whatever comes to my mind better in that moment, but it's quite fun to hear I guess hahahahah
I, as a European, am saying "y'all" all the time, because it is such an amazing and short way of addressing a group in a gender neutral way XDDD
2:20 I think on one hand, yes, you are right, but since it was crucial for the USA to be the first nation to land on the moon and only American astronauts were involved, I don't see it that way.
Ryan Said“ the people working on the tech came from all over the world“ .The astronauts didn’t build their vehicle on their own.
@@winterlinde5395 I know he said that, but he's speaking from a modern perspective. Back then, and even a few years ago, hardly any Americans knew or thought about this. I bet if you asked Americans today, 80% wouldn't know about von Braun and others.
@@duit111 Most of the People leading things at NASA were British, not US Americans because even the Brits had more expertise than the Yanks.
@@Thurgosh_OG I completely agree and think that's true, but do you think Americans, Asians, Indians, or Russians know that? When talking about the first moon landing, people only mention the USA and the three astronauts.
Most Europeans don't speak English as their first language but learn it as a foreign language, therefore you can't say that Europeans don't use "y'all". We pick up words from many places when we learn English. You can't really choose or influence your English when it is a foreign language to you. We all speak a mixture of British, American, Aussie, and our mother tongue when we speak English.
- obviously no in the UK+Ireland, bc they are native speakers.
We also talked about recent events in school and I'm also a Millennial, we had the Irak war in school. It was more of a spontaneous thing between some other topics but recent history and politics is def taught.
There is one town in Indiana, USA, that is known for their bike friendly infrastructure. Just saying, it's closer to you than Europe ;)
Well, I don't think that innovations in the PC sector are anything that Americans should be proud of. If I take Microsoft as the company that set the standards, then I see above all a large amount of bribes to establish this status. There were better operating systems and also application software, for example UNIX, OS/2, Wordperfect, Lotus123, all programs that were miles better than the Microsoft products of that time. But authorities and schools in Germany only bought Microsoft products because they were the only ones that received subsidies (a group of schools even petitioned Atari to please bring the MegaST with an integrated AT card onto the market so that the purchase would be subsidized). The PC market could have developed very differently without lobbying. And today, Microsoft's greatest innovation is that people are reliably and permanently being ripped off because a new Windows is constantly being released, the old operating system is no longer supported and, on top of that, the user's surfing behavior is logged so that the company is a valuable address for companies that want to get rid of their advertising.
Please don't get me wrong, you can be proud of the development in the PC sector but unfortunately the focus is not on development but on exploiting the users.
Without German technique and German scientist the USA never reached the moon ore computers. The best ever made USA invention: The stop sign and the zipper..
And there was a certain British Engineer, Francis Thomas Bacon. He was hired by NASA and Pratt and Whitney to develop the fuel cells used in the successful Apollo 11 launch. The development of these fuel cells by Bacon was so innovative and groundbreaking that later US President Richard Nixon told him, “Without you Tom, we wouldn’t have gotten to the moon.” There were several other British Engineers involved, along with the German Scientists (and some from other countries), so the Moon Landings were a joint operation, funded mainly by the US but not possible without a lot of non-US people.
I hate Eurovision! 😂
1:11 you got the moon landing. We got the NHS
I have aways wondered what the moon landing achieved in a practical sense.
Damn you living on the edge..... When Americans find out you're in the Gen Z chat as a Millennial they prolly accuse you of grooming
"Does any country in Europe say y'all?" That was quite cute, no European country says y'all, we speak our own language. We learn English as a foreign langage and you can randomly hear or learn "y'all". Your teacher or your course book might mention it, or you keep hearing it in American films or from real-life Americans. So this person asking knows they are speaking to Americans and thought of using it.
English is spoken as a first language in the UK, and they might say "you lot", if they say anything.
I hope your wife gets well soon!
You can boil the water in the microwave, it's just that we don't it. In Central Europe we also drink the kind of tea that Americans drink, weak tea with sugar and lemon juice, and drink it ice cold in the summer. It's almost like lemonade.
Remind me again, where is the UK? What continent does it belong to?
No, English people do not say Y'all.
@@ParaSpite In Europe, of course, I don't know why I got this question.
I wrote about Euroepans in general, speaking our own language, and then mentioned the UK kind of as an exception, whose own language is English (also partly Ireland, but I don't know what they say for y'all"). Sorry if I wasn't clear.
@@John-jw8rx that's what I said
dont you have white castle? its a castle!!
Is it though?
If the moon landing was faked, how did they get Tidbinbilla on board? Oh, haven't heard of it? Tidbinbilla is the Australian relay station that got y'all the pictures of the landing. You're welcome. And what about Pine Gap?
What about the direct monitoring of the entire flight and mission by the Soviet Union? Who would have had a field day, if the landings had been faked. The Soviet leader even congratulated the US, on the achievement and it was in some soviet newspapers.
my most important question when will you start to learn world history and geography in yous expensive and inefficient school system as your healthcare system is please google is your friend and its free
And Google was made by the "oh so stupid" Americans.
As a European (Dutch) I agree that anti-Americanism needs to stop in Europe. Usually it is people who have anger towards the foreign policy of the USA, who then misdirect that political disagreement onto some random US-citizen, which is both an unintelligent thing to do but also unethical. And the fact that some people seem to be so casual with it is embarrassing, imo.
I totally agree. It's also the resentment of the superpower or often just pure envy. This level of generalizing is normally unacceptable in any other area of life in Europe.
I'm especially surprised by the level of American bashing in England.