Denmark fired back and said, they could buy America, cause the US has shown that you can buy the Government. Also getting a great Healthcare system and Education, might give the US a chance😂
Actually, I’m pretty sure the US needs Greenland for national security, which is why they are renting military bases there, and could probably rent even more real estate from their ally Denmark
This very annoying when there's real security threats to care of. Russian illegal invasion of Ukraine, China's threats against Taiwan and Irans attacks against Israel just to name a few.
@@rikardottosson1272 The way it is going I would say that allowing US bases on Greenland is running contrary to national security. The US seems like a hostile nation and I wouldn't allow one of those to station troops on my soil.
Dane here, That's only for the Greenlanders, to decide, what they want, , not everybody else. Personally, I think most Greenlander are leaning more towards getting independence, rather than becoming a territory of another country. And I heard a Greenlandic Member of Parliament say, that she didn't want to live under the circumstances, the Inuit People in Alaska is living under. And Finally, as most of you probably already have guessed, Greenland has a Welfare System, based on the Nordic Model (As seen in Norway, Sweden & Denmark) Why would they want the US System? 🙂
The Inuit people in Alaska really do struggle with alcohol abuse and probably drug as well. Native peoples in the USA do not do as well as other ethnicities. The native people in Hawaii don't seem to do well either. The USA in charge of Greenland would not be an improvement for Greenlanders.
There is the issue, that Greenlanders also want to be independent from Denmark. This fact will be abused to spin a narrative and to create a valid reason. But they want to be fully independent, they don't want to change the country they're dependent of. But even if followed through correctly and peacefully in the future, an independent Greenland with a total population of a small city, will still be absobed by the US. There is no way they can defend against that, but at least it will be peaceful.
Denmark has a protectorate relation to Greenland and to the Faroe Islands. Back in time also Iceland, these days they are still accepted into Danish universities.
Not a Dane, but my understanding is that Denmark pays a lot to keep the Greenland up and running. Getting rid of that life-line and making Greenland independent would pretty much mean they will fail as a country very fast and likely get invaded by a random large superpower. Greenland has a population roughly same as the city I live in and I can't see how that amount of people can run a country of that size, in that kind of environment. Sure, they could invite outside companies to suck them dry of resources, but how is that any better than getting free money from Denmark and having certain autonomy. Because if they do invite outside companies to exploit and invest into the island, these companies will take hold of the island and eventually governments behind those companies will take control of the country itself. China belt and road initiative sparks to mind as the first vulture to land as soon as they get independent.
@@arnodobler1096Not necessarily. Nationalism originally means just that a certain nation should have it's own nation state. Nationalism can be toxic though, for sure.
I wish we lived by that here in Sweden too. These "patriots"(livets hårda skola-utbildade stolpskott) that have gotten a hold everywhere now makes Sweden a sh*t country by breaking down everything that has been good about us and what other countries looked wanted to be. Next election, if the neonazi-party get even more power, we can kiss goodbye to the beloved country that we once was.
Yeah basically Donny and Vlady had a chat and Vlady told Donny conquering other countries isn’t bad and natural for empires and just that it’s natural for Russia to expand in Europe it would be natural for the US to expand in the Americas, and being the halfwit he is Trump took the bait
And the… let’s go with “silliest”… the silliest part is the USA already has a lot of military bases and access to Greenland, as Denmark is NATO and there are bases there. In fact there was a diplomatic accident in the 80ies concerning atomic devices that were lost by the USA in Greenland, after they actually promised not to store there those kind of weapons to Denmark… but you i guess menacing your allies to annex their territories (or them entirely in the case of Canada) is clearly the smartest way to protect your own borders and avoid conflicts😅
Why no Maga asks for Betterment of life like Having a proper job & Real house not the trailer nor the grown up backwood Pile & seriously even if whatever land gets added, there's no way maga will leave the own county 😅.
This and the Panama Canal were one of the dumbest things any American president could say publicly. A war within allies the EU vs the US would be disastrous but beneficial to Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and all types of terrorists in the world. Trump can’t expect Greenlanders to just give up their territory because he asked or threaten them. The same about Panama. He has a talent to create enemies within allies I think😢
Anything that benefits the poor or working class is socialism, obviously. And anyone who contradicts my opinions is a fascist. Simple as that, if you're American.
Yes, for many years they have been told of Socialism as something negative and repugnant by US politicians, despite the fact most of the US's allies around the world are Socialist Democracies.
Most Americans don't know the definition of either socialism or communism, but they invoke both when they encounter something they don't understand or don't agree with. One of the funniest opinions by many Americans is that when something if finance via taxes, it's socialism or communism. If that was really the case, then America would be one of the most socialist or communist countries in the world considering the American military is financed via taxes. Jeremy Clarkson was right when he once pondered about what Americans are normally doing........mostly incest
One of the current favourites is saying the nazi's were socialists because of the full party name rather than any policy or admission that they used all sorts of things to portray an image and disguise the fascism.
Don't forget that in Europe we have a beverage called "Viennese Coffee" and it's delicious. During WW2, Italy create "Americano". Basically an espresso in wich you had a glass of water, because american soldiers can't handle real coffee....😅
The problem is, that indeed most Americans don't want to know or don't want to believe that the ranking is true. They're lost completely the ability to make an effort and check the facts and most embarrassing they're even proud of it.
The more I learn about the US, the more I appreciate living somewhere else. My country has it's flaws, the people here have their flaws, but man it's still way better then over there, and I appreciate that more and more, which overall makes me a happier person. So thank you USA for being such a mess, so the rest of the world can feel better about ourselves and get a good laugh at the end of the day.
I hear ya, I will still say, generally things are nice here and people are mostly awesome. The few bad apples here are loud though and also our flaws as a country are unfortunately heavy flaws. I love it though.. I just think we can do better.
@IWrocker it's not about the people in general, most of them I assume are just trying to get to next day without struggling too much, as anyone else does if we are honest and most of them can't go anywhere else so they have to deal with it anyway as most of us have to in our own countries. But when you look at the US system as a whole and compare it to other countries around the world, the US looses a lot of its shiny coating very quickly, this doesn't mean it's a bad place to live, it's more a matter of preference and what you value in life and I appreciate not having to deal with the American way of life :)
@@IWrockeri know you love your country,and i know you know it could be so much better. Simply put the biggest flaw the US has is that most of it is based on ME. And that drips through all important aspects of life. European country's are based on WE without being communist or purely socialist.
Some of the things I have seen Americans say online, with regards to Greenland, I have found to be upsetting. Sadly, plenty of Americans show they have no problem whatsoever with the idea of taking sovereign land by military force from an ally. As a Dutchman, I feel close to Denmark. It actually feels treacherous. At this point the attitude of Americans towards the world really has stopped being fun for me. Still, I know not all Americans are like that. Channels like this are healthy for me because when I listen to Ian I also am confronted with the sane portion of America. Still... Its discouraging. USA is making itself very unloved. Trump is not even in office, and there has been such divisive discourse already.
As a Dutch woman I also find it very very concerning. The retoric Trump and his cronies use are similar to the retoric used in the 1930's. And everyone knows how that turned out. And even more frightening is that Trump is nothing more than a puppet for his billionaire thugs and a very stupid puppet at that. Musk is already meddling in Britain's and Germany's political climate by funding extreme rightwing parties. Who is going to stop this blatant imperialism?
@@mickratters8073The status of the US as an ally and sane friend has been dropping since Trumps first presidency and it has been going downhill since. Biden hasn’t been able to fix the image and harm that was already done and now Trump is going for the kill. I am very worried for the next few years.
You are a true patriot, ie those who love their country so much they are not afraid to point out its faults so that it can learn and improve. Much love from Ireland
I was in San Antonio TX last summer. A friend's husband told me that the reason most of the world speaks English is because of Hollywood and the American influence. He looked very confused when I pointed out that a few hundred years of Britain walking into other countries and shouting "Bagsy!" to the point where we "owned" half the world might have had something to do with it. This was the same guy who complimented me on my English. 🤣
I wish - while i was living in the USA - i would have met more Americans like you, open minded and intelligent (I am assuming 😉). It is totally okay to acknowledge flaws in your own country-that is not unpatriotic, as you wish to improve your country. Best wishes and a happy new year to you and your adorable family! 😊 Cheers from Germany
I literally had a guy say just a few days ago, that the Greenlanders life's would only improve if they joined America spouting the typical American gibberish about freedom, military power and "best country" while personally despise USA as a system and so forth I still asked how any of those things would help them, sad to say he could not give me much of an answer. Like Denmark or the Nordics in general aren't already at the top of most of the important lists that you would want to live in
Never in my life I have thought of moving from Sweden to the "Paradise of Fools". But in the same time, I have to admit that I have met in Europe not just the normal category of rude, big talking, completely ignorant americans, but also some very well educated, modest, really nice americans. The kind of people you wish you had among your closest friends. I don´t understand how they can stand living in that country. They are the true heroes of the planet.
On a more serious note, Denmark and Greenland are part of NATO. If they feel like blowing some of their own money they can de facto already place as many Jeffs and Georges in the frozen tundra as they want. The Greenlanders would probably appreciate renters with deep pockets, but not sure if American cititzens wouldn't rather expand medicare or something.
Hi! German here, and yes we learn English. 😄 I am writing this in *gasp* English. Not my native language! LOL. I learned English, French, and (a bit) of Spanish in school. I promise you, I wasn't born being fluent in any of them, I was taught to know them. 😂 Ps. Cousins of mine who grew close to the Dutch border in Germany learned Dutch as well. My little sister learned Russian as her third foreign language (lives in a former GDR Bundesland) Yes, we get taught languages.😎
We British are legendarily 'bad' at speaking foreign languages. We _are_ taught them at school! I am approaching 80, and learnt French, Latin, and Russian at school. I learnt German and spoken Arabic in my 20s and 30s - the problem for us is that we are too often _enabled_ to be lazy in languages whenever we go abroad! When I went to work in Austria, my professor had to FORBID my colleagues to talk to me in English, in order to help me NOT have my progress slowed...
Aussie here ,English , German , French and Japanese are taught here in school and many families also have an original language . Pick any language you like and you can learn it in Australia in many places .
@@ravenfeader I went to school in regional New South Wales, a town of about 8000 population with maybe that again in 1 pub towns and farms within 50km give or take.. When I went to high school through the mid to late 1980's I was not able to take any language subjects. I could have done one as a correspondence course (like I did with 2 unit music) but I remember thinking at the time that it would be too hard without anyone to practice with.. Small town issue that I hope has been fixed since my day.
@@27hund1 That was my era as well schooling in South Australia . My lad started Japanese in the 2000s rural SA primary school and now runs language studied in our local high school. Japanese and Chinese .
And for very many Americans, they have been taught that to make any criticism of 'America' (the USA) is 'un-American'. They simply don't see the propaganda they are enmeshed in - their education system works exactly as it is intended to do.
"Sounds like socialism to me" has actually become such a meme, that I would comment that myself sometimes in a joking manner, and I've seen it by many Europeans, too.
Yeah, I usually think: Yeah, so? Is that a bad thing? I mean, it can be, but not necessarily. "Sounds like socialism" is a meaningless comment. If you think something is bad, you need to explain why. 'Because it's socialism' isn't good enough. Just like "Sounds like capitalism" is a meaningless comment.
The Fallout show had a line saying "communism is just another word for things that aren't insane." I'm German, I experienced the tail end of the Cold War. There's so much wrong with that it hurts. BUT, if you are an uneducated Californian that never left the bubble only listening to uneducated Americans that would probably call Bismarck a commie (if they knew the name as anything but a ship)? Kinda makes sense?
@@anniehope8651 If affordable health care is a form of "socialism", then the conservative party of Britain, the german CDU (Christian Democratic Union; a conservative party in Germany), the conservatives of Sweden, Netherlands etc, etc, are all "socialists". Maybe we europeans should all change the blue and yellow EU flag to a communist red flag with the hammer and sickle on it.
Isn't it ironic that the ones that say "sounds like socialism & don't like it" are the bunch that depend on Food stamps & Public School system etc.... even though their own states / Counties contribute F...all to the Economy, but we still give money from have of actual money generating states to have nots states to sustain the services.
@@malkontentniepoprawny6885 That's more likely than the original comment lol, but to be fair, it is a deceiving name, and then you have Iceland which is green.
No, I think it's mostly the strategic place, like Panama. If the ice is melting (and it will) then cargo transport will be easier. Maybe a security net for "friends" like elongated musk
@@criticalpet9886 Whatever, he sounds like Putin, a disgusting statement worthy of the worst characters of the 20th century. I don't know if you have access to the Russian media, but they were delighted to hear these words. Legitimizing Putin's actions.
My late wife ( American) once commented that she disliked the Canadian geese that were nesting in the pond on her apartment complex. I said, " we have them in the UK too to which she replied "how did they get over there ?"
@@leohickey4953 According to MAGA and Fox News, everything good came from Trump and Trump never did any of those things the courts and other news outlets say they have evidence to support otherwise.
Regarding Greenland. The Inuits of Greenland is kind of what the indians are to the Americans. The difference is that we left Greenland again and the Inuits got to keep there land. 🤪 Great videos by the way. 😎
I just returned from Norway, to England, where I met an American couple who were there to see the Aurora. They had already seen it in Alaska but they "wanted the genuine experience"!
The thing that confuses us Europeans, is that when we aren't being accused of being communists, we are accused of being fascists or socialists. The coffee houses made me laugh, the British & Dutch empires came about because of coffee houses. In Britain they nearly all learn French (they can switch to learning other languages later) for historical reasons. It helped to understand the locals when they were invading some far flung corner of the world. I'm sure the people of Idaho and the Dakotas would love Danish healthcare and education. Of course, they'd have to learn Danish.
Murika just has to be truly Democratic. Get rid of 2nd amendment. embrace Socialism, not Communist. Looking after the people who pay taxes is not a dirty word. Its humanitarian.
School in the UK give the option to learn not just French, but German or Spanish all at the same age, my sons all learnt German rather than French at their school and my 7 and 5 year old grandsons are getting to know Spanish as it’s used in reading lessons.
as a fin i really like that how our whats the word.. fine (what you have to pay if you brake the law) thing works, its calculated from your last year income that how mutch you earn per day and the penalty is same for everyone like you get lets say 20 day fine, but the amount is different because ppl earn different amounts.
@@fififerguson6483It is, in the UK up to 9 miles faster than speed limit 25% to 75% weekly income, if over 9miles faster than speed limit 75% to 100% and so on. It is meant to hurt. Plus the points on your licence.
It brilliant and would perhaps stop all the Range Rover idiots ignoring every rule (other ridiculously priced automotive compensation brands for idiots with money are available)
I believe the main focus of the universal USB-C rule is actually preventing predatory market tactics like the ones apple uses we have another rule regarding predatory practices involving cellphones, which Canada also has in place since 2017 in most European countries your network operator is obligated to sell unlocked cellphones, this means you can switch provider freely without needing a new phone or having to pay to unlock it here in Portugal you can even keep the same number no matter how many times you switch operator, obviously providing you do not have debts with your former operator
I believe it's foremost about reducing e-waste. Small devices, such as smartphones, aren't anymore shipped with a charger in the EU. That prevents people from accumulating dozens of chargers over the decades. When such a rule was applied, it goes logically hand in hand with making sure that people can actually use their existing chargers, so the EU enforced usb-c, for the time being. If a device isn't shipped with a charger but requires a special charger (or at least a cable), like the Apple one, it would force people to go by a special charger/cable just for that single device, which conflicts with the purpose of reducing e-waste. Naturally there are other reasons, like the one you mentioned or the convenience aspect.
@@alisonsmith4801 I have had the same mobile phone number since I bought it in 2001. I have changed companies several times, and I have always kept the number, and I have saved myself from having to notify all my contacts that I had a new number each time.
"Social nets are censored" Awwww, that poor thing dosn't even know what social nets are and tries to communicate by spitting out random words. That is equally cute and sad.
Thanks goats eating coffee bushes, or is that just a story? Australia has great coffee thanks to Italian immigrants who brought in the first espresso machine.
@@Maireadmoss Not only Italy, but from our Wog brothers & sisters, like Greece, Lebanon & Afghan's. The Afghan's bought over coffee & tea when they were building the Ghan railway.
That would have been Constantinople? not Istanbul, right? To this day Turks' make great coffee. I dated a Turkish girl & her coffee was strong & bloody delicious.
I'm always surprised how Americans can be so self-centered. I'm a French Canadian and learned English in school. Spanish is the main language in Mexico and they probably learn English in school too. You don't have to look that far to find proof that contradict their beliefs.
I learned French at school, and in later life, taught myself Portuguese, German (Austrian), Russian, plus enough of Japanese and Chinese to get by if I ever manage to visit those two countries. By the way, keep them coming... Hilarity is great for the soul 🤣😁🏴
If anyone interested: Here in Slovakia is second language mandatory since 3rd grade of elementray school. As I know, in all elementrary schools is offered to choose between english or german language. There also exist special schools that can provide French, Rusian, Spanish and other "big nations" languages.
Let‘s make it even better to understand for US. If you go to greenland nearly everything is covered in ice. So it looks white. If you go to iceland everything looks green. So tell me, how does fireland (south-south-south-america) looks like for US guys😊 question: what should Denmark do with both Dakota’s and Idaho? Answer: Overwhelming with European socialism and fascism. If have an ice cube left in my freezer. You wanna buy it? Just for saving your national security. 😂😂😂😂😂 Don‘t think about buying French Polynesia. They all must be polygamic…… Pleeeeze keeeep bubbling in your US-bubble. It‘s funny to read comments like that……..
@@TheChiefEngthe comment says "OR" That means that the 5% didnt need to know where both of them are. I'd assume most of the 5% knows where greenland is and not Denmark.
NEIN NEIN NEIN!!! I wonder how ze Americans figured out that it was us. After all, we used Japanese aircrafts and even learned (at ze time, foreign languages were still taught outside ze U.S.) Japanese ! /s
@marcromain64 aber der angriff auf die usa war doch auch von deutschland geplant. also ist ja nicht so, als ob wir gar nicht beteiligt waren. ist natürlich trotzdem quatsch das so zu schreiben wie in dem post
In Norway we start learning Enlish in second grade. In the 7th grade we could choose between German,French or Spanish. That was back in the 70s and the 80s. Today i belive there are even more languages than those to choose from,but English is mandatory.
I'm a 75 year old Dutch and German French and English were mandatory and finals were done exclusively in those languages and reading and understanding three books in the languages was required. Not a single Dutch word was permitted.
I could have taken four languages in Germany, but... guess I took four due to extracurriculars? *sigh* We had to picka language in 5th grade. I picked Latin, which meant English wwas mandatory in 7th. Then there were electives in 9th grade, where i poicked a natural science instead, and 11th grade. Where I picked French, but that class sucked. Also tried mandarin in a schoolclub, but that one wasn't for me, so the only foreign language I can actually use is English. Could have been (Latin/)English/French/Spanish(/Mandarin) instead. Or Ancient Greek if enough people had picked that class. Nowadays, English is mandatory in Elementary school 8at least in my federal state, as education isn't handled on the federal level)
3 languages in Germany.... i only got 2 fully....but i dont went to " high school "....only Sekundarstufe 1 und Ausbildung! i tried to explain Ausbildung to an American, no real chance he understood, he couldnt believe i went to a real school while working and i earned so little money! ...but he had also trouble to understand how i was able to pay for 2 months vacation in the USA and how i could have 2 months off from my boss! and dont mention the pics i took at my Swiss vacation, wich i showed him, too!
It always fascinates me to hear that the Dutch are also learning German. It's just that none of them can speak it. I've been to the Netherlands at least 20 times and we have thousands of caravan tourists here, but I've never met anyone who can actually use it. After I switch to German after being told that they are learning German, I usually never hear much more. Which is weird when you consider how closely related German and Dutch are.
As a Swede that has lived some ten years in Vienna, let´s crowdfund a trip for the coffee idiot to visit some of Viennas coffee houses! Truly awesome places! Some of them are also really old, per American standards. For language, as a Swede we learned English from when we where 5-6 years old. Every movie in English was also not dubbed to Swedish, instead it was Swedish undertitles. I visited America when I was 20 years old, and I got asked from which STATE I came from. Americans didn´t recognize my "dialect". So, here I am, as a Swede, writing fair (not perfect) English. I also learned some Spanish, French, Greek and Latin in school. After graduating, I have learned three more languages. I´m focusing on German now, since I live in Austria. No other languages in school or elsewhere? Hey. Also, please contact me when the majority of Americans understand fascism, socialism, communism and capitalism. Some have even unknowingly voted for a president that truly have many fascist traits. He behaves very much like Putin, and what political traits does Putin want? It just beats me. :/
In Romania children usually start learning a foreign language when they are 5 years old and by second grade you lern how to write it. By the time you finished 12 grade you should be conversational in 2-3 foreign languages.
10:55 expectable reply: he doesn't even KNOW the difference between social NET and "social" network. If there weren't YOU, Ian (and many others!), one could be tempted to close the case as hopeless. And always keep in mind: If it comes worse and worst - Most countries in the free world would welcome you and your family in a second. Good people are everywhere needed.
There are great career possibilities in that profession known as TEFL.(Teaching English as a Foreign Language). My son, born in the UK, has worked doing this in Kazakhstan, Czechoslovakia, China ,Egypt ,Sri Lanka ,Indonesia and several times has worked at Summer Schools for foreign students coming for a few weeks to the UK . English English ,not American English ,is the International language used at all airports, shipping, etc and Asian countries in particular want their people to join into the International Business market.
Caffè Florian is a coffee house situated in the Procuratie Nuove of Piazza San Marco, Venice. It was established in 1720 and is the oldest coffee house in continuous operation in Italy, and one of the oldest in the world (the oldest being Queen's Lane Coffee House in Oxford founded in 1654). Yep, you can _still_ buy coffee in the original Caffe Florian (albeit at eye-watering prices). Twenty seconds on Google...
I love google, or rather, previous internet search engines before google pushed and bought them all out. A company without competition isn't a good thing, and not long until they think they're near royalty. But good coffee... there is nothing like it.
It was big in Germany in the 1700s too. JS Bach wrote a "Coffee cantata" which was a comic opera satirising the Coffee shop culture of gossip and addiction
@@chrisinwood464 A Polish politician and poet from the 16th century described his impressions after tasting coffee, in a letter to his brother written in 1643: "The drink is so foul, venom and poisonous, that no saliva passes through the teeth. Let it not defile the mouth of a Christian!" ps.in Polish it rhymed.
if i remember right then here in denmark kids start learning english at age 7 or so. then a few years later they get to pick between german or french. "maybe its other languages now. im almost 50 so i bet things have changed a bit " XD english is a simple trade language that pretty much every country can speak. a lot of the english words actually come from the old norse language.
7:02 Here in Ukraine I studied English in kindergarten in the early 90s, then at school I continued studying English and at 5th grade started learning Latin, Italian and a little German, not to mention that I am fluent in two native languages - Ukrainian and Russian.
Happy New Year. Lang may yer lum reek from Scotland. Love these vids you are such a sport to watch all the cringey stuff Americans say and laugh about it. Love your attitude to learning new stuff as well. Keep em coming.
In Greece, too. Although I got the Cambrige FCE in my mid-teens, I rarely have the chance to use English in everyday life. That helped me to not lose touch with the language.
@@John-jw8rx Where is that? Why use English subs in other countries than English speaking ones! Here in Norway all tv has the original language and subs are in Norwegian. It does not matter where the film or tv series is from originally.
I've watched a lot of your videos and it's this one that convinced me to hit subscribe. I appreciate your position on all topics discussed in this video, starting with Greenland to the point where you admit the US is not the center of the universe. Greetings from Republic of Moldova.
on Greenland and Panama, trumusk is taking his cues from Putin's playbook. He is distracting attention from the important issue and shaping the public discourse. Orban did the same here in Hungary. Everyone is concerned with that, not with what he promised before the election
We all have our share of idiots, but the US really does insist on doing everything bigger and better! As a Brit I only speak English, despite growing up in Africa, backpacked around South America, Central America, crossed the Pacific (Tahiti, New Caledonia), Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong - since English is spoken everywhere, but my Cantonese is improving. Little things like the Empire, and now Commonwealth did a fair job of spreading "our" language - even to north America! Also find it funny how "Europe" is simultaneously "socialist" and "fascist"... maybe that education point, was on point.
12:40 Every country on the planet uses celsius, but the US and it's dependants: the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. The other 189 states use celsius.
Happy New Year! This is hilarious! And for the language one, I began to learn English (I'm French) in Elementary school. Ok it was the silly alphabet song and how to read a clock and stuff like that. (I was around 10 so 1989 or something). I wasn't good though, I got better when I began to watch movies and TV shows in English with subtitles. 😁
Aussie 🇦🇺 here. My dear departed wife of 29 years was from Croatia. She could speak, German, Italian, Romanian, Serbian/ Croatian and of course English. All learnt at school in Croatia.
I'm French, Millenial on the older side of that spectrum and I did learn English and German in school. Learning one other language was and still is required from middle school onward, taking a second language's classes was optional but 99% of middle schoolers did. From my understanding, English classes now start usually in elementary schools and German/Spanish are still taught from middle school onwards and from what I was told and can see, those younger generations are way more fluent in those languages than I was at their age. I'm now living in Belgium, and my daughter started Dutch classes in her first year at elementary school and even have some English classes (it's not common in 1st year, but it was a big factor when we chose her school).
We called them 'coffee houses', not shops, and we had them before tea (came later and very expensive) was a thing in Britain. Yes, 1654 was the first, and they spread like wildfire. If you look at the history, they were popular with businessmen and became the place where stocks and shares were traded and prices posted, becoming the basis of the first stock exchanges. Yet again, another British invention adopted by the colonies.
Every single Western Nation speaks English and every single one of the schools in those nations teaches an alternate language, such as French or German. Only an American could say something that dumb 😂
Guess I’ve been lucky re my American friends. I’m Aussie, met first American online just before turn of this century, I’m serious. Then her brother and both their families and friends. And they are online friends with my daughter. Now we have grandchildren. We have fun, they were way behind me re the recent New Year. Took them hours to catch up, lots of jokes flying back & forth. I remember we had to translate lots in early days, I had to ask what a teeter-totter was, apparently it’s what I call a see-saw. Yes quite a bit of, ‘what u talkin’ about’ ? lol. We have so much fun re translating and time difference and more. I’ve had a few run ins with Americans on RUclips, I end up ignoring them. Oh my father had a friend living here from Arkansas, and for fun we’d say ‘sas’ instead of ‘saw’ at end of where he came from, and he’d just laugh, lovely polite man and I had American neighbours for a few years, once again really lovely people. We have drongos here in Aus of course, I give them a wide berth too 😂
Greenland has massive mineral, uranium, gold and rare earth metal deposits, many untouched. Possibly massive oil and gas fields off their pristine coast, never drilled. Greenland has a population of 56-57,000 people. Less than 6% own a vehicle. 15% of those are electric or hybrid. I see the obvious security risk. Lol.
Neither Denmark nor the population in Greenland have ever been overly interested in exploring all the natural resources in Greenland simply because it is well known that doing so would utterly destroy the nature in Greenland. With the orange wannabe Hitler in power in USA, it's not difficult to guess what would happen to Greenland if USA was in charge of the island.
It would also make usa own the pass through for the major shipping lane that will be there soon thanks to the ice melting. Right now it would be Canada or Greenland/Denmark that would get a cut from every ship there
2:00 Increased Access to Arctic resources (which includes increased influence over the Arctic) truly is the least dumb reason to want to have Greenland. It's not exactly high priority, or likely, but if it was for sale... (which it isn't, because Greenland doesn't want to give up First world living standards...) 12:10 ...convenience, logic... but also waste prevention, device interoperability, monopoly avoidance...
Oh gawd! Some of those comments are hilarious. In Portugal, at sixth grade kids start learning a new language, normally French or usually English. In later stages, students can learn other languages like German. It depends on what they are studying for.
wait what? Im portuguese and most people i know started learning english at the age of 4 and then spanish, french or german by seventh grade (its mandatory to learn two languages as far as i know)
Learning English at four years old even before learning the basics of Portuguese? Are you kidding me? I know the system changed several times from when I was a student fifty years ago, but I don't buy that.
@@paulocarvalho6480 I'm a teacher, Paulo, and I assure you it's true. Children start learning English in pre-school, simple things like the numbers and colours, and maybe the names of some animals, and simple sentences like "My name is... and I'm 4 years old". Of course they're not learning grammar or full conversational English.
@@paulavitoria1798 Wow! That is wild. Like I wrote before, I know the teaching system is way different from when I was in primary school (late 60's and 70's), but not like this.
When I was a kid, in the Eighties, here in Italy we didn't study a foreign language in elementary school. We started English OR French OR German in middle school, and in high school it really depended on the school you chose (I studied French in middle school and English and French in high school). Nowadays, though, children begin to study English the first year of elementary school, so when they are 6, and in middle school, at 11, they start to study a second European language (usually French, Spanish or German). In high school it really depends on the type of school you choose (there isn't a "generic" high school, here). For instance: my older niece studies in a school oriented to foreign languages and she studies English, German and Spanish (and for the first three years she even had to study latin - by the way: high school, here, is five years).
This is only my opinion, but, I think teaching children at a young age another language is the best idea. Their brains are like sponges, absorbing everything. Here in Australia, I began learning French in grade 3 ( approx 7-8 years.o.) loved it and was good at it. When we moved to a different state, no French taught. It wasn't till high school I had the opportunity to learn it again. I struggled with it. I have met young kids here of immigrant parents who speak their parents native language, sometimes 2 of them, plus English. All fluently.
@lellab.8179 I hope you don't get offended with my comment above, about Spaniards and Italians speaking bad English. Actually, I've been in Italy in 2022 (just Milano and Firenze), and most people spoke pretty good English, especially when they saw me stuggling with my broken Italian lol.
Same as I ,in Portugal. 80's and 90's and German also at those days. At high school,not today do. But English and French,continues. My daughter started English at elementary school, in Portugal 🇵🇹. ❤🎉
Celcius is more accurate because it has decimal fractions within each degree. You can have a 32.5 degree Celcius temperature. Farenheit doesnt have fractions, thetefor far less accurate.
I learned, French, German, Welsh and English in school. Very handy as I’ve worked a lot in France and Germany (and Italy and Spain and currently Netherlands- but Dutch is quite difficult!)
Greenland has a legal right to independence whenever they want it. Denmark does not "own" Greenland. Mette Frederiksen got it right in 2017: The whole idea is absurd.
Fines in Finland are calculated in "days", so the final amount is based on the daily income. For instance, if you are fined for 30 days, you will pay an amount equal to your income for 30 days. About that story with Nokia's CEO in 2002: > Mr Vanjoki had to pay a fine equal to 14 days of his income in 1999, which was about 14 million euros ($12.5 million).
Working as Historian for the Institute of German Contemporary History in Munich, Germany i noticed a few Things that not only apply to Americans but also a lot of Europeans who think they know much better, when in fact they usually do know a bit more regarding "Socialism" "Fascism" "National-Socialism" "Communism" etc. In the USA i often see Communism and Socialism being put in the same Bucket, but also see that Nationalism and Fascism is put in the same Bucket. Hell i've even seen American Political Pundits and Influencers put Conservatism in the same Bucket as Fascism and also vice versa see the other Side put "Social-Democracy" in the same Bucket as Communism. Of course both are wrong and i think we Europeans have a better Idea of it because many of us grew up in Countries that at some Point had one of our Relatives live under one of those Gouvernments. To this Day when i speak with some Americans about how in Germany we even have "Social Conservatism" which is basically Conservatism but with Universal Healthcare and other rather "Socialist" Methods, they don't understand. I assume that's because in the USA there is this "Two Party" System basically, so the whole Population is used to "Either this or that Side", which then leads to stupid Comparisons like the "Right" (they're not even that right-wing) aka Republicans and Conservatives assuming everything to the left of them, even just one Thing the other Side wants to implement means "Socialism" "Communism" etc. But that is also true vice-versa. You get People on the "Left" (they're not even that left-wing either) aka Democrats, Social-Democrats and Liberals assuming everything to the right of them, even just one Thing the other Side wants to implement means "Nationaism" "Fascism" etc. And both Sides, especially (watching a lot and reading a lot of US Political News from all Sides, Media, Outlets and even Live-Streamers) are exactly as wrong and uneducated about those Things than the other Side they claim are the uneducated and stupid Ones. In European Countries it's not uncommon that you have a Center-Right Political Conservative Party decided to join up Forces with a Center-Left Wing Social-Democratic Party or even a Green Party etc. In Fact, doing that solves a lot of Problems and it prevents People having this "Everything the other Side says is bad" Nonsense you sadly see in "Two Party Gouvernments" like the USA That said: many Europeans in my Experience aren't that much smarter regarding this, maybe a bit more educated because of our Past, but countless of us make the same ridiculous Comparisons Prost & Cheers from the Snow-Covered Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Ok, I feel like I have to break my no-comments-streak for this one. I agree that many Europeans also don't have a good understanding of political ideologies either. Probably because in many cases there are no clear definitions that people can agree on and many regimes and political movements misuse those terms (like the "Communist" Party in China or the German "Democratic" Republic.) "Democracy" itself is a huge word that can mean different things for different people. The Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol tried to "save democracy" just like the people who eventually stopped them. And yeah, when it comes to Trump supporters who are currently defining what the Republican Party stands for, I have to strongly disagree with the notion that this party is "not even that right-wing". The "MAGA" movement is very much comparable to the German far-right party (AfD) and almost 50% of American voters are not embarrassed or afraid to have Donald Trump as their president. American politics are overall more right-leaning than German politics - caused by & leading to a more classist, racist, sexist and ableist society that has a much higher percentage of religious fundamentalists. Having no universal healthcare, no paid maternity leave and no paid vacation days after pledging allegiance to the American flag every day in school feels normal to a lot of Americans while many Europeans can barely comprehend the fact that so many Americans are still living under conditions that seem unworthy for the "richest country in the world". Edit: Of course there are also benefits of having more right-leaning politics, like a strong military that guarantees never being invaded by anyone - but there needs to be a balance to optimize the well-being of everyone.
@@nehalilisays Oh i completely agree with you! Of course the MAGA People are more right-wing. I was talking in general about the Republican Party. But at the same Time i always have to roll my Eyes when i see People compare them or Trump to Fascists or National-Socialists. Especially since the US Political System has so many Securities in it, even if a President wanted to turn it into an actual authoritarian Gouvernment (no matter what Ideology). They would have a much harder Time than over here in Europe, where to this Day it's still pretty easy. I also agree that its hard to judge a different Country, Culture and Politics when you're not from that Country. Same is true vice versa. The AFD for Example in proper Terms is a Populist & Social Conservative Party with a few Wings here and there that are more Nationalist. Wouldn't compare them to Trump Republicans besides that they are very much influenced by that Movement in the USA. Especially regarding being more "pro-Russia" but also "pro-Israel". I see them mostly as a "Protest Party" of which we had many throughout Germany since 1949. Many People vote for them just out of Spite to basically "worry" the Established proper Parties who actually have a Clue about what they're doing (which the AFD doesn't). And regarding your EDIT 100% agree. This is why i'm happy how here in Germany it's not considered bad if lets say the CSU (Social Conservatives in Bavaria) decide to form a Coalition with a more left-wing Socialist Party. I wish the USA would do Stuff like that. So you can at least attempt to get the Benefits of both the "Right" and the "Left" in one Gouvernment instead of demonising eachother. Either way, i appreciate your Response a lot! You should consider commenting more often since compared to most RUclips Comments, you make good Points without being rude or dismissive Prost & Cheers from Snow-Covered Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
I'm a Finn and have lived in the states in the 90's. One thing I like about Americans, is that how they can laugh about themselves. You are a good sample of that. I like your content 👊.
For the USB C charger, He said fascism, did he mean Communism? They are opposites that meet on the other side in authoritarianism. There have never been any real communist countries in the world. As soon as a leader gets in, they "help their friends" and get an Elite. Stalin USSR was feudal, North Korea is feudal, USA is heading that way.
Well, the Japanese are laughing now making jokes about how their plan of attacking Pearl Harbor and making it look like it was done by the Nazis worked 🤣😂
Malaysian here Practically everyone here is bilingual (English + our national langage Malay) and at least 40% of the country is trilingual. And most learn English from pre-school, we don't have to wait for high school.
Only Greenland is not enough for Trump. He wants Panama back as well. Ok, its a strategically important place, but wtf? And while he is on it, Canada should become a US state as well. He must have forgotten Mexico, I guess.
Canadians are strong warriors, which they demonstrated during WWII. Balls of steele. The US Marine Corps will face a hell if they try to occupy Canada.
@@ingemarsjoo4542 He is just a stupid school yard bully. He acts like a elephant in a porcellain shop right now. But he knows full well that it would break NATO if he really does those things. And what do you think Britain will say if the US attack Canada? IMHO is all a load of hot air what Trump is saying, as usual.
America has the strongest military in the world but the weakest people in the world. America always pull out when the body bags start to pile up. They were in Afghanistan for 20 years and never succeeded in reaching their objective. The same was the case in Vietnam. America has never been good at taking casualties.
Just to clarify, I think he wants the Panama Canal “back” , not the country, but both are equally ridiculous. He also is going to change to Gulf of Mexico into the gulf of America, as if we all will follow him on that. But it shows how deluded he is, the question is, is it a strategy to get what he really wants while making these dumb claims or is he really this dumb/insane.
According to the U.S. Department of Education 54% of adults in the U.S. have literacy below 6th grade level; 21% of U.S. American adults are illiterate or functionally illiterate. I'm not kidding.
Coffee was one of the highest commodities traded in almost 1900 years. But you're right, it seems we've only just learnt how to drink it... 'tho American's still need some lessons.
The thing with Donald. You know, it's not only Greenland. He want Canada as well. Both countries said something along the line: you can kiss my a... And the gulf of Mexico should be named gulf of America.
13:51 Also, that is why the Panama must be invaded and conquered, because by way of the Canal the Germans got their submarine aircraft carriers to Hawai‘i…
Denmark fired back and said, they could buy America, cause the US has shown that you can buy the Government. Also getting a great Healthcare system and Education, might give the US a chance😂
Actually, I’m pretty sure the US needs Greenland for national security, which is why they are renting military bases there, and could probably rent even more real estate from their ally Denmark
@@rikardottosson1272the US is not going to be anyone’s ally but Russia once trump steps one foot inside another country to take it , or leaves NATO.
Lmao😂😂😂😂😂❤
This very annoying when there's real security threats to care of. Russian illegal invasion of Ukraine, China's threats against Taiwan and Irans attacks against Israel just to name a few.
@@rikardottosson1272 The way it is going I would say that allowing US bases on Greenland is running contrary to national security. The US seems like a hostile nation and I wouldn't allow one of those to station troops on my soil.
Dane here, That's only for the Greenlanders, to decide, what they want, , not everybody else. Personally, I think most Greenlander are leaning more towards getting independence, rather than becoming a territory of another country. And I heard a Greenlandic Member of Parliament say, that she didn't want to live under the circumstances, the Inuit People in Alaska is living under. And Finally, as most of you probably already have guessed, Greenland has a Welfare System, based on the Nordic Model (As seen in Norway, Sweden & Denmark) Why would they want the US System? 🙂
The Inuit people in Alaska really do struggle with alcohol abuse and probably drug as well. Native peoples in the USA do not do as well as other ethnicities. The native people in Hawaii don't seem to do well either. The USA in charge of Greenland would not be an improvement for Greenlanders.
There is the issue, that Greenlanders also want to be independent from Denmark. This fact will be abused to spin a narrative and to create a valid reason. But they want to be fully independent, they don't want to change the country they're dependent of. But even if followed through correctly and peacefully in the future, an independent Greenland with a total population of a small city, will still be absobed by the US. There is no way they can defend against that, but at least it will be peaceful.
Denmark has a protectorate relation to Greenland and to the Faroe Islands. Back in time also Iceland, these days they are still accepted into Danish universities.
if greenland would become part of the USA, they would turn it into the biggest open mine on earth in no time.
Not a Dane, but my understanding is that Denmark pays a lot to keep the Greenland up and running. Getting rid of that life-line and making Greenland independent would pretty much mean they will fail as a country very fast and likely get invaded by a random large superpower.
Greenland has a population roughly same as the city I live in and I can't see how that amount of people can run a country of that size, in that kind of environment. Sure, they could invite outside companies to suck them dry of resources, but how is that any better than getting free money from Denmark and having certain autonomy. Because if they do invite outside companies to exploit and invest into the island, these companies will take hold of the island and eventually governments behind those companies will take control of the country itself. China belt and road initiative sparks to mind as the first vulture to land as soon as they get independent.
As we say in Norway!
A good patriot is one that see faults and want to do things better for the whole population and the country!
ignoring is nationalism not patriotism
@@arnodobler1096Not necessarily. Nationalism originally means just that a certain nation should have it's own nation state. Nationalism can be toxic though, for sure.
@@arnodobler1096 Can you please clarify? Ignoring what?
I wish we lived by that here in Sweden too. These "patriots"(livets hårda skola-utbildade stolpskott) that have gotten a hold everywhere now makes Sweden a sh*t country by breaking down everything that has been good about us and what other countries looked wanted to be. Next election, if the neonazi-party get even more power, we can kiss goodbye to the beloved country that we once was.
Totalt der. Min norske broder. 👍
_'We need Greenland for national security reasons'_
Isn't that exactly what Putin said about Ukraine?
Yeah basically Donny and Vlady had a chat and Vlady told Donny conquering other countries isn’t bad and natural for empires and just that it’s natural for Russia to expand in Europe it would be natural for the US to expand in the Americas, and being the halfwit he is Trump took the bait
And the… let’s go with “silliest”… the silliest part is the USA already has a lot of military bases and access to Greenland, as Denmark is NATO and there are bases there.
In fact there was a diplomatic accident in the 80ies concerning atomic devices that were lost by the USA in Greenland, after they actually promised not to store there those kind of weapons to Denmark… but you i guess menacing your allies to annex their territories (or them entirely in the case of Canada) is clearly the smartest way to protect your own borders and avoid conflicts😅
I bet if orange man tries to annex canada or greenland he will call it a "special millitary operation"
Why no Maga asks for Betterment of life like Having a proper job & Real house not the trailer nor the grown up backwood Pile & seriously even if whatever land gets added, there's no way maga will leave the own county 😅.
This and the Panama Canal were one of the dumbest things any American president could say publicly. A war within allies the EU vs the US would be disastrous but beneficial to Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and all types of terrorists in the world. Trump can’t expect Greenlanders to just give up their territory because he asked or threaten them. The same about Panama. He has a talent to create enemies within allies I think😢
Do these people even know what socialism or fascism is? Or are they just throwing around with words they heard once? Appreciate your content, Ian. :)
Do these people even know what socialism or fascism is?
NO
Or are they just throwing around with words they heard once?
YES
Anything that benefits the poor or working class is socialism, obviously. And anyone who contradicts my opinions is a fascist. Simple as that, if you're American.
Yes, for many years they have been told of Socialism as something negative and repugnant by US politicians, despite the fact most of the US's allies around the world are Socialist Democracies.
Most Americans don't know the definition of either socialism or communism, but they invoke both when they encounter something they don't understand or don't agree with.
One of the funniest opinions by many Americans is that when something if finance via taxes, it's socialism or communism. If that was really the case, then America would be one of the most socialist or communist countries in the world considering the American military is financed via taxes.
Jeremy Clarkson was right when he once pondered about what Americans are normally doing........mostly incest
One of the current favourites is saying the nazi's were socialists because of the full party name rather than any policy or admission that they used all sorts of things to portray an image and disguise the fascism.
Don't forget that in Europe we have a beverage called "Viennese Coffee" and it's delicious. During WW2, Italy create "Americano". Basically an espresso in wich you had a glass of water, because american soldiers can't handle real coffee....😅
The problem is, that indeed most Americans don't even know that they are ranking on last spots in almost every important issue world wide...
The problem is, that indeed most Americans don't want to know or don't want to believe that the ranking is true.
They're lost completely the ability to make an effort and check the facts and most embarrassing they're even proud of it.
The State of Kerala in India has a higher English literacy rate than the US, granted it's not a particularly high bar.
isnt English one of the official languages in India?
The more I learn about the US, the more I appreciate living somewhere else.
My country has it's flaws, the people here have their flaws, but man it's still way better then over there, and I appreciate that more and more, which overall makes me a happier person.
So thank you USA for being such a mess, so the rest of the world can feel better about ourselves and get a good laugh at the end of the day.
I hear ya, I will still say, generally things are nice here and people are mostly awesome. The few bad apples here are loud though and also our flaws as a country are unfortunately heavy flaws. I love it though.. I just think we can do better.
@IWrocker it's not about the people in general, most of them I assume are just trying to get to next day without struggling too much, as anyone else does if we are honest and most of them can't go anywhere else so they have to deal with it anyway as most of us have to in our own countries. But when you look at the US system as a whole and compare it to other countries around the world, the US looses a lot of its shiny coating very quickly, this doesn't mean it's a bad place to live, it's more a matter of preference and what you value in life and I appreciate not having to deal with the American way of life :)
I guess the "New american dream" is to get out of this mess asap
@@IWrockeri know you love your country,and i know you know it could be so much better. Simply put the biggest flaw the US has is that most of it is based on ME. And that drips through all important aspects of life. European country's are based on WE without being communist or purely socialist.
Exactly how I feel. Greetings from Belgium
Some of the things I have seen Americans say online, with regards to Greenland, I have found to be upsetting. Sadly, plenty of Americans show they have no problem whatsoever with the idea of taking sovereign land by military force from an ally. As a Dutchman, I feel close to Denmark. It actually feels treacherous. At this point the attitude of Americans towards the world really has stopped being fun for me. Still, I know not all Americans are like that. Channels like this are healthy for me because when I listen to Ian I also am confronted with the sane portion of America. Still... Its discouraging. USA is making itself very unloved. Trump is not even in office, and there has been such divisive discourse already.
I think all Europeans, Canadians and Panamanians are shocked by his rhetoric. You are not alone.
As an Australian, I am too concerned. It is simply not acceptable to want to seize another country. There is no difference between Trump and Putin.
@@roderickdunn3464One difference...putin doesnt live on crappy food!
As a Dutch woman I also find it very very concerning. The retoric Trump and his cronies use are similar to the retoric used in the 1930's. And everyone knows how that turned out. And even more frightening is that Trump is nothing more than a puppet for his billionaire thugs and a very stupid puppet at that. Musk is already meddling in Britain's and Germany's political climate by funding extreme rightwing parties.
Who is going to stop this blatant imperialism?
@@mickratters8073The status of the US as an ally and sane friend has been dropping since Trumps first presidency and it has been going downhill since. Biden hasn’t been able to fix the image and harm that was already done and now Trump is going for the kill. I am very worried for the next few years.
You are a true patriot, ie those who love their country so much they are not afraid to point out its faults so that it can learn and improve. Much love from Ireland
I was in San Antonio TX last summer. A friend's husband told me that the reason most of the world speaks English is because of Hollywood and the American influence. He looked very confused when I pointed out that a few hundred years of Britain walking into other countries and shouting "Bagsy!" to the point where we "owned" half the world might have had something to do with it. This was the same guy who complimented me on my English. 🤣
That's so common it's hilarious.
Florida is a great place to visit if you're English.
The ignorance is astonishing.
He's not completely off the mark though. "Hollywood" does play a role to some extent.
And who continued to spread the English language when the brits tapped out? Both things can be true op.
Thank you Murricans for giving the rest of the world a steady supply of laughter. We need it in these troubled times.
God bless Murica! 🦅
I wish - while i was living in the USA - i would have met more Americans like you, open minded and intelligent (I am assuming 😉).
It is totally okay to acknowledge flaws in your own country-that is not unpatriotic, as you wish to improve your country.
Best wishes and a happy new year to you and your adorable family! 😊
Cheers from Germany
Cannot claim to be the GREATEST COUNTRY on EARTH, while acknowledging exactly what you say. 🇦🇺 🙋🏻♀️ 🇩🇪
I wish more Americans had your education and understanding of the rest of the "poor and uncivilized" world.
Right? At first I thought he was Canadian, way to eloquent for an American.
@frankpierco882he has been doing this stuff a long time
I literally had a guy say just a few days ago, that the Greenlanders life's would only improve if they joined America spouting the typical American gibberish about freedom, military power and "best country" while personally despise USA as a system and so forth I still asked how any of those things would help them, sad to say he could not give me much of an answer. Like Denmark or the Nordics in general aren't already at the top of most of the important lists that you would want to live in
Yeah and if you combine nordic countries militaries (like they already are) it would rival any other major power like Russia
All the 56,609 people who live in Greenland (as at 2023 census).
No more guaranteed paid vacation, parental leave, sick leave, ........................... all gone
Never in my life I have thought of moving from Sweden to the "Paradise of Fools". But in the same time, I have to admit that I have met in Europe not just the normal category of rude, big talking, completely ignorant americans, but also some very well educated, modest, really nice americans. The kind of people you wish you had among your closest friends. I don´t understand how they can stand living in that country. They are the true heroes of the planet.
Yep. Aussie here who wished the USA would feck off outta here.
Scotsman here and i am so pleased there is an American with common sense and a sense of 'humor'.....iWrocker for Prez❤❤
Sure, take Greenland and use the land to build some more suburbs and parking lots, something the world has been desperately lacking.
Or some hideous fast food chains.
On a more serious note, Denmark and Greenland are part of NATO. If they feel like blowing some of their own money they can de facto already place as many Jeffs and Georges in the frozen tundra as they want. The Greenlanders would probably appreciate renters with deep pockets, but not sure if American cititzens wouldn't rather expand medicare or something.
@@lidewijvos yes, try to sell seal asses on a stick, americans will buy
Swap it for Florida.
@@Be-Es---___OMG no-one wants Florida 😅
I highly appreciate your videos. It's great to hear at least one voice of sanity right now from across the pond.
Hi! German here, and yes we learn English. 😄 I am writing this in *gasp* English. Not my native language! LOL. I learned English, French, and (a bit) of Spanish in school. I promise you, I wasn't born being fluent in any of them, I was taught to know them. 😂
Ps. Cousins of mine who grew close to the Dutch border in Germany learned Dutch as well. My little sister learned Russian as her third foreign language (lives in a former GDR Bundesland) Yes, we get taught languages.😎
We British are legendarily 'bad' at speaking foreign languages. We _are_ taught them at school!
I am approaching 80, and learnt French, Latin, and Russian at school. I learnt German and spoken Arabic in my 20s and 30s - the problem for us is that we are too often _enabled_ to be lazy in languages whenever we go abroad! When I went to work in Austria, my professor had to FORBID my colleagues to talk to me in English, in order to help me NOT have my progress slowed...
Aussie here ,English , German , French and Japanese are taught here in school and many families also have an original language .
Pick any language you like and you can learn it in Australia in many places .
@Sine-gl9lyCorrect. French, German and Latin for me.
@@ravenfeader I went to school in regional New South Wales, a town of about 8000 population with maybe that again in 1 pub towns and farms within 50km give or take.. When I went to high school through the mid to late 1980's I was not able to take any language subjects. I could have done one as a correspondence course (like I did with 2 unit music) but I remember thinking at the time that it would be too hard without anyone to practice with.. Small town issue that I hope has been fixed since my day.
@@27hund1 That was my era as well schooling in South Australia .
My lad started Japanese in the 2000s rural SA primary school and now runs language studied in our local high school.
Japanese and Chinese .
Americans do speak more than one language. They are also fluent in gibberish.
And patriotic nonsense
@@DamocMetalFever So Americanese and gibberish. As the sounds many of them produce, is not English.
Gibberish is the President Elects language!
@@valsyaranamual6853and Donspeak or tweets
And Patriot, with Republican and Democratic dialects😂😂😂
Talking about most Americans: it is just a weird combination of ignorance and arrogance.
And for very many Americans, they have been taught that to make any criticism of 'America' (the USA) is 'un-American'. They simply don't see the propaganda they are enmeshed in - their education system works exactly as it is intended to do.
hahaha thats a fantastic description
@@wessexdruid7598the funny part is when they say they are the country of freedom lol they dont have the freedom of critical thinking😂
As an european, I always find difficult to decide which applies: stupidity, arrogance, ignorance or plain talking with the a$$, when I hear Americans
The amount of Americans touting that Greenland is theirs now, is mind boggling. The disconnect with reality is just unbelievable.
Most of them would have had to look it up on a map first to find where it is.
@mickratters8073 They can read maps now? Are you sure?
No they think it's the capital of London
Well, Trump said he would buy Greenland so all his followers probably assume it's a done deal... because if Trump says it, it's true.
I think that nine out of ten Americans have absolutely no idea what Fascism or communism actually is.
Trump made the word(Fascism) so attractive to them, so they think it's a great thing!!!🤣🤣🤣
They will learn about Fascism pretty soon.
10:50 "social nets are censored which is fascism".
That clueless American thinks "social nets" means things like X, Facebook, Tik Tok... 🤣
They see the 1st Ammandment simpy as a lame excuse to behave like a**holes.
That whole paragraph meant nothing. That person just added a few buzz words together to try and sound smart 😅
OMG! thanks for explaining. I tried so hard to understand 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They think it stands for Social Networks. 😂
@@ChrissieBear Understandable, social net is just not in their dictionary.
most american food is banned in the rest of the world
That's to stop the rest of us get hold of the 'good stuff' 🤔😊
@@stephenlee5929 yeah good stuff like both types of diabetes, lot of endocrin disruptors...
@@stephenlee5929 It's simply to keep them healthy.
@@stephenlee5929😂
@@stephenlee5929 rather not be slowly poisoned
or are you a Brit?
Just today I saw a comment from an American saying that Trrump should just force the Dutch to hand over Greenland.
🚀🚀🚀🎉🎉
That definitely sounds like something an American would say. Geography was never their strong side.
What did the Netherlands think?
@@TheChiefEng They have one?
@heatherhoward2513 America first, The Netherlands second, part 2. Obviously!
That's a reference to a skit from "Sunday with Lubach".
me :you can't teach stupidity
America:challenge accepted
"Sounds like socialism to me" has actually become such a meme, that I would comment that myself sometimes in a joking manner, and I've seen it by many Europeans, too.
Yeah, I usually think: Yeah, so? Is that a bad thing? I mean, it can be, but not necessarily. "Sounds like socialism" is a meaningless comment. If you think something is bad, you need to explain why. 'Because it's socialism' isn't good enough. Just like "Sounds like capitalism" is a meaningless comment.
The Fallout show had a line saying "communism is just another word for things that aren't insane."
I'm German, I experienced the tail end of the Cold War. There's so much wrong with that it hurts.
BUT, if you are an uneducated Californian that never left the bubble only listening to uneducated Americans that would probably call Bismarck a commie (if they knew the name as anything but a ship)? Kinda makes sense?
@@anniehope8651 If affordable health care is a form of "socialism", then the conservative party of Britain, the german CDU (Christian Democratic Union; a conservative party in Germany), the conservatives of Sweden, Netherlands etc, etc, are all "socialists". Maybe we europeans should all change the blue and yellow EU flag to a communist red flag with the hammer and sickle on it.
Isn't it ironic that the ones that say
"sounds like socialism & don't like it" are the bunch that depend on Food stamps & Public School system etc.... even though their own states / Counties contribute F...all to the Economy, but we still give money from have of actual money generating states to have nots states to sustain the services.
Jesus was a socialist!😂
I suppose Trump wants Greenland because it's mostly snow and ice and we all know that Americans can never get enough ice in their drinks.
Or maybe he thinks it's a really green island. One huge golf course.
@@malkontentniepoprawny6885 That's more likely than the original comment lol, but to be fair, it is a deceiving name, and then you have Iceland which is green.
No, I think it's mostly the strategic place, like Panama. If the ice is melting (and it will) then cargo transport will be easier. Maybe a security net for "friends" like elongated musk
@@criticalpet9886 Whatever, he sounds like Putin, a disgusting statement worthy of the worst characters of the 20th century. I don't know if you have access to the Russian media, but they were delighted to hear these words. Legitimizing Putin's actions.
My late wife ( American) once commented that she disliked the Canadian geese that were nesting in the pond on her apartment complex. I said, " we have them in the UK too to which she replied "how did they get over there
?"
I think its a visa thing based on the Commonwealth, maybe.😊
So we know you didn't choose her for her intelligence but that's rather common among men. :P
We have them in NZ too. They're pests
@@stephenlee5929 🤣Empire! Not Commonwealth.
@@alimantado373 Sorry mate! That Rule Britannia ship has sailed.
I'm so thankful America gave us the English language.
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Wasn't it Jesus?
@@leohickey4953 According to MAGA and Fox News, everything good came from Trump and Trump never did any of those things the courts and other news outlets say they have evidence to support otherwise.
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You’re welcome 🤣🎉🤣🤣🤣
As an Australian, just when I was getting the hang of Greek.
Regarding Greenland. The Inuits of Greenland is kind of what the indians are to the Americans. The difference is that we left Greenland again and the Inuits got to keep there land. 🤪
Great videos by the way. 😎
I just returned from Norway, to England, where I met an American couple who were there to see the Aurora. They had already seen it in Alaska but they "wanted the genuine experience"!
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Is there Disney in Alaska? 😜
You should see ours! Our Aurora got lights and stuff... 🤣🤣🤣
@@arnodobler1096 Aurora in Alaska is not genuine, it is payed by Disney
These people may have confused the Aurora Borealis with the Norwegian singer Aurora Aksnes, who, to my knowledge, has never been to Alaska. 😇
Judging by what I see on social media, I was under the impression that American schools only thaught 2 languages, english and bad english.
More like just bad English and butchered English.
1 language,bad English.
The thing that confuses us Europeans, is that when we aren't being accused of being communists, we are accused of being fascists or socialists.
The coffee houses made me laugh, the British & Dutch empires came about because of coffee houses.
In Britain they nearly all learn French (they can switch to learning other languages later) for historical reasons. It helped to understand the locals when they were invading some far flung corner of the world.
I'm sure the people of Idaho and the Dakotas would love Danish healthcare and education. Of course, they'd have to learn Danish.
Murika just has to be truly Democratic. Get rid of 2nd amendment.
embrace Socialism, not Communist. Looking after the people who pay taxes is not a dirty word. Its humanitarian.
Social programs.
Not Socialism.
Out of the 44 countries in Europe none of them have Socialism or Communism. @@alimantado373
Would you call fascist a country that imposes it's patriotism and worship of symbols to non-citizens?
School in the UK give the option to learn not just French, but German or Spanish all at the same age, my sons all learnt German rather than French at their school and my 7 and 5 year old grandsons are getting to know Spanish as it’s used in reading lessons.
Hi Ian, you're really doing a great job in providing some balance to the current insanity that's coming out of the USA.
as a fin i really like that how our whats the word.. fine (what you have to pay if you brake the law) thing works, its calculated from your last year income that how mutch you earn per day and the penalty is same for everyone like you get lets say 20 day fine, but the amount is different because ppl earn different amounts.
I would love it if they did this in the UK. Its a great way of making fines fairer for the population.
@@fififerguson6483It is, in the UK up to 9 miles faster than speed limit 25% to 75% weekly income, if over 9miles faster than speed limit 75% to 100% and so on. It is meant to hurt. Plus the points on your licence.
Brilliant
@@nigelbundy4008 Really?!! Apparently ive been living under a bloody rock! 😅
It brilliant and would perhaps stop all the Range Rover idiots ignoring every rule (other ridiculously priced automotive compensation brands for idiots with money are available)
I believe the main focus of the universal USB-C rule is actually preventing predatory market tactics like the ones apple uses
we have another rule regarding predatory practices involving cellphones, which Canada also has in place since 2017
in most European countries your network operator is obligated to sell unlocked cellphones, this means you can switch provider freely without needing a new phone or having to pay to unlock it
here in Portugal you can even keep the same number no matter how many times you switch operator, obviously providing you do not have debts with your former operator
I believe it's foremost about reducing e-waste. Small devices, such as smartphones, aren't anymore shipped with a charger in the EU. That prevents people from accumulating dozens of chargers over the decades. When such a rule was applied, it goes logically hand in hand with making sure that people can actually use their existing chargers, so the EU enforced usb-c, for the time being. If a device isn't shipped with a charger but requires a special charger (or at least a cable), like the Apple one, it would force people to go by a special charger/cable just for that single device, which conflicts with the purpose of reducing e-waste.
Naturally there are other reasons, like the one you mentioned or the convenience aspect.
In the UK too
I literally just changed my phone provider in the UK and kept my same number, no problem at all.
@@alisonsmith4801 I have had the same mobile phone number since I bought it in 2001. I have changed companies several times, and I have always kept the number, and I have saved myself from having to notify all my contacts that I had a new number each time.
It is same thing in Finland, I have no idea how long time I have had same number. And my cellphone has been renewed several times
"Social nets are censored" Awwww, that poor thing dosn't even know what social nets are and tries to communicate by spitting out random words. That is equally cute and sad.
Natural neutral networks can hallucinate too 🙃
He thought of Social Networks like Facebook!
Historically, the first coffee houses in Istanbul have been around since 1475, according to records
Thanks goats eating coffee bushes, or is that just a story? Australia has great coffee thanks to Italian immigrants who brought in the first espresso machine.
@@Maireadmoss Not only Italy, but from our Wog brothers & sisters, like Greece, Lebanon & Afghan's. The Afghan's bought over coffee & tea when they were building the Ghan railway.
That would have been Constantinople? not Istanbul, right? To this day Turks' make great coffee. I dated a Turkish girl & her coffee was strong & bloody delicious.
@@shaneb4612 We call classic coffee a "Turkish coffee" in Czechia. So we just say "Do you want a turk?"
@@DaweSlayer Do you want a Turk? Sounds like a dirty double entendre to me. If I ever make it to Prague, I make sure to remember that. Cheers.
I'm always surprised how Americans can be so self-centered. I'm a French Canadian and learned English in school. Spanish is the main language in Mexico and they probably learn English in school too. You don't have to look that far to find proof that contradict their beliefs.
You would think they would learn Spanish and French as a minium.
English too if we're pushing it 😁
I learned French at school, and in later life, taught myself Portuguese, German (Austrian), Russian, plus enough of Japanese and Chinese to get by if I ever manage to visit those two countries. By the way, keep them coming... Hilarity is great for the soul 🤣😁🏴
If anyone interested: Here in Slovakia is second language mandatory since 3rd grade of elementray school. As I know, in all elementrary schools is offered to choose between english or german language. There also exist special schools that can provide French, Rusian, Spanish and other "big nations" languages.
95% of Americans couldn't find Greenland or Denmark on a map.
You mean 5% of Americans would be able to find Greenland and Denmark on a world map?
Maybe, 5% is a bit optimistic.
@@TheChiefEng 🤣
Some of them couldn't find the US on a map.
Let‘s make it even better to understand for US. If you go to greenland nearly everything is covered in ice. So it looks white. If you go to iceland everything looks green. So tell me, how does fireland (south-south-south-america) looks like for US guys😊
question: what should Denmark do with both Dakota’s and Idaho? Answer: Overwhelming with European socialism and fascism.
If have an ice cube left in my freezer. You wanna buy it? Just for saving your national security. 😂😂😂😂😂
Don‘t think about buying French Polynesia. They all must be polygamic……
Pleeeeze keeeep bubbling in your US-bubble. It‘s funny to read comments like that……..
@@TheChiefEngthe comment says "OR"
That means that the 5% didnt need to know where both of them are.
I'd assume most of the 5% knows where greenland is and not Denmark.
German here: I am very sorry for Pearl Harbour! And for speaking english... 😜
NEIN NEIN NEIN!!! I wonder how ze Americans figured out that it was us. After all, we used Japanese aircrafts and even learned (at ze time, foreign languages were still taught outside ze U.S.) Japanese ! /s
@marcromain64 aber der angriff auf die usa war doch auch von deutschland geplant. also ist ja nicht so, als ob wir gar nicht beteiligt waren. ist natürlich trotzdem quatsch das so zu schreiben wie in dem post
@marcromain64 bright
I speak Dutch, my native language. We had English, German and French in high school. Dutch and one foreign language are mandatory in a Dutch exam.
In Norway we start learning Enlish in second grade.
In the 7th grade we could choose between German,French or Spanish.
That was back in the 70s and the 80s.
Today i belive there are even more languages than those to choose from,but English is mandatory.
I'm a 75 year old Dutch and German French and English were mandatory and finals were done exclusively in those languages and reading and understanding three books in the languages was required. Not a single Dutch word was permitted.
I could have taken four languages in Germany, but... guess I took four due to extracurriculars? *sigh* We had to picka language in 5th grade. I picked Latin, which meant English wwas mandatory in 7th. Then there were electives in 9th grade, where i poicked a natural science instead, and 11th grade. Where I picked French, but that class sucked. Also tried mandarin in a schoolclub, but that one wasn't for me, so the only foreign language I can actually use is English. Could have been (Latin/)English/French/Spanish(/Mandarin) instead. Or Ancient Greek if enough people had picked that class.
Nowadays, English is mandatory in Elementary school 8at least in my federal state, as education isn't handled on the federal level)
3 languages in Germany....
i only got 2 fully....but i dont went to " high school "....only Sekundarstufe 1 und Ausbildung!
i tried to explain Ausbildung to an American, no real chance he understood, he couldnt believe i went to a real school while working and i earned so little money!
...but he had also trouble to understand how i was able to pay for 2 months vacation in the USA and how i could have 2 months off from my boss!
and dont mention the pics i took at my Swiss vacation, wich i showed him, too!
It always fascinates me to hear that the Dutch are also learning German. It's just that none of them can speak it. I've been to the Netherlands at least 20 times and we have thousands of caravan tourists here, but I've never met anyone who can actually use it. After I switch to German after being told that they are learning German, I usually never hear much more. Which is weird when you consider how closely related German and Dutch are.
As a Swede that has lived some ten years in Vienna, let´s crowdfund a trip for the coffee idiot to visit some of Viennas coffee houses! Truly awesome places! Some of them are also really old, per American standards. For language, as a Swede we learned English from when we where 5-6 years old. Every movie in English was also not dubbed to Swedish, instead it was Swedish undertitles. I visited America when I was 20 years old, and I got asked from which STATE I came from. Americans didn´t recognize my "dialect". So, here I am, as a Swede, writing fair (not perfect) English. I also learned some Spanish, French, Greek and Latin in school. After graduating, I have learned three more languages. I´m focusing on German now, since I live in Austria. No other languages in school or elsewhere? Hey.
Also, please contact me when the majority of Americans understand fascism, socialism, communism and capitalism. Some have even unknowingly voted for a president that truly have many fascist traits. He behaves very much like Putin, and what political traits does Putin want? It just beats me. :/
In Romania children usually start learning a foreign language when they are 5 years old and by second grade you lern how to write it. By the time you finished 12 grade you should be conversational in 2-3 foreign languages.
That - foreign languages, taught in the US - made me laugh out loud. Thanx for that!
English would be a good start.
10:55 expectable reply: he doesn't even KNOW the difference between social NET and "social" network.
If there weren't YOU, Ian (and many others!), one could be tempted to close the case as hopeless.
And always keep in mind: If it comes worse and worst - Most countries in the free world would welcome you and your family in a second. Good people are everywhere needed.
There are great career possibilities in that profession known as TEFL.(Teaching English as a Foreign Language).
My son, born in the UK, has worked doing this in Kazakhstan, Czechoslovakia, China ,Egypt ,Sri Lanka ,Indonesia and several times has worked at Summer Schools for foreign students coming for a few weeks to the UK .
English English ,not American English ,is the International language used at all airports, shipping, etc and Asian countries in particular want their people to join into the International Business market.
Caffè Florian is a coffee house situated in the Procuratie Nuove of Piazza San Marco, Venice. It was established in 1720 and is the oldest coffee house in continuous operation in Italy, and one of the oldest in the world (the oldest being Queen's Lane Coffee House in Oxford founded in 1654). Yep, you can _still_ buy coffee in the original Caffe Florian (albeit at eye-watering prices). Twenty seconds on Google...
First coffe house in Poland in 1724. the longest operating one was established around 1830.
I love google, or rather, previous internet search engines before google pushed and bought them all out. A company without competition isn't a good thing, and not long until they think they're near royalty.
But good coffee... there is nothing like it.
It was big in Germany in the 1700s too. JS Bach wrote a "Coffee cantata" which was a comic opera satirising the Coffee shop culture of gossip and addiction
@@chrisinwood464 A Polish politician and poet from the 16th century described his impressions after tasting coffee, in a letter to his brother written in 1643: "The drink is so foul, venom and poisonous, that no saliva passes through the teeth. Let it not defile the mouth of a Christian!"
ps.in Polish it rhymed.
But they would think it is in Venice Beach, and threaten to sue when it wasn't.
if i remember right then here in denmark kids start learning english at age 7 or so.
then a few years later they get to pick between german or french.
"maybe its other languages now. im almost 50 so i bet things have changed a bit " XD
english is a simple trade language that pretty much every country can speak.
a lot of the english words actually come from the old norse language.
7:02 Here in Ukraine I studied English in kindergarten in the early 90s, then at school I continued studying English and at 5th grade started learning Latin, Italian and a little German, not to mention that I am fluent in two native languages - Ukrainian and Russian.
Happy New Year. Lang may yer lum reek from Scotland.
Love these vids you are such a sport to watch all the cringey stuff Americans say and laugh about it. Love your attitude to learning new stuff as well.
Keep em coming.
There is no way to improve anything other than being critical. Being critical towards your own country is patriotic.
"Sounds like socialism to me."
their yapping has reached new levels of idiocy recently around this greenland thing
In Belgium we use subtitles in stead of dubbing programs, so english is easy to learn
But unfortunately, many subs are American English.
In Greece, too. Although I got the Cambrige FCE in my mid-teens, I rarely have the chance to use English in everyday life. That helped me to not lose touch with the language.
@@John-jw8rx How? The subs are in the native language, so in the case of Belgium either French or Flemmish, not in English.
@@John-jw8rx Where is that?
Why use English subs in other countries than English speaking ones!
Here in Norway all tv has the original language and subs are in Norwegian.
It does not matter where the film or tv series is from originally.
@karstenstormiversen4837 I'm English. We don't get English subtitles 🤣
I've watched a lot of your videos and it's this one that convinced me to hit subscribe. I appreciate your position on all topics discussed in this video, starting with Greenland to the point where you admit the US is not the center of the universe.
Greetings from Republic of Moldova.
on Greenland and Panama, trumusk is taking his cues from Putin's playbook. He is distracting attention from the important issue and shaping the public discourse. Orban did the same here in Hungary. Everyone is concerned with that, not with what he promised before the election
We all have our share of idiots, but the US really does insist on doing everything bigger and better! As a Brit I only speak English, despite growing up in Africa, backpacked around South America, Central America, crossed the Pacific (Tahiti, New Caledonia), Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong - since English is spoken everywhere, but my Cantonese is improving. Little things like the Empire, and now Commonwealth did a fair job of spreading "our" language - even to north America! Also find it funny how "Europe" is simultaneously "socialist" and "fascist"... maybe that education point, was on point.
12:40 Every country on the planet uses celsius, but the US and it's dependants: the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. The other 189 states use celsius.
Happy New Year! This is hilarious! And for the language one, I began to learn English (I'm French) in Elementary school. Ok it was the silly alphabet song and how to read a clock and stuff like that. (I was around 10 so 1989 or something). I wasn't good though, I got better when I began to watch movies and TV shows in English with subtitles. 😁
Aussie 🇦🇺 here. My dear departed wife of 29 years was from Croatia. She could speak, German, Italian, Romanian, Serbian/ Croatian and of course English. All learnt at school in Croatia.
I'm French, Millenial on the older side of that spectrum and I did learn English and German in school. Learning one other language was and still is required from middle school onward, taking a second language's classes was optional but 99% of middle schoolers did. From my understanding, English classes now start usually in elementary schools and German/Spanish are still taught from middle school onwards and from what I was told and can see, those younger generations are way more fluent in those languages than I was at their age.
I'm now living in Belgium, and my daughter started Dutch classes in her first year at elementary school and even have some English classes (it's not common in 1st year, but it was a big factor when we chose her school).
We called them 'coffee houses', not shops, and we had them before tea (came later and very expensive) was a thing in Britain. Yes, 1654 was the first, and they spread like wildfire. If you look at the history, they were popular with businessmen and became the place where stocks and shares were traded and prices posted, becoming the basis of the first stock exchanges. Yet again, another British invention adopted by the colonies.
Every single Western Nation speaks English and every single one of the schools in those nations teaches an alternate language, such as French or German. Only an American could say something that dumb 😂
Guess I’ve been lucky re my American friends. I’m Aussie, met first American online just before turn of this century, I’m serious. Then her brother and both their families and friends. And they are online friends with my daughter. Now we have grandchildren. We have fun, they were way behind me re the recent New Year. Took them hours to catch up, lots of jokes flying back & forth. I remember we had to translate lots in early days, I had to ask what a teeter-totter was, apparently it’s what I call a see-saw. Yes quite a bit of, ‘what u talkin’ about’ ? lol. We have so much fun re translating and time difference and more.
I’ve had a few run ins with Americans on RUclips, I end up ignoring them.
Oh my father had a friend living here from Arkansas, and for fun we’d say ‘sas’ instead of ‘saw’ at end of where he came from, and he’d just laugh, lovely polite man and I had American neighbours for a few years, once again really lovely people.
We have drongos here in Aus of course, I give them a wide berth too 😂
Greenland has massive mineral, uranium, gold and rare earth metal deposits, many untouched. Possibly massive oil and gas fields off their pristine coast, never drilled.
Greenland has a population of 56-57,000 people. Less than 6% own a vehicle. 15% of those are electric or hybrid.
I see the obvious security risk. Lol.
Neither Denmark nor the population in Greenland have ever been overly interested in exploring all the natural resources in Greenland simply because it is well known that doing so would utterly destroy the nature in Greenland.
With the orange wannabe Hitler in power in USA, it's not difficult to guess what would happen to Greenland if USA was in charge of the island.
It would also make usa own the pass through for the major shipping lane that will be there soon thanks to the ice melting.
Right now it would be Canada or Greenland/Denmark that would get a cut from every ship there
Or the greed.
2:00 Increased Access to Arctic resources (which includes increased influence over the Arctic) truly is the least dumb reason to want to have Greenland. It's not exactly high priority, or likely, but if it was for sale... (which it isn't, because Greenland doesn't want to give up First world living standards...)
12:10 ...convenience, logic... but also waste prevention, device interoperability, monopoly avoidance...
Oh gawd! Some of those comments are hilarious.
In Portugal, at sixth grade kids start learning a new language, normally French or usually English. In later stages, students can learn other languages like German. It depends on what they are studying for.
wait what? Im portuguese and most people i know started learning english at the age of 4 and then spanish, french or german by seventh grade (its mandatory to learn two languages as far as i know)
Learning English at four years old even before learning the basics of Portuguese? Are you kidding me? I know the system changed several times from when I was a student fifty years ago, but I don't buy that.
@@paulocarvalho6480 I'm a teacher, Paulo, and I assure you it's true. Children start learning English in pre-school, simple things like the numbers and colours, and maybe the names of some animals, and simple sentences like "My name is... and I'm 4 years old". Of course they're not learning grammar or full conversational English.
@@paulavitoria1798 Wow! That is wild. Like I wrote before, I know the teaching system is way different from when I was in primary school (late 60's and 70's), but not like this.
My BRITISH grandson is being taught Spanish at school and he is 7 years old.
His 11 year old brother is learning GERMAN at his school.
When I was a kid, in the Eighties, here in Italy we didn't study a foreign language in elementary school. We started English OR French OR German in middle school, and in high school it really depended on the school you chose (I studied French in middle school and English and French in high school).
Nowadays, though, children begin to study English the first year of elementary school, so when they are 6, and in middle school, at 11, they start to study a second European language (usually French, Spanish or German). In high school it really depends on the type of school you choose (there isn't a "generic" high school, here). For instance: my older niece studies in a school oriented to foreign languages and she studies English, German and Spanish (and for the first three years she even had to study latin - by the way: high school, here, is five years).
This is only my opinion, but, I think teaching children at a young age another language is the best idea. Their brains are like sponges, absorbing everything.
Here in Australia, I began learning French in grade 3 ( approx 7-8 years.o.) loved it and was good at it. When we moved to a different state, no French taught.
It wasn't till high school I had the opportunity to learn it again. I struggled with it.
I have met young kids here of immigrant parents who speak their parents native language, sometimes 2 of them, plus English. All fluently.
@lellab.8179 I hope you don't get offended with my comment above, about Spaniards and Italians speaking bad English. Actually, I've been in Italy in 2022 (just Milano and Firenze), and most people spoke pretty good English, especially when they saw me stuggling with my broken Italian lol.
Same as I ,in Portugal. 80's and 90's and German also at those days. At high school,not today do. But English and French,continues. My daughter started English at elementary school, in Portugal 🇵🇹. ❤🎉
Celcius is more accurate because it has decimal fractions within each degree. You can have a 32.5 degree Celcius temperature. Farenheit doesnt have fractions, thetefor far less accurate.
Famous German attack on Pearl Harbor, from creators of "Admiral Yamamoto's offense in Ardennas"
I learned, French, German, Welsh and English in school. Very handy as I’ve worked a lot in France and Germany (and Italy and Spain and currently Netherlands- but Dutch is quite difficult!)
So you're not a lingual numbnut. Dutch ís a frigging tonguetwister. (Dutchy here)
Hmm - well the Dutch are probably the best English-speaking people in Europe (non-native) beside the scandinavian countries ...
Ha bon, tu parles français toi? Un petit débat politicio-historique? Je suis sûr que tu as pleins de choses interressantes à dire!
No, Dutch is extremely easy-I've been speaking it since I was only 1 y/o 😂
Canada is bilingual by law. Find any Canadian products and their printed in TWO languages, French and English.
Greenland has a legal right to independence whenever they want it. Denmark does not "own" Greenland. Mette Frederiksen got it right in 2017: The whole idea is absurd.
'We need Greenland for national security reasons'
A fellow named Josif Stalin said similiar things about his neighbouring countries.
Putin said it about Ukraine.
@@wessexdruid7598 Also true.
Wasn't there another guy with a funny moustache at the time of Stalin that said the same thing in a fever dream about 'living space in the east'?
There were alot of guys with funny stahshes during that time.
Fines in Finland are calculated in "days", so the final amount is based on the daily income. For instance, if you are fined for 30 days, you will pay an amount equal to your income for 30 days.
About that story with Nokia's CEO in 2002:
> Mr Vanjoki had to pay a fine equal to 14 days of his income in 1999, which was about 14 million euros ($12.5 million).
A million € every day? A very well paid job.
Thanks for explaining!
@@gluteusmaximus1657 The post said he was the CEO of Nokia, so...
@@paulavitoria1798 But - still! A million every day? That's alt least double the amount i make ;-)
Working as Historian for the Institute of German Contemporary History in Munich, Germany i noticed a few Things that not only apply to Americans but also a lot of Europeans who think they know much better, when in fact they usually do know a bit more regarding "Socialism" "Fascism" "National-Socialism" "Communism" etc.
In the USA i often see Communism and Socialism being put in the same Bucket, but also see that Nationalism and Fascism is put in the same Bucket.
Hell i've even seen American Political Pundits and Influencers put Conservatism in the same Bucket as Fascism and also vice versa see the other Side put "Social-Democracy" in the same Bucket as Communism. Of course both are wrong and i think we Europeans have a better Idea of it because many of us grew up in Countries that at some Point had one of our Relatives live under one of those Gouvernments.
To this Day when i speak with some Americans about how in Germany we even have "Social Conservatism" which is basically Conservatism but with Universal Healthcare and other rather "Socialist" Methods, they don't understand.
I assume that's because in the USA there is this "Two Party" System basically, so the whole Population is used to "Either this or that Side", which then leads to stupid Comparisons like the "Right" (they're not even that right-wing) aka Republicans and Conservatives assuming everything to the left of them, even just one Thing the other Side wants to implement means "Socialism" "Communism" etc.
But that is also true vice-versa. You get People on the "Left" (they're not even that left-wing either) aka Democrats, Social-Democrats and Liberals assuming everything to the right of them, even just one Thing the other Side wants to implement means "Nationaism" "Fascism" etc.
And both Sides, especially (watching a lot and reading a lot of US Political News from all Sides, Media, Outlets and even Live-Streamers) are exactly as wrong and uneducated about those Things than the other Side they claim are the uneducated and stupid Ones.
In European Countries it's not uncommon that you have a Center-Right Political Conservative Party decided to join up Forces with a Center-Left Wing Social-Democratic Party or even a Green Party etc.
In Fact, doing that solves a lot of Problems and it prevents People having this "Everything the other Side says is bad" Nonsense you sadly see in "Two Party Gouvernments" like the USA
That said: many Europeans in my Experience aren't that much smarter regarding this, maybe a bit more educated because of our Past, but countless of us make the same ridiculous Comparisons
Prost & Cheers from the Snow-Covered Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Ok, I feel like I have to break my no-comments-streak for this one.
I agree that many Europeans also don't have a good understanding of political ideologies either. Probably because in many cases there are no clear definitions that people can agree on and many regimes and political movements misuse those terms (like the "Communist" Party in China or the German "Democratic" Republic.)
"Democracy" itself is a huge word that can mean different things for different people. The Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol tried to "save democracy" just like the people who eventually stopped them.
And yeah, when it comes to Trump supporters who are currently defining what the Republican Party stands for, I have to strongly disagree with the notion that this party is "not even that right-wing". The "MAGA" movement is very much comparable to the German far-right party (AfD) and almost 50% of American voters are not embarrassed or afraid to have Donald Trump as their president. American politics are overall more right-leaning than German politics - caused by & leading to a more classist, racist, sexist and ableist society that has a much higher percentage of religious fundamentalists. Having no universal healthcare, no paid maternity leave and no paid vacation days after pledging allegiance to the American flag every day in school feels normal to a lot of Americans while many Europeans can barely comprehend the fact that so many Americans are still living under conditions that seem unworthy for the "richest country in the world".
Edit: Of course there are also benefits of having more right-leaning politics, like a strong military that guarantees never being invaded by anyone - but there needs to be a balance to optimize the well-being of everyone.
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Oh i completely agree with you! Of course the MAGA People are more right-wing. I was talking in general about the Republican Party.
But at the same Time i always have to roll my Eyes when i see People compare them or Trump to Fascists or National-Socialists.
Especially since the US Political System has so many Securities in it, even if a President wanted to turn it into an actual authoritarian Gouvernment (no matter what Ideology). They would have a much harder Time than over here in Europe, where to this Day it's still pretty easy.
I also agree that its hard to judge a different Country, Culture and Politics when you're not from that Country. Same is true vice versa.
The AFD for Example in proper Terms is a Populist & Social Conservative Party with a few Wings here and there that are more Nationalist.
Wouldn't compare them to Trump Republicans besides that they are very much influenced by that Movement in the USA. Especially regarding being more "pro-Russia" but also "pro-Israel".
I see them mostly as a "Protest Party" of which we had many throughout Germany since 1949. Many People vote for them just out of Spite to basically "worry" the Established proper Parties who actually have a Clue about what they're doing (which the AFD doesn't).
And regarding your EDIT
100% agree. This is why i'm happy how here in Germany it's not considered bad if lets say the CSU (Social Conservatives in Bavaria) decide to form a Coalition with a more left-wing Socialist Party.
I wish the USA would do Stuff like that. So you can at least attempt to get the Benefits of both the "Right" and the "Left" in one Gouvernment instead of demonising eachother.
Either way, i appreciate your Response a lot! You should consider commenting more often since compared to most RUclips Comments, you make good Points without being rude or dismissive
Prost & Cheers from Snow-Covered Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
I'm a Finn and have lived in the states in the 90's. One thing I like about Americans, is that how they can laugh about themselves. You are a good sample of that. I like your content 👊.
For the USB C charger, He said fascism, did he mean Communism? They are opposites that meet on the other side in authoritarianism.
There have never been any real communist countries in the world. As soon as a leader gets in, they "help their friends" and get an Elite. Stalin USSR was feudal, North Korea is feudal, USA is heading that way.
That's for Pearl Harbour 😂😂😂
Meanwhile, Japanese are chuckling. Those silly Americans fell for it.
The Japanese plan was always to attack Pearl Harbor and make it look like it was done by the Nazis
Anyone who thinks they or their Nationality is perfect or better is deluding themselves. We strive for Perfection knowing we will never achieve it.
Truest words I have read today.
"open since 1654"
that's almost 5pm...
Maybe that does not make any sense to an american...
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Imagine Germany defeating the US in a FIFA World Cup 2-0 and someone going "That's for Hiroshima AND Nagasaki!" 😂😂😂
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Well, the Japanese are laughing now making jokes about how their plan of attacking Pearl Harbor and making it look like it was done by the Nazis worked 🤣😂
love from The Hague !
Ian, good one. Looking forward to the sequel!
6:44 I'm from Latvia, and I can communicate in four languages and partially understand three more.
USB-C is only half fascist, ok? There is only one lightning symbol on it..
😂 some really funny comments on here, but that one actually made me laugh out loud.
All fines should be income based
Malaysian here
Practically everyone here is bilingual (English + our national langage Malay) and at least 40% of the country is trilingual.
And most learn English from pre-school, we don't have to wait for high school.
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Only Greenland is not enough for Trump. He wants Panama back as well. Ok, its a strategically important place, but wtf? And while he is on it, Canada should become a US state as well. He must have forgotten Mexico, I guess.
„President of peace“ 🤡
Canadians are strong warriors, which they demonstrated during WWII. Balls of steele. The US Marine Corps will face a hell if they try to occupy Canada.
@@ingemarsjoo4542 He is just a stupid school yard bully. He acts like a elephant in a porcellain shop right now. But he knows full well that it would break NATO if he really does those things. And what do you think Britain will say if the US attack Canada? IMHO is all a load of hot air what Trump is saying, as usual.
America has the strongest military in the world but the weakest people in the world. America always pull out when the body bags start to pile up. They were in Afghanistan for 20 years and never succeeded in reaching their objective. The same was the case in Vietnam. America has never been good at taking casualties.
Just to clarify, I think he wants the Panama Canal “back” , not the country, but both are equally ridiculous. He also is going to change to Gulf of Mexico into the gulf of America, as if we all will follow him on that. But it shows how deluded he is, the question is, is it a strategy to get what he really wants while making these dumb claims or is he really this dumb/insane.
"food is not better" lol
Your bread and cheese is the worst insult to actual bread and cheese.
A debatable point - What percentage of citizens of the USA speak/write/read English at a 6th grade level or lower?
According to the U.S. Department of Education 54% of adults in the U.S. have literacy below 6th grade level; 21% of U.S. American adults are illiterate or functionally illiterate.
I'm not kidding.
I've never met an American who can speak English.
Coffee was one of the highest commodities traded in almost 1900 years. But you're right, it seems we've only just learnt how to drink it... 'tho American's still need some lessons.
The thing with Donald.
You know, it's not only Greenland. He want Canada as well.
Both countries said something along the line: you can kiss my a...
And the gulf of Mexico should be named gulf of America.
He sure needs some "Lebensraum im Osten" it seems. And in the north and south as well. I have some very yucky feelings at the moment.
i heard something about panama aswell
i do not know what he is smoking but that sht must be good
How about naming it the gulf of ignorance
@@RedLine0069 oh yes. "I want to have the Panama canal!"
Also, usb-c rule does not state that it has to be exclusive, there can be a brand connection as long as it has usb-c also.
13:51 Also, that is why the Panama must be invaded and conquered, because by way of the Canal the Germans got their submarine aircraft carriers to Hawai‘i…
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@ AMIRITE? 😁