What's the Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said to You (American Reaction)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- As an American I know what we are capable of saying out of pure ignorance. Today I am both nervous and excited to react to the absolute dumbest things Americans have ever said to people from other countries. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I told a coworker in the USA that we didn’t have rabies in the UK. She said sarcastically, ‘I suppose the squirrels just stop at the border!’
I said, ‘Britain is an Island you know.’
She said without embarrassment, ‘Really?’
The next day she came up to me and again without embarrassment said, ‘Hey I was looking in an atlas last night and Britain IS an Island!’
Oh my God...
Well at least she learned something! She actually looked it up. I'm impressed.
They could come from Ireland
@@mtauren1that is, also, infact, an island.
On a road trip in deepest Arkansas, chatting to a family at a water hole.. talking about cars, the son asked why I'd not driven my car over instead of renting the Impala.
As a young person backpacking and hostelling through Europe I met mostly Americans, who invariably would ask “why do all you Canadians have the 🇨🇦on your backpacks?” I felt bad telling them the real reason, that we can’t STAND being mistaken for Americans, so I told them it’s the law in Canada, all luggage leaving the country must have the flag on it. Then I felt bad that they believed me.
😅 oh no - ist's too funny to feel bad about it... Maybe this would also work for us Austrians - we also don't want to be confused with our German neighbours.
I hate when people lie about these things and make Canada look dumb. I would tell people point blank that we didn’t want to get mixed up with Americans.
Is that a thing? That’s hilarious 😂
@@zizi_strizi001 I mean at least the world doesn't dislike Germany or Germans, or think they're stupid. But I worry if you told an American you were Austrian, they'd think you were Aussie.
@@es4666 How does it make Canada look dumb?
The WORST or CRAZIEST thing I've ever been asked (or ever been yelled at for) was;
She; "You say you live in Norway?"
Me: "Yes"
She: "We must set up a zoom when job's done one night"
Me: "Well you gotta havee the timezone in your mind, since Norway's 9hrs difference from LA"
She: "What do you mean with 9hrs"
Me: "I mean when it's 12pm here in LA. It's 9pm in Norway"
She: "Why are you telling us this now and Why didn't Norway warn us about 9/11 then"
Me; "Eeerrh. ehm..."
I left. Shocked.
😯😆
@bradleybrown8428 Yes it did !
WHAT 😮 pre warn them about 9 11 for real 😲
LMAO! To be fair, that is expected from an American.
@@DaimonAnimations maybe, but I was shocked in the moment.
German who studied in the U.S., asked by classmate if we have cars in Germany. "Gal, Germans INVENTED cars. Of course we have cars." "No, Americans invented cars." "No, that was Benz and Daimler in 1886 with the first car in Germany. Ford popularized assembly line production, but they didn't invent the car."
Around 20 years ago i spent 1 month in an american family and the girl asked me if i have a fridge at home and if i know what a micro-wave is ....
Germans invented gas automobiles if that's what you mean by cars. Carl Benz credited with that.
If you're talking mobile vehicles those came in stages throughout history but I'm guessing they meant standard gas automobiles.
Ford didn't just make faster production lines he mass produced the most affordable cars of the time.
Had a classmate that went for a year to study in America and when he came back he had to do an after-class catch up with my history professor because apparently in many American schools the world starts with the Declaration of Independence
@@verandream6675 of course! Before that, God created the world. ;-)
But murricans invented the sheer arrogance, based on nothing.
My husband and I were in a town in France ( we are Australian) we went into a Pharmacy to purchase some headache tablets. There was very rude American man there. He was pushing his way past everyone to get served first. When he got to the assistant he was really bombastic and she had no idea what he wanted, she could not understand him. He stormed past nearly knocking my husband over. He then proceeded to yell “wouldn’t you think they would speak English” My husband said “dude you are in Rural France”
When our turn to be served the assistance spoke broken but passable English. My husband was stunned and she noticed and said “would you speak to someone like that?”
A lot of us know english, we are just not willing to speak if the person in front of us is rude😂 always begining with Bonjour, then speak slow and clear english, then finish with merci and aurevoir. Easy recipe😊... and dont cut line, obviously.
@@Agathe.May... I agree 100% with you. I love the French people, I am Australian
@@denisewest7166 i have family in Australia and i hope someday i would be able to go and see those beautiful landscapes
I have always found, no matter where in the world, if you make an effort to speak a phrase or two, you're golden. Greeted with smiles and happy questions about your origins etc. It REALLY doesn't take much effort to be nice to folks and the benefits are endless.
@@Agathe.May...
Well, France DOES have a lot of clever people 😆
I am an elderly Englishwoman. An American lady once told me that Americans invented the English language. I reminded her that we English (clue in the name!!!) had been speaking this language since the FIFTH CENTURY!!!
She replied that that didn't matter, because there were so many more people speaking American English. British English, she said, wasn't really English!!! The WHOLE WORLD was speaking American English!!!
I gave up. 🤔🇬🇧
By her own (deluded) logic, India should own the English language, not US
@@justADeni I do so wish I'd thought of that at the time! Thanks. 😂
@@sairhug Thanks for that. I'll check it out. Americans just don't travel enough, I suppose. Wherever they go, they take America with them, and also are only looking for America.
Britain turns out to be sub-, sub-, sub- America at best, rather than permanently different. I don't know what they'd make of Rammstein's lyrics, as they take everything so literally. 🙄
i can say we Aussies do not speak that messed up American English ours is almost the exact same as British English with a few little changes over the yrs
It's also are rather good song. I had the pleasure of seeing them live. They controlled the audience like a conducter. It was marvelous!@@sairhug
Standing on Edinburgh High Street, the street that leads up the big volcano to the big castle, an American couple asked directions to the castle. I pointed uphill (it’s a straight line) and said “go right up to the top, the castle gate is right in front of you”. Man says “we’ve been up there but it’s just a big gateway, where’s the castle?”. Me: “go through the gate, that’s the castle courtyard.” Man, getting annoyed: “that’s not the castle”. I’m completely at a loss, just say “OK, sorry it’s not what you’re looking for”. Man says “where’s the lake with the road to the castle?”. Slowly dawns on me he’s looking for the very picturesque Eilean Donan castle 200 miles away. I said he might be thinking of a different castle, he says “quit trying to scam me, there’s only one castle per country.” In Scotland throw a brick in any direction you’ll hit a castle.
One castle per country! 😂😂😂 omg 😳
One Castle per square mile
Yanks and their world ignorance! If they haven't invaded it, it doesn't exist! I once heard one of television"s greatest dunces: David Letterman - say to his guest - the gorgeous Catherine Zeta Jones - "You're from Wales: that's up near England, right?" To her eternal credit, she kept herself polite and calm and just more or less said "yes"! Ignorance should be treated like Covid-19 and avoided at all costs!
@@geoffpriestley7310 What's that in washing machines?
Yeah, a couple in AUSTRIA though they were scammed, because it wasn't summer here in January.
Americans work very hard to live up to their stereotype.
Yah, there's a user in the comments repeatedly doing just that lol
@@shmupperfromhell I just had a scroll down and found him. That's exactly the type of aggressive stupidity I'm talking about.
No they don't. It comes naturally.
All the while they stereotype other countries and nationalities
None harder than ... *FLORIDA MAN!*
Life advice. It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Kind of ironic, given the topic, that the originator of that quote was an American (Abraham Lincoln).
@@sairhug Did he have a bad experience, or just met others that did? Either way, he sounds like a wise guy (based entirely on the quote!).
@@phoenixmoon5580 I'm not entirely sure, but I get the feeling he said it as advice to others to stop them making idiots of themselves.
@@sairhug When the quote is directed at people, that is what it means. Amusingly enough, few get what it means.
@@sairhug He was well educated.
Recently an American who claimed to be an educated linguist told me that the British Empire had nothing to do with the spread of the English language. It was all thanks to America and American culture. The irony is that America owes its language to the British Empire.
I'm glad that you explained the origin of English language in America at the end, some of them might still not know that 😉
@@suonatar1 When you get "an educated linguist" correcting you about the English language it doesn't look good for the average person, does it?
@@anta3612 now imagine mind explosion after telling them that English, Dutch, Afrikaans and German are related
Yes Old English Old Dutch Flemish & Yiddish come from the same low on the Rhine Germanic tongue - and Afrikaans comes from the Boer Dutch who settled in South Africa
What an idiotic thing to say. England is responsible for spreading the English language and some would say Americans are responsible for destroying it 😂
I live in Lincoln, England. I had a friend who was chatting to an American tourist over here, and the tourist said, "I think it's great that you decided to name your city after one of our presidents!" My friend had to explain how Lincoln existed for 2000 years before Abraham Lincoln was even born, and instead it's more likely that he had some kind of family connections to the city of Lincoln - the president's family was named after our city
😂😂😂 I've had the same. When I told an American I lived near Harwich (of the mayflower fame) Essex. He said oh you have an Essex too.
Plus he didn't know what the Mayflower was 🙄
Should have told him you can get from New York to Boston in less than 20 mins
Amazing. i like when americans try to prounounce the nearest town to me, Loughborough.
@@Rose.Archer I dread to think 😂
@@101steel4 so obvioulsy any normal english person knows its pronounced. "Luff Buh Rah” Americans… every single one. "Loo Gah Bah Roo Gah” dead
I was in Mexico once, and I explained to an American that I was Welsh and, as usual, I then had to explain that no, Wales is not in England 🤦🏻♂️. I explained that in Wales, we also speak Welsh, which he thought was cool. He then followed on by saying that America has its own language too, to which he continued to say that he spoke American. I laughed and said, "No, you speak English." He frowned and insisted he spoke American. I asked, "Then how do I understand you as I speak English, not American?" He became quite disgruntled and confused and he explained that Americans use words like "trash" and "dipers" to which I explained that they are just adaptations of words that already exist in the English language. He was not happy and walked away to my delight 😂
😂 Good god.
Haha from a fellow Williams 👋 we were travelling and pointed out the same thing… it did not receive a great reaction either 😂 I think my other half got sooo cheesed of in the end he said “let’s put it this way, you took English and bastardised it 😮” let say we weren’t friends at the end of the trip 😅
We tried to eradicate that hideous language. Crawling it's way back. Bloody taffs...
Back!? It never left. It's lovely to see you support persecution. Thank you for your joyous comment, and I hope you have a great day 🏴
They obviously don't learn a lot in school no wonder they're all thick
An American said to my friend, No, you’re not English, well, you don’t look English. She responded, Well, you don’t look stupid!
😂 What a great comeback 😂😂😂❤
Love it
😂😂😂👏👏👏
How did the American react?
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I am Norwegian and in the summer of 2022 we traveled to Western Norway on holiday. I stopped by the tourist office to order some tickets for an event. Inside there was an angry American tourist who shouted and screamed. Reason? No one had told them that there were fish in the water where them were swimming and her children had been terrified!
😂
Many Americans view the rest of the world (that they "know" of) as sone sort of theme park for them to visit and enjoy.
I don't know anyone this ignorant.
@@garycamara9955So you don't know many Americans?
I was in hospital in England ( im English ) in 2002 and an American tourist came in for a few days with a leg injury , on the day he was leaving he couldn't believe he didn't have to pay anything , so he asked the rest of us patients how big of a tip should he leave the nurses? We told him you don't tip nurses under no circumstances and the best he could do was buy them a big jar of coffee and biscuits ( i think Americans biscuits are different and call them cookies ) even then they weren't really allowed gifts but coffee tea and or biscuits were overlooked , he couldn't believe it , we are not a socialist country but its funny how many capitalists love this " socialist " privalage.
German here, when my family or friends are in the hospital I like to drop off a salad or cake at the nurses station. Just a little thing to apreciate their work.
And I got the bowl/tray back the next day.
@@kariissmol9172 I'm kinda jealous about the container returning part. And I bet it is washed and dried for you too!
Canadian: "How stupid could you be?"
American: "Challenge accepted!"
😁
World: "How stupid can you get?"
US: "Yes!"
😉
More like
American: Hold my beer.
Try saying stupid people shouldn't own Guns in the USA -every Republican in the room stands up screaming-." aint nobody takin my Guns "
response-Well are you stupid ?
Then spend the next hour trying to understand why giving guns to stupid people means we are free
🤣🤣🤣
I was working and an American couple came over and said you English people are lucky we Americans let you use our English language. My answer was if your country made the English language then why would English begin with eng and not ame the wife walked away the man called me a bad word I never laughed so much.😂
Why did you let them use it though? Now we all have to (someone) understand what they're blabbering. If they spoke some made up gibberish, it would be so much easier to ignore.
"You ENGLISH people are lucky we Americans let you use our ENGLISH language." 🤦🏻♂️
I had a couple from Florida ask me, "how many days of the week do you have?" I must have had a really dumbfounded look on my face and before I could say anything, the wife counted out ...."we have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday" etc. at this point, I couldn't contain my laughter any more and just replied, we live on the same planet!!!!
I mean if anything, I guess the USA would be the odd one out in their time measurements considering they still refuse to switch to metric like the rest of the world. The closest thing you get to a difference in calendars is the Lunar Year, but I doubt they'd know about that either.
I am British. I lived in Germany for many years in a village which was called the gateway to the Black Forest.
I was once stopped by a car full if American tourists and asked the way to the Black Forest. I gave directions and was then asked 'will it still be open?' it was around 15:00 (3 o'clock for Yanks). The Black Forest covers an area of around 3,400 sq. miles and has approx 250 towns and villages.
It would be very difficult to 'close'.
That's funny. I was born next to Stuttgart, my great grandfather lived in Freudenstadt. Which is in the black forest. When I live in Germany again it's gonna be fun dealing with American tourists. I'm dual citizen of USA and Germany. Mom was German and dad is from New Jersey.
Well I'm Norwegian and I don't think Americans have any grasp of nature
I was once in Bergen it's a city on the Westcoast of Norway
And I was asked by an American lady
So the fjords are they turned on this time of the year 🤔
I didn't know at first if she was joking but by the look on her face I assume that she was sincere 😂
So I just said yes and turned Around sso I didn't start laughing to her face
😂😂
@@yvindwestersund9720 Oh I've been to Bergen it was lovely and my boys BTS did a bon voyage ep there sadly not at the same time
@@MsKaz1000 hey I'm not saying that all Americans are dim-witted but I'm pretty sure that by the state of the school system in the US at the moment
The US state is producing idiots as far as I can see
But if you as an citizen has money you can get the education you need and so also for your children
But as said the stat the public schools are in now thers only a matter of time before the US will truly be a nation of dim-witted fool's and that will be to the detriment of the whole world not just the US
So please for the love of all that is good do something about all these MAGA people start a Free educational program that will help them to get their heads screwed on right and not like now when everything is a conspiracy and noting is real
If Trump are elected president again the great country of the USA will drag us all in to a state of conspiracy theories and fake news that will promptly become a war on truth and reason
And by the looks of it we will loose that fight and a third world war will end us all
Just saying 🇳🇴
I'm from Venezia (Italy) and that's happening all the time.
At Windsor Castle the tour guide told us that some US tourits had asked why the castle was built so close to the airport---- & that was after they had been told that the castle was a thousand years old.
wasn't Merlin a wizard who could see into the future, thus knowing that there would be an airport now, and telling King Windsor to better build the castle someplace else ? :-)
Do you live in Windsor or visiting? 😂
Well, robber knights allways build up their castles close to channels of commerce 😙
@@Anson_AKBAfter so much unbelievable content in the video, it took me a second to detect the sarcasm
Love the humility in admitting you don't know something, that's the energy we need. I had an american tell me that I couldn't be Italian, because I was "too white" and I have blue eyes, while another insisted I should consider myself a person of colour for the same reason. Bro, I'm 2 hours drive from Germany, how dark can I be? Another one insisted that Italy has a tropical climate, with monkeys, and wouldn't believe that in winter in Venice we can reach -8 degrees (celsius). Last one, started to angrily shout on the phone at the hotel my friend works in because he demanded to use his car to get to the hotel, in VENICE, where there are NO STREETS BUT ONLY CANALS.
Wow, yes, this is the best of all!! Love it!!! 😂😂😂😂🇬🇧
The racism is strong in America.
The same for me, I was told I could not be Italian because I was too White (northern Italian I am) then told me I should not go back to my country because I had to walk behind man for the rest of my Life...
😂. By the way, Venice is one of the most beautiful cities in the world! You are so like!
Not been to Venice, but to the person demanding to use his car "You can try! But we will understand it is entirely of your own free choice, and [hotel] and [person's name answering the phone] will not be responsible for any damages that may occur". Slip in a useful hint suggesting he looks at [any relevant traffic/car driving websites for the country/area] to make sure he follows the relevant laws when driving.
I know Britain is small compared to the US. But I was asked by an American if you can walk around it in a day.
Also been asked if Britain has beaches. When I said we're an island, I just got a blank look.
i got ask why Germany build subs in WW2, because Germany got no coast!
😂
Does your island has beaches?
😂
LOTS of them unironically believe that Europe, as a whole, is smaller than Texas.
The light is on but nobody is home.
An American friend of mine was visiting me in Australia. We were talking about the native animals and she kept pronouncing emus as ‘emoos’ I explained that it was ‘emews’ “No,” she said, “it’s pronounced emoo in America.” I pointed out that it was an indigenous Australian word, not an American one, but she refused to correct her pronunciation. We made a quick trip to New Zealand together and she kept checking how to say the Māori words and made a point of pronouncing them as correctly as she could. When I pointed out that she didn’t do that with indigenous Australia words she said, “But it’s different.” We are no longer friends.
They struggle with the letter U.
I've been asked why we in England added the U to colour.😂
@@koschmx Anglicised 😉
You Americanised it 😁
@@koschmx Give me five minutes, I need to translate that into English.
@@koschmx It does actually look very strange to English people.
Looks like a five year old has written it, due to all the spelling mistakes and incorrect words.
It would probably be a 0/10 in English class 🤣
@@101steel4Did you tell them that colour is a French word?
It translates into hues and shades.
In 1992 I was traveling across America on Amtrak, from Portland Organ going to Chicago. We stopped at some small town somewhere in Montana and this young man got on and sat near me. I was talking to a bunch of Americans and he joined in. After a while he asked where I was from, when I told him I was from England he looked at me for a few seconds then asked, "what language do you speak over there". Everyone around me just stopped and looked at him in disbelief. I told him that we speak English. At this his face lit up and he said, "that's so cool, the same as us'.
I once saw an American lady online ask, "How come the British all speak English and not some European language?"
I swear to God I'm not making that up.
Yes, my English cousin lives in Florida and gets it all the time. Well after he tells them he's not Australian 😂
@@101steel4I was in Florida a few years back. They thought I was an Aussie too. I think they assume we all talk like Jacob Rees Mogg or something
@@nigethesassenach3614or Terry Thomas
They all think us brits are fekin crocodile Dundee!! 😅
If you can stand it there are a lot of these. I'd love to see more of your reactions to them. My worst was standing in a line in Vegas. A little kid tugged at his father and said that man talks funny (i'm English) and i smiled. But then his father said 'Yeah they dont speak our language like we do'. I said 'Excuse me we were speaking Englash 500 years before you buthered the language, and gave him a history lesson about the Mayflower and British colonisation'. He got mad that i was making a fool of him in front of his son. He was about to retort when a fellow American suggested when he goes home he joins his sons class at school as it was shameful that someone from the UK knew American history better than he did.
Wow!!!! Oh boy.. We know so much more of their history than they do!
@@koschmxlol that son needs to know as ASAP that his dad isn't god. Plus you don't know how long Mervin had to put up with the BS from Mr Dunning-Kreuger...
The saddest thing for me is that history classes in the U.S. are pretty mush all about the U.S. I'm not sure what geography classes teach, but clearly not the map of the world. I shake my head and sigh sometimes.
Well done, they really need educate better. I don't get how US could be good in other things if they don't know the basics 😅
@@suerickard9556 No, we learn world history in every public school as children. That man must not have paid attention in class. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. You can teach a student, but you can't make him listen. I was educated at public schools in the U.S.A. I was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.
I once had a guy who was incredibly disapointed to find that england was not, in fact, some sort of Charles Dickens centric Theme park land. He wanted misty streets, smog, handsome carriages, work houses, people ringing bells and declairing the hour... What he got was mcdonalds, starbucks and a bus that was more comfortable and reliable than anything he had ever seen before, also, on day one, some chavs nicked his cigarettes.
Well he should be happy that he got the 'pick a pocket or two' when his fags were pinched.
HAHAHAHAH!
the 21st century iteration of this Dickens story is now the Outlanders crowd that think all is magical. If I hear one more american bang on about how they're descendants of Scots royalty, lack of washcloths, flavored creamers, bad coffee, too much walking etc etc - why the hell do they even leave their american compound if only to do a whirlwind Outlander centric visit. Blows my mind.
@@Kat-po3mn Ooh! One of my co-workers says he had a tourist once who claimed he was decended from this one lord local to my area. My co-worker told him to keep that very, VERY quiet, because arrest warrants are technically still out on any family of the guy due to... uh... Well lets just say his punishment was unpleasant and terminal.
They come to Ireland expecting donkeys and carts, and find narrow roads they can't drive their rental cars on!
And when I was in Charlotte, NC, I was exhausted just trying to cross some of the roads, they were so wide!
"There's three doors for England, France and Britain"...add that to the list.
That was perfect
I think Tyler just said that accidentally.
No England, France, and Acadia.
I could see Britain, France and the indigenous nations and the three founders of Canada.
"English door & British door?" I think you just proved the point, lad!
Tyler. I worked in Hotel Management in the UK for over 30 years and my experience of American guests being confused over differing accents within the English language, as shown by the Australians in your video, is absolutely true.I've encountered American guests even compliment me on how well I spoke English and was it hard to learn?? My answer to that was to gently but firmly remind them that the English Language originated in BRITAIN - it's a major Historical FACT! We gave it to America through history as British settlers arrived.
I've also had the dumbest questions asked of me by American guests staying in UK Hotels, especially in Scotland, where in one hotel in Edinburgh, we had at least 2 coaches per night of Americans doing a round the UK Tour and this was their first visit to Scotland. So, I and my colleagues would get.....
Do you have electricity here? (because they couldn't see Electrical cables strung across the street, nor could they comprehend in the UK, it invariably comes via cables underground!).
Do you have Television here? (we'd answer, "we ought to, we invented it!") Followed by.....
Don't you have American TV Channels across here? (not then in the 70's). Followed by.....
Is there any English to American translation service for UK TV channels?
But the best one was always how Americans couldn't believe how Scotland was a Country all of its own right. Some more elderly USA citizens said they'd been taught that Scotland was a little village in Northern England!
Or as one American businessman who was staying in the hotel in which I worked in England a few years ago once admitted, "I've travelled the world for my USA based company and always believe I've heard every stupid comment from Americans abroad.
But I'm always embarrassed by some of them who haven't a clue, and show up my Country as utter jerks with their dumbass questions and comments!"
Thank you, well put 🏴💜🌻
Was Tourist in London a few years back, saw an american couple get wrecked by the Queens Guard. Pushed out of the way from the back because the were behind the red line. Both americans ate dirt, and the guy was walked over. He got up and tried to fight the guard but was grabbed away by police.
I went to school in England in the 1950,s my history teacher had spent over twenty years teaching in usa; he was forever extolling the. Virtues about how clever the Americans were compared to us¡ What happened.😂😅
But ...Scotland IS a little village in northern England!
@@strangelee4400 Scotland is also a village in Ontario, Canada.
It's honestly ridiculous that so many Americans think every other country is stuck in the 18th century.
maybe because their own history seems to start only in 1776 ?
or at the most in 1492, but not several millenia ago like it did for europeans and many others.
and thus when their own history started, all others became uninteresting and got stuck in time in 18th century
@@Anson_AKB yeah but they seem to think that no country has progressed since then EXCEPT for the USA.
It's kind of like a childish ignorance ... I mean, when I was a little kid and my family emigrated to New Zealand from the UK, I fully expected happy waving crowds and beautiful dancing ladies to greet us with necklaces made of big flowers as soon as we set foot on the the airport tarmac. Well, that's what happened on TV whenever the Queen went anywhere - went my thinking 😂. My limited life-experience meant I didn't know any better!
Maybe it's because the US is extraordinarily insular? Their legacy media largely only bothers with events in the US and very little else - probably because it's all down to the mighty $ and advertising revenue,. A sister of mine was in America for one of the Olympics and couldn't believe that *only* events in which Americans were participating were shown on TV; and even THEN, the cameras didn't leave the American competitors! Maybe the thinking was that if they showed, say, some Swedish pole vaulter, even if they happened to be the world record holder, the paying public would quickly lose interest and click to another channel?
Perhaps one of the most telling features of how inward-looking the society is concerns their (baseball) "World Series" only having the USA and Canada as participants!
From this video, it sounds like very little outside of the US is taught in schools. Also, according to 2021 figures, only 56% of the adult population on average has a valid passport ... but good luck to those who have one actually using it to travel overseas as the average American worker has only 11 paid days' holiday off per year! Now THAT'S stuck in past, if not quite the 18th century!
I'm guessing that if The Rest of The World is about as likely to ever be on your agenda as visiting the Moon, why learn about it? It seems like a lot of the way society 'works' in the US is all serving to keep people uninformed ... then they wonder why half the people are so easily duped by bad-actor politicians and conspiracy theories.
@@koschmx then you're lucky, of the ~90 Americans (over the age of 20) I've talked to, about 15 of them didnt think cars, the internet, or even trains existed in Europe.
Here in Finland there are american style prisons used as museums.
My dad was a taxi driver & picked an American couple up at the airport. Once in the car they proceeded to ask my dad to "TAKE US TO THE TOWN OF SCOTLAND"......I'd like to point out that he had called them from Prestwick Airport (Scotland) and we were on the West Coast of Scotland....speechless....
As a Canadian... from the far north. The first interaction we had with Americans were pen pals... 100% of the letters sent to us were bad drawings of igloos asking how/ if we had running water and electricity and how we plugged in our tvs in the igloo. I'm not Inuit I am Dene. We never lived in igloos. But 100% of the letters were the same. I was 6 it made me wonder about the teachers...
My Dad had a tie for American business trips that looked like that and it was sad how many Americans thought it was real. People from Montana and north Dakota got it but no one we met in Florida understood the joke.
I was in Cardiff recently and was walking underneath the battlements which had been converted to air raid shelter during the war, there was an American couple behind me, the gentleman said, "I don't know why there's an air raid shelter here, only London got bombed during the war." My adopted home is Plymouth, and was definitely bombed
As a historian this triggers me. Where is this man I'm going to beat him with a history book.
Hitler only focused on London (and the few other bigger cites) after the bombing raid on Berlin. Even though the bombing didn't do much it was enough to piss off Hitler so he ordered bombing of the big civilian cities, mainly London. Before that everywhere was getting bombed.
You can always tell an American, but you can't tell them much. 🤔
From a Kiwi... No, we're NOT part of Australia.
i can 2nd that, never been to Aussieland but NZ!
That's a great line, I'll remember that
From what I gather, most Aussies would emphatically agree with you. :D
I'm SO gonna use that line next time it's appropriate. 👍😂
...agreed, and yet, you are both part of Australasia, the continent, along with several very small islands 🏝 😀...(I'm english by the way!)...
Love your channels Tyler. First off, America is very diverse and there are all types, but here's a funny story. I live in Saint John New Brunswick Canada. A friend of mine worked at a shop in the market about 15 years ago. An American tourist was rather annoyed that we accepted American money, but did not return change in American money. My friend explained to the tourist that he was in Canada, to which the tourist replied, " I was in Alaska last year, and they gave me American money back!!!"
I watched one American in a shop in England ask a price for something. When they said 10 pounds, she replied don't you mean dollars? 🙄
I live in Alberta (Canada) and belong to a FB group having to do with Banff & Jasper National Parks. The umber of Americans that pose the question of, do I need to get Canadian money? Will they accept American money? And also not understand why they won't get American money in exchange 🤦♀️
Uuuuuuh, what?
I was on holiday and met an American couple, after explaining that my City (Leeds) was in the North of England and not London. The woman's eyes lit up and then she said ' my friend Suzie Jones lives in Leeds, do you know her'. I said No, and she replied that I must know her friend because we are from the same place. The population of my City is almost 796 thousand!!.
Doesn't surprise me. When i worked for Royal Mail. Dozens of letters and parcels would be addresed to England, with no city, county, post code or anything. Just the name of recipient and Country. ALL of them were from the USA. Nowhere else.
Reminds me of a Jasper Carrot joke when he went to the US people kept asking him if he knew the Queen.
Not quite the same but it can be a small World sometimes! When I was a kid we bumped into some neighbours from our street in a supermarket in the south of France. Neither of us knew the other family was going on holiday, never mind to the same place.
My favourite reply to stuff like this is "Have you ever been to China? No? Then you _must_ know my aunt - she hasn't been there either."
@Polarbear4 Yeah, a few years back my partner and I went to Blackpool for the weekend. The first morning we nipped out from the B&B to get a paper and the first people we saw walking up the street were our next door neighbours.
Im Canadian and I went to Mexico many years ago when I was 16 years old. At the resort, I was doing a special craft at an arts event. I was sitting next to a middle aged woman having good conversation. She continued to tell me that her home is extremely close to the equator and it’s quite warm. I asked nicely where her home was and she responded with “ in Missouri!”
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A TEACHER tried to tell a Canadian kid that there were no cars in Canada. Just another day in Flori-duh 🙄
That’s why they’re called Floridiots!
That was hilarious but also very worrying. A teacher thinking , Canada, no cars only sleds(or sledges) this from a supposedly educated person? Seriously troubling, the level of ignorance. (I’m from Northern Ireland)
just go there, i spend 6 months in the USA, and i came across people you wouldnt believe me.....
someone told me Henry Ford invented the car.....telling a German that made me turn around and leaving the room!
Well remember.... in Canada we all live in igloos hence the need for sleds. **eye roll**
Unfortunately, Florida worries the rest of the USA too… 😢
Greetings to Ireland from México 😊😊
Not very educated, just another union member
I went on holiday to Florida and a guy from Texas asked where I was from and I told him England. He did not know where England was, I had to explain UK, Great Britain. He then asked if I was sure? I said, yes, where do you think I'm from? He said Australia because of my accent. I just said, "yes, you are right, I lied to you for no reason". He said "why would you lie?". I walked away.
My cousin lives in florida. After a decade of telling them he's English, not Australian, one locals still says G'day when he walks into their shop 🙄
I spent a student summer in America waitressing. One couple asked me where I was from. I said Ireland. They asked me how I got to America. “By bus”. I replied.
In fairness if you're not used to the differences Aussie language and Brit can sound the same.
An easy way to tell the difference is by which one cusses more.
@@AIHumanEquality the language yes, it's English.
The accent though is very different.
As you said Brit, that includes Wales and Scotland, so again, doesn't sound the same at all.
@@AIHumanEquality You've just started two new fights now... 1 over which one cusses more, and 2 over which one cusses less (both different things!).
I have another - I have lived all over the world so Americans aren't the only ones. But I was living in the U.S. and our children were attending school. I told our daughters they could sing the Star Spangled Banner (they had already learned that in school in Canada) but they should stand out of respect but couldn't pledge allegiance to the flag. My 8 year old daughter was kicked out of class and I was called to the school. They didn't understand a Canadian cannot pledge allegiance. I mentioned that the bombs bursting in air in the national anthem were bombs headed in our direction. They had no idea and I had to take history books in to them to convince them. After that they made my daughter, even though she could sing the National Anthem and had to stand respectfully for the Pledge, leave the classroom until these were finished each morning.
The bombs bursting in air are bombs being fired from the British Royal Navy warships at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland.
One of the dumbest things I heard an American say was by a lady who was planning to visit England and she was asking the interviewer "what language do they speak over there".
The last time I was in Disney world was 2013. A lady at the pool kept on asking me about the square footage of my home, which I personally never even gave a thought to. I told her it was 3 bedroom, one and a half bath. Finally, after the third time I said it's about 1400 square feet. She looked at me and asked how I could live in such a small home. She was shocked that everybody in Canada doesn't live in Hugh homes. But what really annoyed me was when she asked how many Humvees we have. Gas in Canada is 4 times the cost as in America, I don't know anyone who drives a Humvee. Americans have no idea how the rest of the world live.
Gas is not 4x the cost. It's like 1.3x the cost on average. Canadians just don't like spending much on gas where as Americans spend tons on it normally.
Tbh it always shocked me how an American could think that an house of 100+ square meters is small, here in Italy the norm for a family of 4 people is between 65 square meters and 95, and I do personally think that the houses on the upper part of the scale are actually almost too big, in my opinion probably the perfect size would be 80/85 square meters ( roughly 900 square feet)
Well, their houses are quite big, but the floorplans are often hilariously bad. As is the quality of many houses.
In my town (in Bavaria) an American once tried to sue a hotel, because he broke his hand punching a (brick) wall.
Well, he obviously couldn't do that, but people had a lot of fun showing him the news articles about the dumb cunt that first threw a fit, punched a wall like a maniac, broke his hand and then tried to sue (yes, it was in the newspaper, it was so idiotic it made it in the local news. :P).
We were sitting in a pub in my hometown in BC and a visiting American couple sat next to us. We struck up a conversation and chatted about their holiday. We had already established that they were Americans, but I asked where they were from. "Oh, you won't have ever heard of it". I figured it was probably some tiny town, but I persisted... "Well, try me". The answer was "Maine". That told me so much about the American education system. They honestly thought a Western Canadian wouldn't have heard of Maine. I've travelled in Maine, so when I started rattling off the names of towns and cities in Maine, they were absolutely flabbergasted.
An American once asked my friend if we had hospitals here in Scotland.
The American also asked if we had electricity, too.
Yep, heard that too
Thank god , i thought It only happened to us un Spain . Although for them don't bother correcting them we are Mexican.
As I've said previously, americas postion on a lot of things is how europe was 200 odd years ago. We had no social safety nets, we had no social healthcare, we where crazy capitalist, imperialist conquerors. We just grew up, america will get there one day.
I guess every country wants to have their turn at conquering, before they mature.
May take a few centuries yet!
Yeah, the problem is that we also didnt have nuclear weapons around the time when we were like that. The US has both insane millitary power and a mindset that would have been antiquated 100 years ago^^.
No we won't.
Americans will NEVER accept your dictatorship by oligarch socialism. We will NOT "get there" and we are not even heading in that direction.
The day will come when you will regret having given up all of your independence.
The Falafel one was a fine example of rascism, he looked at that woman and made the assumption she was an arab.
Falafels aren't arabic. They have been invented in Egypt, probably by the Copts. Egyptians weren't arabs. Copts are christians. Falafafels are now traditionnally made by Midwest people, christians, jewishs, arabs and those whose origins are there.
@@laurentpaumier3103 And you think Americans know that? Ha ha these are people that don't understand that people in England speak English ffs.
That's not racism as there was no hate intended. More like racial ignorance.
@@laurentpaumier3103and, as I learned when I lived in Egypt, falafel is called tameya there and the best sandwich ever is tameya with slices of cucumber & tomato with tahini sauce in baladi bread (Egyptian flat bread)
@@c_n_bI'd say it's both. I mean, Arabic, Egyptian or whatever, why would they assume she could or would automatically cook and sell falafels at a stand of all things, when she's clearly a financial advisor?
I was in a group conversation with an American lady that swore that Australia didn't have their own currency. They used the US dollar exclusively. It took a long time for everyone to convince her and I'm not sure if she really believed them.
Tbf they think the whole world uses the USD 😂
Oh no… I really hope this wasn’t my friend from school… she couldn’t believe me when I said other countries have their own form of currency 😂
Or, when they hear "dollar", they believe the USD is the only one of those to exist. Never mind the Canadian dollar or Australian dollar. Even more confusing, the Mexican peso uses the same $ symbol.
I live about 3 miles away from Windsor and its castle. Whilst stood in view of Windsor Castle, pausing on a bike ride a few years ago, I was asked by an American tourist as a plane having taken off and still climbing from the nearby Heathrow airport, why the Castle was built so close to the airport.
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They are a special breed aren’t they.
Ditto an American on the Edinburgh train from Glasgow said it was great that they built the castle next to the railroad.
A german Comedian, who visited New York, met a Woman at a bar. She: „hey, why do you have so many different languages in europe? „He:“ well tiffany, we have so many different languages because we germans lost the war.“
Her reply:“ oh, I‘m so sorry to hear,“ this is my favorite story.
Oscar Wilde had it about right in many peoples view when he said "ah America the only country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without going through civilisation at some point!
On holiday in London.. Get asked for directions by some American tourists. I said I had no idea I was lost too. They got sooo angry and said you English people (I'm Irish) are soo rude and unhelpful
similar question with a first assumption "of course you need to know" (but no remark about rudeness) when someone from one part of my town asked me about some nearby road in a different part of my town we both randomly happened to be in at that time. but what do you expect with 3+ million people and an area of 900 km² (350 mi²) ?
To be fair, they were half right, you were unhelpful, I guessing you were also ignorant (as in, did not know the answer they were seeking).
I'm guessing you found yourself, hope you enjoyed London.
My brother used to work in hospitality... in a hotel bar in the Scottish island of Skye. They got a lot of tourists from all over the world.
He has so many stories of what he managed to convince U.S. tourists of about Scotland. He was rarely ever able to convince other nationalities of any of these.
The Scottish classic is pretending that the haggis is a real animal, but he went further and convinced tourists that the sheep that were marked with a red spot of dye on their coats (which is to help distinguish ownership) actually meant that they were to show which sheep had been bitten by the wild haggis and were now being quarantined. Those with the blue spots had been tested and were clear of "infection" 😂. The tourists were shocked to see just how many sheep in their photos had a red spot.
He also convinced a group of U.S. tourists that our second tap at the sink was for dispensing porridge in the morning 😂.
Sitting here laughing me head off at that!!! Remembering when I was about 5 my grandad telling me that a haggis has one leg shorter than the other so it can keep its balance on the hillside, and to kill a haggis you have to make it turn round so then the short leg is on the down-hill side and the long leg is on the up-hill side and it will roll down the hill and crash. 😂
@@Jenny.C1978 Yeah, that is definitely a classic!. 😁
That's cruel, very cruel. Hilarious though. 🤣🤣🤣
@@Jenny.C1978lmao legend
@@Jenny.C1978🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂crying laughing!!!
Just yesterday I was on my way to university, on the phone speaking Dutch and English to a friend of mine, and this American asked me "excuse me, is your family okay back in Israel?" because he thought I was speaking Hebrew. I had to kindly explain what Dutch was, where the Netherlands is, and also had to let him know that I'm actually just English, language learning is my hobby and that I was born here in Newcastle (north east England)
😂😂. I’ll bet his head nearly exploded!
A Guy I used to work with (not American) was convinced that Hawaii was in the Mediterranean. I pointed out to him that if that were the case as the Japanese carrier fleet passed through the straits of Gibraltar on the way to attack Pearl Harbour I think the British may well have warned the USA.
An American when hearing I come from Finland: "Wow, how did you get out? Did you climb the wall??"
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. 😂
Great comment😂
Not a place until a war happens that might effect America. Otherwise your just fictional.
Unfortunately, god has failed. Just look at those maps where americans try to point to Iraq or North Korea on the map
Unfortunately, it doesn't work! Among my fellow Americans, I shudder at the embarrassingly low numbers who can identify places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, or Vietnam on a map (to name only a few of the places that have dominated the news - for bad reasons - in my lifetime). Even those who could identify the correct CONTINENT would be a woeful minority!
Indeed!
I've had many run in with Americans, espically in Discord and I have to say about 90% of the time they are really polite and nice people to talk to and listen to as I love all the different American accents that I have come across.
And the people I have spoken to will ask a question about the UK or Europe if they're not sure about something.
But there is still that 10% where every now and again you get these Americans that will straight up come across as ignorant and rude especially to someone like my adobted Scottish son who has a very strong Dundee accent. We have had some people say to him that he isn't from Scotland as people there don't have an accent like that, as they don't speak English there.
Mind you these people have never left their country ever.
And he needs to stop putting on the accent as he sounds stupid and to talk properly what ever that means.
Then they get offended when he swears and tells them off in his lovely Scottish accent for offending him and his home land.
Your son sounds wonderful, you've done a good job
i play a war game in the internet,
i am in a Clan with Americans,
as the only European/German and my clan commander ask me one day if we Germans have something like a BBQ, too???
he couldnt believe that people in Europe do grilling and drinking beer with friends in our gardens...
after i told him that we can drink beer in public and can buy beer at 16...he told me to stop inventing stories..
I concur. I think most of them are nice people, despite what I said in another comment. I think most of the fault lies in their Educational system, which puts little to no importance in anything not American.
The Australian accent story, I relate to. I'm from near Sheffield (about 16 miles) in the UK, so my accent is pretty close to that in the movie The Full Monty (not exactly the same, but it serves as a handy reference). I was visiting the states and met up with a bunch of friends in a hotel bar in Chicago. After 4 attempts to order a beer, a friend had to 'translate'for me. Like, yeah I have an accent, but I ain't speaking Martian.
That same Chicago trip, I walked into a hobby chain store (Games Workshop, to be specific) that started in the UK. Now, folks in the hobby are generally very passionate about it. The store manager clocked easily I was from the UK and so started asking questions. How long had I been in the hobby, what did I play, had I ever visited the headquarters (also a huge community hub) etc and almost started hyperventilating when I told him I lived about 25 miles from it. I didn't dare tell the guy I'd had a job interview there a few months earlier so had had a tour of the 'behind the scenes' bit 😂
I was in texas in a mall, and i was feeling a little homesick so i put on my local rugby leagues team shirt, then this guy said you're not, turned out he lived 8 miles from me in the uk. and we were speaking proper, english but as soon as we started talking our accents got broader and faster, and the americans i was with soon lost track of what we were saying they said it was like another language
@Greenwood4727 When people who speak English as a second language come to England, sometimes they have trouble understanding our varied accents. But a German and a Polish guy (for example) can easily understand each other when speaking English to each other. I've met quite a few Polish people who all spoke very good English but every one of them apologised
for their bad English. I always joke that they speak it better than a lot of us do. I'm from Coventry myself and our accent is supposed to be unique from other Midland accents.
I was born In Dorset, I live in Birmingham, and visited Sunderland. I asked directions from a women there, could not understand a word she said. If she is reading this, I'm so sorry. She understood us, and she gave up talking and just beckoned us to follow!
My favourite from those was an American getting hassle in a bank, because the teller wouldn't accept their ID, or driving licence, because they hadn't heard of their state and refused to believe it was in the US.
I'm Scottish, an American once tried arguing with me about my own fckin language and culture, started with him complimenting my English and just went down hill from there
😂I'm Norwegian. At 13 I visited Texas with my parents. I barely spoke English, and what I spoke was witha heavy accent. A Texan asked me where I came from, and I answered: Norway. He paused. Then asked me "huh, is that one of em northern states?" - in stuttering English I tried to explain that it was another country, on another continent.
Speaking English doesn't help much either.
They don't even understand people from ENGLAND 😂😂
Norway? You mean Northern Denmark. 😼
Not a country but...I grew up in Wyoming and I've met Americans who thought we could only use wagons or horses to get around in Wyoming. They sometimes ask where we store our cars. Our worse, they ask what country Wyoming is in, and at best what state is Wyoming in.
So im from the UK and of South Asian descent and about 20 years ago i was visiting relatives in Pakistan. We're at some big event and bump into some White tourists speaking English to each other and my friends, all local Pakistanis, got really excited about hearing a "real" conversation in English so got me to go to them and have a chat. I'm a sociable guy so why not?
Turns out they're American University professors currently teaching in the UK in a city about 20 miles away from me and are in Pakistan on a break specifically for this event. We have a chat for about 15 mins while my mates were absolutely loving listening to this pretty mundane conversation.
Anyway, it gets time to part ways and just as the conversation ends, and despite me only just telling them that i was born in the UK and lived about 20 miles from where they were teaching and just in Pakistan visiting like they were, one of them, with a huge American smile on her well meaning face, compliments me on how well i managed to pick up English and off they toddled on their merry way leaving me literally speechless for a few seconds...
Oh yeah, and the reason my mates had come across these tourists in the 1st place was because one of them, in a country where men, as a rule, don't pee standing up, had spotted one of the Americans standing next to a wall peeing and had run back to the group losing his mind about this madman having a pee stood up and everyone went back with him to see cos they just couldn't wrap their heads around it and thought he was making it up. Which was why, when the poor fellow turned around after putting himself away, he saw a bunch of brown faces grinning at him and looking at him as if he was an alien.
I used to work at the National Museum of Scotland, on the edge of Edinburgh Old Town (the town wall, the Flodden Wall, actually goes through the building). There is a flat roof on part of the building where you could enjoy the view. One member of staff there was asked by a US tourist, pointing at Edinburgh Castle looming above us, "say, is that Stirling Castle?" "No, sir, that's Edinburgh Castle". "So where is Stirling Castle?" "Stirling, sir". Exit one baffled tourist.
I’ve had a good laugh reading all the comments on here. Some of the things Americans do & have said are hilarious. 😂 I have my own story…when I was 11 we were on holiday in Toronto, Canada. We’re English but at the time we were living in Southern Ireland not far from Dublin. Anyway, I met a girl from the USA whose family were also on holiday at the same place as us in Toronto. So she of course, asks me where I was from. I explained that we lived in Ireland. She then said “is that in London”? I realised very quickly that she didn’t know that Ireland was a whole different country in of itself, and that London is merely the capital of England. I was quite flabbergasted really, as we were taught about world maps, and basic information about countries in my primary school. To be fair, she was only 11, as was I, at the time.
She probably wouldn't know much more even now
i could tell you more about Ireland as you knew yourself, at the same age...but i went to school in Germany and our news been full with Ireleand because of the IRA!
Canadian here. I went to a family reunion in Iowa in the 1990’s. I was asked if I lived in an igloo, did I get to pet wild polar bears, and did I have to buy a whole new wardrobe to visit America. Mostly asked by adults to a teen me. A whole new wardrobe to go from Toronto to Iowa! Imagine! 😂😂😂
American tourists in Edinburgh are often heard asking what time the one oclock gun goes off
I was asked by an American gentleman how i could live in a country with a welfare state. I said how can you live in a country without a welfare state i found it to be very judgemental
Not so much judgemental, more brainwashed to hell and back. Most of them are, poor fuckers.
They're legitimately taught, thoroughly, that it's bad to not get screwed over all the time.
I have been ill for the last 14 years. The welfare state has kept me alive.
Luxembourg maybe small but it's a extremely rich beautiful modern country that would surprise many Americans
Luxembourg is gorgeous.
Warm regards from the Netherlands. 🌷
Why would that be a surprise?
@@garycamara9955 Because Americans think every country is a third world country.
The 3 questions I've heard that made me laugh were-
1) Americans asking me before the queen died - 'You're British, so you know the queen don't you?' Yeah, she was best friends with each and every one of the 68,000,000 of us...
2) When I was in Norway, an American asked 'Do you have central heating in Norway?' Nah, everyone just freezes solid in winter...
3) I was in the Eagles Nest, Hitler's hideout. 'What country are we in?'
Im from Germany and i lived in the States for a decade.
And this American from St Louis had the nerve to ask if Germany has microwaves and wanted to proudly brag about his microwave he recently bought, because he thought Im seeing this thing for the first time. 😐
I had a lady at my workplace asking me in front of a few people if I’m married and when I answered no, she immediately said “Oh, so you don’t speak to your dad?” I was soooooo surprised how she got to that conclusion!
… To summarize, she thought all Middle Eastern girls get forcibly married at 13-14 yrs old and since I was single, I must have ran away from my dad and cut contact! I mean she was a sweet lady but from everything weird that I’ve heard in years, this one takes the cake. I never forget the look on people’s faces 😂
While in Florida in 1991 we were sheltering from a thunderstorm in a water park, there was a class of children from New York who were shivering so we put our towels around them to keep them warm, the teacher came over and started chatting, at first she thought we were Australian and when we said no we are from England she said "Wow you talk very good English" this is how she said it. We looked at her and said yes because we come from England she said "oh I thought they spoke French over there"
The fact that they were teachers explains everything.
Well, for several hundred years, they did speak French in England. Fella named William the conqueror started that trend ...
@@thehellyousay France owned it before England did. I'm speaking about the country we now call America.
@@koschmx thats why so many there speak Spanish 😉
@@koschmx that's my point
The "American door" is marked "SORTIE"
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Brilliant! 😂
Tyler, I've watched many reaction videos, when it comes to Americans reacting I have a great respect for you. I find most others get really offended and defensive. Where your eyes and mind are open, most are closed. Thank-you for being such a wonderful person to react and learn. Love your vids
To be fair as much as i like the guy he is a prime example of the kind of Americans we are talking about - some of the questions he asks during his videos sometimes makes me fall off my chair
I think you missed my point
yes@@jojow6519
Brown Noser !!!😂 (english insult!!!)...
He has a wonderful channel in which he learns all about Canada. He is a delight.
When on deployment at sea, stopping over in the US, a local bloke, a civillian, asked me if I drove (in a land vehicle to his location) from Australia.
"Culture OUTSIDE of America" is what we British (in addition to everyone else) tend to refer to simply as 'culture'!
As a Dutch person I can confirm: we all wear clogs and only ride our bicycles.
The problem stems from the fact that the US is a horribly insular society and the US education system is a disgrace.
They certainly don't cover geography well. Trump, who knew more than anybody about everything, had no clue that England, United Kingdom, and Great Britain were all different things,He confused the Balkans with the Baltic.He referred ro prince Charles as the prince of 'Whales'. his general knowledge is sadly lacking
Magnified by the fact that the Republican Party actively sabotages the public education system every chance they get.
Well said...
100% agree the US education system is trash.
I’ve had similar experiences. I was once told how stupid I was in stating that there are 8 islands in the British Channel Islands - the American told me there are only 4 - the rest being uninhabited rocks.
I was born in Guernsey, grew up (and currently live), in Jersey, and have conducted about 2 decades of research on the history of the islands. He refused to listen and blocked me instead 🤷♂️
When you mention Jersey they think you mean NJ.
When I told an American I live in Essex, home of the Mayflower.
He said "Oh you have an Essex too?"
Plus he didn't know what the Mayflower was.
So if it's uninhabited, it's not an island? Good to know.
@jimgill, you can't reason with stupid, I would of thought thank God he blocked me 😂
My mother's side of the family came from, and lived, in Guernsey. It is very hard to describe them to outsiders though, They aren't part of the UK, but Crown Dependencies, but the UK defend them, give them food, newspapers etc. And they speak English for the most part. I know there are other languages there, Guernésiais, but my grandmother did not teach my mother it, so I don't know it.
@@anni50ful personally, I was thrilled with what he said. It’s not often you get that JACKPOT conversation when you know you’re right and can easily prove it 😂
Its called putting your brain into gear before putting your mouth into motion
Years ago a friend off mine was a bus driver in London and she told me it was common for American tourists to get on a bus to Stratford (east London) an on arrival ask for directions to Shakespeare's house/birthplace and was it a long walk. She would point west and tell them it was about 130 miles that way & that it was a 35 hour walk.
I remember telling an American couple to visit Hampton Court palace, as it was Henry VIII home.
They asked if he still lived there.
"Do they have pizza and milk in England?" Early 1990s.
i grew up in a town called Washington, north east England, the original birthplace of and ancestral home of George Washington, his family home and estate are still standing and are a protected heritage site, every summer loads of Americans come to celebrate the 4th of July there (there's a garden party held there to celebrate American independence day), when I was younger (around 16-17) I was taking part in this party as part of the local scout troop, and an older American lady came up to me and asked me what my plans were for the day to celebrate, and I said once this function was finished I was going to go shopping with my parents then probably head home and play some video games on my own like I normally would after doing the shopping, she seems a little put out by the idea of me not being too enthusiastic towards the American independence day and said something to the effect of 'youths today should show more respect for traditions', despite the fact I'm English/British and was only there as part of a group obligation due to being in the scouts.
I worked for 3 years in a train station and have met some of the dumbest yanks, but the stupidest question I had was does the UK still have wild dragons?
Couldn't help myself I had to say yes. You see them in Social clubs on a Friday and Saturday night
Met one .married one
That is a gooder!
😂😂😂😂😂
Come on now... the dragons have taste and style and would prefer a cafe on a Tuesday afternoon!
When I was a teen on holidays back in the 90s, some American tourists asked me did we have electricity and tv in Ireland 🇮🇪
I used to work in a shop in Canada that got a lot of tourists. So many Americans would ask "Are these prices in American?" Like the tour guide in the video, I would usually say "Why would they be?" and let them figure it out. Some Americans were not aware that there was an exchange rate (US $ is worth more than Canadian $), and that Canada has its own currency. It was like they forgot they crossed an international border to get there, and had no plan as to how they would pay for things once they got there. It was NEVER the tourists from Asia, Europe, South/Central America, or Africa asking these quite stupid questions. Once when an American woman asked me about the taxes, I dead-panned to her "that's how we pay for things like universal health." It's the little things.
The Australian may have asked for a pack of "fags". That would have confused everyone. 😂
It doesn't take a genius to understand "cigarette" or "smoke", it's universal!!
“Where are the American doors?”
Is an aggressively American sentence 😝
On stage singing 😂
I probably would have replied 'in America, where else would they be?'
Worked in Middle East with American engineers in the 1980s. Mainly from Southern states, many couldn't understand the British accent when they first arrived. One said that he didn't understand the Australian film on the flight from the US, but understood the same film on his flight back to the US 4 months later. He didn't understand how us Brits could understand Americans right away.
Mad max was dubbed for Americans audiences, as they couldn't understand the accent.
And had the audacity to call it the "English dub"😂
I'd like to think it's because we 'Brits' are brighter than 'Yanks'
@@sooskevington6144 I think its a bit like "ring species" in biology. Both american english and australian english came from the english of the past, but the developed in two different directions. So they are still close enough to english to be understood by a brittish person, but to bridge the gap between both sides completely, its too far apart already.
“England, france and britain” 😂😂
Went on a family holiday to Cuba nearly 10 years ago where a number of Canadians also went. It was just as Cuba was opening up to the US. For Canadians, going to Cuba is like us Brits going to the Canary Islands or Central Europe (about 4 or so hrs away). I was told by them that they were going to Cuba before it got invaded by the American tourists who were bound to ruin it, be complete idiots & disrespectful to their hosts.
Yup, I'm from London and have a pretty std southern English accent. A couple of times I've been in a group of Americans and they just could not understand me. They were getting about 1 in 10 words. However, just "americanising" my speech cured the gap! I guess just very insular and don't hear non american accents too often.
Having lived in Washington, DC for six years, I can assure you that even people who worked in the State Department and other senior positions, asked similarly ill-informed questions. That said, when living in England in 1960, I was constantly asked equally ignorant questions, by university-educated men and women (some were barristers and solicitors). On several occasions, I was asked how we Canadians coped with 'Indian raids". At first, I thought they were attempting to be humourous or patronising but quickly realised they were just ignorant. My usual response assured them that we usually retreated behind the stockade and closed the gates. I was also asked if we could purchase from stores bread, milk and other basics or if we had to rely on what we ourselves produced. Needless to say, it was a constantly surreal experience. Chimo
#michaeljamesstewart1000, I lived in Washington DC for a few years myself in the mid-late 80s, and I can attest that this was my absolute experience as well.
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Thanks to each one who took the time to read my comment and give it a 'like'. Chimo
I am Argentine and a while ago I was talking to an American girl online, first it took me a good amount of effort and patience to get her to understand that Argentina is its own country and not a state in Mexico, and while we were talking the topic of the different hemispheres came up, Then she asks me "do you have winter in July? Does that mean you celebrate Christmas in the middle of the year?"
American: If Germany is 6 hours ahead of New York, why didn't you warn us about 9/11?
German: 🥲
Wtf?!
One word Education.
I went to Los Angeles, the people there were lovely, and treated me well.
However, they all thought I was English, because of my accent, and demeanor.
What they didn't realize was that I was born in Africa - some Africans have white skin. When the casual racism came out, they were shocked when I tore a strip off them (metaphorically). They thought I was an English gent who would nod and agree. What they didn't know was that I grew up in Zimbabwe, with a culture of white-on-black racism, and black-on-black tribal racism, a civil war, followed by genocide and a failed state.
I chewed them out good and spat them out. Unless they had guns, then I just smiled and walked away.
Mate, even us English would tear them apart for racism. It's not tolerated with us and I've defended more than my fair share of blacks from asshole whites and got called a white trash n-word for doing what's right in my eyes
Canadian here, drove to US for a weekend getaway during university. Met a girl at a bar, chatting for a bit, but she got mad cause I was treating her like she was stupid telling her I drove from Canada and it took us 45 minutes. I could understand this if I was in Texas or Arizona, but we were in Alexandria NY, from the patio we were sitting in you could see houses, people, cars in Canada across the St. Lawrence River, and the Ivy Lea Bridge that confects Canada and the US. On top of that she was born and raised in the area and could see Canada from her home every day of her life, according to her friends, who trolled her unmercifully the rest of the night. Good times😊