When I attended an American highschool for a year in the late 90s a girl at that school asked me “So, but isn’t Germany, like, part of Russia now?” (she also thought Mercedes Benz was a US American company). When I mentioned this to the history teacher he just groaned and said “Some people wake up in the middle of the lesson, hear parts of it, and then fall back asleep.” But my favorite story is from a friend who went on an exchange to the States and her guest family gave her a tour of the house and in the kitchen they said “This is a re-fri-ge-ra-tor. We use it to keep our food cold.” And she responded “Yes, it’s a German refrigerator. It was made by Bosch, a German company.”

@eliskaneugebauer5338

4 жыл бұрын

Believe me it's even worse when you are from a country that was part of FORMER Eastern block, even some fellow Europeans (mainly from Western Europe) don't know your country exist. I won't ever forget this Spanish girl I met in Valencia and she asked where do I live and I said in Prague.. and she was like "oh so you are German than?" And when I was visiting the US many people thought that the Czech Republic is some third world country or something 😅 It makes me literally sad

@IreneFriederike

4 жыл бұрын

Eliška Neugebauerová , I can absolutely believe it! Maybe it is also an age thing. I definitely got more interested in places I hadn’t been yet once I was old enough to choose where I went and spent my holidays. Prague is so beautiful and full of wonderful history and fun places to go, I’m slightly envious now... will have to go back once this whole pandemic thing is over.

@ericahealey2559

4 жыл бұрын

Eliška Neugebauerová Not going to lie the only reason I know anything about the Czech Republic is because my great grandpap was Czechoslovakian. He was born there (obviously before it split into Czech Republic and Slovakia) and he grew up in Hungary before he came to the US in his late teens. He spoke Slovak and he would speak it to my sister and I when we were really little (she’s 8 years older so she remembers more than me whOOPS). I took a world cultures class in my junior year of hs (16-17 years old) and 90% of kids didn’t even know half of the countries in Eastern Europe. They thought half of the countries were made up when they heard their names. Americans truly are dense sometimes 😂😂😂

@arunsalwan8558

4 жыл бұрын

Friederike Wunschik sorry ur friends had a bad experience .we have had three kids stay with us from europe and it went quite well .they enjoyed living here and have become part of our family we even visited two of them in their home countries .so im not sure the experience is universal as your line of statements suggest

@missgolgistain5801

4 жыл бұрын

Haha. My parents have once been asked if we already have fridges in Germany.

Some Americans act like they invented the world and really they’re just the original Brexit.

@helenemaja0912

4 жыл бұрын

They are all immigrants

@clarissagafoor5222

4 жыл бұрын

True that. And one would have thought that looking at how well that went for them the Brits would have thought long and hard!!!!

@orcus6803

4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention our ancestors stole the very land we destroy all while we praise them for their "heroism"

@matthewevans5486

4 жыл бұрын

@@clarissagafoor5222 well if the UK is half as successful as America have been since they broke away the UK will be more than fine

@milkpastasoup8960

4 жыл бұрын

@@orcus6803 they literally get taught incorrect history so they could feel important.

As an Irish person, I had an American that was staying in the hotel I was working in and literally reported me to my manager for speaking in Irish (this, btw was a Gaeltacht region, so Irish is the first language of a few people there) to the old man at the bar that only spoke Irish for speaking a language she couldn't understand (I just said, "the usual, Mattie?" and she thought I was badmouthing her), AFTER she told me that she is Irish (family went over after the famine in the 1850s) and that I was only pretending to be Irish and didn't know Irish because her daughter's name Brannagh is Irish and meant Raven and I pointed out Breanna in Welsh is Raven, Brannagh in Irish means Welshman. So I was speaking Irish to upset her while not being Irish with my Irish accent in my own country of.....Ireland...yeah, I don't really like American tourists, I always seem to get the A-holes. I know they can't all be a-holes, but the a-holes always seem to find me.

@julesmasseffectmusic

2 жыл бұрын

My fav is when a seppo Says YOu would say that to me back home! I respond yeah I wouldnt 1 becuase you need to shoot a man 14 inches shorter and 50 kgs liighter than you, for having a different opinion, and 2 I wouldnt be caught dead in your country ever again..

@theparanoidandroid3583

2 жыл бұрын

The mind boggles.

@Shadowproto17

Жыл бұрын

Heads up. The people who tour there are the rich ones and the rich people here are the most entitled, snobby dumb-asses you'll meet.

@dirkschwartz1689

10 ай бұрын

This is fucking hilarious! Also, are you sure you're Irish? You never once said "fucking" and even used a euphemism for assholes ;)

@nhugh23

10 ай бұрын

@@dirkschwartz1689 I don't type my swears but honestly, I can't stop swearing, I am terrible!!! I had to half swear on here because I've been banned before for swearing. 😂

It's refreshing to hear an American say all this. My Husband has traveled all over the world because of his work. And always told people America is a third world country with a good pr team.

@nfspbarrister5681

2 жыл бұрын

Bruh...we from 3rd world have decend geography knowledge. How could you says that to us?

@johnwalker1058

Жыл бұрын

America is simultaneously a first world country and a third world country. If you're wealthy, you enjoy the perks of living in the first world version of the US. If not, you get the downsides of living in the third world version of the US.

@trevormillar1576

Жыл бұрын

"This isn't America any more! It's, it's....Guatemala with colour television!" - Charles Bronson - "St. Ives".

@a11u45

Жыл бұрын

I lived an actual developing country for 10 years, the US is a first world country that's fallen behind, it is not 3rd world

@tothethreshold.9965

Жыл бұрын

@@a11u45 That depends entirely on where in the US. Bearing in mind that to this day there are many places in the US where the tap water is not considered safe to drink... Live in the wealthy parts with a good income and you live to the highest standards possible, likewise there are places where third world standards of living are normal.

When I studied in Germany, I met more than one American who argued tooth and nail that they did not have an accent. My conclusion was that Americans think having an accent is some kind of slur rather than the inevitable byproduct of localised linguistic development.

@lindapollock2105

4 жыл бұрын

This is the one that really makes my blood boil. I'm a fan of a TV show where the two lead actors are Australian but they use American accents for the show. When I look at interviews they do where they speak with their normal Aussie accents there are always comments saying "I had no idea he/she had an ACCENT". I always reply "Everyone has an accent - even Americans" but they genuinely don't seem to understand what I mean. It's especially surprising when you consider the enormous range of different accents across America itself. People from Georgia do not sound the same as people from Boston.

@user-jv7ig6ie5b

4 жыл бұрын

@@lindapollock2105 it's genuinely baffling. "

@someonerandom8552

4 жыл бұрын

Linda Pollock May I enquire as to what TV show you speak of? It’s just that I’m Australian myself and I feel it is my duty to support my fellow Aussies.

@lindapollock2105

4 жыл бұрын

@@someonerandom8552 It's 'The 100'

@someonerandom8552

4 жыл бұрын

Linda Pollock Oh thanks

Is it just me or is "military time" an American saying anyway? Only ever heard it referred to as 24 hour clock

@paytonlamers466

4 жыл бұрын

Kathryn Tyley yeah, that’s what we call it in the states because it’s only really used by the American military

@xoxokelsey9229

4 жыл бұрын

Kathryn Tyley Right?!? I was like you mean a 24 hour clock

@evan

4 жыл бұрын

we call it military time because that's the only space it's used in the states

@lucie4185

4 жыл бұрын

@@evan I don't know many people who say 17. O'clock in the uk , usually i just auto translate to 5pm or say 17 hundred, maybe I'm just old?

@Rebecca-fw3vm

4 жыл бұрын

its literally just like digital time/24 hour clock? strange

When I was a kid in high school I met some American tourists going from India to Nepal. I was kinda explaining how to get to the checkpoint at Nepal Border. Now I understand he was in bit of a trouble with language and I spoke English which in that area of India wasn't common. I told him India is one the most diverse country in terms of language. This guy responds with, "Well... It would just be better if all of you guys start speaking American instead." I just laughingly asked what about Nepal then, they would speak a different language too, to which he responds that all of Nepal should speak "American" too. And this was a conversation between a 15 year old me and a full grown man with 2 kids... 😔

@TheQuigs89

2 жыл бұрын

Did you tell him, there is no such thing as "American' 😂.

@valsyaranamual6853

Жыл бұрын

Sad!

@SparkLabReal

Ай бұрын

stupidity + arrogance = average american

At one time, when I was a kid, as a brit we thought it would be cool to be American. But now, 50 years later everyone laughs at them and they still dont realise it.

@ladyladychickchick9133

Жыл бұрын

I do and it makes me sad. Living here is a waste of time, waste of energy.

@rosshart9514

Жыл бұрын

50 years ago me and my friends thought it would be cool to be British. Then came Brexit and everybody laughs at them.

@dasraiser

11 ай бұрын

@@rosshart9514 yea because we all wanted to be ruled by an unelected group that just want power, so no >50% of people wanted out of that shit show and now more people would agree it was a good thing.

@rosshart9514

11 ай бұрын

​@@dasraiser Have a nice rest of your life repeating these moulding lies. Reality is just to ugly, isn't it?

@dasraiser

11 ай бұрын

@@rosshart9514 Have a nice denial of facts, one being most counties in the EU want out, they see the writing on the wall too. Why would you like to live under an unelected set of self entitled people with only their pockets to line and the romanced idea of power to hold. I suggest you move to America for a taste of what's to come,.At least being out *we* can control our future, that is if the WEF can be avoided.

As an English person, Americans being confused about why we mock them has always confused me, like, are u aware that you act like... this??

@dogmansun

4 жыл бұрын

@bbonner422 and as with this sub, its not shit that 'Americans' say its shit that 'american conservatives' say. Why not have a whole thread on how men can have babies otherwise? lots of people would think that is a lot more crazy than saying your Irish. The framing for this is all a bit dishonest. I get your point about Irish history. Unless you go looking for it yourself, your not taught it, and RoI is part of the British Isiles, it should get some special treatment. (mind you, I didnt do 1066 or Henry 8ths wives at school so who knows)

@charlotjejane4521

4 жыл бұрын

@bbonner422 yeah, of course, there are a lot of ignorant English people, but if you compare generation to generation, it becomes pretty clear who acts the worst

@seigeengine

4 жыл бұрын

@bbonner422 "do Americans not realize they act like this?" Some twat: "NO U"

@JoneseyBanana

4 жыл бұрын

@@dogmansun American liberals are normally a little less cringe, as they tend to have a greater awareness of the world outside of the US. But they're not immune either. Examples that come to mind: - describing black people outside the US as "African Americans". E.g. Naomi Campbell was the first African American on the cover of Vogue. (...she's British) - similarly, assuming that privilege and oppression work in the same way everywhere. Class is arguably more of an issue in the UK than race, and a lot of US analysis completely glosses over class as a concept. - saying that Europe lacks flavourful food, and that only places like the US, South & Central America, Africa, India, etc, with substantial black or brown populations use herbs or spices. - claiming that Europe lacks cultural or ethnic diversity because "you're all white". (See also: treating Africa as one monolithic culture rather than a hugely diverse continent.) - "THE USA IS SO BIG AND DIVERSE THO - states are basically as different as countries!" seems to be prevalent in both political camps. Just lol. Etc.

@louisa1514

4 жыл бұрын

@bbonner422 I do agree that the history on the british empire is pretty shameful. In primary school we tend to focus on medieval amd ancient history, whether that be stuff like henry the eighth or egyptians. In secondary we tend to focus on modern history and stuff like the first and second world war or the wall street crash (basically it's american history or the world war, which is again pretty shameful - we learn nothing else about european history let alone from other continents like asia). However saying that, i don't think our attitude tends to be quite the same as American's? The Americans in this reddit make many assumptions whereas we're just genuinely ignorant and don't know about the crap we pulled. The most I know about Irish history is very vague, and the only reason i know anything about the famines is because of poem (I think called potatoes?) that we studied in an english literature lesson. Honestly, I think English literature taught a much more balanced look at history than our actual history lessons did.

“Military time“ or as Europe calls it... just time. :D

@saxx9088

4 жыл бұрын

Steffi you know it’s America when they just put military in front of something

@myopidodi3058

4 жыл бұрын

Every time he said it I'm like "It's a 24 hour clock", "military time" sounds so wrong to me, it's just 12 or 24 hour

@Emma-vd6zf

4 жыл бұрын

I was about to comment this 😂

@nyx.8254

4 жыл бұрын

What confuses me is that in amreican doctor shows they say like, "time of death 14: 25"

@Sha-Ne-Ru

4 жыл бұрын

i was more confused by him calling it military time xD hahaha

Its the fact that young children are forced to pledge allegience to a flag. That starts the issues.

I once heard an American say (verbatim) "The worst day in Murika, is better than the best day anywhere else." And I automatically thought "My boy, I'd rather live in the middle of the Sahara desert than anywhere near you." With the latest news from the US, my statement stands.

I honestly just think America has a patriotism problem.

@YourLocalMairaaboo

4 жыл бұрын

The one on the date order was epic though. 6:11

@junhansguitar1036

4 жыл бұрын

imAmerican and i agree totally. it gets really annoying

@books2438

4 жыл бұрын

I went on a road trip in the US last year and was surprised to see that no matter how deep into the middle of nowhere you were, you still ended up encountering many american flags. Like I’ve never seen that anywhere else. Obviously that’s not the problem itself, but it just goes to show I guess. And yeah their patriotism is border-lining on propaganda

@ricochet4674

4 жыл бұрын

@@books2438 border-lining? It is just straight propaganda at this point.

@leporid257

4 жыл бұрын

i think it's past patriotism and more nationalism at this point.

I once had a argued with an American over whether or not I a person who lives in South Africa has access to the internet or not...THE ARGUMENT WAS ON DISCORD AN ONLINE FORUM.

@emeraldreefnriver6205

3 жыл бұрын

Me, being from South Africa too, have had many similar situations, like a debate how an American “knew” I was non-white due to whites being chased off the continent long ago, as well as the fact we don’t live in the bush and have advanced technology

@medealkemy

3 жыл бұрын

Wow 😲 That's a level of stupidity I didn't know could be achieved

@goncalocarneiro3043

3 жыл бұрын

Who knows, maybe the American has delusions and hallucinations frequently and thought they might be imagining a South African person, so they were arguing that you weren't real.

@mayanotopsleep

3 жыл бұрын

thats just so dumb. did u ask them about how do they think u can get into discord? i bet they will start screaming

@imnotlelo

3 жыл бұрын

@@mayanotopsleep I did, he insisted I was in a different country...

My favourite ever American-being-an-American story (and I have LOADS) is the middle-aged American man trying to "educate" the front desk clerk at Chateau Lake Louise in Alberta (where I worked at the time) that he could NOT use "them Queen stamps" to mail his postcards home because they were going to the U.S. and he therefore needed "good American stamps." She tried very patiently to explain how the global postal system works to no avail. Frustrated, he shouted, "If I was mailing these to England, I'd use these 'Queen' stamps, but I am mailing them to the YOO ESS OF AYY, SO I NEED AMERICAN STAMPS, HEAR!?!" Being told that they were Canadian stamps did not help. How did she finally resolve his "problem"? She pretended to call "the U.S. Postal Service" (another front desk clerk in the back room) who assured him that he could indeed use Canadian stamps as the country of origin determines the stamp used. Then he had to explain what THAT meant.... 😂😂😂 Bonus story: Man, looking at his Canadian change from a U.S. dollar, then on par, two dimes. "What are these 'boat tokens' for?" Canadian dimes have a picture of the Bluenose schooner on them. 🙄

@danballe

7 ай бұрын

More of these please

@lesliemccormick6527

7 ай бұрын

@@danballe Ok....Was walking down a guest corridor in the hotel and a gentleman was standing in front of the pop machine looking confused, one hand to his forehead, the other holding a quantity of change. As I passed by he turned, jerked his head at the machine and said, "Miss!? This here sody machine take Canadian coins?" We were in a hotel, in the Canadian Rockies, in a Canadian Province in Canada. I was a wicked creature in those days, and have a warped sense of humour, so I lowered my voice conspritorially and said, "Oooh, risky. Better not chance it. You never know what can happen. Best to just use good ol' American, eh?" He looked relieved, his face brightened and he said, "Oh, right! Good idea! Thank you!" Fun fact: in Canada all vending machines, stores, etc. will accept both Canadian and U.S. coin interchangeably, and almost always have.

I'm late to this video but oh boy. I live in Cardiff (capital of Wales) and I can wholeheartedly say the dumbest thing I've heard an American say with my own ears was them referencing to the castle that's in the city centre, pointed at it and said (pretty loudly) "Wow, how did they fit the castle in the city? like it's amazing how they found a good spot for it" AS IF the castle wasn't built in 55 AD. But oh no the city came first and we somehow shoved a castle in the middle of it jesus when I tell you I cringed so hard

@richardmossy5540

2 жыл бұрын

I don't believe you! I'm a German, and your English grammar is terrible!

@feliciasmith3195

2 күн бұрын

Please have a little mercy on American for that. In our country castle are not common place. The best know castles are in Disney. We have a hard time comprehending architecture lasting for centuries when buildings are demolished after 50 years routinely.

As a Brit studying abroad in the US I was asked by an American how we celebrate 4th July. I then had to explain what the 4th July was actually about to Americans

@lisasweeney9676

3 жыл бұрын

Also happened to me. My favourite was some America saying to me “ you guys don’t say the number 7 right?” Me “ uh. Yeah no. It’s insulting. In 1777, 700 men died fighting for the 7 kingdoms. So we say 5+2 or the less conventional 3+4.” He believed me.

@mocha6315

3 жыл бұрын

@@lisasweeney9676 that's genius I might gonna use that in future and see if it works

@chaotic_44

3 жыл бұрын

@@lisasweeney9676 I-

@Peter_Saga

3 жыл бұрын

@@lisasweeney9676 Oh my goodness HOW in the world did he believe you

@lisasweeney9676

3 жыл бұрын

@@Peter_Saga He brought it up. I asked him about a year later where he had got the idea from? He had watched as a kid some kids show in which he thought a British person was teaching kids to count but didn’t say 7. That stuck and when meeting me a Brit he asked about it.

"America was the first country to ban slavery" A big reason for the tensions between Mexico and the US in the 1840's and 1850's was because the Mexican government was protecting all slaves who emigrated to Mexico and they refused to deport them. The fact that any slave that sets foot in Mexican soil is now considered a free man is the first thing written in the Mexican constitution.

@xiiaohao3871

3 жыл бұрын

That is so wholesome.

@romainviry3185

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning this historic fact

@casie6609

2 жыл бұрын

@Wind Rose It's what we're taught and a lot of what we're taught isn't true, unfortunately.

@artifexi3570

2 жыл бұрын

Also idk who banned slavery FIRST but I do know that England abolished it BEFORE the US… And I’m pretty sure the US was late to the abolition party hand they had Jim Crow too which the rest of the countries didn’t)

@dinamosflams

2 жыл бұрын

@Wind Rose well a Lot of countries did It later and If I'm not mystaken the last one was in this century somewhere in the middle Ásia (some 'stan'). Tbf It has been years since I've read the news on that. But the core of your point stands

A pen-friend (yes, I'm that old) once told me I'd be much better off in the US. I tried to explain diplomatically that I was much better off in Australia (guaranteed income, free health care, etc), to which he responded (with multiple exclamation marks), "It's a well-known fact that the USA is the best country on earth!!!" The frightening thing was that he had never been to another country. I had been to the US. He was so aggressive about his belief that it just put me off. I didn't want to waste my time talking to someone so ignorant.

@LoganRunning

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, yes, they automatically attack you!

I used to go to the US a lot for work. On one ocassion, I was attending a project meeting and mentioned that I love working from home as I have a young child. One of my American colleagues asked me, "How do you get internet on your boat?" . I was confused and asked, "Did you say boat?". Gurl thinks all these while I have been living in a boat! I am from Singapore!!!!! So I showed here the apartment building I lived in and she was "Oh it is just like New York" SMH

The literal definition of ambulance is: "a vehicle specially equipped for taking sick or injured people to and from the hospital, especially in emergencies." So actually, your taxi to the hospital.

@misticl1244

4 жыл бұрын

When he read this I actually cackled Lamo

@branhan215124

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't that mean a Stretcher counts as an ambulance? It's a vehicle specifically equipped to transport sick or injured people. Vehicles don't require wheels, for example a boat or a sled, so there's no reason not to call it a vehicle just cause it's powered by humans. If you wanna pull the "literal definition card" then a Taxi is primarily defined by it's status as a vehicle for hire, meaning an Ambulance is only a Taxi in America.

@zombiegnomes1

4 жыл бұрын

Actually for most Americans it would probably be cheaper to take a taxi to the hospital... Lmfao!

@urturningviolet

4 жыл бұрын

@@branhan215124 You're likely right. I imagine that's where the verb taxiing comes from.

@branhan215124

4 жыл бұрын

@@urturningviolet From what I understand, taxing and taxi both take their root from tax, which is a forced contribution based on some other metric. For actual taxes, that metric is money or land or other capital, for taxing it's your physical or mental exertion and for taxis, the metric is distance traveled. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

I was on holiday in Iceland once and I overheard these Americans asking the hotel receptionist how to switch on the A/C in their room. The receptionist just stared at them and bluntly said: ‘You’re in Iceland...open the window’

@hello--_-5188

4 жыл бұрын

John P why

@teshara

4 жыл бұрын

@@hello--_-5188 because people jump out of them

@hello--_-5188

4 жыл бұрын

te'Shara Cromwell but they don’t open at all? Most windows where I live open just not enough for a body to jump out. That’s what I meant.

@craig19

4 жыл бұрын

Not to mention this hotel was only 2 stories high

@teshara

4 жыл бұрын

@@hello--_-5188 yeah, they dont open at all, Partial opening windows are also bolted shut to keep wildlife out. I know floor level rooms are usually bolted to keep intruders out. I've also noticed US hotel rooms have AC and the European hotels have windows that open so that might factor in as well.

The fact Americans call it military time says a lot about the US. In Australia we call it the 24 hour time.

@unconventionalideas5683

27 күн бұрын

In practice, the US military is the institutions that makes the most extensive use of 24 hour time, so it is often called military time because that is where it appears most often in the context of popular culture, for example.

@bobbyscott2123

13 күн бұрын

@@unconventionalideas5683every military uses military or just 24 hour clock time ? Along with most other people? But hey whatever mate

There was this one time that I was "working" With my folculoric group (doing basic stuff like cleaning some tables and telling people where they could sit, I was helping 'cause I wanted) at a kind of historical week and there were this American woman's in their mid 40 maybe who came by to eat at our space, and I was the one with a better English so the person who was serving called me to help, they were trying to speak Spanish in Portugal.... So I told them that I talked english one of them looked at me and went: "If I want to talk Spanish I can talk, after all this is Spain" And then I said: " Yeah but we are not in Spain we're in Portugal " And the other lady said: " Yeah Portugal belongs to Spain " And I was like "no it doesn't, it's another country, I'm Portuguese and here we speak Portuguese... " Then they looked at each other like I was crazy for saying that like.... After they finished eating they asked for the check so my friend gave it and the lady's asked to call me and said this to me:" Well we think we deserve an apology for the way u behaved telling lies and being disrespectful to as" (I was only 14) and the other lady said that I should go to school and learn about geography.... And I was like what? I didn't apologized 'cause I didn't felt like I was disrespectful towards them... So I told them that I didn't lied and that they needed me in another table....

@AnaSilva-bg9vo

2 жыл бұрын

When I explained what had happened (after every costumer was gone) to the other people helping that day they laugh so much like....

@paulavitoria1798

2 жыл бұрын

You should have told them that we've been around and being Portuguese for more than 800 years...

@berulan8463

2 жыл бұрын

Karens on tour.

@bubba842

12 күн бұрын

How would someone get to another country and not know what country they are in?? I imagine they were day tripping from Spain by the accounts of your story.

I’m American. One of the worst things I heard was “Jesus was the best American ever born” smh 🤦‍♂️

@xiiaohao3871

3 жыл бұрын

Sis what. And I oop-

@NAME-yg8sl

3 жыл бұрын

What did they learn at sunday school?

@domi9146

2 жыл бұрын

What in the actual fuck? O.o

@dinamosflams

2 жыл бұрын

I have good and bad news The good news is that Jesus came back to save us! The bad is that the US bombed him in iraq

@harissahab2743

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they’ve clearly never opened a Bible 😂

A friend of my mom was an American teacher, she has a lot of friends scattered throughout Europe (including us). She asked all her European friends to send in three word stereotypes that describe Americans. After she taught this to her students to show them what stereotypes people around the world have about America. The principal told her to not do that again because it messed with the kids patriotisms. This is an example of how not to learn anything about the outside world your bubble

@thumbsup5524

4 жыл бұрын

LadyQAB the idea of patriotism to americans is basically “america is the only important country” while patriotism in the rest of the world (except nk) is im proud to be from this country

@anrach579

4 жыл бұрын

So sad.

@jacebeaty5476

4 жыл бұрын

neds.a.bit.cudgy that’s not true

@McNessie101

4 жыл бұрын

Can we see the list?? I’m curious

@LadyQAB

4 жыл бұрын

@@McNessie101 I have never seen the list, it was a long time ago and I was fairly young. Also I think she just told my mom I don't think she actually showed her the answers of the other people. If I do find it I might share it

I wasted an hour trying to explain to an American that people from different countries have different cultures and views that are completely different from those of the US. I also told them that other countries have different laws. They called me a troll.

@arnolddavies6734

11 ай бұрын

You should have replied, “It’s better being educated than being ignorant of everything.”

@realdragon

9 ай бұрын

In Poland we use both and then just don't say pm and am just "six o clock" etc.

@zymelin21

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, many think that "their rights" are valid outside the USA. They end when you take your seat on the plane leaving USA - including 2nd amendment!!!

Americans: "I'm Irish/Welsh/Scottish/English/Italian/German .... because my X number grandparent came from there!" Same Americans: "The whole slavery thing is ancient history, black people should just get over it. Leave the past in the past." I'm Welsh. I live in a small touristy area in Wales. We get a few American - and Canadian, though far less - visitors to the area looking into their previous history (there's a famous archive library nearby). I'm afraid they get, gently, put right when they claim to be Welsh. Ohh no cariad, you're not. You know nothing about us, except mining and choirs.

My dad used to work in the US. One of his colleagues kept calling him and the other Scottish people there English! He thought it was funny or something when they corrected him. My dad started calling him Canadian, and the guy was genuinely offended.

@klotz__

3 жыл бұрын

​@Rita Roork No. The country is called "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". In short: UK. Scotland is part of the UK. England itself is part of the UK alongside Wales and Northern Ireland. Whereas England, Wales and Northern Ireland use the British Pound issued by the Bank of England, Scotland uses it's own money issued by the Bank of Scotland. Also Scotland even strives to leave the UK. If you would call a Scotsman English - I guess the answer would be a hit in your face.

@TKDDLJ09

3 жыл бұрын

@@klotz__ i didnt know scotland had its own currency!,,, that is so cool! 😍😍😍 good to know when i come visit sometime soon hopefully!!!!

@Milamberinx

3 жыл бұрын

@@TKDDLJ09 Scotland doesn't have its own currency, it has its own money, i.e. the physical objects (in this case notes and coins) you can exchange for goods and services. The currency is still Pound Sterling along with the rest of the UK.

@charlestaylor3027

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork are you drunk? Scotland and England and Wales and Northern Ireland are part of the UK. Scotland and England have diverse laws and culture. I am sorry for your ignorance.

@charlestaylor3027

3 жыл бұрын

@@klotz__ so many errors, Scotland uses sterling as does the rest of the UK. What seems to be confusing you is the issuing of banknotes - Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale and Royal Bank of Scotland all issue their own notes. These are promissory notes that say on them that they can be exchanged for the face amount in Sterling. Northern Ireland also does the same. Wales and England used to but decided having individual banks issuing notes wasn't worth it. All of those issued notes are backed by money stored in the Bank of England. Only some Scots want to leave the UK. We built a special asylum for them at Holyrood. If you call a Scotsman English you might get a correction, most likely they would caterogise you as an "ignorant Yank" and simply ignore you.

The guy is right about ambulances not being taxis. Because they should be free, unlike taxis.

@MarianKeller

4 жыл бұрын

To add to the insult, German health insurance will pay for your taxi if you need it to get to your doctor or the hospital.

@fantastic_fantasy_word6675

4 жыл бұрын

Laughs in German

@j.kaimori3848

4 жыл бұрын

At least an ambulance shouldn't cost more than a taxi.

@amim4701

4 жыл бұрын

@@j.kaimori3848 do you know anything about the personnel, equipment, training, or anything else that goes into an ambulance?

@v8ali8

4 жыл бұрын

@@amim4701 Yeah, a lot of equipment and personnel and training goes into a firetruck, but we don't have to pay them to put out fires. Because they're an emergency service....

US Military: "Hercules, the Angel of Death!" My German friend: "They really just used Angel of Death like it's a positive thing…" Me (a Finn): "Wait, yeah, that sounds wrong… wasn't Josef Mengele called that?" My friend: "Yup." **cringing hard enough to burst a blood vessel**

American here. Born in Texas, graduated higher education in Florida, lived in Washington State and now living in SW Missouri. What is even more sad, in regard to fellow Americans not knowing about other countries? How about those that have no idea where their home state is located? Or the location of other states, cities, or regions in the US. People thinking there are no deserts in the US, or believing Canada as being a state of the US. Most people don't know our nation's capital, or even the difference between DC and Washington State. Like Evan said, pick up a book and read it!

@nevillemason6791

11 күн бұрын

This is very sad and must largely be due to the low standard of education in certain states/areas or just generally. How do these people have anything like a skilled well paid job with such basic ignorance? It doesn't bode well for the country's economy and future if education isn't a priority.

Btw, russia uses metric system, 24-hours clock and celsius. "Cubits" were abandoned in 1925.

@aaronmontgomery2055

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but I heard you say motha Russia in your sentence for some reason

@baylego

3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronmontgomery2055 wat?

@BraveSpy

3 жыл бұрын

in 1917 even

@svampebob007

3 жыл бұрын

yeah in their defence when they said "Russia" I'm pretty sure they meant Soviet Russia, and probably thinks that "Russia" is an abbreviation of Soviet Russia.

@BraveSpy

3 жыл бұрын

@@svampebob007 yeah, but even "soviet russia" is just one of the ussr republics and that name somehow applied to the whole country by foreigners

"I'm as British as Queen Victoria!" "Oh, so your father was German, you're half-German and you married a German?"

@rupertprawnworthy758

4 жыл бұрын

The mother was also german.

@robertwilloughby8050

4 жыл бұрын

It's the same with me. I say that most of my ancestors were Normans, and there's always a wise guy who says "so your a Frenchman of Norwegian decent then?". Aargh! (for the record, I also have a dab of Huguenot blood - also French - Scots, which should be self-evident, a dab of Anglo-Saxon - Germano-Danish - and a smidge of Viking.)

@fantastic_fantasy_word6675

4 жыл бұрын

Same here! I'm 3/4 German,but everyone assumes that I'm Russian as soon as they learn that my parents were born there.

@Geoff900

4 жыл бұрын

Blackadder...

@TimStamper89

4 жыл бұрын

How many verses of God save the King?

And we tend to be in awe every time we hear things like: “North Koreans think Kim Jong Il invented golf” or “North Koreans think they’ve won the world cup against Brazil”… Americans think they invented cars, internet, won the vietnam war, sent the first man to space. It is shocking that this is seen as normal!

@valsyaranamual6853

Жыл бұрын

Invented everything,created the "American" language,Their gridiron World Cup -all teams from USA,same for baseball.Won the Vietnam war -no but they started it! Korea,Vietnam,Syria,Iraq,Afghanistan all Fails and started by the USA - and sucked in stupid allies.

@GoldenTV3

3 ай бұрын

We did invent the internet though..

@peter_meyer

3 ай бұрын

@@GoldenTV3Um, no, not really.

@thewitness8321

2 ай бұрын

​@@peter_meyer The US military invented the first inter-computer network, But the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented in the 1990s by a English person working at CERN (EU)

Thanks for being so honest about your education. I'm honestly baffled at how poor the American education system is. Kudos to you for recognizing this and working on improving yourself and broadening your perspectives. Not everyone's willing to do that.

I still can't get over the fact that you have to give the pledge of allegiance in school and then claim to be the land of the free 😂 guys, that's some soviet style nonsense

@OBrasilo

3 жыл бұрын

Not even Soviet. My mother grew up in the USSR and they didn't do any such thing in schools. The pledge of allegiance is more like outright fascist-style nonsense, especially considering that it originally involved the Bellamy salute which was basically raising your arm up high, which is something commonly seen in fascism.

@Te3time

3 жыл бұрын

It's so creepy when I first heard of it I thought they were joking

@Andrew36597

3 жыл бұрын

That’s one thing I always thought sounded so creepy about the states, in the UK it’s once every blue moon you even see the union flag and I reckon the amount of brits who can sing the national anthem beyond the first two lines could fit in one building. The idea of having to swear allegiance to an ideological symbol like a national flag is like a fascist/communist nightmare

@jiggyprawn

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork The irony. 🤭

@electracv9154

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork oh wow . Greatest country in the history of mankind ? The US is a bit over 200 years old , meanwhile other nations in Latin America, Europe and Asia have rich cultures and history dating BC. You have no culture whatsoever and your country was built on the backs of oppressed people from the very first moment settlers stepped foot in then native american soil . Americans have a god complex and you have just confirmed that your education system sucks and that you "proud" americans have a nationalism problem.

That tipping sign just read to me as: "we don't pay our staff enough"

@wishy1741

4 жыл бұрын

That is essentially what it says, as well as "We follow corrupt and greedy business practices from a hundred years ago meant to perpetuate discrimination against certain people."

@Raqdolll

4 жыл бұрын

Correction, "We don't pay our staff at all"

@djlads

4 жыл бұрын

@@wishy1741 You have shit workers rights in the US, no federal minimum wage, no sick pay, no paid vacation, no decent amount of vacation, no maternity or paternity paid leave.

@wishy1741

4 жыл бұрын

@@djlads I agree with the first statement wholeheartedly, but I would like to point out that those claims are inaccurate. "Decent amount of vacation" is rather poor wording as that is subjective, but most would agree that we don't have a reasonable amount of vacation time. The rest of those we do have, but many (including myself) argue that it is too little. Just informing you, and I do agree.

@locarno24

4 жыл бұрын

*We* screw our staff over then label *You* a bad person if you don't make up the difference. In many ways it's the bad stereotypes of American business culture in miniature.

As an Australian, we thank you for the laughs U.S.A……

Improve the American education system? And have millions of Americans realise they've been getting ripped off for decades? I'll take things that will never happen for one thousand dollars please Alex!

It’s actually frustrating because I’m from Ireland, my accent however is very subtle, so when I’m in the states and I say Irish they’re just like oh me too etc. And I’m like no but I’m actually from Ireland

@spacedinosaurswithguitars1202

4 жыл бұрын

I’d say your name makes up for it though.

@Milamberinx

3 жыл бұрын

@@spacedinosaurswithguitars1202 Ireland: We need more letters lads, keep shovelling them in!

@Milamberinx

3 жыл бұрын

@Beached Rat the reason Americans claim so much Irish ancestry is because Americans like Ireland, not because there's actually more Irish ancestry.

@Milamberinx

3 жыл бұрын

@Beached Rat your point about European migration to America is true, but I wonder if you've missed the point. Ireland is a small country and its period of peak migration wasn't very long, so there's not as much Irish blood as English, or French, or German. It's just that Americans like to think about their Irish ancestry more.

@RumerPriestly

3 жыл бұрын

@Beached Rat That doesn't have any bearing on what Shannon is saying though. They're right, we're an INCREDIBLY small island, and the huge Irish migration happened after the famine when the population was much smaller and had taken a huge hit. Statistically there's got to be a very small amount of genuinely irish blood over there compared to any other European country, American people just want to claim it more. The numbers reported are from "self identified" Irish Americans. In this very video we saw a girl get genuine confirmation that she has 0% Italian genetic make up, and decide, "Fuck that, I'm still a quarter Italian." Same vibe.

An American once asked me to stop speaking in a 'foreign language' because they couldn't understand me and they'd been told that everyone spoke 'American' in the UK. I was speaking Welsh......in Wales. Side note; It's funny how Americans refer to it as 'military time', whilst we all just call it time.

@Nokyyyyy

2 жыл бұрын

Ooof That's a big level of stupid As a swiss, I heard americans coming to visit the country tend to not be able to understand swedish Neither do we

@StormgemThunder

2 жыл бұрын

Americans not realising that their language is just English with some word differences baffles me Like, it's called _English_ lessons not American lessons, right?

@isaiahvaldez3330

2 жыл бұрын

That ...... Uhhhhh, good ole american..... Pride....

@alexjames6029

2 жыл бұрын

I don't even have the words to describe how this made me feel 🤣

@amethystlarktree5962

2 жыл бұрын

I genuinely don't understand how some Americans manage to make it to adulthood.

"did you know our servers survive on your tipping kindness?" is the most brutal statement i've read this week. whoa that's cold.

@janmeyer3129

2 жыл бұрын

I have never understood why America got stuck in the mindset of the Europe and Britain during the industrial revolution - before they worked out that they could be a lot more profitable if their workers earned enough money to buy their products.

@peterpain6625

2 жыл бұрын

@@janmeyer3129 They'd probably get it if their their little sandcastle of a country wasn't built on debt alone.

@paulavitoria1798

2 жыл бұрын

@@janmeyer3129 Actually (I'm not from the USA), that was part of John Ford's conception of capitalism: if workers are well enough paid, they become consummers; he even got criticized for this by other industrialists.

@paulavitoria1798

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry; the comment above was to reply to @Peter Pain and not @Jan Meyer.

@valsyaranamual6853

Жыл бұрын

Rich country can't afford to pay servers - and pay low wages to people for those menial jobs so that they have to work two or three jobs to live.

Lmao as a Filipino, I find it funny that Americans criticize us for eating our food bear-handed, like this is coming from a country who thinks wiping their asses with tissue paper will instantly make their asses clean 😂

@pwrsocket

Жыл бұрын

Baby wipes work wonderfully but not many people use them

@CritLoren

14 күн бұрын

@@pwrsocket a lot of them aren't flushable though so be careful with that

Recently I've realized how lucky I am to be born in Europe. The more i learn about the USA, more grateful i become about the fact i can go to a doctor in any EU country and not have to go in debt. Since I've been born i had a shitton of medical issues and had i been born in the usa my parents probably wouldn't be able to afford food.

@orcus6803

4 жыл бұрын

Bruh I wish I wasnt born in the US. Everything great we did was in the 1800s and 1900s and everyone's still jacking themselves off over it.

@orcus6803

4 жыл бұрын

Legit theres such a high people get from being like "I'm an AMERICAN"

@stayforthepeelpronpls4774

4 жыл бұрын

My family are reasonably poor but we scrape by just fine so we’re comfortable. If we lived in America we would be in so much debt because of our multiple health issues as a family. Life would be awful.

@jwb52z9

4 жыл бұрын

Basically, the American attitude to healthcare, and basically life itself, is "Do everything yourself and if you fail, it's your fault and you deserve to be sick and miserable. If you can't succeed alone, either drop dead and get out of the way of everyone who did succeed alone or stay silent and miserable and obey us." and "We shouldn't have to help you unless you are very elderly or permanently disabled and you didn't do anything to contribute to your disability and we should be able to say no to helping you without any negative consequences, especially if we morally disapprove of something about you at any time". I know that sounds ludicrous, but it's the way American society and healthcare works in practice.

@brookelauer3854

4 жыл бұрын

Very true

Evan is calling out American's who think they're Irish cause their great-great-great granddad's sister's cousin's dog is Irish, and I am hERE FOR IT

@mouseyrumbal4067

4 жыл бұрын

You didn't need to add sister's as e.g. my cousin is my brother's cousin

@ailis2635

4 жыл бұрын

@@mouseyrumbal4067 I know that why are u being pedantic about it it's literally just a joke comment

@mouseyrumbal4067

4 жыл бұрын

@@ailis2635 I'm sorry but is it again the law to correct someone

@ailis2635

4 жыл бұрын

@@mouseyrumbal4067 nah but y did u feel the need to correct me I don't get it like I'm clearly exaggerating in my comment

@mouseyrumbal4067

4 жыл бұрын

@@ailis2635 because I don't trouble getting the job just because you understand me extremely simple I'm just looking out for you to get mad at me

American having a panic attack finding out they are not the only country with freedom

Update: Henry Ford did not invent the production line. The credit for that goes to Marc Isambard Brunel (father of the renowned engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel) who built a production line in Portsmouth Dockyard to make blocks for the Royal Navy. Blocks are the things that ropes run through for controlling sails and other things (this is Englishsplaining for the Americans amongst us).

I'm a tour guide in Ireland. I was crossing the road with a large group in tow. Sometimes I get random people not with the tour spot me as a "local" they tend to ask me for directions to a pub/atm etc (no problem at all). But this day an American asked me why do traffic lights beep when the green man appears, I tell them its so blind people know the lights have changed. She replies "wow its so different here, we don't let blind people drive back in the states"

@isthisjustfantasy7557

3 жыл бұрын

😂 oh good god.

@Chanbecky

3 жыл бұрын

Possibly the funniest thing about this is that generally American states have far more relaxed rules about sight requirements for driving. I’m visually impaired and would have no chance of passing the U.K. requirements but there are loads of states where I’d be able to get a driving permit with some restrictions.

@annfrancoole34

3 жыл бұрын

love it - it sounds like a Brendan Grace joke (RIP Brendan)

@internetuser969

3 жыл бұрын

@@annfrancoole34 ill consider that the highest form of praise, loved me some Brendan Grace

@romainviry3185

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

You know who died to end slavery? Tens of thousands of black Americans who made sure that the union did not forget what the civil war was fought for

@tomhughes1055

4 жыл бұрын

No come on it was CLEARLY the white americans after free labour at horriffic expenses

@fynchandrus5492

4 жыл бұрын

The first thing I thought of with that post was "...and who BEGAN slavery?? WHITE MEN DUMBASS" like yay!! They ended slavery eventually but you started it for your own personal benefits too

@victorrobison5069

4 жыл бұрын

Re check what the civil war was fought over- it wasn't slavery. It was tariffs that non cotton growing states wanted to impose on cotton transportation. Lincoln thought that losing the "free labor" would end the profit in cotton and end the war faster. The war was almost over before he freed the slaves. Tell us again what the war was fought for ?

@daniellepalazzolo8960

4 жыл бұрын

Victor Robison tariffs? That was not the prevailing issue of the Civil War. It was slavery. While there may have been smaller issues as well but slavery was the main issue.

@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380

4 жыл бұрын

@@fynchandrus5492 Actually, the first accounts of slavery are white on white and black on black. The history of slavery is not just American slavery. Slavery still goes on today in the form of people trafficking, prostitution, sweat shops, and forced unpaid labour, which includes people of all colours and ethnicities. I wish the whole truth about slavery was taught in schools throughout the world.

I don’t understand the “my great great great great grandfather was [irish] so I’m [irish]” thing. In Mexico we are told that everyone born within the Mexican border is Mexican, regardless of who their parents were. That was one of the main things that started the Independce war.

@bubba842

12 күн бұрын

Mexico has a rich culture and heritage that Mexicans can identify with and become embedded in. Even considering it's short history. This culture and heritage is extremely lacking in the United States. While all Mexicans came together to make their country, immigrants to the United States segregated themselves, even still to this day. This is why racism flourished, even after the abolition of slavery these segregations still existed. Irish and Italian immigrants were not actually classed as white people and held the same second class citizen status as Negros. What is really funny about the US is that no one goes around saying they are British Americans, as a huge proportion of Americans can trace their heritage back to Britain. I think this is because the Americans of British heritage were the rich. The only people who claim to be "something American" are the people who descend from extremely poor people who were seen as a different race: Irish, Negros and Italians. I think this comes from the ancestors of these people, the immigrants, living in basically ghettos in the 1800s and not mixing with the world outside their own respective ghetto. They didn't mix and held onto their own cultures because the general wider culture of the United States at the time, the British descended culture, did not except them as equals. I live in Canada and this "something Canadian" is not a thing. Some people will claim to have something like Ukrainian or Norwegian heritage out west (hard farming) but they would never say they are Ukrainian or Norwegian. But Canada has a much higher proportion of British descendants. We have a large population on the east coast of Irish and Scottish descendants, but they are all proud to be from the provinces they live in. A Newfoundlander who probably descended from Irish or Scottish is a very proud Newfie and will let you know heor she is from Newfoundland. And people from Quebec would never call themselves French. Quebecers have a very proud heritage and history that they have embraced. It's this lack of culture and shared history in the United States, added with the segregation of large parts of the population, still to this day, that I think is where the problem comes from. It was very obvious the first time I visited Mexico why all the white descendants of Spanish immigrants don't call them selves Spanish. You have such an amazing culture. A culture that you have developed that includes all aspects of your society. This is the main thing that is missing in the states. A sense of a shared culture and identity.

Americans: I will never use the metric system Also Americans: can I get some 9mm bullets

I remember meeting an American guy, and he told us that he was a ‘native American’. Upon further questioning, it emerges that he was 1/32nd Cherokee. I asked what about the other 31/32? He was like ‘oh it is a mix of everything’. So I was like ‘so aren’t you really just a mix of everything?’ to which he said ‘no, I’m cherokee’. Five minutes later I asked ‘if you bought a bouquet of roses, and only one flower was actually a rose, would you still call it a bouquet of roses?’, he was like ‘hell no! Can’t be a bouquet of roses if only one is a rose!’ Me: So can you be Cherokee if only 1/32nd of you is Native American? Cue stunned silence

@KaitlynBurtonISaGOD

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork lmao so your a christian white american patriot who doesnt want free health care believes guns are the best solution to your problems and you also part Cherokee? Did I miss anything cause its difficult to sift through all that bullshit coming out your mouth 🤣😂

@KaitlynBurtonISaGOD

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork damn I think you're missing a few cogs upstairs. Were you dropped as a child? The facts are clear and yet you choose to ignore them so you can believe a stunted patriotic lie fed to you at young age

@KaitlynBurtonISaGOD

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork omg your so defensive lol 🤣

@YE-dr3zk

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork That doesn't mean shit, and according to the US, anyone who is Spaniard is not white. Tf?

@YE-dr3zk

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork There are plenty white Spaniards with Germanic and Iberian ancestry, same with Portugal, which is somehow white? And not Spain? Dumbass chud.

Im from sweden and i moved to the US.. i have lost count on how many times i’ve had to explain that “no, we do not have polar bears in our country” and “no, sweden is not switzerland”

@maleineperle1770

3 жыл бұрын

Why would they think that countries that only share some letters are the same country, that's so dumb...I can understand mixing the location up, as a misfit in geography I mix up capitals all the time but I don't assume similar sounding capitals are the same city...

@thenamen935

3 жыл бұрын

"You are from Switzerland so you're Swedish" I absolutly hate it when Switzerland and Sweden get used as synonyms. Nothing about your country personally, you are way better than Switzerland, but some national pride still hides inside of me and doesn't want to get called Swedish.

@robertstevenwilson3349

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Norway has polar bears, but maybe that's just because it's cooler than Sweden.

@nicolasinvernizzi6140

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertstevenwilson3349 also they have Svalbard wich is further north.

@robertstevenwilson3349

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicolasinvernizzi6140 And it's usually a bit cooler further north, isn't it?

In my school in history class we have something called genius hour where every student does a presentation about other countries and surprisingly it works. It’s educational and everyone learns a lot from each other

The craziest one I've seen on Reddit was someone who thought the rest of the world shouldn't celebrate Christmas since it's a north american holiday and appropriating their culture was wrong. XD

@joakimfredriksson1838

2 жыл бұрын

Isen´t the tree from Germany as wel as ST Nick? The vikings had some present givning tradition! so no one can celebreate Christmas then?

@Auhsa

2 жыл бұрын

@@joakimfredriksson1838 Guess not. Oh nooo... anyway...We'll just have to go back to the heathen celebrations that got covered up with Christianity because they just happened to occur on the exact same times. Lucky that. XD

@joakimfredriksson1838

2 жыл бұрын

@@Auhsa soooo lucky them Christians...

@bubba842

12 күн бұрын

​@@joakimfredriksson1838The date of the festival actually goes back to the Roman holiday of Saturanella. The Christians kind of took aspects from the Roman holiday and implanted their own stuff into it.

I'm generally surprised that Americans don't want free healthcare

@paulbishop3897

4 жыл бұрын

It is some sort of mass hysteria or a related form of population mental illness. The giveaway is that comment about preferring being lied to rather than change ideologies. One wonders what could possibly inspire that much fear. For a country that blathers about being free so much, people here sure are scared to do anything differently than they have for any reason.

@copyweirdo

4 жыл бұрын

It’s a sickening mindset. They think healthcare is like buying your groceries. “I don’t want to pay for someone else’s bill” then they get their own bill. “Oh woe is me. I have so much debt. I don’t want to pay for healthcare. If only I had gone to a regular check-up and ate well and exercised more, I wouldn’t be so diseased prone.” Free healthcare can ease your worries and help detect/prevent of any arising or underlying conditions you might have. You could spot an onset preventable disease like cancer. Literally they don’t understand the importance. Plus, doctors don’t push for it because they’ll get a lot of moolah if they don’t socialize healthcare😪 hence there’s a craze for becoming a healthcare worker. More money for pharmaceutical companies and pharmacist and specialized doctors (America has the most number of specialists than primary care physicians. Pathetic)

@vrenak

4 жыл бұрын

It's a combination of "I don't want to pay for anyone else" (totally ignoring that that is the basic principle of how insurance works), and "govt. can't administer anything right" (totally ignoring that the problems in US admin comes from them voting in politicians that deliberately make it difficult to administer, and then points and say "look how badly they do", while ignoring that hospitals could very well administer themselves like now, all the govt. needs to do is funnel money)

@lindapollock2105

4 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork Not sure if you're serious or you're being ironic.

@autumnwhisp

4 жыл бұрын

It’s not that all Americans don’t want free healthcare like Paul said, many either have a very selfish mindset about it or keep pointing at how badly it is implemented when they vote in someone to do it regardless of how different people do things differently. There are Americans who want free health care but it’s mostly those who understand what it means. You would be shocked the number of people who refuse to get it, not simply because “it never ends well” or “I don’t want to foot someone else’s bill” but “I don’t want some communist system in my country” like, it’s more largely an issue of information (and the fact that certain places(businesses) can pay to keep things from changing helps nothing)

I remember being told "America is the greatest country in the world" and me thinking "That sounds like something the not greatest country would say"

@AylaMarianna

2 жыл бұрын

Like a straight man trying to convince women that they're a "nice guy", or like someone who keeps talking about how oh-soooo-generous they are.

@hemidas

2 жыл бұрын

"Any Man Who Must Say 'I Am The King' Is No True King" ~Tywin Lannister.

@lovecat4everxxx401

2 жыл бұрын

Excactly 😆

@rzeko1877

2 жыл бұрын

@@MvsicAdd7ct I know. It's always bothered me how Canadians refer to us as "Americans" I'm like Y'all don't pretend you're not involved here😂

@achillec.1729

2 жыл бұрын

@@hemidas I was thinking about the exact same quote, but I was sure someone had anticipated me... and I wasn't disappointed 🤣👍

I love how the guy with the AR-15 thinks he's going to make it past the security gate at the airport!

Being British and working for an American engineering company, it was bit of an occupational hazard always having to triple check whether somebody had used Imperial or metric measurements, whether they'd converted them already and whether the conversions were correct. It always made me laugh when my American colleagues would ask me what something was in Imperial measurements. Erm...just calculate it. You're an engineer FGS lol.

“Our Employees survive on your kind tips! 🥰” In other words “We don’t respect our employees enough to pay them a living wage, so now that’s your job. Lol, thanks”

@matwatson7947

2 жыл бұрын

Emphasise the word 'survive'

@allykid4720

2 жыл бұрын

"Are you a socialist?!"

@wfcoaker1398

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't it funny how they expect private citizens to subsidize their business, but if the government does it, it's "socialism"?

@ninaweinberg5008

2 жыл бұрын

"Then the business should not exist!"

@angiealphabet5259

2 жыл бұрын

Translation: This Industry operates on Slave Labour and the customers get to pay the wages 👌

Was in Pisa (Italy) last year and witnessed a very loud US lady having an argument in a cafe when she received a glass of milk instead of the latte she ordered... I dont think I ever laughed so hard in my life. Barista was also having a great time.. XD

@weyoheyo6367

4 жыл бұрын

Haha these language fails are always funny but you can’t really blame her. As long as you don’t speak italian you won’t know what you order with a latte

@teierabollente3642

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Italian and when I was 12 I went to England for the first time in my life. I was so shocked when someone ordered a latte and I said "Wait so you just want a glass of milk?"😂

@jwb52z9

4 жыл бұрын

What's really funny, at least to me, is that if you were in the US more than a few decades ago, the vast majority of Americans knew nothing of anything other than black American coffee that tasted like dirt or mud and sometimes had cream or sugar in it, but generally only then if you were a woman.

@alicebettuzzi6390

4 жыл бұрын

Omg... I'm Italian and I see things like that... Not very often but... Really?! Wow I'm gonna cry from the laughs

@weyoheyo6367

4 жыл бұрын

Alice Bettuzzi yeah it wont happen really often because the people order from some menu cards but the imagination is pretty funny

My coworker thought I was lying when I told him that Russia went through slavery for over 300 years. Damn, the word Slavic derived from slave... My coworker thought that slavery was exclusively American thing. Lol

@valsyaranamual6853

Жыл бұрын

Got to be NO 1 in everything even though it is terrible! They think they do it better.

@AnimusScorpii

7 күн бұрын

it always baffles me when I hear Americans (that is, US of A people, not all of Americas) talk as if slaves/slavery was unique to their country...

I once saw a thread of comments here on KZread where americans called someone entitled because they thought water should be free. They also said something like " do you even hear yourself? Your'e coddled and entitled by thinking water is your right and your'e lucky you live in modern times and not 1000 years ago where you had to earn it" Like FFS even a medieval peasant native to the area was allowed a certain amount of water from the local city well. Water is a very basic requirement for life. You need it for the human body to function in the first place.

Something that I will never get over as an Egyptian is that some Americans genuinely believe Egyptians live in pyramids and ride camels to school💀

@kaoutermouslimhaliba7145

2 жыл бұрын

There is a tik tok trend abut this same subject of dumb things americans say ,and this young lady from Egypt had an american tell her that she is a liar, because Egypt doesn't exist anymore

@farahfarahat7318

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaoutermouslimhaliba7145 w h a t 🤠 I’ve lost all hope in Americans.

@kaoutermouslimhaliba7145

2 жыл бұрын

@@farahfarahat7318 I was in shock too haha.

@pgaj7337

2 жыл бұрын

Wait what? You don't????? Kappa

@sunshinesaccharine

2 жыл бұрын

this kind of thing makes me glad that I am British I’ve actually been to egypt it’s quite nice lol but it’s so damn cold at night (probably because I visited in winter)

When I lived in Ireland (I'm German) I genuinely had an American couple tell me they were visiting home. So I asked whether they were from here in Dublin or elsewhere in the country and the guy went "Oh no we've never been to Ireland before" Sir, you don't thank the bus drivers and you think craic is a drug, I'm pretty much more Irish than you and I've lived here for 2 months

@user-es7ui5mc1m

4 жыл бұрын

@bbonner422 Doing fine given the circumstances. See that's a different story. I really like that actually! You are definitely more Irish than most "Irish Americans". Just to clarify I don't think of myself as Irish at all either, I hope it was clear I was making a joke there. It'll always have a special place in my heart though

@Pulsar-1919

4 жыл бұрын

As an Irish person who has lived in Ireland my whole life, it amazes me how Americans act when they come here.

@seeriktus

4 жыл бұрын

They don't thank the bus drivers? Those poor guys

@andresmason1551

4 жыл бұрын

This is why reading is important..

@Ofthevalley84

4 жыл бұрын

Blood, Sweat and Smeraldo Flowers when I visited America as an Irish person, the amount of people who told me they were Irish then proceeded to talk through every stereotype there was was just amazing

Speaking to an American who believed he was Irish an was tracing his ancestry. I told him my grandfather was Irish, "so your Irish then" he said. No I am English, I was born in England. He wasn't happy with my answer. Later he found he had no Irish ancestors whatsoever, in fact they were English. I pointed out that I am English and still more Irish than he was. A different American got upset when I corrected him him for saying "Scotch". I told him "Scotch" is an egg or a whiskey not a nationality (my mothers side are from Scotland). It's Scott or Scottish. It always pisses me off when an American tries to tell me, an Englishman, living in ENGLAND that I don't speak English. And even more that they don't understand the irony of what they are saying.

Americans: have 1%of Irish/scottish dna Americans: I'm now irish/scottish

You know, being actually Italian, I can't stop thinking of how weird the last name "Bambini" (literally "children") is... it sounds like one of those names that come from an orphanage, so this dude's ancestor might just have been registered by some Italian nun and now he thinks he's Italian

@henriquesoares2343

4 жыл бұрын

My father's coworker has Italian heritage (I believe he is the second or third generation here in Brazil) and has that last name, so I guess it must be legit but unusual

@DickVanDick89

4 жыл бұрын

Might be just like Esposito and other names given to children by orphanages. Also, I never heard anyone called Bambini

@secretlybees

4 жыл бұрын

my family came here in the 20's and america gave us the last name of the village we were from. maybe it's that kind of principal? americans just giving immigrants names?

@tomasvrabec1845

4 жыл бұрын

@@secretlybees It is so weird that America was just giving out Surnames but I guess if they didn't have one...

@secretlybees

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomasvrabec1845 yeah. they'd give different names if your family's was too ethnic/difficult to spell, or if you didn't have a last name/were a bastard.

what I hate is when I see a date that says something like 5/3/19.....and I can't tell if it's American or European...Ahhh

@throughcolouredglasses9300

4 жыл бұрын

Most likely american because (at leasr in the central european countries I've been to and grew up in) we use dots instead of slashes: 5.3.2019

@Ricky911_

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Even worse, I was one watching a KZread video on cooking. I think he said something like "turn the oven to 200°" and I was just sitting there so confused as to whether he meant Fahrenheit or Celsius lmao

@Ricky911_

4 жыл бұрын

@@throughcolouredglasses9300 not in the UK. In school, I've always used slashes

@clarim.5949

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ricky911_ probably celsius....you should check which country the host is from, maybe that can help

@alexandrub8786

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ricky911_ kelvin.

We had an american "Ausstauschüler" that brought extra blankets and bottled water to germany because he was told we don't have heating or access to clean water in germany. He was also very surprised that none of us had bad teeth. Well, I still hope to this day that his stay here was a learning experience. Never heard from him again though after he left, so I can't say...

"Try to get out of your American bubble." My brother in Christ, I am trying to go abroad to the UK for "study". Told everyone it's for my degree. What I didn't say is that I'd be staying afterwards and happily being barred from returning. I want out of this glorified sewage dump of a country. Thank you for the videos though. They've definitely helped me prepare for my leaving and I hope they encourage others to do the same or try to fix America's issues. ❤

"The ambulance is not your taxi to the hospital." T-then what is it...?

@erickwang4943

4 жыл бұрын

An actual taxi, since calling the ambulance is like the down payment for a car lol.

@LS-oq7zw

3 жыл бұрын

Erick Wang in England there free

@katherinep1010

3 жыл бұрын

@@erickwang4943 I was reading this too quickly and thought you said it's like the down payment for a child. Which would still be accurate. It took us years to pay off the bills from my first child's birth.

@Liggliluff

3 жыл бұрын

The ambulance isn't your taxi to the hospital; it isn't a taxi. It's a free ride for those in medical need.

@lead_sommelier

3 жыл бұрын

@Rita Roork ok so im a firefighter and about 50% of the calls we get are false alarms. Should we now make every call cost 4k just so people don't cause false alarms?

"The US was the first to ban slavery" I am surprised no one mentioned the fact that other countries didn't have to ban it. Some didn't have the problem of slavery. So this "first to ban it" would be a weird flex for me.

@abenagyampo

2 жыл бұрын

The U.S. was the 3rd to last country in the entire Western Hemisphere to ban slavery. There are records of slaves running to Canada and Mexico in search of freedom. I just hate American nationalists. They’re so embarrassing. 😭

@sawaalbino

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same! There is no history of slavery in my country! THAT should be something

@TalesOfWar

2 жыл бұрын

It's kind of along the lines of "I was the first to stop beating my spouse!" ... maybe you shouldn't have been beating them to begin with?

@xymonau2468

2 жыл бұрын

@@abenagyampo The American civil war was over slavery.

@paulm2467

2 жыл бұрын

It was illegal in England from the 12th century, slaves who were brought to England could legally walk away and declare themselves free. This was confirmed in a law court in 1569 when the judge famously declared “England has too pure an air for slaves to breathe in”. There are very few countries that never had slavery, the only ones that I know of are post slavery countries that didn’t exist until after the British campaign against slavery began, Liberia and Australia for example.

Americans are so proud that we ended slavery as if their $5 walmart tee shirt was ethically sourced an manufactured by a well paid worker.

Slovenia here. Nobody here says 17:00 or 17 o'clock unless it's in an official document or you're presenting something etc. Everyone says 5 o'clock even though the clock says 17

Hold on, Americans call 24 hour time, "Military Time". Wtf?

@chloewaterworth2155

4 жыл бұрын

Bradley Walden Ik I thought that was normal since there’s 24 hours in a day, that u would have a 24 hour clock 😂

@flowerdolphin5648

4 жыл бұрын

They call it that bc it's used predominantly in the military. 1630 or 1700, they'd write & say it like that, from what I know.

@robertgronewold3326

4 жыл бұрын

That's because in the US, only people in the military use that sort of time. My older brothers, who are all in some form of the military or another, have their watches set that time system and will confuse me when they say things using '16 hundred hours' and other similar phrases. Otherwise, civilians only use a 12 hour clock.

@RaeionFlash

4 жыл бұрын

We call it military time in ireland too.

@marcellakilgarriff

4 жыл бұрын

RaeionFlash No, we do not...

Tipping really does show American business culture in microcosm. *We* screw over our staff, and if you don't make up the difference *You're* a bad person.

@ZHibiki

2 жыл бұрын

But America isn't the only country with tipping culture

@xanpenguin754

2 жыл бұрын

Better than other countries that screw over their staff but customers don’t help out.

@luigiff3431

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZHibiki no, but they're one of a few countries were servers aren't payed minimum wage and get most of their money through tips, that's their tipping culture, whilst every other place I've been to, the servers get payed a decent wage and tips are representative of how happy you were with the service, which makes way more sense than underpaying the people that carry food

@ibnu9969

2 жыл бұрын

I'm honestly shocked when a friend who studied there told me that tipping is more or less mandatory. It's horrible

@snoopymccloud1875

2 жыл бұрын

But if I keep tipping waiters, doesn't that make me a socialist?

This is what happens when we’re only next to two other countries, and we barely even think about one of them. We become pretty ignorant towards the rest of the world

It's only called "Military time" in US. We just call it the 24 hour clock.

"It is really upsetting that america used to be a country that people looked to for inspiration" I can tell you for a fact that none of the numerous countries the US has invaded or staged coups in , has ever done such thing. If there's something to admire in the US is how spectacularly capitalism has failed and how much propaganda your schools feed you .

@Gaia_Seraphina

3 жыл бұрын

Only parts of the american lifestyle ( food & cinema ) was cherished in Europe. And the food turned out to be a biological/chemical weapon of mass destruction.

@spaceowl5957

3 жыл бұрын

My dad actually told me that the US was seen in a very positive light when he was a child (he was born in the 50s in Germany) but it started to change with the Vietnam war.

@electracv9154

3 жыл бұрын

@@spaceowl5957 perhaps in West Germany yes, the US was seen in a good light after ww2 , however I was more so talking about the many countries in Latin America and Greece that had military coups staged by the CIA and then about the countries in the Middle East that the US attacked . The anti-american sentiment is prevalent in quite a lot of these countries

@laurainathunderstorm

3 жыл бұрын

@@electracv9154 as a person from Latam whose country went into dictatorship with help of the CIA I can say you're absolutely right

@nox8730

3 жыл бұрын

The USA was never really seen in a good way after WWII in France. Because during the war, and after the war, the USA tried to take control over France, while France was striving for Independance. So, from the 50's onwards, it has been a struggle against American's imperialism for us, while trying to maintain the old alliance at the same time. I do not think that the USA were well regarded in France, aside from the memory of seeing American troops following the Général Leclerc when Paris was freed.

The USA is like the UK's annoying kid who is acting out but is gonna look back in a few hundred years and be embarrassed like "ugh, did I really do/say that?"

@neroquin

4 жыл бұрын

That's gonna be funny

@Zoazie

4 жыл бұрын

I usually just call them the redheaded stepchild of the black sheep of the imperial family :)

@rogue_hitman6582

4 жыл бұрын

The USA is Jason Todd, being an angsty, violent teenager with issues, and the UK is Batman being grompy with him and wishing he'd just calm down.

@daisybelle3

4 жыл бұрын

Heh, have you read the web comic Scandinavia and the World? The countries are represented by people who interact, it's pretty funny, and cute :)

@jwb52z9

4 жыл бұрын

Some of us in the US don't believe America is likely to ever change unless half the nation dies at once somehow.

Worst thing I've heard an American say is that their favourite nfl team are 'World Champions' after the superbowl. This was a while ago😂😂😂😂😂

American here 🙋‍♀️ and YES it is annoying that a lot, if not most American conservatives think anything outside of our country is Socialist. HELLO, then don’t send your kids to school, don’t accept your social security, don’t drive on the roads, etc…. This is all paid for by money that YOU, and everyone else, basically puts in a “til” and is distributed for things needed in your community or for when you are into old age. Young people are paying in money right now for you to get paid when your old and can’t work. Not even for their own family, just for everyone in general. People who don’t have kids pay school taxes. Make it make sense that this isn’t already Socialism. 🙄🤦‍♀️

As an American, it's crazy talking to other Americans who went to school in different states and comparing what we learned/ how it was taught to us. Like the fact that some kids didn't learn about the civil rights movement or the civil war or other parts of AMERICAN history is completely wild (and should be unacceptable). Don't even get me started on what we learned about other countries.

@TheRibottoStudios

4 жыл бұрын

I live in Arizona. Ranked one of the LOWEST for education. Yea. The tea when it comes to education in America is SCORCHING lol

@TheRibottoStudios

4 жыл бұрын

@@presumedeagle10 ohhhh for sure why do you think all the ivy league be in the north east lol.

@noone9472

4 жыл бұрын

Please tell me what you learn about other countries lmao I want to know

@laura__5544

4 жыл бұрын

My civil rights movement education went something like this. Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks pointed out that some evil people in the south were still treating black people poorly, and everyone else was shocked and horrified so we fixed it right away. And then it was indeed fixed, hooray.

@Lillith.

4 жыл бұрын

@@presumedeagle10 Didn't you learn anything from before 3000 BCE? Nothing from before ancient Greece/Egyptians?

Metric system is the official unit that every scientist has to use, USA too. Edit: New fact I found: imperial units official definition is its equivalent in metric.

@naycnay

4 жыл бұрын

The US's silly take on Imperial is actually based values of the metric system. The US is a metric calibrated country under the façade of USCS.

@michaelm8529

3 жыл бұрын

It depends. A lot of the aerospace sector still uses imperial units. Even in the UK its pretty common for altitude to be measured in feet. Aerospace students have to learn to convert between the two freely

@goopguy548

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelm8529 99% of things are metric though, you will do some things in imperial, but those are also just used in general in the country, like height being measured in feet

@mickys8065

3 жыл бұрын

Technically everything is metric, because at some point anything that uses imperial (such as anything from tape measure to industrial sensors) get calibrated against metric units to ensure they are correct, which is really hilarious whenever Americans boast about their totally superior imperial

@mickys8065

3 жыл бұрын

@@saberswordsmen1 what are you on about? I was saying if something used imperial then it is technically still unknowingly using metric.

As a Canadian I can say with absolute honesty that I’ve NEVER looked up to the USA (the real name... America is not a country name), nor have I ever envied the USA ... it’s always seemed to be a beautiful and obviously expensive, but broken toy. Sorry!

@randar1969

2 жыл бұрын

I love the USA still do but i will never visit it, i refuse to visit any country that carry the death sentence for any crime. The simple way i see it is as follows 'You murdered someone! that's so bad ... we have to murder you for it'. It doesn't make any sense to me. Besides if you make an error which happened more then once you can never make it right.

@pwrsocket

Жыл бұрын

I’m American and I actually like Canada a ton

Oh man. I remember a few years back I was trying to get my family to learn a little bit if Italian before we go to Italy (you know to be respectful to the people there) and my parents were like "no they get a lot of Americans they'll all know English"... We proceeded to get lost in Venice because they didn't know English and we didn't know Italian... And guess who recognized a word on a sign that lead us back to the hotel...me... Who spent 2 weeks learning a bit of the language in my free time...

@rogerwilco2

3 жыл бұрын

Always learn a bit of a language when visiting another country. - Learn to count and very basic shopping (I would like to have 5 of these). - Learn to say thank you and hello. - Learn to ask for directions.

@themadkitkat9302

3 жыл бұрын

a very important one (imo) is being able to recognise or ask if theres an ingredient in the food youre getting so if youre allergic or for relgious/moral reasons you can spot if (insert thing) is in there i dont eat beef so i made sure i learnt it when going somewhere

@idek7438

3 жыл бұрын

In Italy, young people (like under the age of 35) and people in touristy areas generally do speak some English.

@462n

2 жыл бұрын

Even in Japan, where many signs are in English and they frequently have English menus (at least in Tokyo), the majority of people only know a bit of English (probably slightly more than the average person from the US knows of spanish) and they usually don't feel comfortable speaking it. It's hard for me to even imagine someone genuinely thinking that all Italians speak English.

@bozmaister

2 жыл бұрын

Yes sadly as an Italian, only new generations started learning English to a decent degree. 10 years ago i would get some uni studends in pubs pumping themself up speaking a broken english(mostly doing a direct translation of Italian, messing up the time of a verb "I did went to the park"). Its better now a days

An American once asked me if we have wifi in the UK...

@trjinu

4 жыл бұрын

One asked me if we have electricity in Germany. because they couldn't see the lines. because in germany, they are mostly underground XD

@gdiluvthesepeaches3911

4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes we don't. Or mobile service. I live in East Anglia and my services are laughable. My best friend lives in Wales and we often laugh about this. I used to have 02 and they actually thought I was "being unreasonable" to expect to make calls to other people in my neighbourhood. "Can't you just use you landline?" Lol

@moveslikemacca

4 жыл бұрын

@@trjinu omg i've never thought about that

@pittarak1

4 жыл бұрын

While travelling overseas, a couple of very polite Americans from one of their southern states complimented me on my English. I am Australian - they thought we spoke French!

@gdiluvthesepeaches3911

4 жыл бұрын

@@trjinu To be fair, they might have thought you are so super hi-tech, you have gone beyond traditional electricity. I watched a documentary about how many German buildings are run off solar and plant power, heat from the ground, etc. "Grey water" waters all the plants, the rain is captured and filtered. And even the sidewalk and bike paths glow after being charged all day from the sun. I haven't been back for 10 years, but Germany always seemed pretty awesome. Let's face it, you have a reputation for intelligence and perfection.

i’m a foreigner living in the U.S and i hear this shit all the time. help get me out of here 😭

@lookmyrolls6522

9 ай бұрын

You know, you're not obligated to stay here, in the USA right?

@wthleo

8 ай бұрын

yeah im a minor so i cant go anywhere until my parents leave @@lookmyrolls6522

@smasher2425

3 ай бұрын

​@@lookmyrolls6522your profile picture perfectly describes who you are @lookmyrolls6522

"When celcsius puts a man on the moon, then we talk" Werner von Braun, german scientist in the US and Inventor of the rocket, founder of the US space program: *Chuckles in metrischen Einheiten*

Im norwegian and once a spanish friend of mine had friends from america visiting. One of them told me that I looked so american. You know when people say something stupid and then realize it...I was waiting for that moment. It never came. Weeks later we were out hiking and one person in our group fell and broke her leg. Poor girl was sobbing and throwing up. We were kinda in the middle of no mans land and at least one hour walk from our cars. My friend picked up the phone to call the ambulance and one of the americans said she shouldt do that because it would be so expensive. And that we could carry her to the car. My friend ignored her. Later the same american asked what the bill was and we explained why it was free. He then went on a rant about how much better the american system was. I was like... Dude. You suggested that we carry our friend that had a bonepipe sticking out of her leg. For an hour long walk. Thats your better system?

@May-Hope

2 жыл бұрын

Can't do shit when ppl refuse to reflect. Most ppl have serious problems with admitting something is wrong if it's always been that way for them

@jaredf6205

2 жыл бұрын

Bonepipe

@KlavierMenn

2 жыл бұрын

I think he just got defensive because it was a free thing. Which does confuse me because isn't america all about 'free'dom?

@KlavierMenn

2 жыл бұрын

@Gareth Tucker Yell, yes, but that's is what the taxes are for.

@KlavierMenn

2 жыл бұрын

@Gareth Tucker So do we, on taxes on services and products we buy.

I, an irishman, once had to explain to an american how st. Patrick's day is an irish tradition that was adopted by the americans, and not the other way around

@Julia-lk8jn

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my ... Okay, I don't know about St Patrick's day in Ireland, but in the US it seems to be mainly an excuse to drink green bear and waste money on cheap green hats. And possibly go around with a mic and a camera, asking "So, who was St Patrick" of half-drunken suckers in a cheap green hat.

@couldntthinkofayoutubename6498

2 жыл бұрын

@@Julia-lk8jn minus the hats and camera, it sounds the same as an irish st patricks day

@Jezzebel1313

2 жыл бұрын

No way!??? :D

@WayToVibe

2 жыл бұрын

I had to legit explain to my roommate (we're both American) that the Irish invented St. Patrick's day and it belongs to them. Americans just took it over in our country as an excuse to drink beer and dye rivers green. She lost it, railing about how the Irish don't celebrate St. Patrick's day and how America invented it to suppress other religions. Like... this woman is college-educated and the most intellectual person I know.

@kawaiiamarii2240

2 жыл бұрын

You're joking...

There are ignorant people in every country on earth, but as an American I must reluctantly admit that when we do ignorant we take that shit to the next level. I used to live in a small town on the Oregon coast and there were several times when people asked which way to the ocean... mind you, every time this happened we were close enough that you could hear the surf in the distance. I would reply, "Do you hear that roaring noise? Head towards it."

The more time that passes, the more that the US is seen as a joke

When I studied in the US, we had discussions on immigration in my history class. One guy said "well Germany has let in so many refugees that they no longer have a culture. There is no strudel anymore." His comment was just so dumb I had nothing to respond with. Also, all these people proudly talked about their international heritage; the immigration during the early 1900s is literally the only reason they were sitting in that classroom because America is such a huge melting pot of cultures. Yet they couldn't accept anyone else entering the country today. I was just face palming every single day of that class because of all the stupidity that surrounded me.

@waltzingaranel

4 жыл бұрын

The “melting pot” mixture is heterogenous not homogenous. Basic chemistry term but also a metaphor for the USA.

@lovecinnamonxx

4 жыл бұрын

Am German and can confirm that we now live in a sad, grey, strudelless world. Also pretzels are disappearing, roast pork is on the decline. We're headed for annihilation.

@alvarofavela2918

4 жыл бұрын

raininginamsterdam you have to understand that White America doesn’t have a problem with European immigration, it has a problem with Brown immigration.

@krisstinarose6679

4 жыл бұрын

@@alvarofavela2918 You make it seem like Americans are racist against brown immigrants. Hundreds of Mexicans flood our border all the time. It has become a problem. We have a problem against ILLEGAL immigration.

@seigeengine

4 жыл бұрын

If there's one thing I've learned about Americans, it's that they know literally nothing about foreign countries, but are happy to make things up about them to push whatever political nonsense they've swallowed lately. This is obviously a generalization. Don't come at me with your bs.

“Do you have cars in Italy” no, we ride pigs

@isaiahvaldez3330

2 жыл бұрын

I knew it Fuck I hate my country's educational system

@TalesOfWar

2 жыл бұрын

I thought you drove wasps?

@KinjiroTheThunder

2 жыл бұрын

Pigs are fun, also, I love your PFP, Lemon

@mermaidmoon2254

2 жыл бұрын

I was told by an American that pizza was an American invention. I'm Italian. I was this close to snap the man's neck...

@isaiahvaldez3330

2 жыл бұрын

@@mermaidmoon2254 maybe he was thinking of the deep dish pizza or something Anyway that is just one dumb fuck, Italians are the epitome of pizza people, That's the most common stereotype along with hand signals.

They are also taught that Edison invented the light bulb. When Edison came to Britain to patent his light bulb, it was pointed out that a Mr Joseph Swan had been mass-producing light bulbs here for over 40 years. So instead of the patent he went 50/50 with Joseph Swan - forming the Edison & Swan company, which still exists to this day.

I have been traveling the world as an hobby for the last 50+ years. I have always been hanging out with Americans when ever I came to a new country and found them great to see new countries with, imagine my disappointment when I came to the US for work and I couldn’t find a single person like my traveling Americans, they where a completely different breed. 😢

Nah, the American calendar system is backwards. Chronological makes more sense. Day, Month, Year.

@emeraldreefnriver6205

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@timeluster

3 жыл бұрын

My preferred is decreasing size order which means alphabetical = chronological. Year, month, day, hour, minute, second. I would hate to admit though, that Americans at least say the month and the day in my favourite order.

@RainMakeR_Workshop

3 жыл бұрын

@@timeluster That would work well for organisation. But it would be impractical for spoken use. When someone asks what date it is, they know the year and they usually know the month. So the day, then month in order of priority for typical communication.

@timeluster

3 жыл бұрын

@@RainMakeR_Workshop yep. When spoken you only ever really need 2. month day, or hour minute.

@domi9146

2 жыл бұрын

Or year, month, day, that's also logical for me, but month, day, year is just wtf and it confuses me sometimes.