These examples may prove that A: The American education system is failing, which is a scary thought, or B: The American education system is working exactly as planned, which is even scarier.

@rubberyowen1469

Жыл бұрын

Your B is correct. Brainwashed into the American bubble that few take a peek outside of.

@101steel4

Жыл бұрын

My cousin lives in Florida, his stepson is 15 and has never had a geography lesson.

@Dr_KAP

Жыл бұрын

Yeh but it’s so much more than that. I learned more about the world from reading books, newspapers, watching the news, talking to people, travelling, even playing Trivial Pursuit 😂.. not even the convenience of internet then.. and yet young people in America just don’t seem to care..

@williammccullough2466

Жыл бұрын

@@101steel4 What's really sad to me is that we have all of this amazing technology that allows us to connect to the world in ways we never could before, to learn about different cultures and histories... AND THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT STILL BELIEVE THE WORLD IS FLAT.

@101steel4

Жыл бұрын

@@williammccullough2466 Exactly. There's no excuse for anyone to be ignorant about the world around them. Everything you need to know is literally at your fingertips.

The dumbest thing I heard an American say, “Jesus was an American because he was preaching American values and American democracy.” To which I promptly said,” ah that’s why it didn’t end so well for him in the Middle East.” 😂👏🏾

@ChaolaoFueChi

Жыл бұрын

God damn, what a comeback

@icebergrose8955

Жыл бұрын

I had an American say to me "I speak American, if it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me." I thought he was joking. He was not.

@shanksre6186

Жыл бұрын

🤣

@micheleparker3780

Жыл бұрын

...that's pretty damn dumb.

@Trustworthy_McLegitimate

Жыл бұрын

oh, thats actually Mormonism. in that fanfiction/religion, Jesus came to America, and Native Americans are Hebrews, and that dark skin is a result of sinning.

One guy on Facebook corrected me that "You're Asian, not Vietnamese" when I said that I'm from Vietnam. I've never face-pamled so hard in my life.

@TheEclecticBeard

Жыл бұрын

Wtf. Seriously. Folks are crazy.

@GhostBear3067

10 ай бұрын

Should have told him people like him are why the US lost the Vietnam War.

@TheWolfalpino

6 ай бұрын

​@@GhostBear3067I know it's not a joke, but I'm still laughing, really.

If you think this is scary to watch as an American, then imagine watching this as an European knowing that these are the people sailing around the world in nuclear submarines and carrier ships.

@pauldelaney5990

10 ай бұрын

😱

@liaml.e.5964

9 ай бұрын

Europe? Ask all of the world, we all feel the same.

@TheWolfalpino

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, exactly. This year I went to India, for 6 months. I'm Italian. I stood there with poor people and mixing a bit. I got in touch with at least a part of India culture (6 months are not a week). When I come back to Italy, my mom retrieved me at the airport and drove back together. Let me say that she's a very contradictory person, she studied and she values her "knowledge" a lot, but she's the most easier to influence on somethings, and the dumbest goat head on others. During the drive, at a certain point, she said, refering to India, china, Asia, whatever...: "Now they have the a nuclear missile and it will be a mess" I suddenly stopped all my loving back home feelings and said: "Do you really think that the problem of the world is this? When America has I don't even know how many? Do you realize that what you just said it's just propaganda?" No way, I had to stop the conversation or I went for burying her. (The point here is how much can misinformation, propaganda and stupidity chosen and unchosen, can turn people mindset, even the most "studied ones") No, the neutral eye you have it or develop it or not, and got sucked in, in a way or another.

@TangiCook-co7vf

5 ай бұрын

Americans think they the only people that exist so no need to know anything or anyone else. Then a lot of them don't even know their own country States as per another channel l watched. But l think it's more the younger generation who are dumb regardless of the fact they the generation in the modern technology era. Easy access to millions of information.

@xeschire706

4 ай бұрын

​@@TheWolfalpino I think you're mother, very likely has a level of media literacy skills, that are practically non-existent.

I'm Australian, a friend of mine's sister did a 12 month exchange to the US in highschool. While there she entered an oration/poetry competition and did "The Man From Snowy River" which is a famous Australian poem, it's had a couple of movies made based on it and everything. She started off by explaining that she was Australian and she had selected an Australian poem for the competition. She was marked down for her fake Australian accent. She is Australian. That was her normal voice.

@Vickzq

Жыл бұрын

What do you expect, from teachers who can't tell what a woman is and are unsure of how many genders there are... They probably thought she should sound like Schwarzenegger, because Austria apparently is the same as Australia.

@Harldin

Жыл бұрын

Yep great movies and had Kirk Douglas come down for the main male supporting role in the original and Brian Dennehy for the sequel. My mother used to quite often read that poem to us when we were kids.

@Damien_Paxton

Жыл бұрын

Marked down for a “fake” Aussie accent? How stupid are these bloody yanks?

@zammmerjammer

Жыл бұрын

A friend of mine still occasionally reposts on his personal social media account a show review where the theatre critic called him out for trying too hard to put on a phony British accent. That's his real accent. They later had to add a correction to the review and everyone I know still finds it hilarious.

@IcanbePsycho

Жыл бұрын

I’m Aussie & when I was in the US, yanks asked me if I speak like this all the time 🤦‍♂️, they also said they gave gumtrees to Australia because Australia had no trees 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I was In the Coliseum (which is in Rome, Italy, Europe 🤣) and the tour guide was talking about which dignitaries sat where., Caesars area, the politicians and where important foreign visitors to Rome say, from England, Spain, France and Greece. A voice came from the back of the crowd, a small loud fat woman In khaki shorts, where did the Americans sit? The guide said, nowhere, you lot weren’t discovered for another 1500 years. Everyone but her laughed.

@TheEclecticBeard

Жыл бұрын

😂

@vivianrichards1313

Жыл бұрын

The fact that someone was brazen enough to ask that at the Coliseum in Rome pains me greatly.

@ReasonAboveEverything

Жыл бұрын

Lmao wtf

@emeraldspark101

Жыл бұрын

Sad thing is, that was definitely not the first time they heard that question, I guarantee.

@vivianrichards1313

Жыл бұрын

@@emeraldspark101 Oh, definitely not and it unfortunately will not be the last.

As a Dutch person, I am forever grateful to that last guy. In the 3 weeks that I've spent in the US I got so sick of having to explain that. I also got sick of the amount of times I had this conversation: 'Are you guys speaking German?' 'No, we're speaking Dutch' 'What's the difference?'

@theotherguy8007

Жыл бұрын

They think Denmark is the capital of Holland or sweden. And we had polarbears running around and the best part that we used them to ride to get around,.

@user-hr5pc3rt2n

Жыл бұрын

@@theotherguy8007 Canadian here - Thought it was only Canadians they thought rode polar bears to school if we even had schools that is. And we live next door. Lol. With this amount of ignorance you can have fun with it as we do. We tell them the most outrageous stories and they just sit there mouth agape. Of course this only encourages them. But the only alternative is to be astounded at their ignorance while true isn't much fun. We chose fun a long time ago .

@theotherguy8007

Жыл бұрын

Ohhh no, everyting in the northern hemisphere rides them polarbears(Cars only exist in AMERIKKKA). I have heard alot of dumb tings they say with a straight face. Not long ago i heard one say that casa de augustus aka caesars palace didnt look anyting like the one they have in vegas....... Haha yeah one can say some wild tings.

@jeancd3955

Жыл бұрын

I vr never been to Holland, but I ve been to the Netherlands lol

@icebergrose8955

Жыл бұрын

I'm from New Zealand but the people at my work insisted on introducing me from the Netherlands. I stopped correcting them, close enough I guess.

I befriended an US army guy here in Germany and since he was stationed here for some years, he tried to get his parents to visit him. His mom didn't want to come as she didn't know what clothes to pack. She reckoned it severally unsave to pack her jeans as Germans don't know these garments and she might get robbed of them. She really thought Germans dress like in "The Sound of Music". And she believed Germans don't have any technology, like we're living in the middle ages ;))) She had the most severe culture shock when she actually did come.

As a former exchange student who spent a year in an American Highschool in Nebraska, I have so many similar stories. Now, I am Swedish, but people, even adults, would regularly ask me if it was not strange for me to see this much technology. Obviously, I did not understand the question when it was first asked. So they would elaborate, and say: "Yeah, you know... computers, electricity, TVs!" As if... we do not have that back in Europe. Or most of the entire world with only a few exceptions. In fact, the stuff we have in Sweden is a lot better than what the households in Nebraska had. A few select people also thought it was unsafe for me, as an Athiest, to enter a church. While a bit dumb, at least the concern came from the right place.

@amyz2837

Жыл бұрын

I went to a Muslim country several years ago and had to argue with people when I returned to American that I used the bathroom in a flushing toilet. And when I explained it, I was told what I said wasn't true. Apparently I lied and Americans have exclusivity on flushing toilets.

@OscarInAsia

Жыл бұрын

I remember visiting Stockholm for work around 1995. I was amazed how much more ADVANCED stuff in Sweden was compared to what I was used to in America. Taxis with tiny printers (this was before GPS was available), able to look at my hotel bill on my room TV (which was like magic in 1995!). I got the same feeling visiting Japan in the 2010's. It's like we don't get the really cool stuff in America first anymore.

@FredrikHaugen

Жыл бұрын

Always fun to tell the Americans that our tax declarations takes about five minutes, we are almost not using cash anymore and that Internet connections here is dirt cheap, highly reliable and everywhere. And free health care and education all through university of course.

@Nemusplanta

Жыл бұрын

@@FredrikHaugen or that nordic countries doesnt pay 80% taxes of their income because cheap healthcare

@FredrikHaugen

Жыл бұрын

@@Nemusplanta Nope, average taxes is about 30-35%.

I love how frustrated you were getting. In no way do I think all Americans are stupid, but, the dumbest things I've heard and had said to me were ALL said by Americans.

@xarisstylianou6226

Жыл бұрын

Most civil workers are so stupid to start with There nose's are so far up you know we're that they can't smell the butt smoke

@annalieff-saxby568

Жыл бұрын

Sad, but (in my experience) true.

@B-A-L

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@sleepyrasta14820

Жыл бұрын

I'm from the UK and I've met a lot of stupid people here. They're everywhere.

@NoudlePipW

Жыл бұрын

🤣Yep! My brother-in-law is American and we're all close with his family (uncles and cousins and everyone), they're confounded by the things some Americans say! But yeah, even with all my experiences with them and other Americans... plenty of lovely normal people, but every stupid question I've been asked has been from an American 😂

Jeremy Clarkson nailed it when he asked; "Why do UFOs ALWAYS seem to appear in a particular place or community in south-west America?"

@pauldelaney5990

10 ай бұрын

Because they're looking for idiots!

Went to a local pancake restaurant with my family over a decade ago. Heard some woman at the table next to us say to her friend, "Did you know the Titanic really happened? It's not just a movie!" I don't think I've ever physically facepalmed so hard in my life. >__>

Not knowing Europe is classic. I gave up on saying I am from The Netherlands, and explaining Amsterdam is just a city. If you give up on it, it can be fun. I convinced ' a Shanon' I was from Holland, lived in a windmill, with a beautifull view of the Eiffel tower and that I went for my daily groceries to Stockholm on my bike.

@pierrepiea3279

Жыл бұрын

oh holy hell. As a living, breathing, educated, logical American - there are at least 10 of us who know that. The other 330 million - maybe not so much. We are going to crap. Help!!!

@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609

Жыл бұрын

I am happy that you choose Stockholm for buying your groceries! Maybe I'll see you sometimes when we both ride our bikes through my beutiful home town! (I especially like this because my mother spoke Dutch. She was a translator, mainly from English and German, but she expanded her horizons and learned Dutch as well.)

@robch.2901

Жыл бұрын

JAJAJAJAJAJA 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 when they find out that I'm Latin American , many of em have told me : "hey i know some Mexicans words" OMG i die of cringe i just answered back ohh really because I know they aren't trying to be rude. But it really makes you wonder what the hell they teach them

@artsew4499

Жыл бұрын

@@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 I'll wave! Fun fact is that I am a language teacher 🙂 (English, Dutch and German)

@kpoppy9635

Жыл бұрын

Well when the curriculum is 11 years of American history and one course (that wasn't for the whole year) of World History, what do you expect? (As someone from a small town school in America, this is the education I got.)

I'm a portuguese and the amount of times I've heard an American say my country is in Africa or is a city in Spain is painfully astronomical.

@fatassthebig

Жыл бұрын

To be honest arent we all a city in spain at heart?

@yourdogisdeath

Жыл бұрын

And remember, Spain is in South America, the Iberian peninsula is a mistake in the map, we are not European... 😂😂😂

@junked5362

Жыл бұрын

As as Spanish person I am exhausted from being told that my nationality is a language and not a real nationally😢😂.

@Drusille

Жыл бұрын

so if portugal is a city of spain, every american knows spain is just under mexico so you must eat really good tacos! ( how many times they're brains are broken when listen: spain is in Europe)

@VoidUnderTheSun

Жыл бұрын

Spend the 14th Century fucking around, spend the 21st Century finding out...

Belgian here, more specifically Bruges. My girlfriend was walking through the city some time ago and an American tourist asked her when Bruges closes.. Looking totally flabbergasted by the question she replied: "At 8pm" That tourist was under the sheer impression that our city is an amusement park and noone lives within the city walls...

@jerquake943

11 ай бұрын

Hahaha! leuk! Ik wil jou op ne pattakke tracteren, groeten van een kaaskop(jaah nederlander he🤣)

@valentinvas6454

4 ай бұрын

A city like Bruges or Venice is so different from anything in the US that the poor guy probably couldn't comprehend that it's an actual city were over 100k people live LOL.

The passport problem happened to me too! When I returned to SC from studying abroad, my driver's license had expired so I had to use my passport for ID until I could get it renewed. The clerk refused to accept a valid US passport and a valid international driving license. She didn't know what either of them were. So my UNDERAGE friend shows his FAKE ID and she accepts it without a quibble. OMFG!

@Jill-mh2wn

2 ай бұрын

Years ago my son and some other rail enthusiast friends were going through Eastern Europe .They were asked for Identity Cards ,which the UK does not have, passports were not acceptable. But it was OK when one of his friends produced his British Rail work pass.

I met a 30-something year old American man in NC who spent over an hour telling me about his hunting adventures around the world, even going so far as Tasmania Australia to hunt Tasmanian Tigers..... They have been extinct for over 100 years.

@Apudurangdinya

Жыл бұрын

He probably just watch hunting KZread videos

@emordnilap4747

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a guy I knew. Doesn't quite fit the topic as we're both Canadian, but the brand of stupid was the same. He tried to impress me by telling me about a rattlesnake he once killed with a stick. Said it's corpse was lying there twitching, and blinking. Genuis gets double points for a) claiming an animal without eyelids was blinking, and b) bragging about the senseless killing of an animal listed as threatened, in an attempt to get into a vegan's pants. Goes to show, stupid isn't always simple, sometimes it has layers.

@pelinoregeryon6593

Жыл бұрын

Was his name Lestat? 😁

@freddiefenderson2002

Жыл бұрын

I had an American tell me he was driving to Alaska. I asked him how many days is he spending in Canada. He said he was just driving to Alaska, so no days. I had to pull out a map and show him that Alberta is the length of the entire USA from the southern point of Texas to the northern part of Idaho. The American education system at work.

@AaaaNinja

Жыл бұрын

Not to be that guy, but if there's a photo of one at a zoo from 1930 they have not been extinct even 100 years let alone "over" 100 years. But for a 30-year-old that is definitely dumb.

I'm Canadian. I met an American tourist who was surprised to find out we had cars in Canada. He was from North Dakota and had seen Canadian licence plates on cars before because they get a lot of tourists from Winnipeg, but he hadn't put two and two together. And after I had explained it to him, he wanted to know where I kept my dogs. I said I only had one dog, and she slept in my back hall. He asked what happened to the rest of my dogs. I said I didn't have any other dogs. He was surprised to hear I only needed one dog _"TO PULL MY SLED"._ Over 80% of Canadians live in urban centres. I've never met _anyone_ who owned a dog sled team.

@juliee593

Жыл бұрын

Lmfao you're making my day

@MasumiSeike

Жыл бұрын

I raise you one better. Got asked over Discord if we had cars and internet in Germany... over Discord... Cars.. and internet.. to give them a little kudos.. no we do have internet.. but not really its crappy at best some days xD but cars?.. like we invented them! xD Course we got cars.. where did they think that Porsche, Audi, BMW, Mercedes and VW come from xD

@Lostachilles

Жыл бұрын

@@MasumiSeike the Germans didn't really invent cars, tbh. They were just the first to make them on a production line as identical vehicles for sale rather than unique experimental ones: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile

@oldmanaz.6811

Жыл бұрын

You mean in America as well. You are an American, just not a yank.

@IAmAlgolei

Жыл бұрын

@@oldmanaz.6811 No I'm a Canadian, not an American. I am a North American though, if that's what you mean.

Just gonna say, a passport, no matter where, when or why. Is LITERALLY, the ultimate form of ID.

I heard a couple in America. They where from England 🇬🇧. They went out to eat they got asked for ID. The person said this is fake. The couple said no it's not. The server said there is no 24th month. The manager had to come over to apologise lol.

Canadian here. I have to start by saying that I have worked in jobs where many of my colleagues were American, and for the most part they were intelligent and educated. But... There was one year in late December when I was providing software support to a woman in the North Carolina office, and she said, "Just to let you know our office will be closed on the 25th. We have an American holiday called Christmas. Have you ever heard of Christmas?"

@manictiger

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact: Christmas is a European invention, not an American one. Pretty sure Canadians know about it.

@ameeerul3933

Жыл бұрын

That’s funny coz i’m from malaysia , a muslim country and we too have a christmas holiday 😂

@jocelynnowen3078

Жыл бұрын

@@ameeerul3933 Rock on😀

@Todd.T

Жыл бұрын

@@ameeerul3933 The Flintstones celebrated Christmas. Think about it...

@Todd.T

Жыл бұрын

Really, A LOT of Americans don't understand their own culture, historical figures and icons. Definitely an age and education thing. Older people with basic education can destroy young people in HS and college. Older educated people are 4 times, no wait, 40 smarter than the president. I'm sitting in In N Out Burger with a friend and his relatives and their friends. I look around and say "Oh, a fifties theme in this restaurant, huh". Every American says "What do you mean a fifites theme?" I dunno, fifties music playing, people dressed like a soda jerk, tuck and roll seats, pictures of cars from the 50s... I am nowhere near the age of someone born in the 50s. I grew up with fuel injected cars, internet, computers. People now, don't seem to know anything from the day before they were born and before. People learn the minimum because they don't have to know more to function in society. The same people get upset when things don't go the way that they want it to go or think that it should go because they understand nothing else. The movie "Idiocracy" was a funny joke, until it became true.

When I told people in the US I was moving to Vienna, they either said, "Oh my gosh! I didn't know you spoke Italian!" or "You have to ride the gondolas." If I made the mistake of clarifying that Vienna is in Austria, invariably I would get a little silence, then "I love kangaroos."

@atomicbetrayal1

Жыл бұрын

Ok but in their defence, I am german and I once mistook Austria for Australia... But on the other hand, that was in 4th grade

@GuillaumePerronNantel

Жыл бұрын

I thank GeoGuessr for confirming the existence of Austria because I never knew it existed and thought it was Australia with a typo. But I wasn’t an adult when thinking that and staying ignorant af!

@davianoinglesias5030

Жыл бұрын

😅Vienna, Venice, Australia and Austria all mixed up

@candrian7

Жыл бұрын

There's a sign in one of the major Austrian airports that says "Welcome to Austria, we are not Australia."

@CK8smallville

Жыл бұрын

I just don’t understand what people do with their time?? Even if they never crack open a book, Hollywood movies and tv have a lot of info about other countries!!

One of funniest recent examples on how education system works is a kid who had to write an essay on some book they studied in literature lesson, like what the writer thought on the main character while creating him. Now the funny part is that this kid was a friend of this writer’s grandson, he went to the writer, asked him everything, wrote his essay and…failed, because it’s not what the writer thought according to what they teach. That’s all you need to know about how education system works.

I ended up with 2 US tourists in a train in Amsterdam. A British family with 2 kids joined our cabin. The Americans were amazed how good the English accent of the kids were 🤦‍♂

To quote the great George Carlin.. "When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat."

@dfuher968

Жыл бұрын

Or my personal favorite: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

The second one really baffles me... I find it really weird that they value a driver's licence as a higher form of ID than an actual IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT (aka ID) like a passport. And what if I don't drive? What if I never took the driver's test? Can't I be identified without it?

@sebastienlecmpte3419

Жыл бұрын

Also what's up with only accepting american ID?? What they just gonna refuse to serve any tourists coming through? Like I show them my canadian driver's licence and I don't get to buy beer??? WTF?!?!

@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307

Жыл бұрын

Theres so many "They stole the election from me with fraud" Trump "I believe what Trump says" some idiots "Theres no government documents in my possession" in Trumps sworn statement "They took the stolen government documents out of a box in the storage room, which I clearly where there" Trump on TWITter!

@sebastienlecmpte3419

Жыл бұрын

@@_JoyceArt oh yeah 100%, I was just pointing out how stupid that person is

@helenevoyer5317

Жыл бұрын

The only US (federal) IDs are the social security card and the passport. 🤦

@Luthigosa

Жыл бұрын

@@sebastienlecmpte3419 I once was almost rejected at an American bar in Seattle. Bouncer stared at my Canadian ID for what felt like 5 minutes before his boss had to step in and tell him that it was fine. He turns to me and says 'Next time you come here bring your American drivers license'. Yeah ok buddy, next time I'm at a foreign bar I'll bring my local ID, no problem.

17:55 That did it! Hahahahahahahahaha After ALL the corrections, the one that killed me was someone from a different country telling you what floor of a building you live on!!

I once met an american student here in germany and he said to me "He thought it was always raining here since all the WW2 movies show a rainy and dark germany!"

I'm from London, but live in the US and have been told multiple times that my English "is real good for a foreigner". I've also been asked to "speak British to my kid". When I utter words in English, the response was "No, no. Your own language!" 😑

@capcompass9298

Жыл бұрын

Give 'em a bit of Boom & Bang (Rhyming Slang).

@robch.2901

Жыл бұрын

JAJAJAJA

@balerion77

Жыл бұрын

You should've taught them a FOOTBALL CHANT 😂 they'd think that's some other language 😂. Do you support any Premier League Team?

@nhloniphoingqwele5433

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@9459viola

Жыл бұрын

@@balerion77 Who ate all the pies, who ate all the pies, you fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pies

Californian here, I've been around the block a few times and stupid has a way of sneaking up in you. I was in Germany, Berlin specifically, and I was amazed at how well this Asian woman was speaking German. Took a minute for my proper brain to start up with, "She was probably born and raised here idiot. Even if she isn't, German isn't exactly a rare language. " I was ashamed of myself.

@NordeggSonya

Жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian but born to new German immigrants. When I went to Germany when I was 16, I too was astounded to see Indian, Chinese, Sikh etc speaking German. Toronto has lots of new Canadians, but they always spoke English. Mind you I wonder how I would react visiting Quebec City or Montreal where they speak French?!?!

@MmeHyraelle

Жыл бұрын

@@NordeggSonya come and try. We won't bite.

@tristancoffin

Жыл бұрын

@@MmeHyraelle but you don't speak French. Quebecois is not French

@Kami-Sama197

Жыл бұрын

@@NordeggSonya love how Indians and sikhs are different 🤣

@uingaeoc3905

Жыл бұрын

Ermm - I knew a Afghanee ethnic guy from Germany doing post-grad in London. He spoke educated English of course and he said "British people just assume I am British, of perhaps Indian heritage, but in Frankfurt where I was born and raised and am a citizen I often meet locals who flatly refuse to believe me as i can't be because not white."

Your look of incredulity when she said Egypt doesn't exist was priceless.

As teenagers in 1967, my buddy and I went to the Worlds Fair in Montreal. We met a couple from New Jersey camped next to us. They were in a panic as the starter had quit on their car. We took him down and got one ordered even though they speak French there. The wife ran out of food and was afraid to buy any in Canada because all the labels were in two languages. They told us this was the furthest they had ever been from home and the first time ever out of the US. We believed them.

I was a high school math teacher in Wisconsin for 12 years. I had a student who told another student that their ethnicity was Korean. The other student said, "No. You're Asian." It took me 20 minutes to explain that Koreans are Asians just more specific, kind of like we're American, but also Wisconsinites. I'm not convinced they understood.

@AaaaNinja

Жыл бұрын

Maybe they didn't understand because if it took 20 minutes perhaps you were overcomplicating it. What if you had just shown them a map?

@peregrinef3203

Жыл бұрын

@@AaaaNinja entirely possible. Although it was 20 minutes because I would explain it and he would say no, that's not right and I would try again. This was before everyone had a computer in their pocket so I didn't have a map. Great idea, though.

@katie7748

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of King of the Hill when Kahn tells them he's from Laos and Hank just goes, "So are you Chinese or Japanese?"

@Trikipum

Жыл бұрын

@@peregrinef3203 The next time think about a thing. You cant save all the stupids. Never lose more than 5 minutes in these things. Instead, use the other 15 minutes to try and save another 3 stupids.. chances are much better this way.

@fionacarty6647

Жыл бұрын

note my shock and surprise that the USA school system teaches anything not written in their constitution

This story I'm going to tell you is the absolute truth. I was a Travel Consultant for American Express for 11 years and my older sister booked her own trip to England online all by herself without consulting me first on what were the best areas to book a inexpensive hotel in London and what tours to take, etc;.. she booked the flight, hotel and car rental through the website... when I ask her where she was going after London she looked me dead in the face and said, I'm going to drive to Paris... I looked at her and said, "you mean you're going to fly to Paris"... she replied, "No, I'm driving there in my rental car. I said, Kathy, you can't drive from London to Paris, you either have to take a plane, a train or a ferry if you want to go to Paris. I told her, if you want to take your rental car you can pay to transport it through the Chunnel on the Eurostar. Otherwise you must use the ferry to cross the English Channel with your car.She looked me dead in my face and laughed and said, "Oh My God, you do not have to cross a body of water... England and France are right next to each other... you can drive there in about 2 hours. What was worse is my older sister chimed in and validated my other sisters claim that not only were London and Paris 2 hours apart by car but that they were both on the Pacific Ocean. I couldn't beleive my ears. My one sister looked at me and said you don't know what you're talking about, you haven't been educated enough to know Geography like I do. I was 38 at the time with 4 years of college under my belt to her 7th grade education at 50. My oldest sister went to the 10th grade... later that day my older sister asked me how to spell "IF"... I shit you not. I love my sisters but they are dumb as stumps. My nephew came in the room and told my sisters, "I think that someone with ha degree in World History and works for a Travel Agency for a living would know a whole lot more about these places than a Data Entry Clerk and a unemployed Auto dealer cashier. We just looked at each other and shook our heads. He knew what time it was. hahaha 🤣😂

@jocelynnowen3078

Жыл бұрын

Fotfl

@lazarmarinkovic8486

Жыл бұрын

@@jocelynnowen3078 Little man for the win! He roasted his mom and aunt despite knowing that hes gona get a wooping not long after that! XD

@daisychong3488

Жыл бұрын

Please let me know what happened when she finds out she does, indeed, have to cross a body of water, lmao.

@sephikong8323

Жыл бұрын

The craziest part about this is the fact they actually believed they were 2 hours apart, forget everything about the English Channel and whatnot, London and Paris. 2 hours travel. I don't care if you don't know the geography of the area, if you have ever looked at a big city in your life and what kind of traffic there is as soon as you go outside of the city center and towards the outskirts you'd KNOW that this type of prediction makes no damn sense, fuck, Paris to Orléans can definitely take you more than 2 hours just due to traffic alone let alone taking the distance into account (depending on the day and hour of course, if you do it a Tuesday in April at 6:30 AM you would encounter a lot less traffic) and those cities are really close

@Meriale46

Жыл бұрын

@@daisychong3488 She never got to Paris because once she landed in London and asked for a map to Paris she got a wake up call. To make matter worse for her she didn't know where to go to site see and wasted her entire week walking around London with no idea as to where the Museums were, or seeing Kennsington Palace or even the Tower of London. I recommended all of these places and more and especially thought she's love visiting Hampton Court Palace. She never saw any of it. The best she got to see was the route she took to go visit a lady she met online a few hours out of London... at lease she was able to take in the sites as she drove past them. Some people just don't want to learn anything new because they think they already know it all.

I'm from Eastern Canada, and my family went to my uncle's cottage in Maine. 2 elderly women stopped by as my sister and I were at the lake, and asked if we were visiting or lived in the area. We mentioned we were Canadians and that our uncle has a cabin here that they always come to in the summer, and this year we tagged along. Both women proceeded to ask us how much snow we had back home. In the middle of July. On the East coast where we get more rain than snow because of humidity. We laughed and said there was no snow, and that we get boiling hot summers too. They straight-up didn't believe us and thought we were lying, insisting "you're from Canada so there MUST be snow!!! Isn't it right there at the border!?!?". I brought up my weather app and searched for back home, and showed them how actually it was 5 degrees hotter back home than it was right there in Maine at that moment. I even converted it to Fahrenheit for them, and they left my sister and I with this ignorant attitude of "how can we be wrong?" That was my very first face-to-face interaction with an American. I was 16 lol.

The dumbest thing an American said to me was, “Cool! I have a Canadian friend named Jim! He lives in *insert random Canadian city* do you know him?” This was after a conversation we had (but I forget what it was about). I just remember that the man clearly thought I would know his buddy just because we both live in Canada lmao.

@patsytyler2199

Жыл бұрын

I used to live in Cape Town, at the very tip of Africa. A man I met in London told me he had a friend in Cairo, and next time I was passing I should pop in and see him.

@selenacordeiro1458

Жыл бұрын

@@patsytyler2199 AHAHAAAA oh man. While you’re on your next little stroll why not? I don’t see an issue there🤣💀

@mish375

10 ай бұрын

Yes this is such a weird thing. Americans think that all us Canadians know each other. My family had one when we were visiting West Virginia. A bunch of Americans kept insisting we knew a family (with our same last name) in another province. We responded that no, we don't have any family or know anyone in Manitoba, but they kept insisting we must know them as they had the same surname. We don't know everyone with the same name. Hell we don't even know everyone in our own city. So strange.

@selenacordeiro1458

10 ай бұрын

@@mish375 lmaooo. They don’t seem to understand that our main cities still have hundreds of thousands-millions of people in them 🤣

@mish375

10 ай бұрын

@@selenacordeiro1458 They seem to think that because we have a lower population, we all know each other. Not the case at all. It's truly bizarre. But not as bizarre as the one American I talked to that seemed to think (I kid you not) that French was only spoken in Paris and nowhere else in the world. 🙄 I'm Canadian like you are. So you know I'm baffled by that statement because French is literally one of our national languages. I think my brain shut down for a moment from that nonsense. Nevermind there are French speaking areas in the US and many countries around the world speak it as a first language.

That feels like a dystopian nightmare. A friend of a friend went to the US for a holiday and she had to show her ID (Finnish Passport) at a convenience store and they claimed that her passport was fake and that Finland doesn't even exist. Honestly it threw my mind on a loop for a while. I mean I guess it's a meme but seriously?? Even the security said the same thing as the cashier.

@juliee593

Жыл бұрын

Babe wake up new conspiracy theory just dropped Finland isn't real

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

I had similar issues with my American drivers license in Germany including some people who refused to accept it because I didn’t believe it was a proper form of ID even when I had translated it. Smart people don’t work at convenience stores.

@DasBilligeAlien

Жыл бұрын

@@Mortablunt German here. Looked it up and a drivers license should be normally enough to get age verification in a store. But stores can house rule to not accept a drivers license at all. In that case you need a passport. (That's the ruling for german drivers license - I asume the ruling is similar for foreign documents. )

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

@@DasBilligeAlien I understood it as they didn't know if it was legitimate or not; not a lot of Americans come by with drivers licenses. I also looked very young for my age. I was 19, but I looked 14. I had an incident in America few years later where a bar bouncer refused to beleive I was actually of age and took my ID.

@DasBilligeAlien

Жыл бұрын

@@Mortablunt Makers sense. Also they increased risk for the cashier years ago (a decade maybe more?) so you cna actually loose your job if you make a mistake with age validation As it had been very leninent before. So its likely they would say no before risking their job.

As a European, I feel your pain! It's astonishing how 400 mil country has people who are clueless about the planet they live on.

@janeguarnera7700

Жыл бұрын

Ohhh my worse yet...devoid of self awareness.

@jarradmorgan8549

Жыл бұрын

@@janeguarnera7700 bone idle

@mightyosman

Жыл бұрын

there is a saying: all the gear and no idea.

@TheREALSimagination

Жыл бұрын

In their defense, every one of them is an individual, not a hivemind. Some people educate themselves, others get educated but a third part stay ignorant.

@larazeesk7080

Жыл бұрын

As an Australian who’s lived here 3/4 of my life I still get asked ridiculous crap

I'm Norwegian, I spent 11 years in South Carolina. I'm permanently scarred by stupid questions.

I used to live near Windsor Castle in England and obviously loads of tourists were always around. I overheard 1 American say to another, "gee, I really like Windsor Castle but it's such a shame that they built it so close to Heathrow" (for those of you that don't know, Heathrow is the largest airport in the uk)... I had to walk away as I was laughing so much.

@axoram

Жыл бұрын

😅😅

@LoneRanger100

11 ай бұрын

And other urban myth things that were never said by anyone ever. I lived there too.

@kerrybee1327

11 ай бұрын

@@LoneRanger100 wow, I had no idea that you followed my every move and overheard every conversation that I did... amazing.

Now you are beginnning to understand why we Brits see the War of Independence (in the words of Al Murray) as a lucky escape

@kevg3320

Жыл бұрын

2nd best divorce ever. (I'm claiming #1 for myself!)

@1chish

Жыл бұрын

@@kevg3320 My ex would like a word .... 🙄

@wcapewell3089

Жыл бұрын

Al Murray, love that guy. Yeah, i really wonder how the hell they won that war.

@alanrickett2537

Жыл бұрын

@@wcapewell3089 we only had enough troops and good generals for Europe and India their is a passage in Hansard were they are discussing if India or American was worth more they got it right and picked India.

@gordonsmith8899

Жыл бұрын

@@wcapewell3089 'They' fuelled the rebellion by accusing King George III of being a 'tyrant' - yet they accepted support from an Absolute French Monarch. Ironic really, rather like Putin 'liberating' the Ukraine.

As a German I had the same pasport problem when buying cigarettes. When I tried to explain what a passport is and that if it is good enough to cross the border it should be good enough to buy some tobacco, they threatened to call the police. At that point I was in full culture shock mode and just went. At that point I realized I had to handle my interactions with Americans in America much more carefully. I never felt safe there to be honest.

@pierrepiea3279

Жыл бұрын

Holy crap. I am so sorry. There are about a dozen of us here who have an actual education. We just can't keep the other 330 million in their cages. They keep escaping and spouting ignorance and shedding tears over how oppressed they are. Which they record on their $1000 iPhones for your viewing pleasure. It is driving us nuts. It's awful here. Help.

@Youbetternowatchthis

Жыл бұрын

@@pierrepiea3279 Americans I meet outside of the US are mostly very nice to be around. So it is not all bad.

@louisenewson-smith9519

Жыл бұрын

@@pierrepiea3279 This made me laugh so hard.

@brago900

Жыл бұрын

@@Youbetternowatchthis That's because they are smart enough to know that there is a world outside of the United States of America.

@lunarcorpse

Жыл бұрын

About half the population of America is dumb and the other half is educated. People homeschooling their kids does not help, especially when they only teach the Bible, my cousin's for example. They literally don't learn anything else. 🤦 Some parents who homeschool their kids are actually good about it, but some of them teach them flat Earth concepts and s*** like that.

I am from Finland and my American boss once visited us in Helsinki. We have another European office in the Netherlands. He must've confused Finland with the Netherlands, because he was really convinced that our country is really small, it's all below sea level and there must be massive floods every year. I felt like telling him our country is as big as Germany or the UK by land area with various types of landscapes, but I don't think that would've made any difference, so I went along.

I'm also an American, but a couple years ago I got back from living in Australia for a few years and someone asked me "well how did you understand them?" and I was like "what do you mean?" and they said "well do they speak English like us??" and I stared at them and went "... Yes???? They just have an accent?? Of course they speak English like us" 😭

@akitas8165

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, your sentence "I'm also an American, but a couple years ago " shows your US education. That would more correctly be "I'm also an American, but a couple OF years ago "

@thecorruptedlovely

Жыл бұрын

@@akitas8165 I literally don't care lmfao you still got the point

@stargazer-elite

Жыл бұрын

@@akitas8165 it’s just one small word also it still sounds normal

@MoonlightAce69

Жыл бұрын

​@@thecorruptedlovelyI'm an Aussie and dropping a word off a sentence on the regular is very Aussie. Good to see some of it remains for you 😂

@geoff1201

7 ай бұрын

No, they speak English like Australians.

In 2015, I took some classes at a community college (3rd career change, I was in my early 60's). In one class we gave PowerPoint presentations on health care systems of other countries. One student gives her report on Switzerland, and prefaces it by saying Switzerland is not Sweden. After her report, the teacher said "But there is a country called Sweden, isn't there?" She genuinely was asking. This was the person grading my research papers.

@pedrobastos1595

Жыл бұрын

I mean they are very different words. in my native language, Portuguese, they are very similar: Suíça (Switzerlanda) and Suécia (Sweden). So, it is A BIT more understandable that KIDS would mix them.

@MissSlovakia2

Жыл бұрын

@Pedro Bastos, yes, kids, but teachers? That's insane. They should've known!.

@darkrite9000

Жыл бұрын

Teachers in my school usually didn't get things wrong, except for on occasion math, the reason for this is I was there. You don't get things wrong when you have a kid who sleeps through class, and knows all the right answers before you dare to wake him. Do you have any idea how funny it is to be woken up and then within 5 mins, corrected the teacher telling them the problem written on the board is written wrong, give them the answer to both the incorrect problem and the actual problem they were suppose to write, and then be told to go back to sleep instead of being awake for the rest of class. Now granted my teachers were better at knowing what to teach more than some others as I soon learned from seeing people talk about their experiences on the internet. Now unfortunately I had a number of teachers who didn't care, they did teach us the right things, but they didn't care about bullies in school. In fact some of them would punish anyone that defended themselves against the bullies (in other words me, cause I have siblings, I know how to fight and the bullies, they didn't have a fun time). Thankfully I also had from time to time good teachers which did their job, they knew how to deal with me (basically saying I at least needed to look like I was awake or paying attention, cause they knew I already knew the answers so I didn't need to be there), they didn't allow bullies, and they were just cool teachers. Not everyone has those I realize, and I feel bad for anyone who went through school without at least 1 good teacher. Hell I learned chess from a teacher who used to be a chess champion, which I think is cool, then again I'm a nerd so eh.

@davidstirk4732

Жыл бұрын

Went to historical Jamestown when visiting the USA. The guide was dressed in period costume and telling us the history of the settlement. He said his shirt was made from buckskin leather rather than cotton. As it was an unseasonably warm day I asked him how he was finding it. He looked at me like I was complete idiot and said. 'No sir. I didn't find it. I made it.' I didn't ask any more questions after that.

@potatowarrior747

Жыл бұрын

@@davidstirk4732 wow......i feel my self esteem points restore like + + + reading all these stories.

"There's no way you actually speak more than one language. Everybody knows bilingual people are an urban myth." That was more than a decade ago and I still have no idea how she thinks translators do their job.

@thanossnap4170

Жыл бұрын

Oh my lord, i had the same thing. Norwegian here, on vacation in germany. We ended up with some americans in a pub, and the talk was flowing (in english ofc). And then my friend turned to me and told me he had to call home, in norwegian. This one american dude flat out refused to believe that we were not making up some weird english accent or something, and not speaking our native language. We all went 404 Error blank stare on him, because he was not kidding.

@mihaicolceriu-nicola7148

Жыл бұрын

@@thanossnap4170 yeah...thats like a special lvl of stupid😂😂😂

@mihaicolceriu-nicola7148

Жыл бұрын

ikr?🤣

@annachristinanotyet4678

Жыл бұрын

@@thanossnap4170 And that where Scandinvanian languages sound so nice to my tysk ears.^^

@user-hr5pc3rt2n

Жыл бұрын

Can't beat a 5th grader.

You have a wonderful laugh. It made me laugh. The best part of your reaction is you pause the video while commenting or laughing so we can actually hear the people. So many others talk over the clips rendering them impossible to listen to. Love your channel.

I'm Swedish and can deeply relate to the Swiss people here (just the other way around). My favorite was when I went to a barbecue with some local folks in Georgia where I studied, family of my American girlfriend at the time. One of her uncles, in his 40s, tried to get to know this weird European foreigner that she'd told him about. He comes up, beer in hand. So... I heard a lot about you. "That's nice to hear," I said. "Wow, you're English is really good!" "Thanks, I replied, we learn it in school and I've always had a knack for it." After a brief pause I added, for edificaiton "But of course it's not our native language" (you know, because...Americans). To which he replies. "Ah, that's cool. So.... do they speak.... spanish in Spain?" ... ... ... "Yes. Yes they do."

Speaking to a American girl here in UK, we were talking about travelling and so on. She then says "I really want to visit Rome because I've never been to France before", we couldn't stop laughing.

@IceMetalPunk

Жыл бұрын

She can enjoy some lovely native food there, like tacos 😂

@imperiumgrim4717

Жыл бұрын

LOL

@Frohds14

Жыл бұрын

Well, I know a famous German footballer - Andreas Möller - who once answered (he says he hasn't) to the question which team he will change to: "Milan or Madrid, main thing it's Italy."

@BellybuttonGunk

Жыл бұрын

I had a literal American physics student, in a pub, tell me that Stonehenge was caused by a volcanic eruption... I wish, I WISH... I was kidding 😂 being academic isn't being smart, it's being singularly driven, which, is actually the antithesis of broadening your mind.

@jameson1239

Жыл бұрын

@@Frohds14 to be fair atleast one of those city’s is Italian

My third grade teacher ridiculed me for answering her question: "Which planet is closet to the Sun?" I had answered Mercury. She then lectured me on how Mars is the closest planet to the Sun. That was the first time I realized that (on some things) I knew more than my teachers.

@TraitorFelon.14.3

Жыл бұрын

I had a Danish teacher for one year at school, who was supposed to teach us our national language… Danish. And the fun part? Well. She was dyslexic.

@annalieff-saxby568

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a college lecturer who told me that I couldn't describe a shape as a right-angled triangle "because that depends on which way up it is".

@Polymerata

Жыл бұрын

she probably talked about habitable planet but not the other planet which is unhabitable

@Museofmemory

Жыл бұрын

@@Polymerata Mars is not habitable. Mars is also further away from the sun than Earth.

@carstekoch

Жыл бұрын

@@Polymerata Then she would have been tripple wrong because none of that would be mars.

As a Canadian in college, we were accepted in the border towns but when I first travelled across the south from California to Florida I had similar experiences at almost every stop. Most polite but curious but some were so completely ignorant of anything beyond their own limited travel.

@mancyank564

Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. I was a military brat and many of us spent time overseas. Once a teacher told a friend that he was wrong about Japanese geography. My friend had just spent 5 years living there! The teacher had never even travelled out of state!

@vincegay986

Жыл бұрын

I’m an American whose fourth grade teacher had never traveled outside the eastern US. She insisted that it’s three hours later in California than in New York, when it’s the other way around.

Canadian born and raised live in Miami now. Two things stood out to me when I arrived here: 1) when I would say “I’m Canadian” folks here would say: “Oh! Do you know so-and-so?” They would refer to the other Canadian they knew. Like we were a small village of people that all knew each other. 2) when I would say I was from British Columbia they would make a reference to Cocaine in a joking manner. Took me bit to realize they thought British Columbia was Colombia hence the reference. The fact that I got both responses multiple times was alarming! Overall though the people I have met here are amazing, intelligent and cultured but there are a few exceptions 😁

@raymanbacchus

Жыл бұрын

My answer to the "do you know so-and-so" would have been "yeah, I do. they don't like you very much though. They've told how uneducated you are"

I'm in New Zealand, trying to explain to an American on twitch chat it was Saturday morning in NZ. He was telling me it can't be, that's impossible because it was only Friday afternoon in Cali. I tried explaining to him Cali is 20 hours behind NZ during the summer. This is where it got stupider, big mistake mentioning it was summer in NZ because he hadn't quite worked out hemispheres as well. I could sense his brain melting trying to understand NZ wizardry.

@uingaeoc3905

Жыл бұрын

Hey , you celebrate Christmas in the Summer - how dumb is that! Why not celebrate it on 25th December like in the States!

@asidik_spaze6098

Жыл бұрын

NZ doesn't have 4 season?

@sherinaelf

Жыл бұрын

@@uingaeoc3905 wow here comes the stupid American! December to February in Australia and New Zealand is summer. So that means, December 25th is summer in Australia and New Zealand. Everyone learns this in school even me an asian knows about it!

@DrachenGothik666

Жыл бұрын

@@uingaeoc3905 They *DO* celebrate Christmas on December 25th, just like most people on Julian Calendar (Christmas will fall on a slightly different date for those Christian faiths that still use the Gregorian calendar, usually sometime in January), it's just Dec 25th happens to be Summer for them because of the way seasons work in the Southern Hemisphere. They're opposite of the Northern Hemisphere; when it's Winter up here, it's Summer there, when it's Winter there, it's Summer here. It has to do with the Earth's axial tilt.

@DrachenGothik666

Жыл бұрын

@@asidik_spaze6098 They have four seasons. Their seasons are just on an opposite schedule from the Northern Hemisphere's because of the planet's axial tilt.

Malaysian here...this didn't happen to me but to my friend.. So we celebrated our Independence Day recently on the 31st of August and had a celebration and a big parade at the country's capital (Kuala Lumpur/KL) after 2 years of not being able to celebrate it on a national scale because of the pandemic... This friend of mine works as a hotel receptionist and the hotel happened to be close to where the parade was held. An elderly American couple (maybe in their 60s) got curious about all the noise and the crowd and asked my friend, and she kindly explained to them what all the fuss was about. The elderly couple suddenly laughed and one of them, with a straight face, legit said "but Independence Day is on the 4th of July!", to which my friend calmly replied "Yes ma'am, that's the *American* Independence Day. We are celebrating the *Malaysian* Independence Day today, 31st of August." And the lady just straight up said "Why are you celebrating it today? What's wrong with celebrating your Independence Day on the 4th of July like the rest of us?" My friend had 1001 snarky retorts she could've said to the lady in reply, but she wanted to keep her job, so she just shrugged her shoulders and said "I also wonder why..." with the sweetest smile she could muster..

@theparanoidandroid3583

Жыл бұрын

🤦

@NukNukka

Жыл бұрын

If it was me i wouldn't have been able to hold myself from laughing and correct them

@GodlordBazi

Жыл бұрын

Pf, typical Malaysians. Everyone knows that the 4th of July became an international holiday when the Americans saved us all from an alien invasion back in the 90's!

@f1r3hunt3rz5

2 ай бұрын

Shouldve recorded it and made it viral masuk tv lmao

I was travelling in Europe many years ago and an American asked where I was from. I said Tasmania. He complimented me on my amazing grasp of the English language. We figured out he thought we were from Tanzania. I said my native language was Swahili but it was compulsory to learn English in school. I said I would sing our national anthem: "Tasmania, Tasmania, no relation to Albania, Pennsylvania or Transylvania - TASMANIA " Which I sang loudly and proudly to him but it went right over his head.

@knutrasmussen5194

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

I'm from Britain and while on holiday in America, I had to show my passport to hire a car in Georgia, the very enthusiastic and sincere young man asked me where I had learned to speak English... while still holding my passport. I laughed and said "hahaha thats a funny joke", this young guy gave me a blank look and said "what joke Sir" 😂

I (English) was in a McDonald's in Stockton California when a server said she loved my accent. I responded 'I love yours too.' Her response leaves me amused whenever I think back to it all these years later. She said "But I don't have an accent?" and stood there frozen with a confused look for several seconds as I exited the establishment.

@AramatiPaz

Жыл бұрын

Waiting the day humanity will understand everybody has accent and that's ok.

@sharojak9401

Жыл бұрын

@@AramatiPaz If ever there is a person with no accent, they have created a new accent.

@pierrepiea3279

Жыл бұрын

probably a university graduate. We suck at education here.

@pierrepiea3279

Жыл бұрын

@@AramatiPaz Yes. Be realistic. There will never be a world like that. People have different opinions about things. And that is natural and good. We need some struggle. Having all people agree can only happen with tyranny - the law will tell you what you can and cannot say.

@dabooser1048

Жыл бұрын

Ugh Stockton, such an awful place, glad you survived.

I'm Australian, I've travelled a lot in the US and have heard a LOT of dumb things said. But I can vouch for the need for a translator. But a tip for Aussies in the US; after the third failed attempt at being understood speaking normally, repeat exactly what you just said with a fake American accent, and they'll get it.

@jocelynnowen3078

Жыл бұрын

Wow

@onthepalehorse

Жыл бұрын

Tbf that's not really a stupidity thing (still kinda odd though)

@Johnpinckney98

Жыл бұрын

In America, understanding accents and dialect is basically a superpower.

@elizabethb3436

Жыл бұрын

Heck, Americans have trouble understanding other Americans sometimes actually had to have a southern translater when I couldnt understand this thick Alabama accent. Actually asked her to speak slower still couldnt understand. And she was supposedly speaking English.

@CrispinBac0n

Жыл бұрын

Might just take my Glaswegian, Liverpudlian, Newcastle mates😂

"Australia-an-ish-ese." That was too much!

It's important to remember that, while even the heights of genius has its limits, the pits of stupidity are absolutely bottomless.

I once had a conversation with an American fella on holiday in the UK with his family, we were all on the train going from London to Edinburgh. Being Scottish, this fella picked up on my accent when I was speaking to the guard handling tickets and he turned to me after and said: "You must be loving this son?" Being a bit confused, I asked him what he meant and he proceeded to explain to me how Scotland was third world and didn't have electricity in most places. So the act of being on an electric train must've been a thrilling experience to me. His wife and kids were very keen to just stare out the window while I let him know that we're not that backwards in the north though I'm not sure he really believed me.

@jocelynnowen3078

Жыл бұрын

Ridiculous

@Neion8

Жыл бұрын

You should've just bullshitted him and said something along the lines of 'yeah it's tricky trying to find an electrician that can wire up a castle - the solid stone is a real pain to drill through' and just fed him the idea that Scotland was some kindof middle-ages fantasyland where everyone is a lord with a giant sword.

@andy70d35

Жыл бұрын

You should have told him about Robert Davidson (1804-1894) Who was a Scottish inventor who built the first known electric locomotive in 1837.

@GrumpyOldFart2

Жыл бұрын

Do you want to know something even weirder? “Third World” doesn’t mean what most people think it means, or at least what it ORIGINALLY meant. First World meant NATO and it’s allies; Second World meant Warsaw Pact nations and China (Communist countries); Third World meant NON-ALIGNED countries. So Switzerland and Ireland are “third world “ countries. It didn’t mean un/under/ developed/ developing nations. But as they say, language usage changes.

@shotofwhiskey9240

Жыл бұрын

@@GrumpyOldFart2 I did not know that. I have learned a new thing today. Thanks! 😁

Oh my, I think I have a good one to share with you all. I'm from England and visited America a couple of times. My first visit when I was 10, I was sitting on a coach and just talking to my mum. A middle aged American lady sitting across from me smiled and said 'I'm sorry, but I just LOVE your accent. Are y'all from England?' I said to the lady 'Yes, we're on Holiday from England.' Then she said... I kid you not... "Where did you learn to speak English so well?' I blinked a couple of times and just said... kinda slowly... 'England. English? Yes?' The lady looked confused for a moment and said 'I thought y'all spoke French over there or something?' It gets worse. I smiled and shook my head and said no, we speak English. And then I asked her what she did. She said she was an elementary school teacher. She was nice and pleasant and we kept chatting for a while. But I've never forgotten that, and I'm knocking on 50 years old these days. Some things just... make an impression. Don't they? :)

@Harldin

Жыл бұрын

That is bad, an elementary school teacher who did not know where English comes from😒

@Nicci82

Жыл бұрын

I always laugh when they try to spell check us too 🤣

@Harldin

Жыл бұрын

@@Nicci82 That is a colourful/colorful way to use your labour/labor 🤣by the way as an Australian I get the red underline treatment when I don't add the U.

@erickpalacios8904

Жыл бұрын

I saw the same exact thing happen to a Spanish tourist couple in Mexico. We were in a line to buy some trinkets from a small store in a tourist town. They asked the shop lady a question and after responding she asked them where they were from. They answered that they were from Madrid. Then she said, "Oh that's nice, but where did you learn to speak such good Spanish?!". They just froze for a second trying to process the question, before responding "We're from Spain." The Mexican lady said, unfazed, "oh I didn't know you spoke Spanish over there. I thought you spoke English or French!" I almost burst out laughing (glad I held it in. Sort of.). To be fair though, this lady was unlikely to have been an elementary school teacher. In fact, it's likely she may not have finished her primary or secondary education at all. Your story is just plain horrifying. An American elementary school teacher not knowing English comes from england?!?

When I was young I spent a few months studying in the United States. I'm Spanish. I was asked several times, people who did not know each other, on different occasions if we have a moon in Spain.

i work in a museum in Antwerp (Belgium) and we had an American couple presenting us with their glorious presence. so they went up the escalators to the uppers floors (yes our museum consists of 10 floors, panoramic rooftop included) and they wanted to enter. as they went up to me and wanted to enter i asked them "Can you show me your wrist please" and they asked, "why?" so i replied with "well as you passed by the ground level, you bought a ticket and that ticket comes in a form of a wristband that you have to put around your wrist to make it for us easier to identify that you bought a ticket. it takes away the constant requests and wait time to get your ticket." they go "why, don't you believe us" me, yet again "it is not about me not believing you but more about the fact that our second floor and panoramic rooftop are actually free to visit. so to shift out the people who just wanted to go to the roof but try to get in the expositions without paying? we placed in the wristband system." they replied again with "oh well then we won't enter your exposition ... it is not like Antwerp has anything to offer and it is not like Antwerp and Belgium itself has anything culturally to offer nor made anything good that affected the world. we as experienced saxophone players wanted to visit Europe to learn more about its culture and what they brought into the world but Belgium and Antwerp are terribly disappointing which had nothing to offer unlike the American town in New York. which were the founders of this city we are in ... plus we only wanted to visit the rooftop and the tickets are expensive anyways. me baffled "erm excuse me sir but you do realize that as you claimed to be an experienced saxophone player and your wife as well... that the saxophone is Belgian, invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax, who was born in Dinant, french side of Belgium. also, the founding fathers of this city of Antwerp were in fact not Americans, this city is 1000 to 1200 years old which is up for debate on an accurate count. so to be created by Americans ... is deemed to be impossible because at the time Americans did not even exist for the next what ... 500 to 600 years but ... what i clearly made out of the stupidity that you spout is that you cannot even read because downstairs before the registers ... it clearly says 10 times that the panoramic rooftop is FREE of charge. so you wasted a good 12euro (a little bit less than 12$) but if you find that expensive? then why don't you go to the Louvre in France ... the tickets there cost 17euro and in Germany, a museum visit is around 20 to 30 euros. but if you want to have a panoramic view in France? then you cough up at least 20 euros. in Germany, it is 15euro. so we are very cheap with our panoramic view ... since it is ... free. so have a nice day and by this, i revoke your tickets" without a word, they handed me their tickets and left and i had a good laugh with my boss and co-workers. i almost pissed myself from laughing and burst a vein or two with anger. i have allot of pride in my city. i do apologize for the bad English.

I was once asked in the US, Florida to be specific, which country I was from. I told the guy I was English to which he replied "what language do they speak there, because your English is really good?" I just sighed. Also in Florida I was wearing an English brand of clothing called 'Maine - New England'. An American came up to me and asked "where in Maine are you from?" perfectly acceptable question. I replied "it's just a clothing brand name I'm from England. To which he replied "that can't be true only Maine can use that name." I was tempted to name a list of English town and city names but I worried his head might explode. I'm coming to the conclusion that all the chemicals they put in American food are slowly killing the brain cells of Americans.

@dasbertl

Жыл бұрын

I'd guess it's foxnews, but the food chemicals are also a good conclusion

@nicksshitbro

Жыл бұрын

@@dasbertl how are you gonna say fox News and not include CNN? Thats so laughable.

@janwensveen1406

Жыл бұрын

@@nicksshitbro The amount of crap coming out of CNN is insignificant compared to the crap from Fox News. Like 99.99% vs 0.01% However, to non Americans, Fox news is quite the entertainment channel in regard to the retarded idiocracy they proclaim.

@dasbertl

Жыл бұрын

​@@nicksshitbro easy: until FoxNews came in, CNN was considered to be fair and balanced. The poisened athmosphere has one source, at that is FoxNews. Nowadays CNN is literally as onesided as FoxNews, though not so far away from objectivity and facts. But the shrill tone FoxNews brought in is at any media outlet nowadays

@krystelhardesty9960

Жыл бұрын

To be fair we have ALOT of people in Florida that are not from the US so they may have not recognized your accent. On my street alone we have people that are from Cuba, Dominican Republic and Poland and the older family members don't speak English at all. It is interesting living in Florida a whole new world of crazy but still interesting.

I was born in England but moved to America when I was 5 as my mother married an american, then moved back when I was 10. I was straight A student in America, but was C in England and worked toward my final B. English schooling is more complex. An A in America is borderline needing help in England lol

G'day, Aussie here and am having a bloody good laugh!! I worked on cruise ships in Alaska and backpacked both east and west coast so boy....do i have some stories lmao Basically, had many many issues with the ID situation-no one accepting my Australian passport of course smh and then half of them thought I was British coz I don't bloody well sound like Steve Irwin haha Was a hilarious time. Love your videos mate, your reactions are epic !!!

@royw-g3120

Жыл бұрын

Visited US a lot of times and asked if I was Australian, us Brits are all supposed to talk like the queen. Love to go down under at some point, will watch out for the “drop bears” though!

@User1975-

Жыл бұрын

@@royw-g3120 Ah mate , I’m hearing ya! Some hilarious experiences I bet … surely by now they know about the plethora of accents that can change from one county to the next !! RP is minuscule in imagine haha Well mate , best to come down around springtime -and you can get the best of all our states and territories. And I for one am keen to get to the UK ASAP !! Mad history buff !! Plus as a classical muso, it would be so fulfilling!!!

@User1975-

Жыл бұрын

@@royw-g3120 “Drop bears” are FEROCIOUS 😱😂😂

As a Canadian it really makes me sad to see how awful the education system is in America. Like one person tried to tell me that Freedom of Speech means they can say whatever and I'm like sure but it does not mean you are free from consequence. The generational hate/stupidity needs to die out. Learn, grow and be better, that goes for the whole world.

I think this is the insulting thing. It's not that Americans (or other, English people are sometimes guilty of this as well) are uninformed. It's that when some Americans are confronted with new information that contradicts what they have been taught, instead of being open minded, some Americans see fit talk down to a person who is more knowledgeable on a topic when they have no clue. To the point (like in this video) where an American is lecturing a Canadian on what Canada is like when chances are they haven't even been to Canada themselves. It's not ignorance, it's willful ignorance and extreme arrogance mixed together

@goose300183

Жыл бұрын

That right there is going to be the downfall of the US if they aren't more careful about it. People make it a point of honour to argue about things they think they know, and that everyone else is a fool. Even if it's a widely established scientific fact they are arguing against. Unwilling to change their views in the event of new information. Total refusal to accept anything that goes against their past (often very flawed) knowledge. That type of cognitive dissonance is one of the main things that is wrong with society and politics in my opinion. It's even creeping into other countries like mine (UK) now. Confidence in long-held beliefs is seen as an almighty virtue. Things change though, and we all should have the capacity to change our minds without shame or "defeat".

@annalieff-saxby568

Жыл бұрын

Well said! And very accurate. Wilful Ignorance is the 8th Deadly Sin.

@NoudlePipW

Жыл бұрын

Very good point

@SaintPhoenixx

Жыл бұрын

They do seem to focus more on making children confident/arrogant instead of making them know stuff. They grow up thinking they know best so when they encounter a gap in their knowledge, instead of saying "Hmm, I don't know, I'll look it up!", they revert to what they're taught to do, be confident and arrogant about it, the facts aren't important. Obviously they're not all like that but it does seem to be a common behaviour there.

@andrewdking

Жыл бұрын

@@SaintPhoenixx Then again, we Brits will just raise our talking volume at you until you understand Ok

The „not accepting a passport to buy alcohol“ has happened to me. The cashiers name was Tiffany (no kidding) and she refused to believe that GERMANY IS A LEGIT COUNTRY and that my german passport is legit… She didn’t even understand the concept of OTHER countries She legit thought that EVERY place on this planet is in the US…

@uingaeoc3905

Жыл бұрын

I am from Liverpool where there is a China Town - been there 300 years. My mother told me to look at all the Chinese people there. Well, I thought that was China - mind you I was 5 years old at the time!

@shaunmoneil

Жыл бұрын

I had a store refuse my greencard as ID. If you fake a drivers license they take it off you. If you fake a greencard they deport you. I don't wanna know how desperate he thought I was.

@Hansen710

Жыл бұрын

i been fined because my Danish drivers licens was not accepted as a valid ID by a Danish cop 🤪 * it´s those thing that makes you respect the police even more 🤭

@Mortablunt

Жыл бұрын

And when I was in Germany I had a number of times where I had issues using my American drivers license as a form of ID. There were even a few times where it was just simply rejected even when I translate how to read it.

@AaaaNinja

Жыл бұрын

@@Hansen710 Sometimes the state changes, "updates" the appearance of their state ID and I can see how that can cause confusion for a while.

Just seen this one mate. Your laughter when you crack up, is infectious. I near choke on my food or spit my drink, when you witness something that is so hilarious, that you just lose it. Good to know that laughter is the best medicine.

This made my day haven't laughed so hard in weeks thank you my dude, Greetings from the netherlands.

As a Swedish person I get a lot of: "-Oh, you got the Alps, right?" Swiss guys, I feel your pain.

@CeleWolf

Жыл бұрын

Just tell them Yes, you all have shares in them.

@GORANJOVIC631

Жыл бұрын

The Swedish alps that border Italy and Sweden. So Glad as a French Alps guy i can go to Stockholm in an hour using my snowbike 😂

@erikaeriksson9840

Жыл бұрын

@@GORANJOVIC631 As long as you watch out for the polar bears that supposedly walk the streets of our capital.... 😂

@erikaeriksson9840

Жыл бұрын

@@CeleWolf I wish. 😄

@GORANJOVIC631

Жыл бұрын

@@erikaeriksson9840 It's ok i have my domestic wolf with me 🤣

On the flip side - the first time I met my Greek neighbor, I pointed to the segmented nautilus-shell shape he displays on both his cars. "Ahh! The Fibonacci Sequence! Beautiful!" When he said he was surprised an American knew what that is, I wanted to punch him. After watching your video, I guess I owe him an apology.

Have to say, stupidity is not unique to America, (although they do it really well), here in UK my wife is constantly asked "Are you open on Bank Holiday Monday?" - she works in a Bank! Also, when talking about rising fuel costs and how it will cost a lot more at the petrol station, someone actually said.. "It doesn't really affect me, as I always just put £20 in." 😧

That laugh made me subscribe!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

This brings back a memory from my time working as a waiter in Munich. I got in conversation with an American guest at the hotel who asked me where Is was from. I let him know that I was a student from England but I was working in Munich during the summer break. He complimented me on my grasp of English saying it was almost fluent! As he tipped me 5 DM, I thanked him and told him that I had practiced speaking it a lot..

@pierrepiea3279

Жыл бұрын

I apologize for how many living breathing morons we have inflicted on the world.

@zububabu8249

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@edralyntashyambr1208

Жыл бұрын

Holy shite

@annmc8392

Жыл бұрын

😄

@yyy2438

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I spent 6 months in the US as an exchange student. I've gotta say that the general level of the courses and requirements at the university were at the same level as in high school in Finland (also, my apologies to those that I tricked when I said that we have pet penguins and polar bears are the main threat to human population here). Once in class the professor referred to an American study, which proved that "on average, 50 per cent of the American people are smarter than the other half." I laughed at first bc I thought he was making a joke, but then I noticed no one else was laughing, including the professor. Then he just went on with this insightful study. Well, I have to admit that he wasn't wrong, but... Oh well.

@TheGrimbler

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, this floor here is made out of floor

@BobbieSmith46

Жыл бұрын

I had to read this 3 times because I thought I kept misreading the percentages 😂

@TheGrimbler

Жыл бұрын

@@BobbieSmith46 did you also know that 50% of Americans are richer than the other 50%? Crazy.

@BobbieSmith46

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGrimbler all these percentages are frying my brain, but unfortunately there wasn't much there to start with.

@Trikipum

Жыл бұрын

They use the educational system to literally stupidfy the whole population so they are easier to manage.. this in turn comes with its own problems.. ignorance breeds violence and that is what they get.

As a non-American, I feel how you feel. My condolence. But I love how you laugh. It's quite infectious. Also, I've heard something similar stories except it involve with change(coins). Apparently coins are kryptonite to some American cashiers.

5:10 Virtual hugs brother, I FEEL the pain too! Though I'm also laughing my ass off at your reactions!!!

I'm from NZ and a few years ago I was studying for my degree in art and design. We had an American dude in our class and when July 4th rolls around he's demanding to know where the flags and banners and shit were. We couldn't get it through to him that it wasn't a world wide holiday even though his arguments insisted it should be since we gained independence and should celebrate it. I think we broke his entire world view that there is a world beyond the US

@thomasbaker7754

Жыл бұрын

Wow, just... wow. i don't know how far up your own ass you would have to be to believe this. (Oh look!!! A Kiwi!!! 😆. Hello from Oz!)

@Beans_OW

Жыл бұрын

bro I live in England and I'm unlucky enough to live near a military base, these guys are actually here celebrating their independence from us, whilst living in our country for free, and they insist on shooting off fireworks every night from July first to, like, the tenth

@stultusvenator3233

Жыл бұрын

What is worse is that Independence Doc's were actually signed on the 2nd, just turned out the 4th was picked to celebrate.

@thomasbaker7754

Жыл бұрын

@@stultusvenator3233 wow, really? i never knew that, i always assumed that the Americans had more sense than that, but wouldn't it have been picked to celebrate two days later because that would have been when everybody realized they had became independant?

@uingaeoc3905

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasbaker7754 They did not become independent on 4th July - they made a Declaration to be independent - they had to fight a war of 7 years to get independence.

Imagine being a half-Swedish half-Swiss person in America... that's my life, lol.

@bh5037

Жыл бұрын

sorry for you but keep on educating !!

@AramatiPaz

Жыл бұрын

In the good side, they can't get it wrong. kkkk

@DanteOokami

Жыл бұрын

I only know half of your pain. I'm half-Swiss. As did my Dad. He once had the experience where he was talking to someone and they found out that he was Swiss and they said, "Oh my god, that's so cool, have you met so-so, they speak perfect Swiss," My Dad, being polite, didn't tell them that Swiss is NOT a language but took the phone anyway....long story short, the friend was from Sweden and spoke Swedish. (But in my Dad's case, it was someone in New Zealand, not the U.S. Lol).

@thornyback

Жыл бұрын

Your Swahili is impeccable!

@kamilosowski3889

Жыл бұрын

Give up. Just tell them you're from Europe. Most of them will just assume it's a country.

Love your reactions... your facial expressions are like "dead inside", "dude, you f*** serious", "why am I not even doubting this happened this exact way" :D

Oh, was in a hair dressers with an aunt in San Francisco in the late 90's. When my aunt told the hairdresser where she was from. The girl pulled the same 'your English is amazing' that the Canadian got. My English aunt replied 'If you keep practising, you'll get there too'.

As they say, "There aint no cure for stupid" Stupid is universal, but I must admit that SOME Americans have turned it into an artform!

i moved from germany to the us as a middle schooler and had a 45 minute discussion with my geography teacher because she didn't believe me that we actually also drive on the right side of the road her argument was only the US drives on the right side. The day after she actually seriously asked me if we have DVDs and TVs over there this wasnt very long ago abot 6-7 years and as i told her technologically germany was at least as advanced as the US she called me a liar hahaha

@paulocbn

Жыл бұрын

fuck man...the country of the bmw´s audi´s and mercedes and no dvd´s and tv´s....

@pierrepiea3279

Жыл бұрын

OMG. I remember using the word "Haus Frau" in sophomore English class. The teacher argued endlessly with me that it was not a word. It means housewife in German. She was also the type whose exams on a classical novel would ask, "What color dress was Rebecca wearing in the scene on the marsh?" I swear that is a true story.

@cantfeelthis3288

Жыл бұрын

@@pierrepiea3279 hahahaha yeah sounds about right idk why theyre so ignorant and stupid its kind of painful

@DarthLenaPlant

Жыл бұрын

@@pierrepiea3279 What an idiot Teacher, because in German you can just make NEW words by combining other words XD

@no_L_in_sight

Жыл бұрын

It's not like Germany has a bit of a reputation regarding the automobile industry 😂 Yeah, it's a big surprise we have running water and electricity. America is really wild, man

Your chuckles made me laugh. Thanks.

I deadass watch this video once a week just to fix my week. Bless ya man.

I was once on my way home from working in Edinburgh when I overheard an American couple discussing, entirely in earnest, how convenient it was that the castle had been built so close to the train station. 🤦

@christinepreston8642

Жыл бұрын

Same with Windsor Castle being built so near Heathrow Airport! And they think the castle is built out of fibreglass like a Disney attraction!!

@romystumpy1197

Жыл бұрын

😂

@lorraineyoung102

Жыл бұрын

@@christinepreston8642 🤣🤣

@Pappa_66

Жыл бұрын

You sneaky little devils you😃😃😍😍.

@gryph01

Жыл бұрын

Oof! That's right down there with Trump's claim that the Continental Army took the British Airfields during the Revolution

I’m Canadian, this happened many years ago, probably 1995. An American I was speaking to in a chatroom, on the internet, that I needed a computer to access, asked me if Canada had electricity yet.

@dennisbautista6795

Жыл бұрын

I’m curious too know what makes an American think Canadians are living in caves.

Late to the party but I will keep watching you. Man, your laugh is infectious! Thanks for the laughs!

im.going to check some more of these out.Funniest thing ive seen for a while.Your laugh set me off.

I think the most shocking is the geography teacher who told the guy there are only sleds in Canada. One might expect someone who left school at 14 to say that, but the woman is a teacher. Not only that, she teaches geography. How on earth did she gain a degree?

@eyeonit469

Жыл бұрын

My son had a similar experience. He was a foreign student in a very famous university attending a civics class . The professor was talking about the American transportation system. He asked my son if he had a car and driving the roadways. My son replied he did to which the professor said "you must find our roads and highway systems very intriguing ". My son replied that it was indeed very different than the dirt tracks he was used to. This university is less than an hours drive from the border. Has this guy never even seen a picture of Toronto? For that matter does he even know there is a city called Toronto?In no way am I putting all Americans into this level of willful ignorance, but teachers? This is the same civics class where my son was the only student in the room that could answer the questions about how the federal government has been set up and the division of power down to state level. He can do this because from elementary thru high school, we study the history and their place in the modern world of countries and regions around the globe. I wouldn't be lying if I said that we probably come out of high school knowing more about American history than our own. It would be interesting to see the percentages of highly educated, basic educated and undereducated.

@B-A-L

Жыл бұрын

Oh come on, anyone can buy a degree in America!

@Raikigraphics

Жыл бұрын

if you complain enough about being bullied because of your religious beliefs, they'll give you anything in america.

@RickLoftus60

Жыл бұрын

CrackerJack box. The same place that most Americans get their drivers licenses.

@lizekamtombe2223

Жыл бұрын

I would chalk that down as the teacher pulling their leg, I know my teachers would often do that with exchange students and the like. But then again, they had a cruel sense of humor.

I'm Canadian and was driving down to Albuquerque one year. Stopped at the first gas station, about fifty miles south of the border, to fill up the tank - gas used to be so dirt cheap there. Anyways, the lady behind the counter says "Where are you all from?" I said "Canada'. She says, wait for it..... "Canada? Where's that?" I turned and pointed north on the highway that we could see through the window from the counter. "Fifty miles up that road." 😂

@icevariable9600

Жыл бұрын

Dude!!!! I thought you meant 50 miles from the Mexican border at first, which is still a fucking shocker, but for that idiot to be 50 miles South of Canada and not have a fucking clue??? All these stories are just painful to read. So fucking embarrassing.

@phillipsmejkal1

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@cgkennedy

Жыл бұрын

That is amazing. They must also be living with their heads up their collective behinds.

@clivenewman4810

Жыл бұрын

American ignorance, the gift that keeps on giving.

@GORANJOVIC631

Жыл бұрын

One American i met in France was thinking that Québec was in Europe. How is that possible 😂

I once was talking with an American on Discord. When we got into the topic of our own countries, he asked me: "Soo, what is it like to live in communism?" And I was like: "Huh, what do you mean?" And he literally said: "Like, aren't you guys communist? You know when the Berlin Wall fell and then all the social stuff like healthcare and stuff?" My mouth literally dropped and I asked him: "Are you serious?" And yes, he meant it seriously.

You are my new found KZread love! I love your laugh and this is hilarious!

I feel for you my friend, I found it pretty depressing and I'm British. The look on your face is priceless, and I have the biggest smile just from your reaction!

@TheGramophoneGirl

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, all us British people keeping quiet and keeping our heads down :/ lol

@paulgreen758

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGramophoneGirl lol but they are good at being stupid

@flamenmartialis6839

Жыл бұрын

I'm not american but even I feel a need to pour a stiff drink watching this.

@imthegayboy1236

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm British and I feel embarrassed

@Bear_the_shepherd

Жыл бұрын

Yep I'm English and feel for them :/

I worked in a bank for a while in customer service and I got a call from an American woman who wanted to apply for an Irish credit card. She still lived in America and was only going to be visiting Ireland later in the year. She thought that if she used an American card, the ATMs here in Ireland would only give her dollars and not Euros. I didn't know how to even begin explaining to her that's not how that works...

@sylverscale

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What?! They don't freshly print the money inside of the ATM based on the nationality of the person withdrawing funds? I'm shocked! 🤣

@jaxcoss5790

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@@sylverscale 🤣🤣🤣

@MrClobbertime

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Wello, they certainly wouldn't give her any cents. 😉

@ADRIAN-zh4ti

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That can't be trueeeee 🙀🙀🙀🙀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👀👀

@user-pm3wk6lw6m

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Actually, could you elaborate on this? Last time I traveled abroad cash was still a thing. Does it work like exchanging currency? Does the local bank take interest for processing another country's currency? Does it work for any country?

this was funny, thank you :)

This guy's laugh is so amazing haha, his laugh is contagious