😳There's More?😳 American Reacts to Whats the Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said to You pt 2
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- 😳There's More?😳 American Reacts to Whats the Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said to You pt 2
And we're back looking at the dumbest stuff Americans say or ask of people from other countries. I have a feeling this could be a never ending series of videos on the channel.
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Many years ago I had an American girlfriend who was a doctor working here in the UK for the NHS, I suggested to her that she should invite her parents over to stay for a few weeks. My house was built in the year 1521 so was about 400years old. They come to stay, her mum was ok, but dad was a total pratt, during a chat one day about the history of the house I mentioned that the house was built in 1521 12 years before Queen Elisabeth the 1st was born. He become confused because he told me it could not be, as we had modern facilities, baths, and taps, as well as electricity, and did not use the well to get our water. I just had to rub it in that the house was older than his country. His daughter had to have a long chat with him.
I had us friends stay over and they were bragging about their salary and home etc. He was looking at our furniture asking about it. I told them it was a Queen Anne table about 225yrs old and he replied couldn't you afford a new one!
@@queenarchives350 The fugg did i just read ?!
I find it endlessly mesmerising just how clueless some Americans are. Specifically those who grow up in a town with only a few thousand people, in the middle of bum fuck nowhere, that's either called 'Little rock', 'big river', or just simply named after somewhere in the UK or France. So many of these people just live in an echo chamber, where their thoughts and opinions are simply never challenged. Everyone in the town might be right, but their 'right' will likely differ from the rest of the world. Kinda sounds like a cult when I say it like that LOL
@@queenarchives350 WHAT!!!!!
@@queenarchives350 ˋMurica!
So some Americans think the English language comes from America. Some also think the Spanish language comes from Mexico 🙄
England, Spain...it's right there in the names
@@breezy3392 Wait 'til they find out Portuguese doesn't come from Brazil.
Do some people think that only Mexicans speak Spanish? Jeez they’d have the shock of their lives if they found out the number of countries that are Spanish speaking including…Spain!
I once argued with an American on a tiktok comments section that Spain was an actual country and "Spanish" is from Spain.
@@Carlzz92 LOL, what did they respond?
I live in Finland and an American couple (I assume they had just moved here), asked me in Prisma (a local supermarket chain) that where they might find a bullet proof backpack for their child, who was about to start school here.
When I told them were not in America, we don't have such things, nor do you need such thing. Nobody is going to shoot your child. The mother almost began to cry.
I really find that really sad to hear!! The fact that it's so 'normal' there to have the threat of being shot on a day to day basis... hopefully they feel much safer now they live in Finland!
I can’t decide if that’s rly wholesome or rly heartbreaking, good god. And people still think guns should be legal🙄
I used to work for IBM.
We had a new point of sale product (till) that weighed a metric butt tonne, and was made of stupidly thick metal.
We found out later, that it was "bullet proof", a sales point for the US market.
Apparently it's a thing the raiders do to open the cash draw , shoot the till.........................!!
No thought about where that bullet will bounce off to, or who they will shoot next!!!
Maybe I come from a part of America where there's no need...but I've never heard of such a thing. Maybe that's a thing in large cities with high crime rate, but that's the exception not the rule to the majority of the country. There's a stupid thing the rest of the world thinks about America....the country is rife with crime and murder.....totally not true. Remember, not everything you see on TV is true. Just sayin'.
That's not stupid just incredibly sad😔
I'm Canadian but I went to school in Florida... I speak French. There are others, Haitians and Creole etc... it's fun to see how different French is from other places... but... the Americans thought we were talking fake gibberish to insult them. They got so mad it was great
I remember listening to a group of american tourists visiting Salzburg in Austria.
One of the women turned to her friend and said "We`ve been in Austria now for four days and havn`t seen a single kangaroo or koala bear". True story.
😂 did anyone tell them their error?
Let's throw another shrimp on the barbie.
This is why I'm a big fan of not Anglicising every place name. Nobody would confuse Australia and Österreich. Or Georgia (the USA state) and Sakartvelo.
(Edit: Okay to all the pedants who don't like me using the term 'Anglicising', what word would you use? )
Then they'd confuse Austrians with ostriches. Or emus.
I'm surprised they didn't complain about the fact that they haven't seen a single "Mozart" yet. Hahaha.
"Stupidity IS in no way specifically an American trait, but when Americans do it... Damn they do it well." Could do one for the U.K, right now to be honest.
What you expect from a nation where 90% + believe the world was created by imaginary ghost in the sky, who flooded the entire world and then open the red sea waters!
And most countries in the world. I give Spanish classes for adults in Germany and I once was asked if there are trees in Spain.
@@gatoniebla4900 For the love of beer tell me it was either in Saxony or the Saarland!
@@cyberfux Lower Saxony, Osnabrück.
@@cyberfux It was in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony.🙂
My dad had a very interesting experience in Atlanta a few years ago. He was a bit confused with the smaller pennies and asked a cashier to check again if he gave the right amount. And she was so confused when he explained that he is from Europe and not used to the USD. She asked him how we guys in Europe are able to pay for anything if we aren't using dollars. He just told her that we don't pay, we just take the stuff 🤣
Brilliant!!!
Great reply, hahaha.
And now imagine this lady.. after work she goes back at home and says " hey mom, listen what I learned today.. in Europe people don't pay they just take the stuffs " and that's how their stupidity is getting spread 😂
I did a similar thing. I asked how much a coin was and the reply was "that's a nickle".
And she probably believed him😅
I almost choked in my drink when the woman from Wales started talking about how they said it was a fake country.
I made it through that - it's a small country and is rarely if ever mentioned in movies, so unless you watch British shows/movie, you're unlikely to have heard of it - but the 'Prince of Wales' thing had me in stitches.
Apparently, only 20% of Americans have passports.
The rest of the world: phew 😂😂😂
Love these reactions as usual bud.
In the long run it would be better if more came out their USA bubble, as they realise they aren't the greatest country, and the more that know, the more chance of change.
It's actually 37% .I suppose when your country is the size of a continent itself it changes things .Here in Europe you only drive an hr or 2 and your in a dif county whereever you are whilst in the States you can drive for days on end and still be in the same country .No excuse for knowing so little about the rest of the World of course .it's on tv lol
@@Dave062YT Not to forget, that you'll hear mostly a foreign language if you go longer than half a day in any direction.
Sometimes even the neighboring city can already run on a different dialect …
Amen to that, lol!
Luckily I’m old enough to probably be dead by the time these people get into power, imagine being ruled by someone who has absolutely no idea how the world looks or works for us ordinary folk
My husband is hilarious with Americans. Normally, when you ask someone where they are from they say a country, but Americans always say a city, just assuming everyone should know where that is because America is the best etc. So, even though he is well versed in American geography, when an American says a city my husband will ask where is that? Then they will say a state, he will ask where is that? They then say America, and he says oh, where is that, in Europe? And every time I lose my shit and can't stop laughing because the American is like huh? And even better is if they then ask him where he is from in response to his Europe comment, he will say "my house is on the hill, up the road from the roundabout with that really nice tree that blooms in the spring, it's just up from George's house" OMG it is too funny.
your husband is a LEGEND
🤣🤣 I'll have to remember that, the next time I get that from an American!
Hey, I know George too!
Aye yo. Doesn't George live in that place with the thingy?
That's a really good one. Assume (even falsely) that their American city or state is in Europe!! Yes! 😄
Talking to two American ladies visiting a small fishing village in the south west of England, I asked what they thought of the place. One said she was impressed as to how clean the place was. They even pump out all the water from the harbour and replace it with clean.....twice a day! I didn't have the heart to tell her that it was the tide going in and out.
I live in Canada, and my father was adopted. He also had 3 other biological brothers. 2 we had already met as they lived in the same province. The other was adopted and moved to the states as a baby. We met him for the first time when we flew him here. We learned a lot about him. He's from Iowa, a retired teacher. Somehow, when we went to dinner at our local Tai restaurant, we got into a conversation about how big China is and the concentration of people in the larger cities. He said to us "imagine how concentrated the United States is. We're the biggest country in the world with the biggest population. We had to explain to him, a RETIRED TEACHER, that not only is the US not the biggest country in the world, but it also doesn't have the biggest population. We told him Russia is the biggest country in the world, at which point he said, "ok, we're the second biggest". We said, "no, it's not." He laughed and said, "what is then". I said, "you're in it, sir". He even said he was expecting dirt roads and freezing weather (it was the summer at 35 degrees celsius) and thought we drove skidoos around the streets in winter. HE WAS A TEACHER IN IOWA!! 🤦🏽♀️
With a "teacher" like him I'm not surprised why the students ended knowing nothing like the mentioned in the video. Greetings from northern México!! 😊
@@manueltapia1859 You can't blame him, cause he himself was a victim of the school system in die US before.
Most us-citizens are self-centered, everything rotates around them and the US, like in the middle ages, you know, before Galileo ...
So this is not exactly American ignorance/stupidity, but when my old boss was expanding to America, he invited the young woman (20 y/o) he hired to head up the offices over to the UK to see how he ran things. She was so confused after visiting the shop for lunch telling us how the guy in the shop forgot to charge her tax, her mind was blown that we include the tax in the listed price.
Then a few days later he took us all out to the pub for lunch to celebrate the most profitable month since he started the company, he bought everyone a meal and a pint of beer or glass of wine (their preference) and the sweet summer child refused to drink because she was under age, again her mind was blown that we class you as an adult at 18 so you can legally drink in public at 18.
Giving her this information may have been a mistake though, I've never seen someone quite so merry after a single drink.
😂
If you were eating she could drink at 16
Yeah...I've seen so many americans going nuts when they saw teens in my place walking with a can or bottle of beer...when I explained to them, that in germany it's legal to drink beer or wine at age 16, they asked about gang criminality...
@@erikstolzenberger1517 KS Mafia is going to get you ! xD
@@MrDazzlerdarren I am sure you used to be able to give children alcohol from 4 in the UK with a meal, which is nuts!
Don't feel bad, it's not just Americans. I'm a Finn living in Australia and had someone ask me where I was from (the accent). So I after I told her Finland, she says "oh, that city in Switzerland, right?". When I told her no, the country and explained where it was, she then told me I was dumb, that Finland the country didn't actually exist, it was made up by the Russians as a way to keep the fish. I just walked away at that point. So no, stupidity is everywhere 🙄
The problem always arises when people who obviously know shit want to tell you how the world works. Ignorance is ok, not everyone has to be good at geography. But please for fucks sake acknowledge your own Ignorance
Did you leave her with the parting shot "so-long, and thanks for all the fish"!!
Russian propaganda is also everywhere. Looks like it strongly correlates with dumbness.
@@nicksykes4575 🤣🤣 omg, I WISH I had thought of that!! I love Adams... I'm mad I didn't think of that. I'll remember it if it ever happens again
@@voidseeker4394 well apparently the Russians invented Finland to stop the Japanese from fishing there and that the country actually doesn't exist. But apparently neither does Australia do I guess I'm out of luck 🤣🤣
I am from Denmark and an American once asked me if the "Viking reservations" worked the same way as their native American ones and was I often troubled by polar bears!!!
vikings = pirates (okay, and maybe sometimes traders, probably depends on what sort of fortifications they encounter).
And now I have this image of a reservation full of fur-clad, sword-and-shield carrying warriors ambling around, trying to keep the whole thing running, and now and then doing some traditional cultural stuff like burning down and looting the next town over.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Julia-lk8jn That's just as Dumb as Americans, thinking Canadians still ride Polar Bears/ Moose and still use Dog sleds to go from place to place. Also thinking that we still live in Igloos.
@@Julia-lk8jnthat's the Norwegians 😂😂
I am a Canadian. I went to visit a friend in Hutchinson, Kansas. The friend's mother was a school teacher for I believe grade 5. Before I went there, I gathered some materiel from the Town I grew up in. Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. I was invited to talk to the class, about the area I grew up in. My first question was this. "How many seasons do you believe Canada has? Please be honest with me."
3 children raised their hands and said "1. Winter.'
My response... "How many seasons does Alaska have." I had inquired as a statement.
The whole class "4 seasons."
My question. "Alaska lies much further north than most of Canada, why does Canada only get winter?"
The students could not think of an answer. Needless to say. By the time I was done doing my presentation, they knew more about the geography of North America then they did earlier that day. I hope they retained their knowledge.
We as "foreigners" thank God have more knowledge about history, geography, etc from our countries and others, than US people. Greetings from northern México.
It's the Dunning-Kruger Effect, the less you know about something, the more confident you are you are correct. And the more you know the less confident you are, about the subject.
Wise.
It's the shit for brains effect.
Back in 1996 travelling under BRITISH military orders (used to count as diplomatic papers I.E. no stop and search of baggage) with all kit to join a new ship in Virginia, the customs agent at Washington took it upon himself to ignore my papers and do a complete search of every bag and my person because I was "suspicious", after tipping all my bags and checking every item of kit then throwing it in a messy pile his boss saw my uniform and turned white. Guy got reamed for around 30 minutes whilst folding and repacking every bit of kit, then carrying it to my connecting flight and personally load it to the plane as he'd caused a delay. Received an apology letter a few days later to the ship telling me the poor idiot had been fired for incompetence as mine wasn't the first time he ignored diplomatic papers and waved them off.
Wow, no wonder the poor bastard turned white... that is just... a diplomatic incident waiting to happen.
That's the kind of idiots that accidently start a war...grizzly...
Some of these guys are just doing the job for the power trip.
@@aikighost Feels so sad to have to agree that power trips are one of the reasons some people selects some specific jobs.
back in high school there was this guy who was off his rails crazy, he would insult people over small petty things, screech randomly in class while everyone else was trying to focus on the task at hand, and when i decided to ask him why he screeched he just said "i'm an Eagle!" our school mascot was the green n gold eagle, but he was the only one that did this in the middle of class assignments, and when he joined the National Guard, he thought just cuz he wore a fancy uniform that he should automatically be respected. he had a rude awakening when literally everyone told him "it's not the uniform that gets respect, it's the person inside the uniform, and until you change your attitude, you do not deserve it". no one ever bullied this guy ever, no matter how strange he acted. everyone, including myself, just kinda kept away from him and ignored his antics. the point i'm trying to make with this story is not everyone that is expected to hold a certain type of class and morals will. it depends on who they are as a person and some definitely join for the wrong reasons
About twenty years ago I lived in the States as an exchange student and as a German, I had the regular conversations about German cars, German beer, the Autobahn with no speed limit and of course Hitler. Which is pretty much everything the average high school student knows about Germany. But one of these encounters completely flabbergasted me, because there once again came the regular "Where are you from?" "Germany" "Oh, I love German cars, they are the best in the world, very high technology" spiel from one of the American guys in the group. To which we were then interrupted by one of the girls in the group asking me very curiously if we had electricity in Germany. And I wish I had answered with a deadpan "No, we start our cars with a winch and use candles as head lights", because being ignorant about the world is one thing, but she also apparently had not followed a word of our conversation about German engineering and technology. I was mind blown.
I remember overhearing a conversation from a touristgroup from the US. I know they were from the US, because they were obnoxiously loud and splurting out things like "Oh, look, they really have elevating stairs like my hometowns mall in Chicago!" This was quite stupid in itself, because... Well, you could suspect a decent level of technology comming to Germany in the first place, but the following exchange happens to beat it. Look, I live in a city with a very rich history. Founded by the Romans way over 2000 years ago, we have some very ancient buildings. The central cathedral is one of them, building starts in the 13th century (and then gets halted for some 600 years after only a part was completed, but that's another story). So, the tourguide stopped before the cathedral (I was sitting in ears reach enjoying a freeday with some beer) as the guide starts explaining: "So now we reached our very highlight of the tour. Right now, we are standing before the mighty Cologne Cathedral, the biggest githic cathedral in the world. Construction on this marvolous piece af architecture begann in 1248 and was build upon ..." Then, 'that' guy suddenly spoke up: "Yeah, I have enough of your bullshit. Stop telling lies, Europe wasn't even discovered at that time!" We and the whole beergarden sat there in dead silence.
Man, what a lack of respect of that dude, but I'm not surprised a typical vain US person. Even here in México we know how ancient is Europe like other civilizations, including ours. Best to you and hugs
@@manueltapia1859but you're Spanish?
@@Skull.man00 from my dad side I'm part european, but I'm born and raised in northern México
@@Skull.man00 UP Here in Canada, we ALSO KNOW, that Europe is AT LEAST 4---5 times Older than United States. Most people keep in touch with families inTHE OLD Countries, and go back to them every 5--6 years. Even 3rd and 4th Generations here understand about the Heritage of their ancestors,when They came to Canada.
I'm Irish, and about five years ago my best mate decided he was gonna take me and his closest friends to Vegas for a stag week (guy is rich and Amsterdam apparently wasn't good enough for him, lol). While there, I was talking to a couple of American girls in the Palazzo casino and they asked me where I was from. As if the accent didn't give it away. So I said to them I'm Irish, and they replied, "You don't sound Irish".
I was taken a little aback by this, but I said, "What do you think an Irish person sounds like?"
One of the girls whips out her phone and proceeds to play a clip of an American actor doing an Irish accent (and a pretty freakin' awful one at that) and says, "You're supposed to sound like that. That's what an Irish accent sounds like".
This 'actor' was doing the typical Leprechaun "top of the morning to ya!" Irish accent, which is about as far from an Irish accent as you can get. I said, "That's a Hollywood Irish accent. We don't sound like that".
And these two broads got pissed off at me and said I was putting on a fake Irish accent to try to sweep them off their feet! And I was like, "you're sitting here with three chins and you think I'm trying to impress you? I've got a fucking Irish passport and have lived in Ireland my whole life. If I was trying to impress a girl in a casino in Vegas by putting on an Irish accent, I would set my sights a lot higher!"
Then they complained to security that I was harassing them. This guy comes over, he's about 5'8", and I'm towering over him at 6'4" and he says, "I think you've had too much to drink, sir". And I start laughing and say, "I haven't even fuckin started yet!"
🤣👍
"You've had too much to drink" 🤣🤣🤣 it's an impossibility for an Irish man to have too much to drink. There's always room for another pint. I'm an English man married to an Irish woman and have made the mistake of trying to keep up with blokes who drink Guinness like it's water.
@@seamusoflatcap These days I can hardly keep up with them, so I know the feeling. :D
Sitting here with 3 chins 🤣
Hollywood has a LOT to answer for, from their horrible fake accents to their totally fictitious versions of historical events, that Americans think gobble up as fact.
Not dumb, just funny. An American asked a German. Do you have something, like the American dream? The German told him, Yesss we had, but nobody liked it....
Remember Al Murray's comment re the lack of a 'British Dream'? NO, because we're awake!
@@michaelmclachlan1650 great answer !!!
That's so true, eventually.
😳😳😳😳 dark but funny all the same...😁
Whoa that's brilliant!!!
Regarding the Spanish-Mexican thing, you should see how much it breaks their brain to see an Asian speaking Spanish and them being told that it's one of the common languages of their country (Philippines, but less common every year). It's like watching a robot try to divide by 0.
Nagugulat nga sila na marunong tayo mag-english.
(Some are surprised that we can speak English)
try that, being German, having a hard German accent while speaking English, but are able to speak a little Spanish, too...
and get ask, why are you speaking Mexican?
answer: i went for vacations to Spain, so i need to speak some basic Spanish, i never been to Mexico!
but you speak English, why learning Spanish???
answer: i am also speaking German, some Polish, Russian, Turkish, Dutch and Danish....i am European, not American!
i forgot, Italian and French....none fluent, just some basics, but my German is serious good!
Went to the airport check-in for my study abroad trip. Got to the shoe check line and kindly asked the TSA worker for a chair so I could take my shoes off.
TSA Worker 1: "Why do you even need a chair?!"
Another TSA worker overheard him, looked at me head-to-toe, and her jaw dropped to the floor: "Oh my God, Jeff! You did NOT just ask a disabled girl why she needs a chair! Go get her a damn chair!"
Being physically disabled at an airport is fun! 🤣
Ive got an even stupider England speaks english story. 11 years ago i was working in a Bed and Breakfast over in the Lake Distict. We had a pair of american couples stay. On the second day I had one walk over and thank me for going out of my way to speak English for them instead of Rusian...Confused I asked why would I speak in Russian? and she replied just as her partner came down to the dinning room "We're in the UK right" "yes" "so why would someone in Ukraine not speak Russian?"...Both myself and her partner just stood there looking at her...she naturally got upset because of the look we both gave her. So I told her First we are in the United Kingdom, in the one of the most beautiful parts of England...Of corse English people speak English. Second the people of Ukraine don't speak Russian.
The look on her face as she turned to her partner and he just nodded was priceless.
I don't really know what is the difference between Russian and Ukrainian languages butHalf of the Ukrainians are Russians
@@bellatordei3440 As of a few months ago, all Ukrainians pretty much identify as ukrainian. Even the ones that went astray and made the war possible.
@@bellatordei3440 Stop just saying shit! It is true, that Russians are the largest ethnic minority in Ukraine, but they are still only about 17-18% of the population of Ukraine.
@@evafiskermikkelsen1721 You stop saying shit!
This is completely not true.
To say this than you have no idea if ukrainian history
Omg I find it hard to believe, that anyone would be that stupid xD
My wife and I were on holiday in 2012 at Rockport Massachusetts. We were sat on a bench looking out sea at an incredible view of a super moon it looked way larger and brighter than usual. The American lady on the next bench said to me and my wife " I bet you Europeans wished you had a moon as big as ours" . Before I could try to explain my wife quietly said in my ear don't she wont believe you.
At our local museum, there are two whale skeletons, a big and a bigger one.
After a host of stupid questions, the guide told the pax that the little one was the skeleton of the baby and the bigger one was from when it got older.
I'm from Bulgaria and I've heard some of the classics like "Oh you mean Russian?", "How is communism?" and "You guys don't have electricity right?" but one of the best I've heard is "Bulgaria? Do you guys even have houses?". Speechless tbh
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
try to be a German and get ask if you have cars in your country!
@@Arltratlo Do you?
I was working for an international not-for-profit organization as a secretary. Another secretary sitting across from me (mind you, she was a straight-A COLLEGE student) was booking a trip for her boss to Denmark. Curious, she wanted to find Denmark on the map. Where was she looking? CANADA! I looked at her and told her to move to her right, cross the Atlantic and then start looking. Straight As?! Obviously not in geography!
😂😂
I've had many arguements with Americans about how the British don't speak English, Americans speak English. The British either speak British or European. No matter how hard you try to prove them wrong they are always right and you are always wrong. What I find funny about it all is that they keep calling you stupid, an idiot or a moron. I think it's the chemistry set they throw into the food and water. This is why Americans drive Automatics.
I'm surprised they haven't appropriated the language by name, ie named it "American".
Here, automatics are both cheaper and more fuel efficient now. I love a stick shift, but they're tough to find in used cars here in the US.
@@willcool713 I think you missed the point.
@@mshell1959 Naw, not really. I can't defend a lot of my compatriots' idiocy. And I also subscribe to the polluting of food and water being a contributing factor, though it seems a wildly unpopular idea here. Modern America seems a portrait of the Dunning-Kruger effect. And all of our public institutions are falling into shambles.
But the automatic drive notion, though meant tounge-in-cheek, was something spurious which I could speak to, though it hardly makes up for the rest.
I'm really embarrassed about the way this country has progressed in my lifetime. I worked for Greenpeace and other environmental organisations. I have run political ballot measure campaigns for progressive social change. I have protested and been involved in civil action campaigns to try to push public opinion. But a large section of the population is proud of how well they refuse to change or learn. And that segment has a nationalist and religious agenda now, which roots them so firmly that they can now easily believe abject falsehoods and blatant absurdities. So there's no more work to do, until those people are willing to, or unable to not, learn better. Any other efforts crank up the culture wars and violence against innocents ensues. Mass shootings, thousands dying from COVID, rampant homelessness, chronic bankruptcies from healthcare bills, and still a huge portion of our populace only blocks change in any form.
Gandhi preached passive resistance against the Nazis before he died. He was wrong. Civil disobedience and passive resistance only work in a culture with a working social conscience. We, the USA, brainwashed ourselves with capitalism during the Cold War, and became hysterical about even the slightest deviation from that socioeconomic philosophy. I firmly believe the US committed to the wrong path when we ignored the self-immolation of Buddhist monks protesting the Vietnam War in the '60's, have progressed further down that path since, and we're merely reaping those rewards, finally.
I didn't miss the point. It's just depressing to me, and any little light I can shine through it all helps me cope.
@@willcool713 Well thought out reply and I'm an 80 yr old Army Brat who is a bit conservative. My bone to pick is the educational system which is graduating idiots who know nothing.
I remember doing a quick trip to Amsterdam, at the train station there was a 40 something American woman clearly struggling. She was talking to two Dutch employees who spoke fluent English but couldn’t understand them. She was yelling DOLLAR at them. Basically being an arrogant twat. I went over to try and help and she said tell these idiots I want to pay with my American money. I said I’m afraid you can’t you’ll need to exchange it. She freaked out screaming about how American money is the most powerful in the world why can’t you accept it and that Europe is the worst country she’s ever been too. It was the cringiest thing in the world so I just dipped
How did she even get to the train station?
@@frankyhorn2475 I have no idea I was high and didn’t stick around long enough to figure it out. Maybe she was at the end of a trip and had dollars left over after spending the euros. It was a weird situation. Like an American caricature came to life. Super thick southern accent. Very weird
I've seen this happen here in the UK too. An American woman threw a 20 minute shouting tantrum in a shop, insisting all the *other* shops she'd been to in the UK accepted dollars.
@@StefanTravis we don't even take Scottish money, why take dollars?
I feel you! I think that the US is not sending theit "Best" people To Europe😁😍
I moved back to the USA with my son who was born abroad. He had finished his elementary school in Argentina and a month after his arrival he was getting all As in english where his american classmates where failing. He was so disgusted with school he refused to continue going. He finally started testing and got college credits on all areas of study based on his 4th grade Argentina education, he didnt have to use his 8th grade knowledge. My kid is not amazing its just that the country is horrific. I dont even want to think about bringing my Asperger gifted son. They must just put him up as a freak show.
As an adult being Asperger since childhood can relate with your son, the "normal" people tends being mean, as growing I learned how to "fit" as regular ones. Greetings from northern México
The first time I visited Chicago I was talking to a store clerk and she asked "Have you heard the news, an American actor was knighted by the English Queen?" I later found out she was talking about Sean Connery
The most shocking thing about that Columbian girls story is that it was the school principal who asked her that ridiculous question, I'm not surprised the kids are dumb if that's what's teaching them.
Somehow you have mature people in the States who've managed to get into positions of responsibility when they aren't fit to flip burgers, when we have people like that we stick them in Westminster where we can keep an eye on them.
**Colombian
I find it amazing how many of these people are in education or positions of responsibility, The TSA agent left me gobsmacked.
At least the Principal doesn't actually teach classes. Maybe she's usually locked up in her office, and that day she'd escaped somehow?
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She was probably promoted from a teaching role, so it's worse.
I once knew an American girl that came over to the UK. If she didn't understand how something worked or what to do and had to get it explained to her she would always have the back handed comment of "We do it differently in America" after hearing it for the 50th time I lost it and shouted "Of course you f***ing do, its a different country" She never said it again afterwards 🤦
Years ago during my studies, I did my summer internship(marketing studies) in Texas, US. During those 3 months I met a lot of locals, I was pointed at with a gun, more then I could count ( really scary experience). When I explained, I’m from Estonia (Northern-Europe)- locals didn’t belive, there are other countries in Europe beside of France, Germany, Italy and Sweden ( all they knew). I was asked, if we have electricity and infrastructure there and when I explained, Estonia provides free universal healtcare, free education and also we are one of the world's most digitally-advanced societies. We can fill out our income tax return annually online within 3-5 min and that estonians invented Skype( which was later sold to Microsoft). Those locals I communicated, were baffled. I was asked, how I traveled to the US. I made a joke, I swam there, from Northern Europe and no-one corrected me. They assumed, it is possible to swim from EU to US🤯. I have a lot of stupid stories from that time but I remember, I applied local bank card twice, because they kept messing my name up. I have difficult last name though but even so, they had my passport to check and I still managed to get back bank card with my name spelled Anna Tallinn. Tallinn is not my last name, it is the Capital of Estonia🤦🏼♀️. I do have american friends and people are friendly there but some contingent of people are just so stupid and closeminded- they have no Idea, there is freedom and opportunities outside of North-America.
A few years ago I visited a friend in the USA. We went to some restaurant for dinner one evening and my friend mentioned to the waiter that I'm German. He then asked me if I wanted to have a beer, which I nicely declined because I don't drink beer. He looked at me kinda baffled and said "But what are you drinking then?" ...long story short he seriously thought we don't have any other beverages in Germany than beer and that it's natural for a German to only drink beer.
the dumbest thing a guy from New Jersey said to me was when asking where I was from. I promptly told him that I was from Jersey. he laughed and said that I didn't sound anything like someone from Jersey and that I sounded more like an Australian. I then had to explain to him why New Jersey is called New ... because we named and colonized/founded the State.
You're a crapaud then, from a rabbit lol
You'd think they would wonder why it's called "New" Jersey and "New" York 🤦♂️
@@writerbill1 To be fair (though really, they don't deserve fairness), while New York is always called New York, New Jersey is very often referred to as just "Jersey", especially by people in the area, so it could have just been a simple linguistic misunderstanding.
@@IceMetalPunk That would probably catch me off guard too unfortunately. I've definitely heard New Jersey referred to as just Jersey, so that would be my initial thought too even though I am aware Jersey is an actual place xD I could see that being an issue
@@writerbill1 New York was not named after York. New York and Albany were named after King Charles II’s brother James, Duke of York and Albany, later King James II.
I met a lot of Americans at university in Scotland. As part of the student association I spent a lot of time with foriegn students to make sure that they were settling in and had all thier ducks in a row. Most were ok, but some refused to deal with me because 'I'm not foreign, I'm American', some were surprised that we spoke English, and some were dumb beyond words. Here are the two dumbest things I heard.
Me: Have you written a letter home to your parents?
Yank: Yes. I brought stamps with me in case you didn't have a postal service here.
Me: ..........?
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Yank. Wow. The moon here is beautiful. It looks just like the moon we have in America.
Follow-up question: if we didn't have a postal service, how were you going to send it?
What the actual F- bro I as a fellow British person (yes I’m not so dumb to not understand that wales and Scotland are there own countries aswell as Ireland including Northern Ireland idk why I bother saying this I guess I am retarded) am in pain
"I'm not foreign, I'm American" reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes strip where Calvin, as Spaceman Spiff, lands on another planet, and meets an alien, and then realizes that he, Calvin, is the actual alien.
@@JurgenErhard I love how they call people aliens but can't even take being labelled a foreigner. The absolute audacity and cringe it takes....
@Tussk, how many of them were flerfs?
This guy's laughter is some kind of anti-depression magic cure I can't help but have a big smile when he laughs
Hear! Hear!
I have a couple of stories to share. Some happened to my parents in the nineties, when they lived in New Jersey for a year, some I got told by american roommates.
Like. A common question in the nineties used to be: "You got electricity in Germany? Is Adolf Hitler still alive?" You know, things like that. One american roommate told me how a friend of hers got asked to "hold in her period" and I witnessed how that roommate had to explain to another american roommate that Alaska is not somewhere around Hawaii just because some US maps put it there to save some space. From an American fellow student I was told how he believed America is the best and freest country in the world. I told him that it's kind of ignorant to say that when he hasn't been anywhere else yet. Then he told me that no country was as democratic as his, and that that is freedom and I can't talk about freedom because, I kid you not, I weren't allowed to even talk about the holocaust .... As if my folks didn't suck that in with their mothers breast milk and as if our schools didn't take us on trips to the camps. Also, I think someone from Mississipi shouldn't talk of their place as the most democratic when gerrymandering is so common in the US + red states make it increasingly harder for their people to vote. The only time I ever had to wait in line to vote was during the first covid year and even then the longest lines reported only took like 20 minutes. We can watch our officials count the votes, as it happens publicly, and on paper, and no hickhack with easily manipulated machines or whatever.
An American tourist came into the retail shop I worked in and commented on how beautiful Edinburgh Castle was.
But asked why would you build it so high, and hard to get to. When if it was lower more people would visit.
Yeah, why build a castle in a highly defensible position?
@@samyagdrsti it's a conspiracy by the bureau of tourism
I think a lot of armies over the years have thought that too. It is bloody inconvenient up there on the hill. It's almost like they didn't want to be invaded.
I can hear it in my mind right now. Ive sadly heard many such "brilliant" remarks, while working as a hotel receptionist in my youth.
...at which point you take lovely tourist person up to the top floor to have a look out the window and give them a little nudge!!! OH god, I just can't...honestly, I'd be in jail for 'stupid tourist slaughter'!! Hee! Hee! SMH 🤪😂
I used to work on cruise ships. "At what time is the midnight buffet?" Happened at least once every 2 or 3 weeks. But my favorite one ever was an eldery lady looking at a flight of stairs and asked, "excuse me honey, do these stairs go up as well as down?". Stairs.... not an escalator, not a slide, stairs.
Maybe it was just dementia? I hope so...
Also heard "do the crew stay on the ship at night?" 😬
@@philippamalherbe4111 goodness yes. No sir we're airlifted out every night
I went to a school where they had stair designated as either up or down. The stairways that were for going up were narrower and at the ends of the building. The wider stairways for going down were located in the center of the building. You got in trouble for going the wrong way. This lady is probably my age or older because I still look to see if it is a two way stair case. Or even if one side or anther is a designated direction. That used to be a thing we were taught.
@@nyneeveanya8861 wow thank you for that. Genuinly never heard of this
"Stupidity IS in no way specifically an American trait, but when Americans do it... Damn they do it well." lol, i honestly think its just the level of confidence with which they say it that makes it somehow seem worse than the level of stupidity we are currently witnessing in the UK.
I will say however that in the last year i have had contact with the head office of our company that is based in Denver, and they have all been extremely bright and insightful people. So your not completely lost lol
To be honest, Brits come very, very close to that ;-)
"Our spiders are nicer than your people." HAD ME HOWLING!
Aussie here who lived in Beardstown Illinois 2002 (a few months after sept 11th)......Was having a conversation at the table with a group of friends of the family I was staying with, about Australian animals. I had taken a few native animal books with me, and as a woman I'd not met before walked into the house, I was in the middle of answering questions about which animal is what etc, and she was listening to me telling the young teen girls about our wombats, there habitat etc when her younger brother asked me "have you ever seen a real tasmanian devil, and how do they do that spinning thing" (with the tone of his voice telling me that he didn't believe they were a real animal and it was a ha ha thing) I laughed and explained that yes I've seen real ones many many times in our wildlife sanctuaries, but only saw them once in the wild in Tasmania, because we don't have Tasmanian devils on the mainland, and especially not in Western Australia where I come from, only on the island of Tasmania.....the woman who had walked in and listened to what I was telling the kids, all of a sudden went crazy and is screaming at the top her voice "I won't have you filling my nephew and nieces head with fairy tales and lies. Why would you want to tell lies to a kid ? you're going to give him nightmares now, and how stupid do you think we all are ? the Tassie Devil is a cartoon NOT a real animal."....I sat there stunned for a minute, opened the other book to a picture of a tassie devil, pointed to the picture and didn't say a word......She grabbed both the boy and girl by their arms, pulling them towards the door and she says to me "You're the sort of person our government has warned us about, Lisa (my host) I'm calling that phone number and reporting this terrorist to the authorities"....To my joy, I never saw that woman again, she didn't go anywhere near the house until I'd left to fly home. Embarrassed I guess 🤣🤣🤣
Did you know that there are some wallabies living wild on an island in the middle of Loch Lomond in Scotland? It's called Inchconnachan. (I had to look up the name!).
I guess not - to be embarrassed you have to know that you did wrong and acted stupidly. She probably was upset that after she called the terrorist threat and they told her to calm the F down she was scared that you would fly a plane into her house....
Aren't there wallabies on Dartmoor or exmoor ?
@@dave_h_8742 Yes, there are several wild colonies around the UK
Dear Lord…🙄
I'm from South Africa and I worked in the US as an Au Pair. Let me tell you,I couldn't believe what people asked me. The family that I worked for,asked me if I knew how to use a can opener??? I just burst out laughing. They also said that they were surprised to see that there were white people in South Africa 🙈. But the best of all,do we go to work on elephants? I thought to myself, here's my chance,I told them,yes only in the week. On a Friday I exchange it for a Giraffe, because on a weekend I want to get around faster 🤣🤣🤣
I can understand why she was surprised to see white people in South Africa this is ignorance more than being dumb you know ?
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That's brilliant!
Tf?
They seriously think you can't use a can opener?
I'm surprised they didn't ask how you can speak English 🤦
@@rafaelsmith5737 In Belgium, you don't need a can opener to open a can, so I would not be surprised if the younger generation (who have not known the times when you actually needed a can opener) wouldn't know how to use one ;-)
I've heard the saying that you should "never assume malice where ignorance or incompetence is a perfectly adequate explanation" but it really comes with the caveat that at some point even regular ignorance flips over to malice, because there just isn't any way to be so stupid except by actively refusing to learn.
And that bit about about living in trees in Colombia. Yeap, that's the tipping point.
As a fellow American citizen, I’m glad I’m an introvert that loves learning random things. If i heard some of these conversations in my vicinity i would lose my mind!
Im from Sweden and one of my friends daugters was working as tourist guide in Northern Norway
She had an bunch of US tourist and was there and should watching the midnight sun and then an old woman ask her where the midnigt sun where becase she could only see one sun :)))
And when she explain that midnigt sun means the sun never goes down she told her she was going and sue them
This is an true story and you guys over there never quit surprising us here in Europe
They don't stop surprising us down here in Australia either m8 lol, and G'day Sweden, We hope you guys are well
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I'd love to see that case go to court.
We likely never will :(
Do people live up in the northernmost Norway areas? It must be lovely over there to experience the midnight sun 24/7.
So I’m a Swede. I was working as a waitress in Sweden, I was serving a company of Swedes and took their order. After which an American waved me over to her table and she went speak English in this restaurant, how do I know you weren’t speaking behind my back? I was like: lady, you’re in Sweden, not America and second I was taking that companies order. Why would I talk about you?
I worked as a hotel receptionist during my studies. Ive met quite a few Americans. Even the nice and friendly ones were usually clueless. But also a couple of that sort, who thinks, the world revolves about them, and coz theyre Americans, theyre entitled to every1 speaking their language and so on. Very hard to stay professional in the face of such rudeness.
@@dfuher968 I’d say the majority of Americans are friendly, then there’s a few who’s entitled twaffles. Hehe yes, it’s difficult to stay professional some times. Luckily, in Sweden if someone insults you, you don’t have to be professional. 😁😈 I think the American mentality the customer is always right in conjunction with hyper individualism gave birth to the karen mentality
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Christ that's whole next level paranoia and entitlement
@@tabithabex I know right. It was absolutely crazy
When I was younger I lived in the Scottish Highlands. I worked behind the bar serving drinks and got chatting to a group of Americans who just finished the West Highland Way.
After a few minutes or so I was asked "how do you guys catch Haggis"
And your careful reply to that earned you 'Evil Scotsman' did it? Please say it did!
When I was in college, there was an American student. He was always announcing that he was American, so no confusion there.
One day, he got into an argument with another student because he flat-out announced "we gave you your freedom."
Then I heard statements like "your history is wrong", "this is what was taught to us in high school", "they don't teach you anything here."
Before the argument could turn violent, I told the Filipino student that we should walk away. He said, "yeah, walk away coz I win."
Before we left I said to him, "your school lied to you." Then I announced to everyone in ear-shot "Wag nyo sya kausapin. Walang kwenta lumalabas sa bibig nya. Sabihin nyo sa iba." (Don't talk to him. He's spouting nonsense. Tell everyone.)
I saw him around campus only a few days after that, then no more. Maybe he dropped-out... I dunno... I don't care... 😊
I can't remember where I heard this, possibly an open mic night, but I've never forgotten it.
"If someone speaks to you in broken English, they're either American or can speak more languages than you."
Actually, I've thought about an even dumber thing an American said to me...it was in Paris at the Musee L'Orangerie where (among other things) Monet's huge paintings of the famous lily pond at Giverny are displayed...and as we were viewing these astonishing works, an American asked in an embarrassingly loud voice: "So these are like, what - backgrounds?" I just thought: "Why are you even here? Why did you line up for hours to view these masterpieces when you haven't the first clue what they are???"
Seriously, friend, you have gotta stop watching these vids...they're bad for your morale!
When my mother brought her 'friend' to visit in the Netherlands (she was Belgian-French, he was English) I took them both to the Anne Frank Museum. Outside I asked him what he thought of it. He said: 'they could at least do something about the 'old wallpaper'.' I told him that was the original wallpaper from when they hid in the house. He said: well if you repaper you can sometimes get rid of 'bad memories'... I don' think it was a mistake when she abandoned him on holiday in Tunisia.
That said, I was talking recently with someone I know who is a secondary school teacher (junior high in American terms) and she was telling me how her students thought "Asia" was a country and couldn't understand why she kept referring to China as "part of Asia"...they were mind-blown when she showed them that Asia is in fact a continent....so ignorance is not an exclusively American trait....
@@BB-sk2to Umm, China is actually not a continent! Oy!
@@BB-sk2to if this is in Europe she deadass lied to you. There is absolutely no way that nobody in a European class knows that, we have geography classes since 6, it’s one of the fist thing you learn and I can’t remember a single class not have a map of the world in it… I could understand it in places where they don’t have mandatory classes of geography like so;e places in the us, but in Europe ( public school ) the program is national and includes geography.
in 1996 our Australian foreign exchange student complained that the most comment question she got was "Do you have flush toilets?"
I grew up on the Canada/US border, along the Niagara River. It is amazing to me that some Americans from just over a river know very very little about their next door neighbour. I have a million "dumb American" stories. Oh, God bless their little pointed heads.
As I mentioned before, my English cousin lives in Florida and gets stupid questions/remarks almost daily.
Every time I speak to him there's another belter. The Australian one is always top of the list though lol. He's so sick of it now, that when they ask if he's Australian, he say no I'm a kiwi. They don't know what that is either 😂😂
The Bird or the Fruit :-) //Sarkasmn end
@@DSP16569 when I was growing up in NZ there was no such thing as kiwifruit, they were called Chinese gooseberries.
@@jillmortlock8439 I will have to remember that the next time the wife is eating one of the horrible things. Lol.
Kiwi in London laughing her arse off at that one @101 Steel 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@lenarobinson In another video an American was watching rugby clips. When he heard Fiji mentioned, he said "Oh Fiji, is that the all blacks?" 🙄
I am a Royal Navy Vet. In 1979 we were on the Hermes alongside in Mayport and one night a few of us went to the Naval base bar. After a couple of beers a drunkish American sailor came over to us and said "Are you English?" when we said yes he continued "What does it feel like now you're in the mother country?" He got a bit stroppy when we laughed and tried to explain the error of his ways!
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As a tour guide, I was floored by one tourist looking up the moon and saying, "That's just like the one we've got at home".
i...maybe i just put an emoji here because i'm speechless and praying they were joking 😃
@@theblueskyandrainbow 'fraid not.
I'm from the Netherlands, and I advise every American from the US to please travel outside of your country! Not only to get more videos like this, but to also get some actual world culture and world awareness. I love messing with you guys, but I also care for you.
Just to make you feel better a true story from England. My brother works in the maintenance department of a school. One day he received an urgent request to fix the lights in one room as the teachers were having a meeting. He walked in flipped the switch and the lights came on - oh they said we thought they were automatic. Now I can understand they may have thought the lights were automatic but can't understand why no-one tried the switch
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I won't mention the escalator full of Americans that broke down and they all stood there waiting for the maintenance man.
@@MrWhelts 'Escalator temporarily stairs' _Mitch Hedberg_
Many moons ago I was living in Moscow as part of my degree course, and there was also a group of US students on a similar sort of deal in the same hostel (although for only a few months, rather than our full year there)
I won $5 off one who wouldn't believe that Dire Straits were an English band.
And within 5 mins won $5 off 6 of them who though the Rolling Stones were an American band...
My profit - $35
Just goes to show that even the 'well-educated' 'muricans are waaaayyy too into the 'Murica's the Best'! deal.... They couldn't accept that anything good could have come from anywhere but 'Murica
Too bad none of them were from New York, u couldve won another fiver for pizza being invented in Italy rather than NY!
“-- many moons ago, I was living in moscow"
AHA !
I knew there were several moons, and the moon in Moscowy (*) was not the same as the moon here in Murrica, because ours is bigger !
(*) Or Moscovia, or whatever you call the capital of Moscow.
Damn, you should have betted for the Daft Punk, how to make millions in a few minutes.
@@FuSiionCraft Tut tut tut.
On dit "to bet, I bet, I have bet".
Tu me feras cent lignes de verbes irréguliers pour la semaine prochaine, monsieur Daft Punk.
I once shared a small shuttle bus with a group of 4 American women when i was on holiday in Florida. They had heard my accent and found out i was Scottish, well first they thought i was Irish but eventually realised that Ireland and Scotland were 2 different places. They started asking me about Scotland as their knowledge of the country was limited to having watched Braveheart, and they wee genuinely shocked to find out that people in Scotland lived in towns and cities, and didn't all wear kilts all the time.
i got ask if i met William Wallace while i my visited Scotland....
my answer, i didnt saw him complete, only his big dick on its grave...( Wallace memorial near Sterling)
they had enough trouble to understand why a German would drive a motorbike in Scotland!
So I'm Australian, and when I was in primary school (I was about 8) we had some American students come to my school for a week. We have school assemblies every Monday and the Americans attended as well. At the end we both sung our national anthems and one of them came up to me and said that they didn't know Australia had a national anthem and that they thought America was the only country that had one.
How can people not realise that the English language comes from England?!
That is my question every time something like that comes up. It is baffling
@@breezy3392 I mean surely they know about the war of independence and that a few hundred years ago their ancestors came over to America, many from England.
@@nigelwalker6103 I think for people like that it doesn't click in their brain that the bits of history they hear at least referenced, even if their school system failed them, were actually real events and not just something people saw in a movie
There seems to be a new phase of Americans saying that they speak American and not English, give it another 20 years and this will be the norm. I guarantee it. Obviously even now many Americans will search for the American flag rather than the Union Flag when trying to varify the English language online.
Because the only languages they hear about are English, spoken by "Americans", and Spanish, spoken by Mexicans.
Why would they notice that there must be a relationship between a language's name and its speakers' name?
A few years ago I was in Chicago in a coffee shop waiting in line. I started talking with the guy in front of me, at some point he asked me where I was from and I said I was from Spain, he said, Oh really?! You don't look Mexican at all! I didn't say anything because I felt mortified for him but I still regret not asking what he meant. Does he think all Mexicans look the same? Does he think Spain is in Mexico? Does he not know Mexico is North America right next to the States? I'll never know🤔
It was not worth the effort my friend.
Good thing you hadn't bought a drink/coffee yet...it would've been all over that guys face!!! LMAO!!!!
I had a similar experience with a woman at a bus stop. She asked where I was from and when I told her I was from Spain, she responded with, "Oh, I know some people from Chile!" Really? I guess she saw from my expression that she had made a faux pas, but didn't know what.
From his education and perspective I don't think he knows. Don't worry you are not the only one me as a white northern mexican they don't believe I'm from México!!! Ay Dios no los entiendo
"it doesn't make sense for you to speak Spanish if you are not Mexican"
Man from Spain be like "AM I A JOKE TO YOU?"
A friend from Colombia got asked something very similar by an US student here in Germany as we could see in the video.
He though decided to go full satire mode on stereotypes and replied: Actually, we live in mansions and sell our cocaine to the Muricans.
It was so hilarious, I almost spit my drink laughing.
I'm in the UK and a tour guide at Hardwick Hall, a historic stately home, told me about some interactions with American tourists. One asked "why did they build this house next to the freeway?" and wasn't happy with the answer that the house was build a few hundred years before the motorway so the guide told them that is was a quick drive for the original owner. Another time they asked why there was no elevator. Again not content with the correct answer that they hadn't been invented when they build the house, the tour guide told them the family who first lived their wanted to get their daily steps in.
That reminds me of the yarn about the American wondering why Windsor Castle was built so close to Heathrow 🤣
It's that the house on the moors in Lancashire, on the way to Huddersfield? There's a house slap bang in the middle of the motorway
@@thatsthat2612 No, this was at Hardwick Hall, near Chesterfield.
@@thatsthat2612 That's a farm nicknamed "little house on the prairie". Urban myth is that the owner refused to sell so the motorway was diverted round him. Truth is that the motorway could only go a certain route because it needed bedrock underneath it. A few feet either way and it would sink into the peat moor. It's quite an engineering achievement and is the highest motorway in England.
@@deanoo6jeffaz oh right, still, they're silly sausages 🤣
I'm originally for the UK but have lived in Sweden for 20+ years. I lived in a town called Västerås for a while, almost the same pronunciation as the fictional Game of Thrones continent of Westeros. Well I think you can see where this is heading. It lead to a rather heated debate about it being impossible to live in a fictional land and she knew I was lying because she'd watched Game of Thrones the night before. Even after pulling up a map and explaining how the word is spelled and pronounced she still didn't believe me.
Close enough, Västerås, but yeah I understand what you had to endure.
@@andersjohansson4734 Typo lol
@@helvete983 Your username! 🤣
There is actually a place in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland called Wester Ross.
That's Ross not Rose as the Americans want to pronounce the place on GOT.
* Västerås
Being in Wales. I have to say this, My buddy had to go to work in the US for a few weeks, Obviously he has a Welsh accent, when Americans asked him where he was from he of course replied Wales. More than one congratulated him on how well he spoke English.
I once watched an American UA-camr with a cultural channel reacting to a video about Britain. She said “wait, Britain has industry?” And seemed genuinely surprised.
For starters the Industrial Revolution started in Britain.
Secondly she was reacting to seeing a tractor on a farm. Unbelievable.
Reveal the youtuber 🤭🤭🤣🤣
I remember back in the 90s when I lived in Florida, I am from the UK, and was married to an Hispanic, I had some people saying ‘ I love your accent’ and others would call me a ‘cracker’ and I would say ‘thank you.’ I soon realised that cracker was not a nice term, but in the UK it meant good looking/sexy etc.
What does it mean in the states
@@saphiael-mansub2206 it's basically a derogatory term for a white person
It's pretty funny how they can't even make an offensive slur for white people, cracker comes from the cracking of the whips the plantation owners had, so they're basically calling you a slaver/plantation owner as if it's offensive or something. They're basically reminding themselves they were slaves every time they use this.
Oh God!! How dare them insulted you?? Greetings from northern México
@@taigalillythanks for explaining the meaning, next time I come back to US I'm gonna be aware if someone reffers ro me as that because I'm a white northern mexican!!!
I was in a discussion about Russia and its resources a few years ago and an American then begins to tell me I'm whats wrong with the world what a dumb European I was .... because I mentioned Russia is "transcontinental" so he thought I was being transphobic 🤦♀️😂
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Are you a native English speaker ?
(I am not, therefore I cannot tell)
@@emileduvernois6680 I am English yes if that's what you're asking
@@dfuher968 I know right!
You know those moments in life when you can't tell if someone's just messing with you being serious or sarcastic ... 🤣 then I realised "oh yeah they're American" 🤦♀️🤣
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Canadian here…I was in Atlanta for business. The people kept asking me how much snow we had? I just looked at them and told them. It was hotter in Ontario then in Atlanta.🇨🇦
So, I was in Florida doing the whole Disneyland thing. Anyway, we were at an escape room one evening, and we got paired with 6 Americans. They were asking usual British borderline racist and stereotype questions; "Have you met the Queen"? "How much tea do you drink"? Etc. It was getting preffy tiresome and we hadn't been locked in the escape room yet. I confronted them on their low-key Racism and said "You're all American, you're all inbred, eat cheeseburgers and probably have a below 50 IQ"
The next hour of the escape room was a barrel of laughs as me and my partner at the time smashed the "medium difficulty" escape room in 8 minutes, whilst the Americans were trying to figure out what the word "Berlin" meant.......
As a Brazilian, I can attest to the fact that I've been asked if we have cars, internet, or if we all live in the forest/see monkeys about five times. Meanwhile, here I am, connected to high speed data by meters and meters or fiberglass and using subways and planes on a regular basis, and I've never seen a monkey outside of a zoo all of my life. We do have a **lot** of nature surrounding and within even our largest cities tho, which I'm very glad for. It's nice to breathe fresh air, to just randomly decide to drive to a nearby waterfall and just... Enjoy the view and listen to birds, while the city still sparkles just a few meters ahead. It's a magical juxtaposition, I consider myself lucky.
To be frank, whenever I'm asked a question like that, specifically from someone young, my first reaction isn't anger. My first reaction is concern, and pity, because clearly something is deeply wrong and this person is missing the opportunity to reach their full potential by far, and it might not be totally their fault but rather something that was drilled into them by a myriad of reasons. They see the world completely askew, are basically parroting what they listened from people they trust, and I struggle to find the right words/reaction to correct their trajectory, while cursing internally whoever is responsible for teaching them/enabling them to grow up this way.
I agree🦅🌺🦅
Don't worry they asked us the same thing. Abrigado Brasil from México!!!
I served in the Australian Navy and I met a lot of American sailors, one time in Singapore I was asked by an American "where y'all from?", I told him Australia, and more than twenty years later I can still remember him saying "isn't that near New Zealand?".
That's impressive. Most Yanks don't know New Zealand is a thing.
@@helenwood8482 can you fault them for that? Most maps forget the existance of New Zealand sadly.
Finally! Lol
Yep, they come over to see the Auckland to Sydney Harbour Bridge.
@@helenwood8482 Too bad Anglos can't seem to learn that not all U.S. citizens are Yankees. Only a small portion in the northeastern part of the country should be called that.
"it doesnt make sense to speak spanish if you dont look mexican"
Spain: "Spain, but the S is silent"
Probably one of my best examples of this was in my highschool history class, and the teacher asked us “does anyone know where China is?” Him thinking in relation to the map we were using, not expecting the goldmine about to drop, as the girl beside me went “oo, i know! Thats a country in Paris right?!” I wanted to bury my head under my books for even being in the same state as that statement… this was senior year…
We learnt in geography when we were 10 years old.
Growing up we kept the china in the china cabinet.
In London an American once stopped me, pointed to the Post Office Tower and asked if it was the Eiffel Tower!!
You said "yes" of course !
Oof!
@@mirvids5036 I was too gob smacked but, the person I was with said yes. She actually turned in triumph to the people she was with and said, "See!! I told you"!!!
@@julespeace8376 lolz !
One of my tourists looking at the Eiffel Tower asked if it was famous. When I said 'no', she walked off, sans photo.
"There's a reason aliens only abduct people from out in the boonies. It's because other people know to run from the beam." Bahahaha!
Last week an American spoke with me few German words after I said to be Italian. I said that we don't speak German in Italy. Than she also asked me if they could get to Milan by bus from Dublin city (the capital of Ireland). I said that was impossible because Europe is a continent not a country. She told me that I need to go back to school as she's a geography teacher in the USA and I was very funny for having made up stories to cover up my "ignorance" and I should not be ashamed of saying that I don't knew something... Unbelievable
2:40 Do not forget that almost half the territory that is currently the US was the First Mexican Empire back in 1821. US states such as California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Texas... That's why there is A LOT of people of Mexican ethnicity whose ancestors were already there some 200 years ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Mexican_Empire
BTW, greetings from the Canary Islands (Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and yes, Europe).
these reactions are great. I really feel bad for you being where you are in America and having to put up wit your country's idiocy. I saw someone get hit the other day near where I work and called 999 (the UK's 911) and the guy, who was from Utah, was screaming about how he didn't have enough money to pay for an ambulance. I gave him a funny look which made him ask me why I was looking at him like that. I told him "uh, you don't pay for the emergency services here in the UK. You also don't pay for the NHS unless it's specific operations like plastic/cosmetic surgery or private healthcare. The NHS is free, so yeah, I'm calling you an ambulance to get you the medical help you need" he was still adamant he had to pay until the Paramedics told him I was right and he didn't since we value people's health in the UK not money
Not tempted to say "give me £100 and I'll sort it?"
@@seamusoflatcap nope, wasn't tempted at all. I was more concerned about the guy's health than cash
The other side of the coin. I saw something a while ago about a young lady who'd fallen in the subway. She'd hurt her leg really badly but all she did was scream ''don't call an ambulance - I can't afford it''!. That broke my heart.
Rather than idiotic, I think it's rather sad that this is the reality for many people.. T_T
Yep, had a reaction like that from a friend who'd just come over from US, hired a moped and fell off it. She tried to argue with the ambulance people and they told her to shut up and get in. When she got to the hospital, same fear of having to have to pay massive amounts, they told her they'd check her out, see what was what, then go from there. She went on her way rejoicing, a bit bruised but wallet (such as it was) intact!
I was once asked by a colleague from Colorado if we had to pay taxes in the UK, he was somehow under the impression that only people from the US had to pay income tax 🤷♂️
US citizens are among the few that have to pay taxes in the US, even when living abroad permanently. And getting rid of the citizenship is expensive.
@@katertom We were working in Equatorial Guinea at the time, he honestly thought that people in the UK or other countries paid didn’t have to pay income tax
They might have been referring to tax returns, thats very different.
Funny, especially as the UK introduced income tax in 1799 and the USA not till 1861.
@@michaelmclachlan1650 Shame they messed up the system and didn't use PAYE but, of course, that would cut out the middle man so there would be no profit in it!!! 🙂
My wife & I (Canadian, from Vancouver BC) were travelling through the US on our bikes one time - Grand Canyon, Yosemite etc. We were checking into a motel in Utah and the clerk asked where we were from. We said British Columbia. He said "Wow, how can you not have any British accent at all?!?"
Fellow Vancouverite here. Have encountered much the same.
From Australia: I've been to almost 60 countries, but ONLY when in the USA, am I asked if I speak English and when I am moving there. I reply that I speak English better than them, and I am not moving to America as I already live in the best country in the world. The look of absolute shock on their faces that someone DOESN'T want to move to the US.
We had to live in Australia due to my husbands job. Same reaction when we said we did not want to live there permanently. 😧 So happy to leave.
my father in law talked to some of his US friends, they ask him when his daughter( my wife ) and her family will final move to the USA....
his answer been, never, they are far better off in Germany!
they tried to convince him to make us move to the USA,
he told them he will rather move to Germany to be closer to its first grand kid...
Given his love of nature, I'm sure Charles wouldn't mind being the Prince of Whales! 😀
But his Mum currently owns all Whales in UK - Waters, how could he then owns them?
Im a Brit. I was a coach in an American school.
A girl who was failing English said to me.
'I dont know why we have to learn English, why cant we just do American'
In a way she was right because that drawl that come out of their faces isn't English
Actually, most U.S. accents are originally from different parts of England. It's just that Victoria insisted on that weird posh lilt and non-rhoticity be added to your accent.
@@roger0929 Mate there is not one American accent that sounds remotely like any English accent.
I am from the Caribbean and I've realised that some questions you get asked by some Americans really make it seems like they think we all live on different planets.
As a Canadian I weep for Y'all.
The point about UA-cam being available in other languages than English, the fact that it is available in over 90 countries and 80 different languages often escapes Americans, I've actually had that argument with Americans in the comment sections of other people's videos, Americans don't have a monopoly on stupid but they do it so well, just saying
They always assume everyone on the internet is American. Never speak of your own experiences in your own country because people will tell you you’re wrong.
I sometimes wonder if certain U.S. Americans know anything at all without the help of Google.
That may also be a pretty good explanation why so many Americans have gone very deep down rabbit holes so easily in the last 8 years
My favorite case is a highschool student taking a physics test, and I was helping her study for it. The test had something to do with the effects of gravity. And while I don't remember the full context of this one question, I do remember laughing afterwards when she got it wrong, because she did the calculations correctly, but in the wrong order. She actually assumed that the Moon is substantially bigger than planet Earth, and not the other way around, so attributed the stronger gravitational pull to the wrong object. And this is why I tell people that anyone can be a good student with some study - no matter how stupid.
When we moved from Canada to Arizona, a kid argued with my son in ENGLISH about whether or not he spoke English. Kid insisted we don't speak English there and that my son didn't know how to speak it.
I’m English and don’t really feel qualified to talk about this but I don’t really blame the these Americans for missing some world knowledge as I understand it the majority of Americans don’t have a passport and have never left the USA. I’ve also been told that some schools make you pledge allegiance to the flag every day which feeds into the idea that America is best combine the two and there are bound to be some misconceptions. The poor person that confused about English people speaking English though I mean the clues in the name there. Saying all that I’ve been the dumb Brit once way back in the dawn of the internet I speaking with a lovely American girl and I was totally shocked she’d never been to the beach in her life. The shear distance some states can cover was a revelation to a younger me that frequently traveled most of UK in day having family in Scotland.
The problem for me is how they don't even realise how dumb those comments are, it's ok to not know something but to act as if there's no way they are wrong about something they know nothing about really makes them stand out.
To be fair, I suspect the reason why many Americans never leave the US is they don't get enough time off work to go anywhere.
I don't have a passport and apart from having been born in Cyprus, I have never left the UK. I still know geography and history and have studied around 14 languages. Even before I had the internet available (yes, I am that old), there were these things called books.
Exactly, that's the thing. People sometimes forget that the USA is the world's 3rd biggest country. If we Europeans travel to our neighbour countries it's comparable to when an American travels to a different state if you compare the distances. Many Americans can't just travel abroad. It would take them several days by car or they would have to pay lots of money for a flight. I mean, if we pay 5.000€ for a trip to the Carribean it likely costs them as much or more to visit Europe.
@@Keelyn1984 You wrote _"... if we pay 5.000€ for a trip to the Carribean it likely costs them as much or more to visit Europe."_ USA/Europe are high volume, very competitive, tourism and business routes. Europe to the Caribbean are not. So a very poor basis for comparison. A quick check for flight costs: UK/Jamaica return is about 1,000£ (GBP), and UK/USA return about 500£ (GBP). I'm confident there are cheaper US/UK flights
I lived and worked in the USA. I flew over 5,000 miles round trip from my home to a job every week. London to Cairo is significantly shorter. HTH.
Best Wishes.
My wife once called me at work, "I'm trying to fill the car with fuel but the cap will not open" she continued to tell me she tried turning the key clockwise on the cap but nothing is happening. True story btw "have you tried turning it to the other way"? Common sense isn't as common as it should be.
I once had someone argue with me....like straight up he thought he was right about Wyoming not being real....that since he's never met anyone from there, he thought Wyoming was a conspiracy....this came after I told him I was from there....he was at least late fifties ...then he asked "well since you have lived there, did you guys ride horses everywhere?" Like he was quizzing me or something.....he was from Alaska so my natural smart ass response was "do you live in an igloo?' I was so mad at this point because he was so adamant that I was lying....
There are 3 reasons I can say as a fellow American to why such things occur:
1. The education system in America is SERIOUSLY BROKEN and we need SERIOUS REFORMATIONS.
2. The limited upbringing or nurture of one's environment, though I highly doubt it as we Americans are constantly raised in "propaganda" to say how great our country is. Thus everything is lopsided for Americans.
3. A proportion of Americans are just simply ignorant, very ignorant.
I hope it's MOSTLY the first 2 reasons and not the 3rd.