I live near a small town in Wyoming. Recently we went into town for breakfast at a small diner. We met a couple from Yorkshire seated at the next table and learned they were on the husband’s “bucket list” trip to see Wyoming and meet real cowboys. The waitress overheard this and introduced them to a local ranch family who had also come into town for breakfast and shopping. The rancher invited the Brits to come to the ranch. I learned later they spent three days on the ranch and had a fantastic time.
The problem is that most Europeans coming to the US only see a small part of the country. I'm afraid that stereotypes are rampant in the press. Some are true to a certain extent, but most are rubbish. We are are diverse country, populated by a diverse people. I'm so glad y'all took the time to learn a bit about The United States. Hope that you're able to return. We'll leave the light on. Cheers from Tennessee
Ok think about where they get their information from movies and just some Jack ass on the internet if you think you know about where they come from without spending some real time there and I don’t mean at a tourist spot and not getting to know the people you are so uneducated I could go on but I will let the Americans that don’t know really find out their own history
@@timothydixon2545 Huh? Ever heard of punctuation? As an American I know my country's history very well, thank you. I was a history major and I'm pretty well versed on European history too. Cheers
@@Hillbilly001 Totally true that’s what I just said but the same time I said most Americans have the same opinion of their country only what we see in movies and unless you’ve been there same thing if you go to Japan just so you know they’re not all samurais I mean, I’m just saying
@@timothydixon2545 Yep. I know what you mean. I've had a leg up. When I was in the Army, 78-90, I was posted to W Germany in the mid 80's. My job took me around most of Western Europe. And I took leave in France and Spain. After Artic School in 81, I took leave in the Philippines. Had to go someplace warm after Alaska in the winter. LoL. I understand that many of my countrymen never leave the States and that causes stereotypes to abound on this side of the pond. Even with places like Canada and Mexico. Ignorance knows no borders I reckon. Cheers
According to your NHS, 72% of Brits are overweight, and according to the US NIH 73% of Americans are overweight. IMO, either one, making fun of the other for this falls firmly in the "pot calling the kettle black" category.
And most of those are just 10-30lbs overweight. Our BMI is quite strict and outdated with what it considers overweight. It was developed at a time when people were quite frail. Now just our improved bone density will put people at overweight according to the BMI scale.
@@catgirl6803are you serious? At 5’8” tall, I can weigh 163 lbs. and still be at a good bmi. When I was younger, I weighed 120 lbs and at that weight I was rail thin. Guarantee at 163 lbs I’m not rail thin. Medium wrist size, lift weights off and on, hike and kayak, cut our downed trees with a chainsaw and split and stack by hand. So not a weakling. And female. Unless you’re lifting 300lbs or something similar, the BMI applies to you. What determined what was a healthy BMI was info gathering on patients, calculating BMI and then seeing what weight related morbidities they developed (diabetes, heart disease, vascular disease, osteoporosis, strokes and heart attacks, cancers). And that is how they determined what a healthy BMI is. If you don’t care if you develop diabetes and have to take pills or injections for it or develop colon cancer and have to have a poop bag attached to your belly, by all means believe the garbage influencers tell you that allows you to think it’s appropriate to eat a bag of chips or cookies or tub of ice cream in one sitting as your knees become more and more painful when you walk because people aren’t meant to be obese.
@@bobprivate8575 I don't think the country boys from small towns and those working on farms and ranches are overweight. I'm guessing those stats are from urban and suburban regions!
Teenages from France stayed with us for a month and LOVED the food. BBQ, Tex-Mex, Roasts, Cassaroles, Fresh vegetables. The variety in general blew them away.
@lioninwinter9316, that's good to hear. It wasn't many decades ago, depending on your age, that Europeans in general thought all of us Americans eat fast food 3 times daily. That attitude has changed a lot with the advent of millions watching UA-camrs tasting our food, and drooling over them all.
Back in the 1980s my family hosted two girls from Germany and the thing that blew their mind was corn on the cob. In Germany corn was (maybe still is) for pigs. Once they tried it, they loved it and pretty much ate nothing else. Ironically nobody that they told in Germany believed them because, as it turns out, that corn grown for animals is different from corn grown for people. Their loss.
@@alexh4436 "Cow corn" is almost inedible by humans. Farmers in the US will plant several rows of it outside of the eating corn to discourage people from stealing.
@@lioninwinter9316 Animal feed is called field corn while corn for human consumption is called sweet corn. Sweet corn is harvested when it’s young and moist with field corn harvested when the kernels are hard and dry. Field corn is also higher in starch and lower in sugar than sweet corn. My uncle and cousin did the opposite of what you said, they planted several rows of sweet corn around the perimeter of their fields to keep the deer and raccoons from eating their field corn. Worked out for family members as we were allowed to pick the remaining sweet corn before they harvested their field corn. Best corn I ever had.
@@lioninwinter9316 Cow corn can be ground for corn meal for corn muffins. And there is popcorn to be popped when dry and hard. And there is fuel corn that produces a higher octane ethanol for fuel.
On the subject of transportation, people from other countries usually don't realize the size of America. When I was in Ireland I could drive across the country quicker than I could drive across Texas. America is large!
Not sure that comparing Ireland to Texas is the best choice. At least going east to west across Ireland, it would take a little over 3 hours while it would take about 12 hours to cross Texas. Ireland and Ohio (among others) are more comparable sizewise.
Here in NC, people can open carry. Some do, some don’t. Regardless, everyday life here isn’t the shoot out at the OK coral. Contrary to what people in the media and Hollywood would have you believe the average gun owner is an honest and decent person.
@@Idratherliveinavan When I lived in Az I actually appreciated the ones that did open carry. It was typically an older responsible looking type dude. I knew if shit popped off, I could duck out and they'd be the one to get involved. I was a teen then so it just made more sense to me.
A lot of people in the US don't own guns. I've talked to people from other countries who think we all walk around with six-shooters, like in the old West. I have relatives who live on a farm. They have guns. The police are at least 15 minutes away. They also need guns for wild animals that are a threat to their farm animals. I live in a big city. The police can be at my house in under a minute. I don't own a gun. In the cities, guns can be harder to get, requiring more paperwork and red tape.
Thank you for the video. Fun story, I had a couple fun cases in my hand and a rifle on my shoulder walking a few houses down from mine to a friends so we could go target practice. As we are loading his SUV a friend of mine and fellow police officer (I was not in uniform) pulls up and asks me “hey, you see a strange guy walking loaded for war?” I tell him “no, but we should check the neighborhood.” Just then a lady comes out her front door and points at me and says “HIM! Right there!” She had just moved in two days before (I even helped her move in lol). I chuckled and we explained what we were doing and asked if she would like to come along. She and her husband loved it! Thank you for the video. What a lovely family. Cheers.
A friend and I took his daughters shooting and they brought along the exchange student who lived with them at their mother’s house. The exchange student’s parents were all for us taking their daughter shooting because it’s really expensive in her home country. She had a great time.
Much of the "Public transportation is bad in the US" comes from the lack of understanding the size of the country. The square area of all of GB (England, Scotland and Wales) is 94,058 sq mi. The size of the state of Wyoming is 97,063 sq mi. England alone is 50,301 sq mi while all of the US is 3,809,525 sq mi. That makes the US roughly 75.5 times the size of England. Interstate 80 which runs from the Palisades on the eastern edge of the Hudson River between NJ and NY westward to San Francisco, California is 2919 miles long. The scale is beyond common understanding for a great many GB/European people.
yeah... but.... I live in a US town of 10000 where Public transportation means calling (on phone) a public dispatcher with your address & telling them you need a ride to x location within the county. They come around in what looks like a small school bus (sometimes it's packed -others empty) and costs 2 dollars ... wait time for them to show could be 10 min. - could be 90 min...... you run on their schedule. So good luck getting to work or doctors appt. on time. Or you call a private cab that bills you 2 dollars PER MILE.
@@csnide6702 I live in township in PA where public transportation is nonexistent. Population is 880. Combined with the neighboring townships/villages (3 of them) we still don't exceed 3,500 people. The nearest places with public transportation are 18 - 20 miles in any direction. Private taxis? Yeah......no. Uber/Lyft? Nope. The County "rides for disabled" need to be scheduled 2 days in advance and are limited to twice a month. So, I get your situation.
@@maryhaynes8633 Yep. On I-10 Texas is 877.4 miles. That's pretty much 2 days travel time if you want to go between New Mexico and Louisiana. I-20 is 636 miles but runs with I-10 for 235 miles to reach New Mexico so you still travel over 870 miles. It's beyond comprehension for many people. For that matter "little"eastern state Pennsylvania is 312 miles across on I-80. That's a 6 - 8 hour trip for the average motorist.
I remember reading about someone from the UK who was in NY and wanted to go to Florida. He thought that a plane ticket was too expensive and was surprised to find out how easy it was to find a bus to take him exactly where he wanted to go, and it was much cheaper. He got on the bus, and about four hours later, it was approaching the arrival time on the ticket. But the bus didn't stop, and an hour later, he was confused. He asked the driver about the arrival time and the driver told him that the time was correct, but he also needed to look at the arrival date.
One thing that as an American I never thought about until a foreigner pointed it out that was we measure distance in "time" instead of miles. For example if you ask an American how far away some place is they are likely going to say something like, "Oh, Atlanta is about 4 hours from here", instead of telling you how many miles or kilometers away it is. I think this must be simply because the US is a very spread out nation with long distances to drive, and telling how long it will take you to get there makes more sense than saying, "Oh, Atlanta is 260 miles away".
I think it is because the distance isn't as important as the time and they don't necessarily correlate. 5 miles is not the same in the city vs the suburbs vs the country.
I may live 1000 miles from Orlando, Fla but if I want to go to Orlando I might have to drive 1500 miles, due to the unfortunate fact that when the highways were built, they didn't have the good sense to build a straight shot from my house to wherever I want to go. It might not matter much if you are traveling a couple hundred miles, but when it is a 1000 miles, those 1000 miles as the car drives can be a substantially different number of miles. So it makes a lot of sense to state the distance in drive time.
As you probably know from my many posts over the years, I live in northern IL. A few hundred miles south of here in the E. St. Louis area is a World Heritage Site named Cahokia Mounds, which was visited within the past 6 mo. or so by Laurence of Lost in the Pond. That civilization was in its heyday 1050-1350 AD, with a population of 15-20,000 inhabitants, which was larger than London at that time.
When Europeans arrived in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, it was not only five times the size of London at the time, with some 200,000 people, but it was far more hygienic. These were not savages or backward at all. People have some serious misconceptions about the Native Americans before the Europeans came with their diseases and guns.
@@boggs626 Actually there is a lot of doubt about the religious sacrifices. They certainly weren't on the scale of the stories that the Catholics told. Probably involved much less killing than the Inquisition and the Crusades resulted in many magnitudes more deaths.
Yes. I live near Cahokia Mounds. Very interesting. Never heard anything about ritual sacrifices there. It’s the general belief they all moved due to lack of sanitary conditions after having used the resources nearby up and living in too close a proximity to essentially their garbage dumps. They needed a fresh place to start over. It is in Collinsville, Illinois, not East St. Louis.
@@robertvirnig638 I imagine that the time of crisis that the Spanish saw the Aztecs in and thus recorded probably had them sacrificing far more than the standard as a special appeal to the gods and was not indicative of a more ordinary year, but historians and archaeologists have sufficient data to piece together what that looked like. The Aztec religious calendar is quite well known. There were 18 20-day months and a festival involving human sacrifice at the end of each month. Each month was effectively a holy period presided over and in honor of a particular god with a 5-day period at the end of the year which no god presided over and thus was a time that demons ran amok. 2 of these months involved mass sacrifices of prisoners of war taken from neighboring tribes (probably why Cortez found so many willing allies to take them down). Another two, the ones dedicated to Tlailoc, the god of rain and the only god who had two months dedicated to his worship, specifically involved children who had been tortured continuously for the full 20 day month. You see, Tlailoc treasured the tears of the innocent so it became an art-form among the priests of Tlailoc to torture children in such a way as to keep them crying the entire 20 days. Go too soft, and they get used to it. Go too hard and they go catatonic and just stop responding. This is backed up archeologically as the corpses of sacrifices were buried either in entirely separate cemeteries or grouped together with others sacrificed to the same god. The Tlailoc kids are evident due to horrible dental damage that shows signs of just starting to heal. Apparently, dental torture is an excellent source of continuous pain. Each festival had its own specific patron and rituals, and, other than those 4, most only included 2 human sacrifices. The man and woman who had been chosen to represent the divinity for their month. After 20 days of being treated as a living deity with every want and need waited upon, they were ritually killed.
When our British cousins visited my father took them for a ride and commented on a bridge that was well over 100 years old, built by the Spanish and still in use. He was he was a little disappointed in their response until later that evening he found out that the bridge in their town was over 1000 years old, built by the Romans. and still in use.
@@91CBR86VFR In America, I'd say that 100 years old is closer to 2 or 3 hundred years old. There are buildings and homes in my US state of Maryland that date to the 1650's. That about 375 years old.
@@91CBR86VFR Europe has been populated by Europeans for millennia, North America has only been populated by Europeans since about the end of the 15th century. Santo Domingo, in present day Dominican Republic, is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement on the American Continent, established in 1496, so 528 years.
I live in Indiana. Indiana is an open carry state, yet most folks who carry still keep their guns concealed. Yes, many Americans are carrying guns, but only for protection. We don’t run around with guns drawn looking for a fight LOL! As far as transportation, yes, Europe is probably much better in that department, but consider the fact that taking a train or bus from one end of the country to the other will take 4 or 5 days of continuous travel. Even flying from one end of the country to the other takes 5 hours. In fact, most of us prefer to fly just as a time saver. I once took a train from Chicago to Tampa and it took 2 days. After that I drove, and stopped to see sights along the way, which is more preferable than 2 unpleasant days on a train.
There are tourist places Europeans visit that reinforce the perception of all fast food, like Orlando. All chains and fast food. It is worth pointing out that American fast food chains are very often based on some regional food to begin with. Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, etc
It is also worth pointing out that many, many Americans including me care about their health and don't ever eat fast food- not organi , meat w hormones and antibiotics, etc. No thank you.
@@91CBR86VFR TN does bbq very well too. I’m vegetarian now, but bbq of all sorts is the only thing I really miss. I don’t know if they have any kind of authenticity, but in some places Korean bbq and Mongolian bbqs are common and yummy yummy yum.
A little perspective : Sir Isaac Newton could have gone to Harvard and definitely could have taught there. Shakespeare had only been dead 4 years when The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. You can get a train from New York to LA with one connection stop . It takes almost 4 days.
@@patricialavery8270 another perspective for you my local church here In England was built in the 11th century and is still in use . You'll see old buildings dating back hundreds of yrs all over the UK .
I'm not typically super patriotic but then I hear people from other countries talk about what they like and observe about America and I'm like, "Yeah! We do have great food! We do have interesting history!" and so on! So, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed your visit! If you haven't, pop by Oregon sometime. It's got a bad rep because of Portland, but most of the state is beautiful!
When I learned American history in school, it properly started with prehistoric times and progressed through the arrival of humans from Asia and we learned a lot about what happened on the continent before Europeans arrived. So a lot of history in American history.
A lot of history in the land not our country of America. The United States is more a people and way of life than it is the land so our history goes back almost 300 years not counting colonial rule. It doesn't matter that our history is short though because it's not our time on soil that gives us credence it's our values and those values are eternal!
I learned history from the medieval era through the reformation and counter reformation, and the renaissance then we learned about the exploration of the Americas starting with Christopher Columbus, and then other explorers and colonialists. So really history begun in America largely in 1492. Sure they taught about history in America that is older than this for example different tribes. Much is not known about them and their history, and they are harder for a lot of people to relate to. I also found that history to be quite dull. Medieval history I found much more interesting you know... knights, castles, swords, crossbows, the black plague, etc. The people living where the United States were did not have that level of development, and also like I mentioned not much was documented. I believe we know much more about the Romans than we do about American tribes. Almost every American will agree that Europe has much more history, and surviving history. I have walked the medieval walls of medieval walled towns in Germany I even drove through its gate, I have drank beer in the world's oldest remaining monastic brewery which was founded in 1050. I have eaten Bratwursts at a restaurant that was established in the 16th century. I have toured a castle that was built in the 12th century. Even in London I have been to several pubs that are older than the United States. You cannot experience ANYTHING like that in America. There is not that much left from teepees from the 12th century for example, or tribal huts, or lodges. It would be more like artifact fragments if something like that even could be found. The castle I toured in Germany that began construction in the 12th century still has family from then that lives in part of the castle, and the castle was never destroyed, and was never abandoned. I have been to a restaurant in Paris that is older than the United States it was established in the 17th century. Benjamin Franklin ate there, I inquired with the waiter he insisted that he actually wrote the articles of secession in the restaurant. The thing is in Europe that is not considered that old. I did not mention all the personal experiences to brag, but rather to state the difference. Most of these things do not even need sought out they are everywhere and are STILL a part of normal life.
@@superdude1759 I would argue that what gives America credence is the liberties that are guaranteed such as the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to keep and bear arms. The United States of America is actually older than Germany, or the current French republic. The difference is that the lineage of the people to the land with all the surviving history is still there and visible, something The United States only has for 400 or so years as opposed to thousands.
My last history course was in the '60s, and was essentially a repeat of all the prior ones : History began in 1492 when Columbus "discovered" America, and ended in 1865 when Lincoln was assassinated. (Nothing of consequence occurred either before or after).
California, New York. Texas, Florida. That is what they see. Most Europeans do not see the flyover states. Small town America. One thing we have tried to convey about the USA is, nothing is universal. When you see or hear something do not assume that is just how it is. Small town America with kids as young as five playing American football, or soccer, basketball. And girls of the same age that are cheerleaders for the boys sports teams.This is just a tip of so many things you will never see. A shame really.
What most visitors do is they go to the big cities of the states that you mentioned instead of the small towns. There’s one European by the name of Shaun who visits the less touristy areas. In one of his videos, he was somewhere up in Oregon sort of in the woods, and then drove down to California. If you know anything about the coastal highways, you would know that these are absolutely beautiful scenic routes. And that is what Shaun saw. He traveled to where most Europeans do not go. He also went to the Grand Canyon.
I think the same can be said going the other way. I have been to the UK 3 times in my life and never made it out of London. It never bothered me because there is a lot to see and do there. Maybe next time.
I recommend European watch Amtrak's website for the "30-day Amtrak Rail Pass" suitable for TEN different train journeys riding in coach, not a sleeper car... Since I have a difficulty sleeping in coach, I break up my ten journeys every other day/night to sleep in a hotel or bed&breakfast for a good night's sleep. Since the trains outside the northeast are daily, instead of multiple daily trains, I spend a day or two in a city or town anywhere along the routes. It could be a city like Chicago and Seattle, or a small town like Alpine TX or Glenwood Springs CO... Not just see America, but EXPERIENCE America... I enjoyed spending a day fishing in the Marias River near the Marias Pass adjacent to Glacier National Park... Bring your fishing pole with you on the train like Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...
Yep, never understand why Europeans would come to the States to only see our big cities. European cities are so much nicer by far. But the thing that we really have over Europe is all of our beautiful rural and natural areas. Our stunning and expansive National Parks with native forest and wildlife galore. They really don’t have anything that compares.
I’ve lived in Texas for 25 years, and in all that time I never saw a civilian carrying a gun … until about a month ago funny enough, some older guy in a store had a holstered gun. But that was it.
I'm from Texas and carry a gun everywhere I legally can, but unless something bad is going down, you will never know that I am. The only times I have ever open carried is at the gun range or while on my own property. I want the element of surprise if I'm ever in a situation that I need it.
I lived in AZ a long time ago. I wouldn’t say it was common but definitely wasn’t rare to see people open carrying. I haven’t seen it on trips back in recent times, though.
@@RobertMJohnson in which case I didn’t see them carrying a gun did I Einstein? THAT’s what they’re talking about - visible open carry, you seeing people flashing their guns.
@@RobertMJohnson oh I have no doubt. I meant I haven’t noticed anyone carrying open in more recent visits. I liked to see it when I was a kid. It created a FAFO vibe that actually made me feel safer than normal.
Regarding the food myth, it would help debunk this if foreigners came and ate real, healthy, whole food on their videos and not only fast food. That feeds the myth. Also going to stores and commenting on and buying only the junk/snack foods doesn’t help either. 😊
Thank you for saying this. This is why I make a point of focusing on videos of non-Americans trying foods other than fast food/chain places and processed junk they got from Walmart.
@@superdude1759 oh yes. There has been a human settlement on this site for 8000 years now, continuously. Been called different things, and populated by different people. When humans migrated to North America, one of the first branches we made was to the Great Lakes. My town occupies a natural harbor, and natural wind and snow break on Lake Superior. There is evidence of continuous human habitation of the site for 8k years.
@@blafonovision4342 Sorry, allow me to be more clear: Your town is under the United States of America if it's in Michigan or wherever! I was addressing your comment after a string of comments from others who were saying that "America," they meaning the United States of America was thousands of years old. I merely let them know that they were conflating the United States with a long continuous past population as if it were all the same which it is not. The United States is not thousands of years old because any settlers that were here before were not the United States of America. That was my point as the video is about the United States. So, remaining on topic I addressed your comment: it doesn't matter that there were settlements for thousands of years because they were not the United States. Not knowing who you are or what you know, I state that the United States is not just a land or a hodgpodge collection of leftover peoples and settlements willy-nilly, we're a very specific country founded on a very specific idea with a very specific structure and very specific laws that all began just a little under 300 years ago. The natives that were here before decided they didn't want to be part of our republic (and still don't) and nothing that they were is part of who we are so the topic of them being here before is not relevant! I'm addressing the irrelevancy of the time immemorial settlements that commenters here are continually broaching!
We do have a very long history. Native Americans have been here for tens of thousands of years. It's not a traditional European history, but that doesn't make it any less valid.
@@mfree80286technically no, because American history is considered US History. What you are probably looking for is indigenous history, and there is nearly none until Europeans arrived. What is called "history" is for the most part archeology.
The us comprised of so many different cultural backgrounds have established many ethnic types of eateries! So its silly to think that most americans subsist on fast food!
I heard a comedian joking about how Britain conquered most of the world and traded in spices, but never thought to use them on their own food! LoL. It was either Ralphie May or Bill Burr, I can't remember.
You will very rarely see anybody openly carry a holstered "gun". Every state is different. NY and NYC have very strict gun laws. I live in Missouri and we are a Constitutional carry state. Which means we do not need a permit. Most people conceal carry no matter where you go. I have maybe seen a dozen people in my lifetime open carry.
Virginia (where I live), is an open carry state. I've never seen anyone carrying in all of the 34 years since I moved to this state after getting out of the Army.
Wow, I didn’t even know open carry was allowed anywhere. I’ve never seen it, even on the news, so just sort of always assumed it had to be concealed. Lol, it would be seriously provocative. Reminds me of a video the other day, some Europeans on some off-road thing with a bunch of Americans in some gun friendly state. They were all wearing shorts and beaters and someone asked who was carrying and all the Americans raised their hands despite seemingly having no place to carry it.
I went to Beijing in 2005. Over the next 12 years, I returned like 6 times visiting different parts of the country before I had a well-rounded overview. Same goes for the US. It's just big. Visiting a few major cities on either coast just scratches the surface.
Missouri grapevine roots actually saved French and European wines when they had a blight that went on for years and nearly wiped out their vineyards. Missouri wineries sent their roots to be grafted onto the plants. They didn't take right away, but it eventually worked.
I’ve never seen a person in real life holding a gun other than law enforcement. There are a lot of firearms, but people aren’t parading around with them in public.
Just because you've never seen anyone carrying a gun doesn't mean that you haven't been around dozens or maybe hundreds of people carrying guns. Most of us carry concealed, and you wouldn't know we are carrying.
@@JJVPYOUWrong!!! And so is the video. The idea that people were walking around with guns in NYC but they just couldn't see them is fiction. In the US, only about 20% to 30% of people own guns. However, in areas where people tend to own guns, they tend to own multiple guns. Because of that, there's the correct statistic that in the US, there are more guns than people. But if you live in an area where the people you know typically own two or three guns, it means that for each of them, there are 2-3 people somewhere else with no guns. I grew up in NYC and never knew a single gun owner. I never saw anyone outside of law enforcement carry one. I've used guns, including in cities like Philadelphia, but that was inside an armory for ROTC. It wasn't something I carried around.
On the subject of American history, yes, we packed a lot of history into a couple hundred years as the USA, but everyone forgets the thousands of years of Native American history prior to the arrival of European settlers. :)
1. Guns...it really depends on the state. In Texas guns are generally more prevalent to see. New York and California really have the lowest percentage. 2. In terms of Obesity the US is at 42.87% the United Kingdom is 28.71%. In terms of overweight (overweight + clinically obese combined) is 69.8% in the US and 64.3% in the UK. The United States increase in Obesity started about 10 years before the UK's increase so they have both dramatically increased over the past 50 and 40 years respectively. The links between the US, Canada, UK, and Western Europe is so tightly coupled in modern times that the same trends impact us all. 3. History is interesting as there is a shorter span in the United States, but there is tremendously more diversity in that history. So really it's kind of an argument of breadth vs depth. Either way all humans value history and culture, so it's really a pointless argument. 4. Fast food is a thing, and I think it really ties into fact #2 and life balance. Fast food has increased dramatically because people value time. The more family/work/life stresses you are under generally the more you tend to find yourself favoring quick meal solutions. The United States lead the UK in terms of changing that life balance (people work now than they did 40-50 years ago, families have more working members too, people have more economic pressures). And just like in Fact #2 there was about a 10 year difference between that trend happening in the United States and that tend also appearing in the UK. It's just a cultural shift. 5. Transportation is a challenge in all areas where population density drops. Within cities transportation is generally excellent, the farther from the cities you go the less options you tend to have. That is true of the UK as well. The major difference is there a is a lot farther out from cities in the United States than possibly exists in the UK. In the end its purely a matter of total distance and land area.
Hollywood has given such a distorted view of guns in the USA. Every episode in police dramas show a gunfight. It would make you think that every cop draws his gun and shoots every day. When in reality, most police officers have never shot at anyone, in the line of duty, in their entire careers.
Thank you for sharing your viewpoint on this as a full blooded American, it’s interesting to hear what regular people from other countries think about us. 💯🤘
I realize that we have some food deserts, but nonprocessed food is frequently cheaper than the garbage food. People choose to eat garbage out of convenience and nothing more.
@@jonok42What kind of non-processed food is cheaper than processed, that can be stretched as far as possible and doesn't take a long time and a lot of effort to cook? Most jobs aren't in poor areas, and require a long commute times, which leave less time for sleep (which also contributes to obesity), in addition to low wages t that neve to be stretched between rent, utilities and transportation costs. Money isn't the only consideration. Also time and mental and physical exhaustion, along with the added pressures of poverty. After all that. The ultra- processed foods end up being much cheaper.
@@jonok42 Not true. Perhaps you’re assuming impoverished people have functioning refrigerators, stoves, ovens, electric? Or maybe you don’t realize that poor people often have to share homes with other families that might eat your food. Not to mention, parents of children having to lock their food up so others don’t eat it. it must be nonperishable. Also, fresh ingredients turn quickly. It’s a complex issue with many factors.
"a lot"?? disagree - stooges try it once, live out their childish little fantasies but immediately realize how awkward, uncomfortable and pointless it is to be carrying around a gun when merely going to the grocery store and never carry concealed again - turns out real life ain't like a movie and even stooges realize that
@@gogreen7794 Do you have a fire extinguisher near your kitchen? You should have one. Have you ever used it? Think about it. Are you trying to say that the millions of people that conceal carry for personal protection are paranoid?
Thank you, cousins across the pond! I got to visit London a couple years ago! I loved it! My dad’s family came from Yorkshire and mom’s from Ireland. Cute baby! I miss my kids being little!
Europeans think that North Americans or people that live in the USA do not have a long history. They think that the USA only started around the 1600's. They are WRONG! There were people thousands of years before the white men of Europe came to America. There were millions of Native American people in America, Canada, and Mexico before any white settlers came here. The reason they think that there is no history is because there is no written evidence before the first European settlers came here. With the exception of the Eastern Cherokee tribe there is no formal written language, and that did not come about until sometime in the 1700's when a cherokee native by the name of Sequoyah became close with some of the "white men" and took the time to create a syllabus of characters and words to engauge in conversation. The cherokee used this syllabus to converse with the white man because they were tired of not being able to understand what the white man was saying and what their intentions were. I could be wrong, but there are no other tribes that have written language. All other tribes learn to speak their native tongue by speaking only. All of the Native American history before the white settlers came were taught by word of mouth generation after generation. All history was done through stories from the elders passing down knowledge to the young ones. Lessons that are still going on today through the native communities. So, in general, yes, there are many thousands of years in history in North America. It was just not written until the white man showed up on its shores.
@@tomhalla426 Yes and beyond just having a written language, the Mayans had a pretty extensive collection of written histories and documentation/record keeping. But sadly, nearly all of it was purposefully destroyed by the Spanish and is lost forever.
1. It's called a "CONCEALED carry permit" for a reason....although there are some states that now allow open carry. 2. Here in eastern TN there are quite a few overweight people compared to the rest of the nation. 3. High speed is slowly coming to the U.S., but it takes a lot of time and $$$ to make it happen. (I wish we had started working on it YEARS ago.)
@@AmericanNoiseMaker I've had carry permits both in CT and PA. The CT permit required the State Police to do a FBI background check, required me to have passed an NRA gun safety course and I had to get fingerprinted. It also took over 6 months to be approved and the permit was only good for a few years (this was in the early 90's and things might have changed). In contrast the PA carry permit was issued by the county sheriff's office and from what I remember, each sheriff could make things easier or difficult. I lived in York county at the time so the only thing that was required of me was statements of support from two locals in "good standing" and it took less than 3 days for approval. On the other hand, I remember people who lived in the neighboring Lancaster county complaining about how difficult it was to get a carry permit from their sheriff. So not only can it vary from state to state, it can vary even within a state. Now, when I moved to NYC, I realized that there was absolutely no way I was going to be able to get a NYC carry permit (the only civilians I knew who had them were the Hasidic Jews who worked in NYC's Diamond District and carried lots of uncut diamonds in their pockets so they were allowed to carry - I don't believe that Diamond District in midtown Manhattan exists anymore). So I sold all my guns before I moved to NYC and I had to sell to someone who had a Federal Firearms License and fill out a ton of paperwork. While I have since moved from NYC, I currently own no firearms.
No permit needed here in Arizona. Conceal carry whatever you want whenever you want, without any permits.We are a constitutional carry state. As well as we also have no knife/blades laws except one. You have to be over 21 to carry a knife conceal that is larger than just a pocket knife.
There's a giant difference between the history of the United States and the history of the land currently occupied by the United States! The Native populations have been here for at least 15,000 years.
@@n.d.m.515That's because most Indigenous American histories were oral. And when settlers and European disease wiped out so many Indigenous peoples, neither spared the history keepers. Entire cultures were wiped out. So, that is an issue caused by colonization. The Indigenous cultures that are in North America today are the ones that survived mostly by sheer luck.
@@raven3moon I never knew smallpox to be a "European Disease." Seems that people in Africa/Middle East/Subcontinent/Asia got it too, and in quantity. If the Chinese came to North America first the results would have been the Exact same, bub.
Yep, you are correct. Lots of tribes that practiced slavery and ritual sacrifices. The Native Americans were NOT all peaceful people, a few tribes were but most were not hence the name savages. I think maybe you need to learn a little more. Read a book. Don't listen to the democrats teaching in public schools...they cant even teach people to do basic math.
More like 130,000 years ago, because that's when the land bridge was in existence between Siberia, and North America, and those "native" crossed over. The two humped camel crossed over to Asia, and was native to North America.
It all depends on WHERE a person goes, in America, whether or not "somebody is carrying a gun"... I've lived near and IN Cleveland, Ohio for so many years, that I just ASSUME that EVERYONE is "packing heat"... (And BEHAVE accordingly!) ["An armed society is a polite society."]
NY has stringent gun laws, and you must show "proper cause" to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home. So, no, most New Yorkers aren't walking around with guns. Gun laws vary from state to state
I always feel safer when I see a civilian with a gun.. In Chicago, where you can't have them, the gun violence is terrible because the gangs and bad guys all have them.
I live in a gun loving area of the United States. You still don't see guns unless dealing with a rare 2nd A. activist, someone about to go hunting, or a cop. That includes concealed.
regarding "history" in the USA : typically people are referring to "the history of europeans in the americas". USA has history stretching back thousands of years.
The land has history going back thousands of years, the colonies about four hundred years with a little over a hundred years under British rule. The USA wasn't formed until 1776.
42 seconds in you say into the tip, we say trash , or trash cans or trash bins. When lucky we have an unused room that collects clutter. Our back yards your gardens. Couldn’t wait to see what comes next. I enjoy watching lots of UK and other channels here on UA-cam, Auditing Britain Ch, Royal guard horses, Royalty marches etc. So glad your trip to merica was enjoyable.
I'm a 65 year old American, grew up in PA, lived in TX for five years and now live in New England. I've never owned a gun, never held a gun, never seen anyone fire a gun. I've seen people with hunting rifles and police with handguns, I've heard hunting rifles fire in the distance. I never had a reason to own a gun, but I defend the 2nd Amendment, people have the right to protect themselves and their families. Many Americans believe that Congress can pass laws prohibiting guns, this is not true; the Constitution would have to be amended, and those who want gun control, understand that attempts to amend the Constitution to remove gun rights will fail.
The fact remains, the majority want *common sense gun laws*. It doesn't have to be outlawing all guns. But there's also no need for the average citizen to possess guns made for war. And that CAN in fact be passed by Congress that doesn't go against the constitution.
@Andrew-Collet please inform us which "guns made for war" are available for the average citizens to own. I carried an M-16 my entire military career and the last time I looked, you can't own an M-16 or any other automated firing weapon without a special stamp which is damn near impossible to get. If you are talking about an AR-15, NOBODY in the military carries it. It's a semiautomatic just like most handguns and some hunting rifles and shotguns. But please dazzle me with your knowledge of " weapons of war".
@@Andrew-Collet Add one more myth about the U.S. The U.S. is not a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic. It doesn't matter what the majority of people want. In a democracy, the mob rules; not in a Constitutional Repulic. You may want it to be a democracy for issues for which you are in the majority, but if the majority of the people rejected freedom of speech, how would you like it?
@@averagejoe845 That…has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Common sense gun laws that have both been on the books already and are desired by the American people don’t go against the constitution. It’s just right-wing nuts that believe it does.
It’s a common misconception that we carry guns everywhere. I live in South Carolina and if anything many of us OWN guns, for protection mainly, but not everyone does. If anything you may see a few people open carry in certain areas but it’s not super common by any means.
Back around 2011 or so I met an Australian couple who were driving from NY to LA in a rented Camaro. It was at the bar at The Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo. I had lunch at the bar during a 34 hour restart as a truck driver. They sat down next to me and we sampled the various house brewed beers. I know they weren’t European, actually, Aussies understand long distance car travel as well as we do. They were constantly amazed at how nice most Americans were.
Something that is never mentioned, regarding the obesity rate... Obviously, there are people who are significantly overweight. However, when it comes to the percentages of obese people, even those who are 5 pounds overweight, are considered in those stats. So many of those who are considered "overweight," you wouldn't even notice.
And when you consider most of those stats are based on BMI, it further inflates the numbers. In my case, I know I’m overweight, but I’ve regularly had my body fat measurements taken and my fat-free weight would still have me “obese” by BMI (and men should have at least 3% body fat to be healthy).
@@missano3856 my point was, that when people see stats for obesity, they expect everyone to be 50 to 100 pounds overweight. So even if you are just a few pounds overweight, which is hardly an issue, you would also be considered obese, by medical standards.
Thank you for bringing up history. I am in Philadelphia right now & history dates back to the 1600s. I live in California. The La Brea Tar Pits are millions of years old. In 1776, we got our freedom & here in CA, there was a Mission built in my home town!
I work with a lot of Brits in the US. Some from the UK portion of the company and some who live in the USA. It's nice to see some Brits finding things out for themselves, because in the main, the Brits I interact with _arrogantly_ present their stereotypes to anyone here who will listen if I'm in earshot at least. It's not just needless, it's depressing to learn how ignorant some people choose to remain. Thank you for thinking for yourselves.
Great video! My mother is British, but I was born and raised here in America. I lived in England briefly when I was a child. Having seen both sides, having family in both countries, it's interesting to see the misconceptions each has of the other. Don't believe the media from either. It's always best to have a first-hand experience if you can. I'm so glad you enjoyed your visit here! ❤️
In the US if you drive for a week you can cross the state. In the UK if you drive for a week you will be in another country, like Italy or east Germany.
@@claregale9011 A flight from London to Tel Aviv is five hours. A flight from LA to NYC is five and a half hours, six hours to Boston, and seven hours from Miami to Seattle. A flight across the Atlantic from London to Toronto in another hemisphere is the same seven hours...
Your son is gorgeous! He is at such a fun age, too❤I am so glad you had a fun trip to America and had so many positive experiences. I loved that you visited the Alamo- it is a moving experience. Texas
I live in Sallisaw OK, just south of us is a place called Heavner, OK, and had the furthest documented inland travel of early Vikings, dated before Christopher Columbus. Loads of history I didn’t even know till I moved out here from PA.
Ohio, here. The gun lies can be disproven by actual experience in my state, where we adopted "Constitutional carry," which is that a person is allowed to carry a gun concealed without permits. There should have been "rivers of blood in the streets", right? Nope. Violent crime rate CUT IN HALF. End of arguments.
I have just come back from a weekend (5 hour one way) road trip from Orange County, CA to Los Banos, CA and I was amazed to see a commuter bus on the Interstate 5 as I was heading north. I was amazed because once you are north of Bakersfield there is nothing for miles.
I live in NYS, and own a pistol, and have a CCW(carry conceal permit). It's the ONLY permit for civilians to allow you to have your pistol on your person in public.
True, but there are a lot of Constitutional Carry States where you don't need a permit! However, if you conceal carry, it's a very good idea to have a Concealed Carry Permit. That way if you get pulled over, you'd just show the officer your permit along with other paperwork requested so they don't get spooked! God Bless y'all! We'd love to see y'all back over here again!
It’s funny to think that others really think we don’t cook at home. Seriously, everyone does fast food, it has its place but we have kitchens and stoves and some of us actually like to cook and we also have many favorite recipes handed down through the generations that we cherish. The most special ones are holiday recipes . We have normal bbq’s too. Hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, corn on the cob on the grill. I mean we aren’t all Southern doing a full blown bbq as they know it. Guns on police have been around forever. I don’t see any guns. This open carry stuff is new to me. Never heard of it ages ago. Really don’t think most normal people have time to grab their piece in the morning. Then again, who knows. 😢🤣🤣
Well said!! My niece works during the day. Comes home makes a BIG mess in the kitchen. I think she uses every pan she can find and leaves a mess for me to clean up!!! WE are aren't Southern either I wish the concept of the U.S. only having Texas bbq's wasn't so normal. We are a lot bigger than just Texas!!!
My local castle in England was built in the 11h century local church still used today 11th century . If you look up our cathedrals you'll see how far advanced civilisation was from America at that time . 😊
@@claregale9011 And Tenochtitlan was a larger and cleaner city than ANY European city. In fact, the Native Americans remarked on how dirty, smelly, and uncultured the Europeans were.
I’m a 42 year old American, aside from on police officers and on TV, I’ve seen a gun maybe 2 times in my life. I wouldn’t even really know which of my friends or family have a gun or not.
I don’t know enough about our continent 2,000-4,000 years ago. That might be my next book. I was fascinated with Time Team and how they dug up artifacts only tens of centimeters deep. Some states have open carry laws (as opposed to concealed carry). Do you have bus service between some small villages? Some counties have transport for elderly or handicapped people. Generally, small town Midwest requires a car or a friend/family member with a car to get around. I took an airport shuttle that was about $40 for 90 miles (15 years ago). Sorry, didn’t mean to write a book.
I wouldn't mind some deserved criticism about the US, but it seems to me that Europeans bend over backward to find anything sbout the US that they can grab on to and run with and exaggerate. In general, Americans are kind and welcoming people, and it might be good for our "friends" to ask themselves if they are certain that pushing us away is what they really want to do.
Hi Archie! I saw a cute idea with play pens. Turn it up side down, unzip a side and it make a cute little tent. Glad you liked visiting the states, we're coming your way soon!
I really think the food is pretty fantastic here in US. You can get something really tasty on every corner, with plenty of variety. And over the past fifteen years or so, most places have made a concerted effort to add healthier options to the menus. Personally I do eat way too much fast food though. I know that, and It's like an addiction. I get hooked on the speed and convenience of it. But nowadays it's not even much cheaper than better stuff, so not totally sure why I still go.
American history includes European history, and the history of each family that emigrated. Thus, the history of the American people includes all of British/English history until emigration. Consanguinity and all that. Same length of history. Arguing otherwise is silly.
Thanks so much for this. How nice not to see one's country being trashed. Just spent two weeks in England and Scotland and had a great time. Things were different then back at home and there was a learning curve. That's what i was looking for, to see new things in a new place. Here's to both wonder filled countries filled with great people.
I live near a small town in Wyoming. Recently we went into town for breakfast at a small diner. We met a couple from Yorkshire seated at the next table and learned they were on the husband’s “bucket list” trip to see Wyoming and meet real cowboys. The waitress overheard this and introduced them to a local ranch family who had also come into town for breakfast and shopping. The rancher invited the Brits to come to the ranch. I learned later they spent three days on the ranch and had a fantastic time.
I love that story--thanks for sharing. And everyone in that story got to experience the best of America : )
That's how I would picture Wyoming or Montana. Wish Southern New England was like that.
You helped make a great memory for that couple. :)
Yep....... That's what we do here.
I live in wyoming, and this is pretty much true. It's round up time out here, so we keep getting stopped for the cows being moved by the cowboys.
The problem is that most Europeans coming to the US only see a small part of the country. I'm afraid that stereotypes are rampant in the press. Some are true to a certain extent, but most are rubbish. We are are diverse country, populated by a diverse people. I'm so glad y'all took the time to learn a bit about The United States. Hope that you're able to return. We'll leave the light on. Cheers from Tennessee
Ok think about where they get their information from movies and just some Jack ass on the internet if you think you know about where they come from without spending some real time there and I don’t mean at a tourist spot and not getting to know the people you are so uneducated I could go on but I will let the Americans that don’t know really find out their own history
@@timothydixon2545 Huh? Ever heard of punctuation? As an American I know my country's history very well, thank you. I was a history major and I'm pretty well versed on European history too. Cheers
@@Hillbilly001 Totally true that’s what I just said but the same time I said most Americans have the same opinion of their country only what we see in movies and unless you’ve been there same thing if you go to Japan just so you know they’re not all samurais I mean, I’m just saying
@@Hillbilly001 well then say or text something correct or true not just the lies you think or have been told to be a fact without you knowing it sorry
@@timothydixon2545 Yep. I know what you mean. I've had a leg up. When I was in the Army, 78-90, I was posted to W Germany in the mid 80's. My job took me around most of Western Europe. And I took leave in France and Spain. After Artic School in 81, I took leave in the Philippines. Had to go someplace warm after Alaska in the winter. LoL. I understand that many of my countrymen never leave the States and that causes stereotypes to abound on this side of the pond. Even with places like Canada and Mexico. Ignorance knows no borders I reckon. Cheers
According to your NHS, 72% of Brits are overweight, and according to the US NIH 73% of Americans are overweight.
IMO, either one, making fun of the other for this falls firmly in the "pot calling the kettle black" category.
Also, what the NIH calls "obese" seems a bit silly. Anyone that is not a bean pole is obese by their numbers.
And most of those are just 10-30lbs overweight. Our BMI is quite strict and outdated with what it considers overweight. It was developed at a time when people were quite frail. Now just our improved bone density will put people at overweight according to the BMI scale.
@@catgirl6803are you serious? At 5’8” tall, I can weigh 163 lbs. and still be at a good bmi. When I was younger, I weighed 120 lbs and at that weight I was rail thin. Guarantee at 163 lbs I’m not rail thin. Medium wrist size, lift weights off and on, hike and kayak, cut our downed trees with a chainsaw and split and stack by hand. So not a weakling. And female. Unless you’re lifting 300lbs or something similar, the BMI applies to you. What determined what was a healthy BMI was info gathering on patients, calculating BMI and then seeing what weight related morbidities they developed (diabetes, heart disease, vascular disease, osteoporosis, strokes and heart attacks, cancers). And that is how they determined what a healthy BMI is. If you don’t care if you develop diabetes and have to take pills or injections for it or develop colon cancer and have to have a poop bag attached to your belly, by all means believe the garbage influencers tell you that allows you to think it’s appropriate to eat a bag of chips or cookies or tub of ice cream in one sitting as your knees become more and more painful when you walk because people aren’t meant to be obese.
@@catgirl6803 I think you lost all credibility with me when you started defending being "just" 30lbs overweight.
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I don't think the country boys from small towns and those working on farms and ranches are overweight. I'm guessing those stats are from urban and suburban regions!
Teenages from France stayed with us for a month and LOVED the food. BBQ, Tex-Mex, Roasts, Cassaroles, Fresh vegetables. The variety in general blew them away.
@lioninwinter9316, that's good to hear. It wasn't many decades ago, depending on your age, that Europeans in general thought all of us Americans eat fast food 3 times daily. That attitude has changed a lot with the advent of millions watching UA-camrs tasting our food, and drooling over them all.
Back in the 1980s my family hosted two girls from Germany and the thing that blew their mind was corn on the cob. In Germany corn was (maybe still is) for pigs. Once they tried it, they loved it and pretty much ate nothing else. Ironically nobody that they told in Germany believed them because, as it turns out, that corn grown for animals is different from corn grown for people. Their loss.
@@alexh4436 "Cow corn" is almost inedible by humans. Farmers in the US will plant several rows of it outside of the eating corn to discourage people from stealing.
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Animal feed is called field corn while corn for human consumption is called sweet corn. Sweet corn is harvested when it’s young and moist with field corn harvested when the kernels are hard and dry. Field corn is also higher in starch and lower in sugar than sweet corn. My uncle and cousin did the opposite of what you said, they planted several rows of sweet corn around the perimeter of their fields to keep the deer and raccoons from eating their field corn. Worked out for family members as we were allowed to pick the remaining sweet corn before they harvested their field corn. Best corn I ever had.
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Cow corn can be ground for corn meal for corn muffins.
And there is popcorn to be popped when dry and hard.
And there is fuel corn that produces a higher octane ethanol for fuel.
On the subject of transportation, people from other countries usually don't realize the size of America. When I was in Ireland I could drive across the country quicker than I could drive across Texas. America is large!
You can drive across Germany between dawn and dusk easily... For a truck driver to drive legally from LA. to Boston requires SIX DAYS, NOT HOURS...
@patobrien7009 closer to gigantic than large. Texas is is large
To get from one coast to another in an airplane it takes hours 6.5 to drive 43 hours. It's 2900 miles, 4667 km
@patriciahowellcassity767 from cape flattery WA to key west FL is 3600 miles
Not sure that comparing Ireland to Texas is the best choice. At least going east to west across Ireland, it would take a little over 3 hours while it would take about 12 hours to cross Texas. Ireland and Ohio (among others) are more comparable sizewise.
Here in NC, people can open carry. Some do, some don’t. Regardless, everyday life here isn’t the shoot out at the OK coral. Contrary to what people in the media and Hollywood would have you believe the average gun owner is an honest and decent person.
Amen people only are protecting themselves
Absolutely and most don't display anyway.
@@Idratherliveinavan When I lived in Az I actually appreciated the ones that did open carry. It was typically an older responsible looking type dude. I knew if shit popped off, I could duck out and they'd be the one to get involved. I was a teen then so it just made more sense to me.
A lot of people in the US don't own guns. I've talked to people from other countries who think we all walk around with six-shooters, like in the old West. I have relatives who live on a farm. They have guns. The police are at least 15 minutes away. They also need guns for wild animals that are a threat to their farm animals. I live in a big city. The police can be at my house in under a minute. I don't own a gun. In the cities, guns can be harder to get, requiring more paperwork and red tape.
Why do they open carry? What is it about the environment in NC that makes them feel they need to?
Thank you for the video.
Fun story, I had a couple fun cases in my hand and a rifle on my shoulder walking a few houses down from mine to a friends so we could go target practice.
As we are loading his SUV a friend of mine and fellow police officer (I was not in uniform) pulls up and asks me “hey, you see a strange guy walking loaded for war?” I tell him “no, but we should check the neighborhood.” Just then a lady comes out her front door and points at me and says “HIM! Right there!” She had just moved in two days before (I even helped her move in lol). I chuckled and we explained what we were doing and asked if she would like to come along. She and her husband loved it!
Thank you for the video. What a lovely family.
Cheers.
A friend and I took his daughters shooting and they brought along the exchange student who lived with them at their mother’s house. The exchange student’s parents were all for us taking their daughter shooting because it’s really expensive in her home country. She had a great time.
Much of the "Public transportation is bad in the US" comes from the lack of understanding the size of the country. The square area of all of GB (England, Scotland and Wales) is 94,058 sq mi. The size of the state of Wyoming is 97,063 sq mi. England alone is 50,301 sq mi while all of the US is 3,809,525 sq mi. That makes the US roughly 75.5 times the size of England. Interstate 80 which runs from the Palisades on the eastern edge of the Hudson River between NJ and NY westward to San Francisco, California is 2919 miles long. The scale is beyond common understanding for a great many GB/European people.
That's exactly right. They really have no idea how huge the US is, especially the western states. It can take days to get out of some western states.
yeah... but.... I live in a US town of 10000 where Public transportation means calling (on phone) a public dispatcher with your address & telling them you need a ride to x location within the county. They come around in what looks like a small school bus (sometimes it's packed -others empty) and costs 2 dollars ... wait time for them to show could be 10 min. - could be 90 min...... you run on their schedule. So good luck getting to work or doctors appt. on time. Or you call a private cab that bills you 2 dollars PER MILE.
@@csnide6702 I live in township in PA where public transportation is nonexistent. Population is 880. Combined with the neighboring townships/villages (3 of them) we still don't exceed 3,500 people. The nearest places with public transportation are 18 - 20 miles in any direction. Private taxis? Yeah......no. Uber/Lyft? Nope. The County "rides for disabled" need to be scheduled 2 days in advance and are limited to twice a month. So, I get your situation.
@@maryhaynes8633 Yep. On I-10 Texas is 877.4 miles. That's pretty much 2 days travel time if you want to go between New Mexico and Louisiana. I-20 is 636 miles but runs with I-10 for 235 miles to reach New Mexico so you still travel over 870 miles. It's beyond comprehension for many people. For that matter "little"eastern state Pennsylvania is 312 miles across on I-80. That's a 6 - 8 hour trip for the average motorist.
I remember reading about someone from the UK who was in NY and wanted to go to Florida. He thought that a plane ticket was too expensive and was surprised to find out how easy it was to find a bus to take him exactly where he wanted to go, and it was much cheaper.
He got on the bus, and about four hours later, it was approaching the arrival time on the ticket. But the bus didn't stop, and an hour later, he was confused. He asked the driver about the arrival time and the driver told him that the time was correct, but he also needed to look at the arrival date.
One thing that as an American I never thought about until a foreigner pointed it out that was we measure distance in "time" instead of miles. For example if you ask an American how far away some place is they are likely going to say something like, "Oh, Atlanta is about 4 hours from here", instead of telling you how many miles or kilometers away it is. I think this must be simply because the US is a very spread out nation with long distances to drive, and telling how long it will take you to get there makes more sense than saying, "Oh, Atlanta is 260 miles away".
That is true. Interesting
That is very true. Especially in Texas. Someone asks how far is it from Dallas to El Paso...we'll say, 11 to 12 hours.
What's a kilometer? Do they weigh cocaine with it or something.......
I think it is because the distance isn't as important as the time and they don't necessarily correlate. 5 miles is not the same in the city vs the suburbs vs the country.
I may live 1000 miles from Orlando, Fla but if I want to go to Orlando I might have to drive 1500 miles, due to the unfortunate fact that when the highways were built, they didn't have the good sense to build a straight shot from my house to wherever I want to go. It might not matter much if you are traveling a couple hundred miles, but when it is a 1000 miles, those 1000 miles as the car drives can be a substantially different number of miles. So it makes a lot of sense to state the distance in drive time.
As you probably know from my many posts over the years, I live in northern IL. A few hundred miles south of here in the E. St. Louis area is a World Heritage Site named Cahokia Mounds, which was visited within the past 6 mo. or so by Laurence of Lost in the Pond. That civilization was in its heyday 1050-1350 AD, with a population of 15-20,000 inhabitants, which was larger than London at that time.
When Europeans arrived in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, it was not only five times the size of London at the time, with some 200,000 people, but it was far more hygienic. These were not savages or backward at all. People have some serious misconceptions about the Native Americans before the Europeans came with their diseases and guns.
@@robertvirnig638 seriously?! You don’t think religiously sacrificing thousands of innocent people backward or savage?
@@boggs626 Actually there is a lot of doubt about the religious sacrifices. They certainly weren't on the scale of the stories that the Catholics told. Probably involved much less killing than the Inquisition and the Crusades resulted in many magnitudes more deaths.
Yes. I live near Cahokia Mounds. Very interesting. Never heard anything about ritual sacrifices there. It’s the general belief they all moved due to lack of sanitary conditions after having used the resources nearby up and living in too close a proximity to essentially their garbage dumps. They needed a fresh place to start over. It is in Collinsville, Illinois, not East St. Louis.
@@robertvirnig638 I imagine that the time of crisis that the Spanish saw the Aztecs in and thus recorded probably had them sacrificing far more than the standard as a special appeal to the gods and was not indicative of a more ordinary year, but historians and archaeologists have sufficient data to piece together what that looked like.
The Aztec religious calendar is quite well known. There were 18 20-day months and a festival involving human sacrifice at the end of each month. Each month was effectively a holy period presided over and in honor of a particular god with a 5-day period at the end of the year which no god presided over and thus was a time that demons ran amok. 2 of these months involved mass sacrifices of prisoners of war taken from neighboring tribes (probably why Cortez found so many willing allies to take them down). Another two, the ones dedicated to Tlailoc, the god of rain and the only god who had two months dedicated to his worship, specifically involved children who had been tortured continuously for the full 20 day month.
You see, Tlailoc treasured the tears of the innocent so it became an art-form among the priests of Tlailoc to torture children in such a way as to keep them crying the entire 20 days. Go too soft, and they get used to it. Go too hard and they go catatonic and just stop responding. This is backed up archeologically as the corpses of sacrifices were buried either in entirely separate cemeteries or grouped together with others sacrificed to the same god. The Tlailoc kids are evident due to horrible dental damage that shows signs of just starting to heal. Apparently, dental torture is an excellent source of continuous pain.
Each festival had its own specific patron and rituals, and, other than those 4, most only included 2 human sacrifices. The man and woman who had been chosen to represent the divinity for their month. After 20 days of being treated as a living deity with every want and need waited upon, they were ritually killed.
Y'all come on back! You guys are very welcome anytime. We'll leave the light on for you!
Can you be more cliche lol
When our British cousins visited my father took them for a ride and commented on a bridge that was well over 100 years old, built by the Spanish and still in use. He was he was a little disappointed in their response until later that evening he found out that the bridge in their town was over 1000 years old, built by the Romans. and still in use.
The difference between the English and Americans is that Americans think 100 years is a long time and the English think 100 miles is a long way.
@@91CBR86VFR Brilliantly stated
@@91CBR86VFR In America, I'd say that 100 years old is closer to 2 or 3 hundred years old. There are buildings and homes in my US state of Maryland that date to the 1650's. That about 375 years old.
@@1972Ray Yes, and my home town in Massachusetts dates to 1626, but that doesn’t change my point.
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Europe has been populated by Europeans for millennia, North America has only been populated by Europeans since about the end of the 15th century.
Santo Domingo, in present day Dominican Republic, is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement on the American Continent, established in 1496, so 528 years.
I live in Indiana. Indiana is an open carry state, yet most folks who carry still keep their guns concealed. Yes, many Americans are carrying guns, but only for protection. We don’t run around with guns drawn looking for a fight LOL! As far as transportation, yes, Europe is probably much better in that department, but consider the fact that taking a train or bus from one end of the country to the other will take 4 or 5 days of continuous travel. Even flying from one end of the country to the other takes 5 hours. In fact, most of us prefer to fly just as a time saver. I once took a train from Chicago to Tampa and it took 2 days. After that I drove, and stopped to see sights along the way, which is more preferable than 2 unpleasant days on a train.
I once took a train from Chicago to San Diego, and that took three+ days.
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I'm a Great Grandmother (GaGa) of 1, Grandma (Grandma Funny/Ermagerd) of 5, and 100% agree with you!!!
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I'm so glad you guys are letting people know so much of what they hear is a stereo type. Something every country has their own.
That's for letting Europeans know that the U S has real food not just McDonalds. That is what you get. Come back for more BBQ (texas)
There are tourist places Europeans visit that reinforce the perception of all fast food, like Orlando. All chains and fast food.
It is worth pointing out that American fast food chains are very often based on some regional food to begin with. Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, etc
It is also worth pointing out that many, many Americans including me care about their health and don't ever eat fast food- not organi , meat w hormones and antibiotics, etc. No thank you.
Come to North Carolina for barbecue! Go to Texas for grillin’.
@@91CBR86VFR TN does bbq very well too. I’m vegetarian now, but bbq of all sorts is the only thing I really miss.
I don’t know if they have any kind of authenticity, but in some places Korean bbq and Mongolian bbqs are common and yummy yummy yum.
I haven't had mcdonalds in years.
A little perspective : Sir Isaac Newton could have gone to Harvard and definitely could have taught there. Shakespeare had only been dead 4 years when The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. You can get a train from New York to LA with one connection stop . It takes almost 4 days.
If only we had a transcontinental high speed train. 🚄
@@tejida815 Maglev FTW!
With only one stop? That's a long ride.
@@onlymebaby.9249 🤔 Chicago on a northern route and New Orleans on a southern route. I 💭 that works. 🤓
@@patricialavery8270 another perspective for you my local church here In England was built in the 11th century and is still in use . You'll see old buildings dating back hundreds of yrs all over the UK .
I'm not typically super patriotic but then I hear people from other countries talk about what they like and observe about America and I'm like, "Yeah! We do have great food! We do have interesting history!" and so on! So, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed your visit! If you haven't, pop by Oregon sometime. It's got a bad rep because of Portland, but most of the state is beautiful!
When I learned American history in school, it properly started with prehistoric times and progressed through the arrival of humans from Asia and we learned a lot about what happened on the continent before Europeans arrived. So a lot of history in American history.
A lot of history in the land not our country of America. The United States is more a people and way of life than it is the land so our history goes back almost 300 years not counting colonial rule. It doesn't matter that our history is short though because it's not our time on soil that gives us credence it's our values and those values are eternal!
I learned history from the medieval era through the reformation and counter reformation, and the renaissance then we learned about the exploration of the Americas starting with Christopher Columbus, and then other explorers and colonialists. So really history begun in America largely in 1492.
Sure they taught about history in America that is older than this for example different tribes. Much is not known about them and their history, and they are harder for a lot of people to relate to. I also found that history to be quite dull.
Medieval history I found much more interesting you know... knights, castles, swords, crossbows, the black plague, etc. The people living where the United States were did not have that level of development, and also like I mentioned not much was documented.
I believe we know much more about the Romans than we do about American tribes. Almost every American will agree that Europe has much more history, and surviving history.
I have walked the medieval walls of medieval walled towns in Germany I even drove through its gate, I have drank beer in the world's oldest remaining monastic brewery which was founded in 1050. I have eaten Bratwursts at a restaurant that was established in the 16th century. I have toured a castle that was built in the 12th century. Even in London I have been to several pubs that are older than the United States. You cannot experience ANYTHING like that in America. There is not that much left from teepees from the 12th century for example, or tribal huts, or lodges. It would be more like artifact fragments if something like that even could be found. The castle I toured in Germany that began construction in the 12th century still has family from then that lives in part of the castle, and the castle was never destroyed, and was never abandoned. I have been to a restaurant in Paris that is older than the United States it was established in the 17th century. Benjamin Franklin ate there, I inquired with the waiter he insisted that he actually wrote the articles of secession in the restaurant. The thing is in Europe that is not considered that old.
I did not mention all the personal experiences to brag, but rather to state the difference. Most of these things do not even need sought out they are everywhere and are STILL a part of normal life.
@@superdude1759 I would argue that what gives America credence is the liberties that are guaranteed such as the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to keep and bear arms.
The United States of America is actually older than Germany, or the current French republic. The difference is that the lineage of the people to the land with all the surviving history is still there and visible, something The United States only has for 400 or so years as opposed to thousands.
My last history course was in the '60s, and was essentially a repeat of all the prior ones : History began in 1492 when Columbus "discovered" America, and ended in 1865 when Lincoln was assassinated. (Nothing of consequence occurred either before or after).
Yes, please, most DEFINITELY a part two!
California, New York. Texas, Florida. That is what they see. Most Europeans do not see the flyover states. Small town America. One thing we have tried to convey about the USA is, nothing is universal. When you see or hear something do not assume that is just how it is. Small town America with kids as young as five playing American football, or soccer, basketball. And girls of the same age that are cheerleaders for the boys sports teams.This is just a tip of so many things you will never see. A shame really.
What most visitors do is they go to the big cities of the states that you mentioned instead of the small towns.
There’s one European by the name of Shaun who visits the less touristy areas. In one of his videos, he was somewhere up in Oregon sort of in the woods, and then drove down to California. If you know anything about the coastal highways, you would know that these are absolutely beautiful scenic routes. And that is what Shaun saw. He traveled to where most Europeans do not go. He also went to the Grand Canyon.
I think the same can be said going the other way. I have been to the UK 3 times in my life and never made it out of London. It never bothered me because there is a lot to see and do there. Maybe next time.
I recommend European watch Amtrak's website for the "30-day Amtrak Rail Pass" suitable for TEN different train journeys riding in coach, not a sleeper car... Since I have a difficulty sleeping in coach, I break up my ten journeys every other day/night to sleep in a hotel or bed&breakfast for a good night's sleep. Since the trains outside the northeast are daily, instead of multiple daily trains, I spend a day or two in a city or town anywhere along the routes. It could be a city like Chicago and Seattle, or a small town like Alpine TX or Glenwood Springs CO... Not just see America, but EXPERIENCE America... I enjoyed spending a day fishing in the Marias River near the Marias Pass adjacent to Glacier National Park... Bring your fishing pole with you on the train like Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...
Yep, never understand why Europeans would come to the States to only see our big cities. European cities are so much nicer by far. But the thing that we really have over Europe is all of our beautiful rural and natural areas. Our stunning and expansive National Parks with native forest and wildlife galore. They really don’t have anything that compares.
And seeing Orlando is not seeing Florida.
Wow! Archie has grown up SO FAST!
I’ve lived in Texas for 25 years, and in all that time I never saw a civilian carrying a gun … until about a month ago funny enough, some older guy in a store had a holstered gun. But that was it.
I'm from Texas and carry a gun everywhere I legally can, but unless something bad is going down, you will never know that I am. The only times I have ever open carried is at the gun range or while on my own property. I want the element of surprise if I'm ever in a situation that I need it.
I lived in AZ a long time ago. I wouldn’t say it was common but definitely wasn’t rare to see people open carrying. I haven’t seen it on trips back in recent times, though.
you have seen 1000s. you just didn't know they were strapped
@@RobertMJohnson in which case I didn’t see them carrying a gun did I Einstein? THAT’s what they’re talking about - visible open carry, you seeing people flashing their guns.
@@RobertMJohnson oh I have no doubt. I meant I haven’t noticed anyone carrying open in more recent visits.
I liked to see it when I was a kid. It created a FAFO vibe that actually made me feel safer than normal.
Regarding the food myth, it would help debunk this if foreigners came and ate real, healthy, whole food on their videos and not only fast food. That feeds the myth. Also going to stores and commenting on and buying only the junk/snack foods doesn’t help either. 😊
@@camannwordsmith i agree. I’m all about supporting local businesses and not the corporate junk chains. Eat local. Shop local.
Right. Actually, the most iconic of American fast food chains, McDonalds, is in a bit of decline.
Thank you for saying this. This is why I make a point of focusing on videos of non-Americans trying foods other than fast food/chain places and processed junk they got from Walmart.
I live in a town on the shores of Lake Superior that is 8000 years old.
The town isn't 8K years old, perhaps the many villages that came and went go back that far, but not your town!
@@superdude1759 oh yes. There has been a human settlement on this site for 8000 years now, continuously. Been called different things, and populated by different people. When humans migrated to North America, one of the first branches we made was to the Great Lakes. My town occupies a natural harbor, and natural wind and snow break on Lake Superior. There is evidence of continuous human habitation of the site for 8k years.
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Sorry, allow me to be more clear: Your town is under the United States of America if it's in Michigan or wherever! I was addressing your comment after a string of comments from others who were saying that "America," they meaning the United States of America was thousands of years old. I merely let them know that they were conflating the United States with a long continuous past population as if it were all the same which it is not. The United States is not thousands of years old because any settlers that were here before were not the United States of America. That was my point as the video is about the United States. So, remaining on topic I addressed your comment: it doesn't matter that there were settlements for thousands of years because they were not the United States. Not knowing who you are or what you know, I state that the United States is not just a land or a hodgpodge collection of leftover peoples and settlements willy-nilly, we're a very specific country founded on a very specific idea with a very specific structure and very specific laws that all began just a little under 300 years ago. The natives that were here before decided they didn't want to be part of our republic (and still don't) and nothing that they were is part of who we are so the topic of them being here before is not relevant! I'm addressing the irrelevancy of the time immemorial settlements that commenters here are continually broaching!
@@superdude1759 wow. Your rationalization for your comment that dismisses our history is impressive.
@@blafonovision4342Seriously. A gargantuan effort.
We do have a very long history. Native Americans have been here for tens of thousands of years. It's not a traditional European history, but that doesn't make it any less valid.
They always forget about Native Americans, we're still here. lol
That’s not American history
@@Sean-d6y Native American history... isn't American history?
@Sean-d6y so only white people have history?
@@mfree80286technically no, because American history is considered US History. What you are probably looking for is indigenous history, and there is nearly none until Europeans arrived. What is called "history" is for the most part archeology.
The us comprised of so many different cultural backgrounds have established many ethnic types of eateries! So its silly to think that most americans subsist on fast food!
You spread it around the world.
Especially McDonalds which is overpriced and disgusting.
It’s always a joy to see Brit’s experience real food for the first time 😂😂
I heard a comedian joking about how Britain conquered most of the world and traded in spices, but never thought to use them on their own food! LoL. It was either Ralphie May or Bill Burr, I can't remember.
I find the food in England delicious and tons of variety. It's not like what it used to be 50 years ago.
You will very rarely see anybody openly carry a holstered "gun". Every state is different. NY and NYC have very strict gun laws. I live in Missouri and we are a Constitutional carry state. Which means we do not need a permit. Most people conceal carry no matter where you go. I have maybe seen a dozen people in my lifetime open carry.
Most people who carry a gun in public for something other than their job concealed carry.
Virginia (where I live), is an open carry state. I've never seen anyone carrying in all of the 34 years since I moved to this state after getting out of the Army.
Wow, I didn’t even know open carry was allowed anywhere. I’ve never seen it, even on the news, so just sort of always assumed it had to be concealed.
Lol, it would be seriously provocative.
Reminds me of a video the other day, some Europeans on some off-road thing with a bunch of Americans in some gun friendly state. They were all wearing shorts and beaters and someone asked who was carrying and all the Americans raised their hands despite seemingly having no place to carry it.
@@silikon2 Concealed carry requires a permit, open carry doesn't. But you're required to have it visible and not concealed at all.
Texan here. I've only seen people (other than law enforcement) open carry at Cabella's and Bass Pro Shop.
Archie is adorable! Glad you guys had a nice time in America.
I went to Beijing in 2005. Over the next 12 years, I returned like 6 times visiting different parts of the country before I had a well-rounded overview. Same goes for the US. It's just big. Visiting a few major cities on either coast just scratches the surface.
Do you know what they call Chinese food in China?
@@geraldcalderone5228-x2p food.
For years, the French thought US wines were crap! Until The Judgement of Paris! Look it up!!!!
Missouri grapevine roots actually saved French and European wines when they had a blight that went on for years and nearly wiped out their vineyards. Missouri wineries sent their roots to be grafted onto the plants. They didn't take right away, but it eventually worked.
@@CherylVogler Also with the Texas Mustang grapes. Seems as if American grapes have been saving French grapes quite often.
Sponsored by a man from Britain too!
Immortalized in the movie "Bottle Shock."
Archie is so adorable. You are great parents.
I’ve never seen a person in real life holding a gun other than law enforcement. There are a lot of firearms, but people aren’t parading around with them in public.
I've seen hunters firing rifles. The only time I've seen anyone firing a handgun was at a shooting range.
Just because you've never seen anyone carrying a gun doesn't mean that you haven't been around dozens or maybe hundreds of people carrying guns. Most of us carry concealed, and you wouldn't know we are carrying.
For 80 years and living in many states, I have never seen a non law officer open carry a gun. It would not bother me if I saw many.
Hunting? Skeet? Never?
@@JJVPYOUWrong!!! And so is the video. The idea that people were walking around with guns in NYC but they just couldn't see them is fiction. In the US, only about 20% to 30% of people own guns. However, in areas where people tend to own guns, they tend to own multiple guns. Because of that, there's the correct statistic that in the US, there are more guns than people. But if you live in an area where the people you know typically own two or three guns, it means that for each of them, there are 2-3 people somewhere else with no guns. I grew up in NYC and never knew a single gun owner. I never saw anyone outside of law enforcement carry one.
I've used guns, including in cities like Philadelphia, but that was inside an armory for ROTC. It wasn't something I carried around.
On the subject of American history, yes, we packed a lot of history into a couple hundred years as the USA, but everyone forgets the thousands of years of Native American history prior to the arrival of European settlers. :)
There are no native Americans. They came here from Asia
American Indians too.
1. Guns...it really depends on the state. In Texas guns are generally more prevalent to see. New York and California really have the lowest percentage.
2. In terms of Obesity the US is at 42.87% the United Kingdom is 28.71%. In terms of overweight (overweight + clinically obese combined) is 69.8% in the US and 64.3% in the UK. The United States increase in Obesity started about 10 years before the UK's increase so they have both dramatically increased over the past 50 and 40 years respectively. The links between the US, Canada, UK, and Western Europe is so tightly coupled in modern times that the same trends impact us all.
3. History is interesting as there is a shorter span in the United States, but there is tremendously more diversity in that history. So really it's kind of an argument of breadth vs depth. Either way all humans value history and culture, so it's really a pointless argument.
4. Fast food is a thing, and I think it really ties into fact #2 and life balance. Fast food has increased dramatically because people value time. The more family/work/life stresses you are under generally the more you tend to find yourself favoring quick meal solutions. The United States lead the UK in terms of changing that life balance (people work now than they did 40-50 years ago, families have more working members too, people have more economic pressures). And just like in Fact #2 there was about a 10 year difference between that trend happening in the United States and that tend also appearing in the UK. It's just a cultural shift.
5. Transportation is a challenge in all areas where population density drops. Within cities transportation is generally excellent, the farther from the cities you go the less options you tend to have. That is true of the UK as well. The major difference is there a is a lot farther out from cities in the United States than possibly exists in the UK. In the end its purely a matter of total distance and land area.
Hollywood has given such a distorted view of guns in the USA. Every episode in police dramas show a gunfight. It would make you think that every cop draws his gun and shoots every day. When in reality, most police officers have never shot at anyone, in the line of duty, in their entire careers.
And they simultaneously overestimate and underestimate the power and lethality of firearms.
Thank you for sharing your viewpoint on this as a full blooded American, it’s interesting to hear what regular people from other countries think about us. 💯🤘
We don’t all walk around with AK47 but most Americans definitely feel they should have a firearm for self-defense.
A lot of the poorer areas are where you'll see obesity.not because they eat a lot but because of the cheap processed food the people can afford.
I realize that we have some food deserts, but nonprocessed food is frequently cheaper than the garbage food. People choose to eat garbage out of convenience and nothing more.
@@jonok42What kind of non-processed food is cheaper than processed, that can be stretched as far as possible and doesn't take a long time and a lot of effort to cook? Most jobs aren't in poor areas, and require a long commute times, which leave less time for sleep (which also contributes to obesity), in addition to low wages t that neve to be stretched between rent, utilities and transportation costs. Money isn't the only consideration. Also time and mental and physical exhaustion, along with the added pressures of poverty. After all that. The ultra- processed foods end up being much cheaper.
@@jonok42
Not true. Perhaps you’re assuming impoverished people have functioning refrigerators, stoves, ovens, electric? Or maybe you don’t realize that poor people often have to share homes with other families that might eat your food. Not to mention, parents of children having to lock their food up so others don’t eat it. it must be nonperishable. Also, fresh ingredients turn quickly. It’s a complex issue with many factors.
This is such a lie...
It’s also lack of dietary education and regular medical care.
A lot of us carry concealed and over 99% of us have never had it out of the holster outside of the firing range.
Then why do you carry it? I'm a 69 y.o. woman. I've never touched a gun let alone owned one. I guess I'm not paranoid.
@@gogreen7794 I should think it would be patently obvious, but it is far better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
"a lot"?? disagree - stooges try it once, live out their childish little fantasies but immediately realize how awkward, uncomfortable and pointless it is to be carrying around a gun when merely going to the grocery store and never carry concealed again - turns out real life ain't like a movie and even stooges realize that
@@BipolarAyatollah the only thing that's patently obvious is your heavy dose of smugness - if it were obvious to her, she wouldn't have asked, sister
@@gogreen7794 Do you have a fire extinguisher near your kitchen? You should have one. Have you ever used it? Think about it. Are you trying to say that the millions of people that conceal carry for personal protection are paranoid?
Awww! Y’all are welcome in my part of the country any time! Adorable baby
Yes, Part 2 please! And Archie always adds to any video he is in.
Thank you, cousins across the pond! I got to visit London a couple years ago! I loved it! My dad’s family came from Yorkshire and mom’s from Ireland. Cute baby! I miss my kids being little!
Yes. 100 years with so many things. All of them so fast yet almost easily forgotten.
Only "easily forgotten" by some....
Europeans think that North Americans or people that live in the USA do not have a long history. They think that the USA only started around the 1600's. They are WRONG! There were people thousands of years before the white men of Europe came to America. There were millions of Native American people in America, Canada, and Mexico before any white settlers came here. The reason they think that there is no history is because there is no written evidence before the first European settlers came here. With the exception of the Eastern Cherokee tribe there is no formal written language, and that did not come about until sometime in the 1700's when a cherokee native by the name of Sequoyah became close with some of the "white men" and took the time to create a syllabus of characters and words to engauge in conversation. The cherokee used this syllabus to converse with the white man because they were tired of not being able to understand what the white man was saying and what their intentions were. I could be wrong, but there are no other tribes that have written language. All other tribes learn to speak their native tongue by speaking only. All of the Native American history before the white settlers came were taught by word of mouth generation after generation. All history was done through stories from the elders passing down knowledge to the young ones. Lessons that are still going on today through the native communities. So, in general, yes, there are many thousands of years in history in North America. It was just not written until the white man showed up on its shores.
I was going to make some of the same points you brought up but you said it better than i would have 👍
The Maya did have written language, and Mexico and Guatemala are North America.
@@tomhalla426 Thanks, I did not know that. Learn something new every day.🙂
@@tomhalla426 Yes and beyond just having a written language, the Mayans had a pretty extensive collection of written histories and documentation/record keeping. But sadly, nearly all of it was purposefully destroyed by the Spanish and is lost forever.
@@themourningstar338 What a damn shame!
Most videos of the USA are about bad stereotypes. They are sensational, by foreigners and get large numbers of views.
1. It's called a "CONCEALED carry permit" for a reason....although there are some states that now allow open carry.
2. Here in eastern TN there are quite a few overweight people compared to the rest of the nation.
3. High speed is slowly coming to the U.S., but it takes a lot of time and $$$ to make it happen. (I wish we had started working on it YEARS ago.)
We don’t have a concealed carry permit in TN. It’s a carry permit and it can be either.
@@AmericanNoiseMaker I've had carry permits both in CT and PA. The CT permit required the State Police to do a FBI background check, required me to have passed an NRA gun safety course and I had to get fingerprinted. It also took over 6 months to be approved and the permit was only good for a few years (this was in the early 90's and things might have changed). In contrast the PA carry permit was issued by the county sheriff's office and from what I remember, each sheriff could make things easier or difficult. I lived in York county at the time so the only thing that was required of me was statements of support from two locals in "good standing" and it took less than 3 days for approval. On the other hand, I remember people who lived in the neighboring Lancaster county complaining about how difficult it was to get a carry permit from their sheriff. So not only can it vary from state to state, it can vary even within a state. Now, when I moved to NYC, I realized that there was absolutely no way I was going to be able to get a NYC carry permit (the only civilians I knew who had them were the Hasidic Jews who worked in NYC's Diamond District and carried lots of uncut diamonds in their pockets so they were allowed to carry - I don't believe that Diamond District in midtown Manhattan exists anymore). So I sold all my guns before I moved to NYC and I had to sell to someone who had a Federal Firearms License and fill out a ton of paperwork. While I have since moved from NYC, I currently own no firearms.
No permit needed here in Arizona. Conceal carry whatever you want whenever you want, without any permits.We are a constitutional carry state. As well as we also have no knife/blades laws except one. You have to be over 21 to carry a knife conceal that is larger than just a pocket knife.
There's a giant difference between the history of the United States and the history of the land currently occupied by the United States! The Native populations have been here for at least 15,000 years.
And yet there is virtually no indigenous history to talk about. Most of it is archeology.
@@n.d.m.515That's because most Indigenous American histories were oral. And when settlers and European disease wiped out so many Indigenous peoples, neither spared the history keepers. Entire cultures were wiped out. So, that is an issue caused by colonization. The Indigenous cultures that are in North America today are the ones that survived mostly by sheer luck.
@@raven3moon I never knew smallpox to be a "European Disease." Seems that people in Africa/Middle East/Subcontinent/Asia got it too, and in quantity. If the Chinese came to North America first the results would have been the Exact same, bub.
Yep, you are correct. Lots of tribes that practiced slavery and ritual sacrifices. The Native Americans were NOT all peaceful people, a few tribes were but most were not hence the name savages. I think maybe you need to learn a little more. Read a book. Don't listen to the democrats teaching in public schools...they cant even teach people to do basic math.
More like 130,000 years ago, because that's when the land bridge was in existence between Siberia, and North America, and those "native" crossed over. The two humped camel crossed over to Asia, and was native to North America.
I have not caught any of your content in a while, it is great to see you again. Archie is awesome! (Congratulations!)
A nice thoughtful video guys. You're such a nice family.
It all depends on WHERE a person goes, in America, whether or not "somebody is carrying a gun"... I've lived near and IN Cleveland, Ohio for so many years, that I just ASSUME that EVERYONE is "packing heat"... (And BEHAVE accordingly!) ["An armed society is a polite society."]
Amen!
Same, I live in Arizona and it’s always assumed
NY has stringent gun laws, and you must show "proper cause" to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home. So, no, most New Yorkers aren't walking around with guns. Gun laws vary from state to state
I always feel safer when I see a civilian with a gun.. In Chicago, where you can't have them, the gun violence is terrible because the gangs and bad guys all have them.
Proper cause has been thrown out by the US Supreme Court.
I live in a gun loving area of the United States. You still don't see guns unless dealing with a rare 2nd A. activist, someone about to go hunting, or a cop. That includes concealed.
NYS government is mafia-ish entity.
I am so happy that you enjoyed your trip toAmerica. By the way, Archie is an absolutely beautiful baby.
Good video. Thank you for posting. Best regards from Idaho.
regarding "history" in the USA :
typically people are referring to "the history of europeans in the americas". USA has history stretching back thousands of years.
If only the rock smashers had invented a written language so we could read about it.
The land has history going back thousands of years, the colonies about four hundred years with a little over a hundred years under British rule. The USA wasn't formed until 1776.
The USA was founded in 1876, so there was no USA history before that.
USA history began with our founding in 1776
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Did you mean 1776?
You should visit the Pacific Northwest. Healthiest, fittest people in the country. Full of outdoor people and great food.
I seen only one European visit, Oregon and New Mexico. he also went to the Grand Canyon, which I have not seen very many Europeans doing
@@mildredpierce4506 Most, it seems, hang on the east coast.
42 seconds in you say into the tip, we say trash , or trash cans or trash bins. When lucky we have an unused room that collects clutter. Our back yards your gardens. Couldn’t wait to see what comes next. I enjoy watching lots of UK and other channels here on UA-cam, Auditing Britain Ch, Royal guard horses, Royalty marches etc. So glad your trip to merica was enjoyable.
Love you guys and such a great channel!!!
Archie is absolutely adorable. Great family, love you. Thanks for some of my favorite videos.
I'm a 65 year old American, grew up in PA, lived in TX for five years and now live in New England. I've never owned a gun, never held a gun, never seen anyone fire a gun. I've seen people with hunting rifles and police with handguns, I've heard hunting rifles fire in the distance. I never had a reason to own a gun, but I defend the 2nd Amendment, people have the right to protect themselves and their families. Many Americans believe that Congress can pass laws prohibiting guns, this is not true; the Constitution would have to be amended, and those who want gun control, understand that attempts to amend the Constitution to remove gun rights will fail.
The fact remains, the majority want *common sense gun laws*. It doesn't have to be outlawing all guns. But there's also no need for the average citizen to possess guns made for war. And that CAN in fact be passed by Congress that doesn't go against the constitution.
@Andrew-Collet please inform us which "guns made for war" are available for the average citizens to own. I carried an M-16 my entire military career and the last time I looked, you can't own an M-16 or any other automated firing weapon without a special stamp which is damn near impossible to get. If you are talking about an AR-15, NOBODY in the military carries it. It's a semiautomatic just like most handguns and some hunting rifles and shotguns. But please dazzle me with your knowledge of " weapons of war".
@@Andrew-Collet Add one more myth about the U.S. The U.S. is not a democracy, it is a Constitutional Republic. It doesn't matter what the majority of people want. In a democracy, the mob rules; not in a Constitutional Repulic. You may want it to be a democracy for issues for which you are in the majority, but if the majority of the people rejected freedom of speech, how would you like it?
@@Jml416 Does anybody need anything more than a hand gun? The answer is no. It’s that simple.
@@averagejoe845 That…has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Common sense gun laws that have both been on the books already and are desired by the American people don’t go against the constitution. It’s just right-wing nuts that believe it does.
Your barbecue is not barbecue. Its grilling.
What do you “grill” or “bbq” on? 🙄
@@Dr.MayhemProductions-um8ih a grill.
@@Dr.MayhemProductions-um8ihYou grill on a grill. You barbecue in a smoker.
It’s a common misconception that we carry guns everywhere. I live in South Carolina and if anything many of us OWN guns, for protection mainly, but not everyone does. If anything you may see a few people open carry in certain areas but it’s not super common by any means.
Back around 2011 or so I met an Australian couple who were driving from NY to LA in a rented Camaro. It was at the bar at The Big Texan steakhouse in Amarillo. I had lunch at the bar during a 34 hour restart as a truck driver. They sat down next to me and we sampled the various house brewed beers. I know they weren’t European, actually, Aussies understand long distance car travel as well as we do. They were constantly amazed at how nice most Americans were.
Something that is never mentioned, regarding the obesity rate... Obviously, there are people who are significantly overweight. However, when it comes to the percentages of obese people, even those who are 5 pounds overweight, are considered in those stats. So many of those who are considered "overweight," you wouldn't even notice.
There is a hotel high percentage of morbidly obese. Maybe it's medical.and they can't the health care
And when you consider most of those stats are based on BMI, it further inflates the numbers. In my case, I know I’m overweight, but I’ve regularly had my body fat measurements taken and my fat-free weight would still have me “obese” by BMI (and men should have at least 3% body fat to be healthy).
No they aren't overweight by five pounds isn't considered obese
Which is the problem - it's normalized
@@missano3856 my point was, that when people see stats for obesity, they expect everyone to be 50 to 100 pounds overweight. So even if you are just a few pounds overweight, which is hardly an issue, you would also be considered obese, by medical standards.
Thank you for bringing up history. I am in Philadelphia right now & history dates back to the 1600s. I live in California. The La Brea Tar Pits are millions of years old. In 1776, we got our freedom & here in CA, there was a Mission built in my home town!
Recorded history. Not actual history.
Good to see y'all again, miss see new shorts from you three.
Awww.....Archie is soooo cute!
I work with a lot of Brits in the US. Some from the UK portion of the company and some who live in the USA. It's nice to see some Brits finding things out for themselves, because in the main, the Brits I interact with _arrogantly_ present their stereotypes to anyone here who will listen if I'm in earshot at least. It's not just needless, it's depressing to learn how ignorant some people choose to remain. Thank you for thinking for yourselves.
God bless you both. Sending love from Florida. 🙂
Archie is the star of this video. Love it. So adorable
Great video! My mother is British, but I was born and raised here in America. I lived in England briefly when I was a child. Having seen both sides, having family in both countries, it's interesting to see the misconceptions each has of the other. Don't believe the media from either. It's always best to have a first-hand experience if you can. I'm so glad you enjoyed your visit here! ❤️
In the US if you drive for a week you can cross the state. In the UK if you drive for a week you will be in another country, like Italy or east Germany.
Channel tunnel gets me to France in 30 mins . Fly to Spain in 2hrs 😊.
@@claregale9011 A flight from London to Tel Aviv is five hours. A flight from LA to NYC is five and a half hours, six hours to Boston, and seven hours from Miami to Seattle. A flight across the Atlantic from London to Toronto in another hemisphere is the same seven hours...
Your son is gorgeous! He is at such a fun age, too❤I am so glad you had a fun trip to America and had so many positive experiences. I loved that you visited the Alamo- it is a moving experience.
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James ask your mum try cooking quesadillas
Archie is great .. I haven't seen him for quite a while and he's so happy and bright :)
Archie is so adorable!!
I would love to see you do a part two. Can't wait. 😊
I live in Sallisaw OK, just south of us is a place called Heavner, OK, and had the furthest documented inland travel of early Vikings, dated before Christopher Columbus. Loads of history I didn’t even know till I moved out here from PA.
Poor Vikings ended up in OK?! Yikes, what a bummer for them 😝
Cool vid guys. Us in the US love our Brit friends. We weren't always friends, but glad we are currently
it is said that the vikings discovered N. America in the 11th Century. Leif Erikson landed somewhere on the eastern shore of Canada.
Ohio, here. The gun lies can be disproven by actual experience in my state, where we adopted "Constitutional carry," which is that a person is allowed to carry a gun concealed without permits. There should have been "rivers of blood in the streets", right?
Nope. Violent crime rate CUT IN HALF. End of arguments.
And in the UK it rains every day😅
Actually Newyork sees more rainfall than London. Northern England gets wetter weather and its why we have those lovely green rolling hills 😊
I have just come back from a weekend (5 hour one way) road trip from Orange County, CA to Los Banos, CA and I was amazed to see a commuter bus on the Interstate 5 as I was heading north. I was amazed because once you are north of Bakersfield there is nothing for miles.
I live in NYS, and own a pistol, and have a CCW(carry conceal permit). It's the ONLY permit for civilians to allow you to have your pistol on your person in public.
True, but there are a lot of Constitutional Carry States where you don't need a permit! However, if you conceal carry, it's a very good idea to have a Concealed Carry Permit. That way if you get pulled over, you'd just show the officer your permit along with other paperwork requested so they don't get spooked!
God Bless y'all! We'd love to see y'all back over here again!
I just wanted to drop in and say how much fun I have listening to your videos. Keep up the awesome content guys!
It’s funny to think that others really think we don’t cook at home. Seriously, everyone does fast food, it has its place but we have kitchens and stoves and some of us actually like to cook and we also have many favorite recipes handed down through the generations that we cherish. The most special ones are holiday recipes . We have normal bbq’s too. Hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, corn on the cob on the grill. I mean we aren’t all Southern doing a full blown bbq as they know it. Guns on police have been around forever. I don’t see any guns. This open carry stuff is new to me. Never heard of it ages ago. Really don’t think most normal people have time to grab their piece in the morning. Then again, who knows. 😢🤣🤣
Well said!! My niece works during the day. Comes home makes a BIG mess in the kitchen. I think she uses every pan she can find and leaves a mess for me to clean up!!! WE are aren't Southern either I wish the concept of the U.S. only having Texas bbq's wasn't so normal. We are a lot bigger than just Texas!!!
I don't own a gun either, but plenty of people conceal carry. You don't see the guns, but they're definitely there.
That baby is SOOOOOO incredibly adorable. I'm smitten :) What a little sweetie!!!
The oldest dwellings in the US were built somewhere between 1000 & 1450 ad in New Mexico.
My local castle in England was built in the 11h century local church still used today 11th century . If you look up our cathedrals you'll see how far advanced civilisation was from America at that time . 😊
@@claregale9011 And Tenochtitlan was a larger and cleaner city than ANY European city. In fact, the Native Americans remarked on how dirty, smelly, and uncultured the Europeans were.
@@stischer47 what's that got to do with what I was talking about .
My tribe had representative government, which included women, a thousand years before the Europeans showed up.
Love you guys.. breaking down barriers, and helping us to improve ! 💜💜
I’m a 42 year old American, aside from on police officers and on TV, I’ve seen a gun maybe 2 times in my life. I wouldn’t even really know which of my friends or family have a gun or not.
You do not know a Redneck or a HillBilly then!!
Love you guys. Blessings to your whole family. Glad you had a nice trip over here ❤️
Hey archie!!!!
I don’t know enough about our continent 2,000-4,000 years ago. That might be my next book. I was fascinated with Time Team and how they dug up artifacts only tens of centimeters deep.
Some states have open carry laws (as opposed to concealed carry).
Do you have bus service between some small villages? Some counties have transport for elderly or handicapped people. Generally, small town Midwest requires a car or a friend/family member with a car to get around. I took an airport shuttle that was about $40 for 90 miles (15 years ago). Sorry, didn’t mean to write a book.
I absolutely love when James calls Archie lad! 😍🤗💙
I wouldn't mind some deserved criticism about the US, but it seems to me that Europeans bend over backward to find anything sbout the US that they can grab on to and run with and exaggerate. In general, Americans are kind and welcoming people, and it might be good for our "friends" to ask themselves if they are certain that pushing us away is what they really want to do.
Of course the general populace is fine, politicians and journalists are something else though and they have power and influence.
This is what unhappy people do, find fault with others instead of reflecting upon their own condition.
Hi Archie! I saw a cute idea with play pens. Turn it up side down, unzip a side and it make a cute little tent. Glad you liked visiting the states, we're coming your way soon!
I really think the food is pretty fantastic here in US. You can get something really tasty on every corner, with plenty of variety. And over the past fifteen years or so, most places have made a concerted effort to add healthier options to the menus. Personally I do eat way too much fast food though. I know that, and It's like an addiction. I get hooked on the speed and convenience of it. But nowadays it's not even much cheaper than better stuff, so not totally sure why I still go.
Awww!! Sweet baby!! ❤
American history includes European history, and the history of each family that emigrated. Thus, the history of the American people includes all of British/English history until emigration. Consanguinity and all that. Same length of history. Arguing otherwise is silly.
Thanks so much for this. How nice not to see one's country being trashed. Just spent two weeks in England and Scotland and had a great time. Things were different then back at home and there was a learning curve. That's what i was looking for, to see new things in a new place. Here's to both wonder filled countries filled with great people.