That's a major scam. But that's the way americans are... No Grizzly, no Crocodile in New York... There was supposed to be a river somewhere... But all I could find were sewers... Big sewers...
@@Soundbrigade Go to the south side i heard that there where some dangerous wildlife over there. Haven't seem them last time i was there but i heard the locals talking about it.
On the plane en route to any destination outside of the USA. "This is your Captain speaking. Attention all our American passengers. This may come as a shock to you but, when we land in (insert any destination city here), please be aware that YOU are now the foreigner. Please ensure that your seat belt is buckled, sit back and relax, and we will be landing shortly. Thank you for flying with us today".
The last time I visited USA, the land stewardess used the public adress system to tell to all USA citizens of their flight that they needed to have located and always with them their passports, correctly signed (I didn't understood what she meant because mine hasn't any place to sign anything, I suppose she meant stamped by the authorities, mine is all electronic and doesn't has any stamp either) and be prepared to be handed to the German police (our connecting flight landed in Munich) because they would reject the entry of any passanger with incomplete data. I looked at my companions with disblief because she has to tell them they would need a passport to flight to other country. The passport!!! to visit a foreign country!!! A PASSPORT! 😱
I get the impression that when many American's go 'on vacation', they treat anywhere they visit like they are at a theme park and their expectations are that everything should be modern and that they are to be treated preferentially 'because they paid to be there'.
You can spot them a mile off. They wear the US flag on their clothes. Are VERY LOUD. Don't learn even basic things like hello, goodbye, thank you, how to order a drink, ask if anyone speaks English. A tiny effort brings great rewards. Oh, and we aren't Disneyland, we aren't extras, we can often understand what you are saying about us.
@@eleveneleven572 I have this weird trait of being able to spot an American (usually a man as they look the same) by just looking at them. A lot of middle aged American men, who are tourists all look similar - the short cut hair, shorts, white designer trainers, just have a certain "look about them". The problem was so bad that Americans would often stick "Canada" badges on their bags and clothing so they weren't confused and treated with hostility like a yank, the problem was when they opened their loud, rude, mouth, the fact they were indeed American became evidently clear.
I have never encountered an American being angry at people speaking Swedish. I have only encountered Americans trash-talking the city they are in loudly, the restaurant they are in, or even other customers, still in English. Important note: 89% of Swedes speak English, and will understand that you are trash talking them, we will most likely not a start a fight, we will just ignore you, and this includes the waiting staff.
Why is this so common? I've had embarrassing experiences traveling myself, sitting next to Americans or passing them, and hear them loudly insult the local population. I remember this really cute cafe in Italy, this bridge I was on in Paris, when I just landed in Valencia, and once in Stockholm. Like, do they want to make the stereotypes worse? Are they really not able to connect the dots? WE CAN HEAR YOU.
i live between 2 countries, croatia is one of them, well people tend to reply back, like really loudly, really rude and literaly shaming them for what ever they can, it also dependes in wich part of a country tourists are. so people take everything on them from politics, lack of education etc... i actually whitnessed few times when people did that, even telling them to f off back to states, that no one wants them there anyway.. american tourists were too stunned to even reply.. guess they never thought of a fact that majority of europeans, especialy ones younger than 50 do speak english, beside at least 2 more foregien languages...
Around 1995, I had a wine store in a large town in a very touristy region also famous for its vineyards. The very essence of the American (for me European) came in one day, cowboy boots on his feet with the matching hat and string tie, and asked me if he could pay in dollars. No, I replied, but he could pay with a Visa, Mastercard or... American express. Three card payment companies, all American, especially the last one. No, he told me, he didn't want to be cheated (??). I then told him that he could change his dollars at any nearby bank counter even without being a bank customer. My suggestion did not please him since he told me that if one day I came to the United States, I would be able to pay in cash anywhere with my Strelling pounds. He came out accompanied by my bursts of laughter. The store was in Strasbourg, Alsace region, in France and the money, at that time, the franc.
Then congratulations, I'd say you had an alien in your shop. I suspect so, because his distance from reality shows that he left his sense of reality on Mars when he made his way to Earth …
I recently quoted comedian Trevor Noah "It is zeb-bra not zee-bra. You don't have them so you can't name them." One person replied they would only say zeb-bra when we called it soccer not football. I replied it is called soccer where I live. (They thought I was "a Brit"). So they know a few countries apart from USA. It's a start.
In the olden days, when someone complained that the volcano just looked like a mountain, they sacrificed them to the mountain god to make sure it stays that way a bit longer...
In a reality series called "The Great Swedish Adventure" where Americans with Swedish ancestors get to explore Sweden and compete for a family reunion with their Swedish relatives, there was a woman who walked into a 14th century church and expressed her utter disgust at the "really outdated lamps". They were chandeliers that had been hanging there since the 19th century and I still wonder what kind of lamps she herself would have chosen for a church older than her country?
The Norwegian Tourist Offices release the weirdest complaints or request every year. A few years ago one of them was an American dad and mom complaining they hadn't seen the midnight sun. It was advertised it was the season for it but so far they had only seen the same sun as they had back home.
Also, plenty of tourists complain in Lapland how they didn’t see the auroras. Apparently we Nordics are so magical, we can control the suns ejections and the weather, but somehow just couldn’t bother to do it for these specific travelers..
Germany, especially Bavaria, is famous for its great and tasty beers. An american tourist got mad and angry at our local beergarden, that they don't serve "Bud Light". It was on his bucket list to drink a german (!) Bud Light to compare the taste and if the german one would taste better ... So he gave the local beer "Augustiner" (est. 1328 < no typo) a try. His reaction: "This is not a real american beer!" :(
What can one actually say to this?? It does take a lot to make me speechless, but these kind of people you mentioned does make it impossible to find a wise response.... 😅🤣
I had a boyfriend once who, on visiting Wells Cathedral (one of the most beautiful and complete mediaeval buildings in England) complained that the doors "looked old and worn, they should be replaced and painted". He didn't understand the wird 'philistine' ether. Boyfriend no longer.
The Australians should strike back by complaining about a distinct lack of wild bison in Manhattan NYC. And that the only Indian they saw in Indiana was called Vivek.
After watching early days television during the 1950's here in Australia, I had always assumed that America was full of cowboys. I got the shock of my life during the 1960's, how wrong I was.
Damn, you beat me to it. Where are the daily buffalo stampedes down Broadway and Fifth Avenue in NYC? Where are the koyotees roaming the streets of Los Angeles? And where are all those lobsters riding the tram up and down the hill in San Francisco?
Just show them a photo of Canberra and tell them if they want Roos in the city, they should come to the Capital City, oh, and no, Sydney is NOT the Capital...
I remember reading something about foreigners thinking you'd see kangaroos bouncing down every street in Australian cities. Was not impressed then I stepped onto my front porch and watched 3 kangaroos bouncing down my street.😂🦘🦘🦘 Hello from Canberra
@@marcelwin6941 well, San Francisco has been turned into a zoo for people wanting to study how bad it gets when drugs and crime are basically legalized. Shame no one thought about the zookeepers, to keep the area clean of s h I t
I suddenly recalled an incident when you were talking about languages towards the end. My late fiance rest her soul was talking to her kids in Welsh, in the capital city of Wales, Cardiff and an American told her to speak English as she's in England! WTAF!!?? At least they knew the language as English and not American but don't ever call Wales England or a Welsh person English, it's very offensive to proud Welsh people trying to keep the language alive
I sort of had it the other way around. I got this weird Enlish accent from travelling to much to Ireland and Scotland (or better i used to have it) I'm Dutch meself but i was in Cardiff and they started talking Wellish to me. Now i 'm Dutch so i went completly blank? And asked what langeuge they where speaking. They got a bit upset until it became clear to them that i was dutch not Welsh and couldn't understand a word. Ofcourse i know what Welsh is but other then Cymru i don't know a single word. And i didn't supect they would start Talking In Welsh to me i was in a hotel bar in Cardiff not some rurale site where the locals still talked primairely Welsh.
Never say “You’re in England” when in Wales. Because (a) you’re not; and (b) you may have just reduced your life expectancy by a fair bit. Pobl Americanaidd gwirion!
I have a few funny stories about being spoken to in Welsh in North Wales as a Saesneg on the wrong side of the border that shows how similar the English and Welsh are. Several times I've been spoken to in Welsh (and I only know about 20 words of Welsh so my attempts to explain I don't speak Welsh, in Welsh, are comical) and every time it's turned into who can be the most British in saying sorry the most. It's not unusual to think the person wandering around looking like he owns the place speaks the same language as 50-75% of the people in the town and use it first if it's your first language especially on a wet November morning in the rain. What tourist would choose that day to visit? :) The fact it's happened multiple times and every time it's ended with both parties apologising for using the 'wrong' language just sums us up as a people.
Yeah... that White House - one star. It's a boring colour, they should paint it in different colours and hues. And that round bit, the portico? They should make that revolve...
Second to that. And those flags... so booring... just white and red stripes... so dull... there should be more cokors and forms in those... and there are everywhere... Is it some sort of cult or something...
in Amsterdam, in a hotel... a middle age couple told us at the breakfast, they are Canadians... so we greeted them in French.... they didnt know how to answer, so we told them what we know they are US citizens! they left before lunch!
I lived in Bruges in the historic center years ago in a house of the 1500s. The street I lived in was the route the tourist busses and horse drawn carts took to go to the windmills, and occasionally you'd get some tourists on foot as well. One day I come home on my bicycle, and while I'm putting my bike away in the hallway 2 American tourists step inside my hallway to have a look. They thought these historic houses weren't really lived in and were just for show or fake or something... like Disneyland and I was an employee. I had to burst their bubble that all these houses are in fact lived in, and they have been modernised since the 1500s. We even have indoor plumbing and electricity! Imagine that! At that point they were still standing in my hallway and I told them to f*ck off. This was in the 90's. If it had been nowadays I'm sure they would've left a review saying they met a very rude "employee" in the historic center of Bruges, because I'm not sure they believed me.
Apparently a family of American tourists entered through the garden of a cottage in the Cotswolds, in England, and upon the emergence of the resident from her bedroom into the lounge, demanded teas and scones to be supplied straight away, the service was poor and slow and they wanted chairs too so they could sit with their teas in the garden... After her initial shock at finding the tourists in her house (uninvited!) She demanded they leave straight away...this was her home, not a hotel or a guest house and they were trespassing. (I hope they were glad she hadn't a gun to chase them off her property, as might happen in the US, afterall)
well , you could have told them a bit about the history and architecture of the house and of Bruges. They were interested at least. I think you were rude.
I'm a 69 year old Australian who has lived here his entire life, and I've never seen a kangaroo in an urban setting (except for in zoos). Plenty of Aussies have, but I'm not one of them. An American tourist sent a message to the Australian tourism web-site asking if they could be expected to see kangaroos in the street. Some wag replied "Depends on how much you've been drinking". Another American asked "Which way is north in Australia?" Another said "Will I be able to speak English most places I go?" which was answered "Yes, but you'll have to learn it first".
@@olgahein4384 Grüße Nachbar. And I concur👍 But also met quite nice Americans, being open minded as a traveler should be. The worst experiences i made so far were with Brits. They always seem close to ramming their union jack into the land and claim it as their own, like in the good ole times 😂
ever been to Neuschwanstein??? i got told in the USA, the Disney castle is the example the Europeans used to build their castles from! my local castle is just 500 years old, so its new for us!
As a UK citizen with an American spouse, I am sorry to say that these comments do not surprise us, we are lucky enough to live in The Cotswolds, a beautiful area of England, a place we call home but, a very few of our American and East Asian visitors expect a guided and curated visitor centre. Our villages, ancient sites, and churches are public places, not features screened off just for visitors. This is not American or other visitors being stupid but a heightened expectation of directed and produced Disney-like attractions built for visitors to be entertained, they are historical and ancient monuments. BTW. information for visitors to England, many of our village Churches are open all day for visitors and payers, just let yourselves in and look around, just be respectful and when visiting a Cathedral please remember that it is a place of worship even if it was built in the 12th Century.
I was lucky to visit great places in the Cotswolds years ago before Asian tourists discovered them. I've seen pictures of what it is like now and I wouldn't come again. (I'm German) same thing happened to anything to do with Beatrix Potter in the Lake district.
Speaking a language other then English is not a crime it's not rude or offensive what is rude and offensive and should be a crime is attacking someone for not speaking English.
@@daveamies5031 in 2024 Etna erupted two or three times, is the most active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world. In 1953 a cableway was built on the mountain, since then it was destroyed and rebuilt 5 times.
German here. One day on my way to uni (about 45min bus ride), I heard Turkish, English, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian and Spanish spoken besides German. I only speak English fluently and Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian on a basic level. Mostly they were either talking about work, plans for some family visit, soccer or the war. I will never understand US americans (or any other people) who always think that everything is about them, if they can't understand a language.
Paranoia . It is why they have the guns . Remember Covid . They all started buying more weapons . As soon as anything happens they are afraid other people
@@lapisinfernalis9052: It is a deeply rooted insecurity. They don't speak a second language, therefore everybody is talking about them behind their back. Had an US-American colleague like this, demanding all German staff speak solely English while at work with her. We made fun of her behind her back anyway.
I learned a very important lesson when I was a young man. I grew up in Dublin Ireland having knowledge of three languages, yet Portuguese was not one of them. When I was a teen I was traveling in Portugal and found myself geographically challenged at one point in Lisbon this was in the late 70s. I walked up to a police officer and asked in a polite manner if he spoke English. Now most people in Europe speak two or three languages some more. So it wasn’t a stretch to think he may speak English. He responded to me in perfect English was “ do you speak Portuguese “? I replied”No” he responded in English was “ well your in Portugal where we speak Portuguese, so why it it you think I should speak English “ then he asked if he could help me and gave me directions to where I wanted to go. From that point on wherever I went in the world I always tried learned something of the local language. It seemed the polite thing to do and showed respect to the language of that country.
Yeah, most European kids learn multiple languages. My cousins learned English, French and German and this was in the 70s in the same country you mentioned. 😊
Smart move just knowing how to say hello and thank you in the native languege goes a long way. I'm dutch and i know English, Germane, and a very limited amount of French (wish makes me pretty much an under eductaed dutch persone my sister speaks 5 langues as do her children wel 2 of them also know a little chinees(not sure wich variant).) I don't do more then anymore. French ussualy is close enough to Italien and spanisch that i'm fine. I can order a beer in spanisch and probable still count to 10 but thats about it.
As a European, I can relate to knowing at least more than one language- but personally I'm not that good at learning languages. So for a quick trip to some country where I'm only going to be less than an a week, except for a few courtesy phrases, I'll use English. I would expect ANY police officer that I turned to for help to have more focus on helping than quibbling about language. Expecting me to learn the local language for a weekend or 5 day trip is a bit much. That was unbelievably rude. That's a reasonable attitude to have for people who come for an extended stay in a country, that they take trouble to learn a bit more of the local language even if nowhere near fluent.
...yeah, if I only visited palce where i knew the nativelanguage, that'd be German-speaking areas the Anglosphere only. My Latin sucks, so no luck in the Vatican, and I never got the knack of French and Mandarin. I'm going to learn some words, sure, but I'm not going to conversational level before travelling there.
I’m french, first time I went to Italy (I didn’t speak well Italian at this time), exactly to Torino, I asked if I can speak in English, and the guy answered me in French…
@@sombrero4316 And the lack of reasoning to question themselves. Like, other people seem to be more aware of their judgement, or take a moment to just... wait it out and see if it's really a custom or culture and they're unintentionally insulting someone. I don't think many Americans ever had to really reflect on their own judgement that often.
Of course you do, but Americans are by FAR the best at it, as if the world owes them some special privileges. They are American, not "Special" and need to know their place. They are NO better than anyone else.
I always love the story about the American tourists travelling to Edinburgh by train, and asking why Edinburgh Castle was built so close to the railway lines 😂😂😂
That's apparently been said of Windsor Castle too, plus that they ought not go have built the same castle so close to the airport. (Noise pollution etc...!!)
I haven't heard this being said about the Cologne Cathedral but it'd be fitting (with the central railway station sitting right next to the Cathedral) 😅
@@SW-gf6zl It puts me in mind of trump's gaffe when he said the Continental Army "took over the airports" from the British during the American Revolutionary war.
that castle is on a hill top and you can see the train station from it down in the city.... close by is like Cologne. the train station is 120m from the cathedral!
Plus when the Bald Eagles are actually there and squawk, you can point out that what American's "think" is the sound of a Bald Eagle is from another bird entirely. As the "Symbol of Freedom" as a weak squawk. more suited to a smaller bird. The sound the US public thinks is a Bald Eagle, is a Red Tailed Hawks call. Red-tail Hawk ua-cam.com/video/0TW50dYmYvo/v-deo.html Bald-Eagle ua-cam.com/video/e4RjDTbOLMA/v-deo.html USA lying to everyone at its finist. Same deal with a lot of US things. Bambi...is a Roe Deer in the story. USland...White-tailed Deer. As American audiences maight not know what a Roe Deer is. I will leave it to the reader to look pictures of the two deer. As they are sooooooo wildly different, that the change HAD to be made. Or credulous American's will not recognise a deer from elsewhere. The classic "ribbit" sound of frogs. All down to brainwashing from Hollywood. Thare only one or two frog species, out of many thousands, that make such a sound. Its is the Pacific Treefrog that makes the sound.
I studied at the Université de Montréal during the 90s, which is a French speaking university, in linguistics. One of my teachers in phonology decided to give us a class about English for French-speakers. The class was very entertaining as this professor really had a knack to make his class lively and interesting. And this is when I got my main shock. The guy spoke perfect French with a hint of a Parisian accent, when I discovered during this class that he was actually... an American who had studied French in Paris in the 70s... I had wrongly assumed that he was a Frenchman teaching at the Université de Montréal...
my last English teacher told my class that we are are a lost cause, we will never speak English..... he been right in 1986, but since then i learned a little bit... enough for travels to the USA, Canada, UK and NZ...lol
A lot of French people thought at the time that the Eiffel tower was ugly. The contoversy was quite huge. And it was only meant to be a temporary structure proposed for the fair of 1889 (and the later world's fair of 1900) and be torn down 20 years later in 1909. But it proved to be useful for modern tech like radio transmissions etc. and so they never got round to removing this "temporary eye sore".
Wasn't there a French writer who said that his favourite lunch spot in Paris was the restaurant in the Eiffel tower - because when you sit in the tower, you can't look at it?
Well, it's my understanding that Gustave Eiffel had to convince authority to build the tower and therefore argued that the tower can be torn down after the world exhibition, but never promised to do so. Instead he had already plans for commercializing through light advertising and radio transmitters. The rest is history...
Hi Ian, I used to work at Edinburgh Castle as a guide. There was a long line to enter the castle, and I was checking tickets. A group of American seniors were in line, and I guessed they were touring Ireland, Scotland, and England. One of the older ladies asked her friend, "Is this Dublin Castle?" I had to turn around as I burst out laughing. Also, some Americans claim to be descendants of Robert the Bruce or William Wallace. I just stand there with a wry smile.😂
Well, Robert the Bruce at least had children so it is theoretically possible However, as William Wallace is not know to have had any children, he cannot have any descendants 😂
i guy told me he is German in the USA... so i greeted him in German.... he looked confused, and ask me where i learned French so well?? i ask him if he knows anything about German?
Funniest review i ever read was for a Lake District Mountain called Skiddaw . The Lady complained it was a difficult climb and when you got to the top there was nothing there . No toilet facilities , no restaurant , no bar and the summit was covered in cloud so no view either . Well done for climbing up though , its a strenuous walk
Had a friend that worked in the tourist information centre in Edinburgh princess street. She had a usa guy come in all excited and rushed straight to her. It was one of them clear blue sky days and with the moon visible in the day time. He was really hyped by this. He asked her straight.. "is that the same moon we have in the usa, or is it a different one?".... She quickly realised he was serious and she struggled to hold in her laugh... Being a typical Scot, of course, she politely gave him an answer... "no sir, that's a completely different moon"..... To which he turned to his wife and said.... "see, I told ya", and matched off triumphant..... I figure somebody eventually put him right....
"I heard you guys don't have electricity in England?" "That's correct sir, there's a hamster in a cage under this desk, and currently it's powering my computer". "Do you have internet?" "Yes, when it works". "When it works?" "Yes, it doesn't work 75% of the time". Americans really are a special breed.
Had a friend who many years ago worked on the London tourist buses … he told a bus full of Americans that the river Thames was actually the English Channel and that the South Bank was Francs … they totally believed him
I can't help but feel - from living in a world of theme parks and the film industry - the line between reality and fantasy is blurred for Americans. They seem to think everything outside their immediate bubble is just a theme park or film set. I once heard an American be astounded the The Glenfinnan Viaduct was made of brick instead of cardboard because, well, Harry Potter. The thing which annoys me most is how some people seem to think the Kings Guard are actors in costume instead of the highly trained fighting force in traditional uniform older than America itself, they are.
I was standing in the queue in the Uffici. In front me there were these two young American men, who were loudly complaining about the ticket prices. I suppose they had never been to any big American museum, such as the MoMA (30$ or students 17$) or the Guggenheim (30$ or students 19$).
@@LednacekZ In Europe, in the center of smaller cities, you can easily see wild boars walking quite often. A visit from a deer is also not uncommon, especially if you have apple trees with falling fruit nearby.
You skipped the best one: A male tourist at an African game lodge became disgruntled and self-conscious after seeing a visibly aroused elephant in the bush, claiming the encounter left him feeling 'inadequate'. But not everyone gets an eyeful on safari, with one guest lamenting: "I spent a whole week on safari, and didn't see any good animals. There was only a load of antelopes." Poor antelopes... OMG! ROFL! He saw elephant's dong and felt inadequate ... i just can't :D
@Terji you're clearly not familiar with the average Brit tourist in the Mediterranean tourist areas. Or even those who move there when they retire. I once heard the irate complaints of a Brit because his Spanish doctor of the public healthcare system (free for him as the UK was still part of the EU) didn't speak English.
So... Every human who travels with a parent should be charged (or not charged) as a child at cafes and restaurants...? Good grief! I know a woman who, after she retired, started traveling with her very adventurous and healthy (then) 87 year old mother everywhere. Just because you're traveling with a parent, you are not automatically a child.
I read one similar review that a woman visiting the pyramids in Egypt complained about her shoes and expensive clothing both being ruined by getting sand in them. Who would have thought there would be sand in the Sahara? Also, there was no reason for her to walk there from the ticket office. You have a choice of camel, horse drawn cart with a sunshade, or jeep.
I really don’t think there are many people over 6-7 in other countries than the US that don’t realise they’re the foreigners and they’re speaking a foreign language when they’re travelling abroad. Not meaning to suggest individual Americans are somehow more ignorant than individual non-Americans in general, but there is something quite exceptional in the culture (American isolationism/defaultism etc) that is not found anywhere else in my experience. People all over the world, at least the ones rich enough to travel further, are very aware of other cultures.
They have no maps of the world or globes. Only a map of North America. So don´t expect too much of them. They are kept kinda stupid. History is only about the USA, like the rest of the world doesn´t excist.
@ Well, I figured since I don’t know many Americans personally and social media can be misleading, I should not assume to know. It is kind of fascinating in a cringy way when this level of cluelessness is portrayed, and often even defended by American reactors to a certain extent. I guess I mean I don’t think the individual people are to blame when they live in a society with very different values and available information than most. But I’ve also just watched a video about gen Z not being able to read and write and schools not being allowed to fail children with learning difficulties (which is misused by some of course) which means teachers can’t have high standards anymore, and focusing all their money on sports because that makes the school richer. So that is also not the individual child’s fault but won’t help I guess. And then I also saw a video on why the Deep South is so much poorer (mostly history and conservatism) which said the kept the poor uneducated on purpose for a really long time. It’s a whole mix of systemic problems I guess is what I’m saying that got America in the state it seems to be in… 🤔
@@Lisdodde We sent our eldest home to 🇦🇺 to boarding school, & we lived in a good area. You’re 100% correct about the systemic failures. Education is v poorly funded. Teachers paid a pittance. Local fire brigade rang asking for donations… bcos I didn’t know who it was, I said “No”. The response was “it will be too bad if YOUR house burns down, won’t it!” Emergency services begging for $ is terrifying. My husband & I both came away from the experience staggered by the level of ignorance of EVERYTHING outside the U.S. Unfortunately it is coupled with such arrogance about ANYTHING ‘foreign’. Had, & still have, some lovely friends from our time there, but even they cd b SO defensive if we attempted to correct THEIR stereotype about non the U.S. e.g. “why wd you want to go to Europe, there’s nothing worth seeing/doing”. Wish it wasn’t so, but think they’re paying the price now, & it will get worse b4 it gets better. Unfortunately, for the rest of us there will b a flow on effect. Cheers 🙂
@@janetlynch1170 that sounds as bad as it seems online than :-(.. My sister traveled South America between her bachelors and masters degrees (we’re in the Netherlands) and got herself an Australian man, so now they and my Aussie nephews are visiting Europe to experience a cold and dark Christmas period and some ice skating and skiing, and my kids get an additional education in cultural differences (but they’ve both been self taught English speakers for years now just of of UA-cam so they’re not even learning new languages from it 🙄). It’s baffling to me to think of an entire nation that doesn’t care to learn at all about other cultures. It’s so important and enriching!
"Can vote"? They did! And the majority that did vote, chose to vote for a convicted criminal who is also a sex-pest to lead and represent their country!! USA USA USA USA!!! Goodness me, they really do know no bounds on the stupidity scale..
I live in Scotland and recently saw two reviews about Ben Nevis. One complained that the mountain was too high and suggested they take some off the top, the othe reviewer was disappointed that after climbing to the top there were no shops or other facilities.
@@Kari.F. I think they confuse it with Wales where they have the little railway, geography doesn''t seem to be an especially understood subject for many tourists
The Eiffel Tower is old. I wonder how Americans would react if we said that the Statue of Liberty is getting old and should retire, she is 138 years old.
I was on a train going from Neath to Swansea to get to work one morning and there were a couple of American tourists nearby. As the train was entering Swansea railway station I heard one of them say 'this isn't a very pretty part of England'. So I turned to them and said 'there's a good reason for that, you're in Wales not England'. They gave me a very confused look.
@@CamaroMann . Pretty sure the Dolts that didn't know the difference between Wales and England , SLSO won't know the distinction between Whales and Fish . And PS , you Misspelt Whales . No Parties for You...............
To be fair though, it's not just Americans. See the article: Woman in anti-Welsh rant after she's caught on beach - but admits she 'didn't realise Wales wasn't in England' (for context, it was in May 2020 and England had "relaxed" lockdown restrictions but Wales hadn't)
On the accent thing: I read once that a US tourist told an Irishman in Dublin, Ireland to lose the "Tourist accent" as he had foud it difficult to understand him ( The Irishman was a local tourguide in a walk-about-Dublin kind of tour).
There was a 19th century Parisian who always ate at the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower. He hated the architecture of the Eiffel Tower and it was the only place in the centre of Paris where he didn't have to see it.
I think when many Americans travel they don't seem to believe things in other countries are real and aren't built for tourists, like cute cottages in the Cotswolds are actually real homes, or that many old buildings and traditions are really old and not staged for tourists.
I would not have been able to resist and answered: "oh, easy! It will come one hour before the 2 o'clock beheading". Hard thing would have been to keep my face straight 😆
I would’ve said “I’m sorry, what time does what gun go off? Say it slowly for me”. Then I would just stare at him til he understood how stupid a question it was. If he honestly didn’t get it I would walk off.
Imagine having a holiday next to a volcano, then getting mad that it isn't destroying and melting people in front you :o "I payed good money for this! Liquid insides or 1 star!" ^^
True story: in Rome at the Colosseum an American lady asked the tourist guide why they didn't construct the Colosseum right in front of the Subway exit 🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀ I guess that to her the dates 79 AD and 1955 AD seem quite as old 🤷♀
Actually the subway exit IS right in front of the Colosseum. Funnily enough it's called Colloseo Station. I wonder why? Best place to take blue hour photos as well!
For many Americans, a trip to Europe (or anywhere overseas) is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The only overseas travel they have seen is in movies where every service is in the english language; airports, taxis/transit, hotels, restaurants, shops, etc. They expect to have the english (language) movie experience when they travel overseas.
Yeah, right? I mean, in outlander they ends up in 18th Paris and everyone can speak french, the girls in the brothel, the poor orphan boy, the elderly nun, the half conscious peasant patient..... ! how convenient! In Stargate, somehow, the hundreds of planet they visit and discover people, whose ancestors left our planets thousands of years ago all speak english: the mongol descendant, the Egyptian, even the non-human! So, how dare an Italian in Italy refuse to speak nglish!!
And the really sad part is, that for those Americans on the once'in-a-lifetime experience at least half of them spend their time complaining about, how everything isnt like theyre used to back home. Complaining about ppl not automatically speaking English, passing by loads of local restaurants to find a McDonalds, then complaining, it doesnt taste like home (coz we dont allow all that toxic crap in our food), complaining servers arent hovering over their shoulders the whole time, complaining that the castle is built too close to the airport etc etc etc. And yes, I have encountered all of those. Repeatedly.
Also....english speaking movies situated in a non-english country with english actors , but then speaking english with an accent of that country ! Sure , the people in that country speak their language with a funny accent.!
@@olgabartels2879 And in the same vibe: in outlander, some of the french women were played by British so thy would speak french with an british accent while pretending to be french ..
Re: Kangaroos. Real Story. 2000 Olympics in Sidney, amongst all the personnel sent to cover the event there was this Italian Journalist, associate of mine. First day he arrived, before the event started, he decided to take a walk around. Ask a local: "Hey mate, can you see kangaroos around here?" The answer was: "It depends on what you smoke"
I worked as a pharmacist in a public pharmacy near a large airport in Germany. Both my colleagues and I spoke at least two languages other than German; we all spoke English, but we also spoke fluent French, Russian, and Spanish. When tourists came into the pharmacy, they usually greeted us in German and asked carefully if we spoke English. Not so with the Americans; they immediately spoke English loudly, at least twice as loudly as everyone else. You could hardly understand the other customers anymore. It was no problem for us to fulfill their wishes, of course, but their arrogance and inconsiderateness really annoyed us. How can you think you're the most important person on earth.
Working as a tour guide can take years off your life - the sheer amount of sighing and groaning you have to surpress at foolish and arrogant visitors (who are determined to blame you for the area/people/language/cuisine/etc failing to meet their baffling expectations) starts to make you feel like you're sustaining physical as well as mental damage.
In 1980, my English family was living in Nashville, TN, and my mother helped out in a local nursery. A woman approached her and asked how long she'd been in the USA, and my mother told her she'd been there for four months. The American lady found it incredible that my mother, who was English, had learned English in such a short space of time. About the same time I worked in a summer camp in MA, I had kids ask me if we had TV, roads, stores and cars in the UK.
A few stories about my encounters with American tourists. -a few years ago I was in Sienna, in the old city, and i do remember at one point an American family, parents and their 2 kids, the younger one being about 14 or 15 years old, a boy, that eventually threw a fit because he was always getting lost in this city that’s built before time, why doesn’t it have streets and avenues and blocks like every normal city, this made the father mockingly laugh his ass off, and made the mother pretty mad because of the son and the husband’s outbursts, but especially tried explaining to the boy that this is Europe now and people do things differently, while trying to tell them both basically how self conscious she was about being loud, which is a trait often attached to American tourists. -in Lebanon (the country) where I’m from, it’s not uncommon to find French tourists especially when it comes to European visitors. One morning as we were waiting in line for a morning Lebanese specialty, in front of me was an American couple, about mid 40’s, possibly from a southern state given their accent, they got to talking about faux pas and that they’re in a foreign country and all that, and that’s when the man decided to explain to his wife the etymology of the expression, doing so quite smuggly like he’s educating her, and started telling her that it comes from the French way of saying you shouldn’t do something: il ne faut(to be necessary) pas(not), which is “technically” correct but is NOT the expression at hand, and it was then that an older French woman standing in front of them couldn’t take this, she turned around and started correcting the man in as French an English as you could hear, telling him that it comes from faux (wrong) and pas (step), which was quite humiliating because most of us locals who were there spoke French but couldn’t really say anything, and when this very public correction happened, could hardly hide our smirks, the American woman was laughing hard, still holding his hand however, telling his all red face now how he made her day by ever so confidently stepping right in this one. -one summer in the Greek island of Sifnos, my friends and were going to the beach where there was sign, written in plain English, telling people NOT to park their cars on the beach’s sandy entrance, I’ll leave you to figure out who parked their car right by the sign, at the beaches entrance, and since I have acquaintances from Wisconsin, I was able to clearly recognize the accent and expressions. Sometimes I wonder if Jeremy Clarkson isn’t wrong when saying American tourists are a touristic attraction onto their own, but then I remember our own silliness when we are tourists 😂😂. Had you been French I will have told you about the French brand of touristic silliness as well 😊, some ideas Greeks and Italians have about French tourists tend to butt hurt them, however we did witness some of them being true, sometimes laughably so
@@reginapopihn9853 When I was in Yougoslavia and Greece , a long time ago , the Germans would say they were dutch and the US people would say they were Canadian .
@@mehitabel6564 I’ve seen plenty of sandwiches that only had the bottom slice buttered, probably even the majority of them. In fact, that’s how I make them myself because I put other moist ingredients like gherkins or tomatoes on top, or a sauce/relish.
@@mehitabel6564 I literally wrote "this was a sandwich, not a toast". Here's the actual point: The tourist was complaining about both sides not being buttered, not both slices.
Una volta credo che ho salvato la vita d'uno ragazzo americano che fa un'casino incredibile, urlando in inglese perche lui aveva bevuto 2 coca-cola ma voleva pagare solo uno (the refund ...). Lui aveva sete e si era perso vicino al cimitero monumentale di Catania... davvero non è la zona giusta per fare scandalo ! Pur essendo francese, ho dovuto fare la traduzione tra l'inglese e l'italiano, poi l'ho riaccompagnato in centro città... senza un grazie !
Happened in a tourist information in Helsinki, Finland: A cruise visitor arrived, a middle aged lady speaking American English. Her question was: "Is Lapland open today?" She was politely informed Lapland isn't a theme park but the northernmost province of Finland. To be fair, you hear similar things from Europeans too.
For once, I actually gave up half way through this one. "Nobody can be this dumb," was my feeling. Then I remembered what is happening in DC today, 6th Jan 2025. 😂
My (Finnish) SIL was in Venice with friends, they had just ordered mojitos and it was mostly booze, so not the best ever, barely drinkable. American family sat on the next table and they were thinking about having mojitos too, when SIL turned to them and said “Please don’t, they are really strong here”. Their mom got offended and snapped back at her “No need to meddle, they (meaning her kids) are 18!”. This wasn’t something SIL had even entertained, we don’t nanny other peoples adult kids or even younglings, when their parents are present. Needless to say, her whole group enjoyed immensely, when this family figured out what she had actually meant; faces were made, they left their drinks half full on the table and left.. This became a running joke in our family, whenever someone says something is too strong, no matter what it is, one of us will yell “But Im 18!”..
I was a small kid and kids under 13(I think) got free entry into the speedway here in Australia! I was 13 according to my dad for about 4 years until I had a 5 o'clock shadow. 🤣 So saved about $30 over 3 years.. Cheap old bastard 🤣🤣🤣
I was once on the Tube in London, and a guy was getting angry with a family who were speaking not-English. This wasn't an American visitor but a racist Englishman, you know the sort, "f***ing foreigners coming over here" etc. The family were speaking Welsh, one of the official languages of the UK.
I'm English and was on holiday in Kerry Town (Ireland). I was stood outside a shop with my dog whilst my wife was inside buying the kind of stuff they do. Two Americans came up to me and asked, in a broad New Jersey accent what my dog was. I replied, it's as Scottish Deerhound. He couldnt understand me, didnt know what a deer was and that my dog hunts them. I had to keep explaining and he still couldn't understand English....eventually his wife dragged him away because she thought I was about to punch him 😂
I'm from the Netherlands and used to work in a book/gift store in a city that wasn't popular with tourists at the time. So I wasn't expecting to have an American tourist trying to buy an umbrella with dollars. He made a whole scene about it and that the dollar was accepted everywhere and I should be lucky to have it offered to me. Sorry man I wasn't allowed to accept anything but euros and he insisted on wanting to pay cash. To this day I wonder how he managed to get to my city with only dollars in cash. But at least he made an effort to see more than just Amsterdam.
Who in the world coats both sides so the outside of a sandwich is all buttery and makes a mess of your fingers. Kind of contradicts the point of a sandwich keeping the potential for mess on the inside. Dormant volcano, virgin sacrifices are the key. Your sanity thanks you for ignoring the "we weren't told to bring swimsuits to a water (park?)" entry below the eiffel tower
To be fair, i think they meant both sides on the inside, a lot of places only do one side to save money over time, stingy yes, but it does happen, and lets face it, butter isn't exactly cheap, and when used in bulk even more so.. And yeah, that swimsuit one had me laughing, like wtf.
My heart goes out to Ian and all other American citizens whose heads are screwed on. The small minority can generate such a negative impact no matter how amusing to the rest of us. Maybe it should be don't issue passports to people until they pass a test (quite a difficult test) and then the opinion may significantly change for the better. Not just Americans to blame as f"""wits appear in every country
Another complained that the pool was filthy because there was a leaf in it, and a third on a beach holiday complained the beach had yellow sand instead of white as advertised in the brochure.
Years ago I was visiting Bath, England, at the B&B we were served a proper English breakfast- such a great. At the next table, some American women started complaining that the toast was cold and the butter looked weird. I explained to them about the clotted cream and cold toast with strawberry jam, they refused to believe me, (a Canadian), only to have the host explain the same thing. SMH
Kangoroos in Sydney would mean they expact grizzles and mooses walking down the Braodway! 🤭🤭🙈😂 Isn't it the same in the US, that 1-room Apt. are smaller than 3-room Apt.s? 🙄 Complaining about an unactive volcano beeing a mountain (by 95%!), wonder what they would complain about if it has been active?! Hot shoes?! 😂
The problem here is truely a cultural, a social one. In a country, where you can become sued for selling hot coffee if the costumer is too dumb to drink and due to this everywhere is written stuff like "don't dry your baby in the microwave" or "the washing mashine is not for the cleaning of your pets", it is no wonder, that those people stoped thinking for themself and want everything exactly explained for every possibility.
One time i met a dude from Texas in a bar and he fooled me totally when he went "full murican" and asked where are all the polar bears and igloos ? I was stunned thinking are they really that stupid? and soon he just bursted in laughter as he was just messing with me because he saw someone actually asking that :D
7:59 that’s also really stupid of them. Don’t they know what the Eiffel Tower look like ? There’s no shortage of pictures of the tower, you see it everywhere. If you find it ugly don’t go there, lol.
I watched a recent video from Three Star Vagabond, where he pointed out what Swedes would found odd with USA. Of course the Muricans got absolutely crazy, showing their best or worst ultra-nationalism. So absurd people cannot accept there are people having different views.
Did you ask for your money back? As someone who loves language and history, I have to say "bald" also means "white" - eg piebald, skewbald or baldy-faced horses, magpie, "bald as a badger".
I had a tour guide in Edinburgh switch from his tourist accent to his real one to prove that we (the bus) wouldn't understand him at all. He was right.
Americans at every european airport queueing up in the "EU citizens" line and not in the "All other passports" line. Then when they are bounced to the right line at the counter they often shout "we are americans, we got rights!". I don't know why but it always amuses me a lot.
Sometimes it is cheaper to travel abroad than within your own country. example all the Americans who came to see Taylor Swift in France. It was cheaper to fly from the United States, sleep in a hotel and have a concert ticket than the price of a Taylor Swift concert ticket in the United States
@yaonyaon9460 The low cost interiors are suitable for advanced use. example Strasbourg Barcelona, 30 euros all-retour for 3 people, 2 months at the advance.
I was in Lyon at the time, we had both Taylor Swift and Coldplay in Décines Stadium. Both times I was coming back from work and had to wait for a second or a third tram because they were full of people with make up speaking English or German and I didn't understand why they were there... I got the info it a few days after for Taylor Swift. Then we had the Olympics. Really a lot of international events this Summer.
"I heard that there are grizzly bears in the USA, but when I visited the Central Park in New York, I didn't see any. I feel scammed."
Been three weeks in Chicago and no elks, moose or wolves. I am confused ….
Maybe they all SCAMpered away?
Whata deception
That's a major scam. But that's the way americans are... No Grizzly, no Crocodile in New York... There was supposed to be a river somewhere... But all I could find were sewers... Big sewers...
@@Soundbrigade Go to the south side i heard that there where some dangerous wildlife over there. Haven't seem them last time i was there but i heard the locals talking about it.
On the plane en route to any destination outside of the USA.
"This is your Captain speaking. Attention all our American passengers. This may come as a shock to you but, when we land in (insert any destination city here), please be aware that YOU are now the foreigner.
Please ensure that your seat belt is buckled, sit back and relax, and we will be landing shortly.
Thank you for flying with us today".
Should be a thing.
@@rjswas true that
Thst announcement should be mandatory.
Hey dude, what is a foreigner? 😂
The last time I visited USA, the land stewardess used the public adress system to tell to all USA citizens of their flight that they needed to have located and always with them their passports, correctly signed (I didn't understood what she meant because mine hasn't any place to sign anything, I suppose she meant stamped by the authorities, mine is all electronic and doesn't has any stamp either) and be prepared to be handed to the German police (our connecting flight landed in Munich) because they would reject the entry of any passanger with incomplete data.
I looked at my companions with disblief because she has to tell them they would need a passport to flight to other country. The passport!!! to visit a foreign country!!! A PASSPORT! 😱
I get the impression that when many American's go 'on vacation', they treat anywhere they visit like they are at a theme park and their expectations are that everything should be modern and that they are to be treated preferentially 'because they paid to be there'.
You can spot them a mile off. They wear the US flag on their clothes. Are VERY LOUD. Don't learn even basic things like hello, goodbye, thank you, how to order a drink, ask if anyone speaks English. A tiny effort brings great rewards.
Oh, and we aren't Disneyland, we aren't extras, we can often understand what you are saying about us.
@@eleveneleven572 I have this weird trait of being able to spot an American (usually a man as they look the same) by just looking at them.
A lot of middle aged American men, who are tourists all look similar - the short cut hair, shorts, white designer trainers, just have a certain "look about them".
The problem was so bad that Americans would often stick "Canada" badges on their bags and clothing so they weren't confused and treated with hostility like a yank, the problem was when they opened their loud, rude, mouth, the fact they were indeed American became evidently clear.
I have never encountered an American being angry at people speaking Swedish. I have only encountered Americans trash-talking the city they are in loudly, the restaurant they are in, or even other customers, still in English.
Important note: 89% of Swedes speak English, and will understand that you are trash talking them, we will most likely not a start a fight, we will just ignore you, and this includes the waiting staff.
You need to remind Americans that the wait staff in Sweden (unlike the US) get paid a decent wage.
Why is this so common? I've had embarrassing experiences traveling myself, sitting next to Americans or passing them, and hear them loudly insult the local population. I remember this really cute cafe in Italy, this bridge I was on in Paris, when I just landed in Valencia, and once in Stockholm. Like, do they want to make the stereotypes worse? Are they really not able to connect the dots? WE CAN HEAR YOU.
i live between 2 countries, croatia is one of them, well people tend to reply back, like really loudly, really rude and literaly shaming them for what ever they can, it also dependes in wich part of a country tourists are. so people take everything on them from politics, lack of education etc... i actually whitnessed few times when people did that, even telling them to f off back to states, that no one wants them there anyway.. american tourists were too stunned to even reply.. guess they never thought of a fact that majority of europeans, especialy ones younger than 50 do speak english, beside at least 2 more foregien languages...
They do the same in every country !!!
I have kicked many an American out of the place I worked for their rudeness and bigotry.
Around 1995, I had a wine store in a large town in a very touristy region also famous for its vineyards. The very essence of the American (for me European) came in one day, cowboy boots on his feet with the matching hat and string tie, and asked me if he could pay in dollars. No, I replied, but he could pay with a Visa, Mastercard or... American express. Three card payment companies, all American, especially the last one. No, he told me, he didn't want to be cheated (??). I then told him that he could change his dollars at any nearby bank counter even without being a bank customer. My suggestion did not please him since he told me that if one day I came to the United States, I would be able to pay in cash anywhere with my Strelling pounds. He came out accompanied by my bursts of laughter. The store was in Strasbourg, Alsace region, in France and the money, at that time, the franc.
Then congratulations, I'd say you had an alien in your shop. I suspect so, because his distance from reality shows that he left his sense of reality on Mars when he made his way to Earth …
@@CamaroMann Fortunately, carrying a disintegrator gun is prohibited in France! Ak, ak, ak, ak!!
I recently quoted comedian Trevor Noah "It is zeb-bra not zee-bra. You don't have them so you can't name them." One person replied they would only say zeb-bra when we called it soccer not football. I replied it is called soccer where I live. (They thought I was "a Brit"). So they know a few countries apart from USA. It's a start.
@@Maireadmossha ha. That is what we call it in southern Africa.
@@izibear4462 And Australia. Zeb-bra and soccer, so as not to confuse it with the other three kinds of football.
In the olden days, when someone complained that the volcano just looked like a mountain, they sacrificed them to the mountain god to make sure it stays that way a bit longer...
good one. Makes you miss the "olden days". 😀
was the volcano in the picture the Vesuvius by chance ? then a hardcore nope, you dont wanna that thing erupt :p
In a reality series called "The Great Swedish Adventure" where Americans with Swedish ancestors get to explore Sweden and compete for a family reunion with their Swedish relatives, there was a woman who walked into a 14th century church and expressed her utter disgust at the "really outdated lamps". They were chandeliers that had been hanging there since the 19th century and I still wonder what kind of lamps she herself would have chosen for a church older than her country?
The Norwegian Tourist Offices release the weirdest complaints or request every year. A few years ago one of them was an American dad and mom complaining they hadn't seen the midnight sun. It was advertised it was the season for it but so far they had only seen the same sun as they had back home.
how would they know that it is the same sun as "back home"? 😂
Also, plenty of tourists complain in Lapland how they didn’t see the auroras. Apparently we Nordics are so magical, we can control the suns ejections and the weather, but somehow just couldn’t bother to do it for these specific travelers..
@@janemiettinen5176 Yeah you people up north are real jerks 😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a Canadian, I can appreciate that. I'm just shaking my head and chuckling. 😂
😂😂You really couldn't make it up 🤣🤣
"Wars were invented so Americans could learn geography" - Mark Twain.
Mark Twain was a genius and a great wit.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂That really explains a lot.
And people still say 'The' Ukraine.
Jeremy Clarkson once revealed an Atlas, a very rare book in the US.
Germany, especially Bavaria, is famous for its great and tasty beers. An american tourist got mad and angry at our local beergarden, that they don't serve "Bud Light". It was on his bucket list to drink a german (!) Bud Light to compare the taste and if the german one would taste better ... So he gave the local beer "Augustiner" (est. 1328 < no typo) a try. His reaction: "This is not a real american beer!" :(
What can one actually say to this?? It does take a lot to make me speechless, but these kind of people you mentioned does make it impossible to find a wise response.... 😅🤣
I wouldn't even call Budweiser beer! Let alone Bud LIGHT!! Horse piss might even taste better....
I’ve seen this sort of ignorance too many times over the years to do anything other than smile.
I can only hope the waitress answered: "Sorry, we do not serve horse processed water".
I wouldn't call Budweiser a beer! Let alone Budweiser LIGHT! Even horse piss is better (I imagine)!
I had a boyfriend once who, on visiting Wells Cathedral (one of the most beautiful and complete mediaeval buildings in England) complained that the doors "looked old and worn, they should be replaced and painted". He didn't understand the wird 'philistine' ether. Boyfriend no longer.
You definitely missed a bullet!
The modern term would be US American.
@@Yandarval well this one was British ;)
This is why we have ancient buildings and they have no idea. These people chiselled faces into a beautiful mountain for goodness sake, no decorum.
The Australians should strike back by complaining about a distinct lack of wild bison in Manhattan NYC. And that the only Indian they saw in Indiana was called Vivek.
After watching early days television during the 1950's here in Australia, I had always assumed that America was full of cowboys. I got the shock of my life during the 1960's, how wrong I was.
Damn, you beat me to it. Where are the daily buffalo stampedes down Broadway and Fifth Avenue in NYC? Where are the koyotees roaming the streets of Los Angeles? And where are all those lobsters riding the tram up and down the hill in San Francisco?
Just show them a photo of Canberra and tell them if they want Roos in the city, they should come to the Capital City, oh, and no, Sydney is NOT the Capital...
I remember reading something about foreigners thinking you'd see kangaroos bouncing down every street in Australian cities. Was not impressed then I stepped onto my front porch and watched 3 kangaroos bouncing down my street.😂🦘🦘🦘 Hello from Canberra
@@marcelwin6941 well, San Francisco has been turned into a zoo for people wanting to study how bad it gets when drugs and crime are basically legalized.
Shame no one thought about the zookeepers, to keep the area clean of s h I t
I suddenly recalled an incident when you were talking about languages towards the end. My late fiance rest her soul was talking to her kids in Welsh, in the capital city of Wales, Cardiff and an American told her to speak English as she's in England! WTAF!!??
At least they knew the language as English and not American but don't ever call Wales England or a Welsh person English, it's very offensive to proud Welsh people trying to keep the language alive
I sort of had it the other way around. I got this weird Enlish accent from travelling to much to Ireland and Scotland (or better i used to have it) I'm Dutch meself but i was in Cardiff and they started talking Wellish to me. Now i 'm Dutch so i went completly blank? And asked what langeuge they where speaking. They got a bit upset until it became clear to them that i was dutch not Welsh and couldn't understand a word.
Ofcourse i know what Welsh is but other then Cymru i don't know a single word. And i didn't supect they would start Talking In Welsh to me i was in a hotel bar in Cardiff not some rurale site where the locals still talked primairely Welsh.
Americans only barely speak English themselves
"there is many options"
"did it on accident"
Etc etc
Never say “You’re in England” when in Wales. Because (a) you’re not; and (b) you may have just reduced your life expectancy by a fair bit. Pobl Americanaidd gwirion!
I have a few funny stories about being spoken to in Welsh in North Wales as a Saesneg on the wrong side of the border that shows how similar the English and Welsh are. Several times I've been spoken to in Welsh (and I only know about 20 words of Welsh so my attempts to explain I don't speak Welsh, in Welsh, are comical) and every time it's turned into who can be the most British in saying sorry the most. It's not unusual to think the person wandering around looking like he owns the place speaks the same language as 50-75% of the people in the town and use it first if it's your first language especially on a wet November morning in the rain. What tourist would choose that day to visit? :) The fact it's happened multiple times and every time it's ended with both parties apologising for using the 'wrong' language just sums us up as a people.
Yeah... that White House - one star. It's a boring colour, they should paint it in different colours and hues. And that round bit, the portico? They should make that revolve...
Second to that. And those flags... so booring... just white and red stripes... so dull... there should be more cokors and forms in those... and there are everywhere... Is it some sort of cult or something...
Plus the burning smell does linger. Have the US not stolen air freshener's from someone yet?
@@Yandarval To appreciate this you have to be familiar with the American Revolution and the British sailing up the Potomac ...
@@christinemarshall1366 Only Americans aren't.
And these are the adventurous, intelligent ones that actually leave America 😬
Judging by their observations, you can remove "Intelligent" from that sentence.
@@thefiestaguy8831 for Americans. they ARE intelligent. That's the scary part. Yes, it isn't what most non-Americans would call intelligent, but...
in Amsterdam, in a hotel... a middle age couple told us at the breakfast, they are Canadians...
so we greeted them in French....
they didnt know how to answer, so we told them what we know they are US citizens!
they left before lunch!
I lived in Bruges in the historic center years ago in a house of the 1500s. The street I lived in was the route the tourist busses and horse drawn carts took to go to the windmills, and occasionally you'd get some tourists on foot as well.
One day I come home on my bicycle, and while I'm putting my bike away in the hallway 2 American tourists step inside my hallway to have a look. They thought these historic houses weren't really lived in and were just for show or fake or something... like Disneyland and I was an employee. I had to burst their bubble that all these houses are in fact lived in, and they have been modernised since the 1500s. We even have indoor plumbing and electricity! Imagine that!
At that point they were still standing in my hallway and I told them to f*ck off. This was in the 90's. If it had been nowadays I'm sure they would've left a review saying they met a very rude "employee" in the historic center of Bruges, because I'm not sure they believed me.
If you would do that in the USA you would get shot.
@@lorrefl7072 "a rude employee" ... sounds like a case of #IDontWorkHere
Apparently a family of American tourists entered through the garden of a cottage in the Cotswolds, in England, and upon the emergence of the resident from her bedroom into the lounge, demanded teas and scones to be supplied straight away, the service was poor and slow and they wanted chairs too so they could sit with their teas in the garden... After her initial shock at finding the tourists in her house (uninvited!) She demanded they leave straight away...this was her home, not a hotel or a guest house and they were trespassing. (I hope they were glad she hadn't a gun to chase them off her property, as might happen in the US, afterall)
@@tobyk.4911 😂
well , you could have told them a bit about the history and architecture of the house and of Bruges. They were interested at least. I think you were rude.
I'm a 69 year old Australian who has lived here his entire life, and I've never seen a kangaroo in an urban setting (except for in zoos). Plenty of Aussies have, but I'm not one of them. An American tourist sent a message to the Australian tourism web-site asking if they could be expected to see kangaroos in the street. Some wag replied "Depends on how much you've been drinking". Another American asked "Which way is north in Australia?" Another said "Will I be able to speak English most places I go?" which was answered "Yes, but you'll have to learn it first".
2:05 .....and the mountain was also broken, it had a hole at the top. 🤣
Maybe that's why it wasn't working?
And if there were some fireworks I bet they would have sued bc of endangerment
Sometimes I think they have the mindset that they travel to a far away Disneyland, completly build for their Pleasure.
Disney World😉
Living in southern Germany... Yes. Yes, they do.
@@olgahein4384 Grüße Nachbar. And I concur👍 But also met quite nice Americans, being open minded as a traveler should be. The worst experiences i made so far were with Brits. They always seem close to ramming their union jack into the land and claim it as their own, like in the good ole times 😂
ever been to Neuschwanstein???
i got told in the USA, the Disney castle is the example the Europeans used to build their castles from!
my local castle is just 500 years old, so its new for us!
As a UK citizen with an American spouse, I am sorry to say that these comments do not surprise us, we are lucky enough to live in The Cotswolds, a beautiful area of England, a place we call home but, a very few of our American and East Asian visitors expect a guided and curated visitor centre. Our villages, ancient sites, and churches are public places, not features screened off just for visitors. This is not American or other visitors being stupid but a heightened expectation of directed and produced Disney-like attractions built for visitors to be entertained, they are historical and ancient monuments. BTW. information for visitors to England, many of our village Churches are open all day for visitors and payers, just let yourselves in and look around, just be respectful and when visiting a Cathedral please remember that it is a place of worship even if it was built in the 12th Century.
I was lucky to visit great places in the Cotswolds years ago before Asian tourists discovered them. I've seen pictures of what it is like now and I wouldn't come again. (I'm German) same thing happened to anything to do with Beatrix Potter in the Lake district.
But that means you have to live near Birmingham... *Shudders*
Speaking a language other then English is not a crime it's not rude or offensive what is rude and offensive and should be a crime is attacking someone for not speaking English.
maybe the volcano was down for maintenance :P
they only turn it on during high season
let's hope for the locals the "maintenance" takes a a few decades longer than expected 🤣
@@daveamies5031 in 2024 Etna erupted two or three times, is the most active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world. In 1953 a cableway was built on the mountain, since then it was destroyed and rebuilt 5 times.
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Same for the kids sea view from plane, their graphics couldn’t be rendered momentarily. Duh!
German here. One day on my way to uni (about 45min bus ride), I heard Turkish, English, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian and Spanish spoken besides German. I only speak English fluently and Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian on a basic level. Mostly they were either talking about work, plans for some family visit, soccer or the war. I will never understand US americans (or any other people) who always think that everything is about them, if they can't understand a language.
I don't understand why they find foreign languages offensive even when spoken in their own country 🙄
@MKR5210 main character syndrome. They want to know everything
Paranoia . It is why they have the guns . Remember Covid . They all started buying more weapons . As soon as anything happens they are afraid other people
@@lapisinfernalis9052: It is a deeply rooted insecurity. They don't speak a second language, therefore everybody is talking about them behind their back. Had an US-American colleague like this, demanding all German staff speak solely English while at work with her. We made fun of her behind her back anyway.
I learned a very important lesson when I was a young man. I grew up in Dublin Ireland having knowledge of three languages, yet Portuguese was not one of them. When I was a teen I was traveling in Portugal and found myself geographically challenged at one point in Lisbon this was in the late 70s. I walked up to a police officer and asked in a polite manner if he spoke English. Now most people in Europe speak two or three languages some more. So it wasn’t a stretch to think he may speak English. He responded to me in perfect English was “ do you speak Portuguese “? I replied”No” he responded in English was “ well your in Portugal where we speak Portuguese, so why it it you think I should speak English “ then he asked if he could help me and gave me directions to where I wanted to go. From that point on wherever I went in the world I always tried learned something of the local language. It seemed the polite thing to do and showed respect to the language of that country.
Yeah, most European kids learn multiple languages. My cousins learned English, French and German and this was in the 70s in the same country you mentioned. 😊
Smart move just knowing how to say hello and thank you in the native languege goes a long way. I'm dutch and i know English, Germane, and a very limited amount of French (wish makes me pretty much an under eductaed dutch persone my sister speaks 5 langues as do her children wel 2 of them also know a little chinees(not sure wich variant).)
I don't do more then anymore. French ussualy is close enough to Italien and spanisch that i'm fine. I can order a beer in spanisch and probable still count to 10 but thats about it.
As a European, I can relate to knowing at least more than one language- but personally I'm not that good at learning languages. So for a quick trip to some country where I'm only going to be less than an a week, except for a few courtesy phrases, I'll use English. I would expect ANY police officer that I turned to for help to have more focus on helping than quibbling about language. Expecting me to learn the local language for a weekend or 5 day trip is a bit much. That was unbelievably rude.
That's a reasonable attitude to have for people who come for an extended stay in a country, that they take trouble to learn a bit more of the local language even if nowhere near fluent.
...yeah, if I only visited palce where i knew the nativelanguage, that'd be German-speaking areas the Anglosphere only. My Latin sucks, so no luck in the Vatican, and I never got the knack of French and Mandarin.
I'm going to learn some words, sure, but I'm not going to conversational level before travelling there.
I’m french, first time I went to Italy (I didn’t speak well Italian at this time), exactly to Torino, I asked if I can speak in English, and the guy answered me in French…
You find uninformed and just plain dumb people in every country. But I swear, Americans just always test the limits.
Yeah it might be its the combination of stupidity and indoctrinated pride that is standing out and is so annoying.
It's like a combination of misplaced confidence and feeling superior to everyone else.
@@sombrero4316 And the lack of reasoning to question themselves.
Like, other people seem to be more aware of their judgement, or take a moment to just... wait it out and see if it's really a custom or culture and they're unintentionally insulting someone. I don't think many Americans ever had to really reflect on their own judgement that often.
Edit to add: It's the Disneylandification of traveling probably. They expect a same experience visiting a country as what it's like to go to Disney.
Of course you do, but Americans are by FAR the best at it, as if the world owes them some special privileges. They are American, not "Special" and need to know their place. They are NO better than anyone else.
I always love the story about the American tourists travelling to Edinburgh by train, and asking why Edinburgh Castle was built so close to the railway lines
😂😂😂
That's apparently been said of Windsor Castle too, plus that they ought not go have built the same castle so close to the airport.
(Noise pollution etc...!!)
I haven't heard this being said about the Cologne Cathedral but it'd be fitting (with the central railway station sitting right next to the Cathedral) 😅
@@SW-gf6zl It puts me in mind of trump's gaffe when he said the Continental Army "took over the airports" from the British during the American Revolutionary war.
that castle is on a hill top and you can see the train station from it down in the city....
close by is like Cologne.
the train station is 120m from the cathedral!
I'm also always disappointed, that there aren't bald-eagles everywhere in US-Cities, instead of pigeons and/or seagulls.
Plus when the Bald Eagles are actually there and squawk, you can point out that what American's "think" is the sound of a Bald Eagle is from another bird entirely. As the "Symbol of Freedom" as a weak squawk. more suited to a smaller bird. The sound the US public thinks is a Bald Eagle, is a Red Tailed Hawks call.
Red-tail Hawk
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Bald-Eagle
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USA lying to everyone at its finist.
Same deal with a lot of US things. Bambi...is a Roe Deer in the story. USland...White-tailed Deer. As American audiences maight not know what a Roe Deer is. I will leave it to the reader to look pictures of the two deer. As they are sooooooo wildly different, that the change HAD to be made. Or credulous American's will not recognise a deer from elsewhere.
The classic "ribbit" sound of frogs. All down to brainwashing from Hollywood. Thare only one or two frog species, out of many thousands, that make such a sound. Its is the Pacific Treefrog that makes the sound.
You will find the bald eagles in Canada.
I visited a ghost town and was so disappointed I didn`t see any ghosts. . . . .
I studied at the Université de Montréal during the 90s, which is a French speaking university, in linguistics. One of my teachers in phonology decided to give us a class about English for French-speakers. The class was very entertaining as this professor really had a knack to make his class lively and interesting. And this is when I got my main shock. The guy spoke perfect French with a hint of a Parisian accent, when I discovered during this class that he was actually... an American who had studied French in Paris in the 70s... I had wrongly assumed that he was a Frenchman teaching at the Université de Montréal...
my last English teacher told my class that we are are a lost cause,
we will never speak English.....
he been right in 1986, but since then i learned a little bit...
enough for travels to the USA, Canada, UK and NZ...lol
A lot of French people thought at the time that the Eiffel tower was ugly. The contoversy was quite huge. And it was only meant to be a temporary structure proposed for the fair of 1889 (and the later world's fair of 1900) and be torn down 20 years later in 1909. But it proved to be useful for modern tech like radio transmissions etc. and so they never got round to removing this "temporary eye sore".
Wasn't there a French writer who said that his favourite lunch spot in Paris was the restaurant in the Eiffel tower - because when you sit in the tower, you can't look at it?
It's like going to Mount Rushmore and complaining that the Americans are lazy because they only got around to put 4 faces on it...
@@DamocMetalFever
I mean at least Paris city center wasn't a holy ground.
Well, it's my understanding that Gustave Eiffel had to convince authority to build the tower and therefore argued that the tower can be torn down after the world exhibition, but never promised to do so. Instead he had already plans for commercializing through light advertising and radio transmitters. The rest is history...
@@gozerthegozarian9500 yep, Guy de Maupassant
Hi Ian, I used to work at Edinburgh Castle as a guide. There was a long line to enter the castle, and I was checking tickets. A group of American seniors were in line, and I guessed they were touring Ireland, Scotland, and England. One of the older ladies asked her friend, "Is this Dublin Castle?" I had to turn around as I burst out laughing. Also, some Americans claim to be descendants of Robert the Bruce or William Wallace. I just stand there with a wry smile.😂
Well, Robert the Bruce at least had children so it is theoretically possible
However, as William Wallace is not know to have had any children, he cannot have any descendants 😂
i guy told me he is German in the USA...
so i greeted him in German....
he looked confused, and ask me where i learned French so well??
i ask him if he knows anything about German?
Funniest review i ever read was for a Lake District Mountain called Skiddaw . The Lady complained it was a difficult climb and when you got to the top there was nothing there . No toilet facilities , no restaurant , no bar and the summit was covered in cloud so no view either . Well done for climbing up though , its a strenuous walk
I live in the area, I remember this one reported in the local press.
What , no gift shop?
I live in the Scottish highlands, we get similar complaints about Ben Nevis, we also get the "outlander" fans asking s-where Claire and Jamie lived
Had a friend that worked in the tourist information centre in Edinburgh princess street. She had a usa guy come in all excited and rushed straight to her. It was one of them clear blue sky days and with the moon visible in the day time. He was really hyped by this. He asked her straight.. "is that the same moon we have in the usa, or is it a different one?".... She quickly realised he was serious and she struggled to hold in her laugh... Being a typical Scot, of course, she politely gave him an answer... "no sir, that's a completely different moon"..... To which he turned to his wife and said.... "see, I told ya", and matched off triumphant..... I figure somebody eventually put him right....
I hope everybody they met played along.
"I heard you guys don't have electricity in England?"
"That's correct sir, there's a hamster in a cage under this desk, and currently it's powering my computer".
"Do you have internet?"
"Yes, when it works".
"When it works?"
"Yes, it doesn't work 75% of the time".
Americans really are a special breed.
Had a friend who many years ago worked on the London tourist buses … he told a bus full of Americans that the river Thames was actually the English Channel and that the South Bank was Francs … they totally believed him
I can't help but feel - from living in a world of theme parks and the film industry - the line between reality and fantasy is blurred for Americans. They seem to think everything outside their immediate bubble is just a theme park or film set. I once heard an American be astounded the The Glenfinnan Viaduct was made of brick instead of cardboard because, well, Harry Potter. The thing which annoys me most is how some people seem to think the Kings Guard are actors in costume instead of the highly trained fighting force in traditional uniform older than America itself, they are.
Wait?? Are you telling me that in America, the customer can not add the milk themself? That is so weird to me! What about sugar, is that the same? 🤔🤔
They probably dont know how 😮
Maybe they didnt tip enough?
I was standing in the queue in the Uffici. In front me there were these two young American men, who were loudly complaining about the ticket prices. I suppose they had never been to any big American museum, such as the MoMA (30$ or students 17$) or the Guggenheim (30$ or students 19$).
Complaining about the prices to one of the absolute best museums in the world... yikes.
Miami and Tampa must be full of alligators roaming on the streets, I presume, and, based on the flag, Californian cities must be full of bears.
dont know about roaming the streets, and not the big cities, but the smaller towns can get pretty wild.
Having lived in Tampa. Sometimes true. 😂
@@LednacekZ In Europe, in the center of smaller cities, you can easily see wild boars walking quite often. A visit from a deer is also not uncommon, especially if you have apple trees with falling fruit nearby.
I wouldn't try swimming in any canals or open fresh water there. They do occaisionale travel inside the city limits in those.
You skipped the best one:
A male tourist at an African game lodge became disgruntled and self-conscious after seeing a visibly aroused elephant in the bush, claiming the encounter left him feeling 'inadequate'. But not everyone gets an eyeful on safari, with one guest lamenting: "I spent a whole week on safari, and didn't see any good animals. There was only a load of antelopes." Poor antelopes...
OMG! ROFL! He saw elephant's dong and felt inadequate ... i just can't :D
What do you call a clever person in the USA ?............ A tourist !
Then what are they doing in America?
@@ericwilliams1659 Lost.
Still desperately trying to find "Australia" on a map whilst staring at "Austria".
what do you call an American in a suit? ................. the Accused
what do you call an American with a degree?? ............. A liar
@@garyowens3698 Kyle Rittenhouse.
I dont buy that a tourist acting like theyre at home could be from anywhere other than america. no one else is in such a strong bubble
Russian tourists act the same, believecit, i saw that with my own eyes.
But going on law of averages it’s safe to say American
Or has that level of entitlement.
O most don't and there are some from any country. But americanes really excell at it chances if you see this happening its an americane are very high.
@Terji you're clearly not familiar with the average Brit tourist in the Mediterranean tourist areas. Or even those who move there when they retire. I once heard the irate complaints of a Brit because his Spanish doctor of the public healthcare system (free for him as the UK was still part of the EU) didn't speak English.
So... Every human who travels with a parent should be charged (or not charged) as a child at cafes and restaurants...? Good grief! I know a woman who, after she retired, started traveling with her very adventurous and healthy (then) 87 year old mother everywhere. Just because you're traveling with a parent, you are not automatically a child.
i know young children with more education than middle age Americans...!
I read one similar review that a woman visiting the pyramids in Egypt complained about her shoes and expensive clothing both being ruined by getting sand in them. Who would have thought there would be sand in the Sahara? Also, there was no reason for her to walk there from the ticket office. You have a choice of camel, horse drawn cart with a sunshade, or jeep.
I really don’t think there are many people over 6-7 in other countries than the US that don’t realise they’re the foreigners and they’re speaking a foreign language when they’re travelling abroad.
Not meaning to suggest individual Americans are somehow more ignorant than individual non-Americans in general, but there is something quite exceptional in the culture (American isolationism/defaultism etc) that is not found anywhere else in my experience. People all over the world, at least the ones rich enough to travel further, are very aware of other cultures.
They have no maps of the world or globes. Only a map of North America. So don´t expect too much of them. They are kept kinda stupid. History is only about the USA, like the rest of the world doesn´t excist.
@ Lisdodde… “suggest ignorance”? Lived there 🇺🇸 for 3 yrs, & I ‘declare ignorance’!
@ Well, I figured since I don’t know many Americans personally and social media can be misleading, I should not assume to know. It is kind of fascinating in a cringy way when this level of cluelessness is portrayed, and often even defended by American reactors to a certain extent.
I guess I mean I don’t think the individual people are to blame when they live in a society with very different values and available information than most.
But I’ve also just watched a video about gen Z not being able to read and write and schools not being allowed to fail children with learning difficulties (which is misused by some of course) which means teachers can’t have high standards anymore, and focusing all their money on sports because that makes the school richer. So that is also not the individual child’s fault but won’t help I guess.
And then I also saw a video on why the Deep South is so much poorer (mostly history and conservatism) which said the kept the poor uneducated on purpose for a really long time.
It’s a whole mix of systemic problems I guess is what I’m saying that got America in the state it seems to be in… 🤔
@@Lisdodde We sent our eldest home to 🇦🇺 to boarding school, & we lived in a good area. You’re 100% correct about the systemic failures. Education is v poorly funded. Teachers paid a pittance. Local fire brigade rang asking for donations… bcos I didn’t know who it was, I said “No”. The response was “it will be too bad if YOUR house burns down, won’t it!” Emergency services begging for $ is terrifying. My husband & I both came away from the experience staggered by the level of ignorance of EVERYTHING outside the U.S. Unfortunately it is coupled with such arrogance about ANYTHING ‘foreign’. Had, & still have, some lovely friends from our time there, but even they cd b SO defensive if we attempted to correct THEIR stereotype about non the U.S. e.g. “why wd you want to go to Europe, there’s nothing worth seeing/doing”.
Wish it wasn’t so, but think they’re paying the price now, & it will get worse b4 it gets better. Unfortunately, for the rest of us there will b a flow on effect. Cheers 🙂
@@janetlynch1170 that sounds as bad as it seems online than :-(..
My sister traveled South America between her bachelors and masters degrees (we’re in the Netherlands) and got herself an Australian man, so now they and my Aussie nephews are visiting Europe to experience a cold and dark Christmas period and some ice skating and skiing, and my kids get an additional education in cultural differences (but they’ve both been self taught English speakers for years now just of of UA-cam so they’re not even learning new languages from it 🙄).
It’s baffling to me to think of an entire nation that doesn’t care to learn at all about other cultures. It’s so important and enriching!
Those people can vote for the President of the US. Explains a lot. 😮😩
Apparently, if they've enough commitment to being one...
_They too_can become President... :-/
I really can't decide which would be worse...?!!
I think that you should have just left it at those people can vote.
I think that you should have just left it at those people can vote??
"Can vote"?
They did! And the majority that did vote, chose to vote for a convicted criminal who is also a sex-pest to lead and represent their country!! USA USA USA USA!!!
Goodness me, they really do know no bounds on the stupidity scale..
I live in Scotland and recently saw two reviews about Ben Nevis. One complained that the mountain was too high and suggested they take some off the top, the othe reviewer was disappointed that after climbing to the top there were no shops or other facilities.
😂😂😂
Yes, Ben Nevis really needs a pub and a small shopping center at the very top! 😂🤦
@@Kari.F. I think they confuse it with Wales where they have the little railway, geography doesn''t seem to be an especially understood subject for many tourists
The Eiffel Tower is old. I wonder how Americans would react if we said that the Statue of Liberty is getting old and should retire, she is 138 years old.
and french too
@@MegaJackpot180Gustave Eiffel made the inside structure of it as well!
It's kinda funny that some Americans find Eiffel Tower ugly when Statue of Liberty was literally a present from France.
Both designed by the same guy.
The irony is both were from the same people.
Most people going to see the Eiffel Tower have a pretty good idea what it's gonna look like already.
Yeah, but as the 'real' one stands in Las Vegas the Paris' one HAS TO BE the ugly copie you know ;P
I was on a train going from Neath to Swansea to get to work one morning and there were a couple of American tourists nearby. As the train was entering Swansea railway station I heard one of them say 'this isn't a very pretty part of England'. So I turned to them and said 'there's a good reason for that, you're in Wales not England'. They gave me a very confused look.
dont' be silly, wales are fishes ! everybody knows that
Savage 😀.
@@Tyu-f1s I'm sorry to disappoint you, but waales aren't fish, they're mammals. Yes, I *am* fun at parties. If I were invited to any :D
@@CamaroMann . Pretty sure the Dolts that didn't know the difference between Wales and England , SLSO won't know the distinction between Whales and Fish . And PS , you Misspelt Whales . No Parties for You...............
To be fair though, it's not just Americans. See the article: Woman in anti-Welsh rant after she's caught on beach - but admits she 'didn't realise Wales wasn't in England' (for context, it was in May 2020 and England had "relaxed" lockdown restrictions but Wales hadn't)
On the accent thing: I read once that a US tourist told an Irishman in Dublin, Ireland to lose the "Tourist accent" as he had foud it difficult to understand him ( The Irishman was a local tourguide in a walk-about-Dublin kind of tour).
Dublin Ireland ???????? Do not do that !!!! Again "We knów were Dublin is !!!
@olgabartels2879 There is one in the US too. I did this for the US peeps, they might did not understand.👍🤭
There was a 19th century Parisian who always ate at the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower. He hated the architecture of the Eiffel Tower and it was the only place in the centre of Paris where he didn't have to see it.
That one is kinda counter intuitive, he's inside of the tower so he's seeing everywhere.
I think when many Americans travel they don't seem to believe things in other countries are real and aren't built for tourists, like cute cottages in the Cotswolds are actually real homes, or that many old buildings and traditions are really old and not staged for tourists.
I was asked by an American "What time does the one o'clock gun go off? on a trip to Edinburgh castle.
Should've told him it was 1AM. Make him stay up late AND be disappointed.
I would not have been able to resist and answered: "oh, easy! It will come one hour before the 2 o'clock beheading". Hard thing would have been to keep my face straight 😆
I would’ve said “I’m sorry, what time does what gun go off? Say it slowly for me”. Then I would just stare at him til he understood how stupid a question it was. If he honestly didn’t get it I would walk off.
The worst one i have seen is some guy saying "Its nothing special" to a monument for the tragic Air France Concorde crash site.
Imagine having a holiday next to a volcano, then getting mad that it isn't destroying and melting people in front you :o
"I payed good money for this! Liquid insides or 1 star!" ^^
The ENTIRE USA has Main Character syndrome
That explains a lot 👍
True story: in Rome at the Colosseum an American lady asked the tourist guide why they didn't construct the Colosseum right in front of the Subway exit 🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀ I guess that to her the dates 79 AD and 1955 AD seem quite as old 🤷♀
Actually the subway exit IS right in front of the Colosseum. Funnily enough it's called Colloseo Station. I wonder why? Best place to take blue hour photos as well!
@ you are right, it’s 210 meters away from the ticket office… I guess that for the lady was still too far! 🤷♀️
Hilarious 😂😂
I just noticed the thermometer on your shelf behind you is set to celsius. kudos for that :)
For many Americans, a trip to Europe (or anywhere overseas) is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The only overseas travel they have seen is in movies where every service is in the english language; airports, taxis/transit, hotels, restaurants, shops, etc. They expect to have the english (language) movie experience when they travel overseas.
Yeah, right? I mean, in outlander they ends up in 18th Paris and everyone can speak french, the girls in the brothel, the poor orphan boy, the elderly nun, the half conscious peasant patient..... ! how convenient!
In Stargate, somehow, the hundreds of planet they visit and discover people, whose ancestors left our planets thousands of years ago all speak english: the mongol descendant, the Egyptian, even the non-human!
So, how dare an Italian in Italy refuse to speak nglish!!
And the really sad part is, that for those Americans on the once'in-a-lifetime experience at least half of them spend their time complaining about, how everything isnt like theyre used to back home.
Complaining about ppl not automatically speaking English, passing by loads of local restaurants to find a McDonalds, then complaining, it doesnt taste like home (coz we dont allow all that toxic crap in our food), complaining servers arent hovering over their shoulders the whole time, complaining that the castle is built too close to the airport etc etc etc.
And yes, I have encountered all of those. Repeatedly.
@@SuperLn1991 So true. It irritates me no end because it always makes the stories so unbelievable. I know it s a movie , but still .
Also....english speaking movies situated in a non-english country with english actors , but then speaking english with an accent of that country !
Sure , the people in that country speak their language with a funny accent.!
@@olgabartels2879 And in the same vibe: in outlander, some of the french women were played by British so thy would speak french with an british accent while pretending to be french ..
Re: Kangaroos. Real Story. 2000 Olympics in Sidney, amongst all the personnel sent to cover the event there was this Italian Journalist, associate of mine. First day he arrived, before the event started, he decided to take a walk around. Ask a local: "Hey mate, can you see kangaroos around here?" The answer was: "It depends on what you smoke"
I worked as a pharmacist in a public pharmacy near a large airport in Germany. Both my colleagues and I spoke at least two languages other than German; we all spoke English, but we also spoke fluent French, Russian, and Spanish. When tourists came into the pharmacy, they usually greeted us in German and asked carefully if we spoke English. Not so with the Americans; they immediately spoke English loudly, at least twice as loudly as everyone else. You could hardly understand the other customers anymore. It was no problem for us to fulfill their wishes, of course, but their arrogance and inconsiderateness really annoyed us. How can you think you're the most important person on earth.
Americans travel to see something different and then are surprised that things are too different?
Working as a tour guide can take years off your life - the sheer amount of sighing and groaning you have to surpress at foolish and arrogant visitors (who are determined to blame you for the area/people/language/cuisine/etc failing to meet their baffling expectations) starts to make you feel like you're sustaining physical as well as mental damage.
“It’s a volcano , only if it’s active?!” lmfao.
and even when they are active, they don't erupt at all times
In 1980, my English family was living in Nashville, TN, and my mother helped out in a local nursery. A woman approached her and asked how long she'd been in the USA, and my mother told her she'd been there for four months. The American lady found it incredible that my mother, who was English, had learned English in such a short space of time. About the same time I worked in a summer camp in MA, I had kids ask me if we had TV, roads, stores and cars in the UK.
A few stories about my encounters with American tourists.
-a few years ago I was in Sienna, in the old city, and i do remember at one point an American family, parents and their 2 kids, the younger one being about 14 or 15 years old, a boy, that eventually threw a fit because he was always getting lost in this city that’s built before time, why doesn’t it have streets and avenues and blocks like every normal city, this made the father mockingly laugh his ass off, and made the mother pretty mad because of the son and the husband’s outbursts, but especially tried explaining to the boy that this is Europe now and people do things differently, while trying to tell them both basically how self conscious she was about being loud, which is a trait often attached to American tourists.
-in Lebanon (the country) where I’m from, it’s not uncommon to find French tourists especially when it comes to European visitors.
One morning as we were waiting in line for a morning Lebanese specialty, in front of me was an American couple, about mid 40’s, possibly from a southern state given their accent, they got to talking about faux pas and that they’re in a foreign country and all that, and that’s when the man decided to explain to his wife the etymology of the expression, doing so quite smuggly like he’s educating her, and started telling her that it comes from the French way of saying you shouldn’t do something: il ne faut(to be necessary) pas(not), which is “technically” correct but is NOT the expression at hand, and it was then that an older French woman standing in front of them couldn’t take this, she turned around and started correcting the man in as French an English as you could hear, telling him that it comes from faux (wrong) and pas (step), which was quite humiliating because most of us locals who were there spoke French but couldn’t really say anything, and when this very public correction happened, could hardly hide our smirks, the American woman was laughing hard, still holding his hand however, telling his all red face now how he made her day by ever so confidently stepping right in this one.
-one summer in the Greek island of Sifnos, my friends and were going to the beach where there was sign, written in plain English, telling people NOT to park their cars on the beach’s sandy entrance, I’ll leave you to figure out who parked their car right by the sign, at the beaches entrance, and since I have acquaintances from Wisconsin, I was able to clearly recognize the accent and expressions.
Sometimes I wonder if Jeremy Clarkson isn’t wrong when saying American tourists are a touristic attraction onto their own, but then I remember our own silliness when we are tourists 😂😂.
Had you been French I will have told you about the French brand of touristic silliness as well 😊, some ideas Greeks and Italians have about French tourists tend to butt hurt them, however we did witness some of them being true, sometimes laughably so
I am German, and I will never speak German abroad, ever. English, French or wild gesturing. But never German.
Don t worry. We can all be ashamed of our countrymen abroad sometimes.
Well , maybe not the Skandinavians.
@@reginapopihn9853 When I was in Yougoslavia and Greece , a long time ago , the Germans would say they were dutch and the US people would say they were Canadian .
@@olgabartels2879 Germans had a bad reputation for their behaviour- maybe it is still bad, I haven´t been abroad since 2001.
Buttering both sides of a toast is honestly psychopath behavior
It's impractical. It's similar to asking to lubricate the exterior of a stopper before trying to twist it open...
i understand buttering the bread on both sides if you want to toast them, but after is insane
Wtf you on, you don't butter bread before you toast it.
@@mattsmith5421 . Why not ? It definitely Toasts better .
I took both sides as both slices of bread.
I'm Italian.. tea with milk in Italy is unknown, and we don't usually butter our toasts 😂
Even worse: This was a sandwich, not a toast. And it's downright inconsiderate of us Europeans not to butter the outside of sandwiches. 😂
@@Kari.F.but both facing insides of a sandwich are usually buttered. Toast was not mentioned. Sandwich is not the same as toast.
@@mehitabel6564 I’ve seen plenty of sandwiches that only had the bottom slice buttered, probably even the majority of them. In fact, that’s how I make them myself because I put other moist ingredients like gherkins or tomatoes on top, or a sauce/relish.
@@mehitabel6564 I literally wrote "this was a sandwich, not a toast". Here's the actual point: The tourist was complaining about both sides not being buttered, not both slices.
Una volta credo che ho salvato la vita d'uno ragazzo americano che fa un'casino incredibile, urlando in inglese perche lui aveva bevuto 2 coca-cola ma voleva pagare solo uno (the refund ...). Lui aveva sete e si era perso vicino al cimitero monumentale di Catania... davvero non è la zona giusta per fare scandalo ! Pur essendo francese, ho dovuto fare la traduzione tra l'inglese e l'italiano, poi l'ho riaccompagnato in centro città... senza un grazie !
Happened in a tourist information in Helsinki, Finland: A cruise visitor arrived, a middle aged lady speaking American English. Her question was: "Is Lapland open today?" She was politely informed Lapland isn't a theme park but the northernmost province of Finland. To be fair, you hear similar things from Europeans too.
Lapland--Legoland--Disneyland.
For once, I actually gave up half way through this one. "Nobody can be this dumb," was my feeling. Then I remembered what is happening in DC today, 6th Jan 2025. 😂
It should be a law that people need to pass an IQ test before they are issued a passport.
My (Finnish) SIL was in Venice with friends, they had just ordered mojitos and it was mostly booze, so not the best ever, barely drinkable. American family sat on the next table and they were thinking about having mojitos too, when SIL turned to them and said “Please don’t, they are really strong here”. Their mom got offended and snapped back at her “No need to meddle, they (meaning her kids) are 18!”.
This wasn’t something SIL had even entertained, we don’t nanny other peoples adult kids or even younglings, when their parents are present. Needless to say, her whole group enjoyed immensely, when this family figured out what she had actually meant; faces were made, they left their drinks half full on the table and left.. This became a running joke in our family, whenever someone says something is too strong, no matter what it is, one of us will yell “But Im 18!”..
I was a small kid and kids under 13(I think) got free entry into the speedway here in Australia!
I was 13 according to my dad for about 4 years until I had a 5 o'clock shadow. 🤣
So saved about $30 over 3 years.. Cheap old bastard 🤣🤣🤣
I was once on the Tube in London, and a guy was getting angry with a family who were speaking not-English. This wasn't an American visitor but a racist Englishman, you know the sort, "f***ing foreigners coming over here" etc. The family were speaking Welsh, one of the official languages of the UK.
Place has gone right downhill since the Romans, the Vikings and the Normans came. Foreigners!!!!
@@JohnCooperCre8 Those bloody Beaker people, coming over here, teaching us how to drink liquids out of cups!
Well, technically the Eiffel Tower has been rebuild...in Vegas,China and Japan😂
Don't forget Blackpool England.
@nigelbundy4008 ah yeah, how could I forget this world famous landmark 😆
Even in a small town in Greece 🇬🇷😂
i have heard stories about americans getting angry to discover the midnight sun is the same sun as everyone else has.
and the moon being upside down here in the south.
I may be dull but when I flew over the Son of Krakatoa, I was actually pretty pleased there was no lava. 😅
the difference is that his 19-year-old could have had a beer with his meal in Europe, not in the U.S.
I'm English and was on holiday in Kerry Town (Ireland).
I was stood outside a shop with my dog whilst my wife was inside buying the kind of stuff they do.
Two Americans came up to me and asked, in a broad New Jersey accent what my dog was. I replied, it's as Scottish Deerhound. He couldnt understand me, didnt know what a deer was and that my dog hunts them.
I had to keep explaining and he still couldn't understand English....eventually his wife dragged him away because she thought I was about to punch him 😂
I'm from the Netherlands and used to work in a book/gift store in a city that wasn't popular with tourists at the time. So I wasn't expecting to have an American tourist trying to buy an umbrella with dollars. He made a whole scene about it and that the dollar was accepted everywhere and I should be lucky to have it offered to me. Sorry man I wasn't allowed to accept anything but euros and he insisted on wanting to pay cash. To this day I wonder how he managed to get to my city with only dollars in cash. But at least he made an effort to see more than just Amsterdam.
They often tip in dollars too. Nice gesture , but no use to us.
In the UK "CHILDREN EAT FREE" stops at around 10 years old !
I've heard of an American asking " where's the beach?" .... in LONDON !!
Who in the world coats both sides so the outside of a sandwich is all buttery and makes a mess of your fingers. Kind of contradicts the point of a sandwich keeping the potential for mess on the inside.
Dormant volcano, virgin sacrifices are the key.
Your sanity thanks you for ignoring the "we weren't told to bring swimsuits to a water (park?)" entry below the eiffel tower
To be fair, i think they meant both sides on the inside, a lot of places only do one side to save money over time, stingy yes, but it does happen, and lets face it, butter isn't exactly cheap, and when used in bulk even more so..
And yeah, that swimsuit one had me laughing, like wtf.
@@rjswas I make my own sandwiches and only butter one side, probably just laziness.
My heart goes out to Ian and all other American citizens whose heads are screwed on. The small minority can generate such a negative impact no matter how amusing to the rest of us. Maybe it should be don't issue passports to people until they pass a test (quite a difficult test) and then the opinion may significantly change for the better. Not just Americans to blame as f"""wits appear in every country
Another complained that the pool was filthy because there was a leaf in it, and a third on a beach holiday complained the beach had yellow sand instead of white as advertised in the brochure.
Apparently all of them started their travel(s) from Entitlement Airport........
Years ago I was visiting Bath, England, at the B&B we were served a proper English breakfast- such a great. At the next table, some American women started complaining that the toast was cold and the butter looked weird. I explained to them about the clotted cream and cold toast with strawberry jam, they refused to believe me, (a Canadian), only to have the host explain the same thing. SMH
Iv seen US Murricans freaking out at the size of our 5ft wingspan black back seagulls , "ohhh myyyy gaaaad" 😳
Kangoroos in Sydney would mean they expact grizzles and mooses walking down the Braodway! 🤭🤭🙈😂
Isn't it the same in the US, that 1-room Apt. are smaller than 3-room Apt.s? 🙄
Complaining about an unactive volcano beeing a mountain (by 95%!), wonder what they would complain about if it has been active?! Hot shoes?! 😂
The problem here is truely a cultural, a social one. In a country, where you can become sued for selling hot coffee if the costumer is too dumb to drink and due to this everywhere is written stuff like "don't dry your baby in the microwave" or "the washing mashine is not for the cleaning of your pets", it is no wonder, that those people stoped thinking for themself and want everything exactly explained for every possibility.
Americans visiting New Zealand complained to management of the hotel that the ice was not cold enough.
One time i met a dude from Texas in a bar and he fooled me totally when he went "full murican" and asked where are all the polar bears and igloos ? I was stunned thinking are they really that stupid? and soon he just bursted in laughter as he was just messing with me because he saw someone actually asking that :D
Rare creature you spotted there, did you take any photos and record it for proof of your claim?
Maybe it was him that had asked someone earlier and been corrected. Lmao
7:59 that’s also really stupid of them. Don’t they know what the Eiffel Tower look like ? There’s no shortage of pictures of the tower, you see it everywhere. If you find it ugly don’t go there, lol.
I watched a recent video from Three Star Vagabond, where he pointed out what Swedes would found odd with USA. Of course the Muricans got absolutely crazy, showing their best or worst ultra-nationalism. So absurd people cannot accept there are people having different views.
I went to see bald eagles when i was to the USA. I got very dissapointed because the eagles weren't bald at all!
Did you ask for your money back?
As someone who loves language and history, I have to say "bald" also means "white" - eg piebald, skewbald or baldy-faced horses, magpie, "bald as a badger".
@@Maireadmoss Yes i did, but they were bald.
I had a tour guide in Edinburgh switch from his tourist accent to his real one to prove that we (the bus) wouldn't understand him at all. He was right.
Not a tourist accent. Just a mainstream accent.
Aaaand the ever classic from here in Norway is the question if we have polar bears roaming around Oslo.... 🤣😂
If Yellowstone doesnt erupt when I visit I am gonna be disappointed (but alive) xD
Americans at every european airport queueing up in the "EU citizens" line and not in the "All other passports" line. Then when they are bounced to the right line at the counter they often shout "we are americans, we got rights!". I don't know why but it always amuses me a lot.
Why are there no cows running around everywhere in Huston, Texas? I expected to see cows moving around there and now i am very disapointed.
Also, why aren't all texans wearing cow boys hats walking with their legs sprayed?
Sometimes it is cheaper to travel abroad than within your own country.
example all the Americans who came to see Taylor Swift in France. It was cheaper to fly from the United States, sleep in a hotel and have a concert ticket than the price of a Taylor Swift concert ticket in the United States
In that spirit, I've heard it's cheaper to fly to Europe and change two hip joints instead of getting one changed in the USA.
@yaonyaon9460 The low cost interiors are suitable for advanced use. example Strasbourg Barcelona, 30 euros all-retour for 3 people, 2 months at the advance.
I was in Lyon at the time, we had both Taylor Swift and Coldplay in Décines Stadium. Both times I was coming back from work and had to wait for a second or a third tram because they were full of people with make up speaking English or German and I didn't understand why they were there... I got the info it a few days after for Taylor Swift.
Then we had the Olympics. Really a lot of international events this Summer.
The willful idiocy of some people is truely mind boggling.