explaining europe to americans

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  • @Kizilkumka
    @Kizilkumka Рік тому +10999

    As always happens in such videos, only Europeans will watch it to listen to what she said about their country

    • @voyance4elle
      @voyance4elle Рік тому +201

      yup :D

    • @pommel1196
      @pommel1196 Рік тому +128

      True

    • @mymo82
      @mymo82 Рік тому +98

      and she's quite spot on

    • @Thekidisalright
      @Thekidisalright Рік тому

      Still better than listening to any Murians and their ignorance

    • @ommsterlitz1805
      @ommsterlitz1805 Рік тому +75

      Yes and 0:03 stop right here, the metric system was literally accepted by the rest of Europe only after they did unjustified wars against France for 30 years straight and France kept winning making Europe adopt the metric system and the Napoleonic Code of law. It's France achievement on Europe and the world not Europe achievement.

  • @readytogo52
    @readytogo52 Рік тому +5640

    Nobody likes to be called Eastern Europe except Turkey because that means we're in Europe 😌

    •  Рік тому +184

      as a citizen of turkey, i lol'd that.

    • @masrod94
      @masrod94 Рік тому +121

      I'm half-Turkish and this is the funniest comment I saw this week 😆😆😆

    • @lucasmayskiy4328
      @lucasmayskiy4328 Рік тому +124

      As a European person living in EU since 2003, I say no to Turkey being Europe. :D

    • @Lnly-
      @Lnly- Рік тому +45

      Turkey is asia minor

    • @avitalsheva
      @avitalsheva Рік тому +70

      Turkey is very much European. I was visiting Turkey first time in 2015 and I was astonished how European it was and with quality of services I experienced. Turkey should be in EU much more than Ukraine.

  • @Josephine-Padlock
    @Josephine-Padlock Рік тому +2094

    Just a little correction; currency you’ve shown with tag of Poland is actually Czech. But hey, we’re still bros, so close enough 😊

    • @looty20-q8q
      @looty20-q8q Рік тому +164

      Was just looking for this comment :)) Polski złoty looks different and has different value.

    • @vubevube
      @vubevube Рік тому +93

      as a Pole: damn, i've only been paying with my phone lately, but did our paper money change? ;)

    • @davidpelc
      @davidpelc Рік тому +27

      Yeah, would be acceptable mistake to change czech, danish, swedish, norwegian or islandic crowns...but with zloty?😛

    • @Spacey_key
      @Spacey_key Рік тому

      Not until they leave the illegally occupied chapel

    • @komentakom2967
      @komentakom2967 Рік тому +49

      Poland and czech should use something called ,,zlota koruna" or sth. Czech makes money in czech republic, but spend in Poland. We dont care about germany and their Euro. We need Poland to supply us 😂😂

  • @ananas_6029
    @ananas_6029 11 місяців тому +343

    I felt so called out when she said "I do not even expect people from France to know the capital of Latvia", because I am from France and can confirm I don't know it.
    Searched it, it's Riga

    • @nox8730
      @nox8730 9 місяців тому +17

      Yep same. I knew Lithuania (Vilnius) but always forget Latvia (Riga) and Estonia (Talinn). I mean, it is weird that they are expected to know that the capital of France is Paris but we are not expected to know that the capital of Latvia is Riga... I wish there were more expectations towards us.

    • @ALatvian
      @ALatvian 9 місяців тому +9

      ​@papercuthappinnes4468 In Latvian it is pronounced as Rīga:
      starts with a hard "r",
      "ī - ee" as in "meet",
      "g" as in "gift" and
      "a" as in "appeal".
      Hope I helped! ❤️🇱🇻

    • @randar1969
      @randar1969 8 місяців тому +1

      Bravo you looked at the map before opening your mouth , through written words :P

    • @theodore1238
      @theodore1238 8 місяців тому

      et bah je m'en fous, t'en a déjà vu un un lituanien toi ?

    • @Sir77Hill
      @Sir77Hill 8 місяців тому

      ​@@theodore1238 un Letton*, imbécile!

  • @Nickbaldeagle02
    @Nickbaldeagle02 Рік тому +808

    I got into a Facebook argument with an American about Europe. He thought you could drive one side of Europe to the other in 2 hours.

    • @kataetwas2825
      @kataetwas2825 Рік тому +132

      You should have told him: try it ! That would have been fun to watch ; )

    • @petrilio
      @petrilio Рік тому +37

      He's probably Superman.

    • @faequeenapril6921
      @faequeenapril6921 Рік тому +27

      That would be kind of convenient and kind of dangerous at the same time 😅

    • @Nickbaldeagle02
      @Nickbaldeagle02 Рік тому +46

      @@faequeenapril6921 he said that many Americans drive at least 30 minutes to work and that you could cross 3 European countries in an hour!

    • @cookie856
      @cookie856 Рік тому +52

      ​@@Nickbaldeagle02Even crossing Belgium can take more than one hour, what the fuck is he on? XD

  • @Huaerel
    @Huaerel Рік тому +1004

    I like how Americans saying Europe has bad Mexican food really stuck a nerve for her😂

    • @Captainumerica
      @Captainumerica Рік тому +87

      Well, it's not like Europe can get fresh ingredients to make the best mexican food, just requires some common sense and know geog.... right, Americans 😂

    • @OM-df9lj
      @OM-df9lj Рік тому +18

      To be honest "bad Mexican food" is literally bad...I mean it is really bad, bad, bad...

    • @randomcamus9445
      @randomcamus9445 Рік тому +9

      In the United States, more Americans no longer eat as much taco Bell starts eating real Mexican food

    • @TheYCrafter
      @TheYCrafter 11 місяців тому +5

      @@randomcamus9445 do you have small independent Mexican restaurants everywhere or just the chains?

    • @Burningpaladin
      @Burningpaladin 11 місяців тому +2

      @@TheYCrafter There is this one reeaaallly good one in Old Messia (a place in Las Cruces NM) called Andeles it is a small "franchise" as it has a sister restaurant the next street over. 10/10

  • @TheCherrykye
    @TheCherrykye Рік тому +560

    There should also be one about Africa. The lack of knowledge in western society about African countries is crazy and I myself am included on knowing nothing.

    • @PowerSpirit50
      @PowerSpirit50 Рік тому +32

      Tbf it would be a feat to understand all the complicated borders and tribe affiliations.

    • @Kuolema1337
      @Kuolema1337 11 місяців тому +38

      It's an incredibly diverse continent but the least known worldwide. I am also guilty of not knowing a lot about the continent even after living there for years (Morocco doesn't really like being called African) and being generally very curious about the world. Just like Americans with Europe, as Europeans we often say "I went to a safari in Africa" OK, but... which country? I doesn't matter for most. To be fair, because of colonization, borders in Africa do not necessarily reflect the nations and people that live there, so it gets confusing with multiple cultures and languages that span across multiple countries.

    • @pawelzielinski1398
      @pawelzielinski1398 11 місяців тому +11

      @@PowerSpirit50 And a funny thing is that most of those borders were drawn by European colonizers back in the day.

    • @tuber420
      @tuber420 11 місяців тому +4

      Africa is the most diverse continent and I doubt any European even knows anything about Africa

    • @pawelzielinski1398
      @pawelzielinski1398 11 місяців тому +5

      @@tuber420 Anything?? yes, I know something about Africa. I have never been on that continent and don't pretend to be an expert, but I know quite a bit about geography.

  • @miss2971
    @miss2971 3 місяці тому +26

    Swiss girl here, we don't speak only German here, we speak french and italian too 😊
    That's up to the swiss of course, in my case I'm multilingual and I speak 5 languages

  • @JirkaHeyduk
    @JirkaHeyduk Рік тому +1208

    No matter if you count the UK a "separate thing" it is still western Europe. The fact that UK isn't part of European Union anymore doesn't mean it's not Europe or western Europe.

    • @rorychivers8769
      @rorychivers8769 Рік тому +122

      *furious Anglo rowing noises*

    • @corower
      @corower Рік тому +22

      @@rorychivers8769nah. there is a huge ancor holding that thing ashore. ireland, you know ;)

    • @Zaire82
      @Zaire82 Рік тому +18

      It's geographically debatable since it's not connected to or surrounded by other land. The UK isn't as strongly affected by what goes on in the mainland. Even in the worst parts of the world wars, as the nearby allies capitulated, it stood strong because it's separated by sea.
      Culturally it's also quite different. It's heavily nationalist and still maintains a monarchy despite most of Europe abolishing theirs and pushing democracy.

    • @kath6720
      @kath6720 Рік тому +103

      @@Zaire82So what? It’s its own continent? Its history is tied to the rest of Europe via, invasion, language and wars as well as monarchies coming from mainland Europe. So your statement is not making historical sense.

    • @rorychivers8769
      @rorychivers8769 Рік тому +61

      @@Zaire82 It isn't 'geographically debatable' in any way whatsoever, unless you failed your Geography GCSE

  • @farvktyalcin
    @farvktyalcin Рік тому +576

    You might wonder why Turkey is considered European on some maps but not others. This is because Turkey has some unique quantum properties. When you're looking through a raki glass, you will see it on the map. But when you're looking through a glass ayran bottle, you will not see it--it will reappear if you look at a map of the Middle East.

    • @bgiv2010
      @bgiv2010 Рік тому +6

      Underrated comment

    • @highqualityorangejuice420
      @highqualityorangejuice420 Рік тому +14

      Is this some culture reference that I'm to uncultured to understand?

    • @BringBackCyrillicBG
      @BringBackCyrillicBG Рік тому +1

      Bulgaria literally has better and more popular sour milk that Turkey
      Very famous in Japan and even Greeks based their greek sour milk on the bulgarian one by stealing

    • @CamperAsassino
      @CamperAsassino Рік тому +3

      Bulgaria also has ayran tho

    • @Anonymous-sb9rr
      @Anonymous-sb9rr Рік тому +52

      Turkey, not part of Europe according to Europeans, but part of Europe according to themselves.

  • @piurusmax3610
    @piurusmax3610 Рік тому +607

    I see a small mistake: Královec is annexed to Poland when in reality is a part of Czechia since 2022 referendum

    • @faequeenapril6921
      @faequeenapril6921 Рік тому +100

      Kralovec have been annexed to Poland by Russia on the Sochi Winter Olimpics' 2013, during the opening ceremony, on the screen animation, and then it have been passed over to the Czech Republic, because you guys need a sea access badly, since you greet each other with Ahoy! (PS. You should somehow share it with Slovakia tho) :D

    • @nicholasmeinhart5993
      @nicholasmeinhart5993 Рік тому +16

      pravda

    • @darkjudge8786
      @darkjudge8786 Рік тому +5

      It wasn't a funny meme at the time. Still not funny

    • @trimmy8461
      @trimmy8461 Рік тому +1

      ​@@faequeenapril6921sochi Olympics were in 2014

    • @tom74769
      @tom74769 Рік тому +22

      Ř

  • @_tengyen
    @_tengyen 11 місяців тому +116

    target audience: Americans
    actual audience: Europeans.

    • @Tybold63
      @Tybold63 2 місяці тому +1

      haha you might be right

    • @thepagecollective
      @thepagecollective 2 місяці тому +1

      We will learn about Europe when you learn America is more than NY and LA.

    • @_tengyen
      @_tengyen 2 місяці тому +7

      @@thepagecollective I’m American too. Of course it’s more than LA and NY. There’s Florida too. 🤣

    • @thepagecollective
      @thepagecollective 2 місяці тому

      @@_tengyen I went to high school there. It's the only place in the US where you have to go north to reach the South.

    • @Elazar-
      @Elazar- Місяць тому +1

      Me Asian :)

  • @vlastimil-furst
    @vlastimil-furst Рік тому +174

    Hello Erika, one note on the currencies: What you display as Polish money is actually Czech crowns, in Poland they have zloty :)
    I enjoyed the video a lot, even though I'm not the target demographics. You have a nice way of explaining things and you also sound and look good.

  • @jas1049
    @jas1049 Рік тому +411

    All Scandinavian countries and, in addition, Spain and Portugal would normally also be considered to be Western European countries from a cultural and political perspective.

    • @sombrero4316
      @sombrero4316 Рік тому +23

      so they are LIKE western europe, but not western europe. She could have included that bit in the video but if we remain factual europe, just as any other land mass, is very much divided into western, eastern, southern and northern. Saying western europe is typically the area people want to migrate to does not exclude any other region necessarily, although it has considerable historical and cultural implication that don't fail to trigger at least someone in any one of these countries, we simply have to see past that to see the facts.

    • @czarlito_
      @czarlito_ Рік тому +36

      @@sombrero4316 It doesn't really work like that. You cannot blindfold yourself to how the term "Western Europe" or "Western World" is used and just decide to override it with geographical meaning. It is true that "west" is a word connotated with the geographical direction, but saying "Western Europe" or "western countries" means countries that are developed in a way "western society" is developed. So yes, Scandinavia can be considered Western Europe altough it is situated in the North...

    • @sombrero4316
      @sombrero4316 Рік тому +11

      @@czarlito_ geographic location of the west and the term “western world” should be separated in this case. We are talking about factual location not the connotations of the word.

    • @nicomelgares
      @nicomelgares Рік тому +17

      how is scandinavia and spain/portugal culturally even similar??????????
      and politically?

    • @sutenjarl1162
      @sutenjarl1162 Рік тому +2

      its the North west or North of europe which includes britain...

  • @Maryinka94
    @Maryinka94 11 місяців тому +355

    Great video, just a small correction: United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Europe is approximately 10,180,000 sq km, making Europe 4% larger than United States.

    • @shivdeepsingh6597
      @shivdeepsingh6597 11 місяців тому +97

      Europe minus Russia* in the video

    • @bneshel1514
      @bneshel1514 11 місяців тому +1

      Maybe only landmass

    • @Maryinka94
      @Maryinka94 11 місяців тому

      Oh I see... but it's not said in the video unfortunately.@@shivdeepsingh6597

    • @markusengelhardt1020
      @markusengelhardt1020 11 місяців тому +20

      @@bneshel1514 Not only. More peoples too: USA: 320 Mio. Europa 500 Mio. (without Russia)

    • @hanswurstbrot4354
      @hanswurstbrot4354 11 місяців тому +19

      @@markusengelhardt1020as Europe isn’t a well defined country (as the Us) the numbers vary! You can include Russia and the Caucasus or you don’t, you can include the whole of turkey, only the Balkan part or no turkey at all! You can include only the part of Russia west of the Ural mountain range (the most popular definition for Europe being everything west of it) and so on. This makes, as you pointed out, a difference of +/- 200 million people.

  • @stuartnewman7068
    @stuartnewman7068 11 місяців тому +307

    " Maybe we are not even better than you but we certainly think we are." Thank you for that

    • @Nome_utente_generico
      @Nome_utente_generico 8 місяців тому +18

      She said out loud what we all secretly think 😂

    • @edda15
      @edda15 3 місяці тому +5

      I don't agree completely. America is nice, but I don't like how they treat their citizens

    • @thepagecollective
      @thepagecollective 2 місяці тому

      @@edda15 Did you get your views of the US from European media, or in LA or in New York?

    • @Dryhten1801
      @Dryhten1801 2 місяці тому

      @@thepagecollective Look up troubled teen industry makes you realise how not free the USA rly is

    • @Blackadder75
      @Blackadder75 Місяць тому

      we are better , even our worst demagogues are not as bad as dishonest donnie who they elected twice as president

  • @serebii666
    @serebii666 Рік тому +591

    9:32 You put Czech Crowns (Koruny české) over Poland instead of Polish Zloty lol.

    • @jdam9520
      @jdam9520 Рік тому +49

      I may not have paid in cash for a long time, but they are definitely not Polish banknotes :D

    • @gantz1978
      @gantz1978 Рік тому +8

      @@jdam9520 They are, but not contemporary ones. They were used up until 1997.

    • @xlabc
      @xlabc Рік тому +27

      This is how the wars started

    • @freedomgoddess
      @freedomgoddess Рік тому

      it's złoty you peasant

    • @sharavy6851
      @sharavy6851 Рік тому +31

      ​@@gantz1978I looked it up and yes, we did use to have different banknotes, but those aren't it. As the guy said, they are likely a Czech currency because the Polish currency had really high numbers like 10000 and 20000.

  • @marcelpotorak2681
    @marcelpotorak2681 Рік тому +1273

    Thanks for giving Poland Kaliningrad 😂

  • @Flip-Floptop
    @Flip-Floptop Рік тому +120

    8:50 small correction, Croatia has adopted Euro in 2023. The slide is a little bit outdated.

    • @Nome_utente_generico
      @Nome_utente_generico 8 місяців тому

      well, how is it going, better with kuna or euros?

    • @Flip-Floptop
      @Flip-Floptop 8 місяців тому +4

      @@Nome_utente_generico Eh money is money. People adjusted and while it was nice to have our own currency. It's honestly so convenient to spend my money without having a need to exchange it when I visit another euro country.

    • @PrendeII
      @PrendeII 7 місяців тому

      @@Nome_utente_generico everything is approx. 10 times more expensive since switching to euros.

    • @martimasters7704
      @martimasters7704 Місяць тому

      @@PrendeII Not

  • @jackx4311
    @jackx4311 10 місяців тому +8

    Erika - I really appreciate the combination of facts and your dry humour - both informative *and* entertaining!

  • @FranciscoMendes
    @FranciscoMendes Рік тому +91

    Portuguese here! The "beef" between Portugal anda Spain is History. Nowadays we just deslike to be catalogued like spaniards because we have an ancient culture and identity, about 900 years as state nation and an impressive past, so just call us for what whe are, Portuguese of course!

    • @peterszabo-toth2063
      @peterszabo-toth2063 Рік тому +4

      You pesky "iberian" :)

    • @silveriorebelo2920
      @silveriorebelo2920 Рік тому

      Portuguese are not Iberian at all - just the East of Spain has been colonized by the Iberians, a people of the North of Africa that invaded the area of the actual Catalonia in the sixth century BC

    • @peterszabo-toth2063
      @peterszabo-toth2063 Рік тому +14

      @@silveriorebelo2920 That is false. Iberians are the ones who inhabit the Iberian peninsula, the name of which was derived from the river Hiberus, nowadays called Ebro.

    • @Pepo_Ok
      @Pepo_Ok Рік тому

      @@silveriorebelo2920 the people from northern africa that colonized spain and other parts of europe we're the carthagenians, then the moors

    • @Maria-js9ou
      @Maria-js9ou Рік тому

      @@peterszabo-toth2063 And how did the river Hiberus get its name? Wouldn't it have been from that Iberian people? I'm not saying, just asking!

  • @blakes_flakes
    @blakes_flakes Рік тому +62

    I love that about UA-cam that a random person can make a video essay about anything in their attic or wherever and follow their passion and it gets shown to other random people via a complex algorithm that nobody really seems to fully understand. I really loved that video and the energy that was given of. Very fun to watch. Also I, as a German also want free public bathrooms, not Sanifair.

    • @lillii9119
      @lillii9119 Рік тому +1

      Do the French way: *piss in the street*

    • @tomschreiner3717
      @tomschreiner3717 8 місяців тому

      Schau mal bei Google nach der "Netten Toilette". Dieses Programm gibt's allein hier in meiner Stadt schon seit 2006 und hat sich über die Jahrzehnte in DE verbreitet. Lustigerweise kennen es aber die wenigsten :D

    • @martimasters7704
      @martimasters7704 Місяць тому

      As a woman, I want cities to plant more big bushes. It's patently unfair that a guy can piss behind a tree and a woman can't.

  • @artukai3831
    @artukai3831 Рік тому +151

    Here Spanish guy, we love our Portuguese neightbours! often we called them brothers/cousins along with italians. of course there's always dumb ppl but in general no beef down there) Paldies Erika un priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!

    • @Ferreira0504
      @Ferreira0504 Рік тому +33

      O mesmo em Portugal 🥰🇵🇹❤️🇪🇸

    • @marzeqpog
      @marzeqpog Рік тому +20

      even brothers have friendly beef sometimes!

    • @rendycoya
      @rendycoya Рік тому +3

      we slavs have it the same! we might hate each other by culture,but we do get along suprisingly well

    • @maxrolland3148
      @maxrolland3148 Рік тому +7

      French and Romanians systematically getting ignored of the latin brotherhood 😢

    • @cWjkL8ysxOkrH66
      @cWjkL8ysxOkrH66 Рік тому +9

      @@maxrolland3148 unfortunately Romania is too far away and the french are a pain in the ass

  • @itsmelyssareal
    @itsmelyssareal 11 місяців тому +26

    I'm from asia and this video is very helpful, i love the way you present it 👍👍

  • @hoi3299
    @hoi3299 Рік тому +87

    Malaysian here. You inspired me!!! I hope I can make a sophisticated video about Southeast Asia and maybe Asia in the future like yours !! :D

    • @rubbydraco1334
      @rubbydraco1334 11 місяців тому +3

      Im would want to see it😊

    • @nby149
      @nby149 10 місяців тому +2

      Do it! Good luck

    • @tomschreiner3717
      @tomschreiner3717 8 місяців тому +1

      Would be fun. Southeast Asia might be 60 % Thailand, 30 % Vietnam and 10 % Philippines for most of Europeans, I suppose. :D And all of these countries speak Chinese or eat sushi while riding their tuktuks or house boats :D

    • @MAO-sz3wr
      @MAO-sz3wr 7 місяців тому +1

      French, here. I wich I could move to malaysia. :/

    • @nby149
      @nby149 7 місяців тому

      @@MAO-sz3wr je vous le souhaites en tout cas. Pourquoi pas un jour!??

  • @nidhishshivashankar4885
    @nidhishshivashankar4885 Рік тому +121

    It would be really helpful to show a topographic map of Europe - the mountain ranges and seas imply a lot of the national boundaries

    • @marcusaurelius4941
      @marcusaurelius4941 Рік тому +20

      And rivers! Everyone forgets rivers nowadays, but they were essential to every part of life for almost all of history

    • @WalintHUN
      @WalintHUN Рік тому

      yeah and from that ppl would understand why and what USA does with EU , Russia and with Germany... basically USA owns Germany (still the biggest NATO base is there) and EU, so Russian resources and Germanian engineering should never meet otherwise USA would be 2nd power, but like this we will disappear and the whole world will be China they just have to wait, not much...

  • @JJimsky
    @JJimsky Рік тому +313

    As a Dutchie: Love to all my brothers and sisters from Europe!

    • @MusicJunky3
      @MusicJunky3 Рік тому +9

      Go Dutchies !

    • @traxon_lp
      @traxon_lp Рік тому +11

      🇩🇪🤝

    • @mathijsfrank9268
      @mathijsfrank9268 Рік тому +25

      As a dutchie I dislike all countries equally, including our own.

    • @mathijsfrank9268
      @mathijsfrank9268 Рік тому +9

      But Max Verstappen is the best thing that's ever happened in the history of the universe!

    • @tomm4073
      @tomm4073 Рік тому +2

      @@mathijsfrank9268 Who?

  • @joeragliardo
    @joeragliardo 3 місяці тому +6

    4:54 Italian economy is the third largest in UE but for some reason the girl said is not doing great 🤷🏻 We also sit in the G7😄 In Italy it is certainly very hot during summer but it is also cold in the winter especially in the north since the majority of Alps are in our territory and the inside of the peninsula is pretty mountainous. Also we produce and drink a lot of beer, not like Northern European countries, but certainly not on the percentage shown in her chart. Where the hack she brought that data?!?

    • @semprefidelis76
      @semprefidelis76 3 місяці тому +1

      True. Milano makes the most expensive products. Napoli makes the fakes of most expensive products! 😂

  • @the_arcanum
    @the_arcanum 11 місяців тому +143

    Word of warning, Erika. Your introduction to Southern Europe saying these countries that are not doing well economically (compared to the rest of Western Europe) made me scoff a lot. Spain and Italy may not be economical powerhouses like Germany but Spain has a decent textile industry, lots of agricultural exports as well as Italy and that latter has managed to safeguard more factories than its french neighbour (just saying this as a french btw). And both Spain and Italy are major touristic destinations with the hospitality industry to support it.

    • @marcromain64
      @marcromain64 11 місяців тому +37

      Italy is also the tenth largest economy in the world and the fourth largest in Europe - and I say that as a resident of a country where traditionally no joke about Italy is missed. Spain, on the other hand, is ranked 15th among all economies in the world and fifth in Europe.
      So "not doing well" is pretty vague.

    • @csakegylestrapaltlelek5122
      @csakegylestrapaltlelek5122 11 місяців тому +4

      Well I guess there is a reason why Catalan wants to become independent... and Italy is kinda the same. There are some places in Italy which are doing fine, but there is a big chunk of area which is not. Italy's economy is closer to Hungary's than German's. Iatly is luckier since it has high montains and a lot of beaches...

    • @joomz794
      @joomz794 11 місяців тому +1

      Economy may be good but as soon as winter comes people start starving

    • @marcromain64
      @marcromain64 11 місяців тому +10

      @@joomz794 Where, exactly?

    • @TheRezro
      @TheRezro 11 місяців тому +14

      I mean, being poor part of Europe is still super rich for rest of the world... (except Russia)

  • @antonioldesma
    @antonioldesma Рік тому +168

    It is so fun watching her perspective on Europe with her northern Europe bias 😂😂

    • @DaiDo-ys3uw
      @DaiDo-ys3uw 11 місяців тому +10

      I quite learned something from her perspective and really liked it! :D

    • @avatara82
      @avatara82 11 місяців тому +18

      Yeah and that even she calls nordic and Scandinavia as synomys when they are totally different thing

    • @LarixusSnydes
      @LarixusSnydes 10 місяців тому +24

      ​@@avatara82Not really, she did point out that that Finland belongs to "The North", but not to Scandinavia.

    • @caroldeverasmarin3305
      @caroldeverasmarin3305 8 місяців тому +2

      Soooooooo bias!

    • @caroldeverasmarin3305
      @caroldeverasmarin3305 8 місяців тому +4

      I think someone has a superiority complex.

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o Рік тому +515

    I find it interesting how "western Europe" doesn't include Portugal and Spain which are more western than any other Western European country 🤣

    • @pavelsanda3149
      @pavelsanda3149 Рік тому +113

      Because it is a political division, not geographic one.
      Western Europe is basically just Britain, France and the Netherlands, including Belgium. Even Germany is not fully accepted as Western European.

    • @lacdirk
      @lacdirk Рік тому +15

      @@pavelsanda3149 Germany used to call itself central European, and tried a tad too hard to make that more obvious. Since then, it's dicey for Germans to call themselves central European.

    • @lacdirk
      @lacdirk Рік тому +13

      They're also more southern than the rest, though.
      But the real reason is obvious when you look at the mountain ranges and climates. Those drove historic realities that persist today.

    • @和平和平-c4i
      @和平和平-c4i Рік тому +36

      Western Europe actually include Portugal and Spain of course

    • @Megacheez
      @Megacheez Рік тому +6

      @@pavelsanda3149 as said its political and based on the old iron curtain devide.spain and portugal had western germany and france as buffer between them and any soviet invasion hence they did not really matter as much in the context of defending against teh red threat from the east.

  • @ondrejlukas4727
    @ondrejlukas4727 9 місяців тому +4

    hello erika: good you mentioned the 'smile' thing. actualy. the 'not real' smile can be a bit offensive. at least weird.

  • @Mrkva22296
    @Mrkva22296 Рік тому +405

    The thing about Central Europeans not enjoying being called Eastern European is not just because they don't want to be associated with countries like Russia, Belarus and Ukraine like you've briefly mentioned. It is in fact, for multitude of reasons. If anybody is interested, here's my take (being from one of those countries):
    Reasons for them to be called Eastern European:
    1. they were on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain back when Europe was divided into 2 parts only. And that only lasted for a certain period of time.
    Reasons against them being called Eastern European:
    1. they are part of the Western culture (unlike countries east of them)
    2. they have democratic political systems (unlike countries east of them)
    3. they are part of the European Union and NATO (unlike countries east of them)
    4. their lands were called Central European before the Iron Curtain was established - like The Austro-Hungarian Empire was always thought to be in Central Europe. These countries are just descendants of that Empire + Poland. (unlike the land areas east of them)
    5. geographically, they are in the center of Europe. (countries east of them are on the eastern edge of Europe)
    6. culturally, they are not western european, nor eastern european. (they are their own cultural group that shares similarities in cultural traits with both the westerners and easterners)
    7. in terms of religion, they are mostly Roman Catholic and Protestants just like western Europeans, but on the other hand, they tend to be less secular and more conservative just like the eastern Europeans. (maybe because they are their own group of countries?)
    8. freedom of speech, more liberal and relaxed and progressive than the easterners but at the same time a bit more slow and careful & conservative than the westerners
    9. more relaxed, laid back and less punctual and more hospitable than the north europeans but at the same time more reserved & careful around complete strangers and calmer than the south Europeans.
    10. they are just in the center, Karen. Just look at the map darling.
    Also, the Balkan people are just Southern Europeans. But just because these lands were for a certain period of time on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain, people have problems calling them Southern Europeans, the Greeks, the Italians, the Spaniards, the Turks, they'd have a problem if these countries would be grouped with them just because of the Eastern side of teh Iron Curtain rep. But the history is much richer than that. They were part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine, the Ottoman etc. It's not just the period of communism that defines their entirety. it's a set of different historical imputs that shape their culture and identity. You can't isolate one specific event or period and fix that upon them as the only trait.
    This is still a pretty good video for non-Europeans

    • @fm0363
      @fm0363 Рік тому +26

      So according to the self-proclaimed Central Europeans (Poles, Chezks, the rest) the Eastern Europe consists only of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (plus Moldova I guess)?

    • @VeXuS_TV
      @VeXuS_TV Рік тому +73

      ​@@fm0363 Yes, because the territory of Russia (European part of it) is almost 40% of the area of ​​​​all Europe. If you add Ukraine and Belarus, it will be logical that this is Eastern Europe.

    • @therewasoldcringe
      @therewasoldcringe Рік тому +8

      @@fm0363 just zombielands and bulbastan. ukraine is southern or central europe

    • @vh5663
      @vh5663 Рік тому +68

      ​@@fm0363​Why self proclaimed? The term is centuries old and Mrkva explained its characteristics quite nicely. Also, the term central Europe is used by organisations such as CIA. To further illustrate the difference between central and eastern Europe: based on the average salaries, Czechia is to Ukraine what Norway is to Czechia.
      There is nothing self proclaimed here. This is purely about some people not knowing that history didnt start in 1945.

    • @vh5663
      @vh5663 Рік тому +37

      @@therewasoldcringe There is nothing central or southern about Ukraine. In fact, its probably THE eastern European country, as the Kievan Rus obviously originated in Kyiv, and with Kievan Rus being the starting point of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, with the whole region being deeply orthodox an culturally completely different to what you would in for example in Bohemia or Italy, there is really not any reason to believe its central or southern.

  • @Harsh-mg2em
    @Harsh-mg2em Рік тому +213

    The reason people here don't like the name "Eastern Europe" is because we understand based on the questions we get from Western Europeans, that they basically see us as all the same and basically Russia, while Poland or Czechia in many cases have more similarities with Germany or Austria, nevermind the geography of Czechia which people call Eastern, while calling Austria Western.
    BTW 9:45 that's not Polish money, just a small nitpick

    • @alihorda
      @alihorda Рік тому

      Well Western Eastern division is more about development because geographically Eastern part was occupied by soviets and well it wasn't great (but not that terrible). Nowadays many so called Eastern block countries caught up with the west while some like Hungary remained a shithole country and remained "east"

    • @renote5559
      @renote5559 Рік тому +5

      Yep! That Czech money 😅

    • @JPaulFox
      @JPaulFox Рік тому

      Nothing wrong with East. Are you racist?

    • @sharavy6851
      @sharavy6851 Рік тому +24

      ​@@JPaulFoxYou completely misinterpreted what they said. It's not about what WE think Eastern Europe is. It's about how the west perceives it as inferior and uses that to shame us. And of course I'm ot talking about everyone, but I've been in enough situations lile this to know that they do indeed happen.

    • @sharavy6851
      @sharavy6851 Рік тому +12

      ​@@Luca-sz5uyYeah, except Belarus is entirely within the borders of Europe and shares a lot of culture with Poland and Ukraine. I'd still concider them European man.

  • @只是約翰紐約市
    @只是約翰紐約市 Рік тому +305

    There are a lot of mistakes in the video but it is a pretty good tutorial video for Americans

    • @ron4212
      @ron4212 Рік тому +36

      This is like an inexperienced europeans intro to europe

    • @stever285
      @stever285 Рік тому +29

      Which American's? Canadian's? Mexican's? Argentinian's?

    • @只是約翰紐約市
      @只是約翰紐約市 Рік тому +8

      @@stever285 americans meaning the US citizens

    • @stever285
      @stever285 Рік тому +40

      @@只是約翰紐約市 Yeah I got that, I was being obnoxious, I read somewhere that Europe isn't a country...neither is America.

    • @malwina7540
      @malwina7540 Рік тому +6

      @@stever285 But there is a North America and a South America so yes u can told like that bc they live in their own "small" world, without knowledge abt this Earth. So in this situation i can also said that u cant told that Poland is in the Eastern Europe bc its obvious that we are in central europe like germany, czech rep., hungary, slovakia, austria slovenia and switzerland. There are really a lots of mistakes in this video and later everyone talking stupid things abt Europe or smth XD

  • @salozinp
    @salozinp 10 місяців тому +12

    02:25,I am Spanish. We do not stop at midday to take a nap, but to eat, since in Spain we eat at 2 p.m. and have dinner at 9 p.m. On the economic front, Spain is the 4th economic power in Europe, it seems to me that Your European analysis is a bit schematic and stereotyped. Thank you.

    • @agatemosu
      @agatemosu 6 місяців тому +2

      se cree que la península ibérica es un país así que no lo ha contado

    • @mr.iiconic
      @mr.iiconic 6 місяців тому

      Spain is not the only country in southern Europe. She was likely refering to the Balkans. Not everything is about you.

    • @mr.iiconic
      @mr.iiconic 6 місяців тому +1

      Spain is fifth. 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹🇩🇪 Are higher also.

    • @salozinp
      @salozinp 6 місяців тому +2

      @@mr.iiconic 1 Alemania 2 Francia 3 Italia 4 España

    • @mr.iiconic
      @mr.iiconic 6 місяців тому

      @@salozinp the United Kingdom is still apart of Europe even if it isn't in the European Union. It's economy is ranked under Germany and above Francia.

  • @onnevankenobe
    @onnevankenobe Рік тому +20

    I find your almost total neglection of southern European countries interesting, Italy and Greece account for much of the foundations of the concept of Europe and Spain and to a lower extent Portugal for the creation of most countries in America, but yeah, southern Europe is that place where it’s hot and they’re not that rich. You have more in common with Americans than you think, at least regarding a great deal of Europe lack of knowledge and misconceptions

    • @jeremytrepanier2202
      @jeremytrepanier2202 9 місяців тому +1

      What is annoying in Europe is that they are not motivated and always complaining. But poland and the rest of eastern europe have more vitality and feel more compatible with USA 🇺🇸

    • @Doma-o2x
      @Doma-o2x 4 місяці тому

      Germany and France are million times more devloped than southern Europe

    • @onnevankenobe
      @onnevankenobe 4 місяці тому

      @@Doma-o2x well dude, I don’t know if you’re a troll or just stupid, but here you have Europe’s economies rank:
      Europe's largest national economies by nominal GDP over US$1.0 trillion are:
      Germany ($4.43 trillion),
      United Kingdom ($3.33 trillion),
      France ($3.05 trillion),
      Italy ($2.19 trillion),
      Spain ($1.58 trillion)
      Netherlands ($1.09 trillion)
      so, two southern economies there ranking 4th and 5th, smartass. Is that millions of times?

    • @luiscadelooporto7205
      @luiscadelooporto7205 2 місяці тому +2

      @@Doma-o2x Hope you are not from there cause you are not talking very well about their cultural level 😉

  • @kiwimiwi5452
    @kiwimiwi5452 11 місяців тому +100

    Even just in Germany every state has its differences. My family originates from two different states and we moved down. Basically my life has the worst combination of the most joked about dialects there is. My moms side is from Berlin and REALLY sounds like it, my dads side is from saxony and we moved down to bavaria. I consider myself resistent to any dialect barriers lmao
    I grew up with SO many different words to refer to Semmeln.

    • @sherlockshlome473
      @sherlockshlome473 11 місяців тому +13

      And you choose to call them Semmeln, props to you!

    • @skinnypete1395
      @skinnypete1395 11 місяців тому +3

      a guade Semme hoid

    • @Kyonari
      @Kyonari 11 місяців тому +10

      Brötchen > Semmeln but that's just my opinion

    • @kiwimiwi5452
      @kiwimiwi5452 11 місяців тому +3

      @@Kyonari I use both, but I differenciate them between two types. For me Brötchen are the ones that are a bit elongated with one lengthwise cut on it to rise into and Semmeln are round with the cross cut

    • @-Lazy
      @-Lazy 11 місяців тому +3

      ​@@KyonariBerliner > Krapfer > Pfannekuchen

  • @agentf672
    @agentf672 Рік тому +486

    I don't think most Eastern Europeans would like to be called Slavic. Especially not Hungary, Romania, Albania and the Baltics.

    • @helloerika
      @helloerika  Рік тому +212

      In the video I refferd to ukraine and belarus as slavic. Not all east of europe is slavic, indeed

    • @АртурБриджес
      @АртурБриджес Рік тому +14

      Not most but significant part of them

    • @JosephSimony
      @JosephSimony Рік тому +6

      @@helloerika amazing decoration around your TV. Your vid is also promising (definitely better than some similar ones), albeit somewhat random. Good luck with your channel!

    • @Otawee
      @Otawee Рік тому +28

      Don't call Georgia Slavic. I'm gonna cry 🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪

    • @fintonmainz7845
      @fintonmainz7845 Рік тому +2

      Most would

  • @j.w.grayson6937
    @j.w.grayson6937 8 місяців тому +4

    I was wondering where you are from when I was watching the Utrecht video. Initially I assumed you were Dutch, but then you said that you had only lived there for 5 years. So, in this video you said that your are from Latvia when talking about the Euro. We have visited a lot of Europe and the closest to Latvia we have been is Estonia and Russia. You are doing a great job with your videos!

  • @Ferruccio001
    @Ferruccio001 Рік тому +95

    This is hilarious, yet so accurate. Europe is chaos, a chaos we love. We're all different, yet so similar. Thanks for the video. Great job.

    • @makavelismith
      @makavelismith 25 днів тому

      It's not accurate in the slightest.

  • @Anna-jw4vq
    @Anna-jw4vq Рік тому +91

    "We dont have good mexican food, because mexico is in america." i love that hahaha

    • @thomasduerk583
      @thomasduerk583 Рік тому +16

      Yes, she is right: The continent is called North AMERICA

    • @kevinl8440
      @kevinl8440 4 місяці тому +1

      ​@@thomasduerk583She said "America" she didn't say "North America". They are two different think

    • @miss2971
      @miss2971 3 місяці тому

      ​​@@thomasduerk583TRIGGERED 😂

    • @miss2971
      @miss2971 3 місяці тому

      I'm happy that you feel happy when americans tell that about the continent.
      I respect both versions of the continent (s) tbh, they don't need to get triggered by this.

    • @makavelismith
      @makavelismith 25 днів тому

      Mexico is in America. Jesus christ... are you f-ing serious?

  • @WolfHeathen
    @WolfHeathen Рік тому +23

    "Scandinavia" is a relic left over from the Kalmar Union between Sweden, Denmark and Norway. It has four criteria:
    1) Mainland nation (which disqualifies countries like Iceland and the Faroe Islands).
    2) History and traditions.
    3) Mythology (which disqualifies Finland).
    4) Language (which disqualifies Finland).
    Denmark, Sweden and Norway are the only nations in Scandinavia. Finland is considered an honorary member of Scandinavia in terms of military and economic partnership but isn't actually an official "member".
    Also, Europe and the EU are not synonymous. Europe is a continent and the EU is a membership club. Europe has 44 nations but the EU only has 27 members.

    • @rateit1474
      @rateit1474 11 місяців тому +1

      The name "Scandinavia" was first used by Romans who came with boats. "Scandinavia" means "Dangerous island" for the Romans. This was back in the Viking days. The Kalmar union includes all the Nordic countries while Scandinavia includes Sweden, Denmark, Norway and sometimes Fennoscandia (Finland). Iceland and the Faroe islands is not included at all in Scandinavia.

    • @kissingen007
      @kissingen007 10 місяців тому

      How about Greenland then? Is it Scandinavian through its Danish-influenced history?

    • @rateit1474
      @rateit1474 10 місяців тому

      I would say no. Scandinavia is a place. Neither is Jan Mayen or Svalbard part of Scandinavia because the Norwegian influence. But the people who live there may be Scandinavians if they come from the Scandinavian peninsula. But it will not change the place. The annoying thing is this, Denmark isn't on the Scandinavian peninsula at all, so why are they Scandinavians at all? They used to have some land areas in southern Sweden so that could be the reason why they are counted as Scandinavians.@@kissingen007

  • @_x_TOKI_x_
    @_x_TOKI_x_ 9 місяців тому +4

    I think that for most slovan countries is most disrespectful when they call us all that we are Russian, our culture is very different and if you say that we are practically Russian, yeh you won’t be on our good side

    • @Kniazhnami
      @Kniazhnami 3 місяці тому

      Based. Respect from Belarus

  • @LaughingOrange
    @LaughingOrange Рік тому +200

    Finland is honorary Scandinavian. Sure, their language is completely different, but they have the same struggles and ideologies as us.

    • @lacdirk
      @lacdirk Рік тому +26

      It's my belief that "Nordic" just refers to the places where the winter is so dark and long that it become a psychological hazard.
      It partially explains why the community spirit tends to be stronger (and why they may seem colder to outsiders at the start). If you live as an adult in a nordic country, and you stay of your own free will there for more than a few years (without moving south for winter), you're as nuts as everyone else there, so you're in.

    • @withoutshadowww
      @withoutshadowww Рік тому +6

      Different language? Finns have a different language but also a different origin and ethnicity. Their physique is also different from Scandinavians -- some of them have very visible Asiatic facial features. They have been also influenced a bit by Russia, in contrast to Scandinavian countries, and in some aspects they are more similar to Russians (look at the alcohol consumption in Finland and compare it to Scandinavia). They are more introverted and conservative than Scandinavians. Culturally and politically, today, they are indeed the most similar to Scandinavians.

    • @Graaskaegg
      @Graaskaegg Рік тому +25

      Finland was also a part of the Swedish kingdom for 650 years so a lot of shared history. There still are a Swedish speaking minority in Finland and a Finnish speaking minority in Sweden.

    • @withoutshadowww
      @withoutshadowww Рік тому

      @@Graaskaegg Yes, I know that, and what about that? Kosovo was also a part of the Serbian Kingdom and of post-Ottoman Serbia, there are many native Hungarians in Serbia and even Slovaks and Romanians... So?

    • @Da...
      @Da... Рік тому +3

      ​@@lacdirk Why isn't Russia on the list then?

  • @senshi1571
    @senshi1571 Рік тому +90

    I am French. Regarding tips, we don't usually leave money after paying; the tip is included in the price of the dish. Some restaurants may add a service charge, such as 10% or similar, to the bill.

    • @Omicon
      @Omicon Рік тому +5

      I like the concept.... makes it easy and removes the akwardness for some people "of did I give enough or to little?" That is if the waiter/waitres gets somewhat payed fairly.

    • @carlbeaver7112
      @carlbeaver7112 Рік тому

      @@danimayb In the U.S. we tip. And it's extremely rare that we receive poor service, unlike what many of you attest to in your own countries. In the U.K. you don't tip normally and, after looking over your menus, it's easy to understand.

    • @TorbenS
      @TorbenS Рік тому +3

      Same in Denmark, we usually don't tip, service charge is already part of the dish price. You can tip but it isn't expected 🙂

    • @Gachiya
      @Gachiya Рік тому +7

      @senshi1571 alors enfaîtes en France en nous avons toujours la culture du pourboire, mais juste à des occasions avec pas mal de conditions.
      Par exemple restaurant gastronomique il y a des pourboire donné au serveur. De même dans des petits restaurants ou salon de thé, si se sont des jeunes, les personnes donnent des pourboires.
      C’est juste pas obligatoire.

    • @Санитар-р1ю
      @Санитар-р1ю 11 місяців тому +3

      I'm Ukrainian. What's a tip? I've never heard of it. In all seriousness, almost no one here pays a tip when they leave a restaurant, and here it is the norma.

  • @vh5663
    @vh5663 Рік тому +118

    Its always funny to see Austria labeled as western and Czechia as eastern Europe, when the name "Austria" literally means "eastern realm", with Prague being some 300km further west than Vienna, both nations being genetically related to each other more than to anyone else and both countries being basically right in the middle.

    • @JessieWinitaCook
      @JessieWinitaCook Рік тому +3

      This

    • @lulin3331
      @lulin3331 Рік тому +4

      Thats true, i dont want to be western european, dont want to be classified the same as germany in any shape or form really

    • @SamuelSouza-di6nq
      @SamuelSouza-di6nq Рік тому +2

      ​@@lulin3331
      and why?

    • @lulin3331
      @lulin3331 Рік тому +3

      @@SamuelSouza-di6nq stupid question

    • @Blackadder015
      @Blackadder015 Рік тому +2

      Österreich

  • @rotkiw8031
    @rotkiw8031 10 місяців тому +14

    Girl really said Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbeijan would like to be called Slavic Europe 💀💀💀

    • @Sandro-rp9un
      @Sandro-rp9un 4 місяці тому +4

      Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan prefer to be called as Caucasian countries

    • @rotkiw8031
      @rotkiw8031 4 місяці тому +3

      @@Sandro-rp9un That is exactly, what I am refering to.

    • @temochitadze229
      @temochitadze229 4 місяці тому +1

      Moldova is ok but we are caucasians

    • @daiana8827
      @daiana8827 2 місяці тому

      Most of East Europe is slavic so its not about the minority and Armenia Georgia and Azerbaijan are Asian

    • @temochitadze229
      @temochitadze229 2 місяці тому

      @@daiana8827 i know that we are asian but these are still caucasian countries

  • @musicalarts6411
    @musicalarts6411 Рік тому +171

    As a swede I did not expect to be called out so many times in this video. Also, I don't know either what's happening over here. Please help.

    • @theChaosKe
      @theChaosKe Рік тому +13

      Our hearts are with you good friend.

    • @PropperNaughtyGeezer
      @PropperNaughtyGeezer Рік тому +16

      I think the same was happening like here in Germany. In Poland and Hungary nothing happens.

    • @ray-sattler
      @ray-sattler Рік тому +19

      To many foreigners i would guess as a German...

    • @grafzauberer6867
      @grafzauberer6867 Рік тому +34

      ​@@Verbalaesthet that is a flawed assumption. Afaik Sweden faces the crime problem because of a lack of integration opportunities. That could be seen as discrimination. So, at least if you see it that way, discrimination is the reason for the problem, not the lack of it

    • @Wulfzz
      @Wulfzz Рік тому

      ​In Poland and Hungary, autocratic governing is happening​@@PropperNaughtyGeezer

  • @Arxareon
    @Arxareon Рік тому +35

    3:05 A small correction here, Hungary is not considered to be part of the Balkans but instead Central Europe. But, it's shown correctly on the graphic seen at 3:45 - with Germany & Austria also being part of the Central group - even with their association with Western Europe.

    • @duncan.o-vic
      @duncan.o-vic Рік тому +1

      It's not Southern Europe either, but there is plenty of other inacuracies here, take it as an oversimplification meant to illustrate to Americans that things are complicated...

    • @mymo82
      @mymo82 Рік тому +3

      in my country, we like to call that part of Europe, Mitteleuropa

    • @magnuspettersson8482
      @magnuspettersson8482 2 місяці тому

      The Balkan peninsula is tha peninsula south of the rivers Danuba-Sava-Kupa.
      Countries that are 100% on the Balkan peninsula.
      Greece (the Greek mainland, most of Greece are islands and the don't count for some reason)
      Albania
      Macedonia
      Montenegro
      Bosnia - Hercegovina
      Bulgaria
      Countries that has 50-100% on the Balkan peninsula
      Croatia
      Serbia
      Countries that has a small portion (1-10%) on the Balkan Peninsula
      Romania (Dobrogea region which is south of Danube, bordering Bulgaria)
      Turkey (Edirne region, west of the Bosphorus)
      Countries speaking a south slavic language and once a part of Jugoslavia but NOT on the Balkan by definition:
      Slovenia
      Conutries in "Eastern Europe" NOT speaking slavic languages:
      Romania and Moldova - speaking Romanian (some 90%) which is a romance language kin to Italian.
      Hungary - speaking mostly Hungarian which is an Uralic languages, very far related to Finnish and Estonian. Hungarian is spoken as a minority language in Romania, Slovakia, Croatia and Serbia for historical reasons.
      Albania - Albanian is a branch of its' own on the Indo-European language tree (tosk-geg branch).
      So is Greek, a branch of its' own.
      Latvian and Lithuanian are the only two living Baltic languages

    • @muitnecsa3489
      @muitnecsa3489 Місяць тому

      @@magnuspettersson8482 30% of Slovenia is geographically in the Balkan peninsula.

  • @helenajeret
    @helenajeret Рік тому +23

    As an Estonian, I felt nostalgic seeing Latvian lats :D I remember going on bus trips to Riga and exchanging Estonian kroons (crowns) to lats and thinking what's up with the fish :D

  • @nox8730
    @nox8730 9 місяців тому +8

    That's a pretty good video overall. I am merely a bit surprised at how you described southern Europe as having a somewhat weak economy. Italy is the 3rd economy in the EU. And Spain and Portugal are certainly better than Bulgaria or Romania. Even though the latter two are rising to prominence nowadays. Hi from France. Capital of Latvia is Riga. Yes, it is :)

  • @BoGy1980
    @BoGy1980 Рік тому +22

    "And Russia with..... everybody in the world" that's the funniest truth i've ever heard in a geography video ... That joke was so spot on...

    • @homo_esperans
      @homo_esperans Рік тому +3

      As a Russian
      I haven't even smiled

    • @allhemike8978
      @allhemike8978 Рік тому +4

      I've even cried

    • @aglxru
      @aglxru Рік тому +4

      Yeah but that's not true at all. Russia is bad with Europe, USA and their allies which are not the whole world, not even half of it.

    • @sguerilla6142
      @sguerilla6142 7 місяців тому

      @@aglxru Why is Russia "bad" with Europe?

    • @flo2677
      @flo2677 Місяць тому

      @@sguerilla6142 Because Europe doesnt consider Russia European, as their mentaltiy is mongolian and has nothing to do with european mindset. You love waging war and sending your people to the mindgrinder. You have no respect for human life. Videos popping up everyday seeing Russia wage war like in the 18th century.

  • @ptitkonrad
    @ptitkonrad 11 місяців тому +14

    I love how raw it is ! Continue creating amazing content !

  • @fandzejka9540
    @fandzejka9540 Рік тому +26

    The school I was learning in was in Peoples Republic of Poland and I was told there about 40 years ago Poland lies in central Europe. There is also a German word Mitteleuropa which means central Europe. It is a geographic, political and historical term, so... It just suprises me a bit that nowadays people in internet try to change my mind on where I live, suggesting me I make some funny and silly claims on that matter 😅

    • @barvdw
      @barvdw Рік тому

      Seeing Poland and co as Eastern Europe is quite West-Centric, I agree, but it was (is?) quite common, especially if you consider Russia its own thing.

    • @makavelismith
      @makavelismith 25 днів тому

      Poland is Eastern Europe. That isnt to suggest that it isn't hasn't been developing extremely well over the years. What you were hearing before, was likely to dustance itself from stigma.
      Let's remove the stigma and continue to develop together.

    • @fandzejka9540
      @fandzejka9540 25 днів тому

      @@makavelismith Call it as you will but you wont convince me that your truth is more true than my truth.
      By "develop together" you probably mean us picking asparagus in your fields. Well, thats the stigma I want to move away from for sure

    • @makavelismith
      @makavelismith 25 днів тому

      @@fandzejka9540 That's quite the attitude problem you've got there.

  • @Nome_utente_generico
    @Nome_utente_generico 8 місяців тому +8

    Italy: 3rd largest economy in the EU (8th in the world). the 2nd largest Eu manufacturing industry after Germany. It's one of the most visited county by tourists and its safe: only Norway and Switzerland have fewer homicides than Italy.
    Wouldn't it be time to stop the old biases? Thanks

    • @tsukeru4761
      @tsukeru4761 3 місяці тому +1

      Davvero, non sapere che l'Italia è una della potenze economiche più grandi del mondo e voler fare il video in cui "spiegi l'Europa" è veramente da presuntuosi e ignoranti...

    • @makavelismith
      @makavelismith 25 днів тому

      @@tsukeru4761 Ireland doesnt exist also, and is just a part of the british islands... and it's also apparently not really western europe.

    • @Alejojojo6
      @Alejojojo6 24 дні тому +1

      And Spain is 4th largest economy in the world (14th in the world). So its also ridiculous to stereotype countries like that... Its not 2008.

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o Рік тому +14

    Cool video.
    From a Portuguese living in Estonia, I feel like it's a decent summary.
    Some minor mistakes, but that doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.

  • @davidostrowski679
    @davidostrowski679 Рік тому +47

    Having visited 23 states in Mexico, I have to say there is no Mexican Food in Europe. It's Tex-Mex. There are very specific ingredients which are native to Mexico and certain cooking techniques which a non-Mexican who didn't grow up with it would not be able to replicate. The only place I've ever found is in Belgrade, I think one of the owners was Mexican.

    • @thierryf67
      @thierryf67 Рік тому +4

      so, good mexican chiefs have to come here in Europe to open good mexican restaurants... you're welcome, we usually like different foods, if it's make with good products.

    • @fpsserbia6570
      @fpsserbia6570 Рік тому +2

      Can you tell me where in Belgrade is that restaurant ?? thanks

    • @david.cr96
      @david.cr96 Рік тому +5

      Here in Galicia (north-west Spain) there are some restaurants owned by Mexican people which have very good fame :)

    • @randomcamus9445
      @randomcamus9445 Рік тому

      Many restaurants do not prepare it as it should be, so sometimes the same food in one restaurant will be tastier and in others it does not depend on the cook and the ingredients.

    • @airjuri
      @airjuri 11 місяців тому +2

      And then there is this, why would you have Mexican food in trip to Europe? ;)

  • @Beliefish
    @Beliefish Рік тому +11

    @9:00 you sadly used an old map of countries that use €, because this year on 1.1.2023 Croatia also started using € as their currency

  • @napoleon1235438743
    @napoleon1235438743 Рік тому +134

    well done lady. this should be shown to every american ( the whole continent), not just tourists but even in schools.

    • @peterhumphrys
      @peterhumphrys Рік тому +1

      which whole continent would that be, the north or the south one? and why so them and not the Africans or the Australians? Are you suggesting that Mexicans don't know their European geography? or perhaps you have those obstinant Greenlanders in mind? Oh but then again did not Donald Trump make some sort of suggestion about buying Greenland - maybe he was hoping/thinking that it would be full of greenbacks! Or maybe you hope to enligten the Argentinians after electing Milei? Maybe I should visit a former Bolivian port on the Pacific coast to understand what you are getting at as we obvioulsy suck at geography whle the former european empires did such a fine job of drawing boarders that so many middle easterners affected by the Sykes-Picot line can attest to, while the African tribes were bowled over by the genius of the borders that they get to live with now, all largely imposed on them by Europeans. Be sure to educate your former colonials or not!

    • @yaroslavpanych2067
      @yaroslavpanych2067 Рік тому +12

      No, do not introduce this video into schools! It has so many wrong stuff. Wrong at vert fundamental levels!

    • @toms5612
      @toms5612 Рік тому

      😅😅😅

    • @luxuryvagrant6496
      @luxuryvagrant6496 Рік тому +2

      Well done lady for her intentions. There are some mistakes though, notably in spelling.

    • @isabelaribbeiro
      @isabelaribbeiro Рік тому +4

      @@peterhumphrys America is ONE continent, and it can be referred as regions for clarification. North America and South America arent continent by themselves, the world doesnt have 7 continents.

  • @lonegamingwolf8239
    @lonegamingwolf8239 11 місяців тому +89

    If you are confused, this is not because of her explanations, but because of Europe. 😄

  • @james.stewart
    @james.stewart Рік тому +45

    Being from Northern Ireland is sometimes complicated to explain to people when abroad too. Some people will say they are from Northern Ireland (like myself) and usually have to explain that Ireland is split in two, in the briefest way possible haha. Other people will just say they are from Ireland both from a religious/political standpoint and for the sake of not having to explain a lot to foreigners. Thanks for addressing it Erika!

    • @james.stewart
      @james.stewart Рік тому

      @@donalkinsella4380 Hi Donal! For the sake of miscommunication I meant that she pointed out that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.
      I only added my own personal account of explaining to people where I am from as many people abroad are unaware of the entirety of the UK!
      Where are you from my man?

  • @veronicajensen7690
    @veronicajensen7690 7 місяців тому +4

    there are 50 countries in Europe, lots of people want to move to and have moved to Scandinavia, that is why Sweden all of the sudden have problems with crime, Sweden is together with Germany, Belgium, France and UK the countries who have most migrants

  • @TwilightRealm723
    @TwilightRealm723 Рік тому +34

    Not all of Europe is in the EU - that's true (and will be be for a very long time) but also not all of the EU is located in Europe: Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands and even Italy has overseas territories (mostly islands that are leftovers from their former colonial empires) that are legally a part of the EU but located outside of Europe

    • @MissMoontree
      @MissMoontree Рік тому +2

      Honestly, me and my friend from the Antilles are trying to figure out if certain things in the Dutch kingdom are EU or not, since some of them don't even use the same currency as the rest of the kingdom. I wouldn't know.

    • @user-sj6og7wi2q
      @user-sj6og7wi2q Рік тому +1

      Yeah and Cyprus is entirely in Asia

    • @astree214
      @astree214 Рік тому +5

      And the longest french border with another country is in South America 🤔🤪

    • @alessioartioli3323
      @alessioartioli3323 Рік тому +3

      Italy? Are you sure?

    • @TwilightRealm723
      @TwilightRealm723 Рік тому +1

      @@alessioartioli3323 Yes. Lampedusa is considered to be a part of Africa

  • @andreaorofalo
    @andreaorofalo Рік тому +50

    Fun video. A lot of semplifications but nothing complex can be also fun so who cares! Slovenia is very beautiful: is a kind of Switzerland but with acceptable prices.

    • @Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave
      @Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave Рік тому +7

      Swiss explaining how your arm and leg are not enough for this month's rent:

    • @feandil1713
      @feandil1713 Рік тому

      That's what I always heard about Slovenia, even though I haven't actually ever been there. Many years ago I've heard about Slovenians that they are "traitors of the Slavic sh*t show", but it doesn't seem to work anymore, because also other Slavic countries seem to organize themselves way better than they used to. Someone also once described Slovenia as a Slavic country with Austrian mentality. I'm very curious how things really work there, I have to visit it one day.

    • @nirfz
      @nirfz Рік тому

      @@feandil1713 Todays Slovenia and Croatia spent a longer time in the same "country" with Austria than with Serbia.
      For Slovenia: Big parts of todays Slovenia were part of the duchy of Styria since 1180. (and before that they and the rest of styria were part of the duchy of carinthia).
      So at least from the middle ages until WW1 they were under the same rulers with the same laws rulesets and mix of cultures.
      And those areas, if i am not mistaken, are still caled Stajerska in Slovenia. (the former duchy of styria without the slovenian parts transformed into the federal state of styria when austria changed into a republic)
      Since their independence many northern Slovenes commute to work into southern austria. (due to a little higher salaries because of the bit more expensive living standards in austria, so for them it works out as they can buy more at home and even get their reitirement pays sent home to slovenia when they reach retirement age in austria)
      Also austrian companies and banks invested heavily in facilities in Slovenia after their independence.
      (they saw a new market, the slovene government(s) saw work and opportunities for their population...)

    • @AYVYN
      @AYVYN Рік тому

      Slovenia doesn’t exist. British and Americans can go to stinky Paris

  • @Gattsu
    @Gattsu Рік тому +5

    great video erika, however i didn't hear you say georgia was the best country in europe on repeat. other than that it was a very good video

    • @greekin2space387
      @greekin2space387 Рік тому

      Also, she didn't mention the strokest Georgian colony: Athens Greece 🇺🇾🇬🇷🇺🇾

    • @blubberingbishop8673
      @blubberingbishop8673 Рік тому

      georgia is part of the US, but if it were a european country it would be the best
      🍑🍑🍑😁

    • @daiana8827
      @daiana8827 2 місяці тому

      Georgia is state in the Usa

  • @zirnis_13
    @zirnis_13 11 місяців тому +6

    Paldies par šo izskaidrojumu, ļoti labs un informatīvs video. Tā tik turpināt! Ar mīlestību no Latvijas ❤❤🇱🇻🇱🇻
    Thank you for the explanation, a very great and informative video. With love from Latvia!

  • @SuperTommox
    @SuperTommox Рік тому +15

    Representing 🇮🇹 here, this was a great video!
    Bravissima!

    • @tsukeru4761
      @tsukeru4761 3 місяці тому

      Bro, non sa niente dell'Italia, non sa che siamo una delle maggiori potenze economiche mondiali

  • @piotrb4240
    @piotrb4240 Рік тому +222

    Hi from Poland. I don't quite understand the oversensitiveness of my countrymen when being called "Eastern European" (you'll be corrected every single time regardless of context), but it all stems from not wanting to be associated with Russia or the part you called "Russia soon to be" 😄. This tradition is at least a few decades old, but only recently did people start interpreting it as "oh, OK", instead of "strange obsession with a Russophobic overtone". 😊

    • @meliae.
      @meliae. Рік тому +51

      In my opinion, also as a Pole, it stems from the fact that Poland for the vast majority of its history was a part of the Catholic Church, not the Orthodox one (which constituted one of the most important ways of categorization). Our Commonwealth was far more tolerant than the West, comprising of Poles, Jews, Lithuanians, Germans & Ruthenians. Also, French culture left a great impact on us, hence the reluctance towards this nomenclature (usually with the negative overtone), which is primarily a result of communism (which we were forced to accept since Churchil didn't want to upset Russia after the war).

    • @movement2contact
      @movement2contact Рік тому +43

      What's wrong with Russophobia? 🤔 It should be at the all time high rn anyway...

    • @varia6688
      @varia6688 Рік тому +33

      Becaouse for many people it is more important to live in truth, rather then lie for sake of inclusion (unless you want to be a doormat)
      Poland is in Central Europe (used to be central/Eastern European)
      Norway is a Nordic country, part of Northern Europe.
      Spain is south-western country
      Italy is southern country
      France is a Western country
      Greece is south-eastern.
      It’s not that complicated, but yes. People want to simplify things (especially with Cold War mentality)
      Poland especially was “forced” in to eastern block, there have been many comments from any non-Pole suggesting or thinking that Poland “chose” to be part of eastern bloc.
      It was occupation…

    • @piotrb4240
      @piotrb4240 Рік тому +20

      @@movement2contact Until recently it was seen by many, if not most, in the West, as an irrational resentment, all that was bad was supposed to be history and "we're all friends now". But it was never irrational, it was knowledge about how it's all likely to turn out. We all know how.
      Anyway, of course the aversion to being called "Eastern Europe" also stems from serious cultural differences, larger than N Europe vs W Europe or W Europe vs S Europe, as a previous poster mentioned.

    • @tompeled6193
      @tompeled6193 Рік тому +24

      ​@@movement2contact We shouldn't be any-race-phobic.

  • @mr88cet
    @mr88cet Рік тому +16

    15:35 - plus of course, a lot of what we Americans call “Mexican food” is only somewhat Mexican… Here in Texas, most (but not all) of what we call Mexican foods are the grandchildren dishes of the particular style of Mexican food that was common in Texas way back when it was still part of Mexico.

  • @Silver-kg2qi
    @Silver-kg2qi 7 місяців тому +2

    As an Italian, I cannot help but be a little surprised about the midday naps thing. It isn't even the first time I hear it. The standard school time (from elementary school to university) and work time aren't exactly compatible with having midday naps as a daily routine to the point I'd even include them in a stereotypycal-but-often-very-true description of what Italians do.

  • @LanguageSimp
    @LanguageSimp Рік тому +13

    I don't get it

    • @mskiptr
      @mskiptr Рік тому

      Seems YT has struck you down to the bottom of the comment section

    • @yacined4190
      @yacined4190 Рік тому

      مازالت تتعلم العربية يا سيمب اللغات

    • @sweJEverywhere
      @sweJEverywhere Рік тому +4

      its ok to be american

    • @goodevening8362
      @goodevening8362 Рік тому

      That's because you're a monolingual beta

    • @barrysteven5964
      @barrysteven5964 Рік тому +1

      It's all about Yurp.

  • @mikaeloverfjord9047
    @mikaeloverfjord9047 Рік тому +11

    In the beginning when you explain northern europe, I think the "criminality problem" is blown way out of proportion. The negatives of a country is usually blown out of proportion when it happens to catch the public eye more.

    • @Fluxwux
      @Fluxwux 11 місяців тому +4

      Yeah agree, and Sweden isn’t even the most violent Nordic country. Finland has an even “higher” murder rate. Not to mention that her home country of Latvia has a 3x higher murder rate than Sweden.
      It’s not like Sweden (or any EU country) is somewhere near a favela in Rio or Compton Los Angeles, even if this fall’s very media-reported spike in gang violence is horrible due to the around 5 innocent non-gang victims which shocked the nation to the degree that the PM held a televised speech to the nation (only happened during Covid, Invasion of Ukraine, murder of Olof Palme and the 2004 tsunami before. So it shows how serious it was) But the violence seems to have died down for now and is to 99% only affecting other criminals and happening in a select few segregated neighborhoods at night. So for non criminal people in 99,9% of Swedish territory there is no risk

    • @mikaeloverfjord9047
      @mikaeloverfjord9047 11 місяців тому +1

      @@Fluxwux thank you for your response

  • @winterlinde5395
    @winterlinde5395 Рік тому +52

    Das hast du schön gemacht 😊

  • @_mooonchild
    @_mooonchild 5 місяців тому +6

    hi! i'm from america, specifically from Argentina, America is a whole continent, you know? 🤠

    • @wallplus7581
      @wallplus7581 Місяць тому

      as a mather of fact: 2 continents: north and south america

  • @solokom
    @solokom Рік тому +68

    As a German living on Austria, this was very entertaining to watch. Love your dry humour. 😄

    • @Uczciwy_Obywatel
      @Uczciwy_Obywatel Рік тому +5

      As a Pole studying in Austria I can say that we don't take Sunday shopping restrictions that seriously as people here 😂 (finding anything open in Vienna is nearly impossible)

    • @peterlyall2848
      @peterlyall2848 Рік тому

      I see no difference between Austria and Australia. You have to be the same country. I think Austria is in the West of the country and Australia is in the East. So making your country is really Austriaaustralia and means from West we go East for greatness. That's what the European nation of Austriaaustrali means.

    • @corower
      @corower Рік тому +2

      as a latvian (and living in latvia) i assure you, latvian humour is quite like german. dry and almost tasteless. ,-)

  • @elmarbernd2568
    @elmarbernd2568 Рік тому +4

    Your Pullover matches the topic! 🤘 Great Video! Thanks

  • @linasma235
    @linasma235 Рік тому +31

    In the UN geoscheme, the following countries are classified as Northern Europe:
    Denmark
    Estonia
    Finland
    Iceland
    Ireland
    Latvia
    Lithuania
    Norway
    Sweden
    United Kingdom
    as well as the dependent areas:
    Åland
    Channel Islands
    Bailiwick of Guernsey
    Bailiwick of Jersey
    Faroe Islands
    Isle of Man
    Svalbard and Jan Mayen

  • @liisuaunver6120
    @liisuaunver6120 11 місяців тому +16

    we're so lucky to have so much cultural diversity. Like, Estonia is SMALL (smaller than most states in the USA) but the south, north, west and east cultures are soooo different from eachother. We have so many dialects and i cannot understand some.

    • @dreamthedream8929
      @dreamthedream8929 10 місяців тому +2

      Plus it has a lot of nature and wild places left. So good. It's not overcrowded like Belgium of the same size with some 10 million people. Probably estonia has more wild preserved natural places than Belgium or the Netherlands. Other countries like finland too has a good population for its size which may allow for wild place preservation

  • @MausTheGerman
    @MausTheGerman Рік тому +55

    EU is in Europe - yep but also in Caribian, Pacific, South & North America etc. if you also take the overseas territories, outermost regions and „special cases“ into consideration 😆

    • @katrinabryce
      @katrinabryce Рік тому +5

      And Cyprus geographically in the Middle East, though culturally in Europe.

    • @beadsman13
      @beadsman13 Рік тому +1

      I'm not sure about that. I think as EU citizen you can't travel to overseas territories without permission from respectiv country.

    • @Lilliathi
      @Lilliathi Рік тому +3

      @@beadsman13
      Some of these are literally part of Europe by law. They're not countries.

    • @KarlSmith1
      @KarlSmith1 11 місяців тому +1

      If you take the special cases into account then France shares a land border with Australia. Remember this is supposed to be simplified so the Americans can understand it.

  • @oniongaming2236
    @oniongaming2236 Рік тому +22

    In some Latvian schools they would also make you learn up to 4 languages.. so it’s not at all surprising if there’s a lot of bi-lingual or even trilingual people in Europe

    • @MissMoontree
      @MissMoontree Рік тому +3

      Had six at one point :( 4 is mandatory for most here, but you often only need to fullfil your education in 3 of them.

    • @jammmy30
      @jammmy30 Рік тому +1

      All Swedish schools make one to read at least 4 languages (compulsory). 5th one is voluntary, but most take it

  • @annikaerf
    @annikaerf Рік тому +50

    Hello Erika - and everybody else! Sweden 🇸🇪 is still one of the most peaceful countries in the world. 2023 Sweden was rated the 23rd most peaceful country (Iceland on the top). USA was rated the 131st. With that said I think you've done an accurate and really good explanation.
    All the best! 🕊🌿// Nikki from Sweden

    • @wywen9876
      @wywen9876 Рік тому +16

      Sure but it’s not as peaceful as other Nordic countries, which is what Erika was pointing out. Denmark, as an example, is ranked number 2 on the list and Sweden has gone down a lot in the past decade.

    • @lovisalindstrom7920
      @lovisalindstrom7920 Рік тому +1

      It is just that some people did not think crime even was committed in Sweden before this gangs.. hahahaha! Yeah well class structure has changed in Sweden over several years now and this is the consequence. With populism and lies being our new currency the actual fact of the matter is hard to find and get circulated. This is not just a problem in Sweden but many other countries as well. It is very sad that we have been so easily corrupted by it.

    • @supersimme813
      @supersimme813 11 місяців тому

      Unfortunately the immigrants took over and now our country is fucked… Shootings, stabbings and explosions every week… it’s a shame

    • @apotato6278
      @apotato6278 11 місяців тому

      @@lovisalindstrom7920 Well, populism only caught on because we decided to shoot ourselves in the foot. We invited hundreds of thousands of refugees without any plans to integrate them. They were left to rot in the suburbs and out sprang a generation of criminals, intent on bringing the violence and suffering their parents escaped from to the suburbs of Sweden. Now, after a decade of madness, people are finally beginning to realize what a mistake we've made.

    • @Fluxwux
      @Fluxwux 11 місяців тому +3

      @@wywen9876That’s wrong, Finland actually have a higher murder rate than Sweden. Making Finland the most violent country in the Nordics. And Latvia (the home country of the video author) has a murder rate more than 3x higher than Sweden, making Latvia the most violent country in the EU.
      Sure, Sweden has problems just like every country and compared to maybe 10 years ago it is relatively a bit less safe today in certain isolated neighborhoods. But only comparing ourselves with the Nordic countries and having like 40% more murders compared to the in the top 5 safest countries in the world doesn’t really make Sweden a dangerous country at all, it is still in fact in the top 30/25 safest countries worldwide and at about the EU average.

  • @chepulis
    @chepulis 11 місяців тому +4

    Solid presentation, braliukė.

  • @XtremeStormGhost
    @XtremeStormGhost Рік тому +5

    I might have fallen a little bit in love with you. Simplistic format, but very informative, nice visualization. But most of all, fantastic humor! Definitely earned a sub right here.

  • @jakubgroborz3453
    @jakubgroborz3453 Рік тому +11

    I love that you've incorporated Kaliningrad to Poland on the map. Greetings from Kralovec!

    • @DanDownunda8888
      @DanDownunda8888 11 місяців тому

      I hadn't even heard of Kaliningrad until a few years ago and I'm in my 60's. When I saw that it was part of Russia, but didn't share a border, I was dumbfounded! My education didn't include anything about what was then called Easter Europe, or more usually Warsaw Pact countries and The Soviet Union.

  • @WaddleQwacker
    @WaddleQwacker Рік тому +11

    I'm French, moved to Canada, got to explain many times why I never ate in my life, and why we Frenchies use "burrito" and "taco" interchangeably.
    I also learned the existence of "French Taco" there, which is an actual thing invented in France and I never heard of before moving to Ca somehow. noice.

    • @Mycenaea
      @Mycenaea Рік тому

      Why did you have to explain why you didn't eat x mexican food?

    • @LoeZack
      @LoeZack Рік тому

      ​@@MycenaeaI bet it's because the many Mexican immigrants in Canada he probably meets in daily life there.

    • @mrsmith4u980
      @mrsmith4u980 11 місяців тому

      @@LoeZack There arent that many in the winter loOl

    • @mrsmith4u980
      @mrsmith4u980 11 місяців тому +1

      Salut le cousin, j'espere que tu es au Quebec... 😁

    • @WaddleQwacker
      @WaddleQwacker 11 місяців тому

      ​@@Mycenaea In a nutshell: north americans have taco joints, we europeans have kebab joints.
      Mexican food is everywhere in North America, but not the whole world. Mexico is a neighbor of the USA, there's lots of exposure, lots of immigration all the way up to Canada. Meanwhile, in France, only 13k Mexican residing in France as per the Mexican embassy's last counting in 2011, that's 0.017% of the French population, compared to 17,6 % in the USA in 2015.
      The average frenchy probably never met a Mexican in their entire life. All they know about Mexican food is the triangle tortilla chips and mild salsa in french grocery stores, and "Old El Passo" brand burritos/tortillas, which are technically Tex Mex if I understand? There's maybe one mexican-themed restaurant chain (and isn't much known, more Tex Mex afaik). Taco joints are rare (not even sure I've ever heard of one before I moved to Canada and tried to look up for it).

  • @emilek40
    @emilek40 11 місяців тому +2

    1:16, 2:47 Kaliningrad does not belond to Poland. This holds for the entire video lol
    2:25, 2:47 Vojvodina is not a country
    3:06 Hungary is not a part of the balkans
    3:18 Czech republic is now called Czechia

  • @espatricia
    @espatricia 11 місяців тому +19

    Great video, but as Spaniard I must say that our economy has improved a lot in the last decades and it is an honor to be the south of Europe in terms of culture (or mediterranean Europe) but we are Western Europe in terms of social and economic indicators. We are not only a country to visit in summer but a very cultural diverse and leading in the renewable energy. Our economy has little in common with that of Greece, the Balkan countries or even Italy.

    • @gabrielesantucci6189
      @gabrielesantucci6189 11 місяців тому +5

      Exactly!!! Italy in particular is much richer in art, culture, tourism, industry and economics than all the countries of southern Europe! Our north is at the same level, if not higher, than Germany in terms of industries, exports, technologies, manufacturing, fashion, etc...unfortunately our problem is stil the south !However Italy Is much more advanced of Portugal, Spain, Greece etc!

    • @sofiaortega4199
      @sofiaortega4199 10 місяців тому

      Western does not Mena wealthy at all. It means part of the capitalist block as opposed to the communist block. Even geographically we are the westernest together with Portugal. Spain is both western and southern Europe and this vídeo is a disgrace.

    • @sofiaortega4199
      @sofiaortega4199 10 місяців тому

      @@gabrielesantucci6189Italy is more wealthy, yes. But not more advanced, sadly. Please come and visit us so you know more about other countries.

    • @Mumujalego
      @Mumujalego 8 місяців тому

      @@gabrielesantucci6189 If Italy is more advanced than Spain, why are there so many Italians emigrating to Spain?

    • @marcoac-sx6lq
      @marcoac-sx6lq 6 місяців тому +2

      The economy of Italy is larger than Spain, Portugal and Greece economies combined.

  • @jayswrld734
    @jayswrld734 11 місяців тому +6

    As an American I could name most capitals if not all(and whom the belong to) including Maltas location..

  • @matichagak548
    @matichagak548 10 місяців тому +5

    5:01 a sensible addition : Portugal is NOT part of Spain. They are two separate countries and no, one did not colonize the other :) there was the Philipine Dinasty but that was an occupation not colonization. And we got rid of them (no offense intended :))

  • @sonkerieckmann7183
    @sonkerieckmann7183 11 місяців тому +3

    Just saw your video on a rection site, so I am just here to leave a like and comment. Have a nice day. Greetings from Germany

  • @filipmjertan1691
    @filipmjertan1691 Рік тому +31

    I absolutely love this video! You did such a great job with putting these into perspective. I would love to see a video explaining America to Europeans. I am European but have lived in the US, and I feel a lot of Europeans should have a crash course about America too.

    • @matthewjames1114
      @matthewjames1114 Рік тому +2

      American history is easy compared to European

    • @jojivlogs_4255
      @jojivlogs_4255 Рік тому +1

      ​@@matthewjames1114sounds like someone doesnt know much about either

    • @bambi9609
      @bambi9609 Рік тому +1

      @@matthewjames1114I can already tell you know damn near nothing about American history.

  • @becc_snipe
    @becc_snipe Рік тому +18

    Europe is 10.53 million sq. km while the USA is 9.834 million km² so Europe is bigger and yes russia is included up to the Urals of course

    • @Wulfzz
      @Wulfzz Рік тому +2

      Yes. Only Europe minus Russia is about 2/3 of the US' size.

    • @looof3719
      @looof3719 Рік тому

      ​​@@Jk-qx7gmhes righs its 20k off from 3.970 million, he cleared up op's comment as to why she said 2/3

    • @WalintHUN
      @WalintHUN Рік тому

      @@Jk-qx7gmthe video creator removed it. but for a sec it was a text on the map she forgot to include Russian Europian territory or she did it deliberately

    • @Dragon-mv6vy
      @Dragon-mv6vy Рік тому +1

      @@Wulfzz yea, but the us has alaska which is a desert for the most, us alone on the western part has very little population, so in fact most of the people are living in the east, and the living area could be compared to europe.

    • @Alejojojo6
      @Alejojojo6 24 дні тому +1

      And the american figure takes into account territorial waters and Alaska. Continental US is 7.5 million km2.

  • @adamkorenc6801
    @adamkorenc6801 Рік тому +16

    9:41 That are not Polish banknotes, these are czech banknotes

  • @Muuaaddiinn93
    @Muuaaddiinn93 10 місяців тому +2

    GREAT VIDEO! As always

  • @KarbidoweDzialoPlanetarne
    @KarbidoweDzialoPlanetarne Рік тому +6

    9:15 these are not polish bills

  • @Castlepie_
    @Castlepie_ 2 місяці тому +3

    9:36 This is not currently polish banknotes

  • @barrysteven5964
    @barrysteven5964 Рік тому +7

    It's not really right to call Wales, England and Scotland 'regions' of the UK. They are constituent countries. People who deny they are countries just need to check up on the difference between a 'country' and a 'sovereign nation'. When two or more countries join together to make a new nation they don't actually stop being countries in a historical and cultural sense.
    The three nations were joined in a union called Great Britain. Later on it also included Ireland and was called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. When most of Ireland became independent and left the United Kingdom but northern counties remained the name changed to the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" which is its present official name. As this only happened in the 1920s the United Kingdom in its present form is actually not that old.

    • @dear6341
      @dear6341 26 днів тому

      💯

    • @dear6341
      @dear6341 26 днів тому

      Don't go explaining the union of the Crown to them or that will really throw them off haha 😅

  • @AdelSawaf
    @AdelSawaf 26 днів тому +1

    Sveiki! I really had fun watching that video and seeing you debunking the usual clichés about Europe. Loved the reference to Latvia and Lats (I actually still have some from back when I was living in Rezekne). Going to watch to rest of your content tagad un šeit! Liels paldies!

    • @helloerika
      @helloerika  26 днів тому +1

      @@AdelSawaf paldies! 🙏

  • @mogreen19
    @mogreen19 Рік тому +46

    Hi Erika, a German living in the Netherlands here. I can totally understand liking nostalgic coins, I used to work in the field of numismatics and still love DM Deutsche Mark but I really really love the Euro as I get money from Germany and spend most of it in the Netherlands. I live around 1km or 1,000 meters away from the German border but NL and thanks to the EU and treaty of Maastricht etc I can go across the border to buy milk and tobacco because it is cheaper (smoking is bad kids, don't start). Yes the EU has lots of good points, is by no means perfect but is steadily evolving. As I happen to be addicted to documentaries my 2 cents on crime in Sweden: there used to be organised crime in Sweden but the Swedish Police and State Attorneys and Judges actually did quite a good job locking up a bunch of criminals, problem being that the old structures of organised crime where destroyed and in its place there is now young criminal gangs that are unorganised and will kill each other over honour and insults. This is also a by product of lacking investments into integration of migrants and especially migrant children. The EU for all its flaws still is one of the best places in the world and the peace has brought prosperity.

    • @dansihvonen8218
      @dansihvonen8218 Рік тому +4

      Gang crime in Sweden was ignored by politicians as long as it only affected areas with immigrants. Anyone who mentioned the problems was called a racist by white people with white friends in white neighborhoods where the multicultural contact was the local Indian/Vietnamese/Lebanese restaurant. That was until a few years ago when violence began to appear among the hypocrites.
      Greetings from Biskopsgården, a "bad" area in Gothenburgh.

    • @jammmy30
      @jammmy30 Рік тому

      Hey 👋 there ! As a Swedish person who actually lives in Malmö I have to say (as much as it pains me) that some of the things we have here are truly INSANE! When it comes to criminals. For example we have adopted so called “call in model” which has resulted in deadly shootings has gone down a bit. But what it ACTUALLY means is that police have identified 10 leading gangs and if someone gets killed in shooting than police call in representatives of all 10 clans and say - either you produce to us the shooter or THAN we will start to go in hard and disturb your everyday business. I know it sounds beyond believe, but can look it up yourself under “Malmö call in model”. Can you see what it actually means? That our POLICE has given a legitimacy to clans to such a degree that they have official representatives! And as long as clans don’t kill anyone they may go on pretty much as they please… and now they are talking about implementing this model to other big cities 😢

    • @jammmy30
      @jammmy30 Рік тому

      @@dansihvonen8218Spot on!
      Ps. Greetings from Malmö, Husie (a stone throw away from Rosengård)

    • @hansmeiser32
      @hansmeiser32 Рік тому +1

      " I can totally understand liking nostalgic coins"
      I still carry a 5 D(eutsche) M(ark) coin in my wallet 😗

    • @avitalsheva
      @avitalsheva 11 місяців тому

      We have problems to name problem. Stupidly so. If mainly people of arab/ african origin are committing crime, we must adress this issue. Not pretending that somehow ethnical Swedes changed to be worse