Loved your channel :D subscribed! I've actually had a lot of 'interactions' with American visitors in my parents restaurant when I was a child - we lived near a big, international exhibition centre and entertainment complex - and have seen groups of 5-6 americans literally empty our restaurant of other customers, being loud, arrogant and obnoxious and it always looked like a pigsty whenever they left.
Thank you for subscribing! I'm really glad you enjoy what I make 🫶 They have a terrible attitude towards customer service, it's insane. When I worked in the ferry terminal they were always the rudest and most unpleasant customers... 🥲
this video looks so professionally made, that it's hard to believe you only have 189 subscribers. I'm impressed, you've got yourself another sub, and keep up the great work!
Most of us who travel are pretending to be Canadian and running away from the loud ones who refuse to learn any other languages and just yell to "make them understand" and often wear big hats and come from San Antonio.
Yeah, it's all those people from the big SA. 😂 I will say, in fairness, I've seen so many Brits talking loudly and slowly at customer service workers in France because they didn't even bother learning "Hello", "Goodbye", "Please" and "Thank you"... I've never understood that... When I went to Poland, I always made sure to give everyone a dzień dobry when I walked into a business. It's not hard to at least just learn the polite expressions in a new language, it shows good faith and interest in foreign culture... But then, I worked in tourism and know what it's like to be on the receiving end of a nasty tourist so...
Americans don't really have a good grasp of "nationality" because to us there's the USA and then there's everywhere else. We DO, however, have a very thorough, nuanced, and incorrect concept of race and ethnicity, and thus see people from different countries as different ethnic groups. So, an Irish-American is an *ethnicly* Irish American. For example, a Black person from Jamaica or Brazil is still African American, somehow. "Ethnic" makeup is super important because racism and eugenics are still the dominant cultural and political forces here.
Oh, that's a really interesting take on the question. Thank you for your comment! I never thought of it like that and it does actually make more sense viewed from that angle... It's crazy how much the history of a country plays into its perception of the world. 😊
I have personally never heard of that in my life, or most other meanings of SA, other then the assault one, but that is good to know, and I will try to keep it in mind
I don't get born 'n' bred Yanks calling themselves "Irish" or "Italian" etc. I'm a New Zealander. My ancestry includes Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. 28% of my genetic heritage comes from Wales, but I don't identify as "Welsh", even though my Welsh ancestors arrived in New Zealand far more recently than the average Yank's ancestors emigrated from Ireland. I've never been to Wales, I can't exchange more than the most basic pleasantries in Welsh, I know fuck all about their culture, and I would certainly not presume to comment on their politics or lifestyles... I was born and raised in New Zealand, like both of my parents, all of my grandparents and a goodly number of my great- and great-great-grandparents. You get Yanks that would be hard pressed to find Ireland on a world map claiming to be "Irish" despite no one in their family having set foot in Ireland for the last 200-odd years. Mind boggling.
My views exactly! 😂 My genetic heritage includes so many countries as well... But I have 2 citizenships and those are the two I identify as! (I have the passports to prove it!)
@@TheSebbyHour they had concrete, they even had something we didnt have today, or, at least, up until last year. "self healing concrete". google and you will learn: "why was roman concrete so durable". i dont want to mouth - feed you with that, so GOOGLE IT.
I have often found that most of the Americans I have met who either study or have moved to the UK or France tend to be quite critical of other Americans. 😂
Claiming that you are something more than American proves to me that being American isn't enough for Americans. They feel they are lacking so they need to add something. Quite sad really.
I agree... It's a bit like toxic masculinity in some ways. If you feel like a trait or characteristic (in this case, culture) defines you and you constantly require validation on that front, you're just insecure at the end of the day... 🤷♂️
Rome has a decent Metro. I'm surprised they didn't complain that the Colosseum was in ruins and should be repaired. Some Americans travelling abroad are clueless but very few of them have the time or the money to travel, so we only see the mostly arrogant elites and get a very skewed view of Americans in general. I've been to the US & the majority of ordinary Americans are great. I didn't bother with Disney Paris. The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and Arc de Triumph were higher priorities. Travel a little further to Bavaria and you can see a REAL castle or 2 at Neuschwanstein / Hohenschwangau. And France has quite a few impressive castles too. Ditto for the UK. I don't speak either Spanish or Portuguese, just French, so I won't be applying for any South American jobs any time soon.
Hahaha, the Colosseum does take the piss doesn't it? They could at least give it a coat of paint 😂😂😂 I've met some very nice Americans too, there are all sorts! But I do think their culture and institutions tend to skew them towards thinking they are better than absolutely everyone else 🥲
Sorry, but Neuschwanstein / Hohenschwangau is not a "real" castle. It's a 19th Century fake castle. It's still nice though. But if you want to see a real castle, visit Neuenburg (Freyburg / Unstrut), Eltz, Marksburg, Nuremberg, Burghausen, Coburg, Münzenberg ...
Je ne sais pas s'ils sont font des blagues ou si ce sont eux qui sont les blagues 😂 Faut-il avoir de l'humour pour être drôle ? Sortez vos feuilles, 2h de rédaction de philo !
Yes I would love to hear more about this subreddit. And anything that shows the ignorance of poeple from the US. One it's just hilarious and two, hopefully Americans will recognise that there is more to this world then just the USA 🇺🇸 😊. No bad feelings towards America whatsoever btw. You bring it light hearted ✨️ and are charismatic. Poeple will be less offended. I subscribed and am curious where this leads. Good luck! 👍 ❤
So happy to hear that you've enjoyed it, I'll be sure to make a follow up episode 😄 The aim is of course not to offend anyone, it's teasing in good spirits and I'm glad it comes across that way!
You're quite wrong about concrete. The cupola of the Pantheon in Rome is made of concrete. It is the largest non-reinforced concrete structure in the world, built at the beginning of the second century (that's roughly the year 125). The Romans made excellent concrete.
Being wrong about concrete has really fueled engagement on this video 😂 I accept that I was wrong, please replace the word "concrete" with the term "modern building techniques" and "technology". Thanks! Hope you enjoyed the rest of the video 😂
Here's the thing about "Irish-American" or whatever other European country-American. It's similar in Canada. People who use those terms are talking about ethnicity, not nationality. They're holding on to a small bit of family history, not claiming to be experts on whatever European countries their ancestors came from. I'll admit that I only read and speak a tiny bit of the language from one of the countries my grandfather was from before emigrating to Canada. I won't claim even the slightest familiarity with the culture. I've never been there and probably never will. But it's a fact that on the long-form census in Canada, they ask this sort of thing - where your family came from before they were Canadian. They also want to know if you're fluent in the language(s) of that place. This is because while the U.S. is a melting pot, Canada is a mosaic, and multiculturalism is part our identity. It's really rude of you to giggle about this, acting like people are stupid for wanting to acknowledge their family history. That said, there are obnoxious people who do claim equal identity with people who really are Irish citizens. But I rather doubt that most are like that. Oh, and Americans who wear Maple Leaf pins or patches? They should stop appropriating Canada's cultural identity. Especially if they behave in their usual loud, boorish, rude way while doing it.
The thing I laugh at in this video is people appropriating the culture of another country. The person I take the piss out of literally calls Irish people "the Irish-Irish" as a means of comparing them to "us Irish-Americans". Although it may not be a majority of Americans in real life, those who go onto the internet to argue about their "heritage" are usually claiming to be Irish, Spanish, Italian or so on... In addition to this, we have all got mixed origins, especially in Europe. I joke about it in this video, my family is part German, Scottish, Welsh... And that's only in recent history (often more recent than the link most Irish-Americans have with Ireland). The whole reason I point fun at Americans in this video is because America has this incredibly entitled superiority complex towards the rest of the world. You think it's rude that I giggle at misappropriated identity... How rude is it to literally the rest of the planet to teach kids in school that their country is "the greatest country in the world"? The aim of this video isn't to start a fight. It's simply to poke fun at American grandeur and the bubble that US culture seems to live in.
@@TheSebbyHour Since I'm Canadian, I also poke fun at American grandeur, on a daily basis. I'm so tired of their superiority complex and constant bragging. And yes, non-Canadians wearing the maple leaf in hopes of better treatment, are misappropriating our culture. However, your giggling at people who hyphenate their ethnic identity means you're not differentiating between the people who are obnoxious about it and the people who are not obnoxious about it. I hyphenate for the purpose of the long-form census, if I'm picked to fill it out. I hyphenate for the purpose of participating in some Swedish or Norwegian-Canadian cultural events here (the organizers usually ask). But by no means do I consider myself a citizen of either of those countries. I've never been there (would like to some day, but that's unlikely to be possible). My grandfather was reluctant to teach me Swedish, "because I live in Canada now, and in Canada we speak English". Yet he still received letters and cards from family in Sweden, written in Swedish, and I at least wanted to learn to read what was on the cards. He eventually did teach me some, though not enough to carry on much of a conversation. At least I can now read the cards and some of the letters, and have some small connection to people who are literally distant relatives. There's another obnoxious kind of claim that some people make. I belong to several medieval history groups on FB, and some groups have banned posts and comments where people boast that So-and-So From English Royalty/Aristocracy is their multi-generation great-grandparent, aunt, or uncle. It's tiresome. I'm just grateful that I know where some of my ancestors came from and approximately how far back. And there's not a royal or aristocrat anywhere, that I know of.
I do think that's an interesting perspective on the matter. But again, I'd say you're Canadian with Swedish heritage... I'd still disagree with you if you said you were Canadian-Swedish. I'm not making fun of people who feel an attachment to their heritage. I'm making fun of those who have no attachment other than genetics and claim to originate from some European country they know nothing about. You so often see "as an Italian, I completely disagree with this" and if you actually dig it turn sour said "Italian" is an American with a great grandfather who was from Naples. It doesn't make YOU Italian. I understand that you feel an attachment to Sweden and are interested in the culture, but I'm sorry to say I would disagree with you if you called yourself Swedish-Canadian or Canadian-Swedish... But I would agree if you said you're Canadian of Swedish descent, because (based on what you've told me) you are. But again, the point of this video is not to mock your heritage, simply the way that some people put theirs forward with the intention of getting "extra credit" with a nation or to win in arguments by pretending to be from somewhere they've never even visited.
@@TheSebbyHour You're still missing the point. You don't get to tell other people how to self-identify, regarding their ethnic heritage. It's like you don't get to tell other people how to self-identify regarding gender, or how they prefer to call themselves if they have a disability. You don't get to decide these things for other people and tell them they're wrong if their perception doesn't match yours. If I identifies as "Canadian-Swedish, I'd be a Canadian in Sweden, which is not what I said. I have Swedish-Norwegian ancestry and I'm Canadian. There are customs my grandparents grew up with there that they brought here, and I still keep a few of them a century later. I explained that FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE FEDERAL CENSUS there are times when I identify as Swedish-Canadian because the long-form census has questions regarding ethnic heritage. Multiculturalism is a federal policy here, so the government needs to know these things. You don't live here, so it's not something you grew up with, and it doesn't look like you're even trying to understand. I acknowledged that some people do claim to have the same status or credibility as the people from the European country in question, and it annoys people from those countries. I don't do that. I'd never claim expertise on any Swedish or Norwegian matter. By the way, that attempt at an American accent? Don't do that. It's rude to imitate others' accents for purposes of mockery. I'm not American, but I've had enough interaction with them to know that many of them find others' attempts to imitate one or more of their accents to be annoying. They don't all talk like that, just as there really aren't that many Canadians who say "eh".
Absolutely agree, the concept of Irish/German/Italian (etc) American is ludicrous, it is also an insult to America, they place their original nationality (which many of them never held) before their present nationality, if they were proud to be American then they would class themselves as American Irish etc. Possibly this is due to America being such a very young country, with certain people desperately searching for a history to validitate themselves. Be proud of what you are and have, be proud to be American.
New Zealand and Australia are much younger countries than the USA and we call ourselves "Kiwis"/New Zealanders and "Aussies"/Australians respectively. We may acknowledge our ancestry includes English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish etc, but we're _first and foremost_ inhabitants of our countries.
Ah the Wokism of Americans, does this mean they no longer have their Great American Dream. The Romans did invent concrete which was far far superior to our modern concrete, unfortunately the recipe got lost in time.
I feel like America and "wokism" are rather oxymoronic... It's such a conservative country 😂 As for the concrete, yep, my bad. Recipe lost to time? I'd say lost to economics. Cheaper always equals better nowadays. Even when it means worse quality.
The SA person has a point if they switched "San Antonio" to "Saudi Arabia" and that the official abbreviation of South Africa is "ZA". But that's getting too technical.
The US is bigger in surface than the EU (10 million km2 against 4.5 million) but smaller in population (335 million in the US against 447 million in the EU). We're both dwarfs in land size compared to Russia and its 17 million km2 and dwarfs in population compared to China (1.5 billion) or India (also 1.5 billion). But how is that even important ?
The point is that the size of the US is constantly used as an argument for why you can't have functional public transit. The fact that the US had functional public transportation solutions in the past and that those were torn down to make space for cars is always completely ignored and size is used as an explanation for why it would be "impossible".
Huh... Concrete, didn't exist... If I remember my history lessons right, the Romans invented concrete, that hardens under water, which is a main archivment. Greetings from Germany. P.S. I live right beside the former Roman border and we have a lot of findings around here. A dozen miles north of Frankfurt, is a complete restored Roman border fortress, rebuilt 120 years ago and opened by a real emporer, the last German emporer...
I did get that completely wrong, I grant you that... My meaning was more "before we had modern construction methods" but I chose the example of concrete which happens to also be quite old... 😂
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I'm a native Latin speaker, hi
@@jamesrossmann9405 how exciting! There I was thinking you didn't exist...
Sic transit gloria mundi.
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A latin speaker??😂😂😂
What are you
Loved your channel :D subscribed! I've actually had a lot of 'interactions' with American visitors in my parents restaurant when I was a child - we lived near a big, international exhibition centre and entertainment complex - and have seen groups of 5-6 americans literally empty our restaurant of other customers, being loud, arrogant and obnoxious and it always looked like a pigsty whenever they left.
Thank you for subscribing! I'm really glad you enjoy what I make 🫶
They have a terrible attitude towards customer service, it's insane. When I worked in the ferry terminal they were always the rudest and most unpleasant customers... 🥲
this video looks so professionally made, that it's hard to believe you only have 189 subscribers. I'm impressed, you've got yourself another sub, and keep up the great work!
Thank you 🫶
I try my best to make it look and sound good 😊
Latin is a language, dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans, and now it's killing me.
wow amazing video didnt expect to see the numbers hope your channel grows. this video was very entertaining. Much love from Norway
@@TheWolf4636 thank you so much 🙏
Yes, my channel is very new but I'm trying to make some good quality stuff, glad you enjoyed it!
Most of us who travel are pretending to be Canadian and running away from the loud ones who refuse to learn any other languages and just yell to "make them understand" and often wear big hats and come from San Antonio.
Yeah, it's all those people from the big SA. 😂
I will say, in fairness, I've seen so many Brits talking loudly and slowly at customer service workers in France because they didn't even bother learning "Hello", "Goodbye", "Please" and "Thank you"...
I've never understood that... When I went to Poland, I always made sure to give everyone a dzień dobry when I walked into a business. It's not hard to at least just learn the polite expressions in a new language, it shows good faith and interest in foreign culture... But then, I worked in tourism and know what it's like to be on the receiving end of a nasty tourist so...
have to say, when I clicked out of full screen to subscribe I was shocked to see “38”. very entertaining and great personality. keep at it
Thank you! It means so much to see all the positive comments on this video, it's incredibly heart warming. Thank you for your support 😊
Wow did not expect your channel to be in it's infancy. Nice work and good luck growing it - have a sub and I look forward to more content!
That means a lot, thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video and happy to hear that it doesn't look too amateurish 😄
Americans don't really have a good grasp of "nationality" because to us there's the USA and then there's everywhere else. We DO, however, have a very thorough, nuanced, and incorrect concept of race and ethnicity, and thus see people from different countries as different ethnic groups. So, an Irish-American is an *ethnicly* Irish American.
For example, a Black person from Jamaica or Brazil is still African American, somehow.
"Ethnic" makeup is super important because racism and eugenics are still the dominant cultural and political forces here.
Oh, that's a really interesting take on the question. Thank you for your comment! I never thought of it like that and it does actually make more sense viewed from that angle... It's crazy how much the history of a country plays into its perception of the world. 😊
That’s ridiculous. EVERYBODY knows that SA stands for South Australia. 😉
Oooooh, I thought it stood for South Atlantic 😂
In most of Europe SA is asociated with Worl War II, the Nazi security and enforcement force Sturmabteilung.
I have personally never heard of that in my life, or most other meanings of SA, other then the assault one, but that is good to know, and I will try to keep it in mind
You beat me to it - that’s the first thing us Aussies would think it stood for!
I don't get born 'n' bred Yanks calling themselves "Irish" or "Italian" etc. I'm a New Zealander. My ancestry includes Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, English, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. 28% of my genetic heritage comes from Wales, but I don't identify as "Welsh", even though my Welsh ancestors arrived in New Zealand far more recently than the average Yank's ancestors emigrated from Ireland. I've never been to Wales, I can't exchange more than the most basic pleasantries in Welsh, I know fuck all about their culture, and I would certainly not presume to comment on their politics or lifestyles... I was born and raised in New Zealand, like both of my parents, all of my grandparents and a goodly number of my great- and great-great-grandparents.
You get Yanks that would be hard pressed to find Ireland on a world map claiming to be "Irish" despite no one in their family having set foot in Ireland for the last 200-odd years. Mind boggling.
My views exactly! 😂
My genetic heritage includes so many countries as well... But I have 2 citizenships and those are the two I identify as! (I have the passports to prove it!)
Just found you sweet pea. Subscribed and what a wonderful channel.
Glad you enjoy my videos! 😊
When I see/hear all these things, I realise again and again how dumb many of these people are!
I love your video!
It is quite impressive how silly some people can be in public 😂
Thanks for your support! 😁
Actually, concrete DID exist in Rome 2,000 years age - that is what they built the Colosseum with.
@@angharaddenby3389 have you got any evidence of that? I won't accept anything flimsy, any evidence you provide has to be concrete.
@@TheSebbyHour Do your research. The harbour at Alexandria, Egypt ws ALSO made from concrete.
@@angharaddenby3389 Show your workings.
If you don't know the Romans used concrete... you should go back to school .... or just Google it before you write anything
@@TheSebbyHour they had concrete, they even had something we didnt have today, or, at least, up until last year. "self healing concrete".
google and you will learn: "why was roman concrete so durable".
i dont want to mouth - feed you with that, so GOOGLE IT.
I make sure I have a koala key ring hanging off my backpack so that I’m not mistaken for an American!
My wife is a yank, she hates when she finds other Americans. She’s always complaining about how loud and ignorant they are 😂
Lol 😅
I have often found that most of the Americans I have met who either study or have moved to the UK or France tend to be quite critical of other Americans. 😂
@@TheSebbyHour Don't forget the Netherlands.... I know so many Americans that stayed here 😊
I stood beside an American woman in a nice café in Singapore earlier this year and she was flummoxed when they wouldn’t accept her US dollars. 😂
How outrageous of them! They don't take freedom money!?!? 😨😱
Please do go to the US disneyland and leave France alone
I feel like Parisians would be happier as a result 😂
4:52: They are both wrong. SA means Sturmabteilung.
I've always thought that 😂
You got me there.
Claiming that you are something more than American proves to me that being American isn't enough for Americans. They feel they are lacking so they need to add something. Quite sad really.
I agree... It's a bit like toxic masculinity in some ways. If you feel like a trait or characteristic (in this case, culture) defines you and you constantly require validation on that front, you're just insecure at the end of the day... 🤷♂️
It's like they claim to be the most multi-cultural country on Earth, yet still get excited every time they hear an non-US accent.
And have huge amounts of anti immigration propaganda... 🤔
Rome has a decent Metro. I'm surprised they didn't complain that the Colosseum was in ruins and should be repaired. Some Americans travelling abroad are clueless but very few of them have the time or the money to travel, so we only see the mostly arrogant elites and get a very skewed view of Americans in general. I've been to the US & the majority of ordinary Americans are great. I didn't bother with Disney Paris. The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame and Arc de Triumph were higher priorities. Travel a little further to Bavaria and you can see a REAL castle or 2 at Neuschwanstein / Hohenschwangau. And France has quite a few impressive castles too. Ditto for the UK. I don't speak either Spanish or Portuguese, just French, so I won't be applying for any South American jobs any time soon.
Hahaha, the Colosseum does take the piss doesn't it? They could at least give it a coat of paint 😂😂😂
I've met some very nice Americans too, there are all sorts! But I do think their culture and institutions tend to skew them towards thinking they are better than absolutely everyone else 🥲
There is nothing "real" about Neuschwanstein, it is as "authentic" as nineteenth century kitsch can be.
Sorry, but Neuschwanstein / Hohenschwangau is not a "real" castle. It's a 19th Century fake castle. It's still nice though. But if you want to see a real castle, visit Neuenburg (Freyburg / Unstrut), Eltz, Marksburg, Nuremberg, Burghausen, Coburg, Münzenberg ...
Yeah in Paris itself you have le Château de Vincenne which is a medieval castle. Not as pretty as the Neuschwanstein but pretty impressive.
J'en peux plus!! 🤣🤣🤣 Bon sang, en fait ils ont de l'humour ces américains! Punaise, c'est mieux que les sketchs!!!😂😂😂
Je ne sais pas s'ils sont font des blagues ou si ce sont eux qui sont les blagues 😂
Faut-il avoir de l'humour pour être drôle ? Sortez vos feuilles, 2h de rédaction de philo !
@@TheSebbyHour 🤣🤣
I'm an Irish Anglo Viking with a hint of Australian and a touch of Canadian
@@OwDoGaming-kx9jo can I have a side order of chips with that? 🙃
@@TheSebbyHour poutine, gravy and a pint of guiness with that sir 😂
Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand
Aww, it's good that they're friends. Always important to find common interests 😂
🎶 Arrogance and ignorance sitting in a tree...
I learnt Latin at school in the seventies. 😊 🇬🇧
Yes I would love to hear more about this subreddit. And anything that shows the ignorance of poeple from the US. One it's just hilarious and two, hopefully Americans will recognise that there is more to this world then just the USA 🇺🇸 😊. No bad feelings towards America whatsoever btw.
You bring it light hearted ✨️ and are charismatic. Poeple will be less offended. I subscribed and am curious where this leads. Good luck! 👍 ❤
So happy to hear that you've enjoyed it, I'll be sure to make a follow up episode 😄
The aim is of course not to offend anyone, it's teasing in good spirits and I'm glad it comes across that way!
5:50 Please don't give them ideas like that. Now, we Canadians will look like fools went traveling. Do not tarnish our reputation.
😂😂😂
You're quite wrong about concrete. The cupola of the Pantheon in Rome is made of concrete. It is the largest non-reinforced concrete structure in the world, built at the beginning of the second century (that's roughly the year 125). The Romans made excellent concrete.
Being wrong about concrete has really fueled engagement on this video 😂
I accept that I was wrong, please replace the word "concrete" with the term "modern building techniques" and "technology". Thanks! Hope you enjoyed the rest of the video 😂
Here's the thing about "Irish-American" or whatever other European country-American. It's similar in Canada.
People who use those terms are talking about ethnicity, not nationality. They're holding on to a small bit of family history, not claiming to be experts on whatever European countries their ancestors came from. I'll admit that I only read and speak a tiny bit of the language from one of the countries my grandfather was from before emigrating to Canada. I won't claim even the slightest familiarity with the culture. I've never been there and probably never will. But it's a fact that on the long-form census in Canada, they ask this sort of thing - where your family came from before they were Canadian. They also want to know if you're fluent in the language(s) of that place.
This is because while the U.S. is a melting pot, Canada is a mosaic, and multiculturalism is part our identity. It's really rude of you to giggle about this, acting like people are stupid for wanting to acknowledge their family history.
That said, there are obnoxious people who do claim equal identity with people who really are Irish citizens. But I rather doubt that most are like that.
Oh, and Americans who wear Maple Leaf pins or patches? They should stop appropriating Canada's cultural identity. Especially if they behave in their usual loud, boorish, rude way while doing it.
The thing I laugh at in this video is people appropriating the culture of another country. The person I take the piss out of literally calls Irish people "the Irish-Irish" as a means of comparing them to "us Irish-Americans".
Although it may not be a majority of Americans in real life, those who go onto the internet to argue about their "heritage" are usually claiming to be Irish, Spanish, Italian or so on...
In addition to this, we have all got mixed origins, especially in Europe. I joke about it in this video, my family is part German, Scottish, Welsh... And that's only in recent history (often more recent than the link most Irish-Americans have with Ireland).
The whole reason I point fun at Americans in this video is because America has this incredibly entitled superiority complex towards the rest of the world. You think it's rude that I giggle at misappropriated identity... How rude is it to literally the rest of the planet to teach kids in school that their country is "the greatest country in the world"?
The aim of this video isn't to start a fight. It's simply to poke fun at American grandeur and the bubble that US culture seems to live in.
@@TheSebbyHour Since I'm Canadian, I also poke fun at American grandeur, on a daily basis. I'm so tired of their superiority complex and constant bragging. And yes, non-Canadians wearing the maple leaf in hopes of better treatment, are misappropriating our culture.
However, your giggling at people who hyphenate their ethnic identity means you're not differentiating between the people who are obnoxious about it and the people who are not obnoxious about it. I hyphenate for the purpose of the long-form census, if I'm picked to fill it out. I hyphenate for the purpose of participating in some Swedish or Norwegian-Canadian cultural events here (the organizers usually ask). But by no means do I consider myself a citizen of either of those countries. I've never been there (would like to some day, but that's unlikely to be possible). My grandfather was reluctant to teach me Swedish, "because I live in Canada now, and in Canada we speak English". Yet he still received letters and cards from family in Sweden, written in Swedish, and I at least wanted to learn to read what was on the cards.
He eventually did teach me some, though not enough to carry on much of a conversation. At least I can now read the cards and some of the letters, and have some small connection to people who are literally distant relatives.
There's another obnoxious kind of claim that some people make. I belong to several medieval history groups on FB, and some groups have banned posts and comments where people boast that So-and-So From English Royalty/Aristocracy is their multi-generation great-grandparent, aunt, or uncle. It's tiresome. I'm just grateful that I know where some of my ancestors came from and approximately how far back. And there's not a royal or aristocrat anywhere, that I know of.
I do think that's an interesting perspective on the matter. But again, I'd say you're Canadian with Swedish heritage... I'd still disagree with you if you said you were Canadian-Swedish.
I'm not making fun of people who feel an attachment to their heritage. I'm making fun of those who have no attachment other than genetics and claim to originate from some European country they know nothing about. You so often see "as an Italian, I completely disagree with this" and if you actually dig it turn sour said "Italian" is an American with a great grandfather who was from Naples. It doesn't make YOU Italian.
I understand that you feel an attachment to Sweden and are interested in the culture, but I'm sorry to say I would disagree with you if you called yourself Swedish-Canadian or Canadian-Swedish... But I would agree if you said you're Canadian of Swedish descent, because (based on what you've told me) you are. But again, the point of this video is not to mock your heritage, simply the way that some people put theirs forward with the intention of getting "extra credit" with a nation or to win in arguments by pretending to be from somewhere they've never even visited.
@@TheSebbyHour You're still missing the point. You don't get to tell other people how to self-identify, regarding their ethnic heritage. It's like you don't get to tell other people how to self-identify regarding gender, or how they prefer to call themselves if they have a disability. You don't get to decide these things for other people and tell them they're wrong if their perception doesn't match yours.
If I identifies as "Canadian-Swedish, I'd be a Canadian in Sweden, which is not what I said. I have Swedish-Norwegian ancestry and I'm Canadian. There are customs my grandparents grew up with there that they brought here, and I still keep a few of them a century later. I explained that FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE FEDERAL CENSUS there are times when I identify as Swedish-Canadian because the long-form census has questions regarding ethnic heritage. Multiculturalism is a federal policy here, so the government needs to know these things. You don't live here, so it's not something you grew up with, and it doesn't look like you're even trying to understand.
I acknowledged that some people do claim to have the same status or credibility as the people from the European country in question, and it annoys people from those countries. I don't do that. I'd never claim expertise on any Swedish or Norwegian matter.
By the way, that attempt at an American accent? Don't do that. It's rude to imitate others' accents for purposes of mockery. I'm not American, but I've had enough interaction with them to know that many of them find others' attempts to imitate one or more of their accents to be annoying. They don't all talk like that, just as there really aren't that many Canadians who say "eh".
But I see many Americans imitate an English, Scottish or Irish accent. Nearly always very badly.
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Absolutely agree, the concept of Irish/German/Italian (etc) American is ludicrous, it is also an insult to America, they place their original nationality (which many of them never held) before their present nationality, if they were proud to be American then they would class themselves as American Irish etc.
Possibly this is due to America being such a very young country, with certain people desperately searching for a history to validitate themselves.
Be proud of what you are and have, be proud to be American.
I'm not sure Americans lack pride in their own nation 😂
But I think you're right, it probably does stem from the US being a relatively new country.
New Zealand and Australia are much younger countries than the USA and we call ourselves "Kiwis"/New Zealanders and "Aussies"/Australians respectively. We may acknowledge our ancestry includes English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish etc, but we're _first and foremost_ inhabitants of our countries.
It's a British passport not an English passport
@@JohnnyBoy-h6z I couldn't check seeing as I lost it in the ferry terminal a month ago 🤷♂️
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romans invented concrete.
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Irish Americans?
You might as well call half of the English Viking English.
And the rest Norman English? 😂
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Ah the Wokism of Americans, does this mean they no longer have their Great American Dream.
The Romans did invent concrete which was far far superior to our modern concrete, unfortunately the recipe got lost in time.
I feel like America and "wokism" are rather oxymoronic... It's such a conservative country 😂
As for the concrete, yep, my bad. Recipe lost to time? I'd say lost to economics. Cheaper always equals better nowadays. Even when it means worse quality.
The SA person has a point if they switched "San Antonio" to "Saudi Arabia" and that the official abbreviation of South Africa is "ZA". But that's getting too technical.
@@neilchristensen6413 I just find it funny that they prefer to give the acronym to a single US city rather than an entire country 😂
The US is bigger in surface than the EU (10 million km2 against 4.5 million) but smaller in population (335 million in the US against 447 million in the EU). We're both dwarfs in land size compared to Russia and its 17 million km2 and dwarfs in population compared to China (1.5 billion) or India (also 1.5 billion). But how is that even important ?
The point is that the size of the US is constantly used as an argument for why you can't have functional public transit. The fact that the US had functional public transportation solutions in the past and that those were torn down to make space for cars is always completely ignored and size is used as an explanation for why it would be "impossible".
The EU is not Europe.
@@TheSebbyHourI'm not sure, if it is really ignored or Muricans just don't have any idea that public transport existed in the past.
Huh... Concrete, didn't exist... If I remember my history lessons right, the Romans invented concrete, that hardens under water, which is a main archivment. Greetings from Germany.
P.S. I live right beside the former Roman border and we have a lot of findings around here. A dozen miles north of Frankfurt, is a complete restored Roman border fortress, rebuilt 120 years ago and opened by a real emporer, the last German emporer...
I did get that completely wrong, I grant you that... My meaning was more "before we had modern construction methods" but I chose the example of concrete which happens to also be quite old... 😂
@@TheSebbyHour Don't mention it...
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Stop using SA for San Antonio.
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Very entertaining video.. please keep annoying as many people as you can
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😂 USA the land of NFI 😂
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I'm a 78 year old Canadian and enjoy your channel immensely.
Very happy to hear that! 😊
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