U.S. AMERICAN REACTS to the Dumbest Thing an American Has Said - Part 2
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I was at a conference in Maine. I mentioned something about PEI. This young guy from New York said to me, "What is this PEI?" Like a good Canadian I answered, "Sorry that's where I come from Prince Edward Island, we say PEI." He laughed, "I never heard anyone called the place they come from by its initials." "Well," I said, "it's a bit like USA."
well I agree with the rest of these comment, many Americans aren't well educated. But your comment I can't agree. I'm American but have lived all over ie Asia, Europe,etc, and of course have travelled in Canada. I know Prince Edward Island, but I honestly didn't know PEI. USA is officially what our country is. I never say America, as it then leaves out Canada, Central and South America. We are not 'America'. We are the USA, or united states of america. Anyway, it is a bit different, as most of the world knows USA, few have heard PEI.
@@martinwoyzeck2634 my point is not that this guy never heard of PEI but that he said he never heard of a place called by its initials when he calls his own country by its initials. 😄
@@martinwoyzeck2634 USA is short for "The United States of America", meaning, calling it the USA is "call[ing] the place they come from by its initials", which is what the American was refering to as strange.
NY!!!
L.A.
Me living in Austria, praying and hoping that the US never gets into a conflict with Australia.
We would be screwed.
Didn't you know that Australia is the 51st unofficial state of America? So, you're all good .
Don't worry, I doubt my fellow Americans would know where to look for you....😂
@@shutterchick79
You are right, but you didn't get the joke.
If they could locate it on the map 😂
Hey if you are Austrian I wanted to ask if there is an active monarchist movement in your country. The Habsburgs ruled over Austria for nearly 700 years, so if there is any push for their revival or is that idea dead in the water
I moved from France to the USA, started working at my new job, and my coworker asked me: "Does France have freedom?" ... 🙃
You could have responded: 'Yes, and that's why you country have yours. We shared some :DDD'
@@KlavierMenn haha true!!
More than we do in the US!
Why the hell did you downgrade?
This wasn’t said to me but I was a witness to it. I’m Australian and was visiting family in the Cayman Islands, we were on an excursion when a man started demanding a reduction in the price of his ticket because he was an officer in the United States Army, the captain of the boat politely tried to explained to him that he wasn’t in America , because the Cayman Islands aren’t part of the USA, so being in the US army didn’t entitle him to things he might be entitled to in the US. Let’s just say this man may have been an officer but he certainly wasn’t a gentleman.
What worries me is when people mention school teachers who are so ignorant about geography, languages etc. What hope do the youngsters have if they are being educated by such people?
Is teaching a status job in the US? Are teachers well paid in the US? If the answer to the two questions is no, then you can't expect that the people who take the job are necessarily the most talented. You get what you pay for.
Unfortunately, teachers here are treated very badly and not paid nearly enough.
@@NateLawson It's really a shame. The teachers are the foundation of society. This is where we all get the knowledge we need to carry out all the tasks in a civilization and they are the basis for our development. After all, we cannot stop and say now we have developed enough. If we did we would end up going backwards and perishing. Finland has understood this and is probably the country in the world that values its teachers the most. I myself am from Denmark and here the teachers are not appreciated as much as they should be, we can definitely learn from Findland. But the US seems to provide the worst conditions for education in the western world, unless you have money of course. I think it costs you dearly in the long run that it is like this. Just because you come from a rich family does not mean you are intelligent and you are not unintelligent just because you are poor. Equal access to quality education makes for a stronger nation because you get to make better use of people's abilities.
@@NateLawson EVERYONE in the USA is "treated badly" ... unless they are self-employed. Just look at the "McDonalds employee USA vs. Europe" evidence. It is the whole culture that centers around libertariansim, a.k.a. SELF-CENTEREDNESS, which was fine while the Wild West was being conquered, but nowadays - in the days of CIVILISATION - it is counter-productive.
@@jantimmerby Wrong ... PARENTS / A FAMILY are the foundation of society, because that is the smallest community we humans have. It has been attacked and destroyed for a long time. After that smallest community there are the schools, BUT there are also "kids meeting outside of school" ... which is made impossible in the USA due to their building codes ... giant roads that are unsafe for children and general planning REQUIRING a car to get anywhere (bicycles arent safe on US roads and there are not enough buses).
Sadly ... the education sector was the first one that got infiltrated by "people who were influenced by the ideas of the Warsaw Pact" ... and those started educating the teachers. Recent years have shown this to come to the light, but the ROT was present decades ago already.
Here on YT I "heard" an American say, in Europe they are socialists and because of that they are poor, they can't buy dryers for the laundry.
Bless 'em.
😂😂😂😂
"So you drove all the way from Germany?" ... DESERVES a "yes" answer (and - if you are close enough to worry about a gift for them - a map of the world as next birthday/christmas present).
As a german ... we had this "joke" in school (in the 70s) that "only 25% of americans can find their own country on a map of the world". That seems to be no exaggeration.
What's so annoying about some US folk, as was demonstrated here, is that they'll argue about stuff that they don't know anything about eg Wales and whales and the Mexican gentleman being told he was lying about his Independence Day
Confidently ignorant is what you're looking for. You're welcome. 😂😂
Yes, it’s okay not to know things, just don’t be ignorant.
@@autumnwinter1462 I think you mean arrogant.
Being ignorant means not knowing things...
That one about Wales and Whales also sounds a lot like a deadpan yanking of your chain . The USA is a common place to insult for generations, heard enough over time, it's predictable, unfortunately. If insulting and looking for reasons to insult the USA is your common game, many USA folks, will, over time, and hearing insults after insults, will dish out ridiculous answers or questions to see if you'll buy it . If that's what you're looking for, well here, have some more .
Our government propaganda, which includes TV shows, stupid commercials, news channels are full of outright S***t, on purpose.
As a massive sized country, that's a massive amount of S**t being cast about freely. It's to control, not just eff up peoples minds.
Look at the current big Pharma commercials on USA television for example. It all comes down to greed and the dumbing down of the Masses, including other countries. Other countries buy into the hubris in our propaganda, too .
As austrian i feel a bit responsible for the american education. We are the masters of PR and made the world believe that Beethoven is austrian but Hitler german. XD
Hey Nate! I live in Arizona and I used to be a landscaper about 6 years ago and we were working at a 50+ retirement complex and 99% of the people were the kindest people that would talk with us or give us drinks during the summer. One day I saw an older woman pull into the parking lot and started carrying groceries to her unit. I thought nothing of it other than “that’s alot of groceries for her to carry alone”, but nevertheless she pulled out a small cart and put everything in it then left to her unit. About 20 minutes later I was working on some irrigation for plants in front of her unit where there was 2 cases of water bottles by her front door. She walked out when she noticed me and bluntly asked me if I spoke “American”. For context, I was born here in AZ to Mexican parents and my skin tone must’ve given away that I’m Hispanic. I stopped what I was doing and answered her in English “What was that?” Maybe I misheard her. Then she repeats it again, “do you speak American”. I politely told her “No, I speak English and Spanish”. I was surprised but i had no disrespect in my response and she just smiled answering, “so you do speak American”. I repeated “no, I speak English and Spanish I don’t know what American is”. She then got mad and said “can you come here and help me put this water in my apartment”. I’m not sure why but I did it anyways and afterwards asked her “is there anything else I can help you with”? She answered with a glare and a stern “no just don’t make a mess at my door” as she slammed her door shut. Morale of the story, I don’t hold a grudge against her but I think it’s funny how ignorant some people can be.
Do you speak American? That's a good one! 😂
I watched one of these videos where an America girl on a European web site couldn’t find the US flag for the English language option. Eventually she stumbled across the Union Jack; then realised English wasn’t just spoke in American, but also by the English, in England.
I remember that. However she was mortified of her mistake, and recognized it on her own which at least indicates learning ability. Unfortunately that is something not attributable to several of the people mentioned in this video. Being learning resistant is a very dubious 'quality' to express publicly.
To be fair, some websites have US and UK localizations separately, so you do see a lot of US flags in the options.
On Topic one that comes to mind
"So where are you from?"
"Austria"
"Ah kangaroos love them"
"no...not australia...austria...uhm...Mozart? Alps..."
"Ah germany"
"No....Schwarzenegger Country..."
Mr. Lawson's last story: OMG! I was working at an international not-for-profit organization. A co-worker and I were talking about me going home to Spain for the summer and she asked me if I was taking the bridge. Confused, I asked, "what bridge?" She said the Chesapeake Bay Bridge! I shook my head and said, "maybe it's call the Chesapeake Bay Bridge because it crosses the Chesapeake Bay, not the Atlantic Ocean."
I used to think these were jokes but not so apparently. Unbelievable. I had a friend who went to an Ivy League school. When they found out she was from Kenya they asked her all sorts of crazy questions like how she'd come to the USA.... On flamingos? ... And did she have pet lions etc. She made up a whole bunch of stories that they believed. When she returned to Kenya she regaled us with these and we thought she was kidding. A few years passed and she returned to the USA and met those students again who proceeded to ask her how her lions were. She had to frantically search her memory to recall what she'd said. We were killing ourselves laughing.
I had a friend at University who was from Kenya and she had a guy bothering her so much that she finally told him that she was married and had three kids. He was shocked and said something about her being too young to have three kids. She told him that it's illegal for any girl to not be married by the time she is 16 in Kenya.... and he bought it
"I'm from New Zealand."
"Where's that?"
"An island nation near to Australia."
*condescendingly* "Oh, you mean Austria."
"...No, I mean Australia. Austria is landlocked."
"Australia isn't a real country. It was made up for the movies. Everyone knows that."
"..."
there is a simmilar clip on YT and a Swiss girl mentions a story where an American girl in HS confused Australia with Austria too and added some funny absurdities
When I was in the German army, I was stationed with a NATO HQ. One of the American staff officers asked me how to spell "February". I told him and he was surprised that there were two R's.
Not really stupid but I thought it was interesting he asked me, a non-native speaker.
I'm Finnish and I went to Florida to see my friend 13 years ago. Sitting at a bar and talking to some unknown guy and he noticed that although I speak with an American accent, he asked me where I was from. Told him that I'm from Finland. Then he went on to ask where abouts there. Told him Northern Finland. He asked me "So is that like close to Nova Scotia?". I mean sure it's in the northern hemisphere, but I think he presumed I was Canadian and Finland was some part of Canada near Nova Scotia.
True, the problem is they are convinced all the stories of 'the greatest on earth' are true too. That makes for extremely dumb people, if you only have that mindset, you can't help feeling sorry for most of them. It is probably the reason I hesitate to help American tourists on their way. The cop-out answer is always I do not speak English.
I was an exchange student 4 years ago (in Nebraska) and one of the guys in my PE class asked me if we have cars where i live. I also played a funny game with them where i would take a globe or map and ask them where the US, England, Germany etc where located. (most didnt even know where the US was)
My dad (who was from Hungary, and emigrated to Australia after WW2) would play a game with my sister and I when we were growing up where he said a city or country in the world, and we would need to find it on our globe...it was so much fun and instilled a love of geography and learning about other cultures to this day!
I'm 51 and now I play this game with my children...
Don't worry I have once to explained which part of México I'm from to a lady in charge of a museum!!!
Most Americans I met were perfectly normal but the few who were not were hilarious - one guy asked me ‘do you have elevators in Ireland?! - I think he was envisioning us living like we did 150 years ago! 😂
why do u think family guy was created :)
Hey mate, unfortunately when I travelled to the USA, in particular the southern states ,their knowledge of the world was incredibly insular. On a couple of occasions I mentioned that my brother was a Vietnam veteran, these people were ex US military themselves. They asked who he served with and I'd say "The Australian Army." One said how could he be a Vietnam veteran if he was in the Australian army. I said because he served in the Vietnam war ! They replied " no, the war was between Vietnam and the USA " .... anyway I googled some stuff for them and they were flabbergasted that other countries were involved in the Vietnam conflict. Also, many Americans had no concept of Australia as a country or a nationality let alone our political system or our capital cities etcetc.
Honeytly, I always forget what the capital of Australia is. But that's just my memory being dogshit.
But at least I know the difference between Australia and Austria.
How does that even happen? Sorry about them
@Nugire To be honest, hardly anyone has heard of Canberra, our capital city. It is a small town, purposely built and located between the better (and more interesting!) cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
*better known
hahaha...yes, I'm always embarrassed to the stupidity of fellow Americans. I think it's intentional from our government. Its to make everything American. Most Americans don't know other countries were involved in WW2. And think we won the war ourselves. It is lack of education, more so, traveling is the best education, which most Americans don't do, or if they do it's like going to Grand Canyon, or a camping trip.
I once got hit with the classic, "You're from Canada? Isn't it cold there? Do you have to fight off bears?" Told them that in Toronto, there are few bears. So then he asked, "is Toronto a small town, because Canada doesn't have a big population." Told him that Toronto is the 4th largest metropolis (tied with Chicago) in North America, with a population of over 5 million people in the Greater Toronto Area. That blew his mind.
Maybe you should've told him, that Canadians fight Polar Bears on a regular daily base. With your hands tied on your back. You wanna give the bear at least a fair chance 😉 😁
@@Anthyrion That, or offered him a REAL beer, not that pish-in-a-bottle crap they call "beer" in the States.
I live in the province next to Toronto, which is Quebec, where the majority of French-Canadians like myself live. I have American cousins in Connecticut (a hop, a skip and a jump from Quebec, so the don't have the excuse of being at the opposite end of the country) who, everytime I went to visit, would tell me things like: "You don't need fridges in Canada, since it's always cold. All you need is to go outdoors, cut up a bloc of ice outside and put in your icebox"...
"You had to convert your Canadian money to American currency to come over here? Why don't you just use American Money all the time, instead? It would save you the trouble...", forgetting that Canada is its own country, not some undefined territory.
"How come you speak English so good? I didn't think you'd have any contact with English folks, being in Quebec and all!" as if by living in Quebec we were cut off from the rest of North America...
They were also shocked to learn that we had paved roads (over the perma-frost, I suppose), electricity, telephone and television and that it even featured some American tv programs!
After a few years, I just quit going; it was too depressing.
@@renezescribe1229 You know, the first point isn't far from the truth. On the north shore of the St. Lawrence River are holes dug into the hillside by residents to store food all year round as the man-made caves are cold and stay cold whatever the season.
The second point is just something no American understands. Nevada, for example, is a state equaling France or Brazil - an independent state, with it's own governing body, etc. The Union provides other services, like money, arms, protection, etc., but each state is essentially it's own "country", if you will. They don't get the fact that ALL of Canada is a state. The founding fathers, in 1867, when looking for a word to fill the gap of ________ of Canada, rejected "state" just because of the USA. JAM came across the word "dominion" somewhere in the bible, and that problem was solved right there. Dominion of Canada.
In theory you could get from Germany to the USA by car. From Germany east to Russia and wait until the Bering Strait has frozen over. Would only be a "small" detour. 🙂
I'm American, lived in S.E.Asia for 20 years. One time was on a bus from Thailand to Vietnam. Behind me was an American woman, and a British guy, both in their late 20's.
Being bored I eavesdropped into their conversations. Definitely were flirting back and forth. She lived in Texas and then NYC. Had a degree. Was a journalist. They're talking and talking, and about 45 minutes into the conversation, the British guy says 'I'm planning to go to Ohio next year, as I have a friend that lives there. Do you know of any cool, hip cities there'. There was a long pause, she was thinking, and finally said 'I don't know, maybe Chicago...?!
I wanted to turn around and tell the guy not all of us are that ignorant,but I didn't. But there was silence after that. I'm sure the British guy knew Chicago wasn't in Ohio.
The "You don't look like a mexican" give me chills every time I travel US, only because I have light skin that does not mean I'm not. So yes I can relate with that dude.
The funny thing about the Mexican one is, imagine if I went up to an immigrant here in Sweden and said "Wait, you're black? It doesn't make sense for a black person to speak Swedish."
The dumbest thing I have ever heard from an American was from the President Bush Jr, when he visited France. He said ''the problem in France is that you don't have a word for entrepreneur''. I've never laughed so much.
Problaby because is a french word 😂
that man renamed French fries into 'Freedom Fries' - nuff said
One of my uncles was in the UK armed forces in Germany and they changed the license plates to German plates because of Terrorist threats at the time!
The American's stationed in Germany did the same thing... almost. In the left blue field where the country of origin is D= Deutschland, NL Netherlands ect.. they put USA. Yes advertise the Americans, smart idea.... NOT.
Ok, I didn't know if there was still a mark showing the USA or not. Thank you!
@@NateLawson The USA was only in the blue area for a few years but now it's a D with the local regional German city letters in front, just like a normal German plate. So we blend in more unless you have a huge Ford F150.
@@comcam55 Yeah, a pickup is NOT what you want to bring to Germany. Makes you a target, but also everyone will ask you to help them friggin move!
I'm from Sweden and Americans always mix up Sweden with Switzerland. Plus somewhere somewhat Copenhagen comes into the mix. Also, it's always very cold in Sweden. Sigh. Great reaction, Nate! 😂😂😂👍👍👍🌹
And? Did you use the Bridge? 😂😂 Greetings from Baden Württemberg.
I did! But I made sure I got gas before we left, because there aren't any gas stations in the Atlantic Ocean! 😉
As one of the people appearing said, it's not just the Americans but, they do do it so well ;D
I watched both of your videos on this and this one especially hit hard.
I'm from the Netherlands and while i have't had much interaction with americans outside of the internet, these stories are not just fun anymore, they are downright disturbing and its not good for any country if your citizens are on the level of cavemen intellectually in some parts of it.
If anything, this video should be used as motivation for kids to study harder and about alot more subjects then whats been tought in school.
during student exchange in the 90s an american girl asked me if we've got cars in germany.
i told her no, we're still riding donkey carts. that's why we have no speed limit on the autobahn.
she totally bought it.
liar! don't mislead the poor girl. who can afford donkeys? the carts are drawn by oxen!
I think it’s beyond time a group of school kids are taken on a tour of Canada to start so they can finally see for themselves we are not built on a block of ice and live in igloos while wild animals such as bears are constantly after us. This B.S. has been going on WAY too long!!!!!!!!!
It's not a new thing, Nate. I'm German and was on an exchange program with a Michigan senior highschool back in 1981. We had THEACHERS ask us the same questions your wife was asked, plus how weird it was to them that we could travel, what with the terrible war going on over there. We tried to explain that WW II had been over for quite a while, but that's not what they were talking about. They meant the Iran/Iraq war...............
Good reactions.
Difficult to pick a favourite story from here but I'll probably go with the Wales one.
PS, I can't wait to cross the US-German bridge when I get to it.
Hope you have a mega tank in your car 😉
I know I look older than I am, but when I was asked by an American woman in college if I voted for Hitler in the election, I was afraid I looked even older than I thought.
But it was also the same woman who, on a tour of the city, when we saw an old wall, asked if that was "the wall" (berlin wall).
Honestly, these videos makes me glad I'm not American cuz if I was, I'd be too embarrased to show my face anywere. I'd probably move to a proper country.
I just found it incredible to hear from the group of young people at the gas station when they asked if you always drive from Germany to America just like that. That they didn`t even know , that the atlantic ocean lie in between and you don`t just like that can commute back and forth by car or train etc. I feel so sorry for the young people that they didn`t learn geography about europe at school.🙂🌹
where is the fault in their thinking? the distance between a major city in the most western parts of Germany like Cologne and New York is around 6,000km. building a bridge to facilitate traffic should be doable, right? right?
Oh! When did they open that bridge?😂😂🤣🤣😁😁👍👍
At 3:42 you state "These can't be real." Well I am sorry to tell you this but sadly they probably all are.
Consider this: The United States elected a man to office that once said in a speech, “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket’s red glare, it had nothing but victory.” Manned the air? Rammed the ramparts? Took over the airports? In 1776? Really?
The really sad part of that is almost half the voters in the country voted for that silly ass and even though he is a laughingstock and an embarrassment in the rest of the world, there are still a great many Americans who would like to have him re-elected to office.
Based on that I'm sure you would have to agree Nate that most, if not all, of these stories are very much true. Another sad part of this is the fact that each country in the world has a similar percentage of uninformed ignorant halfwits in their population.
But sometimes other factors come into play. A Canadian acquaintance of mine was in rural England a few years back having a drink in the local pub. When the locals figured out he was from Canada a conversation ensued. Someone asked how tall the corn grew in Canada and he told them it could reach up to twelve feet in height. Immediately someone called bullshit and a fight almost started. Tensions were relieved however when someone else pointed out that in Canada what we call corn is called maize in the UK and that what we call wheat in Canada is called corn in Britain............ Nobody was all that dumb but there were some who were uninformed.
Absolutely Real!
I met some Americans in a bar ,while on holiday in Greece, They kept asking me questions about Ireland 🇮🇪. Now the bit I knew about Ireland sonn Ran out having never been there, so I replied sorry I don't know im English, They didn't believe me I had pull my Driving licence out and show the UNION Flag on it ,Think they thought all English spoke like Hugh Grant or the king .I'm Northern English, Think it scrambled their brains 🧠.
My Swiss husband and I have been married for nearly 20 years. We've been living in Switzerland for almost 15 of those. I Still get people asking me how I like Sweden.
The problem is that a lot of people aren't interested in anything. So they never look for information on the outside world, or even their own country. So sad as there's so much of it available at the push of a button.
I feel ya! I used the same "bridge" to drive to Finland!!🤠😁😅
I swear, some of these people think that America is the only civilised country out there.
Funfact.. TV (Ferdinand Braun) and modern refrigerators (Carl von Linde) were inveted by Germans ^^
This is a public service announcement: as a german I can confirm the fact that we have PLENTY of tv`s and fridges over here. #facts #germany #all #the #way 😁😆
p.s. "they built a bridge?" I am literally having an ab workout over here.
don't be daft. Germany is a fairy tale country and doesn't really exist. everyone knows that
What boggles my mind is how many US citizens don't know the difference between geography and history
I enjoyed Nates story the most 😂
Of course we German can drive anywhere 😆
funny story about this license plate experience. 🙂
well, i am german, studied one year in berkeley back in 1988, travelled a lot the years after throughout many states. you could do part 3, 4 and 5 - just with my stories and my experiences. first i was laughing, but after a while, it really hurts and i was deeply sad.
in addition, bonus material, i'll give you one quick story. dated oct., 2009.
background, i own a cottage at a neat lake in nova scotia, canada. once i was in yarmouth (south of n.s.) and took the ferry to maine, usa. i met there with my american friends from boston, for eating lobster. the owner of the restaurant asked me where i come from, because he obviously realised i am no native american. i replied, i just came here for a quick get-together with my friends. i am from nearby new germany, nova scotia. he looked, no stared, at me and asked. so there is no old germany anymore? and you belong to scotland now? and you got here by car? he went away being totally confused. i had no chance to answer or react.
well, well...
“You drove all the way from Germany?” 😂 hahahah that was funnier than some of those TikToks.
If you really want a headache, there is video of senator on YT, worrying about Guam, fearing that the island will CAPSIZE if too many US troops were transported there....😂 I believe he was re-elected too after that.
Brother i used to work for the US Military at the gate here in Würzburg. Imagine the things i went thru 😂 it was the funniest job i ever had 😂
"Do you speak african?" I would have asked "you mean afrikaans? But you must confuse Kenia with the country of South Africa". And in your story the second situation I would have coldly responsed "No, I flew it over here but took the wings and turbines off after I landed, they´re stored at the airport for when I wanna fly back" making your friend really peeing his pants, because I bet that response would have been gold.
Hi Nate thank you for sharing the video with us
Here is some of mine.
I am standing in a café in my hometown when this lady Infront of me says
- Oh it's so nice to see so many tourists
Figured I would just ignore to answer.
- where are you from? Looking right at me
- This is my hometown
- where are your parents from?
- here
- where are your grandparents from?
- Sweden
- you are a liar. Everyone knows swedish people are blonde and have blue eyes
(I'm a redhead)
I just look at her and ask: where are you from?
- Louisiana, U.S.A
- oh what a nice liar you are. Everyone knows your an American. Your blonde hair and skin colour isn't native American
- that is so offensive! And she stormed off
My co worker standing right next to me Is an American with blonde hair and blue eyes
Here is another one.
Be thankful America is sharing all this great bands with the world. Such as black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones ect
Ummm they are all British bands. Point it out and you get called every name in the book
Or this one.
We invented so many great things that we shared with the world. Cars. Phones. Tv. Points out they are all European inventions and I was called ignorant and stupid.
There are some ignorant people out in the world but what we have to keep in mind is there are others like yourself, intelligent and open minded
"... right over the bridge they just built ..." I was laughing so hard. 😆A couple more of those and you could do a standup routine.
The thing that stands out is not so much the stupidity of what they say but the confidence that they say it and there is no talking them out of what they believe. I refer to this as Aggressive Ignorance. A good 25-35% of Americans are aggressively ignorant.
ouch... the bridge from germany to the US...
Hi Nate, hope you're doing good.
The girl talking about being from Wales...that's actually a believable story.
There was a guy from Sacramento that I used to play Battlefield with, that pretty much said the same thing. I tried to explain to him the difference between; the UK, British Isles and the countries each contained. As soon as I mentioned Wales he stopped me and said that it was an animal not a country!
This is easily a decade ago, long before these uploads existed.
I have another example too (not about Wales).
Same game, same time period, with two friends from Ohio. A fourth random player joins the three of us, so I say hello. This guy has a strong Southern US accent and he instantly starts going crazy with me about how "he ain't playing in no dang squad with no dang Ruskie commie scum". My friends break out into laughter and try to explain that I'm from the North of England (Yorkshire). The guy is having none of it. He not only leaves the squad, he also switches team. Needless to say, I killed him so many times that he completely left the server :)
I only found these compilations recently. If you want a laugh, check out some of the "Quintessentially British TikToks" on here. I guess ones with higher views are better?
They're probably not great content for reaction vids and I throwing my own people to the lions, but definitely good for a laugh.
... drove over the bridge they just built ... Jikes 😂!
Thanks for the laugh. hahaha "Did you drive all the way from Germany?" lol 🤣
My dear Nate, stupidity isn't exclusively American. But like that one guy said, "But when Americans do it, damn, they do it well."
There are however the very intelligent US Americans who get the same dazed look when they hear this, and just CAN'T believe that these kinds of comments occur in real life.
Unfortunately, they exist. However, if it is any consolation, all countries have their fair share of two-digit IQ's barely above room temperature, either scale, C° or F°.
Yep, true. But the deficit amongst American is in the order of 'strait up the difference between both scales'.
They never watch the news,
yes, well some countries, not all have their below average education. Lived a bit in Europe,and going around, it seemed even the gardener, railroad flag guy, plumber, etc had a pretty good grasp on the world. I lived in Asia a long time, and definitely some countries there, it's low IQ, but then they make sure of that.
But the bottom line, as an American is not comparing it. It's doing something about it. It's easy to say 'it's not all Americans', and that's true. Part of why many people from other countries get on Americans case about education, is because we do have ,or some, a very arrogant, pompous attitude towards the rest of the world, and many who still believe we're the greatest country in the world.
Hey Americans Germany is not a third world country Germany is in many cases so much better than the United States of America the so called land of the free it's not there are many great country's to live in America is not the only one also the vast mayority of people worldwide speaks english perfectly fine.
Seriously what do you do for fun in Germany or any European country or country's outside of Europe? my God what an idiotic question no offence.
Sorry for this rant Nate please once again no offence.
Other than that a great reaction/video keep up the great work👍
And greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱
You may be not the smartest, but you are a smart guy anyway.
Totally appreciating you reaction videos and differentiated thoughts.
Edith: The things this guy asked your wife about were invented in Germany, more or less. 🤦🏼♂️
Greetings from germany. I don't know, if the story is true. But a friend told me, that he once chatted with an american and he was asked, if Hitler is still our chancellor and if we can meet him. My friend told him, that Hitler was dead for over 60 years at that point. The american condolenced with "Oh no. I am so sorry to hear that."
and one to show that europeans can also be ignorant. So i am from austria - the official and pretty much only language there is german - and moved to switzerland, the german speaking part of it.
The guy at the migration office took my passport, that says AUSTRIA on it, looks at it, opens it up, reads it - looks at me
"sprechen.....sie....deeuuutsch?" (do you speak german?)
i was a bit confused and answered "besser als sie auf jeden Fall" -> "well, better than you for sure"
to be fair the second official language in switzerland is french so if he had asked me if i spoke french i would have had to pass
You should have told the guy that germans invented TV and modern refrigerators. That face, haha.
Tja anscheinend hatte ich immer Glück. Ich hab anscheinend nur die gebildeten Amerikaner getroffen. Einer war so stolz in der Schule Deutsch gelernt zu haben, das er Schiller's Glocke rezitierte, und das fehlerfrei!
Got cut off by bad Internet connection. Your stories! Drive all the way from Germany!Omg! Hahaha!!! 😂😂😂
I was asked if I was Black. I said no I am White. He asked me then why do you have a Black voice…… 🤦🏻♀️ what is a Black voice????
FYI, in the UK, the now king, former Prince of Wales, Charles, soon to have his coronation technically owns all the swans in the land and by law you are not allowed to kill/harm them as they have crown protection. Following the Trump visit to the palace in whenever 2017/18, when he met with former queen Liz and Charles, Trump tweeted that he was - something to the effect of - delighted to meet the the Prince of Whales 🤪. Which still makes me laugh at to this day.
we had an student exchange and they believed we dont have fridges here in germany
I once had an American offer me a new life in America. I simply said no thank you. She was shocked and told me how sad I must be.
No im not sad I'm actually happy and feel free to live.
I am German and when I visited relatives in the US one guy asked If we have electricity in Germany, another guy asked how long it took me to drive there
It's really hard to believe...
Has anyone else ever had the overwhelming urge to smack the hell out of someone for saying such stupid things like what is in this video?
I dont have dishwasher and microwave. Am i still human?
Yes and blender is also missing in my home. So I am probably just caveman 😅
The prince of the wales really got me. My bitter joke about such (also about likewise clever germens) is: "And they are all legal to vote!" On the other hand: I'll gladly visit the US more often, as soon as the bridge is finished. Will there be gas stations on that bridge? My bike only has a 24l tank.
May I ask for some financial support? Not for myself: the community is collecting money for the church tower. They wanna exchange the drums with a rhing they call bell. They say it's an improvement.
it makes sense when he was the 'prince of whales'. less sense to assume this pale skinned woman was Jamaican
Uneducated is not the same as stupid!
Stupidity is inherited... blame education on someone else!
I'm Austrian and saw a german 90's docu on the mid west... Well, they went in an amusement park and wanted to do an inteview about youth culture in the US, and it didn't work that great: Interviewer "Hey guys, do you know Germany?"(already having kind of an idea of their education level) and not much surprisingly they started thinking and asking each other, until the agreed that they got no clue. Then the Interviewer, who really didn't want to make them look stupid made it even easier for them... "Do you know Europe?". Again they stuck their heads together and had anothher discussion, until a girl FINALLY(word-joke^^) said "Of course i know Europe! That's the band who did the song "the final countdown", my fahter used to listen to! 🤣
Wait until you find the TikTok video of the Alaskan man working at an airport counter, who is regulary asked by visitors from other US states where they can exchange US dollars for the Alaskan currency. How he describes it. So funny.
A lack of education isn't stupidity, it's just sad.
11:45 Yeah, the bridge they built from Portugal THE WHOLE 5.000 KM to Rhode Island... XD
I was once in a tavern in the Gower Peninsula, in south Wales. `Got talking to a chap who`d just finished a competition in which he was fishing for Wales. How would one explain this to an `American ?`
I spend the winter in Jamaica and commonly get asked what state I’m from-I’m Canadian
Beautifully summarised by Barney in HIMYM
Barney: Not only are you wrong, but you are belligerently sticking to your guns and insulting me in the process. Robin Scherbatsky - you are an American.
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I am Canadian and was trying to explain to a man from Texas where Saskatchewan is.... I thought positioning on the map with the states south of it would help.... it didn't! I asked him "DO you know where Montana and North Dakota are? He said, "I have heard of Montana I have never heard of North Dakota."
Let's just hope that most of those are fake.
Bro this is such a great topic! It'd be cool if you made a series out of it 💯💯💯
Oh these are real, I’m from Sydney Australia, In 2021 I was doing a live tik tok video celebrating year 2021, had some Americans telling me little early it’s 2020 I replied I’m Australian we’re 14 hours ahead, they replied so your in the future I said technically yes because of our time zones, they said beauty what’s the Arizona Lottery numbers for tonight! Geez
your private story at the end about your plate made my day.. hahahaha... bridges....
I really enjoyed your videos and comments and there are lot more to show and talk about and ones about American living abroad
ah great you got around doing these ^^ wanna contribute one myself.
So i was practicing latin with a classmate in a public cafe - for a test. This woman walks by, stops, looks at us
"your spanish sounds weird"
"uhm, well its because its latin not spanish"
"calling it something else doesnt make it less racist"
"huh?"
"white people speaking spanish is cultural appropriation"
"uhm...you are aware, that spanish...was invented and spoken by white people long before it was introduced to america...in places like...spain?"
"oh darling, spain is a language not a country"
To be fair i never asked her where she is from but...i just figured that sounded so typicly american i thought she might be from LA.
Man, Ireland was even populated with celtic people from Spain 5000 years ago!!!
nono, you speak of Catalan. you forgot the part where some clever people took Catalan, renamed it and sold it under a new label and all copyrights to some adventurers with ties to the Americas.
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Hi Nate, I haven't seen this one before so all new to me :)
I like that you shared a couple of stories with us, yes there are "stupid" people everywhere in the world, you are right about not knowing about "outside of their bubble", another UA-camr gave a reason for this, they said that its because of the lack of holidays people in the US are allowed, I can understand that to a degree, but these are young people in the clips, and many of them are relaying stories from school/college so nothing to do with lack of time but money definitely, however I know that some younger people do exchanges at school, we had a few people from the US at school in the 70's, I'm guessing that stopped but I'm sure others have mentioned that it is still happening 🤷
Take care
A doctor ones asked me how do you spell knife in German? " K N I F E " 😆
Hello Nate, the funny thing about the question of whether we have TVs and refrigerators in Germany is the fact that both devices were invented by Germans. The cooling principle comes from Linde, the television, at that time still with the cathode ray tube, was also named after its inventor, Ferdinand Braun, Braun'sche tube.
Manfred von Ardenne then derived a great deal from this for the development of the first television set.
Much like the airplane invention. I understand the Wright Bro's contribuition to the wings design and the invention of the air tunnel... but the one who invented the self-propelling airplane was a brazilian named Alberto Santos-Dumont
Everything you have said is ABSOLUTELY wrong.
No German was involved in the development of the refrigerator, Wikipedia does not mention any...
By now most people know that the television was first invented by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (mechanics) and Philo Taylor Farnsworth, an American known for creating the first all-electronic television.
William Crookes (England) he is known for being the inventor of the cathode ray tube, for the discovery of the element thallium, and for being the first to analyze helium gas in the laboratory.
You are as ignorant as an American...