American Reacts How Americans Got So Stupid
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I suspect that what gives United States Americans the reputation for being stupid is that there is a minority that is not only ignorant, but arrogant with it. The rest of us have our fair share of ignorant people, but at least most of them are a bit ashamed that they don't know; whereas there seems to be quite a few Americans who don't care that they don't know!
The US seems to put a priority on asserting yourself, and making sure nobody gets the better of you, rather than making sure that what you are asserting yourself about is right.
This is a class thing. Americans have no class ;-)
True enough. Americans elevate their stupid, other nations have the self-awareness to dismiss them out of hand.
It is NOT a minority. It's the sad reality of out country. It's because people just blindly believe/memorize things. They are not taught to understand "why"
I’ve met considerably more stupid yanks than I have clever ones.
Very true. You see lots of uneducated and ignorant US americans who are proud to be uneducated and ignorant. How on earth did that happen? Well.. I think it's pretty simple, at least nowadays. The republicans don't want to lose their voters, better to keep them stupid and voting for them...
I once heard an American tourist complain the chimes of big ben were annoying him and who could he complain to so they'd get turned off. Ffs and that's my American in London story 😂😂
you should off have told him he needs to press the big snooze button on the top of big ben
@@davidrentonlmao
You should have sent him to knock at number 10. Best going straight to the top if you want action.
@@StephenButlerOne Larry the Cat will sort out any troublesome yanks
Absolutely right about celebrity , the reason being the emergence of " reality" shows . People have actually made a career out of being stupid or selfish on tv .
“Got any gum chum?
Everything I know about any influencer or reality TV show "star" I learned against my will.
Social medias are also a big part of their decline. Celebrities used to be mysterious, they only talked during controlled interviews. So people were able to project whatever they wanted on them and no one knew how dumb most of them were.
Their image was more controlled and you had to buy one of those trash scandal magazines to see bad pictures of them.
And as you said, people usually needed some professional achievement to be noticed, being a public figure wasn't considered a job in itself.
Nowadays politicians are also making careers out of being (or at least acting) stupid.
I agree but at the same time I disagree with the statement that celebrities dont get as big as back then. I think Justin Bieber is great example. Also Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Kim Cardashian, Kanye, Eminem. Those names are so huge that everybody pretty much knows them. Even my granny once asked me about this ´weird Kim Cardashian lady´ after she saw her in TV news. And we live in Czech Republic.
One thought I have as to why so many Americans haven’t left the country, is the amount of vacation time they get and how they use it. They have to use it if they are sick and even then they have to find someone to cover them in a lot of cases. So, when you only have a few days a year, you don’t want to spend half of that time traveling.
75 yr old Canadian here. When I was 15 I went to Champagne/Urbana Ill. to visit family. Her friends asked the obvious stupid questions ( do you live in igloos, are you always in snow) . I explained I live 1 mile from Detroit (while Motown thng) and I knew lyrics to songs before they did. Their minds were blown. Even then I could see how cloistered this country is.
same question ( do you live in an igloo) was asked by a neighbour kid while i was visiting relatives in Detroit Michigan USA more than 50 years ago. Detroit is right across the river from Windsor, Ontario, Canada. the buildings of both cities can be clearly seen from either side of the river. 50 years later and Into the 21 century usa still asking the same question...........baffling
British person here. An old friend checked into a hotel in the US and was asked what state the UK was in. He replied "England, in the UK". Receptionist asked "What, New England?". Again, he was asked what state it was in, to which he replied "Chaos".
Forty years ago I knew two chaps that worked in Germany selling furniture to American soldiers that had moved to the bases. On numerous occasions, having declared they were from England, they were complimented on how good their english was.
Ha - when visiting the Voltaire Museum in Geneva, an American tourist asked me if I could read (translate for him) the manuscript in the glass case, which I duly did. Afterwards, he turned to me and remarked how good my English was, and asked where I had learned it. `England' was my reply; he then asked `how long were you there?' `35 years', I said - he looked confused at that point.
I was stationed in Germany back in the 80s and I took a trip to England for a few days. When I got back some fellow soldiers asked how was your trip. I said it was good lots to see and also good to be able to speak english. I got a few responses of oh yeah they speak english there. God Save The Queen lol
My husband was in Germany around the same time selling Encyclopaedias to the Americans. He still muses a lot about the chats he had with them, they wanted knowledge but were unwilling to accept that knowledge outside of American history.
@@AnitaDilI'm English and was living in Amsterdam when an American couple on holiday approached me and asked if I happen to speak American. I said no but I'm quite fluent in English if you would like to converse in that language, they just looked at me as of I was dumb,without a word they turned around and walked away.
I hate to break it to you Connor but many, probably most Europeans have travelled outside Europe.
True but they're not thick and see past the their border
the video is old! Sarkozy was president of France from 2007 to 2012, the photo shows the "orange" American celebrity still very young, without being completely orange!
Connor, the Soviet Union is no longer since 1991!!!
How he supposed to know dat
@@thomasbarchen How do billions of people know that?
Meeting a British person who has been outside the European geographical area is not uncommon. Popular destinations (in no particular order) include US (e.g. Florida, NYC), Mexico, Caribbean destinations, Morocco, Egypt, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand, amongst others.
Same for Sweden. I probably know someone who hasn't been to another continent, but they are pretty few and far apart. I have only been to Africa and N. America. Never Asia which is perhaps the most common other continent for Swedes to visit.
We travel haven’t been to Antarctica the only Continent I haven’t visited and sadly won’t be able to do so. Thank goodness Americans don’t have a passport because London and Edinburgh is heaving with them. We do travel more especially outside of the EU.
At the age of 64 I have literally been to every continent except Antarctica, my next port of call is Japan as I haven’t been there yet, going with my daughter. However I live just over the border from Scotland in Cumbria and I have never been there 😂 I’m leaving the home countries until I don’t want to fly long haul any more. I still have a couple of the Balkan countries to visit and I need to go back to Russia once things settle. There is only so much you can see in a couple of weeks. The Chunnel has been a godsend I can get to Paris in under ten hours with out flying only using public transport. That is why we are so much better traveled it is in effect easier for us. Of course having 39 days leave a year helps. 28 days plus 11 days as I work bank holidays. We often pop over to mainland Europe for city breaks.
@@Sofasurfa I hope you get there! Russia maybe a difficult one in the future because of the help we have give to Ukraine. I wish you well. I am in a similar position. however, I am now disabled and Japan and Sth Korea seem, a step to far.
@@mairiconnell6282 I was actually in Moscow way back in 1979 when I was twenty, I worked as a diplomatic nanny for three years, it was supposed to be just a year then off to uni but I took my degree as a ‘mature student’ at 25 😂 as I was enjoying seeing the world and I worked for the most fantastic family. Then I settled down had my own family I’m an older mother don’t you know 😂 Started travelling again when my husband died, I was only 47 and my youngest was 10. Fortunately I have distant family on three continents so I just dossed on them 😂😂😂 whoops got sidetracked just meant to say never say never hopefully there will still be a way for you ❤️
When I was growing up in the 1940s/50s, there were hundreds of American military bases in the UK, mostly USAF, and across Europe and Japan. This meant there were thousands of Americans accumulating Worldly knowledge and experience and returning home with it. As these bases lessened after the 1960s, so did contact with the outside World.
ah, that sounds like a good explanation, there probable are other factors too
There's still plenty in my area, We even still have plenty of American neighbours, both current and ex USAF. You can hear them when still in the next village!
However, everything else you have said, I would have to agree with.
uff you used a dirty word there .. " worldly knowledge" now why would americans need that, when america is the greatest 🙂,, well the rest of the modern western world can easlily answer that, but the small blip in history 1776 bubble country seems to not have gotten the memo...
I believe the reason is bit different.
I agree with you that their interest in world was consequence of WW2.
However I think that Pearl Harbour was their reality check resulting in their participation in War as well as paying attention to world affairs and stuff. But the generations born after WW2 started getting more and more comfortable again living in their isolated bubble.
US still has huge amount of soldiers outside their country not only in bases of allied countries but even in wars. Yet, Americans are losing interest in knowledge every year.
My theory is that it´s beacause they don´t see anything in the world as a threat for their safety since it all happens so far away.
Just FYI Connor, few people want Soviet Style Communism (though I have met some and laughed in their faces) though Democratic Socialism is gaining popularity. I'm also glad you know the difference between communism and socialism, because the majority of Americans still don't and that's a big part of the problem.
I've heard people in America call the Democrat party "communists", which I can't tell if they're joking to be ironic or are serious, in which case they don't know political history at all, or how conservative (in a global sense) the DNC really is.
I think you're not really savvy about it, too. In general, there's no much difference between communism and socialism. They're both economic systems where private business is not allowed, and they advocate public ownership over the means of production and over distribution and exchange of goods. Actually, communism is just a stricter version of socialism, which is completely void of any democratic processes, as the party decides literally everything.
"...where private business is not allowed,..."
That one statement negates any claim you have to knowing the difference between Communism and Socialism.
Let me guess conservative/right wing supporter. Doesn't matter, you don't know what you're talking about and therefore will be ignored.
@@JonInCanada1 Definition of socialism - a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
So, that by definition negates private businesses. And you're not the first person who thinks to know political labels. Tho, if you have any objections to the definition, just give me an example of a socialist, but non-communist country.
@@damyrhe won't respond 😂😂he just wanted to talk down to you and leave .
I don't understand why this type of persons insert into conversations they knowingly will not finish
The dumbing down of Americans isn't an accident. It's been going on since 1905. John D Rockefeller was the founder of the General Education Board & has a famous quote. "I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of worker's" ~ John D Rockefeller
'Murca never dumbed-down.
How did oppenhiemer going through us education get so smart if what you say is true
@@robertcreighton4635 They still have elite universities to produce people to rule over the masses.
@@robertcreighton4635 wow. Insane gotcha, use an outlier to point to how the general populace isn't batshit.
@@robertcreighton4635
Maybe the clue is in the name...
Europeans do generally think it's weird if someone has never left Europe.
if you live in a big country with hundreds of tribes and languages like Russia, Brazil, Congo and India you don't need to leave the country to get a culture shock. but the United States is very special because many native Americans don't speak their mother tongue. their culture had disappeared and was replaced by American and English domination.
I live in Denmark and our second biggest travle destination is Thailand. Only Spain gets more Danish visitors. I don't think that Thailand is located in Europe. 😁
It's not?
Africa?
I’ve been all around the planet. The single most absent country represented on my travels were Americans,you just never met any American travellers…anywhere. It was bizarre for such a wealthy country and I never understood why this was true?FYI,the biggest cohort was definitely the British,they are everywhere!
It’s a good thing that Americans don’t pollute the world with their presence.
I know, I think it’s because we’re nosey. That or it’s thwarted colonialism 😂😂😂
Dunno how long ago you traveled around the world, but I can think of two current reasons why you see few Americans abroad.
One, the majority are simply too poor to go to another country(maybe excluding Canada or Mexico).
Two, USA is frikkin big, like nearly the size of a continent, with all sorts of climates. The distance you travel in Europe to go to another country is the same distance you go to another state in the USA.
And, I just thought of a third: Politics/media/education. Americans think the US is the only civilized country in the world, where all others are complete hellholes, stuck in the middle ages, or flatout don’t exist. So they don’t want to go to such “terrible places…”
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression" is not exactly the same thing as freedom of speech. It's one of those things like the metric system that just doesn't fit into your head.
Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are not the same thing. You can "express" yourself simply by wearing a hat without uttering a single word, for example.
Metric system is just multiply/divide by 10. Any american that doesn't know it is just lazy...you learn it in basic science classes in highschool. Whenever an american doesn't understand the simple metric system, it is 100% because of their effort level
Freedom of expression includes freedom of speech, right?
Freedom of Speech only applies to the government, you can complain about the government without them censoring, persecuting or jailing you. It doesn't mean that you can say anything you want and people won't like it and tell you so or worse.
@@bwd1005 Exactly
What makes me laugh are those Americans who think the English language originated in America! Think about it. If that was the case wouldn't it be called 'American' rather than English. Duh!
0:40 As a fellow american, please don't fall for this logical trap, we need to be better than that: you literally cannot say that you don't like something if you do not understand it fully. The reason is, because in order to dislike something, you have to know what it is that you are disliking. If you don't have an understanding of something, then you don't have enough data to make an accurate judgment about something!
As for communism, we have never seen communism implemented accurately. When it happens, it might start honestly, but then people in charge fail at integrity and weakly give into greed...and then it turns into authoritarian/dictatorship/etc.
Our unregulated capitalism has the same issue - weak minded people that can't fight illogical thoughts and greed. That's why workers are treated like indentured servants and serfs in america, no healthcare, no shelter, pretty laughable education. It's so sad to see things stay so corrupted :/
I wonder if one reason for a general dumbing down, not just in the USA, is that it seems that people are not reading books to the same extent that they used to. If you rely on TV and the internet for your information, you are likely to develop a more superficial view of the world and be less likely to develop your critical faculties.
i say, this general dumbing down is true over here too in the young generation,
I actually dont think this is thaaaat true, i can see how it can be true but at the same time not really. Most books read are not factual books. Its not like book readers today read tourism books. Its mostly scifi, thriller or drama. Fictional worlds. It can give you some indicators ofcourse if you read about some thriller in France or whatever. And i dont think the general population is reading about factual scíence stuff.
I belive that the internet can accidently cause people to open their eyes more. Way more than people did before. If you lived in the US in lets say, 1950s. You didnt connect with anyone outside of the US: Now? Well that happends almost every day.
Before you had radio channels that decided what music you listen to, you had 1 channel on TV for that whole state. You read the news papers that they gave out in your area.
Now you have UA-cam, 1000s of TV channels, you have news from whatever country you want within 2 seconds.
I really dont think books is the main problem here, it can ofcourse be a % of it. I think we tend to notice it more because we see it more with the internet. We connect with more people now than we ever did in human history, so we see how stupid people are.
What's crazy is the more information people have access to the less intelligent they have become.
You will also be more likely to influenced by a specific narrative that plays to your own biases. 😊
@@waynelowe3329 I think it’s because they have information at their fingertips, they don’t need to read and remember. They simply google it and there is is, trouble is that they will look at the first item and that it they don’t research any deeper it’s alway the easy answer the quick fix. If there was not internet people would have to start learning about stuff again and maybe they might get their brains out of first gear. And yes I do get the irony of my comment especially given I use spell check 😊
When Europeans have go at Americans for never leaving their own country it's not a geographical thing - it's a culture thing. Yes, you have a great variety of climes and landscapes and more than enough to last several lifetimes, but it's never about that. In general terms the vast majority of Americans have never experienced any other culture - at all!
When most people dunk on americans for never leaving the country, it's to do with experiencing other cultures, world views, ways of life etc.
I believe this is what makes many americans arrogant and entitled - IMHO
exactly I am 27 and live in the UK and have been to countless countries, Japan, South America, Norway wtc all with vastly different cultures i have travelled and experienced more cultures in the last 10 years than most Americans will do in their lifetime - this is probably the case for most UK and European people
I watched enough American UA-cam videos to get an idea that American don’t like foreigners coming to live in there country who still respect their own culture. It’s sampling other cultures that makes us diverse and knowledgeable 😊
If you you want me to want to do something, shit-talking me is the last thing I will respond to. Maybe resentment is a lot of the reason? Not saying you in particular are doing that, but others have, but I have a condition & don't get out much bc of it, or else I would travel.
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw Who are you answering to?
@@shmupperfromhell you
The Brits went to all 7 continents “Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia".European countries were not the only ones we visited.
Dumbing down isn't just an American thing, it seems to be happening in many countries, but the alarming thing about the US is that they are taking it to a different level of dumbing down and like some have said, I don't think it's by accident, think about it, dumbing down a population, makes it much easier to control them, whether that be in politics or business, and if you think about it, it's remarkable the kind of conditions that Americans are willing to put up with, whether it be health care, social programs, workers rights, food standards, the list goes on.
Heck even unions, in the US, they've been conditioned to think unions are a bad thing, that they take a cut out of their wage, but the idea of unions is to get better conditions and higher wages, which is more achievable by standing up to big business, after all, have you ever wondered why working conditions in the US are some of the worse in the developed world? It's not by accident, it's by design, to squeeze out as much profit from the workers as possible, and to give those profits to the fat cats at the top, and that is a part of the dumbing down of a population, that they are willing to accept those conditions, when almost all the rest of the developed world don't, and ignorance is no excuse, not on today's world when we have access to pretty much anything we want on the internet, there are no excuses, and it's the people that need to look in a mirror and see where the real problem is, after all, politics and business is a reflection of the public, and can and can't do what the public allows them to get away with, which in the US, is a lot.
D = agricultural slave party ... R = proletarian slave party
Well said.
Correct!
A result of a great many years of propaganda over the American Dream. The idea was that anyone only had to work hard and make the right choices to get rich, if they didn't get rich therefore, it was their fault. There might have been an element of truth in that 50 years or more ago, but it is very different now.
Add to that the constant claim the US is the best country in the world and any criticism is anti-American, and we see the result, citizens often don't realise how badly they are treated.
"Cellist" is pronounced "chellist" (I thought everybody knew that), not "sellist" so it's a bit rich for the British narrator to be talking about American ignorance!
Don’t think he is British?
@@mairiconnell6282 Yes, he is certainly British and from the same part of the country as where I originate: the North East of England.
So far I have traveled to Denmark, Norway, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Greece, Spain and Egypt.
Have you heard of climate change?
The Beetles... Not American, Arnold... not American.
Baseball - Americas favourite past time... not American (it was a girls sport here in the UK first) and the American anthem... not 100% American
Errr...The Beatles...you mean.
@@theaces3697same with the brittsh anthem 😊
Another feature is the way foreign books, films and TV shows have to be remade in the USA, often by resetting the story in the ) USA or, at the very least, introducing an important American actor or actors into the plot or making the protagonist an American. That might be excusable for foreign language productions to avoid dubbing or subtitling but it occurs with British ones too where language is, in the main, not an issue. I am thinking of HG Wells "The War of the Worlds", Daphne du Maurier's "The Birds", "Bridge over the River Kwai", "The Great Escape", "The Ladykillers", "U-571" (where a real wartime Royal Navy operation was disrespectfully appropriated as the basis for a fictionalised American story about submariners stealing an Enigma machine from a German U-Boat), "Fawlty Towers", "Steptoe & Son", "Till Death us do part". Even British films which do make it have to have their titles dumbed down for the American public e.g. "The Madness of King George", "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".
Don't mention the "U-571" it makes my blood boil, may I add The Italian Job to the list.
@@timsimpson9367 Yes, that's one I thought of but forgot to include.
Also, "House of Cards" on television.
Americans have made progress, in the late 20th Century they wouldn't even watch British TV or films. To try to sell into the market American characters had to be added. In the film The Great Escape, its a true story, the characters are real people except for American's added for commercial reasons.
That really annoyed me. I considered it so insulting plus the fact that American film-makers would pinch great moments in UK history and make them American.
@@christineharding4190"Historical" US films are mostly unbearable
@@arnodobler1096So are you!
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw🤷♂️
8:09 It's a shame the Yanks didn't also think that "Everyone has the right not to have an atom bomb dropped on them." I guess mass murder is only a war crime when the "baddies" do it.
To be fair to the Americans the British knew what was going to happen, plus the Atom bomb was new and no-one really knew what the outcome would be. Then there is the fact that the Japanese refusal to surrender meant the war in the Pacific would have dragged on and on. It's easy to condemn with the benefit of hindsight. By the way I'm not American I'm British.
You criticize non-thinkers, but yet, you are one, funny how that works!
@@Timbothruster-fh3cwhow so?
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek We were attacked first.
France passing laws banning american music? It is totally wrong. The law is about broadcasting songs in french to protect the language, not banning american music. What kind of a stupid lie is it !!!!
The EU is a coalition of 27 nations, Conno'r, no longer 28 since the UK left the Club.
my first encounter with American was in Australia, and she never heard of my country and she thought that in my other friend's country (which is India) everyone riding elephant... astonishing.
the U.S. is just a combination of countries, just like europe. You guys dont even have a overall law system that works the same in every state. the federal law yes, but the state laws should be the same aswell.
The Beatles started by making cover versions of American rhythm and blues artists.
When John Lennon criticised American foreign policy - he was based in America at the time - the authorities told him that if he left the US, eg to visit Britain, he would not be allowed back in.
So Americans are allowed to critisize the government and disseminate ideas but foreigners are not.
You said that travelling around the different countries of Europe was similar to travelling around the USA, which I think you are basing on distance. However, it is not the distance that makes travelling a benefit, it is seeing other cultures, societies and ways of living. You may not travel far in Europe, but there are 44 countries with 44 different cultures, so the traveller will experience 43 other cultures, societies, politics etc. different from their own. Travelling around the USA is all the same culture, so the traveller, whilst going far in distance, is not experiencing anything other than US culture, thus staying in the isolated bubble.
The other knock on effect of travelling between countries is that international travel becomes the norm and takes people outside of their comfort zone. This doesn't have the same impact for Americans travelling around their own country, who are staying in their own comfort zone.
If you compare Europeans to Americans, Europeans have travelled outside of Europe a lot, as travel is just normal. It is very common to travel outside of Europe to other countries in the world as a matter of annual holidays etc.
First time watching and I love the perspective and objectivity. Honestly, it's hard to see rational and balanced thinking sometimes (even when it comes to very fair and objective videos) and I will be checking out more for sure! Keep it up!
I really enjoyed your videos and comments plus learning more about the world around me. Yes I do believe and seen the difference in the education from many different decades and talked to others about it.
Hi from the UK. I watch some of these interview pieces about how dumb american youth is today. TBH its the same over here. And it makes me despair about where you are headed. I'm 60 yr old so my time is the past and yours is the future. But I have to catch myself sometimes about being so critical about young people. I remind my self how as a 18 yr old i was in the British Army and was sent to Northern Ireland. I was based at the Maze prison in the 80's at the time of the hunger strikes (look it up). I had no idea WHY i was there. I was told the irish are unfriendly, all of them. I was told the IRA are the enemy (kill them when you can) and protect your friends (other soldiers). So, i was young and ignorant. But the youth of today have so much more with access to the internet and knowledge. But it seems the education they get just doesn't give them the skills they need. For instance i'm now a bus driver. I get young people asking me stupid questions and potentially putting themselves at risk. For instance, asking me for details of their journey; where does my bus go, do i do this or that stop, how long does it take, is their a return bus, what time is the last bus home? Good grief, all of them have got smart phones in there pockets! Why can't they think ahead and plan ffs? The annoying thing is,in 20 minutes (if I had the funds) i could plan a trip and be in a hotel in India and book/pay for it all via my smart phone. Every step of my vacation could be sorted with my phone and young people can't even manage a local bus ride? Yea, you got a lot to worry about.
Agree. Today's youngster's have a lot of fancy ideas but some of them fall into a similar category as young Americans. They know all about the Kardashians but know bu&&er all about their own country. Telling them to function without a phone is like removing half their brain.
Cope.
"God bless you stupid bastards". Perfect. 🙂
It's in the Bible end days
Yep! I totally agree. I've just commented on one of your videos about your lack of knowledge.
The Soviet Union ceased to be in 1991.
They are all independent states now mate.
My favourite part is the end where he can't resist the dig about american imperialism, made me.laugh considering the current climate of trying to make Britain say sorry for empire things that happened in another era lol
They love it when Russians etc do it, not if you speak English.
dude that's the point...American STILL DOING IT while other colonial power has stop. At least saying sorry doesn't involve anyone dying lol
@@wewenang5167 Put up or shut up. Tribal warfare is based ;-)
About anime, just because you don't get it doesn't mean you shouldn't try to expirience it. Like, you probably had other things you didn't understand and rejected with no real reason. I feel that if you just give it a chance, you might find yourself become interested.
Celebrities were 'bigger' in past decades, because talent was a requirement. I am not saying people in the entertainment industry are not talented today. However, since the 1990's there are more 'celebrities' who have become famous because of the growth of reality TV shows, where talent is not necessarily a pre-requisite. If you look back at the 1940's & 1950's the Hollywood film actors were even bigger stars than in the following decades.
What a ridiculous statement.
The people who seriously believe the Soviet Union was actually good had clearly never studied it or lived in a country that still suffers from its consequences. Most of us who criticise/make fun of the US do so because out of all the first world Western countries, its unanimously the least appealing to live in, but it still is miles ahead most of the world
The best life is upper class old money in a British manor ;-)
And yet when Stalin died, some people were killed in the crush to file with tears in their eyes, past his lying in state.
My parents and grandparents lived there, and still wants USSR back.
@@MineneUryuu Of course, just as some Germans want the Nazis back.
I talked with friends for American education a lot of times . First thing's that parents are doing for the children all over the world is, safety , food , clothes and keep clean the children and there environment . Those are basic for survival. Then we go for education and for better life ... ! What is strange with America is that they do okay with the survival part , and the better life part , but they totally ignore the education part .Why ? They have the money , they have the knowledge , and the power . Harvard ,and some other are among the best university's in the world . So what is the problem? Most of the American students are among the most ignorant people in the world . Why ?
WTF??? Beatles is from the UK, Arnold Schwarzenegger is from Austria. A beginning right there...
This is how disconnected America is - When that train crashed last year i was updating someone who lived in that state with the news stories about it and i live in the UK ...this was an event where they lived and i knew more about it
In relation to anime, don't think of it as a genre, think of it as a medium. There can be stories of all types told through anime, from serious political drama, through rock em sock em robots, through cutsie kids shows. There will always but an anime show out there somewhere that could appeal to you, just like there could always be a tv show or movie, but that doesn't mean all anime, tv shows or movies will appeal to you, nor should they.
"Why is anime so popular"
lol... bcs its good, duh?
There is a saying in some western countries, and it's like: If you are not a communists in your youth, you have no heart. If you are still a communist when old, you have no brain.
And well, there is a lot of truth in this, because the idea, the utopia sounds nice, but once you understand that most people are s**t, you understand why communism or socialism will never work. But free markets without rules and survival of the fittest like US-made capitalism is preaching isn't much better, it's just more shiny. And the US was great in showing off and nevertheless covering the real bad things of their shiny capitalistic side of town.
All you have to come to terms with, is the U.S.A. is less than 5% of the world's population and not the centre of the world.
A lot of so called celebrities these days, have absolutely no talent what so ever. Take the people on most of the reality shows for example. Please take them!
One thing I have noticed in these reaction videos is that you need to hear information three times before you understand. Not a aimed you but most Americans reacting. Some are painful to watch. I saw a young black American react to how you could not own a slave in England after 1066. She immediately presumed a black slave. We hadn’t discovered Africa by then😂
4:40 The question about when the last olympics was in 2009 as he said but you are just not listening
As the saying goes, true communism has never been tried.
We have always been stupid, for hundreds of years
If you want to claim that, go ahead, but I'm not, I may not be the smartest, but I am not dumb!
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw as a group we are dumb but there are definitely plenty of smart individuals
Exactly! Just before the Internet age only your family and friends knew you were stupid, now, thanks to social media, the whole World knows.
@@MineneUryuu Fuck social media!👎
@McJibbin
6:40 celebrity is a new term for all those popular figures that are mostly internet icons, theres a clear difference in Hollywood between CELEBRITY and STAR. A star is someone who’s achieved a lot of success and reputation through the art in movies and music and such, like Selena Gomes, Madonna, Beyoncé, M. Jackson, Jenifer Lawrence, Di Caprio, etc. whereas a celebrity is someone who is famous for being very popular on social media or being linked to someone known, and still their popularity will go through social media, people like, Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Hailey Biedermeier, etc.
I also remember the Hollywood manager guy from the Johnny Depp trial explaining the difference between these 2 concepts to people then if im not wrong. :)
Russia is no longer a communist state but, as US writer Bill Bryson said in 'Notes from a Small Island':
“It has long seemed to me unfortunate - and I am taking a global view here - that such an important experiment in social organization [communism] was left to the Russians when the British clearly would have managed it so much better."
In other words, it's not necessarily the political system that's at fault, it's the way it's managed. Russia was much worse under the Tsars than any communist regime - hence the Revolution.
I am dutch and have two airbnbs in Barcelona. US visitors really are the dumbest. The questions before arrival, the remarks after indicate ridiculous expectations. And the amount of suitcases they travel with.....
G'day mate! You are clearly an avid "learner" of all things and perhaps the will to be informed is what is lacking and I wonder how much the education system fosters basic inquisitiveness and the desire to always be learning more and more...Cheers!
Not sure if you ever figured it out, but he was saying that the survey back in 2009 shown those people not to know where the last Olympics were held.
The internet and reality tv are what degraded the concept of ''celebrity''. A century ago, the first silent movies were being made, and film stars were born. Most people went to the cinema back then, often weekly, not only for the movies but the newsreels too, especially during wartime. Then television took over, and the pool of stars/celebrities got much bigger, with some huge and a load of lesser personalities. That carried on for decades, but then some tulip or other came up with Big Brother, and that is where the rot set in.Then came streaming services, and the internet - and the pool overflowed Now celebrity has been diluted, robbed of the rarity value - the glitz and glamour - of its heyday. It's part of a lost past, that kind of superstardom, people's tastes and interests have gone a million ways away from the more limited choices on offer back then.
the joys of the internet, every idiot can voice his opinion, and find other agreeing idiots.
We always had lots of levels of celebrity, but it is the bigger ones you remember down generations. We have had hundreds of pop bands and singers "big" in their time that are not even known now. Same with actors. I was brought up in the 60s and 70s. I loved some singers/groups that were stars that are forgotten now.
This is a really good video
Talking about not recognising accents while singing did you know that stammerers don’t stammer while singing??
People in general were more literate just a few decades ago - kids used to read actual books in the 1980's, not so much today.
If you have never seen any Japanese animation it's the same if a Japanese person says that I don't want to watch Lion King because it is foreign and probably shit.
BritMonkey has some great uploads. There's one about graffiti in Sheffield which springs to mind (it's the nearest city to me).
FYI Nicholas Sarkozy was the head of France before Emanuel Macron the current President
An American asked once why Windor Castle was built so close to Gatwick airport flight path😮
18:16 As a Brit, hearing a fellow Brit pronounce ‘cellist’ as ‘sellist’ makes me want to hurt myself. 😋
Freedom of expression is not the same as freedom of speech. Haye speech incitement to riot etc are prohibited in the UK, but you can express any idea you like as long as youre not doing these things
Way for that guy to leave out that any explicit *mention* of homosexuality(not f*cking, but acknowledging that we exist) was also banned under the Hays Code. The villain in the Maltese Falcon was coded as gay(effeminate, devious) but no mention of being gay, even for villains
Sarcozy was the president of France when the original video was made (2009?).
I think alot of resentment between countries is similar to sports teams, the ones you hate most are either your direct competitor or the one 'ahead' of you. (people don't hate the little guy as it's a waste of effort). US media is consumed by many parts of the world so it's easier to cast a critical eye on the people. It's also easier to express that hatred online, rather than in-person.
But I don't know if the US truly knows how disliked it is in some parts (UK too to be fair). Even a poll on europe said some countries blame US/Nato more than Russia for the Ukraine war. The eu is also looking to build its own army to remove US influence and Nato.
The EU didn't want the UK to leave because the British army was the most experienced in Europe. You can guess whose Army would have done all the dirty work. I know soldiers who voted for Brexit because of that.
I'm fully aware of how hated I am, & then they say I need to learn from them too, I can't stand condescending fucks!
Great video...
The consumption of most newspaper post ww2 sounds more like we just didn’t get any of our cities wiped out rather than a flex. As for moderates being stupid, its more about having bigger things to care about in their daily lives than politics and thus don’t have strong opinions.
So what you're saying is,Americans have bigger worries in their lives than the rest of the world. Those starving Africans and Asians (who on average have better education, )have nothing on the problems of the average Yank.
To say people care more about their daily lives than politics is all very well, but people's daily lives are governed by the very politics they don't care about!
Jacques Tati didn't need money to make some of the best films ever made.
that kind of genius is very rare.
I don't remember much about the film, but I do remember "Monsieur Hulot's Holiday", had one of those scenes which makes me laugh just thinking about it. It was where he hired a canoe, which folded up on him as he paddled it.
@@grahvis Me too. I sometimes still, years later, think about the little kid buying and carefully carrying the ice cream. He's up there with Keaton, Chaplin, Bergman and Tarkovsky for me with scenes I will never forget. For very different reasons, though...
It may not just be America.
I have been outside of Wales once in my lifetime doesn't mean I should be ignorant of the rest of the world though. I have noticed youtube seems to have quite a few Americans who are only now learning about the UK and Europe. It seems to have morphed into a job now??
When I was a kid I read and reread Encyclopedias to learn what I could about the world around me.
What have people been doing for the last few hundred years, waiting for youtube to be invented?
And now with patreon and adverts people can earn money learning.
I should give up my job and spend everyday infront of a computer.
In my experience, the US is not a bad place and I don‘t see it as bad. It is just weird to look at it from a european perspective because it is such a different system from what I know and what most countries here established. You got US capitalism on the one hand and on the other it is mostly a social market system (which is not the same as communism, I heard Americans calling it „Modern Communism“) in Europe. These two systems are like different planets regarding to the people that live in the countries. To Europeans it seems like the US doesn‘t gives a f… about people without a certain amount of money and here we are used to the state providing things like healthcare or paid holiday or services for poor people and taking care of them. And it is not just social stuff, the government approach to ingredients of groceries is different too (sorry for mentioning that, it is just the field I‘m working in).
So please don‘t get it as „Europeans sh*ttalking over the US“. We do apologize for that. We just grew up in very different ways and although the US and Europe are quite equal in the general lifestyle, they are worlds apart on the political or social spectrum.
I find it the opposite. Everyone sounds English when they sing. Apart from the proclaimers 😂😂
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the concept of communism. The idea of the community having an economy designed for the community rather than individuals producing for individuals is a fine ideal.
It just doesn't work in practice. People might claim that China just about works, but China is only really communist in name only these days and even then is only a superficially content society.
I don't think Americans are stupid. Stupid is when you are unable to learn. People are just people, wherever in the world you go. In America it's just the school system and environment that fosters this kind of stuff. What strikes me most about Americans is how they aren't curious about the world we live in. That's the main difference. They're (generally) not interested. Because they're shaped not to be. Also probably because they travel so little compared to people in other countries. I've met Americans who has never been abroad. Most doesn't even seem to have a passport. Meanwhile - I had visited all continents at age like 13. Half my country goes to the other side of this planet every holiday.
The annoying thing is Americans who are so proud of the fact that they don't know stuff or want to learn stuff. Even people who are "anti science", like... what?
The "religious" movement in America probably is to blame too. I mean they're obviously not really religious but still, it's just a cultural thing. Imagine how Jesus would be welcomed in the most "Christian" parts of the US... As the Pope put it in a tweet to Trump: "Christians build bridges - not walls".
I seeing that "URSS good. USA bad" my entire life, i'm from latin america. But now i started to see a lot of that in people from NA and EU, which is weird, especially europeans which already have the perfect economic and social equilibrium of Social Liberalism / Social Democracy.
hey, come on, russia is very very disliked generally in the eu, ofcourse exceptions do exist. so if you meet the wrong one you get wrong ideas.
If you're from Latin America, it was US and CIA overthrowing your governments and keeping you down and unstable.
Bear in mind, the censorship was strong in other countries. Soviet postal service could return a letter from abroad on reason/pretext of objecting to the stamp on the envelope! True story.
My own theory about how American got so stupid is when their PR firm realized that they had more success with their propaganda (sorry publicity) by using American mythology, and special effects to make it real, than by using rational arguments. After the Kennedy vs Nixon election campaign, both parties decided that they will use PR firms for their campaign and there was no more presure put into the US Education system to educate the general population to rational thinking based on learned facts.
Communism is the concept of cooperative (members owned enterprises) extended to the ownership of the means of production of an Economy. It is one of the other choices to Capitalism which state that the owners of the means of production should always be the investors that have invested in the creation of the enterprise. They elect a board of directors who are in charge of defining the rules of operation and hiring the officers that will manage the enterprise. The soviet union was not communist but an another choice called State Capitalism where the State (not the citizens) was the owner of all the means of production. An example I always give is the US highway system is owned by the cooperative of US Citizens and manage by the US Goverment. Just imagine the mess if the US Highway system was owned by many competing private enterprises.
Anime is hand drawn. 12 frames per second, 20-30 min episodes.
Nothing says 'I've never felt the touch a woman' more than accusing any fandom you aren't part of of having "never felt the touch of a woman"
Homophobic, too. For me as a gay man that's not an insult. My literal first requirement is that the one i'm touching is man
Great video, I'll sub immediately
What the hell traveling outside your country have to do, with knowing basic facts about the world we live in !?!
Absolutely.
Everything, typical yank
Nothing,I have not been to many countries but still can access knowledge about them.
well, what you read in books(or vids) is not the same as experiencing it directly yourself.
Nicolas Sarkozy is a former president of France - he would have been in office at the time of the video, assuming it was made one year after the Beijing olympics.
Really great video, but I disagree with you about that it is smart to not vote. If you live in a democracy you should take the time and find the least bad politician if you can’t find a good one, or run yourself. Yes, that is Anthony Blinken by the way 😂
If you disagree with every candidate, i don't think you should vote just because.
And what if you're an anarchist who are against parliamentarism?
Remember that George Lucas' biggest influence was the Japanese film maker Akiro Kurosawa, especially his film The Hidden Fortress.
The fact you say Soviet Union says it all buddy.
For the levels of celebrity, the movie and music industries were totally different, there were different shows on TV, only big companies could afford to make big movies, etc. For musicians, it was hard, too, they had to find somebody who would finance a record, get it played on the radio, tour and whatnot. There was no Internet and on TV, there were no reality shows where people were locked inside a house for a certain amount of time and got a little bit famous for that... It was even rather rare that some show formats were bought and made in another country (like, for instance, "What's My Line" that became very popular in Germany as well, with German people). Then from the 1990s on, there was a Dutch woman, Linda de Mol, who started producing the exact same reality shows everywhere, adapted to local people. Before, people would become famous because they were good at something (in most cases), and then go on TV, now, with some shows, people become famous despite not having any talent at all, for bickering while locked inside a house, for having had 20 plastic surgeries, for being morbidly overweight, etc.
But yes, other countries had their own radio, TV and movie companies that made good programs. Czechoslovakia for instance made excellent movies and TV programs for children, especially fairy tale movies; the Germans and the French had great educational shows, and they still have.
As a Brit, I'm glad our movie industry is outcompeting America's. Harry Potter, James Bond, Paddington and many other British icons have been introduced to America over the years
It's American money that gets those movies made.
@@Steve-gc5nt Yeah but they're still recognised as being British movies, so we still get the credit
Conner, you make a good point about Americans who have never left America being akin to a Brit who’s never left Europe. It is very similar when you factor in vast landmass. And there are no doubt many Europeans who will not have stepped out of Europe.
To your point about celebrity now vs the 60s - 90s: you have to remember that whilst we now look back on these big names like Madonna, Michael Jackson and Schwarzenegger, there were, at the time, many other celebs back then who didn’t make it that big .. just like today.
Now that the 80s has long gone, we can easily identify the celebs who rose above all the rest. Whereas we’re not able to do that yet for the last decade because those celebs haven’t had the time to build up that status yet.
Take Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio is clearly A-List and he started acting in 1990. We will look back on him, decades on, as ‘a major celebrity’.
Timothée Chalamet may become the level of Leo in the next few years. He only started acting in 2008. So he still needs the time to win that Oscar, star in a massive blockbuster film (as popular as Titanic) and work with the best Directors around.
It’s the course of time and the ability to cherry-pick that makes big celebs.
I don’t get why a vast majority of Americans think they won the war for the uk 🇬🇧 without contemplating that we were not only fighting against fascism but in line with that was American security, had that not been the case why lend lease equipment…. Btw local to me equipment was thrown in the sea after the war ( lease expired I presume) we still paid.
Agree with you on fewer levels of celebs,but that's pre socialmedia and reality tv...it's easier and quicker to become a celebrity these days🎩