I never understood how love of a food is racist, I have an Italian last name so as soon as its mentioned someone always does a cheesy Italian accent and says something about spaghetti/pizza etc. Not to mention what the heck is wrong with fried chicken and watermelon, both are awesome! :D
I was born in Florida raised in Tennessee and I just want to mention that everyone down here regardless or race likes fried chicken and watermelon. try it it's great
"try it it's great"? Singular? You mean, fried chicken and watermelon together? What do you do, wrap watermelon in a chicken breast, then deep fry it? Or have fried chicken with watermelon chutney? How does that work?
@@viddork first cut up your watermelon then put sugar and or honey on it then put in freezer next eat your hot and spicy fried chicken then eat your chilled sweet watermelon paired with a mason jar filled with half sweet tea and lemonade and enjoy
9:41 "they are food you have to eat with your hands" the first time I saw someone eating watermelon with a fork, I tilted my head and thought "what kind of uncivilized neanderthal eats watermelon with a FORK!?"
I'm not for Sharia law, but anyone who eats pizza, or a burger, with a knife and fork deserves to be stoned to death in public. On the other hand, anyone who makes a "gourmet" burger so big you cannot eat it without deconstructing it first also is missing the point and should be put in the stocks and pelted with their own burgers until they learn their lesson.
No, he is not. He is considered a joke, but not a funny one. These days I assume heardly anybody in the younger generation of Germans even remembers him. Thankfully.
Why are all the streets in Paris lined with trees? So invading armies can march in the shade. Thank you, thank you, and no, I’m not German. 🤪
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I have to admit that the French stereotype is incorrect. Far from cowardly they are courageous. However, owning a large nuclear arsenal DOES NOT make you brave. US and Russia take note.....
Same. I’m allergic to watermelon as well; just the smell alone can make me nauseated. I like fried foods but don’t eat it often because I want to avoid heart disease.
Its only a stereotype because thats how black people depict it in there media like movies and music. Therefore it must be true because they acknowledge it. Btw its not a bad thing to like fried chicken, watermelon, and grape soda.
Sleeping siesta depends much on where you live, theres places where its so hot at noon that its impossible to do anything productive and you NEED to stop
We have hotter working days in South Africa and we don't get a 3 hour break in the afternoon. We just work through the hottest part of the day. That includes manual labour, office work in buildings without aircon, truck drivers, and workers of all kinds. It can be done if you stay hydrated and use your lunch break to refuel in the shade.
Hotter than 98° f? Most of the south in the US runs that hot or hotter. I get the mid-day break, I worked a split shift once and other than taking my whole day, enjoyed it. However, there are many place that are crazy hot, in Texas we got temperatures above 110 all over. You just keep going.
While it's true that the popularity of anime and manga in Japan has been greatly exaggerated, this doesn't mean there's not a kernel of truth in there. At least, when it comes to manga, which is FAR more popular than anime. You can see this by heading into a used book store like say Book-Off, about two thirds of the books are manga.
All stereotypes have a kernel of truth, but the exaggerated images are all most people believe in and it is those misconceptions that most people judge by instead of using their critical thinking skills to see the truth.
KAO S-> Some stereotypes are also potentially entirely wrong, they can exist because of enmity (propaganda) or because the most remembered event gives the wrong idea (WW2 regarding the french).
That's fine but legalize it and have adult resorts where one can consume it out in the open. I need an excuse to vacation there. Why is the gov't being tightasses about it? It's like they're embarrassed about the stereotype.
I grew up in Ireland watching mostly British shows and now I live in the US. I *completely* disagree that British comedy is too subtle or clever for American audiences. I actually think the humour that doesnt play to Americans isnt the clever; its the dumb. Or, rather, the perceived dumb. The absurd. Americans don't generally like absurd comedy. Sure, there are a few exceptions, mostly cult status, but generally speaking, absurd comedy is firmly children's comedy in America. Its funny if sponge bob continues to flip crabby patties while the restaurant burns down. Its stupid if an boss continues a meeting while the boardroom burns down. But British audiences like absurd humour in children and adult programs. Imo, the other notable difference is that, especially with television shows, americans tend to have to make *way* more episodes, and appeal to a way more diverse audience. This is not given nearly enough attention when people pick apart British humour vs American. Take Peep Show. It had 9 seasons, and made 54 episodes. The UK Office and 2 seasons and 12 episodes. A US prime time show would have 24 episodes in a one season. And a show only lasting a year or two wouldn't be considered very successful. American comedies tend to take fewer risks because American shows need to be more reliable and longerlasting.
You are somewhat wrong on #3. It wasn't 9/11 that got Americans angry with the French, it was the bombing of Libya in the 80s. Jets took off from Britain, but had to fly all the way around France because they would not grant permission to fly over France. Previous to that, the French language, food, etc. were considered very fashionable by Americans. Go look at early 80s and 70s movies, music, TV, etc. and you'll see Americans fawning over the French. Source: I'm old enough to remember it happening...and this... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_United_States_bombing_of_Libya
That is exactly how I remember it. That is the first time I heard the term "Freedom Fries." Didn't two of airmen die when their plane was damaged and couldn't make it all the way back home because of the distance.
#9 Egyptians *are* indeed descended, for the most part, from the Ancient Egyptians. Only a small part of their ancestry is from the Arab invaders. Genetic tests have confirmed this. Following the Arab invasion and influence, the Arabic language did not immediately replace the Egyptian language. That was a gradual process that took several centuries. #7 She's not the "Queen of England". She's the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Kingdom of England no longer exists since its unification with the Kingdom of Scotland. #7 part two: Canada *is* free, independent, and sovereign. The Queen of the UK is also the Queen of Canada. These are two separate crowns, but the same person happens to hold both these positions. This doesn't make Canada any more dependent on the UK, than the UK dependent on Canada. So, ιf Canada "isn't really free and independent", then you would have to say the same about Britain.
Australians are 'discovering'? This has been common knowledge for a very long time and taught in schools for almost as long. Hell I learnt it over thirty years ago in primary school that most people who were sent here as convicts were sent over petty crap.
Weren't there also periodic rounds up of poor women with nothing left to sell but their bodies? Literally sent out to keep the men 'company' when they realised there was a severe imbalance in the numbers?
Exactly. We've never been ashamed of it and we're not "rediscovering" our past. It's been faithfully taught since schools were a thing here. Every child who went to school in Australia knows that the country was a penal colony and that the most common crime these convicts had committed was "stealing food". Occasionally there were a few bigger crimes in the mix, but murderers and the like were just straight up hanged in England and never got the option of having their sentence commuted to "transportation".
tekkaoz always thought the Australians were criminals descendants but petty crimes if they were severe crimes they went actually been killed like murderers and stuff
@@Luubelaar At one time there were something like 53 offenses in England that were punishable by hanging, with boys as young 12 being hung. All this so called "crime" was due to the mind numbing poverty of the 1600's, 1700's and 1800's. Those who got shipped to Australia, if they survived the trip, at least had a better chance than if they stayed in England.
This thing where Spanish people nap during the afternoon isn't limited to Spain - my grandparents are of German Jewish origin and according to them in Germany there is (or at least was) something called Schlafstunde - ie, sleep hours, which take place in the afternoon. If I recall various other European countries have this too. And seriously who doesn't like to nap in the afternoon anyway, as any student will tell you...
Dental care in the United Kingdom is provided by the National Health Service, but it is far from free, as you have to pay for checkups and treatment, it is one of the few things not provided free on the NHS, and in my opinion that is why dental care is not as frequently used as it could be.
They used to do dental hygiene if you wanted it after a check up, you have to pay extra for that now. Most of the dentists really don't like doing NHS work as it doesn't make them any money, even though you still have to pay (if you are working) The last couple of times I have been was to get work redone that they cocked up the time before. Will pay for private next time.
3:29 | There shouldn't be an apostrophe. 4:41 | Our & Canada's situation with the Queen is much too complicated to be explained like this. While it is true that many countries under the British monarch have some customs which Americans think are clues that we are undemocratic, they really are just that. Customs. While the Queen still has some emergency powers, they extend to dissolving Parliaments & actually make us more democratic because it's a fail-safe against abolition of democracy. 5:48 | British people used to not care much about their teeth, until electric toothbrushes were invented. I think it's weird how Simon Whistler speaks in a British accent but embodies the American stereotype of assuming that all his audience are American.
To be fair, I'm sure the channel shows them metrics which probably tell them that an overwhelming majority of their audience are indeed American. It's just the likely scenario. I still do agree that videos should be written and presented in a way that's oriented consistently toward an international audience.
There is an strong current of anti-Americanism in all his videos. Even this video is scolding what are essentially American perceptions of the French, Japanese, English, Spaniards, etc. His basic mission is cultural collusion with the American Left, to voice U.S. leftism in a British accent. With bad teeth.
+Kjelly Lund No different than anywhere else. We have really nice people and assholes too. Our last Prime Minister was in the asshole category, at least he always appeared to have a stick up his own. :-)
I'm a white guy, and I love fried chicken. I also love watermelon. If there are cultures that don't have fried chicken, they should adopt it as quickly as possible. They don't know what they're missing.
I'm from Kentucky; everyone likes fried chicken. France was smart to not help us invade Iraq. More power to them. Also, I think that the French "surrendering" whenever they have or do has always been a tactical move. I think French fighters are GENIUSES. Obviously there are some things I don't agree with culturally (I am a boorish American, after all), but I would be hard pressed to name anything cultural that the French don't do with genius. The idea (very much a part of the stereotype) of the French surrendering to Hitler, cutting the cables on the Eiffel Tower so Hitler would have had to walk up the steps, and the formation of the French Underground.... I mean, the French get shit done. Oooh, uploaded on my birthday.
I never understood why the French get so much grief for their surrender in WW2. They had been defeated, and could not flee to their islands like the British or have huge tracts of land to retreat into like the Russians.
im philipeno and my parents say....quite stereotypical lines to me that even my philipeno friends parents say "you eat yet?" "is it good?" "come on eat" or even things like parents introducing us to family members we dont know yet they say we know em or when they want our hair cut to look like a philipeno celebrity we don't know.well me and my friends are born in america x3 my dad litterally says is it good even though i didnt take a bite yet
"Recent years" Man, I was taught in the very early 1980's from books written in the 1960's about how the Australian convicts were sent as a way to both elevate the prisons in britain from smaller crimes and how they gave those with small crims harsh sentences "Or become an Australian convict" as a way to move a lot of population there quickly.
If Japan's obsession with moeshit is a misconception, why do they put it on everything they sell? Including stuff that doesn't export internationally? I mean, you can go pick up some animoo snack cakes in Japan, and not like in some tourist-specific shop like the M&M Store in Manhattan.
+Hyala T'Loara It sells well to other Japanese people. There's a reason most of the really crazy stuff stays in Japan, as opposed to getting imported internationally. Because the international audience doesn't take to that stuff.
You're not Japanese, you don't know Japanese psyche and to be fair a lot of people also make mistakes about American stereotypes of being loud and brash. So stop being judgemental unless you want to perpetuate that stereotype.
I always thoughts anime and manga in japan was like comic books here. There are nerds who are super into them but most everyone else is either a causal reader or not at all into them but aware of some of the more iconic ones.
I saw a story where there were talking about removing the 3-hour lunch break for government workers in Madrid and the British were commenting under it how they only get 30 minutes and laughing at Spanish not working hard. However, what it didn't mention is that those same workers don't finish work until 8pm. So the Brit working 9am-5pm with 30 minutes off for lunch was actually working 30 minutes less than the Spaniard with a 3-hour lunch break. My partner is Spanish and it is a very strange system for Brits to understand. Another thing they do is that they are expected to work an hour or so a day unpaid. So she would often come home from work at 10pm. There would be a bloody riot in the UK if they made people do that.
I had fried chicken and watermelon today and I am not black and i am living in Thailand right now. I had chicken at KFC and then went shopping which included watermelon. With the temperature about 105 F, ice cold watermelon hits the spot.
The fried chicken Stereotype could also apply to anyone from the south. The irony of seeing your dumb as a box of rocks, hateful as hell, only invited to dinner because you mom feels sorry for him, ( sorry Sunday dinner flashbacks)relative chowing down on a drumstick, while going on about the stereotype was not lost on me as a kid. The stereotype may have it's most likely roots in the fact that for a very long time most southerners ( black and White) were fairly poor and lived in more rural settings. chicken was cheap. If you cant afford beef, or pork you can always have chicken. It doesn't take a lot of land to raise it..and a lot of people kept chickens for eggs, and meat...usually all you have to do is turn them loose in the yard and they take care of themselves. Which is why they were sometimes called yardbirds. so it was about the most common meat low income folks, or people with large families could afford, along with fish, and wild game..which you could catch for free...It was the same for both.black or white. At some point The negative connotation is that you'er poor, can't afford better food, and not very civilized got slapped on....I hate human nature I really do.
My friend who did not like “putting people in boxes”, told me I was Jamaican, because that’s where my parents came from??? (even though she knew I was born and raised in England, and would possibly know I was mainly of African & European descent, so saying I was Jamaican only really was in relation to a part of my culture. People love their stereo-types as it allows them to be able to “know” how to interact with you.
Funnily enough, neither has anyone else born in any country that is part of the Commonwealth. It is assumed, as we are all serfs by nature and birth. I think it's worth remembering that Americans pledge allegiance to the flag (not the government), and (at least in the UK) you salute the uniform in the military, not the person wearing it (I think that's from Catch 22 or Spike Milligan's war memoirs...can't remember which).
In China its customary to ask a guest if they’ve eaten, yet rude if they actually except the invitation. Go figure. When I went to China, I was with my guide and he told me to never accept an invitation to eat.
That's everywhere, Miquel. Actually, let me correct myself: in the US, everyone brags of how much of a hard worker they are, but everyone tries to get out of work, or leave work early.
The siesta doesn't have anything to do with being lazy: You don't work less if you work e.g. from 8 to 12 and 3 to 7 than when you work from 9 to 5 without any break. The siesta actually makes work more efficient for people who work outside. It can be proven that work e.g. at construction sites is less efficient when the temperature is higher than about 30 °C.
So... who else was well into adulthood before hearing the stereotype about black people? I'm in my mid30's now and I don't think I became familiar with the stereotype until I was in my mid 20s. Namely when I started spending more time online. Wait a minute...
I should have mentioned my age and location. I guess ethnicity is relevant to this one as well. I am in my mid30s, and grew up in Central Iowa. Live in southeastern South Dakota for the several years. I learned about the fried chicken/watermelon stereotype.. I think from UA-cam in the last five years. =P I am a pasty, pasty white boy, and grew up in a very ethnically homogeneous area. There might be a stereotype about fried chicken being southern food, but that probably comes from Kentucky Fried Chicken being a well established restaurant chain in the area. Watemelon is mostly summer/picnic food. No ethnic component required. ;)
@@KamisamanoOtaku Agreed with you mostly but KFC being a trend from the south comes from fried chicken being a big deal down there and something everyone had a family recipe for, not the other way around
From 1981 to 1993, I lived in Germany. During that time, for five years I lived with a former German girlfriend, learned the language and customs on a daily basis, and was exposed to their humor. I watched comedians like Didi Hallovoren and shows like "Verstehen Sie Spaß?" (Do you understand fun?). They were extremely funny and I would often times cry from laughter.
Anime is Hugely popular in Japan and it is still made primarily for Japanese audiences. The reason why anime sales are declining in Japan isn't due to a decline in popularity but due to piracy. The issue of domestic piracy makes international sales of greater importance but western audiences love to pirate everything as well. But if Anime was being made more for western audiences then there would be a reduction of quirky Japanese culture in it, however what has instead happened is that over the last 10-20 years western audiences have actually adapted by using the internet to learn more about Japanese culture to better understand the anime series they like to watch. And lets not forget about the anime style used in video games. It's still as popular as ever particularly in JRPGs. And these games still sell really well in their homeland. A person probably couldn't say that Japanese people are obsessed with anime but it's such an established pillar of Japanese pop culture that these days it's a part of everyday life similar to gridiron in America - something that is popular and a ubiquitous part of life over there but not to the point where I person could say that it's a national obsession.
unstoppableExodia yeah I completely agree anime is still made with the national market in mind and with national I mean Japan the proof is pretty easy to see firstly anime is made in japanese and then subbed or dubbed if it were more popular in the rest of the world they wouldn't do that , the humor is for Japanese people and anime is based around Japanese culture which means that it targets a Japanese audience then access in the rest of the world to anime is still difficult something that would make no sense if their main target was Europe and the us. But to be fair what can you expect from a video that says that Canada is a British puppet when it has been at independent sovereign nation for decades and that says something as ludicrous as stating that in Spain people get 3 hours for a siesta something completely false
Fun fact, the Spanish tradition of long free hours between work comes from the poor state of the country after its civil war. One job was not enough to sustain a family so people would take 2 jobs. They ould start working early in the morning till 1-2pm, commute home, eat and then commute to the second work. Hence the 3 hour lunch break. Then they would start working again around 4-5pm and finish around 8pm. This time table it's still common, with 8pm being a rush hour from comuters going back home.
Video:There are billions of people in the world, and all of them are individuals with their own unique identities. Me: Not if you live in North Korea, then the governments controls you.
The siesta also goes along with working a split two-shift day, eating a small breakfast and dinner but large lunch that is eaten later in the afternoon and eating dinner quite late in the day. When I was young it was still popular to go home for lunch. In large cities this started to become more and more difficult and impractical due to traffic congestion.
One of the best German jokes ever (though only funny if a German says it): "People tell me that Germans have no sense of humor. I don't think that's funny."
Fun fact: the Paris Métro station closest to the Eiffel Tower is Bir Hakeim, named after the Bir Hakeim bridge (over which the metro rides as well), which in turn is named after a famous last stand (and ultimately, defeat) in WW2. Incidentally, until fairly recently, the metro had reserved seats not for the elderly or pregnant women, but for soldiers mutilated during war.
I live in Arizona, and it is blazing hot. Simon is absolutely on target with the idea of a break in the afternoon to avoid the hottest time of the day. And the sombrero is a very practical piece of headdress. Since there is no water in the air, shade makes a big difference. #4 is not a stereotype, but a reason for admiration. Save me a seat, because I want some too!
I would like to correct No. 10 concerning Australia: the initialy colony was populated by convicts, sailors and military personal, as well as a handful of civil servants to manage. A fear few died, did not have children due to the gender imbalance, with men outnumbering women 3 to 1, and a few others after being granted amnesty returned to Britain or got drafted into armed forces or construction projects in different parts of the Empire.The successive fleets, while usually having a handful of convicts, comprised mostly of profiteers and folks seeking a better life. Only two of the 7 colonies that made up Australia in total, ever imported convicts, one being because it had the world's largest prison colony within it and functioned like a regular walled prison complex and not a resettlement for convicts. To-day, up to 30% of australian residents are non-White immigrants from Asia, India and the Middle East, and of the White inhabitants, a quarter came from Europe escaping World Wars and persecution. Of those that are of British and Irish descent, only 1 in 5 have any convict heritage at all. I, myself am of mixed Italian(with a touch of Croatian) and Anglo-Scots heritage with no convict relations.
Matthew, please allow this descendant of convicts who's scots- Irish family has been in New South Wales (not first called Australia until Govn. Macquarie turned up in 1810) from the start of white settlement to correct you on a couple of points 1 All of the colonies except South Australia started with penal settlements (although the ones in WA and NT did not last long) whilst they were still part of NSW. They later broke off to become individual colonies (Tasmania might have been called Van Demons Land from the start but it was initially under the rule of the NSW Governor) For the first thirty or forty years most new immigrants were convicts 2 Many of the initial soldiers/administrators did return to Britain as you said but very few IF ANY of the convicts ever did. It was part of the conditions of "the ticket of leave" that they could not. So only a convict who 1. made enough money 2. assumed a false ID and 3. got away with it, ever left. I would assume that for many (like my family) the first time any of the convict's family left, was when one of their descendants went to war over a hundred years later. 3 Only when huge numbers of people turned up during the gold rushes in the 1850/60/70s did the families with convict forefathers cease to be the vast majority of people in NSW or Qld (even if they did not let on because from about 1850 until about the 1970s it was a source of shame for some ).
The confused looking chap at the end of the German section is Henning Wehn, the self styled German Comedy Ambassador, who now lives in London. He regularly appears on several BBC comedy shows like QI and The Unbelievable Truth. He plays up the cultural stereotype of being confused by British humour and then proves to be just as witty and funny as his fellow panellists.
"french tanks are extremely fast, but only in reverse" i dont even care if that's based off of a steryotype, i still find that running joke with other aces members hilarious anime is actually somewhat frowned upon in japan by certain people... kinda like video games and certain types of music are here.
josh fritz what are 300000 raised hands? - the french army./ How many gears do french tanks have? - 5. 4 reversing and one forward for parades. / inscription of a french ww2 rifle on ebay: never used, once dropped./ why are their so many allees in france? - the german soldier dislikes marching in the sun. / called france yesterday, occupied. / who won the first tour de france? The 7th german tank batailon. / how wide is france? 17 german tank hours. / why do french war ships have bottoms made of glass? To see the rest of their fleet./ why do french tanks have backview mirrors? So the driver may also see the front./ why are france and nike so close? In war times the french army is the best customer for running shoes./ where's the safest spot to hide your valuables? Beneath the soap of a frenchman. / what's the easiest way to kill a frenchman? Smash the toilet seat down when it drinks. / why is the french fighter jet called "mirrage"? 'Cause noone actualy spottet one near a battlefield./ life is like france, we have to go through it. / what does the french war flag look like? White star on white background
France lost 1.7 millions people; nearly 5% of its population in WWI, plus 600,000 in WWII; nearly five times the number of citizens the US lost in both wars.
The problem is: These shows work for Germans or people who know German well enough PLUS the German culture but it is hard for people from other countries to understand since most of the stuff is hard to translate and identify with if you're not German. Word plays and cultural references almost never work. That's why the rest of the world thinks we're not funny in the first place and I get that.
ItsJustNils Yea I know...You know how it is...Bombardment of that one person in history that is forever tied to the people he shares a common tongue with
Simon, as almost always, you're right on spot. Thank you for clarifying about these myths. Maybe you'd do one that includes Mexico and Mexicans. The horrible myths and stereotypes that are being reinforced by the current political and social climate are not just galling, but it also creates a very dangerous situation in regards to personal safety. I am half Mexican and half Scottish. I try to explain to people that only the Scots side are true immigrant as most Latin Americans are mostly descendants of Native Americans. You could explain that European-Americans would be considered, genetically and culturally speaking, even more "illegal", they were not invited here and did not apply for asylum.
Top Tenz, Just to put you right about attitudes to colonisation in Australia- The video suggests that Australians have ACCEPTED the notion that the early transported convicts were violent criminals, and have ONLY RECENTLY discovered that this is otherwise. This is not the case. The "Social Studies" program taught at schools for many years in the 20th century described the situation in England which brought about the transportation of people to Australia. Every Australian child KNEW that in 1788 a person could be transported for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. Everyone knew that Mary Reiby, entrepreneur, was transported for "stealing" a horse, which, the fourteen-year-old claimed, she was merely going for a ride on. Everyone was also taught that almost half the people on board the eleven ships of the "First Fleet" were sailors, marines, and free settlers. It is also very common knowledge among Australians, and part of the school education, that far far more people arrived in Australia in the decade when gold was discovered, the 1850s, that all the convicts who had been transported in the previous sixty years. So in 1960, the chance of being descended from a convict was only about 1 in ten. Another little-known fact is that Australia has a sort of "Aristocracy". These are the descendants of the military officers and other officials from the early days of the Colony, Some of them are famous for exploring and surveying the huge land, as well as founding towns, universities and hospitals.. Most of them became major landowners. These facts were so well known that I found it alarming to discover that other people had a different concept entirely, and thought of Australians as the descendants of dangerous criminals. One of the most unfortunate problems that has come about in the last thirty years has been engendered by some video that has been produced to give migrants a brief history of the country. I have had a number of Middle Eastern migrants tell me in deprecating tones that "All you WHITE Australians are descended from Criminals. WE have more right to be here than you have, because WE came from choice." This sense of false history, and racial entitlement is potentially problematic.
We are 100% free in Canada. We dont take commands from the queen, butout of respect we still have the queen part of our culture because she gave us independence unlike the Americans. We dont pledge allegiance to anyone but ourselves but we do have a close relationship to the British but we are far closer to the states. Might wanna check your facts and research more.
Todd Zimmerman she is the queen of Canada and can dismiss your government if she wants although she won't unless in extreme circumstances. New immigrant also do have to swear to her.
Jj O,leary she could try but Canada wouldn't accept it. We're closer to the Americans now then we are to England. She mainly deals with the First Nations because the system is messed up but had no true power in Canada.
***** she could but would only do it if the Canadian people wanted it. She also has to sign in all laws. She is the queen of Canada as well as Britain en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis Here is when she did it in Australia and she could do it in Canada, New Zealand or the UK aswell.
Correct, i provide more information at the top. In terms of connection, I feel closer to Britain culturally (it is my heritage, and recent at that) so I am quite happy to have our Queen.
Jj O,leary "she is the queen of Canada and can dismiss your government if she wants..." ...as the Queen of Canada, not as the British monarch. "...although she won't unless in extreme circumstances. New immigrant also do have to swear to her." ...as the Queen of Canada. If these things make Canada "not truly independent", then the same should be said about Britain. Both are equal realms with the same Queen. One does not control the other.
+Guy Incognito That law changed in 1931. Canada automatically went to war in WW1, but declared war on it's own in WW2. Since then, there have been a lot of British wars that Canada didn't join, like the 2003 Iraq War.
SilentBudgie The queen still has a right to call upon Canada and you are obliged to go As citizens of Canada your allegiance it to England, still to this day. Look it up.
Guy Incognito Wherever you looked it up is wrong. Find reliable sources for yourself before telling other people to look it up. Canada has had separate foreign policy from the UK since 1931. There have been several wars the UK fought since then that Canada chose to not join.
Very true about the different kinds of humour: Humour in English often derives from words having different meanings but sounding alike. In German this is not the case. Also, British humour is more often self-deprecating, which we don't have so much. Neither do the Americans, though.
Shaunagh NicAoidh Thirst? It's more of a lustful hunger. I will be moving to Dublin in June where I plan to live forever and be happy and have sex with lots of Irish people. More women than men though. I like what I like but I still like to sample. Heheheh!
One interesting fact is that there were almost 500,000 Free People of Color in the US in 1860, split almost equally between north and south. While these FPOC were only a fraction (1/8th) of the enslaved population, their numbers were significant. In cities such as New Orleans, FPOC were often small-business owners, such as barbers, hairdressers, milliners, etc. As for the whole "chicken" stereotype, that really is a mystery. Fried chicken was a dish that even among white middle-class farming families was often reserved for special occasions such as the preacher coming to Sunday dinner. After all, a family usually had only so many young, tender roosters to spare, and who would kill a young egg-layer? (Older roosters and hens were sometimes so tough that they were stewed.) In oral histories, I've heard many older people remark jokingly that they never knew that chickens had anything other than gizzards, feet, and backs, since the adults usually ate first and got the best pieces. Black or white, probably most poorer and middle-class farming families from the 19th century through the Depression would have loved to have a fried chicken dinner. Most of the time, Southern poor people in the deep South, black or white, lived off of turnip greens or peas and cornbread (crumbled in buttermilk), with maybe an occasional opossum, raccoon, or other small game, a little home-cured salt-pork, and some carefully-prepared poke salad in season. (It's poisonous unless prepared correctly.)
Yes, and no. I'm sure you know the rhombus and the square, a square is always a rhombus, but a rhombus is not always a square. So yes, North and South America could be considered one giant island (unless you're dissecting into multiple via the Rio Grande or the Panama Canal etc), but they are an immense span of land qualifying as a continent. The UK however does not qualify, any elementary geography class would have answered that query, much less any dictionary. A nation such as Australia is both an island and a continent. So Rog5446 you're wrong and right, because Australia is both.
I've just checked out what elementary geography is taught in schools around the world. There are five continents (as symbolised on the Olympic flag) and the last one is Australia. So what did they teach you at school?
Australia is surrounded on all sides so, by definition, it is an island, even though it is a continent, which is why it is often referred to as an 'island continent'.
Britain is an island, or, more precisely a group of islands, but it is not a continent. If by 'America' you mean The United States of America, then no, it is not islands.
Canada is an independent country - I've got no idea why the Queen being head of state would mean otherwise. She is a ceremonial figure, just like she is in Great Britain, and in Great Britain she is considered to be an irrelevance by most people, so I'm sure that in Canada she is also considered to be irrelevant.
The Canadian facts are wrong the queen has little influence at all, she is represented by the Governor General. And you do not have to swear allegiance to the queen. Sincerely a Canadian
She has no influence anywhere, even here in the UK. The Royal family has had no actual purpose since the 17th century and exist only to take money off tourists and spend other people's money.
@@edbadyt You might want to read about the Queen's role in Canada again. Small hint: Her role is much more important and actually much bigger than you think it is (which is btw true for most people in the UK as well).
Spain has one of the highest unemployment rate in the EU. It ties with Greece for first place in youth unemployment, otherwise it is number 2. Fried chicken is probably the cheapest meat you could get (except for fish, if you live close to the sea). You can have some of them in your back yard and it does not require any expensive or complicated stove to prepare. Ideal food for poor people. France surrenders all the time. Well, this stereotype is much older, than 2001. Sure it had great commanders,but it looks like Foch and De Gaule are gone now.
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As for France, even before the renewed increase of terrorism in the past few years, the police would regularly patrol carrying sub-machine guns. These were normal police. A couple of years ago, we went there and there was this cute blonde patrolling the Eiffel Tower, wearing military fatigues and carrying a larger-than-average SMG. I've never been in Paris, or France in general, and ever had the impression that either the police or the military were anything to trifle with. And quite a few of the Métro stations are named after famous battles, and not just victories: Bir-Hakeim, the station closest to the Eiffel Tower is named after a battle where 3.700 French held 37,000 Germans for two weeks.
Here is how I heard it. Fried chicken is fried in a fat and that fat can keep the chicken safe in a box lunch for someone working in field. Watermelon has a thick skin with mostly liquid food inside which could be carried to field with box lunch and shared. These items could tolerate being taken with someone without refrigeration better. Even the vegetables are cooked with fat. besides flavor it can prolong how long you can carry you lunch with you.
This must be at least the 10th video I watched on your channel and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy them. Unlike so many other "top 10" lists, you guys actually go deeper into the issues and instead of just spewing facts you explain things in reasonable detail. This approach is just as entertaining as it is educational. Thanks! :)
I'm black, and I FUCKING LOVE FRIED CHICKEN!
Who the hell doesn't??
exactly.
I never understood how love of a food is racist, I have an Italian last name so as soon as its mentioned someone always does a cheesy Italian accent and says something about spaghetti/pizza etc. Not to mention what the heck is wrong with fried chicken and watermelon, both are awesome! :D
jdefabs2112 well thats BLM
Yeah that would be an issue, Every time someone mentions pizza i get hungry.
I'm a white boy and I LOVE any fried chicken too and I'm a heavy singer .LOL small world
I asked a German if they had no sense of humour and they replied: “Yes, we have absolutely no humour.”.
And then he was surprised that YOU didn't get the joke. Talking about irony, my friend. ;o)
I believe the Germans do have a sense of humor... take a look at Angela Merkel.
YES, we have no bananas.🍌
@@lightlaughter4992 spot on
I was born in Florida raised in Tennessee and I just want to mention that everyone down here regardless or race likes fried chicken and watermelon. try it it's great
I bet you love you some fried chicken, girl.
I think everyone in the U.S. likes fried chicken and watermelon! I sure do!
"try it it's great"? Singular? You mean, fried chicken and watermelon together? What do you do, wrap watermelon in a chicken breast, then deep fry it? Or have fried chicken with watermelon chutney? How does that work?
Haha I was born in Florida and raised a few years in Tennessee
@@viddork first cut up your watermelon then put sugar and or honey on it then put in freezer next eat your hot and spicy fried chicken then eat your chilled sweet watermelon paired with a mason jar filled with half sweet tea and lemonade and enjoy
9:41 "they are food you have to eat with your hands" the first time I saw someone eating watermelon with a fork, I tilted my head and thought "what kind of uncivilized neanderthal eats watermelon with a FORK!?"
tyler roberts hahaha anyone trying not to spill watermelon juice all over xD
The same with pizza. I’m from the NY area and that’s a capital crime up there.
I'm not for Sharia law, but anyone who eats pizza, or a burger, with a knife and fork deserves to be stoned to death in public. On the other hand, anyone who makes a "gourmet" burger so big you cannot eat it without deconstructing it first also is missing the point and should be put in the stocks and pelted with their own burgers until they learn their lesson.
I eat watermelon with a fork. Less messy.
that is odd. Ever eat cut up watermelon with a tooth pick?
Let me tell you a joke :D
How many germans does it take to change a light bulb?
One. We are extremely efficient and dont have humour.
you German?
Yes
True, If you had humour you'd waste time telling jokes.
esos alemanes son tan chistosos, contaría una broma para amenizar esta discusión sobre eficiencia laboral pero ya es hora de la siesta *-yawn-*
False. Our lightbulbs are so efficient they do not require replacement.
David Hasselhoff is an icon in Germany. That's hilarious.
No, he is not. He is considered a joke, but not a funny one. These days I assume heardly anybody in the younger generation of Germans even remembers him. Thankfully.
Not since burgergate :-)
That's scary.
Why are all the streets in Paris lined with trees?
So invading armies can march in the shade.
Thank you, thank you, and no, I’m not German. 🤪
I have to admit that the French stereotype is incorrect. Far from cowardly they are courageous. However, owning a large nuclear arsenal DOES NOT make you brave. US and Russia take note.....
I'm Hispanic. I'm a hard worker. But I also can be aggressively lazy 😂
Anybody can be hard workers that are also aggressively lazy. 🙋
I'm so white people call me saint Matthew and I tend to be a bit lazy lol
I'm allergic to watermelon and I have acid reflux so I rarely eat fried food. So I guess I bust this stereotype…
sucks for you...that shits delicious
Broken Quill92 FAKE
Same. I’m allergic to watermelon as well; just the smell alone can make me nauseated. I like fried foods but don’t eat it often because I want to avoid heart disease.
Same here....allergic to Watermelon and I'm vegan, so....
Ouch, I didn't if I should like or dislike your comment simply because of the allergy to watermelon. I'm not big on fried chicken though.
I never understood the Black People/Fried Chicken Stereotype... Fried Chicken is frickin' delicious and I can't imagine anyone not liking...
Julia Nadeau why eat yard buzzard
It came because it was a form of fast food and easier for blacks to get it over other foods due to segregation.
It’s the fact that you can’t imagine anyone black not liking fried chicken that’s the problem.
@@GratiaCountryman that Daddy that you can read without comprehension, that is the real problem
Its only a stereotype because thats how black people depict it in there media like movies and music. Therefore it must be true because they acknowledge it. Btw its not a bad thing to like fried chicken, watermelon, and grape soda.
Sleeping siesta depends much on where you live, theres places where its so hot at noon that its impossible to do anything productive and you NEED to stop
Not to mention that studies have shown that taking a break/nap mid-day increases productivity.
Ladygrey072 well, while it is usualy not three but just around half an hour to an hour, many germans also take a quick nap right after lunch time
We have hotter working days in South Africa and we don't get a 3 hour break in the afternoon.
We just work through the hottest part of the day.
That includes manual labour, office work in buildings without aircon, truck drivers, and workers of all kinds.
It can be done if you stay hydrated and use your lunch break to refuel in the shade.
Hotter than 98° f? Most of the south in the US runs that hot or hotter. I get the mid-day break, I worked a split shift once and other than taking my whole day, enjoyed it. However, there are many place that are crazy hot, in Texas we got temperatures above 110 all over. You just keep going.
The hottest part of the day is rarely at noon.
While it's true that the popularity of anime and manga in Japan has been greatly exaggerated, this doesn't mean there's not a kernel of truth in there. At least, when it comes to manga, which is FAR more popular than anime. You can see this by heading into a used book store like say Book-Off, about two thirds of the books are manga.
All stereotypes have a kernel of truth, but the exaggerated images are all most people believe in and it is those misconceptions that most people judge by instead of using their critical thinking skills to see the truth.
KAO S-> Some stereotypes are also potentially entirely wrong, they can exist because of enmity (propaganda) or because the most remembered event gives the wrong idea (WW2 regarding the french).
Two thirds of the books people are aiming to get rid of being manga, is not really a strong case for manga being popular.
Thank you soooo much! I'm from Jamaica and I'm tired of people asking me about weed. I've never had weed in my life!
Wow, you must have an industrial bladder. You should probably go now...it's not healthy to hold it in.
Wow you have a pretty face.
I would tell those people to go to Colorado instead.
That's fine but legalize it and have adult resorts where one can consume it out in the open. I need an excuse to vacation there. Why is the gov't being tightasses about it? It's like they're embarrassed about the stereotype.
YO MON, LEMME GET SUM WEED
I grew up in Ireland watching mostly British shows and now I live in the US. I *completely* disagree that British comedy is too subtle or clever for American audiences. I actually think the humour that doesnt play to Americans isnt the clever; its the dumb. Or, rather, the perceived dumb. The absurd. Americans don't generally like absurd comedy. Sure, there are a few exceptions, mostly cult status, but generally speaking, absurd comedy is firmly children's comedy in America. Its funny if sponge bob continues to flip crabby patties while the restaurant burns down. Its stupid if an boss continues a meeting while the boardroom burns down. But British audiences like absurd humour in children and adult programs. Imo, the other notable difference is that, especially with television shows, americans tend to have to make *way* more episodes, and appeal to a way more diverse audience. This is not given nearly enough attention when people pick apart British humour vs American. Take Peep Show. It had 9 seasons, and made 54 episodes. The UK Office and 2 seasons and 12 episodes. A US prime time show would have 24 episodes in a one season. And a show only lasting a year or two wouldn't be considered very successful. American comedies tend to take fewer risks because American shows need to be more reliable and longerlasting.
Americans prefer sarcastic or over the top humor in my opinion.
Monty Python seemed to go over pretty well in the States.
As an American I generally love British humor but I must admit I am completely baffled by the British obsession with bathroom (loo) humor.
10:27 Those are German soldiers, not French
Ur correct‼️😎
It looks like the people of Egypt would love to have the British dental plans.
You are somewhat wrong on #3. It wasn't 9/11 that got Americans angry with the French, it was the bombing of Libya in the 80s. Jets took off from Britain, but had to fly all the way around France because they would not grant permission to fly over France. Previous to that, the French language, food, etc. were considered very fashionable by Americans. Go look at early 80s and 70s movies, music, TV, etc. and you'll see Americans fawning over the French.
Source: I'm old enough to remember it happening...and this...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_United_States_bombing_of_Libya
That is exactly how I remember it. That is the first time I heard the term "Freedom Fries." Didn't two of airmen die when their plane was damaged and couldn't make it all the way back home because of the distance.
Livid Imp the french can go suck a bucket of dicks now
And what about "all Russians are communists"?
COMRADE WODKA BALALAYKA!
Cyka Blyat!
you forgot cyka
That's for China now
Liberty prime will get his communist. Someday he will!
No, i think its "russians are alcoholics". Thank you, water-of-life vodka!!
#9 Egyptians *are* indeed descended, for the most part, from the Ancient Egyptians. Only a small part of their ancestry is from the Arab invaders. Genetic tests have confirmed this. Following the Arab invasion and influence, the Arabic language did not immediately replace the Egyptian language. That was a gradual process that took several centuries.
#7 She's not the "Queen of England". She's the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Kingdom of England no longer exists since its unification with the Kingdom of Scotland.
#7 part two: Canada *is* free, independent, and sovereign. The Queen of the UK is also the Queen of Canada. These are two separate crowns, but the same person happens to hold both these positions. This doesn't make Canada any more dependent on the UK, than the UK dependent on Canada. So, ιf Canada "isn't really free and independent", then you would have to say the same about Britain.
+reggie So, essentially, this is what researchers and historians say. Unless you think the ancient Egyptians disappeared off the face of the earth.
Australians are 'discovering'? This has been common knowledge for a very long time and taught in schools for almost as long.
Hell I learnt it over thirty years ago in primary school that most people who were sent here as convicts were sent over petty crap.
Weren't there also periodic rounds up of poor women with nothing left to sell but their bodies? Literally sent out to keep the men 'company' when they realised there was a severe imbalance in the numbers?
Exactly. We've never been ashamed of it and we're not "rediscovering" our past. It's been faithfully taught since schools were a thing here. Every child who went to school in Australia knows that the country was a penal colony and that the most common crime these convicts had committed was "stealing food". Occasionally there were a few bigger crimes in the mix, but murderers and the like were just straight up hanged in England and never got the option of having their sentence commuted to "transportation".
tekkaoz always thought the Australians were criminals descendants but petty crimes if they were severe crimes they went actually been killed like murderers and stuff
Don't feel bad. I'm Black and I barely learned my own history in the States. Unless, it was slavery or some demeaning crap like that...
@@Luubelaar At one time there were something like 53 offenses in England that were punishable by hanging, with boys as young 12 being hung. All this so called "crime" was due to the mind numbing poverty of the 1600's, 1700's and 1800's. Those who got shipped to Australia, if they survived the trip, at least had a better chance than if they stayed in England.
I'm german . I'm humorous. What's small green and triangular ? A small green triangle
+weeKenDGames
(Lächeln)
illuminati
illuminati is originally german
+Leet 1337 ?
+weeKenDGames u said what is small and triangular? the all seeing eye used by teh illuminati.
This thing where Spanish people nap during the afternoon isn't limited to Spain - my grandparents are of German Jewish origin and according to them in Germany there is (or at least was) something called Schlafstunde - ie, sleep hours, which take place in the afternoon. If I recall various other European countries have this too. And seriously who doesn't like to nap in the afternoon anyway, as any student will tell you...
Make a part 2 of this with countries like Ireland, Mexico. China and USA.
agreed
Please
+Quickman may win and thank you
Thank you for taking the words out my mouth ( and keyboard )
That's not an entirely bad idea... Go for it.
Dental care in the United Kingdom is provided by the National Health Service, but it is far from free, as you have to pay for checkups and treatment, it is one of the few things not provided free on the NHS, and in my opinion that is why dental care is not as frequently used as it could be.
They used to do dental hygiene if you wanted it after a check up, you have to pay extra for that now. Most of the dentists really don't like doing NHS work as it doesn't make them any money, even though you still have to pay (if you are working) The last couple of times I have been was to get work redone that they cocked up the time before. Will pay for private next time.
"Irregardless" is not a word.
Better tell the Oxford English Dictionary that, because it's in there. You clearly know more than them.
Yes it is. It's just pretentious asf. It means the exact same thing as regardless.
Ever wonder what vim and vigor are? Same dictionary, same wierdness.
I begrudgingly have to admit that it is a word, but it sounds really stupid
It’s a really dumb word.
3:29 | There shouldn't be an apostrophe.
4:41 | Our & Canada's situation with the Queen is much too complicated to be explained like this. While it is true that many countries under the British monarch have some customs which Americans think are clues that we are undemocratic, they really are just that. Customs. While the Queen still has some emergency powers, they extend to dissolving Parliaments & actually make us more democratic because it's a fail-safe against abolition of democracy.
5:48 | British people used to not care much about their teeth, until electric toothbrushes were invented.
I think it's weird how Simon Whistler speaks in a British accent but embodies the American stereotype of assuming that all his audience are American.
To be fair, I'm sure the channel shows them metrics which probably tell them that an overwhelming majority of their audience are indeed American. It's just the likely scenario. I still do agree that videos should be written and presented in a way that's oriented consistently toward an international audience.
Yes. True ... this video does distort the complex nature of Canada et al . Hey what can you do in 10 mins?
There is an strong current of anti-Americanism in all his videos. Even this video is scolding what are essentially American perceptions of the French, Japanese, English, Spaniards, etc. His basic mission is cultural collusion with the American Left, to voice U.S. leftism in a British accent. With bad teeth.
Timothy Jones the channel is actually american. Just the presenter is British.
I'm Canadian and I've never pledged allegiance to the queen
+1008chaz what about the stereotype that Canadians are very friendly.
+Kjelly Lund many Canadians are ignorant and self serving
+1008chaz Me either. Time we ditched the foreign monarchy.
+Kjelly Lund No different than anywhere else. We have really nice people and assholes too. Our last Prime Minister was in the asshole category, at least he always appeared to have a stick up his own. :-)
Same with Australians. No one mentions the queen ever.
Well, my computing teacher is Spanish and when we went on a trip to Spain and he kept falling asleep on public transport.
Black people love fried chicken. Everyone loves fried chicken, how could you not?
How many Germans do you need to change a light bulb?
One. We are very efficient and don't know humor.
9:40, that's a frog's leg. Black people do love fried chicken. So do white people. So, does everyone! It's awesome!
+Erick Robinson It's one of the best foods around! :D
All cultures have fried chicken!
+Erick Robinson I'm a vegetarian and all this talk of fried chicken has me seriously considering cheating with some KFC. ;)
+Sarah Walton surrender like a frenchman!
+Sarah Walton dude he said fried chicken not poison fried chicken
I'm a white guy, and I love fried chicken. I also love watermelon. If there are cultures that don't have fried chicken, they should adopt it as quickly as possible. They don't know what they're missing.
I'm from Kentucky; everyone likes fried chicken.
France was smart to not help us invade Iraq. More power to them. Also, I think that the French "surrendering" whenever they have or do has always been a tactical move. I think French fighters are GENIUSES. Obviously there are some things I don't agree with culturally (I am a boorish American, after all), but I would be hard pressed to name anything cultural that the French don't do with genius. The idea (very much a part of the stereotype) of the French surrendering to Hitler, cutting the cables on the Eiffel Tower so Hitler would have had to walk up the steps, and the formation of the French Underground.... I mean, the French get shit done.
Oooh, uploaded on my birthday.
I never understood why the French get so much grief for their surrender in WW2. They had been defeated, and could not flee to their islands like the British or have huge tracts of land to retreat into like the Russians.
im philipeno and my parents say....quite stereotypical lines to me that even my philipeno friends parents say
"you eat yet?"
"is it good?"
"come on eat"
or even things like
parents introducing us to family members we dont know yet they say we know em or when they want our hair cut to look like a philipeno celebrity we don't know.well me and my friends are born in america x3
my dad litterally says is it good even though i didnt take a bite yet
Lol same
inaki ponG amazarray bad day over that? XD
Honey that's just parents
"Recent years" Man, I was taught in the very early 1980's from books written in the 1960's about how the Australian convicts were sent as a way to both elevate the prisons in britain from smaller crimes and how they gave those with small crims harsh sentences "Or become an Australian convict" as a way to move a lot of population there quickly.
If Japan's obsession with moeshit is a misconception, why do they put it on everything they sell? Including stuff that doesn't export internationally? I mean, you can go pick up some animoo snack cakes in Japan, and not like in some tourist-specific shop like the M&M Store in Manhattan.
+Tokugawa Heavy Industries
Because it sells, and it sells well.
+Tokugawa Heavy Industries because U.S. military?
+Hyala T'Loara It sells well to other Japanese people. There's a reason most of the really crazy stuff stays in Japan, as opposed to getting imported internationally. Because the international audience doesn't take to that stuff.
I think its just their take on mascots.
You're not Japanese, you don't know Japanese psyche and to be fair a lot of people also make mistakes about American stereotypes of being loud and brash. So stop being judgemental unless you want to perpetuate that stereotype.
I always thoughts anime and manga in japan was like comic books here. There are nerds who are super into them but most everyone else is either a causal reader or not at all into them but aware of some of the more iconic ones.
Need another Stereotypes video.
I saw a story where there were talking about removing the 3-hour lunch break for government workers in Madrid and the British were commenting under it how they only get 30 minutes and laughing at Spanish not working hard. However, what it didn't mention is that those same workers don't finish work until 8pm. So the Brit working 9am-5pm with 30 minutes off for lunch was actually working 30 minutes less than the Spaniard with a 3-hour lunch break. My partner is Spanish and it is a very strange system for Brits to understand. Another thing they do is that they are expected to work an hour or so a day unpaid. So she would often come home from work at 10pm. There would be a bloody riot in the UK if they made people do that.
Who doesn't like fried chicken?
+23093034
Yea, pretty much everyone loves fried chicken, heck even vegans try to make a meatless alternative to it.
I hate chicken... Problem?
Same can be said for watermelon and grape soda, I love that stuff (and fried chicken obviously)
me, where i live there are no KFCs
Leet 1337 What's stopping you from frying some yourself?
I had fried chicken and watermelon today and I am not black and i am living in Thailand right now. I had chicken at KFC and then went shopping which included watermelon. With the temperature about 105 F, ice cold watermelon hits the spot.
The fried chicken Stereotype could also apply to anyone from the south. The irony of seeing your dumb as a box of rocks, hateful as hell, only invited to dinner because you mom feels sorry for him, ( sorry Sunday dinner flashbacks)relative chowing down on a drumstick, while going on about the stereotype was not lost on me as a kid.
The stereotype may have it's most likely roots in the fact that for a very long time most southerners ( black and White) were fairly poor and lived in more rural settings.
chicken was cheap. If you cant afford beef, or pork you can always have chicken. It doesn't take a lot of land to raise it..and a lot of people kept chickens for eggs, and meat...usually all you have to do is turn them loose in the yard and they take care of themselves. Which is why they were sometimes called yardbirds.
so it was about the most common meat low income folks, or people with large families could afford, along with fish, and wild game..which you could catch for free...It was the same for both.black or white. At some point The negative connotation is that you'er poor, can't afford better food, and not very civilized got slapped on....I hate human nature I really do.
My friend who did not like “putting people in boxes”, told me I was Jamaican, because that’s where my parents came from??? (even though she knew I was born and raised in England, and would possibly know I was mainly of African & European descent, so saying I was Jamaican only really was in relation to a part of my culture. People love their stereo-types as it allows them to be able to “know” how to interact with you.
Canadian here. Never once have I been made to, or had an urge to pledge allegiance to the Queen of England.
I guess it's because you didn't migrate to Canada.
I want to immigrate, will I have to kiss the royal slippers?
Is that a euphemism? If not, it should be.
Funnily enough, neither has anyone else born in any country that is part of the Commonwealth. It is assumed, as we are all serfs by nature and birth.
I think it's worth remembering that Americans pledge allegiance to the flag (not the government), and (at least in the UK) you salute the uniform in the military, not the person wearing it (I think that's from Catch 22 or Spike Milligan's war memoirs...can't remember which).
Ahhhhh Spike Milligan!
#8: I thought Fritz the Cat proved that animation was suitable for adults.
#4: Everyone likes fried chicken. That's how you can identify the invaders.
I am so glad that the Welsh being described by some people as 'sheep shaggers' was not included in this video.
Nope lol just another myth told by the english
Sally Philpin Oh...fair enough
LOL, I think that's reserved for New Zealanders too
Baaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaaaah!
A Welsh friend of mine used to say ''we shag em and you eat em, which is worse?''.
In China its customary to ask a guest if they’ve eaten, yet rude if they actually except the invitation. Go figure. When I went to China, I was with my guide and he told me to never accept an invitation to eat.
Catalan here, The spanish are not lazy, but there is a cultural pride in most of spain in avoiding work or managing to get paid wist not working.
they aren't tho
Isn't that sort of a thing in every culture? Some are just more hush-hush about it so they don't get fired...
That's everywhere, Miquel. Actually, let me correct myself: in the US, everyone brags of how much of a hard worker they are, but everyone tries to get out of work, or leave work early.
Joe B I certainly don't do that, so not everyone does... I've always been the one to be there the latest lmao.
It's probably just the people in Catalonia then, and not those in the other parts of Spain.
The siesta doesn't have anything to do with being lazy: You don't work less if you work e.g. from 8 to 12 and 3 to 7 than when you work from 9 to 5 without any break.
The siesta actually makes work more efficient for people who work outside. It can be proven that work e.g. at construction sites is less efficient when the temperature is higher than about 30 °C.
So... who else was well into adulthood before hearing the stereotype about black people? I'm in my mid30's now and I don't think I became familiar with the stereotype until I was in my mid 20s. Namely when I started spending more time online. Wait a minute...
Ive heard that stereotype since I was a kid
I should have mentioned my age and location. I guess ethnicity is relevant to this one as well. I am in my mid30s, and grew up in Central Iowa. Live in southeastern South Dakota for the several years. I learned about the fried chicken/watermelon stereotype.. I think from UA-cam in the last five years. =P I am a pasty, pasty white boy, and grew up in a very ethnically homogeneous area.
There might be a stereotype about fried chicken being southern food, but that probably comes from Kentucky Fried Chicken being a well established restaurant chain in the area. Watemelon is mostly summer/picnic food. No ethnic component required. ;)
I understand im from NYC so I heard almost every stereotype from every culture at least once since we are a big melting pot from around the world.
@@KamisamanoOtaku Agreed with you mostly but KFC being a trend from the south comes from fried chicken being a big deal down there and something everyone had a family recipe for, not the other way around
From 1981 to 1993, I lived in Germany. During that time, for five years I lived with a former German girlfriend, learned the language and customs on a daily basis, and was exposed to their humor. I watched comedians like Didi Hallovoren and shows like "Verstehen Sie Spaß?" (Do you understand fun?). They were extremely funny and I would often times cry from laughter.
I'm black and I'm eating fried chicken while watching this...
O.o
It's like they were speaking right to me!
lol
No. 1 was totally debunked by "Look Who's Back." That movie was hilarious.
Anime is Hugely popular in Japan and it is still made primarily for Japanese audiences. The reason why anime sales are declining in Japan isn't due to a decline in popularity but due to piracy. The issue of domestic piracy makes international sales of greater importance but western audiences love to pirate everything as well. But if Anime was being made more for western audiences then there would be a reduction of quirky Japanese culture in it, however what has instead happened is that over the last 10-20 years western audiences have actually adapted by using the internet to learn more about Japanese culture to better understand the anime series they like to watch.
And lets not forget about the anime style used in video games. It's still as popular as ever particularly in JRPGs. And these games still sell really well in their homeland. A person probably couldn't say that Japanese people are obsessed with anime but it's such an established pillar of Japanese pop culture that these days it's a part of everyday life similar to gridiron in America - something that is popular and a ubiquitous part of life over there but not to the point where I person could say that it's a national obsession.
unstoppableExodia yeah I completely agree anime is still made with the national market in mind and with national I mean Japan the proof is pretty easy to see firstly anime is made in japanese and then subbed or dubbed if it were more popular in the rest of the world they wouldn't do that , the humor is for Japanese people and anime is based around Japanese culture which means that it targets a Japanese audience then access in the rest of the world to anime is still difficult something that would make no sense if their main target was Europe and the us. But to be fair what can you expect from a video that says that Canada is a British puppet when it has been at independent sovereign nation for decades and that says something as ludicrous as stating that in Spain people get 3 hours for a siesta something completely false
Fun fact, the Spanish tradition of long free hours between work comes from the poor state of the country after its civil war. One job was not enough to sustain a family so people would take 2 jobs. They ould start working early in the morning till 1-2pm, commute home, eat and then commute to the second work. Hence the 3 hour lunch break. Then they would start working again around 4-5pm and finish around 8pm. This time table it's still common, with 8pm being a rush hour from comuters going back home.
Video:There are billions of people in the world, and all of them are individuals with their own unique identities.
Me: Not if you live in North Korea, then the governments controls you.
Japanese people are clones.
German humor according to Monty Python: "Two peanuts are walking down the Strasse, and one was assaulted... peanut."
Here's a stereotype. New Zealanders are Australians.
Nah, no-one thinks that apart from a country I won't mention. We in the UK love New Zealand almost as much as Canada. We gots your back, buddies.
avaggdu1 I’m from the country you won’t mention and agreed 😂😂😂
Never confuse an Aussie with a Kiwi
Australia doesnt exist
*Change my mind*
should be a state of australia
maybe then we might be able to win a game of real rugby not that league rubbish
The siesta also goes along with working a split two-shift day, eating a small breakfast and dinner but large lunch that is eaten later in the afternoon and eating dinner quite late in the day. When I was young it was still popular to go home for lunch. In large cities this started to become more and more difficult and impractical due to traffic congestion.
9- what about the Coptic ethnic minority?
One of the best German jokes ever (though only funny if a German says it): "People tell me that Germans have no sense of humor. I don't think that's funny."
Ah ha, Ah ha. Irony.
All Americans being fat? Where is THAT on the list?
Fun fact: the Paris Métro station closest to the Eiffel Tower is Bir Hakeim, named after the Bir Hakeim bridge (over which the metro rides as well), which in turn is named after a famous last stand (and ultimately, defeat) in WW2. Incidentally, until fairly recently, the metro had reserved seats not for the elderly or pregnant women, but for soldiers mutilated during war.
What about Irish ppl being alcoholics ?
They are ;)
That is no missconception.
And Scots being ginger?
I know 4 gingers. Thats it.
+Angus Brown I only know 3, and it's my Mom, youngest sister, and my nephew. I'm in the USA. Lol
I live in Arizona, and it is blazing hot. Simon is absolutely on target with the idea of a break in the afternoon to avoid the hottest time of the day. And the sombrero is a very practical piece of headdress. Since there is no water in the air, shade makes a big difference. #4 is not a stereotype, but a reason for admiration. Save me a seat, because I want some too!
I would like to correct No. 10 concerning Australia: the initialy colony was populated by convicts, sailors and military personal, as well as a handful of civil servants to manage. A fear few died, did not have children due to the gender imbalance, with men outnumbering women 3 to 1, and a few others after being granted amnesty returned to Britain or got drafted into armed forces or construction projects in different parts of the Empire.The successive fleets, while usually having a handful of convicts, comprised mostly of profiteers and folks seeking a better life. Only two of the 7 colonies that made up Australia in total, ever imported convicts, one being because it had the world's largest prison colony within it and functioned like a regular walled prison complex and not a resettlement for convicts. To-day, up to 30% of australian residents are non-White immigrants from Asia, India and the Middle East, and of the White inhabitants, a quarter came from Europe escaping World Wars and persecution. Of those that are of British and Irish descent, only 1 in 5 have any convict heritage at all. I, myself am of mixed Italian(with a touch of Croatian) and Anglo-Scots heritage with no convict relations.
Matthew, please allow this descendant of convicts who's scots- Irish family has been in New South Wales (not first called Australia until Govn. Macquarie turned up in 1810) from the start of white settlement to correct you on a couple of points
1 All of the colonies except South Australia started with penal settlements (although the ones in WA and NT did not last long) whilst they were still part of NSW. They later broke off to become individual colonies (Tasmania might have been called Van Demons Land from the start but it was initially under the rule of the NSW Governor) For the first thirty or forty years most new immigrants were convicts
2 Many of the initial soldiers/administrators did return to Britain as you said but very few IF ANY of the convicts ever did. It was part of the conditions of "the ticket of leave" that they could not. So only a convict who 1. made enough money 2. assumed a false ID and 3. got away with it, ever left. I would assume that for many (like my family) the first time any of the convict's family left, was when one of their descendants went to war over a hundred years later.
3 Only when huge numbers of people turned up during the gold rushes in the 1850/60/70s did the families with convict forefathers cease to be the vast majority of people in NSW or Qld (even if they did not let on because from about 1850 until about the 1970s it was a source of shame for some ).
As a Jamaican I always have to tell ppl who never visits b4 "yes weed is illegal and no not everybody smoke weed or smoke at all"
I'm Canadian and I can honestly say that the royal family is a complete and utter waste of money.
The confused looking chap at the end of the German section is Henning Wehn, the self styled German Comedy Ambassador, who now lives in London. He regularly appears on several BBC comedy shows like QI and The Unbelievable Truth. He plays up the cultural stereotype of being confused by British humour and then proves to be just as witty and funny as his fellow panellists.
WoW! He looks do young without his beard!
France Surrender in WWII was due to the staggering losses during WWI. The will was there the manpower was not.
"french tanks are extremely fast, but only in reverse"
i dont even care if that's based off of a steryotype, i still find that running joke with other aces members hilarious
anime is actually somewhat frowned upon in japan by certain people... kinda like video games and certain types of music are here.
josh fritz what are 300000 raised hands? - the french army./ How many gears do french tanks have? - 5. 4 reversing and one forward for parades. / inscription of a french ww2 rifle on ebay: never used, once dropped./ why are their so many allees in france? - the german soldier dislikes marching in the sun. / called france yesterday, occupied. / who won the first tour de france? The 7th german tank batailon. / how wide is france? 17 german tank hours. / why do french war ships have bottoms made of glass? To see the rest of their fleet./ why do french tanks have backview mirrors? So the driver may also see the front./ why are france and nike so close? In war times the french army is the best customer for running shoes./ where's the safest spot to hide your valuables? Beneath the soap of a frenchman. / what's the easiest way to kill a frenchman? Smash the toilet seat down when it drinks. / why is the french fighter jet called "mirrage"? 'Cause noone actualy spottet one near a battlefield./ life is like france, we have to go through it. / what does the french war flag look like? White star on white background
I live in Idaho and we had potatoes, until the french got here.
France lost 1.7 millions people; nearly 5% of its population in WWI, plus 600,000 in WWII; nearly five times the number of citizens the US lost in both wars.
Germany not Funny? Search up "Heute Show, Extra 3 or Neo Magazin Royale" with subtitles
The problem is: These shows work for Germans or people who know German well enough PLUS the German culture but it is hard for people from other countries to understand since most of the stuff is hard to translate and identify with if you're not German. Word plays and cultural references almost never work. That's why the rest of the world thinks we're not funny in the first place and I get that.
Marcus That's a good point
Pablo Castello It just sounds so because when you think of ggerman, you think of Hitler speaking it ^^
ItsJustNils Yea I know...You know how it is...Bombardment of that one person in history that is forever tied to the people he shares a common tongue with
ItsJustNils Don't worry....Russians scare me also...I actually believe Russia hasn't invented comedy yet lolol
Simon, as almost always, you're right on spot. Thank you for clarifying about these myths. Maybe you'd do one that includes Mexico and Mexicans. The horrible myths and stereotypes that are being reinforced by the current political and social climate are not just galling, but it also creates a very dangerous situation in regards to personal safety.
I am half Mexican and half Scottish. I try to explain to people that only the Scots side are true immigrant as most Latin Americans are mostly descendants of Native Americans. You could explain that European-Americans would be considered, genetically and culturally speaking, even more "illegal", they were not invited here and did not apply for asylum.
The stereotype about Brits being smug and self-important?
@Rowen Starchild Hmm... Brexit?
Top Tenz,
Just to put you right about attitudes to colonisation in Australia-
The video suggests that Australians have ACCEPTED the notion that the early transported convicts were violent criminals, and have ONLY RECENTLY discovered that this is otherwise.
This is not the case. The "Social Studies" program taught at schools for many years in the 20th century described the situation in England which brought about the transportation of people to Australia. Every Australian child KNEW that in 1788 a person could be transported for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. Everyone knew that Mary Reiby, entrepreneur, was transported for "stealing" a horse, which, the fourteen-year-old claimed, she was merely going for a ride on.
Everyone was also taught that almost half the people on board the eleven ships of the "First Fleet" were sailors, marines, and free settlers.
It is also very common knowledge among Australians, and part of the school education, that far far more people arrived in Australia in the decade when gold was discovered, the 1850s, that all the convicts who had been transported in the previous sixty years. So in 1960, the chance of being descended from a convict was only about 1 in ten.
Another little-known fact is that Australia has a sort of "Aristocracy". These are the descendants of the military officers and other officials from the early days of the Colony, Some of them are famous for exploring and surveying the huge land, as well as founding towns, universities and hospitals.. Most of them became major landowners.
These facts were so well known that I found it alarming to discover that other people had a different concept entirely, and thought of Australians as the descendants of dangerous criminals.
One of the most unfortunate problems that has come about in the last thirty years has been engendered by some video that has been produced to give migrants a brief history of the country.
I have had a number of Middle Eastern migrants tell me in deprecating tones that "All you WHITE Australians are descended from Criminals. WE have more right to be here than you have, because WE came from choice." This sense of false history, and racial entitlement is potentially problematic.
We are 100% free in Canada. We dont take commands from the queen, butout of respect we still have the queen part of our culture because she gave us independence unlike the Americans. We dont pledge allegiance to anyone but ourselves but we do have a close relationship to the British but we are far closer to the states. Might wanna check your facts and research more.
Todd Zimmerman she is the queen of Canada and can dismiss your government if she wants although she won't unless in extreme circumstances. New immigrant also do have to swear to her.
Jj O,leary she could try but Canada wouldn't accept it. We're closer to the Americans now then we are to England. She mainly deals with the First Nations because the system is messed up but had no true power in Canada.
***** she could but would only do it if the Canadian people wanted it. She also has to sign in all laws. She is the queen of Canada as well as Britain
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
Here is when she did it in Australia and she could do it in Canada, New Zealand or the UK aswell.
Correct, i provide more information at the top. In terms of connection, I feel closer to Britain culturally (it is my heritage, and recent at that) so I am quite happy to have our Queen.
Jj O,leary
"she is the queen of Canada and can dismiss your government if she wants..."
...as the Queen of Canada, not as the British monarch.
"...although she won't unless in extreme circumstances. New immigrant also
do have to swear to her."
...as the Queen of Canada. If these things make Canada "not truly independent", then the same should be said about Britain. Both are equal realms with the same Queen. One does not control the other.
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Fact check: That is fish people.
Canada is a completely independent monarchy that happens to share the same royal family as the UK
No the queen is queen of Canada look it up ;)
If Britain goes to war it is law that Canada follows to protect the queen. They actually still have authority if they choose to enact it.
+Guy Incognito That law changed in 1931. Canada automatically went to war in WW1, but declared war on it's own in WW2. Since then, there have been a lot of British wars that Canada didn't join, like the 2003 Iraq War.
SilentBudgie The queen still has a right to call upon Canada and you are obliged to go As citizens of Canada your allegiance it to England, still to this day. Look it up.
Guy Incognito Wherever you looked it up is wrong. Find reliable sources for yourself before telling other people to look it up. Canada has had separate foreign policy from the UK since 1931. There have been several wars the UK fought since then that Canada chose to not join.
I got no sleep watching a ton of your videos. Here we go again!
Did he just say Canadas army isn't a joke ROFL
Canada couldn't defeat a US national guard unit.
Very true about the different kinds of humour: Humour in English often derives from words having different meanings but sounding alike. In German this is not the case. Also, British humour is more often self-deprecating, which we don't have so much. Neither do the Americans, though.
Nothing about Ireland :'(
Yea...
+Shaunagh NicAoidh So you guys aren't in a constant drunken brawl hurling potatoes at each other? - (joking)
+bah-Dumb bum666 hide your thirst.
Shaunagh NicAoidh
Thirst? It's more of a lustful hunger.
I will be moving to Dublin in June where I plan to live forever and be happy and have sex with lots of Irish people. More women than men though. I like what I like but I still like to sample. Heheheh!
+bah-Dumb bum666 they say 2 out of ten men are gay.so out of the last ten guys I had sex with 2 of them were gay
One interesting fact is that there were almost 500,000 Free People of Color in the US in 1860, split almost equally between north and south. While these FPOC were only a fraction (1/8th) of the enslaved population, their numbers were significant. In cities such as New Orleans, FPOC were often small-business owners, such as barbers, hairdressers, milliners, etc. As for the whole "chicken" stereotype, that really is a mystery. Fried chicken was a dish that even among white middle-class farming families was often reserved for special occasions such as the preacher coming to Sunday dinner. After all, a family usually had only so many young, tender roosters to spare, and who would kill a young egg-layer? (Older roosters and hens were sometimes so tough that they were stewed.) In oral histories, I've heard many older people remark jokingly that they never knew that chickens had anything other than gizzards, feet, and backs, since the adults usually ate first and got the best pieces. Black or white, probably most poorer and middle-class farming families from the 19th century through the Depression would have loved to have a fried chicken dinner. Most of the time, Southern poor people in the deep South, black or white, lived off of turnip greens or peas and cornbread (crumbled in buttermilk), with maybe an occasional opossum, raccoon, or other small game, a little home-cured salt-pork, and some carefully-prepared poke salad in season. (It's poisonous unless prepared correctly.)
I'm white but LOVE fried chicken. Also, the Spanish I've come across are incredibly lazy.
Anyone that says Mexicans are lazy never worked with one. Hardest working, nicest people
Dear TopTenz, Simon Whistler referred to Australia as an island.
Continent dear TopTenz, it's a Continent not an island.
Yeah, so America may be called "islands" and Britain is a continent, am I right?
Yes, and no. I'm sure you know the rhombus and the square, a square is always a rhombus, but a rhombus is not always a square. So yes, North and South America could be considered one giant island (unless you're dissecting into multiple via the Rio Grande or the Panama Canal etc), but they are an immense span of land qualifying as a continent. The UK however does not qualify, any elementary geography class would have answered that query, much less any dictionary. A nation such as Australia is both an island and a continent. So Rog5446 you're wrong and right, because Australia is both.
I've just checked out what elementary geography is taught in schools around the world.
There are five continents (as symbolised on the Olympic flag) and the last one is Australia.
So what did they teach you at school?
Australia is surrounded on all sides so, by definition, it is an island, even though it is a continent, which is why it is often referred to as an 'island continent'.
Britain is an island, or, more precisely a group of islands, but it is not a continent. If by 'America' you mean The United States of America, then no, it is not islands.
Canada is an independent country - I've got no idea why the Queen being head of state would mean otherwise. She is a ceremonial figure, just like she is in Great Britain, and in Great Britain she is considered to be an irrelevance by most people, so I'm sure that in Canada she is also considered to be irrelevant.
Meant to say FTQ.
The Canadian facts are wrong the queen has little influence at all, she is represented by the Governor General. And you do not have to swear allegiance to the queen. Sincerely a Canadian
it's really in name only... go find a quarter and tell me who's face you see.
She has no influence anywhere, even here in the UK. The Royal family has had no actual purpose since the 17th century and exist only to take money off tourists and spend other people's money.
@@edbadyt You might want to read about the Queen's role in Canada again.
Small hint: Her role is much more important and actually much bigger than you think it is (which is btw true for most people in the UK as well).
Yeah sure those born here don’t have to do a pledge, but all immigrants have too
For number 5 I've heard the opposite weird.
the one about Spanish people being lazy.
Spain has one of the highest unemployment rate in the EU. It ties with Greece for first place in youth unemployment, otherwise it is number 2.
Fried chicken is probably the cheapest meat you could get (except for fish, if you live close to the sea). You can have some of them in your back yard and it does not require any expensive or complicated stove to prepare. Ideal food for poor people.
France surrenders all the time. Well, this stereotype is much older, than 2001. Sure it had great commanders,but it looks like Foch and De Gaule are gone now.
***** Shouldn't a question have a question mark?
***** Orders should not contain question marks, Sun Tzu is spinning in his grave. No, I am neither 16, nor do I have depressions, to ever get drunk.
***** Petr Maly. Nice to meet you.
the Queen is a figurehead only ,she picks absolutely no one in the Canadian government where you get your talking points is beyond me
Egypt is in Africa!!! cut it out.
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
all Egyptian speak Arabic lol.
ali nour except the babies 😂😂😂
As for France, even before the renewed increase of terrorism in the past few years, the police would regularly patrol carrying sub-machine guns. These were normal police. A couple of years ago, we went there and there was this cute blonde patrolling the Eiffel Tower, wearing military fatigues and carrying a larger-than-average SMG. I've never been in Paris, or France in general, and ever had the impression that either the police or the military were anything to trifle with. And quite a few of the Métro stations are named after famous battles, and not just victories: Bir-Hakeim, the station closest to the Eiffel Tower is named after a battle where 3.700 French held 37,000 Germans for two weeks.
im black and I LOVE CHICKEN
and i play basketball and have no dad
+Tes_StunO198 Ultimate_Killer im white, i play soccer, i have no dad
Leet 1337 not so different 😂😂😂
+Tes_StunO198 Ultimate_Killer i also love chicken. where i live we eat chicken with curry sauce and rice.
Leet 1337 i love chicken with sauce!!!
Here is how I heard it. Fried chicken is fried in a fat and that fat can keep the chicken safe in a box lunch for someone working in field. Watermelon has a thick skin with mostly liquid food inside which could be carried to field with box lunch and shared. These items could tolerate being taken with someone without refrigeration better. Even the vegetables are cooked with fat. besides flavor it can prolong how long you can carry you lunch with you.
uh fyi teeth cleaning is every 6 mos not every year
Dental treatment is not free unless you fall into certain catagories, although under NHS most, not all treatments are subsidised
tracy taylor that’s true my lady
This must be at least the 10th video I watched on your channel and I just wanted to say how much I enjoy them. Unlike so many other "top 10" lists, you guys actually go deeper into the issues and instead of just spewing facts you explain things in reasonable detail. This approach is just as entertaining as it is educational. Thanks! :)