America the odd one out?
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- Honestly, America seems to be the odd one out! After living overseas for 8 years, I have come to see that many developed countries do things a certain way and America insist on being different. Good or bad. - it's just the way it is :)
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Measurement System (0:58-1:23): Most of the developed world uses the metric system, while the U.S. uses the imperial system, along with only two other countries, Myanmar and Liberia.
Tipping Culture (1:28-3:16): Tipping is deeply ingrained in U.S. culture, far more than in other countries. It has become extensive, even expected in many service interactions, unlike in many places where a living wage is paid to staff and tips aren't as central.
Sports Preferences (3:25-4:42): The U.S. differs in its sports culture, particularly in its preference for American football and basketball over soccer, which is the most popular sport worldwide.
Spelling Differences (4:45-5:49): There are notable spelling differences between American English and British English, with the latter being used in most Commonwealth countries.
Date Format (5:51-7:25): The U.S. uses a month/day/year format for dates, which is different from the day/month/year format used in many other countries. This difference can be confusing for those used to the international format.
Healthcare System (7:28-9:01): The U.S. healthcare system is primarily private and expensive compared to the public or mixed systems in most developed countries.
Higher Education Costs (9:08-10:51): University education is notably more expensive in the U.S. compared to many other countries where it can be free or more affordable.
Vacation Days and Public Holidays (10:55-12:26): The U.S. has no mandated vacation days and fewer public holidays compared to many other countries, where workers are guaranteed a certain amount of time off.
Maternity Leave (12:34-14:54): Maternity leave policies in the U.S. are much less generous than in many other countries, where longer paid leaves are common.
Gun Laws (14:57-15:39): The U.S. has relatively lenient gun laws due to the Second Amendment, unlike the stricter regulations in other developed countries.
Temperature Scales (15:41-16:20): The U.S. uses Fahrenheit, while most other countries use Celsius, which can be confusing for people accustomed to the metric system.
Public Transportation (16:23-16:40): Public transportation in the U.S. is less developed and sometimes less safe compared to other countries, where it is more integrated into daily life.
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There is one metric measurement that many Americans understand and use and that is the 9mm.
My wife wants to divorce me because she says I'm too unamerican. I'm not surprised. I could see it from a kilometer away.
Or from 1.609 km away.
From a mile away
Kilometre
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a lot of things that americans dont have that most other countries have seems to me is because of their rejection of socialisim,wrongfully thinking that its communism.
A lot of the US misspellings are due to Noah Webster, he claimed to be making spelling easier, but it was mostly his anti-British sentiments.
Another difference is the religious reverence America has for soldiers. In NZ we're not really that interested in our soldiers, we hardly ever see them, and that's a job they chose so whatever. But in America you're like bowing down to soldiers and thanking them for their service and all this, it's very cult-like.
No cult like. We just appreciate their service and are thankful for the sacrifice that they take. Even their families sacrifice a lot, pay cut, time with family.😢 😢😢
As an American soldier, me and my friends just find it really awkward when people thank us for our service.... like seriously we find it awkward....
@@dux_bellorum Yeah I didn't mean to come across like I was dissing soldiers. It's a legitimate and respectable job. It's just we don't have the culture of "thanking them for their service". They get paid.
@kennethmacalpin7655 Oh, I didn't take it like that at all! I was deployed with Aussies and Kiwis in Egypt and learned heaps from both and still keep in touch with them today... they (the kiwis) told us all the time how in NZ its more or less seen as a job, and they go about their business. The only important day is ANZAC day from the way they made it sound. But they did say that in Straya, it's more like the US in terms of appreciation for military.
@@dux_bellorumIt's not. Virginia Airline tried to adopt the US habit of announcing when servicemen and women were on board and thanking them for their service. The Department of Defence asked them to stop because the soldiers did not like it.
Australia has at least 3 major football codes(australian rules,rugby union,rugby league) besides soccer/football. Calling it soccer just makes it easier to tell them apart.
Hey Tara. Many thanks for another informative video.
Another American difference you could mention is that America's electricity system is different.
America uses 110 volt 60 hertz for household appliances but many countries in the world use
220 volt 50 hertz for their household appliances.
AHHH yes I forgot that one - dang
With maternity leave in NZ, the workplace has to hold your job role for 12 months. They can hire a fixed term employee or temporarily second someone into that role while you’re gone but you’re the substantive role holder and are entitled to step back into the role after the 12 months is up. An employer cannot hire a permanent staff member to your role and then give you an equivalent one when you return, that’s not how it works at all.
As a travelling Kiwi, I just recently learnt that in the USA there is a crazy thing called a Tipped Wage, especially for service industry workers. From what I understand, the more you make in tips the less your employer has to pay you - depending on what U.S. State or Territory you live in.
Association Football is also called soccer in Australia where it’s a relatively minor spectator sport, well behind Australian Rules Football (AFL) and Rugby League. Surely in NZ the big sport is Rugby Union with soccer a long way back.
Regarding date format. I often hear Americans say they always say it month then day, like November 7. But what about the 4th of July? I actually prefer this format: yyyy-mm-dd. It's especially great for folders & files on your computer. Makes sorting by folder/file date so easy
And I just realised my preferred date format has month before day. Eep! I suppose day to day verbal date format vs naming of folders and files is kinda different
This is a funny one, because the date is ultimately a measure of time after all, the debate is constant about the day/month thing, but we all forget that when it comes to telling the time on a clock, we start with the largest unit and work our way down. On that rationale, none of us are really doing dates right.
Yes, yyyy/mm/dd is logical but only IT nerds appreciate that. The dd/mm/yyyy (British) format sensibly goes from small to medium to large units, not the US medium-small-large, which doesn't make sense. And why do US calendars start the week on Sunday, when we all think of the work week as starting on Monday? Haven't Americans heard of the weekEND?
Most of these also apply to Canada
1- Officially, we use the metric system, but in practice we kind of just use a random mix of the two. Most people use imperial units in day to day conversation, but we also will use metric for a lot of things. It’s weird lol.
2. Tipping culture is pretty much the same in Canada as it is in the states
3. Sports are pretty much the same as well, with the obvious exception being that hockey is the most popular sport by far. But football, basketball and baseball are definitely the other 3 most popular and people follow them pretty much just as religiously as in the states
4. This one, Canada differs, we mostly use British spellings. From what I understand, the reason that the US uses different spellings is that after the revolution, they wanted to distinguish themselves from the British in as many ways as possible, so they even started spelling words differently. So basically the reason is because eff the British lol.
5- we use mm/dd/yyyy in Canada as well. Except for Quebec I believe. I think they do did/mm/yyyy. But the rest of Canada does it same as the states
6-Yea, this one Canada differs haha. Although, as far as the developed world goes, Canada’s healthcare system is still pretty subpar. But at least we have the basics covered. America’s healthcare system is pretty bananas to me. But we’re not as far ahead of the states as many Canadians seem to think when it comes to healthcare.
7- Similar to healthcare, this is an area where Canada is superior, but not AS superior as we like to think. University can still be prohibitively expensive for many Canadians
8- again, we’re a little ahead of the states as far as PTO goes, but still behind the rest of the world. We get mandatory 2 weeks a year. Which I’ll take, but it’s still pretty minimal.
9- Canada does have pretty good maternity leave- I believe it’s something like 50% of your pay for up to a year and 90 days for paternity leave. Those numbers aren’t exact, but it’s something along those lines.
10- Canada’s interesting when it comes to guns… we do have relatively tight gun regulations, yet still a pretty avid gun culture. Most people I know own guns and go shooting frequently. Our guns are a lot more tightly regulated however
11- this is pretty funny in Canada- we use Celsius for weather, but Fahrenheit for water temp. So someone would say “it’s a beautiful 30 degree day and I got my pool set at 80 degrees” and that would be a totally normal sentence lol. Also baking & cooking is always Fahrenheit. Thermostats for homes is USUALLY Fahrenheit but sometimes Celsius lol. This is one area where we really can’t make up our minds
12- Public transportation is extremely subpar in Canada too, I think it’s pretty much the equivalent to the states. There’s a few cities like Montreal that are considered to have decent public transportation but North American standards, but compared to most of the world it’s still kind of a joke. We’re just as bad as the states in this aspect
As much as a lot of Canadians love to be up on their high horse and act like that we’re this vastly superior country to America, in reality most of the criticisms that people have of the US also apply to a Canada to at least some degree. We’re basically America lite lol
The Webster dictionary is the reason why American English has is different. When developing his dictionary, Webster was trying to simplify things as the "rules" for spelling the original English words were so different, due the many different language roots for them. England has been invaded by many different cultures that give rise to the many, many, many different ways our words are formed. Romans, Viking, Normans, Saxons, etc. have given rise to this. Webster was trying to come up with a more coherent system. Hence, centre became center, colour became color, etc.
And why did he have to simplify things? Why do American sit comes have laugh tracks to let Americans know something is supposed to be funny? Why do foreign actors in the US have to talk with American accents? Why are plot lines and obvious facts so carefully explained in movie scripts/dialogs? ... Because Americans are THICK AS BRICKS! LOL
True dat.
I am a Kiwi, was born here bought up here and I call it soccer, always have. Everyone did where i was from... I think maybe NZ has moved to calling it football now? But soccer still slips out of my mouth... Also, time off, not sure Americans work harder than everyone else? Kiwis are pretty hard working I think..? in NZ when you go on parental leave, they HAVE to keep your job open for you (unless the role is made redundant) and they hire a temporary person to fill the role until you get back.
Love this vid :)
Talking about gun laws, at least in the US tho if someone trespasses you have the right to defend yourself etc. In NZ, if someone came into my house and attempted to hurt me, if I killed that person I would be put on trial for manslaughter... And if my dog bit the person, the dog would get put down and the trespasser would be seen as the victim... So I think US wins there! Also I think our gun laws don't stop gun violence per se.
In the USA we have more mass shootings than days in the year. People are starting to homeschool their kids, including myself, for the sole reason that there are too many school shootings. This preventable tragedy hardly exists in NZ and other countries.
Another difference is PAL vs NTSC video formats. When I was a kid in NZ, I ordered some VHS tapes from an American catalogue. When they arrived, they wouldn't play in my VCR, they were just static. I complained to the company, they insisted there was nothing wrong with the tapes. I found out that America uses some strange video format that won't work in the rest of the world, and I had to pay someone in NZ to convert them to the normal format.
Stage 1 is believing that that the American way of doing things is the way the entire universe works. Stage 2 is realising that another country does these things differently to the US (see? I didn't say "differently than" which is an American expression). Stage 3 -- enlightenment -- is realising that America is practically the only country that does things the American way and that often all the rest of the world does it another way (e.g. the metric system). You have now achieved enlightenment.
One really prominent difference is Americans almost universally circumcise their son's. In New Zealand during the 50's it was the same but that was 70 years ago, now only about 5% of boys are circumcised in NZ. Most in NZ look at their one day old baby and think doing something like that is abhorrent.
Oh my gosh really? I did not realise that at all...
5% is like one in twenty male children. That equates to perhaps one per classroom. As an American mother of six what do you make of that fact and can you elaborate on your experience with healthcare in the US?
Yes it could be viewed in that manner but bare in mind that "GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF" duly ordered Moses to circumcise every single male (young & old) & whilst they were camped out in the desert for 40 years of all places!! (irrespective of the hygiene factor) If God's ordained instructions regarding circumcision were going to create any sort of on-going medical problem or otherwise, do you honestly think he was going to harm or burden his very own people!! I very much doubt it!! This is the same GOD who not only dealt with the Egyptian Army by drowning them as they chased his people out of Egypt but he also parted "The Red Sea" to enable his people to escape from the cluthes of the Egyptian's!! So many people (especially females) have jumped on the circumcision band wagon in recent times stating the negative effect such action has on males irrespective of the fact that they have never experienced male circumscion themselves!! (yeah right) However I don't think most people see it in the same vein as "GOD Almighty" does!! Personally I'm in favour of it & all boys should be cut automatically like it used to be fairly universally done here in NZ. If you don't like it you do have grounds to take it up with "GOD ALMIGHTY" via his direct line & let me know his response please so I can correct myself if necessary!! (yeah right)
I think that the percentage is the same in England. About 5%. Not sure about Australia.
@eshiestrik2756 I am in Australia just now and its around the 10% mark. Au was a little slower than NZ in abandoning the practice but still most here now agree its a poor choice. Based upon what I have seen the US healthcare system is basically predatory and focused on how much money they can make.
Always enjoy your videos. Am in NZ.
Awesome! Thank you!
Why is it when Americans (on shows or interviews) are sharing a memory or incident, and are asked "How old were you?" the reply is never their age but the school grade/class they were in at the time, like "I was in elementary or high school"..... when????.....lol.
Soccer came from Oxford University students differentiating two different "football" games: rugby (rugger) and association football (asoccer). This became soccer.
There's loads of countries that call it soccer, and it's basically England's fault. They invented the term, but now they get annoyed when people call it soccer.
Australia has 3 national professional football codes.
Nuff said.
I also like to argue that there are tons of different football sports, and American football is technically called Grid Iron Football, Rugby is called Football, then there is Australian rules football, and then we have real football (soccer, ew I feel gross calling it that and I'm American. )
Over a decade or so ago Australia contemplated hosting the world cup in the not too distant future.
This was debated enthusiastically nationally when a major newspaper revealed it had in its possession a missive from FIFA listing two requirements that needed to be met before Australia could possibly have a look in.
The first was that the Australian Football League had to drop Football from its title.
The second is that the ball the league used had to be round.
Once these requests were met then Australia's request to hold the cup would be considered seriously.
It has to be noted that the article was published on the 1st of April.
What this revealed is the perception that there is something called "real" Football which is about as arrogant as you can get.
The other absurdity is that Australian Football codified its rules before that of soccer.
Having the numbers isn't an excuse for being on the high horse.
Surely followers of soccer, or football if you prefer, can simply live together with all the other football codes, but I'm afraid that insecurity will end up ruling.
@banta-pd8zj Australia's male team is called the soccer-roos.... but as a person who grew up playing real football as its played with your feet, and playing grid iron football, I will always feel dirty calling it soccer... especially since it's British slang... just call it football....
Yeah, absolutely true. The point I was trying to make is that, let's call it soccer to distinguish it from similarly called games, is that these fans, players and whatnot insist that it's the only true football. That is, it's a skill that emphasises play using primarily the foot.
Rugby and grid iron emphasise throwing. Celtic and Aussie rules also stress the foot even though differently from soccer.
Some soccer devotees are like fascists, utterly intolerant and dismissive of lesser games that call themselves football.
That's it. As I originally mentioned I'm from a country with a strong national divide between 3 codes. Rugby league, soccer and Aussie Rules.
Partisanship rules and never the twain shall meet.
Funnily enough the dominant code is Aussie rules, or plain footy as I and many others like to call it.
That's what we call football and it satisfies any defenition of what you would call football that you throw at it.
Do you know the game?
the date thing made me just start doing the month as "aug oct" and alike to stop the problem. I used to work with a huge group of people form all over and the frist 12 day of the month was just hell for people thinking that a meeting on the 7th was on the 12 of the June, in july as a meeting in a month and a week where common. so we just got told to please state the month in words. Got used to it and just kept using it form then on.
There is English then there is American English. It's not British English, it's just English. Or you could say proper English, correct English or English English. America for some odd reason decided to change some of the rules of English. Never forget that English comes from England.
In Vegas I was sitting at a blackjack table next to an English couple. Next to them was an American. He compliment the ENGLISH lady on her good ENGLISH!
I'lldefend Americans for a lot of things, but the their tipping culture is indefensible. It's just an excuse for big businesses to NOT pay a living wage to employees.
Your comment about health is the reason I cannot travel there, I had a quad bypass some years ago. The only cost was parking when my wife visited me, I found out recently that would 1-5 to 2 million dollars over there
if you watch Lawrence from Lost in the Pond, the thing is Soccer was originally coined in England as a short hand "Association rules" football. We can honestly blame the British that this caught on in America and stuck to differentiate between American football. We use different spellings due to Noah Webster as a way to differentiate and reject the King's English of Britain.
Absolute bollocks.
Annual leave is classed as a liability for a company so employees are required to take the 4-5 weeks leave as companies don’t want to have accruing liability on their books.
Indeed, because accrued leave has to be paid out should an employee leave the company.
When you're doing your taxes, have you accidentally used the New Zealand date format?
About dates, I have always just accepted that it is just America being difficult. It is easy to remember NZ date, most changing to least - day, month, year
"Soccer" comes from "Association Football" Developed in the UK so as to distinguish from the other types of football.
My favourite? World Standards Day is held around the world on the 14th of October. Apart from in America, where they hold the "U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day" on the 12th.
Soccer is short for "Association Football", was was originally as a way to distinguish that from "Rugby football" in the 1880s in the UK (it was coined at Oxford I think). In the USA for some reason it was thought too hard for people to distinguish between "Gridiron football" & "Association Football" so the use of "Gridiron" and "Soccer" came into widespread use in the United States.
Football was also also called soccer in NZ in the past.
Still is by most of us.
It still is
It was always Football down my way, I even played in the Lincoln College AFC before it broke from Canterbury College and became it's own Uni.
You must get really confused on the 11th day in December. Is it 12/11/2023 or 11/12/23?
Excellent points! Every American should see this! I've been fortunate to work for a municipality that has great benefits including 4 weeks starting vacation up to 8 week depending on the position and time on the job. Also, a great retirement!
The cost of education is a big one for us. We have two son that have gone beyond 4 years degrees. One received grants for is higher degree but the other is in a veterinary program and we're trying to keep him form having take out loans for most of it which would exceed $100,000!
With maternity leave u should touch on the actual having a baby in new zealand. We don't get billed for having babys or need insurance either. And hospital or maternity units are free to stay in too.
The US keeps deluding itself that it is "the world's greatest democracy", The Economist Democracy Index is published annually according to carefully worked out criteria. The US is ranked number 30 and graded as a "flawed democracy", NZ is number 2, Australian number 15. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
Loving this comment,notice how the room suddenly went quiet 😂
very similar to the “Human Freedom Index” (NZ 2nd, USA 23rd in 2022), “Economic Freedom Index” (NZ 5th, US 25th in 2023) and also the Corruption Perception Index (NZ 2nd equal least corrupt, US 24th least corrupt in 2022)
You said "America gets things done" - but does it? It doesn't seem to get the most important things done e.g. organising the health system properly. Maybe it feels like it gets stuff done because you feel so busy. The world's most productive countries are Ireland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland and France. The people there have better quality of life and all the things you mentioned. What is the US "getting done"? Well, the top four areas where it is making it's money (at the expense of it's people, sadly) are hospitals, drugs and cosmetics, health and medical insurance, and pharmaceuticals. Two of the other areas in the top ten are life insurance and retirement and pension plans. It's also making horrendous money out of it's public schools - one of the top ten money making areas in the US economy! These are what most countries wouldn't consider as a money making - rather, resources would be put into these areas.
I thought the same. I think she has pride in this non stop work thing tho.
It is soccer in NZ, to some Rugby is football to my family Rugby League is football but Football is generally attributed to Rugby here in NZ
About 1968 I was working for the United States Government. At that time the USA studied the implementation of the metric system. The study results showed that it would cost industry so much $$$'s that it was impractical. And the American pubic surveyed were 90% opposed to the change.
The metric system. Americans have had a lock on so much manufacturing for so long, they just take it for granted that their system should be imposed on the rest of the world. The arrogance is staggering. I am Canadian and used to work for a company that did a lot of business in the US. We would prepare tool kits and send them along with equipment to the US for installations. Most of the screws we used were Robertson (square) head screws. They were better because they wouldn't strip as much as Phillips (star head) screws. We always made sure that our techs would have several Robertson screw drives and drill bits and spare screws to be able to do the jobs. Our American technicians regularly complained about having to use those tools and sometimes they would just throw them away, causing all kinds of problems. It was pure arrogance on their part.
Re the US using Imperial measurements - even those can be different, e.g. a US gallon is 0.833 of a proper Imperial gallon 😉
Second most popular sport in the world is cricket
a lot of Aussies call it soccer as well. We also call rugby and AFL 'footy' or football
It’s soccer in Australia too
Having time off and having a living wage increases productivity and drives economies. When you have the money and safety nets, you spend money, tourism increases, people are more creative.
Yes America is the odd man/woman out across many things, and not necessarily in a good way. As a Canadian, we have many similarities with the US but very many differences. What's quite disappointing is that Americans writ large are highly ignorant of even their closest neighbour Canada, let alone more distant advanced societies.They assume that because we use the same language, everything is basically the same as in the US. As a society and even at the individual level, they have no clue that other countries could be different and even more advanced in terms of how their societies function. Sadly, if you watch whats going on in America today, things seem to be spiralling into a more dreadful state of affairs. Enjoy your life in New Zealand; it sounds like a wonderful place to live.
Noah Webster
That man is Noah Webster, the iconic dictionary editor whose name is now synonymous with dictionaries in the United States. In the late 1700s, Webster took issue with some of the inconsistencies of British spelling and the troubles they posed for American students learning the language. Yes the American Education system was broken right from word go due to illiteracy from all the person who migrated originated. Educated people, as a rule, did not move to the Americas.
It was always called soccer in NZ,only recently have English immigrants changed the narrative to football,rugby was called football here or footy
oo ah. you pressed a lot of buttons fo me!! I'm a kiwi living in Australia since 1981, but all my working life I've been working for, or closely with Americans. Mainly in the IT world. I"ve navigated all those issues personally. (except the maternity leave thing)
Dates: I would get an email from Microsoft, saying a product update was going to be available in the fall. Good But what do i tell my customers? Why can't they use the actual date? Which fall? It's an American writing the notice, but is he an American working in NZ, or working in the USA? So is it the US fall or the NZ fall? That's 6 months difference.
Work-Life-balance: Americans tend to measure themselves in terms of what they do for a living and how much money they make. To many of the Americans I've worked with the only thing that matters to them is how they are doing on the corporate ladder. I went out to twork for myself in 1996 and left an American corporation. I was surprised to feel liberated! I was usually in my office at home when my boys got home from school. I could take a little time out of my work day to talk to them about what they'd done that day. I had a life
Measurements. I saw a long youtube video yesterday where an American showed people how to mark a plank to be sawn in three equal widths lengthwise. The problem he was getting around was that the plank was 14 7/16 wide, and the difficulty was, how to measure and mark it into 3 equal parts. I spent a lot of my childhood in the imperial system in NZ so i know that's not all that easy to divide. Having lived in both metric and imperial worlds, I refuse to believe it's easier to be finding a third of 14 7/16 inches or divide 366mm by 3..
THanks for all your hard work on these videos. I've learned not to discuss things like this with my American friends - they get bitter and twisted when i raise any of thse issues with them. "If it was all that much better, we'd have been doing it years ago!" is their attitude.
You did use fall for autumn.
NZers accrue annual leave over 12 months. You might be able to take days off, but it's taken as leave in advance.
Gambling is taxed at ticket purchase in NZ, so if we win the Lottery, its all mine.
How much Land Tax is a thing , like city rates?
The High Chapparal is my Fav TV Show, Barbara Eden was a Teen Crush.
My Work shuts down from 15 December to 8th Jan,
the currency rates are bad for us to travel anywhere.
wait what is that true??? You don't pay tax on lottery winnings???
@@Kiwiamericans same in Australia - no tax on casino/sports bet/lottery winnings. The tax office doesn't view it as income. They get their money out of licencing fees from the operators.
@@Kiwiamericans Yes its true. Or the IRD classes someone as a professional gambler PAYE tax is paid.
@@Kiwiamericans Same in Canada. No tax on lottery winnings. A $1,000,000 prize is $1,000,000 in your bank account.
Yep... bet you’ll be rushing out to pick up a Lotto ticket then 😉
Regarding the dating. It makes sense given the gramar and construction of the english language that we use the month FIRST. We say Obtober 22, 2023, so why not write it out that way? As a Canadian though, I've been trained to use the international form of Month, date, year. It makes more sense to me, somehow. It is like reading right to left vs left to right. My sons used to read Manga they borowed from the library. Starting from (what to me ) was the last page of the book at the bottom right of the page and moving BACKWARDS seemed wrong somehow. But hey, it's a cultural thing.
Are you saying the international form is the one only America uses? People saying 22 or 22nd October in speech as often as they say October 22
That's kind of a North American thing. Most English speaking countries don't say October 22. It'll either be 22nd October or 22nd of October.
Soccer is short for ‘Association Football’
I can never understand why the Americans use an illogical date system. It's basically simple, day-month-year. Why do they use month-day-year? It was always a serious pain for comouter users as Microsoft (and other US computer firms) don't seem to consider it possible that the other 95% of the world does things differently. Even today, computer and electronic users have to keep battling illogical American spelling in so many situations. They should NOT assume that all people in the world who speak English use American spelling. It's ENGLISH, not American!
My work gives us 9 weeks paternity leave, my Tinder is quiet.
America (and Australia) calls it soccer because that's its name, and to distinguish it from the other brands of football. "Soccer" is a contraction of "association football".
"The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. Initially spelt assoccer, it was later reduced to the modern spelling.[11] This form of slang also gave rise to rugger for rugby football, fiver and tenner for five pound and ten pound notes, and the now-archaic footer that was also a name for association football.[12] The word soccer arrived at its current form in 1895 and was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.[13]"
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😅😅😅 You do not quote the Oxford Dictionary and add Wikipedia as the source....🙄
You get service according to what they believe you will tip or spend. That is not the same as good service per se. We went on an American cruise ship. We arrived after no sleep for 24 hours the first night, were given a great table, but were so tired that we just ate and left. The next night we were given a table directly outside the kitchen door. Not pleasant, but we were awake and ordered a few drinks. The next night we were given a reasonably decent table, not the best, but pretty good. Seriously, it was so blatant. I visited Las Vegas with my daughter, and we ordered breakfast at one of the restaurant/bars. The food wasn't wonderful, and I sent something back because it was inedible. The waiter moaned about the kitchen staff killing him, and when he brought me the bill I noticed he had increased the tip amounts next to the percentage guide on the ticket, eg let's say the meal cost $20, 20% is $4 not $8.
My job is on the NZ green list and I'm chomping at the bit to start applying for jobs and entry. Wife and I were talking tonight about setting dates to do what we want while we're here so we have a definitive timeline. I so badly want a better life for my kids. I don't want them in debt right out of the gate, and I want them away from all the crazies with guns.
That is great news! I am here to help
NZ is not Utopia.
House prices are very high in NZ and there is also very high gun ownership in NZ and plenty of crime.
We’re in the same boat. Good luck!!
@@tomhu1745of course. But in America there are more mass shootings than there are days in a year. Many people are starting to homeschool their kids, including myself, because it’s safer. There are too many school shootings. Some children have now experienced two school shooting events in their lifetime. It’s unacceptable in the USA.
@@tomhu1745 I never said or insinuated that it NZ is a utopia. I've done a ton of research, watched a lot of videos and read lots of writing from people who have immigrated to NZ. This isn't something I've jumped into lightly. It's something I've been considering for years, and while I don't pretend to know everything, I do feel I'm well informed as to what I'm getting into. I'm not looking for a utopia, as one doesn't exist. I'm first and foremost looking for a better future for my daughters, and I think NZ can offer that.
ISO8601 is the one true date format
In the days when English dictonaries were being developed, the USA went with the locally grown "Websters Dictionary" and its own idiosyncratic spelling. eg Colour --> Color, Aluminium --> Aluminum.
You forgot to mention the us political system lol
Most English colleges and Universities in Canada accept bosth American or British spellings in essays. The only requirement is that you be consistent. If you use American spellings you shoulduse ONLY American spellingsin your work.
When i played school boy football ⚽️ back in the 60's in Wainuiomata New Zealand 🇳🇿 football ⚽️ was called soccer ⚽️ 😊😊
USA says "4th of July" then complains that the rest of the world puts the day first?????
Football, (i.e. soccer) is the world's most popular sport, followed by cricket. I have no idea what comes third. But I'm confident it's not an American sport. I live in Australia as a Canadian expat, and I have fallen in love with Aussie Rules football, (AFL).
Cricket is very "popular" because of three countries that total about 1.6 billion people (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). In terms of number of countries and geographical spread, basketball is much more popular worldwide. Probably tennis and golf also.
*New Zealand also used to call it Soccer.... and I still do... in the UK & other European countries, it is called Football.... and it is slowly working its way around the world to call it Football... (cos they kick the ball with their foot) Speaking to other people: I have heard on some USA websites when asked, that they state to people that they speak 'American' and not English!! Ummm you are actually speaking English lol. So that is one I do not get!! As for Spelling. The best way to get it correct is to set your computers etc to British English to get it correct. I use Imperial & metric depending on what I am doing etc. 🙂.*
Football was not used as a sports name because the players kick the ball with their foot. Football was a name used for sports played on foot as opposed to the rich who would be on a horse usually like in Polo. The poor/peasants had many different Football games which eventually became Rugby Football (which then split into Rugby Union Football & Rugby League Football), Association Football (Soccer for short), Gaelic Football, Aussie Rules Football, American Football and among others.
OK. The point is that the word Football is used by several sports so for Soccer to claim the word to be exclusively for themselves is wrong. Aussie Rules Football or just Aussie Rules is what Australian Football is known more colloquially as outside Australia, at least in my experience.
Yes I can explain the word "soccer" and it's not only Americans that use the term, for instance the national association football team in Australia are called the socceroos.
"soccer" is an (slang) abbreviation of Association Football and was coined in Oxford University. Many English speaking nations. Curiously NZ is an exception.
No it's Soccer here in NZ this American doesn't know what she's talking about, Rugby is generally referred to football, or in my families case its Rugby league but generally the term football is attributed to Rugby,
@@angelamarsters9169 WTF?
There are so many videos on UA-cam about the difference in the language.
I have been told that the USA universities spend huge sums on stadiums and other non educational costs. It has to be paid for somehow. I would not survive living in the USA. I am so fortunate to be here in Australia! Thank you for the video. It was not only educational but also highly entertaining! The date difference enrages me!
Thanks for watching Daniel!
The quasi-professional system of college sports sees many universities spending tens of millions of dollars a year. When living in Seattle, I went to see a movie one night, and maybe 50 members of the Ohio State football team were there. The university paid for about 70 players and 30 staff to come out to play the University of Washington - that’s food, accommodation and entertainment, and the football squad had its own Boeing jet to take them to “away games”. Coaches at universities with a strong football program can earn millions of dollars per year, and while the players are considered amateur and not paid, they’re often on scholarship and getting a free education
Worry not (/s), for NZ's mainstream culture, politics and public fiscal policy is inching towards the US, sometimes gradually, sometimes in leaps. I wouldn't be surprised if the NZ Ministry of Health and NZ's public health system becomes fully private within 25 years. Compare with NZ (generally) after the Social Security Act 1938.
With national in now wouldn't surprise me if they try doing this aye.
Have I just found an American critical about the US and not instantly screaming around how great the US is with a locked and loaded AR 15 in their hands when criticizing the US. That's nuts.
Tipping and expecting Tips for doing nothing is just stupid
It's definitely Soccer in Australia (by the general population), only the league itself and hard core fans call it football. Football is already claimed by two major sports - AFL & Rugby League. It used to be Soccer in NZ too until very recently - and I'm guessing a lot of the population still calls it that. Soccer in Canada and Ireland too. So on this, USA is definitely not the odd one out.
@@michaelrogers2080Yes, officially (as I said). However the general population calls it soccer in these countries - never going to change that, especially considering it's a minor sport most people don't pay much attention to. The government doesn't dictate language.
Run Forest, run lol
haha yes - how are you Nicole?
Whats funny about the metric system and America is that we in the military use meters for distance, so my wife is always amazed that I know more on how to tell a distance in kilometers than miles and feet... 😂 thanks Army...🤷🏾♂️🙃
I just brought a pair of leggings from USA to NZ, and they asked for a tip. I gave them one, thinking they'd probably ship rather quickly. And I was correct, I think because it was.
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Most kiwis still call it soccer, unless you’re under 30 or employed in the Media. Always called it Soccer to prevent getting mixed up with footy. We still say things like “seen the latest footy match, goin to the footy,..” referring to rugby not soccer.
Hello? Coffee!!
yes I talk about coffee so much that I left it out of this one -but it is in one coming up!
Americans didn’t call it soccer, the Brits did originally. It is a shortened form of “association football” (originally “asoccer”, then abbreviated further), the association being the British Football Association that wrote down the rules of the game in 1863. The game is referred to as soccer also in former British colonies - Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Also Noah Webster, of Merriem-Webster dictionary fame, was the major driver of spelling change in the US via his dictionaries published in the early 1800s and mid-1820s. He championed making these changes to make English more simple to learn, by trying to get more consistent spelling between similar-sounding words.
Like the US it is also called soccer in Australia and is not the most popular sport here either the most popular spectaor sport is Aussie Rules (AFL) which is also unique to this country..I,m afraid for everything else we are pretty much the same as New Zealand and most of the other developed countries. Things in the US are all about $$$ and making as many of them as you can in other parts of the world although thats also important its not the only driver..Thats why in the US they dont have a universal health care system, minimal amounts of paid leave, their public transport is under invested, cost of tertiary education is through the roof, they need to subsidise poorly paid staff by tipping.. The US is the richest most powerful country on the planet yet compared to the rest of the developed world their citizens have some of the poorest conditions - probably says a lot about how that wealth is being distributed.
@@michaelrogers2080 what are you on about who cares what the official name is the point was that AFL is a game unique to Australia. Like in the US that football code is more popular than soccer (as is Rugby League) ..I come from NSW and Aussie Rules is exactly what we refer to the game as. This may be news to you but Newcastle where I come from has an Australiain Football history that goes back to the 1880s it was brought to the coalfields by Victorian goldminers during a depression. In the 1890s Melbourne teams used to tour here and play against our local rep side. When the Vic miners left at the end of the depression Rugby took over in popularity. We also have the oldest continually played for sporting trophy in Australia its called the Black Diamond Cup guess what sport thats for.
All these differences where America is the odd one out are an obsession America seems to have with doing things things their way. You're probably quite right that this stems from them breaking away from England and as part of that process, doing things different has become embedded in the culture. And with the "America is the greatest" thing, it's unlikely to change any time soon since they seem convinced their way is better.
I'm a New Zealander and I still use Imperial system units.
So am I, but in my sixties and only use metric!
Also a New Zealander and although I grew up with the imperial system, I use metric for everything with the one exception being babies. For whatever reason, I relate to babies being born in pounds’ and ounces, if you tell me a baby was born at 9lb I will instantly think that’s a extremely bonny baby, where as if you told me it was a little over 4kg it simply wouldn’t register straight away as to being on the larger side.
So you are in your nineties?
@@mikechristie6556 No, I will be turning 51 in a few days time.
What exactly is it that you think America gets done that other countries don't?
Voting in an orange clown to be their president, I think! NZ is almost there when they shot their own feet full of holes voting in a local clown by the name of Luxon...!!! 🤨
hmm where do I start...
It’s a valid question. There are a few things, arguably due to its population size and relative wealth. The most notable - I think - would be the space race, although the US has been losing its lead on this.
Australia calls it soccer too. People here follow at least 4 different football codes. AFL, NRL, rugby union and soccer. Nobody cares about US football.
so in short.. Americans are special!
And the rest of the world knows...
Love this - yes!
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Uk always called it soccer I was born and lived there until I was 30. Uk has changed from calling it soccer since I left in 1976.
What I wonder is why/when the US went down the individual look after yourself route and all other countries took a more socialist lets take care of everyone path and not to make profit the be all.
I watched another podcast on the use of English - apparently this was the way Britain did it , and then they joined the rest of the world , but USA NEVER CHANGED
Regarding American English and the imperial system I think America wanted to distance themselves us much as possible from the English they had just fought off
England only switched over to the metric system around 1968 - must of been a long grudge 😆
That's what I was thinking as well :)
The spelling is different because American printers would leave out extra vowels and letters to save money during the printing press days I believe
I think it's a pride thing 🤔. The US did & still do think that they are superior.
A lot of weird US usages. One that always gets me is “I could care less” which taken literally is the opposite of what they mean, which is “I could NOT (couldn’t) care less”, which is what everyone else says.
I'm glad you touched on the gun laws. The other thing that is probably contentious - is the prison system. Why does the US have so many people incarcerated? I mean they have by far the most prisoners of any country in the world. They also have the highest incarceration rate. It all seems so antiquated - or am I seeing it wrong? Can you give us some insight into that?
@@michaelrogers2080 That's a disturbing revelation for someone who is not from the US.
There's 1 glaring exception. The 2 litre Coke bottle!! haha
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Sport - you didn't mention NZ play cricket. This game totally confuses Americans, neither do they have the attention span to watch it. Not many adverts
Webster and his dictionary
Definitely odd one out. Look at the homicide rate, mass shootings and the incarceration rates...
The revenue of the NBA, I suspect may be larger than the NFL simply because basketball is popular world wide. Even I know who players like Larry bird are. I only no of one other NFL player except unfortunately for oj Simpson
No other countries in the world use the imperial system. Both Myanmar and Liberia have started to go down the path of meteication. And yes the US is an outlier in almost everything. Even when learning navigation buoyage systems there are two "international" systems - the US, and the rest of the world.
Australia calls European football soccer also.
Why is the US gallon 3.78l vs 4.54l imperial?
Why did the US delete ‘u’ from words like colour but not from glamour?
Why won’t the US make it harder to own a gun?