What's the Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said to You (American Reaction) | Part 5
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As an American I am well aware of how ignorant we are of other countries and their culture. Today I am back to once again to cringe at some of the dumbest things Americans have ever said to other people. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Not knowing why other countries don't celebrate Thanksgiving isn't about not knowing other cultures, it's not knowing your own culture.
That’s what i was thinking
Sorry but American with culture is quite easily the best oxymoron I’ve come across in a while.
Ah, Thanksgiving, the celebration of lying to Indians before wiping them out!
And now insulting them by calling them "Native Americans".
Calling Thanksgiving "Turkey Day" is also stupid, for obvious reasons.
I was just about to write that... For Pete's sake, Thanksgiving is the most foundational american holiday, maybe even more than the 4th of July (in the sense that it was the first truly American holiday, all the others they celebrate at the time were European holidays).
Bitta both I think.
I used to have an American housemate and I was talking to him about how George W Bush came over as an idiot. I quoted him as saying 'the problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur'. He didn't think there was anything wrong with that statement until I told him 'It's a French word' that we adopted into English.
Yikes, what a facepalm moment!
The real irony is that the French are actually more productive than Americans per hour worked. Americans work a lot more of them of course.
And you thought it couldn't get worse than this right? But then they voted someone for president who thought it would be good idea to nuke a hurricane, raking forests to prevent fires, injecting desinfectant into our bodies, etc.
I once heard an American car mechanic say he'd 'move that over a skosh.'
'Sukoshi' is Japanese for 'a little bit'.
Been in US slang since WWII.
Had a similar experience explaining kindergarten, wish I'd never mentioned it after being assured that in the USA they don't teach their young children in the German language. I was like , er no no , oh forget it.
American middle-aged couple asked my Sister (in London UK, my sister talking in English on the phone), asked her “do you speak English?”. My Sister replied in her most posh English accent and in a jokey playful way, “no I really don’t speak English at all, not one iota”. The women turned to her husband said “ no she doesn’t speak English” and they turned and went on their way
But does she speak English though?
Positively outstanding! Ta ta, I'm orf to polish my tiaras!
@@LGBTQLegend probably not!
On a trip to USA having just having arrived I went to a large truck stop for food.Still jet lagged I got out my UK money.Realising my mistake I apologised and produced dollar notes.The assistant looked amazed and said don't all countries use USA dollars!
Hahahaha
OMFG
That person did not hear their own words.
I was working in a shop in England, when an American woman asked the the price of something.
When I said 10 pound, she replied "don't you mean dollars?"
No fuckin way 😂😂😂😂
On a discussion online about police brutality, an American told me:
- Well, Spanish police is totally brutal and anti-democratic. You guys are not allowed to even walk in groups
And I was:
- Where did you get that from?
- I was in Spain a few years ago and the police was completely over the line.
- When exactly are we talking about?
- In the 70s.
He was talking about Spain, during Franco’s dictatorship. That ended in 1975. Before I was born. He was using that experience and extrapolating to the year 2023…
Yeah.
He probably doesn't know Spain also helped America gain independence. Every American I've met didn't know this.
The craziest thing an American has said to me was on a boat trip in Greece. She asked where I was from and I replied England, she then said I've seen those cute English cars, Morris Minors. do you drive one? I said no they stopped making those about 60 years ago, I have a B.M.W. she said Oh an American car. At that point I jumped overboard . lol
Germans everywhere:owwwww sorry just an aneurysm out of sheer stupidity
Maybe she thought it was Baltimore Motor Works, or Boston Motor Works....
@@vrenak 🤪
The most dumbest thing I have heard an American say is "Americans don't know countries" but saying it in a way that they are actually proud of it.
not knowing other countries helps maintain the illusion that they are the best one!
@@user-ne1kp8yo8n I think you nailed it
UNICEF should set up a program giving every american child a free globe.
A very good idea
Globe? But the world is flat 😅
Given the quality of healthcare, the amount of drug abuse and state of infrastructure decay, I think the UN could start quite a few programs to help the US develop (only half joking)
And then those flat earth weirdos would complain loudly.
@@jono.pom-downunderthen a map.
75 year old educated in Canada.. we learned every country and its capital and president, prime minister, king etc in elementary andhjunior high.
Well, not exactly. I’m a 69 yr old Canadian. I was “taught” all this yes. But didn’t take an interest in “learning” in history & geography. I did begin to take an interest in later years when I dived into genealogy.
Wow...every country. Did you really know who the leaders of Liberia, Bulgaria, Australia, Mongolia, and Turkey were?
@@JULOC05 I knew it at the time but this was 60 years ago. The world has changed, countries have come and gone, obviously most leaders are no longer in power. We did learn them and their geography and we were tested on that knowledge. I admit I don’t remember a lot but still have a fair grip on country names and while I may not know exactly where they are on a map I do know which continent they are on and approximate location within that continent
@@JudyB-tw2bp That would be a long list of names and some are hard to spell. I'm still struggling with Phan Khắc Sửu, Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Yingluck Shinawatra, Kwame Nkrumah, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal and Hery Rajaonarimampianina Rakotoarimanana...🙂
As a 32 year old Canadian schools absolutely do not do that. Maybe they did before but we just learn about continents and major places. We don't learn about 200 countries and their rulers and there is no way that was ever part of Canadian curriculum. It would take too long.
Junior High is also not a thing in Canada. Some Middle Schools exist but most places go from elementary to a place that's a mix of middle and high school.
The problem is that Americans are drip fed all this BS about being the only country in the world that has anything worth having!
Exactly! I live in the USA, but I’m from Switzerland. Most Americans are like, “I’m sure you love living in the US”, or “lucky you, that you were able to move to the US”. Nope! It’s terrible for me to live in the US. That’s why I’m moving back to safe, civilized Europe by the end of this year.
@@MissRed92837 don't blame you
"You must be very rich if you have a computer over there in Serbia".I was told this online by an American few years ago.The ignorrance and arrogance of them is just shocking and scary at the same time.
but you can understand it to a point when you consider how there media pushes the ''we are awesome and all the other countries suck'' mantra!
Will someone tell the bloke at about 6:18 that there isn't a British version of English. We ORIGINATED the bloody language!!!!!
And the fact he's nodding along with him😂😂
Somebody asked one of our Olympic athletes to "say something in Canadian."
Based on Gaul (French) Latin and the Germanic,with over 3,000 new words added by Shakespeare into everyday English language and a smattering of old Dane and Norse.
@@Shan_Dalamani I've been asked to "Say something in British" 🙄
@@TheCornishCockney Shakespeare deserves a retroactive Nobel Prize for literature.
Working in student services in the UK, I gathered a few American undergrads together at the start of term and explained the rules surrounding funding for foreign students. One girl took offence and started shouting at me that she wasn't foreign, she was American, and stormed out. I never saw her again.
Another had brought a book of stamps with them, in case we didn't have a post office and she wanted to write home. The mind boggles.
😂😂😂😂
Americans don't have accents either. Apparently.
Hold on; there's people who don't understand that everyone is a foreigner everywhere but in their home country, and that you have to buy postage stamps in the country that you're actually sending the mail from?!
What got me was that if we didn't have a post office, how was she going to send a letter?@@diarmuidkuhle8181
You would struggle to buy stamps on the average high street in England now though if your not from uk as our post offices are mostly closed down as of end of 2023.
@@diarmuidkuhle8181 You underestimate how self centered some Americans can be.
Some americans seem to take the idea of 'american exceptialism' to the extreme & assume the rest of the world is stuck in medieval times.
When it's actually the opposite 😂
Apparently it's just Europe that gets to be stuck in the middleages, Asia and Africa and South America comes more of as if they're still in the ancient period, or even stone age. I wouldn't be surprised if someone asks an Egyptian on pyramid building tips, or ask a Brazilian on how to build the best mudhut.
Until they go abroad and realise the US is the only place that’s not made progress from old times!
@@vrenakWell of course, the pyramids are only 100 years old so Egypt can't have progressed since then! 😉
My Dad worked in America for a few years and was there when it was a big anniversary, 350 I think (80s I think it was) of America and he said to his colleagues "My school's older than that" and blew their minds!
the whole idea of 'american exceptionalism' is extreme in itself
An actual conversation my dad had as a summer camp councilor in the Southern US in the late 90s.
Kid at camp: Where are you from?
My dad: Oh, Scotland!
Kid:Oh!, my dad works in Russia!
My Dad:...
He was also asked if they have electricity and running water in Scotland.
The Romanian President one was mild, I have heard Americans saying they thought the American President was President of the World.
And ask people from other countries who are they voting for😂
self imposed 'world police' i believe the call themselves
I had an American friend once whose mind was blown when I told her my country's Independence and Emancipation Days were in August, and that the 4th of July was not a holiday for me. I don't think it ever occurred to her that other countries have their own historical events
Even on one of my gaming forums... sigh. It's run by a nice American lady who had to have some of our holidays explained to her. There are several Canadian members there and she wanted to honor our holidays. So she tried, and got Victoria Day a bit mangled. That was a couple of years ago, but after I explained it to her, she did it right the next time.
And then there was the time when I was on the phone with a customer service person in the Philippines. This was for my telecom, which is based in British Columbia. This call happened to take place on the American Thanksgiving, which of course is just a regular day in Canada.
The customer service person wished me "Happy Thanksgiving." I briefly considered explaining that Thanksgiving was 6 weeks earlier, but just opted to say "thank you."
Here in the UK we DO have a Thanksgiving Day.
We hold ours on 4th July. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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lol, love it!😂
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omg Brilliant! 🤣😂😂😂😂
When we moved to the US from the UK, my wife was asked, "What language do you speak?". She said, "English. Better than you." Ouch! But true.
Americans get ONE thing right...the back of the car IS the trunk.
Where we got Boot, I have no clue!
@@Diablo_HimselfI would guess that as we attribute cars as being female, and the front of the car (hood) is called a bonnet (a form of hat worn by women), that naturally the rear end became boot (like the boots worn on the other end of a women). But that is just a guess
It's named after the back part of a horse drawn carriage called the boot where luggage was stored (sometimes there was one under the coachman's seat too)
. I guess the trunk came from tying a trunk or large case to the back of a car before a covered part was invented. @@mljwaffle007
@@mljwaffle007At least you're being inventive.😊😊
@@Diablo_Himself Then why is an elephant's trunk at the front? xD
Surely, Tyler, Americans not realising other countries do not celebrate Thanksgiving is not about them lacking in knowledge about other cultures but instead demonstrates a massive, enormous glaring lack of understanding about why you celebrate Thanksgiving ? They don’t even fully understand the basis of the celebration. If they did - and then thought about it for approx 2 seconds the question answers itself ?
French here. In my english class when we were learning about american culture, the teacher said Thanksgiving was meant to be a festivity to show gratefulness to the natives who... welcomed and helped the colons..?
A few history classes later, i kept thinking back on it and wondering if she was wrong, or if the history behind Thanksgiving was a massive 'fuck you' to natives?
I then moved on to something else and never researched the answer since, but watching this vidéo brought that memory back and now i must know.
What exactly IS thanksgiving and its history and is it as fucked up as my teacher told. On my way to ask google now
@@asilnorahc8910 will be interesting for you to research. In any event - why would any other Country bother to celebrate it ?
@@asilnorahc8910 It is a massive f*ck you, they are celebrating the slaughter of indigenous people, re-framed as a celebration of gratefulness to not look like a bunch of monsters.
@@virtualalCanada has Thanksgiving too, but on a different date. The reason for it is different too - we just spend the day being thankful we aren’t the USA.
I have been asked before what the US Lottery numbers were ... I live in Australia which is 15-18 hours ahead of the US due to time zones ... Apparently according to him the numbers had already been drawn and we were keeping them from America ...
In a similar way my friend was asked why couldn't be warned about 9/11 absolutely dumb.
@@davidmalarkey1302 Never had that one, thank God.
it is amzing when people who live in a country with 6 timezones dont understand timezones @@davidmalarkey1302
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This comment deserves an award 👏 🤣
I'm Canadian and I've spoken to many Europeans. Nobody really assumes any American is from any state. Foreigners (to America) don't generally see the US as states. We just see it as Americans. We know there's different states and different sub cultures in the US but to most of the world an American is an American. So I don't think that guy was telling the truth saying anyone thinks Americans are from certain states. He also called it British English which no one does in Europe. It's just English.
Queuing in the ladies toilets in Cheyenne, two American ladies heard my British accent and asked me if I knew their friends the Thompsons who lived in London!
That's a common one
I live in Prince Edward Island a Canadian province on the Atlantic Coast. A woman from the United States commented on a social media page when I said I was from Canada. She asked if I knew so and so in Montreal. 😅
Bizarrely when I was in Australia as an Irishman, I was also asked did I know so and so from Ireland. 9 out of 10 times I actually did. Put it down to Ireland being relatively small but still 6 million people😅
Or if you know any members of the royal family is another.
I would have pretended to know them 😂
Of course Portugal is a city in Spain which is in Europe, Canada.
Lol
Hahahaha
Isn't that part of Africa? Or am I confusing it with Texas? 😁
Bro I have heard Canada ins in Africa 😂
They speak Brazilian there don't they?
In the UK we have a saying that you should engage your brain before your mouth. Americans don't learn too easy though. We were in Cambodia at a temple ruins. A guided tour had just finished telling it's batch of Americans the history of the place and one of them says to the rest, "Well you know aliens built the temples anyway".
i mean he has a point , just said it in a stupid way
@@ronuss lol yeah right. educate yourself there were cultures for thousands of years before us euros sailed to usa
@@ronuss I hope that's sarcasm. Aliens did not build anyone's temples.
@@ronuss ..yup, we found the US American guys
I had a friend that went to auschwitz and told me that an American tourist when visiting the prisoners living barracks of the camp and seriously asked “where do they put all their stuff”.
I know an American who said to me “Hey Americans have liberty, freedom of speech we can say what we want!” I said, “ We have liberty in UK too and we have freedom of speech and can say what we want too!”…. I don’t think I was believed!! Maybe they think the Monarchy is like the KGB LOL!!!!!!😅😂😊
Not quite true, in the UK we have freedom of expression. We in the UK also have limits - my freedom does not trump yours.
@@charlestaylor9424 If you want to stand outside the houses of parliament with a placard you don't have to ask the government for permission.... you do in the Ooh S.A. "land of the free"
@@alexmonroe613 it depends which parliament, Holyrood you aren't allowed.
@@charlestaylor9424 Every country has limitations, you can't say everything in the US without consequences. In Germany we have freedom of opinion, as they are relative, but not the freedom to bully others or spread hateful misinformation.
I'm from the UK and I have been asked, in all seriousness, if we have bathtubs
What an odd thing to ask!
How do they even get that question into their heads?
😂😂😂
Okay I can kinda understand when Americans think some lesser known countries are underdeveloped but the freaking UK??? Why? How? It's part of the G7 countries and tons of movies and series were filmed in the UK. That is absolutely insane levels of ignorance.
@@valentinvas6454 But bathtubs, which have existed in some form since ancient times?
“Not as advanced as America”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Good one,hahahaaaa
Yes, America is so advanced that in Missouri, a pregnant woman can't get a divorce because she and the unborn children just property.
Tyler we have a saying in the UK "Don't put down to malice, that which can be put down to stupidity".
We? I've never heard that one in my life.
@@Hirotoro4692 well you have now.
What Americans need to learn is, when they don't know something, to just say they don't know...and not just spout the first thing that comes into their heads. That would cut instances of them looking stupid by quite a large amount.
Q: What's the capital of Namibia
A: I don't know
Or
Q: What's the capital of Namibia
A: Is it pepperoni pizza?
See the difference...
Is it still Windhoek or did they change the name after the South Africans pissed off?
I thought it was Hawaiian, or ham & pineapple.
@@CeiStockport-nx2qi😂😂
LOL 😂
Sadly, I think the US is culterally spiralling downward, quickly. I was in the US in 1970 and found it friendly and the people especially teenagers well educated. I visited several times after with the last time being 2003. By 2003 the difference, to me, was huge. Not friendly at all, in fact aggressive, and the teenagers were just stupid and thoughtless with little knowledge of their own Country and even less about the world. I don't blame the people, but those in charge. By the way, I visited 7 states, and people had changed in all 7.
I really believe you. I used to spent my summer vacations a when I was kid (was 9-10 years old). Then when I was 21 came back in 2004 for Christmas vacations and yes the majority were rude and ignorant and that stay like that to years to come 😮
Teachers' unions and critical theory has most of the blame. Bad teachers keep their jobs and trans Filipino war vets push out basic maths and English. 😏
The 80's were when America's food standards dropped and fast food took off. Come the 90's loads of banned substances were introduced to their food chain...
..and it keeps getting worser... sadly
@@MisterEE100 Ooh, interesting, definitely not just a coincidence.
I wonder if health issues intensified after that, as well.
To be fair, Americans aren't the only ones who think Portugal doesn't exist or think that Portugal belongs to Spain. Some countries need to update their History books, man, that hurt my Portuguese heart 😔
Been to Portugal twice on Holidays,☘☘☘💚💚💚
Dont you mean European Brazil? :DDD (That's a one I heard unironically)
@@FuFightersStudio That one I never heard 😭 I mean some people acknowledge Portuguese from Brazil but completely forget about European Portuguese. We are just a tiny rectangle in Europe 🥲
@@val.the.fluffy.potato hey at least people know your country's name - even if wrong context. :P Mine is still called by a name 30 years outdated :D
I loved Portugal when I was there. The food, the wine, but mostly the people. You are very kind and hospitable.
Im irish. My pops used to say, "Everything is easy if you know the answer," so if you don't ask the question, you will never know the answer and live in ignorance ....... in conclusion, ask all the questions..... everyday is a schoolday 😊
Since Tyler doesn't visit the comments and interact with people, he will continue happily in his ignorance, repeating the same errors.
Maybe someone else will read it and understand that asking questions is not showing stupidly.. its showing a willingness to learn 😊
@@adeledoyle667 Similarly, apologising for making an error is a sign of strength - not of weakness. I think a lot of the 'double-down' behaviour is based on being told the latter.
"A healthy human is a human that learns something new everyday".
@wessexdruid7598 I've never understood that. When you kindly inform someone that they're wrong, and they get argumentative and defensive, insisting they're right. I am also from Ireland, and had to deal with somebody *insisting* that Ireland is the UK, no matter how much I tried to explain it.
Picture this: a university lecture hall in the North of England, 1988. The AIDS epidemic is in the news and a lecturer is talking about the virus and inviting questions from us students. An American student stands and her question is 'do you have a pool?' Stunned silence. The lecturer just moved on to someone else.
President of The United States, Leader of the free world. As an Aussie, I don't remember voting on this one. Which ever team wins the baseball championship in the USA...World Champions... No other country plays in this championship. Had an American tourist yell me (loudly) that we should get Starbucks in Australia because it's the best coffee and the only coffee worth drinking...🤨
You might not have voted for their presidents but they do make themselves at home in your country with NUMEROUS (not so) secret military bases.
LOL Starbucks...
Went to America & didn’t enjoy Starbucks at all, it’s really not good coffee
It's not the ignorance that's offensive, it's the downright arrogance that offends!
i'm not american, and i know the US states. if i can do it, americans can do it. and they can learn things about the rest of the world too. no excuses.
I'm not sure I could quite name and place all 50 of them but I'm pretty sure I could get more than half from memory and I'm from France where we already have to deal with 18 administrative divisions (régions) and a cool 101 subdivisions (départements) (no I cannot name and place all 119 from memory either but I know the general vicinity when the name comes up)
I remember visiting the States and telling .woman that I am from Manchester in the UK, she replied by saying, "isnt that in London".
A buddy of mine a few years ago was arguing me and got upset because i told him that Democracy has been around for centuries, Greeks basically gave us democracy, he was upset because he was sure than the US invente democracy.
Back in the mid-1990s, a friend of mine spent a year in America as an exchange student, and her host family in all seriousness first wanted to introduce her to „modern American cars“, in contrast to the cars from the 1940s they thought we had in Germany. Mind you, their family car was a Mercedes.
I cannot imagine the level of vulgarity needed to think that the most interesting thing to brag about in your family is your car. This is something you expect from a parodic character embodied by Sasha Baron Cohen, not real people from real life.
On holiday in Utah a few years ago. An American asked me about the Death Panels we have in the National Health Service in the UK that decide who gets to live and who gets to die. Scary and hilarious all at the same time.
Well this is pretty much what we have to put up with in the UK - and it gets very wearing! They visit London (always their first stop), they will approach you without invitation and say "Hi, I'an Americam," as if that's supposed to have me in great awe. Then they want to show you a photo of their wife and kids, as if we should be interested. Sonner rather than later, they say where they're going to for their next stop, and ask the way. You give them the route/directions and they'll say "That's not what it says in this Guide." I answer "Well if the guide gives you the answer, why are you asking me?" It's then that the complaints begin to roll in - streets too narrow, streets too bendy, cars too small, hotels not very good, don't think we'll like the food....the list can go on and on, and they expect us to stand and take it!! I'm sorry, I try to be helpful and kind, but I inevitably get my hackles up and respond with heavy sarcasm..They just don't endear themselves to us. Bad manners, eat their food like pigs, and talk with their mouths full of food - and on the matter of mouths, the just cannot stop talking - yak, yak. yak, noon-stop. It seems their jaw has to keep moving all the time, if they're not talking, they're eating, if they're not eating they're chewing. I could write a book on it all.
I have heard about an American asking why Windsor Castle was built so close to Heathrow Airport.
@@davidcronan4072 Yes, unfortunately there is no cure for stupidity!
Wow. This is more racist than a lot of the things in this video. I’m Scottish and although I will admit that it seems the U.S.A school system is lacking, that will never be an excuse for you to assume that every person from one country is the way you describe
@@nathanblanc6207 You've obviously led a very sheltered life and not met many Americans! Their educational system only teaches falsities like America being the greatest country in the world - forgetting that every innovation their country was built on was British, yet not many of them could point out Britain on a map. They've never won a war, and any major battles they ever won was with allied help. The only country in the world that worships a piece of cloth called a flag - its on their houses, their cars, their offices and shops, their cars, their buildings and even on their jackets. Above all, they love to brag about themselves.So that's not me being racist, it's me presenting the facts.
Oh man this makes me so glad to live somewhere that’s not London or anywhere else that people care about going to. I’ve never actually met an American lol
Im Brazilian and on the early 2000’s I’m guessing, I’d always go on US chats to practice my English. And I was asked how was I connected on the internet and how was living like Tarzan and living among alligators and monkeys. Yup. 👍🏻
I usually get “wow you don’t look Brazilian, you look like us” or “oh you must have a big butt and I bet you’re naughty” or the best one
“Why is your English so good?? Trying to get with an American for a visa?HAHA”
Ohhhh the home of the great. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Once when i went to the post office in London this american lady cut in line and went straight to the clerk and wanted to buy some stamps. And when people in line started complaining that she cut in line she answered "it's ok im american". The clerk told the lady nicely to go stand in line and the lady just looked confused and repeated "but i'm american...".
I had an American ask me if Manchester was an island.
As he had spoken to someone on holiday in florida and he couldn't understand them.
Speech is silver, silence is golden!
Silence is golden; duck tape is silver.
...and buckshots are leaden!
speech is silence, silver is gold
Do you speak Asian? Yes, I've just taken my exam-in-Asian! (boom-boom)
Yeeees, close the door as you leave.
I once had an American tell me there weren’t any doner kebap shops in Germany. Mind you, it’s a turkish street food invented in Germany by immigrants and it’s the most popular street food here. We have around 20.000 doner kebap shops in the country. He proceeded to tell me that those shops were not doner shops but gyro shops. Again, I told him no, gyros (with an s) is greek food, we do have some of these, but the vast majority of shops he saw were doner kebap shops. They are to be found all over Europe these days. He refused to believe me and proceeded to tell me that he had family in Italy and they‘ve never heard of doner kebap shops (how he found that out during our conversation was beyond me…) and also he had co-workers who went to Germany for a work trip and they never heard of kebap shops either …. The doubling down was what got to me. I was literally like «Dude, I live here!»…. Nope, he refused to admit he was wrong. Dumbest conversation with any person ever, to be honest.
I'm from the UK and I've visited the US on a number of occasions. Once I was asked "oh, you're from England! What language do y'all speak there??" and on another occasion - "do you guys have, like, countryside??"
Yup, when I worked in an American summer camp for children I was asked several times “How come you speak such great English?” This was the other camp counsellors btw, not the children!
I’m American and I am disappointed that these things are coming out of peoples mouths 🤦🏼♀️
You should be used to it by now😂
very true lol
Yeah, Dutch. Somebody American asked me if we celebrate 4th of July. Then again somebody from Croatia told me she loved Copenhagen after she heard I was Dutch. It's in Denmark in case you also didn't know.
Only last week, I saw a post where someone from USA was writing about German pancakes. When asked to what she was referring, she shared a screenshot of a recipe for Dutch pancakes. Apparently she and several other Americans on the page thought Dutch was ‘Deutsch’, so was German. It was an incomprehensible logic to me that they’d know a German word more than their own word for people from The Netherlands. (Btw I’m aware that what Americans call Dutch pancakes aren’t actually Dutch either…)
The technology thing totally amazes me. As a Canadian, I always find, when visiting the USA that their country is the one lagging in modernity. It always takes me off guard to see someone in a large grocery store paying by cheque (check) or those drive thru bank places that you put your money in a little tube or something. It just seems so 1950's to me. I don't even think my kids know how to write a cheque in Canada, they are that rare. Oh and cash. Not as rare but certainly not as common as it was 10 years ago. No one walks around with big wads of cash anymore. You might have a small amount for coffee or something. These have all been part of every day life in Canada and Europe (and most of the rest of the world) for a long time now. It may just be that Americans hate any change. They have the ability to process in this way but the population prefers the "old" way.
Please don't assume your experiences are the norm in Canada. Cheques are still used for lots of reasons, and people still use them to pay for groceries (not often, but some stores allow it). And yes, some people still use cash. It's very useful if you want to buy something and the network or whatever you call it goes down. In times like that, cash is the only option.
most americans should sue their schools for not giving a correct education and for being self centered. the world doesnt end at the borders of america
The reverse ones are hilarious because they perfectly illustrate Americans totally missing the point of the post and making it all about them! 🤣
old saying, best to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are stupid, than to open it and prove they are right. Some of those should take this saying to heart
On the other hand, 'ask à question once, pass for stupid for 5min. Never ask questions, be stupid your whole life.'
It really just comes down to humility. Keeping your mouth shut and listen when you don't know what you're talking about, but do ask your questions or you may never learn either.
it so depends on the question right and the place and situation@@asilnorahc8910
They don't think Europe is in Canada. They think Canada's in Europe. I've had the displeasure of talking to American customer service agents who try to trot out the excuse that they can't help me because they don't have anything to do with Europe or that something is the way it is because Canada is "overseas."
I told one of them that Canada is most definitely not "overseas" unless she was based in Hawaii. But she was in one of the cities in one of the states that happens to be due south of here - and I told her that she could go outside, turn north (I was assuming she could figure out which way north was, though many people are clueless about that now), and she could WALK to my place. It would take awhile, but she would not have to cross any bodies of water that were not a lake or river. No oceans whatsoever.
And the fact that your country is between their state Alaska and the rest of teinr states could have been mentioned?
Our thanksgiving is called Harvest Festival..
7:36 I actually thought he was going to say America isn’t a country, it’s a continent and you could be from other countries other than the US 😅
This one came from an online discussion I had with an American. So basically they kept trying to convince me that portuguese people ( BTW IM FUCKING PORTUGUESE) were descendents from black people and that we weren't really european because our eyes are mostly brown... the fact that I explained how blue eyes were a mutation that came way after the first populations established themselves in Europe and that Portugal is actually considered a monoethnic country (95% of the population has the same cultural and genetic background) and still I was called a racist for saying that brown eyes have nothing to do with race
I remember following 9/11 George W Bush listed "friendly countrys" . He NEVER mentioned Canada my aunt was fuming. "We are connected you know".
I travelled to America from UK in 1975 a attendant on the plane asked "Do you have electricity yet?". No I said still candles.
I get this all the time, when ppl say "I see u look Asian are u Chinese?" I say, "no I'm Korean" and they proceed to ask me, "oh how did u escape?" I now just say I'm from SK instead lol.
I took my family to Florida in the early eighties and we were in Orlando I was buying some trousers/pants and the chap that was serving me said were yer all from I said we are about twenty miles west of London he didn’t recognise London I then said England he still didn’t recognise England I finally said Europe he said you are all from Europe, I wonder if he new he was speaking English
I wonder if new you speaking English
You've got to be sh$ting me.
We all ask dumb questions. And stereotype people from all walks of life. But. No one does it quite like the Americans. And there’s a reason for that. They don’t get out much…🤣🤷🏻♂️🏴
I'm remembering a quote. "Stupidity is not exclusively an American trait, but when Americans do it damn they do it well."
@@breezy3392was about to comment the same thing
Tyler I'm keep with something I said before US people are not aware they're not the only country with diferent races!!! Why I'm saying this??? Because they think I'm not mexican because I'm white, green eyes and have no short height 😅. México has a variety in everything including the population 🎉😊
When I was at the airport and TSA agent was looking at my passport he was like "I thought ------- ------ is a woman's name?" And my response to him was immediate "Hmmm. I thought USA citizens are well educated - guess we're both wrong." and he just stares at me and taking offense accusing me mocking him - But I simply tell him that observation isn't mocking ;)
American: "Oh this is a safe space you can put that down."
Me, a German woman: "Damn I want to know where she got that beautiful hijab from.... but I don't know how to ask properly..."
And I thought I was the weird one. O.o
(And yes I am well aware that often I could just go and ask but it still feels rude to me to ask strangers where they got their clothes from.)
I’m a brit and I know there are dozens of states. Most Brits know there are.
When my English cousin lived in Florida, the locals were telling him thanksgiving was a Spanish holiday, celebrating the pilgrims journey from Spain.
While working as the manager of the IT department in a company that was purchased by an American company, I had to go to California and explain how our IT system worked and investigate how it could be integrated into the new parent company system.
I was working with graduates from MIT, Brown and CalTech, who frankly were as dim as a 40 watt bulb. During one lunch time they seriously asked me if the British still stopped for tea and muffins at 3pm 😡 needless to say, I did all the heavy lifting integrating our MFGPro ERP into their Oracle based system.
It's like wearing a cross,and hearing you can take it off,it's a safe space😂
I’m British and I could probably name 20 states now just off the top of my head without thinking.
me too and place them on a map
I can name 50
Likewise from Jamaica
I can name all 52. I'm British too so don't take me too seriously.
Hey that is more than the average American. You must be the Einstein of geography 🤣
The difference in the use of the catchall word 'Asian' is because of immigration trends. In the US immigrants were mostly from East and South East Asia whereas in UK immigrants were mostly from South Asia. In the UK the term Oriental was used to describe people that would be called Asian in the US.
Agreed. I just say Oriental if I don't know precisely where they're from. And a good chunk of the British population is made up of South Asians, like myself
We don't use Oriental any more because that's actually a racist colonialist term which they would never use themselves.
@@melanierhianna Except for most of the Chinese supermarkets and restaurants! 😄There must be thousands of Chinese owned businesses in the UK called Oriental This or Oriental That. Probably the most popular term! My local takeaway is called Oriental Aroma so I guess that doesn't smell racist.
This was hilarious! Thank you. I'm South African. Here's some of the dumb shit I've been asked while in USA:
Is South Africa a real country?
Where is South Africa (literally the name of the country!)
Do you live in mud huts?
Do lions and elephants roam the streets?
Are there white people there. (asking me - a white person).
Why do you speak English?
Do you speak "African"?
Do you have electricity and running water?
Do you hunt for your food?
Do you have malls and stores?
Do you have airports?
Do you drive cars?
Do you have tarred roads?
Do you have internet/phones/computers?
Do you have a pet {insert wild animal}
Can you see Kilimanjaro from your house? (Tanzania is 2 countries away from South Africa).
Americans.... you funny!
A few years ago i was in a airport i just came in from Spain and got talking to a couple they asked where i was from i said i was born in new york Lincolnshire, then they said you have no american accent doh
US girl with also mexican roots said: Oh you're from Switzerland alright, but it's not that good there anyway, I have visited. And when I asked where exactly, she said Paris. And she knew it's in France, but just claimed Switzerland was just like Paris. Come on, alps and cows and all.. It's just so different. And how would you even know two places are the same when you have just visited one of them?
That was by far the dumbest thing any american has ever said to me.
She also got very angry when everyone laughed at her when I made fun of her.
Erm. Its English, not the British version of English. The US uses American English.
Indeed. If the U.S. gets something this basic so wrong, there's no hope!
19:08 As an Indian 🇮🇳 if some American would ever ask me " How do you guys get around? " I would reply " You know what! We Indians have some special elephants with wings along with normal ones ✨ thus we do get around. But it's a secret, We don't share it with everyone but you know what U are spacial that's why I'm sharing 😉✨" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Now the question is...... Do AMERICANS KNOW THE FRENCH PART OF CANADAAAAAAAAAA😂
Please allow your children to visit the world and see what’s out there, Better yet let them stay there till they finish at least high schools 😂😂
Oh i love your accent, where are you from?
England, i love your accent too.
I'm American, we don't have accents.
I’ve seen several comments on Facebook or UA-cam where Americans say they don’t have an accent.
I spent a lot of time in the U.S. and for the most, never had any problems. People would hear my accent and ask if I was Irish or Scottish . . . neither, I'm Welsh. Again, for the most part, people knew that Wales was a part of the U.K., but some people did think that Wales was in "England". :)
Far too many people think England IS the UK.
@@shirleyanneyoung955 Americans:
London = England = Britain = UK
some thinks Wales is an animal
Heard of the Laws in Wales Acts? Technically it is part of England. Why do you think these is no representation on the Union Flag?
@@drcl7429 They couldn’t fit the dragon on the Union Jack, obviously. 😉
Ah,your American "what part of the Americas are you from?" The US of A. "Oh your north American" no I'm from Virginia"
What a great channel I've just found! (instant sub!) I still find it so amazing that Americans know so little about other countries, their school system has failed them. You can't blame the student on the systems/teachers willing ignorance. ( I am not 'sorry' for being Canadian..eh)
I think the majority of 'racists' just don't UNDERSTAND cultural people from MANY countries. It's education that is needed in schools. It's not an 'American people' thing. It's a whole world thing that needs to change.
I always imagine an American globe or map of the world as showing the 48 mainland states in the middle of a vast empty ocean with no other land masses.
The most funny thing is what we call bum bags, Americans call fanny packs now fanny to us is Va Jay Jay 😂😂😂
I was watching a video not long ago about Karens and cops. This one was spouting off about his rights as stated in the US constitution - while talking to an RCMP🇨🇦😂 so concerned about law but doesn’t know much geography 😂
"...for some reason, Americans have a lot of stereotypes for around the world..."
I honestly think it comes from Americans being shown people in developing countries that need help getting basic stuff. There _are_ places in the world where having running water or cars or similar is a luxury locals can't afford. You can see such places among Asiatic people and brown people. They are told that the USA is the richest nation on Earth. So, from those two data points, they extrapolate the idea that 'all X have Y problem', because that's all they remember seeing and being told about.
The _worst_ part, though, is that many don't realize how bad it is in some parts of the USA, where people live in food deserts and similar, basically crushing poverty. The thing is, in the USA those pockets are small, while in a _few_ countries the same problem is _far_ more wide-spread, but people are often not exposed to ideas that other places are also built up. I think, to change perspectives, instead of focusing _entirely_ on the nature of the problems, a few other things should be shown as well. It would help _enormously_ if, during world geography classes, for instance, pictures of the most populous cities in various countries was show. Here's India, and it's most populace city is New Delhi, picture. ... Problem solved. Once you're seeing that _in addition to_ the crushing poverty some countries are stuck with, you _als_ have these huge cities with people who live a _lot_ like them, it'd clear up these misconceptions in a hurry.
Tyler if not for the rest of the world inventing new things/ways, then the US would not have half as much technology as you would believe,.
World wide web, television, railways and light bulbs are Britidh.
Heart transplants from South Africa.
Just to name a couple of countries
Heart Transplants are from UK, where Christian Barnaard was working in the NHS.
@@neuralwarp Dr Christiaan Barnard performed first heart transplant in South Africa on Louis Washkansky in Cape Town in 1967
You can thank Australia for wifi, diagnostic ultrasounds, black boxes in planes, and money that can go through the wash without being destroyed.
The comment about Americans being known as only being California, New York, Florida, and Texas - that does account for about 1/3 of all Americans in those 4 states…none of the rest of the states account for more than 4% of Americans, and many (22 states) have less than 1% of Americans in each of them. So…it is kinda understandable why people tend to think of Americans as being from one of those 4 states as 1/3 of the time, that will be right, and of the rest, it could be lumped together as “the rest” instead of bothering which state it is ;)
You’re proper clever you are.
@@TheCornishCockney lol - not really, I just googled population by state to see why people might think that and …the rest was obvious.
Ignorance is more of an issue than bent politicians.
🤣🤣🤣I’ve got loads of of short stories about this 🤣🤣🙄🙄and they are all true they do say the strangest things 🤣
I loved the irony of the fellow from the U.S.A. claiming there's more to America than California and New York...seems to me he didn't realize there's also Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, etc. etc. etc. , not just the United States of
I love America and the American people I have met. I do not think Americans are racist as such. You are just so insular. You have no concept of what happens in the rest of the world. You are told you are "the greatest nation on earth". The fact is that the rest of the world is just as great and that some countries are richer than the US and certainly treat their people better.
They indoctrinate their kids into thinking that from a young age and it is now at the point that if anyone starts pointing out issues with the USA they act as if you are attacking their country out of pure jealousy that they live in such a 'glorious society'.......
I work for a museum here in Australia as a tour guide and i am not ashamed to admit that, after the interactions i have had to endure from American tourists, when i hear someone speak in an American accent my expectations for that person's level of intelligence drops several notches. Occasionally I am pleasantly surprised but most of the time I am left wondering how the individual i am dealing with even figured out how to book a plane ticket.
I have had college educated Americans tell me that our history is fake because it does not match what they learned in school........I have had Americans be shocked to find out that Australia fought in WW2, or that we even fought in WW1........when they start turning up and being genuinely surprised that your country has ELECTRICITY in the 21st century then it is time to worry about the future of America
I really enjoyed all these types of videos and I know and experience many of these types of experiences
Americans need to stop talking😂😂
Yes please.😮
I'm German, and I once met a nice American family moving here (around 2021).
One time, the woman asked me where I'm from, and I said "I'm German" and she contiuned "Oh you don't look German. So where are you from?" - btw I'm half German and half South-Korean, but I was born and raised in Germany, so that's what I'm identifying with - and I explained to her everything. She was amazed because she didn't know that Germans were mixed cultures! I mean, Germany took in foreign laborers since the mid-50's and Germany is a very intercultural country.
Another thing the women said was that she didn't know that disabled people are *allowed* to take the "normal" bus or a "normal" tram, and that they can move independently without any assisting person!! (FYI, I'm using a wheelchair since age 4) I asked her, what is a normal bus/tram? Here in Germany they're kind of handicap-friendly in bigger cities at the public transportations, so why shouldn't I just go around alone by myself??? I don't need assistance in most things just because I'm in a wheelchair. I just can't walk, that doesn't mean I'm a free person to use every public transportation I wanna use and do the things I want to independently without anyone always being around me 24/7.
The flabbergasting thing is americans not knowing the history of their own thanksgiving ;-P
Africa too... You say "I'm Nigerian", they say "I visited AFRICA last year". I'm like Nigeria is a COUNTRY! Africa is a CONTINENT! comprising of MANY COUNTRIES!!!😠
I really hope we will one day win this word battle!
As a vegetarian, being told by an American that I shouldn't eat meat, I'd already corrected him that I didn't, but because I'm fat I must eat meat.