Here in America when we travel to another state, people will ask “where are you from?” And we answer with the state. Then if they ask for more detail we give it. But identifying our state gives a lot of information about us. There are unique cultures and attitudes in each state and a vast difference in climate. A person from Texas visiting Michigan in January will get a different reaction than a person from a person from Vermont. Here people will even say “I live in New York but I grew up in Michigan”. So much of how we see our place in the world is based on where we are from. This also comes out with our heritage pride. I am an Irish/German American. That identity has been passed down from our ancestors with love and pride.
Many US States are as large as European countries, and many Americans feel as attached to their state as Europeans do to their country. When I travel abroad, I usually answer, "Where are you from?" with "I am American." This is often followed by "What part?". That's when I say my Pennsylvania. Frequently, I have to explain which region of the country my state is in.
@@steveschainost7590 idk if there's stats, but it depends on the people, I've heard people say both. I said once to one that said they're from Europe, "if an American said something like that, somebody would be telling them 'Europe isn't a country'". I feel like I have to add words to point out that's obvious, else somebody will reply telling me it really isn't, missing the point I do think it depends on the context and where you're having this conversation, though, too. (For the record, I say state and US, just to be clear, and because my state is Washington, not the one in DC. Opposite ends of the country. I think Americans tend to assume the state, but non-Americans often assume the capital)
One of the reasons more Americans have passports today than in decades past is that after 9/11 it became a requirement to have a passport to go to Canada and Mexico, which hadn't been necessary prior to the attacks.
Portsmouth is a little over 2 hours from London. To an average American, if you live within 2 hours of a big city, then you pretty much live near it cause America is so big.
We're subconsciously more connected to our States. In the beginning of our country (pre revolution) all we had was our states. Then as the country grew into its own, "states rights" was considered massively important. It's built into our government and our lives. Each state, to this day, is independent to a degree. If someone asks us where we're from, we say the state. It a natural knee-jerk reaction.
Truth, plus, most of the time we hear this question from Americans, so we are programmed/preconditioned to answer with the state (because most of us don't have passports! 😄)
It's called football because the ball was originally advanced down the field by grabbing it and carrying it _on foot._ Later on the forward pass was introduced as a per-play option, but that didn't change the name of the game.
To declare that someone's chances, say, of being shot are 1/32,000, is highly misleading. It's like looking at a national statistic for, say, being gored by a wild buffalo. Whatever that is, it is not indicative of YOUR chances of being gored by a wild buffalo. Obviously, your chances will be a lot higher if you are around more wild buffalos - and a lot less if you aren't around wild buffalo. For the vast majority of people, the chances of being shot is much smaller than 1/32,000. But, if you are in an environment with people who are likely to use guns violently, then your odds are going to be much higher (which raises the overall number).
Bla, bla, bla...if you're in a dangerous city that you shouldn't be in on the wrong day, yeah those stats won't work. Any other day on any street in any town or city 1/32000 sounds about right. I live across the river from NYC been there hundreds of times, never seen anyone other than police carry guns, never seen them used either. I love how you disregarded actual stats to droll on about being in the wrong area. I hate to break it too you there are more good places than bad in the US.
@aresee8208 I'm sure it was clearly written. The whole diatribe of ratios and locations a bit much, no? They already think the US is nothing but a shoot out at the OK Corral, on top of the loathing they already have for the US. You're response is only making it worse. I simplified it.
@@catherinesearles1194 =/ Huh?! Where, when, and how frequently you go somewhere -- and what you do, with whom you do it, and for how long you do it -- significantly adjusts the percentages. Who you are also matters -- nearly everywhere.
I'm hoping you guys can imagine that just because we have the right to own guns, doesn't mean that every American wants to own a gun. You also need to know that there are also regions in America that are equally anti-gun ownership as parts of Europe.
Randomly scrolling through You-Tube videos I come across at least once a week a video describing each of the American states. I have NEVER seen a similar video about the different regions of England. At least not without a deliberate search.
Until 9/11, Americans did not need a passport to travel to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. I visited Canada 6 times before I even had a passport. I only got a passport when I decided to move to Mexico to study Spanish. Even though I did not need a passport to visit Mexico, I did need one to study there. I disagree with idea that Americans do not travel abroad due to the expense. Sure some Americans probably do not have the money to travel overseas, but I do not believe it is the main reason. I believe some Americans do not travel outside the US for safety reasons. Despite what the world thinks about American news, Americans do know that many nations place a price on our heads. Whether it is for robbery or kidnapping, someone always targets Americans because they believe we are filthy rich. I have traveled all over the world and I remember I met an American drinking in a bar one day in the US. He was in his 60s and we were talking about our travels because I had just returned to the US after almost two years in Mexico. This guy understood more than a dozen languages. He could not speak all of them, but he understood everything. He told me that he was traveling in Europe, seeing the sights and enjoying his travels. That all changed one day in a restaurant eating lunch. He had ordered his meal in broken French and awaited the food's arrival with a beer. He went on to tell me that some of the locals in the restaurant began to badmouth him and America when they heard him speak their local language. Even the waitstaff got in on the act. Everyone believed that the guy could not understood what they were saying and the opposite was true. He understood everything. The bad treatment went on for the entire meal. No one spoke to him directly, but having everyone calling him a dumb American as he ate his meal was disturbing. He told me that he decided right there and then that he would never return to Europe nor travel anywhere outside the US again. He had travel to every continent, most of Europe and half of Africa and now his foreign travel was done. He finished his meal, paid the bill, returned to his hotel, checked out early and flew home. When I met him, he had just visited every corner of the US. Deep down that's why a lot of Americans do not travel overseas. Americans do not like to waste their hard earned money on anything. Traveling to a place which may look down on Americans or place a huge target on their backs is not something Americans find fun. Personally I still travel overseas, but I can understand the remain-at-home mindset. The US just has too much to offer without all the BS found in some foreign locations.
@@stillracer2514 Yep. That enhanced license proves that you are an American. I am a native New Yorker and when I lived there I thought about getting an enhanced license but decided against it when I found out I could not use my PO Box address on such a license, it had to be my street address.
Gun debate: It has nothing to do with your comparison to knives, or fists. It’s about freedom, and that government has no right to restrict it. Also, absolutely no American is stupid enough to ask a Brit if they know the Queen (now King). This is an urban legend to make Americans look stupid. But it only makes Brits who believe this look stupid.
Russian trolls pretending to be Americans might ask that -- just to stir up sh*t. That's all they can do. And, yes, I feel sorry for anyone stupid enough to believe such garbage.
That’s a good observation he makes that Americans often say what state they’re from rather than the USA. But when I’ve traveled abroad I say I’m American and I’m almost always asked where in America and when I say close to Seattle almost everyone I talk with knows where it is.
world champs also because the best in the world come to play like puljos and ichiro sazuki. if you can throw 90 mph a scout is gonna know about it. americans are not the only ones in the league despite the teams location.
I've always answered the question of where are you from with State (I've lived in 6) in the USA. Sometimes there is a follow up question of where that state is and I say the region and/or think of a place or event I think would help,.
If you want to get out of the U.K. you go to Italy or Spain and, for that, you need a passport. But you are still in Europe. If I wanted to drive from Wyoming to North Carolina it would be 1,862 miles. If I drove from England (London) to Italy (Rome) it would be 900 miles.
Traveling out of the states - except Canada. Mexico or various islands, is a "would like to, but" for many Americans. I have traveled abroad and it is usually cheaper than traveling to visit family in other states. A lot of people I speak with also expect Europeans to speak in English and provide them with all their American cultural comforts. Others have warned them that that will not be what happens. They all know English, they learn it in school, is a common belief. As for breads, American breads and bagels are too sweet. But, when you say sweet breads, I think of something very different. Just like Rocky Mountain Oysters are not sea creatures, sweet breads are not bread (but may be breaded like fried chicken).
"World Series" did derive from "World Championship Series", or "World Championship Series of Professional Baseball". Considering, at the time, that the only professional baseball teams were in the U.S. and Canada, there was a grain of truth to it. There are two major leagues in baseball in North America because until 1994, they were two separate organizations. The oldest is the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, which began playing in 1876, and is the oldest professional team sports league in the world. The American League began play in 1900 in competition with the National League. The National League recognized the American League as a fellow major league in 1901, and the modern World Series was born in 1903. The two leagues maintained separate organizations until their merger with the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (founded in 1920) in 1994 as Major League Baseball. By the way, the champions of the NFL and NBA are also referred to as "World Champions" in the American press and media. There no national body with authority over baseball like the Football Association or the Rugby Football Union.
When American football began in the 1860s, the rules were more similar to association football. During the 1870s, Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts agreed to play McGill University of Montreal, Canada in a football game. Since they played by different codes, McGill played rugby football, the schools agreed to play three games. Two were played by the code each school played by, then a third game under a hybrid code of rules combining elements of each. The Harvard players enjoyed the rugby and hybrid rules so much that they adopted them immediately. A player named Walter Camp streamlined the hybrid code further,, which became what we call football, or gridiron football, here in the U.S. and Canada. The term "soccer" originated in England during the 19th century as a slang term for "association" in association football. Here in the U.S. and Canada, the two games were referred to as "gridiron football" and "soccer football" until around the time of World War 2 when "football" was dropped from "soccer football" as the British have dropped "football" from "rugby football". Canada has its own version of gridiron football with similar rules and equipment as American football, with some significant differences.
That (American) football kick is the way that play strarts at the beginning of the game and after a team scores a touchdown. There are also kicks for a field goal attempt when a team having the ball on 4th down doesn't think they can get enough yards for a "first down" or when they are deep in there own territory and want to have the other team have to start their downs further down field..
Overall, the U.S. is No.3 in the world in murders. But if you remove Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., St.Louis, and New Orleans, we drop to 189th out of 193 countries. Note that all five cities have strict gun laws and are run by Democrats.
There is definitely a gun culture in the U.S. but many, many gun aficionados own more than one and that skews the statistics somewhat. We had one gun in our household when I grew up. It was WWII war trophy that my Dad brought home. One of my nephews now has it. It hasn’t been fired since 1944.
Perspective. It takes 4 hours to fly from St. Louis to San Diego or Seattle, Washington. I live in St. Louis. New Orleans is 700 miles to the South and Minneapolis is 550 miles to the North. Denver, almost straight West, is 840 miles away and not quite half the distance to California from St. Louis. My point is the country is vast. There are but two neighbors as Laurence rightly points out (Mexico and Canada). Europe is about 30 miles across the channel (Calais). That makes Europe as convenient to the British as me visiting Springfield, Il (108 miles away) or Hannibal, Mo (90 miles away) and I have but travelled to cross but one state line. Missouri borders 8 states. Europe is closer to you than the East or West Coast of America is to me. Baseball is played in the U.S., South Korea, Japan, Mexico, The Caribbean, and Canada. Many of us know the difference between England, Great Britain, and the UK. I do not assume if someone says Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, or Cornwall they are talking about the London Area. Lastly there are 337 million Americans, most of which speak English as their first language. The second highest population of English Speakers is India of all places. Should you travel from London to Moscow by car it would be shorter than if you drove from San Diego to Boston.
I personally don't own a gun. I have seen a lot of gun violence, but that's because I worked at a crime lab. I know where to go now. I don't worry about gun violence for me.
3:10 At Oxford in the 1870s soccer and rugby went by the exact same name: football. The only way to differentiate them was one had a spherical ball that you could only kick ⚽️ and the other with an oval 🥚 shaped ball that was carried in ones hands/arms. 🏉 To come up with a way to better tell them apart they came up with 'association football' and 'rugby football" respectively. But they quickly realized that both are too long to say/remember. So, in terms of ⚽️ the team captain dissected as(soc)iation football and added a popular suffix er to the end along with a second c: soc+cer. For the better part of the next 100 years in England the sport was called soccer. In the '70s the was phased out in favor of football. Rugby football spread to the US where they did the opposite of England and dropped 'rugby' and went with football.
Before the Civil War aka The War Between the States, a "citizen" was a resident of the of the state in which they lived. However, their nationality was "American". There was no "American citizen" per se. The 14th Amendment clarified citizenship. AMENDMENT XIV Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868. Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are [𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡] citizens of the United States 𝐀𝐍𝐃 [𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛] of the State wherein they reside.
I keep up with gun stats pretty regularly. And I do think his stats are misleading. The average citizen is likely never to encounter gun violence. The vast majority of concealed carry citizens never have to use their firearm. In several areas I've even known retired law enforcement officers who never drew their firearm during their entire career. And you guys were spot on about why most Americans don't have passports. For vacation involving changes of latitudes, they aren't needed. But I do think the recent increase may be that more people are taking cruises. Or they need one as part of their job requirements.
Keep your bread in the fridge wrapped in plastic, it will last longer. I worked in the only kosher bread bakery that served the finest delis and caterers in nyc
While traveling abroad I would always say I'm from Minnesota beause I just think of being a Minnesotan first, and because I can tell the difference between an American and a Canadian accent.
Oh our American sliced bread. It's full of sugar. Disgusting but i do eat it sometimes just for nostalgia. My Italian family hated it. Edit - oh the guns. Personally, I'm not scared. Just disappointed. The problem is, we have a huge underground market. So banning guns will never work here. We only know the Queen RIP through movies. There's a good movie about her, i forget the name, she was played by Helen Mirren beautifully. There's a scene where she's out in the countryside and makes eye contact with deer. Later on, a hunter has killed the deer and she swallow her sadness and congratulates the hunter. Such a Queen thing to do!❤ Edit - oh you mean "know" the Queen like personally? That's a stupid question!❤
Yeah, you get it about guns, it sounds like. They're very prevalent in some parts and extremely rare in others. In nearly 40 years of living in FL (where guns are fairly common) I've had exactly two encounters with guns that weren't planned, and one of those was finding one in my great aunt's nightstand after she passed. The other was...extremely American. I lived in a very cheap apartment in a bad part of town and my neighbor was a drug dealer that accidentally shot the wall while cleaning his gun. He was arrested shortly after and sentenced to spend the rest of his adult life in prison for the illegal guns and drugs. Lesson is: do whatever you can to avoid staying in a crime hotspot. It's not worth the savings. Along with the gun incident I had the wheels stolen off my car (very boring standard wheels on a decade old economy car) and the battery stolen from my scooter. It's literally hard to leave once you get into a bad area. You can judge the bad areas by their gas stations. If the people at the station are just getting gas or shopping, you're good. If you are being glared at and sized up by random loiterers that don't seem to have a reason to be there, you don't have a reason to be there. If there is no gas station in the neighborhood, but instead a boarded up former gas station, then you definitely don't want to be there. If you're in the south, stay in the place that's closer to the Chick-Fil-A. I don't know why, but they seem to be the one fast food place that avoids high crime areas.
Wow. I’m the exception that proves the rule on a couple of these. I’m an American who has actually been in the same room as Trump (20ish ago at a theater in NYC). And I also am an Escape to the Country junkie who not only knows of Torquay, Devon (beautiful town) and that Hampshire features the New Forest and Highclere Castle among its attractions; I could probably also guess the market value of your homes fairly well. 😂 The West Country is towards the top of my UK bucket list. And for me, asking where someone is from and getting an answer of The US, Canada or Russia is like asking someone from Czechia and being told that they are from “Europe”. I’m looking for a more specific answer than an area the size of a continent and assume others are as well. But that’s more a me thing, I think. And if I’m asking someone from the UK where they are from and they say the UK, I get a little bit frustrated because it’s normally very obvious from their accent that they are English, Scottish or Welsh and I’m looking to narrow down their accents to a region or make sure whether they are from NI or the Republic of Ireland if their dialect isn’t super distinct.
Would Americans ever learn if someone doesn't take the time to teach. You can't complain if you're not contributing to it being different. I've been to the UK. I've driven cars and taken trains the length and width of the nation. I'd know Devon and Hampshire if we spoke. So keep fighting the good fight to teach your fellow man.
I would prefer all people in the USA who own guns to have open carry. But I live out in the west so my idea of open carry is different than the East Coast. Most of the people I know who have guns and keep them on them are ranchers and farmers and they have dangerous animals that they have to protect against. And even though the quote unquote Wild West isn't as wild as it used to be the culture of caring that gun all the time started back when we were first settling the West.
"Where you from?" is a question that I think most Americans get asked more so from other Americans while traveling in America, rather than from locals in foreign countries. State specificity I guess is just a matter of habit. I don't think this is unique. I've asked same abroad and typically get city specific answers, provided the city is well known, London, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing , etc. The ones that respond more generically seemed to me a bit sketchy. "Not here. But close by". Yup -- that dont sound sketchy ....
Our states are as big as countries so.. if someone asked me I’m not going to say US unless I’m in another country because the next question is what part of the US…
You guys are awesome! Hope this helps. We say we are from our state because it seems weird to say “America” or “The United States,” because it’s so big. It wouldn’t really give you much information. It would be like saying, “I’m from Europe.” Ok. Great. Where in Europe? Also, our federal system is so different from European nations. Our states actually have a lot more power than the administrative states in France, the autonomous regions of Spain, or the counties in Britain. (Our states have counties.) States have so much power that life can be very different in one state versus another, even without including geography and weather. “I’m from Florida,” is very different than, “I’m from Alaska.”
The reason we call our sport football is we based it on a sport in the UK also called football. Then the Brits changed their mind & decided rugby wasn't football after all (I think in the 30's or 40's) The US saw no need to change at all & it stuck. Every time Trump shows up at my Sunday social or the local hardware store, I ignore him. I don't care for him. LOL!!
14:50 Canadians tend to do the same as the Brits. I would hardly ever say I'm from Ontario, when telling someone foreign where. Same with saying my actual city, like Milton. I'd just say Toronto. 😅
An American's type of reply would depend on the respondent's personality (or even the day of the week, or which way the wind was blowing -- i.e., much of it is arbitrary) and to whom they were speaking -- either a European, a Canadian, an American from a different state, an American from nearby in the same state, or an American from far away in the same state. I might tell someone that I'm either an American, a Californian, an Angeleno (i.e., I'm from LA), or "from Santa Barbara." (shrug) And, in any case, there is no such thing as a typical American anything.
I live in Washington State, and we can go up to British Columbia with just our enhanced drivers license, no passport needed to get into Canada. So I would have to travel, at a minimum, 2100 km down to the Mexican border, before i would need a passport.
1 in 32,000 chance of dying from gun violence in a given year, if an accurate statistic, would be with "all things being equal." In other words, that statistic spreads the chances equally across the entire population, which in America is roughly 300,000,000 people. However, as he pointed out previously, one's choices and behavior contribute greatly to one's chances of being a victim or not being one. Some people would have a tremendously higher or lower chance than others based on the decisions they make, the places they go, the actions they take, the jobs they do, etc.
When I was little I would put sugar on bread and eat it up! Try it… it might not kill you! 😂 But guns are necessary in the south… not pistols but we have them. We hunt and some people have to hunt to eat. I’d guess that most of the guns are in the south.
Re: where you’re from saying the state instead of country is because we’re answering the equivalent of you both saying you’re from ENGLAND. You wouldn’t necessarily tell us you’re from the UK or Great Britain. Our states aren’t like your counties, since we have counties, too, and we even have some counties bigger than some countries. So we’re answering more specifically since next question would be about narrowing down where you’re from in a big country, or asking if you live in one of the big cities or if we see cowboys all the time. Granted I’m from a big city in a big state and more people have heard of my city that might immediately connect to the state so I just say my city, but that might be an Angeleno thing rather than an American thing, get the LA equivalent predicable questions about my hometown out of the way quickly.
Being the 100th commenter, I just wanted to say I really appreciate the timbre of both of your voices. Not the accents, which are great but your timbre is rich and resonating and pleasant in which to listen. I am from the United States, not america. North america includes Canada, Mexico and the U. S. I feel it is arrogant for U. S. Citizens to reference themselves as american, when the term encompasses more than just the U. S.
The Right to have firearms isn’t just about defense, that’s a given. But our constitution states that We the people should be able to be a “well armed militia” in defense against our own government if they should become tyrannical. Even alot of Americans don’t understand that. It guarantees our ability to fight our own government in a war should they over step their boundaries on the rights of the people. Which sadly, they’ve slowly been etching their way to doing. Kinda like a frog in a pot that doesn’t notice it’s slowly heating up to boil.
His comments about the news cycle and Americans only hearing news about our vested interests is B.S. we have more news stations than ever, and while many only watch their favorite channels, many Americans get their news for more sources than we used to. And international news is pretty much the same across the world. The same stories, the same headlines. And if you go to small rural places in countries in Europe, people have limited interest in international news that has nothing to do with their country. Lawrence seems like a nice guy but he makes a lot of comments that are not well researched or he doesn’t delve into to these topics with his American friends and co workers to truly understand the topic. It’s basically his opinion, rather real studied information.
Passports are needed to travel in and out of a country. I guess more Brits want out of Britain then Americans want out of the USA. It's understandable.
I had no idea you have a knife problem. I have read, since the influx of Islamist into England, specifically London, that if you are in the wrong part of London and not wearing the proper clothing that may get stabbed. I think that might only pertain to women though.
A lot of that state pride stuff really has to do with how big and diverse the US is. Yeah we are all the same country, but we have a wide range of cultures. You could call it a little bit of arrogance when them assuming you already know they’re American so they want to narrow it down a bit more. Many identify more with their state than with the broader US because of the differences as well. Each state has its own set of laws and customs (under the broader federal umbrella).
Guns are something to look out for but it's really exaggerated on the danger because it's dramatic. More people die from falling than guns by far in America.
To be fair when Americans name their state when asked where they are from, I believe you guys named cities or regions in England. But if I said Circleville, you wouldn't know that city is in Ohio, United States. We know London, Manchester, Birmingham and others in England. Keep in mind many U.S. States are larger than England by far. So when you say your city, we want to put it in relation to a city we know, such as London. You wouldn't have an idea, in most cases, if we named cities, except for the largest in the States. Keep in mind, there can be as many as 9500 miles between two sovereign US territories. At least we narrow it down to a State.
I don't think that it's at all common for Americans to name their state before their country when traveling out of the USA. This is a case of exaggerating a few experiences that Brits have had and making a bigger deal of it than it is. Lawrence's wife probably assumed that he knew she was American from her accent and said "Indiana" to pinpoint more exactly where in the USA she was from. So she didn't think that he might have assumed she could be from Canada. What's the big deal? I think Shakespeare would label this addition to Lawrence's list, "Much ado about nothing". The above said, there ARE some differences between the standard American accent and the standard Canadian accent that Americans and Canadians can pick up but perhaps not other English speakers. An interesting note to mention is that before the American Civil War between the north and the south, it was very common for people to refer to their state as their country because that's how many citizens still felt, a reality left over from colonial days when we were attached to England. We're a very young country and we were not even 100 years old when the Civil War broke out. Particularly in the south, it took the Civil War to cement in people's minds that your country was not your state but The United States. That's why before the Civil War in 1865, it was very common for US citizens to say "THESE United States." After the Civil War they said "THE United States."
Damn, this football/soccer debate pisses me off: At least half of countries where the sport is their main sport are Latino/Spanish. And they call it “Futbol.” Except “Fut” doesn’t mean “foot” in Spanish. Never has…never will. Why the hell are Spanish, Portuguese and Italian countries forced to use the word “Fut” which means nothing to them? And Europeans have a problem with Americans calling it “Soccer?”
The Irish, Australians, Canadians, and South Africans call it soccer. The UK seems to be in the minority among English-speaking countries in calling it football.
Re: Where are you from? When two Americans meet it isn’t uncommon for people from the U.S. state of Georgia first to say the state. When asked the name of their town they say, “I’m from X. It is near Atlanta because that is the only city anyone knows of. In truth X may not be near Atlanta.
If you break down guns like this a firearm doesn't have a brain, it's merely a piece of metal and wood or plastic it doesn't make somebody go full Dr Jeckel and Hyde if you even touch one. Just something to consider.
1 in 32,000 are not great odds. Being in a plane crash is about 1 in 1.2 million so better stay on the plane. Passports theory may be wrong. Most people not only can't afford to travel overseas, a lot don't want all the hassle of applying for a passport.
All of the stay out of the wrong side of town,if there is one, don’t belong to a gang and you can spend 77 years without ever seeing a gun except on a range or during a hunting trip. Even when a problem like sure nut pulling a knife after being nasty to an Indian girl on a town tram, you won’t see a gun drawn even in this Concealed town and State.
I'm not sure where Lawrence got his gun violence statistics from. I would say that the odds of being involved with a gun crime are a lot higher than what he said. I think yes London is probably the first thing Americans think of when it comes specifically to England. I knew of course that there were more than a few English accents/regions in England. However, I didn't realize how many there were. Watching you two and a few other British reactors regularly I can hear some differences in your accents depending on which part of England you're from.😊
Brit Pops, one thing that's not on his list is that--it's crawling with Americans. I'm one of'em, by the way. Everyone talks about American football, but the Canucks--our northern neighbors--play the same sport, but on a slightly larger field, and it's called Canadian football. I'm 77, and I have yet to see a gun packed by a normal citizen, only policemen/women. I learned a few months ago that the country with the highest % of gun toting people is Switzerland. Their biggest sport is going to a shooting competition. The reason is that, being a neutral country, it has no army. So, their alternative is to have a militia made up of every male over a certain age (this fact I don't remember). However, if you're a law abiding poor person living in a big city neighborhood with a gang problem., I'm sure you see many more guns in a day than most of the country. I'm sure he had the queen question on the list because he's been asked. After all, if you see someone on the street to name the capital city of their own state, and not be able to do it, anything's possible. I've traveled to 56 countries and territories, as well as all 50 states. Now, I take road trips around the US each summer.
There are 44 countries in Europe. Imagine asking someone from Europe where they are from and they say ‘Europe’. That doesn’t really mean much to a European’s way of thinking. Likewise, the United States is composed of 48 states outside of Hawaii and Alaska in a landmass the size of Europe. Asking an American where they are from and getting the answer of ‘America’ makes as much sense to the American mind as the answer of ‘Europe’ does to the European mind. It’s just too broad of an answer to provide any useful information to the American way of thinking.
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Here in America when we travel to another state, people will ask “where are you from?” And we answer with the state. Then if they ask for more detail we give it. But identifying our state gives a lot of information about us. There are unique cultures and attitudes in each state and a vast difference in climate. A person from Texas visiting Michigan in January will get a different reaction than a person from a person from Vermont. Here people will even say “I live in New York but I grew up in Michigan”. So much of how we see our place in the world is based on where we are from. This also comes out with our heritage pride. I am an Irish/German American. That identity has been passed down from our ancestors with love and pride.
Many US States are as large as European countries, and many Americans feel as attached to their state as Europeans do to their country. When I travel abroad, I usually answer, "Where are you from?" with "I am American." This is often followed by "What part?". That's when I say my Pennsylvania. Frequently, I have to explain which region of the country my state is in.
If you ask a European where they are from do they answer "Europe"? Or do they say, "England" or "Germany" or "Spain"?
@@steveschainost7590 idk if there's stats, but it depends on the people, I've heard people say both. I said once to one that said they're from Europe, "if an American said something like that, somebody would be telling them 'Europe isn't a country'". I feel like I have to add words to point out that's obvious, else somebody will reply telling me it really isn't, missing the point
I do think it depends on the context and where you're having this conversation, though, too. (For the record, I say state and US, just to be clear, and because my state is Washington, not the one in DC. Opposite ends of the country. I think Americans tend to assume the state, but non-Americans often assume the capital)
One of the reasons more Americans have passports today than in decades past is that after 9/11 it became a requirement to have a passport to go to Canada and Mexico, which hadn't been necessary prior to the attacks.
Remember also that Australia has Aussie football and Ireland has Gaelic football
My cousin just came to visit from Maine. I live in Southern California. That's 3000 miles.
I am 64 years old and I have never been shot😂.. I have only seen about 4 guns in my life.
We have guns because of the British.
That was over 200 years ago, so why do we still have guns??
@@hifijohn Because they are fun and some of us live so far out it takes an hour for the police to show up.
We have them because we can
Because it is our right to
@@loach392I wouldn’t consider a gun to be fun!!
Portsmouth is a little over 2 hours from London. To an average American, if you live within 2 hours of a big city, then you pretty much live near it cause America is so big.
We're subconsciously more connected to our States. In the beginning of our country (pre revolution) all we had was our states. Then as the country grew into its own, "states rights" was considered massively important. It's built into our government and our lives. Each state, to this day, is independent to a degree. If someone asks us where we're from, we say the state. It a natural knee-jerk reaction.
Truth, plus, most of the time we hear this question from Americans, so we are programmed/preconditioned to answer with the state (because most of us don't have passports! 😄)
It's called football because the ball was originally advanced down the field by grabbing it and carrying it _on foot._ Later on the forward pass was introduced as a per-play option, but that didn't change the name of the game.
To declare that someone's chances, say, of being shot are 1/32,000, is highly misleading. It's like looking at a national statistic for, say, being gored by a wild buffalo. Whatever that is, it is not indicative of YOUR chances of being gored by a wild buffalo. Obviously, your chances will be a lot higher if you are around more wild buffalos - and a lot less if you aren't around wild buffalo. For the vast majority of people, the chances of being shot is much smaller than 1/32,000. But, if you are in an environment with people who are likely to use guns violently, then your odds are going to be much higher (which raises the overall number).
Exactly. Very well said.
Bla, bla, bla...if you're in a dangerous city that you shouldn't be in on the wrong day, yeah those stats won't work. Any other day on any street in any town or city 1/32000 sounds about right. I live across the river from NYC been there hundreds of times, never seen anyone other than police carry guns, never seen them used either. I love how you disregarded actual stats to droll on about being in the wrong area. I hate to break it too you there are more good places than bad in the US.
@catherinesearles1194 I live in downtown Baltimore. I have also only seen police carry guns. Not sure what you point is.
@aresee8208 I'm sure it was clearly written. The whole diatribe of ratios and locations a bit much, no? They already think the US is nothing but a shoot out at the OK Corral, on top of the loathing they already have for the US. You're response is only making it worse. I simplified it.
@@catherinesearles1194 =/ Huh?! Where, when, and how frequently you go somewhere -- and what you do, with whom you do it, and for how long you do it -- significantly adjusts the percentages. Who you are also matters -- nearly everywhere.
I'm hoping you guys can imagine that just because we have the right to own guns, doesn't mean that every American wants to own a gun. You also need to know that there are also regions in America that are equally anti-gun ownership as parts of Europe.
The Brits called it soccer. Why did they change it?
I'm admittedly a bit of an Anglophile, but I know roughly where London, Manchester, Liverpool, York, Newcastle, and Essex are.
Randomly scrolling through You-Tube videos I come across at least once a week a video describing each of the American states. I have NEVER seen a similar video about the different regions of England. At least not without a deliberate search.
Until 9/11, Americans did not need a passport to travel to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. I visited Canada 6 times before I even had a passport. I only got a passport when I decided to move to Mexico to study Spanish. Even though I did not need a passport to visit Mexico, I did need one to study there.
I disagree with idea that Americans do not travel abroad due to the expense. Sure some Americans probably do not have the money to travel overseas, but I do not believe it is the main reason. I believe some Americans do not travel outside the US for safety reasons. Despite what the world thinks about American news, Americans do know that many nations place a price on our heads. Whether it is for robbery or kidnapping, someone always targets Americans because they believe we are filthy rich.
I have traveled all over the world and I remember I met an American drinking in a bar one day in the US. He was in his 60s and we were talking about our travels because I had just returned to the US after almost two years in Mexico. This guy understood more than a dozen languages. He could not speak all of them, but he understood everything. He told me that he was traveling in Europe, seeing the sights and enjoying his travels. That all changed one day in a restaurant eating lunch.
He had ordered his meal in broken French and awaited the food's arrival with a beer. He went on to tell me that some of the locals in the restaurant began to badmouth him and America when they heard him speak their local language. Even the waitstaff got in on the act. Everyone believed that the guy could not understood what they were saying and the opposite was true. He understood everything. The bad treatment went on for the entire meal. No one spoke to him directly, but having everyone calling him a dumb American as he ate his meal was disturbing. He told me that he decided right there and then that he would never return to Europe nor travel anywhere outside the US again. He had travel to every continent, most of Europe and half of Africa and now his foreign travel was done. He finished his meal, paid the bill, returned to his hotel, checked out early and flew home. When I met him, he had just visited every corner of the US.
Deep down that's why a lot of Americans do not travel overseas. Americans do not like to waste their hard earned money on anything. Traveling to a place which may look down on Americans or place a huge target on their backs is not something Americans find fun. Personally I still travel overseas, but I can understand the remain-at-home mindset. The US just has too much to offer without all the BS found in some foreign locations.
I still don't need a passport to travel by car to Canada and Mexico. I Have a New York State Enhanced driver's licence to cover that.
@@stillracer2514 Yep. That enhanced license proves that you are an American. I am a native New Yorker and when I lived there I thought about getting an enhanced license but decided against it when I found out I could not use my PO Box address on such a license, it had to be my street address.
Gun debate:
It has nothing to do with your comparison to knives, or fists. It’s about freedom, and that government has no right to restrict it.
Also, absolutely no American is stupid enough to ask a Brit if they know the Queen (now King). This is an urban legend to make Americans look stupid.
But it only makes Brits who believe this look stupid.
Russian trolls pretending to be Americans might ask that -- just to stir up sh*t. That's all they can do. And, yes, I feel sorry for anyone stupid enough to believe such garbage.
An Eastern European heard my American accent and asked me if I knew Tom Cruise.
That’s a good observation he makes that Americans often say what state they’re from rather than the USA. But when I’ve traveled abroad I say I’m American and I’m almost always asked where in America and when I say close to Seattle almost everyone I talk with knows where it is.
world champs also because the best in the world come to play like puljos and ichiro sazuki. if you can throw 90 mph a scout is gonna know about it. americans are not the only ones in the league despite the teams location.
I've always answered the question of where are you from with State (I've lived in 6) in the USA. Sometimes there is a follow up question of where that state is and I say the region and/or think of a place or event I think would help,.
52% of gun homicides happen in 2% of American counties. There are 3300 counties in the United States.
I live in Pittsburgh! 53 years #GoPirates
If you want to get out of the U.K. you go to Italy or Spain and, for that, you need a passport. But you are still in Europe. If I wanted to drive from Wyoming to North Carolina it would be 1,862 miles. If I drove from England (London) to Italy (Rome) it would be 900 miles.
Traveling out of the states - except Canada. Mexico or various islands, is a "would like to, but" for many Americans. I have traveled abroad and it is usually cheaper than traveling to visit family in other states. A lot of people I speak with also expect Europeans to speak in English and provide them with all their American cultural comforts. Others have warned them that that will not be what happens. They all know English, they learn it in school, is a common belief. As for breads, American breads and bagels are too sweet. But, when you say sweet breads, I think of something very different. Just like Rocky Mountain Oysters are not sea creatures, sweet breads are not bread (but may be breaded like fried chicken).
If you say you're from Portsmouth, I would Im also from Portsmouth as well... Well Portsmouth, Virginia. 😂😂😂
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Even countries that don't have oil...hahahahaha!
"World Series" did derive from "World Championship Series", or "World Championship Series of Professional Baseball". Considering, at the time, that the only professional baseball teams were in the U.S. and Canada, there was a grain of truth to it. There are two major leagues in baseball in North America because until 1994, they were two separate organizations. The oldest is the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, which began playing in 1876, and is the oldest professional team sports league in the world. The American League began play in 1900 in competition with the National League. The National League recognized the American League as a fellow major league in 1901, and the modern World Series was born in 1903. The two leagues maintained separate organizations until their merger with the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball (founded in 1920) in 1994 as Major League Baseball. By the way, the champions of the NFL and NBA are also referred to as "World Champions" in the American press and media. There no national body with authority over baseball like the Football Association or the Rugby Football Union.
When American football began in the 1860s, the rules were more similar to association football. During the 1870s, Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts agreed to play McGill University of Montreal, Canada in a football game. Since they played by different codes, McGill played rugby football, the schools agreed to play three games. Two were played by the code each school played by, then a third game under a hybrid code of rules combining elements of each. The Harvard players enjoyed the rugby and hybrid rules so much that they adopted them immediately. A player named Walter Camp streamlined the hybrid code further,, which became what we call football, or gridiron football, here in the U.S. and Canada. The term "soccer" originated in England during the 19th century as a slang term for "association" in association football. Here in the U.S. and Canada, the two games were referred to as "gridiron football" and "soccer football" until around the time of World War 2 when "football" was dropped from "soccer football" as the British have dropped "football" from "rugby football". Canada has its own version of gridiron football with similar rules and equipment as American football, with some significant differences.
That (American) football kick is the way that play strarts at the beginning of the game and after a team scores a touchdown. There are also kicks for a field goal attempt when a team having the ball on 4th down doesn't think they can get enough yards for a "first down" or when they are deep in there own territory and want to have the other team have to start their downs further down field..
I saw a stat once that if take the worst 5 cities out of the stats, then the us has one of the lowest murder rates in the world.
Overall, the U.S. is No.3 in the world in murders. But if you remove Chicago, Detroit, Washington D.C., St.Louis, and New Orleans, we drop to 189th out of 193 countries. Note that all five cities have strict gun laws and are run by Democrats.
The funny part is that those cities are "gun free zones"
We ask each other that and answer out of habit.
Americans give their state because it will tell you more about their culture than just the country. Americans vary wildly state to state.
There is definitely a gun culture in the U.S. but many, many gun aficionados own more than one and that skews the statistics somewhat. We had one gun in our household when I grew up. It was WWII war trophy that my Dad brought home. One of my nephews now has it. It hasn’t been fired since 1944.
All of the UK is smaller than my home state. Also i can travel into canada just with my drivers license.
Perspective. It takes 4 hours to fly from St. Louis to San Diego or Seattle, Washington. I live in St. Louis. New Orleans is 700 miles to the South and Minneapolis is 550 miles to the North. Denver, almost straight West, is 840 miles away and not quite half the distance to California from St. Louis. My point is the country is vast. There are but two neighbors as Laurence rightly points out (Mexico and Canada). Europe is about 30 miles across the channel (Calais). That makes Europe as convenient to the British as me visiting Springfield, Il (108 miles away) or Hannibal, Mo (90 miles away) and I have but travelled to cross but one state line. Missouri borders 8 states. Europe is closer to you than the East or West Coast of America is to me. Baseball is played in the U.S., South Korea, Japan, Mexico, The Caribbean, and Canada. Many of us know the difference between England, Great Britain, and the UK. I do not assume if someone says Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, or Cornwall they are talking about the London Area. Lastly there are 337 million Americans, most of which speak English as their first language. The second highest population of English Speakers is India of all places. Should you travel from London to Moscow by car it would be shorter than if you drove from San Diego to Boston.
I personally don't own a gun. I have seen a lot of gun violence, but that's because I worked at a crime lab. I know where to go now. I don't worry about gun violence for me.
I always wondered about why it's called the World Series...
Concealed firearms are only legal in certain states, in other states it’s illegal.
When I traveled I just tell them I'm from the States, in a few countries I've said I'm from Canada (it was safer to say)
In my state you cant carry a weapon, you go to the range and home, no stops in between youll lose your license.
I'd answer where I'm from with just Detroit
Never take a knife to a gunfight.
3:10 At Oxford in the 1870s soccer and rugby went by the exact same name: football. The only way to differentiate them was one had a spherical ball that you could only kick ⚽️ and the other with an oval 🥚 shaped ball that was carried in ones hands/arms. 🏉
To come up with a way to better tell them apart they came up with 'association football' and 'rugby football" respectively.
But they quickly realized that both are too long to say/remember. So, in terms of ⚽️ the team captain dissected as(soc)iation football and added a popular suffix er to the end along with a second c: soc+cer.
For the better part of the next 100 years in England the sport was called soccer. In the '70s the was phased out in favor of football.
Rugby football spread to the US where they did the opposite of England and dropped 'rugby' and went with football.
There are more guns than people in the States. Don’t own a gun unless you plan on using it. Where I live, I assume everyone around me is armed.
Before the Civil War aka The War Between the States, a "citizen" was a resident of the of the state in which they lived. However, their nationality was "American". There was no "American citizen" per se. The 14th Amendment clarified citizenship.
AMENDMENT XIV
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are [𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡] citizens of the United States 𝐀𝐍𝐃 [𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛] of the State wherein they reside.
I keep up with gun stats pretty regularly. And I do think his stats are misleading. The average citizen is likely never to encounter gun violence. The vast majority of concealed carry citizens never have to use their firearm. In several areas I've even known retired law enforcement officers who never drew their firearm during their entire career. And you guys were spot on about why most Americans don't have passports. For vacation involving changes of latitudes, they aren't needed. But I do think the recent increase may be that more people are taking cruises. Or they need one as part of their job requirements.
They are needed now for Canada, Mexico, and the Virgin Islands.
Each state is independent of the others. I think we identify more by our states then the whole USA. I try to respond now with California in the USA.
Keep your bread in the fridge wrapped in plastic, it will last longer. I worked in the only kosher bread bakery that served the finest delis and caterers in nyc
I keep my bread in the refrigerator
BP1, if you told me you were from Portsmouth, I'd have to mention i have heritage from Corfe Castle and Swanage.
I've been to Japan, Okinawa and Canada and I've never had a passport.
While traveling abroad I would always say I'm from Minnesota beause I just think of being a Minnesotan first, and because I can tell the difference between an American and a Canadian accent.
Oh our American sliced bread. It's full of sugar. Disgusting but i do eat it sometimes just for nostalgia. My Italian family hated it.
Edit - oh the guns. Personally, I'm not scared. Just disappointed. The problem is, we have a huge underground market. So banning guns will never work here.
We only know the Queen RIP through movies. There's a good movie about her, i forget the name, she was played by Helen Mirren beautifully. There's a scene where she's out in the countryside and makes eye contact with deer. Later on, a hunter has killed the deer and she swallow her sadness and congratulates the hunter. Such a Queen thing to do!❤
Edit - oh you mean "know" the Queen like personally? That's a stupid question!❤
All of the UK is smaller than my home state.
Yeah, you get it about guns, it sounds like. They're very prevalent in some parts and extremely rare in others. In nearly 40 years of living in FL (where guns are fairly common) I've had exactly two encounters with guns that weren't planned, and one of those was finding one in my great aunt's nightstand after she passed. The other was...extremely American. I lived in a very cheap apartment in a bad part of town and my neighbor was a drug dealer that accidentally shot the wall while cleaning his gun. He was arrested shortly after and sentenced to spend the rest of his adult life in prison for the illegal guns and drugs.
Lesson is: do whatever you can to avoid staying in a crime hotspot. It's not worth the savings. Along with the gun incident I had the wheels stolen off my car (very boring standard wheels on a decade old economy car) and the battery stolen from my scooter. It's literally hard to leave once you get into a bad area.
You can judge the bad areas by their gas stations. If the people at the station are just getting gas or shopping, you're good. If you are being glared at and sized up by random loiterers that don't seem to have a reason to be there, you don't have a reason to be there. If there is no gas station in the neighborhood, but instead a boarded up former gas station, then you definitely don't want to be there. If you're in the south, stay in the place that's closer to the Chick-Fil-A. I don't know why, but they seem to be the one fast food place that avoids high crime areas.
Wow. I’m the exception that proves the rule on a couple of these. I’m an American who has actually been in the same room as Trump (20ish ago at a theater in NYC).
And I also am an Escape to the Country junkie who not only knows of Torquay, Devon (beautiful town) and that Hampshire features the New Forest and Highclere Castle among its attractions; I could probably also guess the market value of your homes fairly well. 😂 The West Country is towards the top of my UK bucket list.
And for me, asking where someone is from and getting an answer of The US, Canada or Russia is like asking someone from Czechia and being told that they are from “Europe”. I’m looking for a more specific answer than an area the size of a continent and assume others are as well. But that’s more a me thing, I think.
And if I’m asking someone from the UK where they are from and they say the UK, I get a little bit frustrated because it’s normally very obvious from their accent that they are English, Scottish or Welsh and I’m looking to narrow down their accents to a region or make sure whether they are from NI or the Republic of Ireland if their dialect isn’t super distinct.
There is a Little League World Series,in which many countries around the world play.
Would Americans ever learn if someone doesn't take the time to teach. You can't complain if you're not contributing to it being different.
I've been to the UK. I've driven cars and taken trains the length and width of the nation. I'd know Devon and Hampshire if we spoke. So keep fighting the good fight to teach your fellow man.
I would prefer all people in the USA who own guns to have open carry. But I live out in the west so my idea of open carry is different than the East Coast. Most of the people I know who have guns and keep them on them are ranchers and farmers and they have dangerous animals that they have to protect against. And even though the quote unquote Wild West isn't as wild as it used to be the culture of caring that gun all the time started back when we were first settling the West.
We have college hoodies or sweatshirts. There are no sweater unless you graduated in the 60's
I have never told anyone I'm from California and not the US, I always say the US, nor do I know any American who does that. Very odd.
"Where you from?" is a question that I think most Americans get asked more so from other Americans while traveling in America, rather than from locals in foreign countries. State specificity I guess is just a matter of habit. I don't think this is unique. I've asked same abroad and typically get city specific answers, provided the city is well known, London, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing , etc. The ones that respond more generically seemed to me a bit sketchy. "Not here. But close by". Yup -- that dont sound sketchy ....
Our states are as big as countries so.. if someone asked me I’m not going to say US unless I’m in another country because the next question is what part of the US…
You guys are awesome! Hope this helps.
We say we are from our state because it seems weird to say “America” or “The United States,” because it’s so big. It wouldn’t really give you much information. It would be like saying, “I’m from Europe.” Ok. Great. Where in Europe?
Also, our federal system is so different from European nations. Our states actually have a lot more power than the administrative states in France, the autonomous regions of Spain, or the counties in Britain. (Our states have counties.) States have so much power that life can be very different in one state versus another, even without including geography and weather. “I’m from Florida,” is very different than, “I’m from Alaska.”
The reason we call our sport football is we based it on a sport in the UK also called football. Then the Brits changed their mind & decided rugby wasn't football after all (I think in the 30's or 40's) The US saw no need to change at all & it stuck. Every time Trump shows up at my Sunday social or the local hardware store, I ignore him. I don't care for him. LOL!!
I have been asked if I know someone in California since I live there. I guess they've never seen how big California is.
14:50 Canadians tend to do the same as the Brits. I would hardly ever say I'm from Ontario, when telling someone foreign where. Same with saying my actual city, like Milton. I'd just say Toronto. 😅
An American's type of reply would depend on the respondent's personality (or even the day of the week, or which way the wind was blowing -- i.e., much of it is arbitrary) and to whom they were speaking -- either a European, a Canadian, an American from a different state, an American from nearby in the same state, or an American from far away in the same state. I might tell someone that I'm either an American, a Californian, an Angeleno (i.e., I'm from LA), or "from Santa Barbara." (shrug) And, in any case, there is no such thing as a typical American anything.
@AlexanderWinterborn-r6p Thank you for your reply.
Have either of you guys ever come home only to find the queen sitting on the stoop next door having locked herself out of her place?
I live in Washington State, and we can go up to British Columbia with just our enhanced drivers license, no passport needed to get into Canada. So I would have to travel, at a minimum, 2100 km down to the Mexican border, before i would need a passport.
Sweet bread??? Don’t get it. I only eat sourdough and rye - no sugar.
1 in 32,000 chance of dying from gun violence in a given year, if an accurate statistic, would be with "all things being equal." In other words, that statistic spreads the chances equally across the entire population, which in America is roughly 300,000,000 people. However, as he pointed out previously, one's choices and behavior contribute greatly to one's chances of being a victim or not being one. Some people would have a tremendously higher or lower chance than others based on the decisions they make, the places they go, the actions they take, the jobs they do, etc.
When I was little I would put sugar on bread and eat it up! Try it… it might not kill you! 😂 But guns are necessary in the south… not pistols but we have them. We hunt and some people have to hunt to eat. I’d guess that most of the guns are in the south.
Re: where you’re from saying the state instead of country is because we’re answering the equivalent of you both saying you’re from ENGLAND. You wouldn’t necessarily tell us you’re from the UK or Great Britain. Our states aren’t like your counties, since we have counties, too, and we even have some counties bigger than some countries. So we’re answering more specifically since next question would be about narrowing down where you’re from in a big country, or asking if you live in one of the big cities or if we see cowboys all the time. Granted I’m from a big city in a big state and more people have heard of my city that might immediately connect to the state so I just say my city, but that might be an Angeleno thing rather than an American thing, get the LA equivalent predicable questions about my hometown out of the way quickly.
Being the 100th commenter, I just wanted to say I really appreciate the timbre of both of your voices. Not the accents, which are great but your timbre is rich and resonating and pleasant in which to listen. I am from the United States, not america. North america includes Canada, Mexico and the U. S. I feel it is arrogant for U. S. Citizens to reference themselves as american, when the term encompasses more than just the U. S.
The Right to have firearms isn’t just about defense, that’s a given. But our constitution states that We the people should be able to be a “well armed militia” in defense against our own government if they should become tyrannical. Even alot of Americans don’t understand that. It guarantees our ability to fight our own government in a war should they over step their boundaries on the rights of the people. Which sadly, they’ve slowly been etching their way to doing. Kinda like a frog in a pot that doesn’t notice it’s slowly heating up to boil.
His comments about the news cycle and Americans only hearing news about our vested interests is B.S. we have more news stations than ever, and while many only watch their favorite channels, many Americans get their news for more sources than we used to. And international news is pretty much the same across the world. The same stories, the same headlines. And if you go to small rural places in countries in Europe, people have limited interest in international news that has nothing to do with their country. Lawrence seems like a nice guy but he makes a lot of comments that are not well researched or he doesn’t delve into to these topics with his American friends and co workers to truly understand the topic. It’s basically his opinion, rather real studied information.
Passports are needed to travel in and out of a country. I guess more Brits want out of Britain then Americans want out of the USA. It's understandable.
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We understand the question, but it’s not what is shown in the movies ,, I have never seen a shooting in 53 years with my own eyes
I had no idea you have a knife problem. I have read, since the influx of Islamist into England, specifically London, that if you are in the wrong part of London and not wearing the proper clothing that may get stabbed. I think that might only pertain to women though.
A lot of that state pride stuff really has to do with how big and diverse the US is. Yeah we are all the same country, but we have a wide range of cultures. You could call it a little bit of arrogance when them assuming you already know they’re American so they want to narrow it down a bit more.
Many identify more with their state than with the broader US because of the differences as well. Each state has its own set of laws and customs (under the broader federal umbrella).
Guns are something to look out for but it's really exaggerated on the danger because it's dramatic. More people die from falling than guns by far in America.
To be fair when Americans name their state when asked where they are from, I believe you guys named cities or regions in England. But if I said Circleville, you wouldn't know that city is in Ohio, United States. We know London, Manchester, Birmingham and others in England. Keep in mind many U.S. States are larger than England by far. So when you say your city, we want to put it in relation to a city we know, such as London. You wouldn't have an idea, in most cases, if we named cities, except for the largest in the States. Keep in mind, there can be as many as 9500 miles between two sovereign US territories. At least we narrow it down to a State.
I don't think that it's at all common for Americans to name their state before their country when traveling out of the USA. This is a case of exaggerating a few experiences that Brits have had and making a bigger deal of it than it is. Lawrence's wife probably assumed that he knew she was American from her accent and said "Indiana" to pinpoint more exactly where in the USA she was from. So she didn't think that he might have assumed she could be from Canada. What's the big deal? I think Shakespeare would label this addition to Lawrence's list, "Much ado about nothing".
The above said, there ARE some differences between the standard American accent and the standard Canadian accent that Americans and Canadians can pick up but perhaps not other English speakers. An interesting note to mention is that before the American Civil War between the north and the south, it was very common for people to refer to their state as their country because that's how many citizens still felt, a reality left over from colonial days when we were attached to England. We're a very young country and we were not even 100 years old when the Civil War broke out. Particularly in the south, it took the Civil War to cement in people's minds that your country was not your state but The United States. That's why before the Civil War in 1865, it was very common for US citizens to say "THESE United States." After the Civil War they said "THE United States."
Damn, this football/soccer debate pisses me off:
At least half of countries where the sport is their main sport are Latino/Spanish. And they call it “Futbol.”
Except “Fut” doesn’t mean “foot” in Spanish. Never has…never will. Why the hell are Spanish, Portuguese and Italian countries forced to use the word “Fut” which means nothing to them?
And Europeans have a problem with Americans calling it “Soccer?”
The Irish, Australians, Canadians, and South Africans call it soccer. The UK seems to be in the minority among English-speaking countries in calling it football.
Nobody really knows (knew) the Queen RIP, nobody knows the President, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Re: Where are you from? When two Americans meet it isn’t uncommon for people from the U.S. state of Georgia first to say the state. When asked the name of their town they say, “I’m from X. It is near Atlanta because that is the only city anyone knows of. In truth X may not be near Atlanta.
If you break down guns like this a firearm doesn't have a brain, it's merely a piece of metal and wood or plastic it doesn't make somebody go full Dr Jeckel and Hyde if you even touch one. Just something to consider.
When youre asked.that we are joking with you?
1 in 32,000 are not great odds. Being in a plane crash is about 1 in 1.2 million so better stay on the plane. Passports theory may be wrong. Most people not only can't afford to travel overseas, a lot don't want all the hassle of applying for a passport.
All of the stay out of the wrong side of town,if there is one, don’t belong to a gang and you can spend 77 years without ever seeing a gun except on a range or during a hunting trip. Even when a problem like sure nut pulling a knife after being nasty to an Indian girl on a town tram, you won’t see a gun drawn even in this Concealed town and State.
I'm almost 70 years old and the only gun I have ever seen was my police officer partner's service revolver.
#California (DO NOT call it Cali)
I second this comment. If you call it that you aren’t from here.
I'm not sure where Lawrence got his gun violence statistics from.
I would say that the odds of being involved with a gun crime are a lot higher than what he said.
I think yes London is probably the first thing Americans think of when it comes specifically to England.
I knew of course that there were more than a few English accents/regions in England.
However, I didn't realize how many there were.
Watching you two and a few other British reactors regularly I can hear some differences in your accents depending on which part of England you're from.😊
Brit Pops, one thing that's not on his list is that--it's crawling with Americans. I'm one of'em, by the way.
Everyone talks about American football, but the Canucks--our northern neighbors--play the same sport, but on a slightly larger field, and it's called Canadian football.
I'm 77, and I have yet to see a gun packed by a normal citizen, only policemen/women. I learned a few months ago that the country with the highest % of gun toting people is Switzerland. Their biggest sport is going to a shooting competition. The reason is that, being a neutral country, it has no army. So, their alternative is to have a militia made up of every male over a certain age (this fact I don't remember). However, if you're a law abiding poor person living in a big city neighborhood with a gang problem., I'm sure you see many more guns in a day than most of the country.
I'm sure he had the queen question on the list because he's been asked. After all, if you see someone on the street to name the capital city of their own state, and not be able to do it, anything's possible.
I've traveled to 56 countries and territories, as well as all 50 states. Now, I take road trips around the US each summer.
Do you know the queen? Could have been in jest. Sounds like something id say.
There are 44 countries in Europe. Imagine asking someone from Europe where they are from and they say ‘Europe’. That doesn’t really mean much to a European’s way of thinking.
Likewise, the United States is composed of 48 states outside of Hawaii and Alaska in a landmass the size of Europe. Asking an American where they are from and getting the answer of ‘America’ makes as much sense to the American mind as the answer of ‘Europe’ does to the European mind.
It’s just too broad of an answer to provide any useful information to the American way of thinking.
US citizen here. We have too many guns here!!