American reacts to 10 STRANGE things about America
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I love how Americans are like "The US is diverse, you can't generalise it!" and then go on saying they "visited Europe" and acting as if other countries didn't have different regions with different cultures, dialects, values and so on.
they say visited europe but what they mean is they went to london
I feel like this guy honestly did better than most do. He didn't really generalise anything, as he specifically said Italy, Vietnam etc.
He just said things you shouldn't do in USA, never stating that no other countries don't do it aswell.
Ich glaube wenn ich aus dem Ruhrgebiet nach Bayern fahre ist alles wie Zuhause đ
@@pedroparkros2569 Wieso? Gibts da auch nur Kohle zu essen? ;p
â@@mattemathias3242 Yeah, that's true, it's just, that it should go without saying, so it sounds a bit like "You are too stupid to know this, so I am telling you.". I don't think there is a single person on this planet who thinks Hawaiians are exactly like Alaskans. I also think that Americans are overestimating how diverse the USA really are compared to other countries, not ethnically, but culturally. As I said, there are of course differences, but as a whole, due to speaking mostly the same language, having not much history and so on, America is pretty homogenous in many regards. That's not about being better or worse, but there are just only so many differences, that can come up when your culture is this young. One of the biggest dividers was the civil war, which makes the South different to the North to this day, and other countries just had more time to experience events like this.
Ryan just had a very American moment there. To him, Spanish = Mexico. To the rest of the world Spanish = Spain.
Or the whole of latin america aswell as spain, it's soooo much more than Mexico, hell I would probably last think of mexico actually.
@@JohanHultin And yet there are more Spanish speakers in Mexico than anywhere else.
@@michaelgoetze2103 not surprising considering Mexico has a 2.7x higher population than Spain.
Mexico = approx. 127 mil, Spain has 47 mil
even the United States has more spanish speakers because of the much higher population.
When ranked for the most spanish speakers in descending order:
Mexico
Colombia
Argentina
USA
Spain
edit: i just realized that i misunderstood the point
edit 2: counting the next 3 countries with the highest spanish speaker amount you barely have 134 million, which is about 6% higher than Mexicos population.
Considering how close Mexico is to the USA, it is not surprising for them to consider Mexico first when someone mentions spanish, its most likely due to geographical proximity
@@davidhuhnchen3292 I liked it that you list it!
@@davidhuhnchen3292 Precisely. Spanish in US is more likely to be Mexican so it's odd to express surprise that Ryan associates Spanish with Mexico.
The very fact that Americans call their American soccer games "World Cups" when only American teams participate and the rest of the world considers American soccer irrelevant, says everything about the US.
They have a soccer "World Cup"?
American Exceptionalism is so funny sometimes.
@@Bezimienny1598 I think he meant American football competitions like the Super Bowl, not soccer, as the US does play in Football (soccer) world cups if they qualify.
What I don't get is why are they calling it "football"? Our football is called that because it's a game where you kick the ball with your foot, whereas theirs is a more geared up, less violent looking version of Rugby.
Itâs baseball and world series
This just isnât true unless your talking about the World Series which is the baseball championship but to be fair Canada also has baseball teams and people from all over the world play in the MLB
"unless they are total assholes..."
Excuse me, but I am not responsible to pay the waitress an income with which she can survive. The last time I checked I had no employees.
Why does everyone hate the customer and not the host paying 2 $ an hour and no health insurance whatsoever?
Is it the customers fault that the owners business model is based on slavery???
right its the fault of the waiters, if they refuse to work for slave payment they would get fair wages. but unions are only a communist thing i guess.
No, but it's not really the business owner's fault either. It's the lawmakers fault. You can't pay your staff a decent wage if all your competitors are allowed to pay them next to nothing. Service workers in the US are by law excluded from minimum wage laws.
@@jbird4478 .
Yes it is, they could pay a proper wage and ban tipping. At least then they wouldn't be lying to their customers by advertising false prices.
@@grahvis That doesn't work because you would have to charge way, way more than your competitors. Sure, that might cancel out without tips, but that's not what potential customers see on the price list.
@@jbird4478 AFAIK there is a minimum wage, but it is very low and nowhere near the normal minimum wage.
"I've never been on a train"? đ€Ż That is a crazy sentence you would never hear from any European!
This was shocking to me too đ . Never in my life would I have imagined someone not having been on a train đ±
I wouldn't go that far... the newer generations and the poor/lack of investments in some European countries are making it possible for our people to say "I've never been on a train" .. and this is coming from someone who was almost born in a locomotive.
I felt the same way watching from Australia. Are there ANY countries outside the US where this would be the norm? Trains are a major part of Asian transport too, so I think it would be a struggle to find a major country with an even partly developed city structure that didn't have trains everyone used
@@guusv2650 The only place in the US where train travel is practical is the Northeastern corridor DC, Philly, NYC, Boston. Commuter trains from NYC to Connecticut nearby cities. Philly mainline. Everywhere else fly/drive is more practical.
@@gemoftheocean in knew that factually, but I didnât realize that this is one of the consequences. Just blew my mind.
"In USA we like our personal space." I laughed out loud at this one since the stereotypical american has absolutely no respect for other people's personal space and just get right up in there đ
As a Norwegian that made me laugh.
Yep. Uk here & I agree with you.
Whole of Finland is laughing at Muricans puny "personal space". ROFL! đ€Ł
Same here: "What?!!" đ€Łđ€Ł
I was about to ask if it is okey in USA to sit next to someone on the buss... but then I remembered they don't have busses đ
âDont drink under 21â and âdont drink in publicâ so much freedom guys
Cars and alcohol don't mix. Teenagers start learning to drive before 15. In my state you start driving with supervision at 14 and 8 months. You get your restricted drivers license at 16.
@@jamiemoss3633 But teens and guns do?
And still can't buy without ID. Even if you're 90 đ
@@101steel4 Damn
@@jamiemoss3633 Cope muricuck, you can join the miltiary at 18 and die being shot but you can't drink a beer until you're 21 ahahahaha
It is so absolutely weird for me to hear a grown man say "I have never been on a train." It' like saying you've never seen a dog in your life. This is so completely unfathomable!!
And I will call football by its name no matter where I am. Why wouldn't I? Also I don't really care about these padded dudes running around with an egg. What do they call that again? American egg running? Well, don't know, don't care.
The blackforest family just released a video on what being "bilingual" means in the US vs in Germany. Very interesting!
If someone told me he never traveled by train I'd imagine them to come from a multimillionaire background. Not impossible, just rather rare.
4:44 As an European this feels like buying a spotify premium and still pay for every song i listen to.
In a restaurant i pay for the food, not for the staff. I only tip when the service is outstanding
LOL if you think you're NOT paying for the staff. The cost of labor is folded into the price you are paying.
@Karen A.T.H. ofcourse a portion of the prices cover staff and all other costs.
What i mean if i pay for the food and on top of that i have to pay another 20% for the employee.
@@gemoftheocean in the Netherlands we don't tip very often. When we do tip, it is seen as a bonus.
The employer has to pay a fair wage. In the US, they get as little as $ 2,13 so you "need" to tip them.. besides paying for your food.
I hope by giving you all this context and details, you understand my previous post.
If a server needs my tip to survive thatâs for the employer to deal with. Iâm happy to tip, no problem, but a living wage for the employee shouldnât be my responsibility.
I wholeheartedly agree. If the service is good enough I will tip up to 10%, the fact that the servers in the US collectively agreed to get shafted and be paid below minimum wage and have to live off tips and refuse to do anything about it is not my problem as someone who saved up to visit the country.
i've seen some discussion on the whole tipping thing and it seems the customers are the ones being played the fool. because while the staff does rely on tips to make a living, what they make in a day in tips is usually way above minimum wage, which is why there hasn't been a massive protest to make it so they make at least minimum wage. they're working on tips and so they could luck out and make in a day what they'd make in a week of minimum wage
This is because it was lobbied heavily in the past so that the minimum wage is kept low and businesses can profit as crazy - while in the same time pressuring and guilt tripping customers to provide the living wage for their own employees. You are not rude to not tip, they should actually require proper wage to begin with.
@@Ray_Vun I think your last word should be "wage", not "age".
@@johndavidson5228 lmao you're right. should've reread it before hitting reply
In Europe, shopping is not a half-day car trip 100 miles from home. Right next to the pharmacy you have a bakery, butcher, restaurant or cafe. In supermarkets or at a gas station you can buy basic medicines for fever, pain or sore throat. You can put on slippers, leave the house, buy rolls and fill your prescription for medicines. You just have to decide which pharmacy to go to, because you often have several on the same street :D
I live in Poland and at school I was taught two foreign languages: English and Russian. I'm very happy about it.
Learning Russian is a waste of time!
â@@jetster785 and why is learning Russian a waste of time?
Bulgarian here, can completely relate, lol. Since infrastructure in EU is way different than the US we have stores literred all over the place and all in a walking distance of like 5-10 minutes, and yes, in supermarkets you can find basic medication, as for example with the Kaufland located less than 300m from the entrance of my home, close to the entrance of the Kaufland, there are a few separate like small stores INSIDE the Kaufland building, one is a pharmacy, there is also a cosmetics stand, a separate bakery, than the one of Kaufland that is literally 10m across deeper into the building, an ATM and an insurance firm, lol... all that inside a Kaufland building, it's like a mini mall of sorts. And there are quite a few in my city alone. Also I've studied English, German and Russian in school, since when I moved to high school they again gave us the option to choose a language to study, all of the students entering on the same year had to vote for a language to study, most votes went into German, so all students from my year of study had to start learning German. It was a weird system that nobody understood, as in Elementary, it was based on a class basis, if you want to study German you went to A class, if you want to study French, you go to B for example. But idk if it's still the same, since the things I'm talking about with high school was something that happened over 10 years ago.
Nowadays kids in Poland are taught foreign language from 1st grade, second foreign language from 7th grade.
@@Ne0LiT German here. I started learning English in 3rd grade but hated french so much I stopped learning it almost immediately after starting it. It think that might have been 6th grade. German schools are so complicated. You have kindergarten, preschool then Grundschule and after Grundschule there is the choice between Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium. Gynmnasiasten are usually the ones who later go study at uni and RealschĂŒler and HauptschĂŒler start working after year 10. HauptschĂŒler usually have very bad rep and trouble finding good jobs. I currently live in what is basically pride city. My city is really big and we have trains that can take you anywhere in the city. You can even make a trip to the border of the Netherlands and come back in one day. I like that everything is accessable just by walking. People who drive cars and who ride bikes are awful. I know bikes are faster but they are such menaces that keep almost driving you over and it sucks. At least Kaufland is also in Bulgaria, which is cool. My city has multiple malls and also multiple Kauflands. There is a bakery on every corner, because of course, we Germans need our bread. And you can buy Nutella everywhere. And Lukas Podolski has multiple stores near where I live. There is a Döner place and an icecream place. The icecream is divine btw. And homemade. I need to look up Bulgaria, I don't remember where it is on the map. But it is nice that most of the countries on our content have the same infrastructure. But I think it would also be way too inconveneint otherwise. I don't understand how US citizens can live in suburbs where you can't go buy food unless you move your car and drive somewhere. Way too inconvenient.
8:43 It's not "European" football when the whole world (minus a few countries) calls it that.
Let's forget about the inconsistency of calling a game in which the players hold a weird egg under their armpit "foot-ball", instead of the game in which people actually use their feet to kick an actual ball around.
American football is played on foot. Your football was introduced to the United States as soccer from the U.K.(an abbreviation) for association football. Yes the word soccer came from the U.K.
@@jamiemoss3633 Yes but we called it Soccer Football to differentiate from Rugby Football.
Football? You mean, Handsegg?
You can thank the English for the name soccer thatâs what they used to call it so we never stopped calling it that. American footballs real name is gridiron football and it was originally a variation of English football
I remember way back when I was in the US I pissed off few people when they were complainig us for calling soccer football. When they were done explaining what they ment, I said "oh, you meen the American rugby" đ
The US cannot be a free country until the citizens realize that freedom is NOT to be able to go everywhere with a car, but to be able to go everywhere you want WITHOUT a car.
(And until the last HOA is disbanded)
Neither of those are freedoms
more like, until they realise it's the freedom to be able to go everywhere you want without being shot!
â@@mehere8038 That is no a freedom. Although is true that you have the right to kill infractions are punished after the fact, no thought preventive violation of another rigths
@@friedrichhayek4862 UN Human rights charter Article 3
"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."
If you are shot going into a grocery store or school or attending a concert, then you do NOT have this right do you! Your right to "life" & right to "security of person" is taken from you if you could be confronted by a gunman every time you walk outside your home! Again, every person has the right to be able to enjoy what society has to offer them, to go everywhere they want to, without having to fear that their life will be taken from them because they do so!
I'm very fortunate to live in Australia, where this is a right we take for granted. I would hate to live in a country where I was denied this basic human right!
@@mehere8038 Firstly if you are to accept preventive restrictions to human behavior as an acceptable form of policy, then you must without hesitation support that (1) every human to be watched 100% of the time just in case he is a pedophile (2) that no every computer has to have government back-doors so that you can be prevented to commit cybercrime, (3) that one have a chip implanted in the brain so that if you ever thought to harm anyone, you are unable to do so. (4) everyone should be unable to leave home without police supervision so that nobody breaks and enters in another's home. (5) and any other dictatorian policy that one could think of.
Secondly your right to live is only violated if they kill you, then they must be punished, but it is no pretext to violate the right to bear arms.
Thirdly your "right to security of person" is non existent, because this would imply that every dictatorial and dystopian policy mentioned in point one is mandatory or there would be no security of person, unless you interpret this as the natural obligation of make justice of the administration, but in that case is only a subset of the implications and this is no a "Fundamental Right" but a complex implication of Justice.
Lastly the words of politicians are meaningless, specially if they come from a sect of pedophiles.
Football is football it is in the name itself. Played with feet using a ball. If it is played with hands using egg shaped object it is obviously "Egghand" not football.
The american football is 1 foot long, so its also in the name.
A european ball is only 22cm in diameter, but 1 foot is about 30cm.
You call it football, despite using a ball thats not 1 foot long - u should call it 22cmInDiameterBall.
@@SovermanandVioboy ...or throwball.
o one in America thinks itâs stupid that you call football football. You can thank the English for the name soccer thatâs what they used to call it so we never stopped calling it that. American footballs real name is gridiron football and it was originally a variation of English football
It's the same with americans coming to Europe: "We visited Europe in 5 days".
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And what they mean is:
"We visited Italy and the UK in 5 day."
Some American guy once told me he had been "all over Europe", turns out he'd only spend a night in London, Paris and Rome.
@@Aoderic Oh, so he was retarded, gotcha
@@Aoderic I don't know the english words for these cities, but here are a few destinations in europe:
Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Mailand, Florenz, Rom, London, Prag, Berlin, Rhodos, Instanbul,
Schwarzwald, Alpen, Luxenburg, Amsterdam, Ungarn and Skandinavien.
@@Aoderic anything to add?
My list is mostly out of germany few.
The "foreign language" topic makes me think about....I visited the US twice for longer round trips. Imagine me in a grocery store, a gas station or my hotel in Flagstaff for example. And as a german dude i would try to speak german with the cashier. They would think "What a dumba*s, comes to the US and expect us speaking his language!" And they would be right. Now back to the statements in the video like "we don't need to use another language". This is one of the behaviours of many US citizens that pisses me of.
They have the advantage, that their language is the most spoken in the world. Especially in tourism, English is most often enough. And that is valid for other nationalities, too. If I'm in Croatia I might find somebody speaking German, but more often the conversation would be in English, as the local language is nothing you learn by accident for a two week trip.
I agree, the least I try to learn in the local language for every trip is:
hello, goodbye, please, thank you and do you speak German or English
Itâs not much, but I think itâs nice and polite to learn and try to use some words in wherever language is most spoken in the country one visits.
@@jennyh4025 But it might be awkward if you say hello or more in the language and the people try to talk to you in their language. Then you still must ask for English.
@@jennyh4025 polite, THAT is the point! Thank you!
@@reinhard8053 Don't worry, the accent will give it away you don't really know it. :)
European common sense: football = we plays it with our legs. Handball = we plays it with our hands. US football = we plays it with our hand and europeans are silly to call their sports football...
When i was learning sports in english when I was little I thought soccer was the American football because of thisâŠđ«Ą
Rugby (rules, two kinds) football.
Not for Jessies.
do americans even play handball? i feel like the closest they're familiar with that sorta resembles it is water polo
@@Ray_VunThe term âhandballâ might be associated by most Americans with âAmerican handballâ which is a bit like squash played with your bare hands.
Confusing only in America! For example "American football" is very much like Rugby and had nothing to do with football despite the name!
Last year I took my wife on an Eastern seaboard bus tour. We liked it. But the tipping culture soon got too much for us and I had a rant on a Tour Guide at Gettysburg. First the guide on the bus explained that the minimum tip for her and the driver was $5 each per person, per day. With a bus load of people this was adding up to a considerable amount. But then at each place of interest and having paid extra for a tour, we were met by a Guide who introduced himself by stating his minimum tip. We were advised to carry lots of one dollar bills when visiting a bar, because a dollar tip was expected for each drink! Then came the restaurant begging!
Iâm a Tour Guide with the Association of Voluntary Guides in York England. Here we take visitors on free two hour walks and being retired professional people we donât take tips. For us Tour Guiding is a hobby. The Tour Guide we met at Gettysburg was a retired teacher and was very knowledgeable, but the idea of him stating his minimum tip got too much for me and I told the man to have some pride in himself and stop the begging. The whole experience of being sounded by beggars was like visiting the third world.
Yes!! Looove the US but I hate the tipping culture and off put me from visiting as often as I would like to because of the tipping culture and how aggressive they get about it. Social anxiety and tipping culture prevented me from doing extra stuff like visiting salons and spas etc. The anxiety outweighs whatever pleasure I would get from these services.
"IN GOD WE TRUST" is written on the US$. And that's because the dollar is the God of America.
I agree! Why do they even call it a tip if itâs mandatory??
When I went to the Usa I didn't tip anybody.. I don't care what they thought about me.. But I cannot do something against my will!
You don't have to tip anyone if you choose not to. It's not required.
I have never in my life had the slightest urge to go to the US.
Me either that's why I left.
My advice : go, but avoid the cities. The many national parks, which glory be, are officially not commercialised are fantastic. Many of them are jaw dropping, yet maybe apart from the Grand Canyon, are under-visited by Europeans.
My doctor sister went for the money, became a citizen. She's now very ill. So was I after visiting and eating the"food" took two weeks on my return to feel better. I will NEVER go there again. The stench of the streets , the aggression from police, the harassment by servers in shops and restaurants. My sister is in a gated community. Like Cape Town they have armed guards to keep out the rif raf. Equality egalitarian fraternity and freedom, they are deluded.. Keep it, the place is not for a civilised man.
The cultural differences in the US are minimal when compared to Europe! Why should I be responsible for a waiterÂŽs income? ThatÂŽs for the employer to take care of!
It's cultural habit. You just need to know, it's not included in the price of the menu. You have to know, on indictated prices, there is tax coming on top, and service coming on top. Of course you are responsible to pay a service you got.
@@holger_p Doesn't that imply that the base product should be cheaper, then, if you are paying for the service as an extra?
@@wessexdruid7598 No, it implies the service should be added on the menu price (as well as the taxes). So if you have $20 in your wallet, you know you can choose something for $20 from the menu.
Right now that's kind of impossible.
Don't know how this habit was established, but it's the only place in entire capitalism, where you don't negotiate or know the price of a thing before ordering.
@@holger_p I think you missed my point. If the business owner is relying on customers to compensate his staff for their work, his item price should be lower. But it isn't. It's taking advantage of both staff and clientele - and it's definitely a cultural thing, limited to the US. The balance of power is tipped too far against the worker.
Other countries have tipping - but the employers pay at least a minimum, usually a living, wage. By law.
Tipping is an incentive for good service - not a pre-requisite. Or it is, outside the USA.
@@wessexdruid7598 I don't know the calculation, the kitchen staff, the Manager, the rent and the Material is included the price. I don't know if there is enough profit for the owner to pay the Services from it. They already ger minimum wage in case there is know customer. They should not take the risk of having no guests.
Learning another language is learning another way to understand the world. My dream journey is to stay in one country so long that I can learn a little bit the language. I speak Finnish, Swedish, English and German, but traveled to Equador for three months to learn Spanish and discover their history and culture. It was amazing! Absolutely loved it!
finnish and swedish makes me wonder which side of the baltic sea you grew up in, no matter which it's nice to hear about someone else with the same passion for languages.
@@willewiking98 đEast side of the Baltic sea. My secret dream is to learn Russian next and explore the Ural Mountains, post-Putin times naturally.
so ironic u can not drink in public but u can have a gun in public
Well i guess being drunk with a gun in public would be even worse ;)
Acohol is for fun and it's unhealthy; gun is a tool that will protect you from criminals
I really don't understand what's so wrong about that lol
USA is a country that does really good things, but also alot of things that bite themselves for no reason
â@@spiritualanarchist8162 not very inteligent. Then complain about school sh00t1ng....
Same for Europe visit more places than Paris and London.
Or take Americsns or Japanese who visited Germany and have only been to Neuschwanstein and the Oktoberfest.
And don't just visit big cities.
On the topic of personal space, I conclude that he has not visited the Nordic countries. (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland)
A rather telling joke that was minted during the "keep a distance"-times, were that we in the north were looking forward to a lifting of the rule of
keeping a 6 feet distance in public, so we could go back to staying at a more comfortable 12 feet.
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Damn. Here in Spain the personal space rarely exceeds 30 or 40 centimetres. In a city of 4 million people, you are packed like sardines in subway or buses, for example.
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I visited my daughter in Norway when she was living there for a while. I'm Canadian and she's Greek/Canadian. I was going to take public transit while she was at work and she told me that if there were other people at the stop, they will stand far from each other as is their custom so I should keep to myself and give them lots of space.
Am I the only person who think Disney world is an idea of hell
I would certainly like to go there, if I'd be 5 years old. đ
Of course not. I hate all amusement parks, except Tivoli in Copenhagen, what a delightful place. It has a beautiful garden and really seems a park not an amusement park.
I have a friend that loooooves them and when we travel together around Europe she accepts my nerdiness and acompany me to a museum and in exchange I have the helliest day of my life sitting on a bench with her handbag and reading a book while she runs like a child in a candy store from a roller coaster to a bumpers cars.
No you aren't the only one. When i think of Disney World, the first thing that comes to my mind are long queues of loud kids. It's probably heaven if you are a kid or have a bunch of kids you need to keep entertained but 100% hell to me.
Everything Disney is just overrated.
Nope
Not 'European football' - simply 'football' or even 'world football'
Also not 'American football' - really 'US football'
actually should be called "US hand ovoid" 8)
Association football aka soccer including the name came from the U.K.
@@jamiemoss3633 To distinguish from rugger. They are all football. Whereas in the US, the only football they recognise is 'American' football - which isn't even American, only US.
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In Italy and in France it is normal to be greeted by a hug and a kiss on the cheek. We greet each other so warmly with our family and relatives in Germany, we have no problem with proximity , just not with strangers.
A little bit silly asking someone to visit a lot of places in the US. Is like saying: if you go to Europe dont go only to Madrid or Paris or Rome, theres more in Europe...go from Spain t o Sweeden... Sure, Ill do it, with a whole month and a looooooot of money.
If somebody asks me for a tour around Europe, I would tell them: (northern) Italy, Vienna and Prague and if they are longer in Europe, I would tell them: Italy, Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Netherlands, Paris.
I'd say the trick is to go to the country side, it tends to be the best, cheaper, cleaner, more relaxed, more nature, so on and so forth, you can also take your time while doing things more easily.
It IS silly. They're both huge areas. You're not going to be able to see a lot of it on almost any trip.
when he said ive never been on a train i almost fell out of my chair
I took the train, once, from DC to NYC. It was very fast and reasonably-priced. And nearly empty.
When I came to return, they refused to sell me a long distance ticket without _photo_ ID. (I had ID, just not with a photo on it. My passport was in the hotel safe in WV. Why would I need it to visit New York?) So I had to return via local trains & then bus from Philadelphia - it took 4 hours one way, then 11 hours to come back.
But - interesting...
Not being able to drink in public is so weird for me. Here in the Netherlands whenever the sun comes out, all parks will be flooded with families but also students (me included) who'll just buy beers at the supermarket and chill outside with a beer and some devils lettuce. And this is the case in a lot of european urban areas. Just check pictures of the Vonderlpark in Amsterdam or the James-Simon Park in Berlin.
And rural areas, too. Thinking of the one crossroad or bus stop in the village where the Dorfjugend (young people of the village) meets up in the evenings.
Same here in dublin
When I was aged 30 I was asked for my ID in an American Bar - and I looked 30 too! :)
You actually can't drink in public in many places in the Netherlands. In the Vondelpark it's allowed, but in Amsterdam city center for example it is not. Though police is usually very lenient. They won't bother you if you're just calmly drinking a beer in front of your house or something. It's mostly just to prevent hindrance from drunkards or groups of youths.
@JBird yes true and I also believe the law explicitly says you can't drink in public and be a nuisance. There are those signs that you sometimes see that completely forbids drinking though
What in the USA is called Football should be called HandEgg
American Rugby would be a better description.
@@gerardflynn7382 You're right in the way American Football actually developed from rugby but the other guy was obviously joking.That said I also think american football is very interesting in a historical and cultural kind of way. I think the whole focus on gaining yards, having these ever evolving frontlines in the game is really coherent with the US being in a constant state of war since the first european settlers pushed forth to the west. American football somehow is a quintessential symbol for the american idea of constant struggle on somekind of frontier. Illuminating stuff culturally and somewhat of an insight into a nations psyche. Espescially if you compare it to soccer(or actual football) which could be seen as a symbol for europes age old struggle of all these different regions, cities, nations and tribes substituting actual warfare with these highly regional "battles" and a sense of strong patriotism that couldn't be sustained after europes need to form a stronger peaceful bond after hundreds of years of infighting.
That is hilarious, however the word "FOOTBALL" is called so because the ball 8s a foot long
@@andymac900 ah thatâs interesting, I always thought it was because of the field goals. This is a way better reason. Thanks
@@gerardflynn7382 or rugby for jellybellies
From what I've heared about america: You can't walk places, you have to drive. Even if the distance is just 2-3 km (1 or 2 miles).
Some years ago I stayed with people in Manhattan Beach, LA. I went for a walk in the town and there was virtually nobody else on foot. Took a bus to see Disneyland and it was obvious that most of the other passengers were poor. It was all a bit dispiriting.
@@tonybennett4159 Usually only poor and elderly in the US take the bus, outside of big cities like NYC.
You can do what you want, eh.
Try getting medical treatment without fear of bankrupting yourself.
Try sending your kids to school without fearing for their safety
Try crossing a road when, how and where you like without fearing arrest.
Land of the `free` LMFAO
"But high taxes are theft, I'd much rather pay double the amount I'd pay in taxes in Europe for my medical insurance that will still make me pay for part of the bills regardless! Because that's true freedom!"
Also:
Try getting into a labor union without fearing being fired.
Try telling your manager you can't go to work because you feel awful without fearing being fired.
Try buying a suburban house without having to pay for HOAs (yet our taxes are the problem).
Try going to the suburbs and not feel sick of the copy-pasted homes lacking any personality and history (yet any social housing in Europe is automatically compared to Soviet apartments).
Try accidentally taking the wrong turn into someone's farm without getting shot with no previous warning.
Just being on a place and not being arrested for "loitering"
@@troublesometoaster4492 Look up the price for having a baby and the price for having a broken arm fixed in Denmark.. YouÂŽll find that it comes to 0,00 danish kroner :D I pay my 39% tax with pride and joy !
@@anubis9151 That's a thing???
âNever expect Americans to speak any other language than English.â And theâve butchered English really badly! When it comes to Geography and tourism for Americans, they donât even attempt to speak another language, so as tourists, theyâre hopeless at communicating. They expect everyone else to speak English.
Plus they think they invented English đ
@@101steel4 Yes they get confused about how well Brits speak 'American'.
@@101steel4 Theyâre surprised to discover English came from England! However Mr Webster made up his own dictionary, to make English easier for Americans. Mr Webster was a bit of a dumb dumb himself because he destroyed the etymology of words and eliminated many homonyms (tyre and tire have different meanings in English but not in the US, same with kerb and curb, different meanings but only one word for both in the US.) Theyâve also destroyed the proper use of adverbs! Theyâre almost non-existent in America, having been replaced by adjectives! YIKES!
@@Jeni10 I know all about Webster and his dictionary đ
Americans now believe that's the correct version of "English".
I've seen a few language videos where Americans use their flag to represent the English language too. The mind boggles.
I have never met a person from the US who was able to keep out of my personal space. Hands on shoulders, patting my back, insisting of standing at most a meter from ny face, etc. Seems like I was very unlucky in this sense.
One meter? As a spaniard, our "personal space" doesn't go beyond 30 or 40 centimetres, I'm afraid.
He lived in Italy he said, so he thinks Italians are "Normal" Europeans.
He obviously haven't been to Northern Europe. If I had gone to live in Finland instead, he would have talked about how distant and cold Europeans seemed. And how open Americans are etc.
@@BlackHoleSpain During the covid thing, there was a recommendation from the UN to try to maintain a two meter distance.
In northern Europe there was a Joke, saying "why would the UN try to bring us closer together".
And the Fins said they were "horrified at the Idea"
@@Aoderic Yeah, there was a meme about that last year. I guess you're not used to 4-million cities, as I answered in your other comment.
Our metropolitan urban area in Madrid is 6.5 million and spans to nearby provinces of Toledo and Guadalajara, and there's another 5 million in Barcelona and its surroundings.
@@BlackHoleSpain Ha ha, no I live in a town with 4000 people. But I've been to several big cities including, Barcelona and Madrid, I don't know though, how they are to live in on a daily basis.
Anyway, hasta luego amigo đ
Going into a pharmacy in Arizona and texas was wild tbh. So many restricted medicines that in Europe would need months of therapy before even being able to have them prescribed, just there on the shelves for anyone
You have never been on a train? đ± before covid I used to commute via train on a daily basis. I cannot imagine to never have been on a train, not even once at least. Unbelievable đź
Having only been to the US once in the early 1990s, aged about 15, I learnt that you can't cross the road. Basically, I needed to cross the street, saw a police car coming about 200m away slowly and no other traffic, so I walked across the street, sat on a wall, then like 30 seconds later the policeman pulls up and starts yelling at me that I would get myself killed and was lucky to be alive. And I'm like "what did I do? You were miles away. What? It's illegal to cross the street?" xxx
Which is because when the US started building (and selling) cars, the drivers killed too many pedestrians. So the big automobile companies lobbied to make it the pedestrians' fault. 'Jay' is an old US word, for 'fool'.
@@wessexdruid7598 And even today, the US doesn't see fit to modernise its laws and remove stupid ones like Jaywalking.
To hear that someone has never been on a train is completely incomprehensible to me German guy. Unbelievable :-D
I went the 20 km to school by train for 7 years.
Outside our north eastern corridor it's simply not practical.
Other languages:
There's also a chance that Americans will refer to English as "speaking American" and get confused when you tell them that they're speaking English and the English language came from England. I have seen Americans talking to people from England (my sister's in laws are English) and compliment them on their ability to speak American, then ask if they learnt it in school or if they had been to America before. Stunned silence followed when we all realised they weren't joking.
yikes.
when Europeans go to visit the US, we usually go there to see what we don't have in Europe.
That's why New York with it's skyscrapers is a popular place to go.
We don't really care to fly all the way over there to see a "lake", or hike in a forest, and we also have plenty of mountains here.
The only Natural thing to see would be Grand Canyon.
The Niagara falls as well. But that might be better from the Canadian side.
@@Divig Well I was thinking of Niagara. But then I've been to Victoria Falls in Zambia a few times, and compared to that, Niagara is nothing special.
Even then there's plenty of nice waterfalls in Europe.
The nicest I've seen is, Cascata delle Marmore in Italy. And Dettifoss in Iceland is very Impressive, though hard to get to.
@@Aoderic To be honest, the biggest reason to see the Niagara falls is to have seen an iconic place, not to see a waterfall.
@@Divig I guess so, it has some history to it. like those foolish people who went over it in barrels.
I guess I don't really get that viewpoint myself. I can't imagine myself saying "Sorry, don't want to see the Alps because we got the Rockies". I guess people have different things they want to see when visiting a country.
as an Italian, the places I have heard my compatriots to travel the most in the USA are: New York, Miami, California, Las Vegas, The big National parks like Yellowstone, Death Valley..
Honestly these are all worth it exept maybe los Vegas and Disney
I canât believe youâve never been on a train. Iâm from England and Iâve been on 8 this week alone đ
ugh.. lucky. I haven't been on a train for more than 10 years... the state of the railway system is deplorable in my country. And if the morons from Transports would invest in rehabilitating it, so many things would go soooo much better.. heck, they might even help food be cheaper... not to mention the traffic would lighten up and the tourists would also appreciate it.
England is relatively tiny. Outside the DC-Philly-NYC-Boston corridor train travel is simply not practical here.
When Americans ask; "How are you?" it is just a greeting. Don't tell them how you are.
i am trying to get used to it but most of the time i have an exstential crisis when asked how am i and i freze for some good few seconds before reminding myself to just say "fine, you?" because in my country when someone asks how you are it is a pretty intimate question, we just ask how our day was or what we had been up to lately, these feel less personal or connected to our emotion side, which is a more private matter.
Here in The Netherlands you have stores what we would call a 'drogist' (spells a bit like drug-ist), such as Kruitvat, Etos and D.A. They focus on selling over the counter medicine and personal hygene stuff, health applications and so on, and then also sell toys and small useable stuff like candy, umbrellas and cheap slippers. However, for prescription drugs you'll need to visit a real farmacy, what we would call an 'apotheek'. They are dedicated to medicine and health appliences only.
How funny would that be if someone in the U.S. just opened up a restaurant with the motto, "you don't need to tip like usual, because we actually pay our employees fair"
There is/are restaurants that do this - I saw one that had a sign "WE DO NOT ALLOW TIPPING" because they pay a decent wage. What a concept!
@@LythaWausW Actually crazy, isn't it?
Wouldn't the tax man assume you receive tips and charge you tax on them?
@@Tube0852 well you could just show them that there are no tips xD
Hey clown.....in Europe you STILL pay the employee, because the prices on the menu are jacked up to cover their wage. Duhhhhh.
Tbh I don't really get the "we don't need to speak another language" argument. Because going by that argument, people from other countries could also decide to just learn english and no other foreign languages. In reality though, most people I know speak at least three languages.
In Italy we learn English from first grade until the end of the school path around the age of 19, if you go to University you have to be able to speak English at least on a B2 level. From 6th grade to 8th grade you have to study another UE language, usually it's French, but it could be also Spanish or German. Then if you decide to choose a path in High school centred on the languages you have to learn a third language.
For native English speakers there is a logic to the âdonât need to speak another languageâ.
For example, if I learn German that is useful if I visit Germany but has limited use in Italy. Now most Germans and Italians are pretty good speakers of English so I have a pretty good chance of being able to communicate in English in both countries. Now, I might want to learn a few words and phrases out of politeness and respect but itâs not essential.
Itâs the ubiquity of English that makes it the foreign language most people choose to learn.
Another example. I used to work with a Polish guy and a Romanian guy. I canât speak Polish or Romanian. The Romanian couldnât speak Polish and the Pole couldnât speak Romanian. But we could all speak English. It allowed them to communicate with each other no problemâŠ
I can't imagine never having been on a train.
I went to New York and Boston but I would like to go to the places that guy lists. Surely Europeans go to Disney in Paris. I dont know anybody who went to USA for Disney!
For one thing Disney on Florida has the sunshine, which Paris only gets now and then. Also Disney Florida has been a huge destination for Europeans for 50+ years and Paris, well, not so much.
pharmacies in europe tend to be a small store, usually it's like a counter near the door, some stuff on display that's for sale, and then most of the store is the back where they store meds. the stuff that you don't need a prescription for you might be able to find it in some grocery stores, but a lot of them don't bother carrying that stuff because people are just used to going to the pharmacy to pick it up. and if it's something that requires a prescription, you need a pharmacist to go through the prescription to check their database so they can see if the info checks out and then they go in the back and get you a box of the meds. stores aren't gonna bother having a pharmacist on site just to sell meds alongside the chips, and pharmacies just aren't known for selling non medical items
Sounds like Germany:
Rows of giant cabinets with labeled drawers in the back. And the front is filled is prescription free commonly needed stuff that has very good margins.
Which they also usually carry a way cheaper version of they will also happily sell to you but you need to ask for it specifically because they are not going to turn down the free money from people who don't ask. Just business common sense. The only situations where they might bring up the cheaper stuff by themselves is if you already look incredible poor or say you can't afford the overpriced stuff. And in the cases where it applies, like expired patents: They will also confirm that it's literally the exact same stuff.
Well active ingredient that is, the process of pill making always includes padding material. Which might be everything that does not do much, often starch or sugar. Might be the same, might not be. But only matters with very rare and specific allergies for the most part.
@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece At least here in Finland I believe pharmacies are obliged to tell of cheaper variants (which you can choose) of prescription medication if you come with a specific prescription. This is to reduce doctors and pharmaceutical companies forming too snuggly relationships at the cost of the patient.
Actually in my country, pharmacies also sell some organic expensive cosmetics, hygiene products (some brands of toothpaste, mouthwash, tooth brushes, special shampoos and soaps, tampons and pads, etc.) baby stuff like formula, bibs, bottles and binkies (LOL say that 5 times fast), and in some rare cases, types of candy... buuut, not regular candy; it's anti nausea lollies, chocolate for people with dietary restrictions, some stuff that has vitamin and mineral complexes... like in cereals or gummies, ooh and teas... but those can be considered medicinal too, to an extent. Also, one of the pharmacies in my town actually has a lab in the back, where they prepare special solutions, like stuff prescribed by a dermatologist.
Roger. I am European without driving license. Will need a driver to visit US.
Depends on where you go. NYC has decent public transport in and around the city. Orlando has good public transport for the theme parks and local shops and sites. And Orlando also has good footpaths/sidewalks making walking to some places easy (though it can be quite a distance to some places). Basically Cities should be ok to get around without a car but anywhere else, you'll need one.
For a country that prides itself on freedom, why are the Police so authoritarian?
The freedom to suppress people is the one freedom they value the most...
To enforce the freedom!!!! đ€Ł
Hi Ryan, I'd like to correct the original video in one aspect: He said that people in Italy have no sense of personal space. Everyone has a sense of personal space, it's just different from culture to culture. The US is up there with the cultures who need most personal space. As a European I have a different/lower need there, but my need for personal space was violated in China, because their sense for personal space is also different from mine/lower than mine.
I am Italian and that happened to me with Brazilians: I though they were looking for a fight cause they literally arrive in your face! đ
in some parts of China 'personal' simply does not exist
what I'm curious about as a european:
isn't it a total waste of expertise to let people who studied many years at universities to become a pharmacist sell chips?
or are there different counters for meds and other stuff?
or is there no professional advice for meds you can buy without a prescription?
do you even need a prescription for certain drugs?
from what I remember there is a separate counter for the prescription stuff where professionals have to get the meds from the back (similar to Europe). But there are a lot of non-prescription drugs that are just sitting on shelves for you to pick up yourself like a normal supermarket. This includes pain meds like Ibuprofen - as in a jar of 500 pills at 200mg strength...
The Pharmacies here are probably about the size of a supermarket in much of Europe. (Where supermarkets here are huge. Our European exchange students always comment on how big those are. ) There will be a pharmacy section with a bunch of pharmacists doing there thing, and the rest of the pharmacy is aisles with many products (not just chips, but food, toys, lots and lots of beauty products, all the regular over the counter medicines not needing a pharmacist, photo area, etc) Those have a separate check-out area from the pharmacy area. Interestingly, some of the supermarkets now have pharmacies in it.
The most worrying are those countries where you can buy antibiotics without prescription, meaning that there is a greater risk of bugs developing immunity and becoming super-bugs.
@@tonybennett4159 That is certainly a problem. And not just for people, too much agriculture use antibiotics to keep their herds healthy.
yes, I would put it this way: keep them "healthy"
25% tipping? that is just silly. You are supposed to pay a quarter of the waiters wage?!
How are consumers supposed to know waiters full wages to determine what's the quarter amount?! Silly indeed.
More like over 70% of their wage. That's the point.
Wake up. Guess what. In Europe and other places the customer is obviously also "paying the waitstaff wages." Duh. That's why your food is higher priced to begin with.
@@gemoftheocean umm .. yea, that is the business model of a restaurant. Restaurants are part of the "service sector industry".
But if you cannot comprehend the difference between a waitress getting a living wage vs. a waitress being dependent on donations - i really do not think there is a way to paint you a clearer picture.
As for food prices - European food is not more expensive than US food. I am fairly sure it is actually cheaper.
@@gemoftheocean "waitstaff"? I will assume you meant waiters. Waiters wages are not the consumer's responsibility though but by their bosses who run the finances. The outdated American tipping culture should be banned. It is not fit for purpose in modern society!
English is not an official second language in most other countries. A lot of people in bigger cities are able to speak it, cause they have to for work but i doesn't make it a second language. In general there are more people who speak broken english than good english.
The whole of the US, for example đ
You donât necessarily learn a language to move to a country where that language is spoken. You can do it because you want to or because it is a skill that can allow you to get better opportunities: jobs or more income. In my opinion, everybody should learn languages cause you grow a lot as a human being by being able to communicate in another language: you end up learning about their culture and that enriches you as a person and makes you more open minded.
Why would I want to be "Open Minded"?
â@@friedrichhayek4862 uhm, what?
@@sumbunny2009 That why should I be interessed in being "Open minded"?
@@friedrichhayek4862 literally, why wouldn't you want to be smarter and look at something from more than one perspective lmao?
@@sumbunny2009 Why being "Open minded" would make me smarter? Why I would have to be open minded to seen things from another perspective? Why I would want to see things from other perpective? For example there is only one perspective against infantcide. infantcide is wrong.
Just for info, in case you might visit Brazil. You cant get by in Brazil with english. Maybe 5-15% ppl are able to talk some english, but the rest speaks portuguese, which is their official language, even younger generations.
Having visited Brazil, I can confirm what you say. Many of the hotels had one person with English but otherwise you need a phrase book to help you out.
In most of the European countries (there are some exceptions: UK, Poland, and maybe few more countries) there are strict regulations when it comes to the sale of the drugs/ medications. They can only be sold at the authorised store- pharmacy, by qualified and licenced staff. Even the non-prescription drugs can only be purchased there. Not in the supermarket, not at the gas station,... Only at the pharmacy.
I guess our governments really like to control the sale of the drugs.đ€
It's really different in the USA. Their pharmacy companies like to control the government instead, considering how healthcare is done in there.
Same in Australia! đ
Poland has the same regulations as well. Where did you get the idea we do not? Pharmacies have to have a licenced pharmacist working at the counter in order to sell drugs. The only thing that you can buy elsewhere are common painkillers. Everything else is pharmacy only.
@@dzejrid Yes, in Australia also simple paracetamol product pack sizes are now being restricted to prevent overdoses! Drugs are still drugs, not food or sweets! đ€đ
Poland has the same regualtions as the rest of the EU countries or even harsher. In Poland you have to have master's degree in pharmacy.
You could not pay me enough to visit anything Disney.
I wouldn't tip a penny, no one should, the staff should get paid properly. You people just perpetuate the problem. Tax on goods at the till, pay the price on the t icket and walk, if you all did it, they would have to change such a stupid idea.
Every US county has a different tax rate so the manufacturer would have to make a sale tag with every counties tax rate.
@@marydavis5234 No, there should be one rate of tax set at the Federal level and nothing else. It works everywhere else in the world and the size of the US makes no difference as there are larger countries where it works.
Ryan, you base your pharmacy opinion on a economic liberal base, in Europe, pharmacy stores are under a specific law more based on public health than in a pure economic base. I can't purchase drugs freely here, only under medical prescription. At least in Spain only those who studied pharmacy career in thhe university can open a pharmacy store. I think maybe that's in one of the points for which we see pharmacy stores so differently from Europe to US
About the language thing, I really get where you are coming from.
We had to pick a third language (english is second) at age 12 and although I have studied german for 6 years, since I never had to use it in my daily life I can hardly remember anything.
The people who can speak multiple languages almost always *uses* those languages.
i mean in europe a lot of times we tend to learn english as a second because it's an international language, and we're forced to learn at least one other language in our teens, and not really for a good reason. in portugal, we're forced to learn french from 7th to 9th grade. considering we're a coastal nation that only borders spain, it'd probably make more sense to teach spanish rather than french. i speak 3 languages, but i rarely speak spanish, it's more a matter of i understand the language if i see it on tv(although it can be a struggle sometimes because american spanish sounds different to european spanish)
@@Ray_Vun They just assume you can understand spanish, no?
In Denmark they don't teach swedish, because it's already common sense to understand given the pace being spoken at is a bit slower.
I know it's not the same with Port/Spanish, but they are still close and I've also heard even spanish people struggle with some american spanish
@@mattemathias3242 the issue is while it's fairly easy for portuguese people to understand spanish, spanish people actually have a hard time understanding us. so if we learned spanish, we could much more easily communicate with them.
i've had spanish speaking coworkers, usually immigrants from south america, and most people didn't speak to them in spanish, because they didn't know spanish other than a few words. so any conversation was just them repeating themselves to each other and gesticulating a lot until the other understood it
@@Ray_Vun Yeah, it's true. We spaniards generally do *NOT* understand spoken Portuguese. Written one, on the other hand, is quite understandable. That's because Portuguese language ended up having quite different phonemes for their letters. However, spoken Italian is pretty understandable because of that, unless they choose to use some obscure Latin roots not present in our language. Italian has 250,000 words and Spanish only 95,000...
True...I was in Lisbon last summer. People talked to me in Portuguese....But I told them....English ...please ....đ
Whats surprising in the States is that (aside from their weird tipping culture) that queues to pay at checkouts, are not necessarily the last part of shopping but sometimes theres another unnecessary queue to leave upon receipts checks at exits!! Bizzare and pointless! đ€Š
You are not required by law to show your receipt in the US unless you belong to a club such as Costco. They will demand it and maybe even call the police but then you can sue them for false detainment. and perhaps assault.
Imagine having to talk to the cops or having to sue the store just to leave without being bothered. "Land of the free"... đ€Š
@@RumoSenpai And if you do try to leave without talking to the police you risk getting shot although it does appear to be more likely if you are not white. I say this as a white person.
âItâs not the shape of a ball and you donât often kick it with your feetâ. âAh, you mean a football?â
There are like 5 big and 15 small grocery shops on my 30 minutes way to work by public transport. I would never thought that I need grocery in pharma.
If you live in bigger city, atleast here in Czech Republic, you will always have atleast small shop like 5-10 minutes away from you by foot.
Well before I turned 18 Iâd already lived on three continents. One thing Iâve carried away from being an expatriate is that when youâre a guest in another country, regardless of whether itâs long-term (living there) or short-term, there are certain subjects you should avoid when in a conversation with people from that country unless you know them very, very well. Religion, public figures and politics are among those. Stick to safe subjects:
Which places do you think I should visit?
Food (especially favourites the other person might have).
What should I take home from your country?
I went to X location and loved it. Is there a location you particularly like?
Weather
Etc.
Basic common sense, really.
Amen. Yours is the best comment here.
My partner is from Puerto Rico and when he walked in the pharmacy and the first thibggs we saw was a fridge filled with chicken, diapers next to kerosine and such my brain couldn't compute. Wild to me as a person from Europe
That was very interesting from a German/European perspective. I like learning foreign languages. I've never been to the U.S. But I am learning Lakota. Hope to use it someday. đ
You deserve Heaven. I'm a minority in my country, and seeing other languages being studied rather than only famous ones makes my heart melt
There is a big Disney park near Paris. Why would an european go to the US to go visit Disney World beats me!!!
Cause it's not an exact copy, and every one is different.
@@holger_p It's much warmer in Florida; they've been established for 50+ years and there are many other parks and entertainments in one area. Beats Paris across the board really.
The pharmacy thing is likely that way cuz in Europe you go to dedicated stores that have a big selection of goods and expertise e.g. bakeries, toy stores or pharmacies, rather than aiming for "one stop" shops that offer many things but arent really specialist at their thing
When he came to "Europe" was he respectful and called his sport "hand egg" because I can only name "the fridge" who play hand egg in America and that was the 80s and he's talking about a current European player so seems Americans know more about European football than we do hand egg đ€đđimo
Take your term "hand egg" and shove it sideways. This means war.
American football = Rugby, but for people who need a 2 minute break every 30 seconds, and need to feel padded so they don't break a nail.
Yep.
Yeah youâre right in europe (Iâm from Germany) foreign languages gets much more attention in school. I, for example finish right now, what would be called high school in the US. That takes about 13 years and we start learning english after the second year and a second foreign language after the 5th year in school. That comes to a total of 11 years of englisch lessons and another eight years of lessons about another foreign Language ( typikly spanish or franz)
Iâve only got a D in englisch so I apologise for the stroke youâve got, while reading this.
No worries your English is fine.
You guys learn a foreign language just for two years???
I mean, I'm a bit older, but even at my school time, we've to learn the first foreign language at the age of twelve. So at least 4 - 6 years. Nowadays they start at the age of 9!
But what I really like, I heart that you can also choose sign language. This is not a possibilty over here, but it would break down the barriers for so many people. I like that.
Greetings from Berlin đ
Well I donât HAVE to speak English, I never used it outside of vacation in foreign countries⊠but itâs nice to speak at least one foreign language. There are thousands of german channels, actually there is no need for me to watch an American. But if I didn't speak English, I would have missed the chance to know your channel.
In Belgium, a pharmacist is a highly educated person, who sells products that have a serious impact on the client's health. They know as much about medicine as doctors do.
They advise their customers which medicine to use for a variety of problems. They are basically doctors for non-prescription drugs.
Selling anything else than medicine is a waste of their time.
Pharmacists sometimes know more about medicine (not necessarily the practice, but the medication) than doctors... I saw it first hand, when a dr prescribed something with really bad side effects, or bad interactions with other meds, and the pharmacist caught it and was very clear about the dos and don'ts of the prescribed things.
Pharmacies here are heavily regulated here, and the staff is highly educated. From an economic perspective, it doesn't make sense to pay pharmacists to sell chips and stuff like that. Pharmacies can't compete with general stores due to the wage difference. It would be like paying a doctor to clean the hospital.
If you REALLY like your personal space, visit Norway!! :D
Public drinking is not what I am looking for on vacation. I can do that at home all the time.
Maybe I would even avoid those places because I donât want to run into people who canât handle the situation. And even worse carry guns. đł
The point about language is kind of the wrong way to look at it in my opinion. I think learning a language allows you a different way to look at the world, to better understand other cultures, and it really tones down any potential feelings off "my people do it the right way, strangers are weird". But if you learn a language just to be abble to order at a restaurant when on vacation, yeah to an english speaker that's not that usefull.
No doubt thereâs a ton of benefits to learning a language but for the effort and time it takes up its simply not worth it for most people
Selling medicines is a highly regulated business in Spain. Only collegiated phamacists are allowed to open a pharmacy, and you need to disburse 100K⏠- 300K⏠for the license, depending on the density of the region. You also need college merits, many years of experience as a pharmacy assistant, and get hold of big enough premises to obtain a license. Anyway in big cities you can find a pharmacy every 250 metres (minimum distance allowed, it's already saturated), so it's not a big deal to find one anyway.
I would be more likely to go to places in America to ride my mountain bike. What I would look for is the riding spots that have the least bears. As someone from the UK we haven't had wild bears for a while.
Funny thing: In Germany a small general store is called "Drogerie" (drug store) , although you won't find many drugs there.
Those you get at the "Apotheke" (pharmacy), especially the ones that need a prescription.
in portugal a drogaria is where you get building supplies, like power tools, nails, hammers, cement, etc. while farmĂĄcia is for meds. i've heard brits call pharmacies the chemist but not sure if that's a common thing or like an old person term. weird that americans just went "meds are drugs, it's a store, so it's a drug store"
I have never found a German "Drogerie" to be a "general store". The latter sells a bit of everything and that includes fresh food. A German "Drogerie" sells mainly cosmetics, hair, body and dental care products, naturopathy products, unfortunately also homeopathics, but only a few food products and most of them are just snacks, muesli, sweets, bars and protein products for fitness nutrition. But the share of edible products is very small compared to the non-edible ones.
We have been to America twice both times for 5 weeks we travelled all over loved every minute †my only complaint you can't get a good cuppa tea â lol đŹđ§
As a Brit it never ceases to amaze me at how unimaginative we can be : Disney, Las Vegas and NY for the shopping (why, when there are shops in Paris and London????) and that seems to be all for many people. I've certainly been to places like New York and San Francisco (Los Angeles was forgettable), but there is so much to see that is unique in the US. I must have been to 15 or 16 states and seen the wonders of Crater Lake, Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon, Monument Valley, Yellowstone etc etc. These are wonderful highlights I'll never forget.
NYC is at least sensibly traversable by foot and public transport. For great many Europeans that's a plus.
I absolutely loathe places where one is expected to drive around for hours, and almost all of the US is just that. It may be restricting my exposure to the world, but if I want to go to a vacation, I pick spots where I can use reliable public transport, taxi, or at least hire a personal guide/driver for a week without unbearable expense when there's more distance to cover.
That doesn't mean some of those nature parks etc. wouldn't be attractive as an idea, it's just that many of them are too much hassle for a vacation, especially if one has to deal with outright off-putting curiosities of United States.
Something to consider, this is number of native speakers by language (according to Wikipedia):
Mandarin Chinese (incl. Standard Chinese, but excl. other varieties) 939 million native speakers
Spanish 485 million native speakers
English 380 million native speakers
Hindi (excl. Urdu, and other languages) 345 million native speakers
Portuguese 236 million native speakers
So there are actually more native speakers of Spanish than English. Of course, if you would include people who can speak the language fluently as a second language, the English might be first, but still.
English is now the most spoken language worldwide, just ahead of Mandarin. English is also the trade language of the world, so is gradually getting into everyone's vocabulary.
07:09 Wtf, if it's true, I am flabbergasted with this fact and a little afraid :) Because my life depends on public transport. It's so cool and so reliable in the UK (besides the strike days, but you know about them far ahead)... I just can't imagine a life without pub transport. I do have skate, rollerblades and BMX, but I can't cover the distance of more than 20 km (including the way back) using them! Whatta hell!!!
It is mostly true. There are exceptions, like he said, where there is really good public transportation. Mostly in certain cities. But outside that, most people own a car and can get around on their own. If something is too far, and you don't have a car, most people will use things like Uber or a cab if there is no public transport (it's why it got popular here to start with). You do have to check where you are though to find if public transport is there and reliable.
Yes, I've only been to New York. And I know there's a million other things worth visiting in the US but I just prefer traveling to a well defined destination, stay there and explore it thoroughly than trying to visit a 30 far away places in 10 days so you're only able to quickly look at it and drive away again.
10:04 thatâs actually kinda sad. I was required to learn 2 foreign languages in school. I speak German and English and can understand French and Japanese on a conversational level.
If you donât want tourists to expect you to speak anything else than English with you, you also shouldnât expect them to speak English to you in their country.
Man, I love your honesty and your modesty, america has such great naturalistic places, the USA can be great too! kudos by an italian guy
Nobody also *needs* to speak a foreign language in Europe as mostly everyone in northern and western Europe do speak English.
Europeans just know 3-4 languages through exposure because most places either have multiple official languages, or a significant minority speaking something else. Or they are the minority in a neighbouring country. You just catch it by being immersed in it.
Not some Brits. I got really ashamed when visiting European countries & witnessing other Brits shouting at waiters etc for not speaking English. I'm not fluent in any other languages but I do try to learn bits to get by. So I carry phrase books for things I don't know. I've even tried to translate for the benefit of the poor person being berated.
Didn't know it was called European football considering football is played world wide....
I am with you on visiting one place. I've been to Italy sure. But if we limit to being there once then I would then say "I've been to Rome". Yeah, we spent a week there there was more than enough to see just in that one place. On tipping for me it's 10% that's normal. So I would definitely not go over 15% no matter how nice the server was.
I expect 'Americans' to primarily speak either English or Spanish. That is because there is no 'official' language in the USA, and while the majority may speak English, for a significant part of the population of the USA, Spanish is their native language.
another big difference between american and european pharmacies seems to be the way meds are sold. you guys seem to put your medication in small orange plastic containers that look like the stuff used to pee in for medical exams. we just get handed the box the pills come in
Yeah, those orange bottles are so strange. Do anyone know what's the idea behind using them? Producer's package seems to be way better, safer and cleaner.
@@trirain146 so a quick googling tells me they got 2 reasons for it. the orange bottle is because it protects the pills from being hit by light(especially sunlight), which would also work if they just kept them in the original packaging. but the other reason is apparently the lid. the lids have child proofing. it's those lids that you need to push down and then twist in order to unscrew them. and i guess that's their solution to kids accidentally eating pills that might look like candy.
to me the solution would be for people to keep their medication in places kids can't reach, but i guess that's too much work for americans
@@trirain146 meds in the US do not come in containers in the right amount , so it needs to be counted out for every prescription and it is in White bottles,
@@marydavis5234 In Europe - as far as I know, you get usually boxes from cca 10 pills to several hundred of them, depends on the meds, there are antibiotics which have only 3 tablets for the course of treatment. The general consensus seems to be that the less human interaction with the "naked" pills the better. Preferably only the final recipient will touch them and open the blister packaging. Pill bottles are usually only for some of the vitamins of OTC painkillers.
Strange that he starts off by saying the USA is a diverse country but then goes on to state that no cultural differences will be tolerated.
That's basically what I heard from this too.
Because the diversity claim is a religious statement, not the statement of a fact.
something you can't do in america either is buy a kinder surprise egg
We have kinder joys in the US, which is made in the US,
@@marydavis5234 that is not the same. you'll never know the joy of trying to perfectly split the egg in half to eat it
Food isn't allowed to be sold with inedible objects inside of it. The U.S. Government was so nice in preventing Kinder from being sued into bankruptcy.
In Poland to open and operate a pharmacy you need a degree, and you need to employ people with degrees. It's because some meds (especially dermatological, like creams and lotions) are MADE, custom made for specific person and their needs in the pharmacy. Also pharmaceuts (or whatever It's called - the people with the degree) can, in some circumstances, prescribe you something. They are also first responders, if the need arises, they give vaccines, take care of out of date medications and some other stuff. They are busy enough, ain't got no time to sell potatoes on the side.
Guess what, The pharmacists in US stores don't check out chips or other stuff either. OTHER people do the checking out.
Honestly Disneyworld is kind of safe, i dont want someone to shoot me in the head with his/hers/its new gun from Walmart for trespassing /*insert random bullshit*/ duh
I prefer Universal. edit: Disney is aimed more at young kids and families too.