What's the Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said to You (American Reaction) | Part 3
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As an American I am well aware of how ignorant we are of other countries and their culture. Today I am back to once again see and cringe at some of the dumbest things Americans have ever said to other people. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I was once told by an American girl in London that my English is "almost as good" as hers. I'm an Englishman. I've lived in England my whole life, we invented the language!
Did you tell her this? If so, I'd love to know her reaction!
No, you didn't. English is an amalgamation of languages that mixed thanks to immigration and military conquest. Scotland uses Scots, England uses English. Both have Latin, Saxon/Norman and Norn origins.
@@Mark-HaddowAnd yet Americans think they invented it and speak it better,nope.
@@markaitcheson3212
Sure, they also believe they created Apple Pie, and invented the light bulb. They have few things to brag about; so it's polite to give them their misconceptions.
@@Mark-HaddowJFC! All he's saying is that English originated from the United Kingdom. Can you at least agree on that, you uneducated waffle?
I've heard of Native Americans being told "Go back to your own country." On one occasion being told they were in America and should learn to speak English. The reply was "I was speaking Navajo and if you want to speak English you should go back to England!"
Good one, the audacity to tell that to the real owners who stolen to them 😮
You will never hear that in México 😊 in fact it is a fascinating thing hear other language 🎉
One of these has exactly that same story, from a girl in a jingle dress. The caption said, “where am I supposed to go - India???”😂
To be fair, their tribe stole the land too
Careful, even if we ignore the yanks that think they invented English, as the comments on this video show there are yanks that think the English didn't invent English.
@@toddhellyar4167 As they would have said, how can anyone own the Earth?
Close to 30 years ago in Oslo, Norway, I met this guy from New Albany, Indiana. He was complaining about the lack of whiteness in USA. He was like "African Americans should go to Africa, Asians to Asia" and so on. America for Americans...
I said "And then you have to move to Europe". He said "What?". I said "You don't have a single drop of American blood in your body. You are totally European, so where are you going to live?
He left.
As a norwegian to a norwegian (i assume you are, but could be wrong) thank you for that
@@koschmx One thing is culture, the other is genes. Since the guy complaining was talking about genes, the other simply turned his argument back on him.
You feeling foreign in your new country and/or treated as such might be more a question of integration, not wanting to diminish how hard that can be. Like, how well do you speak the new language and how much of the new countries culture have you adopted into yours?
I dont understand Europeans either, and i am AN EUROPEAN, but I was born in one country with parents from the other. You need to understand that Europeans, just like any other groups of people, from my experience, will judge you based off of what you look like and not what you are. This world has double standards and expectations, and as soon as you don't fall into what they see you as, you are pushed aside.
There is a at least 2% chance for someone to guess your nationality right and treat you with respect (unless you fulfill certain stereotypes). Europeans, US-Americans, Latinos, Africans and Asians have all treated me in the way they expect me to be from, and when it becomes clear where I am actually from, it changes.
Also regarding "how is it 0% American because of the indigenous people": American is not a race, it is an ethnicity built upon (roughly) British culture, and when talking about people returning to where they are from, Americans should TECHNICALLY return to England, as the majority of them stem from early pilgrims.
I apologise for how you feel as an American in Europe, no one deserves to feel that way, but stereotypes will always be the easiest option for people to use. @@koschmx
@@koschmx That sound indeed strange and I can not begin to guess, what's up with that behaviour. (Other than people wanting to practice their English on you.) As an Austrian I had this happen to me once in Prague, where I asked something in English and got an answer in German. I was like " Woah, I must have more of an accent than I realised." And I confess, I was a little miffed.
Jedenfalls hoffe ich, dass Du einen privaten Kreis von Leuten hast, wo man sich nicht auf die Herkunft reduziert, sondern sich gegenseitig einfach als Mensch schätzt. 🙂
P.S. Das Buch von CZcamsrin Dana Newman "You go me on the cookie" fällt mir ein, was zu Deinen Erlebnissen passen könnte. Oder der Channel von Benjamin Antoine.
@@koschmx Immerhin! Vielleicht findest Du noch einen Verein oder so, um noch einen weiteren Freundeskreis aufzubauen und auch außer der christlichen Gemeinschaft nette Bekanntschaften zu schließen. Ein Chor, Schachclub, Urban Sketchers (ganz unverbindlich), etc. oder irgendwo ehrenamtlich helfen vielleicht.
Ich wünsche Dir jedenfalls, dass Du weiter gut ankommst im neuen Land und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr.
Oh, Tyler! "Where did we go so wrong in our American education?" you ask - after having casually told us that the Sun moves round the Earth.............
You noticed that too eh?? (Canadian here eh!) 😂😂
YES..I came here to say that also! .😅😅😅 To put it kindly, he's blissfully insightless.
America has an indoctrination system. A lot of the world has an education system.
Yes, that was priceless🤣
Tyler, please reeducate yourself, go to any search engine and look up Copernicus and his discoveries.
A friend who is a black English lady once told me an anecdote about when she visited NYC whilst in Uni. A white girl at a club asked her where she was from, she replied London England then the white girl said that "she didn't know they had African Americans in the UK"
That's how bad it is 😢 they don't know black people can be English
Well that and that she called her an African American. Like... shes not American though 😅
Wow unbelievable.
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@@justsomebody79 yeah that's what I meant that they cant be British English. So delusional👍
I'm from Denmark. I've been asked by an American tourist if I could tell him about our Viking reservations. He wanted to compare how we treat our natives, to how the US treat theirs.
In the US I ran into a group of people (all different peels on their flesh, btw) that called me a dumb coloniser.
Well, I've never colonised anything.
They proceeded to lecture me about how we treat our natives and that we probably don't learn about that in school, but "trust us", we Europeans certainly treat our natives like shit.
Yeah...I mean, you could argue that in some cases, but that's not what they meant, I suspect.
Lol really 😲 my god 🤦
Roflol.
Nonononono😂😂😂😂
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‘Where did we go wrong’~Tyler, that is what the rest of the world has been asking for years.
Since 1901. The asking has been continuing since then.
It's all the Englishmens fault. They didn't properly handle their colony. Or the Frenchs? They sponsored the 'muricans. Hell, I think it was this dude with his fucking boat that couldn't find India.
Was listening to two ladies doing a reaction video subject "how to drive quickly on tiny English roads" as the guy was driving and explaining how to do this both ladies were correcting him how they do it better! An English driving instructor on English roads but they're better hilarious
There are 65 countries that gained independence from Great Britain. The US Independence Day isn’t even a blip on the historical radar for us
And wherever they go they talk about "the civil war" as if the term refers to the exact same conflict no matter where in the world you are, failing to realise that most countries have had their own civil wars that can be and often are referred to locally as "the civil war". Many countries in their long histories even have multiple wars that the term could mean. But to Americans the world has had only one war can be called "the civil war".
The same applies to "independence day". So many countries have their own independence day as every country has been conquered or colonised by other nations, so obviously many have their own independence days. But as far as Americans believe the whole world uses the term to mean the same thing so will use the term when talking to a non American assuming that everyone has the same meaning
So true 🤣
@@HarleyHerbertduuuude I remember whatching a buzzfeed video about people with PTSD and how they got it andbthere was a person talking about the *armenian* civil war in the 90s...
This american mf said "That girl story at (minute) sounds fake because she would've been over 200 years by now :/"
Bro thought that she meant the american civil war 😭💀
I believe that the English call it The Lucky Escape.
@@gerardflynn7382 i heard it is called "Good Riddance Day" 🤣🤣🤣
I met some Americans in a bar in Whistler, Canada. The first guy said "where you guys from? " I said "England, Manchester" he shouted across the bar to his friends "hey Brad! Come over here! These guys are from London!"
I said "no we aren't" he said "what?! You just said you were from England"
They literally think England and London are interchangeable.
You could have confused him more by pretending you think he's from London, Ontario. "But you're Canadian, right? So you're from London."
yea they also think the very same when it comes to brazil-rio de janeiro
Americans:
London = England = UK/Britain
Should have told him you were a Mancunian that would have buggered him up
Try telling someone like that that you're from any Caribbean island.
An American visiting Ireland chastised me for calling someone black. He said “You mean African American”. I just said he’s not from either Africa or America, he’s from Galway. The sudden “Doh!” moment was something to behold as he realised his mistake.
Where I live there are very few African Americans but a sizeable population of African migrants - some years back I was out with a Kenyan co-worker of mine having lunch when this American dude walks in and starts pestering my friend about what state he's from, "I'm from Kenya" No what state ARE YOU FROM.... "I'm from Nyanza Province, we don't call them states in Kenya" NO WHAT STATE IN AMERICA ARE YOU FROM "I'm not from America I'm from Kenya, I've never lived in the US, I've never even been to the US"...took the guy a few seconds for that to sink in ...Oh... OK
Holidaying in America in 1979 we filled up with petrol at a shack with one pump somewhere fairly rural. The guy who was filling us up asked where we were from due to our accent. We said "England". He said "Oh, I don't know where that is, is that down South?" We said "No, it's the other side of the Atlantic". He said "The other side of WHAT?". We said "never mind...."
Did he play a banjo?
Had exactly that with an American in Maine who didn't know Germany isn't a part of the US.
@@crowkraehenfrau2604
"Germany isn't a part of the US"
I wonder if that's the _same_ American (I'm NOT making this up) who thought that _England_ was in Germany? I wonder what our friendly ignoramuses feel about the Second World War: it must be immensely confusing to them!
Yanks never did geography at school obviously.
I’m from Scotland, and was once asked where in England is that.
Probably the biggest insult to a Scotsman!
William Wallace! 💪
and to the English . . .
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i got ask why i speak English, in the USA...
my answer been, i got free education...
Are u guys all a bunch of drunks? Asking for a friend
I'm Dutch. One time during summer, my sister and I were in Amsterdam (yes, there's actually more to our country than just Amsterdam), when an American couple asked us for help. He shoved a map and a folder underneath our noses, saying: "We've been looking for an hour and a half, now where's the ff-ing mermaid?"
It took us a long while to explainto him that he wasn't just in the wrong ciry, he was inthe wrong country. FYI, The Netherlands and Denmark are NOT the same country. 😂
After i read 'mermaid' i said out loud ''please don't tell me they thought Copenhagen was in the Netherlands, please''
And yet... 😂
@@golden_leader9227And yet here we all are!
@@golden_leader9227 Yep, that was my immediate thought too. xD
I had an American ask me the price of something in a shop in England.
When i said 30 pounds. She replied "you mean dollars"?🙄
😂😂🤦♀️
They are so stupid.
So dumb
I worked as a waitress in a hotel in England. I had 2 American woman at my table who tipped me 20 dollars.
God they are thick.
Im irish . My husband and I went to New York for our honeymoon 8 years ago . After we settled in our hotel , we went out to explore, we stood in the middle of times square amazed at the bill boards and lights exclaiming how different it was from home....... suddenly, a man asked me where we were from , i told him we were from Ireland 🇮🇪 and he said ..... wait for it ........" WOW, it must be very strange to see , since ye have no electricity there" 😮
@adeledoyle667 😆
Ireland has had electricity since 1963.
Ireland built a hydroelectric dam in Ardnacrusha in 1925. The Irish government spent 20% of the GDP for this project. Siemens constructed it. The experience gained from this project led to the construction of the Hoover Dam in the USA. The ESB began the electrification of Ireland (Free State and Republic) in 1929.
I once heard an American lady say to her husband "why do Irish people have cream on their beer?" 🤦 And there's still no emoji for Guinness!
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So sad, but so true. I'm from Spain (a real european country, nowhere near Mexico, lol). A few years back I met an American girl from California who was amazed by my pronunciation and my accent (British accent). She couldn't believe someone from Mexico (I told her like 10 times I was not from Mexico) could speak English nearly as well as she could (I started studying English when I was like 3 years old 😢, so by that time I had been speaking English for close to 35 years). I spent about half an hour trying to make her understand that not only was I able to speak English, French and obviously Spanish, but I could also understand some Italian and Portuguese; her answer: "But if you are from Mexico you are only allowed to speak your own language, Mexican". I felt like I was being pranked.
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Espana
You shoulda asked her why she thought that you were Mexican. Instead of telling her you aren’t, you shoulda asked why she thought you were. She’d say coz you speak Spanish. You could then have explained that Spanish is originally the language of Spain, a country in Europe, from where you are. But Spain colonized many countries, including Mexico, so these countries can also speak a variant of Spanish.
Now, to the second point, you coulda asked her if they get the option to study French or any language other than English in American schools. If yeah, similarly, other countries also have options to learn languages other than their native ones. That’s why you got the opportunity to learn English too, can speak it since you’ve been speaking it since you were 3 years old.
Always, pinpoint their area of struggle. Ask them why they have that question. Makes them think in order to explain. Now, their mind is actively engaged in decoding the conversation. Then connect your reasoning with that specific point. That way, you’re gradually connecting with their area of doubt, then connecting that with your explanations, since they appear to be struggling to apply their minds in this manner.
Yes, I know it’s a lot of work. But, it seems, many are anyway spending a lotta time explaining so, why not try an effective approach.
Why you should "only be allowed" ? ALLOWED?? wth?
I am a retired international long-distance truck driver.
One day I was asked for my driver's logbook in Pennsylvania at a Department of Transportation vehicle checkpoint.
It is the law that log books are in the time zone of your driver's license. Mine was Nova Scotia so the book was filled in with Atlantic Time Zone.
The officer tried fining me for falsifying my log book because in his opinion Eastern Time Zone was the first time zone in North America.
At that time I was wishing I had a Newfoundland drivers license just to watch his head spin for another half hour.
I am from New Zealand. The season is opposite to USA. So it's summer in December. An American said to me once. " If it's summer in December then when do you celebrate Christmas? ". They thought the whole world celebrates Christmas in winter. 🙄
I was corrected online that we were heading into winter in December in Australia by adult Americans 🤪😂🤣
I couldn’t believe they didn’t know we have opposite seasons in the southern hemisphere. What are they teaching kids in school up there?!!
I¨m from Europe, but I used to live in Australia, and some of my friends there made a big deal of celebrating "Christmas in July", maybe you don't have that in NZ. But I must say that seeing all Christmas light decorations during the brightest warmest part of the year always seemed strange to me.
@@nocturne7371 True. I found it odd also. In South Africa we had a barbecue ("braai") and went surfing the following day. Grew up in England also, much prefer the winter feasting.
As a Brazilian living in Germany I gotta say, it's not only Americans that get puzzled with that :D From my experience, there's a lot which people from the north hemisphere completely ignore about the south one. Plus, the amount of people who believe we speak Spanish in Brazil is beyond embarrassing... (edited for typo)
@@lucasosisThey speak Portuguese in Brazil, right ?
I've heard that Americans who have happened to be in Britain on July 4 have been known to ask "when do the fireworks start?".😂😂
Next time tell them we do that Feb 17th, when the US surrendered to the British.
Technically it could be today, because the Treaty of Ghent was signed 209 years ago, today.
To Americans, it's a defining moment in their history.
To the rest of the world, it was a Tuesday that nobody cares about 😂.
@@Mark-HaddowNah, tell them it's the 24th August when we burnt down the White House in 1814.
I've a relative who works as a teacher and housemaster at one of the elite boarding schools in the UK, not quite Eton or Harrow but posh enough to be well known for producing politicians and statesmen, a small but sizeable amount of expat Americans have their kids as boarders there and almost every year they get at least one lot of parents who either are dumb struck that they don't get 4th of July off or celebrate thanks giving - one wonders what such US expats in Japan must think when they realise that if 25th of December falls on a week day their kids have to go class on Christmas Day?
@@TheRealMarxzBefore I retired I worked for a multinational company and convinced some guys in the US that we British do not have an independence day (we don't) so we celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth of July.
I was on a pleasure boat on the river in Rome. An elderly American couple were behind us.
He began explaining how the hills surrounding the city interfered with radio waves and she said, 'I didn't know the Romans had radio'.
Omg this is hilarious 😂
Radio is also an Italian invention, so these is just too funny
Everyone knows gladiator games are better in stereo.
@@sofiatassinari7336yeah Marconi
Actually it was Nicola Tesla had all the patents.
Did Tyler literally say the sun revolves around the earth!!!! He hasn’t helped the situation for Americans!!!🤣😂
wait for his flat earth parents!
Omg, yes he did, clearly had the best education tho. Americans really need a worldly education. Maybe its their diet affecting their brains? Ever watched Idiocracy, explains so much lol
"literally say the sun revolves around the earth"
And yet we ALL still speak of _sunrise_ and _sunset_ 😉
i was scrolling precisely to to see if someone else noticed
Galileo would be pissed😂
I’m from the UK and I do think many people in the US, and their seemingly limited awareness of the world around them is staggering.
American ignorance is famous worldwide. What is so disturbing is that you are such a huge influence. I`ve asked you before, when are you are going to get out and see the rest of the world.
@@deborahmacrae8299
You’re making no sense whatsoever, please feel free to elaborate 👍
i gotta say that they are almost as bad in Essex. The poor lass from TOWiE who didn't know where North London was! She could of said something like the opposite side of the city to south London, rather than i have no clue.
This comment has upset someone. I appollogise. This was not intended as a dig at Essex folk. more as an observation on society and an issue that needs sorting out. Ignorance. Unfortunately TOWIE was the only example i could quote. I know there would be more examples if more programs like it were out there. I can't bring myself to watch GS.......No offence Newcastle, it's just not my idea of entertainment.
@conclaveofthelost513 where are you from? It's not could of, it's either could've the comma denotes the missing HA the full version being could have ...ie never use of in these circumstances 😅
@@kathchandler4919
Grammar police at it again 🙄 and why does it where the person is from ?
It's especially sad that people are told to "go back to your own country" in the US since it's built on immigration
I got told that. I answered that I very much planned to, since I was just there for vacation. As a tourist.
They were soooo flabbergasted that I actually wanted to leave the US after I managed to get in. And actually quite offended too, when it clicked that I wouldn't want to stay in the US even if I could.
In the 1980s a New York cabbie said to me, "You don't use dollars where you're from? How do you pay for things?' Ignorance is potentially bliss.
Leaves and nuts, every body does that obviously. 🤣
"We sell our daughters" 🤣🤣
Just stay silent and roll your eyes at their stupidity.
I am Polish. Situation happened roughly 30 years ago in my high-school years. We had an American lady teaching us English. Normally a very good teacher but me and few of my mates were absolutely shocked to learn on one of the lessons that ONLY AMERICANS USE DOLLARS. Well I have family in Canada, and couple of my class mates have family in Australia (huge Polish diasporas over there). So we decided to bring money we recieved from them on their visits to prove a point. Long story short she was shocked as well.
They’re called dollars but it’s a different currency. Interestingly in El Salvador, Panama and Ecuador they do use US dollars.
@@RodrigoCastroCh of course they are but that wasn't the point. They are still dollars. Someone was telling me you could pay with US Dollars in Saudi Arabia at some point in time, Not sure how true it is.
I once told an American friend who came to visit us in The Netherlands, that he had to go to the bank to exchange his Dutch Euro coins for Belgian ones as we would go there the next day. He actually went inside, came out 10 minutes later with a big smile on his face, telling us they said he didn't have to do that. Still hasn't caught on.
Im from denmark and an american couple came up to someone in the bus i was sitting in and told them
SPEAK ENGLISH WE ARE UNCOMFORDEBLE: so yea the 2 elderly women that was yelled at did know some english not much but said
"This is danmark så shhhh"
sitting in a bus in Japan had an American couple start harassing some Japanese school kids who where quietly speaking to each other (quietly because that's the polite, correct way to speak in public in Japan) who thought they were being rude to them... I told them to sit down and shut up this is Japan so of course they are speaking Japanese and no they weren't talking about you they were talking about their school's museum trip they were on, the kids looked at me and I shrugged and I may, or may not, have, allegedly, said something in Japanese to them along the lines of "stupid Americans")
Do u guys collect legos?
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@@steffhess3627 XD
Did you just say the sun moving around the earth? 😂
I think Tyler would cringe at what he said if he played back that portion of the video. I'm sure he knows the Earth revolves around the Sun. Or does he? He is American!
@williamdom3814 Care to make a small wager on that? Actually ..I think he probably meant the Sun revolves around the USA! 😂
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Yeah he lost me at that
alternative facts are a US thing we dont understand, because our free education dont permitt that stupidity!
I managed a historic house in the UK for four years, my colleagues/volunteers and I could have written a book on things we got asked. One time I got asked where they could see Scotsmen in their kilts and caves...yes 20 years ago some Americans thought we lived in caves! I've had people ask how come we speak good English (I don't speak Scots), but my colleague said she learnt it from a very young age (the German behind the Americans couldn't stop laughing).
cant been a German, we dont have humor!
😂😂😂😂😂@@Arltratlo
@@Arltratlo
"we dont have humor"
But, plainly, you DO have Irony! 😉
Did you tell the Americans about Haggis-hunting? You can get a LOT of mileage out of that one!
"could have written a book"
It's about time someone _did_ 😄😄😄
@@Arltratlo In my experience Germans do have humour, it's just to dark to see. lol
When I was in Florida, I overheard an American talking to a fellow Scot and she asked him if Scotland had running water and electricity 🙃
my answer would be " of cause... running water down the walls whenever it rains and electricity now and then with thunder storms..." 🤣
@@belegur8108😂😂😂
One time we were coming back from Mexico, at the airport in Cancun I was behind some Americans on the escalators. When they reached the top, there were all kinds of American fast food restaurants. The lady said "at last real food".
Is she fat?
I was out of the country for a couple months (in Turkey) and had a woman house sitting for me. She was just moving to Seattle from Chicago, where she had worked as an office manager.
When I came back we were talking about the trip and she said, “let’s see…Turkey is to the west of Greece, right?” “No,” I said, Greece is basically the last bit of Europe except for a small part over the Turkish border (Eastern Thrace). The rest of Turkey is Asia.” She said, “Oh, I’m like, so bad at geography! Before I came to Seattle and saw that Vancouver was so close, I totally didn’t realize that the United States and Canada, like, touched?”
After I picked my jaw up off the floor I said, “Wait…not to make fun of you, but how is it possible to grow up in the US, get a 4-year college degree, and not have picked up SOMEWHERE along the way that the US and Canada share a border?” (I mean, we only have two major land borders, it’s not like we border on lots of countries like Russia and she just forgot one!)
“Oh I dunno,” she answered, “I guess I must
have known at some point and just spaced it off!”
But there’s a kicker: Back in Chicago, who do you think she worked as an office manager for?
The. Government. Of. Quebec.
To be fair, I once had an English coworker who was stressing about getting Euros for his forthcoming trip to Ireland. On asking about the trip, it turns out he's going to Belfast. We had to explain Belfast is in the UK. They take pounds there.
As a French even I sometimes get confused. There are so many different "Europes" : the continent, the European Union, the Schengen area, the Eurozone... I find myself googling European countries quite often to know what currency they use or if you need a passport to go there. 😅
its also in Ireland.
@MrOranj..... Northern Ireland...not Ireland
Tyler, years ago on of my nephew's got married in the city of Windsor Ontario, where his wife was from. He was from Montreal, Quebec. We also have American family. So my husband and I drove across the Ambassador Bridge to Detroit to go and pick him up at the Detroit airport, he was coming in from Boston,for the wedding. Coming back into Canada we had no problems getting in and neither did my American cousin. The day after the wedding, we drove him back to the airport in Detroit. I couldn't believe how border security grilled him upon entry back to his country. He has an American passport, however we were born in Portugal. The guy kept asking him if he was from Puerto Rico, he kept say no. He'd ask him why was he coming into the US, my cousin would say because I live there. This carried on for like 20 minutes. I couldn't believe it.
i had a US couple in Paris, standing in the queue for EU passport holders...
they got ask by the French guy why they are in the wrong queue, they said they dont wanted to stand with the Indians who arrived with us...because Europeans are white they stood with the white people..
they had explain it again to his buddy, who been clearly been born in Africa or to Franco African parents...i think they had to go back, behind the dark skinned Indians!
@@ArltratloLol, Paris is one of the most multi-cultural cities in Europe. I imagine these guys visiting the city, seeing people of many different colours and thinking "Wow, there are so many foreigners in France !" 😅
On the whole "Go back to your own country." thing - the most absurd one like that I've heard was a guy saying it to a indigenous woman.
Not to me but I watched an American girl call my friend an African American. Even after pointing out that he’s English and his family is Jamaican so nothing to do with Africa she still couldn’t see how it’s racist to assume someone is African simply because they’re black
And he was certainly no form of American. I've known more educated US people tongue tied on what to call someone who is Black British because they are so used to African American and knew that they weren't American so their brains just froze.
Well it's not racist. His family came from Jamaica and they were put there ...so originally from Africa. They're African and your friend is African. Ethnicity and nationality are not the same thing. Calling him English is racist. It's racist against the English because you're saying that English is just a name and not an ethnicity, and same goes for his African ethnicity, whichever country that may be.
@@leestirling4623english *is* an ethnicity????
Brother, an ethnicity is the country you were born...
How are you gonna call them racist if you said something even worse?!
@marir.s3620 so if my parents were holidaying in Japan when I was born, you think I'd be Japanese?
@@mrs7serpents157 were you born and raised there, although you could get a Japanese passport and technically be Japanese you were not born and raised there, therefore you have nothing in common with the Japanese, whereas someone like my friend who was born in England and raised in England that makes him English
"Or maybe we're not paying attention" - a phrase that sums up every single one of Tyler's reaction videos.
So true! 😂😂😂
Yes he certainly loves the sound of his own voice.
Says Tyler, who says the sun revolves around the Earth. 😮
@@nolajoy7759 Yes! I really hope that was just a slip of the tongue, but wouldn't be too surprised if he actually thinks that to be the case...
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I was asked which part of Australia I was from as he loved my accent.
I replied "London" 🙄
I used to online game with a group of people, who have never met each other in real life, but we were constantly on voice chat. Two of the players were a couple from Perth, with very strong Aussie accents, and would constantly talk about being Australian. A Californian who had been part of the group from inception at one point suggested to me that we needed to visit them in the UK, and how he loved their British accents. 😂
@@JamesSerapio i am playing in a Clan for over 8 years now...
i am the only European between 50 Americans...some still marvel how i been able to speak English...because i am German with a accent!
and they are even more confused because i use plenty of English words... because we learn Oxford English, not colonial American!
I was in Canada (from Cardiff in wales, U.K). They thought I was Australian too
I heard a youtube video in which a Welsh Girl (i.e. a girl from Wales) moved with her family to the US and in High School, a teacher asked her where she was from. She said Wales, and the teacher said "Don't make things up, there is no such place; Whales are a creature living in the sea; now tell us where you are from." When the girl persisted she was penalised for lying. This was a HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER!! No wonder American kids know nothing when they are taught by people so ignorant.
What happened next?
Please say that teacher was sacked
I expect Americans not to know their own states! I remember an Irish rock band (Horslips) who were in the states for the St Patrick day celebrations. When asked to describe Ireland, they said it was about 100 miles by 150 miles and the Americans freaked out - they thought it was like the States! The band said no, its much smaller than France and France is only about the size of Maine. The Americans looked blank - they'd never heard of Maine! The band retired to the pub - and were served GREEN beer, commenting "and they say us Irish are thick!"
I think half the problem is that the US citizens are so isolated from interactions with other countries. Americans typically don't travel abroad that much and their most popular sports are generally only played at national level, where as Europeans are likely to holiday abroad, and most of our sports have an international competition. A teenager in the UK likely knows all the major cities in Europe purely from watching Champions League football.
The education system as well as society as a whole are also both big factors.
you have a point there. Winning the US NBA or NFL league and then proclaim themselves as "WORLD"-champions doesn't help either...
Australia is a lot more isolated but we do have knowledge of the world outside of here.
@@NeridaAisbett58 Australia play international level at high level in at least 2 sports (Rugby and Cricket). All of America's top sports are almost exclusively domestic.
This is what people get for smoking too many pledges of allegiance through school.
The old "how come there are so many African Americans in Norway" is as old as time. Is was actually asked that by a very enligthened, very well educated co-worker.
My response: Are you sure they weren't Africans? Or, you know, Norwegians?
She felt a little dumb and we all had a laugh. With her, not at her I must add :)
We were in Chicago on a hop on/off bus getting a tour round the city and the guy who was telling us the history/ info about the area asked us where we came from, I replied we are from Scotland, 5 minutes later he got the bus to stop took the 2 off us off into a sort of shopping complex and showed us an escalator saying you guys don’t have these back in Scotland, I said O your right sir we all live in caves in the highlands and we managed the make a raft to paddle across the Atlantic to visit America, while we were off the bus I popped into a shop to buy a couple of bottles of water, I got 2 bottles out the fridge and said to the woman “ just these 2 bottles of water” and she replied that’s a strong accent you’ve there were are you guys from, I answered Scotland and she replied we love Scandinavians 😂😂 true story.
Oh gosh ! How did you survive over there (LOL from wales) 😂
You actually said "..... it'a Americans that don't understand the concept of tine zones don't understand the concept of the Sun moving around the Earth..."
Tyler the Earth moves round the Sun and it doesn't, even then, cause time zones. It's the fact that the Earth spins on its axis that causes time zones. Yes, where did you go so wrong ?
He asked why do people in Scotland all know how to speak American so well and do we talk to each other in 'scotch' when no other 'scotches' are around?
I once heard an American say the sun revolves around the Earth 😂😅😂
I was on a bus going round parliament square in central London.
An American looked up at big Ben and asked
Is that little Bill?
The mind boggles.
Perhaps he had heard of the Flower-Pot Men.
Possibly.
They were before my time
Things like Trumpton captain pugwash the wombles were on when I was growing up in the 1960/70s.
@@stephenlee5929 🤣
Technically Big Ben is neither the the tower nor the clock, but the clock's large hour bell. But the tower is definitely not little Bill.
It is sweet (and understandable, really), how you trying to explain it all with "Americans don't travel much". Many other ppl don't. But you have internet for some time now, just use it. It is unbelievable how much you can learn about the world without ever living your house.
To be fair, most Americans just use the internet to go down rabbit holes on misinformation and conspiracy theories that leave them even more wrongly-educated and ignorant than they were before. A lot of them just stick to their own bubbles on the internet.
A lot of them are quite nice though, like genuinely interested in learning more about the world and undoing their own ignorance and stuff. But I also gotta say that there's also a lot that just stay where they are or even go further off the deep end.
There have always been books!
Tonnes of wikis exist now... They're great!
same goes for Russia, honestly. my mum didn't have a passport until she was 56. and there are also lots of dumb asf stereotypes about other countries. we actually have way more in common with Americans that we'd like to admit.
A school friend of mine did an American Studies degree as it encompassed a lot to do with film etc and she was going into advertising production. As part of her course she did a stint over in a US university. So, this girl is talking to her and comes out with ‘So, like, do you guys like have the moon over there?’
😳
Yup, she was actually wondering if the UK could see the moon that they have in the US. Cause of course the world is ONLY the US isn’t it? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ It’s astounding. What’s worse is how in the hell did she get a university place?!
The indoctrination eg: they’re the only ones who are ‘free’, and the insular thinking of many Americans is quite terrifying.
Oh ya, just remember another one while visiting the US. I was buying beer and I was carded. I'm a senior citizen, grey hair, wrinkles and all. Apparently it was the store policy. I guess they considered their employees to be so stupid that they can't tell a senior citizen from a teenager. Speaks volumes.
That's actually a law here. At least in my state, they have to card everyone. They were just covering their asses
@@friendlyninja5048 So the state figures everyone is that stupid. Somehow, that's worse. In that law lurks a Fascist mindset.
@@billattercliffe8655 Sure, we could argue that it's a stupid law, but it's a stupid law that everyone goes along with. There have been cases where someone looked older or younger than they were, and alcohol sales to minors used to be a serious problem. So they find it easier to just card everyone
Card everyone is better because it shoots down the tantrums of the customers that whine why did they get carded and you didn't
@@SnowyRVulpix Yes, that's also part of it. If everyone is treated equally, no one can really complain about unfair treatment
Filipino here. Years ago I was on a vacation with my family at Lourdes, France. We took an English-language group tour for this and naturally, there were lots of Americans in the group. One of them (an elderly American with a mild Southern-ish accent) asked me what my family and I were doing in Lourdes. I explained that we were from the Philippines and were Catholic, and had always wanted to do a pilgrimage to Lourdes. "Are there Catholics in the Philippines? Did you convert?" he asked. I explained that the Philippines is predominantly Catholic / Christian and has been so for over 400 years. And he stares at me suspiciously. "Aren't you guys Muslim?" I said, "We do have Muslim Filipinos, yes, but it's like 85 to 90+ % Christian or Catholic." And to my surprise, he smirked, stared hard at me (as if I was lying) and said, "ARE YOU SURE?"
I was so taken aback by his response that I just fell silent and frowned. Like, WTF? My sister and I just stared at each other and back at him. Why would anyone in his right mind ask someone about something as basic as their cultural background (which they knew little of), and then proceed to talk to them as if they had no right to be right about it?
Before I could say anything else, though, the man's wife nudged him. "That wasn't the Philippines we visited the last year, dear. It was Indonesia."
ONLY THEN, when his wife clarified for him that he got his geo-political info wrong, did he accept what I was saying.
Mind you: the Philippines was once the United States' colony, acquired along with Guam and Puerto Rico, from that under-the-table deal with Spain. It's why I and my countrymen now speak English instead of Spanish as our second language. Our country's land mass is equal to the whole of Italy, spread across an area the size of the Gulf of Mexico, and we once hosted THE largest offshore American military bases on the planet. American soldiers died by the thousands during WWII on our shores. Our people are one of the largest immigrant Asian groups in America. An American of his age, in the age of Google,should've at least known a little better than to be condescending towards me about what I know of my people from birth. "ARE YOU SURE?" Ahahahahaha! I needed a wall to slam my head with at that moment.
In 1994 I worked on Staten Idland (NY) for 6 months. I worked with a colleague from the UK, 2 US citizens and our manager was a Brit also. In NJ a pipeline exploded and when I rang home I was asked about the explosion. When my US colleagues couldn’t understand how my friend back home had heard about that being on our news. It was difficult to explain to him that as a former colonising country we needed to know what is happening abroad. Our TV news covers world events.
"Home of the brave and the land of the free." Yeah.....sure.....anyone can dream.....but they should at least be AWARE its only a dream!
I stopped visiting the US, beacuse It always seemed I was the Smartest Man in the room, even through i'm just a avarage man. So many facepalms I was hurting myself.
so many facepalms that the back of your skull has a hand print
brit here lived in america
reminds me of this film, I've never watched, but I have seen it advertise a man wakes up and finds out he's the smartest person in America and everybody else has gotten dumber.
@@MartKart8Sounds like you’re talking about Idiocracy.
@@MartKart8 idiocrisy is what you're talking about
@@MartKart8 'gotten'!! You must be from the States..
"ay rab, ay dolf, eye rack, eye ran, and eye talian" they are my biggest bug bears im afraid. Adolf hitler surely has to be a name that is SO INFAMOUS, and so often spoken in history lessons, and documentaries, how can a nation think its pronounced like that? 🤯Its "ah-dolf, ih-talian, ih-rack, ih-ran and ah-rab by the way!
OMG I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THAT!!!! It aggravates me so badly. Stupid Americans can't even pronounced words properly. Especially when they say Cou lin, instead of Colin.
Or change the spelling of someone’s name. Caesarean section. Caesar. Not Cesarean
Puerto Rico is a US territory that should be granted full Statehood.
After all, atm they're taxed by America but have no representation
Which I thought was important over there
but then you would have 51 states, that would relly confuse some americans who dont know how many states they have
A few Americans already believe there are 51 states. Canada being that 51st one. Adding Puerto Rico would make 52, in their eyes.
Yes, there are some Americans, who believe Canada is a state.
Ok, I understand, but if they made it a State, where would they put it? 🤔
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@@stephenlee5929
You ask good questions! 🤔
In America I was once asked where I came from. I said England and then complimented on my English. On another occasion I was asked what language do we speak in England. But on the other hand our hired car had a flat tyre and a bloke driving a van stopped and offered to help. Which was very helpful since we were pretty old even back then. After he fixed the spare wheel, I offered to give him some money, which he respectfully declined.
I remember going to America a lady asked if I was Australian I said no I'm from Manchester UK she said on you name it after our Manchester lol 😂😂😂 I said I think you will find Manchester UK been there a lot longer than yours 😂😂😂
Oh dear…. 🙄😂
I am Scottish and lived in the States for 31years. Never lost my accent and could write a book about questions I was asked..sigh..
I'm guessing "Are you scotch"?
Plus "do you live in edin burrow"?
😂😂
@101steel4 Yes, I am a Scot from Edinburgh (Edinbura). Scotch is a drink.😀
I know about some Americans that thought the midnight sun was an actual second sun, and they got upset when they found it was just the same sun.
Me: 🌝
I worked in a big chocolate firm's factory where it's 90% different nationals and I was talking to someone and they said "oh you have good English" and I said "I am English"
I can't buy the "geographically isolated" thing because Australians are not this silly...
Yes we are. Sometimes
I think it's because as a generality we try to learn from those around us. Growing up I lived near a university. Across from where I lived was a huge complex of flats with 1 of every nationality living there. The foreign students would talk to us and let us ask questions and we did the same in return. Americans talk of cultural appropriation but over here it's cultural appreciation. Every foreign person I met growing up was keen to share their culture and when we integrated something into our life they took it for what it was, acceptance. Growing up accepting other cultures meant I used chopsticks before a knife and fork, I was eating cuisine like Mexican and Thai well before it became a thing in the 80's, had German peanut biscuits at my friends house after school, Pirogi with sauerkraut and bacon filling became a favourite food, I drank copious amounts of Jasmine tea with every Chinese meal. These were things I also experienced from being in the homes of school friends who were recent migrants. There were Europeans migrating in huge numbers at the time. In school when I was about 8 we had a project where we were asked about our heritage, then found it on the world map in the classroom, before giving a short 2 minute prepared talk on what that heritage was, then having a brief question time. You have to make an effort to learn in this day and age of technology because that tech leaves us now with no excuses.
I always wonder about that snowy stereotype thing.
I live on the west coast of Canada.
We've had no snow yet this year. Only a few nights of minor frost.
Temp right now is 50° in American. Cold but not freezing.
It is Christmas time.
We have banana plants, palm trees and lemon trees in the yard. Weather here is the same as northern California. Kinda like Frisco.
Because of El Niño, it may not snow even once this year!
I remember having to draw a map of the Americas to an American to show her where Canada is...
a 10 years old boy had to show his daddy a map of Europe for explaining to daddy that i am from a foreign country and i am in a foreign country in the USA, because i am from Europe...
daddy believed that Germany and Canada have a shared border!
I'm Australian and from personal experience of having lived and travelled in the US for 6 months many years ago I can say that I found a fair percentage of them were astoundingly ignorant of what goes on in the rest of the world. BUT it wasn't entirely their fault as the US education system obviously doesn't focus too much on anything that happens overseas. At the same time I can recall that the New York Times ran a poll about the 1996 Olympics that were to be held in Atlanta - 40% of people didn't know that Atalanta was in the US. I too was complimented on the fact that I spoke good English which was slightly ironic that Americans don't. Having said all of that, I suspect you could do a similar video on any country in the world and you would probably get the same comments. Americans I came across were great people, just ignorant.
i got ask how long been my train ride to Philadelphia....i am German and living in Germany!
"the US education system obviously doesn't focus too much on anything that happens overseas"
And WHOSE fault is that?
Some Americans: "Go back to your country!"
Meanwhile those same Americans probably can't name any countries other than the US...
Where did your American education go wrong?
Well. The sun doesn’t go around the earth for starters. 😂
I'd bet that a good number of those "go back to your own country" guys then claim to be Irish, or Italian, or from some other immigrant group.
Being from Poland I definitely relate to the Chech girl 's story. 😆
I just love you reaction, it alleviates the indignation one would normally feel.
We once met a couple of older American ladies at an archeological site beside Hadrian’s Wall. One said to the other, “ Gee, Beryl, why did they build this camp so far from the main road!”
been there, too...
i got ask why the wall is broken?...
i didnt try to explain the concept of time to 3 Americans!
I was asked if we have pickles in Germany.
Oh and i almost didn’t get into the US because my last name has the letter „ö“ in it. The dude at the border legit said „your id is fake. we don’t have that letter in the USA“.
I shit you not i started laughing because i thought he was joking…
I then had to explain to him, that different countries have different letters in their native languages….
14:43 The earth moves around the sun , but also that is not why we need time zones, rather the earth is spinning and therefore creates day and night.
i hoped it was just a mistake, i have TO hope it was
I tried to pay at McDonald's with US $2 bills and dollar coins. The cashier looked me in the eye and said, "I'm sorry, we don't take foriegn money." I laughed, she called the manager over, manager literally facepalmed and apologized to me. 😂😂😂
AMerica has HYPERCONFIDENCE in itself, it s the best and always will be and everyone else is wrong.. (i lived in texas for a tme and whoo boy i am british)
Not a dumb thing an American said, however, it is an example of the differences between the UK and the USA.
I had a housemate from the states (Nevada). I was sorting out my airsoft guns in preparation for game day at the weekend. My housemate was slightly interested in the sport and asked if they could pick up my side arm and have a bit of a play. I said yes, not expecting them to try and take it outside and not expecting them to shoot it in the house. Anyway, I quickly went to the toilet and on my return to the living room I saw my housemates out on the street with the gun. I sprinted outside and took the gun off them asking them if they are stupid or just suicidal. They looked at me as if I was the idiot. I then had to explain how carrying an airsoft replica is an effective way to get the armed police pointing guns at you. They didn't believe me as it was just a toy. I then had to sit down and explain to them the gun laws in the UK and that guns are unbelievably rare in the UK people will call the police if they see somebody with an airsoft pistol. Furthermore, small pistols are banned in the UK.
Long story short, I had the armed police at my front door. I explained what happened and unfortunately I got my airsoft guns confiscated for misuse. £7k worth of airsoft guns were taken from me and a police caution handed to me. My housemate got a huge fine for carrying the airsoft gun on the street. We fell out after I asked for the money to cover what he got confiscated from me as his response was "it's not my fault the UK have pathetic gun laws".
piecewisefunctioneer Your roommate should have been more aware of local laws and practices, and should have taken responsibility for you losing your Airsoft guns. However, their assessment of UK gun laws is correct. And from what I've heard about the state of UK law enforcement, you're more likely to get an armed response if you call somebody a name on the internet than if you stab numerous people. Pathetic indeed.
@@daerdevvyl4314 I didn't lose my airsoft guns. I was getting them ready in my house for the upcoming game day. Additionally, yes the UK policing is pretty shit however, gun crime is of high priority for the UK armed response team. Any call of a firearm (even slight indication of one) results in the nearest Trojan units rushing to the scene. The armed response units aren't really a part of the police force, they're separate in the eyes of the home office.
Edit: I misread the original comment. Yes he should have taken responsibility for me losing my guns. If it was me who did that I would be setting up a payment plan to repay that amount (I wouldn't have expected the full 7k at once. I am not unreasonable)
@@daerdevvyl4314or gun laws aren't pathetic. You can get arrested for carrying a knife.
@@daerdevvyl4314 Brits,however,can cross the road whenever we like 🙄
@daerdevvyl4314 you do talk a lot of bs how many school children have been shot at school?
ok austrian moving to switzerland, registering with the immigrant department. For note - switzerland and austria both speak german as official language.
So i show the government offical my austrian passport, my austrian documents that are written in german. He looks at my documents, then back at me and asks, very slowly and clearly pronounced
"Sprechen....sie....deutsch?" (do you speak german?")
Me, baffled as we are a neighbouring country, look at him and respond "besser als du" "better than you."
Me, German, visiting a summer camp as a 14 year old teen in California in 1984. I get bombarded with the usual questions if I'd met Hitler, or such crap.
But then comes this self proclaimed car guy and asks me:"Do you have cars in Germany?"
I told him:"yeah, sure, we invented the car we know today..."
He replies, angrily:"No, that's wrong. Everybody knows that it was Ford who invented the car..."
I told him:"Ever heard of Daimler and Benz? Like in Mercedes Benz?" That was nearly twenty years before Ford built his first car..."
He was now furious and denied any such thing happened.
I had to tell him that West Germany (back then) supplied roughly 25% of all cars world wide which resulted in even more disbelief and denial.
Unfortunately back then you had no internet or smart phones to quickly call up any such info. So I just ignored him after that.
One day an American talked about a character from the Batman universe. Even though I knew quite a lot about the universe, I had no clue who the character was, and I knew from experience this was caused by a language barrier (I'm French and the conversation was in English). So I asked if the character had another name, to translate it in my native language.
The guy started mocking me for not knowing this major character. I tried to explain to him that some names are translated in other countries. For example, in Harry Potter, Snape is called Rogue in France. If you talk about Snape to a French who has never watched in English, they will have no clue who the character is even though they know him.
Same thing was happening here. But he didnt understand the whole translation thing. To him, the character had only one name, an American one, that's it. Same thing for countries, like to him Germany is called Germany, there is no way French people call it Allemagne!
Not to mention he couldn't grasp the fact that a French man was able to carry a conversation so fluently, as if being multilingual was impossible or only for an elite.
Man really confused me with his ignorance so I left.
i got ask what comics i had read as a kid, been European, Asterix, Mick Tangy, Gaston, Tintin, Spirou etc...he knew none of them...his loss, not mine!
but we had also all names in German...Gaston been called JoJo and Tintin is Tim!
True, they do not understand some names are chanced in different countries even though it same characters. Most time the case have something to do with the name just being chanced other probely using names that more know in that country other case whould be reason of a name being chanced.
As example in Winx Club the Character *Leyla* but other chanced to *Alisha* so any time you see video short or video ( most riem America it seems like) often call her *Alisha* that European group doenst understand who that character is ask who it is as her name is different in there own country and this other way around too.
Another one wat person above me said about *TinTin* is also know as *Kuifje* in different countries so it really what your own country called them because you should not know there other name is other countries
Czechoslovakia was part of the Eastern Bloc, so the USSR had a lot of influence on it, but it was a separate country.
And never part of Russia...
I guess "Influence" is one way to describe the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crack down on reformists.
The Soviets called it "pacification"
History lesson: after World War 2 Czechoslovakia was part of the USSR (United Soviet Socialists Republic).
The USSR was Soviet Russian's empire.
In 1999 Czechoslovakia gained independence after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Czechoslovakia would later separate into the Czech Republic and Slovakia as we know them today..
@@Rachel_M_ Well on a political and cultural level, you can say that the whole Eastern block was part of the USSR but on a legal level, no, Czechoslovakia was an independent country recognized as such in the UN for example.
If you look into the history of several countries of the Eastern block they had tiny slices of independence, each had different laws and customs.
Were they independent from the USSR? No. Were they client states? yes. Were they part of the USSR on a geopolitical level? Never.
That would be like saying that Germany was part of the USA, UK, and France (and USSR) when it was under military control in 1945.
@@LeSarthois I guess you haven't heard of the Warsaw Pact?
Little tip. I lived during the cold war. My father was British Army stationed in West Berlin between 1966 and 1972..
2 red flares = escapee escaped.
2 green flares = escape shot and unalives
1 red flare, 1 green flare, = shot and injured
The Soviets preferred to injure escapees atop the barbed wire on the wall, who would be left to perish slowly. This served as a warning to other potential escapees from East Berlin. I spent the first 4 years of my life there.
2023, a few days ago. Spain France and Italy embarrass the US by pulling out of the current red sea Operation. This was because Blinken announced their presence in Operation Protect The Money (or whatever it's called) without even asking their permission.
I'm British and I can tell you just how much the US owns us, despite it not being on paper. Look up the Cod Wars, and how America made the UK back down against Iceland blatant and repeated breaches of international law over sea territories between the 1960s and 70's just to preserve the NATO alliance after Iceland threatened to pull out of Britain didn't back down. They tried to make us back down to Argentina when they "liberated the Mslvina's" as they put it. We called it, quite rightly, an invasion.
You can talk technicalities all day long. They are just there to create an illusion to gain consent of the populace. The reality is far more simplified.
You're just getting caught up in eupehmisms.
There are no civilian casualties in war, just collateral damage.the US doesn't invade, the liberate. Peoplare not maimed in war, they are injured.
All you are saying is the Soviet Satellites, as they were called, were not officially part of the USSR. All I'm saying is in practice, things are not that clear cut
Do you see how this works?
@@LeSarthois
Warsaw pact = Russian empire
NATO = US empire.
Do you see how these euphemisms work?
It's called *spinning the narrative.*
I grew up in the hottest part of Canada where summer highs approached 50C/120F. My dad worked at border, and had Americans asking where were the ski hills were - in July! While on a military exercise in Germany, a colleague was working as part of a liaison team with Americans. A soldier (blonde!) asked where he was from. He said, 'Malagash Harbour.' What's that near? Tatamagoush. What's that near? Pugwash. What's that near? Halifax. What's that near? Nova Scotia. What's that near? Your state of Maine. What's that near? The conversation began as a joke, although all the places were real. And, she was serving outside of the USA!
Propping up a bar in Arizona once I got talking to a guy from Oklahoma. He asked me where I was from. The UK I said. He had no idea where or what that was.
We briefly happened by the parental home of a business contact in Massachusetts once. His parents expressed surprise that I could understand what they were saying......
Over to Quebec. I was in a shop once in Trois Rivieres buying some stuff in French. The girl asked me where I was from and I said Europe. She could not understand how I could be from Europe and be able to communicate in French. She was gobsmacked.
I was a Brit living in France at the time, hence the Europe response.
This happened in Kuala Lumpur about a decade ago. An American couple approached me. The man said, "Hi, do you speak English?"
I replied with a Northwest English accent (where I studied for a long time), "Sorry mate, not a single word."
The man said, "Ok, sorry". Then he walked away.
The woman caught what I said. So, she and I just stood there watching the man walk away. It took him about ten steps or so to realise what I had just said. He came back. He said with a laugh, "You got me there. You got me there."
🤣🤣🤣
There are plenty of stories about Americans arriving in Canada with skiis .... in July. I always assumed these stories were apocryphal until I had my own experience, a car with Texas plates, with snow tires, in Canada, in July, when it was 30C (about 85º). No doubt the doofus was talked into the snow tires before leaving Texas. I would've loved to have heard the conversation with his garage when he got back home.
I was visiting a gift shop in New Jersey and paid for a purchase with a traveler's check. The young cashier looked at the check and said "oooh, Iowa! What state is that in?"
So, not only did she not know her US geography, but she apparently didn't know how to read a standard printed address.
I used to work in a call centre years ago, it was an international car hire company and a lot of our business was people going to the States, I was a supervisor, I used to have to call the branches I’ve the States all the time. I lost count of the amount of times I was asked if I’d met and knew the Queen, not sure those who asked knew how populated London is, the Queen was not acquainted with us all 🤣 what I will also say though, is that everyone I spoke to in the States were always a pleasure to talk to and deal with, always happy to help with any problem and, really, just lovely, I also lost count of the amount of times I was told how cool my accent was 👍🏻 there are opinions the rest of the world has about the States as a whole but individual people, you’re all lovely 👍🏻
So... you did met the Queen, aren't you? 😆
i got ask many times if i know this or those family names....i am German, we are 85 million people here!
My English is amazing, but then again I am am English. Lol.
I was in a resturant near Banff Alberta. We just had coffee and a small snack then someone suggested leave a few looneys (for a tip). The people at the next table thought we were talking about them and took offence.
Only explaination is they were American tourists
Wow typical attitude of americans that someone is talking about them, how selfcentered 😮
The best to you from northern México 😊
to get ask if i have cars in my village, been on the top of the most stupid questions....
i am German, where the car been invented by Carl Benz and lived at this time 10km away from the main VW factory in Germany, a single factory with 66.000 workers!
I'm Canadian and was talking to an American woman years ago who lived in the midwest. She asked me where Montana was. I've also been asked if we have Christmas in Canada.
Maybe she meant Hannah Montana? 😐
@@Dreyno hahaha She said she was an elementary school teacher but she didn't need to know a lot to teach young children in her state. Aaaack!
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Back in 1980, I emigrated from Canada to Australia. An after work group included a friend of a friend who was American. Being in Australia, sports talk ensued. The different meaning of football/footie was examined and when the group asked me about Canadian football, HE explained we did not have any football. Even a mention of CFL team names and 4 downs did not slow his roll. He then told me that Canadians only play hockey in the American Hockey League. NOPE that was enough for this polite Canadian. Had he not heard of the NHL? Of course, but he insisted it was the US nation, not Canada. So, i instructed him about the history of the NHL, Lord Stanley's Cup, and the Lady Byng trophy for MVP which is shaped as a silver maple leaf, for god's sake!. My Aussie audience was rapt, as they say, but the American was not at all convinced. I left his later correction about the population of Toronto stand but my audience knew it was a kindness.
The very reason you're open to learning is what makes you different in the best way! Great video 👍
I've heard of Americans not understanding timezones lots of times. And 90% of the time, when they find out, they ask the same question about 9/11.
The irony in your statement should strip the paint of everything within 20 metres. A country that has several time zones, yet all too many of its population don't know basic facts about it.
I just ask them 'What's so important about the 9th of November?' just to see the bemused look on their faces!
The second irony is that every single European intelligence service + Mossad had, in fact, warned their US counterparts of the fact an attack on US soil was imminent (some were even quite precise as to the when and how).
i got ask why i understand the public transport system of Philadelphia so well....
my standard answer been i served in my country military, we use busses for tanks!
As a Hungarian, I constantly have Americans trying to tell me that I clearly must understand Russian because our languages are almost the same. And I'm like... dude, my country had mandatory Russian in school during the occupation, and let me tell you, everyone struggled soooo badly with it because it's so different and hard to pronounce for us. Hungarian is not even a Slavic language. It has literally nothing to do with Russian.
At least they know that you have your own language.
They might think you are gypsy and dance czardas all day.
Why Hungarian language is so different?
14:20 surely all Americans should be familiar with time zones given the US is spread across several of them and TV schedules frequently show both ET and PT.
Tyler, the Earth goes round the sun, my friend, not the other way round 🙃
Puerto Rico is not unincorporated so much as UNREPRESENTED.
Kinda like the colonies of America were before the revolution, which makes it doubly bad considering how proud Americans seem to be of their revolutionary past.
Dumbest thing I have personally ever had said to me was when I phoned my brother in law [this would have been back in 1976] to let him know my daughter had just been born. Now he was in his first year at at college and living in a dorm, so since this was pre-cell phone, there was a communal phone in the dorm and I spoke to whoever it was that answered the phone, told them who I wanted to speak to and they sent someone to get him. While we waited for him to arrive, the guy asked were I was calling from, and I told him Calgary Alberta, he seemed confused so I added "Canada" and he blurted out, "How are you calling?" and asked what he meant and he said, "I didn't think private citizens in Canada had phones."
I like to tell myself he was just joking and thought that would be funny to say, but if so, he was a great actor because he really sounded 100% like he was being honest.
Dude, the sun doesn’t move around the earth. I think you’ll find it’s the other way around 😂
To be fair, ignorance isn't an exclusively American trait. For a bit of context, I am British-Swedish; my dad was English and my mum Swedish, and my sisters and I were born in Sweden. In rural England, when I was at school, I was accused of being a Nazi. I was very confused and replied "no I'm not", which gave the response "so why do you speak Nazi?". I do not. "Yes you do!". I speak Swedish with my family (it feels unnatural otherwise). FFS. The further you go outside of major cities, in any country, the stupidity rises.
It is absolutely true that ignorance is everywhere, but to be fair I wouldn't take kids being asshole to each others as a proof of stupidity of a specific place. Kids are stupid all over the world :D
As a rural citizen, I must say that during my life I have encountered exactly opposite problem. 'Bigger the country/city, the less people care about places outside their city/country.' In our regional capital, I would bet that most people couldn't name my municipality as part of the region, despite there being less than 20 municipalities in the region.
@@kurolotus4851 I kinda agree. France has stories of ignorant Parisians that are as cringy as many "Americans and the world", really.
One example? One Parisian I heard complaining that he had a "house in the countryside" and was annoyed that he couldn't park his car in front of the house and that it was noisy day and night.
Where was his "countryside house" located?
Dead in the center of Nantes, the 6th largest French city, with over 323 000 people living there (and 600 000 countign the suburbs).
The countryside, amirite?
@@LeSarthois In Finland, from where I am from, an ultimate ignorant city person is considered to be a person who hasn't left Ring 3* any point of his/her life (not counting foreign countries). *Ring 3 is half-ring road which roughly surrounds the greater Helsinki area.
@@kurolotus4851 Heh I perfectly see what you mean, the perfect equivalent here would be «Le périf‘» (Le périphérique : the peripheral road that circles Paris)
We get people confusing us for another country all the time. I live in New Mexico and there are so many memes and stories about people thinking they need a passport. It got so bad that we had to USA on the license plates. They read New Mexico USA.