The Worst People in Hostels
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Description: If you've ever stayed at a hostel, you've probably met a variety of fun & quirky characters from all over the world. Here are some of the most popular stereotypes based on their nationalities and others. From the timely German, unfriendly Scandinavian, to the Asian tourist horde. No offense was meant this is all jokes!
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Who the heck is your character
Love your videos!💚
As Hungarian I like the videos
Waiting for your OC to show up in some R34 commission lol
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Fun fact, Scandinavia's falling birth rates are 100% caused by super health-aware young scandis who don't drink, making them unable to engage in the traditional scandinavian mating ritual of getting black-out drunk, sleeping with a stranger then proceeding to live with that stranger for the rest of their lives and eventually marrying them.
The birth rate is being replenished by muslim immigrants
That sounds beautiful!
@@davinnicode it’s the ciiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiife xD
Swedish people drink a lot, then the hospitals on weekends are full of alcohol poisoned people
Man please go on with that. That's awesome!!
You forgot the American solo travellers who 'arent like other Americans' and tell you how much they hate American culture and how they're so in love with Spain/Ireland/wherever in Europe and travel makes them so enlighted and theyre not tourists cos theyre having authentic experiences by talking to people on the bus lol
Funny thing that most of Europe would feel really uncomfortable chatting with random people on the bus.
At least in Germany unless you need help with something you don't talk to strangers.
@@cyan_oxy6734 I once heard that the biggest difference between UK and USA culture is based on the question "so what's your story" asked to a stranger.
Lol I ran into one of these types in a bar in Ghent. Just went on and on about how Europe is so much better than her homeland because of public transit
When "pick me girls" go abroad.
The yanks usually always carry herpes simplex 2 virus, so be careful!
There's another class to be added:
The Balkaner: Usually comes from Serbia, Croatia or Romania, drives everywhere, either with an ultra expensive german luxury car, or a Yugo Zastava that's about to fall apart. Has packed his entire household in the car, has every kind of provision he will need for his vacation, and thus prepared to contribute as little as possible to the local economy, rides his glorious chariot for the beaches of Chalkidiki, Katerini, or Thasos.
Tomato tourists
To be fair, in Croatia those are Czechs, slovaks and poles😂
@@svekolj7534 How daer yuo! The Škoda Felicia is nothing like the Yugo Zastava
@@serebii666 mea culpa, that one bit was of utmost relevance 😑
Yes.
The worst people in Hostels are the ones that deny that the entire world is actually Hungarian land
Bojler eladó
EZ IGAZSÁG!
nuh uh
How can people live knowing they are hungarian 😢
IGASZAD VAN BASZUS
As someone with a German mother the towel thing is real. But you also forgot when you are at a buffet you have eat and store up for winter for 10 years.
Of course - you paid for the food in advance, so it is basically free. And since groceries in Germany cost more than some balkanians earn in a month through evolution we have developed belly folds that function the same as the humps of a camel, but with junk food: We can consume thousands of calories in very short time, whenever we get to a buffet and will not need solid food for a long period of time.
I still barely understand how eating next to nothing during the day and walking >10km around town, just to save money at the buffet is not considered normal in other countries.
Did i mention it saves money?
@@Conartist666 And the more money you save on transport through the city and food, the more money you have for beer.
The buffet-thing is actually Russian
@@SN8808 oh well she is half polish so it could be form that side
Overprepared? What do you mean overprepared? Look, always carrying a rainjacket and a first aid kit with you while traveling central-europe in August isn't being overprepared. That's the BARE MINIMUM of preparation.
Also he forgot the "Pfand" bottle with 25ct deposit the German will fill every morning at a hostel sink, after asking the staff first thing when arriving if the tab water is safe to consume. The bottle will also 100% return to Germany.
Lol I always ask about the tap water
Damn right that bottle is returning to Germany. I paid money for that!
😂😂
about the bottle: super uber chads
My father is exact opossite of that, he goes to 10 days long vacation with sandals, shorts and few T-shirts, he doesn't even need socks. He is traveling like that even when I am saying to him that it's gonna be 10°C and rain there, he doesn't care. 😀
My uncle runs a hostel and the streroetype I witnessed the most are the ones not understanding the difference between 'hostel' and 'hotel' and spawn here due to cheap price only to realise that the toilets are shared and leave a 1 star without even staying.
HAHAHA, yeah these ones are the worst
Oh god the thin skinned, they are the ghosts of the travel world
🥲🥲🥲
Forgot the ether italian or russian hostel staff becouse the place is secretly a front to launder money
"Secretly"
Hey, just like whole Serbia!
Both still have better customer service than anywhere else.
That's Sweden bro. 😤
I mean, remember the old stereotypes correctly bro: we're poor people, our hotels are stacks with goats and sheeps, mafia comes once a month for taxes and we usually are all drunk of wine while playing mandolino. 😤
@@danielefabbro822 that sounds amazing
how did you forget the business Turk , who insists you come to Istanbul but won’t tell you what he does for work 😅
Average Turk doesn't have enough money to travel, so those who can travel probably do some shady businesses.
what does he do for work?
@@mksushi5754 sells rugs
@@mksushi5754 Organ harvesting or organized prostitution, probably both...
On its way to Berlin I suppose
As an italian myself, when I go to other countries I am surprised by how recognizable we are. You hear italians shouting from distance and when I am with friends I ask them if we're also like that. We conclude that we are not that bad and we start another conversation louder than the one before
same thing with argentines, i guess the fact the speech and the mannerisms sound and look so similar that it applies for both lol
Italians are probably the most recognizable especially if they're from the south, italians do be sounding like they swallowed a megaphone when they were young
@@fatassshibe7285Well, like half of Argentina have Italian ancestry, so yeah, *that it’s in their genes*
US here 👋 , you all might be louder than us, LOL 😅. I find the Italians and Spaniards most friendly, fun, and always welcoming ❤❤
As an Italian who’s lived in London for 20 years, I can spot you from 200 meters away on the other side of Oxford Street.
The british one was so true, a british couple came here to Romania and wanted to go to Constanta to the beach but they landed in Bucharest, they said they took a bus but ended up in my city and thought the cannal was the black sea so they took pictures of the cow dung filled streets and blocks of concrete before i explained to them they were in the wrong town and i led them to the train station
That's amazing.
😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
That’s so funny lol
As a Brit, I'm truly sorry you experienced this.
I have to tell a story:
I was on vacation in Greece.
About half of that settlement was occupied by Germans and Austrians, and the other half by Serbs and Romanians.
after 21:00 there was a party (every night) in the Balkan part of town and on the German part, you could only hear crickets and waves!
(And you see people through the windows getting ready to sleep)
And?
Balkan people are built different
Germans really hate fun
Average Greek Summer holiday experience.
BTW about ten years ago I was in vacation in Peloponnesus and there was some short of sports game, either football or basketball, were Germany was playing against someone that I don't remember.
Germany lost, and all the Greeks were wildly celebrating, much to the bemusement of all the German tourists, that didn't understand why people hated Germany so much.
Thats likely because they are on a vacation and not at their local discothek. They are literally taking a break from partying.
The description of the Asian tourists is so real. One day I was walking around the city when I saw a Chinese woman taking pictures of kids playing in the park. Sometimes they just don't have limits...
Ja pierdolę 😂 I found this so related lol
In Florence, in the cathedral square, there are, in this order, Monuments, Historic Center and Horses with carriage for tourists. Guess what the Asians photograph? Horses. There are no horses in Asia? Did they last see them when the Mongols invaded them?
@@Animalesc0 Mongolia has a lot of horses because it's mostly steppe, but South East Asia doesn't have much.
To be fair, I once went to the Japanese countryside and took pictures of: A rice patty, a tractor repair shop full of tiny little tractors, a manhole cover, the exterior of a school, some bamboo, an abandoned house, a random family's vegetable garden, a kei truck, multiple traffic cones in strange locations, a spider, and a sign with information about fireflies. Oh, and a shrine off course.
When I read "Around the World in 80 Trains", I found out that Chinese tourists will write their names into monuments. Imagine trying to study the architecture and finding mysterious lines and curves that would be confusing to the untrained eye
As a Brit, I've noticed there are two types of us abroad: loud, obnoxious types who only drink all day; and the other group who suffer extreme secondhand embarrassment and generally fly under the radar
Yes, I’m now in that second group. I try to avoid them at all cost.
I cannot agree with you more. Some Brits are incredibly embarrassing abroad. I don't know if it's a sense of entitlement from history or just lack of respect for anyone else but themselves. I try and avoid Brits when I'm abroad 😂
British tourists can really be sorted into two groups, polite and quiet or drunk and loud. There's not a whole lot in between.
As to the latter, Brexit will do that to you.
Fortunately I live in a part of Europe with high alcohol prices. Haven't seen a british tourist in 3 years.
Another hostel character is the guy that's always in the hostel. You wake up, go downstairs, and he's there. Come back from lunch, and he's there loitering in the lobby. Come back at night for bedtime, and he's still there. First you think he might be a local, but then you find out he's a tourist like you. Just for whatever reason never ventures outside and is content hanging out in the cramped hostel rather than sightseeing.
Yuuuuuuup
I saw many like these. One was an asylum seeker who was waiting for his approval, he was waiting at a convenient country that he could stay visa-free. Another one kept all his stuff on his bed, probably he was in a similar situation as well, I never spoke to him, so I don't know. He was not a really pleasant fellow.
Too obsessed with trying to meet people rather than actually enjoying the place they're visiting
And tries to flirt with the female staff, only to be ignored by the poor ladies
Ukrainian guy
I was in the Maldives and while sunbathing my vampire skin that blinded the locals i hear Serbian from two girls in front of me.
They were happy this was not like in Greece where there are Serbs everywhere.
So i being a good person and above all a respector of others privacy leaned in and said.
"ПОМАЖЕ БОГ!/GOD HELPS!" (Its a very archaic Serbian greeting)
😂😂😂
Then they replied with "JEBOTE CRNI MAJMUN!"
What did they say next Vojislav?
@@ajaynandur9325 "Бог ти помого!/God Helped you!" The proper way finish that sentence.
They may have been taken in ambush but genes are genes.
@@VojislavMoranic Did they say anything after that or was the conversation over?
as an overprepared german i want to share the joy i expierenced when finally i could use the zip ties i brought to repair a swing on the beach in thailand.
it was an amazing moment and made me bond with the people i was travelling with.
totally worth it carrying around that stuff for years lol
We always need some german engineer friend
YESSSSS ! You are a hero ! 😂
Backpacking humbles a person. At certain point you start asking "do I really need anything more than the most basic of the basic necessities?". The answer is no. Three t-shirts in rotation is a luxury. You can always wash one while wearing another. Shampoo? Why carry the additional weight when you can use your soap? Food? Only enough to survive the day. Your dignity? It only weights you down
As someone who snuck into a hotel toilet before to sleep there because of being broke while backpacking, I concur.
+ The overly australian Australian you may think he's weird but later you realize he's just Australian
I feel like hostels were invented by Australians.
@@davinnicode no, by germans
A someone from the Netherlands I have stereotype to tell. If you see a Dutch person traveling in an area, hotel, hostel or anywhere, there will always be multiple other Dutch groups who are completely unrelated to the first. This is so in the most remote, strange and weird places in the world. I know I will still be speaking Dutch when I go on a holiday, because my presence in a foreign area will summon another Dutch person to colonize the area where we are standing.
True.
I remember visiting my ex's family ( she was greek) in soms far of village in northern Greece near Albania. Only to fucking meet 2 dutch people who were on a road trip in that tiny ass village.
I even found a broodje kroket joint in Crete.
Gekoloniseerd
As a German, I have met people from my hometown who went to the same school and frequented the same cafês in the jungles of Papua New Guinea and in Japan on at least 3 occasions. It's actually insane.
when i went to Croatia it was all Dutch the entire town
I like taking photo of mundane daily objects because there’s often no photos of them online (people aren’t that insane)
there’s 3 morbillion photos of landmarks, but when do you ever see a photo of a back alley generator made from a GAZ truck engine
That's a good point 😌💯
I cant get over the fact that I learned, that Germans behave like this because their entire culture is built around generations of trauma. Most likely originating from the 30 years war (50% of the population died). And as a result they are the descendants of all the most anal retentive and robotically industrious people that survived every famine and war they had to deal with since then. Generation after generation being raised with the subconscious feeling of needing to be ready for the absolute worst. And that manifests in funny behaviors like this.
We are all autistic👍
Favorite group I’ve met while traveling was a group of Israeli guys in an East Berlin hostel. They made Holocaust jokes the entire time, they would come back to the hostel room we shared with an insane amount of bags from high end clothing stores but weren’t remotely stuck up. They were friendly and always wanted my wife and I to go out with them at night. And they had no issue walking around practically naked in our communal room.
Kept in touch with one of them for years after our trip. Hey Yossy! Hope you’re doing well!
The “cheap, impractical footwear” hit me right in the sole.
But they have all the super tuned Nikes and ultra comfy New Balances, how could fail in that mather? 😅
As a german person: the german segment its a on point descritption of the exercise of our most valued traditions.
Ja
The segment was too accurate. I am literally wearing white socks in sandals right now. Not birkenstock though. Adiletten is where it's at 👈👈😎
As a Swedish guy this is really true; talking to strangers you don't know!? Gonna need some alcohol for that...
Not for me, but I'm quite extroverted. I even smile to people on the streets while in Sweden.
@@thebronywiking You madman! Shame we got rid of mental asylums all those years ago.
What a Swedish thing to say: "Strangers that you don't know", cause people that you are familiar with are just "Strangers that you know" 😄
@@user-jp7mb4ns7x well yeah, there are strangers who you know and they're not your friend
Finnish people need gallons of alcohol to open up haha, and that's only to open up ❤🇫🇮
I would say Irish people do the same thing as Canadians because we don’t want people to think we’re British but everyone seems to think we’re German
Do not worry, I know you are not British, I do not have a stab wound after talking to you for more then 30 seconds ;)
But you act like British people but every sentence you have to mention you're Irish
@@MrCushcamIsland nation mindset, continentals just wouldn't understand ;)
Well that's just not right! I for one think the Irish are human, not German.
The Irish certainly know how to drink and then remind us all in a very drunken manner why Ireland is better than England. Irish girls are the loudest when drunk 😂😂😂
When Russians could travel to Europe, we tried to avoid one another. When we have been hearing Russian language, we pretended that we are locals and don't understand their speech. The logic was that we are finally on vacation, we're here to rest from the country and the people.
Hahaha really ¿
@@gog_magpie yeah, that's whole meme in Russia
lol it’s the same for Germans
@@DerKommandantand always the feeling that one is so different than the stereotypical German but you‘re behaving just like them.
well, we still can :)
This video is on the money. If you're an American going to Europe, prepare to be asked a million political questions by people who haven't been to the US outside of NYC.
I was not prepared…
Obligatory Trump questions.
Drives me insane... why am I being interrogated about the War in Iraq? I'm just trying to enjoy my vacation.
I just threw the questions back lol.
What do I think of the Vietnam war? I don't know Jean, what did you think of Algeria?
They usually spluttered for a few seconds and then I just said "That's fine I didn't want to talk about that anyways".
@@DiviAugusti while in Montenegro got that question an Americian, got a free bottle of homemade wine for being pro Trumpnot Biden
Chinese American, but the Chinese Chineses in my family really do take selfies with the most random shit 💀 it’s cuz they’re also mystified by a different country being well… a different country. i think it’s a bit of the same syndrome as American tourists bc both the US and China encompass huge spans of diverse lands, so it’s very easy to NOT travel out of the country when we have mountains AND jungles at home. 😅 funny ass video, i always love learning about other nationalities and their woes thru memes
You think Berlin is bad?!
You clearly haven't heared of Frankfurt.
You think Frankfurt is bad?!
You clearly haven't heared of Bremerhaven.
@@kiritomato1908 Bremerhaven is the german version of south-east asias slums.
@@kiritomato1908 Meinst du Offenbach?
@@kiritomato1908 You think Bremerhaven is bad?!
You clearly haven't heard of Halle.
@@kiritomato1908You think Halle was bad?
You clearly haven't heard of Hamburg 😂
I have a friend, a distant friend more like, who was in Hamburg for two days.
He said the whole city stinks, and is full of Turks, Arabs & Africans, and not a single German on sight (His words). When he entered a hotel to check in, the employee treated him like trash and when walking down the streets both he and his girlfriend didn't feel safe because they were constantly being stared at (his girlfriend is gorgeous btw)
As an American, I can confirm that we suck at public transport. That's why I always make sure to pack my car with me when I travel.
To be fair, our north american public transport is spotty and bad, mostly as a result of the USA being so vast. Most people here are wise to avoid it, and thus are uninformed in places where it is more practical.
@@nobodynoone2500 But we once had an excellent rail network, and we were still vast.
@@guydreamr Because the technology at the time limited America to doing that and life moved at a slower pace. Passenger rail unless it was an extremely busy route and/or government subsidies paying for mail to be transported were natural money losses that could be written off from freight revenue. Technology moved forward to where you could reach the West Coast from the East Coast in 6 hours vs. 3-4 days by train. Even the fastest train nowadays would still take an entire day to traverse the country vs. a few hours on a plane.
@@OriginalBongoliath That's true as far as it goes, but as the old saying goes, what goes around comes around. The technology of which you speak, in terms of high speed rail, has now made it cost effective for trips from 100-600 miles (under 100 it's most cost-effective for autos, over 600, planes are). This means high speed rail links between pretty much all major Florida cities, Charlotte / Atlanta, the Northeast Corridor, New York / Buffalo / Toronto, Los Angeles / San Francisco and so forth, now have become feasible. Not only in terms of transport, but they will also economically turbocharge these cities as well. The urbanist "CityNerd" has a number of excellent videos on the topic, with many citations as well. When you get to his channel, do a "ctrl-f" and "high speed rail."
As a scandinavian, this is very accurate, there is a culture of being quiet and keeping your distance here, but the second the booze starts flowing all that goes out the window
Well, I expected more about the people getting up at 4 am in a dorm to go to some random tour or the drunk ones that get into bed at the same time, crushing everything around... The guys who don't know how to cook anything but spaghetti and they always overcook them. The Korean or Isreali travelers who travel in groups and occupy all the hostel for themselves (kitchen, showers, living rooms, pools...). Argentinian hippies with guitars, Japanese with high tech gadgets... There are plenty of different species in the hostel ecosystem. 😊
What about the annoyingly oversocial australian who thinks he’s incredibly chill and not like the other tourists but actually is just as bad
@@MrAdrien1999that’s what kept me away from hostels. Nightmare!
@@MrAdrien1999called out lmao
Idk what it is but the isreali tourists are either super polite and accommodating or the worst people in the world, uncaring of those around them and rude, with little middle ground. The Japanese are my favorite, but you occasionally have to save them from standing in precarious places trying to take a picture or manipulate the camera.
Dutch stereotype is basically the german one except we summon random dutch groups to our location when talking Dutch.
but, when after passing them a few days, you say goodmorning in Dutch (I'm Dutch-speaking Belgian), they insist in answering this in their horrible rendition of the local language's 'goodmorning' :D so funny!!
We Germans do that too, except we don't actually want to see other Germans when on vacation, so when we see the other group, we hide or pretend not to be Germans.
@@freesoftwareextremist8119do you take the sandals off or just the white socks?
@@freesoftwareextremist8119
Das Peinlichste, an das ich mich erinnern kann, war irgendein stark angetrunkener Typ der auf ner Brücke in London "Köööln am Rhein!" geschrien hat. 😂
Dutch stereotype is that they migrate biyearly to someplace sunny (beach) or mountainous (for skiing) with huge camping vans, all at the same time, therefore completely clogging up the autobahn, while also not contributing to the local economy cause they bring everything with them :D they're actually quite a menace in Germany. They also drive like shit often because they're on the road for 24 hours without sleeping :D
😂 I feel so attacked. Those blister bandages are a godsend. And the first time you get a €60 ticket for schwartzfahren because you missed your station and decided to ride it to the next station to get on the train going in the opposite direction. Only to find out your ticket doesn’t cover the zone you mistakenly traveled into. And you don’t speak good enough German to beg and the attendant won’t look at your translator…….those taxis look more and more appealing 😂
Attendent not looking at your translator is the most German thing possible.
@@RK-cj4oc Usually followed by "Kein Englisch". My first visit to Berlin Hauptbahnhof will forever be my most memorable use of frantic German as I looked for my train to Frankfurt because I was late. Fortunately, the train was even later than I was.
@@JonathanWrightSA god bless the punctuality of german trains
@@JonathanWrightSA Well, most people here below the age of 50 actually speak english, we just may choose not to if you seem especially annoying.
@@xxxm981 I really loved that about Germany. It takes too much effort to ask someone to please NOT use English, and to just indulge you. My language skills moved up a level with those encounters. I pray all Germans think all second, third, fourth, etc, language speakers are annoying then!
Regarding the frantic Berlin Hauptbahnhof experience: that platform conductor was probably old enough to remember the last time Germany had an imperial idea xD
You forgot about the guy in the kitchen making a ridiculously complex meal for cooking in a hostel
And then he complains that certain complicated condiments are not stocked in the kitchen.
And getting annoyed with you because you don’t want to contribute, you just want to grab a quick dog and go out on the town.
Russian tourists don't go to hostels, because of how insane their income inequality is. Any given Russian is either too poor to pay for hostels and will crash on their distant cousin's couch, or they only stay in luxury hotels. No in-between.
That's just not true
Lots of Russians do stay in hostels, come on man
Literally know lots of Russian friends and family who go to hostels and they are not rich.
@@goodamigo9373 goddamnit guys just let me spread misinformation based on ethnic stereotypes.
@@anonl5877ukranian or american?
Forgot the gigachad latin american who constantly gets told that european cities after dark are dangerous. My guy...it's a playground compared to where we come from
No way you called yourself a gigachad lmao 💀
Forgot the latin American who is constantly reminding you that it is a playground in comparison to where do they come from
If you’re Latin American and can afford to travel you didn’t grow up in the hood.
@@thelandlord111 you have obviously no clue. many parts of latin america are not just dangerous in certain hoods. its not the USA!
People basically living in that hostel; asylum seeking guys waiting for their approval in the neighboring country; the guy who got stuck at that hostel furious at his misfortune, swearing and smoking in the non-smoking room; the frisky couple making love at the top bunk, putting their roommate (guess who) who's trying to doze off for his early flight in this very awkward situation; 4 IT guys working on their computers the whole night long; that one guy that snores like a factory; that guy that sleeps in the hallway with his mattress and not his bed, Filipina babysitters working in Dubai on a visa run miles away from there...as a cheapskate backpacker who almost exclusively stays at hostels, these are some characters I have met at hostels around the world.
American here, i didn't even think about how to navigate yalls public transportation systems. i dont even know how mine works i just assumed you could just walk all of Europe thats what iv been told lmao.
Just use the subway and everything you need will be in walkable distance from the subway station. Subways are the same everywhere you go.
As an American, I can confirm that we ignore Canadians on a daily basis
In all honesty canada isn't allowed to criticize u.s Healthcare sense theirs is shit
If a Canadian starts running their mouth about America, remind them who their parliament gave a standing ovation to a few months ago
@@goldenfiberwheat238Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or an American what nationality their rocket scientists were during the space race.
Nothing wrong with reaping the benefits of war@@Krazee9
@@Krazee9 oh I forgot about that. Touché
there are two types of French backpackers/hostel goers, those that speak english and will only talk and do activities with other english speaking people or those that only speak french and will only do things will other french speakers.
As a south east asian who has never been abroad. I remember a time when was taking my sister to the airport. I saw something so outlandish that I just HAD to take a picture.
It was a water fountain.
So that might explain why some Asians took photos of mundane things.
I recently stayed at some hostels in mexico city. I was talking to a gap year German and i was saying my trip was only for five days( as a wage cucked american we only get 14 days off a year). They replied "oh so like a lay over trip?", which kind of blew my mind. Like damn y'all got a lot of free time.
Another time in Amsterdam I met an American who was on his first international trip ever. I'm american as well but well travelled. He kept referring to everything as "foreign" and would point and say like "wow, look at the foreign fountain!". He also kept his passport and wallet in a goofy lanyard around his neck which really made him stick out as a tourist. It made me embarrassed to be associated with him.
As an American ive found Australians to be the easiest to get along with. Don't take themselves seriously and are friendlier than British or German people.
It's true - as a 2nd generation German I evolved from carrying towels and ultra outdoorsy jackets to just wearing a bathrobe all the time (also has a kangoroo-style bag in the front to sneak stuff out from the breakfast buffet) #germanefficiency
So glad LivingIronicallyInEurope has a fiancee. So proud to hear you are a functional human being at your age!
everyone in the balkan has that
as a finn i dont open up more even if i drink, only talk to someone if they talk to me first, also great timing for this as im travelling around asia right now with budget that rivals homeless hungarian with 5 sick children
The only correct answer to “are you American” as a Canadian is “I wish”
No, it is by saying "Im not your friend, buddy!"
@@milibaI’m not your buddy, guy!
@paulorocky i'm not your guy, pal!
As a smug Canadian whose face turned bright red this very question when in Ireland, I simply responded, "No. I am Candian ( with a fake smile like the Scandanavian in the video). That same server asked after if Canadian's don't like to be referred to as American because he saw a look in my eyes. I responded that we are very different countries and for comparison it is like asking an Irish person if the are British. His response was "oh, I see. I will never do that again and we laughed.
My tourist nationalities ranking based on my job as a receptionist in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) from best to worst:
1. Scandinavians/Dutch: All of them speak English, from the 7 years old kid to old grandpa Sven who fought at Narvik. When they complain about something they do it respectfully and with reasonable expectations. They are usually friendly but without getting to the point where they think they're your friends.
2. Germans: More or less like the Danish and the Dutch but a good amount of them don't speak English. Most of those just wait until someone who does speak German is free to talk with them or at least try to make an effort to communicate and understand what little German I speak but there are the exceptions that get visibly offended when you don't speak their language.
Also sometimes they come at you with their _Sprachen sie deutsch?_ to which I say "not really" so they decide to wait only for the problem to be that their key card got demagnetized or some easy to explain stuff.
3. French: A lot of them DEMAND you speak French and get falbergasted when the people of this foreign country don't speak French for some reason. For me they're ok because I happen to speak quite a bit of French so they instantly love me but it seems like there are two French variants: the "Oh, at least they're trying to speak our frog tongue :D" and the "I'm offended at your pathetic attempt at emulating our supperior language" variant. Anyways, definetly not the best but not the worst either.
4 Italians: Everytime we got an Italian that speaks anything other than Italian we collectively make a wish like if we just had seen a shooting star. They don't care you're not fully understanding them (Italian and Spanish are quite similar) they will try to speak to you while you explain shit to them, crack Italian jokes and expect you to understand them... I can't really dislike them because they're actually trying to be friendly but yeah. Also, God bless our souls whenever a big group of Italians arrive. It's like trying to get the attention from a classroom full of kids.
5 Spaniards: Basically the same as Italians but we speak the same language and they know it so they are extra annoying. Some Spaniards from the mainland come to the Canary Islands expecting people here to move around riding donkeys and using pigeons as mail. They will be surprised/annoyed when the closest shopping mall is 90km away or when this island, that started developing around the 60's and had a concentration camp for homosexuals, doesn't have any old town with cathedrals and shit. Then you have the actual Canarians which are even worse since most Canarians that travel within the islands are mostly broke hicks that have never left the islands but expect you to treat them as royalty because they have paid (and not that much) for the all-inclusive board.
6 Polish: Strangely obssessed with getting sea view rooms but not so much about paying for them. A lot of them only speak Polish and it feels like talking to a wall when you explain everything to them and they just say ok ok ok, then you finish, they notice you stopped talking, look at you with a confused smile and proceed to walk away the wrong direction to their rooms. Many Polish men are plain rude acting like an eastern European thug when talking to you and giving you warnings about their problem not being fixed when they want. They also love to drink and most fights in the hotel usually involve a Pole but again, this is mostly the men.
7 British: Obviously, the Brits will be at last place. We do get some really lovely old British couples that I want to hug but those are the few exceptions. Only people from the UK have to sign up extra paper-work because in 2017, they decided that it would be really cool to get free hollydays and started filling fake food poisoning claims after returning to Britain. We get looots of Karens and idiots that will act passive-agressive demanding refunds and free upgrades for minor inconveniences and the asking to speak with the manager when the passive-agressiveness won't work. It has become a general joke that British complains don't count. That would be the middle aged Brits, the younger ones will get wasted and annoy you during the night shift demanding you to get them some alcohol at 2AM and be a general nuissance to everyone around them at the pool. Last year we had a big British hick family that _everyone_ knew about, staff from other departments came to the reception asking when were they leaving. Oh, and Hindi Brits are breed of its own coming to a 4 star all-inclusive beach family hotel and expecting fucking Burj-Al Arab standards and the staff to bow to them for existing.
Haha I enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing.
Some types you either forgot or never met:
- the alien
- the serial killer
- the religious fanatic
- the stoner.
4:19 Janos, I swear to God, the ticket machines in Rome only took change and I had none. Not to mention there were no employees working there and the website didn’t work either. They left me no choice but to jump the metro.
I grab a used tickets out of the trash and then just repeat 'no habla espanol' when I get caught.
Surprised you didn't mention the guy who *thinks* he's made for backpacking but it clearly in over his head.
There's the term flashpacker for those, I've never met one though.
They would never go somewhere as tame as Europe, or anywhere that matches their skin tone. They have to go to some exotic place, like Africa or Asia, where they turn into BegPackers because they didn’t properly budget or they’re too lazy so now they’re begging people who make 5% of what they do for money.
Listen, as an American there are many things that I would disagree with if talking to a Frenchman. For example, not all our bread and cheese is trash, but throwing literal shit on politicians is something we can agree on! 🤝
As another American I can confirm 👍
you threw bread in to save both because some of your cheese isn't trash. Of course you could technically make decent bread at home in USA. There's nothing in the air that prevents it. But there's something in the FDA regulations that makes everyone who sells bread in USA make it shitty. More specifically, the 70s low fat recommendations that turned every product into FAT-FREE or ZERO-FAT (*but full of sugar, because you should want to put it in your mouth). All damn bread that you can buy in USA is really just cake. It's inedible in a main meal and it's slowly killing everyone who doesn't spend hours in the gym every week.
@@nydydn The bread in most all US grocery stores is trash so I will agree with you there. We do have small bakeries all over the States. There is one near me in a tiny town in the mountains, and they make great croissants among other things. I will concede that they probably won't beat a proper French croissant, but I did see French tourists approve of it, lol. We also have a few small local mills around, and an awesome Amish market with homemade bread. Also, could have mentioned it earlier, but there are quite a few high end restaurants in France are importing Benton's country smoked hams and bacon. It comes out of my little backwater Tennessee county. Benton's doesn't sell out of country so we must be capable of making good stuff if chefs over there are going through middle men just to sneakily import it.
@@nydydn Ironically, I really only like American style white bread for French toast, lol. It's fitting considering it's cakey nature as you put it...
@@nydydnIt's incredibly easy to find a good loaf of sourdough in most populated regions of the country. We're not really out here making a huge variety of breads because we don't really care about bread in the US, it's just something we turn into toast and then smear jelly and butter on.
Id also tentatively add the African guy in a suit. He's possibly looking for work or studying rather than on holiday and looks very out of place in his suit and tie, shirt always buttoned up, and attache case. Hes very polite but spends an awful lot of time on his laptop by the kitchen table, staring at it intensely. May hit on you if you are a single woman.
Also the brazilians who take over the kitchen to cook huge meals together very loudly. Their stuff fills up all available spaca, but they may feed you too so its all good.
You can identify the South African expats travelling around Europe by their aura of homesickness, and the Johannesburg accent emanating from a conversation so loud even the Italians feel the need to reassert their dominance.
There's always somebody checking out at 5 am, rustling their plastic bags
Loving the Greek sign saying British behaviour insults their intelligence XD
When I was visiting Guatemala, there was this British dude named Luke who stayed in my dorm. Luke had drunk a whole bottle of the local moonshine, took a hit of coke, then proceeded to take a condom from his pocket and wrap it around his head until it ripped. Now everytime I think of British tourists, I think of Luke 😅
I like the existential wandering type you find in the autumn... I remember the guy who had a big suitcase full of literature... He wouldn't stop talking about Kafka, "Der Metamorphosis... So fucking deep"
The title: hostel
The thumbnail: german guy
Me: Literally in a hostel in germany
Under Skandinavia part the song playing was Finnish. Fun fact, we blasted the shit out of that track fighting the war against the soviets.
Good video as always.
I backpaced for 9 months in South America, and met several examples of each and every stereotype in this video.
Met a German guy who planned ahead his entire trip, down to the hour. The guy had a 3 month long trip. What do you do if your bus breaks down, and you lose a day, or a few hours?
Met the drunk British people, had to give one of them medication for their stomach.
Also I was the backpacker in way, had to stretch 17K to last nine months in 16-17'.
All in all, would recommend.
Fear and Hunger mentioned - only a genius of Scandinavian origin can come up with such a dreary yet strangely alluring game
Termina is upon us!
bro is absolutely magyarmaxxing with the stock images
I was staying in a hostel in Rome during an extreme heatwave couple years ago. We had one room, no air conditioning only an old fan. The hostel was run by a couple Pakistani's who cooked pasta for the guests. It was so hot, we were a bunch of sweaty guys who didn't know eachother, sitting in a room wearing nothing but underwear, munching down some pasta with tomato sauce while the sweat was dripping from our bodies on to the floor. Man hostels can be crazy sometimes.
This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. - Humphrey Bogart, _Casablanca_
As a hotel employee, the only time I've seen a Canadian express (grossly disproportionate) anger, was when I asked him what part of America he was from.
British people constantly abuse substances because they are similiar to Scandinavians in terms of socialising, most Brits are incredibly introverted when sober so therefore spend all day being drunk and therefore extroverted.
The most scary character is the creep who insists on flirting with you and refuses to put on clothes
0:03 Half life 2 hostel, with headcrabs instead of bed bugs
Crazy Ottawa and Campingwithsteve references. Keep up the good work. Thanks for making a reference to Ottawa. There's absolutely nothing happens here so thanks for the shout out.
Living in Thailand for 3 years I spent a lot of time travelling the region. As for the people I met, well, human nature is universal, so yeah, it reminded me of Mark Twain's comment that "the more people I meet, the more I like my dog." A lot of the stereotypes you mentioned are true, but there are always exceptions and I did meet a lot of good people from different countries overseas. It may seem ironic, but most of the best of them were Russian. They didn't open to you quickly, but once they believed you would act in a responsible and courteous manner, they would be friendly and quite generous in almost all things.
American 18 years olds, when they come to Europe to a trip (drink).
They srart to drink with my friends. Each of them drink atleast a bottle of vodka, and they like to share. 0 alcohol tolerance + no experience= a realy bad day for thier next flight!
😂😂😂
as a person who has been to heaven i have to say the WiFi is pretty slow
One up on the milk and cereal story : had a friend who once went hiking with a pack of cereal with powdered milk mixed in, to both save weight and probably money.... Except he didn't realise there was a hole in the bag of cereal and milk... And that it rained so heavily that water punched through the waterproofs over his bag and soaked the contents.
Ew
Hahahahahahahaha nailed it! Guilty as charged on the Canadian and couple traveling together side lmfao
PS Fuck people who think it's okay to turn on the main ceiling lights in the middle of the night just to fumble around for their toothbrush or whatever... Man, everyone has a light on their phone -- no excuses...
5:40 I saw a lone asian woman, clearly a tourist, being impressed and taking a picture of the Swisslion lion poster on the Swisslion storefront lol
Thanks for posting this, I'm about to travel through Southern Europe and I was planning to go through hostels.
As an American, I’ll never not find it funny that Canada’s entire national identity is “we aren’t America”. I don’t really like Canada that much but at the end of the day I don’t really care. But Canadians do care, and the very thought of America makes them seethe so much. I think if I ever met a Canadian like that I’d just remind him about a certain individual the Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to a few months ago and leave it at that
English-speaking Canada was settled by the loyalists after losing the war of independence. It's as if the Confederates or White Russians had their own exile country!
I just find it hilarious how some Canadians put so much stock into being different than us when we are essentially indistinguishable culturally. Like I wouldn't even say that we have two distinct cultures but one shared one with regional differences within both countries.
I also love how America's collective response to the vitriol is just like: "😄👍 Sounds good, whatever you say!".
@@jakej2680 yeah
You are generalizing. It's sort of like if I said America's entire national identity is burgers and overpriced healthcare.
lol, how is reminding them of a random parliament meeting an own in any way? you understand america supports multiple dictatorships CURRENTLY
As a German, I agree
I met a canadian guy from saskatchewan in a hostel in Athenes came like at 8 o clock and he started to talk about the cold weather in canada and how he he works in mines , he got drunk woke up everyone in the hostel got kicked out at midnight !!!
I used to work at a hotel in crete and i gotta say, while this is certainly exaturated this lad is absolutely correct. All these stereotypes are very accurate.
Thank you for your service
I am British. I stayed in a hostel in Czech Republic. Germans next door. They started playing Erica. I fucking lost.my shit.
As a Czech I regret to inform you it is now just Czechia. Palpatine reorganized the republic, so we had to drop it from the name.
Based
@@serebii666 it wasn't called czechia when I was there.
@@LD-wm7jm You're from the 80s? Bitchin! Czechia was the government English recommendation since 1993 and then officially petitioned change internationally since 2016
@@serebii666 I think you have misunderstood me. Its ok.
I was just in a hostel in Chile and it’s pretty fun talking to other people as long as you’re relatively normal, however these archetypes are all pretty accurate
Dude you have the best editing and meme integration ive seen on youtube!
Great new video I think I need to travel to sees these people
Then you have tourists from Latin America, who upon finding another Spanish speaker become excited, full of childlike wonder.
I love your videos, always happy when a new one gets released!!!
As a French Canadian, I've been that guy who the monolingual French will latch onto haha, but it seems like the fusion of two smug cultures just makes us chill underdogs
Wenn das Tuch auf der Liege liegt, dann ist die Liege reserviert
Thank you for the neeee neeee megölleek!
BANGERRRR. i was waiting for this. I have met every single one of these tourists
Yeah, as a black person I always enjoyed all the negative sterotypes of being Black AND American while traveling, while also enjoying very little perks of being American.😊
as a german my family never did the towel thing, i always thought it was odd
Its a galaxy-hitchhiker thing?
@@Canonfudder ah i love hitchhikers guide to the galaxy :D
worst things about living in hungary
The fact that the local administration think you're actually living in "Slovakia" or "Romania"?
im in germany but nice try
I love the edits
Hostels are fun. From the impulse reservation of a place that turned out to be an apartment with an extra room with 8 bunk bed spaces (was fun tho, Belgrade), drinking all night in Sarajevo with people you barely know, to taking care of a middle aged drunk that praises you as a "very kind man" for bringing him water.
Only have had good experiences so far