What's The Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said To You? AMERICAN REACTS pt. 3
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This was tough to watch! - Zábava
I'm from New Zealand and got asked if we have internet in New Zealand. I said yes, they asked how much slower it is than in the US. So I said it depends on how fast the hobbits are running on the day. The joke went over their head.
New Zealand has amazing internet. Wish we did in Australia!
Love it , love NZ I went there on holiday . Beautiful country
The joke would also go over most New Zealanders heads much easier because you're all tiny Hobbitses!
French here, loved the joke ;)
By the way, I don't know if it's the same for you guys in NZ, but here in France we usually have WAY higher internet speeds than in the US and for MUCH cheaper ! xD
I was in the USA once, been back many times. And I was in a church in Philadelphia, and someone asked me: "When am I moving to the USA?". I said, 'I am not". He said "Why?". I said, "I live in the best country in the world, Australia! Why on earth, would I want to move here?". He was in total shock, mainly that someone else thought their country was better than the USA. Will never forget it.
would have loved to have seen their faces - you should have video it - their reactions would have been hilarious
@@bodybalanceU2 ha ha yes
Too right my Aussie cousin from NZ
@@maidaursuladawn44glasgow3 Ah man, love you Kiwis. We are pretty much the luckiest bastards in the world.
I too believe that it is the arrogance born of ignorance that makes me feel really sorry for them
When I was in Nepal, an American told me "You speak English well for a foreigner". I teplied "So do you", but he didnt get what I meant.
Oh I love this.
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you teplied that? nice
I don't understand this obsession with some Americans who say they're Irish, or Scottish or whatever, when it was their great, great grandmother who actually came from another country
Kind of like african Americans?
the irony - they hate immigrants and "love" america but keep telling us they are immigrants
@@skipdakota9864 You do know the difference between race and nationality right? You belong in this video.
As someone with that obsession, it's hard to explain, I think for me it's a respect for the past actions of those peoples. But than again I might be wrong
@@ethanwillis7369 have you been to the country you say you're from?
I’m from Australia and got asked how did I get to the US….. so I told her I swam there…. Lucky I’m a good swimmer. She just nodded her head…… ha ha ha
Lol I’m Aussie too
I men that's the only way to get to America right?
Omfg! Yeah, bro, that is SO bad! I am so sorry and please know not all of us are that degree of blithering idiot. I hope you are well there in Australia. -American Citizen
@@joshuaciresoli2927 I have lots of Friends from the US, it’s 100% not all Americans. It’s just random people you meet that just want to hear you talk because you’re Australian. I remember also going to Walmart with one of my American friends. We were talking about all the different products. Every isle we went down, there was a lady stopping to look at items on the shelf near us. It was very obvious. It just makes me laugh.
Well! Aussies are good swimmers. They have to be to get away from the sharks when surfing.
Love the Spanish womans line "honey we are the colonisers" that was so funny and true.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas
and it was funny that matey pulled her up on it. see above
I've spoken to a couple of Americans that think white people shouldn't speak Spanish because "only Mexicans should speak Spanish". Pointing out there's a whole country in Europe, full of people from various races that all speak Spanish only got them angry about cultural appropriation or something... I'm not sure, I stopped listening to the ranting. I should never have said learning a second language is a good idea, especially if there's a lot of people who live in your area that speak (here's my mistake) Spanish... In Europe, speaking 2, 3 or more languages is very common.
Which you probably know, if you live here... Guessing by the spelling of "colonisers".
Propper answer to: "Because you guys were colonized.", would be: "Not we! You were!". :D
Many Americans think that we the Spanish people are like Mexican. I'm sure that if I go to the US I will get confused with a Mexican.
The French person's reaction was 100% iconically French. 🤣
I flew with my daughter from Pittsburgh to Atlanta to fly home. My neighbor heard us speaking German. He asked if he could ask me something about Germany: I: go ahead. Do you think Hitler is still alive and just waiting to come back? This conversation was in 2010. Hitler was born in 1889. How am I supposed to answer that? The other shocking question was whether the concentration camps are still active. History and arithmetic were definitely not his strengths. And there are questions that are not only stupid, but also offensive.
He probably thinks Elvis is still alive too!
typisch dummer Ami
@@valsyaranamual6853 "Elvis is not dead. Elvis just went home"
That is probably why they can't pick the US on a map. They probably think that they are floating around in the ocean.
@@nagyzoli and The man in Black has joined him...
As someone who works at a supermarket in Australia, this lady came up to ask me where the turkey legs were for thanksgiving. And I told her we don't usually have turkey all year round just at Christmas, and that we don't celebrate thanksgiving in Australia lol. She looked utterly bewildered at this information 😂
...but you can have some emu legs... 😁
@@schmoemi3386 good luck finding those..
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@@schmoemi3386 😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
I have seen turkey legs and turkey mince at Woolworths but only see whole turkey closer to Christmas and I am in Canberra
In fairness to the French woman, if they thought that she sounded Chinese, they were obviously listening with their eyes.
isnt that how americans listen
I remember years ago someone asked me what language I speak and I said Australian English but he kept asking me what language I speak. I guess he was listening with his eyes too. I have Chinese parents but they came to Australia when I was 2 1/2 so I have an Australian accent and speak fluent English.
I'd be willing to bet they judged her before she even spoke. That's usually how it goes.
He really annoyed me. I guess that's why I can still remember that incident so many years later.
Yeah, but a french accent is very different from a chinese one. And can we acknowledge that a lot of the remarks described in the video are simply racist?
Both my sisters went to the US to study for a year. Both were absolutely bored in school. They were learning things at 18 years old that we already got at 14. Especially the level of maths was basic. And some things were just wrong. Then I learned that some schools in the US, and not just the poor ones, haven't updated their textbooks for a decade. Borders change, countries change name, what was known in biology now is proven wrong three years later, physics is moving on. You have to update your books! And teachers need to get classes to know what's new!
That's sad
The Americans don’t even update their laws or technology. They still cook on gas stoves. 😂
I was on holiday in the US from Australia. I was asked by an American if we had roads in Australia. He thought we just pointed our cars in the general direction of where we had to go and just drive there in a straight line. He was dead serious.
😂 Well at least he knew we had cars and don't ride around on kangaroos.
To be fair that was a thing not to long ago. Still do it occasionally out in the desert.
It works with the sled dogs 🇨🇦😉
@@joandsarah77 of course not, that's what you guys use the emu's for, right?
@@overlordmateus407 That's right mate.
We had American airmen visiting our air base in Queensland for the duration of big joint exercise. I'd gotten to know quite a few during my off duty hours at the Officers Mess [BOQ]. This guy, he knew from our talks that I came from Perth Western Australia and I guess I must have impressed him with how great it was there. One Friday, night he came up to me and told me he had the weekend off, had hired a car and was intending drive to Perth for the weekend and did I wish to come along? I explained that while it was a great idea, it was like trying to drive from New York to Los Angeles and BACK in 2 days! He got the point, but what gave me pause was the fact that he was also a navigator on one of their planes....
Regardless, I still love you guys!
Oh...ouch
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yes, the american relation to distances and time is baffling. I had someone tell me that they would land in Amsterdam in Holland at 10.00 am local time, and could they come for coffee in the afternoon. I live in Denmark close to the german border, but even driving at full speed on the expressway (130 km per hour) which would scare an american ....less, would maybe get them to my door sometime in the evening. They declined.
A well known story from northern Norway: An american couple booked a midnight sun cruise. They sat outside the whole night looking for the midnight sun. The next day they demanded a refund: because it was the same sun that they could see during the daytime...
I'm german and was an exchange student in the USA. I attended a German class there and the German teacher had German sayings on the wall. One of them doesn't exist in German and was also grammatically incorrect. So one day after class, I went to her and was like 'I don't wanna cause any trouble or anything, I just wanted to tell you that we don't use that saying in Germany and the grammar is also off'. She answers 'no you do say that and the grammar is perfectly fine' and I'm like "ehhhh I'm a native German speaker, no its not' and she then basically told me that I just must not be as good at German as her. I stood there like '??? I'm german and I have straight As in my german classes in freaking Germany. I think I know what I'm talking about'
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On a visit to India I was told by the Indian leader of our group that I didn't know proper English being from Australia. :)
@@rais1953 yeah... that's possible... Indians follow English as per Grammar and though what Australians speak is English... It's mostly gramatically incorrect
@@ayushkumarjha8410 You'll forgive me, Ayush bhai, if at the same time I find that response amusing and see it as a demonstration of exactly what I meant. Australia has received millions of immigrants since World War II and although the largest numbers now come from India and China for a long time the largest numbers were coming from the UK. At high school my English teacher was a native Englishman. (My French teacher was Dutch!) Yes Australians and all other native speakers of English have our own colloquialisms but high school and university educated Australians are very aware of standard English. If you go on line and listen to a few programmes from the ABC you will find the English very similar to the English spoken on the BBC although the vowel accents differ. In my case I was trying to demonstrate to our Indian friend the correct standard pronunciation of English "th", a dental fricative which is entirely different from the way it is pronounced in Hindi and Urdu as an aspirated dental stop. (For a good demonstration see YT video HackXell _Hindi /th/ vs English /th/)_ My pronunciation of this sound is the same as the standard pronunciation in both England and the US although in Ireland and New York it's different. He refused to believe me. Oh well, I tried :)
To be fair, I'm German too, and my brother went to school with a boy from Italy who had this exact same experience with their teacher in Italian class, so it's not just Americans 😅
The accusation of 'gaslighting' got me 🤣🤣🤣
And the terrorist one didn't?
@@JBofBrisbane Oh, that whole interaction was ridiculous, for sure, lol.
I'm a Black American who has lived and worked in Germany since the 1970's. I sent my daughter to live with my parents for a year to go to high school in suburban Philadelphia, so she could experience American life other than just on vacation. It was also an opportunity for her to become even more fluent in English. Within the 1st week of school she'd seriously been asked several times if she - and Afro-German girl - was a Nazi....
Seriously, had to sign in for this one .. a literal palm to forehead, eyes bulging in disbelief. Had a good laugh too, but as well as very funny that's deeply scary.
Blacks can’t be nazis?
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With the technology we have today, ignorance is really no excuse for not understanding about the world you live upon.
Exactly
Yeah, but you’ve got to keep up with the Kardashians.
What more can you expect from a nation who call a liquid, 'gas'.
I think that every time I hear a person use the term gas
@@wallacefootrot6054
Wal Footrot. Now there's a name I haven't heard for a few years. How's Cheeky Hobson getting along these days?
Dog still doesn't like her! Still tries to separate us.
On a side note, I do want to inherit all of dads comics including Snake and Asterix (if you've heard of that one)
@@wallacefootrot6054
Certainly have. I attribute my passion for early European history to a misspent youth pouring over Asterix, hidden inside my text books at primary school, of course. Aside from learning to; read, write and count, best education pocket money could ever buy.
Wow! You're the third person I've come across that's heard of Asterix. Being Australian, I read the english Asterix version.
Personal experience. This was in 1983. I drove to Shelby Montana from Calgary Alberta. Shelby is about 40 miles from the Canadian border. I stopped for gas and the attendant noticed my license plates from Alberta. He asked where was Alberta, I said about 40 miles north in Canada. And he said you have cars like this up there. So I told him that there is a parking lot about 30 miles up where I park the car and take my dog sled up from there....
That was 1983, but you'll be shocked that some people still don't know a thing about Canada in 2023.... 😂
And you are not helping...the irony is missplaced with these people and he WILL believe you!!!
I showed some pictures of Aboriginal people to an American friend and she didn’t believe Australia could have black people. She accused me and the book they were in of lying and stealing pictures from Africa. But at least she’d heard of Australia and Africa.
so did she think that white australians had been around for 40000 years???
@@bodybalanceU2 I don’t think she knew how long white Americans had been around.
Did she think Africa was a country? I've heard that one a couple times.
@@littlecatfeet9064 dont they have to go to school in the usa
@@bodybalanceU2 they do, but it’s always a school that doesn’t teach geography 😸
Are you really afraid of HISTORY Ryan?? Yes, Spain DID colonize MANY countries centuries ago, as did England and France! It doesn't make them "bad" - it simply factual - duh!
Was just about to write about that. He had no idea!
@@dawnmccarthy8679 Strange as Spain and Portugal were the main colonisers of the Americas, followed by French and English. And Dutch, a little bit
@@dawnmccarthy8679 I'm sure he was making a tongue- in- cheek comment. Americans know that Spain colonised parts of the US such as California, Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Texas etc. Spanish is the second language in the US and taught in their high schools.
I give it fifty years until their primary language is Spanish with comments of “my great great grandmother was Mexican” 🤔😆
@@jennifergawne3002 Nobody mentions Germany? It was at one time a very close thing whether the main Language to be spoken in The USA would be German, English was narrowly chosen.
I was asked if we (Australian's) learn our accent at school. 🤣🤣
My ex’s cousin is from America and was visiting Australia for 6 months, and she wanted to bring her tv with her, cos she doesn’t like the tv shows we get in Australia lol 😂
Is she a blonde?
Dear oh dear...
@@marionthompson3365 actually she is a blonde 26 yr old named kelly
@@sarahgreen8409 🤣🤣🤣
Has she tried NordVPN?
@@ilovecats52fandom it’s a face palm, The point is she actually thought taking her tv would give her different channels then the Australian tvs would, nothing to do with streaming services 😂
The strangest one I ever got was from a guy in Florida (of course) who was surprised that I used 'real' English. When I asked why he informed me that Australians only spoke in cockney rhyming slang and simply would not listen to that being incorrect.
It still baffles me
Probably came across this, when reading an Etymological book or article on the Australian accent. I have read that Cockney is part of the dialect.👍 Not all of course 😊
I woulda told him to hit the frog n toad
Would you Adam and Eve it!!!
what a Berkley Hunt.
I know an American sitcom had Australians talking in rhyming slang decades after the habit faded away.
I arrived in New York in the 90's just before the New Years celebrations. I was wearing a top with my scuba diving top on with my rescue diver badge sewn onto it. This girl heard my accident and asked where I was from. I told her I was from Australia. She looked at my top and me why I'd do scuba diving because, "I heard there were a lot of sharks in Australia." I thought I'd have a joke and replied, "there are no sharks in Australia. The crocodiles ate all the sharks." She was jaw dropping stunned and asked, "oh my god, how big ae the crocodiles?"
I was in New Zealand for the turn of the Millennium. Everyone around the world was scared all the computers were going to crash with the Y2K bug. They should have just called someone in New Zealand or Australia from the future to check. We would have said ‘it’s all good mate, the computers didn’t crash’
😂😂😂😂 👍 gold
hey but we were still silly though - i remember my mother stocking up on water because she believed the Y2K bug was going to cause global devastation 🤣
Don't be silly, they don't have computers in austria !
It's actually pretty funny cause in this particular sense of being "in the future" our computers really were. Maybe that's the joke, but I guess I should add in reality they had already remedied the issue before 2000 came around.
@@osez111 this deserves more likes
I 'm Austrian, Mid-Europe. Got asked by an New Yorker on what sea'level we plant our coffee, because we are so famous for our coffe-culture. Told him, where coffee usually grows on the Equator, we only plant stones at a level of 2000 yards. There is snow the whole year. We only roast the beans and make much better coffee than starbucks...
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Everyone makes coffee better than Starbucks… 😅👍🦘🙃
I was an Aussie travelling around Europe as a young fella. It was late at night in a youth hostel in Germany. There were some Aussies and Japanese skylarking about. Next thing we here "Would you shut up. I am an American. I want to go to sleep". Well. The ruckus only got louder including the American national anthem being sung. Many laughs.
I have one. So, I'm from Italy, and every year there is this film festival near my city, where people from all over the world participate in a Jury and usually watch movies together, interview important actors and directors and go to concerts together with the locals. Of course americans come here every year too. One year, i met this kid from Chicago that was about 15 yo. He sat on the bus near me and he was eating popcorn from a huge bag for breakfast. I thought it was pretty funny that he was being the stereotypical american, but moved on. We talked for a bit and then he stared for a moment out of the window, saw an airplane flying in the air and then he said: "oh, so you have planes too!"
I paused because i didn't know what to say, then I just asked: "well, how do you think you got here in the first place?"
He looked at me dead in the eye and said: "by bus."
I'm still wondering where is the route that connects the US to Italy.
He took an airbus, probably... 🤔
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A330
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@@schmoemi3386 I'm not sure if American flying companies have Airbuses. I think they're all Boeings.
@@paulavitoria1798 Delta has Airbuses. American Airlines has Airbuses. United Airlines has Airbuses... 🤷♂
Do they not have maps of the world in US classrooms? It just seems these people have a very poor concept of the US in its geographic context.
But the maps they have probably still have the Soviet Union, East Germany and Yugoslavia on them.
I would go as far to say they show Pangaea, and they think it's the US.
There are many Americans who could not figure out where the USA is on a world map. They also don’t know the difference between a country and a continent. It’s the very low level of education provided at US schools and also the mentally that everything outside of the USA is irrelevant and totally unimportant.
Ryan…step…away…from…the…pause…button. 😂😂😂
...but that's kinda what his channel is about ... 😮😮😮
Don't worry mate. There are idiots everywhere. I know a lot of Americans and have American friends and none of them are stupid. Being ignorant isn't being stupid, ignorance can be remedied, stupid is forever.
Absolutely true. And it seems there are multiple people wanting to remedy it.
A big problem though (also not only american but apperent in the american public) is that many seem to want to stay ignorant. Meaning they are willfully ignorant and that makes them not only ignorant anymore.
I would say it's even worse than being less intelligent, bc you don't choose the latter. Staying dumb aka ignorant is a desicion.
Fortunately, none of the people I known in the US is like like this.
only, there are over 300 million americans. so there is a bigger group of people that have the American nationality that acting dumb and/or being stupid then there is usually elsewhere.
As some people said that truly encapsulate the situation: "it's not that all Americans are dumb, is that all of the dumbest shit I have heard come from Americans"
I'm from Germany and my daughter studied in den US for several months and she reported similar experiences several times. I think the US education system is really bad. From an european perspective such a mindset is unthinkable.
I have noticed that often when US americans say world they mean the US. This shows a strange mindset which has no real idea that the real world is much bigger.
And that is not because the US are so huge. There are other huge countries but in my personal experience no one there has such a strange mindset. And I lived several months in Russia and China. I think this is a mix of arrogance and lack of education in the US.
Perfectly said 👏 I am from Czech Republick and I need to say, that our school system is little bit old, better say obsolete. But when i compare it to US, thank god, that we have what we have 🙏 We would never have graduated with their american knowledge level or get accepted to university. In elementary school we have to know what they barely learn in high school. It's really funny, that americans consider themselves the center of the world, but they don't know what that map looks like...😄😄😄
Hi Ryan, that was seriously brave on your part. I sympathised, and laughed (sorry) when you bounced out of your chair in momentary angst). We know it’s not all Americans. Ok here’s mine, I was holidaying alone in Paris (best way to go) having dinner at a restaurant with a fabulous view across the Tuileries Gardens and the River Seine.
At the next table an American woman sits down with teenage daughter and daughter’s friend. She says to the kids, “So we’ve done Paris Disney and Hard Rock Cafe, what else is there to do?”
After I finished choking on my soup I excused myself said hello (let the usual “oh my you speak English well” when I said I was Australian pass) and pointed to the big old building across the road on the left, the Louvre, full of Renaissance art and a huge range of other collections too. Then to the building across the river, Musee D’Orsay - the Impressionist artists and finally to the right at the end of the gardens the Musee D’Orsay where Monet’s famous water Lilly paintings were housed.
She was blown away by what she perceived to be “expert” knowledge but really is basic guide book stuff.
Yeah and there are stand everywhere for tourist written in multiple languages
I guess they never heard of the Eiffel Tower either. ;-)
@@autohmae
That's in Vegas ;)
@@xrc7445 😂
@@xrc7445 in another reaction channel, i saw a in a tweet an american guy claiming "the french made a copy of the eiffel tower that is in Vegas, to put it in their own country". imagine them learning that the Statue of Liberty is actually a gift from France...🤣
i also taught my american friends that we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, because it's not a french tradition :)
Some statements are so ridiculously outrageous, that they are bloody funny. What’s also funny is that they think that these questions or statements are sensible. Don’t worry we get some pretty dumb people here in Australia 🇦🇺 too.
Not in Queensland though 🙄
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
The French woman who "may have Chinese parents" WTF she's French she said she's French so what does China have to do with it. She also doesn't need to calm down she's doing an impression of a patronising American person
Yeap, she clearly impersonated an American woman. And her accent is CLEARLY french.
France colonized Southwast Asia. Likely, one of her ancestors was from that region.
My thoughts exactly. I was a bit shocked by that comment.
I read the 'passion' with which you write and the phrase 'The lady doth protest too much' springs to mind. Yeah, we both know what I mean
What is amazing and could do with scientific investigation is how Americans that are absolutely convinced of something they know nothing about insist on talking about it loudly and gravitate towards video cameras.
i dare to say dunning kruger ...
I’ve met Americans that think America is the whole world
So does that mean America invades America a lot then?
America and not American duhhh
You could blow their tiny minds if you showed them a world atlas. Then again, they would probably claim it was a “fake” book.
I lived in the US with my American husband for 5 years, before we then made Australia our home.
I worked in an administrative role for a company in California, and I heard many, many strange things, but here are the top two.
1. A young woman came to work in our sales department and asked me what language I spoke at home.
2. My boss did not believe me when I mentioned that it was summer at Christmas time in Australia. I had to explain that the seasons are reversed in the opposite hemispheres of the earth; and to everyone that was listening.
Here's another true story, which I've added after hearing one of the comments in the video: My sister came to stay with me when I was expecting my first baby, as my husband was deployed and would be away for the birth. Anyway, she ended up staying 6 months, and when her departure date was approaching, we ran into one of the sales team from my workplace at the mall, who asked, "Are you driving or flying home to Australia?" She learned something new that day, when we explained that Australia is an island on the other side of the world, surrounded by ocean.
I would take offense at that girls insult too Ryan. There is no need for people to become abusive; it's very unattractive.
The only time I felt insulted whilst living in America was when people assumed I married my husband to gain a green card.
Wer will schon eine Green Card? Ich lebe in Deutschland, und ich möchte mit keinem Amerikaner tauschen. Das wäre zu viel Stress für mich. Älter werde ich auch mit den Jahren. Ich brauche Sicherheit und Komfort. In Kalifornien ist es sehr schön, aber wahnsinnig teuer zu leben. Die US-Amerikaner, die hier leben, denken ähnlich...
Technically, Australia is a continent.
@@voulafisentzidis8830 If you said that then some people in the usa might still assume you can drive there. After all, North and South America are connected by a bridge; Europe and Asia are part of the same landmass and close enough to Africa to consider a tunnel or bridge... Meanwhile, the continent of Oceania, which includes "continental" Australia ("continental" because it has the most continuous landmass and thus gets the title), New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and many waaaay smaller countries, is all islands with a _lot_ of oceanic distance between them. We're each crazy isolated compared the rest of the world to the degree it's almost too difficult for most people to conceptualise -- even for us Aussies, sometimes.
@@conspiracypanda1200 as a kiwi who has looked at maps it's obvious that water divides us. Given the ease with which people can investigate and learn, it's a pity we all don't do more of that.
Thanks for your clear and precise definition of the continents.
@@voulafisentzidis8830 Smallest continent or largest island... take your pick.
I grew up on the Canadian/U.S. border, along the Niagara River. The U.S. is about 1 kilometre away. Seriously, the dumb things I have heard Americans say can be counted in the millions. We always find it odd that they seem to flat out refuse to get to know their next door neighbour.
Yeah, well I’m English born, grew up in New Zealand and have lived in Australia for the past four decades. The misconceptions about life in each of these countries, from others who have never visited the place they’re asking about, are legendary, but here’s something I have noticed about Candadians in particular. Not all of them, but enough that it has aroused my curiosity.
My wife is French Canadian. Both of us have observed that a lot of Canucks seem to get SERIOUSLY upset if they’re mistaken for Americans, which is something I cannot relate to at all. Kiwis and Aussies tease one another a lot and the rivalry extends well beyond sports, but I have NEVER in my life heard an Aussie or a Kiwi lose their cool in such a spectacular fashion as I have seen some Canadians do if they’re mistaken for Americans. I’m SURE this is only a very small percentage of Canadians, but as I said, I have personally witnessed some very high levels of aggression from Candians whom Kiwis or Aussies have mistaken for people who come from the USA. I guess it might be because the USA is the default for many of us down under, but we don’t care if foreigners mix us up, so I’m genuinely puzzled by this behaviour from people I’ve found to be very polite most of the time. I have come across some obnoxious people from various countries (including NZ and Australia) in my travels, so I know there are all sorts, all over, but this Canadian severe aversion to being called a Yank is some kind of anomaly I’m determined to try and unravel.
1 ) I would say because many of the things in US culture we in Canada find really quite repugnant. The deep-set racial hatred against people of colour, for one thing. The extreme religous beliefs getting into American politics and thought most of their society The casual acceptence, and normalization of violence. The unbelievably poor education in the majority of the schools leading to unbelievably ignorant people with no knowledge of world history or even world geography, and the fact many Americans seem to be proud of their lack of knowledge. The American belief that Canadians live in igloos is an actual thing, that and the American general lack of courtesy is very grating to us.
There is nowhere in Canada where the professor in a first year medical class has to explain that men and woman have the same number of ribs. There is nowhere in Canada that the Bible is one of the textbooks in Science classes.
2) The biggest reason for the violent reaction: most Americans seem to believe that Canadians are just yearning to become Americans. I cannot tell you how often I have been asked "Why doesn't Canada just become part of the US? You are so like us." They cannot seem to understand that Canada and the US have totally different histories, leading to totally different societies, with very different values and social systems.
We are a non-violent, multicultural, secular society, which values education and supporting the rights of all of us. Example: All offical forms have checkboxes for peferred pronouns for male, female, trans, gender fluid as well as peferred language, and our country has not blown-up or fallen into the sea. It has been nearly twenty years since same-sex marriage was recognized as a human right and completely protected under the law in all of Canada.
In another example. we may not agree with each other about politics but you do not hear us call the other parties demons, and state that the other party are all child molesters. "Brainless twit" might be muttered between clenched teeth but that is about as bad as it gets. And the majority of Canadians believe in and support our democratic society, even if we don't have flags on every house.
I hope this explains some of the reasons that Canadians react badly to being called Yanks.
No, I had dumbest. They’ve asked me why an Argentinian and I spoke Spanish. I answered: why an English and you speak the same language.
He just got mad and said: I’m not kidding!
The thing is, neither was I
American Couple: "Why does everyone speak N4zi?"
That was at the airport... in germany.
An American lady said to me where are you from I said Australia she said I loved that movie The Sound of Music
Then when we went to Vegas we were asked what’s that accent is it New York but we didn’t care we had a blast Lol ❤️🇦🇺🐨🐨🇦🇺❤️
I get that a lot, people thinking Australia is Austria lol
Over 40 years ago I lived and worked in London ( I am English, born in Germany at a British Military Hospital. My parents were in the RAF stationed out there in the 50s ) One time an American in London said to me, "I have a friend in London" ( he told me his name ) and said, "Do you know him?" I said to him "No of course not, do you know how big London is, and how many millions of people live there?" / Another time another American ( typical tourist, loud and fat ) said to me, "So you live here too, do you know the Queen?" --- I had to walk off shaking my head and laughing! 😂😂🤣 In reality I met Princess Diana back in 1985 and chatted to her and took some photos. She was magical and is still sorely missed! I feel sorry for you because I would feel so ashamed if so many of us were that dumb and stupid!
The matter of hemisphere seasons, I recently found myself having to dumb down my language to explain to one that everywhere below the equator is opposite to above the equator after she thought only Australia was opposite, not everywhere else. Usually I treat these people as having a bit of fun, only to know when they're serious when they get a bit upset when I'm laughing. Like the one who didn't understand that the sun does not move North to South but East to West.
I hope one day you visit Australia .. you would fit in just perfectly !!!! And I’m sure all we Aussies would welcome you !!! Regards from an Aussie currently living in Vanuatu
Do ppl in Vanuatu live in mud huts?
I told an American friend, I’d get in my row boat with my floaties on and should be there in about a week. She believed me.
I lived on campus with loads of Americans who came in every 6 months on exchange and none of them really showed any of these tendencies. We might not have got into enough deep and meaningful conversations and I didn't get to administer any tests to confirm otherwise, but I think that it is only a subset of the population, and particularly the ones who never leave the country, who think like this.
As former Secretary of State Henry Kissenger said about politicians, ninety percent of them ruin the reputation for the other ten.
@@btf_flotsam478 🤣🤣🤣
Someone from NC met me via a phone call when my boyfriend was visiting there. She said “I heard your parents divorced,” and I said “um, yeah, like when I was 6. I’m an adult now so…” and her response “oh honey, I hope it gets better for you” and passed the phone to the next person.
I know it’s not an American thing but it was the stupidest thing an American has said.
At least you are learning. One at a time 🤨. Btw. Mad respect for your love of Straya 🇦🇺 and our specific brand of Weird. Love your work mate. Keep it up🤘
I did two years student exchange in the US and yeah I have plenty of examples of stupid things Americans said, but I also have a shit-ton of stupid things Brits said from a 3 year family working holiday when I was 11-13 years old, eg: do you live in mud huts and do we have newspapers, I'm Australian. However I wouldn't be able to claim absolute honesty without mentioning my friend Rachel (Aussie), who thought Jews were a made up people from really old stories. Idiots are everywhere haha
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Ryan, it’s all right, mate, we know you’re not dumb, how could you be when you’re half Aussie! 🇦🇺😍
LOL that's right mate :)
Happy Arvo ♡
I was in America in 2014 and a woman in a bar I was talking to asked me if we had traffic lights and chocolate in Australia. 🤦🏼♂️
It is too hot for chocolate in Australia. I know that, I've been there. But the traffic lights exist. I've seen them. 🤣🤣
@@perfekteli5381 you are kidding about the chocolate, right? Ours is definitely better than American “chocolate”.
@@kisharadanndando9063 I didn't say that Australian chocolate was bad, I wouldn't even dare. I love this country even though I'm not aussie. Everything is perfect in Australia, although sometimes I don't agree at all with their political decisions. Aussies have bad taste in Prime Ministers. But I wish the Australians only the best. Lots of rain, less fire and finally being heard in the world along with the rest of oceania because of climate catastrophe. Best wishes.
Chocolate? That is so odlly specific
@@perfekteli5381 Yeah, a lot of Aussies also agree that we have bad taste in Prime Ministers
I was in America many years ago and a woman asked me where I was from. When I told her "Australia" she said to me "Oh yeah, that's where they have all of those animals that grow cotton on their backs". Derrr . . . they're called SHEEP and it's WOOL, not cotton.
OMG, WTF!
I was in the USA at a supermarket and asked a guy who worked in the produce section if they have fresh mint - and after several minutes of repeating it carefully and slowly, thinking he didn't understand my Aussie accent - it turned out he just didn't know what it was...
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Tf is fresh mint? Like breath mints?
@@BDESal Where do you think the "mint" flavour comes? It's a plant! A herb used in culinary. Haven't you ever heard about mint tea?
@@paulavitoria1798 fresh mint leaves is an essential part of "mint Julep", an american southern drink associated with the Kentucky Derby, a famous horse racing thing.
I went to Japan in 2017 with my mum and we went on a day tour to kyoto with a group of Americans. My mum and I were the only aussies there and I remember how rude the Americans were in terms of etiquette. I know obviously all aren’t like that but I vividly remember getting onto a train and it was dead silent, eveyone on there was just minding their business and this group of like 12 Americans come on and start yelling and waving their flags around it was just disrespectful. My mum and I just did not associate. I also remember having a kid talk to me, he didn’t say anything dumb tbh, he just seemed like he had a massive culture shock when learning that yes - there are indeed places outside the US
This is what happens when education is replaced with an indocterine system.
12:25 And the worst part about that: Macchu Picchu is not even a Mayan ruin - it's an Inca ruin.
I know right.
At least they speak Spanish there, too... 🤣
intelligence has it's limits but stupidity doesn't
Mate, that's really rude to imply someone would have a Chinese/Asian accent because of their parents, when they were BORN and RAISED in said country. Do you realise how much implicit, indirect and direct racism people of Asian decent face in white anglo countries?
I was just thinking the same thing. It lowkey sounds like racism to thing that bevares your parents are from Asian decent you have to talk like that even if you are born and raised in a completely different country
It’s the same when Americans say that they are Italian or Irish but they are cleary American. In Europe we mostly count nationality as where you are from (we’re you’re living). For example you are not Italian if you’ve never lived in Italy and only visited for 2 weeks because of your family tree
Sadly racism is a thing that people do everywhere. Some of the Asian countries are horrendously racist toward white people, it's the same in every country on earth.
@@woopimagpie It absolutely is not. I'm talking about people of Asian descent who were born and grew up in a white Anglo country, which are not monocultures by any means. In particular, racism is absolutely not okay in Australia, a country which now has taken on the identity of being multicultural. You're obviously not someone of an ethnic background who grew up in a white country, because you obviously don't realise how sinister it is when somebody tries to deny you of your identity and of your upbringing. Being called a ching chong, or whatever derogatory term, is far less sinister, but even that sort of overt racism shouldn't happen at all - czcams.com/video/lPiHToMu7Uo/video.html
I'm from the Philippines and we do have a Chinese minority population here, and some of them do have a bit of an accent despite being born and raised here.
I'm not going to cancel this man for what he suggested, because it's not really out of the realm if possibility. I've also seen Mexicans who were born and raised in the US and they still developed a bit of an accent. It's nothing to be offended about in my opinion.
As this guy Biko (part 2) said: "stupidity is in no way a specifically American trait, but when Americans do it, damn they do well" :-D
They biggest difference to me seems that many Americans, how completely ignorant they might be on a subject, always give you their opinion on it and stick to it. Besides the fact that a lot them really think that the USA is The (only) Center of the world.
Dont fight it Ryan...embrace the fact that youre one of the intelligent minority 😂
P.s. Come to Australia. You'll love it 😊 🦘🐨🐍🦈🕸🐊
Hi Ryan, kudos to you for doing this video despite of the embarrassment. Some are funny while some are simply straightforward moronic but we have all this kind of people all across the globe.
Um, the time i was asked how long the bus trip would take me when i told friends i was returning to Australia....to be fair it was 1976.
9:36 I'm a French native speaker from Quebec (Canada), and I have French friends online and I watch French content. I can vouch : She 100% has French attitude and kind of delivery lol
As a Canadian, i never... NEVER thought I would get asked.
"Canada, you live in Igloos?"
Until I was in Boston and a tech exec asked me this.
I was overjoyed as a Canadian, because I think Canadians prep for this question.
My response
"No. I am from around Toronto. We build longhouses as there is not enough snow year round."
This exec was actually believing me. Another exec, from Detroit, silently killing themselves laughing. (Detroit/Windsor has a century long automotive partnership. If you are from Detroit you can see Canada)
The detroit guy stips him and says, "You know the CN Tower?"
"Yeah"
"Thats in Toronto"
"It is? I thought it was in the US."
The Detroit exec took me aside and apologized and explained his wifes family is from London ON.
I told him to watch what happens when I pay the bet for first homerun in Canadian Dollar.
I tossed a Canadian dollar on a stack of George Washingtons. They look at me thinking its a quarter.
"Naw. Its a Loonie"
"Whats a Loonie?"
"It's what we call our dollar."
"You call your dollar a Loonie?"
"Why?"
"Cause of the bird on it."
"You named a dollar after a duck?"
"....Yes. that duck is Loonie Le Renard. Its a Canadian duck that warned the British about the American invasion of 1892 and commemorates the battle of Stoney Creek." (A Parody of Laura Secord)
This exec is buying it hook, line, and sinker. The detroit guy is just dying as he knows some history of Canada/US war of 1812.
Finally he stops me and tells his fellow exec, "The Loon is a bird. It lives in the North and we have them in Michigan. They named it as a joke because of the Bird."
I explain the story of Laura Secord, the warning of thebbritish and the battle of Stoney Creek. His response...
"We invaded Canada?"
"You tried. So are you gonna choose a colour for the whitehouse or just keep it white?"
He looks at me in confusion
"Yeah. British troops from Canada burnt the whitehouse and America was too poor to afford colored paint to repair it so they just white washed the house."
"Really?"
"Yeah. It was the first recorded instance of White washing in America" *sips champagne*
At this point the exec is looking at me in confusion. (This is pre google, 1999, no smart phones.)
He tells me bullshit...
The Detroit executive smiles and tells the other executives
"Nope. All true. Canada nearly destroyed America."
Never have I seen a look of confusion on a mans face. He looks at me and asks why he never knew about it.
"Losers don't like to think they lost"
It was a pleasant day.
#1 has to be the best I heard - besides asking me if I had a good Thanks Giving day. I once convinced my American Co-workers that Boxing Day is where we wear boxing gloves on & punch each other out LOL. 1988 first trip to USA "Hey Man can you say something in Australian ?" & I just said "Hello" I think the Crocodile Dundee II movie was affecting their brains.
Boxing Day invented in 1817 When Keith Mighoulies witnessed 2 kangaroos fighting near some tinsel.
Good one... I'm gunna try this out myself 😂😂😂😂
You missed the opportunity to wheel out your best "owyagoinmate, stone the flamin' crows youse yanks are grouse mate", only for them to go "what????"
Keep it in mind for next time 🙂
@@woopimagpie We had alot of fun that the Aboriginal Word for hello was "Wollongong" & the word for goodbye was "Wangaratta". 1988 we went to a joint called Flakey Jakes for dinner where they call your name out. I got my order ok but my 2 mates were delayed as they could understand their accents. Our revenge came on our last night "Orders for Phil McAvity, Michael Fitzpatrick & Ben Doone are ready now LOL. Other times we used Ned Kelly, Ben Hall & Fred Ward LOL.
@@matthewbrown6163 LOL, that reminds me of the Chaser when they got the airline hostess to page a Mr Al Kyda and a Mr Terry Wrist over the PA system. Too good.
I'm thinking, like, that 'like' is maybe the most overused word in, like, America or is that, like, only with the, like, young people?
Petrol is a liquid, not a gas the clue's in the fucking name.🤦🏻♂️⛽.
The pure arrogance of some people telling you "no you're wrong" about where you live, what language you speak. And the French woman has a purely french accent, no trace of Chinese accent.
"They don't represent us", sorry pal but they do .
I love the reaction I get when I tell Americans they're living in the past......they never get it.
Oh boy. Sometimes i think you either need a hug or a pillow to scream into after there. Probably both ;) Thanks for sharing.
It's ok its not exclusive to Americans. During an election campaign the Prime Minister visited the supermarket where i worked in Sydney and one of my colleagues didn't know who he was or that there was an election coming
the funniest thing that happen to me, was an American asked me am I English when I was in the USA. that would been ok I guess but at the time I was wearing t shirt with map of Australia on it.
It's a map!
They wouldn't even know what a map of Australia looks like. I've seen videos where they're shown a map of the USA upside down or on it's side and asked what country it is and they haven't got a clue haha
I think what's great about these videos is how into it you are. Have died laughing once or twice as you lose your stuff
Why do people call themselves African American etc you are where you were born ie: born in Africa you are African, born in America you are American.
No, you are not from where you are born. At least you do not have always the nationality from where you are born. For exemple here in Switzerland if your grand-parents come from Italy, your dad was born in Switzerland and you too, you still don't have the nationality unless you carry out administrative procedures with the Confederation. After that you have both nationalities. The same with a lot of countries !
Because Black people in the U.S. wanted to be called something other than the slave terrm Ni^^^r, and American society could not deal with the fact 'real that' Americans could have dark skin.
The fact that the french woman didn't have a chinese accent gave away that she doesn't have a chinese accent.
The awkward pause then you saying I didn't appreciate that was comedy gold timing.
I had an American argue with me, saying New Zealand isn't real, that it was made up for the Hobbit movie. What a dick.
Lmao...4:20 I'm sorry. People just say stuff without thinking. I mean, Aussie guy is getting fuel, so he must have driven for a while, right? Lol...I was banned from some forum because I pointed out that I don't need to vote for an American president, because it's just not relevant to me. I'm an Aussie. They got very upset, thinking I was dissing their president elect choices. Tried to tell them I just don't care and am not obliged to vote lol. I have internet friends in the U.S. who still think I'm telling fibs when I say that the state where I live is nearly three times larger than their state (which they're convinced is the biggest and best state, I'll let you figure that one out, but they wear very big hats to keep the sun off very big heads and everything is bigger and better than anywhere else). But generally, most Americans I've chatted with online are quite open minded and curious and don't think such limiting things, usually. They don't swear anywhere near as much as Aussies, which is a good thing. However, there is an underlying belief system which colours their thinking, and that is if it's happening in America, it must matter to the rest of the world. Shocked when it doesn't.
This IS so hard to watch as a fairly cultured American. It is so embarrassing to watch, but I cannot help but watch out of some sense of curiosity and morbid fascination with how few collective brain cells some seem to have.
I insist that you guys put the effort in and encourage your countrymen (is 'countrypeople' a word?) to learn about the rest of the world. This is particularly useful in the modern day and age, where international travel is relatively easy and the Internet respects no geography other than time zones and languages (with even the latter weakening with online translators).
Youre a brave man and bigger than most for putting yourself through this. Why are you doing this to yourself. Every country has their fair share of idiots.
The way the French lady said "bon n razzd" was definitely French accent mate, you really shouldn't confuse it for Chinese (mandarin, cantonese or any of the other thousand local dialects).
14:27 I am waiting for a Miss Universe contest when the aliens show up. Now there is some competition.
Take me to your leader 👽
As an Aussie that is classic 🤣🤣
Best just to see the funny side of it and not take things too seriously. There's people like that everywhere. My funny USA person story was when we were in the queue for tickets at the entrance to Pompei. There was an american family in front of us with their daughter (she was about 18 or so) and she said to her parents 'why did they dig it all up?'. Haha. Her dad looked at us and rolled his eyes, and we all laughed.
I love your face 😂😂👍🏾
Did you FLY here or DRIVE here 🤣🤣🤣
7:44 I am pissing myself laughing. Lucky these people know how to breathe in and out.
i am brazillian, and seeing americans struggle to speak spanish trying to talk to us.. even tho we speak portuguese, its genuinelly hilarious.
"Did you fly here or drive?" 😅😅😅😅 That's Classic!
The one about flying or driving to America fron Australia was the best one in my opinion. I have now watched three of these "dumbest American questions" and I find them hilairious!
Don't be too disheartened. Ignorance is not just in the US, we certainly have them in the UK. It was in the media a few months back were some French football fans flew to Bucharest (Romania) instead of Budapest (Hungary). I think the main thing which stands out in the US is this idea that other countries don't have the internet, cars etc.. including apparently your neighbo(u)rs to the North strangely enough.
Er hang on, why did you mention UK and then went on to use the French for your example? A better example would have been the UK Big Brother cretin Jade Goody who was famous for her gaffs including thinking East Anglia was abroad!
@@B-A-L I don’t deny that. Didn’t know I was obliged to provide a U.K. example. My comment started that with a line that ignorance isn’t just found in the US. I sincerely apologise to your if my response fell short of your expectations.
@@andyt8216 I'm not saying you were obliged I just thought it was odd.
@@B-A-L maybe I could have worded it differently but the focus was that it’s not just the USA. I thought a group of French football fans not knowing the difference between Bucharest, Romania and Budapest, Hungary was a good example of it not just being a US thing. But I shall be mindful to not write odd replies and only provide UK examples in the future.
When i applied to the University of Alaska from Christchurch New Zealand I was tol I'd have to take an English as a second language profiiciency test.
WTF
Jeez, I'd be reconsidering getting an education from a place that tells me that!
I was once working at raf alaconbury in Cambridge, which an American Air force base in the UK.i and my colleagues went to the naafi, for a coffee, and the batista behind the counter asked me what I would like, so I told her and she asked if I could speak English as she didn't understand me. I just said love, your in my country so you need to understand that life does not revolve around America..
Barista. Capitals.
Ime from Yorkshire its batista where I come from,,, no capitals..
I went to school a lot in America on and off. I also had a teacher when I was 10 say "I know in Australia you don't speak English so if you have a problem understanding me put your hand up". I replied, "Que" and pretended for 3 months not to speak English. My mother came for parent teacher interview - boy did I get in trouble.
Americans say Math, Aussies say Maths
After living in the US for a couple of years before returning home to Australia, as well as being married to an American, I dont think its so much a matter of a complete failure of what is being taught, as much as the encouragement to retain information rather than just being pushed through the years. The mentality of no one finishing last, and rewarding failure out of a fear of discouraging people and making people feel bad. Harm to self image is more important than actual learning. No offence. The need to promote positive self image is far more important, as is political correctness and avoiding triggering people. Its like walking on egg shells. Aussies tend to be a little more in your face if you screw up.
Yes I even hear this many times when an American family friend were visiting us in Canada and were talking with our family from many parts of the world
"Well you could still have Chinese parents"
Is he TRYING to get in one of the videos he's watching???