WHY?!?! Americans React "Americans when they realize the world doesn’t revolve around them"
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“Because our country’s so big…” land-wise, Russia, Canada and China are larger. Australia is not far behind the US in size and they are even separated from the rest of the world by water. Yet, these countries don’t seem to have the same problem. Don’t blame your size or geography, blame your education system. It doesn’t teach Americans their place in the world and the history of their dealings with the world. 🤷🏻♀️
Every US reactor say exactly the same thing, blame it on the size 🙄
Australia isn't real, China bans most things outside thier country, Russia doesn't have the internet jk and Canada sucks. So I do understand why Americans sometimes don't look outside thier country for entertainment or anything, but not all
@@robimedina2979 huh? You’re not making sense, dude. Missed the point of the comment and who’s talking about entertainment? 🤯🙄
@@robimedina2979 Australia is VERY real and a great place to live, on many levels. Russia has the internet and they are much, much cleverer than you in the US. Canadians are some of the best people you could wish for. Americans entertain themselves outside their country by wiping out as many people as possible. Around 25 million since 1945. Next.
@@erinundra I ain't American fake Australian, nor do I live in the USA ew. New Zealand is your daddy
That guy who claimed that America "rescued" us in WW2 made me want to punch the screen.
- Me too. He should go back and do some research and then call himself educated.
@@anitawhite2669 I suppose he was mimicking the way it is taught in the US.
@Anita White he was poking fun at himself for thinking like that when he was a kid. He can't believe that he used to think that.
You still have idiots like Ben Shapiro who thinks America saved the UK in ww2 and he's supposed to be a smart man tho I do think that man has a special kind of hatred towards the British. Where exactly were the Americans when those Jews were being sentenced to death . They were nowhere to be seen lol.
They were bloody late again.
Sorry guys, you can't use the 'distance' excuse. Australia here, hello. 😂😂😂
Canada too.
Or saying your "isolated". Ummmmm we are largest Island in world. Australians as a whole know more about world news and history than Americans. I've been told numerous times I speak English well as an Australian. It's pretty sad.Glad your bringing it up though 😊👍
@@aliquinn2474 I read a comment today on instagram where someone had the audacity to say that Americans and Australians are the same. I as a European got offended by that xD
I was like ...em.. no they arent. Australia may be isolated geographically but for sure not living in a bubble like Americans do. And Aussies are great tourists btw :)
Australia and The US are both large countries but the US has a far greater population, funny that both are immigration based on the whole but one knows it is part of the world because of this but somehow the other thinks it’s the world despite of it.
@@whitedrguy6503 its quite fascinating how both turned into opposites although having similar/almost same starting point - immigration. Also in both scenarios our fellow Europeans were the ones who went to one of those places first.
I do wonder how and why it came out like that.. that the mentality is so much different.
"we rescued you in ww2" saying that is the express route to a punch in the mouth in a pub in the UK!
Same here in Canada
WW2 golfers my mother used to to call them, out in 41 in , in 45 unfortunately the war started in 39
@@graceamos5228 To extend your golf analogy it ended with two shots in the bunker.
Tried explaining to some Americans about this.
They were only protecting their own interests at the end of the day. If Europe would have fallen, then they would have faced Germany and Japan attacking the US mainland.
Besides Hitler declared war on the US, four days after Pearl Harbor. So wasn't a rescue, they were at war.
Russia the unsung heroes are the real rescuers! History books and not Hollywood for facts.
When i was in California many years ago i was asked how the British celebrated the 4th of July.. I said "The some way Americans celebrate the signing of the Magna Carta"😂
Brilliant but you should've said the way Americans celebrate the burning of the white house.
My lovely American cousins at dinner had to explain to their American friends at dinner that their English cousins Don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Asked why, because it's a different Country!
Being we're a different country IS the reason we have different holidays!?
That's hilarious, a friend of mine in New York has asked me twice over the years we've known each other if we celebrate the 4th of July here in the UK. Asking if we call it "Traitor Day" or some such 🤣. I had to tell him both times that we don't, the only thing I celebrate on the 4th of July is my Mum's birthday 😆. What I also find hilarious is my friend in the States is 8 years older than me, kinda shows that wisdom doesn't always come with age 😂.
@@Gambit771
🔥burning the White house: our second "BONFIRE NIGHT"🎇
I worked for IBM in the the UK and for a year in the US on assignment. My Texan boss asked me if I'd applied for my Green-Card yet.
When I said I wasn't applying for one he was speechless.
He just couldn't comprehend that I didn't want to live in the US.
My ex has taken up a job in Texas and gets asked the same. He makes it clear he has zero intention to do so and will be returning to London in a couple of years.
I left the UK to live in Canada and an American once asked me if I only lived in Canada because I couldn't get into the US. He couldn't believe that I didn't want to live there and actually chose Canada. The same guy was surprised to learn that Canada has its own currency.
my father in law wanted me to move to the USA, because i married his only daughter, i understood him well, but i made a deal with him, if she dont like Germany at all we will move to the USA....
she is living here now for nearly 20 years, never went to the USA again...
and after my in laws visited here the first time, they told us to stay here, its so much better!
Doesn't surprise me, I lived for 6 months in Indianapolis and when people asked where my accent was from I said Australia, twice I got told I spoke really good English. Probably not a bad thing I laugh about it now.
@@goodshipkaraboudjan i had people wondering why i can speak English, too...but i am not a native english speaking person from Europe!
i have a strong accent, so some ask me if i could speak also a different language... to English
some even ask me if i have ever been in a foreign country??
i told them i am in a foreign country, there i got the answer, its the USA, it isnt a foreign country!
I never left my country. But I know our history, Europe's history, American history, Asian history, wars, economic and political situations around the world, tragedies around the world. We don't need to be close to each other, we just have to care.
i left my country for around 20 others, and i know everything you know, too...but some i saw and not just read about!
Where?
I don't think you can entirely blame America's attitude to the rest of the world on it's size. Ok, I accept it is a factor, but look at Canada, China, India or Russia. They are all physically huge or have a higher population and they don't have the same reputation. I think over the decades, America as a country has become a bit arrogant because of it's wealth and power and deluded itself into thinking it's the best and the only thing that matters. The media and education system are 2 other huge factors. If you don't get taught about other cultures in school or you don't get news from other countries on TV, you're just not going to find out about it unless you make the effort to. Over decades, that has a huge affect on a culture. It's only recently with the rise of China, India and other countries' wealth and the beginning of the decline of the West, that some Americans are starting to realise that there's a big world out there. Props to you guys for being in that group. I'm not saying my country (the UK) is perfect by any stretch, but in some ways I count myself lucky that I grew up in a small country, close to a lot of other countries, with a media that is fairly outward looking. There's also something to be said for the fact that we had an empire and then lost it, because that knocks you down a peg or two and makes a country more humble, which I think is healthy.
I agree with you
Well China looks much better than it does cause on paper they've blown a huge housing bubble, and that bubble makes up 26% of its GDP! While the American bubble got to 6% before it burst, and Japan got to 9%
Exactly. 100 % agree.👍🏻
Other countries have different cultural attitude that is basically less dictated by consumerism. Part of American advertisement and marketing industry's malicious messaging is that, they want to "educate" American consumers that they are getting "the best" out of everything, it piles up to that "exceptionalist" attitude that they are already getting. Of course, briliant and intellectual American minds will be drowned by the voice of the consumerist masses, where jocks and cool kids bullies the nerds and geeks.
Canada has to face the humility of being second to USA. China and India are third world countries (in terms of wealth & development) until very recently. They have the attitude of "getting better" and self-flogging at every wrong turn. Russia has always been Russia, the sometimes briliant drunkard that can also get very violent at times.
The UK also has a culture of snobbery that also appreciates effete intellectualism and artistry. That also translates to people becoming passionate about certain subject matter. When Johnny English, a caricature of British elite stuck in bygone era attitude quipped about his foreign adventures, it ebbs arrogance while also whiffed a bit of intellectual curiosity: he talks about drinking tea, getting immersed in the North African tradition with tribes, and then celebrating Ramadhan with them. People mistakenly call the late Prince Phillip being "racist" or "insensitive" - but for me, he displayed some of the most intellectual blokish persona ever displayed by a European royal. He doesn't call Chinese "cat or dog eater" but he specifically refer to Cantonese eating "whatever 4 legged that is not table or chair, and whatever swism but not a submarine". A gaffe, maybe, but it doesn't exactly ignorant or stupid because among the Chinese communities, that's how people viewed the Cantonese as well.
Agreed
When I lived in Belgium, my French family visiting, an American tourist began to brag about how they’d liberated us. An old man started to talk angrily back at him “You were in the vanguard of the movie reels, we were in the vanguard of the battle”. When I looked it up, true enough the Americans were considered green troops and kept to the back, but on liberating villages for the news reels, the Americans always went in first, oddly enough at the insistence of the British.
Churchill's mother (the Prime Minister), was an American.
I was an Aussie kid in Toulouse for a year. The best phrase I learned was "Je suis australien, pas anglais". As a 8 year old I immediately got treated better.
My american step dad was in ww2..
Wonder how he was wounded at the "rear"...he was second wave onto the beaches and fought to the end of the war...when he was released from the army, he spent the next six months being "put back together" mentally and physically at a hospital... perhaps your history books aren t quite right...by the way, his brother was killed...
@@kayeweller8854We can understand your anger, and are grateful for the sacrifices these brave young men made . Yet some facts speak for themselves. Firstly we can't let some US commentators say they single handedly rescued Europe back in WWI when the first troops arrived late in November 1917, total of men killed in combat was 53,402 ( out of 116,708 military deaths) whereas on ONE single day, 22nd August 1914, the French alone lost 27,000 men- out of a total of up to 1,397,000 French soldiers killed in combat. The Entente powers lost around 4.8 million men in combat during the First War. So US loss amounted to a total of 1 out of 90.18 of allied casualties in combat. Of course the logistics are another matter, planes, weapons , war boats. But Europeans resent the misinformation on US presence in WW1 , especially since their troops brought the virus of the Spanish Flu pandemic with them, that killed dozens of million people. Secondly, yes US troops really fought bravely on Dday , and suffered heavy casualties ; but liberation had started way before june 1944 (Algeria and Morrocco 1942, Italy 1943 etc) and once again, US engagement on that day should be put in perspective, not flaunted like nothing else happened before that, to Europeans that had already been fighting for 5 years .Hence the remark that many US troops were unexperienced may sound harsh and unfair, but there is truth in it. I admit I have always thought they acted selflessly and heroically on that day. I have visited the military cemetaries of Normandy, as well as the ones of WWI in the North ( in particular the Canadian and Australian ones, plus the underground museum in Peronne . I have one question for you : How would US Americans feel if the French constantly bragged that without their help, revolutionary troops would never have beaten the British ? It' s gotten to a point where Hollywood movies change scripts like for " Master and Commander" , so that the Spanish enemy ship becomes a French one, to support à political agenda ( the bashing of "monkey surrendering French". My own great grand pa fought like a lion for the whole duration of WWI as a Master gunner in the trenches, was awarded medals and distinctions, AND was a resistant in WWII along with his wife and two kids, was interned as hostage in a camp in 1942-43 with his son, fought more in 1944, died early in 1946 and was publicly honored. He and his resistant friends did not sit and wait for the US to help them, they took things in their own hands.)
In Florida I was told my English was perfect and asked where I was from. I replied "England" I was given a very confused look. 😆
I got the same in Indianapolis as an Aussie, I took it as a compliment. Laugh about it today. Happened a few times, I just had to say "nah not in Europe, the one with Kangaroos"
I am a Canadian and worked in a call center. I once had a call from an American who asked me who I was going to vote for in the American Federal Election. I had to explain that as a Canadian, I wasn't able to vote in that election and that we have our own politicians here in a whole other country.
Same situation, American complained and when I didn't give her a refund she said I can't wait for Trump to take care of people like me. I'm based in UK
Maybe he didnt know you were canadian when he talked to you until you said it? Like, wtf are you complaining about.
@@jessesleight9631 she knew...we spoke for awhile..it was funny...that's all. No worries.
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Yes you can always vote demorats, they love rigging elections.
We have Gaelic Football and Hurling and we don't call the winners World Champions.
I watched the US Big Brother a few years ago and one of the guys said that he cycled around the world (for charity I think) but he never left the US
You took the words out of my mouth! Well said!
Newsflash. British man says the U.S.A is the last place on earth I would want to live. Just saying.
Ditto
Again, Ditto.
@@jono.pom-downunder Brit in Spain.
@@melbeasley9762 we gotta keep a sharp eye on all these buggers, just incase they try something, as Al Murray says "they've been too quiet for too long"😆
@@jono.pom-downunder NATO ie America is confirmed as having blown up the gas pipelines that supply gas to Europe. A provocative act of war. In my opinion America is the enemy of Europe. It's condemned many Europeans to freeze to death. I hope Russia nukes the crap out of them.
And a lot of Americans really do believe they are the greatest country on the planet .
No country is “the best” cuz everyone has cultural preferences cuz of how they were brought up with their culture BUT if there was a country that was the best then it would 100% be Norway. Just look at the statistics
I m french and worked for a huge US IT corporation as a database and network engineer form early 90's up to 2002, the year I went to Palo Alto, Ca to work at head office for 8 months. My boss had a green card arranged for me and proudly announced that I could stay and had my contract renewed with a raise, He could not understand that I wanted to go back to Europe. His words were : Quote How can you not want to stay in the greatest country in the world ? He was fuming and called me an anti-american commie when my answer was : No, it's not ! I was under scrutiny for the next 3 months then quitted
Of course! Anyone who doesn't want to live in the US must be a "commie" (not that most of them know what that even means). An American once talked to me about how he believed in equality, redistribution of wealth, etc., etc. and when I said "Oh, you mean communism?" I thought he was going to have a heart attack! 🤣
Hahahhaha !!! Ça ne m’étonne pas
I still laugh at the phrase "until we rescued them in WWII"
They were Fekin late for 1 & 2
That comment didn't make me laugh - why do some Americans think they rescued us - it was only the lend-lease that probably contributed to us winning the war, but it was through the Russians, British Commonwealth countries and our allies that helped and then along came the USA in 1941.
@@jono.pom-downunder didn’t they start up ww1 again by joining late? 😅donnu if it was true but read it somewhere 🙈
"You'd all be speaking German if it wasn't for us!"
I do speak German. We all do. It's on the national curriculum. We learn it in school.
I flew a lot between the UK and USA a few years ago. On one of my flights back to the UK, I sat next to a lovely American woman. We got talking about why she was on her way to the UK - a holiday with friends she was meeting in London. I asked if she'd been before. Her response surprised me. 'No, I love Europe, it's where all the history is. It goes, like, way back, a few hundred years.' I looked at her, thinking she was being ironic, but apparently not. Deadly serious, and very proud of her own knowledge of UK/EU history.
I am a Norwegian,and i have a fun story that was in the news some years ago. Here in out capitol,Oslo de have a famous sculpture park, which gets a lot of tourists, the statues are nude, and they get so many complaintes by americans telling telling them to put clothes on the statues.😂
Many years ago I worked in travel information covering the entire UK , I took a call from an American lady who said she was in London for a day, and could I recommend anywhere interesting to visit,😆 I recommended Hampton Court Palace.
I have an american friend who were so AGHAST over how scandinavian countries pay 'low skilled jobs' like McDonalds workers a good salary. As a Norwegian, I'm disturbed that America cannot pay workers for the hard work they do - low skilled or not x) A job is a JOB!
@@cirthful
Sadly they don't see their workforce as an asset, just simply a commodity, which is becoming a more prevalent attitude in this world. 👍
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A long time ago in the last century!
I was visiting my sister, who was studying
at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
and I was there for the summer and
there were only three non-US stories on the news
in a six week period.
I have never felt so isolated from the world
and to be honest isolated from anything outside
a 20 mile range of the tv or radio station.
Even in countries where my grasp of the language was minimal
reading the newspaper headlines made me feel connected.
I grew to understand the American mentality
when I visited Fort McHenry
which is an interesting survival of
eighteenth century European fort design.
In fact it is one of the finest examples
I have seen.
However - that was not even mentioned.
The role of the fort in the War of Independence,
The War of 1812, The Civil War, The First World War
and The Second World War were all covered in minute detail.
Quick hint - but after The War of 1812
and its Star Spangled Banner moment
it didn't have any significant history
But the framework of the history
had at the time
five key events that everything needed to be attached to:
1776, 1812, 1860s, 1917 and 1941-45
All of a sudden a lot of the historical museums
made sense - the info was filtered with these five events.
When American news outlets report on international news it's what Americans are doing overseas.
@@chrismayo3485
So true - one of the three stories
I heard
involved the deaths of some Americans
in London in a boat disaster.
I love the NFL and follow it avidly but the one part that makes me laugh is when the Superbowl winners call themselves world champions, how? Only US teams play in the NFL so how can you be world champs when only one country takes part in it....lol
Haha NFL - world champions lool
RUGBY - hold my beer 💪🏻
They need to be reminded the N in NFL stands for National!
Yes do not understand that either
There Is a european american football leauge
@@RalfYzermans that doesn't participate on any level whatsoever. So the original point stands.
I did have to give an american a very hard stare when he said 'hey you speak american!" Picture the response from the Pub Landlord! 🤬
Haha I feel you bro. American is not a language. My god some Americans are sooo stupid it’s unbelievable 😂
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I was once asked if I spoke American.
In my best James Bond voice I replied
"Terribly sorry, only English I'm afraid."
The mindset of someone learning English and/or marrying someone just to live in a country is honestly very American.
It’s based on the assumption that a lot of people want to live in the U.S. and U.S. foreign policy, where as in most other countries it’s very easy to travel to neighboring nations and people usually speak more than one language; one of them often being English.
funny, my ex wife came from the USA and will never leave Europe again...
my daughter made it clear, she will not leave Germany for anything...only for vacation in France or Spain, all 3 countries are in the EU
if her grandparents want to see her, they can take a plane and come here...her words....
she will visit her US family after she turned 21 and only if i go with her...
"When We rescued them in WWII" Good one
About the green card one. Yes that is a valid consern im sure but you need to consider where she is. Spain is a rich and safe European country. No one in spain wants to move to America so badly they'd scam someone for a green card.
I agree with all you’ve said apart from Spain is rich? Spain is not rich and heavily in debt. Are spains tax’s still at 50%???
I'm half Spanish, own a house in Spain, and spend part of my year there (flying out soon actually, now winters coming) but Spain ain't that great. High unemployment for years now especially youth unemployment, so you have a lot of Spanish emigration. So yeah, I think there would be plenty of Spaniards happily "con" someone for a green card. Though I'd imagine that it would be more of a deal for most of them, than people running a con job
@@robocop3961 The USA has more debt than any other country doesnt mean theyre not rich.
@@nicosmind3
Spain is in the EU, if a Spaniard wants to move somewhere else, they'd choose another European country, because there is free mouvement of European citizens, no need to go to the US.
You should learn more about a country which is a part of your roots. I felt disgust reading your comment.
@@liul yes that's exactly why Spain is losing citizens with its high emigration rate. You think I want it this way? The only disgusting thing is your attitude towards America, I know far more about Spain than you'll ever know, high youth unemployment, insane government at every level, so much so that many movies and shows are made mocking the insane bureaucracy. You want to understand Spaniards you need to understand what they're going through and why they're leaving. Thinking everything is great won't make things any better. And the EU is part of that problem!!
As a Brit living in the states (13 years now) one of the dumbest questions I've ever been asked by an American is:
Does England have Christmas? 🙄
Lmfao!
You mean they invented that too?
They always say England too, never the UK. Absolutely drives me mad.
@@JohnnyZenith I'm English and say England too. After all, you don't hear Mexicans, Americans and Canadians say they're from North America, do you? I'm from England which happens to be part of the UK.
As an Irish person in the US I have been asked, 'Do you celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Ireland?' At first I thought they were joking but no, completely serious. Is this just an American thing or does the rest of the world really not know the origins of St. Patrick's Day?
I've also been asked, 'Do you celebrate Halloween in Ireland?' Celebrate it? We (the Celts) invented it!
And, of course, 'Do you have 4th of July in Ireland?'
'No, we just skip from the 3rd to the 5th.'
Blank look.
0:43 I heard that you can fit the entirety of Monaco in one American
About 30 years ago I was on holiday in Florida (Disney) and a couple of lovely Americans asked where I was from I said England 🏴 the reply was “which part of New England are you from” made me smile I’m from Yorkshire with a broad accent 😂
Typical! 🏴
I'm usually asked what part of London I'm from because they think England = London and nowhere else. (For the record, I'm a Geordie.)
@@bibakroll8999 I'm Ipswich,but I got the same. Used to love Newky Brown. 🏴
My uncle said all the Americans at Disney thought he was Irish because of the Yorkshire accent. XD
Ever heard the new england accent...even americans have troubke understanding..
Newsflash for Americans who don't know this: people of non-English-speaking countries learn English as a second language because it's the international language (not only of business, trade and commerce but also medicine, science etc.). Therefore, these days, if you want any sort of career even in your own country (without necessarily moving to the US or another English-speaking country) you pretty much need to know English at least on a basic or professional level.
True
The simple fact that if you want to get into computers even in a recreational way, you have to speak and read english, same for video game’s ( its less the case today of course )
Yup. English is such a great leveller of a language. It's both easy to learn and hard to master, and since there are no hard and fast rules such as most other languages have, a basic understanding of it allows for more communication between two people of two radically different tongues. A German with a smattering of English and a Saudi with a smattering of English will be able to communicate with each other far better than they would if they tried to learn each other's languages.
My door knocker is older than the USA I live in a house built in 1601 in Devon England and it always amazes how Americans not all but a lot think the USA is all there is?
We do celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK. On 4th July when you became independent! We all say "Thank God for that"!
Thankgoodnessday
The size thing is such a poor excuse. I’m Brazilian and you can fit multiple european countries in individual brazilian states as well but we don’t behave like you guys. Nor does Canadá, Australia and other big countries
History did continue and the USSR won WWII.
I'm from the UK, and Bob Mortimer taught me it was because of General Bythewayski 😁
Seriously though, the Soviet forces were the biggest contributers to the allies victory.
ps. Boxing and the Olympics/Athletics also give us true World Champions.
In England we do actually have Thanksgiving. We celebrate how we got rid of some of our biggest religious nutters on the Mayflower.
Thanksgiving is in fact a variation of the British Harvest Festival, which is celebrated at the end of September, giving thanks for Nature's bounty for that year, and has been celebrated for more than a thousand years. Other countries have a similar celebration. The USA came to this celebration very late.
Yup. Also, we save our "pigging out on more food than we should really eat in one go" for Christmas. Always better to eat lots of food at a Birthday Party, and the Birthday of the King of Kings qualifies better than Harvest Festival. Just my personal take, hehe
Possibly a dated view, but I'm an Australian who used to spend time in the US every year with work. I could connect the average Americans lack of awareness that there were countries outside of America with the news coverage (TV and newspaper). My view back then was Foreign Affairs was what was going on in another State, and World News was what an American was doing overseas. In Australia, even back, then our news included major events from around the world. Maybe we had to get everyone else's news because not much was happening in Australia ... 😂
12:38 the original Harlem is in the Netherlands (sometimes referred to as Holland) for those that don't know. After all NYC used to be called New Amsterdam.
Or new YORK 😅
The USA just copy pasted so many names it's a disgrace. The main ones are obviously from colonial times but so many others... just.... why?
When I recently applied for an ESTA to visit the US as a British passport holder, which I have done several times before, I was surprised to be asked for details of my current or most recent employer. There was a link to an explanatory note, which made it clear that the reason for the visit must not be an intention to take up employment and acquire a right to settle in the USA. I was gobsmacked. Why would I, an Englishwoman in my mid 70s, have the faintest interest in working extended hours for low pay, no holiday entitlement and no public health care in the sort of lousy job that only a desperate immigrant from a third-world country would find alluring? I retired long ago with an excellent occupational pension and state pension which allows me to go globe-trotting, even to the USA.
Not going to lie, I've had to say to an American once who was looking for the US flag to translate a website "my country, the UK, invented the English language. So click on the UK flag"... yeah about that... he clicked on the Danish flag. So I had to then show him what the Union Flag looked like so that he could translate the site into English.
As a foreigner, I've also been asked about the 4th of July and thanksgiving celebrations in my country. I've also been asked if we have roads or if it snows in my country and other questions as such, but thankfully my experiences did not include ignorance, just people trying to communicate while being nervous, which makes them a bit awkward :) Enjoyed your reactions. Thanks
Traditionally we have the Harvest festival. Not massive like thanks giving but often involves collections for food banks etc. Done by schools and stuff.
But ours is around the canadian thanksgiving as our harvests are earlier due to our latitude.
The first segment about people in Spain learning English... (I'm in Spain)... The majority of tourists visiting Spain are English speaking. Therefore, if a young Spanish person wants to get a job in the tourism sector, speaking English is a non-negotiable during the interview process.
Any gig in travel, being able to speak another language is a major bonus, and in some countries, it's essential.
opposite to British immigrants, they live 20 years in Spain without proper papers and are to lazy to learn basic Spanish...
been to Spain 1 time in my life and twice to South America, even i can order me a coffee in Spanish!
but i am European!
There are some Merkins who think that the English language was invented in Merka - which is why it's named after another country, of course.
[] I read that there was a newspaper called The World that sponsored baseball games, so it naturally became The World Series, even after the newspaper ceased to exist.
ps: I used to wonder about this Green Card thing, because in the UK having a Green Card meant that you were officially registered disabled.
In England,for hundreds of years,the court language was French,we were invaded,by William the Conqueror,a Frenchman,who became William the first.
That means Normandy can claim you lol
William was a norseman, not french
There's a load of "when you realise america messed you up" that are definitely worth reacting to 👌💜
Also 'What's the stupidest thing an American has ever said to you?'
Why would someone in europe want to move to america? The only reason i can think of is if your partner lives there and refuses to move to europe, but most of the time americans in that situation will use that chance to get the hell out of dodge, and when they do move out of america in favor of an european country they realize how not-free they were as an american and will never go back for anything other than a visit.
A fact for you.... all shipping communications have to be in English. This comes from the fact the British Empire ruled the seas (and still does) and set communication and navagation rules.
If you come from a small country it’s good to learn some language, learnt German, English and French in school, because we are only 5mio Danes, so we have to learn, because most of us travel a lot. Had a friend from the US visit, and he was afraid that he couldn’t communicate, but we start learning English in 3. grade, so even my young kids could talk to him
There are actually very few foreigners in other countries. The tourists are the foreigners there.
When I was at college and studying for my British Constitution A level, we were told that History stopped in 1750 and everything subsequently was “Current Affairs”. I must admit that statement tends to pop into my mind whenever I hear the expression “American History”.
As that was nearly 50 years ago, I assume the date has moved forward and there now actually is a little bit of American History.
I’m from London I was sat on the train near Heathrow airport and an American man with a southern accent sat on the train opposite me and said to his friend whilst looking at me, I don’t like the way they dress, I’m a man wearing a blue north face jacket and jeans. The irony wasn’t lost on me I just laughed out loud and moved on.
As a Canadian in Texas, this hit me.
These are carnage. Every US reactor I follow gets mega defensive by about the 3rd episode and come up with all sorts of daft excuses to defend the US🤣 i lived and worked in Ohio for 2yrs when I was 19-21 as a football coach and wanted to stay.... until I realised how work and health care was fucked
Ive seen several that are not actually.
I'm 10.000 miles away from America for example and I know a lot of history over there. Not the distance is the issue, your education system is. Especially nowadays it is so easy to learn about other countries and cultures.
When I was a Flight Attendant, I was handing out the Customs Forms on a Flight to Cancun, Mexico. A man literally was pissed and asked me, "why do I have to fill this out I am an American Citizen?" I stared at him and was like, "You are going to Cancun, Mexico you need to complete a customs form to enter the Country?" He argued with me saying that he's an American and doesn't understand why he had to complete a customs form. I looks at him and was like, "You are going to another Country. This is Mexico, NOT the United States." He was like "Oh..." 🤦🏻♀️ What was sad is he was completely sober. 😐
The one whose uncle said about moving to America made me laugh. You could get to the UK from Spain in the time it takes to get from Miami to New York, and this guy thinks someone's learning English to move to the US 😂
I live near a place called scrooby and Austerfield in Nottinghamshire and this is where the original founding fathers William Bradford and William browser lived and was born.
Street names, pubs etc are named after them and the pilgrimage
The Pilgrim fathers pub
The mayflower pub
William Bradford drive
Etc
The whole idea of the pilgrimage to the US was discussed about a mile away from my house
In the pubs!.?.Hilarious...Puritans getting half cut and deciding to leave, 'cos they didn't want Christmas! I know that's not true, btw...
I was in California when a guy asked me where I came from Scotland I replied,never heard of it he said Lol I just walked away
A mate of mine from the UK had a green card marriage in the US... He's back in the UK now... She chased him down the road firing shots off at his car...
EXCUSE ME WTH
And what did she do when she got upset?
Wow, Distance and size as an excuse! You guys still have a way to go!
Hahaha… I'm European and speak English, German, Portuegese, French, Italian and oh my god even some basics and bits of Dutch, Polish and Russian (not sorry for the last one!).
I'm still working on some of the others right now, but am keepin it going as a process of learning… It's awesome guys! 😁
That old joke
my neighbours are so loud and obnoxious now I now how Canada feels
Porfirio Diaz, long term president/dictator of Mexico, said "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"
I had to laugh at the Indiana thing, when I was there as an Aussie I had a lot of cringey moments (great people though). Funnily enough when I was asked where I was from I'd say Queensland. Reminds me of Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) in ANZACs when they're issued uniforms and he sees "Australia" on his shoulder and complains that it should say Queensland because that's where he is from.
Loved this! The Texas one had me crying tears of laughter 😂 It wasn’t in the slightest bit shocking 😆
The equivalent of Thanksgiving in Britain is Harvest Festival, which happens in September once the crops have been gathered in. It's less of a thing now that food growth has been detached from the seasons, and most food is imported all year round.
Ha ha ha. Do Europeans celebrate thanksgiving? No! We are just grateful America went their own way. We dodged a bullet there, literally lol. 🇬🇧🇺🇸💜
Err yea we used to, not so much today. but we did in primary school;. haha (A Englishman btw)
We thank god we we got rid of the upright religious puritan zealots
That reminds me of a Greg Proops joke. He said something like Thanksgiving is celebrated in the U.K. But it's called Fuck Off you Puritans day.
If you would like to see the joke. Search for 'Greg Proops, America is England's fault'
@@linky8899
Thanksgiving is, as you suggested,
a variant of Harvest Festival
which is a minor religious festival
at least in England.
In primary school our harvest festival
in the late sixties early seventies
involved bringing items
often tins
to be later shared with the elderly in the community.
In the words of al Murray "they see that as a win, we see that as a lucky fucking escape"
Many non English speakers want to learn it because it is the universal language, and in order not only to be able to travel overseas, basically anywhere in the world they need it. They also want to listen to movies and music in its original form, so they can enjoy it fully.... Dubbed movies are terrible and not being able to understand American and British music lyrics is not really fulfilling.
In the Netherlands all English movies have been subbed rather than dubbed for decades...we learn English from our 6th or 7th.
Incidentally, the Dutch are seen as having the highest proficiency in English.
@@Snaakie83 yes the Dutch and Scandinavians, usually excel at English. I learnt a little German, but then watching Hollywood movies in German was so bizarre, you cannot really get the tone or delivery the same.
Also, most academic and scientific papers are written in English because the biggest journals are in English. In addition to learning English to converse with foreigners, we also have to learn Academic English, which is a whole nother beast, in order to get a degree in pretty much anything.
I'm Australian and I'm learning Italian because I freakin love Italian music and it's just not the same reading translations and explanations of lyrics. Now that I understand the language a bit, it's brilliant. Even not understanding every word, I can still get the idea of what the song is about.
Learning other languages and cultures is awesome.
@Aussie Pom It's not really about difficulty of learning. It's all about the massive British Empire that have spread their language all over the world. Whatever language the Brits spoke would have been the world's language no matter the difficulty.
TEXIT: Loved that. Made me lol.
I remember see a woman interviewed just after 9/11 and she was stunned: 'But I thought everyone loved us'. I think the US propaganda machine does a great job on your people of keeping them in a bubble.
Again, I appreciate that I'm saying this without having actually experienced it and I admire your balanced reasoning on the whole subject.
haha, been in the Philly subway one day later, people talking why terrorists attacked the USA..
been 100% German, answered the question the guy next to me ask me out of the blue...
" you bombed the shit out of their countries, overthrow their elected governments and make normal people suffer a lot and still believe everyone loves you...? "
his jaw hit the floor!
The thing with Thanksgiving is that naturally nobody celebrates thanksgiving the way americans do, but the celebration itself came from somewhere, and that is Europe, where some sort of Thanksgiving (usually in the form of a harvest festival) exists in a lot of countries. And harvest festivals in general exist elsewhere in the world, too. So in a way, yeah, other countries do celebrate thanksgiving, just not American thanksgiving...in my country it is half a very religious celebration and half harvest festival. The emphasis depends on the region.
Regarding the American Football thingy: There are other leagues than the American or the Canadian. There are multiple leagues in China. In Europe we have the ELF (European League of Football), Germany and Austria have their own leagues. There is a European Championship every four years.
And I'm sure there are more teams and leagues around the world. The USofA just don't like to play with the other kids...
Confidence,combined with modesty,is such a winning combination.
There’s a reality show here that allow ppl from the US to learn more about their Swedish inheritance. A lot of Swedes migrated to the US during 18th-19th century.
The show actually won an Emmy award in 2016. You should check it out!
The original title is ”Allt för Sverige”.
I’m fairly shocked at some of this😂I didn’t realise Americans don’t think about the rest of the world as much as this😂😂
The difference is that a lot of people are interested in geography and like to find out about other countries .
Is geography taught in US schools?
You're making excuses. It has nothing to do with how big the US is and the lack of travel. It's a matter of Education and your Education system.
I'm Australian. I play MMORPGs and through them, I encounter a lot of folks from the USA. Many of them are lovely. Occasionally I encounter one like the lady who lost her freakin mind and told me off because I wasn't doing anything for Thanksgiving. She was not having it that we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Only the USA and Canada do.
Thanksgiving (French: Action de grâce) or Thanksgiving Day (French: Jour de l'Action de grâce), is an annual Canadian holiday and harvest festival, held on the second Monday in October, which celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year.
It's not the same!
It's not uncommon to have countries celebrate equinox and solstice times of the year, as agrarian civilisations used to mark such times.
@@daveofyorkshire301 That's what Christmas is : the celebration of winter solstice, only slightly rebranded.
@@ausoleil8269 A lot of "religious" antiquity was embraced to enhance their own religions, the Romans regularly included other deity's in their pantheon. The Roman Catholic church was no stranger to it too.
@@daveofyorkshire301 Indeed.
The Uncle of the first speaker that assumed all the Spaniards want to move to the US doesn't realise that Spain is relatively close to England...
As you say, English is also the language of business
English is also the language of the high seas, so if you are studying to become a pirate or the likes, it's fairly essential.
Not sure that your argument about the size of America being an excuse is valid. Russia is much larger than the US, China is comparable in size to the US, people from both of these countries are fully aware of the world outside of their own countries. The simple difference is the education system. China places a huge importance on education and while the same cannot really be said for Russia, its people have become more free in recent decades and with the dawn of the internet and are generally much more knowledgeable about life outside of Russia than Americans are about life outside of the US. Americans believe they are free when really you are probably one of the least free 1st world countries.
No guys, the "big distance " lame excuse doesn't work: it's the attitude, not the country's size.
Take as example Canada and Australia.
My Grandad is from the US. He moved to England and married my Gran. He never said much about where he came from (I just thought he sounded odd as a kid). He was my Hero growing up. He was kinda grumpy, which probably explains me but wtf is going on with America right now?
I know very few europeans, australians, newzealanders, that would even consider moving to the USA permanently. It would be rare that a european would be trying to get a green card from a relationship with an american. Why the hell would we want to give up free education, free healthcare, no gun violence, cleaner and safer food, better wages, better worker entitlements like paid leave etc
Some Brits used to be like that when we ran the world. The famous weather warning, “There is fog in the English Channel, the continent is cut off.”
The reason it’s called the World Series is it was founded by a newspaper called the world. I’m English and know that
I m portuguese, at school I learn English, French, Spanish, German and Latin (not a spoken language anymore) knowlwdge doesn t hurt ! That's the way we think! Best of Luck to the channel and I hope you could react to something about Portugal!
The sound level on the video is WAY too low, so putting the laptop on max volume is the only way to hear it... then Spencer laughs and my neighbours three streets away can hear it...
Some 'Reactor's' adjust the volume. I have mentioned this before, but still the volume of the video stays low.
It's understandable that Americans can be insular. It's a huge country that probably has the most beautiful scenery on the planet in one place, with a nod to Alaska and Hawaii. With so much to see and do, 24 hours a day if you want it. You also have a music and film industry that means you don't need to import it from other countries, if you didn't want to. Your military is so superior to most that you're in little danger of being invaded. You have a standard of living that most countries would envy.
Yet, I have never wanted to live there.
I apologize in advance if any American is offended by my opinion. I've worked as a language teacher and in the tourism industry all my life, and the norm seems to be that, the ones that exaggerate about any situation and claim to be extremely offended and know very little about the country their visiting, and demand things to be done their way, are the Americans, the majority choose to stay in an All-inclusive resort. In doing so, the are not really leaving their country to visit another country and experience another culture. They even complain if there are too many locals. Sorry, don't mean to offend the ones that do not behave this way. 🙏
Londoner here. When living in the US I was always asked about my accent. One time when asked where I'm from, I said "London". They responded with "That's in Europe, right?"
Bud get to say I love your banter some Americans would get old over that brilliant 🤣
Ego centric is the phrase your looking for.
As crazy as it sounds NI is only 5,500 Square miles and you can travel from one side to the other in few hours. Our longest motorway is less than 50 miles 😆 🤣.
Small as we are we still can speak on other countries and history.
I have never talked to anyone in Europe that had ANY interest in moving to the US. And why would they?
that should tell americans a lot... especially nowadays, i think pretty much most of the world now understands what a big lie 'the american dream' really is. only those with low IQs would still be fooled by it.
I was amazed when you were talking about setting up a device you scroll down to the 'T' looking for the. THE United States of America.....from my experience you will never find that as the listing for your country as it is always listed as just United States of America plus you will never find England as we are listed as United Kingdom directly above your country usually. Interestingly, Christopher Columbus was Italian not Spanish.
"Hi! Where are you from? - Indiana. You? - Santa Cruz.". Would you know where that is? I think that's what she meant. Americans assume everybody knows the states. Because it's America. So it sounds arrogant.
Rescued us, please check your history, we softened them up for two years before we could let you PRETEND to help !!!!!
When you say some of you all came over here , you are including you ancestors right.
I dont think most americans will ever truely realize there is a world out there outside of the american bubble 😂 They dont even understand proper history lol.
No, not many europeans want to move to America, there are more americains, wanting to move to Europe (Canada, Australia,...)English is the language of business, science, technology, tourism......AND the most spoken language in the world (mother language and as second language)Europe has a lot of tourists also within Europe, so you need a common language for ALL!!!!
We did French at school not because we all wanted to move to France. OMG!!!
When setting up a new device, you should select United States of America as you spell things differently to us. Also you won't find England, the set up for us is usually United Kingdom (or sometimes UK - British).
5:25 „ I‘m educated…. Now….“ …. Hearing his Statement about WW2 I doubt his education
Sorry guys, but I disagree....The US has plenty of nations all around it or a simple plane ride away, whereas countries like Australia and New Zealand are genuinely very isolated by comparison - NZ was literally the last country in the world to be colonised and yet in spite of the distances involved in visiting other nations beyond the pacific, in general NZ'rs and Aussies are relatively well traveled and aware of the world, it's history and all the amazing variety of cultures and languages that exist beyond their own borders....many students leave school and can't wait to go off on their 'Big OE' ("OE" stands for overseas experience). Sadly this is more than can be said for far too many US citizens who only seem to see the rest of the world in relation to how these nations have interacted with the US and little more....I find it quite sad that the US education system doesn't do more to encourage curiosity in young Americans about the world and that nationalism is so rife there!