Why Europeans Call Things "American" | Americans React | Loners #66
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In italy we use a word..."americanata" ...when something is big, tacky, excessive and often useless! 😂😂😂🤷♂️
About the shopping carts: It is perfectly normal in Europe. You have to pay a deposit (or use your little plastic key/token) so that you are motivated to put your cart back
In Israel too. We can even use our debit/credit cards
We have that in some not all Canadian stores too small deposits so you have incentive to bring your cart back.
Same in Australia.
BTW: I live in Central-/North-Europe and I don´t know religious people at all. Not in the company I work in, not one of my friends - as far as I know - and even not in my more distant family - as far as I know, ´cause Religion is not an issue, not a topic we are talking about. It would surprise me if one of my friends tells me that he/she will go to church next Sunday, but I won´t judge them in any way. If they think it will give them any support ... I think that a serious conversation with a friend might give you more support.
Czechs are the least religious nation on Earth I think. There is only one region of the country, where religion is a little popular. You hear about religion and church on TV, when church dignitaries abuse/rape believers (mostly childern). Fuck church.
I live in Belgium and most of native Belgians don't go to church but some of them are still (Catholic) Christian. I don't know the numbers because growing up I didn't think anyone was religious, I'm discovering more and more people are. In the entirety of Belgium Islam is now probably the biggest religion.
I think these are mostly specific to the Czechs because as a Brit, i have never heard of these. Maybe an American Style fridge for the double door one. Also having an open coffin is just f*cking weird.
@@andrafranciscato6131it is. The coffin is kept open for 1-2 days for people to come say their goodbyes and throughout the religious service, then it is closed and taken to the cemetery. In my country, the Orthodox religion does not allow cremation as they have a literal approach to the whole dead rising at the second coming of Christ and cremation destroys the body. It is believed that the body needs to be allowed to return to the earth of which god made it on its own. It is possible, as a religious person to petition the church to allow cremation, but it is a rare occasion when they allow a priest to still perform the last rites and the ritual that petitions for god to forgive the sins of the deceased if they are cremated.
We also have a lot of pagan rituals and traditions intermingled with religion surrounding death and children are exposed to these early so we, as a society in general, do not really become so uncomfortable around seeing a dead body just for it being a dead body. Of course people grieve, but during the viewing period, most everyone is expected to give their respects to the deceased and physical contact (holding hand, touching of the cheek, kissing of the hand or cheek is very common). Traditionally this is also hosted at home, not at a funeral parlor or chapel.
I attended my first funeral at 6-7 years old. We slept in the same house as the deceased person (who was set-up for viewing in a separate room). It’s just a different culture. Could be a shock for someone that is not familiar with it.
In Spain we refer to double door fridges also as American Fridge.
In every country you find few those types of descriptors (often they are barely connected to orig. country IF at all) like "french fries", or "russian egg", or "american potatoes". I remember as kid asking 1 russian guest about how they come with "russian egg" recipe and it did made very funny conversation. 😃😃
@@andrafranciscato6131 Really? I am from Romania, an Eastern Orthodox country and I've never seen of heard of open casket coffins.
UK is the least European country in Europe so its no surprise
In Norway a normal funeral cost from 2500 to 3500 US Dollar so it is expensive here as well. Most people in Norway are registered as christians but only on paper. Most people here (at least people under 40-50 years old) belive in what can be proved and not words that someone have been writing in a book for many years ago.
I'm from Denmark, and yes - we call some groceries American (Lidl is loaded with that stuff)... and if I'm honest, I don't buy it if I believe it's American (sorry guys). the bread can last for weeks ... and that's not good
Mckennedy (Lidls American brand) are in large parts produced in Germany using ingredients from EU/South Africa/America. Probably due to so many US ingredients are banned in EU. So the products are only branded as American. 🇸🇪 👋
@@markusolofzon Oh - I did not know that. Thanks for the info.
When we see homeless people in European cities, we say: "Oh, they are living the American Dream!". - No, this is not true, not yet!
Like Jim Carrey?!
I think most of what he says is more Czech than it is "European". E.g here in the home of IKEA (Sweden) they don't call those American Beds, here they are known as Continental Beds, and the side by side fridges are just that, side by side (in English for some reason).
Yeah.... Also same thing when they(that channel to which they reacted) say that if you come to Europe's bar and ask for beer, they will just give you beer, that sounds very different from here, Lithuania. Here in bar there always is at least few types, like one light, one dark beer, nowadays it's quite a hype to have quite big variety of beers. But even 15 years ago, they would still ask what beer you want, so it's not really an European thing.
@@Lokalo1Absolutely. In Sweden too.
A lot of the examples given in that video are more Czech than broadly European I think. Notable exceptions are cars, fridges and smiles, although we also just call "American" fridges "side-by-side" (in English). With cars, it's more common to call a vintage car an "American", as new American cars aren't nearly as popular. A lot of vintage car enthusiasts in Norway show off their "Americans" (vintage US cars).
Norwegians are aware of the concept of the American smile, although I don't know if it's common to refer to it as an American smile. When Americans smile wide with perfect white teeth, we notice that and we also consider American smiles to be more fake (less genuine in intentions), but I don't know if it's prevalent to refer to that as an American smile today.
As for things Norwegians call American, we have the concept of "American conditions", which has negative connotations and refers to concepts, practices and conditions in the USA that we want to avoid here in Norway. Generally speaking, "American conditions" can be described as wild, unfair, unsafe, ineffective etc. On a side note, we have another concept known as "completely Texas", which has similar connotations although not quite as negative. If something is "completely Texas" it's wild and crazy, but not necessarily in a bad way.
Newer cars are also referred to as American if they are the same type of models that used to be called American, our most popular American car (Tesla) is not going to be referred to as that, but I could easily see someone referring to their Dodge Ram or Chevy Tahoe as American and also any modern American muscle car as well as others.
Here in Austria an open coffin - or casket - is not a thing at all. It really sounds creepy to me. 😱
But yes, these kinds of fridges and beds are known as "American" here as well.
And regarding football... he is obviously right. 🙂
Fridges are sometimes described as American Style fridge , usually a lot larger capacity,ice maker.
A modest funeral in Uk would cost £4,000 £5000 , a no frills cremation with no funeral service religious or other type of remembrance event event etc will cost around £2,000 .
A funeral in The Netherlands is about €10,000 which is as much as $10,000. Including the tombstone, coffee/tea with cake/cookies (sometimes sandwiches), church service, lay out of the open coffin for a few days so all family members can say their goodbyes in private (a day before the funeral the coffin is closed in a little private ceremony where close family members close the lid and fasten the bolts), the funeral invitations and thank-you notes afterwards. That is also including the grave rights, because you don’t buy a grave, you buy the right to bury (up to three) people in one grave, stacked upon each other. I buried my father in the grave of his grandparents, after we had them ‘shaken’, which means that only the bones of both grandparents are put in the deepest layer, my father was buried in the middle layer and four years later my mother was buried in the top layer. You pay €100 a year or in case you buy the grave right for 15 years, you pay €1,500 upfront. If you don’t pay again after the 15 years, the grave is cleared and the bones are dug up and put in the charnel house or charnel yard. By then the grave is free for use by someone else. In both my father and mother’s burial the sons and grandsons carried the coffin into church and out to the graveyard and on the beams above the grave. After the graveyard ceremony by the reverend, the coffin is lowered by four ‘crows’ (strong men that lower the coffin with ropes) to the last resting place. The crows also walk in front of the coffin and the family behind the coffin. The family carries the funeral bouquets and mourning pieces. The crows also put the funeral bouquets on and around the coffin and position the text ribbons so they can be read and put a picture of the deceased on top of the coffin in church. I must say that we are Dutch reformed protestants and I don’t know how other religions have their funerals.
American warfare: when you stay out of wars for as long as possible, come in the "save the day" and then take all the glory lol.
In the Netherlands those big fridge is called an American fridge. All the other things are not called American. Like the bread we call it casino bread. Sometimes something is called American style but that’s not always positive. Mostly it’s referring to big, cheap, plastic and low quality.
Yes, all I can think of in the Netherlands is the American fridge, American pizza (the ones that are really thick) and American sauce. The sauce is for on your fries, invented by Mac Donalds. When it came to the supermarkets they could not name it Mac Donalds sauce so they named it American sauce.
Oh, and American bbq sauce of course.
@@s.b.907 Peanuts roasted in shell. (pel/dop pindas) are called American.
@@marcovtjev really??? Never heard that before, American peanuts.
Hello! Spanish Guy here! No, we are not as religious as you guys are in the US, we do have a lot of religious festivities yeah, but that's about it. If you ask people if they are religious, most people would say that they are not that much religious at all, and the Data does support that, since there's a very small ammount of people who goes to church (Less than 20% of the population, mostly old people) . You are probably asociating Mexico being a very religious Country to Spain being the same.
To add to the comment, I don't have any religious friends Nor I know anyone my age(28) who takes religion seriously, and I went to a catholic School 😅
Having a funeral with the dead body displayed in an open casket is so weird to us Europeans. Except for one specific ethnic group in Eastern Balkan region I think this stopped being a thing in Europe in 19th century. When a person dies, the last time the family sees him/her, is when the funeral home employees transfer the body into the coffin. And then they put the lid on and take him/her away. And that's it. The coffin is then stored and later brought to the church / ceremonial funeral for the ceremony (but it remains closed and sealed). Closed coffin funerals are the standard, it's not just when the body is disfigured. I know that it used to be a a popular in England in 1800s, but it's probably only the USA and Americas (to some degree) where this Victorian funeral tradition still goes on. I would also guess that European funerals are cheaper. No open coffin - no need for embalming.
I heard once in some reportage that it is so popular because some president got buried like that and after that it became a trend in the US
As an Estonian/Finn most of the funerals I have been to have been open casket. Even when they are creameted and then buried.
My grandma lived and died in southern Czech republic (almost near Austria border) and she had open casket funeral, i was little kid and it freaked me out lot, i even remember having weird dreams some time after. I know her neighbors and family had open casket too around that time, but that was over 30 years ago and these days i dont remember hearing from my uncles about those types of funerals - mostly just simple cremations. So its probably thing of past, with maybe some rare exception here and there.
In Lithuania in all funerals I was there is open casket and that's how it's still done. It can be a bit freaky, especially when you are young, but I think it kind of tries to teach, we all will die one day and that's normal kind of the thing. They put a body in open casket for like a day, so everyone can say final goodbyes and think about it a bit and only after like a day before burying it's sealed and transported. But it's interesting, didn't know other europeans don't do that.
in portugal, before you are buried you spend 2 to 3 of days in a crypt/funeral home room so people can visit you before you before the proper burial. don't know if they still do that if you choose cremation.
In Sweden it is also called ”American football”, for obvious reasons... (Wikipedia)
I'm Belgian. When my father died, who was not religious ( me either), he was cremated. Family and friends could greet him ( already cremated) in a special room at the undertaker. But no church service or priest.
I would say Czechs, not (all) Europeans. 🍺
I'm English, British and then European. So I get what you are saying, but if I'm not then you need figure out about continents.
@@gavingiant6900 I understand but I was assuming that people know that the Czech Republic is in Europe, so the point of the comment (which I'm sure you understood despite my English), is Czechs in the sense of the people of a single European country (so not all the Europeans).
Edited, so we're all happy. 🍺
@@lazios Yep, cheers 🍻.
I am from Poland and I agree with those things. Maybe it is someting in Czech Republic/Poland/Slovakia etc. region?
I thinks this might be a Czech thing more than a European thing to do, I live in Sweden and I've never heard of anyone calling any of these things American.
this.
Same here in Portugal. The guy keeps saying "we this, we that" as if he was some sort of authority in the culture of every european country. I don't know how he has so many subscribers, with videos like this one.
Sure, but some of those things do exist in Germany as well (not all of them). So it's absolutely not "just" Czech. Don't immediately get triggered, that he calls them "European", while you, as another European from another European country than him, don't agree with his position. He doesn't represent all of Europe, neither do you.
Does sound a little bit aggressive, when I read what I wrote, but honestly, I don't mean to offend anyone. It's just meant to serve clarification.
Hej !😊 Only the american fridge here in France 🧐
@@module79l28 The things is that the original video compares only Czech x USA... The reaction is maybe a bit unfortunately generalized to Europe as whole
When my family and I visited Paris recently, my daughter asked the waiter for a glass of Coke, to which he replied, "Ah, American Champagne'?"
The problem that videos about "European" things/culture/habits often ist, that they are actually just about one European country. Europe is diverse. While there are probably things that are quite similar in a lot of countries, a lot of things are different.
And a lot of other people commented that they never heard most of those terms.
But here ther terms like American coffin might exist in a lot of countries, but those type of coffin might just be rarely used or people might never had to deal with a funeral. It's not a term you encounter in your every day life. Other terms like American night are tied to specific interests. It is no surpise when there are many people who've never heard that.
While I've heard the term American fridge for side-by-side fridges in Germany, that is not a term used in marketing and there are just called side-by-side fridge (Side-By-Side Kühlschrank). Those type of fridges weren't a thing for a long time and people usually knew them from American shows and movies. I suppose that is probably the same for most European countries and explains the term American fridge.
The bread thing exists in Germany too. It's usually named something like "American Style Sandwich Bread/Toast" no matter which brand and the package has always some reference to the American flag (colors, stars, stripes) as those examples in the video showed.
The filming technique story seems to be true. Although the German wikipedia page has the title Day-for-Night, but it also mentions American Night.
The coffin story seems to be true for Germany as well as a quick look at some undertaker websites showed. Although not everyone seems to use the term "American coffin". In my family we usually do cremation without any ceremony before that. The mindset in family is "we're dead, don't waste so much money on us for that". And I fully support that. This reminds me a bit of a song of one of my favorite bands. The content of the the refrain is like "Don't carve a gravestone for me, don't make cross for me and don't light candles for me. Burn me to ashes, drink a beer on me. Don't read a mass for me. Lay no wreath where I died, but build a pub for me there and dance on my grave". I really like the mindset of that song.
American football. Well the term is used in Germany, but I think it is often also just called football (the english word) (that is what my friends and I do), because for football/soccer we use the German word Fußball, so there is no confusion when we just say the english word football. And people like to shorten long terms and American football has just too many syllables.
American smile seems not to be a term in Germany. While the prejudice behind this term if interpreted as fake smile definetly exists, the term itself does not seem to be used in Germany. And for the interpretation of a perfect smile you would rather find the term Hollywood Smile (Hollywood Lächeln) in Germany.
The adjective American does not mean good or better in Germany.
Never heard of American potatoes or saw that in a grocery store.
Boxspring beds are just called that in Germany. There is probably a connection in people's minds as being an American thing, but that's all.
Saying "I bought America" for saying that you bought an American car is weird. We don't don that in Germany. We do other weird things.
The bug conspiracy theory did exist in East Germany too. The bug was called "Amikäfer". Ami is a short version for American in German and Käfer is beetle/bug.
I didn’t know most of them except the American fridge. The American fridge isn’t popular in Germany, because it tends to break down more often than regular single door fridges. What is popular in Germany is the American kitchen, which describes a big kitchen with a isle in the middle.
Also the American flag is often used for the branding of bakery and sweets, for example brownies, muffins, cookies or icecream and diverse combinations or derivatives of the above mentioned products.
7:50 im from germany and my mother died a year ago cause of covid and she didnt had a normal funeral, her cremation ashes was made into a brillant. its kinda illegal in germany so we did it in switzerland. i thnk in english its called dimond funeral/burial
In Poland you would sometimes call the fridges "American style" maybe about beds too. What we call "toast bread" often has the American branding on it like in the video. But what I can say definitely is called "American" here is the "American blueberry". For you they are just regular blueberries but for us it's a different species of plant, here we have a local blueberry that grows in every forest, they are a lot smaller, more flavourful and are VERY staining, if you eat some your whole mouth is gonna turn purple lol
Greetings from 🇩🇪!
Average cost for a funeral is about 8000€. The simplest starts at around 5k and based on your wishes it can propably go up to any price.🤘
The question of religion.
If you want to get married in a church or have a church burial in Germany, you have to join the church and pay taxes. (Of course!😅)
If you are not a believer and resign from the church at some point in your life, your funeral will usually be held in a small chapel by a funeral director.
All those things that Janek mentions in his video are also common in Slovakia, after all, we used to be one country and we have lot of things in common. The American smile is more often called the Hollywood smile. And the American bug was called American, because it was originally discovered in America and later our communists used that fact for their propaganda.
As others have said, I don’t consider these particularly “American “. Except the side by side fridge/freezer which in the U.K. we do note as “American style “ refrigerator, but readily available. Oh, and why do you have incredibly sweet bread. That’s definitely American.
We have viewings in the mortuary usually personal choice for those very close.
To be fair... Americans (for example) call ,,german food,, that is served by ,,german restaurants,, in america german food that never existed in Germany till this day 😂 same with italian food etc. 😊
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Look up this "Percentage of people Absolutely certain god exists", US vs Europe. You'll see how even the most religious EU countries (like Poland) are not nearly as convinced of the existance of god as the LEAST religious US States.
Aside from being less religious though, I feel like us europeans are less likely to be "absolutely certain" about anything :)
In Georgia We don't throw them in a box )))) we put them in a coffin and burry. But during the wake days (usually 3 to 5 days) when people come to say good bye, the dead is at home in a special nice, casket-looking fridge with glass roof so that people can see.
I'm Croatian, my country is very Roman Catholic traditionally, on par with Italy (although I'm personally not religious, and most younger people don't really believe in that stuff, they just say they're Catholic due to historical reasons to be separated from neighbouring nations of other religions). And we don't do open casket funerals really... Just normal Catholic funerals. With the coffin, the family standing beside it and receiving condolence from the guests. Then the singers come, sing a couple of heart wrenching goodbye songs for the deceased. Then it's the procession to the grave spot. Women walk in front of the coffin, family with the coffin, and men behind them. Then the coffin gets lowered into the grave, and people go one by one and throw a bit of dirt on top of it, while the singers sing. And then the workers burry it and close the grave.
There are things branded american, but that is mostly in grocery stores. The only place where I use it is American Football.
Swedish guy here! This video did not represent Europe in general, it must have been a Czech Republic thing, except for the shopping carts at the end.
Hi. A Brit here. The cost of a "Woodland burial", here on the South coast is around, £900.00. You can have a wicker basket coffin, and are buried as it says, in a woodland or meadow. A tree can then be planted at your head area as a "headstone". Or you can be cremated and have your ashes buried in a woodland. I like that idea. Well, not like it but the nicest of all the options. Plus you can't be embalmed because the chemicals mustn't get into the ground. I hope this is informative for you. Also, here in UK we are definitely not religious at all. In my experience, anyway. Ta you 2 for the enjoyable channel. 👍
I'm a fan of HGTV and there it's often mentioned french doors at constructions leading from the inside to outside through 2 doors that open side by side,maybe from there comes the term french doors fridge!
In finland we use word Jenkki ala yankee for these, american muscle cars etc are yankee cars, same with the american bed there, we have Jenkkisänky (yankee bed). And yankee fridge is the one with supersmall freezer on top.
As to the funeral thing, it is expensive in the UK as in most countries. I have pre-paid mine and it consists of me being chucked in a bag and then burnt, same method as David Bowie, I am ok with that as not religious and couldn't stretch to the burning long-ship.
Why did you pay though? Why do you care about what happens to you when you are dead?
Toast isnt considered bread in my country.
If u would call it vread u would get deported or killed
Im in Scotland and where I live I've not met anyone under 70 that cares about religion.
Few weeks ago I was at a wedding where people were dreading a priest or reverend droning on for hours and couldnt hide the smile when found out it was a celebrant and the service would only be 30mins
As german i paid about 3.5k€ for the funeral of my wife. Mainly because she got cremated and was then put to rest in a "Friedwald", well, a funeral forest, if one can say so. Which basically meant that neither service nor coffin was an the expensive side. For myself i'll usually say, a shoe box is enough. My ashes go into the earth, nothing more, so what good would a super expensive coffin even do?
And since the price of the tree is already paid, my funeral will be quite on the cheap side when it's time...
The tree actually was the priciest part - it came to 1800,-€, because of local regulations. However, considering that it's a 50-60 year old oak, which should be ggod for the next 100 to 200 years, the price is quite good from my point of view...
For the "showing" part: my chosen undertaker wouldn't let anyone see the deceased after the second day, and even that was a stretch (i got to see her off the day after, but my inlaws had a langer ways to travel). Embalming is not common over here - honestly, i know of no one who chose that or even thought about it. Personally, the thought alone is horror - how will my body return to the circle of life if it's full of preservatives? GAH! Never ever!
First off we are very sorry to hear about the passing of your wife. And thank you for the info. It is very interesting to know!
@@loners4life Thank you. Well, it's one and a half years now, so... while still somewhat fresh and hurting, it is now down to a level where one can live on. Oh well... live goes on, as the saying goes.
I still wonder somewhat because i'm missing a good documentary about the german concept behind a Friedwald - it's relatively new, just one or two decades back you would have to bury your relative on a official cemetary. Quite different to the US, i guess, where - afaik - you can do what you want with the ashes.
And there are also many differences from Friedwald to Friedwald - in most of these forests you'll bury an urn with the ashes, while in the forest we, or, well, i chose, only your ashes are buried. And also not to deep, so that the roots of the tree are not unnecessarily damaged. Which was a big plus in my view for this specific forest...
We are not that religious in Denmark.. religion is a private thing here...
a funeral here is between 2.200-3000 usd ... and we dont embalm the deceased here..
They can go in the ground or be cremated... or scattered at sea
"Potatoes are so fucking cheap!". No they are NOT. I believe that they are at least 25% dearer in the USA.
Potatoes are cheap, i can go get a 1kg bag for 1€
It seems like a lot of this info varies from place to place!
Caskets are not common here in Czech republic, yes.
We either use coffins or get cremated. Cremation is actually more common than coffins nowdays.
American Pizza. We'd commonly use "Italian" pizza for the more traditional kind, thin crust, very few toppings, you'd eat it with olive oil. "American" pizza would be the kind which has thicker, more fluffy crust, a lot of toppings and you'd throw some sauce or ketchup on it.
you don´t have to be religious to pay quite a lot for a funeral. You do not do it for the dead, you do it for the remaining people.
we actually have labled products: american toast for example. it's like 30% bigger then normal toast ^^
This must be something specific to the Chzech, never called ANY of these things American.
Haha that’s what we’re noticing too
What? You don't call "American Football" that way??? How do you call it then?
I'm pretty sure it's an official international term for this sport, outside of North America though. And "American Fridge" is a regular term for these kinds of fridges in all of central Europe. So the vast majority of Europeans indeed call them that (I'm German, so I'm sure about this here and checked France, Italy, etc. - they all call them "American"). I've never heard about some of the other things though ("American Bread" is also a thing in Germany - the only other thing that I can agree with).
Here in The Netherlands when someone died many (by far not all) have a religious service, then the burial/cremation and afterwards a cup of coffee. The costs for all this ranges from about 1000 to .... euro's. Then there's the rent for the grave, which depends on the area the grave is and which company runs the place. For a place for an urn it's about 1500 euro's for 5 years.
In Australia none of these things are referred to as American.
The only two things I can think of is American hotdogs and American Mustard...referring to that yellow sour Mustard they squeeze onto hotdogs in the US
When did Australia moved to Europe ? XD
About the 'european stuff' associating with something might be actually hard, cause afterall americans remember that it's a whole bunch of colors. There are countless examples, be it a french seam in sewing (i heard the french call it an english seam though), russian vodka, a german cake (btw the american german cake has nothing to do with Germany, it's just the american guy who invented the cake had the surname 'German'), you will also find many associations with european nations in Architecture and Style.
But there is something that every american might know: The label 'Made In Germany'. You guys associate it with high quality, dependable and long lasting tools. German engineering. French fashion. Italian wool (or shoes, for whatever reason). And many more things where you add a european country name and you immediately associate it with quality or class. And it's not different in european countries. In Germany we like made in Germany cause we know what we get and more importantly if we DON't get that we can immediately replace it without a fuss or extra costs. We do associate french wine with better wine, italian wool clothes to be worth at least twice the price of any other wool, greek or italian olive oil to be unmatched in anything and japanese rice to be better than chinese rice.
We are not so intensiv religious like people in the USA - sometimes it is unbelievable how extrem people about this there. We like a nice funeral and have a lot religious free days. But overall we take it more easy - don’t worry be happy 😂.
To be like in the „Bible belt“ it’s very strange to us.
The open coffin has a historical reason - you make sure that nobody would be buried alive, so about 3 days family members, friends, neighbors are watching out all the day long and we’re praying next the open coffin, because in those days they hadn’t the medical knowledge to be sure dead or not definitely.
I experienced this in my childhood with my grandpa - he was laid out in the mittel of the living room surrounded by family, friends and neighbors. They alternately watched and prayed 3 days - day and night.
Today it’s only a 1 hour long praying time in the evening in the church called „Nocht wochtn“ - night watch so called like in the past times, before the next day funeral.
Love from Austria 🇦🇹
That guy in the video shouldnt be trusted that much. Do not assume whatever things are like in his country are the same anywhere else.
Here in New Zealand we don't really have much things we call American....maybe American Hotdogs is all I can think of atm. As for Coffins and Caskets we have both but don't refer to a Casket as American...Typically we buy a cheap Coffin because nowadays alot of people are just getting Cremated. Fridges are just called fridges or fridge/freezers.
This czech guy is pretty accurate! You might hear from british people they might not ever have heard some of this, because we actually also refer to a lot of stuff as "anglo-american culture". Continental Europe IS something different.
This said, generally, the term "American" is often used for everything that is a bit BIGGER than it probably should, and yes, also things that are too sugary, too fake (sorry), shiny on the outside, but kind of artificial, bloated ...
American fridge? Czech, ehm check. American bread? Check. Also, American size (you get it - BIG, too big probably), for food, cars, fridges, kitchen machines that have thousands of functions that nobody needs, ...
Things that do NOT have the slightest bit of positive connotation? American beer! (You can't toast it like American bread to make it somehow appealing to any German, LOL.)
If you go to the "American" corner of the grocery store, you probably want to buy something, that is tasting artificial, is unhealthy, but fun, you are searching for something to prepare for an "American Evening" party or similar. American hot dogs (although everyone knows, that the Danish make the best hot dogs of the world!) and of course burgers, with very airy buns. And barbecue sauce, of course. So American!
Oh, and American boxers. (Yeah, the stuff you American guys call decent underwear. HUH?)
Stop calling toast. Bread. Its not bread
In France 🇫🇷 and I think in Belgium 🇧🇪too have an american sandwich (bread full of meat and french fries in it too) they call it « mitraillette » french fries are not french it is originally from Belgium 🇧🇪 And croissants(and others) are from Austria 🇦🇹 We call it « viennoiseries » because from Vienne in Austria 🇦🇹 (If you translate it it mean Thing from Vienne(viennoiseries)).😁
in my country most dentist are against bleaching , because bleaching damages the teeth, they might look healthy and white but are they really ?
people like the colour of white since it represents cleanliness , but people gotta realise that when you even brush on a 3 times a day brush cycle , you eventually get yellow teeth by aging.
you just pay 2 white these teeth , and hide it.
Re: the smile - because of the tipping culture and ease of firing, outsiders tend to be put off by the OTT customer service and plastered on smiles that result from those pressures. The kind of desperate yet insincere friendliness would certainly be seen as 'American'. (Famously Walmart trying to force that culture in Europe backfired horribly as everyone found it creepy.)
On graves. Slovenia is somewhat similar to Austria with it's obsession of the morbid.
Every november for all daints day tiny Slovenia becomes the worlds no.1 consumers of candles per capita to decorate family graves. Also cemeteries can get some elaborate and quite pretty tombstones withbvery well designed and gardened graves. Then again a grave is usually a family grave so religious or not there is an element sentiment in it where you even have very well kept, aesthetically beautifully designed and gardened graves of atheist or even former communist families [with hammer and siclke instead of a cross].
Sadly that also bumps prices up. Typically you pay a few thousand €, depending if you already have a family stone and just need name carving, cofin and a burrial, or do you need the full package.
And in finland we also use word french fridge for the french fridge you guys do to in usa
I have a feeling this might be more of a Czech thing. At least in my country we don't call any of that stuff American, and we do have open casket funerals, unless the person is too messed up.
In sweden we don't say american wedges we say klyft potatis.
Question.
Why would you want to connect you fridge via bluetooth to your entertainment system?
For when you want "chill" music?
This is my real comment at the end of the video, the previous one I wrote impetuously while watching. Concerning the video, I would first like to say what is meant in Italy by the term "Americanata" which can be translated as something made in the American way; It can be applied to various things, I don't know, a villa, a car, a birthday party, but the easiest way to understand its meaning is when it is applied to a film (even a theater musical retains the same meaning). Let's take the example of shinder list, despite being an American film it is not called "An Americanata" because it has a deep plot, it is historical and educational, in short, it is a film with its own intrinsic value. Now, to give an example of what is instead considered "Americanata", I would have liked to include films like: The Avengers, Spider man and Super Man (Sharknado no because it is much worse) but I would be unfair because I realize that it is subjective. A film is an "Americanata" when you realize that the production has spent a lot on locations, special effects, cast, costumes, etc. BUT, the plot is weak and doesn't leave you with any kind of cultural enrichment.
I must I don't pay that much attention if something is labeled as American. If something is a good product I buy it if need it and I'm okay with quality. With all the tasty bread I can buy, you won't find my at the section with toast, the last I had something like toast was at friends apartment a couple of years ago. I know that companies use America, the label American to make products more interesting, even if they have never been to the US, with American Football becoming more and more popular in Europe. The crowd at the Munich Game was awesome.
In Finland we also have various american dipmmixes. Which may or may not be american at all. Tomatoe-y, sweet taste. Also many people call old american cars "ameriikan rauta" (literally translated "american iron").
In Italy, it’s only pasta if it’s made with Durum wheat and certified. They wanted to impose their law on the rest of the world to protect their traditional pasta methods, but that never happened.
Here in Quebec Canada we have both coffins and casket, that coin release for a shopping cart is a thing here (since 1980's), as for beds we have both options the European style (IKEA type - wooden/metal lats to support spring/futon mattress) and American (with box spring), we have "normal" bread, healthy sliced bread and the mass commercially produced ones we call it american also. (We have wonderbread but with different ingredients as many of yours are illegal here).
The only thing that comes to mind is your constant use of "French" fries (sorry from Belgium), french toast (sorry originally from Italy from the Romans)😂😂😂
You are right we have connected things (from Korea 🇰🇷) like washing machine(Samsung) can be manipulated remotely from a phone or a tablet … (but it is rare).
My wife' funeral cost £4.500, the booze up later cost £1,000.
Sorry for your loss Jim.
Here in uk being Christian isn’t majority we are mostly non-religious
The word American is usually used for food stuff, like a All American Pizza(couse its big and thick) or Italian pizza(couse its thin and small) deep freeze stuff or other things, like ingredients for making American style cookies.
In the city i live we also have a All American day, where we hold events that are themed around it, like american cars (that are usually collectors items) going through the street in a parade among other things.
Its sometimes used for certain music events as a theme.
Generally, American means bigger and/or expensive, the fridges he showed are a prime example, its a American fridge if its double doors, the size of a person and has a ice maker, though sometimes its just about the size.
the shopping carts at the end is something u see all over europe, here in the Netherlands we do the same, where u need to use either a 1 euro coin or a similar sized token to get the cart so u can use it.
Some people steal them for use at home, but considering they are very easy to spot(especially on the street) its very rare.
As a Swede, I have never heard the phrase American freezer. And we don't have open chests at all.
I’m not évent see your vidéo but I like it, anywhere in Europe sometime I learn something (in France 🇫🇷 You can buy a minéral bottle of water but tap water and bread 🥖 are free and unlimited at restaurants).🤭
About funeral in Italy many people have a religious funeral, but not because they are religious, only for tradition. And tradition here are very important.
Apart from American football and American sandwich bread, I have never heard most of these things here in Germany. So that's not really representative for all of Europe. I think in general in Eastern Europe America is seen more as a place of longing than it is in the more western Europe.
That’s what we’re noticing after reading these comments haha 😂
Very German way of explaining us 😑😊
@@TheTerkzzz Really, in what way is the explanation very "German" to you? If you don't agree with it or know more, you are of course free to correct me or add to it.😄
@@yasminesteinbauer8565 Possibly because of your Eastern Europe mention. I'm from Romania and the only reason I'm happy that something is made in the US is because that means it's not made in China. But I always buy something made in Romania or, if not available, anywhere else in the EU or Japan/Korea/Taiwan/Singapore for electronics..
I did not know some people in Europe would call these things American, is it just in Czech Republic?
I’m from Brazil and I can only think of American football (futebol americano) and American Cup (copo americano) the latter is not American at all.
I know you guys use some terms to refer to some Brazilian stuff like:
Brazilian blowout
Brazilian wax
Brazilian bikini
Brazilian butt lift
Also in Brazil we use both casket and coffin, it depends if there will be a funeral or just a burial, the average cost for everything is R$2500 which is U$500, but if the family is unable to pay, there’s a government social program that helps these families with the coffin, transport, funeral and burial, depending on how vulnerable these families are they might also get a financial aid which is a single pay value.
@Tt ty No, not only in Czechia. The "American Fridge" is called that way in most of Europe, for example.
"American Football" is known by that term all over the world, or isn't it? In all of Europe, that I'm aware of, it is called "American Football".
I'm German and have to agree with the "American Fridge", "American Bread" (or "American style bread") and "American Football".
Never heard the terms "American coffin", "American Bed", "American Potatoes" and "American Night" before.
The bed is usually called by its technical term over here, but maybe some people will call it that way - I'm not sure and never encountered it.
The bug is not called "American Bug" in my region for sure, we call it "Potatoe Bug" when translated to English. Nobody will know what you're refering to, when you call it "American Bug" here.
I've heard "American Smile" before and know what it means, so I guess it kind of counts as well.
Over here, people can be burried in wicker basket, just in a blanket, so you can burry more loved ones in the same grave, for it is so expensive, and you will be in the same grave with your loved ones.
Yea, it's probably a central-European thing, we don't use "american" as an adjetive in Greece.
05:15 We call it a Closet-Refrigerator here and not "American"
08:02 From 2,000-4,000 € depending on the quality of the coffin, the grave (where it's situated) etc
08:24 Religion in Southern and Eastern Europe is bigger than Western Europe, Greece (and Cyprus) is one of the most religious countries in Europe with 79.1% Greeks identifying as religious
10:40 Never heard of it, IKEA calls these kind of beds as simply spring-beds here
11:09 Never heard of it
14:12 Simply toast-bread here
15:52 Never heard of it
18:30 We don't call it "American" simply fake smile
19:05 These are indeed called American cars
19:40 True, we too called American blend a specific tobacco variant
21:23 American football it is
I Greece we do not have open caskets but the close family of the person who passed spend the night with him remembering the days and the good times they spent with him/her and the coffin is open all night long.
The dead is covered with flowers and only his face is visible.
It might sound macabre especially for people who are not used to something like this but it is part of culture here and no one is forced to do it if they do not want to, it is just a way to say the last good byes.
We do use the word American here too for things that are larger than they should be, especially for cars or food portions and as for the "American smile" term we do use it but it is a reference to perfection and not to falseness.
If we want to refer to falseness/fakeness we specificaly use the word Hollywood aka fake like in the movies.
In Russian-speaking countries, none of these is called American. The beetle is called Colorado Beetle. As for the bread, people might understand what you mean if you say American bread, but that kind of bread is usually called toast bread. We have something we call American though )) And it's a rollercoaster. In Russian that would be something like American hills/mountains, which is a little funny because in some European countries that is known as Montaña rusa )))
In the UK it is rare to have any religious involvement in a funeral. Cremations are the most common, so why splash out on an expensive coffin. Also, it's the doors that are French, not the appliance.
The difference is we don’t really care about religion at all.. I live in a country with a big catholic tradition but I know very few true believers, at least that I know of. Unless you’re talking about older people, religion is not an important part of life for the vast majority of population
I mean, I find it bizarre the notion that voters would care for politician’s religious beliefs, for example. No one knows or cares if our prime minister is Christian or not
Most of my now dead acquaintances were burned. My parents too. They didn't even want a grave, but to be buried anonymously under a meadow, and so it happened. I think this is a slowly growing trend here. All in all the costs of my parents cremation, ceremony, funeral etc. was about two thousand euro each.
in Germany the most people have an insurance for the costs of funerale, its cost ~4-6€ per month, and cover 5000€- 7000€ (average cost of funerale)
Wow! That seems pretty good. It’s very expensive over here for funeral costs
Fridges, cars, bread, beds all tend to be named American when they are excessively large. Like you don't usually really need things that are that large, you get them as status symbols. And I think that is out from an idea that Americans are more materialistic and that 'in the US everything is bigger.'
Many funurals here in NL are with an open casket. The reason is because people don't necessarily live close to each other, so they can't see the passed person a very last time otherwise. So here the casket is open for like 15 minutes before the ceremony starts and the ceremony starts with closing the casket. There is absolutely nothing traumatising about this.
In the NL embalming bodies is forbidden. Only the royal family does this.
About all the foodstuff called American I would think this is all because the compagnies behind it think it sells better. It has nothing to do with the country it's named after. For example "sauce Hollandaise".... Nobody here knows why this is called like that and also the taste and structure of this sauce is in no way even close to the gravy people usually use here as sauce. But whatever...
Waht they apparently call the 'American bug' in Czeck Republik, is called here the 'Colorado beetle'. It is really damaging because it doesn't have any natural enemies, ie there are no predators hunting for it.
The USA used to have a good name in the Netherlands, but somehow I think those days are over. Trump hasn't done any good for that. But also things like the American policy on gun possession and related to that, they enormous murder rates are not preceived well. So I think the popularity of the USA has declined a lot. The days that people in Europe looked up to the USA are over.
Most of this is Czech only.
German here. My mother died last month. Our family comes from a protestant background (even when my mother and I were more on the agnostic atheist site of things). She gets cremated soon and will get buried at the cementary in a urn. Open casket funerals even for catholics are uncommon here.
When I die my body is going to the medical school my local Univerisity so med students have something to practice on, there is a question on form you fill in about what to do with you after, returned to family for burrial, cremated, etc Or they will sort it out which is what I chose, so pressumable I go in the incinerator or something along with the rest of the medical waste no coffin required.
I don't think I'm typical though the majority of the funerals I've attended have been cremations, I live in a poor area, they're the cheapest option so I suppose that's why. There is hall big enough for maybe 100 for a service at the crematorium and with it being a non religious venue it's welcoming for people of all faiths, or no faiths.
I have no clue how expensive a funeral is, but i just wonder, do you have to tip the priest ? 🤔😄
I remember in the middle ages there was something like "Ablassbriefe" where you gave all your money to the church so they called you free from all your earthly sins for that. I honestly wouldn't be to surprised if that is still a thing in the US, since religion wise, you often seem to be like in the middle ages. Whats funny, since at that time the US didn't even exist.
At least in northern germany people don't give a sht about religion, in Bavaria maybe still a bit more, but its in now way like in the US i think.
depends... if they catch you it can get costly
yes we use american as adjective, ìin italian and spanish we also have the world americanata, i don't know how to translate proprely, but you search it out
20:40 jep the sovjet puppets told that in every school. America sended these potato bugs, and for several years, it was mandatory for school children to pick them on the fields.
Donde yo vivo ,España, q yo sepa nadie q yo conozca utiliza "Americano" para designar algún tipo de producto y creo q en el resto de Europa es similar salvando ,como dice el video , aquellos países q salieron de la orbita de la URSS .
Salud .😃
It's on the package
What is so "American" about eating cereal at midnight? Because you are American and do that as well?