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Taking a bank-card out of sight of the owner is not legal in the EU. We're strikt on this the business must have the staff hand you a portable terminal or having you go to a stationary one. So yes, this is real weird to us.
I think we’re generally more cautious with our data than Americans are. I know it can be annoying when you constantly have to switch off all the cookies, especially when you have a 50-vendor list of “legitimate interest” cookies. No one has a legitimate interest in my data and is allowed to store it for a couple of years. Once I had an Asian vendor that stored cookies for 10 years - company I would never have anything to do with! No way! Americans don’t seem to have the option to switch those cookies off, though, or they just don’t know.
@@patriciamillin1977 Especially with the tip culture. Imagine the take your card and take 25% tip without asking.
It'd be like handing your wallet to someone and hoping it comes back. Strange.
Yes its this way in ontario canada as well....we never lose site of our card
@@guillaume6459 Yes, that would be incredibly annoying.
What you have to ask yourself, Ryan, is 'what were they doing with my card for 15 minutes?' You've just given a stranger your card number, your security number, your name and the expiry date. Everything they need to order things online or on the phone... and they took it out of your sight for 15 minutes.
And they can surely clone your card by swiping it? That can happen even if the waiter comes to the table but it's less likely if you hold onto it.
@@MrBulky992 Much harder to put a cloning device on a hand-held and it not be noticed, but yes it is technically possible. Much easier for the server to nip to the loo with your card and (with the pen and pad they carry around) simply write the info down,,, takes about ten seconds, I tried it.
It only takes 15 seconds to get scammed.
We also had inches and feet here in Sweden, but in the 19th century.
I know I would be like WTF give me my card back!
20-25% in tips is INSANE. Just give workers a normal/liveable minimum wage FFS.
Never gonna happen in the US, not in my lifetime atleast
They just can't get rid of slaves.
@moladiver6817 the amount of damage that would do to the workers though...
@@moladiver6817 I don't think that would work, the only thing I see working is the American government giving this strange concept called "giving a f*ck about your citizens" a try and actually making it illegal for employers to exploit their staff
I'm from Germany and am often in Poland, Latvia and Czechia for business. The wages there (as well as in Greece or Spain for example) cannot be called livable wages.
Waiter going away with your card is something that never happens in Spain. Waiters bring you the card machine, no bigger than a smartphone, and never even touches your card.
Same in the UK. I would be very worried if someone took my card out of sight, especially as I'm partially Sighted.
Same in Serbia. If waiter took away my card I'd think he's trying to steal my data or something behind the curtains.
Same in Ireland. You either get the card reader brought to your table or you go to the counter and pay there. My card never leaves my hand when I'm paying, let alone go out of sight.
This is a standard for most, if not all European countries. There might be odd rural places that still have those old wired machines but there are less of those each year.
like it should be in a civilised country
You can always ask for additional food if it’s too small a portion. Europeans will consider too large a portion as wasteful not environmentally acceptable and or a waste of money price depending.
Also, many europeans were raised to empty the plate..
So with american portions, we'd all end up overstuffed
@@saraa.4295yeah it is kinda rude to leave a big portion of your meal on the plate
I personally feel bad when I can't finish my plate. It's wasteful and I feel guilty if the food is really good. And spending the day with a take-away in your bad isn't ideal.
Leaving food is also a message to the kitchen "your food sucks"
@@alicetwain it is in europe.
In china it's: thanks, it was enough! There, an empty plate is an insult to the chef..
I wonder when that culture changed in america.
I'm fairly certain the pilgrims didn't serve huge portions...
In Europe you NEVER EVER leave your card to someone else, especially since there's contactless pay in almost every card. We always pay "ourselves" on the machine.
They are capped to like 50 EUR, making new card is also like 2 EUR. That's really the worst that could happen if you don't give away your PIN.
@@MJ-uk6lu It really depends on. Because you can use it multiple times without needing a PIN code. At least in some countries you can go on months without needing the PIN code.
@@MJ-uk6lu Do American cards not have all the info necessary for online payments directly on the card ?
In France (at least, I don't know about the rest of Europe) you can copy the card number name and 3 digit code on the back and make online purchases with no upper limit. So no, we don't let our cards out of our hands, let alone our sight and double check the amount entered in the terminal before paying in case someone used our credentials to buy stuff online.
@@MJ-uk6lu A new card is €5-€10. The point in any case is that no-one needs to take the card. Just bring the machine to the table or pay on your way out, like a normal person.
Every time I buy coke at the cinema I tell them NO ice, half the time they put ice in it anyway and I just tell them I specified no ice, pour me a new one. They don't like it but the coke is really cold and doesn't need ice to cool it down, besides I ordered coke, not coke and water.
This is probably why they allow free refills, they hardly get any drink when it's mostly just ice 😂
also in Canada, I always refuse the ice, coz its too much , especially when its winter time there , no way , they are crazy there !!!
Oh no, you don’t have a better or bigger selection of cheese than Europe haha 😅
No. Definitely not hahaha.
In fact, I doubt they even HAVE cheese. When we take all the regulations we have here on cheese to thev USA I doubt a lot will pass😂
@@littleDutchie92US cheese probably be more like hardened hormones lol
Two Americans called the Wandering Ravens also pointed out that the UK and Europe have way more cheese than the US. In fact the UK is the cheese capital of the world with over 700 registered cheese, over 100 more than France. Both countries have local/private cheese producers as well which take it into the thousands but America has a very limited cheese selection and most of it is plastic and artificial.
and they don`t have real bread ... and most of the time they don't even know what it is
@@MrJueKa😭
the thing about the waitress taking the card at the table and the walking off to where you can‘t see either is not so much about them losing the card, but copying it! There are devices into which you slide the card and the information can be copied, now once you sign or enter your PIN, that‘s all they need to empty your account! Hate this!
I would definitely follow the waitress and asking my card back in that situation. :D
In Europe almost every restaurant has small handheld card readers for this, so you can pay at your table.
You don't need any devices. Just write down the details and security number and you can buy anything on the net.
@@elemar5 true enough. I did not even think of the security number on the back…
@@elemar5 not in Danmark that wouldnt work
A few years ago, before chip & PIN and contactless transactions, there was a spate of card cloning in the UK. The banks companies advised customers not to allow retailers to take their card out of their sight. Now, with handheld card readers, that's not a problem.
The "reverse" culture shock (from the first video) is the one you get when, after living for a certain period of time in a foreign country, you come back home and something you used to be familiar with, seems strange. @kacierose, the girl from the first video, is from the USA, but now she lives in Italy with her Italian boyfriend. Those were some of the "reverse culture shocks" she experienced when she was back in the United States for a visit.
Ryan, reverse culture shock is experienced by a native that has expatriated, and then returned to the native country for a visit.
I wentto NY some years ago. First time in USA and the restaurant experience was weird. The waitress orbited around us all the time, and refilled the drink as soon as it go lower, and the rations were just enormous. Food for two in every plate, and as soon as we finished we were basically expelled from the table.
I’ve been a couple of times and the first time it was all cash which was fine except for the tipping. The second time was amongst covid and everything had gone to card. The waiter would bring your bill, you give them your card and they’d disappear, and eventually return with the receipt and a second slip of paper where you had to state how much tip you wanted to leave ($20 or 20%, for example.), and then sign it and give it back. A few days or maybe a week later that tip would be taken from your bank. It wouldn’t surprise me if they still do this and believe they’re at the cutting edge of customer service.
@@richardedgar9670 ridiculous, isn’t it?
Should have offered 5 bucks to feck off :D
@@richardedgar9670omg😢
i absolutely love your reaction to the tipping thing: "well, 25%, thats just ABSURD! normal is 20%" while to us, there is absolutely no functional difference, both are equally outlandish (:
More selection isn’t necessarily good. There’s a thing called the Paradox of Choice that kicks in (our brains can only make rational decisions with a small number of options).
I have found that supermarkets in the USA have a lot of different 'brands', but not as diverse a selection of actual 'products'.
I find that. For example in fast food places there is just too many choices for me and I have a job making my mind up.
Ryans example of the cereal aisle in the US is funny because the 40-50 different 'Brands' of say Corn Flakes, are made by the same 2 companies and just packaged differently, so the 'massive choice' is really which one of the two big companies do they buy from.
As a European I disagree. I do my research before I buy almost anything. The more choice the better. Once I'm in the store I scan for the things I want and I'm out.
@@graceygrumble Same everywhere sadly, some products are produced from the same stuff, the same recipe, from the same factories and they just change the packaging.
The first girl is from America. Though she lived in Italy for a time and also visited Spain at some point of her visit in Europe. I know that because I watched some videos of her. She made the video when she moved back to America.
So yeah, the waiter/waitress in EU won't go away with your bankcard. They have a card reader - a tiny black box, bigger than a mobile phone - and they will do it in front of their customers eyes. So you as a customer can say they didn't do anything funky... or put more to the bill than it should be. Also you will get the bill after the waiter/waitress read your card. So you can check your bill if anything is fine. It would be outrageous if the waiter would pick up the card and walk away. Nobody does that in Europe.
If the card reader is broken they will tell you to go to the Kassa (cashier table) to do it in front of their eyes. So you always have control where and who pick your credit card. I think it's more appropriate thing to do.
Since when exactly you say Kacie Rose have moved back in to the US?!
Where you even have got this „information“?
Because Kacie have moved from the US to Florence, Italy in 2021 and still Lives there happily together with her Italian partner Dario
And have founded a couple months ago her own travel agency for North Americans who want to visit Italy and also also works as travel guide and adventure guide
She literally uploaded 2 TikTok’s of her and Dario traveling through the Italian Tuscan Agriturismo region just a couple hours ago
ALSO The reverse culture shock video of her Visiting after a year away her family which Ryan have watched is already 1,5 years old (uploaded to TikTok back in 19. April 2022)
Yeah i can't imagine waiter just taking my credit card and going away. Who knows what he's gonna do? He might overcharge me, he might write down its informations and so on. Hell no
@@PPfilmemacher I mean she did a reverse schock video? That exact same one, so at some point she might have visited US back for a short time. To visit family as I assumed. And that you pointed out too.🤷🤷 It's just locigal reverse thinking.
So other than that I don't follow that account closly. How I should know she just visited US for a short time? I just came along the same video. And the rest is assumptions. So when I meant she moved there.. i didn't know she will come back to EU or she stayed in US. That's a knowledge gap and can happen if you don't follow a channel that closely. And just see the shorts. Though I think they are hilerious and I can understand/relate it. Because I'm European and visited America at some time in my life.
I'm glad she is happy after all. And I'm glat that you let me know that.
Imagine giving out the one thing that has access to your entire existence to some stranger and not thinking it's weird ...
Wait, American cards aren't capped to like 50 USD for contactless payments? I guess they could lose a card, but it's like 2-3 USD for new one, no?
We dont usually say "I'm 180 centimeters", but we would say like "meter 80" and everyone knows
We say „one-eighty“ 🇩🇪
9:09
Only the USA uses M/D/Y.
We use D/M/Y. Sometimes Y/M/D. But there is always a sequence of larger to smaller or smaller to larger concept. Month should be between day and year, as it contains days and is contained by years.
I live in a country that uses D/M/Y but I personally use Y/M/D, especially on all of my devices. It makes a lot more sense to me to go from largest to smallest. Sorting files that are named with a date and time is so much easier when all of the filenames looks like this: YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS
@@CiaraOSullivan1990
Yes, you’re right. The most logical date representation is Y/M/D, because it addresses first the most significant value. Just like we all do with the time of day H:M:S, most significant first.
@@NunoFerreiraX how is that logical? the number that changes more often should be he one you see first, hence D/M/Y
@@maximipe hence S:M:H, as the seconds change more often than minutes and hours.
The official, metric (or rather SI-standard) format is Y/M/D
This habit of taking the bank card to the back room where I can't see it is the strangest thing about the USA. How do I know if someone in the restaurant makes a copy of my card, etc?
It used to be that way in Europe 30 or so years ago. The US give the appearance of being a very advanced nation but the proof of the contrary, is in front of every non-US American.
You just gotta have a little faith in your fellow human beings. Or not, but then you just gotta sit there being worried. That's your choice, but either way you won't know if they make a copy.
@@jbird4478 Why would you trust your fellow human in the most individualistic country on the planet ? You guys don't even pay for each other's healthcare.
@@jbird4478 Well, when I am with them I will know?
People working in catering in Europe get a proper wage so tipping is really about good/very good service and not just making up for poor pay. I kept leaving half my meals when I livved in the USA, so I stopped ordering starters as I was usually full before the main. America is the capital of large portions but a lot of it is quite bland and hard to plough through. The worst thing I found in shops/restaurants etc is that you never knew how much things cost as they do not include taxes or service in prices. The advertised price is more like a starting price. Food is horrendously expensive in the USA compared to Europe.
So what's between the 'Starter' and 'Main' in the US, to fill you up? Too big a drink, with refills, perhaps?
Dude, we must not live in same Europe then. Basically everyone in restaurants get minimum wage, same for hotels (except for their managers, which you never see anyway). And this seems consistent across Europe with one exception for Greece, where family business pays bellow minimum wage, because they share it anyway, so it's more like allowance out of main budget.
on the card there is what, your name, card number, date that is needed and CCV number on the back. you write that down and have fun. we in europe never give our card to someone. and we have you know things called wireless terminals :D so they bring it to the table and u use apple pay or whatever and just pay there.
Coming from Germany, I visited Chicago by Amtrak, coming from Boston and going to Washington from there.
I arrived at the Chicago station and was shocked that I had to walk two blocks before I could change to the metro.
Two days later I got an email that the train was cancelled due to a catastrophe on the way. There was a button to get the money back but my problem was not about money but about the train. So I went to the station and had to leave Chicago one day earlier because the alternative route is served only three times a WEEK!
This is what I found to be weird. When one route is blocked the trains have time to use the other route, right? So why not letting them go there once a day?
There might be other (freight) trains scheduled for the route which take up the slots. Or one company didn't have a contract for that route.
Most of europeans would call the police if you just walked away with their bank card. 🙂 Yes, it is THAT weird. I think it's literally illegal in some countries. And another thing is, how they pay with your card when they don't know your pin? Contactless payments without PIN are max for 20 eur and you will definitelly not tell your pin to some waiter.
Even when they walked away with my banknote in Portugal, I was very confused, that would never happen here in Czechia.
Yes, I hadn't thought about the pin number. They would have to torture me to get my pin number out of me.
Neither would it happen here in Germany.
Contactless limit in the UK was raised to £100 to reduce infection risk from keypads during the pandemic. Convenient for the honest, but also for the dishonest who come into possession of your card
In the Netherlands the employees don’t even touch the card, they handover the payment terminal to the customer, and it’s the customer that enters the card and pin.
@@NunoFerreiraX I think it's like that everywhere in Europe, except places cash only. I don't even remember classic old cards without contactless chip, I am 32 and my first card was already contactless, or maybe my second card, I am not sure, but I never had to do what they do in american movies that they have to swipe card, everything is contactless here since I have bank account.
I believe with the date thing is was because she was trying to work out what date that was. Was it the 7th of March like we Brits and Europeans would say or was is the 3rd of July as you Americans say?
That and it could also be wondering why you would put the month first. Day, Month, Year. Smallest to biggest.
@@crae_s The world uses either DDMMYY, YYMMDD or both. Only the US and couple of small outliers use the MMDDYY format.
YYMMDD is rather new and mostly because of computers which can sort better with a natural number system starting with the biggest value.
@@crae_sthe British invented MMDDYY, gave it to all their colonies, and changed it for themselves later. At that time most of the colonies were no longer connected to the British Empire and the largest one, USA, did not do the same change. So as usual, history and decision from people long dead are the reason 😂
If you give someone your card, they can clone it and empty your account.
Exactly! How do they know the waiter is not stealing?
Supermarkets world wide have cereal Isles haha. The UK has way more choice in chocolate and crisps imo than Walmart or 7/11 (that's what I've been to most).
The USA has illusion of choice where you guys have huge stores with multiple of the same products stocked horizontally. We generally don't put like multiple of the exact same product wide just deep so it can look like we have much less.
We don't have cereal isles in Germany as far as I know :D Fellow Germans, correct me if I'm wrong :)
@@Delibro We do have these. While most discounters in my area do not have one, the Edeka in my city has a huge selection and I think the Kaufland as well.
We have a lot of foods to select from as well, but you will rarely find it in one Massive supermarket here in Europe, most supermarkets are usually smaller than compared to the US, so obviously you have "less options" of every kind of food to choose from. Here you just go to a different supermarket for different options. I usually buy vegetables and fruit in one supermarket, my meats and fish in another one etc.(All of them are less than 5min away from my home anyway)
There could be a whole other conversation on how in the US 'tips' are part of the 'salary'. A bit like how actors were striking for 5 months due to being dependent on 'residues'. In Europe waiters have a monthly salary. You CAN give a tip but it's not necessary.
Also, in Europe most if not all, actors who have training have a job in a theatre. They have a salary. When they work for e.g. Netflix which have massive studios all over Europe, that is additional income. Now that Sag-Aftra got their deal with the actors in the US - I'm not sure they understand that in the current streaming world Netflix already shifted most of their productions to Europe. In Europe the working actors have a salary and what they get from Netflix is irrelevant. My prediction is that Netflix will shift even their remaining productions to Europe - German, Nordic, French and Spanish Netflix productions are better anyway already that whatever Netflix US pushes.
I don't see in the globalised world the American tip culture or provision or recidue culture lasting much longer.
Yeah, Denmark. NO one gets to hold my card!! when i pay, they bring the terminal, or im following them to the terminal!
I've seen a few videos of your brother too 🙂5:50 When talking about height, in Slovak we just say "I'm a meter eighty". We also say it like this about any hight or lenght, not just about people: "This box is a meter twenty (high/long)" or "This ladder is two meters fourty (high)."
Sometimes people don't even say meters if it's more than one, just "three twenty" because when you ask about the dimensions of something, the unit is quite obvious.
Tho that may be our slavic thing, don't know how west europe.
@@Dread_2137 I know, right? Like "how tall are you?" "I'm 1.78" (read one-seventy eight) and we know it means meters... kinda like the Americans say 5'10" (read five-ten) and we know they mean feet and inches. Btw my conversion might be a bit off.
@@Dread_2137 Same in western Europe.
Totally, in Brazil (and the rest of the world) we just say 'a meter sixty' or whatever
@@Dread_2137 Same in Italy. If I want to say that I'm 1.60 m tall I'd just say "one and sixty".
Tipping has got so bad in the US, that self services kiosks or self-checkouts ask if you want to leave a tip.
Really? I've not been over there for a few years but that sounds absurd. They want you to tip them, for you doing their cashier job for them!
@@Thurgosh_OG .
When I first heard about it, I wasn't sure I believed it, so I looked it up. It's crazy, asking you to voluntarily pay more for your items.
She is american. Reverse culture shock is noticing things when visiting your home country after living years abroad.
I'am a french restaurant owner in my country, we never take the card of a client, we come with our card reader to the client's table. Regarding the tips, they're included in the final bill (15%) as taxe called "TVA" for example (VAT), but many clients are giving tips in extra directly to the waiter.
Sorry for my "frenchglish" 😉🇨🇵
I thought the common term for the weird admixture of French and English either way was Franglais?
Tips should never be obligatory, dont bring that shit to Europe. Owners have to be the ones to pay their staff the wage.
@@ForsakenLogitek would be against most of our european laws to let the business owner lower an employees salary because they happen to receive tips. So yeah, keep that out of here and let people earn a livable salary with tips being a pleasant bonus. :)
I’d say that your English shows nothing to apologise for. I have read things by many native English speakers that were nowhere near as understandable.
I think you're confusing tips with taxes. Vat is a tax that goes to the government. Tips go to the working staff.
G'day Mate! Huge servings are so bloody boring! Prior to my retirement and moving away from Sydney a group of us would indulge about once every 6 weeks going to a degustation menu restaurant. The last one was a German place with 10 courses which was spread over about 4 hours so we had a fabulous time conversing in between the awesome but quite small servings...They are the most divine eating experience possible! Cheers!
All the TV adverts from the banks used to say don't hand over your card as a precaution to stop fraud, one thing I detest is swiping my card, I even asked the bank to disable that function but they wouldn't do that. I just use the pin number. It slows it down but I don't care lol.
You have more selection, but none of it is edible by our standards.
Who needs 20 varieties of cornflakes?
@@elemar5 People who base their whole meals on cornflakes I guess. I always though that eating corflakes for dinner was a joke but... Now I see all these refill videos where they got more snacks than actual regular food, it doesn't seem that impossible.
There is definitely a right way to write a date.. from small to big.. a moth is bigger (longer) then a day en a year is bigger (longer) then a month..
Small-medium-big... Who thought it was logical to do medium-small-big 😅 makes no sense to me
They say it is based on how you say the date (March 4th) but at the same time I have only ever heard the 4th of July being said as I just typed it.
I'm afraid that month day year way of writing the date is a hangover from when the Brits were there, originally. We have since come to our senses and do it the logical way but Americans are quite stubborn in some things. "This is how it's always been done so why change it?" attitude prevails, I'm afraid. Love your vids ❤ from UK 🇬🇧
@@jenniferfox301 oh cool didn't know that :-) every country probably have its things that doesnt make any sense.
I'm from belgium and we do some crazy things with our numbers in dutch :-)
For example take Twenty five (25) its logical because you first say the Twenty and than the five.
Twintig is Twenty in dutch, vijf is five so logically twenty-five would be twintig-vijf but noooo.. out here we say vijf-en-twintig 🤦♂️ but we can pull ourselves up on the fact the french are even worse :-p like having to do math to get to a number you can use to do math is wild to me :-D how is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. 99 I mean 4×20+10+9 to get to 99?? What???
It might have been of some use in a time where the exact day was not that important as the month.
@@glennhouben3385five and twenty is the normal pattern for numbers with two decimals in any Germanic language I know. English is the strange one from that language family here. Greetings from Germany 😊
the first lady you watched is called Kacie Rose and she's actually a US-American, but she lives in Italy, hence the title "reverse culture shock" because while she grew up in the US, she got used to how things are done in italy and when she went back to the US for visiting family or friends, she wasn't used to it anymore
Couldn't imagine giving my card to random minimum wage employees lol. Not a dig at anyone, but it only takes one to act maliciously or even mess up a little (holding the card in a way that someone can take a photo of the info) to cause you trouble. Just bring the POS device to the table, it really isn't heavy. It makes absolutely zero sense to take the card, there isn't a single benefit to it.
But surely you then also have to give the PIN number to the waiter as well to enable them to use the card so basically you are giving away the vital number to all your finances. And if you are then robbed there is no way the bank will ever refund you, in fact they might close your account on the grounds you've just broken the number one ''DONT DO THIS'' rule which is NEVER EVER EVER give your pin to anyone else.
I'm 6 feet, 2 big toes and half a pinky toe tall. And I weigh 10 stones, 4 rocks and 2 pebbles. Last one was for the UK viewers 😅
😂😂😂😂👍👍👍 Ovisi i dali su odrezani nokti na noznim prstima 😂😂
reverse culture shock is a culture-shock when you get back home cause you grew used to different culture
You never let anyone use your card . There are so many scams using tech if it's missing for any length of time you cancel and replace .
The date, in Eu it us usually day/month/year, Idk about America but others use month/day/year, and for us Europeans sometimes is confusing seeing like 11/17/2023 or even 07/08/2023. About the picture behind her, I thing she just chose it as a background.
Yes, for instance the Twin Tower disaster took place on the 11th September 2001. But I kept hearing about 9/11 and wondered what happened on the 9th of November. I'm English.
In Europe anybody taking your card away anywhere further than say 1ft is not really done. No shop would do that. It's gonna be a handheld machine you can touch at all times or you'd be right next to the register. Cards dont travel. 😏
About feet being convenient, the majority of the time for anything like this, it's just because of how you grew up.
Personally, saying I am 1m x cm (it always starts with 1m except for giants), feels a lot easier, because you basically only need to listen to the 80cm part (for 180)
Feet sound inconvenient to me, because you have to take into account how much feet, then how much inches, so we're at 2 numbers to remember/hear already. Past that, there are not 10 inches in a feet, so any time a person doesn't happen to be exactly x feet, I've gotta do weird conversions to figure out how 4 feet 11 compares to 5 feet 4 or whatever.
Comparing heights in cm is nothing more than subtracting and m and cm are just a factor of 100.
But in general for almost any measurement you will be able to find a reason why the one you grew up with makes more sense or is more convenient, for you cm sounds weird because we're using big numbers (while 180 - 165 is not hard at all if you compare heights), for me feet sounds weird because I can't quickly compare any height to my own for example. But if some height started with the same amount of feet and I had an intuitive sense of inches, comparing it would be just as easy.
I am English and 72 years old, so I grew up before, Britain changed to metric, so feet and inches are easier for me. For instance, I'm 5 feet 6 inches tall. 😅
@@AnneDowson-vp8lg I'm British and grew up in the 70s/80s and we were taught both systems, so I'm Bi-measural and can easily convert both to the other on the hoof.
@@AnneDowson-vp8lg Britain hasn't really committed to metric. We still use a combination of both systems, for different things, and sometimes interchangeably. I'm 69 and we learned both imperial and metric at school' then I worked as a motor mechanic, where metric has completely taken over in the last few decades, so I am quite comfortable working with either, although calculations are simpler in metric.
If someone specifies his height in feet and inches, it is not only difficult for us Europeans to convert, it is also inaccurate. 5"10 can just as easily be 1.77 as 1.78 or 1.79.
That may not make much of a difference when it comes to height, but at other levels it can be a big problem. 2 cm can quickly cause a scratch in the car, or trouble with the building authority.
@@Ace-Of-Spades--- You can measure as precisely in imperial by using fractions of an inch, or decimal places (micrometers are made in inches as well as metric), but calculations are usually simpler in metric.
That "weird" music in that first youtube short is the fantastic classic Nintendo Wii eShop music!
none of them mentioned the most important culture shock, at least for me, i only went for 3 weeks and i just couldnt handle the food anymore, it kept making me sick , to the point where i went directly from the plane landing to an airport restaurant on the way back to get some decent food, made me miss the train home and i regret nothing. that was 8 years ago and i still think about it often. that and how amazing the minigolf places were, we have nothing like it and its a bloody shame. in the end i take eatable food over amazing minigolf though....but come on europe how hard is it to make a fun minigolf place, we figured out healthcare and beer, why is this such a blindspot?
man over here in europe noone will ever touch your card . This is really important! And to be honest in germany in the restaurants you cant even apy with cards .
The thing with height is that no one would actually say "I'm 180cm", they'd say "I'm 1.80" (read: one eighty), not even specifying meters as a measurement. That's it. No hundreds or anything.
If they have your card they can copy it and abuse it. In Europe they bring a wireless terminal to the table.
When you give a stranger a compliment in my country people will think you want something from them 😅 (The Netherlands🇳🇱)
5 feet, 10 inches while if he's 180cm we (Sweden) just say 1 80 meaning 1 meter 80 cm since metric system is in base 10. I guess it's just about less confusing conversion system or something I presume.
I usually see heights written in cm in metric. Do you chunk them as meters and centimeters when you think of them? 1m80cm, 1.8m and 180cm are the same thing, feet and inches etc are all different ratios.
@@JustMe-dc6ks Written I've seen both 180cm and as well 1,80m (In Europe we use Komma as delimiter). Spoken it is 1 80 (One Eighty), which means 1 Meter 80 cm. I've never used or heard it otherwise.
The date format in the US is Month Day Year. The Europeans tend to prefer a Day Month Year, which is much more coherent (go in order, smaller to larger time element). But whenever I have to organize files/data, I prefer the date format used in Japan, Year Month Day, as it makes searches easier.
As a Chinese channel I follow pointed out, year/month/date or date/month/year make perfect sense and 99.9% of the world use one or other of the two combinations. Month/date/year makes no sense at all so naturally it is used by ..........
They had a very valid point and you can instantly see which way it goes simply by looking for the year. But if I see 10.1.62 is that 10th January or 1st October, no idea and that hesitation/mistake could be catastrophic in some circumstances.
Well it is called Football because you play with your foot isn't it ?
Hey Ryan, I’ve been enjoying your reactions to Australia videos for a while now and have just found your European reactions. I am looking forward to watching these too. Australia and Europe use the same method with the dates: smallest units first (days), larger units next (months), biggest units last (years), makes sense to me. Finding American expiry dates on products throws me for a loop: “Oh no, this is out of date!” or, “What? That makes no sense, the 5th of the 23rd….” Then, “Oh wait, where’s this from? ……………Ooooh it’s from America.” As for credit cards, they don’t leave our hands, and if they must, they don’t leave our sight. That way they are less likely to be skimmed. Vendors here are not supposed to ask for your card, they will ask how you want to pay. If you want to pay by card, they will hand you the scanner and you scan your card yourself.
The selection is unnecessarily huge, it's better to reduce it for quality instead of quantity. It's also probably not great for the environment that everything is always readily available (shipping from far away), people should rather learn to buy in season and look forward to a specific food of a specific season more. Strawberries in winter are not necessary and also less tasty.
I've heard many Americans say that the foot is a nice measurement in human height. I kinda dont get it. I mean, sure, I don't doubt it comes naturally to you, but I find it pretty horrible. I have it easy, I've checked and I'm pretty much bang on 6 feet so that is a point of reference and I've dealt in feet and inches enough so that extrapolating from that is relatively fast. But a person who is 5 something is between tiny and normal sized, and people between 6 and seven are between average and giant. When a person says to me that he or she is 5 something, my initial reaction is still to think "so you're either tiny or practically same height as me" before doing the conversion.
But I suppose the difference really comes that the 11 inch variable after the feet mean something to you guys intuitively whereas metric people find it difficult to bother with anything that isnt base 10. Here is a cheat sheet to cm heights: Onefifty (aka five feet) tiny person. One sixty: Typically a shorter woman. One seventy : pretty average woman, short man, 180 (Close to 5'11 i think) average man, tall woman, 190 tall guy, 200 think basketball.
Ja sam 1.83 i u svojoj drzavi (croatia) nisam prosjecan, nego nizak 😂😂😂
@@oskngWell, statistically you are above average in Croatia with the average height being 180,49 cm.
Point being, 180 or so being pretty close to average male height in most western countries.
@@TeeFunkable pisem na hrvatskom jer lose pisem engleski (mada ga savrseno razumijem i odlicno govorim). Moze to biti prosjecna visina na papiru, ali kada gledam oko sebe, pogotovo mladje generacije, dijeluje mi da sam nizi. Ovi mladi kao da cim se rode imaju 2 metra, dovoljno kada pogledam svoju djecu (imam 46 godina) tako da ne znam koliko je u toj statistici sve uzeto u obzir. Za svoju generaciju jesam prosjecne visine, ali za mladje, sam nizak. Pozdrav
Reversed culture shock = someone went living abroad long enough to have a culture shock when coming back "home"
Leisure is pronounced LEZ YOUR not LEE ZYUOR.
We are told by our banks to "never give your card to anyone else and don't let it out of your sight " .
America. Just pay your staff REAL wages and they won't need to rely on tips to live !!
I knew it!!! I thought i was seeing double when i suddenly saw a video of this guy Tyler who looks just like you!
They are so often confused with each other. I don‘t get it. Sure, there are typical family similarities, but besides that they look totally different to me. 🤷♀️
They're twin brothers, but obviously not identical.
This was the most shocking thing about this video. I literally yelled "I knew it!" Alone in my flat!
The level of intelligence also gives it away.
I'm pretty surprised that au European can be amazed by US wallmart size... In France by exemple we have "hypermarchés" that can be up to 24 000 m² (29 000 yr²) that is already huge... I can admit some in US would be bigger, but when you already have more than 30 000 references in a shop, you can't make difference with another one even bigger i guess.
I mean, I've never seen wallmart-type store that's this big, only construction or furniture stores that big.
The biggest wallmart-type store I've been to is Carrefour with little over 10000m². But I'm pretty far from biggest cities, so... I guess capital of my country would have stores that big.
I was amazed by the size of french hypermarches when I first visited one. We have some big ones in Austria, but rarely this size. And it takes a lot of walking to get your stuff. And usually our supermarkets have only a very small section of non food.
Measurements depend on where and when you are brought up. For example I (English, boomer) think of longer distances in miles, peoples height in feet and inches and peoples weight in stones (14 pounds). I also have no problem when people use metric measurements. When body weights are given in pounds by Americans I have to think about it.
British are taught from childhood to finish their meals, it’s considered impolite and wasteful to leave any. It probably dates back to when food was sparse and times of rationing.
When I was in the US, I asked for a coke without ice. I got 1 glass full of coke and 1 (same size) glass full of ice.
Ryan ,,,, Athleisurewear or whatever ? Is called active wear In Australia , and a group called Skit box did a song called " Activewear " 🤣😝🤣It is hilarious and is so accurate and less than 2 minutes long . You will love it and wet your pants 😂
In Europe, it is completely and utterly unthinkable to take the card out of sight of the owner. If someone took your card and walked away in Europe, you'd start calling the cops. They bring the portable terminal to your table and you insert your card into it. At no point does the card leave your possession, and if the staff ever took your card, they'd always keep it clearly in your sight. Taking a card out of sight is a completely and utter no-go. The only reason to take the card out of sight of the customer is fraud, period.
She lives in Italy. And in Italy, anybody wearing "leisurewear" out of the house would be killed by stranger shame even if they were shameless.
I live in Spain and I wouldn't wear that to take out the trash.
For sports you usually change at site. I even feel strange if I shop during a bicycle tour in more sportive clothes. It's OK on a campsite but not in "real" life.
I know you don't read the comments but; It's definitely NOT ok to walk off with somebody's card so that it can be skimmed!! I do not accept any ice with drinks (travel in Africa will teach you that really quickly!!)
I have seen Ryan make comments under his vids. Unlike Tyler Rumple, who asks for comments every video and then never interacts.
Out of curiosity, what exactly is happening in Africa that you dont accept the ice with drinks?
@@wlodek7422 Search for 'You can drink the tap water in these 50 countries' for a start!
You know you are old when you remember perfectly well how the waiters used to take your creditcard with them to debit them somewhere in the staff area.... in Germany.
Agrees. And I also remember the warnings of the police and the banks not to do just that, after the technology had advanced to the point where tens of thousands of fraud cases happened every year.
Camping in Australia is with a tent, which you pin into the ground. The attached box onto the vehicle is called a Caravan. Glamping would be like a tent but with utilities, toilet and shower inside a non removable tent.
Let me explain the scene with the bank card. As far as I know, you all (almost all) have credit cards in the US and pay with them. While in Europe it's more likely that you're using debit card. I.e. your own money and not the borrowed from the bank. I would never let my card to be taken somewhere out of my sight since I don't want to find out later that someone has used its number and CVV to pay for a monthly stay at AirB&B or other services where they can write-off the money bypassing 3d secure procedure.
Even with a credit card I don't want people walking away with it, sure, if it gets used fraudulent I can more easily dispute the claim, but... It's still a pain to have to cancel the card, and deal with the fall out of that
About the dates thing: in Greece and I think in the other European countries too, it goes day, month, year. In America it goes month, day, year and it's really confusing when you have to deal with American tourists who want to make a reservation.
Most of the world does Day/Month/Year the USA is the only one that does it M/D/Y which is so weird
Not sure whether feet is the better measurement - 5'6" = 1,65 to 1,67 cm. It's much more precise in meters and centimeters than in feet and inches.
9:45
She’s talking about the fact that we don’t talk to random strangers. I believe she used the term “compliments” but she meant to use the term “greetings”.
Maybe, maybe not. Here in Germany, it could also happen that some men have an allergic reaction to someone standing in front of their wife/girlfriend and complimenting them with a friendly smile. That might also give a pair of black eyes. 🤷🏼♀️
@@Ace-Of-Spades--- 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
As a Brit, I was quite surprised at what Americans find normal!
The calender: It's confusing that you start the week with sunday (when it's actually part of the weekend, isn't it?) and of course the changed day and month which doesn't make much sense either logically (from shortest to longest time frame).
Ryan has such a nice personality. I like him so much.
5:10 Nope. Football is with your feet. Handball on the other hand.. see what I did there?...
Portions that are too big make me quite mad. It is insanely wasteful, usually means they have cut corners in quality to get more quantity and tempts you to overeat, since you don't want to throw food into the bin. The "extra" portion you are served, isn't free, and businesses won't take a loss just to serve you huge serving sizes, they will always make up for it and "make you pay" in some less direct way that you have no control over.
If instead the portion sizes would be more reasonable to a healthy diet, it would decrease food waste, allow the restaurants to invest more in paying the staff proper salaries and get top quality ingredients. The smaller the serving sizes per meal, affects the whole supply chain in very meaningful ways.
Just because the serving sizes are smaller, no one is saying you aren't allowed to eat more, you could just order more, a bigger extra serving for an extra fee (most restaurants here in Finland have this option) or you could enrich the meal by making it more varied by testing out different starters, sides or desserts
This is one of the easiest to understand equations of quantity vs quality, yet so many US Americans seem to have trouble understanding why too large portion sizes are bad for everyone.
Kacierose lives in Italy. 😊 She is from the US.
If 180 centimeters is too much for you, you can say you are 1.80 meters. Or 18 decimeters. Or 1 800 millimeters.
That’s the whole point of metric system, you can choose the unit size you like the most.
I am 6 feet. I am 72 inches. I am 2 yards. Doesn’t make any sense for me.😂
In Europe (France at least) from the 1980s, the server would come to you with a portable card reader; you'd type your PIN in and get a printed receipt.
If it hasn't changed completely the choise of different types of cheese in the US is fairly small.
The walking away with the card thing: it's not about losing it, but it's about theft. You don't want then to take a picture of your credit card numbers etc.
I was shocked at the portion sizes in the US 😲 I had to share everything when eating out with my friend and ask for an extra plate 😂 We also felt skinny on the streets walking round compared to US citizens. During our time there we realised people were the extremes - either super fit or super big.
Heck, I have a weight problem and when I go back to the US, I feel thin. 😅
About your supermarkets having a lot of varieties of certain products, it might make sense when thinking about already big and succesfull chains of supermarkets but in general it is kind of bad for the bussiness.
There is this rule of thirds(If I've recalled the name correctly) that says that it is better to have less sortiments of the same product than more because people tend to get confused, not knowing which brand would be better to get and it might make them give up in choosing something and decide to shop somewhere else instead, like a local grocery store that has less varieties but surely has whatever it is that you would normaly buy. So in a way it is better to have up to 3 varieties of one specific product than tens of them. Also, on the bigger picture, it also has a positive outcome on all supermarket chains out there, giving them all, the same chances of growth on the long run.
Hahaha, I have to laugh so hard when you say that feet is the right kind of units! 🤣🤣🤣 In most of the countries it is the metric system, so we of course think that that is the right kind of units. I can never understand nor remember how many cm is 5 or 6 feet. Is it tall? Is it not? Whereas it is completely clear with centimeters!
I love your video :-) a hugs from Italy :-)
Yes, it is weird to take any debit or credit card away. They bring their machine to the table and you can pay there in Europe or you go with the server and pay at the counter or whatever.
Here in france, tipping is not mandatory. Service is in the price.
And for imperial measurement system Versus Metric, you can tell me your nine feet tall (2m74), I will believe you because I have no idea what a feet is. But I know that 1m50 is short, 1m65 is ok for a girl, 1m75 for men, and everything above 1m80 is tall.
yeah i get confused, like sometimes when i shop online, im curently in canada, and they use both formats, so when i see 4/3 in canada, i dont know what it would be, because i encountered in canada websties using both. but if theres a bigger number like 7/28 then its obviously the 7 is meant to be the month.
after being in canada for a while, i understood some people use formats differently depending on the setting they are in, ive seen some people using year month day for everything they do, but i think majority would still be day month year. but since i have encountered differences here in canada i always need to double check but sometimes its hard when it a single digit and they are close with numbers so either month number would make sense :(
That girl is an American married to an Italian and living in Italy.
Ryan, reverse culture shock is when you return to your country after a time away and am reminded about the good, the bad, and all the in between you’d forgotten about.
In Europe generally we wear sports cloths when doing sports. When we go out we dress appropriately to going out.
The date format doesn't make sense for sure in the american way.
Because what do you answer if someone asks you "What is the date today?" You say "It's the 5th of May 2023" not "It's May the 5th 2023", so logically almost the whole world formats DD/MM/YYYY, but ofc the US must format it MM/DD/YYYY which even then does not make sense, because following this road of logic you should format YYYY/MM/DD.
Stranger still, they celebrate the 4th of July !776, shortened to 4th of July, or just the 4th. Rarely hear it refered to as July 4th, but that is how they write it. 😄
You are unfortunately mistaken. Most people from the US would say “It’s May the 5th 2023” not “It’s the 5th of May 2023”. That is likely why their date format makes sense to them. The only exception I can think of is their use of “the 4th of July” instead of “July the 4th”.
Had this tipping moment when I visited SF years back. I was waiting outside to get in and have breakfast for what felt like an hour despite not being that busy at the time I was at this breakfast place. Dissatisfied with the wait time I gave like 12% tips because the food was still great and the waitress was also pretty sweet.
But after I payed she came with a note saying I was expected to give 20% tips. No appoligies for letting me wait or even telling it straight to my face, but a friggen note... She obviously knew why I didn't tip as much as she expected. For that long of a wait to get in, I thought. Hell no! She should be happy that she got tips at all. I had eaten in other places and tipped pretty generiously up till this point. :)
The large portion that you won't eat just means more food wastage which we're more conscious of. As for the bank card it's a security thing anyone can walk away and take down all the details whereas paying Infront of you the card never leaves your sight
Ryan, that first girl lives in Italy not Germany (she is from USA) and she wanted to change clothes because usually we dress a little bit smarter than you when we go to a restaurant or bar. And yes! it's weird you took the credit card out of visual range. I work in a shop in Spain and I NEVER touch the customer card and all is paid in sight of the customer.
The calendar thing: you put the month before the day and here we put the day before the month: more to less specific time frame. It always confuse me when I recive at the shop something from USA.
The thing about the drinks: you refile sodas but 60% is ice or watered soda if the soda is a long time on the glass. We don't refile drinks but we pay for a 100% drink. I usually ask to remove the ice when I drink sodas in winter because they serve it refrigerated. Sometimes the waiter ask you if you want ice and it's 2 or 3 cubes at most.
The high mesurements are convenient for you because it's your normal. I don't know how tall is a 6 ft man but I can put my hand at 1'80 m (or 180 cm) without problem. I have to convert with a machine your 6 ft to know that man is a little bit taller than 1'80 m
Here is the thing about card processing in Europe - it is more advanced than in the US! So yes cards can easily be processed in front of you in Europe, but if the system goes down they will have to take your card away as well to process it, that is if they still have the technology.
3:50 my reaction to this is that there is a ridiculously huge amount of unutilized floor space