Mr. Giant Reacts 10 Things about Romania that would SHOCK Americans!!
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2024
- There are things about Romania and its culture that may shock other cultures. In this video I react to 10 things that may shock the others about the way some cultural things may shock people from other cultures.
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Rovinieta is not expensive ❤ 60 days 8.4 euros / $, but you can buy per days / year / per year is 28 euros .
whell you have mol in the house in whinter for 2 main reason:
1. You make to hot and diference of temperature from outside and inside its to big
2. And Main reason: you dont open the window to let the air enter every day, get some fresh air in the morning and no mol
You, in USA pay 5000 dollars for an ambulance, in Romania is free. You, in USA, pay tolls on highways, in Romania, we don't bother the doctors unnecessarily, because if we have an emergency, we go to the hospital, which is free, our schools is free...😂😂😂 . Your young people have to pay college fees for a lifetime,...😮😮😮
The tenth is somewhat more or less wrong.
Romania, like most European states, if not all, has a unified public health system. If you contribute to it from your paycheck or don't contribute at all, you are still medically insured to a certain degree. Effectively all citizens are automatically insured to one extent or another. The basic insurance that most employed people have, for example, exempts you from paying for most medical interventions.
At the opposite pole, there is also the segment of private clinics and hospitals where yes, you have to pay in advance.
It's common sense. If it's your birthday and you invite 10 peoples to a barbecue, you pay for everything, right? I mean...this is how it works. And...of course, friends come with little presents...
We never had Birthday celebrations back on the island where I was from. When I was a young man it consists of someone bringing they best weed and smoking with you. No party, no gifts.
@@Touchedbynature304 Never had a birthday party, the only time I ever had one was when my ex wife did it. We just never did on the island. It may have changed over the years but we never did when I was a kid. We never did gifts for Christmas either, the only people who got gifts for Christmas is us buying something for our parents.
Birthday celebration is not about paying is about inviting your loved once and offer them some treats like food and drinks...
If it's your birthday, you are buying to "wet" the presents you receive. It's your party, you organize/rent a venue, you invite. People bring presents. But that depends on the rules of the group of friends. Some just chip in as much as they consider for the party. Some people just want a no presents party. Depends. You can go to a club and give all friends a shot or a beer, but whatever they drink more comes from their pocket. Different people, group rules.
ROVINETA in fee for a car is 30 dollars for a year...but keep in mind that we do not pay tolls on the highway in Romania
what a FAT lie. Lookup sun highway (autotrada soarelui). Rovinieta was setup to extort the population in order to use the money to build the road infrastructure. Police will pull you over while you are inside of the expanding city limits and will ticket you if you are near a road that lead outside the city limits. The roads were never built outside sun highway that leads between the capital and the Black Sea and that 1 is taxed besides rovinieta.
p.s. whatever road infrastructure such as bridges and a few KM's you might hear about are made using EU money and not rovinieta.
No...
mold is not common maybe they just live in an apartment with no ventilation... I am romanian and I never had mold in my house...
regarding delivery.. it's common for them to call u 10-20min before they will be at ure door to announce they'll come
At birthday and any anniversary WE pay food and drinks, but gests bring us gifts 😊
Yes! You pay for every body. They just bring gifts. And it' s not true with the mold, we don' t have , depends on the buildings. But i know what she saying. But you fix it, again with the stairs , not true. They entered in a few & they think all country is like this? No. 😂. With the driveing is true.
Rovinieta is the tax they are talking about, it's for driving on national, European or freeway roads, so major roads outside cities. It's not all roads outside cities, just main roads. It's pretty cheap, it costs 28 euros a year (or about 30 USD/year).
This couple lives in Brașov , they are from America & they stay here know for years❤. They have two beautiful girls ❤. Send you love Mr. Giant.
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They get mold cuz americans don't air out their house on a regular basis. They just use AC instead of fresh air circulating in every corner twice per day. I never get mold tho my house is 70yo n contrary to what Americans thinks about Europe, we do use AC, but only in summer.
1. EU countries have different systems for road taxes. In some countries you have to pay a toll only if you drive on a highway (Greece, Croatia, Spain, France, Italy, etc). In others, you pay a tax (weekly, 10 days, monthly, 6 months, yearly -Romania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, for example), called a vignette - thus the ROvignette (Romanian vignette). This system is much cheaper than the other. For example I pay around 30 dollars a year and I cand use all roads. If I will go to Athens and back, only in Greece I would have to pay the same amount for driving on highways.
2. The quality of the buildings - poor beacuse of the communist systemisation - which meant building a lot of blocks of flats for the working class at a high pace - poor quality materials. After the communism, real estate investors - maximize profit by using low-medium quality materials and build fast. The buildings from the pre-war period are better build. My house is 100 years old. It still has the same roofs and the walls are very thick. No problem with mold. And we use bricks to build, not wood, as the Americans do. So our houses are generally more steardy.
3. The health system - they had to pay for the surgery because they went to a private hospital, I guess. Still, very cheap compared to USA. If you have Romanian citizenship you have access to the national health system free of charge. A year ago and a half I had a brain surgery, performed by one of the top 3 brain surgeons in the world. It cost me ZERO. When I left the hospital, they gave me a document, just for my information, with the cost of the procedure ( something like 3000-4000 dollars), paid by the government. Since then, I have to take an MRI every 6 months and go to a check-up. For that I pay ZERO. O
If I will ever need again another brain surgery (hopefully not), it will be free of charge. I can't stop thinkink that if I were in the US, I would have never afforded this surgery at the unujistified prices they have , so at this moment I would be dead or waiting for the Reaper.
4. Yes, it is not polite to go into somebody's house with your shoes on. The host makes some efforts to keep the house clean and tidy, so it's just common sense. Also, it's common sense not to receive guests when you only wear shorts. Plus, if you wear only shorts it is not hygienic. You sweat and than you sit your sweaty A.S.S.on the couch or on the armchair that will be used by other people. Common sense and respect for the others, as well. Plus you never know when you will have guests and it's just impolite to receive them half-naked.
"Plus you never know when you will have guests" well that depends. I have guests once every 7 or 8 years, so I can pretty much know when I do have them. lol :))
@@RaduRadonys plus you don't know when you will have guests is a thing our parents/grandparents tell us. Back from the days when thay didn't have celphones and social media. You just jad guests, with no warning, but there was no pronlem with that. You just had to receive them properly.
Sunt parțial de acord cu nr 4. "Moda" cu descălțatul la ușa cuiva este de domeniul- sorry!- țărănismului. La țară oamenii merg în șlapi prin ocol(Banat), bătătură (Oltenia) , apoi se descalță și intră în casă. Moda este învechită rău, arhaică, pt că pe vremuri se lua totul la mătură sau târn(dacă știți ce-i ăla). Este lipsit de eleganță, rudă bună cu mitocănia să inviți pe cineva în casa ta de la bloc, ori-și mai bine- vilă și să-i ceri să-și scoată pantofii. Sincer, nu aș dori miros de picioare în loc de cafea cu frișcă 😃
@@elisabeta4696 Preferi sa ai in casa noroi, rahat de pe străzi, etc? Ai idee pe ce calca in medie un om ce se plimba pe strazi?
@@elisabeta4696 Da, poate aveti dreptate. Dar, de asemenea, poate avea alte "surprize" pe pantofi, si nu ma refer doar la cele de origine animala. Pot fi alte " mizerii" microscopice. Banuiesc ca si coreenii si japonezii (cei maii rerprezentanti pr acest obicei) sunt mult mai mitocani si mai putin civilizati decat noi, romanii. Nu se compara cu noi, care suntem mai civilizati cu apartamentele si vilele noastre si mai ales cu strazile noastre, imaculate, fara pic de mizerie si praf pe care le putem lasa in casa unei gazde care poate are grija ca spatiul ei de locuit sa fie curat oentrfamilia ei, in primul rand. Poate avem pareri diferite, dar eu consider ca aceasta practică este mai sanatoasa decat cea "occidentala". Sa stiti ca si eu, la un moment dat, am fost impotriva acestui obicei. Dar pana la urma am realizat ca obiceiul acesta balcanic/oriental/asiatic e mai sanatos si mai igienic, nu e un semn de lipsa de civilizatie, ci pur si simplu mai igienic si in orimul rand, din ounctul meu de vedere, arat respect fata de gazda. Poate gresesc si sunt in continuare mitocan, ca si bunicii si parintii mei si celelate natiuni/civilizatii (unele mentionate anterior).
regarding "birthday" and not necesarly.. it's more or less like a non writen rule.. who invite pay the bill... doesn't matter if it's birthday or any other day
Hello, Mr. Giant, do you know why Romania is the only Latin country in the East, surrounded by non-Latin countries? Because they won all the wars.
The advantage of a more backward country is that it sees its future in the next 30 years at more developed countries. This way it can see what doesn't work in other countries and take another path.
Hi Mr. Giant ! Rovigneta means Romanians (Ro) - vigneta, and vigneta is a tax way for many countries from Europe ( Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria). It's not a " shoke" for us !! 😂 Cristian
The road tax is playble in many European countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, etc.. Rovinieta is not a Romanian invention.
When you throw a party, the expenses are yours to cover. Guests buy you a gift or give you money as a gift, so in the end it's not that expensive (although it also depends on the type of celebration). 3/4 pants and a t-shirt are not considered nudity in most cases, but it is preferred to be clothed when guests come to the house. And as for taking off your shoes... I find it more disgusting to bring dirt into someone's house from the outside than to use slippers for guests.
Ir's NOT a rule in Romania , to pay for your friends for your birthday !! O. M. G. 😮 Cristian
Also guests at your celebration give to you gifts acording to theyrs financial power ..
Yes here in Bucharest i can call my family doctor , send text , i can speak with her on what' s up & she will pick up , especially if it' s for my kid ❤
Ei plătesc 5000 de dolari pe o ambulanță, plătesc taxe când intră de pe o autostradă pe alta, pentru facultate plătesc după absolvirea ei între 70.000 - 300.000 dolari, nu au nimic gratuit, noi nu deranjăm inutil medicul de familie, dacă noi avem o urgență, mergem la spital, fiindcă e gratis, ei plătesc pentru orice, au cea mai groaznică mâncare și băutură (zahăr) din lume, dar își permit să își de-a cu părerea despre noi. Nu voi mai spune și faptul că ei știu doar engleza, pe când ai noștrii cunosc cel puțin o limbă străină. Mi-e scârbă nu de ei, ci de bula în care trăiesc acești oameni...😮😮😮😮😮
p.s. Congrats for almost 20k subscribers!
definetly, if you invite people, no matter the celerbation, you pay (but no worries, you'll probably get more money in return as presents)
On the fine for driving while drinking they will not take your license away on 0.01, you need to pass a certain threshold for that to happen. Until that threshold u just get a fine and move on.
Not much to be shocked on what they are ilustrating thete.. I wonder if they would like to live with this shocks or go back to the states?
For europeans it's not normal to enter in house with shoes full of mud, or dog shit, or toxic things and bacterias from ways !! 😊 I saw many americans with the shoes in the bed !! O. M. G. !!😮😮 Cristian
I had to get used to dogs being in the house even in their beds.
You don't have to pay for all the surgeries. For romanians, all the surgeries are free. But it depends of your health insurance if you come from other country. Anyway, it's very cheap în România for americans. It's not possible to live for free in any country !!😅 Cristian
You need road tax if you drive outside of the city that your car is registered. It costs 30 Euro/year for a car
About mold, it's not true. 😮 Yes, I saw that all the americans live in palaces !!😂😂 In Romania are different buildings from different decades. It depends on how many you have for the rent !😅😂 Cristian
Thank you for the video Mr. Giant! 💙💛❤️
1st of all, I can't see a single "SHOCKING" thing in their video. Every single thing is a mild variation of normal stuff all over the world.
- road taxes: you have those all over the world in different forms, nothing shocking over there.
- medical care: actually basic and critical conditions are free of charge, you only pay for the stuff in the middle or extra stuff. For example if you have a cardiac seizure, you do NOT need to pay for surgery a single cent. However if you have a "back-pain" and want to do some x-rays, sure you will pay ... but even there, you only pay if you want to do it at a certain clinic, other ways you can get a ticket from your personal doctor and get a free one.
- zero tolerance for drinking and driving, it is that shocking? Why is that shocking? You think that if a person who drinks a beer and then drives will always stop at one? I know myself and it is never "just one beer"! Sure you can have a beer at dinner but you should also eat something with that beer ;) in less than an hour that beer will leave no trace in your system and you can drive.
For me more "shocking" would have been the fact that you can not drink a beer in public spaces (on the street, in the park) that are not intended for that. You can get a ticket even if you just walk with a opened beer on the street. No need to drink from it, just walk with the open beer and you get a ticket if the policeman says so. In reverse, it was a shock to me when i traveled to UK and seen some young people drinking beer in front of a Police station as a normal thing to do.
- taking the shoes off: that's an optional thing. Most of city dwellers live in apartments that have thick carpets in the living rooms that are very very hard to clean, so take your dirty shoes of or just don't step on the carpet with them (that would be tricky because the carpet is usually 90% of the floor ;) ) Personally, I just pus some mini-rugs on my floors and always have to tell my visitors "No, no, no need to take your shoes off, just do not step on the carpets if possible." ;)
- birthdays : most of the people have a party at their home and of course they have to buy drinks for the party, however the guests never show up empty handed everyone brings a bottle of something besides the presents, or the bottle is the present if is expensive enough :) .... however, there is the situation where you do not have a party, you just go to the neighborhood pub and buy drinks to your friends. If they just happened to be there, no present is needed. If you invited them it's the same situation as when you having a party, you buy the drinks they give you presents.
- not take credit card out of your sight. It is that not normal? If you pay cash you give your whole wallet to the waiter and tell him "just do whatever and take whatever amount, i trust you?" in America?
- back to doctors. Isn't normal to communicate with your doctor? email, phone, whatever? why is that shocking? I think, not communicating with your doctor would be actually shocking.
- packages .. how is not normal if you live in a city to have your package hand delivered? just put it in front of a building where another 100 people live? ... sure, if you live in the suburbs or at the countryside you can tell the delivery guy "just leave it inside the backyard, I'll take it from there when i get home" .. but when you live in a city with +100k population, I think is mandatory that the delivery guy handed it personally.
-mold. If you live anywhere in this world with a normal climate (not desert or artic ;) ), and your house is not properly insulated, you will have mold. It is just physics and biology. The difference between Romania and the US, it is that here, 99% of buildings are made of brick or concrete, very few wooden made houses, almost none if we do not count the cabins in the mountains ;) . And that is why is a big difference between a house made of wood (common in the US) where once the mold seeped in, it is condemned .. and houses in Romania ... not made of wood! ... you can just scrape the paint with the mold from the walls and better insulate the house. No reason to condemn the house.
-different step sizes. most of the buildings made in Romania in the last 50 years are made from prefabricated standard size cement blocks, so the stairs are quite standard to. Maybe at some point a construction worker got drunk and made a step to small and had to make the other bigger to compensate but that is not common at all. In my building, the stairs are so even, that at night I don't even need to turn on the lights and i live at the 4th floor.
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@@Touchedbynature304 Cheers! (Здраво) I traveled a lot in Serbia years ago, selling and buying stuff, doing what we here call "the little traffic". I live very close to the Serbian border, about 150 km from my town Timisoara, to Beograd. I sold and bought anything you can think of, but small enough not to pay border taxes: coffee, sugar, hammers, nails, wool, feathers, rakia, cigarettes, chocolate, clothes, shoes, etc... anything small enough :) Ja razumem srbski, ali ne govori, mala govori ;)
No. You have to have a full year of working & then if you are pregnant you will have two years pay leave . I had a full year of working & then 2 years pay leave after my kid was born. With the doctor & surgery is a bit diferent , but depends on surgery & if you work etc
Rovineta can be paid for a day - about 2,8$, for 10 days 3,5 $, for a month - 5,5$, for 2 months - 8,8$, for a year 28$.. So that is the cost for a meal, to use the roads outside towns. Also weird what she said about stairs size. Maybe in a park or outside but never seen uneven stairs inside buildings. Steep things yes, but not in public buildings.
For the celebration, it's actually easy to understand.
YOU invite GUESTS to a celebration. It doesn't matter what you're celebrating, but you're the HOST.
following that logic, you're expected to pay.
As far as i know, it's pretty much the same all over europe.
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And this tax ( rovigneta) is very cheap, maybe $2 / week, or $5/month. 🎉 Cristian
No. 11. You get a minimum of 21 free days off work, paid. Plus several days off by national laws(in 2024 15, because the 16th is on a Sunday). In the last case, if you work at a private company it's not always applied. I work at a state owned company and i have 23 days off(max i belive is 25, depending on your working experience(or smth like that, forgot the word :)). P.S. i have worked for almost 10 years now). In the rest of Europe, some have way more days off. I belive Germany and northern countries for example. Cheers :)
We have Drug Testers and If you smoked weed 3 months ago you come out positive and they file a criminal case against you and suspend your driving license.
What hospital was that?? Usualy if you have insurance it is all paid by it..
There are a lot more thinks diferent. We don' t have guns, you can drink on the street , etc etc . The partys are diferent , the building etc so manny think diferent.
Yes, in the US at the age of 16 they can have a gun, smoke weed, drive cars, but can't have a beer .
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Thst is wrong all over europe that kind of tax is paid...and it is paid for using the roads outside the cityes...it only sbout 30 us dollars per year
the doctor part can be explained because instead of the big hospitals that were never built, almost all doctors have their own small clinics and that is why it is easy to talk to them. Hygene, capacity and supervised treatment are the downsides. That is why the number 1 plague in the country are severe burn victims. If you are 1 of those and can not escape fast via chopper chances are you can call a priest.
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the mold part is slander. Most of the buildings will not have mold if the owners/renters are not slobs. Commie era flats do not have mold in the wall structure and due to hot summers and cold summers turned glass like. In very cold days mold comes on the inside surface, you take a simple rag and wipe it like a glass once a week and its like it was never there as it will not feel like it in the air. Old brick buildings are very thick and well made so no mold, especially those in the west under Austrian code. Only new buildings made specifically by snake oil vendors using the cheapest materials will mold like mentioned in the video. Even the commie blocks are made at least at a higher standard than what was made in Ukraine or Russia.
As for health care maybe the family thinks that the private service is better than the FREE public health care. Well at least in Transylvania the public hospitals got all facilities and well paid well qualified medical personnel, same guys also charge you in their private clinics a fee, but in public YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY a penny, because as employed or pensioner you paid already 10% of your monthly income as medical insurance fee. In most cases private medical services are an unnecessary rip off. You rather pay the about 450$ a year medical insurance, split in like 37$ monthly installments and you are fully insured to benefit from medical services in public hospitals and clinics. Any sort of operations included.
Rovinieta is for driving on European Roads - E is the nomination. A pay for a year about 28 euro. It's a stupidity the fact that you must keep your rovinieta paper proof one year after it expired. The cameras on the roads read your car number and the fine will be send to your home. In the Ukraine there are no fee roads. There are 3 categories roads: locals, counties, nationals. The nationals roads are the most disastrouses one. Romania occupies the second place in UE after the number of deaths at 1 million inhabitants short after Bulgaria - 81, I think, in 2003. Lack of in infractructure, cars with tehnical issues, unconscious drivers, all compete to this result.
Would be even ridiculous to charge fees in a country where the income is few times lower than Romania and roads are very bad, because of corruption and lack of funds. Or maybe you prefer a rip off highway system of fees like in Greece, because these roads have to be paid by citizens. The main problem for accidents in Romania is the one lane per sense roads, without a 2nd lane, but the highway network developed a lot in recent years and will be a lot better in 3-5 years from now.
Aceste personaje traiesc la noi ,sau doar au fost in vizita?
As a Romanian, The first fact is acctually fake :/
paying up front (i'm romanian and i don't know the reason exactly) it's eighter cuz the system it's not that good of taking money back from u, or cuz it was a bribe and they didn't knew :D
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On the 5,6 and 9 they overreact badly.
No.5 is about pay for every person you invite to have for your birthday. Is somehow the normality here: I can't have my guests come to me with some gifts and not treat them with everything they want (in the limit of reasonable things to ask... of course!).
No.6 about mold is exaggerated! The minimal rules of house hygiene is to open the windows (regardless the weather!) at least once at two days, if cannot once a day, to change the air humidity. If one don't do that is normal to have mold. Beside that, for them is normal to find a reason of why they are "molded": the insulation of the building is bad, not their family customs.
No.9 is about shoes and HOMES. If the americans goes to Europe they have to adapt not to ONE culture but to a handful of them everywhere on the old continent. I visited few countries for myself and I can tell that this is a custom in many countries and even in the countries with this custom there are family places/houses where is not compulsory. Italy and France for example, but even there only in the large cities or touristic places where people are not interested of the "home" but on the "house" as: museums or bakery or artisanal hand made objects or selling spaces or so on.
The best here was her counter-reaction, out of nowhere, like a bitch-slap to his No.4 remarks: "that's why you didn't have a gift for my birthday?"
It seems to me that they (specially: HER!) are a bit snobbish... and they treat people with a bit of "smirk frowning face" 😐, a "nose up" 😳 and "thin lips" ☹. Common sense is endangered in their family!
I'm interested more in your opinion about this subject that smart-asses.
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OMG surgery coupon . NO. You go to the family doctor (give you a letter) who sends you to the specialist doctor for your problem. The specialist doctor tells you if you actually need a surgery and the final price is based on if said surgery has a deductable % in the national health plan. If you are Chuck Norris and go 'ima gonna get this surgery' you can just go to a clinic (privately) and pay the full cost of surgery. The problem with that is that as a romanian 10% of anything you earn goes into the 'public' health care so you want the deduction based on the national health plan because most romanians are not Chuck Norris. You can get the surgery in the private sector if you follow the not Chuck Norris (into the eyes of a ranger) route even privately and get the same deduction. Yes. You pay in public hospital as in a private clinic hence why 'public'. Romanian health care is like the wild west if you have money.