What's the Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said to You? (American Reaction) | Part 2
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As an American I know we have a habit of confidently saying things about the rest of the world out of pure ignorance. Today I am both nervous and excited to react to the absolute dumbest things Americans have ever said to people from other countries. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
The craziest thing to me is that so many Americans don't understand time zones when THEIR OWN COUNTRY HAS MULTIPLE TIME ZONES.
I was having a late-night conversation on a gaming forum with a friend from Utah. He knew which province I live in, but apparently was a bit foggy on where it is.
He asked me, "What time is it in Canada?" and when I asked him "in which time zone? We have 6," he said he wanted to know what time it was where I was.
I told him to look at his own clock because we're in the same time zone.
@@Shan_Dalamani i dont get what is so shocking about this. i can see not knowing which time zones in another country would line up with yours. especially if there are 6.
@@robopecha He's in Utah. I'm in Alberta. He knew that. I'm north of him and not far enough east or west to be in a different time zone.
And even if he didn't know where Alberta was (even after I'd told him previously), there are maps online. I may not know just how far south he is from where I live, but I do know it's the same time zone.
@@Shan_Dalamani sounds more like someone who is too lazy to google or pay attention than someone who is really dumb.
@@robopecha I could understand someone being confused about the time zones in Australia, because some of the Eastern states have daylight savings while others don't, meaning it's all over the bloody place. I'm in WA so it can be 1-3 hours difference depending on which other main city someone is in, and it's not as simple as Eastward being later.
The airport in Austria has a sign that actually says 'Sorry this is Austria not Australia, stay calm and call for help".
Which airport, there are several in Austria? Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, Innsbruck immediately spring to mind (I've travelled through the first three of these).
@@jerry2357 It was in Salzburg, I believe it was an advert for a telecommunication company
@@adriennebogatie9795 Alot of Americans will mistake Sidney, Nova Scotia, for Sidney Australia. They'll just type into Their computer Sidney without putting in which Country; than Wonder why they're in someplace different than the Travel brochure.
@@andynieuwenhuis7833 we spell it with a y not an i, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Tbh i do call austria australia, bc that's how we french peeps call this country. If i went there and saw this sign though, i would grt à good laugh and call it austria for my time there.
I had an American tell me they were the rulers of the free world, I laughed for days on that one.
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I’m disgusted by that a horrible thing to say
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Tell me some of that laughter was right in their face
TRY BEING IRISH AND BEING TOLD I WAS UNPATRIOTIC BECAUSE I DIDN`T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY, IN IRELAND!
I've had Americans ask me what am i doing for Thanksgiving in England.
I once worked in travel information, and we used to get asked some beauties.
A colleague was told by an American, that he wanted a direct train from London to Ireland, my colleague told him the train from Euston terminates at Holyhead, and then you change for the ferry.
Why do I have to change? was the next question, because you suddenly run out of dry land was the answer.👍
@@nealgrimes4382and Australia. Thanksgiving is apparently a global holiday.
@@QueenMonny An American asked me the other day, why do you call yourself English, that is our shared language, because i was born in England.
I've had Americans say Happy 4th of July to me, a Briton, to which I usually reply 'but hang on, I thought you put the month before the day! Make your bloody minds up and I'll console you on the 11th of September' which always goes over their heads!
the unnerving thing is that American who have never set foot into another country and mostly have not seen very much of their own country LOVE to lecture other people ON THEIR countries. Completely paternalistic and arrogant stance….
Oh, I've absolutely experienced this as a Brit. I've even had yanks (very incorrectly) lecture me on which countries are and aren't a part of Britain and the UK. One particularly stupid individual even told me in a very patronising manner all about how Northern Ireland became independent from the Republic of Ireland but remained a part of the UK. This was literally just after I explained it to them because they though that the Republic of Ireland was still in the UK. So they got it wrong, I corrected them and then they told the correct version back at me but as if I was the one who was wrong. Fucking Americans.
That's american exceptionalism for ya!
Patronising comes to my mind.Thst they are SO WRONG makes it a joke.I was brought up, If you don't know ASK.or There's no excuse for ignorance.
We have one funny saying here in Sweden (at least within my friend group): You know why we are not afraid of getting invaded by the US army? They would just mistakenly go to Switzerland instead 🤣
They won’t invade Norway either, because they think we’re the capital in Sweden 😂😂
@@lillm6874 to be fair, Norway did belong partially to Sweden once hahah but let's not repeat that 😅
It is so hilarious its beyond a joke, but its also very sad at the same time.
Well then I guess Finland is safe too, because apparently we don't exist at all? 🤔
@@Sinivalkoseepra-yz1keSame as Wales, Wales apparently dosent exist.
I went to Florida in 2004. Long story short, our Autistic daughter got sick so i had to get some antibiotics for her. I handed in the prescription to the Pharmacist who asked me where I was from. I said I'm from England. He said, I'm not kidding 'oh that's behind the Iron Curtain' I looked at him in shock. I then said 'No, England isn't behind the Iron Curtain, never has been and since Perestroika there isn't an Iron Curtain. I then listed the countries that were part of USSR and about the Berlin Wall falling in 1989. He then argued with me telling me that England was a Communist country because we got free health care!
Wow.. whoever that pharmist was is such a jerk and a moron at the same time.. 😣.
At the bottom of my heart ♥ to you @sarahwhittle868 as a fellow American, with Scottish and Irish heritage in my family, I'm so sorry you experienced this 😔
@@legosi2736 I have quite thick skin. Having 2 autistic children does this to you xxx
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OMG!!!!!!!! Unbelievable!
Typical American, not knowing the difference between Socialism and Communism.
Not having the internet is not an excuse for ignorance. I’m 66 and had better knowledge of geography when I was 10 than most Americans today. There are these amazing things made of paper called books!
Man, even 17th century people had more knowledge about the world than americans today.
and some of the books had pictures!in color! 😂
....and some states have started banning books. Oy Vey!!!
And libraries!
I once tapped on one, but nothing happened.
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The first time I visited the US, I was nine and on a six week concert tour of the East Coast & Canada. My roomie from our choir school was Welsh and I'd learned the language enough to carry on a basic conversation. We were chatting with one another on the train from NY to Boston and a neighbouring passenger asked, " Where are you from?". We replied that we were a visiting choir from London. To which the lady responded, "It's so nice to hear you speak in your native language from London." I realise that in 1959 fewer US people travelled, but for someone to think that English was not spoken in England left the two of us as speechless as pre-teen boys can be. 🥴
No Tyler she thought Australia was Austria and didn’t know the difference 🤷♀️
Your parents must be pretty laid back!!
@@antmunro6407the op mentioned choir school which implies they were travelling as part of a school group, not just a couple of random kids on their own. Are school trips really that alien to you?
@@brendanm6921 mate it was just a light hearted joke✌️
Irish Cottages would not be made of wood. The only things we tend to build in the UK made of wood are sheds and barns from way back.
I remember being in Scotland and we were eating at a pub. The poor waiter looked like he had a long shift but was nice, asked about our accents and if we were American. We laughed and said no , no we're Canadian. His response was "oh thank god". Lol turns out he had a large table american tourists before us and they have him a really really really hard time.
Everywhere in Europe I have been with my family (we are danes), they just hate american turists. As they are loud, rude and arrogant more often than not.
i had a hilarious experience at the local supermarket (germany) when an american couple openly talked - in english - about using the cucumber they were about to buy for ...adult entertainment later on. They clearly did not know that almost every single german speaks english, and apparently thought they were the only ones in the shop capable of comprehending english language.
So they go into more detail what they would do with the cucumber and everyone in the store just stared at them, some blank, some with dropped mouth, some trying not to laugh.
The cashier, being highly professional just finishes the transaction and the moment the couple leaves the shop she burst out laughing
I'd have flat out turned to them and asked in English whether they had thought of trying other vegetables, just to watch the reaction. I couldn't have stopped myself.
The concept of learning foreign languages does seem to BE very Abstract to their minds
The thing about americans not knowing timezones is mindboggling especially because you have quite a few of them yourselfes
Trying to explain to An American That Australia Celebrates Christmas in the middle of Summer, Blows their minds! 🤯 ....Took me ages to explain the time zones....This One Woman Literally called me a liar when I said Christmas is the Same day All over the World wether its Hot or Cold! 😂
4 on the mainland, plus Alaska and Hawaii.
@@PaganPunknot a different time zone, a different hemisphere.
I wonder why the US is so self-obsessed. How come there's no foreign affairs in the news...it basically tells Americans "The rest of the world is boring" when it's actually the opposite. No offence but the US is extremely homogeneous compared to Europe 😮💨😮💨😮💨
Well I guess when you are repeatedly been indoctrinated that USA is "the greatest in the world" it's easy to just believe it and forget about the rest of the world. Not that I enjoy people suffering, but I must admit I am waiting for the time when the dollar really implode, as Americans for too long has enjoyed the fruits of forcing the whole world to use the Dollar, it's not fair really...
They have so much cr@p happening there to report on the news that even on a 24 hour news channel they can't keep up. And that's without even reporting all the school shootings because they're so commonplace.
The news channels don’t want to show much about things going on outside the US as they won’t get as many viewers. It’s all down to viewership, ratings and money over there, which is quite sad really.
@@stuart_gill Quite unfortunate
I remember a few years ago a British tv channel used to show ABC World News and every news article was about America apart from a 2 minute segment about Israel but even that was about Americans!
Apparently at the Airport in Vienna, there's a special desk to help Americans who are trying to fly to Australia!
Is that true???
It took me a few seconds and THEN I smiled, and then I laughed out loud - OH! if that were true? 😎
It's actually an advert disguised as a humorous sign in Salzburg airport (not Vienna), there is no actual desk. But apparently, a handful of people every year do mistakingly book flights to Austria when they actually wanted to go to Australia!
Hmm... too difficult to scroll down when booking the flight perhaps. 😂
I'm from Nova Scotia, and every once in a while you hear about someone arriving in Sydney, Cape Breton who thought they'd booked a flight to Australia. I seem to remember it's been Europeans as well as Americans who've done it. They see Sydney, check no further and don't question the short flight time and cost of the flight. Sometimes they wind up having a very different holiday than they intended but having a blast.
As an Austrian, I can only say one thing about the kangaroo story, the saying "(There are) No kangaroos in Austria" is really a (well-worn) running gag here and this sticker can be bought in pretty much every tourist shop in Austria.
Haha as an Aussie that's brilliant - seems like our countries at least have a similar sense of humour when it comes to tourism.
Ours tends to be intentionally playing up every stereotype we have. It's basically an unspoken Aussie code to play along with any other Aussie who is making shit up with a completely deadpan look on their face.
I hope there's a corresponding sticker down-under, "There are no Alpine Goats in Australia".
I love it!!
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I mean are you surprised they sell it in Austria?The guy who posted this video said himself he doesn’t know if there are kangaroos in Austria. He didn’t get the meme because he’s just as ignorant as the people he’s reacting to and trying to act as if he doesn’t belong with them
I once met an American guy while on vacation in Mexico. When I said I was from Canada, he asked me if Canadians live in igloos. I assumed he was joking so I said yes, and that I take a dog sled to work. He was facinated and continued asking (admittedly insightful) questions. That's when I realized that I was the only one joking. 😬
I worked at a Chinese university running staff development workshops in English with a very international cohort of staff from China, Korea, Japen, European countries and a few US etc. One American colleague kept interrupting a workshop complaining they couldn't understand my accent. I have a neutral bbc English accent and been teaching international groups for 15 years. I asked the other staff all working in English as a second language if they had problems with my accent - they all looked confused by their comments and said no. I new the non US staff didn't have a problem because they all were asking on topic questions about the substance of the workshop. At lunchtime i sat and talked to the US colleague in depth about the issue with a few Chinese staff. We were all stunned by their lack of ability to tune in accent differences and their lack of any knowledge about the uk. The Chinese staff had a much better education about the nuances of variations in how English is spoken world wide.
Well, maybe its because you didn't say "Lissen up y'all, I gotta say haow ta speak duh English langwidge, capice? Y'all gotta lissen, cos its like mighty fine tawk. Waal here goes nuttin.....
@@TheRealRedAceAT LEAST Most of us understood what you said.😊
The Austrian lady had the sticker because so many Americans confuse Austria and Australia it's become a joke on a sticker 😅
I know, quite a few Americans come over here to Australia to see where Hitler was born.
Why?
@Cmoh come on38271
Tyler, bro, your statement about Americans learning about America in school would be more credible if they left school actually knowing about the US.
Some people are unable to learn, most are incapable of remembering. I personally don't understand.
About the kangaroos: we Austrians get so often confused with Australians that we not only have stickers with NO KANGAROOS IN AUSTRIA, we also have bags and T-Shirts etc. with the same phrase. I guess we are mostly known for our capital Vienna and for Mozart and other classical composers
I don't understand the confusion
I used to think the "dumb American" thing was a stereotype until I was serving in Bosnia with the Canadian army and an American soldier came right up to me and, after looking at the Canadian flag on my shoulder, said "is Canada a country?" and when told "yes" she said, "is it anywhere near New Zealand?"
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it could be worse! for example, to ask: - where in America is Canada? 😊😅
@@boqndimitrov8693 Technically it's better. Actual meaning of the question aside, at least Canada is in America.
@@boqndimitrov8693 well, the answer is "in the north", the USA isnt whole America duh
Same, i was so convinced IT was a dumb untrue Stereotyp cause people Always say Shit about people thats Not true . . . .
one of my familly member staid 1 year in the us for her studies. She lived in an appartement in the house of a nice lady. The first thing the lady did, when learning she was french was to explain what a washer machine was and that she didn't have to wash clothes manually anymore... 😂😂
Stayed
With me being from Yorkshire in England .....
I was in a NY state restaurant and the waitress said " I am struggling to understand you with your accent - you are either Canadian or Australian"
We were in a NYC 7-11 and a local girl came in and said to the owner "Serve the French people first, I am not in a rush" It was last day so we were counting up change since that can't be exchanged.
In California I was once asked to speak English .......................
According to one adamant American, Liverpool is in Wales since he was on holiday in Wales and they had a bus trip to Liverpool for a shopping day.
Well, it is close to some parts of Wales for a day trip.
It was part of Wales...... about 1500 years ago when King Cadwallan of North Wales allied with King Penda of Mercia for their conquest of Northern England up to Northumbria.
It's the same with other border towns like Shrewsbury (Amwythig in Welsh) and Chester (Caer in Welsh)
I’m from teesside and got asked where we were from. When we said north east England they said “oh we thought you were Norwegian…what language were you speaking??…umm English just really fast compared to Texans!
so I'm guessing North Wales
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...and now they're banning books in America. Good Lord!!!
Back in the mid nineties i was in LA sat in cafe when a couple heard my accent asked where i was from i replied the UK whereabouts? northern England a place called Lancaster she turned to her husband & said oh that's cute they named it after Lancaster ca. At that point i said alas Lancaster was formed in 1193 some some 700 yrs before Lancaster ca existed carrying the history lesson on i mentioned that the castle & church were built on the remnants of a Roman fort her response left me dumbfounded but Roman is part of Romania in a rather stern & cross voice she left with her husband shaking her head in disbelief at me!
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Have heard comments before like "If it's New York is there an Old York?", then whenever someone answers "York is in Northern England" you tend to get one of two responses:
1. "No, I meant Old York, not York"
2. "So which came first?"
The kinds of people asking the question are obviously going to have bad responses, but it's still painful every time.
@@scragarThere's actually a New York in England which is a tiny village near RAF Coningsby and the entire population wouldn't even fill a small NYC apartment block!
Are you sure he wasn't shaking his head at her?
I’m Canadian and I used to work in a call centre for an American company. We were not allowed to say where we were when asked. Since some of the things they would say or ask would make me shake my head in complete bafflement, I would tell them that I was in the state of confusion when asked where I was.
And if we said Canada, they would apologize for being rude to a Canadian.
Do they follow up with inquiring where Confusion is?
"Do you have schools in Philippines?" I would ask that guy "do YOU have schools in America?".
That depends on what qualifies as a school to you XD
the question you should be posing is "do YOU guys even teach general knowledge to your kids in America?? " I feel like if they started from there.. they wouldn't be so freaking dumb
The United States established most of the schools in the Philippines when they were still a territory. We should have made the Philippines a state, Along with Puerto Rico.
@@morganmeadowes6861a school is where you teach things. Elementary school, children. Middle school early teens. Highschool teenagers. College young adults, sometimes older people.
@@giselle1929yes we do, but this was New York, lots of semi educated people there apparently.
I overheard an American tourist wondering why the royals had let Windsor Castle be built under such a busy flight path. You would have thought that they would have made sure that they were further from the airport, she declared.
I read that her Majesty the Queen was very adept at knowing which aeroplane was flying overhead at a given time.Somebody apparently checked up, she was right.RIP Your Majesty.
Or Stonehenge so close to the the buy A303 road.
When I was an exchange student in the US in '89/'90, my home country was (then) Norway. A student, probably an 11th grader, once asked me if I was a sheepherder or a goatherder in Norway, implying that these were the only realistic options. I was offended at first, but later felt sorry for the guy. He simply didn't know better.
I think it's a cultural thing that makes some Americans come off as rude or dumb when asking questions. For some reason, many ask very specific questions, on the assumption that they know _something_ (such as the sheepherder or goatherder thing), instead of just asking more open, non-biased questions. "What did you do in your free time in Norway?" would have been a perfectly fine question.
The similar, perfectly realistic question "Denmark, that's the capital of Sweden, right?" makes the questioner seem stupid, while "What is the capital of Sweden?" would probably be seen by most as a completely benign question. We don't expect everybody to know these things. Then, when getting the answer, "Aha" and "Okay" are *much* better replies than "Oh... but I thought it was Denmark..." 🙄
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I was having what I thought was a perfectly friendly and adult conversation about gun ownership in the UK versus America, exchanging ideas and opinions, when he suddenly said he was going to fly to London (I don't live in London), and blow my brains out to show me how great America is. It was extraordinary.
Wow!
Lordylou1 was he going to fly with his holstered gun strapped to his leg on the plane and explain to immigration why he was "packen heat". Nuf said, fricken dumb yanks. How can you educate a human with so few brain cells.
A walking Advertisement for a Total Gun Ban! 😂
Clearly didn’t know anything about airport security
@@Nettsinthewoods quite. The ignorance is shocking.
I don't mind when people don't know stuff. Nobody knows everything, and I won't insult someone for not knowing something, as long as they're willing to learn.
But I've had Americans tell me *I'm* wrong about where *I'm* from. I'm from the Republic of Ireland, and I've had to argue with Americans who told me Ireland is in the UK.
🤦🏻♀️ I’m English so I know how insulting that is for you guys! I’ve had people tell me I’m not speaking English..I’m from the north east of England mate, we speaks o much faster than most! PS I love all the Irish accents:)
I had a similar discussion with a bar owner in New London, Connecticut. There were a small group of us, and she asked where we were from, there were a mix of locations. There was a Kiwi, a Scottish person, and couple of English people with me. When she asked me, I told her I was from Wales, and she said, “Oh, that’s part of England”. I said no, it’s next to England. I said England and the UK are not the same thing. To which she responded “No it isn’t, it’s part of England!”.
I said, I wasn’t going to spend any more money in a bar with someone who was so wilfully ignorant, then I got up, told the others in the group that I was leaving, and walked out.
@stuart_gill Good idea. People like that will never admit they're wrong and it's not worth arguing for too long. I have no idea why people can't just say "Oh really? I didn't know that". Or at least question it and be open to whatever the answer is.
Did you tell them what year the Republic of Ireland broke away from the United Kingdom to be its own entity?
@ShizuruNakatsu That's the problem with people from the US, isn't it. The arrogance from ignorance - when they're completely clueless and argue with you as they think they know better - rather than just saying "I didn't know that, tell me more."
Several years ago I was at a user group meeting in London for the software that I work with. Although the software is used quite extensively globally, the company that produces it is based in the US. They had sent over a couple of representatives to talk to us about some of the upcoming changes to the software. They told us they were planning to offer two major releases every year, and that they would be named the "Summer" and "Winter" releases. But one of the crowd raised his hand and asked, "So are you basing this seasonal naming convention on the northern, or the southern hemisphere?". I've never seen such an awkward exchange of glances in my life when the US representatives realised that they have quite a large customer base in the southern hemisphere, and that the naming convention was totally inappropriate! Needless to say, they didn't use it, and stuck to a numbered naming convention instead!
Well I'm surprised they realized it is different seasons in the north/south hemisphere 🤣🤣
They should have dome what many software companies have done before them, name the release after the month of release.
23.11 is released in November 2023, 6.3 is released in March 2006, etc.
There's even companies doing this pre-2000 who still use the month convention, but base the prefix on when the software was created instead(so they'd be using something like 34.7 because it's the 34th year the software has been around and the release was in July).
@@scragar They just went with the year, plus the release number within the year. So, 2023R1 or 2023R2.
@@truxton1000Even in their own Country. Must be very confusing when they come to the UK. It even confuses us.😊
@@scragarYe Gods.😮
The dumbest thing I heard an American say to me was “Norway is not a democracy as it has a King”, the same person also said USA was not democratic either as it’s a Republic?!
Using the word Dumb is American.
@@DeanMoxley87 Yes I believe it is. It’s even in the headline of this video.
As an anti monarchist, I would agree. If your head of state is unelected, it’s not a democracy.
@@charliecroker7380 You are missing the point, head of state in Norway is of course not elected since it’s a king. But the King has ZERO political power, so it’s still democratic as the elected government IS of course elected by the people in a democratic election. So it’s a representative democracy, same as in USA and all other western countries. But again, I know that most dumb Americans does not think that ANY country in the world is democratic as their definition is almost impossible narrow. In Europe we have two main ways of describing a country, one is democratic, the other is a dictatorship. Most countries in the world has either a dictatorship or in reality is a dictatorship as their elections are rigged to such a degree that it’s almost no democratic processes left. Democracy just means that the people have a say in how the country is governed.
@@charliecroker7380 That is a pretty one sided take on it. In the UK as an example we have a king who is technically the head of state but holds no real power with most of what Americans might call 'presidential powers' being held by the Prime Minister. The only real difference is that we generally know well ahead of time who the next 'head of state' will be and that it doesn't really matter rather than having the danger of some ego-fueled idiot like Trump gaining power and doing his utmost to turn the country into a sham dictatorship.
Austria capitalises hard on the whole “No kangaroos in Austria” thing. You can find that sign the woman held up in pretty much every tourist gift shop in Austria.
In defence of the average American I’d blame the education system for not teaching them enough about the rest of the world.
But what are parents, grand parents or other relatives and friends for? Education doesn't only mean school.
And there is internet. How about using some of that time that they use for tik tok to search for info and educate themselves???!!!
Learning doesn't stop on your 18th birthday! It might not give people a good foundation but, especially in this day and age, there is NO excuse to be this uneducated. At this point it's willful ignorance. Plus, let's be honest, this is common knowledge, general knowledge, it's not quantum mechanics.
Too busy feeding them lies
Well, yes. I mean there are of course other ways to learn, but there is no way to go through elementary school in Europe for example, without learning something (quite a lot in fact) about the rest of the world. I don't understand what the american school system is so busy with teaching then, if they have no time to spend for some basic geography?
"Where's the Post Office in Sweden?", "Oh, Sweden. Isn't that the capital of Oslo?".
Not to mention the Polar Bears on the streets, the Socialism, "You can't be Swedish! You have brown hair!"....
I once worked in the information department of the Australian Mission in New York City. We had many attractive brochures, flyers and colourful documents, and sent the lot to a couple who wrote saying they were interested in travelling to 'underdeveloped countries'. We also sent plenty to anyone asking about Austria.
As a child I grew in the East of England, we had several US Air Bases within in an hour's drive, Quite a few of them took offence when we would correct them on the pronounciation of our town names. I lived close to the coast we had towns with names like Dunwich, Leiston, Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, Oh boy the versions of these I heard were ridiculous.
I heard a yank pronounce 'High Wy-comb-ey'. Still makes me chuckle!
And there's me getting annoyed by locals pronouncing Lowestoft incorrectly.
I Love Aldeburgh ❤️ best fish & chips in England IMO....I'm in Essex xxx
I had “Your capital is Edinburg?”
“No it’s spelt Edinburgh, but its pronounced Edinborough”
“No, that’s definitely how you pronounce Edinburg.”
@@BorgforceI was watching an American Football show on Channel 5 that had the two most clueless Americans I have ever seen (and that's saying something). One of them couldn't even identify Scotland, an entire country, on the map of Great Britain that they had (despite claiming he had a Scottish rugby playing friend)and the other pronounced Edinburgh as Eedenburg and then corrected herself by calling it Eedenburrow! Thankfully I got Sky Sports a week later so never had to watch the idiots again!
A teacher in an American school saying he did not know where New Zealand is……truly shocking.
We were better off when they didn't know. I blame Peter Jackson
the great american idiocracy! 😂
@@user-gr8zn1yp5lDon't worry. Many still can't point out where their neighbour Canada is on the world map.
Watching these people I do not think that you are a typical average American
How on the earth do so many Americans not understand that AUSTRIA is different from AUSTRALIA! No doubt there are so many people who confuse the two countries, that there's a market for Austria vs Australia humour!!
Same with Swiss and Swedish.
I have to admit, my mother, God bless her, used to mix up Sweden and Switzerland, and she was English.
An American asked me the other Day why do you call yourself English when that's the name of a language, erm because i'm from England.
@@nealgrimes4382same thing happens to Spanish people 🤦🏻♀️ if they even know that Spanish originated in Spain and not in Mexico, it shocks me sometimes.
Because there's two types of Americans: Dumb and Dumber!
Malawi was a British colony, the Scottish heavily evangelized there. English is the lingua franca and used as the official business and legal language….
Canadian that loves to travel here. I have SO many stories about “Americans” while traveling the USA as well as meeting them in other countries that it is insane. I have also met some beautiful souls in the US so it’s not EVERYONE…. But the insular culture or lack of awareness of some the citizens in the US is just… frustrating. And shocking. And the racial tensions are ridiculous there!
the number of people around the world who confuse Australia and Austria and Switzerland and Sweden is unbelievable
I heard that Swaziland was so fed up with being confused with Switzerland that they changed their name to Eswatini! 😉
I somewhat understand Austria and Australia, but Switzerland and Sweden?
it's mostly a tongue moving faster than brain thing
only absolute ignoramuses could be wrong.
@@wlodek7422I think it's mostly because people living in Switzerland are called "Swiss" and people living in Sweden called Swedish.
I think the most common mix up is when they talk about the folk group, not the nation.
But it also twists some peoples brain who becomes insecure about which is which.
So their confusion make them mix up.
I don't know for sure but I think it has more to do with the name of the folk groups, than the nations name.
It is way more understandable then. Swiss and Swedish sounds easier to mix up than Switzerland and Sweden.
It makes me worry about the American education system, having seen these videos and others on CZcams.
Don't worry about it, most of the world has already given up on it.
It's not only the education system, it's the whole culture. Regarding education I think most people would say that the education system just set you up for life in a general way, after school is finished you must continue to educate yourself throughout your whole life. For example I would say that at least 98% of everything I know regarding history, geography, languages and politics I have picked up after I left school. And I went to good schools!
"I drove 17 hours" - "Really? How many days is that?"
I'd give that one the benefit of the doubt and assume the person meant "Over how many days did you drive those 17 hours?" Assuming they didn't just drive 17 hours in one go.
Why not?
18 hours gets you about halfway across Wyoming from here, On hwy 80.
I have driven straight through from Riverton Wyoming to Petaluma California.
Back in the 60s, we would go to Plentywood Montana, which is 30 minutes from the Canada-US border. Once we came out of the Piggly Wiggly to find a group of people by our car. They were trying to pronounce Saskatchewan. They asked my mother how to say it and then asked where it was. She Saud, go up to the stop sign, turn right and drive 30 minutes and you come to the border crossing. Once you pass the fence you are in Saskatchewan Canada. They were completely stunned!!
When I was in Florida with my daughter, queuing up for the Simpsons ride, we were taken in this lift and this Young girl with her parents aged around 15 started talking to my 5 year old daughter, and was full of compliments, she turns to her said to her Father and said "I love the Australian accent" so I corrected her and said, we are from England.
The young girl replied, "Wow, that's near London".. , her father looked embarrassed and gave me the look of horror until he said to his daughter England is closer to Scotland.
London is the capital of the UK.
I just nodded at the dad and smiled.
At least he knew there was _something_ he should be embarrassed about. :P
I’m from England and had an American women compliment me on my Australian accent.
But when I corrected her that I was English. She insisted she was correct that I was in fact Australian.
To the point where she was getting a little aggressive. Because she was convinced I was Australian and was pretending to be English to make fun of her.
At one point she put on a cockney/ London accent “ello guvnur”, I’m from Northern England.
Why do you explain what we have just seen in the videos you have shown?
@@mrsprivate1678He can't help himself!
@@mrsprivate1678 loooool
I was talking to an american guy before while living in England and he asked this ridiculous question " what is their language in England " 😂...I was so shocked then burst out laughing 😃
I would have told him "Think about it for a minute"
The English Language Originated from The Germanic Tribes that settled here!! The Angles! ❤
@@PaganPunkEnglish originated from many, many more sources than just the Angles. We’ve been invaded by a lot of people who have all contributed to our language and culture
@MaryB-tx2xq Yes The Modern English Language did .....BUT it Originated From The Germanic people....THE ORIGINAL 'ENGLISH LANGUAGE' ...... C
@@PaganPunkThe Angles didn't speak English though!
In a restaurant here in the UK, I'm White British, my friend is West Indian: Jamaican.
A couple at the next table turned to talk AT us (not talk to us, it's a very rude talent most Americans can pull off brilliantly... It's patronising).
The woman told my friend his English is very good and asked what state he was from. We were both confused until they made a comment about "African American". My friend pointed out he is English, both his parents are British, but both sets of grandparents are Jamaican... So they replied "where in Africa is that? Is it a town or state?"
They refused to listen & understand until I threatened to punch the man in his throat when he asked me "does your father have no shame letting you date a N*?"
Luckily a guy at another table heard, he was a cop & he ordered them both out of the restaurant...
As they left the man commented he wouldn't have come to London if he'd known we were N* lovers here.
Stupid twat was in Birmingham, approx 120miles from London... But the best and swiftest karma I've seen, he tripped over his own feet, fell off the doorstep, into the street, dragged his wife down him, both landing face down! I almost peed laughing cos the man cried & demanded an ambulance, eventually saying he'd call his own.
Someone behind me said "you don't wanna do that mate". The guy looked puzzled and the voice said "we let N*s drive Ambulances here!".
They weren't hurt hurt, just bruised up, but that was hilarious... Ignorant, stupid, clumsy and racist. I hope he still has scars to remind him not to come back to England.
😂 You really buried the lead there, when you say they weren't even in London, but Birmingham. You can't make this up! 🤣
@@berniethekiwidragon4382 thanks, they had this "but London is all of England" air about them. I felt like they didn't even have a clue about the country they were visiting and have no idea how/why they even got to Birmingham from London. Closest I could think was maybe they come from Birmingham Alabama?? Cos most of them stay within London, which is partly why I avoid London.
You tend to find better Americans if they leave London. It's like the ones that only visit "cos London" have a genuinely lower IQ. Usually the ones outside of London are much better... Then these pair proved me wrong. 😜
Mate I've got tears rolling down my face after reading this! 😂😂😂😂
It's not the weird questions, but more the arrogance and shamelessness...
Yeah!
I remember going on holiday to America a woman asked if I was from Australia I said no I'm from Manchester UK she said on you name Manchester after our Manchester here 😂😂 I laughed and said I think you will find Manchester UK was the first it's been there for a long time 😂😂
Like since before America was even a country.
The irish cottage would be made of stone, not wood, probably with a peat roof.
Maybe
The only time I visited the USA was to California, in 1979 ~ Someone in a restaurant came up to me from another table & asked where I was from ... I said London UK, & was told that I spoke American really well!😂😂😂
As a Spaniard, I would like to confirm two points:
1-It takes an ungodly ammount of time to drive to Manhattan, cause water resistance is a b**ch, also salt water destroys car paint, so I don't recommend driving to the USA from Spain. Avoid it if you can.
2-Portugal is not in Europe. There is nothing west of Spain, only a void of nothingness before you get to the ocean (another reason why you want to avoid driving from Spain to the USA).
Jajajaja loa Norteamericanos lucen bastante pateticos en muchos temas😂
I don't understand how Americans don't get time zones when you have 3 in your *own country* 🤣
They won't know about them either.
Actually in the continental USA (excluding Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico)there are four time zones, Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific.
They have 4 time zones.
We have six time zones. Apart from the four in the contiguous US, there are different ones in Alaska and Hawaii.
fools do not understand what is in front of their eyes. how would they understand something that is not visible??
"I don't know if there's kangaroos in Austria or not"
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Oh my god, Tyler.
Roos are an exclusively AUSTRALIAN animal because we're our own entire continent - one that is vastly different compared to the other continents.
Almost every native Australian animal _only_ inhabits Australia for the same reason. It's why our wildlife is so "weird" compared to any other country.
All our most well known animals are only native to Australia:
+ Kangaroo + Wallaby + Wombat + Numbat + Quokka + Spotted Quoll + Sugar Glider + Emu + Echidna + Platypus + Koala + Frilled Neck Lizard + Kookaburra + Tasmanian Devil
We also have the Cassowary, which is native to Australia, New Guinea and the Aru Islands.
There is a kangaroo farm in Lower Austria, plus there are kangaroo’s at zoos and wild life parks across Austria. So it is incorrect to say there are no Kangaroos in Austria.
What a galah!
@@Iskandar64 Notice how I said _NATIVE_ to Australia. Zoos and wildlife parks don't count.
@Iskandar64 they're not indigenous or roaming about in the wild though are they! Austrians aren't driving around with one eye out for a herd of roos bounding across the road.
I don't really think you can count zoos as a country 'having' those animals 😅
@@Iskandar64doh!!
oh my wife gets the racism as well....she has dark eyes and hair, while light olive skin so there is germans telling her to go back where she came from. issue being shes about as german as it gets, her family is former nobility and can be traced back to the 15th century living in this town. XD
I am also sometimes confused for being slavic when similarily, i am from former austrian nobility and my family was in vienna since the 14th century, we arent sure about before that....as i also have dark hair, eyes but very pale skin.
news flash, germans/austrians can come in all colors XD Reminds me of one black german that was told to go back where he came from "you mean munich?" "no where you were born!" "munich" "no where your parents were born!" "so...still munich" "Where your grandparents came from!" "...that is still munich. My family is in germany since the early 18th century"
I once had an American woman reply to a comment of mine saying America is the only country that matters. Felt sorry for her tbh.
Thank you man. I'm Canadian and I watch both your Canadian and UK reactions and I find amazing how similar are the UK and Canada are. It makes sense because we never forgot our ancestors. The history. Where we came from. Keep up the great work. You are far from a typical average american and I believe you get along great in Canada.👍🖖💓🎶🍻🇨🇦
❤
Don't forget an unwavering alliance that Britain never forgets!
In pre-internet days, when my daughter was in high school, one of her teachers arranged pen-pals for each student in three different countries, France, Australia, and the US. This was so they would come to understand the culture of each country (when I was at school, (cough years ago) we all had French pen-pals, and Dutch pen-pals)
Anyway, the first letter she received from the American girl (if I remember correctly, she was also 14 years old, and lived in Cleveland) was nothing but questions. First, she asked when we were going to get television over here, because she wanted to share her favourite programmes, so they had something fun to talk about. My daughter couldn't believe it and came to show me. We went through the list, and couldn't believe how uninformed she was about anything outside the US....
That pen-friendship died a speedy and sudden death...
We had the same thing going on when I was in school. Everybody including me was asking for a pen-pal from the US as a first choice. We had to pick 3 countries and I had no idea what to choose. So I wrote New Zealand and Ivory Coast, just because those names sounded nice.
There weren’t enough people from the US to match so I ended up with a girl from New Zealand. I was quite disappointed then but we had a good friendship for many years and I even got to meet her years later in real life when I traveled to NZ ❤
After reading this I consider myself lucky that I got disappointed and didn’t get a pen-pal from the US
Hello Tyler. I’m a 70 year old Brit. When I started school we had radio and one TV channel. I was a lucky one. I lived in a council estate. After the war these were the houses being built. Most finance for building was for repairs after the blitz.my primary school was I would say was average for a small South Wales community. My school mates’ parents were either coal or iron miners, some were employed by the railway company and some were office workers and minor low paid managers. Our male school teachers were all WWI or WWII veterans, the women teachers were often single ladies as at one time married women had to leave their job at marriage or when they had children. Being a country that colonised a great part of the world the teachers found every opportunity to teach us geography in a way us youngsters could understand. There was always a large map of the world in every class room. I remember the time we were asked to bring food labels in from around the world. Our teacher stuck the labels on the wall with strings showing where the products came from. This was easy for me, my dad was a greengrocer, I had orange labels from S. Africa, Israel, corned beef from Argentina, apples from New Zealand, Canada and so on.
After school I became a Telephone Technician and in 1994 I was seconded to my employers Staten Island telecom centre. While I was there a pipeline in New Jersey blew up and we had several large snowfalls. When I rang home, I told my colleagues that my mate back home in Wales told me about our weather back home and the pipeline blast and my US colleagues were amazed that these items were on our news. It was difficult to explain why, I just said that as a country that colonized much of the world we had to know. That’s how we keep safe. My US colleagues had the thought that if it doesn’t happen in my state then I don’t want to know and why are they telling me?
I find it interesting that you said you weren't taught much about other countries in school, learning mostly about the 50 states etc..... and yet I have seen countless young Americans who have no clue about how many states there are, how many stars are on your beloved flag, what year your country celebrated their Independence, who the first President was.... i could go on.
Even though I'm now in my 70's, if I find I don't know something that i feel I should know, I take the time to learn more. Today there was talk about the solar eclipse. One question was about how long the actual total eclipse lasts... wasn't sure, so i looked it up. I believe you should never stop learning, whatever your age. In this day and age, most people have access to smartphones and computers. Use them! Knowledge is at your fingertips.
We learnt about other countries but still I take the time to review old civilisations, geography and in general everything I didn't/don't know. I'm a little bit younger thatnyou, but I really don't get why people don't use/consult what they have.
4:25 The restaurant situation doesn’t surprise me at all. America has always felt as though they have to assist every other country, whether they are asked to or not… They just send in their troops with no invitation. Why would American people be any different in a one on one situation? They’ve been taught they’re whole lives that the entire world relies on America to simply exist. When you are taught that every day of your life, you start to believe it.
The bigotry of low expectations.
Exactly. They've appointed themselves as "world heroes" when in reality they force themselves into things that don't concern them, often making it way worse than it would have been if they just _left it alone._ Biggest warmonger and instigator on the planet.
I wonder if the restaurant incident was actually a really awkward attempt at getting attention. "Hey, I know some people from Malawi! How cool is that?"
Whatever the reason, it was definitely cringeworthy.
@@erikthomsen4007 eh, I feel there's way nicer ways to do that than by (we can't say if it was intentional or not) embarrassing the person you're with. First thing that comes to mind is asking for a recommendation "my friends are from Malawi, is there anything that you'd recommend they try?". Still it's better to give people the benefit of the doubt imo.
@@laurainathunderstorm
I might be wrong about the intention, but in any case it wasn't a nice move.
I wondered _why_ the "offender" felt it necessary to tell the waiter all that rather patronizing stuff. That's why I landed on the attention theory. I could easily be wrong though. It is absolutely possible that the person was genuinely trying to be helpful, and just failed miserably.
I once met an American lady who asked where I was from in the UK. I told her I am from Leeds in West Yorkshire which is the North of England. Her face lit up and she said oh Leeds, then you must know my friend Wendy Clark. I said no to which she pressed that I must and went on to name other member of said Wendy's family. I finally said my dear do you know that Leeds has a population of 793 thousand. crickets.
When I was a kid in school, (about 8/9yrs old) the joke was... How do Americans learn geography? Start a war and figure out where the country is 😂
I've been in the USA once; year 2000 for work in a convention, I have a peculiar surname, even for people in my country. A guy saw my name tag in the convention and asked about my name and where I was from, I said that I was from Spain and how to pronounce it correctly (enough rolled r's and hard j's to give an english speaker a head ache), he told me that he had been in Spain last summer in vacation, he had been in Acapulco.
My sister was working in a hospital in Saudi Arabia and they were talking about hockey and the Stanley Cup. A nurse from Texas asked my sister how come she knew so much about hockey and then said she didn't know Canadians played hockey haha
obviously in texas and the stupidity is BIG! 😊
I'm Dutch and visited the US 3 times. I had no weird experiences like this. For sure I had to tell them where The Netherlands is sometimes but they were inquisitive and not arrogant. Now on the internet is a whole different story. I'm a survival instructor so they google my country and learn it's small, flat and overpopulated. So they claim I can't possibly know about the mountains, like I can't leave my country. I have to explain them there's this thing called a passport and within the EU we don't even need one but just an ID, so I can be in the Alps in like a 10 to 12 hours drive. But I can also be in the desert in a 14 hour drive.
They try to blame me for my English because I sometimes make minor mistakes. Mostly the difference between British English we learn at schools and American English we learn from movies. So I have to remind them that English is my second language but I speak 4 languages.
Again I never had a problem in the US itself but on the internet are some really dumb Americans.
And you can guarantee that they'll make even worse mistakes in English - like saying phrases incorrectly, or spelling words poorly. Or the dreaded "should of" instead of "should have."
I have a kind of opposite story.
On a boat trip in Cyprus there was a young American couple on board and the guy was black.
The Cypriot captain started chatting to them and he asked where they were from. They said they were American.
The captain then said to the guy "Where are you really from?" The guy answered "America. "I'm American".
Captain asks again "But, where are you REALLY from?"
Guy says "I'm American! I was BORN in America!"
This went in circles a couple more times and you could see the American guy was getting more and more peed off, quite rightly.
We were sat there open mouthed in disbelief!
By that point he should have just said "Mars."
@@Shan_DalamaniMight as well tell the Cypriot he is an advanced scout for the Martian invasion. The jig is up.
Because America is a continent. That was probably his point.
I think you should google an Irish thatched roof cottage. It looks very different to an American wooden cottage.
Yes, made of stone (basically the rocks from the surrounding fields). Definitely not wooden!
My daughter and I was in an elevator on a cruise ship. An American lady and gentleman entered, the lady smiled. My daughter spoke to the lady and said are you from the states. The lady answered "We sure are hunni". The lady asked my daughter where are you from, my daughter answered "We are from the U.K.". As the lady and man walked out from the elevator the lady said "Hey George them Ukrainians sure do speak good English".
😂😂😂
I worked in the USA for a year , while grocery shopping someone asked me something and afterwards asked where I’m from , I said that I’m from Germany and he asked if I’m able to speak German!
I have had SO MANY conversations in the US with Americans asking me (a Brit) the MOST ludicrous and ridiculous questions about all sorts of things. None of these phase me in the slightest. If I meet Americans in other countries, they are usually SO much more clued up and know about the world. To 'travel' outside the US means 'they' (Americans) generally understand how other places function and are more knowledgeable and have the least 'stupid' queries! LOL 😅 😂 🤣 'Bliss' is often a constant 'state' for Americans... To clarify for any Yanks wondering 'Bliss is NOT a US state', by the way (although I think ignorance may be!). 😎
Again, I didn't think people used the term "yanks" anymore, I've only seen it in Tyler's comment section
How many times have you been asked if you knew the Queen? I thought it was just a stereotype that Americans asked brits that but nope! We got asked in Texas somewhere. Also got asked what language we were speaking because they couldn’t understand us when we were talking together. We’re from north east England and speak really really fast!
@@janeburns1278
Never been asked about 'knowing' the Queen, but I've often been asked WHERE I come from. Most non-travelled Americans find it difficult to differentiate between 'other' English speaking countries - I'm from the North West (Wirral-Merseyside), but have been asked if I'm Australian, from NZ, SA and Canada... 😃
@@stewedfishproductions7959 OOh yeah I’ve had the Australian one! Actually had one smart cookie ask if I was Irish. I have Irish great Granparents and my gran, my dad and I all had/have a slight Irish twang…mine gets stronger when I’m nervous lol
@@Anonymous25012I've heard the term yanks used infrequently in NI. Normally as a fun term, but definitely by the older generation.
German here. I was once asked about "Chancellor Hitler". As in, they thought Hitler was still alive and chancellor of Germany.
A German friend, wo was doing an exchange year in Texas, was asked if we had cars in Germany. Cars! The parent of the person asking was driving a BMW. She also was asked if we had electricity and fridges.
You should have told them you only discovered electricity the previous year. If they didn't pick up you were being sarcastic... 🤦♂️
came across a couple of people from the American midwest on a great Barrier Reef island. they asked why thy drained the water away every day - left the ranger explaining tides to them - it was a new concept for them
You just proved that Americans are ignorant... you didn't get that she was from AUSTRIA, not AUSTRALIA
Tbf as a french person, i also got confused as what the joke was about. I thought australians were being sassy. It took me several minutes of scrolling through the comments before realising that Austria is one of my almost neighboring countries ! I just never learnt its name in english.
I once had an argument with an American. He asked me where I was from. I said South Africa. He told me I was lying. I said I was born and bred there, and my family having lived there since the 1600s. He said it's impossible because I'm white and I speak english, not black and speak Zulu.
Amsterdam! That country inbetween The Netherlands & Holland! 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ 😂
11:05 No you don't. You learn about the USA - that's not America, that's only a part of America.
in reality, the country of the Yankees does not have its own name, by which the people call themselves. that is why they call themselves Americans, brazenly denying the right of the other inhabitants of the two Americas to call themselves that.
Its infuriating when people describe Russia as poor and backwards. They've never been, never known a Russian person socially, they just talk about vodka and lack of washing machines. Thats like thinking about the USA and just talking about, well, someone living in a Louisiana swamp
Totally true, I guess if ALL Americans for example went to Moscow and was shown around there for a week it would have blown their minds.
Well, you might not be aware of that the Louisiana Swamp is the epicenter of intellectual life in America.
@@truxton1000 Moscow is a blast, so is Petersburg, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Volgograd, honestly it's a beautiful country
well, looking how russian soldiers were stealing washing machines from Ukraine - which actually gave birth to the lots of memes - i guess it's true
@@vakhv2493 aye, never seen an exaggerated meme yet, nor anyone be less than 100% honest on the Internet. It really is a lovely country
5:30
"How long to drive from Spain to Manhattan?"
"I'll tell you when they finally build the Bering strait bridge."
....and you carpet them flat with that response.
one, you drop them a legit response (the bridge WOULD theoretically enable that trip), and two, you do so in such a cryptic way that they're forced to look up what you're talking about, which STILL doesn't answer the question!
Don't they teach proper geography in the USA? I would like to point out that people from these different countries can speak their own language as well as English.
I don't think they teach the subject at all from what i can gather.
There is a special helpdesk in Vienna International airport to help people (mostly Americans) who have bought plane tickets to and arrived in Austria. Thinking they were going to Australia.
I acutally love how widely this misinformation spread xD
It is a funny advert for an intercom/talkback-tech company. And its at the Salzburg Airport - not Vienna.
No real desk unfortunately.
11:35 - The Philippines is not "technically" part of Asia, it's ACTUALLY part of Asia! What the hell did you think they were part of, Tyler?
My guess is that because it's technically an island nation that it's not part of the "continent" of Asia? Although personally the better description of that continental area would be Eurasia.
@@jessbellis9510 - If that was his reason he'd also not consider Japan, Indonesia or Taiwan as part of Asia. He's not THAT dumb.
I think you've taken it too seriously, I think he does mean they're part of Asia, "technically" was just a filler word like "like" or "I suppose"
the philippines is on mars! 😂
@@jessbellis9510It really depends on which set of definition you have for "continent".
Uruguayan here. Talking with someone from the USA at a party, the OEA, Organización de Estados Americanos (which could be translated as American States Organization) was mentioned at one point. This lady said there was no way that organism could exist because there's only "one" America and it was her country. Needless to say, she left us speechless. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
And They get so annoyed when you tell them the Actual Facts 😂
Yeah, thats what IS the Problem, Not knowing IS one Thing, you can Not know everything . . .but the Attitude absolutely IS a problem
Enjoyable vid! 😃👍🇮🇪
P.S. Irish cottages are made from stone and thatch - not wood. The climate In Ireland is too damp. Wooden cabins would disintegrate.
I'm short and I love eating beans of all kinds and I'm English, we put them in our soups , casseroles and salads ect and us English love Mexican food and foods from all other countries.
OMG, again, I enjoyed that enormously. It takes longer to drive to Texas than to Spain! Brilliant. 😄👍
"America only teaches America." Yes, Tyler, and unfortunately, that's one of the saddest/worst things about America, sorry!
study america? they don't even know how many states are in their country! 😂
That computer tech from the Philippines was so much more polite than I would've been to the ignorant American. I would've told her she had a computer virus and she needed to put a bottle of shampoo into her hard drive to clean the system. 😂
The dumbest thing Americans (yes that is plural ie more than one!) Have said to me is "do y'all celebrate 4th July in Britain"
Given how stupid some Americans can be, maybe we should...
How about Thanksgiving? 😂
You should reply 'No but we do celebrate August 24th' just to see the blank look on their totally clueless faces!
@@djdissiNot half AS stupid . . . .there IS Something way smaller IT took inspiration from in Europe, but 4th of July IS literally Just American.
"excuse me are you Autistic...... No I'm American" 😂
As an autistic person I approve of this
One can BE both
I used to work in a museum that was once a prison (from the 9th century onwards). I couldn't begin to tell you how many Yanks would think we had actual real convicts in the cells and that they were being made tourist attractions as part of their sentences.
Welcome to the Disneyland Effect. Disney has a lot to answer for.
Nowhere in the US is there anything truly historical. Maybe it´s impossible for them to grasp the facts. Plus, we Europeans have to consider their poor education. But still it’s hard not to laugh about them 😂
I was asked at the subway station in the center of Stockholm "What subway do we need to take to get to the polar bears?" by an American couple
polar bears would love these two! 😅
how many americans know the history of america, and the UK, and that there is no such thing as an american, apart from the native americans, thats its a country of immigrants
A lot of other American countries, the Central and South American ones, specifically, take offense at how the United States appropriated the term "America" to mean themselves.
I commented under another one of these videos already, but I have another one. I’m German and I was on vacation on the island of Mallorca, which is a very popular destination for Europeans to travel to. I met two American girls who were on their very first Euro trip together. I asked them how they liked Mallorca and one told me there were too many Germans there. That’s after I had told them I was from Germany. Not only was that rude as f***, but they honestly seemed to have thought they were going to some remote hidden gem of an island only to be upset by the fact there were other European tourists there. Yes, Europeans go on vacation. To other places in Europe. Imagine going to a Mexican beach resort and being upset there were too many Americans there…
Here’s a good one. On a trip down the Danube we were approaching the Iron Gates, the named gorge made relatively famous by resistance fighters in WW2. One of a group of middle aged to elderly Texas belles exclaimed loudly “Oh how exciting. I always wanted to go through the Iron Curtain”
he's a little late for that! 😂
Much funnier is, that the Lady said: "From Austria" and the other woman from the US does not know the difference between Austria and Australia ... just another continent.