'What's The Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said To You?' American Reaction
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An American commented on one of my German YT videos with "Speak English, you immigrant." I'm German, living in Germany.
I've had Americans ask me to speak English, as they can't understand what I'm saying. I'm English 😂
It's common to them just pop up in random youtube comment sections of videos of any language. And start saying that crap. Even if the name of video don't have any English text.
I'm German and some Teenager in a Gamelobby once asked me : "Is Hitler still your King ?" I told him that he never was and that Hitler killed himself and his Family in a Bunker around 80 Years ago. Turned out that this Kid always thought that whenever he saw Prince Charles of Britain in a Picture or in the TV that he was called Hitler before he changed his Name into Prince Charles.😅
@@bubsy3861 I'm not sure if KZhead is testing stuff or the creator can add translations to titles, but I have seen videos recommended to me with titles in my native language and then the video has the audio in english. Maybe they felt click baited? No excuse for being an ahole tho
Well, my little story. An American girl, met in Berlin (i'm Italian), tried to convince me that the italian word for "hello", that in Italian is "ciao", (in english sounds like the word "chow"), i wis mispronunciating it, and tried to teach me the correct pronunciation (that for her was EXACTLY HOW WOULD THE LETTERS "ciao" sounds in english), because she has "italian heritage".
I was on vacation in England and a American dude heard me talking swenglish, he asked me where I'm from, and I answered "Sweden" 🇸🇪 he did inform me that it is pronounced Switzerland 🇨🇭 not Sweden 🇸🇪 in English. 😳 Now I wonder how they spell stupid...
Once an American asked me where I'm from. I said "Switzerland". And he responded:"oh Switzerland, the capital of Sweden. Very nice". 😂
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Those people spell stupid like this "USA, USA, USA, USA" Just kidding, those kind of people can't spell xD
One wonders what the nationality is of those people that arrived at Swaziland airport with skis.
Must be the same American woman who said to me "in the US we don't call it Sweden, we call it Switzerland" and as much as I tried to explain to her those are 2 different countries, it was no use.
Dumbest thing an American has said to me? "America is the greatest nation on Earth".
Real
Irony or MAGA ???
Everything America is or was they owe to the European immigrant.
The greatest nation in North America if Canada doesn't compete. /s
@@Albanach-je1nk No, a great majority will insist on that.
USA is a country younger than most buildings in Europe.
And more powerful than every single country :)
True if you drop the word "most"
@dfdf-rj8jr powerful in what sense?
@@spacebattlenun3522 In every sense. I can't think of a single way that Europoors are more influential than Americans. You're not watching this on a German platform, are you?
@@dfdf-rj8jr Also worse in most ways.
There are very few countries where children have to swear to the flag at school: North Korea, Germany between 1933 to 1945, and the US
Do you intend to tell us smth through the flower? 🤣🤣
@@JohnDoe-rm1kw YES, and I guess You manage to find the sense of it
Actually, in the US, they don't have to. Although many teachers do not know that and try to force it on everyone, or try to punish students who refuse to say the pledge and/or to stand up for the pledge - Native Americans kids, for instance, who know more about their rights than some teachers or school boards.
China and Russia ... almost every communist country actually. Plus the US 😅
@@kjk8941 Do you know that Russia isn't a communist country and children there don't have to do so?
When I was 16, I went to the US for a 3 week school exchange. The host family picked me up from the airport; on the drive home, the teenage daughter asked me whether we have cars in Germany (yes, seriously). I politely pointed out that we were sitting in her father's Volkswagen, a German car brand, and listed other German car manufacturers. She would not believe me, saying that "but we bought this car here in the US, so it must be American!" It was three very long weeks ... 😶
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Hey why dont you explain to them that Volkswagen was founded because Adolf Hitler ordered it
This is what happens when the only thing you learn in school and from your parents that 'Merica is the greates country ever, over all and on earth... All other countries are boring, meaningless, irrelevant and unimportant... Because we live in 'Mercia! *Eagle scream in the distance* 😆
Damn! 😊
Try explaining to an American that you're not "African American" (when you're black and British).
Also... Are they American Africans when living there?
I was involved in a research project many years ago that distinguished Australians by ethnicity. Some American participants wanted African American as a category, though Australian people with dark pigment are generally neither African nor American.
I do not understand the concept of xxx-american (african, asian and what not). Either you are american or not (otherwhise the "white" americans should be refered to as "caucasian-american"? and how would you refer to a white guy from south africa? Caucasian-african-american?) Just weird....
I remember a radio program where they were talking about Nelson Mandela, referring to him as "the African-American leader" because "black leader" couldn't be said. Somehow didn't occur to then that he could be referred to as "African leader".
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I’m English but was on holiday in Wales, where we went to visit a thousand year old castle. There was an information board which said an American had once asked the owner of the castle why they had been given planning permission to build a castle in front of Cardiff airport
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A castle in front of _Cardiff Airport?_ Hmm? Is that Fonmon Castle you're referring to? I guess it _is_ close-by but I didn't consider it THAT close. I've heard about similar things happening at Cardiff Castle and Conwy Castle, since they're right in the centre of Cardiff and Conwy, respectively.
@lagerku.3137 It was Fonmon, yes. I guess the American saw the airport on a map or saw a plane flying low or something. Maybe someone said it was “near here”
I've often heard variations of the fireworks on July 4th. What I found worst was that US tourists were expecting the fireworks in London. I mean, you'd think that if Americans are going to celebrate Independence Day, they should know why they're doing it, and of all the places in the world, London is the place where you least expect fireworks.
We just quietly celebrate having got rid of the USA with a nice cup of tea and some crumpets in our tactful understated British way.
@@missharry5727was looking for some comment about being glad to get shot of it. But you made it 100% better! 😄
I can say with confidence, there are very few people who even know WHY we have fireworks here in the USA. It is just seen as a fun pastime.
I have heard of an American saying in Naples, where pizza was invented, "You have pizza here too?"
facepalm x2 combo
Hah yeah right. Next you're gonna tell me Italy has pasta.
They believe they invented chocolate spread too but it comes from Italy.
Actually Pizza was invented in China and Marco Polo brought it to Europe, where the italians cultivated it. Same thing for Pasta.
@@WolfgangManichl Pasta/Noodles doesn't really have a single point of origin. It's a common thing made from wheat. It was common across Asia but no one really knows exactly where it came from. The oldest archeological evidence we currently have is in Italy however. Pizza however we have solid evidence for came from Naples, Italy. It was immigrated to the US by italian immigrants in the 1940s.
I met an American in UK where I live and he noticed my accent. When I told him I am Italian he got excited and said "I'm going to Italy for 3 days soon! I want to take a bike and travel from Venice to Florence and Rome!" I didn't tell anything to him but I tell you: Venice-Florence-Rome is around 380 miles (625km). Good luck with that in 3 days.
Possible but only if you can ride 24/7 so you drive like 200km per day
I'm Belgian, and on a party in portugal I was asked by an American; "Where are you from", So i told him I'm from Belgium, he asked if i could say hello in Belgian, so I answered that's not possible, but i can say it in Dutch, he then responded, "Ah, so you're from Holland?", to which I responded, "Can you say hello in American ????", He was totally flabbergasted and didn't understand what i was pointing at :)
Of course it´s hard to understand the point, without knowing that belgium is seperated in 3 language-areas, an no "belgian". And that English is seperated in many parts like AE,BE AusE etc.
this person probably thinks they speak _Indian_ in India, Chinese in China or Swiss in Switzerland.
I feel for you brother. I grew up in Flanders. Douglas Adams: Belgium man, Belgium (as in a curse word)...still funneh as hell
His interlocutor should have replied, "Howdy!"
@@embreis2257 What the hell is Swiss? I think you mean Switzerish.
I've had an american tell me it's weird that I (finnish) "celebrate 4th of July on 6th of December" (6.12. is the finnish independance day)
Perrrrrrkeleee, what a bunch of weirdos! Do you also ride polar bears to sauna?
😂😂😂😂🎉
And we in Italy celebrate 4th of July on April 25th
@@mikhalbruns2414 hahahaha🤭😂🙌🏻😎❤️❤️❤️🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
I worked in museums for four years in Scotland, I could write a book on daft things asked. Here are three that stick after nearly 20 years: 1. "Is that France I can see from the top of Edinboro Castle?" Tried to explain, in the end I had to say yes! "Jeez I never realised it was so close" 2. "How come you and your colleagues speak such good English?" 3. "How do you know when this happened?" Explain that in the 17th century we do have written records. "No I mean the exact time in the afternoon" (they thought 1617 was the time not year an event happened". Oh and we get an "isn't it neat they built the castle so close to the train station" frequently in Edinburgh!
Many things were time dated in the 1600s and 1700s so that's still a dumb question.
Ouch!
Luckily you dont really have guns in that kind of a job ... because such responses are dangerously close to a Darwin Award.
Im Spanish from Spain. I once had to go to a congress in Florida, and a woman that was also attending the congress asked where I was from. I said I was from Spain - Europe (I always tend to add Europe as I encountered many of these situations). Her next response was "Oh yeah Spain, beautiful Mexican region".... At the same congress I was asked by another woman, I gave ger the same reply. She then proceeeded to ask where Spain was, and I said below France. She then proceeded to ask where France was. I gave her a simple explaination about France, Europe and Paris (as it is a well nown city). Her response: "But isn't Paris in Canada? is France a canada state then?". It was a fun trip.
OMG so many times that I hear that, might be true and it's tragic... I'm really schocked by the level of ignorance of the world (geography, culture, languages...) of the Americans (from USA), they could at least show a little interest in Europe from where their close ancestors (max 5 or 6 generations 😮) come !!! It make me think a strong 'reset' syndrome might have happened when our ancestors (I'm French) landed there !
@@nicolasaubertin4949 It's because of education and schooling or rather lack of. Yes people can naturally find interests but a lot of interest are cultivated. Most people wouldn't go out of their way to learn algebra on there own and same with history and geography so if you get a bad education you don't know a lot of things. A lot of people in these videos seem to probably have been educationally neglected or didn't pay attention at all in school. Some of them aren't necessarily dumb. They just haven't learned about things that they should have been taught. It's doesn't reflect as much on their intelligence as it does on the education system in the US.
@@y-tiplex Couldn't agree more. But I think that if people are not naturally dumb, the US education system will make them dumber génération after another... And unfortunately it's the way it's going here in France (maybe in Europe) too 😓
@@y-tiplex But they can all tell you about the 30 genders....can't add 2+2 even with New Math and a ream of paper......they aren't being educated, they're being 'indoctrinated".
Americans literally have slurs against smart people like 'nerd' or 'geek'. Literally, if you're *too smart* you're automatically an outcast in an US school.
"What are you reading for?"
isnt that a common thing generally? I live in germany and when i was in school, some very smart kids would be antagonized aswell. Same in the working space. Dumb ppl say stupid stuff all the time everywhere. If a smart person jumps in and only needs two sentences to proof how dumb and narrow-minded ppl are, they feel threatened and in response call you geek or nerd or brainiac or something. I consider it a coping mechanism ^^ ... Being smart is an offense if you walk amongst the stupid ;D
Do not forget to mentioning the well known broken glasses. In every ‘murican movie all the “smart people” or nerds wear glasses.
hahaha do other countries not use insults like that?
@@ryanwuzer not rly, not here in Sweden anyway.. .. the moment u land in US u feel like an alien...
This is very real. I'm from Ireland (Republic of), and I've had *several* Americans TELL me Ireland is part of the UK. I've corrected them, kindly, not looking to argue, just to inform... And they insist on arguing that *I* am wrong about where *I* am from. They tell me I'm British even after I correct them.
That's the thing. It seems to be only yanks that speak nonsense with such arrogance and confidence. Plenty of people who speak rubbish but the yanks do it in a particularly irksome way.
It's amazing seeing as everyone living in America claims to be Irish 😂
Well apparently I'm french since I look like it(?) and in no way I am from Germany since I habe dark brown hair and eyes 😅😂
Holy fuck. I can see somebody getting that wrong, but when somebody who is _from the damn country_ tries to correct you, believe them.
@@Mark73 Yeah, that's the part that makes no sense for me. I wouldn't get mad at someone for not knowing something, but insisting they're right and getting argumentative about it is crazy and stupid.
An American traveller in the UK is on a train and gets into conversation with an Englishman telling him how great the USA is. When he says it takes three days to cross the US by train the Englishman responds by saying, "Some of our trains are quite slow as well."
Brilliant, best comment so far (and there have been some good ones!)
Three days is so bloody fast. Would usually take longer by car, even if you took turns driving never stopping for sleep.
@@chere100 The number of days is unimportant. It's the response which is the point.
@@chere100 It took me three days to drive from Maryland to Nebraska for the 2017 eclipse.
@@Mark73 Poor guy. Didn't sleep much, I'm guessing. 😢
I met some american tourist here in Norway, and they said. "It's so clean and beautiful and we didn't know that you had electrisity... What 😂😂
I was in Amsterdam, visiting the Anne Frank museum, which is notorious for having these really long queues to get inside. In front of me were two women from Chicago. We started talking, and then one of them asked me where I’m from. So I tell her that I’m from the Netherlands - that is - Holland (I added Holland because I know many people get confused when you talk about the Netherlands). She nods and asks me “is that far away from here?” She thought Amsterdam was a country! I explain to her that Amsterdam is our capital city, just like Washington DC is hers. She nods again and says: “right, yes that makes sense, I already thought you looked a bit Scandinavian!”
She's getting there
Maybe she visited one of the famous coffee shops just before your conversation?
A while ago i had a argument with someone from the US who did not understand that even after Brexit, Britain is still part of Europe. He was convinced that the EU and the European Kontinent are the same. After failing to explain the difference to him for about 20 minutes !, i just went with it. So i told him that Britain set Sails and is currently near Costa Rica. HE BELIEVED IT I feel a bit bad about it but who says Germans have no sense of humor ^^
English here but have lived in several other countries including Germany. I've always been of the opinion that Germans mostly have the SAME sense of humour as us (definitely more so than the rest of Europe), but due to slight historical differences of opinion we just don't like to admit it. We are, after all, Anglo-Saxons! 😆
I love German sense of humor 🙂 . It's my kind of humor .
The thing with the 4th of July firework happened to me as well.. i was asked by an older american couple in Berlin where the big fire work happens.. when i told them that we dont celebrate 4th of July, they were SO offended and said we HAVE to cause they beat us in WWII.. i slowly backed away from them
ohhh... cringe... but you have to give them credit for at least owning a passport and daring to leave the US... but still...
I like to tell them that the 4th of July is when we celebrate thanksgiving.
Good on you. They also seem to think they won the war all on their own. They didn't even join the war until Dec 1941 meanwhile allies from around the world had been fighting alongside the British and European allies for 2 years and they didn't enter WW1 until April 1917. Australia lost over 60,000 men during WW1 out of 416,809 who enlisted for service. Australia only had a population of 4M people at the time. They represented 38.7% of the total male population aged between 18 and 44. But there were boys as young as 14 who put their age up to join. You can imagine the effect of losing a generation of young men on our country. They are not forgotten. The US had a population of a little over 103M in 1917 for a similar amount of deaths. Apparently an Australian soldier wounded Hitler in WW1. Just imagine how many lives on all sides would have been lived if he had died.
@@Mr21December2012 I bet the only reason they travelled abroad was because they wanted to connect to their "roots". "Yeah, we're German-Americans - even though I don't speak any German, couldn't find it on a map and don't know anything about it. But we're totally German!"
@@QuentinPlant yep, when I was in the US someone told me: „Cool, I‘m German as well!“ I asked: „Cool! Von wo genau kommst du?“. He look funny at me. I raised my eyebrows: „Sooo, you don’t speak German?“. He: „Nooooo, my great-great-great-grandfather came from Germany! I was never there and don’t know any German.“ Okay, cool story, bro…
If they don’t even know their own country,how can they know other countries.
If they have never been given the curiosity to the rest of the world at school, how can they improve ? I'm schocked each time I hear Americans not knowing at least 10 countries and their capitals in Europe, and at least the 10-20 major countries in the world ! But when you think that they might not even know all the States of the UNITED STATES ( I seriously hope they learned it at school), I'm wayyyy more schocked... They don't have a f**** clue on how the World works and its different cultures... Makes me sad and scary with all this stupidity 😢
It's seriously embarrassing. They stopped teaching anything of validity a long time ago. I think they started the "no child let behind" on the newest kindergardener's when I was in like 5th grade. They attempted to with the older classes. They been tried force passing me when my dad came in told them....HELL NO! She repeats her grade because I ain't allowing you to turn her into a moron. I ain't got no shame in admitting I sucked in school. Truth was, I needed help and help programs were harder to get into.
Depends where the oil is
In that way they are pretty similar to russians.
@@nicolasaubertin4949 and how many states/capitals do you know??
I feel like if you went upto a Scottish person and said "wow I love your British accent!" you might get punched in the face
My favourite one was a US news network reporting that our UK fireworks night was actually us celebrating Biden becoming president. Literally even US news channels don't have a clue about other countries, so how can we expect their population to know better? I have a couple of stories myself: -I once saw a post in a group chat where an American was about to move to Switzerland and wanted to know if they had refrigerators there, or would she have to get hers shipped from the USA? She was literally moving across the world without the foggiest idea of the culture she was moving to. -I had an argument with MSN because every time I pressed the keyboard key for "€" it sent MSN into fits of webdings (I lived in a country using the Euro currency, I literally had a separate button on my computer keyboard for it). I assumed they'd just reply and say "oh yes, go to this setting and change from US to UK English" or something along those lines. Instead I got a reply back saying that MSN doesn't support "minority symbols". Population of USA = 333 million. Population using the Euro currency = 350 million (plus countless millions more using it in business). Sigh.
Im Dutch and live in southern California. I was asked if we have freedom, and if we also celebrate Thanksgiving. People are also convinced I must be Danish because I speak Dutch. The worst one was a friend of the family here who was going off on a rant about how EVERYONE wanted to come to the USA and how the USA passport was the most important thing in the world. To everyone. He has never been to Europe, but this fool was acting as if he couldn't safely go to Europe, because we're all savages that would try to steal his passport from him if anyone found out that he's American, IF he ever would go.
Dutch and Danish are just different names for the same thing, kinda like Austria and Australia. All of you Scandinavians come from Deutschmark anyway, everybody knows that. What’s your capital called? Is it Amstelhavn or Købendam? Sorry, I'm not good at these Duits place names...😊
The Netherlands is placed as high as Canada on the World Freedom Index, both are top ten on the planet. WAY above the USA... Which is lost around the 30th place. I NEVER care when an American tells me some corny untruth. I just say SURE, in case they turn violent if contradicted with the truth, and RUN away, before my giant, sarcastic smirk has a chance to get me in trouble
@@noneofyerbeeswax8194 bro im german and that really made me crack up xD
Maybe that was the case 50 years ago, but nowadays, more US citizens are looking into moving to Europe, Canada or Australia than the other way around.
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I was in 🇺🇸 for 5 yrs, I’m Italian from north eastern corner, my hometown in the alps is close to the borders with Austria and Slovenia. I don’t have an Italian sounding last name, and a lot of Americans were telling me that I was not Italian because of my blonde hair, green eyes and 6.2 ft tall. They were shocked when I was telling that Italy is not only Rome, Florence or south Italy! A lot of stereotypes 😂
Tirol ... One of my favorite places to visit ... We usually stay in Schenna just north of Meran.
@@karlsenula9495 I think the guy was referring to another part of Northern Italy called Friuli or more specifically Carnia.
😂 we speak about “Europeans” but just looking at Italy we are so different from each others… imagine trying to speak about similarities between Italy and north European countries 😂 Not even Italians themselves share the same habits/ looks/ accent /sometimes languages 😂 My boyfriend is from Napoli and he’s blonde with blue eyes and when he went out with his Moldavia friend (blonde with blue eyes) you really couldn’t tell the difference 😂 they seemed cousin! But yeah In Italy we come in all different colors, even the skin colors can be different sometimes 🤷🏻♀️even if we’re still all technically “white/Caucasian”.
I mean, in fairness your area is not ethnically Italian. It was taken from Austria a century ago. It's absolutely normal that those Americans would be confused, and that doesn't make them ignorants per se. Nobody can know every uniqueness of each single small region in the world. I'm from Spain and here barely nobody knows about your region (only history and geography geeks). People from here would believe you being Italian because of your accent (assuming your mother tongue is Italian and not German), but for the rest (your look and your surname) they would be as surprised as those Americans you were talking about, because it's not something popularly known.
Hai mica un cognome di origine longobardo, es. Braida?
As a Swede we use polar bears to pull our skateboards when the snow is to deep.
These black/white ones? 😂
Best the huskies get the hump about that!! 😂😂😂
But we have wonderful summers. Last year, it was on a Wednesday.
@@andreasfischer9158 you lucky bastard. One whole day?
And kids in Australia ride kangaroos to school. 😂😂😂😂
Ry, mate, they didn’t say it to me personally, but apparently there’s a percentage of Americans who think that if they go to a foreign country they are still under American law and have “rights” and stuff 😂😂😂
Over 4000 Americans have been charged with illegally trying to bring their guns into Canada in the last 10 years ! 🇨🇦
Oh my god this reminds me of a discussion I had with an american in yt comments who kept insisting that the american right to bear arms is a "human right" that applies to everyone...
Have you seen that other YT video where a British policewoman is trying to ask two Americans a question and they start spouting off American law about knowing their rights? They did not understand that their laws have diddlysquat traction in the UK.
It's not just Americans. I remember a story about a woman in the UK yelling at a couple to speak English because they were speaking a language she didn't understand. They were speaking Welsh. They were currently in Wales.
there is dumb peoples all over the world they just seems to gather all in USA
To be fair, most Welsh can't speak Welsh...
There are stupid people everywhere , that is the only thing every country shares 😅
I saw this episode before Ryan uploaded it because where i'm from it's 6 hours ahead of USA
So....why didn't you warn them? 🤪
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Showoff.
And I even saw this episode before Ryan recorded it!
@@Mr21December2012 And where are you from? I bet, well maybe lol. I saw it before you did lol. Was in fits of laughter before on FB to a lovely American online friend, we got talking about time travel lol. Intelligent girl and her brother is a college/university lecturer, very dry humour but so funny, But we still educate each other about our different ways and terminology - which usually ends up in fits of joint laughter 😊
American to me "who is your President?" Me "We don't have one"...American looks very confused....
i got told, i have a Führer not a president in Germany, i still wonder why Steinmeier is president?
Me to an American (about 1648 Polish-Ukrainian war): -...and so we voted, elected a new king and defeated Ukrainians. American: You cannot elect a king. It isn't how kings work.
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Atleast he knew "your president" is not the same as his president. And there are more countries with presidents than kings/queens.
@@Northerner-Not-A-Doctor to be fair, lots of people are surprised when I tell them that Poles used to elect their kings. On the other hand, no-one who is not from the USA has ever told me that it's impossible, they actually want to learn more about it.
I was taking a walk in Rome, waiting for a friend near the Coliseum, and a couple stopped me for a question. We started talking and it turns out they were Americans, from Seattle. At some point, I don't exactly remember the context, the husband, pointing to the Coliseum, asks me: - but... Is that real? - I'm sorry? - yeah I mean, is it the real one? The Romans built? - Sorry, I really don't understand. Of course the Romans built it. - but if it stays outside it will be ruined! The conversation was surreal, so I tried to be a bit sarcastic, answering something like "oh yeah I understand now! No of course we don't want to ruin it, so this is a replica of course! We moved the real one into a very big museum" and they were all like "ohh that's cool it does make sense!". I wasn't able to tell them the truth. I just hope they never went to someone asking where the museum of the real Coliseum was. 😅
U cant be sarcastic with those people they wont get ittttt haha
don't be to too upset. Italians have placed some things inside museums and put up replicas in public places mostly because of the elements. the statue of David for example and he is just 520yrs old.
Nope it is a replica Italo-Disney built ...
@@embreis2257I mean obviously some stuff are replicated! But the all Colosseo! 😂 How can you even think about move something so huge! 😂 And we also can’t do that to our ancestors😂😂😂
@@Sim0sama "How can you even think about move something so huge". If you're American, (you think) anything is possible.
When you had a president who thought Belgium was a nice city, what would you expext.
In our defense, he did lose the popular vote. We just have this stupid, obsolete thing called the "electoral college" that's a holdover from 200 year old voting logistics.
One time I was talking to an american girl. She asked me where I am from because of my accent. I told her that I am a Portuguese who grew up in Berlin. All of this took place in the beginning of 2010's. She then went on to ask me wether the Berlin wall is still standing. She also was convinced that Portugal is a spanish province
It would have messed with her head if you had told , just because they are both on the Iberian peninsula, doesn't make Portugal a part of Spain.
@@lynn69jackson 😂 I am not sure if she would know what a peninsula is...but all jokes aside, I didn't want to mess with her. She was very friendly and had a good heart, which is more important. Memorizing facts is an easier task than being kind.
At least she knew where Spain is and did't confused it with mexico, you got to give her credit for that 😂 PD: saludos vecino 🙋🏻♂️🇪🇦🇵🇹😘
You are right mi hermano iberico 🙋♂️🇵🇹🇪🇦😘
I've heard that American education sucks, but this is ridiculous
The worst part is that teachers are encouraged to pass students regardless so the student doesn't feel socially ostracized and so it doesn't reflect badly on the school 🤦.
I have actually heard a 9 year old American boy state that beef comes from the cow plant.
The sad thing is that authotities ib my country idolise American and want to imitate their educational system.
I’m German and live in Berlin. Some years ago I was asked to take care of some American exchange students because my English was quite good. I was supposed to show them around the city, take them on some trips. The first thing that surprised me was that they were unable to speak German. If you go into an exchange program in Germany, at least in my school, you were supposed to be able to speak at least on a C1 level. Those students couldn‘t even ask for directions, tell somebody their names or where they are from. It wasn‘t a problem as many people in Berlin speak at least a bit of English. The second surprise was as issue, though. They constantly asked about Adolf Hitler. Where does he work, where does he life, can they see him, could they make a foto with him. At first I thought they were joking, after I realized that they were not I had a very hard time convincing them that 1. Hitler is dead since the second world war … because the Allies including the US won that fucking war against Nazi Germany (and even if they didn‘t he would‘ve probably died of old age by that point, it was 2008 or something around that time) And more important 2. that Adolf Hitler is not some kind of celebrity in Germany. I was shocked to see how little they new about the worlds history their country shaped
What shocks me more about this is how someone could possibly know enough to know who Hitler is yet presumabely know not enough about him to realise that you wouldnt want a picture with him? Like, how could someone possibly learn who Hitler is without also learning atleast some of the things that make him very very unlikeable, to put it nicely.
😮😮 I am afraid you are not joking?
At least C1? Seriously? Sounds like an overkill.
@@gklkjuhylpoiuyuiojhjklkjuh9976 C1 basically means that you are fluent in a language, which I think is a pretty fair requirement if you want to be an exchange student. After all being an exchange student should mean wanting to relatively Independently live in a foreign country for a while. Not be a tourist.
Overheard in Paris “Gee this menu’s got poison on it”.
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Don't eat the fish in France 😂
To be fair though, that comment is pretty much mandatory, even if you know what it means. :)
@@HenrikJansson78 Not spelled the same though!
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Was in an uber in Baton Rouge. Driver asked me where I'm from, and i said Australia. Driver told me that sounds like a great place to visit, but would never go due to lack of freedoms. Very quiet drive after that nugget.
I wonder if he thinks America is the only free country... or if he's a gun nut.
And I know that's the state capital of Louisiana, despite not being from the US
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@@aledjangoYep, I'm from Ireland and know most state capitals, even in cases where the state capital is not the "obvious" well-known city of that state.
@@ShizuruNakatsu I learned all 50 for literally no reason, probably autism
"I've never seen a passport", the most American thing ever.
Ot any citizen of EU who is not traveling outside Europe
@@tomektomaszewski1928 True. We like to mock Americans, but half of the Europeans have never left Europe...
We use passports within Europe.lf I go to France, I live in England.I need a passport.
@@iriscollins7583 But only since Brexit ;) Because the UK did the American thing, like "We are the best country on earth, we don't need others! We are GREAT Britian! We are a world power!" Well, now you need a passport to travel to france... BY TRAIN!
Me, as a EU citizen, I use my passport when I travel outside of the Nordic countries. Even inside the EU, cause my only other ID is my drivers licence, which is not a valid ID outside of the Nordic countries.
A friend moved to the US 2 years ago and her daughter had a debate in class (all of the class v’s her daughter) that the Americans invented the English language and she should say thanks. Her daughter tried to explain that she was from England so therefore English and spoke English. It didn’t compute, what was scary was that the teacher didn’t interject and correct them. Another time a teacher said that Great Britain was not in Europe ??? As she was a new student she didn’t want to embarrass the teacher with the truth. I’m going to guess maybe he got confused with the EU.
I've just pictured in my head, is when UK left the EU, you all took out the paddles and started rowing the island away from the Europe.
A teacher???
When I told an American I am from Finland, she immediately started talking about our cold weather. I said "yes, we can have cold winters, but our summers can be fairly warm. One summer during covid it was actually so hot that I suffered from heatstroke several times". She didn't believe me.
I wouldn’t believe you neither 😂 I’m from south Europe, you can imagine what hot summer can mean to me 😂
To be fair, that 2020 Summer was unusually hot, at least here in the UK. I'm from South Spain and it almost felt like I was back home.
As an Aussie, i don't believe you either
@@Ausecko1 Well, it's not like I can compete with you, since I'm aware that you experience scorching hot temperatures. But it is possible to experience heat stroke in Finland, believe it or not.
I’m English. In our Ohio office. ‘You speak English so well, did you learn at school?’
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"Your English is pretty good too."
@@blechtic "... espacilly because it's an imported foreign language from overseas. You know, from these pesky immigrants."
Apparently England is full of English people speaking English with English accents - who knew?
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Czechoslovakia has also ceased to exist in 1992.. over 30(!) years ago!
But some decades ago the chances were high that the people would speak Russian as a second language.
@@reinhard8053 As third language... Czech, Slovak, Russian...
Sure, but it turned into the Czeck Republic and Slovakia
@@Donnah1979 im aware but americans still pretrend like its one and the same country
Nowadays people there don’t speak Russian, just a small percentage. Since the 90’s Russian it’s not obligatory in schools, after that most of the students have chosen other languages to learn as a second one.
When I went to the US I was asked what do we cook for Thanksgiving. No one could believe we don’t celebrate that in Australia. Then during my stay someone said to me, On the news we saw a plane crashed near Australia! I was like OMG did it crash into the ocean? They looked confused and said no it crashed on land. So it crashed in Australia?? They said it was near the border of Australia. Later I learned the plane crashed in Austria. 🤦🏻♀️
This is an easy miss understanding . They just see the similar word, that means they’re must be the same thing!😂
Have you ever had the debate with an American that Aus is a made up country? That one made my brain hurt.
I met an American chap in Austria who was on the train and wanted to go to Vienna but couldn't find it. I explained to him that the sign said "Wien".....but he couldn't figure it out...He had gone by it twice.
Weirdest thing an American said to me (a Brit) was at Ontario International airport in California (east of LA). I was at a car hire desk and the girl was trying to sell me additional insurance cover for $60 or whatever. I turned to my girlfriend and said, "That's an additional £40". The girl overhead me and said, "Excuse me, what's a Pound? Do you mean like pounds of gold?".... Yes, sir, at an international airport, the car hire employee had never heard of the British currency. True story.
Even stranger when you think it used to be their currency too😂
Oh and another one. I was in a shop in England, when an American asked me the price of something, when I said 10 pounds, she replied "you mean Dollars" 🙄
She wasn't too far off. A pound was originally a pound of silver. Hence a "pound sterling".
@@leenorman853 Much more than calling others stupid we should enjoy an interesting bit of information!
@@polnoezabvenie I didn't call anybody stupid. O czym mówisz?
I was an exchange student in Fayetteville, NC in 2007-08. I got asked the dumbest shit but one of the dumbest was " Do you have movie theatres in Italy'?". My answer was "No we don't cause we do not have electricity in Italy ". Only at that point she realized how stupid her question was.
I hope you have electricity by now.
I mean, we made movies even before them!!! it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_italiano
@@Zajuyes one of the first movies was L Inferno 1907 thats about the Dantes Inferno very good movie
Oh man.. Lucky you. I'm Canadian and they would have BELIEVED that we had no electricity, AND lived in igloos because we are ALWAYS under 10 feet of snow and ice...
You got one of the smarter ones. Quite a few would easily have believed you about the electricity.
22:20 The Norwegian flag hanging in the back of the room reminded me of a news story where they removed a Norwegian flag, thinking it was the flag of the Confederate States.
I remember that one. Imagine googling for one second, yikes.
I corrected an American for using the American flag to represent the English language. I replied with the English flag, to which he replied "is that from a hospital?" 😂😂
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A Hindu temple was attacked by Jewish women who say swastikas on the gates.
While living in Atlanta with my then husband and two children, I got to know a lady from Illinois. We had been friends for six months or so, and I was helping her and her husband pack to move to another apartment. We were discussing the moving process, and she knew I was from New Zealand, but she asked me, "How long did it take you to drive down?" I was dumbstruck!, Yes, eventually I explained where New Zealand is located.
New Zealand, New York, New Jersey, New England etc... They are all part of the region New in the US..
@uturner absolutely 💯 😉😉😉 that's why our social security cards, we were made to get, were stamped "Alien not eligible for work". 😀
I was working in a shop (in Canada) and a family of American tourists came in. The Dad(?) asked me the price of something. I told him it was $40. And he said, Tourist: not in American. What's the price here? Me: Sorry? Tourist: You said $40. What is it in Canada? Me: Oh it's $40 Canadian. Him: No shit? So you're copying our money now to huh? Cant even have your own money. What a joke. *walks out* Me: ....
German and grew up in the the US of A. Two most stupid questions or remarks I can remember: 1. Do you come from East or West Germany? 2. Always wanted to drive to Germany but the gas prices are just way to high.
On this question I like to say: "I grew up in North Germany and do now live in South Germany." 😊 Confused looks. "But, wasn't that Korea with North and South"?
I asked an American once to name 5 (five) basic foods that originated in the USA . He said STEAK , BURGERS , PIZZA , CHICKEN & HOTDOGS . He was dumbfounded when i told him he scored 0/5 . He tried to continue arguing that all these foods originated in America 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I even Googled it for him that Pizza & Steak come from Italy , Burgers & Hotdogs from Germany & Chicken from China . But he still persisted in telling me that myself and Google were wrong . This American was a food critic for a magazine i met in a restaurant in Scotland . I'm not saying he was dumb just wrong because he did sound intellegent in other things we talked about .
A food critic?
steak comes from Italy??!!! what? or "Pizza & steak"? sorry i'm confused here
@@testerpt5 The first steak on record comes from Italy in the year 258 AD in Florence . It then became popular through Northern Europe & Scandanavia . The Italian Pizza came along over 700 years later on record in 997 AD in Italy's most Southern Province of Gaeta , The modern day Pizza was perfected somewhere around the 16th-18th Century in Naples . America was introduced to Pizza around 1890 and Britain in the 1950s .
@@jimreid4367 ok thanks
Most Americans aren't necessarily stupid, just many are uneducated or wear mental blinders so they don't believe anything except what people like Trump preach to them.
An American asked me (in America) why I came over from Europe by plane and not by car - because planes were so expensive! 🤣 And another one asked me how the war was currently going and if Hitler was still in charge.... 🙈 (I am from germany)
Oh! That must be one of those who think Trump is running the US government and Biden is just for show.
😨 imagine Hitler still being in charge for 80 more long years old. Europe wouldn’t be remotely the same 😂 especially Germany and Italy …
Awkward!! I had one American tell me the once that he ( Hitler) was living the life of riley in South America somewhere.🙄
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That's the problem, the dumb ones are loud and don't listen. So you notice them more. 😬😬
I'm an American and yes, we are all this stupid.
I’ve lived here for 14 years now and every day I come across more American stupidity. Why is this?
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Not all.... but the smart AND reasonable ones are a rare breed overthere.
@@alexanderstrauss4785They‘re usually easy to spot. The smart Americans tend to look Asian.
You just don’t export your smartest people. Everyone that works in hospitality or tourism has encountered more stupid and argumentative Americans than educated and reasonable ones.
"I don't know what a Marrakesh is" Unbelievable
The real disappointment would've been if he hadn't stopped to google it. I was like "come on dude, your entire channel brand is on this, stop the video, google it, GOOGLE IT! FIGHT THE IGNORANCE!"
It's not really too bad to not know every city in every country. There are bound to be many countries whose cities you or I can't name off the top of our heads too. Morocco is a popular tourist destination this side of the world, but not so much for people west of the Atlantic.
@@ShizuruNakatsu Even so...😮
@@ShizuruNakatsuThis is not about every city in every country. It's Marrakesh. This city is more famous than the country it's in. It's even in Indiana Jones.
In fairness it's not like Ryan has not heard of Morocco. Ok Marrakech is a reasonably well known city, at least to Europeans (as a holiday destination) but I can just accept that even a non dumb American might not have heard of it. I'm sure there are cities in America that I've never heard of, well, maybe....
I was told my English is good in Florida......... I'm f*cking English!!!!🏴
American tourists have asked me what part of Texas I'm from - I'm German. 😂 Sometimes I think that many people either think they are the only ones who can speak English or they can't recognize their own dialects.
@@Ace-Of-Spades---maybe many Germans immigrated to Texas? Aren't there even German "colonies" in Texas because there's so many Germans? 😂
@@Kloetenhenne They were very surprised that I was German, they probably couldn't hear my German accent at all, unlike the person sitting next to me, whose German accent was clear. The joke was that the person sitting next to me was a former English teacher and in my opinion she has a pretty strong British accent. She sounds similar to a German singer called Lena. Listen to "Satelite", which she sang at the ESC. 😂
@@Ace-Of-Spades--- Lena didn't sing with a British accent! She just sang awfully. England gave her 0 points because her English sounded so awful.
@@Kloetenhenne And I thought that only sounded so awful to me... 😂
The most embarrassing thing that happened to me with Americans was once here in Lisbon when I was walking by the river with my family and a group of young Americans that were passing by were pointing to the south side of the river and shouting: "Look! Africa!".... 😂
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Were they shocked that there were a couple of bridges too? 😂
wait was that going to the south margin of the Tagus? omg.
@@Julieb210 I don't know... I think that was I that took some time to recover from the shock myself...
I work for a US cooperation at the European HQ. One time we had a visit from my manager’s manager from the US. She asked during a meeting: which language is spoken in the United Kingdom? BTW the lady holds a master’s degree.
You missed a big opportunity there. The only official language in the UK is Welsh.
This video confirms the wisdom of the good old English saying that “whilst we all have a right to be stupid, there will always be those that abuse even that privilege.”
I am noticing a theme here. Geography.
The broader theme is: lack of quality education and lack of interest outside their "3rd world country with a Gucci belt"
Me too. I wonder how well Europeans recognize US states. Or even European countries, for that matter.
And history
@@carmenl163 They might not know every one of them but on average, would know a lot more than US Americans.
@carmenl163 ah yes, the european countries are like the US states 🙄. We know our countries pretty well, probably better than Americans knowing their own states. Do you know the provinces of Belgium? Do you know where all the arrondissements/districts are in Paris?.... What a stupid comment
Well look at the school system, universities included, see how ignorant they are
And they charge you exorbitant tuition to enjoy the privilege.
The old excuse we don't travel outside the US beacause it's so diverse and has lots of cultures 😅. Utter crap .
Yes, not getting any paid holiday time from work, has nothing to do with it 😂
@@101steel4: Yes, the difference in holidays surprised me too. In Europe it is 6 weeks paid holiday. Other things I found strange was the tipping culture and annual bonuses to try and make a living wage. In contrast, in the UK we pay £1.46 per litre for petrol and £1.50 per litre for diesel. Five litres to a gallon. Our gallons are slightly larger than US gallons but car fuel costs have always been more expensive here than in the US. It always makes me smile when US Citizens talk of $1.50 for a gallon of gas. Our beer costs around £4 to £6 a pint too in a pub. Very hard for those of us with a terrible thirst. We also have a sales tax on goods and services called Value Added Tax. I think both sides of the Pond are exploited in different ways. I wish all of you well, God bless.
That is THE reason to travel... Expand your horizons...
@@StevenKeery I know, I'm English 😁
@@StevenKeery Remember that our UK Pints are bigger than US Pints too. (568ml to 473ml or 20oz to 16oz)
When speaking to my cousins stepson, when he lived in America. I told him i live near Harwich in Essex, home of the mayflower. He said "whats that?" 😂 Bear in mind this was at thanksgiving too.
Yup. We all live in igloos, and for three months of the year, we all become homeless when it gets up to 90f+ in the summer. Lol
Naw, I've been told that we all live in Igloos in the winter, when it's -40c and in tents in the summer when it's +40c.
America... please stop with the 'British accent' thing, it's an English accent, thank you.
*AN* English accent, note, not *THE* English accent.
But then there are so many English accents too. Look I'm Irish and you only have to go a mile down the road to hear a different accent but we all have that diddly aye accent!
@@moorenicola6264 I'm Scottish, and bizarrely enough, we don't all have Bizarre Glaswegian accents! In fact, I'm originally from the Western Isles, and so naturally often get confused with having an Irish accent, as it so obviously isn't Scottish 😂😂😂😂
English people have English accents. It's pretty simple. Unless you're an American 😂
It has a strong smell of irony that you call them „America“, but don’t want them to say „British accent“.
‘So how do you celebrate 4th July in the UK?’ I get asked that every year Seriously, why are Americans so ignorant?
Home-schooling 😮
Because they believe in the lie that the US is the best country in the world so they dont feel the need to educate themselves about the rest of the world.
Of course we do. It was a big weight off our minds. We have a cup of tea and a scone and then go out in the rain and splash in puddles. It's very moving.
@@missharry5727 🤣
I remember landing at Heathrow at night from dc on the 4th July and being asked why there were no fireworks!
My family and I have been living in the United States (more specifically in the D.C. area) for almost three years. My dad once told me he was on an Uber and the driver asked "where are you from?" and my dad said "I'm from Spain". The driver then asked "what language do you speak there" and then my dad told him that we speak Spanish in Spain, and the driver was like "Wow, I didn't know that!" Bro we literally invented Spanish 💀
English people get the same thing with Americans....SIGH
I don’t think that Americans realise how offensive they are when they refer to everyone in Britain as English. I am constantly constantly constantly correcting Americans. You see, I am ‘Welsh, and we have our own language, Cymraeg. This language predates English by thousands of years. When the Romans first invaded Britannia (not England) the English hadn’t even been invented for about a thousand years. It would be like calling someone from the Southern states a Yankee!! How would they feel?
The person would say " Oh ,but that's different"
Indeed, americans 🤦. You can understand how the Irish feel when they call us English..or British.
To survive in Scotland use and do not mix up the following words : "English" for bad things eg taxes, hooligans. "British" for neutral things eg the British Isles. "Scottish" for good things eg whisky, Haggis, Irn-Bru.
Far to complicated for an American 😂
I think there's a good case to be made that you could have ended your comment after the first six words...
I met an American couple in the middle of Austria. We had a short conversation and we were about to go they asked me if I could see what EUR they have. My first thoughts "do they mean the value? The number?’. No, they wanted me to check what EUR they have because they are going to Italy and they need Italian EUR and probably what they have are Austrian because they had used them in Austria.
I get their point (because normally when you go to a different country, outside of the EU countries that use euro’s, you have a different currency) but yeah nah. It’s a mission failed successfully kind of situation
I think that's a bit excusable?
There also are different kinds right? At least the coins have different designs in different countries. Still seems odd to go to Europe and not inform yourself how the currency works.
@@rayaqueen9657 Coins are indeed different but they can be used anywhere in Europe. Fun fact, this was used immediately as when Euro was introduced, the French mint for the 50 cent coin failed, and France thus got a massive load of German 50 cent coins to make up for it. So for some years here, until Euro coins started to really get mixed up due to traveling, we were used to see German 50 cents Eurocoins next to the French ones :D
@@rayaqueen9657 yea, different designs but the same value
In my history book there was a cartoon. In the cartoon there was a man depicted (a stereotypical white American young man) who is being racist to various people, then in the last picture he is about to say “Go back to your own country.” again, when he suddenly falls silent. He was about to say it to a Native American. 🤦🏻♂️ (I am not from the USA, I am from the UK and the Netherlands.)
Unrealistic. The real American racist wouldn't realize the stupidity of what he was saying and stop himself.
I have some Native American friends, and they hear this a lot. "Go back to where you came from!" or "This is America, we speak English here!" 😖
An american hairdresser in Nebraska had no clue that her state was bordering colorado, south dakota or kansas. I was flabbergasted that she knew so little of her own country
I was landing at London Heathrow at night on a flight from DC on the 4th July - a family across from me asked why there were no fireworks!
I was in the Royal Navy in the 70/80's and got invited onto a visiting American aircraft carrier: Dwight D Eisenhower [CV69]. On the boat taking us from Portsmouth harbour to the ship [anchored in The Solent, off the Isle of Wight, as it was too big to fit in Portsmouth], this American seaman kept pointing to things and said: "Wow what's that?". I would tell him. Then he would say: "We have bigger whatever back in the States" etc. We went past one of our cruisers and he would say: "Wow we have bigger frigates back in the states". This would continue until we got out into The Solent. He saw the Isle of Wight and asked what it was. I told him and added: "Don't tell me, you have bigger pebbles back in the States!" lol He got the message and shut up! lol
French here, lived in the US 10years, so no way I can list even a slice of what I received, will run out of space. Asking if we have microwave or other appliances was always fun to hear. Also if we showered (like, as a serious question: were shower available)... one of these insulting stereotype I got more than once. The worst in my opinion is not the insulting aspect, because most of the time the person would not even realize it is insulting... it is the sheer idiotic aspect of the question. Granted it was 20 years ago, but still, some knowledge about the world was accessible.... in any case, I'll have to just pass on the fury of misconceptions or down right ignorance about the world outside of the US.... all expressed with absolute certainty that only ignorance provides. Now, you obviously meet with plenty of Americans with great education with who you will spend very fulfilling time to engage with, but in general I found the discrepancy between the 'best' and the 'worst' so large, it clearly says something about how standard education is so inequal (missing?) in the US (granted I only experienced 3 States, but probably not the worst in this aspect...).
English here, but I lived in Alsace at the time France said "non" to the war on terror. I played online games at the time and sometimes would be chatting in French with others on the game. The utter abuse I got online from Americans when they discovered we were having a conversation in French was INSANE (especially when they realised I could understand them lol). There were literally cases I heard about of teenagers being told by their ultra-conservative teachers that French people don't wash and smell of onions. Every time I said "I live in France, that's not true" they would reply "I have an uncle in France, it is true!". It seems the more ignorant you are in America, the more uncles you have in France. Do me a favour, next time you guys send them a giant statue make sure it has one finger up.
@@catbevis1644: I found the last part of your comment very funny. The image of the Statue of Liberty with one finger raised, shall remain in my mind all day. 😂
I'm from Canada. We are literally two feet apart as countries, and I used to get the same dumb questions when I spent my winters in Florida.
I am Belgian. Belgium has 3 official languages: Dutch (Flemish), French and German. You take exams in all that when your are 10-13 yo, just in school. I also had classical Latin and Greek. (Classical Humaniora jJesuit school. I obtained my PhD in physics when I was 24. Cost of it all: a few pencils and some beers when in university. I am 77 now, worked all over the world and I am still fluent in Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian and I can ask for directions in Nihon-Go.
Wow... that's a lot! I can only do Flemish and English and that's it. How?😅
And this relates to the video ... how?
Bragging .
It’s true about Canadians living in a cold frozen wasteland!!! I went through Vegas in July and stopped at a gas station and told the clerk I was from Canada and she said “oh it must be so cold up there”. She was shocked to hear our temperature was about the same.
i am in Germany, i living more north then most Canadians!
I was in Las Vegas for a conference one January when there was snow on the mountains around the city. During the conference a group of us went for a bus trip into the desert outside the city. Us Aussies were wearing jeans and sweatshirts, the Yanks were wearing jeans and long-sleeve shirts, and the Canadians were wearing shorts and T-shirts...
We had low 40C (104F) temps last summer in Quebec City... SAME as in Las Vegas, if not hotter, because it came with 80% humidity and NO wind... IMPOSSIBLE to sleep at night without an A/C unit. It got to 55C in the kitchen where I worked, and I wound up in the emergency for heart palpitations... They are CLUELESS!!!
@@TheJimprez i am in Central Germany, we had 42°C in an area not having over 38°C for centuries! 80% humidity... we can beat that, my town is inside a area mainly consists of moors and swamps... i am born in a coast town...never had over 26°C....not they have way over 30°C, old people die like flies! because nobody is used to that temperatures!
@@TheJimprezto be fair, I knew a guy from Quebec who was always showing me the snow outside 😂 while I was on t-shirt with mostly sunny days (in Italy) But yeah south Europe is really different from the rest of Europe tho
Here in the UK we DO let off fireworks on 4th July. We have a National Day of Celebration on that day. We call it 'Thanksgiving Day'. 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks w got rid of them-day?
Im usally saying sorry to people from USA, when I hear they are from USA.. Greetings and love from Denmark. :)
"I feel sorry for you." "I don't think about you at all."
I travelled to the US with a friend in 2011 and we stayed at his uncles house (1st gen immigrants from Poland) in New Jersey. The 11 year old daughter (born in the US) of the uncle asked me (a german): "So, do you like Hitler?"...
Not stupid. Just a curious child asking about a famous figure from your neighbouring state. Legitimate question. When I (Polish) was working in Austria in 2003-2006 I met people proud of their native who built highways.
well, do you? Legit question these days 🤣
@@thegalhorowitzcrasy
To była polska uszczypliwość wobec sąsiada zza Odry😂
Reminds me of an exchange student at our school who talked about how his host family told him they wouldnt mind if he "did the salute" because they knew it was illegal over there...
Honestly I just go with it. If an American asked me if I've ever seen a polar bear, I'd just say that we keep them as pets.
Aaand they deliver the mail
Love those clever retorts.
We used to holiday a lot for the most a month at a time starting in 1993 when I was 21 year old with my family we would drive around the country in a MPV staying at various motels and hotel's enroute. So, we as a family got to see parts of the USA where the locals had never moved out of their suburbs, let alone their town, nor had they even left their state. 😮 The funniest one I got asked was whether I was best friend's with the Queen as she only lived 4 hours drive away. We found a map and pointed out exactly where we lived up in Shropshie and where at that time the Queen of England lived. It confused them even more when we told them we had all been invited to one of her famous garden parties but refused to go.😂😂😂 Another question on a similar theme was when visiting a mall the once going into JCPenny, we asked a store assistant about something. She was like ' Oh my god your from ENGLAND, you and Helen must be neighbours as she is from England too'. She then runs off to grab poor Helen from another department saying 'your neighbours are here from ENGLAND!' 🤣🤣🤣🤣 We both then tried to tell her, yes we are both from England but we are not neighbours and do not even know each other as Helen was from Yorkshire. However, Helen who had married an American and not been back to blighty in years, did enjoy a good natter as we were the first Brits she had seen in ages. She got chance to catch up what had been happening news wise in the UK in general and when we got back home as we took her address, we sent her some very English treats back. We also got asked the once had we driven by car from the UK to Georgia? When we said there was a rather large ocean between the UK and the USA ( The Atlantic Ocean) but they would not accept we had flown and must have used the Channel Tunnel.😂😂 I have to say, how shocked I was on how biased the history is taught in the USA. It was like anything that had happened in Europe over the last few hundred years, practically didn't exist and if it did then the USA always saved the day. Also the news on the tv was very one sided too, I hope this has changed since.🤔
Ryan: "I don't even know what Marrakesh is." Me: 😲🥺😦😧😞😢😭🤔😏🤭😀😃😄😁😆😂🤣
Never thought to google it. My god, you can google anything now. Knowledge is one click away. Unfortunately so is misinformation.
@@Ukie88 The thing is... I didn't need to "google it" - because in our German schools we have learned this stuff... You're absolutely right about the rest, though!
Nobody lives in igloos, they are more like a hunting shelter instead of a tent.
Haven't you heard, Canadians live in igloos 🤣🤣
Also the correct name for the people is inuits.
Except at the Quebec City Ice Hotel. One HUGE ice igloo, just to confuse the tourists... Cheers...
@@TheJimprez sounds fun
I've been saying it for years dude, if America doesent completely ditch homeschooling and take notes from Europe how to do public schools, you will end. Its already happening. Sad.
The problem is that conservative politicians know that only stupid people vote for them, so there is a concerted effort on their part to keep people stupid.
Madvestjan: I can see your point. Doesn't *
OR, they could try to copy our Canadian grade school system. NO creationism or Flat earthing allowed, and not much propaganda or lies to look better in our history books. And we actually think SCIENCE is important, not just for computers.
The US is the world's most powerful country. Why would they want to change and become a vassal state like Europe?
It's the PUBLIC SCHOOLS that are useless, and teach NOTHING. The Home School courses have a lot of European content, and the kids learn to read and do PROPER Maths, not the "new Math garbage. You've got people with Public High School Diplomas in the U.S. who CANNOT READ at more than a 5th grade level, if at all.
My friend is from Oslo Norway and I am from the Netherlands. We both play online a lot and we came in contact with this American man from I think he said it was Maine. But I am not 100% sure anymore. It is almost 2 years ago. After we gave him some stuff in game he joined up our party to play a bit together. He wasn't a kid. But I don't know how old. In the first place he was hilarious for having the eggs with his barely 100 hours in the game acting like he knew the place from the inside out. Me and my friend are verteran players with both well over 10k hours in the game and know just about every little detail there is to know. But we let him cook, did not insult him or anything. Just let him do his thing and we followed along where ever he wanted to go. Just have some fun. And he wanted to show us some places. Teach us some farming things and stuff he was convinced only he knew etc. Dude was funny without him knowing he was. He was not like an unfriendly guy or something. Just a bit braggy and loud. At one point ofcourse the conversation comes to the point where you guys from? We tell him one from Norway. one from Netherlands. Usually my Scottish friend is here but he wasn't there that evening. And we hang out with a big group of about 20 ish people. And then it starts. This man goes on and on about there was no such thing as Europe that has countries in it. He even laughed about the idea. Called us liars and frauds bc he knew that Europe was a place near Argentina. And all the places we mentioned where either in America or in Russia and not some overseas place. And he confirmed that by us speaking English. This ofcourse is not our first language. Amsterdam was a country. Not my capital. He had answers to anything we threw at him. And got even very angry in the process up the the point he left the party and blocked us both. I never ever had something like that happen. But I really hope someone gives this man a globe for his birthday.
'Marrakesh...I don't even know what that is...' Oh dear.
… He shouldn't have said that, because it also proves that he too has major deficits in geography. Here in Germany we say: „That was a shot in his own foot“ … 😂
@@wernerlampe8089 It's OK to admit you don't know something. Ryan then filled the gap in his knowledge.
@@daveg2104… Yes, you're absolutely right. ... But in context to this Video I would have waited to see later where Marrakesh is located. … 😉❤️
@@wernerlampe8089 I don't have a problem with Ryan being honest about what he doesn't know. If only more people did that. In Primary School (Elementary) we learnt quite a lot about the World, but I'm sure if you were to quiz me, there would be some I wouldn't remember. And that's without all the changes that have happened over the decades.
@@wernerlampe8089 Dutch, French, English has the same expression: Zichzelf in de voet schieten / se tirer une balle dans le pied / shoot oneself in the foot. Probably many other languages as well.
Weirdly enough, I got into an argument with a very nice American girl once because I informed her that the Smurfs were in fact Belgian comic books written in French, and not American. Not only did she not believe me at all, but she became quite angry. Lol.
It's like all the Grim fairytales etc are from parts of Europe but they think Disney wrote them all
I've had people in Australia get confused when I tell them I'm Serbian and say "oh, from Russia," but most of the time it's because they are thinking of Siberia. Unfortunately, when I explain the difference, a lot of them then say something like "well I was close because you speak Russian," which I do not, because why would I necessarily speak a foreign language. I have to explain that people speak Serbian in Serbia, and then I usually have to explain that Serbia is not near Russia, was never part of the Soviet Union and wasn't even part of the Eastern Bloc.
I can positively tell you that NO Canadian who was around. and old enough to read or watch the news in the 90s would mistake Serbia for Russia.
👩🏼🌾🌍 Hello there! About Serbia and the Eastern Block (whatever you mean by that): Serbia was part of Yugoslavia back in the day, which most certainly wasn't part of Western Europe. In the West, Yugoslavia was considered to be a Communist state located on the peninsula of the Balkans. Josip Broz Tito, the strong man and dictator, conducted his own brand of government and did not always agree and follow the directives coming from Russia at the time. If I remember correctly, he was one of those leftist/Communist leaders who had his own ideas about how to run the country, and who joined or planned to join the group of some other non-block countries. Things changed, of course when Tito died and later on, when the Russian 'empire' broke up. Today, after Yugoslavia split up and after the ugly war in the Balkans, Serbia, Croatia and the rest of the former Yugoslavian states are facing a very different future - without violence, one would hope.
@@Gittas-tube Yugoslavia was a communist state, but it was not aligned with the Soviet Union. The Eastern Bloc was the Soviet Union and its satellite states, plus the countries aligned with them politically (most of the socialist/communist countries from East Germany and eastwards). The Western Bloc was the countries in Western Europe that were aligned politically (like Spain, France, West Germany). Yugoslavia was expelled from Team Communism in 1948 because Tito and Stalin had a big falling out over political disagreements, and from that time Yugoslavia was non-aligned. Later, Yugoslavia became a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement.
I see dumb people everywhere 😂
Now you are ruzzia’s friend.
I was in a cruise ship off the coast of Alaska having dinner with a group of mostly Americans. When I mentioned I was Australian, one gave me an intense curious look and asked "What do you eat?" You'll be pleased to know I kept my snarkiness at bay and didn't say, "witchetty grubs, wombat, and that there's nothing tastier than a nicely cooked koala".
Oklahoma… what is that? Ooooh the pain! Cheers from a German, who definitely knows Oklahoma exits. Ron Howard actor, director is from Oklahoma.
If she was there for an audition, in Nashville, surely she'd have some background in musical theatre? If not the state called Oklahoma, she should have heard of the musical?
@@hughtube5154 Exactly what I thought Ee the musical. I’m a ild enough Aussie to remember the movie on tv many years ago. Terrific movie, one of those movies you can sing along to every song 😊
The Comanches are one of the natives from that state too along with Texas 🎉
Well it‘s some years… but in the late 80ths when I lived in New Jersey I‘ve been asked „Germany, Germany??? Isn‘t that in Europe?
You should try and and explain to someone in New Jersey, that you're from Jersey. The confusion is epic.
For future reference, Eskimo is considered a slur and shouldn't be used. The proper term is Inuit :)
Tell that to a non-inuit ekimo!
@@triscelion7336 You don't call Yupik "Eskimo" either.
I think I have a big one guys, I’m Italian, from Florence and last summer a group of American tourists asked me where they could find Pinocchio’s grave (the novel is set in a place near Florence but obviously Pinocchio is a fictional character, he doesn’t have a grave). When I answered ‘it doesn’t exist’ they accused me of being ignorant. P.S. Also while I was in school I spent a month in the us as an exchange student and some girls were very surprised I had a phone as an Italian, cause apparently italians still live in the middle ages according to them
I`m from El Salvador, and always talk with this girl; once, when she asked me how I learned english, I told her by reading the lyrics of the songs I like, on KZhead. She opened her eyes, really really, really surprised, and asked: “Do you have internet in Latin America?” That day I lost the little respect I had for her. I realized that day that the Simpson and Family Guy is more of a documentary than a comedy show.
Polish in the UK before we joined EU. Questions i was asked 'do you speak Russian, lithuanian, Chech? etc as its next to your country'. Me 'so you speak French, Gaelic etc as its next to yours?'
At least they knew Lithuania exists and has a language...
Some of us do speak French & Irish Gaelic, or French, German & Spanish though not all I suppose.
This happened to a friend while he was in the German army in the early 1990s. There was a joint exercise with US troops stationed in Germany, and he was talking to an American soldier. They talked about history, when the GI suddenly asked him: "By the way, what happened to Hitler? Was he put in prison?"
He didn't know - I thought they won WW2 - the Russians did!
Bjornh: Hitler was of the mind that if you wanted a job done right, you had to do it yourself. So he shot himself.
Hitler was shot dead in a cinema in France.
We were staying in a 13th century castle outside of Edinburgh and an American woman asked at reception ‘where’s the elevator?’ The poor bloke at reception just said ‘the stairs are over there madam’.
How is Oaklahoma one of the most forgotten states of the US? There's a fricken Rogers & Hammerstein Musical called Oaklahoma that's known across the world???!
And the Lady was auditioning for some musical, I think?!
It's Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain. Where the waving wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain. Oklahoma, every night my honey-lamb and I sit alone and talk, and watch a hawk making lazy circles in the sky. We know we belong to the land And the land we belong to is grand And when we say Ay yippy yi ki yea. We're only saying You're doin' fine Oklahoma Oklahoma your ok.
And who can forget Ruprecht from "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" when he finds out they're going to move to Oklahoma?
YOU think that as an American. But the rest of the world doesn't really know about Oklahoma, the musical. Unless they watched the exact movie with a bit of that in it. You basically just proved the point of this whole comment section... The majority of Americans are CLUELESS about the rest of the world, and what it thinks.
Isn’t oaklahoma the state with most tornadoes, or am I thinking of something else? Because I believe that is the reason I know of it, because of the famous tornado stories.
"you can skateboard in snow?!" didn't see that one coming xD
Snowboarding? 😂
You put skis under them, instead of wheels. I had a buddy who did that with a windsurf sail, clipped to his old skateboard, on skis. It was pretty cool to see him go... In the summer, he'd just put the wheels back on... That thing went REALLY fast.
Snowskating is a thing tho
Yeah I would have answered „have you ever heard of snowboarding“