great video, thank you!!

I'm not sure I agree at all about the pricing of technology in the US versus Europe. Certainly when you price without VAT / purchase taxes (which is how most Americans tend to think about prices). But as a businessman in Europe with plenty of experience of living and working in the US - and certainly in the area of IT which is where my profession squarely sits - I don't see much of a difference at all in pre-tax prices. The US is marginally cheaper, perhaps. But I think this has far more to do with bulk purchasing and taxation on online shopping than with any cultural obsession in the US of "having the latest thing". With regard to technology and culture I'd observe that when it came to mobile phones, the US lagged Europe by around a decade in terms of development of the market. Not just a few weeks or months. And furthermore, while in Europe you could buy a mobile phone for as little as 10 dollars (because of the way the market worked) in the US it was several hundred dollars at that very same time. The mobile phone network charges at that time were around 3 times what they were in Europe. And while in Europe, coverage was 85% to 90%, in the US it was very, very patchy with just a couple of reliable corridors of coverage along sections of the East and West coasts. I had a pretty good mobile phone for 5 years by the time I first worked in the US. Most of my American colleagues in NYC had no such thing and relied on pagers. Even today, broadband in the US is not particularly good and quite a bit more expensive than Europeans are used to paying (for the same level of service). I've heard your opinion echoed by other Americans over 3 decades. It's very rarely been true IMHO. I look at the same online American stores as you would and bricks and mortar stores are rarely significantly cheaper. And not for the reasons that you've stated. The prices that people actually tend to pay (when adjusted for tax) and based upon the outlets that they actually buy from don't differ radically from what Americans would pay for similar technology. There is a difference for the reasons I've pointed to above but not much of a difference in reality. I don't really perceive Europeans as having a lower enthusiasm for new technology either. Most of my lifetime (and I'm coming up to 60) I've visited the States and been a little surprised on many occasions about how backward so many things are. Banking technology in the US seems to come straight out of the dark ages, for example. On my first visit to the US in the 90s (to Washington DC) I was genuinely shocked that to use a public payphone you actually had to feed it with quarters and with no other payment options available. Because European public telephones had been using credit/debit/payment cards for years by that point all across the continent and from different manufacturers. Indeed one part of the UK at that time you could send money (in the form of electronic cash) between electronic wallets from one payphone to another or from a payphone to a private home. And in France for many years before that (and long before the Internet came along to the United States), minitel (telephones with keyboards and screens to do things like online banking) were in many French homes. They were a good decade (and close to two) in front of America's adoption of the Internet. They had online dating via minitel in the mid-1980s. Most Americans didn't even have an email address until 15 to 20 years after this. By the late 1990s what was very obvious as Brit was that a very large number of senior IT technology management roles at that time in the US were occupied by fellow Brits. I knew lots of people at CNN and Turner Entertainment, for example, that were in senior positions but that were British. Part of the reason for that is that these people, like me, learned to program computers in the late 1970s on early PCs such as the Commodore PET (in my case in 1977) and Apple II. But whereas in the US these computers didn't change much in pricing over the next few years, computers available in Europe (and UK, which I knew best) by the early 1980s were just as powerful in terms of CPU as IBM PCs of that era (costing several thousand dollars) but that we could buy for far less than 100 dollars in easy to assemble kit form (where assembly took about half an hour). So technology for us was far more accessible than to our American counterparts saving for still-quite-pricey Apple IIs. We learned to program at school long before American children had PCs in the classroom supported by national programme of technology learning and dedicated TV programmes on the BBC to educate people how to use and program BBC-branded microcomputers. Most of us were using all sort of billboards (and in far greater relative numbers than in the US at that time) prior to the arrival of the World Wide Web. Which, incidentally, was invented by another Brit (in Switzerland) as part of a European science program (CERN). This technology culture resulted in places like the UK having an outsized electronic game development industry and a relatively large proportion of young but experienced computer programmers and technology enthusiasts by 1990. Anyway, I don't agree with this aspect of what you were talking about at all. Certainly not for the reasons that you cited. What's undoubtedly true is that Americans are way more open to adopting change than are Europeans. No doubt about that at all. And that's particularly true in the workplace and when trying new ideas. And perhaps this aspect of American culture colours the rest of your perceptions a little bit.

As a European, the way I see America and its (lack of) culture is through the fact that it's isolated and homogenous, the only way any culture gets incorporated into the American society is either being fabricated by itself (e.g. Hollywood) or by a larger number of foreign immigrants, whose culture gets boiled down to its core and thrown into the already homogenous "cultural stew". It just feels bland, composed of too many cultures, each of which contributes too little to the big picture, and in the end it doesn't have any defining traits. This is only further amplified by the lack of direct foreign influence throughout history (unlike more populous countries like China and India, which have many different regions, each with their own subculture). USA lacks regional identity, and the reason for that is not being "bothered" by anyone during the creation and early days of the country. Different parts of the country didn't have the chance to develop their own identity through the influence of other countries, everything developed the same, everywhere, at the same time.

What is the difference between "British" and "English".

I lived 20 years in Switzerland and 3o years in New York. There is a huge difference in how the European cultures communicate with each other versus Americans in New York. Comments that England is closer to the US culturally than Europe is completely false. I can engage in banter with a German, Swiss, and British person. I cannot do that here in New York. Sarcasm. Humor, Ironie is a foreign language in New York, contrary in Europe it is a requirement (and in some cultures an art form) to sustain relationships.

To be fair, the English have a tendency to look down on everyone, not just other nationalities. You can visit any small town and find people who think that everyone in the next town over is an idiot.

Everyone is spitting wisdom here and there!!! Ok!!! The misery goes on and on! The suffering goes on and on! Just try to reduce it often! Hypotheses won’t fix anything! And yea it’s just an exaggerated, ignorant hypotheses mostly!!!! All the talkings! Shit won’t stop! The inevitable and the uncontrolled (which is most of life) won’t stop to affect us………!!! Difficulties, complication, oppression, pain, enslaving!!! Most things do that hardly!!!

Every second of video is amazing. Great messages, but video edit is on next level😮

I look down on british people

I got married 1st time at 51. I was a single mom, but had plenty of help . But i must say- i like being around my husband. He's so nice & cutie -pie personality! And we work together driving truck. I found him when i wasn't looking. And what a gift he is! His birthday is Christmas 🎁🎄

My Mother always said -' One person you'll have to live with the rest of your life is yourself'! ☝️

Most the racism in America is pushed and made up by the media who just carry water for the democrats.

I love the book of Proverbs ' in the Bible! King Solomon -' Wisest man ' 🌍🌎🌏🌟

In my experience most of the us citizens i met were racist arrogant and haughty. They complain all the time, they constantly don’t like something. "Nobody speaks English here, there is no TV in the room. Blah blah blah. " Disgusting.

You will be surprised, but apart from asia most of the countries in the world look down on usa.

Its a media issue ... Brits only see whats on social media about America an the stuff they see is usually the extreme of it as the media want clicks an views an with the US being so large there is 1000s of media outlets that compete so the extreme stuff sells better or crazy people. The UK is alot smaller we have less land less people an less media so you dont get to see the batshit crazy people here an UK being an entirely different place the UK ,our government an media hide alot of crimes that happen especially if it involves actual gangsters an not kids with knives , we eradicated homeless places from citys by fines an throwing there stuff away so those people are usually out of the city but in bushes . Oh and British don't know how the American culture is actually part of them .. ask most British people whats there favourite shows an musicians an films ... its all American mostly

im 14 years old and i feel shit always and feel like time is moving to fast, any tips?

Try being Asian in america, the things people say.

America is more busy being the world power. Sidewalks arent high on the list

Youre a bad look for America. Democrat here. I just dont like what you convey on your channel. You’re just a click baiter with no depth or insight. I also am not a hater and hope people make their money if others are willing to give it to you, they obviously see a value in you that I will never recognize. You’re not fooling me. I see how you target young women in your “interviews”. Young young foreign women. American women would destroy you. Anyways good luck spreading hate of America

People see our leaders and assume every American is as over the top as that lol and idk the lady locking the autumn vs fall thing is literally dumb fall pretty much the southern term for autumn idk they just assume we are bubbling morons I’m not a genius by any means but I love history and studying different countries around the world and love English history and it’s kinda disappointing to be mocked by a culture group you have respected and studied lol but it’s okay the modern Brit is nights and day different from the peak 1600s Brit lol

Its not Autumn it’s whatever the fuck i say it is. Fuck off

Who cares? Does Britain matter? Theyre nobodies

As an American with a british mother (and UK citizenship), this video its the most insightful and deep look at the differences and similarities between cultures. Bravo

As a Brit living in America i think that americans are amazingly polite, open and accepting people. They are friendly and open handed and keen to experience new things and hear different ideas, they are curious about the world around them, especially britain. British people can be all these things as well but they tend to take longer geting to know people, longer to ask questions and longer to come to the point. Americans spead to cover this ground can come off as brash and un considerate. On the other side of the equation i have found that americans are more likley to make sweeping statments and poke fun without realizing they are causing offense. The number of times i have had to say aluminum while people titter about how i am saying wrong or be told my food is shit, my beer is crap or how my arse was saved in ww2. Its meant as a joke but it comes off wrong. At the aame timesi can see americans getting upset by the un spoken rules of british communication and social interaction and not understanding the reaction they get. A famous communication soealisg called father Alexis twlls a story about four doctors meeting at a convention. The first two who meet are americans, they welcome each other by first name because they are equals. Over in a cornor two british doctors meet and great each other by their titles and last name,.because they are equals. Ine american doctor knows one of the british doctors and wavws him over, they have been friends for years and so they welcome each other by first name. The second american doctor holds up his hand and i introduces himself "hi, i'm frank", because he is trying to put the other doctor at ease by suggesting they are equals. The second british doctor reaponds hi, i am doctor jones, because he wants to be treated as an equal and the ither person is being over familar and belittling him. Frank thinks dr jones is a stuck up prig who is trying to assert his domaninace by formaility and a title. Dr jones thinks frank is an patronizing arse who is belittling him. Both want equality and to be friendly, both have different ways of doing so. I think part of the problem comes from the fact that we speak the same language, but not in the same way.

The brits being "The Americans" of Europe for your points is the same exact thing I have come to conclude on my own over the years, and I'm so happy to see it validated!

My dad worked 6 1/2 days a week. Yeah. 6 1/2. His only time off was late Sunday morning. He worked so hard to have a roof over our heads and put food on the table. I never ever resented him ‘not being there’ because even the earliest memory of him was him working to support his family. He never ever once complained about how hard he worked. Later in life. He did express sadness about not spending more time with us kids. I immediately said that not only do I respect how hard he worked. But admired it. His work ethic was instilled into me. I worked like a dog all my life. Achieved and obtained things and status others only dream of. Never heard of me? Correct. Because aside from people like Gates and Musk. True success is anonymous. My dad told me: those who do never say. And those who say never do. Guess which this guy is.

I think that the veil was lifted on the world when the internet and technology bloomed in the 2000s. The problems to at people see in America are because of our ability to be so open about issues. We are vocal and critical of ourselves. Idk whether that makes America worse, but is something that when oppressed, kills progress in a nation.

I always hate how we're all lumped together. There are differences between States. It's like lumping the Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish and English together because they're all part of the UK. It's easy for poor people to get health care where I'm from, housing is cheap, but our schools do suck and everyone owns a gun. Also in many places Spanish is just as commonly spoken as English. I often felt out of place in southern Texas, but they're good people down there.

Why does it have to be Europe vs America? I have never stepped one foot in Europe but Im not looking to degrade them. I don't think one is better than the other but that both comes with its pros and cons! It was interesting to see everyone's perspective in the video though. Highly entertaining. Everyone's tiktiok is different and according to YOUR algorithm. If you constantly feed into American dancing tiktoks then its not to far fetched to assume you have engaged in that in some sort or fashion. I know that's not the kinds of tiktoks I get soooo... Also I have seen so many people talk poorly on the people participating in this video and it's sick actually.

They hate us but want us to protect them from russia. Time to pay up you ungrateful bastards.

It certainly doesn't matter to me what the British think of Americans if they consider honesty and directness to be negative traits.

Yes, you did this to remind yourself, but know that you also remind me of it (and it looks like a lot of other people, too!). Here I am, back again in this video that I've watched many, many times over the years. Why? Because it's sensational and honest and so many other great things, but also because I need the reminder, too. Thank you, once again, my friend!

If the Brits aren't busting your chops, it means they don't like you.

Did you get Portuguese citizenship after 2022?? The rules supposedly changed and made it harder to do. I am Sephardic and speak fluent Portuguese. BUt when i followed up to apply for this, I found there were additional requirements instituted in 2022 such as owning Real estate in Portugal and or a pattern of travel to Portugal.

Not true, we use both autumn and fall, at least in the northeast.

Halloween is an Irish holiday, was disappointed you said it represented the US when its from Europe

Go to the midlands and ask the same question, you'll defo get different answers.

I prefer the 'muricans over the bri'ish. The Bri'ish sound like they've low blood sugar, innit?

The British are a culturally dead and utterly unremarkable people. It took Roman occupation to bring them past the Iron Age. And even then, it took an additional 600 years for them to achieve anything impressive... and what was that impressive thing, you ask? It was slaughtering and r*ping the wealth and people of other groups of Men. Simply comparing groups of people, Americans are better than the British in every conceivable way. But that's not saying much, as there's few groups of people as low as the British.

exactly. fomo. in the beginning i thought I love interacting with people but it is a bit hard for me to go deep any relationship.even my parents. i love we both have space. i thought it was my fault in no good dealing with entanglement. but turns out, I can only see myself alone alone.

Have known many Americans throughtout my years and have a few close american friends, and whilst im definitely more comfortable hanging out with Europeans, on the whole, Ive enjoyed time with Americans. We Brits and Americans do have a similar culture in alot of ways. They generally are very self-confident and competent people. The only thing ive personally noticed as a commonality is that they have very high, and i would say in some instances unrealistic, expectations of how services should be delivered. As an example (too many to list here), we were on a boat trip from Sorrento to Capri with one American friend and several others we didnt know. You're in one of the most beautiful places on the planet, surrounded by a rich culture and visible ancient history and all they did was complain about the quality of an inexpensive boat trip. Over the years ive done many boat trips like that in Europe and it was of the exact quality you would expect for that price point, if not higher (we felt we got alot for our money). That is just one example of what im trying to illustrate, and of course, there is nothing wrong with expecting great service but you have to look at the amount your spending and the context. Also, I feel Europeans are definitely more relaxing to be around. Theres generally less competition to be the loudest and most charismatic one in the group.

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i think the biggest part why people make opinions about other cultures/countries is how the government is. and for americans i really liked the woman that said they are extreme, i think that describes amercans in general very good, no matter what extreme, the picture of them is they are always extreme, it can be extremely cool too btw, americans do a lot of extremely cool things, but a lot of extremely stupid, naiv, sad things too. i feel like america as a country is on a high horse from those extremely cool/good things and ignores all the terrible things, and that makes a lot of people feel like they are out of touch. on top of it i think extremes shouldn't be in politics, even tho they are in most countries, i think politicians should be more balanced. Obama for example was one of the most balanced people you had as a president, just for that fact most people i know liked him more than any other president you had in the last 20 years or so. how extreme americans are is in most cases just "what ever, MURICA", but when it's in politics it's frightning since america has a lot of power in a lot of ways, and when the president is extreme in any way, that's just dengerous.

Americans definitely don't think Brits are sophisticated lol. The average idea of a Brit from an average American is a moderate height guy who speaks really weird, has fake teeth, and is an alcoholic.

So does Jimmy Saville 🤣

Life is better in the US

The black dude with the granny made me laugh.

🇺🇸Maybe we’ll go down in history as the nation that lead the abolition of ab0rt!on in the west.🇺🇸

The issue is NEVER differences of nationality or race. The issue is ALWAYS differences of social class.