Brit Reacts to WHAT do BRITISH people think about AMERICA

[@geelighting]

Are these people aware of Britain role in slavery? According to Google "Britain was a leading slave-trading country, along with Portugal, transporting around 70% of Africans to the America"

[@SherriLyle80s]

They aren't taught any of that in their schools just like we aren't taught any of our atrocities in school as well

[@Bea-Dubya]

Then wants to question why people protest in the name of Black life?!

[@bracejuice7955]

All the horrible things in American history is basically just a chapter in the book of the history of European colonialism, and yet they act so innocent

[@sassylassie1992]

​@@SherriLyle80s What? Where the hell did you go to school?

[@Dendood]

@@sassylassie1992 What school is going to teach the atrocity of our having attacked a Country that did nothing to us? We invaded Iraq based on lies of 'weapons of mass destruction' , killing innocent people and destroying their infrastructure all based on a lie. It will be glossed over with the white wash of innocence as if teaching about Santa Claus and the tooth fairy. Truth and Facts have taken a nose dive in in America in favor of protecting our feelings and belief systems. We just can't handle the truth.

[@jake5210]

We inherited slavery from England 😂😂😂

[@debralecuivre3366]

Great Britain has had it's own history of slavery.

[@lennybuttz2162]

Slavery, genocide, torture, a whole world of horrible things.

[@cygnusx-3217]

European reactors have collectively done hundreds of reactions to the US's 2nd amendment and guns. However, I can't remember even one reaction to our 1st amendment (freedom of speech) which is far more powerful and important. Now that free speech rights have been taken away in the UK, I wonder if they're finally interested in our 1st amendment.

[@kate2create738]

The irony is the 2nd amendment is needed to keep the 1st amendment and other rights protected. Really it is sad what has happened in the UK recently, I think many Brits are rethinking their arguments about these two specific amendments at the moment.

[@allenhill1223]

O man that's food for thought

[@shrike7774]

They legally cannot

[@you_can_call_me_T]

Of course the Brits think we don't laugh at their humor because we're too dumb to get it... We actually just don't usually find it funny.

[@BTinSF]

The gentleman in the gray "jumper" displayed a very American left-of-center set of viewpoints but let's focus in a bit. Recall that America was colonized by the British. Therefore, it was the British who displaced the natives for 150 years and who established the slave economy in the South and continued to import slaves into the region even after they ceased to "own" it. But let's talk about racism. I believe that America's history of slavery, and fighting a very bloody war to get rid of it, has made us uniquely sensitive to the whole question. There are many more racist countries on Earth including many in Asia (for millennia the Japanese considered themselves a superior people with a God-Emperor for example). But nobody dwells on the subject like Americans and nobody spends more press ink or media time on it nor does any other government experience as much angst. As a result, we have all sorts of laws banning aspects of it that other countries don't have and our courts spend far more time beating it down. All this is reflected in our entertainment programing as well as our news and seen around the world leading to a false impression that we are genuinely more racist. I look forward to the day India has a Muslim head of government or Australia an aboriginal one.

[@Bea-Dubya]

Some good points in you comment.

[@sassylassie1992]

Everyone sees our dirty laundry because we don't hide it. We also have freedom of speech.

[@kate2create738]

The thing is that the Brits were the first ones to abolish slavery, as a last minute resort to stall the American colonies from rebelling. Years later the British Empire did set out to abolish slavery in their other colonies by buying back the slaves themselves. Meantime, it was an issue we Americans had to take baby steps, but another step back, till we couldn’t ignore it for any longer. Good example is Thomas Jefferson himself who tried to abolish slavery, people don’t recognize the slave he had were most inherited, specifically marrying his wife whose father was the owner of the estate. He tried to write it in the Declaration of Independence, in order to get the southern colonies to join the rebellion, it was taken off. Jefferson was at least able to end the slave trade from other countries, however he wasn’t able to get enough support to outright end it. At the time we were not the rich country people think we are today, the wealth was not there to pay off the slaveowners and the alternative was to pay with the lives of American men. It kills me when people act like we are the racist nation when the one war that costed the most American lives, more than WWI and WWII, was fighting to free the slaves so that everyone can live as a free American. It’s close to insulting our patriotism and the love for our flag. Really exposes how much people think they know but how much they are limited to the facts.

[@Ojisan642]

Americans understand sarcasm, we just don’t think it’s a good basis for an entire comedy act.

[@OliviaFinley-p7w]

What about Norm McDonald, Bill Burr etc?

[@lennybuttz2162]

I love sarcasm and I'm pretty sarcastic myself but not in a degrading way. I don't think the Brits are being sarcastic when they speak ill of Americans or America I think they're totally serious. They just try to cover it up by saying they're being funny or sarcastic.

[@starchunkss]

I love your reactions! You always come across as someone genuinely interested and unbiased.

[@debralecuivre3366]

Gang culture started very long ago, we didn't start it and none of us were here. Also, Black Lives Matter isn't as small meaning as that man said.

[@captainbryce1]

You and Lewis (L3WG) need to do a collab. You guys tend to react to the same type of videos (often at around the same time) so it would be interesting to see your collaboration.

[@KyleLeHeup]

If you've only been to California, New York, Florida, or Texas, you haven't gone to America.

[@darylsledge1456]

with the inclusion of Chicago, going to those places mean you've been to the places that shape america and gives it the flavor it has. sorry, rolling plains and farms don''t do that.

[@KyleLeHeup]

@@darylsledge1456 lad's not from america

[@catsmom129]

How many Americans have seen *all* America? If someone was born in Texas and never left, does that mean they’ve never been to America?

[@markluscombe4117]

There are kind people everywhere as there are not so kind people in the same places.

[@maryslack6169]

We are not as racist as they think . Yes we still have people that haven't got to the twenty first century but it's not that bad

[@darylsledge1456]

[@uresfffff222]

Haha it’s funny when British talk about racism, we have to remind them of Infamous Bengal famine where Brits essentially starved Indians to death , millions died. Everyone loves talking about racism against black people but not the genocides Brits have committed in their long history.

[@donnabert]

You should read some stuff around the 14th century to 17th century and look at what they did to their own people who had different religions, or were poor, or were Irish, or were Scottish, or were Welsh. Disgusting.

[@allenhill1223]

Yes English starved the American indain. But they had practice straving my irish ancestors. Giving then no choice but to take a chance on the new world. Now the Irish numbers are more in United States than English in England😂😂 but we forgive them but will never forget.my grandparents would be hundred twenty five year's old now dad's side potowatmi Indian Swiss. Mom side scot irish. Well great granny was endured from county cork❤

[@donnabert]

@@allenhill1223 I have Irish, English, Swiss and German ancestors but can't find any that came over after 1703 so it is hard to figure out how and why they came.

[@jacklewis5452]

heck, they starved millions of Irish to death too.

[@maryslack6169]

Wow we have FDA they don't put plastic in food especially meat. Wow

[@brianhums5056]

Your so wrong there! Wake up Mary!

[@jdwilmoth]

To be truthful with you I couldn't care less what other countries think about us

[@donnabert]

Thank you for saying "couldn't."

[@jdwilmoth]

@@donnabert ok 🤔

[@Steef_Lee]

So glad you came here and said that. We were all thinking you cared. What would the internet do without you telling people what you care about? I love going to videos I don’t like to comment that I don’t like and won’t watch it because everyone needs everyone’s opinion at all times! Thank you!

[@TheyCallMeMr.Fahrenheit]

​@@Steef_Lee We're all free to express our opinions.

[@jdwilmoth]

@@Steef_Lee well I'm so glad I could let you in on that little bit of personal information now go sit down somewhere and act like you got good sense

[@bradleyseagor]

I like this guy's videos because he doesn't edit out positive opinions like a lot of people do

[@thecupofbrew7955]

Yeah their comedy seems to lack a lot of subtly generally

[@sassylassie1992]

We absolutely understand sarcasm. Like Brits, most of my friends have an extremely dry sense of humor. When we don't react, it's not because we don't get the joke. We just don't think it was funny. Haven't these people seen Family Guy?

[@joshuajoel2008]

The racism comments I've heard many times before, but it is such a small portion of our populace. It's just the biggest bigots are often the loudest and make for great soundbites on the endless news cycle. As someone mentioned before, slavery and the genocide of our indigenous population are very much a byproduct of our colonization by England, France and Spain. Those three, along with Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium really, really like to gloss over their own genocides (some of them plural) and the after effects of their colonization. The US is the most recent problematic country in the Middle East and Sotheast Asia/Oceania, but those quagmires were very much the result of European influence. Further, they seem to turn a blind eye to recent racist incidents towards refugees and immigrants in Britain, France, and Germany, to name a few. We've all got problems and skeletons. It's time to stop looking down on one another and work on our own faults.

[@darylsledge1456]

had the US rebuked slavery in the get go, we'd be able to rub it into euros faces. but, monetary profit is a powerful thing. it will cause one to become inhumane.

[@Steve-hq4fm]

We don't like how our politics works either, and that's regardless of party; we all hate it!!

[@MiaBubbles007]

1st 😊 Thanks for reacting!

[@uraniumcranium]

"I think racism and exploitation" - tell me, what was the basis of the British Empire?

[@Cookie-K]

I actually loved all these responses....it gave me a great laugh and it was entertaining. 😂 Seriously, the American accents though! ......and he thought our British accents were not so great!

[@pd-ou1tg]

The people of York definitely were very nice and their criticism is fair. So much better than the London video, obviously.

[@BigBilly-io3kf]

Funny how some talked about American politics. In the last British election, British political commentators were complaining that British politics are going American style, and not in a good way. What they said was fair.

[@yeboi8425]

Why are foreigners so invested in OUR politics

[@ghostface490]

That's something I don't quite understand. It doesn't make sense.

[@catsmom129]

Because U.S. affects the rest of the world

[@shawnwolfenbarker3327]

My lord, you should see our news now. 🤡🌎

[@josephtadlock1615]

I worked with a lady from York for fourteen years at a Home Depot in Maryland. Lovey was her nickname of choice.

[@bracejuice7955]

It’s bizarre how invested some of them are in US culture war bs

[@karlsmith2570]

19:08 In case you're wondering, Lav, that gentleman was quoting a line from the movie "Apocalypse Now"

[@patriciafeehan7732]

This was good!

[@maryslack6169]

They're so cute on the accents I got so tickled

[@dhunsi1340]

What meat has plastic? There are obviously two sides to chicken processing, don’t be do sure your right

[@DeadJustBack4TheDay]

There was a British man that looked just like the gentleman with the "Who needs hair with a body like this" shirt that I went to community college with. Very nice guy. I think he enjoyed Algebra a lot because the teacher was a British woman 😆 He would sit in the front and raise his hand at everything and she picked him plenty of times.

[@Alicia_Kanis]

Just about everyone my husband and I interacted with on our 2-week honeymoon in Scotland last summer loved us, especially when they found out that I’m part Scottish (and English). I’ve felt more at home in the UK the twice I’ve been than a lot of times here. 😅 I’ve also been told that both my English and Scottish accents are excellent, but I always feel hesitant to use them in the UK because I’m paranoid.

[@patriciafeehan7732]

Good Luck! Luc

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Always the same California, New York, Florida. Shame they do not visit the real America instead of the tourist America.

[@lancekirkwood7922]

I was thinking the same way. There's also so much going on. Besides crowded cities on the east and west coast.

[@dalemoore8582]

That guy who thinks the south is racist and he hate Trump . Yea he pissed me off.

[@TheSwissChalet]

Absolutely brainwashed by the tv screen, wow.

[@ruth2141]

The guy in the red jacket talking about burgers and fat people said he probably got that because he had just seen the film "Super Size Me". That's a documentary where a New Yorker challenges himself to eat nothing but MacDonald's food for 30 days.

[@quinsey9211]

we gotta game together or somethin you just got the positive vibes haha

[@lennybuttz2162]

When I was a kid in school I was fascinated by English history. I dreamed about one day visiting England. When I was in my early teens PBS started showing some British TV shows, Benny Hill, Monty Python and Are You Being Served. Man I loved these shows and learned as much as I could about England. When I started watching videos on KZbin where Brits talked about America and Americans they were just horrible. They were always putting us down and never had a kind word to say. I never heard Americans talk badly abut modern day England like that. I would never set foot in England. I sure wouldn't want to spend any of my money in England. They're too mean and nasty. Sure there are a few Brits who seem nice but they seem to be the exception.

[@charlespeterwatson9051]

Give these Yorkers a month in London and they'll come back like the Southern Americans they stereotype.

[@SherriLyle80s]

They all mostly seem nice and sweet. It's a shame the giy doesn't know that England took part in the whole Atlantic slave trade when the US was just their colony but alas, we aren't taught our atrocities either in school.

[@lennybuttz2162]

The red headed girl with the pink shirt is talking out of her hat. Our food is heavily regulated.

[@mdutchy2582]

Hey, I get British humor. I love it. It comes at you sort of secretly at first until you get it and laugh.

[@wayneperkins7605]

the red head is really cute in a nerd kind of way. Dumb but pretty

[@dane3316]

The 2A guy, is of the age group we keep seeing that fall to misinformation. Media illiteracy has plagued the older generation here and they corner themselves into reacting on fantasies and fear, wannabe vigilantism. FB and memes have done their old smooth brains dirty since 2016.

[@JohnMcDonald-ef5gz]

Jealousy pure and simple.

[@angelesqueda2008]

Has this guy reacted to epic rap battles of history yet?

[@eTraxx]

Proclamation 1625: America's Enslavement of the Irish When one thinks of slavery in America, the only thought that comes to mind is Africans picking cotton in the fields of America. What many Americans don't know is that the Irish preceded the Africans as slaves in the early British colonies of America and the West Indies. They toiled in the tobacco fields of Virginia and Maryland and the sugar cane fields of Barbados and Jamaica. For over 179 years, the Irish were the primary source of slave labor in the British American colonies. Proclamation 1625 is the unveiling of the true and untold history of slavery in America. King James I's Proclamation ordering the Irish be placed in bondage opened the door to wholesale slavery of Irish men, women and children. This was not indentured servitude but raw, brutal mistreatment that included being beaten to death. The Irish were forced from their land, kidnapped, fastened with heavy iron collars around their necks, chained to 50 other people and held in cargo holds aboard ships as they were transported to the American colonies. During the early colonial period, free European and free African settlers socialized and married. Intermarriages existed in the colonies for over a hundred years until the birth and evolution of white racism. The Irish and African slaves were housed together and were forced to mate to provide the plantation owners with the additional slaves they needed. The British abolished slavery in 1833. This act emancipated the Irish slaves in the British West Indies. America abolished slavery in 1865. None of this freed the Irish to the degree they wanted because America had classified them as 'colored' and treated them accordingly. It was only after the ruling class accepted them as 'white' that they could finally say: "I'm free, white and 21." Proclamation 1625 is for those who want to know the true and untold history of slavery in America. Lastly ... we never had slave ships flying the American flag .. but plenty flying the Union Jack. I am well aware that facts don't mean much to people

[@patriciafeehan7732]

This is interesting because I loved all of the U.K. and couldn’t wait the to see the country.

[@seagantaylor7470]

Y’all! We were racist and slave owners when you were too! Sure some people are still a little racist here, but I’m sure you still have discrimination in the UK too!

[@HahnJames]

Hmmmm, I wonder how the opinions given in this video would differ if it had been recorded in Bonn or Berlin.

[@uresfffff222]

Coming from a country where people get arrested for talking shit on twitter 😂 kier starmer is an absolute joker , trump is an angel compared to him although I don’t like him either.

[@sandrad9695]

All these people who have never been are talking about all the racism? 🙄 It’s a bit difficult to take.

[@janesmith146]

4;00 That's hilarious! My grandparents lived in Fremont Ohio for many years...had a big farm there. Its the smallest, sleepiest, yet cutest little town ever.

[@Michelle-j4k]

What is with all the racism? It isn't bad!

[@bshows89]

I think the gentleman who mentions gullibility a couple of times doesn't quite understand the dynamics at play. Conspiracy theories prosper in the United States because Americans, by and large, strongly distrust power and government. There are countless examples of governments lying to their people, so the level of distrust isn't necessarily undeserved even if it leads to some cooky conspiracy theories.

[@evilproducer01]

As an American, the election deniers aren’t kooky, the followers are goddammed stupid, and the leaders squawking about it are unpatriotic, cynical con-men who found low information rubes that they could grift.

[@darylsledge1456]

really , we don't care. and of course, this is from an American. and, we don't need to master the english accent, we have our american accents. so, get over it. being pissed will keep you pissed when you deal with us.

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

from 2021 at the height of BLM before their scam got exposed 🤔😂

[@kenmeacham7025]

The girl with the red hair has such a different accent than you and the guy that was talking about the election being stolen there was a court case where a guy changed the vote for trump to Biden in less than a minute with ball point pen

[@kate2create738]

This certainly was better than some of the other opinion videos I’ve seen. Certain parts I did go 😬 But not as bad as some other opinion videos I’ve seen where there is just no chance of pleasing anyone. So it’s a little refreshing to have a more balanced take, I swear I should stop watching these kind of videos lol, but I want to prove Americans do care about what is going on around the world and I’m trying to make an effort to learn. My question as someone who lives in California is why the F do they want to visit this dumpster fire? The advice I’d tell them is to skip the stereotypical cities, it’s not worth it, I actually hold my breathe watching foreigners film their trip in California cause things have gotten so bad it’s embarrassing. 🙈

[@debralecuivre3366]

I agree with the gentleman in the gray shirt about Trump.

[@BTinSF]

When it comes to weirdness, American politicians have nothing on Jeremy Corbyn.

[@seagantaylor7470]

Your British live action humor isn’t funny at all, but we do have sarcasm in the US

[@maryslack6169]

Orlando Florida is not real Florida