How America Got So Stupid?? Americans React | Loners

[@peter_stockholm]

"You can cover Canada in a week" and then "Let's watch a video How America got so stupid"....you really don't see the irony ? 🤦

[@snroos1860]

Splendid! Ha ha ha

[@jeanneale9257]

It's a shame 😂

[@loners4life]

Lol sorry 🤣

[@nazimelmardi]

😂😂😂 that was perfect

[@canadianicedragon2412]

I'd say you have louder idiots in the US. There are smart people in every country, and idiots too, but other countries don't seem to let their idiots get attention the US sometimes elevate them to national status. The idea you could see "everything" in Canada in a week shows the failure of the US "society" to show any other country in a decent light. If I said that about the US people would come for me, but say it about Canada, a geographically larger country.... There are boring things about every country, so maybe you would not want to see some things, but there is a very long list of options to see here.

[@loners4life]

That's very true about the louder idiots statement. Also, Brian agrees with you about Canada haha

[@robertlonsdale5326]

Canadians are American too, as are Mexicans, Brazilians, Peruvian, Columbians etc. the difference is that they have a name for their nationality unlike the US which is the only country on earth that doesn't have a nationality.

[@Bramfly]

Nor does the US have an official language. Most spoken of course is English but Spanish, Hawaiian, French are also recognized by certain states

[@anouk6644]

19:06 ‘You relate to them (movies with Americans in foreign countries) because Americans are watching it’. That’s just because you are used to that. Millions of people around the world are watching those same movies, with Americans in foreign countries, and usually don’t care if the main character is the same nationality as them.

[@loners4life]

That makes sense

[@anouk6644]

@@loners4lifeAlso, it’s perfectly fine to want to watch movies that are relatable/recognizable. I enjoy watching movies and tv shows from different Anglophone countries, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy (and my own country of the Netherlands of course) to name a few. But I acknowledge those are also much more relatable to me compared to those from other parts of the world. You will probably miss out on subtle cultural references and social cues that are unfamiliar. That could be interesting to watch of course, but likely lower on my ‘to watch’ list.

[@morphilou]

loooool for a average american , the world = usa i' m french you have several singer who sold 110 millions of record but totally unknow to usa their culture is close to nothing think they are the best when all the countries in Europe are better everywhere (education , healthcare , security , maternity leave , working time and vacation, life expectancy)

[@robert-antoinedenault5901]

As a Canadian born and raised in Quebec (🇲🇶 the only province in which french is the official language) that has gone and visited 44 states of your country in a span of 3months in the late 90's. I could visit a few places only because they had implemented somewhat okay public transit. The USA is not suitable for proper tourism as most of us (travellers) rarely require the need to use a vehicle (rental automobile and such) anywhere around the globe. We use public transit, rental bicycle, walking or car sharing. I've asked tourists (non Canadian) over the years if they have visited all of Canada and/or how much time would be required. The vast majority have postulated that 6 to 9 months is the ideal timeframe to explore all the sites, scenes, activities offered within these provinces/cities. If you are like me (a food lover), you can easily extend that timeframe. To put it bluntly, let's compare something I specialize in....cheese. US citizens might adore cheese but their selection is quite laughable. They boast themselves as being the largest producer of cheese, but only produces a limited range of cheeses (900 kinds). In Canada (...for a country that represents 10%) of the US population, there are "only" 1627 varieties. Quebec's (🇲🇶) variety rivals that of the USA (900) but with a population that is less than 9M😂. The vast majority of tourists will travel to marvel over the architecture of other nations. First one are castles, second religious buildings (basilica, churches, temples, synagogue) and thirdly are general old feel.

[@keiron75]

Honestly, there are fools everywhere. Americans are raised to question as little as possible - that’s where the bad image comes from, I think. "Question everything" is the resultion for many things in our lives.

[@loners4life]

Ya this is very true. We meet a lot of people who simply don't care or get annoyed when we start talking about global subjects.

[@palupalu5647]

It's so true that to interest the American public, the main actor absolutely has to be American. This is the case for Emily in Paris, and even more so for the series The Walking Dead Daryl Dixon, although the latter is Franco-American. it doesn't catch on for the French public because there are too many caricatured clichés, like vehicles dating from the Second World War circulating, old blunderbusses dating back to the first, Mont Saint Michel as the main site, whores in Paris, and the old people who tell their memories of the war of 40-45 as if they had been able to know it... The only credible thing is that the Americans (Daryl and Carol) kill everything that moves around them, the French leaders, the Greenland women, the Scottish smugglers... Otherwise, something else, we say in France that we are a country of individualists, while abroad we would be more socialist. Europe is a land of contrasts, steeped in contradictions, which the great current or future imperial powers continue to accentuate, the better to divide and buy us. Finally, I will tell Lynda that even living your whole life in Paris is not enough to know it fully, so one week discovering an entire country, even small, sad and flat Belgium, is not enough.😁

[@JohnHollands]

Let me tell you about Australian Socialism... if we find something is a good idea from some socialist country, we TAKE that idea and MAKE IT Australian. It doesn't make US socialists, we make IT Australian. Think of all the things americans pay for and support as a group - the navy, police forces, firefighters, telephone systems, even insurance. If they were owned by government they'd be socialist, but the SYSTEM is the same. A group or collective pooling their resources for a common good. Tha's how the United States got all its interstate roads, read up on it. Initiated and fully funded by the Federal Government. Socialist? Sure. A good thing? Also yes. YOUR CULTURAL BLINDNESS: you can't "do" Canada in a week, (Imperialist arrogance?) and you justify the Tom Cruise as a Samurai as "well, that's what we want to see". Yes, that's what the commentary was saying. And "America is so big, we have everything" is a specious argument. Australia is big too. Should Australians say "oh Australia is so big, we have everything here, no need to visit America"? Of course not, that would ignore the subtle differences. However the "America is so big" argument justifies people in Bumfuk Alabamy not even leaving their state. Moreover, if you can't figure out why America had more newspapers in 1945-46, look at images from Coventry, Cologne, London, Berlin, Nagasaki, Hiroshima... cities which had the equivalent of 9/11 every day and night for over a year. Cologne was hit several times by thousand bomber raids. Reminder, 9/11 had TWO planes hit NYC.

[@snroos1860]

To all AMERICAN viewers: A SOCIALIST IS NOT THE SAME AS A COMMUNIST !! Communism vs. Socialism In both communism and socialism, people own the factors of economic production. The main difference is that under communism, most property and economic resources are owned and controlled by the state (rather than individual citizens); under socialism, all citizens share equally in economic resources as allocated by a democratically-elected government.

[@loners4life]

The way Australia does that is the way we wish USA would do it. We can take socialist ideas and make them American.

[@loners4life]

@@snroos1860 This!

[@arnodobler1096]

Hollywood is also inspired by German and French cinema, among others. See Quentin Tarantino.

[@alxhades6231]

"Supporting" something in the U.S. has a whole different meaning. If someone gets fired, there must be more than just supporting something. As a matter of fact U.S ppl are so worried about middle east conflicts and get passionate about it for no reason, with no factual knowledge on the Israeli - Palestinian subject.

[@arnodobler1096]

2:40 Yes, that's true, but hey the questions are so easy, elementary school knowledge often.

[@andrionusthemage1016]

One thing about american celebrities being global ,I was watching Americans naming American celebrities and bands ,mostly bands named were British and some movie tv celebrities were also British Watching reaction channels after they backed this up with them reacting too actors and bands you didn't know were British,.

[@snroos1860]

I don't want to be lied to by my politicians! That's one great ammendment! Great slogan! Let us all put it in every video!

[@intello8953]

LMAO didn’t you guys already react to this 10 months ago 😂

[@nazimelmardi]

Now on world tour : One Ok Rock from Japan. I suggest to listen Stand Out Fit In (with the original music video - there is an orchestra live version too) That hits hard nowdays in USA.

[@erikwsince1981]

Unfortunately you proved the video quite accurate just 3:30 in. You would barely scratch the surface of any province in Canada in 1 week.

[@ArchieArpeggio]

As a Finnish person it is always nice to see in those numbers that we have lot of knowledge of different things that´s going on in the world. But the edjucation system here is better then most of the world. Well politicians lie everywhere. Even here. We do have wider variety of different parties where we can choose who to vote. Only problem is that if that person isn´t the head of that party, he is basicly nobody. The head of the party decides how they are going to vote. If you don´t play along then you will be kicked out of the party. So the part that we would have democrasy is just an illusion. Same people runs the show in the govenment and makes most of the desitions. There might be slight changes now and then but mostly they are just reaching to collect as much tax payers money as they can.

[@halmati2288]

No! Not "People" call that socialism, mostly US-citizen call it socialism. Most people of many other nations don´t do so! So, the change has be handled mostly in the US, by ppl of the US (in my opinion).

[@snroos1860]

4:00 America has all you'd ever want geographically within her borders. How many Americans have visited these places and are still alive? Try visiting New Zealand! It is perfectly save and you need less driving to vist it all. Nice people, real (healthy) good food and you will spend far more time outdoors 🙂

[@tommylauritsen1979]

Canada is the sekund biggest country after Rusland

[@arnodobler1096]

Well, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon are the only things that still interest me in the USA, and there used to be cities like San Francisco, New York and New Orleans, but not any more. You can also find it elsewhere.

[@icebox1954]

I think it's important to note that a big percentage of internet forums are likely saturated with people from the US whereas most countries likely use their own language or even national social media so they're separated and not approachable like Reddit/Facebook/Twitter etc. is so it becomes an echo chamber of the same people. I've long been disheartened that I can't ban American content from my feeds and instead just get something from different countries but sadly I can't understand French, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese etc. There's so much content out of my reach and I'm stuck listening to this US echo chamber and it's sickening.

[@derPappelgarten]

i like your reactions ! most of the world disrespect americans for such sentences like " you can cover canada ( 2. biggest country in the world after russia) in a week " . americans go to europe visit 5 countries in 8 days go back and say " i know a lot of europe " sry but you know shit, as we know shit after going 2 days to LA and then 2 days NY and on the last day las vegas just 4 fun. we are not so different, the thing is we grow all up on different systhems thats all.

[@HandleMeUp]

As a French, people please vote BULE 💙 we don't want history to repeats itself.

[@SovermanandVioboy]

As a German, people please dont vote BLUE 💙 we also don't want history to repeats itself.

[@whitecompany18]

uk with Deutschland on this one 💓👍

[@lakeffex]

Blue is the party of censorship, corporate dominance, gun control, race politics, and criminal bailout. Educate yourself.

[@klarasee806]

@@SovermanandVioboyTo explain this for all who are not familiar with German party colours: In Germany blue stands for the AfD, the extreme rights. Vote blue (Democrats 💙) in the USA, but please don’t vote blue in Germany. We won’t go back - in any country.

[@eisenritter7805]

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[@stiglarsson8405]

Yea.. its fun to make YT movies on Americns that dont know anything of Europe.. or any other place in the world! Its the same in Europe.. exept that they know moste thing that happen in USA.. and cant name there own PM or one neigbours! In anyway.. two americans in south america.. make it great.. kinda typical american.. oh im so schocked by the differense! It would be funny to watch!

[@spiritualanarchist8162]

Indeed, it's fine as entertainment but people take it too serious sometimes. . There is just as much difference between , for example Finland and Greece or Italy and say Lithuania as there is between Finland, Greece,etc & the U.S. .

[@stiglarsson8405]

@@spiritualanarchist8162 Exactly and indeed, there is a diferens BTW YT and the real world! I have been to a handfull european countrys, to a few African and Asian ones.. im a stranger everywhere.. exept Nordic countrys, where its often easyer to speak my own language, and they respond in there language.. its easyer then shift to english! Exept for Finland.. in finnland they use two languages, Finnish and Swedish.. not all finns are fluent in swedish, then one shift to english! And there is more for "muricans" to learn.. and for me altso.. like the tiping thing! In those countrys in europe I have been to.. both the servers salary and VAT is included on the prices on the menue.. leave the coins to the server or drop those in a jar when leaving the resturant.. in Turkey at least! In Egypt.. give a small coin.. to the "boy", that carry your bags.. I can carry my bags my self.. but he need to get a salary.. like in the USA! Soo one have to adapt and dont get to offenced.. like europeans going to USA.. one price on the pricetag, another when one check out at the cassier.. and at resturants when one supose to pay the waiters salary!

[@BR-lq6fc]

The haughty narrator loses all assumed gravitas when we hear him pronounce 'cellist'. What was he saying about ignorance?

[@perryedwards4746]

LOL

[@nazimelmardi]

It’s just you. Dune Part One. Best movie of that year. (Reading 100~ books a year) 😂 (In 3 different languages…)

easy answer when in your schools and universities is more important the money that us state earn from students loans than giving a good education , so education is an investiment in your citizens for the future not a business to major corps earn more gold

[@jamesrowe3606]

Of course a video can be compiled to show that the general public are stupid. The news channels do it all the time. Just edit out the sensible contributors and hey presto! It's the origin of a favourite expression of mine, "as mad as a voxpop".

[@FalcoSorreo]

12:42 Yes, there are 2 aspects to free speech: you have free speech in the law, and free speech in the culture. And those 2 are distinct but fundamentally related. You can have a constitution that protects freedom of expression from legal action by citizens or the government, but if you don't have a culture that is pro free speech, freedom of expression can still be severely limited. In other words, there might be no legal consequences for promoting x political view, but if you can get fired from your job for promoting it, have important services denied to you, etc. then you don't really have freedom of speech in practice. That is why I have a problem when people say "well, you can legally say what you want, but that doesn't mean there will be no consequences", because that might make sense in theory, but in practice it denies freedom of speech. If you want actual free speech, you need to have a pro free speech culture on top of having negative rights protecting it. Noam Chomsky has a great quote about free speech: "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." After all, all of us are in favor of people expressing views we like or find acceptable, so the point of freedom of speech is precisely to protect the views we intensely dislike. If it was to protect views we consider acceptable, speech wouldn't need any protection. We are all human beings, we are biased in multiple ways, for multiple reasons. And we tend to be blind to our own biases (the deeper or more fundamental those biases are, the more blind we are to them), and therefore can make mistakes about what should and shouldn't be acceptable to say, hence the need to protect the ability of different people to truthfully express their views without experiencing serious punishment for it.

[@SovermanandVioboy]

We have the same st0pid ppl in Europe... I think the only difference is that whenever something happens in america, there is someone filming it and putting it on the internet. It also seems like there are many news channels that are constantly reporting on st0pid stuff - you give idiots way too much attention :V, what we dont rly do in Europe (or in Germany at least). Another factor is that many Europeans consume American media but not many Americans know whats going on in Europe (I assume)... so, even when there is something st0pid going on in Europe, it usually wont reach the world stage.

[@eld0ntyr3ll]

Puritanism in US movies drives me mad, it's especially ridiculous when you see how much violence is tolerated. If you want to test your patience watching a movie, try Stalker by Tarkovsky, it's a good movie, watch it if you can.

[@alexanderroth1427]

And...the most powerfull Passport on the Planet ( means the most free travel between different countries) is....the german one. Sorry Britain you screwed yourself with Brexit on this matter 🙈

[@90Pekkis]

Isn`t Canada the second largest country in the world?! 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@pappihappi]

Lol

[@FalcoSorreo]

12:56 Because Israel is putting a lot of money and effort into making it that way (at all the most important levels of society: government, institutions, private sector, etc). That is why people get fired and get ostracized for supporting Palestine or condemning Israel's actions. It is that simple.

[@daviel6595]

Yes lies off the chart last 8 years in usa

[@FalcoSorreo]

Sadly, if you want to get an idea of what is going on that is somewhat accurate, you have to read both left wing and right wing publications, and then check out what smart independent people who are outside of the mainstream are saying, and then draw your own conclusions with that information. In my opinion that is the best way (at least if you don't want to read books and studies about politics, economics and history). But most people don't have the time or the inclination to devote that much attention to that, so they tend to pick 1 or 2 sources they think are more truthful and just read those. And there is no solution to that problem, it is what it is.

[@GiuseppeLeopizzi]

13:25 You've made the point, madam

[@UsagiMiyamotoYojimbo]

About "talking movies," watch "The Man From Earth"...

[@tommyjohansson6326]

u need to us wikipendia.