Americans concern me

[@samrevlej9331]

Americans don't seem to realize a lot of other countries also have populations of foreign ancestry. I'm French, and some people in my family are Ashkenazi Jewish born in Germany or Poland, Sephardic Jewish born in Algeria, or Belgian. Doesn't make me German, Polish, Algerian or Belgian. From what I understand living in the US for 5 years, this comes down to wanting to attach yourself to an "older" country to claim an identity in a very diverse country. The problem is just that it comes off as weird and disingenuous from people who don't know anything about these places and just do it for cosmetic purposes.

[@Swarzec_Swarzewski]

That's why I think USA is the biggest social experiment, which soon will be ended by USA itself.

[@NegativeAccelerate]

Idk, I'm Irish and I really have no problem with Americans saying they're Irish. its obvious what they mean, they just use weird phrasing. I am happy that Ireland has a good enough reputation that people want to claim to be from here.

[@SenyorCapitàCollons]

I actually thing they are really obsessed with diversity.

[@nhf7170]

According to Ancestry everyone is part Ashkenazi Jewish. They must have been some freaky people.

[@Arltratlo]

i got ask when i will move to the USA, visiting my wife family in Philly... me, never.... and my ex-wife never returned to the USA, too! Europe is so much better, she and my daughter are right now in South America, visiting family during school holidays!

[@kaproskarleto5136]

As an irish person (ACTUAL irish person), i don't get why the americans fantasise about us so much 🤔

[@LalaDepala_00]

I honestly think that Americans lack cultural identity, so they have to use Europe to establish some. I also don't think they realize that most people in the world have parents or grandparents that lived in a different country. They think it is so unique. Edit: I had an argument with an American a while back who argued that he is more German than me - a German.

[@UnstableYT-u7k]

From Irish to Iwish

[@Mystic1038-u5u]

It’s always Irish and German for some reason

[@blackbird7781]

​@@LalaDepala_00well I think it depends hugely on which american ya talk to. For some of us we refuse to say we are culturally or genetically from america due to how in America, well... that could be viewed as claiming the land and culture of people who the settlers committed genocide on. It's a touchy subject with no real right answer. Except for the dumbasses who claim they are more irish than a person from ireland and shit like that.

[@LalaDepala_00]

​​@@blackbird7781I think it is bizarre to claim to be from a different place just because of America's history. You can't pick and chose your cultural identity. Should I lie about being German because of Hitler? If you go back far enough, every single country has committed atrocities.

[@davidbroadfoot1864]

Re "Europeans are so poor that they do not have cell phones." On 10 November 1992, the world's first cell phone that used GSM was released on the market. It was created by Nokia. Nokia is a European company (based in Finland). Currently, 93% of European households have cell phones.

[@wonkyelsa]

Nokia is a town in Finland and the phone was named after a river that flows through it called Nokianvirta.

[@thedude9014]

And Nokia was “the phone” before the advent of smart phones

[@Based_nargacuga]

its frightening how many people don't know the difference between accent and language

[@kyx5631]

And dialect

[@SilentlyFalling]

It's frightening how many people are American

[@hailthequeenFM]

I mean, how would they know what's a language when they don't even have an official language.

[@tonycrayford3893]

​@@hailthequeenFMmuch like the UK, the USA has a de facto language.

[@hailthequeenFM]

@@tonycrayford3893 Everyone in the US speak English, but English is not recognized by the government as an official language. Some states do count it, most of them don't. You can literally google it.

[@shaun2463]

I had a girl in New York tell me "go back to Ireland, you're not welcome here". Okay, but I'm from Essex 💀

[@Palemagpie]

Oh Jesus, you're not welcome anywhere then...least of all Essex itself.

[@olliesmusic2586]

I'm sorry to hear that

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

Not at all surprised that happened in New York. One of the unfriendliest places I've ever been to.

[@peace7lovr]

same thing go back to your small island no one cares peace & love🦅🇺🇸🏈😈😚💵

[@the_ttr]

In dublin (ireland) I witnessed and Irish bloke shouting to Irish gal 'got to your own F*** country' when she was speaking in gaelic... go figure ;)

[@HeWhoIsRem]

I think my favourite ignorant comment from an American was while I was on a tour in the Netherlands when a woman began explaining to her friends how the Nazis were so good to the people of the Netherlands… I asked her if she was of German heritage to which she proudly said yes… I then got to explain how for a full year my Dutch grandmother ate only tulip bulbs during the Hongerwinter and how many of her neighbours “suddenly left” during the war. The look in my grandmothers eyes when she told me about her time under Nazi occupation still fucking haunts me. I couldn’t imagine living through that and to have someone talk about it like it was a thing to be envied made my blood boil.

[@ciaranirvine]

Actual Irish here. Lived in Boston for a year back in the 90s. Man the bizarre conversations with Murkans who were convinced they were the "real Irish" cos they had some family rumour their great-great-great-grandad might have got off a boat in 1836. I did have fun winding them up with tall tales about my days on the run from IRA ninja assassins and brutal baby-killing British troops...

[@scther4938]

I have a question , when do Americans stop being Irish - as in prisoners of the uk were taken to Australia in around the 17th century , we now call them Australians as they have lived in Australia for 300 years away from the uk but people in America still call themselves Irish when it was so many generations ago that they actually had Irish citizenship, I might as call myself African

[@efeddwdw9782]

​@@scther4938 learn what nationality and ethnicity is. europoor education at its best

[@scther4938]

@@efeddwdw9782 I don’t think I need to explain , generations at least 15 doesn’t make you ‘Irish ‘ because otherwise because humans origin is in Africa we would all be African

[@efeddwdw9782]

@@scther4938 LEARN WHAT ETHNICITY IS, if they take a DNA test it’s gonna be traced back to EUROPE. why do Europeans when they see asian Americans instantly think they are Chinese yet white Americans can’t be European?? like cmon, the most influential Irish people are American born

[@adammckinley1306]

@@scther4938you become Irish when you get citizenship. Not because your grandad was Irish.

[@tastyfiddle]

the US is the country equivalent of main character syndrome.

[@aviancypress5181]

Y’all always running your mouth about us, Europeans are so weird

[@efeddwdw9782]

almost like most of the world grew up around American media and culture, so did Americans. not Americans fault they are literally the center of the world.

[@aviaajab6830]

​@@efeddwdw9782 yeahhh right, in the center of the world.... then why do you care so badly about being irish or german? You do know europe has our own media, right? Just because you dont see it doesnt mean it doesnt exist.

[@efeddwdw9782]

@@aviaajab6830 because white Americans have ethnicity just like asian and black americans, american is a nationality. Yea US is the center of the world, economic, cultural, political, military, research, innovation, market, etc American culture is a norm to you.

[@aviaajab6830]

@@efeddwdw9782 lol, you are gonna be in for a surprise someday. But you just keep living in your little buttle, pal.

[@tobiasbayer4866]

13:30 Bro, a lot of european countries had public healthcare long before Nato even existed. In 1889 Bismarck laid the foundations for the german welfare state by being the first country to have state pensions. That was 30 years after the slaves were freed in america and 50 years before segregation was ended. And way before both world wars and Nato.

[@janemiettinen5176]

We Finns just joined, I promise we had healthcare well before last year and so did Swedes 😂

[@tobiasbayer4866]

@@janemiettinen5176 And you even managed to fight off the Sovjets all without help of the USA. Curious how that works 🤔

[@janemiettinen5176]

@@tobiasbayer4866 Well, that too. It’s weird what you can do, when there’s enough will.

[@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508]

​@@janemiettinen5176and stupid people ruling your enemy *cough cough stalin killing its generals cough cough*

[@Arltratlo]

@@janemiettinen5176 Bismarck had to do something, or the SPD had called for an revolution!

[@dutchy1121]

Americans call themselves free, but here are things we can do in Europe without getting arrested. 1. Drink in a park or on at a table outside, walk down the street while drinking. 2. Eat a kinder egg. 3. Use the metric system without having to convert (although that is not illegal it just not easy to stay in base 10) 4. Not have to calculate how much tax we have to pay on products we buy because it is included in the price.

[@Rabbit-011]

I thought you were joking about the kinder egg thing until i googled it jesus christ

[@orangeshyguygaming3875]

You can legally own a tank in America.

[@JMO-]

Here are things we can do in America without getting arrested. 1. Shoot a gun, or walk down the street while carrying a gun (in some states you have to conceal carry and/or have a license*). 2. Eat a kinder egg (We also have that freedom). 3. Put a flag on the moon. 4. *FREEDOM* In all seriousness, we are allowed to eat a kinder egg, its the sale of them that are banned due to the choking hazard of the toys inside of them, although there are different versions of kinder eggs with the toys separate (Americans are too dumb to not eat the toy and fucking die). We also "officially" use the metric system, you will see it everywhere there is science, medicine, and even sometimes with government. Schools even teach it alongside freedom units (at least mine did), and some people like me are able to use both systems effectively, but we choose to use our own system cause fuck y'all, we special! (we are god's chosen liberators) Fun fact: we use football fields per moon landing as an alternative to miles per hour.

[@crstudios4457]

​@@orangeshyguygaming3875 As you can in the UK, and most likely the rest of Europe....

[@dutchy1121]

@@orangeshyguygaming3875 Sure you can own it, but you need to own a very large property to use it as intended.

[@DalmarWolf]

Worst part of a lot of American baking recipes is that they're basically "use this pre mix and add this one ingredient".

[@Skeleton52925]

Like what?

[@antheas511]

It's the butter sticks and nut butter for me. A stick of butter were I live is 250g and that's not at all what the american recipe means. Peanut butter...I guess I could get if I search every single store in a 30km radius but one recipe asked for unsweetened Cashew butter. That costs like 30 Euros if I'd order it online because there's nothing similar in any store around. My personal enemy of american pre mixes ist "Bisquick", I get recommended so many recipes using that mix and I don't even bake specifically with american recipes. But they are everywhere and they are all too sugary for me.

[@christine-ep4bx]

i bet Muricans invented the Dump Cake

[@azraphon]

Oh my god and they don’t weigh fucking anything, it’s all cups. What in the fuck is that

[@virginiaviola5097]

Google will translate! I had just finishing learning the Imperial system when Australia switched to metric in the mid 1970’s. So, even still to this day I translate from one to the other in my head..also, my first cook books, my mother’s and grandmothers’ recipes are all in Imperial measurements. Kms to Miles is easy.. divide km by 10 and multiply by 6. ie 60km@36miles. Temperature Celsius to Fahrenheit…double the C temp and add 30 ie 25C = 80F For all the rest, just use Google to convert for you.

[@YuiWrong]

It's funny how these posts are 50% "America is the best country in the world, we beat everyone else at everything and everything here is better", and 50% "I am 0.00003% Irish so I am NOT American"

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Exactly lol they tie themselves in knots trying not to actually be Americans.

[@AstroBimpson]

No, these comments are like 95% elitist Europeans circle jerking about how much better than us they are. I haven't seen a single comment that describes what you are talking about.

[@NVProlog]

lol idek why they want to pretend to be irish so much if anything i want to fuckin leave

[@atroxiv]

Political division. Conservatives are the first and Liberals / far left are the second.

[@tymondabrowski12]

​@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 but then they act like American stereotypes and have American mentality

[@oliverqueen5883]

What’s funny is being lectured by Americans with a single great-great grandparent who is allegedly from Ireland about how they’re truly Irish and I (a brown lad actually born and reared in Ireland) could never be as Irish as them. I asked one such person to name a city in Ireland, and all they could find was “Ireland City” 😂😂😂

[@RobairtO-Dhoilingta-n16420]

​@@RB-NZ2Born and raised in Ireland, how is he not Irish? Schooled in an Irish school, where else is he from?

[@balinthehater8205]

That depends, do you mean genetically Irish or culturally Irish? Because culturally the guy is probably as Irish as can be while genetically he is probably still more Irish than the Americans if his family has been over for more than two-three generations due to how people mingle ​@@RB-NZ2

[@atroxiv]

Damn. How many of these people exist? My guess is 0. And even if this is something that you didn't make up, it doesn't mean all Americans do the same.

[@RobairtO-Dhoilingta-n16420]

@@RB-NZ2 Last time I checked humans didn't come from Ireland either. They migrated from Africa. The celts, vikings, Normans and Angles came from across the sea too

[@eggchomp]

@@RB-NZ2goway ye racist eejit will you? just because you’re from tipp and haven’t seen a single black person in your life doesn’t mean that there aren’t irish people with different skin tones. to be culturally irish, you have to be raised here. that has nothing to do with your skin tone. this is coming from someone with skin so pale i can’t get the right colour foundation from penney’s

[@Goabnb94]

0 degrees F: very cold 100 F: very hot 0 C: cold 100 C: dead 0 K: dead 100 K: dead

[@Crimser3]

Don’t Americans know there are different accents in the UK? They’ve got: -Scottish -Irish -English (sexy) -English (derogatory) -Eldritch Magic (Welsh)

[@ZOMBiFOX13]

Lol

[@hyunjinsanity]

English (derogatory) 💀💀

[@AuricSilverfinger]

There's loads more in counties alone, Americans really don't realise how unified they are accent-wise

[@kronos_1337.]

Yorkshire/north London/south (fancy)

[@blackbird7781]

Not all americans know. Most actually do know, just like there are different regional accents in america itself

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

That girl thinks Fahrenheit makes more sense than Celsius? Celsius: 0° = freezing, 100° = boiling. Everything in between = easy to figure out based on how close to 0° or 100° it is. Fahrenheit = Random numbers where something like 50° is considered cold.

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

It's way easier to understand. - 0°F really f***ing cold. - 100°F really f***ing hot. Also, boiling and freezing change with altitude. Boiling point in Denver, Colorado is 95°C.

[@arynxxx]

@@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish yeah which is the issue cause in celsius water always freezes at zero and boils at 100

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

@@arynxxx as long as you stay at sea level of course. Any altitude and that changes... Like I said.

[@lordofuzkulak8308]

@@Batmans_Pet_Goldfishfun fact - in a vacuum, due to the lack of atmospheric pressure, your own body temperature is enough to boil the water in your body.

[@lulusnap]

I’m American and I have no idea how to use Fahrenheit properly. Like, why these numbers specifically?

[@Kickiusz]

I cannot comprehend how one can type "Warsaw" and complain that we spell New York "wrong" in the same tweet without immediately collapsing into irony black hole.

[@infernoing1884]

Warszawa isn't even a hard word to spell or pronounce

[@voidperson]

​@@infernoing1884exactly, it's easy af

[@Jakub_french1234]

As polish person i aprove of this message and in polish jako polak potwierdzam tą wiadomość

[@Arltratlo]

in German, its Warschau! we have a lot of German names for foreign places.... since centuries!

[@timoterava7108]

Varsova in Finnish... Also Krakova, Puola, Saksa (Germany), Hampuri, Berliini, Praha, Tukholma (Stockholm), Ruotsi (Sweden), Kööpenhamina, Tanska (Denmark), Moskova, Pietari, venäjä (russia) Lontoo, Pariisi, Ranska (France)..

[@caranook]

As an Irish person, born and raised, I actually don’t mind when Americans are proud of their Irish heritage, even if it goes very far back. I think it’s sweet, and no harm done. But I do have a problem when they start thinking that they know more about Ireland than us, which unfortunately many of them do. I’ve even seen Irish Americans praise the IRA, and want us to go to war over Northern Ireland. It’s that kind of stuff that really makes myself and lots of Irish people be sceptical of Irish Americans, they can have a level of entitlement that is insane.

[@Owbfcudhd]

There’s nothing wrong with them being proud of their heritage, but the problem is with the ones that just think they’re Irish. Like just because your great-great-great grandparents were Irish, that does not mean you are Irish, you just have Irish ancestry. And it’s not just Ireland, they apply the same logic to other countries as well, particularly Scotland and the Scandinavian countries.

[@LordDim1]

Irish-Americans don’t just praise the IRA, the IRA relied heavily on direct funding from Irish-Americans. IRA activities were only possible because of massive amounts of direct donations they collected in Boston, New York etc.

[@RobairtO-Dhoilingta-n16420]

Specify what Ira you're talking about. Most of the time they were good, and fought a necessary fight for our independence from horrific British opression. The guys that bombed civilians in the north aren't the same, whether they call themselves that or not

[@LordDim1]

@@RobairtO-Dhoilingta-n16420 The provos during The Troubles were the ones funded by Irish-Americans. NORAID money, collected in large numbers in Boston and New York went directly to fund bombings of civilians in Northern Ireland

[@Finn-bk4di]

@@RobairtO-Dhoilingta-n16420nah they bombed prods so it’s alright

[@pearse6104]

Americans thinking that accents = languages is a VERY American way of thinking

[@Quickmf56]

They’re probably thinking about Louisiana Creole or Baltimore but aside from that they’re on to nothing

[@Alltagundso]

I am not sure I get what you say. The USA is full of people that have accents!? Do they not know what an accent is, is that what you're saying?

[@Gambit771]

That's be surprised at how many more languages the UK has over them if that's the case and they learnt the truth.

[@tauruscommunist9532]

​@@Alltagundso one of the people in the video said that English, American and Australian were different languages, they're not

[@woop6078]

The "Americans" you mention are always blk or women

[@grahvis]

The healthcare claim was errant nonsense. Per capita, people in the US spend twice that spent by people in the UK and receive a lower quality of care for it.

[@janemiettinen5176]

Because there is a whole industry in between, the health insurance. I saw a bill from a guy who slipped at home and had to take an ambulance to ER, be hospitalized, rehabbed etc., it was over 20 000. My Finnish grandmas bill from very similar mishap (with double the time in both, hospital and rehab) was under 700. One guy had life-saving emergency heart-surgery, it was over 100 000. You can buy a house with that! And his insurance denied it, heart attack wasn’t urgent enough. Whaaat..

[@tumultoustortellini]

@@janemiettinen5176 If there's one corrupt industry (one of the many), it would be health. If the health industry wasn't so fucked, we probably wouldn't have people asking for healthcare

[@richardhockey8442]

@@janemiettinen5176 US: sick people are the product, the real customers are the health insurance companies

[@efeddwdw9782]

its actually far higher quality, OCED source. Also even after health expensiure americans are FAR FAR richer. so maybe go cry about how your pooer than the average Polish person

[@grizzlybear2702]

You have to pay significantly more takes in UK and wages are absolutely abysmal compared to our American counterparts.

[@e34YT]

As a Pole, I'd like to correct you and say that we spell everything in English. We just pronounce it like we want to kill ourselves

[@threestepssideways1202]

You earnt my daily chuckle.

[@lunada7127]

BOBER

[@izabelasiczek3547]

😂

[@wlodek7422]

Well, don't we want to kill ourselves constantly?

[@John_Lyle]

kurwa I worked with four Polish guys for five years and that is the only word they said often enough for me to learn it. And that was in the first week at work

[@UnstableYT-u7k]

Fun fact: Americans speak English and Englandish people speak Englandese.

[@dsmiht2833]

Engladish and Englandese arent a thing. LAERN ENGLISH

[@UnstableYT-u7k]

@@dsmiht2833r/wooooosh

[@UnstableYT-u7k]

@@dsmiht2833 aka *flamekiller3338* Somebody doesn’t know what a “joke” means

[@ryan-ch6fp]

​@@dsmiht2833learn how to spell learn 😭

[@MrZevv]

Na thats wrong. England speaks English. Americans spak Gibberish

[@tnd1488]

Don't ever tell the Fahrenheit girl about Kelvin system. This will absolutely crash her brain.

[@stephenp.6395]

IF she had a brain.

[@d4n737]

Irish have the same problem as Polish and Sweedish, tbh. American immigrants treat the culture as a token, mythologise it from all the tales their "grandma" told them, and when it turns out that Sweeden isn't full of bearded manly vikings and Poland isn't the way it was 50 years ago, their fantasy shatters, so they cope by telling themselves "We're the real ones" Though from my own experience, let me tell you, dealing with "Polonia" (Polish who emigrated abroad) is a bother, because they really look down on us natives as"the little guys", it's often rather patronising. An uncle from Canada once sent my mother 40 cents to "Buy herself something nice" and he was convinced that she wouldn't know what to do with them, because "For an American, it's not much, but for them it's a fortune". Mother was insulted of course... The other thing is how they kept sending hand-me-downs. Clothes that wouldn't look out of place on a hobo, that they didn't need, as if we were some children in need. And talking to one of those family members is also a treat, because once they tried to explain to me, in insultingly simple terms, what an orange is... While holding a tangerine. They were also absolutely *flabbergasted* that we actually had stuff like pepsi and smartphones. Normally though, we just kinda laugh at Polonia... It's like that one cousin that moved to Vegas for a few years and now he thinks he's a bigshot, being really condesending to you all "Little folk"

[@jmi5969]

My experience was quite different. Polish-American and Greek-American families still kept distinct Polish and Greek environment in their homes, and their everyday home-cooked food was, to my limited knowledge, authentic Polish and Greek. Not "New York Style Greek" but Greek as in Thessaloniki. Some of the founders of these immigrant families, who moved to the US soon after WW2, were still alive then.

[@marcusm663]

USA - A country where : One in five cannot locate the US on a world map. One in twelve think they can beat a Grizzly Bear in a bare handed fight. LMFAO.

[@rosiefay7283]

USA - Think that that disgusting stuff they call chocolate is chocolate.

[@danieljohnson2005]

I seriously question the validity of those statistics. Although, if you spend 10 minutes in a black or Hispanic neighborhood, it actually seems plausible.

[@danieljohnson2005]

@@rosiefay7283 That’s funny because we think the same thing about your chocolate.

[@TCELL24]

And they all think they're a legit democracy.

[@marcusm663]

@@TCELL24 Laughing stock of the rest of the world more like it.

[@1specified]

0:23 there are Irish bagpipes. Uilleann pipes to be exact. There are also Welsh and Cornish bagpipes, as well as bagpipes across Europe; just an old instrument most commonly associated with Celtic people

[@minusart5242]

tbf though irish pipes are meant to be played while sitting iirc, not standing

[@1specified]

@@minusart5242 Yes, but I don't think it's by tradition, just that it's really difficult standing and a normal neck strap wouldn't work the same as it would on a sax or something

[@KoshVader]

Weren't they invented in Egypt?

[@1specified]

@@KoshVader I think there are ancient depictions that describe wind instruments with dog skin, which could be a bagpipe or at least the origins of one.

[@teawitched]

there's also Northumbrian bagpipes! (needed some North England rep)

[@SaminkaLP]

Americans are like "America is the best country" but don't want to be american. Instead they claim to be irish, english, french, german...

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

My friend (black) was asked what it's like for African Americans in the UK 😅 no, they didn't mean 'African Americans' who have moved to the UK. They meant black British people. Two different people asked a similar question on two seperate occasions. My mate tried to explain to them but they weren't getting it. I think they thought they were being less racist by referring to her as African American rather than black but my god 😐

[@Ba_Yegu]

In the United States African-American is newspeak for black.

[@MarieJohanna760]

​@@Ba_Yeguin the United States...thats the point

[@nudepanda101]

⁠@@MarieJohanna760holy shit they’re american’ing even in the comments hahaha

[@Joetino]

Yeah. I had a situation where this friend and I googled my name and one of the results was a black guy who had the same name as me. She joked that "Oh, that could be you", and I replied "Yeah, but I'm not black." She deadass tried calling me a racist, so I corrected myself to say "African-American", and it's like someone pressed the off switch. It's not their fault. That's what culture is trying to say.

[@missharry5727]

Black British is one of the accepted categories of self-identification used in the UK for statistical purposes. Others are Black African, Black Other, and that perennial favourite, Prefer not to say. Many of the Black residents in the UK might be described as Afro-Caribean.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Whoever said “Irish people aren’t proud of their heritage” _really_ needs to hear about the Troubles

[@NVProlog]

and the rising

[@thequietman760]

And Irish war of independence 🇮🇪☘️

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@thequietman760 💚🤍🧡

[@Grassdia]

And the 800 years of fighting against British rule

[@jgw9990]

​@@Grassdiabeing taken over by Muslims now

[@rotten.dandelions]

i think if brits were any more passionate about football then the geneva convention would be broken.

[@justsad-1392]

"some people think football is a matter of life and death. It's much more important than that. " a famously misquoted quote by Bill Shankley, manager of Liverpool😆

[@mustafah6150]

I love that most Americans think they are 100% of a nationality they barely know anything of. Edit: MOST Americans

[@jackwaschbusch2419]

How hard was yo meat when typing ts? Why most Europeans edge when tryna look down on Americans??

[@blackbird7781]

I mean there are more than a few reasons why one may wanna say that. They may not wanna identify racially as american cuz the american govt committed genocide on the real natives, or they wanna get the f**k out of this country, or 3, they are a dumbass who only knows culture based on what others tell them is theirs.

[@turkeyman631]

I mean people are proud of their nationality.. Just cause they arent from a country doesnt mean they cant be proud of it. It's like telling a black American, 'stop being exciting over your African roots.'

[@Lewtable]

@@turkeyman631 Heritage, not nationality* The entire point is that having heritage from a different country doesn't make you from that nation.

[@thecrispymaster]

@turkeyman631 Comparing black American culture, which innovated on Aftlrican culture like music and dance and innovated on that to create an actual cultural identity to the American who stick on a green hat on St Paddy's day to get pissed and show how proud of being Irish they are is... well it's that distinction between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation. One actually shows a degree of respect for that culture, the other doesn't really understand the culture but wants to wear the most shallow aspects of it and claim it as part of their own. And really it's this side of Americans pretending to have national pride from their Scottish or Irish roots that's irritating to those of us actually from or having roots in those countries. This isn't all Americans, I'm aware, but it's definitely way too many of them.

[@t_aikutsu]

8:46 the ironic thing is Warsaw is called Warszawa in Polish

[@crazyrabbitmom]

Came here to say that

[@kyx5631]

You should insult America when it says "Warsaw" at their airports.

[@lemsip207]

I had a Polish teacher who stammered so he pronounced it as Warsavavava.

[@PobortzaPl]

​@@lemsip207 "Wawa" is a slightly derogatory name for "Warszawa" in Poland

[@antcommander1367]

Warszawa in polish or Varsova, which sounds same in finnish. Varsova, means horse is about to give birth...

[@kvernesdotten]

13:38 - Yes living in a place where you cant go anywhere without having a car owned by the bank that you pay for every month, costs a fortune to refuel and needs maintenance and repair on a regular basis is the absolute epitome of freedom. God I hate being adult.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

and this oversized metal shitboxes run over children and pets easily because driver see no fucking thing up close because of how this thing is huge people literally chose cool looks and loud vroom-vroom over cost-efficiancy, maintanence, convenience AND safety. Mind boggling. I'm very much okay with public transportation thank you very much but if i would buy a car it would be something small and Japanese so i would actually use it to travel from A to B instead of fucking with it constantly

[@ThreeIrishMen]

oh yeah us irish arent proud of being irish, we didnt wage war for 800 years for freedom

[@eoghanclark165]

Right? That one baffled me

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

Americans think you're not patriotic unless you cover everything in the national flag and shout about it.

[@WookieWarriorz]

I always say youre not irish if you didnt bring your hurl to church because yer granny made you go. Never met an american so called irish person that knew the fields of athenry even nevermind hurling haha.

[@internetual7350]

While the overall sentinement expressed is incorrect in a narrow sense I believe they actually have a point because while it is true that we Irish (parents from Cork and I live here, just to prove my Irishness for ye) fought wars for ~800 years against English/British rule of some form after the acquisition of independence from the British Empire I feel as if we quickly forgot just why those who died for our nation did so, in the words of Pádraig Mac Piarais he strived for an Ireland "not merely free, but Gaelic and an Ireland not merely Gaelic but free", however after the onset of independence upon the singing of the Anglo-Irish treaty the Irish language and attached indigenous Gaelic culture found in our Gaeltachtaí entered *sharp* decline both down to government policy but also, quite frankly because of us, the Irish people who turned our backs on such ancient traditions (oldest north of the Alps) in favour of a more Anglicised "Hiberno-English" culture, is féidir leat sin a fheiceál anso linne ag labhairt Béarla in ionad ar dteanga dúchais.

[@bluebird3281]

@@WookieWarriorz Those tommy guns, rifles and Grenades we sent came in handy though. You might still have the Queen of England on your money if not for that. You true native-born sons of Brian Boru could have just handled it with your Hurling sticks, but it would have taken a few hundred more years.

[@MTTT1234]

Also, it is quite concerning to se how some people seem to confuse heritage and culture. Just because you have some ancestors coming from one country, does not make you culturally belong to that country. There are no genes related to a specific nation. Only if you speak a language and follow the ways and traditions of a specific nation could one claim to belong to a certain cultural sphere.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Genes arent related to specific nations? You realize that tribes of people do tend to live in specific areas right?

[@PobortzaPl]

Say that to Polish Americans and you will hear that cOmmUNisM had made you rude and uncultured ;)

[@AtticusKarpenter]

@@TheSuperappelflap tribes aren't nations nor they are genetic thing. Nor genes attached to "specific area". Race are genetic thing and formed by evolutionary adaptation to the living in the specific area, but this is slow process that take hundreds of generations, so people don't just change their race even living several generations in the different climatic zone. You can be included in the tribe and become part of it, not having any genetic connections to it. Or can be excluded and technically stop being from that tribe. Tribes are earlier ethnic unions that nations, that are usually made from the several tribes (like English people are Angles and Saxons that conquered by French knights from Normandy and they all formed an English nation. Russia formed from Eastern Slav tribes - Drevlyane, Polyane, Kryvichi, etc.) Also there was nomad tribes that covered huge area, like Huns fought Romans and there was White Huns at the time (they still Asians its just term) living to the north of China, and they are related, just main Huns raided the fuck across whole Eurasia. And, for example, most famous Russian poet, Pushkin, are grandson of African slave gifted to the tsar Peter I who liberated him, gave him education and made his advisor, and hola his grandson become one of the most recognizable Russians while being 2 generations away from whatever African country his grandfather was. So neither nations nor tribes 100% decided by area of living, nor genes have anything to do with nations or 100% decide area of living. Nations and tribes are units of culture and language, that are affected by genes and landscape but nations can migrate, can absorb people with wastly different genes or split up to different nations while having the same genes. Its culture that matters.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@AtticusKarpenter if you move to another place and assimilate and intermarry then in a few generations your offspring will be genetically part of that group. Conversely if a group of people move to another country like people moving to the US and they marry within their own group then they stay a distinct population that has the same genetics as people in their home country. So in this case your argument doesn't apply at all.

[@CybersteelEx]

It's the memes that tell you that you are part of culture. They are after all the DNA of the soul.

[@Cat-ih2ke]

"ASDA, it's like Walmart without guns" love it

[@sjoerdvanoudenaren6020]

It is even owned by Walmart nowadays! Probably why they have those fat people mobiles 😂

[@Arltratlo]

we had Walmart in Germany, up to the moment the US management collided with the German workers laws... and Walmart left Germany and been never be missed!

[@Madman01-012]

@@sjoerdvanoudenaren6020 By 10%

[@whkvulwyn2489]

@@sjoerdvanoudenaren6020 Walmart hasn't owned ASDA since the begging of 2021

[@VeryBadLunchtime]

I love how Americans talk about different dialects when in Scotland there are 3 languages and 1 notable dialect if not another language. We speak English mostly, a lot of us speak Scots and some speak Gaelic. Doric is still considered a dialect but I can barely understand it.

[@oligultonn]

Glaswegian should be it's own language. It's unintelligable to any living animal.

[@VeryBadLunchtime]

@@oligultonn are you Scottish cause I'm from Edinburgh and I understand it fine

[@kaproskarleto5136]

Where do they speak gaelic in Scotland? I've Googled it before, and it just says in the Highlands, but where are the Highlands?

[@VeryBadLunchtime]

@@kaproskarleto5136 the highland are the northern central area of Scotland. A lot of Gaelic is also spoken in the western islands and Norn is spoken in Shetland

[@oligultonn]

@@kaproskarleto5136 it's spoken by 52% of the people in the Outer Hebrides, in the Inner Hebrides it's 38% on Tiree, 29% on the Isle of Skye, 30% on Raasay, 26% on Lismore and 19% on Islay. It's also widely spoken in Argyll and Bute and the Western Highlands.

[@regi0411]

my dads irish, i genuinely think he's mentioned it less to anyone he's ever met here in nz than your average boston american mentions that great great great great great grandad seamus came from galway

[@atroxiv]

It's a conversation topic. Not trying to claim they're from that cultural heritage.

[@sosueme.13]

suprised the americans know that galway exists

[@GeekyC.]

Same with mine and he says “well ya can tell when I talk .. do I need to start wear a hat or something that says I’m Irish ffs” 😂

[@bluebird3281]

@@sosueme.13 Why how many of us have you talked to?

[@sosueme.13]

@@bluebird3281 mostly the dumb ones, but I have a few American friends and they have a brain atleast.

[@eternally.mediocre]

1:06 its so weird, as an Australian, seeing Americans flip out over the c word I literally use it daily it's so normal here

[@jtsotherone]

As a British dude I have to give full respect to our friends down under for seizing control of the C word and using it far more effectively than we ever did

[@LalaDepala_00]

It still shocks me when Americans say that they "invented everything we use today". Google takes 5 seconds, but they still believe that they invented everything from the wheel to electricity.

[@turkeyman631]

As an American, I honestly have never seen someone say that lol. Maybe one person online?

[@legendofmirr]

@@turkeyman631 Americans always say this like we havent all been online together for the last 20 years, like we havent been consuming your television since television begun. Seriously bro america is an open book you put yourselves on a stage and most of you didnt even realise you are on it. And its a fact that americans claim to have invented everything. You guys think Edison invented electric light.

[@LalaDepala_00]

​@@turkeyman631One person? I have experienced it at least 50+ times in the last years on the internet. Maybe you don't see it because Americans don't say it to other Americans.

[@mattc341]

@@LalaDepala_00or it’s because what goes viral on the internet isn’t always an accurate representation of 300 million people…

[@git9662]

@@mattc341only rational comment

[@p3p3_Frog]

2:21 Bruh the UK didn’t leave Europe, they left the European Union which is an organization

[@HKFourFour]

yeah but hes saying like its harder to go to europe

[@TransasaurusRex]

​@yeetsmate4037 nope, he's saying brexit means we don't live in Europe anymore, stop defending stupidity, I love a good George video as much as the next but I will call out stupidity 100%

[@townsleyedits5238]

and who actually asked?

[@kaproskarleto5136]

The whole country just shifts away from Europe like it's pangaea 2

[@LalaDepala_00]

It's a common joke. He didn't mean it literally

[@esmed779]

A friend works for a luxury tour company with mostly American tourists. The feedback from a tour of Japan & Japan only was that there was too much Japanese food 😂😂😂

[@cjmillsnun]

That Rugby score was to the All blacks reserves IIRC. They didn't even bother to field their normal team.

[@Mattt5]

I think the guy meant if we had a team of NFL players who played rugby instead. Which is probably true if we had stronger grassroots rugby, but right now the eagles squad are like cut football players and foreign players at the end of their careers.

[@Scuzzlebutt142]

@@Mattt5Still not sure they'd do as well. Remember, the All Blacks are the most consistently good Rugby team from a population smaller than most US states, similar for Irish Rugby Team.

[@Eureka-1234]

​@@Mattt5 at best the US could be competitive at a sport if they put the money in, but they wouldn't suddenly be better than everyone. Just look at baseball, an American sport where Japan consistently wins the world cup.

[@BluReyVideo]

Celsius supremacy

[@imonlyhapy8708]

Celsius is the c word

[@JanGenchev]

@@imonlyhapy8708 No, it's c*nt with the * being a u. It is used as an insult informally in the English language, primarily in the British Isles.

[@imonlyhapy8708]

@@JanGenchev I know mate I do live here. Just made a joke that clearly fell flat on you.

[@druidplayz2313]

​@@JanGenchev woosh

[@lunada7127]

It just makes more sense

[@olgahein4384]

As a german i often feel that urge to apologize to the world for inventing Fahrenheit. We are really sorry. It was around 1800, what can i say.

[@Mango_the_gecko]

XD

[@Arltratlo]

Americans dont know that, so just sshhhs!

[@white5523]

Americans calling themselves Irish is like if Northern English ppl start calling themselves norse vikings

[@GhostGecko]

hahhhaa no thats so accurate. like girl most white americans have a little european heritage, thats how u fucking got there.

[@SingingSealRiana]

Nope, one IS a nationality, the Other an occupation

[@cazzabojangles]

@@SingingSealRiana Try telling the vikings that

[@DeBean970]

But there isn't many career paths for it

[@onerva0001]

​@Kongeriget_DanmarkWe don't.

[@stylus_sheath]

Just to avoid commenting everyone. Pizza is italian. Every region had and have his own recipes. Italian pizza is old up to 1400 (that's mean certified recipes of pizza). America did nothing to pizza except creating large distribution and franchises. American people should just accept they love something made from another culture (as much we love rock music made in UK or japanese anime).

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

What they did to pizza is create a bland flavourless dough base that purely serves as a holder for all the toppings. Whereas the Italian one tastes good enough to be eaten on its own as a flatbread.

[@TuorTheBlessedOfUlmo]

​@@diarmuidkuhle8181"the Italian one" you totally missed the point. There is no such thing as "the Italian pizza" many areas of Italy have their own variation that differ vastly.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

weeb

[@JenMaxon]

@@TuorTheBlessedOfUlmo In fact, you get a version of pizza all over the Med

[@tumultoustortellini]

@@diarmuidkuhle8181 Depends on the pizza. If all you ate is pizza hut or golden coral, maybe, but trying local chains instantly makes that not the case.

[@marcostavinga4521]

The UK leaving the European Union does not mean that the UK has left the Euopean continent. Citizens of the UK are still Europeans.

[@SarutoHyuga]

About the "america would be best at sport X". We all would agree that baseball is one of the biggest sports in america? They lost last year vs japan.

[@GB1510-yt]

Reminds me of that picture of an American academic team in a competition being all ethnically Asian 😂

[@1972Ray]

Thats not the MLB, lol. You're listening to a guy in a mask and running with it?

[@unfunnyman9068]

@@GB1510-yt real

[@tobyk.4911]

and the current World Champion in basketball - is Germany

[@Eureka-1234]

It's a tired argument, if it were true smaller nations like Uruguay and Belgium would not be relevant in major world football tournaments.

[@randomeyeliner]

It's wild to me that someone is like 'English accents are all the same'.

[@SingingSealRiana]

I am really Bad at telling accents apart and even I notice the difference between cockney and Oxford . . . .yeah, If you have little expoisure you Things Sound more similar but your failing to differenciate does Not make Things the Same . . . .

[@teawitched]

yeah, i've seen Americans mistake some English accents as Irish 😶

[@tumultoustortellini]

Tell me the different between a baltimore and brooklyn accent, then come back to me.

[@randomeyeliner]

@@tumultoustortellini water is kind the same but Baltimore is not. Baltimore accent is very charming. (Is not that Brooklyn isn't, I just didn't hear a Baltimore accent until I was an adult.)

[@tumultoustortellini]

@@randomeyeliner texan and lousianian (I am grasping for straws)?

[@Stefiiiz]

I'm pretty sure "Nowy Jork" in the Polish airport keeps switching to the English version every two minutes or so

[@Liggliluff]

(7:22) It doesn't help that in English transitions they sometimes use "911" as the term for emergency services for other countries. It also gives silly situation like "what's the number to 911 in Germany". Also the most used number is 112, and on GSM, it works in any country as a redirect.

[@Arltratlo]

ambulance and fire fighters are 112 in Germany... police is 110.... medical support is 117, they can call an ambulance, too!

[@dotdedo]

In legal weed states, we understand grams 😂

[@tbone2471]

Yeah the standard measurment for weed worldwide.

[@jjharson7344]

@@tbone2471 whats the going rate for an oz in the US? asking for a friend......

[@tbone2471]

@@jjharson7344 I wouldn't know. I'm from the UK

[@jjharson7344]

@@tbone2471 sorry I meant that for the OP dude.

[@jjharson7344]

What is the going rate for an oz in the US? asking for a friend......

[@PaulMartin-qu5up]

3:22 50% of the NHL players are Canadian. They would dominate because they could buy the best players.

[@zolad2345]

Quick statement on the sports fan thing.... You'll never see a British sports fan handed a mic (or allowed to bring one) cause you know that would be chaos

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

You'll never see a British sports fan handed a mic because they wouldn't need one to project their voice 😉

[@zolad2345]

@@thecynicaloptimist1884 also the chants will be a little less PG. Can't imagine the likes of "the referees a wanker" on a microphone lol

[@jbrassic5434]

Man any footage I've ever seen of football in the UK is mad. The chants are wild, the volumes are incredible.

[@blizzardgaming7070]

​@@zolad2345"LEEDS UNITED, WE'RE ON A BENDER! HARVEY PRICE IS A SEX OFFENDER" An actual chant someone filmed and uploaded, no clue who Price is. They would get whatever station that gave them the benefit of the doubt cancelled in an instant.

[@Skillcorn1]

As a Brit I can confirm

[@tbone9474]

I love how Americans, born and raised since generations, call themselves "nationality"-American. No you're Americans, that's it. I'm half English but born in Switzerland, guess what i am? I'm Swiss

[@jab9109]

It's funny but sometimes it's lowkey uncomfortable, so many people seem so obsessed with genetics, you usually hear about it in history books...

[@tbone9474]

@jab9109 yeah I've never understood that obsession, I thought most Americans were proud to be Americans.

[@nia356]

When people immigrate, they're culture is not automatically left behind. Being half of something and coming from an intirely different culture than the country your living in is not the same. they're hyphanted ethnicities that just acknowledge an influence of culture. what you're talking about is nationality.

[@onerva0001]

​​@@jab9109this! There is something creepy in keeping track of what percentage of your genes are from where. There was a nation in Europe in the previous century that did that too...

[@lokischeissmessiah5749]

@@nia356 "coming from an intirely different culture than the country your living i". Except those americans don't come from an entirely different culture than the country they live in- since they come from america. and so did their parents. and their grandparents. and their great grandparents for that matter. When you're getting like 5th gen you gotta stop saying you're irish for christ's sake. give it a rest lmao.

[@lucasverde8817]

3:36 Fun fact: Speakers of Latin languages actually *can* often understand each other - especially if they speak more than one. Most Spanish speakers can probably understand Portuguese without much issue and Italian to a lesser, but still solid, degree. I've both participated in and witnessed conversations between Spanish and Italian/Portuguese speakers before where each party doesn't speak the other's language but they are able to communicate just fine. The languages are all quite similar to each other. French is kinda the most distinct and sounds the least like the others, which makes it the hardest to understand if you don't speak it. That said, as a speaker of Spanish and French, learning the latter seems to have made it easier for me to understand Italian lol

[@franceskinskij]

I'm Italian and I speak Spanish, if I listen to Portuguese it sounds like calabrese (where half of my family is from)

[@metzan5710]

Americans truly are a special breed

[@blackbird7781]

Wait you actually think this represents all americans?

[@kore.7313]

@@blackbird7781 wait you actually cant take a joke?

[@blackbird7781]

@@kore.7313 where's the joke?

[@Jen_the_Dragon_Queen]

​@blackbird7781 Bro, I've seen you throughout this entire comment section getting all pissy about people making fun of America. As an American myself, you gotta stop taking this crap so seriously. You'll never be happy if you view this all in a negative light. I think jokes about America are funny because we should all be able to admit that America is a bit silly sometimes. As long as they're not insensitive about school shootings, it's all good, my guy!

[@blackbird7781]

@@Jen_the_Dragon_Queen nah i agree jokes about america are fine, but a lot of people here are not making jokes but being genuinely hateful, even though their own countries do a lot of the same.

[@gibbings5534]

People in the UK have the freedom of not having to perform surgery on yourself to save money

[@grahvis]

Or, after being injured, beg people not to call an ambulance because you couldn't afford it.

[@efeddwdw9782]

people in the UK get arrested for making fun of a gay person, alos NHS is horrible

[@efeddwdw9782]

@@grahvis brits can't even afford basic needs, far pooer then Americans yet free healthcare

[@grahvis]

@@efeddwdw9782 . Oh dear, what an awful imposition, to consider abusing someone to be reprehensible. Most would think that was freedom from being abused. The NHS is not horrible, that is ridiculous.

[@gibbings5534]

@@efeddwdw9782 why do you people ALWAYS have to try and bite back, its like you cant accept the truth

[@rosiefay7283]

9:36 Ironically, Americans trying to say Patty end up saying something closer to Paddy anyway.

[@dr_strange_jnr2730]

12:50 love this while they shriek in horror at changing their 250 year old *OUT OF DATE* constitution

[@minecraftnerd2175]

Ik exactly. I doubt the founding fathers realised how powerful modern guns would be compared to then, then mabye they would have put some constraints on it

[@BigManDaichi]

​@minecraftnerd2175 They wouldn't, if our military was still allowed to use them too. The point is to ensure citizens always have the ability to fight back against a tyrannical government. I think they'd be more concerned with how many sections of the government have forgotten or independently changed the purpose of their roles.

[@jonathankahl6302]

@@minecraftnerd2175during the creation of the constitution there was repeating muskets that could fire 30 shots in under a minute. They of course were not widely constructed and costed a good fortune, but they did exist and were known of.

[@dr_strange_jnr2730]

@@BigManDaichi I understand that, but when the biggest threat of incoming tyrannical rule is Trump getting into the Oval Office again, it’s a little worrying that the people bitching about amending the second amendment are the ones who tend to support Trump (it’s a gross generalisation but it’s very clear trend.)

[@BigManDaichi]

@@dr_strange_jnr2730 In that case, changing the majority of his followers into criminals by amending the Constitution against them would just expedite their outrage. Trust me, many of us understand how precarious this is and want to fix our country, but we can't do anything meaningful because the two major parties are too busy screaming.

[@ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy7677]

Celsius uses the boiling and freezing points of pure water which is exact and always the same, Fahrenheit goes from 0- the teperatere of a glass of saltwater with ice and 100- not really known to my knowlege the exact reasoning for it other than ive heard its something to do with body temperature. Its so random and uses two measurements that can fluctuate

[@johanhalvarsson2148]

100°F is the temperature of some peoples ars*s when they're healthy. You forgot to tie in waters other correlations to the metric system, like 1dm³ is 1l and 1l of water weighs 1kg.

[@kronos_1337.]

"teperatere"?????

[@theprinceofawesomeness]

Yea, Farenheight 100 is the normal human body temprature which is around 36c, coincidentally my normal temprature is between 37 and 38 Edit: aparently the 0 point should be the same and i even read that below zero it is the same...?

[@f.o.c4039]

The boiling and freezing points of water can actually change dependent on pressure which is why Celsius has the stipulation of at sea level which is also the reason why in science kelvin is used since 0 kelvin is absolute zero which cannot change but in general Celsius works well enough for day to day operation which is why we use it 👍

[@thecynicaloptimist1884]

That's why I don't buy it when the justification for Fahrenheit is that it's the best scale for use by humans. But 0 Fahrenheit is nearly -18 degrees Celsius, that's not "cold", that's actually "really cold". It's not as if -18 Celsius is some kind of universal constant that all humans would agree is "yeah that's kinda chilly".

[@jakobholgersson4400]

Owning a car is independence. To be able to walk, take the bus or go by train depending on what's most convenient for you is freedom.

[@Nurgle25]

Well, as an Irish person, many things like bagpipes, kilts and other items people overtly link to Scotland but were part of our cultures too. They had variation on the Scottish forms, like Ireland having the léine croich garmant that people mistook for kilts but are also somewhat similar in design. So, given the people with Celtic cultures were quite reduced over the last millenia it is not unexpected that Irish, Scots, Welsh, Galicians and Bretons mixing our Celtic cultural items

[@nejdalej]

"Italian Americans are the only ones brave enough to innovate Italian food." *laughs in ham and pineapple pizza*

[@jmurray1110]

In fairness I think that was a Canadian

[@darthplagueis13]

​​@@jmurray1110A Canadian who had migrated there from Greece, if memory serves.

[@toaster2428]

It was created by Hawaiins, Not something a Wop would even dare think about.

[@chrisdingley9277]

A Greek man who moved to Canada put pineapple on Pizza and called it Hawaiian 😂 what in the lords name

[@richardhockey8442]

Hull tandoori pizza

[@georgebrett1738]

They are genuinely a source of unlimited entertainment.

[@k0lpA]

3:45 to be honest, as a french speaking person I can understand like 1/3 of words in spanish, often I can read a label in spanish and know roughly what it means even if I don't speak the language at all. It's another story when hearing it though.. Like here's a random sentence I found: ¿Que te gusta hacer en tu tiempo libre? "tiempo libre" looks pretty close to "temps libre" which means "free time" in french, "Que" sounds close to "Ques'ce" which means "what/what's" and "te" is close to "tu" which means "you". "en" could be the same as "en" in french which is "in", so I can tell it's "what do you do in your free time" or "what do you like to do in your free time" or something I can also do this with portugese but it's a bit harder and even harder for italian.

[@cazzabojangles]

I suppose it helps that the majority of words have some roots in Latin, and for English we are almost completely made up of variations of words we've picked up "on our travels" (wars, crusades, slavery, all that fun stuff). Like beef is boef from France, our days of the week are Greek and Norse gods, piano is Indian etc. I'm just glad I use sign language, a conversation with just about anyone in the world is just charades.

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

What about Romanian?

[@mr.archivity]

@@Batmans_Pet_Goldfishit is more on the Slavic side

[@reinhard8053]

A better comparison would be the Scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) which have more in common.

[@gamermapper]

The better comparison would be Moroccan and Tunisian Arabic which are officially called "languages" but in reality are just as understandable lmao

[@draibat]

as someone from the country of ireland, i can personally say that i am irish

[@killerboy-ig4sc]

Nice

[@sumsumplays]

If it’s anything less than 1/4, i think they shouldn’t be able to say their irish

[@SingingSealRiana]

​@@sumsumplayssay they have Irish heritage, yes, absolutely, but Not Claim they nationality! Like black people are still black even when Born in the US, Like the Irish they mostly did Not immegrate by choice, they have cultural Ties back . . . .but IT IS Not the Same, cultures diverge though isolation and merge through closeness . . .IT IS plain wrong to say ITS the same

[@cazzabojangles]

I'm half English, half Welsh because my mum is English from England and my dad is Welsh from Wales. According to a DNA test, I'm 3% Irish but I keep that shit to myself.

[@RobairtO-Dhoilingta-n16420]

As someone born and raised on the island of Ireland, I am Irish

[@joknaepkens]

American food in a nutshell: Smoke any kind of meat with applewood, throw some cheddar over it and soak it all with bbq sauce. To make Italian food: Take any dish and cover it with Parmesan. (I'm a Belgian living in the US)

[@pika_1_859]

How do these Americans have so little knowledge of other cultures

[@JoyOfCreativeService]

They don't teach us about them. The country is so big it takes years to even learn about other states' cultures, especially when you are a socially inept autistic person, like myself.

[@ADMICKEY]

As a American, no idea

[@braemtes23]

How? They interview 100 Americans, pick out the one or two absolutely ignorant answers and post them all over the internet. While all the accurate and informed answers are ignored. Multiply this by 1,000 and it is no surprise that this stereotype is believed by the gullible or the malicious. Also, it is no surprise that it is usually question the young vapid low hanging fruit rather than bright young people or adults.

[@efeddwdw9782]

america is a country full of cultures, it's the melting pot. its sarcasm, i see more diverse culture in my small American city then you do in a year

[@Orangefish429]

Not true as a Brit I’ve met people from all over the world without even leaving my neighbourhood I’ve met Indians,poles,Russians,Americans,Japanese,Koreans,brits,French,Germans,Spaniards,Italians and even a Dutch kid in just a month

[@pheonix__kit-kat897]

George pulling out the thesaurus for new words to use in his titles

[@Gapatche]

Celsius is based around water, 0 is the freezing point of water and 100 degrees is the boiling point of water which makes a lot of sense to everyone since all life revolves around water. Also 1 millilitres of water is 1cm³ in volume and 1 gram in weight / 1 litre of water is 1000cm³ and weighs 1kg

[@cosmic-tiger]

“I DO BELIEVE IN FARIES! I DO! I DO!” - Americans, probably

[@TJ-hg6op]

Then who the fuck collects the teeth under the pillow?

[@jjharson7344]

@@TJ-hg6op The Tooth fairies from Hellboy! 😁💀

[@mikdavies5027]

@@TJ-hg6op. This might come as a shock, but I think you might find that it's usually your mummy or daddy!!

[@Nevyn515]

“I’m Irish” and “I’m Italian” is a pretty common American phrase. No you’re not, you’re American. Ending your sentence with “Y’all” does not scream Irish. It’s like when I was at university in southern England I was hanging out with a black friend and an American tourist referred to him as African American. When we just stared at him, he followed up by asking what part of Africa he was from. He was from Birmingham UK and one of his parents on one side and grandparents on the other side were from the Caribbean. But British person who is second or third generation descendant depending on whether you count maternal or paternal side Caribbean is something we don’t actually a catchy phrase for.

[@nia356]

There are phrases for it, it's called hyphenated ethnicities. Jamaican-British, African-American, Italian-Canadian because these generational immigrants still likely have remnant of their cultures influencing their life.

[@LyrLyrPantsOnFyr]

Americans saying their Irish is like me saying I’m Croatian. I’m only related to a Croatian that’s my mother’s brother’s wife (so not really blood relation). That’s probably the amount of Irishness in Americans who say that.

[@aviancypress5181]

That shit never happened

[@efeddwdw9782]

please learn what NATIONALITY AND ENTHICTY are. white Americans are NOT NATIVES, open a history book, just because it was 300 years ago doesn't mean they are all of a sudden not European.

[@Tottenham_GOAT]

As an Irish person (my cats great great grandads owner was 1% Irish ) I think Irish people don’t live in Ireland but instead on Jupiter as ……

[@Quin_The_Winion]

As an irish person from Ireland, I am very proud of being Irish 🇮🇪

[@FadingVitals]

Proud of what? What have you done for being Irish?

[@the_ttr]

@9:00 Usually, in non-english countries you will have screen for showing names in local and english (and some other languages) by cycling them.

[@UnIvErS8uL]

FUN FACT: Most (or probably all) of the imperial units are defined using metric units.

[@gspaulsson]

Yabbut US units and Imperial units are not the same. "A pint's a pound the world around." No, it isn't. 1 US pint = 16 US fl.oz., 1 Imperial pint = 20 Imperial fl. oz. Also 1 US fl.oz.=29.57 mL, 1 Imperial fl.oz. = 28.41 mL.Ben Franklin's small contribution to making sense of the Imperial system.

[@TheRealRedAce]

"I once met a guy in a bar who had a friend who saw a picture of a guy who might have been Irish, so I'm Irish." "Of COURSE I'm Irish. My Gr Gr Gr Gr Gr Gr Gr Grandad came over from ol' Ireland in 1685!"

[@Trebor74]

I read a quora where an American military veteran asked if he had to follow British laws while in Britain as they'd fought the revolutionary war so they didn't have to.🙄

[@TransasaurusRex]

George not knowing Britain is still in Europe is deprarious to me... (depressing yet hillarious)

[@hazukichanx408]

Much of the world has been kind of deprarious, lately.

[@Mim69420]

We left the EU, an organisation we didn’t leave Europe, the continent. If George doesn’t know that then I will give him lessons all I need in return is some merch 👍

[@San-nj8fj]

I’m pretty sure he was making a joke and doesn’t actually believe the UK actually detached itself from the European continent. I doubt he thinks he’s Asian now or something

[@TransasaurusRex]

@@San-nj8fjI dunno... it seems weird that he would make himself seem stupid on purpose, I know he has the ability to, but he prides himself on saying what he means usually.

[@kyuubikira]

This is a really common 'joke' thing in the UK. It never even occurred to me until reading your comment that people might actually interpret it to sincerely mean "the UK no longer belongs to the European continent".

[@MalakiwiPro]

5:06 where are her eyebrows

[@korl8524]

I never understood the American obsession with being from another continent. My mum is African American and I have never once seen myself as African because that was like 300 years ago. Like I don't see why they can't be proud to just be American (despite all the flaws obviously) since it's still a really cool country. I get claiming ancestry but I'd only consider up to grandparents close enough to do so with (since you'd have immediate family there).

[@LordDim1]

The American obsession with race and being from somewhere else is really quite weird. If it remained an American-only thing it would just be a peculiar curiosity, but frankly it’s becoming annoying because it is spreading. I’m from the Commonwealth Caribbean. Traditionally we’ve had a very unique Anglo-African culture, a unique blend of Britishness and a hodgepodge of various African traditions and influences. A few decades ago no one would identify as being African, because our ancestors would have been brought from Africa 2 to 3 centuries ago. We’re West Indian. Today however, largely because of heavy American cultural influences, a lot of people are starting to see themselves somehow as being African, and there have even been some proposals for our countries to join the African Union of all things. We even have a few politicians doing the ultimate LARP and starting to dress up in various African traditional costumes as if they’re from bloody northern Nigeria. It is bizarre. In the process, our traditional Anglo-African culture is being denigrated to a large extent and pushed aside in favour of this weird American-style pan-Africanism

[@TheSuperappelflap]

Well because everyone in America except for the few native people remaining is from somewhere else, and because the country doesnt have any culture outside Coca Cola and Hamburgers and invading other countries for oil. Also, a lot of groups in America actually did hold on to their own cultures for a long time, for example the Germans up north, the Dutch around New York, Italians there as well, Frenchies in the south, etc.

[@janemiettinen5176]

An American lady told me this exact thing just few days ago. I guess that makes me a viking then, being from north Europe. I dont get it.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@janemiettinen5176 well your last name fits

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

​@@TheSuperappelflapand the film industry, but that isn't that big of a cultural influence, right?

[@narrow7091]

I've not seen the game between America and New Zealand. But for those of you who don't know how points are scored in rugby: Try: 5 points (press the ball behind the last line of the oppositions side of the field) + 2 points (if they can kick the ball between the goalposts from where they scored) Goal: 3 points (kick the ball between the goalposts from open play or from a penalty kick). So, only looking at the scoreboard it seems like they were utterly incapable of putting any dent in New Zealands defence (or offence for that matter), got a penalty kick, and decided that they were at least gonna score once.

[@Reiver-93]

considering the fact the US team failed to qualify for the last rugby world cup against fucking Chile of all people, it doesn't surprise me that they'd get absolutely kerb stomped by a nation where rugby is a religion. Also i tried what exact match that was, couldn't find it, but i did find one where the US lost to the kiwis 14-104

[@turboluck1023]

You obviously haven't heard of the New Orleans chant: "who dat?" Shot goes HARD

[@canofsoulslol]

this video made my wife come back thank George

[@qckreplacementvideos7561]

9:58 WHY DOES AMERICA THINK WE'RE DEHYDRATED??? WHY IS THIS SO COMMON??? Edit: Ok no water fountains in the gym is weird, that's a thing we do have here.

[@PaulMartin-qu5up]

11:50 In Canada, back in the late 70s a Liberal government started the conversion to metric. In the early 80s we had a Conservative government that cancelled the in school programs. Between that and living next to the US (flooded with their media) we're left in a weird hybrid. Our rulers and measuring cups have both. It's like being bilingual, understanding both but using them for different purposes. PS The metric system is now taught in schools. But I'm pretty sure the Foods and Nutrition classes are still in Imperial.

[@Painfulldarksoul]

I love how Americans say they saved Europe and then it's just them coming at the end, after the USSR defeated Germany. They're like that one annoying kid in grade school, who challenged everyone to a race, and then ran past the agreed upon goalpost and went: Nuuh-uh! I meant this one.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Ussr probably couldn’t have done that without lend lease and the British in North Africa

[@brendanm6921]

​@@goldenfiberwheat238as a Brit myself, we couldn't have defeated Rommel's army in Africa without the Poles, Czecks, Anzaks and Gurkhas. But even there, America showed up at the last second and said "yeah, we saved everyone!".

[@catriamflockentanz]

@@brendanm6921 Do any Americans here remember that the USSR helped them in the Pacific War to turn the tide against Japan in the northern chinese sea? No? Okay, didn't expect it either.

[@tylerschofield]

I feel most people these days (including europeans) dont know that 45% of the manpower invading europe via D-Day was british, 45% american and the rest canadian/aussie and some small bits of other commonwealth troops. Also over half the airforce was British, and over half the naval forces involved in taking back europe was also the royal navy and airforce. The british where the main bulk of the forces taking back Western Europe. The Americans did provide most of the tanks though, which ironically the British adapted shermans to actually take out heavier german tanks (the firefly) and they refused British adapted shermans specifically made to storm beaches which is one reason the yanks took so many looses taking omaha beach.

[@Painfulldarksoul]

@@brendanm6921 Yeah, the whole continent bled and contributed, and the Americans were hiding until the last second, so as few of their soldiers died as possible. Countless millions died until then, but not saving those is still saved everyone in their opinion.

[@JamsterKensei]

We're still in Europe just left the European Union. We haven't floated to another continent! 😂😂😂😂

[@Tottenham_GOAT]

Nah we floated to Saturn

[@LocalBritishMinecrafter]

@@Tottenham_GOAThas everyone agreed britain is from saturn

[@Tottenham_GOAT]

@@LocalBritishMinecrafter we only need nannny plums approval

[@Marcus.junius.brutus]

I love how Boston is trynna be as Irish as possible for the parade and then marches in Scottish kilts and plays bagpipes

[@nathangamble125]

Don't you know, George? There's no-one as Irish as Barack O'Bama. When anyone else walks near him, the overflowing Irishness causes them to also become Irish.

[@stephenp.6395]

I guess you're too young to remember Reagan.

[@MTTT1234]

One could argue that if you use public transport you personally are only dependant on the service that provides it. If you have a car you personally are dependant on the car manufactuerer to keep providing spare parts, dependant on the tire manufacturer, the fuel producers, the insurances for the vehicle, inspections, and so forth.

[@LocalBritishMinecrafter]

As someone from England (not London, I’m from rural England), it’s not the ‘posh and fancy’ place you make it out to be. It’s rainy in winter, it’s cold when it’s summer and the weather is so unpredictable I could be out on a walk with my mates and need my brolly just in case. “Oh yeah we’re so much better than britan” mate your country is so young compared to mine, and we used to have control over a 1/3 the world’s land. You have, what? A big island full of Europeans in denial?

[@FANG-2005]

Mate you have spoken the fekkin truth. Also same I am very far up north west miles away from what I call thousand cuts [London stereotype lmao]

[@zeus-kyurem6581]

You said the same about football as rugby, that the US would be the best in the world if it was their number one sport. I think the countries that are the best in the world disprove this. Argentina's economy is in shambles and they won the world cup. New Zealand's population is 5 million. Argentina's is 46 million. It's not population size or wealth that determines these things. It's certainly a factor, but they wouldn't make the US the best at these sports.

[@jbrassic5434]

In most cases population size means a bigger pool to draw from, so it most definitely is an advantage. In rugby, we excel here in NZ due to culture and innovation. We're the exception to the rule tho. Our national rugby team is the greatest sports team, of all sports, of the last century. No sports team in a century can touch our success rate. The tide is shifting tho, which proves money and population inevitably win.

[@NegativeAccelerate]

If it's not population size or wealth, then its culture and the organisational system. NZ and South africa have always had a good school system centred on rugby. Ireland and France have a good culture for it too. America is exceptional at pumping out athletes due to their school system. Youre basically required to do a sport to get into an ivy league. There are amazing facilities (and a culture where being good at sports makes you popular? According to the movies lol dont quote me). But yeah. If they have population, money, good sports organisation for kids, then adding passion would undoubtedly make them succeed. No doubt if they cared about rugby as much as the nfl, they would would the best in the best in the world

[@Orangefish429]

⁠@@OneTrueScotsmanEngland is still better than wales and Ireland at football but I do agree as countries like Uruguay are pretty good Uruguay won 2 world cups and Russia USA and China aren’t even that good USA is a little good but China probably hasn’t ever even qualified for a world cup despite being an economic powerhouse

[@mentaldavethefirst]

Cups is an unspecified amount. It is intended to keep the ratio the same. If you're four cups of flour weigh 400g and you need 3 cups of butter you use 300. If your four cups weigh 500g use 375g of butter. It is surprisingly enlightened for America

[@reknakfarg7252]

As a European I like the cup way of doing recipe's easier to remember and if I want a smaller cake I just use smaller cup.

[@mikaruyami]

99% of cooking is about estimating the approximate amount you need, which is what the stuff like cups, teaspoons tablespoon measurements are intended for. Never really got why some ppl don't understand that simple concept.

[@kyx5631]

Until they bring in "1 egg per cup of flour" or "one pack of baking soda" I. e. fixed amounts while your cup size can vary Then you get into trouble

[@tallemajas]

@@mikaruyami it probably works for cooking but in baking you need to be so exact that using a cup that's a little smaller than what the author intended could leave you with a ruined dessert lol

[@darthplagueis13]

The problem is that cups as a measurement aren't 100% consistent depending on the ingredient. Like, a cup of milk is gonna stay the same every time but a cup of flour or brown sugar can very much vary, depending on how densely it is packed and with cold butter, it is so impractical to measure out cups that recipes typically use sticks of butter as an improvized unit instead (which only works if you have the same standartized package sizes of butter as the author of the recipe).

[@weirdscix]

"maybe I'm just stupid" the most sensible thing the temperature girl said.

[@bytesabre]

lol @ American football chants, in the UK the crowd would be singing nellie the elephant with the lyrics referencing the goalkeeper’s brother’s tax evasion charge pretty much spontaneously

[@richardhockey8442]

'should have gone to specsavers, ref'

[@unfunnyman9068]

comparing american football chants to uk is already unfair, imagine comparing them to argentinian

[@user-ft7fq4ou4v]

"So little accent drift" I moved from the city I grew up in to one that was about an hour's drive away. There was enough accent drift that a (local) coworker asked where I was from, because of my accent.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

If I go 30km away from my home town and talk to an old farmer I cant understand a word they say.

[@Bolt305]

1:39 There were MULTIPLE wars fought over this 😭

[@gamingchickenstudios]

Probably the best series on this channel. Never fails to make me laugh