American reacts to 'How I See The US After Living In Europe'

[@wimschoenmakers5463]

Freedom means also not to have a fear for criminality, medical costs, being homeless, Work/life balance, affordable food, discrimination, losing your job and many others things Europeans not have to fear and Americans do.

[@freedomgoddess]

>being homeless, Work/life balance, affordable food, discrimination, losing your job i'll pretend and even indulge you. but yeah, imagine americans talking about freedom when the only real advantage they have is gun ownership. it's hardly an advantage given their mental health epidemic.

[@difícilencontrarapodo]

I believe JayStefan made a video where he apologized for this video.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

You sound like a middle class European. Most are not middle class and are just about managing. Some are homeless, and losing your job is always a possibility, although the protection is a bit better than in America where there is no protection at all.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

@@difícilencontrarapodo If he is ashamed of the video, he should take it down.

[@wimschoenmakers5463]

@@ronaldderooij1774 Here in the socalled 'socialistic' European countries people take care of their fellow countryman, independent of their class or income, despite the fact that there alway's a small minority of people that struggle. But nobody lives in a tent or cardboard box or get's hungry. And even without a job, you get a income from the gouvernement.

[@erin1917]

Ryan, take a breath - watch the video instead of keep pausing it to defend yourself, it’s not a personal attack 😅

[@lilg2300]

but that's what we are here for, for his comment ;-)

[@erin1917]

@@lilg2300 I completely agree, but when his comment comes every 3.5 seconds, it gets kinda old 😂 he needs to listen to a small chunk of what the guy has to say, then give his thoughts - rather than listening to a couple words and then explaining how where he lives is different and he’s not like that 😂

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

​@@erin1917agree- annoying the constant stopping without validity

[@Pomdownuder]

He's just living the overbearing American stereotype. Yay 'merca

[@geraldineafflick3947]

You are coming across as the real silly American….stop already

[@RandomNon-interestingguy]

Having worked in customer support jobs for international companies, Americans are *definitely* way more demanding and "entitled" than others. I can safely say that "I want to speak to a manager" is something that is almost exclusively used by Americans, even for the smallest things. The "customer is always right" mentality is awful.

[@KC-gy5xw]

You've obviously never spoken to me or my SIL!! 🤣🤣I usually say "you are not paid enough to deal with this you poor thing, put me through to some above your pay grade so I can give them hell on your behalf."

[@insu_na]

@@KC-gy5xw Kinda patronizing, don't you think? "aww nuuu itty bitty service worker too incompetent to deal with my issues, fetch your master, thing!"

[@andrewmurphy3636]

fickle@@KC-gy5xw

[@ImAlicjaFrank]

@@KC-gy5xwThat's a horribly patronising. I would hate you if you said that to me.

[@emycharaa]

​@@KC-gy5xwtroll

[@stephanegendroncartier5973]

Don't you think that not going bankrup from a medical bill is freedom, sending your kids to school and see them alive (not worriying about it) at the end of the day is freedom, going out without fearing of getting shot by a mass murderer is fredom... i can't go on and on... the list is long!

[@denisesf5]

TRUTH!!

[@mar97216]

The freedom to not having to have a gun with you at all times.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

I am Dutch and I would feel unfree in the USA because of a different cultural background. In some states, you need to hire guards if you have a party of more than 20 people. What? Free? Plus you feel unsafe all the time. Too many guns and too much poverty around. So, you buy a house in a gated community and leave it only by car gun in your pocket and the doors locked. Free? And oh, in many communities you will get a notice from the local government if you have a garden that is too chaotic, or your lawn is neglected according to some civil servant or even your neighbours. Free? And at work you obey your boss even if you disagree. Free? And you are expected to work overtime. Free? And you are expected to NOT use your few vacation days. Free? And if you are seriously ill, you lose your job and nobody will defend you. Free? And indeed you are free to buy food that is cheap but very unhealthy. Nobody protects you from that shit. Free? And if you finally have a heart attack from that food, you are broke. Free? You are also broke if you give birth and want that child to have any type of decent education. Free? And you are almost forced to buy on credit to enhance your credit score, so you pay double for many things. Free? No, that is in my book unfree and sometimes even oppression.

[@prouvencau6343]

You dont feel unsafe in USA because of the guns as if you were in Canada or in Switzerland. Bullshit.

[@anettehergl5519]

well said!

[@charisma-hornum-fries]

That more or less describes my experiences from living in the US.

[@dudoklasovity2093]

amen! I can sign under this👍

[@lethfuil]

You can also get arrested ridiculously easy, can't drink alcohol in public, don't know if you can say something without getting attacked because someone is offended etc. The US, to me, always feels like a police state and the statistics agree.

[@Lisa-xn9xc]

The USA doesn't try to be part of the world - you try to rule the world. That's a difference.

[@kirstenlandon3043]

As an American, I agree. America doesn't try to be part of the world because it thinks it's better than everyone else. Not all of us feel like we belong here.

[@marcromain64]

To be fair, _every_ old empire and modern superpower at least tried at some point and is still trying. The question is when will the first of them realize that this has no chance of success in the long term.

[@karlbmiles]

That's untrue. The Western Hemisphere under the Monroe Doctrine maybe. And a few countries in Asia we won war against or saved their butts, a few in the Europe for the same reasons. And the Mideast of course, but not the world.

[@linedupontkoustrup]

I believe the term 'agnorant' (ignorant and arrogant at the same time) would apply for the passengers mentioned. Was the term invented in the US?

[@DJdopaminCZ]

We want them to rule the world. You want China or Russia to rule the world?

[@marythomson8537]

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." ― George Orwell

[@kevenbassett7323]

yay, good old Eric.

[@insu_na]

Americans aren't taught what freedom is, only that as Americans they have it. So they have no realistic way of comparing themselves to other countries unless they actually do try to be introspective

[@hermes6910]

Americans should stop being called "Americans". America is a continent.

[@istvanglock7445]

@@hermes6910 It's short for _Citizen of the United States of America_ . American rolls off the tongue a little more easily, and everybody knows exactly what it means. And no - America isn't a continent. North America is, and so is South America.

[@hermes6910]

@@istvanglock7445 No. America is a single continent from a geological point of view. Your definition of the continent is cultural and does not correspond to the most used definition. Besides for the name, easier or not, that's not the point. Everything has a way and a deeper meaning. Calling the US "America" gives the impression that the US owns the whole continent. We don't really care whether it's easier for them, they are US, not Americans. The term "americans" can at most be used to designate all the Indians in America, and certainly not the colonists.

[@istvanglock7445]

@@hermes6910 It's not my definition. That there are 7 continents, including North and South America, is universally understood. You can live in your own world if you want to. Language is never entirely logical. Facility of speech often takes precedence over logicality. You say " _they are US, not Americans_ " . Does saying _Biden is a US_ make any sense to you? It makes none to me. Everybody understands what _America_ and _American_ mean. They mean, respectively, the United States of America and a citizen of that country. You can talk about North America, South America, or the Americas. But America is reserved to the US. As for what you call "Indians" they would be identified as native or indigenous Americans. If you call them just Americans, then you will be misunderstood. You are of course perfectly free to talk and write as you wish, but if you insist on doing so in contravention to established and universally-agreed conventions, then you will at some point certainly have a miscommunication problem.

[@hermes6910]

​@@istvanglock7445 "Universally accepted" by whom? For the UN and most people, we are only talking about 5 inhabited continents: America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania. The second list with 6 continents includes Antarctica. As for the rest on "Americans" vs "US" I understand what you're saying, it's just that in this day and age we should adapt to a better naming convention rather than blindly follow the imperium.

[@Salix631]

'Personal responsibility' has different meanings in, say, America and Europe. Americans/Republicans mean taking care of yourself as an absolute priority, Europeans would I think tend to mean conducting yourself in a way that was not damaging to society.

[@KeesBoons]

Was about to make this point, but am happy to see you wording it in a good way.

[@kevenbassett7323]

ditto

[@anubis9151]

Not only not damaging, but to be a useful and contributing force to society and the comunity, to be an example to others, to do and BE better. I'm not german, but I heard that the germans have the mentality of helping others because they know that they don't live in this world alone, and one day, they might be the ones in need of a helping hand and that's why they don't mind being for such a long time a net contributer in the EU.

[@michelleikoma2953]

I think most Canadians think the same thing, but sadly the right wing MAGA thinking is creeping north. Freedom to me is not about rights, but about protections. Access to healthcare, education and employment that will not break you, the ability to participate in democratic processes, the freedom to express oneself without using hate speech.

[@anubis9151]

I agree, but I disagree a bit in the hate speech part, it's of my opinion that legally, that shouldn't be a thing for the most part, at least, since a joke out of context could EASILY ruin someone's life, and that's just a quick example. Truth is sometimes you say things with one intention and other people attribute different intentions towards what you said or did, and that's not even going deep into the matter.@@michelleikoma2953

[@arnodobler1096]

"No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[@KeesBoons]

Wish I was more well known about the works of Goethe.

[@sharonmartin4036]

👋👋👋

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

It’s a German thinker no wonder

[@raidri_conchobair]

@@MrsStrawhatberry And writer and poet. A genius of his time.

[@hasekage725]

​@@raidri_conchobair and a politician, Minister of Weimar

[@dvquentin]

I am a French guy living in Finland. I don't know anyone, Americans included, who don't consider Americans as arrogant, demanding and too loud / too much at all. The image of the USA is absolutely terrible. We probably don't get to see the brightest ones, but every American tourist is just makes you wish there would be less tourism. I wish many would open their eyes and realise that, in many parts of the world, people associate the Americanisation of society with decline.

[@kryyto6587]

Totally agree with that, especially the last part, sadly. Also, would you recommend Finland for someone who doesn't know the language but know english ?

[@dvquentin]

@@kryyto6587i do not know you and thus cannot recommend Finland to you. And even so, what for? To live, to be a tourist, to study etc.? Finland is a great place for those who appreciate simple things whether you are a tourist or come to live. But if you are planning to move for living somewhere, for your own sake, don’t consider the opinion of anyone on social media to be anything good to take for yourself.

[@kryyto6587]

@@dvquentin Fair enough

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

German here. Dear ex- neighbour... How can you, as a French, stand that lousy crap weather in Finland? I, as a German, can hardly deal with our central European winters, which in my opinion, lasting 6 weeks to long...?

[@dvquentin]

@@melchiorvonsternberg844hi, that’s a very good question indeed! Pretty much every one hates the weather of November in Finland. It is the first dark month, cloudy and rainy or foggy. The rest of the winter (until around April), the weather is just cold (-1°C to -15°C) and snowy. Often very cold (around -20°C) and crispy with a lot of sun and little precipitation. The darkness is easier to withstand as the ground is all white. Summers are quite wet though. But to be fair, it rains less than in most parts of France.

[@keiron75]

I am Austrian and i think many Americans believe their freedom is almost limitless. I know some saying about this: "Freedom ends there where another mans's freedom begins". I think in America this border is reached by harming people but in Europe it is reached much early and it is much better determined by law.

[@lethfuil]

I can just agree. And I want to add: More than just not understanding freedom very well, US Americans have literally less freedoms than we do. Yes, they can have more guns than braincells and yes, they can screech profanities at people they dislike, but they can't even have a beer in a nice park (for example). I've been to the US a couple of times and even have a relative (Großonkel. Kaa Ahnung wia des auf Englisch hoaßt. :P) there. Parts of it feels straight up like a police state, a lot of it is so regulated and/or closely watched that one could get claustrophobic. If it's not police watching you, it's people. And if you're somewhere where you finally can somewhat do whatever (in the sense of "within reason" so, basically what we can do here, like looking how you look etc) you have people that do WHATEVER. Like shitting on the floor in a supermarket, like screaming at eachother, harassing others, parking you in, being obnoxious to straight up alarming. Of course there are great places and great people in the US too!! But there's also sooo much that is... problematic.

[@sharonmartin4036]

Relax, Ryan! Unfortunately it is true that Americans in general are more demanding, and some are so entitled that 'please' and 'thank you' are foreign to them. I had an experience in a bakery with an American lady who ordered without saying please. I was behind her and mumbled 'please' on her behalf. She turned on me and said the server was paid to be there, paid to serve her, and she didn't need to beg for anything. I just said 'Wow." She told me to go **** myself. Nice lady!

[@PatrikTheDev]

I think this also kinda plays into the tipping culture, since they’re effectively paying the waiter for serving then they feel entitled to act however they see fit. (I don’t think the way tipping works in the US should even be legal at all but that’s another conversation)

[@kathchandler4919]

​@PatrikTheDev ironic seeing as British and Europeans are, by law paid a minimum cost of living salary and, certainly in Britain, tipping is not the norm, that's why we're courteous to workers who serve us, it just comes as natural to us 😉 (I believe in the service industry American workers need to rely on tips...Real cop out for employers !)

[@sharonmartin4036]

​@kathchandler4919 I firmly believe that tipping in UK and Europe is reserved for out of the ordinary service, not just normal service.

[@PatrikTheDev]

@@kathchandler4919 yup, how it should be As you said, it’s just a way for employers in the US to not pay a living wage and then guilt trip customers into doing so for them

[@kathchandler4919]

@@PatrikTheDev it's making them into beggars which can't be the way it should be in 2023, everyone should have a basic wage that allows them to live , not beg surely?

[@how2pick4name]

That behaviour is creeping in here in The Netherlands as well. So some shops have a sign outside that says: Coffee! : $25 Can I have a coffee please? $2.50

[@lbhh]

So clever !

[@gerdahessel2268]

Always interesting how upset USAmericans get when someone is saying something critical about their country. Identification must be very big. Ryan can't stop interrupting.

[@KeesBoons]

I don't think this is a fair statement. Ryan is reacting with his own input, which is based on his experiences and knowledge. When so many different aspects on the topic are thrown out there in such a short time, it's normal that a lot of reaction will take place. I appreciate the constructive way he does this. If you think he is upset, you should watch some other reactions on this topic. Food for thought I think is a better description.

[@Coooeee]

He has to interrupt, it is a reaction video. If he doesnt You Tube will block or demonitize his video.

[@MsPinkwolf]

To be fair, I think most people would be defensive of their country if an outsider was trashing it.

[@KeesBoons]

@@MsPinkwolf Hmmmm. Depends. If they were using the same arguments as I do ;o).

[@MarLin67]

But he is not an outsider, He is an american that have travelled the world and learned by experience.

[@rinynewton8297]

Please Don't skip parts in a video you will miss a lot getting to the point! Also let people explain first before you stop the video for any comments. Also you are clearly interested in Europe but I think you should consider coming to Europe some time if you can. You will get the feeling and the different vibe we have here in Europe. I think you will be amazed !!!

[@AliothAncalagon]

The sad thing is that "freedom" has become kind of a marketing term in the US. It has been marketed for so long that almost everyone seems to have forgotten what it even means.

[@CiaraOSullivan1990]

It's a good sign that you don't actually have as much freedom as you think if your government has to keep reinforcing the idea. It should be fairly self-evident and shouldn't require constant reminders of its existence. This is also true for other concepts such as democratic governance and greatness (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean).

[@teresaz1692]

Amerykanie dzięki propagandzie uwierzyli w to, że są wolni, ale cały czas żyją na krótkim kapitalistyczny pasku!!!

[@FortunateXpat]

33 years ago I met a Swedish woman and left the US to live in Sweden. I’ve never looked back. I was fortunate to be able to get out when I did. Fast forward…. semi retired, part time freelancing in Stockholm and living in Sicily. No complaints. 😂

[@chronic2023]

I married a Swede over 40 years ago. Best decision ever! We even tried 2 years in the States after we were married. He didn't like it. Well, neither did I actually. So many closed-minded and intolerant people 😅 Living here has been so much better for me, especially now that I am retired. 😊

[@FortunateXpat]

@@chronic2023 couldn't agree more!

[@mar97216]

@@chronic2023 Glad you like it, Im not even Swedish but Norwegian. Same culture and people more or less though:) our great neighbors.

[@corrybaggerman7058]

the American constituion a sample for the rest of teh world?'' Come on Ryan. The text of the American constituion is based on Dutch constitution from the `16th century and today. USA have made a mockery of that

[@upthesock1]

The American constitution is also heavily influenced by the Manga Carta. Incidentally, the Netherlands and the UK are both ranked higher than the USA on the human freedom index.

[@Bruintjebeer6]

They learn that in school. They also learn in school that the US is superior to all other countries because they have the only real democracy. The US is the only country of opportunities. Some even think that the real God only exist in the US. They think all US laws apply to all other countries It is not before they move to another country that they realize their world view is wrong.

[@karlbmiles]

Gee, since the Americans that wrote the Constitution were Englishmen, I'm not surprised that were influenced by the Magna Carta. The Magna Carta limited the power of the King. The U.S. Constitution did even better, it totally threw the King out of power.

[@Bruintjebeer6]

@@karlbmiles yes, the only difference that in Europe countries updated their constitution overtime several times and still do to fit to the times we live in. In the US they try to hold on to the constitution like it is written by the founding fathers. Problem is we don't live in that century anymore.

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

@@karlbmiles lol... But they forgot a key sentence. "Don't let get jerks to power..." And this is happening again and again...

[@Bruintjebeer6]

Ryan, Americans who lived for a while in Europe don't sound American anymore because of all the changes they went through I have seen Americans who became totally different people in their way of thinking They realize that everything they ever learned about Europe is not true for the most part. They also learn that compared to Europe the US is not a democracy. That in the US their is less freedom. That the US is not the best country on earth and for sure not paradise. That countries in Europe take much better care of their population, infrastructure etc. That there is far less poverty. That companies take much better care of their employees and that the employees have a voice and rights and are protected. Americans speak a lot of times in a way we consider rude. Even yesterday I talked to a friend in the US. Instead of asking me he demanded to do something for him. I told him I'm that I'm not his dog and that he could friendly ask me. He is from Ohio Even in Louisiana they tell me how friendly and polite I always behave.

[@carlosoliveiraoalfacinha]

Let me say something pro USA. We owe to them, in Europe, our freedom of being ourselves against the will of german and russian superpowers when governed by dictatorships of the worst kind.

[@Bruintjebeer6]

@@carlosoliveiraoalfacinha is that give the US the freedom to do whatever it likes. It is 78 years ago. Besides my country got liberated by the Canadians and Aussies I never heard anyone saying the same about Canada and Australia You need a reality check

[@joandsarah77]

@@Bruintjebeer6 Thank you, many people seem to forget that us Aussies fought in both world wars. New Zealand was with us in WW1 as the Anzacs. (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) In WW2 we acted separately, but NZ was involved too. And yeah, nobody thinks we are owed anything. You do right by your mates and your mates will do right by you, about sums it up.

[@Bruintjebeer6]

@@joandsarah77 I live in the Netherlands and we got liberated by Australia and Canada's. I still have a remembers book given to me by a Canadian veteran. We still celebrate that every year. Only Americans are the loudest screamers and think we have to be grateful until eternity. Since England and the US for decades have guarded the demarcation lines in Germany they also give that impression It is the same is in Korea. Not only the US fought there. They got help from many countries

[@emiliajojo5703]

Let him finish a sentence,please.

[@tiialarissanykanen]

Well, that guy has a point. Americans can never understand the freedom etc in Finland. In Finland we are not afraid of losing a job, bc we have so good safety network by coverment. We are free to educate ourselves as far as one can/want. We have a right to walk in nature, even someone owns it, we are not afraid of being shot at. We are not afraid of getting 9929393 yrs conviction in prison. There are numerous things that are making our life way more free than in USA.

[@hermes6910]

"We are not afraid of getting 9929393 yrs conviction in prison." Not exactly the best example, to be honest. But yes, most Europeans don't have the same "definition", so to speak, of freedom than the US. The freedom not to fear the bill when you're ill...

[@supermaximglitchy1]

In Finland there was a murderer who gained a job during prison time in america you lose a job

[@tiialarissanykanen]

@@supermaximglitchy1 If You dont get a job, You will most likely end up back in prison.

[@larstveiten4164]

🇧🇻😎😎🇧🇻

[@sitnhere]

I wouldn't mind living in Costa Rica......just sayin'. Would have to take a few Spanish courses to brush up a little bit, but lots of expats live there already. It's not quite as modern as Mexico.....but the climate and people are very friendly.

[@elinahamalainen5867]

About America being more part of the world. It would be nice if US would participate more in agreements like regarding environment and climate change. My country Finland uses so much money to reduce CO2 emissions and really being a teacher's pet regarding all climate change aspects. It just feel useless for our small country to do so much when big countries like US don't care about these regulations at all and are the biggest polluters on world scale.

[@hughtube5154]

The biggest polluters on the planet are the US and China. Between them is the Pacific Ocean, and there's an island made entirely of the plastic both countries have thrown into the sea that is miles wide (and which is degrading into the water, poisoning the sealife with microplastics).

[@lethfuil]

Fully agreed!

[@Tvtvtvtvttv]

You mean china, russia, middle eastern countries right? They all pollute more than the U.S. by incredibly large amounts.

[@ombrepourpre7562]

Well.... China? India? Myanmar??? Russia?! All of them do the same, or even worst, and don't give a shit. Sadly USA is not the only one with that. Funny it is the gig gest and more populous of all. Because of course they are. Africa is another beast, they don't have the tech, money or too much choice. Yet even them try to do it. Sur, it's civilian enterprises, like the one trying to reuse or recycle the garbage coming from all around the world to be dumped there. But they try. As poor as they are. But they can because they are also far more free. The big one are totally not. Appalling right?

[@gerald-o9v]

Stopping the vid every 5 seconds gets really old quickly.

[@leec6707]

My daughter works behind the bar in a very touristy destination. If anyone says 'I need a pint' to her, she just replies 'so do I' and waits until they ask more politely!

[@stanislavbandur7355]

I saw a sign in CZ (that A stand in front of PUB) with this "menu": (no longer remember exact prices and all lines - I put some in ) "give me a beer .................................$50" "one beer ...........................................$30 " "one beer, please ...............................$3 " "could I get one beer, please .............$2 " "Hello, could I get one beer, please ..$1.5" (I think till today, that it was joke only , to attract customers)

[@shaunfarrell3834]

Love that. Having worked in pubs I agree.

[@poupou9435]

@@stanislavbandur7355 We had an ice cream place with the same kind of thing in Brussels. And it wasn't a joke. 😄

[@junebillings9450]

Americans seem to me to be told that they are free and they believe it and don't question it. A weird concept to me, thought provoking.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

The Indoctrination begins with getting their young children to pledge allegiance to a flag.

[@shelleyjackson8793]

I always think the US is the biggest cult in the world.

[@Chris-ss8zt]

It's a bit like North Korea, you get brainwashed.

[@felicitabrauna3391]

It is common in highly religious societies- You don't ask questions, if priest says it is what it is. Period. Searching truth or searching for other answers is more popular between atheists or agnostic people.

[@pamc9226]

Calm down Ryan and listen to what he has to say

[@Willit1985]

Ryan is absolutely calm and thoughtful in this video. Its absolutely ok that he is giving his thoughts and reacts to the things the guy in the video is saying. This channel is about him reacting to a video and not just sitting and listening. I’m from Germany and i’m getting quite annoyed seeing all these comments from germans and other europeans pretending they are so much better in everything. Calm down guys.

[@Coooeee]

​@Willit1985 Exactly, I'm Australian. Ryan has a reaction video to comment on. He never gets angry or upset. I think he has a very good attitude considering someone's tearing into his country.

[@emiliapaulo6861]

I am Portuguese, but I live in Switzerland , and I work with tourists, unfortunately the most part of Americans don’t say good morning, something is minimum of been polite 😊

[@Arltratlo]

i am German, North German, all i say sometimes is " moin ", forgetting i am not home or out of reflex!

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

This reminds me of my first trip to Portugal in 1990. I met a black woman (I assume she came to Portugal from Angola after the colonial war) who also worked in Switzerland. It was extremely unusual for me, a young guy, to speak Swiss German with a black Portuguese woman...

[@anubis9151]

Olá de portugal, espero que as coisas estejam a correr bem aí, a minha prima está aí de momento até.

[@ellenstergaardgravesen1011]

@@Arltratlo I'm curious - is that used only as "good morning" or is it the equivalent of "Møjn" used in Southern Jutland, Denmark? "Møjn" is used like hello and goodbye. Haven't heard the German version before.

[@Arltratlo]

@@ellenstergaardgravesen1011 the southern part of Denmark is called here, Nord Schleswig, the northern part of Germany is called Süd Schleswig... i am born 200m from the border....and the people in the next 400km south still use Moin 24/7

[@debbiemorgan859]

I literally spent last night arguing with an American woman over her disrespect for another country. We're both fans of a Kazakh artist and yet she was criticizing his country and stating that America was better because of a number of completely wrong assumptions she'd made, when I contradicted her with the truth she promptly accused me of bullying her and trying to shut her down. I was neither bullying or abusing her, I was asking her to do her own research via the internet which she had available at her fingertips, not just to hear that it's a predominantly Muslim country and to assume that all countries are the same based on religion.

[@Dreyno]

No, no, no. In European schoolyards we were too busy smoking and watching girls.

[@kevin_mitchell]

Tell me about it. You can't even point out the logical fallacies they're using because they don't even know what that means. A wise man listens, a knowledgeable man speaks, and the ignorant man knows it all, evidently. EDIT: When referring to "they're", I'm not referring to any specific nationality, I'm referring to people of all nationalities.

[@hughtube5154]

To be fair, she did do her research. She watched Borat.

[@debbiemorgan859]

@@hughtube5154 I do hope you're joking? Have you seen the development of Kazakhstan since the dissolution of the USSR? It's one of the most rapidly developing countries in the world.

[@Dreyno]

@@debbiemorgan859 Of course they’re joking. I can see how you end up in arguments if you take everything literally. And by “see” I mean “understand” in case there’s any confusion on your part.

[@klarasee806]

I think the fact that America must always be the one to intervene actually shows that it not really sees itself as a part of the world but rather thinks it stands above it. It‘s so weird to me that many Americans really think (and say!) their country is "the best". People in other countries don’t say something like this. They know that there is no such thing as "the best country". One country does this better, an other country does that better, but no country does everything best. In the rest of the world, we know that. To me, being part of the world starts with stopping to think you are on top of it. Way too many Americans don‘t know anything about the rest of the world, but at the same time they state that their country is the best. How do they even know? To be part of the world also means to be interested in the world. To be open. Many Americans seem to be so full of pride for their own country that there is no space left for learning from other countries. To them it probably seems that everything another country does well diminishes the value of their own country. Therefore, they feel attacked by it instead of learning from it. To be a part of it means to learn from each other. I'm not saying most Americans are like that. On the contrary, I think most Americans are not like that. But there are still too many Americans who are like that, and unfortunately they seem to be the loudest. They're the ones I notice most everywhere on the internet. This (besides Trump… and Guns) probably contributes a lot to the new bad image that many Europeans have of the USA.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Trump and Biden are only the latest two Presidents to make the US look bad, they have strong competition.

[@daveamies5031]

"Many Americans seem to be so full of pride for their own country that there is no space left for learning from other countries." Ryan has at least distinguished him self as one who's bothered to learn about several other countries, he's a richer person for it too. Keep it up Ryan 👍Hopefully he can help others to follow in his footsteps and make America a better place.

[@klarasee806]

@@daveamies5031 Certainly! 👍

[@Moonchild0]

I love when American say in tv shows "the whole word" meaning all US countries representative are there. And it's sadly a common thing I noticed. Like some Amricans are so ignorant that they forget that acutally there are more African and Chinese people in the world than American. And there are lot more places in the whole world that they never know about. Like I remembered I was in NY and I had to ask people if they know Austria and what they think about it. And all of it was like "Australia?". It was so frustrating. And when I tried to educated them, they weren't interested anymore and went away. I'm glad that there are more and more Americans - like Ryan - who are casually intrested in more countries than America. And Ryan, you do a good job to let people know that not every American is as stupid as some others.

[@lilletrille1892]

I once spoke to one of those "God bless America" people. He went on and on about the best country in the world. I asked about health care and he dismissed any concerns. "Just don't take a job without insurance" If someone wasn't qualified for management position, well they should have gone to college. Dropping out of highschool to help provide for your family? Your parents need to learn to cut costs. This was more than 20 years ago and the attitude still baffles me

[@DougBrown-h1n]

Oh, no. This one is just TOO interrupty - I'm done. (Jay is from the USA - a California based menswear designer. I've seen a few of his videos - he's usually spot-on, but he doesn't sugar coat the medicine!)

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Yeah, I had to stop before the end too.

[@missharry5727]

Californian - that explains everything. The most grounded and well-informed Americans I have met have been Californian academics.

[@kirstenlandon3043]

@@missharry5727 Thank you! 😊 I was born and raised here, just outside San Francisco.

[@100100freak]

The US is place 45 of 180 on the freedom of press index of the the non-profit and non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders.A well-known and prominent international organisation that advocates for freedom of the press and freedom of information. Most places in Europe are higher ranked with Norway on place 1.

[@JensPilemandOttesen]

I don't understand how Norway can be the most free country, when you can't buy beer in supermarkets after 20.00.

[@chrissmith8773]

Can you let him say more than two words before you pause!!!

[@simransidhu617]

No he can't 😂😂😂😂

[@Pomdownuder]

Living the stereotype

[@FilippoSperanza-o8y]

Stop interrupting every 5 seconds !

[@simransidhu617]

😂😂

[@spacechannelfiver]

Had to go watch the original, as this reaction was impossible with all of the pausing every half sentence.

[@TrudyBusterKittyMadness]

Here we have an example of why Americans are seen as they are abroad. Jay gets it you don't. You got so offended you weren't listening to him and kept stopping the video. You have proved his point. He's actually right. You should listen to his video again not interrupt and research his points. Boasting and defensiveness about anything is a sign of insecurity.

[@mamakay158]

I agree and I'm American living in Europe.

[@seanthiar]

Always interrupting and not first waiting for someone to explain their points is a bad habit and what he always does. Never seen him to let someone finish a sentence without stopping the video.

[@FLHBR]

Come on, guys.😬 Ryan is watching these video's to learn about the outside world. Cut him some slack!😥

[@seanthiar]

@@FLHBR You can't learn if you don't listen.....

[@lilly_chills]

The way he described the Americans on the flight is excactly how we view them. Loud, obnoxious and ignorant. Obviously not everyone, I have good friends there that are well educated and interested in looking beyond the US borders. But gosh there is many of those he described. The US went from a country I really wanted to live in for a while as a teen to a place I'm not sure I feel safe taking my kids to on a holiday and that is sad, because it is a beautiful country. But I wouldn't consider it free or safe anymore. When some countries have travel warnings for the US that says a lot. Our travel warnings say don't go to crowded places, terror attacks, shootings and political violence more likely, they warn LGBTQ people from going certain places etc. It's sad really.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

They have that stereotype for a reason. The reason being we've seen them act like that so often.

[@thegeekyvirtualassistant4642]

I feel the same, my absolute dream was living in the US when I was a teen. I was over there on holidays in different places and being in Texas was my first (yet not last) „uh, wait“ moment. The path they are taking is frightening and sad and the more I learn about the mentality the more sad it makes me. You can always recognise American comments by „God“, „pray“ or the „Lord“, I don’t see this in any other comments and it frightens me that religion gets stronger instead of science, facts and just being a sensible human.

[@Dahrenhorst]

My first contact with Americans was when I was assigned as a German Air Force Officer to a NATO installation for four years some 40 years ago. At this outfit approx a third of the 2,000+ personnel were US-American, another third was German, and the rest came from more than a dozen other NATO countries. The people most disliked by this international community were the Americans, mostly because of their arrogance, their stance of superiority above everyone else, and their loud and obnoxious behavior without any respect for the personal space and rights of others. Interestingly the most liked were their northern NATO-member, the Canadians.

[@helenab7390]

Ryan please stop interrupting he says 3 words then you talk for10 minutes jeez man let's hear some of it before you react. thanku.

[@paddenstoel95]

The guy is expanding his argument, not randomly rambling

[@YourBeingParanoid]

Who conned Americans into believing that liberal was the opposite of conservative ?

[@GiblixStudio]

indeed. because in the Netherlands we're liberal/slightly right winged (conservative since we dont want our government involved with most things) on the political spectrum. and we're seen as very progressive for some reason :P

[@checkcommentsfirst3335]

Before the Socialist/Communist power gain it was the same in Europe. Look into a German Parlament from 1880. Liberals on the left, conservatives on the right.

[@YourBeingParanoid]

Yes, before worker's right and power over conditions and pay but that was way back with Napoleon @@checkcommentsfirst3335

[@TallisKeeton]

I personaly wonder about that for about 10 years :D IMO real opposition looks like this : liberal vs totalitarian, (more freedom vs no freedom), conservatists vs progressivists, (different approach to the question of change and time), and IMO at least in the 2 half of 20 century the mainstream of politics in western Europe was conservative-liberal parties.

[@YourBeingParanoid]

@@TallisKeeton neoliberalism is not liberalism

[@margwally5849]

I'm British and used to go to Mexico every year and Americans are rude and demanding and never say "Thank you or Please". I witnessed this a lot. My daughter went to New York and she said the same. This is not a replublican or a democratic thing. London

[@manueltapia1859]

Hope you had good times with our mexican people. Even US tourists complain that not all places accept dollars 😮. In México have pesos our current coin. I'm from northern México by the way 😊

[@djtwo2]

In the USA, you're not even free to cross the road.

[@dvquentin]

you are whether a jaywalker or you take your little flag to make sure the drivers in their Ford trucks see you from miles away haha American freedom as a serious concept is really a joke

[@FacelessJanus]

Ryan, there are always two sides on a medallion. And to understand what freedom is, versus what and I quote Jay here "a subset of Americans" think it is are two completely different things. Also compare what this group of people seem to think of freedom and the US, versus what freedom we do not have according to this specific group of people, over here in Europe. Because I have not yet found out any sort of freedom I do not have over here. Also, the point you make about "freedom in the US", is something I do not see. You can not change it, only money talks, politics are bought, speech is censored etc etc etc. If you think that is beauty, than I can only remark that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[@1983simi]

Of course such things are always subjective, and one has to take into account that however you grew up, that's just what's going to feel most 'normal' to you. However, after having spent a decent amount of time in the US, it's one of the very last places I would choose to live. And that is not to say, that the US doesn't have its positives, don't get me wrong. There are a lot of things I greatly admire about both the country and its people, like its beautiful various landscapes, its openness toward new business ideas and risk-taking, towards trying something new, and I really enjoy people's tendency of seeing something positive in someone attempting something new. Where I come from a drastic change in career often is met with a lot of nay-saying and apprehensiveness, meanwhile in the US people are more like 'Wow, sounds great. All the best!' and so on. Still, even after living on 4 different continents, unless job or such forces me to move to the US, I would rather not. I personally all over feel less free in the US, less safe, more anxious. These are freedoms I always miss while in the US as compared to my home country (in the EU) or in many cases even as compared to the country of my current residence (in South Asia): - I hate having to depend on cars. I am 40 and do not have a driver's license. I just never needed one. So whenever I'm in the US I'm reduced to the mobility of a young teen. - Living in fear of that one big health issue that might just financially ruin you... or kill you if you can't afford it. - Having to wonder if every other person might be carrying a lethal weapon. - Not being able to knock at a random door for help if I need it for above reason. - Not being able to get unprocessed non-GMO foods easily and cheaply. - Being made to feel that I live to work and don't work to live. - As a woman in specific getting access to women-specific medical care without some lawmakers of the dominant religion moralizing certain treatments and deciding about my access to it from their own religious point of view. - every encounter with police being potentially life-threatening - race being a primary factor to define a person - higher education being a question of financial funds - people in general tend to be a lot more entitled, standoffish and up for random needless fights, which to me always is baffling, again thinking that every other person you meet might be carrying. Almost each of those things is already a deal breaker for me in picking a place to live, but in combination, they are the reason why the US is the place I felt the most unfree of all the places I ever lived.

[@Linzi-pc1fv]

YOU ARE SO VERY RIGHT!

[@glennlingard7851]

I’m a British expat living in Wisconsin, l have to accept that the way people talk here which sounds rude to me is perfectly normal for Wisconsinites, so inevitably when l say “please may l have” comes over to them it sounds extremely polite🙂

[@PDVism]

Ryan, you might want to do some research. For instance, The warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment is not absolute. There are a whole lot of situations that cops can search your vehicle, your person even your home without any warrant what so ever. And let's not forget that the NSA can and does listening in to conversions of whomever they want without any warrant. And seeing that they can do this automatically by having AI monitoring for certain key words or phrases... they do this to not just a select few but whole swats of the USA population.

[@aerobirdseven979]

A swedish minister of finance once said: "You're not free if you have debts" (Gunnar Sträng). In many european countries you don't have to be scared of getting bankrupt if sick, or getting killed if out late, It's like freedom from worries and I wished he had emphazised that more. Freedom is of course the possibillity to do things, but its also the abillity to not have to worry. I spent a month many years ago driving around in the state of Washington for a whole month and I was scared in the back of my mind of being shot by someone I unintentionally provoked, i.e. while driving and I wasn't used to that.

[@black4pienus]

This has to be your record of most pauses in one video. lol

[@puff-paff-mugger]

Yes, when someone holds a mirror in front of your face, you suddenly see things that are not as beautiful as they first seemed. This is the first video that really touched you! I've known this channel for a while. If I remember correctly, Jay was born in India - I think his parents went to the UK and from there to the USA - but I could be wrong. Ryan, you forgot to subscribe to the channel - Jay still has a *good* amount of videos!

[@MT-ys6ju]

That's true, when i worked on the cruise ships.. Americans used to say a lot "I want" instead of "Can I please have" or "I would like a"

[@eld0ntyr3ll]

- first i think there's an additional layer to the "rudeness" of those airplane americans, as a european the way i see their behavior is kind of a psychological conditioning of the average american client feeling he deserves to be treated as someone special and does not believe that the person serving him is worthy of respect. I'm not saying that every american is like that, certainly not, but there's a really a trend going that way, where an american becomes a client and has paid for something that enables him to become a "client is king" kind of jerk. - Then i won't go into the "american freedom" narrative, it's really americans talking to americans at that point, but the lack of knowledge, miss information, or desire to avoid being informed while enjoying the comfort of living in a protective bubble, is quite an interesting topic. - Ryan, the USA became a neo imperialist super power after ww2, was already right on the way to it before the war but has taken the opportunity to really make sure all of its geopolitical interests abroad were protected and associated resources available to its domestic market. It's really nothing new, the main difference being that colonization was not done by gun powder but by cultural and political influence, and some gun powder when need be. It is still very much that way, the "decline" mentioned in the video is really more of a ideological point of view than anything else.

[@CiaraOSullivan1990]

My father has always said that the United States is "culturally invading the rest of the world". He refuses to watch any American media or buy any American products for that very reason.

[@robwhythe793]

On his assessment of Americans being "demanding", I (as a Brit) have taken both my wife and step-daughter (both Canadians) to task on something similar: When I offer them a cup of tea, their usual response is "sure". To a Brit, that sounds almost rude, perhaps condescending. It indicates to me that they don't really want a cup of tea, but if I want to make them one they'll let me. I've tried to explain that to them, and to encourage them both to respond instead with "yes please", and maybe even "thank you" as well. But neither of them see why it grates with me. I find it funny how different societies develop different ways of speaking, and don't - or can't - understand why other people find what they're saying to be harsh or rude. So I think Americans who are seen as demanding by others don't think of themselves in the same way, and probably feel they are being perfectly normal and proper. It's an example of how offence can be taken even if it is not intended.

[@LaurieLeeAnnie]

That’s so strange! I’m Canadian and when I travel it’s usually commented that I am overly polite with please, thank you and sorry! 😂

[@robwhythe793]

@@LaurieLeeAnnie You must be from Ontario. My wife’s from Quebec. 😜

[@LaurieLeeAnnie]

@@robwhythe793 nope. One of those annoying Albertans 😂

[@RBB52]

That is so interesting...as a Canadian, if someone offered me a tea, my response of "sure" would indicate both enthusiasm, pleasure and appreciation that you are offering me a tea. The thankyou would be obviously implied with a 'sure' response. I guess 'sure' must have a different understanding in British English.

[@LaurieLeeAnnie]

@@RBB52 interesting, which part of Canada are you from? We say “yes, please” if offered… or “sure, that would be nice” etc

[@ngaourapahoe]

About gun law, if you have a gun you will be tempted to use it. Such a simple truth.

[@glennlingard7851]

Not for what you’re thinking!

[@Madders23]

Im from the U.K. And have visited over 20 countries. I’m not overly patriotic but I am a royalist, and I hadn’t realised just how few countries are as polite as the UK and because of that I am very proud. I hate bad manners and I don’t care if I’m told ‘it’s a different culture’ I don’t care, manners cost nothing. Are kids not taught manners as a child from different cultures?

[@melchiorvonsternberg844]

lol... You didn't finish your thought... "Good behavior cost nothin' and allways make good press..."

[@tomtorres212]

Dude, interrupting every 4 seconds is soooo annoying.

[@AHVENAN]

AGREED!

[@vilebrequin6923]

It's called a reaction video.

[@AHVENAN]

@@vilebrequin6923 we know, but there's better ways of reacting than interrupting every two seconds

[@Pomdownuder]

Live the overbearing stereotype

[@sitnhere]

@@vilebrequin6923 But react after you hear more of what has been said to get the whole idea of the story first......duh. When you do a music reaction, it is best to listen to the vocals and music at least halfway before interrupting with your comments.

[@BioHazard_Dragon]

The reason the US is always funding wars is because it makes them a lot of money. The US has always funded wars, sometimes both sides. It's what makes the politicians and the corporations richer. It's always the money Lebowski

[@BoBnotThat1]

You do have a funny sence of freedom, seeing as you cant just cross the road where ever you want. 😅😂

[@kernow9324]

They say travel broadens the mind, but it sounds like the Americans that Jay encountered during his travels were still pig ignorant and rude. How can any adult not know what Indian food is?

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Obviously, the Ignorant US american adults on that aircraft, proved their ignorance and entitlement too.

[@vonsauerkraut]

She only know what a Red Indian is 😬

[@Warlothar]

I will say without going about in any deep, that USA for me isn't free at all. Freedom of movement is severely restricted in USA, indirectly and directly. Directly If you go hiking, cycling... , you have to be ultra careful because of trespassing any propierties (if you can even go around and it isn't all owned), you don't have any laws that protect freedom to roam. I will say too that freedom to roam isn't only for recreational purposes. Indirectly, If you are poor without a car or gas you can't even move without problems, and even if you have a car, that's restricting too because you are forcing me to use a car to move in the roads for cars, you have even more restrictions but let's stop here. Freedom of movement is only an example, but for me it is really basic, if you can't even move around, you can't call yourself free at all.

[@glennlingard7851]

Very well said!

[@connycatlady7429]

I love the videos from JayStefan. You should watch more of them. He always goes deep into the theme.

[@gull-mariemiocic3819]

You talk to much Why dont you listen first and then comment. I think you dont like ppl talking bad about US

[@theinvisibleneonrainbowzeb2567]

I took a short flight (in Europe) earlier this year, and it turned out I was basically on one leg of a journey for the other passengers for whom it was a connecting flight. Based on the passports people were holding, the accents etc, seemed that the other passenger were all USAmericans. I have to say they were - collectively and often individually - were the loudest, rowdiest and entitled seeming group I have encountered. As mentioned in the video, nobody else said "please may I have" etc, when they staff came down the aisle with the refreshments, they all said instead "give me ____" or "Get me a _____"

[@michaelmaehle1433]

I think the person meant "accountability" rather than "responsibility". You have to be accountable for your behaviour to have freedom.

[@KeesBoons]

I think responsibility goes further than accountability. Accountability is more after the fact, while responsibility is more up front. Could be my understanding of the words of course.

[@hermandadams8376]

maybe the woman on the plane thought the Indian food came of the reservation cooked by the native chefs employed by the Airline, most Americans we see online have very little knowledge of societies outside of their borders amongst other worldly matters

[@claregale9011]

Bloody pausing all the time 😅

[@EdDueim]

I recently watched a video in which an American chap got into an altercation with two police officers, insisting he knew his rights and that they could not detain or question him, got into sovereign citizen territory. This was in London but he didn't seem able to understand that he was subject to British law while he was there.

[@richardhall6034]

Come on man I know you have a reaction channel but stopping every two or there words asking questions that if you let him finish a sentence would be answered is really annoying

[@gwynhyfer]

I went to an owl sanctuary in Aberdeenshire Scotland where I have lived for the past 20 years after moving up from England. An American bald eagle was brought out for the vistors to see and this American woman put her hand on her heart and began singing the US national anthem. My son, myself and the rest of the group all gave her the side eye and moved slowly away - mostly in second-hand embarrassment. Seriously, America, you have some nice people but honestly the rest of the world sometimes thinks you're a bit bonkers.

[@missharry5727]

It was probably Canadian...

[@manueltapia1859]

Oh my, that bird is not only from US. Man is like me as mexican if a see a golden eagle do the same thing 😅 The people probably thought that lady was insane 😅 😮

[@gwynhyfer]

@@manueltapia1859 Erm... yes! 😂

[@manueltapia1859]

@@gwynhyfer thanks God we mexicans are not like that, yes Golden Eagle is in our shield but thats it a symbol The best to you ☺️

[@duncancallum]

@@manueltapia1859 Golden Eagles can be seen flying in the Scottish Highlands and in lots of other Countries.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Well ryan, he and his partner have spent 6 months a year for the last 15 years, so that makes something like 7.5 years in Germany. So pretty sure a good understanding of the differences Germany and the US, being from California would be no less valid than oh I don't know Indiana.

[@Carolevw]

Please don't take this personally Ryan. It is a can of worms you opened, lol! I think it comes from years of singing hand on heart to a flag every morning, brainwashing kids to think they are a superior nation of people living in a reality with blinkers... We all have been brainwashed in different ways, but the superior attitude of a lot of travellers/tourists just doesn't wash and yes, you are right: to be ignorant and arrogant is the worst kind. They too are only a product of their upbringing. Somewhere along the line, manners took a back seat in important behaviour (globally), which didn't help. PS, I love the way you say "hello" ❤❤😊 Makes me happy.

[@janfalkhermansen9907]

Try to listen occasionally without interrupting all the time, you are probably the youtuber who interrupts the most of the ones I watch

[@roybrewer6583]

Mr Ryan stops the video too often and talks too much. The answers are there, you just have to listen. Annoying Yank 😮

[@Pomdownuder]

The living embodiment of the American stereotype

[@shelleyjackson8793]

Freedom to work with almost no time off, freedom to choose who you pay a fortune to for health insurance or healthcare, freedom to pledge allegiance to your flag at school, freedom to be shot at school or college, freedom to eat food full of chemicals and chlorine bleach. Freedom to go to church to be told you’re doing everything for god so you don’t question your allegiance to your country. Freedom to watch tv that is so full of commercial breaks you can’t concentrate. Sure, America is the land of the free.

[@CiaraOSullivan1990]

Don't forget freedom to avoid any sort of social and political progress.

[@ninakeller5310]

And freedom to pay a fortune to get an education.

[@shelleyjackson8793]

@@ninakeller5310 Well as a Brit I couldn’t really say that one, because we do here as well.

[@sheilamaynard2979]

Ryan, please stop talking so much !

[@jonntischnabel]

I onced spent 6 hours pressure washing a driveway in Manchester UK, dozens and dozens of people walked past during the day and i couldn't hear any of their voices over the sound of rhe machine..... except one group. The americans 😂 not only could i hear them, i could hear what they were saying, or should i say shouting. 😂 Just sayin.

[@nolajoy7759]

People from US can be loud and overly talkative..they seem to think that everyone around them needs to hear what they have to say or what they think. And we don't. 😅

[@nilocnolnah6788]

America has no more freedom than most other countries. In fact having lived in the UK. I’m sure.

[@alespelant2538]

My freedom ends where the freedom of others begins and vice versa.

[@christinechandler4261]

Ryan I enjoy your videos on the UK and Europe it's good to get a US perspective on different issues but I think it would help if you did not keep interrupting the video. Let it run for awhile and then make a comment.

[@Kian2002]

"Southern Hospitality" never judge a person by how they treat their equals, rather look how they treat people 'other' than their peer group.

[@MaraMcDuff]

I guess you're the ultimate reactor, since whatever it is you're watching and experiencing always seems to be erased from your mind afterwards and every new video you seem to approach with a blank slate. I've watched you react to countless people expressing their thoughts about similar issues (and quite a few that went a lot deeper into the issue than Jay) and yet you seem to come out of it without truly learning anything from them. It really would do you some good to actually spend some time in Europe, to live and experience life in all its everyday aspects - maybe then some of the things you've listened to might actually sink in.

[@h.stephenpaul7810]

In 2014 I visited, by motorcycle, nearly every capital city in the USA & Canada. In Idaho I had a nice conversation with a police officer. I told him about my planned route. He asked me what I was carrying. It took me a few seconds to understand what he was asking. I pointed to the Canadian maple leaf flag on my vest and said that as a Canadian I don't carry a gun. He was amazed that I would travel through the USA without "protection" because there are "all kinds of crazy people out there, especially in the south"'. He said that he always has his gun, even for grocery shopping. Is that freedom ? The necessity of carrying a gun ? I think not.

[@clivegilbertson6542]

G'day Mate! As I al somewhat older than yourself I remember a few times when peaceful protests were horribly suppressed in the US. Like the unarmed studetst shot dead or wounded by the Ohio National guard or when Nixon employed 12,000 police to breakup a peaceful anti-war protest arresting 7.000 people! So that 'freedom' to protest peacefully wasn't always allowed by the authorities in the USA... Cheers!

[@melocoton7]

I really like Jay 😄 he has zero chill. I am the same with rudeness. It pisses me off so much! However he mustn't forget that in certain regions of Germany it's common to say "ich krieg ein Sandwich" (I'm getting a sandwich) when ordering at a food counter, which to my Swiss ass sounds rude AF as well.

[@radupalade5542]

Your reaction kind of shows what he says. Why is it hard for you to hear criticism about your country?!

[@joanndevine4780]

My observations of a subset of American tourists visiting Ireland is not that they are loud and obnoxious but rather that they are loud and act like they've been beamed down to another planet...they are adorably bemused, awestruck and disorientated by the everything that's not like what they are used to. Whereas european tourists who barely speak any English manage quite calmly and easily to navigate themselves around a foreign country without any fuss.

[@resi3794]

My first time to America my son was 4 years old. We landed from Amsterdam in LA. Out of the plane there was a line next to it their were patrole with a drug dog (i understand its from Amsterdam and you all think we do drugs all the time witch isnt true by te way), They told us to stay in de line. My 4 year old son stepped out of the line a tiny bit ,the police man came up to us put his rifle in my sons chest and yelt get the fuck in to the line . To a 4 year old. I never forgot that . I made me very upset. I told in him my nicest way to don''t do that again its a kid. He got in front up in my face and asked you say what, my answer was Welcome to America, this is the way we treat guest. He look again en walked away. Now my son is 27 and still remembers that moment. Thank god we had a great vacation after that but i have never forgot how rude that was.

[@billcarson8848]

I am not surprised. The police in the US is way out off control. They act like Gestapo in nazi Germany. Most of them are TYRANTS.

[@dana-mi1po]

this is terrible😪

[@hellebachmann8260]

This is your history, and I Think many from outside the US know so much about you because once appon a time, we looket up to you. Today we see film where the US is the only ones who Can save the world. We know better 😉 Today we see clearly, that many of you don’t understand freedom. You Think some kind of anarki is freedom. There is so much more to it 🙏 It’s a feeling not a right ❤️

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

The Swedish way of telling people that they are rude can be examplified with buying groceries. If the person in front of you says "I want this", you say, "please maam, could I have a couple of those, thank you very much, that's very kind of you, have a nice day, oh by the way I really like your hairstyle", quite passive agressive I guess.

[@Coooeee]

I'm Australian and I do that haha. I wouldn't say it's an Australian thing though.

[@kevenbassett7323]

How wonderful (except, you can keep your 'nice day'. I don't think 'nice days' are very popular). [*~^]

[@missharry5727]

I came across someone who said the best reply to "have a nice day" is "I'll have whatever [expletive] sort of day I like."

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

@@kevenbassett7323 To be clear, it was an over exaggeration, I would say THANK YOU!, not have a nice day

[@alchristie5112]

The 70% of Americans who have never travelled outside the US will, I’m sure, “know” that America is the greatest country in the world and the land of the free. The reality is that is ingrained into all from a very young age by pledging allegiance to the flag in a cult-like manner. This closed view and propaganda resembles another country which they were fighting against during the Cold War. Those with a less insular view see that actually the US has many more restrictions or fewer freedoms than many other countries.

[@ldewproductions7271]

If when asking me for something a person doesn't say please, I loudly say please for them. I am sure it hits a nerve and makes them think.

[@primalengland]

I do that, too. It just comes out. Got my parents to thank, my daughter has her dad to thank and my grandkids have their mum to thank. Manners maketh the man, woman and child.

[@spfisterer3651]

I've watched a few jay stephan videos. Because he spends half his life in the US and the other half in Europe he has some great insights.

[@maxxie84]

I fully agree with the comment, in France, we learn at school that anyone's freedom STOPS where the freedom of others begin, so you can be free, as long as you don't prevent others from exercising their freedom, which then in turns makes the concept of freedom a responsibility to understand when and how it can be exercised for the good of the community. Also freedom came with a lot of fights to establish democracies and rights, it is everyone's responsibility to ensure to vote and understand the impacts of our votes to make sure those freedoms continue to persist in the future for the betterment of the whole society. Being in a democracy is not just about the rights you get, but also it is about the duties that come with those rights, the duty to make a conscious and rational decision when exercising your right to vote, but also the duty to vote (although voting is usually not mandatory)

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Ryan, Shut up and talk when the natural breaks happen! This constant stopping the video means you miss things and we, your viewers, lose the flow because you jump in too often.

[@gabbymcclymont3563]

Maybe you could open your ears and shut your mouth or not drink a tone of coffee before you react, it would help.

[@seanmc1351]

Wow, ryan, did you really say america was the role model, for freedom blacks not allowed in bars, cafe resturants laudry up until the 70's, sit back of the bus, whites only place black only places, wow but your a role model, Muhammis Ali gold medal came home a hero, but could not eat in cafe, We in the UK during the same period, welcomed blacks from the carabean to come and work in the UK, ok it was not perfect, but made a good living, many generations still here, every country in the world has a bit of racist, The Uk was the first to end slavary, then france and then the US a decade later, but it never really ended, what make me more mad, is when he told the truth, you had a good old chucle about it, im white british just incase

[@Thurgosh_OG]

It was good British people who stood up for black US GIs during WWII, when their white MPs tried to get the British to ban them from UK pubs (see the battle of Bamber Bridge 1943). Where, in the end the British pubs banned all white GIs from our pubs.

[@CiaraOSullivan1990]

​​@@Thurgosh_OG I've read about that incident before. It's was definitely a very British solutions to the problem. "Oh, you don't want black soldier mixing with white soldier in our pubs? Alright then, we just won't let the white soldiers into the pubs. Problem solved. Now, fuck off mate." I'm from Ireland and we did things our own way during World War Ⅱ as well. We referred the war as "The Emergency", which is one of the most Irish attitudes I've ever heard of. "It's not a massive global conflict at all, sure it's only a bit of auld emergency, it'll be grand." We were officially neutral, but we did it in the most Irish way possible. When planes from either side ended up crashing here, we took the airmen as prisoners. The allied airmen "mysteriously escaped" over the border into Northern Ireland and the German airmen were put into internment camps where they could leave to go drinking in the local pubs. They were so happy here that they didn't even think about attempting to escape. In other words, the Irish method of dealing with Nazis was essentially to give them a load of pints until they realised that enjoying the craic is much more fun than being fascist. Some of them didn't even want to go back to Germany after the war ended.

[@seanmc1351]

@@Thurgosh_OG i didnt know that, thank you for that, tates of there own medicine,

[@jeffafa3096]

6:50 Yes actually... Not all Americans, but you can usually tell because of this. I have a small story about this too. I am from The Netherlands, and I was in Prague during my summer holiday this year. When I walked past a local restaurant, I heard someone ranting stuff about "lousy service". Simply because that person was so loud and demanding, I immediately knew that they were American...

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

Us Belgians find the Dutch also loud 🙂. Not demanding or entitled, though. Groeten van je buren.

[@johnbarron8882]

Indefinite detention? Guantanamo Bay.

[@zoranocokoljic8927]

- Why are you always so polite? - For the same reason you are not, I was brought up that way. - from "12 angry men"

[@MISSYGful]

I'm 4 min in and I'm just going to watch the original video because it keeps getting stopped like every 5 secs! 😂