The Crazy Sh*t Americans Say from Reddit Episode 2

[@SandyVanV]

The Montenegro bit reminds me of a Chinese language professor who caught some hot water for demonstrating a common filler word (pronounced something like ney-gah or nee-gah) in Chinese, and some students feeling uncomfortable that a foreign language sometimes has words that sound similar but have no relation to slurs.

[@Mrs.PuffPuff]

The funniest part is that Montenegro is not only a city in Brazil where I’m from, but it’s also a country.. and it literally just translates to Black/dark mountain/mount.. it’s crazy that people in the US completely disregards other languages, like every language must abide by their rules

[@samaritaDeath]

I was once asked by an American to teach her the colours in Spanish. She was very offended and told me I was a racist when I told her that black = negro

[@2february1]

Isn’t this also the case with korean? “내가”(naega) meaning “I”. I’m not Korean nor do I speak Korean, but wanted to share. It baffles me that a lot of Americans forget/don’t know that the’re other languages…🤦‍♀️ (not all of them ofc, but it still seems to be a lot of people)

[@mehtadevanshi]

@@2february1 Reminds me of an Indian (Punjabi) person on reddit who shared about how her college roommate called her racist cuz she used the word 'nigaah' when speaking to her mother. Nigaah means eye in punjabi btw 😂😂

[@2february1]

@@mehtadevanshi 😂😂

[@KiraFriede]

Funniest instance with Americans this week was definitely them thinking that the US state of Georgia plans to join the EU (it's the European country Georgia who wants to do it)

[@evan]

Did you know there's a Sparta in Europe??? Yeah so weird. Just like the one in North Jersey!

[@chubbymoth5810]

Georgia (US) wouldn't meet the requirements on so many levels that it would take several decades to get to even aspirant member. It doesn't meet human rights requirements, doesn't meet rule of law standards, corruption is rampant.. hell,.. the list goes on.

[@Digighost_5]

@@evan Did you know there's a Birmingham in England? It's like we copied the US or something, unacceptable. Hi from Yorkshire

[@nh1172]

@@evan There's a Sparta in North Jersey!?! Why and where and how?

[@catoninetales]

We have an Athens and a Rome here in Georgia, what more do you want??? ;)

[@bettychatfield2544]

I was taking a university class in Columbus, Ohio and the professor asked "Who here knows what the Trail of Tears was?" I threw up my hand and looked around the room. I was the only one with my hand up. The professor went ballistic. "What is wrong with the American education system? When the only person in a room of college students who has heard of an American historical event is a Canadian?"

[@Atlas_Quin]

@Betty Chatfield How did they not know that? The state I live in, in the US is 50th in education and yet I’ve known that since 3rd or 5th grade. How do you get into a college and not know that basic history.

[@joaodala549]

@@Atlas_Quin People are not very bright and/or are not interested in history.

[@hypsyzygy506]

@@Atlas_Quin Because it is not "nice" US history.

[@robertpastor5610]

Nah I’m calling cap on this one At least in the state I live in we were taught that In middle and high school I kind of doubt you were the only person in there that knew what the trail of tears was

@@robertpastor5610 Stupid/ignorant people won't become less so by you doubting their existence.

[@chrisoneill325]

At my work, we have flags of many nations hung around. One time, a Black woman nearly had a meltdown berating and grilling the poor 16 yr old desk staff about how there was a confederate flag flying... it was the flag of Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹

[@no.reply_]

Hey that’s my flag wtf 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@chrisoneill325]

@@no.reply_ apparently someone thought Trinidad & Tobago were part of the confederacy... 🙃

[@Julia-lk8jn]

... wait a moment. But that flag is just one diagonal stripe on red ground instead of a St. Patrick's cross. And the stripe has the wrong color. And no stars in it. WT...?

[@chrisoneill325]

@@Julia-lk8jn yea, I know. Never said the person complaining was intelligent

[@chrisoneill325]

@Faith Eternal yea, the girl working the front desk that day was 16 years old. Small business, simple/easy job. We often hire teens from within our client base for some part-time positions.

[@emmavale4823]

My American high school class was shown a map of Europe and was told to point out which countries we knew. Only one person raised their hand. They pointed out Italy. One other pointed out Ireland and said "that's England....right?" As a 16-year-old who'd spent most of her life in Europe and for my age, pretty knowledgable about world geography, I was gobsmacked.

[@violetskies14]

I might have some trouble with the more similar looking countries because I missed a lot of school due to illness but Italy looks like a freaking boot. It is literally the easiest country to remember the shape of.

[@riverstyx7251]

World geography wasn’t a thing at my school. For most public schools in the US it starts and ends with the geography of North America, more specifically the United States, and then the teachers basically say something to the more polite effect of “eh fuck the rest, we all have GPS these days right? I mean when are any of you actually going to need this stuff, it’s not like most Americans ever get to travel outside the country anyways.” Personally I think part of the indoctrination is not teaching us the geography of other countries to make the outside world more scary and discourage us from leaving.

[@Joy4everM0RE]

I learned where countries were from a globe my mom bought me, not from school.

[@eattherich9215]

@@riverstyx7251: ' Personally I think part of the indoctrination is not teaching us the geography of other countries to make the outside world more scary and discourage us from leaving.' That sounds scarily like the doctrine of repressive regimes.

[@hesfialtes]

@@riverstyx7251 I feel sorry, that is, from the beginning you are at a disadvantage with the rest of the world

[@grantparman4705]

As an American, part of the problem in my opinion is that we lack paid vacation time by law, which makes it difficult to travel out of the country. The lack of travel makes people unaware of what other countries are like, which causes Americans to say stupid things. I use the Internet to educate myself about other countries so that I can make informed statements, and other Americans should do the same if unable to travel.

[@SandyVanV]

Plus the US if pretty big, and even if we have time, its alot cheaper to fly someplace domestically and end up somewhere different than flying across an ocean.

[@Oddballkane]

Also the UK is close to other countries for example the tunnel between the UK and France. Then you have access to the rest of Europe.

[@jonathanwessner3456]

Nah, i know people who travel, and they still say a lot of this stupid stuff

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

That's a good point actually. I've never really consider that.

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

I've never even boarded a plane and because I grew up poor we mainly stayed in our state here in Germany for family vacations but I did exactly what you said. There are so many ways to learn about the world outside of your bubble without ever even leaving your apartment. I've watched so many documentaries and read so many stories and once my English got to a decent level I just started talking to people and asked questions and answered them whenever someone had them about where I live. Still not particularly well off but at least I'm decently rich in knowledge.

[@huangjun_art]

The "Europe sucks" one just cracks me up, being a EU citizen myself. It's so ironic. I went to Texas couple of years ago, and it felt like visiting a 3rd world country.

[@elieli2893]

Was in California for 2 weeks in 2018, it seriously felt like stepping back in time by at least a couple decades 😬 My mother, who was working there for a semester, had to use cheques for rent payments??? There was near to no public transport, the one train we saw WASN'T ELECTRIC it was wild 😅

[@Sorarse]

As someone once said, America is a 3rd world country with great PR.

[@jasperrice8456]

I'd say second world, but otherwise I agree.

[@squngy0]

@@jasperrice8456 Second world doesn't really have much meaning anymore. Originally, 1. world meant US and allies, 2. world meant USSR and 3. world meant neutral. Then over time 1. world started to mean developed and 3. world started to mean developing, but 2. world has mainly just stopped being used

[@theendlessskyethereal7380]

Excuse you, 3rd world is the Appalachians in America. Wait a decade before Texas is 3rd world.

[@MrMuel1205]

Private company wants to pay workers more. "That's socialism, the government should intervene and tell that private company what to do."

[@RustyDust101]

The incredible disconnect between what they are saying and reality is so astonishing, yet they don't scream in mortal pain from their brains seizing up.

[@lanturn3239]

YES, THAT. I've seen that one screenshot so many times and this is always what I think. the obliviousness absolutely amazes me. like this man straight up witnessed trickle-down and called it socialism. peak comedy.

[@almogt78]

🤣👌

[@MandieKearns-Moore]

Ironic isn't just an Alanis song

[@mach2223]

It's like that gag in Fallout where everyone in the vaults is so afraid of communism because of the corporate propaganda ever present in all of them, yet they've been living in managed centrally planned economies for hundreds of years and no one even knows what communism means, all they know is it's bad.

[@toroallin5734]

I live in Canada. And I’ve been asked dead seriously if we all “live in igloos and dogsled everywhere”. I don’t think I have ever stared at someone so long just wondering who tied their shoes for them.

[@patriciajohnston9074]

I live in Washington State- traveling east. I stopped at a rest stop and was asked - If I had ever drove to Alaska - I said No ... explaining I would have to drive about 3000 miles through Canada to get there ... and then, they asked .... Why? (still not sure where they think Alaska is located)

[@gggthsb]

I used to think that too, then I started kindergarten

[@linebrunelle1004]

Retired soldier here: U.S. forces joint exercise; they bring T.P. and everything else because they are not sure what we have "up here". oh the fun to be had. Igloos and such questions, all the time.

[@patriciahopey1384]

Halifax here. So true.

[@Notmyname1593]

@@linebrunelle1004 Right, I just realized why americans brought all their "kitchen" with them when their forces were visiting.

[@sineadkearney1635]

The most American thing I’ve heard in Belfast was “was it true about the ship sinking or was that just for the movie?” In relation to the Titanic… IN THE TITANIC MUSUEM

[@edaj1990]

Wow

[@Madonnalitta1]

I've had an American tell me that I must be American because of my screen name. I had to explain that Madonna is the Virgin Mary, and that Madonna Litta is a Leonardo da Vinci painting. They still didn't understand- "but your name is Madonna - she's American". Poor smooth-brained Yanks.

[@meba444]

I grew up in China. Each year, the senior class would make tshirts to raise money for their senior trip. One year, the wold shirts that said “I ride a panda to school” I made the mistake of wearing it when in Alabama… people didn’t even question the legitimacy, just asked me if they were soft or how fast they could go 🤦‍♀️

[@nh1172]

Oh wow. 🤦‍♀️

[@BM-yr1lc]

How is this possible?

[@turtlescanfly7]

Omg I’m so embarrassed to be American. I’m gonna blame that scene from Mulan where Mushu (pretending to be a general) rides the panda for this one 😅

[@kayjpjessie]

Were they fast tho

[@durabelle]

A panda would be one of my last choices for a ride. There's too many videos of them just rolling over, doing somersaults, falling from things etc. that I wouldn't trust them to stay on their feet for any length of time 😂

[@bbibbibu]

this reminds me of the time i visited the us with my parents and someone came up to us and said they heard us say a slur when we .. were speaking korean … and my parents can’t speak english so i explained to them the word they heard us say and what it translates to in english and they were straight up like “your language is racist”????

[@evan]

🤦🏼‍♂️

[@buburdp]

In this case the Romanians need to have a talk with Botswana, as their currency is an offensive word here :))

[@RustyDust101]

Yeah, and how Americans (or ANY native English speakers, for that matter) use the word 'foot' constantly, without knowing that it sounds exactly like the somewhat outdated German word 'Futt'. Which is an incredibly insulting word similar to 'cunt' in the German-English translation. Or that English word "mist" for a foggy weather condition is both written and pronounced exactly like the German word "Mist". Which is crap or manure. So, yeah, I should be offended... 😂😂

[@vedant7943]

As someone who listens to few K-POP songs, I know that word...

[@fairybeliever4479]

@@buburdp can you explain what it means? Thanks 😊

[@SuperPuddingcat]

I used to work for a Tour operator in Cape Town, South Africa . The questions I used to get from American visitors were both the most hysterical and deeply disturbing.

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

I'm for some reason always the person that gets stopped by foreigners whenever they need directions and if I happen to go in the same direction I often have just brought them to wherever they wanted to go. I've been asked some baffling questions too. I'm German you would think this is a decently well known country and people have too many weird ideas about how things work here.

[@zenleeparadise]

That’s such a wonderful way to summarize America: hysterical and deeply disturbing. Makes sense that our people are hysterical and disturbing if that’s what living in our culture feels like. Our culture produces artwork like Bo Burnham’s “Inside”, ya know? It doesn’t feel stable in the US. We’re not ok.

[@Phiyedough]

Do any of them complain that there's just not enough institutional racism?

[@alishak8241]

Can we get some examples please?

[@hesfialtes]

@@zenleeparadise Zoe sorry to be the one to tell you this but USA is a country, because America is a continent with a North, a Center and a South just like any other continent

[@AppleCore360]

(From the Netherlands), One time an American told me to be gratefull for him because HE freed us from the germans in ww2 I just took a deep breath, "you did nothing for us. Your grandparents may have done a little bit for us, but the Canadians and British freed us, don't demand fame for something you had nothing to do with. Americans freed the Frenche if I'm not mistaken" I think this shit almost had a stroke and proceeded to say the Canadians were also in war with the germans so that was impossible. Why don't you guy's educate your people 🥲

[@darkiee69]

Because then they would start to think for themselves and see thru all the BS they're being fed.

[@ChiaraVet]

you should have also reminded them that at least half their population and congress at the time didn´t give a shit about Europe and the war until Pearl Harbour. And there were even people sustaining Hitler in the US, thinking he was doing the right thing. It was only after the fall of Germany and the discovery of the Holocaust that people changed their mind. Then the US propaganda brainwashed the population that them (the US) were the heroes of the entire war. That´s literally spitting in the face of all the resistance movements that gathered intelligence and sabotaged the Nazis across Europe, not to mention French, Canadians and UK soldiers (especially from the colonies). Without them the Americans wouldn´t have done much, because it´s not enough to have the resources to win a war. The practical demonstration is that they basically either bomb countries into oblivion to "win"or they lose every war they have engaged in (e.g.: Vietnam, Afghanistan just to cite a couple). I hate their attitude towards WWII every day a little more.

[@darkiee69]

@@ChiaraVet They knew about the Holocaust already in 1942-43. And you forgot to mention the Russians who took the heaviest casualties during the war.

[@ChiaraVet]

@@darkiee69 I guess the people in power knew once they entered the war, but I can't say for sure about the majority of the population. About the Russians, of course, I was talking about the western front but you are absolutely right.

[@TheOystei]

why educate when you can glorify?

[@Joy4everM0RE]

I’ve come across too many nurses (LPN) that complain about cashiers finally being paid $15/hr because it’s the same as they make. Like, that just means that the LPNs are being underpaid. They should be complaining that they’re not paid enough, not that the cashiers are being overpaid. People gotta stop trying to bring other people down and try to raise themselves up.

[@gggthsb]

yeah thats what gets me confused all the time, people being mad that other people get a raise and getting pain what they get when their own jobs are 'better' (in this case they are more important) But instead of pushing up and demanding better payment for themselves, they kick down to keep poor people poor. Like what do you gain from that? You still get paid jackshit but at least there are people who get paid less? yeah sounds about right.

[@weridplusho]

You can't simply raise wages without consequences. You saying nurses are "underpaid" is grossly simplifying what their concerns and how money works. Where do you think the extra money for raised wages come from?

[@Joy4everM0RE]

@@weridplusho hospital CEOs could stop taking multimillion dollar bonuses and actually pay their staff fairly.

[@weridplusho]

@@Joy4everM0RE Or maybe they could stop being in bed with the government who causes inflation so no one would need to raise wages. Again, simplifying the topic isn't helping.

[@radhikacsa3585]

@Darren Vezey O M G 😵 but thats 'Socialism'!! (sarcasm) This is like 'since i cant blame my family for treating me poorly I will blame society for it. '

[@Micg51]

6:05 “I’m a veteran. I mean, I wasn’t in the military, but my Grandpa was”

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

I'm a great-grandfather...well, not me, but my great-grandfather was!

[@TheCornishCockney]

American couple in London once asked me if we still execute Irish people in the streets?!?

[@TheKeystoneChannel]

Americans are weird, when they put in their bio : son/daughter of veteran, Cancer survivor and living in a free country....it always blows my mind how they identify themselves with everything external or totally uninteresting

[@Frenchy78ify]

@@MonkeyButtMovies1 lol right

[@Robert08010]

You don't inherit your fathers military status, but you can inherit your parents national heritage. Not sure why you don't seem to get that.

[@elliesconcerts]

"who would name a country Montenegro?!" me : "you're not going to like a certain country in Africa then..."

[@nh1172]

Which one?

[@margeryk000]

@@nh1172 Pretty sure she is talking about Niger....

[@EricaGamet]

The funny (sad?) thing is that instead of seeing a word they think is something else... they can't use their brains to figure out that the words all have the same root/etymology. "Negro" meaning black in Spanish, which came from the Latin "nigrum," meaning dark (which often applied to skin complexion or just the darkness). Now you might not know the whole etymology (I've always been a word nerd), but it's clear to see that they have a common root and figure it all probably started out from the same place way back when. This is also why knowing a foreign language or two (even just some words) is handy. It helps you extrapolate out.

[@TheIvoryDingo]

That part probably annoyed me the most out of all of the others featured in the video.

[@medealkemy]

Two even, if you include Nigeria. And let's not talk about Ethiopia...

[@Streunekater]

Being German, I often wonder if I should get mad at the average U.S.Americans' level of education, be sorry for them or just ignore them. I don't want to feel superior (us Germans have a complex about feeling superior, we don't want to feel like that any more at all :D ) ... but still.... I would like to help, to educate, to tell them how the world really is. Is that wrong? And by the way: Yes, there are a lot of ... "narrow minded" people here in Europe, too. But at least our systems aren't designed to create them...

[@Niki91-HR]

In diesem Fall fühlt sich glaub ich jeder "superior" gegenüber den Ammis 😅😅😅😅 Ich lebe in Kroatien und muss mir manchmal echt das Lachen verkneifen, wenn ich amerikanischen Touris begegne. Egal ob auf der Arbeit oder Freizeit.

[@nouradrouin]

Im mixed with black and white and I lived in Germany a while (not because of the army and not in a huge town) and adored it (give me a work visa and Im in a plane in the next hour!). Everyone around me asked if I was victim of racism while there, and my answer is always: "In North America, I have. In Germany people mind their own business, so no. Ive never felt more intergrated in the US and Canada than I have in Germany." It blows their mind ! Cant believe a non white person could learn to speak german and love living in Germany 😅 don't be mad at them, just be sad because outside of Berlin, they don't see the potential for tourism and meeting great people Germany has to offer.

[@keshaartis8365]

Honestly, as an American, some of ✨us✨ are pissed about the lack of accurate education in our system. It’s all about creating focused workers who follow their bosses directions for 6-12 hours/shift. Creativity and curiosity here aren’t encouraged. They’re stifled as “not productive” or “disruptive”. If we want accurate history, we HAVE TO step outside of the classroom. If we want kids to understand government (which there’s a LOT of ADULTS who don’t but think they do), we HAVE TO teach them outside of the classroom, which often leads to some misinformed people bc most of us don’t know how to check for biases in sources/reporting/ourselves to get to accurate answers. Research is a useful skill but is RARELY taught BEFORE a person turns 18 here; to me this is absolutely INSANE. In short, we NEED to do better. Unfortunately, due to lack of common understanding (same words/phrases meaning different things in different areas-sometimes even within the same town) it is difficult to get people to agree to it. In closing, I want better for my kids and I HOPE others do too. Let’s fix this system, for all of our future generations!

[@nouradrouin]

@@keshaartis8365 Definitely! I think I was personnally lucky because in the US both my parents are immigrants and my mom always took time to read books about various cultures with me and I had Atlases and globes. Then I moved to Quebec (french Canada) and though their education system isn't perfect, I was encouraged to learn more and share with my classmates. I very much agree that we need to harvest a curiosity for things outside of the US. And it starts in your home if school isnt doing it. I feel like an other problem is that in the US the culture is very egocentric like there's nothing else that's better. We hear words like "american dream", "best country", "best of everything", "most liberty", etc. all the time. After a while you just assume it's true if you don't question it. And when your mind is set to believe that, you don't really feel curious to look out to the outside because what will you find anyway !? Nothing is better ! So I believe this narrative is a problem to start with. Patriotism if great until you cant see value in other countries and cultures.

[@KlearlyIMme]

I’d probably just ignore them a lot of people that are so ignorant about things take finding out they’re wrong really hard and would think they know better

[@peterpain6625]

I found the "did you know our servers survive on your tipping kindness" sign one of the most brutal and heartless ones i've ever seen.

[@GSD-hd1yh]

The polite response to employers like this is to ask them if that is because they refuse to pay a living wage, and therefore putting pressure on their customers instead?

[@FrikInCasualMode]

"Dear clients - pay our staff, because we don't want to."

[@spencerburke]

"Dear employer, we already pay for everything by patronising your establishment. Wages are running costs. Yours, not mine. I'm not paying them separately, or again."

[@charlestaylor9424]

Might as well say "we support slavery ".

[@Sereomontis]

"Did you know our servers survive on your tipping kindness" Only in America would a company brag about not being willing to pay their employees a liveable wage.

[@azzat-9046]

And put the responsibility on the customer lol

[@HopefulInnocence]

I will stand by this story. My mother and I was visiting Canada, we're both English. While we was waiting for the Toronto City Bus, we saw a family come walking upto us. Now long before this, my mother had always said that the first words out of any American's mouth would be "Who do you think killed Princess Diana?". Now I had spoken with some Americans over the net, scoffed at such an extreme absurdity. That was just being sterotypical right? This family got close to us and overheard my mother and I speaking. We both got strong Northern accents, and so after the usual. "You English?" The next words, out of his mouth were. "So who do you think killed Princess Diana?" I was gobsmacked. If my mother had not been with me constantly. I would have thought she had asked these poeple to do this. You know bribed with money for a laugh. But no. Just straight out with it. Seriously.

[@jadecawdellsmith4009]

If true,the person would most likely have been Canadian, north American yes but not American(not as far as Canadians r concerned anyway) And I find it strange that a Canadian person would actually ask that. From my experiences most people in commonwealth countries already know or just don't care.

[@HopefulInnocence]

@@jadecawdellsmith4009 Thanks for the reply. The family identified themselves as from the United States while they asked where everyone else was from. They stated they too was to having an holiday in Canada, as they have never been there too. Sorry I should have added that when I originally wrote the comment.

[@jadecawdellsmith4009]

@@HopefulInnocence thanks for explaining further. Bloody yanks,makes more sense & the story seems way more believable now🤣 I laugh but really it's quite sad how so many Americans r so uneducated & ignorant about so many (often very important) things yet they'll go to great lengths to find out the latest with the royals or Kardashians or whatever the latest tik tok craze is. Shits me the lack of depth. Lack of critical thinking & healthy debate. What do these people talk about apart from themselves I wonder.... EDIT-SORRY FOR MY RANT. OBVIOUSLY I KNOW ALL AMERICANS ARENT THIS WAY BUT IVE HAD SOME PARTICULARLY BAD EXPERIENCES LATELY. APOLOGIES

[@HopefulInnocence]

@@jadecawdellsmith4009 No worries.

[@perryelyod4870]

Yes, but who do you think killed Princess Diana?

[@mariaskoozynska3486]

In San Francisco there’s a brunch place called Zazie which discourages clients from tipping at all as the menu is designed to cover paying the waiters and waitresses fair wage and doesn’t want it to depend on tips. Just a sweet example of fairness :)

[@jjescorpiso21]

May their business prosper and other business follow suit

[@ankiking]

So, like everywhere outside the US :) One can only hope sanity will at some point enter the US, but I doubt it.

[@valsyaranamual6853]

Nice! And practical/fair.

[@Salix631]

The first time I went to the US, on the first day, we went to a restaurant and had a meal. I was aware of tipping but mistakenly thought it was 10%, so that is what I tipped. The waitress stopped us as we left and made a huge fuss about what was wrong with her service and why we had not tipped enough. We were embarrassed and found some more (first day, only had big notes) but we were very careful about using restaurants after that. Being ambushed and shouted at by a waitress was literally something that had never happened to me before!

[@NathanStokes2]

As a foreigner living in Japan, as most foreigners do when we get the question "Where are you from?" we always answer with our country. "Oh, I'm from New Zealand." "Oh I'm from South Africa", as a Brit I never even say England and always say "The UK." But the Americans.....will always be like "Oh, I'm from North Carolina!" Like we just expect to know where in the world that is?? Another time at a foreigner bar here, some angry American middle aged man was shouting and raving about 'Evil Joe Biden' and looked to me and said "Oh, I bet you love him. I bet you voted for him" (after already knowing I'm not American) and I just said, "Um, no. Sorry, I don't get too involved with foreign politics." And he said...and I swear, "But it's not foreign politics, it's American politics!" and I just...facepalmed so hard internally.

[@fackgugle6497]

To bei fair: The North Carolina has 10 Million people, however New Zealand has only 5 Million...

[@reinhard8053]

@@fackgugle6497 But New Zealand has won 143 medals at the Olympics. How many for North Carolina ?

[@joparkin6960]

​@@fackgugle6497Your rugby team is crap though!

[@prabhavsidhaye5518]

​@@fackgugle6497to be fair Maharashtra had 100 million people. No one introduces themselves from Maharashtra unless they're taking to another Indian person.

[@amberbaum4079]

@@fackgugle6497 Doesn't matter, same goes with country size. Because by the same standard we "should" know Russia's/China's/Australia's provinces/states/counties whatever. Also "But... but... out states have their own laws and such and such....." Cool, so do many other nations. My Country has 16 states which each having their owns laws and politics.

[@AndySDavies]

Funniest thing I've heard from an American. I was visiting York and at the top of the Minster. An American guy in his 20's asked me if that was Stonehenge in the distance. A little bit confused I asked him to point at what he could see, I simply replied "erm no that's Drax Power station" I remained polite and didn't laugh in his face.

[@chickenskink1]

LMAOOOO good of you for staying polite

[@hejhejhej9519]

When americans say that Scandinavians are opressed because we live in a socialistic society… Yes im so opressed with my free healthcare, free school up to university, payd maternaty/paternaty leave, 5 weeks of payed holiday every year, payed sick leave, yeah the list could go on …

[@phatputer]

Travelling through the states, being asked what my plans were to move there, confused looks from people when I would say I had zero interest in moving to America, but was happy to visit, I live in New Zealand

[@IceMetalPunk]

Your response should be, "Oh, that's sweet; no offense, but I prefer first-world countries for my permanent residence."

[@Seal0626]

Simply looking at the numbers, how various lifestyle elements compare, you would have to pay me a _lot_ of money to persuade me to live in the USA.

[@geangekate]

They might also have been confused as to why it would be moving to US... so many examples of Americans thinking NZ is a state/in the US...particularly New England

[@kaitan4160]

@@arunsalwan8558 1,1 Million People immigrated to Germany last Year. So .. America with its roughly 330 Million People has 1 Million People immigrating each Year. Germany with its roughly 87 Million People has 1,1 Million (1186702 to be exact so almost 1,2 Million) ......... So is that Number really something to brag about? Not to Forget that just i nthe Month of January 177 Thousand People migrated to NZ. Just January. Again .. is your Number that big to brag about?

[@IzzysTravelDiaries]

I live in Hungary and people are gosmacked that I don't want to move to America. I enjoy my paid vacation and free healthcare, even though my income is very, very low. At least if I get cancer like half of my family then I won't go bankrupt.

[@silviasanchez648]

I got told off by an American when I tried to explain that "negro" is an endearing term/name in many Caribbean and South American countries...

[@RealengoPrimordialDemon]

Negro is what people in Puerto Rico use to call close relatives or very close friends.

[@selenamartinez2017]

As an American and a huge geography nerd myself, this hurts so much. The absolute second-hand cringe. I know we don’t really get any comprehensive education on the rest of the globe, but there are books and and documentaries and the internet for this reason. I don’t blame people (especially kids) who have never been exposed to anything outside of their small-town American bubble, but like. Look at a map, for Christ’s sake.

[@TheCornishCockney]

But even when Americans are corrected on something they think is true,they STILL arrogantly inform you that you are wrong. Like the American in London who asked me “why are there so many black people here. They can’t ALL be on vacation” 🙄

[@nswinoz3302]

@@TheCornishCockney Sorry but due to your name, I remember getting out of a Black taxi cab in London on a family holiday 8 years ago, when my then just twenty year old daughter turned to me and asked what language was the cabbie (driver) speaking? After my son and I stopped laughing I responded “Cockney” and got this blank look from her followed by the question “and what country is that”? My Australian wife turned to her and said, he was born within the sound of bow bells in London and he was also laying that accent on rather thick! I’ve previously had to translate local English for my wife on previous trips especially when heavy accents and expressions come into play while in London and the Midlands.

[@RRW359]

I went to school from the early 2000's to the early 2010's and it wasn't uncommon to see pre-1991 maps of Europe and/or the world posted in classrooms.

[@nswinoz3302]

@@RRW359 May I ask which country that it is that you went to school, as you’re assuming that everyone already know this fact?

[@RRW359]

@@nswinoz3302 The US

[@a.b.8035]

I could see your physical discomfort with the Montenegro woman...just wow By the way: my employer in the Netherlands actually encourages people to come to work by public transport. American car centrism is just a whole other level

[@dasy2k1]

Especially as she is actually a fairly well known KZbin reaction video channel!

[@gravyz2cute4u]

Imagine being told by your boss that you are being fired for not having a car?? Doesn't matter that you rock up on time or do a great job, but the method of transport you use in your own private time is grounds for termination? That's so absurd. Why would it even be questioned? If someone just casually told me that, I would never believe them. No freedom to catch public transport? Would they have a problem if someone rode a bike to work? I don't get it :/

[@adiuntesserande6893]

@@gravyz2cute4u The problem is even worse than you might think. In the US, the only state in which an employer even *needs* grounds upon which to fire someone is Montana. Every other state is an 'at-will' state, meaning that an employer can fire an employee at any time for any reason that isn't specifically banned by law (race, religion, gender, marital status, age, political opinion, or [in most places but not all] sexuality). Of course, anyone who *does* upset their employer based on any of the protected reasons will simply be fired without notice, so....

[@gravyz2cute4u]

@@adiuntesserande6893 Thanks for the explanation. That's nuts and makes it seem like there really isn't any job security >_

[@elieli2893]

@@adiuntesserande6893 Sounds absolutely terrible D: Here you have a "trial period" usually with employments that aren't short-term anyway, during which you can be fired with short notice if there is misbehavior or you just... Don't do the work you're paid for and such. After the period, you'll always have at least two weeks' notice, and you can only be fired for real reasons like harrassing other people, not doing what you're paid to do, never show up anymore etc. If you manage to land a "permanent" job (don't know what the word would be in English, it's "virka" in Finnish) you can pretty much only get let go in co-operation negotiations, and those are supposed to be arranged in an early enough stage in the company's schedule that the employees can actually affect the situation. Oh, also, the unemployment services function and you can live, albeit not super comfortably, with unemployment money and housing benefits. Also, you get a higher unemployment money if you've had a somewhat stable employment before unemployment and belong to a union or fund. And yeah, belonging to unions is quite normal here.

[@YetAnotherGeorgeth]

Private company: increases their minimum wage Murika: THAT’S SOCIALISM

[@lassehaggman]

If the workers have to sleep on the street and eat from garbage, then it is "freedom". I think I get it now.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

US Government: spends trillions of tax dollars building and maintaining highways. Americans: THAT'S CAPITALISM

[@Frenchy78ify]

so much ignorance it's so painful to hear them cry "socialism/communism" at every corner of the street

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

@@lassehaggman it's not a freedom but a worker's right. # live socialism

[@kostkostkos2514]

Socialism is when government does stuff, but apparently it's also when private corporations do stuff as well

[@GideonGleeful95]

As some others have commented, horses did come from North America... sort of. The ancestors of modern horses evolved in North America and then spread to Eurasia through the Bering Straits land bridge between Russia and Alaska, the same one that the ancestors of the Native Americans used to reach North America. These animals went on to evolve into modern horses, zebras and other relatives. However, North American wild horses became extinct around the time humans arrived. Then, around 4,000 BC, humans in central Asia began to domesticate the horses, and this gradually spread across Europe, Asia and Northern Africa. Then, when Europeans arrived in the Americas, they re-introduced the horses to America. The same thing also happened with camels, which is why there are camel relatives in South America like Llamas and Alpacas.

[@jonathanwessner3456]

Except, they are reconsidering the land bridge. They have evidence that they sailed here.

[@nh1172]

Yeah I think I'd be really worried about trying to explain to certain Americans that all humans originate from Africa... Not a conversation that would go down well, judging by this video alone.

[@chuboeeeee8285]

I was just about to comment this lol

[@jonathanwessner3456]

@@nh1172 Someone paid for a bunch of racists to get their Ancestry done ia DNA analysis and every one of them had a significant amount of African DNA

[@williamjenman6902]

@@jonathanwessner3456 the horses sailed there?!!! Nope.

[@taann.]

1:40 Evan being furious at the fact he has post but also being lovely and polite truly shows his Britishness 😂

[@Madonnalitta1]

No.

[@catsrmything]

On the getting fired for taking the bus one. Yeah. As an American, every job I’ve had required me the provide proof that I had a car and a drivers license as part of the on-boarding process. I am a lab scientist. Driving has nothing to do with my job.

[@davidhyams2769]

I was also a lab scientist in the UK at one time (now retired.) My job at that time also did not need me to drive for work. I commuted to and from work by public transport. But one day, my boss DEMANDED that I went to a location about 20 miles away on a work-related matter with no suitable public transport going in that direction, either from my workplace or from home. When I told him that I couldn't do it I was threatened with disciplinary action and told I HAD to buy a car in case something similar occurred in the future. It never did.

[@jaimicottrill2831]

That’s actually illegal for an employer to ask that! If they ask how you will get to work everyday you can just answer that it won’t be a problem and they are not allowed to press you for more.

[@richard6440]

. As an American, every job I’ve had required me the provide proof that I had a car and a drivers license............ in the uk , businesses started to provide a car ( paid for by the company ) to employees so they could do their job. usually travelling salesmen. this was to avoid tax, as it could be claimed as a business expense. you can inform the company that you will be at work , on time , every day. how you get there is your business, not theirs. if they want you to have a car, they can provide it , to you , for free. ................. and a minor point , the on-boarding process. it used to be called , hiring , when did it become ' on boarding ' ? :)

[@indyhaine3455]

Okay, this one baffled me the most and I have to pose some stupid european question in turn: Why do the employers care? What's the difference to them? Here, in a lot of huge cities, parking spaces are expensive af, so if you don't need one, your employer is actually happy. Is parking space simply a non-issue in the US or does the employer provide parking space? And most of all: How would they even be able to tell how you came to work???

[@richard6440]

@@indyhaine3455 As a European who has relatives in Texas , i have been to the states half a dozen times. In Texas, shops are so spread out, they each have their own car park. So my answer would be the employer provides parking space and they would see your car there. That is just one town in one state. Other towns in other states are available :)

[@CaseyLouise149]

Oh my god I am also Australian and worked in the US for a few years (in NYC). I have also been asked if I "moved to the US for a better life". Funny enough, I moved back to Australia at the beginning of 2021 for better access to healthcare while taking a break between jobs.

[@jurgentreue1200]

I'm Australian also. I worked in Laos for eight years and loved the experience. I was asked by an American if I'd ever move to the US for a better life. Better than Laos or Australia I asked?

[@thissunchild]

You must be over 40😆

[@Komicklepto]

I remember when I was interning in Thailand with several international interns me and a French intern starting quizzing an American intern on American state capitals and it turns out we knew more about them than he did. Now if that doesn't sum up the American education system then I don't know what does!

[@IceMetalPunk]

Me: "I wonder how shell-shocked that woman would be if she ever learned that 'negro' just means 'black' in many languages?" Evan: "I got you, bro, there's a Crayola pic coming up soon." Me: *Sigh*

[@arrgghh1555]

Lady is going to lose her shit when she discovers the country Niger.

[@MonkeyButtMovies1]

I wonder if she'll get upset when she learns of the existence of Blackpool.

[@eattherich9215]

@@arrgghh1555: 😂 😂 😂 She may be a little pacified when she hears the pronounciation.

[@darkiee69]

@@arrgghh1555 And Nigeria, or Rio Negro.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Maybe it'll calm her down if she hears that the locals call it _Crna Goar_ ? Means exactly the same of course, but less offensive to people living 500+ years *after* the country was named. "Oww, who decided to call it that?" Does she think all European countries were named within the last hundred years?

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

It only ever seems to be those of us who have travelled or lived abroad who can SEE how ridiculous the idea of American exceptionalism really is. I get so embarrassed at times!

[@meba444]

Ah yes. You know us Europeans never go on road trips. We never pop over to another country for the day to go grocery shopping or anything. It’s not super easy to travel between countries AT ALL. /s

[@LovelyLawla]

I live in Northern Ireland (part of the UK) but only about 2-3 miles from the boarder with the Republic of Ireland so I am literally in a different country about once a week, with a different currency, different speed limits (mph in UK, km ph in RoI), etc! Plus my partner is Portuguese/Irish and when we go to visit his family in Portugal we take road trips all the time, often into Spain (fuel is cheaper, if we aren't too far from the border!) It genuinely concerned us when Brexit started becoming a think because no-one we spoke to in England could comperhend that having a hard border between NI and RoI would be carnage for our daily lives over here because their idea of "going to the EU" was an annual holiday to Ibiza (flights), etc not a 10 minute drive to my dog groomers!

[@meba444]

@@LovelyLawla exactly! I remember my dad being super excited for the UK to leave, and all I could think about was people like you who’s lives would get MUCH more difficult VERY quickly!

[@LovelyLawla]

@@meba444 Yup. Like it is possible to avoid "the south" as we call it here for various local trips, but it can be a lot of hassle as I live close to the main Belfast - Dublin motorway so I can either travel a few miles of narrow twisty country roads to stay in the north, or pop onto the 3 lane motorway for a mile or two, but it involves crossing the border and then crossing back again - just to get to my parents house, even though we both live in "the north"! I even used to work in the south as a teen, so that would have been fun! Thankfully, *touch wood*, we seem to be managing to keep the border open so far, but without going into the icky politics of it all, who really knows how long it will stay like this for!

[@irdairda514]

I wish we could do that, just a slight problem with that bit of water between us and everyone else. ( New Zealand)

[@lauramartin7675]

I live in Australia...I wonder if it was meant to be aimed at us.

[@icecreamjelly]

This made me angry, I know we in England aren’t perfect but I am so grateful for workers rights and laws and holiday etc America just seems so brainwashed and backwards

[@nswinoz3302]

Just got to say it “Welcome to Brexit my friend” That’ll change?

[@bokhans]

NSW in OZ. My first thought too. Sorry to break it to the Brexiteers but lowering rights and standards is the name of the game. They will notice but then it’s to late! 😢

[@burn5014]

They make them salute and swear they’ll die for a flag like it’s 1940s Berlin lmao

[@rhystight9519]

That visiting Europe one is mad cos whenever I or my mates or family visit America we’ve all said it’s like going back in time, no contactless card payments, the trains are a mess, the tipping to survive, taking the card away to pay, the lack of rights etc

[@whatwhatinthewhat4400]

The only reason I can see a boss wanting you to have a car is because they want to be able to exploit you, to be able to call you last minute and demand you fill in a shift. Every low paid or exploited worker should claim they catch the bus to work. So their boss cant expect them to fill in for shifts when people are sick or fired or what ever. Cause you cant just suddenly be at work with 1 hours notice if the buss trip alone is 2 hours.

[@TheHammy1987]

I've had several job interviews and jobs in my life so far (in Germany and Egypt) and no one, NO ONE cares about how you get to work as long as you're on time. It's just none of their business! If I decided to hitchhike my way to work, my boss wouldn't even know, and if, for some reason, I told him, he would probably only be concerned for my safety. Still, he would not dare to comment further on it. WTH does any boss care about that and how is that allowed!? wtf America

[@whatwhatinthewhat4400]

@@TheHammy1987 Yeah I have never been asked about how I intend to get to work during the interview. It seems to be a question that should be a red flag, if they ask you, decline the job if you can, cause like i said it sounds like a question asked by someone expecting you to work random shifts with no notice. Not great for work life balance if you are essentially on call 24 7.

[@GSD-hd1yh]

Where I worked, you were paid a mileage allowance for coming to work in your car, but only if you could show that public transport was inadequate. As I was working shifts, and the morning shift started at a time before public transport began running, this was easy to do. Similarly, the afternoon shift ended after the last train on the timetable had left, so you had to use your car to get to and from work. That allowance more than paid for my fuel, even taking my vacations into account. The mileage allowance paid to workers was tax deductible for the employers, so the only effect it had was to guarantee that staff would arrive on time.

[@jaymercer4692]

Surely that problem can be solved by never answering your phone. Surely you can’t be required and forced to be on your phone all day outside of working hours? Then you basically are always at work.

[@KissTheGreat]

The different languages/dialects one broke me. We literally have 5 different native languages across the British isles.

[@dasy2k1]

I can walk for half an hour or less and the accent changes! (I live in the Brummie accent area, but YamYam country is just down the road)

[@Inurendo88]

Oooo, quiz time. English, Welsh, Cornish Pasty, Scotch egg, and what ever the fuck Liverpoodlians have going on.

[@armiiiist]

Dont tell them, they are not ready for this.

[@CeravvvEgan]

We have 11 official languages in South Africa. That excludes non-official languages and dialects.

[@Silverized84]

laugh in italian.

[@trevormillar1576]

Never committed a war crime? Sand Creek! My Lai! WOUNDED KNEE!

[@BobSmith-fu1nn]

True Story: A US company bought a Canadian company and decided they wanted to lay-off staff in Canada. They hadn't done their due diligence on Canada employment law and discovered that they couldn't get away with the US standard of 2 weeks notice & 2 weeks salary. Rather than comply w/ Canadian standards, they put their newly acquired subsidiary into CCAA (bankruptcy).

[@lassehaggman]

I have worked for three or four American companies that have started business here in Finland. They usually have trouble understanding that that there are different laws here and they must be followed.

[@chrissyt8111]

my nephew came to visit (from the US to UK) and I pointed out as we passed St Paul's Cathedral that it's about 3-400 yrs old. He was shook, saying "but...that's impossible!!!". I said, "if you want to really be impressed, I can take you to the London wall which was built in the yr 200AD" *silence*...."that means it's over 1800 yrs old buddy..". Needless to say, he can't wait to come back for a history tour :)

[@Greenwood4727]

i remember when ym ex and her friend took me to the log cabin village in texas we have buildings from the 1800;s i am like ok they are nice, i mean they are ok.. they couldnt understand how i wasnt wow ancient, until she came over her to the UK and i showed her a building from 1432, near my home, then walked her around the roman walls in chester, then took her to the viking houses.. then she understood

[@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477]

What?! An American that wants to learn instead of call the person stupid

[@Bigdog5400]

As an American with a STEM degree who did internships, no one would take a minimum wage IT internship bc no one is that desperate. At my university, you weren’t allowed a table at our career fair unless you were paying a minimum of $15/hr, bc the demand to have a table at the caterer fair was so damn high. I highly doubt that company filled those internship slots.

[@aws1045]

In general IT students are so sought after that they can pick (kinda) where they want work (multiple offers). I work in IT, but not as a dev. The stories of how they didnt bother to go to a company presentations (which means free food and maybe booze) if it wasnt medium to high-end food flabbergasted me. In my student time you were happy with free food.

[@carolinegrant7788]

I lived in Edinburgh ( Scotland). I was asked by an American tourist who was admiring Edinburgh Castle ' Do they build that every year for the tattoo?' I think she mistook Edinburgh for Disneyland!

[@HuSanNiang]

I love Endinburg castle, especially the traitor gate *ggg*

[@Julia-lk8jn]

... but Disney castle is pretty much Neuschwanstein. Edinburgh castle (which is of course awesome) doesn't even look like it.

[@mennovroom5537]

I am Dutch and I have been to Edinburgh Castle on holiday. This question about a tattoo has never crossed my mind. I did think about J.K. Rowling being inspired to write Harry Potter

[@ian020881]

@1:58 Lol! You're fully British now. To camera: "I am furious. I am filming, and mail arrives. Livid. GRRRR!!!!", To Mailman "Thankyou very much."

[@dumitruflorea8344]

I am from Romania ... i had American friends complaining that the internet in Romania is way too good at way too cheap. i used to pay 30 USD equivalence in our cash for unlimited internet with 30mb/s download, 2 phones with 50 gb internet 4g+ each, and unlimited calls and text everywhere in the world. they were outraged about the quality of the internet here versus the internet in USA

[@dominikac.5506]

I remember one guy being shocked that Wales is a country - he thought it's a city in England... He was roasted by Europeans and in response he pulled out the US map and said "go show me where Rhode Island is!!!" I showed him not only Rhode Island but also (almost) every American state. I'm European. The conclusion is: you don't have to know every city/place in the world. I definitely don't. It's about being ignorant. Many Americans just refuse to simply learn world's geography because they believe America is the greatest and the rest of the world doesn't matter.

[@dominikac.5506]

+ Not to mention Americans confusing Europe and European Union... I remember when Brexit happened and Americans were like: "so UK left Europe?!". YEAH they left the entire continent 🤦‍♀

[@SatumangoTheGreat]

To be fair: I lived for over forty years as a dutch citizen before I learned that Wales is a separate country within the UK. I knew about England and Scotland, but somehow thought that Wales was a former smaller country that became part of England at some point. Sort of like a reverse Belgium. So I want to apologize to all Welsh people that might be reading this. I'm truly sorry.

[@nickjenkins9210]

Just to be fair to him, he may have been thinking of Wells - which IS a (small) city in England.

[@ianmoseley9910]

In a survey of Americans a few years ago, 70% thought the phrase "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was from the US Constitution

[@emileduvernois6680]

😆😆😆

[@Astrephel]

Always stunned by the quality of the videos. Honestly can't say enough good things about it, colours, lighting and everything is so on point.

[@evan]

Thank you!!

[@coaljulian8622]

Hellooooo I just wanted to say thank you for posting today I really needed sometimes to lift my spirits

[@Lupinemancer87]

The "Europe sucks" made me giggle. Especially considering most countries in Europe has better living conditions then the whole of US.

[@richs8754]

The "Does Portugal have running water?" meme has been doing the rounds over Twitter for a couple of years now, along with its classic response of "No! Only walking water - the pace of life is more relaxed over here"

[@Doleryn]

I mean, the person who reacted to "Montenegro" doesn't even know that "a decade" means "10 years" They reacted to all the Eurovision winner from "this decade", watching a video that shows all the winners starting 2000. And also, in the video they said "I'm gonna react to all the winners of the History of Eurovision", clearly they didn't even make some research before filming, because Eurovision didn't start in 2000.

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

I've watched a few of hers but I had to stop because she was making me so angry with her ignorance.

[@davidhyams2769]

I used to watch her videos but had to stop because her total ignorance of anything not American and her disrespectful and arrogant comments were beyond embarrassing. And she's training to be a nurse. I feel sorry for anyone who ends up in her care.

[@Liggliluff]

Not only that, she was also worried that some countries wouldn't be featured that United Kingdom showed up close to the end, and wondered if some countries was featured more than once. But it was the best song from each country, with the countries in alphabetical order.

[@Liggliluff]

_> "They reacted to all the Eurovision winner from "this decade", watching a video that shows all the winners starting 2000."_ For it to be "this decade" (assuming xxx0-xxx9) then that video would have been from 2009. If it was from about 2019, then "this decade" would be 2010-2019 (again, assuming xxx0-xxx9)

[@Doleryn]

@@Liggliluff That's why I said that they didn't even know what "a decade" is XD

[@speleokeir]

The Montenegro one cracked me up. Imagine her reaction when she learns that a major river on the west coast of Africa is called the Niger River which flows through the countries of Niger and Nigeria. lol And then there's the Orinoco river named after a Womble.🙄

[@Niki91-HR]

I watched some of her Eurovision rections...some were funny but some of her comments were quite cringey. If she only knew that Montenegro literally means black mountain 😅

[@darkiee69]

Don't forget Rio Negro in south america.

[@effiecantero6737]

There’s a place in Philippines called “Negros occidental”

[@jurgentreue1200]

Wait until she finds out Schwarzenegger means black negro in German.

[@Inferiis]

to be fair the country Niger and the racial slur has something to do with each other. I haven't done any research, but it sounds reasonable, as black slaves were taken from that area

[@DavidWW1991]

"Those crickets are a feature, not a bug" No.... I'm pretty sure they're a bug.

[@evan]

HA

[@Teverell]

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time! 🤣

[@RobinHood70]

Dammit, you beat me to it. I thought that was hilarious.

[@onewhoisanonymous]

I live overseas and have commented on your videos before about my tales of positive things being overseas. I get many responses from people "well at least America is free" or "do you enjoy living in a police state?" or "how is communism?" Seriously guys, living overseas has its positives and negatives. The biggest plus I have is I am teacher. I get paid more here in China, I feel respected, and I don't have to worry about my safety.

[@theninjabird9510]

But… China is a police state and is communist so they have you their

[@juanausensi499]

@@theninjabird9510 Police state, yes. Communist... it's complicated.

[@amphiibiia]

The girl moving to Norway because of immigrants reminds me of a guy a was acquainted to when I was a teenager. He refused to learn English (which is mandatory in Sweden), he was so mad that he couldn’t skip that part of the education that he claimed he would move to another country to not have to learn another language. 🙈

[@TheValwood]

"They survive on your tipping kindness" in my head translates to "We aren't willing to pay them a living wage, so if they are gonna make it you better pay them instead of us."

[@Wizz15]

“We as the employer know our staff can’t survive on what we pay them, but we are too cheap to do so anyway. But since you - as our customer - already pay us, don’t forget to also pay our staff” If that’s freedom, I’m so happy to be oppressed in Europe. That reasoning almost broke my brain.

[@beauthestdane]

As an American, I am totally embarrassed that this is so true.

[@nh1172]

Oh my goodness. The "horses come from north america" actually had me so shook I had to pause and take a minute to process. I'm studying a module on zooarchaeology (the archaeological record of animals) and if I told my lecturer this I'm pretty sure they would cry.

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

Show your teacher this video 🤣

[@vanityscar424]

Yeah, my people extincted them, I think. Not until the Conquistadors did those 4 legged beauties run free on this land, again. We have them to thank!

[@timhalliday5839]

To be fair, the equine family evolved in the Americas. They then migrated across the Bering land bridge to Asia and diversified, before being hunted to extinction in the Americas.

[@ffotograffydd]

Hunted to extinction? Native Americans had horses before Europeans arrived… and the USA still has wild horses.

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@ffotograffydd Modern wild horses are descendants of horses that got loose from European settlers after they arrived. The horses that were in the Americas went extinct thousands of years ago. The main reason they're thought to have gone extinct is a combination of overhunting and the Yellowstone super volcano erupting and causing harsh conditions.

[@michael_177]

YES as another comment pointed out, being the only OECD nation on the PLANET to not legislate mandatory paid vacation by law, I think it leaves many working Americans very little to no room to really travel and explore different cultures. Or even learn at home, because so many seem to have to just work and work and work :/

[@sammymarrco2]

indeed

[@GrandHighGamer]

Ah yes, LOTR. Famous for its American actors like (insert almost everyone that isn't Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, or Viggo Mortensen) the famous American landscapes it was filmed in, and the famously American inspiration for its setting setting, and its famous american author.

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

Eh, Viggo is only half American, lol...

[@arrgghh1555]

Liv?

[@jonathanwessner3456]

As an American, this is hilarious, and way too true. I've met most of these people. Like the former co-worker who thought Rome spoke a different language than Italians....when he heard Austrians speaking German

[@LordYerisaron]

Didn’t the Roman Empire speak Latin though?

[@Caeilia]

@@LordYerisaron... Rome is the capital city of Italy

[@jonathanwessner3456]

@@LordYerisaron yes, but he meant Rome the city, he said he knew they were speaking a foreign language but couldn't tell if they were from Italy or Rome....

[@HuSanNiang]

No way we speak German , we definately speak Austria. There are a lot differences especially for food , fruits , vegetables , usage of past tense etc.

[@jonathanwessner3456]

@@HuSanNiang Still doesn't sound a thing like Italian

[@patrickchambers5999]

I once worked for a Dutch owned company in America. WE had monthly mass meetings with the Dutch president who asked if there were any questions. Someone asked about why we didn't have any mandatory paid holidays like they do in the Netherlands. The president responded that we already have 104 unpaid holidays a year (he meant Saturday and Sunday!).

[@doodles4funo569]

Lol

[@patrickchambers5999]

@@csnide6702 No, the company produces high speed office copiers (up to 100 copies of standard 8.5 by 11 inch sheets of paper per minute) and large format engineering copiers (36 inches wide by 50 feet long for the maximum document) sold around the world that are manufactured in the Netherlands. There are various operating companies in many countries providing sales and service and most have a "Dutch president" stationed there for several years until a different "Dutch president" takes over. They all found it strange that there was no national mandated vacation/holiday number of days and accepted the "the usual and customary practice of two weeks vacation", again remembering that that was not mandatory by law.

[@gabrielaribeiro6155]

That's just it. I don't get how USA citizens haven't organized huge protests in the last few years to defend their rights. These type of guarantees, that benefit the worker (and the employer, in the long run) can only be secured through legislation. The state needs to interfere and defend it's people. It's what it's there for.

[@adiuntesserande6893]

@@gabrielaribeiro6155 Because Americans are taught that not only is it *not* a right, it's somehow evil.

[@TheKeystoneChannel]

whoa!!

[@Julia-lk8jn]

I just love how the same people who saw nothing wrong with their 'elected' president spending a million per weekend to eat chocolate cake in his own luxury resort, are now feeling that children getting a free meal is spoiling them. Socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor.

[@paulagresch5477]

Actually, Biden loves ice cream🍦

[@Julia-lk8jn]

@@paulagresch5477 I rather doubt he loves it to the tune of 1 million tax-payer dollars per week-end. Of course, everything's getting more expensive these days ...

[@paulagresch5477]

@@Julia-lk8jn you do know that Trump had his own money right?! His presidential salary was donated to charities!

[@carlgustafemilmannerheim7878]

@@paulagresch5477 he spent 140 million dollars of taxpayer money just to play golf

[@johan.ohgren]

@@paulagresch5477 which was a fraud, so much so that his children was sentenced to education.

[@Philemaphobia]

Does Portugal have running water? Yeah and unlike Flint, Michigan you can even drink it!

[@kiikiikatt]

Regarding buses to work, it can happen in the UK too! Sorry for the long rant ahead.... I started a job at a huge mobile phone company and 1 of its 'perks' and reasons for not paying as much as others was there was a free bus service from the city center to their office about 45 min bus journey away. Based on what they were paying, the job wouldn't be worth it if I had to factor in transport costs (approx £500 per year back in 2008) so I was delighted that there was a free bus. Turns out the free bus that they advised with the job and shift patters only ran from 8 to 6, my shift was 8 till 8,so their free bus would only get me there for about 9am due to traffic and stop before I finished. Its was made clear to me that this was my problem as I chose to work so far from where I lived 🤔 and that I would need to make a plan or get a car. I was living in a large city with no space for cars apart from the super rich. The choice I was left with was leaving and not being able to work in the industry for a year due to restrictive terms or to pay the £500 for the annual bus card (which I had already ruled out as too expensive) and the inly busses that would be able to get me to work on time left at 06:10, getting me there just before 7am. The inial month of training had been 9-5 so there was no problem with the staff bus until we were given our shift patterns and then told about the staff bus timings! I know a lot of things are better in the UK (than South Africa where I'm originally from) but you still get d**k head companies here that blatantly lie and then blame you.

[@marlyd]

Thank goodness I peddled long and hard all day to fire up the KZbin on my tech-free Belgian phone that's fueled by bycicle power just in time to watch this video

[@euansmith3699]

Oh, you Belgians are so far behind the curve. Over here, in the UK, we have harnessed the power of small dogs in treadmills to power our mobiles. 👍

[@anonymoussound2696]

@@euansmith3699 yup why else do u think the queen has so many corgi’s .

[@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477]

Peddled? I had to row the entire Westerscheld just to watchna single youtube video

[@OliviaSilvaCompositora]

No, we don't have water in Portugal. We're actually going through a severe drought right now 😭 Seriously though, who are these people? 😂

[@hughtube5154]

Could you answer a serious question of mine, please? I used to work in an English hospital, and we would fill the patients' water jugs from the tap. A Portuguese co-worker who had just started working there was amazed (in a horrified kind of way) and just couldn't get it through his head we would do that. So, is the tap water in Portugal unsafe to drink, or do you give your patients bottled mineral water instead?

[@OliviaSilvaCompositora]

@@hughtube5154 Tap water is perfectly fine in Portugal. And from what I've heard, they serve tap water to patients in hospitals. I dont know, maybe your colleague worked in a super fancy private hospital where they served bottled water, or had no experience in Portugal before to know anything about it. It's only a psychological thing really, because tap water is as good and as safe as bottled water in Portugal

[@Chahlie]

OMG, I worked at a high end ski resort with chalets. This Spanish lady was adamant that she wanted agua caliente to make tea. We sent her a kettle. Nope. I think we ended up boiling the water in the kitchen and taking it over in a thermos. That being said, I went to Portugal once with a newish boyfriend and he said the rudest things very loudly in restaurants thinking nobody could possibly understand English. I was so embarrassed and I want to apologise for the boorish behaviour of some visitors :( It was especially sad because when I was out and about without him I met some of the nicest people ever. I have always travelled strictly alone since then.....

[@OliviaSilvaCompositora]

@@Chahlie Wow, that is rude and sad indeed, almost everybody in Portugal speaks English, young and older, and in the hotel/restaurant businesses speaking English is usually a requirement. So it's pretty sad when those situations happen, because you never know who is listening and if they understand what you're saying. And here in Portugal people are so nice and friendly, so it's extra rude to do something like that. That water issue that some people have shouldn't be an issue at all, at least here in Portugal the water is perfectly safe, even if you drink it directly from a stream in the mountains, Unless it has a sign saying "unsafe to drink", you're good to go

[@RichDoes..]

I visited the U.S.A. for the first time as a 10 yr old in 1973, I was asked if we had t.v.'s in Britain..... I politely explained a British guy invented the television.

[@littlepiggin]

The bit about accents made me laugh, especially as the pic had Cornwall in it - we actually have our own native language, which is very similar to Welsh as we used to be one people until the 5th Century.

[@danielcrafter9349]

It's the "so little drift" that got me... Other than Natives, largely the US has 1 language The British Isles have: English Welsh Gaelic (Irish) Gaelic (Scot) Kernish And a version of Icelandic spoken in the Hebredies And that's before we get into regional variations

[@karstenstormiversen4837]

@@danielcrafter9349 I think you ment Old Norse and not Icelandic. Since Iceland was inhabit by Norwegian vikings. And even modern English is just a big soup of languages as Old Norse,French,German and other local native languages spoken on the islands known as the Great Britain today.

[@CBOANDALUCIA]

May I ask? I thougth the Cornish language was lost in the XVIII century. Are you trying to reborn it? Aren't lost?

[@littlepiggin]

@@CBOANDALUCIA there are still people who speak Kernewek (Cornish), and more people are learning it every year ☺️ We hope to one day teach Cornish in schools in Cornwall, so that children can learn the language from a young age again

[@CBOANDALUCIA]

@@littlepiggin Sounds great! Good luck. Oh, and it's similar to the Wells, or it's more like the Gaelic Scotish?

[@JCBug555]

I'm an American (Texan) and I'm annoyed that there are Americans who think like this. 🤦‍♀️

[@JennaGetsCreative]

The split heritage question actually reminded me of my cousin in the opposite situation. She was visiting us in Canada from Norway and asked me if everybody else walking down the street near us knew she was a foreigner. She was worried she stuck out. I'm like Vanya, seriously? You're a conservatively but fashionably dressed 5'6 brown-eyed brunette walking around a suburban street 30 minutes north of the Washington border. Nobody's giving you a second look. Nobody's going to guess you might not be from here until they hear your accent.

[@Max-bj5lw]

my mom texted me the other day saying "I hope you are watching the war and feel happy to be an American. I sure am!! " what the fuck?

[@evan]

im sorry wtf

[@IceMetalPunk]

Was it... was it meant to be like, "because we'd never have wars in America, so you're safer here"? Or... I mean, that's obviously ridiculous, but I can't imagine any other reason she'd think the Russian-Ukranian war would make you "happy to be an American".

[@emileduvernois6680]

I would like to know what she meant, if anybody can hint at an explanation.

[@billyshearstone1012]

it’s simply criminal that this man doesn’t have more subscribers. as someone from the nave regnide era; the content has always been quality

[@kipters]

Fun fact about taking public transportation to work: in Italy we have a special insurance that covers accidents on the job (in addition to normal universal health care). This insurance will also cover your commute, but only if you're using public transportation when it's available

[@pe.bo.5038]

👎That's BS!-"Any"commute is insured in the EU!👎

[@kipters]

@@pe.bo.5038 not in Italy, not getting into Italian law stuff but it was decided by the Cassazione (our supreme court) with sentence 17544/2004. In that sentence an employee was denied recognition of their work-related injury by the Cassazione court because he used his own moped even if he could have used public transportation instead

[@pe.bo.5038]

@@kipters Not going to argue,as driving a motorcycle in Italy is close to a death-wish!-But this was 20 years ago,and the European Court of Justice,nowadays, would kick such a verdict to the curb!---Today you ARE insured,but only if there is not any interruption on your commute home!

[@kipters]

@@pe.bo.5038 maybe that would be overturned, but until that happens it stays in effect. When I had my work-safety training in 2018 the instructor told us it was still in effect

[@nh1172]

This reminds me of watching videos of Americans trying to name other countries and saying things like "Africa". Same cringe and laugh-so-you-don't-cry emotions.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Maybe they just said "South" too low to hear? 😂

[@Sousyned]

I remember a thing years ago, asking people from the US to name a country starting with U. Utah was a common answer 🤦🏽‍♀️ , no one said United States of America. 😂

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@Sousyned See, and even though I'm from the US, my first thought was Uganda 😂

[@Jamykat]

As an HR person I can tell you the "bus" thing is ilegal. You can only ask if they have reliable transportation and if they get there on time is a non issue. But yes our department is constantly coaching managers about terrible things they do. They make our jobs harder 🙄

[@dominictemple]

9:25 that question as a British person. Things happened, that in retrospect, are to be considered regretful, but they were different times and different countries and if they want to visit their historical artefacts the British Museum is open most days 10am to 5pm.

[@sethwooten5678]

I got demoted for not having a car 3 weeks after my promotion to assistant manager. 100% attendance rating, never late. The owner of the company told me she never would have promoted me if she knew I didn't have a car. I worked there for almost 2 years. I was angry. My coworker told me to go outside for a bit, take a break, and cool off. He gave me a cigarette. I don't smoke. I live in Tulsa, so it was like 100° w 70% humidity, so this little break didn't help. I came back in about 10 min later more pissed than when I went out. Barged into the owners office flipped her off and told her to "go eff yourself you snobby c*nt". This is a tactic companies use bc if you quit there's no liability for them to pay unemployment. If I get fired I could have had that miniscule unemployment claim. The lesson here is get fired on purpose. Don't quit bc that's what they want to reduce their liability.

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

"When you're born, you get a free ticket to The Freakshow.....When you're born in America You get a front row seat!" (George Carlin)

[@B-A-L]

Should be 'When you're born in America you become the star attraction!'

[@wrydfell3932]

The post at 2:50, saying no tech. Big talk from a country that barely has contactless cards and has to use stuff like venmo and cashapp because they can't do bank transfers

[@lindyashford7744]

‘The cringe hurts…… it hurts …….. it hurts my brain…’ this had me howling!

[@Anna-B]

As an American, I’m very disappointed in our internet representation

[@ethanxanderlee]

How about your offline representation?

[@Anna-B]

@@ethanxanderlee I feel like the people I know in real life aren’t as stupid as people you see online

[@tomrogue13]

@@Anna-B i know some dumb ones don't worry.

[@euansmith3699]

I was about to rally to the defence of your nation by listing all of the American KZbinrs that I think are great... but then I realized that they are mainly Canadian.🤪🍁

[@valerietaylor9615]

Americans call everything they dislike “Communism”.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

It's so telling to me, as an Oregonian (US), that every person from outside of the US that visits or knows an American, can see how bad it is here.... Yet, somehow, just bringing it up to an American will cause such an emotional rollercoaster about how things are and the way things are done... Like they believe somehow, they are teaching you something about character... That they will literally fight you for criticizing anything American. It scares me every day.

[@Shaybay2484]

If my boss kept pestering me to buy a car, I would demand a raise. Probably get fired for that though...

[@j.p.h.8126]

Exactly or just ask the boss to provide a car if its so important. :)

[@emmakatemedina]

The car one hit me. My job or performance has never been affected by the fact that I take the bus to work, yet several of my (older) manager and coworkers have talked to me about "you should have a car", "when are you getting a car?" maybe never! My parents were too busy to teach me as a teenager and I moved out at 18. Many friends/exes have said they would teach me and never followed through, even when asked, for more than one lesson. Leave me alone! I get by just fine without it and I'm perfectly happy having the extra money to have a nicer place to live than a car/insurance payment.

[@chaoticgoodgh0st286]

Socialism does not equal communism. The main difference is that under communism, most property and economic resources are owned and controlled by the state (rather than individual citizens); under socialism, all citizens share equally in economic resources as allocated by a democratically-elected government. A quick Google search ^ 😂😅

[@Greenwood4727]

not to mention there are so many forms of communism, maoism, lenninsim, stalinism, and many other variation

[@keylynwascom367]

I remember back in 2nd grade, I didn't have lunch money one day. I already went through the food line and reached the cashier counter. They rang up my student id card. Saw that there was no money on it. So they took my food I ordered, and came back with a cheese sandwich. With white bread. no sauce. only drink choice was milk. and told me have a good day. That was 10 years ago. In an American public school. IN THE CHICAGO SUBURBAN AREA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!!

[@jurgentreue1200]

As an Australian, I don't really understand this school lunch thing.

[@nysaea]

That's just horrifying. I'm also willing to bet most people who defend that system have, at some point in their life, used the "think of the children" argument against something they don't like. People treat their dogs better than that.

[@sammymarrco2]

@@jurgentreue1200 unless you can prove your low income you have to pay for your food or bring your own

[@themanwithaplan5425]

I feel like every time I see him, he gets more and more British!

[@jeremyblade7561]

Want some irony? There is one day we Americans refer to in the British format... The 4th of July. The day we declared independence from... Britain...

[@shimmyalot]

Ok, so horses did first originate in North America but around 10,000 years ago all the North American horses died out. Thankfully by that time horses had already migrated to Europe and Asia via the bearing straight so European explorers and Spanish Conquistadors were able to reintroduce horses to North America in the 1400s and by the 1700s, there was an estimated 2 million horses in the US.

[@CBOANDALUCIA]

The horses and the cowboys, yes.

[@ichl46]

I'm sorry for this super late and not related post, but why do you always say "conquistadors"? That word doesn't exist. If you want to say the Spanish word, that's fine. But the plural is "conquistadorEs", with a "e". But you literally have a word for that in English. Just say "conquerors"

[@shimmyalot]

@ichl46 because that's the English way of spelling it. I'm not Spanish, nor do I speak Spanish, so I use English spelling. You seem to speak both languages. I'm sure you're aware that there are several words meaning the same thing in the 2 languages that are spelled only slightly different.

[@bardu133]

I almost called my family back home when the USA news reporter announced that NATO has positioned their troops all over Balkans this week, in anticipation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict development. My husband assured me they meant Baltics.... which does have sense... I guess it is all potato-potato to USA 😂

[@siranoush6999]

Oh how I wish that were just an American thing! Our foreign secretary in the UK doesn't know the difference between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea! And she's the effing foreign secretary!

[@darkiee69]

@@siranoush6999 Lizzie isn't the sharpest spoon, is she.. 😉

[@liriel01]

@@darkiee69 honest question. Is that the woman who wants to be Prime Minister?

[@darkiee69]

@@liriel01 One of them.

[@liriel01]

@@darkiee69 thank you.

[@sigzil1985]

"my boss has had multiple talks with me about my proclivity for the bus" is the most bizarre sentence I've ever heard.

[@danielbliss1988]

Also, anyone remember when Rick Mercer on Canadian TV went to Mount Rushmore to interview tourists at the presidential monument about their opinions on drilling for oil THROUGH the monument and got the most terrifyingly hilarious answers? Part of his regular segment "Talking To Americans! which also included him getting people to sign a petition preventing Canada from disposing of senior citizens by leaving them on ice floes. He even punked a Harvard professor getting him to criticize "resumption of the Saskatchewan seal hunt" and a Princeton politics student getting him to congratulate "PM Tim Horton on his double-double"

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

He got George W Bush to congratulate PM Jean Poutine

[@eclowe6594]

And this is why, as an American (especially living in a *very* red area) I get looked at like I have 3 heads when I say I wanna leave once I can assure I can afford taxes and such til I can renounce (I really lose them when I say I wanna renounce)

[@nh1172]

What is renounce? I mean, I know the definition but it feels like you are using this in a specific American context/meaning... What do you mean? Renounce what, America? Can you do that?!

[@LovelyLawla]

it blows my mind that Americans are expected to pay tax to the US as well as paying tax where they live outside the US!

[@euansmith3699]

@@LovelyLawla What the heck?! Do expats still get to vote in US elections; or is this a case of taxation without representation?

[@LovelyLawla]

@@euansmith3699 Personally I have no idea of the finer details as I am from the UK, I've just heard it from Americans who have moved abroad temporarily (say to study and do a few years work as a graduate) and they are still paying tax to the US and the country they live in vs Americans who have permanently moved away (say with a partner who has parents/family overseas) and they renounce their citizen ship so they can "fully" bring up their family in the same country as the in-laws, for example. EC Lowe might be able to give more insight about voting rights. :)

[@eclowe6594]

@@nh1172 renounce citizenship. If you are a citizen of the USA, at the very least you have to file a tax return every single year even if you have no residence in the USA. And they add extra forms to make it even more complicated because you're living abroad. If you make under a certain amount (I believe it's currently about $170,000 US equivalent) you pay very little to no taxes unless you mess the forms up (which is apparently pretty easy to do) but there's stipulations with that. Certain industries and such you have to pay USA income tax on top of whatever you're paying where you live. We're one of only 2 countries in the world that does this and the other one has been sanctioned by the UN for it. Even if you don't owe any taxes you're still at least paying to file because you have to file the stupid foreign earned income form (regular tax returns don't have a filling fee unless you have a "complex" filling with extra forms like this). The only way to not have to do that is by renouncing your USA citizenship. The only way you can renounce is by doing the following: 1. Obtain or have (like if you got dual at birth) full citizenship in a country the USA considers to be an ally, they must believe the county has a certain level of freedom and human autonomy, they also must deem it safe at the time you're renouncing (for example, the USA has generally considered Ukraine to be an acceptable country to hold citizenship in and renounce US citizenship, but for the past several months there's been a freeze that accepts renunciation for people whose other citizenship is there). So basically the USA can say "nah we don't like your other citizenship. You're still a US citizen" 2. Have properly completed your taxes for the last 5 years. 3. Not have any debts to the US government including federal student loans. 4. Reasonably prove that you don't have debts to US companies or that you have an agreement with them to continue paying after renouncing with acknowledgement of your other citizenship and address. 5. If you have screwed up your taxes in the past 5 years, or if you make more than that certain cutoff (which like I said above is somewhere around $170,000 US), or if your net worth is more than 2 million then you have to pay an exit tax which is essentially the US being like "well you didn't die here so we can't tax your restate so we're going to tax you like that now" 6. Complete a form and pay a ridiculous renunciation fee (currently $2350 US) 7. Cross your fingers that the USA doesn't use one of seveal reasons they have for denying your request to renounce. 8. Be on the USA's wall of shame forever because you renounced (they literally publish a list of full names of people who gave up their citizenship).