U.S. AMERICAN REACTS to the Dumbest Thing an American Has Said - Part 1

[@westfale520]

Ha ha, now I also believe the story that a friend told me a long time ago. A few years ago they went on vacation in the USA, my friend and a Dutchman and an Italian who share the hobby of motorcycling.They decided to spend their annual vacation riding a bike through the USA. At some point they took a motel room and had to show their ID at the reception. The guy at the reception then disappeared with the German, Italian and Dutch ID and did not come back. After 20 minutes there was the police. He had called the police because he had looked and found that these 3 states do not exist in the USA, so the IDs had to be fake. Only after the poets had informed him that these cards were genuine and that they came from Europe, he gave him their rooms, with the excuse that he would know only one country in Europe, namely Japan. Even the 2 policemen could not help laughing and apologized on behalf of all Americans with a strong shake of the head. 😄

Fortunately the cops weren't as dumb as you'd expect from a US cop.

[@conwayboezak335]

Dear God ...

[@annetteljungberg2912]

Good one 😂😂😂. Greetings from 🇩🇰

[@Harzer-Roller]

In the US, I was asked if we had telephones and cars in Germany. I was very surprised by this question. I told the young man that the car and telephone had been invented in my country. Just like the printing press, the electron microscope, the first jet fighter and the X-ray machine. He didn't know all that

[@solidsteel3634]

Most effective is to mention that it was a German who led the US to the moon 🙂

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

Sorry if you read history the telephone was invented by a Scots man named Alexander Graham bell

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

@@penguin8275 it was Alexander Graham Bell

[@Anthyrion]

But we shouldn't forget, that it was an american actor, who reunited germany: David Hasselhoff sung down the Berlin Wall! 😉 😁

[@olgahein4384]

@@penguin8275 It was Philipp Reis, 1861 he introduced the telephone officially in Frankfurt. I think you can guess what Bundesland that is?

[@Lupinemancer87]

Me and my brother is convince America isn't a real country, it's just a reality show that only exists for the entertainment of the rest of the world. Cuz there is no way people are actually that stupid, it has to be an act.

[@HrLBolle]

I like this one way to much

[@swiftigoth]

I really wish this were true and I lived in Canada or something and was just competing or acting... but with my experience with the corrupt "justice" (just ice) system, the (un)Healthcare system

[@MaxTargin0]

There’s only one episode in my life where an US-american has ever told me something weird. I was at Zurich airport talking to my friend in Portuguese, this guy came to us and asked me if I was from Argentina and before I could answer he stated how much he loves Argentina. When I said “nope, I’m Brazilian”, he couldn’t believe me and he said that he was familiar with Spanish specially the Argentine/nian accent and I don’t even look Brazilian, I did not have any reason to prove anything, but he was trying to be friendly so I showed him my passport. I refrained from asking him what he thought Brazilians looked like, because I knew I would cringe very hard in front of him. I know Portuguese and Spanish might sound similar depending on the accent, but if you are familiar with one of the languages you can never confuse one another. Oh another thing is that I am always “attacked” by some American when I mention that like many countries in the world we also have free healthcare, free education, parental leave, 30 days vacation and labor laws to protect workers. They always like to remind me that Brazil is a “3rd world” country and there are poor people here. I don’t say these things to pick on the US or its citizens, it’s just that Brazil being roughly the same size as the continental US, we might have a smaller population but 215 million is still lot, so if a developing country plagued by corruption can figure these things out, the US could do the same and even better… you’re not going to become communists.!🤣🤣🤣

[@KlavierMenn]

I feel ya, fellow brazilian. People seem to be mesmerized with the fact that we have healthcare for free and worker's right. And what's worse: brazilian saying to me that they want to move to US of A saying 'Well, there they'll pay me more' No, you will be stuck in a minimum wage job unless you have some way to prove that you're a professional in something. And you won't have any of the benefits that you have here.

[@andi4022]

I live in Vienna /Austria and I used to work in the inner city, so there are a lot of tourists around and I have a few stories. Here my favourites: 1.) One day I stood in front of the opera house. An elderly American couple asked me "do you know where we can find the opera?" Me pointing to the building behind my back: "There you are, this is the opera." Man: "No, we are searching for the OPERA." Me: yes I understand you... This IS the opera. Then the lady "whispered" to him (American style... So everybody around us could hear it) : "let's ask somebody else. Look at her, she seems uneducated, maybe she has never been at the opera." The man wanted to give me one more chance, took out his phone to show me a picture. Then he said very slow and loud... "Honey, we are looking for the O P E R A. Look, it's this building." Me getting furious: "Call me honey once more and I will kick your entitled as* so hard, so you will fly to SYDNEY AUSTRALIA!! There you will find THIS building." 2) Me walking down the street on my way home, smoking a cigarette. A group of Americans crossed my path, stopped me and started ranting... "How dare you to smoke in public! This is not allowed!" Me: Well actually it is allowed. Them: no!! In XY (an american state I forgot) it is not allowed. We are from XY, so you must not smoke, when we are around. You are harming our health... Blabla" Me laughing: You are in Austria. I don't care about XY laws. Let me pass and shut the f*** off. Them: we are free to say whatever we want! You know the word freedom? I sat down on the pavement, opened a bottle of beer and said "OK... So let's talk about freedom." Till today, I have no clue, why they ran away from me... I'm a harmless elderly lady... Maybe because of my green hair..... Hmmm.... Yeah I guess this was the problem. 😂😂😂

[@twinmama42]

I bet you have black lipstick, too. Giving STS a run for their money.

[@andi4022]

@@twinmama42 No black lipstick, since the 80s. "I wü wieda ham... I fühl mi do so alan.." (Oida... Mundart schreiben ist schwerer als Englisch 😅)

[@arnodobler1096]

@@andi4022 leiwand

[@NateLawson]

That's incredible! I wish I could have been there to witness that!

[@annasaddiction5129]

The Beer bottle opening in Public was the best Argument.

[@1111post]

Mine is short but beautiful. Once going through Immigration in some European country, we were standing in line with about 100 other people. When it was our turn with the officer, this American couple came from way behind, cut in line and simply passed us hitting us with their backpacks and stood in front of the officer. As my wife, the immigration officer and I stared astonished and in disbelief, the woman just turned her head, looked at us and with a unsympathetic and cold grin said: We're American. The officer asked them what they were doing and the lady replied, while taking our her documents from her purse and in a low, whispery voice: Oh, We're A-ME-RI-CANS, and we have to make it to our flight. To this day, I can still hear in my head the officer screaming at them to go to the end of the line.

[@fionagregory9147]

Good. They need to learn to queue like we all do in the UK.

[@HrLBolle]

@@fionagregory9147 not just that but how to read the flippin time and watch-face

[@eva1585]

"We're American" ... We can tell.

[@HerbertGünther-t2n]

Yup i dont believe thats real simply because of "some european country". Lol. Noone who has ever been to europe would refer to the place they have been as "some european country". I call bullshit.

[@1111post]

@@HerbertGünther-t2n It’s just irrelevant. It happened in Germany but could have perfectly been anywhere else. As an American, you might find it hard to believe because it’s shameful. Very shameful. For the rest of us, it’s just normal. Call it bullshit if you want: just read the rest of 100000000 comments in this thread alone.

[@jfrancobelge]

Frenchman here. I visited the U.S. twice when I was younger. Each time I came across people who seemed really surprised that I was indeed there as a tourist, and that I had no intent to stay, look for work.. in other words immigrate, legally or not. As if it was beyond their understanding that, even if I enjoyed visiting the U.S. I was perfectly happy to live where I lived and had no plan to leave my place.

[@Phiyedough]

That one man obviously confused "nationality" with "ancestry" or "ethnicity" and I've heard other examples of that. Expats who have been living in Germany and return to USA to visit family or friends. They get talking to strangers who claim to be German because their great grandparents were German. The best policy in such cases would be reply to them in German!

[@KlavierMenn]

Lmao, I never understood that thing. Sure, you have some ancestry in Europe and dats cool and all.... but so does virtually everyone you'll me in the _entire continent_ . I, myself have some Portuguese/Italian roots and am from Brazil.

[@alinac5512]

I heard this story from this amarican KZbinr who moved to Germany for some time and than went back to the us. Since she kinda missed Germany she tried to join a "German club" in the us, not knowing it was just some racist clubhouse for rich people to jerk themselves off about ancestry. She lived in Germany for some time, she speakes fluent German, went there and asked in German what the procedure to join is, noone understood German, so she asked in English, she isn't exactly white so she got stared at and explained that you need to proof german ancestry to join. I will never understand why americans can't understand that you country is where your home is. If all my parents grandparents etc were from Sweden/Brazil/Nigeria/whatever id still be German and only German cause that's where ive lived for the majority of my life and felt at home.

[@nitka711]

@@alinac5512 exactly how I think and feel. I was actually born in Poland, but my Great Grandfather was German, which enabled my family to move to Germany as Spätaussiedler. My Mom, siblings and I got the German passport instantly because of it. Anyway. I grew up here, I went to School here, I speak better German than Polish, I think and dream in German. Therefor, I AM German. I would never go around saying I am Polish even though I have been born there. I would rather say I have Polish roots. That US custom of saying they are xyz because their Great Great Grandfather twice removed was xyz is bonkers.

[@alinac5512]

@@nitka711 very true :)

[@uingaeoc3905]

Like all the Muricans who claim they are 'Oiriush' they can't be. I never come across Yanks who say they are 'English', 'Scots' or 'Welsh'. Biden is a perfect example - he has one distant cousin from Ireland, but he is descended from generations of English, his surname is a give away!

[@GumnutLaneJewellery]

Hey Nate, I have 2 doozies for you! I was in a jeans shop in Seattle and the male shop assistant asked me if he could help me and I said no I was just browsing for the moment, he said "you're not from around here are you"? I said No, he asked where I was from, I said Australia and he said " so tell me, what's it like living there"? I so told him a little bit about Australia, then he said " So do all Europeans speak such good English and what's my true language"? ( this emoji 😳was my exact expression) The next one really got me in a fit of the giggles, Again when asked where I was from and I said Australia this person said " Oh, I love Australia, I have always wanted to go there, but I have heard it's a long trip, how long did it take you to drive here"? LMAO

[@simonpowell2559]

My favourite: when I was in the States. " your English is very good, where are you from?" England "Oh and what language do you speak in your country?"

[@paulaalvarenga1362]

😂😂

[@seabeam]

I'm English and an American asked me what we eat for Thanksgiving dinner in England. She also asked me what we do on 4th July. I said 'we mourn'.

[@keltickelly81]

My sister and I were camping in Upstate New York. Met and chatted with 2 ladies from Florida. They asked where we were from so we said Canada. They said "like born there?" We were like " um....yes."

[@lisahood1389]

Another one…. I sing in a worldwide women’s barbershop Harmony organization. Every year we have our big International Contest and convention, often held in the US. 10,000 people fly in from around the world, but the majority of the members live all over the US. In 2007 it was held in Canada, in Calgary, Alberta. Well, that FREAKED out so many US choruses and quartets, because most of them had never travelled outside the US, let alone to Canada. The amount of absolutely stupid questions we all received about Canada, like do we have cars, banks, shopping malls, television, internet, nice restaurants etc. And could they drive there? We’re there roads to get there?? Also, so many were asking about what kind of coats and boots they should bring. They were so worried about the snowy wasteland they had pictured in their head. My god…… the ignorance boggles the mind sometimes.

[@Monica-gc5dh]

Canada and the US share a border...so how can they be so ignorant about their neighbours? Especially when they are so similar culturally and speak the same language...

[@mish375]

@@Monica-gc5dh They don't know anything about us is the answer. They think when they cross the border, Canada magically becomes snow. In reality we have seasons.

[@jessgibson4790]

My wife and I came upon an American lady with a guide at Ankor Wat, Camboia. She asked him what a particular building was an he told her it was a library. She then said," What did they keep in there?" We give full marks to the guide for keeping a straight face as he was facing us and we were crying with laughter. He calmly replied,"Books". That was it couldn't keep it quiet no more!!!!

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

I studied a year of High School in MA in the mid 80ies. Got a couple of stupid questions, the Sweden/Swiss thing, where's the Post Office in Sweden?, and ofc Polar Bears, but in general people were quite knowledgeable. I used to know all US states and state capitals, and where they are, but memory fades over time. I still probably know more of the US geography than many Americans though

[@79BlackRose]

I am from the UK. It is common here for people to have a decent grasp of world geography and certainly UK geography. What baffles me is that not only do many US Americans struggle with world geography, but they even struggle with US geography!

[@trinahohaia8213]

I live in Australia and I was told you Australians celebrate Christmas in the summer I told her we celebrate Christmas on 25th of December which happens to fall in summer in Australia. That spun her out.

[@oh8wingman]

Although it didn't happen to me I overheard what was going on. I was at Canadian Customs coming back into Canada and there was a car with American plates in front of me. The Customs Officer asked the driver of the car if they had their passports and the guy came unglued. He said he had checked and he knew they didn't have to have passports to get into Canada and then he wanted to see the Officers superior and discuss it with him. The Officer, probably having heard this more than once, told the driver to go through and park behind the building and someone would be out to talk to him so they went around to the back of the building. I passed through very quickly but being nosy I wanted to see where this was headed. I pulled into the space next to the American's car and waited. In a minute a Customs Officer came out and approached the car. Well, the driver was ready for bear. He got out of the car and started shouting at the Officer. He wanted to know what the hell kind of operation they were running here and made threats that he was going to call his congressman about being detained for no reason along with a plethora of other complaints and slurs. The Officer, to his credit, waited until the driver ran out of steam as most people do. He then said very politely, "Sir, we know you don't need an American passport to get into Canada. We ask the question as a courtesy to you. You see Sir, whether you know it or not, you will need an American passport to get back into the U.S. If you can't produce passports for everyone in the vehicle when you try to re-enter the States you will not be allowed to cross and it could take up to three days before you can be identified as an American citizen and given entry." The driver, looked dumfounded and said, "I didn't know that" where upon the Officer again asked if they had passports. The driver said, no, they didn't have passports, and then asked what he should do now. The officer gave him a business card told him to turn around and go back to U.S. Customs and when they ask for passports have them phone me and I'll vouch for you. They left and the Officer asked if I had a problem and I said, "No. I just wanted to see how all that worked out." The Officer explained to me that he had to do that about six times a day. I asked what would happen to me if I didn't have a passport. He said they would ask for my drivers license and a S.I.N number (Social Security in the states), run them through the computer and if everything checked out I'd be on my way. Right about then he received a phone call and he explained that the people had just crossed but didn't know they needed passports. In retrospect, I really hope that family got their passports and came back again to visit Canada. They just might have a good time here.

[@ileana8360]

What a beautiful twist! Why has he been so other the top and insulting? Why didn´t he just ask at the entry point why they are asked this question? He probably would have got the answer that he needs one to return into his own country. But hey, entitle people always blame others (in this case the foreign country) and get mad at them. US Americans do not have the monopoly on beeing uneducated Karens, but sadly they account for a high percentage.

[@oh8wingman]

@@ileana8360 If I was to guess I would say that that family had never been out of the US and had saved and planned their vacation for a long time. I think he got so upset was because he had checked on the passport situation and when challenged he thought Canadian Customs was playing tough guy just like so many officials do in the US and he was pushing back. The reason I believe this was once he became aware of the true facts he calmed right down and realized that he had made a mistake.

[@methos4866]

@@ileana8360 i mean there is the stereotype of Americans being very entitled thinking that the world revolves around America. I would hazard a guess and say it had to do with that.

[@Squisky]

So. I had someone visiting from the UK. I cocked up going to Niagara and ended up at Canada Customs. They called us aside. Looked at all our driver's licenses. There were 4 of us. They looked at thr UK license and said. All good here. Here's how you go back and hit Niagara. UK resident. Not Canadian. We have common sense here. This UK guy isn't trying to sneak into thr US. We're just trying to go see water fall off a high cliff.

[@WarDog793]

Hmmm, things must have changed since 1994 when a friend and I went to Winnipeg for a weekend. We were not asked for our passports when we returned to the U.S. Good thing, too!

[@69quato]

When it comes to geography you can get weird stuff in Europe as well from younger people some times - it might just have to do something with a change of priority in teaching or that it doesn't concern peoples lives as much - but as an older guy I'm quite often shocked that younger guys I work with often lack a sense of where most of the smaller EUROPEAN countries are - and they work in logistics!

[@JohnHMarsden]

I am English, and my family was on holiday in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Attending a BBQ my American host suggest a water fight saying ' It's the Brits versus the English...we didn't know which side we were on. Plus, I was in Mobile, Alabama shopping in a store called Michaels, and two staff members asked me do ALL English women have hairy armpits.

[@xjrlionheart4423]

😆

[@alexandermills9965]

I'm from the UK as well my story is this. I met an American couple in central London who looked about mid 50's early 60's at most and they commented how great everyone can speak English. 1. Our country has the name of our language in the title. 2. What language were you expected? 3. What language do you speak? Don't they remember their civil war fleeing from the UK?

[@mish375]

​@@alexandermills9965I mean, who would have thought that the English people would speak...English? 😅😅😅 That's just hilarious to me and also baffling.

[@hinoron6528]

@@alexandermills9965 RE: point #3. No, they do not. They would be utterly confused by your question.

[@johnam1234]

I really enjoyed to these videos stories. I have meet and talked to many from USA visiting in Canada and when I visited family friends just over the border to USA. Many didn’t learn anything true about the world and believed US is the world.

[@sergioaccioly5219]

To make americans feel batter, you don't have the monopoly on stupid: I'm from Brazil, South America. My family went to the best schools available (very good ones). This story is from my brother, in the 70s. In high school, the geography teacher was explaining the European Economic Community, the economic treaty that was one of the foundations of the European Union (still decadesaway from being created). Some ditzy girls, trying to show the teacher she was interested, asked at which year Brazil had joined the EEC. The poor teacher started explaining that Brazil was in another continent, but couldn't bring himself to do it. He settled by saying Brazil wasn't part of the EEC.

[@zeisselgaertner3212]

Even in Europe you can get shocked sometimes. A friend and I spent some days in Freiburg and we decided to do a little grocery shopping tour to Colmar in France which is just 10 km (6 miles) away from the frontier. So at the check out we both spoke French to the cashier but German among each other. Then that young lady of like 20 years aked us: Is this English ? We both were absolutely speechless. 😫

[@michaelschuckart2217]

MAYBEEEeeee you didn't speak one of the local dialects but "hochdeutsch", so your language was not the german the cashier was used to?

[@olgahein4384]

@@michaelschuckart2217 Living in Freiburg, i have to confirm that french people at the german/french border are not used to hearing german at all. Most folks here on german side grow up billingual, we also have countless french/german schools of all kinds. Also, a fench would rather eat their tongue than speak anything but french and they all expect us germans to speak french with them, especially in the area that they still consider french soil (after the americans gave that part of Germany to them as a pitty gift after WWII for the french loosing another war to Germany). We are all well aware of it, and those of us who don't want to or can't speak french usually switch to english, as that is slightly more likely to get them to answer at least. So the french who come over to us all the time (and i mean ALL THE TIME) are used to germans speaking to them in french or at the most in english and have probably never heard a word of german at all (even those who learned it at school i guess).

[@zeisselgaertner3212]

@@olgahein4384 Ich hab auf der KaJo auch schon Bäckerei-Verkäuferinnen aus dem Elsass erlebt, die recht gut deutsch konnten. Die dürften aber eher Baujahr 1960 und früher gewesen sein. 😗 Und letztes Jahr war ich beim Auchan in Hagenau (nördlich von Straßburg). Die hatten sogar richtig Lust, deutsch zu reden. Hat mich sehr gefreut.

[@hinoron6528]

Actually that reminds me of a pretty big faux pas of my own. I was a private PSW visiting a patient who lived in a retirement home (as opposed to a nursing home, which has their own PSW staff) Since I had time to kill between client visits, I often hung out with a group of old ladies in the common areas who sat on the couches every day and chatted about things that shattered every naïve notion about sweet little old ladies (the day they learned about the existence of the penis museum in Iceland is seared into my brain forever! T_T) Anyway, they made me welcome for the 40 or so minutes I had to wait there 4 days a week, for nearly a year, when one day I asked one of the ladies with a strong accent what something or other was like in Germany where she grew up. "What? I'm not German. I'm *French*!" Then, and for the first time in a long time, I focused more of my attention on her accent itself. Yes, absolutely, unmistakably French. Naturally I immediately apologized, but remained puzzled. What was wrong with my brain? I know what both those accents sound like! It took me a while to figure it out. For whatever reason, this elderly French woman very strongly resembled my own grandmother, who was actually from Yugoslavia back when that was a country, but the WW2 German invasion when she was a young child meant the schools suddenly started teaching her German and making her speak it. At some point she'd emigrated to Canada and Bavarian culture was still a big part of her life (especially around Oktoberfest... "Bavarian" is more the culture of the germanic people than the national identity). Effectively, my Granny was pretty close to German in most respects (if technically not). Coming around to my point... at some point, because of the facial resemblance to my late Granny, my brain decided this thick accent in her English was a German one and not French, despite listening to her speak for many months. Brains are strange sometimes.

[@Pappa_66]

Thanks mate for a great story. These "videos"/things people are saying might seem as "lies" or "questionable", but I could tell you, or write a book about all the "questions" or arguments or what not I had during my 15 yrs. in the US. Unfortunately there is no reason to deny the reality. But in "defense" for my co-workers and other people, I was/am from Europe, Finland, so there were challenges enough to figure it out, where Europe is but Finland was way too difficult. And I have to admit, sometimes I just went along with the Polar Bears on the streets and penguins, Igloos, dog sledges, wolf packs and Reindeers as my pets.....Best Regards from Finland!! And of course, how long does it take to drive to Finland.

[@conwayboezak335]

Dear Lord ...

[@barbedwards2755]

As someone from the Downunderlands, I've been asked if it was true you can drive across the Auckland Harbour Bridge to Sydney. Both cities have similar bridges and the Tasman Sea between them.

[@real_Nessa]

Every time I see this I need to correct it: We also had concentration camps in Germany. As a guy from Switzerland he really should know this...

[@ivy5935]

An US American asked me once if we have pickles in germany and if i ever tried one. 🙃 Oh and one time when i lived in Canada for 7 months a us american asked me if I’ve ever been to America. I asked if he meant south or North America and then i told him I’ve been to Peru, (obviously) Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bolivia and chile. He then looked at me and said „ no silly, i mean America“. I was very confused until I realized he’s talking about the USA. It’s like he’s telling me he’s been to the country europe or Africa. Like- you do know that America is a continent, RIGHT? Of course im also often using the term „American“ when talking *about* us americans but when someone asks me if I’ve ever been to America i am not thinking about the USA im thinking of the two continents.

[@breeinatree4811]

My husband was in the US military, stationed in Germany. I volunteered at the ACS. We had things like dishes, pots and pans, ect for the military families that were new to the country. You wouldnt believe the things people put in their luggage because they thought that Germany wouldn't have things like drinking glasses or skillets.

[@gfimadcat]

That's not a uniquely American thing. Us Dutch folk have a tendency to bring our own toilet paper, potatoes, and peanut butter when we go on vacation with a camper van because God forbid another country in Europe may not have any of it. (Okay, the peanut butter is an exception because the *best* peanut butter ever is apparently a Dutch exclusivity...)

[@Honeybee-fi2xi]

It's even funnier that Americans and Canadians are getting in on this trend alot😂 makes it more wholesome in my opinion

[@mish375]

We Canadians have no problem with making fun of ourselves. But we also have a good laugh because we get some of the most ridiculous stereotypes from Americans.

[@Roses-lilac]

I spent the summer of 1974 in Cape Cod working as a waitress, summer job. I’m Irish. A family from Virginia were curious about my accent. I told them I was from Ireland. They looked blankly at me and asked how I had travelled to the Cape. I looked them straight in the eye and said “By bus”. They asked me how long the journey took. I said “a long time and it was very wet almost all the way.”. No clue…. My next favourite was the family who complimented me on my English. I told them I picked it up since I arrived… 3 months ago.

[@Touchpadse]

I live in Stockholm (Sweden) and I was once asked (at the central station) "Where do I go to see the polar bears?" by an American

[@GeschichtenUndGedanken]

Once I flew in from Germany and the people I stayed with decided to go skiing . So we drove to their house in New Hampshire and ended up being snowed in. They left me with the dog: “Oh, you are from Germany, right?”, “Yes!”, “Great! If you feel bored you could train the Puppy. It’ is no German Dog but practically gets wilder by the hour and we are at our wits end. … and we are stuck here anyway. The “puppy” turned out to be a 17 months old Golden Retriever who just discovered that destroying things and playing with girls (even if they are human) was quite entertaining as well and can be “helpful” if there’s too much energy and bunches of hormones are demanding to “breathe free”. I still wonder why I didn’t say:” I am sorry but that’s impossible. The German law requires that we are not allowed to train dogs for an entire year after we left the University and are specialized to handle Rottweiler, Dobermanns, Dachshunds and German Shepards on time or we will be expelled and won’t get our doctors degree. Maybe I am the Dummy here.

[@tinalettieri]

Oh, that is too funny! 😂😂😂

[@OrkarIsberEstar]

to your story - i can relate as austrian i was super confused that washington - the city and washington - the state were so far apart. i always thought that washington state is just surrounding washington DC - just like new york state is "around" new york city.

[@Bumbledora]

Okay, I'm adopted from South Korea, got to Stockholm when I was about 3 months old to parents born up north of Sweden. Anyway, growing up not looking Swedish I've heard a lot. From people pretty much all over the world since travelling a lot. But here's one: Visited dear American friends in a rural place in North Carolina (so beautiful). Suddenly, we run into one of their neighbours. He's retired and about near 80. My friend introduces me with my name and that I'm their friend from Sweden. He takes off his sunglasses, looks almost offended and says: "You don't look Swedish". Well duh! You do adopt from other countries in the U.S. too right... I didn't comment or say anything. Gave him my best smile and kind of felt sorry for his ignorance. It must be blissful to be so ignorant. 😂

[@biancawichard4057]

Im from Amsterdam The Netherlands and i was on vacation on a rounttrip in the US and Canada one evening in Boston i went to the hotelbar for a drink before bed and i started a conversation with the bartender. he asked me where i was from and i told him Amsterdam his respons was this: 'oh Amsterdam how is it to work in the redlight district' . i was shocked and confused and i answered did you just call me a prostetute he didnt understand my question, so i said nevermind and i went up to my room, it made me stop telling im from amsterdam when im abroad

[@Hale8R]

Omg 😂😂😂

[@marcuszaja6589]

Yeah, I know this video series. It's hilarious 😂. Though I don't know how much of it is true. I have a buddy that went a year of school to the US - Chicago ro be precise. He told me about lots of things he was asked. At some point he just told people, that in Germany we have anarchy. For instance, if we want to refuel our car we grab out AK-47 drive to the gas station and take what we need. So, some dumb "things" may be spawned by visitors ... There is a story from a German comedian who said he was asked by a young woman, why there are so many different languages in Europe. He said he replied that it's why, because Germany had lost the war. He said, she replied that she was so sorry for us. Erm ... 😂

[@uingaeoc3905]

I am English - I did not know there were 'German comedians'! Isn't German humour a very serious business and no laughing matter? Still was this the gentleman who said his Grandfather died in a concentration camp ... when he fell out of a machine gun tower. It wasn't a joke!

[@JackDKush]

I'm french when i was in high school i did an exchange of 2 weeks in washington ... one guy in the class asked me if we had electricity in france ...

[@MrGchiasson]

After watching the movies. 'Dumb & dumber' and 'Idiocracy'...I got scared. "I know those people!...I work with people like that!" When I was 15 I watched astronauts step on the moon 6/20/69! Now I watch people..."stupidder" should be an actual word.

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

Wow your own story about Wyoming was insane lol. I've never been to the US but I could pick out Wyoming (and most US states) on a map of the US and know the capital is Cheyenne. Other than knowing the Matthew Shepherd murder happened there, that's all I could tell you about Wyoming. Yet it's still more than some US Americans apparently 😳

[@shermans8236]

The geography teacher!!! 😮

[@lisahood1389]

I’m Canadian, living in Vancouver, which is on the Westcoast,right on the Pacific Ocean, about 3 hours N of Seattle. I was at a Convention in Hawaii for the week. It was in October. At the airport to come home I’m sitting next to a middle aged woman from Connecticut. She said she wasn’t happy about going home because there was a huge snowstorm. I said I was Canadian, and how happy I was that I lived in Vancouver, where it hardly snows at all and in fact it was a glorious fall day at home. And that I was thankful it was only a 5 1/2 hour flight, and I was sorry hers was was almost double that. She looked at me like I was crazy. I tried to convince her for the next 20 min, but she just wouldn’t believe that any part of Canada was closer to Hawaii than she was (on the other bloody side of the US!!) and wasn’t a snowy wasteland. I guess in her mind Canada was so far north it would take forever to get there. 🤦🏼‍♀️ She almost got mad at me at one point, because I wouldn’t “tell her the truth” I wish we had cell phones back then, so I could have shown her. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@uingaeoc3905]

Surely you met Yanks who believe that Alaska and Hawaii were islands off the south coast of California - they have a little map on their airline boarding pass to prove it.

[@TheVirdra]

Well I had both experiences. Smart and dumb Americans. The smarter ones I use to meet here in Germany and they are quite fun too. But once a had a conversation with a guy from Florida via discord voice chat. He did ask me a lot of questions about gaming first, which wasn't the dumb part of it. Then he mentioned my accent so I told him, I'm from Germany. And then he ask: "What kind of language do you speak?" I was thinking, he referred to my native so I told him. "My native language is German 'cause that's what we speak here normally." Suddenly he became a little pissed and asked again: "No you don't get it. What kind of language do you speak?" And I repeated and added: "... well when I talk to people from other countries I speak English." That pissed him off even more and he almost yelled at me: "No, you can't be German! Don't lie to me!" I was like: "uhm... I didn't lie to you... but why do you think I can't be German." Then.... he hit me with the following sentence: "Germans are not allowed to learn other languages. The nazis over there don't want their people to connect with other countries!"

[@wendwllhickey6426]

The problem he was from Florida there are idiots there

[@mish375]

Imagine his shock if you told him that English is a...wait for it...Germanic Language. I don't know if he could comprehend it.

[@TheVirdra]

@@mish375 ikr

[@mish375]

@@TheVirdra Indeed. Also the nazi comments get old really fast. I'm Canadian, but when I was a kid I used to get those comments all the time because my Germanic surname. I remember being like: you do realize my German ancestors came here in the 1700s so they had nothing to do with that. Also not all Germans supported the art-reject turned dictator (who was Austrian, btw). People are weird.

[@TheVirdra]

@@mish375 Indeed, they are. Which is why, when I meet Americans online, I almost never tell them where I'm from. If they've earnt my trust I do. However I don't care about saying it in the youtube comment section. They usually don't see me here. :)

[@hinoron6528]

Aha! You know I've seen several of these video compelations, but this one was new for me. It includes a lot of "Dumbest things an American has said TO another American" that I haven't yet seen. Happy I saw them here. Canadians could do this all day long, really. We know you guys way too well. :P

[@richardlandrum1966]

Yes they are real. "Head Start, left behind.....someone's losing ground here" -George Carlin

[@205hermanic]

'Excuse me, does the water go all the way round this island?' Florida sometime in 1990s........

[@SmashedGlass]

A Walmart employee refused to sell me alcohol once a few years ago when I presented my military (retired) ID card. She said it wasn't an acceptable form of ID in Florida. A Federal ID was not acceptable, in a state that only recently learned to wipe their ass from front to back instead of back to front. EDIT: and yes, I did post this comment before seeing Nate explain the same exact situation happened to him LOL

[@robinviden9148]

6 January 2022, I heard a lot of outrage from Americans around here for the lack of local public one-year commemorations of the US Capitol attack. I live in southwestern Norway. 🙄 If anything, 6 January is Three Kings' Day around here, and we’re still in the Christmas season. Coup attempts in foreign countries generally don’t change our calendar.

[@rainerader1182]

My father was a Black Italian and my mother looks like Cher with darker skin. I cannot tell you how many times someone said What are you? Even when my hair was blond (my hair is naturally dark, and red). I would say, actually I’m Satan, nice to meet you. Works every time😊

[@manueltapia1859]

The Switzerland guy was really funny the "we are in the ground floor "let's go to the seventh floor" made me laugh 😂😂

[@cecilialeitet2794]

Confusing Sweden and Switzerland is like confusing Alabama and Alaska, just saying. Stop doing it!

[@martinwoyzeck2634]

hahaha...that happened to me when I moved back to the USA after 20 yrs in S.E.Asia. I needed to get a new smartphone. Went to best buy. Got a phone. Then needed to see ID (I had only been back in the States for 5 days), so I showed them my American passport. They didn't know what it was. They said need to have a local drivers license or ID. So had to go first to motor vehicles get a ID card.

[@twinmama42]

There are some geography quizzes on Sporkle. A few months ago I took the "point to all 50 US states without outlines". One false point and the quiz is over. It took me as a German 3 or 4 times to get to 50. Show me any US American do this with Europe. The stories in these videos are hilarious and I totally believe they are true. When my husband and I visited the US in 1991 for the first time a very friendly lady in New Orleans asked me if Hitler was still alive. He would just have turned 102, so the question was valid, I guess...

[@uingaeoc3905]

NO WAY can most Americans point out every state on a map! They hardly know 'out-a-State'.

[@Maddrabbit1930]

Many Americans dont know their own states on a map, expecting them to know a map of Europe is an exorcize in futility.

[@twinmama42]

@@Maddrabbit1930 And that's a pity.

[@mish375]

Sporcle is a good resource though to learn geography. It helped me learn the French Departments (arrondissements) and also kept me updated on new countries (if there's a split) and name changes. I think more people should use that site because it would increase geographical literacy.

[@mish375]

​​@@Maddrabbit1930It's probably their educational system. In Canada, we find it baffling that we can memorize all or most of the US states, yet they know nothing about us. In one video the Americans thought Ontario (my province) and Saskatchewan were cities!!!!!!

[@denisdrumm971]

I've always had the feelings that certain types of knowledge like geography comes more naturally to Europeans, as you are confronted with it on a regular basis. So from a German point of view it often sounds strange when people point out that they do not have a good knowledge about geography cause their educational system is bad. Like as if it was their teachers responsability to teach it to them and otherwise this knowledge would have been excluded from them. I cannot really remember that things like the German states or the neighbouring countries were a huge topic in school (if at all), but still we somehow had at least a general idea of their existance. This seems to be different in the state and I am kind of wondering if this is only the schools "fault"

[@MrJerichoPumpkin]

well, I can make a wild guess: You learned geography in... drums roll... history class. Don't know "when" you start in Germany (here in Italy is fairly quick Ancient Egypt-Middle East, then increasingly slow down from Ancient Greece onward) but as soon as you study the Middle Ages, you can't avoid learning a lot of European geography. Rest of the world is a bit more left behind, but at least we are forced to learn something about it. And to be fair, I certainly have no great knowledge of US internal geography, I can distinguish the shape of a couple signature states and place them in the right spot, but that's it

[@mish375]

Here in Canada we also learn geography from an early age. But, my parents were also really involved in my learning as well. We always had an Atlas in the house to look at when describing other places in the world. (This was the 90s so pre-Google) Makes me wonder if there are Americans that take an interest in their children's education.

[@nike8081]

​@@MrJerichoPumpkin so in Italy you don't have Geography as separate class? In this class one would not just point countries but like discuss what shapes climate, layers of the Earth, what soils are good for farming, how they came about and where to find them in the world. Now that I think about it... there was barely any "point [country] and name capital" in this class 🤔

[@black4pienus]

I wanna thank that last person in the video for getting mad at a person for saying The Netherlands is next to Amsterdam. I'm Dutch and Americans get confused about that all the time. They think Amsterdam is a country or they think The Netherlands is Scandinavian or they think we speak Danish in The Netherlands. I could go on. lol

[@grahambeech4636]

Travelling in Ireland I was behind an American lady who tried to pay for her food in US dollars. She was getting very annoyed because she couldn't understand that US currency is not legal tender in other countries. I told the waitress to take the cash as she was effectively tipping her 75%.

[@Darren-sl7rp]

The black dude at the end was brilliant. Should be a stand up. Hes a natural lol

[@madarther]

i was in canada talking to an american couple and the man asked me where i was from so i tell him ( manchester ) so he then asks where is that in america ( ok i know there is a manchester in the u.s but i do have a very northern british accent )

[@kacywatson6314]

I’m Scottish living in Scotland. And I’m just shopping around in the big city, and an American tourist asks me where are the native Scottish reserves. So I said to them we don’t have or need reserves. The natives are all around you and they just couldn’t understand that the primary local population of Scotland are native. They can understand that the towns and cities and basically 100% of Scotland’s land is native land to Scotland and the people of Scotland are the natives , they were actually expecting that Scotland has separate native reserves like in the US like I am a Scottish native just out of work just paid. I want to do a little bit of shopping in the city built by my own people and this American just could not understand that the native Scottish people are the main population of Scotland and are modernised, I’ve got told that I should be ashamed of myself for wiping out my own people which never happened Also, while in Scotland, I have been told to get back to my own country by an American, but Scotland is my own home country, they literally told a native to leave their own homeland 😮

[@OrkarIsberEstar]

ah the good old education debate but hey let me give you some hope - we have morons too. Example, history class. We were taught all the important checkpoints the great wall of china passes, so Michael was called up for a test and asked "so where is the great wall of china located?" - meaning the important passages And michael goes "in greece" - that teacher facepalmed, took a deep breath and questioned his life choices. i was doing homework - math - in school at the table. gregor sits right on the opposing side of the table facing me - that is important so we sit face to face doing math homework. he looks at my homework and giggles. then starts laughing, than he cant hold back anymore and cries tears of laughter. Everyone in class is super confused "whats so funny?" and he points at my numbers "David writes his numbers upside down!" dude.... XD Phillip was called for a test infront of class in geography. Infornt iof him a hug world map. Teacher: "Phil, please show me any desert on the map" - the idea was since we were taught about all great deserts and what makes them unique he was allowed to choose the one he can speak about. But Phil was apparently not sure where any of these deserts were...and kept looking for one teacher "just point at any desert please" After 5 Minutes someone yells out to Phil "the yellow stuff! Just point at the yellow stuff anywhere"

[@ledsvik]

In Sweden you have to be 20 to buy anything over 3.5% alcohol level in a government controlled shop called Systembolaget. And you have to be 20 or above to purchase there. And even if it seems "close" it's a thing, nothing gets by, my brother that was 40 at the time got asked for ID. So it's a thing on any social media thing, when they "feel old" and got asked "for ID at Systembolaget". It's a thing for them. 🤣

[@ElaMongrella]

12:14 - There are concentration camp sites in Germany too, so gotta give Shannon that point back.

[@NateLawson]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@RustyDust101]

The birthplace of Hitler is in Austria. Braunau am Inn, to be exact. But to call concentration camp memorials 'beautiful history' is somewhat of a misnomer, wouldn't you say so? 🤔😳

[@ElaMongrella]

@@RustyDust101 Agreed. I'm just saying that they aren't just in Poland, but in Germany too, so telling her she was wrong for thinking they were in Germany was wrong of that guy.

[@Panbaneesha]

I'm German, and I was LITERALLY asked if Hitler was still in power - in 1990. 😨

[@wombatwilly1002]

LOL

[@themetricsystem7967]

Americans thinking the USA is the entire world is scary

[@johnam1234]

I really enjoyed your videos and comments and see many and experienced of these videos stories

[@xjrlionheart4423]

Nate, your video was long enough. 😄 A little bit longer and I must go to the doctor because of neck pain. Why? I was shaking my head consistently to the left and to the right. This hurts. 🤭 My goodness...

[@kalliopelovesbooks1375]

O.K., all's fair. It's kind a funny to laugh about the stereotypical dumb US-American. But every country has them - even Germany. First example: When I was a student at university I overheard some teens talking in the bus. We passed the main university building with it's big sign and name. One: "Hey, that's where they make Abitur, right?" - Second: "Ja, cool." Come on! You need an Abitur to enroll to university in Germany. My head was silently banging against the window. I just hoped they weren't on a Gymnasium on their way to higher education, because I was studying to become a teacher. And, oh h*ll, have I heard stupid things throughout my over 12 years of teaching now. Second example: I'm sitting in the audiotorium - still at university -, waiting for the lecture to begin. Two students - females, I'm ashamed to mention - sitting some rows in front of me. Each with their own smartphone. One: "I just wrote you a message on facebook. Have you seen it?" It takes her five seconds to turn to her friend and talk about whatever took her five minutes of typing on facebook. Really?!? The end.

[@manub.3847]

There are certainly extremely ignorant people in our country. I remember a kind of mini series of a regular TV show, where they asked our dear fellow citizens about the federal states, public holidays, etc. At some point I also realized that almost exclusively the stupidest answers were shown. One could almost get the impression that only people who hardly had any idea were also willing to express this to the public

[@101steel4]

I've been told i speak very good English, for someone who isn't an American. I'm English 😂

[@Mister__Jey]

During my school days at the end of the 90s, we had many exchange students from the USA but also Canada and most of them asked if Adolf Hitler was still alive or if he is still the president and they wondered why we could even have telephones in Germany and the Germany has only forest and that there would be no cities

[@muuphoenix]

I live in the UK and was once working doing merchandise for a band who were from Texas, they were really sweet and meant no harm so I don't want to mention who, but after a show we were all waiting outside for buses etc to come to load up etc, and the guitarist asks, 'So what are you doing for thanksgiving?' I was trying to calculate and work out when that even was, and he continues, 'What's the best 'home cooked style thanksgiving around here' (or words to that effect). So I asked if he meant a roast dinner, which is the British equivalent as in roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, veg, stuffing, meat, cranberry sauce etc. He insisted, 'no I'm not going to be at home tomorrow so I'll need to have my thanksgiving dinner in London' so I tried to explain ' But this is England, we don't have thanksgiving here' and he just says 'What do you mean, you guys speak English, you must have thanks giving, how do you celebrate thanksgiving then?' It was a long conversation, and he was sweet and polite and completely without malice but he wasn't the sharpest crayon in the box, even when I tried to explain it all seemed a bit beyond his understanding, luckily a sandwich shop locally had already begun their christmas menu so he had a turkey cranberry sauce and stuffing sandwich to fulfill his thanksgiving requirements... sort of. He could have gone for a roast dinner but he insisted it wasn't what he wanted.

[@ericlanglois3782]

Your story about the US Military ID was interesting to hear that it's different than up here in Canada. I'm in the Canadian Military and our Military ID is not a valid form of ID in Canada because it lacks certain information required of an ID. It's just for internal use within the Military.

[@Nightbar0n]

Most common : Do you speak american? My most common reply : No, only english.

[@ivy5935]

Oh, oh I remember a story that happened to me: I almost wasn’t able to get into the US because my last name has the letter „ö“ in it and the dude at the border said „we don’t have that letter in the US so your passport is incorrect“. I shit you not i laughed because i thought he was joking. I then had to explain to him that different countries have different letters that they use for their native languages.

[@stewartjones2370]

The education system is flawed

[@hinoron6528]

"What state is Wyoming in?" Welp... you now have a good idea how we Canadians feel when we encounter one of the 40-45% of Americans who cannot find our country on an unlabelled map (or ask us a question that demonstrates they clearly have no idea where it is).

[@julianbarber4708]

To paraphrase Bob Dylan.....'It's a wonder that they still know how to breathe'

[@davidaguilar8363]

I travel to Brazil, coworkers asked me if they had internet there.😂😢

[@arnodobler1096]

I hope there is a geography test in the US military, before hiring, after all 🚀🚀🤔 😉

[@Greenwood4727]

the first guy he was tired, didnt sleep, so i give him a pass, we all say and do things when we are tired

[@robertkirk4387]

I had the same problem when I was stationed in Gibraltar mate, they took it in the end

[@michellestella7477]

I tried to buy cigarettes in England using my german ID card and this employee said "no, we cannot accept that because i have no way of knowing if that's real or fake."

[@PaulTheFox1988]

I looked it up and it should be valid id, but I get why they might have said that, they have to err on the side of caution and deny sale if they aren't presented with a form of id that they can verify unfortunately. A German id card absolutely should have been accepted, but tbh I don't think most people will have seen one in the uk (I know I definitely haven't) so you'll run into people at shops who won't accept it as a form of id because they literally don't recognise it, hell, some shops refuse Scottish bank notes even though they are valid currency here. Your passport would have been a better option if you were carrying it, but that's dependent on you having it on hand.

[@Ichigoeki]

Oh god I just realized... I've met one of these people too. I used to live in one of the cities of Finnish Lapland. This one nice April day, I was walking around in the +5C weather with just my t-shirt on, as one does, when a past-his-middle-age American man stopped me, and with concern in his voice asked if I knew what was written on the shirt. I had bought it from an anime convention, and it said "CRIT HAPPENS" in bold yellow letters. My answer to him was just that "yeah I do. Come on, read it again. Do YOU actually know what it says?" He didn't catch my sarcasm, and started explaining that it's an offensive thing to have on a shirt in a public place. This man had actually managed to find his way into a sleepy industrial city in Finland, a country with one of the highest English literacy rates in the world, just to stop a local millenial due to his own inability to read English correctly. I was finally able to get my sarcastic answers through to him after a minute or two, making him leave. If I absolutely have to entertain an idiot during my daily tasks, might as well get some laughs out of it too.

[@rutgerniemeijer]

😂

[@rutgerniemeijer]

Greetings from the Netherlands! I did an internship in Inari once, so I know parts of Finnish Lapland.

[@chrisdisney7203]

As a yacht captain I had an American guest come up to me and ask the question, "Does this island have water all around it ?"

[@Bumbledora]

This was SO funny 😂😂😂

[@meghnac78]

I have a story about when I first moved here to the US and working at a Wendys. This girl came up to me and as I finished ringing her up she said that she really liked the colour of my skin and proceeded to ask where I had gotten my tan from. I am from India :)

[@steveturnbull9542]

I was standing at a urinal in Cancun doing well you know.....An American asked me while I'm peeing "what brings you here"? "An aeroplane why did you walk"?

[@snafufubar]

These are like the apocryphal story of the American tourist in the UK visiting Windsor Castle that has been there for 1,000 years, saying it was really nice, but why did they build it so close to the airport. And a quick p.s.....Amsterdam isn't the capital The Hague is.

[@MSRooky350z]

You should check the part about Amsterdam. It is the capital. The gov sits in Den Haag but Amsterdam is the official capital of the Netherlands

[@uingaeoc3905]

@@MSRooky350z Yes, the same confusion with the UK, London is the capital and Westminster is the seat of government. The concept of 'Greater London' to include both goes back only to 1964.

[@rutgerniemeijer]

As Dutch people we sometimes joke we have 2 capitals, one where laws are made, and one where they're broken. 😂 In all seriousness, while our government is in the Hague, Amsterdam is our capital city. It's a bit complicated to explain why that is, but it's just something that historically grew that way.

[@lesleyhawes6895]

Well in that case some Europeans also get it wrong. I went on to teach geography so I know you're right, but at school I was taught that the two cities, Amsterdam and den Hague shared the honour. The Hague being in charge of politics the Royal Family and money, and Amsterdam covering the rest!

[@jeremy1350]

Hi Nate. My father is from Connecticut. He fought in Viet Nam. In his warped mind, there was no other country to live in than the United States. My mother is from Quebec, Canada. He imported, impregnated, and naturalized her as his wife. When extended family began to move back to Canada, he got very upset. He had no idea that Canada could offer any semblance of life that we get in the U.S. (like it wasn't even a possibility in his mind). When I move to Canada 21 years ago, he lost his freaking mind. He never believed that there was any other place to live than the U.S. And he believed that and went to his grave warped and confused.

[@KimOfDrac]

Wen't to Boston, MA in 2006. I'm Swedish. Got many many stories😂

[@chickenlover657]

When I lived in chicago for a while, I had americans ask me ALL the time whether there were toilets in my country. Fun fact: my country is in frikkin CENTRAL EUROPE.

[@joemasters2270]

The French woman telling the bidet story FTW 😂

[@frankenreggaede]

Born 13th February, I waited for become age of 21, to have legal age before working some months in TN, went to bar with my other german co-workers for drinking some beer in a sports bar, the (underaged?) girl checked my ID for beeing legal age, she told me that I am not allowed to entry since the 13th month comes after March (3rd month)....

[@davidbaldwin1018]

Reference using an American ID in America. I was 25 and returned from a deployment and the bar I'd been going to since I was 15 wouldn't accept my military ID. So I got a beer from one of my underage friends.

[@cbtowers4841]

If a U.S. Military-issued, federal ID isn’t a “United States ID” then what is? Wow, common sense left the building. 😂

[@nomanomen4611]

😂 leider scheinen sich die SpongeBob Schwammkopfs diese Welt 🌍 besser vermehren zu können als der etwas intellektuelle besser gestellte 😢

[@GryLi]

Happened to me alot of times. Every American i met thought my country Denmark was the capital of Scandinavia. Or they expect the little mermaid to be as big as the statue of liberty. She is human sized.

[@thomasboddeker9093]

Hallo mein Freund Nate! Liebe Grüße an dich und deine Familie von Thomas aus dem schönen, fernen Deutschland! Ich bin Heizungsbauer und Gas und Wasserinstallateur und auch ich habe schon Wasser, Frischwasser aus einem Bidet getrunken und wie du schon richtig sagtest schmeckte das Wasser in Deutschland sehr gut und unser Wasser ist ja auch das am meisten und besten untersuchte Lebensmittel! Ich freue mich schon auf das nächste Video von und mit dir!

[@Buffyfrombflo]

Glad I found your videos, don't feel so alone in my embarrassment as an American anymore. Also Wyoming county in NY 😉 and we learned all 50 states in elementary school in western NY. Education differences across states is bad.

[@EllenKlever-c7k]

Geography is obviously not a topic at American schools....

[@RockyBobbieBuster]

I'm a 57yr old Englishman and I can name all 50 US states and their capitals,I wonder what percentage of Americans know the same things

[@oldtop4682]

We used to memorize all this at age 8. I don't know what they do now, but it isn't like it was when I went to school! Oh, and for some reason we had to memorize the state flowers and animals - most of the latter is lost on me now though.

[@uingaeoc3905]

I am 70yo Englishman. I went to a dreadful school, left at 15yo no qualifications at all. We learned geography with blank maps and had to fill in the names of the counties, the main cities and rivers. We did the same for nations of Europe and capital cities. We did the same for nations of the World and the main seas and oceans. For the US we did the States and major cities. It is a pleasurable way to learn.

[@tomkronberger8710]

@Nate-Lawson When I visited relatives in Alabama an american "knowing Austria well" asked me about the name of the present austrian emperor . Although not born in Austria but living there for decades I was a little bit confused and answered" Austria haven't had an emperor since 1918. Because Austria has been a republic since 1918 He replied you kidding me "everybody" knows austria is a monarchy😅😅😅 Since I have never met an emperor in my 48 (of 52) years of living in Austria, I wanted to know more and asked Have you been to Austria often? he replied: never before, why?