What is the Dumbest thing An American has said to You? || FOREIGN REACTS

[@LadyNikitaShark]

This is a story my American neighbor told me(we were living in Luxembourg). His mother, in the USA, wanted to send him a package by mail and went to the post office. The postal worker refused to send her package bc he said "you can't make up countries, Luxembourg doesn't exist". She had to go to another postal office to send the package bc the guy refused to belive Luxembourg was a country and actually existed, not even when she show it to him on Google maps. Yes, the country is tiny af but it exist lol

[@UserWalterbe]

Imagine trying to send something to San Marino. That can you not even really show on the map. - Typical situation of people getting involved with stuff that is none of their business. A local postal worker just need to check of the package is safe for transport in the postal system and has the appropriate postage. Of the destination address exist is not his problem. That is for the people upstream in the sorting center to figure out.

[@Vampirzaehnchen]

Not as tiny as Liechtenstein. :D

[@quecksilber457]

@@Vampirzaehnchen Damn you have been faster. I just wanted to write the same, but San Marino is smaller. Well then i go with Vatican City. Only 618 citizens overall and 453 citizens who really live there. :)

[@peterc.1618]

@@quecksilber457 Now we know why the Pope gets so few Christmas cards from the USA; the postal workers can't find the Vatican on the map. Perhaps they end up in the country called Moscow or Paris instead.

[@michellee7465]

My sister lives in Luxembourg, it’s tiny and gorgeous! 😍Far smaller countries in Europe, Monaco is the size of Hyde Park (London, Britain)….to name one. 😃

[@amelianowak4780]

A few years ago I went to the USA to visit my family. I'm Polish. One evening I went with my cousins to a bar in NY. Suddenly this guy came. He was loud (louder than an average American) and he wore a sweatshirt with big HARVARD letters. He wanted attention! When he was passing by, he overheard us speaking polish: he: what language is that? me: it's Polish he: oh, ok. So you are from .. Poland? I'm a New Yorker but i've been studying in Harvard. me: great...... he: where are you studying? me: at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow in Poland. he: hahahah that's funny! me: what's funny? he: everybody knows that universities are only in America. There are no universities outside USA! hahahha me: are you serious? my university was estabilished 100 years before Columbus discovered America... he: (unsure) ehhh.. you're lying! 🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀

[@volhan.p.9722]

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[@graemejohnson9025]

Next time you are talking to an American, tell them that the WiFi they are using, was invented in Australia.. There would be no WiFi worldwide if not for the Australian invention.. Have to go, my pet kangaroo is playing with my TV remote... 👻

[@amelianowak4780]

@@graemejohnson9025 hahha great answer! first 'tv' was also discovered by a Pole, cars by Germans, ans so on, so I have plenty examples in my head right now :) but at that time i was simply shocked :D

[@graemejohnson9025]

@@amelianowak4780 here is a sad one.. the second amendment they can carry Guns... last week there was 7 mass murders in America.. But not one gun carrying second amendment stopped it..

[@graemejohnson9025]

@@amelianowak4780 oh here is a question you ask an American.. is America on the top of the earth or the bottom? No one can prove which is the top or bottom of the earth.. We are amongst a billion stars, which way is up or down?

[@dianecomly6132]

I always feel better about myself after watching these videos!

[@foreignreacts]

I’m bout to stop It’s making me judge 🥲

[@annalisadalcero8093]

Me too🤦🏽‍♀️🤣

[@sudsfour4553]

A number of years ago, I was doing a newspaper crossword puzzle. This puzzle had been formulated by an American, and one clue was "British unit of weight". It turns out the answer was "kilo". The metric system is actually of French origin, not British. World-wide the metric system is used by virtually everyone with the notable exception of the US, which uses......the British system.

[@mariaobrien1747]

that is soooo American

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Nonononono. The US, obviously, uses the *US* system. They couldn't be using the British / Imperial system, because they kicked the brits out! Very silly of you not to know that. /irony (just in case)

[@alial.1419]

I'm german and was asked once if I ever met Hitler personally. It was three years ago and I was 16 at this time. I know that I look older than my age, but that old?

[@peterc.1618]

Someone tore out the last few pages of their history book?

[@Pandalka]

you didn't answer. did you meet him? 😂

[@michaelversace456]

WELL COME ON! ANSWER US! Did you meet him?!

[@RNS_Aurelius]

Discussing guns, someone said banning doesn't work. I said it has in Europe, to which he responded "No it doesn't people get stabbed all the time in London". I showed him that the US has more knife homicides per capita than the UK. His response "Well we have our second amendment and god given right to bear arms to protect ourselves." Sir, that is exactly what we're talking about.

[@simonleclercq4554]

Hello Swedish person here. What he was trying to say was that criminals gonna crime. And that they will commit crimes with or without legal access to guns. Either they will get a knife or they gonna get a black market gun. Now this is gonna be a Swedish problem but the amount of black market guns in our ghettos, mostly from Eastern Europe is insane and I would like to be armed if I lived in those areas instead of getting mugged and taking it lying down.

[@wfcoaker1398]

They don't seem to realize that by saying gun control won't work in their country, they are saying that the country they are so proud of isn't competent to protect its own citizens, something every other western country has done without batting an eye.

[@jaxcoss5790]

​@@simonleclercq4554Nope, that's not what he was saying.

[@robynglendining9268]

This is not stupidity, it’s ignorance fostered by big business and government to keep the people in their place. If they are not allowed to think outside the propaganda they cannot argue for improvement in their lives

[@kpt002]

I am Finnish and I spent a year as an exchange student in Denmark in High School. One of my friends there was an exchange student girl from California, U.S. She told me that when she first came to Denmark she thought it was the capital city of Sweden. Only after living there for some days (weeks??), someone told her that Denmark is a country not a town.. 😂😂😂

[@foreignreacts]

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[@kpt002]

@@foreignreacts I really enjoyed watching these reaction videos. My favourite story was the black American guy who was studying Spanish and the people just did not get it.. I mean I speak fluently four languages and in Europe it is not even a thing - and it definitely has nothing to do with one's skin colour.. 😅

[@toetagjeee]

ALL HAIL KALMAAR UNION. (Copenhagen was capital)

[@dengamleidiot]

Fantastic!

[@peterc.1618]

Had she not wondered why a capital city would have its own embassy in Washington DC?

[@zamani3535]

I'm from Germany and I play online with a lot of Americans. Highlight reel of what I heard them say: "Whattt? Your English is good. You speak English in Germany??" "Didn't know you had Internet over there..." "How does it feel to live without human rights? (this one killed me so bad that I lost the round because I was laughing so hard)" "Oh I've been to Paris!"

[@michaelversace456]

Get this, had an argument with an American woman that Hitler wasn't German and wasn't from Australia. I'm Australian.

[@GoWestYoungMan]

One that gets me (Canadians do this too) is when people say someone is ethnic. To them it means non-white or, more specifically, someone who isn't of Western European stock. EVERYONE HAS AN ETHNICITY. By extension, having an 'ethnic' section at the grocery store is absurd. If your ancestors came from England or Germany you're ETHNICALLY European.

[@goldengreen7763]

Never heard of that ❤🇨🇦

[@claudiakarl7888]

Same goes for race. There’s only one: the human race.

[@RNS_Aurelius]

Like you said, it's a code word for non white. Foreign is also basically a code for non white. When you force people to address this by bringing up white foreign people, they tend to say something along the lines no not that kind. This is a problem in the UK too.

[@iriscollins7583]

@@RNS_Aurelius Where in the UK?

[@RNS_Aurelius]

@@iriscollins7583 I'm in Bristol which is one of the most diverse cities in the UK.

[@valeriascarpa3892]

I was travelling to England and I met a group of young americans. We started to talk and they told me they knew ALL the european countries. Wow, and how long did it take to visit them? 15 DAYS!!!!! OMG......

[@myriampro4973]

Maybe that could be technically possible, a marathon-like travel, lol, but they probably didn't know how long is the list of European countries

[@valeriascarpa3892]

@@myriampro4973 What's the point of visiting so many countries if you don't know anything about them? A bulimic journey is not travelling!

[@elcaballeronyc]

I’m mean I encounter a large number of Europeans who come to the states thinking hitting New York City Miami an LA are easily done in a week

[@vincygarifuna]

Some Americans ask me for directions in London .When I replied the woman said for an African American I had a good British accent .I gently pointed out that I was black British and not African American.

[@volhan.p.9722]

I am from slavic country and I don't really get this American thing with separating race with the language. Why even point out that someone is African American while talking with them? If this person was born in America, they're American. If they were born in, I don't know, Ukraine or Germany they're Ukranian or German. And if person has African ancestors, you are most likely can see it in their appearance. Why point it out when your skin colour can't define you as a person? I am white so maybe I can't get this because I have no such experience as black person, but I really want to understand why it is okay to point out someone's race in the small talk.

[@vincygarifuna]

@@volhan.p.9722 It’s an American problem

[@spugelo359]

@@vincygarifuna Not entirely, we do that in Finland too, but exclusively for Swedes only. But that is because they do not want to be called Finns. They were born here and they have Finnish passport and nationality, but still do not want to be called a Finn, but Finnish Swede instead. The American issue however, is that in attempt to not appear racist when talking about darker skin colors, they just started calling all of them African American, as if that is supposed to be respecful implying that people with dark skin color only ever come from Africa... also news flash. We all come from Africa, but some of us left Africa sooner than others (and many never left).

[@vincygarifuna]

@@spugelo359 If you were in America you would or could be called a Finish American. Not a European American but because of slavery and there being no records black Americans do not know what country in Africa they are from. So to make things comfortable they are called African Americans. Not Nigerian, Kenyan , Ghanaian or any other African country American. But named after the whole continent. There’s Americans of all races who sadly think that Africa is a country. Sorry but it’s not the same as Swedes in Finland.

[@spugelo359]

@@vincygarifuna So instead of calling them American like many of them would identify as, you would rather call them African American? Because of that people just think you're talking about skin color, and not necessarily ethnicity. How do you even know that person with dark skin color came from Africa originally? I don't know if this news to you, but there are other continents with people with dark skin color. Like... Jamaica right in the Caribbean.

[@gustavosanchez341]

When i went to school in the US, i told my american roomate that i was from Spain, and he asked what part of Mexico was Spain located.

[@neilthehermit4655]

When I have an arguement with a US passport holder,their first response is often like this :- "We are the richest,greatest country with more freedom than any other!" - This is my reply :- "The U.S. GDP growth rate is ranked 169th out of 216 countries, according to the CIA World Factbook." - Don't believe me,look up the statistics on life expenctancy,percentage of the populatation living below the poverty line,percentage of the adult ( and child !) populatation in prison,pollution related deaths,obesity, and almost any metric to measure the general population. These are the fault of the system NOT the people ! - America should be ashamed of the way the government and corporations run the country.

[@RNS_Aurelius]

They're so deeply indoctrinated from the age of 5 that it's impossible to make them address any of this.

[@RK-zf1jm]

They are the richest nation on Earth however the states is 10th in literacy has the most people in prision in the world even more than south africa if youve ever been to south africa you would know south africa is fucked 500 rapes a day and those are just the reported ones in a single fucking city

[@elan825]

True. But please leave space after a comma and no space after an open bracket or before an exclamation mark.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

@@elan825, don’t be a grammar Nazi. It’s impolite.

[@GenerationNextNextNext]

@@RNS_Aurelius Down to the Pledge of Allegiance. Glad my parents told me not to recite that.

[@kole1ful]

I’m originally from what will be considered a 3rd world country and in class 3 of elementary school the continents, map of the world and countries of the world were forced down our throats. With history. I am extremely baffled at the American system

[@KaiHenningsen]

The problem with the US is that people have been fed the propaganda of America is the greatest, Freedom, American dream, American exceptionalism, and so forth for so long, even their politicians have begun to believe it. And it has never actually been true, and it's getting worse by the minute. The effect of believing they are the best is that they are actually on the way to become a third-world country, because they almost think it's a sacrilege when someone insists that America should improve something,. after all, they are perfect already.

[@kole1ful]

Hh

[@FyodorUshakovSuka]

I was a taxidriver in Helsinki Finland and two americans came from a cruiseship and wanted to see royal palace and king and queen. I said that we dont have those that we are republic. She gave me a map which he got from the crew. It was Stockholms map. She refused to believe me that she was in finland not sweden...: no sir you are wrong!! Finally she and her husband wanted to go city center and then she wanted to pay for dollars. I said that our currency is Euro or creditcards are fine for me. Then she said no dollars are worlds currency and insisted me to take dollars. I was already a bit frustrated to this person and I answered and told her that we don't take funnymoney... And she totally flipped. When they left the husband shook my hand with a smile and there was 20 dollar bill inside his hand as a tip.

[@araceli2827]

The husband knew she is a Karen

[@ellenkarlsson9490]

That tip was pretty useless, though. 😂 When I was in Panama an Argentinian/Austrian couple out of cash tried to exchange their euros for my dollars. When I said no they got pissed, because "you're going back to Europe soon anyway, right?". Bitch, I just got here and I'm staying for another 4 months, and then I go back to SWEDEN, that uses CROWNS. Those 50 euros might as well be Monopoly money.

[@mifphilip]

@@ellenkarlsson9490 euros are worth more than swedish crowns though. So it might have been good idea just to take them.

[@ellenkarlsson9490]

@@mifphilip Nope. They would've been useless until I got back to Sweden and an exchange office, and then I would've had to pay the exchange fee. Meanwhile I would've been $50 short.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

Working as a local guide in Nuuk, Greenland 🇬🇱 with American cruise passengers on shore excursion trips, I’d get all kinds of coins as a tip. Most of it quite useless because it wasn’t Danish money and we can’t exchange foreign coins at our bank. However, I would just politely thank the person giving me the coins. Some probably weren’t aware that the coins where not viable currency in Greenland, while I believe others were not ignorant at all but had another reason for dumping their foreign coins on me. Most American cruise guests generously tipped with dollar bills although I did tell them that tipping in Greenland is not expected nor required. Some would say thank you and keep their money and walk away while others insisted I take it. That suited me fine. I don’t want money from people who feel forced to give it to me. I got payed well as a guide.

[@DazP2835]

My first trip to US, was in NY, I was asked as i came from England; what language did i speak back home in England.....the guy said you're obviously speaking English so we can understand you but back home what language do you speak...........I could not find the words.....even English ones!

[@peterc.1618]

Tell them you are bilingual and they'll introduce you to their LGBT friends!

[@iriscollins7583]

@@peterc.1618 😂😂😂😂😂

[@vaudevillian7]

I have a lot of friends in the US that think Russia is still Communist, I was actually pretty shocked - part of that may be accounted for by the cavalier and inaccurate way the term communist is understood and widely used there (which is a problem in itself) but I have had to explain it a few times

[@tempestmars123]

A lot of Americans nowadays still think China is a communist country while we technically never were (even in the 1960s China was self-identified as a socialist country).

[@Notmyname1593]

There are even russians, who think the union never dissolved.

[@yarrowbumblefoot8877]

Russia is an autocracy with some fascist features.

[@clausbarefeet]

not kommunist. but dictatorship

[@spitfire87]

Well that's a mix up! Russia is not communist. It's facisct kleptocracy. Silly mistake.

[@robhay9645]

When I was fifteen I spent six months living in Phoenix. Because of my English accent people would always ask me where did I come from? And after I told them I'm from Nottingham a lot of people would ask "Do you know/have you ever met Robin Hood?

[@minnie5301]

Lol! Yes you met him just before meeting the Queen

[@julianneheindorf5757]

Why of course. He’s your friendly neighbor 😂😂😂

[@stretch977]

I've had two comments from Americans, that made me speechless. 1. I used to date an American and her mum - sorry mom - was a teacher. I was asked to go talk to her students and talk about life in the UK. One of the students (I think they were around 17/18) asked...."Do you have pizza in the UK?" 2. During a trip to Boston, sitting in a bar. I struck up a conversation with a guy there. Who said to me, and I quote "Oh you guys in England are so lucky because you've never experienced terrorism!" Erm guess he's never heard of the IRA and all the bombings they carried out. Or the Iranian Embassy seige in the early 80's.

[@jaclam1]

And if you were in Boston, he (or his family members) may well have helped to fund the IRA too...

[@MrBennieagray]

I know about Lexington because of Dr Who 😂

[@stretch977]

@@MrBennieagray forgive me if I'm going blind, I am old after all. But where do you get Lexington from ? I can't see it in my original comment

[@peterc.1618]

We do have our homegrown ignoramuses, too. For example those who demand "English food, like spaghetti bolognese" when holidaying in Spain.

[@MrBennieagray]

@@stretch977 it wasn't you. It was in the video. When the girl said that even though she Googled Lexington the USPS guy still didn't believe her

[@Ken.Howard]

A lot of Australians think the USA is 3rd or 2nd world compared to us. My first time there I was so so shocked at so much poverty. I never knew.

[@bunny4me713]

@Foreign Reacts From your facial expression at 3:06 - you don't know the differece between North & South Korea either😂.

[@brianduffin5405]

I rest my case !

[@markleslie6091]

I have a friend in the States. I was video calling them one time to catch up. She had a friend over - I forget where exactly he said he was from, but it was definitely mid-west. When hearing my accent (I'm from the UK) he, at first, couldn't understand why I sounded so different to other Americans he'd heard *facepalm* and then when I told him I'm from the UK, he then didn't believe that the UK was a real place *facepalm again*. He genuinely believed that America WAS the world.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

No wonder, so many Americans believe the world is flat if they already believe that the only country in the world is the US. But where do they think all the other people live?

[@TheNakedWombat]

After a chin wag online with a bloke in Europe, he told me that I was more educated than the Americans he usually came across. I had to explain to him that I'm not American and never even been to anywhere in the Americas. Once he understood this, everything felt back to normal for him.

[@mickratters8073]

My English brother married an American and moved to the States many years ago. During the Falklands war, news came in a British ship had been sunk. His American wife bounds in and taunts him with 'Ha! They got one of yours now!' She literally thought it was some kind of little game we were having with the Argentines. Had no awareness whatsoever of what was going on. And that if the trouble with Americans; they have total, willful ignorance of anything beyond their own borders if it doesn't include American participation.

[@Vickzq]

Exactly. The most shocking about the video 'stupid americans' wasn't only how they couldn't find out that the world map was labelled as a joke (like Australia was 'North Korea')... but they all answered a joke question 'go to war against next' without hesitating... and pointed somewhere, like a computer game button.

[@johnb4689]

Erm, about America being a 3rd world country. Lots of people see America as being the "richest 3rd world country", as the living standard of a lot of USA people are actually in poverty, factual 3rd world country. So for people from 1st world country's view, the USA as today is factually 3rd world level. This is not a joke anymore! Many USA cities have huge homeless people communities. Even people with jobs are homeless in the USA. For people in Europe that is shocking and unbelievable.

[@anxofernandez3344]

I'd say stay in school but also read a book, watch a documentary, try to complement your education and DON'T BE STUPID!

[@tasadasa9363]

I’m from Germany and an American asked me about Germany, if we know television here. Yes we do. Do you think we forgot about it after we invented it? (If you interested, it started in 1883 with Paul Nipkow and goes further with Ferdinand Braun and Jonathan Zenneck in 1897 and later in 1906 with Max Dieckmann) A friend from France was asked if they have French fries in France. Can you imagine why they are called “French” fries 🇫🇷 🍟 ? Well they are actually invented in Belgium, but guy! Do you hear yourself talking?

[@Vickzq]

Funny, thinking about how in world war 2, Germany used 'tv screens' to guide rockets with radio signals ... besides inventing cars, modern bicycles, the headset, jet aircraft, etc.

[@tasadasa9363]

@@Vickzq those things where invented long before 2. World War. And wasn’t used only by Germans because at this time it was common to use them all over the world.

[@Vickzq]

@@tasadasa9363 Cars and 'modern' bicycles, both from Germany... obviously BEFORE the war. All the rest mentionned was invented and used by Germany during world war 2, with many things to add...

[@michaelversace456]

Hang on, cinema was invented in the 1880's but TV wasn't invented until 1927 by Farnsworth and a few others who were either American or a Scot. Christ I swear to god there is nothing worse than an arrogant ignorant German.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

@@Vickzq, except radar. The British got that one or Gerry would have been successful in conquering and occupying Britain during WW II.

[@Dread_2137]

Fun fact, average number of languages ppl can speak in USA is 0.8, every other country in the world has 1 or higher xD

[@jbird4478]

We call the US a third world country all the time in Europe. It's cynical, not literal. It's because even though it's a very rich and developed country, there are so many things missing that other developed countries do have, like accessible health care, social security, etc.

[@herrakaarme]

That LA=Los Angeles=You're a Democrat thing reminds me of seeing Americans say the USA is not a democracy, it's a republic. I reckon this is due to the unfortunate naming of the two major parties in the USA. Republican supporters may dislike the Democrat party so much they don't even quite understand what a democracy is and what a republic is, they just know that democracy sounds like something a Democrat would like, so obviously the USA can't be that.

[@jeffburdick869]

The US isn't a democracy though. It is a republic. And I say this as someone who is left of the both US' major parties.

[@herrakaarme]

@@jeffburdick869 The USA is a democratic republic. The Americans are voting people (politicians) to use power in their stead for a limited term, which makes the USA a representative democracy, which is what most democracies are. Being a republic means the country belongs to the people (citizens, of course), not to a monarch, for example. However, monarchies can still be democracies. That's how all the old monarchies in Europe are. They are practically no different from (democratic) republics, but the mass media just has an additional source of celebrities to write about: the royal family. France abolished its famous monarchy and became a republic back in the day. Communist countries are also technically republics. But Western style democracies don't count them as democracies because only a single party is allowed, so voting has a very limited effect. If in the USA only the Republican party was allowed, you might ask how much voting matters anymore.

[@jonashansson2320]

Well I would argue that USA is not really a democracy. It has the laws for it but in reality it's not. In a democracy, the people choose who they want to lead them, in the US, that choice is very limited so in practicality the only way to have something to say is to either become a politician yourself or to buy one. So I would say that USA is a plutocratic republic, not a democratic one.

[@olivinator]

@@herrakaarme that's not how any of that works, a democracy is a system of governance where every individual has equal say in all matters, a republic is a system of governance where representatives from each region form a council, and a monarchy is a system of governance where you have a single ruler. having a voting system is not enough to be a democracy, the USA is a republic.

[@herrakaarme]

@@olivinator If we went by your definition, democracy wouldn't exist. Because there's not a single country that could function like that. Not even Switzerland. Even that place has politicians, so it's semi-direct, but still the closest thing to a democracy, that I know of. A country where every adult citizens would spend all of their days to vote on things would get no other work done. That's why in practical speech democracies are representative democracies. You still got your equal vote, but that vote is used to select politicians to handle the things. Democracy means people's power. Republic means public concern. You see "Republic" in the full name of a lot of countries, including my own home country. Not in the names of monarchies, though, even if they are parliamentary monarchies and thus (representative) democracies, with the monarch only left with a symbolic position with zero power. They are still kingdoms, not republics.

[@wessexdruid7598]

_"Take it easy on 'em, partner!"_ But - why. When they make uneducated assumptions and judge people?

[@foreignreacts]

Understandable

[@anta3612]

Not knowing facts doesn't necessarily mean you're dumb but it does mean you didn't get much of an education.

[@norma8686]

At her age she should know what is a city and what is a country, that's just common knowledge

[@yarrowbumblefoot8877]

I agrree. I didn't have the opportunity to go beyond Grade 8 and later took a 2 year business course. Beause I had a curious mind I didn't stop learning, I just learned and practiced from books from the public library and also through the varied and many jobs I had. The happy ending in my working life involved running several sucessful businesses with my partner for 38 years. Lack of a formal education doesn't make a person stupid but I still say get as much fomal education that you can.

[@anta3612]

@@norma8686 It's not common knowledge for anyone. You only know these things if you are taught them or have the curiosity to learn for yourself. I'm sure she knows what a city and what a country is it's just that she doesn't know which names belong to world cities and which belong to world countries.

[@anta3612]

@@yarrowbumblefoot8877 Well done! Never stop learning. Intelligent people have curious minds. From the videos I've seen on this subject there are Americans who've had plenty of formal education who still get their geographic place names wrong. I agree that it's good to get as much formal education as you can however, while higher education may open doors, it doesn't necessarily make you smart.

[@FFM0594]

Not knowing facts in the age of the internet means you are dumb.

[@Ateezwooyoung]

Well I’m from Europe, from Switzerland, not Sweden! But the girl who said Paris and Moscow, it wasn’t that wrong, at least both of them are in Europe, they are just not countries but capitols in Europe. So I have heard worse (in this video) than that.

[@madsmller4030]

"Where do you come from? You are high and you beard is white but your hair is kind of brownìsh?"...I`m a dane..51 of age and yes my beard has turned grey, over the last five years. "So it took you five years, to dye your beard!?"..In the States, I can do it while sleeping"...Great..we haven`t gotten so far..but haven`t your pillow changest color during the night, then!??.."Yearh..how did you knew??"

[@Tammathah]

i dont think the problem is dropping out as much as the lack of quality education.... As long as there is no federal curriculum that every school or home school has to follow, you end up with uneducated people. From my understanding, home schooling in the US is i teach you whatever i want or think is relevant without questions asked. In Belgium you can home school but you need to follow the curriculum set by the government, also you need to be enrolled in a school, you dont need to attend but you need it so you can be tested periodically to see if youre on par with your peers. If you aren't, the government can witdraw your home schooling privilege and you are enrolled into normal school. If history class doesn't teach about the greek empire, the egyptian empire or the roman empire, most won't know about it and that's because it can spark controversy. See up until Caesar Augustine, the romans believed in multiple gods. It wasn't until the end of his life, that he got his counsel together and converted to catholisism. It was him and his counsel that decided what went into the bible. These gospels were written years after the disciples were alive. They couldnt write. In the vatican there are multiple versions of the gospels of luke, john, simon etc... And yet only 4 gospels made it into the bible. It's literally PROOF that the bible was man written... Now imagine that knowledge being wild spread in the USA and being questioned. I can bet you that it would be a lot worse of a drama than the drama that happened at the release of the da vinci code by dan brown. Also knowing about other empires beats the notion that the US is the greatest country in the world. I mean look at the egyptians and all the things they built, the mayans as well and the greek... Those buildings were made to last forever, as we still have access to them today.... They were all powerful civilizations and yet they met their ending at one point in time. I dont really associate smart with knowing facts. I associate being smart with being able to take a step back and use logic to debate instead of emotional responses, also being open minded enough to be willing to learn. You cannot blame the person for not being educated when it comes to the world when your school system doesnt mandate to know it. I know that they have other things to do than study or learn outside of school because there's your after school clubs, which is for most a way for a scolarship or getting into a prestige university like harvard. You need after school stuff on your curriculum, you need to volunteer etc... and its not even a guarantee you get into those schools, even if you can afford it.

[@naycnay]

Whilst I think the US has a strange education system, most Europeans don't learn all this shit in school. We all just absorb it bit by bit from news, media, interest, conversation, etc. I think the US is just insular and if you don't actively go an look for this stuff or have some outlet to learn these things, the country absorbs you into it's isolationist culture.

[@Tammathah]

@@naycnay you do learn about ancient times in school but you are right, as a Belgian I learned a lot about culture and history and laws through other places than school but that’s where the second or third language comes in. Tv and movies are either dubbed or subbed and news is in a native language but to know about the us and what’s going with laws and the more unknown news, the understanding of English is mandatory

@@Tammathah It's a lot cheaper to get a bunch of kids to wave a flag and chant "We're No.1" than to actually be No.1.

[@Tammathah]

@ well theyre never confronted with the reality that it isnt what they are taught it to be...

[@norma8686]

Being smart means you're curious, willing and eager to learn new things about the world around you.

[@charlielouise2428]

I once told someone that my cousin was adopted from Korea and they looked at me, shocked, then said: 'how did they get him out?!' 'What do you mean?' 'Well... did they smuggle him out in a boat?'

[@graemejohnson9025]

My absolute favourite.. I live in Australia... On a help desk phone call to American help desk.. She asked, you live on the bottom of the earth, how come you don't Fall Off? Wtf?

[@jamesbellefeuille2926]

Did you ask her how Antarctica did not fall off?

[@graemejohnson9025]

@@jamesbellefeuille2926 don't start me about Antarctica.. she told me that it doesn't exist, because the earth is like a icecream cone.. it's only cold on the top... I forgot what my help desk question was... I would ask questions, and get the Dumbest answers ever...

[@jamesbellefeuille2926]

@@graemejohnson9025 Damn. That sounded as if you were living a real world Monty Python skit.

[@graemejohnson9025]

@@jamesbellefeuille2926 She nearly put Monty Python to Shame... didn't solve my help desk questions, but man I had a Huge Giggle...

[@WienerVL]

I am one of these who was confused by your joke about "irish is not orange.....its yellow "" Never heard about potatoes called irish! No wonder many people didnt understand what your meaning was!

[@foreignreacts]

Yeah well I’ve heard of it Other countries call things differently and when you get exposed to that then you’d be able to say things a lot of people aren’t aware of

[@foreignreacts]

Thanks for not leaving tho Most people get sensitive and leave 😕 Misunderstandings are a serious thing in this world No one cares to understand what you meant They only wanna understand what they think you meant

[@minhearg8331]

My son did a student exchange in the US. His classmates asked him where he was from and he told them Australia. One student then remarked, "Really! Your English is very good."

[@michaelversace456]

Mate had an argument that Hitler was from Austria not Australia. She then screamed at me that Australia is in Europe which is in Russia. Yep, door knob.

[@SuAva]

@7:05 that lady needs to open up her ears, the entire western world has been calling the US a third world country (with a Gucci belt) for years. Because it genuinely meets many of the criteria.

[@danielyeshe]

There is a great quote that comes to mind: Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid. In short being smart is relative. I am from Wales and so can name many European countries. I would struggle to name ever country on the American continents.

[@torbjornlekberg7756]

You would be right if not for the fact that, in this case, you are not. The USamerican education system is catastrophic wich, for example, can be seen in how few in the US know what geography is part of their own country. Stupid may be the wrong word, but the ignorance is real.

[@jeffburdick869]

If you want to go further in depth with that in peer reviewed evidence, research Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. And some of the follow up theories that expand on Gardner's work. My mom's cousin couldn't pass French 1 to save his life. He sucked at it. He then went on to create a computer science/engineering sort of system that Microsoft bought from him for millions of dollars.

[@daviddieudonne7829]

There’s street smart and book smart… and so many other ways of being smart or intelligent. But saying Moscow or Paris; isn’t any of those. You may not know many American countries, but I’m pretty sure you ll never say Bogota, Lima or Rio. But again, that’s a failure of education more than intelligence. Btw I’m Belgian and I had to explain to an American that America is a continent not a country, that his country isn’t America but the United States of America. It started when talking about Canada and I mentioned it being an American country, he started laughing as he found it funny I didn’t know Canada was a country. While he was the one not knowing Canada is an American country. Education… school and at home.

[@peterc.1618]

There are 27 countries in the EU and many European countries not in the EU so naming five ought not to be difficult for someone who claims to be smart. You'd probably be able to name five American countries, which is a much larger proportion of the total than five European ones would be.

[@ericazahn9689]

@@peterc.1618 Hawaii, Alaska, Mississippi, new York, maine, north dakota, south dakota, Michigan, California. Polen, germany, italy, swiss, france, greece, spain, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Georgien, Litauen,.... Not that difficult, you are right

[@optimusvalerius8824]

You failed to realize in Ireland particularly Northern Ireland[ part of United Kingdom] using orange or green actually often denotes the religious and political. status of the person eg Catholic or Protestant .In cities like Belfast and Londonderry neighborhoods were often barricaded and if your were of a different religious faction you were often in danger walking through communities controlled by the opposing faction . Politically Catholics wanted to see Northern Ireland become part of the Irish Republic . Protestants wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom .

[@RemyBent]

5.08 - “So many people misunderstood the joke, or the pun, or whatever I was trying to do right there. Like metaphors and all these things I’m really good at these things… “. Hahaha! I love this guy.

[@jeffburdick869]

As a social studies teacher and an advocate for social studies education...these videos both pain me, but give me a lot of material to back my stance that we need to prioritize social studies education more in the US.

[@sporvada7166]

This statement makes no sense at all.

[@jeffburdick869]

@@sporvada7166 what part didn't you get?

[@Vickzq]

Social studies by itself are useless and nowadays poisoned by leftwing ideology. Simply learn geography, history and a foreign language.

[@jeffburdick869]

@@Vickzq You do realize that two of the four parts of social studies are history and geography right? And suggesting that social studies are "left wing" proves that you have zero clue what you're talking about. Social studies text books are heavily right wing.

[@iriscollins7583]

@@jeffburdick869 Best of luck , I think you'll need it . UK.

[@annebritraaen2237]

The Irish joke the rest of the world didn't get, is one of the risks of cross-cultural communication. We all would benefit from remembering that.

[@scarlettdevina7054]

Actually…. The whole world kinda thinks the US is similar to a third world country. We all know that technically it’s a first world country, but no other first world country treats their people this badly or doesn’t have universal paid parental leave and stuff like that. How the People from the US are getting treated by their government is much more similar to a third world country, if you compare it fully objectively.

[@OWLORDIE]

so im from Russia and i have Egyptian symbol tatts around my whole hand. i was going up from Metro station and heard somebody cursing to my back through the earphones. so i took em out, looked back and there she was: an old ass lady was swearing at me and saying that im a Demon and the Devil, pointing at my tats. She wasn't mental or something, just old, but can you get the medievalness of our people? like, i work as an IG page admin and even younger people don't know what VPN is and how to register an e-mail. but they surely DO know where the America and Germany is... i think we all should learn a little from each other to find that humanistic compromise

[@ganymedes62]

I totally agree with the 'stay in school' part at the end 🙂

[@inotoni6148]

11:35 That was stupid too, not only rich US kids will runn the world. Big companies and rich, influential people are not only found in the USA

[@jamesblakeley4329]

I’m Scottish. Generalised American tourists have said all sorts of things. 1. “Where does it land?” when talking about the one o’clock gun at Edinburgh castle. Of course, any reasonable person would know it fires blanks since otherwise there would be a massive crater in Edinburgh. Thought the gunslingers across the pond would know that. 2. When meeting an American in a different country: “what was it like seeing cars for the first time”, and all sorts to do with seeing technology “for the first time”. They seem to think Scotland is stuck in the 1500s. Imagine how they felt when I told them Scotland invented the TV, antibiotics and etc. 3. Someone asked me if our beaches have shells.

[@hermanubis7046]

"I wonder where he is today" - he got kidnapped. xD

[@richardhockey8442]

The Texan exploding house clip - perhaps a big warning signs might be in order 'Warning! Dangerous nutjob lives here'

[@vezhopkins714]

Im in the UK and had an American ask me did I know the queen XD well obviously I know of the queen but I dont pop round to Windsor castle for a cup of tea and a chat XD XD

[@TheTenshitobias]

Yeah I prefer impressing than disappointing people - The more you know, you realize you know very little :)

[@yvesbresson7837]

Loved America and lived in ny one year I found people closed to European people but when I discover Kansas couldn’t stop laughing about how ignorant they were

[@HH-hd7nd]

10:05 Maybe she is smart - however she is definetly not well educated. Being smart and having a good education are two very different things.

[@miloe436]

Not really. Studies have shown that people with high IQ are scoring high on all tests, not only the normal IQ tests but also general knowledge tests. I believe Dr. Jordan Peterson also talked about this, if you want to look it up.

[@HH-hd7nd]

@@miloe436 That's out of context and also incorrect the way you phrased it. No one scores high on a knowledge test when no one taught them the necessary knowledge before. Smart people are better at remembering stuff they have learned before, however that doesn't change anything about the fact that they also have to learn stuff first before they can remember anything. An example: Let's assume the both of us are somewhat smart people. That doesnt change anything about the fact that none of us can read Linear B (the syllabic script used by the Mycaenean Greeks) and we would fail horribly in a test about it because we never learned how to read it. That doesn't make us stupid, just uneducated on this specific topic. The problem is that the US education is not exactly top notch (all other educational systems have their weaknesses as well, however the US education is unique because it is extremely one dimensional in terms of history and geography, ignoring basically anything outside the USA).

[@peterc.1618]

@@HH-hd7nd Intelligent people are more likely to have a more enquiring mind so will have a broader general knowledge that those of low IQ. Is it not because we are nosier than other animals that we developed our level of intelligence in the first place?

[@ericazahn9689]

@@miloe436 i hate peterson he is a crook

[@Billyg215]

Here`s an Irish joke for you. Paddy and Mick where walking through the Irish country side looking for work. When Paddy shouts " Hey Mick sign here says Tree fellers wanted ". Mick replies that, is no good for us as there is only 2 of us. Got to add the guy from 07.24 was definitely from England.

[@hellarm4934]

Most of the discussions that come up are about geography. Even if for my part, I like geography, I do not consider someone stupid because he does not know a country or its capital. When I was a child I knew the capital of all the countries in the world. It didn't make me any smarter and I rarely had to flaunt this almost useless knowledge. Here is an experience that I had for good: I am French and in 1981 I was doing my military service. I was on the train to join my regiment in Tarbes in the South West of France. A group of guys pass in the car and I hear them speaking in English. - Hey! where are you guys from -USA - Wow (it was magic for me, meeting Americans) I remind you, we are in 1981 and elections are going to take place both in France and in the United States. The conversation comes to the elections. - Who are you going to vote for? -Jimmy Carter - Why him, especially? - He promised to give a scholarship to university students - But finally, you can't vote for someone, just for a scholarship ! What is his program? - I don't know his program, I just heard that he was going to give a scholarship... - ??????

[@wewenang5167]

it's not about geography to be honest, it's about LIVING IN A BUBBLE and thinking that the world just revolve around you and your country only. That is what wrong with American education. Yes learning Geography doesn't mean you are smart, but wanting to know about other countries, culture, language and how other people around the world live their life and being genuinely interested in other thing than just your bubble are a sign of a wise and intelligent mind. Until American stop saying that their country is the best and the greatest country in the world, nothing will change and it will get worse.

[@morimsema6790]

One time an American guy asked me if we have malls in Europe 🤣 I honestly was way to shocked to know what to say 😂

[@KevinWood9]

American schools need to show there kids maps and a atlas of the world

[@JUMALATION1]

I agree with you, I would rather say I'm not too smart or say "depends on who you compare me to", just to not accidentally make a fool out of myself being too confident. For example, I probably couldn't name every state in the US just like that without forgetting some of them when put on the spot by someone, and I am happy to admit that 😅 I know a decent amount about Europe but that's just because I'm from Finland.

[@foreignreacts]

Like the honesty

[@peterc.1618]

But I'm pretty sure you could name FIVE states.

[@JUMALATION1]

@@peterc.1618 Actually immediately after seeing your comment I took the Sporcle test for the states. I remembered 41 off the bat, got help with 4 from a friend after that and had to look up the rest 5. (Who remembers Vermont lol) 😆

[@peterc.1618]

@@JUMALATION1 I think we are generally pretty good with US states here in the UK because quiz show questions never ask contestants to name any old states, they usually ask, "How many states start with the letter A?" or they name a couple of states starting with a certain letter and ask contestants to name the remaining one.

[@spugelo359]

@@peterc.1618 For sure can name them, but not where they are located... unless America counts. At least not going to claim one of the states is a country or a city. In our schools and high schools, I wasn't taught a single state, but for sure was taught every country and their capital. We were even taught some American mountain ranges because apparently our schools figured out those are more important to us than the states... which isn't exactly wrong. I have never needed to know a single state, like where it's located other than it's in the USA. And if I do need to know, google maps is my friend. That is simply the effect of being wanted to be treated like a single country, so we treat USA like it's a single country. We are not taught Russian states either. Yes... Russia is a massive country and it has states too, but not all of the Russia belong to a state. Shit there gets weird...

[@jens1924]

Regarding Hawaii the girl is actually correct, The Kingdom of Hawaii is illegally occupied by USA as it never has ceased to exist. In fact US should follow the international law of occupation, also US laws should not be upheld in Hawaii as it is in fact not a state in USA but a sovereign country occupied by USA therefore laws of Kingdom of Hawaii are the laws of the land.

[@KaiHenningsen]

Well, by that argument, most of the USA is occupied. Maybe even all of it. It's not as if the Native Americans just gifted them the country.

[@richardbrinkerhoff]

I told an American I was from Haarlem. He then asked if Haarlem was in the Netherlands or the Netherlands in Haarlem.

[@Kwstas_Vagias]

I just want to say that smartness has nothing to do with knowledge of European countries. His question was stupid from the get go. I am from Greece.

[@blueeyedbaer]

An American guy once asked me if we had internet in my country. While chatting on an app THROUGH THE INTERNET.

[@redbaron474]

3:45 AD INTERRUPTION Me: ^GOODBYE*

[@paddy20111000]

Don't worry about telling an Irish joke . We Irish have a great sense of humor and know how to laugh at ourselves .

[@larryjennings510]

Bro it's not just stay in school. Open your mind and realize there's a world , an interesting one at that, beyond the US, and while you are there please absorb some fucking thing

[@carlchapman4053]

There are so many comments about 'I went to Europe, I ate ALL of the food and DRUNK all of the alcohol and still lost weight'. That is because all of your food is full of chemicals banned over here that the body cannot process, so it is stored ... pending ... process. Also we walk A-Lot compared to Americans but not much in Europe.

[@alicewilloughby4318]

4:53 - I thought you were making a pun on the flower, iris.

[@Zentron]

Though I think it was the WHO who did say that there were parts of America that they would class as Third World Countries if they were their own countries.... but it's been a looooong while since I last read the article, so I can't remember who it was by, or which states they referred to! Me stoopid u C 😅

[@KaiHenningsen]

That sounds vaguely familiar, yes. Of course, Americans see that as sacrilege - especially those living in the bad parts. Which, it turns out, tend to majorly be red states, for some reason.

[@Zentron]

@@KaiHenningsen There's I think like 2 red states that are doing okayish, but the rest... poverty stricken!

[@yonghwasbutton1632]

Hahhahahaa oh I haven't seen this one 🤣

[@jaycordner3890]

I lived in Florida in the early/mid 90's. I was asked so many times if we have lions in the streets of South Africa.

[@foreignreacts]

Please tell me you said yes!

[@bluesz1bluesz17]

An American in your comment section said to me the US has more freedom than the UK I said in what way specifically apart from gun laws which is not a good freedom to have, they then kept responding defences to having the rights to bare arms, arguing that everyone having gun's make thing's safer! after some back and forth about gun laws I asked them further multiple times how does the US have more freedom than the UK specifically eventually they responded I don't know exactly we just do.

[@foreignreacts]

There’s a simple answer to this. Once you’re told something, over a period of time It becomes reality in your mind even if it is fictional. Guns can’t make you safer either

[@bluesz1bluesz17]

@@foreignreacts 👍👍Brainwashing by repetition

[@BP-kx2ig]

‘Bare arms’??

[@bluesz1bluesz17]

@@BP-kx2ig and itchy trigger fingers

[@markhosbrough9180]

I watched one of these videos and this woman was from Indiana and was temporarily working in California and when it came to moving back to Indiana she went to the bank to close the account and handed over her Indiana drivers license and was told they could not accept that as it was not American

[@charlescorbee9498]

As a fan of Eminem, you should see the cover by the Dutch Opera singer Maria Fiselier: Lose Yourself.

[@chean1815]

Dumbest American thing - A piece where a tv crew were asking Americans to name a country Beginning with U, which a number failed to do (look it up on KZbin). One suggested answer - the United States of America.....

[@lordofchaosinc.261]

It's funny that when referring to countries Canadians are Canadians, Mexcians are Mexicans, Brazilians are Brazilians and so on. But US citizens are The Americans like it's obvious.

[@LadyHeathersLair]

Yeah like they are hogging a continent. Maybe they should be called United Statesians?

[@frostysimo1394]

there was like a clapping game we used to do in like primary school (5-12 yrs old) and you sing a song that starts with England Ireland Scotland Wales ... something something idk the rest of the words cos that's all I remember but there's 4 already and then there's so much to say, austria for example it's just Australia which everyone knows about (where I'm from) but like less letters

[@danielefabbro822]

Well, technically Moscow is located in European Russia. Russia as you knows is composed by two parts. The European and more developed part and the Asian/Siberia part. The most prominent cities of Russian Asia are Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk maybe? No way, I don't remember if Khabarovsk is in East or West. 🤔 Last time I've checked there was a city of a kind of importance on the Trans-Siberian Railway on the border of Chinese Manchuria. But I do not remember if it was Khabarovsk. Damn me! I'm getting older! 😖

[@olivinator]

Moscow might be in Europe, but it's not a country 🤣

[@paulgrant285]

How do you confuse a Irish man? Give him 3 shovels and tell him to take his pick!!

[@mariaobrien1747]

Or put him in a round room and tell him to sit in the corner!

[@astraeetje5048]

4:49 what are Irish potatoes? 👀never heard of them so I would also be confused about the coulors . Thanks again for your reaction. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱

[@mrpddnos]

Technically the girl in the intro is partially correct. Moscow is Europe, it’s just not a country😂 About the Irish joke, think about it this way. In the US there is quite a bit of Irish discrimination. So, Irish people getting mad about a joke about the Irish, however funny intended, is understandable. Had an Irish person made a black pudding joke to a person of color, people would have just as much right to get angry. Even if it didn’t come from a place of racism or discrimination, a joke can still be in bad taste.

[@sebastianwagner7334]

4:40 this is the internet, people get mad at everything xD

[@J-Bone]

I'm sorry, but these stories were absolutely glorious in the "dumb department". XD

[@HocusPocus7474]

In defense of the girl in the clip used at the beginning of the video, knowing stuff is not the same as being smart.

[@SuperfluousIndividual]

11:45 Ah, yes. I too, dream about living in a country where the house next door might just be a ticking time bomb in disguise in every sense of the word.

[@yanmay9824]

The best answer I've heard an American give to the name a country in Europe question was Africa. I so wish I cold find the video it was on all I remember of it though other than that and a couple of other dumb answers is that it was filmed at a university.

[@manuele.itriagom.728]

People from Caracas also think they don't have accent in Spanish haha. I was one of them for many years

[@kimnice]

3:50 Yeah..what he said about kidnapping doesn't apply to the whole of Africa, but it's a valid point when talking about South Africa

[@bree2457]

As a south African im curious please elaborate for us more who is kidnapping this ppl and how did you come to that conclusion

[@askesismusic]

you laugh like a maniac 🤣 super funny though

[@thedutchman01]

"Holland... Isn't that the capital of Amsterdam?"

[@maureenpeterson2070]

I'm Australian and years ago was in Disneyland, Florida, and was chatting with a Texan couple. The guy was bragging about how big everything was in texas, the steers, the ranches, etc. He was really getting me riled up. So I just looked him in the eyes and said , you do know that in Australia we have ONE RANCH/farm that is bigger that Israel? ONE ..... he couldn't respond. Fyi, it's over 58 million square miles. Try hiking to the boundaries folks.

[@Loribyn]

No. Anna Creek Station is 5.8 million acres, not sq miles -- all of Australia is not 58 million square miles! Good on you for correcting the Texan ... but don't prove yourself an even bigger drongo in so doing!

[@mariaobrien1747]

Take water

[@SonjaAjar]

How? Just how? Greetings from a country in Europe..

[@jeffburdick869]

Which country? Moscow or Paris?

[@SonjaAjar]

@@jeffburdick869 haha, the Netherlands.

[@jeffburdick869]

@@SonjaAjar Nice! I love the Nederlands. I was there in the summer of 2019. Loved Amsterdam, The Hague, the beaches of Scheveningen are the best beaches I've ever been to. My wife is 100% Dutch. I loved the bitterballen!

[@fredsmith4106]

Irish here, love Irish jokes and don’t get bent out of shape.

[@MadTamB]

Then I will tell you a joke I remember from my childhood from Dave Allen (Irish Comedian). An Irish man and a Texan were talking and the Texan said, that he owned so much land that it took all day to drove across it. The Irishman replied, 'I had a car like that once'.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

11:10 "some of the stupidest Americans..... in the world" Granted, Brazilians (or Peruvians) are technically Americans too (albeit south) but somehow I don't think he had that in mind....

[@alexnavarro6941]

11:40 It’s already happening unfortunately. Donald Trump is one of those super rich spoiled kids.

[@Vickzq]

While Joe Biden can't tell you what a man and a woman is...

[@annieansell32]

The story about the couple wanting to see all of England, Wales and Scotland in 2 days reminded me about what tourists say when they come to Australia. This is not an exclusive American thing to say, tourists from all over the world have said the same thing. The thing that say is that they are going to spend 1 week seeing all of Australia. Geographically Australia is the 6th largest country in the world. You are not going to see much of it in 1 week.