What's The DUMBEST Question an American Has Ever ask YOU?

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[@johnmullens2857]

a group of Americans I was serving in Amsterdam: "how come Dutch people are so tall?" me: because half of our country is below sealevel. We have to grow talll in order to breathe the same airpressure as the rest of the world." THEY BELIEVED ME!!

[@tinyvanuffelen7918]

Oooo, dit is goud !!!

[@fenrirsghost2051]

Yeah, that´s so dump since everybody knows it due to the skates you where already born with 😁 Greats from Germany where the sheeps are the same like in the Netherlands. Means front legs are shorter due to comfortable grazen while standing on the dike 😂

[@johnmullens2857]

@@fenrirsghost2051 exactly lol, like mountaingoats but smarter because they are Dutch and German lol

[@esseiaderrek2356]

🤣🤣🤣

[@JootjeJ]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NicolaiCzempin]

"Does it snow in Islam?" is kinda deep, but also hilarious.

[@GeschichtenUndGedanken]

OMG! 😄

[@tombungers753]

Dont understand the one with this Australian dude and his american friends. What did he say?

[@KrisThroughGlass]

@@tombungers753 I wondered about this one, too.

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@tombungers753 He used the c-word to describe someone as good. Common in Oz and the UK. Americans use the word 'bad' when they mean good - they're just not so used to the profanity.

[@silenttuber5802]

So ...... does it snow in Islam ? Im kidding relax

[@Superfluous.]

I got asked, at the grocery store, if we didn't season our food because the girl couldn't find any garlic powder. I told her small supermarkets like the one we were in didn't bother having garlic powder because they kept fresh garlic in baskets for people to pick from, which I pointed out. Well, my mistake. She turned to me and told me with the sassiest voice I've heard in a while: "I don't know what those are but I definitely know it isn't garlic". I looked at her for a good 3 seconds, turned around and kept shopping. I saw her ask another 3 people that said the same thing, including a shop employee and she was still hesitant to believe it was garlic until the shop employee pulled her phone out and showed pictures from google of how garlic looked like. Only then was she convinced. It's in those moments that you don't know if Americans really live under a rock or if they're just... extremely weird?

[@PainInTheS]

They're just extremely dumb while thinking they know it all.

[@damirhlobik6488]

just americans

[@bradleybrown8428]

ok, i'm blind so can't see pics of garlic but I'd love to know what she thinks it is. I can see it in my head so I'd love to know what her version looks like.

[@sydneycopsey1190]

You say you feel sorry for the people who are being asked the questions….. THINK! You should feel sorry for Americans as these boneheads are showing up how inadequate your. “Great” country really is these days!

[@kotokoo]

Not a question. I was in a touristic place in Spain talking with Spanish friends, and I'm Spanish. An American group (they have flags in the clothes) said that we were rude to no answer them (we didn't know they were speaking to us), speaking in a FOREIGN language, and we HAVE to speak English. I'm in my country talking with my friends, I'm not your servant, if you want something try to be polite and speak the native language, if it's difficult for you, I'll speak English and help you as much as I can, but you are not superior to us.

[@damirhlobik6488]

bravo

[@corneliahanimann2173]

Eh I mean...I'm swiss taiwanese, I was in Tokyo for a weekend, and people were already bothered with the fact that a white-looking woman speaks english, because the people there obviously only speak japanese. I did have more luck speaking chinese with them, rather than english, as that seems to be more commonly taught in schools, but they were already bothered with me speaking in english. My first language is german, I get the frustration with people that go to another country and refuse to learn the native language, but maybe consider that I have literally arrived the day before? I did learn to say "thank you" and standard "hello" words in japanese to show effort, but I get extremly frustrated when someone treats me like a dumb american because my english is convincing.

[@PeterSlazy]

I was asked by an Harvard student if we would have fridges in Germany. I was shocked. How bad must the education in the US be if even an Harvard student asks such stupid questions.

[@arnodobler1096]

fridges are a german invention

[@theoderich1168]

The standard answer to this one is: "Yes, sure, a German invented the fridge; but how come YOU guys have TV and computers - they too were invented in Germany...?"

[@TheChiefEng]

Never underestimate the capacity for stupidity in America. There are so many things wrong with America and Americans. Many Americans basically think there is nothing outside America. They simply don't realize that the American population accounts merely for 5% of the total population in the world. Many Americans seem to think that Americans invented everything. They simply cannot get around the fact that most things were invented by Europeans and/or Asians. No, the car was not invented in America. No, the combustion engine was not invented in America. No, the gas turbine (jet engine) was not invented in America. No, radar was not invented in America. No, the rocket was not invented in America. Engaging in a conversation with an American can easily be decremental to the health of a person's brain cells and the further south in America you go, the more dangerous to the health of the brain cells.

[@proxis9980]

havard is a pay to win school what do you expect? havard is only an achievemnt iof you get there by scholarship everything else is just richshits gettin their ass pampered with private tutors and 1o1 counselling

[@davehocking4091]

@@theoderich1168 I love when Americans say "what has Australia ever invented"...and i respond... "you using wifi?" Yeh well theres that.

[@henrikswanstrom9218]

When I was in America a girl at a party asked me why Europe fabricated their maps. I asked her what she meant and she said: "Europe is in the center of your maps, that's wrong. America is in the center." I didn't knew whether to cry or laugh.

[@martinb.770]

Maybe they plan to transfer whole Greenwich (0°) to Kansas or so, one day.

[@hannajung7512]

please, tell me the girl was a 5 year old ..

[@isabellecasier5702]

ignorance is a state of the US .... ow sorry ... of bliss. 😁

[@henrikswanstrom9218]

@@hannajung7512 Na, she was 24

[@daddydrazen]

@@martinb.770 Superman is from Kansas, so I suppose yes, they plan. :)

[@Lukeeep_]

I'm from Austria and when visiting the US and telling the people that I'm from Austria there's at least one guy asking: "Oh you must have a lot of kangaroos there, right?". That's why tourist shops here in Vienna sell shirts with "No kangaroos in Austria" written on them 😄

[@PainInTheS]

I would buy such a shirt in a heartbeat....hilarious! 🤣

[@dianasullivan3285]

😂😂

[@annlolmaugh4491]

Yes your so right. I've been to Austria and saw the shirts.😂😂😂😂

[@nijapyrosphere4145]

I've had an American try to deny that I was deaf when I was around 17-18 when I was working at a tourist trap. Like they only thought people over the age of 60 could be deaf, and couldn't fathom that I could have been born deaf. Like it got to the point where they were trying to take my hearing aids away from me because "I shouldn't be using props to fake being deaf". And the worse thing is, it happened twice, by two completely different people, both of them when the public area was crowded, on the same day. The second one got shut down real quick though when someone just clocked them on the head because they wouldn't leave me alone and were starting to get really aggressive as I was being "offensive to their grandparents" - who I presume are deaf???

[@corneliahanimann2173]

I am so seriously confused how they would have gotten that impression. Also I have a question for you, that has been on my mind lately. Would you appreciate it if people, that don't work in a field where they interact with deaf people, would learn some basics of sign language? I know this is very random, but I never had the opportunity to ask someone😅

[@mules8662]

An American girl deadass tried to convince me that Australia is the English word for Austria, when I told her that I was from Austria.

[@imajinallthepurple]

Omg! 😂

[@__TK___]

American girls are really like that irl

[@SandCoffeeRocks]

Oh my god. As an Australian, I'm so sorry.

[@nekane6168]

Of course she knew more about your country than you. #confidentlyincorrect

[@TheExodus2004]

@@SandCoffeeRocks In some souvenir shops in Vienna you can even buy t-shirts with the print "No, there are no kangaroos in Austria!"

[@martinbruhn5274]

My question is "so, since you're german, do you like Hitler? Do they teach you at school that he was a great man?". This is honestly not only the dumbst question you can ask a german, but also the most offensive one. Aside from that, coming from europe, it is not at all obvious, that you need a passport to nter Canada from the USA. I just kind of assumed for a long time, that Canada and the USA are close enough, politically, that they have created a customs union by now. I've been in 5 countries one time over the course of a couple of hours once and I didn't even realise when I crossed a border (I was going from Lindau, Germany, to Vaduz via Bregenz, austria and Switzerland, then I drove home from there, going via Basel, Switzerland, where I accidentally took the exit on the Autobahn to Haguenau, France, so I had to turn back into Germany to drive via Freiburg, Germany, home).

[@Cthulhu4President]

HAHAHAHA America committing to a Union, that's funny. America doesn't care enough about it's people to put together a worker's union to strengthen worker's rights, why would they make it easier for Americans to leave?

[@newgamerboy7815]

Freiburg beste

[@briansmith48]

Hello, American here. 👋 Back in 95 l went to Canada without a passport. Just my drivers license. I'm sure now you would need one. You know, because of 9-11 and all. But back then it was fine.

[@mabumarnauen7318]

yeah exactly, he might actually have been more knowledgable about the world than her hahaha (or he was just stupid but yk, possibility is there)

[@Dimrim1]

Imagine getting "Yes" back O_o

[@LynMa80]

As a French, I was asked several times over the internet if we had internet here, I obviously didn't answer, since I didn't have internet... But the dumbest thing someone asked me, and I'm sorry, but it was an american lady. I was working in a tourist office in a small countryside town out in the middle of nowhere in France, nothing much to do around there, but a lot of treking and nature walking. So this American lady walks into the office, starts to look around, takes one or two postcards to send home, nothing unusual; but then takes a paper map, you know, the one you can fold and that you can carry with you, showing the treking roads all around the place. She looks at the map several minutes, seamingly searching something on it. Then after a while she comes to see me : "I can't find the "you are here" on this map, I think it's broken..." Mmmmh, lady, it's just printed paper, not a GPS...

[@PainInTheS]

That last one. No. Just no, you're making it up 🤣. But we're talking about Americans so ok, it is plausible. Oh man, ffs. 🤣🤣🤣

[@cazb73]

Well, I'm millennial, raised on books and paper maps... But when I changed my button phone to touchscreen model, it only took me few months, than... While studying a paper map, I did 'enlarge gesture' on it :D

[@andypandy9013]

A few years ago I was on business in London where I met this American guy in the hotel. He too was there on business so I asked him if this was his first time outside the USA. "Oh no" he said, "it's my second time overseas." I asked him where he went that time to which he replied "Canada". Now, obviously having a better grasp of geography than he did, I asked him how he got there. He said that, as they lived in north New York State, he decided to drive. I really could not help myself and said "Wow! So you drove to an overseas country? " "Yes" he said, looking very pleased with himself. He was a very nice guy so I resisted the urge to point out that if somewhere is 'overseas' you cannot drive to it. It's either aircraft or boat/ship. 🤣🤣🤣

[@PainInTheS]

I would have pissed myself witnessing that. 🤣

[@jeroenrat6289]

Telling a native "American" to go back to their own country is sooooo wrong on many levels. 😱

[@hannajung7512]

Well, I am all for the Natives going back to their own country and getting full controlle over it. I think they would be even nice enough to let most settlers stay in their homes....

[@hannajung7512]

@Michelle the thing is that many of them origine from tribes that lived on completely other places of the continent then the current places that were given to them. They were not so stupid to live on the least hospitable places of the land by their own volition. They lived were the labd was fertile mostly ... So going back to their land and getting back owner ship of it would mean giving them mostly ownership over the most valuable spots of earth on the continent.

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

@@hannajung7512 You're right that they originated from different places, obviously human species began in Africa. There's the misconception though that some Americans claim that America wasn't Native American's country and they might as well go back where they came from. I had such a conversation 2 days ago, that lady said that Native Americans may have supplanted a different race which is wrong. We have the know-how to trace back ancestry lines and Paleo Indians were the first humans to cross the Bering *Straße to North America and to arrive where their descendants today are. I'm not a Native American but if Native Americans can't call America their ground no one at any place earned that right PS: *Straße = route, straight...?🤷🏿 Idk the English word)

[@madonnasbutthole9674]

There's not enough levels for that kind of wrong.

[@gerardflynn3899]

@@tyronevaldez-kruger5313 Bering straits

[@user-tc2es3ir2j]

On a bus tour in Europe a lady from the US stated she could not believe the number of foreigners in Europe who couldn't even speak english, not realizing she was a foreigner.

[@marywinning7430]

From Zimbabwe (a country also in Africa) I (then in my 20's ) went with my parents to Texas to buy cattle. At the hotel, I was asked by American adults if we had pet lions, etc. I told them that we rode elephants to school, used the lions to help us hunt for food, and lived in mud huts. I was believed.

[@PainInTheS]

Priceless! 🤣

[@connynaumann5139]

German here, living in Ireland for many years now. I used to work in tourism up in Donegal. The things you overhear from U.S. American tourist travelling along the Wild Atlantic Way is bloody hilarious, it was great entertainment for us. The trail is called "The Wild Atlantic Way" and that is where you can find a lot of U.S. Americans travelling with the largest camper vans they can hire, blocking every small road because they insist, they have to pass through there! Many of them claiming to be Irish because of some great, great, great uncle blaaah blaaah you hear it so often. When I told some of them I'm from Germany, suddenly they have some great, great blah blah over there too, it's seriously great craic! So this US American sitting there in the café overlooking the atlantic ocean, and I hear how he tells his friend, what great part of the Pacific Ocean this is. Another one got very angry when I didn't take his Pounds and asked him politely to either get Euros in cash or pay with card. He got really mad at me, telling me that in Ireland he can pay with Pounds. I said no, in Northern Ireland you not only can, but you must. But right here you are sitting in the Republic of Ireland, in the north of Donegal, which is the North of the Republic of Ireland but NOT Northern Ireland, we have the Euro as currency. I will never forget the look on his face. I smiled at him and said: "Look, crazier things have happened." And I felt like I'm talking to a 50 year old child that just right then and there found out he has 2 feet! LOL

[@madthing5738]

I used to work in Tourism in Ireland and I remember one day I was in the office at work (for context this was a historical town and our office was right on the town's docks), and I started to hear shouting from downstairs. I went down and found these 4 Americans, one of whom was shouting at one of my staff. He was shouting stuff like "How did you do it? What's the con? Did we think we'd get away with it?!" Like, the dude was really getting abusive to this young student and she's on the verge of tears. I step in between them and I'm trying to get the guy to calm down and ask him what's going on. His response almost made me snap. "Where's the water? I was here 50 years ago and the water was right to the top of the docks! I came here today and all the water is gone! So I want to know what the hell did you bastards do with the water?!" Dude nearly jabbed a bony-ass finger into my face. My face set, my blood boiling, I took in a deep breath, held it and let it go before I replied. "Sir, its low tide, as in the tide is out. The high tide will be later this evening." I have never seen someone deflate and look ashamed of themselves so quickly (his wife and their friends already look mortified). I sent the girl to go get herself a cup of coffee and proceeded to lecture the guy about the concept of tides and then politely told him to get the fuck out of the building.

[@laurainathunderstorm]

Even if something is off what gives anyone the right to yell at a staff?? Horrible people really, I hope it isn't a regular occurrence.

[@fenrirsghost2051]

As a German from the Danish border I can tell people really asked me why all the white doves/pigeons where sitting on the surface of the saltwater and why some of them where that big 😂

[@madthing5738]

@@laurainathunderstorm I was there for nearly 3 years and there was only one other incident (and that just came down to pronunciation misunderstanding than any real malice). Most of the time people were really grateful with the information we provided or got for them. Best one was when I was on my own for the evening and this huge guy walks in, I mean the dude was huge, like 7 and a half feet talking. Dude completely towered over me and I'm not a short guy. He just glowered at me and asked in a deep, rumbling tone...if the museum would be open, because his wife would love to see it. I said yeah, we're open until 5pm. He smiled and about 10 minutes later, he comes in with this tiny woman in her 90s (I found out he was in his late 80s) and that her family came from my hometown and started a business in town that eventually made it famous. She was so grateful she got to have a look around and he had this huge smile on his face.

[@laurainathunderstorm]

@@madthing5738 omg that's so sweet!! I actually considered studying tourism at some point (ended up choosing smth else that I'm very happy with), and I really love getting to hear stories about it. Thanks for sharing!

[@rattywoof5259]

I'd have told him to fuck off first, but then that's just me!

[@Crespwnian]

I used to work security at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam years back, and we actually had a girl from the states at the end of the museum tour ask us "Is she working on another book?" questions like "Does she still live here?" were also quite frequent here....

[@disabledbabe]

You can't make this stuff up lol, just wow.

[@Melv410]

🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[@fenrirsghost2051]

Well, I guess these are the same kind of stupid uneducated girls making smiling selfies while stepping on top of some of the stone blocks at our holocaust memorial in Berlin. 😡 🤦‍♂️

[@PiratDunkelbart]

Dont tell her teacher she didnt finish the book. :)

[@anemicsilence]

🤣🤣💀🙊🤦‍♂️

[@boudecia22]

I've lost count of the times I've been asked if I celebrate independence day.. my response, being british.. is.. "you mean treason day?" 😁

[@melitapeters7698]

As a German on vacation in America I had booked a guided rafting tour on the colorado river. In the morning we all introduced ourselves and when I said I`m from Germany one of the participants asked me how long the train journey would have taken

[@taskfailedsuccessfully4791]

Thank god we here in Brazil almost don't have any large train systems, just insanely large rivers and roads

[@dianasullivan3285]

😂😂

[@dianasullivan3285]

I live in UK England and have only been abroad twice, Tenerife in the Canary islands and Germany, and Irish republic several times and Scotland and Wales several times, I'm 77 now and very happy staying in England, no way do I want to go to USA. Their good is full of chemicals and if you have an accident the hospitals are too expensive.

[@JMWZ_E]

A friend of mine has an American stepdad and they went to Nebraska visiting his parents. The boys from next door were quite interested and asked whether we have electricity in Germany and cars ... while their father's BMW was standing in the driveway.

[@ThePrincessSedna]

LOOOL, !!

[@xman7695]

XD

[@SuddenFool]

I think my eyebrow just escaped my forehead when i tried to raise it.

[@karstenbursak8083]

they might think it's from Spartanburg/SC

[@0ldFrittenfett]

Actually, we Germans pretty much came up with cars with internal combustion engines.

[@sascha_maxine]

"Which state is germany in again?" "Do you guys have cars? And electricity?" "DID YOU VOTE FOR HTLER? OR IS HE NOT IN POLITICS ANYMORE?" (Happened yesterday...) "Isn't germany the capitol of Europe?" That's the questions I can remember. To just the dumbest thing I've ever heard... "GERMANY WAS FOUNDED BY THE USA" this still hurts. And yeah, you hear a lot of stuff on the internet...

[@westernspyanatoli4360]

yep... in 1871 john doyle founded germany somewhere in oklahoma...

[@fitp2183]

Just hit them with "yeah, we actually invented cars" and let them scream confused as you walk away

[@Blanko1998]

"GERMANY WAS FOUNDED BY THE USA" ist doch gar nicht sooo dumm oder? xD Immerhin wurde die Brd ja erst nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg gegründet und das zum großen Teil durch die Hilfe der USA. "Zu Beginn des Jahres 1947 entschieden sich die USA und Großbritannien ihre Besatzungszonen zu vereinigen. Beide strebten die wirtschaftliche Wiederbelebung ihrer Besatzungszonen an. Obwohl Frankreich zuerst abgeneigt war und Angst vor einem zu mächtig werdenden Deutschland hatte, schloss es seine Besatzungszone ebenfalls der ehemaligen Bi-Zone an. Die Westzonen wurden somit zur Tri-Zone vereinigt. Währenddessen distanzierte sich die Sowjetunion immer weiter von einer Vereinigung und schottete ihre Zone wirtschaftlich ab." "Die Währungsreform der deutschen Reichsmark zur „Deutschen Mark“am 20. Juni 1948 führte zum Wirtschaftswunder in den Westzonen. Denn in der „Stunde null“ fühlte sich Deutschland besiegt und war komplett am Boden. Der nun folgende Wirtschaftsaufschwung zu Beginn des Jahres 1949 und der steigende Wohlstand wurden in der deutschen Gesellschaft wie ein „Wunder“ aufgefasst. Das Wirtschaftswunder wurde zum Gründungsmythos der BRD, da das steigende Wohl zu einem Neuanfang für Deutschland führte. Der Marshall-Plan war ein Hilfsangebot der USA nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, welcher zum Wiederaufbau der deutschen Wirtschaft beitragen sollte. Letztendlich war auch dieses Hilfsprogramm ausschlaggebend für den wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung." Also natürlich wurde Deutschland nicht von den USA gegründet, die Aussage ist allerdings gar nicht so dumm. Sorry für die Klugscheißerei :D

[@FluffySylveonBoi]

Funny thing is, they ask if we have something and lot of the things they ask about were either invented outside of the USA or are sometimes better (like internet, I heard it is hard to get fast internet in the USA for reasonable price) yet they know nothing about the world and I kinda pity them.

[@TheChiefEng]

Do you have cars? That's must be the must ignorant question to a German. Do Americans think the car was invented in America? America rarely invented anything and certainly not the car or maybe, I should call it the automobile.

[@pirzzz8001]

I was travelling from France to NYC and the customs officer asked me if I had cash. I said "no just my credit cards". He said : " Oh you have credit card in France to?!" I said "Yes", I did not want to have any problems with your customs offices but I was genuinely flabbergasted and mad

[@elaines.8038]

I was on holiday in Aruba with my family and was at the front of a queue to book a table in a themed restaurant. A New Yorker was in front of me and was becoming irate about having to wait. I tried to calm her down and she suddenly turned on me, telling me I should learn to speak English (because I said the word "queue" several times). I'm afraid I had a sense of humour failure. I am English. Whatever I speak is English because I AM English. The lady behind tried to make excuses for her because apparently New Yorkers are infamous for their straight talking. I'm from our North East too. We're well known for being straight talkers too but we also have manners and know not to be tw*ts.

[@michaelodonnell824]

I'm from Dublin Ireland and a Dublin friend of mine told me that when they were kids they would hang out near where the big Hotels were and when they spotted an American (and trust me. they can be VERY easy to spot), they'd offer to show them where the Leprechauns lived. Then for £5 or £10, they would take them to a large City Park and show them the Rabbit holes!! No one ever asked for their money back!

[@avatarnikita8915]

Improve. Adapt. Overcome.

[@BaconIover69]

That money was well earned 🤣

[@B-A-L]

Ah yeah, Dublin Ireland as opposed to which other one? Kind of stupid you commenting on how dumb Americans are when you have to use the way Americans always put the country straight after any non-American city when there's lost tribes in the Amazon who know where Dublin already is!

[@t.218]

No way

[@onelife7247]

LOVE IT

[@0Quiwi0]

The most stupid question I have had from an american is "How can you afford free schools and healthcare? By my math you should be bankrupt in 25 years". Well Finland is over 100 years old as independent nation and we have had both of those things for most of that time and even before independence. Maybe you need some more free schooling to get your math right :P

[@hannajung7512]

They really do not understand how a properly managed state works, do they? I mean, sure, we have more corruption and mismanagement in Germany, then I'd prefer (in case you wondered: zero is the prefered number), but at least we understand how to do the maths on public healthcare and education.... These people are so undereducated, that they do not even realize, that they are bankrupting their society by NOT having these things.

[@alucardonus]

His math is right... I had this debate with american already. It seems like american way of thinking is that if they had free healthcare in USA, people will be jumping from roofs just because care is free... Thats their way: Its free? So i can do anything just to pump it to the max...

[@0Quiwi0]

@@alucardonus Oh yeah! From the school side the same person insisted that free school would mean that everyone would be a lawyer or a doctor and we wouldn't have any blue collar workers. It never occurred to them that not everyone wants to just go for the high paying jobs

[@davehocking4091]

Ask them how all their taxes pay for fake wars and $1000 nuts and bolts in the military

[@BlackHoleSpain]

You should have answered "because we don't have your outrageous bills and exorbitant salaries; health is NOT a business and is NOT for profit"

[@OliviaSilvaCompositora]

I am from Portugal and in my first time visiting the US people asked me if we speak Spanish. Got triggered, because it's a no-no to confuse Portugal with Spain, because we are a whole different country that speaks a different language, but very patiently I replied "no, we speak Portuguese". To which she responded "ooh, so is Portugal close to Brazil?" ... 😳 I gave her some geography notions and she looked very confused. It's so confusing to me how so many americans are PROUD of never leaving their country. What the heck dudes. Traveling is so eye opening, you would never again believe that the US is the greatest country in the world. It's the biggest falacy, I tell you

[@emilholmqvist2577]

I am from Sweden and was an exchange student in Nebraska couple of years ago. Got whole bunch of dumb questions but one of the most stupidest question was if we rode reindeers as transportation. Which is kind of funny because Mu experience of a small town in Nebraska was that it was really “left behind in time” and they thought we did not have cars in Sweden. Another fun question was about Vikings. They asked when the native Vikings where killed. They had a hard time believing that we are the same as they were 1200 years ago.

[@groundzero7470]

A while ago i had a argument with someone from the US who did not understand that even after Brexit, Britain is still part of Europe. He was convinced that the EU and the European Kontinent are the same. After failing to explain the difference to him for about 20 minutes !, i just went with it. So i told him that Britain set Sails and is currently near Costa Rica. HE BELIEVED IT I feel a bit bad about it but who says Germans have no sense of humor ^^

[@TheGodofChaosItself184]

Own it man!, and if he is mad at because you lied to him, then try to roast him like hell.

[@carolineb3527]

Well, that's one mystery explained. Here I am in the middle of England and I've been feeling seasick lately - and now I know why! You couldn't have told him we packed the country up and airmailed it somewhere? Only like Lord Nelson, I really am not a good sailor. 😁🤣😁

[@LeBunt]

@@carolineb3527 ha ha haaaaaaaaaa🤣🤣🤣

[@fenrirsghost2051]

@@carolineb3527 You´re sure it was not caused the last beer? 🤣

[@JootjeJ]

That is magnificent! 🤣🤣🤣

[@BeckyPoleninja]

Uk here, "wow aren't you Brits grateful that Walt Disney designed all these castles for you?!!!" "Umm, this castle you are in now is over 800 years old, nothing to do with Disney".

[@imajinallthepurple]

And the Disney castle is modelled after a castle in Germany... 😂

[@stampandscrap7494]

Wtaf. Thats spectacular

[@unterdessen8822]

@@stampandscrap7494 Check out "Neuschwanstein".

[@polakrodak8538]

​@@imajinallthepurplevery clearly they built the castle based on the Disney castle

[@madabbafan]

Or the classic American tourist question 'why did they build Windsor Castle under the Heathrow fight path?'

[@juliewyatt9935]

I have visited the Western USA many times but it was 40 - 50 years ago. I never got asked any stupid questions. People sometimes mistook my English accent for Australian but that was it. How can the USA Education system have deteriorated so much in just half a century! It’s frightening.

[@Hanne_mink]

A friend of mine (we're Norwegian) went to high school in the US. Back home we used to joke that she was half troll just cause she was very tall. She told that joke to her new American friends, but they reacted more concerned than amused and she couldn't really figure out if they were just playing along with the irony of the joke. A day after it had been passed around the school that she was half troll, and a scary number of people believed it until she corrected them.

[@insideAdirtyMind]

We had a conversation about cars in Germany and why they are not that big like in the USA. Well I live in a village that is 1000 years old, the streets are tight at many places (you know it all started with walking or horse riding, then there were the carriages and cars are just a thing since the last idk 50 years or so) and one guy just asked: "Why don´t you just make the roads wider?" Yeah, dude, we just make the roads wider that were there for thousand years and demolish families' homes, forcibly relocate the people that families live there for generations and take away their land so that we can have wider roads to drive American cars on through the village, even though it's all no problem with German cars.....yeah ...no.

[@karstenbursak8083]

Reminds me of that Trump whining why there are no american cars sold in Germany... Merkels answer Was priceless: BUILD BETTER CARS

[@CrazyInWeston]

Had that but with in Britain like why not make your country roads wider? Yeah lets rip up all the land boundaries thats been there for centuries just to make wider roads! Some of these roads have been there since Roman times!! Tbh I quite like the challenge of country roads in Britain, 60mph (96kph) speed limit on roads wide enough for one car but its a 2 way road!

[@rendomstranger8698]

Sadly, this is pretty much what the US did. So from their perspective, it's a valid question. Which makes it even sadder than if it wasn't.

[@briansmith48]

Rip up roads and people's homes. That's what they did here in America for the railroads, then the interstate/ highway system. Paid them a third of the price it was worth and kicked them off the land.

[@FluffySylveonBoi]

Fun fact: if you tell Americans your village is 1000 years old, some may imagine a village from that time with no technology etc xD It's sad what they think and you can tell them many lies and some people will believe it.

[@Cinesta76]

One I got asked was, "How do the British Celebrate the forth of July and Thanksgiving?" Oh and I also got asked where I learned to speak English so well? I'm British 😂

[@stampandscrap7494]

We have a little party to celebrate you all leaving?

[@B-A-L]

We celebrate the fourth of July by burning the American flag cos nobody gets more annoyed about flag burning than the Americans do!

[@fenrirsghost2051]

@@B-A-L 🤣🤣🤣 Great one 😁 By the way, can you remember when the DANISH guy painted the mohammed cartoons and the muslims freacked out and even burnt SWISS flags too due to the flags white cross on red background too?! 😂😂😂

[@B-A-L]

@@fenrirsghost2051 The funniest thing I can remember was when Russia did something America didn't like and a load of Americans went out and bought bottles of vodka and were shown pouring them down the drains in New York shouting anti-Russian crap being too stupid to realise that all they'd done is put more money into the Russian economy and all they had to show for it was a load of empty vodka bottles and a sewer full of drunk alligators!

[@Anonymous-sb9rr]

Happy treason day America!

[@anjaboltin3299]

I spoke to a US-person at the early 90ies, we spoke about language learning and whether it is easier to learn English or German and I said English is a bit easier because you can quite fast start talking with just some basic knowledge level while in German you need to know more grammar to do so. And he replied to me, that in the English Language there is no grammar at all 🙈👻😳

[@kingarthur68]

So I am German and my mom told me that she once was in an international college, where also americans were. One time they had a talk about politics and my mom told them that she was a social-democrat, but they didn't know the difference between social-democratic and socialist so they asked my mom angrily how she could be an evil socialist and she had to explain the difference between a socialist and a social-democrat. XD

[@brag0001]

Many Americans don't understand that different even after explaining it to them for an hour. For them having universal health care is communism, so ...

[@kikidee23]

Socialism isn’t even evil. Americans still see it this way after all this time.

[@debra1363]

I can't imagine today's college students being outraged about socialism!

[@polakrodak8538]

Aren't the democrats social-democrats or something?

[@shrmpnyoung]

so the accent thing goes along with this: whenever i tell an american that we learn british english in school but i‘m used to american english more bc of tv shows etc. they look at me super confused and go: „what‘s american english?“ 😂🙈

[@B-A-L]

I want to know, as a Briton, what's British English? Last time I was at school it was just English!

[@ravenouself4181]

@@B-A-L It is the non-Americanized English. Basically, watch any James Bond movie.

[@B-A-L]

@@ravenouself4181 So you mean English then? And why James Bond and not any other British movie?

[@ralphisxamida8533]

@@B-A-L Different words for the same things (lift/elevator) and different pronunciation (either for example). In my scool we learned british english because "it sounds more noble". But because of all the american movies I learned both and now I mix both together, must sound strange. XD

[@xman7695]

@@B-A-L we learned British English in school until 8th grade and then learned some American English as well for a year or two before reverting back. The difference in pronunciation and some vocabulary was both considered ok so we just used what we thought we liked more (British English war preferred by teachers though) For example soccer/football, Chips/fries, holiday/vacation, post code/zip code, rubber/eraser, sweets/candy for example We learned both by the way.

[@jandejong1122]

My personal opinion on these dumb questions is that the basic US education system is very inadequate and extremely self centered.

[@T0MT0Mmmmy]

Not only education, also news and movies, etc. ... so they have really no chance to learn more.

[@alchristie5112]

When I first visited the US in the 90s, I was shown a TV and asked if I knew what that was!! Also asked if we had the internet in Britain. Internet, TV, …, computers, telephone, etc were invented by British

[@MyratheDunmer]

I once had an American ask me if we have roads in Scotland. We have some Roman roads that have been here for thousands of years (and also a lot of modern ones because literally every country does at this point and this place is not exclusively made of sheep farms)

[@ewelinakosciow2817]

Do you have Roman roads in Scotland? Aren't they end at Hadrian's Wall? Romans did not take over Scotland as far as I remembered.

[@DemTacs]

Early 2000. Worked at a hotel reception desk. American tourist comes to the front to check in. After a bit of business-talk, he asks me " Where can I find the grave of Hitler?" My answer: " The scholars are divided about that, some say he was transported to his home in austria. Others say he escaped to Latinamerica. Or in an unmarked grave somewhere here." ( I admit I used a bit of Berlinsnout at that time.) Infuriated, he snaps at me: " DON'T give horseshit, you punk! I am a 4-star general in the US-army." If that is the education level of a highranked military-person, I wonder how are they getting promoted?

[@helloweener2007]

Were you able to keep a serious face? I am pretty bad in hiding such things and the guest would have know that I laugh my ass off about him.

[@DemTacs]

@@helloweener2007 Nah, I am pretty good at keeping compulsor (?). I just cocked my head sideways in confusion.

[@MellonVegan]

@@DemTacs composure ;)

[@DemTacs]

@@MellonVegan Thank you. With English being the third language I have learned and many phrases in other languages adding to that, I get confused sometimes on the writing. :)

[@emanymton5789]

with a straight face i'd answer him: "you are? strange. i know that the romans promoted jackasses to generals, i didn't know the us army did too."

[@_jess_irene_6229]

I'm polish born and raised. My friend is black. Polish born and raised as well. We were in america on vacation and the amount of times the people were like "no but realy where are you from?" or "you are not from poland there is no black poles" and my absolute favourite from the cashier "I thought being black is illigal in Poland" like what? How do people like that exist.

[@ThePixel1983]

To be fair, the PiS party is doing a lot to make Poland less diverse and "gay free".

[@urielseuthes7484]

To be fair a distnction between governments and people has to be made.

[@pleasurereport]

polish people would probably ask him too where he is from. in europe generally, if you aren't white as the moon, you will get the question a lot. america is a little better in that regard, as long as your accent is american.

[@urielseuthes7484]

@@pleasurereport Thats normal, esspecialy in the east and south, population is white. There is a different approach to the color.

[@user-zw8uc4rm1m]

I think that it's kind of a valid question, asking what his ethnicity is and not what country you're born in. Being born in poland doesn't make you ethnically polish

[@kaeru3228]

French here. A cute one I got quite often on a website to find friends from other countries: do we all have berets in France? Sure, and we walk with baguettes under our armpits, it's like a fashion accessory.

[@rattywoof5259]

You forgot to mention the bunches of onions, and the striped t-shirts!

[@CitroTeam]

On the contrary, it also happens. A niece of mine loved the US because what she was taught was that there was the "American dream" and anyone could become a millionaire and "it was the best country in the world", but she had never visited the US. Two years ago she went there and came back in shock because she sprained her foot and needed to go to a hospital. She had to pay $600 up front. Because in her 35 years she never paid a doctor or hospital bill. She said "never again".

[@TheExodus2004]

I was at an international IT conference once. In the city of The Hague in the Netherlands, with people from US and all over Europe. In a break i had a chat with one guy from the US and one from Sweden, i myself am Austrian, living in Germany. Of course we were talking in English. At some point the US guy said "btw. don't mind me you can talk in your own language if you want to". We were a bit confused and asked what he meant. Turned out that guy thought Europe was one country and we all had the same native language. We had to explain that my native language is German and the other guys native language is Swedish, so we need to talk English with each other. Most puzzling about that, the US guy had a masters degree in IT science, so he wasn't dumb or had zero education, he just had zero education in international geography.

[@beh2969]

Maybe he was thinking of Esperanto? 🤣🤣

[@fenrirsghost2051]

I´m German too, living close to the Danish border. I´ve been in Danish school for 10 years and speak perfect Danish. Due to this also a acceptable Norwegian and Swedish. I feel sad for you due to your very low language education so you have to speak even english to a Swede in the Netherlands while an american sitting next to 😂😂😂 Nicht böse werden 😛 😁😂😂

[@B-A-L]

@@beh2969 He probably tried to order an Esperanto at the local cafe!

[@mshell1959]

@TeaTin Yes there is!

[@whattheflyingfuck...]

I am german and was in California for an exchange year, here are my highlights of american ignorance: • What is your emperor called? • Do you have strawberries? • How old is Hitler now? • Do you have cars?

[@8all8at8once8]

What is your emperor called 😂😂😂 I LOVE that! 😆😆😆😆

[@hmcredfed1836]

you didnt got asked if you have met hitler I did a lot xD

[@BruderSenf]

"do you have running water in your houses in germany and if you can drink it?"....that nearly broke me

[@malte1984]

well, it is actually not that common that you can drink tap water. Germany has just redicoulusly great water quality. In south europe for an example (Spain, Italy, Greece etc.) I would be careful when drinking tap water. In South America I wouldn't even dare drinking it and in many parts of North America, I would also think twice. (the running water part however is dumm as shit)

[@kaylinalaska6117]

I'm from Aotearoa New Zealand, and here are some of the top stupid questions I've been asked from when I lived in America for a year: 1. "Do you still live in grass huts?" (and a subsection of the question is "Do you wear grass skirts over there?") 2. "Does Kiwi bird taste like kiwifruit?" 3: "Oh is that a state in Australia?" 4: "Do you have the electricity? Or do you still cook underground?" 5: "Can you tell me directions to the nearest Walmart?"

[@femkethielemans4686]

I had an American that thought America invended the worldwide web and we had to be thankful that they give it to us... I had to burst there bubble and say no the co-founder was Belgian like me sweety 😅 and the other founder was also from Europe. The Islam thing was so hilarious 😂

[@thesinned9736]

Yeah I guess most americans think the www was invented in the US and not in Europe(CERN Institute). But the fundamentals of the Internet was founded in the US I think many people confuse this

[@stevetaylor7403]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee. British.

[@B-A-L]

Most Americans think they invented the computer anyway!

[@rossbrumby1957]

And WIFI was invented by a bunch of Aussies working for the CSIRO. (Commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation)

[@valeriedavidson2785]

@@thesinned9736 World Wide Web invented by an Englishman. Tim Berners-Lee Lee

[@el_santo1605]

I’m Portuguese and someone asked me if it means that I’m Spanish or Mexican because “Portugal is a part from Brazil” and of course Brazil is in between Spain and Mexico. Now I always just say that Im Latino because for most it’s the same don’t matter what I say😂

[@wessexdruid7598]

:=(

[@ilka5671]

That hurts

[@tazylab6233]

I don't know what is worst not knowing that Portugal and Spain are in Europe, or telling that Portugal is between Spain and Mexico, guess this person never grab a map. Come on Mexico is just right there under USA, where did you see spain in America???, If English people conquered the territory that now is USA, why do you think most of the countries in America (continent) speaks Spanish?? BECAUSE WE WERE CONQUERED BY SPAIN, and Brazil speaks Portuguese because they were conquered by Portugal, Canada i don't know their history but we'll french is one of their main language, and Surinam and the Guyanas (countries in south America that are not latinamerican) also do not know their history only that one Guyana is french the other they speak English,so another England conquered territory do not know if they are independent or not, and Surinam they speak dutch

[@el_santo1605]

@@tazylab6233 but Suriname and The guyanas are Latin American because they are in Latin America haha. French-Guyana is still france but the country is still Latin American

[@tazylab6233]

@@el_santo1605 there isn't a country or continent called latinamerican, we identify ourselves as latin american for our culture for our language (that means that are rooted in Latin or the romance language) so i guess we can include french Guyana in this, but not Surinam or Guyana that speak one dutch and the other English, (french , Portuguese Spanish, Italian are all Latin derivative languages) but to be latinoamerican you'll have to speak one of those and be in the American continent, although i don't even know if french Guyana has a history so similar like the rest of us

[@kathyborthwick6738]

An American student asked me where I was from and I said, “ Elkford British Columbia, Canada! She then stated, “ Awe I love people from England”!

[@robert48719]

You know what? You are a highly intelligent man. Being able to admit and being aware that your own country has issues isn't for everyone

[@anitakleine811]

I'm from Germany and during an exchange year in the US I got asked how I would be able to enter the country if the wall at the border to Mexico would be built. I wasn't sure if I should even consider answering that or not😂

[@frizzlethecat2084]

"Swim, obvisouly...." 😂

[@tasminoben686]

Na, du kannst doch einfach mit dem Auto über Kanada fahren! Grüße aus Hamburg

[@MrMaro1995]

I mean... Germans have experience in bringing walls down. ;)

[@Souru_TV]

@@MrMaro1995 wahrheit/truth

[@patriciamillin1977]

What?! You mean you didn’t have a ladder?!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@marlenes.3228]

One time an American asked if we hang our Christmas trees upside down in Germany. Maybe not the dumbest question but definitely the weirdest one

[@bergheima5663]

I’ve seen people in the Netherlands do that

[@ThePrincessSedna]

Wir haben ausserhalb der USA Christbäume und dann hängen wir sie auch noch verkehrt in unserer Höhle auf? Die Europäer müssen verrückt sein! Haben sie schon Messer und Gabeln????

[@GeschichtenUndGedanken]

Wirklich? Wie kam er denn darauf ? 😄

[@helloweener2007]

That was really a thing. First Chrismas trees were hung upside down.

[@meow.ashley]

WASSS WIE KOMMT MAN AUF SOWAS HAAHHAHAAHHA

[@christophermccabe5257]

I am from Scotland and I use to work in Edinburgh (Scotland's capital city). I was on my way to the train station after finishing work and I got stop by a group of 5 American tourists and they asked me where the Castle was. They had a brochure with a picture of the castle on it and the actual castle was literally behind them. I said to them 'oh sorry , you've just missed it. They've not long dismantled it for cleaning. It should be back up in a couple of days. THEY ACTUALLY BELIEVED ME!! One of them said 'oh no , we'll be going home then'.🤦🤦

[@PainInTheS]

Oh man, these comments are just comedy gold! 🤣🤣🤣

[@5Bip]

Some Americans wanted to eat spicy food and we (english) suggested going for a curry while in London. We did strongly warn them that a hot curry is nothing like hot mexicain food and suggested avoiding the very hottest dishes on the menu. We had lived in the US so we knew. Of course we were ignored and we watched them go bright red, dripping in sweat and drink a jugs of water each before saying ' why didn't you warn us?'. We just shrugged and said some people need to find out for themselves where their limits are. Confidence is one thing but not taking advice is quite another. 😂

[@sdepountis]

As a Greek, I have realised from my interactions with people from the US when I was abroad in the UK for studies, is that some of them actually think that we are still in 500BC or something. So typical questions, especially from people aged 50+ : Q: I see you wear normal clothes, don't you wear a toga when not in Greece? A: Yes, I will revert to my everyday clothing when I fight the Persians next week. And Toga is a Roman term. Q: So are all Greeks gay? A: If you mean merry... yes most of them are... Q: So, funny thing, I met a guy the other day and he told me that he was a lesbian, isn't that stupid? A: No dumbass, he's actually from the island of Lesbos in Northeastern Aegean sea. That's where the term for gay women originated sure, but that's another story. Of course I have been asked if I spoke Greek and how hard it is to learn, if we have TV's and internet and so on. Most of them accompanied by a look of genuine compassion...

[@Pandalka]

you people are so lucky, I would go into a full troll mode every time

[@patriciamillin1977]

Love it! 😂😂😂😂

[@MIGBMWLOVER]

Do you knew w what time the Persians invade? I need to get my hoplite outfit.

[@haraldschuster3067]

@@MIGBMWLOVER - You and your 299 roomies?

[@MIGBMWLOVER]

@@haraldschuster3067 no my and my 9999 homies...

[@rogerramjet6429]

I've got a friend in Canada that got offended when I told her I like her accent. She claimed she doesn't have an accent but I did, being in Australia. I then had to explain that we both have accents relative to our countries of residence.

[@lucas-prado]

This missconcepting happens in entire world. 🤦🏽

[@Moffeliten]

Canadians aren't americans.

[@hmcredfed1836]

@@Moffeliten still the closest you can get without being it ^^

[@dragonvliss2426]

Canadians ARE Americans Their nation is part of the North American continent. They just are not from the USA. @@Moffeliten

[@Marinetravel97]

I'm from Belgium (speaking French) and I had the same conversation with a French girl who said she didn't have a French accent... 😂

[@Mactalisker..]

I'm from/live in the UK, American tourist once said to me "I'm amazed how many people speak American here" 🤦‍♂

[@karenstrong8887]

I was in LA airport and a couple heard me talk. I am Australian, they asked me what language we speak and I said Australian. Then they asked if we spoke English and I told them we had to learn English every year at school. They told me we were so lucky to leave school speaking 2 languages. 👀

[@Anthyrion]

I don't know if the story is true, but one of my friends once said, that he was asked in a chatroom if Hitler still is our Chancellor. His answer was: "No. He is dead for over 50 years now." The answer from the other side was: "Oh. I'm so sorry to hear that."

[@juliannickermann9492]

This is 100% true, there are so so many people thinking that Hitler still is our chancellor or that his family is royal, and that we are upset and sad about his death, still live like he wanted us to live etc. etc.

[@MyratheDunmer]

This is genuinely disturbing

[@Ratherbflyin]

I grew up overseas, including living in Southern Africa for several years. Whenever I happen to mention that period of my life to someone in the US, almost every single time I get asked "Do you speak African?" No. "African" is not a language.

[@emileduvernois6680]

Fun fact : Afrikaans means African in Afrikaans.

[@Ratherbflyin]

@@emileduvernois6680 Really? I wasn't aware of that. I only learned a few words in Afrikaans while I was there.

[@emileduvernois6680]

You mean you didn't know ??? You're kidding me aren't you ? (pardon me, I might have trouble detecting sarcasm in the way you usually to do it in your neck of the woods...)

[@Ratherbflyin]

@@emileduvernois6680 Nope, no sarcasm. As I mentioned, I only learned a few words in Afrikaans, and most of those have long been forgotten. I lived in Southern Africa for almost 8 years, and probably spent a grand total of a month or two in South Africa during that time.

[@emileduvernois6680]

Ok. I must confess a sign of ignorance of my own. Until not so long ago, I did not know English was widely spoken in South-Africa. I thought afrikaans was prevalent, along with other native languages like Zulu and Xhosa. I was confronted with the proof to the contrary when I saw a south african film. (without a dub). And it was not the first South African film i saw ! I had seen another one, but since this one was ambiented among black communities, everybody spoke Zulu, and it did not prove me wrong in my thinking that the others spoke afrikaans, on the whole.

[@colleenbarber3517]

Years ago a cruise ship arrived in Vancouver and an American asked my Canadian grandmother asked her where the igloos were! Another trip in on a cruise ship into Vancouver, an American looked at our skyline and said “OMG! You guys have Sky scrapers like New York”.

[@be_me]

I'm German. I've heard a German say that Australia is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. There's that, I guess. Oh, and when we were supposed to go on a class trip to Amrum (a German island in the north sea) one of my classmates asked whether they had electricity there. The teacher, in an ironic tone, explained that no, they instead had pigs in the walls and you had to plug your devices into their snouts. Then people would stand behind them and kick them and that would generate the needed electricity. AND HE BELIEVED IT! It became a running gag in our class for years after that 😂. Dumb people are everywhere.

[@ceciliebyberg8569]

I was working in the Norwegian pavillion in Disney World in Florida and I was asked if I travelled back and forth between Florida and Norway every day. I told them that this flight would take me approx 17 hours both ways, but they did not see any problems with that. Love from Norway ❤

[@patriceesela5000]

😅😅😅

[@lillm6874]

😂😂😂

[@PavelKahun]

Ahhh, it's so professional from you to be on your phone only once you are home and not at work. Americans would write this from work in your case Florida.

[@bergheima5663]

I always used to encounter at least 1 American that asked if Hitler/The Nazis is/are still in power 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@tripleking9685]

That is the dumbest shit ive ever heard like Wtf how do you live if you are not gettin anithing of the world.

[@Tim.H660]

Jup, same

[@fitp2183]

"in the US? Yes,, here we prefer democracy"

[@marionthompson3365]

Good grief, that's seriously bad.

[@patriciamillin1977]

I’ve heard that from others, too. A teacher giving a course in the company I was working for had been to the US and was asked the same thing.

[@blackrain1999]

So we lived in Austria, and this American exchange student who was friends with my brother wanted to send us a small package from northern Italy, not too far away form our home. The package ended up not arriving for weeks before we investigated and finally found out - it ended up being sent to Australia instead of Austria! (They send it back because it was undeliverable or whatever?)

[@kristofsportingdogs3549]

I was on holiday as an 18 year old boy (I’m 41 now 😉), with my American family in Oregon. We went to a theatre to see a StarWars movie, that was already released in the USA, but not in Europe… They asked if I would like to subscribe to their membership. I said: “no, I’m from Belgium”. They answered: “that doesn’t matter, we’ve got even members who live as far as New York…” 🤷‍♂️🤨

[@theoderich1168]

Conversation overheard during our holiday in Italy in the 70s: two elderly American women in front of a souvenir shop looking at the items and the prices - one asking the other: "HOW MUCH IS THAT IN REAL MONEY?"

[@rolfspannbauer6750]

To be honest, the question is not as dumb as it sounds. In pre-Euro times you paid 1000 Italian Lire for a pack of chewing gum 😁

[@stevetaylor7403]

That question is asked asked, jokingly, in relation to time, temperature, speed and many other forms.

[@idbruce]

Whilst in a Duty Free shop in Nadi, Fiji, I overheard an American tourist say "How much is that in Texas money?" Did he think Texas was a country?

[@ThePixel1983]

@@idbruce To be fair, I started regarding the US as not a country but a collection of countries. Usually, when you enter a country you can look up some basic laws for the whole country: Do they have the death penalty? Can people carry guns there? Which drugs are legal? How many vacation days are guaranteed to employees? So in a way, the US are not "a" country.

[@adelucas4824]

I say that a lot as a joke when friends in the US talk about stuff. "It's so cold, it's like 40 degrees".... "So what's that in real money? 5C? Yep that's cold" 🥶😅

[@kl9518]

I'm Chinese and the most common questions I get from westerners is, "Are you related to Jackie Chang ". 1.4 billion Chinese, of course I am, he's my brother.

[@PainInTheS]

Oh ffs....he rumbled in Hong Kong AND in the Bronx.....even American Chinese are his brothers and sisters. 🤣🤣🤣

[@distomos8118]

I’m little late in watching this, but here are my two cents anyways: as an exchange student in Minneapolis I was asked if we have electricity in Germany. I asked why they thought we didn’t and they said: „ well, we’ve been sampling photographs of german cities and we didn’t see any powerlines.“ I told them that powerlines in german cities are installed under streets and walkways, so they’re protected from harsh weather conditions, amongst other benefits. Only in some rural areas you see them. They thought I was kidding.

[@dougmurphy1777]

I have a friend from Chicago who once asked me if we celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia! By the way, she's a school teacher

[@markrich7171]

A friend of mine said that when he was on holiday in Rome he was on a tour and the tour-guide ask what people thought about the Colosseum. This American replied that "It will be good when its's finished!"

[@marionthompson3365]

Oh dear...absolutely clueless.

[@stampandscrap7494]

Spose it beats when are they going to finish knocking it down.

[@Macbeth99]

No, that's a joke surely 🤔 He wasn't serious surely

[@GaiaShield]

That's actually a common dad joke. So maybe not really a serious statement.

[@BooLee01]

@@GaiaShield ​ Exactly. I have a feeling a great number of these are based on Americans making jokes that fly right over the heads of Canadians, Europeans, etc., who take them as serious questions. I mean, come on, "do you ride polar bears?" Really? Well, I have to be honest. Maybe 40% of them are jokes.

[@stevethomson6927]

We were hosting American Marines on exercise in Australia. Was asked if the "sound of music mountains were able to be driven to in a day" I said "um you know your in Australia not Austria right"

[@0x777]

So that's the Australian version of the "where's the kangaroos?" question I get asked by them. ;)

[@B-A-L]

That really is Dumb and Dumber!

[@rdalybread]

I bet they also don’t know that Australia is the flattest continent in the entire world, and most of its citizens lived in coastal areas. Strange such a strong foreign military force could have its own members be so dumb.

[@cireenasimcox1081]

Mate, I grew up in Papua New Guinea from the age of 14 to 26 - can you imagine the questions I got asked? And still do, if ever it comes up when I'm talking to someone from the USA.🤣🤣🤣

[@thepineapple8434]

It was actually in Australia when a girl asked me (german, 1st week in Australia): "How did you learn german?" I told german is my mother tounge and I learned english in school. She couldn´t understand.

[@nail1247]

Less a question, more a statement. I was in the middle of London at traffic light, there are no cars coming so this crowd waiting at the traffic light cross without waiting for it to go green. This little American woman then screams "THAT'S JAY WALKING!" And this guy halfway across just turns around and yells back "It's England, love!" and she just kinda stood there dumbfounded that people cross traffic lights in broad daylight when there's no cars coming.

[@ronja9042]

My mum was an exchange student (we are from Germany) and she told me that she got asked if we have the same moon as the US in Germany. And I still don't know how the heck that person came up with that, like- no, I'll now get in my spaceship and fly back to Germany on mars where we have two moons

[@avatarnikita8915]

1Q84 by Murakami

[@NicolaiCzempin]

"North America - Canada" North America is a continent, comprised of over twenty sovereign entities in Anglo-America, Central America and the Caribbean. Some of these entities include the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Cuba. I'm writing this before the part where the Canadian woman reveals the question, near 3:26; I wonder if James realises what he just said.

[@ThePrincessSedna]

Ausserhalb der USA wissen wir es!!!!!

[@dianaschwengle-croes3073]

North America + Middle America + South America = Continent America

[@ge_mig_nat_som_kanns]

Came for this 😄

[@augustomoreira7441]

america is the continent. unites states of america is the country. i wish more people knew this. its just dumb.

[@bard4788]

Had that discussion at one point with someone at my workplace about family origins on where we came from Me “yeah I also have an great, great grandfather from somewhere in North America, but we’re not really sure where.” “You know the U.S is not a continent?” “Yeah… that’s why I said North America.”

[@mousebr549]

I love your channel James! The truth isn't always easy to hear, but nonetheless, it is the truth. Keep up the good work.

[@fergie1014]

"You're english is pretty good but you might want to work on your accent a bit when pronouncing words". I'm literally English. You are speaking my language. Really making me consider restarting the empire in order to right some wrongs.

[@sailspo]

Not me, but my brother's friend did an internship in the US and he was asked by his coworkers if Hitler was still Germany's president.

[@aleisterlavey9716]

No, his son took over, when Adolf retired after winning the Nobel peace price and she is now the first Jewish Transwoman in the Chancellors position since the big Internet outtake in 1882.

[@missharry5727]

This seems to be a common misconception

[@karstenbursak8083]

how can people, who always bragg that they kicked hitlers ass in WW2 ask such questions ? oh ... right, they even don't know their own history

[@kyriakoskyriakos1100]

I'm Greek and some years ago me and some friends of mine we went to Santorini. At the port there we met an american couple. After talking for a while they asked us why our houses aren't made by marble like the ones in the pics, and when we told them that those are ancient temples made 3000 years ago they didn't believe us. They thought we should still wear tongas.

[@unterdessen8822]

My geography teacher liked to mess with naive foreigners (mostly Americans). He would tell them, that he lived in a cave as a child and ate dinosaur steaks. If they believed that, he continued claiming, that there was only one continent back then (Pangaea) and his ears hurt all day from the Big Bang.

[@ololadin91]

My personal top 3: - Do you have electricity in Germany? 🧐 - Do you have cars in Germany? 🤦‍♂️ - Do still celebrate the birthday of they guy with a maustache? 👀

[@inesnathaliengoua]

Actually people have accents based on where they learned the language. im from gabon, born french speaking but ive been learning english since i was little and now at 30 im fully fluent and have an american accent (what an american person would call neutral) because of tv and the internet. oh and my dad grew up in england for a bit so he has a slight british accent.

[@Goalsplus]

True. Philippine call centre staff have an American accent. Private school girls in India have an English accent.

[@horrorfan6926]

someone once said to me that germany was first coloniesed and then founded by the us. I tried to explain to him that is was accutally (sort of) the other way around. So yeah, thats my favourite one so far😂

[@stampandscrap7494]

Wow. They really need to teach world history.

[@christinekingston7382]

Yes

[@johnmullens2857]

it wasn;t Germany, it was Holland.

[@Entichen]

if you rly think about how things are in germany you arent that wrong to be honest 🤣

[@vallie3219]

@@johnmullens2857 The Netherlands*

[@Braun30]

Italian speaking swiss, on a trip with a colleague from Italy, got asked "how do you call pizza in Italy?"

[@aleisterlavey9716]

I would've said to them "Saying 'I want fresh Pizza' is pronounced Io sono Culo di Piazza"

[@TheDonutMan3000]

Maybe not the dumbest question, but definitely my favorite I ever got asked was "do you guys have prisons in Germany?" by a 17 y-o. I said "No, all convicted criminals actually are put into schools as teachers" and she deadass went "Wow! That's actually really smart". To be fair this was in a childrens home for kids that had completely different worries than other countries' justice systems, but come on... wtf do they teach you in public school?!

[@XxKagarwaxX]

I was once asked by an american, if I have ever met Hitler in person. Was also asked by another american what we guys eat in Germany and if we have french fries. Another one asked me if we have lions in Germany. The ignorance is absolutely insane sometimes, because they are genuine and even have some sort of academic background which is extremely worrying.

[@raciko88]

It's a shame that a lot of Americans don't know world geography and stuff like that, some of them couldn't even name 5 countries in the Europe or Asia. Are they that much arrogant or are they just not interested in the world in general? For real, they don't know the most common stuff. But i like your interest in other parts of the world keep up man

[@ThePrincessSedna]

Naja warum sollten sie auch. Sie werden als die besten erzogen, und sehen auf andere herab. Und dann sind Sie überrascht das wir mit Messer und Gabel essen können und sprechen können. Und das macht die US im Rest der Welt unsympatisch.und das können Sie nicht verstehen......

[@sarahmichael270244]

I think all that questions are showing how bad educatioj in the States was / is.

[@B-A-L]

Tbh most Americans couldn't even tell you what their own state capital is!

[@dmwalker24]

Apologies to all the lovely people receiving these questions. I'm American, but I've always had this little voice in the back of my head that tells me to check my premise out first before making a fool out of myself, or insulting someone from a different part of the world. There is a serious undercurrent of arrogant elitism in a lot of these questions, which is about what you'd expect I guess.

[@stampandscrap7494]

Sometimes you must feel out of place. Lol.

[@arisanagno0024]

For the most part it isn’t even your fault. It’s partly your education system and the other part the geolocation of the US, cause you’re somewhat isolated from Europe, Asia, Africa and their cultures, and the sheer size of the country itself can’t be helping

[@dmwalker24]

@@arisanagno0024 All of those things do contribute, I believe. The unfortunate reality is that Americans didn't know a lot to begin with, and over the last decade or so, they know less with each passing day. Most can't tell you about something important that happened in the last 5 years. Let alone 50, or 500. That might as well be prehistoric as far as they know. I think it's mostly the fault of capitalism, and the cult of individualism. We're quickly becoming 330 million potatoes in a sack... who all hate each other.

[@dmwalker24]

@@stampandscrap7494 An atheist with anarchist, and communist tendencies from Texas. Yeah I've felt out of place every once in a while.

[@arisanagno0024]

@@dmwalker24 I agree capitalism in the US has taken an extreme form, which is why despite having one of the strongest economies globally the lower classes are often struggling to survive. The division of wealth is abysmal, the humanitarian aid to those in need on behalf of the American government is non existent and I’m afraid the situation is only getting worse. I’m not one for socialism and definitely not communism but you have to create a form of capitalism that doesn’t completely devalue human life. Obama was on the right track but it seems like whatever progress was done was pretty much immediately destroyed by the Trump administration and with the way the political system works in the states that will probably keep happening. Honestly I don’t even know if it’s possible to govern well and democratically a country of 300+ million people. Hope we can all move towards a better future though

[@dinkoz1]

I love when US associates ask about the internet and are shocked that I have fiber optic cables internet connection in my apartment for 15 years, and before that DSL for years, almost when it was put on the market

[@landrodomingo981]

Forrest Gump replied “Stupid is as stupid does”, meaning that a person should be judged by his actions, not his appearance. 😮😅😂😊

[@scarlettdevina7054]

I got asked so many times if we have cars. I’m German. We invented them.

[@baumbelastiger4972]

They'd probably answer : "No you didn't invent the car henry ford did."

[@BlackReshiram]

@@baumbelastiger4972 LMFAO

[@killer87madness1]

I am French. We invented them. The « Fardier » was the first self moving vehicle, invented in 1770 (I know Carl Benz made the 1st real car but I had to bring in some french pride, sorry 😂🇫🇷)

[@alinac5512]

@@killer87madness1 as a german: sure you did (due to historical facts I have to bring some french hate, sorry 😂)

[@killer87madness1]

@@alinac5512 That is nicely done 😂 let’s say both our countries can share that success then 🇫🇷🇩🇪

[@dellinger71]

I once got an Email from an engineer (with 14 years of experience!) of an American customer, sending a photo of a labeled cap, asking what the number "710" would stand for. I just turned it around, so you could read the word "OIL", and send it back. Two weeks later he asked, how to connect a laser module with only two ports, clearly different in form and size. Again, he was an engineer (with 14 years of experience)!

[@hmcredfed1836]

you mean he claimed to be one xD

[@elaines.8038]

Another one. I was visiting friends in Miami in '92. They were giving me a tour of the city and as we were driving around, my friend's partner pointed out the oldest building in Miami, a red brick building with a tower and proudly declared it was 100 years old ......... I laughed ........ a lot. Then he asked me if we have buildings older than 100 years in ENGLAND (I was still laughing) to which I replied that we had public toilets older than that. "So how old is the oldest building in Sunderland?" "That would be the church my grandparents got married in and is about 1,300 years old." (Still laughing).

[@amolinya]

This happened a week ago. I'm from luxembourg and for a couple of years now public transit is free (tiny country) and there was an american guy (by his southern drawl) arguing with the bus driver in a super polite way about the fare. Bus driver completely confused, just said 'free'. Guy looks at the bus driver and is confused, By this point everybody who wanted to get on the bus took the back entrance/exit but me, never missing a funny scene, stood behind the american guy while the bus driver is trying to find the correct words and then said 'the bus is free' and the guy responded with 'aight' if ye say so buddy'. I had to really suppress my laughter.

[@PainInTheS]

Well...I'm Dutch and I would be surprised too hearing that. But being Dutch and hearing 'free' I would also be on a seat in a split second of course. 🤓

[@LennArtsTV]

A friend of mine (German) was asked by an u.s. american if you could see the moon from germany.

[@ThePrincessSedna]

Ich fall vom Stuhl. Ohne Worte!

[@Pandalka]

you can, but only the other side

[@ThePrincessSedna]

@@Pandalka schon wieder umgefallen

[@patriciamillin1977]

😂😂😂😂

[@rossbrumby1957]

Just the darkside, where from Germany you can see the secret nazi moonbase with a telescope.

[@TTDahl]

One of the first Americans I met asked me: "If you're really from Norway... and you say it's 9hrs earlier there (Oslo Norway vs. LA, Ca). Why come you didn't warn us about 9/11."

[@unterdessen8822]

Well, you were probably busy coordinating the annual troll migration, right? 😉

[@TTDahl]

@@unterdessen8822 Might have been. 🤣

[@PainInTheS]

I have a hard time believing this......but....but yeah, there really are people that stupid out there and we're talking about Americans.

[@sebastienchristophebecky8231]

haha. I love your self realisations. God bless

[@AnitaNiniel]

The second time I went to US back in 2000, and I stayed at my Best friend's house, one day we went to a shopping centre and while we were in the stairs going up her dad's wife asked to me " Do you have this in Spain?", I was so confused, looking around thinking she mean a shop in particular, but then she pointed to the escalator and said "this! Do you have this in Spain?" I Couldn't believe it!! We have Escalators in Spain since they were commercialised in Europe at the beginning of the XX century! Also, when my friend came to visit me 10 years later, she was convinced that the houses in Spain didn't have hard-floors, just sand like in the middle age or something! So My friend was sending her pictures of floors all the time! It was funny!