What's The DUMBEST Thing An American Said TO YOU??

In this video we're gonna look at some questionable things Americans have said to people around the world.... lol
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[@catonkybord7950]

My favourite of these will always be that one girl's story about how someone thought Wales wasn't real, and that Prince Charles was actually the Prince of "whales" 🐋🐳

[@sarahmann4753]

Yes, that's a good one. And now all the whales belong to William. I hope someone told them 😆

[@foxyloxy481]

Here is my story. American: nice to see so many tourists that speak English Me: (confused. I'm in my hometown in Sweden) American: Where are you from Me: Sweden and this is my hometown American: Liar. You are not Swedish. Everyone knows Swedish people are blonde and has blue eyes. With your red hair your do not look at all like a Swedish person. Where are you really from? Me: Still from Sweden American: where are your parents from Me: Sweden. And where are you from? ( Already knew it was an American from the accent) American: Louisiana Me: ( looks at the woman up and down) what a nice liar. You are not American with your blonde hair. You do not look native American. Everyone knows Americans has a darker complexion and dark hair American: That is so offensive!! American storms off

[@1.WhiteTiger]

wow. you did great.

[@catshez]

Haha nice work !! 😂😂

[@aaycabrera6851]

Hahaha jobbade som receptionist på ett hotell i centrala Sthlm. Är mörkhårig och varenda turist från usa sa samma sak till mig. #Murica

[@lea88pu]

The audacity to get offended after tasting her/his own medicine! 😂

[@woosanki]

Polish people are told the same thing too. An American yelled at a polish girl, saying she's not polish because she has dark hair and brown eyes 🤡

[@cathi9754]

A friend of mine was sent from his job in Germany to America a few years ago. There he was a guest of a partner company. For his birthday, his American colleagues had planned a little surprise party for him. He sent me a photo of the celebration. It showed him with some colleagues, holding a cake in his hand that he had been given. There were swastikas made of icing on the cake. The reasoning behind the cake was that they wanted to make him feel at home because Adolf Hitler would be the President of Germany. They actually thought Hitler was still alive and ruling Germany. I still hope it was a very stupid failed joke.

[@asaris_]

If you look at my reply to that: unfortunately... They weren't the only ones who think that. 😬 And the rest of the story makes me remember a part of a Rammstein documentary I once saw where they told a story about one of their shows in Brazil. There was a young guy wearing a Hakenkreuz shirt. He was visibly indigenous. Security toom him aside to cautiously inquire about that. Thing was, he was from a very remote small town in the middle of nowhere and he said he wore that shirt to make them feel welcome, because he had seen that flag from a couple of Germans living in the vicinity and he obviously didn't know anything more about that. 😱

[@catonkybord7950]

@@asaris_ Oh no! 🙈😅

[@franhunne8929]

This comment must take the cake on this thread

[@cgkennedy]

How inappropriate of them.

[@Talkshowhorse_Echna]

Yeah I can relate to that. When I visited the USA the first time and told the owner of a small shop that I was from germany he really asked me how Hitler is doing today. It was not a joke of him he really thought he was still the head of state...

[@Servant_of_Christ]

One time I told an American I was from Sweden, he informed me that the correct pronunciation is Switzerland and that I should know that being from there. I just walked away, there is no cure for that level of dumb.

[@BlackWolF-vp8ou]

Hahaha im from Switzerland and im used to hear the opposite from Americans.

[@sebswede9005]

As a swede myself, i felt that.

[@victoriahunter4684]

Had a Swedish friend and she was asked where she was from. When replying Sweden, she was asked what state Sweden was in.

[@christinamann3640]

One of these videos has an Algerian woman being told that it’s pronounced ‘Argentina.’

[@germanmechanic8591]

„Do you have electricity?“ asked during a student exchange in 1990😂

[@zoolkhan]

yeah, asking that from a german... the nation that invented the TV , cars, jetplanes, rockets, nuclear energy , x-rays and the frigging book-press.... It is funny deep down on a very sad level

[@asaris_]

@@zoolkhan So true. The time I was asked if we have cars I didn't know if I'm supposed to laugh my ass off or cry...

[@victoriahunter4684]

Had that one. If I know the queen, if we hav cars, if brits are free in uk like what the asker is over here in the us

[@hogni6036]

I was asked the same by an American around 1990 😂 I guess a lot of Americans are still pretty ignorant of life outside the US

[@RustyDust101]

1982 and 1984, summer camp in California. Asked by a car enthusiast kid:"Do you have cars in Germany?" When answered yes, and told him that it was a German who invented the internal combustion engine car, he flat out denied it, and claimed it was Ford who did that.

[@mondsgesandter]

That's what american students learn in school. They literally teach lies there just because that increases their cult-like patriotism

[@jfrancobelge]

In the course of my former career, in both France and Belgium, I've met quite a few Americans, including a few who seem to think that European history stopped after the American Revolution In order to avoid useless discussions and arguments, I sometimes used this sentence: "You know, we live on the same planet and in the same century as you."

[@lethfuil]

I'm from Bavaria and my great-uncle lives in the US, so I'm there every once in a while. I got asked if we have yogurt. Or airplanes (like, how do you think..."think" I got here?). Or houses... (...). Or telephones. How we could have internet, why I can speak English, if I've ever seen a black person before, if I ever has rice. Etc. Of course people also got very angry when they learned that München is spelled München in German, not Munich, one person almost had a meltdown when I told them that my favourite brewery was brewing beer since 1050. Which obviously couldn't be true, since it was the medieval times back then (I mean...yeah?) and those weren't real, but just a... metaphor... I've met a lot of dumb people in my life, from all over the world (some Asians are extremely talented in knowing almost nothing about the rest of the world), but man, US Americans always flabbergast me and definitely are number 1. (especially given that they're from a, supposedly, developed country).

[@mondsgesandter]

Do they think that every single one of the things you mentioned just comes from the US? How is it that they don't realize that the US isn't the only rich country on earth?

[@lethfuil]

@@mondsgesandter Yes. They basically think that every modern and/or cool thing was invented in and is probably exclusive to the US. It's part of the propaganda they learn. That the US is, by far, the best, most advanced and the richest of all countries. Top of the world. They don't have bank to bank transfers, or contactless payment, they use cheques, lol... But seriously. I'm not joking. They're told, that other countries barely have electricity, I've met US Americans that think we do still live in CAVES, they're told that people outside the US get constantly raped and robbed, because there's so many criminals people, partially because they're so poor, partially because -of course- only US police has guns... Also every other country has barely any immigrants, the culture and people are completely homogeneous (especially in Europe) and OF COURSE no one is really free but them. Sure, their freedom means that their children can't even walk to their school alone, without someone calling police and probably child protective services and you get in trouble because it's too dangerous, sure, you don't ever know if someone shoots you, because you took their spot in the Walmart parking lot, or think that you want to vote differently, but HEY, freedom is about guns and screeching incoherent, hateful, violent inducing, racist shit at others, right? Sorry for the rambling. ^^' They are really under insane propaganda, basically because of all their issues. No workers rights, no guaranteed holiday, no real health insurance, no free education, no public transportation, bad infrastructure, poor food quality, low life expectancy, etc. The only reason they don't get mad at their politicians and rich people is because they legitimately think that it's even worse elsewhere.

[@marialindell9874]

@@mondsgesandter It's not even about the richness. Plenty of poor countries have those things too.

[@criss1461]

I had to slowly read this message in order to not have brain freeze at all the wrong statements you've faced... Damn

[@lethfuil]

@@criss1461 Understandable, I was struggling to keep my brain from throwing error messages when I heard those (and more) things. It's surreal.

[@Genxa]

Australian here. When I was younger I went on a U18 Basketball tour to varies cities/states in the US to play friendlies with high schools. We stayed in I think a Holiday Inn or something similar in North Carolina. In the common lobby area, there was a few older guests watching TV and asked us where we were all from and what we were doing there. We said Australia and we were there to play Ball. "Oh you guys play basketball down there too?" "Yes...we do...that's...why we are able to be here..." ... "So do you all own Kangaroos?" A thing we Aussies do, is if someone starts a rouse or a sarcastic lie, we just all play along without skipping a beat. "Yeah we do, we ride them to school mate" "Yeah when we are younger we have to ride in the pouch for safety" YOU BET YOUR ASS THEY BELIEVED EVERY WORD.

[@ingrudmessenger1193]

"America can't have socialism like Italy because the streets are too long." was my all time high hearing from an american i think.

[@asaris_]

Omg, I'll be trying to unravel the meaning of and logic behind that one until next year at least. 🤦

[@RSProduxx]

"Europe is the only country in the world that´s still being ruled by a king"

[@zoolkhan]

hahaha... nice one tack för det

[@wilderbernd6221]

@@RSProduxx what ? did someone really think this ? :D :D :D

[@RSProduxx]

@@wilderbernd6221 jup... hurts alot, doesn´t it? :)

[@jackcraig9160]

An American was very surprised that as an Australian I could speak 'Normal ' English since Australians only speak in cockney rhyming slang . When I pointed out we don't and we are a long way from the east end of London, he informed me I was wrong . He has never been to Australia and I was the first Australian he ever spoke to ....

[@suemoore984]

One of the really annoying things about many Americans is that attitude that they know more than we do about our own country and culture

[@bunnywar]

Gaslighting isn't just falling for someone's lie, it's them manipulating you till you can't tell what's reality anymore.

[@adamrosemead1574]

While donating blood at the Red Cross, the RC tech there asked me my race and I told her that, being Mexican, we have both Indian blood and European blood which mainly comes from SPAIN! She looked at me and said "I don't know what maps you've been looking at but SPAIN'S NOT IN EUROPE!!" I was truly shocked by her totally uninformed response!

[@victoriahunter4684]

Well where the heck is it then?

[@adamrosemead1574]

@@victoriahunter4684 She probably figured that, since most Spanish-speaking people come from south of the border, Spain must be somewhere in South or Central America. She also, probably, never read a history book or knew anything about geography. Truly sad that there are so many people like her who know absolutely nothing about the planet that they live on!

[@kozaklee9838]

Long story. I used to work security at a major phone company corporate office. At one of our remote locations someone broke into an employee's car. My supervisor asked me to review the recordings. I watched the videos and the cameras were pointed in a different direction. I informed my supervisor that her vehicle was not on the video. She told me I just need to change the camera angle and rewatch the video. I said " excuse me, you want me to change the camera angle of a recorded video?" She said yes. I told her it is impossible. She argued with me for a few hours. I finally told her if she could change the camera angle she would be rich. Because if she could do that she could alter space time. She was super confused.

[@LisaMaierLiest]

There was a discussion between me and an American, that went a little bit into the direction, where things were likely to get out of hand. So I tried to pull it into a humorous path, so I wouldn't insult him. Me: Oh, you know how German women are... He: Yeah, it was also a German woman, who gave birth to H. Me: Oh dear. Please, don't sleep in your next history class. Okay? He was like: Social Studies were my main subject in College. Me: .......... (At least I didn't need to insult his intelect. He did it himself.)

[@blindtherapper2470]

Well she was "german" :D

[@LisaMaierLiest]

@@blindtherapper2470 haha :D One sentence to insult Germans and Austrians alike ;D

[@carolinavanderlande4904]

Let me enlighten you: she was Austrian, as was his father and himself as a consequence as well. Austrians and Germans share the same language (German) but he was definately not German by birth.

[@LisaMaierLiest]

@@carolinavanderlande4904 Something everybody finds out after 5 seconds of google search ;D

[@lesleymay8006]

Hitler was Austrian

[@MaidenUtah1]

When these Americans ask you where you are from, don’t say Australia, France, Kenya, etc. Just tell them that you’re from Planet Earth. At that time, brace yourself for the follow up question.

[@cyberfux]

Short FYI: Never finished "high school", just graduated from german Hauptschule after 10th grade and did an apprenticeship - so no college for me too - but i felt like the frigging lovechild of Einstein and Hawking during my stay in California! I mean i myself knew more about the REAL US history than those poor brainwashed college graduates with 6 figure student loans and a couple of useless degrees! Is Hitler still Kaiser? Do you have cars? Of, i love Germany, it's so cool, like Disneyland, they even have the Beer fest copied from us etc. pp. I think i gave myself some concussions from facepalming onto my desk till i switched to headbutting the walls - cardboard is softer than wood!

[@lemiras]

There are a lot of great Americans and I guess you can do these videos with every country and I can say some really stupid stuff as well. Here's my story: Discussing drinking age I tell her that here in Germany you can buy legally beer with 16 and anything else with 18. She didn't believe me. I told you that's the law in Germany, her answer:"So our (American) law law doesn't apply to you?" I had to explain that Germany and the rest of the world can choose their own law.

[@lea88pu]

🤦‍♀️

[@maickelvanee2540]

I can guarantee you that every single adult or young adult from every other country in the world with the exception of n korea would know this.

[@zukispur5493]

A yank asked me if Denmark is the capital of Holland

[@LuvNickynGina4ever]

😂

[@ronnyhansson8713]

HOW can Americans not understand timezones - FFS you have what 4 time zones in America so she didnt even need to leave the country to see a time difference between LA and NY, and that means it happens every day that they are on diffrent days...

[@asaris_]

I used to play MMOs on US servers for a while. I stopped pretty soon though, because whenever they asked me where I'm from and I answered with "I'm German" it turned... DUMB. Example 1: "Do you have cars over there?" Uh... Nah, we only invented them and build them for you guys, we don't drive them, cause... what for? 🤷‍♀️ Example 2: "Do you have like real toilets there?" Nah mate, we're over 80 million people who all shit in the woods. For wiping we use leaves. Unless it's winter and there are no fresh leaves. Then we use squirrels. Want me to teach you how to use a squirrel sling? But you gotta be careful you use them the right way. They got sharp teeth and claws and a liking for nuts... That's also the reason why ours are reddish-brown but 🤫 don't tell anyone. (Also reminded me of my step-grandmother's American friend who visited us once when I was little. She brought three big suitcases. One filled with her clothing, one with gifts and stuff, the third was PACKED with... you're not going to believe it... TOILET PAPER. The woman genuinely thought we didn't have TP in Germany 🤦) Example 3: "Why haven't you killed Hitler yet?" Me: "Uh... What?" He: "Yeah, Hitler. He's evil! You gotta kill him!" Me: "Uuuh... Nah, we don't" He: "OMG you're such a Nazi!" Me: "No I'm not" He: "But you love Hitler!" Me: "I NEVER said that" He: "You said you don't have to kill Hitler, so you love him, that makes you a Nazi" Me *seriously confused*: "Are you shitting me right now?" He: "No! I'm dead serious! You have to kill him!" Me: "What makes you think he's alive?" He: "Never seen a video of his execution." Me: "Gee... He killed himself in a bunker a couple of days before the war ended and even if he didn't, guy was born like 1880-something, he'd be the oldest human in the history of mankind by now. 🤦 " He: "Oh..." Example 4: "Germany? Nice! What's it like on the East Coast?" Dude genuinely believed Germany was one of the New England States no matter how hard I tried to explain to him that it's beyond that ocean over there. Was from Nevada if I remember correctly... 🤦

[@XxKagarwaxX]

I own a mc server for years that is located in the US. I am german. I legit got asked the same things by several people at different times. Sometimes it was even more blatently stupid "why do you hate jews?" -"excuse me what?" Or "You are welcome we freed you from the nazis" (that guy was a 23 year old teacher from texas)

[@asaris_]

@@XxKagarwaxX Yeah I got a bunch of variations about Hitler and the Nazis as well. That one was the one I kinda remember as the worst. 😅 And I don't know, I actually don't mind talking about that topic, but they often approach it with such... IDIOCY. That's kinda my main problem with it. If someone's just curious, fine, I'll talk about it. 🤷‍♀️

[@boiTMellow]

American customer calls in and later during our conversation asks me where I'm located, I say South Africa. She then says she has friends in South Africa and I asked her where and she said "oh you know, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Mozambique".👀👀

[@constancevigilance8696]

I am from Australia. 'Did you fly or did you ride?' " I swam".

[@SushiElemental]

This one time this US KZbinr James Bray was asking me to subscribe to the channel. But I was already subscribed! What a putz! 😎

[@zoolkhan]

hey hey.... hands off james, he is a protected species.

[@annachristinanotyet4678]

:D Lol you 3 are funny. Love me some humans who can giggle bout themselvs.

[@simonsays2774]

My grandfather, who comes from Stuttgart, was in the USA in the 80s and 90s and held training courses for Porsche at contract partner workshops. He was asked the same stupid question in two different training sessions. They asked him if he drove the car from Germany to the USA. 😂Most americans are next lvl shit😂

[@hamidbabikir4029]

In fact, Spain was occupied by Muslim Arabs from North Africa before it gained its independence and began to occupy the world 😅

[@urbanshadow777]

I was at a hotel in the north of Scotland (dingwall to be exact) when an American in the dinning hall said "baked beans for breakfast" and I responded "just like a real cowboy now"

[@zoolkhan]

haha... gotta love a dry scottish response ... but i also love beans for breakfast. cheers with beers from finland

[@Bastelbruder78]

Hello from Germany I'm German and didn't really have the best education but every time I see videos like this I just feel sorry for the Americans, it's really sad to see something like this.

[@georgemartin1436]

You're right. Our system of education had turned to garbage. They now teach WHAT to think and not HOW to think.

[@cyberfux]

I went to german Hauptschule and compared to many, many US college graduates i met in my time in the US i felt like the fucking lovechild of Einstein and Hawking!

[@Bastelbruder78]

@@cyberfux Sad but true. I left the German Hauptschule in 1994 and even then it was the lowest education you could have and unfortunately it got worse and worse over time. But you still compare well to American college graduates. Sorry if that sounds arrogant, but from what I see it's unfortunately a fact.

[@georgemartin1436]

@@cyberfux You learned HOW to think...in the states we're taught WHAT to think...

[@cyberfux]

@@georgemartin1436 True...

[@XxDarkManaxX]

An american girl once asked me online, if we have cars in Germany. Up until this day, I hope, she was joking...

[@lapisinfernalis9052]

I would have said: "You have a smartphone. Google where BMW, Mercedes and Porsche are from." And then leave.

[@janrautenstrauch4729]

I once read an article about how the american high-school-system is still aimed at giving education-level for factory-workers. Add in a lack of funds (which - in all honesty - is a problem many countries share) and an university-system that's for the rich and BINGO you got adults who barely know anything about the world but are indoctrinated with "amurica is the best".

[@MillenniumDays]

When it comes to interactions with Americans... truth be told I've only run into open minded Americans studying abroad or exploring on holiday. In fact I respect people asking questions no matter how stupid (although I imagine being asked the same question each time in some jobs could be annoying). Because your asking, learning and can't know everything. Refusing to look up the truth and insisting what you think is true is when it gets dumb.

[@dgknapp]

“black Irish” refers to persons of Irish descent who are supposed to be descendants of the Spanish Armada… Collin Farrell would be an example of black Irish ☘️

[@der.watcher]

Dumbest thing I've ever heard from an American: "We will make America strong again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again, greater than ever before." Donald Trump 🤣

[@Shimmering_rain]

Dumbest thing I've heard from an American. "America is a country that can be defined by one word. Ffhhsjbjhdshv." - Joe Biden.

[@1337fraggzb00N]

Some girl from Iowa once told me:"In America all the birdies in the trees can talk!". I immediately asked her, if I can buy some pot from her.

[@cgkennedy]

The Pacific is a bit deep to drive. We flew from Melbourne to Boston and arrived at Boston four hours after the flight left Australia.

[@AprilMalady1]

Gaslighting comes from a 1944 movie called "Gaslight". It's about a married couple and he wants to get "rid" of her, so he starts to lower the "gaslight"-light in the house, but always denies that it's happening and therefore makes her think she is crazy. So he can get her "taken in" with the "hug-yourself"-jacket.

[@1.WhiteTiger]

never was asked a dumb question when I visited Florida, Virginia, West-Verginia, North-Carolina and New York. Oh, wait. I remember one: He: oh, nice tattoo! Where did you have it done? Me: In my hometown! He: What, you have tattoo artists in Germany? You're kidding! Me: No? 🤣

[@xmcblxck]

The dumbest thing an American has said to me is that Europe and the UK are countries that border America.... xD

[@blackpulsarproductionofficial]

yes and No. Technically an Ocean Border or something like this 🤔😅

[@blueski6951]

Actually european countries border with Canada (Denmark in Hans island and France have a sea border by Saint Pierre and Miquelon islands)

[@MaidenUtah1]

There separated by the Atlantic River

[@i_can_c_u_2295]

I use to say :„There are dumb question and there are DUMB QUESTIONS“.

[@nicosteffen364]

Stupidity hurts, but the one that is stupid, it hurts in the brains of normal people! Some people are like this: Born stupid, never learns anything, forgets half of it and dies much more stupid!

[@autarchprinceps]

I love how everyone in these videos is like "The American education system sucks", like the rest of us needed school to tell us that Australia existed or the likes. The majority of things, especially when it comes to these more comical displays of ignorance, arrogance and lack of common sense, you don't have to learn in school. You should already know most of them by the time you start school. Like have you never watched a nature documentary about Australia? Have you never played risk or Geoguesser or guess the capital or the likes? Have you never looked at a map or globe with your parents in your whole life? Have you never visited a planetarium or museum or seen a documentary with an animation of the solar system or seen a model in a park or a news report where they talk to a correspondent on a different continent where it is the opposite time of the day? Have you never traveled to a different time zone or heard someone you know talk about it? There are multiple just in the continental US, never mind someone telling you about their trip to Hawaii or something like that. It doesn't take a sabbatical to Europe or Asia to learn about the existence of time zones for gods sake.

[@carolinavanderlande4904]

Very good point. Education is something you get in school but also from your parents and environment. But if your environment is also poorly educated and taught that America is the greatest at everything, there’s not much incentive to be curious about anything else. That’s what we’re currently seeing in the US. Decades of biased education have let to a population thinking that they are well of and don’t need any suggestions for progress from the rest of the world. Add to that a lack of vacation days or work-life balance that makes exploring almost impossible and you get what we currently see in the US. Americans are not inheritantly less intelligent, they’re just deliberately kept ‘dumb’.This is of course a very generalised statement. I do realise that about 50% of Americans are critical and curious so there is some hope.

[@susanyork5089]

I live in York UK that has a history of over 2000 years we get a lot of tourists , the jewel is York Minster work started in 1432 and its one of the largest cathedrals in Europe. I was stopped by an American couple who were looking for “that big church” I said turn around it’s across the road . No point in explaining its original building was built in the 7th century , and that York was a Roman settlement and Viking town , as they also asked was there anything we could look at🤷🏼‍♀️

[@WonHakWoon]

Years ago, I had a conversation with an American on Skype. Since we were in different timezones, and it was dark in my country, we didn't have the camera on. It was similar to a normal phone conversation. The girl was quite nice herself, but it was her sister who left me gagging. So one night I was talking to this girl and I could hear the door open from this girl's room, as her sister went in. She overheard us talking and then the sister asked me: ''Are you from Ireland? Because you sound Irish.'' Mind you, I am from The Netherlands and my English is pretty well. No Dutch accent can be detected when I speak English. I was just left dumbfolded, because I never heard Irish before and neither can I try to replicate the Irish accent. Here's a few other things Americans think of when asked about The Netherlands: - Americans think we are either German or Danish, because we speak Dutch and are Dutch. Americans think of Deutsch or Danish as it sounds like it. The first time I heard Americans talk about us being Danish was during the Depp vs Heard trial, where this one lawyer showed a clip of Amber Heard in a Dutch talkshow. This lady assumed we were Danish... - Americans only think of Amsterdam and assume that Amsterdam is a city within a country called Europe. Or they assume that Amsterdam is a country. Americans also assume that everything they see and experience in Amsterdam counts for everyone else here. - Americans get offended (like the Welsh example) when we say that we are from The Netherlands (most dumb people say Holland, still leaving Americans clueless tho), because Americans think of Peter Pan's NEVERLAND. Though it sounds similar to Neverland, The Netherlands DOES exist. So everytime an American says my country doesn't exist, I go: ''If my country doesn't exist, then explain my existance then. Explain to me how I exist if my country doesn't...

[@sebswede9005]

"What's the capital of America?" "Uhm, Europe". An American, probably.

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

That Ireland story was pretty funny tbh. The fact he cared enough to come back the next day and school her on her heritage. 😂😂

[@davediesel90]

Just shows the level of arrogance, had an American clown argue with me that he was irish "we left Ireland in 1847 against our will and never intended to stay in America and always wanted to return to the homeland". ( He's never been to Ireland). I told him he looked great for a guy over 150 years old and fucked off about my business 😅

[@johankaewberg8162]

In reaction to me (Sweden) mentioning walking past 1400 era buildings on my way to work, way older than their whole nation, American goes “America May Never Had These Palaces And Castles, But We Never Had The Injustice With Which These Are Associated.” Dude? I was talking about warehouses. Also, he was *right next* to a black man when making his little speech. I looked that guy in the eye and think I got some understanding.

[@barryeva8862]

When I moved to America I was chatting to some people in a bar and this lady asked me what star sign I was. I told her I used to be libra but it did not feel right so I changed it to Leo. She replied oh you can do that in England.

[@Anthyrion]

You know... everytime you mention Arizona in my head always pops up this scene from the last Wolfenstein, where Hitler auditioned some actors for his masterpiece. One of the actors called him "Mister Hitler" and after Hitler thought, this guy would be a idiot or a spy or a JEW the actor simply answered "No, mein Führer. I'm from Arizona." and Hitler pumped a full magazine of his pistol into him. ^^

[@azabujuban-hito8085]

I came from Switzerland. One american guy told me that I should not lied to people by saying that I'm European, as according to him, Europe is another country and it has nothing to do with Switzerland.

[@norXmal]

I think most can agree we've said some dumb shit in our past and probably in the future, it's that fine line of ignorance, when you think you know, but in reality you know almost nothing. But, some of these takes it to an other level. *I can at least share my one experience in Minnesota, in a Subway, when the Cashier asked me where I was from, I said Norway and she was like "Oh, is that in Sweden?"

[@asaris_]

Well... That's at least... uh... Close. I had one who insisted on Germany being "one of those New England States". 😅

[@norXmal]

@@asaris_ Yeah, that's very true and quite insane to hear, I guess language tree wise it is somewhat similar, but other way. Albeit the Swedes were the last to try to stop us from having our independence after several hundred years of unions that shifted between Denmark and Sweden. Another thing that irked me in the past, it's far better now and probably was our own fault if anything; When we would buy movies, games or browsed websites, it was often common to find Swedish and sometimes Danish, but never Norwegian translation, gave me the sense that we were either forgotten or unimportant.

[@asaris_]

@@norXmal Oh ouch, that does make you feel like you're an appendix of some sort, doesn't it? Either that or: you're just that much smarter and better at English in general that you don't need your own version! 😉 That being said: we get literally everything synchronized 😖 (At least nowadays with streaming there's a choice. But as a kid I f*cking hated it that the lip movements NEVER fit what was being said.)

[@norXmal]

@@asaris_ It definitely did, it's far better now, I honestly can't complain. I wouldn't say smarter, but rather motivated to learn it more and with great help from American and British friends online. *I do feel inclined to thank you for your assumptions, I'll take it as a good compliment. There definitely was dubbing here, which was fairly common and an absolute for children shows and movies. I do remember when there was no Norwegian subtitles, we'd usually pick Danish, if that wasn't there, it was Swedish. I'd say the majority can read them fine, with exceptions of some words. When the dubbing didn't match the voice nor the movement, that's what bothered me the most, especially the voice part. Wasn't too bad with cartoons or maybe I was just oblivious then, being a child an all that.

[@zoolkhan]

@@norXmal you all look the same to me :P greetings from finland muhahah

[@kortanioslastofhisname]

Re schools, I am German, but went to an American middle school for a year (a good school in Germany and the best school in the state in the US, to put things into context). How the schools compared varied widely between subjects. Overall, the level was a bit higher at my German school, in sciences the school in Germany was quite a lot ahead in biology, a bit in physics, and a bit behind in chemistry, language teaching was significantly better at the German school as well, in maths the regular classes were behind what was taught in Germany, AP1 was ever so slightly ahead, and AP2 or even AP3 (yes, AP3 was a thing, best school in the state and all that) were quite a lot further than what was taught in Germany at that age. Because of how differently social studies, politics, history, philosophy, religious studies are taught, they are hard to compare, but overall the US school taught a lot more dates and names while at the German school concepts and how different events and circumstances fed into each other to result in another event was taught. So, not accepting German course credit was absolutely ridiculous for your friend.

[@suppengroove]

these things are one of the reasons why i like 4chans /int/ board so much :D like one time: anon from iirc norway talked about cooking stuff. american asked if olive oil was a thing up there... legit thought that they only sold it in the south. italy, spain and that whole area D;

[@asaris_]

Well, good thing you don't have to grow it in your garden to be able to use it, right? 😜

[@Lazernight]

I kind of know what other countries in the world teach their people in schools but I've never heard anything from the US and I feel like they might not be teaching sh*t over there. Love from Germany

[@Zeraphim]

Only really interacted with americans once and that was in 2009 when a photograph couple came to Gotland (Sweden) where i live, they were wery nice but really in pure awe that we have buildings here that still are in use that are close almost 800-900 years old.

[@davediesel90]

You hit the nail on the head when you said it like American schools want you to be dumb, it helps indoctrinate the whole concept of American exceptionalism

[@trevormillar1576]

In the sixties the Kray twins (London gangsters) visited New York and walked around Little Italy asking Italian storekeepers who they had to see about joining the Mafia. The police escorted them to the airport and told them not to come back.

[@corjp]

The concept of us in the Netherlands having more than 25days of PAID- vacation time is a shocker to y'all 😉

[@RSProduxx]

19:40 wow... I bet she thought that all the spanish town names in southern states are pure coincidence, right? :D

[@annasaddiction5129]

Well I once read a teacher in the US said "I am only teaching Spanish because I don't want to speak "IN the conlonizers langague anymore!" And I wouldn't consider myself to know much about conlonialzation and that kind of history but I just shook my head laying it in my head like "Some people just aren't to be helped." 😂 😂 Somewhre in the void of hope there is still that prayer "let it be a joke or a clickbait headline" but if you've seen these videos and their reactions multiple times you SO can imagine a stick like this it's ridicolous. 🤣 🤣

[@bluezauza]

After Trump lost the elections, an American lady raged that she was abandoning America and moving to Alaska.... We laughed... We also explained that Alaska was America and Biden would still be her president...she insulted us, specially by calling us ignorant ... oh how we did laugh!

[@ingridstom1056]

we never looked up to you, we laughed at you. God's greatest joke

[@wiaf8937]

idk, i went to new zealand in my year 11 exchange thingy, coming from cologne orignally. and they asked the same questions "you got powr? are you all nazis?" this and that. this was 2006 i might add, still otherwordly :D

[@wiaf8937]

HAHAHA gotta add, every vote counts. even if you vote for a map you want to VETO, still relevant to trump election. loooooooooooooool

[@annachristinanotyet4678]

At least you're smart enough to know that you've asked some dumb stuff but to me it seems like you're also willing to learn and be corrected. Like that one friendly online person from the USA who asked me randomly "Is it true that Germans put cucumbers in Christmas trees." Made me giggle which jokster from our side told them that "PLEASE?" But, I guess if you have happenings like described here on a monthly,weekly,daily basis at some point you just start to talk "dummes Zeug" (stuipid stuff).

[@be_me]

Well, the cucumber thing is a really common urban myth in the US, you can hardly blame someone for not knowing better, if they never had a reason to question it. Funnily enough, my family (we're German) puts a cucumber ornament on the Christmas tree, just for the hell of it.

[@damyr]

So Weihnachtsgurke is a lie? Are you sure? I've been told that somewhere in Germany it's for real. Saxony maybe?

[@derpeter]

the cucumber is real in germany/austria. look it up :-)

[@tsrgoinc]

As an Englishman born and bred, for business and pleasure I visited the US on over 20 occasions. I’ve been asked not once, not twice, but 5 times where did I learnt to speak English! I’ve also been told to speak English on a number of occasions while I’m there, especially after talking with my mum, were both Cockneys but they can’t understand us the majority of the time as we talk so fast and countless times I’ve been told I’m Australian, and they could tell by my accent!

[@biaiosthanatos]

I've been asked once, if still the majority of people ride horses on the streets of Germany

[@BrianMac1979]

I suppose not really dumb to them but is to me, the most common question I get checking in someone into a hotel in Scotland is the water safe to drink. Turn your tap on and fill up your bottles ffs.

[@tomjohnston1220]

I am Irish, have a lot of cousins who were born in America, so I go there a lot. I was in a bar in New York and an American asked me if we had electricity in Ireland. Politely, I said that indeed we do. Then, he asked me if we have TV in Ireland. I told him that we do have TV but it's really hard to watch it, because the pigs keep getting in the way of the TV screen. I didn't tell him that Dublin had electric lighting in the streets in 1860, New York got them in 1880.

[@anthonymolloy9953]

An American teacher ,,told me in the hurricane season ,the hide in the south west of the house ,because hurricanes travell north east

[@johnam1234]

I really enjoyed your videos and comments also learning more about the world. Had several Americans couldn’t believe that there is no snow year round in Canada and he lives across a small inlet and can see where I live.

[@annachristinanotyet4678]

I can't blame Generation Millenial - Z to be "dumb like that" when that's the teachers they've had. I just wish inbetween the times someone would have taught them how to "internet search right"...and "think with their own mind". But nooo they need/ed (hopefully) over a decade to realize that Niga /Naega in Korean langauge aren't the bad Word in (American) English. Heaven, that was one of the first things I googled as people said someone got flak for it agAIIIN....xD

[@hermanubis7046]

Wait when all the kids who grew up staring at their phones become adults... Internet access for all is a relatively new thing (end of the 1990s to early 2000s, in some places 2010), and we're only starting to see the long-term effects it has on people, and until 2010 or so, very few people had smartphones.

[@annachristinanotyet4678]

@@hermanubis7046 That's true people who listend to first Kpop Generaton and maybe 2nd could have come around with "I never knew." But latest than 2,5 it was literally on most peoples thumb like if they even know about the existences of Kpop and South-Korea (which I didn't know much about prior before either) it was most likely through the Internet, so they've known how to use it to a degree but before researching they started to become angry. Surley only a few and am glad they seem stopped doing though but like 5 years ago even USA Radio station censored a whole Song bc of that. Like Please.THOSE circumstances could/should've been avoided through a quick google-search or not?

[@oliversherman2414]

I'm British-Swedish and this was just awful 🤦‍♂️

[@roguebanshee]

I'm not sure if this counts as dumb or it's merely horrifying, but I had a discussion with an American on an internet forum over a decade ago. The main topic was abortion and the tangent was r***. He insisted that you couldn't concieve a child without there being love between the people involved and thus abortion was an abomination.

[@hermanubis7046]

Aw, have you seen the pic (it was all over the Internet a few years ago) about Japan and Pearl Harbor, where the guy says they couldn't have flown that long (because he thought they had flown over Asia, Europe and continental USA to get to Hawaii)? That was so dumb... And hilarious, that's why it was posted so often. About the guy who spent a year in a German high school, that's what I was thinking, too, he missed an important year of brainwashing or history "US version", something... The worst is when you hear such dumb sh*t from college students, graduates or even teachers. It makes me wonder whether college in the USA is about the same level than the equivalent of junior high school in Europe... Because we learned more things about history and geography (and much more) even in primary school (age 6 to 11). And we have sex ed around age 11. No teenage girls asking where children come from or how they are made "because my mother doesn't want to tell me"... I'm often on Quora and I see these kinds of questions all the time. By the way, there are videos here on YT where a guy/woman asks random people in the street pretty simple questions, even about the States or American history, even recent history, and it's hard to watch. People were shown a picture of Ronald Reagan and they had no idea who he was, they didn't even guess "actor" (which of course he was, at some point)... Remember back in the day, when black people got the right to vote, they were only allowed to do so if they knew the Constitution by heart. If this was still the case today, nobody would be allowed to vote, black or white. And what is totally incomprehensible to me (and probably to many people elsewhere) is the obsession about "race" or color of skin, and the need to put people inside boxes regarding sexual preferences (who cares?), but also the need of American people to themselves "identify" as this and that... Like "I identify as tri-racial (it's a thing, I've seen somebody write it), not yet sure what kind of sex with which gender I like best, bla"... This is so weird. P.S.: yes, there are dumb people everywhere, absolutely. But even those quite often know basic geography, like the continents and what countries are in, and that there are oceans to cross to get to some places.

[@johanjanssens4530]

Imagine a US in which US citizens would actually KNOW what they are voting for ? No-one wants THAT, it would be the end of the USA. (LMAO from France).

[@juliacawe]

An American asked me if I was a Nazi. Before that sentence he said that his family had bad experiences with germans.

[@annasaddiction5129]

Well I'd like to know what a 7th-12th grade curricullum in the USA has been like 10-20 years ago what it is now and if or how Germany really compares to that. I remember struggling here in Germany with the regime of the allegedly easiste state since 9th grade (long ways might added to that but better than the bullying crap after all), because here A LOT of things changed since then. If I look at those subjects they talk about in class am like "I can't remember to have ever learned about that!" And they also kinda took 1 school form away and xed out 13th year of Gymnasium(High school) too.

[@danilopapais1464]

Tbh, it might just be KZbin, but I feel like some of the stupidest and most ignorant things I ever heard came from Californians. But I also loved this one video (probably TikTok), where a guy from Lousiana said only stupid think of Los Angeles when they hear LA, and some British guy made a reply, saying that outside of the US nearly everyone associates LA with Los Angeles and him not knowing it, make him appear pretty uneducated (or something similar).

[@andyt8216]

There are stupid people everywhere, but I think what sets Americans apart is this strange belief that only the US has the internet, cars, electricity and so on. It seems this applies to neighbour Canada too which is mind blowing.

[@schwebor]

Switzerland, thats next to norway right?

[@blackpulsarproductionofficial]

Technically there is a Big border between this Countrys, called Germany 😆😁

[@sebswede9005]

Everyone in Sweden: 👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@annasaddiction5129]

Well at least they got the right continent. ^^

[@Xfelix-ke1yw]

My grandpa was in America and someone asked him if came by train to America

[@x.NotReaper.x]

Omg thanks for the new Video Bro i like you😊

[@jlu3ai]

I have a theory: there are so many city and town names commemorate other places, that the locals genuinely think that those are the original and/or only places with that name. Of course I might be wrong, but when recently I heard of the train accident in Palestine, that made me think.

[@MandieKearns-Moore]

There is a thing called Black Irish my last name is Kearns which in Gaelic is something like the descendant of the black elders. This isn't referring to skin tone so much is it means dark-haired and dark-eyed as opposed to light-skinned and freckles

[@jecapeter]

While studying Ancient history, I was told by an American you can't study Ancient history because the history of mankind literally started in 1492...

[@verohavre3920]

Trump said "Belgium is a beautiful city", so sad.

[@stampcollector74]

James, I recognize the flag in your background ; ) ... I wish you a happy 2023! ♥

[@ciberzombiegaming8207]

recognize? like duh, thats flag of germany. like i think thats one of most known (curent) flags in world

[@stampcollector74]

@@ciberzombiegaming8207 Honey - I'm German I will recognise "my" flag ... we had a lot the last century. ~_~ current: Black-Red-Gold! 🇩🇪

[@stampcollector74]

@@ciberzombiegaming8207 black-red-gold it has a history ...

[@richardmangelmann4975]

I think the blonde girl asking about Spain thought Spain was in South America too and not in europe. Maybe she had some kinda phantasy that shed stick out in the country because nobody looked like her and they'd love her look or something because she wanted to be "exotic". My analysis of the situation.

[@armida4704]

As a super white (can't go outside in the sun without frying) person of Irish descent, I actually consider myself to be black Irish ie: my pale ancestors married dark skinned Spanish sailors who were shipwrecked.

[@user-nx7og2mp5e]

I am from England!! I was asked where did i learn to speak Engliah ??

[@automotives6703]

Once i asked an american what the 7 world wonders, he had a few right but i remember him saying eiffel tower and grand canyon 😂😂😂

[@annachristinanotyet4678]

Sadly am afraid Racisim and stuipidity alike is as old as our human kind. To me as a lil white German, who rather is not riding high horses aroudn the comment section is just "Boy these US-Americans be LOUD AF...hard to NOT HEAR you even abroad" for better or worse xD

[@NickBnr]

My mom got asked if we have cars in germany

[@stefanmohr8450]

this old man.... Uncle WAS a irish... he isnt anymore Irish... he is an american with irish faar roots... not more. A black irish who born and live in Ireland is more Irish he ever will.

[@gavvisser2176]

I HAVE 2 words PHIL FUCKIN LYNOTT one of the the best singers of all time who is also BLACK AND IRISH

[@LadyHeathersLair]

“The boys are back in town”. I now have that in my head. Thanks.

[@chrisper6917]

The spain colonisation thing is not so easy. Yes spain colonised south and middle america. But there was a time, spain was colonised by arabic and north african states. From 711 to 1492, Spain was ruled by Arabic people. It was called Al Andalus. But i dont thing the girl knowed about it.

[@leonidasmarronidas7619]

Oh, yeah. You only mentoned the arabs. Of course they were here. Like the nordics or germanics. And a lot of people more. Plus, do you know that spanish are the british ancestors? Yeah, they find it out, is a dna fact, not a theory (look It up). They find out that celtics moved actually from Spain to England, the opposite that they use to think. So we are kinda UK daddy and USA grandpa, in a genetic sense. By the way, when arabs stayed here they were the knolege. Maths, heathcare, irrigation, architecture... all kind of knoledge. In medieval Paris they trowing their shit trhow the windows while we got public bathrooms and saunas. Remember (or learn) that a lot of cultures and races went on top of knoledge and development.

[@darhor4002]

Arabic people also belong to white race.

[@flauschiger_keks]

21:30 An american Karen on foreign ground. Didn‘t know they were confident enough to leave the US.

[@sabrinaspurzem1672]

First minute and he already falling off his chair yelling "SHE'S STUUUUUPID!" Off to a great start! XD

[@zero.Identity]

guess who just dropped another banger from the last 3 main video list

[@tadijastankovic4350]

The stories make Americans sound like their parents dropped them on their heads 10 times

[@richardmangelmann4975]

I have a friend from Sicily and people I mention him to always ask me jokingly if hes a member of the mafia, but me and him make jokes about them all of the time too

[@kaiszillat7201]

"That's a VW. This car was made for Hitler. I don't know if you like Hitler or not"

[@johankaewberg9512]

Hello from the EU. Incoherent screams.