I love when Americans say they ‘rescued’ us in WW2 as if they didn’t just rock up 3 years into it

I'm From the Netherlands (Amsterdam) and when I worked in a store an American lady said I wanna pay in Dollar. I said you can't pay in Dollar. We are in Europe and the currency here is Euro. She got mad and told me I was incredibly rude so I said to her: I'm not rude, I'm just telling you how it is. She went on a rant and said I would never make it in America. I was like: I really don't have any desire to make it in America. She could not believe what I was saying.

I went on holiday to Miami and met a girl whilst I was there, carried on talking online after the vacay, and she told me her friends had warned her that "I might just be looking for a green card" and that's when I told her to google search the place I live, Malta. Tell me love, why would I want to leave this friendly, beautiful, relaxed Mediterranean paradise to live in a country that doesn't even have a social health care system and a ridiculously high crime rate? I'm so lucky to live in Europe, I never realised it, but the older I get the more I learn.

I am an Ukrainian. 10 years ago I went to US. One guy asked me "Where are from?" I said "Ukraine? Do you know where is it", he said " Hmm, somewhere in South Carolina?", I was shocked and answered " North Carolina actually".

I am from Finland Once there was this american couple and their teenage son on train from airport to Helsinki. The couple kept mocking Finnish people and architecture they saw from train window entire journey, their son looked so embarrassed. The train was packed by Finns on the way to work at morning. As true Finnish fashion, nobody said a word. Until one stop before Helsinki. One guy politely notified the father that "Everybody in this train understands English and can hear you", Whole train had been staring them for a while now (me included). Needless to say that rest of the trip the couple where very awkwardly quiet.

It always baffles me why the Americans believe that they 'invented' the English Language, I mean, come on! The clue is in the name!

In Europe, you usually see multiple sizes on the same clothes, like a UK 10 is a EU 38 and Italian 2, so most people in Europe are aware of the existence of multiple clothing sizes. I was in a Uniqlo (Japanese shop) in London, and they use S/M/L sizing but they also include the measurements in both centimetres and inches, eg Bust 31-33 inches, 79-84 cm. Really couldn't be clearer. Anyway, an American woman stopped one of the shop assistants and said "what is this in American sizes?". The girl said "I don't know" and the American woman was like "this is ridiculous, how am I meant to know what size to get?". Like why would an English shop assistant in a Japanese shop in London know how American sizes work? The world doesn't revolve around America.

I heard a story that an english person was in a cafe in glasgow and these americans walked in and had coffee when the lady finished she clicked over the waiter and said she wanted her free refill. The waiter said they dont do free refills here and the lady said "Well in America when you finish your coffee they give a free refill so i would like my refill" and the waiter just stared at her and then said "Well in Glasgow they dont give a fuck about what americans do" and walked away!!

I was once told by an American woman that I didn't speak "proper" English like Americans did. I'm English. Another time met a couple who were from Manchester, New Hampshire, I said what a coincidence I'm from Manchester, England. She then asked me why England copy "their" place names! I certainly put her right.

I’ve had lots of Americans assume everyone in the world wants to move to America. One time an American enquired „so you’re studying to move to America?“ I kindly informed them that you could not pay me to move to the US. Like the rest of the world would have to be nuked for me to move there. And many Europeans share this sentiment

I remember when I told an American girl that I had learned Spanish at school in France, she twas shocked, « but why do you bother to learn such an exotic language, you live so far from Mexico, you will never have the occasion of speaking Spanish »... I had to explain to her that the longest border that my country has is with... Spain, the country from where Spanish language is coming from. That my home is just a 2 hours drive from it. And also had to explain to her that Spanish to me is nothing like an exotic language to me since both french and spanish actually derive from the same language... latin. She had no idea that France is also a latin country. From our point of view, English language that is lot more foreign than Spanish... she though all European should have english as language

I heard one from my aunt and uncle (who lived in the US for something like 10 years). They went to a restaurant and spoke to each other and their children in Dutch. After a while a waiter showed up to tell them to please stop this and speak in English as some other customers were uncomfortable with hearing a language they didn't understand...

My favourite encounter with an American was when she told me about how she's "so well travelled, been all over the world, spoke to many different people with different cultures and languages, and how the world is so big and beautiful". I asked where she'd been, and she said "oh California, Florida, New York, Washington, Idaho(etc)..all over the world." I've never been so speechless in my life.

I am Spanish and live in a very tourist area in northern Spain. So I helped an old tourist couple American with American sweaters. They thanked my assistance with "Oh, you speak English! you should go with us home and be our daughter's daughter's nanny!" I have a college degree and a good job and I won't move from a place with free healthcare. USA citizens in my humble experience tend to be good people but with a big self-importance complex that genuinely believe that the entire universe wants to migrate there and we outside live in medieval times without wifi lol.

I am an Austrian and my GF is from Texas. She moved to Austria and on her first 4th of July here she was shocked why there arent any American Flags because she just thought everyone on the World celebrates that. Also she was confused that use the Metric system and when she had to learn it she was surprised how easy it is.

I worked in a hotel here in Greece a few years ago and a group of American guests were really confused as to why there are not 4th of July celebrations. They asked me if we're doing anything special for the 4th of July and I said no and they were like "Nothing? Why not?" At first I thought they were joking but nope. They were not...😐😐😐

Just yesterday I had a chick (yes, an adult) ask me whether in my country we can keep slaves and own women, proudly declaring that in the US you can’t. - I live in the EU, in Germany. 😂

I think the craziest and most blatant example was when the US got to host the 1994 Football World Cup and they wanted to change the rules. Make the goals bigger to make scoring easier, reduce the two halves from 45 minutes to 35 to allow for more advertising, reduce the number of players from 11 to 10 and a few others. It just went to show just how ignorant they were of the worlds biggest sport and sporting event that they treated it like a minority sport.

A Brazilian girl was in US with two American friends; it was in January and it was pretty cold. Her phone rang, it was her mother. After they talked she said: "it was my mom, she's on the beach now". One of the girls: Oh, so its July in Brazil now". ! 🇧🇷

I once organised an academic conference in Japan and received papers from all over the world. I knew which papers were from the states because they were the ones that didn't include the country in the address of the institution. Dozens of them. Every single one. They just had letters like MA or RL or some shit that represented their state I presume, that they assumed everyone else in the world would just know. Remember, these were university professors who lacked the basic understanding that other countries exists. All the Japanese papers included Japan in their addresses, obviously. It was just the Americans who were that clueless. Sigh

I was in a central London pub once when a particularly drunk & mouthy US tourist started calling a elderly gent a coward for having to be "saved by the USA" in WW2. He was very quickly thrown out, mainly for his own safety!

I'm from Norway, and an American guy in Florida asked me, "Where are you from?" "I'm Norwegian", I said. "Me too", he said. He did not speak a word of Norwegian and had never been to Norway.

My brother in law used to be a deep sea diver...all over the world. He had finished a big job and decided to visit the U.S.A. and buy a Harley, spend 2 months travelling around then ship it home to Australia. The first stop after he picked the bike up the waitress noted his accent and asked "where are you from?" he replied " Australia" she responded with " Did you ride all the way?"

I was on a boat in Berlin with a guide on it (I'm Dutch). But behind me were three Americans complaining that the US had everything that Berlin had, but bigger... and better. My parents told me to keep calm, but I was boiling. I could not enjoy the experience or hear the guide. Just these whiny people. So I finally snapped after an hour and told them 'Thank you for your opinions, I haven't heard a thing about Berlin!'. The shocked faces when I said it and when they finally noticed the angry stares of the other people on the boat. When we docked, they left quietly and in a hurry.

Tbh to most people outside of the US you're just American and not a Kentuckian or a Californian so specifying your state is irrelevant to us. The issue is that Americans come across as very self centered and think/believe that the whole world revolves around you and your issues (including seeing things from your viewpoint) to the point that many of y'all are unable to see the perspective of anyone else. It's annoying to put it mildly.

I've said this many times but I still shake my head over it. When I was working in a pub, an American lady got very upset that I dared to sell her 18 year old son a beer. She wouldn't believe or want to understand that the American drinking laws didn't apply to the UK. The next day her son came back with some mates and once I'd checked their passports I had no problem with them buying beer for themselves. They sat quietish in the corner and gave no problems at all.

I moved to Australia (from South Carolina) in 2005. The MOST common question I got asked by friends and family was what Australians eat for Thanksgiving. I was like, Uhhh, ...that only exists in America. Oh, and they asked me why I didn't call on thanksgiving day (this was mostly family) and I replied that I had to work. Again, they were shocked that I didn't have THEIR holiday off. I was so shocked by something that seemed so simple to me. I certainly never expected Aussies to celebrate American holidays, like thanksgiving and July 4th. We have our own holidays here. The other thing that blew my mind was the idiots who thought I lived in the future because I'm 15 hours ahead. I had several people ask me to look up the lottery numbers - and they were serious. And the fools who thought we had kangaroos and koalas as pets. SMH Sometimes I really do wonder about people.

As college student I worked in a tourist shop in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, which is on the west coast of Canada. The shop was near the harbour where there was an American ferry dock, for day trippers from the US to Canada. As tourist shops do, we had a display of Canadian flags of various sizes as souvenirs. That summer I was repeatedly asked by American shoppers "Oh these are so Cute! Do you have them in any other colours?" I would reply "Does the American flag come in any other colours?" and the shoppers would get so confused.

There was a case of an American tourist in Mexico. He absolutely completely believed the definition of the word 'foreign' was 'not American', REGARDLESS of where in the world you are. So when he read about 'rules and guidelines for foreigners', he genuinely believed it was referring to local Mexicans!

I've actually had an American tell me that they saved Europe, and she got well-miffed when I sat her down and explained the who did what and when timeline of the 20th C world wars. The most shocking thing of all for me was the lady in question was like me a history teacher, and her ignorance of world history stunned me. Now I don't know what qualifications you need to train as a specialist subject teacher in the US secondary school system but if her baseline knowledge was typical of their state school teaching then no wonder some of these clips show a jaw-dropping level of ignorance!

My sister and I was in a Bar in downtown Nashville some years ago and started chatting to a southern lady also visiting the city. She asked us where we were from and I said “From Norway”. Then she grabbed her husband to join the conversation and said out pretty loud “ Oh my god, I didn’t know they had black people in Norway!?!! “. My sister just laughed and answered “ yeah, we’re everywhere”. Her answer “ wow Then I could not help myself and added. “ well you know how the world always looks to America for what’s in style, we also did that whole slavery thing..” Then she looked oddly proud of the fact that America as the role model of the world and answered “ really?” Then I just answered “No.” Then we left that conversation 😂

I actually was asked if we celebrated thanks giving in Portugal, when I was visiting the US in business. My reply was - No we don't... Do you celebrate 25th of April??? They asked me 'what is that?', to which I replied 'It is the date that Portugal overthrew a 40 year fascist dictatorship, through a bloodless coup'. It was then that they realized how silly their question was :D

I was once asked by an American 'what's your Nationality?' I answered 'English' they said 'that's a language, are you dumb?'🤣🤣🤣 Love your channel JT 💗

I once worked in a travel information role, a colleague of mine spoke to an american who wanted a direct train from London to the Irish Republic, they were appalled to learn they had to change at Holyhead, and asked what happens at Holyhead , to which my colleague couldn't resist telling them that they run out of land and have to board a ferry.

Honestly, as a Swiss I think the average American person wouldn't even pass first grade in our schools.

I was on duty at Windsor Castle, when an American tourist asked, "why did they build it so close to the airport "..!!!

My favorite is when Americans (no offence JT) tell us that the USA is the best country in the world, LOL come on please. Americans at best can say that the USA is a country in the world, now that's an accurate statement.👍👍👍

When I as a Finn was on language course in California I met a school teacher who asked me who it feels to live under the rule of an English King. I had to explain that UK didn't have a King and it does not own Finland(think she thought UK rules EU or smth). The host family also showed me some 90's microwaves and TV's like it would be some alien tech to me 😁

I lived in America for a year about twenty years ago and there are two incidences which stand out to me from then. The first was when I was meeting with a teacher at the university and they were asking where I was from, I told them England and they replied with 'Oh, I know someone from England... Sarah...' then looked at me as if they were expecting me to go 'oh wow yes I know her!'. The other was when I was with another girl who'd come over with me. We were filling in some paperwork and my friend was looking for her ethnicity but couldn't find it as she was 'Black - British'. She had to fill in 'other' and then when we handed it in, again it was to a teacher, they tried to convince her she had to be African American... because there can't possibly be any people of colour in the world identifying as anything other than African, Caribbean, or American. Should have seen those as warnings of what was to come really. It wasn't a good year.

People in the rest of the world, when asked where they come from simply say the country they live in. That's all we want, we don''t care what state you live in. If someone asks you, simply say the US. That's as much as we care.

For the state's one, she said selfish because 1. It assumes that everyone knows the states in the USA, which not everyone does and why should we. 2. If someone from any other country was to say which county/ Provence they're from, we would get some weird looks and we wouldn't no matter how big the country is because we are not assuming others are going to know exactly which part of a country we are from no matter how big or small it is. The only time we would specify is if someone asked.

A guy from the US was bragging about his prestigious university with sooooo much history. I had to tell him, that when my alma mater in Europe was founded, it took an other 15 years, till a guy with the name Christopher Columbus discovered a continent that later got called "America". So much for his famous history...

I grew up in a tourist area in Canada. I remember a group of Americans getting upset that we would not delay our July 1st fireworks until the 4th for them.

It is when they tell us about how "free" they are and that we all want their "freedoms". On the Human Freedom Index for 2021 (don't know if there is a more recent one), the US place 15th, while my little country placed 5th. I think we are good with our freedoms 😄

"we rescued them in world war 2" 😆 they came in at the end when the when we had done all the hard work, and they wouldn't have even got involved if it hadn't been for Pearl Harbor 😆

I remember when I was a kid (I'm 53 now) asking my Dad why Americans were so 'Rah! Rah! Rah! America!'. He told me they were brainwashed and indoctrinated from children to think America is the greatest country in the world. I have since discovered it is true (the brainwashing, not that America is the greatest country in the world). I asked why and he told me it is because they needed something to pull all of the people together, because America is made up of people from everywhere and they needed a common ground. The common ground was being a proud patriot to the country, and to be a proud patriot they had to believe it was the best place on earth. Hence the brainwashing and indoctrination.

I was an exchange student in Wiscosin back in early 2000s. As a Thai, an only Asian individual in the white-dominated small town of 4,000 people, I remembered being asked constantly by many people (youngs and adults) if I rode an elephant to school back home? Later that year, I went to NYC on the school trip as a member of the choirs. All of my schoolmates were so excited to see a lot of people walking across the street. Some of them was curious why I wasn't being as excited as they were. I told them that I'm from Bangkok, the city of 15 million people. I'm used to see a lot of human beings living their lives.😂

I was in a pub in a town in Ireland and I met an American woman, there were more Irish, English and a French woman. When the American found out that I was Spanish, she exclaimed: Look! and she is french! She's European like you! We were in Ireland, everyone was European except her. Since English is spoken in Ireland, she did not know that everyone was European.

About 20 years ago I was in New York and someone asked me how I speak English so well and if we have TVs and electricity in England......it also blows their mind when you tell them that New York was named after a UK down called York as it was honoured by the Duke of York.

I was working in Victoria British Columbia during a the Vancouver EXPO summer, when we were inundated more than usual by international tourists and a great wave of Americans. Almost daily, Americans were being stopped at the border, getting their guns confiscated, and being arrested (depending upon their aggressive reaction) and deported for trying to bring their guns across the border, claiming they had the right to arms... but not realizing they actually did not when entering another sovereign country with different laws. However, it was a Texan who got through who said the dumbest thing to me. I was working in a hotel gift shop that my mother had bought (I was the summer manager actually) and he came up to the counter and threw a handful of post cards from Friday Harbour, Anacortes, and Seattle at me. He said "I don't know what's wrong with y'all!?! I am trying to mail there home. It's bad enough having to deal with y'all's Monopoly money, but no post office will take my postcards!! I just want to know where I can mail these!!!??? I looked at the cards and said that this isn't a problem; he can mail them at any postbox about 40 kilometres, or 30 miles, south of Victoria. He looked at me and said in a threatening manner, "Are you trying to be funny?" I replied "No sir. That queue you came through at the Ferry Terminal or along the highway was an international border with customs officers. You are not in the USA anymore. We are not banks or exchange houses, and do not have to accept American currency. Additionally, you have covered you postcards with American stamps, and these are not valid nor usable in Canada. You would need to either buy official Canadian postage to add to your cards to mail them within Canada, or take the Ferry back to Port Angeles in Washington state toail them." I had to smile and add, "As it is clear you do not travel much, if at all, and probably never out of your own country, I am happy to take some time to patiently explain how currency and postage works to you." He gathered up his cards and left without another ignorant word out of his mouth.

I had an American tourist complaining to me that they couldn't get anything to drink on ANZAC Day morning (it's the day Australia and NZ remember our veterans & war dead) and you'd think the country would remain open 365 days of the year if it wanted US tourists. Travel, it's about making everyone bend to your will apparently.

When I lived in the states, a few people thought we must get really annoyed about independence day. I would just smile and say "no mate, we celebrate the lucky escape from you guys". lol

A few years ago I was in Quebec City for a mini-vacation. While at one of the museums there, I was talking with a middle-aged American couple from New England. During the conversation, we discussed New York, New Jersey, New England and other places in that region. When I made a reference to the corresponding places in England, they had absolute no clue what I was talking about. None.

As a European I can confirm we don't care what state you are from, unless the conversation goes further and we both wanna know where each of us is from specifically. But usually whenever someone asks: "Where are you from?", they mean a country.

I'm Italian and I've lived in LA for about 12 years...some of the most absurd questions I got asked are (in no specific order) 1 Do you guys celebrate Thanksgiving in Italy? 2 Do you speak Latin in Italy? 3 Do you celebrate Christmas 4 Is every road in Italy covered with pebbles? 5 Do you write numbers the same way as we do? No joke.

The impression I have after visiting the US many times (around 30 states in 20 years) is that a lot of Americans have never even been abroad and lots never even left their state.

That one lady was right, everyone loves U.S. Americans. You provide endless comedic material. We appreciate you acting like fools for our amusement.

Whilst in America I had an angry Texan shouting at me "Why can't you speak English?". I quietly replied that I am a native Englishman, born and raised in England and ask what language he thought I might be speaking?

As an Aussie I hate the "we saved you in WW2 mentality." Particularly the yank tourists who come over here and say "if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking Japanese." First things first, you turned up to the war 3 years late and second, by the time you got here we had already defeated the Japanese on the battlefield multiple times. They had already decided they wanted no part of invading us before America got into the war. The third and final thing I say is, even if that is true, how does an Axis aligned Australia benefit you? You didn't get into the war to save anyone else but yourselves. After pearl harbour the US was forced out of its delusion and quickly realised a world in the grip of dictators was not a safe place for a free country to be.

I love it when Americans come to England and they say. "You guys don't even speak proper English here"...

I am Canadian so I have had a few good chuckles about an American concept of the rest of the world. My husband and a couple of friends went to Mexico (west coast) . It was a great trip and met a young couple from California. He was a house builder and she was a University student. She had a lot of interesting questions about Canada, one being…..did Canada have an independent government or were we under America’s? My husband explained in full detail that we have a Prime Minister, etc. etc. Also, did Canadians have their own money or do we use theirs? It was just a tad shocking that these questions were coming from a University student!!

If anyone knows anything about ww2 they would know the Russians saved us all. Without them we would of never have won. The fact that Britain entered the war in defence of the polish, and Europe. The Americans entered 2.5 years later In retaliation to their little harbour being attacked. The uk had a Pearl harbour every night for 8 months. And they talk about liberty and saving the day. On another note, America has barley ever won the para olympics but always boasts about winning the normal olympics, which says a lot about the elitist society.

I'm from Italy and I was once on a cruise in the Caribbean. I met these Americans from Los Angeles and one of them was a girl of Syrian descent. I gave her a compliment about her eyes and her friend intervenes with: "I know that in Italy there is too much racism" and the girl follows him, talking in front of me various things about how shameful are italians. I wanted to say something, but I didn't to be told something like "Because you're white" or anything like that.

I was on a cruise ship pre pandemic, and I met a nice elderly American couple at one of the bars on the first night. The man said, " You know you Australians speak pretty good English. It must have taken youl quite some time to learn". True

I live in Guernsey an Island in the English Channel. One evening I was entertaining a visiting American client who had brought his wife along for the trip. We were dining in a restaurant with a great sea view and as the night drew in we could see lights on the horizon. She asked me where that was and I replied, Jersey. She was totally confused and thought I was joking. I explained Jersey was another Channel Island which had a US State named after it. She had no idea there was an “Old” Jersey. And she was a geography teacher!

I'm still scrolling down for an African comment because we have seen and heard the worst of it all. From people asking whether they will sleep on top of the trees like we do when they come visiting, to wondering where the huge plane will land😅😅😫😫🤦🏿‍♀️

An American once very patiently explained to me that he spoke "English", whilst I spoke "British English" (even though I'm not British), because English is the American language, and the rest of the world borrowed it. To this day, I don't know if he was gaslighting me or just thick as two short planks.

OK. Nearly every person from the USA I have met face to face both here in Europe and in the States has been lovely and intelligent. BUT there are some that stand out as not being one or the other. I worked for a UK holiday Cottage company and I had an American lady on the phone. She and her husband wanted to visit the UK, Ireland and France. She said she spoke "Mexican" so she wouldn't have any problems with the language in those countries. I had to break it gently to her that "Mexican" was in fact Spanish and they spoke that in Spain. In England and the rest of the UK we mainly speak English, though you may come across Welsh, Gallic and Gaelic. And that in France they speak French. She was under the impression that Mexican was the lingua franca of the whole of Europe - not sure why.

I used to live in Switzerland, and an American commented on a local ex-pat group that she would be moving to Switzerland soon and how common were electrical appliances or would she have to get them shipped over from the US? Because obviously white goods are soooo hard to come by in the land of, y'know, Swiss banks.

I've spent a couple months travelling solo in the US. Almost all of my conversations with locals were wonderful and normal, but I'll never forget that one lady on the bus in Las Vegas who asked me what state Australia was in.

I‘m from Germany Once in Berlin was a American group of travelers. One of them asked me if I’m German. After saying yes this person asked me: how do you guys handle the domination of American cars on German roads and if we have discovered electricity yet. I argued for a bit but the worst part was: „don’t worry my friend. Once America arrives we will all be saved“ like America want do invade Europe. That person was so weird that I thought: „why haven’t I recorded this?“

I remember years ago chatting with an American woman online she asked where in the UK I'm from to which I replied Manchester, she replied you English always copy our place names, I just face palmed right there and then. 😂

The Greencard thing. My mom had a similar problem. My mom and dad have been married for 19 years, but then dad had to go back to the US (military life) and mom and I came with him. With me, no problem because I had both citizenships...my mom...yeah she had trouble getting her Visa because EVERYONE thought she had married my dad for a greencard. She had to explain multiple times that she had already been married to dad for 19 years before moving to the USA, she didnt plan on staying in the USA for long (he only had a 4 year stint before retiring), that she never really planned on moving to the US, and that she had her own home from before she married my dad. People couldn't believe that people existed that married a US for love and not a greencard. Not even my neighbors could understand why mom didnt want a greencard. I even had to show up and prove my mom was my mom as some lady thought mom was lying. Who hurt your offices?

My son met an American in France and he said , Since when have New Zealand ever gone to war and laughed . My son said ww1 ww2 and a frenchman said the anzacs and then my son told him about his great grandfather who was a POW in Americas war with Vietnam . And then told him of the Maori Battalion and Rommels remark saying give me a thousand maoris and i,ll take over the World during ww2 . The Maori Battalion was one of the most feared fighting units in the world .

I live in northern Canada. I remember back when I was in college, there was a woman from Alabama in one of my classes who had married a Canuck and moved here. She said they were watching something once and the War of 1812 came up; She asked her husband "What war was that?" And he just looked at her and said "... You guys invaded us and we won," or words to that effect.

As an American I am utterly embarrassed by this. I can’t imagine living in this world without some level of awareness of it. Sure I love my country but I don’t like where we are at right now. As a parent of 2 Gen Zers I have peppered them with knowledge and facts their whole lives. I have discussed wars in other countries. I have discussed history, in the US and the world. I have made sure they always considered perspectives and views outside of their own. The US hasn’t always made good decisions in history but it’s important to acknowledge when we are wrong. No, America is not the best country ever, and it’s not wrong to say it.

American websites have the American flag for English, Mexican flag for Spanish and Brazilian flag for Portuguese. European websites have the British flag for English, The Spanish flag for Spanish and the Portuguese flag for Portuguese

I once made a comment on a KZfaq video. I used the British spelling instead of the American spelling, and this triggered a whole bunch of Americans, which in turn angered a whole bunch of non-Americans. They debated each other over who existed first, the UK or the US and who actually invented the English language.

I was in Germany last year (im a German living in England) and an American came over to me asking for directions, obviously as he spoke to me in English I replied in English and the look on his face made me laugh he said “I didn’t know Germany people were taught American” my reply is “1. It’s German people 2. It’s English not American you just say some things differently or pronounce it differently 3. Germans have the option to learn English and most will and lastly you need to show me a picture of where you want to go because I have no idea of what you said” (he wanted to go to the efiel tower you know that one tall metal building in FRANCE)

Regarding the translation flag, as an English person it really annoys me when software only has a USA flag and not a UK one. There are enough linguistic differences that good software provides both. So when software/websites only give the 🇺🇸 option it makes me think the company is either lazy or ignorant.

On the subject of our language. 🇬🇧:English (traditional) 🇺🇲:English (simplified)

6:54 When she said "Everybody loves us" She needs to hear some of the things British people say about Americans 🤣🤣

5:20 I like that she actually calls herself an "immigrant" and not an "expat" like some people insist on calling them selves.

I am originally from Tasmania. I had an American friend who once told me that she had a stand-up argument with her GEOGRAPHY teacher because she knew Tasmania was a state of Australia and not a country in its own right, and he was not having a bar of it. 🤦‍♀

I was in America and a relative asked me when Independence Day is in Britain. That paled into insignificance, though, when on the same trip, someone else asked me, "Are there any trees in England?"

2 days ago an American couple asked me where they could find a McDonald’s in Italy the country with the best food in the world. I told them its a 2km walk, they said how many Miles is that. I replied no idea, look it up. The woman had the guts to say that our education system clearly sucks. Oh well I have send them in the opposite direction. I thought those fat bodies can use a good walk.

Watched a program recently where an 'emminent' American History professor became irate as the audience were unhappy with America enabling and supporting (let's face it most of the world hate America for this) Israeli genocide and Crimes against Humanity. He shouted "you people don't appreciate that America 'invented' Democracy. The Irish audience were stunned. This man was teaching History and didn't know the long history of Democracy. If he's one of their Great and Good I dread to think what the rest of them are like. FYI Americans your country has never been a Democracy and the vast majority of you are descended from British not Irish. Irish people were deemed sub-human and treated appallingly by Americans until 1963. Even if you have Irish ancestors you are not Irish, you are American. Is it so shameful to be American that have to prefix American with another nationality.

The travel consultant from Costa Rica need not feel too bad about her Texan caller. A Facebook post from an elderly woman from NW England (my county as well) went viral when she complained there were too many Spanish people in her Spanish holiday town. The British in Spain where I live, especially those in the coastal towns, are infamous for their arrogance in living here for years and complaining eg that the Spanish doctors in Spanish hospitals dont speak English.

As an Australian it's frustrating using spell check when you're offered English in either UK or USA. I always choose UK but USA likes to take control of my spelling and suggests American presidents or entertainers surnames when I enter a random first name!

It may be apocryphal but the story is that a GI arriving in Normandy after the landings approached an elderly French lady and asked " do you have cinemas in France?" she answered, "sonny we invented Cinema"

I found it interesting when Omicron hit Spain first. I took it as an opportunity to learn from their findings while many Americans seemed to be like "Wtf, why are we going to listen to some 2nd world country?!" (It's actually a 1st world country and considered to be one of the more medically advanced countries in the world). Americans suddenly seemed down on Spain and highlighted their superiority over them. Which to me is remarkable given it was King Ferdinand of Spain who commissioned Columbus ultimately colonize the West. Even the fact that "America" itself is named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer is notable because how can a society like America assume superiority over countries that were advanced beyond compare centuries before America even existed? Especially the people who've never even been to these counties or experienced their way of life. Even read about them. The American propaganda machine is that strong. Lol, so strong that as a Canadian I actually thought I was American until the age of 6. American superiority is only in the form of the almighty buck. And I'd be a rich country too if I had 330 million taxpayers who I didn't have to give any universal healthcare or other standard social benefits to because I've convinced them it's evil and any country that provides their citizens social benefits is inferior and communistic. Mark up insulin by 1000% and be cheered on because capatilism is king. I'd be rich af too with the biggest military and big old mansions and all that jazz. But my people wouldn't. The tax payers funding me wouldn't. Yeah, America's superiority seems to come from the ability to make it's people willing to gift the 1% with their blood sweat and tears rather than elect those fighting to redirect that wealth back to them because the propaganda machine says they're communists. Almost like the current model was a workaround for the 13th ammendment. Can't have slaves but we can make a system that let's people believe they're free, but really they'll owe their souls to the company store even after they die. It's pretty archaic but brilliant I guess if it works. If you can convince the hamster that their little wheel is a luxury and all they'll ever need to be satisfied in life. All you have to do is never let them look outside, at the majority of hamsters running free in the field.

I'd wish the people from the US realise that "America" is the whole continent, and it is not just their country, so when they refere to "americans" they are talking about all the people who lives in the American continent, not just them.

I mean the arrogance of the chap who states hes now more educated now and then goes ahead and says 'until we rescued them in WW2'

I'm English and I cannot imagine ever wanting to live in America. I prefer living in a country where people vastly outnumber guns.

As a person that tried to get a greencard in my early 20s i can say that today you couldn’t pay me enough to live there

A lot of non-Americans will tell you that they do not even want to visit America, we would rather visit Canada.

"Does the UK celebrate 4th of July?" Of course! Or as we call it, Empire Purification Day!

My nieces have dual Candian and American citizenship. They were born and educated in the States. One of them was disgusted with the history they were being taught. As she phrased it American History is what happened in the States. World History was what Americans did outside the States. Hey I'm Canadian, making fun of the States is a national past time.

I get asked by Americans how do you celebrate thanksgiving or halloween in Australia......We don't.....

When I was on holiday in Florida, an American family started talking to me whilst standing in a queue for a rollercoaster. They were nice and all, but soon the mum asked me where I’m from in England, so I said Leeds, then she said “where is that in London?”. I tried to explain to her that they are completely different cities but she wasn’t getting it, so instead I decided to just have some fun and told her “Leeds used to be a small farming village in east London, but then in 2012 Henry the eighth kicked Leeds out of London to make more room”. The whole family believed every word.