It's not ignorance that get's me. It's the pride in the ignorance.

Its not the dumbness that bothers us so much its the haughty attitude with it the ignorant arrogance that bothers us the most

Before it retired, I was a CSA at Heathrow Airport. On this shift, I was on the immigration department directing passengers to the correct gates, British and EU (pre Brexit) to the left, rest of the world to the right. An American guy waltzed up to me and asked me where the "line" was for Americans. I told him that was the rest of the world. No, he argued, USA. So I replied that this is the UK. He continued arguing that in America, there are special lines for US domestic citizens. I realised that he had no idea where he was. I explained that over 200 years ago, America had a war to be independent from the British. Finally, it sank in. He then complained that the line was longer, well that's due to the fact that the rest of the world is far bigger than Europe.

If certain people want to "make America great again" , maybe they should start with the education system.

One that happened to me and never gets old. Is an American mother upset with me because I sold her 18 year old son a beer when the American legal age is 21. Despite trying to explain to her that the American age limit doesn't apply in the UK, she wasn't having it. In the end my manager kicked her out, the son was allowed to stay because he was nice and didn't give us any trouble. The next night he came back with some friends and after checking their ages I served them as well.

So I’m in the Royal marine reserves, we went to the US on a training exercise. Before we left, we were allowed to go around to the local shops and restaurants. One of the waitresses in the restaurant asked me where I learnt to speak English and I said I learnt in the UK, I’m British and she said oh you guys speak English over there as well, why you copying us. 😂😂

I think one thing I saw in a reddit video like this was like USA inhabtiants discussing that their way of spelling the dat elike year months day was right and were arguing like "No one says 5th october, it's octobe(the) the 5th!" and one clever European just answered "Tell that to the " 4th of July!" 😂 😂

I was talking to an African American on here and she thought Nigeria was a city in the country of Africa, the pain, oh the pain I went through trying to explain to her that Africa was a continent full of countries and Nigeria was a country and not a city was excruciating, I gave up because she got mad, how are you calling yourself AFRICAN American if you have no clue what Africa even is?

An American woman who had lived in the U.K. a couple of months asked me if we celebrated thanksgiving on the same day? I worry about education standards.

Nearly every American I've encountered has said they're Irish, when shockingly they were American

I was buying beer in a walgreens when I was visiting America, they asked me for id, so I showed my uk driving licence. They were convinced it was fake because my date of birth didn’t exist. I asked what she meant and she said there wasn’t 25 months in a year. I had to explain in the uk it’s day/month/year rather than month/day/year. She had to get her manager over and I also had to explain to him also. I did end up walking out with my beers 😂

I was a British tourist in Rome visiting the forum when I overheard a US tourist wonder out loud if the Italians had just found a few columns and built the rest of the ruins to be a tourist attraction. I had to hide behind one of said columns in order to have a giggle.

I live in scotland near Edinburgh, an American once said, isnt it great that they built the castle near the shops.

I'm MARRIED to an American. Fortunately he's one of the few who wasn't lounging on the couch when the smarts were being handed out but it can make for interesting comments when we're in the US. "Are you allowed to marry someone not American?" Us: Yes, of course. "Are you SURE that's allowed?" "Did you have to learn American to talk to each other?" "You married him so why aren't you American?" Us: Because I chose to continue to live in the UK and remain British. "Why? America is SO much better" Us: I haven't noticed one way that America is better . I could go on and on but generally Americans have almost no knowledge of anywhere more than 20 miles outside of their hometown and zero knowledge of the rest of the world. And they're PROUD of that!!!

Well, a lady probably about 60 was in Amsterdam airport or train station can’t remember exactly. She was arguing with someone because she couldn’t understand them. She was shouting ‘ENGLISH DONT YALL SPEAK GOD DAMN ENGLISH’ so I said ‘hi can I help I speak English’ even though the Dutch lady was speaking English she just had an accent. Funny on its own as I was translating English to English. The American lady from I’d imagine the southwest with a proper country accent said ‘can you tell her I’m trying to buy this and to take my dollar’ I said it’s euros she storms off screaming ‘what time of damn country doesn’t take cash the dollar is the most powerful currency’ it was weird as fuck like some movie caricature come to life. I was high as shit as well as

I was in Staten Island ferry station. An American asked me where I was from. I said 'England.' She said 'New England?' I said 'no, actual England.' She said 'how did you get here?' 😂

So, I’m walking down Oxford Street in London, and I see this African American woman mistreating the street cleaner, deliberately throwing rubbish in front of him and yelling at him, so I step in and ask her to shove it and act with the slightest modicum of human decency. She then yells back at me (I’m black British), “go back to your country”. I respond, “you are a guest right now in MY country”.

The one that will always live with me was actually something my Aunt had said to her when she worked on Cruise ships in the 90s.....Which was. "Excuse me Miss, what time is the Midnight Buffet" She was in so much shock that she couldn't answer for a good 30 seconds....Also, the whole "passports not being ID" thing confuses the hell out of me.The purpose of a passport, it is to allow the person whos picture is on there(thus identifying them) to "pass" a border. Plus with all the checks you have to go through to even get one, its probably a lot more secure than a drivers licence is lol.

Americans actually come to Ireland expecting to see leprechauns

Dumbest thing I've heard from your side of the pond was, "Why are they speaking American? I thought they spoke British in London??"

Wasn't there a US news reporter around the time Trump won his presidency who was like "and the people in England are celebrating his win by releasing fireworks tonight"... it was the 5th November🤦‍♀🤦‍♀ I also had one when I was in Rome. We were at a restaurant, there was an American couple on the table next to us. They ordered two different desserts, the woman took a bite of hers, said she didn't like it and asked the waiter to replace it with a chocolate cake instead. When the bill came, she was shocked at seeing the original dessert on the bill. My friend and I were in hysterics at the fact that she didn't realise that she'd have to pay for it when she'd ordered it and there was nothing wrong with it. She kept talking about such "poor service, you'd never have this problem back home" 🤣

The trouble with the USA is your education system. Your exams are so easy. You have multiple choice questions and even if you do not know the answer you can make a stab at it and possibly get the right answer by accident. In the UK you have to answer questions on a subject or write an essay so you have to learn about the subject.

When I was in Spain on holiday the amount of Americans who couldn't wrap their head around the fact that not everyone knew English was wild 😅 also I got berated by one woman for drinking alcohol at 18yrs old even tho the legal age there is 16 💀😂

I've said it before but... I used to live in Switzerland and belonged to an expats group online. An American woman joined the group as she was moving there in the near future, and asked if there were refrigerators in Switzerland or would she have to get one shipped in from the States? I also once had a conversation with MSN because typing the symbol for Euro currency would send their messenger into fits of webdings. I was literally in France, on a French computer with a separate key for "€". MSN's official response was that they didn't support "minority symbols". 341 million people live in countries that use the Euro, and many more people use the currency daily.

I'd just arrived in Charlotte, NC, on a direct flight from London. My aunt and uncle were supposed to be meeting me, but I couldn't find them. So I went to the information desk to see if they would put out an announcement for them. I explained the situation to the young lady at the desk, and she could obviously hear that I had an accent she didn't recognise, so she asked where I was from. I told her I was from London, England, and I could see that the cogs were turning in her brain as she processed that information. Eventually, she looked me in the eye and asked, "London? Do y'all speak French there?". 🤷‍♂️

the amount of times I've heard of Americans thinking 'timezone' means 'time travel' and not just 'because they're further around the planet, the sun is in a different position'. like I've heard some dumb stuff in the UK, but Americans truly are something else.

1998 a yank in Auckland New Zealand ask me where the on-ramp for the bridge to Australia was? I said there wasn’t one. He was annoyed and said don’t lie to me! The bridge is right there! He pointed to the Auckland harbour bridge…. It’s a 2 hour flight to oz

Just seen a comment from an American on another video. "You can't even buy pepper spray to defend yourselves, even though crime is higher in the UK than the US.

Working night security for a European film company, I would regularly get phone calls from Los Angeles at 2.30 A.M. and have Americans astounded that there was no one in the office at 5.30 P.M. Not once or twice but many times.😅

An American in Luxembourg was telling me he had got his hire car to 230 kph on the autoroute. I told him that if caught he would get a heavy fine. He said 'No we checked 230 is just a little over the speed limit.' He knew the car speedometer was in kph but for some reason thought the 130 signs on the highway were in mph, like in the U.S. He was driving at 143 mph in a 130 kph/ 80 mph limit. 63 mph over the limit!

I used to talk to a guy in Virginia. I was talking to his friend one day as he asked me to send him a picture of big Ben. I told him he'd have to get one off Google because I don't live in London. He said 'I thought you could see it everywhere' He thought no matter in the UK you were from you could see big Ben. Like it was some sort of beacon 😂 bless him. I've also been asked more times than I can count why we don't celebrate thanksgiving

4th of July stuff happend to me too. Freiburg/Germany: Nice presummer evening at the Dreisam River. We were chillin out with some co-students from the universaty, playing some drinking games and had a great time. Suddenly one dude called us and said he would join with 2 of his american friends who are currently visiting germany. Dudes were totaly nice and caused no trouble at all.. until one of them asked when the "fuckin fireworks" begin. Everyone was confused what firework he meant and the other one became super angry, cause they thought we wanna insult them with not knowing what fuckin firework they are meaning. They felt SO INSULTED until i watched on my iPhone and saw it was the 4th of July. As soon as i figuered it out, i started to explain them, that the US AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY is not celebrated in Baden-Württemberg, Germany...... They understood it eventually but they ruined the good mood with their ignorant reaction.

The dumbest thing an American has said to me was at a hostel in London back in 2015. Two American girls asked me where I was from, and I said I'm from Sweden. And one of them said: "Oh wow, how does it feel to live in a communist country? Do you have internet over there or is it censored?" I honestly wasn't sure what to answer to that.

There are dumb people all over the planet, the funniest I heard about was actually a Canadian. My boyfriend at the time was working as an electrician and doing some maintenance work on Westminster Abbey, when a Canadian tourist came up and asked him where Oliver Twist was buried, that was bad enough, but when he tried to explain that Oliver Twist was actually a book character and not a real person, they got super upset and insisted that the book was about a real boy (it absolutely wasn't) Charles Dickens is buried in Westminster Abbey, so I imagined him turning in his grave hahaha

Back in the late '70's I heard about a student whose application to Harvard (HARVARD!!!!) was turned away because the clerk told her they already had their quota of foreign students. The student was from New Mexico.

British person here, I've been asked if Wales is in England. If I know the Queen and have had tea with her. Then my personal favourite: 'do you speak English in the UK?'... Asked in English during a conversation... In English. To be fair two of those were asked by kids (unfortunately, it was the first two).

I went to Florida not that long ago and and American man easily in his late 50’s asked me where I was from as my Welsh accent is rather strong (so I’ve been told) and when I told him Wales he said oh what part of England is that? I said it’s the country next to England, he then started to argue with me saying his sons wife is Welsh and she is from england so I’m lying about where I’m from and should be ashamed, another one which always gets me is when an American will say their Welsh, Irish, Scottish but they mean their ancestors are from one of them but believe whole heartedly that they are from there but will say oh yeah I was born in America.

Sadly your education system is crap about history and geography.

The girl who messed with the guy saying pizza was banned in the UK, that would totally be me. There’s an old saying “ask a silly question, get a silly answer”

Love the channel JT. In a bar in Germany years back, met some US newlyweds traveling the country on honeymoon. They asked if I knew where 'Ausfahrt' was. They thought it must be a huge city because they saw lots of signs for it on the highway. Ausfahrt means Exit.

I’m a Brit. When I went to Florida with my friend who’s from Nigeria (but he has an English accent) they didn’t believe there was black people in England.

I am a proper wind up merchant, so we had a fire drill and we all evacuated out of the building and its very near the Mall in London. Anyway as I was standing around waiting to go back in a family of American tourists come wandering along and start talking to me about the people milling around and asking why. I go on to explain that, you know that us Brits are a very traditional people and we are following tradition by leaving the building at 3pm to allow all the tea ladies to move the tea trollies to the areas so we can have our tea at 3:30, afternoon tea, you must have heard of it. She was astounded and asked if I can take a picture of her with her family, her father got wind of it and started to ask questions about the scones and what we had on them, cream on top or the bottom, raspberry jam or strawberry. This young lady was completely blown away by my story. I did tell her in the end that we were on a fire drill and her father and mother, laughing thank me for the great story that they promised to tell everyone back home. ~Trooper

Fun story - visiting the US for the first time, being Portuguese, although I have a thick English type accent. While having dinner, the waitress asked me if I was from London, to which I replied with a smile, 'no, I'm from Porto, Portugal - born and raised', to which I got the reply 'oh, you don't look like south american'... I stated, with a fake smile 'Portugal is in Europe, right next to Spain, in the Iberian Peninsula'... Jeez, Americans really suck at Geography

In the 70s, my family was on holiday. We were driving on a country road , we came to a crossroads. My dad stopped as a car stopped in front of him, so he couldn't turn left or right. A guy got out and asked him the way to Berwick. My dad told him the way, and showed him on his map. The American then started arguing that my dad was totally wrong. And that was the wrong way. So my dad told him it was the right way, he continued to argue. My dad said he didn't care which way he went, as long as he moved his car so he could be on his way. Eventually after much huffing, the American allowed us to continue our journey. We had just come from Berwick after spending a weeks holiday there. My dad just could not believe it. Always remember it, I was ten at the time.

I remember the wife and I doing a helicopter trip through the Grand Canyon in 2016. As part of the trip we all landed in the middle of the canyon floor for a Champagne lunch (very nice it was to) On one of the other tables there was a guy shouting to everyone (without being asked 😂) that he's from Florida and asking "how have so many Foreigners even heard of Vegas?" 😂😂 When we got back to the tiny, private, in the middle of the desert airport to get our bus transfer back to our respective hotels the very same guy was demanding the tour group get him a hire car. When they explained that sorry sir, we are a tour group, this is a private airstrip in the desert we don't do car hire he got really angry and was shouting "I'm not getting on no damn bus, I want a hire car right now" literally everyone was rolling there eyes and laughing and we got on the bus (maybe he's still there 😂😂) We've had a few trips to the US over the years but he was by far and away the dumbest person I've ever met (never mind just the dumbest American) 100% true story 😂😂

Two Americans in conversation. 'Dude, it was so funmy that Austrian guy using such a random American word "kaput". 'I think "kaput" is a German word, bro.' 'They use American words in Germany as well!' I drove American actors and musicians for a total of thirty years. I have plenty of instances. 😅

So glad this was uploaded as the 9/11 warning piece is my absolute favourite and I have mentioned it in comments before and been accused of making it up and asked for a link which if I could not provide was obvious proof that I made it up but there's so many of these videos that I wasn't sure which one it was in. Better believe my petty dumb ass is going back to those six month old comment threads with a link to this video as my receipt. Thanks JT.

Moved to Canada from California. While we were in the process of getting our residency we used to come up in the summers to maintain our status (time in country etc). I had numerous people at my American high school ask me things like "isn't it hard to move somewhere you don't speak the language?" Or "why do you need permission to live in Canada, can't you just like, move there?" Or "Wow, don't they eat like whale blubber and stuff". Yup, I messed with them. A lot. I hope it made them realize how silly they were but I doubt it. What really used to butter my bread was telling them Canada had beaten the US in a war (The War of 1812). They didn't know what to say to that 😂

Following on from my last comment below..... I was working in the states and got an internal flight from Washington to Chicago. The pilot was South African. An American lady cabin crew was serving refreshments and arrived at my seat and ask me what I wanted, I replied a tea please. Hearing my accent she smiled and said ' are you from the same place as our pilot'? No I said he's South African and I am English. There's some 8,000 miles between the UK to SA, and 3,500 miles from the UK to New York. She smiled at me and said - so your from the same country yes? No mam - I said he lives over 50 miles away from my home town. Oh she said but you're close by. She was a lovely lady but not too bright.

I know Americans who think Canada is part if the USA, and other Americans who think North America means only the US. Oh and Americans who think they invented English, and have said the "your English is great" to people from literal England.

Another one, but a pleasant American couple came up to me when I was serving in the WRNS. Women's royal naval service. I was a steward at Wimbledon during the tennis tournaments. My cap tally (a ribbon around my cap) stated where I served. Which was CinC. (Cincfleet) the American bloke came straight up to me and shook my hand stating Gee you are awful young to be a commander in chief!. I was nineteen years old, he was totally genuine , not taking the Mick. So I said thank you sir and smiled. When they went we had a good laugh thinking I was the commander in chief of the navy. But they were a lovely pleasant couple.

Im from Liverpool in England, i was in Florida and i got into a convo with a local tour guide about local wildlife in our local waters. She said they had dolphins and sharks..i said on a clear day from the river Mersey we can see Wales..(she thought i meant Whales). Bless her

America seems to think they are the only country in the world, please. Your first immigrants were English the fact that you now no longer speak the Kings English, but American English very different. I am an old English lady who when I was at school, nearly 60 years ago, were taught to speak properly and we were taught grammar. We were also taught about history and geography of the whole world.❤❤❤👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🌹🌹

I was once asked by an American "How long is the flight from England to Scotland?" I said I didn't know I had only ever driven there, and from here (The Cotswolds, middle of England) you could drive it in about 4 or 5 hours, he looked at me as if he was thinking really hard and replied "Of course you have the channel tunnel". He had no idea that England and Scotland were one land mass. I think we are a bit hard on Americans, I don't think they are all stupid, I think the problem is the education system, children are only taught about America and American history. What I don't understand is are American children are not taught who they won there independence from and why we (as in the rest of the world) especially British people, why we don't celebrate independence day? I also get a bit annoyed when talking to Americans about how great there county is, well I say talking to them what I should say is talked at by Americans about how great they and there country is. I don't want to offend you JT, but this is usually my response. "If your country and is people are so great why do you not tell me about the Genocide of one race your ancestors committed, and then the enslavement of another race?" This usually gets 1 of 2 reactions, 1 they turn around and walk away. 2 they get very upset and attempt to start a fight defending there ancestors actions. Don't get me wrong most of the Americans I have met have been very nice (but a bit loud) I just get annoyed America is a fine country but not the great place some Americans think it is.

During the Gulf US Airmen were amased at seeing the Victor Bomber that was being used as a tanker aircraft, it was a weird looking thing, very futuristic/scifi like. The RAF lads had them convinced it was a new secret supersonic aircraft. It had been around since the 50's and was retired in 93.

I worked in a tourist office for 3 years and I honestly could write a book. In saying that most Americans I've met have been lovely...but the ones who cause the "dumb" stereotypes... let's just say they're very memorable 😂

My English cousin lived in Florida for over a decade, and was asked many times what language they speak in England. That was after he'd told them he wasn't Australian. Nearly everyone there, think English people have an Australian accent 🙄

Not had too much of that visiting the US from the UK. In California I was asked in a record store if we knew The Beatles. My friends and I pretended not to have heard of them. 😂

2 things. 1) when I told someone online I’m from London their response was “it’s really foggy there, huh?” I said “umm no….no it’s not”. They continued “are you sure? Because I’ve seen stuff in tv and it’s real foggy there” me: “was that like Bedknobs and Broomstick? Or Sherlock Holmes or something?” Them: “I dunno….I just know it’s real foggy in London” Me: “you realise London isn’t still in the 1800’s right?” Them: *appears offline* 😂 2) someone in a chat room (yeah, I’m that old 😂😂) was once CONVINCED that Yorkshire Pudding was made with blood. Them: “eww! Yorkshire pudding! That’s disgusting, it’s made with blood!” Me: “No love, that’s BLACK Pudding” Them: “NO! It’s YORKSHIRE Pudding!” Me: “I’m from England” Them: “So?” Me: “I’m probably more up to par with what English people eat lol” Them: “You’re English and don’t know that Yorkshire Pudding has blood in it?” Me: “That’s BLACK Pudding….not Yorkshire Pudding” Them: “NO! Yorkshire Puddings are made with blood! I’ve read about!! You don’t even know what you’re talking about!” Me: “Not only am I an Englishman who regularly eats both Yorkshire and Black pudding, my brother is a high profile chef! I THINK…I THINK!! That makes me a little more qualified on English food than you….just saying” Them: “you’re so stupid! It’s Yorkshi…” Me: “Yorkshire Pudding is literally the same fucking recipe as pancakes!!!! Look it up!!” Good times 😂😂😂

AHH, you come from England! No, no, no - I am from Wales. 🙃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐑🤪

I used to live near an American air base in the NW of England. We had some of those concrete marker posts for water in the border of our front garden. My American 'boyfriend' (we were 10yo) refused to come to my house because we had dead people buried in the front garden 😂.

I'm from Wales and an American who i met in the uk(whilst i was speaking english) said: You know you should talk better american we did give you language My response was: wyt ti'n siarad cymraeg? (Do you speak welsh?)

visiting Hawaii for the very first time(I'm British, by the way) and I went into the shop in the hotel foyer to buy a cold drink and a snack....the young man serving me obviously noticed my accent(I'm from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, and have a quite noticeable Hampshire accent) and he said, "are you Australian?" I told him I was English, and he looked puzzled, "English?" he said..... "are you sure....................??"

You're right about many Americans thinking that the whole world revolves around the US. The US is very influential in the world but this doesn't mean that those outside the US don't have anything else to think about or have any other interests besides keeping up with what's happening in America especially not on a micro/local level. I have friends in America that act astonished when I tell them that I haven't heard of the latest issues that happens to be a big deal in their area (written about in the local newspaper only). They begin conversations assuming I'm all clued up. Also, if I mention something that's happened here they start ranting about "socialism" (which, as far as I understand, clearly includes our government keeping us from accessing their news while feeding us fake news: it's fake because they don't hear our local news either).

I was chatting with dude from ohio on call of duty once about history he lost his mind saying the world doesn’t have 1000 years of history it was only invented 300 years ago 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

It’s crazy how many UK city/town names they mispronounce when so many of them are town and city names in the US where they’ll pronounce them correctly.

I used to work in a restaurant and we occasionally had American tourists come in. They where always so friendly and nice to serve. I did have one lady who asked me where was the best place to go to later that day to possibly spot a member of the royal family 😳 the restaurant was in Liverpool 🙈 maybe Jim Royal love 🤣

This reminds me of when I was a teenager playing games on Xbox live with a friend, we were speaking to an American about the same age and we convinced him that we light our homes with candles and lamps because we didn't have electricity. On Xbox live.

An American once asked me if there was hot running water in my country (the uk lol).

Often i get asked if Britian is in England. I am like.....almost 😂

I tell Americans that we celebrate Independence day in the UK. The smart ones get the joke.

I said this before..An American once told me my English is very good. Im English.

One of the many things i like about you young man ,is that you can laugh at people taking the mickey out of u.s.a..you have a great sense of humour, priceless 👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧

I done this on my TikTok the other day. And one of the things I was asked years ago was by an American online and they asked if I had a television. And modern technology completely ignoring the fact I was on a laptop and the inventor of the television lives. In Glasgow.

Dumbest thing an American ever said to me was an airport security cop. He was checking my passport and he stopped at a visa for Egypt; from a previous holiday. The Egyptian visa has a picture of the Pyramids at Giza because that's why people go to Egypt; the most recognisable landmark of Egypt. The cop stopped at this visa, had a good look at it, thought it suspicious and then asked me, while pointing at the picture of the pyramids.... "Egypt huh, and why did you go there?"

I love messing with Americans on the time zones, I live in New Zealand, so like we are about 16hrs ahead of the US so I tell them - "I can see the future - you're fucked".

In the UK we do celebrate your independence day, just that we call it Treason Day 😁

I went to Windsor Castle once,and an American tourist was complaining about it being under the flight path of Heathrow airport."Could they not have built the castle somewhere else?"she said. Jesus wept.

From the UK, worked with a guy who lived and worked in Canada. He said he once drove across the border into America and got pulled over by the police, who said have you come from Mexico, no, but you have a mexican number plate, no it's a Montreal number plate, is that in Mexico, no Canada, where's Canada is that part of Mexico 😮😅😅😅

My 'best' dumb thing an American said is this: So, we're visiting a Templar Knight chapel (in Kent, England) built about 800 years ago when this American asks "Why did they built it so close to those buildings?" (There were some light industrial buildings about 50 yards away) Words failed me :)

I'm English! First time I went to LA we were often asked about our accent. Are you Guy's Australian? We went to Disney Land and we got questions like, do you Guy's have helium balloons where you come from. So you Guy's drink dark warm beer where you come from? No we drink lager! Lager, what's lager? We walked past a motorbike and were asked if we had bikes like that where we come from? Do you Guy's play pool where you come from? Yes, we play pool and we also play snooker! Snooker, what's snooker? And so it went on and on. It became very apparent that the people we stayed with had no idea of any existence outside of LA. We have many American friends though and love them all!

Visiting the US many years ago, I was asked about my accent, where I was from. I replied that I was from Sydney (Australia). The bloke then asked me if I had to drive from there! My reply blew him away. "Nah mate, we didnt drive, we came by sea, it took 6 weeks!"

I am British, But was asked on youtube by an American "Does Australia Actually Celebrate Christmas On 25th Dec, Even though its Summer there!!" 😂 ....She thought because the Summer/Winter Solstice was Different there So were the holidays! 😂....Took me Ages to Explain That Too! 🤦🏻‍♀️....And she wasn't the only one x

I had the exact same reaction to the timezone and 9/11 one. That's dumb on a completely new level.

Theres even a whole musical called Oklahoma. 😂

Try being from Africa and not being black. Every damn time. "You can't be from Africa, you're white!" Yeah no sh*t. I'm from South Africa. We have many different ethnicities. There are also white people in other parts of Africa. There are also brown and black people in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Scandinavia.... mind blowing.

An American woman asked me where I was from. Scotland I said. What part of London is that? She asked 🤦

I’ve had the black People in England one I’ve also had someone ask me for American ID Luckily the manager wasn’t an idiot But I had to ask the woman serving “if I’m not American how or why would I have American ID?” She then asked me if I have and Florida ID for reference this was a liquor store near a sea port we had maybe 6 Americans working on my ship from a staff of about 1000 people

When I was in Florida, some women said to me where I was from I said Liverpool UK, she said I love the British accent but you don't sound British and I told her there are loads of accents and she said I thought there was only one English 😂

I've met quite a few American tourists, due to my high English proficiency and taking summer jobs with the local agency that organized site tours from the time I was in high school, but the one and only horror story I have was during my time at Uni, in our country's capitol, so, on my experience alone, the stereotypes of American tourists are really not all that true. But that one exception is all the explanation needed for how the stereotypes ever came about. So, I was in a small store really near to the main pedestrian zone of the city, and at the checkout there was this older gentlemen trying to pay for his purchases with USD$, and the hapless cashier who apparently barely spoke any English at all was failing to explain to him that they could not legally accept foreign currency, so I stepped up and very politely told the man just that, and offered to him for me to ask the cashier to hold his items to the side while he went out, walked for ~30m down that same street where there was a money exchange office/kiosk. The man absolutely exploded at both of us that he was not using 'no forrein' currency. I tried, politely, to explain that since he wasn't even on the same continent as USA, him and his money were by default foreign to the country we were in, but he just kept on throwing a tantrum for the next couple of minutes, not listening to anyone. Luckily he left after that, without purchasing anything, on his own.

Some of these stories literaly give me physical chills, that's just how insanely stupid they are! 🤣

I got called German by an American, I'm from the UK but and I'm Scouse it's an accent the pretty much confuses most other countries, when I was younger I went travelling a lot and when people tried work out where I was from I would get German a lot or Irish which is close as our accent is mixed in with the Irish plus my Grandad was Irish but still not correct I had Australian no idea how, Danish, Norwegian etc the list was endless. Even after you tell them your British they still didn't believe me.😂

We were asked by an American couple where the snow was, we were in Ottawa in July sweating in the humidity. My Dad gave her directions to the Canadian north.

i love these 😂😂😂 i live in the English Lake District, my friends and i were sitting half way up a mountain and a tourist bus pulled up. An American guy ran over to us asking if we were waiting for the osprey to appear and what time it was due

The beginning of wisdom? Knowing how much you don't know.

Chatting ( in England )with an American tourist about travelling I mentioned my brother visited the States often, only to be asked how he coped with such a long drive 😮

Quite a long time ago was asked if I knew the Queen. I said I did and she would occasionally bob round to borrow some sugar for her tea.

That's hysterical and sadly true of many Americans who tend to live only with local knowledge of their own state. Thankfully I have met many who are worldly wise. Wrll, one or two.

When my wife worked at a stately home in London which was right under a flight path an American asked why the house was built so close to the runway. The house was built in the 1700’s!

Two Americans overheard in conversation . 'Are we in France or Germany?' 'We are in Germany, you dumb mother......!' We were in Luxembourg. I didn't bother explaining.😅