As an irish person (ACTUAL irish person), i don't get why the americans fantasise about us so much 🤔

I had a girl in New York tell me "go back to Ireland, you're not welcome here". Okay, but I'm from Essex 💀

It's funny how these posts are 50% "America is the best country in the world, we beat everyone else at everything and everything here is better", and 50% "I am 0.00003% Irish so I am NOT American"

Americans thinking that accents = languages is a VERY American way of thinking

its frightening how many people don't know the difference between accent and language

Fun fact: Americans speak English and Englandish people speak Englandese.

oh yeah us irish arent proud of being irish, we didnt wage war for 800 years for freedom

What’s funny is being lectured by Americans with a single great-great grandparent who is allegedly from Ireland about how they’re truly Irish and I (a brown lad actually born and reared in Ireland) could never be as Irish as them. I asked one such person to name a city in Ireland, and all they could find was “Ireland City” 😂😂😂

Don’t Americans know there are different accents in the UK? They’ve got: -Scottish -Irish -English (sexy) -English (derogatory) -Eldritch Magic (Welsh)

As a Pole, I'd like to correct you and say that we spell everything in English. We just pronounce it like we want to kill ourselves

Actual Irish here. Lived in Boston for a year back in the 90s. Man the bizarre conversations with Murkans who were convinced they were the "real Irish" cos they had some family rumour their great-great-great-grandad might have got off a boat in 1836. I did have fun winding them up with tall tales about my days on the run from IRA ninja assassins and brutal baby-killing British troops...

the US is the country equivalent of main character syndrome.

Irish have the same problem as Polish and Sweedish, tbh. American immigrants treat the culture as a token, mythologise it from all the tales their "grandma" told them, and when it turns out that Sweeden isn't full of bearded manly vikings and Poland isn't the way it was 50 years ago, their fantasy shatters, so they cope by telling themselves "We're the real ones" Though from my own experience, let me tell you, dealing with "Polonia" (Polish who emigrated abroad) is a bother, because they really look down on us natives as"the little guys", it's often rather patronising. An uncle from Canada once sent my mother 40 cents to "Buy herself something nice" and he was convinced that she wouldn't know what to do with them, because "For an American, it's not much, but for them it's a fortune". Mother was insulted of course... The other thing is how they kept sending hand-me-downs. Clothes that wouldn't look out of place on a hobo, that they didn't need, as if we were some children in need. And talking to one of those family members is also a treat, because once they tried to explain to me, in insultingly simple terms, what an orange is... While holding a tangerine. They were also absolutely *flabbergasted* that we actually had stuff like pepsi and smartphones. Normally though, we just kinda laugh at Polonia... It's like that one cousin that moved to Vegas for a few years and now he thinks he's a bigshot, being really condesending to you all "Little folk"

As an American I am also concerned, we don’t know what to do either. My mom told me I’m Irish, but I took a DNA test and I’m 0% ethnically Irish.😭

As an Irish person, born and raised, I actually don’t mind when Americans are proud of their Irish heritage, even if it goes very far back. I think it’s sweet, and no harm done. But I do have a problem when they start thinking that they know more about Ireland than us, which unfortunately many of them do. I’ve even seen Irish Americans praise the IRA, and want us to go to war over Northern Ireland. It’s that kind of stuff that really makes myself and lots of Irish people be sceptical of Irish Americans, they can have a level of entitlement that is insane.

Americans call themselves free, but here are things we can do in Europe without getting arrested. 1. Drink in a park or on at a table outside, walk down the street while drinking. 2. Eat a kinder egg. 3. Use the metric system without having to convert (although that is not illegal it just not easy to stay in base 10) 4. Not have to calculate how much tax we have to pay on products we buy because it is included in the price.

Whoever said “Irish people aren’t proud of their heritage” _really_ needs to hear about the Troubles

my dads irish, i genuinely think he's mentioned it less to anyone he's ever met here in nz than your average boston american mentions that great great great great great grandad seamus came from galway

I cannot comprehend how one can type "Warsaw" and complain that we spell New York "wrong" in the same tweet without immediately collapsing into irony black hole.

Americans calling themselves Irish is like if Northern English ppl start calling themselves norse vikings

I love that most Americans think they are 100% of a nationality they barely know anything of. Edit: MOST Americans

8:46 the ironic thing is Warsaw is called Warszawa in Polish

In legal weed states, we understand grams 😂

About the "america would be best at sport X". We all would agree that baseball is one of the biggest sports in america? They lost last year vs japan.

0:23 there are Irish bagpipes. Uilleann pipes to be exact. There are also Welsh and Cornish bagpipes, as well as bagpipes across Europe; just an old instrument most commonly associated with Celtic people

Celsius supremacy

Americans don't seem to realize a lot of other countries also have populations of foreign ancestry. I'm French, and some people in my family are Ashkenazi Jewish born in Germany or Poland, Sephardic Jewish born in Algeria, or Belgian. Doesn't make me German, Polish, Algerian or Belgian. From what I understand living in the US for 5 years, this comes down to wanting to attach yourself to an "older" country to claim an identity in a very diverse country. The problem is just that it comes off as weird and disingenuous from people who don't know anything about these places and just do it for cosmetic purposes.

I love how Americans talk about different dialects when in Scotland there are 3 languages and 1 notable dialect if not another language. We speak English mostly, a lot of us speak Scots and some speak Gaelic. Doric is still considered a dialect but I can barely understand it.

Quick statement on the sports fan thing.... You'll never see a British sports fan handed a mic (or allowed to bring one) cause you know that would be chaos

It still shocks me when Americans say that they "invented everything we use today". Google takes 5 seconds, but they still believe that they invented everything from the wheel to electricity.

"Italian Americans are the only ones brave enough to innovate Italian food." *laughs in ham and pineapple pizza*

It's wild to me that someone is like 'English accents are all the same'.

Just to avoid commenting everyone. Pizza is italian. Every region had and have his own recipes. Italian pizza is old up to 1400 (that's mean certified recipes of pizza). America did nothing to pizza except creating large distribution and franchises. American people should just accept they love something made from another culture (as much we love rock music made in UK or japanese anime).

Also, it is quite concerning to se how some people seem to confuse heritage and culture. Just because you have some ancestors coming from one country, does not make you culturally belong to that country. There are no genes related to a specific nation. Only if you speak a language and follow the ways and traditions of a specific nation could one claim to belong to a certain cultural sphere.

I heard that the country of Paris named it's capital city France.

The healthcare claim was errant nonsense. Per capita, people in the US spend twice that spent by people in the UK and receive a lower quality of care for it.

as someone from the country of ireland, i can personally say that i am irish

That Rugby score was to the All blacks reserves IIRC. They didn't even bother to field their normal team.

That girl thinks Fahrenheit makes more sense than Celsius? Celsius: 0° = freezing, 100° = boiling. Everything in between = easy to figure out based on how close to 0° or 100° it is. Fahrenheit = Random numbers where something like 50° is considered cold.

How do these Americans have so little knowledge of other cultures

2:21 Bruh the UK didn’t leave Europe, they left the European Union which is an organization

Celsius uses the boiling and freezing points of pure water which is exact and always the same, Fahrenheit goes from 0- the teperatere of a glass of saltwater with ice and 100- not really known to my knowlege the exact reasoning for it other than ive heard its something to do with body temperature. Its so random and uses two measurements that can fluctuate

Worst part of a lot of American baking recipes is that they're basically "use this pre mix and add this one ingredient".

3:45 to be honest, as a french speaking person I can understand like 1/3 of words in spanish, often I can read a label in spanish and know roughly what it means even if I don't speak the language at all. It's another story when hearing it though.. Like here's a random sentence I found: ¿Que te gusta hacer en tu tiempo libre? "tiempo libre" looks pretty close to "temps libre" which means "free time" in french, "Que" sounds close to "Ques'ce" which means "what/what's" and "te" is close to "tu" which means "you". "en" could be the same as "en" in french which is "in", so I can tell it's "what do you do in your free time" or "what do you like to do in your free time" or something I can also do this with portugese but it's a bit harder and even harder for italian.

USA - 15% Think Chocolate milk comes from brown cows. USA - 20% Cannot locate the US on a world map.

I love how Americans, born and raised since generations, call themselves "nationality"-American. No you're Americans, that's it. I'm half English but born in Switzerland, guess what i am? I'm Swiss

I never understood the American obsession with being from another continent. My mum is African American and I have never once seen myself as African because that was like 300 years ago. Like I don't see why they can't be proud to just be American (despite all the flaws obviously) since it's still a really cool country. I get claiming ancestry but I'd only consider up to grandparents close enough to do so with (since you'd have immediate family there).

I've not seen the game between America and New Zealand. But for those of you who don't know how points are scored in rugby: Try: 5 points (press the ball behind the last line of the oppositions side of the field) + 2 points (if they can kick the ball between the goalposts from where they scored) Goal: 3 points (kick the ball between the goalposts from open play or from a penalty kick). So, only looking at the scoreboard it seems like they were utterly incapable of putting any dent in New Zealands defence (or offence for that matter), got a penalty kick, and decided that they were at least gonna score once.

Americans truly are a special breed

George pulling out the thesaurus for new words to use in his titles

Well, as an Irish person, many things like bagpipes, kilts and other items people overtly link to Scotland but were part of our cultures too. They had variation on the Scottish forms, like Ireland having the léine croich garmant that people mistook for kilts but are also somewhat similar in design. So, given the people with Celtic cultures were quite reduced over the last millenia it is not unexpected that Irish, Scots, Welsh, Galicians and Bretons mixing our Celtic cultural items

FUN FACT: Most (or probably all) of the imperial units are defined using metric units.

George not knowing Britain is still in Europe is deprarious to me... (depressing yet hillarious)

the worst is the average american bro taking a dna test, finding out he's something like 0,3% scandinavian, and you see him the next day drinking from a horn and hailing Odin. 🤦‍♀ Also, I bought measuring cups only to immediately weight it in grams and write it down so I don't have to use cups again for that recipe. Just today I was forced to measure solid butter in freaking tablespoons. What the actual f*ck Cheers from Italy (oh, yeah, Americans claiming they're Italians and walking around like they're in the cast of the Sopranos are even worse than the Odin-hailing bro)

13:30 Bro, a lot of european countries had public healthcare long before Nato even existed. In 1889 Bismarck laid the foundations for the german welfare state by being the first country to have state pensions. That was 30 years after the slaves were freed in america and 50 years before segregation was ended. And way before both world wars and Nato.

If you think public transportation is bad in the UK then you’ll cry at public transportation in the United States

12:50 love this while they shriek in horror at changing their 250 year old *OUT OF DATE* constitution

It's odd when Americans say they're Irish, German, Italian yet none say they're English when surely most Americans would be of English descent considering the English colonised the country

My friend (black) was asked what it's like for African Americans in the UK 😅 no, they didn't mean 'African Americans' who have moved to the UK. They meant black British people. Two different people asked a similar question on two seperate occasions. My mate tried to explain to them but they weren't getting it. I think they thought they were being less racist by referring to her as African American rather than black but my god 😐

lol @ American football chants, in the UK the crowd would be singing nellie the elephant with the lyrics referencing the goalkeeper’s brother’s tax evasion charge pretty much spontaneously

People in the UK have the freedom of not having to perform surgery on yourself to save money

“I DO BELIEVE IN FARIES! I DO! I DO!” - Americans, probably

(7:22) It doesn't help that in English transitions they sometimes use "911" as the term for emergency services for other countries. It also gives silly situation like "what's the number to 911 in Germany". Also the most used number is 112, and on GSM, it works in any country as a redirect.

I swear Americans are a different breed of human it’s the funniest shit

“No innovation in the uk” We are making the first fusion reactor in the world

this video made my wife come back thank George

do americans not realize that like.. everyones heritage isnt from america (except native americans ofc) like im a melting pot of the entirety of europe. polish is my lagrest chunk. but i dont claim to be polish lmao. bcause i havent even been to poland before. just have family members who are polish somewhere

After watching this video (and several other instalments of this series) I'm not entirely sure if a large chunk of American citizens know what Irish actually means 😭...

Americans are a very special bunch

We're still in Europe just left the European Union. We haven't floated to another continent! 😂😂😂😂

as a scottish person with a lot of irish family, i feel the pain. it’s like when americans go “i’m 1/73rd ScAtTish”

Don't you know, George? There's no-one as Irish as Barack O'Bama. When anyone else walks near him, the overflowing Irishness causes them to also become Irish.

Probably the best series on this channel. Never fails to make me laugh

To be fair, I don’t think Italians would have ever put pineapple or Oreos on a pizza, if you like that kind of thing. To be even more fair though, I’ve seen some pizzas in Latin America that go ever further beyond. LatAm pizzas make me weep in my American boots. It’s true that Italy is the most pizza purist, but the US isn’t even close to the most pizza rebel.

3:36 Fun fact: Speakers of Latin languages actually *can* often understand each other - especially if they speak more than one. Most Spanish speakers can probably understand Portuguese without much issue and Italian to a lesser, but still solid, degree. I've both participated in and witnessed conversations between Spanish and Italian/Portuguese speakers before where each party doesn't speak the other's language but they are able to communicate just fine. The languages are all quite similar to each other. French is kinda the most distinct and sounds the least like the others, which makes it the hardest to understand if you don't speak it. That said, as a speaker of Spanish and French, learning the latter seems to have made it easier for me to understand Italian lol

You said the same about football as rugby, that the US would be the best in the world if it was their number one sport. I think the countries that are the best in the world disprove this. Argentina's economy is in shambles and they won the world cup. New Zealand's population is 5 million. Argentina's is 46 million. It's not population size or wealth that determines these things. It's certainly a factor, but they wouldn't make the US the best at these sports.

“I’m Irish” and “I’m Italian” is a pretty common American phrase. No you’re not, you’re American. Ending your sentence with “Y’all” does not scream Irish. It’s like when I was at university in southern England I was hanging out with a black friend and an American tourist referred to him as African American. When we just stared at him, he followed up by asking what part of Africa he was from. He was from Birmingham UK and one of his parents on one side and grandparents on the other side were from the Caribbean. But British person who is second or third generation descendant depending on whether you count maternal or paternal side Caribbean is something we don’t actually a catchy phrase for.

i live in germany and in good years we get like 1 inch snow for 3 days and thats it

"So little accent drift" I moved from the city I grew up in to one that was about an hour's drive away. There was enough accent drift that a (local) coworker asked where I was from, because of my accent.

Tbf Italian and Spanish people normally can understand each other, Portuguese too

i hate to break this to all you americans out there but both £ and euro are worth more than the US$

I’m Irish and I think it’s safe to say you don’t want to be in any way related to this rainy shithole go be Itlaian or something I don’t know, at least the weather out there is nice 🤷‍♀

i think if brits were any more passionate about football then the geneva convention would be broken.

The fact fahrenheit is only in america and only half of America uses it😂y does it exsist

The reactions for this will be amazing

@9:00 Usually, in non-english countries you will have screen for showing names in local and english (and some other languages) by cycling them.

I love how Americans say they saved Europe and then it's just them coming at the end, after the USSR defeated Germany. They're like that one annoying kid in grade school, who challenged everyone to a race, and then ran past the agreed upon goalpost and went: Nuuh-uh! I meant this one.

3:03 i don't think that's completely true. Look at basketball, they were 4th behind Canada, Germany and Serbia.

American here. About the whole grams or cups thing, how do they not know grams?! Don’t most people use that in science classes? Also, you can just use google!

9:58 WHY DOES AMERICA THINK WE'RE DEHYDRATED??? WHY IS THIS SO COMMON??? Edit: Ok no water fountains in the gym is weird, that's a thing we do have here.

If they're Irish, then I'm african.

I'm like 99% sure that the person correcting the Pattys Day comment is me! I literally said that exactly thing word for word a few weeks ago on IG

1:30 my cousin is half scottish and refuses to admit it because she’s too proud to be irish 😭 like mate come on, ur mother is scottish ya fanny

I love how Boston is trynna be as Irish as possible for the parade and then marches in Scottish kilts and plays bagpipes

4:37 nah mate, I use Kelvin

On the passionate football fans, I have seen several Americans react to some of the chants saying that the stadium would be shut down if the fans started some of the chants. And Americans think we don't have freedom of speech

I love it when I’m watching a series on a channel and right before I run out of content you upload another episode while I’m watching the other videos Love this series, I also discovered the subreddit “s*it Americans say it’s a goldmine

We Americans love you George ❤

”Celsius doesent even make sense!” Yeah I agree, lets all change to kelvin instead.

The closest to the USA in what is allowed on firearms in the rest of the developed world is Switzerland but Switzerland is sensible