I was on vacation in England and a American dude heard me talking swenglish, he asked me where I'm from, and I answered "Sweden" 🇸🇪 he did inform me that it is pronounced Switzerland 🇨🇭 not Sweden 🇸🇪 in English. 😳 Now I wonder how they spell stupid...

An American commented on one of my German YT videos with "Speak English, you immigrant." I'm German, living in Germany.

Dumbest thing an American has said to me? "America is the greatest nation on Earth".

USA is a country younger than most buildings in Europe.

When I was 16, I went to the US for a 3 week school exchange. The host family picked me up from the airport; on the drive home, the teenage daughter asked me whether we have cars in Germany (yes, seriously). I politely pointed out that we were sitting in her father's Volkswagen, a German car brand, and listed other German car manufacturers. She would not believe me, saying that "but we bought this car here in the US, so it must be American!" It was three very long weeks ... 😶

Try explaining to an American that you're not "African American" (when you're black and British).

I've often heard variations of the fireworks on July 4th. What I found worst was that US tourists were expecting the fireworks in London. I mean, you'd think that if Americans are going to celebrate Independence Day, they should know why they're doing it, and of all the places in the world, London is the place where you least expect fireworks.

There are very few countries where children have to swear to the flag at school: North Korea, Germany between 1933 to 1945, and the US

I have heard of an American saying in Naples, where pizza was invented, "You have pizza here too?"

I worked in museums for four years in Scotland, I could write a book on daft things asked. Here are three that stick after nearly 20 years: 1. "Is that France I can see from the top of Edinboro Castle?" Tried to explain, in the end I had to say yes! "Jeez I never realised it was so close" 2. "How come you and your colleagues speak such good English?" 3. "How do you know when this happened?" Explain that in the 17th century we do have written records. "No I mean the exact time in the afternoon" (they thought 1617 was the time not year an event happened". Oh and we get an "isn't it neat they built the castle so close to the train station" frequently in Edinburgh!

I've had an american tell me it's weird that I (finnish) "celebrate 4th of July on 6th of December" (6.12. is the finnish independance day)

This is very real. I'm from Ireland (Republic of), and I've had *several* Americans TELL me Ireland is part of the UK. I've corrected them, kindly, not looking to argue, just to inform... And they insist on arguing that *I* am wrong about where *I* am from. They tell me I'm British even after I correct them.

I'm Belgian, and on a party in portugal I was asked by an American; "Where are you from", So i told him I'm from Belgium, he asked if i could say hello in Belgian, so I answered that's not possible, but i can say it in Dutch, he then responded, "Ah, so you're from Holland?", to which I responded, "Can you say hello in American ????", He was totally flabbergasted and didn't understand what i was pointing at :)

Americans literally have slurs against smart people like 'nerd' or 'geek'. Literally, if you're *too smart* you're automatically an outcast in an US school.

I was in 🇺🇸 for 5 yrs, I’m Italian from north eastern corner, my hometown in the alps is close to the borders with Austria and Slovenia. I don’t have an Italian sounding last name, and a lot of Americans were telling me that I was not Italian because of my blonde hair, green eyes and 6.2 ft tall. They were shocked when I was telling that Italy is not only Rome, Florence or south Italy! A lot of stereotypes 😂

I’m English but was on holiday in Wales, where we went to visit a thousand year old castle. There was an information board which said an American had once asked the owner of the castle why they had been given planning permission to build a castle in front of Cardiff airport

If they don’t even know their own country,how can they know other countries.

As a Swede we use polar bears to pull our skateboards when the snow is to deep.

Im Spanish from Spain. I once had to go to a congress in Florida, and a woman that was also attending the congress asked where I was from. I said I was from Spain - Europe (I always tend to add Europe as I encountered many of these situations). Her next response was "Oh yeah Spain, beautiful Mexican region".... At the same congress I was asked by another woman, I gave ger the same reply. She then proceeeded to ask where Spain was, and I said below France. She then proceeded to ask where France was. I gave her a simple explaination about France, Europe and Paris (as it is a well nown city). Her response: "But isn't Paris in Canada? is France a canada state then?". It was a fun trip.

An American traveller in the UK is on a train and gets into conversation with an Englishman telling him how great the USA is. When he says it takes three days to cross the US by train the Englishman responds by saying, "Some of our trains are quite slow as well."

I met an American in UK where I live and he noticed my accent. When I told him I am Italian he got excited and said "I'm going to Italy for 3 days soon! I want to take a bike and travel from Venice to Florence and Rome!" I didn't tell anything to him but I tell you: Venice-Florence-Rome is around 380 miles (625km). Good luck with that in 3 days.

I saw this episode before Ryan uploaded it because where i'm from it's 6 hours ahead of USA

I was taking a walk in Rome, waiting for a friend near the Coliseum, and a couple stopped me for a question. We started talking and it turns out they were Americans, from Seattle. At some point, I don't exactly remember the context, the husband, pointing to the Coliseum, asks me: - but... Is that real? - I'm sorry? - yeah I mean, is it the real one? The Romans built? - Sorry, I really don't understand. Of course the Romans built it. - but if it stays outside it will be ruined! The conversation was surreal, so I tried to be a bit sarcastic, answering something like "oh yeah I understand now! No of course we don't want to ruin it, so this is a replica of course! We moved the real one into a very big museum" and they were all like "ohh that's cool it does make sense!". I wasn't able to tell them the truth. I just hope they never went to someone asking where the museum of the real Coliseum was. 😅

I was in Amsterdam, visiting the Anne Frank museum, which is notorious for having these really long queues to get inside. In front of me were two women from Chicago. We started talking, and then one of them asked me where I’m from. So I tell her that I’m from the Netherlands - that is - Holland (I added Holland because I know many people get confused when you talk about the Netherlands). She nods and asks me “is that far away from here?” She thought Amsterdam was a country! I explain to her that Amsterdam is our capital city, just like Washington DC is hers. She nods again and says: “right, yes that makes sense, I already thought you looked a bit Scandinavian!”

The thing with the 4th of July firework happened to me as well.. i was asked by an older american couple in Berlin where the big fire work happens.. when i told them that we dont celebrate 4th of July, they were SO offended and said we HAVE to cause they beat us in WWII.. i slowly backed away from them

My favourite one was a US news network reporting that our UK fireworks night was actually us celebrating Biden becoming president. Literally even US news channels don't have a clue about other countries, so how can we expect their population to know better? I have a couple of stories myself: -I once saw a post in a group chat where an American was about to move to Switzerland and wanted to know if they had refrigerators there, or would she have to get hers shipped from the USA? She was literally moving across the world without the foggiest idea of the culture she was moving to. -I had an argument with MSN because every time I pressed the keyboard key for "€" it sent MSN into fits of webdings (I lived in a country using the Euro currency, I literally had a separate button on my computer keyboard for it). I assumed they'd just reply and say "oh yes, go to this setting and change from US to UK English" or something along those lines. Instead I got a reply back saying that MSN doesn't support "minority symbols". Population of USA = 333 million. Population using the Euro currency = 350 million (plus countless millions more using it in business). Sigh.

I met some american tourist here in Norway, and they said. "It's so clean and beautiful and we didn't know that you had electrisity... What 😂😂

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

Was in an uber in Baton Rouge. Driver asked me where I'm from, and i said Australia. Driver told me that sounds like a great place to visit, but would never go due to lack of freedoms. Very quiet drive after that nugget.

Overheard in Paris “Gee this menu’s got poison on it”.

It's not just Americans. I remember a story about a woman in the UK yelling at a couple to speak English because they were speaking a language she didn't understand. They were speaking Welsh. They were currently in Wales.

Im Dutch and live in southern California. I was asked if we have freedom, and if we also celebrate Thanksgiving. People are also convinced I must be Danish because I speak Dutch. The worst one was a friend of the family here who was going off on a rant about how EVERYONE wanted to come to the USA and how the USA passport was the most important thing in the world. To everyone. He has never been to Europe, but this fool was acting as if he couldn't safely go to Europe, because we're all savages that would try to steal his passport from him if anyone found out that he's American, IF he ever would go.

American to me "who is your President?" Me "We don't have one"...American looks very confused....

When you had a president who thought Belgium was a nice city, what would you expext.

One time I was talking to an american girl. She asked me where I am from because of my accent. I told her that I am a Portuguese who grew up in Berlin. All of this took place in the beginning of 2010's. She then went on to ask me wether the Berlin wall is still standing. She also was convinced that Portugal is a spanish province

I've heard that American education sucks, but this is ridiculous

A friend moved to the US 2 years ago and her daughter had a debate in class (all of the class v’s her daughter) that the Americans invented the English language and she should say thanks. Her daughter tried to explain that she was from England so therefore English and spoke English. It didn’t compute, what was scary was that the teacher didn’t interject and correct them. Another time a teacher said that Great Britain was not in Europe ??? As she was a new student she didn’t want to embarrass the teacher with the truth. I’m going to guess maybe he got confused with the EU.

I’m German and live in Berlin. Some years ago I was asked to take care of some American exchange students because my English was quite good. I was supposed to show them around the city, take them on some trips. The first thing that surprised me was that they were unable to speak German. If you go into an exchange program in Germany, at least in my school, you were supposed to be able to speak at least on a C1 level. Those students couldn‘t even ask for directions, tell somebody their names or where they are from. It wasn‘t a problem as many people in Berlin speak at least a bit of English. The second surprise was as issue, though. They constantly asked about Adolf Hitler. Where does he work, where does he life, can they see him, could they make a foto with him. At first I thought they were joking, after I realized that they were not I had a very hard time convincing them that 1. Hitler is dead since the second world war … because the Allies including the US won that fucking war against Nazi Germany (and even if they didn‘t he would‘ve probably died of old age by that point, it was 2008 or something around that time) And more important 2. that Adolf Hitler is not some kind of celebrity in Germany. I was shocked to see how little they new about the worlds history their country shaped

When I went to the US I was asked what do we cook for Thanksgiving. No one could believe we don’t celebrate that in Australia. Then during my stay someone said to me, On the news we saw a plane crashed near Australia! I was like OMG did it crash into the ocean? They looked confused and said no it crashed on land. So it crashed in Australia?? They said it was near the border of Australia. Later I learned the plane crashed in Austria. 🤦🏻‍♀️

When I told an American I am from Finland, she immediately started talking about our cold weather. I said "yes, we can have cold winters, but our summers can be fairly warm. One summer during covid it was actually so hot that I suffered from heatstroke several times". She didn't believe me.

I asked an American once to name 5 (five) basic foods that originated in the USA . He said STEAK , BURGERS , PIZZA , CHICKEN & HOTDOGS . He was dumbfounded when i told him he scored 0/5 . He tried to continue arguing that all these foods originated in America 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I even Googled it for him that Pizza & Steak come from Italy , Burgers & Hotdogs from Germany & Chicken from China . But he still persisted in telling me that myself and Google were wrong . This American was a food critic for a magazine i met in a restaurant in Scotland . I'm not saying he was dumb just wrong because he did sound intellegent in other things we talked about .

Czechoslovakia has also ceased to exist in 1992.. over 30(!) years ago!

I feel like if you went upto a Scottish person and said "wow I love your British accent!" you might get punched in the face

Ry, mate, they didn’t say it to me personally, but apparently there’s a percentage of Americans who think that if they go to a foreign country they are still under American law and have “rights” and stuff 😂😂😂

22:20 The Norwegian flag hanging in the back of the room reminded me of a news story where they removed a Norwegian flag, thinking it was the flag of the Confederate States.

While living in Atlanta with my then husband and two children, I got to know a lady from Illinois. We had been friends for six months or so, and I was helping her and her husband pack to move to another apartment. We were discussing the moving process, and she knew I was from New Zealand, but she asked me, "How long did it take you to drive down?" I was dumbstruck!, Yes, eventually I explained where New Zealand is located.

Weirdest thing an American said to me (a Brit) was at Ontario International airport in California (east of LA). I was at a car hire desk and the girl was trying to sell me additional insurance cover for $60 or whatever. I turned to my girlfriend and said, "That's an additional £40". The girl overhead me and said, "Excuse me, what's a Pound? Do you mean like pounds of gold?".... Yes, sir, at an international airport, the car hire employee had never heard of the British currency. True story.

An American asked me (in America) why I came over from Europe by plane and not by car - because planes were so expensive! 🤣 And another one asked me how the war was currently going and if Hitler was still in charge.... 🙈 (I am from germany)

I was an exchange student in Fayetteville, NC in 2007-08. I got asked the dumbest shit but one of the dumbest was " Do you have movie theatres in Italy'?". My answer was "No we don't cause we do not have electricity in Italy ". Only at that point she realized how stupid her question was.

I’m English. In our Ohio office. ‘You speak English so well, did you learn at school?’

I was told my English is good in Florida......... I'm f*cking English!!!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

German and grew up in the the US of A. Two most stupid questions or remarks I can remember: 1. Do you come from East or West Germany? 2. Always wanted to drive to Germany but the gas prices are just way to high.

I'm an American and yes, we are all this stupid.

"I've never seen a passport", the most American thing ever.

This video confirms the wisdom of the good old English saying that “whilst we all have a right to be stupid, there will always be those that abuse even that privilege.”

The most embarrassing thing that happened to me with Americans was once here in Lisbon when I was walking by the river with my family and a group of young Americans that were passing by were pointing to the south side of the river and shouting: "Look! Africa!".... 😂

I am noticing a theme here. Geography.

I don’t think that Americans realise how offensive they are when they refer to everyone in Britain as English. I am constantly constantly constantly correcting Americans. You see, I am ‘Welsh, and we have our own language, Cymraeg. This language predates English by thousands of years. When the Romans first invaded Britannia (not England) the English hadn’t even been invented for about a thousand years. It would be like calling someone from the Southern states a Yankee!! How would they feel?

I`m from El Salvador, and always talk with this girl; once, when she asked me how I learned english, I told her by reading the lyrics of the songs I like, on KZfaq. She opened her eyes, really really, really surprised, and asked: “Do you have internet in Latin America?” That day I lost the little respect I had for her. I realized that day that the Simpson and Family Guy is more of a documentary than a comedy show.

The old excuse we don't travel outside the US beacause it's so diverse and has lots of cultures 😅. Utter crap .

Well look at the school system, universities included, see how ignorant they are

That's the problem, the dumb ones are loud and don't listen. So you notice them more. 😬😬

I work for a US cooperation at the European HQ. One time we had a visit from my manager’s manager from the US. She asked during a meeting: which language is spoken in the United Kingdom? BTW the lady holds a master’s degree.

Yup. We all live in igloos, and for three months of the year, we all become homeless when it gets up to 90f+ in the summer. Lol

America... please stop with the 'British accent' thing, it's an English accent, thank you.

‘So how do you celebrate 4th July in the UK?’ I get asked that every year Seriously, why are Americans so ignorant?

I am Belgian. Belgium has 3 official languages: Dutch (Flemish), French and German. You take exams in all that when your are 10-13 yo, just in school. I also had classical Latin and Greek. (Classical Humaniora jJesuit school. I obtained my PhD in physics when I was 24. Cost of it all: a few pencils and some beers when in university. I am 77 now, worked all over the world and I am still fluent in Dutch, French, English, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian and I can ask for directions in Nihon-Go.

When speaking to my cousins stepson, when he lived in America. I told him i live near Harwich in Essex, home of the mayflower. He said "whats that?" 😂 Bear in mind this was at thanksgiving too.

I was in the Royal Navy in the 70/80's and got invited onto a visiting American aircraft carrier: Dwight D Eisenhower [CV69]. On the boat taking us from Portsmouth harbour to the ship [anchored in The Solent, off the Isle of Wight, as it was too big to fit in Portsmouth], this American seaman kept pointing to things and said: "Wow what's that?". I would tell him. Then he would say: "We have bigger whatever back in the States" etc. We went past one of our cruisers and he would say: "Wow we have bigger frigates back in the states". This would continue until we got out into The Solent. He saw the Isle of Wight and asked what it was. I told him and added: "Don't tell me, you have bigger pebbles back in the States!" lol He got the message and shut up! lol

I met an American couple in the middle of Austria. We had a short conversation and we were about to go they asked me if I could see what EUR they have. My first thoughts "do they mean the value? The number?’. No, they wanted me to check what EUR they have because they are going to Italy and they need Italian EUR and probably what they have are Austrian because they had used them in Austria.

Im usally saying sorry to people from USA, when I hear they are from USA.. Greetings and love from Denmark. :)

In my history book there was a cartoon. In the cartoon there was a man depicted (a stereotypical white American young man) who is being racist to various people, then in the last picture he is about to say “Go back to your own country.” again, when he suddenly falls silent. He was about to say it to a Native American. 🤦🏻‍♂️ (I am not from the USA, I am from the UK and the Netherlands.)

It’s true about Canadians living in a cold frozen wasteland!!! I went through Vegas in July and stopped at a gas station and told the clerk I was from Canada and she said “oh it must be so cold up there”. She was shocked to hear our temperature was about the same.

An american hairdresser in Nebraska had no clue that her state was bordering colorado, south dakota or kansas. I was flabbergasted that she knew so little of her own country

Maybe we should stop telling people that there are no stupid questions. Some people really take it to heart.

French here, lived in the US 10years, so no way I can list even a slice of what I received, will run out of space. Asking if we have microwave or other appliances was always fun to hear. Also if we showered (like, as a serious question: were shower available)... one of these insulting stereotype I got more than once. The worst in my opinion is not the insulting aspect, because most of the time the person would not even realize it is insulting... it is the sheer idiotic aspect of the question. Granted it was 20 years ago, but still, some knowledge about the world was accessible.... in any case, I'll have to just pass on the fury of misconceptions or down right ignorance about the world outside of the US.... all expressed with absolute certainty that only ignorance provides. Now, you obviously meet with plenty of Americans with great education with who you will spend very fulfilling time to engage with, but in general I found the discrepancy between the 'best' and the 'worst' so large, it clearly says something about how standard education is so inequal (missing?) in the US (granted I only experienced 3 States, but probably not the worst in this aspect...).

I was landing at London Heathrow at night on a flight from DC on the 4th July - a family across from me asked why there were no fireworks!

Ryan: "I don't even know what Marrakesh is." Me: 😲🥺😦😧😞😢😭🤔😏🤭😀😃😄😁😆😂🤣

Honestly I just go with it. If an American asked me if I've ever seen a polar bear, I'd just say that we keep them as pets.

My family and I have been living in the United States (more specifically in the D.C. area) for almost three years. My dad once told me he was on an Uber and the driver asked "where are you from?" and my dad said "I'm from Spain". The driver then asked "what language do you speak there" and then my dad told him that we speak Spanish in Spain, and the driver was like "Wow, I didn't know that!" Bro we literally invented Spanish 💀

I travelled to the US with a friend in 2011 and we stayed at his uncles house (1st gen immigrants from Poland) in New Jersey. The 11 year old daughter (born in the US) of the uncle asked me (a german): "So, do you like Hitler?"...

I've been saying it for years dude, if America doesent completely ditch homeschooling and take notes from Europe how to do public schools, you will end. Its already happening. Sad.

For future reference, Eskimo is considered a slur and shouldn't be used. The proper term is Inuit :)

Here in the UK we DO let off fireworks on 4th July. We have a National Day of Celebration on that day. We call it 'Thanksgiving Day'. 🤣🤣🤣

'Marrakesh...I don't even know what that is...' Oh dear.

I've had people in Australia get confused when I tell them I'm Serbian and say "oh, from Russia," but most of the time it's because they are thinking of Siberia. Unfortunately, when I explain the difference, a lot of them then say something like "well I was close because you speak Russian," which I do not, because why would I necessarily speak a foreign language. I have to explain that people speak Serbian in Serbia, and then I usually have to explain that Serbia is not near Russia, was never part of the Soviet Union and wasn't even part of the Eastern Bloc.

I was working in a shop (in Canada) and a family of American tourists came in. The Dad(?) asked me the price of something. I told him it was $40. And he said, Tourist: not in American. What's the price here? Me: Sorry? Tourist: You said $40. What is it in Canada? Me: Oh it's $40 Canadian. Him: No shit? So you're copying our money now to huh? Cant even have your own money. What a joke. *walks out* Me: ....

Nobody lives in igloos, they are more like a hunting shelter instead of a tent.

Oklahoma… what is that? Ooooh the pain! Cheers from a German, who definitely knows Oklahoma exits. Ron Howard actor, director is from Oklahoma.

We used to holiday a lot for the most a month at a time starting in 1993 when I was 21 year old with my family we would drive around the country in a MPV staying at various motels and hotel's enroute. So, we as a family got to see parts of the USA where the locals had never moved out of their suburbs, let alone their town, nor had they even left their state. 😮 The funniest one I got asked was whether I was best friend's with the Queen as she only lived 4 hours drive away. We found a map and pointed out exactly where we lived up in Shropshie and where at that time the Queen of England lived. It confused them even more when we told them we had all been invited to one of her famous garden parties but refused to go.😂😂😂 Another question on a similar theme was when visiting a mall the once going into JCPenny, we asked a store assistant about something. She was like ' Oh my god your from ENGLAND, you and Helen must be neighbours as she is from England too'. She then runs off to grab poor Helen from another department saying 'your neighbours are here from ENGLAND!' 🤣🤣🤣🤣 We both then tried to tell her, yes we are both from England but we are not neighbours and do not even know each other as Helen was from Yorkshire. However, Helen who had married an American and not been back to blighty in years, did enjoy a good natter as we were the first Brits she had seen in ages. She got chance to catch up what had been happening news wise in the UK in general and when we got back home as we took her address, we sent her some very English treats back. We also got asked the once had we driven by car from the UK to Georgia? When we said there was a rather large ocean between the UK and the USA ( The Atlantic Ocean) but they would not accept we had flown and must have used the Channel Tunnel.😂😂 I have to say, how shocked I was on how biased the history is taught in the USA. It was like anything that had happened in Europe over the last few hundred years, practically didn't exist and if it did then the USA always saved the day. Also the news on the tv was very one sided too, I hope this has changed since.🤔

"I don't know what a Marrakesh is" Unbelievable

How is Oaklahoma one of the most forgotten states of the US? There's a fricken Rogers & Hammerstein Musical called Oaklahoma that's known across the world???!

"you can skateboard in snow?!" didn't see that one coming xD

Americans tend to forget, that they all are practically european and everything was brought over from europe, like languages, food, culture, etc...

1. I'm Brazilian, and when I said that when visiting the U.S., EVERYBODY immediately apologized: "Sorry, I don't speak Spanish." They got VERY confused when I replied: "I don't either." Unlike most other South American countries, Brazil was colonized by *Portugal,* not Spain, so we speak *Portuguese,* not Spanish. But even after I explained that, they couldn't understand it. 2. A friend of mine, another Brazilian, was asked by an American if there were cannibals in Brazil. I loved his reply: "Not anymore, we ate the last one last month." 🤣 3. A similar story to the passport one when buying beer, as told in the video, happened with a friend of mine who is Swiss and was visiting the U.S., but he used his Swiss national ID card instead, and there was a different problem. I don't know his birthdate, but let's assume for the sake of example that it's March 23, 1966 (day greater than 12 - you guessed where we're heading). His birthdate was written 23/03/1966 - day/month/year, as is customary in nearly every country other than the U.S. The attendant became very rude and threatened to call the cops because he was using a fake ID. "There is no month 23, there are only 12 months!" He tried to explain but the ignoramus wouldn't even hear it. He had to buy his beer elsewhere...

"Blessed is the mind too small for thinking!"

Maybe those 'mericans in Marrakech thought that the movie with Will Smith was a documentary. 😂

Weirdly enough, I got into an argument with a very nice American girl once because I informed her that the Smurfs were in fact Belgian comic books written in French, and not American. Not only did she not believe me at all, but she became quite angry. Lol.

Hey Ryan, if it's any consolation, we in the UK do realise the stupidity is NOT related to ALL Americans. I for instance follow NASA very closely and are familiar with many very clever Americans without who we would all be a lot less clever ourselves, so THANK YOU NASA AND THANK YOU CLEVER AMERICAN COUSINS, with love from the UK

Polish in the UK before we joined EU. Questions i was asked 'do you speak Russian, lithuanian, Chech? etc as its next to your country'. Me 'so you speak French, Gaelic etc as its next to yours?'