American Embarrassed by The Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said To You?

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[karenstrong]

I was once asked by a couple in LA airport if we spoke English in Australia. I said no, we speak Australian but we all have to take English at school. They told me how lucky I was to speak two languages. 👀

[Haesslich]

I'm Norwegian, living in the US. A few weeks ago I was asked if I had any children. I said no, there was a pause, and then "how about grandchildren?".
Still haven't figured out a polite way to answer that...

[illusionalquestions]

Aussie here: Whilst backpacking through Europe, I found myself behind an American couple, a little bit older than me attempting to purchase a train ticket from a machine at a Paris train station. These particular machines are touch screens and the first option you need to choose is what language you would like the rest of the options to be displayed in. They have clearly defined each language with the country of origin's flag (e.g. German flag for German, French flag for French, Spanish flag for Spanish, etc). After some time had past I asked them if they needed help?

They reply: "We want the screen to be in _American_ but can't find the American flag on the list."

After explaining that there is no such thing as an "American Language" and the language we are using right now to converse with is called the English language and that is represented by "The Union Jack"

They stared at me blankly, with a little bit of disgust on their face, as if I had just used their flag as a napkin.

Me: "you know, the United Kingdom... That flag."

Them: stares blankly*

Me: Sigh* "The first option on the list."

The kicker - after talking to them for a while, I later found out, the girl had been to the UK dozens of times... So she had undoubtedly seen that flag thousands of times and still couldn't solve the puzzle.

[michaeltraube]

Hi, i'm from Austria, and glad that nobody in Germany has ever asked me why I can speak their language so well...😂😂😂

[granadina]

I was born and raised in Serbia, but I lived in the US for a number of years. I lost count of how many times the Americans would equate Serbia with either Syria or Siberia. Also, the dumbest question I was asked by a Texas lady once was if we had food in Serbia. I said, "no, we live off of air and sunlight." Her facial expression was priceless.

[davidrobertson]

I met an Aussie farmer who while on holidays in America toured a John Deere factory. The tour guide found out he was an Australian farmer and said "We had an Australian farmer on tour last week and he told me he crops half Australia." To which my new friend replied "And I am the farmer who crops the other half"
Poor guy had no idea he was the butt of the joke !

[AndyViant]

Here's a few.

Expecting to see crocodiles. In Melbourne.
Expecting to see people riding Kangaroos. In Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Being told that we can't have a Melbourne because they have one in Florida.
Expecting to drive to Uluru and back as a day trip from Brisbane.
Expecting to see the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Brisbane. Then when being told it's in Sydney expecting to see it in a day trip.
Being told we can't have Indian food in Australia because they only make that in India.

Then we get to the just plain rude.
The usual being told that we drive on the wrong side of the road.
Being told about how we're a disarmed nation who only exists because the USA protects us.
Being patronizing told that Australia is just a state of the United States.
Oh, how we could go on about that stuff.

The crazy.
Yes, I've heard the different moon one.
Being told we're unpatriotic because there are no American flags up.
Being accused that we're trying to rip them off because the weights are in kilograms not pounds and that a kilogram can't be more than a pound.
Being told by a customer that they will only use American money because it's accepted everywhere.
Getting asked why we're not celebrating Thanksgiving. Or Independence Day.
Being told it can't be December because it's hot and December is cold.

I think a mandatory 2 week course on what the rest of the world is like is almost mandatory for Americans travelling.

[robwhythe]

As a Brit, I once went into a school in Texas while working out there, to talk to the kids about history and geography, and to answer any questions they had. One 10 year-old asked me what language we speak in England. I said English. He looked surprised and said "Oh, you speak it too!" I replied, "No, YOU speak it too." He looked puzzled, so I explained that I don't just speak English, I AM English... " It was a fun visit, that day!

[ScreamingBlood]

I'm German... while I was in the US as an exchange student, I once got asked if I was a NSdAP party member. I still think it's unfair they sent ME to the principal after asking the girl if she owned any slaves. xD

[pacificbob]

As a Canadian visiting England I was picked up at the airport by a Japanese taxi driver with a very English accent. He did not seem to be very friendly. When I mentioned I was from Canada, his attitude changed and he apologized stating he thought that I was an American. He told me his last fare was an American who complimented him on his English and said that America had taken the English Language and improved it.

[Emzaz]

I'm British and used to work as a tour guide at a castle. The interior was decorated to look like it would've back when it was built. American lady once came up to me and asked how we knew what it looked like back then, then paused and said 'oh, I guess you have photographs of it' and walked off before I could answer. The castle was built in 1188. She thought we had photos from 1188.

[baronvonzach]

You cannot imagine the staggering number of American tourists in Austria asking where they can see some kangaroos.

[christianflor]

An American tourist sued her travel company after learning that the midnight sun she came all the way to Norway to experience, was THE SAME SUN as they had back in the US.

[LilLottee]

I am Dutch, and a few years ago, I actually told an American in a super sarcastic way that we all live in farms, where we grow weed and tulips, we go to school by horse and carriage, every family has at least one cow and we all wear wooden shoes, and they said "Ohhhh, I always imagined the Netherlands like that, I am so glad you confirmed!" Meanwhile I was sitting there contemplating my life choices.

[MrGrumblier]

I live in Canada and I used to work for Avis car rentals. I handled "domestic" and international rentals.
One caller, a woman, called to rent a car in "Hippopotamus, New York". I was a little confused but, being a professional, I actually looked to see if there was a city by that name. Unsurprisingly, there isn't. I very politely asked her to confirm the name of the city and she again said "Hippopotamus". I very politely told her that she might be mistaken as there is no city by that name in the state of New York. She proceeded to tell me that she is a US Congresswoman and I needed to book a car for her in "Hippopotamus, NY immediately. So I checked again - still no Hippopotamus, New York. Then I had a moment of inspiration.
"Ma'am, do you mean Buffalo, New York?"
"Yes." she snapped, "I told you it was a large animal!"

[madoldbatwoman]

Brit here. We have our blunt tools too. I remember travelling through Spain and one girl was totally blown because her British bought (probably foreign made) radio with British bought (again, probably foreign made) batteries was playing Spanish. It took several people to explain how radio signals worked, before she believed it.

[TheSecretChateau]

Travelling through Australia I met an American who wanted to know where the best place was on Sydney Harbour to see the 4th of July fireworks. I said there are no 4th of July celebrations in Australia because it was an American holiday, not Australian. He didn't believe me! He was totally amazed to find out that (his words) "Wow! Australia doesn't have a 4th of July." An Aussie with us told him (in all seriousness - which was hysterical) that in Australia, they always went from the 3rd of July to the 5th and skipped the 4th completely and that was why in international time zones, Australia was a day ahead of everywhere else on the planet. And the American believed him and said, "Yeah man, that makes sense." What can one do but walk away!

[ef]

I used to work in a hotel in Amsterdam and one on of our guests once ordered a steak tatare (raw beef) as roomservice. About 10 minutes after it being delivered the person in question came down to the reception holding his plate and screaming at us "are you trying to kill me!?" and being very aggressive.

Basically he started laughing after a while and saying he was going to sue us for every penny because we tried to kill him with raw beef, and since we hadn't given him a waiver to sign that meant that we "were screwed". He wrote down all our names, even asking for the name of the chef and would contact his lawyer unless we 'made it up to him'.

The next day he wanted to eat lunch at the hotel restaurant and we refused him service for the way he treated the staff the day before. He, once again, threatened to sue us but this time said he would complain directly to the hotel management 'back home'.

My man really assumed the hotel was owned by Americans because it had an English name and had to follow American rules :)

[__-fmqv]

As an Englishman, with a very stereotypical southern English accent, I've been told by Americans my English is great for a foreigner, and asked where I learnt it... Bro, its our language... ENGLISH comes from ENGLAND! They didn't get it.

[mawmadestuff]

American here. Sorry for the absolute ignorance we have on foreign affairs. Just the other day I had to explain to my dad that the language of Sweden is not Dutch, but they in fact have their very own language, Swedish (I know this for a fact because I have a particular interest in languages and I spent some time learning Swedish before switching to Icelandic and Norwegian.) It finally took a google search for him to believe me, but that's one less dumb question that could be given to a native Swede, so mission accomplished I suppose.

P.S. Canadians, I am especially sorry to all of you, since you guys are so often mistaken for us and get the backlash of our stupidity 😑