American Reacts to Shocking Things America STOLE from Britain

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As an American one of the most interesting things to learn about is how other countries have influenced American, in particular Britain. British culture has had such a profound impact on American that is not surprising to me that we have "stolen" this list of things from Britain over the years. culture If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[vikingraider]

Just after WWII the Brits and the US were both trying to break the sound barrier. The Yanks were having a serious problem with the controls locking up at trans sonic speeds, which put the aircraft into an unrecoverable dive. The US approached the Brits to see about pooling research, as the Brits had managed to cure the problem by developing the all-moving tail. The Brits said "yeah, OK, let's share" and sent all of their data over to the US - and then the US said "Actually, on second thoughts, let's not share" - put the all-moving tail on the Bell X-1, broke the sound barrier and then crowed about how advanced US aeronautics were...

[jameslewis]

'As American as apple pie.' This is a very good phrase to explain how America works as there is nothing more American than taking ownership of something you didn't come up with and taking credit for it.

[jabba]

My biggest gripe in this regard is actually a film. U571 is considered by some people as being based on real life events during the war and shows how the Americans captured Germany's top secret enigma machine. It's actually completely fictional as long before America was dragged into the war the allies had captured and decoded the machine yet, as mentioned, because of this film some people are unaware of that.

[Cant_handle_the_cause]

For a relatively small country, Scotland has invented some of the most influential things. Telephone, television, penicillin, steam engine, contact lenses, atm cash machines, fingerprinting, refrigerator … I could go on. We kick ass.

[B-]

Had a debate with an American the other week funnily enough who tried explaining that the word 'woke' origin was African American community even though the word along with its meaning was used in old English for centuries especially regionally within Britain - I pointed out that the US had a habit of laying claim to British words and inventions as their own and used the Edison stealing the lightbulb as an example of this... He totally denied that Edison did indeed steal the lightbulb and called me a racist for pointing out the word "woke" was used in old English...

I've found Americans are often utter buffoons when it comes to anything outside of their own nation, they believe the world revolves around them culturally and technologically.

[jasminelawrie]

Eddison was a notorious thief of inventions kinda surprised you weren't aware of that

[jakey]

06:40 A good quote to remember - "An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time” ― Diana Gabaldon

[ifitistobeitisuptome]

Not hard to believe when you consider that MORE THAN 50% of the entire WORLDS most important inventions are actually British!!
And when you consider that Great Britain is such a tiny little country, that statistic is very VERY impressive!!

[johnp]

Reminds me somewhat of the apocryphal tale, of when the USA tried to buy the land on which the old US Embassy stood in Grosvenor Square. Officials aproached the land owner, the late Duke of Westminster and asked if it could be bought. He alledgedly said that he would exchange it for his old family lands back in America. They asked what the name of this place was? Virginia was his answer.

[Paul-hlyg]

Not only is the Star Spangled Banner written to an English tune, the flag itself is a direct copy of the British East India company flag. The 13 red/white stripes represent the 13 original English (later British) colonies & the red/white & blue is also original to the British Union flag. The British East India company was the company that brought trade (including tea) to the new world. When in Boston in 1773 they emptied the tea into the bay, the vessel that tea was taken from was a British East India company vessel. That vessel was complete with the company flag, which later was slightly altered into the American Stars & Stripes flag. The Liberty bell was also cast in Britain. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[Me-nobodyspecial]

It was Scots who invented Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell, Television by John Logie Baird, Tarmac by McAdam.
Greetings from Scotland 😄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[bilbobaggins]

When I was at school in the 60s, the most popular sport for the summer (for girls, anyway) was rounders. It's all a bit hazy now, but you stand there with a wooden club-type thing, the bowler throws the ball, you hit it and run in a circle to a series of bases. If you're not caught out before you get to a base, you can stop safely at that base until the next ball is bowled. The object of the game is get round the whole circle, and if you can do it in one, I think you get extra points or something. Sound familiar? Another very popular girls' game was netball, where the object of the game was to throw a ball up and through a cylindrical net that was hanging from a pole. Need I say more?!!

[jgreen]

The game 'rounders' which we in the UK play at school (it's great fun - millions of uk children play it) involves hitting a ball and running round 4 'bases'. It had been played since Tudor times ie at least 500 years ago. In 1744 it was referred to as base-ball, but later known as 'rounders'. It became popular in Ireland (with slightly different rules) and perhaps Irish and/or English immigrants brought a form of the game to the states, which evolved to be baseball.

[-Pol-]

A friend of mine dated a US Marine and we took him out on the town around her home town of Elgin.
He couldn't get his head around the fact that parts of the local public house we were drinking in 'The Thunderton' pre-dated The Mayflower. The rest was older than the USA. Same's true of many UK pubs. So many historic pubs are closing down now though, getting demolished or converted to flats, sadly.

[peterd]

Edison, himself, acknowledged that he didn’t invent the incandescent lightbulb and that Joseph Swan in the UK had done it first. They eventually entered into a business partnership.

[kawaiideejay]

It's crazy because hamburgers, are originally German from the port town of hamburg, the steak meat (which would become known as the burger patty) was too hot for sailors to hold, as they had just docked and were obviously hungry, so a German patty salesman decided to put the patty in between 2 slices of bread so it could be held without burning the hands, and that's where the hamburger was invented

[DFMSelfprotection]

Joseph Swann invented a light bulb filament that lasted. It was this that Edison stole. Swann sued Edison in BOTH a British law court AND an American court. Edison lost both cases.

[eddihaskell]

This has nothing to do with your question, but I heard something very funny once. An American asked a Brit if they celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK (Happy Thanksgiving everyone)! and the answer was "yes we do as a matter of fact, on July 4!".

[AJ-hifd]

I remember being on a tour around Salem, the tour guides bus pulled up outside a university and started to praise the Americans for discovering and producing antibiotics 😂. Being my usual forthright self I said, I always thought Alexander Fleming was Scottish 🤔!
Thereafter the tour guide purposely ignored me!

[norahdenovan]

Britain has invented so much it’s unbelievable!! Engineering, science, medicine, poetry, writing, the American Navy was started by a Scotsman, it goes on& on, we really made a big mark on the world for such a small island