The view on America after living abroad (UK)

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Meet Silbi. She's from America but has lived in Sweden and the UK for 7 years. We discussed what's wrong with American tourists abroad, why deadlines in Britain are often perceived as flexible, and how long it takes for an American to start understanding British English. Enjoy!

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 INTRO
00:24 The biggest revelation
03:31 How British see Americans
06:11 British English for an American
08:21 Differences between Americans and British
10:27 Being Asian in the UK vs the US
11:33 Things Silbi miss about America
13:34 Safety comparison
16:03 The main reason to move from the US

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As a Brit i have NEVER had a problem with understanding any UK accent or US, Australian or any other english speaking person.

charlesjay
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8:35
As a German, I always found the Brits to be reasonably friendly.

However, one then agreed to be my wife, which I now consider unreasonably friendly.

hustensaftvernichter
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That's LA. There are plenty of people and places in the USA that are down to earth and people judge you on your character, not what you own, the jewelry you wear, the car you drive, or where you eat.

russmartin
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There are some common that are not corrected in this video, in fact it is apparent that the interviewee still holds these herself to some extent. For example, Americans speak American English which is now quite different from English in many respects. So, Americans should not be surprised when they are not clearly understood in the UK. Secondly, London is not representative of the UK. It is so different from the rest of the UK that many British people who live outside London consider it to be almost like a foreign country. Finally, in the UK civilians ARE allowed to have guns but there are fairly strict controls.

stevemillard
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I'm English and i don't always understand some British accents.

davidsivills
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I've lived in one English county, Herefordshire, for fifty years. A friend invited my wife and I for dinner at his house, which was on a hill amid a confusion of narrow leafy lanes in another county, Gloucestershire. It was just fifteen minutes drive away from our house and literally over one hill, then up to the top of the next, from where I'd worked for about ten years.

We stopped to ask directions so we didn't take a wrong turn going up the final hill, because it was very steep. The man we asked was about eighty years old and had clearly lived in that parish all his life, judging from his Forest of Dean accent. Although I had been to school in Gloucestershire, his accent was so strong that neither of us could understand a word that old man said. We thanked him politely, and guessed which way to get to my friend's house.

At about that time at my work, we took on a cook. She'd lived for thirty years in our village and was married to a local man, but had been raised in The Black Country. Her accent was so strong, and her vocabulary so rich with malapropisms, that I often had to think about what she'd said, as did all our colleagues. She must have thought that we were all a bit stupid.

In South Wales, adjacent valleys each had their own distinct accents, both in Welsh and in English. And at family gatherings, my uncles would drop their Hampshire accents to do hilarious impressions of my grandfather's gruff put-downs in his Lancashire accent.

Sadly, over the decades, all these beautiful accents have become much weaker, and their quirky dialect words forgotten or fossilised as the names of country lanes or of fields.

lindsayheyes
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She's an Angeleno from a very specific group - well to do, college educated, it an industry dealing with consumption and superficiality. She doesn't represent that massive, very diverse city and the millions of everyday working class people who live there and it's suburbs. She doesn't even represent the majority of California, let alone the USA. Yes, I know she prefaced her interview saying that, but I feel it needs to be repeated.

jeffmorse
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If you can't criticise your country you'll never move forward..

KNIGHTSTEMPLAR
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You never know what someone is going through and an offer to help someone or a simple smile or short friendly conversation may brighten their day. I don't think it's a bad thing.

conniepr
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She sums up the cultural differences pretty well (I lived in UK/Sweden and briefly in the US). The only thing I would add is that there can be BIG regional differences throughout the US and UK, depending on whether you're in a big city or somewhere more rural.

svlagonda
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Point of info: the City of London is the Square Mile, the financial district. It's not a residential area.

RodFleming-World
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true swedes are less superficial but make no mistake its a shitstorm here too

ozpan
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We are all nice, all horrible all friendly or unfriendly in every country .People are people.

mariontanner
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The difference between Americans and British is exactly the same as the difference between Brazilians and Portuguese. We both speak the same language and yet Brazilians often do not understand Portuguese while we understand Brazilian Portuguese. As for cultural differences, they are exactly the same as the differences between Americans and British. In terms of conclusion, Brazilians are like Americans and Portuguese are like the British.

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I've met quite a few Americans over the years who no longer live in the US and they have all said, that when they go back even just for a holiday they feel that fellow Americans are entitled, obnoxious and have this self centred belief that they are the best in the world. I once asked why did they think Americans behave like this and the answer was; we grow up being told that we're the best and when you're told that every day growing you believe it. One American lad said, there is a belief by many Americans that everyone else in the world wants to be like the US.

TheDysartes
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Grass is always greener on the other side. I am sure there are Swedish people who can’t stand their own country…as with British, German, French, etc…happy for her that she found a country that suit her best. As for obnoxious sports fans…every country has their fair share of ‘hooligans’

gopherlife
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So interesting listening to her describing the differences at a personal scale. It actually reflects the policies made at the top levels of each of the country she mentioned. It shows. Hope she's happy wherever she decides to stay

limian
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In the UK civilians ARE allowed to own guns, it's just that you have to have a good reason, be vetted, prove you will store and use it correctly and be subject to insoection of said storage.

There is also the fact that most of us don't actually want to own a gun.

soulkisschaoscrypt
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If she had moved to a different part of the US she would have had a similar experience. I’m from the Midwest and how she described Europe was how I see the us. LA is not typical of the country.

jamesadkins
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listening to this I was thinking just go to a different state. Like North Carolina has beaches, the Appalachian trail, a slower life where people will say hello to you on the street. It's a much calmer life and it still has everything you need from shopping, sports, restaurants. Just get out of LA.

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