Dumbest things Americans have said to non-Americans

Non-Americans of Reddit, what's the weirdest thing an American has said to you? We ask this question to r/AskReddit, let's see which replies derive from this! Enjoy! Subscribe for more memes and stuff that's hopefully funny (it is trust me on this one).

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[downsman]

This is a true story, I promise. An American tourist was once heard to say "Sure, Windsor Castle is really great but why did they build
it so close to the airport?" Never mind guns, these people should never be allowed anything sharp!

[mannydcbianco]

I'm an American, but I grew up and spent most of my life in another country before moving to the US, and the dumbest thing an American has ever asked me is if there are stores and if people are allowed to go outside where I used to live. She (mid 20s female) had heard so often that America is the only country with freedom that she thought that all people in other countries were locked up, as if in prison, and that there were no stores because it's illegal to buy things. I was dumbfounded and couldn't even think of anything to say after I realized she wasn't joking.

[Linda-hslk]

An American told me once I was living in a communist country (I'm Dutch..). He also asked me if I thought I earned the insurances I had... He was a gun lover and when I told him I was not he asked me how I would defend myself when being attacked. I said we don't have to defend ourselves, the chance being attacted is very tiny and police is always close by.

[RhondaKL]

I grew up in America, but have lived in England for 28 years now. On one visit back to visit family, someone asked me if we had refrigerators, and how we kept our food cold. I looked at her, and with a straight face told her we buried our food in the ground to keep it cool. She believed me.

[Therapistinthewhitehouse]

I had an American tell me “America is the greatest country on earth” so I asked him to tell me why. Every reason he gave me was either wrong or irrelevant.

[vitorgarcia]

An american asked me if there's schools in Brazil

[melisand]

'You don't accept American dollars!!' gasped the very large, very loud woman in front of me.
That'll be a no ma'am.
This is Australia.

[amalipark]

Ahaha I once told someone I was Australian online and they told me that Australia was burning down the whole world (this was during Australia’s horrible bush fired in 2019-2020) They said the fire was gonna spread and burn down important countries like America. Jokes on them half the people in the server was Australian and they got yelled at

[pattiholder]

I’m an American and don’t understand how other Americans think our holidays are shared by every country. My brother and I had to explain this to our other brothers. My, oh my.

[bobmarshall]

Another Californian story or two come to mind.... While I was trying to order food in a hamburger joint the American waitress stopped writing and started laughing. I asked her what was wrong and she said...."When you stop talking in that funny voice and be serious, I will take your order". I explained to her that it might well sound like a funny voice but I was an Australian but that was my Australian accent. She still thought I was trying to be silly.
Luckily the manager overheard our conversation and stepped in and took my order. He told me he had visited Australia several times and knew the accent well.
Let's hope he gave this little waitress an education for future use.
On another occasion I was astounded that whilst talking to someone, I was accused of trying to take the piss out of the guy who didn't know that in Australia, just like UK, we drive on the opposite side of the road and the cars are right hand drive. He just walked away mumbling obscenities and shaking his silly, empty head!

[lenarobinson]

I had an American once say to me that I spoke really good English for a New Zealander. 🤦‍♀️ I don’t think I have ever had to hold back a laugh so much in my life 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[TombstoneHeart]

On the eve of a presidential election in the USA, singer Stevie Wonder said to an audience in Perth, Western Australia, "Don't forget to vote for Barack Obama tomorrow." I know the bloke is blind, but surely he knew he was in another country!

[carrot]

7:00 yea, and Americans aren't taught things about other countries either. I always here Americans talking about "the civil war". Yea, cause there was only ever one civil war in the history of the entire world.

[shanimarais]

"Seriously? You from south Africa? But... you white?!"
😳

[rtsharlotte]

"Do you celebrate thanks giving?"

I book the day off work, in Ireland, on the 4th off July because I constantly get "Do you celebrate independence day here?" in our hotel.

Sorry but I'm just sick to death with dealing with stupid and I'm at the age now where I don't care what I say

[Freiya]

Honestly: "Did you ever meet Hitler?" (In 1980)

[bobmarshall]

In California I was asked, "Why do you talk so funny"?
When I explained I was Australian and that was my accent, he had a perplexed look and then said, "Australia? Isn't that somewhere near London"?

[patrickporter]

I was once asked by an American how I got out of my castle (pronounced "kassel") because all Whites in South Africa lived in castles. We were in Holland at the time. When I said I didn't have a castle he didn't believe me.

[TTRC]

An American once asked me if we had rulers 📏 in Scotland. She then went on to describe them by saying, "it's like a little stick with numbers and marks on it".
She also corrected my grammar into American English. Total thicko.

[larsgutsein]

My Spanish colleague was asked which language people spoke in his country. He tried to avoid confusion by not mentioning Catala, so he said: Spanish.
No way? They speak Spanish in Europe?
Then they asked me how many languages I spoke.
I said three. I also speak German and Dutch.
What is the third then?
Um... English?