Things Americans Do That Confuse The Rest Of The World

The united states is a wonderful place, but its also the place for a lot of strange things that confuse the rest of the world. Here are some weird things about america that confuse Europe and the world.

[daydrmnation]

We don't lack the desire to travel, we lack the funds

[wath]

It's easy to travel to different countries when there are 10 within a car drive. There are only two bordering the us and both are hundreds of miles apart.

[Nina-]

We don't lack the desire of travel. I would love to travel. My dream is to travel. The problem is, I don't have the money.

[kenwaid]

A friend had a couple from Europe living with him for a bit in California, and their first week there they were like well we’re in San Diego and we thought we’d nip up to San Francisco for a couple of hours and then have lunch in Sacramento, and then back in San Diego for dinner. he just looked at him and said and “where did you park your lear jet again?” When he explained the distances involved in traveling inside of California, they were gob smacked, utterly astounded at how big just one state in the US is, much less the whole country.

[jacobgalloway]

Or could our "not wanting to travel" have something to do with the fact that the distance we travel to visit another state equals the same distance of many nations travel to visit other countries?

[NightStormFox]

Man, I would literally kill if vacation time could be improved upon in America.

[claysoggyfries]

Nah I personally hate excess ice. Restaurants do that shit to save money

[Davaoization]

The vacation thing in my experience is that it ends up being a combination of being tough to get the approval for the vacation that you want and then the work load is too much to take the break. It ends up being more stressful because once you come back you have to work 2-3 times as harder to catch up on the work you left behind.

[aces]

A few things on passports and international travel.
1. One difference between the US and many places is that it only borders 2 other countries, and until relatively recently, a passport wasn't required for travel to Canada and Mexico.
2. USA is geographically large. As such, it offers a variety of destinations for skiing, beaches, hiking, hang gliding, etc that would require crossing borders in much of the world.
3. Combination of that size and distance from other continents makes international travel relatively expensive. In certain parts of Europe you might cross a border to buy lower priced gasoline or a preferred beverage. If you live in Missouri, traveling to any place outside the US is a considerable expense of time and money that many people just don't have.

[redwolflancer]

As a carpenter I've always used standard with fractions which can be a headache especially when finding centers, but recently had to learn metric to measure piano wires and it is so much easier and efficient

[thealicemoon]

I’m American and I hate having ice in my drinks unless it’s ice water.
Soda comes out of the tap cold and also I feel it makes the soda go flat faster cause the ice melts and waters it down.

[PghRN]

In some professions, you get ripped apart for using your vacation days.

[PaulBruinFan]

International travel: If youre in Europe, a drive of 300 miles might send you through 5 different countries. In virtually any western state in the USA, you can drive 300 miles and never leave the state. A little common sense would have made a nice addition to this part of the video.

[glitchyartist]

In America, you have to be twenty-one to purchase and consume alcohol, but for some reason you only have to be eighteen to join the military. I don't know about you, but i think that if you're old enough to DIE for your country, you should be able to buy booze.

(Edit) my goodness, I've never gotten so many likes or comments before! Thx!
EDIT: holy crap! I'd buy a round of drinks for all you commenters if I was old enough lol!

[dorothybayrd]

I feel like that last part was like "have fun ripping each other apart in the comments"

[who]

What we see: "the rest of the world"
What Be Amazed sees: "Europe"

[patrickboucher]

Re: drinking age: a person ca be drafted armed services, go into conflict but can’t heave a beer. Go figure.

[pixelsmasher]

We don't take vacations because not working gets you fired.
P.S. this is mostly exaggerated sarcasm, but this can and will happen in the correct situations.

[ZakBagansloverever]

The thing about ice in drinks in the US I always thought was them scamming with overpriced drinks by filling almost all the glass area with ice, so when I can, I ask for no ice or fill my cup without it.

[adrianalexandrov]

Just a side note: year, month, day convention is a nice way to organize your files or folders to be sorted. Sorting by name sorting them by date no matter when you've changed them.
Good for videos, photos, backups.