American REACTS To Europe Cultural Differences | Moving Abroad Ep.28

I was suggested to watch @drewbinsky video: 18 cultural differences between the USA and Europe. After me being in Europe for nearly 1 year and traveling to 12 different countries I have seen and learned so much!

Culture shock is real for anyone traveling to a new place. No area of the world can be generalized, but this was a fun video and a good sense of what to expect when traveling or moving to Europe!

Thank you to Ursdaniel for the video recommendation!
Drew Binsky video link below:

Thank you for experiencing life, learning, and growing with me XOXO

[sierramarie]

Thank you for being here! I had so much fun making this video! Thank you for experiencing life with me today! XOXO

[tanasaflorin]

React to the video Geography Now - Romania

[befreetv]

In the West of Europe - biggest countries aka UK, Spain, Italy, France, Germany people DONT care about 2nd language ! most of them they dont know english...teens start to change that and plenty of them speak english nowadays...especially in the East, young people and middle agers speak ussualy more than 2 languages, sice most of them travel for work, like myself...because I am romanian, I am able to speak all latin related languages...italian ( best), spanish and french. even I understand german at some point...plus...hahaah! English which I loved it since childhood ( communist times) - Cheers

[mireliris]

Americans when they think of Europe usually think of Western Europe, The east is its own thing, in some ways closer to the Americans, in that we are a bit wilder, more frontier-type people or the descendence of them, so the culture reflects that long time spent in small communities, an expectation of self-reliance and slight anarchistic tendencies. Partly why capitalism worked so well

[robertzander]

In Berlin for example, you can find so many different opinions to go to an sports live event. It's not just football, we have basketball, volleyball, ice hockey, handball. People go there with a lot of passion, but also with their families or friends. I find our life in Europe for the most cases much more relaxed and it's not necessary that everything is 24/7 available. That system is responsible for a lot of waste.

[ursdaniel]

Btw, speaking of second language. Any progress on learning any new romanian words? Let us know in future videos! :)

[MorFy]

Football(soccer) in europe it's the second mother to us 😂😂😂. We breath football, we eat football 😂😂. We like to watch football and go fishing 😂🎉🎉.

[michaeltom]

Smocking in Europe is just smoking trust me and have absolutely nothing to do with fashion. People who smoke they just do because they want to.

[realjx]

The US is all about social status and social status is about job and money but job is mostly about money. That's the fundamental difference and what leads to the politics, the aggressivity and how conflictual the US is, the work work work, the education system, healthcare, the USA is #1 arrogance, the imperialism (military bases and corporate imperialism plus the need for an opponent, China nowadays, USSR in the past). Even the larger cars are in part a matter of social status and why folks spend more than they can afford on cars. People also tend to be early adopters of new things as they move quickly towards keeping up - sometimes that goes very wrong like with urban sprawling. Obviously it's also why corporations can exploit workers (long hours, little vacation), why crime rates are relatively high ( people are educated to take advantage of any opportunities and that can go too far). Even racism is propagated by segregation and segregation is mostly about social status. Anyway, that's the curse, the key problem and what needs to be fixed but the US is yet to figure that one out. Social status is why maybe some people back home might have felt hurt when you left the US, the US is supposed to be the greatest place so you are not supposed to want to go elsewhere and you kinda lower its social status by wanting to experience something else.
Another major difference is that, because of the EU, it's easier to move and have contact with other cultures so there are less conflicts - the internet achieves that to some extent too but the US kinda looks down on everyone (the USA #1 thing) so it's harder to get positive results in this direction.
Traditions are also more of a thing in Europe, older history and religion is overall less relevant and certainly less aggressive - Romania is supposed to be super religious but i'm sure nobody has harassed you about converting or anything.
Being more direct overall is another major difference. With major variations within Europe though- the Brits are quite very indirect and even in Romania, people can be very indirect about some things, quite direct about others. Actually, even generalizing to the entire Europe is a US specific thing, nobody else does it - it's a continent with 44+ nations and a lot more that that when it comes to cultures.
Oh and btw you do have an accent, US accent.

[marro]

What have I done? I commented in a different video than the last one:)))

[ursdaniel]

So, You ve walked 45 minutes to find your Airbnb...I Guess on that day you ve managed to walk 10k steps per day ...haha. btw, how we are with your daily AVG steps..any improvement from 5000 steps?:)

[totalimpact]

I was learning spanish when i was a little kid watching with my sister all day long telenovelas ( serial movies love story from miami florida production) 😂

[richard-mmo]

50 yr. old furniture we call antique. 500 yr.old in Europe. in France kids drink. we see a wooden building burn and we wood

[ursdaniel]

Still not attending a sport event in Romania? TODAY, there is a pretty important basketball match at BT Arena, between BT Cluj-Napoca and Oradea, big rivalry! IT begins at 6 P.M If You and can make a run(literally, haha) to see the match...as am american said, famous one, "yes, we can!' :))

[RaduRadonys]

Smoking = cool? Really dude? :)) It may be more common in Europe than in America, but it's not cool. Smoking is banned in all indoors public spaces anywhere in the EU, so smokers always have to get out for a smoke. What's cool about that? Also, I don't have any smoking friends and I would never date a smoking girl lol, call me shallow but that's the truth :))

[alexanderblume]

a really bad vid, most of the statements are completly wrong.

[ursdaniel]

I am undecided what I like more....how nice You dress up or your whitish painted apartament....:)))

[silviuvelovici]

Great video, I also enjoy watching your culture shock shorts.

[Lootensansy]

To tis man you don't need to Listen is not in every country what he is saying

[B.R.]

3 - In Europe what?? in Europe there are sooo many buildings, squares, roads, statues and places dating back to 2.000 years ago and more... C'mon... This video is not so accurate in many points...