American Reacts to Americans FAILING Basic Questions About Canada

As an American I am verry familiar with how little Americans on average know about Canada and Canadian culture. Today I am both excited and nervous to watch some of my fellow Americans attempt to answer basic questions about Canada. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[pjperdue]

John Bartlet Brebner (1895–1957), a Canadian historian, famously said, "Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States." It's always been this way. I blame the U.S. education system, not Americans.

[Asher]

I used to get offended by videos like this until I realized that Americans are just as clueless about their own country as they are about Canada. So really, it's nothing personal...

[shannonwolff]

To all of my fellow Canadians HAPPY CANADA DAY!!! I am so proud to be a Canadian and am happy to have found this channel. Keep going Tyler.

[Greylocks]

What often stuns me as a Canadian is how much I know about the USA. Even your Constitution and how it should work.
I live slightly more than 1 hour's drive from the US Border. Our Capital, Ottawa, is that close to the US.
Yes, during 9/11 we Canadians were as stunned as all of you. Yes we opened our borders immediately to all your flights. Yes we assisted to keep your citizens safe and comfortable because it's the right thing to do.
No we do NOT hate you. We can make the difference between politics and good people.
Yes we speak our english a bit differently. Some of us dont speak english at all, and that's ok.
We dont have guns everywhere, but we DO have plenty. We just use them differently.
We like similar products, media, arts, foods and freedoms to live in a safe world.
Our military are always in contact. We share the control of NORAD equally.
We dont always agree about politics or politicians, either ours or yours.
We'll be there if you need us, because that's how we see the world.
PS yes we are normally quite polite people. Never mistake that for weakness as many despots and terrorists have found over our history.

[justylex]

I had a friend who worked at the US/Canada border (New York/Ontario). She had some funny stories to tell. One American couple arrived perplexed because they could not understand why it was so darn hot and no snow in July. They had brought snow gear, sweaters, ski gear. Apparently, they thought that the weather underwent a cosmic shift when you travel that 3km over the St. Lawrence River.

[gryph]

An American friend of mine used to debate about Canada vs U.S.
I told him one day that Americans barely understand what happens outside their county, let alone global politics. He scoffed at it until he went back to Missouri.
He came back and apologized

[spring]

Majority of Americans barely know their own country's history. How can we expect them to know Canada's?

[pjimmbojimmbo]

in 1983, I went to the US. People there asked me how long our Igloos lasted before melting. I went along with it, and told them I walked 20 miles in Snow Shoes, then traveled 200 miles by Dogsled, then got on a Snowmobile to get to a place where I was able to get a Car.... The 1st Trip across the Border was also the Last

[lindabrooks]

About 20 years ago I was talking to an American lady who asked me where I was from, so I told her I was from Canada. She said oh yeah she'd heard of that place, it is over there beside China someplace. I said no, it is on the other side of the US's northern border, and then she totally lost it, started yelling about how there is nothing there and that I wasn't fooling her any.

[JD_HockeyTalks]

Tyler, you have earned the title of an honorary Canadian good sir.

[margueriteperry]

We are so proud of you, Tyler. You were once one of them.

[georgecuyler]

Lacrosse is actually our national sport, it is a game played by my Indigenous people, before modern hockey, hockey was played on a field, today we know it as field hockey and also played by my Indigenous people before contact. Both games were uses to settle disputes between Indigenous nations. The disputes were solved by the winning team.

[darrenmacdonald]

Tyler, you are becoming more Canadian with every video. The fact that you know that Lacrosse is our summer sport and hockey is our winter sport shows just how far you've come. And just about a week ago we hit 40 million for our population.

[judydenham]

Just asked my 14 year old grandson who the President of the US is? No hesitation - Biden. So yes, most Canadians know more about the US than the US citizens know about Canada. Thank you for doing these videos. I am blessed to live in a wonderful country.

[nancykelly]

Now Tyler, we Canadians were laughing at you too not too long ago!! Yes, you have certainly learned a lot since you started these videos, we're very proud of you! 🎉

[XopheAdethri]

As a Canadian kid in the 80's, I had to learn all the states and capitals too some time in primary school.

[stevetassie]

In the words of Canadian comedian, Simon Rackoff, “we don’t mind that Americans don’t know much about us - we’ve seen what happens to countries you take an interest in!”

[doreenparker]

The Beaver is important because of the fur trade in 17th to the mid-19th centuries

[mariedenise]

Hi Tyler! You should say I WAS a typical average American and not I am. You know more about Canada right now than many Canadians!

[HamnaAmir-dm]

As a Canadian imigrait from Pakistan and learning all the history of Canada, including history, its just so hard and embarrassing to see these Americans not knowing these questions. A women asked if Canadian is a language and I thought that too as a kid but in the third grade i discovered that English and French are the 2 languages spoken in Canada, which was surprising to me but i understood why i spoke English and took Frecnh classes. I know a lot of geography of the world (including my home country) and if I ask them a question about anything rather then America I know they'll just straight up struggle and be embarrassed. I'm not making fun or anything but I hope today they'll learn more geography so that even if I'm going to quiz them, they'll understand.