The SHOCKING Reason People Can Tell You're an American Tourist

In this video, we reveal the shocking reasons why people can instantly spot you as an American tourist. From cultural habits to fashion choices, these surprising giveaways will leave you rethinking your travel game! #shorts #americantourister #traveltips #shockingtruth #culturaldifferences

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[frapiichino]

I actually have a friend in Russia. He explained that in Russia, smiling is reserved for friends and family, and you smile on happy occasion to show true joy. If you smile 24/7 in Russia people will think you're insane

[MarieMischke]

How to recognize an american in Germany:
1. Americans really love old buildings.
2. They aks questions about our history.
3. Don't know that in some parts, there is a speedlimit on the autobahn.
4. Their understanding of german punktuality gets redefined when they use the "Deutsche Bahn". Our trains are never on time..

[Imakeweirdcharacters]

As an American, you’d be able to tell by my incredible lack of confidence in my language skills dispite being top of my class in chinese

[AddyKay]

The African American one is so real. I hate when people call people who LIVE IN AFRICA African American. Like they are just African! Some people genuinely don't get that to be African American you have to have the American part too!
(Guys I'm not trying to start anything. Also I know it's more appropriate to call someone by whatever country they are from but this was a general statement.)

[FinDaFrogGuy]

Once in Australia I went into a shop and said hi to the guy at register. Upon hearing my accent he jokingly said “well howdy!”💀

[carmendanny]

For the restroom thing, we literally got scolded in school for saying "bathroom" or "toilet" bc it was considered improper

[CEOofClappin]

I think actually finding trash cans in japan is more confusing, like the ones at 7 & holdings, there's like 5 of them all meant for different plastics and trash. Took me a while to realize the numbers on the bottoms of the bottles meant something

[renisstillren]

The thing about Japan: my boyfriend and his family (all Japanese, from Japan not 2nd gen) all told me they and everyone they know are equally upset about the lack of trash receptacles.

[No_OneO_N]

“In awe of old things” should not be an American thing. Seeing how old machines work and older architecture should be fascinatingz

[flampagan]

The bald eagle scream that follows them everywhere

[maddiewhatever]

Smiling thing
1) Im from the Midwest. I was always taught to smile at people and wave at neighbors. Why? Because its just nice. Someone smiles at you, you smile back. Its like when you nod your head at someone? Idk. Waving is a big thing too and I think we also just talk to everyone so smiling is like "yeah this is the community. hello"

loudness
2) Yeah I think we are all deaf idk. Thats not even a joke either. Every man I know above fifty wears hearing aids lmao. I can't hear myself, bor can my brother, its bad. I tend to think it has to do with our social structure growing up though. Most schools teach that when you are outside you can be as loud as you want and at lunch or downtimes you can talk at an insider voice (Which tends to raise above talking). Its very difficult to teach idk.

restroom
3) I went to Catholic school for a while. I dont think we were allowed to called it a toliet. Restroom or bathroom were fine. Washroom too. Toliet was considered improper.

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My favourite is I'm Scottish and was in Glasgow once. Had an American couple come me asking for the "Clan house McGovan". I had to ask twice what they were on about, but this couple insisted that they had ties to a "Scottish Clan" and I should know where the Clan houses were since I was Scottish myself. They wouldn't believe me when I said Clans haven't existed like that for a few hundred years at least.
They also insisted it wasn't Glasgow (glaz-go) but Glasgow (glass-cow), and Edinburgh (ed-in-burr-uh) was in fact Edinburgh (Eden-burg).

It was a rough time.

[FangXL]

Old buildings are a big deal TF?
The fact that a structure is maintained for hundreds of years is generally a big deal, on effort alone, not to mention the historical tangability

[Bealzabub]

The age thing reminds me of a saying I saw a while back: Americans are amazed by old how old Europe is, and Europeans are amazed by how big the US is.

[mkburwell]

Ate at a restaurant in Germany that had been open since 1312 while the oldest buildings were I live are from the 1850s.

[cheri]

I'm sorry older buildings are fing cool! Show me Victoria buildings with pocket doors and I'm losing my shit. I love pocket doors.

[lukekebell]

My friend (Afro-British but after 3 gens sees himself as a Brit) once had a full on argument w/ a white American couple who called him African American. They just couldnt seem to wrap their heads around what he was saying. In the end he got so frustrated with them he screamed "just say im black for f@*# sake!". Their faces were a picture 😂.

[Kelvarnsen]

They are very loud and friendly. I was in a big grocery store once, looking at the vodka shelf and trying to decide, and that's when I heard two guys and one girl speaking English in unmistakable American accents. I am a bit of an expert when it comes to it, and I recognized it as Midwest accents, possibly from Minnesota, Wisconsin or upper Michigan. They were trying to decide what beer to buy. I overheard their conversation for a minute or two, and since the options weren't the same as their own country/state, they were quite indecisive. That's when I chimed in, apologizing for overhearing their convo in accident, and I made recommendations that I thought they'd like. They thought I'm a fellow American at first as I speak English with an American accent (I'm not American), but once they found out that I'm a local, they were so happy. They said that they couldn't really talk to many people here as it is rare to find fluent English speakers, and they were so glad to be able to talk to a local about anything and everything. We must have talked in the alcohol section for an hour, and they were so incredibly sweet and friendly I was amazed. We're known to be a hospitable nation to our houseguests and helpful to tourists and people in general but to be honest, people aren't as friendly as Americans. They even offered to pay for my vodka and beers, but I politely declined. They turned out to be from Minnesota too. They all gave me their numbers. We talk every now and then and I even took them to some of the touristic places. This took place in Istanbul. I love Americans and America.

[rphttech]

The taxi driver that picked me in Ireland said that Americans say "awesome"