American Reacts to How Powerful is Norway?

Check out me and my twin brother reacting TOGETHER here:

Honestly if you were to ask the average American "How Powerful Is Norway?" they would have no idea how to answer that, myself included! Americans really have no concept or idea of what the Norwegian culture or economics look like, so today I am here to fix that. I am very interested to learn and react to how Norway compares to the United States in many different regards, and to see how Norway operates in Europe. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!

[Henoik]

YouTuber: "something something Norway"
Any Norwegian ever: "allow me to present myself"

[NorwegianNationalist]

You should do more videos about Norway, us being a small nation means we love hearing the opinion of others when it comes to us. Norwegians will always click such videos, easy way to get some views for your channel :) The same is probably true for other similar countries. Cool video man

[chrisreinert]

I know I come from a disadvantaged family, Norwegian father and American mother, but I am constantly amazed how little Americans know about the world outside the US.

[slebetman]

A seed vault is a species bank. If any species get wiped out by disaster or disease (for example like the original commercial banana that is now basically extinct causing us to now grow the current variety of banana) we can restart entire type of crop from seeds in the seed vault. US has a seed vault in Colorado, my country Malaysia has one, in fact a lot of developed countries have one. The special thing about the Norwegian Svalbard seed vault is that it aims to be the seed vault for the entire planet saving seeds for all kinds of crops from every part of the world.

[oskarstattin]

This guy is such a good learner. When he does not understand something, he is not afraid to look it up. He also draws connections really well, like the connection he drew between russias invasion and norways economy after just learning about Norways oil industry.

[Viperth]

The referendum on Norway's accession to the European Union took place on Monday 28 November 1994. 52.2% voted against Norwegian accession, while 47.8% voted for... thank GOD, we are not in EU

[norXmal]

There are no issues of not knowing, as long as you are willing to learn, as you are now.
8:15 Both referendums it ended with almost 50%/50% voting Yes or No.

We're not part of EU, but we are part of NATO, which ensures our safety against Russia and we contribute to NATO as much as we can, we offer weapon systems, soldiers, funds, training and we host most of the winter military exercises for all allied NATO members.

Yeah, the U.S Trillion+ military budget is well known around the world, if anything of U.S were to collapse, it wouldn't be an invading country, but rather a civil conflict in U.S or implosion of its infrastructure, hopefully it will never come to that.
I wouldn't mind seeing a fraction of that military budget being spent on more accessible healthcare or insurance, with or without a job, that's just my personal take, I know it can be quite controversial topic for some.

Yes, there is mandatory conscription, but the vetting method of that conscription is very strict and have had quite a lot of requirements to be approved, a lot of Norwegians don't serve their conscription, me included as I have scoliosis, they didn't want me.

Most of our Migrants come from other places of Europe, Africa and middle-east(specifically those that were invaded by U.S, Russia or any tyrannical regimes)

The Seed vault is an emergency vault for when the world has lost most or all plant life species, ended by human war, natural catastrophe or any other external factors that affect the planet.

[Henoik]

I really love to see you learn new things. Things that to me, as a Norwegian, is obvious, such as which countries Russia borders. I'm used to a lot of people on YouTube just being ignorant or straight up arrogant, but your curiosity and interest in learning new things is truly inspirational. Keep it up, man, you're earned a sub.

As for the migration issue, we have a lot of immigrants from Sweden, where people are seeking better opportunities, but that's not considered an "issue" as we have shared culture, history, and can communicate relatively well speaking our mother tongues. The "issue" has arisen with the increased migration from Middle Eastern and Northern African countries.

[galileo]

I’m dying here !
At the moment he realized Norway got OIL, I can swear I saw the American flag rising in his 👀

[TheAccidentalViking]

Thanks for your honest and open reaction. A certain level of knowledge is needed to even start discussing the videos here. Knowing what the European Union (EU) is would have been a good start. Knowing what the European Economic Area (EEA) and EFTA (EØS) is would be good. Schengen would also be a good term to know. The oil economy is nationalised. Any country could do this, but some countries choose/chose to put it in private hands. Norway hired a philosopher when they struck oil. Not an economist. They had American companies come in and help at first, but the American companies thought they'd just be buying the rights to the fields and make billions off the naive country folks. Norway shook their hands and said, 'bye now.' and nationalised the oil industry and made bank for the benefit of the entire country. Where the US pays billions in subsidies to their private oil companies, Norway's oil fund allows them to offer their citizens and residents (like me) opportunities we wouldn't have anywhere else as well as a social safety net to ensure housing, education, medical care and food to the most vulnerable. It also funds projects that help other countries. As far as Military National Service, there are enough folks who sign up, so they don't need to send out 'request of service' letters anymore. The Svalbard seed vault has already had its first use. It's had to supply genetic material for crops in Morocco and Lebanon as well as seeds to Syria. In 2017, Syria was able to rebank the seeds they required as a withdrawal after their civil war destroyed so much. (from a long-time resident of Norway, sometime science-writer and healthcare worker and mom.)

[AlexGarcia-coec]

As a Norwegian living permanently abroad, I enjoyed this video. And props for stopping and looking up things you didn't understand, or knew about. That's how we learn, and how we expand our brains. I'll watch any video you do about Norway, keep it up!

[jeschinstad]

Norway is the closest ally that the USA has. We have been the eyes and ears for the Americans, particularly watching for Russian submarines and nuclear missile launches. For that reason, Norway was the only country outside of the USA to have access to the ARPANet (now the Internet) and the TCP protocol used for the WWW and other things, was developed here. This deep collaboration between USA and Norway hasn't been very well known until recently, considering Norway is a very small country right next to Russia. No reason to provoke an attack unnecessarily, considering we're a founding nation of NATO. So many of the Norwegian military inventions are officially labeled as American to this date.

[grykarlsen]

So..6 years later Nato’s Secretary General is Jens Stoltenberg ( since 2014) and Norwegian. 😊

[jonathangoll]

I've always heard that the Norwegian Army is pretty tough. Many of the UK's Royal Marines are specialists in Arctic warfare, and they train in Norway. I wouldn't cross them either!

[alportal]

It's cute watching you hear for the first time about things that are basically common knowledge everywhere but in the US - like a child discovering the world. Good job!

[oh]

Thank you for learning about Norway. This video was a short presentation and focused on some older issues about refugees. Right now, we struggle with many other problems like most of the world.

There is one other important aspect I want to mention. Our border with Russia isn't only the short one on the land but also in the Barents sea in the north.

Correction: I was just checking your channel and it looks like you already are updated 😊

[pernille]

Nice reaction! I like the way you stop during the video to fine out more about what he is talking about. You seem like a kind and genuin man, open to learn more about the world😊

[talafim]

I just returned from my two weeks vacation in Norway, I think I’m in love 🥰

[jrgenrudolphlaker]

Hi, Tyler. I'm a Norwegian myself living in a small town in the southern part (where most Norwegians live). When I went to college, we had an exchange class from Texas. This was in June. Those two things they were most amazed about was how light it was all 24 hours. (in Norwegian we have an own word for 24 hours: "døgn"). But in the wintertime it's dark most of the time. The difference between summer and winter is huge. From +25 degrees celcius to -25 degrees. Norway is as far north as Alaska, but because of the Golf Stream we have nice summers and not too cold winters. The other thing the students were amazed about was the water. Directly from the sink we have the best water ever! Much better than any bottled water you find in the shops.The nature here is also amazing. Look at images from the fjords in the western part and images from Lofoten in the northern part. There you might also see the Aurora Borealis (Northern Light - directly translated). About all Norwegians speak English quite well, but we have our own language of course. It is quite similar to Swedish and Danish.

[thehobbit]

Being dutch i'm far from being an expert on Norway or it's people. But it is truely an amazing place. From being vikings that shaped europe in the middleages they have grown to sophisticated people with a high regard to nature, women, and community. It's one of the most beautifull places in the world. Alltough i got to see but a very small part of it. The people i've spoken to are calm, friendly and intelligent. Their viking heiritage left them with an exeptional genepool making them in general beautifull, healthy, strong and fit. That last part may also come from an outdoor lifestyle in summer wenn a lot of norwegian people take to sailing and hiking in the woods and mountains. Overall a great place and even greater people.