American reacts to 'Questions Brits Have For Americans'

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[DieGurke_]

There has been some debate in Germany about whether "American bread" is really bread or whether it is a cake because of the added sugar

[t.a.k.palfrey]

Things are standardised in the US. They're simply standardised to be different from every other country on Earth...as is zee rather than zed, modified imperial rather than metric, and regarding beer and wine as more dangerous to teenagers than assault rifles.

[crocsmart]

The only country that pronounces the letter z as zee is america. To the rest of the English speaking world its zed. One of the advantages will be when american pop stars die, the headline could be jay z is dead and it’ll rhyme 😂

[SuperfluousIndividual]

1:38 - Ryan, I'm gonna be brutally honest here, and I hope you don't take what I'm about to say the wrong way, but not a lot of people are interested in America 😅
Most of the world genuinely looks at America like they look at an animal in the zoo. These reaction channels work well exactly because of that. It's interesting to see the evolution of your (Americans) reactions the more you learn about the rest of the world. It's like watching someone who was lied to most of their life come to a (not so) sudden realization that the country they were told everyone wanted to go to isn't all what you're told it is to the rest of the planet 😂

[JoBaker-sq]

The 'tech curve' thing is probably related to banking, which is also related to the 'Chip and PIN' question. Our bank cards have chips in them which mean we don't have to sign a receipt, and we use a PIN (personal identification number) to authorise it.

[nolimittolearning]

I hear this reason from many Americans on YouTube about the toilet doors, “so people know someone’s inside”. We simply lock the door and on the outside a slider connected to the lock moves to either red/engaged or green/vacant. No peeping needed. It doesn’t take a genius to develop.

[jpatpat]

Another thing: if the US considers itself so advanced then why do you still use cheques (checks to you)? They went out of use in the rest of the world more than 10 years ago!

[geemo]

I have no desire to standardise our spelling. Americans can spell things how they like - it’s good to have differences. What I reeaaally object to, is when autocorrect changes my correct (for the UK)spelling for American spelling, and when I change it back, it tells me I’m wrong!!! I’m not bloody wrong and we also have several generations of British kids growing up thinking that American spelling is the correct spelling. Not ok

[annoholics]

I understand that Americans know that Europe is not a country. However Americans act if it is a country by constantly comparing the US to Europe. Americans also speak about Europeans. This while nobody feels himself a European. It is like calling a Mexican an American because they live in the continent "North-America". I would never say that I am going to America if I would go to Mexico or Canada. Also, if Americans tell where they are from in an international group, then often they say something like "I am from Dallas, Texas". Just tell us the country, which is the US. If I would respond with "I am from Oirschot, Brabant" then they have absolutely no clue, which is logical.

[ShizuruNakatsu]

Wait, in the US you don't use chip and pin? I understand not having contactless payments, but what could be more simple than just entering your pin? I just checked Google and it says most places in the US make you sign a piece of paper... Which sounds like something from the 70s 😂

[ClaireQuinn]

In Ireland we just "tap" to pay for things in shops that are under €50. We put the card in & enter our number for over that. No signing. Why do Americans (who love to shorten words or even names to initials) call a fridge a refrigerator? It's a much longer word than fridge. Why do you call milk cream? They are 2 different things.

[thefiestaguy]

Americans claim to be the most technologically advanced, yet they still use "Swipe and sign" not "Chip & Pin" which has been used in the UK and many other European countries for many many years. Even contactless has been around since 2013/2014 from what I recall in the UK and chip and pin came WAYYYY before that. To my knowledge contactless payments in the USA is pretty much unheard of and doesn't really seem to exist.

And NO - he isn't referring to chips JUST on credit cards. Every major bank card (whether credit or debit card) has had Chips for many many years, and even has Contactless which was the next technological advancement since around 2013/2014. America is WAYYYY behind Europe when it comes to banking. I got my first debit card aged 15, that was in 2010. Even that card had a chip in it and it was designed for youngsters and was the most basic bank account you could get.

That's what he meant. Every American I have met somehow thinks the American banking system is better than it is in the UK, many other countries, including Kenya, have a far superior banking system to the ones used in the USA.

Swipe and sign isn't any safer.... does any US cashier actually check your signature and compare it to the one on the card (if there's even a signature on the card)?

[helenwood]

We say herb because there is an h in it. Dropping the h is not fancy. It's common.

[Jeni]

In England, the original home of the English language, the last letter of the Alphabet is called Zed.. That’s also why the police TV series was called Zed cars.

[jonntischnabel]

Drinking anything out of plastic disposable cups not only tastes awful, and downgrades the potentially nice drink, but is also really bad for the environment. Im pretty sure if you drank from a nice wine glass, or cut glass tumbler just ONCE, you'd never use those stupid red cups again! 😂 If i went to a party in the uk and the host handed me one of those, I'd probably throw it in their face and walk out. 😂

[pb-zr]

7:47 Everywhere outside America (rest of the world) calls it Zed.

[ginbecell]

3:15 In fact, your bread is so sweet that in countries like Germany, it would legally be categorized as cake. There are rules about ingredients and quality for food that also include what can be sold as what - for instance, if there is no _real_ chocolate (cocoa, cocoa butter, milk, sugar) but a cheap substitute (for instance palm fat, a bit cocoa, milk powder, sugar), it _may not be sold_ as chocolate. So the limits for sugar in bread would prohibit selling what you call _bread_ as such.

[dooley-ch]

You are way behind the tech curve in financial services and banking. Every time you have to interface with US banking you have to think back a generation or two in technical terms. And not just for credit cards, accounting systems, payment transactions etc....

[malsm]

We invented the English Language that's why it's called English from England over a couple of thousand years of history before 1492 the Caribbean Islands not the mainland

[leec]

Your reaction to the scone comment made me chuckle! Why does the US value sororities and fraternities? They look hellish.