American Things That Brits Would NEVER Allow | American Reacts

As an American I understand that Brits do not like the way we do some things here in the USA. Today I am very interested in learning about Americans things that Brits would never allow to become normal in Britain. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[jaccilowe]

A country so rich NOT investing in its people's health and well being is obscene as far as I'm concerned.

[kakeup]

It's crazy to me, Americans say they live in the "land of the free" but they're not allowed to walk over the road unless there is a crossing, they're not allowed to drink a beer in a park on a summer day, they're hardly allowed to take time off work and even when they do it's not even paid most of the time and if they get injured or sick they become buried in a horrendous amount of debt to the point where they must feel like an indentured servant to a system that doesn't care about you in the slightest.

[WilliamBennett-upgs]

This is just not in the UK Most of the countries in the world are the same as the UK

[SillyMoustache]

I'm a Brit, I went to a restaurant in New Hampshire with friends. We were seated, ordered meals and drinks from a smiling waitress and as soon as our entree was served the waitress stood over us and demanded that I pay - as soon as we started to eat! I pointed out that we are starting our meal rather than finishing, she replied that she "got off" at 9.p.m.
To me that was irrelevant, someone else could serve us a sweet, drinks coffees etc and give us the bill.
My American friends said that she needed us to pay so we could tip her. .... why would I tip someone who interrupts our meal begging for money? Crazy!

[Lazmanarus]

"Pledge of Allegiance"? Yeah - last time someone tried that in Western Europe, he came to a sticky end in 1945.

[LB-myej]

If you pay people correctly you don’t need to tip. NO WE DO NOT WANT TO PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE.

[Rokurokubi]

“Not every day”, dude, according to wiki there have been 432 mass shootings in America from the start of the year to the end of August, in the UK this year so far we’ve had 1.

[t.a.k.palfrey]

The US is the global exception or near exeption in: date format, no 24-hr clock, no universal healthcare, decent paid leave, no metric, no maternal leave or paid sick leave, scant public transport, school buses, farenheit, HOAs, single-use zoning, high drug costs, politicised judiciary and policing, high drinking age, gun regulation, few environmental laws, and unlimited political contributions by companies. USA - Unusually Strange Anomaly. 😅

[TillyMint]

If you research the McDonalds coffee lawsuit, the temperature of the coffee was EXTREMELY hot. Not just the usual hot coffee temperature. The lady was elderly and suffered serious, deep burns to her groinal area and only sued for her medical costs. McDonalds used their power to put in the media that she was not seriously injured and was a frivolous litigant, only after a payout. This poor lady was treated awfully through no fault of her own.

[lavalamp]

I live in Australia, here it is illegal to charge more than the advertised price, what is on the ticket is what you pay, not 1 cent extra. We also don't tip, what is on the menu is what we pay, the restaurant charges full price for the meal, from that they pay the wages of all the staff, the cost of the ingredients, rent on the property, utilities, taxes and have whatever profit they get. NO Tipping. The cost of the meal is the total amount paid, it isn't rocket science for them to know what things cost and if they cannot pay their staff they shouldn't be running a business.

[crocsmart]

Never had to fill out a tax return, never had a medical bill, never had to work longer than a 40hr week.

[carpediemdoesdiamondpainting]

Pledge of allegiance seems to be like what Hitler expected of its people with the Hitler salute.

[wandidabula]

South African here, The Day/month/year format helps a lot when you have events in the same month in a list form, you can always look at the dates it is in the beginning. American way will have all dates start with the same month. I feel like I would need to pay extra attention since the days are in the middle.

[padderz]

Every day, millions of American children pledge their allegiance to their Country, whilst suffering under its governing. My family moved to Miami for 8 months when I was around 10 yrs old, and upon returning to the UK, I spent my teen years wishing I was American (reflected in films, TV, music etc), bemoaning being British and mourning the life I should have had. It took time, but luckily I grew out of it. Brainwashed by It was the daily pledging of allegiance alongside my classmates, during a pivotal time in my development. Just as I was forming my personal beliefs and principles, my peers and I are united under a patriotic fervour, so innocent and innocuous that I welcomed being conditioning by it. Now, I am forever shocked when I meet really smart, travelled Americans who recognise the problems they have at home, blaming everyone except the system.

[The.Android]

Imagine getting seriously injured by someone deliberately and needed life-saving operations or having an accident caused by someone else and then having to pay the bill for it yourself.

[Herbie]

2:29 it’s weird what the Americans do. I mean, if I went into Tesco and bought their sandwich meal deal for £3, when I go to pay, it’s cost £3, nothing more. Why would Americans not want to do this?

[gaynorhead]

My husband had cancer of the jaw almost 20 years ago (non smoker), the operation to replace his jaw took 3 surgeons 9 1/2 hours, bone from his leg to make new jaw, skin from his arm to make gum! He was in hospital for 2 weeks after. Cost in the UK - zero, would have cost £40, 000 private or heaven knows what in the USA.

[helenwood]

UK waiters get a fair wage here. It's illegal to give them less than the minimum wage.

[DAWNSIE]

Tyler, the woman burned by the McD's coffee was in hospital for months, had many many surgeries to repair the injuries and will have life long issues (it literally melted her private parts) The coffee was being served way above a reasonable temp. And she was only suing for her medical costs.

[lindsayb]

As an American who's lived abroad for 12 years:

1. Prices: America is literally the only country that makes you do math if you want to know how much you'll actually pay before you go to the register. Also majorly sucks if you 'get used to' doing it for your state and then go to a state with different sales tax.

2. America is not the only country that uses MM/DD/YYYY, but it IS the most counterintuitive format compared to smallest to largest unit or vice versa. Korea does use YYYY/MM/DD as you suggested, and I will always use this format for the sake of computerised organisation.

3.1. Healthcare prices are unfortunately going up here in Australia of late, but whenever I have to pay to see a doctor, I'm just thankful I'm no longer in the US, where I would either be in major debt or dead by now.
3.2. There have been 432 mass shootings in the US this year, at the time of my writing this. That's nearly 2 per day.

4. Tipping is fairly nonexistent in most of the rest of the world. In Europe and Australia, tipping is only for exceptional service. In most of Asia, it's often considered an insult to try to tip, as it's essentially seen as the customer treating the employee like a beggar.

VAT stands for value-added tax, and is what Americans call sales tax.

5. Firing policies, job security, etc. depends heavily on the state. It's much easier in some states to just fire someone for no real reason than in others. I would also argue that many industries in Asia are just as bad if not worse in that sense, BUT the benefits of working are significantly better than in the states.

6. McDonald's essentially ran a smear campaign against the woman who filed the lawsuit you're talking about. They weren't driving; she was sitting in the seat of the car trying to add her cream and sugar, and accidentally spilled the coffee when she pulled the lid off of it. The lawsuit ensued because McDonald's used to serve their coffee at illegally high temperatures (180–190 °F), and it caused 3rd degree burns to the woman's thighs and privates in a matter of seconds. She also only sued McDonald's for $20k to cover her medical expenses, and I believe was awarded more by the jury, but it still wasn't 'tons of money'.

7. It made a lot of sense to me when I learned that the majority of Korean cults stem from American Christianity. Nothing further on this.

8. 12 weeks is protected by legislation in the US. That's how long you can take maternity leave and not risk losing your job, BUT companies in the US aren't required by law to pay for maternity leave, so naturally, most don't.

9. The Pledge of Allegiance is really weird indoctrination. Like the fact that we were made to do that starting from first grade now blows my mind as an adult.

Something that still floors me as an American living abroad is that, as a US citizen, if you live abroad, you still need to file tax to the IRS. You don't owe anything unless you make over something like $120k a year (and you have to file a special form if you have over $10k in any bank account in your name at ANY point during the year). The US is one of only two countries in the world (the other being Eritrea, a totalitarian dictatorship with one of the worst human rights records in the world) that requires citizens living abroad to file tax, and this isn't incredibly well known so, despite having lived abroad for 12 years, I only learned about this somewhat recently, so now I need to get on filing back tax.