Foreigner REACTS to Life in the Czech Republic | Czechia Is Amazing

American foreigner REACTS to Life in the Czech Republic (Prague, food, culture, language, traditions, holidays) | Czechia Is Amazing (funny).

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[simonskala]

To whomever may be interested: The easter "whipping" part may seem creepy without a proper context. The whips are supposed to be hand made of braided, freshly cut, very thin, willow branches by the very guy that is using it. The "whipping" should not really hurt, maybe just like sting a tiniest bit and the guy is supposed to recite one of many traditional short easter poems/verses. It is normally done between friends or people that at least know and care about each other. It is not like random women are getting ambushed by strangers and whipped into submission. The whipping symbolizes transfer of the youth and fertility of the willow branches onto the girl as a kind of pagan playful blessing. The gal should then tie a ribbon at the end of the boys "whip" and give him a hand painted (usually intricately) hard boiled egg/s (also fertility symbol) and/or something sweet (small pastries, chocolate) or a small shot of alcohol as a token of appreciation. On the next day the roles reverse and girls go out chasing boys - here the customs vary - they either splash cold water on boys or "whip" them as well. Generally it is like traditional social event, that was originally meant to be enjoyable, celebratory and also served a good purpose of letting the boys of the village meet and get into courteous/playful contact with the gals. Lot of girls would actually be sad if they were to be left out as it would telegraph that nobody is really interested in them. Overall I loved the interview. The responses sound genuine, without contempt or the usual obnoxiousness that I have learned to expect from tourists and most of them are quite spot on. Also somebody please tell the girl in the interview that I want to marry her, thank you :-))

[ZeroSk]

Fellow Slovak here. Hello to my Czech bros. We share a lot of traditions. Also Kofola > Cola.

[KhaarlM]

She has such a sweet and calming voice❤️❤️

[OstravskiOstravak]

It's so nice to see somebody from the abroad to talk so well about my homeland. (There is only one thing in which I would like to correct you - we are not eastern european country, but Central European country. I know it's kinda confusing, because we used to be a part of the "eastern bloc", but geographicaly even back then we still were a coutry dislocated in Central Europe..just for you to know. ...we are a bit hypersensitive about this, because of the communism. Simply telling us that we are eastern is almost as bad as if you told us that our beer sucks :D )

[Lilithka]

I think that Communism is not really the reason why Czechs are not very religious. Maybe it's because it used be a Protestant country until a lost battle in the 17th century after which Catholicism was forced. People don't tend to like that.

[martinmika]

I wish, here in Czech, would be more people like you. The way how you speak and choose non-offensive words about negative areas, thats lovely how you can use language. People out there cannot behave. 😥

[fidenemini]

We in Lithuania have the same Easter tradition whiping with willow rod. It is common to say then "It's not me it is willow whipping you" :D

[MrZonYT]

What a lovely lady! Thanks for the video.

[toms]

She is cute and I like the way she explains things.

[lukassander]

We as Czechs are also famous for our excessive complaining. :)

[PADARM]

I want to live in Czechia. It's like a paradise

[MJTomTes]

I like her knowledge and way how she´s describing that. What´s she is saying is correct and couldn´t describe it better by myself.

[smutkovski]

Přesně tak bez pohádek to o Vánocích nejde, Popelka na Šťedrý den a Mrazík na Silvestra to už je tradice. :D

[GdzieJestNemo]

Re communism it's reversed - only few countries are worse off now than they were during the communism (eg. Ukraine, Moldova, mayby -stan countries). Majority of eastern block countries are far better off nowdays

[TheMontyman]

You forgot to mention that the Czechs gave you your money.The Dollar was created in Jachymov plus Marie Currie made her Noble prize winning discoveries in the same city.

[Rekking]

I just fell in love. Greetings from Budejovice.

[j.j.sandor]

Oh, the Christmas potato salad tradition was adopted from Russia - it's a simplified version of Russian "Stolichnyi" salad eaten at Christmas / New Year celebrations. There's tons of mayo in it, so nobody really likes to eat it in summer. The carp tradition is fairly recent, too; the _original_ medieval Czech Christmas food is "černý Kuba" (lit. "black Jack"), which consists of groats boiled with dried forest mushrooms, then baked with marjoram, garlic and (optionally) a generous amount of pork lard / bacon.
By the way, mushrooms... Czech passion for mushroom hunting is a chapter all by itself. Right now, in my pantry, there's no less than three five-liter bottles full of dried mushrooms. And I'm only collecting boletes, not those weird technicolor things like russulas and milkcaps. ;)

[stuchly]

Really interesting to see an outside perspective on what life is like in m country!

[LopoloProduction]

I wouldn't say the attitude to religion is relict of communism. Take a look to Poland with same history and you will see very different relation to religion. I guess, czechs are probably a bit more realistic or science focused than rest of Europe. :-)

[L_Train]

Ashley, do you have your own channel?