hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts like i've said in uh previous videos i really enjoy doing
those videos uh the title of this one is gonna be what's the dumbest thing american it has ever said
to you and uh like i said before i'll be moving to europe like literally moving to live and um i've
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to those as soon as possible and um let's get right into this video guys i'm kind of curious
what is the dumbest thing an american has ever said to you where do so i was raised in the state
of new york and originally from ecuador you know south america and when i was about 12 years old
we moved to the south specifically the state of atlanta georgia oh ato i'm really excited to meet
me and they were like oh originally where are you from of course i'm like oh i'm from ecuador
and guess what they said ecuador life was that was that even like from is that like a place in mexico
is that like close to like mexico like like where you gotta take it easy with the americans man they
like things just america doesn't revolve around the world the world is supposedly revolve around
america that's what americans think so you gotta take it easy with americans man it's it's
for me i didn't know a lot of countries and i'm not gonna front with you guys i didn't
know a lot i really didn't right and um even the country that i'm going to move to in europe i
i i knew little to nothing about that country except for the name and practically the capital
of that country i knew nothing i didn't know where it was on the map i couldn't identify
it nothing at all so my story is a big major uh thing for me i i i was that ignorant and um i'm
not that ignorant anymore so you know you got to take it easy with them where in mexico is that
and then when i finally explained that it was in south america and that it's
located exactly on the equator they're still really confused they were like if mexicans
are from mexico like what do they call your people i'm like oh i'm an ecuadorian dorian what the hell
does that even mean like i couldn't i'm coming i got a story for you guys and guess what it's also
a racist story oh i'll try to do my makeup at the same time so i was getting into a debate with this
guy at the bar about refugees and immigration and at one point he kept calling me mexican
and i am not mexican i have chilean descent but i am not from mexico at one point he tells me
i don't belong in this country and i'm like well then who belongs in this country right
the natives right so i decide he's not worth my time and i go back into my six foot tall friends
that would literally beat someone up for me and i don't tell him what just happened because i'm
trying to save this guy from getting an ass beat less than five minutes later my friend comes in
jamel six foot tall jamaican dude he comes in he says my hand hurts and i'm like what happened
this guy i was just talking to he called him the n-word and i realized that day that i cannot
save someone from an ass beating that the universe is trying to give oh so he got knocked out
so while i was a student i was a tour guide for the parliament of canada so but like personally
let me tell you something about america a lot of people don't get it like racism in america is so
odd it's to the point where it's be it's it's it's more of a belonging type stuff right it's
more of a belonging like i'm not talking like saying that there's no real racism there are
very much real racism in america but there is a form of racism where a lot of people gets it
because they're different from americans like you'll literally hear somebody say
you don't belong here get out because you speak a different language like i'm telling you it's real
facts right so it's kind of scary to think about it that americans don't even understand that bro
your people weren't here either that's the reason why you got an independence day that is so recent
right and um it's really sad but a lot of americans don't understand that
you know people came and that's how america even existed so it's kind of sad people around the
different rooms explain what the architecture was about so we got to the house of commons and
there's three sets of doors the french the english and the canadian doors so the two
different colonizing cultures that came together to create canada to enter the through the canadian
doors and then the american tourist comes up to me and full out seriously asked me where are the
american doors like well didn't we powder if you're like founding you like where are doors
and i had to just like stared at him like why would there be american doors again and he looked
back at me and he was also confused at his own question and we just kind of stared at each other
until i just like wandered away oh i'm a customer service agent and an american guide called in we
quickly started talking and i mentioned that i was from cape town he tried to mention a few places in
cape town that he could remember so he mentioned table mountain and he started talking about the
animals that we have you know like the lions that around the earth and then he quickly said that um
he can remember that we had a natural disaster called apartheid what at first i thought he was
talking about the ocean but then i realized that he thought apartheid was a natural disaster so i
quickly moved somebody in the comments somebody in the comments who actually understand what
she's saying because i really don't get what she's really saying like if y'all can explain
do that for me please i don't really know what she's talking about away from that
topic and i asked him if i could further assist him on his account because what hi
yeah fellow american here um and this is still the dumbest thing an american has ever said to
me because i'm from alaska the 49th state which somehow gets lost in translation to the 48 other
states that came before us who somehow forget that we're a state because then we have people who come
up to alaska and they walk into my tour shop and they're like hi where's the currency exchange
are you planning a trip to canada we are like right close to the border no no no
i need alaskan money are you not from the united states no i'm from kansas but i need alaskan money
ma'am did you miss the giant american flag right outside my i can see it out of my window there's
also one at the post office just across the street it's the same it's the same money stay tuned for
part two okay we've all seen the stitch that's the guy saying what's the dumbest thing that
americans ever said to you i want to know if you're an american what's the dumbest thing a
non-american ever said to you like about america that you were just like oh you've never actually
known anything about the realities of america you've only ever watched our television shows
plot twists um i had a roommate this was in canada she was canadian who told me that because because
my mother got her medical degree in america her definition of healthy was not actual health
it was it was different from the canadian doctor version of healthy my mother wasn't
actually a health expert oh my mother did her undergrad at the same canadian school i went to
okay so basically like seven or eight years ago i was at victoria coach station in london and i
met this american girl and we started talking and she's like oh my god where you from and i was like
well i was born and raised in romania but i've been living in england for like three years now
and we started talking about different topics blah blah and then we started talking about
politics and i don't actually remember what i said but i was talking about the romanian president
and he's like oh my god he did this and black and i'm not really into politics and then she
looked at me like she was flabbergasted like y'all got a president and then she asked me
oh you guys have a president as well i thought it was just an american thing i i thought
i'm not what does it do i don't know if y'all be doing these type of honesty type stuff too but i'm
straight up bro i ain't gonna lie to you i thought so too when i found out that other countries
actually had presidents too i was like for it i'm shocked i'm not gonna lie to you i'm not gonna lie
to you i came i came up along a far away on this journey and i ain't gonna lie to you guys man i
ain't gonna make it seem like i know everything an american has ever said to you i'm late to
the trend but i need to tell this so a long time ago i was in vacations with my family in mexico
and usually we have direct flights from mexico to lisbon yes and portuguese
and yeah we had a direct flight from lisbon to cancun and we were supposed to also have
a direct flight from cancun to lisbon but there were problems so instead we needed to do a stop
in the united states so when we stopped at the united states and they asked to see our passports
things got confusing because when the policemen took our passports for control for checking
they said that we could not pass because our passports were wrong
he said that where it says country it should be spain because portugal is not a country but
a city from spain so i'm american obviously but i got a story for you this one i was at an audition
in nashville and i was sitting next to this pretty blonde girl i asked her where she was from and she
said i'm from alabama how about alabama nice got that country accent huh i'm from oklahoma what is
that excuse me what what is that what is it it it's a state like in the united states yes in
the united states of america i i've never uh this one is the craziest one i've ever heard she didn't
she definitely locked away more than i am because i know a lot of things but i know americans like
i've told people on these videos many times americans don't even know their own states
they get they're like no that's garbage i'm like yeah that's max
americans are really locked away in their place bro if you're from new york you're
from new york you don't know nothing else i'm just i'm just being honest with you guys man
i'm being for real heard of that you've never heard of oklahoma no where is that
it's like it's like right in the middle of the country like right about texas you know oh
so so it's next to california that is 100 a true story so this has probably happened to me at least
five times and trevor noah has spoken about this in one of his comedy specials i forget which one
i'm sure many many africans who have lived worked or studied abroad can relate to this
basically i went to university in australia and there i met a lot of american exchange
students who mostly really lovely people but a lot of times the conversation would go like
this that's where i'm from i'd say i'm from botswana they'd ask oh where's botswana i'd
say botswana's a country in southern africa like oh southern africa and then they'll say oh i met
this random african person from a random african country and then they asked me if i know them
i don't just know everybody from africa you wouldn't meet two people from new york and
just assume they know each other so why would you assume two people
from different countries on a whole continent know each other that's wild that that's wild