hi we're joel and leah and this video is 10 things americans are not ready to hear
guys we've taken inspiration from a reddit thread where an american asked non-americans
what are some things that we americans are not ready to hear so they're unpopular opinions
yes you might get triggered so this is a trigger warning to all americans watching
triggered okay throwback this isn't our opinion it's other people's opinions yeah we're just gonna
unbox it yeah don't shoot the messenger yeah don't shoot the messengers yeah okay what's the first
one joel the first one where someone said a lot of your favorite food brands make better versions of
their products here america often gets the short end of the stick so this was a german girl who was
referencing philadelphia cheese is apparently much better in germany than it is in america
i wonder why i reckon that there's more sugar in it in the u.s i'm just taking a guess yeah i think
more additives americans love to add not you real americans but like the american companies add so
much rubbish into food to make it addictive yeah so yeah i'm sorry that you guys have to go through
that i'm sorry that if you want to eat something that's not full of rubbish you've got to go like
search high and low for it yeah but my question with this example yeah wasn't philadelphia cheese
started in philadelphia in america that's the interesting point why is it not philadelphia
homegrown yeah philly cheese we just don't know why don't they offer you philadelphia cheese on a
philly cheese steak yeah why don't they go do you want i don't want cheese whiz yeah i don't want pr
provolone no privilege thank you what's the other one don't know the next one what do you think
about this someone said you are the foreigner for me and around 220 countries so i think this is the
view that foreigners have of americans foreigners yeah that america tends to think of themselves as
like the center and everyone else is a foreigner and when americans can open their eyes to the
fact that actually to us you're the foreigner like we're all in our bubble we are the british people
and you america foreigners are a foreigner and like someone from italy might be like america
you're a foreigner americans aren't ready to hear that because they're like wait you're the alien
and they call you aliens don't they like what do they actually call you yeah they call you like
an alien if you're not from the us or a foreigner and it's like we're all foreigners to other people
from other countries but i think this person is assuming that americans don't consider themselves
to be from a foreign country it's like but you are from a foreign country to us that's mine i don't
know why i'm i'm always reacting to it like in america my i'm mind blown because of course like
of course like when i'm in cyprus i have a memory of my granddad driving us in the the big truck and
he was like sees tourists and he goes bloody foreigners but like of course in england he's
a foreigner yeah parents are immigrants yeah we we're all foreigners where we're not i don't know
i just just landed on me lucky you just dawned on me well that's what this person is that's so funny
yeah the americans have that view do you know what joel i don't know why but the word foreigner
triggers me doesn't it i just don't like it when like it's used yeah i just don't like it when it's
used that way yeah yeah i think if you're saying it just in like being like oh my like friend from
wherever is a foreigner when she's in here that's like yeah that's a fact but i think it's
when it's said in a horrible way like that being like oh foreigners it's like yeah i think it's
that that actually is a bit triggering you know and you're like i don't know why i prefer there
are other words but i like it when we're in other countries like when we're in america we are sorry
we're just foreigners yeah that's funny sorry we don't know anything we're just foreigners yeah
i think it's because in tv shows the kind of person that would call others like would say like
foreigner would be like the old racist person feel like it's a word that they we got from them yeah
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bathroom stalls are exposed af so true a grown man could crawl under one of them and the vertical
gap has big enough gap to make full-on eye contact with anyone walking by this is so true this is the
most triggering truth why did that not just get fixed like 20 years ago yeah and why is it still
a thing like i don't but you know what americans are so indoctrinated by this bathroom system that
even the comments in our videos people will say yeah it's for safety purposes in case someone's
doing like taking drugs in a toilet store or saying like in case someone gets locked in or they
they're like defending it it's like oh you don't need to depend do you think that people are just
doing drugs in all the toilet stores in europe and getting away with it like that's not we have
private stalls that are just nice and private wow we don't need stalls with doors this big no okay
in my narrow mind i never thought about why it might be good i think yeah it's probably just safe
safety yeah i always thought that this is just the way something is and nobody's changed it so even
when we go somewhere a little bit more modern and there was a newer bathroom in america i'd be like
isn't it funny i'm sitting there on the loo i'm like isn't it weird that not one manufacturer's
decided to do it a different way yet yeah and just beat everybody else like it's just strange
i didn't realize it was forsaken i just think americans are safe americans coming to the uk
it must be like luxury going to a public bathroom in the uk so like i've got full privacy yeah they
either feel extreme claustrophobia yeah or they feel like oh finally one can relax i can't do
feminine changes in a public i can't i can't do it we have to get sorry i feel like i'm in a i feel
like i'm on stage yeah at the lyric hammersmith yeah whatever feel like i'm literally on a west
end stage doing a performance yeah anyone could just watch because even if adults aren't watching
the kids do and you're sat on the loo doing a poo and then there's a kid like looking at you through
the gap and you're like this is not appropriate it's not is there it's not and the gaps on the
last thing the gap yeah they make me feel like someone could crawl under and attack me yeah not
that like oh if you're being attacked don't worry cause someone's gonna see it and stop it yeah i'm
like no you feel more i'm exposed they can see i'm on my own anyway you don't feel safe i don't like
it so the next one's to do with the cost of things so often we just feel like we're getting lied to
the sales tax on everything so over here if something is 99p and 99 cents you get to the
checkout it's still 99 it's not like 120. it's 99. yeah but over there that's just not the case
i remember being on road was it rodeo drive with you remember when i bought those white shorts from
sweaty betty or lululemon i saw the tag and i was like yeah i'm happy with that price then i got to
the checkout and i was like sorry what just put the tax on it that's right tell me the price the
end price because uk items our stuff has a tax on it but it's just included in the price yeah
like we have 17 and a half or has it gone up now but it was when i was younger seventeen and a half
percent vat on certain items yeah but it would always say like this is 35.99 including the 18.
it'd be included in the big price that it tells you yeah i'm not sure which items have vat on them
no i mean whatever it is you don't find that out later it's always included or if somebody quotes
you something they'll say plus yeah and they'll tell you how much that is and then the final total
yeah which is just confusing and i think americans have to be really good at maths really good all
day long okay this is an interesting one the next one that someone finds bizarre is saying treating
your president like someone you worship is bizarre as an aussie i don't understand worshipping the
royals either so they've said it about the brits oh we're both taking it okay yeah okay okay yeah
i feel like as brits we not everyone but we do almost like worship the royals but we wouldn't
ever worship the prime minister like never whereas americans tend to worship the president
oh my gosh in fact quite the opposite here like he's ridiculed oh yeah we hate the prime minister
i hate him and also to be fair no matter who the prime minister is everyone just hates them they
are probably prepared in their training to be the most hated disliked person in the country
yeah and they're up for that and they're happy to take the paycheck and be like no i'm just
going to be hated and i just don't understand as well i remember when donald trump was president
and we were referred to him as donald and some austere like republicans would be like that's
so disrespectful he's our president call him president trump and all these things and it's
like i'll get over it's just his name is donald yeah let's call him how we see him yeah we're not
gonna say president trump no and like we don't talk about like a prime minister boris johnson
on prime minister johnson we call him boris johnson or bojo oj like and all brits do that
even the brits that respect boris will just call him boris like i don't understand that like oh
we must call him the president it's like no yeah even joe biden like why just call him joe but if
we did meet the queen we would never just be like you're right liz no i wouldn't dream of that no
your majesty oh we do worship we actually do yeah so we're just as bad aren't we we are just as bad
your majesty your majesty but at least royals are like lovely the roy as a whole but liz especially
is so lovely she's done so many great things for the country she doesn't get politically involved
in anything so she never says anything like like controversial whereas like prime ministers the
presidents all say and do things that are shady whereas the queen has never done anything shady
she's not that we know of anyway and even if she did i'll excuse her yeah because she's between liz
do you know what i mean this one's interesting because it says you do have an accent and it's
like of course if you're american and you live and you've always lived in america and you're you've
been raised to feel that you're the center of the uni the center of the world is you guys yeah then
surely you think everyone else has an accent your voice is neutral yeah whereas there is
really there's no one that doesn't have an accent no everyone has an accent that's almost no it's
not like someone's a textbook no even google maps has got an accent yeah she's a busy lady
again it stems back to that thing of viewing who is like foreign essentially like you said
if you view yourself as like the standard and the normal then you'll be like i don't have an accent
but of course you do yeah because if you're if your media owns and runs the world your
tv and film everything about it's like you're the center focus it's like why would you go to other
countries and learn the language like you're just like well everyone would speak english or american
everyone speaks british english so it's kind of like i don't know whether both brits and america
have both got that syndrome yeah loads of british people don't think they've got an accent at all
exactly we all do and i can fall into that as well and be like oh i don't have an accent
but of course i do have an accent yeah right we all fall into it so we're all guilty of that oh
people need to hear that lesson we do yeah well that i think that was a fun video me too joel yeah
and as said as we said i mean we've sprinkled some of our own opinions in there but these
are opinions from reddit so don't come for us come from ready you can go on
the reddit forum and get involved i mean we're not on there we'd sit on it all day
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