hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts today i'm gonna be doing another one of my favorite
videos to do americans living abroad first time you realized america really messed you up
and uh this is really actually one of my favorites to do reason uh it's really interesting to hear um
you know the perspective of the americans who have um
been overseas um you know in the european continent or um other places of this world
you know to see what happens over there compared to what happens in america
which you know it's really interesting so we're going to be doing that today so i do hope you
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further ado guys let's get right into the video i'm currently living abroad what is one time that
made you realize that america really messed you up oh my gosh such a great question i have so many
uh the one that sticks out of my mind right now is the first time i celebrated the fourth of
july and the kiwis were like oh happy fourth of july and i'm like yeah suckas we broke away from
the queen a long time ago and we have freedom and blah blah blah and they were like hold on
what freedoms don't we have and why is it bad that other countries work together to protect each
other and help each other and america's always talking about freedom and what freedoms do you
have that we don't have and i was like hold up all this rhetoric that i was told my whole life the
land of the free we need to fight for our freedom and it's such a value in the american society and
when you think about how many countries are just as free where does this freedom value come from
i mean it came back from the revolutionary war but hello there's a lot of countries that are
free it was eye-opening american currently living abroad what is one time that made
you realize that america really messed you up did y'all know that in other countries
they can go to the pharmacy and actually get what they need i live in arizona ethiopia right now and
i went to the pharmacist and i was like hi um i think i gotta have like a uti like do you have
any pain medicine any cranberry and she's like why don't i just give you antibiotic and i was like
then i go back and i'm like hi i'm going to south africa next week like i'm safari like
any good you know mosquito repellent and she's like girl you want anti-malarials
and then i get bold with it right i go in there you know on another occasion and i'm
like i'm back you know i'm i'm waiting for my birth control like to come from the u.s
like it's taking a while prescriptions and doctors and all that and she literally threw
the birth control at me she threw it at you amazing an american currently living abroad that's
actually a major thing with the health care system you got to do a lot of that nonsense you know
going back and forth to the doctors but um it's really not necessary it's really a plot twist like
i've always said to people america is for the money and i'm not saying that
everywhere else is not for the money and you can't make money anywhere else but
it's really like a scam so it's like a cycle so everybody has to get a cut out of money so
practically the person who is buying they have to go through some so many processes you know just to
get that one particular item and that causes them to spend way more money and you know waste a lot
of time so it's really to benefit the businesses in america that's really what it is which is kind
of sad but yeah that's what america is did you realize that america really messed you up just one
it just tells you anything i was only supposed to be abroad for a year i'm on year 10. oh yeah
essentially what i learned was me living traveling and working around the world was
easier and cheaper than me just living in the u.s so why would i go back to the us
to live and spend more when i can travel and live in other countries and spend less
make it make sense yeah time that made you realize that america really messed you up
so i spent about four years in berlin germany working in advertising and coming from new york
where my first eight years in the industry i just you know you don't take vacation you just don't
really do that well i had to have a sit down with the ceo of my company and the head of hr
where they took my laptop and took my work phone and told me i could not come back to the office
for three weeks because i had to use my vacation time they were afraid that i was going to sue
the company for not being allowed to take my vacation time so they made sure that i
literally could not work imagine that happening in the us someone literally taking your computer
and your work phone away and say go come back in three weeks i can tell you a piece of this
um i did a video um i don't remember what it was i think the title was working in america
you guys can go check the playlist that i have you guys can probably see that for yourselves
but it was a video about working in america right what it's like to work in america and a lot of
the folks actually you know elaborated on that particular matter and i never knew it was that
bad because i've never really had a job job like that so you know but they were like okay i'm here
um on vacation so i applied for it and when i applied for it i got approved
that i was on my vacation and i got called to come in for work and i'm like i'm on my vacation people
even got um people's mom probably like died i think also in the video and they were literally
saying come in for work like literally so it's it's really different your vacation
honestly europe has a lot going for it that i wish americans would understand what is one time that
made you realize that america really messed you up i was working as a teacher in south korea and
a lot of students actually have these little box cutters to cut stuff i was kind of concerned that
these were allowed in school because i was scared that people were gonna stab each other god what
is one time that made you realize that america really messed you up so just for a little context
i live in latvia now but when this happened to me i was working in the uk as a bartender
and my co-workers and i were talking about gun violence in the u.s and they were kind of making
jokes like oh i'm surprised you graduated and you didn't get shot first and stuff like that
and i guess i was trying to defend it so i was saying you know you know it's not as bad as the
news makes it seem you know i only know one school that had an active shooter and had to
go into lockdown and you know for me i only had one gun threat in high school and it was just
a threat and one when i was in elementary school and then my co-workers kind of looked at me like
you what and and and you think that's normal and i was like yeah it's not even that bad
you're an american currently living for her like i um the thing is the media does make it worse
but what the media doesn't do is to compare it with other countries um
the media does make it worse because they're trying to make money from the particular topics
but it is actually really bad when you compare other countries that are not having school
shootings and all that kind of weird stuff going on so it is really bad but the media does make it
uh technically you know monetary value so they try to exaggerate it and stuff like that
but it's really actually deeply bad when you compare it to other countries this one time
that made you realize that america really met i'm a us citizen currently living in costa rica we
have to be careful about the use of the word american since the americas are continents
anyway i have so many examples of how the u.s [ __ ] me up specifically florida got to costa rica the
second week in november obviously still deep in the throes in the u.s with kovid and coming from
florida where there's so many anti-massacres in kova deniers it was surreal to go to these
establishments here where everyone's following the ministry of health rules there's hand washing
stations outside of every establishment there are people taking your temperature to go into grocery
stores in certain restaurants people are giving you distance everyone is compliant with masks and
i found myself so defensively postured ready to argue because i had gotten into so many arguments
in florida with anti-massacres and kova deniers it's amazing when people don't politicize a virus
i can currently living abroad america is really politicized like i really kind of
i'm over right now i don't even like i used to love the republicans um and at this moment i
don't love the republicans i don't like the democrats i don't i don't i'm not involved
in politics of america anymore it's just stupid to be involved in that but the mass
thing is really important um when you when you when you when you were when i was in florida
i went to florida in um december or somewhere like that right and it was really really a shocker
for me because i was like bro nobody's wearing masks and before that i was in new york in new
york new york is very strict for the covet due to the amount of deaths that they had right but
for florida bro i'm telling you people were not wearing masks bro like dead ass bro like you'd
see a few people wearing masks but the average person wasn't bro but like that's facts time
that made you realize that america really messed you up 2008 or 9 20 years old munich germany
city passes the vibe check no doubt and but i didn't have anyone with me and i'm trying to get
cigarettes from a machine my id doesn't work cop shouts from across the street he's on his way to
me hey you sir is there anything i can help you with and immediately no i'm sorry don't worry
about it i'm getting out of here anyway and i keep it moving and he's like no no hey you and i keep
keeping pushing like hey you no get the [ __ ] out of here the next cop stops me and i immediately
drop everything that's in my hands as i take my hands out of my pockets so i'm getting shocked
so he ends up buying me a pack of cigarettes
bringing me to the nearest bar explaining to me that they go to four years of college
to do this get paid fifty thousand dollars a year more than archives and
bought me a drink what is one time that made you realize that america really messed you up
when i lived in paris my period changed because there wasn't as much hormones in the food
if you live abroad for any length of time your period will also become different over time and
revert when you return american currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that
america really messed you up so for me it was a few different times all while i was living in
australia one time with the various shootings that we have here in the states um my boss came to me
and he was like are you okay how are you feeling do you need some time off and i was like yeah and
he was like because i heard about the shooting that happened back in the states oh i had to sit
there and have an honest moment with myself and him to realize that i had built up a numbness
to all the shootings because they happen all the time yeah so that sucks number two i have horrific
cramps i always have they make me pass out i throw up i've been in the emergency room i don't
know how many times at this point it's just how it's been i fought against it but i finally had
my roommate take me to the emergency room and my total was a hundred dollars when i left as someone
who was only on a working holiday visa and not a 2 000 bill like it would have been in the states
in currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that america really messed you up
i first started school and asked them when we have our first training for school shootings
and they asked me what is that i walked into a supermarket and i was confused as to why there
weren't any guns on the shelves when i went on a walk with my friends and they wanted to
walk you heard what he just said i went in the supermarket and i was oh she was confused like
why is there no gun on the shelves bro like if you're an american and you don't experience this
something is wrong this is something that every american should experience because
the accessibility of the guns in america is amazingly it's scary it is scary how easily
you can actually get a gun it is scary people will try to deny it it's hard no it's not
but he has a very blood point right here bro go over someone's farm because it was a shortcut and
i said i didn't want to go because i was afraid of getting shot and they looked at me like i was
crazy right when i saw police cars driving up and i realized that nobody besides me was
scared shitless when i watch political talk shows and they're actually having a conversation and
discussing an actual topic instead of talking over each other and insulting each other when i noticed
that over here nudity and sexual expression was seen as natural and normal while violence is
talked down upon when in the states violence is everywhere nudity and sexuality are taboo
if you're an american currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that
america really oh man i got so many stories you may know i'm an american living in italy and
there have been so many times i'm thinking oh my god america is so messed up most recently is when
i gave birth to my daughter so i decided to give birth to my daughter here in italy and basically
before you give birth they recommend that you meet up with an anesthesiologist um even if you don't
want the epidural beforehand they recommend you do so just in case like an emergency you
really want one or et cetera um um so i didn't even end up getting that federal but i had to
pay for the meeting and i'm thinking oh no how much is this meeting gonna cost it was 30 euros
30 euros is the equivalent of maybe let's say like 40 dollars and also too i stayed in the
hospital for three days got completely taken care of and i didn't pay a cent
a cent american currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that america
really messed you up so i'm an american and i live in norway right now and one time i was
going to help my friend with this project that she had and this girl was still in high school
and so she was like yeah just come to my high school you can help me out yada yada i was like
great where do i have to sign in when i get there do i need to wear a visitor's badge who do i talk
to what should i tell the front desk lady she was like what are you talking about just walk in
and i'll meet you at my classroom and my mind was blown i was like i can just walk into your school
like no aren't they gonna call the police aren't they gonna send out an intruder alert
like i can't just walk into your high school and just walk straight to your classroom no
then i realized just how messed up it is that american high schoolers are
like security prisons american currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize
that america really messed you up so i live in romania and i feel like the most astonishing
thing to me when i moved here was how easy it is to find someone to go out with to go out and have
drinks with to go out and have dinner with any given day somebody wants to go out whereas in
the us i feel like we're all so stressed out and miserable that we just want to stay home
i cannot co-sign that one i can't co-sign that one but i do know that a lot of us are people
they got to be doing all them two jobs four jobs 10 jobs 1500 jobs but yeah it's kind of yeah she
has a point if you're an american currently living abroad what is one time that made you realize that
america really so i live in estonia now estonia and i remember the first year that i moved here
it was around the beginning of december and i remember hearing like gunshots like really
loud gunshots like and a lot of them so me being from brooklyn hey immediately there's some crazy
and sure enough it's fireworks oh it's fireworks fireworks are kind of sort of illegal
in new york city so i was used to just automatically assuming that it's a good
shot it was gunshots brooklyn though come on yeah that's kind of when i realized that
america's kind of messed up what is one time that made you realize that america really messed you up
so when i was a teenager i went out of the country one time to go on vacation to the bahamas and we
were staying at this resort and [ __ ] happened i caught a virus that was going around the resort
and then i had an allergic reaction to the virus and i couldn't really breathe but the onsite
paramedic had already left for the day so the hotel concierge took us to the hospital in his van
and just told us to call when we were ready to head back so we go to the hospital i get
treated and as we're leaving my mom tries to give them her insurance card and she's telling
them like i'm so sorry we've never been out of the country before i don't know how to do this
they told her like oh no you just keep that we don't take insurance here
and the look on my mom's face was terrified like oh my god we're gonna have to sell our house
terrified this was when they realized we were americans and they were like oh no no don't panic
you must be american we have universal health care here you just need to pick up your medicine
in the lobby you're fine so you're trying to tell me that every country in this bloody
world actually looks at you oh you're american you don't have to pay every country knows this
now that's embarrassing i don't know i want to travel ever ever ever ever i'm just playing i
do want to travel i do want to actually experience this for myself but it's going to be traumatizing
just to be in a situation and people are like but i don't think it's gonna be traumatizing for
me because i'm gonna actually be in a situation where i'm like okay so i watched the videos i've
seen this is this actually real and i i guess i don't know i'm just probably gonna be a little
bit in denial just a little bit and when it happens i'm gonna be like what you know but
i don't think i'm gonna be in the in as bad of a situation as most of these folks because
um i'm not as ignorant to the situation as they are so yeah hopefully the medicine was
eight dollars and they gave me a note to give to the airline to get back into my own country
as well but either ways man that was a beautiful video i hope you all enjoyed it
like and subscribe we outta here man and um peace