hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts today we're going to be checking out a video
relating to something that i uh obviously have announced on this channel so this video is titled
my thoughts on america one year later american living in germany so actually she's living in
germany which is pretty cool shout out to the germans who are watching this video i appreciate
you guys being here but either ways um we're gonna check out that video but i just want to
say i'm moving to europe i finally announced in a video that i move into europe what's to
come will be me showing you guys that i totally told you guys where i'm moving to and you guys
just didn't see it some of you guys caught it but some of you guys still have not caught it
and then after that why am i telling you guys my schedule why am i telling you guys my schedule
but i'm gonna tell you guys one more thing on the schedule but i'm not gonna tell you guys anything
after that so one i released a video saying that i'm going to europe on this channel i did
a reaction video to that so you can find it and i'll leave a link in the comment section for the
channel where that video is at so you guys will subscribe because once i'm in europe i'll be doing
these same videos that i'm reacting to right now so stay posted and um go check it out but like i
said moving to europe i made that video then i'll be giving you guys a video of me showing you guys
that i clearly told you guys what country it is and uh the next video would be me telling you guys
what country it is officially telling you guys what country it is and uh yeah it should be a
really amazing video so go check out that channel and subscribe and uh be prepared for that because
it will be coming soon trust me but either ways let's get right into this for you guys i have
been living in germany since 2019 when i moved initially i was not expecting to have the culture
shock that i did i was not expecting for there to be a lot of resistance in myself i thought
that it was going to be easy breezy i was going to live this cool like european lifestyle on a bike
eat baguettes all day be cute all of the things that was not the case i was thrown into a culture
that was very serious not a lot of sugar coating happened very direct just oh so she's trying to
say that she was finna go um she was gonna go to uh europe specifically germany and actually have
an american lifestyle like the thing is i don't wanna be that guy but i gotta be the guy right now
i have a feeling my culture shocks will not be necessarily culture shocks it will just be things
that i knew was to come but not anything i'm too surprised about because i knew it was gonna happen
either way it's because i i i am very much equipped right now with the knowledge due
to the fact that i do these reaction videos man i started doing these reaction reviews just because
i'll be moving to europe and i wanted to know what to look forward to you know what i'm trying to say
best places to visit such such efficient and also very quiet i thought oh my god i'm in for it so
now that i've been living in germany i'm able to really put together german news stuff and also
american news and form a new opinion about the united states as an american living outside of
the fishbowl which i like to call it now that i live outside of the us i can see a lot of things
a lot more clearly than i did last year so number one i am really seeing that there is a really big
divide i think this is very obvious this is one of the reasons i moved away from the united states to
begin with is this divide that's been happening in the united states has really just grown
and it is so strong the polarization is so strong but it's not necessarily the beliefs i think that
are the full problem it's the fact that nobody listens to each other so something i've learned
after living in germany is that germans are great listeners and the united states americans are
not as good more talkers what i think happens is in the united states from what i see now as an
outsider and also having lived in the united states is that in the united states you're
so focused on making your point and saying it as loud as you instead of understanding
instead of trying to understand somebody's point i get you i get i got you i heard it
i heard it she's talking facts take the time to step back and listen and i also think it has to
do with pride and with ego that pride in that ego seems to be really ingrained in us citizens
as we grow up and i think that it's really difficult for us to say hey i was wrong hey
oops didn't see that hey oops that's a new point i've never considered or even thought to consider
thanks for sharing it remember i coined it i coined it i don't even know if i'm the original
person who coined it but um what what what was it what was the order again um being in uh uh no
why can't you remember your old day dude like what um um arrogant and um ignorance yeah so you're
arrogant while being ignorant that's what i coined when i started reacting to these videos i was like
americans are literally arrogant and ignorant at the same time they're arrogant meaning they're
proud thinking that what they're saying is correct if that makes sense to you guys i
don't know i hope i was the one who coined it i regained ignorant blah blah blah blah in terms of
putting them together as one thing because i've always heard people just speak about one alone
but you get the point everybody has an opinion everyone has values and beliefs and sometimes
those change um but they can only change if you listen i think that in the united states that's
something that they really struggle with back home is to really just listen to the other side
that's something that i think is really destroying that community aspect of living in the united
states that american dream of like really being and coming together and being a melting pot is
really kind of turning into being water and oil and you guys just aren't mixing and it's just a
lot of yelling and not a lot of listening i think that a lot could be solved if people were willing
to just hold their opinions back for a second i'm not asking anybody to change any opinions
that they have but if they just held them inside for a second and let somebody talk instead of
yell over each other i think a lot would change so i think listening is a big problem in the
united states i didn't realize that when i was living there i started to as i got older and i
started to travel but while i was living there i thought that that's just how we were we were loud
we believe in things it's great to have an opinion it's great to voice your opinion but we're never
actually taught to listen to opinions my mom always taught me to listen to others and to
see others through a compassionate eye but i think that as you grow up you form your own opinions and
you form your own way of living and so it can only go so far that was something that i kind of had to
really step back observe in myself and then update basically the second thing that i think about the
united states and this really carries on from last year but i'm able to see it a lot more clearly
and have more solid examples is the united states really is lacking education amongst its people and
when i say education i don't mean math and science however that is the case i think
she said she doesn't mean math and science but um for her perspective i totally agree with what
she is saying and um her points are very very solid especially this one that she's gonna get
into right now she um you know with the education like it's not that americans are not educated they
don't know to do uh equation or some some form of garbage like that which probably is less important
in my humble opinion because since i've not been in school i've not done a single equation so
that's probably less important but the interaction that part is really poor knowing about the outside
world that part is really important to me i think when i was younger i cared a lot more about
learning like let's say i want to be an engineer and i i i want to be a computer science uh i want
to i want to do computer programming that's the type of stuff i wanted and that's what i wanted
to learn right and that's the issue with america americans want to learn that not those right
so it's a really rough situation when you just want to learn one particular thing that you're
interested in and not the things that uh can help you through life if you get what i'm trying to say
education is really around what happens from other perspectives so other world perspectives when you
live in the united states you are taught world history basically in the sense that you are an
american this is what it means to be american this is how you should be prideful being an
american this is how america was founded this is how america feels this is how america speaks
this is how america deals with things these are the events that america has been a part of how
things affect america but you're never actually taught this is what happened and this is how japan
was affected for example pearl harbor i don't know how the japanese people were affected i don't know
any of the things that changed for them i don't know anything about that and so it lacks i lack
as a student in the united states the education to really have really to learn that other people have
different experiences it goes so much deeper than just understanding that i understand that people
are from different backgrounds they have different socioeconomic statuses they have different
upbringings and beliefs i understand that and life doesn't happen to people the same way but
when you're in the united states you really kind of i really am generalizing but i really believe
that you grow up and you think that the rest of the world operates the way that the united states
does or it operates in reaction to the us and that's just not the case and i think that in the
united states they're really lacking education in that department and also in empathy we
don't ever learn anything about other cultures i literally couldn't tell you key figures in sweden
i couldn't tell you any wild events that happened in the ukraine okay chernobyl but you wanna you
wanna you wanna shake my hands and um hear me say me too because me too before i started foreign i
had no um you know what would you try to say uh on like history based off of other countries like
i could tell you about the cold war with finland not the cold war but whatever not the cold war um
what's that what's that word that is it's not cold but it's a word whatever the thing with um russia
and the ussr right i can tell you all about that a little bit not in depth because i wasn't there
but from what i've learned that it happened right and yeah it's kind of true it's really true what
she's saying maybe is that even right i don't even know so it's stuff like that where i just
think there's like a lack of education and really i think part of my living in germany now is really
catching up to the rest of the world i learned about the united states i'm really grateful that
i got to have an education and that i got to go to public school and i got to learn all of the things
that i did because i think that it set me up in a really nice way and i'm very grateful for that
i think it's just all of these different things that i'm really having to relearn as an adult and
i think the only reason that i'm even considering relearning them is because i'm now living in a
different country with a different perspective and also a different take on education and so
that's something that i really feel america is lacking in it's just really general education and
i know that people are going to be in my comments and say well you know screw you stay in germany
the us so much we don't need you that's what i'm talking about that's the typical
american response you're gonna get you're gonna get that typical american response
for sure let me tell you that man and everybody want to talk about americans man they they will
whoa they got you man i'm telling you that's what you're gonna get
opportunity to just listen and i really appreciate it if you're watching my channel right now because
i think that that's the cool thing about the internet is we're able to connect with each other
and i've watched so many videos about germans and their experience just in their own country
that now i'm able to say oh that's so interesting that this is how people react to them in their own
country and i've also had so many interactions with all of you guys who are from germany in my
comments and i just start to realize like germans really listen and i think that leads way or gives
space to someone to change the third thing that i want to say i spend a lot of time thinking
would i ever go back to the united states i think of course i'd like to always leave those doors
open who wouldn't i'm not silly i really love the united states in the sense that that's my
home country i'm proud and many many ways of being from the united states that doesn't mean
that it's perfect and i'm not going to pretend like the united states is perfect i don't
think germany is perfect either i had a lot of resistance when i moved to germany but what i
am thinking about is what would actually make sense for me my future family and i really think
that a lot would need to change in the united states for me to really consider going back i
think that people move to the united states again with the american dream in mind where they have
all of these opportunities to then become wealthy and to build you know this dream life i coming
from the united states into a country like germany almost have the reverse effect where i feel so
grateful and i wasn't like this when i started when i came to germany i was completely pissed off
that nobody had any interest in becoming the richest having the biggest house who had the
fanciest job title that used to piss me off i was so angry about it and now that i'm here and i've
been living here and really just kind of opening up to a new culture what i'm realizing is that i
crave simplicity i want to have i don't know just moving to a different country it humbles you
in such a wild way i think that when i moved here i had such an ego the pride the american thing and
when i moved here i realized you know hey there's a different way of life and it doesn't always have
to be the ferraris and the mansions that is how i feel yo she hit in my heart right there
it ain't always going to be about a ferrari mama you different oh gosh i'll be crazy
wow oh my she's right though she's right she is very right and um i appreciate her for being so
honest and you know vulnerable because a lot of people she reminds me of what i would do
for and react telling you know you guys that yo i've been like this i was arrogant too and
i did not know outside of america and america was this in america i thought america was everything
good you know what i'm saying and y'all get the point bro about the united states in this
year maybe that will change thank you guys so much for watching this video if you liked it please go
ahead and like it don't forget the show bro like i'm telling you she did she she don't like what
man keep doing what you got to do man i appreciate the honesty but either ways
guys i'm like i'mma be out of here man y'all know what we do here reaction videos forum
reacts man this is a beautiful vi i appreciate it appreciate it uh her honesty and i can't
stress it enough she um spoke the truth and that's exactly how i felt like maybe a while
back you know i'm saying like i i i really changed really quickly because of other reasons as well
but um like i said man this was a really beautiful video and i'm out of here guys peace