who is that man i don't know he's wearing a hat now hello everybody and welcome back
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hey today we're gonna be doing a little bit of a reddit video because i've heard your requests
europeans talks about the uk too much talks about the us too much not today we're talking about a
little bit of a subreddit called ask europe ask you rope you guys in to this video and another
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you'll hear more about them at the end of the video so today's thread is what's a big no-no
in your country a big no no no so things that could be a thing in other countries but
absolutely do not do that in your home country in europe so without further ado what is the
first one here make a video about europe and yet somehow the uk is at the top of the list we're not
this is what i've had to live with for the last month gonna move somewhere
soon hopefully so yet again even though this is about europe the uk has to just
find a way to be at the top comment they're not even in eu but i guess they're still in europe
anyway never ever call anyone from scotland wales or northern ireland english absolutely not that
that is probably the best way to make someone hate you here it's like calling someone from new jersey
a new yorker oh boy or calling a canadian american it's not necessarily the biggest mistake they'll
they'll forgive you it's fine yeah very distinct countries who all unite in the united kingdom to
hate england that is that is how this uh society works that we currently live in next up we have
violating personal space in finland interesting like sitting next to someone on the bus if there
are empty seat rows being closer than like two meters to someone at a bus stop without a reason
talking to strangers with no apparent motivation or reason you would really not like it in the
states or the north of the uk i kind of vibe with that though i've never actually been to finland
but i like the concept that personal space is such a big thing to the finnish people another
one is bad behavior in sauna there is no arguing no provocations no sexual approaches no farting
you hold in your farts in a sauna you're literally like baking in there the gases are all around you
come on just gotta i get it i get it finnish people are really into their saunas then we
have thinking we are russians oh yeah basically like the previous one if you're in a country that
isn't russia just don't assume anyone's russian i think that's a big way to offend a lot of people
in a lot of countries or else you'll be rushed into the hospital when they put you in a body bag
maybe i don't know in france not saying hello to the shopkeeper slash other clients in small shops
this is particularly true in smaller cities i've seen many tourists forget to do this
and they usually end up receiving poor customer service what i've literally never known that so
it's kind of like in the uk you're supposed to say thank you to the driver on the way out so
hypothetically it doesn't really matter because you'll never interact with him that same day
but in france just by walking into the shop you have to say bonjour bonsoir you know
mr shopkeeper man most you i don't speak much french or they'll give you bad service
interesting that's that's a really cool little cultural thing that i'm i'm gonna try and learn
just have to figure out how to say different things in french besides good morning and
good evening avec fromage well we have ireland here with uh go to everyone's funeral if a
friend's distant aunt twice removed dies you turn up so that's not a big no-no it's a big yes yes
but yeah basically i i've known a lot of irish people and it's weird how many different stories
of different funerals i've heard of because i haven't been to that many funerals but ireland
that's a huge cultural thing the whole family the whole family's family and the family families
family they all arrive and mourn and i believe there's alcohol involved somewhere before or after
maybe not during correct me if i'm wrong please putting sauce on your schnitzel is considered a
hate crime in austria what sauce would you put on a schnitzel maybe to be fair i think i've
had a schnitzel once with like a white gravy no i haven't no i have this okay i i don't want to
be hate crime why the food do that slovakia is also offended check children with ketchup i mean
children put ketchup on anything though if you go to like a high-end restaurant i'm sure you
can find some child and some bad parents allowing them to put ketchup on their steak tisctis germany
here with asking about someone's well-being just for small talk is rude when you ask how people
feel be willing to listen oh yeah again germany would not get along with being in the uk you say
like you're right you're not actually asking if you're all right you just expect to hear
all right everyone's all right in germany if you say you're right be like my mother starving
okay that's cool um you're right yeah had someone at work asked me how i was feeling
i said pretty terrible uh she was confused that i'd admit that and somehow turned it
into a joke i wasn't in the mood for a joke i had a headache and nobody was happier afterwards
hey say what you want but at least the germans are a bit honest with their feelings in sweden
a big no-no go into someone's house with your outdoor footwear on oh i think that's
a similar thing to how it is in japan just good manners i suppose depends who i know
in the uk or us some people are big on to taking your shoes off others aren't but uh
sweden that's a big no no all right ireland with something we've already covered do not call us
english also don't say no to an old woman who's offering you a cup of tea that's pretty similar
in the uk as well i've heard if your nan offers you tea even if you just don't want tea in the
slightest you have to say yes it's just culturally sensitive otherwise you might as well get that hot
tea in your face never get off the bus without thanking the driver is a big one here that has
got me the occasional odd look when outside of ireland you get an odd look for thanking
the driver i think that's just quite kind if you do that in london you'll get a look of like wow
a text romania with not giving the old person your seat on the bus tram well that's quite a wholesome
one i've i'm just comparing this to london but like on london you just pretend that you're asleep
but it's nice that that's a big no-no in romania enough to be a top comment here
my wife is romanian and i like to try and wind people up uh it's always light-hearted and aim
is to make people laugh one time i wanted to see if i could wind up my mother-in-law by saying
something positive about communism safe to say she did not find it funny so i think i can say
mentioning communism to romanians can be a big no-no i do not mention the communist manifesto
next time you're visiting romania good to know i feel like this should be a universal rule
there's america doing here who who invited you to this chat you think everything's communism
doing the nazi greeting denying the holocaust or joking about it i'm german and a shocking
amount of americans i met found it funny to go oh you're german siegel just nine yeah i'm one
of those people that's really into dark humor and when i was in munich for quite a while
i did come up with a pretty funny original joke about maybe something i shouldn't have
but i did pitch it to a couple germans who gave exactly the same reaction they were all like
yeah
is this good good look ah we finally have one from the netherlands what have the dutch got
the biggest no-no about uh saying holland is the same as the netherlands isn't holland like
that left bit of the netherlands where the flemish is spoken say the netherlands are the same
or somehow linked to belgium yeah that's definitely not what i was implying with that
previous thing uh um i'm gonna have to google this i always called it the netherlands yet
people in the uk called holland every time it's confusing growing up i'm fairly certain like as a
child when we learned about different countries in europe it was always holland you'd see like
little clogs and people holding hands with the clogs and it would say holland i'm not going to
have to google this the netherlands consists of 12 provinces but many people use holland when talking
about the netherlands the two provinces of nord and zwied zud holland together are holland ah so
i was kind of right basically two provinces of the netherlands are holland or if we can double up on
the big no-nos it's like you're going to edinburgh and you say oh i'm heading off to england
someone's going to pay don't mention hitler or other famous nazis in public spaces you may get
yourself in an awkward situation it's kind of like voldemort in harry potter you just don't mention
those names in public definitely a word of note i feel like that's one of those things that like
should be mildly obvious but i guess not i guess in the uk if you said something like
i love theresa may or margaret thatcher that's one hot woman maybe maybe that'd be a big no-no
i'm not i'm just remove the maybe just don't that's a weird why would you say that you said it
in poland nothing's unusual folks are a bit touchy on history though especially ww2 don't try talking
the war here with american movies like schindler's list being your primary source of information yet
the amount of people that oh that's that really troubles me where you're like oh i've seen this
hollywood film i understand how it is italy hey you've come out my my favorite new jersey right
uh home state uh most i'm just doing as a joke police italians don't hate me most countries are
do not mistake us for a different nationality do not mention bad parts of our history
italians do not put the wrong stuff on top of our food hey i like to make oddly oyolio
it's one of my favorite dishes of all time very simple it's also vegan but every once in a while
i put parmesan on top i just like cheese i'm sorry i just every once in a while normally
not okay please italians don't hurt me thank you but also yeah italians get really weird if you
decide to add chicken to a dish that doesn't have chicken they're like what have you done
pasta accents really good at them our first one from espana not letting a friend invite you to a
drink when they are decided to like i've literally seen several screaming arguments because of this
all right so a friend invites you to drink and you're not in the mood to drink
and they get offended at this a big no-no a big sorry spanish no no
okay alcoholism big thing in espana or maybe it's just the culture of
going out with each other it's kind of like declining a drink from your grandma
in england but yet it's alcohol i think it's so different i say no to so many engagements because
i'm like sorry i'm a little bit too busy making this video for you guys to subscribe to my channel
thank you very much for subscribing appreciate that on r belgium rule number five is do not
advocate serving belgian beer in beer glasses that weren't specifically designed for them
the belgian are very big on their beer has to be a very specific style glass good to know a big no-no
i literally don't give a crap what branding or size or style glass i have if i'm drinking a beer
i'm drinking a beer the beer in that country is a belgian yum why do you why do you subscribe to me
never call us spanish and don't try to speak spanish and portugal it's better to speak english
instead i've definitely been guilty of doing this it's just because i know so much spanish and i
don't know any portuguese and so i'm like isn't this close don't a lot of you guys know spanish
they would rather you die actually don't use spanish and portugal do not talk about the wars
a lot of people hear lost people in the yugo wars also you will start a shitload of fights
in serbia good to know because i don't really know much about those wars thank you american
education you have saved me from a big no-no in serbia denmark not a huge no but please don't
call people mr last name unless they're old enough to have experienced the napoleonic wars
really this incredibly polite gesture what practically everyone in denmark is on a first
name basis up to and including the prime minister different rules for the queen but
if you have a chance upon the crown prince in an informal setting he prefers the informal tone wow
i love this type of content man i'm learning so much i'm not gonna commit any of these no-no's and
you guys better not either okay another one from romania never ever bring someone an even number of
flowers it is reserved for the dead i mean i've been offered a lot of flowers but i i've never
brought anyone any sort of fl that's good to know also an interesting cultural tradition even number
of flowers don't do it also aesthetically not as pleasing calling us germans or french or italians
or even thinking we could be even remotely similar to them honestly even though we do speak some of
the languages to an extent and are culturally not very different never ever tell a swiss person that
they are german french italian what we're learning from this thread probably ask where people are
from but maybe they're country nouns i'm really good at english in turkey we have do not say
oh i thought you would be speaking arabic or i didn't know women were allowed to not wear hijabs
i mean these things come off pretty insensitive so try not to be insensitive when i personally
asked europe what the biggest no-no for the entire region is it's uh not hearing from a word from our
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