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  • The reality is that in the American constitution only certain people are created equal.

  • This is great. How true and sad it is. 

  • XC?1009HEAD JUSTIN WEBB BBC

  • This country has gone down hill, Now Western Europe and Canada is the place to go for high style, they are ahead of the U.S. I know back in the 1960s to 80s U.S. was ahead. It is now becoming junk and strict, it shows.

    If I was living in 1980s or earlier, the place to be was Los Angeles, now it all trash. I would rather go to Montreal, London, or Prague. Even Canada, women there are beautiful. It is so sad that this U.S. nation has decline badly. I will leave

  • To add for part 2 of my comment, I see this country ( U.S.) is not like it use to be. Health Care is way too high, Western Europe Health care is now superior, I saw the facts.

    - More brilliantly educated people with world class views that are from the U.S. are moving to Western Europe or Canada.

    People in this country now days, are mean, uneducated, and unwelcoming.

  • Part 3 of my comment, The films in this country early 1980s and before, are much better, being filmed different parts of the world. Now days more U.S. films are taking place in the U.S. only more, not Western Europe like the 70s. I have to say more recent films from U.S. in last few years have made improvements, in stead of being cheesy. I like to see more England and Western Europe in Hollywood, it would look more classier.

  • Now wealthy people in this country the U.S. are more new money, into more of ugly modern structures and clothes made in third world countries. I know old wealth like clothes made in England, such as Duhill or lyles and scott. or french made clothes, Swiss made furniture, not U.S. mall made. Most all U.S. old wealth is still in New England area, CT,MS, ME,VT and HW or maybe south eastern NY state, they are not into Hollywood as much, rather Broadway Theater or foreign films.

  • lol America is trash just get over it.

  • @screwoffreg

    It's not all bad. I did pretty well out of it. I came here with nothing and made a life for myself. It all depends on your attitude I think.

    Sadly America has more than its fair share of fuckups. But Britian (where I camer from) isn't much better.

  • I am moving to Germany in 18 days. I can no longer sit and watch my country being hijacked by terrorists like Hussein Obama.

  • @msungs

    Whereas you sat on your ass doing nothing when the worst terrorist of all - Bush - ran roughshod over the constitution with a set of shears, and torture became a normal practice for America. Meanwhile, Obama's tidying up Bush's mess, and NOW you leave, probably after voting for Bush.

    SO we have to live with the consequences of YOUR mess.

    Nice work.

  • Around 1.30 he talks about the agent not liking books. Creating space for "crap"... I say that`s the problem in America. Too many pictures and interactive stuff rather than picking up a book and educating yourself, solving a fast food problem and obesity....etc. American business is great but not when it "owns" your feelings and your life.There are more business people there polluting this world rather than doctors, scientists...saving it America is not for everybody.

  • Sure if you're greedy as hell or so fool of yourself to believe you can't fail, then US is made for you, for the rest who want insurance, security of education, health or unemployment benefices for them and their family, they should rather go to Western Europe or Canada...

  • @expatdk

    So working for what you have=greed? in America we don't expect things to be given to us by others.

  • @tedatlas

    He didn't say that. He said "if you're greedy as hell".

    You've inferred "working for what you have=greed" based on nothing.

    Nowhere in the world does anyone expect things to be given by others.

  • @geffel

    "for the rest who want insurance, security of education, health or unemployment benefices for them and their family, they should rather go to Western Europe or Canada..."

    All of these social programs are funded by opm. Basically what he's saying is that America is a place full of greed where people don't care enough about others to give them these things (health care, unemployment benefits, etc).

    All I'm saying is we believe in earning these things, that they are not a right.

  • @tedatlas

    Well put, and reasonably put (i.e. thanks for not flaming me!). I do think that a caring society is important, though, and I am more than happy to pay my hard earned money for universal health care because in the long run it benefits society as a whole.

    I'd much rather pay tax money for welfare recipients and universal health care than for, say, pointless unwinnable wars.

    But that's me.

  • @geffel

    A caring society is important, but I don't think anyone should be forced to care for others. Lets face it, people as a whole are pretty damn selfish and you won't change that by passing a law or raising taxes.

    I agree with you on the wars too but I don't think we should be doing either to be honest. All a welfare state does is create stagnation.. higher lows but lower highs as a consequence.

    I know that sounds inhumane but I think people need to struggle through adversity to be great

  • Oh and I was responding to a troll, and what he said. So I wasn't insulting the UK at all, I know very well if it wasn't for the UK the USA wouldn't even exist and the world will be quite different. But go ahead and block this "sad religious right wing nutter."

    After all your going to hell you Obama worshiper libtard socialist!!!!!! *rolleyes*

  • Well in that case I can only assume I have you confused with someone else. That said, it is troll behaviour to make multiple soc accounts just to keep trolling a channel.

    Apologies if I misunderstood your thread. I suspect I was probably a little er...worse for wear.

  • I wasn't going to make another account but you call me a "Sad religious right wing nutter. "

    Yet if were to go to my channel you will see I'm quite the opposite. I'm getting comments from Alex jones fucktards after saying how retarded they are for making Obama be the joker. Then I'm getting comments from the right wingers that I'm a registered pedophile.

    Yea, I'm religious right nutter who happens to be a strong atheist who could be considered a liberal.

    Block this account too, I don't care

  • Oh, I might also point out that the originator of the "Zoetrope" concept wasn't British, but Chinese from about 100-200 AD as an example exists from that time attributed to an inventor named Xuang or Xiang (not sure of the spelling).

    Nothing is truly new to the universe, but youth never believes this and sees the world anew every day, declaring "See what wonders I have accomplished!".

  • Thanks for posting this video. As the son of an English immigrant to the USA I find this particularly interesting.

  • Thanks for the video.

    BTW, how do you get BBC news? Where I live BBC won't allow me to listen online for some legal reasons. But obviously this applies to Germany only, not the USA.

  • Use a proxy host (an ISP) in Britain and subscribe to BBC Online. You might also need to get a British based e-mail address that way, as well. The reasons they block by region are *not* legal, but purely marketing and making money.

  • Thank you very much indeed. Will try it tonight.

  • It works fine here in California. However international copyright is a minefield of bizarre loopholes and complex contracts.

    You could always try the WOrld Service on BBC online, but to my mind it's a watered down version of the real thing.

    Good luck.

  • It's a crazy quilt, alright. You never know when, what country, what *locales* in any country or why blockages occur. Poor Kattarina98 can't access it from Germany.

  • This is a wonderful report on the difference between the US and the UK. I have to say that the US felt so foreign to me when I was last there. Foreign in the sense of it being different from the European countries I have lived in. I might not speak the languages of some of the European countries and I might not understand the precise rules and regulations in each country but they seem to share in Europe more than I felt in the US. Perhaps it was because I understood every word it was so foreign.

  • great video.

  • The house I live in is almost 200 years old and sinking... Not all Americans are living in new houses. I'm constantly having to fix things.... and still care for my lawn and garden.

    all in all, this was a good video.

  • Why is America a superpower, you have people dying because religious twats think its good to prey instead of use proper medicine.

  • Because, as geffel will agree, in America, the underlying meaness of the human condition is exposed and laid bare for all to see. The same good and bad in the world run in deep rivers throughout. All politicians are the same kind of shallow once the diealism, if any, wears thin. All financiers are as greedy and all lawyers are as frenetic for the kill in the courts. The world is a flawed diamond, but the facet called America is the one the brightest light is shown on.

  • ...Brightest... HAHAHA, yeah, don't worry, just ignore your sky rocketing gun crime rate, and your lack of a NHS. People have to pay to stay alive and get basic health care. Don't you see anything wrong with that? Guns + Potential criminals = crime What's worse is, despite this crucial link you fail to take the appropriate action so stop that vital equation.

    Brightest facet, HAH, perhaps when all the retards shoot each other, maybe.

  • Whoa, your grasp of the language is either flawed, or you are some sort of partisan in the very phenomenon geffel discussed and I touched on. What I said was America is the facet the brightest, and by extension the harshest light is shone on. And your statistic on gun crime is "skyrocketing" in america is propaganda you had best check your source of. It marks your statement as hopelessly parochial. And we have a National Healthcare System called Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Which is broken.

  • ignore the angry Brit, it seems even they have brought up trolls into this world.

  • Yes. They are mindless and believe anything they read or are told by their pundits or read online. Who do you ask for information about what is going on in another country? The news pundits in your own country, the news fabricat.. err, pundits in the country of interest, or the *people* in that country who think all news outlets are a bunch of biased twats? Me, I read a lot of raw and unedited news reports before they get off the "wire" and into the hands of the likes of "Faux News".

  • Fuck off, I'm tired of your bullshit.

  • I'm not angry... I just got an unnecessary comment from a tit.

  • Kinda like your own BS uh?

    The number of people that have died from religious beliefs are that high at all, and I'm willing to bet happen in the UK just has much.

    Now since were on bs stereotypes let me just say the UK is filled with stuck up pricks with messed up teeth, how was the UK ever a superpower?

    See I can do it too. Also isn't the UK the place where creationism is on the rise? Oh yea it is.

    Again, I can troll too.

  • The UK is a super power because we used to own 13,000,000 square miles of this earth. Our money is worth more that your's for such a small island, we have made more of a mark than America ever will. That's why we are a super power.

    We have an NHS, again, that covers a lot of dental bills. Stuck up how? Our population is mostly Atheist. The 'creation fad' probably came over from you yanks, thanks. -.-

  • The UK has made more of a mark then America, so where has most of the modern inventions you take for granted come from? Oh that's right the USA.

    Let's see, the internet, mass production, and countless other things that have made their mark on the world.

    And keyword you should of used was were a super power, the UK isn't a super power anymore.

    And for a population that is mostly atheists how come creationism is on the rise?

    Really you make everyone from the UK look bad, you should stop now.

  • The UK and the US have produced wonderful things each and will probably continue to do - just as all countries do if they are not in the grinding poverty that is the condition for the vast majority of the world. But still ideas come from places where povery is the norm.

    Sorry but I think I just fed a troll.

  • Right, I doubt that, you have the internet and mass production.

    We have the telephone, Submarine, the radio and this list goes on. We have the seventh largest economy, which is bloody good for an island that is approximately 245,000 square kilometres.

    Creationism is on the rise probably because the Christians here are becoming less educated and more know about creationism as an 'accepted science' again, thanks to the USA.

    The USA already looks bad, no need for your intervention.

  • Bare in mind that you're addressing people that have an incredibly minimal and skewed education.

    From what I can gather most of them believe everything they have was either invented by Edison or Benjamin Franklin, or dropped onto the Earth by a magic sky man some time in the last 6000 years.

  • Most of those in the Creationist / ID movement, yes. The rest of us actually learn from history. Take Television, for instance. Who invented it? That question shows the ignorance of history and weakness of definition most folks suffer from. Even highly educated folks! Baird achieved the first mechano-optical scanned television transmission before Farnsworth achieved the first totally electronic scanned television transmission. And the concept was invented by Horner in the early 1800's!

  • So not only do you block my account for really no reason as I responding to a troll and had intention of farther doing it, but then you insult most of your subs.

    Sad.

  • Xchill, I'm not brit, or USA - however you MUST acknowlege that both countries have contributed to humanity in various, different ways.

    Your ongoing tirade is .. well.. painful. It presents no argument, no points. Your initial post is really just symptomatic of a troll. While you apperar to have some well-meaning uploads on your channel, this particular argument is doing yourself, and all those that share the same views that you stand for, something of a disservice.

  • You're a troll and a cretin.

    Fuck off you absolute cretin.

  • Yeah, great, you have a slightly more advanced grip on English than me. But then again I'm 16 and your 50 something. Fuck you you massive cunt.

  • Then, as I'm sure your da or some other adult in your life has pounded into your head a few times, think before you mouth off. If you don't like how others in the world see you, look to how you see others, first. What would happen to you if you had gone into a pub in town and butted into a conversation with a bunch of adults and mouthed off like that? If you're gonna survive on YouTube, put on some big boy pants and deal, kid.

  • I prefer controlled environments, without people. I can focus better.

  • I can understand that. Might profit your world view to read between the lines more often. It's not easy. All the news outlets want is for you to read their words (your eyes = advertising profits). One course that can help is to ask folks in other countries what *they* see and compare it to what their own news services are saying and compare both of those to what *your* news services are saying (and so on with as many other countries news services as you can stomach). You have a brain, use it :)

  • Oh and I don't watch or read news...

  • I should point out that this is not me speaking, but Justin Webb.

    500 characters is not enough for me to give a valuable insight about my experience of living in the US vs living in the UK.

    Any joker that comes on here claiming one is better than the other, yet has only lived in one OR the other, really has no valid insight.

    cheers.

  • Thank you for this video - really a radio piece from the BBC - it was full of wonderful imagery.

    I remember being appalled last time I was in the US at the strip developments - it was in Maryland and the side of the road less than 30 metres deep with beautiful countryside behind was full of tire places, crab restaurants, supermarkets and then a brake repair shop etc - all the way from Baltimore to Annapolis - I almost wept to see it.

  • Precisely right, mein host.

    Every country I've lived in has left an impression on me and the strongest has been that even living in any given country from date X to date Y means you only see things have happened during that interval. You'd have to be able to do the impossible and live in every country at the same time to be able to make such a comparison of better / worse meaningful.

    Yours,

    A man who will stay where he is and try and *make* it a better place to be.

  • Very insightful indeed.

  • America shines a light on the entire human condition and because of that it reminds him of India? As an Indian living in the US, I feel doubly flattered.

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