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This is Jimmy the giant UK vs. US culture Okay Let me see if I see any cap Britain and America are like twins separated from birth one was raised in fine aristocracy And the other was abandoned at a gas station and told good luck these two great nations have dominated the world both economically militarily and culturally everyone in Britain got in a big old boat And we set sail and we robbed at this was unfair fetched everyone in the world What's having spawned from the same origins they went off in their own two directions becoming both very similar and very different Yeah, we all agree. We all should think that we're great There's no reason for you to not think that you're great. I've started to get this feeling that I'm totally Totally fucked. You know everything's fucked today. We will analyze American versus British culture The American comic hero is a wisecracker who is above his material and who is above the idiots around him You know that scene in animal house with a player as a fellow playing folk music on a guitar Jomboli she picks up the guitar and destroys it never seen animal house And the cinema because he just smashes it and then waggles his eyebrows of a camera Everyone's got it so great. Well the British comedian would want to play the folk singer Comedy is a great way of revealing a cultures ideas so American comedy and British comedy They're very different American comedies always tend to be built around the idea of like optimism and positivity be curious Not judgmental I like There's typically always the motion that things can get better You can see this in the character Leslie nope in pox and rex. I can do it. I can crush him I promise and Typically in an American comedy the cool guy is the main character. So, you know how to take the reservation You just don't know how to hold Now let's compare that to British comedies typically the idea in a British comedy is that life will always disappoint you We need to have a talk you finishing with me. We weren't ever really Oh, I see you not around but here see you That's crazy that that's how that started and they had a whole kid at by the end Secondly, you'll never make it in life or your dreams and hopes and optimum I feel like I've seen this before but it's only been out two weeks But I like it feels eerily similar to something I watched is ultimately futile at this dream You and I own this skyscraper office block on the south bank and above us on top of a skyscraper in 50-foot high neon lettering Are the initials of trotters? Independent traders just above your reading is the word Tim Another idea that is shown is that you can always expect the worst thing to happen. So Right, thank you very much. Do you like it? I'll put that on you Was that my bed? Yeah Yes And finally the main character the point of focus in a British comedy will typically be some awkward loser I like your glasses. I'm afraid they're not for sale Now for you want they're not for sale So this leads us to our first key cultural difference That is American idealism versus British realism They said are you saying we're stuck in La La land why you focus on what's really going on me telling you this I'm gonna show you it through Expressions Americans will say things like this. Well, you know what they say the scars the limits You miss 100% of the shots. You don't take where that's facts You that is facts is in Britain will say things like go home for the best but expect the worst, right? That is also facts as well, though. We literally have a thing called sod's law will can go wrong will go wrong And then let's say you have a See, maybe that's why I identify as a British man because I believe both of those statements that bro See situation where something is looking good. You've got an opportunity Americans will say when life gives you lemons make lemonade or as we'll literally say well Oh boy, don't count your chickens before they hatch And then finally if you're in America and your whole life is is going terribly is looking awful Americans say well, it's always dark as before dawn In England if everything's going well, we'll say yeah, crikey, crikey in it. Yeah, mate But this is just the calm before the storm. So you might be wondering the same thing Why why do we have these very distinct attitude differences? Oh calm before the storm is not the same thing It's gonna get worse is what they say in the UK Before we go any further with this video Colt Add fumes natural delicious really like 100,000 ha fumes today. I do our code and use the You get your journey back today. Anyway back to the video Now stand aside worthy adversary Here's but a scratch a lot of the British attitude can really be pointed to our very long and brutal history We've had tons of wars and plagues and religious upheavals all of these things have kind of led to British people sort of having Doubt and distrust into the future. Yeah, it might be going well now But tomorrow a swarm of Belgians might come over and behead us Understanding our history gives us this Cautiousness to being too optimistic about the future as well You have to combine the religious attitudes of the Church of England The Church of England was very much a believer in the idea of original sin the idea that humans have fallen from God We're all inherently bad Although we do have the ability to be somewhat redeemed. This has engineered a sort of attitude of cautious optimism. We're not entirely 100% pessimists all of this combined with the fact that our weather is pretty shit rain rain rain us Brits endure it on 199 days of every year Is that a fact? There's 365 days of 165 left. It's 160 166 days of no rain That's like winter in Chicago. It's like 199 days of winter You could literally have a week of sunshine in England and think you know what this Saturday Let's go for a picnic with the family and then because your dad showed some optimism in the weather God will smite you with a torrential downpour for the next month And so this Wait, was that real or a skit? General attitude can be completely contrasted with American optimism and that stems from Ultimately, if you're the type of person to leave Britain a established nation that you know has infrastructure Etc hop on a boat travel for weeks months across Uncharted waters to arrive on uncharted lands to do that You need at least an ounce of optimism Look water lands in the distance. See mate. You've been saying that for the last three fucking icebergs Oh, look. Yeah, look, you see it another fucking iceberg. I'm tired of this And it's after discovering this new land, which was a crazy thing to go and do America then went through two great Awakenings, I don't know what happened in the first one if they just hit snooze or something But the first great awakening was in 1730 to 1740 and then the second one in 1795 all the way up to 1835 So what happened in this was that the religious attitudes of America had evolved new ideas around like self-improvement The idea that everyone has the ability to shape their own destiny in their own future humans can be better They can improve society. They can make and create things that make the world better They had strong convictions around the importance of working hard as well as very pragmatic attitudes The idea that things should be done well and efficiently these last two led to a very strong cultural focus on capitalism and efficiency in business Which all of this manifested itself in the idea of the American dream No, shall I say it that American dream does not apply to everybody but continue American dream is just the ability to achieve anybody can do it But you're not just gonna get it cause you want it. You got to be willing to work hard You got to apply a lot of hard work. You got to apply faith. You got to apply persistence. You've got to never ever give up So basically the idea of the American dream is that any old piece of shit old Bob Who still lives at home with his parents 40 years old anyone can go and be the ones who own Apple And do anything they want to do in life that Americans are told they can become the next president of the United States and They can British people are told it won't happen to you And they carry that they carry that with them. I'm always probably going through your head You might hear that and think fucking hell what I feel like I'm a good look half and half. Why are Britain so pessimistic? I mean we literally pessimistic and optimistic He had the biggest empire on earth. Why are we so deflated? And so that leads us to a very core cultural difference between England and America and that is class structure I was brought up in a poor family You know really we had nothing really if I could get into position that someone had people in I would like to be any of these lords or ladies or peers or you're talking about these 10 class of people Persons family started with William the Conqueror in Britain the idea of class and where you stand Socially has been a very core part of our identity until very recently as a Brit Your whole life was decided before you were born these differences between the upper class and the working class has existed through most of British history There's like this idea that the upper class are pure blood. They were like chosen by God. They had divine rights They literally referred to themselves as blue-blooded and they were much better than the grunts work in the coal mines to power their beautiful machinery And so there's always been this attitude in England of like judgment between the classes the upper class and the working class Hate each other and class is interesting because it's not just defined by wealth We give dinner parties two or three times a week This enables us to keep in touch with our wide circle of friends We give a wine and cheese do once a month. This enables us to do it on the cheap Her mother comes around Saturday nights and drinks my Guinness This enables her to get drunk for nothing Class is much deeper than simply wealth It's the accent you're talking the way you behave the schools that you're educated in if you're from Cambridge school of witchcraft and wizardry versus the community college in shitton literally everything you did would be defined by class I think working class people in general feel this kind of thing Weighing down upon and I can't put it into words of what it is I think people watching this will understand that you feel it pushing you down all the time And so there's this understanding that there isn't much class Mobility if you are lower class even if you got wealthy you could never be upper class There's no way and so this kind of demoralization spawned a attitude in British people that things can't really get that much better I'm always gonna be judged from basically the background that I'm from in America as I explained with the American dream The attitude is that anyone can be anything Americans love the idea of the rags to riches story the underdog archetype that you see in films like I don't think that's true at all I think as a black man in America Yes, you you hear that a lot the old the American dream, but that's not for us Even if we achieve the American dream, we're still gonna be looked at like this and we can't get to that dream unless we have the the the the the The a-ok from somebody. That's not this color. I just want to let's let's clarify that like we have to be To get into a certain room. We got to be let in period And we can still get kicked out of that room. No matter how much money we got This might this might be a little bit cat Pursuit of happiness or the founder class does exist in America, but it is very different You're probably gonna see more things between North and South divides and racial divides But I do as a British person quickly want to make a caveat the British people have never had like outright Defeatism British people will try in life. They'll try very hard, but we just don't like to get our hopes up We are optimistic, but just in a very cautious way like Americans might aspire to be a millionaire CEO of a big tech startup Whilst British people will aspire to one-day shop at Waitrose my wife likes to show me waitress It's the middle class. I aspire to one day put all my bills on auto pay That's a different type of wealth option They like to drop it into conversation It's just a waitress just so the explanation on the class system leads us to another point which is politeness and expressiveness Everything okay with the food. Oh, yes, lovely. Thank you I would say British people are kind of overly aware of being rude and impolite which has some benefits You know, we're very we treat people really well We we hate to be awkward and we like people to feel relaxed But it can cause British people to take way too much shit and not stand up for themselves October 10th I'm like that too though. I don't want to create awkwardness, but you can't stop You got one time to think I'm to think I'm P. U. S. Y. And then we got to send it up But yeah Turn the other cheek. I slapped you and you want me to hit you on the other cheek Americans will tolerate less bullshit, which is a good thing But then sometimes they can be a bit rude and a bit overly confrontational I have waited exactly five minutes. It is a bit. No, I'm a little bit overly confrontational certain and like in the street like I'm a little bit overly confrontational because a Lot of people be sending jabs that don't seem like jabs and I'm not for that You're not gonna sneakily diss me. You know saying so I can get overly I can work Incorrectly analyze the situation big Mac. How long do you need difference when it comes to being polite probably stems from the British reserve and American individualism British people are very reserved typically in public. We all sit like this and all very quiet And we don't laugh too loud on me. We try to be really polite and this can stem from the victor and chew your food Without your mouth being open or in here those very strict social rules over behavior dress the way you express yourself It was very stern and rigid the reason we tolerate so much shit It is because we have the religious idea of turning the other cheek as well I'll probably over-awareness of people's personal space and being rude can probably stem from the fact that we live on a small Island very closely together. We don't have a lot of space and we're all on top of each other So we have a strong respect for people's purse Hey the flag in my peripheral vision tweaked me out Small space Okay And then like some of it is the fact that the upper-class social attitudes probably trickled down to the working class We're always seen as being a lower-class thing to speak loudly and have bad manners and be overly confrontational And so British people have the attitude of a stiff upper lip don't show emotion and don't complain about your problems All right, well that was fucking scary. Where as Americans it that that is not the case This is my right as much as it is yours. This is my land as much as it is yours to Americans I am important. I am the center of the universe after the greater weight Note you did not see any black people doing that in American in there was a strong focus on individualism Emotionality and expression is a good thing being outgoing and extroverted is a very American thing British people are very introverted Americans are after things like the Bill of Rights have a strong focus on their personal rights and freedoms and liberty in America All men are created equal and so they don't have this I Freedoms and Liberty in America All men are created equal We know that's cat. We all know that's cat prohibition slavery. We know that ain't real now It's unfortunate that we'd live in times like this, but you know just recently I got caught the n-word. So it's like This ain't for me Salute though All men are created equal and so they don't have this idea that you're better than me or I'm better than you but birthright We're all humans. We all exist and we all deserve respect and so this leads to politics and the attitude toward authority This is an illegal detention at this point. You better get your shit straight. Oh, I will Americans are inherently very skeptical of authority They believe more so in small government and self-autonomy due to the British ruling America and you know being a bit naughty a Bit rough around the edges. I'd say one thing man. There's white America and there's black America and he is talking about why America I'm just gonna say it and I'm gonna say it I'm not from the sugar coat what I'm saying right now. He's like and indeed UK. That doesn't exist This color UK and that color you in America. You got two different America's Is as well Americans are very rebellious the formation of America was around escaping the Church of England in Britain on the other hand is We do have a trust in our government is waning currently But typically we trust in social order and we don't really make too much of a big deal about infringement of our rights and that's probably because of years of Unquestioned power by monarchs and again the stoicism and the idea of stiff upper lip not complaining too much Not making a big deal. It kind of has led to this polite submissive behavior, which sometimes a bit embarrassing careful So it's hot. Oh, sorry. It might burn yourself. Yeah, sorry. Would you like some salt and pepper? Oh, yeah Sorry, but you can kind of picture the movie scene of a British person American person dealing with authority. Excuse me, sir I'm gonna have to ask you to leave listen here a tough guy. You don't talk to me like that I think the ghost fuck my head Excuse me, sir. I'm going to have to ask you to leave Oh, yeah, sorry. Yeah, that's fine. We'll leave for sure. But darling, you're dead on the restaurant And so of all this you can extrapolate these attitudes and understand different attitudes towards certain issues, you know For instance guns Americans see guns as like a right to protect themselves from the government and other people America's fast food and Subsequent obesity problem has stemmed from the ideas of efficiency and business not wanting to waste time on food Taking too long to cook and then you have things like health care welfare like in Britain We have a pretty strong health care system. Let's not get into that Whereas Americans are far more reserved on bringing Anything into public domain a long waits Especially health care Britain has an obsession with tradition not holding tradition Whereas America have a strong focus on new and innovation Because America's history and their tradition is terrible in products technology by making this and they don't have their own Screen taller but not wider. You can see more of your content without the need to scroll We're making scrolling a thing of the past. And so look I've picked apart British people and American people I've made jokes. I've pointed out some bad things But I want to say and I think this is true Americans and British people have a very deep mutual do one on black America To respect for each other. I think very much these days ever since if you do one on black America you do one on UK vs. USA black USA culture it'd be more similar The war we've had what has been dubbed a special. That's why I think I can rock That's why I think I rock with the UK so much because black relationship I don't know that's a gay thing or something, but whatever as a Brit I can say honestly a lot of y'all might not understand what I'm talking about Really do love Americans. I love being around Americans. I really admire their confidence. They're so easy to don't take me Don't get me wrong man in my eyes. All all people are the same color. I don't even Rock like that, but the realization of it is What I have to talk to they're very warm open demeanors British people can be very reserved at times Excuse me young man is anyone sitting here? No, would you mind if we sat here? No, it's fine. I'm Ronald This is Pammy Actually you forgot to tell us your name Peter Peter It can be pretty depressing talking with British people about the future and your ambitions as Americans all pat on you on the back saying Yeah, you can do it, bro. I think Americans do appreciate British people as well. They probably appreciate our realism We don't really bullshit ourselves. We're very honest We know our strengths, but we also know our thoughts often Americans see us as well-spoken and intelligent and you can actually see our Comedy has massively influenced modern American comedy There's a lot more awkward dry humor in American television now than there was in the past and obviously Americans fucking love our traditions arguably more than us It leads me to a final thought and that is about cultural homogenization with the internet Culture across the world has sort of melted together. We're all seeing the same media constantly I will listen to endless American podcasters telling me to go after my dreams and fix my life or something The idea that the internet is bringing lots of different value systems together and you can kind of choose which one suits you As opposed just the one I go to the UK on that dominates your country But I do wonder are we gonna see less of these interesting differences and are we just gonna become a sort of best of greatest album kind of thing? Let me know in the comments if you want to see more on this topic check out the afters podcast where we talk Yeah We got to address black america And and and you guys are realists over there. We realize that that that is not the same But tll leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification bells and go