 Hey, welcome back to my channel guys. Today we're gonna do another reaction video, but this one is a video that was filmed in Wellington that's called What Do New Zealanders Think About Americans? I haven't seen it, I'm so curious, because if you don't know me, we are a family of six that have moved to New Zealand from the US and have been here for eight years and have lived in Wellington. So I was excited that this was recorded in Wellington and it was only about three years ago. So let's dive in. James Prem here and today I'm in the Windy City, the other Windy City, which is Wellington, New Zealand, the capital of New Zealand and following the formats of my other videos, I'm gonna go around and ask what New Zealanders think of Americans slash America. Hey! I love it, let's see in Wellington. First question is, have you ever been to America? No. No? No. Yeah, so it was, I think when I was two's, I don't remember it. I've been there once, I was there for one week. Yes, I have been. So I was in Seattle for a couple of years, San Francisco for a year and then in like middle America for four years. What are your general thoughts on America? To be honest, anything I've heard about America is Trump building some wall or something like that. And which I don't know beyond, but yeah, that's my personal opinion. They seem really, I'm patriotic. Yeah, it was like really passionate about their country. Huge. Yeah, big, big thing. Oh, yeah. America was definitely the home of the free. It was where democracy was and there was that feeling. But right now in our current stage, it's going through a massive change. And no one really knows how it's gonna come out the other side. I love America. So I would live there, like for sure. I think the people are amazing, the food's amazing. Some of my best friends are there now. Like I would consider it to be more of my home than here, which is interesting. I love America, I really love it. I think I could live there if I could. I really love it. Lots of like kind of fast food, but like kind of a lot of things are possible. Like, you know, like compared to New Zealand, a lot of things you can kind of can happen. Yeah, it's quite like a busy place. I think America is a very polarized country. I think it's really different between state to state. And of course it would be so vast, like comparative to New Zealand where like such a small island, it's quite a bit more homogenous. But it's funny you guys saying opportunity because I think there is a lot of opportunity but the opportunity comes a lot of sacrifice, which I feel as though in New Zealand there's perhaps more of a safety blanket for the people that don't. So my experience in the States is in Kansas was in the airport, there's always people begging and it's quite forward in your face there rather than here, it's a bit more mellowed out. What are your general thoughts on Americans? They're quite welcoming when you want to have a conversation with them, but I'd love to have a meeting as one. Thanks to be honest. But just off the movies, they're pretty hearty follows. They're quite, or quite loud, but like, they're really outgoing people, I think, the ones I've met. So... I think I've really met an American. I think they're the first. You seem nice. Sometimes there is a little bit of ignorance, but I guess that's with any culture and any country you have. I have found Americans extremely friendly. And we've heard that feedback from Americans about us, but it's in a different way, different kind of friendliness. But there is definitely, Americans are very friendly people from my experience. For me, so I'm in the start-up scene and we've got a really big issue in New Zealand, which is called Tall Poppy. So when we're successful, we dumb it down. Not dumb it down, but we tone it down so we don't like to put our successes on other people. Whereas in the States, it's like, I feel like everyone's championing each other and everyone's so much more excited about the opportunities and how you're doing better on the world stage and everything that you're doing. Whereas in New Zealand, it's a lot different than that. So I just feel like the support in the States is so much more amazing and friends are more excited to be there for you. And whereas over here, it's like, oh, you're doing something amazing. Like don't tell anybody because they're gonna get really scared about it. Okay, I just want to comment on that last bit. That's very interesting. Yeah, because I've run my own businesses and I think I just want to note that when people are, they're not necessarily like putting you down or anything, but what you notice is that it's little comments. It's not like this overt, you need to step down, you're being too high on your horse or anything. It's more of likely, it's a little bit passive aggressive as I've talked about before and little comments about what you're doing, why you would do that and kind of making fun of it a little bit, which is the way of kind of cutting you down from that tall poppy, tall poppy syndrome. So yeah, so that's interesting. Kind of stand for like one thing and one other thing. It's quite black and white, which I find and I find sometimes people can be quite black and white about things. Just really, I think really nice people when I think of Americans. My stereotype for Americans is quite forespoken, like a very like opinionated with the things and then there won't be a shame to sort of speak the mind. I work with a couple of Americans and they've always just been like, this is what we're doing, this is how we're doing it and there's less room for compromise. But I saw him saying that there are heaps of exceptions to the rule and I think you can sort of see where people come from in the States a bit and that shines through. Yeah. Yeah, it's true. What's something you like about America? I think it's in your film. In your film? Yeah, like America. Yeah, I'd love to play that. Definitely the music and stuff, like rap and yeah, but they're like festivals. Oh yeah. Yeah, they're awesome. Probably the theme parks, the amount of theme parks they have. Yeah, we only have one here. If you guys like roller coasters. Well, it's Cedar Point. Yeah, shout out to us. Probably the first thing that probably comes to mind is the different types of fast foods. Like you've got like a whole bunch of different things for kind of the same thing, but they're all kind of very different. Like you've got to like a burger joint place. They're all different compared to New Zealand where it's just Burger King or Mackets. So that's probably one thing and probably the food portions. Like our, or our large, can't be like this and be like your guys small. It's like ridiculous. The food in America is brilliant and there's so much of it. Love the history of it because it's pretty unique about how it started and how it grew. Right. I love the spirit of rebelliousness in that day. Yeah. Against, you know, the English, actually one of the most amazing things to come out of America is the constitution. Very, very beautiful documents. Just love the energy. Like for me, the energy in America is a lot different. Like everyone's, I feel everyone's really motivated. Everyone's doing something. Everyone wants to be doing something confident, motivated. Two things on my head would be pink lemonade. I love the pink lemonade. Frost everywhere I go, pink lemonade. And how you get refills with that, like free refills, so dope. And then I loved Arizona. Like honestly, one of the most beautiful places we've ever been to, such a cool place. What I like is that I feel like if you go to a different state, you're gonna feel like you're in a different country. Like from what I've seen, I know there's little places that look like Belgium and like all these different areas. So I think that's really cool. I also like how I feel like there's, yeah, so many opportunities there to succeed. Obviously with hard work, though. What, false and dining. I love a diner culture, W. That's awesome. Yeah. What is something you do not like about America? I think definitely for me anyway, it would definitely be its opinion on gun violence and how that to me is like controversial. I can't see how to me anyway, how it should be controversial. I feel like it should just be black and white about something like that. The rest of the world uses the metric system. Why doesn't America use the metric system? I haven't quite formulated my final opinion on this, but how America will get involved in so many things around the world. There's times I think, you know, maybe in that situation America should step out. What I don't like about is the traffic. Like the traffic in LA can just like... Die. Die, like a decision of your thing. So I drove in the States for three years and I was terrified about getting pulled over. Oh, yeah. And here it's like, I wouldn't even think twice. Like, a cop would pull me over in New Zealand and I'd be like, oh, hello, like how are you? Like, cool, you know what you were doing? Like, yeah, okay, I was going like a little bit over the speed limit. Over there, I was absolutely terrified to get pulled over. I don't know why, it was just like this irrational fear, but I think over there, like it's more seen, cops over there are seen, they contribute to fear. Oh, right, yeah. If that makes sense, whereas I wouldn't think of New Zealand police, like I wouldn't see a policeman driving around. I wouldn't say, oh, like it doesn't bring up any fear for me, whereas I see a cop in the States and I'm like, oh, why are they here? Like they've got a gun, you know, it's all of these things that we just aren't used to here in New Zealand. You could just see the difference between like the rich and the poor, like it's so obvious and the whole race thing, I think it's still a big problem over there, even if they say it's not. That's definitely what I experienced in New York. Right. Not so much anywhere else, but yeah, I just feel like it's still there and they're trying to ignore it. The same field, I just think the races and the discrimination, you see it every day. Yeah, just seeing how prevalent it is and how in your face and yet people are still trying to deny that it's occurring. And obviously I think Donald Trump isn't really doing much to help. The ego, the American ego, sort of like prostrated on the rest of the world, like we're going to do this way or you can get lost. And that's sort of like, well, as a small country, we know that we have to cooperate and the world should be cooperating for things like climate change and like big issues that are pressing on us. And when the stakes are so against it and not really to cooperate and they're not leading that charge, then it's just, we're not going to get anywhere. Could you give us your best American accent? Hello, my name is Sai. I come from the far north in New Zealand. I sound like an islander and that was my attempt. Hey, my name is Zach and I like, uh, oh, okay. Howdy, y'all. Hi there, folks. It's a great day, isn't it? Tackles, could you get me some tackles? Can I please have a glass of water? Hi, my name is Meg and my favorite food is a roast. That's perfect. Patient really good. All right, that was great. I have not seen that. I hope you enjoyed this video. 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