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Copyright disclaimer under section 107 of the copyright act 1976 Allowance is made for fair use purposes such as criticism comment news reporting teaching scholarship and research Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing Non-profit educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use no copyright infringement intended all rights belong to their respective owners How do you feel the British perceive Americans? I feel like there's quite a lot of I hate to say but mockery involves I think a lot of people think Americans are extreme Do you think that the British think that they're better than Americans? I think some do yeah There's a lot to make fun of I think we're also fantastic at queuing as well That's another great thing about us rubbing me the wrong way because they're too extra. It doesn't seem like it's genuine today I'm in London to get to the bottom of a very important question for as long as I can remember I have had the sense that the British look down on Americans He's a generalization and therefore doesn't apply to everyone, but it's a strong enough trend that I felt I needed to investigate this further Here's a quote from Prince Harry's memoir spare that perfectly captures the feeling that I have about this with some the anti-american Sentiment ran very hot. I was reminded of my childhood when people warned me all the time about Americans Too loud too rich too happy too confident too direct too honest. I'm very curious what people go You can't even be rich you can't be happy you can't be confident you can't be direct or honest Too happy too confident to direct too honest. I'm very curious what people are going to have to say about this I have a feeling I'm on to something. Okay, so having said that let's start talking to some people Not that easy today, huh Very slow start. It's okay. Let's just change up the spot because I'm feeling like there's enough projections in that 100 meter radius You know, I always feel really terrible that everyone's first attitude is out. You're from America You know, which is always a bit I know y'all felt like this at all. I don't receive that type of welcome I feel I feel a bit bad about that because I don't know why we still do that How do you feel perceived as Americans by the British here in London a big stupid bellowing oath? Yeah, genuinely, I always feel like I have to apologize for being Americans Like I know my accent's the worst thing you'll hear today, but can I just order a coffee? I feel like it's been a little bit different I think that might be somewhat informed by the fact that I'm a student here I'd first there was a bit of a learning curve like when I would speak loudly on the tube I would kind of get looks and people would tell me like you're being American like maybe not There's definitely sort of a sense that there is a lot of Difficult things going on in America and America potentially could be quite a difficult place to live Especially if you're of color or from the Middle East I have to admit The inspiration to make this video came when I moved to Europe as I've explored in previous videos on this channel Many Europeans have mixed to negative views of Americans as dumb and uncultured, but to my surprise The same goes for the British I've come to realize that the only people that see the British as intelligent and sophisticated are the Americans Many Europeans like the Portuguese or the Spanish see a very different reality The British they go off on holiday to get extremely drunk and break things The British that are isolationist with Brexit the British that don't learn foreign languages that stick to their native tongue Wait a second. I thought to myself. That's what Americans do other people do this as well How dare they copy us a kid, of course still it does feel like the Brits act like the Americans of Europe But I am certain that is not something that they'd like to hear said about them. I mean no offense I am American after all does that not I've always thought we were eerily similar You know, that's why I've never come across this type sentiment. Like I didn't even know y'all was feeling that Prove no one wants to stoop to the level of Americans I felt I had to get my answers directly from the source My perception is that the UK's one foot in Europe one foot like in the Americas It feels like it should be in the middle of the Atlantic. Do you agree with that? I think that's pretty conclusive idea But yeah, I think that's definitely true because a lot of people wouldn't even class England as being in Europe You know, even in England when you talk about going to Europe, you know, whatever things you mean Doncaster They always think you mean Germany You do get some perception that everyone's some sort of like a ballet girl accent or something like that And I think that annoys people quite a lot. But then again, it's the same way that I think up to a certain point I didn't realize UK was up in Europe Until I started really doing reactions. I was like, okay But they was they own well, you know English people are often perceived as all sort of being from London You got the American dream making yourself better and being seen to be self-improving And it's a lot about earning money and being the best you can and go to the gym and all these kind of things Are you saying it's positive or negative? I think it's a positive thing for Americans But I think the way it's perceived is often everyone goes, I'll get out of my face, you know, because they probably No one likes to Enjoy someone else's success at least in England. Anyway, I think in I think it is here to People fake like they enjoy any, but they really like platin America is probably very different. Oh great. You got a promotion Fucking bastards, you know Identity of being American is like such a thing Right that I don't think Other places have that as much I don't think people are necessarily dumb and I don't think it's a question of being dumb I think it's just that there's this idea of like, yeah being the best to think that like people in America Depending on where you're born, you can have access to care or not It's frightening and I don't know how you can speak about being the best when you can't even make sure that everybody's like taking care of Are you that's true treating everyone the same way in America? No, not everyone is treated the same way People aren't treated the same way anywhere across the board. Maybe it's like Maybe like what's the like The Netherlands maybe like no everyone is treated the same way in Europe Having been to America a lot they often ask obviously as a joke, but just like do you know the royal family or anything like that? So do you feel that generally this big generalization there's mockery towards the americans and americans towards the british is more like Cute we think you're cute. Yeah, I would say that. Yeah, how do you feel about americans thinking you're cute? Um, well it can be taken as a compliment obviously But if they think that we're like as a country not really a force to be reckoned with then just because we do all these like things That date back to long before the US was established. It's not really relevant that they mock us for that Is it condescending? What do you say? A little bit or ignorant more ignorant. It's not it doesn't like hurt me How do you feel americans perceive the british first of all? Um, they kind of look down on us. Do you feel that I feel like americans Think like they're on the top of everything and there's always competition between the two So do you feel like the british have a chip on their shoulder a little bit because of that? What do you think the british are better at than american? Good question being polite doesn't count. Really more polite. Yeah more talkative more helpful More helpful the british are more helpful. Yeah than americans, but americans are nice. They finally got good music Got good music. Okay. I would say yeah, the words are Definitely more helpful. Well the british have good music too, man americans are taking over the music scene But I mean come on. There's a lot of great british music. So here's the thing that I think is going on here We are not the same the brits and the americans, but we sure have a lot of similarities Compare us to the japanese or to native americans or to ethiopians and the differences between americans and the british Seems relatively small. We're like blood siblings in the village that is the globe So and I really like like now he's onto something like I always considered us like first cousins You know what I'm saying? I ain't notice that much animosity or whatever. Here's what all of this started to make me think of There's a concept in psychoanalysis. I'm going to read you the definition, but it's called the narcissism of small differences This comes from Freud the narcissism of small differences is the idea that the more relationship or community shares commonalities The more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other We see this all over the world between The argentinians and the chileans for example between the french and the belgians and indeed I think this is what is happening between Little key like I like I could I could maybe yeah that makes sense I'll be seeing that type of energy in my comment section sometime The brits and the americans but at the end of the day I feel like we make the little things that make us different much bigger than they really are The way that we speak and the words that we use and again, we were talking about this work Yeah, about talking about things like autumn versus fall And it's like that's often something that people like bring up and for some well, it's because it's a simpler word and it's like our fall American you guys don't say fall. No, we don't see Okay, I've never used the word autumn As you can see by how I just said it like I've never used that word It's never came out of my mouth until just now That was the first time I've ever said that word out loud Okay, this is this is autumn autumn autumn autumn fall I don't even think I use fall that much But you can say autumn as well. All right before we go any further I want to quickly thank the sponsor of this video better help for with Life Better help I see myself. There's flex of being with the to feel full to how when tears get You gave them three minutes Be able to have access to stuff otherwise you could but it also gives you 10% on supporting my work and now let's dive back Personally when I come to the UK I have the impression that I've come halfway across the Atlantic I'm not just off the coast of continental europe and by that I mean culturally It feels so much more similar to the life that I had in the u.s The convenience of life the speed the capitalism the language Everyone speaks english. Everyone's like got the same sort of core values I'm not necessarily a big Christian person at all But we all come from this like christian based countries america and australia are english There's some things that happened in the history, but at the end of the day We're kind of all the same group of uh Of people in that regard culturally influenced culturally influenced by the same group So I personally don't see many differences at all. I mean I've got wonderful american friends who I adore So that question is a difficult one because I think they're great You know what that sounded like to me. I'm not even gonna lie right here. I'm not saying that this lady is anything like that I personally don't but that remind me of in america when people be like, oh, I got wonderful black friends It literally sounded like Wonderful american friends who I adore So that question for me is a difficult one because I think they're great. They're fantastic I think the differences in the way our language is I don't know in the way we Use different words. That's where there's a difference. So pretty minor. Yeah Do you think that sometimes some of the british media or or the portion of the british population that looks down on americans? Is it a way to deflect some of the issues that exist here? It could that be said of all societies? Yeah, you can say that of all societies that you can also say that about the media They're always distracting aren't they from topics whatever it is america's seen as very alpha bell If you think about it in terms of masculine feminine. Yeah, there's an alpha wellness to americans Uh, and it's maybe it's just a way to speak the accent. You don't really have that sense of britain I think there's a stereotype of the repressed male that soft-spoken considering we're like right on the edge of europe We have more in common with america in many ways than we do with the rest of europe Which in theory is where we should be more aligned and I think the sort of something that can feel sort of slightly Odd about that, you know, like with the whole brexit thing breaking away more from where we're most closely connected to And sort of being in a situation where you know, we're gonna end up with chlorinated chicken instead There's this tendency to think of americans as just You know that simplistically are you like annoyed by the americans here in uh, sometimes depends how they are Now the interesting thing is I love to drag the u.s through the mud and criticize when I get there boy, y'all gonna hate me I won't run into random people and they're gonna be like, bro I used to talk so a lot of things that I think it deserves criticism for but the second the brits start criticizing Me or the u.s. You have nothing to say kind of like I can criticize where I grew up But you aren't allowed to and the british in my opinion are doing Their version of the same thing criticizing themselves to no end, but no one wants an outside opinion Maybe we all do this. I think we all do this It's like pointing at someone else's flooding house when your own house is on fire So I lived in america for six years. I lived in california, alabama and oklahoma for three years Everyone hears my accent. Yeah, and it's like, oh, where are you from? I'm actually from australia, but then they give me their little opinions on american stuff So I've actually had to play defense a couple times since I've been out here. Are you serious? I'm so serious. I'm so serious because they talk about guns or they talk about this But they don't have like a very good understanding not just english people which is people around the world even in australia of the history of america and why those things became what they were people trying to You know throw rocks and hide their hands. Yeah, they don't want the blame to be on them So it's easy to put it on the big superpower that is on all everyone's tv My perception is I don't consider americans necessarily lesser in terms of like lifestyle culture Let's say I just think it's a bit more apparent than it is in the uk But the uk is just as problematic. There's always sort of a sense in the past But like america was sort of, you know, two decades ahead of what was happening in this country There is a sense that we're getting closer in a time frame I would say younger generations tend to be a bit more and the only word I can think of it is shameful of the heritage I think it's a lot of things from like colonialization and things like that. There tends to be a lot more Shame around it. We're a small island, right? So we've got a small island mentality, but because we've got a small island mentality We've got to overcome it by kind of that impression that we're the best and I think that's changing though I wouldn't say it's necessarily a total reflection of society now But I think historically it has been of course. Let's flip the question How are americans perceiving the british? My answer to that is Um, there is a power dynamic going on and for better for worse the us is Much more of a world superpower right now So I don't think the us feels threatened necessarily like see. I don't even be coming in like that. My mind don't even be there Competitive my mind be are we all human? You know what I'm saying? I'm coming in treating them like everybody like like Like another human look what you're talking about With great britain because of that. I don't look at nobody no different than nothing I think there's kind of like a ah, they're they're cute, you know, I mean like they're they're harry potter and james bond and sophisticated and Exactly, but I also think that there's also a major degree of ignorance like the the the us is so self-involved We're not even paying attention to what's going on elsewhere in the world So there's not even enough of to form an opinion. Yeah, but now now now that's that's okay. Let me let's let's Let's regroup here Like that's my overall Thought prices But like if we get down to the hood areas and the hood aspect of it all I do be thinking that the hoods in the uk be reaching Trying to be just as just as Hood as the american hood. I will say that Now this video was definitely supposed to be in good fun. I harbor no ill will towards the british I find our rivalries as human beings across culture as far as like gang life and things of that nature I mean When they shouldn't even be a race or no one should care There's a cross nations to be comical and interesting It's like an insight into human psychology and despite all of the, you know, criticizing going on here I'd like to end on a positive note I'd like to express my appreciation for a few things that I think the british do better than americans Your healthcare system for one also the premier league They say football was invented in england and if that is true as someone with argentinian background I can only thank you. I also have to thank you for your incredible music What a contribution to our collective heritage. It is a foreign idea to me to let's not forget some of the food now Have a royal family, but I respect the commitment to tradition I did move here um the week that the queen died So it was really interesting to see I think my first impression of like the british as a public Was that of like mourning for their queen? You know the 14 hour long line to go see her lying in state So I think it was a little bit of a shock. This might sound silly, but how procedural the british can be I noticed that that tends to be like every british person i've met Tends to be very procedural as opposed to americans. I think are a little bit more Like dare I say free spirited or individualistic So I mean I think they're that's not to say that one is better than the other and as a final note We are obviously a world of individuals and so stereotypes Never fully work still I find it's so fascinating to explore the stereotypes and cliches that we have for one another Not always but often there is some sort of basis of truth there or else They wouldn't spread and persist as they do. Anyway having said all of that I hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please consider liking it Which does the algorithms to share this with more people. I thought it was fun and it's a format Oh yeah man I like this video. It was cool It was enlightening. I had no idea that there was any type of like anything Between the two but I guess the truth Taylor leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post. I'm done