Comments by "Regis" (@Timbo5000) on "American Things Europeans Find Weird" video.

  1. Agreed, I've noticed a lot of fake smiles and friendliness in the US, as a European. It's so strange and feels so wrong, like someone is lying to your face. Just act like you genuinely want to!
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  2. We have different cards in Europe, usually. Credit cards charge afterwards at the end of the month and the most used kind of card here just charges directly so you know how much you have left. I never understood the added value of credit cards. You have no idea how much you spent until the end of the month, it just makes no sense and is asking for trouble.
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  3. It is even more fake than soap operas, tbh
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  4. Random Saitama Everything from eating with knife and fork to capitalism and socialism to the financial system we have today are European inventions. 81% of all significant scientific inventions are from Europe, at least if Wikipedia is to be believed. Almost everything, from the most basic things to some of the most impressive inventions/events in history, comes from Europe. Europe shaped the world into what it is today and continues to shape it
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  5. Professor Toaster Firstly, you call yourselves America all the time. Secondly, the Americas is short for North and South America, not just America. America is used much more commonly to refer to the USA. The Americas also makes more sense for the continent
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  6. nothingwithlimits The EU can't really be compared to anything else on earth. It's unique. It can't be called a country, but it also can't be called an international organisation. It's something inbetween. The member states are in charge of what happens in the EU, it's not a federal government or something. It's not a federal government that is in charge and grants its states some freedoms (like in the US), it's kind of the other way around. The EU member states are in charge and if something needs to be done together, they do it in the form of the EU. The most important institutions of the EU are literally just the member states sitting together (Council of the EU is literally just ministers of each member state sitting together and voting on something, the European Council is the heads of state of member states sitting together and debating on where the EU goes next, etc.). Besides that, it's also not one entity. I'm Dutch, which means that I have Dutch citizenship, ut also EU citizenship. I essentially have two governments and two citizenships that each give me certain rights. It's kind of complicated
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