Comments by "Guinness" (@GuinessOriginal) on "Americans Don't Know How The World Views Them" video.

  1. +Orion Benner take away your massive military spending, take away your huge governent bailout of the banks and the car industry, take away the 80% profits for the next 30 years your oil companies got signed onto for Iraqi oil and what have you got left ? Some films from Cali, some oil from Texas and some meat from Chicago . Oh and some tourism in New York and Florida . You still rely on the largest slave labour force in the world and have 25% of your population living below the poverty line. It is as bad as we make out when compared relatively to European economies. Your gdp growth don't mean shit to people with stagnant real wage growth for the last 20 years, plummeting pension values, rising inflation and massive debt, which is the majority of your working population. Go look it up.
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  2. +cla31022 mate it's a common complaint made about Americans, that they come across as loud, brash and obnoxious when they're abroad. That's not to say they're the only ones; they're just more likely to offend in this way than others. It could be because many Americans don't think about how they are perceived very much; it could also be that many Americans can't really handle their alcohol that well, since legally in most states they have to be 21. By which age, most Europeans have found their drinking legs. I recently had the pleasure of the company of some us marines in Southern Spain, who after 4 or 5 small beers over the course of two hours where shit faced. Most Europeans can drink twice that in the same time and barely be affected.
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  3. +Orion Benner from what I've seen Americans abroad are the more cultured ones who actually bother to explore the rest of the world, no? Only like 16% of yanks even own a passport. The assumption is they're the ones who are more likely to be 'knowledgable' about the world. And that is a pretty fucking scary thought for the world. It's like your 5 year old younger brother is ten foot tall and has got his hands on a minigun.
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  4. +Orion Benner yeah I knew that , you generally don't get paid holidays do you, and even when you might get like ten days a year a lot of people don't take them. This horseshit about America being so Apple pie star spangled awesomely better than everywhere else...sounds like horsehit to me. No fucking holidays? No fucking healthcare? Are you serious? Wtf!
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  5. +Orion Benner not very productive your economy though, the Germans is the most productive and they get an average of 35 paid holidays a year plus up to 17 bank holidays depending on where you live. And American infrastructure is falling apart, you can't even afford to repair that despite working without holidays and not having a national health service. Just sounds like a dystopia to me tbh. All this crap americans get fed about it being so great...it's horseshit but they keep eating it like it's cake.
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  6. +Mike Vizioz true. Italians talk and interrupt each other a lot more simply because the nature of their Latin based grammar means that they often know what the other person is going to say before they've finished speaking. This happens far more rarely in Nippon. Bad body language and contact, personal space etc is just as different and distinct.
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  7. +cla31022 America is diverse how? Because it's based on a bunch of immigrants? Don't mean shit. Given the size of the place, it's decidedly UN diverse. You might want to get a passport and travel a bit to understand what cultural diversity actually means. London is the most diverse city in the history of the world, with over 300 languages spoken daily, more than any other city in the world ever.
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  8. +Mike Vizioz it's because their verbs come at the end of the sentence more often than not, so in the context if a conversation you probably already know or can work out the verb. Not the same in French grammar. Parisians just interrupt cos they're rude ;) Italian body language came about because in ancient Italy the Italian or Latin they spoke differed wildly between the city states so much that they were often intelligible to each other, hence they learnt to speak with their hands. This is still true to a certain extent , Sicilian or Neapolitan differs immensely from Milanese, and a native Italian will find it very difficult to talk without using their hands - if you ever watch one having a telephone conversation you will are what I mean.
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