Comments by "Tony England" (@TonyEnglandUK) on "Americans Don't Know How The World Views Them" video.

  1. I'm a Brit and I love Sweden, it's a beautiful country. And honestly, Americans have seriously got to stop with these painful "omg! Islam has taken over Europe!!" stories your press keeps giving you. Look at Steve Emerson, an American terrorism expert. He went on American news and told viewers that Birmingham, England was now a "no-go zone for non-Muslims". The BBC interviewed him later and the interviewer literally laughed in his face at his story. Mr Emerson apologised and admitted the story was completely invented out of "sloppy research". The British Prime minister even called Mr Emerson "an absolute idiot". Muslims have been in Britain peacefully for centuries, they didn't all just arrive last Thursday wearing suicide belts and aching to go bang.
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  2. I think the thing with Americans is they are taught to believe their own hype and it's "anti-American" not to. If a TV show asked 10 random Americans "Which is the most free country in the world?" practically every American would answer "the USA". In reality, the United States is the 20th most-free country in the world, and the only major English-speaking nation that doesn't make the top ten.
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  3. I think generally, Americans aren't very well versed in other countries or in the culture of other countries. Most Americans never leave the USA their entire lives, so their experience in the world - and their knowledge of it - is always going to have an American slant to it. There's a video on YouTube called "Americans are NOT stupid" and it does sum up how little Americans know about the world outside their borders.
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