Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Embarrassed by The Dumbest Thing an American Has Ever Said To You?" video.

Here's a few. Expecting to see crocodiles. In Melbourne. Expecting to see people riding Kangaroos. In Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Being told that we can't have a Melbourne because they have one in Florida. Expecting to drive to Uluru and back as a day trip from Brisbane. Expecting to see the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Brisbane. Then when being told it's in Sydney expecting to see it in a day trip. Being told we can't have Indian food in Australia because they only make that in India. Then we get to the just plain rude. The usual being told that we drive on the wrong side of the road. Being told about how we're a disarmed nation who only exists because the USA protects us. Being patronizing told that Australia is just a state of the United States. Oh, how we could go on about that stuff. The crazy. Yes, I've heard the different moon one. Being told we're unpatriotic because there are no American flags up. Being accused that we're trying to rip them off because the weights are in kilograms not pounds and that a kilogram can't be more than a pound. Being told by a customer that they will only use American money because it's accepted everywhere. Getting asked why we're not celebrating Thanksgiving. Or Independence Day. Being told it can't be December because it's hot and December is cold. I think a mandatory 2 week course on what the rest of the world is like is almost mandatory for Americans travelling.
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@seanthiar No, there is an American dialect. And within that there are sub dialects. Same way there is no Canadian language, no Australian language, no New Zealand language. Or else I speak fluent Queenslander, Victorian, and have at least passable Taswegian, Sandgroper, Welcher, Mancunian, Brummie, Geordie, New Yorker, Bostonian. Hmm is Valley Girl a language as I might be able to get a multilingual allowance at work?
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O. M. G. Maybe that's why they couldn't make it to WW1 or WW2 on time. They just needed someone to translate it for them.
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@jessbellis9510 At least about their major allies in the Anglosphere and NATO, and major trading partners and military threats. While it would be great if they were taught at least something about every country, there are how many? It's debatable - seriously actually debatable. China-Taiwan? Is Korea one country or two? Somaliland vs British Somaliland versus Italian Somaliland etc etc. I don't know that we really truly cover all that but at least we get taught from more recent textbooks and know there's somewhere around 200 countries. One thing's for sure, we're at least educated enough to know that "Africa" is not a country and we can find Europe on a map. I have been to parts of Europe where similar levels of ignorance exist, but to be honest that's rare - it seems the dropouts and intellectually challenged not the majority of the population. Part of the issue in the US is the very strong state control of the education system and how much it is politicised. Not all of the US is this bad. But sadly, large parts of it are because there are political and religious groups who seem to get veto rights on textbooks, or at least the spending to buy updated textbooks for their students.
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The Cult thing is real. I know when I go overseas I come back thinking how we could adapt some of that there and improve our country... But then I remember our own idiots. Like, think of beer vending machines at the trainstations in Europe. Being able to substitute the Coke for Beer at Macca's. And then I think of the Aussie yobbos who give us such a bad reputation in Bali and at German Oktoberfest. Maybe that's the US problem. The IQ bar for a passport is set far too low.
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@ivwvy Try and learn multiple languages and use them regularly. I learnt French, Italian and German but didnt use them much. A smattering of Mandarin. I can still pick up bits and a brushup before I head o/s helps. But I'll never really be competent in any of them except maybe German. Metric is more logical but sometimes the scales used for science don't make as much sense. Temperatures and heights the imperial system is probable more useable on a day to day basis as the ranges are based more on day to day exposure to variation. Seriously, how many 3'4" people do you meet? So almost everyone being in the 5'0" to 6'0" range is lots more useful than 1m to 2m .
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@garrymuir1442 Debatable as to whether the United states is closer to the Queens English than New Zealand, Australia or Britain. Depends on which Queen as languages evolve.
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 @michaelmclachlan1650 Except the russians were using red white and blue in the late 17th century, before the creation of Great Britain in 1707 (18th Century).
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From a computing or filing perspective the yanks have this one right. From a daily utility perspective I don't need to know what month it is as often as I need to know what day it is.
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@pixibelle3282 For a conversational perspective, yes. But having your filing system reset each year so 1st January 2022 CE is before 2nd January 580 CE? Not so much. An 8 digit number with year first works better. Although that still has issues when we go BCE.
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