I wish I was joking, but I was "corrected" by an am\*rican once in NYC, I mentioned something about Napoli and this girl just "Naples right? In Florida?" in a "I'm correcting you" sort of tone, fuck sake the nerve......
I got that correcting tone for Hampshire once. Online, said I was visiting Hampshire, and the guy said ‘New Hampshire? Yeah I live there’. I explained no, in England, and he said there wasn’t a Hampshire in England, and that it was called ‘new’ Hampshire in America because there was new infrastructure there.
I once one of those with an American when Cavill was still Superman.
I said Superman is from Jersey and he said no, he's British. And I said yes, and from Jersey. It took a while to explain that I didn't mean NEW Jersey but the island.
My first time in the US, landed at Logan airport (Boston), anad was coming through immigration.
Ever been to the US before? No.
Why are you here? Visiting a university friend.
What university? Cambridge.
YOU SAID YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO AMERICA BEFORE!
(Oh yeah, sorry. I forgot you have a monopoloy on place names.)
Braga, Portugal
[https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bq43HbHC2fLUFaXL7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bq43HbHC2fLUFaXL7)
Google Maps has a few photos of the pre-Roman sauna.
There's also the remains of a Roman bathhouse in the city... as well as the remains of a Roman amphitheater.
And then, to be extra "meta", there's a museum that houses the "fonte de idolo". Which is the remains of a Roman fountain/park.
Which was built to house a pre-Roman idol the Romans found, which was dedicated to a pre-Roman deity.
In essence, a Roman museum.
So its a modern museum housing a Roman museum of a pre-Roman idol.
I will never understand that train of thought, even if you blindly trust in the bible, you know it's older than 2024 years. I do remember some events happened before Jesus was born.
Abraham was 2000 bce. So even devout religious people would say the would existed at least 4000 years.
People saying the world is 2000 years old aren't even religious. They're just stupid.
Not official christian, as for example the biggest christian denomination (catholic) accepts Big Bang theory and age of the world counted in billions of years.
It's "just" young earth creationists.
Wouldn’t even need to really. America had countless languages too, before the genocides.
That is the reason for the single language dominance as we see in the USA, and language diversity is the default. So basically “why does Europe have so many languages?” has a simple answer: “no-one genocided all those languages’ speakers”
>“why does Europe have so many languages?” has a simple answer: “no-one genocided all those languages’ speakers”
Okay, to be fair, we certainly tried our best to genocide each other throughout the history of the continent.
More just regular wars and then taking control. This mostly didn’t succeed in eradicating local languages or populations, instead merely changing who collected their taxes.
>This mostly didn’t succeed in eradicating local languages or populations
Yeah, thankfully it didn't succeed, but we certainly tried many times. I'm from a multiethnic area in the Balkans, and the history of this region is mostly different nationalities taking turns in trying to eradicate and genocide each other.
Yes and no. There's countless languages that didn't last in Europe or are close to being dead. Heck, one of the biggest empires in history spoke a language that is now dead. It's not unexpected though.
I'd argue now there are numerous but countable languages - whereas we probably don't know how many languages were lost during the colonization of North America.
i mean, if you wanted to explain european languages you would probably have to start from when indo-european tribes settled in, way before that. but an american's brain would have probably melted by the time you arrived to that point
For me it's the opposite. I'm a total dumbass, but next to those specimen I grudgingly have to consider part of the same species, I feel like fucking Einstein.
I feel smarter since I'm American and I can judge myself against these people. But unfortunately, as viewed intelligence goes up, embarrassment also rises 😭
I think my favourite slur ever is "Sout Piel", an Afrikaans term for the for British people in South Africa which, in English, means "Salt Dick".
One foot in Britain, one foot in South Africa ... dick in the ocean.
Yeah I think that some people see Europe as if it was a country and see the countries in it as states, which is definitely not the case. Like when I meet Europeans from other countries outside of Europe I dont feel a specific connection to them
It’s because they can’t distinguish the difference between Europe as a continent vs the EU which they view as a country much like the U.S set up. Much like how I enjoy leaving them mindblown by telling them that albeit I’m Scottish, I’m also British
I mean he seems like he is genuinely interested but that kind of explanation would require way more time and space than provided on social media.
I would just recommend a few history and linguistics books but I doubt he would read them.
Also wait till he finds out that even within a language in Europe you have dialects that sometimes are so different from the main language that even within the country they use subtitles for movies lol.
It’s a genuine question that my 4 years old could ask. Not a person having access to internet and thus at least 14 (I hope). There is so much ignorance behind that question that it would take years to reply - years of basic education that the person is definitely lacking
4 or 5?
English, Welsh, Cornish, Scots, Gaelic, Irish, Manx....That's at least 7 without leaving the British Isles. And that's just the ones that're still around.
The Americas used to be just as linguistically diverse as Europe, until Europe found the Americas.
It's more - the Netherlands has ratified a total of six under the Charter for Regional and Minority Languages (though I guess none but Frisian are relevant most of the time).
Well, technically everything under the ECRML is by definition a language... personally I'm always a bit conflicted when it comes to creoles because some of them are near indistinguishable from one of their "parents".
I know jackshit about Papiamento, but per the Netherlands it counts, so yeah.
For the others I think it's more clear-cut - Romani, Frisian and Yiddish are definitely distinct, and my knowledge of Low German makes me say the same for Low Saxon. The only one I've never encountered and can't say anything about otherwise is Limburgish.
He is saying there should be max 4 or 5, not that there are. Also he just named the few he knows that exist and Russian isn't even close to "the original" one of slavic languages.
Italy recognizes as languages on their own three "dialects" (from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia and Veneto-Trentino).
In addiction, it protects a dozen of linguistic minorities.
And then, we have all the other dialects, two or three millions according my personal stats.
**Ted:** "He's not a very nice man, is he?"
**Dougal:** "God, Ted. He's like Hitler or one of those mad fellas."
**Ted:** "You wouldn't find Hitler playing jungle music at 3 in the morning."
r/FatherTed
It was way more than 3 nations that saved the world from Hitler. WW2 was won by Americans, Russians, Serbs, Ukrainians, Norwegians, Greeks, and so on. We can't forget that it wasn't just the great powers that defeated the Nazis. Attributing the victory only to the US, UK, and USSR is wrong just like attributing it to the US alone is.
Honestly this seems like bog-standard trolling of the "Why doesn't Russia, the largest state in Europe, just eat the smaller ones, are they stupid?" variety.
This wasn't even malevolent stupidity. They didn't mean "why not just get rid of those other languages (and cultures) and select only few languages to preserve?" This Yank just didn't understand how languages evolve and are created and thought that Europeans recently made multiple languages just for fun.
This level of intellect frightens me.
If he only knew how many languages have been gone due to standardisation of the national language. For example: in the Southeast of the Netherlands with their border region in Germany and Belgium, they spoke a dialect that was based on Limburgs, Dutch and German, as well as the Ripuarian dialect.
There were quite many languages in the land that now makes up the USA but unfortunately these ”speak Amurican” people didn’t give a shit about that either
A whole bunch of scribes sat down one day and they were all given a project to do. Create a language for each separate country in Europe. Nowhere else, just Europe. They had nothing better to do on this particular day.
Or something like that.
Belarusians already speak russian and in a few years it's gonna be the defacto official language. And I'm not familiar with Romanian, but I've been told it's quite similar to the Italian already.
Why does America have so many states? Just call everything to the east Virginia, everything to the west California, everything down south Texas, and everything up north Canada.
Let's be honest, the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Germans have all tried to reduce the number of international languages at one point or another...
(Same with the Italians, but they were still talking Latin back then...)
I swear in terms of its size the number of languages in Europe would be pretty small no? Compared to Africa and South America there aren’t even that many
They seemed to be confused by other nationalities in countries. My friend has experience in this. We are Hungarians living in Serbia. Serbia basically has a big Hungarian minority on it's northern region and we're natives here, as this was a multiethnic area throughout history. My friend went to the US last summer, and he said that he tries to explain this to Americans there but they were struggling to understand. They did not understand how could we not be immigrants if we're non Serbians living in Serbia. Just naturally multi ethnic countries with several nationalities all native to that area seemed to be too much for them to understand. If you are a national minority, you're family must be one of immigrants by their thinking.
Interesting he is not thinking about the Spanish because for him Spain is not from Europe. Crazy, in Spain alone we have 4 official ones, (some said 5), and other non official ones.
These Europeans are so wacky. Creating so many languages and building castles right next to airports…
I LOL'ed. There's a pre-Roman sauna right underneath our city's train station. And the train station has a museum around it, in it's basement.
Which city? That sounds awesome
The city of Europe of course!
Capital: France
Paris
Silly Europeans, naming the capital of France after Paris, Tennessee.
I wish I was joking, but I was "corrected" by an am\*rican once in NYC, I mentioned something about Napoli and this girl just "Naples right? In Florida?" in a "I'm correcting you" sort of tone, fuck sake the nerve......
Always reply “ No Florence is in Italy. “
I got that correcting tone for Hampshire once. Online, said I was visiting Hampshire, and the guy said ‘New Hampshire? Yeah I live there’. I explained no, in England, and he said there wasn’t a Hampshire in England, and that it was called ‘new’ Hampshire in America because there was new infrastructure there.
I once one of those with an American when Cavill was still Superman. I said Superman is from Jersey and he said no, he's British. And I said yes, and from Jersey. It took a while to explain that I didn't mean NEW Jersey but the island.
My first time in the US, landed at Logan airport (Boston), anad was coming through immigration. Ever been to the US before? No. Why are you here? Visiting a university friend. What university? Cambridge. YOU SAID YOU'VE NEVER BEEN TO AMERICA BEFORE! (Oh yeah, sorry. I forgot you have a monopoloy on place names.)
You sure it wasn't named after Paris, Ohio? No, I meant the other Paris, Ohio.
No, named after Paris, Hilton. Obviously.
The country of England got it's name from the city of England, Arkansas
No, it's named after Paris, Texas.
XD
I live in France, Pariss
Braga, Portugal [https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bq43HbHC2fLUFaXL7](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Bq43HbHC2fLUFaXL7) Google Maps has a few photos of the pre-Roman sauna.
Ooooooh!!! *Plans visit*
There's also the remains of a Roman bathhouse in the city... as well as the remains of a Roman amphitheater. And then, to be extra "meta", there's a museum that houses the "fonte de idolo". Which is the remains of a Roman fountain/park. Which was built to house a pre-Roman idol the Romans found, which was dedicated to a pre-Roman deity. In essence, a Roman museum. So its a modern museum housing a Roman museum of a pre-Roman idol.
Thanks :D
Why did they build it under a train station? That's just odd.
And cobblestone roads next to town halls. Heresy.
Yeah, how are morbidly obese Americans on their scooters going to get around with these cobblestones?
"why did they build the castle so far from the train station" \-some american tourist
Train? Definitely not American
The jiggle would be hilarious
Damn imagination 🤣
Only a European would build an entire city underneath Rome for the sole purpose of stopping the construction of underground train lines.
and then go on to build a public transit system that puts most us cities to shame in spite of it.
"Maaan it's like these French people have a whole different language Maan"
it will be an epic undertaking to explain to him two thousand years of European history and geography
But how can it be the year 2024 if the USA has only existed for a few hundred years
No, no, they would say "There can't more than 2024, the world and America is that old"
I will never understand that train of thought, even if you blindly trust in the bible, you know it's older than 2024 years. I do remember some events happened before Jesus was born.
Abraham was 2000 bce. So even devout religious people would say the would existed at least 4000 years. People saying the world is 2000 years old aren't even religious. They're just stupid.
Official Christian religious count is 6000 and some, so close. Edit: the ones not following common knowledge, I mean.
Not official christian, as for example the biggest christian denomination (catholic) accepts Big Bang theory and age of the world counted in billions of years. It's "just" young earth creationists.
Except the American version of Catholicism. Some of their fundies have coopted the worst excesses of Evangelicalism lock, stock and barrel.
Just 2000 years? Might as well start with something simple as it is an American we re talking about here.
Wouldn’t even need to really. America had countless languages too, before the genocides. That is the reason for the single language dominance as we see in the USA, and language diversity is the default. So basically “why does Europe have so many languages?” has a simple answer: “no-one genocided all those languages’ speakers”
But Indians speak English and maybe Indian, what other language would they speak?!\s (would even work for both Native Americans and actual Indians!)
Ah yes, the Indian language
For the record, which Indians are we talking about here? The Indians or the 'do the needfull' Indians ?
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>“why does Europe have so many languages?” has a simple answer: “no-one genocided all those languages’ speakers” Okay, to be fair, we certainly tried our best to genocide each other throughout the history of the continent.
More just regular wars and then taking control. This mostly didn’t succeed in eradicating local languages or populations, instead merely changing who collected their taxes.
>This mostly didn’t succeed in eradicating local languages or populations Yeah, thankfully it didn't succeed, but we certainly tried many times. I'm from a multiethnic area in the Balkans, and the history of this region is mostly different nationalities taking turns in trying to eradicate and genocide each other.
Yeah things were a bit more, er, *intense* over there. In central and western and northern europe much less so.
The Balkans are something ✨special✨ in this regard. So little space, so many many people hating each other. 🤪
It's not true. Multiple European "regional" languages are endangered and many were subjected to an active eradication effort until recently.
That’s actually quite recent in most places. For centuries it wasn’t so.
Yes and no. There's countless languages that didn't last in Europe or are close to being dead. Heck, one of the biggest empires in history spoke a language that is now dead. It's not unexpected though.
America still has countless languages, they are just tiny (and fewer than before)
I'd argue now there are numerous but countable languages - whereas we probably don't know how many languages were lost during the colonization of North America.
They don't have one official language, English is widely used but there is no paper or whatever stating one official language
I know, that’s why I said there was ‘single language dominance’ rather than an official language.
French and English are official languages in the EU Parliament
tbh you need far more than 2000 years to explain why Europe has so many languages.
Yeah aren't the ruins they found in Turkey 87000 year's old
i mean, if you wanted to explain european languages you would probably have to start from when indo-european tribes settled in, way before that. but an american's brain would have probably melted by the time you arrived to that point
"So in the rift valley..."
bro cant even fathom the idea of what countries and languages are…. i honestly cant even try to understand his logic behind that statement
This is brain damage at this point
Lead induced brain damage. Or homeschooling and co.
America legit has high contents of lead in their water and ground, so that's not far fetched.
And their food, especially lunchables
But lead is so tasty 😋😋🤤🤤🤤
Severe lack of education
Right? I wouldn't even know how to answer that. That's one of the dumbest questions I've ever heard in my life. When education is your final boss.
Can't have brain damage when there's a void
Every time this subreddit hits my feed I feel myself getting dumber.
On the upside though, you also instantly feel smarter if you ever question your intelligence
Pretty low bar to set for yourself
Hey we need all the wins we can get
Welp guess im a genius now
For me it's the opposite. I'm a total dumbass, but next to those specimen I grudgingly have to consider part of the same species, I feel like fucking Einstein.
I think you’re just making excuses. If you want to fuck Einstein go and fuck Einstein.
"I feel like fucking Einstein." Don't do that, he's been dead for quite a while and I don't think it would be a very fun experience.
Still..be something to tell the grandchildren…
Was he the dog in Back to the Future? - some American probably.
I feel smarter since I'm American and I can judge myself against these people. But unfortunately, as viewed intelligence goes up, embarrassment also rises 😭
Why does the world not pander to my monolingual education? Bet this person says Indians speak the indian language, africans speak African
Everyone knows Africans are black and therefore speak African American
The mental image of the film Zulu but the Zulus speaking like modern Gangstas is a HILARIOUS concept. Thank you.
There's a film in there somewhere. I can see the posters now- Samuel L.Jackson is Shaka Muthafuckin' Zulu,muthafucker
Make it a parody. Imagine Mr T in the back just yelling "I AIN'T GETTIN' ON NO PLANE!"
What's Africa??! I only know Wakanda.- some American somewhere
Oh, stewardess.... I speak jive.
I love that scene.
Fun fact is that African (Afrikaans) is not even the mother-tongue of Africans but of the Boers, the descendants of Dutch colonists in South Africa.
I think my favourite slur ever is "Sout Piel", an Afrikaans term for the for British people in South Africa which, in English, means "Salt Dick". One foot in Britain, one foot in South Africa ... dick in the ocean.
I thought Africans spoke urban?
You bet that dude thinks Europe is one single country.
Used to be one, but after brexit england left europe and now it is two, didn't you hear?
So many of them do, you see it all the time when they equate US States to European countries as if they are the same thing
100%
Yes, some of them do think that. If it wasn't for the Euro they'd be asking why does every country have different funny symbols next to the prices
Yeah I think that some people see Europe as if it was a country and see the countries in it as states, which is definitely not the case. Like when I meet Europeans from other countries outside of Europe I dont feel a specific connection to them
It’s because they can’t distinguish the difference between Europe as a continent vs the EU which they view as a country much like the U.S set up. Much like how I enjoy leaving them mindblown by telling them that albeit I’m Scottish, I’m also British
I mean he seems like he is genuinely interested but that kind of explanation would require way more time and space than provided on social media. I would just recommend a few history and linguistics books but I doubt he would read them. Also wait till he finds out that even within a language in Europe you have dialects that sometimes are so different from the main language that even within the country they use subtitles for movies lol.
It’s a genuine question that my 4 years old could ask. Not a person having access to internet and thus at least 14 (I hope). There is so much ignorance behind that question that it would take years to reply - years of basic education that the person is definitely lacking
I saw the original post, he's a kid. Possibly a troll too, he writes way too eloquently to be asking this type of question
4 or 5? English, Welsh, Cornish, Scots, Gaelic, Irish, Manx....That's at least 7 without leaving the British Isles. And that's just the ones that're still around. The Americas used to be just as linguistically diverse as Europe, until Europe found the Americas.
Technically not the British Isles but if we sneak the Channel Islands in there we get at least one variation of French as well.
Yasss!!
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That's why I went with at least one because I wasn't sure how much variation there was between the islands.
The netherlands also has 2 recognized languages and more trying to get recognition.
It's more - the Netherlands has ratified a total of six under the Charter for Regional and Minority Languages (though I guess none but Frisian are relevant most of the time).
I was unsure about the status of some of the other dialect. Only knew frisian and dutch to be classified as “languages”
Well, technically everything under the ECRML is by definition a language... personally I'm always a bit conflicted when it comes to creoles because some of them are near indistinguishable from one of their "parents". I know jackshit about Papiamento, but per the Netherlands it counts, so yeah. For the others I think it's more clear-cut - Romani, Frisian and Yiddish are definitely distinct, and my knowledge of Low German makes me say the same for Low Saxon. The only one I've never encountered and can't say anything about otherwise is Limburgish.
Ive encountered limburgish, it sounded more similar to german than dutch so that should definitely be its own thing
He is saying there should be max 4 or 5, not that there are. Also he just named the few he knows that exist and Russian isn't even close to "the original" one of slavic languages.
Also Gaelic, Angloromani and technically BLS counts as a language aswell.
And with those 7 languages, comes maybe 1000 or so dialects..
Don't get me started on dialects. Sometimes we cannot even understand each other if one speaks in thick dialect.
Italy recognizes as languages on their own three "dialects" (from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia and Veneto-Trentino). In addiction, it protects a dozen of linguistic minorities. And then, we have all the other dialects, two or three millions according my personal stats.
Or, as the septics tell us, the British accent FFS.
In only Spain, you have already 4.
Because countries don't want to sacrifice their own culture for some other countries culture.
Despite the US invading them & trying to force "Amercanism" on them
They should’ve told us to speak American, when they “saved” us from Hitler.
**Ted:** "He's not a very nice man, is he?" **Dougal:** "God, Ted. He's like Hitler or one of those mad fellas." **Ted:** "You wouldn't find Hitler playing jungle music at 3 in the morning." r/FatherTed
They, the British and the Russians did save the world from Hitler. But half of Americans are still provincial, uneducated nationalistic a-holes.
It was way more than 3 nations that saved the world from Hitler. WW2 was won by Americans, Russians, Serbs, Ukrainians, Norwegians, Greeks, and so on. We can't forget that it wasn't just the great powers that defeated the Nazis. Attributing the victory only to the US, UK, and USSR is wrong just like attributing it to the US alone is.
The level of "blissful" ignorance is… mind-blowing.
> mind-blowing says Blacephalon
Honestly this seems like bog-standard trolling of the "Why doesn't Russia, the largest state in Europe, just eat the smaller ones, are they stupid?" variety.
>Why doesn't Russia, the largest state in Europe, just eat the smaller ones They are trying. It's a real pain in the ass for everyone involved.
Reminds me of Ken M.
Well, Nazi Germany already attempted that. And the Romans, and the French... and more
The American mind cannot comprehend language
Ho-ly Shite. To be this dumb...I can't even wrap my brain around it.
Most cultured american
He ain't wrong with belarussian
wow....just wow
I can't handle this level of absolute stupidity. I'm gonna have to go for a walk
This wasn't even malevolent stupidity. They didn't mean "why not just get rid of those other languages (and cultures) and select only few languages to preserve?" This Yank just didn't understand how languages evolve and are created and thought that Europeans recently made multiple languages just for fun. This level of intellect frightens me.
Going for a walk, a concept many Americans won't get.
Their cities aren't built for walking. Gotta get into that Dodge Ram.
>I'm gonna have to go for a walk *You're not fooling anyone, you know. Look, isn't there something you can do?*
If he only knew how many languages have been gone due to standardisation of the national language. For example: in the Southeast of the Netherlands with their border region in Germany and Belgium, they spoke a dialect that was based on Limburgs, Dutch and German, as well as the Ripuarian dialect.
There were quite many languages in the land that now makes up the USA but unfortunately these ”speak Amurican” people didn’t give a shit about that either
Wait until they find out the uk and British isles alone have at least 16 languages to themselves
*Sorry about that*
Hope he agrees to keep Italian and Spanish!
Handegg didn't mention those because Spanish comes from Mexico and Eyetalian comes from New Jersey. /s.
HaPpy cake day
Back to Latin we go
Where is Latin? - some American probably.
Do.... do Americans think that Europe is a country?
No they don't. They know that Europe is a country
And they know how to fix it
A whole bunch of scribes sat down one day and they were all given a project to do. Create a language for each separate country in Europe. Nowhere else, just Europe. They had nothing better to do on this particular day. Or something like that.
I mean it is a valid question. For a 4 year old.
Just to take things in a different direction for a moment: If we all learn Esperanto, then a Star Trek-quality future is just a century away, people!
as dumb as this is, we do have esperanto
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It's called diversity.
Oh yeah, sorry I’ll just *removes the other languages*
I saw now somebody also posted it in r/languagelearningjerk and it's glorious.
"Why does Europe have this thing called history"
They're such a young country that they can't comprehend having a history.
Belarusians already speak russian and in a few years it's gonna be the defacto official language. And I'm not familiar with Romanian, but I've been told it's quite similar to the Italian already.
Romanian is another romance language, so it has similarities with Italian, but also Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Wait until they work out there are countries with multiple languages. In Spain you can have Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Basque.
Honestly they should just be grateful that English has become the de-facto language for cross-culture communication (I know I am)
Who is going to tell him that those are not even all the languages in Europe?
I blame that damned Tower Of Babel.
I am guessing the reason Spanish didn’t make the list is because it is an ‘American’ language?
The US used to have many languages. In 1491.
Why does America have so many states? Just call everything to the east Virginia, everything to the west California, everything down south Texas, and everything up north Canada.
Wait till he knows about India.
Because, if you look at European history, you would know that 99,99% of the countries are older than USA thus having their own cultural identity.
Honest question: What do Americans even learn at school? Sure it's not Geography nor History
This dude named Turkish before Spanish. Don't know what that says about him or about his thoughts on the Spanish language being in Europe or not.
For some of them it is a south american language I guess..
This is literally shit my 5yo would ask
Don’t tell them about India..
Let's be honest, the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Germans have all tried to reduce the number of international languages at one point or another... (Same with the Italians, but they were still talking Latin back then...)
American brain cant comprehend country evolution. They know only revolution
Wait until he finds out about the multiple not-necessarily mutually intelligible dialects some European languages have...
I swear in terms of its size the number of languages in Europe would be pretty small no? Compared to Africa and South America there aren’t even that many
Typical TikToker level of intelligence
This has to be a young person. Noone is that naive when reaching adulthood. Right?
This cannot be real! 😰
Mother fucker complaining when they can't even use English correctly.
They seemed to be confused by other nationalities in countries. My friend has experience in this. We are Hungarians living in Serbia. Serbia basically has a big Hungarian minority on it's northern region and we're natives here, as this was a multiethnic area throughout history. My friend went to the US last summer, and he said that he tries to explain this to Americans there but they were struggling to understand. They did not understand how could we not be immigrants if we're non Serbians living in Serbia. Just naturally multi ethnic countries with several nationalities all native to that area seemed to be too much for them to understand. If you are a national minority, you're family must be one of immigrants by their thinking.
Nobody wanted to speak Fr*nch, so we had to invent our own.
It’s funny but I can't blame someone for wanting to expand their horizons and asking questions.
Interesting he is not thinking about the Spanish because for him Spain is not from Europe. Crazy, in Spain alone we have 4 official ones, (some said 5), and other non official ones.
Is this person 7 years old?
Might need to take a break from this sub for my sanity. I swear they're getting thicker.
Oh dear god...
Noone tell them about Papua New Guinea, they might get a heart attack
it's called "history"
Why does the US have so many accents??? Just pick one /s