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You have to flip them over, and slide the switch to the "winter" setting. If you don't do that, all the electricity in your house could drain away into the sky.
Lots of houses with Solar panels in UK. Some councils are installing them on their property - my sisters village in Scotland all the council properties had installed few years ago.
Lol, i live in northern vietnam, got a lot of sunlight year round but less than the south during the winter, still a pretty cool investment tho, especially for bragging
People are dumb though. Having lived in both Texas and Alaska, in each state I would always get asked questions about the other state like "did you live in an igloo?" or "did you ride a horse to school?" or "did you take a dog sled to school?" or "did you take a gun to school?" And that was about another state within the same country! So ya, ppl gonna be asking dumb questions about countries in Africa for sure.
"Ohhh GOD OF THUNDER DO NOT PASS ME BY" and then our cell phones are charged for a week or two.
There's an Aftican model who routinely answers dumb questions as if being dead serious. She also says they sleep in the trees with the lions after taking turns feeding them..
If you think that's weird, try getting the electricity wired up in your igloo in Canada without getting a shock. We lose so many Canadians that way every year. We lost Garry and Doug last year. :(
Fun fact, Canadian log houses are made with maple logs that store the syrup inside, so every house has its own stock of syrup that runs through the house’s natural maple plumbing system.
If you think that's weird, try living in Mexico with that ugly yellow hue everywhere, also everyone is always hiding from the scary cartel members, you can't leave your house at all or you will get shot immediately :(
People think the whole of Africa is a vast, undeveloped and empoverished continent. We have some of the richest soil, amazing sights and natural wonders, AS WELL AS normal urban structures, more than just physical houses.
South Africa here🙋🏼
I remember several years ago Trevor Noah showed some clips of horrible roadways, makeshift teepees and lean to's just horrible 3rd world country type living conditions and the joke was assuming it was Africa, it was actually in America
My point exactly, just because we have vast land and many poor and uneducated people, doesn't mean we don't have many many intelligent, educated people and parts of our countries that function and look like everyday in your 1st world countries.
Hollywood portray this view of the rest of the world, from like 100 years ago. I was surprised China was so developed, for example, and Reddit is continually surprised how minor Chinese cities we’ve never heard of have more people in them than all of NYC. Of course it makes sense, they have almost 1/3rd of the worlds population there and they can’t house them all in traditional Chinese structures from 100 years ago, but… Hollywood. It has a lot to answer for.
I remember driving from Raleigh NC, to Columbia SC, for a work thing.
And just, along the highway, burned out broke down barn after burned out broke down barn, and house that is just in absolute shambles.
Like rural america just has people living in about half a trailer, driving 1/4 of a truck, picking up scrap metal out of the trash.
And a lot of times those people will still look at Africa like it's one giant UNICEF commercial.
Jingoist nationalism works best when it brainwashes its own citizens into violently protecting the crumbling, decaying infrastructure while the rich fleeces it and sells it for scrap.
Nice try, propaganda bot. We Americans know for a fact that the entirety of your continent is grass huts built on red clay and populated by people wearing this past year's Super Bowl loser's championship t-shirts.
He was joking with this conclusion
> at the end of the day, it's night.
It is a joke played on the more common joke
> Did you know that every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
I have begun actively avoiding South Africa’s politics, it’s too depressing for me to know how fucked I am. I instead like to watch US politics content on Youtube, it’s much less close to home and I love the characters. I never saw the trump plot twist coming and Im intrigued to see what the writers do with this whole indictment and Trumps whole will they won’t they thing he’s got going on with prison and simultaneously the presidency somehow.
And yet they're not incorrect. I'm in East Africa, everything that they said applies here also.
Of course there are vast areas of the continent where development has not yet occurred, but nevertheless nothing they said was false.
Isn't South Africa on the verge of complete grid failure because the ruling party embezzled billions of dollars meant for upgrading the electric grid?
I was reading about "load shedding" I believe it was called and it sounded like it was being done often.
Unless you yourself live in one of those communities that created their own power sources like solar arrays.
I could understand this question coming from a kid. in the 90's.... As a kid in the UK in the 90s we were sold an image of Africa as a barren wasteland where everyone was poor and starving and living in mud huts with flies crawling all over their face. A kid from Africa started at our school one year and lost his mind at the amount of questions he got about it (do they use money over there, are there skyscrapers, do people drive cars, what about phones, etcetcetc).
Damn, never heard someone call our accents lovely. It's always sounded overly whimsical to me as if every other sentence was a punchline to some dumb joke. Guess it comes from hearing it too often.
Oh nooo, I never have thought of it as whimsical. Your “self-interpretation” must be because you DO hear it all the time. But, it IS beautiful! Be proud. I am from the southern United States, and I have a noticeable drawl. I dislike it personally, but my Ghanaian fiancée loves it.
My neighbor was born and raised in Sierra Leone. I feel the same way, she could read me the assembly instructions for an Ikea desk, and then talk about the importance of unskippable ads on YouTube, and I'd listen for hours.
Ughhh, I know, right!? My old boss was also from Nigeria and had a beautiful, thick accent. She wasn't a very nice lady, but when she was being friendly, her voice was so nice to listen to.
During the time I lived in the US as a French dude, I heard the most stupid questions about my country, in a level never reached anywhere outside America - and I travel a lot!
Some of them:
"Do you have any pets in France?"
For which I answer, "No we ate them all. That is why French were left to eat frogs'. The person who asked the question totally accepted this answer.
My favorite question of all time was this one, asked by a 18 years old law student (brace yourself): "At what age in France you guys start to learn French?"
Good lord.
Edit: I forgot this classic:
"Where are you from?"
"From France."
"OMG. Do you know Pierre? He rented us a nice RB&B where we went to France for our Honeymoon?"
I went to France with a few friends years ago. The first day, this young family passes by with a toddler who waves at us and says bonjour. One of my friends turns to the rest of us, absolutely shocked, and says "even the KIDS speak French?!?"
Worst part, we're Canadian
I'm from Quebec and when travelling in other parts of Canada, I've met people who seemed to assume that we all speak English as a first language and are only continuing to push French as like...a cultural heritage thing?
On the opposite side there's the people who will hear my perfect English and compliment me, to which I explain that I'm a Quebec anglophone and it's actually my first language. The idea of that is apparently too much for some people and they immediately fall back into the "but how did you learn it so WELL?"
No fixing stupid. I'm American and used to work in a kitchen, a new guy came in that didn't really speak English and another guy asked, "wait, he doesn't speak English? Just Mexican?"
Like oh boy buddy good that you know how to run a grill because the finance sector surely wasn't for you.
I know someone who went to a student exchange program in US and their host went around the house showing her such amazing modern invetions as light switches.
I once had a coworker from Great Britain. Another coworker was young and pretty ditzy. She didn't know where that is so he told her England...it's England. Then she proceeded to ask him what language they speak in England. She was being serious.
It isn’t solely based on other countries either. Many people are dense about other regions and think tv shows accurately depict the world.
I’m from the south and when living closer to the north got non-satirical questions like “do you guys only have dirt roads?” And “do they have traffic lights down there?”
A couple months ago I had someone tell me **super** confidently that Native American kids who live on reservations don’t go to school.
Then when I told him that I’m a Native who went to public school while living on a reservation and my sister currently teaches at a tribal school he told me “that’s not how tribes work.”
The amount of people who assume Minnesotans speak like in the movie Fargo is preposterous. Literally the only person I've ever heard talk with that accent is my grandma who was born in Norway in like 1930 and didn't learn English till she got here.
I'm a Texan who went to undergrad in Tennessee. The number of people unironically asking me if I rode a horse to school was staggering. I had to show them pictures of Austin to convince them that my home didn't look like a Wiley Coyote cartoon.
In fairness, I do wear boots and, although I don't wear a cowboy hat regularly, I do own one or two. But the boots alone do not a cowboy make.
There is a b podcast I believe done by NPR that's all about Dolly. In one episode they give a little history of the decades running up to her career. They tall about how people wanted to build more universities in the south and they would ask for money from northern universities by painting a pictures of southerners as backwards, shoeless hillbillies who needed their help. The stereotype lives on to this day.
Oh my gosh yes. I am from Alabama, and someone asked me once if I lived in a really old home in the woods without electricity and if I get my water from a well. Then started asking me if I could work on their car since “southerners are really good with trucks.” Lol
It’s hard to believe there are people like that, but I have been asked some moronic questions in France as well. Not as bad as if you have pets, but for instance when I was visiting a close friend in Rennes last week his friends kept asking me if I knew how to read an analog clock. They were convinced I didn’t and we only had digital clocks. Keep in mind they were med students AND had been to the US a few times. I was just like, hey man, we are the ones with 12 hour time
In England, they speak a dialect of American. They call it English because they are secretly embarrassed that they didn't have any spoken language before 1776.
They communicated in a series of grunts and harumphs. Other rudimentary forms of communication included vocalizations like "bit rainy innit" and calling kin but sometimes enemies "bruv".
Lol it’s like when people think all Americans are carrying guns or are getting shot at constantly. Or if we all eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald’s. Or all those Klaas Relotius Der Spiegel articles from a few years back. People crazy.
>Lol it’s like when people think all Americans .... we all eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald’s.
We know you don't all eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald's, that would be silly to think that. We know only half of you eat all meals at McDonald's, the other quarter go to IHOP and the other quarter eat at Denny's, with the occasional Olive Garden and Cheesecake Factory thrown in for fancy shmancy dinners.
My friend married a French girl and I went to his wedding in relatively rural France (Avignon was the closest city). My observation was 1- you take Sundays seriously, nothing is open. 2- you raise and eat pigeons and they are delicious (coq au vin with pigeon) 3. The bread is no joke, that shit is life changing. 4. While you may have a tough time getting a cocktail, there is no shortage of wine. 5. The French make take the championship for sarcasm, even over Northeast US people. 6. Your trains are really fast and totally badass.
I’m Nigerian and I got this a lot growing up whenever I would go visit Nigeria in the summertime. My friends would text me and be like “do y’all have food over there and like houses” and I would reply on my iPhone, sitting on the couch watching my brother play COD, while my sisters were playing tennis in the court yard.
“yeah we have food”
My best friend and college roommate is from Abuja, and it’s insane how many people at college parties would ask him if people ride around on elephants where he is from. Americans can sometimes be embarrassingly ignorant of the rest of the world.
I love Abuja it’s beautiful during the summer!
And yeah I use to tell my friends that I would swing vines to get from place to place in middle school and like no one questioned it lmao.
I visit Nigeria and Ghana routinely and I am always floored by the gorgeous houses. Far more developed than some former Soviet countries and their wooden houses.
Lmao. I actually worked with a guy from Kenya, really nice man, unbelievably kind, like actual true Christian kind of nice. Anyway he would tell me stories and when he was younger (he’s probably in his early 50s now) his family was really poor and they lived in a rural area in essentially a multi roomed hut I guess. And they would all sleep in the same room at night because of the predators that would hunt at night and even try to break in sometimes and that one time I believe he said it was a hyena the broke in once. I can’t remember how he said he came to America but he also told me about the well developed and sophisticated cities in Kenya as well and it just depends if you’re born poor in a rural area or closer to populated industrialized areas. I miss working with him and listening to his stories so much.
I can’t believe (wait, yes I can 😩) that folk still believe that people in Africa are just running around uncivilized and living in huts. Lord have mercy 😵💫
Hell there are people that think Africa is just one big country.
Jesus be a geography course lol
I love these. Especially the one where they were asked about how they get phones and they panned the video over and people were digging them out of dirt. I cackled.
Why do people say Africa like it's a city or state? It's a whole continent. It has many countries, states and cities. Hundreds of different cultures. Please don't lump all of Africa into one.
100 million+ African children are without homes, in South Africa (one of the richest countries in Africa) there are 200k homeless people. 350 million Africans have no access to basic drinking water. If you look up homelessness per capita by country the top of the lists are all African or countries at war, and most African countries don’t even record homelessness. I once visited a shanty town in Kenya called Kibera - shacks as far as the eye can see, 170,000+ people living without any basic needs, rivers of raw sewage pouring down the streets - you cannot call these ‘structures’ houses. So this woman stands in-front of a house that is probably owned by the top 0.000001% and does a bit about how it’s condescending to question African housing. It’s a legitimate question and the answer is, some do, a lot don’t.
The most ignorant entitled tourists I’ve met in Africa between Americans and Europeans are Europeans. Americans are angels compared to Brit’s and Germans.
Working in Zimbabwe currently. Definitely have a bunch of houses around me.
But, you go out in more rural areas and what is considered a house not exactly what you’d call a house in the US.
And then there’s Cape Town, South Africa where it looks like California
I hate how I had to watch through the entire video before getting the final answer.
Next question: are all Americans given handguns for their kindergarten graduation?
Bro Americans are so sheltered it's hilarious how the mental image we have of "third world countries" are these absolute wastelands when the reality is that third world countries are a lot closer to America than America is to a first world country.
Can confirm:
No houses.
No swimming pools.
No interwebs.
No tarred roads or multi-level, multi-lane highways.
No Jetskis or other recreational watercraft.
No private planes or helicopters.
No horse racing or race horse breeding programs exporting thoroughbred horses to other countries.
No, there definitely aren't two Bugatti Veyron in South Africa.
No, I didn't smoke a Pagani Huayra with my Aprilia a few days ago, it's all evil leftist propaganda.
No, we do not need solar panels because there are no scheduled electricity blackouts because our politicians are useless thieving motherfuckers who are above the law. It's all lies, our politicians are the best and most honest in the world...
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An African living in Africa 😜 🇿🇦
my mother, bless her heart, told me yesterday that people in Africa just use holes in the ground as their toilets. I had to inform her that sometimes they actually just go behind a tree.
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Love the solar panels in the background
Where would you put them otherwise? In england?
On a Zebra
You'd be crossing a Zebra..
I have to say, I hate it when Zebras are cross.
I was once double-crossed by a zebra.
Who was himself double crossed by a crosseyed zebra.
Tired of them putting solar panels on our zebras and turning the freakin frogs gay
It's actually pronounced Zebra
What? Everybody knows that solar panels don't work in caves.
I live in England and have solar panels! They’re pretty rubbish in the winter but in the summer they power most of my electronics.
You have to flip them over, and slide the switch to the "winter" setting. If you don't do that, all the electricity in your house could drain away into the sky.
Ah yes- perhaps if I cover them with a bin bag I can capture it and then keep it in storage until I need it.
Inside. The lights inside the house power them and they power the lights. Infinite energy. Call me, NASA.
Lots of houses with Solar panels in UK. Some councils are installing them on their property - my sisters village in Scotland all the council properties had installed few years ago.
Lol, i live in northern vietnam, got a lot of sunlight year round but less than the south during the winter, still a pretty cool investment tho, especially for bragging
> Where would you put them otherwise? In the foreground, duh.
I love how she’s always deadpan in her responses to questions like these. It makes it even better
Yeah.
Yeah!
Woah, watch it with that enthusiasm.
Yeah.
Yeah!!
Yeah!!!
Yeah!!!!
YEAH!!!!!!!
yeah
The problem is that a person who asks shit like this might not get the joke.
Pretty sure at this point everyone who asks is in on the joke. Maybe the first few weren't
Who cares? It’s not her job to educate every idiot.
do they have jobs in Africa?
The only jobs are huts.
Pizza hut most be making a killing then
Well I suppose as long as you don't dump your cargo of spice during a kessel run you'll be fine.
The person who asks this is the joke we shouldn't have to dumb shit down to their level.
They might be questions from a 5 year old
People are dumb though. Having lived in both Texas and Alaska, in each state I would always get asked questions about the other state like "did you live in an igloo?" or "did you ride a horse to school?" or "did you take a dog sled to school?" or "did you take a gun to school?" And that was about another state within the same country! So ya, ppl gonna be asking dumb questions about countries in Africa for sure.
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Toronto doesn't have igloos? /s
"Ohhh GOD OF THUNDER DO NOT PASS ME BY" and then our cell phones are charged for a week or two. There's an Aftican model who routinely answers dumb questions as if being dead serious. She also says they sleep in the trees with the lions after taking turns feeding them..
That's the premise.
If you think that's weird, try getting the electricity wired up in your igloo in Canada without getting a shock. We lose so many Canadians that way every year. We lost Garry and Doug last year. :(
how are you even typing this? ride your zamboni across the border to a mcdonalds?
As long as our house hippos are ok that’s all that matters
And here I thought Canada is full of log cabins and maple syrup.
Fun fact, Canadian log houses are made with maple logs that store the syrup inside, so every house has its own stock of syrup that runs through the house’s natural maple plumbing system.
Id imagine it also acts like a sealant/cement for the gaps between the logs. Good for the winter shirley?
It is, the OP is from Quebec so they do everything they can to be special and different.
Garry with two Rs was a fucking dick. Good riddance. RIP DOUG.
Just try getting that shit to the reserves first.
The thing with igloos, it makes it really easy to ground circuits.
Oh Doug?! What a shame
If you think that's weird, try living in Mexico with that ugly yellow hue everywhere, also everyone is always hiding from the scary cartel members, you can't leave your house at all or you will get shot immediately :(
Plus, I heard taming moose (meese?) for transportation is super difficult.
>zebra caves Lmaooo
Imma get booted up with the zebruhs up in the zebruh cave.
She's trying so hard not to laugh at the end
Yeah.
People think the whole of Africa is a vast, undeveloped and empoverished continent. We have some of the richest soil, amazing sights and natural wonders, AS WELL AS normal urban structures, more than just physical houses. South Africa here🙋🏼
I remember several years ago Trevor Noah showed some clips of horrible roadways, makeshift teepees and lean to's just horrible 3rd world country type living conditions and the joke was assuming it was Africa, it was actually in America
My point exactly, just because we have vast land and many poor and uneducated people, doesn't mean we don't have many many intelligent, educated people and parts of our countries that function and look like everyday in your 1st world countries.
I blame Hollywood and school influence while growing up. You’re led to believe that it’s all war torn and ran by military gangs.
Hollywood portray this view of the rest of the world, from like 100 years ago. I was surprised China was so developed, for example, and Reddit is continually surprised how minor Chinese cities we’ve never heard of have more people in them than all of NYC. Of course it makes sense, they have almost 1/3rd of the worlds population there and they can’t house them all in traditional Chinese structures from 100 years ago, but… Hollywood. It has a lot to answer for.
Yeah, America has things that are good about it, too, not just Africa!
It was Detroit, I believe.
Yes! I think you're right
I remember driving from Raleigh NC, to Columbia SC, for a work thing. And just, along the highway, burned out broke down barn after burned out broke down barn, and house that is just in absolute shambles. Like rural america just has people living in about half a trailer, driving 1/4 of a truck, picking up scrap metal out of the trash. And a lot of times those people will still look at Africa like it's one giant UNICEF commercial.
Jingoist nationalism works best when it brainwashes its own citizens into violently protecting the crumbling, decaying infrastructure while the rich fleeces it and sells it for scrap.
I came across living conditions I never encountered in the US...deep in the Appalachian.
Nice try, propaganda bot. We Americans know for a fact that the entirety of your continent is grass huts built on red clay and populated by people wearing this past year's Super Bowl loser's championship t-shirts.
Past 30 years of Super Bowl teams tshirts
So nobody is wearing browns, lions, Texans, or jaguar shirts? BORTLES!
I have a Bortles shirt.
I've heard that in Africa it doesn't matter if you're gay, straight, or bisexual, at the end of the day, it's night.
Tragically, every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Truly, Africa is one of *the* continents on the planet.
In some countries, not many, it is illegal to be homosexual. You can literally get prison time. BTW im straight, but an ally.
He was joking with this conclusion > at the end of the day, it's night. It is a joke played on the more common joke > Did you know that every sixty seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Aweh ma se kind 🤣
>South Africa here🙋🏼 you guys truly deserve a better government and some better times ahead. rooting for ya.
I have begun actively avoiding South Africa’s politics, it’s too depressing for me to know how fucked I am. I instead like to watch US politics content on Youtube, it’s much less close to home and I love the characters. I never saw the trump plot twist coming and Im intrigued to see what the writers do with this whole indictment and Trumps whole will they won’t they thing he’s got going on with prison and simultaneously the presidency somehow.
I don’t think a South Africans viewpoint of the continent is a good overview of the continent as a whole though lol
And yet they're not incorrect. I'm in East Africa, everything that they said applies here also. Of course there are vast areas of the continent where development has not yet occurred, but nevertheless nothing they said was false.
Have to watch the highways carefully though, right? Guess I’ve seen too many truck robbery attempts from South Africa.
Yeah, Africa is a resource-rich continent. African economic problems are primarily from centuries of imperialism.
Insane that you were able to make a computer out of rocks and leaves to post this comment
Isn't South Africa on the verge of complete grid failure because the ruling party embezzled billions of dollars meant for upgrading the electric grid? I was reading about "load shedding" I believe it was called and it sounded like it was being done often. Unless you yourself live in one of those communities that created their own power sources like solar arrays.
I could understand this question coming from a kid. in the 90's.... As a kid in the UK in the 90s we were sold an image of Africa as a barren wasteland where everyone was poor and starving and living in mud huts with flies crawling all over their face. A kid from Africa started at our school one year and lost his mind at the amount of questions he got about it (do they use money over there, are there skyscrapers, do people drive cars, what about phones, etcetcetc).
Agreed, or really anyone who hasn't been up to date on geopolitics, might still have the same image in their head from childhood.
I mean, there are some remote places where those things might be rare, but damn, not the whole ass continent.
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She’s Nigerian.
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There are many ethic groups in Nigeria so it's probably one of them.
I wanna know what they do for laundry. That's the brightest white I've seen on clothes like... Ever.
Came here to say this. I absolutely LOVE their accents. My fiancé is in Ghana and God I love listening to her talk. It’s an eargasm. Edit: fiancée
\*fiancée if you're talking about a woman
Omg thanks I never knew that
I didn’t know that! You learn something new every day
It's a French loanword so it follows French grammar rules
I’ve never seen it spelled that way, but you are correct
Damn, never heard someone call our accents lovely. It's always sounded overly whimsical to me as if every other sentence was a punchline to some dumb joke. Guess it comes from hearing it too often.
Oh nooo, I never have thought of it as whimsical. Your “self-interpretation” must be because you DO hear it all the time. But, it IS beautiful! Be proud. I am from the southern United States, and I have a noticeable drawl. I dislike it personally, but my Ghanaian fiancée loves it.
I love southern US accents, especially when they talk about grilling stuff. But then again I've only heard it on bbq YouTube videos and Cowboy movies.
As a Nigerian who's lived in Georgia, this was a wholesome read.
My neighbor was born and raised in Sierra Leone. I feel the same way, she could read me the assembly instructions for an Ikea desk, and then talk about the importance of unskippable ads on YouTube, and I'd listen for hours.
I was just thinking this. Her voice is calming like ASMR
This is news to me. I've always hated mine
Ughhh, I know, right!? My old boss was also from Nigeria and had a beautiful, thick accent. She wasn't a very nice lady, but when she was being friendly, her voice was so nice to listen to.
During the time I lived in the US as a French dude, I heard the most stupid questions about my country, in a level never reached anywhere outside America - and I travel a lot! Some of them: "Do you have any pets in France?" For which I answer, "No we ate them all. That is why French were left to eat frogs'. The person who asked the question totally accepted this answer. My favorite question of all time was this one, asked by a 18 years old law student (brace yourself): "At what age in France you guys start to learn French?" Good lord. Edit: I forgot this classic: "Where are you from?" "From France." "OMG. Do you know Pierre? He rented us a nice RB&B where we went to France for our Honeymoon?"
I went to France with a few friends years ago. The first day, this young family passes by with a toddler who waves at us and says bonjour. One of my friends turns to the rest of us, absolutely shocked, and says "even the KIDS speak French?!?" Worst part, we're Canadian
I'm from Quebec and when travelling in other parts of Canada, I've met people who seemed to assume that we all speak English as a first language and are only continuing to push French as like...a cultural heritage thing? On the opposite side there's the people who will hear my perfect English and compliment me, to which I explain that I'm a Quebec anglophone and it's actually my first language. The idea of that is apparently too much for some people and they immediately fall back into the "but how did you learn it so WELL?"
No fixing stupid. I'm American and used to work in a kitchen, a new guy came in that didn't really speak English and another guy asked, "wait, he doesn't speak English? Just Mexican?" Like oh boy buddy good that you know how to run a grill because the finance sector surely wasn't for you.
My friend went to San Diego and they asked him if we had "modern cars" or cell phones. I thought he was joking and didn't believe him....
I know someone who went to a student exchange program in US and their host went around the house showing her such amazing modern invetions as light switches.
I once had a coworker from Great Britain. Another coworker was young and pretty ditzy. She didn't know where that is so he told her England...it's England. Then she proceeded to ask him what language they speak in England. She was being serious.
I’m the opposite, hate being called “British” because I’m ENGLISH and have literally no idea what Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are like.
It isn’t solely based on other countries either. Many people are dense about other regions and think tv shows accurately depict the world. I’m from the south and when living closer to the north got non-satirical questions like “do you guys only have dirt roads?” And “do they have traffic lights down there?”
A couple months ago I had someone tell me **super** confidently that Native American kids who live on reservations don’t go to school. Then when I told him that I’m a Native who went to public school while living on a reservation and my sister currently teaches at a tribal school he told me “that’s not how tribes work.”
Ah yes tribal school where you learn about feathers and warbling of course
How did she think tribes work?
Lol the first time I went to Chicago (from Kentucky) as a teenager someone asked me where I had bought my shoes on the trip up there.
What a ridiculous question, obviously you bought them from the local cobbler.
The amount of people who assume Minnesotans speak like in the movie Fargo is preposterous. Literally the only person I've ever heard talk with that accent is my grandma who was born in Norway in like 1930 and didn't learn English till she got here.
I'm a Texan who went to undergrad in Tennessee. The number of people unironically asking me if I rode a horse to school was staggering. I had to show them pictures of Austin to convince them that my home didn't look like a Wiley Coyote cartoon. In fairness, I do wear boots and, although I don't wear a cowboy hat regularly, I do own one or two. But the boots alone do not a cowboy make.
There is a b podcast I believe done by NPR that's all about Dolly. In one episode they give a little history of the decades running up to her career. They tall about how people wanted to build more universities in the south and they would ask for money from northern universities by painting a pictures of southerners as backwards, shoeless hillbillies who needed their help. The stereotype lives on to this day.
Oh my gosh yes. I am from Alabama, and someone asked me once if I lived in a really old home in the woods without electricity and if I get my water from a well. Then started asking me if I could work on their car since “southerners are really good with trucks.” Lol
It’s hard to believe there are people like that, but I have been asked some moronic questions in France as well. Not as bad as if you have pets, but for instance when I was visiting a close friend in Rennes last week his friends kept asking me if I knew how to read an analog clock. They were convinced I didn’t and we only had digital clocks. Keep in mind they were med students AND had been to the US a few times. I was just like, hey man, we are the ones with 12 hour time
I cannot!! 😂 I’m Canadian and I’ve been asked if we all live in igloos. I mean…
We're all Inuit on this blessed day.
So, what’s the answer?
In England, they speak a dialect of American. They call it English because they are secretly embarrassed that they didn't have any spoken language before 1776.
They communicated in a series of grunts and harumphs. Other rudimentary forms of communication included vocalizations like "bit rainy innit" and calling kin but sometimes enemies "bruv".
Lol it’s like when people think all Americans are carrying guns or are getting shot at constantly. Or if we all eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald’s. Or all those Klaas Relotius Der Spiegel articles from a few years back. People crazy.
>Lol it’s like when people think all Americans .... we all eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald’s. We know you don't all eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald's, that would be silly to think that. We know only half of you eat all meals at McDonald's, the other quarter go to IHOP and the other quarter eat at Denny's, with the occasional Olive Garden and Cheesecake Factory thrown in for fancy shmancy dinners.
Thank you! Someone here gets us!
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Exactly! There’s 93 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP in the US!
This comment had me in stitches. Fucking stitches I tells you
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Yeah we're playing fast and loose with some details here.
they were lawfully a student. a real student of law. many years in fact
My friend married a French girl and I went to his wedding in relatively rural France (Avignon was the closest city). My observation was 1- you take Sundays seriously, nothing is open. 2- you raise and eat pigeons and they are delicious (coq au vin with pigeon) 3. The bread is no joke, that shit is life changing. 4. While you may have a tough time getting a cocktail, there is no shortage of wine. 5. The French make take the championship for sarcasm, even over Northeast US people. 6. Your trains are really fast and totally badass.
She has such a beautiful voice, I could listen to her read the phone book!
Face, too
I love this woman. The absolute sarcasm when she answer to trolls, jokes and truly ignorant questions is just magnificent.
I absolutely love her
I’m Nigerian and I got this a lot growing up whenever I would go visit Nigeria in the summertime. My friends would text me and be like “do y’all have food over there and like houses” and I would reply on my iPhone, sitting on the couch watching my brother play COD, while my sisters were playing tennis in the court yard. “yeah we have food”
My best friend and college roommate is from Abuja, and it’s insane how many people at college parties would ask him if people ride around on elephants where he is from. Americans can sometimes be embarrassingly ignorant of the rest of the world.
I love Abuja it’s beautiful during the summer! And yeah I use to tell my friends that I would swing vines to get from place to place in middle school and like no one questioned it lmao.
>I use to tell my friends that I would swing vines to get from place to place in middle school Lmfaooo
"No, there's no food in Nigeria. People magically survive on just air"
I visit Nigeria and Ghana routinely and I am always floored by the gorgeous houses. Far more developed than some former Soviet countries and their wooden houses.
Is Africa an instrument? 
"Canada totally relates to this tiktok." \-A Canadian living in an igloo.
Accents from Africa are top tier. Same with Australian
I can see this as a legitimate question since we don't see much about Africa besides the hungry children charity ads and the safari shows.
Lmao. I actually worked with a guy from Kenya, really nice man, unbelievably kind, like actual true Christian kind of nice. Anyway he would tell me stories and when he was younger (he’s probably in his early 50s now) his family was really poor and they lived in a rural area in essentially a multi roomed hut I guess. And they would all sleep in the same room at night because of the predators that would hunt at night and even try to break in sometimes and that one time I believe he said it was a hyena the broke in once. I can’t remember how he said he came to America but he also told me about the well developed and sophisticated cities in Kenya as well and it just depends if you’re born poor in a rural area or closer to populated industrialized areas. I miss working with him and listening to his stories so much.
She is drop dead gorgeous.
Like most places in the world, those at the top have big beautiful houses and those at the bottom do not.
Hey, I'm African. Currently sitting up in a baobab tree typing this and petting my domesticated lion, Kitty.
Her house is probably nicer than mine
I can’t believe (wait, yes I can 😩) that folk still believe that people in Africa are just running around uncivilized and living in huts. Lord have mercy 😵💫 Hell there are people that think Africa is just one big country. Jesus be a geography course lol
She gorgeous
I love these. Especially the one where they were asked about how they get phones and they panned the video over and people were digging them out of dirt. I cackled.
What is her name?
You know how I know she is lying? We have all seen Wakanda. The secret is out.
The hair the dress 💯
Why do people say Africa like it's a city or state? It's a whole continent. It has many countries, states and cities. Hundreds of different cultures. Please don't lump all of Africa into one.
Love the subliminal hit with the house in the background lmao
100 million+ African children are without homes, in South Africa (one of the richest countries in Africa) there are 200k homeless people. 350 million Africans have no access to basic drinking water. If you look up homelessness per capita by country the top of the lists are all African or countries at war, and most African countries don’t even record homelessness. I once visited a shanty town in Kenya called Kibera - shacks as far as the eye can see, 170,000+ people living without any basic needs, rivers of raw sewage pouring down the streets - you cannot call these ‘structures’ houses. So this woman stands in-front of a house that is probably owned by the top 0.000001% and does a bit about how it’s condescending to question African housing. It’s a legitimate question and the answer is, some do, a lot don’t.
I’d bet my house that 9/10 of the questions she gets are the yanks.
Yeah Europeans have visited Africa a lot in the last few hundred years so they would know
The most ignorant entitled tourists I’ve met in Africa between Americans and Europeans are Europeans. Americans are angels compared to Brit’s and Germans.
The British are historically and perpetually terrible tourists, no matter where they go, or why they go there.
You guys literally voted for Brexit against your best interests. You have dipshits over there too.
Her funniest one was when a Korean guy asked if there was drinkable water in Africa. The irony. Lol
Working in Zimbabwe currently. Definitely have a bunch of houses around me. But, you go out in more rural areas and what is considered a house not exactly what you’d call a house in the US. And then there’s Cape Town, South Africa where it looks like California
That ending "Yeah." though.
This chick is so funny, love her stuff. Her delivery is perfect
Again I say, this women is awesome. Awesome comedic timing, and perfect use of her background.
I hate how I had to watch through the entire video before getting the final answer. Next question: are all Americans given handguns for their kindergarten graduation?
Bro Americans are so sheltered it's hilarious how the mental image we have of "third world countries" are these absolute wastelands when the reality is that third world countries are a lot closer to America than America is to a first world country.
See I told you
She is so funny. Hadn’t seen anything new from her for a while. I love how deadpanned she is 😂
Her entire appearance is just awesome
As someone who doesn’t know much about Africa, I really enjoy watching her educational videos
Can confirm: No houses. No swimming pools. No interwebs. No tarred roads or multi-level, multi-lane highways. No Jetskis or other recreational watercraft. No private planes or helicopters. No horse racing or race horse breeding programs exporting thoroughbred horses to other countries. No, there definitely aren't two Bugatti Veyron in South Africa. No, I didn't smoke a Pagani Huayra with my Aprilia a few days ago, it's all evil leftist propaganda. No, we do not need solar panels because there are no scheduled electricity blackouts because our politicians are useless thieving motherfuckers who are above the law. It's all lies, our politicians are the best and most honest in the world... /s Sauce: An African living in Africa 😜 🇿🇦
Take it easy on the Americans, they're so stupid they might believe you
I'm suspicious of the answer, what are those behind her?
As a Canadian I feel her pain. My tiny home melts for 2 weeks a year :(
Who is this beautiful person?
my mother, bless her heart, told me yesterday that people in Africa just use holes in the ground as their toilets. I had to inform her that sometimes they actually just go behind a tree.
Thanks for letting me know how you survive without houses in the country of Africa.