70 People from 70 Countries Imitate Americans (Taiwanese too)

[Gain]

@OysterOmelet

Why the hell should Americans know anything beyond the state capital? State number? Who gives a rat’s tail?

Maybe it was taught in school?

[OysterOmelet]

@Gain

Maybe it was taught in school

Are you kidding? Do you remember anything you learned in school?

[Gain]

@OysterOmelet

Are you kidding? Do you remember anything you learned in school?

Some things.

[crusher]

@FatKaz

@OysterOmelet

This tall burly dude walks by me. I say, “How are you doing?” He turns and looks at me like a deer in headlights, like it was some sort of emergency.

Is it a “normal situation” to ask random people who walk by on the street how they’re doing anywhere though?

For some country folk saying hello to strangers when walking outside is common. Yeah, unfortunately in cities most people are on their guard for muggers, pick pockets , con artists and such like.

[Tianmu]

@crusher

For some country folk saying hello to strangers when walking outside is common. Yeah, unfortunately in cities most people are on their guard for muggers, pick pockets , con artists and such like.

Or…living with 5,000,000 people the sheer number of interactions with strangers per day is so much greater than living with 500 or 5,000 people that it’s simply not practical to treat everyone as a long lost friend.

[mimiQ]

@PeiHua-Connie

Interesting and funny video, whats real and what people think is funny

oh my god

[mimiQ]

@crusher

For some country folk saying hello to strangers when walking outside is common.

In some places stop and chat for five minutes is considered on the border of impolite. Check this out:

The Disappearing American Dialect of North Carolina

[Tianmu]

@mimiQ

In some places stop and chat for five minutes is considered on the border of impolite. Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MvtQp2-UA

Cool! I met one of these people once, in Bangkok of all places. He sounded vaguely Australian or something but told me he was from the coastal mid-Atlantic US and I had difficulty believing it. He didn’t sound nearly as extreme as most of the people in this video, but very similar to the guy who speaks at the end.