“What Is The Dumbest Thing An American Has Ever Said To You?: 40 Non-Americans Deliver

I have lost count of the number of American teachers I have met who insist Africa is a country. No wonder people are confused.

I've personally heard similar and it made me weep for the education system (and yes, we know it's not everyone from the states, but that doesn't stop it being more common than we might expect)

Sigh!

I'm starting to doubt if they actually teach geography in American schools.

Ooo so you are from Czechoslovakia? No, from Slovakia. Yeah i know, from Prague.No, from Bratislava. From Slovakia. Yes yes i know, from Czechoslovakia. No no, we are 30 years separated. Yes yes, i know, you are from Czechoslovakia, from Prague :D :D

dumb question, dumb answer

I'm from Ontario... Driving to Florida one time we had a guy in an old pickup at a gas station in Kentucky was staring at our license plates all confused and with a heavy southern accent goes "Ontario, huh?" And my mom (I was a kid at the time) says, "yes, driving to Florida for the week" and he goes "Huh, what state is that?" My mom, "um Canada" him "never heard of it"

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You know, that's the real purpose of the Energiewende.

Ha, nice return.

Damn. Well played xD

This makes me laugh, old people sometimes!

Reminds me of an English lady who went on holiday to Benidorm and was not happy about all the Spanish people there. She wanted her money back.

Why do we Americans think we’re so good!?

grandma should maybe stay home.

I will turn this around and put it on its head. The dumbest things that Europeans have ever said include "where are the Indians", "are you Mormon " and "is this authentic ". We miss you. It was always a pleasure when you visited . We made some money, and you got to see us in our habitat.

Well where else are they meant to live? In an igloo?

I'm from Canada and an american asked me if we live in igloos. She was serious....

TBF - that's just a bonehead person. My father, who was from Texas, was told by some business men he was meeting in New York that they were genuinely surprised he didn't have on a 10 gallon hat and where was his horse?

but did you?

Maybe they were joking?

Uff

Sweet Home Albania

some people

Yep. they speak southern. For instance, if you are naked, you have no clothes on. If you are nekked, you have not clothes on and your up to something. Also all soda is called Coke. They ill ask what kind of coke do you want.

When it was so obvious thy are from Albany.

That allowed me to drink a bit early in when I lived in the US as a 20-year old.

"Yep, we get six extra month to contemplate why dates are written in the wrong order in the US."

Not an unreasonable question. Different cultures sometimes have different calendars.

Once in a store I only had my foreign ID card (French) with me. The sales assistant wrote down "1m60" as my date of birth. That is my height (5ft3). OK, I feel a bit mean because she clearly had never seen a French ID before, but it still amuses me, 30 years later

I'm curious, when flying out of the USA, when are you allowed to start ordering alcohol if you're 18? Surely you have to be allowed as soon as it leave American airspace