American was Shocked by The Things That Only European Knows!!

I'm from Normandy we have to do four kiss on a check and some the most is six it takes so long one is very romantic no isn't it hello yeah I think that maybe American lifestyle is a little bit more lazy maybe like well you're talking to Italy and Spain better I I I just shut up I mean okay we don't really walk anywhere just driving and even if you like wanted to walk it's lowkey dangerous but maybe is because the distance are it was huge everything the distance that's true but I did I also went to America before and I was with my American friends and we were in like an outdoor like shopping center type thing but then we wanted to go to another shopping mall it was just across the street and then they wanted to walk back to the car and I was like just have to cross the street they're like no it's too far and I was like we're looking at the building yeah that sounds right and when you live in like a more populated city it's kind of more dangerous cuz we do allow like guns in America too that's crazy that's something I could never even like imagine because we grow up like without any guns it's something you see in movies or that the police have and even they need a special license to carry it out in the public and stuff like this because what if I don't get home that's like that's crazy to me oh yeah I know this can you guess what is it metro metro no no it's the bathroom yeah oh you have to pay to go to the public restroom yes so yeah I think if you don't pay it's really bad bathroom and the kind of the more you pay the better like the cleaner the bathroom because they use the money for keeping it clean and nice and this one is from a German a stop at a highway and then you get this like 50 cents coupon and then when you buy something in the store you actually get like 50 Cent off so it would be free or no it's it's it's always more expensive than 50 Cent okay okay how much is like one bathroom break it's like €1 for this one it's €1 and you get like the 50 Cent these bathrooms are amazing cuz they're clean they smell nice you don't have to worry about anything so it's actually okay to pay it just gets annoying if you don't have any cash or anything because you forgot it in the car you're like oh no I have to go back but that's these days you can pay with your phone though oh really some some of them you can pay with your phone like apple that's cool in Fr we we have it too but you don't have discount like you just pay and you don't have anything just clean bathroom and that's it I think in my case it's more common just to go to a bar if for example you buy a water or a coffee something very simple and you can use the bathroom that is like the polite way I think yeah it's it's quite similar to America same in Italy but sometimes like in resting areas I feel like most of the places are free you can just go and like use the bathroom for us in McDonald's you still have to pay sometimes like even if you bought food you still have to there's like a little old lady who sits there in front of the bathroom so you have to give her like a few coins so you can use the restroom okay so a situation is like because there's so much driving uh there are rest stop area for you just to use the bathroom and whatnot cuz honestly I don't think Americans are paid enough to care but in general like it's also not polite so you should buy something so people will usually just buy like a soda or coffee or something like that so it's quite similar to like Spain I think N I think they cannot put the the naked people in the picture that's what am I looking at I'm so confused so for me as a German it looks really really familiar we used to always go to the Baltic Sea like or to the North Sea in Germany for a vacation it's cheap and it's great and the beaches would look like this so packed and what you don't see here there's also a lot of public nudity especially it's like more for the older Generations because they grew up you know just not caring open they are more openminded than us in a way yeah but it's it's just because it's so normal for them they don't even think about it it's like not in a bad way it's just like that's just nature so they just you know show everything they have and go take a bath already accept their bodies and yeah can I ask what are the white pillar things are they like blockers we call it strand Corb it's like it's kind of you can reserve a seat and then you have you can sit inside so this is is from the backside but it's actually a bench inside so you have a little bit of like a resting station and Shadow and you have a little table so you can put your drinks there in France actually we go to th of friends to go to the beach and you see the guy with a shirt and the woman with like underwear swimsuit but you don't have to be surprised if you see a woman without the top because we like to take the S so they want to just hear T skin but hear like yeah so many women do that but also we have some special uh place for people that like to be all naked but yeah naked beaches we have that too yeah yeah yeah Italy is the same in Belgium and I think in Germany too not separate like they are not woman and men part it's together and we are all naked too or we can have to but it's like heav forbidden to take some SE I think in America actually I have I have no idea uh do you guys know what skinny dipping is yeah yeah so they just do that wildly I don't know I mean in terms of like beaches I of course knew that existed it's always talked about in media and stuff like it's just kind of there hovering as a concept in like movies and TV shows like that but also I think Americans are really comfortable with just wearing proudly about their body I think they're more okay with like nudity but it's just about the law whether or not it allows it what is paid maternity leave like in your countries for example in case of Italy we have five months where you can stay home and like take care of your newborn and while you're home your company is still going to pay you you can choose whether you want to get like two months before the baby's born and then 3 months after or 5 months like after the baby's born these days also dads can get a paternity okay that's cool cool you get the same salary but you're not going to work I'm not sure about in Spain the mon and exactly but I think it's all the like the same salary of the previous month for the USA I think it depends on the company it's I don't think it's decided really by the government to me that's so weird cuz I feel that usually like Americans like the US they always try to like protect somehow the human rights in a way like I'm talking about my job I'm an actress and I know that there's like uh some kind of Association there in the US where they protect actors right but then when it comes to these things which are more natural like having a baby there are no actually rights They Don't Really protect the mothers so to me that that's weird like to to know about this it's like well the thing about America is I think they're really based off of making money so when a company like they try to push their benefits onto people but it's more like making the employee more loyal to the company so that they'll work harder for it uh so the benefits are really just there as an incentive but it's not really seen as like a better for the people themselves I know that Germany also has paid maternity leave it's a few weeks before and after I think maybe in total like three or four months I could be wrong but 100% more than 4 weeks before and more than 4 weeks after um yeah and I used to work in a German company and we had someone leave and it was just a no-brainer it was like there was no discussion just okay yeah sure go ahead take your time and um everyday life I also know it's really um that's what I've heard for it to be really expensive to have in America like um my cousin just recently had her first child she was visiting one of the Dutch islands and then her water broke and she was transferred by helicopter to go to the hospital I asked my mom like oh my God gosh like was it expensive cuzz like helicopter my mom was like no government paid everything oh that's so nice in the US you have the baby on on the island probably they're going to leave you there like okay you know after water is good for pregnant mothers people kissing kissing to greet it's not really that normal to be honest it kind of depends on what class you're in so if you're like the uh upper class like more Elite it might be more common just because those be the people that are more well-traveled and pick up those Customs along the way if you're like higher class maybe but it's definitely not normal by any means yeah actually in France France is really famous for that because we always create by a kiss or if it's two men they handshakes but if it's two wom or woman and a man we kiss but also there is a rule in France like it depends on the region and it's different numbers of kids like I'm from Normandy and there we have to do four kiss on a check some are only two like Paris is only two and some the most is six that takes so long yeah it's really long you know that there are some people that when they kiss you they leave some saliva on your cheeks think about six six kisses about that it's like having a llama but we have to do it just for example in Belgium it's only one case and usually on the right side and so sometimes we when I meet like French people it's like they start different side and so we almost kiss on the mouse because it's different because they start like left and after right I think and so we are yeah also I have like meet some American and they hug usually so they come to me for for ug but I forget they are American and not Belgian and French so I just K like this and they are like what are you doing is it normal for you your country to like hug when you meet of course it's not like big ug but maybe it just takes their shoulder like for us in France we never do it we don't act to say hi if we don't know we also kiss or if it's boss we handshake or if it's friend just and take like this yeah in Germany we we tend to hug more it's more normal to hug and we did the kissing only in high school like with the other with our like classmates so not with older people not with strangers it's more yeah it's more normal to hug people you're closer with or it's a if it's a friend of a friend and you're kind of introduced it's okay to hug because you're on the same level but to older people no no kissing and no hugging just handshake but you don't you think that in in in your case for example you say it's just one kiss in my case it's like okay if I do two or better I don't do anything because with just one kiss is like one one is very romantic yeah right one is like M no isn't it yeah I guess it's just mostly for relatives I guess it's just very old tradition oh my God I like k I love it it's the thing on the car right what do I want to say joystick but I know that's not right it's for um like manual cars right okay that yeah I don't know it's really 50/50 in America if somebody knows how to drive like that or not so I feel like we were used to like have this manual stick in Italy until a few years ago these days we also have many like automatic ones but still I enjoy using this more cuz every every time I drive I feel like I'm relieving my stress I don't know like doing this movement every time first of all I feel the car more and then I don't know I'm like yes let's go feel like you're in Fast and the fuy where it's like you're like yeah and then like 20 kilm an hour but still I I really enjoy like doing this as a car lover I can only drive that one in France is really popular yeah I was a racer in France so for me it's an insult to use automatic or electric car sorry actually the automatic cars are really expensive in France so you can get it but manual car are really useful and more usual for us so I'm not sure now but we had to do the driver test only with the manual we cannot do it with the automatic oh you can I mean in Fr we can you can maybe you can apply for it like a preference no no no like you have the choice like you get your license uh only automatic but then you can't drive manual if you do with the manual you can drive aut I have that option it's same in Belgium yeah in Germany too in America you just take your test with your own car so you have the car before you actually have the license before you can get your actual license of course you have to get a permit and that allows you to like practice on real roads but somebody over 21 and with an actual license actually no I think they just have to be over 21 in the car with you so once you have have your like permit and stuff then you can take the actual driver's test and when you take the test it's in literally whatever car you show up in that day there's no necessary registra like you don't have to give them anything it's just whatever you show up in that day so it could be your car it could be your mom's car it could be stolen off the street and probably they wouldn't know any different but yeah so if your car is in Stick then your driver's test is in Stick if not then it's automatic money coins tiing I remember correctly like your tip is based off of your bill and you should pay like I don't know like 10% if it's really bad service and 15% if it's like good and 20 if it's great like that but actually I think from what I heard these days it's really different so if it's bad you should pay 20% and if it's okay 25 and if it's good you pay 30 that's so much okay is there tip in Europe I mean there is but it's not a lot you usually just like round up or you just give like the extra change that you have it's not it's not big amounts okay so in Italy we we don't usually but if we really like the the waiter or the waitress then in that case we can like freely decide to give some money it's usually not more than like 5 or something yeah 5 years is quite good and actually I mean in a super meal with a very good service maybe 10 and when you see the the 10 it's like yeah that's crazy is the person expecting you to give the te no yeah same they appreciate though how much is like € to like a US dollar it's quite the same okay it's about the same okay okay that makes sense how much is like a normal meal like if you just went to a casual restaurant for lunch $25 in France for yeah same 22 usually when we go restant Resturant we don't go often but when we go we eat we take entr like main dish dessert drink so it's really more okay that makesense but I think the fact that we don't make tapes is because the waiter is paid better than in America so they don't really need it sure they prefer we always prefer win more money but I think most of the money they win in America come from the tip yeah and I think it's General in Europe like in the restaurants if it's not fast food people tend to do many things handmade they serve you they go to the Terrace and blah blah blah so I mean it's worth it also if you give a tip for that person because they put effort it's not like you go to a restaurant you have a machine you just put whatever you want and you have like a fast meal so the issue with America is they actually do have stuff like that where you're putting it into the computer or whatever and they expect a tip after that and there's a lot of things where you just order let's say like we're going to go order like PE T or something and literally all the person at the register is doing is taking your order and it they like turn this little menu around and it says leave a tip you can choose 15 20 or 25 or custom and it's just like awkward cuz they're sitting and watching you and like but also I don't know if it's like this in other countries as well um depends on the restaurant but um if you give a tip to the waitress doesn't mean that the waitress can just take it for themselves like it gets distributed to everyone for the team I was a waitress in France and Bender and sometime like they give tips and they split between the team or if the customers say it's for her it will come to me like only to me that's not on the fridge not hot not cold I think as far as America a lot of Americans prefer their water with ice so if you go to like a restaurant it's going to be this big glass full of ice and water inside I'm how how was that for Europe um I feel like Italians don't really like cold water so when we go to restaurants actually they try to serve us cold water but my family for example and I know many other people that do that we really ask for room temperature water cuz I don't know I feel like it's bad for our bodies especially if we eat something hot with it we're going to like go right right the outside temperature is very different in in France is same than ital but I think in in Spain dur the summer there is people so it's common to see cold or fresh water or with ice but I think just during summer mhm I think in Germany we also have room temperature but we don't even talk about it it's just so normal if you want ice you ask for it at least that's my experience but also in Germany we always have to pay for water so in restaurants there's no free water except if you ask for tap water it's not on the menu you just kind of have to know and if you know you can ask and then sometimes they will bring you tap water or not they can refuse so if you buy water I think it's most of the time it's cold because they that's just where how they keep it it's but it's not because people like it yeah I think in our case during summer the waiter should to ask like you want cold water or in Belgium maybe at home home we don't put in fridge or put ice but in restaurant usually the glass come with ice on it and the the water is cold too because they put it in the fridge and after they give to use so we don't complaint about it and just drink it cold but usually at home we will drink like room temperature drink water or drink yeah for us like the bottle they give you is cold cuz it comes from the fridge but um there's no glass any ice like unless um ice in glass unless you ask for it I think I grew up actually knowing a lot about European culture not everything I never lived there um and but I have a lot of friends from Europe and also like I grew up learning German and my German teacher was like she really loved Germany so she would always talk about like we do this in Germany and that in Germany so I had an idea of everything you know better than me it was really interesting to see everybody's point of view on things I was really surprised by the bathroom though that that really took me by shock so I I expected that there would have been some differences between the US and like Europe but to me it surprised me about the maternity leave that was the one that shocked me the most yeah the S the question when like the answer she said about the six cases that was too much for me I feel like three is already my limit so if it's like after six like after three I'm like oh my gosh I would lose count I think at some point and then I'd start getting like social anxiety like when do we end or maybe look look at each other like it's the fourth or the yeah actually when it happened like it happened yeah it happened to me so no worry so today we talked about the things that only Europeans know if you like this video please like subscribe and leave a comment we will see you soon [Music] bye

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