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British Tourists SHOCKED By What Americans ACTUALLY Call "Normal" 🤯

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British Tourists SHOCKED By What Americans ACTUALLY Call "Normal" 🤯

Things that are just a regular Tuesday for an American can completely blow a British tourist's mind! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🤯
In this entertaining and eye-opening compilation, we dive into the honest, unfiltered reactions of British visitors experiencing everyday US lifestyle norms for the very first time. From ridiculously huge food portions and endless free drink refills to the overwhelming friendliness of total strangers and cities built entirely around cars—what Americans take for granted every single day is an absolute culture shock for folks from the UK!

Watch as these travelers break down the exact moments they realized that "normal" in the USA is a whole different ballgame. You'll see how witnessing genuine American hospitality and supersized daily habits completely changed their perspective forever!

🎬 WHAT YOU’LL SEE IN THIS VIDEO:
Genuine, hilarious real-life reactions from Brits trying to navigate standard American daily life.
The absolute biggest UK vs. USA culture shocks, highlighting the quirky things Americans think are completely "normal."
A fun and heartwarming look at the unique warmth, openness, and sheer massive scale of the United States.

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Are you from the UK? Tell us which "normal" American habit shocked you the most! If you're from the US, what's an everyday thing you do that always confuses tourists? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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20 Comments

@dispatchido Creator 1 month ago Pinned

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@rosel2452 1 month ago

british people saying our food looks unappetizing will never stop being funny. I've seen your food.

@HDubya7880 1 month ago

Southerner here! Thank you for the kind words you said about our food. Our food & culture get made fun of a lot (and listen, we get it & we make fun of ourselves, too). Another important aspect of Southern food to remember is that the vast majority of our signature dishes- biscuits & gravy, shrimp and grits, collard greens, etc- were created from a history marked by slavery, poverty, necessity, and ingenuity. They are often made with simple, "staple" ingredients most families had on hand or in the garden. Every Southern family at one point in time made a daily (if not every meal) plate of biscuits or cornbread. Every single day. Because it's a carb (for energy & taste), it was on-hand (flour was common and corn for corn meal was cheap), and it was filling. Combining flour, salt, buttermilk, sausage and sausage grease/fat = biscuit & gravy. They were often created out of a need to make the little bit you had feed a lot of people, without much money. If you or your family were enslaved, you would have had to find a way to utilize the remains after an animal was butchered for market, because all you were allotted were the pieces that seemed "inedible". Then, combining that with literal African-based cooking techniques, flavors, (and smuggled indigenous seeds like okra )was how famous dishes such as chitlens, ham hocks, black-eyed peas, corn pone, and collard greens were born. Our food is our history.

@moneytalkviewpoints 1 month ago

These videos bring me to tears. I am so happy to see how foreigners all over the world love America. I am Black female retire investment executive. I am rebuilding a new career I love my work and I continue to travel, I love Europe, Africa, China and more. But watching people find so much beauty and happiness in our country USA. Listen it's not perfect and we have plenty of problems, and prejudice and taxes and economic fluctuations. But, I still love it and I is so wonderful watching how much you enjoyed being here.❤

@diannshoemaker6419 1 month ago (edited)

It is so flipping nice as an American to be appreciated, much less actually liked. In Europe as tourists, way too often we not only feel unwelcome, but an inconvience. But they take our dollars quickly enough.
Consider that these aren't usually rich Americans, but people who saved for years for their "dream European" vacation. Only to have their hopes of even minimal hospitality, completely dashed. And hearts broken.
And we got laughed at about that in literally countless Utube sites...in the guise of being informative.
But when we gave that same hospitality, to our foreign visitors, THEY LOVED IT. Huh.

@jamesanthony8438 1 month ago

"They are the nicest, most helpful group of people... um... when someone is visiting. I don't know if it's, if you just have an accent or if it's like this for everybody."
We've got your back. That's how we are. We look out for each other, we look out for our neighbors, we look out for strangers. As long as you're not trying to destroy our country, our communities, our history, etc... we're the best friends you'll ever have.

@commander788HISS 1 month ago

The American media and world media are absolutely SICKENING

@kurt5490 1 month ago

I think Shawna has hit it on the head. The small towns. That's America. The local diners. If I were at the diner and the family next to me paid for the Australian's meal, I'd throw in the tip. Get AWAY from the big cities and travel the byways. They 'll love you you'll love them. I'm a 28 year truck driver. I've stopped at truck stops and paid for non English speakers bills and left before they understood they're bill was paid for. Welcome to America.

@garymonaghan7196 1 month ago

Absolutely I like her comment about don’t worry about the cities go out and see nature. It is beautiful. Every state has something to see. And the good thing is you can Google it you don’t need anybody’s help.

@rodentsister 1 month ago

Americans we have a gift...we know we can be proud

@rodentsister 1 month ago

Our parwnts who fought in wars reminded most of us to always be grateful

@sherryford667 1 month ago

And Europeans constantly disparaged Americans saying that we didn't know anything about the rest of the world when it turned out that it was actually Europeans who had no clue about the real America. 😊

@debicook859 1 month ago

Paper covers are for the toilet seat, not the toilet. Most restrooms have them. If they’re out we line the seat with toilet paper.

@bigredc222 1 month ago

In other similar videos people commented about all the flags, the people that fly flags know how good America is, and that's how we show how much we love and appreciate it.

@KathyAndrew 1 month ago

These Brits do not seem to understand that many of us in America are descended from Brits. Welcome to America, cousins.

@brittburton3264 1 month ago

It’s not just North Americans, but South Americans as well.

I was working in Argentina and I’d not yet learned Spanish (yeah, I had less than one week’s notice before my company sent me to Argentina)

And I needed to buy a bunch of things for my crew.

So I went to a shop that looked like it might have those things, tried making myself understood to the shopkeeper. This was before the Internet was a world wide thing.

He eventually understood and then he CLOSED DOWN HIS SHOP, locked it up, and walked me the ten blocks to the correct shop, negotiated good prices for me and arranged to have that stuff shipped to my local headquarters for me! All at less than the marked prices on the items!

Mar Del Plata, Argentina. 1993.

@bob8284 1 month ago

The dude who went to Scotland and was reminded of America theres a great natural reason. The American Appalachian Mountains end in Scotland there called the Scottish Highlands.

@HelenGarcia-w5w 1 month ago

I think the American people are so nice and friendly.I visited the US not long after 9/11 terrorist attacks and was made so welcome by so many American people.They thanked me for visiting their country in view of the terrorist threat.I told them that being a Londoner we have lived with bombings (IRA) for many years!I felt safe and welcome any time I have been to that great.country.