American Reacts Hilarious Times People Caught “American Tourists In The Wild”

I couldn't imagine calling black Dutch people "African-Dutch" or "Caribbean-Dutch". How racist. Dutch is Dutch.

When Nelson Mandela got elected as the first black African president in South Africa, an American reporter kept referring to him as African American. When she asked how it felt to be the first African American to be elected, he just looked at her and said: This is Africa.

Working in a shop, I see the worst of Americans. One told me I had to give him a discount because he was American. When I said no, he insisted I call my boss (om holiday in Morocco). He then told her she needed to fire me. Instead, she told me to throw him out of the shop.

Turning left on red isn't a thing in the UK as going through a red light is completely illegal, we have to wait for a green light to be able to progress in any direction.

I’m a Tour Guide in York England. I love the stupid American questions. My favourites:- Why did we chose an American name for our City? Where in England is Scotland? What came first Medieval or Roman?

Norf Londoner here. A former workmate from America refused to believe England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland and Wales were separate countries until we asked him, "then why do they all have their own international football teams... " Just think, the Americans who travel overseas are the intelligent ones. 🙄

Years ago, an american cousin came to France for summer. There was a festival with David Guetta. He was surprised: "You know David Guetta? It's an american DJ!"... well, he is famous worldwide but most important, David Guetta is FRENCH ! 😅

i must confess i may be personally responsible for at least 3 Americans believing they ride polar bears in Denmark........ i was a teen and it was funny.

An American friend of mine once asked me (a brit) why we speak English when that's an American language. My brother, who lives in Tennessee, also has made a game out of convincing as many yanks as he can that there are no trees in the UK. Apparently, it's stunningly easy. Edit: Just thought of a weird childhood experience with a US tourest. I grew up in a town about 10 miles north of London. I'm walking around about 12 years old when this old guy in a Hawiian shirt points at me and shouts with the strongest southern accent "hey kid where's the beach?!" I told him that it's about 70 miles east of here. He gets a camera out his pocket, yells "thanks kid" and runs off. I can only assume he was very lost.

When we moved to the US for six years, my then 10-yr old son, my late wife being Kenyan, and he being born in Kenya, was indignant when his new school recorded him as "African-American".

Had a friend who worked at the camera obscurer in Edinburgh during the festival and he overheard an American couple complaining how inconvenient the distance was between Edinburgh castle and the train station. It took him a while to realise that they thought the castle was built each year for the festival and not built 700 years before the invention of the train.

The only thing I remember is that a guy on the beach in Florida asked my dad the time. My dad looks at his digital watch and reads out 13:47 (very normal thing where I'm from), the guy straightens up and almost shouts "Oh, a military man! Thank you for your service, sir!" Now, the ironic thing is that my dad does work for the military, but most definitely not the American one 😅

There was an American exchange student who drank "lättöl" (="light beer") all the time. Then complained that she was gaining weight. "Light beer" means it's low on alcohol, not calories.

I used to be a zookeeper, I was working in a section where you could interact with the animals and feed them. We had a herd of miniture horses, An American tourist asked why we had a pack of Alsatians in a zoo. I thought he was joking and laughed, he got angry. I realised he was not joking. I pointed out the info board, the fact they had Long Manes and tails, he insisted that they were Alsations and informed me he would be complaing about me as i clearly didn't know the difference and i needed retraining. 🤨 2 hours later a very confused customer service manager arrived asking if i had seen someone walking around the secection of zoo with a pack of dogs, as only service dogs were allowed in the zoo, and only 1 per customer. It took me a while to figure out it must have been the American tourist that had complained 😶

On the language question, I was talking to the guy serving at the till in a Washington DC deli. The customer behind me said "I love your accent. Where are you from?" "England", I replied. "And how long have you been in the US"? he asked. "Three weeks". "Only three weeks? Wow! Your English is almost perfect!" I didn't say anything. Just paid and left. But as I got to the door, I heard another customer saying to him "She was speaking ENGlish. She's from ENGland. The clue's in the name"!!

I stated on Twitter that USA wasn’t in the top ten democracies. A random American got mad at me. He said “America is not a democracy, it’s a Republic!” I replied that he should tell that to his Representatives.

My nextdoor neighbour here in the UK is American. Nice enough person but.................I can believe all of these examples.

I was a student in Coventry 35 years ago. Two American tourists were walking between the Cathedrals when one turned to the other and said "Isn't it amazing that the Germans totally destroyed this Cathedral and completely missed the other one." The old Cathedral is a preserved bombed out shell. The new Cathedral was built right next to the old one after the war.

The most galling aspect of some of these, is that instead of trying to educate themselves about the rest of the world, some Americans have the bloody cheek to contradict the person they are speaking to. The saying “Tis better to remain silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt” was tailor-made” for the US citizens mentioned here

I was an exchange student from Germany to Michigan in 1981 and I got asked anything from if we have TVs and electricity down to how we were able to travel to the US with the terrible war on "over there" (first gulf war, Iran vs. Iraq). Some things apparently never change, when you have a defunct education system.