Posted on 07/07/2026 5:54:57 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
This video highlights the transformative experiences of European tourists visiting the United States, who arrive with preconceived notions based on negative media headlines only to be overwhelmed by genuine American kindness and hospitality.
Key takeaways from their experiences include:
Unexpected Generosity: Visitors frequently encounter spontaneous acts of kindness, such as strangers paying for their drinks (0:00-0:46), receiving unexpected gifts like local police pins (0:27-0:36), and even receiving money for accommodations from helpful locals (8:35-9:12).
Cultural Contrast: Many tourists note a stark difference in customer service compared to their home countries. They describe American service as exceptionally helpful, friendly, and welcoming, whereas they often find interactions in places like the UK to feel cold or indifferent (3:11-3:30, 5:01-5:14, 8:07-8:33).
Social Openness: The tourists were surprised by how readily Americans strike up conversations, offer random compliments in shops, and go out of their way to make visitors feel at home (1:50-2:07, 6:50-7:39).
Heartfelt Reflections: By the end of their trips, many of these individuals express sincere apologies for believing negative stereotypes and share deep appreciation for the compassion and decency of the American people, often stating that this level of hospitality is unlike anything they have experienced back home.
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“You Tube right now is FLOODED with these kind of videos.”
For a couple days I spent a few hours copying a ton of the links into a Word doc. Later when I need a boost to feel positive I know where to go.
I always saw ads in different trade journals trying to get geologists to come work in Saudi Arabia. I never thought about doing it.
Hate to burst the bubble so quickly Madam but within the last hour or so You Tube is now flooded by groups like “Midas Touch’’ and “Politics Girls(would I love to have a talk with her), “Guard The Leaf’’, this is a particularly vicious bunch of America hating Canadians.
Soro’s must love burning money but a lot of these videos are infuriating and vicious. Even though I have a Canadian born daughter-in-law who RAN out of Canada thirty years ago I have always found Canadians to be insufferably haughty, condescending and frankly, stupid.
HEY FREEPERS! If you love our country hope over to You Tube and start telling these America hating Canuks to STFU! You have to see this. In the last hour the “Guard The Leaf’’ bunch showed up and man, are they vicious.
My First Time in Florida as a European (culture shock!!!)
“Hate to burst the bubble so quickly Madam...”
It is what it is, and was good while it lasted. Before the haters were paid to release their crap, some people got the message.
Even though I grew up near the Canadian border in NYS, I don’t know too much about Canadians. Our church supported an Indian mission north of Buffalo, so I did get to know those people, who were wonderful. Other than that, not too much interaction with the citizens.
“Hate to burst the bubble so quickly Madam...”
It is what it is, and was good while it lasted. Before the haters were paid to release their crap, some people got the message.
Even though I grew up near the Canadian border in NYS, I don’t know too much about Canadians. Our church supported an Indian mission north of Buffalo, so I did get to know those people, who were wonderful. Other than that, not too much interaction with the citizens.
The ugly liberal media and their minions did show too well, did they?
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Sicon said, “ I’m thinking ugly LIBERAL Americans”.
I replied, “Ugly American applies to all Americans behaving badly abroad, regardless of political views.”
I have no idea what you are talking about.
A little place called “Westford’’, just outside of Cooperstown. It was one of those little places they call a ‘’milkstop’’.
I have a Canadian born daughter-in-law who fled Calgary thirty years ago to escape a sexually abusive father and violent and vicious drunken husband.
''Pamela”’ is a nice and very smart and talented young woman with a good head for accounting, she has given me and my wife two fine young grandsons.
It's was her mother I couldn't stand. At the sake of maintaining her marriage to a sexually abusive lout, when she found our her daughter had been sexually abused by her own husband she threw Pamela out!
And pretty much into the arms of another man , who as she told me, “His idea of making love to me was to beat me up’’.
Her mother came down here for a visit some years ago and I'll confess Madam, I had to politely sit, with clenched teeth, through a nice summer Sunday bbg and listen to "Heather'' go on and on about her "Wonderful Canadian health care!'' Well dear, as luck would have it as soon as her husband needed a triple heart bypass Good Lord they were down here so fast they broke speed records! They were told two and a half years to wait for the procedure in Canada. They came across the US border lickety split and got it all done in a week in a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona. So much for heathers ''wonderful Canadian health care, eh?'' Canadians overall? Canadians are fond and proud of saying "We're Not America!'' So make what you will of that. . Me as to Canadians? Good and bad in everyone. Just a little too much bad overall in the Canadians.
Sorry.
“’stark difference in customer service’ = Tipping works”
That’s true in certain situations. But the kindnesses shown to the visitors weren’t limited to tipping venues. People did and said simple things that in no way would or could result in a tip. What the UKs said that were remarkable to them really surprised me. Shouldn’t everybody everywhere throw out a compliment, open a door, etc., for strangers? I’m surprised that they were surprised.
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