A British man who relocated to the United States has poked fun at his American peers for the most outrageous comments they made during his stay.
The clip, shared on the TikTok page @ptwpage, was captioned: “There are so many more I could say but these were […] the worst.”
The round-up included three brow-raising comments, with the student explaining they were the “dumbest things” he’d been told “as a British person who goes to college in the United States”.
The first remark, intended as a compliment, highlights confusion among the student’s peers about the geographical location of the United Kingdom within the context of Europe.
He explained: “Number number, I had a person come up to me and say considering I’m European, My English is really good.”
“And when I told them that was because I’m from England they said, ‘Yeah but my friend is European and he speaks way worse English’. His friend was from France.”
Secondly, the TikToker learned during his time abroad that it wasn’t uncommon for the Australian and English accents to get mixed up.
Despite his thick British accent, he was frequently asked if he was an Australian native, with many of his American peers believing that Australia and the U.K. were the same.
He said: “One person came up to me and asked ‘Oh you’re from the UK so that’s like Australia right?’”
When he specified that he wasn’t from Australia, but from the UK, the person asked: “Are those two things not the same?
Finally, the college student explained that the fact that he came from a village caused quite a stir among his peers, who were reluctant to believe him.
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Given that the United States tend to refer to smaller municipalities as towns, the concept of villages is one many Americans come across in literature, films and video games.
“When I told my friend that I lived in a village, I had to then convince him for the next hour that a village is not just from Minecraft and I wasn’t messing with him and villages […] excited in the outside world,” noted the content creator.
Viewers sympathised with the poster in the comments, while other Britons shared their own funny experiences while living abroad.
“You have to remember college in the US is like primary school in England,” joked one commentator, while another pondered: “How are they in college?”.
One person penned: “I’m Irish and I’ve been asked if I’ve met leprechauns about 600 times.”
Another commentator chimed in: “I was asked if we had toilets and electricity in France.”
