How I view the US after 12 years living abroad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIwOclLlRts 2022年10月9日 I have been living abroad for 12 years and a lot has changed in the US during that time. In this video, I will talk about some of the biggest changes I have noticed and how my views have changed on these issues. Have you noticed these changes? What other things do have you noticed changing in the US? Leave a comment and let me know. 解說詞 I've been living abroad for 12 years now and I thought it'd be interesting to talk about how my opinions and how My Views have changed on the US after living abroad for so long; I saw a tick tock asking other Americans that live abroad the same question how their views have changed since they've moved abroad and how they view the US now and I thought it'd be interesting to add this into my 12 years abroad Series; so let's Jump Right In with number 12 which is freedom we are jumping right into it 0:26 with freedom if you know anything about 0:28 the us then you know what I'm talking 0:29 about the US Prides itself on its 0:32 freedoms I don't know how many times I 0:34 was told growing up that America is the 0:36 land of the free and the home of the 0:38 brave and I should be willing to die for 0:40 that freedom as you can imagine I just 0:42 kind of believed it because I didn't 0:44 know better and why would they lie about 0:45 that well I can tell you my opinion has 0:48 definitely changed since traveling and 0:50 living abroad it turns out the US isn't 0:52 even in the top 10 freest countries 0:54 according to the human Freedom index it 0:56 is in the top 20 ranked at 15 but the 0:59 way the media and government talk about 1:01 freedom in the U.S makes it sound like 1:03 all other countries are imprisoning 1:05 their people and forcing them to work 1:07 which is kind of ironic because the US 1:09 actually ranks number one in 1:10 incarcerated people according to World 1:12 prison brief the United States leads the 1:14 world in total number of people 1:16 incarcerated with more than 2 million 1:18 prisoners Nationwide My Views have 1:21 definitely changed on the us being the 1:22 freest country in the world the US does 1:25 have a lot of freedoms and has a strong 1:27 judicial system but so do other 1:29 countries around the world and the US is 1:31 not ranked number one moving on to 1:33 number 11 on our list is something that 1:35 many people argue about and often goes 1:38 hand in hand with the idea of freedom 1:39 and that is gun ownership in the U.S it 1:43 is very interesting to talk with people 1:44 who are not from the US and who haven't 1:46 grown up with gun ownership being a 1:48 common and real thing growing up in the 1:51 US it was normal to own guns and many 1:53 people I knew had guns I remember my 1:55 brother having a shotgun in his house 1:57 and I didn't think it was that strange 1:58 or weird but this is isn't normal 2:00 globally and actually only three 2:02 countries have constitutional rights to 2:04 own a gun While most countries allow gun 2:06 ownership they impose strict laws 2:08 regulating which types of guns you can 2:09 own and how they are stored according to 2:12 Insider Americans own nearly half of all 2:15 the civilian-owned guns in the world and 2:17 on a per capita basis the U.S has far 2:20 more guns than any other Nation with so 2:23 many guns come mass shootings which is a 2:25 uniquely U.S thing these attacks rarely 2:27 occur in other countries and the 2:29 frequency and destruction caused by 2:31 these attacks is heartbreaking My Views 2:34 have changed a lot on gun ownership from 2:36 this is normal to what is wrong with the 2:39 US 2:40 speaking of what is wrong with the us 2:41 next on our list at number 10 which ties 2:44 back into the last two points is 2:46 national pride Americans are extremely 2:49 patriotic and they believe that the US 2:51 is the best country in the world and you 2:53 better not disagree with them because 2:54 they might shoot you jokes aside they 2:57 are extremely patriotic because they've 2:58 been lied to their whole lives the US is 3:01 a good country but it is not the best 3:02 country or worth chanting USA USA USA 3:06 everywhere you go 3:08 most Americans don't realize how bad 3:10 they're getting screwed by the 3:11 corporations in the government and they 3:13 truly believe that the US is number one 3:16 in the world it really depends on what 3:18 you are ranking but the US is usually in 3:20 the middle or lower half of a top 20 3:22 list from freedoms to Quality of Life to 3:25 education the US is ranked all over the 3:27 place and rarely is number one except 3:30 for prisoners guns military spending GDP 3:33 and a few other things that aren't very 3:34 flattering it isn't until you move 3:36 abroad and remove yourself from the 3:38 media enforced lies that you start to 3:40 realize the rest of the world isn't that 3:42 bad and some countries are even better 3:44 than the US in one way many countries 3:47 are better than the US is education 3:49 number nine on our list is education 3:52 according to results from the program 3:54 for international student assessment the 3:56 U.S ranks 39th in math 23rd in reading 4:00 and 25th in science out of 73 surveyed 4:03 countries this is low for a country that 4:06 claims to be number one 4:07 after living abroad for some time it is 4:09 clear that the US does not value public 4:11 education and universities are run like 4:14 businesses the cost of higher education 4:16 is appalling compared to the rest of the 4:18 world and don't get me started on public 4:20 schools there are videos of teachers 4:22 asking for school supplies and Mr Beast 4:25 just did a video about helping students 4:27 and teachers because the US government 4:28 doesn't provide enough resources the US 4:31 government doesn't seem to care about 4:32 education and this means the general 4:35 public also doesn't seem to care about 4:36 education just search Americans are 4:39 idiots and you will see how bad it is 4:41 not to mention the dangers around 4:43 teaching after living abroad for a long 4:45 time it has become clear that education 4:47 is not a high priority in the U.S which 4:50 is a shame because it is the best way 4:52 for people to improve their lives and 4:53 economic situation 4:55 speaking of improving situations we are 4:57 about to hit number eight on this list 4:59 but before I reveal that one be sure to 5:01 hit the like button because it really 5:03 helps improve the situation of this 5:04 video okay let's jump back in with 5:07 number eight which is Healthcare I 5:10 remember growing up that I never went to 5:11 the doctor and I never understood why it 5:14 was just my family didn't go to the 5:16 doctor unless somebody was dying I mean 5:18 literally the one time I spent the night 5:20 in the hospital I was actually dying and 5:23 if I didn't have a surgery I would have 5:25 died and I never really thought anything 5:27 of it it's just we didn't go to the 5:29 doctor 5:30 well it turns out we didn't go because 5:32 it costs a fortune just for a simple 5:34 checkup the US has state-of-the-art 5:36 hospitals and medicine but unless you 5:38 are rich or have good insurance good 5:40 luck accessing it the U.S spends more of 5:43 its GDP on health care than any other 5:45 high-income countries yet ranks last in 5:48 access to care administrative efficiency 5:50 equality and Health Care outcomes 5:53 according to the non-profit Commonwealth 5:55 fund I just typed into Google what 5:57 countries have Universal Health Care and 6:00 I realized it would be faster to look up 6:01 which countries don't have Universal 6:03 Health Care some of the countries that 6:05 don't have Universal Health Care include 6:07 Pakistan Yemen Syria and of course the 6:11 United States 6:12 basically the entire world is covered in 6:14 some form by a government-backed program 6:16 but the U.S is the only High income 6:19 country that doesn't have adequate and 6:21 affordable coverage affordable being the 6:23 key word in that last sentence there are 6:25 people that pay thousands of dollars on 6:27 medication and treatment each month in 6:29 the U.S but if they lived in almost any 6:31 other country it would be free or 6:33 affordable My Views have changed a lot 6:35 on Health Care in the United States 6:37 since leaving and it's one of those 6:39 situations that could be solved if 6:41 people were willing to and if the 6:43 corporations didn't make so much profit 6:45 off of keeping the system the way it is 6:47 and it's such a shame because people are 6:50 you know suffering because of this 6:52 system and one of the ways it is 6:54 profitable is by treating obesity 6:56 related health issues which brings us to 6:58 number seven on our list food 7:01 in The Tick Tock video I was watching 7:02 about Americans and how their views had 7:04 changed after living abroad many of them 7:07 were complaining about gaining weight or 7:08 getting sick when they moved back to the 7:10 United States because of the food 7:13 the food industry in the U.S is 7:14 basically producing poison the FDA 7:17 allows food and packaging companies to 7:19 use harmful chemicals when handling and 7:21 processing food these chemicals end up 7:23 in the food which can cause cancers and 7:26 other health problems again growing up 7:28 in the U.S eating Pop-Tarts for 7:29 breakfast seemed like a normal thing to 7:31 do Little Debbie snacks and mac and 7:33 cheese with hot dogs was a balanced diet 7:35 all washed down with Coca-Cola it wasn't 7:38 until I moved that I realized that some 7:40 of the Obesity problems in the US are 7:42 actually food problems it is easy to 7:45 blame and say it is an individual's 7:47 problem which is part of the problem but 7:49 also a lot of the issues are related to 7:51 the food industry and access to healthy 7:53 foods but changing the laws are much 7:56 harder and not as profitable as changing 7:58 people's attitude towards obesity now if 8:01 somebody says he she they are fat or 8:04 unhealthy they will get canceled for 8:07 body shaming so obviously My Views have 8:10 changed a lot in relationship to health 8:12 care and and food in the United States 8:15 which brings us nicely to our next point 8:17 on the list woke culture a quote that 8:20 always makes me laugh is if you're not a 8:22 liberal when you're 25 you have no heart 8:24 if you're not a conservative by the time 8:26 you're 35 you have no brain the cultural 8:30 war that is Raging right now in the U.S 8:32 is insane like literally insane and it's 8:36 all a distraction to keep people from 8:37 enacting any real change in the 8:39 government or Society if all sides are 8:42 fighting with each other and themselves 8:44 the people in power and the corporations 8:46 can pass legislation that hurts both 8:48 sides and makes them more profit the 8:51 last thing they want is for all sides to 8:53 unite under their common struggle and 8:55 oust the people currently in power the 8:57 craziest thing is that when you are 8:58 removed from it and you're living abroad 9:00 you can just see how crazy and insane it 9:03 is and how damaging it is to society 9:05 while Americans are fighting about what 9:08 a woman is or if the celebrity has used 9:10 the correct pronoun the rest of the 9:12 world knows what a woman is and isn't 9:14 wasting time on things that don't make 9:16 their country or economy stronger while 9:18 American students are in their gen 9:19 understudy classes wondering if they are 9:22 a man woman or other Chinese and Indian 9:25 students are in their maths and physics 9:27 classes gaining real knowledge that 9:29 might lead to the next breakthrough in 9:31 science or technology learning about 9:33 someone's gender isn't a real skill and 9:36 won't create a breakthrough that could 9:37 revolutionize any industry it isn't even 9:40 medical science at best we might learn 9:42 about groupthink when people study this 9:44 time period in the future but in its 9:46 current form woke culture in the 9:48 backlash to it is destroying Society 9:50 societies only exist when people are 9:53 willing to share the same goal and work 9:55 towards that goal together currently 9:57 both sides are unwilling to find common 9:59 ground and they're literally tearing 10:01 each other apart they're tearing this 10:03 Society apart and the people in power 10:06 absolutely love it My Views have changed 10:09 a lot on this after traveling to many 10:10 countries because these types of debates 10:12 aren't even considered in most places 10:14 most people around the world are too 10:16 concerned about feeding their families 10:18 and improving their lives to even think 10:20 about pronouns but enough about all that 10:22 we've made it to number five on the list 10:24 and if you're still here then you 10:25 probably agree with me on many of these 10:28 points you probably also know that 10:30 YouTube will not push this video to 10:31 anyone so be sure to like and share it 10:33 with your friends to help others 10:35 understand how the US looks from abroad 10:37 next up on this list is another thing 10:39 that is destroying the United States 10:41 from the inside and it's this 10:44 consumerism Flex culture celebrity 10:48 worship I'm sure there's a term for this 10:50 but I don't actually know what it is 10:51 it's basically the worship or the Love 10:54 of Money a Harris poll of three thousand 10:57 children between the age of 8 to 12 10:59 revealed that YouTuber was the first 11:01 choice of 29 of them don't get me wrong 11:04 I would love to make a full-time income 11:07 on YouTube but I don't think that young 11:09 people should be inspiring to be social 11:11 media Stars if the US culture continues 11:14 to inspire children to become 11:15 celebrities and only fan Stars the us 11:18 will lose its competitive advantage in 11:20 science and technology when I was 11:22 growing up children wanted to be doctors 11:24 astronauts teachers and scientists sure 11:27 there were some kids that wanted to be 11:28 WWE stars or actors but they were 11:31 usually outliers and not the norm 11:33 nowadays based on the polls children 11:36 want to be YouTube stars and they look 11:38 up to Mr Beast I get the appeal of money 11:41 and fame but it is a slippery slope if 11:43 children look up to YouTube YouTubers 11:45 celebrities and hustle culture promoters 11:46 and not doctors or scientists I feel the 11:49 future is doomed the internet has 11:51 created a lot of opportunities for new 11:53 work and ways of making money but very 11:55 few content creators are curing cancer 11:57 or creating the next tech Revolution if 12:00 all the kids want to be YouTubers who is 12:02 going to build the future speaking of 12:04 building the future we all have to work 12:06 which brings us to our next point the 12:08 U.S mistreats employees more than 120 12:12 countries around the world provide paid 12:14 maternity leave and health benefits by 12:17 law including most industrialized 12:19 nations except Australia New Zealand and 12:23 the United States according to reports 12:25 from the international labor office just 12:28 think about that for a second mothers 12:30 who have just given birth are not given 12:32 paid maternity leave by U.S law because 12:35 there are no laws on the books it is up 12:37 to employers to decide how much time and 12:39 money new mothers are given this is 12:42 supposed to be a happy moment in a 12:43 couple's life but most parents miss out 12:45 on important bonding because they have 12:47 to go back to work you'll be lucky to 12:49 get three or four weeks off and even 12:51 luckier if it's paid if you're 12:53 commenting about the Family and Medical 12:55 Leave Act of 1993 right now I get it 12:58 there are some protections but that 13:00 really only covers unpaid leave with the 13:03 average family in debt and less than 6 13:05 000 in their bank accounts it is hard to 13:06 take 12 weeks unpaid leave maternity 13:09 leave is just one example of how U.S 13:12 employees are getting hurt another good 13:14 example is employment at will contracts 13:17 which only benefit the employer 13:19 because many workplaces don't offer 13:22 full-time contracts with salaries and 13:24 benefits employees are constantly 13:26 anxious about their jobs there is little 13:28 job security with employment at will 13:30 contracts which pressures workers to 13:32 work harder and longer because they are 13:34 worried about losing their job these 13:36 types of contracts allow managers to 13:38 create schedules that keep employees 13:39 from reaching full-time hours which 13:42 means companies don't have to pay for 13:43 insurance or other benefits that 13:45 full-time employees should receive 13:47 employers have even gone farther by 13:49 creating gig work and refusing to 13:50 classify workers as employees reducing 13:54 their tax insurance and benefit 13:55 obligations they create campaigns 13:58 claiming that it is good for employees 13:59 and that it provides more flexibility 14:01 but in reality it only burdens workers 14:04 people don't want to feel insecure about 14:06 their livelihoods reports and studies 14:08 show that people are more productive and 14:10 happier when they feel secure in their 14:12 workplace employment isn't always fair 14:14 and balanced in the United States and 14:16 two things really jump out to me when 14:18 talking about this first Americans have 14:21 been trained to hate unions it is 14:23 surprising just how much effort has gone 14:25 into breaking or stopping unions this is 14:28 a video in itself but history has shown 14:30 that workers have benefited the most 14:32 when strong labor unions Force business 14:35 owners to increase wages and provide 14:37 more benefits but because this history 14:39 is not taught in schools call back to my 14:42 previous Point workers believe unions 14:44 cost them money and don't help their 14:46 employment situation the second thing 14:48 I've noticed is that people Define 14:50 themselves by their work they are what 14:52 they do in other countries people are 14:55 more concerned about their family 14:56 relations or Hobbies but in the U.S your 14:59 job is who you are and everything else 15:01 is secondary because success is defined 15:04 by money and not happiness or 15:06 relationships people in the US are 15:08 obsessed with their careers this creates 15:11 a culture of unfulfilled and unhappy 15:13 people because they care so much about 15:16 their work but their employer doesn't 15:18 care about them I'm not saying it's 15:20 perfect around the world but there does 15:22 seem to be a hyper focus on productivity 15:24 and self-worth through work within the 15:27 United States which should be changed to 15:29 create a better working environment for 15:31 U.S workers we are about to make it into 15:33 the top three ways My Views have changed 15:35 around the us but before we make it to 15:37 number one be sure to hit the like 15:39 button because I'm afraid that YouTube 15:40 will suppress this video YouTube doesn't 15:43 always push videos that tell the truth 15:45 so uh hit that like button or share it 15:47 with a friend because they might also 15:49 like the video 15:51 moving on to number three Transportation 15:54 this one might seem strange at first but 15:56 let me explain if you live in the United 15:58 States and you want to get around you 16:00 have to own a car period 16:03 most cities do not have adequate public 16:05 transportation or even good bike Lanes 16:07 the US is car dominant and without a car 16:10 you will struggle to do basic tasks 16:12 things have changed in the last 12 years 16:14 with ride sharing apps and food delivery 16:17 apps but it is still really difficult to 16:19 get around in the United States if you 16:21 don't own a car growing up in the US 16:23 that seemed normal because it is normal 16:25 for the us but outside of the US many 16:27 countries have decent public 16:29 transportation countries like the 16:31 Netherlands Sweden and Denmark all have 16:33 designed cities to incorporate biking 16:35 and many people Bike To Work many 16:38 countries in Asia like Japan Korea and 16:40 China have subways and high-speed trains 16:42 connecting cities and areas which makes 16:44 it convenient to get around with all the 16:46 money the US government spends on the 16:48 military and subsidies it could have 16:50 redesigned many of the cities to include 16:52 bike lanes and Subway systems when 16:54 people feel safe on the roads and the 16:56 cities encourage biking people will bike 16:58 there are enough examples of cities 17:00 redesigning their downtown areas and 17:02 encouraging bike thinking to support the 17:04 investment but despite these examples 17:06 nothing seems to change bus routes 17:09 Subways trains and bike lanes are not 17:11 developed despite evidence that it 17:13 improves people's lives and commutes 17:15 if the US took a little bit of their 17:17 military spending and diverted it back 17:19 into infrastructure they could create 17:20 more jobs in better cities my opinions 17:23 on public transportation have changed a 17:25 lot after living and traveling in cities 17:27 that have good public transportation 17:29 speaking of government spending number 17:32 two on our list is the U.S government 17:34 and there are two things I want to talk 17:36 about let's first talk about the 17:38 military the U.S doesn't need to police 17:40 the World by taking on this role it has 17:42 allowed other nations to expect and rely 17:45 on U.S military support but that has 17:47 weakened both the U.S and Reliant 17:49 Nations it has weakened Reliant Nations 17:52 because they spend less money on their 17:54 own militaries and as weakened the us 17:56 because the U.S spends too much money on 17:59 the U.S military if the U.S spent 10 or 18:02 20 percent less on the military each 18:04 year and diverted it back into building 18:05 the U.S it would be a stronger nation in 18:08 terms of domestic strength the U.S would 18:10 have better health care schools 18:12 infrastructure and public services but 18:14 that will never have happen because the 18:16 US government is fractured and 18:18 dysfunctional which brings us to the 18:20 second point that I want to address the 18:22 two parties are not working to benefit 18:23 the people and because of this people 18:25 are voting more and more extreme the US 18:28 government allows lobbies to push 18:29 specific agendas that don't benefit the 18:31 people and because of this the people 18:33 vote for anyone that promises change 18:35 right or left it doesn't matter because 18:38 both sides are becoming more and more 18:40 unhinged 18:41 the two sides are no longer working 18:43 together and the lobbies are funding 18:45 special projects that only benefit the 18:47 corporations the politicians are corrupt 18:50 and always have been but now it seems 18:52 like there is less cooperation between 18:53 the two sides and this is all spurred on 18:56 by the mainstream media which brings us 18:58 to our final point but before I talk 19:00 about the mainstream media be sure to 19:02 hit that like button because YouTube is 19:04 part of the problem and they will 19:06 probably suppress this video okay let's 19:09 talk about the US media 19:11 it's all fake news I don't support Trump 19:13 or his policies but I totally understand 19:15 him and why people voted for him he 19:18 coined the term fake news but he's not 19:20 wrong you can't even really call it news 19:22 anymore and it's bad on both sides in 19:25 the past we used to have tabloids in the 19:27 supermarkets at the checkouts and they 19:30 would always have the most ridiculous 19:31 headlines like a woman gives birth to 19:34 alien and claims the father is Joe Biden 19:37 we have the exclusive interview you 19:40 won't believe what she said we all knew 19:42 it was fake but it was kind of fun to 19:43 read nowadays this is every news 19:46 headline because the news is a business 19:48 and needs to make money they will print 19:50 the most outrageous headlines to get 19:52 more views and clicks mix the mainstream 19:55 media in with social media and actual 19:57 fake news by your favorite YouTuber and 19:59 you create a nation of misinformed 20:01 people if you can't distinguish between 20:03 lies and truth then you will forever be 20:05 lost and I feel many people in the 20:07 United States right now are lost they 20:10 are fighting over lies and because they 20:12 want something to be true they are 20:13 willing to believe lies this goes for 20:16 both sides doesn't matter which opinion 20:18 you hold about a topic someone is 20:20 creating content to push you farther 20:22 down the rabbit hole as long as there's 20:24 money to be made off of content then Fox 20:26 and CNN and YouTube and Tick Tock and 20:30 Facebook and Twitter all of the social 20:32 media platforms will continue to push 20:34 this content out regardless of the truth 20:36 this is not just a US problem but 20:38 because most of the mainstream media is 20:40 us-based or U.S Centric and because most 20:43 of the popular apps are us-based it is a 20:46 major problem for the US my opinion on 20:48 news and popular apps have changed a lot 20:50 after moving abroad and I think this 20:52 problem will continue until better 20:54 regulations are implemented so there you 20:57 have it 12 ways my opinions have changed 20:59 about the US after living abroad for 12 21:01 years if you want to know where I've 21:02 been living this whole time and why 21:04 click here and if you want to watch more 21:06 of the series click here I hope to see 21:08 you in the next video bye-bye |