An American living in the UK has revealed the five things they wish they knew about British culture before relocating.
Taking to TikTok, where he has over 21.5 million likes across various different videos posted on his account, Kobie shared his first thought, stating: ‘Cops do not patrol the same way they do in the US.
‘They’re always sitting at different points or have speed cameras, here I have not seen one cop stop someone for speeding.’
Kobie also claimed you should decline food if offered it by a Brit, particularly if it is their last piece.
He remarked: ‘I know they’re offering it to you but they don’t actually want to give it to you, they’re just trying to be nice.’
The American gave an example of a friend offering him his last piece of halloumi at Nando’s, which Kobie ate as he did not know how much this would irk his friend.
Moving on to point number three, he said: ‘If you’re going out in public somewhere in central (London) you cannot bum it. Here in the UK everyone has a little bit of a sense of style.
‘I remember when I first got here I put on some slides and my pyjama bottoms and people looked at me like I’m crazy.’
An American living in the UK has revealed the five things they wish they knew about British culture before relocating
His penultimate observation saw him British people appeared to ‘slowly start changing their accent’ because there are ‘so many different accents around the UK’.
He said that, as a result, British peoples’ ears were ‘so susceptible’ to a number of different accents
Addressing his final point about cultural shocks in the UK he witnessed as an American, Kobie added: ‘Being someone who is pretty tall, do not expect to have big cars here.
‘Most of the cars are compact or just normal sized cars. There are no F1 50s. There’s no lifted cars, no lifted trucks. It’s because everything is so small.’
Reacting to Kobie’s TikTok video, one person said: ‘The first person I’ve seen analyse the UK so perfectly all the time’.
Another added: ‘The accent change is real. We’re just finding a common ground.’
A third commented: ‘Pjs in central is brave.’
It comes after Kobie uploaded another video in August, in which he documented the varying differences he found between British and American supermarkets.
Taking to TikTok , where he has over 21.5 million likes across various different videos posted on his account, Kobie shared his first thought, stating: ‘Cops do not patrol the same way they do in the US’
The first thing that caught Jordan off guard was the sight of unrefrigerated eggs, as he panned his camera to dozens of cartons stacked neatly on shelves.
He said: ‘One of the first things that threw me off: the eggs are not refrigerated.
‘Funny enough, I found the eggs last way longer than when I used to refrigerate them. For me, I put them on top of the microwave.’
Next, Jordan noted that UK supermarkets appear to sell food in much smaller portions compared to their American counterparts, adding: ‘The UK, you shop way more often, but you buy in smaller quantities.’
Fresh produce in the UK also puzzled Jordan, as he showed bags of potatoes, radish and pre-prepared lettuce as examples with expiration dates just days away.
While displaying the items’ «best before» dates of August 11 and August 8, he explained: ‘Fresh produce expires more quickly than back home. At the time of filming this, it’s August 7th.’
‘Most of them won’t last more than three days – but back home, our produce is pumped with so many preservatives.’
