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Watch: How do international students REALLY perceive Americans?

Frank - and funny - responses rack-up over two million views in a week

Aftab Ali
Wednesday 17 June 2015 04:48 EDT
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(Sw Yoon via YouTube)

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Americans are white, fat, stingy, and don’t care about what they wear, according to the views of international students.

The students from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan were asked: ‘Can you distinguish Americans?’ in a video posted online by Sw Yoon who frequently makes clips about how students from around the world perceive the West’s culture.

The students also add that Americans are macho with muscular faces, sleep in the same clothes they go to work in, smoke and drink a lot of shots.

Aside from being loud, Americans are, ultimately, ‘kind, funny and confident’.

Also, they smell like freedom. Apparently.

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