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70 People Reveal How to Tell If Someone Is From Their Country

In this episode of Many People from Many Countries, 70 people reveal how to tell if someone is from their country. Signs include their posture, how they stand, how they walk, the volume of their voice, their facial expressions and features, their mannerisms, their hair color, the shape of their eyes, what they wear, their body language and gestures, their accent, their slang, how they greet someone, and how much they can drink.

Released on 04/19/2018


Every Polish person has a Polish Radar.

It's Polish aura, like you can feel it here.

Peruvians usually have like a slouch.


We're very big on posture being appropriate,

and how to sit, how not to sit.

By the way they stand.

And smoke.

The most laid-back people you will ever meet.

It's just the way they walk.

Walk a little slower.

They're always like chilling, moving their arms like that.

You can see the bouncing of the head.

They apologize when someone else bumps into them.

Always apologizing.

If someone treads on your toe, you'd say sorry.

Usually they're loud, really loud.

If they're super loud, and they're Asian,

I'll assume they're Vietnamese. (laughs)

They're usually the loudest people,

besides the Scottish.

The Scottish are a loud people.

You can always just tell

when there's a Scottish person around.

It's like a sixth sense or something.

You can sense it, just the face, the whole demeanor.

Russian, Russian.

Just mannerisms, I don't even know how to explain it.

I will know they're Kenyan.

I just recognize them.

Sometimes you can just see it in their face.

I don't know why, but they just have

this mouth and facial structure.

Definitely by their facial features.

We have really strong, like, eyebrows.

I would say like big hair or curly hair.

Our faces look like potatoes. (laughs)

Does that make sense?

High cheekbones, probably.

Possibly blue eyes and blond.

Blond with light green eyes.

We have like different shape of eyes.

The eyes.

When they look at them and they look at me,

(laughs) (mumbles)

Round face, dark skin,

and usually the almond-shaped Asian eyes with the lips.

It's hard, yeah, I think it's really hard.

Maybe how they dress?

We have like a certain style.

Finns always wear very sensible clothing.

Probably we're more formal.

Skinny pants, always wearing Clark's,

white belts, white shoes.

When they go to vacations,

they always wear like muffin boots

and they always have like these huge backpacks.

They tend to always wear, like, raincoats,

matching raincoats.

From the body language, or like hand gestures,

mimics, the excitement.

We do the head nod, we're more expressive with the hands,

with the way we talk.

If they're Asian and they bow, the chances are Japanese.

Usually I know when I hear them speak.

Their accent, basically.

The way they talk.

Like, they have a little thing like I do.

They have a staccato accent,

like you would speak like this.

'Cause our language is straightforward, the way it sounds,

so they speak English exactly the same way.

There's like slight twang.

If I hear that, I instantly start leaning in

to see if they are Australian.

We tend to speak Spanglish in words

that we feel are sexier or just sound better.

We have this thing called Singlish,

which is like an amalgamation

of every language that we speak in Singapore.

And the minute you hear it, it's very very distinctive.

Even if they've been here for a long time,

there's one thing that they'll say,

and you'd be like, yeah you're Nigerian.

The second I hear someone say like choice

or sweaters or mate, or chair.

Ka-chai, it's like a word that we use every two words.

It means, like, you get it?

Like ike, instead of like.

They will call be Pana, like, Hey, Pana.

You hear somebody say, Hey Bor-ai.

When we hear the word way or cabron.

Like, Oy cabron.

We say Ja, which is J-A.

I met a South African last week,

he's like American, American and he said, Ja.

And I was like he's South African.

It's usually how they greet each other

(speaking foreign language)

When I hear someone thinking like, Ehhhh.

I'm like, Oh yes, you're Spanish.

If they have very specific questions.

Very precise, specific questions, that's German.

Like they were so excited about everything

and they want to learn and they kind of like have

no boundaries and they kind of like ah!

There's something especially about where Trinidadian women

carry herself, it's like this mix of like femininity

in the kind of softer way and the femininity

in kind of the stronger way.

I can tell someone else is from Ukraine

when they can drink a lot of vodka.


Actually so we're living the stereotype.

They drink a lot of beer

and they smoke a lot of cigarettes.

And they complain a lot.

They would normally speak really loud on the phone.

Trying to ask for how to do something.

They check people out.

(laughs) Yep.

If you see them in New York

and they're eating a pizza with a knife and a fork

that would be pretty French.

Fighting for the bill, hardcore,

like, full on...

(speaking in foreign language)

Like they put on a show.

(speaking in foreign language)

You know like you let them take the bill,

like you and I are ruined.

But in a friendly way, but in a friendly way.


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