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US tourists are going viral on TikTok for claiming that Europeans don't drink water. Europeans are saying they're ignorant.
21.07.2023 - 13:16 / insider.com / On Tiktok
Several US tourists have gone viral on TikTok for claiming that Europeans don't drink water. Europeans, meanwhile, say these tourists are ignorant.
The drama began with a video posted on June 24, which has over 4.6 million views as of Thursday. In the video, 18-year-old Isabella Sweet — who is from Howell, New Jersey, and goes by the TikTok username @bellasweettt — is standing on a balcony in Athens, Greece, and chugging water with the caption, "Everytime I get back to the hotel room because Europeans do not believe in regular water consumption."
Im not even joking
Several viewers appeared to agree with Sweet's criticism. "Not to mention having to pay to use the restroom," read one comment, which has over 4,000 likes.
Another comment, which has over 4,500 likes, read, "I took a NINE HOUR flight to Paris and got 2 shot glass sized cups of water the entire time."
"I lived in Spain and my gym DIDN'T HAVE A WATER FOUNTAIN," read another comment with over 6,800 likes.
Sweet, who posted the video while she was in Athens on her way back from a trip to Leros, Greece, with Rutgers University, said she made her video because she and her peers from school kept making jokes about how they had to ask for water and pay for it at every restaurant they went to.
"A lot of the times they would bring sparkling or just forget about bringing us the water completely," she told Insider.
She said that on the day that she filmed the video, she and her friends found it difficult to find water after spending the entire day walking around. "I came back to the hotel and made that video as a joke for my study abroad friends to laugh at," she said.
But it didn't take long for viewers to start criticizing Sweet.
"In Europe we only have water in hotels! We often rent a hotel room to get water! Otherwise... We go with buckets to rivers every saturday!" joked one sarcastic viewer.
But Sweet isn't the only TikTok user to make this joke. On July 3, Kate Kennedy, who goes by the TikTok username @katekennedy1, posted a video of herself and her friends dancing in the streets.
The video, which has over 865,000 views as of Thursday, shows the group holding bottles of water alongside the caption: "When water costs at least 2 every meal in euro. So we bring our own bottled water to fancy restaurants. Don't take tap water for granted."
Every euro counts
"Maybe just ask for tap water it's free," commented one viewer.
"Do you not think we tried that?" replied Kennedy.
Kennedy did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
On July 17, Nina, a 22-year-old who is half French and half Czech, and who goes by the username @ninii.nemc on TikTok, posted a video complaining about US tourists who said they brought their own tap water
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