Justin Bieber doesn’t know what “German” means, denies Canadian identity
Justin Bieber doesn’t know what “German” means, denies Canadian identity
Even though we’re not 12-year-olds, this video of Justin Bieber making a fool out of himself on a New Zealand entertainment show pains us. (Take a look at the clip at the left.) When the interviewer asks him if “Bieber” is German for “basketball,” the Biebs is beyond confused by the meaning of the word “German.” Even when the interviewer apologizes for his accent and shows Bieber the word, he says, “I don’t know what that means.” It’s like a sketch on Flight of the Conchords. Bieber then adds, even more cringe-inducingly, “We don’t say that in America.” America? What the what? At least Canadians can avoid national embarrassment.
what a little putz
LOL Someone needs to stop touring and go back to school!
Did someone say POOR JUSTIN?! Get real! There is nothing poor about this little tiny bopper with the bang hair do creating chaos all over the world but as someone rightly say, Christ – go back to school dumbo!!
it’s interesting that in a column entitled “Quoted”, you’d misquote poor little bieber. first of all the interviewer stumbles over his own question and then doesn’t phrase it properly. he probably should have said something like…”did you know that the german word for basketball is bieber?” As well, i don’t believe he denied his Canadian identity? but, i guess it makes for a better article?
It’s official – Justin Bieber is a dummy.
it’s just a simple mis communication. not a big deal, it happens. like geez grow up….
Apparently he thought the guy said ‘Jew Man’ so relax
and we are in america, he just dropped the ‘North’ part like most do.
He is as dumb as his hair looks.
huh, a male blonde. pretty but dumb
Thats funny JB is blonde
Miscommunication? Stop enabling this kid. He needs to go back to school. And how many Canadians would go to Australia and say they are from North America rather than Canada? All excuses.
Wow. Justin Bieber’s defence is so weak.
Am I blind, or am I the only one who noticed that the host actually SHOWED Justin Bieber the cue card with the question on it? This means that it’s not a ‘lost in translation’ mistake, and even after he thought the guy said ‘Jew Man’ he should have been able to read the question properly.
The kid can’t even READ properly, or RECOGNIZE the word ‘German’.
so, this is the new pop culture. Being popular, and being dumb
this has been blown way out of proportion …
it was explained on a news outlet
with the hosts New Zealand accent Justin thought he was saying “Jewman” and it looked like he was put in an awkward situation
remember he is a young lad
this could happen to anyone
give the kid a break
If you listen closely, Justin actually repeats German rather than Jewman. There’s an “R” when he repeats the word.
Quite sad.
Well the guy shows his card to Justin,
so i would deny that theres a misunderstanding problem.
Maybe sometimes school is a better choice than an interview.
And for those who wanna know:
of course basketball is called basketball in germany
and beaver means biber
It is more then obvious that he misunderstood the interviewer, besides the fact that he repeats the word wrong and barely glances at the card which everyone is pointing to as “evidence”, NO ONE can not know what “German” is. Especially someone who has german heritage, can count to 10 in german, and has BEEN to Germany. He has even told people what his name really means in german. Its “beaver”.
Speaking of beavers, I highly doubt that he “forgot” he was Canadian, seeing as how he tells people how proud he is of where he comes from on a regular basis. Too bad he shows more love to Canada then Canada shows to him.
The country below us is not “America” its the USA. “America” is the term belonging to two different continents, one of which he hails from. Perhaps its YOU that needs to go back to school.
And lastly, the fact that he’s a sixteen year old boy is more then worth a mention. Yeah, he’s a teenager, he should know his countries. But your an adult are you not? Aren’t adults always complaining about kids and there gossip? Wouldn’t you tell your kid “don’t pick on that boy bobby, just because he’s not as smart as you doesn’t give you the right to make him feel bad about himself”. You blame all the violence in kids on there bullying each other, they have low self esteem and bully to make themselves feel better. What’s your excuse? What gives you, and every other professional entertainment outlet, the right to attack this boy, who has yet to present himself as anything but polite and sarcastically humorous?
Regardless of your feelings on his music, SOMEONE out there likes him, and as long as he’s making a few people happy, why complain about him?
Canada should be proud that OUR “teen idol” is praised AT LEAST for his manners. Isn’t being nice something Canada loves to be known for? Pointing out this miniscule slip up of his is as pointless as me pointing out the the fact that “inducingly”, although it makes an apperance in this article, is not a real word.
I thought only the USA treated people this way. like crap. I guess were really not much better then them after all eh?
and PS,
if your so worried about children’s intelligence, why not write an article on the faults of the education system which are hurting kids in the first place, instead of wasting your time complaining about how kids are already stupid?
Its comical really, the way society deals with its youth. You’d rather complain then do anything to help them.
Just keep making this kid feel like dirt, maybe he’ll kill himself and then you’ll REALLY have something to write about.
Reminds me of that time I went on a trip to Russia and brought pictures to school of me on the shore of a lake and a kid in my grade 7 class said “Russia has water?”
I figured it was her parents who were dumb.
GET A LIFE PEOPLE YOU ARE THE ONES WHO ARE SAD
WELL…WHAT DOES GERMAN MEAN? IF THE WORLD WOULD STOP SUBSTITUTING WORDS PERHAPS WE COULD FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION.
ALSO….WHERE THE HELL DO YOU THINK CANADA IS? IT’S THE LARGEST PORTION OF NORTH AMERICA. THE UNITED STATES OF…..ACTS AS IF THE ENTIRE CONTINENT IS THERE’S. DON’T GIVE IT AWAY…WE’RE CANADA…THE LARGEST SECTION OF NORTH AMERICAN…WE ARE NORTH AMERICAN THE WAY THE FRENCH ARE EUROPEAN AND ARGENTINANS ARE SOUTH AMERICAN.
Laurie’s May 10th comment pretty much covers it. It’s unlikely JB actually saw the word “German” on the card, and on live television one does not create dead air by taking time to read a page, when one does not even know exactly what one is hoping to see… although [i]that[/i] might happen in an episode of Flight of the Conchords. Journalism FAIL.
you are my life my life is nothing without you jujstin i love you with my herat and you are forever in my heart in my life and in my mind…xife from kosovo love you forever…!!
Justin sucks donkey balls. He’ll either fade away like Debbie Gibson or end up dead outside the Viper Room. Either way is fine with me.
Wow, he obviously knows what German is, he was saying i dont know what this means to the question. Not gonna lie, I didn’t understand what the interviewer was asking to
You guys are ALL losers haha
Justin Bieber is simply backpedaling from the embarrassment of being exposed of the unintelligent, corporate puppet that he is. You really think that it was him that updated his twitter? I guarantee you that it was a publicist that put that there and probably had to explain to him that a German is an inhabitant of Germany. As far as you fools defending him on him meaning North America that is just self-serving bullshit. He was clearly using “American” in it’s now ubiquitous meaning of a USA citizen; as everyone now would refer to someone living in Canada a Canadian. Pretending that American means North America just to make him look good only makes everyone defending him equally as pathetic.
This kid is garbage just like his music, but we’ll just have to wait 2 years for him to be forgotten.
In German, its Biber. Not Bieber.
Also…. He read the queue card. That should say enough. Stop defending him. He read the !@#$ing queue card. He saw the word “German”. Kiwi’s don’t spell German differently. He didn’t read “Jew Man”, he read “German”.
Either he genuinely doesn’t know what it means, or he can’t read and misunderstood him. Either way he’s a moron.
haha stop defending him, he READ the word and still didn’t get it. he definately needs to go back to school.
Seriously!!!!!!!!!!????!!!!!! How do people not know what German is???????? Its sooooooooooo INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MEAN…HES A “FAMOUS” dude….HE SHOULD BE SMARTER THAN THAT..BEING 16!!!!!!!!! Im younger than Bieber and I know what it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, it’s the host’s fault for delivering the question poorly. Obviously, Mr. Bieber would have understood that German meant that overly important country in our global history and wouldn’t have said, “We don’t say that in America” if the host actual spoke English. And yes, most people say America when they mean North America… since most people say, “I’m from North America,” instead of Mexico, the U.S.A. or Canada.
What a moron.. yea, Germany has only been responsible for the last 2 world wars.. not that the biebs would know anything about that.
But he read the que card though