I once read about a British and an American General having an argument about past wars. Every time the American General mentioned a Country they had fought against, the British General said, "Yes, but we had beaten them before you had". Exasperated, the American General asked, "What about the War of Independence, we beat you then, didn't we"? After a short pause, The British General said, "Yes, but you were British then"!
I don't things are much better here, they might be able to name a few more countries but to most knowing the difference between there, their and they're is a step too far.
I couldn’t answer stupidly simple questions, yet they can tell you how many Kardashian they are on their names. That is sad. Soap, operas, and reality shows stop your brain from working you can watch them without thinking. Stacks of documentaries on UA-cam, you can watch start there They should educate themselves
I spent 25 years as a teacher. This makes me feel like I wasted my life. The Kardashian question shows they're not nervous. They just don't know anything worth knowing. Jess, stop making excuses. "What continent are we in now?" is not a trick question.
No offence bro, but what do you teach these kids? And how do you test whether they understood any of it? And what do you do if they clearly don't? Do you know what I get when I try to explain why BRICS, the necessity for demand for fiat dollars and the existence of the European primary energy market leads to a proxy war in Ukraine, apart from a 5h4d0w b4n, that is? Crickets! Now I know why. They only care about lowbrow garbage and the worst part is; they can vote! You need to do better, mate.
Some of his questions are sort of trick questions because of the wording. "What (btw., shouldn't that be "which" and not "what") 2 countries border the USA?" There are more than 2 countries that border the USA. He probably meant which 2 countries have landlocked borders. "Which continent are we standing on?" That depends. If you say there are 7 continents, they would be standing on the North American continent. As this is supposed to be basic knowledge questions, this would probably be the most common answer, but there are other ways of dividing the world into continents. For instance one of those ways only divides the world in 5 continents and that would make them be standing on the continent named the Americas. He didn't specify which model he was using. There are other ways of dividing than these 2 but I forgot them. While not a trick question per se, it, like a few other of his questions, could use some clarification. My favorite questions of his are: "What is the capital of Chicago." My immediate answer: US dollars and cents. "What state is Utah in?" My answer: A mormon state (of mind). Which question is your favorite?
I completely disagree. The same generation in other countries has a MUCH higher general knowledge than this group he interviewed. Don't blame technology. The problem is the education system.
These people can probably list, without thinking, clothing brands, film or reality stars. This is actually beyond being nervous or being put on the spot - it is an actual failure of education and attitude to education among many young people.
It is also a failure of parenting and also the deliberate targetting of children as consumers by companies by providing them with mindless drivel on all sorts of media platforms encouraging brain rot.
I wonder what they were Taught in school- these are Primary School Questions i,e. 7 to 11 year olds. It seems European and Commonwealth Kids know more about the World, including the USA than many US citizens do. Either their Teachers were Dumb or the Dumbed Down Education is deliberate.
The brain is a wonderful computer. It starts the moment you are born and doesn't stop until a Policeman asks you for your car registration plate number.
Why would they ask that? Here in Romania,when the police comes out of his patrol car,he already saw on the screen, the license plate being read by a smart camera,so it displays if the car have insurance,passed the technical inspection, owner's name and your mug with all the historial of your driving licence. So they would stop you only for a commited infraction,not just to chat with you about the registration number. That's not efficient for a cop,instead of dealing with the criminality,to waist his time interrogating random drivers.
Im British and have never been to the USA, but I could answer every one of those questions except for one: I couldn't answer the names of the Kardashians. I'm more proud that i couldnt answer that question than the fact that i could answer all the others. It means that I'm free of the evil influences of the media.
Just alone, the fact that one of those is a country and, the other, an ethnicity and/or a nationality is annoying: she could not even muster awareness of that discrepancy in her so very simplistic ´linguistic usage´ abilities....
it does not matter if 100 or 1000 people were asked and only those stupid answers were showcased. Those kids knows nothing, it does not matter if they were stressed or blank. It is scary about their knowledge.
@@boqndimitrov8693 they are 100% sure they know everything. for me worst of them all were that girl from 06:30 who guessed something incorrectly and after confirmation that she was correct she claimed it is because she is smart.
I tell my daughter this. Editing videos shows only what the poster wants you to see and therefore think ( which is a very important point really). Its not true representation of anything. Although yes the ones shown didn't represent themselves too well but another 50 gen z people could have known every answer.
It’s actually pretty smart that he says yes after every question, gives them the confidence to answer more questions. There was one girl who said, I don’t know I live under a rock and a reactor to this video said : girl you ARE the rock.😆
2nd hand embarrassment is a real thing. Also it was so sweet how you wanted them to do better. Yes the education system is failing, leaving no kid behind basically means the answers to tests are drilled into the students without teaching how you arrive at that answer. Its sad.
If you think it is just a few isolated people, then watch the many videos he has done. I think parents are failing even more than schools. Think about it, these people represent some of the parents of the newest generation. When participating began to deserve trophies, all motivation for doing well was removed. You attended. Therefore, you're a winner. You failed, but your trophy is shiny.
That was truly an eye opener!! What I would like to know is, do these people have jobs, if so, what could they possibly do for a living? I don't even live in the U.S and I knew every question. Our first year children here in New Zealand would know some of these answers. How could they possibly think there are only 12 stars on your flag, unbelievable!!!
They have. Flipping burgers for a minimum wage, no vacation days, no access to health care and an early death from obesitas. Just enough time before to breed. Sad country
If you drive at 60mph for 1 hour, how far have you gone? I now understand why some Americans drive such long distances for a day trip. They don’t understand time and distance 😂. I know this video is about making some people look dumb but some of them were the gift that kept on giving. Fair to say that if he made a similar video in the UK, he would potentially get similar footage. They are a politician’s dream.
Americans aren't stupid. Well, no more than anyone else. What marks them out, I'm afraid to say, is their lack of curiosity about the world. I have lived and worked in the US for quite a few years and this always struck me. It's partly because the US is so vast and culturally diverse, but also that Americans are told, without irony, that the US is the greatest country on Earth.
Wow wow wow, stop, there are probably more cultures in Europe than in the USA, the Americans are not stupid, but the picture shows a completely different one. It's a lack of interest in learning about other countries because you're not able to think outside the box. And their view that the USA is the greatest country in the world, well, that's what they're told every day, but it's far from true. They hear this kind of nonsense every day at school or elsewhere, but the ignorance lies elsewhere.
@@gregorygant4242 They came to that conclusion after 2/3 hundred years- still Babies who believe everything they are told. Sadly this Interviewer doesn't even bother to correct them.
In Australia, when I was studying to be a Primary School teacher. They taught us ALL aspects of teaching, including Behavioural Psychology and Child Development both physically and mentally. We were taught how to apply behavioural psychology when engaging students to encourage good behaviours and boost their self-esteem, without creating conflicts. We also learned the basics all over again - arithmetic, English grammar and spelling, art, history, etc, so that we would refresh our minds about the level that these students would require. We also learned how to do student assessments and be able to teach them at their current level then step forward together as teacher and student. We learned how to test the children at various stages throughout the year, as well as writing reports. This on top of tall the documents the school required to maintain student records.
I'm a 52 year old Norwegian high school teacher....this is real. It's not a problem only in the US, it IS a generational problem. We destroyed gen z...we and social media.
@@Arsenic71 But this is not just an US problem. I'm a 52 year old high scholl teacher here in Norway. This is across the board...somewhere we did something wrong to this generation.
@@user-we7vk5zg7lSame issue in Norway 20+ years ago, with the exception of me and a few history or geography nerds in class, nobody cared about this stuff. We're getting there as well
Hi guys, I need to tell you that Dr Phil covered US Education on an entire show, and discovered that Elementary school students are being promoted to the next grade whether they pass or not, because they don’t have room to teach both the outgoing and the incoming classes, so they get pushed upwards to make room. Consequently 6th grade students have been tested for high school preparedness and found to be at third grade level of education! With nowhere else to put them, they advance into Junior High with third grade standards. Needless to say, from there on, they learn nothing because it’s all way over their heads. That’s why these teens can’t answer basic questions!
The American school system is set up to produce drones that will work without asking questions. This is why American pupils have around 8 tests a year. Whereas outside of America, pupils tend to sit for one test a year to see if they have retained what they have learned.
You could say that for many countries 🏴 included. The education system on the whole is designed to produce a work force who ultimately join the ‘rat race’ …. Been that way for centuries
There was a British writer called Arthur Marshall, a teacher, who wrote of a pupil, 'he does well to find his way home'!! I am not exactly ace at geography but try to learn each day.😮
If I was in the US and someone asked me "Who fought in the Civil War?", my first answer would be "Which Civil War?" - because in the UK, the answer would be the Roundheads vs the Cavaliers...
Im laughing at this... sitting in my home in England...but...i bet you could ask similar questions to some young people in the UK about our country and their answers would be just as gormless.
I remember back in pre-school (4 years old) when we were making collages and finger-paintings about the 4 seasons - a lot of it was stupidly Northern Hemisphere-centric but we figured out the 6 months displacement later on. A lot of the questions he asked were stuff I was taught within the first 3 years (+pre-school) of school.
You two are truly great people ; not only personable and perceptive but willing to completely embarrass yourselves for no good reason ! Keep up the good work 🎉 ( a retired Brit living on the Algarve, Portugal ) ❤❤
I was at school in the 70s when teachers had control. Only one teacher didn't as he was too soft. We messed around and paid no attention to him resulting in us learning nothing in his classes. Even those who wanted to learn from him couldn't because of the disruption. Generally we were well educated in every other class because we didn't dare to mess around.
This is what becomes of reality TV their brains are full of mush. We do have similar problems here but not as bad. I remember watching a video on UA-cam with a young nurse from the USA. She said she was going to complain about a country called , Montenegro.
As I understand it, he *used to* correct people with the right answer, but was confronted by these combative people who assumed he was lying to them because they believed they where right. So he stopped, and now he just agrees with them.
I’m from the UK watching this and apparently I know more about American history and geography than these American millennials! What do they teach at school?
As a Scottish person who hasn't been to the USA, twenty years ago. I thought the US had 50 states and then added Alaska and Hawaii. Your own people, today, nope...
It's even painful to watch as a German ... While being able to answer all those questions. And, yes, there were Germans who faught the Nazis and died for it.
Hi from the UK 👋 🇬🇧 when I went to school in the 1960s we learned all our 12 times tables parrot fashion until it was drilled into our brains 🧠 likewise with the countries of the world 🌎 and dates of everything we also learnt wood work metal work cooking 🍳 and how the government works now thay seem to only learn about pronouns 😊
Ohhh,come down from the high horses, the british are also clueless. Most of the british doesn't know where Ireland is....or Gibraltar, Falkland ...is a mistery even for the parliament members.Remember the Brexit campaign with the red bus? Remember Farage and BJ screaming around all kind of fake promisses most of you believed true? Europe was laughing during an entire year about that.
I subscribed because we need as many people with working brains on youtube as possible to offset gen-z. Scary that they were absent the 1st 12 years of their eduction. Education isn't blameless in this trajedy.
"Can you name 3 countries?" has only 3 possible answers - "Yes", "No" or something like "I'm not sure". Many of the interviewees were trying to answer a different question.
an American woman admitted believing until her 40's the Alaska was close to Hawaii because she remembered the map at school showing a cut out of Alaska placed near Hawaii.
I once read about a British and an American General having an argument about past wars. Every time the American General mentioned a Country they had fought against, the British General said, "Yes, but we had beaten them before you had". Exasperated, the American General asked, "What about the War of Independence, we beat you then, didn't we"? After a short pause, The British General said, "Yes, but you were British then"!
I’m Irish and I’m very proud to say that I knew the answer to every one of these questions except the Kardashian one! 😋
Ditto!
Don't make excuses for them, because i guarantee they would be able to name an endless list of clothing brands...
and an endless list of new genders :(
@@jzsf82 true story 😂
The way she named the Kardashians sadly shows they are not just caught off guard they actually just do not know.
SHE GOT THAT WRONG AS WELL ,3 KARDASHIAN SISTERS😊
@@mrbeanmrbean9047 touche 😁
@@chippydogwoofwoof There mum is Caitlyn Jenner🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And the fact that she said "It's because I'm smart" at the end, made me want to give up on existence.
The only Kardashians I can come up with is the ones from the star trek universe.
"When do they celebrate july 4th in England? "
After this video... every single day! 😂
As Al Murray says”a lucky F***ing escape ”
ROFLMAO 🤣🤣
Thiiiiiings, can only get better, can only get better.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
just imagine how great America could have been today had they lost
Yeah, the "being caught on the spot" argument is immediatelly defeated once they start listing Kardashians.
It's frightening when you think these people can vote aged 18.
They probably don't now what voting is :P
OMG Someone is paying for their education.
And they can reproduce.
More frightening to think that they can have children and "educate" them....
A PERFECT reason why the right to vote shouldn't be universal...
How dare he trick them, by asking these people questions!!! 😂🤣
Hi from germany. This is embarrasing. Scary future ahead with this People
future? their parents are the same. 😅
" The fact that we're celebrating someone who knows there are 4 seasons..." 😂😂😂
I know some 4 years old kids who don't even need to think to answer that question. It's also true they are europeans,but still....
"France and British is the same thing right" 🤣🤣🤣 and you let these people vote!!!!!!
I don't things are much better here, they might be able to name a few more countries but to most knowing the difference between there, their and they're is a step too far.
and this seems to be recorded at a pride parade - you can guess how these people vote.
They vote for Trump.
Well, apart from killing each other for a 1000 years… 😂
I couldn’t answer stupidly simple questions, yet they can tell you how many Kardashian they are on their names. That is sad. Soap, operas, and reality shows stop your brain from working you can watch them without thinking. Stacks of documentaries on UA-cam, you can watch start there
They should educate themselves
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limitations
Think these people can vote !!! Good luck America.
You think they know how to vote or that voting even is a thing? :P
who do you think elected trump? their parents! 😂
Nah, voting is socialist!
He keeps saying yes, because in the past if he corrected the people answering they got mad and defensive. So he just says yes
that's understating it, he got shot! By a woman who wouldn't believe that Australia exists.
I spent 25 years as a teacher. This makes me feel like I wasted my life.
The Kardashian question shows they're not nervous. They just don't know anything worth knowing.
Jess, stop making excuses. "What continent are we in now?" is not a trick question.
No offence bro, but what do you teach these kids? And how do you test whether they understood any of it? And what do you do if they clearly don't?
Do you know what I get when I try to explain why BRICS, the necessity for demand for fiat dollars and the existence of the European primary energy market leads to a proxy war in Ukraine, apart from a 5h4d0w b4n, that is? Crickets! Now I know why. They only care about lowbrow garbage and the worst part is; they can vote! You need to do better, mate.
Some of his questions are sort of trick questions because of the wording. "What (btw., shouldn't that be "which" and not "what") 2 countries border the USA?"
There are more than 2 countries that border the USA. He probably meant which 2 countries have landlocked borders.
"Which continent are we standing on?" That depends. If you say there are 7 continents, they would be standing on the North American continent. As this is supposed to be basic knowledge questions, this would probably be the most common answer, but there are other ways of dividing the world into continents.
For instance one of those ways only divides the world in 5 continents and that would make them be standing on the continent named the Americas. He didn't specify which model he was using. There are other ways of dividing than these 2 but I forgot them. While not a trick question per se, it, like a few other of his questions, could use some clarification.
My favorite questions of his are: "What is the capital of Chicago." My immediate answer: US dollars and cents. "What state is Utah in?" My answer: A mormon state (of mind). Which question is your favorite?
My generation was given a book.
This generation was given TikTok.
This may explain the disparity. 🤷♂️
I completely disagree. The same generation in other countries has a MUCH higher general knowledge than this group he interviewed. Don't blame technology. The problem is the education system.
Jay Leno did the same
In the 90's 😢
No excuse.
BS. This is nothing to do with "this generation"
Ha ha ha! 😂😂😂
The young woman who finally said she had to go back to school made the most sense.
The ignorance is truly gobsmacking.
These people can probably list, without thinking, clothing brands, film or reality stars. This is actually beyond being nervous or being put on the spot - it is an actual failure of education and attitude to education among many young people.
It is also a failure of parenting and also the deliberate targetting of children as consumers by companies by providing them with mindless drivel on all sorts of media platforms encouraging brain rot.
“That’s like history!” Oh Jesus wept! These people must have been dropped on their heads! 😂
I wonder what they were Taught in school- these are Primary School Questions i,e. 7 to 11 year olds. It seems European and Commonwealth Kids know more about the World, including the USA than many US citizens do. Either their Teachers were Dumb or the Dumbed Down Education is deliberate.
dropped? more than once apparently! 😂
@@boqndimitrov8693 once every day....
@@boqndimitrov8693 repeatedly! 😉😂
Third world country with Gucci 😂
The brain is a wonderful computer. It starts the moment you are born and doesn't stop until a Policeman asks you for your car registration plate number.
I always say well you're looking at it you tell me because i can't see it sitting here
I like it.😊
Why would they ask that? Here in Romania,when the police comes out of his patrol car,he already saw on the screen, the license plate being read by a smart camera,so it displays if the car have insurance,passed the technical inspection, owner's name and your mug with all the historial of your driving licence. So they would stop you only for a commited infraction,not just to chat with you about the registration number. That's not efficient for a cop,instead of dealing with the criminality,to waist his time interrogating random drivers.
Living in a third world country in Africa I am shocked at this. People who have not finished school will be able to answer this 🙄😵
Im British and have never been to the USA, but I could answer every one of those questions except for one: I couldn't answer the names of the Kardashians. I'm more proud that i couldnt answer that question than the fact that i could answer all the others. It means that I'm free of the evil influences of the media.
You and me both!
"France & British are the same thing, right?"
French people - 😡
British people - 😡
We ❤each other really 😊
Just alone, the fact that one of those is a country and, the other, an ethnicity and/or a nationality is annoying: she could not even muster awareness of that discrepancy in her so very simplistic ´linguistic usage´ abilities....
German people - 😂
So glad I grew up in Europe.....
@@richardhall6034 No we don't!
@@Dave.Thatcher1 Yes you do. Imagine you couldn't make fun of the french, your life would be boring and dull 😁
Meanwhile, Chinese children are studying Physics. But they can't name all the Kardasians.
I was asked to name Kardashians once and I thought they meant the Cardassians from star trek.
Netherlands here, my 10 year old son could probably name 50+ countries, including their capitals. I have to admit he couldn't even name one Kardashian
it does not matter if 100 or 1000 people were asked and only those stupid answers were showcased. Those kids knows nothing, it does not matter if they were stressed or blank. It is scary about their knowledge.
the worst thing is that 99% of them can't say "-I don't know". 😊
@@boqndimitrov8693 they are 100% sure they know everything. for me worst of them all were that girl from 06:30 who guessed something incorrectly and after confirmation that she was correct she claimed it is because she is smart.
I tell my daughter this. Editing videos shows only what the poster wants you to see and therefore think ( which is a very important point really). Its not true representation of anything. Although yes the ones shown didn't represent themselves too well but another 50 gen z people could have known every answer.
It’s actually pretty smart that he says yes after every question, gives them the confidence to answer more questions. There was one girl who said, I don’t know I live under a rock and a reactor to this video said : girl you ARE the rock.😆
I vote that in order to vote in an election you should have to take an IQ test first
2nd hand embarrassment is a real thing. Also it was so sweet how you wanted them to do better. Yes the education system is failing, leaving no kid behind basically means the answers to tests are drilled into the students without teaching how you arrive at that answer. Its sad.
It seems they're not drilling very deep.
I'll say this for them, they take ignorance to a whole new level...
You can literally see the gears turning round in their head when they was confronted with the complex Mathematical problem of 3x3x3 😂😂😂
lol when the answer is clearly oranges lol
@@SumoDogs42 😊
Oh, ANY of those who were asked for the answer to that, really....
If you think it is just a few isolated people, then watch the many videos he has done. I think parents are failing even more than schools. Think about it, these people represent some of the parents of the newest generation. When participating began to deserve trophies, all motivation for doing well was removed. You attended. Therefore, you're a winner. You failed, but your trophy is shiny.
For a Country ALL about College……NOT SO GOOD!✌🏻🏴
These people have children or will be parents in the future .Poor children, help.
I'm depressed that Jess knows the kardashian names... who the heck are they
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
Pretty sure Kardashians are a distant cousin of the Klingons .
@@macman1469
What do you mean distant 😂
These are the people that tell you to "educate yourself" on Twitter.
That was truly an eye opener!! What I would like to know is, do these people have jobs, if so, what could they possibly do for a living? I don't even live in the U.S and I knew every question. Our first year children here in New Zealand would know some of these answers. How could they possibly think there are only 12 stars on your flag, unbelievable!!!
They have. Flipping burgers for a minimum wage, no vacation days, no access to health care and an early death from obesitas. Just enough time before to breed. Sad country
If you drive at 60mph for 1 hour, how far have you gone? I now understand why some Americans drive such long distances for a day trip. They don’t understand time and distance 😂. I know this video is about making some people look dumb but some of them were the gift that kept on giving. Fair to say that if he made a similar video in the UK, he would potentially get similar footage. They are a politician’s dream.
And ... these people have the right to vote?????!!!!!!!
And theyre supporting Trump appearantly
Americans aren't stupid. Well, no more than anyone else. What marks them out, I'm afraid to say, is their lack of curiosity about the world. I have lived and worked in the US for quite a few years and this always struck me. It's partly because the US is so vast and culturally diverse, but also that Americans are told, without irony, that the US is the greatest country on Earth.
Make the same questions to other people in other equally big countries and you will see the difference.
@@arturdmI was thinking the same . While sitting here in Australia, a large multicultural country .
It's because Americans live in a bubble and think that the US is the most important country everything outside is not worth knowing about.
Wow wow wow, stop, there are probably more cultures in Europe than in the USA, the Americans are not stupid, but the picture shows a completely different one. It's a lack of interest in learning about other countries because you're not able to think outside the box.
And their view that the USA is the greatest country in the world, well, that's what they're told every day, but it's far from true. They hear this kind of nonsense every day at school or elsewhere, but the ignorance lies elsewhere.
@@gregorygant4242 They came to that conclusion after 2/3 hundred years- still Babies who believe everything they are told. Sadly this Interviewer doesn't even bother to correct them.
As a species we’re screwed
In Australia, when I was studying to be a Primary School teacher. They taught us ALL aspects of teaching, including Behavioural Psychology and Child Development both physically and mentally. We were taught how to apply behavioural psychology when engaging students to encourage good behaviours and boost their self-esteem, without creating conflicts. We also learned the basics all over again - arithmetic, English grammar and spelling, art, history, etc, so that we would refresh our minds about the level that these students would require. We also learned how to do student assessments and be able to teach them at their current level then step forward together as teacher and student. We learned how to test the children at various stages throughout the year, as well as writing reports. This on top of tall the documents the school required to maintain student records.
Unfortunately I’ve seen a number of this type of video before !! Thank goodness for the British education system
I really do t think we are much better to be honest
Punctuation?
I’m English. My 13 year old grandson could answer practically all of those questions!
I know it was a trick question but just to clarify…..WE DO NOT CELEBRATE THE 4th JULY in the UK!!
Yeah, it's generally known as Tuesday or something like that.
Having seen this video, l am confident that American Independance Day is our Thanks Giving
😂
So very sad, but on a positive note, you are both very obviously able and willing to raise your kids correctly!! 😎👍🏻
*#FYI** These People VOTE*
I'm a 52 year old Norwegian high school teacher....this is real. It's not a problem only in the US, it IS a generational problem. We destroyed gen z...we and social media.
I'm pretty sure any living person in Norway can list 3 countries that are not the USA. It's not like any of this is high-school knowledge.
@@Arsenic71 Antartica....Asia and...the middle east?? :D
@@Arsenic71 But this is not just an US problem. I'm a 52 year old high scholl teacher here in Norway. This is across the board...somewhere we did something wrong to this generation.
@@user-we7vk5zg7lSame issue in Norway 20+ years ago, with the exception of me and a few history or geography nerds in class, nobody cared about this stuff. We're getting there as well
That's what you get when your mother and father are brother and sister 😂
He says yes to all their answers so as not to embarrass them in public!😂😂😂
Hi guys, I need to tell you that Dr Phil covered US Education on an entire show, and discovered that Elementary school students are being promoted to the next grade whether they pass or not, because they don’t have room to teach both the outgoing and the incoming classes, so they get pushed upwards to make room. Consequently 6th grade students have been tested for high school preparedness and found to be at third grade level of education! With nowhere else to put them, they advance into Junior High with third grade standards. Needless to say, from there on, they learn nothing because it’s all way over their heads. That’s why these teens can’t answer basic questions!
Staggering, that in a country where you can't turn round, without seeing a flag, that no one knew how many stars are on it!
The American school system is set up to produce drones that will work without asking questions.
This is why American pupils have around 8 tests a year. Whereas outside of America, pupils tend to sit for one test a year to see if they have retained what they have learned.
You could say that for many countries 🏴 included. The education system on the whole is designed to produce a work force who ultimately join the ‘rat race’ …. Been that way for centuries
8 tests a year? tested for what if these are the answers to basic questions?
There was a British writer called Arthur Marshall, a teacher, who wrote of a pupil, 'he does well to find his way home'!!
I am not exactly ace at geography but try to learn each day.😮
Don't make excuses for these people. I could have answered these questions when I was 10. Where have these people been?
If I was in the US and someone asked me "Who fought in the Civil War?", my first answer would be "Which Civil War?" - because in the UK, the answer would be the Roundheads vs the Cavaliers...
Also, I know the difference between a dime, a nickel and a quarter, despite never having used US currency...
"Peoples?" I'm dead 😂😂😂
Im laughing at this... sitting in my home in England...but...i bet you could ask similar questions to some young people in the UK about our country and their answers would be just as gormless.
I've seen one 😮
Depressing 😢
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
I know it’s a contentious topic but I’d be massively in favour of passing a test that allows people to qualify for voting.
If it's any consolation, i'm pretty sure you'd get the same standard of response in parts of the UK as well.
The REAL scary thing is... All those peoples in that video can VOTE...
Mike I am no genius
Jess No.
Had me laughing lol
I remember back in pre-school (4 years old) when we were making collages and finger-paintings about the 4 seasons - a lot of it was stupidly Northern Hemisphere-centric but we figured out the 6 months displacement later on. A lot of the questions he asked were stuff I was taught within the first 3 years (+pre-school) of school.
You two are truly great people ; not only personable and perceptive but willing to completely embarrass yourselves for no good reason ! Keep up the good work 🎉 ( a retired Brit living on the Algarve, Portugal ) ❤❤
I was at school in the 70s when teachers had control. Only one teacher didn't as he was too soft. We messed around and paid no attention to him resulting in us learning nothing in his classes. Even those who wanted to learn from him couldn't because of the disruption. Generally we were well educated in every other class because we didn't dare to mess around.
This is the emergency room doctor. Having watched these dumb kids, Mr Kernow has just been admitted to hospital with severe cringeing.
LOL 😂 😂 😂
You remember the Al Murray sketch? Americans are all busy dreaming!
This is what becomes of reality TV their brains are full of mush. We do have similar problems here but not as bad. I remember watching a video on UA-cam with a young nurse from the USA. She said she was going to complain about a country called , Montenegro.
Your faces are priceless...lol
And you want these people to vote 🤣
dont say they are nervous if he ask them who is their favourite artist they will say their whole life story
As Forrest Gump said 'Stupid is as Stupid Does'.
In my day (80s) you went to school to be disciplined and to learn
As I understand it, he *used to* correct people with the right answer, but was confronted by these combative people who assumed he was lying to them because they believed they where right.
So he stopped, and now he just agrees with them.
Welcome to today's world...Very sad😞😞
we need to go back to calling people dumb
Don't worry, we've got plenty of thickos in the UK too. Trouble is, they seem so proud of it!
This is why we spend so much on education.
Not to worry, we've got people like that in the UK.
They're not nervous, they're just stupid!
15:50 "The fact that we're celebrating the fact that someone knows there's four seasons" LOL
Least these people will never be my doctor......bus driver maybe.
This is a very sad indictment of today's generation. God help humanity for the future!!!
I’m from the UK watching this and apparently I know more about American history and geography than these American millennials! What do they teach at school?
Most 8 year olds in Norway could answer all on the spot...education and interest in finding out about the world we live in.
He used to correct them when he first started doing this, and then it became too much and he just opted for yes every time.
Jess you’re not a dime, you’re a diamond! Love your laughter! 🥰😂🇦🇺
As a Scottish person who hasn't been to the USA, twenty years ago. I thought the US had 50 states and then added Alaska and Hawaii. Your own people, today, nope...
Spring, summer, autumn,winter
This video should be enough for a SN regulation under the age of 16.
I remember meeting a guy from the states. He told me he had an "England friend" i asked where he lived in England. His answer.........
PARIS😮
It's even painful to watch as a German ... While being able to answer all those questions.
And, yes, there were Germans who faught the Nazis and died for it.
This is 'General Knowledge' for the rest of the World... except for listing the Kardashian sisters... 🥳🥳🥳
The interviewer's deadpan looks at the camera are the funniest thing about this.
Just from your reaction while watching this to what you were saying after it I could write an essay lol.
Hi from the UK 👋 🇬🇧 when I went to school in the 1960s we learned all our 12 times tables parrot fashion until it was drilled into our brains 🧠 likewise with the countries of the world 🌎 and dates of everything we also learnt wood work metal work cooking 🍳 and how the government works now thay seem to only learn about pronouns 😊
@@richardhall6034 same here i was in the 60s 🏴
Ohhh,come down from the high horses, the british are also clueless. Most of the british doesn't know where Ireland is....or Gibraltar, Falkland ...is a mistery even for the parliament members.Remember the Brexit campaign with the red bus? Remember Farage and BJ screaming around all kind of fake promisses most of you believed true? Europe was laughing during an entire year about that.
I subscribed because we need as many people with working brains on youtube as possible to offset gen-z. Scary that they were absent the 1st 12 years of their eduction. Education isn't blameless in this trajedy.
Tragedy.
"Can you name 3 countries?" has only 3 possible answers - "Yes", "No" or something like "I'm not sure". Many of the interviewees were trying to answer a different question.
And these people are in government, schools, police, corporations. Boeing's issues make absolute sense now.
an American woman admitted believing until her 40's the Alaska was close to Hawaii because she remembered the map at school showing a cut out of Alaska placed near Hawaii.
jess saying nooooo you got this pleadingly
Whatever you do though, try not to make excuses for these peeps otherwise they will never learn anything.